This week’s B.J. Palmer excerpt comes from Volume XVIII: The Subluxation Specific – The Adjustment Specific published in 1934. Enjoy!
“For 5,000 years the medical profession have been consistently seeking A SPECIFIC FOR THE CURE OF ALL DISEASES. First one way, then another, they have woven off and on the stage of human effort—always to the same end. Millions of dollars; millions of bodies have been dissected—both human and animal, dead and alive. Laboratories of all kinds have been used. Libraries have been written, revised, and discarded. Today they have 148 “specific serums” for 148 “specific diseases” as a net result. Those will be thrown into discard, given a few years.
For 5,000 years that profession has run the race down thru blood diseases and blood remedies to purify the blood; nerve exhaustion with nerve tonics; serum specifics for germ diseases. They have long sought that elixir that could eradicate diseases from the human race, that they might step-up the efficiency of that race; that they might think more clearly; function more normally. They have run the gauntlet from removing appendices to tonsils; now they extract teeth because they “create a toxin in the body necessitating an anti-toxin.” They have pursued fashion after fashion, fad after fad, style after style, generation after generation; never arriving at a “specific” for the CURIE of any disease.
The answer of the failure is simple. No person or group of persons, no matter how they work, ever can or ever will locate a specific for CURE of any disease. Disease is AN EFFECT. No cure can EVER be found for CURE OF ANY EFFECT. So long as effect IS effect, it has a CAUSE. To call one effect a cause of another effect, is to play the vicious circle of the dog chasing his tail. To ignore a CAUSE remote and DIFFERENT FROM effect by seeking a SPECIFIC CURE FOR EFFECT is fundamentally unsound. It is appalling when we realize that humanity has suffered 5,000 years while the medical profession has been chasing itself around a vicious circle, wasting valuable research on a wrong fundamental.”
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Bravo! It is always best to ask and hopefully answer the question, “What is the cause?”
Awsome picture!