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The New Science of Healing

The Doctrine of the Unity of D iseases
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LOUI5 KUHNt
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Special Authorized American Edition

lo \ Published by BENEDICT LUST, N. D M. D.

Tangerine, Fla. BU TLER, NEW JE R S E Y New York City

Copyright, 1917

PREFACE
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rJ 1H E healing art is as old as mankind. Man had alw ays been divorced from perfect health by the effects of sin, crime, sensuality, wrong methods of eating and drinking, plagues, famine, the struggle for ex istence, and the horrors of war. The killing that goes on in nature is not nearly so devilish as the bloody wars of extermination among men. Official medicine is as blindly at work today as it has ever worked, promulgating false methods of m edical treatment to conceal its failures to cure by the equally false methods it has discarded, and the medical methods of today will, in turn, be discarded for the grotesque and equal ly false methods of tomorrow. Official schools of medicine and indi vidual practitioners are flooding the m edical journals with literature on the practice of medicine that is based on the treatment of symptoms, but which has no effect on the cause of the given ailment. Bacteriologists contend thcd microbes are the sole origin of disease, whereas the truth is that disease is prim arily caused by the accum ula tion of fdth, or dead organic matter, in the tissues of the body, that can only be removed by agents consisting of an application of the forces o f nature from without, or by nature herself, by the calling into being micro-organisms, or microbes, that are the product of fermentation, and are the indispensable agents that convert all m anurial matter into the saline constituents that are essential for the nutrition of vegetable life. In the natural purification of the atmosphere from its carbonic acid, and carbonic dioxide by plants, and the natural purification of filthpolluted stream s by micro-organisms, we see how nature works. Na ture is a ceaseless round of beneficence towards organized beings. She destroys the malign agents of disease by transforming them into benefi cent m aterials of anim al and plant health and vigor.

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Official medicine seeks to remove disease in an organism by treating the symptoms with a pill or a potion, and for the most part ignores the simple agents of cleanliness within and without, pure air, simple food, sunshine, water, exercise, active or passive, that strike at the cause of the given ailment. The Federal Government of the United States, the governments of the various states, the municipalities of various cities and wealthy individ uals vie with each other in founding institutions of medical research, where cures for symptoms in the form of serums, inoculations and vac cines (the medical fashion of the hour) are obtained from the torture of animals, the fam iliars of such inquisitions being persuaded that by cursing anim als they can bless mankind with such curses. This book is devoted to a consideration of the doctrines of the masters of healing in naturopathic pathology, who seek to attack the cause of disease by liberating upon and within the organism, the beneficent forces of nature already referred to, and who have achieved renown by their methods. 1 give the first place in this publication of lectures on NeoNaturopathy, or the Science of Natural Healing, by that great m aster of the healing art, the late Louis Kuhne of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Mr. Kuhne was a genius in the art of healing, and his discovery of the cause of all diseases and the remedies therefore, created a veritable epoch in the field of drugless medicine. Living ju st prior to the age of serums and vaccines, he rightly recognized that all disease was the re sult of a CONTAGIUM VIVUM or a M ATERIES MORBI, a fermentation of poisonous matters that were not eliminated from the system, and he devoted his energies to the elimination of such poison by the most sim ple and natural methods. His lectures are a reproduction of his cele brated work, entitled The Science of N atural Healing, which caused a profound effect on its appearance, and which has been translated into over fifty languages. It is strange that a book like this should be known in European, South American, Asiatic and African countries, and not known in the United States. Its reproduction, therefore, will make the medical theories and practice of the author all the more prized by its readers. It was in 1888 that I first heard of this work by Louis Kuhne, and it became the inspiration of my life work. I feel today that it is the very cornerstone of Naturopathy, and that every honest investigator will ap prove of its teachings. In publishing this treatise, my aim is to prove Naturopathy a logical and exact science; to make this book worthy of the profession it is

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devoted, to, and to make the drugless doctor a bigger and a better doctor, and the patient more appreciative of the merits of natural healing. This book is dedicated to the members of the American Naturopathic Association, whose help, loyalty and encouragement has made drugless healing a national profession. It is further dedicated to all those drugless healers without the fold who are yet blind and ignorant of the vital, elemental principles of the healing art. It is further dedicated to the public at large, that has been bled and tortured, that has suffered and will suffer more for the want of the knowledge of the great and benign principles of Naturopathy.

Y u n g b o r n B u t l e r , N. J., and S e w York Citg

CONTENTS
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PA R T ONE
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What led me to the discover}- o f N eo-N aturopathy, the New Scien ce o f H e a l i n g ......................................................................... How does d isea se a r ise ? W hat is f e v e r ? .................................... The nature, origin, p u rp ose and cure o f d iseases o f ch ildren, and th eir unity ................................................................................ Measles, sc arlet fev er, d ip h th eria, sm all p ox, w h ooping cough, sc ro fu la ................................................................................ D isease a tran sm issio n o f m orbid m a t t e r ..................................... R heum atism and gout, sc ia tic a , c rip p lin g : th eir cau se and cure ....................................................................................................... Cold h an d s and feet, hot h ead ; th eir cause and c u r e .............. Sp e cific cu res effected ......................................................................... The scien ce o f fa c ia l exp ressio n .................................................... My rem edial agen ts ................................................................................ W hat shall we eat? W hat sh all we d rin k ? The D igestive P ro cess ................................................................................................ T he in d igestib ility o f denatured food ........................................... T h eoretical p rin c ip le s that dem and a ration al, n atural sy s tem o f d i e t ......................................................................................... Man a fru giv oro u s a n i m a l .................................................................... P ro o f o f the beneficial value o f vegetable d i e t ............................ What shall we eat and d r i n k ? ...........................................................

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PA R T TWO N ervous and m ental d iseases. Sleep lessn ess ........................... P ulm onary affection s. Inflam m ation o f the lungs. T u b ercu losis, p leu risy , lu pu s .................................................................... The cause and cure o f n o d u l e s ......................................................... T ub erculin in oculation condem ned ................................................ Sexu al d iseases ......................................................................................... Sexu al d iseases on ly curative c rise s ............................................. D iseases o f the b lad d e r and kidn eys. D iabetes. U raem ia. Bed w etting. L iv er com plain ts. Gall stones. Jau n d ice . Intestinal d iseases. Sw eatin g feet. H erpes .................... H eart d isease and d r o p s y .................................................................... 102 108 109 112 113 116 117 121 122 124 125 129

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D iseases o f the sp in al cord. C onsum ption o f the sp in al cord. H em orrhoidal affection s ............................................................. 143 146 Poverty of the blood. C h lo ro sis....................................... 147 140 E p ilep tic fits. A goraphobia ............................................................. 150 153 D isease o f the eye and e a r .................................................. 154 150 D iseases o f the teeth. Cold in the head. Influenza. D iseases o f the throat. Goitre .................................................................. 160 163 H eadache. M igraine. Consum ption o f the brain . Inflam m a tion o f the b r a in .............................................................. i 164 166 Typhus. D ysentery. Cholera and D i a r r h e a .............. 167 169 C lim atic and tro pical fevers. M alaria. B iliou s fever. Yel low fever and ague 170 173 L ep ro sy ...................................................................................................... 174 180 Scab ies. W orms. T apew orm . P arasites. In testin al h ern ia 181 182 Cancer. Proud-flesli ............................................................................. 183 180

PART T H R E E Treatm ent and cure of w ounds w ithout drugs and op eration s D iseases o f wom en ................................................................................ How to brin g about easy and sa fe p artu ritio n ......................... Conduct after b irth ............................................................................... Treatm ent of the in fan t during the first m onths. The b rin g in g up o f children ...................................................................... 190 205 206 213 214 220 221 222 223 225

PA R T FOUR R eports o f cures and letters of a p p r e c ia t io n .............. 226 272 E x am p les illu strative of the scien ce o f fa c ial e x p r e s s io n ... 273 275 Child inoculated forty-five tim es w ith tuberculin, and the results o f sam e ............................................................................... 276 Com plete alp h abetical index to the volum e .............................. 277

PART ONE

WHAT LED ME TO THE DISCOVERY OF NEO NATUROPATHY, THE NEW SCIENCE OF HEALING
T is characteristic of human nature that anyone who thinks he has discovered something new and original, feels an irresistible impulse to communicate it to his fellow-men. Ambition and vanity have, no doubt, a share in creating this desire; but, fundamentally, it is thoroughly defensible and truly human. The truth must be proclaimed, even should one in general despise all show and glitter, and find little but w eariness and vanity am idst the bustle of daily life. To this natural law I bow also, when I now endeavor to communicate to you the results of my incessant labors, extending over a period of upw ards of thirty years. True, it might be wiser were I to entrust my discoveries to mute paper only, and look to future generations for the judgment. But in the work to which I have devoted my life, it is not a m atter merely of knowledge pure and sim ple; we are here also concerned with the actions derived from this knowledge; in other words, with the practical realization of the facts learned. If, therefore, I would have my teachings spread amongst my fellowmen, and handed down to future generations, if I would not die stigm a tized as a quack, then I am under the necessity of exhibiting, proving and communicating to others, both by means of instruction and demon strations on living subjects, the truths I have discovered. The presentation of patients is impossible, and I must therefore con tent m yself with explaining my views in words to the best of my ability. I shall relate to you what led me to the formulation of my system of cure. I had alw ays felt a special love for nature. There was no greater delight for me than to observe the life of the field and forest, and the conditions under which plants and anim als live and thrive; to trace the workings of our great mother, Nature, on the earth and in the sky, and to apprehend and establish her imm utable laws. I was ever desirous of hearing what able investigators, like Prof. Rossm assler, had discovered; and this long before I had any thought of devoting myself especially to the art of healing. To the latter step I was forced by the strong hand of necessity, that teacher and educator both of nations and individuals. [9]

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Shortly after I had completed my twentieth year, I found my body refusing to perform its functions, and I experienced violent pains in my lungs and head. At first I sought the aid of regular practitioners, but without result. Neither did I, in truth, feel much confidence in them. My mother, who had been infirm and ailing for many years, had again and again warned us children against the doctors, saying that they alone were to blam e for her misery. My father, too, had died of cancer of the stomach whilst under the care of physicians. It was about this time, in the year 1864, that I read about a meeting of disciples of the Nature Cure,* the system of curing diseases by natural means. The matter interested me, and on seeing the advertisement a second time, I attended the meeting. It was a band of sturdy-hearted men who gathered round our never-to-be-forgotten Meltzer. Very diffidently I asked one of those present what I ought to do against shooting pains in the lungs, from which I was then suffering. Very diffidentlyfor my condition of chronic nervous excitement was such, that I could not possibly have spoken loud in the presence of a number of persons. He prescribed a compress, which had an immediate and beneficial result. Thereafter I attended these meetings regularly. Some years laterit was in 1868my brother became seriously ill, and the Nature Cure, at the elementary stage of development then reached, w as powerless to aid him. We happened, however, to hear of successful cures by Theodor Hahn; my brother resolved to consult him, and after a few weeks returned home much improved in health. I likewise was ever coming to see more and more clearly the advan tages of the natural method of cure, and even at that time, I felt fully convinced of the essential truth of the system. Meanwhile my own ailment had not been quiescent. The germs of disease inherited from my parents had thriven apace, especially since new causes of sickness had been added to the older diseases by the medical treatment I had formerly undergone. My condition gradually grew worse and worse, till at last it was simply unendurable. Heredi tary cancer had appeared in the stomach, the lungs were partially destroyed, the nerves of the head were so irritable that I found relief only out of doors in the fresh air; and as for quiet sleep or work, that was quite out of the question. To-day I can confess that well-fed and ruddy cheeked as I then looked, I was in reality but a wretched Lazarus through and through. Yet, I most scrupulously followed the course prescribed by the Natural Method as then understood. Baths, packs, enemas, douches, everything, in short, I employed, without at taining more than an alleviation of the pain. At this period, through observations made in free nature, I discovered the laws upon which the method of cure now practised and taught by me is based. I com menced, as a trial, with a course of cure for myself, and constructed the most practical appliances I could for the purpose. The experiment succeeded. My condition improved from day to day. Others who followed my advice and observed the sam e course, were also satisfied. The apparatus which I had made answered their purpose capitally.
*F o r a com plete exp osition o f the N ature Cure, read the b ack volum es o f the H erald o f H ealth and N aturopath. P rice, $2 a year. Single copy, 25c. Begin with volum e o f y ear 1902 up to now. N aturopath ic P u blish in g Co., Butler, N. J., U. S. A.

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The diagnoses of actual diseases and the prognoses of coming ones, as yet unnoticed by the person affected, though the disposition was to be traced, invariably turned out correct. I felt assured that my discoveries were not mere self-deception. Nevertheless, when I spoke of them, my views were generally met with incredulous astonishment, apathetic indifference, or scornful rejection; and this not only as concerned ortho dox medical men and believers in the drug-system, but also, and indeed especially, on the part of disciples of the Natural Method of Cure, sometimes even from its best known representatives. In the cause of suffering humanity I had placed my apparatus gratis at the service of some of these practitioners. Without giving them a serious trial, they were set aside as useless, to moulder amongst dust and cob webs. I thus became forcibly aw are that it did suffice to establish a theory of the origin and course of disease, and its cure, and to construct appliances for the treatment of the sick; that it did not suffice to dis cover a new and infallible method of diagnosis and prognosis, founded on the nature of the human organism itself; that it did not suffice to exhibit the success of the new method of cure in my own person, and in the case of my relatives, friends and acquaintances. On the contrary, I perceived clearly that I should have to appeal to the general public itself and by effecting a large number of striking cures, prove the superiority of my system over allopathy, homeopathy and the earlier hygienic method. This alone could secure for me the con viction af all classes, that my method was the true one, based upon the laws of nature. This inward persuasion gave rise to a severe struggle. F or if I decided to devote m yself to the practice of the new art of healing, I should be obliged to give up my factory, which had been 24 years in successful operation, in order to devote my undivided energies to another calling, which at the outset, at all events, would bring me but scorn, obloquy and financial loss. For years the struggle endured between reason, which deterred me, and conscience, which urged me on to the fulfilment of my inner vocation. On October 10th, 1883, I at length opened my establishment. Con science had triumphed. Exactly what I had foreseen came to pass. During the first few years my establishment was hardly visited at all, although some successes were attained which were rem arkable enough to have attracted attention. Then patients gradually began to come; at first merely for baths, but later, some for the cure. In time, patron age increased, especially from other towns, for nearly everyone treated by me became a voluntary prom ulgator and agent. My1new system of diagnosis, the Science of Facial Expression, and method of curing, proved successful in thousands of cases, and I was enabled to save many from serious danger by foretelling future illnesses. On this latter point I lay special stress, for thus alone shall we be able again to rear a really healthy generation. The truth of my discoveries has been confirmed in every instance; my experience has naturally been m aterially widened during the past eight years; and my own health, which form erly seemed past re covery, has so greatly improved through a consistent observance of the new method, that to-day I feel fully equal to the exertions imposed

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upon me by an extensive practice. This has only been rendered pos sible, however, through my thinking out, after long reflection, a new manner of taking the sitz-bath. This has proved so effective, that I can with certainty affirm that every disease, whatever name it may bear, is positively curable. 1 say, every disease, not every patient. For when the constitution is too fa r undermined, and in particular when the system is perm eated with poison from long use of medicine, or from the inability of the organs to eliminate same, my method can, indeed, alleviate the pain, but not always save, or completely cure the sufferer. I am glad to relate, with proud and joyful consciousness, that after struggling against physical ruin for nearly a quarter of a century, I have saved m yself; and at the sam e time, and to the benefit of the public, have found out the real cure of disease, long sought in vain by the most eminent minds. To speak thus m ay seem vain and self-sufficient. But experience has proved in every case, even where it was not permitted me to save the patient, that my theory is abso lutely true and sound. W hat led me to my discoveries was an em pirical method, based on the strictest and most careful observation and research, and on systematic experiments. And though I may be called a quack, and be reproached for lacking the regular professional training to qualify me for the practice of my present vocation, I can bear all with perfect tranquility and undisturbed equanimity. F o r even the greatest bene factors of mankind, and especially the great discoverers and inventors, have almost without exception been so-called quacks and laymento say nothing of the farm er Priessnitz, the carrier Schrotli, the theologian and afterw ards forester Franke (J. H. R ausse ) and the apothecary Hahn, whose clear minds and strong wills have brought about a new and better art of healing. In what relation does the New Science of Healing stand to the tradi tionary systems of Allopathy, Homeopathy and the earlier Natural Method? I propose to criticise these methods of cure and to show their failings and weak points (which they have in common with all that is hum an), in the proper light; but only so fa r as this is necessary for the public good and for a clear understanding of my explanations. Every one is free to accept and follow what he holds to be best. But for a right understanding of my theory, it is needful to know in what particulars it agrees with the systems heretofore followed and where it differs from them, so that we may determine wherein its originality lies and what is its absolute or relative value. With Allopathy, the new art of healing without drugs or operations has but one point in commonthat the subject of both is the human body. For the rest, their aim s and means are diam etrically opposed. In fact, I consider the whole scheme of poisoning patients by medicine, latterly so decidedly on the increase, as one, if not the chief, cause why thoroughly healthy persons are now hardly to be found, and that chronic diseases are multiplying with fearful rapidity. The proper and timely intervention of the new art of healing will render surgery almost wholly superfluous. Homeopathy I welcome as a brave ally in the crusade against the

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fatal faith in medicines. With its minute doses wherein the chemist is unable to discover a trace of the drug, and the stress which it lays on the choice of a proper diet, it form s a transition, a stepping-stone, to the new art of healing. With reference to diet, however, it form ulates no fixed, clear principles, and my experience proves even its minute doses of medicine to be not altogether harm less. The N atural Method a s hitherto applied, which fa r excels the other systems, is the foundation of the new art of healing without drugs or operations. I have found it necessary, however, to follow more the great discoverers and founders of the systemPriessnitz, Schroth, Rausse and Theodor Hahnrather than its later representatives. The latter, in their excessive zeal for individualization, run the risk of de generating into artificiality and of deviating from the clear and simple paths of nature. The earlier Natural Method lacks insight into the character, the nature of the morbid matter, and a knowledge of the natural laws according to which such m atter changes its position in the body and settles down in certain parts. In other words, it lacks insight into the true nature of disease in general, and thus of each form of disease in particular; knowledge of the ever existing, though hitherto unrecognized, law of nature upon which all my discoveries are based. Moreover, it calls to its aid the orthodox system of diagnostics, although it is well known that it has no need of such exact diagnosis; thus it still clings to old prejudices. The new science of healing, on the con trary, teaches a wholly different kind of diagnosis following the nature of the disease itself, m ade by sim ple examination of the face and neck and is known as the Science of Facial Expression. The Natural Method commands a wealth of form s in which water may be applied: packs, enemas, douches, shower-baths, half-baths, whole-baths, sitz-baths and steam-baths of various descriptions. These many remedies, however, prove in part superfluous when once insight into the true nature of disease has been gained. The new art of heal ing simplifies the application of w ater as much as possible. Whilst in the ordinary Nature Cure System the diet, at all events very often, has been wholly unregulated, or arbitrarily accommodated to the traditionary mixed diet, the New Science of Healing prescribes a non-stimulating system of dietetics based on natural laws, and is accur ately and clearly defined. As you see, the deviations from the usual methods of the Nature Cure Systemwhich, I again repeat, has nevertheless worked wonders are so great that I feel justified in giving my theory and practice a new name, that of Neo-Naturopathy, or the New Science of Healing without Drugs and without Operations. I cannot enumerate in detail all the experiments I tried, before my system was fully developed; that would doubtless be interesting to many, but would not be of practical value. It is, in fact, a special ad vantage when one can m ake straight for the goal and avoid the many wrong paths which had to be traversed, before the right road was discovered. After these prefatory rem arks, let us turn to the matter itself. The fundam ental question which I must first examine, and on which the entire method of cure is based, is this: What body is, or is not,

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healthy? Current opinions are very different. Who has not had ex perience of this? One asserts that he is quite healthy, only a little rheum atism troubles him; another suffers only from nervousness, but is otherwise health itself. Ju st as if the body consisted of separate sections, one quite separated off from the other and hardly having any connection with it at all. Strangely enough, this view is supported by the orthodox method of curing. For the latter in many cases only re gards one individual organ, often scarcely noticing the neighboring ones. Yet, it is an undoubted fact that the entire human body is a united whole, the parts of which are in constant reciprocal relation, so that sickness in one part must have an influence on the other parts. Daily observation shows you that such is the case. If you have the toothache, you are hardly capable of work, and relish neither food nor drink. A splinter in the little finger has a sim ilar effect; pain in the stomach robs us of all desire for physical or mental work. At first, this is only the imm ediate influence transmitted by the nerves. But we perceive how one trouble directly induces others. Should it con tinue long, the consequences will be permanent, whether they are perceptible to us or not. A body can therefore be healthy only when all its parts are in their normal condition and perform their work without pain, pressure or tension. But all the parts should also possess the form best adapted to their purpose, which likewise best corresponds to our ideas of beauty. W here the external form is abnormal, such state has been caused by definite influences. But extended observa tions are necessary to determine the precise normal form in every case; we have first of all to find really healthy persons as objects of study, from whom to learn the forms. But it has now become well-nigh im possible to find such. To be sure, we speak of strong, healthy persons, and many declare that they belong to this class; but if we inquire more closely, each one has some trifleas he expresses itto mention, some slight pain, an occasional headache, toothache now and then, and so on, which proves that absolute health is out of the question. For this reason comprehensive study is necessary in order to learn the normal shape of the body. Nevertheless something may be done by com paring sick persons with the approxim ately healthy, and from subsequent explanations you will see still m ore clearly how it is possible. I have mentioned the fact that disease alters the shape of the body; I will now give you some fam iliar instances. To begin with, let me remind you of persons suffering from obesity, whose bodies take on the well-known rotundity; and in contrast to them of lean persons, on whose bodies hardly any fat is deposited. Both are undoubtedly mor bid symptoms. Further, there is the loss of the teeth, which alters the whole face; gouty affections, in which knots are form ed; articular rheumatism, in which there is a swelling of entire parts of the body. In all these cases the alterations are so strikingly apparent that the veriest novice recognizes them. In other form s of disease they are less evident to the eye, yet I can remind you of many more well-known cases. You know that a healthy person has a clear, quiet eye, and that his features are not distorted. But you would find it hard to determine when the face gets the proper expression; and you will unhesitatingly admit that one person has a sharper sense of observa tion in this m atter than another. F o r instance, we often meet a person

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whom we have not seen for years. We find that he has changed con siderably for the worse during this time, though we are not able accurately to define the nature of this change. And. nevertheless, these transformations, through which the body gradually loses its beauty, have a deep significance, to which I shall return further on. From all this, it is evident that diseases reveal themselves by changes in the body and more especially in the head and neck; and that it is an important m atter to recognize and explain these alterations. Whether everyone will succeed in doing this, I will not decide; much perseverance and assiduous practice are needful for m aking observa tions. Those wishing to go deeper into the Science of Facial E xp res sion, I would recommend to procure my handbook, entitled Facial E x pression, regular edition, $3.60 postpaid, which form s a clear guide to the subject. Now' let me call your attention to another touchstone of health. Since the entire body is affected in every case of illness, we are able to test the state of heaith by examination of the operation of any organ. We do best, however, to chose those organs whose functions m ay be most thoroughly and readily tested and such are the organs of diges tion. Good digestion is a sign of good health, and when it continues in perfect operation day after day, the hody is undoubtedly quite healthy. These observations can very easily be made in the case of animals. It is from what is left over, that we can best judge how the process of digestion has been perform ed. The remnant m atter should be ejected from the body in such form that the latter rem ains perfectly clean. This you can observe even. day in the case of horses and birds in a state of freedom. Pardon my further elucidating this delicate matter, but when speaking of health and sickness, everything must be called by its right name. The end of the rectum is most adm irably formed, so that if the excrements are of the proper consistency when they reach it, they are ejected without difficulty and without soiling the body. I have dealt with this subject more in detail in mv little pam phlet Am I well or sick? So-called toilet-paper is an acquisition for sick humanity; perfectly healthy people do not in reality need such. Do not mistake m e; I do not mean that anyone who is not in really sound health should imagine that by his rejecting this resource of civilization he has achieved some wonderful victory! On the contrary, it is just for such unhealthy persons that it is necessary, so that cleanliness may be maintained. N o w t, from his digestion everyone can easily learn w hether he is healthy or not. The test alluded to is a highly important one, and I do not hesitate to assert this positively, undisturbed by the mockery' of scep tics. Fortunate, indeed, is he whom the above mentioned criterion in forms he is in full health. A healthy person always feels perfectly well; he knows nothing of pain or discomfort so long as they are not from external causes; in fact he never feels that he has a body. He
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delights in work, and enjoys such activity until he grows tired, when he again finds full happiness in sweet repose. For him it is easy to bear mental anguish; his body yields for his assuagem ent the sooth ing balm of tears, of which, in such cases, even a man need not be ashamed. A healthy man is not troubled by fam ily cares and anxieties, for in himself he feels the strength to provide for his loved ones. A healthy mother finds happiness in bringing up her family, for she can nourish her little ones in the manner nature intended, and if the darlings are healthy too, what a blissful life is theirs! Their faces are wreathed in happy sm iles; none of that continual restlessness, grumbling and crying; in short, the education of such children is a delight, especially as they will be far more susceptible and obedient to their teachers influence. To recapitulate briefly: N atural inclination drew me to science; severe sickness and experience with orthodox physicians led me to the Nature Cure. My perceiving that even the latter, as hitherto ap plied, was powerless to cure my serious chronic complaints, forced me to further researches. Constant observation of living nature revealed to me the necessary alteration which the external form of every organ ism undergoes through disease; and the manner in which this altera tion takes place, and the way in which it again disappears when the disease is cured, finally taught me what disease is and how it arises.

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HOW DOES DISEASE ARISE?

WHAT IS FEVER?

HAT is disease? How does it arise? How does it show itself? These are the questions which I propose to explain to you herewith. If you have read in the announcement the further question, W hat is fever? you will soon see how it is answered together with the others. The answers to the above questions are important not only from a theoretical, but even more from a practical point of view; for it is not until we have gained a clear insight into the nature of disease, that we are in a position to arrive at once at the real method of cure, and so obviate all em pirical groping about in the dark. The way which we pursue is that in which all natural laws are dis covered. W e start from observations, draw our inferences from these, and finally prove the correctness of our inferences by experiment. First of all, our observations must be extended to all symptoms notice able in sick persons; we shall then have to discover those symptoms which constantly reappear and which occur in the case of every patient. These symptoms are essential ones, and must be taken as a starting point in our analysis of the nature of disease. In the previous chapter, I have rem arked that in certain dis eases, striking alterations occur in the form of the body; and it was this circumstance which caused me to observe further, whether such alterations did not occur in the case of all patients. And this, as observation has proved again and again, is, in fact, the case; the face and neck are especially affected by such changes, which can therefore be most easily traced in these parts. For years I have m ade it my study to find out whether my individual observations agreed in all cases, and whether with the alteration of the outward form, the state of the health also changed in every case; and thus it has been invariably. Thus, I came to the firm conviction that there must be a particular, normal form for every body, which is always to be seen in health, and that every change from this normal form is the result of disease. It became clear to me that from the changes of form in the neck and face, a trustworthy idea of the state of health of the individual could be gained; and this led me to the discovery and application of my new system of diagnosis, the Science of Facial Expression, which I have already used in my practice for over fifteen years. The alterations which we perceive in the neck and face, take place in the corresponding parts of the abdomen and rump in a still greater degree, because, as we shall see further on, they originate in (he abdomen itself; so that merely by examining the neck and face of the patient, we gain an exact idea of the condition of his bodily condition as a whole. These external alterations in the neck and face are percep

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tible, first, when the morbid m atter has penetrated in between the mus cular tissues, whereby the body, which is as elastic as india-rubber, becomes distended (this condition is the less dan gerou s); secondly through increased tension, caused by the induration of the separate tissues. You will be most readily able to form an idea of this state, if you think of a sausage. Filled as it usually is, it can be bent in every direction. If it be stuffed fuller and fuller, as long as the skin will hold, the sausage will become so tense and hard, that it can no longer be bent at all, except by bursting the skin. Similarly, the body can expand only up to a certain limit, when tension of the tissues takes place. Such tension is very distinctly rem arked when the patient turns his head and neck. This stage is worse. If now the room between the tissues no longer suffices to receive deposits of foreign matter, the lat ter is deposited in lum ps beside the m uscular tissues under the skin, being then distinctly visible on the neck. Where we find such lumps on the head and neck, we do not err in concluding from these indica-

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lions, that there is a far greater number of such lum ps in the cor responding parts of the trunk. On the abdom inal covering these lumps may in such cases be easily felt and seen in all sizes. For the lumps in the neck are not formed until after lumps are deposited in the abdomen. A precise exposition of the nature and origin of these lumps, which until now have never been explained, I will give subsequently when dealing with diseases of the lungs. On the other hand, we see in lean patients how the normal tissues of the body are actually displaced by morbid matter, so that only the rem ains of the former, shrivelled together as it were, are still to be seen amongst the foreign matter. The various abnorm al discolorations of the skin also form a sure aid in the recognition of diseases, and in certain illnesses are never wanting. The two accompanying figures, taken from life, show you a patient suffering from heart disease complicated by dropsy, first as he was when he applied to me, and secondly as he appeared four months after beginning my cure. You clearly see the great changes in form which took place in the patient during this period. He was, as you perceive, heavily encumbered with foreign matter, but within three months

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by the aid of my method had cleared his system of a great quantity of this matter through the natural excretory organs, as may distinctly be seen from Fig. 2. I cannot here do more than touch upon the Science of F acial Expression, as to go into details would lead us too fa r from the proper theme of my discourse. But what, now, do these alterations in the form of the body teach us in regard to the nature of disease? In the first place, there is no doubt that these elevations and swellings result from the deposit of matter of one kind or another. At first, one does not know whether this is m atter that the system can utilize, ,and which has simply been deposited in the wrong place; or whether it is m atter which does not belong to the body at all. Nor do we know, at first, whether it is the matter that causes the disease, or whether the latter is the cause of the deposit. Further observation, however, brings us nearer the truth. For the deposits alm ost alw ays begin on one side of the body, and are then much more abundant there than on the other; and this is invariably the side on which we are accustomed to sleep. We thus see that the morbid m atter obeys the law of gravitation, settling, as it were, at the bottom. But this side alw ays being the more diseased, it follows that the matter is the cause of the sickness; otherwise the disease would assuredly sometimes begin on the other side. Further on, more proofs will be given in support of this theory. We m ay also conclude from this that the said m atter must be foreign matter, that is, such as does not belong to the body, at all events not in its present form. For we cannot assum e that nutritive material iollows the law of gravitation in the body, otherwise deposits on one side only, would take place in the healthy body as well, if the person were in the habit of sleeping regularly on the sam e side. Besides, the system itself evidently endeavors to throw off the matter. Ulcers or open sores are formed, or there is violent perspiration, or eruptions break out, these being the m eans whereby the system tries to rid itself of the morbid matter. Should it succeed, a pleasant feeling of relief follows that of sickness, provided, of course, that enough matter has been expelled. We now come quite naturally to the definition of disease. Disease is the presence of foreign m atter in the system. For the correctness of this definition there is an infallible test. If after that which we have designated as morbid m atter has in a suitable manner been removed from the system, the disease itself disappears, and the body at the sam e time regains its norm al form, the truth of our definition lias been established. This proof has already been given, and in the subsequent lectures I shall show you a number of experiments which have been made. But now let us approach the question as to what may be the nature of this foreign matter, and how it gets into the system. There are two passages through which m atter can be introduced into the bodyby the nose into the lungs, and by the mouth into the stom ach. Each of these passages is guarded by sentinels, who are not, however, thoroughly incorruptible, and sometimes let things pass which do not belong to the body. These sentinels are the nose and the tongue, the one for air, the other for food. As soon as we fail to promptly obey the senses of smell and taste,

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they grow more lax in the fulfilment of their duty, and gradually allow harm ful m atter to pass unchallenged into the body. You are aware how one can become used to sitting in dense clouds of tobacco-smoke and inhaling it just as if it were healthy fresh air. The tongue has been still further corrupted, and we know that it can gradually be habituated to most unnatural food. Need I remind you of the different dishes and beverages which we now think indispensable, all of which were unknown some centuries ago? To these the present generation has grown so accustomed, that it would rather renounce a natural diet than give them up. Our lung-diet is, on the whole, not so degenerate as our stomachdiet, as the form er adm its of no luxurious outlay. As a rule, the purest air, even to-day, still suits us best, whereas a hearty dish of porridge, for example, such as furnished our ancestors with blood and strength, is really relished by very few. In order to illustrate still more plainly how the digestive organs are slowly undermined by the unnatural dem ands put upon them, I will adduce the following example. A dray-horse that can draw 50 cwt. with ease, m ay be m ade temporarily, with the aid of the whip, to drag a much greater load, say 80 cwt. If his master, however, having seen that the horse could draw the 80 cwt., were to give him this load daily, the anim al might be able to draw this increased load for a short time, but the over-exertion would soon prove injurious. He would drag the load with increasing difficulty, until finally he could no longer draw even 50 cwt. The anim al has been overworked, which is also out wardly apparent from his spavined legs and other symptoms. It is exactly the sam e with the human organs of digestion. F or a long, very long, time they will perform work fa r exceeding their natural functions, continually spurred on by the stim ulants of our times. But their natural powers are gradually undermined and then they can only partially perform the work allotted to them. The transition from health to disease goes on so imperceptibly (often taking ten, or twenty more) that the patient does not notice the alteration for a It is very hard to say what amount of food form s the limit which may be borne by a diseased stomach. Often, for instance, one apple will benefit a weak patient, whilst two would be injurious. One apple the debilitated stomach can digest, two would be too much. All excess is poison for the body. We must never forget that everything we put into the stomach has to be digested. Even a healthy stomach can really digest only a certain quantity of food. Anything beyond this is poison for it, and if not excreted goes to form foreign matter in the body. Moderation in eating and drinking is therefore the basis of lasting health. Now what becomes of such foreign m atter? I call it foreign matter because it is foreign to the system. The system attempts to expel it, and this in the ways designed by nature for the purpose. From the lungs, it is again expelled directly by exhalation into the surrounding air. From tlie stomach, the bowels conduct it to the outside; or it first enters into the blood and is then secreted as perspiration, urine and expired air, that is through the skin, the kidneys and the lungs. Thus the system takes care in the most obliging manner that our

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sins have no evil effect. Of course, we must not require too much. If we overburden the system with such secretory work, it becomes unable fully to perform its functions and must find room for the for eign m atter in its own interior. But such m atter is useless for renew ing the waste of the body, and is in fact positively harm ful, as it im pedes the circulation and hence the digestion. The foreign m atter is gradually deposited in various places, especially in the neighborhood of the secretory organs, that being the direction it takes. The beginning once made, the deposits accum ulate rapidly, unless the manner of living be at once changed. Alterations in the form of the body now commence, but are at first visible only to a practised eye. The body in this state is already dis eased, though its disease is chronic, or latent, and unaccompanied by pain. The disease develops so slowly that the person affected does not notice it; only after a considerable period does he become conscious of a disagreeable change in his condition. He no longer has the same appetite, he is incapable of the sam e amount of physical exertion, he cannot do so much continuous brain-work, and so on. His condition is still supportable, so long as the secretory organs continue to perform their work, that is, so long as the bowels, kidneys and lungs are active and the skin exudes warm perspiration. But whenever these functions relax, he at once feels sadly dissatisfied with his physical condition. The deposits themselves begin, as we have seen, near the organs of secretion, but soon commence accumulating in remoter parts, especially in the upper portions of the body. This is most distinctly perceptible in the neck. There, in the passage-way, the alterations m ay at once be seen, and at the sam e time tension observed when the neck is turned, from which we can find out from which side the m atter lias forced its way up. Before speaking further of the consequences of this accumulation of matter, I must rem ark that now adays the entire evolution of the disease can but rarely be watched from the beginning, for most human beings enter the world laden with morbid matter. And ju st here, I may add that this is the reason why hardly any child enjoys immunity from the so-called childrens diseases. These are, in reality, a sort of cleans ing process, this being the way in which the system endeavors to rid itself of the foreign matter. The foreign substances which at first are chiefly deposited in the abdomen, finally spread through the whole body and hinder the normal development of the organs. Even should the organs respond sometimes by increasing in size, they can nevertheless attain to no perfect development, for wherever foreign matter is present, space is lost for nutritive m aterial. Besides, as the circulation also is impeded, the process of alimentation is checked, and the organs become sm aller, by reason of the foreign matter deposited in them. This m atter m ay for a long time rem ain perfectly quiescent or chronically latent; but under favorable conditions can also easily sud denly change in form. This foreign m atter consists almost exclusively of substances which are soluble and decom posable; substances which are subject to disintegration, breaking up to yield new form ations

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under the right conditions; substances which are subject to ferm en tation. Now fermentation often really occurs in the body and is of the highest signiiicance. In all such fermentation, microscopic fungi are active, and a striking change takes place in the fermenting m atter: it increases m arkedly in bulk. W armth is always generated by ferm entation; the more violent the fermentation, the greater is the increase in temperature. This warmth is produced by the friction of the m asses against each other and against the body, and likewise by the process of fermentation itself, and the changes in the fermenting matter accompanying it. Under proper conditions, every process of fermentation can be caused to retrogress upon its own course; and this applies also to all the changes in form caused by such fermentation. This is a fact which has hitherto never been properly understood. But I need merely remind you how in nature ice melts into water, how the latter is transformed by great warmth and wind into vapor, and how this, vaporized and invisible, then again condenses and appears to the eye as a cloud, pouring down as rain, snow or hail to refill the rivers and stream s, and by severe cold to be again congealed to ice. And all this has been brought about by mere differences in temperature. Constantly increasing warmth has brought about the changes in the state of the water and increasing cold has caused a retrogression of the process. A sim ilar thing takes place in the development of foreign substances in the body, and sim ilar conditions produce a retrogressive m etam or phosis and expel them from the system. W hat the exact nature of the little vegetable organisms, the ferments, are, is of but secondary interest for us, but it is important to know that they can develop only where there is a suitable soil, that is, where substances are present which are ready to pass into decomposition. Where such are present, only the right kind of weather, or some other exciting cause, is needed to give rise to fermentation. Such fermentation is also set up in the human system at the first instigation, as soon as there is sufficient foreign m atter ready to pass into decay or decompose. Such chance exciting cause as a change of weather (hence, what is popularly known as colds), the consumption of food specially apt to ferment, which rem ains longer than it should in the digestive canal, anger, fright, strong emotion, a shock, etc. My observations show that fermentation always commences in the abdomen. Often it only causes diarrhea and is gotten rid of, but fre quently, particularly where there is constipation, the system does not succeed in its attempt at speedy self-help, and fermentation continues, especially in those parts where foreign m atter has accumulated. The case is like that of a bottle, shown herewith; the bottom admits of no outlet, and the fermenting matter therefore pushes its way up w ards to the mouth. Thus we first feel the effects in the upper parts of the body; we get a headache. The fermentation produces warmth and we are soon conscious of the rise in the temperature of the blood. This is what we call fever. Fever can therefore only occur where for eign matter is present and the natural exits are stopped; that is (1.) where there is no regular motion of the bowels, (2.) where the urina

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tion is deficient, (3.) where the pores are obstructed, (4.) where the respiration is weak. From all this we get a very sim ple explanation of fever, which long years of observation and experience prove to be true. Fever is fermentation going on in the sgstem. We shall, therefore, best comprehend the symptoms exhibited by fever, by forming a correct picture of the processes of fermentation, as they may frequently be observed outside of the human body. F or instance, if a bottle of freshly brewed beer be allowed to stand a few days, an alteration will be noticed in the fluid, which is generally designated by the term fer mentation. This much we know of the nature of ferm entation: it is a decomposition, a sort of decay, during which, as already mentioned, little vegetable organism s called bacilli are developed. But it must be noted that these bacilli not only, as is often assum ed, propagate them selves by reaching the fermenting m ass from without and then spread

ing there further; they arc also originated by the transformation of the mass, thus being themselves only transform ed matter, or a product of fermentation. Through the process of fermentation, or decomposition, the original m ass is altered in form. Thus, living anim al bodies are produced from food and drink, transform ed by the fermentive process of digestion. That is, the germs are the product of the food decomposed by this fermentive process of digestion. In this manner, we naturally arrive at the conclusion that all life is only a continual change under given conditions, and that without the processes which I term ferm enta tion, it could not be imagined at all. There is thus a malign species of fermentation that causes disease, and a benign species that causes health. The outward m anifestations of fermentation are the following: First, the fermenting m atter separating from the fluid is deposited on the bottom of the bottle. Now, if the bottle is shaken, or a change in the temperature occurs, the deposit at the bottom begins to move and ex hibits a tendency to spread. In spreading, it moves upward, and always in proportion to the amount of fermented m atter deposited at the bot tom and the temperature. Let us look more closely into the cause of fermentation. Everybody

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knows that wine and beer are bottled and put in a cellar to prevent fermentation as far as possible. The cellar temperature is pretty much the sam e both in winter and summeY; no sudden changes of temperature occur, so that the chief cause of quick fermentation is wanting. Like wise, in the human organism, fermentation takes place much more quickly in warm weather. We perceive how in the South and the tropics various acute fevers are alw ays breaking out, whereas in our cooler climes we find chronic diseases prevailing. This is particularly on account of the more rapid and greater changes of tem perature in hotter climates, where by day the thermometer stands at 100 Fahr., and at night at 40; whereas in our northern countries, the difference between the day and night tem perature seldom exceeds 22 Fahr., and is usually less. Fevers often occur with us in spring, the reason being that then we find the greatest differences in temperature. Some m ay find it strange that children especially should be subject to acute illnesses, the fam iliar childrens diseases, while later in life chronic form s of disease mainly prevail. The above-mentioned change of tem perature is here aided by the greater vigor of the youthful organism, which is still so great that it needs but little or no external exciting cause to stim ulate the system to m ake a vehement struggle for health, i. e. by an acute disease to rid itself of foreign matter. Now the sam e phenomena which take place in the bottle are observ able in the human body. Here, too, the fermenting m atter accumulates in the lower part of the trunk, and is then set in motion by some change in the weather, external shock or m ental excitement. Here, too, the movement is upw ards; the fermenting substances have a tendency to spread and press against the skin covering the body. As long as the skin rem ains impervious, the pressure meets with resistance. Thus friction arises, and consequently heat is developed. This is the explana tion of the well-known fever-lieat. In the sam e way, it is easy to explain why a person in a feverish state, has a somewhat greater circumference of body than usual. For the skin, being elastic, yields to the pressure of the fermenting matter, and the greater the pressure, the greater the tension of the skin. When the skin has reached its extreme tension, so that it can yield no further, the fever is at its height and the danger greatest. For as the fermenting m asses still have a tendency to expand and are unable to escape to the outside, they m ake room for themselves inside. The body may be said to inw ardly burn and death is the unavoidable re sultonly, of course, if the skin rem ains impervious. If we succeed in opening the outlets, the danger is removed, for then the fermenting matters find an exit, leaving the body in the form of perspiration. The interior of the bodv is now relieved, and the heat and tension of the skin immediately subside. No words are needed to show that the com parison between the human body encumbered with fermenting m atter and a bottle filled with such, does not accord in every point. In the bottle fermentation has free vent, the matter can expand in all directions without resistance, until it reaches the surrounding sides. In the human body it meets with impediments everywhere. Every organ opposes its progress and hinders its course. Then it presses, pushes and rubs against the ob

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structive organ thus producing lieat in it and even destroying it, if no outlet be made, or its course diverted. According to the part principally affected, the disease is said to be one of stomach, lungs, heart, etc. But the part affected in each individual case depends upon the course taken by the fermenting matter, and this course, again, upon the place and manner of the deposits. It will, therefore, be my task later on, to show you how the closed skin is to be opened. First, however, I must speak of another symptom. Before the heat begins, we alw ays notice for days, weeks, or even months previously, a symptom, apparently the exact opposite of that described, there is a feeling of chilliness. The explanation of this is very simple. It arises as soon as the deposits have grown so consider able, that the blood can no longer circulate properly in the extremities of the body, but is, so to say, compressed all the more in the inner parts, so that great heat arises there. Matter continues to be depositedthe time varying according to the particular patientuntil one of the causes already mentioned, change of weather, outward shock or mental excitement occurs, thus causing fermentation to set in. The deposited m atter causes disturbances in the circulation and alimentation. The blood-vessels become partially ob structed, especially in their minutest branches, so that the blood can no longer reach the exterior skin. This is the cause of cold feet and hands and of a chilly feeling all over. Chilliness is thus a precursor of fever, and we should m ake a grave m istake were we to leave it un noticed. If proper treatment be immediately applied, the fever cannot fully develop, but is, so to say, nipped in the bud. When speaking before of the nature of fermentation, I remarked that in all fermentation, little vegetable organisms called bacilli, develop spontaneously. This is the case with fever, and thus the much de bated bacillus question finds a sim ple solution. W henever the matter which has settled in the abdomen begins to ferment, bacilli develop of themselves in the system ; they are the product of fermentation, and likewise disappear of themselves when fermentation ceases and the system is restored to health, i. e. when the process of fermentation retrogresses. It is, therefore, idle to speak of infection through bacilli, in some mysterious manner, without the presence of foreign matter in the system. The question is not how to kill the bacilli, but rather how to remove the cause of fermentation, the foreign matter. This done, these little monsters which have caused terror to so many timid minds, vanish as a matter of course. Further on, I shall explain more in detail, the dangers of infection. A few simple exam ples will more clearly illustrate my statements. Imagine a room left unswept and uncleaned for weeks, notwithstand ing the dirt that collects daily. Very soon vermin of all descrip tions will take possession of the room and prove so troublesome to the inmates, that every means will be tried to extirpate them. Now, if we attempt to destroy the vermin in the old fashioned way by poison, we shall doubtless kill a large number, but by no means effect a perm a nent alteration in the state of affairs; for the dirt itself is the actual producer and promoter of the vermin and will continually breed fresh swarms. But we shall attain quite a different result, if we immediately

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cleanse the room itself of all filth; and by continuing this process we shall deprive the vermin of their proper elements and get rid of them for good and all. Another example. Imagine the swampy edge of a forest in summer. You all know what an annoyance the mosquitos are in such a place. It will be evident to you all that it would be no good using poison to destroy them. True, hundreds of thousands would be killed, but mil lions upon m illions would constantly issue from the swamp. The swamp itself is the breeding ground of the little torments, consequently one must first do away with it before the mosquitos can be annihilated. We know that on dry heights hardly any mosquitos exist. W ere one to collect a great number and carry them up such a mountain with the intention of keeping them there, one would very soon perceive all these insects, so laboriously transported, flying back to their native swamps, the dry mountain height being no suitable place for them. A third exam ple will render the m atter still clearer. You are aware how, in the tropics, where by reason of the greater heat there is far greater diversification and development to be found in the animal kingdom than in the temperate and frigid zones, nature gives birth to the most important and largest number of carnivora and carrion feeding animals. W hatever pains might be taken to exterminate them, new generations would always arise to take the place of those killed. Thus you see that these anim als flourish only where, by reason of the greater development of life, there is also more putrefaction. If no relief were at hand, the dead anim als would quickly poison the air with their putrescence, and render it unfit for the living ones. It is now plain why the principal anim als which live upon flesh and carrion, have their home in the tropics and not in the extreme north, where even the reindeer, which lives on grass and moss, can hardly exist. If, therefore, we should want to exterminate the carnivora and carrion feeders of the tropics, we would succeed only by removing the condi tions of their existence; that is. the sw arm s of other anim als there present; the beasts of prey would then disappear of themselves. All other means would be useless. But the sm aller the anim als are, the more difficult is their exterm ination: and of this the bacilli afford a most striking example. In order to exterminate them, it is of no avail to employ medicaments to poison them; we can only attain their end bv removing the cause of their existence, that is by expelling all for eign matter from the body. In these examples, I have shown you how Nature acts on a large scale; and she acts in just the sam e way on a sm all scale, for all her law s are uniform. Nor does she admit exceptions in the case of disease. Pre cisely as the vermin, mosquitos, carnivora and carrion feeders appear, live and thrive only where they find favorable conditions, so fever cannot exist without such conditions, that is, it cannot exist unless the system is encumbered with foreign matter. It is only where such matter is present, as we have seen, that by some cause fermentation can arise, which process we call fever. But when we once know what fever is, it is not difficult to find a remedy. The closed up pores of the skin, against which the ferment ing m asses press, must be opened, and this can only be done by caus ing the body to perspire.

