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What follows is a collection of quotes from Watchtower Society literature.This information will help researchers understand the mindset that existed within the Watchtower Society regarding science and medicine at the time the blood doctrine was beginning to crystallize, and in the intervening years.
Quotes are presented in chronological order. Our editorial comments are in red.
Thomas Edison, the inventor and electrician, of phonograph
and telephone fame, has been experimenting with the new light
"X-Rays." and has succeeded in taking a
photograph through oak eight inches thick. But, as suggested in
our last issue, Theosophists and others are claiming the new
discovery as a part of their deception outfit. The Scriptures
forewarn us that Satan will bring to bear strong
delusion in this our day. Thank God, they shall not
deceive "the very elect." Obedience, faithfulness to the end,
is the condition upon which we may make our calling and
election sure. In other words, if we are faithful to the Word
and Spirit of the Lord, he will carry us through.
- The Watchtower 03/01/1896 (Reprints p. 1942) (NOTE: Edison
invented the phonograph, but the telephone was invented by
Alexander Graham Bell.) Emphasis ours
A new lymph treatment for all germ diseases is announced in
New York. The antitoxin is of mineral and carbolic acid
compound, called Aseptolin. Great things are hoped for it as an
arrester of diseases. No doubt recent discoveries are but
preparations for the Millennial blessing, so that when, twenty
years from now, the times of restitution shall be fully ushered
in, and none except willful sinners will die, it will not
appear so strange to mankind, and still leave room for faith
respecting the real source of all blessings.
- The Watchtower 03/01/1896 (Reprints p. 1942)
SHOULD THE CONSECRATED USE MEDICINES?
This question naturally suggests itself. We are neither
commanded nor forbidden to use medicines....Nothing, then, in
their covenant of full consecration, prevents the saints more
than unbelievers from using natural means for their relief.
- The Watchtower 07/15/1896 (Reprints p. 2009)
We give below a simple cure for appendicitis symptoms. The
pain in the appendix region is caused by the
biting of worms near the junction of the
transverse colon with the small intestines, low down on the
right side of the abdomen. This remedy is recommended also for
typhoid fever, which is also a worm disease.
- The Watchtower 01/15/1912 p. 26 (Reprints p. 4963) Emphasis
ours.
... We have recently learned of a very effective and
simple remedy for cancers which show themselves on the
surface of the body. We are informed that a physician, after
testing this remedy, paid $1000 for the information, and that
he has established a Cancer Hospital which is doing good work.
The recipe has come to us free and we are willing to
communicate the formula, but only to those who are troubled
with surface cancers and who will write to us directly, stating
particulars. No fee will be charged, but in order to protect
the sufferers, we require a promise that they will not sell the
formula to others, nor receive pay for the use of it, nor
communicate the formula to anybody. Any one known to be a
sufferer can be informed of the terms on which the prescription
is obtainable through us.
(Emphasis ours.)
LA GRIPPE AND TYPHOID FEVER REMEDIES
One of the simplest we know of for La Grippe and Typhoid
Fever, especially in their earlier stages, is to put
the bulk of a pea of cayenne pepper into a little milk, stir it
thoroughly and swallow it. Do this twice a day for
about three days.
- The Watchtower 05/15/1915 (Reprints p. 5689) Emphasis
ours.
Diseased Tonsils Cause Stupidity
Stupid children require attention for a
different reason. It has been estimated that from 3,000,000 to
5,000,000 American school children have adenoids,
diseasedtonsils and other
glandular defects, which are making them appear stupid
and are causing them to be backward in school. The child
troubled with adenoids breathes through his mouth, and a lax
lower jaw and vacant, sleepy eyes gives an unmistakable
expression of stupidity and dullness. The transformation in
such children when the adenoids, by a slight operation, are
removed, is often very rapid. The child with adenoids
is stupid and sleepy, because he is not getting enough oxygen,
and his blood is consequently laden with impurities
and the cells of his the brain are not properly nourished.
- The Golden Age 10/01/1919 p. 19 Emphasis ours
Even years ago it was known by some people that the
use of pacifiers by babies is one of the chief causes of
diseased and enlarged tonsils and adenoid growths,
which result from the suction.
