Rational Treatment of Disease
Disease is essentially lack of health. Those who specifically treat diseases are repair men like carpenters and plumbers whom some realty holding corporation might employ to keep its houses in repair but who never really design or build any new construction. The prevailing theory of the past has been that human bodies would build themselves and that help or at¬tention was needed only for these repair jobs.
That view is wrong. The forces of Nature and Life are of course of far greater power than any mere intelligence that can be brought to bear on the matter of either health or illness. Moreover, these superhuman forces of Nature are as im¬portant in disease as they are in health.
In either case knowledge and intelligence can cooperate with and aid the forces of Nature. This can be done as well in the building of positive health as in the l’epair jobs. Certainly it is the part of wisdom to consider the positive building of health as of as great importance as, or greater than the repair jobs. So if the early stages of building be well done, much less repair will be needed.