Editorial July 30, 1904 Issue

The Waning of False Specifics

A MINISTERIAL friend once said to the writer that in his judgment "it is criminal to ignore the deductions of medical Science!" This good brother is a representative of many who seem to be quite ignorant of the very rapid and very general awakening of physicians, as well as their longsuffering patients, to the fallacy, the utterly unscientific nature of the whole drug system. system.

With all due respect for its many conscientious exponents, and quite regardless of any question as to the scientifically demonstrated value of other means of cure, it may be said that it is becoming more and more manifest, that the drug system is unsound in its fundamental assumptions, unscientific in its practice, and unsatisfactory in its results.

The credulity of the many, and the unsatisfactoriness of more conventional methods of drug treatment are evidenced by fulsomely advertised patent specifics which are constantly appearing, and which are pressed upon the attention in ways and degrees which must beget a sense of utter confusion in all those who have not yet learned of the better way to health and happiness. An outburst of enthusiasm over some new system of treatment is speedily chilled by the contemptuous condemnation of a yet more advanced thinker, and thus the world of material thought limps on (and must needs perhaps) from one hurtful experience to another, till the self-destroying cycle of error shall have completed its painful tutorage, and men shall have come to an understanding which is acquired by many only through untold suffering, — that knowledge of the great freedom-bringing truth that there is neither life nor law in matter, that mortal ills are the outcome and fruitage of false beliefs, and that the one and only sufficient remedy for all the disease of humanity, is that knowing of God, the omnipresent good, which is life eternal.

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