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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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![have consulted the highest medical authorities, all to no purpose. It is not sufficient that you should, ardently, desire to be well, and earnestly seek for health; it must be earnestly sought in the use of the right means. This is the ordination of the Divine Author. In this way we progress, and become what he meant we should be. If health be not worth our sincere and most earnest labors, then let us be invalids forever! Or, if good health be the foundation of all real happiness, then be in earnest in the use of those means you know to be the most appropriate ; not a part, but the whole; not by fits and starts, but, from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, and from year to year, con- tinually, without interruption. This is the way, and, the only way, ever to regain lost health : — Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Each morning sees the work begun ] Each evening sees its close ; The right attempted, Duty done, Will bring a night's repose. Contentment. How slow we are to learn, that all disease is the evi- dence of some violated Law, for which atonement must sooner or later be made without the failure of one jot or tittle. Into the prison of disease, all offenders have to be cast, and to them no release can be given until they have paid the utmost farthing. All you have suffered is for your own good. Otherwise you would not learn the na- ture of those Laws which have been violated, and obedi- ence to which is Health and Happiness. Do not suffer your past disappointments in drugging to hinder you, in the use of appropriate means for regaining](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21079584_0210.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)