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The instant the sweat breaks out, the fermenting m asses gain a vent, and the tension of the skin and febrile heat both abate. But with the perspiration, the cause of the disease has not yet been removed. For the fermentation in any given case affects only a part of the matter deposited in the body; the rest remaining undisturbed is continually being increased by new accumulations, and thus forms an ever-present source of fever, which merely aw aits a suitable oc casion to break out afresh. Our aim, therefore, must be to bring about the expulsion of the matter still lying quiescent in the body. For this purpose I have introduced the friction hip and sitz-baths which I shall afterw ards describe, by the aid of which the system is excited to expel the morbid m atter from the body. At the sam e time, everything must be avoided which may disturb the body in its work. The patient must have ample rest, e. g~. he must not be excited by being read to, or by conversation. Even the noise of the traffic on the street is injurious, and the chamber should be kept somewhat darkened; also at night, it should not be illuminated. There must be free access of fresh air, however. Not until there has been a sufficient expulsion of foreign matter, is the cause of the fever removed and thus the illness itself cured. Let us now briefly review the foregoing, in order to deduce some im portant final conclusions. In the case of all sick persons, alterations in the shape of the body are perceptible. These alterations are produced by foreign matter. The presence of such foreign m atter in the system is disease. This matter consists of substances of which the body has no need, and which remain in it because of defective digestion. The foreign m atter is first deposited in the neighborhood of the secretory organs, but gradually spreads, especially when fermentation sets in, over the whole body. As long as the organs of secretion continue to expel a part of the for eign matter, the physical condition is endurable, but whenever their activity becomes lessened, greater disturbances arise. The accum ula tion of foreign m atter is not painful, being merely a latent or chronic process, which goes on unnoticed for a considerable period. We can best designate the form s of disease resulting from such ac cumulation, as painless and hidden; they are essentially the sam e as those generally called chronic or lingering. The foreign m atter is liable to decomposition; it is the real cause of fermentation and form s the soil on which bacilli can develop. F er mentation begins in the abdomen, where most of the foreign matter lies, but rapidly spreads upwards. The patients condition changes, pain is felt and fever sets in. These form s of disease we m ay term pain ful inflammatory diseases; they are what are otherwise termed acute. From the foregoing exposition we must now draw the momentous conclusion: There is only one cause of disease and there is also only one disease, which shows itself under different forms. We therefore ought not, strictly speaking, to distinguish between different diseases but only between different form s of disease. It m ay be rem arked in passing, that direct injuries, which are not really diseases in the above sense, are not here included; I shall speak of them in detail further on, when dealing with the Treatment of Wounds.

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It is, therefore, the doctrine of the Unity of Disease which 1 teach and defend, on the basis of the observations laid down in the fore going. I have now indicated the way in which I arrived at the conviction a bold one, as many m ay thinkthat there is only one disease. Through observation and inference, we have thus arrived at a state ment which is of fundam ental importance for the treatment of the sickand I am able to prove its correctness by facts. In modern science there is one kind of proof which is preferred to all others and regarded as alm ost the only convincing one, and that is the experimental. In the case in question, the experiment could be carried out only by the sim ilar treatment of all kinds of diseases, when, if our statement is correct, uniformly successful cures must be the result. This proof I have given and continue to give. In the reports of cures, contained in the appendix to my book, you will find the results sum marized. It is, of course, impossible here to advise and treat patients with ail ments of all descriptions, to exhibit the consequent changes in their condition, in the form s of their bodies, and in their capabilities, and to receive their reports on the progress of the cure. Here I can only engage, in the following chapters, to call your attention to a series of the most fam iliar, frequent and dreaded form s of disease; to ex plain in detail their cause, and to follow the course of the cure; at the sam e time adducing as many exam ples as possible from my practice, in order in each case to m ake clear to you, how each separate disease can be traced back to one uniform cause.

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THE NATURE, ORIGIN, PURPOSE AND CURE OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN, AND THEIR UNITY.
ISE A SE is the presence of foreign m atter in the system. This was the chief result at which we arrived from the observations outlined to you in the previous article. The foreign matter is either present from birth, or is introduced later by the admission of injurious substances. The system seeks to expel this matter through the bowels, lungs, kidneys and skin, and when unable to do so, deposits it wherever it can. In this way the form of the body is changed, as may best be observed at the narrowest part, the neck, and in the face.

Explanatory of this, let us again instance the bottle of ferment already mentioned, as shown in the illustration. As long as the bottle is open, the fermenting fluid finds free exit. But suppose a hollow elastic cap is drawn over the mouth of the bottle, allowing no gas to escape. The rubber, at first loose, will very gradually become tighter and tighter, the more space the fermenting m ass requires. The increasing tension will very soon lead to an increasing expansion of the elastic cap. You will have a case more nearly resembling the human body, if instead of the glass bottle, you im agine one with elastic sides, in which the fermenting m ass is clearly to be seen. Here you would see how the tension affects the entire bottle, and how changes in the form of the bottle depend solely upon the pressure of the ferment. It is the same with the human body, the only difference being that the whole space inside is not free and open, there being organs everywhere which must fiist be penetrated or avoided, since they hinder the free development of the fermentation. The source of fermentation in the body is the abdomen, whereas in the bottle it is at the bottom. In other re

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spects, however, the changes in form are brought about in exactly the sam e way in both cases. The foreign matter deposited in the body undergoes a change, it fer ments, and the fermenting m ass spreads itself over the whole body. The fermentation also produces warmth and excites the entire system; we call such condition fever. If fermentation goes on mainly in the inner parts, the heat also is chiefly internal, whereas the outer parts are chilly. This state is more dangerous than the feverish one. Chilliness, as we know, always precedes fever, and it is an im portant point to change the chilly state into a feverish one, that is to draw the internal fever outside and bring the fermenting m atter to the surface. If we are unsuccessful, the fever leads to serious illness or even death, because the internal organs are then, so to say, burnt up, or if the fermentation ceases before this point is reached, are overladen with foreign matter. It has been necessary for me to again call your attention to this matter and deal with it in detail before continuing to speak of the diseases of children. Under diseases of children is understood a number of feverish ill nesses which most commonly occur in childhood. I shall show7 you how they all have one common origin, so that the question is simplu to understand fully the unity of these diseases. To distinguish each by a special name is, therefore, for us a m atter of no importance, it is even misleading. These diseases, too, can appear only when the body contains the necessary ferment. Most infants enter the world encum bered with such, so that nearly everyone passes through one or more of these diseases of childhood. Why children are more subject to acute diseases than adults, I have already explained. But prevention is possible. I will give you an exam ple of how this is so. To prevent the possible destruction of towns and villages, large stores of gunpowder, or other explosive m aterials, are never permitted to rem ain in them. We know very well that despite the utmost vigi lance, the fatal spark might some time or other occur. Now why, I ask, are we not equally careful in regard to our bodies? Why do we continually supply them with foreign matter, which leads to violent eruptions? Why do we not rather take the trouble to get rid of the m atter present?" To be sure, the eruptions in the body are not always of such a destructive character; yet they often lead to death, especially when the fermentation finds no exit.

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MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER. DIPHTHERIA, SMALL POX, WHOOPING COUGH, SCROFULA

OW, let me trace in detail the course of the diseases of childhood In doing so, I shall retain the usual names, because although they are no longer of any special value to us, they aptly designate the characteristic form s of disease. Diseases of children occur, as we are aware, in very different forms and are attended by various degrees of danger, so that it does not seem easy to find the right remedy in ever}- case. I shall now try to ex plain clearly to you, wherein the differences between these diseases consist and how they may be successfully treated. But first of all I must remind you that even with the most dissim ilar form s of disease, there are always two leading sym ptom s: heat and cold. Be sure to re member this in following my explanation of the individual symptoms. Measles. Let us imagine a child suffering from the measles. First of all we find it restless, sleepless with a hot, dry skin; in common parlance the child is feverish. But nobody can yet say what kind of illness it is. Only the fact that other children have the m easles, leads to the supposition that this is a like case. Nevertheless, we are in a position to proceed at once with the cure. The method of treatment follows quite clearly from our theory of fever. Fever can only be allayed in the following way. We must endeavor to open the pores of the skin, so that the body perspires. In addition, we must draw aw ay the heat by some cooling means. At the first out break of perspiration, even the fever will decrease. With this treatment, the m easles will in most cases never really make their appearance. That is to say, the foreign matter will be conducted away and expelled in a form which cannot be given the name of any special disease, being discharged from the system through the natural secretory organs, in the sweat, the urine, through the bowels and in the breath. If we neglect to do this soon enough, however, the measles break out, appearing, as we know, in the form of crimson patches. The more profuse the eruptionor what amounts to the sam e thing, the more actively the fermenting morbid matter is ejected through the skinthe less is the childs life endangered. The less abundant and slighter the eruption, on the other hand, the greater is the danger from the heat developed in the internal organs, because then the fermenting m asses burn them up. Inflammation of the lungs can then very easily occur. and the child dies, not because it has the m easles, but because it has no/ had them thoroughly. To effect a complete cure of the measles, we must thus try to open the natural outlets, the skin, kidneys and bowels, and cool down the system, until the internal heat completely disappears, whereby the di gestion also will toe regulated.

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The cooling is affected by friction hip and sitz-baths having a deri vative action. Perspiration can most simply and easily be produced, if the mother takes the child into her own bed at night, and thus helps it to perspire by the warmth of her own body. Otherwise, it often suffices to cover the child up well in a good large bed with feather beds or blankets. Care must be taken to let in fresh air by night and day by keeping the window open. If we do not succeed in this way, a steam-bath must he employed. This can be given most convenientlv by means of the folding steam chamber bath, which 1 have designed. But where necessary, the bath can be arranged in a different manner. After every steam-bath the patient must be cooled down by being given a friction hip-bath. When we succeed in making the child perspire, his condition will be m aterially improved. Should the fever return, the cooling process, that is the friction hip or sitz-bath, must be repeated and the child then put to bed, in order that perspiration m ay be induced. This process of cooling and then again warming, must be repeated as often as fever reappears. When there is an especially strong pressure to the head, the eyes or any definite part of the body, we have first of all to seek to remove such pressure by the application of a merely local steam-bath to the organ encumbered. As soon as the skin begins to perspire, the part will be immediately relieved, and the danger that any organ may be destroyed by the gathering ferments, is past. After every such partial steam-bath, a friction sitz or hip-bath should be given to cool and soothe the system. Now, if you consider all that I have first said about fever and measles, you will perceive that this disease is simply caused by a considerable amount of foreign matter lying latent in the system, which through some cause or other ferments. Fever is thus caused and the form of disease called the m easles is produced. You see, therefore, that measles originate in ju st the sam e way as any other fever, and I shall show you further on, how all other form s of disease of which I propose to speak can be traced back to the sam e cause. (See Reports of Cures, Part IV.) Scarlet Fever. A child ill of scarlet fever shows essentially the same symptoms as one haring the m easles; but the fever is usually fa r more violent, so that the parents anxiety is increased, and with reason. In scarlet fever, spots also appear on the skin, and from their scarlet color the disease receives its name. The spots themselves are at first small, but gradually run together thus increasing in size. The eruption is not, however, so g en e ral as in m easles; it often extends over only a portion of the body, appearing chiefly on the head, chest and abdomen, whereas the feet remain more or less free. The latter are often cold, while the rest of the body is in a state of violent fever. The head and heart are most severely affected in scarlet fever, and it often happens that children suffering"from this illness complain of pains in the ears and eyes. You will now find it easy to understand these symptoms. The condition already explained has set in; the morbid matter in a state of fermentation has forced its way from the abdomen in an up ward direction only, towards the neck and head; and only the morbid matter alreadv accumulated in the upper part of the body has passed into active fermentation. The sm aller that portion of the skin which

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cooperates in expelling the morbid matter, by admitting an eruption to break out, the greater the danger. But the main question still is: W hat can we do to afford rapid and effectual aid? In the first place, we must take care to divert the danger of permanent injury to the eyes and ears. This we can accomplish by opening the pores of the skin by thoroughly steaming the head. (The manner of taking whole and partial steam-baths is described on subse quent pages.) As soon as the head has become thoroughly moist, the pores are opened, the pain ceases, and the first danger is over. But it is often the case that such steam-baths for the head must be repeated several times, as the pain frequently returns after a short period. Indeed, it wall recur regularly at short intervals, if we do not take care that the fermenting matter is expelled in another way. This is likewise ac complished by taking a cooling friction bath for the abdomen, in which manner the matter is expelled through the bowels and kidneys and also through the skin. The digestion has undoubtedly been out of order from the commencement of the fever; nor could it have been in order before, whether the parents noticed the fact or not. The fever deprives the digestive organs of their mucous secretions; they become dry, can no longer perform their work, and constipation is the necessary result. The cooling and accompanying friction, men tioned above, have an excellent influence on the digestion; before long the bowels will be loosened, which is alw ays a sign that the scarlet fever will take a favorable course. But in the case of scarlet fever patients, considerable time and an energetic employment of the reme dies stated, are nearly alw ays necessary before success comes. This is another proof that more morbid matter is present than in measles. You see that scarlet fever, likewise, is produced only by the fer mentation of foreign matter in the system causing fever. Only here, there is much more fermented matter, the fever therefore being more violent and the fermentation spreading further upwards. The cause of this disease is thus seen to be that common to all fevers. I will illustrate the treatment of scarlet fever by an example from my practice. The daughter and son of a Leipzig manufacturer, aged seven and two years respectively, were taken ill with scarlet fever and the family physician characterized the case as a very serious one, the cure of which might require six or eight weeks. Mr. W., who had already purchased one of my steam bathing apparatuses, for use in his own case, now consulted me about his children, the cure the fam ily doctor proposed effecting by physic, striking him as being rather a tedious one. After examining the children, I could give the father the comforting assurance, that with my treatment the entire illness would be over in about one week. The treatment w as no other than that which I have already described: the children were given a daily steam-bath followed by a friction hip-bath at 70 to 722 Fahr. Whenever the violent fever reappeared, a hip-bath was given, this having at first to be done every two hours. It is evident that in this case special attention had to be paid to the diet, as it is certain that spiced and stimulating meat-dishes etc., aggravate the fever and make it harder to cure. The children were therefore kept on a strict diet of bread, gruel made from whole meal, and raw or stewed fruit, and only allowed to eat when really hungry. As I had foretold, to the delight of their parents, the children

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were well again within a week and the fam ily doctor, who had at first asserted that such a rapid cure would certainly bring on disease of the kidneys, was obliged afterw ards to adm it tliat the children were perfectly cured. Diphtheria. The word diphtheria is an alarm ing one for every parent, for the great danger attendant upon this dread illness is well known. The outward symptoms are somewhat different from those of the above diseases, but fever is also an essential characteristic. At times, it is true, the fever is apparently quite mild, especially in the case of children, who lie listlessly on the sick-bed and complain only of difficulty in breathing. As a m atter of fact, it is just such children who are generally the most seriously ill. In these cases the fever rages all the more internally, the skin is alm ost inactive, the bowels and kidneys are sluggish; nevertheless, the fermenting m asses press out ward, space inside being wanting. Such cases are the most dangerous. If the system succeeds in expelling the morbid m atter through the skin, as in m easles and scarlet fever, all danger is over at once, but there is great danger where fever is chiefly internal. If we do not succeed in drawing this internal heat to the surface, there is little hope of a cure. There is then but one outlet for the body, the throat, to which the fermenting m ass accordingly rushes with all its force, so that there is often imm ediate danger of death from suffocation. Where this danger is imminent, the first thing to be done is again to apply local remedies and to free the throat, even if only for a few moments. In diphtheria, this is done most speedily and effectually by steam, which lessens the pain and effects the expulsion of the collected matter. True, we have not gained much so far, but the momentary relief gives us time to cleanse the principal source of morbid matter, which is again to be sought in the abdom inal organs. It is astonishing how quickly the condition of the throat is changed by my soothing baths. The friction sitz-baths, in particular, have a most rem arkable effect, so that the abnorm al growths sometimes disappear after only a few baths. But another change has taken place in the throat by reason of the pressure; it is swollen and inflamed, and this swelling and inflammation is fa r more dangerous than the fungoid excrescences. Before the actual outbreak of diphtheria, the patient complains, as a rule, of pains in the joints, for instance in the knees or shoulders. One can endure even a violent inflammation in these parts for a consider able length of time, but not an inflammation of the throat; against the latter, therefore, the m ost energetic steps possible must be taken. It would be a great mistake after the removal of the fungoid growth, to cease with the treatment of the abdomen. The cure must be carried on persistently, until there is easy motion of the bowels and regular digestion. Not till then can the patient be declared out of danger. As explained before, however, the skin is also one of the most important secretory organs; its peculiar function being to expel the morbid matter which has accumulated near the surface. Imagine, again, the bottle with elastic sides. As long as it is closed, the fermenting matter cannot escape expansion, and tension follows. But on puncturing the sides with a needle, thus forming minute holes like the pores of the skin, the fermenting m asses instantly escape through them, and the bottle regains its original form. It is ju st the

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sam e with the skin. Perspiration is nothing but foreign matter forced out from the interior by the process of fermentation. Digestion is a process of fermentation, and the skin must therefore operate perfectly, if the body is not to become diseased. The skin of all healthy persons is consequently moist and w arm ; a dry, cold skin is a sure sign of disease. In the case of diphtheria patients, the skin is alm ost wholly inactive and needs powerful stimulation. Even in this illness a healthy mother need not be afraid to take the child into her bed; it may be the means of saving the child. Particularly in cases where there is no regular evacuation of the bowels, the system seeks to employ the skin especially as a secretory organ, this being, indeed, its function always. Had the mother, directly the skin began to grow dry, by her own bodily warmth induced the childs pores to open, and at the sam e time seen to proper action of the bowels and kidneys, the diphtheria would probably never have broken out at all. Only when it is im possible to start the perspiration in any other

way, should artificial aids be employed, and the children be given steam-baths. You have now learned that the nature of diphtheria is exactly the sam e as that of the before mentioned form s of disease, the difference being only in the external symptoms. Only the most superficial can be deceived into believing that these various form s of disease have different causes. The report of a cure which occurred, in my practice will render the m atter plainer. I was called to a Mrs. S., whose son, aged nine, was somewhat seri ously ill of diphtheria. The boy was first given a steam-bath. A steam bathing apparatus, such as I construct, not being at hand, one had to be quickly improvised. We therefore placed the boy on a cane-seated chair and set underneath this a pot containing a gallon of boiling water. His feet were placed over a pail half filled with boiling water and covered with two strips of wood. The whole body had been previously carefully w rapped up in a blanket, so that no steam could escape. After a profuse perspiration had broken out, the patient was transferred to a friction hip-bath at 72 Fahr., in which the abdomen was bathed until the heat disappeared from the head. The great diffi

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culty experienced in breathing at the commencement, gradually disap peared. It was necessary, however, to give a friction sitz-bath for half an hour every three hours, and then also through the night, so that the fever should not increase. Naturally, as long as the child was in bed, the window had to be kept open a little day and night, in order always to have fresh air. By means of the repeated baths, we succeeded each time in at once allaying the fever, so that already on the first day of the application of the treatment, all danger was past. The cure being con tinued in this way, in about five days the boy was fully restored to health. Thus is the dreaded diphtheria cured, whilst short-sighted medical learning is still seeking a remedy. Smcill-pox. Sm all-pox occurs oftener than is generally supposed. It is true the official statistics do not show this. For any father who has some little acquaintance with the natural method of cure, is in no great hurry to report the case to the police as prescribed. He would only be subjecting himself and his fam ily to the most unpleasant restrictions and annoyances, without any benefit. With proper treatment, sm all pox is, as a rule, an almost harm less process, as we shall see. The dis ease characterized hy pocks occurs in very various forms, such as waterpox, chicken-pox, sm all-pox. Form erly all eruptive diseases were designated pox. Sm all-pox is undoubtedly the most dangerous, for here the fever is most violent, and with wrong treatment, death m ay very quickly result. Just for this reason it is so greatly dreaded. Those diseases in which with wrong treatment death quickly ensues, are al ways supposed to be more dangerous than those, the end of which is preceded by a long illness. As a fact, however, even where recovery is possible at all, the latter are far more difficult to cure, notwithstand ing proper treatment, requiring a much longer time for their eradica tion. Sm all-pox has become so dangerous simply because its treat ment has not been understood, recourse being consequently had to vac cination. With correct treatment, the latter would never have been thought of. Sm all-pox may easily be recognized when thoroughly developed, but in its early stages it exactly resembles the other childrens diseases, as nothing but high fever is observable. Gradually, scarlet spots, the size of a sm all pea appear, like those in the measles. They continue to rise until they resemble a currant, with one h alf in the body and the other projecting. In the m iddle a black dot is formed. These pocks may spread over the whole body, or be confined to isolated spots. Their cause is the unequal accumulation and distribution of foreign matter in the system, by which the progress and course of the fermentation is determined. The patient is worse off in those cases in which the eruption appears on the face, as it may then leave the fam iliar pock m arks behind, if the correct treatment is not applied. It is no mere chance that in one case the eruption appears especially on one part of the body and in another somewhere else; or that the head is peculiarly liable to be affected, so that many patients show few pock-marks on the body, while the entire face is disfigured. Again call to mind the instance previously mentioned, of the bottle with the elastic cap. On that side of the body where the foreign matter has gathered most abundantly, most fermentation takes place, and here most pocks will be formecl. Now, if other parts of the body of limited

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extent are encumbered more than the rest with foreign matter, more pocks will be formed there than elsewhere. Thus, it m ay happen, that a person may have his face pitted all over from ear to car, whilst on other parts of the body there are m arks but here and there. The head is, so to speak, a terminus of the body. When the fermenting m asses are in motion, they alw ays find a limit here. But as we saw in the bottle over which we drew the rubber sap, the fermenting matter always presses upwards, and if in the head it meets with a hindrance to free fermentation, it acts all the more vigorously here. As soon as the sm all-pox rash is fully developed, vital danger is over in most cases; for usually only those patients die whose system is incapable of expelling the fermenting m asses. It often even happens that the eruption breaks out suddenly ju st after death; and here too, one might well say that the patients died, not because they got the small-pox, but because they did not get it. The patients alw ays die in a high state of fever. There can be no doubt that this illness also must be accompanied by violent fever; and it is the fact we find sm all-pox patients, especially before the rash breaks out, in a very high fever. In the heated state of the body, the pustules cause intense itching and burning, inducing the patient to scratch himself. Thus the pustules are torn out before they are ripe, and then the disiiguring pock-marks remain. This was also observed in form er times, when the poor patients hands were often bound to prevent his scratching himself. A widely read German ency clopaedia still advises this procedure. W hat torture for the unhappy patients! But we have a better means of healing small-pox, without leaving behind those ugly scars, and one which removes all fear of this otherwise so much dreaded disease. W e prevent the itching and scratching by the sam e sim ple remedy which we apply in the fevers already spoken o f: we open the pores, so that the body perspires, and cool the abdomen, where the source of fermentation is. In the case of wine or beer, everyone knows that fermentation goes on more slowly the lower the temperature. The fermenting matter in the system obeys the sam e natural law. Increased warmth favors all fermentation; cooling hinders, retards and stops it. This is a disease requiring the utmost care and attention, the system being most violently excited. But my mode of treatment robs the disease of its terrors, and one m ay be sure, that with extremely few exceptions, recovery will be thorough and speedy. The exceptions are found where the system is so overloaded with foreign matter, that in spite of the action of the skin, it cannot be expelled fast enough; or it m ay be, the body is too weak to expel it. As a rule, however, this will be the case only when the treatment is begun too late. Therefore I cannot often enough repeat the warning, that the fever should be fought from the very moment it commences; we must never wait to see what outward form the disease m ay assume. You see that for the dreaded small-pox, we use with success exactly the sam e remedy as for the other diseases mentioned. But this can be possible only on the supposition that this disease has the sam e cause as the foregoing: the encumbrance of the system with foreign m atter; and this, as we have seen, is the case. Nowadays, when m easles and

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scarlet-fever arc no longer classed, as formerly, with small-pox, and the latter has, in consequence, apparently become rarer, it is impossible for us fully to picture to ourselves that period in which they came as a dread plague and terror. As we now know of the unity of all dis eases, and how to cure them, we naturally no longer have the sam e fear of illness. Besides, by the aid of the Science of Facial E xpres sion, we are in a position to recognize years in advance, where there is such a great encumbrance of the system with foreign matter, that some cleansing process of the body, such as sm all-pox, may occur. And here I will acquaint you with another case of sm all-pox which I once treated. In the fam ily of a mechanic, three of his five children, aged 7, 9 and 13 years, were taken ill with sm all-pox. The father, who had also had it and therefore knew the disease, soon perceived what danger his children were in. At the sam e time, he was also aware of the inde scribable annoyances and difficulties to which he and his fam ily would be subjected, should the authorities get wind of the matter. He con sequently applied my method of cure in all three cases with the greatest secrecy, using only steam and friction hip-baths. The children were already in a highly critical condition. The skin was covered with black pocks. To hide this from notice, he had sm eared the childrens faces and hands with ashes, in order to escape the protective m easures of modern hygiene at all hazards. After only four steam-baths and ten friction hip-baths at 71 Fahr., the fever w as so far overcome, that all danger w as over and the skin began to peel. An unstimulating diet and fresh air had likewise aided the cure. By continued steam and friction baths, the children recovered so fa r in a few days, that they could get up and go out again, although my method had to be applied a week longer in order to attain a complete cure. The most interesting fact about these three serious cases of sm all-pox is, that not one of the children has a single pock-mark to show. All five children of this fam ily had been vaccinated repeatedly and neverthe less three were attacked by small-pox. From these cases we see how little danger attends sm all-pox when its treatment is understood, and what very doubtful protection vaccination affords. Anyone who knows the elaborate and unnatural precautions adopted by modern sanitary authorities, when it comes to their knowledge that sm all-pox has broken out, is the less able to understand them after vaccination has taken place, as the latter is supposed to afford complete protection. On the reprehensiblencss of vaccination I hardly need m ake any special rem arks. By vaccination foreign matter is directly introduced into the blood in an artificial manner. It is, indeed, alm ost a marvel, how human beings can so fa r stray from nature; but where knowledge is deficient, one is prone to believe in miracles. I have dealt more fully with vaccination in my little pamphlet on the Rearing of Children. Whooping-cough. Although whooping-cough is not held to be so dangerous as diphtheria or small-pox, a good many children die of it and the others suffer dreadfully, to say the least of it, from the fits of coughing. Respecting this point, I should rem ark, that any cough must be regarded as a sign of serious illness, for man is neither a coughing, nor a spitting animal. A cough never arises until the pres sure of the foreign m atter tends upwards, and the natural outlet below

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is obstructed. Either the skin operates insufficiently, or the bowels and kidneys perform their functions imperfectly. Children suffering from whooping-cough also show the fam iliar symptoms of fermentation, in other words, they are feverish. The matter seeks an outlet at the throat and head, though there is no secretory organ there. Now it is a question of prim ary importance, whether the patient perspires or not, when seized with a fit of coughing. If he does, he can get well without further remedies. But if no perspira tion m akes its appearance during the fits of coughing, the patient grows blue in the face, and the whooping-cough leads to certain death if no remedy be applied. At last, blood often stream s from the eyes, nose and ears, for all the foreign m atter seeks an outlet there. At this stage aid is usually no longer possible. If, however, the system re ceives timely assistance, it m asters the disease even in most serious cases. In this illness, too, the treatment is the sam ethere can be no other, as the nature of the disease is the same. The first and chief duty is to start perspiration imm ediately. It is also necessary to draw downwards to the secretory organs, the foreign m atter which is press ing its way upw ards in the body. The body has its definite organs of secretion, and only through these is it possible to expel the morbid m atter in a natural manner. We completely attain our purpose by using the before-mentioned baths* As soon as perspiration sets in, m arked alleviation of the cough is apparent, and when the digestion improves, the coughing will altogether cease. The time required for the cure is quite indefinite. The cough may vanish for good and all in a few wreeks, often even within a few days. It is an error to sup pose that it must last two or three months. Ihave now shown you that whooping-cough arises in the sam e way as the other diseases; that is, the morbid m atter present in the system begins to ferment, causing fever. After all these expositions, you will now feel convinced, that all acute fevers are simply an effort of the system to regain health, by expelling the foreign m atter which does not belong there. We should therefore welcome every such acute fever. It is, in reality, a curative crisis; and we have seen of what great use to the body it may become under proper treatment, thoroughly cleansing the system of all foreign matter. It may be well for me to give another illustra tion of what I mean. Fever in the system m ay be com pared with a thunderstorm. Ju st as an acute fever is preceded for some time by chilliness and uneasiness, a thunderstorm m akes its approach known by the heavy and sultry air, which none can help remarking. We say the air is heavy, we feel op pressed, and have a feeling that relief must come through a thunder storm, because it is, so to speak, in the air. The heat and sultriness increase, until they reach that state which immediately precedes a thunderstorm. We feel the coming danger of the approaching storm; but the actual danger begins only as the storm breaks upon us, and is over as the latter passes off. All is now fresh and cool, nature is re animated, as it were. The thunderstorm is a process of fermentation of foreign matter in the air, whereby the latter endeavors to expel the invisible, floating vapor which in this case is foreign matter. The storm is therefore a process for cleansing the air. By the fermentation, the

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vapor also changes in appearance. At first invisible, it is now con densed by the change of temperature to clouds, and then falls as rain and hail. It is sim ilar in a fever case. W henever fever breaks out, the body is in danger, which is only over when the fever disappears and a re freshing reanimation takes place. You perceive that in these cases danger first arises through the thunderstorm and the fever, which afterw ards, however, cause reanimation and recovery. Reanimation and recovery are only to be attained by this dangerous process, the cause of which, in the one case, is the surcharging and heaviness of the air; in the other case, the surcharging of the system with morbid or foreign matter. This exam ple will logically convince you of the uniformity of natural laws in all phenomena. Concerning this illness also, I will tell you of a cure effected in my institute. In the middle of July 1889, the four-year old son in a Leipzig fam ily got the whooping-cough. At the beginning of August the sickness had reached its height. Then the baby daughter, aged two, also took ill. For ten days the illness became worse and worse, and during this time the child could take no nourishment. At last, the parents, who till then had been using the natural method of cure to the best of their knowl edge, applied to me. I took over the case. The little girl had lost so much strength that she could no longer stand. I ordered four friction sitz-baths daily, the children then to be put to bed, or given a sun-bath to bring out the perspiration; sim ple natural diet to be observed. The beautiful weather admitted of daily sun-baths being taken, which in conjunction with the friction sitz-baths worked wonders. After only a few weeks of energetic treatment, both children were out of danger, and in two months they had fully recovered. As regards the diet, it was curious to see how the little girl refused to touch oatmeal gruel, m ade without salt, sugar or butter, which would have done her most good, and would only take her customary unboiled milk and chocolate. From this, one can see how important it is to habituate children to the sim plest food from the first. Nor was it possible to keep her in bed with her mother, although this would have been the best way to m ake her perspire. Accustomed to her own little bed, she cried so much for it, that we were obliged to give in. Nevertheless the warmth of the human body is the best means to secure perspiration and repose. One need feel no anxiety concerning the ill effects of the exhalations. The lower anim als are our best m odel; to strengthen their weak and sickly young, they sim ply warm them with their own bodies. While children are well, accustom them to nestle on their mothers bosom; in sick ness they will then find nothing strange in it. Of course, the words well and sick are used here in their ordinary sense; for we know that a really healthy child cannot become sick at all if brought up rationally. Scrofula. Scrofula is not a disease which excites heat, and is not therefore commonly classed with fevers, although in reality it should be. It is at least as serious as the others already mentionedI might say, worse. It is one of those latent chronic diseases, which are gen erally inherited. The system is not sufficiently vigorous to bring about fever. As I observed heretofore, the temperate and colder regions

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of the earth are the home of this disease. The outward sym p toms are much as follow s: A large head, square face, inflamed eyes, bloated body, weak legs, deformed hands and feet, mental sluggishness. Of these signs, however, we generally meet with only one, or a few, in any given case, very seldom all at once. They are accompanied by cold hands and feet, and a chilly feeling all over. It is just this state of chilliness which m akes the disease a serious one. It proves that the extremities of the body, by reason of being encumbered with foreign matter, have in great part lost their vigor and functional capacity and that in the interior there is therefore a wasting heat. The case must be imagined thus: The extremities of the body, especially the hair-like ends of the blood-vessels, become obstructed by foreign matter, ju st as drain-pipes clogged up with mud. The blood can thus no longer circulate to the surface of the skin and there by the feeling of chilliness arises. The disease not being of an acute nature, causes no pain, so that it is only from the general character of the whole body that we perceive it is diseased. Hitherto, no one has been really able to say how the disease arises, of what it consists, and still less, how it is to be cured. Usually, help is expected from change of air, and the patient is sent, when his means admit of it, to another part of the country, or to a watering-place. But the result is never thorough, even although a change for the better sometimes takes place. According to our experience, a child suffering from scrofula is per meated through and through with foreign matter, which it has inherited for the most part from its parents. This m atter presses on to the ex tremities in particular, and under strong pressure the head gradually loses its round form and assum es a square shape. Please remember in this connection, the comparison of the bottle with fermenting fluid, alluded to at the beginning of this article, over the mouth of which we put a rubber cap. Ju st as the latter is filled out and expanded by the fermenting m asses, so does the body of a scrofulous patient swell out. By m eans of the Science of Facial E x pression, however, we are able to recognize the very slightest tendency to this disease. Of course, it is necessary that one should know exactly the form of a normal body. Details on this point will be found in my handbook, The Science of Facial Expression. Distortions of the hands and feet arise from this sam e cause. The skin is more or less inactive, and cannot expel the m asses of matter accumulating beneath it. As rem arked before, these obstruct the cir culation, for which reason the skin in many cases is alw ays cold. In the internal organs, the warmth is consequently all the greater and excites inwardly a feeling of uneasiness, which we always find in a certain degree in the case of scrofulous patients. This is, in fact, a latent (chronic) state of fever. If it rem ains uncured, however, from the original illness new stages of disease develop, which may be still more dangerous and difficult to cure than scrofula. Most usually, consumption follows upon scrofula, where treatment has been neg lected, so that in a certain sense we may regard scrofula as only the prelim inary stage of a more serious ailment. But how shall wre begin the cure? We must proceed to transform the chill into a fever, the chronic condition into an acute oneto bring

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the internal fever to the outside. And as we have to do with fever again, our treatment must consequently be the sam e as for other fevers; we must open the outlets, in order to gradually remove the m ass of fer menting matter. We must, therefore, in the now fam iliar manner, excite the bowels, kidneys and skin. The skin will gradually grow warm, perhaps hot, but only until perspiration breaks out, when the normal condition will then be resumed. At first, the cure will only effect a temporary improvement; perseverance and energy alone lead to perm anent results. How long it will take to effect a complete cure, it is hard to say. Days, or even weeks, will not suffice; it requires months or perhaps years, and sometimes does not succeed at all, when the body has no longer sufficient vitality. In a recent article, I rem arked that with sick persons, the chill arises from the sam e source as the excessive heat; and the sam e fact con fronts you in scrofulous diseases. Two conditions of disease, ap parently quite dissim ilar, thus arise from precisely the sam e source, and seem so different, only because they present themselves in different stages of development. In the caterpillar, or chrysallis, we recognize the sam e insect which we subsequently see as a butterfly, of which the first and second are merely prelim inary states. It is the sam e with the different diseases. We should laugh at anyone who asserted that the caterpillar is quite another being than the butterfly, and vice versa. And yet, it is to be regretted, a quite sim ilar belief obtains to the present day as regards diseases, the unity of which has as yet been recognized by no one. I will cite you a case of scrofula which was cured in my establish ment. A boy of five had been so scrofulous since his second year, that at five years of age he was quite unable to walk. He lay in his babycarriage like a log. His father had had him treated by the leading physicians, but all in vain. The medicaments applied had, in fact brought about a decided change for the worse, so that the professor in charge of the case declared that the child would never be able to walk. Medicines, plaster of Paris dressings, baths, electrics, every thing had been tried, but quite fruitlessly, because the doctors con sulted had no idea of the nature of scrofula. The child came under my treatment at the end of his fifth year. The digestion, which in the form er treatment had never received due attention, was completely out of order. The body w as distended, hard and lumpy. During the first week, the digestion im proved decidedly under my treatment, so that a complete cure seemed probable. From week to week the renewal of the tissues went on more actively, and in six weeks the patient was able to stand without support. His body was greatly reduced in bulk and was not so hard, and many of the lumps which could easily be felt with the hand, dispersed and vanished. After h alf a year the childs head, which had been much too large, approached nearer the normal size, and the boy might be regarded as cured, for he could run and leap like any other, and was happy and merry. Shall I proceed to enumerate all the other illnesses? It will prob ably suffice to name a few : mumps, nettle rash, spasm s, diarrhea, thrush, scald-head, etc. They m ay all be traced to the sam e cause, all are attended by more or less fever, and the cure is therefore to be effected on the sam e lines.

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DISEASE A TRANSMISSION OF MORBID MATTER

N all these form s of disease, we always observe one of two things: either increased warmth (heat), or increased chill (cold). Both of these symptoms, as we have seen, are fever, whence it follows that they are both cured by the sam e treatment, a fact which I have proved in thousands of cases. All form s of disease are to be traced back to encumbrance of the system with foreign m atter; or in other w ords: There is only one disease, appearing in the m ost various form s; and thereforeas regards essentialsonly one method of treatment is nec essary. All the various form s of disease are, as we have seen, only efforts of the body to recover health. They m ust not, therefore, be suppressed and rendered latent, as the orthodox m edical school teaches, but the body must be assisted to effect these curative crises as quickly as possible, in the least dangerous manner. Only in this way can the body really recover. Disease if repressed or rendered latent, leads slowly but surety to severe and wholly incurable conditions of health. For the morbid m atter in such a case, does not rem ain inactive in the body, but is subjected to continual changes and transformations. One word now, concerning the diet in all cases of disease. This must be such that no new foreign matter is introduced into the system and the fermentation thus increased. As vigorous action is going on in the body, it should be burdened with as little additional work in digesting as possible. The first point, therefore, is: Give the patient but little nourishment, and never urge him to take food and drink when he does not call for such. And here I desire to add a few rem arks concerning the danger of contagion by the sick. No acute disease (fever) whatever is imaginable, which has not been preceded by a chronic stage, consisting in the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter. For this reason the chronic condition is the most dangerous. True, a transm ission of this morbid condition takes place only from parents to children; but it occurs in every case where the parents are encumbered with morbid matter, and is there fore a sure way of such m atter being propagated. When we see how children inherit the outward bodily form, the color of the eyes, even the mental characteristics of their parents, it is easy to conceive that foreign matter, too, is transmitted, especially from the mother. The direct proof is found in the fact, that the sam e forms of disease usually show themselves in the children as in the parents. Infection has hitherto only been supposed to take place in the case of acute diseases; but as I have shown, the transm ission of foreign matter from parents to children is nothing else than a transmission of the disease, that is infection. The transference of this foreign matter, signifies the transference of the cause of the acute illness. As I have already stated, diseases of children are only to be explained by assum ing the inherited encumbrance of morbid matter.

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The question may be asked whether acute diseases can be trans mitted, and it may be answered both with yes and no. Perfectly healthy personspersons whose bodies are free from foreign matter cannot catch an illness by contagion, even were they to swallow or inhale any number of bacilli, bacteria or microbes. In the case of persons whose systems are encumbered with morbid matter, however, such products of fermentation can act as the exciting cause to fermen tation, especially if the temperature favors this. If there is only little encumbrance, there is little danger of infection. In the course of acute disease, foreign matter is continually ferment ing and being expelled by the system. This is especially the case while the patient is recovering, i. e. when he is expelling the morbid matter by secretion. Hence the danger of infection is greatest from con valescents. How the infection itself is brought about, I will try to ex plain clearly by a fam iliar illustration. If we set an easily fermenting substance in fermentation, like yeast or leaven, and add it in this state to any other readily fermenting sub stance, as dough, milk, etc., everyone knows that fermentation will also quickly begin in the latter, if warm enough. Thus, the yeast, itself a product of fermentation, produces again a state of fermentation when added to dough or milk. We say the bread rises, or the milk curdles. In acute diseases the process is sim ilar. The fermenting foreign m atter passes into the air from the breath or exudations of the sick person, or from the stool. Should it now enter into the body of some other individual encumbered with foreign matter, and be retained there, that is, not be immediately secreted, it works upon the foreign matter already present, exactly like the yeast in the dough or leaven in the milk, i. e. as a ferment. Thus there arises in the second body, the sam e fermentation, and therefore the sam e disease, as in the first. This whole process of infection is, properly speaking, nothing but an in oculation of the fermenting morbid matter into the body of another person in natural dilution. Such matter can, however, only work as a ferment when it finds sufficient foreign matter in a latent state in some other person. Only those are in danger of infection from an acute disease, whose systems are already sufficiently encumbered with foreign m atter; or, as commonly expressed, who are predisposed to such disease. Up till now it has not been known wherein this predis position consists. The difference in operation between this natural inoculation of morbid matter, and the unnatural process of inoculating it by vaccination with the lancet, lies in the difference in the inoculated m atter and in its dilution. Homeopathy teaches that all substances are most effective in a state of dilution, for which reason the fermenting morbid matter is so highly efficacious in its natural dilution, when it finds a suitable soil. In allopathic doses the vaccine virus, like all allo pathic remedies, has a paralyzing effect on vital power; that is, it deprives the body of the vigor which it needs to throw off the foreign matter in it by acute disease (curative crisis, fever). It increases, also, the quantity of the morbid matter and thus produces a fa r more chronic state, as clearly proved by the steady increase of all chronic diseases since the introduction of vaccination. All the other remedies against fever, such as quinine, antipyrin, antifibrin, morphia, etc., have the sam e effect. They simply paralyze the efforts of the system to regain

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health, and reduce, or even stop, the fermentation of the foreign matter, but never eject it. Hence arise the diseases which were formerly rare, as cancer, intense nervousness, insanity, paralysis, syphilis, consump tion, scrofula, etc. The system becomes more and more encumbered with foreign matter, but is without ability to summon up strength to throw it off by some acute curative crisis. The encumbrance reaches its highest limit in the above diseases, and full relief is then usually no longer possible. Precisely those medicaments which possess the property of most speedily suppressing fever, as quinine, antifebrin, antipyrin, phenacetin, etc., have become the favorite remedies of the physicians against fever. It is our firm conviction that such are pre cisely the most dangerous means of injuring the health. We have all had experience how medical science daily seeks for new remedies to apply, because the old are no longer effectual. Recollect the blind enthusiasm for tuberculin inoculations before a single pa tient was even apparently cured; such a spectacle the world has surely never seen before. At first, each new medicament paralyzes the vital powers; but in time, the system grows so insensible to it, as no longer to react. A new and more potent remedy is now required to paralyze the vitality further, until finally the fermentation of foreign matter cannot be longer prevented by any means at all, and destruction of life is the result. An illustration will render this plainer. Anyone who is learning to smoke has to battle with his stomach until the latter grows insensible to the poisonous nicotine. At first, the stomach is vigorous enough to defend itself successfully against this poison, but very soon its strength is weakened, and complete insensi bility to the poison is the consequence. We now require a stronger poison than before, to produce the first effect on the stomach. Those who are beginning to smoke and cannot immediately bear it, usually tell us, to our astonishment, that their stomachs are still too weak, they must get used to it, they cannot stand smoking as yet. The very opposite is the case: as long as the stomach resists smoking, it proves that it still possesses enough vitality, that is, it is strong enough to forcibly expel the poison. When it offers no resistance, the former natural activity is gone, it has become weaker. The body, thus encumbered with this latent foreign matter, requires a far more powerful external exciting agent, if it is to be roused to expel the matter, because its vitality is diminished. I have already pointed out wherein such excitant consists. It is generally a change in the weather which is the direct cause, for which reason we always have great epidemics after unusually cold winters. I will add a few mental illustrations. If you carry a bottle of beer into a dark, cold cellar, fermentation will not easily set in. But on exposing the bottle to sunshine and a warm er temperature, fermentation begins at once, even if the bottle is tightly closed. This fermentation is caused neither by bacilli nor by microbes, but merely by light and warmth. At the sam e time, the outward appearance of the beer is changed; at first clear, it has grown turbid, and if bacilli are now contained in it, they are the product of fermentation. We observe the sam e thing in the air. One day we have a glorious, clear summer day; the next, the sky is overcast. But every one knows that the watery vapor floating invisibly in the air is condensed to

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clouds by a change (in this case a fall) of temperature. We also per ceive here, how each specific degree of cooling produces its own kind of precipitation (dew, mist, rain, hail, sn o w ); yet there is no difficulty in recognizing them all to be sim ple products of -water. In marshy, tropical regions, the atmosphere is constantly filled with fermenting m atter from the swamp, so that a short stay suffices to bring on a fever (that is fermentation) in a person encumbered with foreign matter. The marshy ferments act upon the foreign matter in the system like yeast in dough, producing fermentation (fever). All stagnant water acts sim ilarly, but not so violently. Only notice the difference between clear mountain lakes, the stony bottom of which admits of no fermentation, and other muddy land-locked pools. Sometimes the latter are also fairly clear, but with every change in the weather, fermentation takes place in the water, starting from below and m aking the entire lake turbid, so that one can often recognize what bottom the water rests on. Standing w ater on a muddy bottom is often set into a sort of fermentation by a change of weather, just like m arshy water, and it then operates as*a ferment on the other sub stances. This process of fermentation may be clearly seen by com paring the state in sum m er and winter. In winter, even standing m arsh-water is com paratively clear, because the cold prevents all fermentation, but in hot weather it is nauseously foul and muddy. The only question is, what m ay be the cause of an epidemic when di rect contagion seems impossible, for we see the sam e disease appear ing today in one place, tomorrow" in another. Without the presence of foreign m atter in the body, epidemics are, as already stated, quite out of the question. On closer inspection, we find epidemics every year, though not ahvays so wide-spread as the influenza at the beginning of 1890. But who is not awrare that every year at certain times measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whoopingcough, colds, influenza appear epidem ically? It follows, in view of the general, uniform mode of life of the m asses, that their encumbrance with foreign matter, whether regarded quantitativelv or qualitatively, likewise displays a certain uniformity. Now, if one and the sam e exciting influence affects this matter, i. e. should the weather exert a sim ilar ex ternal excitement on the vital powers of the body, the latter will also make sim ilar efforts (fever) to regain health by expelling the foreign matter. And where the encumbrance in a number of individuals is pretty uniform, the like cause will at the sam e time produce a like effect in many of them, thus creating an epidemic. But one should never for get that even in epidemics, individual cases of sickness are never quite sim ilar, always differing somewhat in their svmptoms and course. When an epidemic, such as we saw in the case of the influenza, appears here today and there tomorrow, the cause is sim ply the weather. In this respect such diseases resemble thunder-storms, w'hich also at times appear epidemically, today in one region, tomorrow in another. When an epidemic once breaks out in a place, direct contagion does the rest, as before described, in spreading the disease, ju st as in the last influenza epidemic. W idespread epidemics have been rarer in recent vears. But as observed above, the sole reason of this is, that the medical profession has learned so fa r to paralyze the vital powers of the people, that in all

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sweeping, epidemic curative crises, the system can only rally the re quisite vitality when compelled under particular stress. The necessary consequence of this, however, is a fa r more serious and general, chroni cally (latent) diseased condition; and we doubt not that the time will come when this will be universally recognized. Summing up the result of these rem arks, we find: (1.) That in the transmission of diseases from the chronic state (i. e. from parent to child), the foreign matter alone is the cause of the transmission. W ho ever is desirous of preventing such transmission must, therefore, first of all take care to get rid of this matter. Such transmission is the worst propagator of disease, because it takes place in all cases; whereas infection through an acute disease, occurs only when there is predis position. (2.) In the case of infection by acute diseases, the latter pass from one person to another by the transmission of fermenting matter, usually through the medium of the air. But infection is impossible without the presence of foreign m atter (predisposition) in the system of the other person, as disease arises only from the fermentation of such matter. Pure air is, therefore, the first condition in the sick-room. This is obtain able in no other way than by opening the windows, or using proper ventilating apparatus. All the perfumes and disinfectants so often employed, do not carry off the foreign matter, but simply help to pollute the air. At the sam e time they dull the sense of that guardian of our health, the nose, m aking it indifferent to even the most ill-smelling exudations of the patient; they operate exactly like the remedies men tioned above, not for the better but for the worse. All possible attempts may be m ade to destroy the ferments in the air by poison, but they will never succeed; and as a very little morbid matter suffices to set up fer mentation in the system, disinfection is but a vain endeavor. The only proper remedy is one which cleanses the system and drives out the foreign matter, the source of predisposition. You already know it the friction hip and sitz-baths and the steam bath. In the treatment of patients I have often been obliged to inhale their frequently disgust ing exhalations. At the next friction sitz-bath which I took, just the sam e horrible odor w as often given off by my own body, only it was less intense. Here we have a plain proof that the vital powers of the body were so much increased by the bath, that it could expel the virus of disease. (3.) This sim ple remedy also protects us from infection in all epi demics, because the foreign m atter (predisposition) is thereby removed from the system, and without it, no disease, and thus no epidemic, is possible. I have thus shown that the transmission of disease and infection by it, are only possible when foreign m atter is present in the system. Without this no disease, and without disease no infection. But any encumbrance of the body with foreign m atter means nothing else than its inner defilement. He who knows how to keep his body clean inside and not merely outside, is safe from all infection. It is only cleanliness that cures. One always imagines that different forms must conceal new and various causes, quite forgetting that nature very often exhibits one and the sam e thing under most varied forms. This we see

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in the case of caterpillar and butterfly, and of rain, snow, hail, dew, and mist. The extent to which the system is encumbered with latent foreign matter can be ascertained by the Science of Facial Expression. If now, considering these principles, we think of the preventive m eas ures which the m edical profession takes against contagion in the case of acute diseases, e. g. diphtheria, sm all-pox, cholera, one must really be alm ost moved to pity. We see whole houses carefully isolated from all communication, and everywhere in the dwellings, the odor of carbolic acid and other useless disinfectants, which are supposed to destroy the contagious matter. One loses all patience when one reads again and again in the newspapers, of ships being kept without purpose for weeks, or even months in quarantine, in order to prevent contagion. W hoever has been so long engaged as I in the practical treatment of the sick, must, if he is not blind, get quite a different picture of the dangers of infection. I have seen children suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, m easles, small-pox, sleeping in the sam e bed with their brothers or sisters, the fam ily circumstances not admitting of other arrangements. Yet there was no contagion, for there was no predisposi tion on the part of the other children, i. e. they were not encumbered with morbid matter, which would form a nutritive medium for the development of the disease. On the other hand, I have seen in some fam ilies all the children one after the other take the illness, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and small-pox, notwithstanding that all the directions of the physicians regarding disinfectants had been most scrupulously observed. In such cases, too, I have often informed the parents be forehand, that although only one child was attacked at the moment, the others would probably catch the illness also, because the Science of Facial Expression showed me that there w as predisposition to such. We see, then, how utterly absurd the preventive m easures of the medi cal profession against contagious diseases are. We only have to turn to nature to see that this is the fact. In the forest we find the stump of some old tree, eaten up by worms and insects and overgrown with fungi, whilst close beside it a young tree is sprouting up proudly, quite unconcerned, notwithstanding the dangerous foes around it. W ere the young tree already infested by the germs of disease and filled with morbid sap, it would certainly not be proof against the fungi, insects, and worms. As it is, however, it shoots up with vigor; no worm or insect attacks it, no fungus can take root upon it, because for all, the appropriate nutritive medium is wanting. May the importance of what I have said about infection be grasped by the m asses of the people, so that the superstitious and false teach ings of medical orthodoxy may be broken down! The public would then no longer so easily lose its head at the outbreak of an epidemic, but cool and collected set about the cure.

