"In this volume, the author, a woman of large experience in the practical affairs of life, and one particularly favored with rare insight and knowledge, has brought within the reach of every father and mother, every man and woman, lay and professional, a vast fund of information on life and its laws, on health and its requisites, on disease and its remedies, on the sickness of the soul and the healing balm of Gilead. MH 7.5"
"Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?"
The EGW passage directly alludes to the concept of a 'healing balm' and implicitly positions the book as a source of such balm, mirroring the question posed in Jeremiah 8:22 about the absence of balm in Gilead. The thematic connection is strong.