Nature versus Drugs A Challenge to the Drugging Fraternity ILLUSTRATED HOW TO SLEEP -by- Aug. F. Rein hold, Ph.D., M.D. NEW YORK CITY. Drags Kill, But Do Not Cure. NATURE Y& DRUGS. A CHALLENGE TO THE DRUGGING FRATERNITY, WHICH, while immense progress has been made in all other sciences, still maintains, just as it did centuries ago, that a sick person must be poisoned in order to be cured. In this volume the author gives directions for a mode of living which will ensure perfect health, and he also shows how, by perverse living, health is lost. He has proved the correctness of his views by repeated success. Illustrated. body, composed of microscopic cells, builds itself up with the material ab- sorbed in food, drink, and air. Assimilation and excretion take place in these cells, and if the ingesta be abnormal, or the excreta be unduly retained, the cells must become abnormal, and death will result. Common sense would suggest the necessity of keeping unnatural substances, (i.e. such as cannot form healthy tissues), out of the system, and of promptly elimi- r ting effete matter. Our drugging friends, however, insist upon putting poisonous .atter into the already diseased organism. We hope to prove in this volume that blindness, deafness, cancer, diabetes, all the numberless maladies pronounced “incurable” by the drug-schools are actually caused hy the drugging fraternity—either directly, by means of “medicines,” or in- directly by false principles of hygiene. Natural methods cure these ailments. A. F: REINHOLD, Ph.D., M.D., HI Author of “ Positive Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis.” Translator and Publisher of L. Kuhne’s “ Facial Diagnosis.” Manager of Reinhold’s Institute of Water Cure. -BY- Published by A. F. REINHOLD, 60 Lexington AvE., N. Y. City, U NICHOLS & CO., 23 Oxford Street, London, W. COPYRIGHT, 1898. Aug. F. Reinhold, New York, and Registered at Stationer’s Hale, London, England. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TO MY FELLOWMEN IN THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY SOON BE DELIVERED FROM THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF DRUG POISONING AND^ SURGICAL MUTILATIONS THIS WORK IS EARNESTLY DEDICATED. Dr. A. F. REINHOLD’S INSTITUTE OF WATER CURE, No. 60 LEXIGTON AVENUE, New York City, U. S. A. Dear Reader:—This volume was written for your benefit; and you will greatly find it so, if you peruse it with an unbiased mind and try to follow its precepts as much as your circumstances, energy and intellect will permit. In every line of life, it is the ignorant who have to suffer. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. p. 19 The author’s Motives. Anecdote of Boerhave. No disease in the brute creation in its natural state. Very few human beings enjoy perfect health. In spite of its 7000 physicians, disease is rampant in the city of New York. Wild animals have no doctors, and no disease. Against whom our challenge is directed. Truth versus Error. It is our duty to preserve our health, and each one of us can do it by simply obeying Nature’s laws. The author’s desire. PART I. HEALTH. P- 23 Perfect physical health essential to the enjoyment of life. Health our natural heritage. Wild animals alone live in a normal state, and we must go to them for instruction; their instinct is unerring; they restrict themselves to their natural diet, and eat their food raw; they are never sick, p. 24.—Some deductions, p. 26.—The body compared to a steam engine, p. 27.—Digestion of food, p. 28.—Diving microbes essential to fermentation and assimilation, p. 29. Stale bread more easily digested than fresh' on this account. The organism of our stomachs. Sources of animal heat, p. 30.—Vegetables are man’s natural food, and he should eat whenever he is hungry, p. 32.—Animals in the natural state, have no fixed meal times. The temperature of our food should be that of the ex- ternal atmosphere, p. 33.—Expenses of our natural diet, p. 33.—Pure air is absolutely essential to health, and we cannot have too much of it, p. 34.—Importance of light, p. 35.—Excretions, p. 36.—The uses of our muscles, p. 37.—The vital forces, p. 38.—The three cycles of man’s life, p. 41.—What Health is, p. 41. 6 table of contents PART II. NATURE OF DISEASE CHAPTER I. PREAMBLE. P- 45 Acute and chronic diseases; what the drug doctors say they are. What we say they are. The drugging people do not explain what they mean by “ inherited ” diseases, or by “ predisposition.” Chapter 2.— What the Drugging Profession Knows of the Nature of Disease. p. 46 No drug dispenser ever gave a clear explanation of the essence of disease. Dr. Austin Flint’s evasive definition of this subject, p. 47.—If the drugging fraternity does not know what Disease is, how can they cure it ? Chapter 3.—Our Explanation of the Nature of Disease. p. 49 This dark secret has been revealed chiefly by two non-medical men : Douis Kuhne and Sebastian Kneipp, p. 50.— ‘Colds’ and ‘Coughs’ are salutary processes; by them the body is freed from injurious matter. Handkerchiefs became necessary when pure air was excluded from man’s dwellings by glass windows; animals do not need handkerchiefs. ‘Con- tagion ’ results from the presence of abnormal deposits in the body, p. 52.—Skin diseases are Nature’s methods to eliminate harmful materials. PART III DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH IS LOST. CHAPTER 4. PREAMBLE. p. 59 How injurious matter enters the system. Our food may be faulty in quality, quantity, or temperature. Disease germs develop only in systems containing abnormal deposits, p. 60.—Action of the blood in health and disease. The injury caused by sterilized food. Microbes are the night- mare of the Drug dispensers, but in reality they have their beneficial uses, p. 62.—Dike fire and water, they are man’s friends when properly con- trolled. Our body is made up of cells, p. 66. Chapter 5.—Animal Milk Harmful for Human Beings, p. 68 Milk of various animals differs in composition. Human milk is the only proper food for human infants. I11 Nature, the only purpose of TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 milk is to nourish the young of its own kind. The ‘ milking ’ of cows an unnatural and unhealthy operation, p. 69.—Tuberculosis in the cattle is the result. This affects children, brought upon cow’s milk. Infants nursed by healthy mothers escape numberless ills. Women leading healthy, natural lives do not spoil their shapes by suckling their children. The ignorance of the present-day mother, p. 73.—Why we consider milk largely responsible for the prevalence of consumption. The evil of sterilization. Chapter 6.—Meat Diet Injurious to Man p. 76 Meat diet is unnatural to man. The ancient Greeks and Romans who ate meat, have been swept away; the Hindoo remains, who rarely eats meat. Our craving for meat is merely the result of habit; a vege- tarian never experiences it. The sight of our natural food should delight us. Who could ‘enjoy ’ seeing a cow prepared for market ? p. 78.—Raw fruit is delicious, but raw meat is disgusting to us. Many proofs of meat not being man’s natural food. Pre-historic man had no weapons for kill- ing animals. The horse and ox are among the strongest beasts, though they never eat meat, p. 81.—Official records show that most of the meat sold is tainted and injurious. The beef-eating Englishman is a martyr to gout, p. 83.—Peasants, who rarely see meat, are strong and healthy, p. 85.—Some opinions on vegetarianism from medical men, p. 86.—Mental work is difficult after a meal of meat. What the ancients said of vegetable diet, p. 90.—Some famous vegetarians, p. 91.—Albany Orphan Asylum’s report on the use of meat, p. 94.—Different animals eaten by different races; custom, not reason rules us. What Mrs. Leigh Hunt Wallace says, p. 95.—Alcoholism induced by meat diet. What man’s natural food is. Blind prejudice against vegetarianism. People who live accord- ing to hygienic principles are to be known as ‘Naturists. ’ Abstinence from meat only is not enough to secure health, p. 104. Chapter 7.—Harm Arising From Spices. p. 104 Spices have no use except to disguise the taste of meat. Salt is in- jurious; mice fed with salt become blind, p. 105.—No animal in the wild state eats salt, sugar or spices. Salt exhausts vitality, p. 106.—When once accustomed to doing without salt, we do not miss it. The use of spices produces eccessive thirst, p. 107. Sugar is found in many plants and taken thus is a fuel-food, p. 107.—When eaten in cakes, preserved food, or candy, it is injurious, p. 108.—Some experiments with fermenta- tion. What is a poison ? p. 109. 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 8.—Over-Eating. p. 112 An unpopular truth. Men often eat too much, wild animals never do. Over-feeding degenerates the blood, and causes rupture in children, p. 113.—Why white bread is injurious, causing brittleness of bones, and decay of teeth, p. 113 ff. Food is made indigestible by the cooking pro- cess, p. 116.—Children’s diseases can be avoided. The proper time to eat, p. 119. Drinking at meals, p. 120. Persons living on fruits and vegetables are rarely thirsty. Animals prefer soft water. The drugging physicians send patients to mineral springs, which are injurious, p. 125.—Meat and spices produce artificial thirst, and too much liquid overtaxes the organs, p. 126.—Evil worked by Tea and Coffee, p. 127.—Even pure water, when swallowed too fast, or in great quantities, is injurious, p. 128 —Alcohol, the worst drink of all, often prescribed by our legalized poisoners. Insanity, and many crimes caused by alcohol, p. 128 ff. An experiment showing harm done by al- cohol, p. 130.—Care of the skin, p. 131.—Extracts from a German Insurance paper, p. 133.—Soft drinks, p. 134.—Long life of the total ab- stainer, p. 135.—The irrational temperature of our food, p. 135.—Ex- tremes of heat and cold should be avoided, p. 126. Chapter 9.—Injurious Beverages. p- 125 Chapter 10.—Evocations, When Suppressed, p. 138 the cause of corrupt matter existing in the bod}'. Serious results follow the prevention of the secretion of gall, p. 139. In healthy per- sons, the mucous membranes never discharge. Cleansing, not Drugging, effects a cure. Medical books describe hundreds of chronic ailments, these should be cured in the beginning, p. 140.—How contagious diseases are ‘caught,’ and, ‘how to escape contagion,’ p. 141.—What are the manifold processes of Water Cure ? The folly and danger of suppressing excressions by drugs and salves, p. 141.—The value of fresh air in re- moving effete matter from the system, p. 142.—Vitiated air causes both consumption and intemperance, p. 143.—Too much warm clothing stifles the activity of the skin, p. 144. Chapter ii.—Clothes, When Harmful. p- 145 How animal heat is produced. The harm of too much clothing, p. 146. —The sensation of chilliness. Wearing hats produces baldness, p. 147. —Hair should not be cut; it is our natural brain protector. Woman’s TABLE OF CONTENTS 9 dress in summer and winter, p. 148.—Heavy covering on the chest causes consumption, p. 151.—Tight-lacing and its consequences, p. 151.—Tight shoes; high hats; starched shirts. Perfect beauty, p. 155.—Why life is a burden to the majority of adults, p. 160. Chapter 12.— Vitality, Exhausted. p. 161 What vital force is. How it is lost, and how it can be regained. Vitality compared to the spring of a pendulum clock, p. 162.—The evil of sleeplessness, p. 163. Eight is indispensable to health, p. 164.—Weak eyes and Squinting can be cured by natural means, p. 167.—Tobacco low- ers the vitality and is one of the most deadly poisons, p. 173. Chapter 13.—Sexual Excesses. p. 177 What constitutes excess. Sexual intercourse among wild animals. What it should be in the human species, p. 178.—Moderation easy to those who live properly. Water Cure leads us back to Nature. Con- sequences of man’s licentiousness, p. 179, Thousands of lives annually sacrificed on the altar of medical ignorance. The ‘ Social Evil ’ entirely due to a perverse regime of living. No vice in nature; whatever is natural is good. No bestiality among the beasts, p. 180.—What Tolstoi says, p. 181. —The duties of motherhood. Criminality of our licensed quack doctors, p. 182.—What Kneipp says of inherited disease, p. 181. Chapter 14.—Drugs Are Poisonous. p. 186 All other injuries combined are as nothing compared to the baneful influence of drugs. What Dr. Trail says, p. 188.—Hygienic medication rejects all drugs. The danger of pain-killers, p. 189.—No relapses or col- lapses'after Water Cure treatment. What occurred during the epidemics in Berlin and Vienna. Morphine habit conquered by Water Cure, p. 191—The Numerous ‘ Homes for Incurables, ’ are monuments to the ig- norance of the drug schools, p. 192. The havoc .worked by drugs. Mineral waters, and what they do, p. 194.—Vaccination-murder, p. 195.—Anti-toxine murder, p. 200.—The drug profession powerless against consumption, p. 201.—Prevention more needed than cure. Cha- ritable work done by some drug prescribers. This is our hope that they will quit poisoning some day. Chapter 15.—Blood. p. 204 The blood’s part in the economy of our bodies. What is essential to good blood. How ulcers are formed, p. 205.—The drugging people mis- 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS take the healing process for the disease. The three stages of disease, p. 206. —The blood must be cleansed by natural means, not by drugs, p. 207. —Purified blood is our internal bath. Chapter. 16.—Death. p, 208 Who is to blame for man’s abnormal conditions ? Why does the birth of the baby often cause the death of the mother ? It is owing to the drug poisoners’ ignorance. Wild animals die only of old age or by accident, p. 210.—They have no drugs, nor drug quacks. Mortality from typhoid fever wonderfully decreased since the use of water treatment. Why do not our medical ignoramuses learn to use it for other diseases? Hun- dred years, the legitimate duration of a man’s life. Death should be as pain- less to all concerned, as an act of natural birth; both would be free of pain, if we lived according to Nature’s laws, p. 210. Chapter 17.—Diagnosis. p. 211 What Health is, and what Disease is. Indication of both conditions, p. 212.—Deviation from the highest type of Beauty shows deviation from the standard of health. The drug physician’s failure of diagnous and ante-diagnosis, p. 216.—Pain and fever are not .signs of sickness; but of cure; Nature is at work. Pain is the danger signal, and ought to continue as long as disorder lasts, p. 221.—Pain-killers are our greatest enemies. How to diagnose your physician, p. 224.—The three phases of disease, p. 225.—Drugs, by suppressing the acute stage of disease, bring on the chronic stage, p. 226.—Measurements of statues, p. 227.—Summary of Diagnosis; signs of health, p. 236. symptoms of disease, p. 237. Chapter 18.—Recapitulation. p. 241 Contrast between the physical condition of wild animals and men. Why they are healthy, p. 242.—And we are diseased, p. 243.—The present ‘ System of Medicine ’ a disgrace to our Enlightened age, p. 247. PART IV. RESTORATION OF HEARTH. CURE. What some medical people say of their practice, p. 250.—The funda- mental error of our drug scientist (!), p. 251.—Pain-killers and the Mor- phine habit, p. 252.—Evil of Anaesthetics. How Naturists regard pain, p. 253.—A case of chronic headache. ‘Sleeping-potion’ murder. Chapter 19. Preamble.—Dyspepsia, Aneemia, Diabetes. p. 249 TABI.E OK CONTENTS 11 Licensed murder. How the nervous system is killed. The monkey-and- bear story, p. 255. A so-called cure of rheumatism. Stomach trouble cured, p. 256.—The different kinds of dyspepsia. Serious cases conquered by Water Cure, 257.—Kneipp’s opinion on beer, p. 266.—Alcoholism and Water Cure. Whooping cough, diphtheria and asthma. Chapter 20.—Stimulants; Lung, .S7v'« and Sexual Troubles. p. 263 Consumption, and its cure, p. 268.—Eczema, not a disease, but a symptom, p. 276.—Its suppression does not cure. Some cases of eczema and acne, 278.—Syphilis and scrofula, p. 280. A case of Bright’s Disease. Cause and Cure of Hernia and Floating kidneys, p. 283.—The cure of costiveness is not effected is by purgatives, p. 285.—Many cases of cure by natural Methods, p. 291. Chapter 21.—Sexual, Liver, and Kidney 'Troubles. p. 281 Chapter 22.—Kidney Troubles, Epilepsy, Paralysis, Contagion., p. 295 Dropsy, p. 296.—Nervous affections, p. 297.—Locomotor Ataxy, p. 299,—Epilepsy, p. 300.—Tumor on the brain, p. 301.—What a medical book says on Cerebral Paralysis, p. 303.—and what Water Cure does for it, p. 305.—What the drugging people say about contagion, p. 306.—Pre- vention of sequellae, or ‘After-Diseases.’ L. Kuhne on Vaccination, p. 310.—The Social Evil, p. 316. Chapter 23.—Drugs Do Not Cure. p. 320 The different schools of medicine. The nature and effect of drugs, p. 322.—Regular practice and ‘quackery;’ ‘patent medicine,’ p. 323. Opinions of high medical authorities, p. 325.—Dr. Jenning’s no Medicine plan, p. 335.—The ‘ Matchless Sanative,’ p.335.—Ancient Supers itions. Dr. Trail’s story, p. 337.—New remedies, their rise and decline, p. 340.—Vegetable poisons, p. 331.—What Boerhave said. A specialist on children’s diseases who lost his own children, p. 344. The medical elec, tricity swindle, p. 346.—Those specialists, p. 348.—How Lupus can be cured, p. 350. Chapter 24.—Harmful Butchery, Commonly Called 'Surgery.' The three groups of surgical cases. In malformations and accidents surgery is permissible. Water Cure should be substituted for antiseptics. In chronic ailments, surgery is not only useless, but pernicious and inju- rious. Self-glorification of surgeons after “ a great operation,” p. 356, p. 352 12 TABLE OF CONTENTS No surgery necessary after natural methods of cure. Hunchback, or Pott’s disease, how caused and cured, p. 359.—Hip-disease, how treated by the routine practice of surgery, and how by Water Cure. Scarrifying, p. 364.—Appendicitis, p. 366.—Carbuncle, p. 367.—Varicose veins and milk leg, p. 368. Chapier 25.— Water Cure and Drugs Compared. p. 371 Water Cure employs every natural method of curing, p. 374. Hy- gienic medication. ‘ Self-limiting ’ diseases. To prescribe ‘ Iron ’ for poverty of blood, is unphysiological. Florence Nightingale taught fundamental truths. The Red-Cross Society. Cleanliness. The wonder- ful spread of Water Cure. Kneipp’s methods, p. 378.—Dr. Nature’sone prescription for all forms of disease, p. 381.—Plain water is the only true medicine. Impure blood caused by perverse living, p. 383.—The fable of the fox and the wild cat, p. 385.—Our rules of diet, p. 387.—Mistakes about Water Cure. Why some people do not try it. Why some patients are cured sooner than others, p. 389.—Effect of Water Cure on the vitality. Water is the only universal panacea. Why some patients are not cured by the Nature Cure, p. 390.—Sir Bulwer Lyttou’s ‘Confessions of a Water Cure patient,’ p. 394. Chapter 26.—Principles of Water Cure. p. 397 Health and Beauty are one. Ninon de l’Enclos was most beautiful at the age of sixty. What Water Cure does for the complexion, p. 398. The three cases of lost health. How the blood is purified, 399.—Theory and practice of Water Cure, p. 399.—The murder of George Washington, 401.—The body of a sick person compared to a flask of muddy water, p. 405. The after-cure. Chapter 27.—Faith Cure and Other Methods. p. 407 Divine Healing is contrary to Nature; that is, to God’s laws. Infants and domestic animals are sick though they have no imagination. What the Naturists believe, p. 408.—God is the father of all creatures, what- ever their creed. The methods of mental Healers and Christian Scientists. The different healers should be willing to submit to test, p. 410.—No mystery in the natural methods. Our theory in regard to Magnetic Treat- ment, p. 411. Chapter 28.—Is Water Cure a Humbug? p. 411 What Dr. John Forbes, editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review said of Water Cure. Who are quacks? p. 413.—Derivation of TABLE OF CONTENTS 13 the term ‘quack,’ from 'quick’-silver, p. 414—No compromise between Water Cure and the murderous Drug System. A fable, p.416. The duty of the physician. The best way of reforming Medical Practice is to pay your physician only when you are well, p. 417.—A case of Locomotor Ataxy and one of Paralysis, p. 418.—A case of Gangrene, p. 419.—The honor of a drug peddler, p. 420.—Confidential advice of an experienced physician to his younger colleagues, p. 422.—Some Pertinent questions, p. 422. Chapter 29.—Medical Laws. p. 425 Dr. J. Armstrong’s protest against Medical Laws. How they origin- ated and how they work, p. 427.—Some cases in point. Dr. Flower on Medical Law, p. 427. Herbert Spencer’s Views, p. 434.—From the In- dianapolis Sentinel, p. 438.—The horrible crime of vivisection, p. 444. Prof. Hunter’s opinion, p. 451.—Dr. M. Sellen’s pamphlet, p. 452.—Dr. P. Engle on medical Laws, p. 454.—Proposed isolation of consumptives, p. 457.—Rev. Dr. Wendte advocates the legalized murder of incurables, p. 458.—What we think on this subject, p. 459.—Dr. Sellen on Medical Liberty, p. 460.—There should be free competition in the art of healing. The drug peoples’ only excuse, p. 461.—Dr. Morrison’s opinion on medi- cal Science, p. 462.—Some more quotations from Medical Liberty News, p. 464.—A coroner’s case p. 466. Chapter 30.—Medical Education. p. 471 Inefficiency of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Medical Therapeu- tics, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Surgery, and Medical Treatises. Curricu- lum of a medical college, p. 472. Uselessness of anatomy, p. 474.—A sample of drug education and its awful results, p. 475.—Students of drug schools waste their time, p. 478.—M.D.’s employ Water Cure perversely, p. 480. Chapter 31.—Finis to Cure. p. 483 Divisions of abnormal conditions. A medical convention, p. 485. Indictment of the Drug Profession by Dr. Trail, p. 486.—Dr. Allinson on the Drug System, p. 488.—What Medical Liberty News says on the Drug system, 489.—Impeachment of the Poisoning System, by Dr. A. M. Ross, p. 494.—Some medical remedies, p. 495.—Opinions of some of the most noted physicians on the drug treatment, p. 496, 14 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART V. Chapter 32.—Preservation of Health. p. 500 How health is lost, and' how it can be regained and preserved. What Dr. Hall says about food. Why we advocate vegetarian diet. How the author gradually reduced his own bill of fare. Time and money saved by simplicity of diet. Living on 50 cents a week. Vegetable salts, p. 501. Vegetables are not prepared as they ought to. Palate and stomach should not domineer over our intellect. Danger of eating too fast. What to drink, and how to drink, p. 503.—Necessity of evacuating the bowels fre- quently, p. 505.—Physical and mental exercise must not interfere with each other. Man cannot thrive without sunlight, p. 508. We are slaves to custom, and are shocked by the sight of anything unusual, p. 509. How we should sleep. Preserving our health is a simple matter, when we do not let the drugging fraternity interfere with us, p. 511. Water Cure aims especially at the Prevention of sickness, p. 514. Facial Diag- nosis. Kneipp’s treatment is too rigorous for delicate persons. The methods of Hardening ourselves, p. 515. PART VI. CONCLUSION. p. 521 The author’s intention in writing this book. The enormous and ever-increasing quantity of medical literature may well make its study perplexing and useless to the student of drugs. The only way for us to escape physical suffering is to reform the science of healing and prohibit by law the prescribing of drugs and the performing of mutilations (opera- tions). Why the Water Cure movement waned for a time. Life Insurance Companies should endorse Water Cure, because it prolongs the lives of their clients. The Drug Schools hypnotize people into sickness, whereas the Naturists instruct the public regarding health. Modern comfort and ancient health are by no means incompatible. As man gradually strayed away from the natural mode of living, so people must return to it by degrees. An exhortation to the reader. Our challenge to the Drug Advocates. 15 hi ST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. No. Page 1 Deer, eating their natural food 25 2 A grain of wheat 28 3 A meal of bread and ap- ples 34 4 Resuscitation from drown- ing 35 5 Bronchial tubes 35 6 A medical dictionary 49 7 Queen Victoria 51 8 A clock 53 9 A plate of microbes 61 10 Respirators 62 11 Sneezing 63 12 Microbes,the M.D.’s night- mare 64 No. Page 30 Scales for spices 105 31 Candy and its results 108 32 Test-glasses, fermentation no 33 Graham bread and sound teeth 116 34 Teeth compared 118 35 A restaurant 121 36 An appetizing sight 123 37 A load of poison 126 38 A case of gout 129 39 Effect of alcohol on meat.. 130 40 Effect of heavy clothing.. 146 41 A bald pate 147 42 Female dress in summer.. 148 33 Female dress in winter .. 149 44 Child dressed to contract croup, etc 150 45 Implements of ugliness... 151 46 Woman’s great desidera- tum 152 47 The vital system 153 48 Aphrodite 155 49 Apollo Belvedere 156 50 A beauty at home and abroad 158 51 How Nature cures 161 52 Ganglia 163 53 How to sleep 165 54 How to get blind 169 55 Muscular exercises 170 56 Ideal bridehood .* • • • J83 57 A happy family 184 13 15 Human cells 65 16 Amoeba 17 Human ovum 18 Plant cells 66 19 Nature’s fount and the nur- sing bottle 71 20 A healthy female 73 21 What women learn 75 22 How caterpillars feed.... 77 23 Animal slaughter 78 24 Beasts of prey 80 25 The elephant and tiger. .. 82 26 A story without words. .. 83 27 Trichines 28 Tape worm 84 29 Chickens, in market; a dain- ty article of food 86 16 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS No. Page 58 Decrepit at forty years of age 192 59 Compulsory vaccination.. 196 60 Human blood corpuscles.. 205 61 Capillaries 206 62 Empty Bombast, M. D. and his clients 209 63 How to feel the pulse. ... 212 64 Testing the knee-jerk.... 213 65 Normal Iris I 66 Abnormal Iris j 2I4 67 The lines of demarcation 215 68 Instruments of Medical Diagnosis 216 69 Front encumbrance 218 70 Side encumbrance 219 71 Roman Emperor Vitellius 220 72 Roman Emperor Nero.... 221 73 A cancer 222 74 In Pain 223 75 Perfect beauty 228 76 Adonis 230 77 Antinous 231 78 Aphrodite 233 79 Sebastian Kneipp 234 80 The Author’s bust 235 81 A city block of houses. . . . 245 82 A grain of sand in the eye 250 83 A morphine syringe 252 84 A monkey and bear story.. 254 85 Forceps for pulling teeth.. 259 86 To increase one’s lung ca- pacity 269 87 Lungs and their capillaries 271 88 How we cure consumption 272 89 The routine treatment for Tuberculosis 274 90 Sent to the South 277 91 A pore in the skin 279 No. Page 92 Useless instruments 282 93 Medical makeshifts 282 94 Hernia 283 95 Pessaries 284 96 Two views of the eye. . .. 286 97 Construction of the liver 288 98 Organs of digestion 290 99 Stomach-Pump 292 100 Structure of the kidneys. . 296 101 Trocars for tapping (drop- sy) 298 102 The brain 302 103 Tools for taking blood. . .. 305 104 Eczema, caused by vacci- nation 311 105 Useless operation on the eye 313 106 Glass eyes 314 107 Sights in ophthalmic hos- pitals 314 108 Cause of deafness 315 109 Instruments for the eye.. 317 no Acoustic Implements 318 111 The nervous system 324 112 Saturn devouring his child- ren 345 113 The electricity swindle... 347 114 Our great ‘specialists’.... 349 115 A case of lupus 350 116 Like sheep to the slaugh- ter-house 351 117 Amputating an arm 353 118 Amputation of the hand.. 354 119 Instruments of Amputa- tion 370 120 Removing a polypus 355 121 Snares for operating 356 122 Instruments for adminis- trating chloroform 357 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 17 No. Page 123 In their clutches 358 124 Implements of torture.. .. 359 125 A useless experiment 360 126 Medical treatment for hip disease 361 127 Consquences of operations 364 128 Result of a successful ope- ration 366 129 Substitutes for lost limbs.. 367 130 The Invalid 368 131 Elastic Bandages 369 132 Instruments of midwifery 372 133 Chemical elements of the body 377 134 Abdominal supports 379 135 Straight jacket 380 136 Apparatus for writers’ cramp 381 137 Blue pills 382 138 Views of the intestines.. . 390 139 One of our methods of cure 399 No, Page 140 Murder of George Wash- ington 401 141 The heart 487 142 The drugging fraternity. . 428 143 Nineteenth Century Pro- gression in medicine. ... 430 144 Our legalized Quacks.. .. 445 145 The Drug Doctor’s re- ward 448 146 Method of cure 482 147 The Medical Juggernaut car 492 148 Circulation of the blood. 516 149 Muscles 518 150 Died from a pin-prick. . .. 522 151 Medical ignorance incor- porated 527 152 Penitentiary ,529 153 In Hell 530 154 A Graveyard 533 AUTHORS QUOTED FROM. The Numbers In Parenthesis Refer to Authors Quoted From. Louis Kuhne (1) page 52;—(45) p. 196. Dr. Spendlove (2) p. 54;—(9) p. 65. ‘ Home and Health,’ by Drs. Flower and De Puy, (30) p. 164;—(33) P '73- Rev. Seb. Kneipp, (31) p. 164;—(44) p. 190;—(39) p. 181. ‘ Medical Essays’ by T. R. Allinson (12) p. 102. ‘ Fun Better than Physic,’ by W. W. Hall, M.D., (22) p. 137;—(32) P- '71- R. T. Trail (3) p. 55;—(42) p. 188. ‘ How we ought to live,’ by Dr. J. F. Edwards (53). Dr. A. F. REINHOLD’S INSTITUTE OF WATER CURE, No. 60 LEXINGTON AVENUE, New York City, U. S. A. The ignorant are not cured, e. g., those who possess so little acumen as to inquire of their drug venders what they think of Water Cure. INTRODUCTION. #HE writer is a firm believer in the ultimate victory of all that is good, and noble, and pure. He feels at peace with himself and all creation. There is not a trace of hatred, grudge, or rancor in his breast, against any one. In his daily life he tries to live up to the ideals of universal brotherhood. In writing these notes he is prompted only by the desire to benefit his fellowmen to the best of his ability. If he appears partial to the natural methods of cure, and unfair to the practice of medicine, be assured it is not his intention or desire to be other than strictly impartial and true to what he believes to be truth. Boerhave, the greatest physician of his time, was anxious that it should be publicly understood that even the most eminent doctor is some- what of a “ humbug. ’ ’ He carefully handed the key of a small diary to his executor, and bade him open it immediately after his decease and let the contents be given to the world at large. When the notebook was opened, all its pages excepting the last were blank, and on the final one was written in large letters Directions to Patients,— ‘ Keep your head cool and your feet warm, and leave the rest to Providence.’ ” From this it would appear that “ to be well ” is a very simple matter. Wild beasts, though they have no doctor to take care of them, are always in excellent health. On the other hand, nothing is more rare at the present time than a person in normal health, and that many people are actually sick, the innumerable drug stores prove. As the city of New York alone is said to support an army of over 7000 physicians, people surely are not sick for want of medical attendance. We find very few people of advanced age who have been free from sickness, and most of them have had their full share of suffering to endure. We call this suffering “human suffering’’ with reason, for no such s^ate 20 INTRODUCTION of universal misery prevails in the brute creation in its natural condition. Only when animals come under the care of man do they begin to be vis- ited, by almost as many evils as their masters. Considering the immense number of physicians in the city of New York, all of its inhabitants should be the picture of health. But can you produce a single normal person ? Out in the wilds of Africa, fir from the reach of “medical care ” there may exist some normal, healthy people. Does it not seem that there must be some grave fundamental error with the present system of medicine, when, in spite of this legion of physicians, sickness breeds and multiplies with frightful rapidity ? Is it not possible that disease itself is caused by this immense system of drug medication ? In Germany, where there are numbers of learned physicians, the Water Cure movement has spread during the past few years in a most astonishing manner. May not this be an indication that the more en- lightened people are recognizing the radical wrong in the drug system, and are waking up to its defect, and struggling for life and health ? When in this book we use such expressions as “medical people,” “medical profession,” “ M. D.’s,” etc., we do not refer to all who have studied medicine, but simply to those who having devoted years of labor to this subject still have not found out that it is a total failure. We mean those people who prescribe poisons, in the erroneous belief that poisoning can make sick people well. We rather judge that anything capable of ruining vigorous health, is fatal to impaired health. We make every d’s- tinction between a person who has studied medicine, and one who has a license to poison people and who exercises his privilege. For all who are sick and groping in the dark for their lost heritage,— health,—these notes are written. Women who dread the fatal consequences of childbirth,—and desire an easy parturition and the ability to nurse their children with satisfaction and comfort should at least scan this book. Parents who would guard their children against the dangerous diseases of infancy and prevalent contagions, and who wish to see their latent faculties unfold to their fullest extent, should read this book. Any one who wishes to escape the present misery and the consequences of disease, and to enjoy continued health, should look into this vital subject. Who- ever wishes to attain the highest development here and the greatest happi- ness hereafter, should see if he cannot find some suggestions of reason and help in these pages. Do you wish to reach old age in full enjoyment of all your faculties? Do you not desire, when you reach the evening of life, to be able to look INTRODUCTION 21 back upon your past with the consciousness that it was not a failure, and that you have been true to the best light given you, and that to the full extent of your ability, in harmony with the laws of the universe? Then, give these pages your earnest, impartial consideration. Re- member, you are your own creator. ‘ ‘ Man is his own fate, and in himself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ’ ’ This controversy concerns you vitally. Form your own unbiased opinion as to which side has the sanction of Truth and Reason; and then have the courage of your conviction,— act. Wait not for the ratification of the majority, but secure your own health, your own happiness. Our desire is to appeal to your intelligence and reason. It is truth, and only truth that we wish to place before you. The magnitude of our undertaking does not daunt us; the contempt which the drugging people cast upon us does not discourage us,— for we have Truth on our side, even as Galileo, who was one against millions. “Truth and one make a majority,” and though ridicule, and severe contempt, and persecution be piled mountain high on Truth, she will rise again, will conquer, — slowly, it may be,— but surely and inevitably. ‘ ‘ Truth crushed to earth will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers, But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. ’ ’ As our desire is to find the highest Truth and to express it so clearly that ‘ ‘ he who runs may read ; ’ ’ and so give to man the greatest benefit from our research, we shall receive very gladly any just criticism, sugges- tion, or opinion. Dr. A. F. REINHOLD’S INSTITUTE OF WATER CURE, No. 60 LEXINGTON AVENUE, New York City, U. S. A. NONE BUT NATURAL, COMMON-SENSE METHODS ARE USED. HEALTH. »EALTH pertains to body, mind, and soul. These three are most intimately connected, and whatever influences the body has also its effect upon the mind and soul. The body is made up of various organs, each having a definite task to perform, and perfect health of body, mind and soul consists in these organs performing their functions normally and harmoniously. The body does not remain unchanged for one moment. Its old particles are constantly replaced by new ones, and this transition con- stitutes life. Its changes are carried on by means of the assimilating and depurating organs. The former are instrumental in transforming the food into tissue, and the latter remove the dead particles from the system. Bodily, mentally and spiritually we are constantly born again and in- cessantly dying,—burying old notions and adopting new ones. We doubt whether there is a single human being living now who knows by experience what perfect ‘ ‘ health ’ ’ means. People are not healthy. The great number of physicians, drugstores, hospitals, asylums, etc., as well as the lessening of the average duration of life, all prove a universal state of disease. As without health there can be no real enjoyment1 of life, the road to happiness, long life, and true development must be through ‘ ‘ perfect physical health.” To this end we must find out the nature and cause of disease, and how to avoid it. Dr. A. Flint says: “ To define health is not less difficult than to de- fine diseased' Other medical men say that health consists in the normal exercise of all our organs. But they fail to tell when these organs act normally, or how it ever happens that their functions become abnormal. They have a diagnosis to recognize disease, but they lack a standard of health. Many sick persons are conscious that they are not in a normal state, and this 24 HEALTH consciousness is proof that health was originally our inheritance from nature. But we have lost it; we have forfeited our birthright. As to food, cloth- ing, lodging, etc., we have deviated so far from nature that it is very- difficult to find a normal human being. If our physical organs could act normally, our mental and intuitive powers would also be normal. And it is our intuitive power that entitles us to maintain that all wild beasts are healthy. Hence, as man is diseased, in order to find out the conditions of health, we have no alternative but to turn to animals for instruction. They live naturally, and have always done so, in close contact with nature; and they must be nature's exponents to us as far as physical health is concerned. In fact they actually represent Nature to us, for sound instinct is unerring, but reason and judgment are not. A perfectly healthy person never thinks of his well being. If mankind were as normal as animals, they would lack the conception of health and disease. If you say to a person, “How do you feel to-day?” the answer may be—“ hike a fish in water.” Now as man considers himself the masterpiece of creation, and prides himself on the number of learned physicians and efficent drugs at his command, it surely is strange that when he wishes any one to understand that he is in good health he compares himself to a creature which never had either doctor or drugs. As long as man continued to be in close contact with nature, “ to be well ” bodily and mentally was his permanent condition. He enjoyed it without giving it a thought. To-day, perfect health is the possession of the wild beasts only. We would make a grave mistake were we to look for illustrations of “nature" in domestic animals, as man’s perverse ideas have contami- nated them as much as himself. They have been dragged down to the level of man and are as unhealthy as he is. All wild animals (except the nocturnal) get up with the sun, and they eat the food provided for them by nature. Every animal in its natural state has, on an average, one kind of food only, on which it subsists the whole year around. Thus, the lion eats the flesh and smaller bones of the animals he kills. The cow eats the grass, and from it gets all she requires for her blood, bones and muscles, and also fat to keep here warm. Fowls eat entire grains. Animals restrict themselves to their natural diet exclusively and never touch any other. A caterpillar, for instance, will actually starve to death rather than touch any other leaves than its own special kind. As a rule, the food of animals is little concen- trated and they get plenty of bulk with it. They take it raw, unspiced, and unspoiled by the cooking process. They eat it at the external tempera- ture. HEALTH 25 For instance, the deer in winter seek their food from underneath the snow, and eat it with the ice and snow still clinging to it. Owing to Fig. i —DEER. They are out night and day, summer and winter, rain or shine; picking their food from underneath the snow, and eating it with the snow; they have no shelters, no fires, no cooked food, no stimulants, and no clothes,—neither have they doctors, drugstores, nor disease. this circumstance, animals never feel cold in winter, though they have on shelter even in the stormiest nights. Though exposed to the heat of summer and the icy cold of winter, to sunshine, rain, and snow, they never - ‘ ‘ catch cold.” They have no regular meal times, but eat whenever the system requires food. Appetite is their only seasoning, and no condi- ments tempt them to over-eat. They eat only to live, and they expel effete matter the instant the system has no further 2ise for it. For a beverage, water answers all their wants. They eat and drink for the purpose of satisfying their needs. In looking for their food, etc., they get regular exercise, requisite for their well being. After meals, however, they invariably rest. The air they breathe is the purest. It also has free access to their skin, and their bodies receive sufficient exposure to the light of day. Even when living underground, they manage to keep themselves exceedingly clean. Their limbs and digestive apparahis are not hampered by tight clothing. With animals, sexual intercourse takes place only for the purpose of procreation, never for mere lust. The young, whether one or a dozen are born at one time, are easily produced without the assistance of HEALTH 26 male or female midwives. Their females never suffer with childbed fever, never die from giving birth, and are as alert the moment the act is over as at any other time. They always have an abundance of milk for all their young, and as long as the female lives, no bottle feeding is ever resorted to. Animals, barring accidents, rarely die from any cause except old age, and have no pain or misery save what is brought upon them by accidents, or by other creatures. It is never caused through their own perverse living. Death with them is as natural, painless, and un- conscious as their birth. Their whole lives are devoted to the welfare of the next generation, for which at any moment they are ready to laydown their own lives. There is virtue, but no vice among them. They fulfill their mission in creation. By every act, in this way, they raise the manifest world to a higher plane of conscious existence. In a herd of wild horses only the very young and very old ean be distinguished. All the rest, of various ages, both male and female, scarcely differ in size or aspect. Their bodies are perfect and symmetrical, and their senses and faculties of uniform development. Diving thus naturally, all their senses are perfect and all their desires normal. There are no excesses of any kind. They are a credit to their creator, and they have their reward in their immunity from sickness. Now, what can we learn from this, that will bear upon the subject of our own well being ? Physically, man is an animal, and the functions of his body are governed by fixed, unchangeable laws. His mucles are the same as those of the brutes, and his blood the same. His internal organs act in a simi- lar way; the same laws govern reproduction in them and inus. Civilized man is an artificial animal being guided by custom and fashion, and not by instinct. Consequently, he has inferior health and many diseases. Several times a day we sit down to the table to eat. We need food because our bodies do not remain the same for a moment. The old particles are constantly eliminated by the depurating organs and must be replaced by new ones. The new particles are elaborated from the food by the assimilating organs. Besides these, we possess organs of special senses. The higher orders of creation have many organs which the lower orders, such as plants, etc., can dispense with. Mankind has these special senses, including the intuitive and reasoning faculties. Dower orders of being, such as vegetables, etc., are placed in their necessary nourishment. Man must move about to obtain his nourishment, carrying his assimilating organs,—his roots, as it were,—within him. He has various senses, sight, smell, etc., by which he searches HEALTH 27 for and locates his food, which the muscular system enables him to reach and obtain. The senses of smell and taste enable us to discriminate between what is nutritious and what is injurious, and if the instinct, or in- tuitive faculties were normal with us, their promptings could be implicitly relied upon. For instinct has its root in the accumulated experience of all past ages, and is the result of the actions of all former generations. The Reason has mainly to do with planning and providing for the future, and an element of uncertainty enters here, which renders its results not wholly reliable. Every movement, sensation, or thought entails a change in the body. This alteration consists in the exchanging of dead particles for new ones; the old ones being cast out of the living tissue, new ones take their place. The substances which nature rejects, must be promptly eliminated. The fleshy particles of our bodies are replaced once a year; and the bones, every seven years. Hence, in seven years we have been the possessors of seven bodies of flesh and blood, and of one frame of bones. Our other parts—mental and moral, are undergoing the same incessant re-incarna- tion in a very similar way. Our bodies, being built up from the food, crave for the same materials of which they consist. Our proper food, then, is that which contains these ingredients. And substances in us, call for like sub- stances without, to supply the waste of the system; such substances constitute man’s Natural Food. Life consists in this exchange. The food, our future body, mind and soul, is received by us, in the solid and liquid form, by way of the mouth; in the gaseous form by way of lungs and skin; and as luminous ether, by way of the eyes and skin. The living body is warm, and capable of performing work. It re- sembles a steam engine most closely. Both need fuel to produce the requisite heat and power. Both wear out, and need to have the outworn parts replaced. Both produce debris. Both need free access of air, to bring about transformation of the innate power lying dormant in the fuel, into active heat and energy. For the permanent running of an engine, four totally different articles are required, to wit: metals, fuel, air, and water. Provisions also must be made to remove the ashes. A working engine cannot be built or coal, nor can it be fed on metals.—Each of the four substances has its definite office to perform. To keep our bodies in perfect working order, we also need these different substances—viz. materials to build up our bodies, fuel, water, and air. Our building food is totally dif- ferent from our fuel food, and one cannot replace the other. Hence, the proper selection of our food is very essential. After an engine is once built, little material is required to keep it in repair. It needs several times as 28 health much fuel. After a person has attained his full growth, the fuel food required will exceed the repair food in quantity, about six times. Hy- drocarbons constitute our fuel food, and are found principally in starch, flour, fat, and sugar. Our repair food is of two kinds; we require substances con- taining nitrogen (albumen) for the blood, flesh and nerves; and certain mineral substances, such as lime, iron, phosphorus etc., for the bones and teeth. Water is required, to transform the heat into power. Our teeth indicate that food should be taken in solid form, and not as soups and broths. A large amount of our food, such as bread, potatoes, rice and barley, consists of starch. Our system cannot util- ize these substances directly ; they must first be transformed into ‘ grape sugar.' This transformation is brought about by the saliva, which is secreted slowly and gradually during the process of mastication. The more thorough the grinding up of the food in the mouth, and the more thorough the insalivation, the easier is the digestion and assim- ilation, and the more nourishment does the body draw out of a definite amount of food ; as this is a most important feature, it should always be present in our minds, and acted upon at meal-time. When we act thus rationally, less labor is expended in maintaining normal vigor; and energy, economized in this way, is saved for mental achievement, and for the exte?itio?i of life.— Hence, in order to nourish well the body, mind and soul, which make the unit—man — it is necessary to chew thoroughly and carefully, until the mixture of food and saliva form a kind of pap. Solid food offers considerable resistance to the teeth. This re- sistance draws the blood to the jaws, thus nourishing the roots of the teeth and keeping them sound and strong. P'irst in the stomach, and then in the intestines, the food-pap is mixed with other juices, which are also secreted very slowly. This is another reason why food should enter the stomach gradually. While the process of digestion is going on, the muscles of the stomach keep up a continual Fig. 2— A, A GRAIN OF WHEAT. B, a section, showing the 3 layers; to wit; a, the husk: b, the gluten, which builds up our body ; c, the flour or starch, which produces the animal heat. HEALTH 29 churning motion, forcing the food back and forth, and allowing the gastric juices to penetrate every portion. This churning process is continued until all the food is digested. Thus the food is more and more elaborated, until it is changed into blood, which nourishes every part of the body. To have good brain, nerves, and muscles, noble sentiments and pure desires, we must have good blood ; to have good blood, we must have proper food, and that food must be well digested. And, again, to digest well, we must have good nerves and a peaceful mind. Thus we see that all our functions form one uninterrupted chain,— an unbroken circle. If any hitch occurs, the entire machine is disturbed, and if any link is broken, the whole machine stands still. The blood is the undifferentiated body, mind, and soul, for it nourishes all three. If the composition of the blood is normal, every organ will be built up and will act normally. The blood cannot be of the proper kind, unless the food from which it comes, is of the proper kind. If we see two persons, of perhaps thirty years of age,—one living on coarse bread, vegetables and fruit, and the other swallowing oysters, champagne etc., though both ap- pear equally well, this is no indication that the kind of food we eat is immaterial to our well-being. If we look at the same two people some twenty years later, we will probably find the first person still enjoying full health and strength, while the second is either laid up with gout or paral- ysis, or is already forgotten. Digestion is not only a chemical process, consisting in the action of the various secretions on the food take?i; it is also a process of fermentation. To facilitate this, it appears that living germs must be taken with our food. Experiments with animals are said to have been proving that, though fed upon the best diet, they die within a few weeks if the food has been steril- ized. You all know that stale bread is more easily digested than fresh bread. The writer thinks that this is, because the baking process kills the microbes; but their germs, being much more resisting, survive, and by degrees develop and multiply. The fresh bread being deprived of the microbes, its natural ferments, cannot undergo this process of fermentation, and remains undigested. In the stale bread, the microbes have had time to develop again, and thus induce fermentation and digestion. However this may be, there are other substances generated in our system, which, acting the parts of ferments, aid in breaking up the food, and which must not be interferred with by poisonous drugs. The intestines are not mere tubes to carry off the waste matter, but are complex and wonderful organs, full of arteries, nerves, veins, glands, lym- phatics etc. The internal coat of the small intestines is covered with mi- 30 HEALTH nute excrescences, like teats, myriads in number, called ‘ villi. ’ Our body resembles a plant somewhat, but with this difference ; animals are detached from the ground, carrying their roots with them, and their food inside, while plants are stationary, and take their nourishment from the outside. The villi are our roots; while the food is passing along the intestinal canal, the villi draw the nourishment from it. As we have two kinds of organs — namely those that manufacture blood, and those that secrete waste matter from it, so we have two kinds of blood, the bright, arterial fluid, and the dark, venous blood. Both circu- late incessantly through the body. The heart, the center of the blood cir- culation, is a powerful hollow muscle, and acts on its contents both as a forcing and suction pump. It forces the dark blood into the lungs, draws it back as bright blood, forces this into the remotest parts of every organ, and draws it back again as dark blood. Then the play commences anew. The dark blood may be said to derive its color from coal, or carbon, which it contains in the form of carbonic acid gas. If you heat a piece of starch or sugar sufficiently, it turns black. This is, because it is composed of the same elements as coal and water; and the heat, driving the water out, leaves the coal behind. The starch, fat, and sugar in our food consist of coal and water, and, therefore, are the sources of the carbon in the blood. If charcoal is pulverized very finely, it is apt to take fire spontane- ously. During life, our body is warm; in death, it is cold, and no amount of clothes can rewarm it. We carry the principle of heat within us, inas- much as our various tissues act the part of heating stoves. The phenomenon of burning is produced by the combination of two articles. The coal in the stove combines with the oxygen of the air. The coal is not thereby destroyed, but made invisible, and the new product escapes from the flue as carbonic acid gas. This very indentical process takes place within our tissues. The tissue of the lungs forms countless air-cells, into which the air is inhaled. This air, being separated from the blood by a very thin membrane only, penetrates the latter. The air which we inhale differs materially from the air exhaled.. The air, being a mixture of two gases, the oxygen and nitrogen, loses a portion of the oxygen to the blood. This gas is then conveyed to the tissues where it combines with the carbon or coal forming carbonic acid gas, and giving rise to the animal heat. By the absorption of the carbonic acid gas, the color of the blood changes from a bright to a dark red. The dark blood is then forced into the lung tissue, where it exchanges its carbonic acid gas for oxygen, and also recovers its bright color. We see then that both kinds of blood are alternately changed from one to the other, and that both are equally good and indispensable. The CH. I ] HEALTH 31 carbonic acid gas, being the product of combustion, is not combustible itself ; a burning candle brought into a room filled with it, is instantly ex- tinguished. It is equally destructive to animal life. This gas is such a powerful poison, that, if we were to breathe in the same breath a second time, death would result in a few minutes. Hence we see the great importance of breathing only fresh air, which has not been in- haled before. Man, as we take him to be, was originally an inhabitant of the warmer zones, and being a plant-eater o?ily, found sufficient nourishment in the rich fruits, and nuts, and other vegetables of the tropics. Spreading then over the colder countries, the bulk of man's food should be made up of cereals. All grains consist of three parts — the outside husk, the sticky gluten next to it, and the starch in the centre. What milk is to the infant, grain is to the adult. It is his ideal food, containing well-nigh all the nutriment his body requires. A horse subsists almost entirely on oats. The gluten contains nitrogen ; it is building-food, and makes muscle. The starch is heating, or fuel-food. Our intestines have a certain width, and as they contain circular, muscular fibres, these press down upon their contents. If our food be too concentrated, offering too little bulk, the bowels are not sufficiently distended for the muscles to operate upon, and constipation is the result. The husk of the grain gives bulk to our food, and enables the intestinal muscles to work. It also facilitates the penetration of the vari- ous digestive fluids, and serves as a mechanical irritant to the intestines. The same as massage and friction draw blood to the external skin, this coarser part of the food draws blood to the internal skin ; and as this arouses the secretion of the digestive j uices, we see clearly, that the importance of re- retaining the husk of the grain in our food, cannot be over-estimated. Hence, in order to be well fed in every way, we must eat bread made of the entire grain. For variety, there are: oatmeal, rice, barley, corn, carrots, turnips, tubers, cabbage, cauliflower, all the leguminosae, all kinds of berries, fruits, nuts, greens, as well as Italian macaroni; — in fact almost everything from the vegetable kingdom, except the spices and vegetable poisons — usually termed medicinal herbs. Nature, we see, has been quite lavish to man. There is no necessity for his resorting to meat, which is unnatural and harmful to him. No matter how much nourishment a substance may contain, it can be of no benefit to us, unless we eat it properly. Food should be taken as nearly as possible in its natural condition, that is, u?icooked, unseaso?ied, and neither pickled nor preserved. Natural appetite should be man’s only seasoning. 32 HEALTH [pt. i. Originally, man had little variety. If we follow this hint we will not eat to surfeiting. As with a steam-engine, the amount of fuel depends on the power to be produced; so man’s food must be regulated by his size, and by the amount of work he has to accomplish. Food should be thick, and rather dry, to give proper work to the teeth, and to allow time for the secretion of saliva. It is well to eat with a teaspoon. Mothers, in weaning their infants, should insalivate the food, before giving it to the child. The question is often asked — ‘ ‘ how often should one eat / ” A swallow is on the wing the whole day long, and eats insects as fast as he can catch them. Birds pick grain and worms from morning till night. A cow chews almost incessantly. S. Kneipp recommends his patients to eat little at a time, but to eat frequently. In books on hygiene, written by the drug school, we are told to keep regular meal-times ym\ to eat not oftener than three times a day, so as to give the stomach rest; also that our bowels should have one motion a day. Where these false prophets obtained their ideas, I do not know. We do not find them indorsed by nature. In fact in the course of this treatise, we will have frequent occasion to notice that the drugging profession mistakes our present, unnatural condition for the normal state of things ; and, arguing from this, they pervert nature at every opportunity. The writer knows from observation among wild beasts, from personal experience, and from his practice, that, if only natural food is taken, in its natural condi- tion, and a little at a time, we can eat a dozen times a day and with relish ; proving that our stomachs do not need long periods of rest during the hours of waking. The rule should be — eat when hungry; Of course, many people cannot live in this natural and ideal way, on account of their vari- ous occupations. They have to eat at regular hours, or not at all. But for all that, it is unnatural, and not the condition conducive to perfect health. The various kinds of food require different periods for digestion, which fact explodes the theory of regular meal-times. It requires little imagination to picture our far ancestors eating from the fruits about them, at very irregular hours,—perhaps every five or ten minutes, whenever they felt like it. Notice how you eat a spoonful of soup, containing some solids; e. g. grains of barley; you will then realize, that the various parts of the mouth work in full unison, and yet entirely automatically. First, the liquids are squeezed out and swallowed, while the solids are retained, and pushed by the tongue between the teeth, until crushed to the required fineness. The stomach operates in the same way as another automaton. As a rule, liquids pass from the stomach in about half an hour, while our present solid food is retained from one and a half to five hours, perhaps more. Now, if we Reinhold, Nature vs. Drugs—i. CH. I.] HEAETH 33 eat soups, or drink with meals, the liquids are removed first from the stomach, and with them the various digestive juices; and the solids remaining behind, cannot be digested, because the initial step in the process of digestion consists in the chemical action of these juices upon the food. Hence, a person should drink not later than one half hour before, and not sooner than two hours after meals. One should never drink with meals, and no soups nor sloppy foods should be taken at all. Formerly if the writer had to go without soup, his entire meal was spoiled to him. He feels and thinks differently on this subject now. Food and drink have their definite purposes, viz.: to support life, and they should be taken mainly with this end in view—as we see with animals— and not for the sake of pampering one’s dulled sense of taste. Originally, man had no tumblers which he could empty at a draught ; he had to scoop the water up with his hand. This allowed time for a thorough insalivation of the fluid. It should be taken in little sips. The only bererage, a man should take, is water. Just pure, plain water is the cheapest, most wholsome drink, a man can have. And if it were scarce, he would strain every nerve to secure it. With water we remove the dirt from our clothes. It possesses greater dissolving power, than any other liquid and facilitates all the exchanges in our body, 80 per cent of which is composed of this fluid. No life can exist without water. It is constantly thrown off from the skin, lungs and kidneys, and the need for it thus created is felt as thirst. When we abstain from meat, spices, and concentrated articles, such as candy, etc., and live on juicy fruits, we experience little craving for drink, because we obtain a considerable quantity of moisture in our food, and it is of absolute purity, distilled by the heat and light of the sun. We would recommend the eating of large quantities of domestic fruits, such as sour apples, pears, plums, grapes, berries, etc., in their natural state. Taking the larger part of the necessary moisture in this way, has the additional advantage of insuring the thorough insalivation of the liquid as well. Vegetables also contain a very high percentage of water. As to TEMPERATURE, 7io 7?iatter what opinio7i the drugging people hold, we think we should follow the example of wild animals, and take our food at the temperature of the external atmosphere;—that is, in winter, ice cold. A person who lives naturally suffers little from heat in summer, and will not be subject to sun-stroke; and in winter, he will not be incon- venienced by the cold. A person who lives abstemiously, is able to cut down his living ex- penses, if need be to ten cents a day, or less, and yet be well nourished, and in reality better fed than when he spent ten times that amount for indigestible articles. The writer, from conviction and choice, has been 34 HliALTH [PT. I. Fig. 3—FOOD, EXPENSE. A substantial meal, consisting of some whole wheat bread and apples, costing 5c; and giving vigor, endu- rance and contentment ofmind. If people would live abstemiously they would preserve their health, stamp out the drug poisoners and be able to lay by many a dollar for a rainy day. living on raw, cold vegetables for a considerable time. He is in perfect health, and has no craving for chickens, pigeons, etc., which he thinks may be good enough for a dog or a fox but quite unfit for the human stomach. (fig. 3.) IVe have to breathe in order to live. Few people know the value of pure air. Many seem to be afraid of it, and act as if it zvere a poisonous gas, to be kept out of their rooms. Now, pure air is our best friend, and, whether it is warm or cold, we cannot have too much of it. We can eat too much, drink too much and exercise too much, but we can never breathe too much pure air. We take 18 breaths per minute, and 25,000 a day. (F1G.4.) If we allow two pints of air at each inspiration, this gives us over 50,000 pints of air per day. Air is a mixture of two gases: Kvery hundred parts are made up of about 80 parts of nitrogen and 20 parts of oxygen. It also contains a trace of carbonic acid gas. The air exhaled, contains about 80 parts nitrogen, 15 oxygen, and 5 carbonic acid gas, as well as some organic matter, thrown off from the body. Air containing but seven parts of carbonic acid gas, would cause death in a few minutes. The repair of the body, and the removal of poisonous material, goes on more rapidly dur- ing sleep, hence, pure air is even more necessary at night than during the day. CH. I.] health 35 We need light as a food, to bring about the proper chemical decom- position and re-composition of matter in our bodies; and to this end, we should expose the skin to the light of day as much and as often as possible. We can never have too much daylight. But by our clothes, we rob ourselves entirely of this life-giving principle. It is the heat and light of the sun, Fig. 4—DROWNED. Death from drowning as from hanging is the result of suffocation, or the want of air; death resulting in a few minutes; this shows the paramount importance of air. Fig. 5—BRONCHIAL TUBE AND AIR VESSELS which make plants and animals grow. Every leaf turns towards the light, and every flower answers to its stimulus. Plants grow towards the light, and die from want of it. And just so the human plant droops, when light is scarce. Remove the sun from the sky, and soon all life would be extinct. The heat and light energies are stored up iu plants, involved, wrapped up in them, as it were. If you kindle a piece of wood, heat and light appear again. In animals feeding on plants, as they do, the heat 36 HEALTH [ft i. and light of the sun are evolved again. They appear as physicial power, mental energies, and manifestations of the life principle or soul. The representatives of the drug system, after “ curing ” people, till they died, have searched the corpses with their knives and microscopes, but could discover no soul. As a rule, a person will find what he earn- estly seeks for. But to find a soul, requires more intelligence than can be expected of those, who, in the nineteenth century, still try to make people well by poisoning them. Body, mind, and soul are one inseparable unit, and in death nothing is destroyed—not even their union is dissolved. Their inherent energies have only been transformed, and are no longer manifested in the same way. It is an open question whether the present materialistic trend of thought may not be largely attributable to the cynical teachings of the drug profession. Several pounds of invisible perspiration are thrown off by the skin every twenty-four hours. Thus, we see the skin is not a covering only ; this office is merely incidental, the main office being that of a respiratory organ, auxiliary to the lungs. Its surface is perforated by millions of pores. It is plain therefore, that the purer the air is in which we bathe our bodies, the more perfect will be the exchange of effete matter for the new vitalizing material taken up from the air. Thus we see our health is largely dependent on what we are able to draw from the invisi- ble ocean that surrounds us. A cat spends a great deal of her time in licking her skin; other animals, the dog, the cow, etc., have the same habit. Instinct tells them the great importance of freeing the skin from the dust of the atmosphere. Man should follow their example by bathing frequently, especially as the wearing of clothes deprives the skin of free access to the air. The bowels and kidneys, too, throw off effete matter and unless their indications are promptly heeded, the system will become clogged, and unable to perform any function properly. The removal of effete matter should be as regular and as frequent as the taking of food. If, as we hold and will prove later in “Toss of Health, ” meat is unnatural to man, and the cause of much disease, then our race has been living wrongly as long as this practice has been in vogue. Now meat diet, made even more in- digestible by cooking and condiments, combined with the prevailing lack of exercise, has made people more or less costive, so it is rare to find a person who has more than one passage a day. The drug profession always mistaking man's present degenerate condition for the normal, preach that this is sufficient. It is not so, however. All wild beasts have a number of passages, and any one who will live for some little time on natural vegetable CH. I.] HEALTH 37 food, taken cold, uncooked and unseasoned, with sufficient pure air and exercise, will soon find that his own experience puts to shame the ridiculous theories of the drugging people. The muscular systerti plays an important part in the exchange of parti- cles throughout the system. Each contraction of a muscle is invariably fol- lowed by relaxation. Thus the blood is made to rush into or leave the muscles, which act as a sort of pump, something as the heart does. And it is this surging to and fro of the blood, which brings about the exchange of new and old particles. Exercise may be divided into physical and mental. A strong man is often described as being as “ powerful as an ox.” ‘ ‘ Did it ever occur to you that an ox does not frequent a gymnasium ? nei- ther does he swim, or row, or take part in walking matches.” The secret of his strength lies in the fact that he takes his natural food only in its natural condition. Every motion of ours is performed by muscles. Every mechanical function of life is executed through their agency. Muscular tissue enters largely into the composition of the heart, stomach, bowels, etc. and forms by far the larger proportion of a man’s entire bulk. Arms and legs are moved by muscular contraction; and bowels are relieved of their contents by the action of the muscular fibres of the intestiness. Exercise means moving the muscles. Every contraction is produced at the expense of the muscle, which is consumed and transformed into energy. There are two sets of muscles, the voluntary which move the limbs, and are under the control of the will; and the involuntary, such as the heart or stomach, over which the will has little or no control. The voluntary muscles are also of two kinds: the extensors, which stretch a limb, and the flexors which bend it back or contract it. By straight- ening out your arm, you may push an enemy from you; by bending your arm, you may draw a friend toward you. The extensor muscles defend you against harm, whilst the flexors administer to your wants. The involuntary muscles are actuated by a power of their own, while the voluntary ones are under the direction of the will. Our will is in turn prompted by desire, and guided by instinct and reason. Every motion has a purpose. If successful, the sensation ofpleasure is aroused; otherwise, fain results. Thus the exercise of the muscles is also of benefit to the mind, and vice versa. Just as there is a definite limit to the beneficial exercise of any muscle, so every organ or function must be allowed periods of rest and recuperation. Physical and mental work, both entail loss of energy; hence, one cannot be considered as recreation from the other. Any exertion should be followed by a period of absolute rest, and then other energies 38 HEALTH [pt. i. could be exercised to advantage. A man's working capacity is greatest, if all his organs are exercised equally arid harmoniously. By the exercise of any organ, blood is drawn to that organ, which is nourished in consequence. Every thought conceived, or emotion felt, necessitates a wave of blood rising to the brain. The various ideas and emotions arise in different parts of the brain. We can conceive of but one thought at a time because that extra blood-wave which supplies the con- crete material necessary, can be sent to only one part of the body at a time. If we want to produce some extra feat of strength we must concentra.e the attention to the muscular action, undistracted by diverse thoughts; similarly, when thinking or concentrating the mind, the body should be kept in perfect repose. It is, for the same reason, injurious to exercise, bathe, or think intently, directly after meals, because digestion requires the presence of the blood in the stomach, and those exercises tend to draw it elsewhere. m The frequency and force of the contraction of the heart, as well as the action of the lungs, and the whole apparatus of digestion and secretion, are worked upon in a double way. In the first place, they are kept in- cessantly in motion by a peculiar force called vital power and secondly, they are to a much less degree, influenced by emotions of sorrow, joy, etc. Now as the vital force may be somewhat identified with man’s soul, and his emotions regarded as children of his mind, the muscles thus form the link between man’s mind and soul. All three,—the body (muscles), mind, and soul,—form thus one indivisible unit, and the health of the two latter depends upon the normal working of the former. Body and mind are, as it were, parts of man. Our body consists of organs, our mind of the faculties, to will, to remember, to imagine, to comprehend, to reason, to feel, to be conscious, etc. We distinguish between dead bodies or corpses, and live bodies. In both, chemical changes take place. In the dead body, the changes in the various organs take place independently of one another, and will within a short time, appear as complete dissolution; the changes in the paitsof a living body are interdependent, and serve to maintain the in- tegrity of the structure for a considerable length of time. No new material is taken into a corpse, but a live body receives large quantities from without. ' This food, while passing through our system, has its carbon burned up, and thus, by a transmutation of energy, gives rise to mental and psychical phenomena. During life, all our organs are actuated by a peculiar something, referred to as vital force. We ascribe to it, all manifestations of life, but principally the involuntary ones. As no Will can CH. I.] HEALTH 39 without life, Will, too, is a manifestation of this mysterious something, regarding the origin of which we, as yet, know nothing. This same ani- mating principle of life is also referred to as the Soul. This vital force superintends the automatic action of the mouth, liver, heart, lungs, intes- tines, etc., without the assistance of the will, or consciousness, as long as life lasts. It stimulates our desire for food, and signalizes the necessity for new supplies by the sensations of hunger and thirst. It also indicates the time for removing waste matter. Pain is its danger signal. One of its functions is, to repair damages. For instance, if the tail of a certain kind of lizard is broken off, it will grow again ; if a lobster loses its claws, they will be replaced; if a part of our skin is torn away, a new one will form, etc. The injury causes pain; it is first felt by the brain, and thence telegraphed, as it were, to the seat of vital force, the main seat of which seems to be the ganglionic system, run- ning along the spine. The vital force, in this relation called vis medicatrix, or mending power, thereupon sends an extra supply of blood to the injured part, which blood then repairs the damage in a rather mechanical way. Pain, whether superficial or internal, is always caused by some foreign object, which is injuring a nerve. In such a case, the vis medicatrix is always ready to assist. In fact, it is this innate power, this one side of the vital energy which is a fart of us, which does all the mending or curing. Nothing else CAN cure. No drug, no knife, no drug prescriber can cure. They can only do harm, and obstruct the course and retard the assistance, of our natural vital healing power. Considering all the phenomena of vitality at our disposal, it would appear that each being is supplied with a defiyiite fluid or capital of vital power at birth, to which no art of ours can add, but on which we subsist; and grad- ually thus exhausting the stock, we finally die when it expires. But it appears that we have the power to economize this fund, and so spin out our existence to a longer period than if the vitality be wasted in wrong living. Its working may be compared to the spring of a watch. The action of this is strongest just after being wound up, and grows weaker and weaker as time goes on, till it finally runs down. Thus it is with Vital Power; most vigorous at birth, it produces rapid growth and great activity and change through- out the whole organism. Sleep affords recuperation ; hence, children need a great amount of sleep, and the younger they are, the more they require. By degrees, this vital power lessens; growth diminishes, and at last it is quite exhausted and extinct. But nature has provided a peculiar means of reneiving or continuing the stream of vitality, by the process of procreation. By this process, the old or- 40 HEALTH [pt. i. ganism, like the fabulous bird Phoenix, rises rejuvenated from its own ashes, born again m the offspring, to commence its cycle once more. There is, however, one great peculiarity about this, that we, with our limited minds, fail to account for. A clock gradually wears out beyond repair, but these organisms possess a peculiar power, by which they not only con- tinue from generation to generation, but also increase in number and per- fection— if greater diversification of organs and sensations constitute a higher state. The evolution of sex apparently tends to increase perfection, as two individuals will accumulate a greater fund of experience than one, and their combined knowledge is then to an extent transmitted to their offspring. These facts, with their deep mystery and meaning, even partially realized, would surely keep any one from sinking into gross materialism. All vital phenomena in man can be considered under two heads—actions and reflexes. Both require an extra supply of blood, and this can be fur- nished only at the expense of vital force. Hence, every act, the mastica- tion and digestion of food, the beating of the heart, the activity of the muscles and the brain, every thought and sensation, development in children, etc., all involve necessary expenditure of vital force. If a person’s vitality is run down the remainder may be insufficient to supply all his organs with vital nerve force, then the power is withdrawn from the more remote ones, such as the eyes, ears, extremities, etc., and when such a condition ensues, we say a person is blind, deaf, or paralyzed. The daily loss and recovery of vital power in the activities of our body is a normal function and is compatible to Health. But if we introduce into our bod}' unnatural substances, such as unnatural diet, improper liquids or medicinal poisons, the system can derive no sustenance from them; on the contrary, as vital force has to be expended in ejecting them they represent just so much loss to the organism ; thus the phenomena of disease are in- troduced, premature death made possible, and this by the very people who prescribe the poisonous drugs for healing purposes. The greater a person’s vital power, the longer he will live, the taller he will grow, and when sick, the more rapidly he will recover. Women, not having indulged in the exhausting excesses by which so many men waste their vitality, usually recover under natural modes of treatment in about one third of the time required to restore a man to health. The loss attendant upon the normal activity of our body being perfectly legitimate, nature has provided means of renewal:—viz: food,— sle ?p, air, light, etc. Food sustains vitality, but is not vitality itself; else wild animals who perform every function perfectly, ani have no lack of fcod, would live forever. Man’s vitality is something far more subtle than CH. I.] HEALTH 41 food, .something that has been elaborated and transmitted to him from the first moment when the evolution of organisms began on earth. In sleep, all organs are supplied with a certain amount of vital force, and whenever their allotted portion is expended the respective organs require rest, which is taken in different ways : the eyes close ; the ears become insensible to sound, etc., as Vitality has been withdrawn from them. Where has it gone ? What is it doing ? Herein lies the great riddle. Solve it, and you hold the key to the solution of the manifested universe. Modern psychologists hold that our mental faculties are not separ- ated by sharp lines of demarcation, but that their boundaries are merged into one another,—that they flow into each other, so to speak. The writer does not share their opinion, for many reasons. The various faculties develop independently of one another; each has its separate history, and each performs a cycle of its own. Now, regarding vitality we may say, it constitutes three different cycles in man, viz.: the smses of sight, hearing, etc., also the muscles, and the mind have alternate periods of activity and relaxation. Their vitality is exhausted and has to be recuperated by rest, sleep, and food. This constitutes the first cycle. Man’s physical development, his growth can rise to a certain stage of development and then can go no farther. It requi res re- generation in the offspring. The parent directly loses and sacrifices his vita- lity in the act of procreation, or, rather, in this act, he transmits a portion of his vitality to the next generation. This cycle, between his own birth and his re-birth in the child, is the second cycle through which man passes. The third and final cycle consists in the gradual development and gradual loss of his individual faculties, both physical and mental. These rise, develop, and disappear independently of each other until finally the last ones close their cycle in death. But their effect is by no means lost, as, for instance, parents will expend their energies in caring for their child- ren; and none of us can avoid making impressions on others, or reproducing our own energies and faculties in the work accomplished by us. If a shoemaker makes 10,000 pair of shoes during his life-time, he has incor- porated his industry, energy, thought and other powers in this work; these shoes are the man’s energies under a different aspect; and, giving comfort to the wearer, their inherent, dormant, or potential energy is restored in the wearer. The ancient Greeks are gone, but the energies stored away in their works of art, poetry and sciences have been and will be revivified in many generations. To understand something of the mechanism of the human body, and to realize in some small measure, what really wonderful organisms we are, 42 HEALTH [pt. 1. it may be well to remember that the human body contains 245 bones and 500 muscles. The body of an adult contains about 30 lbs. of blood. The heart beats seventy times per minute, 4,200 times per hour, 25,792,000 times per annum. It propels about lbs. of blood per minute, 266 lbs. in one hour, and 5,800 lbs. or almost 3 tons in 24 hours. All the blood of the body passes through the heart every eight minutes. We breathe about 1,200 times per hour. Every square centimeter of our skin contains 12,050 pores. These items, which refer only to the material organism, sink into insignificance when we attempt to grasp even the smallest con- ception of the finer, more subtle qualities that compose the inner life—the soul. Now with such a precious, such a wonderful treasure committed to our keeping, should we not be willing, nay glad, to welcome any method which. shall enable us to restore it, to its normal perfect state, and to maintain the body and the soul in that perfect condition ? The writer who has proved the possibility of such a restoration, offers to all who suffer, to all who are conscious that their condition is not normal, these rules for a natural method of living: which, if faithfully adhered to, will of necessity bring our bodies and therefore our souls, to the highest states of material apd spiritual development. Man’s natural food as we will prove (Is it not absurd to the highest degree that such a question is made the subject of argument at all ?) con- sists of fruits, cereals, carrots and leaves, such as cabbage and other vegetables. There should be no craving for condiments, candies, or any artificial product. All food should be eaten raw; if not stimulated by spices, no one would eat or drink beyond the needs of his system. Thirst should be quenched by plain water. Coffee and tea. should be despised ; they would be relished by few people without milk and sugar. And the smell and taste of alcohol, under whatever euphonic appellation, should be disgusting to adults, as it is to little, healthy children. Food and drink should be taken of the external temperature, that is, in winter—ice-cold. We should always pro- vide for the purest air by day, and more so by night, summer and winter. Effete matter, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous should never be retained for a moment after the voice of nature has summoned us. Whenever feasible, we should recuperate our vital power by exposing our naked bodies to the light of day. Clothes should be as thin as possible, and permeable to air, and possibly to light. In winter, the cooler our rooms are kept, the better for us. Rest should be sought by us during the hours of night; Any one living up to these rules, is free from unnatural desires, and possesses a sound mind in a sound body. CH. I.J HEALTH 43 In conclusion, we would say that Health is that state in which, un- conscious of the actions of any of the organs, we experience only a sensa- tion of general buoyancy, which no change in the temperature or vicissitude of weather can influence ; when we are proof against all contagious disease; when the body is free and easy in all its actions, and the vitality remains unimpaired in all the organs. Dr. A. F. REINHOLD’S INSTITUTE OF WATER CURE, No. 60 LEXINGTON AVENUE, New York City, U. S. A. COME TO NATURE! DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE POISONED! PART II. NATURE OF DISEASE. PREAMBLE. EOPLK say, “I am sick,” or, “I feel sick,” when they experience some distress or pain. If these symptoms appear suddenly and unexpectedly, passing off in a few days, weeks, or months at the utmost, we speak of them as indicating “acute diseases'but if they continue iIm Q O longer, it may be for years, they are referred to us 3BL “chronic diseases." In the latter cases, the condition of pain may finally change into one of palsy, where an organ or limb becomes insensible to impressions from without; for instance, if the eye is no longer impressed by light, we are blind. If the limbs lose the power and control of action, we are paralyzed. From the location of pain in the eye, ear, limbs, stomach, lungs, or other organs, the drug profession distinguishes hundreds of different diseases. As to the origin of acute dis- eases ; — they are generally attributed to a cold, or to some excess in eating and drinking, or to infection, as in measles, cholera, etc. In regard to chronic ailments, the drug doctors ascribe them to heredity or to some un- known cause. These are the views of the drug school on the subject of disease; and the same opinions are held by the public; but from our point of view, they are superficial, defective, and actually wrong. If you ask a drugging physician why it is that in a regiment of soldiers of about the same age and apparent health, faring alike as to food, exercise, etc., a change in the weather will result in rheumatism with some, and not with others ; he may reply that those afflicted have a constitutional predis- position in this direction. If you ask the nature of this predisposition, he 46 nature; of disp;ase [FT. II. cannot tell. Cr, if you ask him why, in case of cholera, or any other epi- demic, every one is not attacked, and why some recover, while others die, his answer is the same ‘ ‘ predisposition ’ ’—of the nature of which, however, he is totally ignorant. Again, should you ask why the inherited predispo- sition to consumption usually appears in the infant as sqrofula, and symp- toms of tuberculosis do not develop until maturity; or, what was transmitted from the parent to the child, he does not know. Medical empiricism can- not tell you. Should you inquire, if the predisposition to any disease,— rheumatism for example—can be diagnosed, medical science—so-called— will answer “no,” but zee say “yes'’ ! Our views of both the origin and rature of disease differ radically from those of the drug schools. CHAPTER 2. WHAT THE DRUGGING PROFESSION KNOWS OF THE NATURE OF DISEASE. fP you were asked to define “ Sickness ” the very sim- plicity of the request might tempt you to scoff, but in FH trying to formulate your answer, you would find the TrjMy task ar from an easy one. Being puzzled, you would 'im*' naturally turn to those who for centuries have jji-' endeavored to minister to the suffering world ;—the Medical profession ! Many articles have been writ- ™ ten in this respect, but no would-be healer of their class has ever given a simple and clear explanation of the esse?ice of disease. The only people who have ever expressed a plain opinion are the advocates of nat- ural methods of cure. L. Kuhne, especially, the author of “New Science of Healing ’ ’ and of ‘ ‘ Facial Diagnosis, ’ ’ by dint of the utmost sagacity, suc- ceeded in almost exhausting this subject conclusively and satisfactorily. But being only an ordinary mortal, and not a learned member of the pre- vailing drug-school, his modest treatise is ignored by the latter. The medical people prefer such profound explanations as the one expounded CH. 2. J NATURE OF DISEASE 47 by Austin Flint, M. D., L,L. