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What Is Cured and What Cures

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 36.

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What Is Cured and What Cures.

A medical journal asks the question, “Do doctors cure disease?” and replies that “the office of the physician is, in our estimation, not to cure the disease, but to cure the patient.” But to our mind, this is hardly a correct idea of the functions of a physician. Nature must cure or heal after all, and the office of the physician is to assist the patient to come within the scope and operation of nature’s healing, or, rather, God through nature.