1862 Vol. 5 page 2.3 – “It is wonderful to note how extensively the process of poisoning is carried on under medical practice. Scarcely a person is severely sick that does not have a poison administered in all these ways.”

Page 99.3 “Do not take drugs - If you are sick, get well by proper means.”

Page115.2 – “calomel, opium, lobelia, belladonna, aconite, toxicodendron, arsenic, iodine, podophyllin and other poisons whose name is legion and in whose tail there are thousand stings” 1863 Vol. 6 page106.2 – “No doubt can exist that more harm has resulted from misuse of these agents (calomel, tartar emetics and mercury) in the treatment of disease, than benefits from their proper administration”

Comment – He does approve some medical treatment such as some surgery. “Not infrequently do tonsils become so depraved, and deteriorated in tissue as to be foreign bodies. They then should be excised.” (Laws of Life Vol. 5, 1862, page 117.5) Also he recommends vaccination against small pox if the lifestyle has not been good. (Laws of life, Vol. 5,1962, page 71.2)

Score - Significant

What 3 - Vaccination

With a good lifestyle vaccination is not needed.

1962 Vol. 5 page 71.2 - “But one need not fear small-pox if one has been from birth up, brought within the range of the laws of life.”

Score - Unverified

1862 Vol. 5 page 150.2 – “not exposing yourself imprudently to …. dampness.” Comment – Dampness of clothing increases the chance of hypothermia.

Score – Minor

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.2 - “Sudden and great changes in the degree of temperature of the atmosphere.

... sudden changes of temperature common to our climate, in the autumnal, winter and spring seasons of the year, are to be found the efficient cause for the existence of this disease.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Page 107.3 – “It is never safe to pass suddenly from one extreme of temperature to-another, unless the person is vigorous habits, with large resistive forces.”

Comment – If clothing is adjusted there is no danger.

Score – Unverified

Why 5 – Temperature Change (What 6)

Temperature changes force impure blood into the mucous membranes.

Appendix 6 – Laws of Life

James Caleb Jackson

1862 Vol. 5 page 57.2 – “Some cause has been brought to bear to the check the natural and healthful flow of the blood through the minute blood vessels of the skin, the whole amount of blood upon the surface is lessened, the general circulation is disturbed, the capillaries or hair like vessels of the mucous membrane lining the nasal passages, and the throat, receive an unusual quantity of blood, become distended, and congestion is established there.”

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.3 – “When there is a sudden change in temperature, therefore, the blood is forced from the capillary blood vessels of the ski, back upon the capillary vessels of the mucous membrane, the impurities in the blood become a source of irritation and inflammation.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Score – Unverified

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.2 - “a temperature that the stratum in which their feet are bathed, is from five to ten degrees lower than that which envelops their head, and you have another predisposing cause to the production of this disease.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.) Comment – As hot air rises it is normal for a gradient of temperature to develop between the floor and the ceiling. This is not a health hazard.

Score - Unverified

Girls dress so that their feet are cooler than the body.

1863 Vol. 6 page 1.3 – “the unhealthy way in which for most parents dress their girls, especially during the colder seasons of the year. A girl has a pair of calf-skin booties with stockings, a pair of pantalets coming a little below the knee, together with a short skirt, .... the lower portion of her body as to bathe it continually in air, which, if of low temperature, must necessarily produce constant and uninterrupted chilliness of the surface.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Comment – As long as there is no hypothermia there is no health danger in the clothing of girls. In a cool climate the limbs should be kept warm.

Score – Minor

Why 6 – Dresses are Cold (What 8)

A dress catches the cold air as illustrated by an umbrella.

1863 Vol. 6 page 2.1 – “carry an umbrella over his head when currents of cold air exist, to find how much sooner, with the umbrella, the upper part of the body becomes chilled, than if he did not have it.” (Also - Feb. 17, 1863 - Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald.)

Comment – Both an umbrella and a dress catch hot air.

Score - Unverified

Why 7 – Cold legs and Disease (What 8)

Cold feet forces blood to the internal surfaces causing diphtheria.

1862 Vol. 5 page 179.1 – “Whenever there is a deficient circulation in one part of the body there must be superabundant circulation in some other part or parts. It may set down therefore as a physiological fact that among the predisposing and proximate causes of pulmonary or lung disease with women, this of dressing the lower extremities insufficiently, ranks in the forefront.”

1863 Vol. 6 page 2.1 – “the ill adaptation of such clothing as the girl wear, is to force the circulation to the upper portion of the body, .... to drive the blood from the external surface ... to the internal