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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Valere Aude + Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration + +Author: Louis Dechmann + +Release Date: February 8, 2005 [EBook #14985] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERE AUDE *** + + + + +Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Karen Dalrymple and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +Valere Aude +(DARE TO BE HEALTHY) + +_or_ + +THE LIGHT _of_ PHYSICAL REGENERATION + + +A vade mecum on +BIOLOGY _and the_ HYGIENIC-DIETETIC +METHOD _of_ HEALING + + +By +Dr. Louis Dechmann +Biologist _and_ Physiological Chemist + + +Second Edition (Compendium) 1919 +SEATTLE. WASHINGTON +Christmas 1918 + + +WASHINGTON PRINTING COMPANY +SEATTLE USA +1919 + + + + +DEDICATION + + "Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; + Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more!" + + (Pope) + + +To you of that great voiceless multitude, + + "THE PEOPLE"-- + +You whose bewildered cry is still for light; whose silent tragedy our +well beloved Longfellow could so well portray: + + "O suffering sad humanity! + O ye afflicted ones, who lie + Steeped to the lips in misery, + Longing, and yet afraid to die, + Patient, though sorely tried!" + +To you and your needs this brief epitome of a coming greater work is +given as a fitting Christmas offering-- + + "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" + +It is the cry which despairing, deluded humanity, in the darkness of its +frenzied ignorance, has flung back hopelessly to heaven since first the +spirit of an Infinite Intelligence brooded upon the race. It is the +appeal of man's immortal unity to the All-Father, from age to age, for +knowledge sufficient for its hourly needs, since ever, back in the far +dim ages of the earth, primeval man, beetle-browed, furtive and +fashioned fearsomely, first felt the faint vibration of a Soul; and, +like an awakened giant, that chief of human faculties, a Mind took form +which, pressing on along the uncertain way, has scaled the giddy heights +of knowledge where genius, enthroned, does battle with an envious world +of shams and greed and venal prejudice. Led by the resistless pulse of +power it follows still that "banner with a strange device: +Excelsior!";--for, ever onward yet it wends its way where'er the devious +pathway trends, whose troubled, varied course is time, whose bourne is +in eternity. + +But where seek we, then, the answer to a cry so shrill, that smites the +high face of heaven from a world in pain? + +Shall we seek it where false learning leads us in the quest?--Ah no. + +It comes, not in the crash of Sinai's thunders with the rockings of a +riven sphere, as in the allegoric stories of a puerile past. + +Softly it falls--yes, almost fearfully--from the fervid lips of some +lone world-neglected persecuted man--some patient toil-worn son of +science, whom Genius loves to call her own--though, haply, to the +schools, to fortune and to fame unknown. One whose transcendent, +superconscious mind has dared, Prometheus-like, to snatch from heaven +the fire of the immortal gods and offer it in benefits to all mankind. + +Thrice happy he upon the sensory surface of whose open mind such seeds +of knowledge and of wisdom fall, and happy the land where one and all +may dare to warm chill hands and hearts before its sacred flame; that +halcyon land, the Ultima Thule of our fond imaginings, wherein true +freedom reigns; wherein the legalized tyranny of the chartered +libertines of a so-called learned profession shall be finally relegated, +in common cause to the limbo of a sordid and degraded past. For these +are they who seek to maintain a strangle-hold on science, who paralyze +the arm of individual research and, even in this advancing age, still +block the path of progress and of peace, of universal freedom and +equality of intellect, to all beyond the narrow limits of their own +elect. + +Thus then, to the free fraternity of the open mind I dedicate this +brief resume of the product of long years of study and of toil, +steadfastly believing that therein is found the missing dimension for +their urgent need, suited alike to all who hold that to maintain the +health of body and of mind is a worthy object for enlightened man. To +you, mothers of the land, who recognize your duty, towards God and to +the State, to rear your children healthy, strong and good to look upon. +To all whose keener common-sense looks upon Nature, the Creator, as +logically therefore, the healing power also. To all endowed with wit to +understand the obvious truth that, not by poisonous drugs is healing +wrought, but by such reasonable help as man's intelligence can afford, +to second nature's effort to that end; and further, that, in order to +achieve success, it is useless to attack, suppress or remove the +symptoms of disease by force of drugging or the knife, whilst the +_cause_ of the evil is left untouched, unthought of, and, too +frequently, unknown. Truth and reason alike proclaim: remove the cause +and the symptom _must_ disappear. + +To all, then, to whom the ever blessed triad of health, hope, and +happiness on earth, are dear, the sanctity of child-life and the +improvement of the race; and especially to those whose clearer mental +vision can grasp the stupendous fact of eternal Universal Unity--the +oneness with that mighty Primal Cause, the great Life Principle, +immanent and active throughout all nature; can grasp and assimilate the +idea that everything that has life is, each in its separate form and +degree, but a medium through which the Infinite Universal Source of +Life--that vast, ineffable power which we, blindly, designate as God--or +Good--seeks expression in the scheme of evolution whose aim sublime is +pure perfection, as its ultimate, attainable, though far off goal. +Directed and attracted by an intelligence we call divine, it is a hope, +instinct with ability, implanted by that Power in the soul of man, as +patent in his ceaseless struggle upward toward the light of fuller +knowledge; it is a power, restricted, only in degree, by that individual +sense of human limitations fostered by false prophets and grounded in +the vitals of the race. + +To you all, this brief precis is presented, as a guide, with the +author's benediction, coupled with the fervent hope that, reading the +scientific deductions and precepts therein contained you, too, may see +Regeneration's Light and seeing, may + + "_Dare to be Healthy._" + +LOUIS DECHMANN, + +_Christmas, 1918. Seattle, Wash._ + + + +"Dare to be Healthy" + + + + +FORE-WORD + + +_To the Reader_: + +The volume, shortly to be published, and to which the ensuing pages are +designed to serve the purpose of stepping-stone or forecast, has been +compiled for the purpose of placing before the public the experiences of +thirty-five full years of my life as a biologist and physiological +chemist, devoted to the sifting and solution of vital problems of health +and eugenics and in the practice of the resultant knowledge of the laws +of life discovered in the course of my research. + +I would beseech you, in your own vital interest, to peruse these pages +thoughtfully and with an open mind. There are throughout America +already, thousands of steadfast disciples who are daily reaping the +benefits of the teachings contained therein; and I would that you also +may be added to that goodly multitude, to enjoy together with them the +best advantages emanating from systematic study along the most advanced +lines of modern thought and science. The facts are correlated and +simply expressed with the earnest desire to bring within the scope of +the layman the good that may accrue. It is, however, not for the laymen +alone that this work is undertaken, but for unprofessional and +professional alike, be he medical student or practitioner or other +interested person; for to each and all I present herein the best that a +lifetime of research has enabled me to wring from nature's secret store +for the betterment and conservation of human life and the help of human +kind. + +In the development of my movement I have formulated a system under which +all may participate in the benefits of my message, though possibly +prevented by circumstances in some cases from coming within direct +personal contact with myself. + +This system comprises the following: + +The "Dare to be Healthy" Club. + +The "Dare to be Healthy" Lecture Course. + +The "Dare to be Healthy" Hygienic Dietetic Course. + +Full particulars regarding these will appear at a subsequent point in +this prospectus. + +LOUIS DECHMANN. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + "... Argentea proles, + Auro deterior, fulvo pretiosior aere." + + (Ovid) + + + Succeeding times a silver age behold + Excelling brass, but more excelled by Gold. + + +Hessiod, in his celebrated distribution of mankind, divides the species +into three orders of intellect. + +"The first place," says he, "belongs to him who can, by his own powers, +discern what is fit and right, and penetrate to the remoter motives of +action. + +"The second place is claimed by him who is willing to hear instruction +and can perceive right and wrong when they are shown to him by +another;--but he who hath neither acuteness nor docility--who can +neither find the way by himself, nor will be led by others, is a wretch +without use or value." + +"You are seeking truth," quoth Adalbert von Chamisso, "_Remember that +the world clings more firmly to superstition than to faith_,"--or, to +borrow expression from an equally inspired source,--remember that +perverse humanity rarely fails to favour, rather, what Shakespeare terms +"_The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest._" + +Courageous, then, must be the knight who sets his lance in rest to tilt +against the windmills of the world. + +Nevertheless, although the truth is still banned as "heterodox" by +common consent--or tacit connivance--an attitude patent to commercial +instincts in view of the cataclysm which must naturally ensue, with +deadly results to the vested interests of orthodoxy, so soon as the +long-trusted barriers of plausible and pretentious mystery and +importance shall be swept away by the rising tide of popular +indignation. When the masses become educated to discriminate between +truth and falsehood and thus shall come into their rights, then and not +till then, will the dawn of physical salvation break. + +Still, I maintain, there are, and have been all along the way, eminent +medical men of high intelligence, who, unlike the drones of the medical +hive, have dared to think for themselves and have even dared to speak +their thoughts. + +Thus, for instance, spoke Sir William W. Gull, Physician to her late +Majesty Queen Victoria: "Having passed the period of the goldheaded cane +and horsehair wig, we dare hope to have also passed the days of pompous +emptiness; and furthermore, _we can hope that nothing will be considered +unworthy the attention of physicians which contributes to the saving of +life_." + +Again, an authority of the first rank, Prof. Oesterlin, says in his +noted work on the Materia Medica: + +"_The studious physician of our century will hardly expect to accomplish +by force, through some strange drug or other, that which only nature can +bring about when assisted by all the rational accessories of hygiene and +dietetics._ + +_Nature alone can furnish the beneficient means, sufficient for all +needs_,"--which the science of medicine never has afforded and never +can. + +As we survey the civilization of our age and its medical science, we +see, on the one hand, the crude superstitions of the masses, the subtler +superstitions of the educated classes; gross materialism, bewildering +Darwinism, pessimism, and degenerate political economy; on the other +hand, unmitigated quackery and cupidity, with its weight of oppression +on humanity,--everywhere confusion instead of harmony. + +Very surely,--and perhaps more speedily than we think--a reaction will +come, when our present degenerate system of medical subterfuge--misnamed +science--will have passed away, to be replaced by accredited methods of +natural healing consistent with the dignity of an enlightened, +self-respecting people. + + + + + "Ignorance is the curse of God: + Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven" + + (Shakespeare) + +THE HYGIENIC-DIETETIC METHOD OF HEALING + + +Biology, the Science of life, has developed under my hand that system of +natural healing which I practice, in common with some of the most +successful physicians on the continents of Europe and America. + +Although based upon the same biological laws, their systems of +therapy--or healing--differ materially from one another. My system is +entirely my own, developed during the last thirty-five years to that +degree of perfection it has attained today. + +I am, naturally, honestly proud of the success achieved during this +strenuous period, yet am I still as anxiously imbued as ever with the +spirit and habit of research which is now directed to the endeavour to +further simplify my method of treatment, by further discoveries in the +realm of that most abstruse of the sciences, _Physiological Chemistry_. + +In this baffling but wonderful domain I am inspired by the ambitious +hope that some, at any rate, of the many unsolved problems of the +Science of Life may yet give up their secrets to the demand of my +persistency, exerted in the interest of the well-being of humanity. + +After centuries devoted by the faculty to a futile and arrogant attempt +to counteract the disturbances of health, which we call diseases, in the +stereotyped manner known as "orthodox;" after endless complications, +infinite "specializing"--in itself a futility--and unblushing complicity +with the powers that be, we find them now at length, baffled, +discredited, but unashamed, cast back, discomforted, upon Mother +Nature's kindly breast, their victims humbly seeking healing in simple +unity from her ample store. + +Based upon this firm foundation, we term the new departure the "Natural +Method of Healing." + +The greatest physicians of all time, from Hippocrates to our own day, +were satisfied to be simply _natural_ physicians. They were not +satisfied to merely suppress the symptoms of suffering and to quiet the +sufferer by abnormal appliances. Their higher, more ambitious aim was to +reach the active source of distress--and in this they succeeded. + +For, not only did they achieve where others failed, but, in addition to +healing, they also _prevented the recurrence_ of disease, and, more +noteworthy still, they established a system of Prophylactic Therapy, +which is the highest function of the healing art; namely, the +_prevention of disease_ by treatment _before full development_, or, in +other words, the _preservation of health_. + +It is not the object of this brief brochure to enter into the devious +details which a full explanation of this practical, successful, modern +method would require. It is designed merely for those who, after +experiencing disappointment and failure in other directions, have had +recourse, as a last alternative, to advice and assistance, from myself. + +Such patients, as a rule, have heard of my method from others; have +heard that it differs widely, in its frank simplicity, from the empty +pomposity of the old-school "orthodox" elements, though of the +principles of the old-school teaching they have really little or no +conception, beyond a crude, unwholesome, fear of the unknown, consequent +upon the, _very necessary_, veil of mystery with which its votaries +surround themselves--a semi-superstitious sentiment inherited from a +malignant past and one which does little credit to the vaunted modern +civilization of today. + +On this point of difference they ask for enlightenment, and naturally +enquire as to the nature of both, but especially of this new hope which +is held out to them as a refuge in their hour of despair. + +This information it is equally my duty and my desire to give, and in the +most convenient and simple form, shorn of all shroud of mystery; for my +object is to educate and not to conceal. + +It is my chief desire that patients should thoroughly understand the +methods and principles of the New-School of Healing and should exercise +their own intelligence as to its merits as compared with the old, and, +being once thoroughly convinced--not by faith, or fear, or fashion, nor +yet biased by the unfair influence of the false prestige of a legalized +monopoly detrimental to the interest of the people--they should +forthwith honestly test the new deliverance by faithfully following my +advice and instruction, to their own unfailing ultimate benefit and +relief. + +As a labour of love towards the world in general and the people of my +adopted country in particular, I have made it my duty to formulate the +substance of my researches in the field of science--researches which +represent the struggles of a lifetime--in a large and comprehensive work +which, to the scientist as well as to the laymen, will constitute in the +most detailed and complete degree a reliable guide to the conservation +of health which, even now, in the immediate present, has come to be +regarded not only as a scientific phase of education, but as a duty +incumbent upon every citizen. Should sickness supervene, as well it may +sometimes, despite all reasonable precaution, the knowledge and +instructions contained therein are sufficient, if closely followed, to +prevent, for the most part, the serious consequences of disease and to +afford the patient the necessary enlightenment to enable him to +co-operate with the hygienic-dietetic physician in the task of restoring +him to health and ability. + +This book, entitled "_Regeneration_" or "_Dare to be Healthy_," will +consist of some three thousand or more pages. It will be published +shortly; and, in the common interests of human health will, I trust, +find prominent place on the book-shelf of every home whose inmates +either belong to the ever increasing number of the followers of my +patients, or who, by careful study of my teachings therein contained, +may be finding their independent way back from the dreary depths of +suffering to the glad plains of health. + +In following up the general outline of the "New Regeneration" these +pages will not lend themselves to the otherwise necessary encounter with +what are now admitted to be the recognized errors of the, temporarily +dominant, medical school, save in so far as it may be requisite to +remove from the mind of the layman pernicious and antiquated ideas to +which he has been long and persistently educated, or to protect those +who have ceased to believe in them from the pitfalls to which, as an +alternative, they may be exposed amongst the numberless unscientific, +quasi-miraculous, healing cults, or the equally pernicious nostrums of +the spectacular advertising medicine vendor, both of whom reap golden +harvests among the ranks of the so justly disappointed and despairing +people. + + * * * * * + +It is, nevertheless, an imperative duty to issue this necessary warning; +namely, that the public should safeguard itself against the absurd, but +possible mistakes of confusing the Legitimate Scientific School of the +Hygienic Dietetic Method of Biological Healing with the nebulous cults +aforesaid. There is no vestige of resemblance between them, either in +thought or principle, and nothing could be more fatal and foreign to the +truth. + + * * * * * + +There is one thing, and one only, which, like the rest of the community, +we share with them in common, and this is that _growing spirit of +profound distrust_ with which all classes seem daily more and more +constrained to regard the Medical Fraternity and all its ways. + +It is the general knowledge of the existence of this sentiment which has +called into being the present epidemic of curious cults and +catholicons--due, it would appear, more to this insidious temptation to +such _commercial enterprise_ than to any other cause--and which form so +prominent a feature throughout all sections of the community--and +especially in the press--throughout the length and breadth of the land. +To such, in an alarming degree, the public turns, in protest, as it +were, against the tyranny and turpitude of this "learned profession," +with its kindred corporations and its studied callous disregard of +scientific advancement in any direction which might tend to jeopardize +or reduce the profitable exercise of its own obsolete methods, its +system of poisonous medicaments, and dangerous operations and +anti-toxins. + +There is no possible efficacy or help to be derived from other +teachings, whatsoever they may be, except from those based absolutely +upon the solid foundation of biological fact. Since Johannes Mueller +(1833) wrote the first book on physiology and its chemistry, more than +a thousand so-called "Authorities" in that branch of science have tried +to find some of the secrets of nature pertaining to physiology. A very +few (about 10 or 12) may be named as great men who discovered certain +laws and solved certain problems. But the majority added nothing to +Mueller's discoveries. Most of them became teachers or authors, one +plagiarizing the work of the other, eulogy being very liberally +distributed on all sides, but valuable deductions from the great +masters, very few have been able to make, and even those were more or +less suppressed by the "orthodox school." In less than half the time +since 1833, i.e. 85 years, it was my good fortune to give more valuable +deductions and practical applications to the student and the reader, +than the mediocre talents of the "old school" were able to give. + + * * * * * + +I pretend to no miracles and expect none; nor do I arrogate to myself +any so-called _super_-natural secrets or powers; I simply maintain that, +aided by the erudition of the great scientists of the past and present, +this system has finally been brought to a point which should rightly +have been always the chief aim of Medical Science, namely, an _exact +knowledge of human nature and the human organism, as it is_. + +With this vital knowledge at command I have been able to successfully +formulate a system for supplying the individual organism with any of the +various constituents of which it may be deficient, in a manner in which +it can best receive and assimilate the same, thereby maintaining a +correct balance between the constituents of the blood wherein lies +hidden the sole criterion of health and the fatal secret of disease. + +Simple as this may sound, the way has been long and lonely until that +elusive goal was reached; and, even now, in the heat of the controversy +which ensues, we find ourselves sometimes in a somewhat parlous +position, placed, as it were, between two fires; on the one side are +those who, though not without sympathetic feeling for the +well-intentioned, earnest-minded believers in the errors now being +exposed, yet cast aside all scruples in the interest of humanity and +truth. On the other side are those obsessed by care and compunction for +these accredited practitioners who by reason of age or temperament are +unable or unwilling to assimilate new ideas or to relinquish the +theories of a life time in order to enter the field of competition with +the men of a younger generation. + +Such is the impasse before which we stand. + + + + +REGENERATION OF THE RACE + +BY THE LIGHT OF BIOLOGY AIDED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. + + "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members + of that one body, being many, are one body:... whether one member + suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, + all the members rejoice with it." + + (St. Paul, I Corinthians, XII. 12 & 26.) + + "_DYSAEMIA, or Impure Blood is the cause and source of disorder in + all constitutional diseases. So spoke the Master. Believe it who + will, that, in a nutshell, is 'the burden of my song'--the Alpha + and Omega of my teaching_." + + (From Chapter X. "Dare to be Healthy.") + + +_The Process of Natural Healing_ is the art of curing diseases by +natural methods. + +As natural remedies, only those may be included which stand as vital +conditions in constant relation to the organism, assimilable thereby. + +Among these are no poisons or chemical preparations, such as were +promulgated by Paracelsus and the medicasters; for these are elements +abnormal to the body, and call forth its reactionary powers, and so, +being useless, they are eliminated; or, after having served an improper +purpose, to _suppress_ some symptom of disease, they become embedded in +the tissues, there causing various forms of medicinal complication or +morbid condition. + +Do we not produce blood poisons enough by our irrational diet and modes +of living? The human body is a microcosm--a world in minature--and as +such, exists in constant interchange with universal nature. + +A definite relationship exists between it and the solid, fluid and +gaseous elements. + +Solid food, water and air, elements of the universe, must become +elements of our bodies, if relations of universal unity are to be +maintained. + +There must be a constant interchange of organic matter, and this +inter-transmission is the cause of life, of health, and of disease; +therefore, we must first of all see that the conditions of this process +are uninterrupted. + +Food, air, water, light, exercise, must be so provided that they +condition the process of nutrition and metamorphosis. + +Skin, lungs, kidneys, intestines, must always be in condition to +eliminate the abnormal products of decomposition. + +If then disease be a derangement of the life process, it is self-evident +that disease is not confined to one organ alone, but that the whole body +is diseased. + +The body, thus, being in fact an indivisible unity, the treatment we +employ in disease must, logically, act upon it as a united whole. + +The modern school of medicine in its present, bacteria ridden frame of +mind or mania, looks upon the bacillus, or microbe, as the sole cause of +disease. + +The cause, however, is not the bacillus, but rather the impure blood +which prepares a fertile soil for the development of those destructive +germs. + +He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene need not +fear the bacillus, for man is not born to sickness; he creates sickness +for himself by his irrational mode of living. + +What does the world profit by bacteriological institutions if the people +continue to live in the old sins against health and hygiene? + +Man may be born with a predisposition to disease, but not with disease +itself. + +Our health depends entirely upon the conditions of our life. + +In cases of predisposition to disease, therefore, as well as in disease +itself, according to the principles of hygiene, we must employ only the +hygienic and dietetic methods of treatment. + +Is the medical science of the day, then, totally incompetent? You may +well ask.--Have the patient studies and researches of nearly two +thousand four hundred years, since the days of Hippocrates, been all in +vain? + +The reply lies ready to your hand, from the lips of one of the brightest +scientific spirits that ever illumined this dull earth of ours with +knowledge and sincerity. + +In Goethe's Faust the following lines are found,--lines which sad memory +brings back to the minds of many an unfortunate who, according to the +dictates of the medical science of today, is pronounced incurable--a +sufferer from one or other of the so-called chronic diseases--and in +dire need of both physical and spiritual support. + + "I have, alas, philosophy, + Medicine, jurisprudence too, + And, to my cost, theology + With ardent labour studied through, + And here I stand with all my lore, + Poor fool, no wiser than before" + +Like Faust, such sufferers study day and night the opinions of learned +doctors and follow their prescriptions with ardent zeal. The more they +study, the more doctors they consult, the more rapidly does strength +fail them, until at length they realize that, in spite of all their +lore, they are but "poor fools, no wiser than before." + +For more than two thousand years it has been, in fact, as it is to a +great extent today; the physician prescribes to the best of his +knowledge, medicines compounded according to certain rules dogmatically +laid down in the schools. + +Here we have at once the fatal mistake at a glance. + +Instead of studying nature and the laws of nature, instead of using +natural means to _heal disease_, they administer deadly poisons to +_allay suffering_, poisons, which doubtless may be able to repress pain +or to temporarily suppress the symptoms of disease; but can _never +remove the cause_, which alone may rightly be called healing. + +The drugs prescribed by thousands of physicians today, with but a casual +acquaintance with their action, are bound by their nature to produce +evils worse than the disease itself. + +To cite an instance: + +Physicians prescribe creosote in cases of consumption to stop the +expectoration of blood. + +Creosote will do this, and may suppress the cough, as well as the +accompanying pain; but will it cure consumption or destroy or remove the +cause of this deadliest of diseases? + +On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis after a very +short time. It destroys the head of the windpipe and the patient dies in +consequence of the destruction of one of the most important organs of +the body. + +In most instances the physician is either oblivious or unaware of these +facts. He follows those old-standing doctrinal sophisms laid down by +human "science" but discredited by nature. + +His courage is called "audacity" by those who have not lost all feeling +for humanity. + +Meanwhile, those who regard medical science from a business standpoint +only, are very quick to pronounce judgement upon any natural treatment +of disease and to condemn the most successful natural physicians as +charlatans and frauds. + +In order to be competent to decide upon a correct course in the +treatment of disease the physician must possess a thorough chemical +knowledge of all the fundamental substances of which the human organism +is constructed. With the patient therefore rests the responsibility of +choosing his physician, since no physician can be of any assistance who +cannot define what substances are deficient in the blood, and who does +not possess the requisite technical knowledge to supply this deficiency +by adequate dietetic means. + +In my nutrition cell-food therapy for constitutional diseases, I have +followed consistently upon the lines of one of the greatest masters of +physiological chemistry that the world has known, who, in one of his +medical colloquies spoke as follows: "In order to thoroughly understand +any form of sickness or disease, so as to undertake the cure of the +same, it is first of all necessary to picture before one's mental +vision the ways and means of its inceptive formation, and by degrees to +trace its origin, step by step, before one is enabled to decide upon +adequate remedial measures conformable to the individual stages of the +same." + +In this sense it has ever been my strenuous endeavor to fathom the +secret of the inception of constitutional diseases; but the entire +medical literature did not advance me further than pathological anatomy, +which informs us that the original cause of disease is a change in the +form of the cellular elements of different digestive organs,--in +explanation of which the customary technical terms are used, such as +"atrophy," "degeneration," "metamorphosis," etc. But, I reasoned with +myself, this surely cannot be seriously regarded as the origin of +disease! + +The cause of the visible changing of the cellules must be sought in the +conditional interstitial substances which cause the invisible changes or +shiftings of the cellular forms, and which are scientifically termed +"_Changed nutritional conditions_." + +By the aid of physiological chemistry I was successful in finding a +pathway to the centre of those mysterious occurrences of life. + +And this was my course of reasoning: As the cellules, which are the +smallest individual elements of the human system, are only _products of +the blood_, and for their composition require the different chemical +substances in sufficient quantities, it is obviously necessary to fathom +what those chemical elements of the cellules may be, what form they take +in their mutual relation to the separate parts of the body, and in what +way they enter the organism. + +In this manner I obtained a clear insight into the actions of the +so-called _mineral material_ in the organism, and it gradually became +obvious to me that everything is dependent upon the introduction of the +proper _sanguifying or nutritive_ mineral salts into the blood. + +On this basis I founded the so-called "_organic nutritive cell-food +therapy_" (called the Dech-Manna therapy). + +The point may be raised that the elements of the food we eat or drink +are heterogeneous and that the mineral matter in them is naturally and +casually acquired, according to the properties of the soil they grow in. +This is the general opinion, but not the fact. Our vegetables, grain, +meat and milk contain too much phosphoric acid and sal ammoniac, and +this is due to the use of artificial and animal fertilizers, while the +sulphurics are very often entirely missing. + +Von Liebig says: When we consider that the sugar refineries of Waghausel +have an annual output in the market of 600,000 lbs. of potassic salt, +which is taken from the soil by the turnips of the Baden fields without +being replaced, and that there is cultivated in Northern Germany, year +by year, with the assistance of guano, an immense amount of potatoes +solely for the manufacture of spirits, and that these potato fields are +consequently robbed of the essential ingredients which potatoes should +contain, and as these elements are only partially replaced by the +insufficient component parts of the guano, we cannot be in doubt as to +the condition of these fields. The ground may be ever so rich in +ingredients, but it is exhaustible. The analysis of our blood indicates +that, in order to remain healthy, it must contain twice as many +sulphuric as phosphoric salts. + +We talk glibly about a natural mode of living, a simple diet; but where +in our civilized countries can we find food that really serves healthy +sanguification? + +The crux of the question is this: Why do we propose to _heal naturally_ +and not also to _nourish naturally_?--The latter is, to say the least of +it, just as important as the former. But if both were practiced +conjointly, a beneficial object might be more quickly and surely gained. + +It is true, we are taught to eat more vegetables than meat; that our +bread lacks the chief nourishing qualities, and so on; but we have +hitherto been in no wise informed as to the substances that are +relatively harmful or beneficial to us. + +Why is it then that the science of the sanative power of nature, as well +as medical science, is still in doubt in regard to the relation that +must absolutely exist between the separate component parts of our +nourishment in order to obtain normal healthy sanguification? + +_The reason is that the application of a real chemistry of life has +never been comprehended until now._ + +According to my judgment it is Von Liebig and Julius Hensel who showed +us the paths we are to take to the field of enquiry most important of +all; for without a sound body all the coveted acquisitions of modern +times are worthless to us. + +The solution of the question how to prevent the degeneration of mankind +would be a simple and natural one, if history and proverb had not taught +us that as often as a new truth appears "the very oxen butt their horns +against it." They cannot help this, the "disposition" is natural; for +when Pythagoras had found the Master of Arts, Mathesios, he was so +overjoyed that he sacrificed one hundred oxen to the gods, and ever +since that time oxen are attacked with an hereditary fright whenever a +new truth appears,--the human ox is no exception. + +Of what use to us, for instance, are the Roentgen X-rays in diseases of +the nerves when there is a generally diseased condition of the blood, +which, as we now know, is also the primary cause of lung, liver, stomach +and kidney troubles, cancer, scrofula, rheumatism, gout, obesity, +diabetes, and the rest? + +In such cases _chemistry_ is necessary, in order to ascertain what +ingredients are missing in the blood; they cannot be detected +microscopically. + +What blunders are continually committed in the treatment of nerve +diseases! No one considers the physiological law that _no parts of the +nerves can perform their functions lastingly and naturally unless they +are continually supplied with blood permeated_ with oxygen; and for this +purpose iron is most necessary as an adequate ingredient. + +Physicians of the old-school do prescribe iron plentifully, but in +inorganic form; and because it is not organized it is indigestible and +is excreted. That is why the treatment of the diseases of the nerves, +which are so general and widespread, has been so unsuccessful. + +It is not generally known that organized ammonium phosphate (Lecithin), +which is the mineral foundation of the Neurogen I prescribe, will +regenerate the nerve cells if consumed in the proper proportions. It is, +likewise, little known that although a person with diseased lungs be +placed under conditions where he may acquire an ample quantity of pure +air--that is oxygen--and may consume as much as four quarts of milk +daily, he will nevertheless most certainly be doomed to perish if his +food does not contain the elements of iron, lime and sulphur in +sufficient quantities. + +These simple physiological laws have been ignored and medical men have +given us instead, the teachings of the school of bacteriology with its +pitiful illusions and its endless train of suffering and sorrow. + +The testimony of many patients who have undergone treatment in the best +physical culture and so-called, natural healing establishments both in +Europe and America, serves to show that their success has been but +partial and one-sided; that is, they have abandoned their wrong albumen +theory, and their state of health has consequently improved. But, +practically, the treatment has failed; for complete and final +recovery--that is, full and correct nutrition and strengthening of the +nerves, has not been accomplished. Such failure is due to the fact that +certain essential constituents have not been supplied. These vital +constituents my organic nutritive cell-food therapy is designed to +provide. + +What is lacking in the field of practical science, as authoritatively +voiced by the unprogressive faculty of today, is an absence of chemical +knowledge, especially on the part of the physician and the naturalist; +and, as likewise, the so-called scientific farmer upon whose assurances +we so naturally rely for the wholesome production of food is woefully +ignorant on matters of agricultural chemistry, the logical consequence +is that in all civilized countries great mistakes have been +unconsciously made and perpetuated, detrimental to the health of man and +beast alike and vitally prejudicial to the healthy sustenance of the +race. + +_Where are the most vitally necessary mineral substances_ to be found in +nature? + +It is an established fact that the fields, on which our nutritive salts +or cell-foods--our vital sustenance--are grown, were originally formed +from decayed primitive rock and _this primitive earth-crust matter is +composed of the same mineral substances that are found in normal blood_. +Therefore, our physical welfare and our capacity to resist disease is +clearly dependent upon the condition of our fields. We must always bear +this in mind--the old truism--that, + + "AS A MAN EATS, SO IS HE." + +_We are thus, directly, the products of our fields._ + +Wrongly fertilized, our fields must produce sickly vegetation, and this +in turn will produce a sickly race and disease in cattle. + +Primitive rock consists of granite, porphyry, gneiss and basalt, +deposits which are still found upon the earth in immense quantities, and +in the same condition as thousands of years ago. + +As a matter of fact, proposals have been made by noted scientists to +utilize pulverized rock of this kind as compost to _assist_ the fields +in a natural way, and so to restore them to their former producing +power, which would thus enable plants, animals, and man, alike, to +regain those substances indispensable to proper sanguification and +general growth. + +The agricultural experiments performed with this stone dust fully +confirm this assumption. + +One of the most important tasks of today is to indicate to the farmer +new ways and means of promoting and increasing growth for the food +supply of the nations. + +Why, then, I imagine I can hear it asked, if this fact be true and +demonstrated, has it not been applied? + +This question may be answered by another. Why does not the natural +system of Hygienic Dietetic Healing find general application in cases of +sickness, since its success is so obviously greater than even that +claimed by medical science? + +To this vital question upon which so much of human life and happiness +depends, the weak and degrading answer must suffice; to the effect that +the last vestige of public respect for the sciences would be shaken, and +many wise theories would fail of their imaginary virtues and succumb, +before humanity's best birthright--the quality of healthy blood, kind +nature's ample gift to all,--could be wrested from the selfish hand of +tyranny and mankind enabled to secure from nature's willing hand the +succour that an Infinite Providence offers to disease. + +A physician to whom I once explained my theories, heard me for some +minutes and then he said "Well, and so you want to create healthy blood +in this way?" "Yes, surely," I replied. "We have no use for that," he +callously exclaimed, "there would _be no business in that_." + +_Hence Mankind must degenerate and Disease of all kinds ride rampant_ +through the land, rather than upset the firmly rooted fallacies of the +past or foil the ghoul-like greed of a certain set of conscienceless +practitioners. + +To the first of these the terse old Latin satire would apply: + + "Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius + Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat." + + (Terentius.) + + + "Who is there so unreasoning as he, that learned drone, + Who reckons nothing perfect save what he himself hath known." + + (M.B.) + +To the second let an outraged public reply. + + * * * * * + +But meanwhile, as the hideous holocaust proceeds, the mills of God grind +slowly but mysteriously secure. The eternal law of equity is working +still; and from every evil there proceeds a good. Truth may be hidden in +the nether deeps, but some day the strained tension breaks, the balance +reversing brings it to the light. Its spirit works for ever, like a +ferment, hidden long, deep down in the Universal heart of things; for +with majestic, unimpressionable tread, sublimely the silent force of +human progress moves; slow and inevitably sure, the great indwelling +spirit of a vast eternal energy leading man ever upward to the True and +Best. + +Against this axiom, alas, graceless and suicidal seems the unwisdom of +the world, in action against all who offer it salvation from its pain; +aye, though he be Christ or Commoner. + +Rather be wrong in league with wealth and power than be right--and stand +alone. This is now the worldly wisdom of the sage. + +Genius at grips with material and religious power, fares ill; as with +far-famed Copernicus, or "starry Galileo and his woes"; or, in a brave +woman's daring words:--"He, who dares to see a truth not recognized in +creeds, must die the death." + +"A time of transition is a time of pain," is a truism well recognized by +all, and he who would press Regeneration upon the world--weak, weary and +unthinking as its people are--must run the gauntlet of the bitter +antagonism of the exploiting clans on this benighted sphere, though +later he may see, across the bourne that bounds life's earthly day, a +stately monument, perchance, by gratitude upreared, where pious crowds +pay tribute to his name. + + + + +HYMN OF HEALTH + +(From the Greek) + + Health, thou most frangible of heaven's dower, + With thee may what remains of life be spent; + Cease not upon me, thus, thy gifts to shower, + And in my soul to find a tenement. + + For what is there of beauty, wealth or power, + Of gentle offspring, or the wiles of love, + But owes its solace, sweet, in every hour, + To thee, thou regent of the powers above. + + The spring of pleasure blooms if thou but bless, + And every step upon the Autumn way + Is lit by thee, parent of happiness! + Without thee sadly sounds life's roundelay. + + (M.B.) + + +Health is one of those intangible inestimably precious possessions, like +life and liberty, to which all are entitled by natural Law. Yet are +there but few who are careful to conserve this priceless heritage. It is +a boon all too often unappreciated until lost, and once lost, it may not +always be regained, though intense be our regrets and our endeavours +exhaust the field of human resource. + +Again, although the possession of passable health may be ours, it is a +condition rarely totally untroubled and continuous and, therefore, +cannot be correctly classified as perfect health. + +These simple definitions may seem to the reader trite and trivial; but +how many of us, let me ask, give thought to their vital vast +significance. + +Never to need a physician; ever to be unconsciously guarded against all +access of disease; to maintain the fair form and vigor of the body +without effort, so that no depleting influences can find a hold; this is +the health ideal by nature set, the standard to which the earliest +progenitors of our race may doubtless have conformed, but upon which +succeeding generations have sedulously turned their backs. + +Philosophers have defined this physically perfect state. + +Historians have immortalized it in heroic tomes. + +Poets have extolled it in great epic verse. + +Artists have depicted it in portraiture and tapestry. + +Sculptors have expressed it in the life-like stone. + +The sick have longed for it. + +Saints have prayed for it and, in the search for its fabled, false elixir, +alchemists have sacrificed their lives. It remained for the smug, "sober +judgment" of our day to pronounce it "unattainable"--unattainable! + +This, however, is a matter of small moment; for, as Whittier reminds us: +"The falsehoods which we spurn today were the truths of long ago"--and +although men part reluctantly with favorite--and lucrative--fallacies, +and "Faith, fantastic Faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, +hugs it to the last," nevertheless this false belief, like so many other +sapient pronouncements of human wisdom, must be subjected to final +reversal. + +The ideal state of health is, truly, "unattainable" when we refuse to +yield obedience to the simple laws of nature--when we continuously +persist in interference with her work and embarrass her with artificial +substitutes, defying her august hygienic precepts by our manner of life. + +Not so, however, if we yield to her inducements, fulfil her +requirements, and submit ourselves freely to her unerring will. + +There is less of fault than of weakness in the fact that so many of us +fail to give nature the opportunity to rear us as healthy men and +women, to keep us more free than we are from suffering and disease. + +Her ways are ways of pleasantness and follow on the lines of the veriest +simplicity. + +The preservation of health must needs, then, move along these self-same +simple lines. + +It is ignorance, in most cases, rather than unwillingness that brings +upon the race the punishment we call disease. + +But how can they be expected to learn who have no teacher? And how can +they teach who are themselves untaught? + +It is incumbent upon those who have acquired knowledge to impart +life-saving truths, and _there is no greater benefactor of his kind than +he who reduces life's problems to their simplest terms_. + +"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under +the shadow of the Almighty." Such is the dictum of King David, the +psalmist, as expressed in the Hebrew Scriptures. + +All that man's intellect can conceive of the Almighty is bounded by its +expression in Nature. + +It is neither arrogant, nor irreverent, then, to claim with reasonable +confidence that the devoted service of long years of close application +to research in Nature's secret dwelling-place may entitle such an one to +share the guidance of the Almighty mind and inspire him to share its +favours with his fellow man. + + * * * * * + +This then, the Author of this brochure, realizing vividly and with +sympathy, humanity's sore need, has been constrained to formulate, for +the benefit of those desirous to learn;--a means of enlightenment +suitable and accessible to all. For although, to quote from Goethe, +whose transcendent mind was almost omniscient in all mundane things: + + "Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir bewusst." + (Omniscient am I not, though much I know.) + +Yet "Unity is strength," and in conjunction with associated minds, such +knowledge as I have may amply suffice to save many a sad sufferer from +hereditary doom. + +The scheme, or, to be more explicit, the Club, I purpose to inaugurate, +is fully expounded in detail in the succeeding pages. + + + + +THE DARE TO BE HEALTHY CLUB + + All other things the mandate, "must", obey, + Man only has the power, "I will", to say. + + (After Schiller.) + + (M.B.) + + +Thoughtless and imitative, men follow custom, careless where it may +lead, and unconsciously imitate each other. + +Strong harmful habits grow, which overcome the opposing will and fickle +fashion rules where common sense should reign. + +Such instances are common to us all. + +A combination opposed to such influences is the force we need and for +this purpose I propose to establish a Club for the study of the ways and +means of health. + +THE DARE TO BE HEALTHY CLUB. + +The Club will be comprised of those who desire to pursue a course of +Health Study by correspondence. + +This combination will constitute the first and only Club of its kind in +the world. + +It will unite in its membership a group of independent thinkers, +representative of all parts of the American Continent. + +The purpose of the Club will be to teach the science of Regeneration--to +teach them to "dare to be healthy" according to the laws and teachings +of biology. + +These teachings will consist of a two years' course in _Biology_, +dealing with its most important branches, in _Physiology_, _Anatomy_, +_Hygiene_, _Physiological Chemistry_, _Pathology_, according to +biological facts, and _Therapy_ in accordance with biological and +physical laws and precepts. + +All methods of _natural healing_ will be explained in detail, including +diet, breathing exercises, and rest. + +The comprehensive aim will be to inculcate the principles which govern +the process of perfect metabolism--that is to say, the changes of +nutritive matter within the body--as the means of bringing into being a +race endowed with health and beauty and therefore predestined to +happiness. + +The course of instruction will be based upon the literature of science, +including certain fundamental teachings from the pen of the author of +the present pamphlet, which comprises, moreover, extracts from the +works of distinguished scholars whose theories have been tried and +tested during the last thirty-five years. + +Its precepts will be based upon personal experience and actual practice, +the outcome of careful and patient observation. + +The series throughout will be formulated with a view to the purpose of +graduating later from among those who follow the course, a body of +competent instructors capable of transmitting the knowledge they have +acquired to others, privately or professionally. But remember the axiom +of Cicero: + + "Not only is there an art in acquiring knowledge but also a rarer + art in imparting it to others." + +The first question, then, which will naturally arise in the mind of the +reader will be: + +_What is This Method of Regeneration?_ + +The reply to this question is in reality a simple one, but in order to +explain and define the word "Regeneration" from a purely scientific +standpoint, it will be necessary to cite the results of the author's +researches and to outline his method of healing by regeneration, showing +how he purposes to lead the way from a dark past and a dull present +into a brighter future. + +Before doing so, however, it may perhaps conduce to a better +understanding if I quote from the remarks of an eminent local authority +on the chemical composition of the body--a subject "new," as it appears, +to the general medical practitioner of the day though, for over a +quarter of a century freely expatiated upon by the great Biologists of +the period. + +The extract is taken from a recent article by Assistant Surgeon General +Dr. W.C. Rucker, of the United States Public Health Service, and reads +as follows: + +"Much of the advance of modern medicine has been accomplished through +the development of physiological chemistry which is even yet a new +science. + +"Although so new, it is assuming such importance as to make it manifest +that the physiology of the future will be written largely in terms of +chemistry. + +"We have come to realize that the body is in a literal sense of the +word, a chemical laboratory. The foods we eat, the fluids we drink, the +gases we breathe are complex chemical compounds which the body must +take apart and put together again in such a way that the materials may +be delivered in a shape that will enable the cells to store them. It is +then the business of the cells to utilize these materials for TISSUE +BUILDING and in the production of energy, in the form of work and heat. +The body manufactures different kinds of products, some beneficial, +others harmful. Thus for example, excessive muscular effort throws into +the bloodstream fatigue products that are poisonous. A person utterly +tired out is really suffering from acute poisoning. On the other hand, +to resist invasion by infectious diseases, the body manufactures +anti-poisons that kill the enemy germs--making in other words, its own +medicine." + +The physical processes here mentioned by Dr. Rucker are fully explained +in my book, "Dare to be Healthy," chapter VI, VII, VIII, and the natural +principles involved have been practiced by me for over 30 years. I +mention the fact simply as corroborative evidence of the authenticity +and value of the work shortly to be published. + +"Art may err, but Nature cannot miss,"--is an aphorism attributed to +the poet Dryden. It adequately supports Dr. Rucker's wise, significant +and timely pronouncement and reminds me of an illustrative incident +recorded in connection with the world famed physician Boerhaave of +Leyden,--Holland's chief centre of learning--who lived some 250 years +ago, when doctors knew less than at present of the circulation and +functions of the blood. + +Boerhaave, it appears, conceived the idea of a sort of posthumous +pleasantry, of a distinctly lucrative nature, at the expense of his +medical brethren. Professional ignorance and popular superstition had +alike surrounded his name with a halo of mystery and he was credited +with almost miraculous powers of healing and the possession of the +Secret of Disease and Health. + +At the sale of effects, following his death, there was a great gathering +of the most celebrated physicians of the day and his books and records +fetched fabulous prices. But one special tome, ponderous, silver-clasped +and locked, entitled: "Macrobiotic, The True and Complete Secret of +Long, Healthy Life," was the cynosure of every avaricious eye. The +auctioneer shrewdly reserved it until the last. Amidst a scene of +unparalleled excitement and competition the Great Book was at length +knocked down to a famous London physician for no less a sum than seven +thousand Gulden. When opened with eager anticipation before the +disappointed bidders, its pages were found to be blank--with one +exception. Upon this one was inscribed in the handwriting of Boerhaave +himself, only these ten words: + +"_Keep the head cool, the feet warm, the bowels open._" + +Turning to an excited audience it was thus the great London authority +spoke: + +"I once heard it said that the world is simple; that health is simple; +that it is the folly of man that causes all complications, and that it +is the delicate task of the true physician to reduce everything to its +original simplicity. Heaven knows that our great Master, Boerhaave, has +solved life's problem. To me this truth is well worth the 7,000 Gulden I +pay to secure it; while to you, my friends, who have travelled from +distant parts of the globe in search of it, receive from me the legacy +of our Master and also be, likewise, content." + +The moral that this story teaches is the same eternal lesson of all +time, as expressed through the medium of Biology: that not by art or +artifice can health be cheaply snatched at will from the Infinite +Sources of Life, but that by consistently following the guidance of +Nature's Laws the healthy functions of the human organism may alone be +correctly maintained, or, when driven by ill-treatment into decline, it +is the rational scientific assistance we afford to the efforts of +Nature, by which alone we may hope to re-establish that normal condition +of health. For, in the worthy words of Wordsworth I may say: "So build +we up the being that we are." + +The writer does not claim for this method so great a degree of +simplicity. But he does base it upon the same truth that simplicity and +a return to natural conditions are the only ways of effectively healing +the diseased body. + +Guided by the great masters of biology and physiological chemistry, his +object has been to determine the elements of which the twelve main +tissues of the human body are composed and to learn in what manner these +tissues suffer from the various diseases which attack them. + +Were I desirous of emulating the illustrious Boerhaave, I might +concentrate my work into these few words: _Supply the system with the +necessary constituents of its tissues and at the same time assist the +organism by means of simple and natural appliances, and REGENERATION +will continue until the desired physiological condition is reached._ + +In so doing, I fear, I should bequeath but little to the comprehension +of humanity. + +I desire that all shall benefit by the diligent research work of my +life. I desire to leave my legacy to humankind clearly and distinctly +defined, in rules carefully expressed in the Course of Study I have +prepared. + +I do not expect them to be accepted without controversy. Nor do I look +for gratitude from those whom I seek to benefit. I have no delusions and +the satisfaction of having delivered my message will be my sole reward. +I can only trust in this more enlightened age, that history as poetized +by Pope may not repeat itself: + + "Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? + All fear, none aid you, and few understand." + +My solace, even so, for the nonce would be the knowledge of life and +health restored to the faithful, though, comparatively, few and the +confidence that truth must, in the issue, at length prevail, convincing, +victorious over all. + +Before proceeding further I wish it to be distinctly understood that it +is no part of my scheme or intention to seek in any way to eliminate the +physician. + +As there are, in fact, no two human organism exactly alike, so also is +there divergence, more or less, in each individual case, in disease; and +however apparently similar the symptoms may be, the knowledge and +experience of a physician becomes necessary in order to determine +correctly what the ailment is and how general principles should be +applied in each particular case. + +On the contrary, I purpose to explain fully the secret causes of disease +and their removal, in pursuance of the belief held in common with +fair-minded physicians the world over, that a better knowledge of the +human organism and hygiene on the part of the layman, would be of equal +advantage alike to physician and patient. + +Drawing aside the veil from professional secrecy and allowing the +patient to know the why and the wherefore of things, means positive +success for my hygienic-dietetic system of healing, because it is the +only system which can ultimately survive in the light of general +knowledge and wisdom. + +No knowledge, no precautions, will always prevent disease. It is the +natural incidence of the law of cause and effect that man, collectively, +cannot expect to go through life unmolested by disturbances of health. +From the very outset the tendency to disease is inherited; and indeed +today, although we have now learned how to combat the enemy, yet +opposing hosts are seen to be so vast and strongly entrenched about us +that we realize to some extent the years that must elapse before mankind +can be entirely set free from his hideous heritage, the harvest sown by +past ignorance, deception and neglect. + +But, from the malignant evil of internecine strife Universal Good is +rising with an awakened nation's cry--a cry for freedom and release from +the ever-lengthening chains of pernicious interests and obsolete +institutions. The moment of release is at hand: That pyschological +moment of which James Russell Lowell sings: + + "Once to every man and nation + Comes the moment to decide, + In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, + For the good or evil side." + +And knowing what the People know--they who have borne so long, in grimly +impotent silence, under the guise of Freedom, the fortunes of the +slave--can we for one moment doubt what view their lawful, reasoning +demand for redress will take and whether or no it will prevail? The +hundred million voices of the Union sternly answer: NO! + +In effecting this release, so far as the Science of Healing is +concerned, my system, which I claim to be entirely original, will be +found particularly efficacious, for it presents plainly and +convincingly, in the light of the most recent discoveries, the truth +that _all constitutional diseases are but the variations of one basal +deficiency_; that the entire art of rational healing lies in a knowledge +of the component parts of the body tissues, in a determination of the +tissues involved in the process of degeneration in each specific +instance, and in the subsequent treatment thereof by means of supplying +to the blood the elements necessary to regenerate the tissues in +question. + +From this brief explanation may be judged the importance of the +hygienic dietetic physician in cases of sickness. The quack and +charlatan it is who persuade people to believe that they do not need the +physician, and compel them to pay for this belief in money and in +health. It is the obvious duty of every one to seek aid in case of +sickness from some physician who is a profound and professed advocate of +the only sensible, practical method of treatment; but, at the same time +I would make it possible for all to acquire sufficient knowledge to +enable them to judge for themselves whether the attendant summoned +responds in some measure to this requirement, the simple and logical +course of which contains at least some ray of hope for all who suffer. + + * * * * * + +It may not be amiss to cite here a brief outline of the teachings of the +four bright particular stars who have served as beacon lights in the +history and development of medicine. Not only does the modern medical +world acknowledge the doctrines of these four men as the foundation upon +which the practice of healing has been raised to a science, but +moreover,--_a point much more important for our consideration_,--it +also admits that the least essential part of the work of Hippocrates, +the "Father of Medicine;" namely, his _statement of theory_, is the part +which has been accorded permanent prominence, whilst the portion of +greatest value in his labours; that is to say, the _practical part_, has +been neglected and ignored. + +The following passages are taken from the article entitled "History of +Medicine" in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th. Edition, vol. XVIII, +pages 42-51. + +"_Hippocrates_, called the 'Father of Medicine,' lived during the age of +Pericles, (495-429 B.C.), and occupied as high a position in medicine as +did the great philosophers, orators, and tragedians in their respective +fields. + +His high conception of the duties and position of the physician and the +skill with which he manipulated the materials that were at hand, +constituted two important characteristics of Hippocratic medicine. +Another was the recognition that disease, as well as health, is a +process governed by what we call natural laws, learned by observation, +and indicating the direction of recovery. These views of the 'natural +history of disease' led to habits of minute observation and careful +interpretation of symptoms, in which the Hippocratic school excelled and +has been the model for all succeeding ages, so that even now the true +method of clinical medicine may be said to be the method of Hippocrates. + +One of the important doctrines of Hippocrates was the healing power of +nature. He did not teach that nature was sufficient to cure disease, but +he recognized a natural process of the humours, at least in acute +disease, being first of all _crude_, then passing through _coction_ or +digestion, and finally being expelled by resolution or crisis through +one of the natural channels of the body. The duty of the physician was +to 'assist and not to hinder these changes, so that the sick man might +conquer the disease with the help of the physician.'" + +"_Galen_, the man from whom the greater part of modern European medicine +has flowed, lived about 131 to 201 A.D. He was equipped with all the +anatomical, medical, and philosophical knowledge of his time; he had +studied all kinds of natural curiosities and was in close touch with +important political events; he possessed enormous industry, great +practical sagacity, and unbounded literary fluency. At that time there +were numerous sects in the medical profession, various dogmatic systems +prevailed in medical science, and the social standing of physicians was +degraded. He assumed the task of reforming the existing evils and +restoring the unity of medicine as it had been understood by +Hippocrates, at the same time elevating the dignity of medical +practitioners. + +In the explanation and healing of diseases he applied the science of +physiology. His theory was based upon the Hippocratic doctrine of +humours, but he developed it with marvelous ingenuity. He advocated that +the normal condition of the body depended upon a proper proportion of +the four elements, hot, cold, wet and dry. The faulty proportions of the +same gave rise, not to disease, but to the occasions for disease. He +laid equal stress upon the faulty composition or dysaemia of the blood. +He claimed that all diseases were due to a combination of these morbid +predispositions, together with injurious external influences, and thus +explained all symptoms and all diseases. He found a name for every +phenomenon and a solution for every problem. And though it was precisely +in this characteristic that he abandoned scientific methods and +practical utility, it was also this quality that gained for him his +popularity and prominence in the medical world. + +However, his reputation grew slowly. His opinions were in opposition to +those of other physicians of his time. In the succeeding generation he +won esteem as a philosopher, and it was only gradually that his system +was accepted implicitly. It enjoyed great, though not exclusive +predominance until the fall of Roman civilization." + +"_Thomas Sydenham_, (1624-1689) was well acquainted with the works of +the ancient physicians and had a fair knowledge of chemistry. Whether he +had any knowledge of anatomy is not definitely known. He advocated the +actual study of disease in an impartial manner, discarding all +hypothesis. He repeatedly referred to Hippocrates in his medical +methods, and he has quite deservedly been styled the English +Hippocrates. He placed great stress on the 'natural history of disease,' +just as did his Greek master, and likewise attached great importance to +'epidemic constitution,' that is, the influence of weather and other +natural causes on the process of disease. He believed in the healing +power of nature to an even greater degree than did Hippocrates. He +claimed that disease was nothing more than an effort on the part of +nature to restore the health of the patient by the elimination of the +morbific matter. + +The reform of practical medicine was effected by men who advocated the +rejection of all hypothesis and the impartial study of natural +processes, as shown in health and disease. Sydenham showed that these +natural processes could be studied and dealt with without being +explained, and, by laying stress on facts and disregarding +_explanations_, he introduced a _method_ in medicine far more fruitful +than any discoveries. Though the dogmatic spirit continued to live for a +long time, the reign of standard authority had passed." + +"_Boerhaave._ In the latter part of the seventeenth century a physician +arose (1668-1738) who was destined to become far more prominent in the +medical world than any of the English physicians of the age of Queen +Anne, though he differed but little from them in his way of thinking. +This was _Hermann Boerhaave_. For many years he was professor of +medicine at Leyden, and excelled in influence and reputation not only +his greatest forerunners, Montanus of Padua and Sylvius of Leyden, but +probably every subsequent teacher. The Hospital of Leyden became the +centre of medical influence in Europe. Many of the leading English +physicians of the 18th century studied there. Boerhaave's method of +teaching was transplanted to Vienna through one of his pupils, Gerard +Van Swieten, and thus the noted Vienna school of medicine was founded. + +The services of Boerhaave to the progress of medicine can hardly be +overestimated. He was the organizer and almost the constructor of the +modern method of clinical instruction. He followed the methods of +Hippocrates and Sydenham in his teachings and in his practice. The +points of his system that are best known are his doctrines of +inflammation, obstruction, and 'plethora.' In the practice of medicine +he aimed to make use of all the anatomical and physiological +acquisitions of his age, including microscopical anatomy. + +In this respect he differed from Sydenham, for the latter paid but +little more attention to modern medicine than to ancient dogma. In some +respects he was like Galen, but again differed from him, as he did not +wish to reduce his knowledge to any definite system. He spent much time +in studying the medical classics, though he valued them from an +historical standpoint rather than from an authoritative standpoint. It +would almost seem that the great task of Boerhaave's life a combination +of ancient and modern medicine, could not be of any real permanent +value, and the same might be said of his Aphorisms, in which he gave a +summary of the results of his long experience. And yet it is an +indisputable fact that his contributions to the science of medicine form +one of the necessary factors in the construction of modern medicine." + + * * * * * + +These extracts represent the principles of that bright constellation of +Master Minds who have gone before us and guided our footsteps through +tedious and tentative wanderings into the pathway of Truth. May their +undoubting, united testimony act as a reassuring, convincing influence +which will carry the reader back to the very fountain head of Medical +jurisprudence, through the medium of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the +highest accepted authority and criterion of authenticity in the English +speaking world; for, at the same time it will also provide a positive +and perfect safeguard and assurance of the solid basis and absolute +authenticity of my methods and teachings besides indicating definitely +the source and direction whence they are derived and establishing their +classical trend and legitimate purpose. + + + + +SYSTEM OF REGENERATION + + +In order to bring the entire system of regeneration under review, I +shall here endeavour to present in condensed form all the essential +points in my teachings. The reader will thus be enabled to picture to +himself his body, with its vital organs, clearly as in a mirror; he will +become familiarized with its composition and twelve principal tissues, +as well as with the sixteen elements of which they consist. + +Man is a unit, and the human body an accumulation of millions of +separate cells, which are centres of life and which, in different +groupings and combinations, form the various organs that render +existence possible. + +This existence is the natural sequel of the existence of former human +beings. They generated the life that is to be transferred by us to other +living beings. + +The several functions of the organism combine to form a chain of +activities in which there must not be a single link missing, if life is +to continue. + +These activities are comprised within an accumulation of cells which +are by no means stationary, for life means nothing more than the +constant dying, of the old cells and the reconstruction of the new. It +means that the human body as a whole is continually in a state of +composition and decomposition. + +Not until the accumulation of cells we call the body is recognized as +one complete correlated and inseparable entity and the absolute +interdependence of the separate cells, each one upon the others, is +likewise accepted as the verified fact that it is--not until then will +the erroneous and obsolete idea be discarded, by which the various +organs of the body have been professionally treated as separate and +independent considerations, even to the extent of being dealt with, in +cases of disease, as totally aloof from one another and conveniently +classed as proper subjects for submission to the expert opinion of that +superior class