- The Golden Age 11/26/1919 p. 153 Emphasis ours
Few people know that the normal functioning of the bowels
and a clean intestinal tract make it impossible to become
sick....From four to six quarts of warm water injected into the
colon is what constitutes an internal bath. It should be taken
every day for at least six months...
- The Golden Age 03/31/1920 pp. 437, 438
It has been discovered that many dentifrice's, widely
advertised, widely used, and alleged to be excellent for the
teeth and gums, are the principal cause of the disease
pyorrhea...Take the advice of THE GOLDEN AGE;
discontinue all other dentifrice's, use the cheapest and best
dentifrice in the world, common baking soda, and be forever
free from pyorrhea.
- The Golden Age 06/08/1921 p. 534 Emphasis ours
But the dog-rabies-vaccine imposition is the latest....
Rabies! When it has been shown conclusively that there
is no such thing as rabies!
- G23 1/1 p. 214 Emphasis ours
It has never been proven that a single disease is due to
germs
- G24 1/16 p. 250
Disease is Wrong Vibration. From what has
thus far been said, it will be apparent to all that any disease
is simply an "out of tune" condition of some part of the
organism. In other words the affected part or the body
"vibrates" higher or lower than normal. I have named this new
discovery ... the Electronic Radio Biola, . . . The
Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of
electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent
correct, rendering better service in this respect than
the most experienced diagnostician, and without any attending
cost."
- Advert for WT Electronic Radio Biola, Golden Age, 4/22/25,
pp. 453). Emphasis ours
"There is no food that is right food for the morning
meal. At breakfast is no time to break a fast. Keep up
the daily fast until the noon hour...Drink plenty of water two
hours after each meal; drink none just before eating; and a
small quantity if any at meal time. Good buttermilk is
a health drink at meal times and in between. Do not
take a bath until two hours after eating a meal, nor closer
than one hour before eating. Drink a full glass of water both
before and after the bath."
-Golden Age, 9/9/25, pp. 784-785
Pasteurization of Milk is Good!
PASTEURIZATION of milk simply means holding milk at 142 to
145 degrees for thirty minutes. It is never boiled. Nothing is
added and nothing is taken away. In cities where pasteurization
is required there has been a reduction in deaths from
diphtheria and tuberculosis to about half the former number,
and a still greater reduction in the number of deaths from
typhoid fever, scarlet fever and diarrheal diseases.
- The Golden Age 07/25/1928 p. 679
A GERMAN subscriber writes in that he understands that the
German government has prohibited aluminum ware for cooking
purposes. We would be interested to have confirmation of this
report, with fuller particulars than are now available.
- The Golden Age 07/25/1928 p. 684
...if ten thousand doctors swore on ten thousand Bibles that
aluminum ware is harmless to human beings, I would not believe
them...
- The Golden Age 07/25/1928 p. 695
...since discontinuing the aluminum vessels I hardly know
what headaches and indigestion are and my bowels move freely
and regularly, every morning and some times at noon and usually
every night.
- The Golden Age 11/14/1928 p. 114
...the fact that cancer is caused by chemical poisons, and
not by germs of any kind or by what is known as virus.
- The Golden Age 11/14/1928 p. 115
...I transferred my lot of aluminum from the kitchen to the
junk pile. In a short time our food began to digest, the pains
left, and we both have very good health for people of our
age.
- The Golden Age 11/14/1928 p. 115
All human ailments have their start in the intestines.
- The Golden Age 11/28/1928 p. 133
What the people need more than food is faith in God, and a
set of active bowels which means a healthy brain....Up
until now he has been poisoned, stupefied, clogged and hampered
by the Devil. He has been a slave to politicians,
wholesale food magnates, preachers,
railroads, bad cooks, worse doctors, an
abnormal appetite, greedy undertakers and aluminum
cooking utensils.
- The Golden Age 11/28/1928 pp. 136, 137 Emphasis ours
Keep your tonsils!
