Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1916 AN ESOTERIC CLINIC 93
cision of the tonsils is urged.
Physical examinations by public officials are countenanced
in homes, schools, and business houses. Chemists
too are remembered with requirements in order that
blood,urine, and other body fluids be analyzed and listed.
Teeth are publicly examined, and repairs ordered (for
the dentists); and a busy hum of activities all along this
professional line sounds reasonable to the outsider. Are
there any flaws in this method? It is full of flaws_
Probably the greatest evil,is the persistence with which
every individual is being constantly assured and reminded
of supposably incurable, physical conditions within himself.
This, alone, causes diseased conditions in many sensitive
individuals; again, we here recognize an undesirable
intrusion of outside Authority upon individual lifecontrol;while
other evils are too many and mixed to detail.
Let us, however,try to bear in mind that the best general
prescription for the retention and restoration of physical
and mental harmony, which is
health, is to accord to your
body its recognized rights and needs to the full extent of
your understanding; then, putting your trust in Him, with
whom you are at-one, forget, or ignore all the direful
threats, realizing that critical conditions calling fcr heroic
treatment by doctor or surgeon, do not appear unannounced,
and you will not need to watch for danger-signals;
forget them whenever and as long as possible.
"But," falters a timid one, "It may be too late."
This is true, too; but the chances are all the other way.
It is much more likely to be too soon. For instance, a
thoroly reputable and popular surgeon stated before his
class, that 95 per cent of his operations for appendicitis
were not needed. When a physican presented a case, he operated.
Results told the story! When diphtheria germs are
recognized in 75 per cent of the normally healthy throats;
when the dissecting table reveals countless cases of lungs
scarred years before from tuberculosis, healed; hearts