of physicians who devote their attention exclusively to +special organs and are accordingly termed "Specialists." + +Thus the question arises: What is the cause of _disease_? The question +does not apply to any one particular form of disease or class of +diseases, but to disease generally, as a concrete term meaning any +disorder which may manifest itself by individual disturbances in the +body; for such disturbance is but a variation in quantity or quality of +one general disturbance, a variation in the mechanism that controls the +work of keeping the existing cells in proper condition and replacing +those cells which are constantly being destroyed. It is a variation in +the process of _regeneration, which we term life_. + +METABOLISM is the process which is constantly going on in the human +system, whereby the cells that have been consumed by oxidation are +removed through the excreta--the faeces, the urine, the perspiration, +and the exhalations from the lungs--to be replaced by new ones. + +_Metabolism_, means change of matter. It signifies the course by which +nutritive material, or food, is built up into living matter. This +process is accomplished through the blood, which distributes the +necessary material to all parts of the body where cells need to be +replaced and carries away the consumed portions. + +In the marvelous performance of its functions, when properly supplied, +it carries the elements that are essential to regeneration in the +correct proportions. When not properly supplied, these proportions +become incorrect and foreign formations may arise which are disturbing +to the organism. + +In nature there is a constant tendency to counterbalance disturbances in +the proper proportion and by distribution of cell building material to +restore the normal condition. We may thus speak of the overwhelmingly +curative tendency of nature. + +Metabolism is the function of the body which most constantly requires +attention. So, therefore, it is always through the blood that we must +assist nature in the process of counterbalancing and rectifying or +healing abnormal conditions. + +It follows then, that, despite the apparent variety in _constitutional_ +diseases, they are all practically the same. They are all disturbances +of metabolism through some irregularity in the quantitative or +qualitative condition of the blood. + +Professor Jacob Moleschott, the great physiologist, has crystallized +this truth in the immortal words: "One of the principal questions to be +always asked of the physician is this: How may good healthy and active +blood be obtained? View the question as we may, we shall be forced to +acknowledge openly and explicitly or guardedly and indirectly that our +volition, our sensations, our strength, and our pro-creative powers are +dependent upon our blood and our blood upon our nutrition." + +If such unity exists, why then the great difference in the human organs? +How is it that a bone in its stonelike hardness is essentially the same +as the exquisitely sensitive eye? + +This is owing to the adaptive property of the cells, in the course of +their enormous accumulation, to different functions, which, again, +depends upon the varied arrangement of the constituent elements. These +elements all find lodgement in the blood, and are carried by it in +necessary quantities to the points where they are needed to assist the +organs in replacing consumed matter. + +The difficulty found in grasping this idea of _unity_ has led to the +most momentous errors in modern medical science. + +One result has been the undue attention paid to the study of anatomy, +insomuch that the different organs are regarded as wholly distinct +groups of cells. This is convenient from a descriptive standpoint, but +it tends too much to draw attention away from the source of life, and of +health. Only by noting the common characteristics of the cell +accumulations termed organs, are we enabled to supply the necessary +elements that may be lacking. And thus we arrive at the subject of _the +chemical analysis of the human body_ and its various organs, a subject +that has been badly neglected throughout the centuries. + +It has been determined that the entire human body consists of a certain +number of chemical elements, appearing in different aggregations in +different parts. These aggregations repeating themselves in the various +organs. + +Twelve principal aggregations of chemical elements have been established +and designated by the term _tissues_. + +This fact led to the discovery of the truth that in the process of +healing attention must be given, not to the various organs, but to the +various tissues. + +These tissues are dependent directly upon the condition and contents of +the blood, whose office it is to nourish them and which exhibits the +wonderful property of conveying to each tissue its selective +regenerative materials, _provided of course, that these elements are +present at the time in the blood_. + +Sixteen definite elements have been established--and a seventeenth will +probably soon be added thereto--which, in their various combinations and +aggregations, form the different tissues of which the organs in the +human body are composed. + +The prevalence of one or several of these elements in a certain tissue +forms the main or governing feature of that tissue. Thus, the prevalence +of potassium phosphate characterizes muscle tissue, the prevalence of +ammonium phosphate (lecithin) nerve tissue. Each one of the various +tissues consists of certain of these elements, and each tissue at every +point where it occurs is affected by the lack of any of its elements. + +One of the greatest physiological chemists, Justus von Liebig, maintains +that, if one of the necessary elements in a chemical composition is +missing, the rest cannot fulfill their duties and the respective cells +must become diseased and degenerate. + +This discovery, known as "the law of the minimum," has thrown additional +light upon the tasks before the new school of medicine. + +Upon the basis of a careful diagnosis, the necessary nutritive salts or +cell-foods, carefully compounded in accordance with the law of +chemotaxis must be administered. This law discovered by _Engelmann_, +requires that these cell-foods must be administered in digestible and +assimilable forms so that the cells will be attracted by the chemical +reaction, which may be of a positive or a negative character. + +This being so, we can easily build up the tissues, by studying their +chemical composition and supplying to the system that which is +necessary, in the form of food. The cell will take care of the rest. +Each tissue has its specific cell-system, and each cell will be +attracted only by those ingredients which are needed for the mother +tissue. + +_To bring to a tissue through the blood the lacking constituent element +or elements is the only means of regenerating and healing diseased +cells._ + +In this connection we are considering only constitutional diseases. + +It has been shown that the lack of certain chemical elements from the +blood signifies disease and that the variety of the disease depends on +which of the elements are either lacking entirely or are present in +incorrect proportion. + +After this lack has been determined, the course to pursue in curing the +disease is to supply the lacking chemical elements in the form of +concentrated cell-food in _addition_ to the regular food. + +This method displaces entirely the old system of filling the body +with poisonous drugs in order to _counteract the effects of the +disease_. Such a system may suppress the symptoms by benumbing the +nerves and preventing pain, it may counteract the natural process of +healing of which inflammation, fever and pain, are the outward +manifestations;--_but it can never cure_. + +The discovery of dysaemia, or impaired blood supply, as the governing +cause of disease, has destroyed another idol of modern fetish worship in +medicine. + +Since the discovery of various species of bacilli, which accompany +nearly every form of disease in some form or other, these have been +commonly declared to be the causes of diseases, and the tendency is to +find some poison that will kill the bacilli in order to cure the +disease. + +The bacillus, on the contrary, is only the consequence, or symptom, of a +disease. The diseased and decomposing parts furnish fertile soil +suitable to the propagating of bacilli because of the lack of the normal +chemical elements in the blood and tissue. But to kill them, while the +underlying conditions for their reproduction remain unchanged, can, +obviously, never effect a cure. So the great hopes that have attached to +sero-therapy are doomed to disappointment, and the application of +anti-toxins prepared from the serum of animals, are fated shortly to +vanish in the wake of others of those strange temporary crazes which +periodically obsess mankind for a while and pass away. + +The discovery that a dysaemic condition of the blood leads to certain +destructive processes termed diseases, was soon followed by the +apprehension that one of the principal factors in bringing about such +disturbance is _predisposition_,--in many cases heredity. + +The term "Hereditary disease" signifies that the improper chemical +composition of the blood of one or both parents is transmitted to the +offspring, and that it causes in them likewise a degeneration of certain +tissues and of the organs composed of those tissues. + +The hygienic-dietetic system of healing does not, however, regard +heredity as an invincible enemy, especially since my discovery of the +"Law of the Cross-Transmission of Characteristics." + +It is in the solution of this problem of "hereditary disease" that my +system will eventually come into its own and will ere long be recognized +as the most rational and effectual therapy ever applied since the +beginning of the art of healing. It may be years before it is accorded +the proverbially tardy acknowledgment of the "orthodox" schools, but +that it will, nay _must_ be eventually adopted is virtually a foregone +conclusion--that is, if it be indeed the function or policy of the +physician of the future to adequately seek to succour the suffering and +regenerate the races of mankind. Of the physician of the present it can +at best be said in Goethe's incisive words: + + "Er halt die Theile in seiner Hand, + Doch fehlt ihm leider das gelst' ge Band." + + He holds the parts within his hand, + But lacks the mental grasp of all. + +For full explanation of the significance of my law, I must refer you to +the first lecture in my book entitled "Within the Bud,"--and the lesson +therein on the theory of "Pangenesis," which space forbids my repeating +here. This lesson will convey conclusively to any thinking mind what +heredity really means. After a brief study of this interesting subject +the importance of the "Law of the Cross-Transmission of Characteristics" +will become amply apparent and the intelligent reader will undoubtedly +wonder why it has not been applied and acknowledged long ago. For +answer, I must refer you to the schools, whose policy it has ever been +to, at any rate, abstain from assisting, if not absolutely to +diplomatically hinder the development of fresh scientific discoveries. +But the time is fast approaching when a sharp and decisive end to this +iniquity will be demanded by the will of an enlightened people; only +then will the existing orthodox power be compelled to loosen its +obstructive grip which the interests of humanity have, so far, been +powerless to unclasp. But, to quote the stirring words of one who looked +with prophetic, faithful eye into the tangled problems of futurity: + + "The people will come into their own at last,-- + God is not mocked for ever." + +My Law of the Cross-Transmission of Characteristics may be simply stated +as follows: + +Under all conditions, the matter of sex is determined in the egg-cell at +the moment of fertilization. + +Under all conditions, the sex is determined by a struggle for the +mastery in the egg-cell, between the energy of that egg-cell and the +energy of the male spermatozoon. In a crisis, when the life of one of +the two seeds is trembling in the balance, one of them--through the +exertion of its "Latent Reserve Energy," dominates, and engenders a +child of the opposite sex. This reversal of the sex is in conformity +with the Law of the _Cross-Transmission of Sex_; that is, the mother is +represented in the male offspring and the father in the female,--this +being the normal expression of the Law of Cross-Transmission of +Characteristics. + +The "Latent Reserve Energy" is provided by nature for the "Preservation +of Species," and through this provision an impulsive, vehement energy +can, at the final moment of a crisis, be called upon for the salvation +of its kind. + +A _seeming_ exception to this is due to the "Law of the Dominant" which +overrides the action of "Latent Reserve Energy," and is a provision of +nature for the preservation of the "Dominant," which is the most +prominent quality in nature. + +When the subject is properly understood, this _seeming_ exception will +also become clear. + +In the natural course, the study of heredity leads to the understanding +of _predisposition_. In other words, if you have understood heredity, it +will be easy to understand predisposition; for it means that the +protoplasm or seed, from whichever organism it may proceed, must contain +some of the salient characteristics of its ancestors, good and bad, +dominant and recessive. Not only will it contain characteristics from +father and mother, but from _all_ the direct ancestors. It is impossible +to know exactly which points will manifest themselves, but a good many +_bad_ points _may be_ eliminated by studying the ancestral line; and the +direct diseases or bad characteristics of a parent, _must be_ eliminated +by applying the Law of the Cross-Transmission of Characteristics. + +For example: If the father has a certain disease or positive symptoms +of that disease, by no means create a girl, as she will certainly be +predisposed for that disease, and may pay the penalty, if "Regeneration" +is not begun early. The same principle applies to the mother. If she is +diseased, do not create a son, until "Regeneration" has been brought +about. + +Furthermore, it will be possible to improve the offspring by encouraging +and promoting the good points, especially after studying and applying +the above law, as well as my law of the "Determination of the Sex at +Will." + +Looking at the question from this point of view, we begin to realize the +enormous significance of my discovery. This supplies the main reason for +the study of the laws, for the "_Prevention of Diseases_." + +Only when we know that every acquired characteristic may be transmitted +to the offspring will we become conscious of the _terrible +responsibility_ we assume when we reproduce offspring, and realize that +we may create more pain and suffering instead of eliminating it. + +As Nature _demands_ that we reproduce ourselves or be punished for +disobeying her laws, what is to be done? + +Study and follow the advice given in this book, and you will awake to +the fact that Nietsche's words were not "Utopian" when he commanded us +to "reproduce something better than we are." + +Together with the predisposition to disease, the child also acquires the +hereditary tendency to regeneration; and thus rational hygienic-dietetic +treatment may be able to eliminate the diseases which were formerly +pronounced incurable. This can only be effected by the effort to remove +the cause and strengthen the weak points by means of Regeneration. + +The reader will now plainly understand that in order to heal, according +to the hygienic-dietetic system, the blood must be supplied with the +chemical elements that are missing from the tissues. + +There are three ways of accomplishing this; namely, by diet, by +nutritive preparations, and by physical treatment. + +The first and most natural way is by means of proper diet. + +Since the chemical elements are introduced into the body through the +food, the quantity and quality of the food must be regulated. The +patient must receive food that will help in regenerating his blood; +particularly such food as contains the elements that are lacking in the +affected tissues in his body. + +The regular supply of food is however usually insufficient to overcome +the process of destruction, and it is therefore necessary to add the +missing elements in purer form and larger quantity. These nutritive +preparations contain only such chemical elements as exist in the human +body; they also contain them in the proper chemical proportion and are +entirely free from poisonous substances. They promote a general +regeneration of the blood that will eventually lead to a complete cure. + +Physical treatment may be made to assist the proper circulation of the +blood, opening at the same time the pores of the skin for the withdrawal +from the body of disease elements and the introduction of desirable +material. Massage, gymnastics, ablutions, and various kinds of baths and +packs constitute the most of the healing measures of this description +resorted to. + +This is indeed the legitimate field for Osteo-Chyropractice. + +In order to understand the method of treatment which I apply, it is +necessary to understand one of the great laws of physiological +chemistry, acknowledged as such by the great masters of chemistry, such +as Liebig and Hensel. + +This law demonstrates that _nature is a unit, its component parts a +given number of elements, each of which has distinct qualities, and the +combination of which produces the various manifestations of life_. + +These elements are classified as combining to form minerals, plants and +animals. They are all closely interrelated. The plant draws the mineral +elements from the soil, and after certain processes of combination, +conveys them as food to the animal. The animal substances that man +consumes make up the balance of the elements that are required to build +up the human body. + +It is a matter of comparatively new discovery that the minerals are just +as important a part of the human body and of its food as the other basic +chemical elements. The discovery showing of what minerals the necessary +ingredients of the different body tissues are composed and in what +combination and quantity, in order that they may become incorporated +into the organism, has made it possible to supply them to the diseased +body in the purest and most effective way through nutritive +preparations, while their existence in food also furnishes an indication +as to the regulation of diet. + +I have already given, in the preceding pages, the frank expression of +favourable opinion upon this vital topic generally, as voiced with +unmistakable, conviction by no less an authority than Assistant +Surgeon-General, Dr. W.C. Rucker of the United States Public Health +Service. I will now cite, in further corroboration, the opinion of the +distinguished Editor of "The Fra," as addressed to myself personally, in +special relation to an advance section of the book "Dare to be Healthy," +together with other similar matter, and which, coming as it does from +one who is himself a leader in the van of the advancing phalanx of the +followers of Truth and Enlightenment, may be safely held to constitute a +just criterion of the literary and technical value of the work. It is +expressed as follows: + + _From John T. Hoyle, Managing Editor of "The Fra."_ + + "From my reading of your 'Lessons,' and especially from 'Dare to be + Healthy,' I can see that you have evolved a new concept in + medicine, or rather 'Nature Healing,' which promises great results. + I trust you will be able to put the whole into a printed book that + we may all have the benefit of your discoveries. Unlike most + physicians, while you treat of the most profound and vital + scientific subjects, your language is so well chosen and your + method of presentation is so clear, that no intelligent person + would have difficulty in following your thought. You have + undertaken a monumental work, and that success may attend your + efforts is our heartfelt wish." + + _From Elbert Hubbard._ + + "What I have read of it is intensely interesting and shows that you + have a keen insight into the philosophies of life." + +There are other spontaneous and unexpected testimonials of an equally +encouraging and complimentary nature from men whose knowledge and +attainments entitle their opinions to the tribute of respect. These +might well be likewise added here, but for the necessary limitations of +space. + +When Moses saved the hosts of Israel from starvation in the desert, by +obtaining the solid and liquid food requisite for their deliverance, he +called the name of that food "Manna." in like manner, both as a just +tribute to the success they have achieved in the past and as an earnest +of the deliverance they are destined to achieve in the future, I have +designated my preparations by a similar term and called them the +_"Dech-Manna" Nutritive Preparations_. + +Although presented in so condensed a form, the preceding outline cannot +fail to inspire in the mind of the reader a vivid conception of the +simple grandeur of nature's handiwork, more especially as regards her +provisions in relation to health and disease--secrets revealed, through +microscope and alembic, to those who, in spite of organized +discouragement, have attempted to fathom the erstwhile mysteries of +human suffering and to carry hope and freedom into the hostile camps of +Fear, Disease and Death. + +To bring these considerations within the comprehension of all, and to +win all, so far as possible, to the practical observance of the means +and precepts of Health and Safety is the object of the projected course +of study of which the following is the business proposition. + + + + +THE DARE TO BE HEALTHY CLUB + +BUSINESS PROPOSITION + + +The course of study in connection with the above consists of + + A SERIES OF ONE HUNDRED LESSONS + +to be issued in weekly instalments, the whole course to extend over a +period of two years. + +Each lesson will consist, approximately, of some twenty-two to +twenty-five full-sized pages (i.e. 25/28 lines of 8/12 words each) which +will be mailed to every subscriber weekly prepaid. + +It is necessary, in view of contingent expenses that a membership of +_One thousand subscribers_ should be obtained, as only when such an +amount of support is guaranteed would the printing of the hundred +lectures under the easy and advantageous terms offered be at all +justified. + +If, however, it should be represented to me by those most immediately +interested, that it is their desire to Confine the Club to narrower +limits, I might, though with some reluctance, consider the advisability +of reducing the minimum membership to _One hundred students_ provided +that these should agree to contribute the sum total of the fees for the +two years course in advance. + +With every twentieth lesson will be forwarded to the subscriber, gratis, +one of five well bound volumes of superior literary attraction and +interest. + +These five volumes are as follows: + + ATLAS OF HUMAN ANATOMY (profusely illustrated with coloured plates + and containing folding manikin) especially compiled for the + student. + + MANUAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, especially compiled for the student. + + MANUAL OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, especially compiled for the + student. + + MANUAL OF BIOLOGICAL THERAPY, Dechmann's system, (500 pages). + + MEDICAL DICTIONARY (pocket edition in flexible leather with gilt + edges, giving 30,000 definitions.) + +At the end of the course each student in good standing, will receive +free of cost a Membership Diploma in the form of a beautifully artistic +colour plate, the facsimile of which will appear herewith. + +"Within the Bud; the Procreation of a Healthy, Happy, and Beautiful +Child of the Desired Sex, by L. Dechmann, Biologist." This is a book of +302 pages, the paper bound edition retailing at $3.00, the edition de +luxe at $5.00, can be obtained at any book store or direct from the +author. + +The above literature cannot be otherwise procured, and its cost actually +amounts to nearly one-half the subscription for the entire course of +lessons. + +At the close of the course a beautiful engraved cover design for binding +the 100 lessons may be obtained at the price of $1.00. + +Separate file binders and perforators for the lessons, each cover +holding some 300 pages, may be obtained at the nominal cost of about 50 +cents each; one of these will be delivered free with the first lesson. + + +CELL-FOODS. + +In addition to these advantages, all members of the Club will be +entitled to procure any supplies they may need of the Dech-Manna +Cell-Foods at special (wholesale) prices. + +LOUIS DECHMANN. + +_Biologist and Physiological Chemist._ 127 North 59th Street, Seattle, +Wash., U.S.A. + + + + +THE BASIS OF PROCEEDINGS _of_ THE DARE TO BE HEALTHY CLUB + + +In the ensuing pages I shall endeavour to give the reader a necessarily +brief and cursory, glance into the subjects which will form the +underlying motif of the vast and manifold deliberations which will +constitute the fundamental basis of the projected course of study which +will be brought under the consideration of the members of the proposed +association and will constitute the schedule, as it were, of the +periodical dissertations of these matters of world-wide and vital +individual significance to be comprised in the Series of One Hundred +Lessons. + +I have been at some pains to avoid as far as possible the use of +technical and professional phrases and terminology, for the express +purpose of bringing within the scope of every faculty of understanding +these subjects which are equally _a matter of life and death importance_ +to every man, woman and child, in all the wide and varied range of +nationalities and languages which constitute so large a part of our +great Republic and upon whose health and efficiency so much of our +national life depends. + +The great and ominous unrest, so much in evidence of late, is ample +proof of a latent popular dissatisfaction with the conditions of life +and it is equally significant of the prevailing nervous tension--the +obvious result of malnutrition of the system--which is one of the most +prominent popular features of the worry-worn denizen of today. + +Life, Health, Happiness--that vital interdependent triad--are surely a +preoccupation strong enough and precious enough to startle the minds of +the most complacent; and it is with the object of awakening all to their +possibilities--in health or in disease--of protection of the one, and +hope and regeneration under the other, that the course of study has been +inaugurated of which the following is but a bare outline. + + +MAN AS A UNIT.[A] + +The human body is an accumulation of millions of separate cells, which +are the bearers of life, and which in various groups form the different +organs, the combined action of which constitutes our individual +existence. + +This existence itself is the natural issue of the existence of our +predecessors, who generated the new life which will be transmitted by us +and reappear in our offspring. + +In like manner all the functions of the body form an endless chain in +which not a single link must be faulty or missing, if healthy organic +life is to continue. + +This accumulation of cells, however, is by no means inactive. On the +contrary, organic life is nothing but the constant dying of the old and +the reconstruction of new cells; it means that we are in a perpetual +condition of composition and consequently of decomposition throughout +our entire being, its different parts and organs. + +As soon as we are able to recognize this accumulation of cells as one +individual whole and thus arrive at the idea of their absolute +interdependence, we shall get rid of the prevalent idea, that the mere +structural differences between the respective organs of the body make +them separate and independent things which may be treated irrespective +of one another in case of disease, or dealt with by different +specialists. + +We arrive then at the one great question: _What is the cause of +disease?_ Not of one or other form of disease or class of diseases, but +of disease as a whole. + +_There is, in fact, only one disease._ + +What appear to us as different disturbances of the normal condition of +our body, are only variations, in quantity or in quality, of the one +thing. It is the variation of the controlling element which performs the +necessary work of keeping the existing cells in proper condition and +replacing those which in the course of nature are destroyed. In a word, +the work of _perpetual regeneration, which is life_. + + +METABOLISM. + +This continuous changing of the entire human body,--the removal of the +discarded cells, burned up by oxidation and expelled from the body in +the urine, the perspiration and other excretions, and their replacement +by new ones,--is called metabolism, that is, "change of matter." + +This change is brought about by means of a vital fluid in the body, +which circulates from the moment in which the spermatozoon, or male +seed, touches the female egg in the womb of the mother, until the time +of our last breath. That fluid is _the blood_,--the carrier of nature's +supplies to all parts of the body for the rebuilding of cells; the exact +and equitable distributor in quantities of material which determines the +quality of the cells. + +In its marvelous performance of this function, the blood is the bearer +of the sole existing condition of health; namely the necessary elements +of cell-building in the right proportions. + +This is health, and the lack thereof is disease. + +The demand of nature for upbuilding and rebuilding is the strongest +instinctive impulse of our being; and this being so, a wrong proportion +may cause the upbuilding of things which are different and disturbing to +the normal organism. + +But, on the other hand, kindly nature exhibits an ever existent +inclination to counterbalance any disturbance in the right proportion, +and to bring back conditions to uniformity. + +We may thus justly speak of _the overwhelming healing tendency of +nature_. + +Metabolism is, therefore, the one great dominant function of the body +which, accordingly, must have our especial care. + +It is the blood, consequently, to which alone we can resort if we desire +to assist nature in its process and tendency of balancing and healing. + +This again indicates that, notwithstanding the apparent great variety of +_constitutional diseases, they are all practically one and the same +disease. They are all disturbances of proper metabolism, by some +irregularity of the quantitative or qualitative condition of the blood_. + +This governing truth the great physiologist, Prof. Jacob Moleschott, has +formulated in the memorable words: "It is one of the chief questions +which humanity must always ask of the physician: how to attain good, +healthy and active blood. And, view the question as we may, all who give +it serious thought, are forced by experience to acknowledge explicitly, +or otherwise, that _our mental and physical capacity, and likewise the +power of reproduction, are directly dependent upon our blood, and our +blood on our nutrition_." + + +VARIETY OF ORGANS. + +Why then, you may ask, if such unity exists, why this dissimilarity in +the tissues of the respective bodily organs? How is it that a bone in +its stonelike hardness is essentially the same as the infinitely tender +tissues of the eye? This difference is due to and accounted for by the +adaptation of certain portions of the immense accumulation of cells to +diverse functions, which has necessitated the variable conformity of the +supporting elements. But all of these elements are in the blood, which +carries them in the necessary quantities to the different organs to +which they belong and where they are utilized to replace used-up matter. + +I do not overlook the difficulty of grasping this idea of unity. + +The fact, that it is so difficult to realize, has led to the greatest +errors in present day medical science. + +It seemed at first sight, so obviously necessary to study the different +organs as entirely different groups, to work out a careful system of +bones, of intestinal organs, of blood-vessels, of nerves, and so on; all +of which is of course very valuable, in its place, but only from a +descriptive standpoint. + +Anatomy shows us what life has produced in the construction of a human +form, but it does not indicate the source of life, nor, consequently, +the source of health. + +It is well to know the different forms of cell accumulations, which are +called organs, but if we desire to keep them in good order, we must +watch closely what is common to them all; for it is only from this point +of view, that we are able to determine the necessary, and possibly, the +lacking elements for purposes of healing. + +Thus, as one of the greatest achievements of modern science, we come to +the one most vital thing, so sorely needed and yet so badly neglected +throughout the centuries: _The chemical analysis of the human body and +its different organs._ + +A new light has now dawned upon the subject most essential to the +inauguration of a new and effective system of healing. + +The physiological chemist has at length discovered that the human body, +and every organ of that body consists of a certain number of chemical +elements, which appear in different parts in different aggregations. +These aggregations, however, repeat themselves in the various parts or +organs. + +It was thus finally discovered that there are _twelve different main +aggregations of such elements_, which groups of equal elements we call +_tissues_. + +Through this discovery we have arrived at the great truth that _it is +not to the purpose, in healing, to turn attention to the various organs, +but rather to the various tissues_. + +The influence which can be exercised on these tissues is exercised +through the blood which nourishes all of them alike, and which has the +wonderful capacity of carrying to each of them their necessary building +and rebuilding, or regenerating materials,--_provided, of course, that +these are, as they should be, present in the blood_. + + +THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS. + +Research in physiological chemistry, has so far determined that there +are sixteen definite and discernible elements--and a seventeenth is now +in course of determination--which, in their various combinations and +aggregations, form the different tissues of which the various organs of +the human body are constructed. + +The preponderance of one or more of these elements in a certain tissue +forms the main or governing feature, or tissue of any organ. Thus the +prevalence of potassium phosphate forms the muscle tissue, the +prevalence of ammonium phosphate (lecithin) forms the nerve tissue. + +For the purpose of general explanation it is sufficient to know that +each of the various tissues consist of some of these elements, and that +each of the tissues, at whatever part of the body it exists, is affected +by the lack of any one of these elements. + +The greatest chemist of the age, Justus von Liebig, maintains that if +one of the necessary elements in a chemical composition is missing, the +rest cannot fulfil their duties, and the consequence of such deficiency +is that the cell in question must become diseased and degenerate. + +This discovery, known as "the law of the minimum," has thrown an +additional reassuring light upon the practice of the new school of +medicine. + +_To bring to the tissue the lacking constituent element or elements by +way of the blood is the only means of regenerating that tissue, that is, +of healing its diseased cells._ + + +DYSAEMIA THE CAUSE OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. + +Within the limits of this abstract I do not propose to deal with the +disturbances in the system caused by traumatic influences, such as +wounds, etc. We are treating only of _constitutional_ diseases which, +whether of acute or of chronic character, are all caused by the lack of +such chemical elements as described. + +It has been shown that the blood supplies all the chemical substances to +the different tissues, and that, consequently, it is the lack of these +elements in the blood, which causes the tissues to degenerate, or, in +other words, _the lack of certain chemical elements in the blood is +disease_. + +It is, therefore, merely a question as to _which of the elements are +missing or which do not exist in correct proportion_, that determines +the different forms of disease. + +When once this fact is established, the method of healing consists +mainly in supplying in the regular way, that is, _by certain additions +to the regular food_, the missing chemical elements in organic form; and +medical science has but _to determine which elements are wanting_, and +consequently, must be supplied. + +_It goes without saying that in this system the old, pernicious drug +method of filling the body with various poisons to counteract the +effects or symptoms of disease, has no place whatever._ Certain +poisonous drugs may prove effective to suppress certain symptoms by +benumbing the nerves and preventing pain; they may, and do counteract +the natural process by which nature exercises her power in various ways +in the spontaneous effort to throw off disease, in the form of +inflammations, fevers or pains; _but they can never heal, or eradicate +disease_. + +With the discovery of dysaemia as the governing cause of disease, +another idol of regular medicine has been cast down. + +Since the discovery of the bacillus or microbe, which in varied form +accompanies nearly every variety of disease, it has become a dogma of +the at present dominant school of medicine that the various bacilli are +the actual causes of the different varieties of disease, and the +tendency has been to find some poison that would kill the bacilli in +order to heal the disease. + +The truth is that the bacillus is not the cause, but the effect of +disease; in fact is nothing but another consequence or symptom of a +specific form of disease. Bacilli grow spontaneously in the ready soil +which the diseased and decomposing tissues provide, through lack of the +necessary chemical elements; but to attempt to exterminate them, while +the underlying conditions for their reproduction remain unchanged, can, +of course, never bring about healing. + +And thus the high hopes and claims attached to the sero-therapy +inocculation process, the injection into the blood of anti-toxins +prepared with the serum of animals, have positively vanished. + +Hundreds of thousands of human beings have perished in the course of +this delusion; but countless numbers will have cause, yet in our day, +to rejoice at the exposure of the stupid and unnatural theory, so long +legally enforced, that the introduction into the human system of such +poisonous substances could remove or overcome the natural consequences +of constitutional disease. + + +HEREDITY. + +The discovery that a diseased condition of the blood leads to certain +bodily disturbances which we call disease, was soon followed by the +realization of the fact that one of the main conditions which bring +about such disturbances is predisposition, which in many cases is +hereditary. + +"Hereditary disease" simply means that the improper chemical composition +of the blood of one or both parents has become duplicated in the +offspring, and that it has similar consequences in causing the +degeneration of certain tissues, and consequently of the organs composed +thereof, as may have been the case in the parents. + +It is at least reassuring to know, however, _that to the modern +hygienic-dietetic system of healing, heredity, though perhaps more +tenacious, is by no means an invincible enemy_. + +With a predisposition to disease the child acquires also the hereditary +tendency to self-protection, and thus rational hygienic-dietetic +treatment may be able to eliminate, in a comparatively short time, the +chain of diseases which in former years, generations have carried +hopelessly to the grave. + + +HEALING. + +It has been already stated that healing, under the modern +hygienic-dietetic system, means supplying to the blood such chemical +elements as will replace what are missing in defective tissues of the +body. + +I will now outline the methods of carrying it into effect. + +In a general way there are three means of doing this: + +No. 1. _Diet_: The first and most natural way is by proper diet. + +As the normal chemical elements are introduced into the body as +constituents of the regular daily food, the task which, in the first +place, confronts the hygienic-dietetic physician is that of regulating +the quantity, quality and description of food. + +Too little importance has heretofore been given to this question and, +beyond prohibiting certain dishes and obviously detrimental viands, +little attention was paid by the average physician to the matter of the +every-day nourishment of the patient. + +The hygienic-dietetic physician on the other hand, employs the utmost +care in giving to the patient everything that will help to regenerate +his blood, laying particular stress on such foods as contain the largest +proportion of the chemical elements that are missing in the affected +tissues. + +No. 2. _Nutritive compositions_: The process of destruction, however, +which has to be met, in more or less advanced stages, in nearly every +case requires supply, in quantity of the pure material to compensate the +deficiency of the missing elements, beyond that which could be derived +in the ordinary way of digestion from every-day food. + +To meet this difficulty, certain condensed preparations have been +devised. + +These nutritive compositions contain only such chemical elements in like +chemical proportions as exist in the human body. They are of the purest +material and contain no injurious elements whatsoever, while they foster +that general regeneration of the blood which will finally bring about a +complete cure. + +No. 3. _Physical treatments_: It is the object of these treatments to +assist the proper circulation of the blood; to automatically open the +pores of the skin for the external treatment of certain diseases; to +withdraw elements of disease from the body, and to introduce certain +material influences, through the pores. + +Massage, gymnastics, ablutions, various kinds of baths and "packs," +constitute the chief features of the healing methods in this department. + +Following this general explanation of the system, I may now go a little +deeper into the question of the constituent elements, the tissues formed +therefrom, the degeneration of these tissues, and the species of +degeneration which constitutes the various forms of disease commonly +known to us. + +After this I will give a concise and simple general idea as to how my +methods should be applied. + + +THE UNITY OF NATURE. + +To fully understand the method of healing which I apply, it is necessary +to understand one of the great natural laws, the discovery of which by +the great chemists, Justus von Liebig and Julius Hensel, has shown us +the path along which to proceed. + +This law demonstrates that, in the last analysis, _nature is a unit, a +composition of a number of elements, each one possessing distinct +qualities, the combination of which produces the various manifestations +of life_. + +These are classified, for convenience, according to their main +qualities, as minerals, plants or animals. + +All of them are closely interrelated and one transmits the basic +elements to the other. It is the plant which draws the mineral elements +from the soil, and after certain processes of composition conveys them +as food to the animal, including the human being, while such animal +substances as are used for human food, contribute the balance of the +elements for the upbuilding of the human body. + +It is a matter of comparatively new discovery that minerals are thus +just as important as a component part of the body and of its food as are +other basic chemical elements. + +The discovery as to the mineral constituents of the body, their nature, +proportion and in which composition and in which quantity as necessary +ingredients of the different body tissues, in order that they may become +a part of the organism, has made it possible to administer them to the +diseased body in the purest condensed and most effective way in +_nutritive compositions_, while their proportionate existence in food is +also a criterion of diet, not only for the sick, but also as a +preventative of disease. + + +THE CHEMICAL PROCESS OF DISEASE. + +In this, my scrutiny of nature's deep designs, I did not rest content when +only the composition of all the tissues of the body had been laid bare; but +I delved deeper and discovered that certain electric currents and reactions +of these elements were the causes of accelerating or retarding the natural +processes of metamorphosis and metabolism,--provoking disturbances of the +normal, which express themselves as disease. + +Excessive growth, and lack of growth, are thus explained, together with +other phenomena which in this short chapter it is impossible to give in +scientific detail. It is my object now merely to show that in their +apparent simplicity the manifestations of life require special technical +knowledge such as cannot be expected of the layman in any adequate +degree. + +Notwithstanding this free and open statement of cause and cure available +to the patient and to the world at large, the hygienic-dietetic +physician himself can by no means be dispensed with in case of the +appearance of disease, for only by his knowledge, experience, and +skilled advice can the aforesaid natural system of healing be applied +with effect in each individual case. And here it must always be borne in +mind that, of the countless individual organisms that this world +contains, no two, even, are exactly alike; and that consequently only +the skilled and accustomed practitioner =will be able to regulate such +hidden, internal processes as cause the visible disturbance, and thus +bring about healing and regeneration, which simply means a return to the +normal=. + +=His methods will prevent the use of the surgeon's knife, which only +removes the symptom, leaving the cause untouched and inflicting useless +and irreparable harm. The specialist, with his poisonous specific +remedies for forms of disease, which after all are only degrees of +chemical exhaustion, will also disappear, together with all similar +treatment which enervates the body making it an easy prey to new attacks +of the same chemical anomalies which must and will most certainly return +so long as they are not rectified according to the principles of +biology.= + + +THE TWELVE TISSUES. + +Bearing the above principle of unity in mind, we may now proceed one +step further, and study the most important details upon which the method +of healing, as applied by the hygienic-dietetic physician, is based. + +As previously mentioned, the cells of the human body are organized into +twelve distinct tissues, some of which are the component parts of the +various organs as discernible by form and function. + +These twelve tissues are the following: + + 1. The plasmo tissue (blood plasma). + 2. The lymphoid tissue. + 3. The nerve tissue. + 4. The bone tissue. + 5. The muscular tissue. + 6. The mucous membrane tissue. + 7. The tooth and eye tissue. + 8. The hair tissue. + 9. The skin tissue. + 10. The gelatigenous tissue. + 11. The cartilage tissue. + 12. The body tissue in general. + +1. _The plasmo tissue_: This tissue is a liquid, the blood plasma, which +is one of the important component parts of the life-giving substance, +blood. It is the blood serum--blood-water and fibrogen--which harbours +the white and the red corpuscles. The red corpuscles are the carriers of +oxygen to the various tissues, which the body draws from the atmosphere, +and of the other nutriments. They exchange it for the carbonic acid +which is forming in the body, and while the blood in flowing through the +system of arteries, brings the oxygen, it carries away, through the +veins, the poisonous carbonic acid which is exhaled into the atmosphere. + +The red corpuscles, after having performed their duties, enter the liver +and are used to build the gall. + +The proper quality of the plasma alone regulates the speed of blood +circulation and ensures its entrance into the finest capillaries--the +ultimate branches of the blood-vessels--hence, its capacity to carry +supplies of nutriment to the tissues. The disturbance of this proper +quality is among the main factors of constitutional disease. + +2. _The lymphoid tissue_: The lymph is another of the life-giving +liquids of the body, which through a vascular system of its own, draws +certain nutritive substances from the food and carries them to certain +organs which it feeds, especially the nerves. + +After this slow task is completed, the rest of the lymph enters the +blood and is carried by it to other parts of the body where only smaller +quantities of lymph are needed for nourishing purposes. + +The proper quality and chemical composition of the lymph, which is +different from that of the blood, is of no less importance than that of +the plasma for the preservation and regeneration of the organism. + +What the plasma is to the blood, the lymph is to the nerves. + +3. _The nerve tissue_: A particular aggregation of cells forms the +nerves, which, emanating from their center in the brain and spine, run +as another separate system all through the body. + +This system, however, is not one of vessels; but the nerves may best be +compared to the wires of a telephone system, establishing connection +between the remotest parts of the body and its central point, from which +the directions for both voluntary and involuntary movement are given and +transmitted through the nerves. + +They are of a peculiar chemical composition in which the nerve fat +(lecithin) plays a very important part, since its frequent presence in +insufficient quantity is among the most common causes of a great number +of nervous and other diseases. + +4. _The bone tissue_: The bones consist of a special and very distinct +tissue in which lime predominates. This gives them the strength and +solidity which enables them to act as support to all the other organs. + +The bones too are fed by the blood, and it is through the blood that the +necessary constituent parts for the regeneration of their tissue is +conveyed to them. + +While naturally their power of resistance is greater than that of any +other organ, they are nevertheless subject to a number of structural +disturbances, other than traumatic, the causes of which are sometimes +hereditary, sometimes acquired through deficient properties of the +nourishing blood. + +Certain tissues which form the connection between the bones and the rest +of the organs, and the gradual transition into other tissues, are +subjects separate and distinct and will be treated separately. + +5. _The muscular tissue_: As to quantity, the muscular tissue represents +the maximum of any in the human body. + +The muscles do not only consist solely of this one tissue, but of +several others, as do most of the other organs; but here, as in all +other cases, the principal component element is called after the organ +in which it is chiefly found. + +The structure of the muscular tissue varies according to its function, +so that we distinguish between the striated and the unstriated or smooth +muscles. This, however, has no influence on their chemical composition, +a distinctive element of which is muscular fibrin, which has the +particular property of contractibility. + +6. _The mucous membrane tissue_: The mucous membrane forms the covering +of many of the organs, and its chemical and structural composition is +identical in all parts of the body. + +It is characterized by a viscid watery secretion from the mucous glands, +which are always found in the mucous membrane. + +Its extremely delicate nature renders it subject to all sorts of +irregularities in chemical composition. + +This is the cause of numerous diseases, most of which are due either to +overproduction or underproduction of the secretion which regulates +numerous functions of the body. + +7. _The tooth and eye tissue_: While very different in external +appearance, functions and physical qualities, the teeth and the eyes +have nevertheless, the most important part of their chemical composition +in common; namely, _the fluoric acid_, which distinguishes them from all +other tissues. + +In the process of natural healing the replacing of any element lacking +through destructive causes in either tissue will practically be the +same. + +8. _The hair tissue_: Certain chemical component elements are only +found in the tissue which is called the hair, and which receives its +nourishment like all other tissues, through the blood. + +While the hair may seem to be in apparently slight connection with the +rest of the body, it is in reality, none the less an organic portion of +the same, and dependent, like the rest upon the same central system of +supply. + +9. _The skin tissue_: With reference to this tissue, much the same +remarks apply as already mentioned in regard to the mucous membrane. It, +however, has certain chemical elements, which are characteristic to its +various layers. + +Since the skin forms the most important intermediary between the +external elements and the chemical and structural elements of the +interior of the human body, it is of the greatest importance that its +chemical composition should always be correct, and that it should not be +subject to decomposition such as improper nourishment engenders. + +It should be borne in mind that the skin, like all other organs of the +body, grows from the inside outward, so that any ailment concerning the +skin, which is not of a traumatic nature, must be based upon wrong or +insufficient nourishment, and cannot be cured in any other way than by +internal regenerative means. + +10. _The gelatigenous tissue_: This tissue, chemically and otherwise +peculiar as it is, forms the chief component part of many of the human +organs, and it may be truly said that the lack of attention which its +peculiarities have received in the past is responsible for more disease +and its fatal issue than almost anything else. + +The gelatigenous tissue contains a number of special component elements, +which require special nourishment through proper diet; and in view of +the fact that the gelatigenous tissue pervades so many of the various +organs, its effect upon the functional abilities of a great number of +them is obvious. + +The elasticity of most organs which work by contraction and expansion, +depends entirely upon the gelatigenous, rubber-like tissue of which they +are so largely composed. + +11. _The cartilage tissue_: Practically the same applies to the +cartilage tissue; but it is only recently that it has been found to what +extent this is the case. + +Although entirely different in nature and chemical composition, the +cartilage tissue serves to maintain certain outlines of form and feature +in the human body, which are not based on the still stronger forms of +supporting material, such as the bone tissue and the gelatigenous +tissue. + +12. _The body tissue in general_: This comprises the red blood +corpuscles and all tissues which are in any way different from the +distinct tissues just described, but which nevertheless cannot be +classified as separately and distinctly independent. + +It may be justly presumed that all elements of the other tissues are to +be found in these final tissues which share the unity of the organism. + + * * * * * + +By devising a specially nourishing dietary system for the body tissue in +general, all component elements profit, in like degree, and such +disturbances as attack practically all the tissues and organs of the +body severally and conjointly; will be effectively prevented or cured in +the regular course of nature, in strict accordance with biological +principles. + + +DEGENERATION OF TISSUES. + +Speaking biologically, if through some disturbance in the normal +chemical composition of the tissues, degeneration sets in, we speak of +it as disease. + +Such degeneration may attack one tissue or several at the same time. + +_To reduce the elements to their proper proportions, to force them +thereby to reassume their normal functions, means to restore health, or, +to heal._ + +As previously explained, it has been the great achievement of +hygienic-dietetic science, based on the natural laws of biology, to +discover that so many diseases which for centuries were considered as +entirely different from each other in cause and treatment, were +essentially the same. It was found that they were nothing but the +natural consequence of impure or imperfect blood, the result of +malnutrition of the vital fluid, the malign effect of which increases in +degree and manifestation the longer the impurity passes, by process of +heredity, from one generation to another. + +Instead of following the natural tendency to return to the normal, the +blood becomes the fertile soil in which all manner of irregularities may +germinate in abundance, and combine in strong attacks on the normal +healthy organs, which will fast relax their natural power of resistance. + +The system of natural healing, while adhering closely to the principle +of the unity of the body as well as of the unity of disease, has by no +means ignored that such differences are due to the differences in the +twelve tissues and _according to the said differences, the +constitutional diseases are grouped under the accustomed titles, as +follows_: + + 1. Degeneration of the plasmo tissue: Anaemia, Chlorosis, + Pernicious Anaemia, etc. + (A.) Scrofulosis. + (B.) Tuberculosis. + (C.) Syphilis. + (D.) Cancer. + + 2. Degeneration of lymphoid tissue: (See I.--A. B. C. D.) + + 3. Degeneration of the nerve tissue: Neuralgia, Neuritis, + Neurasthenia, Asthma, Epilepsy, St. Vitus's Dance, etc., etc. + + 4. Degeneration of the bone tissue: Rickets, Osteomalacia and + similar diseases. + + 5. Degeneration of the muscular tissue: Muscular Rheumatism, + Sciatica or Nerve Rheumatism, Atrophia, Amyloid heart, kidney and + liver. + + 6. Degeneration of the mucous membrane tissue. + (A.) Catarrh in all its forms: Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, + Inflammation of nose, throat, bowels, stomach, bladder, etc. + (B.) Hemorrhoids, Polyps, Adenoids. + + 7. Degeneration of the tooth and eye tissue: All tooth and eye + diseases. + + 8. Degeneration of the hair tissue: All hair diseases. + + 9. Degeneration of the skin tissue: All skin diseases. + + 10. Degeneration of the gelatigenous tissue. + (A.) Stomach and Intestinal diseases--acute forms. + (B.) Stomach and Intestinal diseases--chronic form. + + 11. Degeneration of the cartilage tissue: Ankylosis, Gout, + Arthritis deformans. + + 12. Degeneration of the body tissue in general. + (A.) Locomotor ataxia. + (B.) Basedow's disease. (Graves disease.) + (C.) Diabetes mellitus. + (D.) Obesity. + (E.) Bright's disease. + (F.) Arterio-sclerosis. + + +THE A.B.C. OF MY SYSTEM OF HEALING. + +Setting aside for the time being the special groups of more complicated +diseases, such as are characterized by the degeneration of several of +the tissues at the same time, I will now give a short and comprehensive +description of the several distinct groups of disease. In each case, as +already shown, there must be a joint co-operation of these three +factors: + +(A.) _Diet_, or the natural means of providing both healthy and +degenerating tissues alike with such substances as will support and +strengthen the healthy tissues, enabling them to resist the danger of +disease and consequent decomposition, and will also arrest degeneration +and prepare the way for the regeneration of the tissue which is already +affected. + +(B.) _Nutritive compositions._ Such as will in each case introduce into +the system in a pure and proportionate combination, the necessary +quantities of the sixteen nutritive elements, the lack of which is the +characteristic factor of all disease and which diet unaided could not +adequately produce with the needful speed and proportion, unless +supplemented in this simple and effective manner. + +(C.) _Physical treatment_, for the purpose of assisting the proper +distribution and assimilation of these nutritive factors--(A. and +B.)--and promoting the proper circulation of the blood. + + +DIET. + +This is a subject of vast and vital importance. It comprises the science +of alimentation, which forms one of the indispensable functions of life; +it is thus, of necessity, a serious preoccupation under all conditions. + +I have treated this important subject in my greater work with the minute +detail, which it deserves; thus, in following the advice given, therein, +in chapter XVIII, the reader will be able to ascertain the foods that +are best suited to various conditions, and how to prepare them in the +most sensible way. + +At present, I can treat it only in a short and general way, giving the +principal groups of diet prescribed, with more or less variation, in +each case of disease as a part of the general treatment. + +A few words may show _why_ diet plays so important a part in this system +of healing. + +In the body there is a laboratory which produces spontaneously +everything necessary to maintain life. + +This laboratory has various branches which are busy day and night +without interruption. + +Here the life blood is created. + +Prominent amongst these branches are: + + The stomach with its prolonged intestines; + The liver; + The kidneys; + The lungs, and + The skin. + +Each one of these branches has a distinct part, or function to perform. + +The stomach serves as the sorting house. Here the food is mixed with the +gastric juice which aids digestion and dissolves those ingredients +necessary to produce blood, flesh, fat, bones, etc. + +Each of the other branches receives that portion of the ingredients +needed to perform its share of the work. + +A structure cannot be constructed without a frame upon which every part +depends. In order to stand erect, the body must possess such a +framework. The skeleton is the same to the body as the frame is to the +building. This frame, then, or skeleton, together with the flesh, blood, +etc. are all formed from the material furnished by the food. + +A residue of the digested food is removed from the body as useless; +everything else is utilized. + +The portion of the food used, therefore, must contain all those +ingredients which go to make up and maintain the body in perfect working +order. + +Experience has suggested certain groups of suitable diet which for the +sake of convenience I shall enumerate under the title of _Forms No. I to +No. VI_. + +These food forms contain everything of which patients may safely +partake, and from these selection, in each case, must be made. + +They are as follows: + + +_Form I. Complete elimination of the stomach in the nourishing +process._ + +To allay thirst, moisten the mouth with pure or carbonized water, +melting small pieces of ice on the tongue. Small sips of water either +lukewarm or cold, according to the condition of the stomach. Otherwise, +only introduce water by clyster--i.e.--injection, and if the stomach +cannot be disturbed for more than one or two days, introduce nourishing +substances by way of the rectum. + + +_Form II. Purely liquid nourishment, "soup diet."_ + +Consomme of pigeon, chicken, veal, mutton, beef, beef tea, meat jelly +(which becomes liquid under the influence of the heat of the body,) +strained soups or such as are prepared of the finest flour with water or +bouillon, of barley, oats, rice (thick soup), green corn, rye flour, +malted milk. All of these soups, with or without any additions, such as +raw eggs, either whole or the yolk only, if well mixed and not +coagulated, are easily digested. + + +_Form III. Nourishment which is not purely liquid, but partly +glutinous._ + +Milk and milk preparations (belonging to this group on account of their +coagulation in the stomach): + +(a) Cow's milk, diluted and without cream, dilution with 1-2 to 2-3 +barley water, rice water, lime water, vichy water, weak tea, or pure +water. + +(b) Milk without cream, not diluted. + +(c) Unskimmed milk. + +(d) Cream, either diluted or undiluted. + +(e) All of these milk combinations with an addition of yolk of egg, +well-mixed, whole egg, cocoa, also a combination of egg and cocoa. + +Milk mush made of flour for children, arrowroot, mondanin, cereal flour +of every kind, especially oats, groat soups with tapioca or sago and +potato soup. + +Egg,-raw, stirred, or sucked from the shell; or slightly warmed in a +cup; any of these, either with or without the addition of a little sugar +or salt. + +Biscuit and crackers, softened or well masticated and salivated, taken +with milk, mush, etc. + + +_Form IV. Diet of the lightest kind, containing meat, but still mainly +glutinous._ + +Noodle soup, rice soup. + +Mashed boiled brains or sweetbread, or puree of white or red roasted +meat, in soup. + +Brains and sweetbread boiled. + +Raw scraped meat (beef, ham, etc.) + +Lean veal sausages, boiled. + +Mashed potatoes prepared with milk. + +Rice with bouillon or with milk. + +Toasted rolls and toast. + + +_Form V. Light diet, containing meat in more solid form_: + +Pigeon, Chicken boiled. + +Small fish with little fat, such as brook or lake trout, boiled. + +Scraped beefsteak, raw ham, boiled tongue. + +As delicacies: Small quantities of caviar, frogs' legs, oysters, +sardelles softened in milk. + +Salted potatoes crushed, spinach, young peas mashed, cauliflower, +asparagus-tips, mashed chestnuts, mashed turnips, fruit sauces. + +Groat or sago puddings. + +Rolls, white bread. + + +_Form VI. Somewhat heavier meat diet. (Gradually returning to ordinary +food)._ + +Pigeon, chicken, young deer, hare, everything roasted. + +Beef tenderloin, tender roast beef, roast veal. + +Boiled pike or carp. + +Young turnips. + +All dishes to be prepared with very little fat, butter to be used +exclusively. All strong spices to be avoided. + + +=NOTE=:--For special dietary in all diseases, see under each separate +tissue degeneration in the succeeding Chapter on Therapy. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[A] In the following chapter, several important paragraphs given in the +foregoing had to be repeated as the readers who were not interested in +the "Club" proposition, would miss these points. + + + + +NUTRITIVE COMPOSITIONS + + +In order to convey a better understanding of these nutritive +compositions, I deem it necessary to outline and explain more +emphatically and in greater detail their wonderful scope and +possibilities, in perhaps a more impressive manner, by giving the reader +the benefit of an article entitled: + + "The functions of minerals in our food + How they may be greatly increased" + +Of these I have sent some 560 copies to all our Senators and +Congressmen, as well as to our chief Government Physicians, for their +information and disposition, with the intention of placing my knowledge +and equipment freely at the disposal of the United States Government. I +have made this purely disinterested proposal at this critical and trying +juncture, in the interest, first, of our war-worn soldiers; next, of our +women, enervated by unaccustomed labour and restricted means; and +lastly, of the children, born, and yet to be born of them--the future +Citizens of the Republic--all, in short, who, under stress of injury, +strain and hardship abroad, or the sometimes equally strenuous +privations of war conditions at home, may, in their respective degrees, +be suffering from nervous breakdown or depleted vitality and the various +disorders which my proffered remedial measures are so admirably fitted +to successfully overcome, bearing, as they must untold relief, comfort +and renewed health to thousands. + +I have not spared expense in putting this matter fairly and fully before +the Authorities--and indeed the initial cost of so doing has already +absorbed some $300 or more. That is merely a detail. But the main point +is this: That I have offered this valuable knowledge--(practically the +work of a lifetime)--to the Nation, together with the prescriptions of +my compositions, free of cost, as an earnest of my sympathy and +goodwill; and had the Government, seen fit to accept my proposal, the +immediate effect would have been that these compounds, which at present, +through reduced manufacture and the consequent great scarcity of +chemicals (necessarily of the finest description and purity) are very +costly, would have been brought by extensive and organized production +within the reach of every citizen, removing at once that paramount +difficulty of my system, so far as the general public is concerned; +namely, the expense. + +I append hereto a copy of the article referred to, together with copy of +an accompanying letter. + + My dear Senator: + + The disarrangement of the habits of life of our civilian + population, and the physical needs of our boys who will return from + Europe wounded and crippled, prompts me to offer my services to the + Government for the development of specially enriched foodstuffs to + maintain the health of our people under the strain of the war, but + particularly to aid in the speedy recovery of our boys who return + shattered from the trenches. I have spent more than thirty years in + the study of physiological chemistry and biology, and this study + has been devoted to the application of scientific principles in the + treatment of various diseases. + + Hitherto our food experts and medical men have been satisfied with + a ration properly balanced as regards protein, carbohydrates and + fat, but the mineral salts in our food have been given little if + any serious consideration. Indeed, they have usually been dismissed + as "ash." As a matter of fact, however, as the statement I am + sending you under separate cover will show clearly, even to a + layman, mineral salts perform an important function in keeping the + body strong and healthy. + + I am prepared to demonstrate that the quantity of essential + minerals in vegetables, small fruit and eggs can be multiplied + several times by scientific fertilization and nutrition. If I can + do this (and I am prepared to prove that I can) the Government + should be willing to arrange for the production of such foods in + connection with every military hospital and convalescent camp, both + here at home and behind the lines in Europe. Moreover, given a + central experimental station with proper equipment, it would be an + easy matter to train men to teach this knowledge to soldiers at + every reconstruction camp. + + The statement is made by Dr. Mae H. Cardwell, of Portland, Oregon, + one of the investigators for the Federal Children's Bureau that + millions of children are suffering from lack of sufficient food and + from improper feeding, and she adds that not only the parents but + the doctors, in many cases, need education with respect to what + constitutes proper feeding for children. I think that when you have + read and digested my statement of the function of the mineral salts + in the human economy, you will agree with me that the need for just + what I am asking the government to give me an opportunity of doing + is very great indeed. + + I trust that I may count upon your co-operation, not only in + getting this matter before the proper officials, but also in seeing + that an opportunity for a fair demonstration is accorded me. + + The dissemination of this knowledge and the production of such + foods would make America the ALMA MATER of the world in scientific + nutrition, thanks to the application of physiological chemistry. As + things are now done in agriculture and in aviculture, however, very + little can be expected along this line. + + I will give you two concrete illustrations of what can be done in + the way of augmenting the mineral content of food, and then I will + point out the significance of that fact. We will consider eggs: + ordinarily 100 grams of egg yolk contains from 10 to 20 milligrams + of iron, but eggs laid by hens fed by my method yield from 30 to 80 + milligrams of iron per 100 grams of dried yolk. This is an + increase, as you see, of between 300 and 400 per cent. Such eggs + might be justly classed as haemoglobin eggs, and they would be a + godsend to our boys suffering from anaemia due to wounds or + operations. At the same time, my method of handling chickens + greatly enriches the lecithin, or nerve substance, in the eggs, and + they are, therefore, of special value in dealing with cases of + shell shock and nerve exhaustion. + + What is true in the case of iron and lecithin content of eggs + produced by my method, is equally true with respect to their + content of all the other essential mineral elements; they are all + multiplied several times. + + This is made possible of accomplishment by the application of the + principles of physiological chemistry to the breeding and feeding + of the poultry. + + Needless to say, I am prepared to submit to the test of scientific + examination of my claims. No, not merely a theoretical examination + of myself, but, rather, to submit the claim I make for eggs + produced under my direction to the test of chemical analysis. It is + a very easy matter to determine thereby whether my claims are well + founded. + + I cannot state my desire to serve the government in this way too + strongly; as I have spent more than thirty years of my life in the + study of biology and physiological chemistry, I feel that it is my + duty to offer to the Government the benefits of my knowledge and + experience. All that I can ask in this connection is to be given an + opportunity to prove that my claims are sound and practical. + + I believe that you will realize the full value of such a course of + action as outlined, if it can be proven practicable. The + opportunity of offering proof under direction of the proper branch + of government is, I repeat, all that I ask at the moment, as the + results will tell their own story far more eloquently than mere + words. + + Thanking you for giving this matter your attention, and trusting + that my hope of serving in the ranks of those seeking to rebuild + our boys will not prove vain, I am, Sir, + + Yours truly, + + L. DECHMANN. + + + + + +THE FUNCTION OF MINERALS IN OUR FOOD: + +HOW THEY MAY BE GREATLY INCREASED. + +By LOUIS DECHMANN. + +1918. + + +When physiological chemistry has isolated and classified the component +elements of the various organs, tissues and fluids of the body, it must +analyze and classify the vegetables, fruits and meats on which man feeds +in order that we may not only know how to arrange a perfectly balanced +ration for the healthy, but shall be able to add lacking elements to the +diet of the diseased. This classification of foods naturally leads, if +there be a deficiency of any essential element, to the analysis of the +soil on which this food was raised. + +In the course of my studies in physiological chemistry and biology, +which have extended over a period of more than thirty years, I have been +led to grappel with problems in agriculture, in horticulture, and in +aviculture, for the purpose of finding solutions to problems in human +nutrition. Very early in my studies I learned the value of the mineral +elements in our foodstuffs. I was led to attempt to augment the quantity +of mineral salts in various foods, and my efforts were crowned with +success. But this is not the point, however, to enter into a detailed +discussion of that aspect of the subject. + +It may be wise for the sake of clearness to divide this statement into +two parts, as follows: + +1. A brief summary of the function of minerals in the human economy. + +2. A short argument showing how we can and why it is imperative that we +should augment the mineral content of our vegetables, small fruits and +eggs. + +In the case of eggs, for example, I am able to increase their iron +content 300 or 400 per cent. More than that, I can multiply every item +in their mineral content several times, thus producing specific eggs for +those suffering for lack of any mineral. In other words I am able to +produce special eggs for a given tissue degeneration as, for instance, +haemoglobin eggs for degenerate blood; lecithin eggs for the nerves; +calcareous eggs for the bones, and kaliated eggs for the muscle. + +So much by way of preface. + + +I. + +The following explanations are made for the purpose of showing you that +I have made extensive studies along these lines, and are not, naturally, +intended to be taken as a lesson to you personally. + +There are sixteen chemical elements absolutely essential to healthy +human life, which are classified by physiological chemistry as the +elements of organic life. In the composition of vital tissues we +constantly find these basal elements: Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, +nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine, potassium, sodium, magnesium, +calcium, iron, manganese, fluorine, silicon, and iodine. The function of +these elements will be discussed in a moment. + +I would here lay stress upon the fact that the absence of the tiniest +ingredient necessary to the growth and functioning of an organ will, +according to the Law of the Minimum as laid down by Justus von Liebig, +result in disease, improper functioning and degeneration of that organ +or tissue. + +Although the chemical salts constitute but a small part in the +composition of our bodies, and are a very small item in our daily diet, +their importance cannot be too strongly emphasized. They are the main +sources for the development of electro-magnetic energy in the blood and +nerves, and perform other services. I am of the opinion that "vitamines" +are neither more or less than these chemicals in proper proportion and +relation, but whether you agree or disagree with this conclusion, you +will instantly agree that the elements named above are indispensible to +perfect metabolism. + +It goes without saying, of course, that no action in the world occurs of +itself, that is without impulse, hence the body must be given impulse to +growth. A series of chemical and physical facts indicate that phosphorus +plays this vital part. The property of phosphoric acid of uniting with +carburetted hydrogen to form carbonic acid and phosphureted hydrogen +certainly is of fundamental importance, as phosphureted hydrogen readily +ignites on coming into contact with oxygen. Since cerebrin consists of a +combination of phosphoric acid with gelatine which contains ammonium and +with oleine, it is easy to infer that the light of the soul may be due +to the phosphoric acid in the nerves, and still further the potassium +phosphate forming the mineral basis of the muscles. Thus we come to the +conclusion that the phosphates, combinations of phosphoric acid with +basic substances, possess in general the property of imparting the true +impulse to growth, that is to accumulation of organic matter. + +Like every other structure, however, the body requires supports and +props and, above all, a firm foundation on which to rest. Iron and lime, +whose union is secured by their opposition to one another, bring into +conjunction materials of contrary disposition for the creating of +organic forms of the nature of plant and animal bodies. + +The sulphuric compounds are related and yet opposed to the growth +determinating phosphoric compounds. All organic building material +(protein) contains phosphorus and sulphur, in varying proportions, and +all indications are that sulphur plays the part of a regulator in +organic growth. Just as an engine requires a governor to regulate its +pace, so the human body requires a controlling factor to ensure definite +stability. It is interesting to observe that normal blood contains about +twice as many sulphates as phosphates. When there is great scarcity of +sodium sulphate in the blood, abnormal growths develop from the +phosphatic nerve tissues, and they continue to develop so long as the +blood and lymph are deficient in sulphur, particularly the sulphates. +This is, I believe, the genesis of polyps, tumors and cancers. + +In the same manner that sulphuric acid controls and regulates the +phosphoric acid of ammonium phosphate, so lime and magnesia act on the +ammonia of this same ammonium phosphate. + +Phosphatic ammonium carbonate lodges in the gelatinous cartilage and +stretches it, when there is a deficiency of lime and magnesia in the +food, resulting in rickets. Such a growth of cartilaginous tissues is +controlled by lime and magnesia, as they change the pliant cartilage +into bony barriers in which small particles of magnesia combine to +produce phosphate of ammonium and magnesium which checks the further +deposit of cartilage. + +Lime and magnesia are indubitably quite as effective agents in the +control of ammonia as sulphur is in the control of phosphorus. If we +consider the minerals as the foundation and mortar which give stability +to the vital machine, leaving out chlorine and fluorine, we find that +iron, manganese, potash, soda, and silicic acid play this role. Sulphur, +because it possesses the property of becoming gaseous, is able to take +part directly in the formation of albumen, that variable basis of body +material, whereas all of the other mineral substances except silicic +acid can only be assimiliated in so-called binary compounds in the form +of salts. + +I will give a brief review of them, beginning with iron, as thus the +significance of augmentation of the mineral content of vegetables and +small fruits and eggs will be made much clearer. + +Normal blood albumen is essentially a compound of calcium and sodium +into which iron and sulphur both enter. A deficiency of calcium commonly +makes itself known by dental defects, just as lack of sulphur reveals +itself by the falling out and poor growth of hair. Insufficiency of +iron in the blood is evidenced, apart from lack of spirit, by paleness +of face and blue lips; insufficient sodium by glandular tumors and +abnormal cartilaginous growths. + +The entire amount of iron in the blood of an adult person is, on the +average under normal conditions, four grams, as much as a nickel weighs. +We may well judge that this amount is not sufficient to set the motive +power of our bodies in action, if we overlook that complex factor the +circulation of blood. The left side of the heart has the capacity of +containing about six ounces of blood, and every heart beat drives this +amount through the aorta. With seventy beats to the minute, twenty-five +pounds of blood is pumped from the heart every minute. What is the +result? That the four grams of iron keep up such an incessant movement +that they pass from the heart into the aorta sixty times an hour or 1440 +times in 24 hours. It may be asserted, therefore, that in 24 hours 13 +pounds of iron (that is 1440x4 grams) pass from the heart into the +aorta. Can it be doubted, in view of this, that the iron serves to +produce an electro-dynamic force? + +In respect to the generation of electricity, it matters not whether +there be an entirely new supply of iron passing a given point, or +whether the same iron pass that point anew each minute. Two factors work +together in the circulation of the blood, namely, the active attraction +of nerve tissue and the passive susceptibility of the blood contents to +that attraction. Faraday has conclusively shown that blood is magnetic +in character because of the iron it contains. If four grams of iron is +the normal quantity in the blood, it is clear that the reduction of this +amount, say by two grams, will lessen its susceptibility and slacken its +circulation. The electrical nerve ends will then strain in vain for the +electricity which the blood current should yield, and the result will be +neuralgia. + +It is the magnetic iron in haemoglobin which makes every sort of +nervous function possible, in the cerebral (brain) and in the +sympathetic (intestinal) tracts, and since it is thus made clear that +intellectual activity on the one hand and breathing and digestion and +excretion on the other are dependent on the iron content of the blood, +we must also recognize that, as iron attends every nerve action, the +secretion of urine too takes place under the influence of haemoglobin. +Insofar as haemoglobin hastens the departure of the excrementitious +matter in urine out of the system, there is a daily loss of iron in the +urine. This loss in the form of urohaematin may total four centigrams, +or a hundredth part of our supply. + +This loss of iron if not replaced by eating suitable food will soon make +itself felt. In the course of a day the reduction by four centigrams +will diminish the energy of nervous activity about 1440 times the +apparent loss, so that even a four weeks-tropical fever, during which no +meat is eaten, may completely exhaust the strength of an individual. +Moreover, iron conditions bodily warmth as it combines with oxygen in a +higher and a lower degree. In the lungs it is highly oxidized by the +respired oxygen, but in contact with the nerve ends it gives itself only +to a part of the oxygen present, and burns a certain portion of the +lecithin to water, carbonic acid and phosphates, thus creating body +warmth to a considerable extent. + +In response to the chemical consumption of lecithin a new oil flows down +the axis cylinders of the nerve fibrils, which are arranged like lamp +wicks. The duration of the flow of this oil is, on the average, about +eighteen hours. When the cerebro-spinal nerves refuse longer to perform +their function, fatigue and sleep ensue, and the current of blood leaves +the brain and seeks the intestines. While the cerebro-spinal system +rests, the sympathetic system takes up its task of directing the renewal +of tissue and supplying the nerve sheaths through the lymph vessels, +which draw their material from the digestive canal, with a new supply of +phosphatic oil. Thus the brain and spinal nervous system are prepared +for another day's work. For the fulfillment of these processes, the +magnetic blood current forms the intermediary. + +The presence of formic and acetic acid supplies the blood with fresh +electricity to stimulate the nerves. "Under normal conditions," says +Julius Hensel, "this function is assigned to the spleen. This organ +takes the part of a rejuvenating influence in the body in the manner of +a relay station, and does so by virtue of an invisible but significant +device. In every other region of the body the hairlike terminals of the +arteries which branch out from the heart merge directly in the tiny +tubes (capillaries) of the veins, which lead back to the heart again: in +the spleen this is not the case. Here rather the arteries end suddenly +when they have diminished to a diameter of one one-hundred-and-fortieth +of an inch and end in a bulb (the Malpighian bodies). Under such +circumstances the sudden stoppage, particularly the impact of the +magnetic blood stream against the membrane of a Malpighian body, +exemplifies the physical law of the induction of electricity, in +accordance with which the blood that enters the spleen is changed into +plasma and exudes through the membrane of the Malpighian bodies. The +event indicates some fluidity of the red blood cells, which is a change +effected in the body by the impact of electric sparks, and one which +electrical therapy also brings about locally to prevent increase in the +solid constituents of the blood." + +The numerous Malpighian bodies in the spleen act as so many electrical +conductors, and the product of their electrical activity is found in the +formic and acetic acid of the fluid plasma which filters through the +Malpighian corpuscles and supplies the acid tissue of the spleen (pulpa +splenica). These acids are the electrolytic division products of +lecithin. In the splenic pulp arise the capillaries of the splenic +veins whose acid blood is carried directly to the liver, where certain +cells formed like galvanic elements possess the property, through the +electrical action of formic and acetic acid, of extracting from blood +albumen the opposite of acids, namely, alkaline bile. The normal +functioning of the liver, therefore, is dependent upon that of the +spleen, and since the bile produced by the liver goes to aid the +digestive activity of the duodenum, disturbance of digestion must result +when the quality of the bile is inferior. + +One of the substances contained in bile, lecithin, is of wide +importance. When it was referred to a moment ago, I spoke only of its +individual chemical nature as a fat in combination with ammonium +phosphate, as by so doing I avoided error in connection with its +apparently complicated formula, which includes glycerophosphoric acid, +trimethylamin, palmitic and stearic acids. As it is a fatty substance, +the only question that arises, is, what does it contain besides fat? +This may be answered by a process of substraction: + +2 (C_{21} H_{42} O_{4}) C_{42} H_{84} O_{8} which represents tallow or +stearate of glycerine. Lecithin, C_{42} H_{84} O_{9} NP, differs from +this only by a larger amount of NP. The significance of this difference +becomes clear when two atoms of water are added. Then ammonium +phosphate, PO_{3} H_{4}, N is formed. The two atoms of water needed for +the condensation of the ammonium phosphate from the stearate are +obtained by separating them away from two of glycerine. + +The bile contains lecithin in a partially oxidized form. The chemical +"remainders" are biliverdin and cholesterin. The latter when normal has, +as you know, the power to neutralize snake venoms and other poisons, and +thus acts as a natural anti-toxin. In addition, the bile contains +combinations of stearine with gelatine and with carbonate and sulphate +of sodium, which theoretical chemists believe are twin compounds of +glycocholate and taurocholate. These fatty compounds depend upon +stearine partly oxidized, that is deprived of a certain number of atoms +of hydrogen. + +As the compounds of fatty acids with ammoniacal blood gelatine and +sodium carbonate, the ingredients of the bile also, develop into a +peculiar soap. In the economy of the body the bile acts as a soap. When +it is discharged into the duodenum, it changes the fats into so fine an +emulsion (chyle) that the microscopically fine drops of fat may be drawn +into the orifices of the lymph canals and conveyed to the circulatory +system, and the cleavage products of albumen produced by gastric +digestion, the peptones (leucin and tyrosin) are carried along with them +for the renewal of tissue cells consumed in respiration. + +If a soda soap is requisite for the purpose just stated, it follows that +soda in the food is essential, as otherwise the supply of soda in the +blood albumen cannot be renewed, and the bile cannot get its necessary +supply of soda from blood albumen devoid of soda. Consequently, the +entire nutritive process is dependent upon bile, and the bile cannot +properly perform its function if denied soda. + +In addition to carbonates of sodium, especially the hydrocarbonate known +as glycolate, the bile apparently contains ammonium sulphate combined +with hydrocarbon (taurin); but this results from the transposition of +sodium sulphate and gelatine. Gelatine contains six atoms of hydrocarbon +joined with two of ammonium carbonate, a group which is separable by +chemical action into five of carburetted hydrogen with ammonium +carbonate (leucin or gelatine milk), C_{5} H_{10}, CO_{2}, NH_{3}, and +into one of carburetted hydrogen with ammonium carbonate (glycin or +gelatine sugar), CH_{2}, CO_{2}, NH_{3}. This latter substance, gelatine +sugar, is not produced in the liver, as it exists already in the blood +gelatine. In an isolated condition it has the property, in virtue of its +ammoniacal acids and its carbonic acid bases and, therefore, of both +combined, its salts, of producing chemical fixation. This property is +conveyed to the undivided blood gelatine in which the gelatine sugar is +contained intramolecularly. + +Since normal blood albumen is inconceivable without sulphur it is +absolutely essential, in accordance with our knowledge of the +constituents of the bile and their origin, that our nutriment should +contain a sufficiency of sodium sulphate, if normal blood serum is to be +produced. The use of pepsin for this purpose cannot serve nature's +purpose, as it contains neither sodium carbonate nor sodium sulphate. +Our blood must be given a fresh and sufficient supply of sodium +carbonate and sodium sulphate via our food, if it is to produce normal +bile and supply the requisites of normal nutrition. + +It is erroneously held that sodium sulphate is simply a laxative, even +Borner's "Royal Medical Calendar" so classifies it. Often it discharges +this function, it is true, in concentrated solution (one to five). But +it is an important ingredient of healthy blood albumen (one to one +thousand), and in this proportion assists in the formation of normal +bile. + +The blood of the Caucasian race is found to contain about ten parts of +salt to the thousand, and this proportion of salt denotes firm tissue +material. If the quantity of salt in the blood is diminished, the +bi-concave red blood cells swell to a spherical form from access of +water and lose their ability to unite for the production of connective +tissue. Moreover, to the extent salt in the blood cells is decreased the +connective tissue and muscle and tendon substance absorb water and the +tissues become spongy, especially in the kidneys, so that the thinned +blood albumen seeps through (urea albumen). + +Phosphate of potassium is the mineral basis of muscle tissue, phosphate +of lime with a small amount of magnesium phosphate the basis of bones, +and phosphate of ammonium the bases of nervous tissue. There is a +sufficient quantity of phosphate in all healthy foods. When the milk fed +to nurslings, however, is greatly thinned with water instead of firm +muscle fibers and solid lymph glands we find loose and spongy tissues. +This is a scrofulous condition. + +In the formation of healthy bones and teeth, calcium fluoride is +essential. It is insoluble in plain water, but is made soluble by the +aid of the glycocoll in blood gelatine and changed into ammonium +fluoride. It appears in this form in the cartilaginous matter of the eye +lenses, and lack of calcium fluoride in the food results in the clouding +of these lenses. + +Silicic acid is not only indispensible to the growth of hair, but it +forms a direct connection between blood and nerve tissues. It is found +in birds eggs, both in the white and the yolk. It is a conservator of +heat and electricity as it is a good insulator. It also possesses +eminent antiseptic qualities. Its mere presence in the intestinal canal, +even its simple passage through the canal; conserves the electrical +activity of the intestinal nerves and thus influences the whole +sympathetic nervous system. + +This brief review, cursory as it is, of the function of the minerals in +the renewal of substances undergoing tissue change, makes it clear that +our daily food must contain a sufficient quantity of them if healthy +metabolism is to be maintained. + +Chemically considered the human body is one individual whole, its +characteristic chemical basis being gelatine. Lieut. C.E. McDonald, +U.S.A. Medical Corps, recognized this when he recently wrote: "The +similarity of chemical compositions explains why, when any particular +region falls a prey to chemical decomposition, others quickly become +affected." + +Oxygen gas is the medium through which chemical combustion is carried on +in the body for the purpose of preparing materials to enter into its +composition. The mineral salts already named not only form the solid +basis of the various tissue but also serve as conductors or insulators +of electricity in the body. The absence of one of them for a protracted +period is sufficient to explain widespread degeneration in the system. + +In view of the fact that these various minerals play an indispensable +part in healthy metabolism it is imperative that a sufficiency of them +should be supplied in proper proportion in our daily food. It is +imperative, if we desire to retain or to restore health to the body. + +These mineral elements are to be found in the first instance in the +earth, but they are of no use to the body in that form. We cannot digest +and assimilate inorganic matter no matter how finely it may be +pulverized. But plants can assimilate them from the earth and organize +them in such form as to make them easily assimilable by animals and man. + +If the soil on which our food is produced is itself deficient in some of +these elements, our food must also lack them. If, moreover, we cannot +for any reason add the missing elements to the soil, we must supply them +to the human system in the shape of prepared nutritive salts. It is +preferable, of course, that our food should contain all of the elements +necessary for the proper nourishment of the body. + +Thus we are forced to return to consideration of the soil. It is an +established fact that our fields were originally formed from decayed +rock, and analysis shows that this primitive rock contains the same +minerals as healthy blood. But if our agriculturists are taught that +stable manure and three or four other things are all that is necessary +for the fertilization of their fields, where shall the other minerals +essential to human metabolism come from? + +What a man is, largely depends upon what he eats. Hence man is very +largely a product of the fields. When the soil is denuded of any of the +elements essential to plant and animal life, it must be properly +fertilized. Incomplete or improper fertilization can have but one +result, to-wit, it will produce sickly vegetation, and this in turn must +produce unhealthy cattle, and since man is dependent upon plant and +animal life for his food a sickly race of human beings is the ultimate +result. + +Is not barrenness of the soil responsible for disease in potatoes, for +San Jose scale, Phylloxera, and other similar phenomena. The fields are +manured profusely, it is true, but the very chemical elements which are +not only essential to the development of wholesome plant tissue but +which would also enable the plant to protect itself against parasites, +are not used. Every farmer has observed, for instance, that grass grown +upon cow dung in pastures is not eaten by cows, oxen or sheep. The +instinct of the animals is correct. + +In using the term incomplete fertilization, I mean supplying only +potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen, and possibly lime and sulphur, +when the soil is denuded of several other elements. No matter how rich a +field may be made in these things if it lacks other elements healthy +vegetation cannot be grown in it. + +Improper fertilization is another matter. It may consist in dressing a +field with nothing but stable manure, or of applying crude sulphur or +brimestone instead of using calcium sulphate--plus the other lacking +elements. The advocate of crude sulphur certainly does not know how +truly criminal his advice is. It is not to be denied that at the outset +sulphur will increase the crop yield. But in the end--what? The sulphur +will dissolve all of the essential minerals in the soil, and in the +course of four or five years they will all be leached out and it will be +so barren that not even wild grass can be grown upon it. Improper +fertilization may also consist of a dressing of carbonate of lime +applied at the wrong time or in excessive quantity. The effect of this +course will be equally as harmful, namely, the transformation of the +nitrogenous material into free nitrogen which will ascend to heaven. +Without nitrogen albumen cannot be formed, and without albumen the +formation of vegetable and animal tissue is impossible. + +Wholesome soil may, then, be defined thus: It is such ground as contains +a sufficient supply of humus and nitrogen and all of the essential +mineral components of organic tissue. The problem of fertilization, +therefore, consists of supplying any or all of these elements in which +the soil is deficient. The aim of fertilization, as a rule, is merely to +increase crop production. But this may prove to be not merely +shortsighted, it may turn out to be a social crime. It is criminal, +indeed, as a great many diseases are directly traceable to incomplete +and improper fertilization. + +Let us face the effect of attempting to fertilize our fields with +nothing more than stable manure, which, it is true, supplies phosphoric +acid, potash and nitrogen. We know that phosphorus forms the foundation +of nerves, and too much of it provokes nerve irritation in exact ratio +to the deficiency of sulphur. There should be twice as many sulphuric +salts as phosphoric salts in the blood, if it is to be normal and the +nerves are to be steady. Foodstuffs from fields that have been +fertilized in this manner must, of course, contain a superabundance of +phosphoric salts and be deficient in sulphuric salts. Is it strange, +then, that the present age presents a picture of restless, irritated +nervous activity and thoughtless action? + +We must return to the primitive rock and humbly learn the lesson it has +for us, and upon this rock we must rear our science of fertilization and +nutrition. This rock consisted of granite, porphyry, gneiss and basalt, +and these are still found upon the earth in immense quantities in +practically the same condition they were thousands of years ago. Both +Justus von Liebig and Julius Hensel, as a matter of fact, advocated that +this rock should be finely pulverized and used as a compost to assist in +restoring and maintaining the original fertility of the soil and thus +aid the development of healthy plant and animal life. + +Indeed the instincts of both animals and human beings lead them under +certain conditions right back to the rock and its lesson. Note the +avidity with which hens confined in arid runs devoid of vegetation, +worms, insects and small stones devour a compound of lime and ground +bones and oyster shells. Observe a child whose ration is deficient in +mineral elements eating egg shells, wall plaster, chalk and other earthy +substances. What do these things mean? Nothing more than this: both +chicken and child express a natural craving for the essential elements +to build bone and form the basis for the tissue. + +I have discussed the important part the minerals play in both the +vegetable and animal kingdoms for the purpose of laying stress upon our +great need of more of them in our daily diet, and I may add that this is +equally as true in the case of those we call healthy as of those who are +diseased. No matter how carefully the diet may be regulated as regards +the quantity of protein and carbohydrates and fats and the ratio between +them, healthy metabolism is impossible without a sufficiency of the +essential minerals. + + +II. + +How can we perform this imperative duty to mankind? + +The solution of the problem of supplying these essential minerals +demands that our soil shall be properly fertilized for the growing of +wholesome vegetables and fruits and our cattle properly fed with a +ration rich in mineral content. Thus the food which we eat will contain +all of the elements necessary to the growth and maintenance of our +bodies in a state of health. + +In the course of my effort to show why it is imperative that we pay +greater heed to the mineral content of our foodstuffs, and why it is +imperative that we enrich that content, I have shown basically how that +end is to be attained. + +In conclusion I will cite the result of a series of experiments in +applying the principles of physiological chemistry to poultry, and I may +say that it took me twelve years to find the breed which would most +readily lend itself to my purpose. I experimented with 250 varieties of +hens before I found the one most amenable to my method of feeding and +breeding. + +While living at Needham, Massachusetts, I made a thorough test of my +principles with the selected variety of hens. They were not only fed a +ration properly balanced for protein, carbohydrates and fat, but I gave +them a liberal supply of properly prepared mineral salts. I used three +different mixtures of feed, made up in 100 pound lots, in which the +proportion of albumen ranged from 13.50 to 18.00 pounds; of fat from +4.00 to 5.00 pounds; of carbohydrates from 41 to 44 pounds; and actual +nutritive salts from 4.50 to 5.00 pounds. The respective ratios being: +1:4, 1:3.5 and 1:3 + +It is not necessary to enter into discussion of the details of the +feeding method and the variation in the daily handling of the hens. The +result of this experiment, however, was completely satisfactory, as the +eggs produced by those hens not only contained a startling increase in +the quantity of mineral salts, but their fertility was far greater than +that of hens handled in the usual manner. The increase of fertility in +itself is, it seems to me, the best proof of the soundness of my +theoretical premises. + +Some of the results of this experiment were published in the Reliable +Poultry Journal in 1905, and Dr. Woods offered confirmatory evidence of +the soundness of my conclusions two years later, after he had himself +experimented along the same line. + +I will cite just one fact revealed by that experiment, namely, that +whereas 100 grams of dried egg yolk ordinarily contains only from 10 to +20 milligram of iron the eggs of those hens yielded from 30 to 80 +milligrams. And all of the minerals were increased from 10 to 25 per +cent or more. + +The method of applying the principles of physiological chemistry to the +enriching of the mineral content of our foodstuffs evolved by me is, +with due recognition of the difference between the vegetable and animal +kingdoms, equally applicable in the raising of all our foodstuffs with +an augmented mineral content. I will adduce just one result of my work +in the handling of small fruit: on the average, 100 grams of dried +strawberries will yield 8.6 to 9.3 milligrams of iron, but strawberries +raised by me yield from 30 to 40 milligrams per 100 grams. + +In view of the facts with regard to the function of these minerals, it +is indisputably true that a ration is physiologically inefficient if it +does not contain a sufficiency of them in proper proportion. Moreover, +this is trebly true in the case of those whose constitution has been +weakened by loss of blood from rounds, by shell shock and trench fever, +and of those here at home whose nerve tissue has been degenerated and +whose blood has been weakened by anxiety and the strain of unwonted +manual labor. The last consideration applies with especial force to the +multitudes of women who have entered industry as manual laborers. What +kind of offspring can we expect from these people whose plasma is thus +degenerated? The children are the citizens of the future, and even +before they are born we must plan for their health. + +What could be more effective in treating the anaemic condition of +wounded and crippled boys, and in treating the same condition in women +industrial workers, than haemoglobin eggs? + +What could be more efficacious in treating conditions arising from shell +shock, from bad wounds and operations thereon, and neurasthenia in +general, than an abundance of lecithin (which, as you know, dear doctor, +is made from the yolk of the egg)? + +What could be more successfully used in treating conditions arising from +shattered bones and from operations for the removal of bone tissue than +calcareous eggs in connection with a ration perfectly balanced as +regards all of the other essential elements. + +For the regeneration of the blood and bone and nerve tissue of these +victims of war, something more than a sufficiency of nutritive food, as +that term is commonly used, is needed, and something more than medicine +is needed! + +I am the last person in the world to deny that wonderful progress is +made in surgery every day, and the last to fail to applaud its +successful efforts, but you know quite as well as I do that in 90 out +of 100 cases recovery involves exhaustion of the patient's reserve +energy. Moreover, when the reserve energy has already been drawn upon +almost to the point of exhaustion, no matter how successful the +operation may be the recovery of the patient is a very doubtful +quantity. The first requisite in all surgical cases, as also in all +anaemic and neurasthenic cases, is to restore metabolism to its normal +condition and thus help the patient to regain his reserve energy in +order to prevent the collapse of the whole fabric. + +It is indubitably true that healthy metabolism and the restoration of +reserve energy depends upon the organism being given the requisite +quantity of the sixteen essential elements of organic life in easily +digestible and assimilable form, and I am asking for the opportunity to +demonstrate how foods extremely rich in these elements may be produced +and used to aid nature. I have not entered into a full discussion of the +various aspects of my method of accomplishing that, but have confined +myself to consideration of the basic principles underlying it. Neither +have I attempted to show how these different minerals will serve as +regenerative agents in different dysaemic conditions. I am prepared to +discuss the matter from both of these viewpoints, however, and, more +than that, I am ready to practically demonstrate the soundness of my +theories, when given an opportunity under proper conditions to do so. + +--Sapienti sat-- + +FINIS. + + + + +NUTRITIVE COMPOSITIONS. + + +The sixteen substances,--nutritive cell foods,--of which all of the +tissues of the body are composed are: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, +nitrogen, potassium, soda, lime, magnesia, iron, manganese, phosphor, +sulphur, silica, chlorine, fluorine and iodine. + +My nutritive compositions consist of these same sixteen nutritive salts, +each composition mixed in the same proportion as they are found in the +healthy tissue for the regeneration of which they are prescribed. + +Since in various diseases not only one but several tissues are affected, +it must be decided individually in each case whether only one, or +several, of the nutritive compositions will require to be taken, and in +what proportion. + +In accordance with the system of the twelve tissues of the body, the +twelve nutritive compositions, commonly known as "DECH-MANNA" +Compositions, are the following: + + No. 1. Plasmogen Bloodplasma-Producer. + No. 2. Lymphogen Lymph-Cell-Producer. + No. 3. Neurogen Nerve-cell-Producer. + No. 4. Osseogen Bone-cell-Producer. + No. 5. Muscogen Muscle-cell-Producer. + No. 6. Mucogen Mucous membrane-cell-Producer. + No. 7. Dento-Ophthogen Tooth and Eye-cell-Producer. + No. 8. Capillogen Hair-cell-Producer. + No. 9. Dermogen Skin-cell-Producer. + No. 10. Gelatinogen Gelatigenous-cell-Producer. + No. 11. Cartilogen Cartilage-cell-Producer. + No. 12. Eubiogen Healthy body-cell-Producer. + +In addition to these I use only a few specialities in certain cases of +disease, viz.: + + A. Oxygenator A radium emanation for the bath. + B. Eubiogen Liquid Same as No. 12, but liquid form. + C. Tonogen A stimulating tonic. + D. Tea. Diabetic, Dechmann + E. Tea. Laxagen, after Kneipp + F. Salve. Lenicet, after Dr. Reiss + G. Massage Emulsion, Dechmann + H. Propionic acid for steam atomizer + I. Oxygen Powder, after Hensel + J. Anti-Phosphate, Dechmann + +(These specialities are used only in certain individual cases, according +to prescription). + + +NUTRITIVE COMPOSITIONS. + +In discussing the various preparations of Dech-Manna-Diet, I refrain +from detailed prescription and analysis. My intention is to explain them +in such a way that it may become apparent to everyone that they are +rational remedies for every properly diagnosed constitutional disease. +If I should do more than this, it would be simply placing a premium upon +unscrupulous imitations. For the present therefore, I prefer to have the +remedies prepared exclusively by accredited and absolutely reliable +chemists of first class local standing, in order that I may myself +assume the entire responsibility. In cases of illness, however, it is +always necessary to consult a biological-hygienic physician. The +Dech-Manna-Diet remedies, for the time being, will always be obtainable +on application to myself, to be administered in accordance with such +medical directions. I trust that very shortly when official and general +recognition will permit, I shall be enabled to entrust the detailed +prescriptions to a wider circle of practising physicians and chemists. + +In order to illustrate how necessary it is to abstain from more detailed +description of my remedies, I will cite but one of several incidents +which happened to me in course of practice. + +In the year 1905, I wrote a number of articles for the "Reliable Poultry +Journal" on the scientific feeding of chickens, and gave, amongst other +tables, two food-formulas of the mineral contents of _chicken food +rations_. (Both formulas were copyrighted). I gave the same gratis, for +private personal use. A certain "Chicken Specialist" from the Orange +River Colony, South Africa, first wrote a glowing article upon the +wonderful success he had secured with my prescriptions. Not satisfied +with this, however, he conceived a brilliant idea of great possibilities +of future income to be derived therefrom. He left South Africa and came +to America, the country of unlimited possibilities, and settled in Los +Angeles, California, where he floated a company, which sells my +copyrighted prescriptions for poultry feeding, to all and sundry as +specifics for all possible and impossible ailments. This ambitious +gentleman even went so far as to offer my labouriously earned +discoveries to the United States Government.--But further comment is +unnecessary! + +This is but one of numerous instances of the kind some of which are +embodied in a little treatise I have published, free to my friends, +entitled "A Message to the Thinker." + +Patients sometimes ask me what my methods have in common with +"Schuessler's Tissue Remedies." + +I answer: Nothing--absolutely nothing, as the explanation will show. + +Schuessler's therapy claims that the minerals are needful to build up +the system; but he only uses one trillionth part of a gram and +_imagines_ that the remainder is to be found in the food. Now anybody +with a fair understanding can easily figure that if a patient of middle +age eventually loses through disease about 200 grams of lime, it is +simply a farce to claim that the above dose of 1/100,000,000,000 of a +gram (which is the homeopathic dose of Schuessler), will cure or replace +the lime which was lost. + +There are other equally erroneous pretentions in Schuessler's therapy +which are really too silly to go into in detail. Time and space are too +valuable to squander on any such puerile hypothesis. + + + + +DECH-MANNA-DIET. MENTOR TO PRESCRIPTIONS. + + +It may be well to preface this summary of prescriptions with the +following explanatory remarks; namely, + +(1) That while my compositions are usually taken in the form of powders, +they may be taken in the form of capsules or tablets, in which case the +dose given is always exact. + +They may also be mixed with Eubiogen or various kinds of food, except +where this is strictly forbidden by the physician. + +Such mixtures cannot be harmful, since they consist of components from +which our body-cells are constructed. They may be taken either singly, +or as compounds. + +(2) As regards the matter of quantities:-- + +Whenever one-fourth teaspoonful is mentioned, the meaning is that +one-fourth of a _heaping_ teaspoonful be taken. + +Whenever a _level_ one-fourth teaspoonful is meant, as in the case of +plasmogen, it is because the basic remedy is heavier and, therefore, the +smaller quantity renders an equal amount in weight. + +Every dose mentioned herein contains the exact amount of the necessary +constituents, and the harmonious system of dosage which I have worked +out, consists of reducing every compound dosage to one gram, which +weight is equal to about one quarter teaspoonful of the regular +preparation, made lighter and fluffier through trituration with +milk-sugar. + +This trituration is a manual process and requires some three hours +steady and continuous rubbing of the ingredients with pestle and mortar, +for each separate composition. + +All my compositions should be kept in a dry and cool place. It is best +to put them into wide-mouthed bottles with glass stoppers, as they are +all hygroscopic, that is, sensitive to moisture. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. 1. +PLASMOGEN (PLASMA PRODUCER.) + +Plasmogen--Blood-plasma producer. (The red and white blood-corpuscles +are produced by using Eubiogen, XII). + +(a). Blood-plasma, is the habitat of the red and white blood-corpuscles. + +It can be readily understood that the more sanitary a place, the better +will be the condition of those who live in it. Therefore, the plasma, +(blood-plasma), must first be made as perfect as possible in accordance +with the teachings of science and especially of biology,--a theory which +my own experience has proved to be correct. + +No matter how perfect the red or white corpuscles may be, if they live +in diseased blood-plasma, they cannot perform their functions properly +and, as a consequence, the resistant power of the system is crippled. + +(b). Plasmogen contains all the constituents in the proportions in which +they should be contained in perfect plasma. + +The Law of the Minimum teaches that if one of the ingredients is lacking +in the food, the cells _must_ become diseased. This the great Justus v. +Liebig emphasized when he said: "If the most minute component is +lacking, the rest cannot perform their functions." Taken as directed, +the plasmogen is also in its natural dosage. + +It was only after years of ardent study that I was enabled to produce +this composition in the perfect form in which it is furnished today. + +Since the plasmogen contains all the salts necessary to keep the blood +in perfect harmony, the circulation as well as the resistant power will +be maintained, the heart relieved, the fighting capacity of the white +corpuscles strengthened, and therefore the power of disease very greatly +reduced. + +(c). In all cases of constitutional disease, plasmogen is used to bring +about a proper regeneration and preservation of the blood-cells. In all +cases of acute, febrile diseases its purpose is to bring about a proper +circulation and fluid condition of the blood-cells. + +The most wonderful results will accrue through the use of plasmogen in +_all acute_ febrile cases, particularly in the case of children; also by +using the same as directed in individual cases of constitutional +diseases. It is indispensable in producing bactericide blood, which is +necessary to regenerate the body-cells. Therefore, I recommend It in +_all_ Regenerative Treatments. + +How many thousands of children may be saved by this single remedy alone +only the biologist who has studied life according to the teachings of +nature's laws, is able to appreciate today. It will take some time +before the general medical practitioner will realize the truth of this +statement, because the old-school medicine does not teach these facts. + +Therefore it is the duty of every thoughtful mother to prevent harm to +her children resulting from the drugs they favour. All anti-febrile +chemicals are rank poisons and contrary to nature's way. _Only by +producing a higher temperature is nature able to throw off impurities_; +but in many cases this becomes dangerous, because so very few know how +to avoid an over-taxation of nature's strength. Instead of assisting +nature by keeping the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels and pores +open, the anxious mothers will wrap their babies up nicely, give them +some patent or other obnoxious medicine, and really kill nature's +efforts by means of narcotics and other poisons. Results are always +fatal. The mother must learn to use correct, harmless remedies and to +follow the instructions given nearly 3000 years ago by the wise +Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine," who warned every medical +practitioner with these words: "Nil nocere." (Never do harm). + +(d). _Dose_: In acute cases, that is to say, in emergency cases where +the patient, for instance a child, has developed a high temperature, and +the doctor has not as yet diagnosed any special form of disease, or has +been unable to do so because the time of incubation of the germ has not +passed, give the patient a dose of plasmogen, that is, one gram, or as +much as will lie on a ten-cent piece, or one-fourth of a level +teaspoonful. Dissolve it in one-half tumbler of water, (or milk if +prescribed), and let the patient drink it slowly at intervals, as seems +necessary. + +In ordinary cases individual directions should be followed. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. II. +LYMPHOGEN (LYMPH CELL PRODUCER.) + +(a). In nearly every tissue and organ of the body there is a marvelous +network of vessels, called the lymphatics. These are busily at work +taking up and making over waste fluids or surplus materials derived from +the blood and tissues generally. The lymphatics seem to spring from the +parts in which they are found, like the rootlets of a plant in the soil. +They carry a turbid, slightly yellowish fluid, called lymph, very much +like blood without the red corpuscles. The lymph is carried to the +lymphatic glands where it undergoes certain changes to fit it for +entering the blood. + +It is a fact that very few doctors know, that the whole nervous system +can only be fed by the lymph, whose central station is the so-called +ductus thoracicus (thoracic duct), in the upper region of the chest. As +there is no pulsation or magnetism connected with the same, the body +must lie down and rest at night. Then and only then is the system +enabled to feed all the nerve centers, especially through the influence +of the sympathetic nerve system, which may be said to work in the form +of a relay station, through its inherent power from the very beginning. +Therefore, it becomes quite a task to regenerate a broken-down nervous +system, for those practitioners who are not familiar with physiological +chemistry--that is, life chemistry, which teaches the composition of the +tissues. The law of chemotaxis will explain it. The lymphatic system +also plays a great part in constitutional diseases of the blood. Every +degeneration of the blood cells, or dysaemia, is influenced more or less +by the perfect condition of the lymphatic fluid. All cachectic or +morbid nutrition conditions are due to imperfect lymph. + +(b). Lymphogen contains all the organic minerals in the same proportion +in which they are contained in perfect lymph, and if taken as directed, +will always restore the lymphatic system and allow it to perform its +important function. + +(c). The great importance of perfect lymph will be understood from the +previous remarks, especially those pertaining to the feeding of the +whole nervous system. If the lymphatic system is impeded by underfeeding +or inanition of the nerve-cells, how can any one with common sense +expect such a system to be in perfect working order and harmony? This +applies particularly to those constitutional diseases where the +lymphatic system and the lymph itself are degenerating through causes +due to heredity, predisposition or acquisition of such conditions. + +(d). _Dose_: Twice daily I gram or one-fourth heaping teaspoonful or, if +in tablet form, I tablet, dry or with a little water or in foodstuffs; +to be taken at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or as specially directed. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. III. +NEUROGEN (NERVE CELL PRODUCER). + +(a). The nerves are the cord-like structures which convey impulses from +one part of the body to another. + +The tremendous importance of their absolute health is obvious, since the +co-operation of all parts of the human body depends upon it, while, on +the other hand, their very delicate structure exposes them to numerous +and easily acquired forms of disease. + +(b). This composition contains all the constituents required to generate +nerve tissue. The most important and expensive is lecithin. Pure +lecithin, the kind I use, is made from the yolks of fresh eggs. In this +composition I supply nutritive cell-food for generating lecithin in +exactly the same form in which it is found in a healthy, perfect +nerve-cell. It is absolutely digestible and assimilable, and is +triturated with the finest milk sugar. + +(c). All morbid conditions caused by imperfect nerve-cells can be +regenerated through this composition as long as there is some foundation +left on which to work. + +Under an endless variety of names--as a matter of fact, a big book +would not be sufficient to describe all so-called "nervous diseases"--it +can be readily seen in what a brainless way some "nerve specialists" +classify patients of this kind. Not knowing the constituents of the +nerve-cells, they still attempt to prescribe for neurasthenic patients. +The results are in accordance with such travesty of treatment. The +increase in the number of Insane Asylums gives, or should give, a true +picture of existing conditions. What is needed is a little more +knowledge of physiological chemistry, but as it is too much to expect of +the ordinary so-called "nerve specialist" to be familiar with this +science, we must per force be content with the prevailing condition, +that is, a condition characterized by ignorance of the most vital laws +of being. + +But what reasonable ground of complaint, let me ask, have the people, +themselves, in this matter? + +Of the appalling results of the prevailing medical system, recognized as +it is by the law of the land and supported and virtually endorsed by +the people's own will and prejudices, they themselves, though well +aware, are yet complacent. But, mark it well, not until independent +medicine shall be accorded reasonable recognition, a fair field and +general fair play, and the chance afforded to science outside the +"orthodox" medical clique to inaugurate some drastic measures of +urgently needed reform, not until then will it be possible to alter this +disastrous state of affairs--not until then will matters become less +unbearable to the individual and less discreditable to every one +concerned. _We can cure disease only by removing its cause; this is my +maxim and it is true for all time._ + +Much of neurasthenia is due to the degenerate times in which we are now +living. Causes must be removed in every line of life, political, social, +and economical, before normal physical and mental conditions can be +restored. Then neurasthenia, in all its forms, will be a disease of the +past, but not before--not withstanding the frequent alleged discoveries +of serums and antidotes of wonder-working properties so triumphantly +heralded from the "Halls of Science." + +(d). _Dose_: Twice daily, 1 gram or one-fourth heaping teaspoonful or, +it in tablet form, 1 tablet, dry or with a little water or in +foodstuffs; to be taken at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or as specially directed. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. IV. +OSSEOGEN (BONE CELL PRODUCER). + +(a). If I tell you that it takes seven different compositions of organic +lime to make perfect bones, some people, even very learned ones, may +doubt my word. But biology and physiological chemistry teach that this +is so--and prove it. If this composition were lacking in a certain +quantity of organic magnesia, the bones would grow hard and brittle. It +is the magnesia that turns the tissue into perfect, elastic form. + +(b). Osseogen is the composition the constituents of which are necessary +to generate perfect bone tissue. How many troubles could easily be +prevented by using this cell-food in time! + +(c). This composition becomes an absolute essential in all cases of +imperfect bone structure, such as rachitis, or rickets, constitutional +disease of children, osteomalacia, tuberculosis of the bones, deformity +of bone structure, such as curvature of the spine, etc. + +Softening of the bones, known as osteomalacia, curvature of the spine, +rachitis and many other terrible conditions of disease would not be +known to humanity if proper precaution were taken in time. + +Hundreds of patients are today cured by my method of supplying this +lacking constituent in a form assimilable to even the smallest infant. + +Lime-water and such imaginary substitutes are pure nonsense, as must +surely be apparent to even the simplest layman when they consider for a +moment that it takes seven different lime compositions in order to +supply the necessary lime for generating bone tissue. Is it necessary to +say more to convince even a dogmatist? How indispensable osseogen +becomes may be realized when people begin to know enough about +themselves to realize that our bone structure must be "fireproof" in +order to last for the normal span of human life! + +(d). _Dose_: Once or twice daily, according to the individual case. 1 +gram will be sufficient for a proper dose. As stated before, one-fourth +of a heaping teaspoonful is equal to a gram. + +It may be that in a short while I shall be able to supply all these +compositions in tablet form in their respective doses. Then medication +will become still more simple. This composition may also be taken in +food or a little water. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. V. +MUSCOGEN (MUSCLE CELL PRODUCER). + +(a). The term muscle signifies every organ of the human body which, by +contraction, produces the movements of the organism. Muscles are of the +greatest variety and strength, but all consist of the same chemical +elements, and can be regenerated in case of disease, like every other +organ, by feeding the patient with the chemical substances which the +muscle cells require. + +(b). Into this composition I have introduced the components necessary +for muscle tissue. + +The basis of this form of cell-food is potassium phosphate. It will +regenerate all muscular tissue when used as directed. All minerals +contained therein are organized and in a perfectly digestible and +assimilable form. Even an infant can easily digest it. It will prevent +all decompositions of the muscular system and regenerate the cells as +long as any basis for life is left. + +(c). As it is impossible for even the healthiest system to build up new +tissue without the necessary proportion of albumen, it becomes very +important to use the right proportion and form of this component. +Therefore, all patients who are in need of this special tissue builder, +must at the same time take the main composition, Eubiogen (life +producer). Under No. XII, I will endeavor to give the reader some little +idea of its properties, and describe its marvelous regenerating powers. + +(d). _Dose_: 1 gram, or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful once or +twice daily will be sufficient. It may have to be taken for 3, 6, 9 or +12 months, and even longer. Everything depends upon the cause of the +degeneration of the muscle tissue. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. VI. +MUCOGEN (MUCOUS MEMBRANE CELL PRODUCER). + +(a). The entire intestines, the stomach, all cavities, organs, openings +of the body, the genital and urinary tracts, etc., are lined with mucous +membrane, which must always be kept in a normal and healthy condition, +otherwise the functions of metabolism and procreation of the organism +cannot be carried on in safety and health. + +(b). Mucogen consists of all the constituents necessary for the building +up of the peculiarly tender tissue called mucous membrane. These +constituents are absolutely indispensible, and nature must be supplied +with them if disease of the mucous membrane is to be healed by removing +its cause. + +(c). The tenderness of this tissue is obvious, and experience has shown +how much it is exposed to changes in its normal condition, how easily an +increase or decrease in its main functions is brought about. While this +increase or decrease in many instances is a natural fight of nature +against the intrusion of opposing elements into the body, it frequently +assumes dimensions that are most unpleasant and seriously impair the +health, such as catarrhal conditions, all of which are due to poor or +degenerated cells of this tissue. + +The frequent occurence of this form of disease shows the importance of +always supplying the cells of this tissue with the substances that keep +them in health, or if need be, will regenerate them. + +(d). _Dose_: 1 gram or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful once or twice +daily will be found sufficient to supply the requirements. + +In some instances this composition, as well as others, may be mixed with +the main composition Eubiogen, in order that the patient may digest it +more readily, especially in the case of a child. + +Special directions must always be followed closely. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. VII. +DENTO AND OPHTHOGEN (TOOTH AND EYE CELL PRODUCER). + +This refers to the enamel of the teeth and the crystalline lens of the +eye. + +(a). Two special tissues of the human body, the close connection +between which has been observed and recognized but very little, contain +a predominant quantity of fluoride of lime, and consequently may be +placed under one heading in this system, although the basis for the +fluorate of the teeth is calcium, while the basis of the crystalline +lens of the eye is gelatine. + +(b). I have composed this cell-food, containing the necessary fluoride +of lime, in this particular way in order to avoid too much +specialization. From long years of practical experience I have found +that the special cells of each tissue will take up only those +constituents which they need for the construction of their respective +tissue, as taught by the law of chemotaxis. + +(c). Composition No. VII will be prescribed in case of tooth and eye +troubles. Any observant student of human nature will have noticed that +in severe cases of degeneration (as for instance, diabetes) not only one +of these two tissues mentioned above is affected, (as the decaying and +falling out of the teeth), but in most cases also the other (as cataract +of the eye). Some doctors of course may ask what in the world the tooth +has to do with the eye. But, alas! they have yet much to learn. The two +are not so distinct from each other when one understands. I fear that +later on, when this method, which is the only true and natural one, +comes into practice, everything will be specialized to such an extent +that the real science of it will become so complicated that the +proverb--"Veritatis simplex oratio est"--(The language of truth is +simple)--will become entirely obsolete. + +It is my endeavor to state the pure unvarnished truth, and in terms as +simple as possible; that is my mission. + +(d). _Dose_: One gram or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful, or one +tablet in a little water or milk, once a day will be sufficient except +in very severe cases of degenerated tissue. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. VIII. +CAPILLOGEN (HAIR CELL PRODUCER). + +(a). The hair is built of a number of elements not contained in other +tissues of the body, and which must be supplied in order to keep the +hair in good health and prevent it from falling out. + +(b). Capillogen contains all the necessary constituents in proper +proportion required by perfect hair tissue. + +(c). The main disease of the hair, responsible for this falling out, may +be due, to two different causes. It may be due to the quality of the +hair, or to the condition of the nutritive soil of that part of the skin +where hair is wont to grow. If the loss of hair is due to the first +cause, its regeneration, through Dech-Manna Composition No. VIII, +naturally gives rise to the hope that the lost hair may be replaced, if +the process of regeneration is not begun too late, as is usually the +case. + +My composition, however, is not a "hair restorer." + +As a great many of my readers may know, and some of them to their sorrow, +all so-called hair restorers on the market are failures--although +perhaps not so to the manufacturer or clever salesman. + +My composition will prevent the hair tissues from degeneration. Thus +baldness, which might otherwise have occurred in a larger or smaller +degree, may be prevented. + +In the case of the disability of the skin to retain the hair, which may +occur after forms of febrile disease, such as typhoid fever, or if +children show little promise of growing nice hair, the composition will +prove very useful in combination with Dech-Manna Composition No. XII, +Eubiogen, which restores the original strength of the whole body, while +hair regenerated by the blood through capillogen has a better chance of +growing and remaining in the regenerated soil. + +(d). _Dose_: One gram or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful, or one +tablet in a little water or milk, once a day. It is imperative to follow +directions implicitly. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. IX. +DERMOGEN (SKIN CELL PRODUCER). + +(a). The skin, like all other tissues of the body, is made up of +different constituent elements. While its disease appears on the +outside, it is built up, like all other parts of the human organism, +from within and through the blood only. The elements necessary for +regenerating the skin and keeping it in a healthy condition must, +therefore, also be supplied to the body from within, in the form of +nutriment, as otherwise, though we might suppress and eliminate the +symptoms, the disease would still remain. + +(b). Dermogen, skin producer, contains all the constituent elements +which a healthy skin tissue requires. + +(c). The skin, being exposed to all external influences, discloses the +symptoms of all forms of skin disease, the names of which are legion. + +The skin specialist termed "dermatologist" is another production which +flourishes--more or less--upon the ignorance of the public. The patient, +alas, is less fortunate. He tries one after another until disgusted he +sometimes resorts to special diet. Sometimes this may help, if he choose +a certain kind of vegetable diet, and especially if the vegetables are +such as contain a great deal of silica; for silica is the mineral basis +of skin tissue. Full details of this are to be found in my analysis of +foodstuffs given in the chart at the end of volume No. I of my work, +"Regeneration." + +(d). _Dose_: One gram or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful of +dermogen in a little water or milk once a day until regeneration of the +skin is fairly started. Reduce the dose gradually until complete +recovery has been accomplished. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. X. +GELATINOGEN (GELATIGENOUS TISSUE PRODUCER). + +(a). All blood and lymphatic vessels, the alveoli of the lungs, all +tendons and cords in the entire system, the bowel tract, including the +stomach, the bladder, and in fact every organ or tissue which has the +function of expanding and contracting, must be of healthy gelatigenous +(rubber-like) tissue; otherwise it cannot perform its functions in the +system and must degenerate. + +(b). Gelatinogen contains the constituent elements of gelatine, which it +carries, through the blood, to the parts of the body where it is needed +to rebuild degenerated gelatigenous tissue. + +(c). While there are not many special forms of disease of the +gelatigenous tissues, many diseased conditions are more or less +connected with its degeneration. In fact, every layman should be able +to judge the importance of perfect gelatigenous tissue. But how many +human beings ever think of such things. Yet they know very well that a +poor rubber tire on an automobile will not last very long or stand much +strain; for the fact appeals to the pocket book--and that degenerates. + +It is well to learn the truth before too late and give, to the rising +generation at least, the chance to which they are surely entitled:--A +good healthy body. + +(d). _Dose_: Twice daily, 1 gram or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful, +or one tablet, at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., or as individually prescribed, in +a little water, milk or other foodstuffs, to be taken for a certain +length of time. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. XI +CARTILOGEN (CARTILAGE PRODUCER). + +(a). Every bone in the human system must be covered with cartilage at +its ends so as to prevent self-destruction through friction, especially +in the joints. + +(b). Cartilogen consists of all the necessary constituents of this +important material, and under certain circumstances it must be +introduced in this concentrated form, as for instance when the general +diet is unable to counteract the influences of disease which tends to +degenerate the cartilage and subjects the body to the great suffering +which the absence of cartilage invariably produces. + +(c). Cartilage keeps all the joints in working order and must be +regenerated constantly. + +As soon as the blood and lymph no longer contain the proper, necessary +constituents for the rebuilding of cartilage tissue, the consequence is +degeneration of this tissue. + +It is obvious then that the presence of proper cartilage constituents in +the blood is of the greatest importance to the regenerating forces in +the human body. Our foodstuffs, therefore, must contain the material in +a digestible, assimilable form, thus to prevent inanition of the cells, +otherwise degeneration of the cartilage tissue must follow. + +(d). _Dose_: One gram or one-fourth of a heaping teaspoonful twice a day +for a certain period, depending on the condition of the patient. This +may be taken in the same manner as previously described. + + +DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION No. XII. +EUBIOGEN (HEALTHY LIFE PRODUCER). (ALSO TERMED "POSITIVE COMPOSITION"). + +(a). While all other compositions contain _special_ elements for the +rebuilding of _special_ tissues through regeneration of _special_ cells, +Eubiogen contains a combination of all the important elements in the +most concentrated form. I was fortunate enough, after years of +experimenting with plants and animal life, to concentrate the solid +constituents of the human body _ten_ fold. The full import of this +achievement few can realize, but those who know what it means in time +and study. The effect of this composition is felt simultaneously in all +the vital tissues of the body, and since the co-operation of all these +tissues is what we call "life," I feel there is no name more fitting for +this product than the one I have selected, namely, "Eubiogen," or +"Healthy Life Producer." I maintain that it is the most scientific +composition discovered since the time of Hippocrates and the following +is its analysis: + +It has at all times been an ideal aim of mankind to produce a species of +food that would combine a minimum of quantity with a maximum of quality, +and philosophers and scientists have dreamed of a time when the day's +portion of foodstuffs would be concentrated in one small pill. The +biologist cannot accept this theory. + +While Greek mythology seemed to symbolize a similar idea; namely, of one +concentrated food-substance combining all nutritive elements, as +represented in their "Ambrosia," the food of the Gods. + +Yet the gods and goddesses were permitted to partake of it only at +solemn assemblies when all sat at the table of Zeus and enjoyed their +food and drank its liquid counterpart, termed "nectar." + +This symbolism represented Ambrosia and Nectar as the highest climax of +food; just as the Greek gods stood for the climax of various human +qualities, in each case attributed to one single personality. + +The Greeks knew well that the human body requires a variety of food in +order to remain healthy. It is an echo of the same thought expressed in +the Bible when the Jews are given the "Manna" only in the utmost +emergency. The Bible also advocates a considerable variety of food, +regarding which the Old Testament lays down the most careful and +explicit regulations. + +In praising "Ambrosia" as the climax of food-substances, Greek mythology +attributed to it the power not only of regeneration, but of procreation. +For the reproduction of healthy human life in its offspring, was to them +just as sacred and important a preoccupation as it was natural, to +ensure the survival of the race; and to secure to all the food that +would assist in this, their highest and most worthy aim, seemed to them +a manifest duty which, at the present day, prudish "morality" either +practically ignores or modestly pretends to neglect. Healthy food, +generally speaking, will do much towards ensuring healthy offspring. + +But the times of extreme leisure, as enjoyed by the ancient Greeks, are +long past and a more exacting age makes its more strenuous demands upon +the human tissues, and in innumerable cases causes them to deteriorate +more rapidly than they can be regenerated and restored to their original +vigor by even the healthiest food. + +Hence I have felt justified, in considering the best interests of the +race--present and future--in devoting the crowning effort of my long +scientific career to the production of modern biological remedies such +as would be felt in the reproductive powers of the people--a +consideration concerning which the old-time, prudish reticence is a +foolish figment rapidly passing away. + +Now, as regards myself and my great work. Surely to boast a little is +but human. The man who puts his very best efforts into an ideal, and +having achieved it, has not striven to reap the fruits thereof for +selfish gain, but year by year, has perfected that work until the tests +have finally permitted him to cry: "Eureka"--it is accomplished beyond +dispute,--that man has the right to overstep the conventional rule which +forbids self-praise. While in other work accomplished I see but the +links of an uncompleted chain, the synthesis of Eubiogen, I feel to be +one of those so rare occasions in human life, when a tested +accomplishment allows and even demands a somewhat different treatment. +And so I have the courage to speak as follows in eulogy of my own +production: + +This product is my masterpiece. I am proud of it. Nothing like it in +efficiency has ever before been given to the world. In the fullest sense +of the word, it is in food value the most perfect concentration that +science and research have ever evolved. It is the result of the quest of +30 years and should make its finder famous. Hundreds of men of mark have +each one given to mankind some noble token of their genius; but of such +gifts not one possessed the concentrated virtues, the materialized +knowledge of "Eubiogen." This, to unsympathetic ears, may sound like +vain, exaggerated vapouring;--but it is not so. _It is the truth_. It is +impossible to describe the real value of its properties within a limited +space. Sufferers in their thousands will yet live to be grateful for the +benefits derived from it, and the full and positive knowledge of its +excellence makes it the more difficult to describe in a few weak words. +An abler pen than mine would fail to do it justice. + +In sentimental somnolence I sometimes dream how, perhaps, in the days +to come, another hand may write in glowing terms the faithful history of +"Eubiogen" and say kind feeling words and fair of the hard worked lone +scientist who gave its healing virtues to mankind, terming it--he too +perhaps--the stereotyped "Ambrosia," the diet of the Olympian gods; but +for myself, it is all I ask to know that it has served the appointed end +to which my energy has aimed,--that it has proved a food instinct with +healing and comfort to my kind--a staunch support and refuge for the +overwrought sinews of humanity. May such be my guerdon of reward for the +long years of thought and toil and--I shall rest content. + +(b). Eubiogen contains the best and purest ingredients science and +experience can produce today. It is the most delicate and at the same +time the most digestible and assimilable cell-food obtainable. + +Many great names since the time of Hippocrates have figured in the list +of those who shared with me the ambitious hope to give mankind some +wonder-working remedy--Metschnikoff, Voit, Koenig, Biedert, Rubner, +Gruber, Kussmaul, Bischoff, Teschemacher, Hirschfeld, Boemer, Wintgen, +Virchow, Hammarsten, Gilbert, Fournier, Heim, Lahmann, von Noorden, +Epstein, Wair Mitchel, Salkowski, Kornauth and the rest, but not one of +them ever dreamed of a perfect regenerator of the cells of the human +body such as this composition, Eubiogen, affords. + +The analysis of my product, shows that it is practically impossible to +improve upon in life-giving, cell-generating qualities. This fact should +satisfy the student. Still I will describe the ingredients a little more +minutely, so that all who use it may be convinced that they are doing +the best that can be done, as known to the science of today, to improve +conditions of health for themselves and for their offspring. + +As a basis, then, I use for the necessary trituration, the finest +radio-active milk sugar produced, flavored with _pure_ vanilla extract. +The high percentage of albumen contained in it is due to the use of the +most highly perfected hygienic product of albumen known to chemistry. It +is chemically pure and manufactured from eggs, milk and vegetables and, +therefore, absolutely free from microscopical germs, harmful to the +human system. + +The organic iron contained in it is obtained from the red-coloring +matter of healthy ox blood, called haemin, examined and tested. For the +nerve material, pure lecithin or nerve fat is used, obtained from the +yolks of fresh eggs. + +These two products are enormously expensive. All the organic minerals +are in the form of glycerophosphates, and the milk sugar necessary for +making a perfect trituration is radio-active, as explained before. + +To make the whole product as digestible and assimilable as possible, I +use the best material known, that is, Taka and Malt diastase. It is made +palatable through the use of genuine van Houten's cocoa in chocolate +form. It will remain in good condition an unlimited length of time when +kept in a dry, cool place. No drugs of any kind are used. This I +guarantee in the fullest sense of the word. The manufacturer is a +renowned chemist of the highest type, and all the products are of the +highest quality obtainable. This is capable of verification by any +really capable authority on the chemistry of food. + +In order to bring this product within the reach of all classes, the same +has been compounded in three different forms: + +Form aaa. contains radio-activity, haemin, lecithin, glycerophosphates +and all other constituents of the highest purity. + +Form aa. contains haemin, lecithin, glycerophosphates and all other +constituents of the highest purity. + +Form a. contains haemoglobin, glycerophosphates and all other +constituents (chemically pure.) + +For the use of babies and very feeble invalids, special composition B +(see appendix) may take the place of Eubiogen, since it contains nearly +all of its constituent elements in a form that can be assimilated by +either. It will regenerate the invalid as fast as his condition will +allow, and is the salvation of weak children. + +(c). As to when Eubiogen should be administered, the rule is simple. + +Whenever any of the Dech-Manna Compositions are given, Eubiogen should +be given in smaller or larger doses, as the case may require, +remembering that its most important task is to rebuild and regenerate +the body so that it may readily perform its fullest functions and +transmit the power unimpared to posterity. + +(d). _Dose_: The dose may vary considerably, from 1 to 3 times a day. +Generally a dose consists of 1 gram or one-fourth of a heaping +teaspoonful. + +The composition may be combined with any kind of food, or may be given +in separate form with chocolate in equal parts. + +There are endless ways in which my remedies may be administered, since +they are merely concentrated cell-food. + +_It must be definitely understood at the outset that these remedies must +be absolutely and entirely dissociated with the idea of so-called +"medicine,"_ prescribed by the old-school doctor, which has nothing +whatsoever in common with my "remedies," since these contain the real +constituents of our body-cells and _not_ poisonous chemical concoctions, +known as medicines, which _may_ in some cases suppress symptoms, _but +never will and never can remove the constitutional cause or condition of +disease_. + + + =COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.