MEDICINE GODS by Good Health

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 16.

MEDICINE GODS.

By Good Health

The Chinaman, if a Taoist, consults, when sick, the "god of medicine," which is found among other gods in Taoist temples. He makes his complaint to the god, and the priest tells him precisely what medicines to take for the cure of his malady. His faith is unbounded. He expects a cure, and undoubtedly in many cases his expectations are fulfilled. This is the Chinese mode of mind-cure.

There are, in this enlightened land even, those who have medicine gods. One worships homeopathy; another, allopathy; another, electricism; another, hydropathy; another, animal magnetism; and there are some who even bow down to so gross a fetish as clairvoyance, or mind-cure. There is gradually growing among people, however, an abiding faith in rational medicine, a system sufficiently comprehensive to include every remedy of value afforded by the whole range of medical science, but which has no fellowship with charlatans of any sort, material or metaphysical.—Good Health.