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RHEUMATISM AND GOUT, SCIATICA, CRIPPLING: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE

HEUMATISM is a disease so widely disseminated, that you will no doubt be interested in hearing of the progress I have made in its treatment. In earlier times only elderly persons, more especially males, were troubled with rheum atism ; but nowadays it spares neither age nor sex, children even being especially liable to it. It m ay be confidently asserted, that despite the innumerable remedies employed against it, the disease has increased. Any part of the body m ay be affected. Who has not at one time or another experienced those agonizing rheumatic pains in legs, arm s, shoulders, head or teeth. The most feared of all is probably that affecting the joints, or articular rheumatism. People take little trouble to discover the cause of this complaint. I have caught cold, that is alw ays the story. Indeed, it is astonishing that the inventive spirit of our century has not tried to concoct some kind of weather without the unpleasant property of m aking young and old catch cold. But there is something more to be said about this catching a cold. Suppose that in cold, wet weather a regiment of soldiers is sent out into the open country, they being picked men of approxim ately the sam e age, and, in the popular opinion, of nearly equal health. On their return the effects will show in various ways. Some will com plain of coughs and colds in the head, others perhaps of toothache, or some other rheumatic pain; but most of them will be in the best of health, or will even have got rid of some minor disposition, such as headache. Now all this is set down to the weather; and those who assert this would seem to be in the right, for the changes in the systems of the men were, as they themselves felt, occasioned by being alw ays in the open air. The first cause however is sought in the wrong place. There is hardly a more false conclusion in the world than that drawn here: that the sam e weather can at the sam e time make one person ill and another well. And it is a fact that for centuries sick humanity has, indeed, been but little aided by a theory of disease unable to solve such contradictions; on the contrary rheum atic complaints, in particular, have spread very considerably. Rheumatism frequently affects only one side of the body, or only one leg, one arm, or one shoulder. This circumstance alone, in my opinion, sufficiently proves that the weather is not properly to blam e; for it is not at all probable that the rheumatism would then have seized on only one leg or one arm, when both legs and both arm s were exposed to the sam e influences. It likewise often happens that a person sits with his right arm towards a draughty window, but gets rheumatism in his left arm, though the latter was further away and better protected from the draught than the other. If, therefore, we would resist rheu

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matism with better success than hitherto, we must search more care fully after its cause. Let us first observe what this disease has in common with other disorders. If we carefully examine a rheumatic patient, we shall find that he also has fever, and that the painful parts are inflamed and swollen, the digestion also being out of order. We find further that inflamma tion, especially in articular rheumatism, always appears in certain places. The symptoms named at once bring us a step nearer to the cause; for the present we must keep to the three sym ptom s: fever, inflammation and indigestion, and seek to discover what occasioned them. I have rem arked that in rheumatism of the joints the pains always appear in definite parts. Strangely enough in my extended experience it has not once occurred, that in articular rheumatism the principal pain was experienced in any other spot than below the joint, e. g. never above the knee, but alw ays below it. That cannot be acci dental, but must have a reason.

As already explained, the spreading of foreign m atter in the body often takes place without occasioning fever to expel the m atter from the system. The body then generally becomes encumbered to the fullest possible extent. With adults this is, in fact, generally the case, at all events in the temperate and frigid zones. If now a sudden fall in the temperature takes place, the m atter will begin to retreat to its source. As we know, all bodies are expanded by heat and contracted by cold. This universal natural law also holds true in the human body. We see the expansion clearly in a case of fever, and on the contrary, the contraction of the limbs within the shoes or gloves with cold. This contraction of the limbs exerts a pressure on the foreign matter ac cumulated within them, setting it in motion and causing it to retreat towards its source, the abdomen. At the joints, the foreign m atter ac cumulates, the course being obstructed by the continual movement of the joints. By reason of the pressure against the obstruction, inflam mation is produced, causing violent pain; and as the matter is on its way back, the inflammation and pain alw ays appear below the joints, that is, below the knee, the shoulder joint, etc.

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If we again reflect upon the illustration of the soldiers, the convic tion will grow upon us, that the real cause of illness must lie in the body itself, and that all the weather does is to occasion a reaction of the system, i. e. a transform ation of the chronic, morbid condition, into an acute, feverish one. The symptoms of disease, therefore, ap pear only in those parts of the body in which a certain quantity of foreign m atter is present. To us, it is quite clear how articular rheum atism is caused. If we undertake the treatment of a rheum atic patient, an exclusively local treatment of the parts affected is, of course, absurd. To relieve the pain, to render the m atter fluid, and to open up channels for it, a local steam-bath may be given; but for a cure, the foreign m atter must all be gradually drawn to the natural organs of secretion, and there expelled. This, of course, is true not only of articular rheumatism, but of rheu m atism in general. W henever it a p p e a rs: in the shoulders, back, side, neck or joints, it arises from friction; there must be some obstruction or resistance to the foreign matter. Now in the body, the fermenting matter does meet with resistance, since the fermentation cannot, as in the bottle, proceed unhindered. Friction results everywhere, on account of the obstruction offered by organs such as kidneys, stomach, heart, lungs and joints. If there is considerable movement, pain is caused. But it is evident that as the foreign m atter comes in contact with, ac cum ulates and settles on the organs, the latter suffer an alteration and become diseased. All pain, all rheum atism (the specific term is of no consequence) every twinge, burning sensation, every pressure, arises only from fric tion, and friction comes only from motion. That is what I would say to you first of all, about the cause of rheumatism. In proof of this theory, I will now proceed to describe a few of the many cases which so frequently occur in my extensive practice, and in this way explain to you the method of cure. At the beginning of this year I w as called to a woman who, as her husband told me, w as suffering greatly from rheumatism, particularly in the right leg, also further up, in the joint, in the back and neck. W hat treatment do you intend employing, Mr. Kuhne? w as the ques tion she asked me. Previous treatment, extending over several weeks, had met with no success. To such queries I am accustomed. I ex plained, in the first place, in what m anner the pains were brought about: According to my experience, I replied, it would be purpose less for me to undertake any treatment of the legs, neck, back or tnighs (w rapping them up in wadding and the like). All the pains of which you com plain are symptoms of internal fever. We must not therefore use warmth, but must go to the root of the disorder and diminish the great heat. You will soon come to see the correctness of this method. As the woman w as quite helpless, the bath-tub w as brought close up to the bed. The united efforts of three persons were required to get the patient, who scream ed aloud at every movement, into the water. I instructed a sick-nurse to give the helpless patient a friction sitz-bath. I think it w as within scarcely 15 minutes when the patient, who at first constantly moaned and groaned, became quiet. Well, I said, you have grown very quiet all at once, to which she replied, yes, the pains

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have subsided. From this you see that the treatment was correct. The pains in the back, thighs and neck arose in the manner I have explained, and could be relieved only by such treatment. In a few days the woman was able to get out of bed unaided and to take the baths by herself, and in a few weeks she could again go about her work. Here is another case. An elderly man, who for months had been treated unsuccessfully for acute articular rheumatism, had me called in, and asked if I could still help him. I explained, after m aking a diag nosis according to the Science of Facial Expression, that it was not too late to aid him. It was the left leg which pained him. Treatment was applied, sim ilar to that in the previous case, and two baths enabled the man to go away on foot, though he had come in a cab. Now, why did only the left leg happen to be affected and not the right? This I will explain by the following examples. In my explanation of fever, I have explained the one-sided ac cumulation of foreign matter, by showing like processes in a bottle. It is probably evident to you, without further explanation, that a one sided illness must come from a one-sided accumulation of foreign matter. Now you will perhaps ask, whence this latter arises, since it would seem probable that the body would distribute the m atter as fa r as possible, in order to make more room. Well, as a matter of fact, the accumulations are, as a rule, not entirely one-sided; but they alm ost always begin on one side, and remain confined to that side until it becomes overloaded, whereby the matter is forced over more or less to the other side. But the first side has for a long time the larger deposit. The cause of this one-sided accumulation is a purely mechani cal one, resulting merely from the fact that matter obeys the law of gravitation. A few simple experiments will m ake this plain. Suppose we take two glass bottles, fill them, to begin with, with pure water, close them, and leave them so over night. On examining them the next morning we find no alteration, nor can we see on which side the bottles have lain. But if we shake up a little mud with the water in each bottle for the following night, and leave the bottles again in the sam e position, we perceive a difference next morning. On carefully taking up the bottles, we immediately see in what position they have lain over night; for, on the side upon which they have lain, mud will be deposited, above which the water will be quite clear. If we add to the mud, for the third night, any quick ferment, the appearance next morn ing will at first be the sam e; but on opening the bottles and conveying them into a warm place, fermentation begins in the interior, in the muddy sediment. The fermenting m ass rises and escapes on that side upon which the bottle has lain. (See Figs. A and B ). Thus it is not an accident, that the m ass works out of the bottle on one particular side; for it will invariably issue from that side upon which it has collected in the bottle. The fermentation would have begun in the mud, even without a special ferment, only it would then have depended upon the influence of the weather, and we might have had to wait a long time for it. You will have an illustration still more sim ilar to the human body, if you imagine the fermenting m asses in a carefully closed bottle with elastic sides. The fermenting m asses need room, and this they obtain, as the bottle is closed, by stretching its sides.

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These simple experiments illustrate the processes going on in the body; the matter is deposited on the lower side, and which this is, depends chiefly upon the position which we assum e when sleeping. On looking at a perfectly healthy person, one cannot see upon which side he is in the habit of sleeping. To him, also, it will be quite the sam e whether he sleeps on the right or left side, for he can lie as com fortably on one as on the other. When, however, the body is encumbered with morbid matter, it is very easy, according to my new method of diagnosis, to rem ark at once the greater or lesser deposit of matter on one side than on the other. When the accumulation of matter has become excessive, its distribution is more regular, while the condition has grown to be so uncomfortable, that the person affected can no longer lie quietly on either side, but tosses about uneasily. When one side is especially encumbered, this side will always be affected more easily, or more intensely than the other. Thus you see how it is possible for a person to sit with his right arm, for instance,

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next to a draughty window, and nevertheless, get the rheumatism in his left arm. The one-sided deposit, it is true, does not take place so quickly in the human body as in a bottle. But children are often born with a one sided encumbrance, owing either to the one-sided position in which the mother has been accustomed to sleep during her pregnancy, or to the position taken by the child within the womb. You will now see plainly why in the case of the patients mentioned above, some of them had the toothache, etc. on one side only; and you will likewise perceive without difficulty, why my patient had the rheu matism only in his left leg: he had for years slept regularly on his left side, hence the one-sided encumbrance. A short time after treating the last case, I was called to Magdeburg, to be consulted about what was regarded as a very exceptional case of rheumatism. I went accordingly and found that the case was quite of the ordinary kind, but that the symptoms were very severe. The knee and ankle were extremely swollen and painful, and the man could not move his leg. The joints below the knee were highly inflamed, and the part

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above the knee was at the sam e time much swollen, so that the patient could not straighten out his leg. He told me that he had suffered much during his life, the disease had attacked him every year, and had grown worse everjr time. The man w as encumbered with morbid matter from head to foot. New foreign m atter was pressing on towards his knee, while the old sought to return. Induration would soon have set in, and then it would have been a case of gout. This w as partly due to the fact that the disease had hitherto always been treated locally with warmth. The condition had changed, it is true, under this treatment, and apparent recovery had resulted, but in reality the disease had only been changed to a chronic one; the m atter was quiescent, but ready to be set in motion by every fresh fermentation. The diseased parts were now first softened by a steam-bath, and the cold baths to draw off the morbid matter, very considerably prolonged. This treatment met with the greatest success in a very few days. I was consulted once by a woman who suffered greatly from gout in her hands and feet. She said that all remedies hitherto applied had been unavailing. I tried to explain to her, that her ailment was owing simply to im perfect digestion, and that relief was possible only when the latter w as got into order and when the bowels and skin perform ed their functions properly. I advised her to take three friction sitz-baths daily, and to observe a suitable diet, so that no new foreign m atter might enter into the system. Some weeks later the joints were no longer so cold as before, but quite hot; at a slight distance the heat could be distinctly felt. The cold baths had, therefore, not induced cold in the body, but w arm th; their purpose is to remove the foreign m atter and thus produce a better circulation of the blood, so inducing norm al warmth. In a short time the heat disappeared from the joints and the body assum ed the natural degree of warmththe patient had recovered. Another case of gout. In a fam ily where I had treated the children for some weeks with much success, I w as summoned to a little chamber in which, I was told, their grandmother lived. She had often expressed a desire to have a word with me. I see how successful you are with my grand children, she said, can you not help me, too? I am in great pain, and give a great deal of trouble to all around m e; I have been lying in bed for three years. I answered briefly: It is quite possible, if certain conditions are procured; that is to say, better action of the bowels, kidneys and skin. Your sickness has arisen from defective secretions. You m ay be right there, Mr. Kuhne; I have not perspired these many years and am, in fact, very glad of it; form erly I used to perspire much. It is the sam e thing with the bow els: once every four, five or six days; otherwise my digestion is good. One often hears people saying that their stomach and digestion are excellent, only that they suffer from constipation. It is sad proof how little people under stand about a good digestion. Yes, I replied to the patient, it goes into the body well enough, but does not come out regularly. And what be comes of substances that are introduced into the body? Gout is nothing more or less than a result of imperfect digestion. This seemed reason able to the old lady, who was in her 70th year, and she requested me to begin the cure in a day or two. I sent my bath-woman to her and

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prescribed the manner in which the baths were to be taken. The p a tient had to take three baths daily, after which she was put to bed, in order to m ake her perspire if possible. She began perspiring sooner than we expected, and after each bath so freely that her night-dress had to be changed twice during the night. Within a few weeks she was so far restored that she could rise without pain and work about her room. This patient had the gout. The first cause was that her digestion was out of order, and one of the first effects of her imperfect digestion had been rheumatism. As long as I had my shop, I alw ays had a great deal of work to do, and did not pay much attention to my rheumatic pains, the patient explained to me one day, after giving up business, however, I got the gout. In other words, gout came on because the rheumatism had not been attended to. Sciatica, too, is nothing more than an inflammation of the hip-joint, which comes about in the sam e m anner as rheumatism, and conse quently is cured in the sam e way. Let us hear what a form er patient of mine writes in his gratitude: Herewith I send you my heartfelt thanks for the cure of my many indescribable sufferings. I was attacked in the autumn of 1885 by violent pains combined with stiffness in my left hip, then in the right one, and in the sm all of the back, developing into general stiffness and rigidity. The physician whom I consulted diagnosed the disease as sciatica. His course of treat ment brought on in addition severe photophobia (dread of light), nystag mus (quivering of the eyelids), shooting pains across the face, heaviness in the head, dreadful twinges and aches in the left arm and hand, and complete general debility, so that I could neither draw off my shoes and stockings, nor even get into bed without assistance. My hair turned quite gray in a short time, owing to the fearful pain. I was treated unsuccessfully by more than twelve celebrated pro fessors and doctors of this town, and was also exhibited as a rem arkable case to the students by some of the University lecturers. A young physician used me as a subject to pass his examination for the State m edical diploma. I was often for months at a time, in the Municipal Hospital and the University Clinic. Finally one professor and a doctor of the Leipzig University Polyclinic advised me, in January, 1889, to con sult Mr. Louis Kuhne, who ju st at that time w as giving public lectures. I did so on Jan uary 23rd, 1889. On Jan uary 24th, I commenced the baths. At the very first bath, con siderable quantities of w ater were passed, the abdomen grew smaller, the head lighter, and for the first time for years, I was able to walk without the sticks, hitherto constantly used. On the sam e day, I pre sented myself to the professors of the University Polyclinic, at their re quest, to obtain their confirmation of the striking improvement in my condition. After conscientiously pursuing the method of cure prescribed by you for three weeks, I was enabled to report to you on February 13th 1889, at a public conference held by you, in the presence of some twenty or thirty students that I was in perfect health, at the sam e time giving ocular demonstration of my statement by all kinds of movements. Since then I have been quite well and able to work; I can carry a hundred-pound weight in each hand, whereas before I could not move,

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to say nothing of being able to work or carry weights. From the autumn of 1885 to Jan uary 23rd 1889, I had been treated by the leading physi cians of Leipzig, my condition steadily growing more wretched and m is erable. Between Jan u ary 23rd and February 13th 1889 you restored me to health and ability to work, by your new method of treatment. 1 now come to Distortions. From my exposition, you have seen that all the forms of disease hitherto described to you, may be traced to one common cause. Still, you will possibly be surprised that I proceed directly from gout and rheumatism to alterations in the form of the body, such as high shoulders, curvature of the spine, twistings, distortions, etc. And nevertheless these latter have, as I shall show you, the same common origin as the diseases already described: namely the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter and the increased accumulation of such in the various parts of the body. These diseases frequently appear together. Should we en-. quire after the cause of such, you yourself would an sw er: The altera tions can have been brought about only by accumulation of foreign m at ter. They are to a certain extent gout on a large scale. And your answer would be correct. But in what way it was deposited, and how it gradually took its course to a special spot, I shall now explain to you with the aid of a few illustrations. Experience shows that it takes a long time before foreign matter is capable of producing great excres cences and changes in the body; years even are required for this. Some times, too, the system gains time through an acute disease, expelling so much foreign matter, that the experiences and alterations tempor arily disappear, so that years may pass after the first stages, until the deformity is fully developed. Thus the sam e foreign matter which in one case produces sm all-pox, in another typhoid fever, in a third diph theria, etc., is the cause also of these deformities and distortions, when the system no longer has the vital energy to get rid of the m atter by means of an acute disease. The foreign m atter generally accumulates in certain places, mostly in those in which it is least troublesome to the organism and as far as possible removed from parts where there is constant activity. The disease itself, therefore, when the deposits have collected in a place where no important organs lie, m ay cause but little discomfort. The external changes, however, gradually attract attention, and all possible explanations are sought. Usually the vocation must bear the blame as involving a one-sided employment, or some special habit, such as not sitting erect. Doubtless, that is particularly so; but such habits only aid in determining the way, and therefore merely exert an influence on the form of the alteration. With perfectly healthy per sons, curvature can never be occasioned by sitting crookedly, as long as they rest when tired and give the body time to recover at intervals. Thus I have often noticed that country people, who work all day in a stooping posture, exhibit a fine, straight figure when they happen to stand upright. Had these people not been healthy, their figures would assuredly have been influenced by foreign matter. In the beginning, most persons attempt to hide their growing deformity from the eyes of others by the aid of tailor and dressm aker, but it is impossible to do so for any iength of time. There is great variety in the kinds of deformity. It is occasioned by the occupation, habits, position during sleep, and in great part by natural disposition. There are scarcely two persons to be found whose

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forms are alike; still certain normal form s can be distinguished, which I shall show you in the following illustrations. Fig. A presents an approxim ately normally formed m an; it will be readily seen that the members are well proportioned. Nothing is too short or too long, nothing too thick/ and nothing too thin; all the limbs are symmetrical. Fig. B gives a different view. You will instantly perceive the altera tions on the left side: a prolongation of the buttock both above and below. The latter would be the first of the two to show itself, because

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the foreign matter starts from the abdomen, and the alteration there fore always begins in this region; it undoubtedly lasted years before the shoulder was raised. Had the relatives noticed the lower prolonga tion in time and recognized the danger, they assuredly would not have delayed commencing a suitable course of treatment. Of course, I cannot blame anyone in such a case, for the methods of cure up till now pur sued, are not in the least capable of remedying such diseases, and for the most part do not even recognize them as diseases. The patient so de formed is called a cripple, and that is the end of the matter. But how this deformity has been brought about, from what causes it has arisen, has probably never been recognized before. My new method of cure, when confronted by such cases, is not so helpless as the earlier methods, and the course of the cures effected by this system has proved its cor-

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redn ess in the most different cases. The form ulation of my theories has always followed my practice. The foreign m atter has accumulated in the body especially on the left side, the expansion being brought about here in ju st the sam e way as in the bottle with elastic sides, in which the fermenting m ass collected only on the left side. The m atter requires more room, and finding no outlet, it swells out the sides by continual pressure. Now, if the fer menting m ass lies, as here, only on the left side, it is only this latter which will be unusually distended.

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By means of my new system of diagnosis, the Science of F acial E x pression, this disease might have been recognized with ease at its very beginning, and a proper course of treatment adopted for ridding the system of the cause of this encumbrance, viz. the foreign matter. For years before any prolongation whatever of the left side of the buttocks appeared, an increased encumbrance of the left side of the neck might have been discovered. And now that we have learned the unity of all diseases, and know that this inequality is caused by the sam e foreign m atter from which typhus, diphtheria, etc. arise in other cases, it is easy both to prevent and to cure such distortions. Now, you have heard for the first time, how crookedness and de formity of the body come about. I shall now show you, by further illustrations, that all these form s spring from the sam e cause.

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Fig. C shows you a body in which the buttocks are lengthened on both sides. You may, perhaps, at first have only a dim consciousness that the body exhibited here is wanting in true symmetry. But com parison with Fig. A shows imm ediately that in this case the whole trunk is too long. The lower part is particularly so, for which reason the legs and the neck have become too short, the latter being in part hidden between the shoulders. In this case, not merely a one-sided encumbrance of the buttocks with foreign m atter has taken place, but one equally distrib uted; in consequence, the entire buttocks are equally prolonged on

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both sides by the matter. In these cases it also happens that the matter presses up through the neck into the head, then causing an abnormal form of the head in addition, as you m ay often observe. I again remind you of the exam ple of the bottle, over which we drew an india-rubber cap. The alterations in the head are brought about in a way very sim i lar to that in which those in the bottle are caused. But you m ay also observe, often enough, ju st the contrary of these forms, that is, the legs and arm s too long and the trunk in comparison fa r too sh o rt The cause is again the same, only in this case, the foreign m atter has at an early period penetrated to the extremities, and there fore the trunk has been for many years unable to keep pace with the distention of the limbs. Hardly anyone will suppose that by means of our sim ple method we

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can restore full symmetry in all such cases. Certainly a consistent ap plication of my cure for a series of years is usually needful, before the chronic state can be readjusted; and when the organism is too old, and the requisite vitality consequently lacking, it is impossible to effect a complete cure. Fig. D shows us a form unhappily very common at the present time; the m atter deposited has brought about an elevation of the back, which at the sam e time prevents norm al development of the chest, so that the form of the latter is conspicuously flattened. It looks almost as if what has been added to the back has been taken from the chest. The chest immediately expands when the back is freed of its burden. In this case, too, the buttocks have, of course, been encumbered for a long time

Fig. F previously, so that with this form we always find also that the abdomen is either too large or too hard. Sometimes the encumbrance com mences in early childhood, or is even present before birth and thus it happens that we see children at the age of only four or five years with rounded back and flattened chest. At this age the evil can be most readily and quickly remedied, for with our cure a youthful body often m akes as much progress in a month, as an older one in a year. This is, of course, ow'ing to the greater vital powers of youth. I have already told you, how one can succeed in discovering these deformities in their very beginning: it is possible only by the aid of my Science of Facial Expression. The foreign m atter may also at times take a very irregular course, passing over from one side to the other and back again. We see this exhibited in Fig. E. In this case, we perceive that the m atter has been first chiefly deposited on the left side; but that in the middle its free passage has been checked by one of the organs in that region, so that

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it has been forced over to the right side, later again passing over to the other side. You perceive distinctlv the prolongation of the entire left side both upw ards and downwards, and in the middle the deflection to the right. A curvature of the spine has already taken place here. In the first place this is certainly due to an hereditary encumbrance. Should we try to employ shoulder-braces or other mechanical bandages for straightening the body, we should only be torturing the patient, without effecting a cure at all. In fact, the matter requires room, and in my practice it has occured often enough, that after a crooked back, for instance, had been forcibly pressed in, the foreign m atter at once began to collect on the chest. The attempt to remove this m atter from behind, had therefore been successful, but only at the expense of its reappear-

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ance in front. The room which the matter required, could not be taken away from it; one could merely change the place of deposit. Fig. F shows a person in whom the foreign matter has taken up its station upon the middle of the back and forced the body into a per manently bent posture. Such an accumulation is rarer, because the matter, as a rule, pushes on to the extremities. To illustrate this case, I will give vou further on a striking example from my practice, shown in Figs. G and H. In this connection, you will all be reminded of poor humpbacks, who are positively disfigured by their deformity. Most often we find a com plete curvature of the spine. In the vast m ajority of these cases hereditary encumbrance is the cause. But before proceeding to the several form s of disease, I must notice a peculiar kind of deformitv. It often occurs that the matter forces itself up through the neck and collects in the head. I have already mentioned how coldness of the head arises from this. In children, it easily leads to an unnatural ex

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pansion of the head. A disproportionately large head is always a sign of serious chronic disease. Sucn an expansion of the head often occurs before birth, and the first result is difficult parturition. And it is a matter of popular observation, that children with large heads seldom live long. Your attention has been called to the reason for this, which you will hardly have heard from anyone before. The explanation of this encumbrance I have already given you in the exam ple of the bottle with the india-rubber cap. Proof of the correctness of these statements can be given only through the cures based upon the theories explained. A large number of such cures have actually been effected under my guidance. The treatment has been the sam e as in the form s of disease previously described; and though it m ay sound strange that I propose to cure a crooked back by the sam e treatment used for coughs and colds, how can I act otherwise, when the cause of the disease is the sam e? The facts themselves have proved that I am right, for all symptoms of disease disappear when the treatment is perseveringly adhered to. The only condition is, that the system still possesses enough vitality, and that the nerve connection is intact throughout, so that the process of healing can take its course. I repeat what I said before: All diseases (or rather, all form s of dis ease) are curable, but not all individuals.

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COLD HANDS AND FEET, HOT HEAD: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
E T u s now consider the origin of cold hands and fe e t and a hot head. We all know that the head ought to be cool, ana the hands and feet warm, yet we very often meet with ju st the contrary state. Now let us see how these symptoms of disease arise. I said in one of my form er lectures, that there is no disease without fever, and no fever without disease. Therefore, according to my assertions, this condition must also be a feverish one. That this is so in the case of a hot head, no one doubts. Cold feet and hands are less likely to be regarded as in dications of fever. I m aintain, however, that boththe hot head, and cold hands and feetare caused in one and the sam e manner. How can that be? Every disease is occasioned by the presence of foreign m atter in the system. By feverfermentationthis m atter is trans ported from the abdomen into the remotest parts of the body. Some is deposited in these remote points, that is, in the head, feet and hands, If the fermentation m atter enters the feet and hands, it finds there but very slight resistance. The foreign matter first accumulates in the toes, then in the feet, and thus spreads gradually upw ards into the legs, ob structing the circulation and consequently lowering the warmth. It is the sam e with the hands. With many persons only the finger tips are cold at first; with others; only one foot; later on, in the course of years, they begin to complain also of the legs, which are cold up to the knee. W arm stockings are tried, but they, too, will not help for long. Even fur boots afford but tem porary relief; there comes a time, when no warm clothing will suffice. The feet can no longer be warmed. This makes it very evident, that, as is well known, the clothing does not warm the body, but the body the clothing. And if, in the beginning, the warm clothing does protect one against the feeling of coldness, the reason is that there is still a certain amount of warmth in the limbs, which is com municated to the thicker clothes and retained by them. But this protec tion given by the w arm er clothing does not long avail. Whenever the secretion of the skin and the regular circulation of the blood gradually decrease, the w arm est clothing becomes useless. With the head it is quite a different matter. The brain, with its abundant supply of blood, is fa r more capable of offering resistance to foreign matter pressing upon it than the hands or feet. Hence strong friction results, and as a consequence, warmth. Thus the riddle is solved. Exactly the sam e thing which m akes the hands and feet cold, renders the head hot at first. But even the heat in the head terminates sooner or later. In my practice, I have met with patients enough in whom the head had already grown quite cold. Thus there is a limit here also. When the foreign m atter presses on to the head in great abundance, the resistance here also ceases after a while, and the head likewise grows cold. A proof of the correctness of this supposition can

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be given only in the cures resulting from a treatment founded upon it. If a patient would be relieved from the chilliness in hands and feet and the burning feeling in the head, he must commence his treatment at the place from which the fermentation started, i. e., the abdomen. The diges tion must be regulated, and then the hands and feet will grow warm and the head cool. A cold head will at first grow warm again and then attain its normal coolness. And this has been observed in a thousand cases, fresh instances occurring daily in my practice. Here I will add, that sufferers from cold hands and feet are alw ays especially liable to rheumatic attacks.

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will now call your attention to some cures of such cases in my practice. In the year 1889, a Mrs. H. called during consultation hours, bring ing with her, in a childs carriage, her son, 13 years of age. He was suffering from a painful curvature of the spine, upon which a con siderable protuberance had already formed. The boy could walk only with the greatest difficulty, and with the aid of two sticks, and usually had to be wheeled in the carriage. I asked his mother what treatment had been employed. She informed me that the disorder had been so troublesome for over two years as to occasion her to seek medical advice. A well-known physician, a Leipzig professor, had operated upon the boy and tortured him frightfully with an exten sion bed, steel splints and other instruments of constraint, but with no success. Medical and surgical aid were of no avail, as Mrs. H had clearly perceived, for which reason she tried household remedies for some time before coming to me. I explained to her that the morbid m atter had in this case sought out a place of deposit on the back, and that in order to cure the disease the only way was to remove this matter. She understood my statements, and the treatment began that same day. The boy took three friction sitz-baths daily, each lasting half an hour; the diet was strictly unstimulating and I insisted upon the child being as much as possible in the open air outside the town. In this still youthful body the foreign matter retrogressed with extreme rapidity, so that the result was surprising. After a week, the child no longer needed to be wheeled about, but could walk alone with his two sticks. A fortnight after, the latter also had become superfluous, and the body was far more erect. After two weeks further treatment, the boy could again go to school, which he had been com pelled to give up for a long time. The child followed this treatment for half a year, and was so fa r restored to health, that he could again carry his body perfectly straight, as Fig. H, page 61, shows. If I assert that the foreign m atter which here produced the disease, was the sam e as that which produces small-pox, scarlet fever, diph theria, etc. in other cases, then it would also be expelled from the sys tem, and thus a cure effected, by the sam e method; and this I proved to these parents in their sons case to be a fact. The very day on which this boy was brought to me, a woman whose menstruations were attended by an abnormally excessive loss of blood, and a girl 9 years of age, afflicted with a dreadful skin disease (tetters), who had in vain tried every other method of treatment, also sought my advice. Both were treated in the sam e manner as the boy, due allowance, of course, being m ade for the individual circumstances, and all three were cured. This, however, could only have been the case if the cause of all three diseases was the same, and this fact the cures proved.

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In another case, a man 50 years of age, succeeded after four years consistent observance of my treatment, in reinstating the correct rela tion between the trunk and legs. The form er was proportionally too long, whilst the neck and legs were too short. The patient, during the cure, observed that he was gradually outgrowing his trousers, whilst his coat became alw ays more loose about the shoulders. Every few months he had consequently to send his clothes to the tailor for altera tion, until finally his body very nearly regained its normal form. Now after all these rem arks, I hope that the unity of all diseases, i. e. the uniform cause, has become plain to you. You can daily meet with proofs of this fact in my practice. Before concluding this subject, I will give you some proofs of the superiority of the Science of Facial Expression over the orthodox system.

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THE SCIENCE OF FACIAL EXPRESSION

HE circumstance that many of my patients first sought aid from me in the last extremity, so to speak, after trying all other methods of treatment in vain, has afforded m e a deeper insight into the diag noses of the m edical profession than many m ay believe. I was once consulted by a big, tall mana picture of health, as people would say who complained that he was quite unable to work. All the physicians (and he had consulted many) had carefully exam ined him, as fa r as rapping, feeling and listening would go, and finally pronounced him to be perfectly healthythat they could find no disease: he merely imagined him self to be ill. The best thing he could do would be to take a trip, so as to divert his mind, and then he would no longer notice any illness. He followed their directions, but received no benefit and therefore came to me. A glance at his neck and head, and an exam ination of the form er when the head was turned to the right or left, showed me plainly that his system was seriously encumbered with foreign matter, the entire body being loaded with it. I prescribed my ordinary treatment; in six weeks he had got rid of so much of the morbid m atter that he could send me the welcome news of his ability to work the whole day long. You see which diagnosis w as the more practical here. Cases like this, in which the patients are universally declared to be the picture of health, although they themselves feel very ill, occur almost daily in my practice. Such patients are often very reluctant to consult a physician, because form er unpleasant experience leads them to expect their disease to be again styled im aginary. It is exactly here that I have had such good opportunity of observing how inadequate is the present system of diagnosis. T ake again a case. A girl of 18 came to me, suffering from chlorosis (green sickness). The doctors had said that she was only somewhat cnlorotic, but otherwise quite well; she should take iron and would then soon recover her health. Well, she had taken iron, but the quality of her blood had not improved in any way. My knowledge of facial expression told me that she could not be quite well and at the sam e time be chlorotic, for her system was encumbered with much foreign matter. All the minutest blood-vessels, which should convey the blood to the skin, were obstructed. The blood could not reach the outer skin in sufficient quantity, wherefore the latter assum ed a pale, sickly ap pearance. The cause of this ailment was im perfect digestion of many years standing, as the patient herself admitted. And here I will observe that most people unfortunately do not know what a really normal digestion is, the full importance of such being therefore seldom recognized. This is a m atter of daily experience in my practice. I prescribed the sam e treatment for this young lady as for the patient last mentioned, and in the course of some months the disorder was removed and the patients appearance wholly changed. You see that the diagnosis of medical science was again at fault regarding the true state

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of the patient, for the chlorosis was merely an outward symptom of the disease, which was itself produced by the foreign m atter; and the latter, again, had been left behind in the system owing to imperfect digestion. Now, I ascertained all this by a glance at the patients neck and head, whereas the representatives of m edical science had missed it altogether. Another case. I was visited by a woman suffering from most ob stinate constipation. No remedies were any longer of use and the doctor had told her that she should m ake her mind easy, even per fectly healthy persons suffered from constipation and it must get better of its own accord. I ascertained that the woman was heavily encum bered with foreign matter, which produced, especially in the abdomen, a high chronic fever heat, that dried up all the mucous secretions of the intestines and alm ost burnt up the faecal matter, so that it remained hard and dry in the bowels. I prescribed my treatment, and in a re m arkably short time, after the very first baths, the internal heat was drawn to the outside, and the bowels opened. In this case, too, you again plainly see the inadequacy of the usual method of diagnosis. I would alm ost assert that there is no more mischievous and wide-spread error than this, that a person can be in perfect health and yet suffer from constipation. How far is such an idea of disease removed from the truth! It is really nothing more than what might be held by any child, who sees the mere external symptoms which it cannot account for. Debilitated digestion is, as I m aintain, the mother of all diseases. An able physician once said to me, that in many anatom ical exam ina tions of bodies, he had often racked his brains to find out why the dis eased had died of this or that disease and not of some other. All parts of the body and the internal organs were in perfect order, and nowhere could a trace of disease be seen. I answered that the difference between his diagnosis and mine consisted in this: That the physicians chiefly endeavor to learn by the dissection of dead bodies, whereas I attend only to the processes going on in living bodies, and study the causes and interruption of such, all observation of corpses being consequently worthless to me. To m ake my meaning clearer I adduced the following illustration. A person goes to buy a sewing machine. He sees a great number of first-rate machines standing in the salesroom s and chooses one. He finds no external defect, the workmanship seems perfect, down to the min utest details. A friend now points out to him, that the machine may well look perfect when at rest, since any defect will first become ap parent when it is set going. When working, a defect not to be remarked otherwise, will render the whole machine valueless; and therefore he had better test it in operation. The case is sim ilar with the human body. When inactivewhich here signifies deadit is often impos sible to say what is the matter. In the living body every regularity is directly apparent. Therefore, whoever would study these irregularities (disease in all forms, and its symptoms) cannot attain his end by the dissection of dead bodies, but solely through the observation of living ones. My Science of Facial Expression is based on such observations. Having now, as I believe, proved the unity of all forms of disease, I may add that the usual diagnoses of modern medical science for the names and seats of diseases are quite superfluous, and as far as cure is concerned, utterly useless. They may, indeed, easily lead to error. The

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only question is, to decide whether a body is healthy or diseased; that is, whether it is free from morbid m atter or encumbered with it, and in what way this encumbrance has come about, and how long it has been going on, so that we can approxim ately estimate the time required for a cure, for as soon as we know that the body is diseased, we also know what steps to take to render it healthy, so that all errors in the treat ment of a patient are excluded from the outset.

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MY REMEDIAL AGENTS
FT E R having had a description of a number of illnesses and their cause, it will be necessary to become acquainted with the means of curing the various diseases with which mankind is afflicted. And here, again, we must expect to find unity of cure, for the very reason that all form s of disease have one common origin. First of all come steam-baths, of which several form s may be applied. The steam-bath is the m ost reliable means there is of restoring the skin to regular action. And this is an indispensable condition for all those who desire to m aintain their health, as well as for those who wish to become healthy. The Whole Steam-bath. For a long time I endeavored to find a really sim ple and practical apparatus suited for general fam ily use, and also for cases of serious illness. I was led finally to construct my own Fold ing Steam-bathing A pparatus. This appliance, when folded together, takes up no more room than an ordinary- chair and can be set up by anyone. The only things required in using this apparatus are a large blanket, a few pots and one of my hip-baths, or a wash-tub. A particular ad vantage of this apparatus is, that either the whole body, or only p ar ticular parts, can be submitted to the action of the steam, just as desired. Having set up the apparatus in the manner shown below (see Fig. A), boil some water in three or four pots on an ordinary- fire; or, better still, employ my specially constructed steam-pots with alcohol heaters and water-compartments. Three of these steam-pots are required for a full steam-bath. They render all special assistance unnecessary. If ordinary pots are* used, it is better, for the sake of convenience, not to fill them quite full. As soon as the water boils, let the patient lie down, quite unclothed, upon the apparatus, preferably upon his back at first. He should then cover himself up with a woolen blanket, letting it hang dow-n looselv on either side, fa r enough to prevent any steam escaping. It is well, at first, to cover up the head, too, w-ith the blanket. Another person, lifting the blanket a little, places the pots under the bench. The heat can be regulated as required, by lifting the covers of the pots more or less, thus allowing more or less steam to escape. In the case of adults, tw-o or three pots should be used; for children one will suffice. One pot should be kept boiling on the fire as a reserve. The first potin the case of little children, the only oneshould be placed in the front compartment under the small of the back, the second under the feet, and the third, when required, somewhat further up than the first, under the back. As soon as the supply of steam begins to diminish (after about ten minutes), put the reserve pot from the range in place of the first, and set the latter on the fire. As a rule, the pot under the feet does not

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need to be renewed. When my special steam-pots with alcohol heating are used, these directions, of course, do not apply. All changing of the pots is then obviated, as is explained in the full and clearly worded instructions alw ays supplied with the apparatus. In from ten to fifteen minutes the patient m ay turn over, in order that the heat may better reach the chest and abdomen. Should perspi ration not have broken out already, it will now do so most profusely, the head and feet beginning to perspire simultaneously. In the case of children, a renewal of the pots of water is often unnecessary. Persons who do not perspire readily, should keep the head covered; this will not be found to be so disagreeable as may at first be imagined. The perspiration may be kept up for a quarter or h alf an hour, as desired, and the pots renewed or not, at will. Those parts of the body which are especially encumbered with fermenting matter, perspire with difficulty, and the patient himself will experience the desire for greater heat at such places. His request should alw ays be complied with, for this is the very way in which such successful cures are effected by means of these steam-baths.

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W eak persons, and such as are seriously ill, more especially nervous patients, should never take steam-baths. For such, the most effective cure is attained by the use of friction sitz and hip-baths, which act derivatively, in conjunction with sun-baths. Persons who naturally perspire easily, can sometimes dispense with steam-baths altogether. More than two steam-baths weeklu should be taken onlu if specially prescribed. On leaving the steam-bath, a friction hip-bath at from 68 to 81 Fahr. should be taken in order to cool down the body. The manner of tak ing the friction hip-bath is described in detail on page 75, the ap paratus being shown in Fig. D. At the commencement or conclusion of the bath, however, in addition to the abdomen, all the rem ainder of the body (chest, arms, legs, feet, head and neck) should be very quickly washed over, so that they likewise m ay be cleansed and cooled down. The w arm er the body, the less it feels the cold; on perspiring, there is no excitation, but only the skin becomes thoroughly w arm ; there is no reason to fear the effects of such a bath. Steel, when brought to white heat in the fire, must be plunged into cold water in order to obtain the the requisite temper. Sim ilarly the human body after the steam-bath, on being cooled down becomes strong and hardy.

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After the friction hip-bath, it is necessary that the bather should again be warmed, so as to induce slight perspiration. Strong patients can attain this warmth by exercise in the open air, especially in the sun. W eaker persons (though such must be very careful in taking steam-baths at all) should be well covered up in be<l, the window being left open a little. Steam is produced imm ediately water reaches 212 Fah r.; that pro duced in the pots, therefore, is exactly the sam e as that developed in steam-boilers. The only difference is as regards the amount of steam developed; and one trial will convince anyone that the pots are quite sufficient for the purpose. Where neither my steam-bathing apparatus, nor a cane-seated, bench, which might be used as a substitute, is to be had, an ordinary caneseated chair can be m ade to serve the purpose. The patient seats him self upon it and is completely covered up with the blanket. Under the

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chair is placed, as described above, a pot of boiling water, while the feet are placed over a second pot h alf full of boiling water, across the top of which two strips of wood have been laid. My steam-bathing apparatus has the great advantage, however, as already pointed out, that the steam can also be applied only to partic ular parts of the body, if desired. Steam-bathing for the Abdomen, which is especially adapted for use in obstinate abdom inal complaints and in cases of chlorosis, menstrual disturbances and other fem ale diseases, is shown in Figure B. The manner of applying it is clear from the illustration Only one pot need be used at a time, being renewed as the patient m ay desire. As the rem aining parts of the body also become warmed, the whole abdomen must be cooled down just as after the steam-bath. In fact, the entire procedure in both cases is the same. In many cases, especially in diseases of women, it is well, after the steam-bath, to take a friction sitz-bath. This, or the friction hip-bath, must be continued so long until a feeling of coolness commences to be felt.