= + + =The Human Body= consists of: + + 83.0% Water \ + 0.9% Minerals | + 3.8% Albumen | Solid constituents + 2.5% Fat | only 17% + 9.8% Carbohydrates | + ------ | + 100.0% / + + =Eubiogen= consists of: + + 9.0% Minerals. (Chiefly Glycerophosphates, + Haemin or Blood-Iron and organized + minerals) 10 times concentrated. + + 33.5% Albumen. (Egg, Milk and + Vegetable-Albumen) 9 " " + + 15.0% Fats. (Chiefly Cacao, + Glycerin fats, Lecithin) 6 " " + (Note.--Lecithin is + made from fresh yolks + of egg.) + + 42.5% Carbohydrates (Chiefly + Malt Extract, Milk, + Sugar etc.) 5 " " + ------ Of the original amount + 100.0% Solid Constituents. in the human body. + + + =Note.= + + 1 Pound of Powdered Egg-Albumen represents the total egg-albumen contents + of 116 Eggs. + + 1 Pound of Powdered Milk-Albumen represents the total milk-albumen of 25 + pints of Milk. + + 1 Pound of Blood-Iron represents 250 pounds of Haemoglobin. + + (The cost of Haemoglobin is $4.50 per pound, + the value, therefore, of 1 pound of Haemin or + Blood-Iron is $1,125--) + + + + +APPENDIX + +LIFE PRESERVERS AND ELIXIRS. + + +In addition to the twelve Dech-Manna Compositions mentioned before, I +have composed three others that are most important and are to be used +practically and in various doses; the first and the third should be used +in nearly every treatment of patients suffering from constitutional +diseases, while the second is the remedy which takes the place of +Eubiogen when the patients are babies or very weak. + + +SPECIAL DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION. (A) + +OXYGENATOR. + +This consists of radium emanation tablets or powders and the necessary +bath salts for the decarbonization of the system in all cases of what is +called auto-intoxication. They have a wonderful effect on the +metabolism of the human organism, and increase the oxidation of all +diseased cells that poison the system. The radium tablets are officially +guaranteed and the bath salts are the result of many years study in +balneotherapy and hydrotherapy, and have demonstrated their +effectiveness by the wonderful results that have been obtained during +the last thirty years. Rheumatism, gout, arterio-sclerosis, etc., cannot +exist in the system when these baths have been taken for a certain +length of time. I rarely undertake a treatment for disease of this kind +without them. + + +HOW TO APPLY OXYGENATOR. + +For a half or partial bath fill the bath two-thirds full of water at 90 deg. +to 98 deg.. Use one pound of bath salts. Mix and dissolve them completely in +the water. As soon as dissolved, put two of the oxygenator radium +tablets into the water, one at the head and one at the foot of the bath, +allowing one-half to one minute for dissolving. Mix very slowly and +quietly in order not to release too much of the radium emanation. + +Lie in the bath very quietly for 20 to 25 minutes, with cold compresses +on the head. Then open the cold water faucet, begin to move about in the +bath, sit up and wash face and chest with cold water. Let the cold water +run into the bath until you notice some signs of "goose-flesh," then get +out and rub down well with a good Turkish towel. + +Never remain alone while taking this kind of a bath. Stop the bath +immediately if any feeling of faintness is experienced. Drink a glass of +Tonogen, or other refreshment. + + +SPECIAL DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION. (B) +EUBIOGEN LIQUID. + +This composition is in liquid form and intended for babies and very +feeble invalids. It contains nearly all the constituents of No. XII, +Eubiogen, but in such a form that even the infant can safely partake of +it, with rapid regenerative results. Thus the degeneration of inherited +or predisposed conditions or weak tissues will be prevented. + +_Dose_: From one-half to three teaspoonfuls a day, pure or diluted in +milk, according to the individual directions given. As a fermentative +agent I know of nothing better, and through the formation of gases, +acidity of the stomach will be prevented, perfect digestion assured and +consequently health and normal conditions restored. + + +SPECIAL DECH-MANNA COMPOSITION. (C) + +TONOGEN. + +As a beverage Tonogen scientifically speaking, stands at the head of all +chemical achievements in drinks. Therapeutically, there is nothing that +could be more beneficial to the human system. It contains the +fundamental constituents of normal blood and nerve cells in such form +that even the weakest and most sensitive digestion will readily respond +to its influence. This compound is absolutely free from all deleterious +chemicals; as a tonic it is stimulating and strengthening and as a +beverage it is so palatable that few will hesitate to pronounce its +taste delicious. + +In all cases of acute febrile diseases, also in chronic forms of these +diseases, as well as in climatic fevers, it is wonderfully effective in +supporting the healing process of nature. + +From a physiologico-chemical standpoint, it has been thus described: + +Tonogen is the acme of chemical perfection, both as a tonic and as a +beverage. It is the captured and crystalized outcome of years of +scientific observation focussed upon the true ingredients of healthy +blood cells as viewed from both the theoretical and practical biological +standpoint. It represents, in fact, a life study of the science of life, +in a concrete form of body-cell invigorator suitable to all mankind, +from earliest infancy to advancing age, and this of a nature equally +digestible and assimilable to both. After but a brief experience of this +seductive beverage, it may speedily be felt how, once digested and +assimilated, it courses through the lymph channels and lacteal vessels +and, by the familiar route of the Chyle passes into the heart, where +joined with the blood of that organ, it produces a sensation of +liquifaction. In its course, by way of the arteries, it gradually +reaches the external glands, warms the limbs and, in a manner +electrifies them. In the body, it suffuses the pancreas and other glands +and the intestines, mingles with the fluids existing in the glands and +with the oily salts of the bile; and whatever impurities (autotoxins), +may be there it drives in the form of excrement and urine completely out +of the body. Thus in its free and ample scope is all the ground of all +the intricate vital processes of physiology covered in its course and +the active principles of the excretions of skin, kidneys and intestines +are made visible at a glance. + +In combination with Plasmogen, taken alternately, it is really +indespensable in all the diseases mentioned above. Many a life has been +saved through the use of this combination. It is one of my standard home +remedies, and my own family would not think of allowing themselves to be +without it for a single day, for, as they say, one never knows when it +may be required. + +_Dose_: One teaspoonful tonogen with three teaspoonfuls of granulated +sugar in a tumbler of water, to be taken slowly, once or twice daily. In +cases of diabetes and arterio-sclerosis the dose should be 20 to 25 +drops tonogen in a teaspoonful of milk sugar 1 to 3 times daily. +Pregnancy is a contra-indication to the use of tonogen. + + + + +APPENDIX II. + + +The following compositions are also used especially in specific cases. + + +=(D). Tea. Diabetic. _Dechmann._= + +Description: Compound of many herbs (powdered) found beneficial to the +diabetic system. + + +=(E). Tea. Laxagen. _Kneipp._= + +Description: Compound of several herbs (powdered) approved by the +celebrated Kneipp in cases of chronic constipation. + + +=(F). Salve. Lenicet. _Reiss._= + +Description: The most beneficial salve in case of inflamed wounds, boils +or exanthematous eruptions. + + +=(G). Massage Emulsion. _Dechmann._= + +Description: Consists of the finest ethereal oils and other ingredients +useful and valuable, yet absolutely harmless, in case of nerve or +muscular pains, applied as a liniment. + + +=(H). Propionic acid.= + +Description: The product of various herbs known for their high +percentage of propionic acid; applied in case of catarrh in the form of +atomized steam. + + +=(I). Oxygen Powder. _Hensel._= + +Description: A composition of sugar, gum tragacanth (traganth) and +citric acid, used in the form of lemonade in case of high carbonic acid +poisoning. + + +=(J). Anti-Phosphate. _Dechmann._= + +(Otherwise termed "Negative Compound.") + +Description: Contains all basic salts as sulphates, thus acting as the +governor of a machine; that is it prevents the accumulation of too much +phosphate in the blood, which would promote the formation of all fungus +growths. (See paragraph in the article, "Importance of the Mineral +Constituents in our food"). + + * * * * * + +A copy of my wholesale price list as given in 1915--before we entered +the war--may give you a fair idea of the price of my compositions. Since +that time, most of the ingredients of these remedies have increased from +four to ten times in value. The reader can easily judge therefrom of the +fairness of the present values. I may say that most of the compositions +are listed at only one-fourth to one-third advance, notwithstanding the +high cost of chemicals. This fact will absolve me, I think, of any +tendency to profiteering. + + +PRICE-LIST DECH-MANNA COMPOSITIONS. + + No. Per oz. Per lb. + + I. Plasmogen $0.75 $ 8.00 + II. Lymphogen 1.00 10.67 + III. Neurogen 1.50 16.00 + IV. Osseogen 1.00 10.67 + V. Muscogen 1.00 10.67 + VI. Mucogen 1.00 10.67 + VII. Dento & Ophthogen 1.50 16.00 + VIII. Capillogen 1.50 16.00 + IX. Dermogen 1.50 16.00 + X. Gelatinogen 1.50 16.00 + XI. Cartilogen 1.50 16.00 + XII. Eubiogen 2.00 21.35 + Same with sacch. lact. radio 2.50 26.67 + +A reduction of 33-1/3% on the prices per pound will be allowed on all +the above products as quoted in the second column. + + A. Radio emanation tablet (5,000 volts); + Per tablet $ 1.50 + Bath salts, original composition, lb. 1.00 + B. Eubiogen Liquid (a) oz. 0.75 (b) oz. 1.00 + pt. 8.00 pt. 10.67 + C. Tonogen (a) oz. 0.50 (b) oz. 0.75 + pt. 5.33 pt. 8.00 + J. Anti-Phosphate (a) oz. 0.50 (b) oz. 0.75 + lb. 5.33 lb. 8.00 + +Copies of the Handbook "Dare To Be Healthy" Second Edition, may be +procured at 75c for the paper-bound edition and $1.50 for the +leather-bound edition. + + +PHYSICAL TREATMENT. + +As I have already stated, it is necessary in disease to assist the +process of regulating the circulation and opening the body to the full +benefit of the dietetic and nutritive salts treatment by applying a +number of physical treatments, in each case, which, for convenience +sake, I have divided into ten different groups, some of which may need +to be applied simultaneously in certain cases. + +They are as follows: + + 23. Ablutions with vinegar and water, 1 part vinegar, 2 parts water. + + 24. Abdominal packs, vinegar and water, dito + + 25. Partial packs: + (a) Vinegar and water, dito + (b) Radium and salts. + + 26. Partial packs: + (a) Arms. + (b) Legs. + (c) Neck. + (d) Shoulder. + + 27. Three-quarter packs, vinegar and water, dito + + 28. Gymnastics. + + 29. Massage. + + 30. Breathing Exercises. + + 31. Oxygenator Baths. + + 32. Radium and Salt Baths. + (a) Half. + (b) Whole. + + NOTE--=The Vinegar= indicated to be used for these treatments, and + in all similar treatments, packs, or ablutions, prescribed, is the + natural, or what is known as "Apple Cider Vinegar." The manufactured + or ordinary table vinegar, as made from chemicals, is not suitable + for the purpose. + +From these groups a treatment is usually prescribed in each and every +case of disease. + +The importance of ablutions especially packs is so great that it is +necessary to give further explanations concerning them: + +In a general way, it is necessary to apply a bath or an ablution (See +Form 23) when the test with the thermometer, usually applied under the +tongue, in arm-pit or in the rectum, shows that the temperature of the +patient exceeds 100 degrees. The patient grows restless, his skin feels +dry and the pulse, which regularly is 70 to 80 with adults, 90 to 100 +with children, and about 130 with infants, shows an increased speed. As +soon as these symptoms appear, they indicate that the immediate cooling +off of the body by means of a bath, an ablution or a pack is necessary. +Adults will always show the desire for such instinctively. + +In extreme cases baths or ablutions should be administered several times +every day. + +Healthy people perspire as soon as they become too hot. This means that +they cool off through the evaporation of the perspiration. This is +supplemented by the bath and its cooling effect; balancing the higher +temperature of the body with the lower temperature of the water, brings +this about. The blood which flows towards the skin during the bath is +cooled off, and returns in this condition to the interior of the body, +and is immediately followed by other quantities of blood. + +Since the blood circulates through the body about twice every minute, +the cooling takes place from 20 to 24 times during a bath, lasting from +10 to 12 minutes. This explains the soothing and cooling effect of the +bath on the waves of blood and the nerves, which are irritated by the +increased temperature. + +At the same time the bath opens the pores which assist in the excretion +of degenerated matter produced by the disease, and fosters the reception +of oxygen. + +It is a natural function of the body that an increased flow of the +warming blood flies always to any region of the body which is assailed +by external cold, so that such parts may not become too cold or, in +common parlance, may not "catch" cold. + +This explains why the hands get red and hot after throwing snow-balls, +the feet burn after a cold foot bath. + +As soon as the body, which is hot with fever, is put into the cool bath, +the first effect is that the blood-vessels of the skin contract under +the cooling influence. The blood recedes. Soon, however, it streams with +renewed energy to the skin to defeat the cold. The first action,--the +recession of the blood,--is followed by reaction or increased activity +of circulation towards the skin. This removes the pressure of the blood +upon the overburdened internal organs, such as the brain, the lungs and +the heart. The blood is diverted. + +For ablutions the water should be cool or lukewarm, the exact +temperature to be determined by the strength of the patient. Some +vinegar should be added to the water, taking two parts water and one +part vinegar. + +To accustom children to the use of water and ablutions is one of the +important duties of motherhood. + +A healthy child should be washed once every day with water at 59 degrees +to 64 degrees. The best way to wash the child is to put two chairs in +front of its bed. On one of them place the vessel with the necessary +water, on the other place the child, after it has been disrobed in bed, +in a standing position, so that it can be supported with the back of the +chair. The ablution is performed by means of strong application with the +hands, dipped into the water, and is repeated several times. Then the +shirt is put on again, and the child is allowed to stay well covered in +bed for another 15 minutes. + +Children must become accustomed to gargling as early as possible, and to +draw water up through the nose, or to remove it from the mouth through +the nose. This is very valuable and facilitates the treatment of +children in case of disease. + + +VINEGAR PACKS. + +It appears opportune at this juncture, and before entering upon the +detailed description of the modern healing system of Vinegar Packs, +included in the prescribed course of Physical Treatments which follow, +to make a few rational remarks illustrative of the physical significance +and scientific basis of a branch of therapy which largely amongst the +laity, through ignorance, and more so amongst the regular medical +fraternity, for reasons of their own, is too frequently lightly regarded +by the one and diplomatically depreciated by the other. + +In this manner one of the most potent and logical modern factors in the +healing of disease would be conveniently consigned to the back ground in +company with other simple _but unremunerative_ truths, but for the +timely intervention of the new and enlightened school of independent +medicine of which the Biological or Hygienic Dietetic Method of Healing +is the outcome. + +The wonderful efficacy of natural Vinegar upon the organism and its +employment in the form of Vinegar Packs and compresses dates back +probably to the early traditions of the healing art, but scientific +analysis of its subtle operation upon the system through the vital fluid +has been left for the scientific research of today to determine. + +To those of the public--or the profession--therefore, who are not +conversant with the subject the following notes may be valuable as +descriptive of the why and wherefore of the use of Vinegar. + +It will be admitted, I think, that one of the most prolific sources of +disease, in innumerable forms, is that of congestion of blood. The +greatest danger of such congestion is inflammation. Should inflammation +occur in or near a vital organ and fail to be promptly reduced and its +cause (coagulation) removed, the result is decomposition--and +decomposition, if not arrested means death. + +The most valuable--I might almost say infallible--remedy known, even to +the greatest accepted authorities of physiology, for the prevention of +inflammation is acetic acid in diluted form, or, in a word, Vinegar, as +a restorer of the fluidity of the blood. + +Inflammation is the result of coagulation of the blood-albumen; +congestion is its sequal, inflammation and decomposition of the tissues +its climax. The last is nearly always fatal. + +_The manifest object therefore to be achieved in all such cases is to +restore the normal fluidity and circulation of the blood_ without unduly +taxing any vital organ. Thus, for instance, hot packs on the feet draw +the blood towards the feet, where no vital organs exist. Hot packs act +as an absorbent, by suction; cold packs, on the affected place, act in +inverse ratio as an expelling force. The two operating conjointly +promote full circulation and extend the absorbing tendency to the whole +system. + +Ice, on the other hand, though not infrequently prescribed, is too +strong a force. It contracts the blood vessels, arrests normal +circulation, and in many cases is the direct cause of death. This is +attested by the teaching of physiological law which maintains that any +part of the human system which is not fed by fresh oxygenous blood +_must decompose_. + +Packs, of course, must be regulated in accordance with the vital +strength of the patient, as indicated by the physician; for in the +course of the excretion of morbid matter through the pores, under the +influence of the packs, a certain proportion of accompanying healthy +substance is necessarily exuded simultaneously, with a slightly +weakening tendency. This however can be promptly and effectively +replaced by proper alimentation, or food selection in accordance with +the Dech-Manna Diet System already particularized. + +One other matter it is advisable to deal with in advance and that is the +_Nature of the Vinegar to be employed for Packs_. + +It must be borne in mind that for this purpose an absolutely pure +natural product should be obtained. + +I recommend, in the first place a genuine _Apple Cider Vinegar_; for +apples not alone contain the pure acetic acid but also some five or six +other fruit acids which are so beneficial for the purpose of keeping the +blood at normal temperature and normal fluidity, and contain also a +considerable amount of the essentials known under the head of +vitamines. + +As a secondary alternative I would recommend _Wine Vinegar_ for the same +purpose. + +The manufacturers vinegar product--_Acetic acid, should never the used_ +as it contains, very frequently, harmful ingredients. + +It should never be forgotten that the substances used for the purpose of +packs, and thus absorbed into the system, become a part of the blood and +therefore cannot be too pure. + +The reader will doubtless observe from the foregoing demonstration that +the Dechmann System of Therapy differs materially from the science of +the Old-School of Medicine in that it is not based upon evanescent +theories of hairsplitting philosophy but upon the solid basis of +cold-blooded fact. + +Why then, the reader will inquire, should so wonderful and at the same +time _simple, inexpensive and easily applied remedy_ be treated by "the +faculty" with an affectation of indulgent toleration, ridicule or +"damning with faint praise." + +To this riddle there are two solutions--neither of them very creditable +to those concerned. + +On the one hand, only crass ignorance of some of the most important +facts of physiology and physiological chemistry could account for it. +And, it must be borne in mind that in the course of the prolific +verbosity of pontificated dogma which has graced the scroll of medical +science, whole libraries have been written--and ably written, too--by +skillful pens for the sole purpose of covering the simple nudity of the +agnostic position of science--the dreaded, confidence-shattering +admission: "I don't know." + +Failing this solution there is, unfortunately, but one alternative and +that a singularly distasteful one to entertain; namely, to attribute the +unpopularity of this splendid gift of Nature to unprofessional +considerations on the part of an apothecary-loving profession. + +The employment of vinegar is, as I have said, a royal remedy, ready to +the hand of any man and at little or no expense, and it needs no +"learned" interpretation. + +It is consequently beyond the omnivorous talons of "the trade." + +Would it be unkind to say: "Hinc illae lachrymae"? + + +THE PACKS. + +The packs mentioned as physical treatment, under Nos. 24, 25, 26 and 27, +are of the greatest importance, and in fact I never undertake the +treatment of any disease whatsoever without applying them as the most +effective means of restoring proper circulation of the blood and +removing diseased matter from the body, which is the only way to bring +about a real and definite cure. + +The effect of the pack is the cooling of the blood. + +The temperature of the pack is 50 degrees and more below the temperature +of the blood. + +In the first place this brings about quiet after unrest. + +Through the action of the body, which sends a large quantity of blood to +the places which are touched by the cool compresses, a certain surplus +of heat is created which is transferred to the compresses and retained +by them as moist warmth. + +Under this influence the blood-vessels of the skin extend and absorb +blood more freely, which is thus diverted from the important internal +organs to the skin. In all cases of fever the diseased matter is +dissolved in the hot feverish blood and circulates in and with it. The +evaporation of the skin is increased, and with it the diseased matter is +absorbed by the compresses, which consequently diffuse an unpleasant +odor when removed, and when cleansed, give to the water a muddy +appearance. Thus it may be observed to what extent the pack removes +diseased matter from the body. + +Packs must be changed as soon as they cease to give comfort to the +patient, and make him too warm. Highly flushed cheeks, increasing +temperature and unrest are sure signs that the pack requires to be +changed, and in case of high fever this may happen after 20 to 30 +minutes. + +For short packs, such as are prescribed in all inflammatory and feverish +diseases, water at from 59 degrees to 64 degrees is used. + +A piece of linen cloth is folded from 4 to 8 times, wrung out, but not +too much, and then covered with moderately thick folds of woollen cloth. +The stronger the patient and the higher the fever, the thicker should be +the pack. + +For infants a double linen strip is sufficient. + +The faster the fever and inflammation recede, the longer may the pack +last, up to three hours. The convalescent will enjoy the moist warmth, +under the influence of which still existing diseased material is +thoroughly dissolved and completely excreted. The dissolving effect of +packs of long duration is most noticeable in chronic diseases. + +Through the penetrating effect of the moist warmth on the body or parts +thereof, deposited diseased matter is dissolved, and dislodged, existing +excoriations are disintegrated, and withdrawn into the circulating +blood, and thus excreted. + +The dissolving packs of long duration must be applied somewhat thinner +than the cooling ones (from 1 to 3 folds); they must be wrung out more +vigorously, and covered more closely. + +If a pack should be applied for the sake of prevention of disease, it +may be put on in the evening and remain all night. In the beginning of +fever, while it remains moderate, the patient can endure the pack for +from 2 to 2-1/2 hours. + +Biological hygienic therapy rejects the external application of ice, for +it causes severe congestion of the blood. Extensive application of the +ice pouch causes more or less paralysis of the nerves, which in many +cases prevents recovery and even causes chronic disease or fatal +results. The biological hygienic treatment desires _to moderate +inflammation only_, to the degree that it should lose its dangerous +character, but it leaves to the body its power _to remove, through the +process of inflammation, alien and diseased matter, and to absorb and +gradually carry away the products of inflammation through the blood +current_. + +Paralysis of the vocal cords, of the muscles of the eye, of the nerves +of hearing, the exudations from the nose and eyes after diphteria, +meningitis and scarlet fever, adhesions, suppurations after pneumonia +and other forms of inflammatory disease, are often the _consequences of +the use of ice_, because the products of inflammation are not absorbed, +and the ice paralyzes the neighbouring nerves. + +Inflammations, which are suppressed by medicine or ice, must renew +themselves; since the causes, the alien matter (auto toxins), as well as +the products of inflammation remain in the body and are not thoroughly +excreted. + +To apply water, on the contrary, quickly removes not only the +inflammation, but its causes and eventual consequences. The organs which +have been inflamed do not show any further inclination to renewed +inflammation. + +In no case will a chronic ailment be the consequence of an acute +disease, provided the same is dealt with in a natural way, according to +the principles of biological hygienic treatment. + +In order to bring about the complete excretion of all autotoxins and, in +case of inflammation, the complete absorption of all products thereof, +it is necessary to continue the lengthy packs even during the period of +convalescence, and not to stop immediately the fever and inflammation +have somewhat disappeared. This is a mistake which is frequently +committed, and the fault is then laid at the door of the biological +hygienic system. Any relapse, or succeeding illness, will be avoided by +continuing the packs for four to six weeks after the disease has been +cured, applying them during the night and at first also during the +day-time, from two to three hours. + +While most people understand the cooling effect of a pack, _the +important diverting, dissolving and excreting effect is rarely +understood_. Few people understand why ablutions, abdominal and leg +packs are prescribed in case of inflammation of the eyes; why, in case +of ulcers, besides compresses on the part affected, nightly abdominal +packs and ablutions in the morning, are considered indispensable; and +why, in case of inflammation of _one_ leg, the healthy leg is also +subjected to a pack. + +And yet the explanation is very simple, rational and logical. + +In limiting packs, in case of inflammation, to the inflamed part only, +the blood current would be directed mainly to the one place, and the +excretion of autotoxins from the body would only occur in the inflamed +place. The blood would carry all diseased matter principally to the +diseased spot and deposit it there. The inflamed organ would thus be +burdened with work which it simply would not be able to perform. The +effect is far otherwise when the pressure of blood into the diseased +part is moderated, if the dissolution and excretion of the matter that +causes the disease, takes place, not in one spot only, but is +distributed over the entire body. If the entire skin comes into action, +the entire body participates in the healing process. In biological +hygienic-dietetic practice it is, consequently, not sufficient to treat +the one diseased organ only. In all diseases _the co-operation of the +entire body in a general treatment, remains the main issue of the +biological, hygienic therapy_. It regards the human body, as so often +stated, purely as a unit, and knows neither specialist nor special +cures. This is the key to its success. + + +IMPORTANT GENERAL ADVICE. + +For use in packs take coarse, previously used and loosely woven linen, +which readily absorbs water and clings closely to the body. + +After each pack the linen must be rinsed well and boiled and the woollen +material or blanket must be thoroughly aired. From time to time the +woollen covering must be washed, or chemically cleaned, if possible. + +Raw silk is an excellent substitute for linen. It clings well to the +body, does not cause any discomfort, and has an excellent absorbing +quality for water and other substances. + +The proper application of the pack is of course of great importance. +Adults can easily apply many of the packs without assistance, but +generally speaking a third person is necessary, whether in the case of +children or patients. It is consequently advisable for every mother to +become thoroughly familiar with the methods of applying packs, and she +should always have the necessary material on hand. It should be cut to +the proper size, and there should be duplicates of each piece for the +necessary changes. The approximate measurements for adults are: + + =Width= =Length= + Neck pack 5" 40" to 60" + Shoulder pack 10" 40" + Abdominal pack 28" 40" to 60" + Breast or stomach pack 16" 52" to 60" + "T" pack 16" 52" to 60" + Cross piece alone 5" 24" + The shawl 32" to 40" 32" to 40" + Scotch pack (undivided) 16" 80" to 100" + Same for children 10" to 16" 60" to 80" + Calf pack 24" 26" + Leg pack 24" 30" + Three-quarter pack 56" 52" to 60" + Whole pack 68" 80" + + The measurements for children are accordingly shorter and narrower. + +As to the application of packs, a mother can learn a great deal by +experimenting on her own body. Packs at night are by no means +detrimental to adults, and the application of a regular abdominal pack, +a three-quarter pack, and a whole pack once a week or once every two +weeks is decidedly advantageous. Three-quarter and whole packs should +be occasionally tried on the body of children with dry linen so that in +case of disease the mother will be a well trained nurse, at least in +this respect. + +To go about the application of the pack quietly and without much talking +is very comforting to the patient, who usually grows excited during the +procedure. + +In case of acute feverish disease the packs and the changes must be +applied very quickly, so that the patient will not catch cold. While, as +a rule, the patient should not be disturbed in a quiet sleep, +unconsciousness or delirium must not prevent change of the pack. + +Packs should be applied so as not to cause any creases which may hurt +the patient. + +The temperature of the water used for packs should be as follows: + +For the cooling packs, 59 degrees to 64 degrees. + +For dissolving packs, 64 degrees to 71 degrees. + +The higher temperature is used in the treatment of infants, nervous and +anaemic persons. + +In chronic diseases a gradual return to a lower temperature by about +2-1/2 degrees per week is advisable. + +No packs or compresses should be put on when parts of the body are cold. +In such cases the parts in question must first be warmed. + +The linen should be wrung out less for short cooling compresses than for +dissolving packs of longer duration. + +Cooling compresses must be changed as soon as the patient indicates that +he feels oppressed or irritated by the heat. + +As a general rule, packs on the legs may be left on feverish patients +twice as long as packs on the upper parts of the body. + +No fever being apparent, the abdominal pack may be changed after about +2-1/2 hours, the leg pack after 5 hours, and even not at all during the +night. Packs should be renewed according to requirements of the +individual patient, not in accordance with fixed rules. + +Great care must be exercised to fasten the packs well and tightly. This +is usually done with good strong safety pins; these should be fastened +perpendicularly, or at right angles to the length of the material. + +When changing the pack on feverish patients who are to receive an +ablution or a bath two or three times a day, all pins must be loosened +under the bedcovers so that the pack may be removed quickly. + +If ablutions only are to be given, the pack is removed gradually as the +respective parts of the body are to be washed. + +When the fever is moderate, there should be ablutions morning and +evening, or a bath in the morning and an ablution in the evening. + +When packs are applied only at night, patients require only an ablution +in the morning. + +If the packs are not renewed, an ablution must follow the removal. This +refreshes and strengthens the skin, closes the wide open pores and +prevents taking cold. + +Dissolving packs, if annoying at night, may be removed under the +bedcovers without an ablution. + +If the pack is changed without intervening ablution, the new pack must +be ready to be applied before the old, hot one, is taken off. + +While in a pack, the patient should not leave his bed, not even for the +purpose of urinating or for stool. + + +GENERAL RULES. + +The following general rules must be applied in connection with the +directions given anon for packs during different diseases. + +In case of inflammation, the inflamed spot is cooled off by local +compresses, and diverting packs of longer duration are applied on other +parts of the body. + +For instance, in case of inflammation of the brain or tonsils. + +The first step is to cool off the blood which flows to the neck and head +by short-time compresses on the neck and on the cervix. At the same time +an attempt must be made to divert it through lengthier packs on the +abdomen, the legs and the wrists, thereby to prevent a further delivery +of diseased matter to the centre of inflammation. The solution and +excretion of diseased matter from other points than the inflamed spots +will thereby be effected, and these will be unburdened and calmed +accordingly. + +In case of inflammation of the organs of the breast (lungs, heart), the +blood is diverted to the abdomen, legs and lower arms through long-time +packs, and the upper parts of the breast are cooled with short +compresses. + +If the inflammation has its seat in the abdomen, this must be cooled +off, while the diversion with longer-time packs is made to the legs and +arms. + +Ulcers are treated by applying extremely hot compresses, which are +frequently changed, and the surrounding parts are cooled off and +diversion is effected through nightly packs on the abdomen and on the +legs. The hot compresses dissolve the diseased matter, so that the ulcer +opens. Thereupon cool compresses of 71 degrees to 64 degrees are applied +and allowed to remain for 2-1/2 to 3 hours, which will effect quick +healing without the necessity of an operation. + +_The main rule is never to divert towards a vital organ_ of the body, +such as the lungs or heart; thus, in case of inflammation of the head, +diversion must be attempted, not to the breast, but to the arms and +legs. + + +ABDOMINAL PACK (24) + +The abdominal pack should be applied on infants and children whenever +they show signs of illness in any way, and naturally, in cases of summer +complaints, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, +pneumonia, typhoid fever, in which cases a pack should be applied +during the entire course of the illness with slight intermissions only. + +As in acute diseases, it is also applied in chronic ones. (See +descriptions to follow). Its early application will often serve to +prevent serious sickness. + +The abdominal pack reaches from the level of the base of the breast bone +to the hips. It is made from a piece of linen crash about 12 inches in +width which must cover the space from 6 inches below the arm-pits to the +hips, while its length must be such that it can encircle the body, +overlap upon the abdomen and be secured with tapes at the left side. A +further piece of soft linen is needed to pass between the legs, to be +fastened to the former, back and front, with safety-pins. The next +requirement is a piece of woollen cloth, or blanket, folded double or +treble as required, in breadth, about 6 inches wider than the linen +crash and of equal length, with a shorter woollen strip for between the +thighs, attached like the linen, back and front. For children a linen +towel etc. with the accompanying woollen coverings, will be found, as a +rule, sufficient; for infants, a properly folded piece of old linen. +The linen as well as the woollen material must be properly folded before +the pack is made, and measured, so that the patient need not be kept +waiting while the pack is being placed on the body. + +[Illustration: No. 1] + +The above cut shows how to apply the abdominal pack on an adult patient. + +The linen is saturated in two parts of water with one part of vinegar, +at 64 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit, well wrung out, and is placed on the +woollen material in such a way that the latter extend about 2 to 3 +inches on the upper and lower edge. The pack is now placed around the +back of the patient, who sits in bed or is held in position by another. +The patient's shirt is lifted and he is laid down on the moist linen, +which is then quickly raised on both sides and folded over the abdomen. +The same is done with the woollen material, which is then fastened +tightly in the middle, the upper and lower corners with three safety +pins. Then the shirt is pulled down and the patient is warmly covered. + +In individual cases it is advisable sometimes to divide the pack into a +back and front compress of greater proportions. + +In such cases the woollen cloth, which is used for the abdominal pack is +placed underneath the patient as before. A towel is folded 6 to 8 times, +so that it will grow warm slowly and thus may remain on the body for a +longer time. This is placed under the back of the patient. Then two +properly folded towels, which are not wrung out very thoroughly, are put +on the abdomen, and tucked down a little on both sides. The woollen +cloth is thereupon fastened so as to keep the compresses in place, the +arrangement being otherwise exactly as before. In such cases the back +compress only needs to be changed every 2 to 3 hours, even in case of +severe fever. The front towels may be changed several times in the +meantime. + +Since this system permits the application of the pack without disturbing +the patient and making him sit up too often, it is very desirable in +cases of severe illness. + +The undivided pack is often very uncomfortable for patients suffering +from respiratory complaints. + +It is better to treat very excitable patients with front compresses +only. + +When the stomach pack only is prescribed, as in catarrhal and nervous, +stomach or liver complaints, which pack may be worn during the night as +well as the day, a long, wide mesh shawl, with a bandage, 7 to 8 inches +in width at each end, is most servicable, as it will reach around the +body 4 or 5 times. In order to exclude the air as much as possible, the +moist compress is first applied, and then the shawl is placed around the +body in such a way that each succeeding turn covers the previous one to +about one-half, in bandage form. + + +THE CROSS PACK (25) + +This is applied in case of men's diseases and women's diseases of the +sexual organs. To the woollen material and the linen crash of the +abdominal pack, another piece, about half as long and about 7 inches +wide, is sewed or pinned before application, in the form of a T. + +[Illustration: No. 2] + +Before the two ends of the abdominal pack are folded over on the front +of the abdomen, the narrower piece is drawn up between the legs from +behind, so that the end of it can be fastened to the two sides of the +abdominal part of the pack that are folded over in front. + +As shown above, the abdominal pack must reach down as far as possible, +and if a patient is unable to stand both packs, the moist part of the +abdominal pack may be omitted, and only the regular pack over the sexual +organs and the woollen part over the abdomen applied. + +In case the cross piece is for the purpose of cooling and contracting, +it must be frequently renewed. + +Women should accompany the ablutions mornings and evenings with +injections of lukewarm water at 71 degrees to 82 degrees, and men should +make ablutions of the sexual parts 5 to 6 times a day with water at 64 +degrees to 71 degrees. + +The cross pack has the advantage of gradually putting back into normal +position, the female organs, if they are in any way displaced. + +These packs will help to cure cases of leukorrhoea and gonorrhoea, +locally too, without operations or the application of poisons, +especially if applied at an early stage. + + +LEG PACKS (26) + +These are applied in a similar way to the abdominal pack. + +A towel or linen is doubled, moistened, and placed upon the woollen +cloth, so that the woollen material extends about two inches beyond the +upper and lower edges of the towel. These are laid together under one of +the patient's legs, covering it from the middle of the thigh to the +ankle, turned up from both sides and fastened with three safety pins. +The other leg is packed in the same way, each one separately. + +[Illustration: No. 3] + +In like manner partial packs of the calves or the feet are applied. In +all of these cases it is more expedient and comfortable to use "knit" +packs. Cotton stockings of suitable length from which the foot has been +removed, should take the place of the linen or towel in the packs +previously described. They are moistened and covered with woollen +stockings of corresponding length. The foot parts are to be used only +for foot packs in a similar way. The woollen stocking should be as loose +and comfortable as possible. In case of bent legs (through gout or +otherwise) the moistened linen is wrapped around the leg like a +bandage, and then a woollen bandage is wound over it. + +In cases of severe fever the wrists are also packed, no woollen cover, +however, being necessary in this case. + +The leg pack has, in the first place, a diverting and consequently a +calming effect. It is, therefore, of the highest value, next to the +abdominal, cross, neck and shoulder packs, in all feverish and +especially all chronic cases of disease where congestion in the head and +breast, with consequent dizziness, headache, insomnia, pains in the +lungs and heart, must be removed; moreover, in chronic cases, they +assist in the effects of the abdominal pack. + +Foot packs, that is, wet stockings, have a very favorable action upon +headache, toothache and earache, and are best applied during the night. +If they excite the patient too much, they may easily be taken off during +the night; otherwise they should be followed by a cold ablution of the +feet in the morning. Nervous patients are usually unable to stand the +wet stockings, which only work well if the feet become warm quickly, +which, as a rule, is not the case in feverish illnesses. + +Patients who suffer from cold feet should take a steam foot bath before +applying cold foot packs. + +Since the legs and the feet develop less heat than the abdomen, leg and +foot packs do not require as thick material as abdominal packs, and are +changed less frequently. They are best applied when the fever is at its +height, in the late afternoon and at night. In case leg packs are +continued for a long while, the legs show decreasing inclination to grow +sufficiently warm. Whenever this occurs, leg packs must be discontinued, +or the packed legs must be warmed in an artificial manner. + +The diverting wrist packs are of special value, especially in all acute +diseases of the lungs (inflammations, bleedings, hemorrhages) and the +heart. + + +NECK PACK (26) + +This is made by folding a piece of linen fourfold, long enough to reach +twice around the neck. It is dipped in the vinegar-water at from 59 +degrees to 64 degrees, placed around the neck and some woollen material +wound over it, covering well the moist linen. + +The neck pack has its effect on the inside of the neck in case of +tonsilitis, croup, etc. + +If stiffness of the neck, headache or similar pains are felt after its +use, the moist linen should not be extended to the back part of the neck +but only the front and sides. + +Where the effect is to be extended to the trachea and its branches, the +bronchia and the tips of the lungs, especially in the case of cough, it +is still better to apply the following: + + +SHOULDER PACK (26) + +For this purpose a short towel is folded into a strip of about a hand's +width, extending from one of the nipples across the opposite shoulder, +around the neck, to the other nipple. + +[Illustration: No. 4] + +A woollen shawl or fabric, fastened together with a safety pin, must +cover the moist towel completely. The shoulder pack is always applied +together with the abdominal pack. It is put on first, and the two ends +are pulled under the abdominal pack, and then fastened. + +[Illustration: No. 5] + + +THE SCOTCH PACK (26) + +The Scotch pack is of the greatest advantage in all diseases of the +trachea and the lungs, also in case of whooping cough. + +Two towels are sewn together lengthwise and, as a moist pack, are placed +over the breast of the patient so that the seam will be in the center. +The ends are crossed over the back, one end is brought forward over the +left and one over the right shoulder; then the ends are crossed once +more and tucked under. A woollen shawl or covering is placed over the +moist towels as usual, so that it completely covers the moist pack. The +ends are tucked under the pack in front. The pack is fastened with +safety pins where the ends cross. + + +THE DIVIDED SCOTCH PACK (26) + +This pack is, in some respects better than the last, since it is less +liable to form creases, and the upper portion may be changed more +frequently for the purposes of cooling, than the undivided pack. It is +used together with the abdominal pack. + +[Illustration: No. 6] + +[Illustration: No. 7] + +Instead of using one strip 4 to 6 inches wide, folded 4 to 6 times, as +for the shoulder pack, two strips are taken. One strip is passed across +each shoulder, and crossed on the breast as well as on the back. The +woollen strips used for covering are of course wider and of double +thickness. The ends of the two strips are drawn underneath the abdominal +pack, and held by it, and the two shoulder packs may be changed as often +as necessary for cooling purposes without necessitating a simultaneous +change of the abdominal pack. + + +THE SHAWL (26) + +(This is an application similar to "Kneipp's Shawl") + +A large square piece of linen crash from 35 to 40 inches in width is +folded into a triangle, dipped in the vinegar-water at 59 to 64 degrees, +and after being wrung out, is applied diagonally round the neck. The +upper part of the back, the cervix, the neck, the shoulders and the +upper parts of the breast are thus covered. A woollen wrap, the ends of +which are pinned together on the back, will cover the whole pack +tightly. + +This pack must be changed if the patient becomes too hot (after 1/2 to 2 +hours), otherwise it may stay on all night. In case of feverish catarrh +it is used together with the three-quarter pack. + +Among other things the "shawl pack" causes the cooling of the blood +which streams to the head. Thus its effect in case of congestion and +brain trouble is explained. + +_Neck and shoulder packs, Scotch packs and shawl packs must always be +used in connection with a diverting leg, calf or foot pack._ + + +THE THREE-QUARTER PACK (27) + +Next to the abdominal pack the three-quarter pack is one of the best +applications, especially for children. + +A piece of woollen cloth, or a single blanket, as long as the patient +and sufficiently wide to reach all around him, is placed on the bed in +such a way as to be level with the arm-pits of the patient. A bedspread +of about the same size as the blanket is then dipped into cool +vinegar-water, wrung out well, and placed on the blanket so that the +upper edge of the latter protrudes. The patient is now laid on the +bedspread so that it reaches to the arm-pits. The moist spread is then +turned up on both sides, part of it is tucked between the legs, and the +protruding lower end is laid on or between the feet. Thus the body, +from the arms down, is completely wrapped in the wet spread, and the +woollen blanket is covered over it as usual and fastened with safety +pins. The patient's shirt is then adjusted. The head, the neck, the +uppermost part of the breast and back are not packed. Another blanket is +placed over the patient and well fastened on all sides. A pillow must be +placed between the feet and the lower edge of the bed. To avoid cold +feet the wet spread should reach only to the ankles, and the feet be +covered with the woollen blanket, or a hot bottle placed near them. + +[Illustration: No. 8] + +The three-quarter pack is very valuable in feverish diseases, since it +takes effect on so large an area of the skin. It is also very helpful in +case of meningitis and other inflammations. It should, however, not be +applied by a layman, except with the greatest caution. + +The inflamed parts must be covered with compresses, as in case of +pneumonia and inflammation of the heart. + +If three-quarter packs excite children too much, they must be replaced +by abdominal and leg packs. + +The patient should remain in the pack as long as he does not become too +hot or restless. This may occur after 20 to 30 minutes, in case of +severe fever; otherwise, the pack may last an hour or longer. The pack +is very useful with children when indications of disease appear. In many +cases it will develop and cure disease, such as measles, if it is +properly applied for 2 to 2-1/2 hours, and followed by a bath at 77 +degrees or an ablution at 64 degrees. + +When fever and inflamation begin to slacken, and also during +convalescence, three-quarter or whole packs applied daily or every +second day, followed by an ablution, are very useful for the purpose of +solution and excretion. + +In such cases the moist heat should be conserved by applying additional +blankets or comforters to the limit of endurance. + + +THE HALF PACK (25) + +The half pack is applied like the three-quarter pack, with the exception +that it reaches only from the arm-pits to the knees. + +It is especially necessary to close it carefully around the legs. The +half pack allowing the body more freedom, it may be kept on all night. + +It is most effective on the thighs in cases of sciatica. It is, however, +also applied in case of febrile disease. + + +THE WHOLE PACK + +This is applied in nearly the same way as the three-quarter pack, but +includes also the arms, breast and neck. + +[Illustration: No. 9] + +In this case the blanket must reach to above the ears. On top of the +moist spread a towel is laid, which is first drawn around the abdomen. +The patient's arms must be somewhat bent, so that they will not oppress +the breast when packed with it. Otherwise the arms may be treated just +like the legs, so that the moist spread touches them everywhere. When it +is impossible to fasten the blanket at the neck with safety pins, it can +be tucked firmly under both shoulders. The blanket must be drawn tightly +over the shoulders and the ends tucked under the opposite shoulder. It +must exceed the length of the patient by 18 inches. In case one blanket +is not large enough, two must be used, one of which may be drawn down 6 +inches below the other. + +[Illustration: No. 10] + +Additional blankets, pillows and comforters may be used in case of high +fever. + +The advice already given in regard to the differences in packs, +depending on their various purposes of cooling, diverting, calming or +dissolving, must also determine in this case as to the extra amount of +covering. The access of cold air at the neck and legs, however, must +always be carefully guarded against. + +An ablution or bath must follow each whole pack. + +If properly applied, the "whole pack" will be of the greatest benefit in +all febrile and chronic cases. + +Inflammations require partial packs, while at the same time dissolving +or diverting packs of longer duration are applied to the parts of the +body which are not affected. + + +SMALL COMPRESSES + +Small compresses may be applied to any part of the body. + +They reduce ulcers and slight inflammations; they dissolve coagulation +in cases of rheumatism or gout, even of long standing. + +A medium sized piece of linen folded six to eight times, is useful in +case of toothache or earache. The compress must be covered with a +woollen cloth and fastened as securely as possible. Dissolving +compresses must be covered more thickly than cooling ones. + +Special compresses are sometimes needed on the head, on the heart and +around the neck to prevent congestions. They are covered only slightly, +and like all cooling compresses, are changed as soon as they become hot. + + +GYMNASTICS, MASSAGE AND BREATHING EXERCISES (28, 29, 30) + +The three items under "Physical Treatment": 28. _Gymnastics_, 29. +_Massage_ and 30. _Breathing_, require only a few explanatory remarks. + +Their common object is, by means of external mechanical aid, to +stimulate the circulation of the blood which is undergoing the process +of regeneration. They remove obstacles to circulation and produce +movements and reactions. While, in the case of massage, this external +aid must, as a rule, be given by a third person in order to be +effective, gymnastics and breathing exercises depend upon the patient +himself. All of them, however, have the common attribute that, in order +to be useful, they must be strictly individual. The old proverb: "No one +thing is good for everybody," is fittingly applied in this case. + +There are few things that are so much abused as this rule in regard to +gymnastics. I cannot urge too strongly the importance of caution in +advising such exercises. While much of what is claimed for them may be +good and true, the governing question as to _what is suitable in an +individual case_, can obviously not be determined by any such impersonal +advice. It is the exclusive right and the duty of the attending +physician to prescribe whether, and to what extent, these exercises +should be applied in each case. + +This is true of gymnastics even when practised by reputedly healthy +people. By executing certain movements, they may develop disease and +weaken certain organs, through ignorance of their abnormal condition. + +In case gymnastics or breathing exercises are prescribed as part of a +treatment they should be executed in strict accordance with the order +of the attending hygienic-dietetic physician. + +One of the great principles never to be overlooked in gymnastics is, +that in order to have the desired effect they must be carried out with +the greatest regularity. + +As to massage, this requires knowledge of anatomy in general, and of the +anatomy of the individual to be treated, in particular. Only in this way +can the desired effect be produced on certain muscles and nerves, with +the further consequence that their movements promote the correct and +health-giving circulation of the blood. Here again the governing factor +must be the prescription of the hygienic-dietetic physician who has +studied the individual case and knows the effect he wishes to produce by +means of massage, and how to procure the same. + +Books on massage and its general practice without knowledge of the +particular case, will really accomplish nothing. + + +ELECTRIC VIBRATORS + +In certain cases, and where it is not a question of general massage, the +patient will be able to apply massage for himself according to the +physician's prescription. + +In this connection he will find an electric vibrator of valuable +assistance. It will allow him to extend the area of the self-applied +massage, but again, it will be useful only to the extent that it is +carried out in strict accordance with instructions. + + +OXYGENATOR, RADIUM AND SALT BATHS (31, 32) + +Since the discovery of radio-activity and the many effects which the +presence of radium in certain waters and minerals produces on the human +body, it has been the special task of research to find means of giving +humanity in general the benefit of this important discovery. + +The radium preparation, called "Oxygenator," possesses the quality of +oxidizing about five times as quickly as any other known substance, and +thus removing the degenerated and diseased cells of the human body +accordingly. + +This material itself, as well as other combinations of radio products +and salts I use and prescribe for half or whole baths, as the case may +require. + +They are of the greatest assistance in carrying out the course of +treatment in each individual case. What in former times could be +effected only through expensive trips to the few famous healing springs +of the world, can now be accomplished in the comfort of the home or the +sanatorium. But these measures, too, should be followed only in strict +accordance with the physician's orders, bearing in mind that there is +such a thing as "too much" even of so valuable an energizer as this. + + +THE DISEASES TO BE TREATED AND THE APPLICATION OF THE METHOD. + +Having given, in the foregoing paragraphs, a brief description of the +course of healing which I advocate, I am now about to give a short +explanation of the different methods to be applied in treating various +forms of disease, all of which have been already explained as +degenerations of the twelve tissues of the body. This will enable +patients to apply the prescriptions given to their individual cases. + +..._Once more, however, I warn every one not to commit the mistake of +believing that a layman can cure his own disease by even the most +careful study of a book such as this is._ + +To the patient, who has been led into the path of health, it will, as is +its purpose, give such instructions as will enable him to see his +condition plainly. _He will then be able the more effectively to follow +the instructions of the physician, and--what is of equal importance--to +inform him correctly in regard to his own observations of his condition +and the changes brought about by the treatment._ + +There is another point that I wish to mention here at the outset. + +Disease, although reduced to its last analysis under this system, is +never so simple that it can be determined as the degeneration of one +tissue exclusively. The unity of the body, the close connection of the +various tissues, and the gradual transition from one into another, make +it impossible to draw the lines as sharply and distinctly as between +chemical elements. For the sake of classification we make the +degeneration of a certain tissue the distinguishing element between +various forms of disease. Let us not forget, however, that this does not +mean more than the _degeneration of the main tissue_ which is affected +by this particular complaint, while the same is also characterized by +simultaneous degeneration of one or more of the other tissues, only to a +lesser degree. It is, therefore, not inconsistent if, in giving the more +detailed description thereof, several tissues are mentioned as being +degenerated, and not only the one particular tissue from which the class +derives its name. + + +I. DEGENERATION OF THE PLASMO TISSUE. + +_Anaemia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anaemia. A. Scrofulosis. B. +Tuberculosis. C. Syphilis. D. Cancer._ + +To many who are unfamiliar with the results of modern research, and even +to many physicians of the old school of medicine, the family of disease +forms, as enumerated above, will look somewhat formidable. It comprises +the most disastrous plagues of mankind,--plagues for which cures have +been so frantically sought with such an ominous lack of results. It thus +constitutes one of the most practical revelations of the biological +method of research to positively proclaim that the common cause of these +manifestly so different constitutional diseases is one and the same. + +That this fact was not recognized long ago is the reason they have been +pronounced incurable by so many physicians who, by poisoning symptoms, +established only a semblance of cure, until biological study led to the +recognition of the truth. It discovered that all of these constitutional +diseases are essentially blood defects and degenerations, resulting in +the destruction of the body tissue in general,--the necessary and +logical consequence of an imperfect condition of the blood. + +So there is a ray of hope for humanity breaking through the night of +despair; that is, that its worst foes can be made to disappear in due +time by attack directed at their common root. + +Not the knife of the surgeon, not the poison of the physician of the old +school, but simply harmonizing the individual life with the laws of +nature, will eradicate the cause. + +The tremendous importance of the subject, the wide field to be covered, +makes it wellnigh impossible to treat the matter within the present +limits as extensively as it should be treated. A large part of my book, +"Dare To Be Healthy," of which this is but an abstract, deals +exhaustively with this topic. There the reader will find the most +interesting details in regard to the connection between these widely +divergent forms of disease. Their nature as blood-diseases carries with +it the fact that they are preeminently persistent through many +generations, so that today there is but a minority of human beings in +whom all tendency towards them is missing. So predisposition advances +with the continuity of environment, the one point at which, at least in +the case of the so-called white plague, or tuberculosis, an effort +against it has been made. + +_The development towards the eradication of these evils has been +neutralised by the overwhelming importance science has given to the +theory of the bacillus as the incentive element of disease, while it is +only a product of the same. + +The serum and anti-toxin therapy, which in its fight against the +bacillus, lost sight of the first task of medicine, that of fighting the +disease, was the logical consequence thereof._ + +The blood liquid which consists of the plasma and red and white blood +corpuscles, and is the carrier of the lymph to such parts of the body as +are not fed directly by the lymphatic vessels, such as the nerves, must +have a well defined chemical composition in order to fulfil its task. +What we call deficiency of blood is, with the exception of traumatically +inflicted losses, normal in quantity, to a great extent, but deficient +in quality. This consists in the chemical composition and the proportion +of nutritive salts in the serum, or in the relation and quality of the +oxygen carriers, that is, the red and white corpuscles, whose task it is +to remove foreign and disturbing elements from the blood. + +It is obvious that deficiency in these elements may be of infinite +variety and of the most far reaching consequence for the various +tissues of the body, which receive their nourishment therefrom. + +According to the nature of the effects which this variety in blood +deficiency (dysaemia) produces, we distinguish certain groups of +degenerations in the body, for which names were established at a time +when the unity of these forms of disease had not yet been recognized. +Thus, where dysaemia produces only general debility, we call it anaemia, +which may gradually become destructive and develop into "pernicious" +anaemia. When it affects girls with all kinds of disturbances in +menstruation, perverting their appetite and causing a greenish color of +the skin, it is called "chlorosis." If the symptoms are the destruction +of the lymphatic glands, so often noticed in children said to be +hereditarily affected, we speak of "Scrofulosis." When erroneous +composition of the blood, produced by poor living and unsanitary +environment, causes destruction of the lungs or of certain bones or +tissues, the name "tuberculosis" indicates that the decaying condition +of the affected tissues results in producing numerous tubercle bacilli. +In the many cases in which the destruction is even more widespread, +attacking the skin, bones, brain and other tissues or organs, and where +the decomposing poison, if not hereditary, has entered the blood by way +of sexual intercourse, the ominous word "syphilis" indicates the +resulting blood disease. When the weakened tissues, which are not +sufficiently fed with the elements they need for their normal existence, +cannot resist the developing power of the phosphates prevalent in the +blood, the much dreaded malign "cancer growths" appear. + +The destructions wrought by dysaemia in these various forms, cannot be +fully described in this brief abstract. They can all be reduced, +arrested and forced to give place to healthy regeneration by the +hygienic-dietetic healing system. In each case, however, the possibility +of cure will depend entirely on the degree of decomposition which has +been reached. If the trouble is from hereditary tendency it is obviously +harder to fight, and a long regenerative treatment may be anticipated. +If attacked at an early stage, complete restoration to health is +possible in a comparatively short period. + +The most careful and thorough investigation by the physician must +precede any treatment. It is his task to prescribe accordingly, with the +development of the disease and its gradual disappearance. + +The simultaneous direct and indirect affection of various tissues, +especially of the lymphatics, will necessitate more complicated +application of the various nutritive compositions. + + +THERAPY. + +_Diet: I. For the Anaemic._ + +All that grows in the sunshine makes blood. Therefore, the food of an +anaemic person should consist mainly of articles of diet which grow +above the surface, such as green vegetables, fresh greens, fruit, +berries. Since the blood has already grown very thin, as little fluid as +possible should be taken, and for this reason the boasted milk cures are +far from advisable. If all hot reasoning is avoided and little salt and +sugar are used, no thirst will be felt. Coffee, tea, beer, wine and +other alcoholic drinks are to be avoided because they consume oxygen, +such as also do thin soups, lemonade, malt coffee, and other beverages +of slight food value. + +_Breakfast_: In summer, a glass of cold milk, sweet or sour, and with +it strawberries, huckleberries, cherries, or other fruit in season; in +winter milk or cocoa, oatmeal porridge with bread (whole wheat, whole +rye), or something similar. When the bowels are sluggish, take a little +fruit on rising in the morning and at bedtime. + +_Dinner_: Cereals, rice, macaroni, dumplings and eggs, with fresh +greens, spinach, fresh peas, fresh beans, cauliflower, all varieties of +cabbage, cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes. Root vegetables are not +excluded. Celery and parsnips alone interfere with the renewal of blood. +They ought not to be eaten frequently. + +_Afternoon Lunch_: Fruit, milk or one cup only of weak cocoa. If the +appetite is good, omit this meal. + +_Supper_: Every day, if possible, some fresh greens seasoned with lemon +juice, particularly cresses, lettuce, endive, spinach and red cabbage, +with puddings of meal or eggs. Sour milk with fruit and mild cheese, may +be taken for a change. In winter, thick soup or porridge with fruit, +preferably apples and huckleberries. Also an apple at bedtime. + +Anaemic people commonly have no wish for meat. They force themselves to +eat it in the belief that only on a meat diet is it possible for them to +become strong. They would do better to follow their inclination and +refrain from it altogether. They regain health faster on a purely +vegetable diet, one special reason being that the digestion is less +burdened. + +Fattening, combined with rest and rational remedies, like +Dech-Manna-Diet, are the best means of curing anaemia. + +The deficient appetite must be stimulated through tastefully prepared +dishes and much variety. The patient will thus unconsciously be induced +to take more food. Delicacies and dainty dishes foster pleasure in +eating, and a little food between the principal meals will help to make +up the necessary amount. Spinach, also egg omelettes filled with +spinach, puddings, groat, oatmeal, light dishes prepared with plenty of +eggs, sugar, butter and milk, also roasted meat if desired are the best +articles of food for anaemic patients. Drinks that are recommended are: +strong malt extracts, buttermilk, sour milk, Dech-Manna chocolate, fruit +coffees, fruits, berries, honey and Dech-Manna-Diet. + + +_I. and II. A. For Scrofulous Patients._ + +Two affections, rachitis and scrofula, frequently co-exist, and the same +dietary is appropriate for both. Scrofulous patients often have a great +longing for sulphur and for irritating compounds. Frequently they +consume salt greedily, eat charcoal, onions, and other piquant +substances. This indicates their need of vegetables and fresh greens +full of nutritious salts and of pungent taste and smell because of the +amount of sulphur they contain. + +Various kinds of cabbage are appropriate for the principal dinner dish, +cooked or raw in the form of a salad, with horseradish to give them +relish. For seasoning of vegetables and salads, onions and leeks may be +used unsparingly; onion soups will be found palatable and will improve +the lymph. + +At supper water-cress, lettuce, radishes, and sandwiches made of chives +are preferable to sausage and rich cheese. Fresh, mild cheese makes a +good side-dish. + +Meat should be eaten sparingly, because it rapidly changes into products +of decomposition in the lymph, and so the harmful rather than the useful +fluids of the body are increased. + +In connection with rachitis and scrofula a ravenous appetite is often +manifested. This is a morbid symptom. It arises from exhaustion of the +stomach and intestines, for no increase of bodily weight accompanies it. +The greater part of the nourishment taken passes out of the system +without being digested. Such persons, whether adults or children, should +have their meals at regular, short intervals, for they are unable to +restrain their morbid eagerness for food. After a few days of strict +diet they lose their appetite, a condition that must be accepted until a +natural hunger takes its place and results in a normal increase in +bodily weight. + +It is well known that many people suffer from hives and eczema after +having eaten certain dishes, such as crawfish, strawberries, oysters, +honey, tomatoes or cheese. For such people to refrain from partaking of +this kind of food is no protection against eczema. Only regeneration of +the blood will lead to a cure. + +As a rule such patients should avoid sharp and spicy dishes; especially +desirable is a diet of fresh, good meat, not in very large quantity, +alternating with days on which no meat at all is taken. It is imperative +to avoid sharp cheese, such as Roquefort, mustard, sardelles, mixed +pickles and similar spicy dishes. Form VI is best for patients suffering +from scrofulosis. + + +_I. and II. B. For Tuberculosis Patients._ + +Patients who suffer from diseases of the lungs or other tubercular +tissues do not require food of different composition than is generally +recommended, provided their digestive organs are healthy. They must have +albumen (medium fat beef, veal lean pork, haddie, pickled herring, eggs, +brick cheese, peas) and fat in sufficient, even abundant quantity. +Warmed milk is recommended especially. Variety in food should prevail. +This will be the best means of overcoming the dangerous lack of +appetite, which must be stimulated by delicacies and cleverly prepared +dishes given between meals, sandwiches, cold fowl, jellies, piquant cold +meats. The single portions should be small but frequent. Good beer rich +in malt, sherry, malaga and other sweet wines, are all able to promote +the appetite, unless the physician orders strict abstinence from +alcohol. + +In case of haemorrhage of the lungs, the physician will generally +prescribe liquid food exclusively, and his orders must be observed +strictly. In such cases it is very advisable to take gelatine, which can +be prepared in a variety of ways, or meat jellies. + +Care should be taken in all forms of tubercular patients, that the +special tissue gets its special composition. + + +_I. and II. C. For Syphilitic Patients._ + +The diet for people affected with syphilis does not vary from the one +given under I and II. A. for scrofulous patients. Just as in the case of +scrofulosis, a rich diet is recommended for syphilis. (Form VI). + +In former times starvation-cures were applied in case of syphilis, based +on the hypothesis that diseased humours in the body should be reduced. +In view of the noxious effect which the disease exercises on the entire +body, this method has been given up. In case of the hereditary syphilis +of infants, the best possible diet for the mother must always be +insisted upon. (Never less than Form VI and Dech-Manna Eubiogen, with +each meal). If nursing by the mother is impossible, and since a +wet-nurse cannot be subjected to the danger of contamination through the +child, easily digestible substitutes for mother's milk should be +selected; that is, not cow's milk, but other approved nutritive foods +for infants. It will be most beneficial to add Dech-Manna Eubiogen +Liquid to the child's food. + + +_I. and II. D. For Cancer Patients._ + +Cachectic patients should not, as some authorities recommended in former +times, be starved by poor diet in addition to the losses which they +already suffer when afflicted with diseases, such as cancer. Except in +case of cancer of the stomach and bowels, when I would recommend Form +III and, with gradual improvement, an increase up to Form VI, the latter +form of diet should always be prescribed in case of cancer. Special +instructions, as given under the heading, I. and II. C. For Syphilitic +Patients, should also be followed in these cases. + + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_: (Only main compositions, specialities to +Doctor's order). + + I. Anaemia: Plasmogen, Eubiogen. + I. and II. A. Scrofulosis: Plasmogen, Lymphogen, Dermogen, Eubiogen. + I. and II. B. Tuberculosis: =Plasmogen=, =Lymphogen=, Mucogen, + Gelatinogen, =Eubiogen= + I. and II. C. Syphilis: =Plasmogen=, =Lymphogen=, Dermogen, + =Eubiogen= + I. and II. D. Cancer: =Plasmogen=, =Lymphogen=, =Eubiogen.