ONCE a year there is a wholesaleremoval of the
tonsils of all new inmates of the Odd Fellows Home at
Corsicana, Texas. The man who cuts out these tonsils probably
feels that he is improving upon the work of the Creator in the
original design of these children, but as a matter of fact he
is lessening their powers of resistance against disease
and positively harming them.
- The Golden Age 11/28/1928 p. 142
..."Is aluminum cooking ware injurious to the
health?"..."Food should not be allowed to remain overnight or
for any period of time in such a vessel."
- g 11/28/1928 p. 145
[The Golden Age prints a retraction (sort of) to an article
on aluminum poisoning.]
- The Golden Age 11/28/1928 p. 145
..."I must congratulate you upon the splendid work you are
doing in helping to educate the public upon the dangers to
health of aluminum...I can appreciate the good work you are
doing in the public interest, and sincerely trust it will
receive due public recognition."
- The Golden Age 11/28/1928 p. 145
...the invisible enemies of the public health, who are
determined to keep aluminum on the market for financial
reasons.
- The Golden Age 01/09/1929 p. 243
"Thinking people would rather have smallpox than
vaccination, because the latter sows seeds of
syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption,
even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence
the practice of vaccinations is a crime, an outrage,
and a delusion."
- Golden Age, 1/5/1929, p502, Emphasis ours
SO-CALLED medical science has made another "discovery". That
is not extraordinary, for it has made many in ages past and
will make many more in ages to come, for "discoveries" are easy
to make by an institution founded on ignorance, error, and
superstition. Some day so-called medical science will discover
that all its "discoveries" have discovered nothing but its own
ignorance.
- The Golden Age 01/09/1929 p. 245
Some Simple Remedies
Acting on the principle that all disease, except where
mechanical lesions are present, is caused by impure blood and
obstructed circulation, the logical procedure in every-day
ailments is to aid elimination and improve the blood
circulation. The following recipes are entirely
harmless and have proved effective when all other
means have failed.... Appendicitis
...elderblossom, peppermint and yarrow; best crushed
ginger,...A cure is usually certain in the most severe cases.
Do not be afraid of the perspiration caused. You may vomit at
first,... Asthma ...vervain, horehound, and
elecampane... Cancer ...Here is a herbal
remedy that has cured many very severe cases. Violet leaves,
yellow dock, red clover tops... Diptheria
...red sage... Epilepsy ...onions...valerian
root, vervain, wood betony and scullcap... Heart
Affections ...motherwort, gentian root and
scullcap,...Spinal manipulation...
Liver Affections ...Horehound, agrimony, crushed
ginger, gentian,...
- The Golden Age 02/06/1929 pp. 304, 305, 306, 307 Emphasis
ours
[article on the dangers of aluminum cookware.]
- The Golden Age 05/01/1929 p. 503
[story where aluminum caused the deaths of twin goat
kids.]
- The Golden Age 10/16/1929 p. 52
Just one joint of the vertebra stiffening up and bringing pressure upon the nerve centers will bring about a draining of the suprarenal glands with the result that our vitality will be used up faster than we can manufacture it, and the first thing we know we begin to get shaky and slow down, so that it is hard work to drag ourselves through the day.
Can this be overcome? Surely so. Just place yourself in the hands of a first-class osteopath or chiropractor, and frequently, within an hour or so after the first adjustment you will begin to feel your vitality coming back....Avoid the loss of organs of the body by surgical operations....Avoid the use of aluminum cooking utensils and alum baking powders,...Sleep on the right side or flat on the back, with the head toward the north so as to get the benefits of earth's magnetic currents.
Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute
the blood stream with their filthy pus....Stop chewing
gum, as you need the saliva for your food....medicines are of
little value,...
- The Golden Age 11/13/1929 pp. 106, 107 Emphasis ours
...I happen to know that those who are using the
exclusive grape diet in connection with other
therapeutical measures (such as hydrotherapy, electrotherapy
and spinal stimulation, etc.) are much more successful
in the treatment of cancer cases...
- The Golden Age 12/11/1929 p. 180 Emphasis ours
One more point: The Golden Age (by way of extractions)
stated some time ago that approximately 65 percent of
earth's millions were moronists, or had the mentality
of a child from 12 to 15 years of age. That being true (and it
appears to be),...