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City, etc., who in his “Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine,* p. 22, says: “ The definition of disease is con- fessedly difficult. It is easier to define it by negation (?), to say what it is not, than to give a positive definition, that is, a definition based either on the nature or essence of the thing defined, or on its distinctive attributes. Disease is an absence or deficiency of health ; but this is only to transfer the difficulty; for the question at once arises, how is health to be defined ? and to define health is not less difficult than to define ‘ ‘ disease.” Were you to ask a child, What is- sickness ? and it were to answer : It is the opposite of health, you might say : that is right; but, now tell me, What is health ? Would you not feel angry, were it to reply : Well, health is the opposite of sickness ? Now, in plain language, this is the very explanation the man of many titles has given of sickness. Mark also his logical reasoning; first he says : “It is easier to define sickness by negation, ’ ’ etc. But does he then define it negatively when he states that ‘ ‘ to define health is not less difficult than to define disease ? O, light of the medical profession ! What penetration must those men possess who could raise you to the enviable pedestal of a professorship. Once, when trying to explain the efficacy of the Natural Methods of Cure, the author was met with these objections: ‘ ‘Physicians are men of learn- ing and have made health and healing the objects of special study. Karnest students and industrious workers have written thousands of learned volumes. Great institutions have been reared — shall all this be branded as useless ? This is practically what is alleged by this handful of men who desire to overthrow the present order, declaring that medical men cannot cure ; that drugs make a patient worse and not better, and kindred nonsense! ’ ’ To this, we reply : Friends, if your time-piece were out of order, would you entrust its repair to a savage who never saw a watch ? Why then, in case of sickness, apply for cure to a person who does not know what sickness is ? And yet that is what our forefathers did ; and we are following blindly in their footsteps, by applying to the drugging fraternity, who, ignorant of the very nature of disease, undermind peoples’ health in their frantic efforts to heal. Flint does not stand alone in his ignorance of the nature of disease. Professor Gross says : “Of the essence of disease very little is known ; indeed, nothing at all.” And Professor George B. Wood, M.D., of * Any other medical work upon the same theme will furnish much the same character of attempted definition. 48 NATURE OF DISEASE [pt. II- Jefferson Medical College, Phila., Pa., (“ Wood’s Practice of Medicine”) says: E Torts have been made to reach the elements of disease : but not very sucessfully ; because we had not yet learned the essential nature of the healthy actions, and cannot understand their derangement. Another med- ical celebrity calls the curative measures of medicine ‘ ‘ blind experiments on people’s vitality.” Now is it to this self-acknowledged ignorance thu people should trust their lives and health ? What confidence would you have in the skill of a shoemaker who knew not what a shoe was ? Or in a tailor who never saw a yard-stick ? Why then confide our most precious possession, health, life itself, to those who practically confess their absolute ignorance of the essence and nature of sickness, who consequently can only undermine health ? Must not all efforts, based on ignorance of the un- derlying principles, result in dire confusion and utter failure ? Now after publicly announcing their absolute inability to define ‘ ‘ sickness, ’ ’ should not this ‘1 learned profession ’ ’ welcome or at least consider suggestions from any source upon this subject ? And especially should such suggestions merit attention if the theory offered, satisfactorily answers the questions arising and explains rationally the existing pheno- mena, besides curing disease where medicine has failed. Surely, the true theory must be that one which cannot only explain the nature of disease, but can also control and prevent it. The reason why the drug advocates never have reached any satisfactory conclusion as to the nature of disease is, because they are near-sighted, and deal only with the single fact before them. They never in any single case follow the chain of influences back to the original causes, that is, the deviation of that individual person from the laws of nature. Can any drug physician tell you the cause of a cold ? Or can he point out those who are disposed to colds, consumption, and contagious diseases ? Can he give any principle on which this may be done ? The drug people rarely tell their patients how to avoid any disease, for the simple reason that they do not know themselves, how it might be done, They cannot explain how a cold in the head or a rheumatic pain is caused. They speak of “ a latent condition of syphilis, a predisposition to take certain infectious diseases, of inherited diseases, etc.'" but they cannot tell what they mean by these expressions. Coming from their lips they are only so many e?npt\r sounds. We, however, can give not only a rational explanation of disease, and one that can be proved to the satisfaction of any intelligent mind, but we can also foresee, and control any form of disease known to man. CH. 3.] NATURE OF DISEASE 49 OUR EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF DISEASE. CHAPTER. 3. f*® O'V. HAT a great many people are sick, is eloquently de- monstrated by the innumberable drug stores and \ legi°ns °f physicians. A person may feel well one day, and be sick the next. In many instances this change f°r the worse comes upon us gradually like old age it- self. What is the significance of this change from health to illness ? How is it brought about? How can it be avoided, and if established, how can health be restored ? Theses are questions of momentous import. The sensation of sickness is anything but pleasant. In order to be free from it and also to avoid it in future, we must know its origin and nature. If we look into Medical books, we obtain no information. Ziemsen, e. g., in his Medical Dictionary of twenty ponderous volumes, mentions a thous- and forms of disease, and tells how, in his opinion, they should be treated; but he has not a word in explanation of the term 1 ‘ Disease ”. In this re- spect, our arrogant, self-satisfied drugging people are in no wise superior to their co-laborers, the Indian medicine man, or to the Fetich worshippers of Central Africa. (Fig. 6.) Thousands of technical terms are used in this die- Fig. 6.—In this dictionary, not a word is said of what “ Health ” or “ Dis- ease ” is; and not knowing the nature of these conditions, the attempt of the ruling medical schools to restore health, or to cure disease, only amounts to blind experiments, usually terminating fatally. This, if anything, should open the eyes ot the drug profession to what is most needed. 50 NATURE OF DISEASE [pt. 11. tionary. But names are often dangerous as shielding our own ignorance from our view. Knowing a certain word, we mistake the knowledge of this empty sound for an insight into the nature of the thing itself, which is a grave error. It impresses us as highly essential that the people should wake up to this disparity of assertion and fact, otherwise little hope can be fostered that the medical profession will investigate new ideas. Fortunately for us, this dark secret as to the nature of disease has been discovered, mainly by the efforts of two non-medical men, Louis Kuhne and Sebastian Kneipp. Kneipp attributes all forms of disease to two causes; namely, either to impure blood, or to an* improper distribution of the blood to the various parts of the body. Louis Kuhne acknowledges but one cause, to wit: foul, corrupt matter, encumbering our system.* We support Kuhne, adding that the abnormal supply of blood to the various organs is secondary, being the result of the obstructing deposits. In many acute cases, the body possesses vitality enough to throw off this unnatural matter in the form of rashes, ulcers, and pimples, etc. If a sick person weighs two hundred pounds when commencing a course of natural treatment, and has lost forty pounds when restored to health, the difference means the system freed from that much foul matter. If two people are bitten by a mosquito, and no lump is raised in one person, while a considerable ulcer forms on the other, the system of the latter person is heavily encumbered. If two people expose themselves to colds, and one con- tracts rheumatism in his (Fig. 7.) right shoulder, whilst the other remains unaffected, the system of the former was charged with foreign matter, which settled in the shoulder and caused the pain. The system of the latter being comparatively pure, could form no deposit nor give rise to any pain. In coughing, people try to dislodge some foreign matter. If the nose or eyes are inflamed, foul matter is excreted. I11 discharges from the ears, urethra, or vagina, it is Corrupt matter which is thrown off. In consumption, large pieces of decayed lung-tissue are ejected. “ In the course of acute dis- ease, fermenting foreign matter is continually being expelled by the system. This is especially the case while the patient is recovering, i. e. when he is eliminating off the morbid matter by excretion. Hence the danger of infection is greatest from convalescents. A ‘ ‘ Cold ’ ’ is generally followed by some eruptions or discharges, whereby the body is purified ; hence a “ Cold ” is a salutary process. A proneness to colds indicates that the body is quite charged with effete matter. No fowl of the air or animal of the plain and forest was ever * An encumbrance is any abnormal deposit in the system, and a body containing such deposit is said to be encumbered. ch. 3.] NATURE OF DISEASE 51 troubled with catarrh. Nature has provided wisely for their needs. The secretions discharged during a lifetime, from the nostrils of one afflicted with catarrh would, if collected, prove a formidable and disgusting mass. Handkerchiefs came into general use after rooms came to be hermetically closed by glass windows; but animals are exempt from their use—a fact which indicates how the human race has degenerated in this respect under the “ stimulating ” practice the drug system. Fig. 7.—QUEEN VICTORIA, at different ages. When once grown up, people usually gain in stoutness. What makes a person look so differ- ent at different ages ? To a large extent, this change is owing to deposits of unhealthy matter, which can be removed by our methods. But of this, the drugging fraternity knowrs absolutely nothing. Whatever is removed from the body during sickness is not healthy matter, but corrupt substance. If a child be attacked by measles or scarlet fever, or an adult by the smallpox, the more thoroughly the eruption appears on the skin, the safer is the patient. Suppose two per- sons come in contact with a typhus patient, why may one contract the disease, and the other escape ? In such cases the drug profession attributes 52 NATURE OF DISEASE [pt. II. it to a peculiar ‘ ‘ predisposition, ’ ’ but what they mean by it no one can tell, though the phenomenon is simple enough. The “predisposition” con- sists of latent deposits of matter foreign to a healthy body. The matter thrown off from patients is largely the result of the activity of microbes, which being introduced into an encumbered system, begin to multiply, feeding on the foreign deposits ; by this process of living they give rise to the symptoms of fever, etc. Only those people are in danger of infection, whose systems are encumbered with foreign matter. Healthy people inhale the same air and germs but remain intact. The body of a person of fifty is usually of different shape, from that of the same person at twenty, and this alteration is due to chronic deposits, accumulating dur- ing many years. These deposits arc the “predisposition ” to acute disease. A skin disease, like eczema, is nothing fatal in itself; it is nature’s process of cure ; but the drug school, unable to distinguish between health and .sickness, mistaking the eruption for the latter, suppress it and thereby cause great loss of life ; the same ignorance suppresses fevers, and the same fatal results follow. A clock may be perfect; but when dust insinuates itself into the fine mechanism, its action becomes irregular, or is altogether stopped. Cleanse the apparatus and it will work as perfectly as before. (Fig. 8.) Thus it is with the human body ; it is always perfect; but when foreign sub- stances are introduced, its action becomes abnormal; Health follows by cleansing the system. Health is something real; it is an entity. Disease is only the presence of foreign matter ; and hygienic measures, which eject this abnormal material only fail to restore health, when portions of the body have been destroyed— killed — by the poisons of the drug school or the surgeon’s knife. “Dis- ease” as has been said : is the presence of foreign matter in the system. The foreign matter is either present from birth, or is introduced later by the admission of hurtful substances. The system seeks to expel this matter through the bowels, lungs, kidneys, and skin, and when unable to do so, deposits it wherever it can. In this way, the forms of the body are changed, as may best be observed at the narrowest part, the neck, and in the face.” (i) If a person is in the habit of sleeping on the right side, the foreign matter will settle in that side and enlarge it; in dropsy, the matter collects in the extremities, etc. Thus, we see, the matter constituting the encum- brance, follows the laws of gravity, and not those of the living tissue. Trail, some thirty years ago, wrote : “ And what is this mysterious thing, disease f Simply the effort to remove obstructing material from the organic CH. 3.] NATURE OF DISEASE 53 domain, and to repair damages. Disease is a process of purification. It is remedial action. It is a vital struggle to overcome obstructions and to keep the channels of the circulation free. Should this struggle—this self- defensive action — this remedial effort, this purifying process, this attempt at reparation, this war for the integrity of the living domain, this contest against the enemies of the organic constitution, be repressed by bleeding, or suppressed with drugs, intensified with stimulants and tonics, subdued with narcotics and antiphlogistics, confused with blisters and caustics, Fig. 8.—A grain of sand may stop a clock. But no matter where the obstruction is, if we cleanse the clock, it will go again. Our body is such a machine ; if out of order, an obstruction has settled somewhere. Cleanse the entire body, and the local trouble is remedied. (Specialism is irra- tional and rarely accomplishes its purpose.) Every part of our body has but one aim, viz.: to assist in maintaining the integrity of the whole fabric. No organ can be out of order without affecting the whole ; and vice versa. We recognize but one sickness — impurity — and cure it by cleansing the system. The drug fraternity recognizes hundreds of ailments, of which they can cure none by their countless drugs; and to hide their ignorance, they sneer at our idea of a panacea. aggravated with alteratives, complicated and misdirected, changed, sub- verted, and perverted with drugs and poisons generally ? ‘ ‘ And I claim to have ascertained the true premises of medical science, which discovery enables me to explain all of its hitherto mysterious prob- lems, even those problems which have ever baffled the investigations of medical men, and which are to this day regarded as without the pale of 54 NATURE OF DISEASE [pt. 11. human comprehension, to wit: The essential Nature of Disease, and the Modus Ope ran di of Medicines: The disease is the process of getting the poisons out of the system ; and so this perplexing problem is also solved.” Dr. F. M. R. Spendlove writes: ‘‘The whole art of medicine, as practiced at the present day, is based upon the idea that disease is an enemy to the system, a mysterious destroying agent to be suppressed at all hazards. Medical art failing, surgery is called to assist. “ Understanding the nature of disease shows it in an entirely different light. Instead of being an enemy to be suppressed, it is a friend to be encouraged. It is an effort of the vital principle of the cells to throw off foreign matter. ‘‘ In this light it will be seen that the object of disease is always salu- tary, always good — an organic war of the vital principle of the cells against foreign matter ; a remedial effort of Nature to be encouraged, directed and controlled — not suppressed nor changed in form. ‘‘When this fact is recognized, the whole treatment of disease, as practiced by the medical profession at the present day, will be changed. The change, however, must come through suffering humanity. ‘ A pro- fession never reforms itself.' ” (2) We see that on the average, our drugging friends know as little to-day of the nature of disease as they knew in Trail’s time. The Drug System has remained stationary ; it has not advanced in the slightest degree. Upon the other hand, we see the progress made by the advocates of natural methods. Trail still confounded disease with the curative process, whereas we consider the latent deposits as the disease. The drug school knew nothing and knows nothing of the latent, dormant deposits ; neither did Trail. Trail and the drug schools define the acute symptoms as the dis- ease. But while the drug people say that pain, and fever, etc., are sick- ness, and must be suppressed by drugs, Trail insists—not that they are not sickness, but that this sickness is a curative process. But we say, the latent deposits, of which people are more or less unconscious, alone are the true disease. Pain and fever are not disease, but are symptoms that ob- structions exist, and that the body is already at work to remove them. That our conception is correct, is clearly proven by our uniform success in curing; and that the drug school is wrong, is demonstrated quite as clearly by their universal failure to restore health. The drug schools distinguish many hundreds of different diseases. We say, there is but one sickness : i. people take milk.* The solid t food which we eat is transformed into a kind of milk, C o. f and Hds *n turn changes into blood. Hence, we see v‘ |i that milk can nourish an infant, just as blood supports a VIJ / W all our organs. The milk of various animals differs materially in composition. Each kind is best adapted to support the young of that peculiar species. Thus, human milk is the only proper nourishment for an infant. Wild cows, such as the female buffalo, give suck for only a limited portion of the year, and go dry for the remainder. But in the case of the domestic cow, the calf is * It is a secretion, which in nature has but one purpose ; viz., to nourish the young of its own kind. CH. 5.] HOW HEALTH IS LOST 69 allowed to suck only a few days or weeks and then the milk is taken from the cow almost the entire year through. This may appear to be a clever trick, but how is it accomplished ? It is done by playing with the nip- ples and udder, and so by artificially stimulating and exciting the nerves of the animal, we extract the milk for an unnatural length of time. This, however, has the same effect as if a large quantity of blood were daily drawn from the animals and furthermore, it must have a most ruinous effect upon the animal’s nervous system. And this process has been in progress ever since these cattle have been domesticated! Now, the milk being really much the same as the blood, the animal’s life is to that extent withdrawn when the milk is taken, and the vitality is lowered in many other ways,—as by the artificial and unhealthy mode of living into which the cows are forced. In view of these facts, we ask you in what state of health would a man be from whom, day after day a con- siderable quantity of blood was taken ? Would he not be l'.kely to con- tract consumption or die of inanition? The condition of affairs just now noticed is, therefore, a most potent source of disease in cattle. So poor a foundation is laid whereon to build for future health, that we need not be surprised to find tuberculosis present in almost all cattle. But there are yet other indications which go to prove that the entire race of cattle has degenerated. Cows, like human mothers, often produce dead offspring ; or, they die on account of difficult parturition ; or the calves die soon after birth. In case of an epidemic of contagion our domestic cattle, old and young, die like flies. This condition is unknown among buffaloes and indi- cates that our domestic cattle are diseased throughout, even if the microscope fails to demonstrate the presence of tuberculosis in the younger animals. No other animal thus readily succumbs to the ravages of disease, and no other experiences such difficulty and pain in giving birth to its young. No one can be surprised, then, that the mortality is so great among those children who are brought up upon food from such a source. Even those who sur- vive, remain sickly all their lives, and transmit a weak body to their off- spring. Seeing that the milk of the 'mother contained all the nourishment necessary for the young, man rashly concluded that cow’s milk must be good for man. That this conclusion was erroneous appears, in the first place, from the fact that the milk of different animals varies considerably in composi- tion, and hence it is doubtful whether milk, intended by nature for a calf, could be a proper food for human beings. Moreover, adult man is sup- plied with teeth ; thus nature indicates that he should live on solid foods. [PT III. 70 IIOW HEALTH IS LOST Milk, as usually taken by grown people, is drunk down like a liquid, whereas, being extremely nutritious, it should be taken, if at all, very slowly, and chewed, as it were, until it is thoroughly insalivated. The importance of the proper insalivation of milk becomes apparent from the fact that, if the opening in a rubber nipple be a little too wide, the milk is supplied faster than the saliva, and cannot be digested ; so the child becomes sick. Then again, infants cannot digest starchy food. Their digestive secretions are not of the proper kind to accomplish this process. As adults have different digestive fluids from infants, it may be questioned if milk is good for them even if properly insalivated and obtained from animals free from disease. Milk, too, does not give sufficient work to man’s teeth and other organs of digestion, and hence its frequent use will permanently weaken them. Adult man could not obtain milk until he had domesticated animals ; this is another proof that the use of milk from animals is unnatural and harmful for the human race. We know that the proportion of the ingredients of a mother’s milk continuously changes according to the different needs of the infant, required by its unequal development of the various parts. This condition can never be even approximately imitated by artificial feeding, and hence the endeavor of medical men to tell mothers how to feed their infants by the bottle, instead of pointing out the danger of such an unnatural pro- ceeding and urging them to a return to their duty, is a gross aberration of the human mind.. But the drugging people know their patients,—they drift with the tide and not against it. For infants, mother’s milk is undoubtedly the proper nourishment, because nature supplies it, under healthy conditions, and rewards the observance of this most obvious law with good health for both mother and babe. With these facts before us, and the equally significant truth, that the majority of infants fed upon cows’ milk die in childhood, we cannot join in the general encomium of milk as a diet. No milk, either boiled or unboiled, nor in fact any other food, can be an adequate substitute for the milk of a healthy mother. Infants artificially fed, either die early or carry a weakened vitality with them through life, giving birth with difficulty to a still weaker progeny. Mothers should be shown the far-reaching evils which result from their inability, or disinclination, to suckle their chil- dren. (Fig. 19.) We read: “ The very large majority of summer diseases, deranged stomachs and sore mouths, that occur among artificially-fed babies, are CH. 5.] HOW HEALTH IS LOST 71 the direct results of dirty feeding bottles.” Infants nursed by their mothers escape these dangers. Now-a-days, many a mother is called upon to decide whether she will nurse her child, or bring it up “ on the bottle.” Formerly, this question was unknown, as is still the case among animals and uncivilized peoples. But, presumably, it happened one day that a mother, who cared more fo Fig. 19. Nature's Fount and the Nursing Bottle. a. A nursing bottle, the Drug Doctor’s improvement on Nature. b. Exhibits one of its countless, sad consequences accruing from the arti. ficial feeding of children; a case of infantile paralysis. c. At Nature’s fount. d. Five years later; ready for a fight. appearances than for the fulfillment of her duty as ordained by God, feared that nursing might spoil her shape, or occasion her inconvenience, and so resorted to the unnatural method of using cow’s milk. As we see daily in fashions that the most unaccountable freaks find ready imitation, so we may reasonably suppose it to have been with this idea of nursing. As a rule, the reverse of what is anticipated, with regard to the figure, act- uallv results. 72 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. irr. A woman who intentionally bears only a few children, and neglects to nurse them, is always sick and ill-shaped. On the other hand, if a mother leads in all other respects a healthful, natural life, it need not fol- low that nursing will spoil her figure. We hold, and both experience and observation support us in the opinion—that only such actions as are strictly in accordance with the dic- tates of nature, prove really satisfactory to our whole being; and this inner contentment, this consciousness of the observance—of the laws of our nature, must inevitably be outwardly reflected, giving symmetry and beauty to both face and figure. We know many women who have given birth to ten or more healthy children, the pride and delight of every spectator, who at forty-five still have a slender waist, are free from wrinkles and gray hair, and altogether look many years younger than they really are. Nature is always just. We daily see the same thing among animals. How many young ones are produced by a single rabbit in her short life-time, and yet they are all lit- tered without difficulty and without assistance. They are all nursed by the mother, who, toward the close of her career can hardly be distinguished from another that is considerably younger. Her appearance does not indi- cate that she has gone through trials and ordeals, because those who live naturally have none. They are all the result of man's inventive genius. The stupid mother foregoes her highest pleasure, for the sake of what some fool may say of her shape ; and rather than offend against some inane and unnatural conventionality of society, she would see her child a cripple or imbecile for life—though she may not realize all that her folly costs. Some mothers have no milk. Why? It is their own.fault. All animals have milk enough, frequently for half a dozen or more at a time. Then why should not the human mother be relatively as well supplied. They live wrongly. They feed on unnatural foods and stimulants, dress too warmly, indulge in undue sexual intercourse, etc. (Fig. 20.) If a mother actually lacks milk it generally arises from the use of improper food. The wet nurse from the country, who lived upon a coarse diet all her life, and had plenty of milk, is 110 sooner transplanted to the city and fed upon meats, rich dishes, liquors, etc., with the mistaken motive of increasing or maintaining her supply of lacteal fluid, than the direct opposite of what is desired, results. Her milk becomes scanty and soon ceases entirely. Let it always be remembered that all animals which subsist only upon grass have the most abundant supply of milk. No female of the animal world knows the male after she has become pregnant. But man perverts everything, whenever he finds a chance. CH. 5.] HOW HFALTH IS LOST 73 Would we try to persuade the unprincipled mother to change her course ? It would probably be useless. But, in this way, the fitter will survive, and the stupid will die. And so mankind on the whole will prosper and advance even though it be over the corpses of those whom ignorance has slain. This progress, which no ignorance nor evil can check, is the best proof to us that there is an Almighty hand ruling the world. Fig. 20. A healthy female of any species has no prominent breast when not pregnant (see a); such a state rather indicates a condition of en- cumbrance and the inability to give suck to the future offspring. The ignorance of the present-day mother as to the rearing of her offspring is absolutely appalling. She acquires a thousand unnecessary “accomplishments”—’Spends untold energy in learning to embroider, dance, smirk, chatter and waste time in general, but upon the great questions of how to keep her children alive and rear a healthy and vig- orous progeny, she prefers to remain culpably ignorant, and relegates to hired servants those immediate and sacred duties which should be at once the delight and glory of maternity. To such stupendous folly as this may be traced, in ultimate analysis, the subsequent ills and miseries of life—for all of which the dominant medical schools must be held responsi- ble, by reason of their perverse and short-sighted teachings. (Fig, 21.) Every one sounds the praises of milk, the hydrotherapeutist and the medical people, the learned and the illiterate, Seb. Kneipp and L. Kuhne; all place implicit confidence in milk, both as a nutriment and a remedial agent. And you remember that in the Bible, Palestine is re- ferred to as the land where milk and honey flowed. It almost looks as if the whole human race expected to receive its salvation from all physical ailments by adopting the milk diet. All classes consider milk the food par excellence, containing all the materials necessary for building up and [pt. nr. 74 HOW HEALTH IS LOST supporting the body. We agree with them, if they refer to the nourish- ment of offspring by their mothers, but otherwise we cannot endorse this view. Many physicians consider cow's milk the very essence of life for con- sumptives, though they have never saved any one by it. We regard the 7ise of cow' s milk by the human race as largely responsible for the ravages of that scourge. The lower one’s vitality, tireless is he able to subsist upon milk. In our view, the majority of cases of consumption are due to the use of milk, whether obtained from ill-tended, swill-fed cattle, or from any animal source whatever; and the alarming prevalence of tuberculosis in the human family is the result of their milk and meat diet. We loathe not only milk, but also its derivatives, butter and cheese. Medical men recommend cow’s milk highly; they cannot miss an oppor- tunity to order for their patients what is injurious; they are of a specula- tive turn of mind. For the present, we can but say, that physicians who prescribe milk, or milk and soda water, or milk and brandy, for their con- sumptive patients, lose them regularly; whilst we save the majority of cases because we reject those unnatural substances. “In Japan they do not have this article of food. The natives never use it—no lowing herd is seen with the barefoot boy driving them to the milk yard. There are no pas- tures, and even the barnyard fowl is practically unknown. Most of the animals on the island are left wild in preserves. Milk is an animal pro- duct, and animal food is prohibited by their religion.’’ With a view to destroying the germs in milk, drug physicians recom- mend the sterilizing of milk for infants’ use. They either do not know or else forget that by this process the entire body of the milk is so altered as to become a still more unnatural diet than it already is, being the milk of a diseased animal. The evil results to health bear us out in our contention. CH. 5.] HOW IS HEALTH LOST 75 Fig. 2i.—Ourwomen learn anything and everything, except how to keep their children alive. 76 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. m. MEAT IS HARMFUL- CHAPTER 0. UT the harm we sustain from the cattle does not end PLl with the milk obtained from it. In eating the flesh £ WFSFxBIr iese animals, man partakes of what is derived 3 from a diseased race, If milk diet is had, meat diet is \&4fm worse. “The population of the earth is estimated at HU v'“ . m 1,500,000,000, of which 85 per cent, are vegetarians ; the remaining 15 per cent, eat flesh food. Of the meat-eating prople, 85 per cent, of the females and 60 per cent, of the males are suffering from disease in some form. Perhaps this is too low an estimate.” With the improved methods of determining the presence of disease at our command, it is doubtful if among civilized nations there could be found any absolutely healthy persons of either sex. People are sick, and have been sick, as far back as historical records date. What is the cause? Wrong food. Meat diet is utterly unnatural. Man has been sick “ever since he began to eat meat.” Wild animals are well, and have always been well, because they confine themselves to their natural foods. The Greeks lived an out-door life, enjoying plenty of fresh air, sun- shine, physical exercise and mental relaxation. Yet even these athletes became ill, though they knew not the use of tobacco, coffee, or spices- How, then, can we account for their illness? It was the result of their meat diet and their use of wines, and consequent over-indulgence of the sexual passions. But these latter vices may be directly traced to the meat diet, so pernicious and unhealthful. The old Greek has been swept away, and the Roman has disappeared also; whereas the Hindoo, who sent out his missionaries long before the days of Christ, still lives in national life, successfully converting the Western world to many of his metaphysical ideas. He has outlived the ages because he has observed, for the most part, a vegetable diet CH. 6. J HOW HEALTH IS LOST 77 People eat meat for the same reason that some are Christians, some Jews, and others Buddhists—not for any reason of their own, but simply because their parents happened to profess that particular creed. They are brought up under certain influences, and are taught to praise their own and to depreciate every other religion, taking it for granted that their creed is the best, being almost entirely ignorant of all others, if one’s parents have been in the habit of eating meat, and the man himself SWALLOW-TAXLED MOTH. —(Ourafittryx fambucaria.) Fig. 22—CATERPILLARS. Every particular species of caterpillars lives on one particular kind of leaves ; and would rather starve than eat any other. To man, meat diet is unnatural and harmful. The animals are usually diseased, and we cannot eat the meat raw ; but must prepare it with salt, and spices and condiments. These are heating, and produce a craving for alcohol and for sexual excesses. By means of cooking, pounding and cutting meat, we manage to get it down our throats ; but this does not prove that we can digest it. Butchers are a very sick class of people. Drug doctors recommend meat, because of their general thoughtlessness ; they have never given this subject a moment’s consideration. PEACOCK BUTTERFLY.—( Vanessa Io.\ has partaken of it from his earliest recollection, the question as to its healthfulness never enters his head. He eats meat from sheer thoughtless- ness. Our drugging friends are in the same position. The fact that to-day millions of people partake of prepared flesh, is no proof that it was allotted us by Nature as our natural and original diet. Millions of people smoke and drink beer and wine, but they were not created to do so. All civilized men wear clothes to-day, but no one would have the hardihood to maintain that therefore it was intended so to be by Nature! Millions of mothers wipe the noses of their offspring, and this action, though not necessary with animals, and indicative of 78 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. an abnormal and diseased condition, may appear to them more natural to-day than to give them suck ; still it was not intended that man should have his nose wiped, or to be brought up on the bottle. Just as the gin- tippler likes his glass, and the inveterate smoker his pipe, though a healthy person would turn from them with disgust, so meats are only relished by people whose taste has been thoroughly perverted. Fig. 23. Animal Slaughter. How revolting to a child or any moral person is the entire process. Insects and other vermin breed around and in the meat. Many of the animals are diseased. And such food is recommended by our drug prescribers as wholesome. Small wonder. People who are so brainless as to expect to cure people by poisoning them, cannot be supposed to exhibit more intelligence regarding the question of man’s normal diet. ch. 6.] HOW HEALTH IS LOST 79 After having missed the enjoyment of a pleasure for some time,—for in- stance the beauty of spring after winter,—we have a keen appreciation of its joys when it returns. If flesh-diet were natural, and a person had abstained from it for some time, he would have a keen desire to return to it. But it is quite the reverse. Anyone, who has adopted a vegetable diet for a little time, will sniff the odors of a butcher shop with disgust. The sight of a creature’s natural food fills it with delight. But to watch a butcher knock down an animal, skin it, and cut it up, fills with horror anyone not accustomed to such revolting sights. (Fig. 23.) There is nothing in the flavor of fruit distasteful to us ; we even relish it in the raw state and without condiments. This is not so with meat. The flavor of raw meat is repugnant to us. We have to disguise it by the cooking process and the use of condiments. Natural foods, such as fruit, do not stick between the teeth as do meat, necessitating the use of toothpicks. We can scarely chew raw meat. This is as difficult for us, as for a cat to eat a pear. When we see fine fruit, our appetite is aroused, as is that of a fox when he sees a chicken. His desire is excited ; he jumps at it, tears it with teeth fitted for such work, and eats it with glee, warm as it is, un- cooked, feathers, intestines and all. We could not do this. The fox turns away from the choicest fruit while we, on our part, must have our flesh and food disguised in taste by many condiments and processes. (Fig. 24.) To-day the .people cook the meat and chop it, i. 164 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. sleep under too much or too little cover, sleep upon too soft or too hard couches, partake of too much or too little food, give way to anxiety or worry or in other ways disobey the laws of nature. Sleep artificially induced by sedatives is never refreshing. Whenever we feel sleepy or commence to yawn, we should regard this hint of nature. Some nervous people are afraid to retire early, fearing lest they should not be able to sleep at night; quite the reverse would be the case. People whose nerves are exhausted, should be treated like infants, and should divide their time between eating and sleeping, until their vital power has been recuperated. Wakefulness leads to great debility; such patients will rapidly lose ground, and insanity will ensue if the evil is not checked by natural means. If we would always listen to nature, we would never go astray. Sleep should not be interrupted; invalids, especially, should not be awakened. Deficiency of sleep is exhausting in the extreme. Adults need at least from 7 to 8 hours slumber and children more, in proportion to their youth. Our sleep should be between the hours of eight at night and six in the morning. To make up during the day-time for what was lost at night is a poor make-shift, and little refreshment will follow. “ We caution parents particularly not to allow their children to be waked up in the mornings; let nature wake them up; she will not do it prematurely ; but have a care 'that they go to bed at an early hour ; let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found that they wake up themselves in full time to dress for breakfast. Being waked up early and allowed to engage in difficult, or any studies late, and just before retiring, has given many a beautiful and promising child brain fever, or determined ordinary ailments to the production of water on the brain. Infants can- not sleep too long, and it is a favorable symptom when they enjoy a calm and long-continued rest. They should never be awakened, and thus deprived of the greatest support nature has given them. ” (30.) Night is the time which nature intended for sleep. Turning night into day is the cause of many ailments. Next to sleep, the exposure of the naked skin to the influence of light, is the best means of stimulating our flagging vitality. Being de- prived of the revivifying power of sun-light, our nerves lose their healthy tone, and this gives rise to innumerable nerve-diseases. We think that one-third of all our ailments could be prevented and cured by this simple means. ‘ ‘ Light is indispensible to health, and where it is lacking, the whole body suffers.” (31.) Dr. Bewis says: “Very intimate relations exist between the sun and digestion. Digestion and assimilation become CH. 12.] vitality 165 weak and imperfect if the man or animal is not daily exposed to the direct rays of the sun.” Sir James Wylie says that, “ The cases of disease on the dark side of an extensive barrack at St. Petersburgh, have been uniformly, for many years, in the proportion of three to one to those on the side exposed to .strong light. ’ ’ Fig. 53.—How the author sleeps; his head below the level of his feet. (The artist misrepresented him as reading in this position.) Impurities, the cause of all disease, follow the law of gravity in the human body, i. e., they tend to occupy the lowest part. When a person habitually sleeps on one side, the corrupt matter will settle in that side during the long hours of night, and predispose that side to disease. As the legs constantly occupy the lowest position waking or asleep, the foreign matter settles in them, and the blood being thus crowded out, is driven to the head. As the blood carries with it the principle of heat, this circumstance accounts for the cold extremities and hot head of most adults. The author sleeps a couple of hours on one side, and then turns over on the other ; besides, as during day-time, his head is uppermost, during the night, his feet are highest. These precautions insure a thorough shaking up and prompt elimination of any effete matter. 166 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [ft. III. Dr. Forbes Winslow uses the following language : “It may be enunciated as an indisputable fact, that all who live and pursue their call- ing in situations where the minimum of light is permitted to penetrate, suffer seriously in bodily and mental health. The total exclusion of the sunbeam induces the severer forms of chlorosis, green sickness, and other anaemic conditions depending upon an impoverished and disordered state of the blood. Under these circumstances the face assumes a death-like paleness, the membranes of the eyes become bloodless, and the skin shrunk- en and turned into a white, greasy, waxy color ; also emaciation, muscular debility and degeneration, dropsical effusion, softening of the bones, gen- eral nervous excitability, morbid irritability of the heart, loss of appetite, tendency to syncope and hemorrhages, consumption, physical deformity, stunted growth, mental impairment, and premature old age. The off- spring of those so unhappily trained are often deformed, weak, and puny, and are disposed to scrofulous affections. ’ ’ And again he says : “ It is a well-established fact that, as the effect of isolation from the stimulus of light, the fibrine, albumen, and red blood- cells become diminished in quantity, and the serum or watery portion of the vital fluid augmented in volume, thus inducing a disease known to physicians and pathologists by the name of lukcemia, an affection in which white instead of red blood-cells are developed. This exclusion from the sun produces the sickly, flabby, pale, anaemic condition of the face or ex- sanguined, ghost-like forms so often seen among those not exposed to air and light. The absence of these elements of health deteriorates by materially altering the physical composition of the blood, thus seriously prostrating the vital strength, enfeebling the nervous energy, and ulti- mately inducing organic changes in the structure of the heart, brain, and muscular tissue.’’ ‘ ‘A sunbeam is a small thing, yet it has a power to fade the carpets and curtains, to rot the blinds, and for this reason some folk carefully exclude the sunshine. What is the result ? The family is always ailing ; the young girls have a waxen white skin and a weary, pinched expression of countenance. Their appetites fail ; they fall into such a bad state of health that the doctor is called in. In olden days he would have shaken his head, perhaps, and friends would have whispered that dreaded word decline ! ‘ ‘ Nowadays, he notes the pale gums and waxen skin and says ‘anaemia;’ prescribes iron and milk, fresh air and exercise, and often a change. If he knows nothing about the darkened rooms he will be puzzled as to why no permanent improvement manifests itself, and pos- sibly the patient will seek other advice.’’ CH. 12.] VITALITY 167 No room without sunshine is fit to live in. Sunshine purifies the body and mind, as it disinfects the foulest mud. The light of day which is so necessary for the health of our skins is also needful for good eye-sight. Injury done to the eyes may manifest itself in many ways; sore eyes, squinting, cataract and many other troubles are found upon the list. All these forms are caused by the presence of abnormal matter in the system, brought there by a perverse dietary, or retained by an inactive condition of the eliminating organs. Sore eyes secrete corrupt material. In a healthy person, eyes and ears are not secreting organs. If matter is thrown off by these organs, it is a sign that the patient’s natural organs of secretion, the bowels, the kidneys, the skin, or the lungs, are inactive. Indeed it proves that the entire body contains diseased matter, which it attempts to remove the best way it can, by forcing it out of the fine, delicate mucous membranes of the organs of senses. If the foreign matter settle in the transparent parts of the interior of the eyes, obscuring vision, the patient will involuntarily bring objects nearer the eyes than is normal; this gives rise to both squinting and near-sightedness. Sore eyes usually attack the young, with whom the vital power is still sufficiently vigorous to actually throw the corrupt matter out of the system. If the vitality is already considerably reduced, the foreign matter will establish itself chronically in the eye-ball, dimming vision more and more, till total blindness is the final result. Knowing the cause of all these troubles, nothing is easier than to prevent any such difficulties from the start, or to stop further progress, and to effect cure. The first thing to be done is, to cut short the farther introduction of unhealthy material into our body ; we must eat, drink and breathe nothing but what is wholesome. And, secondly, we must stimulate our depurating organs to resume work, by natural processes, such as, exposing our skin to the light of day and to pure air; getting sufficient sleep during the hours of the night; taking physical exercise and mental recreation ; attending to the regular evacuations. That is all that is necessary. That is all that can naturally be done, and is all that should be done. But what do our great specialists prescribe for the eye, ear, nose and throat? Not knowing that the matter secreted is foul matter, they try to suppress it by salves, eye-waters, touching the mucous membranes with nitrate of silver, and performing other pleasantries which make the patient’s hair stand on end ; and all this as a gentle beginning. None of these eminent coryphei of medical science (!) everthoughtoftracingthe.se evils to their primary cause so as to eradicate them from the root. By their caustics, they increase the irritation of the membranes, and draw 168 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. ill. more and more impurity there. They never cure sore eyes by their pro- cedure ; deafness not seldom results from running ears, when treated by specialists, and these people frequently bring on blindness. Instead of trying to correct squinting by cutting the muscles of the eye-ball, or instead of correcting near-sightedness by eye-glasses, our specialists, if they were not themselves mentally so short of vision, would in the first instance try the effect of a process of a cleansing of the entire system by natural means. They would soon find that those defects would rectify themselves as naturally as they came on. No mutilation of the eye by the knife or eye-glasses is necessary. The same principles hold good for the affection of any other organ (Tig. 54.) Dazzling walls opposite our windows, doing fine work by a dim light, or straining the eye to the extent of fatigue, sudden changes in the intensity of light, in short, everything that will irritate or inflame the eye, will injure it, especially when the body is encumbered with foreign material. In squinting, it happens not infrequently that the afflicted person uses one eye only. The other eye then will turn blind from sheer disuse. This is another proof that our organs were created for work, and that nothing but exercise will keep them in good condition. Taking away from an organ the labor naturally intended for it, lowers the vitality of that organ. I11 the case of a cataract, the crystalline lens or its capsules become opaque, and thus obscure vision ; or the body selects the liquids of the eye, or the optic nerve, as places for deposits. This always occurs in cases of low vitality, poor digestion, cold limbs, hot heads, bald-headed- ness and in people who have sustained many attacks of illness and submit- ted to a good deal of drugging and consequently strain upon their nervous systems. A person zvitli a body otherwise healthy, can ziever become blind or deaf. One of our dry goods kings turned blind a few years since. While the case was still recent, the writer of this article felt confident that our natural methods might restore his sight. At the worst, no harm could come from a trial; and the patient’s general health would certainly be improved. Knowing well that we could not reach the patient directly on account of the general prejudice against our mode of treatment, we addressed his oculist, one of the first in the country, who had pronounced the case incurable. Stating our opinion, we asked his aid in inducing the patient to test our harmless methods. He was not enough of a gentleman to even reply, and thus the patient was sentenced to perpetual darkness by this noble (?) specialist, to whom the public looks up with admiration ! CH. 12.J VITALITY 169 Fig. 54.—Evolution of Blindness. a. Our gourmand is laying up large chronic deposits of corrupt matter m his system. 0. His system makes a violent effort to cleanse itself, in the form of an acute attack of fever. The medical attendant, not understanding the nature of fever, suppresses it by his poisonous drugs, drives the foul matter back into the blood, and also kills the nerves by the poison, c, is the conse- quence of such irrational drug treatment. HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. III. 170 We rather think that such conduct deserves the pillory of public con- tempt. As to exercising our muscular system, it is as with every other func- tion—every excess, doing either too much or too little, will give rise to disorders. Exercising consists of the alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscles. In this way the blood surges in and out of the muscles, facilitating the exchange of molecules. We see, therefore, that a mild system of exercising must be beneficial to health. Exercising also stimu- Fig. 55- —Exercise. Each muscle acts the part of a heart ; by its extension and contraction the blood surges in and out, facilitating the exchange of old for new matter. latesthe heart to quicker pulsation. As long as this is kept within bounds, it is conducive to our well-being ; but if carried so far as to produce fatigue and exhaustion, the heart increases in size out of proportion to the body, CH. 12.] vitality 171 and valvular irregularities set in, which may terminate fatally at any time. Exercising too little, either prevents the muscles from being properly nour- ished, or prolrbit their being relieved of effete matter ; this latter will then accumulate, and form deposits. After losing a tooth, the corresponding upper or lower tooth, will soon decay for want of exercise. (Fig. 55.) Exerting oneself more than is necessary for the exchange of particles, simply wastes vital energy, and leads to many forms of disease, wasting palsy among them. Hence, exercise should always be in moderation ; too much is as injurious as too little. Fatigue is nature’s hint that rest is necessary. This holds good for mental as well as for bodily exercise. Those who have gone through too severe a training, become in the end, dull, listless and stupid, subject to many diseases, and often the ultimate victims of gluttony and drunkenness. All functions require nerve-force ; if we exhaust the supply of nerve- power in any one organ, the rest, too, will suffer from .lack of it, and sus- tain harm in consequence. By overtaxing our muscular systems, the digestive power of the stomach and liver, or the kidneys may suffer dam- age. The majority of persons seem to believe that if they exercise until they are thoroughly fatigued, they have accomplished a great deal. In this, however, they make a grievous error. Fatigue evinces exhaustion, an overtaxing of the vital power, and is always injurious. “ The observations made by the physicians of the Greek, Roman, Arabian, and Italian schools, respecting excessive physical exercise and the maladies incident to it, admit of but one rigid interpretation, viz., that such exercise ensures premature decay and early death.” (32.) ‘ ‘ Excessive work of all kinds is really the great bane of our country, as it unfortunately ever will be in all new, large and undeveloped coun- tries, where the race for wealth and advancement is carried away beyond the bounds of judgment, and with total disregard to the rules of hygiene. ’ ’ Here we wish to expose the old error that rupture is caused by over- strain. A perfectly healthy persoyi cannot rupture himself. If a task is beyond his strength, the muscles will refuse to work, but hernia will not occur. Why is it that some will be ruptured without any apparent cause, whereas acrobats may subject themselves to the severest tests with impun- ity ? Because the latter are in good health, whereas the tissues of the former are quite degenerated, tearing like sheep-skin, and thus allowing the intestines to escape. Ruptures of any kind can be prevented by nrooer living. 172 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. Lack of exercise leads to as bad results as the other extreme. Nowa- days, people sit too much. They rise from a chair, to take the carriage or car, seating themselves again when they reach their destination. Some people are on the legs less than an hour a day, and sit for twelve hours and more. Under these conditions, the limbs either emaciate, or develop fatty degeneration. Constipation, liver complaints, and piles are other com- plaints equally discomforting which are incidental to our sedentary habits. The activity of children causes their blood to be constantly stirred up. Adults being less given to exercise, find that their blood stagnates. Foreign substances then settle in the lower portion of the body, crowding out the warm blood, which congests above. This is the cause of cold feet and a hot head. People who are in the habit of taking Russian or Turk- ish baths, aggravate this evil, as in those baths the feet are in the colder, and the head in the hotter space. Those whose occupations compel them to stand much, or who exercise little, suffer from swollen legs, and fre- quently become victims of palsy. The left arm is usually less employed than the right ; this is the reason why more cases of apoplexy occur on the left side, and shows the great importance of using both sides of the body equally. With other people, we maintain that our race would develop more normally were it left to the impulse of children to decide which hand they wouldfavor. We must not expect the body to do two things simultaneously. The activity of any organ draws an extra blood-wave to that organ. If two organs are called upon for action at the same time, the vitality is at a loss where to send the blood ; any two activities always interfere, and are prejudicial, one to the other and consequently to the general health. Thus, one should not bathe, exercise, or attempt mental labor, on a full stomach. Sir Busick Harwood made a thorough test of this theory and found that in a dog which had remained in his kennel digestion was nearly com- pleted, while in the other which had been led a prolonged and severe chase, the digestive process had scarcely commenced. The inference was conclusive, that severe exercise should not be taken immediately after a hearty meal. To apply this truth more broadly: “ the three years immediately pre- ceding seventeen, are years of great mental development, and nature can- not at the same time endure any .severe taxing of the physical constitution. “ These Rules apply also to mental exercise. The brain should not be heavily taxed immediately after a hearty meal. Doing so, leads to indigestion and to other disorders consequent thereto. The same law holds good in physical as in mental work. Indeed, literary men, and CH. 12.] vitality 173 those intensely and severely devoted to business, are the greatest sufferers from indigestion.” (33.) Every meal, bath and exercise, should be followed by a sufficient time of repose, before any second task is imposed on our system. Digestion, too, requires the expenditure of vital power, and should not be expected to take place immediately after great exertion. Many factory hands, having half an hour for meal-time, will bolt their dinner hot, unmasticated, and uninsalivated, in ten minutes, to have some time left for a smoke, conver- sation, or game If their intention be to make wrecks of themselves, they could scarcely choose a more effectual course. Exercise leads to increased strength—Inaction results in weakness. The natural pleasure arising from physical exercise, is enhanced when its results are seen to be useful and practical. The great value of physi- cal and mental activity also becomes obvious from the fact that ‘1 the aver- age duration of the life of men after retiring from active business is less than three years. ’ ’ People go to the seashore and mountains, employ outdoor exercise, etc., to raise their vitality, so as to throw off any injurious matter, but they are not the least careful to refuse it admission daily, but fill them- selves with improper food and drink, and lower their vitality in every im- aginable way. Another important factor, tending to lower vitality, is tobacco. A man in perfect health who tries tobacco for the first time, will be nauseated ; but by trying again and again he will overcome the first effect. He accounts for this by saying that his stomach was too weak in the be- ginning and could not endure the tobacco ; but, later on, it grew stronger. How could his stomach have been in perfect health, and weak at the same time? That is quite illogical, the very reverse being the fact. When the nicotine was first introduced, the stomach, still possessing all its pristine and youthful vigor, was powerful enough to rid itself of the poison by vomiting. But if the poison is forced upon the stomach again and again, it finally succumbs, and relinquishes its struggle. Tobacco is just as harmful each time it is used, as it clearly proved itself to be at the first. This instance affords a splendid illustration of the action of medicines and of the mistaken idea of the public regarding their action. Suppose that, in consequence of a cold or an unusal excitement, our system be thrown into a fever, i. e., into a salutary crisis, so that a catarrh of the head or exudations and discharges of various character appear. The matter thus eliminated we are well rid of, but both the public at large and the drug- ging schools, not understanding the beneficial nature of such a reaction, how health is lost [pt. III. 174 agree that the sufferer snould take some more poison under the euphonic and delusive name of “ medicine.” No sooner does the system perceive this new enemy than it battles against it, as mercurial compounds are of a more rankly poisonous nature than the original disease—and our sys- tem relinquishes its efforts to throw off the poison of the disease. The dis- charges stop in this way for a time and both the patient and his healer (?) believe a cure has been effected! In reality, to the original poison, a large quantity of new poison has been added, and the seed is sown from which may spring any one of a train of hideous maladies. All other drug cures (?) are on a par with this ; and yet under our simple but natural methods scarcely any other forms of ailments are so readily and fundamentally got- ten rid of as catarrhal and all other discharges. * ‘ ‘ Tobacco is one of the most deadly of known poisons. Few sub- stances on this earth will, when taken into the bodies of men or animals, destroy life in a smaller quantity or in less time. Close observers are beginning to see and realize the fearful consequences which result from its use. Careful inquiries made in our schools and colleges within the last few years have shown that its use most seriously interferes with the orderly development of both body and mind, lessening the development of the body, as shown by actual measurement in height, breadth, and lung capacity, and lowers its abilities for active work or exercise of any kind. Its use also seriously interferes with the growth of the mind during child- hood and youth, and makes the acquisition of knowledge for those who use it far more difficult, as is manifest from the average inferior scholar- ship of the students who smoke or chew, when compared with those who do not use it. It also, in a large number of cases, impairs the eye-sight. The greatest living English writer, John Ruskin, says: Tobacco is to-day the worst national curse of civilization. The Eondon Lancet, the greatest medical authority in the world, renders this verdict : ‘ The habit of smoking, especially of cigarettes, is alarmingly on the increase. In view of its well-known deleterious effects, we would entreat the youth of our country to abandon it altogether. Ret them give up a dubious and generally dangerous pleasure for a certain good. Ten years hence, if they follow our advice, we shall receive their thanks. ’ Professor Orfila, presi- dent of the Medical and Scientific Academy of Paris, says: ‘ Tobacco contains the most deadly and subtle poison known to the chemist, except prussic acid.’ Dr. Willard Parker, of New York, says: ‘Tobacco is * The following page is partly quoted from ‘ A Tract for the American People.’ CH. 12.] VITALITY 175 undoubtedly not infrequently the cause of apoplexy, so common of later years among business men. ’ Dr. Landen, of France, says that the testi- mony of the College of Physicians of France is that 20,000 die annually of tobacco poison, either directly or indirectly. A vast number of young men are handicapped for life, by their ability to fill responsible positions and do active work, being impaired and the confidence of employers in them shaken. So far as known, with the exception of the opium and morphine slavery, there is no habit so difficult to give up and escape from as that of using tobacco, as tabacco-using drunkards have so often testi- fied. A man who has been a victim of the tobacco habit requires a strong will, and even then cannot always give it up. The diseases which result from the use of tobacco are something fearful. Cancer of the mouth and throat, and the most fearful cases of dyspepsia, are among the worst. Besides, tobacco frequently causes heart-failure, palpitation and irregular action of the heart, paralysis, and sometimes death during sleep. The users of this narcotic become more susceptible to disease, and have less power of resistance when attacked than do those of good habits. Tobacco also causes color-blindness, nervousness, trembling, sleeplessness, etc. The use of chloral, ether and chloroform, as well as opiates, are very ruin- ous to health. Nevertheless, with the exception of tobacco, those narcotics were first prescribed by the drug profession, and humanity is indebted for the misery accruing from their use to our drug poisoners exclusively. It seems a fateful recompense that misery often leads in time to the use of opiates and narcotics ; and still men will continue to take these substances which can do nothing but injure them. The cravingfor tobacco and morphine is caused by a morbid physical con- dition, as a71 ab7ior7nal state of health is the pare7it of all unwholeso7?ie appe- tites.,* On the other hand, impaired health perverts natural desires. An inveterate smoker of tobacco seldom cares for fruit and may even have an aversion to it. A sick person longs for everything unnatural; whereas a healthy man experiences no more desire to smoke than a little girl would. People who smoke are sick; they are chronically encum- bered. Physicians who smoke are sick ; and a test by our Facial Diag- nosis would prove this to be a fact in every case. No sooner is a patient’s system brought back to its normal state than any unnatural desire for * We would beg leave to mention here, that our methods of treatment, aiming at the establishment of a normal condition of the body, readily overcome all unnatural cravings, such as for alcohol, tobacco, the morphine habit, etc. 176 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. III. meats, spices, tobacco, alcohol etc., will leave him. The effect of an “after-dinner” smoke, .so greatly enjoyed by many of the drug profes- sion, is highly prejudicial to health. When a person has eaten to surfeit, and then has recourse to tobacco, the effect of the nicotine is such that the stomach is immediately relieved of part of its contents and feels eased. But the matter thus prematurely thrown into the bowrels is still undi- gested, and is not in a fit condition to be received by the intestines. There it must remain, a burden, a nuisance, and an injury to the system, until finally the ill-digested matter is thrown out of the body ; but the evil re- sults of such treatment are permanent. It uselessly exhausts the powers of digestion in forcing them to contend with foreign matter, though the harm done often escapes our immediate notice. When, in course of time, the ill effects begin to tell, people fail to trace the result to its true source, and blame ‘ ‘ old age ’ ’ for decay, when man should be in the prime of life. The fact that the consumption of tobacco is increasing, clearly marks the decline of the general health. In Austria, the consumers of tobacco pay 13 per cent, of all taxes. They have put this tax upon them- selves. Sometimes we hear persons say : “I know a man who reached the age of eighty, and yet he used tobacco, alcohol, and meat all his life. Howrever “one swallow does not make a summer,” and no one can tell to what age he might have lived had he abstained from these injurious articles. CH 13.] 177 SEXUAL EXCESSES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER 13. ‘fit' question to define is,—what constitutes excess? People may eat to excess, drink to excess, or ad- mire the opposite sex to excess. Anything too little or anything too much, anything below or be- yond the limits fixed by nature, constitutes an (Sur BM excess, or a deficiency. Either is harmful. Man- JBsPb kind has lost its norm as to what, when, and how often it should eat; and so, too, it has lost its standard in regard to sexual indulgence. If you look for information on this point in medical text-books, you will be further misled from nature than before. Some medical writers say this act may take place once a week ; others allow it but once in a month. As in everything else, so in regard to sex, the drug people merely guess, each suggesting what he personally thinks best; but their ideas are contradictory and not founded upon a fixed principle. And yet, the answer is so simple. In nature, sexual intercourse has but one aim, and that is procreation. This act, which is one of the greatest mysteries of life, and should be reverenced as a sacrament, should be performed only for the purpose of securing offspring. Every other such act, or sexual excitement, consti- tutes vice, undermines health, and is a sacrilege against nature’s laws ordained by God Almighty. For the purpose of procreation, one act may suffice ; then, while the fruit is developing, and also during the time of nursing, the mother should abstain. This state of affairs we find with all wild animals, viz., with unpolluted nature. Now, with the human species, the period of pregnancy lasts 9 months ; and as the child ought to be nursed at least the same length of time, we conclude that a human female should give herself up to embrace no oftener than once in 1)4 to 2 years, provided, fecundation has taken place. But how about 178 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. in * the human male ? Very simple. Statistics show that there are about as many males as females on earth, and this circumstance seems to indicate that nature intended one male to each female. Now, as the female’s frequency of intercourse should be restricted as stated above, it is plain that nature allows no greater indulgence to the male. We have no doubt but that this idea will meet with the utmost ridicule of not a few. Under their present perverse dietary, people think such a restriction ludicrous and impossible. Yes, it is impossible for them, but not to a person who has lived for some time abstemiously and in close har- mony with nature. No restraint is necessary ; everything conies about in a most natural way, if we live normally. How effectual a proper diet is, seconded by water treatment, is well illustrated in persons who have been addicted to the use of alcohol, tobacco or other narcotics ; these are evident1 y unnatural desires, and as proper diet, combined with Water Cure leads back to nature in every way, under such treatment these un- natural propensities simply leave a person so gradually that he feels himself once more free, scarcely knowing how this freedom has been accom- plished. Verily, these two factors—proper diet and Water Cure—work wonders. The lean are made stouter; the obese are reduced ; the pim- pled skin becomes clear ; the drunkard is weaned from his liquor ; and the one revelling in veneral excesses relinquishes his folly. But the benefit to the growing fruit, if left undisturbed, would be incalculable, and would undoubtedly be worth a little self-control, when such is required. If men consider such continence impossible, they should look at the females. How many of them live strictly pure lives for much longer periods, and even take their virginity to the grave. If man would not squander his affections, the ties between husband and wife would be much more harmonious. It is the man’s licentiousness which brings discord and sickness into the bosom of the family. And yet, a return to nature is very simple: Cease from the use of alcohol, spices, and nar- cotics ; dress, and keep your rooms, cool; breathe fresh air; exercise your body, and let your mind dwell on high and noble thoughts. That is all! People squander about five hundred times more of their energy in excesses, than is necessary for procreation. How7 much higher would be man’s enjoyment, if he were to restrict his passions, and so be able to produce offspring perfect in every way, exempt from disease, a true reflection of our creator. Sexual intercourse for pleasure’s sake only, has a depressing influence. CH. 13.] SEXUAL, EXCESSES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES 179 Sexual indulgence lowers the vitality, destroys health, and abridges life, more than any other practice. Many insects die as soon as this act is accomplished ; the male perishes immediately, and the female, as soon as the eggs are deposited. What the drag profession say on this subject is partly ilhistrative of their usual thoughtlessness and partly criminal suggestion. Promiscuous intercourse leads to gonorrhoea, gleet, syphilis, stricture, diseased offspring, childlessness, and many other evils. Almost the entire civilized race is to-day tainted with venereal poison. If we imagine vitality divided into equal portions, each item may be looked upon as canceled by an act of cohabitation. Then it is obvious, that the more frequent these acts of intercourse, the sooner the stock of vital power must be exhausted. Many married people will give themselves up to the embrace daily, often more than once, and that for years. But not only its frequency, but the manner in which it is performed, are so unnatural and studiously licentious that the most desperate cases of paralysis and epilepsy are frequently the direct and immediate result. Eocomotor ataxy and palsy, too, follow often in its wake. It brings on irregularity in menstruation, with many female weaknesses and complaints, sick headache, hysteria, difficult parturition, making child-birth to be looked upon as one of the most trying ordeals to the mother, in fact as an actual execution, and indeed thousands upon thousands of lives are annually sacrificed upon the altars of medical ignorance. As with animals, giving birth would be easy, if the abdominal muscles and nerves were not de- generated by perverse living and sexual excesses. Did ever a medical man think how to prevent these evils in a natural way ? This thought never occurred to him. The inner pressure of foul matter, seeking a vent outwards, leads to secret vices, which in their turn cause many of the most fatal forms of disease, such as consumption, epilepsy, nervous exhaustion, paralysis, idiocy, insanity and countless others. It is mainly the sickly, not the robust, who fall victims to the vice of masturbation. The so-called Social Evil, (prostitution) is in our opinion, reducible in the last instance to a perverse method of living. Vice always involves a loss, with no equivalent recompense. It is useless to strive to ‘ ‘ abolish vice ’ ’ from the outside, by preaching and exhortation merely. It will remain as long as man continues to live improperly. The tendency to vice is an indication of sickness. ‘ ‘ The vice and crime which disfigure society appear to grow out of the alliance of extreme wealth and ex- treme poverty. It is chiefly in the very lowest or in the very highest stages of the social edifice that we encounter intemperance, licentiousness, 180 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT III. gambling, and the various forms of profligacy which still curse our civilization.” When people are sick, physically, their minds are also sick, and they cannot help having abnormal inclinations. We find no vice in nature. Whatever is natural is good. Over-excitement is sometimes found with domestic animals, and is then an indication of disease. With wild animals there is no voluptuousness nor precocity ; in fact, there is no “bestiality ” among the beasts. We find it only among men, as a conse- quence of their perversion of nature. Brute sensuality is nonsense; there is only human lust._ We have heard parents say, referring to their sons : “ It is better for them to sow their wild oats before marriage than during marriage ! But all ideas upon which our minds dwell, develop brain cells in the indi- vidual, and also promulgate similar tendencies in the offspring. Now, as profligate young men become not only the fathers of sons, but of girls also, their licentious tendencies are not only transmitted to the male, but likewise to the female sex. Under such perverse teachings, we cannot wonder that the sad result of licentiousness and adultery, is met equally in both sexes. To obtain a correct understanding of our low tendencies, note what pieces are performed in theatres. The plays which draw the greatest crowds are the lowest and most lewd. The more wantonly naked limbs are exposed, the greater the attraction proves. This is true, too, of many newspapers; divorce cases, scandals, elopements, etc., fill their pages and are illustrated at length, proving to be attractive to the public. These papers, instead of assisting man to rise to a higher level, drag him still deeper into the abyss. Amongst publications they rank with the per- formers in beer gardens and cafes chantants. Women are as much attracted by such spectacles as men. The fact that so many theatrical managers and newspapers produce no attractions but the most vulgar, and the fact that they grow rich, shows that they know thcpublic demands well. What a commentary upon the moral character of the civilized races ! Every decent person ought to boycott all such morbid panders as these papers and playhouses are. The abuse of the sexual powers, leading to sin and misery is a crime against the coming generation, for the traces are apparent in the child, who inherits weaknesses that may, nay that do of necessity, develop into serious forms of disease. Such troubles are known as hereditary, and if traced back are found to come directlv from an improper mode of living on the part of the parents. CH. 13.] SEXUAL EXCESSES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES 181 Rev. Kneipp, says: “Heredity with men which attacks mind and body is far too little regarded. As the children bear in their faces the natures of their parents, so in their minds and bodies do they bear their character- istics; thus they inherit their good and bad qualities.” ‘ ‘ Thus disease is often inherited. If the parents’ blood be bad and their bodies diseased and filled with impure material, it is scarcely possible for the children to escape the like condition. There is a proverb,’ ‘As the field, so the produce ; like father, like son ; like mother, like daughter. ’ Those children who are born with poor sickly bodies and impure blood, must of necessity be subject to disease all their lives. In daily life we see hundreds of cases in which the children of unhealthy parents are also unhealthy being living and sad proofs that disease is hereditary. (39.) Defective as the knowledge of the drug people is regarding health, and the manner in which it is lost, their teachings pertaining to the rela- tionship between the sexes is simply monstrous, and fraught with the greatest calamities to mankind. Count Tolstoi writes in reference to this : “ I know mothers who, misled by medical scoundrels, take care that their sons’ health shall not suffer from too much virtue.” * Thus we see that medical men, not knowing how to control the passions in a natural way, hide their ignorance behind a smiling face, and call vice a useful and agreeable amusement. The result for the young man, is the loss of his pure thoughts and his innocence and guileless relationship to women. He has become a voluptuary, and vice is branded on his face. Simple, pure, fraternal intercourse toward women is forever impossible. Then, after heaping crime upon crime against women, he has the audacity to marry ; and this after fifteen or twenty years of profligacy. Out of a thousand men who marry, you will not find one who has not been married before dozen of times. And yet, during all these years they possibly nourish the high- est ideals of a future wife, and what a paragon of perfection and beauty she must be. They never for a moment think that they should meet this pure bride on something of a moral equality. Despite their debaucheries, they still consider themselves models of honorable men, and fit to wed with all that is pure—these profligates who have altogether lost their apprecia tion of female chastity ! No sooner has the connubial tie been forined- than the sexes abandon themselves to the utmost licentiousness, both seem- *The following notes up to page 185 are drawn up after his famous “ Kreuzer Sonata.” 182 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. ing to look upon the marriage-ceremony as the signal for throwing off all restraint, and imagining that they may indulge now with impunity. It is not long, however, before the young bride awakens from her dream, in horror. She finds herself degraded, dragged down into the mire, by the man whom she honestly intended to look up to with love and respect all her life. Then hatred will replace love, and the most intense domestic misery must result. This is the outcome of the seed planted by the drugging people. How different an affair marriage would be if man entered into it as undefiled as the innocent bride ; and if, during marriage, both husband and wife would not pollute themselves, and try to forget their misery in new acts of debauchery. How much purer and happier the married life would be, if the manner of living and the mutual ties between husband and wife were more natural! Then again on the recommendation of some fiend in human form, called a medical doctor, many a mother refrains from nursing her child. Now this causes a fearful revolution in the mother’s body, and it leaves the child a weakling all its life, and open to the inroads of all the most loathsome dis- eases, consumption included. Mark here, again, the impotence and igno- rance of the drug poisoners, as well as their utter loss of decent principles. A mother has too little milk. Her medical adviser does not know how to lead nature back into her proper track, and cannot give such advice and treatment that the mother will soon have a sufficiency of milk. So he covers his ignorance by advising artificial feeding. And now, thanks to their teaching, this mode has become the order and fashion of the day. But how about the great mortality among infants, and the scrofula, con- sumption etc., which develop in those that escape immediate death? Oh, the good doctor will take care of them as soon, as they are ripe for his treatment. Surely, he is a kind-hearted person ! Some mothers, however, do not care to nurse their children ; usually on account of the perfectly groundless fear that they will spoil their figures ; and in this they are upheld by the always accommodating medical adviser. Thus the latter countenances criminal acts against the order of nature. When the mother is not a monster, that is, when she does not of her own preference allow a hireling to take her place in this sacred privilege of motherhood, then the doctor steps in, and for one reason or another, ad- vises that she should not nurse the child. Often, if a woman is"delicate, the doctor persuades her that the birth of another child will endanger her health or life, and shows her how to avoid it. Thus these rascals kill the infant in its mother's womb, and the moral degeneration of the family becomes complete. In many ins ances, CH. I3.] SEXUAL EXCESSES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES 183 FlG-. 56. _ Ideal bride hood ; the intellectual faculties of the male doing homage to the higher intuitive ones of the female. 184 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. Ill, Fig. 57. The happy family. The result of sucn oridehood. The drugging people, we claim, are entirely incapable of any ideal views. CH. 13.] SEXUAL EXCESSES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES 185 the mother dies under the operation. The ivorld takes no account of these wholesale assassinations, because they are committed under the title ‘ ‘ opera- tion," and because the drug advocates tell the public that these operations are in the interest of humanity. But it is the grossest ignorance and negli- gence upon their part. We insist, and are willing to contest, that no operatioyi is ever necessary. Prostitution must be combatted, not only in the public haunts, but in the home ; else, with the help of unscrupulous, licensed quacks, women will strive to prevent conception, and will sink below the level of the brute, to a miserable, sickly, hysterical wretch, without hope or self-respect. Thus is furnished an inexhaustible source of wealth for the happy drug practitioner, who keeps them o?i his string for twenty years or more, leading them a wretched existence between life and death. People never consider what a wonderful work gestation is. In the mother is formed the being which is to perpetuate our line. And this holy work is hindered by whom? The medical man. Not content with poisoning his victims physically, he also depraves their minds. It is hor- rible, even to think of. Animals, in order to perpetuate their species, follow well defined laws. It is only man who cares for nothing but his sensual pleasures. All other crimes of the drug prof 'ession are as nothing compared with their cynical and obscene teachings, and the demoralization with which, through their advice to women, they corrupt the world. As a con- sequence of their ignorance, and the application of what little knowledge they have, to criminal ends, our drugging people have produced a state of affairs in which ‘1 happiness ’ ’ exists in reality only with children or in novels. Real life is a stranger to it, and the race is growing to be a gen- eration of misanthropes, with radically perverted views of all social ties. A woman who feels so little sense of obligation toward her offspring, can feel even less toward her profligate husband. Only the opportunity is wanting, and adultery, divorce, murder, and suicide follow. These close the drama of marriage. As to sexual intercourse, we do not deceive ourselves with the hope that our strict rules will find many followers. But for the present, people should try to live as naturally as they know how, and they may then be trusted to the instincts of a more purified body. 186 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. III. DRUGS POISON PEOPLE. CHAPTER 14. »EN have outraged their systems by the cooking pro- cess, by the use of meat, spices, alcohol and nar- cotics, nay even by their private excesses ; all these items combined are trifling when compared to the harm done to the health of the human race by the drugging system. None of the drugs form part of a normal body. Our cells are composed of cer- tain definite chemical elements. In order to keep the cells in health, we must provide for the supply of their natural constitu- ents, and for nothing else. If they become diseased, it is because they have been offered improper food. If restoration be still possible, common sense ought to teach that it can be achieved in no other way than by a removal of the obnoxious matter ; certainly not by adding more poisons under the name of medicines. We claim that all sickness is caused by poisonous and corrupt mat- ter which is foreign and heterogenous to a healthy body. As long as this material remains quiescent, the entire body may be charged with it, with- out the patient being conscious of its presence. In such cases, it will also escape the notice of our drugging people, because, not knowing what health or sickness is, they cannot distinguish betwee?i a healthy and an ab- normal body. They only see the purulent matter, when it is actually being discharged. We contend that there is but one sickness, consisting in chronic latent deposits. The different forms of disease have their origin in the particular seat of this foreign matter. The location of these deposits depends parti}7 upon the specific gravity of the foul matter and partly on the vitality of the organ ; the rapidity with which deposits are made, is greatly influenced by one’s occupation, habits, age, and vital power. In support of our statement let us quote the opinions of a few really honorable mem- CH. I4.] DRUGS POISON PEOPUP: 187 bers of the medical profession. Says Dr. John Abernethy, of London : ‘ ‘ There has been a great increase of medical men of late, but, upon my life, diseases have increased in proportion.” Dr. Ramage, Fellow of the Royal College of London, says: “It cannot be denied that the present system of medicine is a burning shame to its professors, if indeed a series of vague and uncertain incongruities de- serves to be called by that name. How rarely do our medicines do good ! How often do they make our patients really zvorse ! I fearlessly assert that in most cases the sufferer would be safer zvith out a physician than with one. I have seen enough of the mal-practice of my professional brethren to warrant the strong language I employ.’’ Prof. Jameison, of Edinburgh, maintains that : “ The present practice of medicine is a reproach to the name of Science, while its profes- sors give evidence of an almost total ignorazice of the nature and proper treatment of disease. Nine times out of ten, our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to our patients, suffering under diseases of whose real character atid cause we are most culpably ignorant. ’ ’ The Dublin Medical Journal says : ‘1 Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art that we call medical science, is no science at all, but a jumble of inconsistent opinions; of conclusions hastily and often incorrectly drawn ; of facts misunderstood or perverted ; of comparisons without analogy ; of hypotheses without reason, and theories not only useless, but dangerous. ” “ The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon, and the effects of our medicines on the human system in the highest degree zincertain ; except, indeed, that they have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine combined.’’—John Mason Good, M.D., F.R.S., author of “Book of Nature,’’ “A System of Nosology,’’ “Study of Medicine,” etc. “I declare, as my conscientious conviction, founded on long exper- ience and reflection, that if there were not a single physician, surgeon, man-midzvife, chemist, apothecary, druggist, nor drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortacity than now prevail.” — Jas. Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., Editor of the Medico-Chirurgical Reviezv. “ Medicines hinder more than they assist Nature’s actions, and are more injurious than useful in all diseases ; for drug medication, no matter under what disguise or name it is practiced, consists in employing as remedies for diseases the very things which produce them in people who are well. The real effect of drugs is that they substitute a chronic con- dition for a temporary. trifling indisposition. Every article in the materia medica is incompatible with vital functions, antagonistic to living matter* 188 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. and produces disease when in any way brought into contact with the living domain ; in short, all are poisons. Hygienic treatment on the contrary, consists in employing as remedial agents ‘ the same materials and influ- ences which preserve health in well people.’ ”—Trail. Dr. Ames, in the treatment of pneumonia, had noticed ‘ ‘ that patients who were treated with the ordinary remedies—bleeding, mercury, and antimony—presented certain complications which always aggravated the malady, and rendered convalescence more lingering, and recovery less complete. Such patients are always liable to collapses and re-lapses; to ‘ run into typhoid to sink suddenly, and die very unexpectedly.” “We have known several Allopathic physicians who, seeing or believ- ing that the ordinary remedies, instead of helping the patient to live, as- sisted him to die, have abandoned all strong medicines, and from that hour have lost no patients.” Once ‘ ‘ typhoid pneumonia was so fatal in some places in the valley of the Connecticut River that the people became suspicious that the physi- cians were doing more harm than good, and in their desperation they actually combined against the doctors, and refused to employ them at all; ‘after which,’ said Professor Tully, of Yale, ‘no deaths occurred.’ Regular physicians were once banished from Rome, so fatal did their prac- tice seem, so far as the people could judge of it.” (42.) “ Do you know how many drug medicines, or poisons, you are liable to take into your system, during an ordinary course of fever? Two or three kinds of medicines are usually administered several times a day, each probably compounded of several ingredients, so that a dozen drugs, on the average, may be swallowed daily. These are changed for new ones, to a greater or less extent, nearly every day, and in a month’s sick- ness fifty to one hundred poisons are sent into the domain of organic life. ’ ’ ‘‘No wonder there are nowadays all sorts of ‘ complications, ’ and ‘collapses,’ and ‘relapses,’ and ‘sinking spells,’ and ‘running down, ’ and ‘ changing into typhoid, ’ etc. No wonder that new diseases seem to hover around the patient and infest the very atmosphere, like a brood of malignant imps or voracious goblins, ready to ‘ set in, ’ or ‘supervene,’ or ‘attack,’ whenever the medication has brought the patient to the vulnerable point, or within range of their influence. Under Hygienic treatment these occurrences are wholly unknown.” (42.) In the Scient. News, we read of the Cocaine habit. “ Medical journals .sound alarm at this increasing habit. The Eclectric Med. Jour. describes a ‘ cocaine joint,’ in St. Louis, run under the pretext of a drug store, with a rear room where the victims sleep off their dream}* intoxica- ch. 14.] DRUGS POISON PEOPLE 189 tion ; and this notwithstanding the proprietor was arrested under the law regulating the sale of poisons. The same journal speaks of the effect of the drug as paralyzing the vaso-motor nerves, producing the worst form of ‘rum nose’—one person acquiring a nose as large as a man’s fist, red as erysipelas, sore as a boil, with ulcers extending to the lips. The grip of the habit is stronger than that of opium, and the downward progress faster. The New Eng. Druggist speaks of the wide prevalence of the habit in Manchester, Conn., beginning in the dispensing by a druggist of menthol and cocaine as an asthma snuff ; and the evil has stirred up many there to seek legislative control. The Medical Mirror warns against the prescribing or use of the drug by druggists, dentists, rhinologists and laryngologists, declaring that the remedy is worse than the diseases for which it is administered ; and says that physicians should never write a cocaine prescription or the like, to relieve pain or produce sleep.” Who is responsible for this new and fearful curse on humanity? Who, but the men who first prescribed the poisonous drug and vaunted its powers as ‘ ‘ an unmixed blessing ?’ ’ All medicines sold for coughs, colds, consumption, etc., etc., contain opium in some disguise. They repress the cough, but failing to eradicate the cause, the first prescription paves the way for the second ; and so the poison creeps into the system. Now it is the essential nature of opium to deaden the sensibilities, to close up, to constringe. Under its influence, the bowels do not feel the presence of their contents, calling for a dis- charge, and so constipation sets in with its train of ailments—headache, neuralgia, dyspepsia, piles, etc., etc. As the habitual use of any medi- cine to regulate the bowels, will ultimately undermine the health, and lay the foundation for chronic maladies, care should be taken to keep these organs in their normal, natural state, by eating proper food, and taking proper exercise. Many of the drug peddlers prescribe calomel for costive- ness. This course is quite irrational because health depends on normal cells, and normal cells are produced from a creature’s natural food. It is only such hare-brained people, devoid of the smallest trace of logic, as our drugging friends, who can imagine that calomel can build up normal cells. Pain-killers kill pain by killing the nerves,—for instance, the nerve of a tooth. Nowt, as the separate nerves in their union or entirety, consti- tute life, the body is killed inchways by the pain-relievers. What is blindness and paralysis ? Inaction of the nerves. And how brought on ? 190 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. m. By pain-killers. Nothing else makes a young person incurably blind or paralytic. * Water relives pain immediately, and at the same time raises the vital- ity. It never lowers our vital power. By the sensation of pain, our nerves apprise us of the presence of foreign matter. This matter may have just arrived, and if not removed may settle and paralyze the nerves. When, in treating such cases of paralysis by hygienic means, pain reappears, this indicates that life is once more returning. In either instance pain is beneficial; and if properly treated by our methods, will invariably lead to improved health ; pain dis- appears naturally, as soon as no foreign matter is left to irritate the nerves. A discharge of purulent matter from the ear often occurs in chil- dren after some malady. If these diseases are not perfectly cured, the unhealthy matter collects in the head and forms a mass of pus. This never results if Water Cure has been used. Water drives all corrupt matter out, medicine drives it into the body. ‘ ‘ Dysentery generally appears after severe illness, especially when the patient has taken a great deal of medicine.” (44.) Does not the fact that no drug physician with all his train of assistant drugs, has ever answered plainly one of the following questions, prove that the school of which he is an exponent, must be wrong at the very foundation of its pretended knowledge ? Why are there so many relapses and collapses under the medical treatment, and none under intelligent Water Treatment ? Why does one patient take contagion, such as syphilis, typhoid, malaria, mumps, cholera, smallpox, etc., whereas other persons, equally exposed, escape ? What do the drug people mean by ‘predisposition’ ? How does medical empiricism explain the formation of the arcus sen- ilis (a ring of gray deposit around the outer margin of the iris in aged people ?) Why do children contract certain kinds of diseases, and grown people other kinds ? What is the cause of a cold ? By what means can those persons be discerned who are predisposed to colds, or to any other form of disease? * The author has cured a number of cases of blindness which previously had been treated by the first specialists of the City of New York, for several years, unsuccessfully. Hence, he considers himself justified in making the above statement. CH. I4.] DRUGS POISON PEOPLE 191 How is pain caused ? How can rupture, prolopsus uteri, etc., be prevented? How can parturition be made easy, normal, and painless ? Why do discharges from the nose sometimes make it sore ? That drugs must be more or less injurious may also be inferred from the fact, that the more learned and experienced physicians prescibe the smallest possible doses. It is only the young shoots, who think: “Much accomplishes much ! ’’ So it does, but much harm, instead of good. The habitual use of medicine will undermine the strongest constitution. People who are always dosing themselves are never well. Statistics clearly show that sickness spreads in a place in proportion to the use of drugs and ‘ ‘ remedies ’ ’ employed. It used to be the case that only elderly people, men particularly, were troubled with rheumatism ; but nowadays, despite—or rather on account of—the manifold remedies employed against it, it has continued to spread, and to-day spares neither age nor sex ; even children being quite suscep- tible to it. It is an unanswerable fact that during the great epidemics in Berlin, Vienna, etc., the physicians in despair, divided the sick into various classes for different modes of treatment. Some were drugged in all the many different ways ; some were treated by Water Cure ; some were left to Nature, care being taken that Nature should be assisted by cleanliness, fresh air and rational regime. And the result was a lower rate of mortal- ity among the classes to whom 710 drugs in any shape or form were given. Is this fact worth nothing ? One of the greatest stars (?) of the drug profession treated a man for shaking palsy. He dosed him for two years and a half with morphine and strychnine, until the patient developed into a morphine fiend. It took us six weeks of energetic Water Cure Treatment to rid the victim of drug poisoning of this—the morphine-habit, which the drug quack could so easilyimpose, but was powerless to remove. A person may contract a slight cold ; he applies to the drug school for help and is dosed from his trifling ailment into serious complica- tions. More drugs are prescribed. The poisons at last settle in his foot causing mortification. A surgeon is called in who heartlessly cuts off the ‘ ‘ offending member, ’ ’ which his brother in the drug profession had brought to its condition ; and the mutilated patient is sent out on crutches. We refer to instances as they actually occur. See case of gangrene, Part iv. 192 HOW health is lost , LPT- ID. Owing to the merits (?) of the drug profession, there are at present in the world, two classes of incurable people : those suffering from a lin- gering disease, and those maimed by operation. This unhappy result necessitates many asylums for incurables, which in our eyes are but so many monuments erected to the ignorance of the prevailing drug schools. We feel that, in the majority of cases, the same is true of the institutions for the blind, the deaf and dumb, and the insane ; and to a great extent of the public hospitals and dispensaries. The monstrous system of drug- ging has helped to fill them all. ( Fig. 58.) Fig. 58.—Decrepitude of old age in a man of forty ; a sorry but common spectacle to-day, thanks to the drug system. Inquire among those who have been treated in these institutions and far more will be found to execrate than to bless them. Take only one possible, nay probable, every day occurrence. A mother takes her baby sick with diarrhoea to one of these houses of heal- ing (?),—and a dose is given which changes the diarrhoea into obstinate costiveness. Then a laxative is prescribed, and the old enemy returns; and so between the two extremes, the little life ebbs helplessly away. Reinhold, Nature vs. Drugs—vi. ch. 14.] DRUGS POISON PEOPLE 193 Let no one say we are too harsh in our statements or criticisms. It is the duty of every one to speak the truth as he sees it. The medical folks, who are paid, literally, for poisoning and torturing their patients, have too long monopolized the confidence and respect of the public. The false halo which surrounds them must pale before the rays of truth, or humanity will lose again the benefits of a more rational treatment. It is to the interest of the drug doctors to discredit the natural methods, for if these should become universally understood and practiced, we should need physicians as little as the birds and fish need them. They would be obliged to find some other occupation. This explains why so many drug quacks stoop so low as to disparage and discredit the virtues of the Nature Cure. Let us see what Seb. Kneipp thought of drugs. A patient of his said to him: ‘ ‘ The doctors pronounce my case to be liver and kidney complaint. My greatest misfortune, however, is that my stomach will contain no medicine, every spoonful causes vomiting.” ‘‘Your good fortune, you mean to say, ’ ’ replied Kneipp to the gentleman. In another place Kneipp says: ‘ ‘ If you take medicine containing poison, poison remains to infect the blood.” Presumably, you know that Kneipp has adopted medicinal herbs from the drug system. Had we to ask him, which medicines contained no poisons, possibly he would have answered: ‘ ‘ The medical herbs. ’ ’ We, how'ever, do not share his opinion, because many of the most deadly articles,—belladonna, strychnine, morphine, prussic acid, etc.,—are of vegetable origin; and the active principles of even the milder herbs, camomile, millefolium, etc., are nothing but poisons, and consequently harmful to a greater or lesser degree. Some say: ‘‘But herbs are created for some purpose.” Doubtless true, but it does not follow that they were created to be put in our stomachs. We do not eat roses, lilies, bushes, trees or cobble stones ! Why then should we eat these poisonous plants? Because they grow upon the earth, is no proof that they were created for our food. The more we study the cause of disease, the more clearly we see, sick- ness is the result of acting against the laws of nature. Now if God created herbs for cure, it would involve a contradiction, as we would need no cure if we closely adhered to nature. The strong flavor contained in some plants may have been given them, for the same purpose that others are provided with thorns,—for their protection against animals. Let us see briefly what the action of poison is. Apply a drop of sulphuric or carbolic acid to the skin. What results? The life of the 194 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. skin is burned out, destroyed ; and the skin must be replaced by an effort of vitality, which is thereby unnecessarily wasted. Now any article useless in building up the human body is poison; anything that lowers vitality is poison; and so we state emphatically and hope that far and wide our voice may be heard and heeded: Drugs are poisons, their action on the human body is deadly and dire, and awful results surely follow in their wake. As to Mineral Waters, which animals refuse instinctively, but which constitutes a fashionable form of drug poisoning, we would say that it matters little whether we take our poison in small doses from the apothe- cary or diluted in a glass of mineral water. The result is the same in both cases. It is quite true that some minerals,—lime, phosphate and iron—are needed for the upbuilding of our system ; but we emphasize that we cannot utilize them, in their crude inorganic state from the drug store. Mineral substances can only be properly assimilated by the body, after having been elaborated and organized in the plants. Fruit and vegetables fur- nish all the mineral substances the bod}’ needs. Whole wheat flour, we may mention in passing, is especially rich in the necessary mineral ingredients. People who go to Karlsbad, Ems, and elsewhere to be cured of diabetes and like diseases, find that they must return there again and again. This shows conclusively that the water of these springs does not effect a “cure," but simply overcharges the system with mineral deposits, and renders the latter powerless to make those protests against such poisoning, as are miscalled “symptoms of disease.” Though the patient may believe himself relieved on account of the temporary suppression of these symptoms, he is really sinking lower and lower in disease; and, if he continues this course, cannot possibly live many years. The implicit faith which some people place in the efficacy of these mineral springs almost seems to be a relic of mediaeval superstition. Physicians who persist in recommending such treatment, show their ignorance and im- potence ; and patients who continue to believe them are simply drinking their own destruction. In reference to the sulphur, and other mineral baths, and the drink- ing of mineral water at springs recommended by drug doctors, we say that whatever good there is in the water itself, is spoiled by the mineral ingre- dients found in it. Hot water baths are weakening, and should never be prescribed for patients. Many physicians, as a last resource, advise their patients to try Rusian or Turkish baths. Now you know that the old rule still holds CH. 14.] DRUGS POISON PEOPLE 195 good. “ Keep your head cool and your feet warm.” But, as in Russian or Turkish baths, the heat rises up, the head will always be in the hotter, and the feet in the colder space, hence the condition of health is reversed ; and these baths are consequently injurious, not beneficial. If a robust person takes such a bath, the benefit derived from the massage and the opening of the pores, causes him to overlook the harm, resulting from the per- verse distribution of heat. But harm is done all the same, and sick per- sons always feel it. If the drug people had the faintest idea of the inju- rious effects of these kind of baths, they would desist from placing the lives of their patients in jeopardy. The air, too, which is inhaled there, is tainted with the loathsome perspiration of many sick people. The lungs are overheated, and you cool, not these organs, but simply your skin by showers and plunges ; in this \vay you are apt to contract some lung disease. Furthermore, as the well and the sick sojourne there indiscriminately, the visitor exposes himself to many diseases, Water, free of mineral admixture is called soft; laundresses are anx- ious to obtain rain wrater, because it is free from mineral substances and such water possesses a peculiar aptitude for dissolving and removing dirt. Soft water is also better for cooking; you cannot cook beans soft in hard water. It is very evident which is the better for us to drink. Animals know of this difference ; and they do not drink from springs which are more or less charged with mineral substances, but from those which are relatively free of them. Why do not drug advocates know of this differ- ence also ? They purposely send their patients to springs, famous for the large amount of mineral poisons which they contain. The drug quacks advocate vaccination with the view to secure immun- ity from smallpox. No legalized drug poisoner ever explained why some people escape infection without bemg vaccinated. We claim that healthy people cannot take the disease ; that its symptoms only originate in people whose bodies are greatly charged with unhealthy material ; the germs of smallpox attack this dormant matter and cause it to ferment. This is a salutary reaction, accompanied by fever, and by means of the postules, the foul matter is thrown out of the system. ‘ ‘ Facial Diag- nosisenables us to distinguish between healthy people and those predis- posed to this disease, and our natural methods furnish the means of purg- ing the system so thoroughly of all morbid matter that one becomes abso- * Louis Kuhne’s “ Facial Diagnosis,” published by A. F. Reinhold, 60 Lexing- ton Avenue, New York City. Price $2.00 196 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. lutely proof against any contagion. Of this, however, the drug people know nothing, and so endeavor to produce immunity by poisoning people with the vilest and rankest stuff, by them termed ‘ ‘ lymph ” or “ virus. ’ ’ “The poison of inoculation, like all allopathic remedies, has a para- lyzing effect on vital power; that is, it deprives the body of the vigor Fig. 59 —Compulsory Vaccination. Drug doctors advocate vaccination as a protection against smallpox. Some people are immune to small-pox without vaccination ; others take it several times, in spite of vaccination. Who is exempt? The healthy person, whose body is free from foul deposits, where the microbes find no food to live on. People, whose bodies are charged with corrupt material, are liable to the attack of any contagious disease. To protect ourselves, we should cleanse our systems thoroughly. Of this, the drug people know nothing. They prefer to poison the public still more by their virus. which it needs to throw off its foreign matter by an acute disease (sani- tary crisis, fever,) increases the quantity of the latter, and thus produces a far worse chronic state of sickness, as clearly proved by the steady increase of all chronic diseases since the adoption of vaccination.” (45.) (Fig. 59.) ch. 14.] DRUGS POISON PEOPLE 197 Although numerous instances nave been reported showing the direct harm done by vaccination, the diverse drug schools still continue this practice. It is in fact a source of considerable income to them. We once had a patient under treatment who was as robust a boy as could be found, until he was vaccinated. From that moment, his health began to fail, especially the inoculated left side. Then his left ear commenced to run ; a specialist succeeded in suppressing the discharge so effectively that he has been deaf in that ear ever since. Then his eyes were at- tacked ; he was treated for them by many physicians of renown, with the result that his eye-sight, too, grew rapidly worse. We have no doubt that by this time he would have been doomed to permanent darkness, had he not come under our treatment, after his father had during a period of seventeen years spent a fortune on him for those awful results of medical mismanagement. If the object of the drug profession were no other than to simply secure plenty of hard cash, their manner of cure (!) could not be more effectual. A HORRIBLE VACCINATION MURDER. A. S. Reiter, M.D., of Myerstown, Pa., calls attention to the follow- ing case, a full account of which was recently published in the Eagle, of Reading, Pa. Four years ago Charles Ringler McKinney, a bright lad of 14 years, was vaccinated on the left arm. In a very short time the arm swelled to twice its natural size and turned black and blue. The wound healed in a few weeks, but a lump the size of an egg formed underneath, which in a short time had to be opened, but it never healed. After being treated in Reading six weeks, he was taken to Jefferson Medical Hospital, Philadel- phia, where, with the hope of saving his life, a portion of his left shoulder blade about the size of a goose egg was cut out of the socket and the bone reset. The operation is known as re-section. In two months he returned home, but soon the diseased condition of the blood became apparent in a curvature of the spine. With this he gradually declined, being obliged to keep kis bed. His back was covered with holes, some the size of a ten-cent piece. His body was inflamed, and his stomach would retain neither food nor drink to nourish the system. His bones diminished so much in size it was sometimes feared in handling him that they would break. He wasted away to a mere skeleton and died. The testimony of the attending physician, Dr. F. H. Brobst, is that tubercu- losis followed vaccination—that his whole system was impregnated with 198 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. 11 turberculosis bacilli due to impure vaccine—evidently a crust from a tuberculosis patient. Write on his tombstone, A Victim of the Medical Superstition of Killing Disease by Manufacturing More Disease. Murdered by Vaccination. Charles Ringler McKinney, • “Writing on the subject lately Mr. Piehn said: ‘Tell the people that we must put a stop to this murdering of our children in the public schools. We know that vaccination is a fraud, that it has been proven a fraud every day from the first day Jenner brought it before the medical profes- sion until the Royal Commission, after its eight years’ continued investi- gations, brought them to return a report unfavorable to the dreadful practice.’ In 1894, Mr. Piehn had a sweet little daughter murdered by vaccination. That sad incident brought the vaccination question home to him with a vengeance.”—Medical Liberty Ne.ws. “The following letter is another sample of the dreadful results of vac- cination : ‘ D. H. Piehn, Prest., ‘ Dear Sir :—My husband was always a healthy man that took good care of himself. In a few hours after he was vaccinated he had a violent headache, every hour he grew worse, but thinking he would be allriglit in a few days tried not to give up to it, but his case grew worse, and a few days after he was vaccinated he was in a serious condition. “ The circulation stopped in his limb below his knee. I sent for three of our best doctors to see if some one could give him relief ; they all three decided that his limb must come off at once. The Company’s doctors suggested that Mr. Murray should be taken to a hospital, so we started at once for Chicago to St. Duke’s Hospital; seven days after our arrival there they took off Mr. Murray’s limb near the hip, and two weeks from hat he died of blood poisoning from vaccination. Every drop of blood in his body was poisoned and would scarcely run when his limb was amputated. One of the doctors at the hospital said after the blood had made one circuit around the body, if he had all the doctors in America he could not have been saved. Mr. Murray fought hard against death, he had bright prospects to live for, he was a large man weighing over two hundred pounds. His body began dying from his foot up and it seemed all feeling was gone ; he suffered awfully. ‘ The word vaccination brings a terror to my heart. Very respectfully yours, Mrs. A. E. Murray.’ CH. 14.] VACCINATION 199 From the reasons stated by Dr. Alexander Ross, Toronto, Canaaa, against vaccination we quote as follows: “I have known several cases where amputation of the arm has been necessary to save the lives of those who had been vaccinated. ‘ ‘ Because I know that filthy cattle diseases have been transmitted to children by vaccination. ‘ ‘ Because authorities, who order and enforce vaccination, will not guarantee or indemnify a parent against the evils that so frequently result from it. ‘ ‘ Because it is a cruel wrong to poison the pure blood of a healthy child with impurity from a diseased beast. “Because the danger incurred by vaccination is infinitely greater than that from smallpox—we know what smallpox is, but we do not know what hideous poison may lurk in vaccine pus. “Because we have no antidote for vaccine poison. For all other poisons we have, but for vaccine poisons none ! ‘ ‘ Because all the protection we have against smallpox and other filth diseases comes from our improved knowledge of hygiene and sanita- tion, and if one-quarter the money spent for vaccination was applied to improving the conditions of life in localities where smallpox and other filth diseases originate, we would not only ‘ stamp out ’ smallpox, but chol- era, diphtheria, measles, scarlatina, and other diseases that are born in filth and thrive upon filth. Cleanliness is our only natural, hence scientific pro- tection, not vaccination, incantation, charms, witchcraf, or any other fetich. ‘ ‘ Because no rational theory ever has been or can be advanced to sup- port the ridiculous assumption that vaccination protects from smallpox. One thing is certain, thousands of children are killed annually by vacci- nation, or its after results, and these victims of medical ignorance and cupidity are the only persons, it can be asserted with truth, that vaccina- tion protected from smallpox. ‘ ‘ Because vaccination is an unmitigated curse, and the most de- structive medical delusion that has ever afflicted the human race. I know full well that the vaccinator sows broadcast the seeds of many filthy the skin, the blood, the hair, and the eyes, which are trans- mitted from generation to generation—an ever-abiding curse to humanity. ‘ ‘ Because nearly forty years’ experience as a medical practitioner has convinced me that vaccination does not afford the least protection or miti- gation from smallpox—an unvaccinated and vaccinated person being equally liable to the disease under similar conditions. 200 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. ‘ ‘ Because I have frequently seen vaccination result in terrible corro- sive ulcers on the arms, glandular swellings in thearm-pits filthy cutaneous diseases, erysipelas and intractable diseases of the eyes, ears and scalp. “Because I have seen many children die from erysipelas and hydro- cephalus (water on the brain.)’’ etc. Following is a MURDER RECORD of other victims. These have died from blood-poisoning, erysipelas, lock- jaw, convulsions, etc., after vaccination : Frances Asten, 17 years, Greenpoint, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1892. Mrs. Eli Gaugh, Muncie, Ind., Nov. 23, 1893. Margorie Woodruff, 5 years, Bellport, E. I., Dec. 6, 1893. Ella Stone, 12 years, Plum Run, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1893. Blanch Elsey, 10 years, Van Wert, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1894. Eeonard Kessner, Clerk, Chicago, 111., Jan. 2, 1894. Irene Adams, 16 years, Atlanta, Ga., March 27, 1894. Julia Beggraff, 10 years, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1894. Chas. W. Smith, n years, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 19, 1894. Frank Bennett, Clerk, Lowell, Mass., Jan. 20, 1894. Chas. Daniels, 5 years, Menasha, Wis., Feb., 1894. Josephine Miller, 13 months, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 30, 1894. Henry King, 3 years, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 8, 1894. Mary Hain, 11 years, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 12, 1894. Frank Madden, 8 years, Fort Wayne, Ind., May 14, 1894. Thomas Mytele, 45 years, Chicago, 111., May 15, 1894. Employee of Nelson Morris, Chicago, 111., May 16, 1894. Frank Evans, 3 years, New York City, May 28, 1894. Jacob H. Weeks, Jr., 11 years, Philadelphia, Pa., June 10, 1894. Nellie Noland, school girl, New York City, March, 1890. Female infant, 9 months, died thirteen days after vaccination. Johnny Flynn, 13 years, Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 9, 1894. Alma Oliva Piehn, 6 years, Nora Springs, Iowa, May 13, These cases might be multiplied indefinitely. These examples speak louder than words to everybody except the disease mongers, who make millions of dollars by the fraud. But the doctors plead impure virus ; what right have those doctors to use impure virus ? Again they plead that 110 one is able to certify to the purity of any viru« ; then they are quacking upon the public by force, compelling ch. 14.] VACCINATION 201 people to submit to their malpractice. The free American liberty loving citizens who will not tolerate a sectarian priest craft ruling in its schools is thus submitting to a bloody medical priest craft more deadly and tyran- nical than anything else heard of in history.”—Medical Liberty News. Listen to some more quotations: Says the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.: ‘‘I regard compulsory and penal provisions such as those of the Vaccination Act with mistrust and misgiving, and were I engaged on an inquiry I should require very clear proof of their necessity before giving them my approval.”' Says E. M. Crookshank, M.B., M.R.C.S., Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, King’s College, London: “ There is no way of deter- mining by the microscope, or any kind of test of any character whatever, between lymph which contains the virus of syphilis and lymph that does not. ’ ’ Says Emeritus Prof. F. W. Newman : “Against the body of a healthy man Parliament has no right of assault whatever under the pretense of public health ; nor any the more against the body of a healthy infant. To forbid (!) perfect health is a tyrannical wickedness, just as much as to forbid chastity or sobriety. No lawgiver can have the right. The law is an unendurable usurpation and creates the right of resistance.” Says Dr. Hubert Boens of Brussels: “Continue, gentlemen, to vaccinate if you choose, and because you make money by it; but never forget, pseudo-scientists and false physicians that you are, that while you sow vaccine among the people, they reap the pox !” Unabashed by the sad failure of Koch's tuberculine, the drug frater- nity keeps working desperately to compound some other poisons where- with to—cure—or rather kill people. The latest success is Anti-toxin. We quote the following case from Medical Liberty News, to show how radically it cures every ache and pain ! ANTI-TOXIN MURDER STRAIGHT OUT. “ Miss Florence Beckwith, a bright, healthy and very promising young woman, residing in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, during a scare over diphtheria, which was thoroughly worked up by the ‘ regular ’ physicians, and while under depression over the death of an aunt, complained of slight soreness in her throat. As soon as the family doctor was called, he got-so alarmed he did not know what to do, and took into his council the Anti-Toxin operator of that community. They decided the case a 202 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. good one to experiment on to develop diphtheria by Anti-Toxin treatment, which it is said will either cure, cause a mild type of diphtheria, or kill the patient. In this case it promptly killed the patient, and did it quick enough to be entitled to the credit of being a scientifically sure process of causing death. Dr. O. A. Geeseka, assisted by Dr. A. W. McClure, injected 2,000 units of Mulford’s serum hypodermically into the veins of the girl, she, under the influence of their advice, laughingly consenting to it. In less than five minutes following the operation she was dead. The con- sternation at the bedside of the dead girl spread over the town with light- ning rapidity, the general conviction being that Anti-Toxin treatment caused her death. The public mind of the community is a unit in the condem- nation of the rot-murder treatment that killed her. Immediately follow- ing the injection of the serum—rotten animal matter—into her veins, she complained of a strange feeling in her head and lungs; the physicians noticing that her heart ceased to beat, tried to rally her with strychnine, nitro-glycerine and digitalis, which were all promptly administered hypo- dermically, but all to no purpose; then they tell us, ‘ she died of cardiac paralysis.’ Nothing of the kind. She died from the effect of Anti-Toxin poison.” One-third of mankind dies from consumption. Why do not the drug people prevent this ? Because they are powerless to do so. Tuberculosis develops in those having delicate health, and is caused directly by improper living. The first foundation may have been laid by feeding the patient artificially when an infant; or later on, he may have taken stim- ulating food and beverages ; or he may have paid too much attention to the other sex, and thus lowered his vitality. Low vital power was unable to properly perform the functions of assimilation and evacuation and deposits were formed, mainly in the lungs. Fever ensued, microbes were fostered and so tuberculosis was established. Facial diagnosis recognizes this form of disease at any stage, even long before its outbreak, and can stop it and cure it in almost any degree of advancement if the patient has strength enough left to take the treatment.* Of dyspepsia we read : “A dyspeptic stomach deranges the whole system, and is the centre and source of every sort of pain and misery. Any disease may proceed from dyspepsia. The hypochondriac and mono- maniac is first of all a dyspeptic. Nervous exhaustion is a consequence * “ Positive Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis,” by A. F. Reinhold, Ph.D., 60 Lexington Ave., New York City. Price, $4.80 CH. i4.j VACCINATION 203 as well as a cause. Most cases of lung disease begin with dyspepsia. Nine out of ten cases of what are called ‘ diseases of the heart,’ are really dyspepsia.” Now, if dyspepsia is an immediate cause of severe ailments, why do not medical people cure it ? Again the simple answer is their inability. Dyspepsia is principally the result of maltreating the stomach with drugs. It usually commences with a little indiscretion in diet. The patient seeks relief first from one, then from another drug doctor, thereby spoiling his digestion ; he sinks lower and lower, losing in flesh, etc., until he is a confirmed dyspeptic. A plain proof that drugs only suppress disease is, that, as soon as our natural treatment commences, the various forms of disease from which a person suffered in succession, reappear in the reverse order, and are only then cured thoroughly. Ours is a cure, and a radical one, there is no- suppression about it. In summing up this whole subject of drugs and the various forms of disease that result directly from their introduction into the system,—one naturally asks : ‘ ‘ Why do physicians, who certainly spare neither their health nor their own lives in their efforts at curing, still deal out the deadly drugs, still introduce new and frightful diseases, and still hasten to premature death the majority of mankind ? Why do they not instruct us how to escape disease, rather than allow the disease to plant its deadly germs in our system ? ’ ’ Simply because they fail to apprehend the essence of disease,—its primitive cause. The fact that among the medical pro- fession itself the mortality is exceptionally great, shows plainly their inability to cure or to save even themselves. We acknowledge gladly the great amount of charitable work, the gratuitous labors, night and day that many medical people give to the suffering poor ; and in this, we see proof of a spirit of universal brother- hood, and grounds for hope that the day may not be far distant, when some at least, will yield to the dictates of their better nature, and join us in adopting our rational curative methods ; and thus act in harmony with Nature and not against her. 204 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. III. BLOOD. CHAPTER 15. LOOD plays a most remarkable part in the economy of B our b°dies- h'ood is first transformed into blood, and / then this blood feeds and builds up every part of the /r B system, even the teeth, nails and hair. But if we ■VVlr/Brft B introduce into the system such substances as improper ■ Vui J W food, drink, bad air, and drugs,—substances which are not found in a healthy body,—they first vitiate the blood, then, through it, the entire system. The blood carries the foreign matter to places that possess the least amount of vitality, and deposits it there. But it is also the blood which removes this deposit, and carries it to the depurating orga?is, when the genei'al vitality becomes restored by natural means. Many a man dies of apoplexy, the commencement of which was an obstruction or degeneration of the blood-vessels. The par- ticular parts of the body suffering from obstructions cannot suffer alone. While the blood is congested in them, the other parts of the body have too little. Wholesome air, plenty of light, with nourishing food, and suitable exercise, are essential to the formation of good blood. Suppose we make a strong solution of manganate of potassium, then wash therewith a small spot of our skin, and also dip a steel needle into it. Now, if we prick the painted spot with the needle, after rinsing both with clean water, no ulceration will follow, because that drug, being a germicide, has destroyed the germs on the skin and needle. But in most cases, when we get a splinter into our finger, it will fester, because the germs clinging to the splinter or to the skin are introduced into the flesh. If two people thus injure themselves in a similar manner and to the same extent, the effect may vary considerably. In the one case it may remain an insignificant, local inflammation, disappearing in a few days without requiring any attention ; and in the other, the whole arm may swell and the inflammation may even endanger life. Whence this difference ? It results entirely from the state of purity or impurity characterizing the CH. 15.] BLOOD 205 blood of the respective injured persons. If the blood is contaminated, the germs introduced will feed on these impurities, and multiply, and thereby cause the inflammation and swelling. If the blood is pure, the germs find nothing to live upon, cannot increase in number, and there will be no ulceration. Furthermore, in the young, ulcers will often form without injury, whereas in aged people, whose systems are usually much more charged whh foul matter, acute skin-eruptions rarely develop. The. Human blood-corpuscles. After Donn6. Fig. 6o.—Blood. Food is first converted into blood, and from it all the various parts of the body: the nerves, muscles, teeth, hair, etc., are built up. If our food be normal, the blood receives its proper nutriment ; if the food con- tain substances not required for giving heat or for building up the body, the blood carries them to some quiet nook where they are deposited, and later give rise to different forms of disease. As soon as cure commences by natural methods, the blood is first purified, and then serves as a wash to remove the deposits, thereby curing the special ailment. If you cleanse your blood by any natural method, such as massage, bath- ing, proper diet, sun and air baths, etc., either by application to the entire system, or only by local applications, the blood being the same throughout, any of said methods will purify the entire blood and benefit the system. Drugs are utterly useless for the process of cleansing; they are largely instrumental in causing deposits, abso- lutely no article should be introduced into our system, save such as are found in a normal body. explanation of this different effect we find in the vitality. In the young, vital power is vigorous enough to make a spontaneous effort at cleansing ; in the aged, the vital force is already lowered too far for such a curative process ; the foul matter remains and accumulates, till the whole machine finally stops. (Figs. 60 and 61.) To produce a plant, we need three factors—the seed, the soil, and warmth. To bring about an ulcer, three factors are also required—germs, impure material in the body, and the heat of the body (vitality.) An 206 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. ulcer is a symptom both of disease and of health. It is a sign of disease, because there is impure matter ; it indicates health, because its presence shows that the system has still sufficient vital power to make such a spon- taneous effort at cleansing. In any form of disease, the same three con- ditions play their parts. First, we have the body encumbered with foieign matter ; this is the only real sickness. It is the soil in which microbes develop. Without it, no acute .symptoms can arise. Of all this our druggingfriendsapparently know nothing. Rectangular linear ca- pillaries. From Ber- res Linear capillaries «/ muscular fibre From Berres Loop-like capillaries From Berres Palm-formed capilla- ries From Berres. Fig 6i.—The capillary vessels constitute the connecting link between the arteries and veins. Next, germs are introduced; and thirdly a local inflammation or general fever ensues. This is actual cure. It is a cleansing process. When the body is left to its own resources, or is treated by hygienic means, the patient will be in much better health after the attack, than for many prev- ious years. ' The drug people mistake this healing process for the disease; and not understanding its nature, direct most of their endeavors to sup- press the cleansing process. As they have no other means of effecting this but by using poisonous drugs, they increase the amount of foreign matter, stifle the efforts of the vital power, and themselves lay the founda- tion for countless chronic ailments and premature death. The chronic ailments cannot be cured with drugs because they are the offspring of the drug system. When the condition of a patient becomes unmanageable, he is mangled with saw and knife, or despatched with morphine. This is a most effective way of covering up the consequences of ignorance. Each sickness has three stages, commencing with the dormant, or latent state, it develops into the acute condition, which, if treated by Water, ends in recovery as soon as the body is cleansed. ch. 15.] BLOOD 207 Or, under the drug system, it commences with the dormant or latent state develops into the acute condition, and then ends in—chronic deposits, permanent decrepitude, amputation, or premature death. The impure blood, or the encumbrance of the body, vitiated by a perverse regime, is the only real sickness. Every pain or acute symptom is a sign of nature’s effort at cure. Suppress these by drugs, and you sow the seeds of incurable conditions, lower vital power, and suppress its endeavor at self-purification. Soon it must give over its struggle against the accumulating foul matter; and no more ulcers and signs of fever appear, but blindness, deafness, cancer, paralysis, shaking palsy, insanity, etc., will follow, as direct results of this suppression. These sad conditions are largely attributable to the fathomless ignorance of our drug fraternity. There is but one rational way of preventing any acute conditions, i. e., cleansing the blood beforehand by Natural Means ; and there is but one rational method of cure, also by cleansing the system. Fever ceases the moment the impurities are exhausted, and the body is cleansed. Fever and inflammations are always caused by microbes. This action is the quickest mode of dissolving the latent deposits and leads to their removal. Superficially viewed, the various forms of disease might be divided into two classes ; those that arise from impure blood,—eczema, acne, etc., —and those that follow an improper distribution of the blood,—cold extremities and hot head, fever and ague, etc. But if we investigate the cause of the second class of ailments, we will find that the blood was crowded out from the cold limbs or the skin by impurities, and became congested in the hot head or the inner organs. Thus, we see, the improper distribution of the blood is secondary, resulting from impurities contained in it. This indicates that both conditions will yield to essentially the same treatment, though the former conditions will be cured more readily than the latter. Naturally, the blood goes where it is summoned by the nerves. If the surrounding temperature be cold, it goes to the skin ; if we dress warmly or stay in a warm room, the blood retreats further within. If the blood is impure, it will leave deposits where it is most accumulated. As soon as we adopt a cleansing process by Water Cure, the quality of the blood will be improved first, and it will then begin Jo dissolve the deposits of impure matter. Thus, purified blood constitute our internal bath. 208 HOW HEALTH IS LOST PT. III. DEATH. CHAPTER 16. tOCRATES saidthat there were two doors of Life, both of which were always open. Birth and Death. Why is it that both these doors do not open easily now, that we have learned to dread both the entrance into life of a new soul and the exit from it? Why is it that the door which swings aside to let the new born babe into existence so often closes on the young mother ? Where shall we lay the blame for this perverted order of Nature ? Once again the answer must be “at the feet of the drug practi- tioners who in permitting—yes in prescribing—an unnatural mode of living, and in administering deadly drugs to counteract the results of such perverseness, undermine health, sow the seeds of fatal disease and ultimately cause premature death. Death is painful in two ways; when people die by degrees, as it were, as when the optic nerve dies off, and blindness results, or when a portion of the spinal cord is destroyed, and the legs became palsied, or else when they die before reaching the natural limit of their days. Both these causes are, without exception, the result of our perverse drug system, and can be avoided. No one should die young ; and yet statistics show that out of every 1,000,000 people, only 900 die of old age. Why is it that to-day death from old age occurs almost exclusively among wild animals who never had either drug or drug prescriber, while these alarming figures confront us, who are rich in both ? Formerly a large percentage of the typhoid patients died ; but since the adoption of water treatment for this disease, the mortality has won- derfully decreased. Why will not the drug profession learn a lesson from this one example and follow it up in other diseases ? All writers on longevity agree that 100 years at least should be the aver- age length of man’s life. It is the young of human beings only who have ch. 16.] blood 209 to suffer from and finally succumb to the ignorance and awkwardness of the Poisoning profession. Your child did not die of diphtheria, it was a victim of the doctor’s (!) stupidity and mismanagement. Your young husband did not die of consumption, but because the physician knew nothing Fig. 62.—Empty Bombast, M.D., and his happy clients; specialist for internal diseases, and head of an angel-factory, commonly called a medical dispensary. Medical ignorance is unfathomable; it is only equalled by their superciliousness, best illustrated by the arrogance of those who style themselves “ Doctors,”—“the learned ones.” 210 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT III. about his malady. Your wife did not die from puerperal fever, but suc- cumbed to persistent drug poisoning. So may the whole category of diseases be run through. Bright’s disease, diabetes, all forms of sickness are wholly curable, if drugs are avoided and only nature’s methods fol- lowed. When a person dies while still young, from any cause, the rela- tives usually attribute it to “ God’s incomprehensible Wisdom,” instead of blaming their own and their medical attendant’s incomprehensible ignorance. Death should result with us, as with animals, only from accident or old age; even as loss of health is unnatural, so is premature or painful death. “ By the strict law of Nature, a man should die as unconscious of his death as of his birth. Subjected at birth to what would be in the after conscious state a most awful ordeal, than which the most cruel of deaths could not be more severe, he sleeps through the process, and only upon the subsequent awakening, feels the impressions of the world into which he is delivered. ” “ By the hand of Nature, death were equally a painless portion. The cycle of life completed, the living being sleeps into death when Nature has her way.” “And when mankind has learned the truth, when the time shall come—as it will—that ‘ there shall be no more an infant nor an old man that hath not filled his days,’ this act of death, now, as a rule, so dreaded because so premature, ‘ shall arrive only at its appointed hour, suggest no terror, and inflict no agony. ’ The sharpness of death removed from those who die, the poignancy of grief would be almost equally removed from those who survive. Our sensibilities are governed by the observance of natural law, and the breach of it. It is only when Nature is vehemently interrupted, that we ever wonder or weep.”—“ Euthanasia is the sequel of health ; the happy death engrafted on the perfect life. ’ ’ Death will come as a sleep, divested of all fear, sor- row, and suffering. Its sting will be practically banished when Humanity turning to our great Mother,—Nature,—learns anew her lessons and lives in accordance with her laws. CH. 17 J 211 DIAGNOSIS. CHAPTER 17. tE have already shown that of the true essence of disease,—foreign substances in the tissues of our body,—the drug profession is lamentably ignorant. We have also defined Health; but in giving a closer diagnosis of both Health and Sickness, it is as well to repeat our definition: namely, that Health is that condition of the body in which our only sensation is one of general buoyancy;—when all our organs act and react, in a normal and unconscious manner,—when no change in the temperature, nor vicissitude of weather, can affect us, — when we are proof against contagious disease,—when the body is free and easy in all its actions,—and when our vitality is unimpaired. Now, as the drug schools give no definition for either Health or Sickness, we must naturally and inevitably conclude, that they are imable to distinguish a healthy person from a diseased one. There are, however, certain indications of Health, and conversely of Disease. The color of a healthy skin is clear, indicating the presence of pure blood, and is neither dry nor moist, but elastic and moderately warm in all seasons. The pupil of the eye is jet black, and the iris pure and transparent, allowing us to see the minutest details of its construction, and it responds instantly to the stimulus of light; the tongue is uncoated; the hair is normal in quantity and of its natural color; the waist is slim and there are no lumps on any portion of the body. The weight is proportional to the height. The odors of the effluvia are not unduly repulsive. All the senses are acute, and the voluntary muscles contract readily and energetically when stimulated by the will. The mind is well balanced and of an even temper. The indications of a diseased body are in direct opposition to those of a healthy one,—and we will place the contrast before you. In the 212 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. III. symptoms of Disease, we distinguish three varieties : those that constitute a real ante-diagnosis, indicating latent deposits; then, signs of the acute or feverish condition; and lastly, those that indicate chronic complaints. The Chronic disorders have many symptoms in common with the latent deposits, though their origins are quite different. The physical signs of ill health in contradistinction to those of good health are as follows : (Fig. 63.) Fig. 63. How to feel the pulse. The person should sit quiet for about 10 minutes, before the pulse is taken. It should be readily felt ; its beats should follow at regular intervals, and there should be about 72 to the minute in the adult, but more in younger persons ; even up to 90 in an infant. The color of the skin is unnatural, being unduly flushed, pallid, muddy, or blotched; the temperature is abnormal, being either cold, or, in acute cases, unnaturally hot ; there are frequently eruptions of the most painful varied description caused by impure blood, while a torpid liver and impoverished blood may cause moles, and yellow or brown blotches. Watery bags forming under the eyes, show that too much liquid has been taken, or that the liquid effluvia are not removed fast enough; and the same is true when you press hard on the skin and the impression does not fill up instantly. (Fig. 64.) In ill health the color CH. 17.] DIAGNOSIS 213 of the eye is changed; the pupils are more or less grayish, and the iris cloudy, spotty, or showing gray rings or spots of deposits. (Figs. 65 & 66.) The tongue is more or less' coated ; the hair may be thin, gray, or entirely gone. There are abnormal discharges from the diverse mucous membranes, such as running of the eyes, ears, and nose, and unnat- ural excretions from the sexual organs or the rectum, expectorations from the lungs, etc. The voice is husky ; the waist is often too large. Ab- normal growths, goiters, etc., may form in various places. The senses Fig. 64.—Testing for the Knee-Jerk. Let the patient cross his legs ; the one on top should hang passively. Tap gently below the knee-cap with the rear edge of your hand. The leg should come out with a certain degree of alarcity ; the absence of this reflex action, as well as when it is excessive, indicate disease. This test gives a fair idea of the condition of the spinal cord. are more or less defective in action ; the pupil of the eye does not re- spond quickly to the impulse of light, and in some cases it is either abnormally large or small. The nails may be brittle and ribbed; the muscles are not responsive, showing lack of energy and endurance ; or, in exceptional cases, they act with unwonted violence. There may be involuntary twitchings, and the skin on any organ may be either numb or super-sensitive. The mind may be full of unwholesome ideas, on which it morbidly dwells. In sleep, the patient may suffer from frightful dreams, or insomnia may set in, leading to hallucinations or actual insanity. [pT. III. 214 HOW HEALTH IS LOST These are the general symptoms that show the presence of Disease. In special cases such as Consumption, Asthma, Rheumatism, etc., there are special symptoms that surely indicate the loss of health. Cases of lung disease are discernible by pale, anaemic skin, and cold extremities; un- natural discharges indicate that the body is overcharged with foreign substances ; and attacks of Asthma and Rheumatism are indicative of the Fig. 65. P'lG. 66. Fig. 65.— The Normal Eye. The “iris” or colored part of the human eye, viewed from the outside. The round black spot in the centre is the pupil—an opening in the iris. The above illustration represents the author’s own iris ; being more normal than any he has met with. It must be remembered that he rigidly abstains from meat, alcohol, tobacco and narcotics, and uses a good deal of his own medicine— air, exercise and water. a, —outer margin, should be darkest. b, —inner “ “ lightest. c & d,—rings, each with characteristic rays. Fig. 66. —An Abnormal Iris. e,—irregular, light-gray, cloudy spots, midway between the outer and inner margin, signify great nervousness. /,—the inner margin, surrounded by dark-brown rays, indicates tor- pidity of the liver and costiveness. f,—a light-gray, outer margin means a general low vital power. ,—dark, irregular spots point at severe drug poisoning. same thing. The existence of an abnormal appetite or excessive thirst, the craving for unnatural food or drink is always a positive sign of a deranged system; if this longing be gratified the depurating organs will commence to act abnormally and their secretions will contain unnatural substances, such as sugar, albumen, gravel, etc., and the odor be highly offensive. The cause of all these signs of disorder as we have said again and again is simply the presence of foreign matter in the system. The symp- toms may be numerous, but the cause is one. CH. 17.] DIAGNOSIS 215 The main indications that deposits have formed are altered forms of the body. On looking at a perfectly healthy person one cannot discover upon which side he is in the habit of sleeping; but a person in whose body there are foreign deposits, will show this by a peculiar enlargement of the side on which he habitually rests, as foreign matter follows the law of gravity. Any deviation in the outline of the body from that of the high- est types of beauty shows just so much departure from the standard of health. This may still (Fig. 67.) be latent, no acute symptoms may Fig. 67. Lines of Demarcation, x, nape-line ; y, jaw-line ; z, the thigh- line, is located in front, between the abdomen and the thigh ; x, the nape-line, sets off the back of the head from the back of the neck ; and y, the jaw-line, outlines the jaw. The more beautiful and the healthier a person is, the sharper are these outlines. The back of the head should project from one to two inches beyond the neck. have developed, and yet to the intelligent observer these variations from the normal outline mean either inherited or acquired predisposition to acute malady. The deposits causing these deviations in outline are the true disease. Velvet-like cushions on the cheek-bones and forehead, as well as the obliteration of these peculiar lines of physical demarcation, the jaw-, nape-, and thigh-line, are symptomatic of the three kinds of en- cumbrance, namely, of the side, back, and front. 216 HOW HEAI/TH IS LOST [pt. in. The drug people pride themselves greatly upon the perfection of their diagnosis. When a physician is summoned and he takes out his queer looking instruments of auscultation, etc., the patient and relatives are impressed with awe. The drug practitioner knowing this, feels himself a superior being. (Fig. 68.) The patient may think, “now verily, this Fig. 68. Instruments for Medical Diagnosis. They are not reliable; it has happened that a healthy person went to half a dozen dispensa- ries, complaining of all sorts of imaginary ailments, which were all corroborated by the respective physicians. Such imposition could not be practiced on a person versed in our Facial Diagnosis. Be- sides, medical diagnosis only recognizes present conditions ; but not future ones; hence it cannot forewarn people. But this is the pre- eminent task of our Facial Diagnosis. However, when the M. D.’s. take out these implements and belabor the chest of a patient, the rel- atives are deeply impressed ; in reality, however, the whole exami- nation amounts to little more than a farce in its practical value. man knows all about m3' case. ’ ’ He may even imagine himself to be al- ready out of danger ; but in reality, as far as “ cure” is concerned, the ch. 17] DIAGNOSIS 217 whole spectacle amounts to little more than a ludicrous display. In the first place, how very unreliable this diagnosis is, you will find explained in L. Kuhne’s* Facial Diagnosis. And then, of what value is his diagnosis at best, if he can never cure you ; if all his endeavors have but one ten- dency ; viz.: to make you worse by his drugs? Is he able to point out beforehand those who are to become the victims of certain attacks of dis- ease, when the opportunity is afforded ? He cannot. Furthermore, it is generally believed that Life Insurance Companies try to secure the ser- vice of such physicians as have the best reputation for making a correct diagnosis. But by means of Kuhne’s Facial Diagnosis we have been able to ascertain that the grossest blunders are continually committed by these physicians. They cannot distinguish between the healthy and the sick. Let us relate one incident as illustrative of this fact. S. Kneipp, in his various books on Water Cure, highly recommends walking barefooted in dewy grass, as a means of invigoration. Thousands have practiced this mode of exercise for years in many places in Europe. A patient of ours who had first been mismanaged for years by the drug school, practiced this method abroad with marked relief. On her return she wanted to continue this practice in one of our public parks. She was not told to quit it, but she was dragged before the medical authorities of the City of New York, who pronounced her insane, and confined her in a lunatic asylum, from where she was only dismissed after seven weeks, and after making the most strenuous efforts for release. In hearing of such a thing one feels himself removed again to the dark ages. It shows, what any one of us may expect some day from the circumstance that such ignorant people are put in authority. As man is born without shoes, to walk barefooted should be most natural for all of us, and he himself must in- deed be insane who can declare any one as out of his mind for this most natural action. As mind is judged by mind, we hold that either the pa- tient was insane, or the person who consigned her to the asylum. In studying the records of history, we find that ruling ignorance has always persecuted the champions of new ideas, no matter how correct or how beneficial to mankind they were afterward proved to be. Think of Gallileo and Keppler. People claim to be sick when they experience pain, or feel otherwise out of sorts, or if some organ or limb cannot be used as usual. This idea * Louis Kuhne’s Facial Diagnosis, published by A. F. Reinhold, 60 Lex. Ave., N. Y. City. Price $2.00 218 HOW HEAL,TH IS LOST [pt. III. of sickness is shared by the medical people, and is fundamentally wrong. If you ask people what is the cause of their trouble, they usually attribute it to a cold, infection or what not. The drug schools distinguish two kinds of disease, acute and chronic ; the acute appearing suddenly, are accompanied with fever and pain, and disappear in a few days, weeks, or months at the utmost. The origin of the chronic ailments, that endure Fig. 68. Front Encumbrance is here indicated by the lumps on the neck. Encumbrance is caused by chronic deposits of corrupt matter. The ‘ acute ’ diseases originate when these deposits are thrown into a state of fermentation; this action is accompanied by fever. Fever is Nature’s endeavor to get rid of the impurities. Drug poisoners, not understanding the beneficial significance of fever, suppress it, and thus force the foul matter back into the system. By their drugs they also increase the amount of impurities, and thus the very people who should protect the public from harm, produce blindness, deafness, paralysis, etc., in consequence of their igno- rance. for years, is a total mystery to the medical folks. With most chronic ail- ments there is seemingly little or no fever, little or no pain, and in some patients, sensation is quite gone. This classification is totally wrong. (Fig. 69.) The latent, dormant deposits, of which neither the public at large nor the drug profession know anything, form the only sickness. Pain and CH. 27] DIAGNOSIS 219 fever are as much signs of cure as of disease ; the body is making an effort to free itself from the encumbrance. The chronic conditions follow Fig. 70. Encumbrance of the right side, demonstrated by the obliteration of the jaw-line. This results from the presence of matter foreign to our system, and is taken either as improper food, etc., or retained as effete substances. This material follows the laws of gravity. If a per- son e. g., is in the habit of sleeping on the right side, the abnormal material will lead to an enlargement of that side. Then we say, the right side is encumbered. These substances may settle in any place, according to existing circumstances; in this way the many hundreds of different ailments are produced, for which the drug doctors have countless names but not one remedy. They cannot cure any of the chronic ailments, or else we would not have them; and they cannot cure the acute ones, or these would not be allowed to run into the chronic state. Thus it is obvious, that the drug schools cannot cure any ailment whatever. Nay, worse than this; not knowing what sickness is, they mistake the fever or acute condition for the disease and stifle it. But any acute condition is a curative process of nature and should be encouraged not stifled. By their stupid suppression they themselves cause all the chronic ailments. We recognize but one sickness—Impurities—and by cleansing the body, we get rid of it and thus cure any ailment, no matter by what special name the drug profession calls it. only when this endeavor of the body is frustrated, which is usually achieved by the quacks by means of their drugs. 220 HOW HEALTH is LOST [pt. in. When all functions of the body are rightly performed, we are not conscious of them ; hence, any unpleasant sensation or pain, is a sign of disorder. Just as the presence of a splinter in the finger, or a grain of sand in the eye, causes irritation a?id suffering, the presence of any matter not needed for growth or strength in any part of the body, will eventually cause fever and pain. Pain in the intestines is often caused by the retension of flatulence, of urine or faeces,* too much food causes the pain of surfeit; too little food Roman Emperor Viteluus. Fig. 71. Back Encumbrance. The back of the head and the back of the neck form almost a straight line. Any encumbrance can be pre- vented or removed by our methods, and thereby all acute and chronic forms of disease can be entirely avoided. is felt as hunger. Both excessive and insufficient light cause pain in the eye. Headache may follow from improper blood as well as from a con- gestion. The smarting of the eyes or nostrils under the influence of smoke is due to the presence of the minute particles in the air which irritate * Suppressed perspiration causes rheumatic pains. CH. 17] DIAGNOSIS 221 them. Pain is mostly due to inflammation—i. e., congestion of the blood. And just as no lotion can permanently ease the eye until the grain of sand is removed, so no ‘ remedy ’ can avail in sickness until after the removal of the offending matter. Pain, therefore, may be considered as a danger signal— by which the nerves give notice to the central station (the brain, or spinal cord or ganglionic system) that repair is needed. Fig. 72. Universal Encumbrance. If a person is stout or obese, this is not a sign of health and strength, but of weakness and disease. For his sustenance, man needs hydrocarbons (fat, sugar, starch,) to give him his animal heat, and albumen to build up his system. If he partakes of the former in excess, not all can be utilized, and the sur- plus is stored away, producing obesity. Our diet will cure this trouble effectively. The drug schools vainly endeavor to attain this end by poisoning people beyond repair. The microbes of contagion only attack such deposits. A person free of them, is immune to the dangers of infection. Emperor Nero. Pain is nothing to be feared but should be welcomed as a kindly signal -—dangerous only when its warnings are neglected. Under our system of Natural Cure when a limb has been more or less palsied, pain may appear, or be aggravated for a time. This would mean that blood, and with it, 222 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. life, has once more returned to the dead limbs; and while the blood is at work dissolving the deposits, we feel this fermentation as pain. The drug fraternity know as little of the significance of pain as they do of the nature of disease. They concentrate all their efforts upon the suppression of pain and fever. Their pain-killing lotions only deaden or kill the aching nerves, but they do not remove the foreign matter, the cause of the irrita- tion. Fig. 73. A Cancerous Breast; x, the nipple; y, the cancer knot; z, abnormal, yellow, brown papillae ; s, peculiar, lightning-like, white, depressed marks, existing years before the development of cancer. By their means, this cancer might have been ante-diagnosed and prevented. Similar marks have been observed by the author over regions of atrophied muscles, and in other cases of a very low state of vitality. Hence, the suppression of pain by painkillers is not only useless but highly injurious. The pain ought to continue as long as there is any disorder. Cure consists in removing the cause of disorder. Pain is always curable by our mode. As long as there is pain while a patient is under our treatment, there is progress ; although there may be progress without pain, and it must be our endeavor to conduct the cura- tive process painlessly. CH. 17] DIAGNOSIS 223 Among medical practitioners, there is no cleansing process, no assist- ing low vital power. Their efforts are equivalent to killing off our nerves by degrees. But as all life depends on the integrity of our nerves, of which Fig. 74.—In Pain. The sensation of pain arises when foreign matter comes in contact with the nerves, i. e., when a grain of pepper or salt gets into a decayed tooth. Similarly, all pain is caused by abnormal substances ; it is severest in the parts congested with blood. Pain itself is no sickness; it is only a danger-signal, indicating that some foreign matter has found its way into the body. The only rational mode of relieving pain is by cleansing out the system. A splinter in the finger hurts. Rubbing a liniment into the finger, will not remove the foreign body, but may stifle the pain by killing the nerves ; then, indeed, they can no longer announce the presence of the splinter. However, as we have not one nerve-fibre too many, all having to fill their allotted office, killing a nerve here and a nerve there, as is done by the various drug schools by means of their pernicious ansesthetics, kills our vitality by degrees and lays the foundation of the most direful forms of disease. And yet, it is in these very pain-killing drugs, from which the greatest harm daily arises, that the drug fraternity take so much pride. we have not one too many, first partial death of some limb or organ and then total death of the body results. The killing of the optic nerve results 224 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pT. III. in blindness ; it is mostly the result of perverse medical treatment, of their mania of suppressing pain by anaesthetics. Such is the case with deaf- ness, palsy, paralysis, and all the other chronic ailments. They, one and all, arise from medical pain-killing, too often desired by the patient, who in craven fear prefers to ruin the body rather than suffer temporary pain, because he is kept in ignorance of the evil after-effects of drugs. Our own Ante-Diagnosis shows 1he difference between the normal and the abnormal form of the body. If there are any deviations, we are thereby forwarned, and can take measures to reestablish the normal state, before any acute outbreak can endanger life; that way, pain, too, can be avoided entirely. The Diagnosis of the drug profession shows the system in its struggle already ; they do not recognize the abnormal condition until a crisis is produced, or, if chronic, when the harm done is already an irrevocable fact. It does not caution us, it does not prevent the acute outbreak, and hence is absolutely useless ; and the subsequent drug treatment is com- parable to the incoherent and inconsistent play of a child, often most mis- chievous and disastrous in its consequences. In concluding this subject of Diagnosis would it not be well to have some means of diagnosing the physician whom you intend to trust with your health ? Our drug poisoners, being totally ignorant of the laws of health, and, as their greater mortality shows, living even more perversely than the average people, it will be evident that their state of health must be far from normal. But you will agree with us that no one should employ a physician who is not in perfect health himself, because if he cannot keep himself well, what can he do for you? Now, in order to enable you to determine the state of health enjoyed by your would-be healer we will throw out a few hints showing how to test him. If your physician is obese, i. e., if his abdomen has a larger circum- ference than his chest ; if he has an underchin ; if his nape and jaw-lines are obliterated, he is sick. If his skin looks bloated; or if his iris is dull and devoid of lustre, or he is bald headed, his body is encumbered. If you notice any warts or wans, or he is short of breath, his general health is run down. If his walk is slow and unsteady, or if you hear him complain of any trouble, such as rheumatism, gout, nervousness, etc., hear him say that he takes drugs himself, he is unfit to give you salutary counsel. If he partakes of meat and soups, and expresses fondness for spices or sweets, his health is impaired. If he is addicted to alcoholic drinks, or uses tobacco and narcotics, you will do well to reject his advice. Rein hold, Nature vs. Drug.?—vii. ch. 17] DIAGNOSIS 225 A physician who prescribes alcohol, is ignorant of its injurious after- effect ; a physician who prescribes poisons under the name of medicines, is ignorant of the first principles of physiology,—that any substance not found in healthy human cells, is poison to them. Any physician, who gives dietetic or other directions, contrary to our teachings, merely follow- ing old routine practice, is devoid of original thought, and has never looked into the workings of nature. The patientsor their friends will find it disastrous to employ him. Representatives of natural methods, if they deserve this appellation, refuse to use tobacco, or to take coffee, tea, alco- hol, spices, or condiments. Drug prescribers use most or perhaps all of these articles, and thereby prove that they themselves are to be classed among the sick, among those who have to suffer the penalties of deviation from nature. houis Kuhne recognizes two phases of disorder,—the predisposition or susceptibility to colds and contagious forms of disease, or the latent and chronic condition, on the one hand; and the acute outbreak of dis- ease, on the other. The writer would rather distinguish three classes,— the inherited or acquired disposition to disease ; the acute stage of recovery; and the chronic state of sickness. The first is the result of wrong habits of life. What is taken into the system is partially absorbed and assimilated, and the remainder dis- carded. If the substances used cannot be assimilated and resolved into nourishment, then the body is encumbered with a mass of waste and effete matter. This increases as time goes on, and, though for some time it may not make itself evident by pain or any serious inconvenience, it is, nevertheless, slowly and surely pervading the whole body. Rack of muscular exercise, monotony of work, worry and excesses, etc., all tend to weaken the depurating organs; and over-warm food and clothing, as well as hot and ill-ventilated rooms, aid in the fatal process. These de- posits are the real disease, as they invite and accelerate other deposits, and form food for the growth and increase of microbes. These minute organisms are everywhere present, but they multiply abnormally when undue heat and fever is produced in the body by the action of the bacilli on the foreign deposits. Thus encumbered, bodies are predisposed to contagion of all sorts. By a change of temperature, or some unusual excitement, or exercise, an unusual supply of blood is forced into some particular spot, the temperature is suddenly raised, and the inherent dis- order becomes apparent. This gives rise to the second phase, namely, an acute stage or form of disease—or rather cure. By the process of fermentation, induced by this 226 HOW HEALTH IS LOST LIJT. III. excess of heat and increase of microbic activity, the deposits of foreign matter are redissolved and rendered soluble. They can then be taken up by the blood, and eliminated from the body. We see from this, that “ fever” is really a curative process, and would never be fatal if not made the occasion of further poisoning by drugs. It is really Nature’s own provision for rid- ding the system of obnoxious materials, and proves that the body still possesses quite a fair degree of vitality. All we need to do is to let Nature have her way, and refrain from introducing any more poisons into the system. Because this fever is accompanied by pain and inconvenience, both the drug physicians and their patients, in their shortsightedness, call it sickness. In reality, it is a sign of Nature’s effort to restore health. These acute attacks must be understood and controlled, but never suppressed; and Nature should be assisted in her purging and cleansing processes by more speedy and radical methods than the already overtaxed body is capable of supplying. This is preeminently accomplished by such methods as Water Cure. If, however, these salutary crises are treated by drugs, not only are the microbes killed and the fever and pain sup- passed, but the whole tissue of the body is killed as well, for this is composed entirely of minute organisms, and the vitality is at once stifled and wasted. This state of affairs is manifested at last in the third condi- tion, known as Chronic ailments. Most of these, such as blindness, deafness, can- cer, paralysis, diabetes, etc., are simply the result that must follow the suppression of the ‘ ‘ acute state ’ ’ by drugs. The so-called ‘ ‘ incurable diseases ’ ’ of the drug doctors’ experience, are all of their own crea- tion. In suppressing fever and pain, rather than removing their cause, physicians are steadily reducing their patient’s vitality, by killing each sign of returning life as promptly as it appears. The nerve centers at last cease to respond, and blindness, deafness, palsy, etc., develop in consequence. Then the physician takes his leave, and well he may. Thu i it becomes clear that the real sickness is the original encumbrance of the body. The acute conditions that are called disease are the evidence of this, but at the same time furnish proof that sufficient vitality exists to throw it off. A knowledge of Facial Diagnosis renders even these signs needle ;s as it enables the patient to discern the approach of an ailment. A real cure can be effected only by the re7noval of the cause of disorder, and by cleans- ing the whole body of corrupt matter. But even this is not proof against a second surcharge of the body with impurities. Permanent health is only reached by a thorough cleansing of the body, and faithful continu- CH. 17] DIAGNOSIS 227 ance in a rational, natural, mode of living. The reason our methods of cure are so successful is simply because they are natural, and often a dis- ease that has grown worse for years under the drug treatment will yield to these measures in a few days. Perfect Beauty and perfect Health go hand in hand. Now, as the Greek statues, such as the Venus de Medici, or Apollo de Belvedere, are universally acknowledged standards of beauty, we may also take them as our standards of health. Therefore, in order to enable our readers to find out for themselves their relative positions regarding both health and beauty, we submit a table of measurements with which they can compare their own. * We must bear in mind that short, thick-set people have somewhat different ratios from the tall; and those of the young differ materially from those of adults. Measurements should be taken before meals. (Fig. 76.) * How these tables were obtained. It was by the inestimable courtesy of the trustees of the Academy of Designs, as well as by that of Mr. L. B. di Cesuola, Di- rector of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that the author was permitted to measure the casts and statues on exhibition. In order to enable a person to compare his own measures with those of the ancient statues, it was necessary that both, the person as well as the statue, should assume the same upright, military position, with legs straight and both arms down the sides. It is easy enough to make a person assume this pose, but as to the statues, occupying as they do various attitudes, we had no choice but to try to obtain the required measures by calculation. For this purpose we proceeded in the following manner: For our purpose, we had to reject all draped figures. Then, as to height, we had to use our judgment to a certain extent, as the hair of a living person will yield to pressure, but that in a statue will not. Of female statues, we measured : three different statues of Venus, one Running Nymph, a White Captive, one California, one Evening, three Aphrodites and two Graces; of male figures : The Apollo de Belve- dere, Antinous, Doryphorus, Diadomenos, another Apollo, and Herakles. Thereupon we took six female, and four male models, and made them assume first the upright, and then the various positions of the diverse statues. Then we divided each girth by the respective height, thus ascertaining the ratio between the circumference and height. Furthermore we calculated the average of the ratios of all the models when standing erect, and also the average of the ratios of all the models when they had adopted the position of one and the same statue. Finally, assuming that the propor- tions of the upright positions of the models (u) to their positions when imitating the statue (r), was in the same proportion as the looked-for upright position of the statues (5) to that of the statues (t) as actually measured, u : r = s : t, or = j !L?J- r . we obtained numbers slightly differing for the various statues. The numbers given in the schedule are again the average of all the statues. 