= + +_Physical_: + + I. Anaemia. Breathing Exercises. + I. and II. A. Scrofulosis: Partial Packs, Oxygenator baths, Radium and + Salt whole baths. + I. and II. B. Tuberculosis: Ablutions, Breathing Exercises. + I. and II. C. Syphilis Abdominal packs, Partial packs, Oxygenator, Radium + and Salt half baths. + I. and II. D. Cancer: Oxygenator, Radium and Salt whole baths. + + +II. DEGENERATION OF THE LYMPH TISSUE. + +The lymph, the second life-giving fluid, is first drawn from the chyle, +the milky juice, into which all food is converted after it leaves the +stomach, and after having directly fed the nerves, enters the blood +through the ductus thoracicus, and accompanies it in its circulation. + +According to its nature some degenerations of the lymph tissue are +coincident with degenerations of the blood, and especially the plasma, +such as Scrofulosis, Tuberculosis, Syphilis and Cancer, while other +degenerations of the lymph tissue coincide with degenerations of the +lymph-fed nerve tissue and are consequently treated under that heading. + + +III. DEGENERATION OF THE NERVE TISSUE. + +The nerves which form the very complicated system of gelatinous cords of +various sizes which emanate from the brain and the spinal cord, send +thousands of branches throughout the entire body. They communicate the +impressions from the outside to the brain and convey its conscious or +unconscious (instinctive) mandate to the muscles of all organs. + +The nerves are fed by the lymphatic system and are everywhere +accompanied by blood-vessles, and the oxygenous blood in the latter +conveys the oxygen to the nerve substance, which it consumes and thus +develops power sufficient to execute the various functions. + +Naturally the supply that replaces the burned nerve substance, must be +adequate, and if for any reason whatsoever more nerve substance is +consumed than the body is able to renew by the time it is needed, the +nerve system becomes degenerated and numerous disturbances are the +consequence. + +This is the great field of mental functions and disturbances, of moods +and reactions on muscular tracts which in themselves are healthy, but +are paralyzed in their work through the defective functioning of the +power-conveying nerves. + +Again it is impossible here to give more than a general description, +showing on what conditions nervous diseases are based. The manifold +manifestations of this degeneration were combined into groups under the +old system in which the Greek name of a system was everything, its +practical explanation but little. + +The principal ways in which these degenerations manifest themselves are +pains, mental agony and derangement, temporary cessation of functions, +cramps, involuntary movements and similar disturbances. + +The names generally applied to them are neuralgia and neuritis,--causing +pains in the nerves of certain parts of the body; neurasthenia,--consisting +mainly of the complete relaxation of tension in the nervous system, causing +sadness, inability for work, etc.; asthma, cramp-like cessation of certain +functions of the small vessels of the lungs, alveoli, which impedes +respiration; epilepsy, temporary cramp in the greater part of the body, +causing loss of consciousness, involuntary movements of the limbs, etc.; +St. Vitus's dance,--a similar affection, usually in children. + +While the complicated nature of nerve diseases requires very careful +treatment of great individual variety, the general rule is that the +re-enforcement of the nerves with the material of which they are built, +together with regeneration of the blood, which, when in normal condition +prevents such disturbances, will bring about a cure. Of course this is +sometimes a slow process, especially when, as in the case of epilepsy, +the nervous disease is of an hereditary character, and the resistant +power of the nerves is correspondingly weak. + +In regard to one of the most disastrous diseases, caused by degeneration +of the most important nerve i.e. the Vagus, see under "Catarrh"--section +VI. + + +THERAPY. + +_Diet_: If the entire nervous system is in a condition of pathological +irritability, as in cases of neurasthenia and hysteria, it is the object +of rational diet to keep all irritations from such a vibrating organism. + +To prescribe: "No coffee, no tea, no alcohol, no strong spices and no +tobacco," will do no harm, and in most cases will prove beneficial. + +Nothing is more absurd than the attempt to strengthen nervous people by +the use of alcohol. When forbidden alcohol entirely, it will very often +transpire that some symptom, like headache, neuralgia, etc., was due to +its use. Whenever the general conditions permit the continued use of +alcohol to a certain extent, it must not be left to the patient's +judgment to determine how far this may go, but definite quantities must +be prescribed in each individual case, although the patient's experience +may be of assistance in determining the quantity. (Moritz). + +Good results have been obtained by limiting the meat diet of extremely +nervous patients, and prescribing for them a diet consisting principally +of milk, eggs, cereals, vegetables and fruits. In this way the +irritating effect of many of the meat extracts is avoided. At the same +time the digestive work of the stomach, reduced by the limited meat +diet, and the stimulation of stool, always promoted by a prevalence of +vegetable elements in the diet, exercises a beneficial influence on the +condition of the patient. + +Disturbances of the stomach and intestines are very closely connected +with neurasthenia, loss of strength of the nerve-tissue, and hysteria, +in some cases being the cause, and in other cases, which occur more +frequently, the consequence of the same. + +Excessive and, more rarely, defective secretion of hydrochloric acid by +the stomach cells, cramps, general atony or debility, of the stomach, +vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, tympanites (excessive production of +gases), may all arise from nervous causes. In such cases the diet must +be the same as given for nervous disease. + +Not only in these cases, but in most instances of nervous diseases, a +diet which does not produce irritation and excludes alcohol, will have +to be prescribed. The danger of alcohol in cases of peripheric neuritis, +epilepsy and mental diseases, is obvious. + +Epileptics, like other nervous patients, should receive a diet that is +mainly, but not solely, a vegetable diet, exclusive of all highly spiced +food. + +The same principles govern in case of Basedow's disease, which is a +special type of irritating disease. + +Absolutely necessary foodstuffs to be recommended in this case are +clams, sole and water cress, because they contain more organic iodine +than any other known food-stuff. + +As iodine is the basic mineral of the thyroid gland, and other +preparations are poisonous or dangerous, the necessity of partaking of +these dishes becomes obvious, in addition to the fact that if properly +prepared, they are delicious. This organic iodine will regulate the +secretions of the glands. + +A diet void of irritation is also most important for children who suffer +from nervous conditions, such as St. Vitus's dance, involuntary +urination during sleep, etc. Alcohol and alkaline and carbonated drinks +must also be avoided in all nervous conditions that are combined with +hyperaemia of the brain, as meningitis, apoplexia, tumors of the brain, +etc., since they produce congestions. + +Special dietetic directions cannot be given for all of the innumerable +varieties of the various other nervous complaints. The general principle +must always govern, that sufficient food is the natural foundation, not +only of the self-healing tendencies of the organism, but also of any +effective therapy. + +In special cases where neurasthenia and hysteria or nervous dyspepsia +prevail, it will be necessary to apply a special diet to be prescribed +by the physician, who must understand the underlying cause, which is, 9 +times out of ten, the degeneration of the Vagus nerve. See article on +Influenza. + + +DECH-MANNA-COMPOSITIONS + +_(Only main compositions, specialities to Doctor's order)_ + +Acute form, Neuralgia, Neuritis: =Neurogen=, Plasmogen, Eubiogen. + +Chronic form, Asthma, Epilepsy, St. Vitus's Dance: =Neurogen=, +Plasmogen, Lymphogen, Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: + +Acute form: Partial packs. + +Chronic form: Partial packs, Massage + + + +IV. DEGENERATION OF THE BONE TISSUE. + +=Rickets, Osteomalacia and similar diseases.= + +The condition of the skeleton,--the solid structure of the osseous +frame,--is of the greatest importance to the maintenance of health. Its +various forms of disease,--such as deficient development of bone; +osteomalacia,--softening of the bones; flat foot; caries--molecular +decay or death of the bones, especially of the teeth,--are based mostly +upon rachitis (rickets). + +Rachitis should be fought at the time the child develops in the womb, by +properly feeding the mother and preparing her to give it, after birth, +healthy milk, with all the elements necessary for bone structure. + +Rachitis is principally lack of lime in the food, which causes parts of +the bones to remain soft instead of becoming rigid. + +It is a constitutional, often hereditary, disease caused by poor +nutrition and by influences of environment, such as marshy regions and +humid climates. + +The lack of lime in the food is often obvious when children show a +tendency to eat chalk, and even to scratch walls in order to eat the +lime obtained therefrom. + +More solid food, that gives work to the teeth and the digestive organs, +is certainly advisable in such cases. + +The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide +open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles. The cartilage +in the wrists and ankles becomes thick. Slow development of the teeth, +swollen glands in the neck, inflammations in different parts of the +body, cramps and convulsions,--among others, of the vocal cords,--are +further indications. In the progressive development of the disease, the +softened cartilage grows and protrudes everywhere, especially in the +thorax, such as "rachitis rosary." Crooked bones and hunchbacks not +infrequently develop. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: Older children should receive chopped meat, eggs, zwieback or +whole grain bread. Bouillon will stimulate their digestion. Uffelmann +recommends a mixture of one part veal bouillon and two to three parts of +milk, which children like. + +It is unnecessary to give calcium directly, when a rachitic diet is +observed. Sufficient is contained in the Dech-Manna-Diet, given +principally in milk and as a rule also in the drinking water. + +Quantities of amylaceous (starchy) food, candy, cakes and other sweets, +coarse vegetables and potatoes must be avoided, since with children they +are the cause of stomach trouble, resulting in decomposition and the +formation of acids in the intestines. + +_Breakfast_: Milk and whole grain bread, or oatmeal porridge and +fruit.--Whole grain bread signifies any variety of bread made from flour +containing the entire contents of the grain, the gluten as well as the +bran; among these are Graham-bread, rye-bread, pilot-bread, and Rhenish +black bread. + +_Mid-morning Lunch_: Raw scraped carrots; for small children and for +those having poor teeth, oat flakes. + +_Dinner_: Every other day--legumes, prepared in various ways, and fruit, +vegetables or fresh greens; for example: + +(a) White beans boiled to the consistency of a thick soup, with apples. + +(b) Fresh pea soup containing rice, barley, sweet corn or oatmeal; a +thick pea-porridge with parsley, served with carrots, cabbage, white +turnips, red cabbage, Savoy cabbage, or various fresh greens; or simply +browned. + +(c) Dried pea soup with similar contents; barley porridge, fresh greens, +baked potatoes; or browned and eaten with any vegetables. + +(d) Lentils boiled in soup with the same contents as before; or as +porridge, particularly with potatoes and fresh greens. + +Care must be taken never to eat leguminous products in large quantities, +because their nutritious properties are so high. Potatoes should be used +whole when added to other vegetables, and steamed not strained, because +they easily lose thereby their valuable sulphuric contents. + +_Afternoon Lunch_: Fruit and whole grain bread, or a glass of milk and +bread. + +_Supper_: In summer, cold or warm porridge with fruit and fresh greens, +and besides these millet, buckwheat, oats, barley and Graham-bread, as +especially efficient bone material. Sweet or sour milk proves a +relishing addition. In winter, soup made of the above grains, or of +potatoes not deprived of their mineral contents by peeling and +straining. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_: =Osseogen=, Plasmogen, Cartillogen, Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: Gymnastics, Massage. + + +V. DEGENERATION OF THE MUSCULAR TISSUE. + +=Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, Infantile Paralysis, Atrophy, Amyloid +Organs.= + +The muscles, about 400 pairs, which must perform all the actual work of +the body, require good nourishment through the blood, which will rapidly +replace the cells that are constantly used up. + +Muscular degeneration is caused by disturbances in the quality and +circulation of the blood. + +Interruption in the proper circulation of the blood, stagnation etc., +cause _rheumatism_ with intense pains, and this can be removed only by +restoring the undisturbed circulation of the blood, carrying all +substances requisite for the proper nutrition of the muscles. + +If disease of the muscular tissue combines with a diseased condition of +the accompanying nerves, we speak of _Sciatica_. + +Infantile paralysis, which often appears suddenly, muscular atrophy, +which develops slowly, _progressive and chronic atrophy_ of the muscles, +are also forms of muscular disease, combined with destruction of the +accompanying nerve tissue. + +A special group of muscular diseases consists of amyloid (fatty) +degeneration of vital muscle substance, as for instance of the heart, +the kidneys, the liver. These are also caused by faulty composition of +the blood, which does not feed the muscles with the substances required +and thus causes them to degenerate by developing too much fat. + +The predisposition for such forms of disease is very often inherited. + +Amyloid degeneration is often combined with wasting diseases, such as +atrophy, tuberculosis and dropsy. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: Sufferers from gout must always be guided by the necessity of +avoiding all food that contains large quantities of acid. In a general +way it is also necessary to live moderately in every respect and so +avoid all excesses. + +There are a number of dishes that are harmful to such patients. Among +them are various meats, especially dark roast meat, also game. In +general, and especially in very severe cases, it is better to refrain +from white meat also. Spleen, liver, kidney, sweetbread, brains are +absolutely prohibited, also sausage and smoked and canned meats, oily +fish, especially eel, salmon, pike, and all smoked fish, because they +may create a large amount of uric acid. + +The amount of meat eaten must not exceed 200 grams per day. The +following must also be avoided: all sharp cheeses, cabbage, sauerkraut, +and beans. + +Among vegetables the following are recommended: asparagus, celery and +potatoes. The vegetables containing oxalic acid, such as spinach, +sorrel, rhubarb and cress it is best to avoid. + +Butter is permitted in small quantities, also eggs. + +Sweet farinose dishes are unnecessary. + +Tea and coffee are allowed as beverages in very small amounts. The +principal drinks, however, should be mineral waters, such as Vichy, +Apollinaris, etc., which may be varied from time to lime. + +It is strongly recommended that the patients eat much fruit. Fruit-acids +promote good circulation. + +_Breakfast_: (a) In winter, tea made from the leaves of the haw, +blackberry, or strawberry, cereal coffee, weak cocoa with bread and +butter. + +(b) In summer, sour milk, fruit juices, or fruit and bread; among +fruits particularly strawberries, currants, gooseberries, huckleberries, +cherries, grapes, apples. + +_Mid-morning Lunch_: Radishes mashed with apples, also a raw cucumber or +tomato in the form of a salad. + +_Dinner_: No meat, no soup; fresh greens, fresh vegetables with +potatoes, rice, macaroni, and a dish of corn, rice, groats, peas, beans, +tomatoes or mushrooms. In addition, light custard with fruit or +sweetmeats with fruit. + +_Afternoon Lunch_: Fruit only. + +_Supper_: Fresh lettuce, with macaroni, baked potatoes, pancakes, +custard; or radishes with cream and potatoes, custard, mild cheese and +leeks. + +Exclusive fruit dietaries, comprising strawberries, currants, cherries +and grapes, are effective in preventing eruptions on the skin and +removing their effects. + +From one to three-quarters of a pound of fruit should be eaten at a +meal, either with a little bread or with sour milk, and at dinner as a +desert. + +In winter, from three to seven lemons a day serve the same purpose. The +juice is used without sugar and with as little water as possible, never +with the meal, but a little before, or in the morning on an empty +stomach. Only fresh lemons should be used for this purpose, not the +prepared lemon juice which is on the market. Tomatoes may be eaten in +the raw state, likewise. + +In mild cases of gout and rheumatism some crisp lean meat and fish may +be eaten, but not every day. A diet without meat has a better curative +effect upon the disease. + +Alcohol is to be shunned as totally inadmissible. The wines which +contain no alcohol must serve as substitutes. + +_Special Diet: For Diseases of the Heart and Inactive Kidneys._ + +Patients, who are afflicted with any kind of heart or kidney disease, +must be very careful never to overload the stomach. They should eat +small meals, at frequent intervals, and avoid irritating food; the +amount of liquids and milk must be determined by the physician. A +moderate amount of salt only is allowed, and if the physician so +prescribes, a diet containing little salt, must be observed. + +In case of acute inflammation of the kidneys, meat is absolutely +prohibited; the best diet is an exclusive milk-diet, consisting of at +least 1 to 1-1/2 quarts fresh milk, and in certain cases warmed milk, +taken by the spoonful; the quantity to be increased, if necessary, to 3 +and 4 quarts per day. Instead of milk, buttermilk, sour milk, kefir, +koumiss or yoghurt may be taken. + +Beef broths are strictly prohibited. In their place glutenous soups, of +oats, barley sago, tapioca, rice, groat, may be taken; furthermore +leguminos soups, made from the preparations of the firms Knorr, Liebig, +Maggi, and others. 1 to 2 spoonfuls of these preparations are put into a +cupful of water, some salt is added and the mixture is then boiled. + +A more varied diet is allowed in lighter forms of the disease, such as +milk dishes, mashed potatoes, preserved apples or pears, rolls and +butter, bread, cream, cream cheese, farinaceous dishes, eggs and green +vegetables, meat according to the orders of the physician. Spices and +alcohol must be strictly avoided. + +In cases of chronic kidney diseases, greater variety should be observed +in the diet. In any event, however, a certain quantity of milk should be +taken, not less than 1 quart per day. + +The following food is to be limited: All game, including birds, sausages +and smoked meat, sweetbread, brains, liver, spleen, crawfish, lobster, +rich cheese especially Roquefort, Parmesan, Camembert, all sharp spices, +such as pepper, paprika, mustard, cinnamon, garlic, onions; among +vegetables such as radishes, horseradish, celery asparagus, mushrooms, +tomatoes, sorrel; furthermore, all meat extracts, piquant sauces and +soup spices. + +No alcohol should be served on the table of a patient with kidney +disease. The exceptions must be prescribed by the physician. The same +applies to all new wines and beef soups. + +The following dishes are permitted: Among meats, white meat (about 200 +grams per day, preferably at noon). This comprises domestic fowl, fresh +pork, lamb and veal, also beef, especially boiled beef. As a variety +from time to time, mutton and fresh fish. + +The preferable way to prepare dishes for patients suffering from kidney +diseases, is to boil them; the next best way is to steam them, and the +third and least desirable way is frying. + +Strongly recommended: calf's feet and pig's feet, calf's head, +especially in the form of jellies and pickled, if so ordered by the +physician. Occasionally raw beef may be given, but without sharp spices. + +Fish: Trout, pike, carp; Saltwater fish: haddock and cod-fish, boiled +blue; also frogs' legs. Eggs are permitted, soft boiled, 2 to 3 per day. + +Vegetables: With the exception of those mentioned, vegetables are very +commendable, especially potatoes, green peas, white and yellow turnips, +red beets, cauliflower, lentils, beans, the last particularly, mashed; +also salad with cream and a little mild vinegar or lemon juice. +Fruit-acids must not be classified with vegetable or meat-acids, as +several, so-called "Food-Specialists" try to impress on patients, for +they do not know, what they talk about. + +Fats, such as cream, butter, rich cheese, olive oil, may be given if +they agree with the patient; bacon is not so good. + +Bread, white as well as brown, and especially Graham bread, may be eaten +without restrictions. + +As drinks: mineral water with lemon or orange juice added. Raspberry +juice is permitted, but currant and gooseberry juice must be avoided on +account of the substances contained in them irritating to the kidneys. +Fruit juices free from alcohol (apple cider) may be given. + +Every _morning_ on rising, a glass of fruit juice or some fruit. These +fruit-acids promote peristaltics of the bowels, and free circulation of +the blood. + +At _supper_: Salad of cresses or celery, or a mixed salad, radishes, +asparagus, squash and cucumbers. + +When the urinary flows is very scanty, supper may consist of a cup of +celery soup, or asparagus broth; in winter, haw tea. + +A few suggestions for _dinner_, omitting meat entirely: + +Dumplings with cabbage salad, red cabbage or Bavarian cabbage; sliced +oatmeal cake with fruit.--Cucumbers with eggs and potato bread, rolled +griddle cakes and fruit.--Cabbage with rice and butter, griddle cakes +with fresh greens. + +Squash with lemon, potatoes, baked beans, fruit.--Red cabbage with +macaroni, potato fritters, with fruit.--Dumplings and pears, +lettuce.--White turnips with cream and potatoes, buckwheat groats, +fruit.--Pea soup with sweet corn, squash and rice with fruit.--Lentils +and potatoes, salad of celery or beets, fruit.--Asparagus with drawn +butter and parsley sauce and bread dumplings, oat groats with +fruit.--Cauliflower with macaroni, buckwheat groats and milk.--Cabbage +with browned potatoes, oatmeal cake with fruit. + +_For Irritable Kidneys (Inflammation, Supperation, Contraction, etc.), +and Diseases of the Bladder._ + +For patients suffering from these diseases all spiced and sharp dishes +are prohibited, especially dishes with much pepper and mustard, also +mixed pickles, preserves containing vinegar, salads unless seasoned with +lemon juice instead of vinegar; furthermore, dishes which produce gas, +such as dishes made from yeast. Fruits are permitted only in small +quantities, avoiding absolutely gooseberries and preserves made from the +same. Preserves from other fruits, such as apples and cherries, are +permitted in smaller quantities. + +As drinks, the mineral waters which are recommended for people suffering +from gout, are advisable here also. + +Kidney stones require a mixed diet, preferably vegetable; fat and +carbohydrates--very little meat--no sweetbread, kidneys, brains, liver +or spleen; meat, if taken at all, must be boiled. + +Not permitted: game, pickled fish, piquant sauces, beef broth. + +Dispense with meat, raw celery, radishes, pears, cucumbers, even +asparagus in large amounts, at least during the state of inflammation. +Eat eggs only in a raw or very soft boiled state. In place of these +foods make up a diet of milk preparations, rice, groats, oats, millet, +buckwheat. Currant juice and wild cherries, apple sauce, diluted lemon +juice, are all of great benefit. Soups made from squash, cucumbers or +celery, haw tea, buttermilk and sour milk, mild cheese, or porridge and +fruit are excellent supper dishes. + + +_For Liver Disease._ + +In general, fatty substances should be eliminated as much as possible +from the nourishment in the case of liver disease, jaundice and gall +stones. + +To be recommended are light farinaceous dishes with milk, vegetables, +fruit and all easily digestible foods. + +Meat must be taken only in very small quantities, according to the +advice of the physician, and with very little fat. Spices and alcohol +are prohibited. Pastry and rich foods must be avoided. + +In case of jaundice the patient should receive liquid food only during +the first few days, consisting of soups, light tea, carbonated waters; +later, milk, the yolks of eggs, zwieback and light milk dishes. + +Patients suffering from gall stones may receive the same diet as +prescribed for those suffering from liver disease, generally speaking. + +In case of liver disease it is necessary to adhere very strictly to the +prescriptions of the physician, since they are due to various reasons, +and only the physician can give the proper individual directions, after +having determined the cause. + +Every morning on rising, a glass of unsweetened lemonade, or a +wineglass of currant wine or grape juice, or some acid fruit.--The same +on retiring at night. + +For a second breakfast, four or six radishes, or a tablespoonful of +grated radish, or a teaspoonful of horseradish mixed with broth and +white bread, eaten with a little toast and butter.--The same for supper. + +The following are a few suggestions for dinner without meat: + +Cabbage, potato porridge, gooseberries with egg and milk sauce.--Lentils +with potatoes and fresh greens, cresses or lettuce, fruit.--Savoy +cabbage with rice and tomato sauce, fruit with millet cakes.--Leeks with +potatoes, macaroni and plums.--Young green beans with dried white beans +and apples or other fruit, beets with cream, rolled dumplings, +fruits.--White cabbage with macaroni, chopped apples or curdled milk. + +_Dech-Manna Compositions_: (Only main compositions, specialities to the +Doctor's order.) + +_Rheumatism_: =Muscogen=, =Plasmogen=, Eubiogen. + +_Sciatica_: =Muscogen=, =Plasmogen=, Neurogen, Eubiogen. + +_Amyloid heart_: =Muscogen=, =Plasmogen=, Eubiogen. + +_Amyloid kidney or liver_: =Muscogen=, =Plasmogen=, Mucogen, Eubiogen. + +_Physical: Rheumatism_: Partial packs, either vinegar and water or +radium and salts. Massage, if necessary, and special oxygenator baths, +and radium and salt baths. + +_Sciatica_: Leg packs, oxygenator baths, half radium and salt baths, +followed by massage. + +_Amyloid heart, kidney or liver_: Abdominal packs, gymnastics, +oxygenator baths, whole radium and salt baths. + + +VI. DEGENERATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE TISSUE. + +=Catarrh in acute and chronic forms, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, +inflammation of nose, throat, bowels, stomach, bladder.= + +=Decomposition of mucous membrane, hemorrhoids, polyps, benign tumors, +also Bright's disease in initial stages.= + +Catarrhal disease is amongst the most common, in varied form and degree, +owing to the very tender nature of the mucous membrane. + +These ailments are characterized as destructions of the protective +membranes which cover the serous layer of the organs, in which layer the +lymph circulates. + +The numerous ends of blood-vessels and nerves which are thus exposed to +attack, and the spreading of the disease to healthy tissues which thus +become affected in the same way, make the various catarrhal troubles +with their accompanying excretions particularly unpleasant. + +All degenerations of the mucous membrane are based on deficiencies in +blood circulation and composition. + +A cure is effected through the restoration of the serous layer to normal +conditions and the regeneration of the blood and its circulation. + +These various forms of catarrh affect all parts that are covered with +mucous membranes, among them the female sexual organs, hence leukorrhoea +or fluor albus, which, if not properly treated, constitutes the basis +for all sorts of polyps, tumors, etc., and in many cases of continued +attack forms the predisposition to cancer. + +The lymphatic system is the carrier of all germs to the various mucous +membranes, and promotes the spreading of catarrh to all parts of the +body. + +Among the more serious and dangerous forms of acute disease of this +class which, lacking proper treatment, develop into chronic forms, are +the catarrhal affections of the lungs and bronchia, =grippe=, +=influenza=,[B] catarrh of the intestines, the bladder, the hemorrhoids +and Bright's (kidney) disease. The latter especially is among the most +dangerous diseases, and is considered incurable by the adherents of the +old medical school. The discovery that it is essentially the same as +other catarrhal diseases has, however, established the possibility of +complete cure, which has been effected in many, even neglected, cases of +long standing, under my present system. + +The many varieties of symptoms, all of which are finally reduced by +proper treatment of the mucous membranes, it is impossible to cite, in +this brief synopsis. + +More details concerning this important group will be found, together +with the modern explanation of the development of serious disease from +apparently unimportant catarrhal affections, in the very complete and +extensive descriptions given in Chapter X, Section 6, of my greater +work. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: (a) Catarrh in all its acute forms. + +In these cases the diet is almost identical with the fever diet, as +given in Forms II, III, and IV. + +(b) Catarrh in all its chronic forms. + +Diet as above, but apply Forms IV, V, VI. + +(c) Haemorrhoids, Polyps, Adenoids, Benign Tumors or Fungus Growths. + +There are no special prescriptions for these, regarding diet, except +that easily digestible food must be eaten. Mashed vegetables and fruit +should prevail. The indigestible tissues, such as skin, sinews and +gristle, should be removed from the meat. No gas-producing dishes, such +as sauerkraut, cabbage, turnips or beans, ought to be taken. + + +_Throat and Larynx Disease._ + +To avoid irritation of the mucous membranes of the mouth and larynx, all +sharp and spicy dishes and drinks are prohibited. + +In case of fever, particularly recommended are warm glutenous soups, +creams, milk, steamed fruit, fruit soups and sauces, minced white meat, +baked or steamed fish, no sharp spices. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_: (Only main compositions, specialities to the +Doctor's order). In general: =Muscogen=. + +_Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Inflammation of nose, throat, bowels, +stomach, bladder, also benign growths in all chronic forms._ =Muscogen, +Plasmogen=, Gelatinogen, Eubiogen. + +_Bright's disease_: (See special section XII chapt. X, "Dare to be +healthy.") + +=Physical Treatment.= + +_Bronchitis, pleurisy_: Ablutions with vinegar and water; partial packs +or ablutions with vinegar and water; shoulder packs. + +_Pneumonia_: Shoulder packs. + +_Inflammation of nose, throat etc._: Partial packs or radium and salt +three-quarter packs. + +_Inflammation, of bowels, stomach and bladder_: Warm abdominal packs in +addition to the above. + +_Catarrh in chronic forms_: Cold abdominal packs, massage. + +_Decomposition of mucous membrane_: Abdominal packs, partial packs, with +vinegar and water, or salt and radium emanation, oxygenator and other +baths, in case especially prescribed. + + +VII. DEGENERATION OF TOOTH AND EYE TISSUES. + +It has been explained that this unusual method of classifying the eyes +and the teeth together in one group, is based upon the biological, +chemical discovery that the lens of the eye, like the enamel of the +teeth, contain fluoric acid, otherwise contained also in very small +quantities in the enamel of the finger-and toe-nails. + +Disease of the eyes and of the teeth would require lengthy description, +for which space is lacking; suffice it to mention that the best way of +preserving the health of the teeth and of the eyes is to keep them +scrupulously clean. This simple hygienic method, regarding the teeth, +will prevent decay. + +In all cases where eye trouble concerns the lens, as well as when there +is a general disposition to caries in the teeth, the following treatment +will produce a curative and preventive effect. + +_Therapy_ + +_Diet_: Since most of the disease of the teeth and eyes is merely the +consequence of other disease, such as Bright's disease, diabetes, etc., +the diet will be in accordance with the main disease, as described. In +the treatment of both, rye bread, which contains large quantities of +fluoric acid, is highly recommended. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions: Teeth_: =Dento-Ophthogen=, =Plasmogen=, +Osseogen, Eubiogen. _Eyes_: =Dento-Ophthogen=, =Plasmogen=, Gelatinogen, +Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: All physical directions according to the main disease of +which the tooth and eye disease, is but an accompanying symptom. + + +VIII. DEGENERATION OF THE HAIR TISSUE. + +The hair, though a tissue by itself, is connected with the rest of the +body and nourished by the blood, as are all the other tissues, in +organic unity. + +In the long course of years that mark the progress of the race, it has +lost much of its original significance as a body covering against the +elements, but even in its present reduced capacity, it is a good and +true indicator of certain deficiencies in the blood and in the functions +of the body. + +Its principal disease manifests itself in loss, through the shrinkage of +the little globular terminal, by means of which it is rooted in the +skin. + +The hair has become an accepted criterion of youth and beauty, and its +change in color or its loss are consequently regarded as the unfailing +heralds of approaching age. The vast majority of people accept this +fact with reluctance, and thus the hair, more than any other feature has +become a centre of the nefarious activities of impostors. + +Its loss can be prevented to a great extent, and its quality kept in +healthy condition, if it is treated in the proper hygienic-dietetic +manner. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: Diet in case of hair disease calls for a combination of food +containing lime, silica and gelatine. It must be selected from a list of +foods that possess these special nourishing qualities. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_ =Capillogen=, =Plasmogen=, Gelatinogen, +Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: No special directions required. + + +IX. DEGENERATION OF THE SKIN TISSUE. + +According to the conception of the human body as a unit, it is not +difficult to understand that the skin, while not a separate organ, forms +the outermost layer of the body-tissues and is nourished _from within_. + +By means of more than 2,500,000 small openings in the skin, called the +pores, communication is established between the external and the +internal parts of the body. This produces a permanent exchange of +matter, and thus the skin is, in fact, a second system of respiration of +the greatest importance to the health of the entire body. + +Naturally it is subject to traumatic accidents through its exposed +position. Traumatic affections cannot now be discussed; except to give a +brief idea of the constitutional diseases of the skin which, like all +others, originate in deficient blood. Often they are only secondary, and +indications of various, more complicated, diseases. In a few cases they +affect the skin alone, but are nevertheless constitutional, especially +in such cases as could not exist at all, were the disposition not +established constitutionally. + +There is hardly another department of medicine where the "quack" reaps +so great a harvest as in the treatment of skin diseases. Thus the +suppression of symptoms becomes the rule; the removal of causes is +invariably neglected. Many forms of skin disease, being the result of +sexual infections, are allowed to develop because prudery and other +motives prevent the early investigation of the cause, and hence delay +its prompt treatment and healing. + +It is easy and natural for every one to notice the skin and see when +there is anything amiss. + +Upon discovery immediately consult an hygienic-dietetic physician, and +follow his advice closely, since skin diseases are among the most +obstinate to overcome. The physician will be able to determine whether +there is real constitutional trouble or merely a superficial skin +disease. Thus the underlying evil, if any, can be correctly treated, in +combination with such specialities as the skin tissue requires. + +_Every skin disease must be treated from the inside_, so as to destroy +the disposition and even the chance for development. In view of the +large field and the great importance of this group, it will be advisable +for every one to read the many pages that have been devoted to this +special subject in my work, on "Regeneration" or "Dare To Be Healthy," +Chapter X, Section 9. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: The general rule of abstaining from highly seasoned food should +govern all patients suffering from skin diseases. Special attention +should be given to a diet consisting of good, fresh meat, not too rich; +it should be alternated with days on which no meat is eaten. Strong +cheese (Roquefort), mustard, sardelles, mixed pickles must be avoided. +See also remarks on Scrofulosis under I. A. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_: =Dermogen=, =Plasmogen=, Gelatinogen, +Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: Partial packs, either vinegar and water, or salt and radium. +Special packs by order of the Doctor. + + +X. DEGENERATION OF THE GELATIGENOUS TISSUE. + +Another group of organ's of vast importance is the one which consists of +gelatigenous tissue. In fact all blood and lymphatic vessels, air +alveoli of the lungs, tendons and cords of the whole system, the +digestive tract from the mouth to the anus, the stomach, the bladder, +and indeed every organ or tissue which has the function of expansion and +contraction, must be made of gelatigenous (rubber-like) tissue. +Otherwise it cannot perform its duties in the organism and must needs +become degenerate. + +While there are not many special forms of disease of the gelatigenous +tissue itself, many diseased conditions occur in connection with its +degeneration. This in turn is caused by the lack of gelatigenous food, +which the blood must convey to this tissue wherever it exists in the +body. + +It is obvious that any degeneration which may affect the intestinal +duct, the bladder or other organs which contain gelatine in their +composition will require gelatigenous regeneration. + +The principal forms of disease which may affect the organs in question +are those which have been discussed under catarrhal diseases (Section +VI). The acute and chronic forms of stomach and intestinal disease, +especially, belong to this group, and have consequently received special +attention. The treatment of this question in my work, "Regeneration" or +"Dare To Be Healthy," Chapter X, A and B, will answer, in detail the +questions of those who desire more enlightenment on this most vital and +intricate subject. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: These forms include all catarrhal disease mentioned under VI. A, +also all inflammatory conditions of the stomach and intestines, in their +acute form. As far as the latter are concerned, the suitable lists of +diet will be found under Forms II, III, IV, V and VI. Regarding the same +diseases in the chronic form, the special diet lists are given under +Forms IV, V and VI. In addition the following suggestions will be +helpful: + +_Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines._ + +These prescriptions of diet serve especially for the diseases of the +stomach and intestines. In most cases a prescription for the rational +preparation of food is such as only the hygienic physician is able to +give. Food for persons suffering from diseases of the stomach, must be +selected individually according to their idiosyncrasies. In one case the +stomach must be prevented from doing too much; in another case it must +be stimulated. In one case the object is to fatten; in another, to +remove fat. In some cases the physician prescribes food which will +retard the movement of the bowels, in other instances, the patient +requires food that will promote such movement. The diet for patients +with fever must be different from the diet for convalescing patients. +People suffering from diabetes require a peculiar preparation of their +food. Not everything that is good for an adult will be beneficial to a +child. The digestibility of many foods depends upon their preparation. +The value of food for patients can be judged rightly from but one +standpoint, that of digestibility. + +The fundamental principles governing the nourishment for patients are +digestibility, great variety, abolition of all strong spices, nutritive +and well selected material. + +The temperature of drinks must be in strict accordance with the +prescription of the physician. The patient must be urged to thoroughly +masticate the food, so that it will be properly salivated and thus +facilitate digestion. Patients seriously ill, should receive their food +mashed or minced, so that they can partake of it more easily. All waste +parts, such as skin, fat, sinews, bones, must be removed from the food, +even for convalescents. Warmed up food and fibrous vegetables must be +banished from the patient's diet. It must not be a question as to what +the patient wants; the prescription of the physician only must govern. +The patient's food must be prepared carefully, absolutely correctly and +in a cleanly manner. In case of strong thirst, great care must be +exercised in regard to drinks, depending on the physician's directions. +The thirsty feeling of the patient may be alleviated by putting +glyzerine on his lips and small pieces of ice on his tongue, without, +however, permitting him to swallow the water as the ice melts. + +_Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases._ + +Milk, sweet and sour, buttermilk, yoghurt, kefir, albumen cacao, cereals +in the form of mush, strained legumes, cooked in soup or milk, all sorts +of glutinous soups, farinose dishes prepared from stale rolls, biscuits, +zwieback, tender and easily, digestible meats, mashed game meat, +chicken, raw beef, ham, meat jelly, young vegetables, preserved fruit. + +Avoid the following: all indigestible fats, meat which requires more +than 4 to 5 hours for its digestion, hot salads, gas-producing +vegetables, gravy, fruits which abound in cellulose, such as apricots +and peaches, hard stems, xylocarp ribs of leaves, the strong smelling +and sharp tasting parts of some kinds of vegetables, as for instance, +new potatoes, cabbage (in the cooking of which the first water must be +poured off), hot soups and spicy herbs, spices of all kinds, high game, +sausages, bacon, yeast pastry, drinks too hot or too cold, strong coffee +(in the place of which fruit coffee is recommended), stale raisins and +almonds, nuts, too much candy, much liquid with meats, and excitement of +all kinds while eating. + +_General Hints for a nourishing treatment._ + +The patient who is to gain in flesh must adhere strictly to the +prescribed diet as well as to the prescribed rest, if the treatment is +to take effect. + +The following articles are very nourishing: yolks of eggs prepared in +any style, milk, cream, kefir, rich cheese, beef marrow on toast (cooked +in soup), all kinds of noodles and dumplings, puddings, cocoa and +chocolate, white bread, rich thick soups, gravy, potatoes and oats +prepared in various ways, sweet beer, malt beer, sweet wines and +puddings with preserved fruits, fruit juices, meat from well-fed animals +only. All meals must be served in small portions, so as not to create +distaste for food. + +7 _A.M._--250 grams of fresh, boiled, unskimmed milk, or 1/4 quart cocoa +prepared with milk or Knorr's oat-cocoa, or 1/8 quart cream with tea +added, one roll, butter and honey. + +9 _A.M._--1 cup bouillon, 20 grams hot or cold roast meat, 30 grams +Graham or gluten bread, 10 grams butter. Then 1/4 quart milk, butter and +Graham bread. + +11 _A.M._--1/4 quart milk with the yolk of one egg. + +1 _P.M._--100 grams soup (oat, barley, vegetable soup), green corn, sago +soup, 100 grams potatoes, 100 grams tender vegetables, such as spinach, +mashed peas, mashed carrots, mashed artichokes, asparagus tips strained, +20 grams easily digestable rice, 50 grams preserved fruit; or, no soup, +but, instead meat, vegetables, apple sauce, dishes made from milk or +flour, such as noodles, fruit, 1/8 quart cream. + +4 _P.M._--Light tea or milk, with malt or cocoa added, two crackers, 1/2 +quart milk. + +6 _P.M._--20 grams meat (hot or cold roast meat), raw meat or 10 grams +Graham bread, 10 grams butter, milk chocolate, Graham bread, butter, +honey. + +8 _P.M._--1 cup soup with 10 grams butter and one yolk, barley, oats, +etc., eggs or meat, vegetables, preserved fruits, Graham bread, butter, +mild cream cheese. + +9.30 _P.M._--1/4 quart milk, with a spoonful of malt extract, 1/8 quart +cream. + +As a special breakfast, for a thin patient, the following drink is +recommended: To a cup of unskimmed hot milk add one yolk and one +spoonful of pure bee-honey. This must be taken in the morning on an +empty stomach for several weeks. + +_In case of Constipation._ + +If constipation is due to nervousness or sluggishness of the bowels, the +best means to overcome the trouble is mixed coarse food, using various +mineral waters, and little meat, but plenty of vegetables, especially +sauerkraut, cabbage, comfrey, cauliflower, pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumbers, +various salads and fruits, jellies. Among beverages sour milk, +buttermilk, kefir No. I and II, yoghurt, various new wines, fruit +juices, different mineral waters, such as Apollinaris, Karlsbad waters, +Hunyady; coarse bread, such as Graham, avoiding fine white bread. In +extremely chronic cases use my Laxagen Tea in case of emergency. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_: =Gelatinogen=, =Plasmogen=, Mucogen, +Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: Abdominal packs, with vinegar and water. + +Acute--warm. + +Chronic--cold. + + +XI. DEGENERATION OF THE CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE. + +Cartilage in the human body is the material which must cover the end of +each bone so as to prevent its destruction by friction. It is the +important part in all joints. It is obvious that any degeneration of +this particular tissue will cause friction, which is combined with +severe pains, called Ankylosis, Gout. + +The degeneration is usually a consequence of improper proportion of the +various food ingredients consumed, omitting the material necessary for +the construction of the cartilage, which, being in use, is constantly +used up rapidly. Regeneration of the blood, by assisting it in its +important task of feeding the cartilaginous tissues, and regulation of +the diet are the only two possible remedies for this form of disease, of +such frequent occurrence, the alleged cure for which attracts thousands +to bathing resorts, where they derive not the slightest real benefit. + +The variety of gout called arthritis (deforming gout), is the most +pronounced and dangerous phase of this form of disease. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: The diet is exactly the same as prescribed for rheumatism and +gout under V, Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue. + +_Dech-Manna-Compositions_: =Cartilogen=, =Plasmogen=, Gelatinogen, +Eubiogen. + +_Physical_: Partial packs, salt and radium, massage, oxygenator bath, +half bath radium and salt. + +In case of arthritis, also special packs according to the directions of +the Doctor. It is impossible to give a diet for arthritic patients, +peculiarities of this disease being largely individual. + + +XII. DEGENERATION OF THE BODY TISSUE IN GENERAL. + +By "body tissue in general" is understood the body with the total sum of +its cells--especially the red blood corpuscles--and their various +aggregations. Consequently a special composition of nutritive salts, +under the name of Eubiogen, has been composed, which is the most perfect +duplication of all the chemical elements of the entire body in the +correct proportion. Eubiogen, therefore, is prescribed as a secondary +Dech-Manna-Composition, to be taken with all other compositions. But it +also acts independently as the best means of preventing degeneration, +and in this capacity should not be missing in the diet of adults as well +as of children. The cost thus incurred would be recouped many times over +through its prevention of disease. + +Eubiogen takes a leading position in reference to the following +complicated forms of disease, in the treatment of which it becomes the +most important factor among the nutritive compositions: Ataxia, +Basedow's Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, Bright's Disease, +Arterio-Sclerosis. I am prepared to explain to patients, this curative +method and the reasons for its application; but these complicated +diseases, while based on the same degenerations of blood, and +consequently of the tissue and organs, as all others, offer impressions +which, from the point of view of the conscientious physician, cannot be +presented with but a few bare words of explanation. Nor does the space +at my disposal permit me to go into the matter with due thoroughness. + +All of these ailments have been described in my work: "Regeneration or +Dare To Be Healthy." + +The intelligent reader will readily conceive that he who has found the +secret of the degenerations constituting the various forms of disease, +will not hesitate before their complications. _Ataxia, Basedow's +Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, Bright's Disease and +Arterio-Sclerosis, can be cured. They can be cured by the same methods +of which simpler examples have been already given. + +No one, who in the struggle for health has surrendered to the attack of +constitutional disease, the germ of which may have been implanted in him +by his forefathers, needs despair. Let him seek advice before too late, +and the strong probability is that in due time he will have regained his +health, and will be enabled to fulfil his duties to himself and to +posterity._ + +_NOTE._--In reference to the foregoing tables of dietary "Regimen" the +reader must clearly understand that the prescriptions are merely +indications of diet appropriate to various phases of the complaints to +the treatment of which they are attached; but the decision as to how and +when these phases occur in individual cases should be left entirely to +the discretion of the physician in charge of the case who will, of +course, also pronounce upon the diet. Should there be no such authority +present, the greatest care and common sense must be devoted to the +selection from the said tables of a system of diet suitable to the +various stages of disease. Any recommendations therein contained which +may appear to be contradictory or conflicting must be ascribed to their +complication on a progressive dietary system consistent with the +prospective advancement of the case towards recovery. + + +INFANTILE PARALYSIS. + +Amongst the forms of Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue the reader will +have noticed that of Infantile Paralysis or Poliomyelitis. + +The startling prominence that this complaint quite recently acquired was +due to its world-wide ravages in epidemic form and the absolute and +confessed inability of the combined sagacity of the whole faculty of the +orthodox medical profession to cope with it or to cure it--to fathom its +cause and origin or to curtail its increasing rate of mortality. I am +therefore constrained, so far as space permits, to give the matter +special and particular consideration. + +The scientific name, "Poliomyelitis," is derived from the Greek words: +polios, grey and myleos, marrow; for its chief feature is a softening of +the grey spinal marrow. + +First noticed by the medical world no later than the year 1840, +statistics show that in the last decade it has appeared in various parts +of the world in epidemic form, notably in Sweden and Norway. In America, +epidemics occurred in 1907 and 1908 and again in 1916. It was promptly +and energetically dealt with by the Rockefeller Institute of New York +where the proof was established of the possibility of transmission by a +living virus taken from the spinal marrow of a victim; but whether this +disseminator may be correctly termed a bacillus, or fungus or a germ, +medical-science has been unable lo determine; neither has it succeeded +with the most powerful microscope in discovering the individuality of +this "carrier," whilst all experiments with re-agents have been bare of +results. Thus the researches of science have merely brought us back to +the starting point; namely, that there is a "something" which exerts a +degenerating influence upon the cellular tissue of the spinal marrow and +causes the morbid enlargement of its cells. + +The New York Board of Health, cites eight different forms in which the +disease may appear and acknowledges a startling failure to determine +either any uniform period of incubation (i.e. the time between contagion +and the appearance of the symptoms,) or the period of infection (i.e. +how long a sick person may be a danger to others). + +The New York press accepts the situation philosophically; as follows: + + "Infantile Paralysis cannot be cured by means of medicines. The + physician must of necessity limit his ministrations to easing the + pain, providing for easy movement of the bowels and so forth, but + otherwise _he must let nature take its course_." + +Medical reference books vaguely define the disease with diverse and +indefinite theories, showing that science on the subject is practically +mute. + +But the medically "unprofessional," random remark of the New York +press-man has exactly hit the mark: "Let nature take its course." + +The fact is that nothing very clear or absolute can be said about +Infantile Paralysis; for observation shows that it is apparently a +matter of racial conditions and environment and that only from the +general application of the Laws of Nature, as taught by biology can we +reasonably hope to solve the problem or cure the disease. + +As the result of careful study of many cases I simply confirmed the fact +that Infantile Paralysis belongs strictly to the class in which in the +foregoing chapter I have placed it, and is subject to the same rules, +influences and treatment. In most of the cases treated I have not failed +to discover the existence of spinal trouble in one or other of the +parents. This, engendering _predisposition_ to similar complaints _in +the children of the opposite sex_, which, acted upon by the irritants +bred of poor or irrational nutriment and unhygienic environment in +greater or lesser degree, results in attacks of this disease, in plain +or epidemic form as the case may be, to which all children so +predisposed are liable. Thus, incidentally, is my recently discovered +"Law of the Cross-Transmission of Characteristics" amply verified. + +As to the cause which leads to the development of this predisposition in +the children, the answer, of course, is improper nourishment; and +amongst the contributory causes I would specially indicate, +"Pasteurized" and "sterilized" milk which has been absolutely banned by +science on the basis of Physical Chemistry, according to which it was +definitely proved in a report laid before the Paris Academy of Sciences, +that valuable bone-forming ingredients in the milk, (a combination of +carbonic and phosphoric lime,) are lost in course of Pasteurization, +since at the temperature necessary for the process they are _transmuted +by heat into insoluble elements_, (phosphate and carbonate of lime) +which, precipitated by chemical action, either drop to the bottom in +sediment or cling to the surface coating and, in either case, are +eliminated and lost to the child to an extent which constitutes a +serious deterioration in its food and one likely in any case to promote +rickets. Milk also contains important constituents which change into +necessary food elements in the course of natural fermentation--gelatine +for instance--which being, as has been shown, so vital a factor in the +building up of tissue, it needs no argument to prove the disastrous +consequences its depletion must engender in the child and it may be +likewise safely left to the intelligence of the reader to grasp the +obvious fact that for the prevention or healing of Infantile Paralysis +the one and only safeguard is Regeneration through the course already +indicated of Hygienic-Dietetic treatment which will, if applied +beforehand, eliminate the tendency to disease or, in the event of its +occurrence, will conduct it along safe and natural lines to a quick +recovery. + +This brief sketch of the subject must suffice for the present purpose +but a special article[C] with full and interesting details has been +devoted to the subject, which will appear in my greater work, +"Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy." + + +"FACIAL DIAGNOSIS" AND "THE CLINICAL EYE." + +It is an incident common to the experience of all Natural Hygienic +Physicians for the patient to exclaim in quasi protest: "But Doctor! How +can you tell?" + +Accustomed to the pompous pantomime of the orthodox physician--the gold +watch and chain trick, while pulse and tongue reveal their hidden +records--and then the well known questions which call forth the +personal predilection in the fashion of disease and diet, (prescriptions +which are often not untinged by the physician's own proclivities), at +first the patient misses the old familiar presence. If ill he _must_ be, +he expects that the process should proceed from the outset on the old +accustomed, "strictly respectable" lines, and something like resentment +stirs him when, in place of questioning, a physician presumes to _tell +him_ at a glance the substance of his malady _unasked_. + +But such is the method of real efficiency and such the qualification of +the men who practice the new philosophy which shall save the world from +shams. + +_Facial diagnosis_ is the determining factor of the logical and never +failing science of natural therapy which is coming to the rescue of +mankind, in spite of legal and commercial obstruction. + +_The "Clinical Eye"_ is, emphatically, _not_ the sad old "Eye of Faith" +which has sent its millions to their doom, but the _sober, steady, +practiced introspective hopeful eye of knowledge and experience_. + +The external symptoms visible to the clinical eye of a physician worthy +of the name, vastly outweigh in important significance, all the +objectionable detailed examination of parts and organs which from long +use has become the habit of the old-school practitioner. Moreover the +swift impressions gathered under the clinical eye are spontaneous and +reliable whereas, as the result of questioning or the description of the +patient, they possibly are not, but rather represent too often some +preconceived notion of alleged heredity or devotional pessimism, +sometimes original but more probably the suggestion of relatives and +friends. + +The subject is a vitally important one and, with a view to clearing away +the obstruction of old superstitions from the mind of the reader, I +shall trespass upon my allotted space in order to give a brief extract +of my remarks thereon as expressed in my greater work: "Regeneration or +Dare to be Healthy." + + +DIAGNOSIS, PHYSIOGNOMY AND PSYCHOLOGY. + +The biological healing system, based on the laws of nature and the +acknowledgment of the fact that no two cases of disease are exactly +alike, requires much broader knowledge and much deeper insight on the +part of the physician than did the old-school of medicine with its +search for symptoms of special diseases and its occult prescriptions. + +Since the object is to get at the root of the evil in order to +regenerate the patient thoroughly, it becomes imperative to obtain, what +is hardest to elicit from him perhaps, the accurate truth about himself +and his ailment. + +And though expert in recognizing external symptoms, it is unwise to rely +entirely thereon and research must continue into realms where the +patient himself only can lead us and where, willing or otherwise, he is +apt to mislead. + +Psychology teaches how to find the way into the darkness of a patient's +soul. Physiognomy teaches, not only to read in the face and external +appearance, the story of a life which is written there in characters +which only experience may decipher, but also to realize when the patient +employs physiognomical expressions to hide what we persistently seek; +namely, the truth. + +And again, in regard to healing, psychology teaches how to influence the +patient so that he may discontinue to be his own worst enemy; that he +may recognize his mistakes as such and discard them, although possibly +he may have grown so addicted to his tastes as to prefer to continue +therein in place of daring to be healthy. + +In the plan of production of a regenerated and healthy humanity, every +individual of this kind must be regarded as a foe who interferes with +the prevention of disease both now and in futurity. To win such an one +over, to make him an enthusiastic believer in the theory that health is +a necessity, and, a task less easy, to prevent his relapse into his +previous degenerate manner of life and health,--this is another branch +of science for which psychology and physiognomy are more needful than +anything else. + +Here again it is the true physician's principle to enlighten the layman, +and not to surround his methods with a mysterious, but imposing wall of +secrecy. + +We do not hesitate to reveal the main points of our system of diagnosis, +which is much broader than the old system of scholastic medicine,--the +performance with auscultation, percussion, X rays and the rest. Certain +knowledge of these things will lead every one, ere long, to submit all +disturbances of health to the hygienic physician while prevention is +still probable and possible, instead of waiting until disease has taken +firm hold. It will also enable men to realize that the old-school +practitioner who pronounces them sound while they feel for themselves +that there is something wrong within has yet "a something" left to +learn. + +The realm of psychology, however, is beyond the scope of my present +endeavour, save in so far as it may serve to show that we are fortified +with this particular knowledge, and to the end that this book may +constitute a help to the aspiring hygienic-dietetic physician, calling +his attention to the necessity of acquiring as profound a knowledge of +psychology as may be. + +I will confine myself at present, therefore, to the external symptoms +which must be observed, though they are not generally considered as +symptoms of disease; and yet they indicate disease or the disposition +thereto, individual or hereditary, as the case may be. + +I shall consequently deal with the peculiarities of hands and feet, +nails and hair, eyes and ears, nose and teeth, mouth, forehead, tongue, +chin, cheeks, neck, chest, abdomen, legs, and general constitution. + +Nature has endowed us with strong discriminating faculties against +certain external indications of disease. We experience a pleasant +feeling when the hand is pressed by another hand that is warm and dry, +but we shrink from the hand that is cold and moist and clammy. + +Perspiring hands and feet are a sure indication that some process of +degeneration is going on within the body, the production of diseased +cells being in excess of what the body, under normal conditions, is able +to excrete, and therefore they seek unusual channels of leaving the +body, that is, through the skin and mucous membranes. + +Perspiring feet are a symptom of disposition to colds and possibly +tuberculosis, while perspiring hands indicate certain nervous diseases +and disposition to gout; constantly cold hands and feet are usually +found in people who suffer from scrofulosis or anaemia. + +In many cases the quality of _nails_ leads to the conclusion that there +is a thorough disturbance of the process of nutrition. If they are +fragile and brittle, there is no question but that there is lack of +certain nutritive salts in the blood. Swollen and deformed nails +indicate special disturbances in circulation, chronic heart and lung +diseases. + +_Hair_, or rather the absence of hair, especially in early life, is +sometimes another indication of faulty nutrition. + +Baldness or premature gray hair is usually a pathological indication, as +is also the dishevelled hair of nervous people and children suffering +from scrofulosis, while rich, glossy hair is always a sign of good +health. + +The development of the hair depends upon the activity of the skin, the +nerves and the composition of the blood. The blood of dark-haired people +is lacking in water and fat, but richer in albuminous matter. Poor +quality of hair is indicative of living in bad air, poor nutrition of +the skin, hard mental work, pain and sorrow. Sexual excesses during +youth are often the cause of premature baldness and thin hair. + +The _eyes_ present a picture that manifests the general condition of the +body, whether it be healthy, disposed to disease, or suffering from +disease. + +Protruding eyes are the sure symptom of the disease known as Basedow's +disease; they indicate also short-sightedness, and hereditary epilepsy. + +The condition of the mucous membranes of the eyes permits certain +conclusions as to the genital organs. + +If the eyes are abnormally small, we draw the conclusion that there is +general weakness and deficiency in nutrition. They indicate retarded +development, which may be seated in the central nervous system. The eyes +usually recede during severe diseases. A hyperaemic condition of the +eyelids, with or without inflammation, is always a symptom of a dysaemic +condition of the entire system (scrofulosis). In some cases of +scrofulosis there is not another visible sign on the entire body, and +yet the eyelids and eyelashes, which sticks together most of the time, +tell the story of an inherited condition of dysaemia. + +A yellowish hue of the eyes indicates disease of the liver. + +The color of the iris does not indicate much in itself, although the +theory of Liljequist, which deserves some attention, claims that if a +person deteriorates in health, the eyes, if originally light blue, +darken more and more and finally change into brown or the color of the +hybrid race. Liljequist's scale of healthy eyes reads: Light blue, +medium blue, dark blue; then light, medium and dark brown. However, +brown eyes do not represent sickness; they but indicate nervousness and +sensibility. + +According to Liljequist, individuals belong to the hybrid race when they +are born of parents one of whom has blue eyes and the other brown eyes. +The weaker race transmits the brown colour of its iris to the middle +part of the iris of the child, while the colour of the stronger race +reappears in the outer part of the iris; not, however, as pure blue, but +tinted with a delicate shade of green, in consequence of the light +brownish-yellowish colour which emanates from the central part. + +When death is imminent, the iris displays a grayish-black, muddy gray or +muddy brown colour. + +The pupil of the eye is irritated in cases of nervous disease and +indicates this condition. In cases where only one pupil is dilated, a +local disease of the optic nerve or one side of the brain is evident. If +the pupils are insensible to external irritations and remain rigid, the +conclusion is that the brain or the spinal cord is badly affected. + +It may be stated in a general way that clear, brilliant eyes, (when not +caused by fever) are usually an indication of the good quality of the +blood as well as of all other humours of the body, together with normal +activity of all the central organs. + +The _mouth_ and _tongue_: Pathological indications manifested by the +mouth are principally displayed by the lips, which are clear red in +healthy people, while a hectic red indicates fever and pulmonary +disease. Pale lips indicate anaemia and chlorosis, and lips of a bluish +hue are signs of a generally weakened organism. Frequent, vivid +contractions of the lips (usually thin in this case) indicate great +nervousness. + +The color of the mucous membrane of the tongue is a very fair indication +of health or sickness. If a person is in health, the tongue is rosy and +not coated. But any disturbance in the intestines causes a more or less +coated tongue, and consequently shows the detrimental influence these +particular ailments exert upon the brain and nerves. Hence, a coated +tongue affords a valuable indication in making a correct diagnosis, +especially in case of chronic catarrh of the stomach, this being one of +the main causes of depression, and melancholia, as stated by Piderit. + +The _forehead_, or rather the record traced thereon, in lines of +nature's unimpeachable calligraphy, warrants certain conclusions as to +mentality and character; and these may be important in determining the +truthfulness of the patient's stories of suffering and other items which +facilitate or impede a correct diagnosis. + +The interpretation of such features, however, belongs to the realm of +pure psychology, this is also true of similar conclusions drawn from the +outlines of the chin. + +Of much more importance for the purpose of diagnosis is the _nose_. + +Even a child understands what the red nose of the habitual drunkard +signifies. A bloated nose with a tendency to become sore is an +indication of a disposition to scrofulosis. + +Other indications of disease are displayed to the experienced physician +by the condition of the nose. + +The _nose_ is one of the most typical of the human organs; it is also in +the closest connection with the entire system with its groups of +organs--the brain, intestines, breast and even the sexual organs. + +The infinite variety of nasal formation has attracted the intense +interest of the physiognomist to this organ. + +The most important function of the nose lies in its action as a +respiratory organ. Bad habits or faulty construction which prevent it +from serving in this capacity, lead to much suffering and disease, and +it is always important to determine whether the channels of the nose are +clear and open and efficiently serve their purposes. + +The function of the nose as an olfactory organ must also rank highly in +its importance. In this case, however, the nose of the physician plays +the important part; not the nose of the patient. In fact, most of the +famous authorities, among them Professor Jaeger of Stuttgart, Dr. Heim +of Berlin and Dr. Lahmann of Dresden, have made very valuable +discoveries in this respect. + +Dr. Heim has found methods of determining the nature of certain acute +diseases from the odour emitted from the person. + +Dr. Lahmann distinguishes the hypochondriacal, the melancholic and the +hysteric odours, which, as he says, are most characteristic. + +The same applies to the odour of diabetics and other people who suffer +from disturbances of digestion, and patients who suffer from cancer and +other diseases involving a process of putrefaction. + +The fact that most patients diffuse unpleasant odours is of the greatest +importance to married people, as it easily produces antipathy, and +especially in the case of chronic diseases, is frequently made the basis +of separation and divorce. + +Were this defect known to be but the symptom of a curable disease, the +husband or wife would probably prefer to consult the hygienic physician +rather than the lawyer. Knowledge in such case would mean the +preservation of domestic happiness. + +_The teeth_: The parents of a young man once complained to me that their +son had been rejected as a cadet at West Point upon physical +examination, because two of his teeth were filled. + +The authorities are certainly justified in their decision. + +The lack of perfect teeth indicates faulty digestion. Usually the teeth +are ruined during youth because children breathe through the mouth +instead of through the nose,--either on account of the physical +condition of the nose or because the tonsils are enlarged. + +The lack of sufficient nutritive salts in the diet is often revealed by +the condition of the teeth. + +From a physiological standpoint the teeth are no less important than the +brain, the eyes and the hair; and the conclusion that perfect eyes, hair +and teeth indicate a perfect brain is absolutely justified, while the +lack of perfection in these organs shows internal deficiencies long +before they appear in external manifestation in the form of disease. + +Since healthy blood is the basic condition of healthy teeth, the fact +that people have clean white teeth, set in regular line, indicates the +existence of healthy blood. On the other hand, a bad composition of the +blood is manifested by short, irregularly set, yellowish teeth. + +The teeth of healthy people are always somewhat moist, dry teeth are +accordingly a bad sign. + +The only advantage of yellowish teeth rests in the fact that their +dentine is, as a rule, stronger. Extremely bluish white teeth often +consist of a soft, porous and tender dentine. + +Faulty structure of the teeth indicates weak bones in general. + +Crippled teeth and the late appearance of teeth in infants,--that is, +not before the ninth month,--are symptoms of rachitis. Healthy children +have their teeth between the fifth and seventh months. + +The teeth of diabetics become loose without any formation of tartar, (an +incrustation of phosphate of lime and saliva). + +Extremely yellow teeth indicate jaundice, while reddish teeth show +hyperaemia of the dentine. Carious teeth are a result of disturbed +circulation. + +The gums are also very indicative of disease. If they are of a pale pink +colour, they indicate anaemia or chlorosis; if bluish red on the edge, +they indicate tuberculosis. + +Some of the most striking indications of existing disease are +demonstrated by the _neck_. By feeling the neck and carefully watching +its external appearance, the experienced scientist will obtain much +valuable information that will aid in his diagnosis, and give him +additional knowledge as to the processes going on within the body of the +patient. + +The significance of the formation of the _thorax_ (_chest_) is well +known, even to many laymen. Flat chest, so-called chicken chest, +indicates imperfect development of the lungs, and when extreme, even +tuberculosis. + +A flabby abdomen indicates disposition to hernia and stagnation of the +blood, frequently causing hemorrhoids or inflammation of the prostate +gland in men, and all kinds of diseases--inflammatory or catarrhal--in +women. + +As to the _legs_, the so-called varicose veins are indications of weak +blood-vessels and intestinal hemorrhage, while inflamed nerves lead to +the conclusion of gouty diathesis and the danger of paralytic strokes. + +The _skin_ usually affords more indications that aid in forming a +correct diagnosis than is usually recognized. + +If examination were made of the excreta through the pores of an +individual during 24 hours, some conclusion might be definitely arrived +at as to any germs of disease present in the body and in course of +expulsion in this way. + +All bacteria incident to detrimental processes proceeding within the +human organism, are to be found in the perspiration. + +Freckles indicate a certain predisposition inherent in the blood, while +some forms of eczema point to the conclusion that there are diseased +processes in action within the body. + +It is most important under this system to determine the chemical +condition of the body in each individual case. + +Acids or alkalines prevail. If the former, patients have bad teeth, a +disposition to gout, diabetes and cancer. The normal condition is the +predominance of alkalines. + +In such cases as the former, physiological chemistry will point to the +counterbalancing of the acids to establish a correct composition of the +blood, and thus to prevent the impending danger. The biological system +of health which is rapidly taking the place of all others, is equipped +with so searching a knowledge of the human organism that no disease, be +it ever so adroitly concealed, can escape its minute attention; not +excepting even the disposition to disease. + +The old adage is still true that "prevention is better than cure" and +the intelligent person will probably recognize the wisdom of so safe and +sane a course and endeavor to prevent the evils to which he may be +exposed. Thus, for his own satisfaction, if he be wise he will adopt +these two simple precautions: + +(1) Examination by an accredited hygienic-dietetic physician. + +(2) Regulation of his mode of living in accordance with the course +prescribed. + +The words of the famous Moleschott ring true today, more than in the +past, when he said: "One of the principal questions a patient should ask +his physician is, how to make good, healthy blood." Experience shows +that there is but one method to attain good blood,--that _priceless +factor_ upon which our _thinking_, our _feeling_, our _power_ and our +_progeny depend_, and that is by means of _correct food and nutrition_. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[B] See special article on Influenza, page 408. + +[C] This article is also printed in pamphlet form and may be had from +the author for 50c. Postage paid. + + +CHILDREN'S DISEASE. + + _"The cause of the Poor to plead on, + 'twixt Deity and Demon."_ + + (Carlyle). + + + _"Child of mortality whence contest thou, + Why is thy countenance sad, and why are + Thine eyes red with weeping?"_ + + (Bartauld). + +I have opened this chapter with somewhat startling mottos, for its +pathetic theme is Children and children's disease; and it seems to me +appropriate, in view of what it portends, to send forth in this form a +world-thought, as a harbinger of sympathy--a foreword which may set in +motion the thought-waves of pity. For of all living creatures born into +this world of pompous ignorance and maudlin solicitude to struggle for +precarious existence from the cradle to the grave, by reason of the +unnatural conditions of our vaunted hygienic and educational +systems--generously termed "civilization"--there is surely nothing quite +so "poor," so woefully devoid of practical protection, and, in its +exceptional helplessness, so weakly gushed over and little understood as +the child of frail humanity. + +"The cause of the poor"--thus the legend runs--"in deity's or demon's +name." For truly, of the two angels which, we are told, attend upon the +birth of credulous mankind and the initial stages of development, the +malign influence would seem to be ever in the ascendant, irrespective of +the social status of the, more or less, pre-natally affected, innocent +reproduction wherein is focused the latent follies and delinquencies of +the race, as portrayed in the course of its long pangenesis. + +Now, incredible though it may seem and deplorable though it be, the +secret which has revealed itself with absolute force and conviction to +the judicial minds of unemotional scientific observers is simply this: +that the children of the present generation are, as an incontestable +matter of actual fact, really brought into this world alive and some +attain to maturity, not through maternal intelligence, but rather, _in +spite of mothers_. This is a hard saying but none the less a truth. They +survive in spite of the idiosyncracies of their fondly irrational, +untutored mothers rather than because of any practical, efficient +effort these contribute towards the well being and survival of their +offspring. This, as a general rule, is unhappily beyond question. It is +a rule which has, naturally, many exceptions,--many brave and brilliant +ones--these however only serve to confirm it. + +Comte, writing as an authority on the subject, made the assertion that +there is hardly an example on record of a child of superior genius whose +mother did not possess also a superior order of mind. As an example he +cites: The mother of Napoleon Bonaparte, high-souled, heroic and +beautiful; the mother of Julius Caesar, a singularly fine character, +wise and strong; the mother of Goethe,--affectionately termed: "The +delight of her children, the favourite of poets and princes--one whose +splendid talents and characteristics were reproduced in her son." There +are also, we know full well, unnumbered hosts of others, whose kindly +light has been shed in many an humble or secluded home, whose beloved +names have been called blessed by thousands though unrecorded in +historic page--who have lived and loved and passed on to higher +realms--to the world, to eulogy and to fame unknown. + +In ancient days, when Athens was the centre of culture and of learning, +the Greek mothers were more prone to regard the significance of +pre-natal influences than are the mothers of the present day of putative +advancement. The hereditary tendencies of child-life, with all its +complexities of racial and ancestral character and the qualities +resulting from the dual source of parentage, were then perhaps better +understood, or at least more seriously considered; also the obvious but +grossly disregarded fact that the cradled infant of today may be the +responsible citizen of the future, was kept more effectively in mind and +its significance to the State more fully recognized. The wisdom of +Solomon was never more clearly demonstrated than when he said: "Train up +a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart +from it." It is a piece of world philosophy which has reigned +unquestioned throughout the ages--a policy upon which human discernment, +in Church and State, has relied with unfailing effect; "for the thoughts +of a child are long, long thoughts"--those well-remembered words, how +true; for those "long thoughts"--the mental environment of the formative +period of child-life--do inevitably determine the future character of +the individual, and the immediate result of neglect in these vitally +important stages is painfully and promptly apparent in the aggressive +and unchildlike deportment of the turbulent young neophytes of both +sexes, so disproportionately in evidence in all directions throughout +the community of the present, as to bring into ridicule and utter +contempt existing methods of control. This dire defect in individual +restraint may be largely ascribed to both physical and mental +degeneracy, of hereditary origin; and when to this is added the attempts +of parents to maintain the tranquility of the home by threats, bribery +and fatuous promises--undue severity on the one hand and undue licence +on the other--serious developments are not far to seek. It has been well +said that children who are governed through their appetites in their +infancy are usually governed by their appetites in maturity. Thus it is, +by unwise methods of control which appeal wholly to the spirit of +greed, emulation and selfishness in the child--the purely animal +instincts--with perhaps the occasional degrading influence of corporal +punishment, as a later development, that so many young lives are wrecked +and the downward path made easy which leads through duplicity to crime. +The infantile precosity of the age leaves little scope for the old-time +sentimental prudery of parents who fail to discriminate between +innocence and ignorance; but it has been stated by a well known American +authority on the subject of child-culture, whose experience of +child-life and schools is nation-wide, that only about one child in a +hundred receives proper instruction early enough to protect it from +vice. Then again there supervenes the evil of the competitive school +system which, too frequently, forces the education of a child beyond the +natural order of growth. Countless numbers of little ones are injured by +enforced premature development, thereby diverting the vital forces to +the development of the brain which should be devoted to the development +of the body. + +Encompassed by such a chain of adverse circumstances as the combined +result of parental egotism and pedantic, pedagogical ignorance, is it +wonderful, I would ask, that the ghastly record of the hideous sacrifice +of child-life is what it is, and that the young lives which do by chance +escape the horrible holocaust, still reap the prevailing harvest of +prolific ills of which the coming explanation will give some adequate +conception. + +Often the fondly futile questions fall from the anxious lips of maternal +foreboding: What has the future in store for me? Will my child live? +Will providence grant me this long-sought blessing? A thousand such +thoughts continually assail the heart in a mother's intense solicitude; +but not in vain will her hopes be set, if haply, she may reverently +follow the course of Mother Nature's laws and precepts, into which I +will endeavor to give you some insight. + +Every thinking man must shudder to find it recorded in statistical +tables how insane asylums and prisons are overflowing, how suicides and +crimes against life and soul are but common incidents. It is not hard +for each one of us to see the demon of greed and avarice in the eyes of +those we meet, ready and eager to snatch away the very bread from the +lips of his fellow man because he, too, is hungry and lacking life's +necessities. The egotism of mankind grows constantly stronger; all are +in haste to become rich, that thus they may enjoy life before its little +span is spent. What has become of the youths exuberant in strength, who +once were wont to set out, all jubilant with song, in their heyday of +freedom, to revel in nature and bathe their lungs in its balsamic +atmosphere--to return strengthened to their sleep at early evening, and +who really sought to retain their health? They who were the pride of +their parents, the joy of their sisters, the blissful hope of a waiting +bride. Can we recognize such in the average youth of today,--the citizen +of the tomorrow--these effigies of men, degraded by the demons of +alcohol and nicotine, by the gambling passion, and by the company of +loose women, into dissipated dissolute invalids unwholesome in +themselves and a menace to the race? + +Let us pass on rather to the gentler sex. + +Where are the sprightly, modest maidens with cheeks rosy with healthy +blood, graceful in figure with well developed forms--the chaste, pure +spirit shining in their eyes, with witchery and common sense combined? +Where are the fathers and mothers whose good fortune it is to possess +such children as these? Can it be that they should deem these +caricatures of fashion worthy of their fond desire?--these whose days +are spent in idling, who find their pleasure in the streets, the shops, +the theatres and the like they term "society?" + +Those men are old at forty years. + +Those youths too often die at twenty, dissipated wrecks, holding as a +mere ceremony the marriage they expect eventually to consummate; or +married, now and then produce a single child that had far better never +have been born. + +What of those mothers who cannot nourish their own offspring, but fain +would make shift with all imaginable unnatural substitutes and bring up +children in whom a predisposition to disease has already been born? + +Oh nature! High and mighty mistress! A bitter penalty dost thou exact +from these thine erring progeny. + +And rightly so. + +Cruelly plain dost thou stamp thy mark on the tiny brow of the unborn +child to mark in what degree its parents have departed from thine +eternal ways of truth. + +When a great man, recently, in his address before the body of a famous +university, solemnly asserted that mankind is growing better, day by +day, he must have had before his inner eye fair visions of a future +race--the Future of Truth, which come it must--some day--but now lies +dormant in the lap of the gods, its alluring, visionary, transcendental +form depicted, for an optimistic instant, in the fervent, hopeful heart +of a sincere but far-sighted reformer. But it is written: false prophets +must come, deceiving in respect to all things in heaven and earth. +"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur." (The world wishes to be deceived, +therefore, let it be deceived.) The world elects to be deceived. It is +so--often on the most paltry of pretences. And here lies the fatal and +prolific cause which has ever, throughout the ages, wrought infinite +harm and impeded the progress of the world: _The world's indifference to +truth._ + +For the proper understanding and radical cure of any disease it is of +primary importance to have before the mind's eye a distinct picture of +its character and developments, thus tracing it back step by step to its +source, so that the therapeutic, or healing measures employed may be +properly adjusted to its various stages. + +Nature has her foes, chief amongst which are ignorance, indulgence and +fear; and these foes have ever waged fierce warfare upon her from time +immemorial. But today a positive spiritual revolution is being wrought +among men, for Mother Nature is calling defaulting humanity back to +herself with no uncertain voice. + +Back to Nature is now the cry. + +Never before were homilies on food so manifold and the ability to profit +by them so diminished; never were remedies so abundant and conditions of +health so bad; never were deeds of charity so numerous and the poor so +discontented; never were measures of reform so prominent and their +results so meagre; never was production of commodities so enormous and +the cost of living so excessive; never were the resources of all the +world so accessible and counterfeits so plentiful; never was +enlightenment so widely diffused and sound judgment so restricted; never +were the avenues of truth so open, yet never was falsehood so +widespread, as in our time. + +Our age--well named by Dr. Rudolph Weil, the Age of Nerves--has brought +to our service the most significant development of natural +forces--electricity in all its forms of application, to medicine and +industry and traffic; the expression of motive power in terms of +machinery--railroads, ocean travel, air navigation, and endless +appliances from the almost limitless scope of which, in the hands of +man, the master, not even the very wild beasts escape. Meanwhile +however--most strange anomaly--mankind degenerates in body and still +more in mind. + +The race has become diseased, is suffering, cries out for a betterment +of its conditions, grows constantly more embittered and renounces its +faith in the powers, human and divine. + +Epidemics of terrific proportions sweep their recurring millions into +the arms of death; diseases of stupendous mortality, such as +tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, diabetes, and the extensive array of +so-called contagious diseases of children, are continually increasing, +in spite of doctors, hospitals, sanatoria, hydros, hygienics, asylums, +nostrums and serums, and continue to afflict humanity, taking their +ghastly toll in daily thousands, despite the vaunted but theoretical +advancement of Medical Science. + +In the field of medical science the controversy rages at full blast +today. + +An endless succession of hypotheses, conjectures and dogmas lies +widespread before us--a troubled sea of uncertainties--a complex +labyrinth of doubt. + +The "doctors of medicine" are many but responsible physicians are few, +while disease is constantly on the increase among mankind. + +It is really little that the people have to learn, for instinct has +taught them there is little to be hoped of succour from the professional +source. But the world-old habit of superstitious fear and reverence for +the "Medicine Man" fetish yet holds its grip upon the race--alike in the +savage or the Senate and, despite the knowledge of its fallacy, +humanity, still faithful, turns to it weakly, fear-driven, in its hour +of distress, knowing no self-reliance and no safer refuge. + +The reader will pardon this digression, since it is better that from the +outset we should divest ourselves of all delusions and recognize +existing conditions as they really are in order that it may help to +eliminate these ignorant superstitions from the public mind and implant +therein the wholesome fact that there is _no magic in medicine_ but +simply _an ordinary problem of cause and effect_. + +Existence is movement; the whole visible world is progress, development. +These are facts which, in truth, are daily becoming more generally +known. But man--even modern man--is still so stubbornly unyielding in +his faith that what he learns in an instant becomes immovably rooted in +his mind to the utter exclusion, generally, of anything new, which even +though it be a matter of demonstrated fact, it matters not if at +variance with this earlier knowledge; to him it is an impossibility. + +How often the fallacy of such ultra-conservative principles has been +demonstrated has no bearing upon the case; the fact remains--irrational, +stupid though it be--that, sublimely indifferent to criticism, it +survives, with all the wrong and persecution that follows in its train. + +But one of the most noticeable surprises of this description occurred in +the year 1896, when Professor Roentgen made public his discovery of the +X-rays; for through this discovery facts were disclosed such for +instance, as the permeability of solid bodies by luminous rays and the +possibility of photographic examination of bony tissues in living +creatures--facts entirely incompatible with prevailing ideas and +teachings. But these facts were not only intrinsically veracious but +were capable of occular demonstration, beyond all possibility of doubt, +and thus, as nothing could be changed or refuted, _science found itself +compelled, for once, to honour the truth in its initial stage_--to +receive them gracefully unto itself and adopt them in its teachings. + +This discovery of the X-rays was followed closely by that of the N-rays, +by the two Curies, husband and wife. This further discovery was a still +greater surprise to the scientific world than the former one; for by its +aid was established nothing less than the inconstancy of matter. +Hitherto science, dealing not with knowledge, but with opinions, had +held the belief that the atom is the ultimate form of matter and that no +chemical or physical force can divide it, a teaching held to be +incontrovertible. + +First, the discovery of the X-rays had markedly disturbed this belief, +and then, on the discovery of the N-rays, it soon became indubitably +clear that a constant destruction is taking place within the atom, an +uninterrupted throwing off of smaller particles. + +But it is not our task to show how one discovery after another was made. +We are merely interested in knowing that, because of these discoveries, +we find today in the atom--not in the radium atom alone, but in every +atom as such--only a union of particles identical with one another, the +so-called electrons, being but special forms of electro-magnetic forces. + +Professor Gruner writes as follows: "The atom is no longer the accepted, +final unit of matter, but has given place to the electron. + +The atom is no longer an individual compact particle of matter, but an +aggregate of thousands of tiny bodies. + +Furthermore, the atom is not indestructible; it can throw off successive +electrons or groups of electrons from its numerous contents and so keep +up a gradual, but veritable destruction." + +Professor Thomson, who won the "Nobel" prize for his work on natural +science, makes these distinct assertions: + + "(1) The electron is nothing more than a form of electricity. + + (2) Each electron weighs 1/770th of a fluid atom. Of an atom, that + is, which, hitherto had been regarded as the smallest individual + particle. + + (3) A fluid atom consists of 770 electrons and is formed of + electricity without any other material. + + (4) The atoms of other elements, besides radium, are also composed + of electrons and of nothing else. + + The number of electrons varies in different elements; for + instance, an atom of quicksilver is composed of 150,000 electrons. + + (5) Electricity is the basis of all being." + +Hitherto we have been taught to consider our bodies and their organs +from no other standpoint than that of their elements. For if we +attribute all the life of the body to the cells, these must consist only +of primary matter, like the atoms of which they are formed. But we have +now come to know that atoms, and, therefore, our bodies as well, are +formed of electrons, or we might say, of crystalized electricity, +consequently, we are compelled to recognize in the body a human machine +operated entirely under the direction of electrical forces. For +electrons cannot lose their electrical character, merely because they +are grouped together in atoms and form our bodies. + +It is a well known scientific fact that atoms attract and repel each +other, just as is the case with electro-magnetic forces. + +Our bodies, then, are not only formed of electrons, which unite into +atoms, but they are absolutely filled with free electrons; for every +atom is surrounded with an envelope of free electrons, or, in other +words, is the centre of a molecule of electrons, and carries its +envelope of electrons precisely as the earth carries its envelope of +air. + +Thomson asserts on the basis of his latest observations that: + + "Every atom forms a planetary system. + + The 150,000 electrons of mercury, for instance, are arranged in + four concentric spheres, like a system about the sun." + +When we arrive at a complete understanding of these facts and their +bearing upon life, we shall be able to control our bodies with perfect +success by regulating their electric forces and adjusting their +energies. + +As yet the main difficulty which obstructs our comprehension comes from +the seeming dissimilarity of things within and things without man's +"passing strange, complex mortality." This apparent lack of +co-ordination presumedly stands in direct contradiction to the +similarity of electrons. + +But however similar electrons may be, they still have different +vibrations, which cause the differences between various +objects,--between colors, shapes and sounds, between positive and +negative conditions. + +It is only by differences of vibration in this world substance, which we +may now venture to term electrons, that we are able to perceive a +difference in objects around us. + +It is a matter of primary interest that the organs of the body should +differ in this way; for in them are electrons with their inherent +electro-magnetic properties, upon which the whole bodily machinery +depends. + +Within our bodies positive currents of energy flow from above downward; +for manifestly the remainder of the body is governed by the head. + +The electrons of the head must consequently be arranged as in a +magnet--the positive pole above, the negative below--and they must be +always connected with their opposite pole, because the strength and the +nature of a magnet depend entirely upon such connection. Thus our heads, +under normal conditions, are cool, and our feet warm, so long as +positive electro-magnetic force flows from above downward. + +In most men of the present day, on the contrary, a condition usually +exists the exact opposite of that common to normal healthy individuals. + +A sense of well-being prevails in the body only so long as the +electrons are in sympathetic contact with their opposite poles, and, +because by this means they increase and extend their forces +reciprocally, there exists also throughout the entire body a feeling of +physical strength. + +Life upon the earth is dependent, as we know, upon the power of the sun. +Positive electrical forces are displayed in sunlight, and we find that +the electrical forces of the soil furnish their complements. Electrical +power is manifested by both the earth and the sun--a fact unquestioned +by those acquainted with observations made in the field of +radio-activity. + +As a third factor, absolutely essential, I may mention the ocean, which +I regard as the storage battery that distributes the power. + +Then mark the natural contrast between these mundane and solar +forces--the one of a nature warm and vibrating quickly, the other cold +and more slow of vibration. + +From this we may infer that we have before us an electrical opposition, +a polarity; and assuredly the electrical forces of the earth are those +which are negative, since they vibrate more slowly and yield to control, +while those of the sun are, on the contrary, positive, since they +possess the higher capacity for vibration and dominate the electrical +forces of the earth. + +We may assert, further, that the forces of the earth are electrical, +whilst those of the sun are magnetic. In support of this assertion the +proof may be advanced that a magnet can raise a heavier load after lying +in the sunlight; for the close affinity, between magnetism and sunlight +are, in this way incontestably demonstrated. + +The interchange of these principles underlies all mundane activity and +existence, and upon its cessation life would wholly disappear from the +planet. + +The various organs of the body, like everything else, fall under the +immediate influence of this interchange of polar forces. The same +electric or electro-magnetic opposition exists therein as are elsewhere +apparent in nature and, for evidence of the same we have not far to +seek. + +The phenomena occurring in electrolysis--the science of chemical +decomposition by galvanic action--are well known. + +When a current of electricity passes through a fluid capable of +decomposition the acids gather about the positive pole and the alkalies +about the negative pole. We thus detect the exercise of separate +activities on the part of the positive and negative electrical +forces,--their polarization,--when we notice that alkalies and acids +separate upon the application of electrical forces. + +Similar conditions exist in our bodies. + +They occur in the mucous and serous membranes; for the serous secretions +react acid, the mucous ones, alkaline. + +The contrast, in anatomical structure, between the mucous and the serous +membranes is due to the fact that they line the various organs, +respectively, within and without. It also indicates an opposition in +their electro-magnetic forces. + +These membranes cover, not only the large organs, but also the small +ones, to the smallest muscular fibres. + +In this way an electro-magnetic contrast exists in every part of the +body, and it is this opposition Of forces which keeps the vital +machinery of the body in working order. + +Electro-magnetic attraction and resistance are the agencies which +control metabolism and the action of the organs, so long as bodily +strength and healthy blood are maintained. All internal and external +stimuli are nothing more than electro-magnetic processes. + +Even our bodily temperature, as we commonly think of it under such +conditions, resolves itself into electro-magnetic force or its product. + +Electricity, magnetism, light, and heat differ only in respect to +vibration, and are in the final analysis one and the same. + +But since our bodies are not cold like the earth or, like its electric +forces, vibrate slowly, but are warm and of quick vibration, we are +sufficiently assured that they contain, not only the cold +electro-magnetic forces, of slow vibration, but also those that are warm +and vibrate rapidly. And thus, when a correct relation exists between +positive and negative forces--that is to say, between the forces of +electricity and magnetism, then only have we normal temperature, _then +alone are we normally healthy_. + +When we come to enquire into the sources from which the body obtains +these forces, there is little to be said. They are well known, can +easily be traced, but to the keenest mind of scholarly research their +source of origin is still an unturned page. + +Of things in the human economy which count, however, first in importance +are food and breath; for in every atom of food we eat and every breath +of air we breathe there are electrons which enter the body, there to be +seized by the attraction of electro-magnetic action, stored away, and +applied in vital processes. + +A source of vital energy, commonly known and little recognized, is the +free, pure air, or, ether charged with the electrons of space. + +Out of space, positive and negative electrons constantly pass into the +human body, their effect we feel at once; when, for instance, in a cold +room, we commence to feel chilly, or on removal to a warm room, or into +the sunlight, a comfortable feeling of warmth pervades the body and +restores its normal temperature. + +Weather and local conditions have no small influence upon our state of +health. In dry and elevated positions or in warm weather the condition +of the body is more positive; in damp, low-lying places and in raw +weather the electro-magnetic forces have a negative tendency. _This is +the explanation of those disturbances of health which occasionally arise +and which we sometimes experience in the dire form of epidemics._ + +As an illustration, the difference of climatic conditions between the +adjoining States of Washington and Oregon are a case in point. + +Among other disturbing influences which effect the electro-magnetic +forces of the body are _overfeeding_ and _underfeeding, too much_ and +_too little exercise_, particularly too much or too little +_stimulation_, or _false stimulation_, or excitement of a physical or +mental nature. Any one of these influences may produce disorder in the +relations of the electro-magnetic forces of the body. The positive or +negative electrons may be abnormally increased or diminished or their +location disturbed. + +When the body contains too many negative, slowly vibrating forces, or +electrons, and its aggregate of electron vibration is consequently +diminished, the result follows that the feeling of strength--the +vitality, that is, becomes depressed; we feel weak, tired in the limbs; +we possess little warmth and easily grow cold; metabolism falls below +the normal; the skin becomes pale and so causes the overplus of negative +electrons stored in the mucous membrane to set up a morbid action of +that structure. Catarrh sets in. In short, negative diseases are the +immediate result; such, for example, as nervous debility, anaemia, +diabetes, catarrh of the stomach, intestines or air passages, +_influenza_, cholera and diphtheria. In these conditions the principles +of physiological chemistry laid down by me may well be called into +service and improvement effected by a correct adjustment of diet. + +When there is an excess of rapidly vibrating, positive electrical +forces, or electrons, raising the vitality of the nerves and blood above +the normal, the sufferer becomes easily excitable; the body is hot and +inclines to inflammatory, feverish or positive diseases, which take the +form of inflammation of the lungs, measles, scarlet fever, chicken-pox, +typhoid fever, etc. + +As I have already remarked, in order to understand a disease and to +undertake its cure, it is first of all necessary to form a clear mental +picture of its course and origin. With this purpose in view and a +medical library at command I have honestly tried to formulate from the +initial stages a mental picture of scarlet fever, measles, and kindred +ailments; but the entire medical literature did not advance me further +than pathological anatomy, which informs us that the original cause of +disease is certain changes in the form of the cellular elements of +different digestive organs, in the explanation of which the customary +technical terms are used, such as atrophy, degeneration and +metamorphosis. + +By the aid of true physiological chemistry I have been enabled to trace +these mysterious incidences in the life current, learning that the +cellules--the smallest elements in the human system--require for their +composition alternating quantities of different chemical substances. + +Which of the chemical elements these are, what mutual relations exist +between different organs of the body, and by what means they enter the +organism, it has become my intricate and absorbing task to observe. + +In this investigation it was gradually made clear to me that every organ +and every tissue is dependent upon the introduction of proper nutritive +constituents into the blood. + +Healthy blood formation is the one great essential requisite to the +maintenance of health or the cure of disease. And such blood must be +formed from a full supply of the requisite chemical factors, including +all of the mineral ingredients. + + +_Dech-Manna Diet._ + +This is a point commonly overlooked, and my organic nutritive cell-food +termed Dech-Manna-Diet is especially designed for the purpose of its +enforcement. + +In order to obtain a clear understanding of the various forms of disease +which attack the human body, it is requisite to know more of the +condition we call inflammation. To this end we may consider successively +the following facts; namely, that electrons so fill the body as to bring +its condition to one equivalent to that of a magnet; that electron lies +ranged beside electron; and, that no alteration of location takes +place. + + +_Effect of Injury._ + +But now, suppose some part of the body is subjected to a morbid +irritation by some injury. The affected electrons are set into increased +vibration and acquire an excess of force above that of the neighbouring +electrons. For, the faster a substance vibrates, the more its force +increases--a fact with which we are familiar in the action of boiling +water and the generation of steam. In proportion as the affected part +exceeds the adjoining parts in the vibration of its electrons, it +becomes more positive than they and gradually involves these adjoining +electrons in the accelerated process of vibration. So, at the seat of +injury a centre of positive action is brought into existence which +becomes the more intense the longer it continues. + +Since the electrons in this locality fall out of their regular +positions, in consequence of the general attraction and gravitate toward +their appropriate poles, they are found to exercise a reciprocally +repellent influence upon each other, by which action the vibration +naturally increases still further. This causes pain; for the pronounced +opposition of the electrons is attended by a feeling of considerable +unpleasantness. The blood, which is an efficient conductor of +electro-magnetic force, becomes involved through its ready mobility. The +affected part becomes filled with blood. It swells and becomes +inflamed;--quickened metabolism and greater warmth are produced by the +increase in blood contents and by the more rapid vibrations of the +electrons. If the inflammatory process progresses further, the tissues +finally disintegrate, partly because of blood stagnation, but chiefly +because of the supra-normal vibration of the electrons. Either the +tissues are shattered by this motion, or melt in the resultant heat. +They undergo purulent disintegration, as we may call it. + + +_Bacteria._ + +Since the cells created are formed of bacteria, that is to say, of vital +germs, as the body tissues are of cells, the destruction of the tissues +and cells of necessity sets bacteria free; these therefore are not in +reality the cause, but the result of disease. + + +_Febrile, or Positive Diseases._ + +In pronounced inflammation the disturbance of the electrons, the heat, +apart from the functional irregularities which occur in systemic +processes, is diffused through the entire body: the sickness becomes +fever. The blood is impelled with increased pressure throughout the +whole body. If during this process negative electrons hold the +preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type. But +when there are many positive electrons in the body and extensive regions +are involved in the disease process, so that pronounced cause exists for +increased vibration of electrons, there arise those conditions we +designate as scarlet fever, measles, and chicken-pox. For, just as in a +steam engine, the increased vibration of the steam exerts a strong +pressure upon the piston, so the increased vibration of the electrons in +the body finally drives the blood with a similar pressure to the skin, +where it produces stasis, or stagnation, sweats and other like +disturbances. + + +_Curative Process._ + +As to curative measures, the course to be followed is clearly +self-evident and defined. It could not be other than that of regulating +each vibratory body, of soothing the electrons quickened by morbid +conditions, and accelerating those which have been depressed. + + +_Law of opposites._ + +Since treatment can effect this end in no other way than by producing +contrary conditions it is evident that a plan of opposition must be +followed. And, just as day is the opposite of night, summer of winter, +heat of cold, the positive of the negative, so, from the changes +effected by this opposition every circumstance and every manifestation +takes its rise. This is Natural Law, fixed and immutable throughout +nature and for all time. Following this law consistently, our course is +clear and simple: in cases of innutrition we seek to increase the +nutritive faculty by means of proper food; for the overworked we +prescribe rest, for those who need exercise, work; warmth for the cold +and cooling for the feverish. + + +_Action of Water._ + +For cooling we use pure water, the most common and most serviceable of +remedies. It cools, soothes and restores equilibrium because its mineral +affinities determine its vibratory action as of lower, slower grade, and +because one of its constituents is oxygen, the most negative of all +elements. + + +_Action of earth or mud._ + +Even more opposed to inflammation than water, is earth, or mud. Mud +produces a more decided cooling effect than water; necessarily so, +since its nature is more pronouncedly negative, its vibrations slower. +Antiphlogistine, clay acetate, or mud, would be of undoubted service in +accordance with the law we have been following; But the same object may +be more easily and readily attained by the use of packs. + + +_Vinegar packs._ + +In employing vinegar in this connection, it should only be used with mud +or water. Acids are decidedly negative in their electrical action, and +therefore, have a curative effect upon inflammatory diseases. The use of +vinegar in connection with clay and water in the treatment of +inflammations and fevers is a common, old-time custom; but those who do +so, ignorantly perhaps, from force of example or hear-say, unconsciously +carry out in so doing one of the plainest scientific laws. Why so? Is it +because this liquid kills bacilli or destroys morbid products? No, +because it quiets the agitated electrons and equalizes their +distribution. + +The safest plan is to take two parts water and one part of vinegar. +Vinegar prevents coagulation of the blood-cells, and in consequence, +stagnation and inflammation are avoided. + + +_Cooling Drinks._ + +For a similar reason acid drinks, such as lemonade, raspberry vinegar, +and diluted raspberry juice, are of the greatest services in +inflammations and fevers. They compose the system from within outward. +For, as soon as any electrical negative is brought into contact with the +system, streams of electricity course through the body and reduce the +inflammation. The best lemonade for this purpose is my preparation +"Tonogen," because it contains all the necessary acids, besides the +necessary constituents for inducing circulation and thereby preventing +stagnation It is easily established that patients treated according to +my method have become very much stronger and healthier than they were +before the beginning of their illness. + +Formerly, the proportion of deaths among these who contracted typhoid +fever reached twenty and thirty per cent and even higher. These deaths +occurred simply because of excessive internal heat. Today, a wide +experience shows that hardly any of such cases succumb. + + +_Temperature Reduction._ + +The application of water in typhoid fever has secured for it a permanent +place in the sickroom. Not only have we been enabled by reducing the +temperature with water, to attain the very best results in the treatment +of typhoid cases, inflammation of the lungs, and all positive heat +diseases, but by the same measures, we are now able to forestall its +development with increasing certainty. + +Brand kept typhoid fever away from his soldiers while it raged around +them in the severest form, by the simple specific of a daily bath of an +hour's duration in cold water. + +It is easy to understand why scarlet fever, measles and chicken-pox--all +positive diseases--demand the exclusion of sunlight in their treatment. +Experience has shown that the treatment of these diseases makes a more +favorable progress when sunlight is excluded. + +This fact stands in sharp contrast to all previous observations as to +the importance of sunshine in the treatment of disease. + + +_Negative Diseases._ + +Now let us leave the consideration of the febrile or positive diseases +and turn to those of negative character, as well as to disturbances +where a reduced vibration of the electrons, a preponderance of cold +negative electrical forces, and unhealthy action on the part of the +mucous membranes, constitute the condition. + + +_Curative Process._ + +In this instance, in order to initiate the curative process it is +necessary to accelerate the vibration of the electrons in the body--to +render the system positive. + +The principal remedy is heat, because it engenders a higher rate of +vibration of the electrons. For this reason steam baths and other +methods of applying heat prove highly remedial in negative diseases of +the catarrhal and kindred varieties. They increase the vibration of +electrons throughout the body and consequently, stimulate metabolism. +The morbid activity of the mucous membranes is reduced and the blood +flows actively again toward the surface, so that the internal organs +experience immediate relief from abnormal pressure. + + +_Sun baths. Light baths._ + +Unquestionably in this age, marked as it is by the prevalence of +negative ailments, sun baths and electric light baths will celebrate +triumph upon triumph over disease, for they reanimate the vibration of +the electrons even more than do steam baths, and create a direct supply +of rapidly vibrating positive electrons. One can easily be satisfied on +this point by observing the result of the simple but conclusive +experiment of lying in the sunshine when cold. Baths in electric light +and in sunshine strengthen the system of one negatively sick, just as a +strong current of inductive electricity gives augmented force to a +machine operated by inadequate electric power. The responsive reaction +need cause no surprise, for every popular sea-beach shows with what +wonderful electrical results a salt water bath is attended when followed +by a sun bath in the sand. + + +_Exercise._ + +Equally important in the management of negative diseases is exercise. + +Everyone knows that exercise makes us warm, and we know now that warmth +comes from a quicker vibration of ether, or rightly speaking, the +electrons of ether. So, not only is the circulation of the blood +improved and metabolism increased by exercise, above all, the vibration +of the electrons is enlivened, thus causing their character to be +changed to positivity, and the number of positive electrons in the body +to be increased. Consequently, negative diseases, which result from a +preponderance of negative electrons in the body, disappear before +systematic exercise, as the darkness of night before the rising of the +sun. + + +_Massage._ + +Massage not only removes mechanical disturbances of circulation, but +also increases the vibration of electrons in the body. It is, therefore, +an invaluable remedy in negative diseases. + +In case of chronic depression, we should by no means underestimate the +importance of that comfortable feeling induced by the exercise of +electronal vibrations, which supervenes upon properly administered +massage. + + +_Colored Light Treatment._ + +A recent method of treatment is that by colored light. Sunshine, +prismatically dissected, is known to vibrate at a rate of about four +hundred million for red and eight hundred million for blue. The +different rays of sunlight therefore must have different effects upon +the world of living things, and red light must produce conditions of +less violent vibration, blue light of quickened vibration. + +In scarlet fever, measles, and chicken-pox, as in all positive febrile +diseases, we have seen that there is a morbid increase of vibration in +the electrons. Here, therefore, red light is used for curative purposes +because it vibrates quietly. In lupus, chronic rheumatism, anemia, and +such diseases, a slow vibration of electrons takes place in the body; +hence, in such cases, blue light is a medium of cure. + + +_Internal Treatment._ + +These considerations of the effects of colored light bring us to the +treatment of disease by so-called internal means. + + +_Salts._ + +In a chemical sense the salts of the body are those compounds which +consists of two elements, such as water. All salts possess the +peculiarity of producing electrical excitation; consequently it is +possible for them to generate electricity when coming in contact with +carbohydrates. Now the entire structure of the human connective tissue +is nothing more or less than a combination of carbohydrates with a salt, +that is, with sulphate of lime-ammonia. In this way, natural electrical +energy of a positive character exists in the connective tissue which +forms the basis of the spleen, the lungs, the stomach, the intestines, +the muscles, in fact of the whole body. Therefore, the nervous and +arterial systems, together with the heart, are supplied, through the +medium of their basis of connective tissues, with electrical energy, by +the contact of the electro-negative oxygen which the blood furnishes and +the positive sulphate of lime-ammonia in the walls of these organs. + + +_Nourishment._ + +We now come to a consideration of nourishment. We recognize today the +truth of what was asserted years ago by Jezek; namely, that food +undergoes a kind of gaseous decomposition in our bodies--one in which +the atoms of the elements are resolved into electrons and so become the +foundation of new atomic structures. For the separation of atoms into +electrons and their entrance into new and different forms--that process +which is constantly taking place before our eyes in the external world +of Nature--must assuredly be likewise going on in like manner in the +human body. + + +_Food._ + +The world is just awakening and far more inquiry will now be made in the +future as to the chemical properties of food, and also as to its +necessary quantity and calorific value. It will then be clearly +appreciated that vegetable food has a higher value as a producer of +energy than animal food, because we find in it in more available form +the original elements of force which exists in all matter. For the +animal kingdom lives upon the vegetable kingdom and obtains every power +it has from vegetable atoms. In the vegetable kingdom the vibration of +the electrons is of an electrical character; therefore, vegetable food +is of value in the form of electrical force, through its nutritive +salts. By maintaining vital processes through its vibrations it renders +us another service of a magnetic nature. It is definitely known that +quite as much force is derived from vegetable as from animal food, +because the former is introduced into the system chiefly in the form of +a rapidly vibrating positive magnetic force. Because of its slow +vibration vegetable food manifests a lower degree of heat than animal +food, and plants possess less warmth than animals. + + +_Diet._ + +For this reason vegetable diet is distinctly appropriate in febrile +diseases. By reason of its more moderate vibration it is also the best +diet for nervous people. + + +_Food Standard._ + +The usefulness of any article of diet depends upon its adaptability for +entering into combinations within the system. This, in turn, depends +solely upon its higher or lower standing in respect to vibrations. This +is the reason why the human organism cannot subsist upon mineral food. + + +_Heat._ + +We need in our vital economy a definite amount of heat, or positive +magnetic force. This is lacking when the system neither produces enough +to meet its needs in compensation for expended energy or is not properly +supplied with food, fresh air and sunshine. + + +_Discretion._ + +For this reason it is well to remember that discretion must be used, as +any unauthorized, unwise or too rapid change to a strict vegetarian +diet may result, in certain cases, in bringing about an underfed +condition or in weakening, and even disease, so that the system may be +obliged to call in the aid of digestive tonics in order to obtain all +the material it needs for the formation of its body-cells. + +Enough, however, has been said on the subject I think, to clear the +stage, as it were, of the debris of antiquated "orthodox" performances. + +We of the independent and rational branch of the science of healing, +ignorantly termed "unorthodox," have devised a means of preventing +disease and curing it, when encountered, in a natural way, with +materials that regenerate and invigorate the blood, and this method is +slowly but surely fighting its way into general recognition. In time we +may hope to be able to make the so-called "inevitable" children's +complaints a matter of the past, and to raise a generation in which the +sins of the forefathers shall be extinct, so that sane and healthy +offspring will be the result. But pending such time--until the final +victory of the biological-hygienic system for the prevention of +disease--we are now prepared and able to cope with the still existing +conditions, and to heal, if proper attention is paid to our teachings. + + +_Diet for Children in General._ + +For the infant child as well as for its mother, it is naturally best +that it should be nursed by the mother. The infant should receive the +breast every three hours approximately, and no food should be given it +during the night, in order to make the feeding regular and avoid +intestinal catarrh through overfeeding. + +A regular diet is necessary for a nursing mother. Hot spices and foods +producing gas, must be avoided. Tight clothes that cause degeneration of +the mammary glands, are prohibited. + +If the mother is unable to nurse the child, and a wet-nurse cannot be +afforded, the child must be fed artificially, and this requires +painstaking care and attention. + +The main factor is to secure good cow's milk, which is most like human +milk. Milk from cows that are kept in barns, should not be used, for +these animals constantly live in stables that lack fresh air, and under +conditions very detrimental to the milk. + +The milk should be warmed carefully, thereby approximating the +temperature of the mother's milk (86 deg. to 98.6 deg.) before it is given to +the infant. The nursing bottle and the rubber caps must be kept +scrupulously clean. The milk should be shaken thoroughly before being +used, in order to make a perfect intermixture of milk and cream. + +The newly born infant is not able to digest undiluted milk, and +therefore must receive: + +1st to 5th day: 1 part milk to three parts water. + +5th to 30th day: 1 part milk to two parts water. + +30th to 60th day: Half milk, half water. + +3rd to 8th month: I part milk, one-half part water. + +Or: + +1st to 3rd month, every 2 hours; 1 part milk, two parts water, with the +addition of 2 table-spoonsful milk sugar to I or 1-1/2 quarts milk. + +4th to 5th month, every 3 hours: 1 part milk, 1 part water. + +6th to 9th month: 2 parts milk, 1 part water. + +Thereafter pure milk, with the addition of very little sugar, or gruel +made of oatmeal or something similar. Among the preparations that are +best known are Knorr's and Nestle's. + +Not until the first teeth have made their appearance, should the child +begin to have thin groat soup, a few soft boiled eggs, and a little more +solid food. + +Infants fed artificially must receive food frequently. + +Later on, still maintaining the milk diet, light milk and flour food, +vegetables and meat gravy may be given. Infants and even older children +should, under no circumstances, receive miscellaneous delicacies, or +highly seasoned and greasy dishes. Strong tea and coffee are poison to +the nervous system of children. + +In case of intestinal diseases milk must be substituted for other diet, +with decoctions of cereal flour. Furthermore, Dech-Manna chocolate and +malt-chocolate, boiled in milk, are recommended. + + +_Diet for School Children._ + +The appetite of children increases with their growth and years, and is +always a sign of good health. Much exercise in the open air is of the +greatest benefit to children. It is not, however, immaterial how +children are fed. The theory that children should receive whatever is +served on the family table, may be correct from the standpoint of +discipline, but it may bring about trouble if the food that is offered +does not agree with the stomach of the child. Food for children should +be light and display variety. It is not correct to believe that what is +eaten with aversion, has a healthy effect, and by forcing children to +eat food against which their natural instinct rebels, parents have often +seriously injured their children. + +In a general way, soup, vegetables, farinaceous food or a little meat +and fruit is sufficient for the principal meal. + +In the morning a cup of milk, cocoa or weak coffee (fruit or malt), with +a piece of bread; for anaemic children, butter and bread and honey. +Prepared in various forms, plenty of milk and farinaceous food, rice, +groat, oats, barley, cornmeal, fruit and cooked fruit should be eaten, +which all children like and which are superior in effect, since they are +so easily digested. Pure water with a little fruit-juice added +occasionally; in the afternoon weak tea with milk, fruit coffee, cocoa, +malt chocolate; in the summer time, cold sweet or sour milk; these +should be the drinks for growing children. Bread and butter with a +little marmalade is always welcome. When fruit is in season, some fresh +fruit and dry bread is sufficient in the afternoon; the supper should be +simple, warm or cold, but without high seasoning; potatoes with butter, +soft boiled eggs, bread and ham, cold roast meat, soup or some well +prepared farinaceous food one hour before bedtime. Food should not be +served very hot, should be well masticated and eaten with little to +drink during the meal. It is better to take a glass of water before the +meal. + +Alcoholic drinks are strictly prohibited, since they produce nervous +irritation and make study much harder. + +Game, when not too high and without spice is good for growing children. +Dishes prepared from internal organs, such as liver, kidneys and brains, +are usually repugnant to children, and should be avoided. Steamed +vegetables are preferable to those cooked with sauce. Salads for +children should not be highly seasoned, but should be prepared with +butter, cream and lemon juice, in which form they are of great nutritive +value. Avoid delicacies and mayonnaise dressing. Ice cream is the +delight of most children. Permit small quantities, but eaten with crisp +biscuit only, so as to avoid catarrh of the stomach. + +Children should have one or two meals between the regular meals. +Greatest variety should prevail at dinner and supper, and the favorite +dishes of the various children should be served from time to time. + +Taste and appetite are the means by which the intestinal organs express +what they consider most suitable for the system. That which tastes good +not only influences the health of the body, but also the mental +condition of the child. Proper food, ample time for play and much fresh +air will make the physician's visit a rare necessity. However, if a +child becomes ill, medical advice should be obtained immediately and +followed strictly, thus avoiding many sad experiences. + +Nearly all forms of children's disease are combined with fever, and even +without any of the characteristic symptoms of the various forms of +disease, children are often subject to more or less intense attacks of +fever. Therefore, in the following pages I am giving an extensive +description of fever from a biological standpoint, together with its +dietetic treatment--not _cure_ for, as will be seen, _fever in itself is +not a disease, but the attempt of nature to get rid of a disease_. + +This elaborate description of fever in all its phases will also serve as +a valuable illustration of the manner in which all subjects dealt with +are treated in my greater work: "Regeneration, or Dare to be Healthy." + + + + +FEVER AND ITS TREATMENT, BASED ON BIOLOGY + + +(A) GENERAL DESCRIPTION. + +Fever is one of the protective institutions of the body, which very +often acts most advantageously in the interests of the preservation of +the organism. It is a symptom, or rather a group of symptoms, consisting +of an increase of temperature, acceleration of metabolism, excitement of +the nerves, numbness and frequently delirium. + +Undoubtedly a fever of long duration and high temperature may injure the +organism to the extent that death ensues. + +There have been, nevertheless, at all times, those who hold the opinion +that fever, as such, does not under any circumstances, injure the +organism of itself alone. + +Fever has at all times been regarded, and to a much higher degree today +than formerly, as a healthy reaction against diseased matter, and +indeed, as an expression of the healing tendency of nature, Hippocrates +considered it an excellent remedy. Thomas Campanello recognized its +qualities of removing diseased matter. + +This doctrine is corroborated by the findings in regard to infections. + +Through fever the organism is freed from micro-organisms which may have +forced their way in. Fever operates like fire, destroying the contagious +matter. After this is done the remnants are excreted through intense and +extremely offensive perspiration. + +Experiments have taught us that the growth and the resisting power of +many microbes decrease if the temperature of the body rises, but 1.8 to +3.6 degrees above normal. It is also a remarkable fact that in every +disease where bacteria are found, there is a special type of fever, +which takes its course in such strict accordance with its law, that the +physician is thereby able to determine the nature of the disease. + +While the degree of temperature is decisive in regard to the life of +micro-organisms, the height of the temperature does not, in itself, +constitute a criterion of the gravity of danger. It is the duty of the +physician to fight the fever, since the patient may succumb to a high +temperature, as to a low one. + +In order to gauge the situation accurately it is necessary to regard +fever, not as a disease, but as what it really is in essence: a symptom +which accompanies the greatest variety of the processes of +disease,--symptom of the most variable significance in various cases. It +must be fought like other symptoms, such as vomiting, coughing, pains +and diarrhoea; namely, in a general way--provided only that it is not a +manifestation of the healing tendency of the organism. + +In decreasing the fever, we moderate the excitement of the nerves, +remove the numbness, secure calmness, refreshment and sleep, and defend +the patient against threatening manifestations of disease. + +Very often it is not a case of treating the fever, but of dealing with +the disease which causes the fever. We must consequently not be guided +by the thermometer but by the condition of the nervous system. + +Two conditions must be observed in treating fever according to the rules +of biology. + +In the first place, the treatment of febrile disease must not be carried +on in accordance with general principles, but individually, according to +the nature of the disease in each particular case. + +In the second place, it is necessary that the antipyretic treatment, to +reduce the fever, should not be foreign to the organism and should not +be such as is not measurable in degrees as to its effects, or has any +unpleasant accompanying effects or after-effects. + +Only the biological system of healing responds to these demands. Only +cognate physical forces, in affinity with the human organism according +to biological laws, can influence vital occurrences with the hope of +success and without the danger of unfavorable accompanying effects and +consequences. + +Only physical remedies and treatments permit of adequate gradations such +as will appeal to the power of reaction of the organism. + +In the appropriate application of certain, influences of nature, +especially in the diversified applications of water, we possess a mode +of procedure which, assisted by an appropriate dietetic regime adapted +to the principles of biological healing and to the conditions of life in +health and disease, offers advantages which no other treatment affords +and benefits the patient to an extent which cannot be too highly +estimated. + +In the treatment of fever we must, in the first place, follow the +impulses of instinct--harmonized, however, with the fundamental laws and +methods of biological treatment--if success is to be obtained. +Instinctively, in the case of a hot forehead, we turn to the application +of cold compresses; for cold feet, the use of such appliances as will +bring about heat. Tormenting thirst is assuaged by a mouthful of cooling +water. But the instinct of impulse alone might also lead one burning +with high fever to seek relief by immersion in cooling water; thus, in +order to discover the rational course we must be guided by the +fundamental laws of the biological system of healing. + + +(B) TREATMENT. + +To these biological explanations of what fever is, it will be +interesting to add some general description and explanation of its +treatment, such as may serve in an emergency as an indication of the +proper course to be pursued and by the most simple means, pending the +attendance of an hygienic physician. + +I must again call special attention to the importance of not clinging +too literally to the letter of the law,--of every rule laid down,--but +rather to study by the light of such laws and with alert intelligence +the special features of the case at issue. + +Of all hygienic treatments of fever, which have come under my notice in +the course of many years, there is none more clearly, simply and +intelligibly described than that which Dr. C. Sturm, has published in +his book, "Die natur liche Heilmethode" (The Natural Method of +Healing). I will, therefore, employ it in my explanations, (as +translated from the German) adding to it my advanced methods, especially +the hydropathic and dietetic treatments which are more in accordance +with the demands of modern biological therapy. + +In the first place, as we know, fever is indicated by an abnormally hot +skin. This heat is noticeable even by touching the patient with the palm +of the hand. + +A precise measurement of this heat, of course, requires a thermometer. +The best kind is a so-called maximum thermometer. + +The temperature is taken by putting the lower end of the glass into the +axilla, or arm-pit, of the arm, or in the mouth or the rectum of the +patient, and leaving it there for from 8 to 10 minutes. When withdrawn, +the temperature of the patient can be read at a glance. + +The temperature of the skin, however, is not the only indication of +fever. It is accompanied simultaneously by accelerated action of the +pulse, up to 120 beats per minute, and even more; also by increased +thirst and, as an indication of very intense affection, extreme +exhaustion and lassitude. The increased excretion becomes manifest +through dark and strong-smelling urine and, especially at the time when +the fever begins to abate, through intense perspiration. + +In the beginning of fever the change alternating between chills and +abnormal heat is very characteristic; frequently, and especially in +severe attacks, it begins with shivers. The patient suddenly feels an +intense chill, so that he commences to shake all over, his teeth chatter +and he grasps whatever covering he can for warmth. Suddenly, following +this, a rapid increase of temperature occurs, and the patient begins to +complain of intense heat. In other cases patients complain of feeling +very cold, while their skin indicates a marked degree of warmth. + +With higher degrees of temperature, the fever may induce a loss of +consciousness. The patient becomes delirious, loses urinary and fecal +control and displays the signs of total collapse. + +Fever, as I have already indicated, is a kind of physical revolution, a +state of excitation which, differing so widely as to cause, character +and degree, cannot be judged according to any fixed rule. The +temperature of a patient we may read from the thermometer; but the real +nature of the fever we do not learn until we consider his constitution, +his innate faculties and the strength to which his various organs have +attained. For this purpose we must take into consideration not only the +physical attributes, but also the quality of the senses and of the mind, +since these items are of the utmost importance in determining the +tenacity, i.e., the power of resistance of the patient. + +From this point of view it will be understood that people possessing a +calm and phlegmatic temperament, will not attain to high degrees of +fever, except in cases of very serious complications, while nervous +people may quickly reach very considerable degrees of temperature. +Children and younger people are more inclined to high fever, since their +organs are still immature. This explains why simple inflammations, which +are not general throughout the body, or frequent indigestion, which in +itself does not figure as a dangerous illness, will in the case of +children appear under the gravest symptoms. It follows, therefore, how +necessary it is to discriminate closely and decide accordingly between +severe symptoms of fever as manifested by people of calm temperament, +and similar cases when manifested by people of nervous temperament. + +Unfortunately fever has been treated in the past according to set and +rigid rules. As soon as the temperature of a patient rose from 98.6 deg. and +99.6 deg. to 100.4 deg., it was pronounced to be fever, and preparations were +made to treat it accordingly. The treatment became more energetic the +higher the fever rose to 105.8 deg. and 107.6 deg.. + +It was said that under all circumstances the temperature must be lowered +to normal. + +This idea is decidedly wrong and most dangerous for the patient. For, +while a calm and phlegmatic patient may withstand this strong reduction +of excitement in his internal organs, which in fact require it, the +procedure necessary to bring it about, as a rule exceeds what the +nervous patient can endure. + +The fever should only be reduced in accordance with the strength of the +patient, otherwise extreme irritation must ensue, such as has caused the +death of hundreds of thousands in the past. It is better, therefore, to +leave a nervous patient in his fever and strengthen him by various +devices, so that he may overcome it. Later he may require and, +consequently, be able to withstand stronger measures. For this purpose I +recommend simple ablutions, in some cases the application of abdominal +packs for half an hour _using two-thirds water and one-third vinegar_, +as previously prescribed. In addition, the natural vigor of the patient +is to be strengthened by administering to him, at intervals of from half +an hour to two hours, Dechmann's Tonogen and Dechmann's Plasmogen +alternately. + +The treatment must be in proportion to the strength of the patient. +Thus the quiet, energetic temperament can endure more extensive packs; +his nature in fact requires them. His body may be completely packed or +at least three-quarters, by placing the moist sheet around his entire +body except the arms, while the woolen blanket is either wrapped around +the whole body, including the arms, or, as before, leaves the patient +free to move his arms, which are then only covered by the bed-clothes. A +patient of this kind may also be treated with ablutions or put into a +half bath at 75.2 deg., while cooler water is poured over him. Young and +strong patients have endured even cooler baths as powerful stimulants. + +The nearer a patient approaches to a nervous, weak condition, the more +caution is required to allow him hike warm baths only, or, still better, +ablutions at 77 deg., which may be made severer by not drying the patient. + +It is very beneficial to weak patients to frequently wash their hands, +face and neck, without drying them. + +A very careful treatment of the hair is also a great necessity, +especially for women. Clean and well combed hair is very beneficial to a +patient. Slight ablutions of the head and combing the hair while wet, +are very cooling and refreshing. + +The stronger the nature of a patient, the safer it becomes to rely upon +a single mode of procedure. Thus, cold packs may be sufficient in case +of high fever if applied about every half hour or hour; or, if the +temperature is not quite so high, at intervals, from one hour and a half +to two hours With weaker persons more variety of procedure is +imperative, but none of them must be too stringently applied. In these +cases mild ablutions should be used several times during the day, and +they may be alternated with packs of the whole lower part of the body or +packs on the calves of the legs. + +Cool or cold enemas are rapidly absorbed and thus have a quieting +influence on the large blood reservoir in the abdomen. Little mouthfuls +of water are also taken from time to time, but too much water always +weakens the patient. + + +(C) DIET IN CASES OF FEVER. + +As diet in cases of fever I recommend the prescriptions of Professor +Moritz, which coincide with my own experiences, so far as a fever diet +is concerned; and in addition the physiologico-chemical cell-food which +I have used for many years with the greatest success (Dech-Manna Diet). +The importance of the latter is due to the fact that it not only +_prevents_ the destruction of the cells, but has a general strengthening +effect upon the system. + +Whatever the differences in manifestation the febrile diseases may show, +the _febrile reduction of the digestive capacity of the stomach and the +bowels is so characteristic_, that it should be specially noted in this +connection. + +True, fever shows considerable _disturbance of metabolism_, since the +_decomposition of the albumen is increased in an abnormal way_. This +fact, however, does not demand any particular attention, in regard to +diet. As far as possible during fever it is well to exercise an +economizing influence on the decomposition of the albumen of the body +through the introduction of _all kinds of food_ that produce energy, so +that it is not necessary to _give preference to any one particular kind +of food_. + +The injury to digestion during fever comprises not only the peptic +functions, which manifest themselves clearly in a reduction of the +excretion of hydrochloric acid, but all functions pertaining thereto, +the motory as well as the resorptive. + +The danger that the patient will receive too much solid food, hard to +digest, is generally speaking not very great since, during acute fever, +patients as a rule show a decided lack of appetite. The other extreme is +the more likely to occur; that the amount of nutrition given may be less +than what is requisite and helpful; too much deference being paid to the +inclinations of the patient. Formerly the general belief obtained that +fever would be increased, in a degree detrimental to the patient, by +allowing the consumption of any considerable amount of food, and +following this doctrine, the patient was permitted to go hungry. This, +however, is absolutely erroneous. _No one would feed a feverish person +in a forcible manner, but it is absolutely imperative to take care that +he receives food productive of energy in reasonable quantities._ + +As a rule hardly one-half, or at the most two-thirds of the normal +quantity of nourishment necessary for the preservation of life, may be +introduced into the organism in case of acute febrile disease. I have +already indicated that there is no particular danger in such partial +"inanition" (starvation) for a short period, but that, accordingly, the +qualitative side of the nourishment becomes more important the longer +the fever lasts. It has also been mentioned that the organism reduces +its work of decomposition, gradually adapting itself to the unfavorable +conditions of sustenance, and thus meets our efforts to maintain its +material equilibrium. + +_It is important always to make use of any periods of remission and +intermission, during which the patient has a better appetite and can +digest more easily, to give him a good supply of food._ It is also well +to administer _as much nourishing food as possible_ in the beginning of +an illness, which is likely to be lengthy, provided the patient is not +yet wholly under the effects of the febrile disease. The food must then +be gradually reduced in the course of the illness. + +As to quality, the diet must be selected from forms II and III (as +below), and will consequently consist of glutinous soups, in some cases +with the addition of a nutritive preparation of egg, meat jelly, milk +and possibly thin gruel and milk. + +The quantity of food which the patient may receive can only be given +approximately, as follows: + +For adults--(to constitute a sustaining diet). Soup 1/2 pint, milk and +milk gruel 1/3 pint, meat 3 oz., farinaceous food the same, 2 eggs, +potatoes, vegetables, fruit sauces 2 to 2-1/2., pastry and bread 2 oz. + +These quantities must be considered as the maximum for each portion. The +quantity of beverage at each meal must also be very limited, not +exceeding 3 to 6 oz., so that the stomach is not overburdened +unnecessarily nor its contents too much diluted. + +The reduced meals are harmonized with the object of sufficient general +nourishment by eating more frequently, about five to six times a day. +Patients with fever should have some food in small quantity every 2 to 3 +hours. It is important that _the patient be fed regularly at fixed +times_. This will be found advantageous both for the patient and for +nursing. + +_Form II_ comprises _purely liquid nourishment, "soup diet."