- The Golden Age 12/11/1929 p. 180 Emphasis ours
Pasteurization of Milk is Bad!
Added to this is the fact that they are compelled to drink milk from cows that have also been subjected to a liberal injection of tuberculin, a most terrible deadly poison. This poison enters directly into the blood circulation. Hence the milk. Then this milk is sterilized, or scalded to the boiling point or nearly so, destroying much of the life-giving nourishment of the milk, but not injuring the poison therein.
Scalded milk, for either adults or children, is very
constipating. This in turn causes more deaths and resulting
ailments than do all other causes combined, I surely
believe.
- The Golden Age 07/24/1929 p. 682
...I want to express my appreciation of the good work you
are doing in publishing the health articles, also of the truth
regarding aluminum kitchen utensils.
- The Golden Age 10/02/1929 p. 20
...surely there must be something rotten in its back yard
when a magazine professedly devoted to the health interests of
the people lends itself as the mouthpiece of the spider in the
face of the thoroughly proven unhealthfulness of aluminum
kitchenware.
- The Golden Age 10/02/1929 p. 21
Quite likely there is some connection
between the violation of human blood
[vaccines] and the spread of
demonism.... Vaccines cause demonism, and are
useless
- G31 2/4 p.293,294 Emphasis ours
Do you know the germ theory has never been proven?
And it cannot be proven, either. If it had been proven, it
would not be a theory. It has been truly said that
'knowledge without evidence is superstition'; and that applies
to the germ theory also. It is a leftover superstition of a
past age, when men feared that the earth was inhabited with
hideous monsters that were hiding everywhere, in the air, in
the sea, in the darkness, etc., always ready to jump out and
devour him or make life otherwise miserable for him...now that
we have come into this enlightened age, we have discarded the
hideous monster superstition for want of positive proof, but we
are still just as foolish as our forefathers of old. We have
turned from a gigantic monster theory, to the germs, which are
so small that we cannot hear, see, feel, smell or taste them.
Yet they are just as ferocious as the monsters of old, 'lurking
everywhere, ready to attack man and send him to an early grave.
According to the inventors of this preposterous idea, the
germ's only aim in life is to make life miserable for man. But
fortunately for all of us, it is only an idea.
- G31 3/18 p. 404
We do well to bear in mind that among the drugs, serums,
vaccines, surgical operations, etc., of the medical
profession, there is nothing of value save an
occasional surgical procedure. Their so-called "science"
grew out of Egyptian black magic and has not lost its
demonological character.... we shall be in a sad
plight when we place the welfare of the race in their
hands.
- G31 8/5 pp.727,728 Emphasis ours
"The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the
greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of
the ultra-violet rays, which are healing."
- Golden Age, 9/13/33, p. 777
Aspirin causes heart disease
- G35 2/27 pp.343, 344
DEATHS from cancer have increased steadily since 1900. At
that time 63 of every 100,000 persons died from that cause; the
present death rate is 102 per 100,000. The rate of progress in
the wrong direction has kept step steadily with the increased
use of aluminum cooking utensils.
- The Golden Age 09/23/1936 p. 803
...there is not one single thing about Satan's kingdom that
is right, not even it's most-boasted cooking utensils.
- The Golden Age 09/23/1936 p. 803
Hydrophobia (Rabies) is more of a mental hoax than a
reality . . . Pasteur does not cure hydrophobia; he
gives it.
-The Golden Age 09/23/1936, p. 814 Emphasis ours
Pasteur's teachings have cost untold millions in
health and they have destroyed unnumbered lives in the
world....Pasteurization of milk is only good to
preserve it, but bad for the consumer...And so one
more gasbag blows up.
- The Golden Age 09/23/1936 p. 814 Emphasis ours
The physiological action of aspirin, or of any of this
general group or class of drugs, is to reduce, or relax,
arterial tension and weaken the contractility or elasticity of
the muscular fibers of the heart. By the excessive and
continuous use of aspirin, the heart muscles become soft and
flabby, the heart valves relax and lose the power to properly
perform their normal function, and by degrees the blood begins
to regurgitate or flow back through the weakened heart-valves
with each heart pulsation, thus gradually and unawares
producing a valvular heart-lesion, which, when once
established, is never cured, but continues to grow worse and
worse until death results.