228 IIOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT. III. The male models used, were of an athletic type, and in our opinion, unusually well built and yet the development of their arms was inferior to that of the ancient female statues. The ancients had a thicker neck ; chest and arms possessed a greater circumference, the abdomen above the navel was larger, and the girth below the navel was less. As to the normal weight of a person of good proportions, we are unable to give any correct data ; but approximately we may say, if a per- son 5 feet 2 inches in height weighs 127 pounds, the weight of taller people should increase by 5 pounds for every additional inch. Fig. 75.—Perfect Shape means Perfect Health, When walking along any of our great thoroughfares and observing misery, ugliness and disease reflected on almost every face, we wonder what the ancient Greeks would say of the advantages of modern civiliza- tion, if they could watch us, and whether they would have been willing to exchange places with us. Our sense of beauty is considerably degenerated, as most people admire a certain excess of fulness, which from our hygienic point of view indicates an abnormal state of health. CH. 17,] DIAGNOSIS 229 Numbers Corresponding to the Girths of Fig. 75. Ratio of Statues, Found by Dividing Girth by Height. Ratio of the Models Found by Dividing Girth, when Up- right, by the Height. The Author’s Own Measure- ment. Column x * Female Statues. Male Statues.. Female Models. Male Models. Circumference of Head .362 •332 From One Ear Opening Across Top of Head to Other Ear Opening .218 .206' 1. Neck .210 .228 .197 .220 .228 .205 2. Chest Under the Arms ■53 — •499 — — 3. Chest Around Mammae ■556 ■639 .506 •546 .548 4. Chest Below Mammae .486 .601 •442 •513 — 5. Abdomen, 2 inch Above Navel. •445 — •429 — 6. Abdomen, Around Navel •507 •45 •509 .481 **•35 .426 7. Abdomen, Below Navel • 553 .526 .568 •517 • 507 8. Hips (Around Buttock) •59 — •591 — 14. Right Upper Arm • 173 .191 .156 •173 •175 • 151 15. Left Lower Arm .166 • 173 .141 • 15.6 • 153 .150 13. Right Calf .223 • 235 .220 .210 .212 .202 Left Calf .224 .228 •223 .208 .210 .201 9. Middle of Right Thigh .322 — •3i7 — CO cs CO .302 Middle of Left Thigh .312 .322 •311 .285 .310 •3 Chest Expanded . . . .582 •536 Chest Contracted .515 •495 * Column x was calculated by us from several thousand measurements of col- lege students and people who practiced gymnastics, compiled by Prof. Holmes W. Merton, author of “ Descriptive Mentality.” According to these measures, the average weight of a person expressed in pounds, was equal to his height in inches multiplied b> 2 1-25. ** The author, living strictly in accordance with his own hygienic principles out- lined in this volume, viz\, rejecting meat, soups, spices, alcohol, etc., in spite of his sedentary habits, approaches the Greek ideal nearer than any person that has ever come under his observation. His small waist is specially noticeable, and as the Greeks were meat eaters, devotees of the cup and admirers of the opposite sex, he doubts whether the Greeks transmitted to us in their statues the highest standard of beauty, as it would be accepted by a race that had lived for some generations strictly after our hygienic regime. 230 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. Fig. 76. ' d/rtu*S t/u y\/tcan— CH. 17.] DIAGNO IS 231 -> cu/ c/u Fig. 77. 232 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. If both sides of our body were exercised evenly, they would be sym- metrical. The less used must be the less developed. In sickness, it is often the reverse, the side not exercised being the stouter. Our diagnosis not only reveals the past and present, but also the future, and keeps constant track of the progress which the patient is mak- ing under natural treatment. Young and healthy people have remarkably long necks ; the length being almost in proportion to the health ; and the comparative shortness indicating the person’s encumbered condition or sickness. There is hardly any difference in the proportions of two wild horses, of the respective ages of 5 and 15 years ; but when you compare a girl of 17 with her mother of 40, what immense difference in weight, shape and proportion. This difference mainly consists in deposits of foreign matter in the mother ; these deposits can be removed by our treatment, and thus the awkward and clumsy, unwieldy form of the parent can be brought back to its virgin, normal proportions of grace and beauty. (Fig. 78.) A diagnosis which requires specialists for each and every form of disease is absurd on the face of it. The human body is a unit and must be treated as such,—not as if each separate organ was independent and could be diseased or healthy exclusively. ‘ ‘ A pimple on the nose, for instance, does not indicate any particular nasal disorder, or necessitate the attention of a specialist. The blood in the nose, and that throughout the rest of the body, is identical. Purify this, and the pimple, or trouble of whatever sort, disappears. External affections of this kind are nature’s hints that we are transgressing her laws. They should not be suppressed by any special treatment, but ren- dered unnecessary by intelligent conformity to the laws of health. The chief danger arising from separate, special treatment, lies just here. What is repressed at one point, must appear somewhere else, later on, and, necessarily, with greater intensity. It is only by considering the body as a whole, and removing the cause of this friction, that any real cure can ever be accomplished. Mercury, quiniile, morphia, antipyrine, arsenic, iodine, bromide, all are powerful means of effecting this local repulsion, but they are really, at the same time, the deadliest of poisons. A ‘ cure ’ effected by their use, means simply a fatal step on the road to continued ill-health, and away from all possible recovery.” (Facial Diagnosis.) (Fig. 79 and 80.) CH. 17.] DIAGNOSIS 233 Fig. 78.—Aphrodite. 234 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [PT III Fig. 79. —Rev. Seb. Kneipp. Kneipp drank beer, ate meat, soups and spices, and smoked ; he lived about as abnormally as other people, and as his absent neck, loss of jaw-line, heavy under- chin, etc., prove,—was no more normal than the average person. Kneipp gave as his opinion that vegetable diet produced a high abdomen. From whence he got this idea, we do not know. On an average we find that butchers and saloon-keepers have the greatest abdominal circumference, and farmers the smallest. The author living in accord with the principles herein embodied, and frequently on raw vegetables, has the smallest abdomen that ever came under his notice. If he ventures to introduce his photogragh it is not in order to pose as an athlete, for he looks upon athleticism as a waste of vital force, holding that we should exercise our muscles only sufficiently to facilitate the necessary amount of tissue-change requisite to health; not as an abso- solutely normal person, for he has lived perversely the greater part of his life and is com- pelled to assume habits, that allow little time for muscular exercise ; but he pre- sents it as that of the one person coming nearest to the normal standard in its func- tions and reactions. He also presents it to disprove the idea that it is only meat that CH. 17.] DIAGNOSIS 235 gives strength. He calls the reader’s special attention to the low abdomen, with its- various lines of demarkation, the chest, arms, long neck, distinct nape - and jaw-lines, and the appearance of the iris of his eyes. (See Fig. 65.) His aim has been to at- tain the highest possible state of health ; and the picture was produced to demonstrate to what degree he has succeeded within a few years. He also submits his picture for the benefit of his drugging friends, doubting whether they could produce from their ranks throughout the broad expanse of the United States a second person of his age, 47, equally normal. Imperfect as his proportions still are, he ventures to claim that the following points have been sufficiently demonstrated. The Greeks as represented in their statues, had too high an abdomen. Raw vegetables are quite competent to give any amount of strength, as exemplified in the gorilla ; and as to health, vegetables form our ideal food. Fig. 80. — The Author. 236 HOW HEALTH IS LOST L?t. in. SUMMARY. SIGNS OF HEARTH OF BODY AND MIND. A Good Appetite for man’s normal food, in its natural condition, without condiments. Satisfaction should be reached ,before satiation, and should be followed by no unpleasant feeling of fulness or tightness. Digestion should proceed quietly and unconsciously. When Thirsty, there should be desire for fruit, or water only; stimulants and narcotics should be loathed. Teeth, Perfect. The Urine should be clear, and of a golden yellow color. It should have neither a sweet, sour, nor pungent odor, should not be cloudy, or contain blood, or form deposits on standing, nor should it coagulate when boiled. Its voiding should proceed easily, and without pain. The F.ECES should be of a yellowish brown color, solid, and cylin- drical. They should leave the rectum without soiling it. There should be as many movements as meals are taken. Healthy Perspiration has no disagreeable odor. The Skin should be warm, smooth, elastic, firm and somewhat moist, tanned by the sun, and slightly reddened over the whole body in conse- quence of a perfect blood circulation in the capillaries of the skin. It should be easy to raise from the forehead, cheek-bones, and nape-line. No fatty cushion should settle between the skin and bones in these places. Pressing the tip of the finger on any part of the skin, the depression thus made should disappear immediately on removing the finger, and there should be no wrinkles in the skin. Nails should be pliable. The Complexion should be neither pale nor flushed. It should be free from pimples, warts, or ulcers, and nowhere show tension, shine, or unnatural discolorations. The Hair should be full, and of its natural color. The Eyes should be clear and bright. All Senses should act in a normal way. Respiration should be free from any noise or difficulty. The breath ■should be habitually inhaled through the nose. CH. 17.] DIAGNOSIS 237 Sleep should be restful, quiet, and uninterrupted. The Neck should be free from swellings, or lumps, and its muscles should be mobile. It is rather long in healthy people of any age. The Abdomen should be soft and low. No young or healthy animal has a high abdomen. The Head should be symmetrical in shape, and on the centre line of the body. Both Sides of the body should be equally proportioned. Both Shoulders should fall in the horizontal line. All Parts of the Body should be of proper size, proportion, and vitality. The Three Lines of Demarcation, which are the jaw-line, nape- line, and thigh-line, should be clearly defined. The Carriage of a healthy person, should be erect, and his move- ments should indicate perfect control over his muscles. Change in the Temperature or humidity of the atmosphere should cause no discomfort whatever. Sexual desire should only appear, and be satisfied in accordance with the provisions of nature. The Mind should be well balanced in all its faculties, and the dispo- sition, cheerful, hopeful, and benevolent. The healthy body finds pleasure in the peiformance of every function, in seeing, eating, even in satisfac- tory evacuations. The Sound Body performs all functions without pain, difficulty, or the need of artificial stimulants. Neither young nor old should at any time be conscious of any particular organ. There should be no fluid secretion from the skin, no expectorations, nor discharges from the nose, eyes, ears, genital organs, nor from any other place. Sweating in sum- mer, however, cannot be considered an indication of anything abnormal. All Sensations, whether physical or mental, should be normal, not dull, nor yet supersensitive. A palsied condition of either mind or body, is abnormal ; neither should one’s equanimity be destroyed by a trifling vexation or a pink prick. SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE Appetite is diseased when a loathing of man’s natural food and drink is present. Teeth, brittle, defective, painful, ulcerating. When the ejections from the bowels look white, black, or gray ; when they are in the form of hard balls, or liquid matter, or contain blood, or worms, or have a very offensive odor, it is an indication of disease. 238 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. The Skin indicates disorder, when it is soft like velvet, and cushion- like beneath, or when it is of a sallow complexion, cold lifeless, numb, pimpled, warty, or too hot and too red, or too flabby or puffed up. It should not be dry and cracking, as is often seen on the hands, finger tips and lips. Profuse perspiration, specially in cold weather, and at night, is abnormal. A skin which does not perspire under exertion, or in hot weather, is likewise abnormal. Brittle Nails indicate disease. Gray Hair generally indicates exhausted vitality. Loss of hair shows that the scalp is encumbered. All acute disease is preceded, perhaps for years, by continued de- posits of foreign matter. These sometimes appear as painless swellings, or lumps. If distributed, however, evenly over the body, they give a person the appearance of being robust. These deposits, of course, greatly alter the shape of the body. The color of the skin, too, changes to an ashen or yellow hue. The appetite becomes morbid; craving for spices, stimulants, etc., leads to lower tastes and sexual excesses. The Pupir of the Eye should be jet black ; grayness indicates cataract. The iris should be of a uniform color, gradually growing darker from the inner towards the outer margin, and lighter rays converge towards the pupil. Brown rays near the inner margin, next to the pupil, usually indicate an affection of the liver, and dark irregular spots show quite heavy encumbrance of this organ. Irregular gray cloudy spots in the iris are symptomatic of nervous affections. A gray ring about the outer margin, (the so-called Arcus Senilis) is a sign of low vitality; and a uniform dull appearance of the iris, proves universal encumbrance. The pupil of the eye must readily contract under the stimulus of light, and as readily widen in darkness. A deficiency in this respect shows great encumbrance, cr loss of vital power. The Mind is affected and also the brain, when a person is peevish, cross, of changeable moods, dull, forgetful, dissatisfied, unreasonable, unjust, illogical, improvident, etc. Foreign Matter follows the Law of Gravity. Persons who sleep habitually on one side, find that side most liable to be encumbered. In Front Encumbrance, the neck swells at the front.* The lips, nose, chin, and perhaps the whole face, is enlarged and clumsy. The jaw-line disappears, and, possibly, a goitre may form. Front encum- brance leads also to such acute forms of disease as measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneumonia, etc. Other ailments follow, such as loss of teeth, * In speaking of swellings of the neck, chronic conditions are referred to. CH. 17.] DIAGNOSIS 239 (the lower ones first,) loss of liair, (beginning at the front,) nervousness, affections of the eyes, etc. This kind of encumbrance never leads to mental disorders, and is comparatively easy of cure. Side Encumbrance is of a more serious nature than the frontal. All parts of the affected side may be enlarged, and loss of teeth may follow. Cords will probably appear in the neck, and there will be a ten- sion of the muscles when the head is turned. In Right Sided encumbrance, the liver is affected, giving the com- plexion a yellow tinge, and its torpidity is also proved by costiveness. In Left Sided encumbrance, the action of the skin is not normal. The left kidney, the spleen, and the heart may be affected. It is more dangerous than right-sided encumbrance. Back Encumbrance is the most dangerous of all. It causes affections of the spine, and symptoms of paralysis. The back of the neck becomes thick, and the nape-line is entirely obliterated. Loss of hair follows, beginning at the back. It is connected with nervousness, inattention, loss of memory, want of energy, and perhaps symptoms of insanity. Here again we see the importance of Facial Diagnosis.* It enables us to discover the approach of insanity, and, consequently, to escape it. With children, high fevers accompany back encumbrance as well as undue precocity. Adults often have a bloated appearance, giving the ignorant, the impression of robust health. Premature sexual desires, leading to secret vices, are a consequence of this kind of encum- brance. This causes early impotence, incapacity for procreation, or feeble offspring. A woman with this affection, will be liable to miscarriages, or total barrenness, and, in any case, will be unable to nurse her children. The kidneys, too, become disordered. This is indicated by soft, watery bags beneath the lower eyelid, as well as by the character of the urine. Persons suffering with back encumbrance become morbid and hopeless, often lacking energy even to continue the eliminating baths necessary for cure. They also appear at a disadvantage in dealing with others, and are apt to be “ worsted ” in a test of skill or mental ability. This affection is more common wfith what are termed the 1 ‘ better classes. ’ ’ Thus we see a constant balancing of accounts between the social strata. The poorer, by reason of their greater vitality, gradually rise above the average level of intellect. The richer, because of their neglect of the laws of health, eventually sink below it. *See Louis Kuhne’s Facial Diagnosis, illustrated ; translated and with notes by A. F. Reinhold, M.D. Price $2.00, 240 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [ft. III. With all kinds of Encumbrance, the organs of digestion are affected, as well as the intestines and lungs. A change in the tempera- ture, or some mental excitement, often disturbs the deposits of foreign matter to such an extent that inflammation ensues. This may result in diarrhoea or costiveness. In either case, it indicates bad nourishment or extreme poverty of blood. Sometimes consumption follows. This is as easily cured by water processes as any other disease, because Facial Diagnosis makes it possible to recognize tendencies in this direction much sooner than could be done by any other method. Children with Faroe Heads, are always scrofulous, and pre- disposed to consumption. Colds are to be regarded as salutary crises, as what escapes from the nose, and what is thrown off in expectoration, is only foul matter, of which the body is well rid. This also is true of catarrh. Physicians fear colds because they do not understand their nature, and cannot con- trol them. But the hydro-therapist produces this effect intentionally, by means of cold water applications. In every instance, a cold should be salutary, and is so, if not suppressed by poisonous drugs, which stifle na- ture’s efforts toward cure, and retain the impurities in the system. Cure is only possible, when the patient has sufficient vital power left to work upon. The chief aim, of course, in any treatment, is to increase the amount of vitality. But there must be a sufficient degree of vitality at the start, to enable the patient to undergo this treatment. There is not a single ailment that has not already succumbed to the Water Cure pro- cesses. ch. i Si 241 RECAPITULATION. CHAPTER 18. Contrast between the Physical Conditions of Wild Animals and Men. S we have stated that perfect health is now found only among wild animals, who are free from the drug physician’s tender care, let us look closely at their habits as contrasted with those of man. h i Wild beasts eat only such food as Nature has provided for them, which nourishes all their organs H m to perfection. They refrain from taking spices and stimulants, which induce overfeeding and excessive drinking. They do not gorge themselves thrice daily, or oftener, nor have they any tables groaning with viands. They do not take cooked food, nor spoil their teeth by eating alternately hot and cold in rapid succession. They do not eat their food in haste, and then rush to physical or mental exertion. Their entire work consists of eating.* They take no apothecary’s stuff, in- capable of nourishing the cells, but powerful to kill them. For all these reasons, they are not visited with dyspepsia, gout, apoplexy, paralysis, liver and kidney troubles, and other maladies. They use no sugar con- centrated in lumps, only in the liquid form as found in fruit and vegeta- bles ; and no vinegar, except the mild acids contained in plums, apples, cherries and other fruits. Of course they drink no milk, except while young, from their mothers, and they know nothing of beer, whiskey, or champagne; thus they escape the direful results of sexual excesses. Usually they live on a single article of diet. A lion would starve to death in a grove of the richest fruit, and a sheep could not subsist on meat. They need no ice-boxes. No animal smokes, chews or snuffs tobacco, nor do they excite their nerves by using narcotics. * If from this statement any one would draw the inference that we advocated laziness and gorging one’s self from morning to night, he would be greatly mistaken. But what we desire is to point out the paramount importance of a proper mode of eating. 242 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. Their blood not being vitiated by a perverse diet, their skin is free from pimples, ulcers, and fatal carbuncles. They do not contract bron- chitis, asthma, or tuberculosis by inhaling the contaminated air of con- fined rooms; nor do they weaken the muscles of respiration by wearing stays. No clothes suppress the action of their skin by depriving it of the free access of pure air, and the invigorating stimulus of daylight. For the same reason, their females are exempt from any of the countless female complaints, such as prolapsus of the uterus, inflamma- tion of the ovaries, tumors, cancers, etc. That their menstruation, if there be any, will be normal, may be taken for granted. However, we doubt that animals menstruate at all under normal condition, as the menses in the human species may possibly be due partly to the abuse of the sexual organs for many generations, and partly to our social condi- tions. The females, irrespective of their condition of pregnancy, exert themselves as much as the males, at all times. They are confined to no bed for a moment; and no matter, whether they give birth to one, or a dozen offspring at a time, they contract no puerperal fever, nor do any die; and no representative of the drug school has a chance to get a cent out of them for services of midwifery. Nor have they any doctors, (!) proud of that choice collection of obstetrical instruments with which medical science (! ) has presented mankind for the delivery of a weakly generation. Their young are always sound and hearty. No drugging scoundrels show them how to bring on abortion. They are always able to give suck to all their young, regardless of number; they have no use for nursing bottles, nor need they study any books on artificial feeding. No drug advocate tells their females that nursing weakens; and the young being properly fed, do not die in infancy by the millions. Because they abstain from heating food and beverages, they are not subject to sunstroke. They have no- clothes, stoves, gloves, or houses to stifle the action of the skin and to make it anaemic, consequently there can be no congestion of the inner organs. No veils are worn to spoil the eyes or to retain the foul breath, and no lamps are used to turn night into day. No tight shoes gives them corns; no high heels produce bent knees and curvature of the spine. Exercise keeps their blood in circu- lation, so that no deposits can form in the limbs, making them cold, and crowding the blood upward. Since they eat the right kinds of food, and no false modesty prevents them from satisfying the calls of nature,—their depurating organs are in perfect working order, no deposits can form, and hence constipation, diarrhoea, gall-stone, Bright’s disease, diabetes, etc., are all unknown to them. Being free of encumbrance, they are CH. 18.] RECAPITULATION 243 exempt from pain and ache. They cannot contract ‘' Colds, ’ ’ as the cold only influences the foreign matter, if such be present; and in their sys- tems there is none. Hence, they are not subject to attacks of rheuma- tism and gout; and no foul matter can escape from sore eyes, running ears, or be discharged from the nose, mouth or other orifices, because no foul matter is in the body. Keeping the tone of their nerves in normal condition by the constant exposure of their naked bodies to the daylight, nervous affections and secret vices are not found with them. This also precludes those sexual diseases, as gonorrhoea and syphilis, which cause our drug people to make such ridiculous and ineffectual attempts at cure. No perverse living makes them sleepless, gives them sick headaches, nor causes nervous exhaustion. Animals do not become insane, nor do they require any asylums for the blind, deaf, and incurables, nor any dispensaries, where great medical lights strut about as if each were a ruler of the world, forgetting that these very buildings are monuments to their bottomless ignorance. In a herd of wild animals, all appear nearly alike, young and old; when mature, all have the same shape, size, proportions, disposition, etc., male and female. Only the very young are frolicsome, and the very old, less active. “Decrepitude of old age,” almost unknown with them, is principally one of the ingenious inventions• of our drug people to cover their ignorance; whenever they fail to cure a person of mature years, they assign age as the cause of their failure. Animals only die because of old age, accident, or by falling a prey to some other animal. They are never assisted to a premature grave by medi- cal friends, who first pervert their good habits by irrational doctrines, then kill them gradually by drugs, or suddenly by the surgeon’s knife; and finally when death has come to quiet pain and ease suffering, these same kindly people are often at liberty to cut up the dead body of their victim, to trace the progress of their own art. Hooking at the ease with which wild animals maintain their perfect health, do not the frantic efforts man makes—to lose this precious herit- age—seem criminal and imbecile ? L,et us now see the other side of this picture; let us watch man at his table and observe him at his daily habits. If you walk along any one of our great thoroughfares, you may notice an oyster-house, where bivales are served in every style, and from which the customer extracts almost no nourishment, but immense quanti- ties of pepper and salt. Next door, you find a tobacco-store, selling its 244 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. in. deadly poison. Then a dining-room may follow, with a bill of fare, con- sisting of meats from the beginning to the end. Next door is a saloon, with its beers, wines, liquors, and other alcoholic drinks. A drug store may come next, with its thousands of pernicious drugs. As there is scarcely a block without a candy-store, it may be a shop of this kind which we next encounter. Poison from first to last. What drug advo- cate ever called the attention of the public to this perverse and ruinous condition of affairs? None; how could*they? Not knowing what sick - uess or health is, they do not know how either originates, and conse- quently are in a condition of utter blindness as to our frightfully abnormal circumstances. (Fig- 81.) When people order one of those ‘ ‘ regular dinners, ’ ’ the waiter commences by pouring out a glass of iced water. The guests drink some, and immediately after, gulp down a steaming soup, generally thoroughly spiced. Then some meat is taken, with more spices, often beef from tuberculous cattle. White bread, deprived of its strength- giving gluten, is served with it, and then, after some badly cooked vegeta- bles, puddings, sweets, etc., follow. As a rule, too much is eaten, and that too fast, no time being allowed for mastication. Some even read while eating, and hence mastication is still more neglected. Often the meal is finished by swamping the intestines with a cup of boiling coffee; this not only washes away the saliva and stomach secretions, which are absolutely necessary for digestion, but also throws part of the undigested contents of the stomach in their crude form into the intestines. Not satisfied with this, some physicians will even recommend an after-dinner cigar ! Natu- rally, people will contract some digestive trouble, for which, sooner or later, they take poison, usually called medicine; and still the public, as well as the drug fraternity, are surprised because so many people are sick ! We must select such food as agrees best with our constitutions. All that proves injurious should be carefully avoided. On this principle the writer is a strict vegetarian and rejects meat of all sorts as injurious to the health of human beings. There is an old saying, that ‘ ‘ the proof of the pudding is in the eating,” and surely the value of any theory is tested by its definite results. We maintain that man’s whole nature is influenced by his physical health. Food is the principal factor in the upbuilding of that health. Consequently the character of food consumed must have the greatest possible influence upon the whole life. No one can deny the existence of poverty, discontent, and unhappiness. Now, we contend that if a man suffers from these, it is his own fault. If he would live CH. 18.] RECAPITULATION 245 Fig. 8i.—A City Block of Houses ; where—house after house—nothing but poisons are sold. Small won- der, that all people are sick. 246 HOW HEALTH IS LOST [pt. III. naturally he would be better nourished, and at a far lower cost. Through the medium of a healthy body, he would see his fellow men, and life at large, in a wholly different light. Life, in fact, would be transformed for him, and, from a possible pessimist, he would naturally develop whole- somely optimistic views. Let the rational reader not ridicule this as fanciful, absurd, or impracticable. Let him first give it a fair trial for himself. He must not condemn the “ pudding ” until he has eaten it, nor our theory until he has tested it. Cooking destroys to a great extent the nutriment contained in any food material. Every one has noticed the change that takes place in the white of an egg when heat is applied. Similar coagulation occurs in everything that we cook, for albumen is found in all foods. They are thus rendered indigestible. It is not what a man eats, but what he assimilates, that nourishes him. Consequently, we see that most of the cooked food which people consume, is just so much wasted material. It is more expensive and gives no strength, but, rather, squanders the vital forces, and shortens life. We take it for granted that man originally enjoyed as good health as the beasts. We cannot suppose that he came from the hands of the Creator in a less perfect state of health than the animals en- joy even to-day. Let us see what that condition was which made him exempt from disease. He had no fire to cook his meals; he had no spices, not even salt, for most spices came into use during historic times, and by far the greater number were introduced into the Occident since the middle ages. His teeth were perfect and hard as adamant. He lacked swiftness to catch animals, and had neither weapons with which to kill them nor knives to flay and cut them up. Therefore, having no meat, spices, or alcohol, man had no perverted tastes nor sexual excesses. He had no cooking pots, no spoons, and no soups. Providence had intended him to live on whole- some fruit, not on the carcasses of tuberculous cattle. He used no sugar, no vinegar, no fruit ices, no iced water, no tobacco—which was brought to Europe less than 300 years ago—no coffee, tea, opium, nor mercury; in truth, he knew neither drugs nor disease; and none of those people who style themselves “doctors,” and who arrogate about 99 per cent, of all the pride found in a nation, then cumbered the ground. Men had no domes- tic animals, whom they could make sick by perverse feeding; they had 110 slops for cows, and no cooked vegetable food for dogs; in those days, the cattle were free from consumption, and the dogs exempt from hydro- phobia. CH. 18.] RECAPITULATION 247 Is it a matter for wonder that to-day man contracts all sorts of infec- tious diseases by his deviations lrom nature ? He had no vehicles to ride in to rob him of exercise, nor any artificial illumination to deprive him of his sleep. At night, he repaired to a cave, or made a resting place on a tree. He had no clothes, no rooms, no window-panes, which were manufactured rather recently, or to close rooms hermetically Skin and lungs had the full benefit of the open-air, day and night; and the sun shone upon his skin during the day. Always living under the canopy of heaven he was almost unconscious of the vicissitudes of weather. We conclude that the aborigines were healthy, without the acquisitions of civilization which have caused man to become more and more degenerate, until we are scarcely able to find a normal human being. Each of the perversions may be fol- lowed up as to its consequences till it ends in some chronic ailment or early death. Formerly, all was natural; to-day, all is unnatural, and this causes the mischief. Would we advocate a return to the wild state? By no means. We only want to make people conscious of their immense deviation from na- ture, and from the original healthy state. We hold that both conditions, health and comfort, may be combined. But to do so, it is necessary to recognize the conditions of perfect health clearly. Thereby we wish to induce our readers to comply with nature’s laws as much as is compatible with the full enjoyment of the acquisitions of modern times and so insure perfect or nearly perfect health. We think it can be done to a large degree; and if people are sick it is all the fault of the drug prescriber, whom we are tempted to call an antiquated creature, who always was out of place, and out of harmony with nature, and who is now an actual dis- grace to our enlightened times. Dr. A. F. REINHOLD’S INSTITUTE OF WATER CURE, No. 60 LEXINGTON AVENUE, New York City, U. S. A. Fresh cases of any disorder are cured by Natural Methods in a very short time. But the more a person has been drugged, the longer it takes to restore health ; and there is a limit where a person’s health is so shat- tered by the irrational drug mania, that even the powerful Nature Cure proves of little avail. CH. 19.] 249 PART IV. CURE. RESTORATION TO HEALTH. DYSPEPSIA, ANAEMIA AND DIABETES CHAPTER 19. ( MT ,LWT AVING proved that, owing to the blind ignorance "'S I tbe underlying cause of disease exhibited by H '7..JV il the drug fraternity, and to the perverted mode of life, wbicb *s not only permitted, but prescribed a ky§L by tbls same life-restoring (?), pain-healing (?) profession, the human race, as a class, has lost Health and is seeking a cure for its manifold forms of disease. We naturally turn to the methods by which the drug schools seek to give us back, what zoe should ziever have lost, except for their advice and assistance. Their cures (?) are broadly speaking, effected in two ways: either by the Drug System, the fatal results of which we have already shown, or by the use of the surgeons’ knife. In contrast to these inefficient means, we will place, side by side, the marvelous and perma- nent cures of our natural methods of healing. If in our endeavor to show you the only way to cure absolutely and permanently we repeat some of the truths already presented in How Health is Lost, it is because the Loss and the Cure are so closely interwoven, that it is well-nigh impossible to treat of the one without bringing in the other. (Fig. 82.) 250 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. First, let us see the methods and the results of the Drug System. Eet us quote from some of the shining lights of the drug profession itself: “The medical practice of our day is at the best a most uncertain and un- satisfactory system. It has neither philosophy nor common sense to com- mend it to confidence.” (Dr. Evans, Fellow of the Royal College, Lon- don.) “Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every one hundred medical facts Fig. 82. A Grain of Sand in the eye is washed out by tears. On this principle, all foreign substances such as drugs are removed from the system by fluids secreted from the blood. This always involves a loss of vital force, demonstrated by the exhaustion felt when the foreign body remains in the eye for some time. If a person takes Epsom Salts for costiveness, the body secretes fluid to get rid of this poison ; the purging is only incidental. No drug ever benefits, and the vital power, lost in the effort to throw them out, can never be re- stored. are medical lies ; and medical doctrines are for the most part stark star- big nonsense(Prof. Gregory of Edinburgh, author of a work on ‘ Theory and Practice of Physic.’ ) “ Some patients get well with the aid of medicines, more without it; and still more in spite of it.” Sir John Forbes, M. D., F. R. S. ‘ ‘ Every dose of medicine given is a blind experi- ment upon the vitality of the patient. ’ ’ Dr. BoswicK, author of History of Medicine. CM. 19.] DYSPEPSIA, ANAiMIA, DIABETES 251 Now are not these expressions indeed startling, and calculated to- shake our faith in the skill and knowledge of our medical advisers? We advocates of the Nature Cure know that disease consists only in the presence of foreign matter, and ctire can be effected in but one way—the removal of these foreign deposits. This course is as simple and plain as day-light. But let us see what a sad failure the drug people have made in their methods of treatment. You may object, however, saying, “ medicine must have done something, otherwise the profession could not claim so many able minds and intelligent adherents. ” Yes, we used to argue in the same way; but our views were radically changed, when once the truth dawned upon us, as must be the case with every unprejudiced mind. The trouble is, the drug schools and their followers are ignorant of the whole matter, as they mistake the acute symptoms for the real disease. As we have seen, the chronic, latent deposit—the “predisposition” as the drug dispensers call it—constitutes the real disease. Whenever any portion of the foreign matter is thrown into fermentation, prior to its removal from the system, the process is accompanied by pain and fever (local fever is called inflammation.) This fever, though in fact a process of cure, is mistaken by the drug fraternity for the actual disease, and consequently all their efforts are concentrated upon the suppression of pain. Chemistry has elaborated a number of substances, such as morphine, cocaine, laughing gas, etc., which, upon experiment, (the whole drug system is but one series of useless experiments), were found to re- lieve pain. But how this was accomplished, and whether a?iy injury might result from their use, was never inquired into. The pain-killer, or anaes- thetic, was used, the pain vanished, and healer and healed thought “now here is a cure.” But let us look a little deeper. How was the pain killed? Well, let us see first, how it was brought about. A grain of sand in the eye, for instance, being a foreign body, produces pain ; so does a splinter in the finger. In both cases, pain is caused by the presence of a foreign substance in the afflicted portion where it does not belong. Thus, we see, pain is always the danger signal, warning us of disorder or derangement. Pain is really a blessing and benefit, urging us to make* every effort to remove the foreign substance. Now, how do pain-killers act? They simply kill the nerves, but do not remove the foreign matter. The foreign substance remains and accu- mulates ; but the person is unconscious of it, as the nerves no longer announce its presence. The corrupt matter continues to increase, how- ever, and the new deposits cause fresh pain, and so more pain—or rather 252 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. nerve-killing is resorted to, until paralysis, or something equivalent, is the result. Then, nothing avails. The nervous system has thus been killed by inches. Another person suffers great pain. The medical man gives an injec- tion of morphine. Often this has to be repeated daily, and the dose gradually increased. A confirmed morphine-fiend is thus made, while the cause of the pain is in nowise removed; and the art of drugging can do no more, not even release the patient from his slavery to the anaes- thetics. But d) ug physicians close their eyes, and ignore all this; they con- tent themselves with the momentary relief. If the patient becomes decrepit or dies, what concern is it of theirs? They deceive themselves and their patients as to the true results of this sort of treatment. It is by this method of giving relief from pain that the medical profession has gained its hold upon public opinion. (Fig. 83.) Fig. 83.—The Morphine Syringe. One of the modes by which the medi- cal profession induce the morphine habit, for which they have no cure. Natural Cure has no need of morphine, but is able to rid a sufferer of this habit in a short time thoroughly by natural and simple means. Morphine does not cure any trouble; it only stifles pain by killing the nerves; but as each nerve has its special office to fill, this killing leads to deafness, blindness, cancer, paralysis, etc. All of these evils are the results of medical mismanagement. Often, when a patient is told to take four morphine pills, he will take considerably more. Besides, all opiates produce costiveness, and to counteract this effect, another drug must be taken. Thus we see that to use morphine is at least of doubtful benefit, and is always followed by harmful results. • How does Water Czire regard pain ? We say, far rather endure a little pain than injure the nervous system.- Every nerve fibre has its duty to perform; and we have none too many. If people would only try the Water Cure Treatment, as soon as pain is felt, probably a few hours would suffice to remove the trouble. But usually, they try drugs first, and resort to Water Cure only after months or years of suffering have convinced them that these poisons are availing them nothing, and are only ruining their constitutions. Then, however, pain cannot be blown CH. 19.] DYSPEPSIA, ANAjMIA, DIABETES 253 away in an instant; and for this, the patient must not blame the Water Treatment, but his own mistake in not applying in the first instance to a rational method of cure. Even in advanced stages, however, cold com- presses, cold immersions, etc., control the pain to a great extent. As pain is also caused by the multiplication of microbes, co-existing with the over-heated condition of the parts encumbered, it is relieved by cold water which not only gradually removes the deposits, but, by lowering the temperature, keeps the microbes under control. A person free from encumbrances experiences no pain, unless the pain results from external injury. Cleanse the body, and the pain will disappear, and that, too, without the killing of any nerves ; so that there need be no fear of par- alysis, or cancer, or blindness, etc., following as a consequence of lowered vitality, which must sooner or later arise from the use of anaesthetics. If a person receives a severe bruise or burn, submerge the injured part in cold water, the pain will vanish promptly, and the cooling pro- cess may be continued, until a perfect cure is effected. A Mr. R. suffered for seven years with excruciating pain in his head. Within the last year alone he was treated by Dr. Erinson, and afterwards by Dr. Spitzka, who sent him to Dr. Gleitzman, under whose care he re- mained for three months Then Dr. Jacobi was applied to, and he agreed with Dr. Gleitzman that an operation on the brain was inevitable. To this, however, the patient was loath to submit, and for three months longer he tried Prof. Thompson’s prescriptions, but with no better suc- cess. Coming to the hydro-therapeutist at last, he was relieved of all his suffering in two weeks, and that, too, by the use of simple clear water, as it was drawn from the faucet, and applied with a little dose of wholesome, common sense. Not only are numberless patients killed by inches in using these “pain-killers,” but many a life is ended at last by a “ sleeping potion." This is the final, and crowning resort of the pain-killers. All who have had experience with sickness, and the practices of the drug profession, know this to be a fact. No law authorizes this intentional abridgment of human life, and, therefore, it is murder, just as really as any other inten- tional and premeditated taking of life, and should be punished as similar crimes are. If the giving of poisons to kill people’s nerves were entirely prohibited by law, our drug poisoners deprived of their last subterfuge in dispatching their patients, would stand out in their true colors ; as their impotence and ignorance would be glaringly obvious to all. They would thereby be deprived of the means of effacing the frightful results of their misdoings, and would have to find some rational means of removing the 254 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. cause of pain, when they could no longer suppress it in their barbarous fashion. Pain can be altogether avoided, by perfectly healthful, natural means. If murder is not to be licensed, then those who assume the au- thority of cutting short their patient’s lives when they think their cura- tive resources have come to an end, should be prosecuted to the full ex- tent of the law. Till this is done, drug practitioners will have no incen- tive to prevent pain and sickness. Only stringent laws against the use of any drugs for curative purposes will bring them to their senses, and Fig. 84. A Monkey and Bear Story, The bear in his attempt to kill the fly, kills the monkey also. Thus our medical people, in trying to sub- due pain by their anaesthetics, etc., kill the nerves and the patients too. Apart from accidents, there should be no pain, and man should die as painlessly and unconsciously as he entered the world, as still is the case with very old people. If people die young, in pain and agony, it is owing to the ignorance of the drug people ; in many in- stances they administer some poisons that cut short not only the death struggle but at the same time efface the manifest token of their ignorance. force them to look into the virtues of methods, they now term ‘ humbug. ’ The introduction and use of anesthetics, upon which the drug advocates pride themselves so much, has been the greatest drawback to the progress of the true aid of healing, for no sickness can be cured by any sort of drugs. But some one will say, “You cannot make me believe that! Don’t I know Mr. so-and-so, who suffered with rheumatism for two weeks ? He CH. 19.] DYSPEPSIA. ANAjMIA, DIABETES 255 went to his doctor, got a prescription, and was cured in no time. And then, there is Mrs. Y.; .she ruined her stomach and suffered dreadfully. A few drops of laudanum in a spoonful of water, afforded her almost instant relief.” Yes, that is just it, the pain is killed, and the aching nerves with it. A fly was once sitting on a monkey’s nose. The monkey called upon a bear to chase the fly away. The bear seized a large stone and killed the insect with one blow—and the monkey too. (Fig. 84.) That is the only way that pain can be relieved by such drugs as narcotics, se- datives, anaesthetics, anodynes, etc.* But perfect health and full vitality are dependent on the integrity of the nervous system. We need not wonder then, that so many men of forty or fifty drag themselves along with the greatest difficulty. In the case of Mrs. Y. cited above, the laudanum only suppressed the pain ; it did not remove the cause of it, which was the improper quality or quantity of food taken. To remove the cause of pain, is the function of the depurating organs, and they would have done this far more quickly, if the laudanum had not been taken. A cold sitz-bath, or a wet abdominal compress, in conjunction with a cool enema of plain water, would have accomplished both, the removal of the surplus food, and the cessation of pain, without any injury to the nerves of the abdomen. If a patient recovers from any attack, he will claim that the anodyne helped him. No, this could never be. It is the natural vigor of a person that rallies in spite of the poison. The results of dead nerves are horrible to contemplate,—among the most serious being blindness and deafness. And what has caused this partial “ death ” and its attending and inevitable result? The “pain-killing remedies.” And yet, notwithstanding these fatal results, the belief in the efficacy of drugs is one of the most deeply rooted of the many errors in which mankind is still blindly groping. There are, according to the drug profession so many kinds of disease, all arising from diverse causes, and to be treated, each in some special manner, that it is hard to even begin to enumerate them. Let us, however, take first the prevalent Dyspepsia. Now, it must be understood that medicine distinguishes a great many different kinds of dys- * In Dunglison’s Medical Dictionary, we find that narcotics, such as opium, bel- ladonna, hyoscyamus, etc., have the power to stupefy. Sedatives, such as prussic and sulphuric acids, are medicines which directly suppress the vital force. If any quantity of such anesthetics as ether, chloroform, etc., be inhaled, respiration ceases, and death ensues. Anodynes, such as : belladonna, blunt the sensibility of the brain, so that it does not appreciate the morbid sensation."—And these are a few of the means by which the drug people in their incomprehensible and indescripable stupidity endeavor to make sick people well. 256 RESTORATION OP HEALTH [PT. IV. pepsia such as gouty, atonic, renal, acid, nervous, and others. It possesses a large nomenclature of diseases, and most of them are subdivided again indefi- nitely. Such display looks very scientific, but it counts for nothing. We hear very little of such cases being effectively cured by them. We meet numbers of people who say they have suffered from dyspepsia all their lives. And they keep on taking the drugs that have been given them for years, though they are really growing worse. As a last resource, die stomach-pump is resorted to. All it can do is, to empty the stomach, but how it is to effect a cure, is more than we can comprehend. We cannot wonder at all this failure, when we consider the treatment prescribed in standard medical works, for instance in ‘ ‘ The Practice of Medicine,” by F. Taylor, M.D., F.R.C.P., we read : ‘‘ Repeated experi- ment (?) will show, what foods the patient can tolerate.” And so we see, it is not the physician’s intelligence, nor the study of nature, nor any fixed principle whatever, that determines the food prescribed, but blind experiment on a diseased stomach. In reality, this is, of course, no guide at all. It may be a guide to more desperate forms of disease, but certainly not to health. For instance, the healthy stomach of a vigorous person rejects tobacco juice, but weakened digestive organs are powerless to remonstrate and must endure it. According to the drug physicians’ theory this would prove that tobacco juice was good for a weak stomach, but the fallacy of such reasoning is apparent at once. The other day a “patient came to us complaining of discomfort in the abdomen ; and to our question, ‘ ‘ What have you eaten ? ’ ’ she replied : “ Lobster salad.” Being told this was indigestible and not on our dietary list, she said, ‘ ‘ But it never gave me any trouble until I commenced treat- ment with the Water Cure. ” Her inference was that her stomach had grown weaker. As a matter of fact, her digestive organs were regaining their natural strength and rebelled against this forced and unnatural food. Of course, only the most advanced and hopeless cases come under our observation, as people turn everywhere for relief, before coming in their despair to Nature and the Water Cure. But let us cite a few cases. Mr. R. B. applied to us complaining of indigestion, and pain in the abdomen and kidneys. He had much difficulty in voiding urine, was extremely nervous, and looked weak and haggard. His bowels were irregular in action ; his hands were clamy, and his pulse feeble and irregu- lar. He suffered from catarrh in the head, headache, sleeplessness, and poor appetite, while perspiration of the feet was constantly present. His stomach was hard and high, and he had lost between twenty Reinhold, Nature vs. Drugs—viii. CH. IQ.] DISPEPSIA, AN.EMIA, DIABETES 257 and thirty pounds within a few months. We told Dr. W., who had been called in consultation, that he would not even be able to diagnose the case, and subsequent events proved that our prediction was correct. But four months of Water Cure treatment completely restored the patient to health ; and when he left, he was gaining rapidly in weight. After some time, however, he received a serious injury. So strongly rooted in him was the old superstition about the skill of the drug profession, that again he first applied to a drug doctor tor assistance. Of course, the treatment was a failure, and he was obliged to resort to Water Cure a second time, and again the improvement was as prompt as at first. A short time afterward we received word that our old patient was in Bellevue Hospital in New York, suffering with a tubercular enlargement of the knee ; the doctors (?) had pronounced his case hopeless, and maintained that his knee must remain stiff and crooked all his life ;—and he was only twenty-seven years of age. Thus, for the third time he had applied without success to the school of allopathy, and for the third time had to turn in despair to Water Cure. This time, after his case had already been declared “ incurable,” he was wholly restored by Water, and able to walk miles without the slightest pain, not even needing a cane for assistance. And this remarkable result was achieved by plain Water in less than two weeks. After his recovery he went to Bellevue Hospital to see the physicians who had diagnosed his case, to show them what Water Cure had done for him. He saw one of his former physicians, who promised to send in the .others to examine his leg ; but when they learned that it was Plain Water which had achieved the cure, they did not come down. Now, as their method had failed to cure, were they not under moral obligation towards their future patients to enligh+en themselves on a mode of treatment that had proved effective ? Mr. O’B. came to us at the age of forty. For ten years he had suf- fered with dyspepsia, costiveness, coated tongue, flatulence, high hard abdomen, and sleeplessness. In two months, Water Cure had completely restored him to health. Mrs. S. B. had suffered from dyspepsia for twelve years. She was forty-eight years of age when she applied to us, and was mother of eleven children. Her lower limbs were weak, and she had no knee-jerk. She was suffering with liver complaint, and had been constipated from youth. She slept poorly ; her tongue was heavily coated, pulse irregular, and she complained of pain in the kidneys. Menstruation had been obstructed for eight months. About four iveeks of Water treatment completely cured her. 258 . RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. We could multiply these examples indefinitely but these few are sufficient to demonstrate how Water Cure in this particular disease suc- ceeds where years of medical care avail nothing. We have never failed in a case of dyspepsia ; for this form of disease, like all others, has its origin in departure from Nature’s rules, introducing foreign elements—food and drugs—into the system, and can be cured only by a return and strict adherence to them. Since dyspepsia as well as all other forms of disease arise from foreign deposits throughout the system, largely owing to improper diet, common sense would suggest that cure for dyspepsia should commence with cor- recting the patient’s regime. How does the drug fraternity proceed ? By turning to Nature and finding out what the unperverted tongue, palate and other organs naturally seek ? Not at all—but by accepting what the perverted taste of the dyspeptic craves, and using this as a standard.— After the use of meat, spices, tobacco, alcohol, etc., for years, the sys- tem, which—mark you—at first rebelled against them, at last succumbs, and finally craves the poisons. No sooner, however, doss a patient return to a normal diet, and cleanse his system from impurities by Natural Methods, such as massage, light and air baths, physical exercise, water treatment, etc., than not only is all unnatural craving lost, but the system rejects any injurious substance. Hence, we see the folly of making the perverted sensibility of a dyspeptic’s ruined stomach the guide to health. We think the various foods permitted, prescribed and demanded by the drug profession for their patients, will be most clearly impressed on our minds, if we continue our study of disease and the treatment by the medical people. Anaemia or poverty of blood, and chlorosis, are common forms of disease among the young. (Fig. 85.) We quote the following from a standard medical authority : ‘ ‘ This term ‘ anaemia ’ denotes the condi- tion of a part or of the whole organism, when the blood is either deficient in quantity or below the normal standard in quality. We may con- sider the origin of anaemia under two heads: 1st: Deficient nutrient supply. 2d : Undue blood waste. Actual loss of blood from external or internal hemorrhage is the most striking and usual cause ; long con- tinued suppuration and chronic albuminuria are also fruitful causes of anaemia; as are also, chronic diarrhoea, continue dfevers, malignant dis- ease, tubercle or blood poisons and mineral poisons such as lead and mercury” (which can only enter the human organism under the fatal Drug System). “ Food should be peptonized, ” (say the drug doctors), CH. I9J DISPKPSIA, ANAEMIA, DIABETES 259 * ‘ and, if the stomach be intolerant of this, nutrient enemata may be resorted to. Iron and arsenic are the chief remedies. Transfusion of milk or lambs blood,” (theirinjection into the blood vessels,) “has been shown to have injurious effects and has consequently been abandoned.” Now by way of practical illustration of the difference between the efficiency of the drug cure (?) and our own let us cite the following case from our note book : Poverty of Bi.ood. A girl of 13 years of age, Fig. 85. Forceps for Pulling Teeth. Teeth are absolutely necessary for a normal digestion; they should not be drawn. Naturists inform people how to live so as to keep their teeth in their heads. Eat the proper diet, natural to man, in its natural condition, and the teeth will remain perfectly sound so long as life continues. Artificial teeth are expensive and usually very unsatisfactory; besides the pro- cess of changing the natural for artificial teeth often involves years of intense suffering. -vvho had been sickly from birth, was always under medical treatment; parents had tried several drug doctors ; they all agreed the child would die of consumption before reaching puberty, and they prescribed, what they con- sidered the best food, such as chickens, pigeons, steaks, wine, etc. During summer, the child was also sent to the country for 4 months without gain- ing an ounce. The ponds in Central Park were frozen over, when she commenced Water treatment. Our directions were : No chickens, no pigeons, no steaks, no wine ; but purely vegetable diet, and skating from morning till night. The mother was horrified and exclaimed : ‘ ‘ What ! my child shall have no chickens and no wine ! Those are the only things that kept her up in strength!” We replied: “Madame, meat and wine have kept your child down, not up. By the directions of the medical 260 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. doctors you have tried your experiment for 13 years ; now, all we ask is, try ours for 3 weeks ; then see the difference. The result was, that the girl gained several pounds in a few months ; became rosy-cheeked, and is no longer believed to be consumptive. Whatever diet, whatever regime has been prescribed for a patient by the drug physicians, we immediately pro- hibit, and reverse it exactly, when the patient comes under our care ; this fact shows our opinion of the drug doctors’ knowledge and skill. As our results are invariably .satisfactory, it proves that the results of the oppo- site theory must be harmful. The pepsine in the gastric fluid transforms proteids into peptones. Now, if we take pepsine or peptones in predigested foods, as is so much recommended to-day by the drug schools, the stomach is not called upon to secrete this substance, and so remains in the blood, although ready to be secreted, vitiating the blood by its accumulation. Hence this forestall- ing of digestion, weakens it still more, instead of improving it. We dis- pense entirely with predigested food preparations, iron, arsenic and all other poisons. If a person, desirous of making his arms powerful, tries to attain this end by tying them so that he cannot exercise, and imagines that he thus economizes their power and makes them stronger by rest, we all know that he is mistaken and that this inaction will produce the oppo- site effect. Exercise strengthens the muscles, inaction weakens them; so with the skin, stomach, eyes, teeth, and all other organs. They can only be kept well by judicious and regular exercise. The skin, by exposure to light and air, and by cold bathing, cool rooms and clothes of light weight and color; the teeth, by eating solid food that requires their use ; the stomach, by such food as compels the stomach to exert itself. Hence, when medical people recommend “predigested foods’’ which will take the labor of digestion from the intestines, it is an evident misconception on their part, as such food can but weaken the digestive apparatus. Thus, you see, the drug people never miss a chance to pervert nature, and hence their totalfail- ures in every direction. By their predigested food they do not cure dyspep- sia, but they show how they misinterpret nature, and act counter to her designs. The more unhealthy a person is, the more strictly should he adhere to our natural diet. As the body builds itself up from solid, liquid and gaseous food, and as it receives several pounds of food every day it is essential that the character of the food should be correct. We, the advocates of natu- ral methods, having no apothecary shops, to fall back upon, have only two means of restoring Health—proper food and regular evacuations. Hence we are compelled to make these two subjects our exclusive an I CH. 19.] dispepsia, anemia, diabetes 261 careful study. Is it not apparent to even our most prejudiced critics that we should have more knowledge of man’s proper food, than the drugging man, with his thousand and one false methods based on ignorance of the underlying truths of man’s nature? The other day, a child of two years of age was brought to us, who had been quite robust until a little over a year old, when a drug doctor was called in for some trifling ailment. During the five months that he treated the child, he succeeded in securing about seventy dollars from the poor working people, but failed to cure the child, who, when we saw it was apparently starving. To our question: Did the doctor tell you how to feed the child ? we were told that the doctor (!) advised them to give the child, what they (—) thought best. To our question : What did you think best? the answer was, “cow’s milk, soda crackers and ginger snaps’’ Can any one be surprised at the miserable condition of the child? Indeed, we were at a loss, whether to wonder more at the perversity of the parents, or at the fatal ignorance of the drug healer (!), who con- tented himself with prescribing his own poisons. Patients often come to us with a list of the different articles of diet permitted by the coryphei of ‘Medical Ignorance.’ In accordance with our theory of direct opposition to the doctor’s deadly methods, we tell the poor sufferers to avoid those articles on their peril; and to partake freely of what they have been forbidden. And in this way we are fortu- nate in curing people even after a useless and harmful drugging of twenty years or more. There are but few exceptions ; in cases of diabetes or acute fevers, we prevent the use of sugar, fat and starchy food as much as is consistent with a natural, bloodless diet. As to the sufferers from diabetes, the first articles which the drug people order, and which we reject, are : meat, fish, gluten bread, and cheese. Looking upon the secretion of sugar as the result of an exhausted liver, by restricting the use of sugar, greasy and starchy food, we try to give the liver time to regain its normal tone. Knowing that the vegetable diet is the only nat- ural one, we never deviate from its principles ; for natural methods only can lead to restored health. This has been proved by us so often that it hardly needs further mention ; but an instance comes to mind just here which as an illustra- tion of our cure may benefit others suffering in a similar way. A lady whose own son is a “ regular, ’ ’ was for some time under his treatment for diabetes. But as she did not improve, he placed her under the care of one of the best specialists, who treated her for eighteen months with electricity, without the desired result. She then tried other special- [pt. iv. 262 RESTORATION OF HEALTH ists, and was in the hands of the medical school about three years, and had during this time steadily grown worse. After three weeks, however, of Water Cure and natural diet, .she declared she felt like another being. In all forms of disease, connected with a high degree of fever, such as consumption, measles, scarlet fever, etc., which are the consequences of a diet where hydrocarbons, fats and meats predominate, we starve the fever out by forbidding such articles. In all other cases, we do not prescribe any special diet other than our regular bloodless and hygienic diet. What is natural, is best in all cases. There can be nothing better or more wholesome than what is provided for us by nature. And the results of this rational regime are truly marvelous. If a person has been an habitual consumer of tobacco all his life, and gives up this habit suddenly, he is likely to feel rather uncomfortable for a few days until his system is rid of the nicotine it has absorbed. But this unpleasant sensation is no sign of his health being lowered. His system having no longer to contend against new supplies of the poison, can now turn all its energy towards the removal of the old deposits. Thus, any return to nature, although it may produce temporary discom- fort, can only be beneficial. For this reason, being firm believers in a natural diet, which has been outlined by us, we make its adoption incum- bent on our patients. Although the change is usually made suddenly and by enfeebled systems, we have never seen any harm arising from it. On the contrary, we attribute our successes largely to these radical changes. Kneipp considered diabetes in the advanced stage as incurable, and the reason for this is very clear. His advice was illogical; he prescribed medical herbs containing substances which are never found in any health}' body, and the introduction of which only derange the system. He also allowed meat and alcohol; and he himself was an habitual smoker. What the patient gains by his Water Cure treatment, is thus lost again on account of the medicated teas and the irrational diet and drugs. CH. 20] 263 STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES. CHAPTER 20. N cases of consumption, medical people look upon cow's milk as the elixir of life. Did they ever cure a patient, who habitually used it ? If one was IK? cured by milk diet, all could be. But tuberculosis, iPMIk under the drug system, has lost not one of its fatal consequences. Now we, on the other hand, con- Wt BT sider the use of the meat and milk of cows as one of the principal causes of consumption. Instead of prescribing, we entirely prohibit milk ; and our consumptive patients are cured* The principal aid which the author derived from the current books on the treatment of consumption, was not, how to treat it; but “ how not to treat it. ” The methods in vogue are rather calculated to hasten the patient to an untimely grave; nay, worse than this, we hold that if a sound, robust person were to be subjected to the routine treat- ment for tuberculosis, i. e.y fed on raw and cooked meats, soups, beef tea, alcohol, tonics, and given inhalations, hypodermic injections, calomel for every one of the countless symptoms, creosote, cod liver oil and other such abominations, he would do well to make his last will in time. Medical men prescribe meat dishes and soups, and with them salt and other condiments. Now we have already shown (p. 76 &p. 104) how harmful these articles are, and the forms of disease to which they give rise. So it is plain, that the medical propession is to blame for most of the pre- vailing ill-health. If meat diet is a deviation from man’s true nature, and vegetable food the only rational rule, it must be the thing that will * Positive Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis by none but Natural Means. By A. F. Reinhold, Ph.D., M.D., 60 Lex. Ave., N. Y. City. Price $4.80. 264 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. most quickly build up a sick, feeble body, and restore it to health. This is the reason why we make the adoption of the vegetarian diet absolutely obligatory upon our patients, and always with highly satisfactory results. Very sick people are our test-cases; what is ruinous to them, is injurious to the vigorous, only with the latter, the harm done is less apparent; and, what is beneficial to the weak, will also be the best for the healthy. Indeed, a strictly bloodless and natural diet is vindicated by universal success. This is the more essential in the beginning of the treatment of desperate cases, where vitality has to be economized to the utmost by every conceivable means. In such cases, we also recommend Distilled Water for drinking purposes, although it is the best for every one. In order to continue in good health, or to restore it, the question of proper diet is paramount. Of this subject, the drug people k.iow as little as they know of any- thing else pertaining to well-being. As a rule, they do not make out their own bill-of-fare, but eat what is placed before them by their cooks. It is otherwise with people who, like us, have made foods a study. At first of course some patients may be at a loss as to what to eat. After two or three weeks, however, not only have they ceased to want meat, but wonder, how they could ever have been brought to touch it. Pears, peaches, plums and apples are our pills, and pure water is our only liniment. After the drug doctors have so entirely ruined a person’s stomach that it refuses to retain any nourishment taken in the usual way, they introduce it through the anus. And again, apparently mistaking the mouth for the intestinal orifice, they give people emetics to make them vomit, and such monstrous absurdity they call “scientific” treatment; and the public, much impressed, looks on in wonder and admiration. Any one whose brain has not been utterly ruined by years spent in such perverse medical training, ought to see in an instant, that such methods are the product of diseased minds. The author’s belief is that nature is absolutely perfect. Our organs were developed during countless ages. If we want to cure, we must return to man’s original diet, i. e., to a bloodless regime, rejecting condiments and cookery.* As long as a person continues to take injurious substances, he can never be perfectly or lastingly cured. * We do not expect to reform people’s dietary in a day or two. They have been living perversely for thousands of years ; at best, it will require many genera- tions to lead man back to nature, health, and happiness ; but every one can assist to a small extent if he knows the goal. CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 265 Some patients seem to regard the restriction of their diet, as a per- sonal grievance, but we cannot help this, and must not be blamed, for we only interpret Nature, as we find her. We did not make her eternal laws, and cannot alter them, neither for ourselves nor our patients. There is but one way left, and that is, implicit compliance. So, do not blame the hygienist. Either lay the blame upon Nature, or God, or,—where it really belongs, upon your own perverse and fastidious habits. All we can do, is to give our ideal directions, and then leave the result to the intellect and resolution of the reader. A drug prescriber may humor his patient, and allow him to partake of any sort of food or drink, but that does not mean that these articles will do him no harm. Over Nature’s laws the drug doctor has as little power as any one else. He cannot change God’s immutable ordinances, and all the advice he gives in contradiction to Nature, means just so much injury to health. Wild animals take their food and drink according to the temperature of the external atmosphere. They never suffer from cold or dyspepsia. Our patients also take their food so, and find great benefit in it. Cold application strengthens both the external a?id the internal skin. Drug poisoners frequently recommend the drinking of hot water. Now, where did they get their authority for this ? Certainly not from Nature. There is very little rationale in their methods. One physician experi- mented with hot water, and finding that it gave temporary relief, put it down that this relief was lasting. But only the harm from it is lasting. All the rest followed in his train like sheep, and continue to advise it. Drinking hot water does afford temporary relief, but the principle involved is easily explained, and it is impossible not to see the lastingly injurious effects that are certain to follow. As bathing in hot water weakens our external skin, drinking hot water weakens our intestines ami digestive organs. Priessnitz recommended much water drinking, while Schroth advised the opposite course, and put his patients on dry diet. Both systems demand extra and therefore unnatural exertion of certain organs ; with Priessnitz, the kidneys are overtaxed ; and with Schroth, the liver. Now we go to neither extreme, but follow nature alone. The proper way to drink in order not to wash the digestive juices from the stomach, is to take the water slowly, in sips, and moderately, either a half hour before, or two hours after eating. Some people ruin their digestion by deluging their stomach with water. In dropsy, Bright’s disease, and other affections of the kidneys, as well as diabetes, we prohibit fluids as much as possible, so as to allow the kidneys time to recuperate. In cases of constipation, more liquid than usual should be taken. 266 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. In reference to Alcohol, Kneipp says: “ I think it bad to take beer fre- quently, and certainly it does not afford sufficient nourishment for a con- sumptive. ’ ’ Again he says: ‘ ‘ Good genuine beer has little nutritive value. Brewers endeavor to obtain a cheap substitute for hops and malt, caring little, whether this be harmful or not. Meadow saffron is often used although it is such a powerful poison, that three seed grains of it are suffi cient to kill a horse.” These views we heartily endorse; but when Kneipp goes on to state: “If a person accustomed to drink, suddenly ceases to take any alcoholic stimulant, he cannot bear it, ’ ’ we thoroughly disagree with him. If a person has been an habitual user of tobacco, and sud- denly stops, he certainly will feel upset for a day or so; but this reac- tionary stage cannot be otherwise than beneficial. Alcohol is a poison ; every drop of it doing its share of damage. How then can it harm a man, to stop taking poison ? When one has been living wrongly, and deposits have been forming in his body for twenty years or more, it should not surprise him if the first trial of Water Cure treatment stirs up a good deal of this foul mat- ter ; and while the system is at work removing this portion, the patient will feel more or less upset. He thus may imagine that the treatment is doing him injury. But that would be absolutely impossible. How could it ? One must distinguish between the patient’’s momentary distress, and the lasting advantage gained. Kneipp frequently falls into the same errors that the drug physi- cians make, because he does not follow out certain effects to their primary causes. He is too often guided by the feelings of the patient. We have had numberless patients who stopped the use of both tobacco and alcohol at once, and felt not the slightest bad effects. Many physicians recommend wine, beer, and other alcoholic bever- ages as stimulants, thinking thus to increase strength. Our experience, however, proves conclusively that every drop of alcohol petforms a de- structive work by coagulating the albumen of the blood and tissue; and “coagulation ” always means death. The apparent, but temporary in- crease of strength by any stimulant, simply indicates that the vitality is putting forth extra efforts to remove the particles rendered effete by this poison. The exhaustion and prostration following, are the necessary consequences of this over-exertion. It is strange that such wiseacres as the drug doctors profess to be, should have noticed the apparent stimula- tion, and failed to see any of the after-effects. For centuries people drank only wine and beer, which contain but a small percentage of alcohol. It was the drug profession- which first introduced the use of the more concen- CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 267 trated and injurious liquors in their fatal practice, and thus led to the habitual use of these strong drinks. And it is still the drug physicians who persuade people that alcoholic stimulants are beneficial. We co?isider stimulants, narcotics, and pain-killers, as the greatest cjirses ever brought upon mankind. We owe the present enormous use of strong drinks principally to the drug schools ; the same is true of other pernicious habits, such as the use of morphine, ether, etc. Medical empirics can make drunkards and opium fiends, but they cannot cure them. The “ gold cure ’ ’ is not a cure in any true sense. It is ruinous like all the rest of their makeshifts. Under natural modes of treatment, all winatural habits and desires, including onanism, and all excesses in venery, are easily corrected. The desire for tobacco, alcohol, morphia, etc., and for all other excesses, is a morbid one, and arises from encumbrance in the system. Such abnormal conditions are managed by us in the same way that we treat every other form of disease, by cleansing the patient’s system from all impurities. This once thoroughly accomplished, the patient is cured of these as well as of all other unnatural propensities, and is once more free, and restored to his youthful vigor and health. These results are obtained by simple and natural methods, without killing the liver by gold chloride. Once a patient about thirty years of age came to us to be treated for delirium tremens. For two days, watch had to be kept over him day and night, but after a week’s vigorous treatment, he was thoroughly and lastingly restored. We have since heard of him occasionally, and there has been no relapse into his former habits, though his occupation renders him par- ticularly open to temptation. Before closing this subject of the wicked use of alcohol and all stimu- lants by the drug profession, we should like to quote from Dr. Taylor as follows : “ Alcohol is generally undesirable ; but some cases (! ) may (?) benefit by a glass of dry sherry or claret, or perhaps (still doubtful, you see) a little whiskey and water with the heaviest malt.” Now as all human bodies consist of the same material, and have the same organs, which operate in the same way, is it possible that Alcohol can benefit some, and not all? And notice the indecision, the doubt,—it is a fair illustration of the drug people’s usual method of treatment. Their total ignorance of the nature of disease renders them undecided and untrust- worthy. A healer, who is sure of his method, has no “mays” in his treatment; no vague hints or doubtful experiments, that may lead either to life, or death. The true healer knows what is needed, and goes straight for the goal, which is invariably—restoration. Alcohol! How does Dr. 268 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. Taylor suppose that this can be of any benefit whatever? As our experi- ments have already demonstrated, alcohol coagulates the albumen in the body, and every drop means death to the tissue. Every swallow, whether diluted or not, does its deadly work. Whence can any benefit come? We can see nothing but destruction. This same learned Dr. Taylor then enumerates various drugs, such as carbonates, bismuth, acids, bitter tonics (tonics indeed!) stimulants, nux vomica, or strychnia, quinine, opium, or morphia, belladonna, and all the rest of the deadly articles, which make such havoc with people’s health, but on account of which the drug profession takes such credit to itself. It is not to be wondered at that so many cases commencing with a little indiscretion in diet, ter- minate, under the drug physician’s kindly care, so fatally, and that there are so many premature deaths having their origin in an ailment which under Water Treatment, would have disappeared in a few days. The use of the lungs is very slightly considered by the drug profession. But this organ becomes the seat of Disease in two ways. Either the other depurating organs, liver, kidneys, and skin, are closed and so the foul matter is driven toward the lungs, or the lungs are the original place of deposits, on account of the breathing of impure air. Medical treatment is, of course, as powerless here as in every other ailment, but in this case its defects are still yet more glaring. With children under the drug sys- tem, whooping-cough often runs for many months ; and dyphtheria causes the death rate to swell to appalling numbers. Under natural treatment both forms of disease are easily cured. Cases of Asthma which under medical treatment have been steadily growing worse for fifteen or twenty years, have been radically cured by water treatment in from one to three months. We consider consumption to be as easily curable as any other ailment A Dung tuberculosis is invariably connected with the presence of micro- scopic organisms, called bacilli. If these can be eliminated from the sys- tem, consumption is cured. But the question is, how to destroy them, without injuring the patient at the same time. We say, this can be done in two ways. The bacilli can either be starved out, or, as they preferably exist in an abnormally high temperature, they can—so to speak—be ‘ frozen out.' Under ‘ How Health is lost ’—(p. 113). We saw that people ate too much ‘ fuel food,’ that this surplus led to the presence of deposits, and this being just the sort of food that microbes need for sustenance, all * See : Positive prevention and cure of Tuberculosis by none but natural means, lly A. F\ Reinhold, Pli.D., M. D., 60 Lex. Ave., N. Y. City. Price $4.80. CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 269 sorts of fevers and inflammations were the result ; until finally con- sumption closed the list. Now, in order to prevent the multiplication of microbes, the patient must live mainly on albumens, and as far as possi- ble, restrict the supply of carbonaceous substances. As soon as the microbes have thoroughly exhausted the supply of already existing deposits, there be- ing nothing left for them to feed upon they will disappear. Then, further, the bacilli mainly prosper in a temperature that is beyond the blood heat of a normal person. You all know, however, that nothing is easier than to Fig. 86. How to increase one's lung capacity. Most useful to consump- tives. Cut off the stem at a, make a cut at b, and practice blowing into a. The greater the force, the more the lungs will expand. Breathing is accomplished by two sets of muscles. One set controls inhalation, the other set governs expiration. By alternately blowing into the quill and inhaling by way of it, both sets of muscles are developed. lower a patient’s temperature to any extent by the simple means of cold water applications. The use of these two measures will prevent or in- sure the cure of any case of the much dreaded tuberculosis. Some one may say ‘ but what do you do, when a portion oj the lungs is already gone ? Well, we furnish him with more breathing apparatus in, this way. At the moment when a child is born, its lungs are still col- lapsed, and would sink in water. With the first breath, however 270 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. expansion takes place ; but under ordinary circumstances, a portion of the lungs remains collapsed throughout life. Now, it is this unused residue, that we fall back upon. By means of certain methods of forced breathing, we expand this portion, and make it take the place of the part already gone. In this way, the patient will probably find, that he has in the end as much lung capacity at his command, as before he was attacked by the malady. (Fig. 86.) Of course Water Cure, like nature herself, has its limits. It cannot bring people back to life. It cannot undo in one month, the ravages made by a life-time of perverse living. But our invariable success war- rants us in making the assertion, that no disease is incapable of cure by natural means, if this is taken in time. In the treatment of consumption, medical men have tried every im- aginable method, except the only simple and natural one. They con- sider the bacilli their arch-enemies, but their method of attacking them is so ridiculous, that it would seem that any school-boy should know better. The drugs they give, are taken first into the stomach, and from thence go into the blood, through the heart, and then finally to the lungs. As drugs are poisons, the entire system must thus first be poisoned, before the seat of the trouble is reached. This one fact is enough to explain, why consump- tion is not curable under the drug treatment, and why the patients die in advance of the bacilli. (Fig. 87.) Recognizing the fact that this method of reaching the lungs, was rather circuitous and destructive of life, the drug profession devised a more direct route for their poisons. Medicated inhalations were tried, and Koch’s tuberculine was injected into the blood, but still this dreaded form of disease is beyond their control. And it must of necessity remain so as long as such methods are resorted to. Inhalations only irritate the lungs, and draw more impure blood to them ; and hypodermic injections of ail}' kind are useless and ridiculous, as their repeated failures attest. The drug people have tried every imaginable means to cure consumption, except the effectual one of a return to nature ; they have never studied man’s original mode of living, which is his only natural one, the only healthy one, and the only one that will restore lost health; hence their signal failure to cure chronic ailments. Harris and Beale, two prominent physicians in London, and each at the head of several hospitals for lung troubles, jointly issued a volume in 1895 on the treatment of consumption. It was well they styled their book treatment of consumption, and not ‘ cure ’ of consumption, as under their directions their patients soon expire and yet their method embodies CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 271 all the latest ideas of the prevailing drug schools. But as to the origin of the difficulty, the causes that lead to this awful scourge, they do not say one word ; all they do is to poison, poison, poison. They are so engrossed with this idea that they have no room for any other thought. Calomel, Terminal vesicles of the human lung, attached to a bronchial tube. Af- ter Wagner. Anterior view of the lungs. From Bourgery. Arrangement of the capillary vessels in the air cells of the lungs;—From-Bt1 Carpenter. Fig. 87.