Publishers' Department

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, February 17, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 7

Publishers' Department.

“Not slothful in business.” —Rom. 12. 11.

BOOK NOTICES.

SPIRITUAL SPECIFICS: OR MIND IN MEDICINE. By Cyrus A. Bartol, D. D. This is a pamphlet of 40 pages, embracing two sermons by the author in the West Church, Boston, Mass., in Oct., 1884. Its object is to emphasize the connection between mind and body in their common sickness and health. He maintains, and rightly too, that there is a disowning or ignoring of bodily maladies by a holy will, which has much to do with driving them out or warding them off. “No telegraph or telephone acts so quickly as dread tidings run, with their sound and lightning, from our fancy to our flesh.” Price 25 cents. M. L. Holbrook, publisher, New York.

THE NATURAL CURE OF CONSUMPTION, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, “colds” (fevers), etc. How sickness originates, and how to prevent it. A health manual for the people. By C. E. Page, M. D. Sanitary Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. This book contains much valuable information, and will well repay reading, although the author is very radical in some of his views. We notice that he advocates a vegetarian diet, maintaining that the “natural diet” is uncooked cereals and fruits. He says he is convinced by the successful experiment of a very intelligent and worthy family of Southern California that this is the diet par excellence, as regards strict purity, digestibility, and efficiency. The “one meal a day system” is discussed, many successful examples given, and the system advocated moderately. He says that no person ever tried the plan and found occasion for abandoning it, except from considerations utterly remote from health. We notice with pleasure that the book condemns the use of tobacco, tea, and coffee. Cloth, 300 pages. Price $1.00.

H. G. BUXTON, Maple Hill, Kan., has been appointed director of Dists. No. 3 and 4. T. H. GIBBS, Pres.