A Solemn Appeal

REGAIN YOUR HEALTH

“Your sufferings and losses grow mainly out of the injury it has sustained, and to regain it, is indispensable to both effort and enjoyment, and your great salvation from the consequences of past sins, and prevention of future ones. SOAP 253.2

“In effecting this restoration, you have mainly to obviate that inflammation already shown to have chiefly engendered your sufferings, and produced disease. Reduce it, and you both forestall farther injury, and give to Nature, your great physician, an opportunity to repair the breach. SOAP 254.1

“Dr. Trall, in the ‘Hydropathic Encyclopedia,’ remarks: ‘In constitutions worn down by previous diseases, exhausted by riotous living, and undermined by abused Amativeness, the cure requires a strict and persevering observance of all the laws of hygiene, that the patient may outgrow, rather than doctor out, his ruinous ways. Unfortunately, however, there is no class of patients more fickle, vacillating, and unreliable; the mind partakes of the bodily degeneracy, and it requires a combination of rare and favorable circumstances to keep them from running after every foolish and whimsical impostor who advertises to cure them with a single bottle of bitters, which, moreover, is “pleasant to the taste.”’ SOAP 254.2