Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Then there was Semmelweiss, the obstetrician,
to whom Kugelmann wrote: “with few exceptions
the world has crucified and burned its benefactors.
I hope you will not grow weary in the honorable
fight which still remains before you.” It was this
Semmelweiss who wrestled with the dread monster
of puerperal fever, and through whose brain there
throbbed the queries: “Why do these mothers die?
What is childbirth fever?” His efforts cost his life,
but he conquered the fearful malady.
And I might continue to tell of the blessings the
world has received at the hands of many others,
from Koch, Ehrlich, Nicolaier, Kitasato, Von
Behring, Flexner, Ronald Ross, and many another.
But to Ellen G. White a different role was given.
While her lifework and teaching were in harmony
with truly scientific medicine, it was in the realm of
the spiritual side of the healing art that she shone
with a brilliance of holy luster. In the matter of
appealing to men and women to regard their
bodies as a sacred trust from the Highest One, and
to obey the laws of nature and of nature’s God, she
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