It Is So Easy

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1902

To take a tablet for headache! A tablet is swallowed, and, presto! the headache is gone! Can anything be simpler? What difference does it make what they are made of, so they do the work? Anything to get rid of the headache. People with the headache are not always reasoning creatures. That is, they do not always look into the future. They have a headache—which must be stopped at all hazards. The simplest way to stop it is to paralyze the nerves.

The headache is usually a danger signal, giving warning that the stomach has been abused. If the offending mass is washed out by means of a stomach tube, or if a large quantity of water is swallowed, and the throat tickled with the finger, the decomposing stuff will usually be brought up, and when seen, any one would be glad that the corruption is out, where it can do no more harm. But this is troublesome—not nearly so handy as a tablet. If the poor headache-tablet devotee, the indulger in Bromo compounds, or in anti-pains, knew that he (or more often she) is only putting off the evil day, and that sooner or later he must pay the debt with interest,—if he could only realize that the only way to get rid of disease is to treat the cause, he might be induced to discard the poisonous and dangerous headache tablets.—Pacific Health Journal.