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When carefully carried out, these steam-baths have a surprising effect. A Steam-bath for the Neck and Head, is shown by Fig. C. The vessel is set on a board laid upon the bench and the head and neck steamed until they perspire profusely. When perspiration begins, any pain will alw ays cease; this is peculiarly noticeable in the case of toothache. The head and chest, if warm, m ust be quickly washed over with cold water and a friction hip or sitz-bath then taken at once. Should the pains return after a time, whole steam-baths (particular attention being given to thorough steaming of the abdomen) and neck steam-baths m ay be taken alternately. These partial steam-baths are of high importance, and afford re m arkably quick relief, e. g. in troubles of the ears, eyes, nose and throat, and particularly in toothache, and the treatment of boils and carbuncles. Partial steam-baths can also be given, though not so conveniently, without my special apparatus. The abdom inal steam-bath can be taken on an ordinary cane-seated chair; for the head steam-bath, a kitchenbench m ay be used, the pot being set upon it and a chair placed in front to serve as a rest for the arms. The Sun-bath. The method of taking sun-baths, which of course can only be done on very warm, sunny days, is as follows. The patient lies down, lightly dressed, on a spot well sheltered from the wind, and preferably on a plaid or mat. Shoes and stockings must be taken off, and women and girls must not wear a corset. Head and face should be protected from the rays of the sun, which is best effected by means of a large green leaf, such as a rhubarb leaf, or by a num ber of sm aller leaves. The naked abdomen must also be protected in the sam e m an ner by a leaf, or where not at hand, by a wet-cloth. A sun-bath should last from % to IV2 hours. Patients who do not perspire easily, can lie still longer, provided they do not feel too tired. On very hot days the bath should not be continued too long. Those who at first get a headache, or feel dizzy, on taking a sunbath, should let the first baths be of short duration. This particularly applies to patients who either do not perspire at all, or only with the greatest difficulty. After the sun-bath, a cooling friction hip-bath, or friction sitz-bath, as shown in illustrations, should be taken, to carry off the morbid m atter which has been loosened. Patients who do not easily recover their warmth after the cold friction hip or sitz-bath, should sit again in the sun, the head being protected; or they m ay take a walk in the sun. This applies particularly to patients who are seriously ill, and to delicate persons. Indeed, for such, the sun-bath is frequently altogether too vigorous a remedy and should not be used at the commencement of the cure. The best time for taking sun-baths is from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. They may, if desired, be taken just after the mid-day m eal, but it is better to wait half an hour, or an hour, since digestion demands bodily warmth, and the cooling baths following the sun-baths would cause too great a diminution in the heat of the body. P artial Sun-baths. I have m ade use of partial sun-baths with the best results in cases where there is a deposit of nodules, for open sores,

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induration, tumors and internal growths, painful places of all kinds, etc. The partial sun-bath is taken in the sam e manner as the whole sun-bath, except that in addition, that particular part of the body which is to receive the partial sun-bath, is bared and protected against the sun by one or more green leaves. Concerning sun-baths in general, it m ay be rem arked that with water and diet, the sun is the most important rem edial agent we have; and there is no other way in which we can attain a like effect. In chronic cases, especially, there is no other such effective and at the sam e time mild rem edial agent as the sun-bath, for exciting and expelling for eign matter. A comparison will m ake this clear to the reader. It is well known that if soiled linen is laid in the sun, the dirt dries in all the more. But if we put the linen alternately in sun and water, the sun extracts the impurities more or less, and thus renders the wash cleaner: it bleaches it. The existence of all living beings on the earth, depends upon the alternate action of sun, water, air and earth. Plants and trees can only thrive if they can get sun, water, air and earth; as soon as these factors o f life are partly or wholly withdrawn, the plant or tree becomes stunted or fades. It is ju st the sam e with all other life, and therefore also with man. Unfortunately most people avoid sun and water far more than is good. The body becomes effeminated and a disposition to disease is the result. A healthy person can bear the heat of the sun without bad effect; a diseased or sickly person, on the contrary, avoids it instinctively, because it causes a feeling of uneasiness. The rapid movement of morbid matter in the body, brought about by the sun, naturally causes headache, giddiness, lassitude and heaviness, if the secretory organs are still too weak. These symptoms, however, are a sure indication that foreign m atter is being dispersed. The sunbath alone, without the subsequent water-bath, would never enable us to attain the desired result; the water has the effect of raising the vital ity of the body, to increase which must be our first aim. Plants also, only thrive under the alternate action of sun and water, and soon wither if exposed to the sun alone. When we have once grasped the way in which Nature works, there can be no difficulty in our under standing how, as m ay occur in chronic diseases, the momentary dis turbances (curative crises) called forth by the sun-bath, m ay be counteracted immediately by cooling water-baths. My water-baths, al ready described, in connection with sun-baths have a wonderfully curative effect. One might imagine that the action of the sun upon the naked body would be much more intensive than upon the body when covered over or dressed. This, however, is a great error. A glance at nature suffices to convince us. Look at the vine, for instance: do not the grapes alw ays seek protection under the leaves against the rays of the sun? They ripen best if everywhere guarded by the leaves; those which are exposed to the sun remain sour and sm all. The same is the case with cherry trees, if when the fruit ripens, the leaves have been all eaten by caterpillars. The fruit does not ripen better than otherwise would have been the case; on the contrary, the cherries wither up without ever attaining their full size. Every fruit requires leaves for its pro tection when ripening. The exam ples just cited from nature, show

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us most clearly what a difference there is in effect between the direct and indirect influence of the sun. The action of the sun upon the uncovered head is injurious, all kinds of troubles arising from such exposure. If we keep the body covered with our clothes, the skin opens its pores readily, soon becomes moist and warm and begins to perspire. But the action is greatly increased, if we lay over the naked body a cover containing much water in bound condition. Exactly such a cover is formed by large green, succulent, fresh leaves. It is well known that through black clothing the suns rays act quite differently than through white. It is, therefore, not a m atter of indif ference whether we use clothes, or cloths, or green juicy leaves as pro tection. Many years of observation in my establishment have con vinced me, that by far the best dispersive action is exercised on the morbid humors of the body, if the sun shines through green leaves. Sun-baths, combined with my other rem edial agents, will thus be found of extraordinary value, especially in cases of nodular deposits in the abdomen, in green-sickness, anaemia, consumption and gout. The Friction Hip-bath. This is taken as follow s: A bath of the shape shown in Fig. D, is fdled with water ju st so fa r as to reach to the thighs

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and navel. The water should be at 64 to 68 Fahr., and the bather, half sitting and half reclining should then briskly and without stopping, rub the entire abdomen from the navel downwards and across the body with a coarse m oderately wet cloth (jute, coarse linen). This should be continued until the body is well cooled down. At first 5 to 10 minutes will suffice; afterw ards the baths may be somewhat prolonged. For very weak persons and children, on the other hand, a few minutes are enough. It is highly important that the legs, feet, and upper part of the body should not be cooled with the rest, as they usually suffer from want of blood; the form er should, therefore, be w rapped in a woolen blanket. After the friction hip-bath, the body must immediately be warmed again, this best effected by exercise in the open air. In the case of patients who are seriously ill, or very delicate, warmth may be re stored by their being put to bed, well covered up. Should warmth re turn too slowly, a body bandage may be used. Such friction hip-baths can be taken from once to thrice daily, and the duration and temperature likewise suited to the patients condition. In many cases, friction sitz-baths should be taken instead, or both baths may be taken. The Friction Sitz-bath. This is of special importance in diseases of women, and is taken in the following manner. In the sam e bath as last mentioned, a foot-stool, or a wooden seat as m ade by me, is set, W ater is then poured in, but only so much, that it

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rises to a level with the upper edge of the seat, leaving the top dry. The bather then sits down upon the dry seat, dips a coarse linen cloth (jute or a rough towel) into the water and begins gently to wash the genitals and abdomen, alw ays bringing up as much water as possible with the cloth. It is important that only the external lips, and never the inner parts of the sexual organs, are w ashed; and they must not be roughly rubbed backw ards and forw ards, but only laved with as much water as can be brought up. Then the patient, or nurse, should gently rub the back up and down and crosswise, from the sm all of the back op posite the navel to the hips. Thus, it will be seen, the legs, feet and upper part of the body rem ain dry. Care should be taken to restore the warmth of the body again quickly, either by exercise or by additional w raps and cover. The baths should be discontinued during the periods. If, however, there should be abnorm al menstruation, they can be con tinued during this time also; but only if given as specially prescribed by me in each individual case. The periods should not occupy more than from 2 to 3 days, or at most 4; a more prolonged menstrual flow indicates an abnorm al and morbid condition. The water for these friction sitz-baths should be at the temperature at which Nature supplies it (50 to 60 Fah r.), though in special cases, water of a slightly higher temperature (up to about 66 Fahr.) m ay be used. The bath m ay last from 10 minutes to an hour, according to the age and condition of the patient. The room should be kept com fortably warm, especially in winter. The colder the w ater in these friction sitzbaths, the better the result. But it should never be colder than the bathers hands can bear it. In the tropics and hot countries, it is not pos sible to get such cold w ater as here; but it can be taken as cold as it is to be had. There need be no fear as to the working of the bath in such cases, for the relation between the tem perature of the w ater and the temperature of the air in those warm countries, very nearly agrees with such relation here at home; so that the effect of the bath will be the sam e in both cases. This opinion has been confirmed in every way, by reports which I have received from tropical regions. W here no hip-bath is to be had, any wash-tub whatever can be em ployed for the friction sitz-baths. It has only to be large enough for the reception of a stool or some other convenient seat, and contain at least from 5 to 6 gallons of water, reaching up to the edge of the seat. If too little w ater is taken for these baths, it soon grows warm, thus rendering the bath less effective. Soft w ater is preferable to fresh spring-water. Where, however, only the latter is obtainable, it is well to let it stand a while, taking care that it does not get too warm. In alm ost all better class fam ilies, sim ilar baths are taken over a bidet, sim ply for the sake of cleanliness. Such cold water, however, is not used; nor is the bath taken for the sam e length of time, nor in the sam e m anner as prescribed by me. For males, the bath is arranged in the sam e way, and the extremity, that is, the extreme edge, of the foreskin is washed in the cold water. The bather with the middle and forefinger, or the thumb and forefinger, of the left hand, draws the foreskin as far as possible over the tip of the glans penis, so that the latter is quite covered and protected against the rubbing. He then, without interruption, gently washes the extremity of

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the foreskin, thus held between the fingers, with a jute or linen cloth of the size of a handkerchief, held in the w ater in the right hand. It is very im portant to exactly follow these directions. Anyone, therefore, who does not feel sure whether he understands the correct manner of proceeding, is strongly advised to apply for special particulars, so as to save him self needless trouble and loss of time, perhaps even positive injury to his health. In the case of patients suffering from inflamed or gangrenous places in the interior of the body; or where there is a change from chronic, latent disease to acute, the internal inflammation is very soon, frequently after the first bath, attracted downwards, reappearing in the spot rubbed, or in its imm ediate neighborhood. This is by no means an unfavorable symptom. In Part II, in the chapter on cancer, I shall treat of it more in detail. There need be no anxiety on account of chafing; the baths should be continued as before, a rather softer cloth being used, if de sired. In m any cases a still quicker effect will be obtained by letting the water stand three fingers high above the seat. The water in such case should be from 63 to 73 Fahr. The buttocks are then in the w ater; for the rest, the procedure is the sam e as before. It m ay appear inexplicable to many, that just the particular part of the body mentioned, and no other, should be chosen as the place to apply these baths. But as a m atter of fact, there is no other part so suitable for the purpose. In no other spot are there so many important nerveterminations. These are especially the branches of many spinal nerves, and of the nervus sympathicus, which, owing to their connection with the brain, render it possible in this way to exert an influence upon the nervous system. It is only at the genitals that the entire nervous system can be influenced. Here is, in a sense, the root of the whole tree of life. By washing in cold water, not only is the morbid internal heat dimin ished, but there is also a m arked invigoration of the nerves; that is, the vitality of the whole body, down to the minutest part, is stimulated. Exceptions occur only where the nerve connection has been interrupted, for instance, by surgical operation. Every reasonable person, not fearing a practical experiment, will admit that the friction sitz-bath, in the form prescribed by me, fulfils all the conditions requisite for the restoration of the proper bodily func tions. It is to be rem arked that the friction sitz-bath, which has already brought aid to thousands, is intended only fo r the sick in health. Every one who knows to what painful, as well as disagreeable and indecent operations the human body is very often subjected by orthodox medical science, will look upon the simple, yet surely curative, friction sitz-baths with an unprejudiced eye. Least of all is prudery in place where it is a m atter of benefiting the suffering. Upon completely healthy persons the friction sitz-bath has no effect, and is moreover not recommended to such. They will find it tiresome, whereas the sick patient will often continue it longer than is required. Here, it is also necessary to call attention to the continued efforts at equalization met with in nature. These are not limited, as is often falsely imagined, to physical processes. They are also found in the regular change of tem perature of the human body in relation to that

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of its surroundings. There is a change of temperature from within to without, from without to within, not incorrectly designated as an electric current. And as with the purely physical current, there must here be a certain tension. Now the higher this increases, as, for instance, in the case of the body seized by fever, the more unbearable becomes the con dition of the person, and the more intensive is the symptom of disease. Like a storm-cloud with its sultry, uneasy oppression, so acts the en cumbrance in the human body. Now what can be more natural and more rational than to bring about equalization? The higher temperature must be equalized with the lower; the surplus reduced to the normal. And the bridge, leading to this end, together with my other rem edial agents, the friction sitz-baths, which for the various reasons already ex plained, must of course only be taken with cold water. Their working is incom parable and in num berless cases most effective. W here the desired result is not attained, it is because the body has lost its vitality. If the body is loaded internally with morbid matter, so that it m ay be com pared to a rusty machine, the debilitated digestion will no longer be able to procure sufficient vitality from the usual quantity of food to maintain the person in his form er "condition. L arger quantities of food are required than before, and as a rule particularly stim ulating food, in order to keep him in condition to work. But in this case, naturally, the digestive powers will continue to decrease more and more. If we wash again to raise the vitality of the body, we can only do so by the agency of some m eans which im proves the digestion. "The best means known to me are, together with natural diet,* these cooling baths. They improve even the worst digestion (so long as this is capable of improvement at all), within a shorter time than any other remedy, and moreover act in a natural manner. Furtherm ore, these baths diminish the fever-temperature, caused by the friction of the morbid matter, to the normal, whereby further development of the disease is prevented. If we wished to change the steam rising from boiling w'ater in a room to take an exam ple from daily lifeback to its original form, water, the only way would be to reduce the temperature. It is the sam e with the morbid matter, that is, with even,' disease. Disease arises by reason of increased tem perature in the body, and can only disappear if the oppo site condition is produced, that is, by continued cooling and reduction of the excessive internal heat. But exactly as a machine can only be properly driven from one point, faster or slower as the case m ay be, so it is with the human body. The vital power can only be properly influenced from one pointthat which I have selected for the application of the friction sitz-baths. After this explanation, it will be plain to all how it is that I success fully treat diseases of the eyes and ears with the sam e remedy ( adopted, of course, to the circumstances of each individual case) with which I, in other cases, cure scarlet-fever, small-pox, cholera, etc. The vitality of the entire body is raised, and at the sam e time there is no possibility of one part being more excited than another, unless, as stated above, nerve connections have been interrupted. How' heightened vital powrer m ani fests itself, is, however, quite unknown to most people, and often pre See N atu rop ath ic Cook Book, by L o u isa L u st, X. D. Co., Butler, N. J., U .S .A . Cloth, 1.~00; p a p e r cover, 75c. N ature Cure P u b lish in g

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cisely the opposite to that which the patient expected, occurs. For in stance, it m ay happen that sm okers after using these baths can no longer continue the use of tobacco and are consequently inclined to think that their stom achs have been weakened, whereas just the contrary is the f a c t Previously their stom achs were too debilitated to resist tfie nico tine, whilst now they have regained the necessary vigor to rebel against the poison. W herever the nerves are still capable of being strengthened by these baths, the system will alw ays recover the power of expelling, by the natural secretory organs, the foreign m atter which has gradually collected in it. In addition to the friction sitz-baths, earth (clay) bandages round the abdomen, will be found most effective in decreasing the external heat and breaking up the morbid matter. Such bandages are also most bene ficial in cases of direct injuries and sores. No one should suppose, however, that these remedies (adapted to the circumstances of each individual case ) will infallibly cure every patient. As I have already rem arked, I can cure all diseases but not all patients. For where the bodily vitality and therefore, the digestive power, is al ready broken down, these remedies will afford relief, such indeed as no other means will, but they cannot in such case effect a complete cure. There are also severe cases where my baths must only be used with the greatest moderation, where often, indeed, they should be temporarily discontinued. In such serious cases it would ap pear inadvisable for p a tients themselves to proceed sim ply on the basis of these directions, without a more intimate acquaintance with my method. In such cases it is better to apply to me by letter, so that no ill effects may result from the application of the cure.

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WHAT SHALL WE EAT? WHAT SHALL WE DRINK? THE DIGESTIVE PROCESS

ROM the explanations given about the friction sitz-bath and human vitality, we have seen that disease can only arise as a consequence of wrong food. It is only through bad digestion that foreign matter can form and disease develop in the body. Thus the questions: W hat shall we eat?W hat shall we drin k? are of the greatest im portance for us. As is well known, in order to produce electric power, or a constant electric current, certain definite elements are necessary. It is only with the aid of an acid that we are able through the decomposition or trans form ation of the zinc and carbon plates, to set free the power which form erly w as required to retain the plates in their original structure. This power is then conducted as positive and negative current through wires, to be used as electricity. If, however, in place of these elements (zinc and carbon), we were to substitute others, which resemble them or consist of sim ilar constituents, or even of the sam e m aterials (zinc and carbon), but in another form, for instance, pulverizedwe should soon notice a difference. We should, then, either get no generation of electric power at all, or it would be essentially changed, diminished, in spite of the fact that the conditions m ay otherwise be exactly the sam e as in the case of the zinc and carbon plates. It is sim ilar with the gener ation of vital power in the human body. Here, also, the development of more or less vital power, depends upon the right choice of elements, in this instance, of food. This is most clearly to be seen in the case of at mospheric air, our chief food. We have only to take a person for some minutes away from his norm al air, and put him into another gaseous atmosphere, and we shall see at once how he dies in a few minutes, the new element not enabling him to maintain his vital power. The injurious effects of a wrong diet are slower and less striking. The boundary between natural food and deadly poison is very wide. The step from the natural to the unnatural is often so sm all as to be at first scarcely perceptible. But as we know that foreign m atter only form s as the result of wrong food, that is, can only arise in the body as the result of bad digestion, it must be our task to avoid such wrong foods and such bad digestion. In order to m ake clear this m atter of wrong food and bad digestion, I will here cite a few instances which occur in daily life. We meet stout, corpulent people, who assure us that they eat and drink very little, but com plain that they nevertheless are alw ays growing stouter and stouter. Such persons suffer from over-nutrition. Others are scraggy, lean, em a ciated, although they are consuming unusually freely what, in their opinion, are the most nutritious foods and drinks. Judgin g by the quantity consumed, such persons should be in quite another condition.

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The food passes through the body, but the latter is unable to benefit by it. A large part of the food passes away unused, or at all events in sufficiently utilized. This proves that the mere fact of foods and drinks passing through the body, is no proof at all of a normal digestion, as many people, unfortunately, seem to think. We thus have two opposite classes of people. The one demonstrates to us how, by eating and drinking little, one becomes stouter, the other, how by eating and drinking much, one becomes thinner. In spite of apparent contradiction, the reason for the ailment is in both cases the sam e; that is, bad digestion and wrong feeding. This prem ised, and we can readily understand how, for instance a consumptive person can eat what he considers the most strengthening, nutritious food without his body benefiting at all; whilst, on the other hand, we shall no longer wonder about the want of appetite on the part of apparently strong, but nervous people. After these explanations, and remembering the rem arks upon vital power in the last chapter, it is not difficult for us to find the way to avoid over-nutrition. The reflective reader will no doubt already have come to the conviction, that the most nourishing and suitable foods and bever ages are not flesh-meat, eggs, extracts, wine, beer, cocoa, coffee, tea, etc., but only such foods as can be quickly and easily digested. The more rapidly our body can digest the food presented to it, the more it will be able to utilize such, and therefore the more vital power it will be able to generate. The degree of the vitality depends, therefore, upon the digestibility of the food consumed. The more difficult of digestion a food is, the longer the time required by the body to perform the work of digestion. If we consume such foods, then we must at any rate, if we will not injure our system, wait before eating again, until the first meal has been properly digested. Un fortunately, this is very seldom done, especially as our daily habits are antagonistic to such apparent fasting. The true significance of fasting is thus practically unknown to us today.* Man disregards altogether, as a rule, the fasts laid down by nature. On the contrary, we see him in winter, where, generally speaking, he has more time than in summer, eating oftener and more than in the latter season. W e find alm ost every where the erroneous opinion prevailing that in winter one should eat well and consume plenty fat, in order to be able to withstand the cold. This, however, is in flat contradiction to all natural laws. How often, very often, have I had occasion to observe the injurious effect of eating and drinking too much during the winter. In nature, we find every where a certain period of fasting. W e see how snakes fast often for Weeks, after having taken a good meal. We see how deer and hares for weeks and months live most sparely, and yet overcome all the fatigues of a raw, cold winter. W ere these anim als in the situation to obtain the sam e amount of food as in summer, they would without doubt become ill and be unable to withstand the winter cold. Cold retards, as we know, every process of fermentation, and therefore the digestion. Thus a quantity of food which in sum m er would be easily digested, in winter
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is much more difficult to digest. Hence the reason for the fact that our dom estic anim als, which for the m ost part are fed in the stall, alm ost always suffer from over-nutrition, are unable to stand the winter cold in the open; whilst anim als in a state of nature, can endure even the fiercest storm, for they possess a power of bodily resistance unfortu nately fa r too little regarded to-day. These expositions now m ake it obvious to us, that disease only arises through a kind of over-nutrition. And we come thus naturally to the conviction that it is by no means a m atter of indifference what we con sume, in which form we consume it, and where we consume it. To render the m atter clearer, I will again introduce some examples. If we drink boiled water, it tastes flat and disagreeable. How refresh ing, on the other hand, is a draught of fresh water, how invigorating an a p p le ! Ju st so with the air. Oppressive and relaxing, producing in many a headachesuch is the effect of the stuffy, used up air of the average room, especially if the cham ber be sm all, and a number of persons have been sitting in it. How one longs in such a case for the fresh, animating outside air. And of like importance is it, where we consume our food. T hat which we eat in the open air, is alw ays more easily digested than that con sumed in the house; because in chewing, the food is m ixed with air, and fresh air acts quite differently upon the digestibility of the food than the bad air of our room s does. As already stated, those foods which are most easily digestible, are exactly those which are best suited to nourish the body. Over-nutrition, also, is least liable to occur where the food is easily digested. It is, then; our first point to determine what the m ost readily digested foods are, that is, those which supply us with m ost vitality. The answer to this allimportant and much debated question is as sim ple as it is natural.

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THE INDIGESTIBILITY OF DENATURED FOOD

HOSE foods which taste good in their natural state, and tempt us to eat, are always those which are m ost easy of digestion, and which supply us with the most vitality. All foods which we have to change by cooking, smoking, spicing, salting, pickling, and putting in vinegar, lose in digestibility, and as re gards vitality, are fa r inferior to food in its natural condition, even though the above-named processes m ay enable the foods to keep longer. Of cooked and prepared foods, those are most easy of digestion, which are m ost sim ply prepared or cooked, and least salted or spiced. Foods in fluid form , such as soups, and beverages, as beer, wine, cocoa, etc., are much more difficult to digest than those which in their natural condition are solid, and capable of being chewed. For this reason, con tinued use of fluid nutriment tends to dilatation of the stomach and disturbances of the digestion. Those foods which in their n atural form create disgust and nausea, are alw ays injurious to the health, however good they m ay taste when in a prepared and cooked condition. And above all, flesh-meat comes under this class of food. No one would ever think of biting into a liv ing ox, or eating raw sheeps flesh. Our instinct and natural feeling may be misled by seasoning and dressing; but foods repulsive to our true instincts, sm ell and taste, can never be rendered wholesome by such means. F o r a clearer comprehension of the principles of natural diet, the following points m ust be rem arked. All foods are easier of digestion, and m ore strengthening, when not fully ripe, i. e., in a not yet fully developed state, than if already over ripe. Unfortunately, the general public has got the erroneous idea that unripe food is unhealthy, because it causes diarrhea, flux and dysentery. This is quite a m istake. To be sure, a person who is accustom ed chiefly to flesh-foods, and who then, by chance, eats an unripe apple, or other un ripe fruit, gets diarrhea. But, on the other hand, we have exactly here an excellent proof of the easy digestibility of unripe fruit. Every easily digestible food is rapidly transform ed by the fermentive process of digestion, in a m anner such as is not the case with foods which are diffi cult of digestion. If now in the organs of digestion there are foods which are difficult to digest, or to transform by fermentation, they will be acted upon by the quicker fermentive process of the unripe fruit, in such a way that they also will be set in a state of decomposition and ferm en tation. In this m anner arises the diarrhea which is so much, though wrongly, feared. Such a crisis of diarrhea often rids the body in a surprisingly short time of a great deal of the foreign m atter in it, and is according to my experience, of the greatest benefit to the organism. It will be well known to readers, that dogs, which through the over attention of their owners become too fat, very frequently eat grass, a

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food which is not properly intended for a carnivorous animal. The reason for this conduct is, that the instinct of the dog teaches him that the grass, by reason of its easy digestibility, is the best aid for his diges tion, overloaded with too rich food. Thus to persons suffering from affections of the stomach, or troubles o f the digestion, unripe fruit is to be recomm ended instead of ripe; and the use of such should be continued until the stomach is so fa r strengthened as to be again able to digest the fruit ripe. As with fruit and other foods, so are grains (likewise of very different degrees of digestibility, according to their preparation, and the manner in which we eat them), alw ays m ost easily digested in their m ost natural state, that is, as whole grains. N aturally the grinding of the grain gives the teeth much work, but it is exactly the chewing and the thorough in salivation thus caused, that m ainly promotes the digestion. Of course, only those people who are the fortunate possessors of a good set of teeth can consume grain in this form ; those who have lost their dental organs to a greater or less extent, will not be able to perform the work. Such patients m ust chew the grains previously ground. W here the circum stances perm it it, ground corn is a very im portant food for the seriously ill, and should alw ays be used where wholemeal bread cannot yet be digested. In such a case, coarse ground m eal with unripe fruit is of the greatest service, and wherever the patient is capable of recovery at all, improvement will very soon take place. In the form of wholemeal bread, the grains are not so easily digestible as when eaten raw, as above mentioned. Of all kinds of bread, however, whole w heatm eal bread is the easiest to digest. For m ost breads, only the white, m ealy interior of the grain is used, the outside parts being nearly alw ays utilized for other purposes. In this way a fine m eal is obtained, but the bread m ade from it gives the digestion fa r more work to do, than does wholemeal bread. It thus leads to constipation, the bran, the m ost im portant part of the grain, having been rejected. Oats, as everyone knows, are an excellent food for horses. But how much depends upon the form in which the oats are given, in order that they m ay prove a valuable food, every horse-owner will confirm. If we fodder the horses on oats m ixed with chaff, they will be able to digest them m ost easily and will be best nourished. If, on the contrary, we give the anim als oats without chaff, we shall soon find that they can no longer digest the fodder so easily. If, finally, we give as fodder other grains such as wheat or rye, without the addition of chaff, we shall see still more clearly than before, from the digestion of the horses, that those foods alone are too heavy. Still more clearly is the difficulty of diges tion seen, if we supply the horses only with oats from which the husk has been removed. The anim als grow fat on them, but on the other hand become constipated and unfit for work. The easy digestibility of grain is due chiefly to its shell or husk; the more shell or husk, the better for the digestion. The oat, is, of all grains, that which has the greatest amount of shell, and therefore much better adapted as horse-food than wheat or rye. Although in the dung, oat-husks and chaff are found apparently un changed, it is not therefore to be assum ed that these have been worth less ballast as fa r as the horses digestion is concerned. That would be a serious error. This ballast is as necessary to the horse for his normal

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digestion, as the interior p art of the grain. Food precisely in the form nature gives it to us, is alw ays the best for the digestion. F o r mankind, likewise, it is of the utmost importance in what form we take our food. Often we hear people saying: I cannot digest the pulses, they give me flatulence. But this depends greatly upon the m anner in which they have been prepared. In the form of a puree or soup, as they are generally eaten, they certainly are difficult to digest, so that it is no wonder if they cause trouble. As soup, especially, they are objectionable, for soup reaches the stom ach unchewed, and therefore in a state unprepared for digestion. If, on the contrary, wre boil, for in stance, the peas, in only a little water, so that when cooked they have ab sorbed nearly all the moisture, and ap pear in their natural round form, we shall scarcely consume one third of the quantity that we swallowed down as soup. Furtherm ore, we shall notice that this sm aller quantity, although eaten with the shell, causes no unpleasantness, and is fa r more strengthening than soup. I am reminded of a laborer who, from necessity, w as obliged to live for some three months on nothing else than a handful of raw peas daily. With evident delight, this man used to relate to me the episodes of that dreadful time, when he often had for hours to let the peas soak in his mouth, in order to get them soft enough to chew. Yet in spite of this scanty food, he m aintained that he felt in the highest degree well, and was, in fact, never better in his life. This instance speaks to the high nutritive value of food in its natural condition. It teaches us further, that also when we are dealing with nutrition, the principle of nature, which we recognize everywhere, is again to be found: to perform the most, with the sim plest and sm allest means. My expositions may now have m ade it clear to my readers, how over nutrition is to be prevented. Of course, I am not able to state exactly what and how much every person, or every patient should eat, in order to avoid over-nutrition again. There are scarcely two patients whose digestive powers are quite alike, so that the exact quantity, or kind, of food can never be decided offhand. Each must find out for him self what suits him best. It must, therefore, suffice to give the relative digestibility of the various foods. As regards the digestive process itself, the orthodox school gives us no certain basis to go upon. Even the magnificent discoveries of chemistry, by the aid of retorts, balances, and all kinds of other apparatus, are of little significance for the New Science of Healing. Digestion itself is a process of fermentation in the body. By it, foods are converted into quite different m aterials within the human system. The body appropriates for itself as much of them as are suitable, that is, assim ilable. All foods, the ferm entability of which we alter by arti ficial preparation, or suppress by m eans of salt, sugar or cooking, are difficult of digestion; that is, the body can only assim ilate them with difficulty. Their ferm entability being thus influenced, they require a longer time than ordinarily, before they come into a state suitable for digestion. In other words, in order to reach the required condition, they remain much longer in the digestive canal than they should, whereby a higher condition of fermentation and consequently a higher temperature is caused. The greater development of internal heat caused by this

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condition, contributes finally to the firmer consistency and darker coloration of the faeces in the intestines. Digestion begins, as is well known, in the mouth. The foods then reach the stomach, where they m ix with the gastric juice, and are thor oughly acted upon. They thus come into .a state of decomposition or fermentation which essentially changes them. In the intestines, the process of fermentation increases in intensity, and the fermenting food is further mixed with the secretions of the pancreas, and other digestive juices. That which is useless for the body is secreted again through the in testines, kidneys and skin. Sometimes we observe how anim als com pletely digest, in a very short time, such apparently altogether indigest ible things as tendons and bones. If now we examine the excrements of such anim als, we will find absolutely no undigested pieces of bone. With men, on the contrary, we find that the food often rem ains a whole week in the digestive canal. This gives rise to an abnorm al condition of fer mentation. The gases developed by this fermentation, which are not at all concerned in building up the body, are conducted to the skin, and are expelled as perspiration and effluvia, and on the other hand as wind. This wind should never be suppressed, since it is highly injurious to the body. The digestion is norm al when the excrements are light brown, soft and compact, and covered with a mucous coating, clearly showing the slim y nature of the various juices of the body. They should be of sausage form and leave the body absolutely unsoiled. We observe this in the case of all healthy anim als; and so it should be in the case of healthy men. The end of the rectum is of such appropriate form, that when the digestion is normal, the excrements are exerted without the parts being in any way dirtied. Closet paper is an acquisition for diseased humanity, as I have already rem arked; the healthy country population does not use it. Furtherm ore, the excrements should never emit an obnoxious, disgusting odor. If this is the case, we must conclude that the fermentive process of the digestion is here more or less abnormal. This leads to constipation or costiveness. The faeces stick firmly in the dried up intestines and can not be moved at all. The fermentation nevertheless still goes on within. It compels the hard faeces to change in form, and causes an active evolu tion of gas, which finally begins to penetrate throughout the body. The internal pressure, and tension caused by this condition of fermentation, tends towards the extremities and skin. If now, the latter no longer per form s its functions, so that the gaseous foreign m atter finds no exit, more and more of it is deposited under the skin. The latter now becomes still more sluggish and its tem perature decreases below the normal. Its fine blood-vessels become so saturated with foreign m atter that healthy blood, which alone can warm the skin, is no longer able to circulate to the outside of the body. Hence, the external temperature of the latter falls, and the skin assum es a chlorotic color of one kind or another. Usually, there is a pale, corpse-like appearance (see the re m arks on Chlorosis, Part II), but the exact color differs, according to the quality of the foreign m atter and of the blood. Large quantities of urine in the blood cause the skin to appear red; in other cases the skin m ay be yellow, brown or greenish. The external colder temperature, in

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opposition to the internal heat, causes the gaseous foreign matter to be come still harder; com pressed together by the united action of the in ternal pressure and the low external temperature, it fills the surface of the body. In this way, a change is gradually brought about in the form of the body, which we call encumbrance with foreign matter. The extent of such encumbrance can be ascertained by my new system of diagnosis, the Science of F acial Expression. It is in this manner that all affections of the head, such as diseases of the eyes, ears and brain, mental debility, headaches, and the like arise. With the recognition of this unassailable fact, we solve at once one of the most puzzling riddles to be met with in the treatment of suffering humanity, and at the sam e time perceive the utter futility of the teachings of that m edical school which will cure disease by a purely local treatment. It is really rem arkable what opinions the public has today concern ing normal digestion. We often hear people saying, for instance: My digestion is capital, I can eat so and so many beef-steaks and drink so and so m any glasses of wine, without experiencing any indigestion. Everything agrees with m e; I have a first-rate appetite. All this m ay be granted, yet, such habits are quite as injurious as smoking, say, ten cigars daily. Tobacco is, and ever will be, a poison to the body, and the body which has to occupy itself in the endeavor to expel nicotine, must, as a matter of course, suffer in consequence. It is ju st the sam e with eating and drinking. A perfectly healthy stomach will refuse to retain even the sm allest quantity of inappropriate food. By such complaints as eructation, heartburn and oppression, it indicates im m ediately that too much has been exacted. A debilitated stomach, on the other hand, toler ates apparently everything, that is to say, it has not the power to resist either unsuitable or superfluous food. In other words, the natural function, the natural instinct is lost. The food leaves the body insuffi ciently digested, without the latter having received any benefit from it. The nutritive value of the various foods, depends, it must be specially mentioned, solely and only upon the digestive power of the stomach, and the capability of the system to assim ilate; it is another thing than the percentage of nutritive m aterial which the food m ay contain. W hole meal bread, stam ina, fresh fruit, vegetables and farinaceous foods, boiled in water, and without the addition of fat, sugar or salt, contain, as is well known, fa r more assim ilable m aterial for the body than the best wine, the most expensive fleshmeat, eggs or cheese. With out doubt, these last named foods, according to chemical analysis, also contain those constituents of which the human body is composed, but this is no proof at all that they therefore afford us the most appropriate nutriment. The human body is able to extract from the sim plest aliments, such as grains of corn, all those constituents which chemistry has pointed to as indispensable for its structure. Grain, such as we find in wholemeal bread, well chewed and insalivated, becomes sour imm ediately it enters the stomach. Through the process of digestion it is converted into im portant nutritive m aterial for the body, alcohol, sugar, etc., being formed. Such m aterial is readily assim ilated by the body, because it has been form ed by it. Those constituents of the grain which cannot be assim ilated, are expelled again from the body in a certain definite form and of definite color.

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Although the proofs brought forw ard by me often do not find acknowl edgment. the arm y of continually increasing diseases certainly does not exactly bear favorable witness to the progress of medical science. The public has here a gauge by which to m easure the results of the practice of the orthodox m edical school. How m any have allowed themselves to be led astray by the false teachings of the m edical profession; how many have broken Nature's laws in the good faith that they were acting well and wisely. But every transgression brings its own natural punishment in the form of disease or sickliness. I cannot refrain here from publishing part of a letter received by me from a distant land, from an enthusiastic missionary* in Honolulu. He w rote: The natives here, before the whiteman w as known, lived ex clusively upon poi (the national dish of Honolulu, consisting of taro root beaten into a paste with water, form ing an exceedingly nutritious food), with bananas and other fruits. Their only drink was pure water. They thus lived on a purely natural diet and their stature was gigantic, they were overflowing -with health and strength. Then came the white man and taught the native that only flesh could give strength and only alcohol, particularly gin, produces energy. It did not continue long be fore the first cattle were im ported and gin was spreading its blessing through the land. In the annals of Hawaii, the name is even recorded of the Hawaiian chief who firston May 18th, 1819openly changed his form er m anner of living. Pork has now become the national food and gin the national beverage; but with what results! The m ajority of the natives (Kanakas) suffer from eruption of the skin, and asthm a; sexual diseases are common and there is a great tendency to leprosy, which reaps a rich harvest amongst them. We see, then, how the natives on the new m anner of living, brought to them by our much-lauded civiliza tion, at once became diseased. The fact is another proof of the utter falsity of the theory* of dietetics taught by the m edical profession. In this case, naturally, the warm tropical climate was most favorable to the propagation of the disease which, in a cold climate like ours, would have been much slower in m aking its appearance. Let us now consider the theoretical principles upon which a natural system of diet is based.

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THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES THAT DEMAND A RATIONAL, NATURAL SYSTEM OF DIET

E sustain our bodies through two organ s: the lungs and the stomach. The reception of substances through inoculation with fluids is contrary to nature, and therefore alw ays accompanied by injurious effects. The body has a sentinel for each: the nose for the former, and the tongue for the latter. Unhappily, as experience teaches us, neither is thoroughly incorruptible. There can hardly be a doubt that the fresh mountain air is the best food for our lungs; and in breathing such, our sense of smell is fully satisfied. He who has always lived in this pure air finds it quite im possible to remain for hours in smoky rooms, for his sense of smell warns him at each breath he draws. But if he often frequents such places, the warning voice gradually grows fainter, until finally silenced; indeed, the sense of smell at last be comes so accustomed to the bad air that this even appears p leasan t The sense has been corrupted and time is required before this morbid appe tite can again be cured. But, as we breathe from 16 to 20 times every minute, the ill effects of the direct absorption of foreign m atter rapidly m ake themselves ap parent, and thus it probably is that our understanding soon assum es the guidance, when our sense of sm ell has deserted us. It is even worse with the tongue, which is unfortunately corrupted from our childhood, and which can, therefore, hardly be regarded as reliable at all. It is well known, indeed, how the sense of taste can be m ade to conform to our habits. Nevertheless, it is of prime importance that the body should receive the right kind of nutriment; for all un natural foods contain substances which are foreign to the body, and thus give rise to disease, as we have already seen. Let us, then, consider the question: W hat diet is the natural one?* As we can no longer place full reliance on the tongue, we must seek to obtain an answer to this question by the aid of careful observations and conclusions in other directions. Considered as a whole, the question is a purely scientific one. For its solution, therefore, we must adopt the only method adm issible in science, the so-called inductive method, drawing general conclusions from particular cases. We m ay divide our task into three p arts; we must (1.) Collect observations; (2.) Draw conclusions therefrom; (3.) Make experiments. The field of observation is an extremely wide one. and it is quite im possible for any one person to fam iliarize him self with every p a r t We must, therefore, content ourselves with a few excursions, just as one might make, if one desired to acquaint oneself with the flora of a country. The ground to be traversed, in m aking a scientific enquiry into the question of diet, is so extensive that we must decide from the very commencement to keep our consideration within the closest bounds.

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For, to view the m atter more comprehensively, we should have to inquire into the food of every organic being whatever. It will, however, suffice for us, if, in order to draw conclusions and to gain a foundation for systematic experiments, we consider only the higher form s of animals, that is, those nearer akin to ourselves. But to save disgressions, I shall assum e that you are fam iliar with all points on which general agree ment prevails, and which are evident from observation, or have been proved beyond doubt. A single glance at life in nature tells us that beings, in order to m aintain the transform ation of m aterial going on, must, necessarily, obtain nourishment, in the choice of which, however, they are decidedly limited. A plant which grows luxuriously in the saliferous soil of the sea-coasts, dies when transplanted inland; one which flourishes in dry sandy ground, withers in the garden; and cultivated plants accustomed to rich humus, on the contrary, cannot grow in sand. We observe quite the sam e thing in the anim al kingdom, and in such a m arked degree, that we can accurately classify anim als according to their food. The classification of anim als into those which feed on flesh and those which eat vegetable food only, is known to all; but this divi sion is only a superficial one. On examining the m atter closely, we find that we must separate the insect-eaters (insectivora) from the flesheaters proper (carn iv o ra); and that the vegetable-eaters m ay be divided into those which live on herbs, grass and the like (herbivora) and those which live on fruit (frugivora). Besides these, we find some few which live on both kinds of food (om nivora). Our observations must also extend to the organs which aid in nutrition, in the case of each class. These afford us so good a clue to the diet, that we can determine, even from the skeleton, to what class the anim al belongs. We will turn our attention chiefly to the teeth, the digestive canal, the organs of sense which guide the anim al to its food, and the manner in which it nourishes its young. Thus, there are four excursions which we propose to m ake into the territory we have m arked for observation. As you are aware, teeth are divided into three classes: Incisors or cutting teeth, canines or dog-teeth, and m olars or grinding teeth. The incisors of carnivorous anim als are little developed, and hardly used at all, whereas the canines are of striking length. They project fa r beyond the rest and in the opposite row a special gap is necessary for their reception. They are pointed, smooth, and slightly curved. They are in no way suited for chewing, but especially adapted for seizing and holding the prey. In the case of predatory anim als we call these teeth fangs, and can observe how they really are used as such. F o r dividing the flesh into sm all pieces, the back teeth are employed, the surface of which is covered with points. These points do not meet, but fit closely side by side, so that in the operation of chewing they only mechanically separate the m uscular fibres of the flesh. A lateral motion of the jaw would hinder this process, nor is it possible in the carnivora. It is there fore clear that anim als of this class cannot grind their food. We see, for instance, how hard it is for dogs to well m asticate pieces of bread, so that they have finally to swallow the food nearly unchewed. In the herbivorous anim als, the incisors are developed for biting off grass and herbs. The canine teeth are usually stunted, the m olars are broad, and well adapted for crushing and grinding herbaceous food.

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MAN A FRUGIVOROUS ANIMAL

HERE are not many frugivorous anim als; for us, the anthropoid (man-like) apes are the most important. It is in the frugivora that we find the teeth most evenly developed. They have nearly all the sam e height, only the canines projecting a little beyond the others, though not enough to enable them to serve the sam e purpose as in the carnivora. They are conical, but blunt at the top and not smooth, so that they could not serve for seizing prey. One can see that they are very pow erful; indeed, we know that the anthropoid apes can perform astonishing feats with their teeth. The m olars of these anim als are furnished at the top with fold of enamel, and as the lower jaw admits of am ple lateral motion, their action m ay be com pared to that of mill stones. The circumstance that not a single m olar is pointed, is of special significance, for thus we see that they have not one tooth in tended for chewing flesh. This is the more rem arkable, because the omnivora, to which only the bears, properly speaking, belong, have both pointed and broad-topped m olars. Of course, bears also have canines, like those of the carnivora, without which they could not seize their prey; the incisors, on the contrary, resembling those of the frugivora. Now, which of these sets of teeth most resembles that of m an ? There is no room for doubt, for we can perceive without difficulty that the human teeth are form ed alm ost precisely like those of the frugivorous animals. In man the canines do not grow quite so long as they do in the frugivora, and project very little, or not at all, beyond the others, but this difference is not m aterial. It has often been concluded, from the mere presence of the canine teeth, that the human body is also organized for a flesh diet. This conclusion, however, would be justified only if the canines in man were able to fulfill the sam e function as the canines of the carnivora; and if, like the bears, we had at least a few corresponding back-teeth for dividing the flesh. The conclusions which we must draw from our observations are as follow's: (1.) Mans teeth do not resemble those of the carnivora, there fore he is not a carnivorous anim al; (2.) Mans teeth do not resemble those of the herbivora, therefore he is not an herbivorous anim al; (3.) Mans teeth do not resemble those of the omnivora, therefore he is not an omnivorous anim al; (4.) Mans teeth alm ost exactly resemble . those of the anthropoid frugivora, therefore it is highly probable that he is a frugivorous animal. The false deduction mentioned above, is frequently brought forward in another form, as follow s: Judgin g by his teeth, man is neither a carnivorous, nor an herbivorous animal, but stands in the middle posi tion between the two, therefore he is both. We need scarcely point out, that this conclusion is logically quite untenable. The notion of a middle position is much too general and indefinite to find application where

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scientific proof is required; only in mathematics does it admit of a definite conception. Let us now enter upon our second excursion through the rich field of observation, and turn our attention to the digestive canal of the animals. Predatory anim als have a sm all, alm ost round stomach, and the intes tines are from 3 to 5 times as long as the body, m easuring the latter from the mouth to the root of the tail. The hcrbivora, particularly the ruminants, have a large compound stomach, and the intestines are from 20 to 28 times the length of the body. In the frugivora, the stomach is somewhat broader than in the carnivora, and in the duodenum they possess a continuation of it, which may be described as a second stomach. The length of the intestines is about 10 to 12 times that of the body. In anatom ical works it is often stated that the intestinal canal in man is from 3 to 5 times as long as the body and consequently more suited for a flesh diet. This is to accuse Nature of a flat contradiction: as regards the teeth she has formed man, in the popular opinion, as an omnivorous anim al; as regards his intestines as a carnivorous one. But this contradiction is only apparent. In the above comparison, the length of the human body has been m easured from crown to sole; whereas to conform with the other cases, only the distance from the mouth to the end of the spine ought to be m easured. The conclusion drawn, therefore, is a false one. The length of the human intestines is from 18 to 28 feet, depending upon the height of the individual, and the body from head to end of spine 1% to 2V feet, a division yielding a quotient of about 10 or 11. Hence, we arrive at the conclusion that MAN IS A FRUGIVOROUS ANIMAL. On beginning our third excursion, let us consult the sign posts to our dietthe senses. It is chiefly by the senses of smell and taste that aninials are directed to their food and at the sam e time incited to eat. When a predatory anim al finds the scent of game, his eyes begin to sparkle, he follows the trail with eagerness, springs upon his prey and greedily laps up the warm blood, all this evidently affording him the keenest pleasure. The herbivorous animal, on the contrary, passes quietly by his fellow creatures, and can at most be induced by other reasons to attack them, his sense of smell would never betray him into eating flesh; he will even leave his natural food untouched if it is sprinkled with blood. The senses of smell and sight lead him to grass and herbs, which also gratify his taste. We notice the sam e thing in the case of the frugivora, whose senses direct them to the fruits of the tree and field. But how do the human organs of sense act? Do the senses of sight and smell ever entice us into slaughtering an ox? W ould a child, who had never heard anything of the slaughtering of anim als, even if it had already eaten meat, ever think, on looking at a fatted o x: That would be a tid-bit for me ? Only when we can associate in our mind the con nection between the living anim al and the roast as it comes upon the table, are we capable of such thoughts; they are not given to us by Nature. The very idea of killing is abhorrent to our senses, and raw flesh is agreeable neither to the eyes nor the nose. Why are slaughter-houses always being removed further and further from our towns? Why are there, in many places, laws forbidding the transportation of flesh

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uncovered? Gan this in point of fact be styled a natural food, when it is so offensive both to eye and nose? Before being eaten, it, has, by means of condiments, to be rendered attractive to the senses of smell and taste, unless indeed these have already been abnorm ally deadened. How delightful, on the other hand, do we find the fragrance of fruit. It is surely no accident that reporters at fruit-shows alm ost invariably express their feelings in the set ph rase: The sight of the fruit m akes ones mouth water. I may rem ark that the various grains also possess an agreeable, if faint, odor, and have also a pleasant taste, even in the raw state. There is nothing repulsive to us in harvesting and in cooking grain; and not without reason has the country-man been called a happy and contented rustic. Thus, for the second time, we must draw the con clusion : By nature man is decidedly a frugivorous anim al. In examining, on our third excursion, the arrangem ents m ade by Nature for the propagation of the species, the observations are more difficult. All anim als, on their entrance into life, are provided with a food which favors their rapid development. F o r new-born babes, the mothers milk is undoubtedly the only natural food. And here we observe that a great many mothers are quite incapable of perform ing their sacred duties, their organism not being in a condition to produce the nutrition for the child. This is especially deplorable, because such children are thus deprived at the very commencement of their life of the natural standard for sensuous im pressions, no artificial food resembling the natural one in every respect. Observation shows us that the mothers of the so-called better classes, whose chief nourishment is flesh-meat, suffer most in this respect, and are obliged to employ wet-nurses from the country, where very little flesh-meat is eaten. As a rule, such nurses on securing a situation, then live on the sam e food as the other inmates of the town house, and as a consequence not seldom lose the ability to suckle the child. On voyages, oat-meal gruel is given to nursing mothers; for on the diet usually supplied on board ship, consisting as it does largely of flesh-diet, their breasts would soon dry up. From these observations we draw the conclusion, that flesh-diet affords little or no aid in the production of the mothers milk. (We do not mean to say, that on a vegetarian diet every mother could nurse her own child; for this, a certain degree of health is also requisite, which cannot be attained all at once.) Thus, for the third time, we are forced to the conclusion that man is naturally a frugivorous animal. If our conclusion be correct, it necessarily follows that the greater part of mankind has wandered more or less from a natural diet. Creatures of Nature have turned aside from their natural food! That sounds monstrous, and needs still further proofs. Is it possible, then, that other creatures can likewise forsake their natural food; and what consequences would this have? This question must be answered before we can proceed. We are well aw are that dogs and cats can be accustomed to vegetable diet; but can we also adduce instances of vegetable feeding anim als having become accustom ed to flesh diet? I was once enabled to observe an extremely interesting case. A fam ily reared a young deer, which soon made friends with the house-dog. She often saw the latter lapping meatbroth, and soon attempted to take her share at meal-times. At first, she

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always turned away with signs of digust at the mere taste of the broth; but she repeated the attempts, and in a few weeks ate her share with relish. In a few weeks m ore she could even eat fleshmeat, which she at length preferred to her natural food. But the effects were soon ob servable; the anim al became ill and died before it was a year old. I may add that this deer was not confined, but ran about at will in the garden and woods. We know, too, that the frugivorous apes can be easily habituated in confinement to a flesh diet, but then as a rule, die of consumption within a year or two. This is usually attributed to the climate, but as the other denizens of the tropics thrive quite well in our zone, we are justified in assum ing that it is the unnatural food which is principally to blame. Recent investigations also confirm this view. It is, therefore, certain that anim als m ay turn from their natural food? and thus the assum ption that a great part of mankind has done the same, becomes still more probable. But if this be the case, the consequences must also be perceptible to usdiseases must surely appear, or have al ready appeared. Should we ask in sober truth, how many persons have never required a physician, I believe we would find very few indeed. And how many are there who really die of old age? The cases are so rare that the newspapers usually record them. There are extremely few persons to be found who are not encumbered with foreign matter. In general, the more frugivorous country-folk, though not living strictly in accordance with Nature, are more fortunate in that respect; and though fresh air may play its part, food is here the prim e factor. Although it is certain, that the unsatisfactory condition of our health is partly the result of other causes, we can ascertain by a com parison with the anim al king dom, that food is the most important cause. F or instance, anim als kept in the stable live in the most unfavorable hygienic conditions im agin able; they are forced to breathe continually the gases issuing from their excrements, and are alm ost wholly deprived of free exercise. They must naturally become diseased in consequence, and one can take it for granted, that such cattle are never quite healthy. But despite these un favorably hygienic conditions, there are not so many diseases prevalent amongst these anim als as amongst men, who in all these respects can and do take much better care of themselves. The blame, therefore, must be laid chiefly on the food consumed.

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PROOF OF THE BENEFICIAL VALUE OF VEGETABLE DIET

E have now proceeded fa r enough to take a last step, and prove by experiment the tenableness or untenableness of our conclusions. Two objections, often raised, we can examine at the sam e time. The first is that man, in consequence of higher organization, is not subject to the sam e conditions as creatures standing on a lower level. And the second objection is, that through long observance of a flesh diet, the human system has perhaps adjusted itself to the new diet in accord ance with the Darwinian theory of adaption. This second objection is again divided into two p arts: first that the whole human race has undergone this process of adaption; and secondly, that adults, at least, could not without danger abandon the diet to which they have become accustomed. All these questions can be finally settled only by experiments, under taken both with children and adults. And many such experiments have already been made, the results of which I shall here briefly sum up. In a number of fam ilies children have been brought up from birth without flesh-meat, and I have m ade a special point of watching their develop ment. I can confidently assert, that the experiments have resulted in favor of a natural diet, i. e., a diet from which flesh is excluded. The children develop adm irably both physically and mentally, whether as regards understanding, will or temper. This leads me to a few special rem arks on education as regards morality. This question has become a burning one, lamentations over the im m orality of youth being a matter of every-day discussion. Now, what is the worst enemy of m orality? Ask the clergy of all religions, ask philosophers and teachers of ethics, and you will always get the sam e answ er: The sensual passions. E xtraordinary trouble has been taken to suppress the passions, but for the most part by means of unnatural remedies, such as excessive fasting, scourging, monastic confinement, etc., of course, therefore without much effect. But just as a general can conquer the enemy most quickly and surely, by preventing him from drawing up his arm y in order of battle, so it is with the educator. If he can succeed in preventing the development of the sensual passions, the arch-enemy of morality is overcome; one chief means to this end is the nourishment of children on an unstimulating, natural diet. Experim ents have proved the correctness of these statements, and the fact is of such high importance, that it cannot be sufficiently emphasized. Freedom from sensual passions, and the peace of mind thereby ob tained, likewise form a sure foundation for an excellent intellectual training. Every psychologist knows, that a state of contentment is by fa r the most favorable to mental activity, to clear thinking and sound judgm ent; and this can hardly be attained in any way so successfully as by a vegetarian diet.

