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
I would strictly impress on the minds of those who propose to give this
treatment a trial that, like every other undertaking in life,
thoroughness and persistence are absolutely indispensable to success. No
great end was ever yet achieved except by hard work, conscientiousness
and perseverance, and these three factors are in the highest degree
necessary to restore health to a system from which it has long been
estranged.
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.
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