"I'll Never Again Remove Tonsils!"

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 5, 14 August 1936, Page 52

"I'll Never Again Remove

Tonsils!"

The Logical Cure

(Specially written by .

DR-

ULRIC

WILLIAMS

* AM wondering how we are best to protect our children from the danger and unnecessary suffering inflicted upon them in the removal of enlarged tonsils and adenoids. Until three years ago I used to operate upon 30, 40 or 50 of these cases a year myself-partly because I had been taught that this was the proper thing to do, and partly because it was a quick and spectacular way of ex~ tracting a reward from the parents. I have not done a case now for three years, and shall certainly never do one again. I will not even agtee to sign a ticket of admission to hospital for the purpose-not even if I were offered ten pounds for doing it. Since I have come to realise that disease is due not primarily to germs but to faulty methods of living,.I know that the operation is seldom if ever necessary. — The reason for the unhealthy condition of the tonsils and adenoids is the unhealthy condition of the child; and the cause of the child’s unhealthy condition is faults in its methods of living. Wrong use of foods and, frequently, indulgence in rubbish; excessive intake of foodstuffs in general, and of starchy and sugary foods in particular, together with wrong habits regarding rest, exercise, sunshine and fresh air, water, clothing, and posture. The logical method of prevention would seem to be right living; and the logical method of cure, correction of the cause. But this is not the orthodox viewpoint which, being based upon the germ theory, is mostly illogical. So it recommends the removal of these necessary but temporarily unhealthy organs while it ignores the unhealthy condition of living responsible, and: so allows and even encourages them to continue. . oy The enormity and cruelty of the infliction upon the unfortunate sufferers must .be apparent to anybody not wilfully blind. Yet .I am frequently consulted by parents who have been threatened that unless their children are submitted to this outrage they will. not be allowed to attend their schools. The danger of mental backwardness, the danger of deafness, the danger of: diphtheria-every kind of bogey is arrayed to impress and frighten. But these bogies, too, would not exist but for wrong living. It should be the privilege as well as the duty of the school medical officers to instruct parents how to avoid them, Some parents are too stubborn to heed. — : . _ I have demonstrated over and over again that short periods of eliminative treatment combined with wise feeding, judicious exercise and clothing day and night, sun-bathing to the skin, not merely,

to the clothing, deep breathing and correct posture, will not merely gradually correct unhealthy conditions of the tonsils, but will restore the child and maintain a high level‘of physical fitness. "Let it be repeated that disease is mostly a degenerative process, and of this the acute illness is often nature’s method of cure. First ensure that your. child’s feeding and general habits are correct. Then the child will not become ill. But, if the feeding and habits have been incorrect, you can thank your lucky stars if illness should supervene. It is through the acute illness that Nature cleanses the system from the accumulated poisons which otherwise would damage the child. Directly an acute illness begins put the child to bed. Give it no food. Clear the bowel with the enema, and ° wait . cheerfully until Nature. has completed her task. _ Nature cures; she does not kill, if she can help it. : . Her whole purpose i is "godd health ; and all she’ requires of us is a little co-operation. ' Never give drugs. They make well people sick. . Never allow, on any account, vaccines of any kind to be administered, under any conditions whatever... They cause more suffering and..misery than is dreamt of by | those who don’t know the truth. The idea of injecting. the product of disease into a child in order to make it well, is about as logical as trying to remove the effect while allowing the cause to continue. Strange to say, these obvious truths are generally str enuously opposed; but for .. the sake of the children, and in the. name of Spiritual truth and common sense, it is our duty to see’ this : grave wrong put right." . ;

Next week Dr.’ Ulric Williams: will write on. "RIGHT. LIVING,"