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Though I would willingly pursue this theme further, 1 regret that I must break off here for fear of trespassing too long on your attention. We must, however, still ju st consider the many experiments which have been made with grown persons, we advocates of the natural system of living standing before you as exam ples. W hat results we have attained, can be most readily gathered from the fact that we have become, and remain, faithful adherents of this mode of living. I would here rem ark that you must not forget that most vegetarians have been driven to adopt their diet by serious illness. W hile they themselves, therefore, are glad that they have been able to regain tolerable health by this means, one cannot, of course, expect all of them to be strong and ruddy com plexioned; many attain to such health, others do not. F or instance, take the case of Theodor Hahn, who at the age of 29 was on the verge of the grave, and his recovery' held to be im possible by the doctors. By the aid of a natural diet he attained fair health, and was enabled to live 30 years longer. The experiment assuredly resulted in favor of the fleshless diet, so that it really seems strange that our opponents should cry out trium phantly: You see he only lived to be 59 years of age! The New Science of Healing without Drugs and without Operations has proved the unstimulating diet to be the natural one, and absolutely essential for any thorough cure. Experience, too, has proved that the cure always goes on more rapidly if a strictly unstimulating diet is followed. Those who cannot m ake up their minds to forsake the fleshpots and give up spirituous drinks, greatly retard their recovery; since they are continually conveying new foreign matter into their systems, which has to be again expelled. The disposition to disease is therefore never gotten rid of. Persons who are tolerably well, are better in a position to tax their bodies with such additional work, although it is always to their own dis advantage. He who would regain health, however, requires all his phys ical energy for expelling the morbid m atter; and this strength, as ex perience shows, is only to be obtained from an unstimulating system of diet. The prevailing mixed diet is sufficient to explain to us why sick ness and sickliness are to be met at every turn.

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WHAT SHALL WE EAT AND DRINK?

OU will now ask for details as to exactly what to eat and drink. With reference to beverages, I must return once more to our field of observation. Except man, we find no anim al that naturally chooses any fluid other than water to allay its thirst. It is noted that anim als nearly always seek flowing water, and prefer to drink from rivers or brooks, rather than from springs gushing from the rocks; which accords with the proved fact that water which has been exposed to the rays of the sun, and flowed over gravel, is preferable to fresh springwater. Animals which feed on succulent food, drink very little, and man himself is seldom thirsty if he does not neglect juicy fruits in his diet. But when he does need drink, w ater is for him, too, the only natural beverage. Even fruit-juices mingled with the water, m ay easily occasion him to drink more copiously than necessary, at least when they contain a large adm ixture of sugar. If we would be cured of disease, we must keep strictly to the beverage intended for us by Nature, and must quench our thirst with water only. But what are we to eat? Nature points to fruits; and a fruit diet is, therefore, the best. All fruits and grains, all berries, and roots which are attractive to the senses of sight, smell and taste, may serve us for food. We find such in abundance in all regions and zones of the earth, except perhaps in the coldest. The latter are, therefore, not suited to be the home of man, and we find their inhabitants physically stunted and mentally but little developed. As far as possible, the gifts of Nature should be consumed in their natural form. This, of course, is often practicable, on account of our degenerated condition of health, especially as regards the teeth. As a rule, however, we do well to avoid, whenever possible, all artificial con diments and extracts, all concentrated food being unnatural. Nature never offers us such. The addition of sharp spices, and if possible, of sugar and salt, is also to be avoided. Food is now-a-days often cooked very im properly; for instance, the water used in boiling, which absorbs a great deal of nutritious matter, is usually poured away, and the washed out vegetables then brought to the table. This is altogether wrong. All vegetables ought to be cooked in as little water as possible, or in a steam er and the water left on them. Begarding the manner of preparing the various dishes, I must beg you to consult some of the many vegetarian cookery-books.* But it would be a mistake to suppose that every dish there described is to be recommended for sick persons. One cannot perform ones regular work with an injured arm , neither can a debilitated stomach
See The N ature Cure Cook Book and A B C o f N atural D ietetics, by Mrs. Alma L in d lah r. P u blish ed by the N ature Cure P u b lish in g Co., Butler, N. J . P rice, cloth, $2.25 p o stp aid .

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digest in a normal manner. It speaks best itself as to what it can digest. As soon as eructations, or pain in the stomach, or wind, or a sour taste, or any other irregularity is experienced, it is a proof that we have either eaten too much, or have eaten something unsuitable. The patient will soon tind out what is good for him, if he observes carefully. The best thing in most cases at first will be wholemeal bread, if carefully and thoroughly chewed. If this cannot be digested, unbolted wheatmeal can be eaten with good results, for this adm its of being swallowed only when thoroughly insalivated, so that the patient runs no great risk of eating too much. Great moderation in eating, as well as the choice of suitable food, is of the utmost importance to the patient. Even the most suitable sick-diet is injurious if the patient eats too freely. For the sick, oatm eal gruel is a most suitable food. It should be m ade thick with no addition, unless a little salt and fresh unboiled milk. Milk should never be taken other than cold and unboiled. First see, however, whether it is unpleasant to the smell, or taste, in which case it is unsuited for food. Do not imagine that it can be improved by boiling; boiled milk is much more difficult to digest, because it ferments more slowly and the unhealthy constituents are not expelled by the boiling, but still remain in the milk. It has consequently little nutritive value, and at most tends to render the body stout, without strengthening it. Fresh fruit m ay be eaten at meal times. In order to afford some variety, al though this is not exactly essential, we may mention further rice, barley, etc., to which a relish can best be given by adding green vegetables, e. g. cauliflower and asparagus or stewed fruit. A great abundance of food is at the command of all healthy, or com paratively healthy, per sons. A glance at one of the vegetarian cookery-books will convince anyone that he will not have to suffer from want of food. To prevent all misunderstanding, I would again call attention to the fact, that a person seriously ill, in particular one suffering from severe indigestion, should eat only the very sim plest food, and only such as must be thoroughly chewed. The best diet for such a patient is whole wheatmeal bread and fruit; no attention being paid to the palate until improvement has set in. But does it taste good? I hear some ask. Whence comes pleasure in eating? It is called forth by the stimulus exerted by the food on the gustatory nerves. This stimulus is com pared with others to which we are accustomed, and it pleases us in the m easure it corresponds with them. By way of exception it m ay be somewhat enhanced, and then affords us super-pleasure. But should this be oft repeated, we grow used to it, and are then no longer able to experience the increased degree of satisfaction. Thus, as soon as we become accustomed to exquisite pleasures, they afford us as much, but no more enjoyment than the earlier ones, which were less refined and costly; and these latter have the advantage of there being no need to overstimulate the nerves, in order to obtain a pleasing sensation. And shall I again remind you of the consequences alluded to at the beginning? It was unnatural food which encumbered man with foreign m atter; a natural diet does not convey such into the system, or at least only in those cases where it cannot be properly digested; or where moderation in eating is neglected. If we are able to get rid of the morbid matter, a natural diet affords us a guarantee that we can remain

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healthy, provided we do not altogether neglect the other conditions of health. May the many blessings, then, which a natural manner of living confer upon the individual, the family, the entire nation, soon become known everywhere, throughout the la n d ! DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING GOOD W HOLEMEAL BREAD As adopted by Louis Kuhne Put 3 lbs. of unbolted wheatmeal, or of unbolted flour of any other grain (in tropical regions, maize with wheatmeal or rice, etc.), in a dish, pour over it about lVo pints of cold w ater and m ix thoroughly. Cold water is to be preferred to warm, as experience shows that warm water sets the bread in fermentation more readily than cold, and though this may render the bread somewhat lighter, it will be less nutritious and pleasant to the taste. Now divide the dough into two equal parts, forming each into a long shaped loaf; lay them upon dry tiles (not bricks) sprinkled with whole meal, wet the loaves well on the top with water, and place each with its tile upon an empty flower-pot in a quick oven No other articles, or dishes, should stand in the oven at the sam e time. The heat in the oven must be kept up by a steady fire. After half an hour, during which the oven must not be opened, turn the front side of the loaves to the back. After another quarter of an hour, see whether the upper crust is well and firmly baked, and then turn the loaves over, as they are usually still soft on the bottom. The loaves must now bake until they sound quite hollow when tapped in the middle with the finger; this usually takes h alf an hour longer. One m ay then feel sure that the bread is well baked and the crust not too hard. DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING W HOLEMEAL GRUEL F o r one plate of gruel, stir a heaped tablespoonful of wholemeal into a thin paste with a little water. Pour this into boiling water, and let it boil some minutes, stirring continually. Salt and butter should be added very sparingly, or not at all. This gruel also tastes very good, when sprinkled over with currants. HINTS FOR TH E PROPER SELECTIO N OF A NATURAL DIET B reakfast: W holemeal bread and fruit; or wholemeal gruel with bread; or oatm eal porridge with fruit and bread. Milk only unboiled. Dinner: If soup, it should be thick; or cereals, served as thick porridges such as rice, barley, groats, oatmeal, m ade only with water and a little butter, or perhaps with the addition of a little fruit; or pulse, such as peas, beans, lentils, boiled thick with water only, and not mashed, seasoned with m arjoram or pepper-wort if liked; or any vegetable that the region affords, and that is in season; or stewed or fresh fruit, with wholemeal bread. Su pp er: W holemeal bread and fruit (fresh or stew ed); or a gruel of flour or wholemeal, boiled thick, with bread or fruit.

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SOME SIMPLE RECIPES Red Cabbage and Apples. A large head of red cabbage is cut into shreds and steamed with about half a cupful of water until half soft. Then add 4 to 6 sour apples, cut into thin slices, with a little salt and butter, and steam until all the moisture is absorbed. (Also tastes very good without the salt and butter.) For three persons. W hite Cabbage and Tomatoes. A head of white cabbage is cut and steamed as above, then add about half a cupful of tomatoe-extractor from 4 to 10 (according to size) fresh tomatoes passed through a sieve with a little salt and butter; lay 6 to 8 raw, peeled potatoes, simply cut in half, on the top, and without stirring, steam well the whole. (Also tastes very good without the salt and butter.) Pepper-wort may be used in stead of tomatoes. For three persons. Spinach and Potatoes. Spinach after being gathered should be twice washed, chopped (in the raw state) and steamed soft with very little water, a small quantity of salt and butter and some raw potatoes. Should any liquid remain, add a tablespoonful of wholemeal. Cabbage and Groats. The cabbage is pulled into small pieces, washed and boiled with about 2 cupfuls of water. W hen pretty soft, add a little salt and butter and half a cupful of groats; stir and boil until the groats are soft. Carrots and Potatoes. Cut 5 to 8 carrots (according to size) into long strips, and steam in about a cupful of water. Then lay on the top 6 to 8 raw, peeled potatoes, cut in half, and cook, with a little salt and butter. (Also tastes good without the salt and butter.) For three persons. Turnips and Potatoes. Slice some large turnips, and steam in 1 to 1% cupfuls of water until half soft; add a little salt and butter and 6 to 8 raw, peeled potatoes and steam thoroughly. Also tastes very good with out the salt and butter.) For three persons. This and the last dish may be cooked together; they taste excellent so. Rice and Apples. lb. rice, and 4 to 8 apples cut in slices, with 4 cupfuls of water, boil slowdy to a stiff porridge. Very tasty. A little salt and butter may be added, but it is not necessary. For three persons. Simple Rice Pudding. To the above rice porridge, add M lb. currants and bake in a dish buttered and dusted over with bread crumbs. Haricots and Tomatoes. lb. haricots are placed the evening before in cold w ater, and then in the morning boiled with sufficient w ater added to cover them. W hen soft, add about half a cupful of tomato-extract, or 5 to 10 fresh tomatoes passed through a sieve, add a little salt and butter, if desired. It is best after adding the tomato sauce, to keep the dish standing warm for 1 to 2 hours. If there should be liquid remaining, then add a spoonful of wholemeal to thicken it. Pepper-wrort or m ar joram may be used in place of tomatoes. Quite sufficient for two per sons. Green Beans and Apples. Cut the threads off the beans and break each bean into pieces; put in boiling w ater and then add sour or unripe apples cut in slices, chopped parsley or onions, and a little salt and butter then added. When the beans are soft, a little wholemeal should be added as thickening.

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Lentils and Prunes. Soak % lb. lentils the evening before, and then boil soft over a slow fire, with about 30 prunes and sufficient water to cover them. A little salt and butter may be added if desired. For three persons. Mushrooms and Potatoes. The mushrooms are well washed, and steamed soft with chopped parsley or onions. A little salt and butter is then added, and the liquid thickened to a sauce with two tablespoonfuls of wholemeal. Potatoes boiled in their skins, are then peeled, cut in pieces, and added to mushrooms in the sauce. The whole is then boiled and finally kept standing warm for some time. Beetroot salad. The beetroot is washed and baked soft on a tile in the oven, then peeled, cut in slices, and served with diluted lemon juice. Lettuce. W ash the lettuce and prepare with a little oil, lemon juice (not essence), and a little sugar. Potato and Apple-Salad. Potatoes well boiled in their skins are peeled and cut in slices. A few sour apples are likewise sliced, and both stirred together with a little oil and lemon juice. Peas and Lentils in the most digestible form. Unshelled dried peas or lentils are soaked the evening before in cold, and, if possible, soft water. The next morning put in a pot with only enough water to cover them. A little salt (very little), pepper-wort and m arjoram may be added. Boil the pulse well, but so that wrhen done, all, or nearly all, the water is absorbed. The peas or lentils thus keep their original form and are more nutritious and easier of digestion than when mashed up or served with butter. Potato dumplings. (For two persons). Boil well a quart of mealy potatoes. Then peel and cool, and rub through a grater. Cut some bread into dice and fry in butter. Mix these w'ell with an egg, the grated potatoes and a little wholemeal or flour, and with the hand form them into balls about the size of an apple. Then roll them in wholemeal or flour, and put in boiling w'ater for about 10 minutes. Care must be taken that they do not become sodden. They may be eaten with any fruit, onion, or butter sauce.

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PART TWO
NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES. SLEEPLESSNESS

HE doctrine of the unity of diseases applies also to nervous and mental disorders. The nineteenth century has rightly been called the century of nervous diseases, for they are now to be found every where in a myriad forms. Infinite pains are taken to give correct names to all the new diseases, and to determine their nature and cause, with a view to deciding upon some, at all events approximate, system of treating them. Nervousness, Neurasthenia, Neuralgia, Hypochondria, Hysteria, In sanity, Imbecility and Paralysis are diseases known everywhere, not to mention other similar disorders having the same cause. W ith the increase of these serious nervous complaints, new external forms are always making their appearance. But such external forms offer no definite clue to a right understanding of the nature of the dis eases. If, however, we examine the condition of nervous patients we always find signs of some internal disquiet or uneasiness. The patient has always a certain unconscious, indefinable feeling of disease, without knowing the cause, and without confessing to the disorder itself. W e find one person excessively talkative, while another is quiet and taciturn. Many suffer much from sleeplessness, others exhibit restless activity, and others again are remarkable for their unconquerable lazi ness. One will go about with the idea of suicide, because he thinks himself superfluous, and is dissatisfied with the world. There we see a millionaire daily tormented by groundless fears for the future that never desert him. Others are always trembling all over. Some lose the use of, it may be a limb, one side, or the whole body. And then there are the most diverse and often contradictory symptoms of insanity, one of the worst of which is paralysis. W e see, moreover, that these diseases pre vent people, more or less, from exercising their faculties. One loses the mastery over his limbs, another is no longer m aster of his thoughts, his will, or his words. W ere we to observe thousands of nervous patients, we should find scarcely two in whom the outward symptoms were ex actly alike, so various are the form that these diseases take. No one need be surprised, therefore, that amid so many conflicting symptoms, the medical profession has found no sufficient basis to go upon as regards clear understanding, nomenclature and cure of nervous diseases. Drugs have produced neither improvement nor cure in these nervous cases, even if temporary paralyzing of the nerves is sometimes attained.

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It is quite an error to imagine that the drugs themselves ever effect any result. It is really wholly and solely the system, which seeks to get rid of the injurious m atter either with increased or diminished activity. In one case there are clear signs of increased activity of the system, with a view to forcible expulsion of the poison. This occurs when the medicine is given in such small doses, that it cannot have a paralyzing effect on the system. In the case; of larger (allopathic) doses of poisonous drugs, traces of paralysis are clearly to be observed. At the same time, the efforts of the body to regain liealth (acute diseases) and the outward symptoms of the chronic complaint are likewise paralyzed. This circumstance explains the temporary disappearance and regular recurrence of symptoms under allopathic treatment. At first they are suppressed by the nerves being paralysed; but when the body recovers a little they reappear. Strong medicinal poisons in large doses paralyse the body to such an extent that death ensues. In the case of lesser doses, this paralysis may not cause death, but at any rate it in jures the entire system. It may confidently be asserted that many nervous disorders are really caused by the employment of drugs, which have at first been ad ministered to cure some less serious complaint. In very small doses, the effect on the body is apparently just the contrary to paralysis, for instead of being paralysed, the body makes redoubled efforts to free it self of the poison. The increased activity, however, is only a pre paratory stage to paralysis, and can never be anything else. As for the cure of nervous diseases, it cannot be denied that the much lauded medical profession stands utterly helpless. Indeed, its represen tatives have frequently confessed their total inability to aid in such cases. Change of air, diversion by travel, and similar beneficial meas ures of relief are recommended. But even if temporary relief is thus at tained, we still plainly see by such advice, how little medical men know of the cause and nature of nervous diseases. That which is impossible for the orthodox medical school, that which has puzzled the brains of its re presentatives, has been effected and clearly explained by the New Science of Healing. My reports of cures, and the accompanying letters of thanks and testimonials from a small number of my many patients, speak more plainly and convincingly than all scientific and theoretical expositions. I may be permitted, therefore, to limit myself here to some of the chief points of importance in connection with these disorders. As is well known, we possess two kinds of nerves: nerves which are controlled by the will, and those which regulate the functions of breath ing, digestion and circulation. But when I assert that all diseases aris ing from the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter, are also nervous diseases, many may at first be surprised. The m atter is easily explained. W e first become conscious of a disease when it interferes with the normal functions of the body, or occasions pain. This implies, naturally a more or less advanced stage of the disease, which neverthe less the Science of Facial Expression enables us to accurately diagnose. We know, also, that disease without the presence of foreign m atter in the body is impossible. Every encumbrance of the system with foreign mat ter not only exercises a disturbing influence on the individual organs, but disturbs equally the nerves which are in connection with these organs or parts of the body, or which regulate their functions. And it

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is not until the nerve-connections are also affected, that we become aware of the disease. The superficial observer regards merely those nerves which are under the control of the will, and those diseases which affect organs under the regular control of these voluntary nerves. Those disorders which interfere with the breathing, circulation and digestion, make their appearance much more gradually. Here again, the nerves likewise become affected and make us aware "of the disorder. These nerves are not under the direct control of the will, but upon their normal activity depends that of the organs which are not controlled by the will, such as the lungs, heart, stomach, kidneys, intestines and blad der. We can never become aware of any digestive trouble, or of any disease of the kidneys, bladder, heart, lungs or stomach before the nerves associated with them are likewise so encumbered by foreign m atter that their activity is no longer normal. Each of the above named diseases, therefore, always implies simultaneous nervous disorder; thus one can never suffer from a disordered digestion, without, at the same time, suffering from a disordered condition of the nerves regulating the process. As I have already stated, a normal digestion is the first condition to obtain a healthy body. For all foreign m atter not hereditary, is first brought into the system by imperfect digestion. Every disease, and con sequently all nervous diseases, therefore, either result from a disordered digestion, or are inherited. This is the common cause of all diseases whatever. W hen the system still has sufficient vital power left, it makes an effort to expel the foreign m atter by an acute disease (curative crisis). When, however, the requisite vital power fails, those cronic (latent) cases of disease appear. Such diseases never cease, they at most change their form, and finally reach their highest development in those sad nervous and mental disorders. Nervous diseases are simply chronic (latent) physical disorders, whatever their symptoms may be. In nervous diseases, as in all diseases, we notice as a particular symp tom, either a feeling of chilliness or of increased warmth (heat), which are both the results of a feverish state of the body. W e thus arrive at a conclusion of great importance: that nervous dis eases, also, simply indicate chronic (latent) fever. If I thus assert, that nervous disorders have the same cause as small-pox, measles, scarletfever, diphtheria, syphilis and so on, it follows that the same remedy with which these diseases can be successfully treated, must also cure nervous diseases. And this is a fact which I have proved in my practice in hundreds and thousands of cases, as the testimonials at the end of this work show. From these elucidations, we thus gain a definite idea concerning the nature, origin, and cure of all nervous diseases. No longer helplessly looking on, like the orthodox practitioners, having learned the cause, we know exactly how to render effectual aid. Whoever now surveys the great army of diseases from my point of view, will readily perceive that only he who comprehends the true nature of symptoms will be in a position to give practical advice as to a cure. It is just as with an army, which can only be properlv led by a general thoroughly acquainted with the troops composing it. The leader who is ignorant of the forces of which his army is made up, will in evitably suffer defeat. Similarly it is, with latter-day specialism.

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Specialism in medical science m ust necessarily lead to the ruin of the science and to an ever-growing contempt for it. For how can a specialist serve science, if he neglects the natural laws governing the human organism, and treats a part without regarding the whole? All specialism in medical science appears to us to be a step backwards, a superfluity, a factor isolated from the whole, and serving only to ob scure our vision. Only he who has a true comprehension of the whole, only he who regards Nature as a grand indivisible unity, is in a position to rightly interpret all the phenomena he sees, and profit by the laws which control them. How often Nature exhibits to us the same material in the most various and dissimilar forms, all being controlled simply by temperature. I need only remind you again of water, which we see in various forms: as fluid, as mist, as steam, as cloud. Temperature alone conditions this; the m aterial is one and the same in each case. As for the diagnosis of nervous diseases, medical science is quite as much at a loss here as at is concerning their cure. In many cases the doctors even fail altogether to recognize nervous diseases at all. How many nervous patients have consulted me after having tried everywhere else. All such persons are living proofs of the incompetence of the medical profession in this direction. Many of these patients had been declared perfectly healthy by orthodox physicians, who pronounced their disease to be merely imaginary, whilst I, by means of my Science of Facial Expression, could immediately ascertain the serious encum brance of the patient with foreign m atter. All my nervous patients have remarked the astonishingly rapid improvement in their condition effected by my treatment, and how this change for the better was al ways in proportion to the amount of morbid m atter secreted. Whoever has once taken note of these secretions, and experienced the steady im provement of his condition, can no longer doubt for an instant the ac curacy of my system of diagnosis and success of my method of cure. My system of diagnosis assures the representatives of my method, once and for all, a favored position as practitioners of the art of healing. By its means alone is it possible to diagnose with certainty every nervous disorder, to observe even the gradual development of such disorders, years before the patient himself has any idea whatever of their existence. Encumbrance of the back, in particular, is a sign of a nervous disorder, as is explained in my handbook of the Science of Facial Expression.* Mental Diseases. The same obtains in the case of all mental diseases. Their true nature is likewise wholly misunderstood by medical men. It is not the causes usually described that lead to a bewilderment of the brain, but simply and solely the encumbrance of the system with morbid matter, which has been accumulating for years. In mental disease and so-called progressive paralysis, the final and often incurable stage is reached. These slowly accumulating latent encumbrances are caused, as I have said before, by a very gradual debilitation of the digestive powers, in consequence of an unnatural mode of life. Naturally, since all persons do not live equally unnatural lives, everyone is not found to suffer from mental disorder. It depends upon the degree and develop ment of the encumbrance. Mental disease occurs only where the body is
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seriously encumbered, and then only when with back encumbrance the head is attacked. Advancing civilization is to blame for the increase in mental diseases only in so far as it brings with it the necessity for men to break Natures rules, and to act in opposition to her immutable laws. The chief blame lies with the orthodox medical school, whose rules of health and views generally, are absolutely contradictory to what Nature teaches. W ater is avoided as injurious to health, and beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks, or mineral waters are drunk instead. Men smoke so constantly that they might be chimneys, and drink so much that they might be taken for beer-barrels. Physical debility and languor is the natural consequence. No wonder, if the weakened nerves have always to be strengthened by stimulants. Stuffy rooms and over-crowded factories also play havoc with the health. In the country, where the population still lives more or less closely in accordance with Nature, and works regularly in the open air, and where the rules of health laid down by the modern school of medicine have not yet found general introduction, mental disease is as good as un known. If met with, it is only in the children of habitual drunkards. Such a child suffers from hereditary encumbrance, which leads to mental disorder or some other serious disease, children always being faithful copies of their parents physical constitution. Alcoholic drinks impose such a digestive task upon the system, that no strength remains for any other activity. This explains the excessive weariness and often preternatural sleepiness experienced by drunkards, since their stomachs have to undertake an abnormal digestive work. The pressure on the brain, exercised by the gases developed during the pro gress of this digestive ferm entation causes the mental disorders of heavy drinkers. A child begotten while the father is in a state of intoxication, or even semi-intoxication, will nearly always be found to incline to in sanity, if it docs not, indeed, die before it has time to reach such a state. Any mental disorder, whether resulting from an inherited or an ac quired encumbrance of foreign matter, is always caused by an abnormal digestion; and therefore originates, like all other diseases in the ab domen. The more simply and naturally m an lives, the healthier and happier will he be. This explains why the negroes, when slavery still existed and they were consequently forced to live frugally and industriously, were exempt from mental disease; whereas now, as free men, with the ad vantage of a higher standard of living, they are subject to all the results ensuing from imbibing the poison of civilization. It is well known that mental disease is much less common amongst females than amongst males. The reason for this is doubtless the fact that women, in general, live more moderately than men, especially as regards the consumption of tobacco and alcohol. In those cases where we find a woman suffering from insanity, the disease can nearly always be traced back to an inherited encumbrance. It is observed in many cases of mental disorder, that the disease is preceded, or accompanied, by increased physical and mental activity, a circumstance which our orthodox specialists are altogether unable to ex plain. The gradual encumbrance of the body, and of the brain in par ticular, with morbid matter, exerts a steadily increasing pressure on the brain, and thus on the nerve centres, culminating, in the course of years,

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in abnormally increased activity of these organs. This manifests itself very variously, as already pointed out in the case of nervous diseases. Body and mind hasten from one work to another without rest, never able anywhere to find peace or contentment. This abnormal condition frequently appears as a special talent during childhood, the change to the other extreme not occurring until manhood. Infant prodigies seldom show m arked abilities in later life. One cause of mental disorders is a back encumbrance by which the chief nerves of the abdomen, the special cord and the nervus sympathicus, are seriously affected, unless the system can expel the morbid m atter by means of an acute illness. Through the latent fever, a chronically diseased condition may be brought about, which reaches its climax in a disorder of the mind. In acute diseases, mental disorders often suddenly appear and disappear, according to the amount of pressure exerted in ternally by the morbid matter. On the other hand, in many cases of in sanity, more or less extended periods of complete mental lucidity have been observed, the pressure of the morbid m atter having relaxed for the time being. As soon, however, as the pressure of the morbid m atter be comes more intense again, the temporary state of mental clearness dis appears. Progressive Paralysis is nothing but an advanced stage of mental dis ease. W hen we hear the medical profession assuring us that those who fall victims to progressive paralysis are frequently the healthiest and strongest persons, it simply proves how little orthodox medical men know of real health. W e know better than this; we know that a serious disease like progressive paralysis cannot come on so suddenly, but that its preliminary stages are observable long before to an expert in the Science of Facial Expression. We, therefore, know that it is absurd to assert that the healthiest men can all at once become mentally diseased. Mental diseases can only be cured by expelling the morbid m atter which is the cause of them. In my practice, numerous cases of insanity have been cured by this method, ample proof being thus afforded of the correctness of my assertions. I will here mention one such case. A girl of 23, who had been afflicted for several years with total in sanity, was brought to me by her parents, to whom she was a constant source of anxiety. The position of the encumbrance being favorable, I could with a good conscience advise the parents at all events to make an attem pt with my method. The condition of the patient was such that she could not even bathe herself, her mother having to do it for her. In four weeks, however, she was so far improved that she could take the baths herself, and was no longer uncleanly in her habits. W ithin half a year she could again be reckoned among the healthy members of the family. This surprisingly rapid cure was possible only because the position of the encumbrance was fairly favorably situated, in consequence of which the digestion could be improved comparatively quickly. The cure was the easier, also, as the patient did not rave, but was, on the contrary, apathetic and given to brooding. In those cases, however, where the position of the encumbrance is less favorable, or where the patients condition renders treatment according to my method impossible, the disease can hardly be regarded as curable

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at all. For instance, I have often seen cases where the patient could in no way be induced to take a bath. Mental disorder is, generally speak ing, like consumption, a final stage of disease, so that the principal hope lies in attacking the disorder as long as there is je t time. Formerly this was impossible, the correct way to proceed being unknown, and the disease being first discovered when it was alreadj' too late to effect a cure. Today, however, in mjTScience of Facial Expression, we possess an infallible means of observing the advance of mental disease jT ears be forehand, so that we are in a position to combat it with certain success. Most mental diseases are held to be incurable to-da>\ but the opinion is altogether contrary to fact. In proof of this, I will here report the following cure. The case was one of severe progressive paralysis, following upon syphilis. The patient had for many years been suffering from a weak digestion, which in consequence of mental excitement, due to business anxieties, became always worse and worse, in spite of every m anner of treatment. In July, 1897, the sufferer, at the advice of several physicians, visited a spa to drink the mineral waters. These had such a bad effect that his condition grew still more serious. His speech became af fected, and he no longer understood what he was talking about. Four of the most eminent physicians were sent for, and after a long consulta tion advised anointing with mercury (which, however, was only twice applied). The patients condition finally became so bad that when the physician put a question to him, he could onljTrepeat it but not give an answer. All hope of recovery in this way being given up, the patient was next taken to Vienna, in order to consult a famous specialist there. The diagnosis showed that the patient was suffering from atrophia cer ebri (atrophy of the brain) of luetic origin, paralysis progressiva, and would have to be confined in a lunatic asylum before long. An improve ment, in this phjsicians opinion, was no longer to be hoped for, never theless he prescribed potions of iodine (which advice was not followed). At the recommendation of a friend, the relatives now travelled with the patient direct to Leipzig, in order to make, as a last attempt, a trial of mjr method. At the commencement of the cure the patient did not speak a word; he was quite apathetical and paid no attention to the questions put to him. Moreover, he was no longer able to satisfy his natural needs like a hum an being, for the body was wholly without volition. As a result of the cooling baths and simple natural diet, an im provement was soon noticeable, and in three days the digestion had im proved. In a week the patient had recovered the use of his lost sense and could conserve again. Improvement now went on regularly, so that in 8 weeks he was completely cured, every trace of progressive paralysis having vanished. These two cases again afford a striking proof of the doctrine of the unity of disease. Did not mental disorders have the same origin as the other diseases already dealt with, it would not be possible to cure them, as here was the case bv the same means that proved so successful in the case of the other diseases.

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PULM ONARY AFFECTIONS. INFLAMMATION OF T H E LUNGS. TUBERCULOSIS. PLEURISY. LUPUS.

NOTHER disease which sadly puzzles the medical profession, defy ing all the attempted cures, is pulmonary phthisis, or consump tion. This is the great destroying angel of the present, which terrifies all mankind, demanding its victims irrespective of age and occupation. Probably no other disease is so widely spread as pulmonary consump tion in all its various forms and stages. The external symptoms of this dreaded disease vary so greatly that they are seldom the same in any two patients. One complains of difficulty in breathing, asthma; another of headache; a third of bad digestion; a fourth notices nothing at all until, a fortnight before his death, he is suddenly seized with in flammation of the lungs. A fifth also notices nothing, until he is all at once attacked by galloping consumption, and dies within a few days. A sixth suffers, as he believes, from caries, whilst in reality his complaint is tuberculosis. Many persons whose lungs are affected get pains in the shoulders, while others suffer from a disease of the eyes or ears, which conceals the real cause. Often it is disease of the throat, pharyngeal ca tarrh, bronchial catarrh, chronic nasal catarrh, etc., which are traceable to consumption. Others again have a chronic foot disease, open sores on the feet and legs; while we find also lupus and herpes, which like wise deceive anyone not proficient in my Science of Facial Expression as to the true seat of the illness. It is characteristic of nearly all consumptive persons that they keep their mouths more or less open not only by day, but also at night when asleep, for the purpose of quicker respiration. The reason for this is excessive internal bodily heat, which demands a more rapid supply of cool air from outside. It is the function of the lungs constantly to purify the blood circulat ing in the body, by the agency of fresh air. W hen they cannot proper ly perform this function, in consequence of their being encumbered with foreign matter, all the waste material which would otherwise have been expelled, remains in the system, continually increasing in quantity, and augmenting the amount of morbid m atter already there. The lungs are the organs chiefly here concerned and they therefore suffer most. The consequence is, that the condition of the blood becomes altogether abnormal, causing a dry, devouring heat in the interior of the body. As a result of this high internal temperature, the lungs become chronically inflamed and gangrenous. Such gangrenous parts then become socalled dead tissue, which is often expelled as phlegm in coughing. Today all consumptive diseases are rightly regarded with terror. The orthodox school of medicine, as cannot be disputed, is wholly unable to diagnose them with certainty, by means of percussion and ausculta

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tion, until they have reached such an advanced stage that cure is gen erally impossible. It is sad to think that notwithstanding the fact that the earlier stages of consumptive diseases may be ascertained years in advance, yet the medical profession, with its inexact system of diag nosis, is wholly unable to recognize them. It is just as impossible to cure a diseased lung by means of the fam ous (?) tuberculin, as it is to operate surgically upon it, as in the recent attempts at excision of the lung cavities. There is, as a m atter of fact, no remedy which is able fully to neutralize the process of destruction of the lungs. But there is a means by which we can cause the destruc tive process to retrogress on the same path by which it has been grad uallyoften for yearsadvancing. By my method I succeed in bringing about this retrogression of the process of disease. The most important m atter in the treatment of all pulmonary complaints, is the timely rec ognition of their preliminary stages, which are to be diagnosed with the aid of my Science of Facial Expression for many years in advance, often in early childhood. For this reason, my method of diagnosis is of incalculable value to the consumptive. In point of fact, to the ortho dox doctor this timely recognition of the disease is pretty much a mat ter of indifference, since orthodox medical science is not in a position to cure tuberculosis, whether it be in its earlier or later stages. The first stages are suchj that the patient himself generally has not the re motest idea of disease, wherefore it is often very difficult to convince the patient of his having a consumptive tendency. Thus animated by the best intentions, I once informed a domestic servant of mine, an ap parently strong, healthy girl, that she was suffering from pronounced consumption and would do well to commence a cure on my system, as otherwise the disease must certainly prove fatal within a year. The girl indignantly assured me that she was perfectly well, and had no need to undertake a cure. I said nothing, but four months before her death I repeated the warning, unfortunately with the same result as at first. Three months later she took to her bed, and within four weeks fell a victim to galloping consumption. I will now proceed to discuss the cause of pulmonary diseases. All affections of the lungs are final stages of some other preceding, not fully cured disease, which is generally driven inwardly by treatment with drugs. Sexual diseases lie at the root of most pulmonary affections, this indirectly being also the case with children, who inherit the predis position to such. The foreign m atter is accumulated in the system in a chronic state, but at procreation reappears in the child, which becomes scrofulous or consumptive. The seminal fluid is in reality a quintes sence containing all the characteristics of the parent and transferring them to the child. I have observed that scrofulous persons without ex ception become consumptive in later years, so that the first disease is but a preliminary stage of the latter. It can thus be seen that at first, i. e. in the scrofulous condition, the system still has vigor enough to ex pel the morbid m atter outwards, and so preserve vital organs. It grad ually loses this power, however, and is finally, i. e. when the state be comes consumptive, no longer able to prevent the destruction of the in ternal organs by foreign matter. It is quite impossible that persons who are really healthy can be suddenly attacked by any kind of tuberculosis in case of temporary encumbrance with foreign matter, however many

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tubercle bacilli they may inhale. For the development of tuberculosis there must be a high destructive internal temperature, tubercle bacilli only being capable of development at such abnormal temperatures. Such high, abnormal temperatures of the body are possible, however, only under certain conditions of encumbrance, inherited through sev eral generations, or where the patient by an unnatural mode of life has completely ruined his constitution. The main thing is clearly to perceive that all lung diseases, like all other diseases, have their source in the abdomen, that is, in a much de bilitated digestion. For even though in most cases the disease may be inherited, we must not regard the case as one of direct permeation of the lungs with foreign matter. The fact is, that in comparison with the other organs, the lungs have not properly developed but remain weak and delicate; and because thus capable of less resistance, the lungs then naturally become the seat of the largest accumulations of morbid matter. The foreign m atter collecting in the system, in conse quence of imperfect digestion, guided by the internal tension, is chiefly deposited where it finds least resistance. It is, therefore, of high im portance for all having hereditary predisposition to lung diseases, to prevent any further encumbrance of the system with foreign matter. The same cause which in our zoological gardens occasions the rapid death from consumption of the tropical apes, viz., debilitated digestion through change in food, is also the reason why they are so soon attacked by consumption at all. The sole blame has hitherto been laid upon the colder climate. This, however, is only right in so far that a cooler tem perature always renders the process of fermentation in digestion slower and more sluggish. This is more especially the case when the animals cannot even have the food designed for them by Nature, there then be ing two conditions militating against them. I have had frequent oppor tunities of watching the various stages of health in apes after their be ing removed from their tropical home, and I have been able by means of my diagnosis to ascertain exactly that at the commencement only the digestion was abnormal, until then other disorders set in. With human beings it is just the same, except that the conditions are usualty more favorable, since we are acclimatized. We have, therefore, prac tically only to regard our diet and mode of living. In the case of consumptive patients, I have frequently noticed that the system is not in a condition to nourish itself even on the most care fully selected food, being quite dried up on account of the excessive internal heat. Alimentation does not depend upon the artificial com position of foods, or on their concentration; it depends solely upon the digestive capacity of the organism. But how much the digestive capa city varies, is well known to everyone who has had much to do with the sick. If the system is already heavily encumbered with foreign m at ter, the lungs will be especially endangered, on account of their large extent, because the foreign m atter pressing up toward the head is often obliged to take its way through the lungs. When, now, the latter them selves are in this way once more encumbered, they* frequently become the chief place of deposit for foreign matter, which then no longer presses upwards towards the head as before. W hen decomposition commences in the lungs, it is the apexes which are usually first destroyed. This happens because the foreign m atter

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in the system, on its transformation or fermentation, always presses up wards. The apexes of the lungs terminate in the shoulders; when the state of fermentation sets in, the fermenting m atter presses up to the extreme points, and as it can go no further, the shoulders opposing a barrier to its progress, these points must necessarily suffer most. This is the cause of the pricking pain in the shoulders, so often experienced by consumptives before the lungs are destroyed.

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T H E CAUSE AND CURE OF NODULES

NOW come to the explanation of the origin of tubercular nodules. Tubercular nodules are formed quite in the same way as hemorrhoids, cancer nodules, and, in fact, all other nodules down to the smallest pimple. It will be necessary, for a clear description, to explain here somewhat fully. I have already mentioned that a healthy body has always a moist skin; that the skin of a chronic patient, on the contrary, is generally dry and inactive. In the former case, the body has still the full vital power, enabling it to expel all injurious m atter;"in the latter, this is no longer so, wherefore much morbid m atter which should prop erly be expelled, remains in the body, there being consequently a pre disposition to disease. You will often have observed that many people suffer periodically from boils, especially on the buttocks, on the neck, or on the arms. The patient will have been afflicted with a certain heavy feeling over the body, which only passes away when the boils break. W hen the crisis has thus passed, he feels as though regenerated, or at all events much lighter and fresher. Let us examine further, es pecially as regards the origin of such boils. W e observe where the boil is about to,form that for some days, or it may be weeks before, that the spot is hard and begins to look red. It increases in size, and swells, until a thick firm nodule forms under the skin, painful and inflamed. The skin draws, and the pain on moving is often very acute. W hen the boil has reached its crisis, it becomes gradually softer, until finally the contents force an outlet through the skin and discharge. In this m an ner the morbid m atter which formed the boil is directly expelled from the body. The process is nothing more or less than the critical expul sion of morbid matter, effected by the body itself. It may be asked why it is that we do not observe such a process with everyone. I have al ready stated that it is the same with the perspiration: some persons perspire, others do not. It depends upon the degree of vitality. W here the body still possesses a large store of vital energy, and all the morbid m atter cannot be expelled by means of the natural secretory organs, it secretes it in the form of boils. If, however, the body has no longer the required degree of vitality to produce such crises, e. < 7. if weakened by drugs, or during the crises, or through unnatural living, the morbid m atter accumulates and there is contraction, just as in the case of the boil, but the system cannot draw them to the skin to form a boil. Hard places form, causing no pain; but the process remains there, and in stead of a boil we have a nodule. This, therefore, is nothing but an undeveloped boil, or a quantity of foreign matter drawn together, which in many cases remains shut up in the body. If the body still possesses enough energy, the nodules will be brought up to the skin. W e can often clearly feel and see such in numbers in the neck and many other parts. W hen the vital energy is no longer sufficient, the nodules are formed on the interior of the body, and are known as hemorrhoids,

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tubercular or cancer nodules. If we succeed by some means in raising the vital energy of the body, we shall at once see an alteration in these nodules. It has long been observed in the hydropathic treatment, that numerous boils form. The body, by this method of cure, as still used to-day by the older school is able to continue the process which has stopped, and boils are formed. W here we can still further augment the bodily vitality than has been possible by the means hitherto adopted by hydropaths, we can even directly resolve and disperse these nodules. If, then, we can produce a rapid enough derivative action, such as by means of my baths, so as to conduct the morbid m atter thus dispersed to the natural organs of secretion, at the same time being careful not to introduce new morbid m atter through food, the troublesome boils never form on the skin at all, for the nodules are resolved in the interior of the body in the same way as they were formed. The older hydropathic system also succeeded in dispersing the nodules, but was not able to draw off the foreign matter, so that where the body still possessed the necessary vitality boils and pimples formed, which with my method rarely occur. I succeed in drawing off the foreign m atter in a more natural and rapid manner. W e see then that tubercular nodules are nothing more than undeveloped boils arising from the same cause as all other nodular growths in the body. The fact that the nodules form in different parts of the body in different persons, depends solely upon the difference in the encumbrances. Having now learned the cause and true nature of all nodules, and therefore also of tubercular nodules, the m anner of curing them is also clear to us. We see at once that to cut the nodules, as is taught by ortho dox medical science, is the worst means possible of trying to cure the disease. W e thus get rid of the symptoms, but never of the cause. The nodules can only be cured by increasing the vitality, whereby the body is brought into the condition to expel the morbid matter. By reason of the pecularity of the vital powers and of the conditions of existence, such nodules, even in a calcareous state, may be dispersed by being caused to retrogress upon their form er course. In this way, they may be com pletely expelled from the system, a process, however, which often re quires the continuance of my treatm ent for years. The directions taken by the masses of foreign m atter arising from the process of fermentation, are not always the same; it therefore occurs that in one case the apexes of the lungs are first affected, whilst in another, the fermenting masses rise more in the middle, or in the front, causing asthma, catarrh, or inflammation in the air passages. In fact, most consumptive patients suffer from an inflammation of the air-passages, even if often in a latent stage. The different chronic, latent states of encumbrance in the lungs also lead to acute inflammatory diseases such as Inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy. These are feverish curative crises brought on by the system in an attempt to reject foreign matter, and apt to terminate fatally, when their treatment is not understood. These acute feverish diseases are generally devoid of all danger, how ever, if immediately combatted by my method of cure. In the cooling baths we have the means of fully mastering the disease, so that it can scarcely be said to endanger the organism, and the cure of all these acute crises is generally surprisingly rapid.

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Explanatory of the above, I may here reproduce some reports of cases I have met with in my practice. I was once called in to a family, where a girl of nine was prostrate with severe inflammation of the lungs. The family doctor, an allopath, had already been treating the patient with creosote for a couple of months without success, and had so impaired the digestion with this poison, that the parents had given up all hopes of saving their daughter. This was the state of things as I was sent for in the last moment. I told the parents that if they would disregard the family doctors directions and follow mine strictly, improvement would probably ensue in a short time. And so it did. Already on the second day, a turn for the better was observed, and within a week all danger was past. In a few weeks the girl could again run about out of doors. Had my treatment been adopted from the outset, in this serious case, in stead of two months unnatural treatment with creosote, the cure would have been effected in a few days as completely as then in a few weeks. In all pulmonary diseases, in the interior of the lungs we find a very high temperature. During inspiration and expiration there always takes place within the lungs a very rapid process of decomposition of the atmospheric air. At the moment in which we respire, our lungs de compose this air into its constituent elements (oxygen and nitrogen). The oxygen remains partly in the body, while the nitrogen is again expired with the gaseous impurities of the body. There is thus an uninterrupted process of decomposition (burning) going on in the lungs, a m atter which long engaged the attention of chemists, before the fact was discovered. This process in itself causes a high temperature, which increases and becomes still more abnormal, wherever the for eign m atter accumulates, or ferments, in the lungs. As I have explained before, the bacilli are merely products of the fer mentation of foreign m atter in the system, and their capability of development always depends, according to their variety, on certain temperatures. Tuberculosis being invariably attended by a very high degree of temperature, we have here the condition for the development of the tubercle bacillus. This medical science likewise knows, but un fortunately is not aware how to turn its knowledge to account. It only seeks for unnatural remedies against the bacilli, whilst ignoring their nature. The medical profession endeavors to explain each disease by suppos ing the presence of a certain kind of bacillus in each case. It is forgotten that just as one and the same plant varies in different climates; and just as the plumage of one and the same species of bird varies in different climates; so all bacilli, as regards size and form, must be dependent on the tem perature (climate). To anyone who has rightly comprehended my remarks, it will be easy to find the way to cure consumptive diseases. The abnormal internal tem perature must be regulated, and at the same time the vital powers strengthened, until there is complete retrogression of the abnormal con ditions in the system. To attain this end, together with observance of dietetic and other regulations, the use of my baths is absolutely neces sary. The most difficult m atter is to apply the baths in right succession. The abnormal degree of temperature in the body does not admit of a diminution for a considerable time, so that not only the length of time but also the succession of the baths, must be regulated in exact accord

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ance with the state of the patient. This can be learned only under the guidance of some one fam iliar with my method, the more so, as there is much general misunderstanding about this point. The patient must also be much in fresh, sunny air; this is of great importance in effecting a cure and must never be overlooked. Especially for consumptives sunbaths have a most beneficial effect.

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TUBERCULIN INOCULATION CONDEMNED CURES BY TH E NATURAL METHOD DESCRIBED

S to inoculation with tuberculin, I condemn it altogether. Its effi cacy is easily explained. The poisonous m atter with which the tuberculous patients are inoculated operates on the foreign matter, under certain conditions, like yeast in dough, producing ferm enta tion (fever). In consequence, a change may take place in the original state of fermentation of the foreign m atter, causing a corresponding change in temperature. The result is that the tubercle bacillus, capable of development only in the form er temperature, passes into another stage, which is generally termed extinction. But the foreign m atter is never really expelled, nor the cause of the disease really wholly re moved. Inoculation is, and ever will be merely a pseudo-remedy, the ruinous effects on the health of which will surely come to light sooner or later. After only a few months, the outburst of joy called forth by the tuberculin process has given way to intense disappointment. On all sides we now hear, even from independent thinkers within the ranks of the orthodox physicians, nothing but condeipnation of the system. To day the m atter of inoculation with tuberculin has hardly even an historical interest. Here again we have a proof of the fact that vaccina tion, or inoculation of any kind, is the greatest quackery which there is. A real cure of advanced consumption can be effected by aid of my system, carefully practiced for years, even though in very advanced cases it may be difficult. In any event the condition of the patient can be rendered bearable till the very last moment. The cure of a consump tive depends solely upon his vitality, and whether the digestion is capable of improvement. If we succeed in improving the latter per manently, and rendering it normal, the patient will begin to recover in a surprisingly short time; if we are unsuccessful, cure is impossible. I have had many consumptive patients under treatment who were cured in an incredibly short space of time, because their digestion was open to rapid improvement. On the other hand, in the case of patients with hard purulent tubercules in the lungs, I have observed that the retrogres sion of these tubercules occupied years, and that every time one was dispersed a violent crisis was brought about, which although not danger ous was often very painful. My method enables us to regulate the in ternal temperature, whereby, if properly managed, the foreign m atter is caused to retrogress, so that a cure is gradually effected. If the body is strong enough, friction sitz-baths are the best means for expelling foreign m atter from lungs and abdomen. Steam-baths, which in summer are better replaced by sun-baths, are also often to be recom mended. Careful diet and plenty of fresh air are naturally also indis pensable.

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In cases where the disease is already very far advanced, these baths will be too exciting, and mild friction hip-baths are then advisable. The water may be at a tem perature of about 81 to 86 Fahr. and must reach to the shoulders. The patient may remain at first five minutes, and afterwards longer, in the bath, according to his condition. The bath should be repeated several times a day. If the body afterwards becomes stronger, friction sitz-baths can be taken. Frequently however, the vitality and the capacity for bodily reaction will not be sufficient to effect a cure; but in any case the baths will always alleviate the condition. W herever the digestion is capable of improvement, there is still hope of some cures. I will conclude with an account of some cures. Tuberculosis {Advanced). A woman of thirty, who was suffering from advanced tuberculosis, put herself under my treatment. She nearly always breathed through the mouth, particularly when sleeping. Her mother had died of consumption at the age of 45, the predisposition to which disease her children had inherited. In childhood, both my pa tient, her brothers and sisters had been very scrofulous. As a girl of 20, her face had been round and full, and the cheeks unhealthily red, turn ing quite blue in winter. Before she was thirty she had gradually lost her corpulence, and the color of the cheeks, as well as the condition of the whole body, became more normal. But towards the end of the twenties predisposition to consumption became more and more ap parent. The digestion grew irregular, constipation alternated with diar rhea, and the color and smell of the excrements plainly showed how abnormal was the digestive process. Besides frequent headache and toothache, she felt shooting pains, especially in the chest and shoulders. Such pains are felt only during the process of destruction of the lungs. As soon as parts of the lungs have been actually destroyed the pains cease. The patients m enstruation also was always painful and ir regular, often ceasing for months and then appearing too frequentlj\ All this was attended by general lassitude, great anxiety and discon tent. Anyone unacquainted with my Science of Facial Expression would have considered this woman, when she began my treatment, a picture of perfect health. A line ruddy complexion and a full figure deceived the uninitiated as to the really dangerous state of this patient. The lady began my treatm ent fully aware of her serious condition. I prescribed her cooling baths, steam-baths, an altogether unstimulating diet and prolonged stay in the open air. By this means her general health was so far improved within half a year, that going upstairs, and long walks which had formerly completely exhausted her, cost her no exertion whatever. A satisfactory digestion and a much more con tented hum or had been attained, while the headaches quite disappeared. It could plainly be seen, that the encumbrance had begun to retrogress back to the abdomen. Twice during the first year of treatment violent crises occurred, when tubercules in the lungs were dispersed. During these crises, which lasted two or three weeks, the patient frequently ex perienced a passing feeling of weakness, a curative crisis, which con sidering her chronic condition was not remarkable. During the second year of treatment, the patients condition showed decided improvement. Only two crises occurred, and thus after about two years her severe affection of the lungs was cured.

