Killing Themselves with Medicine

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1879

Killing Themselves with Medicine.

A FIRM of druggists write to the Memphis Appeal to prevent against the irrational and promiscuous use of medicines, which, they say, they have had ample opportunities of observing within the last few days. "People," they say, "who are perfectly well, seem determined to disturb and tear their organism with patent medical agents, under the delusion that they are preventives of sickness. Many literally gorge themselves with such powerful drugs as calomel, blue mass, quinine, etc., with the view of 'acting on the liver,' and are surprised if they find their digestion, the most important function of the human body, out of order shortly afterwards, in spite of themselves."