—The breathing process is performed by the lungs ; the carbonic acid of the blood being thereby replaced by oxygen. This exchange cannot proceed in a perfect manner, if we breathe the air of confined rooms. The air enters by the larnyx (1), and descends the wind pipe (trachea), 3, where the latter splits up into several tubes, bronchi; these subdivide more and more, till they finally terminate in microscopic air cells. The total number of the cells is estimated at 600 millions. Diseases of the lungs, such as asthma and tuberculosis can only arise, when the entire body is encumbered, and the corrupt matter selects the lungs chiefly for their place of deposits, or as an artificial organ of elimination. A healthy person does not expectorate. With him, all effete matter is removed by way of the skin, the bowels or kidneys. Dung troubles are cured by adopting a natural mode of living, and by drawing the impurities away from the lungs towards the natural organs of elimination; this is easily effected by sitz—baths and packs. But medicated inhalations and all the other methods of the drug schools, irritate the lungs still more, and draw all the foul matter towards them. Water treatment cures asthma and tuberculosis simply and promptly. Under medical treatment asthmatics are never cured and consumptives invariably die pretty soon. 272 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. Fig. 88. How we Cure Tuberculosis. Cure Warranted. Consumption commences with a little cough. When consumptives first present themselves for treatment to the drug doctor they only complain of a cough. Why do the drugging people not cure this cough ? Why do they allow it to run on to the second, third and finallj’ the incurable stage ? Because they are totally ignorant of its cause and every direc- CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 273 i. e., mercury or quicksilver, is their sheet anchre; they prescribe it for both costiveness and diarrhoea, as well as for every other symptom that may turn up. And it is to the mercy of such hare-brained people that the public is delivered by our absurd medical laws. Poor humanity, how we pity thee! Consumption has been cured ; post mortem examinations prove it. It is cured spontaneously by Nature; and it is cured by us, by following the footsteps of Nature. But under the drug system in vogue, not one patient escapes. If the public had decided to exterminate all con- sumptives, this could not have been done more effectually than it is doing by putting the drug schools in authority, by bestowing upon them the monopoly of poisoning the people. (Figs. 88 and 89.) We will give here a few cases of lung troubles out of the scores that have come under our notice. A Mr. S., a man of about 26 years of age, applied to us to be treated for tuberculosis. He suffered from a distressing cough, which prevented his sleeping during the latter part of the night. His pulse was 108 and his extremities cold. He had had diarrhoea for four months, his tongue was coated, and the slightest exertion occasioned profuse perspiration. Plis expectorations were yellow, and would sink in water. He had been unable to work for nine months ; and though he had consulted a number of physicians and lung-specialists, and had been dosed with creosote pills, he grew worse instead of better. Under Water Cure treatment, however, he soon began to rally, and gained rapidly in health. Mrs. Mary L., 43 years of age and the mother of five children, had suffered for 18years with bro?ichitis, and for six years with asthma as well. There was arcus senilis. The legs were cold, heavy, and the knee reflex was lost. She had been treated by many physicians and in several dis- pensaries and hospitals, including Bellevue Hospital. She even went to Europe, in the hope of finding health. All was of no avail. Under our Water Cure methods, however, she improved visibly with each treatment. Mrs. F. suffered for over a year with bronchitis accompanied by cos- tiveness. There was arcus seniles, etc. Her tongue was coated ; her Continued, from Fig. 88. tion of theirs tends to accelerate the fatal end. Countless post mor- tem examinations have proved that Nature unaided has cured gen- uine cases of tuberculosis. It has been the endeavor of the author to study the conditions of these spontaneous cures of nature, and he claims that by his simple, natural methods consumption is as easily cured as a little cold. He has endeavored to make this assertion good by his volume on Tuberculosis. The hectic fever, absolutely uncontrolled by any means at the command of the drug people, we remove within a few days or weeks at the utmost, and we challenge any one to test our method. 274 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [ PT. IV. ( Fig. 89. The routine treatment of consumption.—Death isteh invariable result, a, mud bath ; the drug venders expect it to purify the s) s- tem.—b, cod liver oil, sure to spoil the liver and digestion ; and then emaciation will follow, c, inhalation, excellent to draw all the foul matter to the lungs, instead of to the bowels. It never cured a pa- tient. d, drinking blood warm from animals ; the patient closes CH. 20.J STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 275 pulse 120, monthlies irregular, and she had suffered with leucorrhoea fcr several years. The specific gravity of her urine was 1009. After years of unhappy experiences with the “ regulars ” and their deadly drugs, with, of course, the inevitable failure, one month of natural treatment cured her entirely. Mr T. had been under medical treatment for asthma and bronchitis for nineteen years. He was very stout, and had night sweats and palsy. Before he came to us, he had been unable to go to business for four months. Water Cure enabled him to return to his occupation within eight days.. After two weeks treatment, Mr. T. felt ‘ tip-top ’ (his own words), and within a month he reduced his weight by sixteen pounds. A patient of ours, whose foot would undoubtedly have been ampu- tated but for our timely intervention, recommended our cure to a con- sumptive lady. The patient was 26 years old and mother of three chil- dren. Pulse, 92 ; bowels, rather costive ; tongue, somewhat coated ; muscles still well developed. Had coughed for eight months, principally during the night and in the morning ; expectoration somewhat greenish. All these symptoms demonstrate that the case was a slight one, and only in the beginning. The patient was put on our natural, bloodless diet. Her relatives, sharing the universal superstition as to the strength derived from meat, objected and called in a celebrated “ regular.” He put her at once on the “ regular” strength-giving (?) meat, milk, and whiskey diet (though it never saved a patient yet), and thereby managed to rush her to the grave within a few months. When physicians are no longer able to give even temporary relief ‘ they lay the blame on the climate, and send their patients to the sea shore, or the mountains, or the North or the South. But we naturists cure just as well here in the City of New York as anywhere else ; we do not need and do not care to send any of our patients away, neither to the South, nor to the mountains, nor to the sea shore, nor to Heaven. It is, because the drug doctors have reached the limit of their resources, that they begin to devise such ingenious excuses for their ignorance. (Fig. 90.) In cases of Obesity and Excessive Leanness, the lungs are principally at fault. When in health, the weight of a person depends mainly on the lung capacity. Under our simple treatment, learned from Nature herself, Continued from Fig. 89. eyes and nostrils in order to swallow this drink, recommended by drug doctors. It might be milk and brandy, so much recommended by the drug people which only hurried the patient to an early grave. e, inocculation with Koch’s tuberculine ; the surest way of reliev- ing the patient permanently by an early death. 276 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt.IV. both difficulties are readily and permanently overcome. The reason is simple enough. Natural treatment results in a healthy, normal body, and this is neither fat nor lean. If, on the contrary, you were to study the books, written by medical men on these subjects, you would fail to under- stand how so many irrational views could be concocted by the human brain. The skin frequently indicates the state of the system. Medical books enumerate a great variety of skin diseases, i. e., acne and eczema. Accord- ing to medical authorities, the “ origin of eczema is a most difficult ques- tion, and still far from solution.” So, we cannot be surprised, that this form of disease is mismanaged by the whole profession. We have already seen, how entirely unable the drug people are to account for contagious diseases,—viz. : why some people are affected, and others are not. It is the same with skin diseases. They cannot account for them, and they treat them from the outside, with salves or internally by means of poisons, blindly experimenting with each case. We advocates of the natural methods, see nothing mysterious in either. We say: the patient’s blood has been vitiated by the constant use of meats, spices, sugar, alcohol, etc., and the action of the depurating organs has been defective. This explanation is perfectly satisfactory ; it covers the whole ground, and points the way to the only and rational cure. But because it is simple, the whole drug profession scoffs at and ridicules it, without deigning it any consideration. Yet they have nothing more satisfactory to offer in its place. Well, they have had their day, and we will have ours. Once let the public wake up to this question, and they will soon decide which is reasonable, and which nonsensical. Naturalists the blood is impure, and consequently the whole fibre of the body is impure. Eczema or any sort of skin eruption is not a disease. It is merely an indication, or symptom. The true disease in this case, as in every case, is the impurity in the blood. Eruptions indicate that the system is trying to throw off its poison. This effort should be assisted, and not suppressed. This is our method, and success follows in every instance. With us, the eruption disappears, because the cause is no longer present. But the drug people, totally ignorant *of the origin of this skin trouble, concentrate all their efforts upon the suppression of the symptoms. In this way, they simply drive the poison from the skin back into the system. We try to draw the poison to the surface, because in that case the patient is relieved from danger. This fact is recognized by every one in such forms of disease as measles, smallpox, scarlet fever, etc. When CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 277 the eruption is thorough and full, the patient is always safe ; but if it only partially comes to the surface, death or some lasting harm is sure to result. The skin is not intended to secrete any except gaseous matter. Hence any eruptions or disease of the skin must be drawn away from the skin towards the abdomen, where we find the two natural depurating organs for liquid and solid effiuvia. This is common sense t eatment, and is effected by cooling the abdomen b}’ means of prolonged cool hip- baths and wet abdominal compresses. Fig. 90.—Sent South,. A consumptive is sent South by liis drug quack, because the latter is too ignorant to cure him and wants to get rid of the responsibility. We send no one South, nor to the sea shore, nor to a dry climate, nor the mountains. Whoever resorts to such expedients shows his ignor- ance of effecting a cure by simple remedies. The other day, a little boy of two or three years was brought to us for treatment. He was suffering from a severe case of diabetes. He had apparently been in fair health until about a year ago, when eczema ap- peared on his face. This was successfully suppressed and driven back into the system by drugs and salves. Such suppression is an easy matter, but 278 RESTORATION OF HEARTH [pt. IV. the consequences are momentous. Suppression is never cure. In this instance the poison, which was not allowed to pass off in its own fashion, reappeared as diabetes. The physician in attendance could not cure this, and the mother took the boy to clinics and celebrities, only to be told that, while the life of some adults could be prolonged for a few years, with children diabetes was sure to terminate fatally in a short time. Mercury and arsenic are the principal means of medical cure for eczema. When a patient applies to a physician in private practice, the subject of “ health ” is rarely touched upon,—proper diet, for instance, pure air by day and night, proper clothing, the air-, sun-, and water-baths for the skin, etc. In fact, medical men seem to forget altogether, that the skin has a most important function to fulfill. Often patients come to us, wearing two or three woolen shirts, beside two or three woolen flannel ‘ ‘ protectors. ’ ’ A Mrs. W., who came to us, was wrapped up in this absurd fashion. She had suffered with liver-, spleen-, and lieart-troubles, swollen extremities, nervous prostration, headaches, palsy, symptoms of consumption, female complaints, etc. For 16 years, she had followed in vain the advice of the highest medical authorities in the city of New York. “I consider my- self a total wreck, and beyond any repair, ” were her words, when she first came to us. One dozen treatments effected a perfect cure, and the dif- ference in her appearance was astonishing. All the physicians she had consulted, cautioned her against colds—hence the amount of clothing she wore. Seeing the manner in which she was shrouded, we were not sur- prised that she had also been treated for a whole year for consumption. The first thing we did, was to dispense with all the flannel, and in one week the cough disappeared. Mrs. F. had eczema when a girl of 14; but the eruption disappeared until about ten years later, when it was for 11 months unsuccessfully treated by medical men, in public dispensaries, etc. One month of Water treatment, however, completely cured her. A young girl of about 16 applied to us for relief from eczema. Since her third year, she had hardly had one well day. A fashionable physician of note had always cautioned her against the use of water. But it was this same Water that cured her in less than two months. Case of Acne. A young lady had it so severely that the boils were sitting on top of each other ; many were of the size of a hazel nut, and as a whole, they formed lumps on both cheeks of the size of a man’s fist. She took mercury and arsenic for 4 years, and she was CH. 20.] STIMULANTS, LUNG, SKIN AND SEXUAL TROUBLES 279 lanced some twenty times at the drug dispensary on Centre street. Under Water Cure the Acne rapidly disappeared. You see, cure is 710 difficult, mysterious thing ; all that is needed is a little commo?i se?ise. (Fjo. 91.) If rashes, pimples, ulcers, diarrhoea, etc., appear during treatment, they fnust by no means be interfered with. They plainly show that the treatment has strengthened the system sufficiently to enable it to throw off the poison that is hi it. These symptoms should be welcomed by the patient as fore- runners of perfect health. Fig. 91.—A Pore in the skin. The drug people rarely or never think of the use of the pores, or of restoring health by opening these pores ; on the contrary, they close these vents by greasy ointments and rubber bandages, and by recommending heavy underwear. All their prescriptions and endeavors are irrational, and in reality make peo- ple worse. The drug poisoners pay as little attention to the action of the kidneys and bowels. They content themselves by putting poison into the systems of people, never asking how the trouble arose, how far, for instance, is the inactive skin responsible? A per- son can only become sick -when one or more of the eliminating organs are inactive ; then the effete matter collects. Any rational treatment tends to open the exits ; the drug advocates seldom think of this. The medical school divides Diseases into two classes: Acute and Chronic,—the former being those diseases which are of short duration, and the latter those which are deeply rooted and may last a life-time. The fact that a case is permitted to establish itself and become chronic, shows gross ignorance and mismanagement. As a chronic disease is the outgrowth of an acute one, it is evident that since they exist at all, the drug physician has no cure for either acute or chronic disease; his ut- most endeavors really result in aggravating a slight disease into a serious one ; as when he changes rheumatism into paralysis. The drug schools in comparing gonorrhoea and syphilis consider the latter the more serious of the two. They apply injections and internal drugs for gonorrhoea, and local caustics and mercury for syphilis. Under the drug system, both forms of disease may be followed by the most terrible consequences. Syphilis, especially, is never radically cured by drugs. By our natural methods we can absolutely and thoroughly cure 280 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. fresh cases of either disease in a few days, and old cases in a few months. This we are only too anxious to prove at any time. We once had a patient who, sixteen years before, had contracted syphilis. He was unlucky enough to try first the drug schools, which treated him with mercury during all those years, and of course unsuccess- fully. At the time of his application to us, he had large clusters of gummy tumors in three parts of his body. When told that Plain Water would cure him, he hesitated to rely on water alone, as he could not un- derstand how water could have the power to cure, where mercury had for sixteen long years failed. We cannot blame him, when medical men also fail to understand this simple truth. Considerable persuasion was re- quired to induce him to give up the use of the mercury; but we eventu- ually succeeded, and after a treatment of two months the man was cured. Our system of cleansing, first softened the gummy tumors; then blood and pus passed away; and finally the tumors grew more and more shallow, until they entirely closed up. “ Syphilis and scroftila have from time immemorial been among the most dreaded scourges inflicted upon the human race. Worse than the plague, cholera or smallpox. Although these terrible visitations bring death and desolation to thousands, their reign is generally brief. Not so with syphilis and scrofula—these insidious enemies of the human race not only kill thousands outright, but leave their deadly stamp upon thousands yet unborn—a rich heritage of woe and suffering for genera- tions to come. Physicians in all ages have invented remedies for the re- lief and cure of syphilis and scrofula,” but even to-day are unable to eradicate them from the blood. If a person at the age of fifty or sixty becomes sick, and his drug physician suspects that in youth there may have been syphilitic affection, he at once prescribes some mercurial ointment This shows, how little faith the drug schools have in the thoroughness of their mercurial cure, as they fear that even after this immense lapse of time the syphilitic poison is not yet eradicated. Is not this most pitiable and ridiculous, when compared with natural methods? CH. 2 1 J 281 SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES. CHAPTER 21. mg? Cjjw HERE are certain affections called strictures, in \ which the urine cannot be freely discharged; / stricture also prevents procreation and causes many other fatal difficulties. This ailment, we do not p-d hesitate to pronounce to be almost invariably the (31 RESUET of injections of aseptics prescribed by the ‘regulars.’ (Eig. 92 and 93.) It is evident that the retention of the urine must lead to serious affections of the bladder and kidneys; and one of the most fatal of these complaints is Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys. The following case came under our observation: A young man having been treated by two representatives of the drug schools, finally called in a specialist, who gave as his opinion, that the disease had its origin in the scarlet fever, which the man had had at the age of six years; acknowl- edging thereby that for eighteen years his learned colleagues had per- mitted the foul-and foreign matter to lurk in the system. The decision of this wise, this learned specialist was that nothing could save the man’s life. When we were permitted to see the patient, his entire body was puffed up, his legs were swollen, and his urine on being boiled, coagulated into almost a solid, milky mass. And yet in two weeks of treatment by our natural methods the patient so far recovered that with our permission, he danced at a ball, without receiving any injury or suffering any ill effects. He was cured, the poison was forever eradicated, and no lurking germs of disease were left to creep forth with disastrous effect at a later time. In cases of Hernia, the wearing of a truss is recommended by the medical schools. But the person who once wears a truss, requires it for- ever, and must moreover carefully refrain from any vigorous effort. An operation is sometimes performed, which may result in temporary relief, or may end fatally. Even if the issue is apparently successful, the rup- 282 RESTORATION OF HEARTH [j’T. IV. ture is apt to return at any time. Is either the truss or the operation a sure method of Cure ? Is it not rather one more instance of the superficial manner in w7hich the drug schools treat their patients,—ignoring utterly the primary causes in every instance ? (Fig. 94.) Fig. 92. Syringes used for injections in cases of gonorrhoea. A tiny in- strument, but by its means the “ regulars ” su ;ceed in ruining irre- trievably the lives of countless thousands of vigorous young men an- nually. Natural methods permanently overcome the gonorrhoea in a week or two. These remarks hold good in cases of Prolapsus Uteri ;—all that drug people can try is, to keep the organ in place by means of a rubber ring. Was ever a woman cured by this method ? (Fig. 95.) Take again a case of floating kidneys. What do the ‘ ‘ regulars ’ ’ in this case ? A most Fig. 93. Catheter and Bougies. Ineffectual means of the drug people of curing the stricture, which was first brought on by injections pre- scribed by them. dangerous and painful operation, in which a passage is cut with the knife until the kidneys are reached, which are then fastened to the back by means of a fine silver wire, which remains permanently in the body. This may be considered from the drug doctors standpoint a very fine piece of wrork, but it is a miserable substitute for a cure by natural methods. CH. 21.j SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES 283 Now these three kinds of afflictions, hernia, prolapsus uteri, and float- ing kidneys are caused by a degeneration of the tissues. The walls which should retain the intestines, and which in a healthy system are very tough, become weakened and tender ; and under the slightest strain, sometimes even by a cough, will tear like sheepskin, and allow the bowels to escape. Fig. 94. —Trusses and Syringes. Trusses are mere make-shifts and do not cure rupture. The operations for hernia performed by the syringe and in other ways, do not cure the cause that led to the rupture. Such an operation is always danger c as*, often fatal and only at best gives temporary benefit. Rupture is brought on by a weakened condition of the tissues which retain the intestines. They became weakened by the perverse living of the patient, and a thorough cure can only be expected by the adoption of a rational mode of living. The idea of preventing rup- ture entirely, never suggested itself to our great “ surgical lights.” A person in perfect health cannot rupture himself by the severest strain; but if the tissues are degenerated, even an act of sneezing may bring it on. The tendons, which usually support the womb and kidneys in their places, may likewise become degenerated, and then they are not able to hold up the wreight of those organs. One would naturally ask, can those organs not be strengthened, and thus made to do their duty again ? Cer- tainly ; and this is easily achieved by hygienic means. As to the treat- ment of rupture, it is plain that only strengthening the abdominal wall, can prevent the rentfrom going farther, or, when the opening is fresh, close it entirely. If we seek the primary cause of degeneration of the tissues, we find it to be lack of nourishment in those tissues; the blood is not of the normal composition, because the food taken is quite contrary to the requirements of the human system. Thus, if you would avo d these dilti- 284 RKSTORATION OF HRARTII [pt. IV, culties, you m ist live properly, and then, a rupture will be impossible. A healthy person, viz. : a person free from encumbrance, can never rupture himself. Suppose he should endeavor to raise a weight of five- hundred pounds ; either he would actually raise it, or his strength giving out, he would be unable to lift it; but by no amount of strain could he cause a rupture in healthy tissue. In medical books we fail to find a solitary word as to the manner of pre- venting these serious afflictions. Fig. 95.—A Few Samples of Pessaries. This is another sort of make-shifts, used by the “ regulars ” for falling of the womb. This state arises from a debilitated condition of the entire system, mainly of the abdominal organs induced by a wrong regime. Often these, supports do not fit properly and cause great suffering. They are utterly useless as far as a “ cure ” is concerned. Cure can only be reached by hygienic means. Mrs. F. suffered for years with many abdominal troubles, which Dr. S. diagnosed as Floating Kidneys, and for which he suggested an opera- tion. Dr. B. thought it was inflammation of the ovaries, and urged an operation. Dr. V. took it for an affection of the womb, and suggested an operation. Here are three great authorities, and three different diagnoses ; but in spite of their disagreement, each insisted on an operation for life or death. Thanks to Water Cure none has been necessary. Most ailments are accompanied by either a loose or a constipated co?i- dition of the bowels. Mr. S. suffered with dysentery for twenty-eight years. He had spent a fortune in consulting specialists, but could find no cure. For fifteen years he had been compelled to take medicine daily. This constant drug- ging resulted in rheumatism, which, growing steadily worse for many years, at last terminated in gout. After relinquishing all hope of recovering CH. 2 1.] SEXUAL, LIVER AXD KIDNEY TROUBLES 285 his health, he finally came to us for treatment. In twenty-four hours, the dysentery yielded ; three applications routed the gout, and in eight days the patient was back in his office ; and has enjoyed excellent health for years. The author reported this case to three Nezv York medical papers, but the editors—-allopathic physicians—thought it of no interest* After his own cure, this patient urged a friend, who was suffering from constipation, to take our treatment. The friend said: “ / know from yozcr case that the treatment will cure diarrhoea, but I do not see, how the same treat?nent can cure costivenenessThis is only a sample of the wrong ideas disseminated by the drugging people, who consider, and also impress their patients with the idea, that diverse forms of disease require different treatment, and that one simple treatment like Water Cure cannot be considered adequate for all ailments. Thus the sufferers remain un- cured for years. In this way, the drug experimenters are not only failures themselves, but they prevent people from applying to methods that would undoubtedly relieve them of their difficulties. Such troubles as blindness, deafness, etc., could readily be brought to a standstill, and in the commencement cured by hygienic measures. But our celebrated specialists do not wish to be ousted by a little plain diet and water; and so misrepresent this treatment as a humbug, thereby con- demning their victims to lifelong misery. Mr. L. D. had been under medical treatment for the eyes for five years before he applied to us. The right eye was totally blind, and the left was fast going; a gas-jet appeared to him surrounded by colored rings. After taking osmium prescribed by Dr. Greening, and after con- sulting all the celebrated specialists of New York, Dr. Knapp giving as his opinion that an operation on the right eye (the blind one) might pos- sibly save the other, but that this result could not be warranted,—the operation was performed by Dr. Burnton of the Ophthalmic Hospital on 23d street. The result, however, was by no means favorable. After remaining in this plight for 18 months, we promised the patient to save his left eye, but on account of the useless mutilation of the right eye, could not guarantee how far this organ might be benefited. Three months of Water Cure under our care saved the left eye, and even partially re- stored the sight of the right eye. However, let us return to the treatment of constipation. (Fig. 96.) * The ineffectual drug treatment had cost twenty-eight years of unspeakable suffering and about fifteen hundred dollars ; our radical cure cost the patient thirty dollars. The reason why our mode of treatment was of no interest to the drug schools is obvious. 286 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. Costiveness may have many causes; such as, habitual suppression of the desire to go to stool, which may followed by inaction of the colon ; or the abdominal muscles are weakened, or there are special affections of the liver, etc. Horizontal section of the eye. After Cruveilhier. Fig. 96.— The left eye: 1, cornea; 2, chamber of the aqueous humor; 8, iris; 11, retina; 15, lens; 17, optic nerve; 18, vitreous humor. Blindness is the result of a skin forming over the cornea ; or the lens becomes opaque ; or the iris closes ; or the humors grow impermeable to light; or the optic nerve atrophies. All of these cases are produced by deposits of matter foreign to a healthy system. A perfectly healthy person cannot become blind, or deaf; and if a person under- goes a thorough cleansing process as soon as any trouble with the eyes, or any other organ arises, affliction would positively be averted. On the right, we notice two of the muscles, that operate. the eye- ball. If they balance in strength, the eye will look straight ahead ; if one muscle is weaker than the other, squinting results One muscle may act less powerfully by foreign matter having settled in it, obstructing its action. A cleansing of the whole system over- comes squinting. Oculists operate on it and mutilate the eye per- manently. In the Dictionary of Practical Medicine by James King Fowler, M.A., M.D., C. E. Shelly enumerates the following causes of Costiveness: Abuse of enemata and purgatives ; (!) the use of certain articles of food, such as salt, meat, cheese and tea. The abuse of opiates, tobacco, and spirits'; a dietary yielding too small a proportion of innutritious residue, producing faeces too small in bulk to excite full intestinal peristalis. All these articles are employed by medical men to cure other troubles, and CH. 21.] SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES 287 thus it is they who cause costiveness. Advocates of the Water Cure reject all these articles eo ipso. Natural methods of cure never produce costive- ness, or any other ailment. For treatment, Dr. Shelley recommends a tumblerful of hot water at bedtime, and one of fresh, cold spring water sipped while dressing; a pipe or cigar after breakfast or dinner. Drugs, he says, are quite secondary to general hygienic and dietetic treatment, but their use is often necessary. In such cases, he advises a full dose of opium, pills of aloe and rad. ipecac., belladonna, hyoscyatnus, calomel, arsenic, quinine, etc. We have already stated our views on hot water for drinking pur- poses. It is injurious, because it lowers the tone of the digestive appa- ratus and the lower bowels. We have never heard of a case of costive- ness being cured by warm enemas, and are of the opinion that it is induced by them instead. As Mr. S. considers purgatives one of the causes, we fail to understand why, nevertheless, he should advise and prescribe a large number of such drugs. We should reason that if cos- tiveness be caused by purgatives, more purgatives would only aggravate it. He also states that tobacco may lead to costiveness, yet he recommends it. (!) Would he also recommend the pipe to ladies ? This drug prescriber is not the only one who recommends the use of tobacco. In ‘ How we ought to live ’ by Dr. J. F. Edwards, we read of a man as follows : ‘ Never used tobacco, until after my first fever ; then, when getting well, was subject to nausea after eating. The doctor told me to try a whiff ox two after eating; he said he thought it would help me. It did, and so I got into the habit of smoking, and continued it for some twenty years or more, and then quit it for some ten years, be- cause I thought it did me harm, having been a good deal troubled with dyspepsia after my fever sicknesses. Never getting rid of the desire to smoke, I fell into the habit again, and continued it until some six or eight years ago, when I left off again, as I thought it produced a sort of giddiness in my head.' By such prescriptions, the drug schools not only inflict physical harm upon their patients, but make them slaves to a dis- gusting and very expensive habit. (Fig. 97.) Wild animals need no pipes, no warm enemas, no hot water to drink; neither have they any of the purgatives which, while they are expected to overcome costiveness, really cause it. Under such inconsistencies, we cannot wonder that constipation finally rims into the severest and most fatal liver complaints, for the cause of which, however, the drug advocates cannot account. At any rate, they would not acknowledge these mon- strosities to be their offspring. 288 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. Interlobular branches of the portal vein, the lobular venous plexuses, and the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins of three lobules From Kiernan. Transverse section of a portal canal in the liver From Kiemnn. Interlobular ducts From Kiernan. Transverse section of a sublobular hepatic veift- From Kiernan. Fig. 97- A few cuts, exhibiting the wonderful and complex construction of the liver. The liver secretes the bile. The bile acts upon the chyme in the duodenum rendering its fatty portions more soluble, and thereby aids in converting them into chyle ; a part of the bile is dis- charged with the excrements, thus relieving the blood of.superfluous hydrocarbons. It stimulates the mucous membrane of the intestines to increase its secretion and promotes the peristaltic motion of the bowels. By eating too much hydrocarbons, as is done if following the perverse diet of civilized races, we exhaust the liver ; then the bile is not sufficiently secreted from the blood ; the skin becomes yellow, and costiveness sets in. To cure this condition we should rest the liver by a proper diet, refraining from the hydrocarbons (fat, white bread and starch of any kind, and sugar ) The drug schools, not know- Reinhold, Nature vs. Drugs—ix. CH. 21.] SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES 289 The deeper causes of both constipation and dropsy when inquired into, are usually found in a torpid condition of the liver and the kidneys re- spectively. The drugging people say : “We must make them work.” To this we heartily agree. But now comes the difference between the Drug Treatment and our. own. The drug practitioner begins to experi- ment with his poisons in stimulating those organs ; he succeeds appar- ently for a time ; but the patient has to keep on taking drugs until finally the most powerful of them fail to operate—because those organs have been utterly ruined,—killed by the drugs. This is the ultimate outcome of medical thoughtlessness and superficialness. We, on the contrary, begin by investigating more deeply, and inquir- ing, how such sluggishness of the liver and kidneys is caused, always finding that it is the result of overwork. In the case of the liver, the pa- tient has eaten too much, of too rich, or improper food ; and in reference to the kidneys, a similar cause has existed, injurious liquors have been taken, and in excessive quantities. The limited amount of vital power allotted by nature to these organs, is overtaxed, until they become utterly prostrate. We can exercise our muscles up to a certain limit, but if we go beyond,, they will be lastingly injured. After exerting our muscles, we should rest them. And when liver and kidneys are tired from work, the only proper way to cure them, is to allow them rest; not to goad them further to over-exertion, which must end in their irrepara- ble loss. In order to give rest to the liver and kidneys, we allow to the liver as little food as possible, and to the kidneys, as little drink as possible ; both :rood and drink must consist of articles natural to man, and also in their natural condition. We still further assist the liver by taking useless work off its hands by means'of cold enemas, cool sitz baths, cool wet ab- dominal bandages, etc. In this, way, both organs are soon restored to their normal activity. Under Natural Methods such conditions as torpid liver, wax liver, cancer of the liver or Bright’s Disease and diabetes, cannot de- velop. They are the result of overstimulation by medical poison. (Fig. 98.) (Continued, from Fig. 97.) ing anything of the cause of the trouble, nor of its simple cure, try to overcome it by their prescriptions of calomel etc. They only make the difficulty worse • a person may take these drugs for 20 or 30 years, but never be cured by them of his costiveness ; if he still continues to live he will certainly then suffer from diabetes or some similar ailment. Natural methods cure costiveness easily and radi- cally ; and this in a short time, if the cases are fresh. To administer purgatives, is quite unphysiological, and will sooner or later be viewed as the action of thoughtless people. 290 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. Digestive tube. After Cloquet. Fig. 98. Stomach and Intestines (we should be most careful what we put in). 2 and 3 stomach, 5 gall bladder ; 4 duodenum, between boih is a valve, called pylorus. 6, small intestines; 7, caecum; 8 appen- dicula; 9, right ascending colon; 10, transverse colon ; 11, left de- scending colon ; 13, rectum ; 14, anus. In the stomach, the food is reduced to a consistence called chyme ; this is effected by means of the saliva and gastric juice. Different kinds of food require differ- ent periods to become completely chymified. Different periods are also required by different stomachs. Little by little the chyme passes the pyloric valve, and is thus received into the duodenum, where it is elaborated into chyle through the agency of the bile and pancreatic fluids ; then the process of absorption by means of the Villi commences. The intestines are lined by a mucous membrane ; when this is cleansed it presents a velvety appearance owing to little projections, the villi. There are about 4000 of these to the square inch. Chyle is a fluid of milky color and consistence ; a portion is absorbed by the lacteal tubes (villi), while the excrementitious por- tion passes onward. Absorption exists to a small extent in the large intestines (9 to 13); this fact explains why a patient whose stomach can receive or retain no aliments (on account of having been entirely C.H. 21.] SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES 291 After a poor stomach has been drugged till it is incapable of retaining any food whatever, the drug doctoi mistakes the use of the colon and in- jects food through the anus. How does he expect that this food can be digested and assimilated without the saliva and other secretions? This instance shows plainly how absolutely perverted his mind has become; anything suggestive of nature, seems repulsive to him. The more un- natural a method the more scientific it appears to his distorted intellect. (Fig. 99.) The expulsion of faeces should proceed easily and with ex- pedition. Any one who will expose his naked body to the light of day for several hours at a time, will be struck by the coincidence that the ejection of the faeces has become much more normal than ever before in his life ; thus illustrating the powerful influence of light on the normal functions of one’s body. We hold that no substances should be introduced into the system but those which are directly conducive to its support and growth. Now, this is manifestly not the case with drugs. They irritate the intestinal or- gans and cause them to secret an extra amount of fluid from the blood in order to wash the poisons away, and the bowels are consequently evacuated, not in a natural way, but in the most unnatural, harmful and irrational fashion. The drugs waste vital power; and the lasting injury done by them is overlooked in the temporary relief which they afford. Costiveness was never cured by medicines. If you once commence with them, you have to continue, taking more and more powerful, i. e., (more virulent poisons), till even .mercury loses its effect; then the liver becomes inac- tive, and death finally relieves the sufferer. Countless people take drugs for costiveness for twenty years and upwards, getting worse all the time; but the learned drug prescribers are quite blind to this, and do not see the plain fact that the chronic constipation is but the result of their own irra- tional medication. Many cases of constipation come before us, which have been unsuc- cessfully treated for many years,—and we usually find they yield readily in a month or two of treatment under natural methods. In our practice there is no blind experimenting, no groping in the dark,—we know the use and the purpose of each act, of each application. spoiled by the drugs), may be supported fora few weeks by nutritious enemas alone, but then succumbs to exhaustion. Scientific though such enemas may appear in the eyes of the drug doctors, it would be much more rational to keep the stomach in its normal activity; and nothing is easier than this, by the use of natural food and rational treatment. (Continued. /rom big. 98.) 292 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. We do no'; acknowledge costiveness and diarrhoea as entities ; they are only symptoms of perverse living or the result of persistent drugging. In the case of costiveness, the effete matter is retained too long; in diarrhoea, it is expelled too quickly. Both abnormal conditions have the same origin, —foreign deposits, and therefore the same treatment will prove effective, —expel the alien substances by natural methods. If a grain of sand happens to get into the eye, this organ secretes a large amount of fluid, with the view, as it were, of washing the intruder out. We hold that all drugs, if they do not directly destroy the living tissue, are treated by the body in a similar way. The effects produced by a drug, depend partly upon the strength and condition of the organ, and partly on Fig. 99. Stomach Pump, used by the drug schools in cases of dyspepsia. Here, they empty the interior after poisoning the stomach to such an extent that it refuses to retain anything, by way of the mouth ; in other cases they try to feed the system by the rectum. The drug people are continually perverting nature; and the more they succeed, the more scientific they consider themselves. the solubility of the drug. But in any case, the organ secretes a large amount of fluid, and as no good can come from the poison, and as the fluid is drawn from the blood, not only a lasting injury is done the body, but a considerable amount of vital force is expended. We realize this more fully when we remember the exhaustion experienced after the eye has been weeping any length of time, or still more, the prostration following an attack of diarrhoea that has lasted a few days. Over-feeding may be another cause of costiveness. People have become fond of spices, and they like a variety of dishes at each meal. By the use of condiments and the great variety of dishes, people are induced to eat beyond the requirements of the system. CH. 21.] SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES 293 The liver secretes bile, which serves as a kind of lubricator to the intestines, so that the faeces can pass along easily. The amount of bile secreted, is in proportion to the needs of our system ; but if we eat too much, the liver has to make an extra effort. By the cooking process, the albumens of our food are made more or less indigestible. But as we require a certain amount of nourishment to keep up strength, we need a larger amount of this spoiled food than if we took our food raw. This involves a second great loss of vital power to the liver and other digestive organs, and is a fruitful source of constipation. The task of getting rid of the extra supply o* mnutritious material, largely devolves on the liver. If a person thus overtaxes, his liver and other organs for years, their strength must finally become exhausted ; the liver stops work ; the bile no longer secreted from the blood, tinges the skin [a symptom called yellow jaundice] and as it is absent from the bowels, constipation is the result. How does the drug school treat these evils ? By laxatives, mainly calomel. Suppose we should ask you to bend your arm backward and forward, as long as possible, and you were able to bend it fifty times ; suppose at that instant a pistol were placed at your head, and you were forced to con- tinue the exercise. Perhaps by an extra effort you might be able to repeat the action another fifty times or so, but the moment would come when the activity of the muscles would reach their ultimate limit, and absolute prostration would ensue ; no amount of coercion being of any avail. So long as we keep our exercise in bounds, no harm will come of it ; but any extra strain injures the muscles lastingly. So it is with all our organs. The way to recuperate them is, to rest them. This can be done in two ways : by opening the bowels by natural measures, such as cool enemas, cool sitz-baths, the use of the wet girdle, the drinking of water, kneading the abdomen, certain gymnastic exercises, exposure of the whole skin to the full daylight, etc., and by eating little food, unseasoned, uncooked, etc., so as to take any extra work from the liver. The drug schools, being totally ignorant of the cause of costiveness, pre- scribe purgatives, and thereby goad that already exhausted organ, the liver, until it is wholly prostrate. This is why they ?ievcr effect the cure of a liver complaint. On the contrary, the more drugs are taken, the more obstinately costive a patient becomes. Kneipp by his Constipation Pills does the same lasting harm to his patients, as the drug schools. In his three volumes on Water Cure, he 294 RESTORATION OP HEARTH [pt. IV. does not mention the treatment of diabetes. But in his lectures he says that he considers it, in its advanced stage, incurable by water. The drug- ging people are still more powerless in dealing with this ailment. The reason is obvious. Originating as it does from an exhausted condition of the liver, spurring this organ to over-exertion by drugs, can only aggra- vate this complaint. Permit us to- state a few cases out of our practice. Mr. M. was constipated for at least thirty years, and had been under medical treatment for the liver for eighteen years. He was also troubled with sleeplessness, dyspepsia, etc. He was thoroughly cured by Water in one month. Mr. S., editor of one of the largest New York dailies, suffered with diabetes and sluggish liver, for which, in vain, he sought relief at the famous Springs at Karlsbad, Austria. One dozen baths of plain Water cured him right here in New York City. Mr. B., aged 53, had diabetes, for which he had been treated medi- cally for a year. He had also been treated for costiveness for thirty years. When he applied to us, his pulse was 112. The specific gravity of urine (which at the beginning of our Water treatment was 1040) went down within two weeks to 1033, and was normal or 1018 within less than three months. His cure was permanent. This patient told us of a butcher who, being afflicted with the same trouble, was under the treatment of one of the great medical lights already mentioned. He was directed to give up starchy food, and to subsist mainly on meat. Just think of it! The butcher, who had been living all his life on almost nothing but meat, and who in our opinion had contracted his ailment from this perverse diet, was ordered to eat more meat. This is a fine specimen of the wonderful logic exhibited everywhere by our drugging people. A Mrs. F., age 51, mother of eight children, had been treated three years for diabetes ; during the last two years she had been costn e, i. c , this trouble set in after she began to take drugs. Her son-in-law being a physician, put her under the treatment of the best specialists who prescribed their specifics, and treated her electrically, all to no purpose. After a short time of Water Cure Treatment she felt sufficiently benefited to recommend it to a lady friend, afflicted in the same manner. This lady’s age was 60; she had given birth to eleven children. The lower part of her body always felt like ice, in spite of an immense amount of clothing. (We say, on account of it). She had been costive for years, and constantly took liver pills and other medicines and yet often went CH. 21.] SEXUAL, LIVER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES 295 for three or four days without a passage. Warm enemas, ordered by medical wisdom perpetuated the trouble. She suffered with headaches, pains in the spine, the liver and spleen for years ; and there were spells of dizziness, etc. Her own son belonging to the medical profession, she undoubtedly had the best relief medical empiricism could affcrd ; in her case it was worse than neutral. A short course of Water Cure, entirely transformed this person, however KIDNEY TROUBLES. CHAPTER 22 IDNEY TROUBLES in the first • instance, arise from overwork of that organ. These troubles may be brought on in two ways : People drink far in excess of g J the wants of their system, and in secreting this deluge Wb ymW the kidneys are compelled to waste the amount of Kssj. nervous force apportioned to them. Or the skin, which in health evaporates several pounds of invisible per- spiration per day, becomes clogged up and inactive by the mode of exclud- ing light and air from it, and retains this fluid, again forcing the kidneys to do double work. (Fig. ioo.) How do we treat kidney troubles ? In the only two ways that are both rational and effective. First, by restricting the absorption of fluid to the smallest possible amount, in some cases only allowing the mouth to be rinsed in case of thirst,—and as our diet in itself is non-irritating, and excites little thirst—less liquid is desired. Second, we stimulate the skin, and by making it do its own work, the kidneys are relieved. The skin is easily revivified by Water processes, friction, massage, exposure to the air, light, etc. The drug people and also Rev. Father Seb. Kneipp, not knowing the true causes of kiduey troubles, try to cure them by mineral poisons and medical herbs. They only succeed in ruining the organs forever. 296 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. By dint of using our brains, we have been able to establish a course of strict diet and purely hydrotherapic applications, by which we find no difficulty in curing the most desperate kidney complaints. Dr.opsy in its various aspects is no sickness in itself ; it is only an indication that the patient’s water-works are out of order ; it is the result of some other difficulty. No one should ever die of it ; nay, it would be unknown, if our drugging friends were able to overcome the primary evil. Rational treatment would consist iu removing the cause ; drug treatment consists in removing the effect—the water—by tapping. But as this process does not remedy the cause, the water will collect again, the operation has to be repeated until the patient, often quite young, dies from exhaustion. Microscopic structure of the kidney.. From) Dr. Bowman. Fig. ioo.—Structure of the Kidneys. If subjected to a diluge of improper fluids, such as alcoholic beverages, etc., these organs become diseased, excreting too much or too little fluid. If too little, the symptom of dropsy results If their function be abnormal, it arises from infiltration by abnormal sub- stances. How our medical lights can expect to remove this injurious matter by adding more poison under the delusive appellation of medicine, is totally beyond the grasp of the author’s intellect. The kidney.* All food contains more or less water ; it is found in meat, eggs, Dread, vegetables, fruit, etc. Coffee, tea, wine, brandy, and beer are principally water, more or less adulterated by some harmful substances. The fluid enters the body mainly by way of the mouth. It is secreted again, by the lungs, skin, kidneys, and bowels. The normal human body consists CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBLES 297 of almost 80 per cent, of water. But if the excretory organs are out of order, the water cannot be secreted fast enough, and will accumulate in the body. This is Dropsy. How would any other rational being pro- ceed to cure dropsy? Why, we should judge, by inquiring how the depurating organs got out of order? Why, for instance, does the skin not work ? Because all its pores are clogged up with effete matter; the skin is cold and deathlike ; there is no blood in it. Similar conditions will prevail in the lungs, the kidneys, and the bowels, which in cases of dropsy are usually costive. Why is it that these organs are clogged up? Improper substances—i. e., medical drugs administered for other ailments,— were taken into the system, and were more than the latter could secrete. The body, in its endeavor to eliminate them, may have power enough to carry them as far as the depurating organs, but lacks the power to expel them entirely. How do the men, styled “humbugs” by many drug practitioners, proceed to cure Dropsy ? By the only way in which it can be treated rationally,—namely, by first of all interdicting the taking of any more poison ; and then by prescribing a proper diet, thereby cutting off any new supply of injurious matter. After that, we direct our atten- tion to the elimination of the matter which has settled in the organs of secretion. And the measures which we use for this purpose, not only accomplish their end, but they invigorate the entire system, so that the patient grows stronger with every application. How do our licensed drug scientists treat Dropsy f First, they prescribe drugs, which stimu- late the skin and the kidneys. As their original trouble came from exhaus - tion on account of having had to contend against too many injurious and abnormal substances, such poisons may appear to cure dropsy for a time, but it will return with increased vigor, and then the drug dispensers pro- ceed to draw off the water by an operation. Does this cure f By no means; the water collects again, and the tapping is repeated, till finally death closes the scene and relieves the poor wretch forever. (Fig. ioi.) At the present time, nervous affections are innumerable. To a large ex- tent, they are of a recent date,—as recent as the countless, modern chemical preparations prescribed for them. Is not this a striking coincidence f Does it not seem that the nervous affections are only a result of the drugs ? To assert this as a positive statement, would be looked upon by the drug schools as heresy. We may divide all nervous complaints into two groups, viz.: such cases as deafness, blindness, palsy, etc., where the nerves are quite inactive; and such troubles as sciatic rheumatism, some cases of locomotor ataxy, myelitis, nervousness proper, etc., where the nerves are in an unusual state of excitement. The latter is the only 298 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. kind the drug profession ever treats ; and they treat this class with various poisons to soothe the excited nerves. These poisons do their work so effectually that before long the previously excited nerves become calm as death ; indeed they have been killed by the drugs ; and that is the reason, why the drug schools have no remedies for the first-class, —they are the offspring of the calming drugs. Every ease of deadened nerves, commenced with an inflamed condition. A nerve, like any other organ, is sick, when it is obstructed with foreign matter. The nerves are invaded last, and all the rest of the body must first be permeated with corrupt matter, before this will settle in them. They begin to fail in their proper functions, when overtaxed. As Fig. ior.—Trocars. Surgical instruments for tapping people in the case of dropsy. This operation has to be performed again and again, till the patient succumbs from exhaustion ; and this mode of treatment does not remove the cause of the trouble. Hydrotlierapists under- standing the cause of dropsy, never dream of resorting to such a useless measure as tapping ; they build up the system by natural and invigorating means, and permanently cure the patient, if his vitality is not totally exhausted by the previous system of drug poisoning. with the liver and kidney troubles, there is only one rational way of curing affections of the nerves, viz.: to REST them, and to remove the impurities. We give them resl, by relieving them as much from work as is consistent in maintaining strength. This is accomplished by eating and drinking moderately, according to our natural dietary, in its natural form. And in order to aid them in throwing off their burden, we must exercise the muscular system mildly, expose the skin to the free access of air and light, and open the excretory organs, the skin, liver, and kidneys, by the Water Cure processes. This is common sense treatment. No per- son would ever become blind under it. If there are any medicines more injurious than even the pain-killers, they are those which belong to a CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBLES 299 £las? called “tonics.” We need no other tonic than proper diet and living. Let us quote a few cases from our note book: Mr. M. D., aged 42, was a sufferer from Sciatic Rheumatism. He was treated by several drug doctors unsuccessful; he spent three months in St. Luke’s Hospital and one in Roosevelt, taking much medicine, and was cauterized, etc., and the result of the treatment was, that one leg became considerably shorter than the other. This has made him a cripple for life. Some twenty applications of Water Treatment relieved him from suffering, and enabled him to return to his work ; but of course we could not expect the leg to be restored to its normal length by these few treatments. Mr. G. R. Knee-jerk lost; pulse irregular; hair thin; piles; catarrh in the head for six years. Could not read on account of dizziness. Twelve Water applications made him feel quite well. Mr. H. had Total Paralysis, was given up by three doctors ; one of them told him that a physician from heaven could do nothing more for him. Both hands and arms up to the elbows, and both legs up to the knees were quite cold, white and stiff; the fingers were flexed and could not be moved. It required two men to raise him from his seat. Patient walked again without a cane after three weeks Water Cure, and after six months, played his flute as well as ever. Miss A. C., aged 39.—Case of Paralysis. Her pulse was intermit- tent, and many warty eruptions studded her velvet-like skin; she perspired unnaturally, was very nervous, and suffered from insomnia. Her right arm was palsied. Living a few weeks according to our instruc- tions, restored her to perfect health. Case of Myelitis (a kind of Paralysis).—Mr. M. S., aged 30, suffered for two years from various trouble. Knee-jerk was exaggerated; there was belt-tightness ; * his legs twitched, his tongue was coated, his appe- tite very poor, and slept very restlessly. He tried both allopathic and homeopathic medication, went to clinics, took about twenty sulphur baths at Sharon Springs, and used Dr. Greene’s patent medicine, all of which was in vain. A month of Water Treatment made a new man of him. Case of Locomotor Ataxy.—Mrs. K. S , aged 51. Costive all her life; had passages once in four days. Walked with a staggering gait; no knee-jerk ; legs cold, totally palsied up to the knees. Always sickly; off and on in various hospitals since her eighteenth year; principally * A peculiar sensation like that of a belt drawn tightly around the abdon;en a symptom characteristic of myelitis. 300 RESTORATION TO HEALTH [pt. IV. ailing for the last sixteen years. Suffered with headaches for many years. Seven years ago, her finger-nails became loose. Specific gravity of urine was that of distilled water. Feeling returned to the legs within three weeks after the commencement of the Water Cure ; and after about 36 baths, she felt well enough to go into service again. Mr. R., aged 22, was afflicted with Seminal Weakness and Nocturnal Emissions of three years’ standing. Very nervous; has to hold his head when spoken to; loss of memory; dread of company ; flushes of the face. Piles? for four years ; pain in kidneys. Extremities cold. Twitch- ing of the eyes and cheeks. Was treated for 8 months in the dispensary of the Post Graduate Medical School, New York City, by Profs. Fuller and Cabor. Twelve Plain Water applications cured him thoroughly. In regard to Epilepsy, Dr. W. W. Hall says: “While medicine has no power to cure epilepsy, it is very certain that grown persons can keep it in abeyance by the exercise of a close observation and a sound judg- ment,—can, in other words, ward off an attack for a life-time by attention to two things; first, by avoiding, as to quantity and quality, the food which causes any kind of discomfort. Second, by regulating the system so as to have one full, free action of the bowels every twenty-four hours. To look for restoration in any other direction is utterly hopeless.’’ From this statement, we can understand, that the usual mode of treating epilepsy is worse than useless, as the drugs not only fail to cure the ailment, but undermine the patient’s constitution. Case of Epilepsy. Miss. C. L., aged 23 years; had poor health from infancy; her pulse was irregular; she was troubled with most ob- stinate constipation for five years; she had once gone for 9 days without a passage; had the measles, mumps, dyphtheria and pneumonia, each several times. She was troubled with cold feet, headaches, and leucorrhoea. Epilepsy commenced four years ago, on the suppression of leucorrhoea. The attacks often took her unawares; sometimes having two in a day. She was treated by many ‘ regulars ’ unsuccessfully—all their names she could not recall, but among them was Dr. Greene. It was our simple method that cured her. After fifteen baths she felt the buoyancy of life for the first time. At one time a man, thirty-two years of age, had brought epilepsy upon himself by persistent practice of masturbation. For sixteen years he was treated by the leading drug spirits of the city of New York and Philadelphia ; and had been treated for over a year at the Pasteur Institute of New York, where they operated on him but did not effect a cure. Why did drugs not cure him while the case was fresh ? Because CH. 22.1 KIDNEY TROUBLES 301 there is no mineral drug for it. To show, however, how easily this dis- ease is cured by rational and common-sense methods, we will quote an- other instance from our note book : A girl, J. H., seventeen years old, had been suffering with epilepsy for three years, caused by onanism since her seventh year. The parents were unaware of this practice; and all the many medical people had done was to prescribe plenty of drugs, but not one of them inquired into the cause, nor cautioned the patient. This was the very first thing we did. She had been very costive for over three years, frequently having an ac- tion only once in five days ; pulse irregular ; menstruation irregular, and a victim of dizziness. A heavy necklace-like belt of foreign matter ran all around the neck, making it look remarkably cone-shaped. Within two weeks, her bowels had become quite normal under our plain diet and few simple water applications ; after six weeks, the girdle around the neck had almost disappeared, and a perfect cure was effected in less than three months. At one time a boy was brought to us with a tumor in the brain. The child having gone through measles, whooping-cough, scarlatina, mumps, etc., had always been in ill health. Shortly before he came to us symp- toms developed, that were diagnosed in the Centre Street Dispensary as stated above. An operation was proposed as the only possible remedy. The father of the boy was asked to give his written consent. The drug doctors wanted to secure themselves in case they killed the boy. The father, however, refused, and brought the child to us. The left ear dis- charged, and the boy was hard of hearing. His pulse was 140, his tongue was coated, and he ground his teeth and kept his mouth open during his restless sleep. He always carried his head inclined toward the right side. After three daysoi our treatment, he played in the street again, and within a month was in better health than he had ever been before. Another case of Tumor in the Brain : The patient was Mrs. L,., treated by Drs. F., S. and others for 11 months, who prescribed medicine by the basket-full, but to no purpose. The last physician advised her to go to a Home for Incurables (fine advice to give a young person to bury herself alive—with her pain !), but patient preferred Jo go to Mount Sinai Hospital. Five weeks treatment there proving unavailing ; she was sent to the Post Graduate Hospital. Professors Hammond and Abbe de- termined on an operation (on the brain!). We need not tell you what would have been the result of such a procedure. When first seen by us patient’s hair was cut, preparatory to the operation. Water, plain W~ater, relieved patient so much within eight days, that we notified Prof. Ham- 302 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. mond that the lady was already as good as cured, and that no operation would be necessary. He did not deign to reply. There is little doubt but that many similar cases have presented themselves to him since. Do Fig. 102. Two Views of the Brain. The cut on the right side rep- resents a view of the base of the brain, both cuts illustrate the compli- cated structure of this vital organ. Yet the drug doctors are ever ready to operate on this delicate organ and frequently kill the patient. We have been able to cure several patients of brain troubles who had already been doomed to the knife. The brain is fed from the blood, the same as any other organ; if its functions become abnormal, as in the case of insanity, it is owing to the presence of foreign ma- terial. In cleansing the entire system by rational and suitable methods of Water Cure, we make the brain healthy also. Operations are never necessary, and only seem so to people who know no bet- ter means. The human system is a wonderful contrivance ; the deeper a person pen- etrates the study of its structure, the more it fills us with awe. But our clumsy surgeons cut and slash at it quite thoughtlessly, unmind ful that they produce deeper sores than the original ones, and that it is Nature after all that has to do the entire healing. We do not believe in cutting and thus giving Nature double work; we assist her by removing the corrupt matter. Besides, if any case could be treated by our mode from the start, the necessity for operations would never arise. Interior of the brain. Alter Vicq d'Azyr. CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBLES 303 you not think that Prof. Hammond should, have investigated our mode of treatment for the sake of his patients? (Fig. 102.) Apoplexy is the result of the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain ; then some blood, oozing into the brain, forms a clot which exerts a pres- sure on the brain, causing paralysis. This affection continues to exist as long as the blood-clot is not absorbed. L,et us see what the drug school has to say on the treatment of this trouble. One of our wealthiest men (we refer to Mr. Vanderbilt), was stricken down by this scourge. Though able and willing to royally reward efficient services, the result of several years medical treatment was anything but satisfactory. What conclusion is thereby inevitably thrust upon us regarding the skill of the prevailing school of practitioners? With this instance before us, let us give the matter a few moments serious, unbiased consideration. We first quote from one of the leading medical text-books, as follows : * “ Diseases of the blood-vessels of the brain, are responsible for the ma- jority of cases of cerebral paralysis. There may be some obstruction in the arteries,—or, else, a rupture of the vessels themselves, and a consequent suffusion of the brain with blood. A large proportion of such cases co- exist with granular kidneys and enlargement of the heart. Alcohol, gout, and syphilis have their share in the production of these arterial lesions. Blood clots form in the brain; and, though these may be, to a large ex- tent, absorbed, in time—degenerated portions almost inevitably remain. Frequently, however, an attack of apoplexy comes on with no warning whatever. “(??)” The out-look is generally unfavorable in proportion to the severity of the earlier symptoms, and a fatal termination of the disease may occur at almost any stage of its progress. While the partial paralysis following the initial stroke may pass away in time, more fre- quently, its effects are felt for life. For relief—the best treatment known is the application of ice to the head—lessening the accompanying consti- pation by administering calomel,” (a form of mercury), ‘ ‘ while blisters and mustard plasters may be applied, and leeching and venesection re- sorted to;—with however, no certainty of success.” (! !) “ The specific treatment of the subsequent paralysis cannot be entered upon, until all evidences of disturbance in the brain have subsided.” (?? !) “ The ap- plication of electricity may be of benefit, but not, however, until six weeks *The selection of the standard works, from which we have quoted, was made hap-hazardly; in point of fact, it is quite immaterial which ones you consult; the author of one knows the nature of disease, and the way in which health should be restored, just as much, or rather as little as the other; and we deem it useless for a patient to go from one physician to another, because they all know nothing beyond what they find in those wonderful standard works of Medical Science ! 304 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. or more have intervened after the apoplectic stroke. The patient should con- fine himself to a light diet, i. e., fish, milk,custards etc.—avoid undue use of alcoholic stimulants,—take but moderate exercise,—and refrain from all excess of mental activity. But the possibility of subsequent attacks, despite all efforts,” (that is under medical treatment) “should always be borne in mind.” (To what purpose since they confess themselves powerless to prevent them ?) So much, from authoritative sources, for the position maintained by medical men regarding this by no means uncommon disease. At best we see the patient is afforded but partial relief from actual misery, and even this is conditional upon the sacrifice of his keenest interest in busi- ness and the many affairs of life that make it worth living. Now can this be regarded by reasonable beings as in any sense a “cure” ? Medi- cal men admit that organic affections of the kidneys and heart, and the alcohol habit, which is, in itself, a disease, are well known factors in the malady under discussion,—against the ravages of which they are forced to concede their formulas are of slight ultimate avail. Why, then, do they not direct their best efforts toward the mastery of those troubles that precede and lead to the more complicated one? The reason is only too evident. They are as helpless in the one case as the other ; as, in truth, they are in even so trivial a matter as a cold in the head. While admit- ting the formation of blood clots in the brain, have the advocates of the knife and drugs any means of hastening their reabsorption ? No more than thejr have of repairing the injuries consequent upon their prolonged presence. They apply ice to the head, thereby retarding that complete circulation upon which life itself depends. As a purgative, they suggest the use of mercury—admittedly one of the deadliest poisons, whereas an enema of plain water would be absolutely harmless, answering quite as well. Again these scientific graduates insist that the electrical treatment must be postponed, until the brain has quieted down. As this usually does not take place until a portion of the brain is permanently destroyed, this way of deferring proper measures, is the cause of the paralysis so frequently consequent upon an attack of apoplexy when treated by the drug people. They thereby tacitly confess their methods to be fatally at variance with each other. The abstraction of blood is often one of the first measures to which they resort; a procedure, the advantage of which is seriously and comically doubted even by those who practice it. Now, let us look at this difficulty for a little while from Nature’s point of view. The whole trouble in apoplexy is with the blood, either its impu- rity or its unequal distribution. How then can the retarding of circula- CH. 22.1 KIDNEY TROUBLES 305 tion by the ice-bag, or the injection of poisons, be of any avail ? Certainly these methods do not appeal to reason, and decades of practice have only served to demonstrate their utter futility. Instead of retarding cir- culation in the head by the ice-bag, we should endeavor to ease the congestion in the brain by drawing the surplus blood away from it td those limbs that feel quite cold for want of blood. This is done by prompt and judicious Water Applications to the cold limbs. - Such meas* ures relieve the head, obviate blood-letting, and prevent loss of blood* Fig. 103.—Some tools, the surgeons use in taking blood from their patients. No one has too much blood ; nor is the dark venous blood “ bad” blood. If in any person the composition of the black blood is abnormal, then the bright blood is so likewise. The dark color does not signify that the blood is bad. The bright and dark blood change continuously from one into the other. To with- draw blood means to take so much life away, and it always does harm. It is only the most ignorant people that resort to it. We know of no instance where such a measure could ever become neces- sary. Nothing is easier than to relieve the congestion in any organ, by means of water applications and the regulation of the liquid ingesta. Rather than give its sole attention to one phast of the disease while allowing another to progress unchecked, Water Cure takes immediate steps toward ultimate relief; and because they are in direct accordance with Nature’s methods, there is no need for injurious delay or doubtful ex- periment. Every detail of the Water Cure treatment is carried out with a view to the purification and uniform distribution of the blood, and the consequent certain increase of vitality ; hence there can be no conflict between the several measures resorted to by us. (Fig. 103.) 306 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. For want of an efficient diagnosis, the medical people are unable to foresee and prevent the primary attack, and are quite as unable to avoid sub- sequent attacks, which usually terminate fatally. These attacks do not by any means come on without warning, as the drug schools maintain. Ac- cording to our Facial Diagnosis,* the premonitory symptoms of these attacks could have been recognized years in advance, and the attacks prevented. But even after the disease is once established, Water Cure can positively guard against subsequent attacks ; and partial paralysis should never follow an attack of this malady. If it does, it may be ques- tioned whose brain is defective,—that of* the drugging physician, or that of the victim. If the disease, in its initial stages, be properly treated by natural means, the patient should fully recover, and be capable of attend- ing to his business affairs in the old way. If he is unable to do so under the drug treatment, it is largely on account of the perverse, sloppy diet, which the medical people prescribe, and which soon must add ‘ ‘ Dyspep- sia ’ ’ to the already existing troubles. Why do they not prohibit ‘ ‘ alco- hol” entirely? What they mean by their direction that the patient should avoid an ‘ ‘ undue ’ ’ use of alcohol, considering that each drop is poison, — is a riddle that defies o'Ur penetration. There are divers forms of disease,—generally known as Contagious Diseases. The following notes are taken from standard medical works. ” It is now generally accepted, that the contagion of infectious fevers is due to the transference from the sick to the healthy (?) of actual parti- cles which are excessively minute living organisms. The virus, or the microorganisms, enters the system by the lungs (in scarlet fever, typhus smallpox); the alimentary canal [in enteric (or typhoid) fever, cholera]; the generative mucous membranes (in gonorrhoea, syphilis); or by abrasion of the skin (in syphilis and hydrophobia). The entry of the virus is followed by a period of incubation, during which no.changes are manifest, and which varies from two or three to twenty-five days,—being generally fairly constant for each particular disease. At the end of this period, the acute symptoms of disturbed health appear. The duration of a specific disease is often strictly limited. Thus typhus, scarlatina (scarlet fever), measles, smallpox, and vaccinia (cowpox) have all a definite dura- tion. (I class). In others, as syphilis, leprosy and tubercle (consump- tion) (II class), the infection may be lifelong. How this termination of the infection (of the first class) is brought about is not clearly proven. It is * Louis Kuhne’s Facial Diagnosis, translated and with notes by A. F. Reinhold, Ph.D., M.D., 60 Lex. Ave., N. Y. City. Price $2. CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBLES 307 a fact observed every day, that of a number of persons exposed to the contagion of a particular disease, only a certain number will catch the illness ; the rest will escape, even though they are not protected by the ac- quired immunity (by vaccination). Little that is positive can be stated as to the susceptibility to contagion.” We also read in medical books that little is known of the origin of Measles ; that it may be communicated; and that it is frequently followed by bronchitis, pneumonia, inflammation of the throat, of the inner ear (followed by perforation of the eardrum), of the eyes, and of the bowels; developing into—ulceration, tuberculosis, gangrene and other diseases. Microorganisms are said to be the cause ol scarlet fever. Medical men say: “No means are known by which an attack of scarlet fever can be cut short, and in the most severe form of the disease, no treatment is likely to avert a fatal issue.” Blindness, deaf- ness, deaf-mutism, Bright’s disease, paralysis, abcess of the brain, dropsy, pneumonia, and other troubles, often result from scarlet fever, under the drug system. Typhoid fever, we learn, is an infectious disease; its cause is next to unknown. It may be complicated with other forms; for instance, with peritonitis, (which is a frequent cause of death) or perforation of the bowels may set in, with fatal results; or pneumonia, brain fever, affections of the eyes and ears, dropsy, tuberculosis, etc., may result from treating it medically. In reference to Cholera, we read : “It has been the general practice to treat with opiates and astringents. But these are of little effect in the pronounced stages of the disease, and excessive medication in any form may do harm. Even stimulants must be given in small quantities and with caution. The intravenous injection of saline solutions has appeared to do good in some cases of profound collapse, but the improvement is generally of very short dura- tion, and many regard the practice as useless. ’ ’ Regarding Smallpox we learn that an abundance of milk and beef tea should be given. “ Many attempts have been made to prevent the scarring or pitting which causes so much disfigurement after a severe attack. Painting the face with iodine, evacuation of the vesicles, and touching with a point of solid silver nitrate, anointing with oil, or carbolized oil, have been recommended; but it is doubtful whether any of these processes is to be relied upon.” So much for quotations. We have heard that, in all infectious diseases, microorganisms are transferred from the sick to the healthy, and thus introduce the disease in the latter. This statement we must emphatically deny. We do not deny that when any person exposes himself to contagion, germs may be trans- ferred to him ; but they can only develop in a person who, in our opinion 308 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [ PT. IV. is already sick ; that is whose body contains latent deposits of foreign matter. The microbes feed on these deposits, multiply and decompose the deposit ; thus producing the acute symptoms of fever. A healthy person, who has no such encumbrance in his body, is immune to contagion, because the microbes find nothing to live on. This is a clear proof that our drug people cannot even distinguish between a healthy and an unhealthy person ; and that they are mistaken in their idea that a healthy person can contract any infectious disease. If a person has contracted any such disease, or if he wishes to acquire thorough immunity, let him purge his system ; and not wait until the impetus for the cleansing process comes in the form of some affliction. But at any rate, as by these infectious forms of disease the latent solid deposits of disease are liquefied and removed fro77i the body, we should not dread them so much. They are a healing process ; and if pt'operly ma?iaged by hygienic means, are devoid of danger, and produce no disastrous conseque7ices. But we cannot wonder at the poor success of our drug poisoners, as they do not know the nature of the phenomenon. The first cause consists of deposits in the body of the person who takes the contagion. Then the drug advocates take the curative symptoms,—the fever, and the eruptions —for the true disease, and by driving the poison back into the system they cause blindness, deafness, and similar frightful results. We may safely predict that as S007i as our healers shall have learned the true 7iature of infection, a7id treat disease i7itellige7itly, half of the chronic cases of disease ivill be wiped out of existe7ice, and half of our asylums for the blind a7id deaf will be closed. What unspeakable misery is entailed by suppressing gonorrhoea. If done by means of injections, it frequently causes stricture; and to what misery this condition leads is best known to the many thousand victims of perverse medical treatment who suffer from it. Furthermore, frightful ravages are made alike by syphilis, and the mercury prescribed for it. Syphilis is the result of excesses and uncleanness. It can be cured only by cleansing every fibre of the body. Drug Physicians by treating merely the effects of the sin, can accomplish nothing. Under a natural regime impure desires would be impossible. It is pitiful to see how powerless the drug schools are against these forms of disease. Any portion or portions of the body may be destroyed by either the one or the other, at any period after the infection. And yet nothing is more simple, prompt, and rapid than curing radically both gonorrhoea and syphilis by hygienic means. The first class of contagious diseases is also called by drug physicians ‘ ‘ self-limiting ’ ’ diseases, because, if once established, they run their CH. 22.J KIDNEY TROUBLES 309 course, no matter what poisons are prescribed by the drug venders. But it is entirely different, when natural measures are used. This treatment does not recognize their periodicity. As to scarlet fever, no person versed in the natural method of cure who studies the directions given by medical men, can wonder at the fatal issues of this disease under the drug system. Water Cure attacks and abridges any of the contagious diseases at any period of development; and in cases of scarlet fever and measles, a thorough cure can be effected in a few hours or days. So called sequellce or after-dis- eases never occur, if a case is treated by Water Cure. The same remarks hold good in regard to Whooping-cough and Diphtheria. That these favorable results are not imaginary, will be obvious to any one who will but think a little on the subject. Prior to the infection, the body of the patient is charged with foreign matter. All this corrupt material becomes alive with organisms, as it were, which liquefy the foul matter. The bacilli only live and develop in abnormally high temperature. By lowering the temperature of the body, we have it in our power to check their development. As far as we, the pupils of Nature are concerned, we do not want to kill the microbes, as the drug physicians do, because we know that they are doing us a great ser- vice by liquefymg the solid deposits. And then, by means of our steam- baths and packs, we open the pores, and so allow the loosened matter to escape ; and by means of cold sitz-baths, and other measures, we elimi- nate the poison by way of the bowels and kidneys. As we also insist on pure air, you will understand that by our treatment, all the depurating organs, the lungs, bowels, and skin, are made to cooperate in the cleansing process. Furthermore, as our dietetic directions are not made on vague conjectures, (as is the case with the drug peddlers), but with a thorough understanding of the subject, you will see that cases of contagion are trifling matters in the hands of hydrotherapists. From the quotations we have given above it is seen that drug physi- cians concede that syphilis, leprosy, and tubercle may last a life-time. This is true under their treatment, but not under ours. They cannot understand why a contagious disease, when once contracted, can ever come to a termination. We are confident that any of our readers could tell them: As soon as the amount of foreign matter is exhausted, and the system of the patient is thoroughly purged, the microbes, finding no more food, have to take their leave. This is the whole secret. The drug profession fails to understand why some persons zvill contract a disease, for instance smallpox, while others escape, even if they are 7iot vac- 310 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. cinated. But if these make-believe healers would consider that the bodies of some people contain more impurities than those of others, and that the microbes are merely scavengers, and only develop where they find favor- able soil, they would realize why the less encumbered escape, and the charged ones take the disease. And by means of Facial Diagnosis,* we can discriminate between the two classes in advance. If the drug fraternity understood this cause of con- tagion, they would discontinue the poisoning of people by vaccination. As we saw “ Under Doss of Health,” many enlightened physicians condemn the idea of trying to secure immunity by instilling poisons into one’s system. Their endeavor to prevent the spreading of contagion is unquestionably laudable ; but the methods which they employ appear to us childish and far from rational. Douis Kuhne writes on this subject: “ . . . in particular, the so-called protective vaccination for the prevention of smallpox which operates to poison the whole human race, and the effects of which often only appear from 20 to 40 years later, for which reason they have quite escaped the notice of the modern (drug) schools. Should many object, that since vaccination we have had no more smallpox epidemics, this is only partially true, because the latter recur annually on a smaller scale in the form of scarlet fever, measles, and chickenpox ; and, on the other hand, the vital powers of the body are so permanently weakened by vaccination, that it can no longer react in such energetic sanitary crises as the smallpox, for, in order to occasion these, the undiminished vital power of the body is requisite. The consequence of vaccination for smallpox is, that the morbid matter long slumbering hereditary in the human race, now no longer exhibits itself in smallpox epidemics, but in far more disgusting, lingering, incurable diseases like tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, epilepsy, and mental disorders.” (Fig. 104.) If a person wishes to escape from an infectious disease, let him cleanse his body by means of proper diet and Water Cure processes. Instead of closing our ports against the importation of infection, and isolating the cases, it would be far more rational to instruct the public as to the real cause of infection, and to urge them to undertake a thorough cleansing not only of their houses, but, principally of their bodies. This would produce a healthy race, as immune to any contagion as are the wild beasts. * See L. Kuline’s “ Facial Diagnosis.” Translated and with notes by Aug. F. Reinhold, Ph.D., M.D., 60 Lex. Ave., N. Y. City. Price $2.00. CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBLES 311 Scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, and all others, of whose origin the drug would-be-scientists confess to know almost nothing, originate in latent deposits of foreign matter. As we have said before, when these deposits are absent, the germs of infection will not develop. Therefore, parents who really wish to keep their children free from disease, and others who are wise enough to take to prevent future suffer- ing, remember once for all, that every ailment can easily be cured, as well as prevented by cleansing the system ; and that then it is utterly impossi- ble for ‘ ‘ after-diseases ’ ’ to follow. But if you doubt the efficiency of Natural Methods, go to the drug peddlers, take their poisons, and then suffer trom the sequellae to your hearts’ content. Fig. 104.—Eczema, the result of Compulsory Vaccination. Our quotation regarding cholera shows the vague, uncertain, experi- mental method of the drug system. The “ milk” and “ beef tea ” recom- mendcd by drug doctors for smallpox zvould be the very last things we would suggest. As we have seen, the drug schools have tried many remedies for the prevention of ‘ ‘ pitting ’ ’ in this disease ; but all have been unsuccess- ful. Under our treatment, it is avoided eo ipso, without any extra atten- tion. Where the pits are afterward liable to form, there appear a kind of berries, ‘ ‘ pocks ’ ’ or papules, which cause a most unendurable itching sensation ; if these are scratched the pits will form. But if the skin be opened by proper baths, it will not itch. So there will be no scratching, and no disfiguring marks will remain. We give the following note from a medical work in reference to the treatment of typhoid fever. “ For some years a method of treatment has 312 RPLSTORATION OP HEALTH [pt. IV. been practiced (the Water Cure), which aims at improving the chances of the patient, and reducing the liability to complications. . . . The influence of a single bath upon the immediate condition of the patient is generally most pronounced. Headaches, delirium, stupor, and thirst, are at once diminished ; the tongue becomes clear, the pulse slower and firmer. When the system (of Water Cure) is carried out thoroughly bv frequent baths at low temperature, the mortality has been markedly reduced. Its effect upon complications is also marked. ’ ’ Now if the representatives of the drug system themselves concede this much regarding the curative virtue of clear water in the case of one con- tagious disease, we fail to understand why they do not try it in all. As all forms of diseases have but one common cause, viz.: impurities in the system, it ought to be evident to them that we need but one remedy to cure all forms of disease. We need a remedy that will clear the system of its impurities, and Water is here the potent agent,—all-powerful, because the body itself consists of almost 80 per cent, of water. Many people suffer with sore eyes, or discharges from the ears, nose, ■urethra, vagina, etc. The drug profession, unacquainted as it still is with the true cause of all diseases, cannot account for these discharges. We know that it is the foul matter thrown out of the system, and that it is a healing process. The medical empiricists, having a vague idea that dis- charges are abnormal, and are not found in a healthy bady, try to sup- press them by any means they can think of ; but by thus locking the poison up in the system, the greatest evils must and will be produced, for instance, blindness and deafness. We agree with these physicians, that discharges from any of the mucous membranes mentioned are unnatural, and that they should be stopped ; not, however, by thrusting back the poison into one's system ; but rather by drawing it all out. Then the local irrita- tions will cease of themselves. Any phenomenon is but a link in an uninterrupted chain of causes and effects. Hence, when a case of “sore eyes” is submitted to a physician, he should first inquire into the successive causes that led up to the trouble. On doing so, he would find a perverse mode of living to be the primary cause ; that thereby impure matter was introduced into the system. The harm arising from this, was largely obviated as long as the natural depurating organs worked properly ; and it is only after the impure matter is deprived of this outlet by way of the secreting organs, that it is forced out from unnatural places. Understanding this, could there be anything more simple than to find the only natural mode of cure? We regulate the diet in the first place, and then open up the natural CH. 22.1 KIDNEY TROUBLES 313 organs for secretion. This is all that is required, under which simple treatment, the old and stubborn trouble will disappear as if by magic The inflamed parts require scarcely any special attention outside of a little cooling perhaps with plain, cold water. The drug practitioners, on the contrary, rarely or never think of the cause ; they concentrate their puerile efforts in suppressing the secretions by means of poisonous salves and lotions, applied locally. As under their treatment, the patient continues to live perversely, and as the thoughtless physician rarely inquires into the conditions of the bowels and kidneys—the skin is never thought of at all by him—it is plain that under such circumstances, the discharges from the eyes can iiever stop. On the contrary, as the salves irritate the deli- cate membranes of the eyes still more, the tendency to make them arti- ficial depurators will rather increase, a tendency wThich very frequently ends in total blindness. Any one who has lost his precious eye-sight in that wray, knows now wdiom he has to thank for his terrible affliction—the greatly worshipped specialists. (Figs. 105-107.) Fig. 105.—One of the Useless Operations on the Eye; could have been Avoided, and the Eye saved by Water Cure. The countless instruments for the cutting, tearing, lacerating, burning, etc. of the human body, are the pride of the drug profession, but can all be dispensed with when Water and Common Sense are used. Common sense, however, we can hardly expect to find in people who attempt to make patients well by poisoning them. We know that the matter escaping, is corrupt, and that the sooner and more thoroughly the body is freed from this encumbrance, the better it will be for its general welfare. By regulating the diet, on the one hand, and by drawing off the impurities by way of the proper organs, on the other, the amount of foul matter is gradually exhausted, and the secretion has to stop of its own accord. The utter short-sightedness of the routine physician, is shown in still other ways. The manner in which he regards such an evidence of disease as the running of a child's ear, for instance. In such a case he covers his 314 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. ignorance or incompetency by the meagre consolation, that the child may outgrow it. Or if a woman’s face is covered with pimples that defy his skill to remove, he advises her to marry. He does not know, or does not care, that, though in this way the trouble may disappear, it is by no means cured, but carried on to the injury of future generations. (Fig. 108.) Fig. 106.—Glass Eyes. These beautiful makeshifts are the final outcome of medical ignorance. Wild beasts have no need of them ; their eye-sight is perfect as long as they breathe. People, who apply to a hydrotherapist, as soon as their eyes trouble them, never have their eyes gouged out and replaced by glass ones. Fig. 107.—Operations on the Eye. Familiar sights about ophthalmic hospitals and clinics. The eye being an organ of the body, becomes diseased in the same way as any other organ, i. e., by a corrupt state of the blood brought on by perverse living. Our great oculists never think of the perverse food; by cauterizing the eye, they draw more and more impurity towards that delicate organ, till finally in their helplessness they have recourse to the knife. Diseases of the eye, when fresh, are readily overcome by Water Cure ; and this method is a positive preventive of blindness. CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBEKS 315 Iu connection with the subject, and in order to give more proof of the wonderful power of our simple, but rational process, we insert the following notes of some of our cases ; Fig. 108. Medical Makeshifts for Deafness. Deafness is caused by de- posits of matter foreign to a healthy body. Its accumulation may be very gradual, or rapid and accompanied by pain. Drug physicians suppress this pain by injections into the ear. Pain disappears thereby, not because the foul matter has been removed, but because the nerves have been killed by the injection. Then more and more matter collects, till deafness is established. Then ear-trumpets are prescribed, being make shifts at best and a great nuisance. Before a patient is affected in the ears or eyes, the entire system is charged with corrupt matter on account of perverse living. Mr. S. suffered with Dyspepsia, catarrh of stomach, foul Piles (for 20 years, large, external, operation was proposed), coughs, injected, pupils inactive, pain in kidneys, breast and shoulders ; very nervous and irritable; dreams, exciting ; numb, cold, tingling pain in arms and legs, one nostril closed, slept with mouth open; double rupture of 30 years standing; loss of knee-jerk, staggering gait; hesitation of 316 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. speech, etc. Five months Water Treatment made a new man of him. One of the hernias closed altogether, the other reduced during that time. Mrs. S., wife of the former, suffered with congestion and neuralgia of the Ovaries for nine years; offensive L,eucorrhcea, Piles, Asthma, Nervous Prostration, rheumatism, cold limbs, constipation. Operations for both the Ovaries and Hernia were proposed. Both patients had been treated by Prof. Wm. De Gamo, M.D. Mrs. V. made fine progress; after 3 weeks Water Cure, the hernia did not come out (had been large, double, of 20 years standing), and soon she joined her friends again at re- ceptions and social gatherings. Mrs. R. T. V., 38 years of age, suffered from scanty menstruation, (always lasting a week), leucorrhsea, headache etc., for ten years; sleep was broken; she was nervous, and constipated, and every month a lining of the womb came away. She had been under medical treatment for 6 years; also treated for a cancer ; had much electric treatment, and many specialists; was 3 weeks in the N. Y. Woman’s Hospital, where they wanted to remove the ovaries, which were congested and enlarged, while the uterus was contracted. Plain Water Applications cured all her ail- ments in one month. As every ailment comes from impurities in the body, induced by a perverse regime, it is plain that it makes no difference un- der the Water Cure Treatment, whether the patient suffers from one or a dozen forms of disease. They all go away at the same time. (Fig. 109.) Excesses in venery, by prematurely exhausting the stock of a person's vital power, are the primary causes of many of the most dreaded forms of disease; such as consumption, paralysis, epilepsy, impotence, insanity etc. Heating diet, such as meats, and spices, together with alcoholic drinks, arouses sexual desires unnaturally, even in young children ; instigating them to secret practices which afford them relief, and of the frightful con- sequences of which they have 110 conception. Civilized races seem to have lost all understanding of the purpose of this wonderful function of nature. Marriage is usually looked upon as a license to boundless indul- gence, and if medical folks are appealed to for help by young innocent people, who are averse to resorting to the ordinary methods, they pollute the pure mind of the latter by their cynic suggestions, and by making them look upon promiscuous intercourse as a healthy institution. But how are all the many million cases of sexual diseases contracted ? I11 no other way than by this indiscriminate intermingling. When any young persons appeal to us, we urge them earnestly to save their chastity; to remain as pure as they would like their partners in life to be. Their morbid desires are easily controled by an abstemious diet and a mode of treatment which will purge their systems of all abnormal matter. (Fig. no.) CH. 22.1 KIDNEY TROUBLES 317 Fig. 109. Instruments'for operating on the eye. As troubles of the eyes never arise in a sound body, being the final result of a degenerated sys- tem, they are avoided or cured by Water Treatment which cleanses the entire system. No operations are necessary save in a few excep- tional cases of inherited malformation. 318 RESTORATION OF HKAETII [PT. IV, FiG. iio. Acoustic Implements. Before a person becomes hard of hear- ing or deaf, there are usually periods of acute ear-ache, indicating an inflammatory condition, caused by impure matter. In cleansing the entire system by Water Cure processes, we effect a fundamental cure. If instead, people apply to drug specialists, the ear is treated locally; the inflammation is suppressed by pain-killing injections that deaden the nerves. The corrupt matter remains, accumulates, and obstructs the passages etc., causing first hardness of hearing and then total deafness. Our highly esteemed specialists are themselves the cause of blindness and deafness, directly or indirectly. Indirectly, by not instructing people as to proper living; directly, by their irrational treatment. The above instruments are some of the inefficient methods of the cutting fraternity to overcome difficulties in hearing. We contend that these instruments are better calculated to make people deaf than to make them hear well. CH. 22.] KIDNEY TROUBLES 319 We consider it a rather hopeless enterprise to endeavor to eradicate the “ Social Evil'' by means of prayer and preaching. It arises from a morbid condition caused by impurities in the body; they are deposited there in consequence of a wrong diet and perverse regime. Cleanse your system, and no persuasion is required. If the body is free of deposits, the mind will be free of any erotic desires. As long as most women are so bashful in public that they are ashamed to expose the tips of their boots, but abandon themselves to unrestricted lust in private, matters will not improve. People must expose more of their bodies to the air and sun, in public, and there will be much less licentiousness in private ; both are in reverse ratio. To remain pure and chaste, and to persevere in one’s continence, be- comes easy if we abstain from all unnatural foods. We should also live much in the open air, exercise, keep ourselves cool in dress and dwelling, purge our system from all impurities, and let our minds dwell on the ex- ample of noble people and high ideals. In this way alone, we can pre- serve our morals unpolluted, and then the health of neither parent nor child will be shattered. But presumably it requires the training of cen- turies to attain this end and raise a stock healthy in body and mind. 320 RESTORATION OF HEARTH [PT. IV. DRUGS DO NOT CURE. CHAPTER 23 HERE are several peculiarities about Medicine. The &rP ||C most prominent one is the fact that there are about half a dozen different systems. The respective representatives fmdm' of these consider their system the best, ai id reject the Bjfejr others as false. The two leading schools are the By Allopaths and Homeopaths, based on totally different and opposing principles. The Allopathic School maintains that such drugs must be given as will produce in a patient, symptoms the reverse of those from which he is suffering. The Homeopathic School insists that “Like cures Like,” and gives drugs that will produce similar symptoms in the patient. Now, however prejudiced a person may be, or however dull his compre- hension, he cannot maintain that both of these ideas are correct; and yet, both schools are licensed by law ; each is legally permitted to commit murder. R. T. Trail says in speaking of these two great schools: “Our friends, the Homeopathists, treat the gravest forms of disease with almost no medi- cine at all. They come as near to non-entity as possible, and miss it. Their remedies, when prescribed Hahnemannically, may be represented for all practical purposes by the formulary of the solution of the shadow of a shade of nothing at all, to begin with. One Allopathic dose of magnesia or cod-liver oil, diffused through a body of water which would fill all of the ethereal space from the earth’s surface to the farthest star within the reach of telescopic vision, and one millionth part of a drop of this vast expanse of fluid for a dose, would not exaggerate the idea of the ‘ patho- genic ’ potency of the infinitesimal pharmacology, however much it might transcend the grasp of the human imagination. And are not the Homeo- pathists quite as successful as are their rivals, the Allopaths, in the treat- Reitihold, Nature vs. Drugs—x. CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 321 ment of disease? Bet their rapidly increasing numbers, and their employment in the families of so many thousands of the wealthy and intelligent, answer. This is not because the people believe in Homeopathy more, but because they fear it less. The Homeopathists of New York have been offering, for years, to go into the public hospitals, and treat all manner of diseases side by side with Allopathy, as a test experiment of the relative value of the two systems. But they are not permitted to do so. Allopathy has all the power in its own hands. It is incorporated, as it were, into the national, State, and municipal governments, and it stands on its advantages, and says: ‘ Bet us have no dangerous experiments. The dignity of the profession will not permit us to countenance any irregular system, nor to encourage quackery in any shape. ’ Did dignity ever cure anybody ? Does Allopathy, in refusing this fair offer, fear for the dear people, or does it fear for itself ? ’ ’ This was written some thirty years ago. In the meantime, Homeo- pathy has gained wide recognition, and other systems of drug medicine have been equally successful. But the hygienic methods are still the despised Cinderella. A bad sign for our age which prides itself on its scientific advancement and erudition. Children often amuse themselves by swallowing whole boxes full of homeopathic drugs, without any appa- rent effect. This school does some good indirectly, in the very same way that the Christian Scientists effect their cures, viz. : by keeping allopath- ists from doing harm. But there is harm in the homeopathic system, too, for it countenances the idea that cures can be effected by drugs, and are not solely the result of inherent vital power; they aid in deceiving peo- ple, and in keeping them from resorting to rational methods. Medicines have a double effect; a temporary and a lasting one. The viomentary effect consists in subduing pain by stifling the nerves; the patient is thereby deceived and imagines himself cured. The lasting effect consists in the harm done by the introduction of poisons which will sooner or later work their fatal issue. The near-sighted drug practitioner, so to speak, never gives the after-effect a moment’s thought. Childlike, he only beholds what is before him ; he is blind to any future effects of his misdeeds. The tongue has been given us to be a guardian for the stomach ; nothing should be allowed to enter the stomach unless approved of by the taste. With man’s natural food, in its natural condition, our taste is unerring ; and we may follow its instincts implicitly. The drug people, overlooking the purposes of the tongue, actually cheat nature by intro- ducing their nasty stuff enclosed in capsules, so that the taste may not [ft. iv. 322 RESTORATION OF HEALTH object. Nevertheless, the poisonous matter, thus forted upon the stomach and system, works destruction, to which sick humanity testifies. We know that drugs, being poisons, when introduced into the system of a healthy person, will cause abnormal symptoms,—a disease has been produced. The same poisons, when administered to a sick person, will cause the symptoms already produced to be modified. This difference in their action is the sole reason on which the drug people base their claim to prescribe their fatal poisons. Not only do the poisons act on the body ; but the body acts on the poisons in trying to get rid of them. A poison taken by way of the mouth, has to run the gauntlet of the divers assimilating and depurating organs. Suppose a thoroughly healthy person should take some chewing tobacco : as soon as the nicotine acts on the stomach, this organ, scenting an unwelcome intruder, reacts by throwing out the nicotine in an explosive vomiting. The healthy stomach thus prevents the poison from penetrating further into the system. On the other hand, if nicotine be sent into the stomach of a sick person, the organ will not have the power to throw it out. The poison will pass on to the next depurating organ, and if this be strong enough, elimination will then take place. If the second organ be weak, the poison will pro- ceed to the others, all the while doing its disastrous work. On this very principle all drugs act. Now, to saj', that, since the symptoms produced, by the same drug, in healthy and sick persons are different, drugs must be beneficial, is the reasoning of a mind utterly devoid of logic. For further elucidation, we may be permitted to quote from R. T. Trail as follows : ‘ ‘ Medical men have arranged and classified their mate- ria medica; as emetics, which act on the stomach : purgatives, which act on the bowels; diaphoretics, which act on the skin ; diuretics, which act on the kidneys; expectorants, which act on the lungs; cholagogues, which act on the liver; stimulants, which act on the blood-vessels ; tonics, which act on the muscular fibres; narcotics, which act on tlie brain, etc. All this seems very plausible, but there is no truth in it. “The living system acts on drugs, medicines, poisons, impurities, effete matters, miasma, contagious infections—on everything not useful or usable in the organic domain—to resist them ; to expel them ; to get rid of them ; to purify itself of their presence through the channel or outlet best adapted to the purpose under the circumstances. “And herein is the explanation of the classes of medicines; the rationale of the action of medicines, which has so puzzled the brains of medical philosophers in all ages. CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 323 “ Kinetics do not act on the stomach, but are ejected by the stomach. Purgatives do not act on the bowels, but are expelled through the bowels. Diaphoretics, instead of acting on the skin, are sent off in that direction. Diuretics do not act on the kidneys, but the poisonous drugs are got rid of through that emunetory, etc.” The following is a note from one of the countless drug manufactur- ers that swamp the medical market with their poisonous preparations : ‘ ‘ Dear Doctor : “ We forward with enclosed pamphlet a sample of Peptenzyme Tab- lets for trial. Peptenzyme is indicated in all forms of digestive disorders, but we particularly request that you give it a trial in vomiting in preg- nancy. We are convinced by the reports we have received from a large number of physicians that it will produce better results in this distressing affection than any other medication.” *- We see, instead of inquiring into the cause of this vomiting, instead of determining if it is a sanitary process, the suppression of which would be harmful, the medical people follow their usual routine in this instance also, regardless alike whether they injure the mother or blight the bud- ding life under her heart. If medicines are taken, did ever a medical person inquire what becomes of them ? Whether they are entirely or only partially secreted ? What becomes of the part retained ? How do they act on living tissues ? What is the chemical composition of the various unhealthy secretions of boils, etc. ? To our knowledge, most of these questions have never been made the subject of investigation, and hence the method of administering drugs is a random way of dealing with abnormal conditions. Our organs are few ; we have only one nervous system, one of cir- culation, one muscular system, etc. ; they all are built up from the blood, and hence one, or a few remedies should be sufficient for all ailments. Looked at from this point, it is open to question and consideration, whether it is not the drug schools with their countless thousands of ineffectual poisons which deserves contempt, rather than our simple and effective methods. Let us see how Medical Science cures (?). There is no drug able to overcome a trifling catarrh in the head; and as most forms of sickness commence with colds it is obvious that medicine is incapable of ridding us of them. The way in which drugs cure (?) becomes apparent from the way in which they act in a case of rheumatism. A person is affected with an acute attack of this ailment, which may have settled in the knee. We [ft. ivt 324 RESTORATION OF HEARTH know that this sickness is produced by certain impurities in the blood. The drug people prescribe some of their famous specifics, and succeed in dislodging the deposit from the knee. The pain goes; the physician boasts of his skill, and the patient believes himself cured ; but, as the drug does not expel the impurities from the blood and as drugs rather increase the amount of corrupt matters, the rheumatism will soon reappear. This time, NERVOUS SYSTEM. Fig. hi.—Nervous System. We have but one muscular system, one system of blood circulation and one nervous system. A burn on the hand or foot, affects the entire system. If in any part of the body abnormal conditions develop, i. e., an ulcer or cancer, it is a sign that the whole blood and system are abnormal. Such being the case, cleansing applications must be applied to the whole body. To treat the trouble locally as our admired specialists do, increases the irritation of the sore and makes it worse by drawing more impurities to the part afflicted. From this consideration it should be apparent to a child that the idea on which specialism is based has no foundation whatever. CH. 23. DRUGS DO NOT CURE 325 not one, but several specifics together are prescribed, and so on, till the prescription contains as many as half a dozen cf the most renowned speci- fics. But as relief is no longer obtained, morphine and strychnine are resorted to until paralysis, which, sooner or later, is the direct and inevit- able result of such a course of treatment, renders the patient more or less of a cripple for the remainder of his life, and he is considered a martyr under the stroke of some mysterious ‘ ‘ dispensation of Providence ’ ’ ; whereas, in reality, he is the victim of his own folly and another man’s stupidity. (Ffig. 111.) Paralysis, in many cases has to be looked upon as uncured and mis- managed rheumatism. The first rheumatic attack lasts a few days; the next one extends to a month or so ; the following one lays the poor suf- ferer up for several months ; finally paralysis sets in and continues, till the unfortunate victim of medical science (!) is relieved by death. In a similar manner, other ailments are cured (!) by drugs. Now, many of our readers know from their own experience, that after they have failed to obtain relief from one drug doctor, they apply to another who will no doubt criticise the former treatment as having been per- verse. This shows us in what esteem the drug prescribers hold one another, and should teach us in what light to look at them. Then again, if a physician is ill, he does not prescribe for himself, but sends for some colleague. The other day, a representative of the drug system, 70 years of age, called on us for treatment. Hearing our terms, he said that treatment between physicians was mutually complimentary, but as the author would never need the advice of another person, he could hardly expect to be treated gratis. You see, there is a vast difference between the drug and the natural system. The drug dispensers, not rely- ing on their own knowledge, apply to some one else; the Pupil of Nature, though he may never have seen the inside of a medical college, by simply following the dictates of common sense, is always able to take care of him- self. In the first place, he cannot become sick if he follows his own rules ; but if any harm should befall him, he knows at once what to do. Then again, the more experie7ice a physician gathers, the less confi- dence he will put in his drugs, and the more in hygiene. BET US HEAR WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BE POISONED WHEN SICK.* ‘ ‘ Because ‘ Three- fourths of mankind are killed by medicine and pre- scriptions.’—Dr. Titus, Councilor at the Court of Dresden. * Brief extracts from volumes that have been written by the most celebrated medical practitioners. 326 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. “ Because ‘ Wherever you see an allopathic doctor getting fat you see his neighbors getting ready for heaven. Whenever you see an allopathic doctor doing a large practice, with few exceptions, you see by his side a happy undertaker, ’—Dr. R. C. Flower, Boston. “ Because ‘ The stolid bigotry which will not be enlightened and will not investigate is responsible for many millions of deaths. The great majority of all remedies have come into popular use before being recog- nized by colleges. The gigantic errors of the medical profession need vig- orous criticism by those who are not afraid to speak.’—Joseph Rhodes Buchanan, M.D. “ Because ‘ The ouly medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. If anyone is interested in the laws of health, it is the poor workman, whose strength is wasted by ill-prepared (and ill-selected) food, whose health is sapped by bad ventilation and bad drainage, and half whose children are massacred by disorders which might be prevented.’—The late Thomas H. Huxley. ‘ ‘ Because 1 I have for some years passed been compelled, by facts which are constantly coming before me, to accept the conclusion that more mischief in the form of impaired vigor, and of shortened life, accrues to civilized man from erroneous habits in eating than from the habitual use of alco- holic drink, considerable as I know that to be.’—Sir H. Thompson, F.R.C.S. ‘ ‘ Because ‘ Tong life and healthy life are, in a great measure, in the hands of us all, and the deviations from health that we bring upon our- selves are, if remedial, more correctly so by dietetic means than by medi- cines. The former may be permanent cures, the latter are but palliatives/ —Dr. Nathaniel Edward York-Davies. ‘ ‘ Because ‘ The normal period of human life is about one hundred and ten years, and seven out of ten average people could live that long if they lived in the right way.’—Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D. “Professor Alexander H. Stevens, M. D., of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, says: ‘ The older physicians grow, the more skeptical they become of the virtues of medicine, and the more they are disposed to trust to the powers of Nature.’ Again, ‘Notwithstanding all our boasted improvements, patients suffer as much as they did forty years ago.’ And again: ‘The reason medicine has advanced so slowly, is because physicians have studied the writings of their predecessors, instead of Nature.’ “ Professor Jos. M. Smith, M.D., testifies: ‘All medicines which enter the circulation, poison the blood in the same manner as do the poisons CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE) 327 that produce disease. ’ Again : ‘ Drugs do not cure disease ; disease is always cured by the vis medicatrix nature?.' And again : ‘ Digitalis has hurried thousands to the grave.' And yet again : ‘Prussic acid was once extensively used in the treatment of consumption, both in Europe and America ; but its reputation is now lost. Thousands of patients were treated with it, but not a ease was benefited. On the contrary, hundreds were hurried to the grave.' “ Says Professor C. A. Gilman, M.D.: ‘ Many of the chronic diseases of adults are caused by maltreatment of infantile diseases.’ And again: ‘ The application of opium to the true skin of an infant is very likely to produce death.' And yet again : ‘ A single drop of laudanum will often destroy the life of an infant.’ And once more: ‘Four grains of calomel will often kill an adult.' And, finally: ‘A mild mercurial course, and mildly cutting a man's throat, are synonymous terms.’ * “ Professor Alonzo Clark, M.D. : ‘From thirty to sixty grains of calomel have been given very young children for croup. ’ Again : ‘ Apopletic patients who are not bled, have double the chance to recover than those have who are bled. ’ And again : ‘ Physicians have learned that more harm than good has been done by the use of drugs in the treat- ment of measles, and other self-limited diseases. ’ Once more : ‘ Ten thousand times ten thousand methods have been tried, in vain, to cure diabetes. ’ Still another : ‘ In the zeal to do good, physicians have done much harm. They have hurried many to the grave who would have recovered if left to nature.’ And, finally: ‘All our curative agents (so- called) are poisons ; and, as a consequence, every dose diminishes the patient's vitality.' “ Says Professor W. Parker, M.D., of the same .school: * * * ‘ The pains of which patients with secondary and tertiary syphilis complain are not referable to the syphilitic poison, but to the mercury with which they have been drugged.’ And, ‘of all sciences, medicine is the most uncertain. ’ “ Says Professor Horace Green, M.D. : ‘ The confidence you have in medicine will be dissipated by experience in treating diseases. ’ Again : ‘ Cod liver oil has no curative power in tuberculosis ’ (z. e., consumption.) “Says Professor H. G. Cox, M.D. : ‘There is much truth in the statement of Dr. Hughes Bennett that blood-letting is always injurious and never necessary, and I am inclined to think it entirely correct. ’ Again : ‘ Bleeding in pneumonia doubles the mortality.' And yet again : • The fewer remedies you employ in any disease the better for your patient.' And once more : ‘ Mercury is a sheet anchor in fevers ; but it is an anchor that moors your patient to the grave.' 328 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. “ Says Professor B. F. Barker, M.D.: ‘ The drugs which are admin- istered for the cure of scarlet fever and measles kill far more than the diseases do. I have recently given no medicine in their treatment, and have had excellent success.’ Again: ‘ I have known several ladies to become habitual drunkards, the primary cause being a taste for stimulants which are acquired in consequence of alcoholic drink being administered to them as medicine. ’ And again: ‘ I incline to the belief that bleeding is injur- ious and unnecessary.’ And, finally : ‘ Instead of investigating for them- selves, medical authors have copied the errors of their predecessors, and have thus retarded the progress of medical science and perpetuated error. ’ “ Says Professor J. W. Carson, M.D.: ‘ It is easy to destroy the life of an infant. This you will find when you enter practice. You will find that a slight scratch of the pen, which dictates a little too much of the remedy, will snuff out the infant's life; and when you next visit your patient you will find that the child which you left cheerful a few hours previously is stiff and cold. Beware, then, how you use your remedies ! ’ Again: ‘ We do not know whether our patients recover because we give medicine, or because nature cures them. Perhaps bread pills cure as many as medicine.’ “ Says Professor E. S, Carr, M.D., of the New York University Medical School : ‘ Mercury when administered in ail}’ form is taken into the circulation and carried to every tissue of the body. The effects of mercury are not for a day, but for all time. It often lodges in the bones, occasionally causing pain years after it is administered. I have often detected metallic mercury in the bones of patients who had been treated with this subtile poisonous agent. ’ “ Says Professor Martin Payne, M.D.: ‘ Drug medicines do but cure one disease by producing another.’ “ ‘ The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.’—Sir Astley Cooper. “ ‘ There is scarcely a more dishonest trade imaginable than medicine in its present state. The monarch who would entirely interdict the prac- tice of medicine would deserve to be placed by the side of the most illus- trious characters who have ever conferred benefit on mankind.’—Dr. Forth. “ ‘ When I commenced practice I had twenty remedies for every disease ; but before I got through I found twenty diseases for which Iliad no remedy. ’—Dr. Radcliffe. “ ‘ The great success of quacks in England has been altogether owing to the real quackery of the regular physicians. ’—Adam Smith. CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 329 “ ‘ Our chiefest hopes (of medical reform) at present exist in the outer educated public. It is a sad, but humiliating confession.’—Dr. C. Kidd. ‘ ‘ ‘ The medical practice of our day is, at the best, a most uncertain and unsatisfactory system ; it has neither philosophy nor common sense to commend it to confidence.’—Professor Evans, Fellow of the Royal College, London. “ ‘Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are medical lies; and medical doctrines are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense.’—Professor Gregory, Edinburgh. “ ‘ Those physicians generally become the most eminent who have most thoroughly emancipated themselves from the tyranny of the schools of medicine. Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischiefs have we not done under the belief of false facts and false theories ! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more, we have increased theirfatality.’—Benjamin Rush, M.D., Philadelphia. “ ‘ It cannot be denied that the present system of medicine is a burn- ing shame to its professors, if, indeed, a series of vague and uncertain incongruities deserves to be called by that name. How rarely do our medicines do good ? How often do they make our patients really zvorse f I fearlessly assert that in most cases the sufferer would be safer without a physician than with one. I have seen enough of the malpractice of my professional brethren to warrant the strong language I employ.’ — Dr. Rainage, Fellow of the Royal College, London. “ ‘Thousands are annually slaughtered in the quiet sick room. Gov- ernments should at once either banish medical men, and proscribe their blundering art, or they should adopt some better means to protect the lives of the people than at present prevail, when they look far less after the practice of this dangerous profession, and the murders committed in it, than after the lowest trade.’—Dr. Frank. “ ‘ I hesitate not to declare, no matter how sorely I should wound our vanity, that so gross is our ignorance of the real nature of the physiological disorder called disease, that it would, perhaps, be better to do nothing, and resign the complaint into the hands of Nature, than to act as we are fre- quently compelled to do, without knowing the why and the wherefore of our conduct, at tlie obvious risk of hastening the e?id of the patient.' In addressing his medical class he says : ‘ Gentlemen, medicine is a great humbug. I know it is called science. Science, indeed ! it is nothing like science. Doctors are merely empirics when they are not charlatans. We are as ignorant as men can be. Who knows anything in the world about RESTORATION OP HEALTH [pt. iv. 330 medicine? Gentlemen, you have done me the honor to come here to attend my lectures, and I must teli you frankly now, in the beginning, that I know nothing in the world about medicine, and I don’t know any- body who does know anything about it. ... I repeat it, nobody knows anything about medicine. . . . We are collecting facts in the right spirit, and I dare say, in a century or so, the accumulation of facts may enable our successors to form a medical science. Who can tell me how to cure the headache, or the gout, or disease of the heart ? Nobody. Oh, you tell me doctors cure people. I grant you people are cured, but how are they cured ? Gentlemen, Nature does a great deal; imagination a great deal; doctors—devilish little when they don’t do any harm. L,et me tell you, gentlemen, what I did when I was physician at the Hotel Dieu. Some three or four thousand patients passed through my hands every year. I divided the patients into two classes : with one I followed the dispensary and gave the usual medicines, without having the least idea why or wherefore ; to the others I gave bread pills and colored water, without, of course, letting them know anything about it; and occasionally, gentlemen, I would create a third division, to whom I gave nothing what- ever. These last would fret a great deal; they would feel that they were neglected; sick people always feel they are neglected, unless they are well drugged, “ ‘ les imbeciles,’ ” and they would irritate themselves until they got really sick, but Nature invariably came to the rescue, and all the third class got well. There was but little mortality amongst those who received the bread pills and colored water, but the mortality was greatest among those who were carefully drugged according to the dispensary.’ — M. Magendie, the celebrated French physiologist. “ ‘ I may observe that, of the whole number of fatal cases in infancy a great proportion occur from the inappropriate or undue application of exhausting remedies. ’—Dr. Marshall Hall. “ ‘ All that art can do is to weaken life ; and truly that seems a fair description of the agents which have been handed down to us in the materia medica.'—Medical Mirror, January, 1867. ‘ ‘ ‘ Every dose of medicine given is a blind experiment upon the vitality of the patient.’—Dr. Bostock, author of the ‘ History of Medicine.’ “ ‘ . . . . yet it cannot answer to my conscience to withhold the acknowledgment of my firm belief, that the medical profession is productive of vastly more evil than good; and were it absolutely abolished, mankind would be infinitely the gainer.’’—Dr. Francis Coggeswell, of Boston. “ ‘ The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon, and the effects of our medicines on the human system is in the highest degree uncertain, CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 331 except, indeed, that they have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine combined. ’—John Mason Good, M.D., F.RS., author of ‘Study of Medicine,’ etc. “ ‘ I declare, as my conscientious conviction, founded on long exper- ience and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, man-midwife, chemist, apothecary, druggist, nor drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality than now prevail.’ — James Johnson, M.D., F.R.S. “The celebrated Dr. Bailie declared, after forty years experience,, ‘that he had no faith in physic,’ and on his death-bed frequently" exclaimed, ‘ I wish I could be sure that I have not killed more than I have cured.’ ’’ WRITERS IN FAVOR OF HYGIENE. “ Says Professor Parker, ‘ As we place more confidence in Nature and less in preparations of the apothecary, mortality diminishes.' Again: ‘ Hygiene is of far more value in the treatment of disease than drugs.’ And again : ‘ I wish the materia medica was in Guinea, and that you w7ould study materia alimentaria.' And yet again : ‘You are taught learnedly about materia medica, and but little about diet.’ Once more: ‘We will have less mortality when people eat to live. ’ And, finally : “I have cured granulations of the eyes, in chronic conjunctivitis, by hygienic treatment, after all kinds of drug applications had failed. ’ “ Says Professor Clark : ‘ Pure cold air is the best tonic the patient can take.’ Again : ‘ Many different plans have been tried for the cure of consumption, but the result of all has been unsatisfactory. We are not acquainted with any agents that will cure consumption. We must rely on hygiene.' And again : ‘ In scarlet fever you have nothing to rely on but the vis medicatrix natures.’ Once more : ‘ A hundred different and unsuc- cessful plans have been tried for the cure of cholera. I think I shall leave my patients hereafter nearly entirely to Nature ; as I have seen patients abandoned to die and left to Nature, recover, while patients who were treated died.’ And, finally : ‘ A sponge bath will often do more to quiet restless, feverish patients than an anodyne.’ ‘ ‘ Says Professor Barker : ‘ The more simple the treatment in infantile diseases, the better the result.' “ Says Professor Gilman : 1 Every season has its fashionable remedy for consumption ; but hygienic treatment is of far more value than all drugs combined.’ RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. 332 “Because ‘ Water treatment cures all diseases that are declared incur- able by the drug schools. ’—Aug. F. Reinhold, Ph.D., M.D. “ ‘ Very few medical doctors .still believe in the curative power of their red, green and white medicines. We doctors do not deceive ourselves. For all that, we keep telling people all kinds of things, which we ridicule amongst ourselves. Error has been replaced by fraud; whoever absolved the medical college, knows nothing about the art of healing. The patients stay away, if an honest doctor refuses to give them medicine. People want to be cheated. They fancy no cure to be possible without medicines. We physicians have been talking this apothecary stuff into them, till they believe it. Daily we sing to them the hosiana of our imaginary power. They wait in hope, ’till death knocks the magic flask (the medicine bottle) from their grasp.’—Dr. M. K. Schweninger, physi- cian to Prince Bismarck. “ Wild animals live in confirmity with Nature ; they are well. ‘ ‘ Health and disease are the effects of controllable causes. “ Sickness is the penalty imposed upon us for the violation of Nature’s simple physiological laws. “ Health is Nature’s reward for their observance. “ Intelligent people no longer regard the ills of the flesh as unavoid- able calamities, but know them to be the results of their own misdoings. ‘ ‘ Thoughtful people recognize the absurdity of seeking for health in a bottle, instead of in the correction of their own bad habits and unwhole- some surroundings. They find that poisons will kill men as well as mice. ‘ ‘ Sickness is sinful ; it is a sign of ignorance ; it is as disgraceful as drunkenness. ‘ ‘ Good health is being recognized as our duty ; it is becoming the fashion. “Human beings ought to live a hundred years, in good health, enjoying life to the last ; every one who dies sooner, is a victim of medical mismanagement. “ The owner of a brewery once consulted Baron Prof. Von Nuss- baum, M.D., Royal Medical Councilor at Munich. “ Dr.: ‘ Well, my dear X., where is your trouble ? ’ “X.: ‘ Your Honor, my legs hurt me.’ “ Dr.: ‘ Well, let me see ! yes, that is the gout.’ “ X.: ‘ What is good for it, your Honor ? ’ “Dr.: ‘Well, I will tell you. You go, and try to find something that is good for it ; then you let me know7 and I assure you, we two will be millionaires within a year. ’ CH. 23.J DRUGS DO NOT CURU 333 “X.: ‘ And what else ? ” “Dr.: ‘Till then, drink little and keep your legs warm and straight. ’ “X.: ‘ Thank you very much, your Honor ; what do I owe you? ’ “ Dr.: ‘ That costs you nothing and avails you nothing.’ If the brewer had applied to the merest tyro in Water Cure, he would have been relieved very soon. However, let us continue to quote from R. T. Trail: “ Fever is one form of disease; and as disease is a process of purification, fever must be one of the methods by which the system relieves itself of morbid matter. How much longer will medical men expend brain and labor, and waste pen, ink, and paper, in looking for a thing which is no thing at all ? “We are told that Nature has provided a ‘law of cure.’ Here is another vexed question for us to settle, and I meet it by denying the fact. What is this law of cure? The Allopaths say it is ‘contraria con- trariis curantur'—contraries cure opposites. The Homeopathists pro- claim ‘ similia similibus curantur '—like cures like. They are all wrong ; there is no law of cure in all the universe ; Nature has provided nothing of the sort; Nature has provided penalties, not remedies. Think you, would Nature or Providence provide penalties or punishment as the con- sequences of transgression, and then provide remedies to do away with the penalties ? Would Nature ordain disease and suffering as the cor- rective discipline for disobedience to the laws of life, and then permit the doctor to drug and dose away the penalties? There is a condition of cure, and this is obedience. ’ ’ ‘ ‘ And now, if Nature has provided no law of cure, she has provided no remedies. What then becomes of the materia medica and its many thousand drugs ? And what becomes or should become of the hundreds of quack nostrums which are deluging the land, filling the newspapers with lying advertisements, and robbing annually the sick and suffering of millions of their hard earnings ? The ‘ regular ’ practice and the irreg- ular trade are based on the same false dogmas; and when one disappears, the other will soon follow.’’ “ I have asked many of the professors of the Drug Schools to ex- plain to me how their remedies acted, and how their ‘ Daw of Cure ’ oper- ated—the why, the wherefore, the rationale ? but not one of them could ever tell me.” ‘ ‘ Medical men refer us to their experience. What is experience ? It is merely a record of what has happened. It only tells what has been 334 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. done, not what should be done. I would not give a green cucumber for all the experience of all the medical men in all the ages of the earth, unless predicated on some recognized law of Nature, and interpreted by some demonstrable rule in philosophy. Medical men have been curing (kill- ing ?) folks for three thousand years with drug medicines, and their expe- rience has led them away from truth and Nature continually. If a dozen persons are sick of a fever for one, two, or three months, and the physi- cian gives them half a dozen drugs half a dozen times a day while the fever lasts, and one half of them die and the other half recover, the ques- tion then arises, what the drugs had to do with the results ? The drug doctor will of course assume that all who survive owe their lives to the medication, while all who die, die in spite of the medicine. But one who reasons from another stand-point, who reasons from the lawT of vitality instead of the false dogmas of medical schools, will conclude that those who die are killed by the medicine, while those who recover, recover in spite of it. Such is medical experience. “ And what are the remedies which God and Nature have provided ? Drugs, poisons, chemicals, banes of every name and kind ? Banes, did I say ? Has not every medical school its favorite bane ? Allopathy regards arsenic—rat's-bane—as a very good tonic. Homeopathy prescribes nux vomica—dog's-bane—as an admirable nervine. Eclecticism selects hyos- cyamus—hen-bane—as a proper sedative. And Physio-Medicalism con- siders eryngero—-flea-bane—as an excellent febrifuge.” “There are twTo thousand drugs in the list of remedies.* But they are all poisons—banes, venoms, and viruses— All the dregs and scum of earth and sea. Take one of them separately, and it is a poison. Give a patient the whole apothecary shop, and it is one mass of poison. It is poisonopathy first, last, and always. “ Now the remedies of the Hygienic System, as I have already stated, comprehend everything in the universe except poisons. The Drug System rejects everything except poisons. My system rejects only poi- sons, and adopts everything else. “ Professor Austin Flint, M.D., of the New York Medical College, and physician to one of the large hospitals of our city, said, a few weeks since, in a clinical lecture to his class of medical students, that, in treating pneumonia in the hospitals, he did not give any medicine at all. In the * At present they are countless. CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 335 hospitals, mark you! But how in private families? ‘There,’ said the professor, ‘ it would not do to refuse to prescribe medicine.’ Would not do? Why not? We will see presently. Dr. Flint loses no patients in the hospitals. In the city of New York the deaths of pneumonia in private families are thirty or forty per week.* “ Dr. Jennings, being a close observer and a very conscientious man, and, withal, something of a philanthropist, became a reformer! He be- came fully convinced that the system of drug medication was all wrong; that drugs, instead of curing persons, or aiding Nature to cure them, really hindered the cure, or changed the primary malady to a drug disease as bad or worse; and to put the matter to the proof, he practiced for several years without giving a particle of medicine of any kind. But his patients did not know it. The people did not mistrust that they were humbugged out of their diseases; cheated into health; deceived into saving the greater part of their doctor’s bills, all of their apothecary’s bills, and the better part of. their constitutions. He gave colored water, sugar pellets, and starch powders, to keep up confidence and furnish the mind with some charm of mysteriousness to rest its faith upon ; and then he directed such attention to Hygienic conditions as would enable Nature to work the cure in the best possible manner and in the shortest possible time. His success was remarkable. His fame extended far and wide. The praises of his wonderful skill were heard in all the region roundabout. In a few years, having conclusively demonstrated the principle involved, he disclosed to his medical brethren the secret of his extraordinary suc- cess. And do you not think that they were all swift to adopt the no- medicine plan of Dr. Jennings? Not quite—no, not one of them. Dr. Jennings has not, at this day, a single disciple, perhaps, in all Connecti- cut. The Connecticut doctors all thought, doubtless, with Dr. Flint of New York : ‘ This no-medicine plan may do in public hospitals, but it wall never answer in private families. It may do for Dr. Jennings or for the people, but will never answer for us. ’ “ And the Matchless Sanative! who has not known of its marvellous cures ? Twenty-five or thirty years ago it was all the rage in some places. I have seen many chronic invalids who had worn out half a dozen regular physicians, and swallowed the whole round of patent nostrums; but nothing ever did them so much good as the ‘ Matchless Sanative. ’ Well, * This shows plainly, how the public bribe the drug fraternity to do the worsf toward them. 336 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. it was a matchless medicine. It was the very best remedy, as a universal panacea, ever sold to an afflicted mortal at an extravagant price, for it was pure water, and nothing else. The price was only two and a half dollars per half ounce !” If such wondrous effect be produced simply by keeping out the poison, and by leaving Nature alone, what unparalleled success may we not be entitled to expect, if we assist Nature by removing the obstructions, and thus save the vitality of the patient ? In the circular by a Dr. Keller we read: “If it were possible to cure the sick by means of the different kinds of medicines or drugs, there would not be so many cases of death and so many sick-beds; not so much ‘ chronic ’ misery and sickness. Mercury, iodine, arsenic, bro- mine ank their different compounds, salicine, digitalis, chinia, antipyrin and antifebrin are to-day used in large quantities in almost all our sick- rooms. ‘ ‘ More than enough of these mixtures, pills and powders are hourly prescribed and taken. And what is the result? Certainly not a real and lasting cure and a sure protection against the diseases of mankind. The road is opened to further suffering, worse calamity is produced. The so- called medical way of curing, this method of curing existing since thou- sands of years, has never proved to be a real science of curing in spite of the experience of ages and the protection of the different States given to it at all times. It could not gain for itself the untarnished reputation of being a method of curing based upon a solid foundation. Under the pressure of these facts it is easily understood that a suffering human race was looking for another way of curing the diseases of humanity, a method bringing real salvation from mankind’s diseases. “ This way of curing the sick has been found, and thousands have used it with the best results. By it, it is not only shown how to retain health, but also how to recover the lost, and preserve it. ‘ ‘ It is, of course, a ‘ new ’ method of curing which possesses, with the old one, the same scientific basis of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathol- ogy, but differs essentially from it by omitting Uatin prescriptions, or medicines and drugs of any kind, being a cure without drugs, and being able to avoid very many operations—a cure—quick, sure, efficacious and lasting. “This new method of curing, founded by Priessnitz and Schroth, then reformed by Rausse and Hahn, has greatly developed itself during the last two decades in scientific progress as well as in its general branches, marching victoriously through the world under the name of ‘ Nature’s CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 337 Cure,’ ‘ Natural Art of Curing,’ and wherever in use combatting success- fully'the diseases of man—curing the sick and protecting the health of the others. “ Its weapons of warfare consist of light, air, water, rest, motion, massage, and diet, and are brought upon the battle-field in different forms.” How was it possible for the method of Water Cure to circle the globe in a few years, except that the thoughtful had wakened to the deficien- cies and dangers of drug medication ? Sir John Forbes, M.D., says: ‘‘In many cases, treated allopathically, the disease is cured by Nature, and not by the drugs ; in other cases, the disease is cured by Nature in spite of them ; and consequently, most patients would fare better, if all drugs were abandoned;” and he em- phatically adds: ‘‘Things have come to such a pass that they must either mend or end.” ‘ ‘ The habitual taking of any efficient medicine is the certain road to a premature, and, very often, a violent or agonizing death.” R. T. Trail again writes : ” Prince Albert* was afraid to take the medicine of the regular pro- fession, yet he was killed by it. Ford Byron held medicine in contempt, and execrated bleeding ; yet he was bled to death. Prince Albert refused to take the ordinary drugs, but consented to take alcoholic stimulants. There was the fatal error. “ Prince Albert did not regard alcohol as drug medicine in the tech- nical sense. Why should he ? Do not all the standard physiologists call it a ‘ supporter of vitality ? ’ Do not physicians everywhere prescribe it in all cases of debility and exhaustion ? Why should the Prince have been wise above what is written ? “ Prince Albert had not learned, nor do medical men seem to under- stand, that stimulation and nutrition are incompatibilities. There is no grosser absurdity abroad, no greater delusion on earth, than the notion that alcohol is in any sense, or under any circumstances, a supporter of vitality, or respiratory food. “ Prince Albert was ‘ kept up on stimulants ’ for five or six days. No one suspected any danger. Physicians did not regard the complaint as anything serious. But, all at once, the patient became prostrated. The typhoid set in. His system refused to ‘ respond ’ to any further stimula- tion. Why did his system refuse to respond ? Because his vitality had * The husband of Queen Victoria. 338 RESTORATION CF HEARTH [pt. iv. all been .stimulated away, His system needed quiet, repose ; but he was kept in a feverish commotion, in an inflammatory excitement, in a constant commotion with alcoholic poison. “Ah! this terrible ‘typhoid.’ How ready to ‘supervene,’ or ‘set in, ’ whenever and wherever a drug-doctored fellow-mortal is reduced to the dying point ! ‘ ‘ So inexplicable and mysterious was the death of Prince Albert, that suspicions were entertained of foul play for political considerations. My own opinion is, that the treatment is sufficient to account for the death. ‘ ‘ The late King of Portugal died in a similarly sudden and myster- ious manner, as did also his royal brother, and in their cases intentional poisoning was suspected. “ I recollect that soon after President Taylor died, physicians imputed the malady of which he is said to have died—a slight bowel complaint— to having partaken rather freely of blackberries and milk a couple of days before. “ Blackberries and milk ! Such a meal could not have seriously dam- aged a nursing baby, much less the hardy old veteran who was almost proof against Mexican bullets. When I heard of black berries as among the causes of General Taylor’s death, I thought of blue-pills, and gray pow- ders, and green tinctures, and red lotions, and brown mixtures. “ President Harrison was sick, as the medical report vaguely stated, of congestion of the liver and derangement of the stomach and bowels. The patient was physicked and leeched ; the typhoid ‘ set in, ’ and handed him over to the grim grasp of death. After his death the medical journals disputed the propriety of the bleeding part of the treatment. Some con- tended that he was bled too much, and others insisted that he should have been bled more. “Washington, too, died suddenly and strangely. A British author, Professor Reid, of Edinburgh, Scotland, has publicly declared that he was trebly killed ; that he was bled to an extent that would of itself have caused death ; that he took of antimony and of calomel each enough to have killed him outright, had there been no other medication.” Dr. Trail continues : “So long ago as my earliest schooldays, the advent and career of our district school teacher made an impression on my mind which induced me to study medicine much more critically and suspiciously than I would otherwise have done. Western New York was then sparsely populated, and there was no doctor within a dozen or fifteen miles. But people were sick. Agues prevailed. Colds and coughs were as common as rain, slut, and slosh. Pneumonia and influenza CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURH 339 were everyday affairs. Whooping-cough, mumps, and measles, were as plenty as blackberries; and bilious, inflammatory, and even typhoid fevers, with now and then a case of rheumatism, were well-known and duly appreciated. But nobody died. Many persons were very sick, put somehow or other all came out well and sound at the end. At length, a stranger of good address came along and offered to teach the village school. He was employed. It was soon noised abroad that he was a doctor. How fortunate ! At this time colds, pneumonia, influenza, and pleurisy were prevalent. The school teacher soon began to visit patients out of school hours, and the calls for his professional services became so frequent and urgent that he was obliged to relinquish teaching in the middle of the term, and devote himself night and day to doctoring. Then it was that people began to die. 1 soon became familiar with funerals, and cripples and bed-ridden women were numerous in the neighborhood. Three of my father’s family—my mother and two brothers—called in the doctor for some slight indisposition ; and none of them ever saw a well day afterward. These things I noticed then, and wondered; now I think I can understand and explain them. ’ ’ “ The late Prof. Wm. Tully, M.D., of Yale College, and of the Ver- mont Academy of Medicine at Castleton, Vt., informed his medical class when I attended his lectures, ‘ that some years previous typhoid pneu- monia was so fatal in some places in the yalley of the Connecticut River, that the people became suspicious that the physicians were doing more harm than good ; and in their desperation they actually combined against the doctors and refused to employ them at all; after which, said Prof. Tully, ‘no deaths occurred.’ And I might add, as an historical incident of some pertinency in this connection, that regular physicians were once banished from Rome, so fatal did their practice seem, in the eyes of the people.” ‘ ‘ It is wholly incontestable that there exists a widespread dissatisfac- tion with what is called the regular system of medical practice. Multi- tudes of people in this country and in Europe express an utter want of < onfidence in physicians and their physic. The cause is evident—erro- neous theory, and springing from it, injurious, often—very often—fatal practice. Nothing will now subserve the absolute requisitions of an intel- ligent community but a medical doctrine grounded upon right reason, in harmony with and vouched for by the unerring laws of Nature and of the vital organism, and authenticated and confirmed by successful results.” Who is sick ? He whose body is encumbered. Who is hopelessly sick ? He who has exhausted the resources of the apothecary shop. (If medicines were beneficial, should he not be the healthiest man ? ) RESTORATION OF HEARTH [pt. IV. 340 Let invalids remember that their trouble commenced with some trifling ailment or other, e. g., a little cold, or an indiscretion in diet, etc., then medical aid is sought, and by the time that they have half a dozen doctors, they are by no means well, but are on the road to become con- firmed invalids. Every part of onr body—the nails, hair, teeth, bones, muscles, skin, brain, etc., is so wonderfully constructed that each draws from the blood just what is needed by that respective organ. The more we ponder over this subject, the more we admire their sublime harmony. And then, the endeavor of the drug school to correct any disturbance of this harmony by the indiscriminate employment of drug poisons, seems a most awk- ward proceeding. Nothing ought to be introduced into the body, except that which is calculated to rebuild it; consequently, substances that do not form constituent parts of a healthy body should not be taken. Mer- cury and arsenic, for instance, are not found in a healthy person, and if a person is sick, it may be from the presence of these very poisons. In spite of the numerous drug stores so ready to sell their deadly poisons, and notwithstanding the thousands of drug prescribers, hospi- tals, asylums, etc., quite willing to dispense their harmful quack stuffs, mankind grows no healthier. On the contrary, new forms of disease spring up on all sides like mushrooms, and this age, so rich in new remedies, is just as rich in incurable moderyi diseases. To us it is incomprehensible, how both the public and the physicians can be so blind as not to notice this coincidence. W. W. Hall, M.D., says: “The fact that new nostrums remain popular only for a brief period, proves that their healing virtues, like the diseases they profess to cure, are imaginary. Each remedy has its brief day of glory, and is succeeded by a rival candidate for the popular ap- plause. Each new invention has a twofold office. It comes to bury the dead, and herald a new race. Each fresh adventurer denounces all rivals as deceivers and impostors. These makers and venders of nostrums abuse each other like pickpockets. They wage war upon every fellow- quack. Every member of the fraternity is an Ishmaelite to every other. On all sides it is war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt. The dead lie prostrate on many a hard-fought field. But it is the patients who die, not the quacksAnd again : “When a simpleton wants to get well, he buys something ‘to take;’ a philosopher gets something ‘to do;’ and it is owing to this circumstance, that the latter has been in a minority almost indistinguishable in all nations and ages, that doctors arc princes instead of paupers. ’ ’ CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 341 Herbs.—Some medical people, and also Seb. Kneipp, urge that Herbs are plants, vegetable products, and ought to be able to restore health more safely than mineral drugs. But we know that coffee, tea, nux vomica, strychnine, prussic acid, hyoscyamus, belladonna, mor- phine, opium, carbolic acid, etc., are vegetable products, and yet are the most powerful poisons we possess; some being so destructive that one drop may extinguish a human life. Things can be harmful, indifferent, or beneficial to health. We do not understand how one and the same article can be both harmful and beneficial; but this is exactly the posi- tion our wise drug advocates hold. They say, however, that the articles mentioned, are harmful in a concentrated form, but restore health when taken diluted. On what principle do they make this distinction ? We would argue, that if concentrated poison wall kill us instantly, the same poison, taken diluted, will kill us by degrees. How can it be otherwise ? If you pour one drop of a concentrated solution of cochineal into a quart of water, it will tinge its entire contents, that is, each of the many thousand drops of water has received part of the cochineal dye. Now if the entire drop of a substance be injurious, we fail to see why the same drop when diluted should not also be harmful. Poison is destructive in direct proportion to the quantity taken. Its nature is poisonous, and this nature is not altered by dilution. If a drop of a certain poison will kill a person, and the same drop be diluted and thus taken with one draught, do you not suppose that it will produce the same fatal result ? It might do its work even more rapidly. It is only when we take the diluted poison by degrees that the deadly effect escapes our notice, because our vitality has a chance to recuperate to an extent in the meantime, and thus spin out its misery for a longer period. But the diluted poison is killing us nevertheless. The idea of the beneficial effect of medical herbs was probably first in- troduced thousands of years ago, by people without schooling and observa- tion, but whose minds were filled with all sorts of rubbish and superstition. We have plenty of superstition still; it has been propagated down to our times, and the drug people are its staunch adherents. The only ground they have to stand on, is: that the usefulness of herbs was believed in by the ancients. This argument is sufficient for our medical scientists. A drowning person will cling to a straw ; so will our drug profession. “That famous old Dutch physician, Boerhave, had a clearer idea of the underlying principle of rational medicine than some modern followers of Aesculapius, as evidenced by his declaration that a dyspeptic would get more good from (the exercise in) climbing a bitterwood tree than from drinking a decoction of its leaves. ’’ 342 RESTORATION TO HEAETH [pt. IV. For centuries the public has been told that drugs and herbs cure. Not knowing better, they believe in them and demand them. Drugs and herbs always do harm ; but in cases of acute diseases, they may produce a shifting of the cause of disease (the foreign matter), and thereby effect a seeming cure. Both physicians and the patients may thus be deceived. Kneipp, too, humored this delusion of the public and hence his phenome- nal success. We know that as far as financial prosperity is concerned, we are injuring ourselves by opposing this delusion with all our might, but for all that, we are bound to serve our fellow-men to the best of our ability. We claim that anything that cannot be taken into the body as a daily food, or is not needed for its maintenance, or is taken into the system with the intention of cleansing it, is rank poison,and injurious in proportion to the quaiitity taken. Many of the active principles of plants consist in essential oils. The normal body contains no essential oils, hence, the sick body cannot be benefited by them. Some of the ingredients (such as coffeine, theine, prussic acid, nicotine, etc.,) are so powerful that one drop is sufficient to destroy a man. If we dilute them, and apply them to sores, they are powerful enough to destroy the germs that live in the pur- ulent matter. Now we claim that the body is composed of microscopic cells, each of which has its individual life, these poisons will destroy the healthy cells also as far as the quantity of poison will reach. The bacilli are not the prime cause of ulcers; for instance, to repeat a former example, you run a splinter in your finger ; by the inflammation a stoppage of circulation occurs. The foreign matter which is deposited in this place will decompose on account of the presence of germs that are always intro- duced with the splinter, and by the greater heat of the inflammation will cause the injured part to fester; these germs canonly live in temperatures above the normal. Cool the sore spot and they will die. Cleanse the body, and they will have no food on which to live. No poisonous herbs or antiseptic liniments are necessary. On this sa??ieprinciple we treat and cure consumption. In vigorous persons, we have less chance to see the ravages of the medical herbs, especially when accompanied by Water Cure Treatment, as with Seb. Kneipp. But if the life of a patient hangs on a thread, it will always be found harmful to resort to them. Without the herbs, by dint of careful nursing, strict diet and regime, and mildest Water Applications, we have succeeded in fanning back to vigor many a life that had been despaired of, and in curing forms of disease which Kneipp does not even mention in his book, or which he declares positively incurable. They are so with him, CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 343 because the patients are poisoned by the herbs which he and his followers employ. Any one who claims that God created the so-called medicinal herbs for the purpose of curing disease, thereby implies that God created both sickness and the means of cure. Wild animals are exempt from sickness and hence need no curative herbs; why should man, whom some call ‘ ‘God’s master-piece,” have need of them? Every illness can be shown, to result from man’s perverse mode of living. Disease had not been ordained by the Almighty as a punishment for our sins. We insist that whoever still needs the aid of herbs for curative purposes, has not fully recognized the nature of disease, and the manner of cure by nature's physical forces,—fresh air, sunshine, proper amount of rest and exercise, proper food, and its as- similation and excretion. Water, massage, and electricity are not abso- lutely necessary ; but they hasten the process of elimination. Besides, the use of herbs makes the treatment by natural measures more compli- cated, expensive and unreliable. We see God’s wisdom in nature, by observing that the greatest and most manifold varieties are obtained by the simplest means. Now the beauty of the Nature Cure is demon- strated in the simplicity of its method. It requires the least amount of appliances. Herbs require drying, careful treatment, and much study. They lose their power in a limited time. As obtained from the dealer, they are unreliable. They do harm invariably. Water is always of uniform strength ; it requires no curing nor other preparation, and can almost everywhere be obtained fresh and exempt from adulteration. The use of herbs opens a vast field for unscrupulous speculators and dealers, who lay all the stress on the employment of herbs, and represent the water ap- plications as secondary. But as the active principles in medical herbs do not belong to the constituents of a normal body, they must be harmful. For this reason, and also on account of his dietary directions not founded on fixed principles, we estimate that Seb. Kneipp has done mankind as much harm as good. In speaking thus, apparently slightingly and irrev- erently of S. Kneipp, the writer is far from intending to detract from his merits. In fact, but for Kneipp, L. Kuhne and R. T. Trail, the author would probably know nothing of the true Art of Healing, as from the cur- rent medical text book you can hardly learn more than the negative side, i. e., how not to treat people. In the case a female being in her monthlies, hydro-therapists are backward in using water ; in such cases, to give immediate relief, they may employ massage or electricity, etc. Hence if we mention different 344 RESTORATION OK HEALTH [pt. IV. methods of attaining the same end, for instance, water, massage, light baths, etc., it is because circumstances may arise, under our present per- verse conditions, where one or the other cannot be employed ; certain ur- gent cases, however, allow of no delay. There are many reasons why people with sound common sense ob- ject to practitioners of the reigning school ; for example, daily we read of fatal mistakes committed both by the drug prescribers and the phar- macists. If medicines have the power to cure persons, their habitual use should keep the people well; but they have the opposite effect. There is as much adulteration in drugs, as there is in any article of commerce. Whole libraries have been written on the virtue of drugs. They were first used hundreds of years ago by uneducated savage people. And as the medical men have found nothing better as yet, the low esti- mate we place upon their acumen cannot be wondered at. Patients after having been drained to the last farthing by private drug experimenters seek relief in free dispensaries. Do they find it? Many carry to their graves the effect of the careless and heartless treatment received there. We know a professor in a medical college, whose fame as a special- ist of children’s diseases is known throughout the world. But, strange to say, his own children died, one after another. On one occasion he fed, as it were, his healthy child on quinine for weeks, giving a do.se of it with every meal. What for ? To prevent a possible attack of malaria. (This is the only way in which the drug dispensers try to prevent sick- ness. ) In answer to our question, whether he thought the effect of the successive doses of quinine accumulative, or whether it wore off as readily as that of tea or coffee, he stated, that no exact data had been obtained on this point.— The child died of diphtheria within a year after this mode of ‘ ‘ preventing ’ ’ sickness took place. Doubtless, this eminent scientist (!) would say that death was caused by diphtheria ; not by the previous administration of quinine. (As a rule our genuine legalized quacks recognize only the present effect of drugs ; the future effect rarely claims their thoughts.) But whether by drug or diphtheria, the fact re- mains : The father and famous doctor could not save his own child, and it is our humble opinion that the quinine undermined the child’s consti- tution, making it succumb to the first blast. Medical Science (!) thus resembles the fabulous old Saturn, who was said to have devoured his own children. (Fig. 112.) In view of such facts, if we harbor any misgiv- ings as to the proficiency of the present medical systems, methinks we are quite justified. This scientist subsequently received a call to a foreign CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 345 Fig. i 12. Drugging, a. A great specialist for children’s diseases, known all over the world, doses his healthy child with quinine to prevent (that is the way M.D’s. prevent disease !) an attack of malarial fever; the poison was administered with every meal for a considerable time. b. Six months later his only son is dead. c. medical science (so-called), resembles old Saturn who is said to have swallowed his own children. Eventually this same star of the drug schools received a call as pro- fessor to one of the first drug colleges of Europe. Can there be con- ceived a more sarcastic reflection on the impotence of the prevailing drug schools than the fact that one of the highest university’s should hunt the world over for a specialist for children’s diseases, and that its choice should fall on a person who had been unable to keep his own children alive? Such an occurrence is in perfect keeping with the drug system, viz.: that the very man who poisons his own children holds the highest place of honor in the drugging world ; he certainly occupies the bottom round of common sense. 346 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. country, from one of the first medical colleges of the world, as a specialist for children’s diseases. Does this not seem a severe reflection upon common sense, and must it not make us doubt the accountability of our highest medical authorities f After a drug physician has exhausted the resources of the apothecary shop, and, his patient, discouraged, is about to leave him,* he turns to the electricity swindle. In ordinary practice two kinds of electricity are em- ployed, viz.: the Farradic and Galvanic currents. We concede to the former the power of shaking up the foreign molecules deposited in a sick body ; and the latter seems to possess the power of pushing the loosened particles ahead ; but as far as we cau learn it is not known in what man- ner the living tissue is acted upon by this force, i. e., we do not know whether the permanent effect of electricity is beneficial or prejudicial to the vital power. If electricity only operated on the dead, inorganic matter within an abnormal body, tending towards its removal, we would consider the use of electricity to be good and legitimate. But as it also effects the living tissues, as is plainly proved by the muscular contrac- tions, etc., we can but class electricity with the stimulants, and adjudge it to work permanent harm. At any rate, its beneficial results are doubtful, and even its temporary effects are infinitesimal when compared with the positive results of Natural Methods. These cau never do harm if applied, not empirically as S. Kneipp and his followers use it, but rationally, accord- ing to fixed, simple, and obvious principles, as will be set forth in a future work by us, entitled Principles of Cure. We have come in contact with many physicians who use electricity; others have recommended their patients to get an electrical apparatus, and after it was procured, were unable to show how it should be used. Other patients were treated electrically in the first medical colleges and by the highest authorities and specialists for the electrical treatment, for months and years, without any signs of improvement, whereas the dis- ease afterwards readily responded to Water Cure processes. The medical profession knows perfectly well, that there is very little virtue in this mode of treatment, and yet they persist in robbing their patients of their money, time, and opportunity of applying for the more effectual Nature Cure ; it is for these reasons, that we cannot help looking upon the elec- trical treatment, as usually practiced, as one of the most flagrant swindles ever imposed on the public. (Fig. 113.) CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURE 347 Before leaving the drug method of curing (killing ?) We should like to speak of a class of physicians who stand pre-eminent, each in his own speciality ; namely : the specialists. Fig. i 13. Electrical Apparatuses. This is used for perpetrating what we would call the medical electricity ‘ swindle ’ upon the public, for the depletion of its pockets. The usual run of M.D’s.,does not understand anything about electricity ; at best its results are dwarfed when compared with those achieved by the Nature Cure. We are called to many patients who had bought such apparatus by the ad- vice of their medical counselors, but who never used them because these advisors could not tell how the instruments were to be applied. If this treatment does not relieve the patient, at any rate it relieves his pocket. Patients have come under our notice who have been treated electrically for eighteen months, without any benefit, and that by the highest medical authorities, i. e., professors of medical colleges. The belief in specialists arose quite naturally. The public, seeing that the ordinary physicians could not cope with any advanced form of disease, thought it would be more to the purpose for individual medical people to devote a life-time to the study of some particular organ, or part of the body. In this way ‘ ‘ specialists ’ ’ arose. Their maxim sounds well and looks feasible ; it captivates the public. But, for all that, it is idle fallacy. Our body is a unit ; the stomach prepares the food for the entire body ; the blood nourishes every fibre of it. If a person feels a 348 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. tension in the eye-ball or has an ear-ache, the pain indicates the presence of foreign matter. As all foreign matter appears first in the blood before it can settle elsewhere, it is evident that the pain also indicates an abnormal condition of the blood. But how did the blood become abnormal ? By a perverse mode of living, i. e., by eating, drinking and breathing wrong sub- stances, and by neglecting the depurating organs. Now, tell me, how any local treatment of the eye or ear can cure these organs, without im- proving the condition of the blood by adopting a proper regime ? But so it is; the specialist treats the eyes and ears by his caustics, anaesthetics, etc. The caustics irritate the organs still more, draw a still greater supply of the impure blood there, and thus increase the deposits. Or, the anaes- thetic kills the nerves; the blood recedes, leaving the deposits behind. These harden, and blindness or deafness is the final issue ; it cannot be other- wise (Fig. i 14.) From this it will be seen that our much admired and revered specialists are strictly responsible for a vast percentage of incura- ble cases. Dr. E. B. Foote writes : “It was not suspected until the seventeenth century, that catarrhal matter emanated from the glands of the mucous membrane, and ever since then, the doctors have been mainly treating it as if it were simply a local disease ; and it has been a favorite target for all sorts of medical sportsmen to fire at. Some shoot astringent liquids into the nostrils; others play fine streams of medicated spray into the breathing passages; another attempts to flank the enemy by throwing dust into his eyes in the form of catarrh snuff ; while still another medical wise-acre thinks he will smoke or steam him out with some newly invented fumes or vapors. Catarrh is really the result of a diseased state of the blood. ’ ’ Suppose a pimple developes on your nose. First, you apply to the wisdom of your family physician ; but finding that its management sur- passes his capacity, you look up a specialist for the nose. He examines the pimple most carefully and scientifically i. e., from the drug standpoint— and then prescribes some salve. As the pimple keeps spreading, he cau- terizes it. This treatment being in vain, he begins to cut it and scrape it away, until it surpasses endurance and until the nose is gone and the patient is disfigured for life. Not for a moment does the wise Esculapian think of the possibility that the pimple might have originated from an improper condition of the blood. He is so much absorbed with his speci- alty that he forgets that the nose is merely a part of the body, that the life of the nose and that of the whole system, are one, and that the blood in the nose is identical with that in the rest of the body. He ignores the fact CH. 23. DRUGS DO NOT CURE 349 Fig. i 14. Specialism. If you examine books treating of diseases of the eyes, you find depicted all sorts of malformations, but you will not find a normal healthy eye. Our great specialists for diseases of this organ do not know how a healthy eye looks, and hence are utterly disqualified to restore eye-sight to the normal by natural means, and this holds true of all other specialists. All specialism in medicine is an absurd abnormity of the mind, as the patient has to go to one specialist for trouble with his nose, to another for his eyes, ears, throat, internal organs, the skin etc. Our great specialists treating each organ specially, are not specially successful, as they forget that the trouble in any particular organ only originates from an abnor- mal condition of the entire body. We cleanse the body and thereby cure any special organ without any special difficulty. 