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Tuberculosis. Another case worth mentioning is the following. The patient was a gentleman aged about forty, who, in the opinion of several celebrated physicians, was consumptive, and had been accordingly advised to reside permanently in the south of Italy. I ex amined the patient by the aid of my Science of Facial Expression and found that the disease was a very chronic one, so that a stay in a warm climate could not possibly have prolonged his life for more than a year. I began with my cure at once. After only four weeks treatment, his general health steadily improving, a catarrh of the bladder and in testines appeared, from which, nine years before, he had suffered severely for a long time. The disease this time, however, appeared in much m ilder form and was cured within a fortnight. The vitality of the body being raised by my method, these chronic and formerly suppressed disorders made their appearance again in acute form. The patient also suffered from gonorrhoea, to which he had likewise been a victim several times when in the twenties, but which had always been suppressed by medical injections. This was quite cured in two weeks. The lung complaint had now assumed an entirely different appearance, so that the patient considered himself quite well. By my advice, however, he continued the treatm ent for some time longer, and in a year and a half was completely cured. Tuberculosis of the Bone and Caries. Very many patients afflicted with the above have undergone my treatm ent with the best results. In nearly all these cases the sufferers had in childhood had the rickets in a certain sense only a prelim inary stage to the later disease. From infancy their bones had been unsound, carious and easily fracturedin the most cases this could be ascertained with certainty. "At puberty, or even earlier, caries appeared, the bones of the legs or arms suppurating and swelling like a sponge, the joints also becoming greatly enlarged. In the case of some, the leg or arm had been amputated, and the m ajority of the patients had been declared incurable before coming to me for treatment. On my system, retrogression of the disease began immediately, but amputated limbs cannot be replaced. According to my view, surgical operation in any disease whatever is the most unsuitable means possible to adopt as a cure. I m aintain that no such unnatural procedure has ever yet really cured such a disease, or got rid of the cause. Only when we understand how to cause disease to retrogress on the same road on which it came can we cure it. I recollect the case of a boy who came for treatment, hoth of whose shins from knee to ankle were open and suppurating. The doctors had proposed to amputate both legs, whereupon the parents brought the boy to me. The cooling baths and unstimulating diet were commenced and after only four weeks the bared bones began to be covered from within outward, the skin growing over the sores, which were quite eight inches long, just as on a tree the bark grows over an injured spot. In six months, both legs were quite healed, excepting two small trifling scabby places, which likewise disappeared within two months more. Moreover, the boys general health was completely changed, and instead of his form er melancholy disposition there was true childish mirthfill ness. In another case, a boy of ten had a tuberculous knee which was like wise to have been amputated. This time it lasted over three-quarters of

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a year before the morbid m atter was all drawn up from the knee-joint to the seat of the disease, the abdomen, where it was expelled at a sore on the thighbone suppurating uninterruptedly for three months. It was more than three months longer before he could walk and run like other children. Asthma. A lady, 65 years of age was so asthmatic that the physician in attendance, whose creosote pills and powders had only made her whole condition, and especially her digestion, much worse, prescribed as a last resource a stay in the South, there being no remedy which could be of any aid in such an advanced stage of asthma. The patient could scarcely take 10 consecutive paces so great was her difficulty in drawing breath. Anyone who knows the remedies of orthodox medical science, is aware that sending the patient to a w arm er climate is only equivalent to saying: Nothing is to be done for you. W e for our part give you up. Now try whether Mother Nature can aid you! This patient also took it in this sense and therefore, at a friends recommendation, put herself under my treatment, declaring to her doctor that she would rather die here than in a strange country. At the beginning of December, in bad, foggy weather, she placed herself in my hands. The upward pressure of the foreign m atter in her body was very strong. She followed my in structions most conscientiously and it was not long before the upward pressure grew less, her digestion improving in a most satisfactory manner. The secretions of foreign matter, in the form of perspirations, were abundant. The patient, according to my instructions, took cooling baths daily and often a steam-bath. Thus in a few months the retrogres sion of the disease was over. All the symptoms which had appeared from time to time during the progress of the disease, now reappeared, though the retrogression proceeded about twelve times as fast as the disease itself had done. Each month of treatment removed an en cumbrance which had been about twelve months accumulating, so that within three months she was completely cured of asthma. Another interesting case of asthma may here be mentionedthat of a gentleman of about sixty, who had been suffering from asthma for several years and given up by his doctors. In consequence of the medi cines he took for years, he was in an extremely weak state. The very first baths brought the patient relief, but as this feeling was only experienced during the bath, or for a short time after it, the patient bathed oftener than I had recommended. Even during the night he not infrequently took a bath, the tormenting cough not admitting him of sleep. Each time, after bathing for half an hour he could sleep quietly for an hour, until with the increasing fever the cough became so violent as to prevent further slumber. During each bath his system gathered so much vital power, that he could cough up a large amount of sup purating matter, this always bringing relief. From month to month, the patient, who had been little better than a living corpse, grew more vigorous and lively. After having applied the cure for a little over a year, he had so far regained health also in other respects, that to the astonishment of all his friends, his head, hitherto almost bald, became covered with a considerable aftergrowth of gray hair. Lupus. The innumerable successful cures effected by my method, also in the case of lupus, proves that in this disease, as in all others, my

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doctrine of the unity of disease holds true. I will here cite a case of lupus, of general interest. The patient was a lady, 41 years of age, and had been perfectly healthy until vaccinated in her second year; from that time dated her misery. After the vaccination, obstinate eruption of the skin broke out, which in her tenth year developed into lupus of the face. For over thirty years this lady had suffered from this painfully disfiguring disease, without finding assistance anywhere, notwithstanding that she consulted many famous physicians. Her face was horrible to look at; in fact she could go nowhere without people turning their gaze from her with aversion. In this helpless condition she came to me, all the doctors having pronounced her disease incurable. My diagnosis showed an ex tremely favorable position of the encumbrance, so that I could assure her of good prospects of a rapid cure. This opinion was confirmed. After only a fortnight the disfiguring lupoid places on the face had undergone considerable change and were no longer quite so repulsive. Her digestion, in particular, which had till now never received any at tention, had also improved quite remarkably. The result was abnormal evacuations, whereby the morbid humors were expelled. In seven weeks the patients skin assumed the normal color. The rapid cure in this case was due solely to the fact that the encum brance was a front one. Readers of my work on my new system of diag nosis, the Science of Facial Expression, will know how to explain this. I have had lupus cases also which, though not nearly so deep-seated, took a much longer time to cure. The most wearying cases are, as exper ience shows, those in which the encumbrance is in the back, or left side. Many such patients have stopped the treatment after only a few weeks, because they could rem ark no particular change in their con dition, or at most improved digestion. Unfortunately they did not pos sess the perseverance to continue for the time required to effect a cure of their disease. My system proved very successful in the case of a lady in Stettin. The patient had suffered from lupus of the face for nineteen years, and could no longer show herself to anyone. She always wore a thick veil, in order to conceal her disfigured face. All the remedies at the com mand of modern medical science had been tried unsuccessfully for nineteen years by this lady before she came under my treatment. Im provement at once began, and a cure was soon effected. The lady wrote me the following unsolicited letter of thanks: "Dear Mr. Kuhne: Stettin. I feel it my duty to express my warmest thanks to you for the good effects of your method in my serious case. I employ it with the greatest success and now feel strong and well again, and am again able to attend to my duties without difficulty. I feel all the happier, because all the doctors whom I have consulted within the last nineteen years have been unable to help me or even afford relief. For this reason I recommend this method to all sufferers from what ever cause, in the firm conviction that it will aid them, and beg, Sir, that you will publish this for the benefit of the cause, and of all sufferers. W ith sincere gratitude, I remain, Yours faithfully, A. S.

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SEXUAL DISEASES

WAY with prudery, away with false shame, which are but the veil to mischievously blind; the veil behind which, concealed to view, there sprouts and flourishes in all its hideous corruption, the evil which in the light of knowledge and common sense must fade and die. If we would speak of the hidden ills of mankind, of secret diseases, it must be openly and without reserve. So widespread and so great is the mischief which sexual diseases cause to mankind, that it would be nothing short of sin, were I to remain silent, when my system of cure has given me such a complete mastery over these com plaints. An immense amount of misery is caused to mankind simply by the general ignorance which prevails concerning the nature of these diseases, and more especially as regards their treatm ent with medica ments. For this reason alone, it appears absolutely necessary to speak openly on the matter. The fact that to-day sexual diseases are more common than ever before, cannot be disputed. Syphilis, in particular, which claims hundreds of thousands of victims annually, brings with it the most unspeakable misery. The methods employed, except that of the Nature School, are power less against syphilis; at the most they succeed, the body being smeared with mercury or the like, in bringing about a temporary latent state of the disease, a standstill for the time being, which unfortunately is often called a cure and regarded by the patient as such. But exactly for this reason, unspeakable mischief has been wrought. For many patients, on the strength of the doctors assurance that they are cured, have m arried: only too soon to find out from the sad results of the marriage, how greatly they have been deceived. The health and life of the wife are placed in the greatest jeopardy by cohabitation with a man in whose system there is latent syphilis. The nature of sexual intercourse is such, that there is, in a certain degree, mutual compensation between the two bodies. Thus if the woman is not very healthy, latent syphilis is soon transmitted to her; having as a result that she falls a victim to one disease or another. The children of such marriages are always unfit, never being properly developed. For this reason, I maintain that the latent stage of syphilis is far more dangerous than the acute one; for in the latter, the person affected bears a sign that plainly shows the true state^of affairs. The medical profession acknowledges a latent stage of syphilis, though only able positively to ascertain its existence, when acute syphilis again breaks out after a continued period of latency. Then when quite un able to deny the fact, it confesses that the disease has been latent in the system all the while. But if the facts did not speak so plainly, modern science even here would certainly never admit the existence of a latent state of disease. By the aid of the Science of Facial Expression, the latent stage of

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syphilis cannot remain concealed, even in cases where such acute re lapses have not yet occurred. And by its means we are likewise enabled to ascertain, long in advance, any predisposition to sexual disease, so that the ill can be obviated. I need not enter into details concerning the sexual diseases: the whites, gonorrhea, chancre, bubo, syphilis, pollu tions, etc. The name of each particular sexual disease is quite in different to us, since we know that all have one common cause. The difference in their form, we know, depends simply upon the difference in the predisposition, that is in the encumbrance of the particular per son with foreign matter. It is by no mere chance that Nature has partly combined the sexual and secretory organs. The system strives to direct the products of secre tion toward these outlets, for which reason the largest accumulations of foreign m atter are found here. This is most distinctly observable in women, and is therefore of importance in sexual intercourse. It is unavoidable that these sharp secretions should be transmitted to the body like an ointment, by reason of capacity of the skin for absorption. Thus the most morbid m atter present in the woman, is transmitted to the man, and vice versa. If the man is more heavily encumbered than the woman, the semen, composed of the fluids of his body, will be in corporated in the womans system and make her more diseased than before. There is another circumstance which must be explained somewhat fully. Sexual impulse itself is a fact which, although universal, has not been satisfactorily explained, and remains more or less obscure. Orthodox medicine has little to say about its nature, still less as to when it is normal, and least of all upon the causes rendering it abnormal. Nevertheless one finds in the text-books that next to the instinct of selfpreservation, the instinct of propagation is the strongest there is in the body. It is therefore inconceivable, why the factor only second in im portance to life, should now-a-days be so despised as to be considered, in a measure, as something unnatural, as extremely unsesthetic and indecent. Sexual impulse, like all other impulses, has a normal state and an abnormal one, resulting from the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter. In the state of the sexual impulse, one has a very accurate thermometer for the condition of ones health; especially for any latent, chronic stage of disease, and for the effect of the mode of liv ing on the organism. The latter is only brought from its normal con dition by reason of increased pressure of foreign m atter towards the natural secretory organs, and consequent increased excitation of the nerves. This pressure also affects the sexual apparatus, and causes an increased sexual impulse, accompanied by gradually decreasing potency. Normal sexual impulse leaves man quite free from any dis turbing lust of sense or thought. The impulse is normal only in healthy individuals, and can only be kept normal by a wholly unstimulating diet and natural mode of living. It becomes abnormal whenever there is an encumbrance of the system with foreign matter, or when a chronic, latent condition of disease begins. It is only a person whose body is already encumbered with morbid matter, who can get a disease of the sexual organs. Thus it can be ex plained why the transmission of the poison of gonorrhea, chancre and syphilis should infect one person and not another. I know of cases in

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which, of two men exposed to the same danger of infection, one re mained quite well, while the other was infected. I also know another case in which a woman had intercourse with but one man for a length of time, his intercourse being similarly only with her. On his removal to another place, his successor followed him in the possession of this woman. Now although neither of the men was ill, nor had any intercourse with other women, the second m an was at tacked by syphilis in a short time, whereas the woman remained quite unaffected by it. As already observed, the foreign m atter accumulated in the sexual organs of the one person, is directly transmitted by sexual intercourse, and operates on the foreign m atter in the other person like yeast in dough, creating fermentation, especially when there is a tranquillizing and strengthening effect on the system, brought about by the mutual equalization. By this action, the system gains so much in vitality, that it is stimulated to an attempt to expel the foreign m atter which it con tains, by a curative crisis, like gonorrhea, chancre or syphilis. These facts also throw light on those frequent cases in which a husband, for instance, after living for years in regular sexual intercourse with his wife, is infected with syphilis through chance intercourse with another presumably healthy woman. The intercourse between the m arried couple did not have this effect, the systems of the two persons having mutually compensated each other; whereas the new intercourse re quired an entirely different equalization, causing disease. I mention these cases only to show in what m anner sexual diseases arise, and what part the direct transmission of the contagious m atter plays in the case. It is far from my intention to support illicit sexual intercourse in any way whatever. But here I have only to do with dis ease, its nature, cause and cure, and must, therefore, also adduce ex amples such as the above, which, unfortunately, are only too common.

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SEXUAL DISEASES ONLY CURATIVE CRISES

E come, then, to see that sexual diseases are nothing more than curative crises of the system, by means of which the latter en deavors to expel the foreign m atter burdening it. Thus, to ef fect a cure, we must get rid of the cause of the disease, the for eign m atter encumbering the body, when all ills resulting from such cause will gradually disappear. The error of the orthodox medical school is a most mischievous one. By means of injections, medicaments (most dangerous poisons), such as mercury in various forms, iodine, iodide of potassium, iodoform, etc.,* the orthodox doctor thinks to cure disease, whereas, in reality, he is simply suppressing the curative action of the body. This naturally can only be at the cost of bodily vitality, which otherwise would have been able to bring about a curative crisis. On the introduction of the poison, all the vital power is required to render uninjurious, so that the organism may be maintained. It is thus wholly diverted from its curative action. W hat the orthodox medical school calls a cure, thus discovers itself to be a far more serious injury to the system than was the natural state of disease. Its true character is hidden, however, for it is clad in the tempting and deceitful garb of a painless and delusive, but chronic latency. Thus, no longer exhibiting the acute symptoms of the earlier sexual disease, it is unhappily mistaken by the many as a true cure. Supported by irrefutable proofs, I am justified in thus reproaching the much lauded medical profession with making such grave errors. Some of these proofs I will here produce. As we have seen, the suppression of sexual diseases by means of drugs indicates no improvement at all, but only a pseudo-cure, a mis chievous aggravation of the condition. Should we sooner or later though it may take yearssucceed in restoring the vital power of a per son whose organism has been thus weakened by drugs, it may happen that all those symptoms which have been suppressed, reappear tem porarily in milder form. This has been proved in a most striking man ner innumerable times in my practice. The derivative action of my baths enable us to hold these diseases in such complete check, that they altogether lose their dreadful appearance. No one need fear these harmless curative crises. They are a natural result of the dispersion of the morbid m atter in the system, and of the drugs which have been applied. W ith my method, all sexual diseases, even the much dreaded syphilis, lose their frightful guise. I am not exaggerating when I assert this dis ease which is incurable by medical treatment, can be radically cured by my system like any other disease, without any injurious effects what ever on the patients future offspring having to be feared. At the same

The author, had he lived until the discovery of salvarsanj and neo-salvarsan, would certainly have included such pseudo remedies in his list.

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time, I am far from saying that every syphilis patient is curable, but only those whose digestion is capable of improvement. Even where the treat ment may last very long, there is always the clear possibility of a cure, in proportion to the vitality and the nature of the encumbrance of the patient. The appearance of a sexual disease, as already stated, is merely a sure sign of a heavy encumbrance of the system with foreign matter, or, in other words, of a latent disease. If not cured, however, such disease becomes the preliminary stage of other chronic and usually worse dis ease, such as asthma, pulmonary affections, tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, dropsy, gout, etc. And even if these do not always appear in the patient himself, the results of the false drug-treatm ent unfortunately only too often make themselves seen in the offspring. Many an innocent mother is at a loss to imagine the reason for the appearance of some such disease as affection of the lungs, tuberculosis, scrofula, rickets in her children, because she is ignorant of the true cause of these com plaints, and cannot throw the blame upon herself. Of the husbands secret sexual diseases and of the effects on the offspring, she knows nothing. Here we see again, the sins of the parents against the children. The sick, weakly offspring is a m irror from which, equipped with my new teachings, the physical condition of the parents at the time of pro creation may be learned exactly. On examining the course of the most common sexual diseases, such as the whites and gonorrhea, we obtain fresh confirmation of my theories touching morbid matter. Attended by local inflammation, the system ejects the morbid or foreign m atter (pus) from the body. Through this fermenting, feverish process, the inner organs may also be simul taneously attacked and inflamed, when one does not know how to render the process wholly harmless to the organism. In such case, the process would be a curative crisis in the true sense of the word. The larger the amount of the morbid m atter expelled, the greater is the cleansing effect on the system. The chief point is to render this process of secretion as painless and little disturbing to the body as possible, yet at the same time in no way to interfere with its thorough working. By means of my baths, suited to the particular circumstances of each case, we attain the desired result in the most satisfactory manner. The dura tion of the cure, naturally, depends upon the exact extent of the en cumbrance. Consider for a moment the remedies applied by orthodox medical science in sexual diseases: corrosive injections, with solutions of lead, mercury, zinc and iodoform into the urethra or vagina, with the object of forcibly suppressing the excretive efforts of beneficent nature. The very character of the drug is sufficient to show the utter perversity of such attempts. It is surprising that no one has yet asked himself where the pus goes to after the suppression of suppuration with medicaments. Nature never does anything without a definite reason. Natural pro cesses can only be assisted by natural means, not by unnatural remedies running counter to all the conditions of life. It is through this gross mistake of medical orthodoxy that we find everywhere lunatic asylums, hospitals, clinics and sanatoriums spring ing up like mushrooms. If the remedies of the medical profession were

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really beneficial, one would, on the contrary expect to find a decrease in the num ber of these institutions. In closing this part of the present chapter, I will cite two cases from my practice. Some years ago a man, about fifty years of age, consulted me concerning a serious disease of the heart. After I had given him the requisite advice, and he had followed my cure for a fortnight, there ap peared a form er affection of the kidney, and after this was cured, just a fortnight later, an attack of gonorrhea, from which he had suffered eighteen years before. Both disorders appeared in a far m ilder form than when he first had them. W ithin a week, the gonorrhea was also healed, and the patients general health improved surprisingly, whilst his heart disease had vanished completely. During the course of treat ment, the patient related to me that he had formerly first suffered from gonorrhea, and had consulted two of the most celebrated professors, whose remedies had had the desired effect: the disappearance of the gonorrheal symptoms. Some years afterwards, the gonorrhea re turned, but a second time he quickly got rid of the complaint by using medicaments. Two years later he was attacked by the kidney disease, which had given him much trouble. This, after consulting eight well known physicians, he at all events so far suppressed by medicaments that the alarming symptoms disappeared. Not long after, the heart dis ease began, which had refused to yield to any remedy, threatening finally to pass over into dropsg. I explained to him that the gonorrhea had not been cured, but simply forced back into the system, and thus formed a preliminary stage of his subsequent kidney disorder, which on suppression became, in turn, the cause of the heart disease, which, with out my treatment, would have ended in dropsy. Of the connection between these various symptoms, he was fully convinced by the cure. I may now mention a case of syphilis. Baron v. E., aged 47, consulted me some years ago for syphilis, from which he had suffered for ten years. He related how he had four times undergone the allopathic treatm ent by mercurial inunction, at the hands of eminent doctors. He had likewise been dosed with potassium iodide; but in spite of all this the syphilitic symptoms always returned, and open sores in the mouth and on the feet made their appearance. As a consequence, he lost all faith in allopathy, the more so as his general health after the mercurial treatment was no longer nearly so good as formerly. More recently he had suffered from a feeling of oppression in the head, and he had lost his clear memory. By means of my Science of Facial Expression, I ascertained that my patient was suffering from a serious encumbrance, besides which there were distinct signs of medicinal poisoning. It was quite clear that the syphilis had only been rendered latent by the mercurial treatment. I ordered two or three baths daily, and simple, natural diet. The result was favorable, for in half a year the condition of the patient had quite changed; his digestion, above all, had greatly improved, and his appearance was fresh and healthy. W ith the removal of the cause, the syphilis also, entirely dis appeared; nor will it ever return. Further reports of cures will be found in Part IV. Impotence. There is no more striking proof of the degenerate con dition of the present generation than the so common disease impotence. Medical science has, up till now, been able to find no cure for this illness.

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It stands absolutely powerless against it, because it is not acquainted with its nature. Medical orthodoxy does not know, that every diseased condition of a patient is caused only by the body becoming encumbered with morbid or foreign matter. Every case of impotence may be healed, if we can but free the body of its encumbrance. To-day, armed with experience and the results of my system of cure, we are in the happy position of being able to attain this end. W ith a quiet conscience I can say, that in very many cases a cure has already been effected, and that such cures will continue to be effected, if my method is intelligently used and the treatment persevered in with an iron will. All irregulari ties in the functional power of the sexual organs can be cured by abolishing the cause. In the same way also the sexual impulse can be normalized, so that the person thus cured is in a position to live quite naturally as regards the sexual condition. How often do we find that the firmest moral principles are powerless to guard against the most un natural sexual excesses, such as, for instance, onanism. I find comfort ing assurance in the many warm words of gratitude which I have earned from earnest youths and men of true moral character, who through my methods have been freed from these fatal habits. (See reports of cures, Part IV.) Impotence in women we know as sterility. It occurs not only as the result of malformation or abnormality of the inner sexual organs; there may also be complete insensibility of these organs. I have dealt with this m atter more in detail in the chapter on Diseases of Women, Part III. Sexual impulse in men is quite different from that in women, and im potence, therefore, also takes another form in males. We may remark perfectly definite symptoms years before it actually occurs; abnormally increased and nervous sexual desire, the result of chronic disease. In the case of children and youths, there is great irritability, resulting from chronic inflammtaion of the sex organs, whence proceeds that so much spread evil of to-day, masturbation. In adults we find the irritability taking the form of unnaturally increased sexual desire; and simul taneously the mind is more or less captivated with wholly unnatural erotic thoughts. In youth there arises a growing shyness in the presence of the female sex, which in many cases amounts to absolute fear and is nearly always accompanied by impotence. If to-day we find so many well situated men unm arried, the real cause of the fact lies in a certain shyness before women, arising from impotence. How' many young men in the best years are already quite unable to normally perform the sex act, having become impotent as the result of onanism. How many suicides, or attempted suicides, are not to be ascribed to this cause? The following interesting case may be cited here. Some years since, a young man, aged about 23, the heir to a large estate, consulted me. He had practised onanism since his twelfth year, and now intended to try my method of cure, which had been warmly recommended to him, in order to gain mastery over his vice. Day and night he was haunted by his trouble; he was already quite incapable of learning anything. Powerless, as he said, he was compelled to resign himself to this self-abuse, although he strove with all his might against it. A remedy, he had looked for in vain; nor did his will prove strong enough to resist the impulse. Sometimes, it is true, with the greatest

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determination, he had succeeded in banishing the vice for some months; then, overcome by an unresistable impulse, he had given himself all the more to the indulgence of his passion. He was possessed with the deepest feeling of inward dissatisfaction, felt himself useless in the world and went about with the thought of committing suicide. Now, his parents wished him to m arry; but he felt an absolute aversion to it, being alto gether impotent. He set his last hopes in my method; if that did not succeed, he would refuse entering into matrimony. An examination of his condition by means of my Science of Facial Expression showed that the cause of his impotence was chronic dys pepsia, to get rid of which was naturally the first task. His bodyon account of his early manhoodwould react most favorably for the cure, so I could assure him of the best prospects. Conscientiously and ener getically, he followed my system, and after only a few months his con dition was greatly improved. My theory had here again found a brilliant testimony to its truth. The baths, which went right to the root of the disease, proved most effectual, assisted by a natural, unstimulating diet. After thirteen months treatm ent the impotence and onanism were cured quite in the same way as so many other cases have been success fully treated.

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DISEASES OF T H E BLADDER AND KIDNEYS. DIA BETES. URAEMIA. BED-WETTING. LIVER COMPLAINTS. GALL-STONES. JAUNDICE. INTESTINAL DISEASES. SW EATING FEET. HERPES.

T may appear very unsystematical, and altogether unmethodical, to thus class together a num ber of morbid conditions, which at first sight to the layman seem to have nothing in common. In the eye of the med ical profession they are, it is true, all quite separate diseases, each accordingly having its own special treatment. Under the powerful lens of my new science of healing, however, we are able to discover their common origin and intimate relation. The origin of all is again to be readily explained by accumulations of foreign m atter; and here we have especially to do with the accumula tions affecting the normal function of those organs so important for the secretion of waste m atter from the body: the kidneys and skin. Here belongs, too, a consideration of the cause of the gases which arise in the stomach during digestionso-called flatulence. These gases through their expansion in the digestive canal, together with the! vermicular movement of the intestines, contribute on the one hand to carry forward the food; on the other hand, in volatile state, likewise by reason of their expansive power, they pass directly through the walls of the digestive canal into the whole body and the blood. To make this clear, I will give you an illustration. The water upon the earth is limited to definitely bounded seas, lakes and rivers, so that the earth possesses a system of water-veins, resembling the blood-vessels in the hum an body. In addition to this, however, in gaseous form the water also fills the whole air and all parts of the earth. It is similar with the food and drink conveyed into the body; they are apparently limited to well-defined passages and organs, and yet they permeate the whole body, partly in a gaseous state. Hence alcohol (beer, wine, brandy) is felt soon after drinking, throughout the entire body, especially in the head, even though the gases are expelled partly as perspiration and ex halations, if the skin performs its function normally. They are expelled both without perspiration and as perspiration. This perspiration smells differently in the case of almost every person. W henever it becomes abnormally saturated with old foreign matter, it smells disagreeably. Normal perspiration, on the contrary, hardly affects our sense of smell unpleasantly. Inside the body a secretion of these gases also occurs through the ureters into the bladder. Perspiration and urine are, there fore, two nearly equivalent and similar products of secretion. As soon as the bladder is sufficiently full, a desire to pass water is felt, and must be immediately gratified, if the system is not to suffer serious injury.

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This point is too im portant to be lightly passed over. Unfortunately, prudery and present day customs often prevent our acting as we should in this respect, so that it is little wonder that we find m atter retained in the bladder and kidneys, which should have been expelled. Parents and teachers canot be sufficiently admonished to explain to children the evils arising from retention of the urine and faeces. In no case should children (in whom the transformation of m atter goes on much more rapidly than in adults, and whose vitality is also far higher) ever be kept from statisfying their needs in this respect, if we would save them from injurious, perhaps dangerous, consequences. Should the urine in the bladder not be expelled at the right time, like everything else in the human body it is subject to a further constant alteration, fermentation taking place. The tem perature of the bladder is raised, and as a natural consequence, there is evaporation of the fluid part of the urine, the salts remaining behind. By this process the subsequent secretions of the kidneys are prevented from entering the bladder and likewise undergo changes. If the desire to empty the bladder or bowels is not gratified at the right time, it often passes and then it is difficult to recall it when we will. But what, then, becomes of the urine? It has decreased in the bladder and must therefore have in some way reentered the body. Part of the urine, we know, in consequence of its constant process of decom position, has again passed into a gaseous state, and has reentered the entire system and the blood, just as in the digestive process. In this process of vaporization, the salts and other insoluble m atter remain in the form of minute yellow crystals in the bladder and kidneys and are afterwards, though not always wholly, expelled. If the sediment in the chamber vessel is examined under the microscope, magnified two hundred times, we shall find that it consists of minute, yellow crystals, which look yellow singly, but reddish when seen all together. This process, when the bladder is particularly heavily encumbered, leads to the common disorder called Stone, the treatm ent of which is described more in detail on the following page. Stones form only under abnormal bodily conditions, or as the result of an unnatural diet. They arise in the same way as docs the incrustation in steam-boilers, which forms only at a high temperature, when hard water has been used, being much less with soft rain-water. The urine retained in kidneys evaporates, and the little crystals unite. As long as they are very small, they pass through the ureters with the urine into the bladder, without causing disturbance; but when they grow larger, they cause, during their passage through the ureters, the pains known as nephritic colic, their sharp, crystalline surfaces irritating and injuring the membrance of the ureters. In the bladder itself the same process takes place. Should the urinal outlets, by reason of heavy encumbrance of the abdomen, become narrowed (strictures ), it may easily happen that the stones can no longer be expelled with the urine, and then form the basis of a larger crystalline mass in the bladder. By the continual motion of the stone in the bladder it assumes a rounded appearance, but it always retains a crystalline fracture. That stones will always form if urine is retained does not follow. The character of the urine may be such that the whole of it is transformed and is deposited as foreign m atter in the body. In this case, it may lead to most various diseases, such as nodular formations, as described

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on pages 111 to 114. Some years ago, I had a boy under my treat ment, whose whole body was covered with nodules, about the size of a pea. These arose when, in consequence of a cold, he could pass no water for several days. I explained that the nodules would soon vanish if they were only a result of the retention of urine; our task would be to trans form them into urine again. The boy thus commenced my cure, and in a few days copious quantities of water were passed, which continued for several days. To the astonishment of the mother, the nodules dis appeared all of a sudden, as it were. In this case the foreign m atter arising from the transformation of the urine, had formed the nodules, which the body, having a high vitality, was able to secrete again. Diarrhea and Constipation, as I have already shown, arise from one and the same cause: the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter. It is just the same with urination, only that here the obstruction is not directly; but only indirectly perceptible, through abnormal color of the skin, abnormal redness, herpes, headache, tumors, stone, etc. In a sense, we have here only a preliminary stage of other diseases. Diabetes, a disease resembling dysentery, is, on the contrary, directly perceptible. The inflammation caused by the internal fever, to which also, the tormenting thirst of diabetic patients is due, does not in this case occasion constipation and the ferm entation of stone and tumors, but a too rapid removal of matter, accompanied by decomposition of the juices. The urine thus issues from the body in a morbid, fermented, sweetish state. Stone and diabetes are identical in character, differing only in external symptoms. To patients suffering from these diseases, my baths are of the greatest value; they diminish the internal fever, thus relieving the great thirst. Both stone and diabetes have been cured by my treatm ent in one and the same manner, by getting rid of the cause. The stone disintegrates into granular particles, in which form it is usually expelled with the urine. In treating sufferers from stone, it is surprising what large quan tities of water they are obliged to pass when taking the baths. The pa tients always wonder where all the water comes from, though the ex planation is very simple. The urine which formerly had evaporated and accumulated as foreign m atter in all parts of the body, is now brought back along its old paths, finally leaving the body as urine. I have had patients who for some time could pass water properly only during the baths. The normal condition of the bladder returned gradually, step by step with the disappearance of the cause of the disease. In the case of Em peror W illiam I, we see how* old one may become despite stone, for although he suffered from a large stone in the bladder, he attained the age of 90. This was solely due to the favorable position of the encumbrance of the deceased monarch. The disorder, however, showed itself much earlier and in a far worse form in the case of his son, the late Em peror Frederick. Uraemia, a condition in which urea is found in the blood and entire system, generally accompanies disease of the bladder and stone. For experts in my Science of Facial Expression, this derangement does not remain hidden, even in the very first stages, when the patients them selves do not yet have any idea of it. There is no remedy which so

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quickly cleanses the blood, and the whole system, of this foreign matter, as the baths recommended by me. Bed-wetting is that unpleasant state in which the patients cannot re tain their water, is likewise to be traced solely to the encumbrance of the abdomen with foreign matter. A fistula has usually formed in the blad der, through which the urine escapes. This condition is almost in variably due to other previous, uncured diseases, forced back into the system by medicaments and unnatural treatment. (See Reports of Cures, Part IV). Both this form of disease and Intestinal Fistula have often been rad ically cured in my practice in a very short time, frequently in a few days or weeks. A longer cure is only necessary when the disorder has al ready become chronic, and the patient has been injured by the drug treatment. Catarrh of the Bladder is to a certain extent only an acute preliminary stage of a serious bladder disease and stone, a critical, inflammatory state of the bladder and urinary passages attended by painful urination. Like all acute forms of fever, it can be very quickly cured by my method, its cause being the same as that of all other diseases. I was called upon one occasion to a patient who had been suffering from catarrh of the bladder for already a fortnight. The prostate was much swollen and the patient could only urinate with the greatest pain. Every ten minutes, also, there were extremely severe spasms of the bladder. As the urination was becoming more difficult and painful every day, the doctor in attendance, on the evening of the fourteenth day, proposed to use a catheteraltogether impossible considering the swollen condition of the prostate. The physician said he would have to chloroform the patient, which the latter would not allow, sending for me the same night. The first friction bath caused the spasms, which otherwise had come on every ten minutes, to cease; and after half an hours bath, the patient could pass water without pain. Having taken the bath for three quarters of an hour he got into bed again. During the night very copious perspiration broke out, and he passed large quantities of urine, without any pain at all. In a few days, in this way, the catarrh was completely cured. Liver-complaint, Gallstones, Jaundice principally occur in cases where there is an encumbrance of foreign m atter on the right side of the body. The secretion of the liver, the bile, which as we know is emptied from the gall-bladder into the duodenum, exercises an influence on the digestive process, diminishing fermentation. W henever the liver is affected by an encumbrance of the right side, and its normal secretive function is thus obstructed, I have noticed that an entirely different amount of perspiration exudes from the body, than when the encum brance is on the left side. Thus arise, according to the nature of the en cumbrance, gallstones, and induration of the liver. All such patients suffer from slight, often morbid and ill-smelling perspiration, and par ticularly from sweating feet. The evaporation, decomposition and fer mentation of the bile shows itself very plainly in a dark color of the skin the fam iliar liver-spots, and leads in many cases to jaundice. (Com pare Reports of Cures, Part IV). In treating such diseases I have ob served that with my treatment a rem arkably rapid cure is effected. Sweating Feet. As seen from the above, this complaint is very closely

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connected with disorder of the liver. It only occurs as I have often ob served, when accompanied by the latter, so that excessive perspiration of the feet points years in advance to the fact that an encumbrance of the right side is developing. The perspiration usually ceases in advanced stages of diseases of the liver and gall-bladder. The patients condition then steadily grows worse, because the morbid, fetid secretions of the feet remain in the system, causing other and much worse states of dis ease, such as herpes, cancer, etc., which are in turn considerably more difficult to cure, and require far more time. The forcible suppression of the excessive perspiration of the feet, by means of medicaments like chromic acid, inflicts serious injury on the health of the patient. The injurious consequences of medical treatment are generally not observed for a long time, even for years, when some far worse disease makes its appearance. The artificial suppression of the morbid perspiration by drugs is just like stopping up the main sewer of a great city, into which all the branch sewers lead, because at the outlet there is an obnoxious smell. Undoubtedly the stench would be suppressed at the outlet of the main sewer, but this would bring about an infinitely worse state of affairs in the city, which would everywhere be tilled with pestilential odors. It is much to be regretted that our Army Administration, following the instructions of modern medical science, which is quite in the dark regarding the nature of these diseases, recommends soldiers to use chromic and salicylic acid, etc., to cure sweating feet. I urgently warn all against this mischievous remedy. W ith my treatment, the annoying perspiration soon disappears of itself, for the good reason that the cause is removed. Herpes and Skin Diseases. These so frequent diseases have also one common origin, no m atter what particular form the eruption may take. I have treated very many patients suffering from these complaints, with the best results, and have nearly always found confirmation of the fact that these diseases are a more advanced stage of suppressed perspira tion of the feet or skin. They signify a chronic condition, resulting from the suppression of another illness, and therefore the treatment they require must be longer and most conscientiously carried out. Herpes may be dry or attended by a serious exudation. The form er is usually more tedious to cure. Children often get herpes, which may al ways be traced back to hereditary encumbrance, or suppressed child rens diseases, often to vaccination. For the sake of clearer explanation, I may here introduce two cases taken from a large num ber of such. The patient in the first of these cases, had suffered from eruption of the skin from the date of his being vaccinated a second time, and the disease had spread itself all over his body. He had to put on gloves at night and had his hands tied in order that he might not scratch himself. His trousers, and even the pockets of his overcoat, he regularly scratched through in a short time. He was unable to join his playmates in their games and endeavored to pass the time in reading, which only increased his depressed condition. The older he grew the worse became the dis ease, he was quite broken down in spirits and could think of an early death awaiting him. Accidentally he heard of the older Nature Cure System, and soon after

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of my method, through coming across my text-book on the New Science of Healing. Acting on my advice, he took two baths daily, adopted a moderate, unstimulating diet and soon to his joy remarked an improve ment in his general condition, followed by a gradual healing up of the eruption. After some time the herpes, the fruits of vaccination, was completely cured. The other case was one of eczema. A young man 24 years of age was suffering from this dreadful disease. The head and neck were the parts chiefly attacked. Ointments and drugs had proved anything but beneficial, so that he had lost all faith in the medical profession. He came to me and commenced a cure according to my special advice. 1 was able to assure this patient also that there was the prospect of a suc cessful result; the diagnosis showed a front encumbrance. In a few days his bad digestion was better, and simultaneously the eczema im proved visibly. On the third day the exudation ceased, and in 16 days there was no longer a trace of the eruption. During this period, too, the neck of the patient, which had been far too thick, decreased by nearly an inch and a half. The morbid matter, which had been the cause of the enlarged neck and of the eczema, was carried off in the copious excretions from intestines and kidneys. Further reports of cures, including one of sycosis (eruption about the chin), will be found in Part IV.

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H EA R T DISEASE AND DROPSY

HERE is a long list of heart-diseases from which humanity suffers, which the medical profession treats in very different ways, accord ing to the particular symptoms in each case. The disorders are divided into organic diseases of the heart and cardiac valves, and cardiac symptoms, which have their origin in more temporary causes. But, if we inquire without prejudice into the cause of diseases of the heart, and seek their explanation in natural processes, we shall here also certainly come to the conclusion that the source of all heart diseases is the encumbrance of the heart with foreign matter. To divide these affec tions into various kinds is, therefore, wholly purposeless. It is only on the disposition of the heart itself, on its more or less developed capability to resist injurious influences, that the seriousness of any individual case depends. For instance, if there is an encumbrance of the left side, there is much more probability of the disease developing, than if the accumu lations are on the right side. A weakly organized heart, perhaps caused by hereditary predisposition, naturally cannot resist encumbrance. In a case of encumbrance of the heart, we find also the general symp toms of encumbrance. Not only do the surrounding parts show an in creased encumbrance with foreign matter, often in the form of fat, but the heart muscles are frequently so permeated and swollen with the morbid m atter that they are quite unable to perform their normal func tions. Nor is it necessary in every case that the size of the heart muscles should increase; the encumbrance of the muscular tissues is often shown only in their becoming harder, denser or more tense. In this condition the functional capacity of the muscles is lowered. Everyone knows how, where there is any swelling of the skin, the tension interferes with the working of the entire body. W ith the heart also, this encumbrance of the muscles exhibits itself in irregular activity. Now, whenever in creased exertion is required of the heartfor instance, when we get a shock, or when; anything unexpected or exciting occurs or through severe bodily exercisethat is, where an unusual quantity of blood flows to the heart, we feel very clearly that this organ is not fully equal to the work. There may be palpitation, anxiety, stagnation of the blood, paralysis, difficulty in breathing, etc. This is not usually attended by much pain, but a dull pressing feeling, constant or temporary only, is experienced as though some foreign object were pressing against the heart. Disorders in the function of the valves of the heart are caused in the same way. W hen encumbered to a certain extent, these valves can no longer properly perform their function of closing, their surfaces being so deformed by the deposits of foreign matter, as no longer to fit the openings of the ventricles. A defect of the heart may also be brought about by a deformation of the contact surfaces of the ventricles. In either case the cause is the same.

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Nervous disorders of the heart are really a most original invention. As I have already stated in the chapter on nervous diseases, no indi vidual organ can be diseased without its nerves being likewise dis ordered. it shows a complete misconception of nature and natural laws, to imagine that the nerves can be perfectly healthy and only this or that organ diseased; or that the whole body can be quite healthy, except the nerves. For me this idea is a thing of the past. W e know to-day, for certain, that the various diseases of the heart with their hundred differ ent appearances, and their different external symptoms, all have but one common cause: the encumbrance of the body with foreign matter. But if the cause of the disease of the heart is not got rid of, or if more foreign or poisonous m atter is introduced into the body by means of drugs, a worse condition will soon arise: dropsy will make its appear ance. Dropsy is always simply the final stage of other uncured diseases which have preceded it. The water found in the body in dropsy is here wholly a foreign product. It is clear from this that the body is no longer in the condition either to produce normal blood, or to sufficiently purify that which is already there. W hat is the result? The juices which should produce blood, under the influence of the foreign m atter fer ment, and thus change form and figure. In no other disease can we so plainly trace the process of the origination and decomposition of m at ter in the body, and of the changes of form arising therefrom. Some time ago I was consulted by a dropsical patient, whose body was so full of water that it looked just like an expanded rubber tube. The internal pressure of the water was so great that it continually oozed through the skin of the legs, so that everywhere where the patient seated himself he left wet marks. The most rem arkable thing about the case was this. The patient was a butter-dealer and had to sample a large num ber of butters every day. Now the water excreted through the legs smelt so strongly of butter, that there could be no doubt as to its origin. In the course of time, his stomach had become incapable of sufficiently digest ing the quantity of butter which he had, in sampling, to eat every day, without bread or the like. The butter was gradually left less and less digested, finally becoming foreign m atter in the body. The man was accustomed to sleeping on the left side, and here the butter accumulated, quantities of fat being deposited in and about the heart, and more or less over the whole body. The first result was a disorder of the heart, con tinuing for years. Finally, the foreign m atter passed over into a furtherstate of decomposition, and then showed itself as water. The heart disorder had passed through all stages. At first it was called palpitation; then nervous affection of the heart; then fatty degeneration, soon attended by a defect of the cardiac valves. Then pericardial dropsy set in, ending with general dropsy. The patient had tried all the various methods of cure, and finally, when it was unfortunately far too late, came to me for relief; but he was already incapable of carrying out my prescriptions with full success. He had been treated with all kinds of medicines and poisons, each stage of his disease receiving some new name and likewise some new remedy! The cause of water accumulating in the body is a certain gangrenous state of the abdomen, which in most cases is not remarked, because it proceeds so slowly. Only when the water causes the breathing to be labored and sets up oppression of the heart, is the trouble noticed at all.

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When the body, however, commences to react against the disease and the patient is able to rally his vital power sufficiently, the chronic dis ease appears as an acute gangrenous condition. If the disease of the pa tient is already far progressed, this hot gangrenous state renders him so weak that complete cure is no longer possible, he is internally con sumed. If, on the other hand, there is still sufficient vitality in order to enable the system to get the upper hand, it will be able to expel the in flammation from the body. I will illustrate this by citing two cases treated in my institute. I once had a visit from a gentleman from abroad, who had been suffer ing already for years from dropsy and had got no help from allopathic treatment. The legs were swollen up with water to twice the normal size, and the body also. In spite of this, the patient only complained of difficulty in breathing and heaviness in the legs; he could still walk quite well. I explained to him that his condition was too far progressed in order to admit of a cure, so that I thought it better he should not com mence with my treatm ent at all. The patient, however, insisted upon it, and so he began, filled with hope, despite any attempt at dissuasion. In the first weeks, all went on far better than one could have expected. Profuse sweats and abundant evacuations rapidly diminished the amount of water, so that the patient felt very happy. So far, his 1body had only expelled the product of the disease, namely the water; it now began with the work of getting rid of the cause of the accumulation of water. This was the internal gangrene, which had scarcely been re marked. The cure could only be effected by the body in one way: the chronic gangrene must be changed into a hot, acute state. If the body still possessed the necessary vitality, it would expel the foreign m atter which had brought about the morbid condition, and a cure would be complete. In the contrary case, the body would be consumed by the internal heat. W ith my patient, matters took the latter course, as I had foreseen. In the third week the change of the chronic gangrene com menced in the right leg. This became more and more inflamed, until at length, from the toes to the middle of the shin-bone, there was an open sore, which already on the second day had become quite black. The gangrene which had formerly been hidden within, was now ex pelled to the outside, naturally causing the patient much pain. During the fourth week the black m atter separated from the sore like a thick skin, and the sore began to heal again. Now, however, the internal heat of the patient, who was still corpulent, increased daily, a certain sign that transformation of the internal gangrene was still going on. The first result was extreme thirst. In spite of the derivative action of the treatment, however, it did not succeed in mastering the gangrene and overcoming the great heat, as was clearly to be seen from the increasing weakness of the patient. Soon there was no longer the strength neces sary for taking the baths, and on the 29th day the patient became un conscious, death taking place on the 30th. This patient died slowly in consequence of the intense internal heat, as I had informed him from the first would be the case. I may now mention a case where there was an altogether satisfactory result. The patient here had been dropsical for a long time; his condi tion was serious, but fortunately, in consequence of having been treated homeopathically, he had taken but little medicine. W ithin three weeks,

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on my treatment, he lost the water, whereupon in the fourth week an intense internal heat was felt, accompanied by rem arkable symptoms. On the second day of the fourth week, for instance, there were frequent evacuations of most abnoxiously-smelling, yet black faeces, of choleraic or dysenteric character. This continued for three days. None of the family could explain this, as the patient had only been taking very little food. His wife came to me in the greatest anxiety about it, when I ex plained to her that her husband was now saved, just because of this crisis. The body had thereby not only been enabled to expel the internal gangrene, but also its cause: that is, the foreign m atter which had for years been accumulating in the body. The patient, as a consequence of the crisis, was very exhausted and extremely thin, but soon began to recover, improving daily. To-day he is as healthy as he was twenty years ago, and not a trace of water has again shown itself. In this case, the body had fortunately been able to endure the change of the gang rene from the chronic state into an acute one. Dropsy is really curable only when the patient, while strictly observing my treatment, can perspire freely and unaided at the parts affected by the dropsy. It is then possible that the water and other foreign m atter can be excreted, and a more normal digestion restored. Dropsy is no longer curable when the bodily vitality is so low, that it is unable to ex pel the foreign m atter; it is then, above all, impossible to permanently improve the digestion. I would here call attention once more to my new method of diagnosis, the Science of Facial Expression, which offers us a certain means of ob serving the approach of dropsy many years in advance. Equipped with this new science, we are not obliged to wait until diseases are so far pro gressed as to be incurable; we can begin a radical treatment at a period when the stage of the disease still admits of a thorough and easy cure. Proofs of the correctness of the foregoing can be given only by prac tical demonstration; I therefore submit below an interesting case of serious heart disease combined with dropsy and leprosy. A gentleman from Batavia, Java, had for 24 years conducted an ex port business at that place, and had enjoyed during the time, as he said, satisfactory health, suffering occasionally, however, from fever, in flamed eyes, and sores on the legs. These symptoms suffice to inform us that the system was not healthy, but heavily encumbered with foreign matter. This morbid m atter accumulated first in one part of the body and owing to the tropical climate, was more readily set in fermentation than it would have been in our temperate zone. An acute state of dis ease was thus brought about. For the correctness of these assertions, the further course of this highly interesting case gives us most striking proof. In November 1879 the patient was troubled with a large swelling at the back of the head, near the left ear. This was suppressed by medicinal poisons and forced back into the system; whereupon, after some time, it made its appearance in another form, one of his fingers swelling up and suppurating abundantly, so that even a piece of the bone festered out. The finger was hardly healed, when there was an abnormal loss of blood through the bowels, a sure sign that a clump of piles had burst. Shortly after this, an open sore appeared on the left foot, which re mained open and suppurating for a long time.

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The patient suffered further from cold hands and feet, cold sweats and frequent feverish attacks, all showing the presence of some deep-seated disease. In February 1882, a higher fever than usual set in, which con tinued several days with undiminished violence, so much, that the family physician, who took the case for one of leprosy, strongly advised a journey to Europe. On April 13th 1882, the patient therefore left Ba tavia; on arriving in Europe he consulted Professor J., of Basle, who diagnosed inflammation of the blood and sent him to Bad Krankenheil near Tolz, in Upper Bavaria, recommending him to the care of Dr. H. During this treatment a red spot appeared on the patients right forearm, which remained, in spite of rubbing with corrosive sublimate. On end ing the course of treatment, the patient felt somewhat more vigorous; but in the autumn more red spots appeared on his body. The chronic feverish condition thus increased. In April 1883, he set out on his return to Java, where, in the hot tropical climate, the red spots soon disap peared with the profuse perspiration. On arriving in Batavia in May, a derangement of the heart made itself felt, attended by such high fever, that he again sought medical advice, and finally in May 1885, was once more obliged to go to Europe for treatment for a considerable time. From the above it is quite evident, that the cause of the disease had by no means been removed from the system by the treatment in Bad Krankenheil. The fact of the new outbreak of the disease, upon his re turn to Java, was sufficient proof of this. Through the sojourn in the cooler climate of Europe, the disease had passed into a chronic, or more latent stage. The patient was thus less sensible of the presence of dis ease, acute outbreaks being now more seldom. The return to the tropics, however, at once caused it to pass into the acute condition again. His physician, nevertheless, had regarded this apparent improvement in health, caused by change of climate, as a sufficient cure under the cir cumstances. On his return to Europe, the patient settled in Freiburg, in Baden, de voting himself wholly to the task of getting well, under the advice of the family physician and Dr. N., Physician to the Court. In autumn, the red spots again appeared all over the body, and far w orse than in 1882; a sure sign that the encumbrance of the system with foreign m atter had still further increased. The doctors, not in the least understanding the nature of the red spots and other symptoms, informed their patient that the cure must be left to nature. A visit to Soolbad Rheinfelden in the year 1886, at their recommendation, had the worst results, however. The disease now' gradually became more and more chronic, and the advance of his physical disorder was naturally attended by corresponding de pression of spirits. He had reached that condition of chronic misery into which everyone gets, who vainly seeks everywhere for health, man ipulated as depression, melancholy, despondency, nervous prostration, lack of courage, and utter weariness of life. It is no wonder, then, that the patient, who, during the end of 1888, had been treated by celebrated doctors without success, became deeply despondent. From hopeful manhood, he had passed into prem ature old age, weary, soured, broken down. Urgent business now forced him to journey back to Java on Jan. 19th 1889. His disease had by this time grown so chronic, that his skin, which had scarcely perspired at all for three years, even under the tropical

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sun, only incompletely performed its function. On reaching Batavia, the disease took an acute turn. The earlier affection of the heart reap peared with increased violence. The fever accompanying it, visibly diminished the patients strength, and water already showed itself in the legs. Moreover, the Batavian doctors pronounced his disease to be leprosy, and were the more convinced of this, since during the patients last stay in Europe, the most famous European specialist for leprous diseases had discovered large numbers of lepra-bacilli in his blood. On account of the great dread of infection from lepers prevailing there, the doctors at Batavia advised their patients immediate departure, unless he wished to be excluded from all communication with the outer world. On December 19th, 1889, therefore, the patient once more set sail for Europe. His travelling companions thought it hardly possible that he could reach Genoa alive. However, the cooling sea-air stimulated his vital power, and he arrived safely in Europe, where his condition again passed over from the acute state into the more chronic one. His medical attendants at Freiburg gave up the case as absolutely hopeless.

Whilst in this deplorable condition, the patient had his attention drawn to mv method of healing, by an old friend of his in Leipzig, who had formerly known him for years in Java. On March 20th 1890, the patient travelled to Leipzig and four days later, though almost without hope, he commenced my cure. This case offers a most striking proof of the correctness of my system of treatment, and convincing confirmation of the truth of my Science of Facial Expression. Fortunately, I had this gentleman photographed at the commencement of the cure, and also subsequently, Figs. 1 and 2 be ing reproductions from the originals. His body was wholly altered by the foreign matter. There was but little of the neck, on which a goitre had formed, to be seen, it being sunk, as it were, into the trunk, with no proper boundary between the two. Upon the forehead was a large swelling nearly an inch high. The parts around the eyes were swollen up, as also the whole head, which showed a most abnormal accumu lation of foreign matter. The calf of the right leg was gangrenous; and there was water both in the foot and ankle, and also above the gangrenous part, so that the patient could only use the leg with difficulty. The accumulations of foreign m atter in the trunk were in

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proportion to those in the head and neck. The digestion was wholly abnormal. Neither bowels nor kidneys properly performed their func tions. The heart disorder allowed no rest day or night, and gave rise to a feeling of uneasiness and oppression. The patients hands and feet were icy cold, and of dark bluish color. Satisfactory results were obtained almost immediately after com mencing with my treatment. The digestion soon improved; the bowels, which formerly had only been moved by enemas, and the kidneys, operated regularly from the third day. The urine, previously light and clear, now became cloudy and turbid, evidently containing a quantity of foreign matter. Even on the second day the patient felt himself relieved and fresher, though with a certain sensation of weariness, caused by the energy required to expel the foreign m atter from the organism. Profuse perspiration also m aterially assisted in the cure. A perceptible alteration in the external form of the body was very soon brought about, the more so as the excretion of foreign m atter went on most rapidly in his case. It was interesting to watch how the gangrenous band around the calf disappeared. This was at first dark brown, then bluish red, and was quite four inches broad. It dissolved in the form of water, the leg simul taneously increasing greatly in circumference. The right leg ultimately became enormously thick. This process was rem arkable as showing the capability of foreign m atter to ferment and change. The crisis which the patient was now going through was a severe one, but his great vital power stood him in good stead. Although not able to move about much, my baths always made him perspire freely at the dropsical parts, a proof of the power of his body to react. W ithin four weeks, all the water was expelled from his system. After this, the cure went on extremely rapid. The patient felt younger and fresher every day, and after four months treatment, attended by some curative crises, was so changed in appearance (see Fig. 2) as to be hardly recognizable. The heart disease and dropsy had quite disappeared, and were really cured, while despondency had given place to a cheerful and quite different mood, with buoyant spirits. In Batavia, they could not credit this happy result, but wrote that the patient would not be permitted to land in Java, until proved to be quite free from lepra-bacilli. For this reason he again submitted himself to the inspection of the same celebrated specialist for leprosy, now staying in Hamburg, who had formerly examined and treated him. After this examination, which lasted nearly four weeks, the patient received the assurance that he was entirely free from lepra-bacilli. This gentleman, who returned to Java in 1892, is still living, and in the best of health. None of his form er troubles have shown themselves again. This case affords us another excellent proof of the worthlessness of orthodox medical science, its diagnosis and its system of treatment. Here, again, was a patient given up by the most competent authorities, yet, by my method of cure, he was saved from death and restored to his family and friends.

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DISEASE OF T H E SPINAL CORD. CONSUMPTION OF T H E SPINAL CORD. HEM ORRHOIDAL AFFECTIONS.

HERE is always a long period of chronic sickliness before one of the dreadful diseases of the spinal cord breaks out. By means of the Science of Facial Expression we can, however, determine the re sult years in advance, can recognize predisposition to the diseases, and point to the causes contributing to morbid encumbrance of the nerves. As regards the latter, pollutions especially, frequently appear, whether the patient is m arried or single. But these emissions always denote chronic inflammation of the nerves, particularly of the spinal marrow, and of the nervus sympathicus, caused by severe encum brance of the back with foreign matter. The inflammation always in creasing, the nerves become less capable of resistance, until the patient is no longer master of his limbs, the legs being the first over which he generally loses control. Together with the pollutions, other morbid symptoms also make their appearance. W ith many there is a peculiar feeling of constriction about the waist, varying very much, according to the nature of the encumbrance. There is also frequently a slight sense of chill just at this internal girdle or band, as it were. In a more ad vanced state of the disease there is often, also shooting, or sometimes continual neuralgic pains, and lumbago which may be extremely troublesome and painful. Diseases of the spinal cord are very various in form. W ith uniform encumbrance, as is the case in these disorders, many other diseases also occur, such for instance as St. Vitus dance. In a very advanced (the so-called final) stage, it is scarcely longer possible to cure diseases of the spinal marrow. In such cases, the most that can be done is, at all events to remove all pain from the patient. This can usually be effected in a short time, if the digestion is capable of improvement, so that there is internal quiet, sleep and appetite. Fortunately, by means of my Science of Facial Expression, as al ready remarked, it is no longer necessary to await this final stage of the disease. W e can commence long before to prevent this, an advantage which cannot be too highly valued. These disorders of the spinal cord in their first stages are as easy to cure as many other insignificant dis eases. If, on the other hand, the disease is in an advanced stage, and particularly if it has been treated with drugs, a cure is much more diffi cult. A house upon which the flames have taken a firm hold, can also not be saved, if once the fire has spread too far. I have had numerous patients suffering from spinal cord diseases in my treatment, but I have not been able to cure all. Many have had to be content with an improvement, with an alleviation, of their sad condition. The latter have been exclusively such as through long use of medicines, had so far paralyzed their body as to render it incapable of being fully

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cured, even by the most careful treatment. To elucidate what has been said, 1 will again produce here some reports of cases which I have treated in my establishment. The first case was that of a young man who suffered severely from dis ease of the spinal cord, and was completely paralyzed in both legs. For over a year he had been consulting specialists, without getting any bene fit from the treatment. He was unable to make the least movement with the legs, nor could he stand; though only 24 jears of age, he was obliged to lie helplessly in bed, or be wheeled about in an invalid chair. His digestion was the worst possible. The bowels never moved unless with artificial aid, the urine passed off without the patient being con scious of it. W hen he was placed in his chair, his legs had always to be put into the right position for him. On coming into my care, he had at first to take four cooling baths daily, and eat only dry, natural food. If during the first month, owing to the debilitated digestion, there was but little improvement, in the second month one could observe decided progress. After a further period of two months, the patient was again able to retain the urine, and his legs were so far improved that he could move them a little, and with out the help of his attendant could stand for a short time. Nine months of the treatment had brought him so far, that he could walk about the room a little without aid; and in two months more he had regained com plete mastery over his legs. His disease of the spinal cord, which had occasioned these complaints, in consequence of the great internal heat produced by the accumulation of foreign matter, was cured, exactly in the same manner as so many other diseases have been overcome.

This case also s I io a v s clearly how difficult it is to cure an advanced en cumbrance of the back. I scarcely imagined myself, at the beginning of the cure, that the patients condition could be improved, to say noth ing of cured, because the digestion Avas so deplorably bad, and in the commencement showed no signs of improvement. Only to his extra ordinary perseverance, Avas the subsequent cure due. Had the patient commenced m y treatm ent earlier, such absolute loss of control over the legs Avould never have occurred, and cure Avould have been m uch easier. Another case Avhich I Avill noAV give, is equally instructive. A gentle m an in his 47th year had been suffering for several years from con sumption of the spinal cord, Avithout being able to get any relief. His encumbrance Avas very considerable, and he could only Avalk Avith much trouble. Frequently, he Avas attacked by lumbago and other shooting pains. He could not get sufficient sleep, often obtaining no rest at all for days together. The digestion Avas abnormal, and the general condition bad. The very first m onths of the treatm ent had a good effect, the sleeplessness being cured and the various pains likeAvise disappearing. The digestion also improved, although the legs still rem ained very weak. For this reason the patient scarcely hoped for cure. He had looked upon the pains and sleeplessness only as special disorders for themselves, and ahvavs held the opinion that they had no connection with his spinal cord disease. As he found it extremely difficult to folloAV m y dietetic rules, he gave up the treatm ent after ten months. His condition then soon became Avorse and altogether hopeless. This patient should have regarded it as a great success, not only that his disorder became no Avorse during the cure, but that the troublesome

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accompanying symptoms so soon disappeared. W ith perseverance the other troubles would also gradually have been overcome. For a further case of consumption of the spinal cord, see Part IV (Reports of Cures.) Hemorrhoidal Affections. Hemorrhoidal affections generally accom pany disease of tne spinal cord and the severe encumbrance of the back connected with it. They point to a serious chronic condition of dis ease, which like all others has as its cause a highly inflamed condition of the abdomen. As a m atter of course, the digestion of such patients must also be irregular. The fermentation of tumors in the abdomen, a symptom necessarily implying severe encumbrances, is a proof that the vital and curative power of the body must be very low. I will illustrate this, also, by an example taken from my practice. A young man in his seventeenth year, who from his earliest youth had suffered from troubles of digestion, came to consult me. As he related to me, since his eleventh year he had been troubled with piles, hemorr hoidal affection and intestinal hemorrhage, which had caused him much pain. In his fifteenth year, he gradually lost the piles and hemorr hoidal affections; but, as he further related, he then became a victim to the most dreadful headaches, against which no remedy had any effect. Finally, on the back of his head, hard nodules, the size of a hazelnut could be seen and felt. His whole head, at the same time, began to change in form and increase in size, the relation between the head and body clearly altering. It was obvious to everyone who saw the youth, that there must be some m atter encumbering the head, which ought not to be there, and which was not there before. But no one had any idea that the clump of piles in the body, in a now much harder and com pressed form, had affected the head, appearing as tubercular nodules. To any one fam iliar with the Science of Facial Expression, these symp toms were naturally easy to be understood. The unbearable headaches alone, were sufficient proof of the presence of a deep cause. Unfortu nately no one recognized this. The poor mother saw in her still youth ful son, the same dread disease which had carried off the boys father in his 39th year. None of the methods of cure tried provided any remedy against the disorder. The disease slowly but surely got the upper hand, and the young man, in consequence of the headaches, finally became quite unfit for work, and often had fainting-fits. In this deplorable condition he was brought to me by his mother. As there was a back encumbrance, an outbreak of inflammation of the brain was any day to be expected. My prescriptions were strict diet, cooling friction baths, and plenty of exercise, and they were closely followed out with good results. Already in the first week, the headaches disappeared. Only during dispersion of the tubercular nodules in the head, did the pains temporarily return again. The digestion and appetite likewise improved in a most satisfactory manner. A decrease in the nodules, which were to be clearly felt on the head, was noticeable towards the end of the cure. The nodules in the interior of the head decreased simultaneously, and the head itself became relatively smaller than be fore. In another two months the nodules had still further decreased, and in half a year there was no trace of them left. Suddenly a change, apparently for the worse, set in. As his mother

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informed me, her son felt unwell since the day preceding, the hemorr hoidal affection, which had vanished years ago, having again made its appearance as bad as ever. I explained to the anxious mother that this was unavoidable. The tubercular nodules in the head had, by the derivative action of the treatment, been conducted from there into the body and had again taken the form of a clump of piles, which, indeed, had been the cause of the nodules in the head appearing at all. Her son had been cured of consumption of the brain by this curative crisis, and in the same way it was now only necessary to free him from the hemorrhoidal affection, which was but a prelim inary stage to the tuber culosis of the brain. This explanation cleared up the womans doubts, and the cure was continued with the most happy results. After a year, the hemorrhoidal affection had also been perfectly cured, and the young man was again healthy. Further reports of cures will be found in Part IV.

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POVERTY OF T H E BLOOD. CHLOROSIS.

ROM all classes of society to-day we hear the complaint about poverty of the blood and chlorosis. Neither poor nor rich, neither young nor old are free from these disorders, although there is a whole host of remedies in the field. It is the upper classes, supplied with ample medical advice, who use these remedies most, and especially in the form of what is called nutritious diet: eggs, flesh-meat, bouillon, wine and beer, etc. Modem medical science boasts of the great progress it has made; chemistry and physiology claim to have ascertained exactly the nutri tive value of all articles of food, and their effect on the human organism; yet in spite of all this scientific knowledge, the disorders are not in the least diminished, but spread more and more. They produce weak ness, debility and nervousness, and lead to abnormal sexual impulse. They prevent a proper supply of milk in mothers, and, in short, they render people mentally and physically unfit, incapable to think or to act. They cause over-sensitiveness, weariness, heaviness in the feet, pains in the muscles. There is loss of appetite, and the bowels no longer act regularly. W hat is the position which the medical profession takes up in regard to these diseases? Supported by chemical analysis, the doctors recom mend the use of flesh-extracts, said to contain all the constituents neces sary for eruption, quiet prevails for a time, until new tension is caused by the processes of combustion, decomposition and re-formation with in the earth. The process is similar in epileptic fits. An encumbrance of foreign m atter forms within the abdomen, causing slow, yet con stant fermentation, attended by the development of gas and tension. The seat of encumbrance here being limited in space by the foreign matter, there is a constant increase in tension, assisted by the continual fermentation. Finally there is an eruption, which brings on the fits, and through pressure on the brain, suspends the functions of the latter. When the process of fermentation and the attendant pressure subside, consciousness returns, although the entire body remains more or less ex hausted after such a violent attack. It is much to be regretted that the medical profession is unable to cure epilepsy, and still more so that it does not up till to-day even know its character. Not seldom, it regards this disease merely as a nervous dis order. Little does it think that all these, as it considers them, incurable and mysterious disorders are chiefly its own work: the fruit of misled science, wrong advice as to the care of the health, and the use of in jurious remedies, such as potassium bromide, etc. The course of cure in epilepsy differs much, according to the encum brance of the patient. W ith some the attacks gradually decrease very soon after beginning treatment; with others they at first appear oftener. Owing to the changes going on in the system, such temporary symptoms

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occur frequently; but as soon as the encumbrance is expelled, they gradually, or even suddenly, disappear. They become weaker and weaker, until there are merely swoons or giddiness, which quite disap pear on continuation of the cure. In advising patients, it is therefore well to call their attention to the probable course of the cure. And here again my Science of Facial Expression serves as an excellent means to foresee those curative crises which may be unavoidable, especially in the case of serious encumbrances. W e thus come to see, that the curability of epilepsy depends solely upon the state of the encumbrance of the patient. In nearly all cases, a cure has been effected by my method. Some cases may have been tedious, or even incurable, when the patients condition was already too chronic; and when the body, particularly the digestion, had been too seriously injured by the customary medicaments, such as bromine. In such patients the nerve-connections, and the brain, have been too seriously distributed to admit of retrogression. In my establishment I have had some obstinate cases, which have required most careful treat ment on my system for years, before the attacks ceased. Cessation of the fits must not be looked upon as always signifying that the patients encumbrance has been gotten rid of. For the complete removal of such, a still longer time is often required. According to the report of the National Medical Commission, for the year 1889, the number of epileptic school-children in Saxony was, at the end of that year, 795, or 13.6 in every 10,000 children. It is, therefore, nluch to be wished, in the interest of suffering humanity that the suc cessful cures of the New Science of Healing should also become better known in influential and authoritative circles. I cannot refrain from introducing here, also, an actual case which I have treated, for the purpose of elucidating the subject. A girl of nineteen had suffered for six years from severe epileptic lits. Every week she had at least two attacks. Her digestion was the worst possible, and her menstruation likewise altogether irregular. Not once since puberty had she had normal periods; sometimes they re mained away altogether, at other times appeared too frequently. By means of my Science of Facial Expression, I found that she was also highly chlorotic, with a disposition to consumption. Her head was abnormally large. The state of the encumbrance was, however, favor able, so that I could assure her of a good prospect of success. In order that she might not mistake the course of the cure, I called her attention to the fact that the attacks might possibly, during the first fortnight, be more frequent than before, but then would gradually diminish, and finally cease entirely. My natural remedial agents did not desert me in this case either. Steam-baths, however, as in most epileptic cases, had to be avoided. In three weeks the patient was free of all fits. The cure took the exact course, which I had foreseen. In the first days there were two, three or even more attacks. After sixteen days these gradually passed into swoons, and giddiness, and finally ceased entirely. Such speedy success was only possible on account of the patients diges tion having fortunately improved with surprising rapidity and the menstruation having soon become normal. In many cases, so rapid a cure is not to be effected. The quick cure here, was to be attributed solely to the very favorable position of the encumbrance of the pa

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tient. Other epileptic cases which I have treated, have required two, three, or more times, as long to cure (see Reports of Cures, Part IV). Agoraphobia is a condition in which the persons afflicted are unable to go across a broad, open space. This disease, also, is simply the re sult of encumbrance with foreign matter. The condition is due to the inner tension of the body being no longer able to offer sufficient counter pressure to that exerted by the atmosphere; or, it may be, it exerts too high a pressure on certain internal organs. The rarer and purer the air, the more is the oppression felt by such persons. I have had patients under treatment, who could only walk close to the houses, without fall ing down. This comes from the fact that the air there is always a little more dense than in the middle of the street; and though the difference is very slight, it is still sufficient to be felt by the patient. W herever the air grows purer and rarer, the patients feel oppressed and disquieted in the highest degree. The inner pressure deprives them of all support. This disorder, like tuberculosis and cancer, is always a final stage of other preceding diseases, whether it appears directly or indirectly through being inherited. W hether a patient will recover depends al together upon his condition and the encumbrance. A radical cure, in any case, can only be effected by my method, which removes the cause. The cure, it is true, often requires a long time.

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EPILEPTIC FITS.

AGORAPHOBIA.

HAT sudden, malignant complaint which attacks the hum an organ ism, those morbid paroxysms commonly known as epilepsy, which overcome the bodythey are but the conclusion of a series of pre ceding diseases which have been suppressed, or are the result of inherited disorders, too often to be traced to the youthful folly of the father. In the latter, the treatm ent of sexual disease with drugs has driven back the foreign m atter into the body, with the natural result that accumulations of such morbid m atter have formed in the parents. The transference of this m atter to the body of the child is the foundation of the disease which we call fits. In the course of my practice, I have treated numerous cases of epilepsy with striking success. How often have I seen that sudden epileptic at tacks are nothing more than sudden ebullitions of fermenting foreign matter, which has first developed in the abdomen. In many cases these ebullitions of fermentation first pass down into the legs, only afterwards pressing upwards. By the outbreak of fermentation, many persons are first whirled round, as it were, several times, before falling; others, again, as soon as the ferm entation rises towards the head, lose con sciousness and fall to the ground. These processes in the body may be compared to the outbreak of a volcano, when the expanding gases and masses, accumulated within the earth, suddenly rush forth. For the building up and maintaining of the hum an body, they advise a liberal diet; they prescribe pills and powders, quinine and iron in various forms. And what is the result of this treatm ent? In general, just the contrary of that which was to be attained. The blood becomes still poorer, the patient becomes more chlorotic, and other troubles may set in in addition, the sole cause of which is the unnatural medical treatment. Astonishing though it may sound, it is a fact that to-day we can even find new-born babes suffer ing from poverty of blood. These observations bring us to the conclusion, that the modern treat ment and diet in these cases cannot be the right one. It must also be ad mitted, that chemistry is not sufficient to prevent errors when dealing with the processes going on in the living body. According to our ex perience, artificial extracts of all sorts, and artificial preparations used for the purpose of feeding up the patient, are most difficult of diges tion, and are often, indeed, not to be digested at all. Foods in the natural form, unchanged by cooking and seasoning, are always the easiest of digestion. My New Science of Healing teaches an entirely different treatment of these diseases. The external symptoms of anaemia and chlorosis give us no clear idea of their nature. W e know that a normal skin never has the pallid color of an anaemic patient; nor is ever too red, yellow or brown, but always feels moist and warm. Healthy blood is bright red

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and thin, even in the veins; blood loaded with morbid matter, on the contrary, is darker, nearly black, thick and half coagulated. In addition, where the encumbrance is very great, the blood vessels are partly ex panded, and sacs are formed to contain the largest masses of blood. This expansion sets in gradually, in consequence of the continual ten sion and inner pressure accompanying the encumbered state. In all chlorotic and anaemic persons, we therefore notice, besides the pallid skin, conspicuously dark veins. Normal veins, filled with easily flow ing, healthy blood, shine but faintly through the skin, at all events never exhibit the blue color and distention seen in the case of persons suffering from chlorosis. Further, we see in the case of such persons, a pale, withered inactive skin, which often appears wax-like, and of a greenish yellow color. In other anaemia patients, again, the face is red and the complexion fresh, but notwithstanding this there is complete incapa bility, debility and deficient chylification. This condition, owing to the apparent health, is often set down by the medical profession as an imaginary disease. In anaemia and chlorosis there is always too great internal heat, with an external sensation of cold. And here we have the explanation of these diseases, which like all other chronic diseases, point to internal latent fever. Imperfect digestion in conjunction with insufficient activity of the skin and lungs, i. e. want of good food and airare the sole causes of these diseases. In consequence of the imperfect digestion, masses of foreign or morbid m atter accumulate, causing tension and increased heat in the unhealthy body. In a state of gaseous fermentation, they pass through the whole body and are deposited especially in the extremities, that is directly under, or in the skin. The finest blood-vessels of the skin thus gradually become obstructed, the blood is no longer able to reach them, so that there is not the warm feeling which a healthy skin presents. The skin, on the contrary, appears pallid and withered. Thus it is imperfect digestion which is chiefly to blame for anaemia and chlorosis. Inactivity of the lungs, with its consequences, is another cause, due in turn, to the want of fresh, healthy air. Unfortunately the fear, fostered by physicians, of taking cold, keeps many people from properly ventilating their rooms and so admits of the injurious in fluences of bad air proving all the more effective. The orthodox medical school well knows, that it is the lungs which by the respiration of fresh air renew the blood; nevertheless, in cases of sickness, the mistake is made of keeping the patient confined to his chamber, and advising him to avoid all contact with the fresh air. But this also, so clearly char acterizing the imperfection of the orthodox medical system, is to be explained. Allopathy, which does not recognize the real cause of disease, makes no endeavor to remove the morbid m atter from the body, but only to suppress the symptoms of the disease. It transforms every illness into a chronic state, not observed by the uninitiated, and calls this a cure. But as we shall see, such a cure is only apparent, not real. Hitherto, un fortunately, no one has possessed a certain and infallible method of dis covering these pseudo-cures. Now, however, we have my Science of Facial Expression, which enables every student of the system to recog nize whether the cure is real or not.

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W hen unnatural medicaments are employed for the purpose of curing bloodlessness and chlorosis, the stomach is burdened with still more indigestible m atter and the condition rendered worse. These diseases can be cured only by expelling the foreign m atter from the system, but never by medicaments. By drugsincluding that favorite remedy for anaemia: ironthe stomach soon becomes so weakened, that the patient has no appetite except for strongly seasoned, piquant dishes. Such, however, we are convinced, are as good as altogether indigestible, and operate solely to stimulate the system, until there is finally no longer any normal appetite at all. Then the doctor will recommend a highly nutritious diet, nourishing wines, flesh-meat, eggs, aided by still stronger medicines than before. Then the patient, finding ultimately that his physicians do him no good at all, begins to despair, and only then, unfortunately, when in this sad condition, generally seeks my advice. The first week under my treatment usually suffices to open the eyes of my patients as to the mistakes of the orthodox medical school, and the successful result of the cure converts them finally into enthusi astic disciples of my New Science of Healing. As soon as the foreign m atter obstructing the pores and impeding the circidation, is removed, the blood again circulates to the surface of the body, renews its warmth and restores to it its normal color and moist condition. 7 '*1*' The easily digestible, unstimulating foods, which I advise, are par ticularly suited for anaemical and chlorotic patients. I repeat, that fresh, natural air as found outside, or in our rooms when the windows are open, possesses, like water, the power of aiding in a natural m anner the curative crisis which Nature causes to take place in our bodies. Unfortunately our orthodox physicians, on the plea of avoiding the danger of colds, forbid the use of these two im portant factors, fresh air and cold watera proof of how little they understand of the nature of colds. Unable, without serious injury to the organism, to effectually combat chills, they endeavor before all things to prevent such appearing, and to this end use the means most suitable for sup pressing the reactionary power of the body. But to anyone who has studied my theory of disease as previously out lined, a cold is a quite harmless symptom: it is, indeed, to be welcomed. A really healthy person cannot catch a cold, because there is no foreign m atter in his body. Again, a person who is encumbered with such matter, but who lives in a natural way, knows that by a suitable use of cold water, with fresh air and an unstimulating diet, he will be en abled to recover his health. He will thereby attain a hardiness and inner bodily purity, which he did not before possess. He knows, too, that colds, caused especially by sudden changes of temperature, can only be brought about by the fresh air so strengthening the vitality of the body, as to enable it to produce a curative crisis, which appears in the form of a cold. By means of this crisis the body will be enabled to expel a quantity of the foreign matter. Such a crisis, therefore, so far from do ing injury, assists the body to return to better health. The treatment of anaemic and chlorotic patients must be adapted to the particular individual, being mild or energetic, as the case may require. Advice exactly applicable to every patient, cannot be given. From the following report, however, the chief general principles may be learned.

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A girl of nineteen had been under allopathic treatm ent for chlorosis since her fifteenth year. Her physician had at first prescribed iron in the form of pills, then as a mixture with pepsin and other medicines. He had further advised her to take only the most nutritious food: flesh-meat and bouillon, ham and eggs every day, with one or two glasses of Hungarian wine; instead of tea or coffee, he recommended good boiled milk. W ater, he said, might contain many dangerous miasmata, so he advised her to rather drink some strengthening beer. His direc tions were conscientiously followed for months and years, but without success. The girls condition at first was bad enough, by the treatment it was made far worse. Her digestion became much weaker, despite the strengthening diet she was literally starved; she gradually grew weaker, paler and more discontented in mind. She plainly felt that the doctors prescriptions did her no good, yet she laid the blame not on them, but on her own system, believing that she was incapable of regaining health. The strengthening food which she ate, passed through her body, it is true, in spite of constipation, but afforded no nourishment for the system, since the stomach was altogether debilitated. From puberty, her men struation had never been normal, being always irregular. Thus, after four years of allopathic treatment, her condition was wholly miserable. Melancholy and weary of life, languid, distrustful, and haunted by thoughts of suicide, excessively nervous, a burden to others and herself, this poor mistreated girl came under my hands. I immediately changed her diet, giving her entirely unstimulating, easily digestible vegetarian food, prescribing as a beverage only pure water, and recommending be sides, abundant exercise in the open air. Further instructions were to sleep with the windows open, and to take three friction baths daily and two steam-baths weekly. In a week the patients fram e of mind was al ready completely transformed. Her pessimistic and morbid mood had changed to one of joy and delight in life. W ithin four months both digestion and menstruation had become fairly normal, and the girl was, so to say, regenerated. Her skin which before could not be brought to perspire, now became normally warm and moist. In six months more the girl developed in a truly astonishing manner, and within a year she was completely cured. Further cases from my practice may be read in Part IV.

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DISEASES OF T H E EYE AND EAR

OTH of those im portant organs of sense, the eye and the ear, are subject to serious diseases. Generally, indeed almost always, these diseases are attributed to influences directly affecting the organs named, without any inquiry to see whether there is a deeper cause. My method of cure, and the experience I have gained in the application of it, leave no m anner of doubt, that all diseases of the eye and ear, no m atter by what name they may be called, arise from internal chronic disorders. They are either to be traced to such cases where suppressed disease, such as diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, has left a new exciter of disease, or they may arise from vaccination. My Science of Facial Expression fully confirms this. By its help it can be proved that every ophthalmic or aural disease is accompanied by a corresponding general encumbrance of the body. That is to say, it can be shown that there is an accumulation of foreign m atter in the body, having a direct relation to the diseases which make their appearance in the eye or ear. It is quite impossible, that a person suffering from a disease of the eye or ear, can be healthy in other respects. There must have been foreign m atter which made its way to the parts afflicted, before such disease could arise. Such process can be remarked years in advance by the aid of the Science of Facial Expression. Let us first consider diseases of the ear. W hen the foreign m atter has passed to the ears, the first result is ob struction of the fine auditory canals. The tympanic membrane is fre quently ruptured, or grows relaxed and incapable of vibration, i. e. un able to transmit the sound waves in a normal manner. In this way arises catarrh of the middle ear, indicating accumulation of the foreign m atter there. It frequently happens with such accumulations, that if the pressure from below is strong, an acute state sets in. Suppuration than often takes place in the internal ear, fermenting foreign m atter being constantly discharged outwards, thus causing the well known dis ease otorrhea or running from the ear. If this acute condition is not cured in time in the natural way, still heavier encumbrance, and often even destruction of the organ of hearing is the consequence. This is always worse, the more the disease has been forced back into the system by treatment with drugs. To anyone who has followed my form er explanations, it will be clear that running from the ear, and cold in the head, on the one hand, and onorrhea and the whites, on the other, must have a common cause, m aintain that all these various diseases arise simply from foreign matter, which is lying accumulated in the body in a latent condition, passing over into an acute fermentive state, thus forming pus or mucus. The fermenting condition causes an inflammation of the mucous mem brane and parts of the body concerned; and this inflammation, in a serious case, may result in open, suppurating sores, or small ulcers.

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This inflammatory state may be chiefly observed in the inner parts of the body, which have no direct communication with the open air. It is of high importance for us, because it is the surest sign of a severe in ternal encumbrance of the body; and further, a proof that there is still sufficient bodily vitality to expel the foreign m atter by means of a curative crisis. In diseases of the eye, the case is quite similar. The foreign m atter fills the crystalline humor in the interior, disturbs it, and thus weakens the power of vision. This is the cause of myopia or near-sightedness. In other cases, the foreign m atter passes into the inner ocular membranes, whence it may come that the yellow spot in the eye, and its nerves, are displaced or covered over, causing the disease known as black cataract (amaurosis). Gray cataract is caused in a sim ilar manner. Over the crystalline lens an opaque film forms, which is nothing but foreign m atter that has entered the eye and the crystalline lens. These are conditions which are brought about generally only by very long continued encumbrance, and therefore usually occur only in persons well advanced in years. Green cataract (glaucoma), extreme tension of the eyeball, is caused simply by the ferm entation of the foreign m atter in the eye. The re presentatives of the orthodox medical school, in seeking to cure this dis ease by cutting out a piece of the iris, only divert the bodily vitality from the necessary task of healing. They mutilate the eye, and yet leave the original disease unchanged. An alteration in the condition of the eye may, however, be brought about by this operation. W hen wre consider all this, it becomes apparent how purposeless all these eye-operations are, which are directed only to the external symp toms, but never to eradicating the cause of the disease. As long as no new encumbrance of the eye sets in, the operation is regarded as suc cessful. But whenever the foreign m atter, as can hardly fail to be the case, undergoes changes in position or condition, the former, or it may be fresh, symptoms of disease reappear immediately, proving the use lessness of the successful operation. Egyptian eye disease. This disease, so common in childhood parti cularly, is nothing more than the ferm entation of morbid matter, gener ally inherited, by some chance cause coming into a state of violent agi tation, producing inflammation. As a consequence, the cure is also a very slow one, requiring the greatest patience. In many such cases, my method has met with the greatest success. The following interesting reports of cures may serve as illustrations. A little boy of eight took ill of Egyptian eye disease, and was treated by instillation of atropia, and operation for four years in various clinics and private hospitals, but without success. The physicians at last decided that the boy wras suffering from hydrocephalus (water on the brain ) and that nothing more could be done for him. His mother therefore brought him to me. By means of my Science of Facial Ex pression, I ascertained that the abnormally large head, and the inflam mation of the eyeball, were really the result of previous, uncurea dis ease. I further explained to the mother, that in this case a cure could only be effected with great perseverance, since the encumbrance wras in the back. Every day three to four cooling baths had to be taken and an unstimulating diet observed. Already by the end of a week, the in-

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llammation had subsided considerably, and the boy could now open his eyes a little, which before had been quite impossible. The digestion also was now nearly normal, and the bowels were well open. After a fort night the eyes were no longer irritated by light. During the fourth week, the child took scarlet fever again, the body having now regained so much vitality, that it could continue the crisis of scarlet fever, which had commenced in the boys fourth year, but had been suppressed. W hen the fever passed over, the inflammation of the eyes and mater on the brain were also found to be cured. Double vision is caused by a deposit of foreign m atter between the lens and the yellow spot, or directly in or upon the lens or pupil. In curing it by my method, it often happens, that in consequence of the retrogression of morbid matter, and the changes which thus take place in the body, not only double vision, but also a tem porary clearness of vision, alternates with temporary partial or complete dimness of sight. Squinting arises by reason of encumbrance of the rotator muscles of the eyeball. The foreign m atter collects, or is stopped in its course, in one of these muscles, thus rendering it firmer, tenser, thicker, and often quite incapable of performing its function. It is robbed of its elasticity, and through the tension ensuing, the muscle grows shorter than the other muscles which lie around the eyeball, the whole eye is gradually drawn aside by the encumbered muscle, and so loses its natural position. The orthodox surgeon in such a case severs this little muscle, thus again proving how little the medical profession understands of the nature of the disease in these cases. Squinting can only be cured in the proper and natural way, by expelling the foreign m atter from the muscle of the eye. As is well known, the optic nerves run together in a bunch and cross each other within the head, so that the left optic nerve passes over to the right side of the head, and the right nerve to the left. It may thus happen that with encumbrance of the left side, the right eye becomes diseased, its nerve being affected by the encumbrance of the left side, and vice versa. I will not enter into details concerning all the different diseases of the eye, so carefully distinguished by the modern specialist. They have all only one cause: more or less encumbrance of the part in question with foreign matter. One thing, however, I would point out. The state of the encumbrance of the eye in almost every case being different, it follows that the symptoms will vary. Moreover, by reason of the gradually in creasing encumbrance of the human race with foreign matter, new dis eases will always be arising. This is why the doctors are never finished with their classification; for newT diseases are always making their ap pearance, each requiring, of course, a newr name, and generally speak ing, a newr remedy. For us, the difference in the symptoms in the various ophthalmic and aural diseases, is a m atter of no significance. W e know that for the cure of each of these diseases, there is only one remedy which will re move the cause, that is, expel the foreign m atter. The remedy is that which has so often been proved to be successful: all the foreign m atter must be caused to retrogress on its path, to be expelled from the body through the natural organs of secretion. For this purpose my cooling baths and an unstimulating natural diet must be used. Often, also, my

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local steam-baths may be taken with good results, in the m anner already described under the caption, My Remedial Agents. (Page 70.) As regards the cure of eye and ear disorders by my treatment, where there has been no destruction of the organs, acute conditions attended by inflammation can be most rapidly curedoften even in a few days. The pain, at any rate, will vanish in this time, and simultaneously the danger of permanent disorder, so that a complete cure will follow generally in some days or weeks. Even when there has been partial destruction of the organs of sight or hearing, an improvement (though not cure) in the condition may be effected in the injured organs, which may thus be re tained for life, at all events in a partially serviceable condition. On the other hand, to cure chronic diseases of the eye and ear, which are generally attended by other serious disorders, more time and often great perseverance is required. Such cases are usually traceable to diseases which have been suppressed when the patients were children. The time necessary for the cure of these chronic cases may be months or years, according to the encumbrance. It is thus to be explained, why in two apparently quite similar cases, with the same treatment, one takes two or three times as long as the other to cure. The reason lies solely in the difference in the encumbrance. I will again introduce some cases from my practice. Further reports of cures will be found in Part IV. Eye disease. The patient in the first case, was the son of a business man in Leipzig, and had suffered from syphilis since his ninth year. The left eye especially was affected, and was threatened with destruc tion from severe inflammation. The boy was heavily encumbered with foreign matter, as the abnormally large head plainly indicated. This heavy encumbrance was what brought on syphilis, with the accompany ing acute eye disease. In the hospital, the disciples of medical orthodoxy had treated the diseased eye with copious quantities of atropia (a very poisonous remedy obtained from the juice of the poisonous stramonium and equally poisonous belladonna), against the use of which I would most earnestly warn everybody. The eye only grew worse under this treatment, new foreign m atter being conveyed into it from without, which in itself was enough to weaken the eye. W hat was the result of the treatm ent? After six weeks of doctoring with atropia, the eye be came totally blind. This caused the father to bring the boy to me. I undertook no local treatment of the eye at all, but simply stimulated the abdominal organs of secretion by means of cooling baths; unstimulating diet being, of course, also necessary. W ithin a week, a decided improve ment was to be remarked, and in six weeks not only the syphilis, but the eye disorder as well, had completely disappeared. No one was able to tell of which eye the boy had been blind. His sight was perfectly re stored and bis general health had become better than ever before. Gray cataract. A lady of sixty had had the left eye operated upon for gray cataract, and since this operation, which had, of course, been very successful was quite blind of this eye. For the right eye the same operation was proposed, as soon as the cataract in that eye should be ripe for operation. This case again affords a striking proof of the crude state of medical science, its false teachings, its wrong diagnosis; especially characteristic is the deferring of the second operation until the cataract should ripenwaiting till the whole house is in flames! To

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extinguish the fire at the first, when it is small and can easily be put outthat is a thing which medical science has not yet learned. This patient also, however, after the first operation, had lost all confidence in the orthodox method of treatment, and therefore came to me for cure. Her visual faculty was so far weakened, that she could perceive nothing but shadows, and could not tell even whether a person standing close before her, was a man or a woman. Her encumbrance was very deepseated, and traceable only to the quinsy in childhood, which nad not been cured, but simply suppressed. Since that time she had always suffered from near-sightedness, cataract being the final result. After following my treatm ent for a month, she was so far recovered, that she could read large print. Her general health had improved wonderfully at the same time. Her depressed and melancholy fram e of mind had changed to hopefulness and cheerfulness; she was, so to say, rejuve nated. W ithin the first few days her digestion had become much better. The treatm ent being continued, the eye grew clearer, brighter and stronger from week to week, a thorough cure being effected within half a year. This surprisingly rapid cure was due to the fact that there was evident a front encumbrance, the back remaining comparatively free. If the en cumbrance had been at the back, the cure would have probably re quired as many years as it here took months. Alas! that the operated eye, blighted by the surgeons knife, must remain for ever blind. Left-sided blindness, Discharge from the ear, Ringing in the ears. My patient was a gentleman, 37 years of age, who for many years had suffered from a troublesome discharge from the ear, and for the past six months was quite deaf in the left ear. The medicaments he had used had been of no use at all, wherefore he put himself under my care. By means of the Science of Facial Expression, I found that the disease was simply the result of bad digestion. I ordered the patient two or three friction hip and sitz-baths daily, and natural diet; in addition, he was to induce perspiration, either by exercise, or by being well covered in bed, and was to sleep with the windows open. The result was as fol lows. In seventeen days the running from the ear and left-sided deaf ness had disappeared, the digestion having greatly improved, even on the first day of the treatment. In another fortnight every trace of the ringing in the ears had vanished; so that the patient had been cured in 31 days. General difficulty of hearing. A gentleman, twenty-four years old, had had the measles as a child, which, in consequence of medical treatment, had not been cured. The morbid m atter had been driven inwards again, and was the cause, that a chronic state of illness had by degrees set in, including rheumatism, general debility, etc. Finally, owing to the pressure of morbid m atter to the head, the patient had also become partially deaf. All m anner of remedies had been tried by the patient, always in vain. On the recommendation of numerous acquaintances, he finally decided to try my system. Unstimulating diet, friction hip and sitz-baths and my other remedial agents, including frequent local steam-baths, were the means in this case too, by which the desired result was obtained in an unexpectedly short time. This was all the more remarkable, as the many false remedies tried had done much to injure the curative power

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of the system. On the other hand, the cure was aided by the youth of the patient, and the favorable season during which it was made. As the patient has written to me, not only has his hearing again become normal, but his hair, which had been getting very thin, has now become much thicker; the colds from which he suffered whenever there was a change in the weather, trouble him no more. Notwithstanding his not being always able to follow the prescribed diet exactly, and the fact that he has grown somewhat thin, he feels perfectly fresh and equal to work, both physical and mental; his sleeplessness has quite left him. And all this, againthe underlying cause being the same in all dis easeswas brought about in the usual way, without drugs, without operations, without any medical treatm ent whatever.

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DISEASES OF T H E TEETH . COLD IN T H E HEAD. INFLUENZA. DISEASES OF T H E TH RO A T. GOITRE.

ISEASES OF THE TEETH. I have already several times referred to the causes which give rise to all these diseases. Hollow teeth and toothache, of all kinds, are certain signs of a heavy encum brance with foreign matter. They all arise through foreign m atter passing to the head, and generally only with a definite kind of encum brance, i. e. that in which the foreign m atter rises from the front and the sides. Neither enamel, nor bone, is hard enough to permanently resist the continual pressure; they soften gradually and moulder just like a rotten branch. The pain then frequently felt, is caused simply by the excessive heat and friction during this process of fermentation. Tooth ache is sometimes directly provoked by my treatment. It may happen that persons who have never had toothache before, suffer from tem por ary attacks during my treatment, because with the retrogression of the foreign matter, the teeth are also affected. W e find the same thing in rheumatism. To have the teeth extracted is very foolish, and is simply mutilating the body, but never removing the cause of the toothache. My method enables us to cure toothache just like any other disease, as innumerable successful cases prove. Besides the friction baths, frequent local steam-batlis for the head, always followed directly by friction hip-baths, will be found most effective. To re-warm the body, a good walk should be taken, if possible in the sun. In most cases one such local steam-bath, followed by friction baths, suffices to banish the toothache; if not, the baths must be repeated. Anyone continuing my treatment for some length of time, will be troubled by toothache only until the foreign m atter has been drawn down from the teeth and ex pelled from the system. One point I must not pass over without mention; and that is the m at ter of cleaning the teeth. A yellowish mucus is constantly being de posited on the teeth, which even takes a hard form, known as tartar. It is only sick, or encumbered, persons, however, as I m aintain who need to clean their teeth. Healthy persons require this just as little as healthy animals. We find that the latter have dazzling white, healthy teeth, without a trace of slime or tartar. But where the body is encum bered, that is, in other words, where the digestion is no longer fully normal, there we shall assuredly find mucus and tartar on the teeth, both these being the products of abnormal digestion. The mucus and tartar are simply foreign m atter which has risen upward from the ab domen and collected upon the teeth. The cure of this, and all other diseases of the teeth, can therefore be effected only when foreign m atter ceases to form in the system. When teeth are already hollow and decayed, i. e. destroyed, tliey cannot, of

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course, be renewed; but it is always w-ell to have such stumps in the jaw. Nature is far more skillful than human aid in rendering such a tooth harmless to the system. Teeth which can still be saved, ought to be stopped, so that they may remain serviceable for mastication, as long as possible. At the most, only loose teeth, which are a hindrance in chewing, should be extracted, and if possible replaced by artificial ones. That it is precisely the teeth which soonest decay and ache, is a striking proof of the correctness of my theory of fermentation. The teeth are the only bones which project from the body and are not covered with m uscular tissue. When, now, we remember the peculiar fermentive process which foreign m atter undergoes, it is obvious that these project ing bongs in particular will be attacked by this process of fermentation. It is always in the extreme parts, that any fermentive process begins most energetically, and the teeth form precisely such extremities. Were they covered with flesh, the morbid m atter would first exert an influence upon this. Cold in the head. This is a slight inflammation of the air passages, and is generally attributed to catching cold. On page 49, I have already given some explanation of this matter. Catching cold can only cause illness in persons who are encumbered with foreign matter; never in healthy people. A cold in the head, just like toothache, points to a previous encumbrance of the organs concerned, generally following upon an encumbrance of the lungs. It is, therefore, in a sense, a cleans ing process of these latter organs. By following my treatment, including prolonged stay in the fresh air and sleeping with the wT indowr open, colds soon loose their disagreeable character. They take their course quietly, quickly disappearing alto gether. The same is also true of influenza. Influenza. The great influenza epidemic of 1890 will still be fresh in the memory of all readers. W ith a good conscience, I can assert, that the numerous influenza patients who put themselves under my treat ment, experienced the best results, w-hether in serious or slight attacks. The effective working of friction hip and sitz-baths, and of w'hole and local steam-baths was again thoroughly proved. Naturally a suitable unstimulating diet had likewise to be observed. Bad digestion was the regular attendant of this disease also. It was the true cause, as in other diseases, and was brought about by the accumulation of morbid m atter in the abdomen. In this w7ay, too, wre obtain an explanation of the fever which accompanies influenza. After the cooling baths, an astonishingly rapid improvement took place, the foreign matter, brought into a stage of fermentation through the change in the wreather, being quickly ex creted from the system. So rapid were the cures, that they often were made even in one day, w'itliout any of the dreaded consequent diseases, which follow upon the use of drugs. (See Beports of Cures, Part IV.) Throat diseases. How rapidly diseases of the throat have increased during the last few years, I have occasion to remark, by the great num bers of patients who come to me to be treated for such complaints. The medical profession always attempts to cure these diseases by local treatment. This causes the disorder to become chronic, since it can never be aided by driving the morbid m atter inw ards.