_ Consomme +of pigeon, chicken, veal, mutton, beef, beef-tea, meat jelly, which +becomes liquid under the influence of bodily heat, strained soups or +such as are prepared of the finest flour with water or bouillon, of +barley, oats, rice (glutinous soup), green corn, rye flour, malted milk. +All of these soups, with or without any additions such as raw eggs, +either whole or the yolk only, if well mixed and not coagulated are +easily digested. (Besides albumen preparations, Dech-Manna powders, dry +extract of malt, etc., may be added). + +_Form III_ comprises _nourishment which is not purely liquid_. Milk and +milk preparations (belonging to this group on account of their +coagulation in the stomach): + +(a)--Cow's milk, diluted and without cream, dilution with 1/2 to 2/3 +barley water, rice water, lime water, vichy water, pure water, light +tea. + +(b)--Milk without cream, not diluted. + +(c)--Full milk, either diluted or undiluted. + +(d)--Cream, either diluted or undiluted. + +(e)--All of these milk combinations with an addition of yolk of egg, +well mixed, whole egg, cacao, also a combination of egg and cacao. + +Milk porridge made of flour for children, arrowroot, cereal flour of +every kind, especially oats, groat soups with tapioca, or sago, and +potato soup. + +Egg, raw, stirred, or sucked from the shell, or slightly warmed and +poured into a cup; all either with or without a little sugar or salt. + +Biscuit and crackers, well masticated to be taken with milk, porridge, +etc. + +As a rule fever is accompanied by an increased thirst, which may be +satisfied without hesitation. It is unnecessary, and detrimental, for +patients suffering from an increased excretion of water through the +fever heat, to be subjected to thirst. Since the mucous membrane of the +digestive channel is usually not very sensitive to weak chemical food +irritations, the cooling drinks, which contain fruit acids, such as +fruit juices and lemonades, are as a rule permissible. Fruit soups may +also be given. + +It is different, of course, if an acute catarrh of the stomach or of the +bowels is combined with the fever. In such cases fruit acids must be +avoided. Still it is not necessary to resist the desire of the patient +to take whatever may be given him, at a low temperature. Even ice cream, +vanilla or fruit water ice, may be used in moderate quantity. + +Warning against cold drinks is necessary only in case of disease of the +respiratory organs when the cold liquids would cause coughing. + +The use of dietetic stimulants such as Dechmann's Tonogen, Eubiogen and +Plasmogen, is the same in these cases as has been mentioned in several +places previously. + + * * * * * + +As soon as the patient has made sufficient progress, he may receive more +solid food. + +The salivary digestion being improved, he may now be allowed several +more substantial dishes of rice and groat, cooked partly in milk, partly +in water and eaten with fruit juice. He may also have several kinds of +green vegetables, like spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, comfrey, etc. + +With additional increase in his strength, fresh fish, well prepared, is +especially refreshing to a patient with light fever. + +As to mental pabulum, in case of severe fever, I recommend for the +patient absolute mental and physical rest; little talking, no noise, no +visits, no disturbance of any kind. Within his system nature has to +accomplish an enormous task to facilitate which complete quiet is +essential. Just as he who has serious preoccupations needs quiet +environment, so that his attention may be devoted to his thoughts, so +also a patient in the throes of fever must relax all external +considerations in deference to the struggle of the vital forces within. +Whatever disturbance of mentality occurs has always prejudicial effects, +such indeed as may in some cases cost the life all are seeking to save. + + +SCARLET FEVER. + +Scarlet fever is an exanthematous form of disease distinguished by a +scarlet eruption of the skin. It produces marked symptoms in three +localities, the skin the throat and the kidneys. + +It is doubtful whether it can be conveyed from one person to another; at +least nothing is known concerning the "contagium," or germ of conveyance +of infection,--according to the differential diagnosis of Dr. G. +Kuhnemann, whose work on the subject is held to be authoritative. It is +not to be denied that the disease may be carried by articles of clothing +and by intermediary persons, who themselves are not suffering from it. + +The incubation period--the time intervening between infection and +eruption--during which the infected person is "sickening for" disease, +varies from two to as much as eight days. + +Chills, feverishness, headache, nausea and actual vomiting are the +initial symptoms, and sore throat with difficulty in swallowing soon +follow. + +Inspection reveals the appearance of an acute throat inflammation, and +the tip and sides of the tongue are red as a raspberry. A few hours +later--or at most a day or two--the eruption appears; first in the +throat, then on the face and chest. It begins with minute, bright red, +scattered spots, steadily growing larger until they run together so that +the entire skin becomes scarlet, being completely covered with them. +Frequently the temperature in the evening ranges as high as from 103 deg. to +105 deg. Fahrenheit. Albumen is always found in the urine. + +After two or more days the fever mounts gradually, the throat symptoms +increase, the eruption fades away, and from four to eight days later the +patient's condition returns to normal. + +At the beginning of the second week desquamation, or scaling, begins, +the skin peeling off in minute flakes. At this stage heavy sweats set in +and the excretion of urine is increased. + +In epidemic form the type is sometimes much more malignant, even to the +degree that death occurs on the first day with typhoid and inflammatory +brain symptoms, unconsciousness, convulsions, delirium, excessive +temperature, and rapid pulse. This may happen even without the eruption +becoming fairly recognizable. In such severe epidemics the throat +symptoms are apt to take on the aspect of diphtheria. The renal +discharge exhibits the conditions of a catarrh of the urinary canals +originating from causes we do not understand. + +Among the after effects of scarlet fever are inflammation of the ear +with all its consequences, and inflammatory affections of the lungs, air +passages, diaphragm and heart membrane. + +The cause, I repeat again, is _dysaemia_--impure blood. + +If the patient is predisposed to this form of disease and moreover, a +weakling, the case is a dangerous one. + +Every good mother should see to it that there is healthy blood in her +offspring. The task is comparatively an easy one, the method, is simple +and ignorance ceases to be an excuse, for my object is to place the +necessary knowledge within the reach of all. + +The treatment of scarlet fever varies according to which symptoms are +most severe. + +In the first place prophylactic efforts must be constantly employed to +prevent _possible_ contagion. Healthy children must be strictly +seperated from the sick till the end of desquamation or scaling--a +period of four to six weeks. + +If the course of the attack is normal, the patient should be kept in bed +under a light cover with a room temperature of 60 deg. to 65 deg.. The sick room +must be well ventilated and aired daily. + +The windows should be hung with transparent _red_ curtains. + +The diet may consist of milk, curds, barley soup, oatmeal gruel, flour +gruel, with some cooked fruit and, of drinks, lemonade, soda water, and +raspberry juice; but the most important drink from a scientific point is +Dechmann's "Tonogen," as previously described. + +The linen should be changed often + +Sponge baths with chilled vinegar-water (1 part cider vinegar diluted +with 2 parts water) are helpful when the temperature rises to 102 deg.. If +the temperature reaches 105 deg. or over, baths must be promptly +administered. The patient may be placed in a bath of 85 deg. or 90 deg., and the +water allowed to cool gradually down to 70 deg. or 65 deg.. + +A sick child may stay in such a bath ten or twenty minutes, while the +time in a bath practically should not be more than three or five +minutes. The bath must be repeated as soon as the fever again reaches +105 deg.. + +When the first symptoms of measles, scarlet fever or chicken-pox are +noticed, give the child a three-quarter pack. (See directions under +"packs"). After each pack sponge the patient with cool vinegar-water. + +If the fever is high during the night, apply a sponge bath every half +hour or hour. + +During the day give the patient 1/4 teaspoonful of Dechmann's Plasmogen, +dissolved in 1/2 pint water, a little every hour. + +In the evening and during the night alternate this blood-salt solution +with Tonogen. + +Blood plasm contains eight different salts in different composition, and +only when the actual physiological composition is employed can there be +any guarantee against the decomposition of the blood-cells. Plasmogen is +such a composition. + +When diphtheria and Bright's disease complicate the case, they must be +dealt with as under ordinary conditions and treated by a competent, +Hygienic dietetic physician. + +If recovery is prompt and desquamation (scaling) is in progress, warm +baths may be applied for a few days. + +When the temperature and urine continue normal for a few weeks, the +child may be regarded as restored to health. + + +MEASLES. + +Measles or Rubeola is an exanthematous or eruptive contagious form of +children's disease. + +In Measles the medium of contagion is the excretion from the air +passages, mucus coughed up and air exhaled; also the saliva, tears, +blood and perspiration of the patient. + +In Measles also, as is the case with regard to scarlet fever, the +"contagium," or germ of contagion, is unknown. + +The general susceptibility to measles is extraordinarily great the +poison being of a virulent nature. + +If the disease attacks one of feeble constitution whose environment is +unfavorable and insanitary,--dwelling in badly ventilated rooms, for +instance, with little attention paid to personal cleanliness, the attack +is likely to assume a malignant form. + +A period of from ten to fourteen days may elapse between infection and +the development of the symptoms. + +During this period the patient may infect others. + +This explains how easily a whole school may become infected. + +During the preliminary period children feel tired, relaxed, suffer pain +in the joints and headache; they have chills and are feverish at +evening. Among the symptoms enumerated are catarrhal affections of the +air passages, the larynx, the nose and eyes. Constant sneezing, +nosebleeding, cough, watering eyes, ultra sensitiveness to strong +light, are concurrent conditions. At the same time the fever becomes +pronounced. + +These symptoms continue for four or five days and then rapidly abate and +the eruption appears. First a red rash is seen, which spreads over the +surface of the face. Inside the mouth and throat a similar mottled +redness is seen. In the course of a day the eruption spreads over the +whole body. After continuing at their height for a day or two the +symptoms gradually decline, and in a little over a week the child may be +pronounced well. The skin then sheds all the superfluous cuticle left by +the eruption, and in three or four weeks after inception the normal +condition is again reached. + +In the malignant form all the symptoms are of a severe type. +Occasionally catarrhal affections of the air passages, croup or +pulmonary inflammation supervene, and the patient succumbs. + +Other concurrent forms of disease are whooping cough, diphtheria, +pulmonary consumption, inflammation of the eyes, ear disease, and +swelling of the glands. + +Measles demand no distinctive treatment. The room must be well +ventilated, with a temperature of about 60 deg., and light must be almost +totally excluded. At night no lamp should be allowed. + +_Treatment and diet_ should be the same as in scarlet fever. + + +GERMAN MEASLES. + +German Measles (Rubella or Roetheln), is an eruptive form of children's +disease, much more harmless than the disturbances previously depicted. +It is one which occurs in epidemics, but to which children individually +are largely susceptible; the actual contagium thereof, however, is +likewise unknown to science. + +Eight days generally intervene between the time of infection and the +breaking out of the rash. + +During this period no acute symptom is noticeable. In the majority of +cases the fever that precedes the eruption is not high; headache, cold +and sorethroat accompany the appearances of the rash, which in this case +breaks out at once, and not after several days, as in the case of actual +measles. The spots are about the size of lentils, and are quite deep +red, appearing first upon the face. + +After the rash has been out for one or two days, it gradually becomes +paler, the fever goes down, and recovery progresses rapidly, usually +without any after effects. + +It is not necessary for the patient to remain in bed longer than three +or four days; nevertheless, the treatment should be just the same as +prescribed in the case of the real measles, so as not to leave any +weakness or subsequent complication. + +There are many other forms of disease, besides these, which are likewise +accompanied by fever and a rash, which also appear in epidemics and are +evidently due to a great variety of causes. As they, however, invariably +run the natural course, I shall not dwell upon them here. + + +CHICKEN-POX. + +Chicken-pox, or Varicella, of which the contagium also remains a +mystery, is another infectious eruptive form of disease, peculiar to +children. It begins with the appearance of a number of little pigmented +elevations on the skin which develop into vesicles and pustules. After a +certain period they become encrusted with scabs, which dry up and fall +off. When the pustules are deep-seated, small scars remain There is no +fever, and the illness is over in about fourteen days. The contagion +passes through personal contact, or through clothing and bed linen. + +If symptoms are severe enough to require it, treatment should follow the +directions for scarlet fever. + + +SMALL-POX. + +As a matter of fact Chicken-pox is of congeneric origin with small-pox, +with which, in a very much milder degree, it has various features in +common. But small-pox itself is engendered of foul and insanitary +conditions of life, impure blood and bad and insufficient nourishment +and these, together with its risk under unscientific conditions and in +times past of facial disfigurement, have made its name more repugnant to +the layman than perhaps any other form of disease. All that need be said +about it here, however, is that it is largely a terror of the past and +that the sure preventative against it always, and the one reliable +anti-toxin against contagion, under all circumstances, is good healthy +blood and hygienic-dietetic living. + +Those readers who may desire a minute description of this form of +disease will find the same in chapt: XII of my greater work +"Regeneration." + + +TYPHOID FEVER OR TYPHUS ABDOMINALIS. + + +_(A) General Description._ + +This description of fever is usually termed typhus or nerve fever. It +characterizes all forms of typhoid disease of which the following +features constitute the prominent symptoms. + +To a peculiar degree, chiefly young and strong individuals of from 15 to +30 years of age are attacked by this disease, while those in early youth +and of more advanced years are much less subject to the same. + +It is a complaint very dangerous to those who eat and drink to excess +and without discretion. Strong excitement of the mind, such as a shock +or great anguish, will undoubtedly favor the appearance of typhus. The +seasons too have considerable influence upon it, most cases occurring +during the Autumn months--from August to November. + +It has been previously indicated to what extent the study of the +hygienic conditions of life will assist in the discovery of the real +causes of so-called contagious disease. One instance may show the +enormous influence of dietetic movements on the outbreak of great +epidemics. + +It is reported in the "Journal of the Sanitary Institute," London, that +the English Seaside Resort Brighton, in the period from July, 1893, to +August, 1896, 238 cases of abdominal typhus were observed,--about +equally divided for the different years. In 56 cases the typhus was +caused by the eating of oysters (36 cases) or clams (20 cases). There +was evidence that the water from which these oysters and clams were +taken was badly polluted by the excrement of several thousand people, +brought through sewers to the place were the shell-fish had been +gathered. It was very characteristic in a number of cases that only one +of a number of persons, who were otherwise living under equal +conditions, fell ill with typhus, a short while after having eaten some +of the shell-fish. No other points essential to the spreading of this +contagious disease could be discovered. Brighton is healthily situated +and built; hygienic conditions in general are favourable; much attention +is paid particularly to keeping the soil clean, removing all faeces and +providing good drinking water. Contamination through milk in all of the +56 cases, according to most careful investigations, was out of the +question. They occurred in entirely different streets in various +precincts of the town; 45 of the patients lived on 43 different streets. +Besides the people attacked by typhus, many other persons fell ill from +lighter disease of the intestines, after having eaten of these +crustaceous bivalves, the symptoms being diarrhoea and pains in the +stomach. Measures were taken to remove the noxious causes as soon as the +source of infection was discovered. + +The same conditions were some time ago noticed in Berlin. Out of 14 +people invited to a dinner, nine fell ill--5 of them very +seriously--under symptoms of typhus, after having eaten oysters from +Heligoland. Part of the personnel of the kitchen and some of the +servants were taken ill with the same critical symptoms. + + +_B. Essentials._ + +Abdominal typhus is a general illness of the whole body, and +consequently all organs of the body are more or less altered in a morbid +way while the disease lasts. The main change occurs in the lymphatic +glands of the intestines and in the spleen. + +The following are its anatomical symptoms: With the beginning of the +disease the lymphatic glands of the mucous membrane of the intestines +begin to swell; they are constantly growing during the course of the +disease and attain the size of a pea; extended over the level of the +mucous membrane they feel firm, hard and tough. In favourable cases the +swelling may go down at this stage, but generally the formation of +matter begins through the dying of the cells, caused by insufficient +nourishment. This is gradually thrown off, and a loss of substance +remains--the typhoid ulcer. This varies in size and in depth. Light +bleeding in no great quantity ensues. If the ulcer has gone very deep, +the intestines may be perforated and then the faeces and part of the +food enter the abdominal cavity. The result is purulent and ichorous +peritonitis. As a rule, however, the ulcers are purified and heal by +cicatrization. Usually the spleen is enormously enlarged (through a +rapid increase in the number of its cells). The swelling of the spleen +can easily be detected by external touch. + + +_(C) Symptoms and Course._ + +During what is termed the earlier stage, which as a rule last about two +weeks and precedes the breaking out of the disease proper, the patient +still feels comparatively well, or only begins to complain of headache, +tired feeling, prostration in all the limbs, dizziness, lack of +appetite. It is thus absolutely impossible to fix a definite date for +its development. In most cases the patient complains of a chill, +followed by feverishness,--symptoms which confine him to bed,--although +no actual shivering takes place. It is expedient, although quite +arbitrary and subject to many modifications, to divide the course of the +illness into three periods:-- + +(1) The stage of development. + +(2) The climax. + +(3) The stage of healing. + +During the stage of development, which usually lasts about a week, the +symptoms of the disease rapidly increase. The patient gets extremely +weak and faint, has severe headaches and absolutely no appetite. In +consequence of the high fever, he complains of thirst; the skin is dry, +the lips chapped, the tongue coated; the pulse is rapid and full; the +bowels are constipated, but the abdomen is practically not inflated nor +sensitive to pressure. In most cases the spleen is evidently enlarged. + +Before the end of the first week the climax is reached. This in the +lighter cases lasts for the second week, or in more severe cases, even +until the third. The fever is constantly high, even 104 deg. and over. The +body is generally benumbed, the patient becomes delirious at night or +lies absolutely indifferent to all surroundings. The abdomen is now +inflated, the buttocks show small, light red spots,--the so-called +"roseola,"--which are characteristic of abdominal typhus. Furthermore, +in most cases, bronchial catarrh of a more or less severe nature +appears. Instead of obstruction of the bowels there is diarrhoea--about +two to six light yellow thin stools, occur within 24 hours. During this +second stage the complications appear. + +At the end of the second or the third week respectively, the fever +slackens; in cases which take a favourable turn, the patient becomes +less benumbed and less indifferent, his sleep is quieter; appetite +gradually returns. The bronchial catarrh grows better, the stool once +more becomes normal; in short, the patient enters the stage of +convalescence. + +This is a short sketch of the course the illness usually takes. + +Of the deviations and complaints accompanying Abdominal Typhus, the +following are the most important details:-- + +The fever takes its course in strict accordance with the described +anatomical changes in the intestines. It increases gradually during the +first week, and at the end of that period it reaches its maximum of +about 104 deg.. It stays at that point during the second stage, gradually +sinking during the third stage. + +In lighter cases the second stage may be extraordinarily short. + +If perforation of the intestines, heavier bleeding or general collapse +should ensue, attention is directed thereto through sudden and +considerable decrease in the temperature of the body. Pneumonia, +inflammation of the inner ear and other accompanying complications also +cause sudden access of fever. + +Effect upon the digestive organs: The tongue is generally coated while +the fever lasts; the lips are dry and chapped, and look brown from +bleeding. If the patient is not carefully attended to during the extreme +numbness, a fungus growth appears which forms a white coating over the +tongue, the cavity of the mouth and the pharynx, and may extend into the +oesophagus. Later on the tongue loses this coating and becomes red as +before. Few symptoms are shown by the stomach, except occasional +vomiting and lack of appetite. During convalescence there is great +desire for food. The anatomical changes in the intestines have already +been mentioned. + +While obstruction prevails during the first week, the second week is +characterized by diarrhoea of a pale and thin consistency. + +When general improvement sets in, the stools gradually decrease in +number, they grow more solid and finally reach the normal. The abdomen +is not very sensitive to pressure and is usually intensely inflated with +gas. + +In the region of the right groin a cooing sound is often heard, caused +by a liquid substance in the intestines, which can be felt under +pressure of the finger. + +Bleeding from the intestines is not infrequent and happens during the +third week of the illness. It usually indicates a bad complication, +since the result may be fatal. The stool assumes a tar-like appearance +through the mixture of the coagulated blood with the faeces. Close +attention must be given to minor hemorrhages, since they often herald +others of a more intense nature. + +In such extreme cases of serious complications, however, a cure has +nevertheless been sometimes effected. They are occasionally followed by +the immediate beginning of convalescence. + +The perforation of the intestines, which is caused by an ulcer eating +its way through the wall of the intestines, is much more dangerous. It +happens most frequently during the third or the fourth week. The patient +feels a sudden, most intense pain in the abdomen; he collapses rapidly, +the cheeks become hollow, the nose pointed and cool. Vomiting follows, +the pulse becomes weak and extremely rapid. The abdomen is enormously +inflated and painful. In the severest cases death ensues, at latest, +within two or three days, the cause being purulent and ichorous (or +pus-laden) peritonitis. + +Such extreme developments as these, however, are infrequent, since the +illness, by timely attention according to the methods herein prescribed, +will, as a rule, respond to the treatment and take a favourable turn. + +_Respiratory Organs_:-- + +In the course of typhus, intense bleeding of the nose is not infrequent. +In the severer cases this is a sign of decomposition of the blood, but +in lighter cases it merely serves to alleviate the intense headache +which is a feature of the case. The throat is liable to be affected; +hoarseness and coughing occur; hardly any case of typhus catarrh. This +sometimes extends into the air-passes without a more or less intense +bronchial cells and causes catarrhal pneumonia, which--if not promptly +treated according to the instructions herein detailed--may become +extremely dangerous. + +_Organs of Circulations_:-- + +With the exception of a strongly accelerated action, no change is +noticeable in the heart. It may, however, suddenly become paralyzed and +cease entirely, owing to the general weakness of the patient and the +intensity of the fever. Weakness of the heart and possible cessation +occur only during the climax or convalescence. + +_Nervous System_:-- + +Disturbances of the nervous system are very frequent, hence the name +"nervous fever." + +Consciousness is, in nearly all cases, more or less benumbed, and at +times completely lost. The patient is either lying absolutely +indifferent, or he is delirious, cries, rages, attempts to jump out of +bed and can only be subdued by the strongest efforts. + +Patients lose control of urinary and faecal movements and require +feeding. + +These disturbances disappear as soon as convalescence sets in and +consciousness returns. + +As a rule the patient, on return to consciousness, knows nothing of what +he has gone through, and has no reminiscences of the immediate past. + +Sometimes cramps in the masticatory muscles have been observed, which +explains the grinding of teeth apparent in some instances. Convulsions +in the limbs and facial muscles sometimes appear, but most of these +disturbances are of short duration. + +_Urinary and Sexual Organs_:-- + +With high fever albumen appears in the urine. In some instances it may +lead to inflammation of the kidneys, the symptoms of which may at times +completely overshadow the symptoms of typhus. Fortunately this +complication is very rare. Catarrh of the bladder occurs, because the +patient retains the urine too long, while in a state of unconsciousness. +Inflammation of the testicles has been observed with male patients, and +pregnant women have miscarried or given birth prematurely. + +_Bones and Joints_:-- + +Inflammation of the joints is infrequent and in a few cases only, +inflammation of the periosteum has been observed. + +_Skin_:-- + +At the beginning of the second week small rose-like spots of a light +rose colour appear on the buttocks (roseola typhosa), which later on +are also found on the upper legs, upper arms and back. They soon +disappear, however, and leave no traces. + +Pustular eczema is so rare in cases of typhus, that as a rule its +appearance is taken to indicate that the disease is not a case of +abdominal typhus. Frequently, however, urticaria, (nettle-rash) +perspiration and other pustules are to be noticed. + +The great variety of symptoms indicates that innumerable peculiarities +may occur in the course of typhus. In some cases it is so light and +indistinct (walking typhoid) that it is extremely difficult to diagnose +it. In other cases pneumonia or unconsciousness, headache or stiff neck +are indicated so overwhelmingly, that it is well-nigh impossible to +recognize the underlying illness as typhus. In such cases one speaks of +lung and brain typhus. + +_Recurrence_:-- + +In about 10% of all cases recurrence is observed, mostly caused through +mistakes in diet, leaving bed too soon, and excitement. Usually in such +relapses the fever takes the same course as the original attack, but is +much less intense. Although such secondary attacks are not very +dangerous as a rule, great caution should be observed, especially in +regard to diet, which must be followed in the strictest way until all +danger has passed. + +Complications and Subsequent Troubles:--are very frequent and a serious +menace to life. + +The most important are hemorrhage of the brain, meningitis, erysipelas, +gangrene of the skin and bones, wasting of the muscles, fibrinous +pneumonia; pericarditis, and frequently weakness of the heart with its +consequences. + +Purulent inflammation of the middle ear is one which deserves special +attention. + +Loss of hair is a frequent occurrence during convalescence, owing to the +ill-nourished condition of the skin; this, however, is but a temporary +feature soon succeeded by renewed growth. + +_The prognosis_ or forecast of typhus is not altogether bad, +notwithstanding the gravity of its symptoms and the dangers of its +course. + +Statistics show that the mortality from typhus does not exceed 7% but +each complication makes the result more uncertain and the outlook less +hopeful. In the event of perforation of the intestines and severe +internal hemorrhage supervening, the chances of saving life are slender. + + +_D. Treatment._ + +The treatment of typhus requires, in the first place, a correct judgment +of the physical condition of the patient in determining the fever +treatment to be applied. Success in severe cases of typhus will only be +secured by those who understand the correct methods of treating the +skin. Robust patients, with reserve energy and resisting power, may +receive the unrelaxing application of repeated whole packs or cool full +baths. There is, however, a species of endurance, which may prove unable +to endure the sustained and active force of these applications. In such +cases milder applications and more frequent changes are recommended. +Packs, interchanged with baths, clysters or enemas which subdue fever, +alternated with ablutions, and similar methods. + +Extremely stout and nervous patients must be treated with the greatest +caution. + +As typhus cases gradually develop, care must be exercised to prevent too +violent treatment in case of serious complications. In fact the +physician must not be guided by fixed rules, but must be able to +individualize with prompt discretion. + +During the severest stage the diet must be absolutely a fever diet, +prescribed in Form II, while patients suffering from lighter attacks, +and convalescents, may be permitted the milder fever diet, given in Form +III. + +_Mental Condition._ Great care and observation is necessary with regard +to the patient's mental state. The observance of a quiet demeanour on +the part of everyone about the sick room should help to keep the patient +quiet and undisturbed and may serve to preserve his consciousness. + +I have treated very severe cases of typhus, with extremely high fever, +during which, however, consciousness remained. Inexorable strictness in +this respect is often resented and misunderstood by those surrounding +the patient until they realize the far-reaching importance of the orders +by comparison with other cases. + +Cold ablutions on the affected parts, air and water cushions, must be +employed early enough to avert any danger of bed-sores. + +This strict treatment of the patient--physically and mentally, will in +most cases be sufficient to render his condition endurable; otherwise +the struggle against the irritation of complications becomes intense, +rendering it imperative, in the first degree, that the brain symptoms +should be carefully watched. + +Cold compresses on the head must be used in case such symptoms appear, +but absolute undisturbed rest will conduce more than anything else to +their infrequent occurrence. + +Collapse must be contended against with light stimulating food (light +bouillon of veal or chicken with a little condensed substance). Wine +with alcohol might endanger the life of the patient. If the collapse is +protracted, constituting a menace to life, the addition of cold water to +the lukewarm bath and similar procedure may be tried, but only by a +skilled expert. + +Diarrhoea must be resisted by means of diet and clysters (enemas) with +rice-water, if necessary; the enemas must be given _cautiously_. They +are dangerous on account of possible violations and consequently rupture +of the ulcerated intestines. These and other points, however, such as +threatening paralysis etc., are entirely in the hands of the physician. + +The contest against all the complications of typhus must be directed by +absolutely skilled and experienced persons only, since in this disease +particularly every mistake of any importance whatsoever, may cost the +life of the patient. + +Besides this specific form of typhus which commands general attention, +the others are of merely theoretical interest. One, however, I wish to +mention in passing; namely: + + +_E. Relapsing Fever (Typhus Recurrens)._ + +This also begins with chills and shivering, and a general tired feeling, +and is immediately followed by high fever, up to a temperature of 104 deg.. +The skin is covered with excretory perspiration. The brain symptoms are +lacking. The illness reaches its climax very quickly; but suddenly the +patient feels much better, after extremely free perspiration. He +continues remarkably well for about a week, when a new attack of the +illness, a relapse, occurs. There are frequently from three to four +relapses of this kind, which severely tax the strength of the patient. + +The number and the intensity of these relapses determines the degree of +the illness. + +The treatment is regulated in accordance with the principles to be +applied in abdominal typhus. The relapses may be averted or at any rate +reduced to a great degree, by strict observance of the methods herein +prescribed, especially in regard to diet. + + +_F. Diet in Cases of Typhus._ + +Typhus abdominalis is a form of disease which requires the most careful +dietetic treatment, since it combines high fever, which lasts for +several weeks, with a severe ulcerous process in the small and large +intestines. + +Nutrition is seriously hampered by the long duration of the illness, +usually considerable lack of appetite and the absolute necessity of +nursing the ulcerous intestines in the most studiously careful way. + +In cases which develop to the highest degree, it naturally follows that +the patient wastes away to a great extent. + +_In the first place, all solid food must be strictly avoided. Too great +stress cannot be laid on this point_, since the patient, especially in +lighter cases, frequently shows a strong desire for food--especially +fruit. + +Any lack of firmness and caution in this respect may have the most +disastrous consequences. Many a patient suffering from typhus has lost +his life or experienced a bad relapse and hemorrhages of the intestines +through a mistake in diet,--through taking too much or unsuitable food. + +The most critical period for the liability to hemorrhage, which in some +cases is very profuse, is the third, and in lighter cases, the second +week, when the crust of the intestinal ulcers begins to scale off. + +The diet list, as in cases of typhus, consists of Form II, and milk; +and it should be made a rule to confine it strictly to the most simple +food, bouillon, mucilaginous soups, milk, undiluted or with tea, +everything prepared with a little egg. Cream will sometimes agree with +the patient. + +The stools will indicate the digestion or otherwise of the milk. If +there are many morsels of casein apparent in the same, the quantity of +milk must be reduced and given in diluted form. The use of meat juice, +liquid or frozen, and meat jelly, is quite permissible. Although neither +of these preparations are very strong, they must be considered as +important building-stones for the nourishment of the patient, and they +offer a little variety, which is often most desirable. + +_Drinks._ For drinking, usually fresh water is used, also bread and +albumen water, especially Dechmann's Plasmogen, 15 grains in one pint of +water, a mouthful from time to time alternating with Dechmann's Tonogen. + +Great caution must be used in regard to fruit juices and lemonade on +account of the danger of irritation of the intestines. + +Carbonated and other mineral waters must be strictly avoided, since they +only add to the usually prevailing meteorism, or gas in the abdominal +cavity. + +Albumen water, which is occasionally used in case of febrile disease and +intestinal catarrh of children, is prepared by mixing the white of an +egg and two to four spoonfuls of sugar in a tumbler of water. This is +strained and cooled before being used. It is easily understood that by +this we generate new life in the patient, so to speak, through the +albumen, since it contains a large quantity of tissue building +material, which in turn prevents catabolism or destruction of the +organism, this as contrasted with the methods of the old regime which +dooms the patient to certain death by opiates,--a course frequently +resorted to by inexperienced practitioners. + +If, by attention and care, the treatment has succeeded in strengthening +the energy of the resisting organism to a certain degree during the +fever, it becomes necessary in due course to regulate the desire for +food, which sometimes grows and asserts itself in a rapid and energetic +manner, while the fever is receding. + +The cessation of fever by no means indicates that the ulcers are +completely healed, and any mistake as to quantity and quality of food +may cause a relapse. Liquid diet must, therefore, be given exclusively +for at least, another eight days after the fever has ceased. After this, +from week to week, gradually, the use of Form III, may be employed and +thereafter more solid food, as given anon, under Form IV. + +_These cautions must be strictly heeded, especially in case of typhus +recurrens._ + +If in the course of typhus severe complications, such as hemorrhage of +the intestines or perforation thereof, should supervene, nourishment +must immediately be reduced to a minimum. In such instances it is best +to confine the diet to mucilaginous soup and to forbid everything else, +as long as hemorrhages have not ceased, or the other dangerous +peritonitic symptoms have not disappeared. Gradually, Form V and lastly, +Form VI, may be followed. + + +_Form IV. Diet of the lightest kind, containing meat, but only in +scraped or shredded form._ Noodle soup, rice soup. + + Mashed boiled brains or sweetbread, or puree of white or red + roasted meat, in soup. + + Brains and sweetbread boiled. + + Raw scraped meat (beef, ham, etc.) + + Lean veal sausages, boiled. + + Mashed potatoes prepared with milk. + + Rice with bouillon or with milk. + + Toasted rolls and toast. + + +_Form V. Light diet, containing meat in more solid form_. + + Pigeon, chicken boiled. + + Small fish, with little oil, such as brook or lake trout, boiled. + + Scraped beefsteak, raw ham, boiled tongue. + + As delicacies: small quantities of caviar, frogs' legs, oysters, + sardelle softened in milk. + + Potatoes mashed and salted, spinach, young peas mashed, cauliflower, + asparagues tips, mashed chestnuts, mashed turnips, fruit sauces. + + Groat or sago puddings. + + Rolls, white bread. + + +_Form VI. Somewhat heavier meat diet. (Gradually returning to ordinary +food.)_ + + Pigeon, chicken, young deer-meat, hare, everything roasted. + + Beef tenderloin, tender roast beef, roast veal. + + Boiled pike or carp. + + Young turnips. + +All dishes to be prepared with very little fat, butter to be used +exclusively. All strong spices to be avoided. Regarding drinks to be +taken with these forms of diet, as a rule good drinking water takes the +first place. This is allowed under all circumstances. Still less +irritating are weak decoctions of cereals, such as barley and rice +water. Other light nutritive non-irritating drinks are bread water and +albumen water. + +Only natural waters, such as Vichy, Apollinaris with half milk or the +like are to be used. Drinks containing fruit acid, like lemonade and +fruit juices, are somewhat stimulating; however, in a general way, they +may be given during fever, but not in typhus. + +Of alcoholic drinks the best is light wine (bordeaux), first diluted and +later in its natural state. As a rule it should not be used before Form +IV has been followed and Form V commenced. Occasionally, mild white wine +or well fermented beer, may be permitted. Coffee is absolutely forbidden +during any of the foregoing forms of diet, but light teas with milk are +allowed in most cases. + +The main point in the different forms of diet as enumerated herein is to +be found in the mechanical gradation of the substances in accordance +with the progressive condition of the patient. + +The diet in a certain individual case of the kind will not, however, +always be necessarily identical with one or any of the foregoing forms, +but must depend upon the individual condition. + +In the first place, under each form there are easily discernible +gradations, according to relative points of view which are all familiar +to the physician and to which attention must be paid under similar +circumstances. On the other hand, very often one of the items of a later +form may be allowed while, in general, one of the previous forms is +applied. Thus the transition from Form II to the first items of Form +III is hardly perceptible. + +Of course every form comprises all previous ones, so that each +consecutive form affords a greater range than the last. + +Occasionally other points than those I have mentioned may have to be +taken into consideration. It is obviously impossible as the reader will +observe, to formulate an absolutely uniform scheme applicable to every +case. + +Next to the description and quality of food, the quantity to be +introduced into the stomach at one time, is a matter of the utmost vital +importance. + + +DECH-MANNA-COMPOSITIONS. + +(Only main compositions, specialities to Doctor's order.) + +In all forms of Typhoid fever: =Neurogen=, =Plasmogen=, =Tonogen=, +Eubiogen. + +_Physical: Partial Packs._ + + +SO-CALLED "NEGATIVE CHILDREN'S DISEASE". + +In strong contrast to the conditions of "positive" disease amongst +children, due, as I have explained, to over-vitality and too rapid +vibrations, we have to consider the opposite condition of Negative +disease, comprising all physical disturbances wherein cold negative +electrical forces and reduced vibrations produce unhealthy action of the +mucous membranes, resulting in degeneration of the tissues known as +Catarrh in various forms. Bronchitis, Grippe, Influenza and light +catarrhal inflammation of the respective organs. One of the most serious +in this chapter is summer-complaint (Cholera infantum). This disease, +which causes the death of so many, is due to the bringing up of infants +on artificial food instead of on the mother's breast. It is one of the +negative diseases caused by diminished vitality. The disease is similar +to Asiatic cholera. An extensive description of the same is given in +Chapter XI A of my book, "Regeneration or Dare To Be Healthy." Frequent +vomiting and diarrhoea, with rapid collapse of all vitality, and severe +brain disturbances manifest themselves, and death frequently occurs +after 36 hours. During hot weather bacterial germs impregnating the air, +frequently enter the milk, and many children succumb to the disease at +the same time, until wind and rain improve the general conditions. This +is the explanation of the occasional epidemic appearance of Cholera +Infantum--and its established cause. + +_Therapy._ + +_Diet_: The mother's breast or the breast of a healthy wet nurse is the +very best remedy for this complaint, if applied at an early stage. If +this is impossible, a gruel of barley, oats or mucilaginous rice-water, +a decoction of salep (1 teaspoonful to 1 pint of water), or rice water +(1 teaspoonful of crushed toasted rice to 1/2 pint water) are +recommended. The missing nutritive substance is best supplied by +calcareous earth (calcium carbonate), giving 1/4 teaspoonful in a +tablespoonful of sweetened water every 3 to 4 hours, for a day or two. +It is the simplest, yet most wonderful remedy ever discovered. It is in +cases like this that physiological chemistry celebrates its victory. Try +it and you will be convinced. For more vigorous means the physician must +be consulted, as he should be in any case of this kind, and that as +quickly as possible. + +_Physical_: Sponging the entire body of the child with lukewarm vinegar +and water, using one-half vinegar and one-half water, may prove very +successful. Warm packs around the abdomen and extending down to the +soles of the feet, often prove very effective. The abdomen must be kept +warm. The employment of coloured light for curative purposes has been +already explained in the preceding pages. The use of _blue_ curtains is, +accordingly enjoined here on account of the invigorating influence of +the more violent vibrations of _blue light_ upon an organism suffering +under the reduced vibration of a "negative disease." + + +=The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases.= + +In strict adherence to the biological standpoint, it is recommended that +a child be separated from the other children in the house as soon as it +becomes ill, and if it is not convenient to send the other children away +to be taken care of by friends, they must at least be excluded from the +sick-chamber. _Each one of these diseases develops some sort of bacillus +in its first appearance, and this leaves the body and may fall on +receptive soil in the body of another child._ Since all the children in +one family live in the same environment and receive practically the same +nourishment, and are of the same parentage, the presumption prevails +that each one of them is equally susceptible to the disease with which +one of the children has been affected. It is, therefore, advisable to +adopt preventive and protective measures with them all, by applying +abdominal packs and giving them Dechmann's Plasmogen, which will +strengthen the white corpuscles of the blood in their fight against +possibly intruding bacilli; also Dechmann's Tonogen, in order to give +the red corpuscles and the heart the power to endure the greater efforts +which the demand for increased vitality will necessitate. The +application of these measures will in many cases entirely prevent an +impending attack of the disease, and if not, will at least make it +easier to control. + +_The golden rule_: Keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels +open; that is the golden rule to be followed in the treatment of all +children's diseases. All means that are applied must have but the one +object, that of making the condition of the blood as good as possible, +so that it will maintain a fluid form and circulate readily, richly +supplied with all the necessary upbuilding substances. This, and not the +use of anti-toxins, will guarantee a speedy return to normal conditions. + +_Diet_: The importance of the diet in all of these diseases has been +indicated on several occasions. Its application is treated extensively +under the fever diet; exceptions to be determined by the physician. + +_Dech-manna-Compositions_: The compositions to be used in case of +children's diseases will, as indicated above, consist mainly of +Plasmogen and Tonogen. Small doses of Eubiogen will be of great +advantage in promoting the general condition of the patient. These three +compositions should always be available in a family where there are +children, as their application will prove very beneficial in any case, +even before the arrival of the physician. + +_Physical_: The correct application of ablutions of vinegar and water, +of partial and other packs and various baths, must be left to the +prescription of the physician, depending on the nature of the individual +case, and the effect on the patient, with the exception of the abdominal +pack. This should always be applied immediately: cold in positive, and +warm in negative diseases. + + +THE TONSURE OF THE TONSILS. + +Though not strictly within the scope of my intention in the present +booklet, I feel that no treatise, however brief, which purports to be a +free and candid expression of the ills that child-life is heir to, could +afford to ignore the burning and much debated question of the tonsils +and their significance, present and future, to the well-being of the +child, or could deem the task accomplished without raising a warning and +protesting voice on behalf of the helpless victims, whose recurrent name +is legion, against the callous and persistent violation and destruction +of the functions of vital organs, the only shadow of justification of +which is, on the one hand, a fashionable popular delusion on the part of +parents and, on the other, interested complacency on the part of their +medical advisers, accentuated by a strong and dangerous tendency towards +operation and empiric surgery generally. + +This is a strong and sweeping indictment, perhaps. Let us therefore +pause for a moment whilst we consult other sources of opinion for +confirmation or refutal. + +And, in the wide range of American and English criteria, what +corroboration do we find? We find, as regards America, the venerable +Professor Alexander H. Stevens, M.D., a member of the New York College +of Physicians, writing as follows: + + "The reason medicine has advanced so slowly is because physicians + have studied the writings of their predecessors instead of nature." + +From England the verdict comes to this effect: + +Professor Evans, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, +of London, says, in part: + + "The Medical Practice of our day is, at the best, a most uncertain + and unsatisfactory system: it has neither philosophy nor common + sense to recommend it to confidence." + +If such opinions prevail _within_ the sacred, State-protected precincts +of the profession, how long, revolted confidence exclaims--how long +before a credulous, deluded public awakens from its deep hypnotic +trance. + +Against Tonsil destruction three arguments stand: + +(1) That the primal intention of Universal Mind--(sometimes termed the +Soul of Being; the Spirit of All Good or, in simple reverence, +"God")--was obviously no malign intention, but an intention for _good_, +is an axiom which will be rationally accepted, I presume, as logically +and conclusively assured. + +(2) That the functions of the tonsils are, in the present state of +medical knowledge, practically still unknown is the deliberate and final +statement made within the past few years by one of the greatest reputed +authorities on the subject. + +(3) That the tonsil has some important mission to fulfill is clearly +demonstrated by the fact of its frequent recrudescence, or rather, the +natural renewal of the organ after surgical removal--a spontaneous +physiological organic mutiny, as it were, supported by its lymphatic +glandular dependents, against the reckless ignorance of medical +practitioners and the perversity of the medico-cum-parental fashion of +the day. + +For the fact that it is a fashion, and nothing more, is unhappily fully +established on ample and high authority within the medical prescriptive +pale. And, in fact, even as "The Tonsure" or shaving of the crown, +became by fashion and mendicity a feature of priesthood and monastic +piety, so has the slaughter of the Tonsils come to be regarded by +fashion and mendacity as a feature of childhood and medical expediency +and ineptitude. + +Professor John D. Mackenzie, M.D., of Baltimore, a distinguished leader +of the advanced school of medical science, in the course of a brilliant +and exhaustive treatise on the subject written as he says, reluctantly, +in the interest of the public health and safety, quotes the deliberate +opinion of an equally eminent medical friend to the effect that: + + "Of all the surgical insanities within his recollection this + onslaught on the tonsils was the worst--not excepting the operation + on the appendix." + +Dr. Mackenzie then proceeds to show how abysmal has been the ignorance +of the functions of these organs from the earliest times, (including a +distinguished English medical luminary who went to far as to say: "were +I attempting the artificial construction of a man I would leave out the +tonsils,") adding that the tonsil was regarded as a useless appendage +and "like its little neighbour, the uvula, was sacrificed on every +possible pretext or when the surgeon did not know what else to do." + +"Never," he says, "in the history of medicine has the lust for operation +on the tonsils been as passionate as it is at the present time. It is +not simply a surgical thirst, it is a mania, a madness, an obsession. It +has infected not only the general profession, but also the laity." In +proof of this he adds: "A leading laryngologist in one of the largest +cities came to me with the humiliating confession that although holding +views hostile to such operations he had been forced to perform +tonsillectomy in every case in order to satisfy the popular craze and to +save his practice from destruction." He cites an instance in which a +mother brought her little six-year-old daughter to him, "to know whether +her tonsils ought to come out;"--and in answer to the assurance: "your +baby is perfectly well, why do you want her tonsils out?" the fond +mother's reply was: "Because she sometimes wets the bed!" + +Recent universal inspection of the throats of school children has +revealed the fact that nearly all children at some time of life have +more or less enlarged tonsils. And the reports maintain that this, for +the most part, is harmless if not actually physiologic--natural--and +that their removal in these cases is not only unnecessary but injurious +to the proper development of the child. + +Nevertheless, the reports of the special hospitals for diseases of the +nose and throat show to what an appalling extent this destructive +operation is perpetrated throughout the land. + +"Much wild and incontinent talk," Dr. Mackenzie continues, "for which +their teachers are sometimes largely to blame, has poisoned the minds of +the younger generation of operators and thrown the public into hysteria. +They are told that with the disappearance of the tonsils in man, certain +diseases will cease to exist and parents nowadays bring their perfectly +sound children for tonsil removal in order to head off these affections. +Summing up the writer demonstrates that the functions of the tonsils +are, at present unknown and that until known nothing authoritative can +be said definitely on the subject, whether they be portals for the +entrance of disease or the exit for the very purpose of germs of +infection; common sense must decide;--whether they protect the organism +from danger or invite the presence of disease." + +I, for my own part, am of Dr. Mackenzie's opinion: that there is an +endless flow of lymph from their interior to the free surface, which +unchecked, _prevents the entrance of germs from the surface and washes +out impurities from within_. That in any case, one of the functions +undoubtedly is the production of leucocytes or protective white blood +corpuscles and that the tonsil is not, as generally understood, a +lymphatic gland; that the general ignorance of this fact has led to the +useless sacrifice of thousands of tonsils, on the fallacious assumption +that their functional activities may be vicariously undertaken by other +lymphatic glands; and finally, that the physiologic integrity of the +tonsil is of the utmost importance in infant and child life. + +The consensus of advanced scientific opinion is now to the effect that +the activity of the tonsils as possible accessories of disease has been +vastly exaggerated, that like the thousand and one successive +misleading theories which in turn, from time to time, have seized upon +the imagination and obsessed the minds of the medical fraternity for +brief and passing periods, this pernicious craze too, has about run its +course. The causes from which this peculiar lust for operation emanates +would be perhaps a difficult psychological puzzle to determine; the +malign impulse, as regards some special function, seems to spring, as it +were, by intuition, unbidden into being from the illusive depths of some +perverted intellect, to rage for a while through the medical world with +a death roll deadly as the plague and as suddenly to pass into desuetude +and disappear behind the impregnable ramparts of "prescriptive right" +and "privilege"--terms which in plain parlance mean to the masses in +cold actual fact, the absolute negation of all right--the domination of +arbitrary, irresponsible and State protected wrong. + +Between facts and fables, the evidence with regard to the tonsils and +their functions seems to establish the conclusion that they have been +wrongfully and foolishly held responsible for "an iliad of ills." The +region of the nose and mouth is obviously the happy hunting-ground of +myriads of pathogenic bacteria. It is likewise continually the scene of +innumerable surgical operations, performed necessarily without +antiseptic precautions, thus extending the area of possible infection +indefinitely to the entire upper air tract which medical incompetence so +often fails to explore. And indeed, as Dr. Mackenzie freely remarks: "Of +far graver, far-reaching and deeper significance are cases of infection +in which life has doubtless been sacrificed by clinging to the lazy and +stupefying delusion that the tonsil is the sole portal of poisoning." + +The mere size of the tonsil, it is shown, is no indication for removal +except it be large enough or diseased enough to interfere with +respiration, speech or deglutition--that is, swallowing; in which case +only a sufficient portion should be taken away, and that without delay. +The tonsil may be greatly enlarged or buried deeply in the palatine +arcade and yet not interfere with the well-being of the individual. Such +tonsils are the special prey of the tonsillectomist. If they are not +interrupting function they are best left alone. Moreover, it +occasionally happens that the resurrection of a "buried" tonsil is +followed shortly by the _burial of the patient_. + +The practical illuminating lesson to be gleamed is this: That if in +infancy and childhood, we pay more attention to the neglected nasal +cavities and to the hygiene of the mouth and teeth, we will have less +tonsil disease and fewer tonsil operations. + +"The partial enucleation of the tonsil," the writer asserts, "with even +the removal of its capsule if desired, is complete enough for all +necessary purposes and practically free from danger; moreover, it +produces equal or better results than complete enucleation with its many +accidents and complications, to say nothing of its long roll of +_unrecorded death_." + +Another point: From the professional vocalist's point of view. The +tonsils are phonatory or vocal organs and play an important part in the +mechanism of speech and song. They influence the surrounding muscles and +modify the resonance of the mouth. Enlarged by disease, they may cripple +these functions and if so, their removal may increase the compass of +the voice by one or more octaves; but it is a capital operation and a +dangerous one in which a fatal result is by no means a remote +possibility. + +The object of this interesting paper, it is pointed out, is not to +assail operation for definite and legitimate cause, but to warn against +the "busy internist"--the hospital surgeon--too busy for careful +differential diagnosis--and his "accommodating tonsillectomist" who is +"in the business for revenue only." But the onus for the existing +deplorable state of affairs he lays frankly upon the shoulders of the +teachers and insists that the cure of the evil is largely educational. +"When," says he, "_pre-eminent authority proclaims in lecture and text +book as indisputable truth the relationship between a host of diseases +and the tonsils of the child and advises the removal of the glands as a +routine method of procedure, what can we expect of the student whose +mind is thus poisoned at the very fountainhead of his medical education +by ephemeral theory that masquerades so cheerily in the garb of +indestructible fact_?" "How," he exclaims, "are we to offset the +irresponsibility of the responsible?" But we hear on all sides--"Look at +the results." Results? Here is a partial list from the practice--not of +the ignorant, but of the most experienced and skilled: Death from +hemorrhage and shock, development of latent tuberculosis, laceration and +other serious injuries of the palate and pharyngeal muscles, great +contraction of the parts, removal of one barrier of infection, severe +infection of wound, septicemia, or bacterial infection, troublesome +cicatrices, suppurative otitis media and other ear affections, troubles +of voice and vision, ruin of singing voice, emphysemia, or destruction +of the tissues, septic infarct,--infected arterial obstruction, +pneumonia, increased susceptibility to throat disease, pharyngeal quinsy +and last, but not least tonsillitis! + +The trenchant and tragic article concludes with the expression of the +hope that the day is not far distant when not only the profession but +the public shall demand that this senseless slaughter be stopped. "Is +not this day of medical and moral preaching and uplifting," it is asked, +"a fitting one in which to lift the public out of the atmosphere into +which it has been drugged, and as to the reckless tonsillectomist, a +proper time to apply the remedy of the _referendum_ and _recall_. It has +come to a point when it is not only a burning question to the +profession, but also to the public. This senseless, ruthless destruction +of the tonsil is often so far reaching and enduring in its evil results +that it is becoming each day a greater menace to the public good." + + Such is the wisdom of these world-wide sages, + They wildly yearn to learn its innermost + And break the organ's wondrous works with sledges-- + Though music, its sweet soul, for aye is lost; + That they have reached the goal, such is their dreaming, + When tissues, nerves, and veins reveal their knife-- + When in the very core their steel is gleaming-- + But, one thing they forget--_and that is life_! + +This matter of the functions of the tonsils is fully dealt with in my +greater work "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy"--Chapters VII. and +VIII., in which I show on the best authority that _the tonsils have a +great mission to fulfill_--so great indeed that their treatment +according to the present methods of the medical faculty can, in my +estimation, only be stigmatized as the equivalent of a crime. + +It is the conclusion arrived at scientifically by the greatest +authorities that the Tonsils secrete a very potent anti-toxic fluid +which is excreted whenever dangerous pathogenic bacilli attempt to enter +the pharynx or larynx, constituting in fact the ever watchful sentinels +of the oral and nasal portals through which an entrance into the human +organism might be surprised by its ever active surreptitious +enemies--the bacteria of infection and disease. + + +PRE-NATAL CARE. + +It would be improper to close this section, touching child-life, without +some special reference to pre-natal care. It has been well said by +eminent authorities that a child's "_education should begin long before +its birth_." This to many may seem mysterious or even foolish, according +to their advancement on the plane of knowledge. But America has long ago +awakened to the truth of it, and pre-natal clinics have been established +on a large scale--notably in New York--for the scientific supervision +and comfort of expectant mothers who may need it. The natural right of +every child to be born in health and happiness, is at length recognized. + +Human magnetism, or nerve force, is beginning to be understood and +utilized as a great vital, health-compelling, harmonizing factor of vast +significance to the future of the race. + +The real and practical alliance between the physical and the +psychic--between body and mind--is better realized; as for instance: You +may be seized with _an idea_, or a passion, and it disturbs your _health +of body_; you may take indigestible food, or suffer injury or fatigue, +and it disturbs your _health of mind_. + +But beyond and behind all else are all those seemingly occult and +sinister, pre-natal influences centered in hereditary and kindred +considerations which are still more significant and difficult to locate +and overcome. + +These problems have been thought out and solved long before the dawn of +the present social awakening and the conclusions have been tabulated in +the closest detail from the first moment of embryonic life, faithfully +defining the paths that inevitably lead to the desired goal of Hygienic +Birth, of Physical Perfection and the Mental State termed Happiness, in +Infancy. + +All these things will be found minutely focussed in picturesque relief, +in my previous work entitled: "Within the Bud." + + +ENDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC DISEASE. + +Among the most deadly menaces that beset human life upon this planet are +those forms of disease classed under the head of so-called Endemic and +Epidemic disease and including in its baleful limits Yellow fever, +Cholera, Pellagra--otherwise known as Hook-worm, Plague and so-called +Spanish Influenza. + +Based upon Physiological Chemistry and explained from the Biological +standpoint, the explanation of these covers a wide scientific area and +geographically treated embraces the globe. + +The various problems of their cause and prevention have exercised the +mind of science and research to an enormous degree and heavy premiums +have been placed upon their solution, with more or less success and much +expenditure has been incurred in the examination of local conditions. + +As far as this Continent is concerned, perhaps the most troublesome has +been Climatic Fever which varies greatly in form and intensity according +to temperature and location. + +"Yellow Fever," as it is named, has swept some Southern localities from +time to time, but Science, Sanitation and Hygiene have curbed its +virulence and spread, as in the case of outbreaks of epidemics such as +small-pox--for the control of which, by the way, the advocates of the +vile and pernicious practice of vaccination, fraudulently claim the +credit, even in these advancing times, when the wiles of self interest +are disclosed, the worship of the "Putrid Calf" exposed and the days of +the vaccine vendor numbered. + +Yellow Fever occurs on the Coast of tropical countries and, as a rule, +is fatal, after a rapid development of from 3 to 7 days. + +The explanation of the cause of the disease is comparatively simple: The +air on the hot coast lands is highly charged with evaporated water. Heat +and humidity have the effect of diverting from the human organism the +electricity which, as already shown, constitutes its vital cohesion and +the same influences likewise reduce the oxygen in the atmosphere. These +are the two primary causes of Yellow Fever. + +Pellagra (hook-worm or Lombardy Leprosy) is, according to the tenets of +the Regular School, an endemic skin and spinal disease of Southern +Europe. It is said to be due to eating damaged corn but dependent also +upon bad hygienic conditions, poor food and exposure to the sun. Its +salient features are weakness, debility, digestive disturbance, spinal +pain, convulsions, melancholia and idiocy. + +More recent investigation has judged it to be a deficiency disease, due +to low and unvaried diet and consequent failure of metabolism. + +In every case these climatic disease forms are caused by a combination +of hot air, lacking oxygen, and evaporated water, including Cholera +which also varies in intensity according to heat conditions. + +Cholera and Plague originate on the coast of Bengal, India, where +conditions are bad enough of themselves without the apology of the +illusive bacillus as a causative agent. + +That Cholera is contagious cannot be doubted and it is no superstition +that fear predisposes thereto. For all emotions consume electrical power +in the body and thus break down its power of resistance. + +Infantile paralysis, Typhoid-fever, Small-pox, etc., are dealt with +elsewhere and therefore need no mention here. + +It is impossible to deal adequately with so wide a subject within the +narrow limits at my disposal; but the full details and environment of +each, together with the respective methods of treatment will be found in +detail in the parent work "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy." + + +THE SPANISH INFLUENZA. + +In any attempt to unravel the tangled skein of cause and circumstance +which surrounds the subject of the world-sweeping pandemic which +masquerades under the misleading title of the "Spanish Influenza," the +first and most important initial step must be a keen and careful sifting +of the facts and forces, natural and artificial, which control or +dominate the situation. + +The debatable questions appear to be chiefly the following: + + (1) The fundamental causes that underlie the great-epidemics or + pandemics that the world experiences from time to time--the present + one in particular. + + (2) The fact or fallacy of the germ as a causative factor or merely + an effect or product of disease conditions. + + (3) The alternative course, origin and medium of transmission and + finally + + (4) The soundness and efficiency or otherwise of the preventive and + curative measures with which the combined intelligence of the + Medical Faculty has risen to the dire emergency of the moment for + the protection of the people who have relied so confidently, as by + law compelled, upon the standard of their acumen and official aid + as competent guardians of public safety. + +The findings, as to the first question, are to the effect that it +appears, from the earliest recorded annals of disease, that epidemics +corresponding to the present outbreak have occurred at irregular periods +all up the centuries under names and conditions peculiar to the times, +and following usually in the wake of some great social cataclysm, strain +or upheaval, the result of wars, persecutions, famines and +distress--causes which clearly illustrate the close reactive connection +between the mental and physical action of disease. + +The great pandemics seem to have originated largely in the Orient--the +region of vast congested populations and racial struggles and +starvation--the advent of their apparent influence upon the western +world depending chiefly upon the rate of commercial or popular +intercourse, the movements of armies or the ingress or egress of +peoples. The logical establishment of direct proof of the connection +between these visitations and local epidemics in distant lands is a +problem as yet unsolved. The weight of evidence, at first sight, would +seem to lie rather in the other direction--to indicate that such +epidemics are the direct outcome of existing local conditions, mental +and physical. + +For example: At the end of that strenuous period in England's history, +between the reign of the first Charles and the fall of the Commonwealth, +an epidemic broke out which, as the historian tells us, converted the +country into "one vast hospital." The malady--which by the way was fatal +to Cromwell--the Lord Protector himself--was then termed "the ague." The +term "Influenza" was first given to the epidemic of 1743 in accordance +with the Italianizing fashion of the day, but was eventually superseded +by the French expression "La Grippe," usually held to represent a more +modified form of the disease which appears to vary in intensity and +virulence according lo its provocation and derivation. + +The old school hypothesis and the deductions therefrom would seem +therefore, to be this: That a super-malignant contagium imported from +some foreign source falls upon organisms predisposed to infection by +mental stress or physical privation and over-strain or both combined; +and the contagion thus generated through the medium of some unsuspected +"carrier" seizes upon and sweeps through that portion of the community +so predisposed, in the form of a great, general epidemic with a maximum +of mortality. At later intervals the same repeats itself with less violence +and reduced mortality, because a great proportion,--representing the +sufferers in the original epidemic,--being now thereby immune, the onus +falls upon that section of the younger generation unprotected by individual +resistant force who consequently become the chief sufferers--as in the case +of the present epidemic, the pandemic form of which is obviously due to the +fact that equal conditions of unrest, privation and distress prevail +universally throughout the entire nerve plains of the Planet. + +The first recorded outbreak in America occurred in the year 1647, +followed by a second in 1655 and again in 1789 and 1807. In these the +mortality appears to have been confined, after the first outbreak, to a +few mere modest thousands whereas in the present visitation a +conservative estimate places the figures of the horrible world-holocaust +at no less a sum than 18 _million lives_ in all.