-[reference missing!] Emphasis ours
Acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin, is
potentially a dangerous drug, and its unqualified use
as a home remedy is a menace to good health, and should be
discouraged.
- The Golden Age 09/23/1936 p. 822 Emphasis ours
Vaccines are a cruel hoax
- G39 5/31 p.3
"Man on earth can no more get rid of these demonic `heavens'
[the organization of wicked spirits] than man can by airplane
or rockets or other means get up above the air envelope which
is about our earthly globe and in which man breathes."
-The Truth Shall Make You Free, 1943, p. 285
[A Blood transfusion is 'nutrition']
- W51 7/1 p.415
[Hereditary traits are passed by blood transfusions]
- W61 9/15 p.564
"Most psychiatrists and psychologists tend to overcategorize
the mind and allow for little if any influence from the fleshly
heart, looking upon the word "heart" merely as a figure of
speech apart from its use in identifying the organ that pumps
our blood. . . . The heart is a marvelously designed
muscular pump, but, more significantly, our
emotional and motivating capacities are built within it. Love,
hate, desire (good and bad), preference for one thing over
another, ambition, fear-in effect, all that serves to motivate
us in relationship to our affections and desires springs from
the heart."
-The Watchtower, March 1, 1971, p. 134 Emphasis
ours.
"A peculiar factor sometimes noted is a so-called
‘personality transplant.’ That is, the recipient in
some cases has seemed to adopt certain personality factors of
the person from whom the organ came. One young promiscuous
woman who received a kidney from her older, conservative,
well-behaved sister, at first seemed very upset. Then she began
imitating her sister in much of her conduct. Another patient
claimed to receive a changed outlook on life after his kidney
transplant. Following a transplant, one mild-tempered man
became aggressive like the donor. The problem may be largely or
wholly mental. But it is of interest, at least, that the Bible
links the kidneys closely with human emotions."
-The Watchtower, Sept. 1, 1975, p. 519
"What are we to understand, then, by the word
‘heart’?. . . . What an amazing number of different
functions and capabilities are ascribed to the heart!
Do all of these reside in the literal heart? That could hardly
be so. . . . in nearly a thousand other references to
‘heart’ in the Bible,‘heart’ is
obviously used in a figurative sense. . . . obviously,
a distinction must be drawn between the heart organ and the
figurative heart."
-The Watchtower, Sept. 1, 1984, pp. 3-7 Emphasis
ours.
"The ancient Egyptians believed that the
physical heart was the seat of intelligence and the emotions.
They also thought that it had a will of its own. The
Babylonians said that the heart housed the
intellect as well as love. The Greek philosopher
Aristotle taught that it was the seat of the
senses and the domain of the soul. But as time passed
and knowledge increased, these views were discarded. Finally
the heart became known for what it is, a pump to circulate the
blood throughout the body."
-The Watchtower, June 1, 1986, p. 15 Emphasis
ours.We could add that the Watchtower
Society believed the same sorts of things about the heart until
1984.
AJWRB Conclusion:
After considering the Watchtower Society's the Society's published and often contradictory record of scientific statements and medical advice, one can only wonder why anyone would want to seriously consider them as a source of information and direction on matters of health, science or medicine.
Noteworthy is the following comment:
"A long acquaintance with the literature of the Witnesses leads one to the conclusion that they live in the intellectual `twilight zone.' ... Whenever their literature strays onto the fields of philosophy, academic theology, science or any severe mental discipline their ideas at best mirror popular misconceptions, at worst they are completely nonsensical."
-Alan Rogerson, Millions Now Living Will Never Die: A Study of Jehovah's Witnesses, p. 116, Constable, London, 1969
Is it any wonder the Watchtower Society has long ceased to print its older publications. How would the average person, or even the average Jehovah's Witness react if he had access to such information? Is it any wonder that the Bethel libraries are closed to researchers, and even the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses?