The Royal Road to Health; Or, the Secret of Health Without DrugsTyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
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The Royal Road to Health; Or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs
Tyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
Enema; Health; Health -- Popular works; Health promotion; Hygiene
If a chronic, deep-seated disease can be cured in a year, by a home
process, so simple that a child can understand and practise it, the
individual so benefited should consider himself or herself most
fortunate; and few will deny that the end in view--restoration to
health--is a full and ample recompense for the thorough and persistent
effort necessary to attain it. If it were a question of large
pecuniary profit to the patient, it is scarcely necessary to say that
every nerve would be strained to its utmost tension to bring the
coveted prize within his grasp; yet here the reward is of infinitely
greater value, a prize compared with which riches are as dross in
comparison with gold. It is Health, without which the acquisition of
Wealth, is well-nigh impossible, and its possession as profitless to
the possessor as Dead Sea fruit.
I write thus strongly on this point because there is a large class of
people who dabble in every new system of treatment projected, and toy
with every medicinal device that is placed upon the market. They are
the class from whom the patent medicine vendor draws his enormous
annual profits. Like a bee in a garden of roses, they flit from one
remedy to another, but, unlike that energetic and acquisitive insect,
they do not gather the golden reward they are in search of--health. It
is the purveyor of the nostrum that secures whatever there is of gold.
They seem to be utterly incapable of continuity of effort, and, unless
they can discern a marked improvement within a week after commencing a
fresh method of treatment, get discouraged and abandon it. To this
class of people I say, in the most emphatic manner, that if they
propose to give this great remedial process a trial and expect to
derive benefit from it, that the cure rests entirely in their own
hands.
They must persevere. They must be thorough. They must not expect
miraculous results in a few days. Their diseased condition is the
growth of months, perhaps years, and it is the height of unreasoning
folly to expect to be cured in a few weeks. A merchant whose business
has been crippled and who starts in to rebuild it, will consider
himself an extremely fortunate man if, by watchful and untiring
endeavor, he can restore it to a sound and healthy condition in a few
years. Growth is necessarily slow--and this is especially the case with
the human system. Nature will not be hurried. But of one thing they
may rest assured, and that is that if they conscientiously and
persistently practise this simple hygienic treatment they will find
Nature a responsive and willing coadjutor.
"Heaven fights on the side of the strongest battalions," is a military
aphorism, and Nature ranges herself on the side of the individual who
co-operates with her most faithfully, who, in the struggle for the
regaining of health, brings the greatest amount of determination and
perseverence to the encounter.
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