EDISON SAID -

Thomas Edison was born in 1847 and during his 84 years on Earth brought us the light bulb, and many other inventions especially in communications. Betweeh l869 and 19l0 he averaged filing a patent every two weeks. His parents fled from Canada to United States after taking part in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, first to Ohio and then to Michigan where his school teacher considered him incapable of learning. His mother had been a teacher so took him out of school and taught him herself.

With a keen interest in health and healing he declared, "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

Perhaps it was his mother who first coined the phrase "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Naturopathic doctors are pulling up to the forefront of health and healing, believing there is no need to wait for disease to progress before instituting appropriate preventive measures. Natural medicine and techno medicine have alternately diverged and converged, shaping each other often in reaction. In earlier centuries Hippocratic practitioners assumed that everything in nature had a rational basis, therefore, the physician's role was to understand and follow the laws of the intelligible universe. They used the term "vis medicatrix naturae," the healing power of nature, to denote the body's ability to heal itself.

Both fields of medicine now agree on working together to build health and healing through consuming nourishing foods, exercising regularly, having a good attitude and loving and caring for each other. Seems that Golden Rule would fit in nicely here, "Doing unto others as you would have them do to you." All religions have this axiom in their scriptures, and all mankind has to do is practice it. In that way each of us can contribute to our own health and healing.