[D] The ravages in +America have been appalling including many of the medical profession. + +We pass on then to the second item--the question of the germ. + +The illusive germ has come to be regarded by the layman with +reserve--nay more--with suspicion. The part of the bacteriologist has +been somewhat overdone. The conditions of popular credence are not what +they were. A great change has awakened the masses of the people and a +new intelligence is born which now discerns that disease is one great +Unity just as the body is one inseparable interdependent whole--that +_the cause of disease is in the blood_ and dependent upon its +nourishment and moreover, that the _physical forces of the body can be +exhausted as much by mental strain,--causing the too rapid burning up of +nerve fat (lecithin),--as by excessive physical exertion_. For example. +Mental disturbance--grief, worry, excitement--produce immediate physical +effect in headache, palpitations and the like. Physical +exhaustion--privation, hunger and over-work--on the other hand produce +mental depression and collapse. The inevitable law of compensation +rules. + +Thus the germ, bacillus, or microbe, as a direct _cause_ of disease is +an exploded fallacy. They are now recognized as the _result_ of +disease--_not the cause_: releasing irritants perhaps and possibly +carriers or transmitting mediums to other diseased or predisposed +organisms. + +It follows accordingly that Sero-Therapy or Inoculation with specific +serums derived from such germs, as a preventative of disease is simply a +pernicious farce; "pernicious," since the introduction of such poisons +by inocculation into the blood constitutes in itself a serious menace to +life and health. + +This has never been more clearly demonstrated than in the present +singularly futile efforts of the Regular Medical Faculty to stay the +on-rush of the Influenza Epidemic or to save or safeguard its victims--a +fact which compels the people in their thousands to turn to the less +pretentious but more successful members of the eclectic or Irregular +schools among whom both help and healing may be found. + +And this is the history of the Influenza germ: + +The bacterial criminal was located. We know it, for the discovery was +officially proclaimed and vouched for by the press with all due pomp and +circumstance. True, it was "so minute as to be _invisible to the most +powerful microscope_;"--but it was sensed by science, none the less, and +handed over captive, for "culture" to the _manufacturing chemist_. +Inoculation followed freely--the people in their thousands and our +gallant troops alike submitted to the mandate of the powers that be--the +soldiers voiceless and under penalty. + +America breathless, awaited the result. There was none. + +Finally scare-heads in the Press astonished the land. They were these: +"_Medical World is Baffled by the 'Flu'._"--"_Exhaustive Experiments +Leave Doctors Mystified._"--"_Every Test a Failure._"--"_Explosion of +Accepted Theories Causes Science to Grope for Light._" + +It appears that, through the heroism of a _hundred_ of our naval men who +volunteered for the purpose at the risk of life, the Medical Authorities +in desperation were enabled to try every possible method of infection +with the alleged Influenza Germs, our boys submitting to inoculation and +even to the repulsive ordeal of introduction into the nose and throat of +diseased mucous from and close contact with coughing and spitting bed +patients in the severest forms of the disease. The experiments were made +simultaneously at San Francisco and Boston under the direction of +Surgeons McCoy and Goldberger of the U.S. Health Department and the +Naval Authorities. + +The astounding negative result as indicated by the press, was described +as "The Sensation of the day," for the fact was revealed that _Not one, +of the hundred who underwent these drastic and determined tests, +developed any symptoms of Influenza._ This picture of failure was +surmounted by the summing up of the situation on the part of the highest +Medical Authority; to this effect: + +"These new experiments in the transmission of Influenza," said Surgeon +General Blue, "show how difficult is the Influenza Problem." + +The result points clearly to a state of natural immunity enjoyed by +those who, like these men of the Naval Service, lead an hygienic, +contented well regulated life with the simple accessories of good and +sufficient food, fresh air and regular exercise. + +The same principle has been recently demonstrated in England in the same +connection by the annual report of one of the great public schools +celebrated for hygienic methods, where amongst a total of 800 students +not a single case of influenza appeared--although no preventive measures +were employed beyond the simple rules of health and cleanliness. + +Finally, as regards serums and specifics, the judgment of Dr. Karl F. +Meyer, of the Hooper Institute of Medical Research of the University of +California, may be accepted as focusing the consensus of unbiased +opinion on the subject. It was as follows: "Serums have not yet been +introduced which produce immunity from Spanish Influenza. The serums now +employed are of no use whatsoever. You have no idea how really and truly +helpless we are. As an example, take the advice given us by the Public +Health Department when we asked what should be done if the epidemic +struck West. They said: '_Organise your hospitals and undertakers_.'" In +the same statement Dr. Meyer declared that the Medical fraternity _is in +total darkness as to the cause and nature of the epidemic_. + +Of other preventive measures resorted to--Masks, Quarantine and the veto +upon public gatherings--proved equally mistaken and futile. Masks of a +texture calculated to baffle the most determined attempts of the minute +invisible homicide were made compulsory, and in the great cities +masquerading millions became a constant feature of the streets, until an +idea of the danger of masks, _as microbe preservers and carriers_, +dawned upon the official mind. Thus, beyond fostering fear and +depression amongst the citizens nothing was achieved in the direction +desired, but rather the reverse; since it is now very generally +recognized that such mental conditions with their consequently lowered +vitality are a common prelude to disease. + +At the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in +Chicago, following a two days' discussion of preventive measures against +Influenza and Pneumonia, Dr. Chas. J. Hastings, president of the +organization said: "A tremendous amount of damage is done by interfering +with nature, when nature would have done better had she been left alone. +We have very little power over pneumonia. I am convinced that as many +patients have been _killed_ by physicians as have been _cured_." + +The talented "Health" editor of the Los Angeles Times, commenting upon +these matters, writes: "The handling of this epidemic by 'health boards' +and doctors who have been running around like wet chickens--their eyes, +however, fastened on the feed box--has furnished another striking +evidence of the futility of what is misnamed 'Medical Science.'" + +All this carries one back 50 years to the memory of Sir John Forbes, +Court Physician to the late Queen Victoria of England, and the eminent +Editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review, who thus tersely +recorded the scientific conclusions arrived at in the course of his +long, professional experience, in connection with drugs, drug medication +and allopathy, under the title of "Why we should not be poisoned because +we are sick:" "Firstly,--that in a large proportion of cases treated by +allopathic physicians, the disease is cured by nature and not by them. +Secondly,--that in not a small proportion, the disease is cured by +nature in spite of them. Thirdly,--that consequently, in a considerable +proportion of diseases it would fare as well or better with patients if +all remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned;" and he emphatically +adds: "Things have come to such a pass that they must either mend or +end." This, be it remembered, was in 1868,--50 years ago--and such +frankness would not have been tolerated from other than "Sir John"--for, +as was said by an inspired American: "He who dares to see a truth not +recognized in creed must die the death." And now indeed is revealed the +wisdom of Shakespeare when he said: "Ignorance is the Curse of God;" or +of Bolinbroke's bitter assertion: "Plain truth will influence half a +score men at most in a nation or an age, while _mystery will lead +millions by the nose_." + +I am not prepared to endorse the cynical saying of Voltaire: "Regimen is +superior to medicine--especially as from time immemorial out of every +hundred physicians ninety-eight are charlatans." But this much is +certain, that they have found the needs of nature too laborious--the +pathway of their leader--the Great Hippocrates--of Galen, Sydenham, +Boerhaave, too tame, and have listened to the lure of Paracelsus, and +adopted, with its high pontificial manner and medication, the more +luxurious empiricism of the medicasters of five centuries ago. + +But the time has come when the reign of bigotry, drugs and mystery must +have an end--the chartered lien on human life must cease and the antique +secret consistories so long omnipotent, must be brought to the +enlightened level of the day. + +We have come to the parting of the ways, where it becomes the bounden +duty of every earnest, fair-minded physician to cast off the manacles of +professional caste and secret obligation and to advance with open mind +across the wholesome confines of eternal truth. This as much in their +own interest as in that of their patients. For there is disaffection in +the once solid phalanx, and we find strictures such as these in the +standard works of the profession: "It cannot be denied that +practitioners in medicine stand too low in the scale of public +estimation and, something is rotten in the State of Denmark." + +A series of articles appearing recently, in the English Review, from +the daring and masterly pen of George Bernard Shaw, deals with the +subject with an ungloved hand, taking as opportunity a vitriolic +controversy recently raging between exalted lights of the medical +profession in London, which raises abruptly the long-drawn curtain of +mystery and exposes the secret skeleton to the view of a wondering +world. Speaking of the absolute, autocratic powers of the medical +monopoly and the superstitious, hopeless complacency of the public, the +writer says: "The assumption is that the 'registered doctor' or surgeon +knows everything that is known, and can do everything that is to be +done. This means that the dogmas of omniscience, omnipotence and +infallibility, and something very like the theory of the apostolic +succession and kingship by anointment, have recovered in medicine the +grip they have lost in theology and politics. This would not matter if +the 'legally qualified doctor' was a _completely qualified healer_: but +this is not the case; far from it. Dissatisfaction with the orthodox +methods and technique is so widespread that the supply of technically +qualified _unregistered_ practitioners is insufficient for the +demand.... The reputation of the unregistered specialist is usually well +founded. _He must deliver the goods._ He cannot live by the faith of his +patients in a string of letters after his name." + +From all sides the same dissatisfaction is told showing that, with the +sick and simple majority, what is termed "the attractive bed-side +manner" of the polished practitioner has vastly out-weighed--in the +past--the more vital advantage of superior skill on the part of +practitioners of the drugless and natural systems which are winning +their way to favour, in spite of the organized opposition of the +orthodox profession and the powerful "vested interests" of the +medicine-men. + +To return to the subject proper: The summing up as to the efficacy of +inoculation, drugs, serums and specifics for Influenza may best be found +in the supplements to the U.S. Public Health reports, and vouched for by +Surgeon-General Rupert Blue and the Government experts: + +"Since we are uncertain of the primary cause of Influenza, no form of +inoculation can be guaranteed to protect against the disease itself." +"No drug has as yet been proved to have any specific influence as a +_preventive_ of influenza. + +"No drug has as yet been proved to have any specific _curative_ effect +on influenza--though many are useful in guiding its course and +mitigating _is symptoms_. + +"In the uncertainty of our present knowledge considerable hesitation +must be felt in advising vaccine treatment as a curative measure. + +"The chief dangers of influenza lie in its complications, and it is +probable that much may be done to mitigate the severity of the affection +and to diminish its mortality _by raising the resistance of the +body_...." + +It is not my purpose in adducing these startling facts to impugn the +Allopathic system or to disparage the elder branch of the Profession of +Healing. They are simply assembled for the purpose of proving a case in +favour of the newer or Hygieo-Dietetic System. + +But here in consecutive order of testimony is a truly terrible +denouncement--the testimony, as it were, of two hemispheres of the +terrestrial globe proclaiming the positive failure of the section of +science upon which, for very existence, their inhabitants have been +accustomed to rely! + +Now Health and Disease are dependent upon degrees of positive and +negative vibrations, as is every form of life in the great Cosmic Unity +of the Universe. Both are tones with endless modulation, but the +integral fact, in either case, _is one_. Disease, then, is a Unit--a +degenerate function of the blood--and, such being the case, the failure +of any curative principle or system aspiring to remedy that degenerate +functioning, in any degree, is a failure of that principle or system as +a whole. + +The sensational admission, therefore, of the chiefs of the Profession in +America and England, as herein cited, amounts in plain language to the +tacit admission that drugs and serums are powerless to produce any +"preventive influence" or any "curative" effect upon Influenza, (or as +it rationally and logically follows, upon any other disease) although, +as openly stated in this official proclamation, they may influence the +"symptoms." + +But, finally--And here is the supreme announcement, wherein at length +the Truth comes out triumphant--"The severity of the disease may be +mitigated and its mortality diminished _by raising the resistance of the +body_." + +This in one single sentence is the sum total of the teachings of the +eclectic, independent and legally debarred and officially unrecognized +Physiologico-Chemical, Hygieo-Dietetic School of Natural Science which I +have the honor to represent. + +The true teaching of Hippocrates, surnamed "The Father of +Medicine"--the ostensible leader, for all time, of the "regular school" +of Medicine was comprised in one phrase: the _Vis Medicatrix +Naturae_--The Healing Power of Nature. + +The teaching of our New, Independent School is identically the +same--plus the physiologico-chemical discoveries of the intervening +centuries. They are plain and natural precepts, surrounded by no +fearsome atmosphere of mystery. They are to this effect: + +That the human organism, together with all its interdependent parts, +organs and functions, is an inseparable whole--a Unit--subject +absolutely to Natural Laws. As said St. Paul: "And whether one member +suffer, all the members suffer with it." (Cor. 12-26.) + +That disease, therefore, is likewise a unit with a diversity of +manifestations which, like all conflicting elements, develop in the +individual organism along the lines of least resistance, according to +the weakness--hereditary or acquired--of the individual. This we term +predisposition. + +The cause of predisposition to disease, centres absolutely and entirely +in the blood, causing obstructions to normal circulation, the +obstructing materials being poisons and impurities, either hereditary or +acquired through malnutrition or the introduction of unassimilable +matter into the system in the form of improper food, drugs, medicines or +vaccines which remain as poisons in the blood. + +Disease is the remedial effort of Nature to throw off such +obstructions--a process of purification and regeneration--and its +symptoms should be assisted and regulated rather than resisted and +suppressed. + +"Doctors prescribe--but only Nature cures," is an ancient axiom, but it +faithfully represents the "_vis medicatrix naturae_." + +The question has recently been publicly propounded "Is sickness +criminal?" Very certainly, disease is the outcome of personal neglect, +in past or present; but the nature of the question is a sign significant +that the laity are awakening to the truth that the healing power of +nature rests wholly in the generation and conservation of latent reserve +energy. + +As regards the influenza controversy the Official verdict is, as we have +seen, that the Regular Medical Profession as a whole, has failed in its +endeavor to fathom the mystery and is at present "_really and truly +helpless_." Let us therefore, seek the cause of this disastrous failure +and strive to solve the problem along other lines. + +If so poor be the harvest, what of the soil? is the natural enquiry. And +it must be generally admitted that this spectacular failure lies in the +superficial teaching of the medical schools--its search for causes in +the mature, and "specialized," anatomical organs in place of the +fundamental physiological, chemical and embryonic causes from which, in +their appointed order those various organs are evolved;--first the brain +and nervous system, afterwards the tissues and the bones. Thus, unversed +in the deeper phases of causation, men are hurried unprepared into ranks +of a noble profession to struggle as best they may, through lack of +deeper knowledge, with the serious symptoms of disease--at first by +rote but later, are tempted to tamper empirically with its issues. + +It has been said by a great scientific authority that, in order to +thoroughly comprehend and cure any form of disease it is necessary, in +the first place, to mentally map out and visualize the course of its +growth and to follow it backward, step by step, to its source before it +is possible to formulate curative treatment adapted to its cause and +phases. + +To commence then at the initial stage, let us bring upon the scene one +of the greatest chemists of the age: Justus von Liebig, the discoverer +of "The Law of the Minimum," which is this: That of the sixteen known +constituents of the blood essential to the healthy growth and +maintenance of the organs and tissues of the body, the absence of any +proportional ingredient, however small, will cause degeneration in the +organism and interfere with the proper functioning of one or more of the +activities concerned. + +_Upon this Law is based the attested, dominant fact that all our mental +and physical activities--powers of thinking, feeling, motion and every +action, including the reproduction of species are equally dependent upon +our blood--and our blood, in turn, depends upon proper nutrition._ The +ancient aphorism: "Man is as man eats," is therefore true in theory and +in fact. + +Human diet and human life being thus closely allied, it becomes a +consideration of the first magnitude to see that all food contains in +well balanced degree a correct proportion of the sixteen essentials: +carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine, +potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, fluorine, silicon and +iodine. + +Amongst the chemical salts of such scientific nutrition may, or may not, +be found the famous "Vitamines," long sought of science; but what they +certainly do supply is the electro-magnetic energy, the impulse of +growth and vital function, the secret of bactericide blood and its power +of circulation. + +It is the magnetic iron in the blood which promotes nerve function in +both the brain and the intestinal tract, producing on the one hand +intellectual activity and on the other, breathing digestion and +excretion. Similar causal action in corelation to the integral elements +of food prevails throughout the organs of the body, demonstrating the +vital importance of the quality of our daily food for the renewal of +tissue and the maintenance of healthy metabolism. + +In an attempt to define the _primary cause of Influenza_, Prof. +Kuhnemann, a well known authority on practical and differential +diagnosis, gives a minute description of its various _symptoms_, +terminating with a weak suggestion that the already discredited bacillus +_may be regarded as the cause_. + +This is, in detail, as follows: "Fever is always present," Prof. +Kuhnemann says, "but not of any certain type. At times, after short +periods of Apyrexie there is a rise in temperature sometimes swelling of +the spleen. There is no characteristic change in the urine; sometimes +Albuminuria. There is an inclination to perspire freely; consequently +Miliaria is often present; also Herpes, less frequently other Exanthema, +Petechien. The mucous membranes are inclined to hemorrhage (Epistaxis, +Hematemesis, Menorrhagia, Abortion). + + "Complications and after effects: + + (1) Of the respiratory system:--Croupose and Broncho-pneumonia of + atypical progress (atypical fever of protracted course, relatively + strong Dyspnoe, Cyanosis, feeble pulse) and high mortality; after + effects serous or mattery Pleuritis, Lung abscesses, Phthisis. + + (2) Of the circulatory system:--Myocarditis, Endocarditis, + Thrombosis. + + (3) Of the digestive tract:--Chronic stomach and intestinal + catarrh, Dyspepsia. + + (4) Of the nervous system:--Any form of Neuralgia, Paralysis, + Neuritis, Psychosis, etc. + + (5) Of the sense organs:--Otitis media; Nephritis and Muscular + Rheumatism are also observed. Influenza aggravates any case of + sickness, especially lung trouble." + +All this seems to constitute a very formidable and perplexing +indictment, sparkling with learning and bristling with difficulties. But +when these mellifluous mysticisms are once translated into "the vulgar +tongue" they prove to be, strange to say, easily within the +comprehension of the ordinary layman. + +For instance, "Apyrexie" means Free from fever; Albuminuria--Albumen +present; Miliaria--an acute inflammation of the sweat-glands +(Abnormal sweating); Herpes--an inflammatory skin disease +characterized by the formation of small vesicles in clusters (Fever rash); +Exanthema--Skin eruption; Petechien--Spots; Epistaxis--Nose-bleeding; +Hematemesis--vomiting blood; Menorrhagia--Excessive menstruation; +Croupose--resembling croup; Broncho-pneumonia--Inflammation of the +lungs; Atypical fever--irregular fever; Dyspnoe--Hard breathing; +Cyanosis--Blue discoloration of the skin from non-oxidation of +the blood; Pleuritis--Pleurisy; Phthisis--consumption; Myocarditis +and Endocarditis--Inflammations of the heart; Thrombosis--coagulation +of blood; Intestinal Catarrh--Inflammation of the bowels; +Dyspepsia--Indigestion; Neuritis--Nerve inflammation; Psychosis--Mental +derangement; Otitis media--Inflammation of the ear; and +Nephritis--Inflammation of the kidneys. + +"Aetiology:--The influenza bacillus (found in blood and excrement) is to +be regarded as the cause. The malady is highly contagious. Period of +incubation given as, from two to seven days. Runs its course in one or +two weeks, recovery as a rule favorable; though convalescence is often +protracted. Unfavorable results are brought on through complications, +most often by Pneumonia. + +"Diagnosis:--Easily determined during an epidemic or marked symptoms. +The catarrhal form of influenza differs from simple catarrh of the +mucous membranes of the respiratory tract through the presence of +nervous symptoms and a more abrupt beginning. The symptoms may be +similar to those of Measles or Abdominal typhus. In each case, +complications with Pneumonia must be considered. + +"The proof of the presence of the Influenza bacillus," he concludes, "is +of little value in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis in medical +practice as the bacillus cannot be distinguished with enough accuracy +through the microscopic examination, which must be a very minute +culture proceeding." + +This is the final dictum of medical Science on the subject--Science +which however, adds nothing to our knowledge and leaves us still in +darkness and uncertainty, while memory brings a well known couplet to +the mind: + + He holds the threads of Wisdom's way + Loosely, with palsied hand. + Why lacks he now, for pity's sake, + The grace to understand? + + M.B. + + (After Goethe.) + +But let us weigh this long list of symptoms and estimate their +respective significance by the light of physiological perception. + +The ever present fever is due to stagnation of the blood. Swelling of +the spleen is caused by catabolism of the Malpighian bodies. Albuminuria +is the result of cold in the Plexus renalis; Perspiration is due to +numbness in the nerve fibrils. The inclination of the mucous membranes +to Hemorrhage is explained by congestion of blood in the capillaries, +due to lack of vigor in the nerve fibrils. When the nerve fibrils fail +to act, the capillary circulation stops and the blood overloaded with +carbonic acid presses against the walls until they burst. + +The complications and after effects are explained in the following +manner: + +Complications in the respiratory system are all due to failure to +properly treat the acute stage of the disease, and where the resistance +of the patient has been sapped they usually end fatally. Complications +in the circulatory system are subject to the same explanation as fever. +Digestive complications are due to impaired metabolism brought on by +loss of energy in the Vagus nerve. Complications in the nervous system +are consequent upon the degeneration of the whole Vagus tract. Sensory +complications are due to the disease attacking the "minoris +resistentia," the point of least resistance in the patient. + +This explanation of the real significance of the symptoms of Influenza +should make it sufficiently apparent that its cause is fundamental, +widespread and deeply rooted in the organism--a menace not to be lightly +and tentatively treated with impunity. That the disease is not one that +may be met--with any prospect of success--with febrifuges, drugs, serums +and specifics--to say nothing of whisky and the like futilities, to use +no harsher term, such as are said to have characterized the +prescriptions of a very considerable proportion of the Regular Medical +Profession and with such terribly disastrous results. What the liquor +statistics show on our side of the line I am at the moment unable to +say, but I see it reported in the press of an adjoining province that +under nominally strict "Prohibition" the sale of liquor had increased no +less than 900 per cent, largely upon doctors orders, and that the sales +from the Government stores in one city, during the past month had +totaled $50,000--as compared with $6,000 for the corresponding period of +the previous year. + +The Professor's elaborate diagnosis, from a physiologico-chemical point +of view seems rather to point to a meaning which he has missed--to +indicate a latent, more remote possibility behind the shy bacillus, as +the primary cause of the disease. + +Let us endeavor to read the riddle rightly. On scientific contemplation +it at once becomes apparent that the symptoms as defined by +Kuhnemann--and indeed all other observers--are confined to the regions +traversed by the _Vagus_ (wandering) or _Pneumogastric_ nerve--a nerve +of comprehensive scope and bi-functional activity, _physical and +psychic_ and in operation, remarkably in accord with the manifestations +of Influenza. + +Concisely stated, the physiological function of the _Vagus nerve_ is to +regulate the process of breathing, tasting, swallowing, appetite, +digestion, etc.; and the result of its failure to function would create +coughing, choking, indigestion--separately or in combination. Its mental +functions include the expression of shame, desire, disgust, grief, +torture, depression and despair. + +The following is its academic description: + +_Vagus_ or Pneumogastric nerve (tenth cranial); function--sensation and +motion; originates in the floor of the fourth ventricle (the space which +represents the primitive cavity of the hind-brain; it has the pons and +oblongata in front, while the cerebellum lies dorsal), and is +distributed through the ear, pharynx, larynx, lungs, esophagus, and +stomach; possesses the following branches--auricular, pharyngeal, +superior and inferior laryngeal, cardiac, pulmonary, esophageal, +gastric, hepatic, communicating, meningeal. + +It is interesting to compare the scope and characteristics of the Vagus, +as here defined with the details of Prof. Kuhnemann's diagnosis of +Influenza and to draw conclusions. + +In order to establish more unmistakably the symptomatic sympathetic +connection between the Vagus and Influenza, it may be well to touch +briefly upon the initial processes of metabolism and nerve production. + +An inherent impulse in the ovum (protoplasm or egg cell) serves to +separate the albuminous substance into groups of an opposite nature. +Water is chemically separated from one portion, which results in +thickening the albumen from which it was extracted, while the liberated +water aids in liquifying another portion of the albuminous matter. Thus, +on one side slender threads arise, termed fibrine or filaments, and on +the other lymph fluid appears, which receives the particles of salts +freed from the filaments during their chemical separation. When the +fibrine and lymph are organized from the protoplasm, the remaining +albumen is absolutely unchanged and ready to furnish material for the +growth of either. + +It is the function of salts to increase the electrical tension of the +lymph. All salts possess the property of being electrically positive or +negative. The more concentrated a saline solution, the greater its +electrical energy. + +That the function of the lymph is to assist in the formation and +nutrition of the nerves is apparent when the nature of lymph and the +composition of nerve substances are compared. The contrast which exists +between fibrine and lymph, and the similarity of lymph to nerve fat when +taken together, justify the conclusion that the nerve substance +lecithin, was formed from lymph in the first instance. + +The whole process of life consists of an electro-chemical combustion. +This is clearly shown in the case of lecithin, which serves to control +both motion and sensation. In the presence of oxygen it burns up, +forming a new chemical combination, and throwing off minute quantities +of carbonic acid and water in the process. _Every movement and process, +both voluntary and involuntary, and every thought and emotion, depends +upon oxidation, which consumes muscular tissue and nerve substance._ + +The greater our physical exertion the more muscular tissue must be +consumed. The higher our emotional state, the more we think or agitate +ourselves, the greater must be the quantity of nerve substance burned +up. All of the substance burned up in labour, in worry and in thought, +must be replaced or the flame will flicker out! + +The metabolism of muscular tissue is not in question at the moment. We +are concerned here with nerve metabolism alone. + +This occurs in the following manner: In response to the demand for new +material created by the chemical combustion of lecithin, new oil flows +down the axis cylinders of the nerve fibrils, which are arranged +somewhat in the manner of lamp wicks. The average duration of the flow +of this oil is about eighteen hours. When the cerebro-spinal nerves +refuse to perform their function any longer, because the supply of oil +is running low, fatigue and sleep ensue, and the blood descends from the +brain to the intestines. Thus the cerebro-spinal system is permitted to +relax and rest. In the meantime the sympathetic nervous system has taken +up the task of directing the renewal of worn tissues, which draw their +supply of necessary materials from the digestive canal, with a new +supply of phosphatic oil. For the carrying out of these processes, which +prepare the brain and spinal nerve system for the demands of another +day, the magnetic blood current acts as distributor of supplies. + +Through the fact that this supply is directly dependent upon nutrition, +three possibilities inevitably present themselves: + + (1) That any radical change of diet may result in an insufficient + supply of the various elements necessary for the production of + lecithin in the requisite quantities. + + (2) That strenuous and unaccustomed physical and mental exertion + may involve a consumption both of nerve substance and muscular + tissue, greater than the outcome of the ordinary diet is able to + compensate. + + (3) That a protracted term of emotional strain and agitation may + adversely affect both appetite and digestion while rapidly + consuming the substance of the nerves. + +In discussing the causes of disease Julius Hensel lays great stress upon +the emotions. He goes so far as to say that they "_undoubtedly occupy +the first place amongst the factors causing disease_, and we must not +evade the consideration of them. _We shall find that their action also +amounts to an electro-chemical process._" I would not for an instant be +understood to contend that the emotions alone are sufficient to explain +the origin of disease--not at all. There are other factors--jointly or +severally dominant--diet, occupation, changes of weather, climate, or +conditions. + +In the matter immediately under review, however, the world-wide pandemic +of "Spanish Influenza," there can remain no shadow of doubt in the mind +of any unbiased observer who follows the question fairly along the lines +of electro-chemical biology, but that the general emotional +disturbances incident upon the war conditions of the world, combined +with the chaotic dietetic position with its anxieties and privations +under strenuous and unwonted physical demands, do undoubtedly afford a +sound and reasonable explanation of the cataclysmal outbreak which has +recently fallen upon the nations. + +The brazen blast of war, in 1914, with all its ruthless wreck and +carnage, shook the universal fabric of the sphere. Fear, fraud and +famine were met together, duplicity and greed had kissed each other. +Short rations and with some, starvation, were soon the order of the day. +The corners of the earth were swept of stale forgotten stores and +profiteers waxed fat and prices soared, whilst the vitals of the working +world were vastly underfed. The ranks of labour, depleted of its men, +were filled by females uninured to toil and dangerous nerve racking +environments. Relentless time brings its revenges fast; but still they +worked and suffered while malnutrition sapped the life-blood of the +race. In the homes of the fighting men fear reigned supreme--ever the +sword of Damocles suspended at the hearth. And then the death lists came +and the world was wet with human tears and all the furies flew the +earth--grief, hatred, revenge, love, pity and remorse, but the wail of +mourning was throughout all lands in all the "sable panoply of woe" +attending fast lowering vitality, bred by force of pain and hope +deferred. Pliny well said: "Dolendi modus, non est timendi"--Pain has +its limits, _apprehension none_--and now as in his day, the latter bore +the palm. + +Such was the position when two years ago the world first felt the impact +of the pestilence and millions withered up like blighted corn. + +The Vagus nerve with which we have been dealing, is concerned with the +expression of emotions such as these; and being so, was burned up +rapidly with fervent heat--the flames of sorrow still with fasting fed. +In the majority of human lives such was the case, while the sources of +nutritive reserve force were depleted by lack of things of universal use +and foreign substitutes for normal food. Small wonder then the once +steady nerves soon buckled with the strain; that sickness followed +swiftly with disaster in its train and that the death rate rose +enormously, beyond recorded precedent. And then when seeming good +succeeds the storm of ills a plethora of new-born cares arose and worse, +more fatal still, reaction from the strain which with relaxing energy +demands its deadly share. Here in America we meet our troubles with +serener front, unawed by State-fed sacerdotal superstitions; but in +England how the scourge has wrung from dire depression its full toll of +death. There for the first time deaths exceed the births and for the +final quarter of 1918, the deaths exceed those of the former term by +127,000 of which Influenza claimed one hundred Thousand dead. Similar +conditions, it would appear, have been more or less general throughout +the European and indeed all other Continents and the title "Pandemic" +has been richly earned; but the term which would seem to me more +descriptive still would be _"Panasthenia"--the general loss of +vitality_. + +The human organism is, as we know, electro-magnetic. The effect upon the +fabric of abnormal disturbance is registered with infinite exactitude by +electrons--atoms of electricity--which rise and fall in numerical +vibration according to the positive or negative tone of the whole; and +excessive manifestations in one direction or the other, indicate +respectively, a condition of positive or negative disease. + +When the slowly vibrating negative electrons outnumber the rapidly +vibrating positive atoms the electronic vibration of the whole body is +lowered. As a result, we become depressed, weak, tired and retain little +bodily warmth. Digestion is upset, metabolism falls far below normal, +and the skin becomes pale, because of the morbid action set up in the +mucous membrane by the excess of negative electrons. Catarrh supervenes. +This is the condition in which negative disease thrives best: Influenza, +nervous debility, anaemia, sleeping disease, cholera, diphtheria and the +rest, in all varied forms of negative disease. + +The Vagus, or Wandering Nerve, permeates every vital section of the +body, as the accompanying plate will show. It controls, as has been +shown, all the highest functions, both mental and physical of human +life--that life which depends for its well-being upon electro-chemical +combustion, metabolism, and the fuel supply we designate as food. It is +the first postulate of healthy vitality in the human frame that +metabolism and catabolism--intake and output--shall go hand in +hand--that the body must receive continually such fresh nutrition as may +replace what it consumes in the process of muscular action and the +exercise of mental and emotional activity, and we are consequently +brought to the conclusion that such bonds of safety and provision being +rudely and suddenly severed, all physical resistance must be quickly +broken down, the latent reserve energy is used and disappears, psychic +resolution--the immunity of mind--soon abdicates its throne and the +depleted organism, robbed of all defense, falls victim to contagion when +it comes to kill. + +_Treatment._ + +As regards the treatment, actual and preventive, applicable to Spanish +Influenza, the methods employed under the Hygienic-Dietetic System of +Healing have been already defined in a previous chapter on the subject +of negative disease in general. Instruction, however, devoted to +Influenza alone may be found in Chapter VI of the special pamphlet +issued in that connection under the title: "Influenza, Cause and +Cure,"[E] and also in my greater work: "Regeneration or Dare to be +Healthy," now in course of completion. + + * * * * * + +And now, one final word in conclusion, for the purpose of drawing +together, as it were, the multiplicity of threads which constitute the +complex skein of causes and effects, with their remedial measures which +cover the wide range of human life's vicissitudes--the interruptions of +its would-be harmonies--which take the forms, all too common in these +times of stress, of physical disturbance and of mental strain which +come to us in the combined and threatening guise of suffering and +disease. + +That these forms are more pronounced, more virulent today than ever +before in the records of the race, is surely great Nature's manner, +crude and masterful, of pressing her mandate home--right home upon the +plastic film of evanescent shadows and ephemeral shades we proudly call +our consciousness. + +How many, let me ask, how many of us, in the absorbing round of life's +futilities, have paused to really recognize the sinister "hand writing +on the wall?" + +The phase of the world's history through which we pass complacently is +of no light portent, its happenings no casual concern, but, in point of +crucial fact, a virtual "rending of the sphere"--a cosmic upheaval such +as never yet before has racked the tense life sinews of the world, +confounding the wisdom of the wise and wrecking in one fell climax of +contempt the moral precepts of two thousand years. + +The greatest human struggle the world has ever known synchronizes +strangely, yet logically with the world's greatest pestilence which has +swept successive millions to their doom without exacting from the +residue even the sentimental tribute of a tear. + +The official brains of the entire globe are leagued in self-protective +unison "to make the world safe for democracy;" but Demos dies, by +violence and disease, ere yet salvation comes. It appeals to its +old-time standards for relief,--they are gone; to its pastors--they are +mute; to its masters--they are impotent; to its doctors--they are +baffled, helpless and aghast, whilst vainly searching earth and air for +some frail pretext of unreal enlightenment, some fragile figment of +belief. And yet in hypnotized complacency the masses stand; for +meanwhile commerce reaps its costly gains and labour draws in enhanced +increment the wages of the living and the dead. + +Less serious visitations have, in former times, left their eternal +imprint on the age. They served to point the moral of widespread +reform--to emphasize the practice of hygiene and sanity. For all such +scourges are but signs of Nature's trust betrayed, her sacred laws +defied in the wild rush for gain, oblivious of the Law of Compensation's +cost, with its inevitable reckoning. + +Thus, to the discoverer of the lost initiative, what prospect does the +future hold in store? + +Pandemics, such as this, repeat themselves; and other forms of dread +disease are following the footsteps of mankind. Arterio sclerosis, +(hardening of the arteries), with its kindred complaints, for instance, +now threatens to become a standing feature of the race through ignorance +of the physiological functions of the nerves, their tissue exhaustion +and supply. + +With such impending dangers are our men distressed; and yet there seems +but grudging, slight encouragement for those who seek to stay the +onslaught of the foe, by scientific measures of precaution and hygiene. + +What the nation needs is now a practical and nation-wide awakening. Let +the people realize the danger of their risk; let them rally to the call +and loyally support those who thus offer them the safeguard of knowledge +as a refuge from the impending storm. Then will so-called "incurable +disease" be relegated to the limbo of the past and, among other +prophylactic means, this, my latest great discovery--the cause of +Influenza, its prevention and its cure, a discovery which must rank +amongst the great scientific achievements of the day--will mitigate the +force of epidemics on mankind. It should also give to the reader of this +little book a fair assurance of what immunity it is possible to secure +by careful study and practice of its truths and should prove to the +thinker the nucleus of a lesson which can nowhere be better learned than +in the teachings and the precepts of the Hygienic-Dietetic School. + + "But to the hero, when his sword + Has won the battle for the free, + Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word + And in its hollow tones are heard + The thanks of millions yet to be" + + + + +FINIS. + +Wide and unlimited as the field of biology and the hygienic-dietetic +method of healing is, I have in the foregoing pages tried to devise a +guide that will indicate the points that are most necessary to the +confidence of the patient, based upon knowledge. + +If I have enlightened my readers sufficiently regarding the most modern +results of biological research, if I have succeeded in showing them the +ray of hope, in the midst of their suffering, that will give them +courage to live, and live as healthy human beings, I shall feel amply +rewarded for the hard work that had necessarily to be done before the +present pinnacle in the art of healing could be reached. + +Let me repeat: this brochure is not designed to lead any one away from +the man who knows, who has gone to the sources of wisdom, to bring +salvation to those who demand the right to live in health and vigor. Far +otherwise; for my deliberate injunction is that the cure of disease, in +any form, should not be undertaken except under the guidance of an +hygienic physician who may indicate to them the path, so that they may +not tread it blindly, but in the light of knowledge. + +The outlines of a great and wonderful science are presented. Another +wall between the layman and the professional has been torn down. If, my +readers, you can one day say this booklet has guided you to the right +path, back to the enjoyment of life in youthful health and vigor, then +join with me and others in propagating these sane and safe principles, +and make others "Dare to be Healthy," as you have dared yourself. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[D] This amount is given by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in an +editorial devoted to the terrible plague on March 16th, 1919. + +[E] The pamphlet, which also contains a chart of the Vagus in 2 colors, +may be obtained either from the author or through any bookseller. The +price is 50 cents. + + + + + +INDEX + + + Dedication, 5 + + Foreword, 13 + + Introduction, 15 + + The Hygienic-Dietetic method of Healing, 19 + Physiologico-Chemical Research, 20 + The Natural Method of Healing, 20 + Prophylactic Therapy or Prevention of Disease, 21 + The New-School of Healing, 22 + "Regeneration" or "Dare to be Healthy", 24 + Distrust of the Medical Fraternity, 25-6 + Johannes Mueller and his followers, 26-7 + The Medical Impasse, 28-9 + + The Regeneration of the Race, 31 + Dysaemia--the cause of disease, 31 + The process of Natural Healing, 31 + The Human Body a Microcosm, 32 + The body an indivisible Unity, 33 + The Bacteria craze, 33 + Predisposition, 34 + The Allopathic failure, 35-36 + Choosing a Physician, 37 + Cell-food Therapy, 37 + Medical Literature, 38 + Chemical elements of the blood, 39 + Dech-Manna, or "Organic Nutritive salts or cell-food Therapy", 39 + "As a man eats, so is he", 46 + Humanity the product of the exhausted fields, 46 + The remedy, the question and the reply, 47 + No "business" in healthy blood, 47 + Truth versus Creeds and Capital, 49 + + Health: Hymn of Health, 51 + The Health ideal by Nature set, 52 + Ignorance the basis of disease, 54 + A Means of Enlightenment, 55 + + The Dare to be Healthy Club, 57 + The purpose of the Club, 58 + + The Teachings of the Club, 58 + Two years' course in Biology, 58 + Physiology, Anatomy, Hygiene, + Physiological Chemistry, Pathology, + according to Biological facts, 58 + Therapy, in accordance with Biological and + Physical Laws and Precepts, 58 + Its comprehensive aim, 58 + The Course of Instruction, 58 + Its Precepts, 59 + Graduates as Teachers, 59 + + The Method of Regeneration, 59 + + Dr W.C. Rucker Assistant Surgeon Gen. + US Public Health Service on Physiological Chemistry, 60 + + The Boerhaave Incident, 62 + The Secret of Disease and Health, 62 + The eternal Lesson Nature Teaches, 64 + + Simplicity the Essence of the System, 64 + + A Life's Legacy, 65 + + The Physician, 66 + + Fair Minded Physicians, 66 + + Behind the Veil, 66 + + Disease the Heritage of the Ages, 67 + + The Moment of Release, 67 + + Disease a Unit, 68 + + The Part of the Physician, 69 + + The Teachings of Great Masters, 69 + Hippocrates, 70 + Galen, 71 + Thomas Sydenham, 73 + Boerhaave, 74 + + System of Regeneration, 77 + Man as a Unit, 77 + Perpetual Existence, 77 + Functions, 77 + Cell life, 78 + Specialists, 78 + Cause of Disease, 79 + + Metabolism, 79 + Creative Matter, 79 + Functions of the Blood, 79 + Foreign Formations, 80 + Nature's Curative Powers, 80 + The Blood as Universal Medium, 80 + The Oneness of Disease, 80 + All Powers Dependent on Nutrition, 80 + Diversity of Construction, 81 + Adaptivity of Cells, 81 + Medical Misconception, 81 + Resultant Errors, 82 + Diagnosis, 82 + + Chemical Analysis of Human Body, 82 + The Twelve Tissues, 82 + Secret of Healing, 82 + Tissues Depend Upon the Blood, 82 + The 16 Elements of the Blood, 83 + Dominant Features, 83 + Von Liebig's Law of the Mirimuin, 83 + The Law of Chemotaxis, 84 + Cell Attraction, 84 + Process of Healing, 84 + + Constitutional Disease, 84 + New Cell food Treatment, 85 + Old System Superseded, 85 + Dysarmia, 85 + The Bacillus Fallacy, 85 + Predisposition, 86 + Hereditary Disease, 86 + Heredity Not Invincible, 87 + The Dechmann Law of the Cross transmission of Characteristics, 87 + The Theory of Pangenesis, 88 + The Dechmann Law of the Determination of Sex at Will, 89 + Latent Reserve Energy, 89 + Law of the Dominant, 90 + Heredity and Predisposition, 90 + Prevention of Disease, 91 + Terrible Responsibility, 91 + Alternative Betterment, 92 + The "Incurable," Curable, 92 + Chemical Elements Missing, 92 + Three Methods of Supply, 92 + Diet, 92 + Nutritive Preparations, 93 + Physical Treatment, 93 + + Nature a Unit, 94 + Natural Elements, 94 + Importance of Minerals, 94 + + Testimonials, 95 + + Dech-Manna Nutritive Preparations, 97 + + The Means of Health and Safety, 98 + + The Dare to be Healthy Club, 99 + Business Proposition, 99 + Membership, 99 + Terms and Literature etc., 100 + "Within the Bud", 101 + Cell Foods Special Rates to Members, 102 + The Basis of Proceedings, 103 + Life, Health, Happiness, 104 + + Man as a Unit, 105 + + Metabolism, 106 + + Variety of Organs, 109 + The Idea of Unity, 109 + + The Constituent Elements, 111 + + Dysaemia, the Cause of All Constitutional Diseases, 113 + + Heredity, 116 + + Healing, 117 + + The Unity of Nature, 119 + + The Chemical Process of Disease, 121 + + The Twelve Tissues, 123 + 1. The Plasmo Tissue (Blood Plasma), 124 + 2. The Lymphoid Tissue, 125 + 3. The Nerve Tissue, 125 + 4. The Bone Tissue, 126 + 5. The Muscular Tissue, 127 + 6. The Mucous Membrane Tissue, 128 + 7. The Tooth and Eye Tissue, 128 + 8. The Hair Tissue, 128 + 9. The Skin Tissue, 129 + 10. The Gelatigenous Tissue, 130 + 11. The Cartilage Tissue, 130 + 12. The Body Tissue in General, 131 + + Degeneration of Tissues, 132 + The Meaning of "Healing", 132 + Grouping of Constitutional Diseases, 133 + + The A.B.C. of My System of Healing, 135 + A. Diet, 135 + B. Nutritive Compositions, 135 + C. Physical Treatment, 136 + + Diet--Its Vital Importance, 136 + The Reason Why, 137 + The Laboratory of the Body and Functions of Its Branches, 137 + Creation of Life blood, 137 + Building the Framework, 138 + The Material, 138 + The Refuse, 138 + Diet Forms No. I to No. VI, 138 + + Nutritive Compositions, 143 + Representations to Government, 143 + Functions of Minerals in Our Food, 148 + Minerals in the Human Economy, 148 + Chemical Elements Essential to Life, 149 + The Impulse of Growth, 150 + The Genesis of Polyps, Tumors and Cancers, 151 + Review of Mineral Elements, 152 + Iron in the Blood, 152 + Generation of Electricity, 152 + Faraday, on Magnetic Blood, 152 + The Motor of Nervous Function, 153 + Creation of Bodily Warmth, 153 + The Secret of Sleep, 153 + The Function of the Spleen, 154 + Rejuvenating Influence, 154 + The Malpighian Bodies, 154 + The Liver and the Bile, 155 + Lecithin or Nerve Fat, 155 + System of Cell Renewal, 156 + Nutrition-Soda and the Bile, 156 + Chemical Fixation, 156 + Sodium Sulphate Essential, 157 + Basis of Muscle Tissue, 157 + Basis of Bones and Teeth, 158 + Growth of the Hair, 158 + Medium of Chemical Combustion, 158 + Human Organism Cannot Assimilate Inorganic Matter, 159 + Necessity of Prepared Nutritive Salts, 159 + Incomplete Fertilization, 160 + Sickly (food) vegetation, 160 + Improper Fertilization Breeds Disease, 161 + The Rock and Its Lesson, 161 + Food Instinct, 161 + An Imperative Duty to Mankind, 162 + Result of Experiments (Poultry), 162 + Results of Experiments (small fruit), 163 + Haemoglobin Eggs for Weakened Constitutions, 164 + Lecithin for Neurasthenia, 164 + Physical Regeneration, 164 + Reserve Energy Essentials, 165 + + Nutritive Compositions, 166 + 16 Nutritive Cell-foods, 166 + 12 "Dech-Manna" Compositions, 166 + Specialities, A. to J., 167 + Explanations, 168 + Schuessler's Absurdity, 170 + + =Dech-Manna Compositions=-- + No. 1. Plasmogen--(Plasma Producer), 172 + No. 2. Lymphogen--(Lymph-cell producer), 176 + No. 3. Neurogen--(Nerve-cell producer), 179 + The Ignorance of "Nerve Specialists", 180 + Consequent Increase of Insanity, 180 + A Complacent Public, 181 + Neurasthenia, 181 + No. 4. Osseogen--(Bone cell Producer), 182 + Deformity of Bone Structure, Curvature of the Spine, etc., 183 + The Lime-water Fallacy and Others, 183 + "Fire proof" Bone Structure, 183 + No. 5. Muscogen--(Muscle-cell Producer), 184 + Combination with Eubiogen (No XII), 185 + No. 6. Mucogen--(Mucous Membrane-cell producer), 186 + Pervading Importance of Membrane, 186 + Catarrhal Conditions of Tissues + No. 7. Dento & Ophthogen--(Tooth & Eye cell Producer), 187 + Connection Between Teeth and Eye, 189 + No. 8. Capillogen--(Hair-cell Producer), 189 + Causes of Falling Hair, 190 + Prevention of Baldness, 190 + Failure of "Hair Restorers", 190 + No. 9. Dermogen--(Skin-cell Producer), 191 + The Fallacy of Dermatology, 192 + No. 10. Gelatinogen--(Gelatigenous-tissue Producer), 193 + The Functions of Expansion and Contraction, 193 + No. 11. Cartilogen--(Cartilage Producer), 194 + Prevention of Friction, Bones and Joints, 194 + No. 12. Eubiogen--(Healthy Life Producer), 196 + Positive Composition, 196 + Eulogy of Eubiogen, 196 + Analysis of Eubiogen, 201 + 3 Forms of Eubiogen, 204 + Special Composition B Alternative for Infants + and Feeble Invalids, 204 + Comparative Analysis Human Body and Eubiogen, 206 + + =Appendix I=, 207 + Life Preservers and Elixirs, 207 + =Special Dech-Manna Compositions=, 207 + A. Oxygenator (Radium Tablets), 207 + Balneotherapy-directions, 208 + B. Eubiogen Liquid. For babies and feeble invalids, 209 + C. Tonogen--Tonic and Beverage, 210 + Universal Scope and Effectiveness, 211 + Combination with Plasmogen, 212 + + =Appendix II=, 213 + =Compositions for Specific Cases=, 213 + D. Tea, Diabetic, 213 + E. Tea, Laxagen, 213 + F. Salve, Lenicet, 213 + G. Massage Emulsion, 213 + H. Propionic Acid, 213 + I. Oxygen Powder, 213 + J. Anti phosphate or Negative Compound, 213 + + Price list Dech-Manna Compositions, 214 + Physical Treatment, 215 + Baths and Packs--Vinegar Water, 215 + Massage and Exercises, 216 + Importance of Ablutions, 216 + The Habit of Gargling, 220 + + Vinegar Packs--Their Significance and Basis, 220 + Effect of the Packs, 226 + Temperature, 226 + Construction of Packs, 227 + Length of Application, 227 + Danger of Ice Applications, 228 + Excretion of Auto toxins, 230 + Dissolving, Diverting, Excreting, 230 + General Treatment of Body, 232 + The Key to Success, 232 + General Advice for Packs, 232 + Measurements for Material, 233 + Temperature of Packs, 234 + Duration of Packs, 235 + Changing the Packs, 236 + General Rules, 237 + "Diverting Packs" Important, 237 + The Main Rule, 238 + 24. Abdominal Pack, 238 + Divided Packs, 241 + 25. The Cross Pack, 242 + 26. Leg Packs, 244 + Partial Packs, 245 + Foot and Wrist Packs, 246 + Neck Pack, 247 + Shoulder Pack, 248 + Scotch Pack, 249 + Divided Scotch Pack, 250 + Shawl Pack, 251 + 27. Three quarter Packs, 252 + Half Pack, 255 + Whole Pack, 255 + Small Compresses, 257 + 28. Gymnastics, 258 + 29. Massage, 258 + 30. Breathing, 258 + Electric Vibrators, 260 + 31. Oxygenator, 261 + 32. Radium and Salt Baths, 261 + + Diseases, Treatment and Method, 262 + I. Degeneration of the Plasmo Tissue, 263 + Anaemia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anaemia, 263 + A. Scrofulosis, 266 + B. Tuberculosis, 266 + C. Syphilis, 266 + D. Cancer, 267 + Therapy, 267 + Diet + I. For Anaemic Patients, 267 + I. & II. A. For Scrofulous Patients, 269 + I. & II. B. For Tuberculous Patients, 270 + I. & II. C. For Syphilitic Patients, 271 + I. & II. D. For Cancer Patients, 271 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 271 + Physical, 272 + II. Degeneration of Lymph Tissue,272 + III. Degeneration of the Nerve Tissue, 273 + Neuralgia Neuritis, Neurasthenia, 274 + Asthma Epilepsy St Vitus's Dance, 274 + Therapy, 275 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 277 + Physical, 277 + IV. Degeneration of the Bone Tissue, 277 + Rickets Osteomalacia and Similar Diseases, 277 + Therapy, 278 + Diet, 278 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 279 + Physical, 279 + V. Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue, 280 + Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, 280 + Infantile Paralysis, Atrophy, 280 + Amyloid Organs, 280 + Therapy, 281 + Diet, 281 + Special Diet + For Disease of Heart and Inactive Kidneys, 282 + For Irritable Kidneys and Diseases of the Bladder, 285 + For Liver Disease, 286 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 287 + Physical, 287 + VI. Degeneration of the Mucous Membrane Tissue, 288 + Catarrh, Acute and Chronic, 288 + Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, 288 + Inflammation of Nose Throat, Bowels, Stomach and Bladder, 288 + Decomposition of Mucous Membrane, 288 + Hemorrhoids, Polyps Benign Tumors, 288 + Bright's Disease, Initial Stages, 288 + Therapy, 289 + Diet, 290 + For Throat and Larynx Disease, 290 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 290 + Physical, 290 + VII. Degeneration of Tooth and Eye Tissue, 291 + Therapy, 292 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 292 + Physical, 292 + VIII. Degeneration of the Hair Tissue, 292 + Therapy, 293 + Diet, 293 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 293 + Physical, 293 + IX. Degeneration of the Skin Tissue, 293 + Therapy, 295 + Diet, 295 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 295 + Physical, 295 + X. Degeneration of the Gelatigenous Tissue, Stomach & + Intestinal Disease, 295 + Therapy, 296 + Diet, 296 + Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases, 297 + General Hints for Nourishing Treatment, 298 + Treatment, 298 + In case of Constipation, 299 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 299 + Physical, 299 + XI. Degeneration of the Cartilagenous Tissue, 300 + Ankylosis. Gout. Arthritis, 300 + Therapy, 300 + Diet, 300 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 300 + Physical, 300 + XII. Degeneration of the Body Tissue in General, 301 + + Infantile Paralysis, 303 + + Facial Diagnosis and "The Clinical Eye", 306 + + Diagnosis, Physiognomy and Psychology, 308 + The Biological Healing System, 308 + The Psychological Side, 308 + Regeneration and Retrogression, 309 + The True Physician's Principle, 309 + External Symptoms, 310 + Perspiring Hands and Feet, 310 + Quality of the Nails, 311 + Baldness, Gray and Dishevelled Hair, 311 + The Evidence of the Eyes, 312 + Prof Liljequist on the Colour of the Eyes, 312 + The Shades of Death, 313 + Testimony of the Mouth and Tongue, 313 + Indications of the Nose, 314 + Diagnosis by Odour, 315 + Story of the Teeth and Gums, 316 + Demonstrations of the Neck, 317 + Significance of Chest Formation, 317 + Signs of the Abdomen, 317 + Indications of the Legs, 317 + Indications of the Skin, 318 + Freckles, 318 + Chemical Construction, 318 + Prevention and Cure, 319 + Simple Precautions, 319 + + Children's Disease. Introduction, 319 + The Cause of "the Poor", 319 + The Child of Mortality, 319 + Parental Egotism and Pedagogy, 323 + Maternal Solicitude--and Ignorance, 320 + Vital Statistics, 324 + O Tempora! O Mores!, 325 + The World's Indifference to Truth, 326 + For the Understanding of Disease--the sine qua non, 326 + Back to Nature, 326 + "The Age of Nerves", 327 + Medical Polemics, 327 + "Existence is Movement"--Progress, 328 + Man, the Sceptic, 328 + The X-Rays and the Sequel, 329 + The Atom and the Electron, 330 + "Man's Passing Strange, Complex Mortality", 332 + The Vibrations of Electrons, 332 + Electro-Magnetic Control, Mundane and Solar Forces, 333 + The Ocean a Storage Battery, 333 + The Action of Acids and Alkalies, 334 + Electro-Magnetic Processes and Metabolism, 335 + Weather and Local Influences, 336 + Negative and Positive Vibrations, 337 + Healthy Blood Formation, 338 + Dech-Manna Diet, 338 + Electrons and the Effect of Injury, 339 + Bacteria, 340 + Febrile, or Positive Diseases, 340 + Curative Process, 341 + The Law of Opposites, 341 + Action of Water, 341 + Action of Earth on Mud, 341 + Vinegar Packs, 342 + Cooling Drinks, 342 + Temperature Reduction, 343 + Negative Diseases, 344 + Curative Process, 344 + Sun Baths, Light Baths, 344 + Exercise, 345 + Massage, 345 + Coloured Light Treatment, 346 + Internal Treatment, 346 + The Salts of the Body, 346 + Nourishment, 347 + The Science of Food, 347 + Diet, 348 + Food Standard, 348 + Heat Production, 348 + Discretion in Diet, 348 + Diet of Children in General, 349 + Diet for School Children, 351 + + Fever and its Treatment Based on Biology, 354 + A. General Description, 354 + B. Treatment, 357 + C. Diet in Cases of Fever, 362 + + Scarlet Fever, 367 + + Measles, 371 + + German Measles, 372 + + Chicken-pox, 373 + + Small-pox, 374 + + Typhoid fever or typhus abdominalis, 375 + A. General Description, 375 + B. Essentials, 376 + C. Symptoms and Course, 377 + Stage of Development, 378 + The Climax, 378 + Stage of Healing, 378 + Respiratory Organs, 381 + Organs of Circulation, 381 + Nervous System, 381 + Bones and Joints, 382 + Urinary and Sexual Organs, 382 + Skin, 382 + Recurrence, 383 + D. Treatment, 384 + Mental condition, 385 + E. Relapsing fever (Typhus Recurrens), 386 + F. Diet in Cases of Typhus, 387 + Dech-Manna compositions, 392 + Physical Treatment, 392 + + Negative Children's Disease (so called), 393 + Catarrh, 393 + Bronchitis, 393 + Grippe, 393 + Influenza, 393 + Catarrhal Inflammations, 393 + Cholera Infantum or Summer Complaint, 393 + Therapy, 393 + Physical Treatment, 394 + + The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases, 394 + The Golden Rule, 395 + Diet, 395 + Dech-Manna Compositions, 395 + Physical Treatment, 396 + + The Tonsure of the Tonsils, 396 + A Strong Indictment, 396 + American and English Corroboration, 397 + Arguments Against Tonsillotomy, 397 + A Medico-cum parental craze, 398 + Prof Mackenzie's Denunciation, 398 + Maternal Ineptitude, 399 + Wild and Incontinent Superstitions, 400 + Operators and Their Teachers, 400 + Facts and Fables, 401 + A "Lazy and Stupifying Delusion", 402 + The "Roll of Unrecorded Death", 402 + A trenchant and Tragic Article, 404 + The True Mission of Tonsils, 405 + + Pre-natal Care, 405 + Pre-natal Clinics, 405 + Human Magnetism, 405 + Hygienic Birth, 406 + + Endemic and Epidemic Disease, 406 + Climatic, or Yellow Fever, 407 + Pellagra, or Hook worm, 407 + Cholera and Plague, 408 + The Spanish Influenza, 409 + The World's Great Pandemics, 410 + Terminological Notes, 410 + Fundamental Causes, 410 + Sero Therapy, or the Illusive Germ Theory, 412 + The Alternative Origin, 412 + The Attitude of the Public, 413 + The History of the Influenza Germ, 413 + Culture and the Manufacturing Chemist, 413 + The Great Experiment, 413 + The Dictum of Surgeon Genl. Blue, 414 + Serums and Specifics, Hospitals and Undertakers, 415 + Opinions of the Press, 416 + The Parting of the Ways, 417 + George Bernard Shaw's Views, 418 + Public Health Reports, 419 + Raising the Resistance of the Body, 419 + The Vis Medicatrix Naturae, 421 + St Paul, on the Unity of the Body, 421 + The Cause of Medical Failure, 421 + The Law of the Minimum, 423 + The Sixteen Essentials, 423 + Prof Kuhnemann, on the Influenza, 424 + The Interpretation, 427 + The Professor and the Shy Bacillus, 428 + The Vision of the Vagus Nerve, 429 + Its Vast Responsibility, 431 + Three Nutritive Possibilities, 432 + The Emotions as Factors of Disease, 432 + "Panasthema," the General Loss of Vitality, 434 + The Seat of Affection in the Vagus, 435 + "The Writing on the Wall", 437 + Demos Dies by Violence, 438 + Nature's Trust Betrayed, 438 + The Law of Compensation, 438 + A Great Scientific Discovery, 440 + + Finis 440 + + +ERRATA IN VALERE AUDE + + Page + 6, line 28 from top read, Sinai's + 19, line 5 from top read, continents + 134, line 10 from top read, adenoids + 149, line 9 from top read, haemoglobin + 149, line 27 from top read, fluorine + 150, line 6 from top read, a comma after 'itself' + 152, line 5 from top read, tumors + 152, line 20 from top read, grams + 156, line 34 from top read, two of ammonium + 156, line 45 from top read, ammoniacal + 157, line 44 from top read, phosphate of ammonium + 161, line 44 from top read, avidity + 166, line 7 from top read, fluorine + 182, line 9 from top read, organic lime + 186, line 14 from top read, indispensible + 187, line 1 from top read, dimensions + 192, line 17 from top read, the patient + 200, line 22 from top read, vain + 201, line 16 from top read, sinews + 223, line 1 from top read, oxygenous blood + 244, line 22 from top read, leg + 261, line 6 from top read, allow him to extend the area + 276, line 27 from top read, Alcohol and alkaline + 279, line 11 from top read, legumes + 281, line 3 from top read, Amyloid degeneration + 301, line 31 from top read, space at my disposal + 315, line 20 from top read, the hypochondriacal + 365, line 16 from top read, Form III comprises + 409, line 34 from top read, social cataclysm. + 414, line 37 from top read, consensus. + 423, line 36 from top read, chlorine. + 427, line 21 from top read, to numbness in the nerve. + 429, line 35 from top read, more unmistakably. + 430, line 31 from top read, nerve substance lecithin. + 438, line 16 from top read, hypnotized complacency. + 440, line 12 from top read, Hygienic-Dietetic. + +[Transcriber's Note: The items on the list of Errata have been corrected +in the text.] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Valere Aude, by Louis Dechmann + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VALERE AUDE *** + +***** This file should be named 14985.txt or 14985.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/9/8/14985/ + +Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Karen Dalrymple and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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