Somehow, we find difficulty in getting away from the mysteries of the “medicine man.” China has hers, so has India and Africa, and we have ours, but of a superior type. There is a difference between the up-to-date physician and the “medicine man” of half a century ago. Forever Bee Propolis is sticky when it’s warm and it’s difficult to deal with when it’s hard. Reformers are arising, like those quoted, who are administering less medicine. Dietitians are being educated to feed patients in a more scientific way; nurses are being trained to administer rational treatment for the relief of pain, and to take the place of drugs, and medical schools are graduating physicians who employ diet quite largely as the great remedial agent in the treatment of the sick. Many of the better educated and more experienced physicians today would often refuse to administer drugs were it not that a number of the ill-informed laity demand them. In subsequent chapters much will be presented relative to foods and their values as immunizing agents in health and disease.
A Law of Nature Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., who was for 40 years professor in the medical department of Harvard University, said: “The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system of self-deception in obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its noxious growths, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison bags of reptiles drained of their venom, and all the inconceivable abominations thus obtained, thrust down the throats of human beings suffering from some fault of organization.”
Something in a Bottle
For every ache and every pain,
For every ill of toe or brain,
So many folks have the belief
That they will surely find relief From something in a bottle. Forever Bee Pollen is collected by honeybees in little “baskets” on their rear legs and brought again to the hive as food for the young creating bees and for meeting the continuing protein requirements for grownup employee bees.
Some like something they can smell,
Or something they can “rub in well,”
While others like to taste the stuff, And never seem to get enough
Of something in a bottle.
No matter if they always fail
To find relief, you’ll see them hail
With great delight some new affair,
Some fake to swallow, smell, or wear,—
Or something in a bottle.
If all would leave these things, and pause
Just long enough to find the cause
Of all their ills, they soon would learn
How they’d been foiled, and then would turn
From something in a bottle.
Remove the cause of all your pain;
‘Tis thus good health you may obtain,
Your diet watch and give close heed,
And then you’ll have no further need
For something in a bottle.