Although I have seen many things in the WT literature that have astounded me.......these are some of the things I have never come across. I read them last night in a book I am reading : - "AWAKENING OF A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS" by Diane Wilson. OH, HOW I LAUGHED............
I've picked out a few that really had me in stitches.
CHEWING GUM IS UNHEALTHY BECAUSES IT USES UP YOUR SALIVA
Stop chewing gum, as you need the saliva for your food. (Golden Age 11-13-29, pg 107)
EATING STARCHY FOODS WITH FOODS CONTAINING SUGAR IS NOT ADVISED, SINCE IT PRODUCES PUS IN THE BODY.
Starches taken into the body are changed into a form of sugar, and, when fortified by other sugars, such as syrups, jellies, jams, pies, cake and pastries, it requires the expenditure of a great amount of vital energy to get this excess chemically changed into some form of pus so that it may be expelled from the system. Do you wonder that you have that tired feeling......?
(Golden Age 11-13-29, pg 107)
DRINKING SCALDED MILK CAN BE DEADLY
Scaled milk, for either adults or children, is very constipating. This in turn causes more deaths and resulting ailments than do all other causes combined.........
(Golden Age 7-24-1929, pg 682)
GRAPES CURE CANCER
"The Grape Cure". Don't use ANY other food while on the "Grape Cure" diet: you will only cause yourself (and perhaps others) toruble by so doing. DON'T do it....
In case of internal cancer or cancer that has not become active, it has been found very effective....to beigin taking a small of grapes every two hours or so throughout the day, not using over two pounds a day for the first day or two, gradually invreasing the quantity for a week up to not over four pounds a day. Continue the diet as long as the case requires, or until the patient grows too weak. Many continue without breaking away from the diet for six weeks or longer.....
While the cancer is active and suppurating, the pulp of the grape may be made into a poultice and renewed as frequently as indicated. This poultice will eat its way down into the foreign mass, not injuring normal cells and tissues, however......We suggest changing from one variety of grapes to another, when convenient, although the dark-skinned varieties seem to be the best. But even the little green hot-house grape is better than none to arrest the progress of cancer till another grape season comes in.
(Golden Age 5-29-29, pg 563)
A LEVEL HEADED DOCTOR DOES NOT STUDY DISEASE GERMS.
Secure the services of a level-headed physician (one who has been devoted to the study of HEALTH and to the study of DISEASE GERMS)......
(Golden Age 5-29-29, pg 563)
GERMS DO NOT CAUSE DISEASE
It has never been proven that a single disease is due to germs.
(Golden Age 4-22-25, pg 453)
TONSILLECTOMY IS WORSE THAN SUICIDE
If any overzealous doctor condemns your tonsils, go and commit suicide with a case-knife. It's cheaper and less painful.
(Golden Age 9-13-33, pg 777)
AN ANTI-TYPHOID INJECTION TURNS ONE INTO STONE
Do you want to turn to stone? You might try receiving anti-typhoid injections.
(Consolation 12-1-37, pg 14)
THE DEMONS SAY RADIUM IS CLOSE TO BEING THE SECRET OF LIFE; THEY COULD BE RIGHT, BECAUSE EVEN LIARS TELL THE TRUTH SOMETIMES.
The demons that infest the atmosphere of our Earth now, just as they did in the days of our Lord, are said to have made the statement, either through the Ouija boards which they operate, or through the so-called spiritualist mediums whom they control, that in the discovery of Radium humanity has come very close to the secret of life. Of course these "lying spirits", as the Scriptures call them, cannot be trusted; and yet even a liar will sometimes tell the truth, so that he may have the greater influence when he does lie.
(Golden Age 2-2-21, pg 260)
DREAMS ARE CAUSED BY DEMONS
No one should pay attention to dreams or visions now. They are certainly not to be considered as from the Lord. Quite often......they may be, and no doubt are, caused by the demons' toying with our thinking faculties while we are resting.
(Golden Age 7-13-27, pg 646)
A BLOOD TRANSFUSION IS A PERSONALITY TRANSPLANT
The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood.
(WT 9-1-61, pg564)
Transfusing blood, then, may amount to transfusing tainted personality traits.
(WT 5-15-62, pg 302)
AVOID MEDICAL INJECTIONS AND VACCINATIONS
Avoid serum innoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus.
(Golden Age 11-13-29, pg107)