“When healthy properties are impaired, we know of no agent by which
they can be directly restored, when vital action is perverted or
deranged, we possess no means of immediately rectifying it, but we
must be satisfied with using those means under which it is most
likely to RECTIFY ITSELF.”
It is the knowledge of these facts that has produced discontent with
the usual mode of medicinal treatment, and has encouraged the belief,
that it does more harm than good in cases of disease. Dr. Gully
states:—
“By it (the drug system) the body is placed in the most unnatural
position, and its efforts at relief constantly thwarted. Disease,
which is quite as natural a process as health, is not allowed to go
on as nature would; the internal organs whose morbid action alone
can cause death, are made the arena for all sorts of conflicting
and inflicting medical stimulants; and between the action which
these excite, and that which originally existed, their vitality
fails, their efforts towards restoration flag, and their functions
are at last extinguished.”