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Credit: The dynamic cure / by Laroy Sunderland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![from day to day, and from year to year, vainly wondering why they are no better. They swallow the pill, and ex- pect to be cured ! And, then, when told to cease drugging, and allow Nature to do the cure, they become impatient, and are discouraged if not healed in a day or a week! Determination. Make up your mind to be well! Fix your will upon good health. Resolve to enjoy all that your own constitu- tion will allow. You will never become well by accident. Good health, when once lost, is not a haphazard work. It results with certainty from the use of the appropriate means. Bad practices must be broken up. The neces- sary change in your habits of living can easily be made if you say they shall be. But, these changes may not occur spontaneously. You must do the work. Set about it, with a similar fixedness of purpose that you have set about other important matters, in which your own present and future happiness was concerned. Health comes to that Invalid who wills it. And, without this desperate, determined, inflexible, purpose, you may always be sick, and suffer, beyond the hope of relief. The restoration of health is not a matter of fixed fate, in such a sense as renders it unnecessary for you to will it yourself; and, not merely will it, but decide upon it with that fixedness of purpose, that knows no denial. Without this will-purpose you might not keep your health even if you should regain it. Any slight tempta- tion would overcome you, and you would fall back again into your old habits. Say not that you are feeble, ner- vous, and cannot make the necessary resolution to be well. The disease you suffer may have this very tendency on your mind, [to give you force of will] if you take](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21079584_0206.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