350 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. that a healthy person with sound blood could not have such a sore nose, and he does not dream that nothing would be easier than to cure such a pimple by cleansing the blood from its impurities by a suitable regime and a course of Water Cure. A case of lupus is plainly a case of impure blood. Adopting a natu- ral mode of living would be sufficient to cure it. But as the drug people do not know what that means, they follow their usual trend of procedure, and cut and scratch the nose and the face away,—but without effecting a cure. To a common mortal, the hair stands on end at such a sight, but the drug profession calls it a scientific treatment and is proud of it. Fig. i 15. Case of lupus; nose, cheeks.and lips eaten away. The trouble commenced with a little pimple. It was treated for 10 years by M. D.’s., affording them an immense revenue, and making the patient a horrible sight to look at. She was treated locally by cutting, scrap- ing, pricking, cauterizing, etc., with the above result. These illustrations will answer all other cases. Specialists treat the human body as if it were something like a doll, joined together from sep- arate parts that had no deep connection with each other whatever. Specialism is as irrational in any other form of disease. Now if a person complains of one organ more than of another, as is usually the case, we first regulate the diet, giving minute instructions as to what shall be eaten and drunk ; how, when, and in what state of pre- paration, etc.; then we give directions as to exercising, breathing, air- CH. 23.] DRUGS DO NOT CURK 351 and light-baths, etc., and finally the impurities are removed from the sys- tem by applications to the entire body. Extra local applications are rarely necessary, and are only given to either keep hffammation in check by applying cool applications, frequently renewed or in a case of palsy, when a Fig. i i 6. A Flock of Sheep. As to cure, few people have judgment of their own. When sick, they follow the example of others who are as much befogged by the drug illusion. Like sheep, they follow their leaders into the slaughter- house. limb is cold and we wish to restore its natural temperature, we attain our purpose by applying compresses of cold water covered with flannel and leaving them on for many hours till they grow hot. This illustrates how two totally different symptoms {inflammation and palsy') can be cured by the same means—cold Water. Have we shown in its true colors, the hopelessly evil effects that the poison and cutting system, upheld by the different drug schools, has exercised for countless ages, and is still exercising upon the human race ? Have we persuaded you, not to blindly follow in the footsteps of their vie- 352 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pT. IV. tims ? We caution you to turn back to nature at the first danger signal she sounds; accept her hint, act on her advice, and in the natural methods find a permanent cure, and build up a new body and a strong, clear mind. SURGERY. Chapter 24. present employment of surgery may be divided in- i- In Malformations, inherited, such as clubfoot. They are rare ; and here, an operation may be ben- 2. In the case of accidents. They will happen; people, for instance, will break their arms which will require setting. There, too, surgery is partly legitimate, but not by any means to the extent to which it is practiced. Besides, its methods should be radically changed,—the antiseptic treatment should be relinquished and the much safer and much more efficient Water Cure methods adopted. The systems of most people being encumbered with impure matter, no sooner does an injury occur, then festering of this corrupt matter will set in. The antiseptic treatment endeavors to keep the inflammation down by the most poisonous salves, without cleansing the system. We proceed more rationally and more thoroughly treating not only the wound but the entire body. Bv cleansing the whole system by wholesome diet and water cure processes, we draw the impurities away from the injuries; the latter need scarcely any attention, except cleansing and cooling with plain, cold water. The effect of our method is marvellous as compared with the famous anti- septic treatment, of which our modern surgeons are so proud. Reitihold, Nature vs. Drugs—xi. Fig. i 17. Amputation of the arm by the drug people. This would never have been found necessary if Water Cure were applied in time. The operations shown here are specimens, to which anyone of the readers may be subjected some day. Many such troubles commence with a lit- tle indigestion or a cold, but under the drug system you never know where you will end. Those that are being operated on to-day or those who have lost their limbs already never dreamed that some day they would become the victims of such gross ignorance. Beware of the drug people and their fine array of instruments ! These men re- sort to the knife, after their drugs have poisoned the patient through and through. 354 RESTORATION OF HEALTH . [pt. IV. 3. In Chronic ailments. These constitute the bulk of all operations, and yet are absolutely unnecessary. All these cases, if treated from the beginning, not by drugs but by natural methods, would speedily be cured, and would never run into a condition necessitating an operation. But even at a late date, Water Cure is preeminently safer than surgery. Fig. i 18. Amputation of the Hand. It strikes us that a great amount of atrocity is shown by the drug people who can cut people’s limbs away apparently without any thought of what will become of their victims subsequently. Their sole study seems to have been to find new means of cutting the living body to pieces. Their sole study ought to have been how to keep the limbs on. This is our aim. We reject operations of any kind, considering them mere puerile attempts at cure. Byfar'the largest number of operations are performed, upon patients, whose disorders have become chronic through persistent drugging. All these years of suffering and this barbarous climax as well, could have been avoided by right living at the frst, or by rational methods of cure even later. But instead, we hear of some “ wonderful operations ” having been performed. The oecurance is heralded abroad, and the world at large is duped into be- lieving that some work of great benefit to humanity has been accomplished. But let us look at the matter honestly, and see what it all amounts to. The actual benefit to the patient can never be lasting. In a case of cancer of the stomach, for instance, the latter is opened and scraped out, but the cause of the cancer remains and keeps developing new growths. (Fig. 120.) CH. 24.] SURGERY 355 If disease settles in an arm or leg, this member may be amputated, but the whole body is full of the corruption that caused this form of disease, and severance of one portion by no means cures the evil. On the other hand, what is lost in this way, can never be regained ; a limb once amputated is gone forever. The beneficial effects are doubtful, at any rate infinitely small, while the injury done is irreparable. Again these operations can be performed by a chosen few only, for almost fabulous sums, as they re- quire the highest surgical skill; and are performed in clinics, which are Fig. 120. Operation for Nasal Polypus by means of a snare. In cases of polypus, cancer, and lupus, the medical profession in vain strains every nerve to supress the difficulty by caustics, snares, cutting, etc. ; failing to touch the source, it proves powerless, however. Such troubles arise only in systems greatly run down, and hence cutting can do little and no lasting good and can onlv be of temporary benefit at best. Hygienic means are the only rational and effective ones. Before cancer developes, come minor ailments ; if these were not supressed by drugs, but were radically cured by hygienic measures, severer ail- ments could never develop. not to be found everywhere. Dr. E. B. Foote writes “ Dr. Knife has per- formed operations in cutting out tumors ; in removing an entire nose, and making a new one ; in taking out a portion of the jaw ; in taking some- body pretty much all to pieces and putting him together again, etc. etc; all of which operations have been duly chronicled in the columns of the daily press, and excited the surprise of the multitude.” What benefit— to the mass of humanity can accrue from such a performance ? Simply none. 356 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [ ft. iv. Besides, actual harm is attached to these great operations ; namely, the medical men raise such an immense hue and cry over it that they will put to shame a hen cackling after performing the marvelous it at of laying an egg. They blow themselves up, and strut about like peacocks, and talk of themselves as: ‘Yes, indeed, we doctors ... !’ By such bluster- ing bombast they throw sand into the eyes of the public, creating an im- pression as of wonderful skill, and by such tricks they draw the people’s attention from the true point at issue, viz.: of what practical value are such operations? What causes led up to them? Could they not have been avoided entirely etc. ? They thus act the part of regular mountebanks and jugglers, who by their incessant talk and manipulations draw the attention Fig. 12i. Snares. These are instruments for removing certain growths, e. g. polypi, from the nose, etc. If the surgeons had not so many in- struments, they would probably pay more attention to the prevention of such growths. All unnatural excrescences can be prevented and cured by hygienic measures. Surgical treatment is deemed necessary on account of the surgeons lacking deeper insight into the nature, cause and origin of polypi, tumor, cancer, etc. No healthy body brings forth such abnormal growths. of the audience away trom the point that would allow an insight into their deceptions. We can see these wonderful operations in no other light than as childish and useless tricks. It can be shown that most cases, which require an operation, are the results of trifling ailments which medical emperics could not cure, and which ran into ulcerations and degeneratio7is on account of their poisonous drugs. They know of no other way of relieving the patient than by cutting away ch. 24.] surgery 357 the offending limb. Under natural methods, amputations and operatiotis are never thought of. In many cases, while on the very point of having an operation performed (for life or death), patients have been restored thoroughly by the Water Cure. (Fig. 122.) In the case of accidents, surgical aid is indispensable; but 110 knife is required; and in cases Fig. 122. Instruments for administering chloroform, etc., for the purpose of putting patients in an unconscious condition. Then the surgeons have them at their mercy and can mutilate them to their hearts’ content. Every measure of the drug school is a slap in the face of common sense. Common sense would devise means of avoiding pain and disease altogether; it can easily be done by living rationally, and by Water applications; no mutilation is ever required. Since the introduction of the pain-killers (anodynes, anaesthetics, etc.), the mutilation of the human race, and specially of the females, has gone beyond all bounds where hygienic measures fail, it is because irreparable mischief has been done by medical drugging. Where the natural means fail, no knife or saw ever avails. The antiseptic treatment for wounds, of which the drug schools are so proud, and upon which it looks as a great achieve- ment, is on a par with their drug poisoning. Open sores, which under the anti-septic treatment are kept suppurating for years, close under the natural system in a few months. When this takes place, the poison has been radically driven out of the system. If people would live properly, refuse drugs and clean their systems in time, the drug men would have no occasion to use a knife. The extent to which surgery is practiced to-day, we consider to be an outrage. Let us give a few instances. A great deal has been written about the Hunchback or Pott's disease, but no physician has ever thought of the (Fig. 123.) cause of this affliction. It is generally attributed toafall or some other injury sustained. The young of wild beasts doubtlesss have their falls and injuries, but was ever a buffalo or wild horse seen with a 358 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. hunchback ? The hunchback develops gradually. From some cause or other, an inflammation sets up in the substance of the vertebrae. All the foul matter in the body is drawn to that particular spot, and a portion of the bone is destroyed. As the entire body is upheld by the spinal column, a collapse must finally ensue and a bend takes place, the hunch- Fig. 123. In their Clutches; the surgeon applying the anaesthetic. No sooner has the patient become unconscious, thtu the operator cuts lustily away. But what once has been cut off, can never be restored. It is this unconscious state of the patient, that tempts the surgeons of to-day to use the knife for every trifle. It makes our thoughtless drug poisoners careless of looking for more rational means; or of studying the causes that lead up to such a severe condition, and how to avoid them by natural measures. Millions of people are thus mutilated for life on account of the stupidity of our licensed quacks. If a person is inclined to take cold, the drug physician recommends plenty of clothes and flannels. These stifle the action of the skin which, if inoperative, retains the gaseous effluvia; as then this effete material has to be removed by the lungs or kidneys, this puts extra labor on these organs, causing lung and kidney troubles. But if these organs also refuse to remove the liquid effluvia, their solid por- tions may attack any organ of the body. It is then that the drug people think an operation necessary. Thus it is with all operations. They have been made apparently necessary by medical mistreatment, but they appear necessary only to the drugging profession, who know nothing of the cause of the trouble, and who, in their super- ciliousness ignore our simple, natural mode of treatment. back is irremediably established. Could it have been avoided or cured ? Most easily and positively, by natural methods, as mentioned above. Animals have no hunchbacks and this condition should be unknown among men also. It would be unknown, if man had not deviated from his natural mode of living. If the injured had otherwise been well, a hunchback would never have developed. There would merely have been a slight, temporary inflammation. But the blood of the child was vitiated CH. 24.] SURGERY 359 on account or its wrong feeding and keeping. The blood is the vehicle of the life principle, but it is also the carrier of corrupt matter. The more inflamed a portion is, the more blood is there; and if the blood is impure, the more foul matter is there in that spinal part. This morbid substance causes ulceration by destroying the vertebrae, and the hunchback is an ac- complished fact. How can this be cured or avoided ? By purifying the blood in a natural way. There is no other method possible. (Fig. 124.) Fig. 124. Orthopaedic Instruments for correcting malformations. We look upon them as useless and ineffectual instruments of torture. All such defects are easily and positively corrected by simple and natural methods of .Cure. But for the impure blood, no hunchback could ever develop. As soon as a child begins to complain of a pain along the back, a thorough cleansing of the system should be undertaken. But of this simple and common sense 360 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. mode of prevention, the surgery of to-day knows nothing. How do our wise drug people attempt its cure? The poor victims are subjected to the per- verse, persistent, and useless method of heart-rending tortures, termed ‘orthopaedic treatment.’ Are they ever cured in that way? Ask the afflicted. (Fig. 125.) Fig. 125. A useless experiment. All such implements as these which the drug people employ show, that they never for a moment consider the cause of such troubles. Presence of foreign matter is the cause, taken into the system by perverse feeding and living, and by drugs. Cure is only effected by cleansing the system from its impurities and drugs, by our natural means. Hip Disease has the same cause, as hunchback, namely vitiated blood, which is the result of perverse living. By natural methods, it is readily cured. What do medical men do for it ? They lay the poor sufferer for weeks and months on the stretch-bed, suspend heavy iron-weights on the legs to keep them from growing .shorter (They do not seem to know that the arms of mariners, who pull and pull, are not longer, but shorter than the normal); they scarify the limb; they make cuts from the knee up to the hips and down to the bones; till at last death releases the wretched creatures from their terrible suffering. This is almost the invariable out- come. Their poor success does not daunt our great surgeons for a mo- CH. 24.] SURGERY 361 ment; they persevere in this scientific (!) treatment with every such case, no matter how many are thus butchered to death. In the more favorable circumstances the patient will retain a short leg and remain a cripple for life. Entire recoveries are rare. (Fig. 126.) Fig. 126. The Surgeon's treatment for Hip Disease. A patient has to lie on his back, day and night for months, his leg being extended by heavy weights. Mariners whose principal exertion is pulling, have abnormally short arms ; and hence this method of our wise drug people rather tends to shorten the legs. In fact their entire treat- ment is perverse and usually terminates fatally. But our great sur- geons are by no means abashed by their failure; they continue to treat all comers after the same fatal routine. UnderWater Cure this disease becomes a trifling affair. WE QUOTE A FEW CASES FROM J. ARMSTRONG, M. D. “AN OVARIAN TUMOR.’’ “ A trip of over one hundred miles was made to get the benefit of what was considered the best of skill. She was carefully examined by the President of a Medical Institute, and the case diagnosed as above, but no hope whatever was given that she could recover unless an operation was performed which would cost $500.00. Another physician of learning, ex- perience and quite extensive practice is consulted, who diagnosed the case the same, but did not mention the first thing that could be done to cure the malady outside of an operation. The third physician who was con- sulted was also a man of liberal education, of thirty years’ experience in practice and a relative of the patient—same results. The superintendent of a large hospital was then seen in reference to the case, with no better 362 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV' encouragement, and another physician that examined the case, when asked what was the cause of Ovarian tumors, replied: ‘That is something that medical science has not yet explained.’ She at last decided to have her case treated by one that had acquired his knowledge out- side of medical colleges (Whatthe drug people unjustly call ‘a quack),’ and here again it will be interesting to know just what was done and what the results were. PAirst, it was arranged so that she was relieved of most of the care and worry of looking after her business. Second, the quantity of food was cut down less than one half, and a change made for a quality that was easier digested and assimilated. “Besides, some applications of plain water were used. ’ ’ In less than one week of this simple, common- sense treatment, there was a decided improvement ; for the swelling that had for been increasing, began to go down, and in less than three months’ treatment, the patient could walk around with comparative com- fort, and the following spring took charge of a business and did the work of a strong, healthy woman.” P'rom ‘Life Saving a Crime’ by J. Armstrong, M.D., 683 W. Van Beuren Street, Chicago, 111. A YOUNG WOMAN’S NARROW ESCAPE. ‘ ‘ The patient was a sweet looking girl of sixteen summers, but the thin, pale and care-worn face told to the close observer that her young life had seen much of trouble and suffering Her widowed mother had been an invalid for eight years, and during most of that time upon Annie alone had fallen the struggle for bread. ‘ ‘An eager crowd of several hundred medical students thronged the amphitheater at ——— College, said college being in connection with the Hospital; there were grand opportunities for witnessing hundreds of brilliant operations by the students attending said Institution. “Annie’s case was one of unusual interest, for it had been announced that on the following day an operation would be performed by cutting out the ends of the bones at the elbow that had become so stiff that it could not be bent.” She had, while going to work one cold “ wintry morning, slipped and fallen, injuring the elbovv-joint of her right arm. Having been advised to consult Doctor C he told her that if she would go before the medical class at the college clinic the treatment would be free. ‘ ‘ For many weeks Annie had attended the college daily and, seated be- fore the students, Professor C had now delivered forty lectures over this poor arm. Twenty-five of the college faculty—considered men of CII. 24.] SURGERY 363 great medical knowledge—had agreed with Dr. C that the arm was incurable, and to-morrow at two o’clock the patient was to be chloroformed and in the presence of the students the ends of the bones at the elbow were to be cut out and an attempt made to form a false joint. Before the hour set for the operation every seat in the amphitheater was filled. Promptly at two o’clock the great surgeon stepped before the class and was applauded as usual, when about to perform any brilliant surgical operation. Hastily glancing around, he asked why the patient was not ready. He had a long white apron on to keep the blood from staining his clothes, and was impatient to begin. Just at this moment a messenger entered with word from Annie that she and her mother had de- cided not to have the operation performed, and stated further that on her return from the college the day previous she had, from want of food and the thought of the horrible operation, fainted on the sidewalk. A kind- hearted nurse carried her to her home across the street, applied restora- tives, and as Annie recovered, bathed her stiffened arm in hot water, and explained to her, that by simple treatment her arm might yet be cured, while if she underwent the operation she would be a cripple for life. “ This was a great disappointment, not only to the students, butalso to the Professor. He als pointed out that the nurse that was rendering the girl assistance was violating the medical law of the state. ‘For,’ said he, ‘the following is the language of the state law: ‘Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine who shall treat, operate on, or prescribe for any physical ailment or another.’ ‘Young gentlemen,’ said he, ‘ you must in your practice see to it that this law is rigidly enforced, so you can protect the people from ignorant persons imposing unscien- tific treatment upon them, and I shall make complaint immediately so as to put a stop to any treatment that this nurse, whoever she is, may pre- scribe, and have her prosecuted at once for violating the law of the state.’ ‘ ‘ At the end of three weeks Annie called at the elegant office of Dr. C and after awaiting her turn in the reception room for two hours, he asked her into his private office. Her arm, with the simple treatment of hot fomentations, and gentle rubbing with hot olive oil during the three weeks, was sound and well. Was Dr. C5 pleased ? Not a bit of it, and Annie wondered at the cool reception and the short interview. Did he explain to the hundreds of students next day at the college that the arm was cured and the means used ? No, reader; not a word about it. To have done so would have shown that the forty lectures he had delivered over this poor arm, and the opinion of the twenty-five professors in the college who considered it incurable, was only hypothesis piled upon hypothesis, ab- 364 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. surdity, contradiction and falsehood. A celebrated medical professor truth- fully said : “It is owing to our ignorance, gentlemen ! It is owing to our ignorance that instruments and operations are necessary. ’ ’ “ Forty lectures of one hour each had been delivered teaching them how not to cure it. Is it to be wondered at that Dr. Warehouse, after teaching medicine in Harvard University for twenty-one years, resigned, saying he was sick of learned quackery. Is it to be wondered at, that when men are annualy graduated by the thousand, after having received such teaching from our large medical colleges, that their practice should inflict untold misery on their patients? ’’ Fig. 127. Crippled for life, because the drug physicians did not know how to change the morbid condition of the limbs into a normal one by simple and natural means. Nature Cure would have saved the limbs. If people are cut up mercilessly, it is what they deserve, for allowing a class of people, for whom language lacks adequate ex- pressions, to remain in power; every one of these pitiless practi- tioners deserves hard labor for life. No ferocious beast in its most cruel acts compares with the unscrupulous atrocities of the drug fra- ternity. Scarrifying mentioned by us in connection with Ischias, is resorted to by our great operators, and consists in burning a patient with red- hot irons till the hou e is filled with the stench of cooking, live, human flesh. ch. 24.] SURGERY 365 Not every practitioner has the heart to do it; it is only those who as boys de- rived great pleasure from torturing animals, and of whom it was predicted that they would make great surgeons; during the middle ages, we have no doubt, they would have donned the garb of public executioners, and taken delight in quartering people and dispatching them with the wheel. In those early days it was done by law; it is done so to-day. Our medi- cal laws, made by people wholly devoid of even rudimentary knowledge of the laws of health, have empowered a class of people, who know as little about this matter as themselves to torture and maim people to their heart’s content. It is a clear remnant of the dark ages, and would be quite unnecessary if rational methods were adopted. Several people so tortured have come finally to us; they had derived no benefit whatever from the operation, but endured great pain, at much expense. Scarrify- ing produces a nervous shock; which may lead to a shifting of the foul matter, and thus a seeming benefit may be arrived at in some cases. But the shock involves a loss of vital power, of which force a second portion is expended by the effort which the body is making to heal the wound. At best, the benefit is only apparent and temporary, because the primary cause of the trouble is not removed by the process. The actual harm, however, is unavoidable. If these great medical lights should receive a good sound bastinado for every case of scarrifying, we think, they would soon quit their barbarous measures of cure, and look for more rational and effective ones. (Fig. 127.) How often does it happen that a person is operated on for a trivial complaint; while under the knife, he makes a slight movement; an artery is accidently cut, and he bleeds to death. No harm is done; at least not to the operator, he is protected by the law. The law having been formu- lated by the drug schools, and being viewed through the spectacles of our legalized quacks, the operation is deemed necessary. But those people, who have attempted to trace all forms of disease to their primary cause, and to treat them from this point of view, consider all operations unnec- essary and unjustifiable, and a perversion of nature. A person who thinks he can fall back on surgery as a last resource if all others fail, will have no incentive to look for more rational methods. Besides, there is plenty of money in operations ; for some kinds, hundreds and thousands of dollars are paid. (Fig. 128.) A disease, such as cancer, like any other severe trouble, e. g., blind- ness, can only develop in a system thoroughly degenerated; and only con- tinues because the drug people with all their thousands of poisons are unable to stop the difficulty either in its beginning or at any later stage; 366 RESTORATION OF HEARTH [PT. IV. in fact, as we look at it, the affections grow more and more desperate on account of continued drug poisoning. At one time a woman came un- der our treatment for cancer. She suffered with dizziness, nervousness and headaches; there were large brown blotches on the left cheek. Greatly troubled with the urine, hives and itching; hair falling out, catarrh; cos- tive, goes 2 or 3 times only per week; no knee-jerk; stiff'in limbs; suf- fered with lumbago; pain in left ear for 6 months, hard of hearing. The entire body charged with corrupt matter; had bleeding piles; used to have lueorrhcea; sleepy feeling of all limbs for years. Eyes dull, brown rays around pupil indicating liver trouble. Breathed through mouth. Hard lumps in both breasts, especially the right one. Some great medical lights of the City of New York promised cure by drugs, but the patient growing steadily worse, she was finally told in the Cancer Hospital that the breast should be removed immediately. But instead the patient came under our treatment, and has improved in every way within a few months; an operation will never become necessary. (Fig. 129.) Fig 128. The usual result of"a most successful operation." Appendicitis, like the microbe theory, is one of the scape-goats of our ignorant drugging profession. Formerly, such cases were very rare; to- day, they are as common as rain-drops. Suppose a person deranges his bowels a little, a trifle that safely passes off in a day or so if left undoc- tored, or, better, if an enema of plain cool water be taken. Instead, the patient applies to some drug poisoner. In nine cases out of ten, he diag- noses appendicitis. This is a very clever trick, as under his poisonous treatment any symptom may turn up and prove fatal, the odium of his ignorance appears less glaring in case of an unhappy termination. And if the patient should recover despite the poison, he believes his drug quack has saved his life. Yes, indeed, a clever trick. CH. 24. < SURGERY 367 Any work can be done either in a proper, or in a perverse manner. Now, as far as so-called medical science is concerned, nothing is easier than to prove that it always has chosen and always will choose the wrong course. Because the entire idea on which it is founded, is irrational, namely, that a sick person can be made well by poisoning him. Fig. 129. Substitutes for limbs, provided by quacks because they can not cure, and so amputate the limbs. We say, operations are- al ways a sign of ignorance on the part of the operators; and we are sustained in our opinion by the first surgeons of the world. L,et us describe a case of Carbuncle. You know that many persons die from blood-poisoning consequent on the cutting of such a boil. Once, a prominent citizen of New York, of fifty years of age, had such an ulcer on the nape of his neck, the size of his two fists. Under general and local water applications, the carbuncle opened spontaneously in several 368 RESTORATION OF HEALTH PT. IV. places, discharged matter and bjood copiously for a few days, and then diminished. Within a week, it developed once more. This time, vigor- ous applications to the abdomen, did not let it come to a head; and it rapidly subsided. Within one month, the whole trouble was over; the wound was healed; no scar was left, and as hair grew on the spot again, not a trace of the carbuncle was left. By our mode of treatment, the life of the patient had not been jeopardized by an operation, and his entire system was considerably cleansed. (Fig. 130.) Our simple, but common-sense method has saved many a limb, and many a head, that had already been doomed to the knife. In reference to Ulcers, Kneipp writes : “The impure blood must be purified; and to do this, a good wholesome diet is essential.’’ This seems to imply that this popular healer counts an improper diet amongst the chief causes of ulcers, and he is right. Fig. 130. The Ini>alid. Under the drug system people become con- firmed invalids for years in their prime of life; and are not only use- less members of society, but also require the constant services of other people. If Natural Methods were resorted to in time, this con- dition would be practically unknown. In case of varicose veins and milk legs, the drug physician called on, does not consider the unhealthy state of the blood, arising from perverse living as its true cause, hence the thought of improving the blood hardly enters his mind. If it does, he experiments with his poisons, thus spoil- ing the blood still more. As a rule he contents himself with treating the legs alone by salves, and by recommending the use of rubber-stockings, etc. Did the drug people ever effect a cure in that way ? Not one. The drug prescribers in this respect appear to us like a herd of sheep, utterly devoid of any thought of their own : one tries a certain course, all the rest follow. ch 24.] SURGERY 369 Our skin contains innumerable small openings, called pores; and it is most essential to a person’s health, that they shall be kept open, as they throw off foul matter and take in pure air. But how can they do either, how can the leg become well, if a person closes the pores air-tight by rubber-stockings? Mortification (gangrene) and all the most frightful conditions are the result of such irrational treatment. Wild beasts live properly and have neither varicose veins nor milk-legs. Fig. i3i. Elastic Bandages. Recommended by M.D’s., for varicose veins. It is a mere makeshift, as no varicose veins are cured thereby. But as the rubber closes the pores of the skin hermetically, forcing the effete gases back upon the system, those bandages are fruitful of great danger to the health of the patient. Vericose veins are caused by obstructions in the veins and by an abnormal distribu- tion of the blood. Both conditions are easily corrected in the begin- ing by Nature Cure processes. At any rate, these means are the only rational and effective methods to bring about a real cure; the Nature Cure knows no makeshifts. Some centuries ago the drugging people endeavored to penetrate into the mysteries of the vital forces that govern life, by flaying horses alive, tearing off their hoofs, and subjecting them to every conceivable cruelty, these revolting barbarities being continued till merciful death released the inoffensive sufferer. And these barbarities are still in vogue to-day. After such an apprenticeship, we can not feel surprised that the drug profession is still so fond of the knife, saw, and forceps, and that it has adopted besides a thousand poisons for the purpose of alleviating pain. And is it true that amputation puts an ends to pain ? Only one am- putation does—that of the head. 370 RESTORATION OF HEARNII [PT IV. Fig. rig. A few only of the countless instruments for the mutilation of patients. CH. 25 J 371 WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED. tE sometimes call our treatment Water Cure, for the sake of brevity ; in reality we use every nat- ural means of curing. Our first effort is of course directed toward keeping out of the sys- tem foreign substances; this we accomplish by giving only proper food. Our second endeavor aims at dissolving and eliminating the foreign deposits,—the cause of all disease,—from the body. For this purpose we use massage, physical exercise, Swedish movement cure, light and air baths, water applications, and mental healing ; the last named, however, only to the extent of appealing to the intellect of our patients, and enab- ling them to see the rationale, the common-sense method (Fig. 129.) of our treatment. Dr. R. T. Trail writes of our sytem as follows : “ The true system of the Healing Art—Hygienic Medication (treat- ment is meant)—rejects not only the drugs, medicines, or poisons of the popular system, but also repudiates the philosophy or theories on which their employment is predicated. It is in direct antagonism with the drug system both in theory and in practice.” It proposes to employ air, light, temperature, water, etc., in preference to drugs, because they are nature’s agencies and better and safer than drugs. ‘‘It rejects drugs because they are instrinsically bad, and employs hygienic agencies because they are intrinsically good. I would reject drugs if there were no other re- medial agents in the universe, because if I could not do good, I would ‘cease to do evil,’ I would not poison a person because he is sick. No physician has ever yet given the world a reason that would bear the ordeal of one moment’s scientific examination, why a sick person should be poisoned more than a well person should ; and I do not believe the world will en- dure until he finds such a reason. The medical profession may prosecute CHAPTER 25. 372 RESTORATION OR HEALTH [ PT. IV, Fig. 129. Instruments of Midwifery. A few of the countless instru- ments invented by the drug people for delivering a sickly human race into the world. Not one of them ever thought of trying to discover a method of making parturition easy and devoid of danger, so that females would have no cause to look towards their delivery as if it were their day of execution, which is the attitude to-day under the CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 373 this inquiry another three thousand years, and destroy hundreds of millions of the human race in consequence of experiments with drugs and doses, but they will never arrive any nearer to a solution of the problem. They will never be able to give a satisfactory answer to the question, for none exists. ’ ’ There are some honorable physicians who discard drugs in all forms of acute disease, such as scarlet fever, croup, cholera, diphtheria, etc., re- lying exclusively on hygienic means ; in this way, their success has been remarkably increased. “To this testimony I believe there is no exception on all the earth in all the ages. ’ ’ The same forms of disease (or rather ‘ efforts at cure ’) are called by the profession, self-limiting diseases, because, if once established, the ‘ regulars ’ have no drugs to abridge or alter their course ; the safest plan for them is to leave the disease alone, or to prescribe some neutral sub- stance merely for worldly effect. But Water Cure can stay their ravages at any time. The drug profession rarely attempts to instruct people how to avoid disease ; and as a rule, their so-called hygienic directions have rather the opposite effect. Seb. Kneipp, referring to swollen feet, says : “That which medicines cannot touch may be attained by Water with the best results ; and it seems a great pity, therefore, that the public at large and also the medical profes- sion know so little of Water and its applications.’ ’ For Poverty of Blood and Chlorosis, Iron is prescribed; when taken in the form of a tincture, it corrodes the teeth. If a substance is able to destroy the enamel of the teeth, what havoc must it play with the soft tis- sues of the stomach and intestines ! Indeed, the Iron procured from the drug shop, only spoils digestion and makes the patient weaker than before. (iContinued, from Fig. 129.) present ruling system of medical perversity. Wild beasts, for instance rabbits, produce quite a number of young ones at a time, without any difficulty, or any aid, and there are no bad after-effects. Thus it ought to be with the human species. This idea of making child-birth easy, safe, and normal, originated chiefly with the non-professionals, and non-reg- ulars. The regulars content theihselves with inventing new instru- ments with which to salute the new citizen. The wonderful contri- vances of the drug doctors make the state of motherhood a curse instead of a blessing. Speculum examinations of the female organs resorted to nowadays for every trifling headache, toothache, etc., are outrages against feminine chastity for which the unscrupulous and licentious perpetrators should be sent to the penitentiary. We main- tain that the necessity for such an examination should never arise. 374 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [ft. IV. Whereas plain food, pure air, sunshine, and exercise, will cure the patient in a very short time.* Water Cure also makes us independent of the adulterations to which drugs are exposed, which renders drug medication so extremely unreliable and dangerous. The chief beauty of the Water Cure consists in the fact, that by its adoption, chronic forms of disease will become impossible, and acute cases will be rare, as a natural mode of living will prevent them from arising. Dr. Trail again says that our methods predicate “ a philosophy and a practice of medicine which is correct in science, in harmony with all the laws of Nature, in agreement with every structure and function of the living system, and successful when applied to the prevention or cure of disease.” Now the drug profession, we all know, try new remedies, not on themselves but on others ; what are our public hospitals and dispensaries, yes,—our very medical colleges,—but huge experimental institutions where fatal experiments are made, not on inorganic matter, but on the vital power of human beings ? The drug schools, experiment on their patients, the author in training his new assistants, allows them to experiment on himself, knowing that they can do him no harm. Drug physicians though lavish in the use of drugs on others, take them but sparingly themselves. Water, on the contrary, is not only a remedy, and a universal one at that, but also a preventive of disease ; and the more frequently and lavish- ly the physician, as well as his patient uses it, the better for both. What a marked difference ! Anyone whose judgment is unprejudiced, must see at a glance on whose side the true art of healing is. Drugs drive unhealthiness back into the blood ; Water draws it out to the surface, and expels it altogether. In order to effect a cure, Water has first to cleanse the system of the medicine; in other words, Water has to remedy the mischief done by the pre vailing system of medication. Dunglison in his medical dictionary, defines medicine as ” a science, the object of which is to cure disease and the preservation of health.” Medicine has failed signally in both these objects. But Water Cure ac- complishes the two ends ; thus we see that Medicine is no science, but that Water Cure is. * In Positive Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis’ we have shown that anaemia does not arise from a lack of iron, and that the prescribing of this drug is quite un- physiological. ch. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 375 If the Natural Methods of Cure are true science, we do not rneau to say that all the people who employ this mode of healing are scientists. This condition of affairs is not yet attained, but aimed at. Dr. Trail, originally a drug doctor, says in his ‘ True Healing Art ’ : “ All history attests the fact, that wherever the Drug Medical System pre- vails, desolation marks its track, human health declines, vital stamina diminishes, diseases become more numerous, more complicated, and more fatal, and the human race deteriorates. On the contrary, wherever the Hygienic Medical System is adopted—and there is no exception—renova- tion denotes its progress, and humanity improves in all the relations of its existence.” “ Remember it is all schools of medicine, as well as each indi- vidual practitioner of which we speak, when we say that the less faith they have in medicine, the more they have in Hygiene ; hence those who pre- scribe little or no medicine, are invariably and necessarily more attentive to Hygienic conditions—to good nursing—which always was, and ever will be, all that there is really good, useful, or curative in medication. Such physicians are more careful to supply the vital organism with whatever of air, light, temperature, food, water, exercise, or rest, etc., it needs in its struggle for health, and to remove all vitiating influences—all poisons, impurities, miasms, or disturbing influences of any kind. And this is Hygienic Medication; this is the True Healing Art. Nor God nor Nature has provided any other ; nor can the Supreme Architect permit any other without reversing all the laws of the universe, and annulling every one of His attributes. “ And Florence Nightingale ! For what purpose did she pitch her tent and make her abiding place amid the stench and contagion of camps and hospitals ? Only to teach our fundamental truths, only to show the British surgeons, the first laws of health : only to instruct the graduates of the first medical schools in the world in the simplest maxims of plain, unsophisticated common sense ; to show to medical men of learned lore, and scholastic honor, and high-sounding titles, and large exper- ience, and many degrees, that invalids cannot breathe without air ; that personal cleanliness is essential to the successful management of disease ; that water, and light, and equable temperature, and rest, are requisite to correct morbid excretions, restore normal secretions, purify the vital cur- rent, and dissipate and destroy the ever-engendering miasms and infections of such places. “The British surgeons could amputate limbs admirably, dress wounds skillfully ; bleed dexterously ; mercurialize strongly ; narcotize effectually ; give quinine, morphine and strychnine hugely, and administer arsenic 376 RESTORATION HEALTH [pt. iv. powerfully ;* but they could not purify—and purification was the one thing needful in most cases. ‘ The medical profession holds a most fal.se relation to society. Its honors and emoluments are measured, not by the good, but by the evil it does. The physician who keeps some member of the family of his rich neighbor on a bed of sickness for months or years, may secure to himself thereby both fame and fortune; while the one who would restore the patient to health in a week or two, will be neither appreciated or understood.” ‘‘And the Red Cross Society,—what is the corner-stone of its great work among mankind,—but this same cleanliness, which is ours,—Cleanliness of Body, Soul and Mind ! ” It is evident that no friendship can exist between us and the adherents of medicine, that there is no neutral ground on which the medical schools and we can meet, no link between the drug system and the natural methods; they are antagonistic from start to finish; it will be a “ survival of the fittest, ” and we do not fear the ultimate issue. All we need is the en- lightenment of the masses as to the evil of the drug system, which must fall. People not initiated in the Water Cure system, wonder how Water can cure, where drugs fail ; this is simply because in the very nature of things drugs are poisonous, wher'eas water is harmless. But water is not only harmless ;—that it can be made very powerful and of great benefit to the human system is shown in the fact, that the body consists of 80 per cent, of water; i. e., the body of a person weighing 150 pounds, contains 120 pounds of water. A person in a swoon, is often restored to consciousness by a few drops of water dashed into the face. (Fig. 133.) Thousands of years ago, people produced steam by boiling water, but the method of applying steam as a force, was first practiced about a hundred years ago. There was always fuel; but the method of transforming its energy into electricity is a discovery of the most recent times. Such is the case with the Water Cure. People have always had water, but the art of employing it for cura- tive purposes, is almost exclusively a discovery of the present century. On the perfection of this discovery we are still bent. In Germany alone, innumerable books have been written on this subject. It is quite an extensive study, and in fact, in all its branches, is almost inexhaustible, as long as people persist in making themselves sick. Within the last ten years, about a hundred volumes have been written on this method of treat- ing disease. Hundreds of Water Cure Institutions are now established * Our doctors have increased their list, but not their success. CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 377 [ Chlorine !. Magnesium - Potassium • Sodium .Sulpher Phosphorus I Carbon i- Silicon ' Nitrogen • Calcium i Hydrogen 1 Oxygen water* Fig. 133. Chemical Elements of the human body. Our body does not contain Mercury, nor any of the thousand different compounds of of the drug shop. The public at large cannot imagine why Water should have the wonderful powers, that the hydropathists claim in cases where the potent drugs fail. But from the above cut we see that water forms by far the largest portion of our system when com- pared with all the rest taken together. Water, when employed ex- ternally, is partly used as a vehicle for heat and cold, and partly as a solvent.. 378 RESTORATION OP' HEALTH [PT. IV. throughout Germany. Many of these are actually under the management of Doctors of Medicine, who, however, have discarded drugs as worse than useless. To Kneipp in Worishofen alone, from 15 to 20 thousand patients, suffering from the most severe forms of disease, used to resort annually, from all parts of the wTorld. The fact that Water Cure has spread so rapidly, is a proof that times are now ripe for it ; that people tire of a system that will kill but not cure. Every enlightened person realizes that Medicine has failed in its mission to cure ; the public, therefore, are obliged to look for a more ra- tional mode of treatment, and such a one is undoubtedly found in the Water Cure. This circumstance explains the surprising phenomenon of its rapid spread. In a pamphlet, we read about S. Kneipp. “The village is full of the lame, the maimed, the blind, the disfigured (especially from lupus), the sick, many of whom have exhausted the resources of ordinary medicine, and who have come here as a forlorn hope, many hun- dreds of whom have returned cured. His diligence, unselfishness, and humility are remarkable, as also is the absence of obsequiousness to per- sons and his total indifference to his so-called pecuniary interests. It was possible for Father Kneipp to become a very wealthy man had he accepted one half of what had been offered him for his services; he is content to live in the utmost simplicity on his small benefice, and charges the most absurdly small fees for his advice.” (Fig. 134.) Drugs are injurious from beginning to end. With Kneipp, the good he does by his Water Cure Processes, is counterbalanced by his perverse and contradictory directions regarding diet and beverages, his leniency as to the habit of smoking and the use of alcohol, but above all his adoption of herbs, salves, pills and powders. In this way, he involuntarily gives every aid to unscrupulous speculators in these articles, who lay all the stress on the use of the drugs and represent the Water Cure as second- ary, whereas Kneipp distinctly says that all the curative results can be ob- tained by Water alone, without the use of herbs. In a letter to Rev. S. Kneipp. we submitted four cases of different forms of disease, of such desperate character that we find no corresponding ones in any of Kneipp’s books; we also stated that it had been our aim to prove the curability of even the worst cases, with water alone, rejecting absolutely all artificial assistance from such sources as herbs, pills or salves of any kind. There- upon, we received the following answer : ‘ The successes achieved by you are very satisfactory, and we wish you countless more to follow.’ We see, Rev. Kneipp was liberal in his views regarding drugs; it is principally the speculators who misrepresent his intentions. With the exception of CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 379 the bandages and wet packs, all of Kneipp’s applications, e.g., the various douches, short sitz-baths, etc., all stimulate the vitality, and loosen the foul matter, but do not remove it as promptly. The consequence is, that patients, either while with Kneipp, or by treating themselves according to his books, are often thrown into a violent crisis, which Kneipp was as much at a loss as to how to control, as his patients. Hence, many serious fail- ures arose. Kneipp’s phenomenal success, as far as fame is concerned, is Fig. 134. The Abdominal Supporters are makeshifts of the drug schools for weak abdominal muscles. These supports have to be worn as long as a person lives, and the weakness of the muscles is thereby constantly increased, because they are not practiced. Our natural diet and suitable physical exercise, calculated to strengthen those muscles, are the rational mode of overcoming the trouble perma- nently, which is by us accomplished in a few weeks or months at the most. due to the fearful monstrosities of the drug schools; compared to which his method shows a vast progress, despite its shortcomings. In our opinion, his mode of cure can hardly be called a system; it is conglomerated of di- verse, disconnected processes, half beneficial, half obnoxious; but which nevertheless shine forth in dazzling brilliancy when placed side by side with the results of the drugging fraternity. (Fig. 135.) 380 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. rv. In a circular by Dr. Keller, M.D., we read : “ No one should im- agine for a moment that such remedies, are not sufficiently powerful. There are no remedies of intenser and quicker operation than the combined sweating baths, than sun baths, than massage in its various forms; an effect so marked as that produced by these on the change of matter in any given case, cannot be attained by using any so-called physic. While waiting, in a case of blood poisoning—whether pyemia, or puerpal fever, or caused by the bite of a mad dog—until the physic taken shall operate, the patient has either awakened in a better world, or the progress of the Fig. 135. The Straight-Jacket for the insane. The only means of re- straint known and practiced by the drug profession. But violence is the result of an abnormal condition of the brain, caused by a morbid state of the blood, which in its turn is caused by an improper mode of living. We commence treatment by regulating the diet, and follow it up by cleansing the system of its corrupt matter by Water Cure and other hygienic measures. Under this method, dangerous violence cannot develop, and if existing, it rapidl'y succumbs. If the drug people who resort to the straight-jacket and the dark room, would get a sufficient dose of it as they deserve, they would undoubtedly exercise their brains in finding more rational means. Wild beasts do not require Straight Jackets. M.D’s., are too ignorant to understand that it is mainly their drug poisons that upset peoples’ mind, pro- ducing abnormal action in the brain cells. disease can no longer be arrested; whereas, by means of a sweating-pack, which is effective within half an hour, life can in most cases be saved. Whoever complains, in this point, of the insufficiency of physico-dietetic remedial agents, speaks either from inexperience or ignorance. ’ ’ If you have a pimple, you try to squeeze it open; this is an instinctive action; you do not apply to your reason. But you believe that this pro- cedure will heal it most quickly. On the same principle, surgeons lance CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 381 ulcers. On this principle, all our procedures of restoring health are founded. We do not tap in the case of dropsy, nor aim at suppressing syphilis, leucorrhcea, or eczema. Every method of ours tends to draw out the poison in a natural way; as soon as all the impurities have been taken out, the discharge will stop from exhaustion of supply, and then the body becomes well. Fig. 136. Medical Makeshift for Writer's Cramp. Tnis apparatus does not intend, or effect a cure. Medical Science, so-called, never 1 thinks of fathoming a condition; its sole aim is to circumvent the difficulty by some artificial help. Naturalists, understanding that writer’s cramp only arises with people whose entire body is more or less exhausted and run down, strike the evil at the root, cleanse the whole system, and then the local trouble soon disappears for ever. That is what we call a ‘cure;’ ours is no makeshift. Neither do we attempt to cure Eupus by scratching, cauterizing, or cutting off the nose, and so disfiguring a person for life. If the patient comes to us in time, the disease is nipped in the bud. But at whatever stage of disease the patient is, we do not expect to drive the poison of the disease out by poisoning him still further; this method has never suc- ceeded, and never will. But we lead him back to nature; there is no other cure. We have but one prescription for all forms of disease. It reads thus : Proper Diet; Bight and Sunshine (plenty); Pure Air, day and night; Cleanliness; Exercise, (moderate) ; Evacutions, prompt; Water applications, to be used daily. Dr. Nature. 382 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. VI. This contains no blue pills or strychnine. (Fig. 137.) That drugs do not cure, but merely suppress disease, is also appar- ent from the state of convalescence a patient of medicine has to pass through after the drugging itself has ended; during this period of conva- lescence the body has to regain whatever it can of its former strength, by its own efforts. Not so with water. The very first application invig- orates the body and by the time the cure is ended the patient is no longer PiG. 137. Nature’s blue pills; with health and happiness as their final issue. The blue pills of the drug doctors, with cancer of the liver as their last result. a patient, but in possession of his full energy, ready to take up the battle of life with renewed vigor, relish, zest and glee. To Water Treatment a state of convalescence is unknown. The expulsion of foreign matter is best, most quickly and safely accomplished by Water. At the same time, while water is being applied, we must be careful not to introduce a new supply of foreign matter into our body. Water has also the advantage of raising a person’s vitality to an un- paralleled degree; in fact, the entire treatment has but this one aim. We never forget that it is the vis medicatrix nature (Nature’s Mending Power) alone, that cures; not we who apply the treatment. If physicians actually knew how to cure their patients, their trade of family doctoring would soon be gone. The fact that there is such a CH. 25. J WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 383 thing as Family Doctors, is the plainest proof that doctors know little how to doctor. Water, on the contrary, cures people permanently; and any one that has once gone through the treatment, has become his own physician, and has learned how to take care of himself in the future. To us it is incomprehensible how mankind can be so perverse as to imagine that those substances which make a healthy body sick, ever could be supposed to possess the property of restoring power to a body of low vitality. Drugs do not cleanse the system from the deposits of corrupt material; and by remaining in the system and thus increasing the amount of foreign matter they lead to still severer and less tractable mala- dies. The very name of Chronic Diseases denotes the impotence of the prevailing drug schools to cope with certain forms of disease which readily yield to water treatment. Experienced and conscientious medical people are sparing in dispensing drugs, and with good reason, as drugs are not only harmful in themselves, but are also frequently adulterated; no medical man in writing out a prescription can vouch that it will pro- duce just the desired effect, and no other. There is one medicine, however, cheap, never adulteratered, always reliable, and applicable to all complaints—Water. We do not mean to say that when a person cries, “Here is water ! ” the response will be, “ Here'is Cure.’’ It all depends on “ How the water is used ! ” People always had water, but it is only within the most recent times that an idea of the immense virtues of water as a remedial agent has dawned upon mankind. The successes achieved by it, however, are quite adequate to warrant the assertion that in Water we possess the long sought-for panacea. For centuries people have in vain endeavored to compound an elixir of life, and nowadays the drug advocates are still hunting for more and more new remedies. They follow the example set by Ponce de Leon, who searched foreign lands for the fountain of youth, at the peril of his life, ignorant of the fact that the phantom which he pursued and which always eluded his grasp, had been within his reach,—in the well of his very homestead. Other advantages of Water applications are, that they do not poison, and that their effects are lasting. The beneficial effect is felt after the first application; and in the same degree as our vigor increases, the body makes longer and longer strides towards the recovery of perfect health. Water is the best specialist, as well as the best all-round doctor; it attacks all forms of disease at the same time, however complicated the case may be, and no matter whether the complaint is of a dozen ailments, or simply one; they are all cured at the same time, as all the various forms of dis- ease spring from the same cause—impure blood. 384 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. Of course, water has its limits; it is unable to restore an amputated limb, nor can it obliterate the effects of other surgical mutilations; but as long as a limb is yet whole, however much diseased, there is hope that it may be restored to perfect health by—Water. Most chronic ailments, such as Torpid Liver, are the direct consequences of medication. If Water alone were used as soon as any pain is felt, the disease would be checked; there would be no chro?iic disease, no amputated limbs, and no Homes for incurables. Except in cases where the defect is the result of accident or birth, the lame, blind, deaf, paralytic, etc., have to thank the prevailing drug system for their sad afflictions. We can cure every sickness, without exception, provided that the pa- tients come directly under our treatment, and have not for many previous years been dosed with poisonous drugs. In cases of consumption, and other troubles, Bed Sores are the bane of medical men; these sores are altogether avoided by Water Cure. When a person becomes almost, blind in consequence of his perverse medical treatment, and he applies to a specialist for help, the latter will defer operation until the person is quite blind, saying, he must wait until the cataract is ripe. We prefer to ply our levers at the earliest period, and have never yet made a person blind. Drug people are powerless to influence the course of the so-called * self-limiting ’ diseases, such as the measles, scarlet fever, etc. Water Cure gets them under control by the first application, and abridges their course. The suppression of these fevers by drugs, often leads to blind- ness, deafness, Bright’s disease, etc., whereas Water Cure knows no sequellse, or after-diseases. The Drug system creates drunkards and morphine fiends, but it cannot restore the normal state. The Water Cure does not habituate a patient to these poisons, and has the power to effect a thorough and rapid cure. The drug system has been put on a high pedestal by its followers, and worshipped as a golden calf. It may indeed have proved a ‘golden’ calf to them, but for all that there seems very little sense in it. Other- wise the drug dispensing fraternity would be able to show some progress within the last 30 years. We emphatically deny that it has made any, and are ready to contend against assertions to the contrary. We have no doubt that before very long an enlightened public will universally de- mand natural methods of cure; this would mean a death-blow to all licensed quackery, patent medicines, and the electricity swindle. Rtinhold, Nature vs. Drugs—xii. CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 385 There are two roads open for effecting cure; a natural one leading to- wards true health, and a wrong one, leading to sham-enre ; from all we have heard, it must seem that the drug people were bound by common consent to follow the latter road. Such chronic ailments as cancer, consumption, paralysis, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, etc., are final stages. It is our opinion that they are produced by drugs, and therefore, cannot be cured by them. Drugs are poisons; and poison lowers vitality; low vitality is unable to remove the impurities which the drugs tend to increase. Impurities in the system are the causes of the ailments enumerated; Water Cure can prevent these, or if already established, can cure them, unless the patient is too far gone for recovery. As all our organs are nourished by the blood, it is evident that if any one of them becomes degenerated, it is because of the impure condition of the blood, which is the consequence of an unnatural regime. Hence, any ant re can only be effected by adopting a proper way of living, and thereby im- proving the condition of the blood. This end can never be attained by drugs. In order to be able to cure, we must know the nature of Health and Sickness, and we must also be able to trace each form of disease to its original cause, which will invariably be found in an unnatural regime. This accomplished, cure simply consists hi removing the causes that led to the derangement. But these are things of which the drug schools seem to know but little. Can you wonder that we do not find one normal person in all Christendom ? Take hold of the broom in the proper way, and curing will be as easy as eating and drinking. If the cause of every sickness is the deposit of foreign matter ; or, in other words, if there is actually but one kind of sickness, consisting of en- cumbrances of the body, it will be quite obvious, that any single method by which the deposits are removed, will cure each and every ailment. The Drug empiricists recognize hundreds of diseases and possess thousands of drugs, but do not produce one cure ; in our opinion Naturists acknowledge but one sickness—impurities—and need but one remedy, (cleansing), and by it cure that sickness. You have heard the fable which tells of the fox boasting to a wild cat of hundreds of different tricks by which he could escape the hounds. Puss knew of only one. Just then a pack of hunting-dogs came along. The fox tried several of his numerous tricks but without avail. The cat simply climbed a tree, and was safe. Medical System compares with Water Cure as the fox does with the wild cat. In the light of the vast achievements attained by the natural methods, 386 RESTORATION OF HEARTH [pt. IV. the boastful drug schools, which, with their thousands of medicaments, have failed to accomplish one real cure, are totally put to shame. There are specialists for the eye, the ear, orifices, skin the internal organs, etc.; as if the body were composed of so many distinct parts, which had no connection whatever. The result is in accordance with this treatment. We cannot help looking at specialism as a veritable mental aberration. Plain water alone is not sufficient to attain the desired end, a dose of common sense must be mixed with it. And, on the part the healer, there must be the honest intention of curing and of doing so with the greatest expedition. This implies that he shall not be lacking in love for humanity at large. How the drug-schools stand in this respect will be discussed further on. Modern Water Treatment not only cures but does a great deal mere, of which the Drug schools never dreamed. By making people well, it produces the normal body. As the normal body is neither obese nor lean, nor de- formed, it overcomes these conditions; also producing a low abdomen, a healthy complexion, healthy, optimistic views of life, etc., etc. In cases of barrenness, it makes conception possible ; it leads to parturitions, de- void of any dangers ; it prevents puerperal fever which kills thousands of mothers annually in every country ; and makes nursing possible, and a source of delight to the mother. The offspring thus produced, will be healthy and exempt from the so-called children’s diseases with their horrible after-results. These children, being bright of intellect and sweet of temper, are an everlasting joy to their parents. The parents, not having had their passions aroused by any unnatural stimulants, will look at their relationship with reverence ; and by living abstemiously, the main cause which at present makes husband and wife look at each other as arch enemies, will be removed. Thus Water Cure reduces our needs, but not our pleasures; it leads to contentment of mind, raises a person’s mental faculties, and makes him feel as if born anew; it cures him of bad habits, such as smoking, the al- cohol passion, etc., prevents and cures all secret vices, and cannot fail to lead upwards toward a physically, mentally and spiritually regenerated race. If the natural methods are so excellent, why are they not adopted by all drug prescribers, in preference to the poisons f An ordinary room is suf- ficient for a drug doctor’s office, and in this he can write his prescriptions. The Water Treatment, however, requires spacious apartments, especially furnished for its purposes. There is considerable expense for fuel, light. CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 387 rent, attendants, etc., and many individual cases require the exclusive at- tention of assistants for i to 3 hours at each application. Now, why should physicians adopt a system, which is so expensive and laborious to them, if they can earn just as much money by writing out prescriptions which require but a few moments’ time, with a little pleasant chat thrown in gratis ? If the average physician were not so thoroughly imbued with selfishness and self-conceit, and if there were a spark of brotherly love in his heart, he would not refrain from at least investigating the natural methods. In our opinion, this trio, Priessnitz, Kneipp, and Kuhne, have done more for the physical welfare of humanity, than all the drug schools com- bined. The following are our ideal directions, which we prescribe for out patients; being strictly founded on Nature’s laws, we always find that the more closely a patient adheres to them, the more quickly he recovers. They hold good for every person, and any deviations are surely followed and avenged by some derangement, a proportionate lowering of vitality, and abbreviation of life. Eat and drink everything rather cool, that is, of the external tem- perature. Eat and drink very slowly. Masticate and insalivate carefully; drink in* sips. D071' t drink with meals; drink one-half hour before or two hours after meals. Avoid: Tobacco, liquors, coffee, tea, spices, animal fats, meat, fried articles, pepper, bologna and sausages, medicines, mineral waters, candies, bovinine, predigested food, fresh bread and rolls, white bread, cake, pickles, vinegar. Use little milk, sugar and lemon. Use very little salt, or better still, use none at all. Drink : Water, malt coffee, weak lemonade ; or, best of all, eat plenty of fruit. (Grind the malt coffee, cook it for half an hour in a large vessel, as it boils up like milk, strain, let it cool, and take it slowly with some milk and sugar by itself); one half hour later, take your breakfast. Drink little; fruit contains much liquid. Consumptives should take a swallow of cold water whenever they feel like coughing. Eat : Graham bread, all vegetables; oatmeal in water with some sugar; rice, barley, sago, grits, corn, cabbage, turnips, asparagus, cauli- flower, salad, spinach, beans, peas, lentils, Italian maccaroni, potatoes, etc. 388 RESTORATION CF HEALTH [pt. IV. Cook thick, and not too soft. Prepare vegetables with their first water. Season them with stewed fruit; such as apples, pears, raisins, prunes, apricots, peaches, etc. Dried fruit should be soaked over night. One or two soft boiled eggs twice a week; syrup, olive oil, nuts. Some people think that it is meat which principally gives them strength, and fear they could not subsist on a purely vegetable diet. Bo: we beg to reflect; the strength of the horse and ox are proverbial, as we say “strong as an ox,” and yet a fierce buffalo feeds on nothing save grass. The elephant, rhinoceros and hippopotamus, too, live only on plants. If a patient feel a little weak at the beginning of his cure, this weakness is mainly attributable to the treatment, less to the diet; it soon passes off. Eat everything thick; soup is the worst form of taking nourish- ment, as it leaves the mouth without being mixed with saliva. Eat little at a time, but eat frequently. Avoid conversation at meals, concentrate your mind on the process of mastication, but be cheerful. Don’t urge the sick to eat. Don’t read while eating. Rest after meals. Keep bowels open by i . living principally on fruit and Graham bread ; 2. taking enemas of cool plain water, when necessary; 3. applying abdominal compresses, (wet linen, next to skin ; all around the abdomen; wider dry flannel outside.) The linen compress must be washed out before it is used again. It must be worn for at least two hours; and must feel moist and warm, when removed; 4. taking a spoonful of cold water every half hour. Evacuate bowels and bladder promptly; don’t read in water closet. Use light or none at all. Eschew corsets, veils, shitles,* gloves, knee, stomach, and chest protectors, rubbers; use side garters, and wide, low-heeled shoes. Avoid sexual excitement. Keep windows open day and night; use very thin underwear or none at all; dress lightly. Breathe through nose. Expose your naked skin to the sunlight and air whenever you ha\ e the chance; air }mur bedding; cultivate scrupulous cleanliness; avoid dust. Retire and rise early, sleep plenty; extinguish light during the night; keep visitors out of the sick room; temperature of your room not to exceed 68° F.; keep away from stoves and registers. ♦Worn by orthodox Hebrew women. CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 389 Take a sponge bath in cold water, every morning or evening; wiping from feet and hands upwards toward the middle of the body, then lie down again or walk briskly for fifteen minutes. Apply the abdominal compress at night. Females must omit the sponging and the compress during their monthlies. If feet are habitually cold, rub them briskly with flannel, then treat them with cold water for several minutes, then walk; repeat two or three times a day; also walk barefooted about the house and in dewy grass, prolong your walk by de- grees, commencing with fifteen minutes; or pour cold water on your knees for five minutes, then walk. Baths must be taken one half hour before or two hours after meals. Take indoor and outdoor exercise. Exercise all your muscles mildly, not to fatigue. Dropsical and diabetic patients should drink little or nothing. People with constipation, should eat moderately, and mainly fruit and entire wheat bread; their food should be uncooked and unseasoned, also free from grease. {Cod liver oil,—from which many drug doctors expect so much good, without ever attaining it,—is never thought of by us.) Diabetic patients should live principally on fresh fruits, eaten raw, Graham bread, vegetables, spinach, turnips, cabbage, etc., but should ab- stain from sugar, potatoes, white flour, cake, etc. (Fig. 138.) The rapidity of recovery largely depends upon the patient’s following the directions given; and also upon the location of the deposits. If they are found in the abdomen, they have not far to travel before they reach the intestines or kidneys, which will eliminate them. But if they are located in the back of the neck for instance, it will take months to effect their removal. The more serious the case of a person is, the more ab- stemiously he should live and should implicitly obey the instructions given him. His sense of duty towards himself and relatives should make him do this. Recovery also depends upon the vital power of a person. The more vigorous the vitality, the more quickly the cure comes. Every individ- ual has a definite fund of this power; he can enconomize it, expend it, or suppress it. It consists in the integrity of the nerves; for instance: the optic nerve may be either dead or only obstructed; in the latter case, Water Cure is able to restore the lost sight; and it is so with all diseases of the nerves,—deafness, paralysis, etc. If the nerves are only clogged, by Water Cure—removing the obstruction—the organs are restored to activity once more;—if dead,—no miracle call be worked, and all attempts at restoration will be useless. Is it not the part of wisdom, therefore, of common-sense, to come 390 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. to us, in the beginning—before drugs and the surgeon’s knife have killed your nerves, and made us powerless ? People who actually commence a course of Water Cure but quit at the first acute symptoms of returning health, will never be cured. By the very first application, a little too much of the foul matter may be stirred up at a time, and then the patient, misinterpreting the sensation resulting from his upset condition, may imagine that Water Cure will make him worse than before, and therefore drop, the treatment. How can this be true, as he has Villus with its lacteals. Fig. 138. Villi. Our intestines are lined with countless papillae, called villi. Each villus is composed of blood-vessels and a milk tube. The function of the villi consists in absorbing the nutri- tious portion of the food from the intestines. Digestion commences in the mouth by the food being broken up by the teeth and blended with the saliva; in the stomach it becomes converted into chyme, and in the duodenum into chyle. The chyle is partly absorbed by the villi, whilst the feculent residue passes on towards the anus. The substance absorbed by the villi, nourishes the body; this is called assimilation or nutrition. It is that action by which every part of the body assimilates a portion of the blood, on the one hand, while on the other, it yields a part of its former material. Hence all material of nutrition is derived from and found in the blood. The animal tissue perpetually wastes away and is restored by the evolu- tion of new cells. This action can be normal only, when the com- position of the blood is normal. Taking poisonous drugs, or any substance not found in healthy blood produces abnormal conditions and leads to disease and premature death, which are the results of perverse living and irrational drug treatment. taken no drug-poison ? He should bear in mind that, as only the plainest and most wholesome food is prescribed by us, and as no poisons are ad- ministered, and as nothing but plain water is used, whatever symptoms may appear by such a course, can have but one meaning, viz.: Returning Health. If he would only persevere for a few weeks, he would soon be- come conscious of the advantages gained. The very symptoms which he mistakes for signs of aggravating his case, are indications that health is once more returning, and should be welcomed as such. CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 391 As we claim, disease is caused by deposits. Years may be required for their formation, one layer being deposited upon the other, as it were. Now, as in digging a well, the latest formation will have to be penetrated first; so in case of a cure, the most recent deposits must be removed first. This is the reason why under a natural mode of treatment, all the various symptoms which previously annoyed the patient, will reappear, but in their reverse order, and much milder in form and of only short du- ration. Therefore, if after four weeks of our treatment, any symptoms appear f om which the patient used to suffer four years ago, it is a sign that within those four weeks as much matter has been removed by these processes, as was deposited during the preceding four years. For various reasons, Water Cure is not always successful. It is a rare occurence that patients apply to us in the initial stage of their disease; every drug, every method is tried, (often for upwards of 30 years), before they come with their poisoned, wrecked systems to the naturist and from him they expect restoration of health in the turn of a hand, by a miracle. The healer, sometimes yielding to the entreaties of the patients, may be induced to apply too vigorous measures, and the reactions of nature, frightening such thoughtless patients—they leave with the false impression that natural methods make them worse ; and the next drug doctor consultated, will confirm this idea, though he knows quite well it is a lie. Or, the healer, holding his own way, the seemingly slow progress of the cure discourages some patients ; and thinking they are not getting their full money’s worth, they leave off Water Cure to buy drugs, with which to still further saturate their systems. All that is needed, however, is a little patience, as the violent symptoms will soon subside and will be replaced by increasing vigor. If any patient is not restored by Water Cure, he is either actually incurable, or it is owing to the defective knowledge of the healer ; or it may be due to the stupidity and unjustifiable expectations of the patient. Now in view of the fact that Water Cure is largely known, why is it that so many close their eyes to its obvious merits, and therefore, there are still numberless sick persons ? It is : 1st. Because of the immense hold the drug system has on the masses. 2nd. Because the drug schools fill not only the,ir own pockets, but the pockets of innumerable other classes : the druggists, the makers of artificial limbs, eyes, ears, noses, etc.,—the manufacturers of surgical in- struments, and of electrical appliances,—the dentists, the makers of crut- ches, and of wheeled chairs for invalids, etc., etc., ad infinitum. 392 RESTORATION OF HEARTH [pt. iv. 3rd. Because, owing to the large and influential classes mentioned above, the Water Cure movement is suppressed, disparaged and ridiculed. 4th. Because, many having heard of it, think, after all drugs and years of drug medication have failed, that plain water cannot help them. 5th. Because, many who think of coming to us, are discouraged by the drug fraternity, whose reasons are obvious. 6tli. Because, many think Hygienic treatment too bothersome; it is easier to swallow a pill or a spoonful of medicine. They are ignorant of the many years of awful suffering that is sure to follow such perversity. 7th. Because, many are prevented by social, pecuniary, or other ob- stacles, or are ashamed to apply for such simple remedies. 8th. Many fear to try cold water, not knowing that the temperature of the water is, and can be made mild enough to treat an infant. So we might continue almost indefinitely with the reasons for poor, blind humanity still lingering on, diseased, maimed, deaf, blind, etc., etc. Now our methods are so simple and so disparaged by the drug schools, that many begin the course in doubt and with utter lack of faith in the integrity and honest purpose of the healer, whose only object is to restore Health in the safest manner and quickest possible time. The following is a cpncrete instance showing you WHY THIS PATIENT WAS NOT CURED ! The case was that of a blind man, to whom our treatment had been recommended, but who was not cured by our method. Eet us see why not! Mr. S. was 65 years of age; knee-reflex, defective; pulse, 80, regular, fair; bowels, costive for many years, during all of which time patient took pills for the trouble; front teeth were loose; tongue, coated; hair, thin and gray; inveterate smoker. Dr. Greening, Knapp, and Born had pronounced case incurable. Totally blind in the right eye, could see his fingers with the left eye. Blindness had developed within the last nine months. As the case was quite recent, we cherished great hopes of restoring the sight. In this as in every similar case, the trouble in the ..eyes had been preceded by other difficulties, viz.: years of costiveness, etc., caused by perverse living—rich diet of meats, poultry and spices, together with excessive smoking and drug poisoning. The patient was also too heavy for his height by about 40 pounds. The eye-ball is a globe that rests quite loosely in its socket; it is enclosed on all sides by hard textures, and only a few fine blood-vessels lead inside. As these vessels constitute the sole avenue by which the CH. 24. J WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 393 abnormal deposits in the eye—the cause of the obscured vision—can be reached, it is obvious that the cure of blindness is necessarily slow, and as the cleansing process can only be effected by a purer blood, it is evident that the cure for blindness must commence with a correction of the patient’s habits. The blood must be cleansed before any hope can be entertained of improving the sight. Now, the patient had lived perversely all his life, and his stock of vital power was pretty well exhausted, and as the treatment had first to bring the degenerating process to a standstill before improvement could set in, and we had to commence the applications very gradually on account of his advanced years, a slight improvement in his general condition was all that could rationally be expected for the first four weeks. Within this time, our, treatment produced regular and spontaneous passages from the bowels, which the drug shad been unable to effect in many years. This was quite an achievement and was the first step towards cleans- ing the system and restoring the sight. The patient, however, counted this and other improvements for naught. No matter how much we endeavored to explain to him the working of the healing process, the patient turned a deaf ear to our arguments, and as the great specialists had pronounced his case incurable, he probably looked upon our remonstrances as being prompted by selfish motives. He accordingly quit our treatment after the first ,month, and so doomed himself to utter darkness for the remain- der of his life. We hold that the reason why he was not cured, lay not in our treatment, nor in the condition of his eyes; but in an altogether different direction. It was primarily due to his lack of intellect which ought to have been properly trained during his boyhood days; and partly it was attributable to the discouraging verdict of the specialists, whose opinion was quite correct as far as their own inability in the case was con- cerned, but which had no significance regarding the effects of natural methods. Our system has nothing to do with Faith Cure, but the patient must have faith or patience enough to give us a fair chance to cure him. The health of some is restored rapidly ; of others, slowly,—and this difference depends not on the treatment, but upon the condition of the patient, viz.: on the place and extent of the deposits of foreign matter. Now let us see what direct effect our system has upon this precious vitality of ours,—this life preserving, life-giving element of our nature. If you consider how you are refreshed by a cold sponge bath, you will realize how cold water stimulates vitality ! All the processes of Water Cure loosen corrupt and foreign matter, free the system and so allow vital- ity to operate again. 394 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. By inhaling cold air through the nose, the vitality is induced to send an extra supply of blood to the membranes of the nose, in order to re-establish the normal temperature of this organ. This extra supply of blood heats all the adjoining parts so much that the germs, which are present in the air and in the blood, set up a process of fermentation. By this process the latent deposits are liquefied, and escape through the nose. When this happens, people ignorantly say, they have “taken cold.” But in this way the body is cleansed, and the system cured. All cases of contagious fever, etc., have the same significance,—it is the healing pro- cess of Nature ; but the healer must know how to manage the case. Now the drug schools do concede that the Water Cure is efficient in cases of Rheumatism; but we recognize but one Disease, namely impurities in the blood; consequently the same process that can cure Rheumatism can also and does cure its resultants, Gout and Paralysis, as well as all other forms of disease. Water Cure is the only universal Panacea; and only persons whose reasoning powers are entirely dormant can gainsay it; they cannot prove we are wrong; all the proof is in favor of the hydro- therapists. In closing this chapter let me quote from an article by Sir Edward Bulwer Rytton, written some fifty years ago, and called “The Confessions of a Water Cure Patient.” It is not fiction but his own case, and repre- sent his personal opinions— ‘ ‘ For sixteen years I can conceive no life to have been more filled by occupation than mine. To a constitution naturally far from strong, I al- lowed no pause or respite. At length the frame—patched up for a while by drugs and doctors*—brought in its arrears—crushing and terrible. About the January of 1844, I was thoroughly shattered. The least at- tempt at exercise exhausted me. A chronic irritation of the mucous membrane, which had defied for years all medical skill rendered me con- tinually liable to acute attacks, which, from their repetition, and the in- creased feebleness of my frame, might at any time be fatal. “ It was at this time I met by chance with Claridge’s work on “Water Cure,” as practiced by Priessnitz (a German peasant, the origina- tor of our modern “Water Cure,” from 1799-1851 at Grafenberg). Till then, perfectly ignorant of the subject and the system, except by vague stories and good jests, I resolved at least to examine dispassionately into its merits as a medicament. I was then under the advice of one of the ♦This is a grave mistake of Sir Lytton; his system was not patched up, but wrecked by the drugs and doctors. CH. 24.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 395 first physicians of our age. I had consulted half the faculty. I had every reason to be grateful for the attention, and to be confident in the skill of those whose prescriptions had flattered my hopes and enriched the chemist. But the truth must be spoken—far from being better, I zvas sinking fast. “ While thus perplexed, I fell in with one of the pamphlets written by Dr. Wilson, of Malvern, and my doubts were solved. Here was an English doctor, who had himself known more than my own sufferings, who, like myself, had found the pharmacopoeia in vain, who had spent ten months at Grafenberg, and who left all his complaints behind him—who, fraught with the experience he had acquired, not only in his own person, but from scientific examination of the cases under his eye, had transported the system to our native shores. “ I resolved then to betake myself to Malvern. On my way through town, I paused, in the innocence of my heart, to inquire of some of the faculty if they thought the zvater-cure zvould cure my case. With one excep- tion, they zvere unanimous in the vehemence of their denunciation. Granting even that in some cases especially of rheumatism, hydropathy had pro- duced a cure, to my complaints it was worse than inapplicable—it was highly dangerous—it zvould probably be fatal. ‘ ‘ A little reflection taught me that the members of a learned profession are naturally the very persons least disposed to favor innovation. A law- yer is not the person to consult upon bold reforms in jurisprudence. A physician can scarcely be expected to ozv?i that a Silesian peasant zvill cure zvith zvater the diseases zvhich resist an armament of phials. “ Still my friends were anxious and fearful; to please them I con- tinued to inquire, though not of physicians, but of patients. I sought out some of those who had gone through the process. I found the account so encouraging that I grew impatient of delay. I threzv physic to the dogs and went to Malvern. “The next thing that struck me was the extraordinary ease with which, under this system, good habits are acquired and bad habits re- linquished. Patients accustomed for half a century to live hard and high, wine-drinkers, spirit-bibbers here voluntarily resign all strong potations. ‘ ‘ The first point which impressed and struck me was the extreme and utter innocence of the Water-Cure in skillful hands—in any hands indeed not thoroughly new to the system. Certainly when I went, I believed it to be a kill or cure system. I declare upon my honor that I never wit- nessed one dangerous symptom produced by the Water-Cure. “ All that interests and amuses us is of a healthful character : exer- cise, instead of being an unwilling drudgery, becomes the inevitable im- 396 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. pulse of the frame braced and invigorated by the element. A series of reactions is always going on—the willing exercise produces refreshing rest, and refreshing rest willing exercise. The powers of nutrition become singularly strengthened, the blood grows rich and pure—the constitution is not only amended—it undergoes a change. “ That which thirdly impressed me was no less contrary to all my pre-conceived notions. I had fancied that the system must be one of great hardship, extremely repugnant and disagreeable. I wondered at myself to find how soon it became so associated with pleasureable and grateful feelings as to dwell upon the mind among the happiest passages of exist- ence. I have known hours of as much and as vivid happiness as perhaps can fall to the lot of man; but among all my most brilliant recollections I can recall no periods of enjoyment at once more hilarious and serene than the hours spent on the lonely hills of Malvern. ‘ ‘ And now came gradually, yet perceptibly, the good effects of the system I had undergone; flesh and weight returned; the sense of health became conscious and steady; I had every reason to bless the hour when I first sought the springs of Malvern. And here, I must observe, that it often happens that the patient makes but slight apparent improvement when under the cure, compared with that which occurs subsequently, (known as after-effects.—Ed.) “ It is this profound conviction which has induced me to volunteer these details, in the hope to induce those, who more or less have suffered as I have done, to fly to the same rich and bountiful resources. We ransack the ends of the earth for drugs and minerals—we extract our po- tions from the deadliest poisons—but around us and about us, Nature proffers the Hygiene fount, unsealed and accessible to all. ‘ ‘ The remedy is not desperate. It bequests none of the maladies con- sequent on blue pills and mercury—on purgatives and drastics—on iodine and aconite—on leeches and the lancet. I would not only recommend it to those who are sufferers from some grave disease but to those who re- quire merely the fillip, or the bracing which they often seek in vain in country air or a watering-place.'1' Thanks to the efforts of such men as Rev. Seb. Kneipp, Eouis Kuhne, and many others, the Science of Water-Cure has made immense strides since the days of Sir Bulwer Eytton. To-day water cure is able to cope successfully with the most desperate maladies. Medicine on the contrary has made no progress within the last sixty years. CH. 25.] WATER CURE AND DRUGS COMPARED 397 Man is gifted with two kinds of eyes, the physical organs of vision, on one hand, and his intellect, which affords a deeper insight, on the other. As the acuteness of the physical eyes varies considerably, so does the intellect. In the savage, the intellect is almost dormant when com- pared with the results of a cultured brain; only in proportion as an article dazzles his eyes, does it impress itself on his mind as important and won- derful. But there is plenty of fetish-worship found amongst us. Even with us, many peoples’ intellectual eye is so dull that they gauge the in- trinsic value of an article by the external show presented. Thus for in- stance, regarding drug treatment, the druggist estimates the mental cali- bre of his customers correctly when he carefully labels his quack stuffs and does them up neatly. For the same reason, a foreign physician, or one with gray locks stand the better chance of being appreciated. The various health resorts owe their prosperity to the rudimentary condition of their patrons’ power of logic, and the public faith in the empty title of M.D., what else is it but a piece of blind and thoughtless fetish-worship ? PRINCIPLES OF THE WATER CURE CHAPTER 26. »EALTH a?id beauty go hand in hand. The 60 years old Ninon de l’Knclos owed her historical beauty to daily towel baths. ‘ ‘ Some recent writers on the subject of wrinkles hold that the air in our rooms should be changed three times every hour. The skin owes its beauty to the nerves which control the fine blood-vessels of the surface, whose work lends glow and clearness to the face. The nerves, in turn, owe their sensitiveness to the air, which is our chief nutriment, inhaled by gallons hourly, and should be pure and invigorating. When the nerves are deadened by close air, the fine muscles lose their tone, the tissue of the face shrinks, and these shrinkages become wrinkles. ’ ’ 398 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. There are different kinds of beauty of the human system; e. g., a classical profile, a well proportioned body, an elastic gait, clear healthy complexion, radiant lustrous eyes, and genuine happiness shining through the countenance. None of these factors can be attained by artificial means. Local steam-baths for the face, as practiced by fashionable ladies, are apt to draw all the foul matter of the system to the skin of the face, instead of eliminating it through the natural channels of evacuation. A lack of the elements of beauty enumerated above, is due to an encum- bered condition of the system; the abdomen and depurating organs are principally at fault, owing to a perverse diet and regime. Healthful beauty is not only skin deep, it is rooted in the system; it is lasting. Under the Water Cure treatment, the complexion is cleared up, wrinkles disappear and the whole appearance is more youthful. The mental improvement keeps pace with the physical; the mind becomes buoyant and capable of great exertion; we have absolute control over our passions; and an even, pleasant temper and harmoniously balanced char- acter is the result. Although the principles of Water Cure are simple, and the material employed only Water, still it would exceed the compass of this book, to give explicit directions to the uninitiated as to how to cure every case. Let us see why this is not easy, and also give as clear directions for healing as is compatible with our limited space. In the first place all cases of lost health may be divided into : 1. Acute or chronic, 2. Local or General, 3. Internal or external, 3. more less Severe. Cases. Furthermore, the treatment must vary in accordance with the amount of vital energy left. Every water application aims at the purification of the body, and can be: 1. local or general, 2. internal or external, 3. direct or indirect, 4. More or less rigid, according to the condition of the patient. When a patient commences the treatment, his blood etc., is in a poor condition. By every application a part of the deposits is stirred up, and absorbed by the blood. If the treatment be too powerful, too large a quantity of the foreign matter is loosened at a time, and the patient will experience a sensation which makes him imagine he is getting worse. But such is not the case. However, if the vitality of the patient is low, CH. 26. J PRINCIPLES OF THE WATER CURE 399 we must be careful to give mild treatment, so that no more matter will be loosened than the impaired vitality has the power to remove easily, during the interval between two applications. It is much better to proceed cau- tiously in the beginning. The process of ‘ ‘ Getting Better ’ ’ should be conducted by steps so gradual that the patient at last will find himself well, scarcely knowing how it came about. The blood is either impure or unevenly distributed : the latter condi- tion is caused by the former; for instance, cold extremities result from impurities settling in the limbs. Any unnatural condition of the body is owing to an abnormal state of the blood. Thus every application must tend to purify the blood. But this process may be hastened by a little at- tention to some organ which has too little or too much blood, etc. (Fig. 139.) Fig. 139. Swimming. One of our methods of preserving and restoring health. In Water Cure, Water is used in two ways: as a solvent, and as the vehicle of heat and cold. As it dissolves salt, sugar, etc., so it does the foreign matter in the body. The blood often becomes impure by improper gaseous, liquid, or solid food, or by having the eliminating organs clogged up. Impure blood makes the deposits, and causes loss of health; purified blood redissolves the deposits and restores health. The blood is our internal bath. First of all, the blood is purified by a natural diet, and then by the diverse methods of cleansing. The purified blood can then redissolve the deposits of corrupt matter, and carry them to the depurating organs. To aid this process of dislodging the deposits, we should whip the blood alternately to opposite parts ; up and down, from right to left, from the center to the extremities, from the front to the back, and vice versa. We find an ex- 400 RKSTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. cellent means of whipping the blood in this manner, in the alternate up- per and lower showers, etc. The nerves govern the flow of blood to the organs. If there is too much heat, fever, or pain in any portion of the body, we quiet the nerves by long continued and often renewed cold applications; if any portion is cold and numb, we rouse the nerves by short cold applications and then rewarm the limb by means of woollen wrappings. Nerves perform their task on the principle of action and reaction. A warm application of some duration relaxes the nerves of the heated portion, and leaves it bloodless for a time. A cold application, on the contrary, stimulates the nerves to opposi. tion and summons the blood to counterbalance the cold; thus, lasting warmth results. After a warm bath we feel cold, chilly, and disagreeable ; a cold bath makes us feel warm and invigorated. The nerves endeavor to manage the flow of the blood so that the normal condition may be re-established. Cold applications draw the blood to the cooled spot. Blood is induced to go to the intestines by cold food and beverages; and breathing cold air at- tracts it to the lungs. It is brought to the skin, by bathing with cold water. Wherever pure blood is, purification takes place. It is the blood, that really does all the work; hence, we must first produce a good quality of blood and raise the vital power, in order that it may throw off the foreign matter. Knowing the importance of blood in the human body, it is hard to believe that physicians, formerly mistaking the dark blood for vitiated, tried to cure people by drawing it off. And yet, even to-day, many phy- sicians employ leeches, the lancet, or wet cups, ignorant that every drop of blood they draw, deprives the patient of the very essence of life. Every one should endeavor to gain a clear understanding of the modus operandi, or the way in which an application acts on the body, so as to be enabled to choose the applications accordingly. Commence slowly, i. e., with few and mild treatments, not stirring up too much foul matter at a time ; then give more powerful treatment, until all symptoms of sickness disappear ; and again decrease the applica- tions, to preserve vitality. Too much treatment also can be given, as is proved by the over-fatigue induced by excessive gymnastic exercises. In the case of advanced consumption, dropsy, etc., the healer must be careful not to exhaust the vitality of the patient by giving too powerful applica- tions ; and yet, on the other hand, the advance must be fast enough to overtake and stop the ravages of sickness. On this point, Water Cure principles are the simplest and clearest imaginable ; and if once fully com- prehended, a mistake in the treatment of a patient is almost impossible. CH. 26.] principles of the water cure 401 The Drug Treatment, from beginning to end, is a series of irrational ex- periments. We insist upon a thorough understanding of the principles Fig. 140. Murder of Washington by the scientific drug doctors. Up to Dec., 1799, Washington had been quite vigorous ; then lie took a little cold, for which he was bled several times copiously. The last time, the blood ran slowly, and appeared very thick, and did not produce any symptoms of fainting. “Clearly, the General was about bled dry, and so, as nothing more was to be gained by bleeding, calomel and "tartar emetic were administered. At 4:30 Washington called in his household and, after bidding them good-bye, arranged for the proper disposition of his business affairs. Between 5 and 6 the physicians came in again and had him raised up in bed. He said to Dr. Craik : “I feel myself going ; you had better not take any more trouble about me, but let me go off quietly.” “This, however, did not suit the doctors, for at night they applied fly blis- ters to his legs. By 10 o’clock he was dead—a victim of phlebotomy. “When we turn from history’s blood-stained pages of one hundred years ago, hoping to find that the schools of medicine, whose graduates brutally murdered Washington, have profited by such fearful blun- ders, and that the slaughter of innocent victims by the followers of these self-same schools, have ceased, we are sadly disappointed.” “If this Nation was to turn the Search Tight upon the hideous and ghastly work of the drug practitioners, ‘ ‘ a state of affairs would be revealed that would rival the horrors of the Inquisition, causing Nero to take a back seat, and before which the wholesale murders of the dark ages would almost dwindle into insignificance. These state- ments may seem too sweeping, but we only ask an intelligent public to carefully investigate the facts.” 402 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. involved in a treatment, before any measure is resorted to. (Fig. 140). Each of our applications has its own virtue and method of curing ; while with all the thousands of drugs, not one real cure is found. The number of different kinds of water applications can be increased indefinitely. They may be general or local ; cold, torpid, or hot ; given as compresses, baths or douches ; of long or short duration ; of more or less frequent repetition ; with or without special dieting, etc. The greater the variety of remedies, the more worthless is a system ; as in proportion to its complexity, it is more difficult for the practitioner to arrive at the correct idea as to the virtue of each particular feature. This is one reason for the universal failure that attaches to the drug system with its thousands of poisons. This is also the reason why the author restricts his own ap- plications to the smallest possible amount. Any local affection, is also one of the entire system ; hence, no matter what ailment a person may complain of, the main treatment must be gen- eral, and must aim at cleansing the blood and the entire body. Focal ap- plications only serve to hasten the process of cure ; they are of little use by themselves. Natural methods, as a rule, are harmless ; danger only arises when a patient has been suffering for many years, and wants his recovery to be effected in an unreasonably short space of time. The body requires some twenty years to attain its full development; and it often takes 30 or 40 years of daily abuse before the first acute symptoms of derangement appear. Now, foul matter which has accumulated for many years, and has permeated flesh, nerves, sinews and every portion of the body, cannot reasonably be expected to be eliminated in a day. Sometimes it takes weeks, months or years of careful obedience to the natural laws of cure, to bring about the normal condition. No other treatment can do it at all; drugs merely hasten the death of the patient. It is the patient’s vitality that effects the cure—not the healer or his applications. As most encumbrance enters the system in the form of un- wholesome and unnecessary matter, it is plain that when a new supply of this undesirable substance is cut off, and as the vitality succeeds in remov- ing what deposits are present, the patient will eventually recover by simp- ly adopting a proper regime. Such a cure, however, would require a long time. The process of recuperation can be hastened considerably by meas- ures which aim at the opening of the depurating organs, and the raising of the patient’s vital power. These purposes can be attained by physical exercise, mental recreation, cheerfulness, all pleasurable sen- sations of a normal character, massage, Swedish movement cure, air and CH. 26.] PRINCIPLES OF THE WATER CURE 403 light-baths, and Water Cure. The last is by far the most powerful, and all the rest can be dispensed with. The element of Faith or Belief should be entirely eliminated from treatments ; cure is the result of Knowledge, not of Faith. Belief, at best, is unreliable ; beliefs, hypotheses and theories commence, where knowledge ends. An abnormally high or low temperature of the body or of any portion of it, indicates the presence of foreign matter. Local inflammation or general fever are signs that the body has vigor enough to relieve itself, and has undertaken its own cure. A low temperature, e. g., cold extremi- ties, shows that the blood current is obstructed by foreign deposits; in this case the body must be assisted by judicious remedial measures. If one portion is hot and another cold, e. g., a cold skin coupled with raging fever within, the case is serious and requires prompt attention. When a person first discovers that something is amiss with him, he usually resorts to the wrong measures. By proper treatment, the further increase of deposits must be brought to a standstill, before actual improve- ment can set in ; the latter cannot consist in anything but the removal of the deposits. From the beginning, every proper treatment must improve the patient’s health. We have to distinguish between applications for strengthening vitality and those for ,restoring health. As those for strengthening the system should be continued during life-time, and as they remove little foreign matter, mild and short treatments may be resorted to. But for the restora- tion of health, applications of longer durations, and of more extreme tem- peratures should be used. If in complicated cases, you are doubtful as to how to commence the treatment, first use mild applications to the entire body till part of the matter is removed. Then you will find the symptoms concentrated in the most aggravated places. Cold compresses frequently and persistently re- newed, subdue local inflammation and pain. In chronic ailments of long standing, such as running of the-ears, goitre, etc., give a few treatments (2 or 3 a week) together with daily washings. Massage and shower baths must be applied in such a way as to drive all foreign matter towards the abdomen, the seat of the natural openings, so that it can escape readily. Sitz-baths, too, are very efficacious in this respect. Every water application alters the distribution of the blood, wdiich can only do its work in one place at a time; therefore, one treatment should not follow immediately after another. For instance, the pack 404 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. should not be taken directly after the sitz-bath; their effects would counter- act one another. If certain portions of the body are inflamed, cool them by applying cold compresses ; if the lungs are affected, rest them by abstaining from heating food, such as fat, starch and sugar; if the region of the liver is painful, eat little food and apply cold compresses; and if torpid, arouse it by friction, kneading, showers, and long continued warming compresses; i. e., cold compresses covered with flannel and left on for several hours ; when the kidneys are affected, give them rest by drinking very little, and by stimulating the skin. Cold douches and other cold applications of short duration, arouse vitality to the attempt of cleansing; steam baths and enduring compresses loosen the deposits; and massage, sitz-baths and packs throw the loosened matter out. Discharges from the nose, which are caused by a cold, consist of foul matter, and as we have said before, signify a cleansing process. Most of the Water Cure processes are such of taking cold intentionally, and by this means the system is purified. The medical men are ignorant of the nature of a cold; they .dread it, and have no control over it whatever. A healthy person cannot take cold, as there is no corrupt matter to be removed. A per- son’s proneness to frequent colds, indicates a heavily encumbered condition of his system. Speaking broadly, the longer a case has been standing, the longer time it takes to cure it. When a railroad train starts, it moves away slowly, then more quickly, until it attains its full speed ; when about to stop, the speed gradually diminishes. Recovery from chronic ailments acts on the same principle; at first the improvement is scarcely perceptible; the strides become greater every day ; later on they diminish and again grow imperceptible. The reason of this plan is obvious. At the com- mencement, all the depurating organs being more or less clogged up, the progress is slow. the organs regain their power, the cleansing process increases in intensity. It continues, at its height for a time, until the impurites are removed from the soft parts of the body, and then slackens up. Our body is an organism, which requires about twenty years to attain its full growth, and is made up of cells. When deposits form, they are pushed from cell to cell, until the whole system is permeated. Children’s diseases prove that most people are born already encumbered; then as they continue to live perversely, deposits continue to form. This process may go on for 30 or 40 years, before a person realizes that something is amiss CH. 26.] PRINCIPLES OF THE WATER CURE 405 with his system. Now, in curing, the deposits have to be drawn out again from cell to cell. There is no other way, and this process takes time. Nevertheless, we can say, that on an average, health is restored about fifty times as fast as it was lost. But yet there are a few thought- less people who will blame the healer if he fails to cure them in a few days or weeks. They will quit the treatment and remain sufferers. They sign their own fate. The patient must blame himself for his own fasticiousness if not cured by natural methods as quickly as he had anticipated, or if the abstemious- ness we enjoin seems too rigorous to his taste. The body of a sick person may be compared with a flask of muddy water, in which the mud has been allowed to settle; but by stirring this up, repeatedly pouring out a part of the contents of the flask, and replacing it by pure water, the fluid in the vessel becomes clear by degrees. Our pro- cess of cure is worked on the same plan. Each [treatment loosens, stirs up, and throws out part of the deposit. As long as this process of elimi- nation continues, the patient will feel more or less upset, and fail to realize the great benefit he has derived from Water Cure. But if he discontinues for a time, and allows the stirred matter within to leave the system, he will soon become conscious of the progress. This phenomeyion of becoming conscious of the good derived from the Water Treatment ’'after' giving it up for a time, iS called the After-Cure. The drug-system knows no After-Ctire; it only has After-Diseases, which class with the worst that ever befell man. All the pleasing results of a genuine cure are not brought about by the use of poisons, called medicines, or by mineral waters, teas, salves, ointments, pain-killers, etc.; but by the patient’s return to man’s original mode of living, as far as our present condition will admit. Regarding the cure of any ailment, it is not so much a question of overcoming the disease directly, as of attacking it indirectly by freeing people of the misconception regarding its essence, which perverted view was inculcated on mankind by the irrational teachings of the drug pro- fession. Always bear in mind that the laws of Nature being wonderfully simple and uniform, what is capable of making a person well, will keep him well; and what is harmful to the sick, is injurious to those in health. When we are sick, something within rebels; we are conscious that we are not in our normal state; and that the normal or healthy condition is our natural birth-right. It matters not what your trouble may be, whether rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, kidney, liver oi heart disease, nervous debility, asthma, catarrh, bronchitis, paralysis, indigestion, dyspepsia, diabetes, piles, or the 406 RESTORATION HEALTH [pt. IV. thousand-and-one diseases to which the human family seems heir: a thorough water cure treatment, merely aiming at the cleansing of the organism, is bound to overcome any of them. Our aim is, to keep the reactions of fever under control; and in the case of palsy, to bring on a fever. This depends upon the skill of the healer, and should not be done too quickly or too slowly ; and should be performed without endangering the patient’s life by too violent a reaction. Dr. Trail .says on this subject: “Patients are always safe, as the remedial action is nearly equally directed to the various depurating organs, or mainly to the skin. They are in danger just to the extent that the remedial action is determined from the skin and concentrated on some in- ternal organ. Our rule, then, is to balance the remedial effort, so that each organ shall perform its due share of the necessary labor, and no part be disorganized and ruined by overwork. To direct and control the remedial effort we have only to balance the circulation; and to balance the circulation we have only to regulate the temperature, and for these pur- poses we have no more need of drugs than a man has of a blister on his great toe to assist him to travel. He wants useful, not injurious things.’’ All acute symptoms of pain and fever should be aided and regulated, in order to remove the impurities, and gain us immunity from colds and contagion. In order to effect the elimination desired, the entire body must be made to co-operate/ Exercise, not inaction, strengthens our organs. Avoid the predi- gested foods, recommended by the drug people; they weaken the diges- tion. Water Cure offers many advantages: It prolongs life, secures perma- nent health and all enjoyments derived therefrom; preserves youthful ap- pearance, grace and suppleness of limbs and body; gives a rosy complexion, free of blemishes and pimples; secures beauty without employing rouge, etc., a rooted in the very system founded on an excellent digestion; gives absolute control over the passions; produces an even, pleasant temper and harmoniously balanced character, etc. How pitiable does medication appear by the side of Water Cure. CH. 27.] 407 FAITH CURE AND OTHER METHODS CHAPTER 27. I VINE Healing is contrary to nature, i. e., contrary I to le aws ordained by God. Growth is a slow saJqM process as repeatedly stated; it takes, on an average fy la some twenty years for man to reach the greatest St# height. Getting sick, or the process of accumu- S Wb lating the deposits, is also a very slow process; it requires years to form them. The foreign mat- ter is embedded in the tissues. To be removed, it must first be dissolved and then carried from cell to cell till it reaches the surface. This accom- plishment often requires years, even under the most vigorous and com- bined measur.es of hygiene. Only cheats can insist, and people ignorant of the first rudiments of the laws of life and growth can imagine that the single touch of a person’s hand can effect cure, and they are simpletons indeed who believe in such assertions. We will not deny, however, that minor ailments may be cured by one or several treatments of what is called ‘animal magnetism.’ Mental Healers claim that the mind forms the body; that if we enter- tain ideas of disease, we will become sick; that it is this picturing of dis- eased conditions in the mind, which is the cause of all diseases. But, as all wild beasts are well; and as man undoubtedly came in a perfect condi- tion from the hand of God, how could the idea of sickness ever enter his mind? How can domestic animals, or little infants become sick, who lack imagination or do not see examples of disease? Why do children and all healthy people never think of sickness, until a cold suddenly brings it on ? If it were the result of mental picturing, the sickness would come on gradually. All these questions are unanswerable, under the perverse as- sumption, that disease originates in the mind exclusively. We, the rep- resentatives of natural methods, hold on the contrary the belief that apart from depressing influences of sudden fright, grief and worry, disease is usually the result of perverse living. With animals and infants, mind 408 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. plays a small part, and yet with them the different kinds of food are of the utmost importance. Infants fed on sterilized milk become scrofulous; and here we see plainly that the mind plays no part whatever. We say, domestic animals become sick, because they are unnaturally fed and housed; infants become sick, because they are treated adversely to common sense. Mental Healers say : Arouse correct ideas in the pa- tient, and the mind will right itself, and therefore the body will follow suit. How can we awaken correct ideas in a babe of 8 days, or in a calf a week old ? Duckily, our natural methods need not appeal to the mind at all. They set the functions of the body into normal activity without any difficulty, without any thought of the patient’s mind. So it is with the cure of grown people by natural methods; for instance many dyspeptics are cured simply by taking away tea or coffee, without even hinting at their mind. Mind plays no part in the treatment of naturists, except that we explain to the patient how he lost his health by living abnormally, and that, if he wants to become well he will have to reform his mode of living. Christian Scientists are exponents, advocates and adherents of the Christian religion. Presumably they claim to have received divine power from their Christian God; but as all Nature is God’s handiwork, and all men His children, there must be something wrong either in their particu- lar God, or—in their power and pretensions. As there can be but one omnipresent and omnipotent Being—if there were two or more, each one could not exert full sway everywhere,—all men must be His offspring; and if He be just, He must embrace all His children with equal love, and must deal out His favors with impartiality. As all cure is effected by Him, it cannot be His intention to bestow His bounties only on the Jews, or on the Christians, or on the members of any other creed. There can not be a special God for each religious sect. Such narrow-minded ideas are mainly upheld by the ministers of the respective religions, who fear to lose their position, or are prompted by other more or less selfish mo- tives or shortsightedness. Hence, whatever success such healers may claim, we cannot place much reliance on their assurances. Water Cure and other natural methods are not faith-cures. The water exerts its effect, whether the patient believe in its curative powers or not, provided the treatment is properly applied and taken. In Divine or Mental Healing, treatment is given in silence. Patient and healer maintain absolute stillness for about half an hour; this con- stitutes the entire mode of its application. The patient, perhaps for the first time in his life, is directed to silently contemplate. This may induce CH. 27.] FAITH CURE AND OTHER METHODS 409 him to think of his wrong course; and he being confronted with some mysterious forces, real or imaginary, may be led to good resolutions. And as at the end of the sitting, hope is aroused by the positive asser- tions of the healer, we do not deny a possible good effect in some in- stances. But as the advocates of mental healing themselves claim, that for effective work, the healer should be free from selfish motives, that his mind should be free from hatred or revenge, or any of the lower pro- pensities, as otherwise he would transfer his bad qualities of mind to his patient, success must be doubtful, as a perfect healer would be a very rare exception and a veritable jewel. Now, as we cannot look into the hu- man heart, we may be deceived by appearances, and the seemingly great- est saints may be the most abdurate scoundrels at heart; in such cases, we would be loath to have their mental state impressed upon us. Hence a universal adoption of such a mode of treatment is excluded. A method, however, that cannot be practiced by every one, and everywhere, has very little practical value. Besides, its propounders do not know what sickness is, or how its symptoms originate; if they did, the idea that sit- ting quiet for half an hour, or for a few hours, would cure cancer or other deep seated forms of disease, would appear most preposterous to them. Deposits form on account of our breaking God’s laws of Health; and Health is restored by our conforming to His laws. To expect that verbal prayer shall remove these deposits is to expect the Almighty to alter His laivs of nature for the sake of our wickedness and stupidity. Such expecta- tion is an outrage against His noblest gift to man: the intellect. If prayer or “ Mental Healing” would cure, there would be no necessity for living a moderate and virtuous life. We could steep ourselves in ex- cesses and vices, and if the penalties of such transgressions of God’s laws threatened us, we could resort to a person who would ward off the pun- ishment by ‘1 Mental Healing. ” It is only the most ignorant who can put faith in such a superstitious belief. Divine or Mental Healing has this in common with the drug school, both methods keep people from ap- plying to more rational and universally effective methods. Outside of this injury, Mental Healing is rather harmless as compared with the Drug system. It is for this reason that we look at the latter method, though having the sanction of the law, as being at the very bottom of all the various methods of cure practiced to-day. This at the present time may appear a harsh judgment, and may be shared by few, but we trust that in a few years, our view will become universally accepted. [pt. IV. 410 RESTORATION OF HEALTH To consider ourselves above the animals is very easy; every imbecile can do it; and as a rule it will be found that the most illiterate is most shocked when compared with some animal, or when man’s origin is hinted at as pointing to our development from lower forms. With our spiritual elevation we should include all creatures in our benevolence, and hence a cure which could not be used on my cat or dog, I would consider an imposition, and would reject for myself. God made man so wonderfully, that it takes many years of perverse living to ruin his health. Now, the laws of health are uniform. If sick- ness consists in the presence of foreign matter, that has imbedded itself in all the various tissues and has hardened there and dried up, it should be obvious to all that to effect its cure will require in most instances a corres- pondingly long time. Any one who considers this well, will understand that no laying on of hands can improve such an encumbered condition. If sickness is brought on by a long life of perverse or licentious liv- ing; and if God would give any one the power to do away with the con- sequences of our licentiousness in a moment, it would be adequate to put- ting a premium on every outrage against the divine laws of health and to give us the privilege of becoming votaries of the cup and other vices. If divine healers be honest, let them submit to a test; let a number of reliable people,—not their advocates,—examine such patients as they claim they can cure ; and in order to see whether these patients are really afflicted, or whether they are cheats and imposters who merely pretend to be cured,—and then let the healers restore them in the presence of all. If the healers be honest, they will be only too glad to accept this proposi- tion. If their cures be genuine, they owe these proofs to suffering hu- manity. We are convinced that every honest healer, no matter what his method be, will sympathize with our suggestion. No, no; divine healers are not quite so easily caught; they say, “ you must not tempt God; you must not make a show of your gifts or they will be taken from you.” But there are some spiritual healers of whom we are firmly convinced that they are honest at heart, and mean well, and the ideas which they propound look at first glance puzzlingly feasible. How- ever, as we want to provide for mankind the best possible means of attain- ing rapid and lasting cure, we hold that the simplest and fairest trial would be to test the various methods in a practical manner. At least we advocates of the natural methods, are quite willing to enter into such a contest ; and any one who is unwilling, evidently has his reasons for de- clining. CH. 27.] FAITH CURE AND OTHER METHODS 411 In the giving of Magnetic treatment, the healer makes certain passes with his hands over the patient. In the writer’s opinion, four elements participate in producing the effect. First, the patient must be able to see the movements of the operator. By directing his attention to the movements cf the hands, the blood is drawn to that part of the body directly under the fingers ; and when the hands move, a blood wave follows them, thus producing a loosening of obstructions. Sleep is induced by drawing the blood away from the brain. If the patient were ignorant of the presence of the operator, the passes would have no effect. Furthermore, the re- spective ages of the two people, their sexes and characters are of influence in the treatment. If the operator happens to be a person of low morals, great harm may accrue to the patient. With Water Cure, the moral character of the healer has no influence whatever on the patient; and many of the applications may be taken by the patient himself, or may be applied by some relative or other trustworthy person. Natural methods have nothing mysterious about them. They require no particular state of mind with the healer, except that he be a person of common sense. Our methods and principles can be taught, and ought to be taught in schools ; any child of ten or twelve years with average intel- ligence is able to comprehend them. IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG? CHAPTER 28. »ANY of the drugging fraternity call Water Cure a ‘ ‘ Humbug, ’ ’ which is another proof of their ig- norance ; they could hardly say this if they had read the treatise on Water Cure, which John Forbes, M. D., F. R. S., wrote about sixty years ago, and from which we quote the following ex- “In consequence of the modern Water Cure having been originated by a non-medical and uneducated man, the medical profession treated it with much contempt, and have shown a pretty general determination not to- 412 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. admit it into the catalogue of therapeutic means. Exercising a natural influence on the public, medical men have succeeded in communicating to a large portion of the intelligent classes the feelings entertained by themselves. Thus hydropathy has become a tabooed subject, being either entirely excluded from medical journals and books, or only admitted into them for the purpose of being ridiculed or utterly denounced. Indeed, it is regarded almost as a violation of professional etiquette to mention this subject in the language of toleration, much more to speak of it with approbation. Whatever we conscientiously believe to be true in medical science, especi- ally if, at the same time, calculated to promote the great end and aim of all professors of the healing art—the increase of the means of lessening the sufferings of mankind—that we shall freely and fearlessly promulgate, careless of personal consequences. ’ ’ ‘ ‘ Our purpose, in this article, is carefully and calmly to investigate the real merits of the system now so widely established under the name of hydropathy. If it shall appear, that the external application of cold water is capable of being beneficially applied in the cure of diseases, there remains only one course for the members of the profession to pursue, viz. : to adopt the improvemciits—regardless of their origin, or their past or pres- ent relations. ’ ’ “ It is not the demerits of the donor or the birthplace of the gift, that, in such a case, we are bound to look to—but simply whether it is qualified to aid us in our glorious and divine mission of soothing the pains of otir fellowmen. If it is so qualified, the baseness of its source will be lost in the glory of its use ; and, if aught of its original impurity still attaches to its application in our hands, the fault will be in us, not in it.” “ Can it evacuate ? Can it brace ? Can it tranquilize ? We cannot entertain the idea that the professors of hydropathy have hit upon any grand secret concerning the origin or nature of diseases, or the philosophy of their removal. Such a supposition, were it a necessary article of faith in the hydropathic creed, would render us the most obstinate of skeptics. ’ ’ * “Ina large proportion of cases of gout and rheumatism, the Water Cure seems to be extremely efficacious. After the evidence in its favor, accessible to every body, we think medical men can hardly be justified in omitting—in a certain proportion of cases, at least—a full trial of it.” * But this is just what the Natural Methods of Cure claim to have discovered,— that we know the origin and nature of disease, and that we possess a rational mode of restoring health. According to John Forbes, it is this very fact that induces the medical profession to maintain their skeptical position. We see the drug profession have not advanced one step since 60 years ago. Furthermore, the remarks of Sir Forbes prove, that the Principles of Water Cure have achieved more than his wildest ■drearns ever fancied. CH. 28.] IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG ? 413 “ In that very large class of cases of complex disease, usually known under the name of chronic dyspepsia, in which other modes of treatment have failed or been only partially successful, the practice of Priessnitz is well deserving of trial.” “ In many chronic nervous affections and general debility, we should anticipate great benefits from this system.” ‘ ‘ In chronic diarrhoea, dysentery and haemorrhoids, the sitz-bath ap- pears to be frequently an effectual remedy.” ‘ ‘ The benefits ascribed to hydropathy, but arising indirectly from the abandonment of drugs, vinous and other stimulants, etc., may certainly be obtained without sending patients to Graefenberg. ’ ’ * “ Finally, it must always be remembered that the distinction between quacks and respectable practitioners is one, not so much of remedies used, as of skill and honesty in using them. Therefore, let our orthodox brethren be especially anxious to establish and to widen, as far as possible, this distinction between themselves and all spurious pretenders.”** K. Kuhne writes : ‘ ‘ Even the greatest benefactors of mankind, and especially the great discoverers and inventors, have almost without excep- tion been “ quacks ” and “ non-craftsmen,” not to speak of the peasant Priessnitz, the carter Schroth, the theologian and forester Francke (Rausse), and the apothecary Hahn, whose clear minds and strong wills have brought about a new and better art of healing." We quote the following from Medical Kiberty News : WHO ARE QUACKS?” If the arguments are true, the quacks are doing all the business and getting all the money. If this is so, there is a cause for it. This cause must of necessity be that the family doctor has tried in vain for years to cure the patient. He has had a yearly income from such families at a dollar a visit to the extent of $100, for say 8 or io years. Now, the *The place where the peasant Priessnitz first taught to the world that chronic ailments could be cured by plain water applications, **We heartily agree to this proposition. It is in this spirit that the writer issues this work. The applicants of Natural Methods have no choice but to sever all con- nection with a class of people who, in the nineteenth century still continues to tell the public that poisoning will cure disease, and for this purpose he would suggest that all practitioners of Natural Methods adopt a special title, e. g., P. N.—Pupils of Nature, which would also remind them to be modest, and to make it the task of their lives to understand Nature. That title is plain English, and no one can hide his ignorance behind it. 414 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [ pt. IV. patient in disgust, is willing to try a stranger who guarantees a cure for $250, or nothing if he fails. But he gets the $250 because he is successful. Such a case we have just across the line in Illinois, where the family doc- tor failed, and was about to take a young lady to have her eyes taken out, when a quack at the depot interfered and offered to restore her sight for $250, or nothing if he failed. I11 two months the sight was restored, and the young lady is healthy and happy. She may be seen ; she is not imaginary. “I have in my possession four pills as large as a common marble, pre- scribed by a licensed physician of New York City, for a typhoid fever patient, until the patient was at the point of death, when a quack at Chi- cago was telegraphed fors who responded and applied nothing save water, and the patient began to mend, and is now perfectly well. “Now, the question still remains, who are the quacks? And again, where are they ? First then, we must define the word and then search for the characters to whom it applies. All English-speaking people acknow- ledge Webster as authority, and his definition for the word “quack” is a ‘ ‘ boaster, one who pretends to skill or knowledge which he does not pos- sess. A boastful pretender to medical skill which he does not possess. An empiric, an ignorant practitioner. ’ ’ This is found in the edition of 1897, the very latest. Now to whom does this apply ? Webster rightfully takes it for granted that a man or woman who is a graduate is intelligent. But here the word ‘ ‘intelligent’ ’ expresses something. It does not simply mean to graduate, or have graduated, but it means possessing a certain knowledge, trained or untrained mental ability. There are intelligent people who never were at school, and there are great ignoramuses who have spent a life-time in school and in study. Webster then, medically speaking, applies the word “quack” to a liar, one who boasts of his cure when he cannot effect the same, whether a graduate or not. Thus we are led to see that there are only two classes of doctors—“Quacks” andCurers, or Healers, or intelligent physicians, whether graduates or not. Hence we will distinguish them as “quacks” and physicians. This reverses the matter. Those who are called “quacks” are the physicians, and those who are known as physicians are the quacks. The two cases above men- tioned, fully demonstrate the fact. ’ ’ An old medical book derives the expression “Quack” from the word Quicksilver. If this origin be accepted, then only those people are en- titled to the name of “Quack,” who are licensed by the State to prescribe quicksilver or mercury. If the drug schools call healers outside of their own profession, “Quacks, ” it is because of their general ignorance. No CH. 28.] IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG? 415 Pupil of Nature is entitled to the honor of being styled a “quack,”—that distinction belongs entirely to those people who have monopolized the power of poisoning people by quicksilver. It is an open secret that many of our drug peddlers receive commis- sions from the drug stores. Thus it is to their interest to prescribe other drugs at every call, no matter how the patient fares under such treatment. This class of would-be healers are not only quacks, but down-right cheats and humbugs ; and in as much as people’s lives are thereby tempered with, they are actual murderers. If the system of Water Cure has its weak points, oar learned friends, the drug peddlers, would render the public a great service, if they would not merely denounce it as a humbug in a sweeping fashion, but would take the trouble to expose its fallacies and shortcomings. We have done our best to do that much in regard to the poisoning system. As we are sincere seekers after truth, any one who will point out our errors to us, will be welcomed as a friend. We are well aware that if we are mistaken, our labors will have been wasted ; but the principles of Water Cure treatment are so simple and transparent, that we have no misgivings whatever, as to the final issue of the combat. We will leave it to our readers, however, to de- cide for themselves which is superior,—the diverse, promiscuous and hap- hazard treatment of the drug schools, or our simple, rational methods. A physician who pronounces Water Cure ‘a humbug,’ has undoubted- ly not studied the subject. He should, therefore, remain silent until competent to express some opinion. If, however, he has studied the methods and still ridicules or condemns them, he at once proclaims him- self either lacking in ordinary intelligence, or more concerned about the fatness of his purse than the health of the human beings under his care. An honest man who really has at heart the life of the patients who trust him, will consider every means, whether new or old, that may assist in his work. He is criminally negligent if he discards anything claimed to be helpful, without giving it intelligent investigation. Nor will he allow prejudice or greed to blind his eyes. No one is so blind as he who refuses to see the light; to the drug people it would mean: quit your poisoning. The peasant Priessnitz, in the early part of this century showed the won- derful efficacy of plain water. Since then the new science has made won- derful strides, and hundreds of books have been written on the subject. These are not full of Latin and Greek terms, intelligible only to the few, but are written in plain straight-forward language. Every person may read and practice for himself. 416 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. If von, in all honesty of purpose, ask some physicians their opinion of Water Cure, they will treat the subject with such contempt that you would hardly dare to broach the subject a second time to the great man— and he laughs in his sleeve at his cheap victory. Blindness, deafness, etc., are 7iot incurable in themselves. Certainly, they are so under the drug system, and the reason is obvious. If not the result of birth or accident, they are invariably produced either by drugs or by the irrational doctrines regarding hygiene, promulgated by the drug dis- pensers. As far as their own method is concerned, the' drug people are correct in pronouncing those ailments incurable. Natural methods also have their limits; after the nerves have been killed by drugs, no process whatever can put new ones in their places. The Water Cure can, at least, do no harm, whereas drugs cannot avoid working mischief. Water Cure methods can fail only in the hands of a mere tyro at the business;' and unless the damage done by the drug- people is actually beyond repair, you are sure of being benefited by Water Treatment. We urge you, for your own sakes, not to be overawed by the idle pretensions and the dicta of the drug profession, but. to use your own common sense. Do not yet give up the struggle for cure; at least not on the verdict of the drug poisoners. We deem it infamous that these men should refuse to look into the natural methods; it is criminal neglect. It was an outrage o?i their part to permit Water Cure to sink into oblivion after Priessfiitz hadperfori7ied the wo7iderful and giga7itic task of demo7istratmg to the world, for the first ti7?ie, that 77iany chronic ailments could be cured by plam water. It is a shame that what this low peasant discovered and ex- plained, cannot even be grasped by our drug experimentors. Believe us when we say curing by nature’s methods is so simple that every one can understand it, and be able to avoid sickness. L,et us tell you a little fable. Once upon a time, a king possessed a fine piece of machinery. Before long it got out of order, and he employed the first engineers of his realm to repair it. But all their endeavors proved unavailing. At last, a farmer came along and succeeded in making it go, simply by removing a little obstacle that had been overlooked by the professionals. For future reference, the peasant laid down his experience in a book. After his death, the machine again stopped. The engineers commenced their tinkering once more, with the same poor result as the first time; and although they knew of the existence of the book, their pride would not permit them to look into it ; they rather preferred to let the precious piece of workmanship go to wreck and ruin. This behavior il- lustrates the conduct of our drug people in reference to lost health. For CH. 28.] IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG ? 417 centuries they vainly endeavored to cure acute cases; to doctor chronic ones, never entered their minds. At last, a German peasant, Vincent Priessnitz, showed them, how not only acute but also many chronic ail- ments could be cured by plain water. The drug profession, in their self- conceit, still hold the same position to him as did the engineers to the peasant of their time, not caring how many millions of lives are thereby sacrificed to their perverseness, stubbornness and depravity. The following note is also worthy of careful consideration: “Much is said in these days of reforming medical practice. I can give you an in- fallible recipe for providing the very best of physicians at the least possible expense. 'Pay your physician when you are well, and stop his pay when you are sick; or else pay him a stipulated salary whether you are sick or well—Let your health be to his advantage, and not your sickness his opportunity. Then he will study hygiene, which keeps you well, and not druggery, which complicates your maladies and KEEPS you sick. As it IS NOW, HE IS HIRED, VIRTUALLY BRIBED TO DO THE VERY WORST HE can for you. I know many of you will say, ‘my physician is a very excellent man and a good scholar. I have all confidence in him.’ But he says his system is false. Is your confidence in him or in his system ? If in his system, you are to be pitied. If in him, take his good advice and refuse his bad medicine. ’ ’ If people would combine to pay their physicians to keep them in health, Water Cure would be instantly adopted by the drug monopolists. ‘ ‘The medical profession holds a most false relation to society. Its honors and emoluments are measured, not by the good, but by the evil it does. The physician who keeps some member of the family of his rich neighbor on a bed of sickness for months or years, may secure to himself thereby both fame and fortune; while the one who would restore the patient to health in a week or two, will be neither appreciated nor understood. If a physician, in treating a simple fever,—which if left to itself or to Nature would terminate in health in two or three weeks,—drugs the patient into half a dozen chronic diseases, nearly kills him half a dozen times, and prolongs his sufferings for months, he will receive much money and many thanks for carrying him safely through so many complications, re- lapses, and collapses. But if he cures in a single week, and leaves him perfectly sound, the pay will be small, and the thanks nowhere, because the patient has not been very sick! ’ ’ Dr. Trail continues: “Ido not believe there is a physician on earth who has so poor a judgment or so bad a conscience as to be a drug doctor for one moment after he understands the essential nature of disease, or the 418 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [ft. IV. rationale of the action of medicines.” Trail may have been justified in expressing such a favorable opinion in his times ; to-day the case stands different, as these physicians do not attempt to study the nature of disease, and the natural methods of cure. In our opinion, this is partly through ignorance, partly through superciliousness, and partly because of their base selfishness. Numerous patients come to us who have already been treated by many drug empirics, each of whom had promised to cure, but had failed. These unscrupulous men frequently give their patients pre- scriptions, (such as bread pills and colored water) which have no medical effect whatever, with the motive of prolonging the treatment. But luckily, in this way, they give Nature a chance to operate; and the would-be cheat, has only fooled himself. This illustrates the great ignorance of the drug practitioners better than anything else. Undoubtedly the ignorance of the drug peddlers regarding all questions of their profession is greater than that of any other vocation ? If the medical laws which protect their ignorance at present, should be repealed, they would study natural methods quick enough, because then, coming into unrestricted competition with other would-be healers, they would be compelled to cure or go out of business. But it is only the natural methods that possess any curative power at all. Our attention was once called to the case of a man who was suffering from the last stages of Locomotor Ataxy. His physician, who must have known that the man was incurable, bade him hope, and continued treat- ment, (all the while receiving his pay), for six months, when the patient’s purse gave out. Then the drug prescriber insisted that there was still a last resource—a certain bath in Europe. By pawning everything of any value, enough money was obtained to send the patient abroad. On his arrival in Europe, he was told that his condition was incurable, and that he had better return home again at once. The patient came back in a worse condition, and minus his last farthing. This occurred A. I). 1897, in the City of N. Y. At another time a wealthy paralytic was sent to us. He had been at- tended by eminent physicians who, thinking the case hopeless, had given up the treatment. So the patient commenced with our system. He made such satisfactory progress that, in the joy of his heart, he gave us a pres- ent outside of the fees stipulated. But before a month had passed by some one told him that probably he would do even better, if he went to Germany, the fountain-spring of the Water Cure treatment. The patient asked our opinion, which contended that he was not in a fit condition to take the voyage. But the man had set his heart on it, so we proposed that he be examined by another physician. A drug doctor, supposed to CH. 28.J IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG ? 419 be the best in Jersey City, made the examination, and finding heart, lungs, liver, etc., in a normal condition, pronounced the patient able to make the trip, which was consequently undertaken. We did not expect to see him again for some months, but ere four weeks had elapsed he notified us of his return. He only went as far as Ireland and themhad to come back. Before he left us, the man was able to walk about, and to mount and descend the stairs; his bowels, too, were in a fair condition. On his return, the lower half of his body teas totally paralyzed; he could not even move a toe. During the first week under our treatment, he showed signs of improvement again. At this juncture, his former physician, though not called for, forced his services on the patient. For a time, we both treated him. This great celebrity, the head of several Hospitals, disagreeing with our mode of em- ploying electricity, gave us his own instructions. In order to prove him an ignoramus, we followed them out; and, as we expected, instead of im- proving the patient, we lost the advantage already gamed under our treat- ment. Then we informed this eminent light of the medical school, that his directions had resulted in failure, whereupon he stated confidentially that he knew nothing about electricity and would have to leave that part of the treatment entirely in our hands; in spite of his ignorance on the subject of electricity, he had experimented with the life of this patient. Knowing the immense power of natural methods, and feeling confident of the pa- tient’s recovery if left exclusively to us; we urged the physician repeatedly to prescribe no more drugs. But our entreaties were disregarded ; so, as we knew cure would never be effected under such opposite treatment, and considering it dishonorable to continue to receive pay, under such condi- tions, we left the field to the drug vender. The patient died shortly after- wards, and his widow received a splendid death certificate, duly made out and signed by this learned (?) Esculapian, to whom even his brethren in the drug profession look up with pride and admiration. The principles of Natural Methods are easily grasped. Neither Pries- snitz, Seb. Kneipp, L,. Kuhne, nor any of the many other great advocates of Water Cure (with the exception perhaps of J. Shew, R. T. Trail and Winternitz) ever attended a medical college. Now, if they invented the necessary processes to effect their wonderful cures, doubtless any of our readers will be able to acquire a sufficient amount of knowledge to answer their daily purposes. At one time we were called to attend a poor Jewess. Her illness had commenced about two months previously with pneumonia which was so effectually suppressed by drugs that gangrene of the foot had set in. The only remedies the drug physician had for the trouble, were ice appli- 420 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [PT. IV. cations and pain killers. When the writer was called in, he found the patient in a terrible condition ; there was high fever, loss of appetite, severe pain all over the body, and the left foot was swollen, hard and black. By order of the drug quack the leg had been suspended from the ceiling for the last two weeks, day and night, to relieve the blood pres- sure. Every inch of the patient’s body was so excruciatingly painful that she could not be turned or raised even to remove her soiled bed-clothes. She was under our treatment for a week before they could be pulled from under her. Then it required another eight days, before she had advanced sufficiently to admit the lowering of the leg from the ceiling. After a month, the patient was able to sit up in bed, and at the end of two months she ventured to take her first steps using the sore leg, although the foot was still quite out of shape. During all this time, her former physician continued his unsolicited visits, disparaging our treatment as much as he could. Once, he also brought a surgeon with him to induce her to go to the hospital, presumably for amputation. Quite frequently when we called, we would find the patient in tears and excitement, because the honorable legalized drug dispenser had told her again that under our Water Cure Treatment, .she would remain a cripple for life. She ought to have known that it was he himself who had brought her into that plight. Seeing that under the circumstances we should probably lose the care of the patient, and that then the patient would lose her foot, we tendered our further service gratis, and by this strategy had the satisfaction of saving the foot. Let these few instances suffice to show you, what we think of the honor and integrity of those who prescribe drugs. These people are directly bribed, as it were, to keep their patients ill as long as possible. We con- sider ourselves in duty bound to expose their unscrupulous conduct to the contempt of the public. Recall, if you please, our case of the gentleman who was treated by specialists with drugs for twenty-eight years, and who was finally cured in twenty-four hours with plain water. The drug treat- ment cost him thousands of dollars, while our charge was only some thirty dollars. We leave it to your judgment whether it would pay the regulars to cure so quickly. The author’s mother was at Death’s door, when she was snatched from the hands of a legalized drug poisoner by a practitioner of Water Cure, and restored to health ; and he has been repeatedly told of how his father was cured of typhoid fever, by a prolonged plunge into ice-water, taken with suicidal intent during delirium. The writer himself, while a student at the University of Berlin, was taken sick with abdominal trouble CH. 28.] IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG ? 421 which the Professors of the University could not cure. He bethought himself of the effect of Water Cure in the cases of his parents, and of his own accord began to apply cold water compresses, and finally succeeded in curing himself, after i y2 years of suffering. The first book that opened his eyes to the imperfections of the medi- cal school, and to the rational views of Water Cure, was L,. Kuhne’s “New Science of Healing,’’ which so impressed him that he determined to estab- lish at once an institute for Water Cure Treatment. However, beautiful as Kuhne is in theory, it was soon found that there were many defects in his system. These are to a great extent, supplemented by Kneipp’s methods. The writer started with the books of these two men as guides, and, with no personal instruction, but by dint of making a careful study of each individual case that presented itself, and by persistently endeavor- ing to follow the present condition of a patient back from cause to cause, he managed to advance (in this particular") a little beyond Kuhne who finds the cause of every sickness to be deposits of foreign matter, instead of reduc- ing it to perverse living. The author argued that this abnormal matter must have reached the system somehow, and at some time; and he invariably found that man’s deviation from the way assigned to him by Nature, to be the primary cause of his sickness. All we need to do in order to be cured (if our theory be correct) is to return to Nature’s mode of living. The author is what the ‘ regulars ’ condescendingly style ‘ a quack.’ He, however, can return the compliment, and we have every confidence in the intelligence of an enlightened public to discriminate be- tween a genuine quack and a true healer. Why do the drug people refuse to adopt Water Cure ? Because they are too proud and supercilious to adopt a method, invented and promoted by non-professionals, who also discovered the true cause and only cure for disease, where they—the ‘ regulars’—failed inspite of all their fine array of great professors, university and college instruction, their clinics, drug stores and countless surgical and other medical equipments. This con- fession is too humiliating to them ; they would rather close their eyes, and strike blindly about like mad men. But the outrage perpetrated by them against the public, is the greater when they designate Water Cure as a humbug. Some condescend to say that it may be good enough for some trifling ailment, but will not answer in serious cases. In this they lie, and they know they lie ! It fills us with sadness to see a class of people, whom we would be only too willing to regard with reverence and confidence, stoop so low in order to escape the odium of accepting in- formation from those outside of the profession. How long, however, can 422 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. IV. they withstand ? Till the public becomes enlightened on this subject and awakes to the fact that they are being cheated by the drug profession of their natural privilege of enjoying good health ; and until men informed on this subject introduce legal measures for the abrogation of drugs as remedial agents. Our drug poisoners will never take the initiative; so do not wait for them to act. With the view to cover their ignorance, the medical people put on airs ; they give their advice, no matter how perverse or harmful, with pos- itiveness ; they come in carriages, and by acting in a blustering fashion, impress the public with a sense of superior wisdom. “Are Drug Doctors frauds?* Judge for yourselves from the advice given by an experienced physician to his yoimger colleagues. Make your calls as often as you possibly can. Do not specify your bill; a nice round sum looks more genteel. If you have a really serious case, be conscientious and call an expert in consultation. Never forget the bonbons for the children of a sick mother. Always prescribe the biggest dose—that pleases the druggist and he recommends you. If you find that you cannot save your patient, get sick yourself. Very disagreeable cases belong in the clinic. However, if you are quite positive regarding a case, express doubts— a remunerative way of managing. If you happen to have a patient who possesses some medical knowl- edge and who shows a sharp gift of observation, advise him to consult a specialist, and this one will soon recommend him further, etc.” Wliat people should eat and drink ? The drug doctor. Who thinks that meat gives most strength? and who overlooks the prostration consequent on the prescribed stimulants? The drug advo- cate. Who does not instruct his cook what food to prepare, and how, but eats indiscriminately what his kitchen fairy deems proper to place before him ? Who does not know, when or how often people should eat ? The drug vender. Who does not know, at what temperature, food and beverages should be taken? Who weakens people’s digestion by advising them to take WHO DOES NOT KNOW * Taken from the New York Review; although probably meant for ajest, we all know there is a good deal of truth in it. i CH. 28.] IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG? 423 copious draughts of hot water, and to eat predigested foods ? The drug dispenser. Who does not know, how often a normal person evacuates from the bowels ? The drug prescriber. Who makes a person evacuate from the mouth, and who, again mis- taking the rectum for the mouth, introduces food through the anus, con- sidering this feat a wonderful and scientific achievement ? The member of the drug ring. Who is unable to put mothers in a condition to nurse their infants, but writes voluminous books on artificial feeding, and thereby kills budding humanity by the millions? The drug peddler. Who knows nothing about making parturition easy, and avoiding puerperal fever, and who by his ignorance causes annually the death of hundreds of thousands of mothers ? The licensed quack. Who does not know what sickness is, and yet has the effrontery to boldly experiment on people’s lives with the most rancorous poisons, thereby not only causing each and every one of the chronic ailments, but also the general miserable condition of ill-health throughout all civilized nations ? Who else but the drug monopolist ? Who boasts of his fine diagnosis, of his many thousands of drugs, and his countless implements, but cannot cure any ailment, not even a little cold in the head ? Who is unable to recognize the diseases latent in a system, and hence cannot prevent them? Who in his ignorance, insists on the necessity of local examinations, thereby carrying depravity into the sacred bosom of families ? The drug poisoner. Who hides his ignorance by finding fault with the air and the climate, and sends his patients to the south, the sea-shore, the mountains, and to mineral and hot springs ? The drug quack. Who, instead of using harmless plain water, prescribes poison after poison, thereby drugging the sufferer from one ailment into another, until his vitality is so far reduced that it can no longer respond to drugs ? Who then seizes his knives, saws and other implements of devilish invention, and cuts and slashes his fellow-creatures to pieces, delivering them up to premature graves—all for the sake of a few paltry dollars, and that with absolute safety to himself ? The man in the drug trust. Who is paid the more, the longer he contrives to keep his patient sick ? The commercial but unscrupulous quack. Who is that clever fellow who thinks all those countless drugs and cutting instruments necessary to effect a cure, though the dumb animal gets along in comfort and security without them ? The great surgeon, 424 RESTORATION OF HEALTH [pt. iv. who, like a vampire, is always insatiably thirsty for human blood. Who needs those numerous tools to deliver a human mother, whereas wild beasts bring forth a dozen young ones at a time, without aid or im- plements ? The specialist. Who cannot save his own children, and who cannot cure himself ? The expert of our drug schools. In what schools are people taught how to poison their fellow-creatures in a scientific manner, and to cut them up alive ? In the medical colleges. Who is ignorant of the purposes of sexual intercourse, and how often it should take place to be normal ? Who, unable to control the passions in a natural way, teaches the youth that continence is harmful to health ; prescribes vice, poisons the public mind by his obscene teachings and thereby makes himself the caterer for prostitutes? You know him. Who, unable to cure pimples in the face, prescribes marriage for a remedy ? The wise esculapian. Who teaches women how to avoid the most secret and blissful duty, motherhood? And who tells women that nursing will harm them, and who thereby ruins the health of both mother and child, and the happiness of family life ? The medical friend. Who first brought the curse of alcohol upon mankind and who ac- customs people to the use of morphine and other pernicious habits ? The man with little brains. Who must be destitute of every noble feeling, in consequence of the false position he holds in society ? Our much revered drug doctor. Who are to blame for this universal abyss of wretchedness, misery, sickness, vice, debauchery, and ruin of family bliss? The drug corypliai. Who, despite his awful ignorance, and, notwithstanding the havoc he plays with health and life, looks contemtuously upon the laity, who fail to see him in his true colors ? The great drug light. Who watches with jealous eye, and who spies around the advocates of natural methods, always ready to pounce upon them from his .secure posi- tion of monopoly ? The drug scientist. Who is rife for both the insane asylum and the state prison ? The answer to this question, we leave to all people possessing common sense. How is it that we are not horror-stricken at the enormity of such con- ditions ? Because the drug people have already succeeded in so utterly perverting public sentiment, that we have lost our standard of what is right or wrong, regarding such questions. Who knows the nature of sickness ? Who recognizes coming ailment, and prevents it ? Who can cure every ailment, when fresh ? Who exerts CH. 28.] IS WATER CURE A HUMBUG ? 425 himself to show his patients how their ailments originated, and what they must do to become and always remain well ? Who has no need for poisons and cutting tools ? Who instructs people how to control their passions in a simple, natural way ? Who teaches mothers how to have easy child- birth, devoid of all danger, and how to nurse with comfort and pleasure ? Who is ever anxious to lead mankind back to nature and to a natural mode of living ? Whose ambition is it to assist in producing a healthy race capable of enjoying life from the cradle to the grave? The advocate of the Nature Cure. Whose duty is it to study this method, and to uphold it, if he finds it the proper thing ? Every one’s. We do not speak against physicians indiscriminately ; there are, no doubt, some conscientious medical men, who actually have the best wel- fare of mankind at heart, but they are very rare exceptions, and, in our eyes, they represent the most ignorant of physicians. If they were not so ignorant they would investigate the natural methods of treatment. Say, if you will: ‘ ‘ Perhaps they have done so and found that there is nothing in it.” Very well, then let them state their objections plainly, and let you and others decide for yourselves. Our controversy is not directed towards those who have merely studied medicine, but towards the men who have studied it and still con- tinue to prescribe drugs. Either the Water Cure system is a “ Humbug,” or theprescribers of drugs are deficient in intellect and honor. Only one of these systems can be correct. The future will decide. Dr. A. F. REINHOLD’S INSTITUTE OF WATER CURE, No. 60 LEXINGTON AVENUE, New York City, U. S. A. Even after being drugged for years with the result of health utterly shattered, the confidence of some people in the Drug system is so blind as to consult their medical advisers regarding Water Cure. What their ver- dict will be, is plain as daylight. Patients so dull of intellect have our sincerest pity. 426 RESTORATION OF HEARTH rPT. IV. MEDICAL LAWS. CHAPTER 29. ERHAPS some of the gross evils existing under the present conditions of Medical Laws are best shown by * S L quoting verbatim the following protest from Dr. J. Armstrong, President of the Illinois Health University, wherein he insists : O i. “ That under existing medical laws the people are deprived of their most sacred liberty—the right of every man in the hour of sickness and in the presence of death to choose his own physician. Such laws are tyrannical. 2. ‘ ‘ That, as under these laws the state board of health can prosecute, convict and have a physician who does not suit it fined for saving the life of a patient that said board may have pronounced incurable, and if said physician is unable to pay said fine ($100 for saving the first life and $200 for saving the second life), said physician can be committed to jail like a criminal until said fine and costs are paid. These laws are oppressive and inhuman. 3. ‘ ‘ That these laws were not asked for by the people, but were smuggled through the legislature by the allopathic doctors, without the knowledge or consent of the people, as no sane man would petition the legislature to deprive him of his God-given liberty and make saving the life of his children a crime. 4. “ That while such allopathic doctors as are now members of the state board of health have succeeded in securing the enactment of such oppressive laws under the false pretense of protecting the people, the real object of such laws is to sustain the graduates of allopathic medical col- leges, who can not without legislation in their favor command enough public patronage to keep them from starving. These laws, therefore, are a piece of class legislation for the benefit of one medical s}^stem. CH. 29.] MEDICAL LAWS 427 5. ‘ ‘ That instead of the people being protected by such unconstitution- al, monopolistic legislation, they are not protected from ignorant pretend- ers and imposters in the medical profession, and in thousands of cases are compelled to go without the practice of their choice or else submit to leg- alized cruelty, whereby the modesty of women is most shamefully outraged, such patients often having their wifehood and the possibilities of mother- hood brutally destroyed, rendering physicians who treat them more to be dreaded than disease itself. 6. “ That the education given students in the allopathic medical col- leges of to-day does not qualify them to become safe and competent prac- titioners ; that a large portion of such teaching is unscientific, unreason- able and contrary to the dictates of common sense; and that eminent men in their own school have admitted that such teaching is but ‘ learned quackery’, ‘hypothesis piled upon hypothesis, ’ ‘ absurdity, contradiction and falsehood.1’ 7. “That as,a result of such false and erroneous teaching, and such blundering and poisonous practice, the world is being filled with incurable invalids, that crowd into our hospitals and infirmaries expecting to get the best of skill, but are there used by surgeons to display their dissecting powers before their students, the poor being sacrificed to the interests of that profession, so that these professors may, by continued practice, be- come more expert in cutting up some richer victims. Limbs are ampu- tated, women are unsexed, and the most horrible and unnecessary opera- tions are performed, when such infamous outrages would be impossible were it not that those oppressive laws shield them from the public they have outraged. 8. “ That it is a popular delusion to suppose that the most valuable medical knowledge is acquired in the dissecting room, cutting up dead bodies, and that all the boasting we hear of the crowning skill that patho- logical anatomy affords, is one of the most stupendous humbugs by which the people are most lamentably fooled out of their money, their health and their lives. 9. “ That the practice of vivisection, or the cutting up and torturing of live animals, as practiced b)r the professors in medical colleges is the blackest cruelty that the law of any land ever let go unpunished ; that the agony thus inflicted upon helpless animals is so appalling that the knowl- edge of its atrocity has darkened forever with its hideous shadow the sun- shine of many a noble and generous heart, and that said college professors, respectable as they may appear to be, if justice was done, should be con- fined within the walls of the penitentiary and compelled to practice on one 428 RESTORATION OF HEAI/fH | PT. IV J Fro. 142. The drugging fraternity applying for more legislative protection of their pockets. Type s of quacks who want protection in order to secure more tariff. Mr. Sure-Kill says : The people are finding out that our system of blood and drug poisoning, anti-toxin, vaccination and bad surgery generally kills our victims ; we cannot keep it up unless we get laws to protect us. Dr. Knife : The people want to patronize irregulars; they are flying from us ; our only hope is a protective law. The people cannot be trusted to choose their own physicians, because then they would not employ us ! (Medical Liberty News, Chicago, 111.) If the drugging and cutting profession would seek more knowledge and enlightenment, and welcome it from any source, they would not be under the necessity of seeking legal protection. Their own efficiency would protect them ; it is on account of their utter failures, that people turn away from them. Unable to compel the public to come to them by virtue of their efficient treatment, the drug quacks appeal to legislature to force the people to take their poisons and to submit to their horrible butchery. CH. 28.] MEDICAL LAWS another until each of them had suffered at least double the amount of tor- ture they have inflicted on dumb and helpless animals in their colleges. In order to understand fully how laws permitting such a state of affairs could be passed, we must go back about fifty years. The persecu- tion began when Dr. Samuel Thompson published a little book, showing people simple means of healing and curing forms of disease which the old school doctors had failed to remedy. The allopathists saw money slipping from their pockets, and throwing dust in the eyes of the legislature, asked for a law to protect the people against “irregular practitioners,” whereas their real object was to protect themselves. (Fig. 142). “Thirty States of the Union have been hoodwinked into passing laws that make life-saving a crime, if done by one not armed with a diploma approved by the Board of Health (Death!) Think of a law that allows such instances as the following to pass : — “ Some time ago in an eastern city a little child was taken sick with diphtheria. An allopathic physician was sent for. The little girl grew worse and worse, and finally the doctor said to the mother : ‘Madam, your little child cannot live over thirty minutes, and I am afraid will be dead in five.’ ‘My God!’ said the mother, ‘I cannot stand it. Can’t you save my little girl ?’ He replied, ‘No, madam. You must resign yourself to the mysterious rulings of Providence. ’ “.Just then the nurse suggested a remedy that she had seen used, and the mother said, ‘Prepare it at once.’ She bounded out as she was bid. ’ said the doctor, ‘is it possible you would allow a quack nurse to prescribe for your child, doctor your child ?’ ‘Certainly, you cannot cure my baby, and I will do anything to save her.’ ‘You shall not give it to her,’ was the reply. ‘You will be arrested to-morrow morning for violating our law, if you do.’ Turning her large brown eyes upon him, looking the coward through and through, and pointing to the door she said : ‘Get out of this house, you beast,’ and he got. The remedy was given and in ten minutes the child was out of danger. ’ (Medical Liberty News). And again, *“A little child was dying, and had been given up by the leading drug doctors, and as a last resort the mother sent for an unlicensed woman physician. Under her assiduous care the child grew better. Near by was a woman whom the same ‘allopathic doctor’ had been attending a long time, and the longer he doctored her the worse she grew. He evi- dent