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Diseases of the throat indicate an internal encumbrance, wherefore it is chiefly pulmonary affections which are accompanied by them. Often, the throat disease may be due to an inherited encumbrance. The morbid m atter in these diseases in fermenting, rises from below, and as the neck is in a sense a narrow pass between the trunk and head, it offers much resistance, so that in aff ections of the head, the neck must necessarily be the first to suffer. For this reason the character of the neck is of especial significance for the Science of Facial Expression. The cure of throat affections, whether hoarseness, inflammation of the throat, of the larynx, or of the pharynx, or whatever they may be called, depends entirely upon the nature of the encumbrance. The process of cure may last for months, or even years, in chronic hereditary cases. My treatment, however, has met with rem arkable success. (See Reports of Cures, Part IV.) Goitre. It is a fact, that goitre is most common in mountainous neigh borhoods, and, moreover, generally in particular districts. This rem ark able disease is usually attributed to the extremely heavy loads which the inhabitants in mountainous parts are accustomed to carry. It is true, that external pressure on the bodythe repeated loading of it with heavy objectscan give rise to goitrous diseases; nevertheless, this com plaint has quite other causes. Often, for instance, water exercises an injurious effectfresh and apparently pure, clear mountain water. In running through masses of earth ana stone, it frequently takes up mineral m atter (lead, copper, etc.) which, even though scarcely to be observed, is nevertheless capable of causing disturbances in the human body, particularly when the w ater is regularly consumed. This can be explained by a simple observation. If the apparently clear w ater is al lowed to stand in the sun for some time, a sediment will gradually form. This foreign m atter if deposited in the body, accumulates in a definite part and favors the formation of goitre. Naturally, those persons remain free from the disease in whom, by reason of their general individual bodily disposition, the secretion of foreign matter, especially as perspiration, goes on regularly. W here, however, this is not the case, where there is a wrong system of living, or a bad digestion, there the natural excretion of the morbid m atter ceases. The indigestible substances in the water cause fermentive dis turbances, the foreign m atter presses upwards, and accumulates in the neck, causing the malformation known as goitre or Derbyshire neck. When the goitre forms outwardly, causing the so-called thick neck, there is no pain, and but little inconvenience from the swelling in front and at the side. The danger in such a case is very small. If, however, the function of the respiratory organs is disturbed by the swelling, the m atter is serious. W hilst the action of water containing many injurious substances favors the formation of these swellings, in the case of people simply living and quietly, it causes nervousness in those subject to mental excitement. It is an error to suppose that fresh, icy cold w ater is conducive to the health. The hardness of the water is sufficient to indicate its indigestible character. Observation has taught, and still teaches us, that running water, warmed by the sun, and rain-water, are the most suitable and beneficial for m ans consumption. No tender plants, nor flowers, flourish in hard, fresh water. Such w ater can only be purified of its in

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jurious, indigestible foreign m atter, and thus rendered tit for mans use, by the chemical action of the sun. Moreover, m an is not by nature compelled to drink. A simple, natural diet never creates thirst. W here such, however, arises, fresh, juicy fruits should be preferred to water. In conclusion, I would supplement the above by mentioning the fol lowing case, which I once treated. The patient, a woman, had had an affection of the stomach for many years. Finally a goitre began to form, which gradually resulted in great difficulty in breathing. On the application of my method of treatment, particularly the use of the friction sitz-baths, the breathing became much less labored, and in a week retrogression had commenced, the swelling of the skin being considerably softer and diminished in size. In another week there was no longer any trace whatever of the goitre.

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HEADACHE, MIGRAINE, CONSUMPTION OF T H E BRAIN, INFLAM M ATION OF T H E BRAIN

T first sight, it may seem absurd to here set together a num ber of disorders, between which the medical profession is most careful to distinguish. I have already stated that people are accustomed always to seek for the cause of the disease, only wT here the pain is felt. In the case of affections of the head especially, however, this is a gross error, for such always have their cause in the abdomen. They only make themselves felt in the head, years after, having risen from the abdomen. Those ex pert in my Science of Facial Expression are in a position to watch the de velopment and approach of such affections long before they actually ap pear. Predisposition to migraine in the right or left side, can be ascer tained in the same way years in advance, and similarly with inflam mation and consumption of the brain. As experience has sufficiently shown, migraine arises with right- or left-sided encumbrance of the body wfith foreign matter, when the latter pressing towards the brain, reaches the head. The most serious head affections, however, such as find natural expression in inflammation and consumption of the brain, arise from a back encumbrance. W e always find in the case of persons suffering from affections of the head, that often for years before, there has been an abnormal digestion, generally expressing itself as costive ness or consumption. Very often we then find hemorrhoidal affections, piles, and the deposit of nodules of all kinds in the abdomen. To-day, we even find children in this condition. Sometimes the tumors in the abdomen suddenly disappear, and the person will then immediately suffer from affections of the head. The attentive observer will rem ark in such cases quite definite changes taking place in the head. The tumors which were formerly to be found in the abdomen, now appear in the head, and are much smaller and consequently harder. In many patients these nodules can be seen and felt externally, at the back of the head, on both sides. The body is not always able to drive the foreign m atter in these nodules to the head. If the fermentation is not strong enough, the morbid m at ter remains at the neck, under the arms, or on the chest, forming nodules in these parts. It must not be supposed, however, that the m atter travels from the abdomen through the body in the form of round, firm nodules. On the contrary, the body renders the morbid m atter gaseous, volatile and capable of moving from one part to another. According to the laws of ferm entation in the body, the foreign m atter of the tumors presses towards the extremities, and hence towards the head, without being stopped by any organ in the interior of the body. If now the m atter again collects and forms tubercles in the head, we get that state known by the doctors as consumption of the brain. W hilst formerly there were only hemorrhoidal or other tumors to be found in the abdominal region

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and particular!}' in the groins, we now find tubercles in the brain. The method by which a cure is effected, proves at the same time the truth of my statements. If the tubercles in the brain are dispersed and brought into a state of retrogression by means of the derivative action of my baths, we first rem ark a disappearance of these tubercles from the head. We next find them as piles or other tumors in the abdominal region that is, in their original form again. And only when these latter have been completely dispersed and secreted, do we find that the affection of the head has been cured. Naturally it must not be assumed from the above, that every patient suffering from piles must have a disposition to headaches, or that every hemorrhoidal affection must necessarily cause headache. Sometimes I have had patients suffering from piles, who never had had a headache in their life, a circumstance which is wholly due to difference in the encumbrance. W ith a front or side encumbrance, the tumors do not so readily travel to the head. If this should occur, however, they will mostly form as nodules and tubercules on the neck and lungs. Such cases are generally more easily cured than where the deposits are caused by a back encum brance. By means of my new system of diagnosis, the Science of Facial Expression, we are now able, long in advance, to find the path which the tumors or foreign m atter will probably take to the head. If, now, there is no obstruction met with and the tubercles once form in the brain, the predisposition to inflammation of the brain is there. W hen then, by any chance cause, a sudden disturbance (ferm entation), or dispersions of the foreign m atter takes place, a high fever will be the natural result. In such a case, the learned physicians confirm inflammation of the brain, but stand by quite helpless as far as cure is concerned. Readers will now clearly understand the connection between affections of the head and of the abdomen. And I m aintain that not only consumption and inflammation of the brain have their origin in the abdomen, but all those minor cephalic affections, down to the slightest headache. The only difference is that in the latter case the abdominal affection is less serious, consisting often only in slight digestive troubles. The headache thus soon passes. It is particularly in affections of the head, migraine, headache, con sumption, and inflammation of the brain, that the success of my system of cure may be so clearly observed. All these diseases it is therefore clear, have one common cause, traceable to the abdomen. It is other wise impossible that they could at once begin to disappear, when treated by means of my friction baths and diet, without any local application whatever. It is wholly and solely because my method goes to the root of the evil, that such successful cures are made, especially in cases of affections of the head. How often have I had occasion to observe, that headache and migraine have been cured after one single friction bath, somewhat prolonged. Many ladies, in whom I saw the encumbrance was favorable, have laughed when I have told them that they could expect such a rapid cure. After the bath they were able to understand what before they could not comprehend at all Old affections of the head, which have continued for years and have been caused by a severe encumbrance, cannot, of course, be cured so quickly. The foreign m atter has to retrogress, during which process the

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patient may also have to endure many of the old headaches again. In deed, not infrequently headache arises as a consequence of the baths, since the morbid m atter in retrogressing presses upon the cranial nerves. As conclusion to the above, I may here be allowed to mention a case confirmatory of what I have said. A man was suffering, as the physician stated, from consumption of the brain. He had tried the most various cures, but instead of obtaining relief, his state was, if anything, worse. At first he had had severe head aches, which had been suppressed by drugs; and his condition had now become unbearable, consumption of the brain having developed. In this miserable condition he came under my treatment. Naturally his digestion was completely out of order, but soon improved in the course of the treatment. I prescribed several baths daily, the usual natural diet and promotion of the perspiration. Tem porary curative crises were in his state naturally not to be avoided, and occurred fre quently, particularly when tumors were dispersed. After such crises, the patient always felt extremely well; and finally, after two months treatment, he was completely cured of his serious affection.

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TYPHUS. DYSENTERY. CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA

YPHUS. Nervous fever, or typhus, generally attacks persons in their best years, strong, robust people especially falling victims to it. It is one of the most severe fevers, and, therefore, at the same time, most vigorous curative crisis which there is. It is a universally dreaded disease and with the usual treatment very many persons die of it. The New Science of Healing, however, entirely robs it of its terrible character. It is only when the encumbrance is too great, that it is un certain whether the system can endure the curative process. But if we succeed, on my method, in making the patient perspire in a natural manner, after the cooling baths, all danger is over. It has frequently occurred in serious cases of typhus which I have treated, that patients who would have had to undergo a medical treatment for weeks or even months, could, after the very first days of application of my cure, take exercise regularly in the open air. As experience has proved, in all acute diseases such as typhus, in fluenza, etc., my steam-baths are of the greatest service. They must however, be adapted to the condition of the patient, neither being taken too often, nor for too long a time. The friction hip and sitz-baths must naturally be taken concurrently. Typhus, we thus see, resting on the same basis, as regards essentials, requires the same treatment as all other diseases, naturally with due individualization. An old adherent of my method once wrote to me that she had treated two serious cases of typhus and small-pox with one steam-bath and three prolonged friction hip and sitz-baths so successfully, that the patients could leave their beds and go out. W ithin six days all traces of disease had vanished, without leaving a single mark. The course taken by many typhus cases treated by me has been equally favorable. W here the system had been too much weakened and injured beforehand by the use of medicaments, the cure was naturally much more difficult. Cholera. Dysentery. The same successful results have also been ob tained in dysentery and cholera. Both are diseases which cause great disturbances in the digestion, attended by high internal fever. In Cholera, as I have often observed, this fever is so high, that the body is internally burned quite black, as may be plainly seen in the discoloration of the lips, nose and eyes of patients who have died of the disease. Cholera and dysentery only attack those persons whose system is heavily encumbered. It is not, therefore, mere chance that one person catches the disease and another not. I have dealt in detail with cholera and its related diseases in a separate pamphlet, to which I may here call attention. As experience sufficiently proves, all who take ill of cholera, have long been troubled by an abnormal digestion, generally by constipation.

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Thus in cases of dysentery and cholera, there is generally also, before the outbreak of the illness, even before there is anything to be rem arked a certain feeling of uneasiness and heaviness in the body. This marks the commencement of active fermentation. In my judgment, cholera is the most vigorous cleansing crisis which we have. The foreign matter, set in fermentation by some external cause, such as change of weather, chill, fright, excitement, etc., begins a forcible retrogression towards its form er starting point, the abdomen, especially as the skin is usually in active. If the vitality is still vigorous enough, the severe crisis may be overcome, and the patient will become one of the healthiest of men. If, on the contrary, through doctoring with drugs, at one time or another, the curative power of the system has been weakened, the curative crisis cannot be endured by the body. During the feverish process, whether in the case of cholera, or the usually less fatal dysentery, a remarkable process goes on, such as we do not elsewhere lind in the same form. The internal fever heat is nevertheless here usually concentrated only in the digestive organs, so that there is internally a devouring heat and ex ternally a feeling of chill. In treating these diseases, the first thing is to diminish the excessive internal heat; and further, by natural means, to make the patient per spire. W hen the system still possesses sufficient vital power to quickly enough overcome the burning and dangerous internal heat, the cure will be comparatively rapid. On account of the excessive internal fever, many patients scarcely feel the external cold. Such patients are most in danger. In the years 1849 and 1866, during the ravages of the cholera in Leipzig, I watched various cases. I remember exactly the course they took, and am to-day able to explain it. Those patients whose systems brought out the fever to the outside, mostly got over the cholera; where as all who exhibited but little fever externally, died. For instance, I saw a woman quietly walking up and down the court-yard with her child at 11 oclock in the forenoon; at 2 oclock in the afternoon her corpse was carried out of the house. In her case the system had not shown the slightest attempt at reaction against the cholera ferm enta tion. The woman was naturally heavily encumbered. The black color ation of the lips, eyes and tip of the nose, showed that the abdomen must have been in a dangerously gangrenous condition. My friction sitz-baths are the best means known of rapidlyand that is here the chief pointcuring such severe cases. They also simul taneously greatly increase the vitality. Abdominal steam-baths likewise often prove most effective; they must always be followed by a friction sitz or hip-bath. If possible, a sun-bath should be taken to again warm the body till it again perspires. W here sun-baths cannot be taken, the patient must be well covered up in bed in order to induce perspiration. In most cases a few cooling baths are sufficient to bring the patient out of danger. Naturally an absolutely unstimulating diet must be observed. In cases of dysentery, my baths, in conjunction with my other remed ial means, likewise act most effectively. Often only a few friction sitz and hip-baths, and a single steam-bath, are sufficient to cure diarrhea. If, however, this is not sufficient, the following means should be used; indeed, in severe cases it is better to adopt it at once. Heat a brick, wrap it in a woollen cloth and lay it under the anus. It is surprising how quickly the evacuations are stopped in this manner. After some

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hours, a friction sitz-bath should be taken and then the hot brick again applied. It is the universal experience of all those who have recovered from cholera, that they feel as though they had been freed from an oppressive burdenfor the whole of the form er load of foreign m atter has been gotten rid of. The Science of Facial Expression shows us the striking decrease in the encumbrance; it is, indeed, often quite rem arkable how, in so few days, the condition of the body may quite change. But since cholera is always a dangerous curative crisis, one will always do well in paying the chief attention to avoiding catching the disease. Unfortunately hitherto it has not been known what step to take in this respect. Only through my discovery is it now possible to determine every encumbrance, even the most dangerous and unfavorable dispo sition, which under certain circumstances may occasion curative crises such as cholera. From British India and Further India, I have received most favorable reports during the last years, as to the success of my method in cholera cases. In conjunction with my baths, in order to guard against such disease in tropical countries, an unstimulating diet is of special signi ficance. It has a rem arkable effect on acute fevers, such as cholera, dysentery, etc. Persons living in those countries, therefore, need have no fear about introducing such a diet, if it is not, indeed, already being followed. Let it only be tried! (Concerning dysentery, see Beports of Cures, Part IV.) Diarrhea is, ordinarily, only dysentery and cholera on a less extended nothing more nor less than cholera. It is generally only those children who have been brought up with the bottle, and therefore burdened with foreign m atter, who suffer from it. The treatment should be the same as in cholera; only the child will be caused to perspire easier by being taken into the fathers or mothers bed. Diarrhea is, ordinarily, only dysentery and cholera on a less extended scale. I have for years rem arked that vigorous persons often have periodical attacks of diarrhea. Diarrhea, no m atter how slight, is nothing other than a more active attempt of the system to effect a cure, and is thus always a favorable sign. It must, therefore, be looked upon as a fortunate occurrence, provided it does not continue too long. Such crises are probably actively supported by the recently discovered power of the electric ten sion of the air. Everyone who experiences such crises feels afterwards actually rejuvenated. We thus see how the body of itself periodically seeks to rid itself of its encumbrance. Although diarrhea and constipation appear as opposite extremes, no reader must wonder if I describe them both as simple disturbances of the digestion, called forth by abnormal internal heat, caused by overnutrition. Just as the same cause may make one person stout and cor pulent, another thin and lean, so it may cause in one case diarrhea and in another constipation. If obstinate constipation does not give way to the friction baths, one should try to evacuate the bowels in the open air, especially in a wood. It is surprising how the fresh air acts upon the body, so that what was impossible in the dark closet, is easy in the fresh air.

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CLIMATIC AND TROPICAL FEVERS, MALARIA, BILIOUS FEVER, YELLOW FEVER AND AGUE

HATEVER name these fevers may bear, and under whatever form we may meet them, the reason for their outbreak and development is always the same, the ferm entation of foreign matter. W hen we remember the climatic conditions in the tropics and the enormous differences of tem perature day and night, we can understand at once the reason for the severity of tropical fevers, the intensity of which increases proportionately to the more rapid and powerful fermentive processes. It is in hot climates that we find all the most favorable conditions for causing an outbreak of severe fever, even in those cases where the body contains comparatively little foreign matter. In the temperate zones this is never seen in like degree. N atur ally, tropical fever occurs in various forms. Yellow fever is that most feared. It owes its name to the yellow color which the skin gradually assumes in course of the illnessoften, perhaps, only as a consequence of the drugs employed. The first symptoms are: Weariness, headache, griping pains, thirst, and dryness of the skin. Afterwards the faeces be come black, and the patient vomits black masses; the whites of the eyes become yellow, and then the skin assumes the same color, often, however, only after death. The main point is to prevent the disease ever making its appearance. We have the means always at hand. First, a very moderate, wholly un stimulating non-flesh diet, selected from the products of the country in question; secondly, a thoroughly natural m anner of living, together with the use of my friction baths. Even though in the tropics one cannot obtain water for these baths so cold as one can in the temperate zones, the relation of the temperature of the water to that of the air is pretty nearly the same. Moreover, the same heat which has given rise to the ferm entation (disease), likewise favors the process of cure, since in those lands the re-warming and perspiring after the baths, ensues more rapidly than in temperate zones. It will never be possible for medical science, by means of quinine, antipyrin or other means for paralyzing the nerves, to really cure any fever whatever. W hen a weak dose of the remedy has done its work, a stronger one will have to be given; and finally the repeated paralyzing of the nerves will cause the most severe diseasesserious nervous complaints, which are then all the more difficult to cure. In all tropical countries, my treatment has been tried with the best success in such fever cases, according to the rules laid down in the present hand-book. A Mr. R. of Ratavia, writing to me from Genoa, rem arked among other things: I have just learned that my wife and my book-keeper in Batavia (Dutch East Indies) to whom I sent your book, have also employed your

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treatment with extraordinary success against the climatic fever pre vailing there. The Rev. Mr. M., of P. L. (Brazil), wrote to me under date of December 16th, 1890, as follows: As for myself, I can gratefully inform you that by the employment of the baths prescribed by you, the climatic fever and my digestion have in a very short time decidedly improved. W e have some trouble with the diet in this land of coffee, where instead of wheatmeal, we have to be content with maize bread; instead of German vegetables, our beans and rice, manioc, etc.; instead of pears, apples, and plums, our bananas, sweet potatoes, melons, oranges, figs, dates, chestnuts, and the like. The following is extracted from a letter, written in 1891, from one of my disciples on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon, Mr. J. S., a missionary, of B., Accra, Gold Coast; As far as possible, guided by the publications sent us, we have tried to apply your treatm ent in fevers, especially in bilious fever. W e are happy to be able to report, that your method greatly mitigates the at tacks of fever that occur so frequently. From a letter which I received from Mr. M. H., I extract the following: Stann Creek, near Belize, British Honduras, Central America, July 3rd, 1890. Having received your handbook, The New Science of Heal ing, I beg to thank you for your kind letter of advice, which I have fol lowed as far as existing conditions permit. Every year I have had to fight our tropical fevers, ague, and other disordersthis year I have re mained free from all these troubles, by the employment of your method of treatment. In a long letter to me from Otjimbingue (Hereroland), South-west Africa, Mr. F. M., after describing the serious illness of his wife, which was held to be incurable, wrote: None of the remedies which I had tried during 30 years could check the progress of the disease. The digestion was also utterly prostrate. Then came your letter, and opened my eyes. Now my wife takes friction baths. The malaria fever, which had recently been added to her other complaints, has already disap peared, the swelling of the feet is subsiding, and the fingers are growing thinner and suppler. Mr. G., a missionary at Dar-es-Salaam (East Africa), who had fol lowed my method of treatm ent in his own case according to my hand book, reports in the Nachrichten aus den ostafrikanischen Missionen, Berlin, September 1890, concerning the good effects of the treatment in his nephews illness: Sunday, June 22, 1890. Last week, my nephew, Daniel E., was ill for five days with violent malarial fever; neither quinine, antifebrin, antipy rin, nor peppermint tea; nor yet compresses according to the old Nature Cure method, afforded any relief. The fever remained at the same height, or even rose a few degrees. Yesterday noon, after all our exer tions, our resources were at an end. Only one thing could save the pa tientchange of place and airbut how? In this extremity we be thought us of the new Nature Cure method of Louis Kuhne of Leipzig, whose book, The New Science of Healing, I had just sent out. We placed the patient, glowing with fever heat, and unable to perspire, into water, i. e. administered a friction hip-bath lasting three minutes. As soon as the thermometer rose above 102 Fahr., the bath was repeated,

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and we soon observed that the fever was beginning to abate. Overnight improvement set in, and in the morning, perspiration came quite natur ally. Thus he was saved in a few hours by this simple curative process. Had the friction baths been continued for 20 minutes, instead of only for 3 minutes, improvement would have taken place still more quickly and surely. The longer and more frequently the baths are given in such cases, the better and more advantageous they are for the patient. On his own case, Mr. G., of Dar-es-Salaam, writes as follows: Not to repeat what I already wrote you respecting my cure of various climatic fevers through your method, I will mention briefly that your water cures have had most surprising results in my case. I now employ them with the natives (naturally, with a great deal of trouble and sacrifice of time), and the results have always been good. Since last June, I have used no medicines either for myself or my family; nothing but water, according to your instructions. We are in the best health possible in tropical regions well known for their un healthy character. W ould not this water-cure method of yours be a good remedy for yellow fever in West Africa? Mr. G. has apparently not fully grasped the idea of the unity of dis easeof the uniform interrelation of all diseases, otherwise he could hardly have put this question. Mr. A., a missionary at Kwala Rongan, Borneo, wrote to me under date of January 20th, 1892: Dear Mr. Kuhne: I possess two copies of your hand-book, The New Science of Healing, and cannot refrain from expressing my thanks to you for the good re sults of the New Science, which I have experienced in my own case, and in that of others, here on the island of Borneo. It will soon be a year since I first heard of the New Science of Healing, here in Borneo. Shortly afterwards, as I was one day at a friends I had a severe attack of Indian fever, which rendered me quite incapable. Thereupon, I tried your new method. First I took a steam-bath on a cane-seated chair, and then a friction hip-bath, according to the directions contained in your hand-book. The effect was astounding: after the bath I was even able to leave my bed, which before had been impossible. My friend and his wife were equally astonished at the rapid success. Since that day I have been a strong adherent of your system. I have also seen the best results from the New7 Science of Healing in the Dyaks here. The Dyaks, w7ho have no physicians, have made use of steam-baths from the most primitive ages, they are not acquainted with the friction baths, howrever. W ere I to relate to you about all the patients whom I have cured by means of the New7 Science of Healing, I should have to write too much. Your book, dear Mr. Kuhne, is the book for a missionary in the wilder ness, and it never leaves one in the lurch. The other doctor-books which I have, alwrays direct one to call in a physician. But how is this going to be done in the wilderness! I am too thankful to possess your text-book of the New7Science of Healing. About three weeks ago, I was called to a woman whose hut in a rice-field burnt down in the night, and she had not waked up until the fire had reached her body. The woman presented a dreadful sight, particularly the face and arms. I immediately ordered

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wet packs from morning to evening; and in the evening I applied them as directed in jo u r book. The next dajr I again applied the packs, and in a week she was quite well again; with the orthodox treatment by inunction, I believe it would have lasted weeks, mayhe months. Some weeks ago an eruption broke out on mj' left hand. Here they call it Kihis; it is a verjr obstinate rash and forms in rings round the bodj\ Formerly' I have aIwajT s driven it off bjr ointments, but it has alwajs returned again. One time it would be on the feet, next on the face, then on the back, and next time on the hands. Now when I saw the eruption appear this time, a few weeks ago, on the left hand, I said to m yself: well, this time Ill drive you off bj' means of the New Science of Healing. I therefore first took a steam-bath, followed bjr a friction hip-bath; the next day, onljr two friction sitz-baths. On the third dajTof the cure, I remarked that the eruption looked wrinkled, so that it was evidentlj' about to disappear. Also I have steamed the hand alone, and then taken a friction sitz-bath on each occasion. Now, on the left hand, on the affected part, two little ulcers have formed, so that I believe the foreign m atter is drawing together here. W hen thejT are healed, the dreadful itching will be gone. This is the way to get rid of the dreaded Kihis. I shall alwajrs use the New Method of Healing, for till to-day 1 have found nothing like it. I endeavor to get my friends to give their attention to the New Science. From West Africa, Australia, Hither India, The Cape, West Indies, etc., I have received numerous similar letters, relating the successful cures made by means of mjr methodmany accompanied bjr warm ex pressions of thanks.

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LEPROSY

F leprosy, that scourge of the tropics, we can in our temperate climate form but little conception. Those afflicted have always been doomed to death, there being no known remedy against the disease. Shut off from all communication with the rest of m an kind, generally confined on an island or in a special hospital, they were left to await their dreadful end. For fear of infection, all lepers are taken from their families, banished from their homes, and left almost to themselves in some remote place. At the most, food is brought to them from time to time, but otherwise all contact with them is avoided. In temperate climates leprosy is seldom found. The same causes which in the tropics induce leprosy, in the temperate zones bring on especially gout and dropsy. Just as the date-palm flourishes only in the tropics and the oak in a temperate climate, although there is the same sun, the same water, the same earth, so also is leprosy a product of a hot climate. We distinguish between wet, running leprosy, and diy leprosy. In the former, there is a gradual decomposition of the body going on, often for years, accompanied by dreadful torment. The disease progresses uninterruptedly until, when it has gone too far, death comes as a release. In dry leprosy, as in the former kind, there is an increasing disturbance of the digestion accompanied by the gradual formation of dark gang renous spots at the extremities, especially on the hands and feeta cer tain sign of a very high internal fever. The flesh begins to disappear, at first at the finger joints and then on the remaining parts of the body, until only the bare bones and joints are left. The body dries up pre cisely like a tree, and resembles a mummy. The bones and joints often appear more or less enlarged. The flesh continues disappearing, until the unfortunate sufferers resemble mere skeletons, and die of ex haustion. The cause of leprosy is, of course, the same as that of all other diseases: the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter. It may be in herited; or, it may be acquired through an unnatural mode of life. The true seat of the disease is in the abdomen, or in the organs of digestion, which are in an abnormal condition. The great heat in the tropics, which aids all processes of fermentation, naturally causes most rapid decom position of the foreign m atter in the system. This foreign m atter is forced with great energy to the extremities, where it accumulates in firm masses on account of the internal pressure. By such excessive ac cumulations, the nervesthe transmitters of lifeleading to these ex tremities are quite obstructed, so that they no longer perform their function. This accounts for the insensibility of the limbs in lepers. Such patients suffer from a high internal fever heat, whilst externally there is a certain feeling of chilliness. In dry leprosy, the extremities are literally dried up by this excessive inner heat, since owing to the weak digestion, in spite of the usual so-called nutritious food, it is impossible

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for the patient to be really nourished. The food, it is true, goes through the body, but the patient starves in spite of all that he eats. Here, again, we plainly see that it is not what one eats, nor that which contains, ac cording to modern views, all the substances of which chemical analysis shows the hum an frame to be composed, which nourishes and sustains the body, but only such food as the system can still really digest. In wet leprosy there is decomposition similar to that in dropsy. For here likewise, as experience shows, the formation of water is preceded by an internal gangrenous condition which often lasts for years. The decom position, therefore, may in a sense be regarded as the final stage of the processes going on in the living body. Furthermore, there is in wet lep-

rosy also a watery decomposition, though differing in form from that in dropsy. The course of disease in the case of a patient from Batavia, who was, as already mentioned, affected with heart disease, dropsy and leprosy, simultaneously, is therefore very interesting, as most clearly ex hibiting all these morbid processes. Although leprosy does not occur with us in the same form as in the tropics, we can, nevertheless, sometimes observe cases very similar. Consumption in particular, is much like it in character; only in this latter, the system does not always, especially in colder regions, force the foreign m atter into the extremities with such intensity as in the case of leprosydn a hot climate. The foreign m atter begins already in the interior of the body to ferment and destroy the lungs or other internal organs. As regards the cure of leprosy, medical science candidly confesses that it knows no cure. It does not know the nature of fever, and does not re

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gard leprosy as a febrile disease. Leprosy can only be really cured when the fever is attacked and the foreign m atter driven from the body. When this is not possible, a complete recovery is not to be expectedan improvement in the condition is the most that we can attain. The drug treatment only occasions still greater injury to the system than the disease itself. There can be no more striking proof of the correctness of this statement, than the report of the cure of the Batavian patient referred to on form er pages. We here see that the inactive lepra bacilli in this patient, the presence of which was ascertained be yond doubt by a specialist, could in no way be got rid of by the remedies he employed, neither by poisonous medicines, nor by any other means.

Fig. II. (13 years of age.)

Fig. III. (9 years of age.)

Compare with this the brilliant success attained by means of my system, which absolutely eradicated, as confirmed by the same physician, all the leprous bacilli. Cure can be attained in this disease only by means of unstimulating diet and my friction baths. Naturally, however, pa tients can be cured only where the digestion and activity of the skin are capable of improvement and where vitality is sufficient. W ith my method, it has also been clearly shown that all danger of contagion by lepers is excluded. This is of the highest importance, particularly for those who dread infection. It is only necessary to fol low a natural mode of living, and strengthen and invigorate the whole body by means of my system of baths, which cleanse the system from within of all foreign matter. They will then not only be safe from all danger of infection, but will promote their general health, and physical and mental capacity in every way.

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How little the medical profession knows to value natural curative means, is seen from the way in which the doctors so carefully confine their patients in sick-rooms with closed windows, taking the greatest pains to keep away all fresh air, particularly at night. It is thus natur ally unavoidable, that the air in sick-rooms becomes permeated with

Fig. IV. (Hands in Fig. II.)

the exhalations of the lepers, and with fermenting morbid matter, so that it is no wonder if leprosy proves contagious in such cases. Before I proceed to cases of cure of lepers, I will here briefly describe the manner in which everyone can surely protect himself against leprosy, and all other diseases (malarial and climatic fevers), so that in

Fig. V. (Hands in Fig. III.)

the worst case, the course of the disease will be attended by no danger at all and with but little derangement. As said before, it is only such per sons as are predisposed to these diseases, that is, who are heavily en cumbered with foreign matter, who can be attacked by them. Any ex citing cause acting upon the accumulation of foreign matter, causes re

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newed fermentation (curative crises) and endangers life. The predis position to such disease can he recognized years beforehand by the aid of my Science of Facial Expression. But even those who have not studied this science, are able to experience this predisposition to a certain ex tent. Our all-wise mother Nature, has provided us with a sure means for this purposeof which, however, most people, unhappily, do not understand the useour instinct. Natural instinct instils into all who are encumbered, provided they still stand in harmony with nature at all. an involuntary dread, a secret horror of infection from such diseases. After these general remarks, I will now describe the course of leprosy in the cases of three boys, who after having been given up by the medical authorities in Berlin and other cities, came under my treatment. The treatment of these boys (aged 9, 13 and 15 respectively) afforded me an opportunity of proving the superiority of my method, the more so as the orthodox physicians had confessed their inability to cure. As these cases might excite public attention, I had seven photographs (see pp. 175179) of the boys taken.

Fig. VI. (Foot to Fig. I.)

The state of the poor children, when I began their treatment, was de plorable in the extreme. On the hands, the tips and even the second joints of some fingers were much rotted off. The remaining stumps of the fingers were much swollen and nearly ready to fall off, as Figs. IV and V show. The forefinger of the right hand of the youngest child was already rotting away. The feet of the two elder brothers were in a still more horrible state. (See Figs. VI and VII.) They were mere shapeless masses, surcharged with foreign matter. In several places corrosion had already taken place, and from the sores, which went right down to the bone, there was a discharge of pus. The hands and feet, arms and legs, as far up as the elbows and knees respectively, had already lost all sense of feeling. One of the Berlin physicians, in order to ascertain the degree of insensibility of the members, had with a long needle pierced the hand and up the arm to the place where pain could be felt. This was found to be at the elbow. A truly remarkable achievement! The boys condition was so wretched, that photographs could not be taken until after three

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weeks treatment, when their state had already essentially improved. It was quite impossible to illustrate the worst stage of the disease. The cure consisted of two or three friction sitz-baths daily, with fre quent friction hip-baths, natural diet, plenty of exercise in the open air, and the promotion of perspiration. The effect in this case also was re markable. Although at the commencement of the cure the exhalations of the children were horrible enough, during the treatment they were abso lutely unendurable, smelling strongly of decomposition. For the bad m atter in the body being set in motion, strove to find an exit. This was notably the case during the baths. Breakfast consisted of dry wholemeal bread with a few apples; and dinner, of farinaceous foods, vegetables and pulse, boiled only in wa ter, with but little butter and salt. All flesh-meat, bouillon and the like were naturally prohibited. The food was boiled as thick as possible and always eaten together with wholemeal bread. Fresh water was the only beverage.

Fig. VII. (Foot to Fig. II.)

Within a fortnight the running from the open sores on the feet ceased, and began to heal from within outward. In the case of the two elder boys, each had still a large sore which did not heal over till during the course of the following month. The hands also underwent a rem ark able change during the cure, especially the fingers, which began to get thinner even during the second month of the treatment, as might be plainly seen by the folds formed in the skin. The foreign m atter now commenced retrogression towards the abdomen, in just the same manner in which it had formerly forced its way into the extremities. This, the iatients felt distinctly bv the drawing pains in the hands, arms, feet, and egs, and especially in the joints. When beginning my treatment, the oldest boy could not even wear the shoes which had been specially made for him. After four weeks treatment, however, he was able to wear ordinary leather shoes. The normal sense of feeling, finally returned into the previously insensible

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members. Naturally this result was only possible owing to the digestion having improved. On coming to me, the boys had scarcely any appetite at all, but within a week after commencing my treatment, they could hardly get enough to eat. Their digestion was, as it were, revivified. Thus the condition of these three boys was already such as was not to be compared with their form er one. The miserable children, doomed to certain death, were now happy and cheerful. At any rate, these cases show that leprosy, though commonly believed to be incurable, can be cured by my method of treatment, as has also been proved by the recovery of the patient from Java, referred to on pages 139 to 142. W ithout hesitation, I can positively assert, supported by the successful results obtained, that leprosy also has the same common cause as all other diseases. Only those lepers cannot be helped, whose disease is already too far progressed, i. e. where vital organs have been destroyed. To such unfortunate creatures, however, my treatment will at all events bring relief, and admit of a peaceful and easy death.

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SCABIES, WORMS, TAPEW ORM , PARASITES, INTESTINAL HERNIA

ERE again we have classed together a num ber of diseases which, however much they may differ as regards external symptoms, have still the same common cause. This assertion I make, sup ported by incontrovertible proofs, viz: the cures attained in such cases during my long practice. W hen we set about the cure of scabies and the related parasitic diseases, we have first to get a clear idea of how the itch-tick breeds and what is its nature. It is a well-known fact that a single warm day in springthat season of the year where nature develops the greatest vitalityis sufficient to bring forth a myriad caterpillars on the young leaves of the trees. And much as we are concerned at seeing the beautiful, fresh leaves eaten up before our eyes, we are powerless to prevent it. Then follows a cold night and all the parasites have vanished entirely, as suddenly as they ap peared. In a single night, by a fall in tem perature Nature has done that which for us it was impossible to bring about. And all parasites are sub ject to the same natural laws. From these observations we must draw the conclusion that the itchtick, worms, lice and other parasites can only exist where they find a suitable nutritive medium. Such, however, can only be found in the body which is diseased, that is, encumbered with foreign matter. Furthermore, the capability of existence of such animal life is dependent upon a definite high degree of temperature, which, as experience every where shows, is only to be found in organisms which are encumbered with morbid matter. Should we succeed in reducing the abnormal tem perature again to the average one, and at the same time in expelling the morbid juices from the system, the possibility of the parasites existing longer is at once cut off and they accordingly rapidly vanish. It will be clear to anyone who has attentively followed my explana tions, that the only way to diminish the internal tem perature is by means of my cooling baths, an unstimulating diet and my other now well-known prescriptions. Of course, according to the extent of the en cumbrance, these must be adapted to meet each individual case. Thus from the stand-point of my New Science of Healing, since these peculiar diseases have the same common origin as all diseases in general, the same uniform cure must here apply, which has never yet failed in other disorders either. Treatm ent with medicines only brings further injury to the organism. I may here be permitted, again, to illustrate these dry facts by some interesting examples. The first case is that of a gentleman who was suffering from intestinal worms of various kinds. Naturally this disorder was accompanied by nervous and digestive troubles, which had brought him to the brink of the grave. Internally he was being, so to say, consumed; and his ex

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crements were infested with little worms. Yet my method brought him relief. In the second month, already, the cause was removed and hence the worms disappeared. As the patient continued the cure, his state was soon changed from that of chronic disease to one of vigorous health. Only by diminishing the internal tem perature by friction hip and sitzbaths, perspiration and uncooked food, and thus expelling the morbid matter, was it possible here to stop the internal fermentive process, which had caused the worms. Another case, one of scabies, may be here mentioned, as characteristic of the orthodox medical treatment. On account of the disease men tioned, the patient, 17 years of age, had been treated without success in various clinics and hospitals. Finally, one of the professors ironically advised him to go to me, as he had no remedy. In his sore need the pa tient took the advice, no doubt seeing that nothing was to be experienced from the drug treatment. His hands and arms looked horrible. By means of my Science of Facial Expression, I ascertained that this patient had been suffering for years from a chronic abdominal disease, brought about by weak digestion. The morbid juices and impure blood thus pro duced, naturally formed an excellent nutritive medium for the scabies. The itch-tick may very well be compared to a bacillus, which thrives wherever there is decomposition. W ithout an appropriate nutritive medium it cannot exist at all. Here again, friction hip and sitz-baths, natural diet and frequent steam-baths proved an excellent remedy. The digestion soon improved, the itch decreasing simultaneously, being deprived of its nutritive medium. Microscopic examination clearly showed that the itch-ticks were being destroyed. W ithin three weeks only a few isolated ticks were to be seen, and in the fourth week not a trace of them was left. The patients features had quite changed; one could hardly recognize him again, so greatly was he altered. The patients nature had of itself done that which all the art of the state-diplomaed doctors could not do. And this was all effected by the same process as before, without the ap plication of medicaments and without surgical operation. Intestinal Hernia. The cause of intestinal hernia is a morbid internal encumbrance of the abdomen, accompanied by extreme tension. At those places on the peritoneum, where the slightest obstruction is offered^, the intestines, in consequence of the great internal pressure, tear the peritoneum and protrude. The exact place where this rupture occurs is very different in various cases, but the cause is always the same. It is therefore an error to seek such cause in a blow, a fall, or the like. They may certainly be the immediate means of producing a rupt ure, but can never be the true underlying cause. By applying my method and thus expelling the morbid m atter from the body, such rupt ures are again cured. W earing a truss, which is quite insufficient to remedy the complaint, is then wholly unnecessary. In the case of this trouble, too, my method of treatment has met with the greatest success; my doctrine of the unity of disease, it is again seen, never leaves us helpless. W ithin what time a cure may be effected, de pends, of course, upon the degree of encumbrance, and whether the rupture is already an old one, or not. Moreover, the cure in the case of an old person where bodily vitality is already low, will not be so com plete as when the patient is still in youth.

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CANCER, PROUD-FLESH

ANCER, that terrible and so universally dreaded disorder, cannot with right be attributed to external influences and the disorders which thejr cause. The origin must be sought in quite other pro cesses, taking place in the organism itself and then forming the immediate cause of this all-destroying disease. Like dropsy and tuber culosis, cancer is the last of a number of other suppressed, but uncured, diseases which have preceded it. Cancer always follows upon some former diseases, especially sexual diseases, such as syphilis. W hether such have arisen directly or indirectly is of no import. The main point is the presence of foreign matter, which chooses some path through the body, along which then form, as a final stage of the disease, those pro liferations, tumors and gangrenous places, which are the horror of m an kind. The predisposition to cancer may be ascertained years in advance by the aid of my Science of Facial Expression. For long before the actual cancer appears, nodules and swellings are always to be found on the neck, which point to the formation of growths over the whole body, and in particular to extensive hemorrhoidal tumors in the abdomen. These hemorrhoidal tumors may attain to such a size, that they obstruct the digestive canal, so that the faeces can no longer be expelled in the natural way. In various serious cases of cancer, which I have treated, I have observed that the digestion has always been completely obstructed. W ithout purgatives and enemas it was impossible for the patients to evacuate the bowels. I have likewise observed that after a long use of purgatives, especially pills, an internal gangrenous state is always brought about, leading to tuberculosis and particularly to cancer. For years the system can tolerate the use of such purgatives, and the irrita tion of the digestive and abdominal nerves caused by them. Gradually, however, the nerves become so excited that they are incapable of operat ing without ever-increasing stimulation, whereby such dreadful dis orders, as cancer are brought on. Just as in tuberculosis and dropsy, and all the various final stages of other preceding diseases, the cause of cancer is usually an unnatural mode of living, pampering, over-feeding, and especially an over-excitement of the nerves through stimulants, or by medicaments. The allopathic school is just as powerless here, as it is against all other final stages of disease. It is sad to see how the doctors strive to cure cancer solely by operating on the proliferations and new growths with caustics, or the knife, such as was the case with the Emperor Frederick. They forget to enquire whence these new forma tions arise. The nature of the disease evidently remains quite unknown to them, otherwise they would not, in this disease, select as the object of treatment merely the last symptom, the gangrenous form, as it were, of the foreign m atterthe new growths. They would then necessarily have seen that there must also be a cause for these growths, and that on the removal of this cause the attention must be concentrated.

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As an accompaniment of a gangrenous conditionand therefore also of cancerthere are often most unbearable pains and unpleasant sen sations. To bring relief to the sufferer, the orthodox physician injects morphia. Hereby the desired result is attained temporarily, but only at the expense of the whole body and nervous system, which experiences the greatest injury from the after-effects. Medical science proceeds here just like a bear, which in order to kill a fly on its m asters nose, flings stones, with the result not only the fly, but the m aster too, is killed. W hy shall we use poisons, when in my system of baths we have a natural means at hand, which alleviates and removes pain far more effectively than morphia, and at the same time steels and strengthens the organs? Morphinism then disappears of itself. There is here a con tinual demand for a narcotic, just as in dipsomania, which is also due to an inflamed or gangrenous condition of the body. It is only by natural treatment that the ever-increasing craving can be gotten over. In Part III, in the chapter on the Treatm ent of Wounds, under Open sores will be found full explanation concerning the cause and nature of cancer. Here I would only say a few words on the prospects of cure in such cases. In the first place, it is quite a m atter of indifference in what form and in what place the disease appears; it is of quite secondary im portance whether it is cancer of the tongue, of the breast, of the uterus, or of the stomach. The chance of cure is in no way influenced by the particular form in which the disease appears, for all the various forms have but one cause. According to the encumbrance of the afflicted per son, there is a displacement of the mass of morbid m atter in the body, influenced to some extent by the course of fermentation, and the greater or less pressure arising in consequence. Cancer can be cured by the use of my method. A certain cure can nevertheless only be expected by such persons as have a tolerably good digestion, and sufficient vitality to overcome the severe crises, which are unavoidable. It is only those thoroughly acquainted with my method who will be able to cure cancer, this being like tuberculosis and dropsy, a most dangerous disease. A gentleman, about 50 years of age, was suffering from cancer of the nose, and had consulted the most celebrated physicians of the orthodox school. They were able to tell him that he had cancer of the nose, but they could not cure it, not knowing its nature and cause. These phy sicians had one and all applied sharp and poisonous medicaments to the nose, in order to get rid of the local symptoms of cancer. But just as a tree is not decayed only where there is a rotten branch, so in cancer, the external gangrenous ulcerating new growth is not the disease itself, but only the place where it is most advanced. That the rottenness of the bough is no local disease of the tree, we at once see when the tree is felled. On dissecting a body, too, the physician can ascertain (if able to recognize the fact) that the whole system of the cancer-patient was dis eased. But it is certainly to the advantage of the patient if this can be recognized beforehand! My patient had been suffering for years from most severe indigestion. Curiously enough this had quite escaped the attention of the modern scientists, who occupied themselves exclusively with the patients nose. Had they had the slightest notion of my Science of Facial Expression, the gangrenous condition of the nose would have afforded them positive

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information concerning similar internal conditions in the patients ab domen. The patient fortunately now recognized the uselessness of all the local treatment, and being of an optimistic nature, full of hope, came to me. The nose and upper lip were completely eaten away, the tip of the nose on the point of disappearing, and the color of the skin of the nose showed gangrene. There was obstinate constipation and irregular urination, often attended by frightful pain, which however, happily did not permanently affect the patients spirits. His constitution responded very readily to my treatment, his vitality being still considerable. His digestion in particular, and consequently his entire condition, improved rapidly. From week to week the can cerous inflammation of the nose abated without any local treatment. First it became flaming red, the normal color of the skin being restored after about four months. The nose itself, together with the upper lip, healed during this time from within, without leaving any scars whatever. The means here employed were wholly unstimulating, dry diet, espe cially suited to the patients condition and digestion, my friction hip and sitz-baths, and once or twice in the week a steam-bath for the whole body, or only for the head, when the pain and inflammation were no longer to be borne, the baths were necessary every two hours. During these baths the pains always decreased, so that the patient felt most re lieved when thus bathing. Already on the second day the internal gang renous inflammation began to travel downward, becoming apparent by the sore at the part rubbed during the friction sitz-bath. This caused the patient great anxiety, the condition being naturally attended by severe pain. I explained to him, however, the cause of this, remarking that he must choose between quietly going through this derivative pro cess, and certain death. I also called his attention to the fact that in the same degree in which the inflammation had appeared at the point of friction, it had disappeared from the nose; this he perceived, and de cided to follow my further directions. His only way to freely get over this painful condition was by frequent bathing, and he soon had the satisfaction of attaining his purpose. During the treatment the patient suffered at first from a temporary return of an old kidney complaint, and then from a sexual disorder, but both in a far milder form then previously. These diseases had not, as had been imagined, been healed at their first appearance, but only forced back into the body by the drugs used. They were the preliminary stage to cancer of the nose, but only gave direct rise to it when thus treated with medicaments. The secretions during the treatment for cancer of the nose left no doubt of this. The pus secreted smelt at times exactly like the drugs which he had taken for the kidney and sexual disorders. As already observed, this is because the body envelops poisonous medi cines in mucus, these mucus-covered lumps remaining in the system, under the influence of the inner heat, gradually begin to chondrify and dry up. Under proper hydropathic treatment, these firm and hardened masses of mucus dissolve again, and if the vitality is raised, are secreted from the system. In my practice I have seen confirmation in many thousands of cases, and have likewise observed how seriously the use of drugs delays the real cure of the disease by my method. It is, more over, the excretion of drugs from the system which causes the sufferer most pain. This my patient also experienced. But his steady improve

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ment encouraged him to continue my treatment until he had become perfectly free from his serious disorder. It must not be supposed that the place where the friction is applied during the friction sitz-bath will in the case of every patient, become sore, through the gentle rubbing with cold water. Sores arising from the friction during the sitz-baths, which are especially observed in chronic diseases such as cancer, only occur in special cases and in definite forms. If there is no inner latent inflammation, or if the foreign m atter is easily expelled in another way, there will never be a sore at the point of friction. I have had patients who bathed from an hour and a half to two hours daily for two years, yet were never troubled with soreness. Others were only temporarily affected, during the transforma tion of their chronic, latent, diseased state into an acute one, i. e. during the critical period; and then only for such time as the inner acute in flammation was in course of being drawn downwards. The soreness then disappeared during the bath, exactly as it had come. In many cases open suppurating sores of greater or less extent often form at some distance from the point of friction, which continually throw off pus, i. e. foreign m atter in an acute form, a state of fermentation. This pus does not come, as many foolishly suppose, from the friction, but simply and solely from the condition of the patients body. It is originated wholly by the inner latent or acute inflammation, which is brought about by the foreign m atter being in a state of fermentation. This pus, therefore, is nothing more nor less than the cause of the crisis. It is thus quite a mistake, if patients employing my method for themselves at home, grow anxious at the appearance of such sores. It is just this participation of the body in the cure, and the expulsion of the foreign matter, which proves most conclusively, that under the influence of the baths recovery is taking place. Naturally the sores at the place of friction and the formation of pus, are worst when the internal inflammation has already a gangrenous condition, such as is the case in cancer. The patient, when not bathing, must then apply a wet linen cloth in several folds wrapped a num ber of times around the sore, and keep it as wet as possible. Another case of cancer may here be mentioned, as being of general interest. A woman in the beginning of the fifties was suffering from cancer of the breast. Her left breast had been operated upon, in Berlin, by the same eminent surgeons who attended the late Em peror Frederick. Soon after, the right breast was also attacked by cancer. The very suc cessful operation, therefore proved quite useless; indeed, the patients general condition was decidedly worse than before. She then presented herself a second time to the above-mentioned surgeons, to consult them about the re-appearance of the cancer. After a long examination, she was told that in order to effect a cure, the right breast would also have to be operated, but that her body was too weak to bear this, so that she could not survive the operation. There was no other means of cure, however. In her perplexity, thus given up by the first physicians of Germany, she came to me. The right breast was gangrenous, and several hard tumors, some as large as an egg, dark colored and gan grenous, had formed, extending from the breast to the armpit. The abdomen, too, was covered with tumors and abnormally large and hard. The digestion was bad, the bowels moving but once every third or fourth day, and then only by means of enemas. Hard balls of fsecal matter,

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rendered black by the internal heat, formed the entire evacuation. The urine also was scanty. Low vitality gave rise to great anxiety, especially as excessive headaches diminished it from day to day. This woman took up my treatment with great perseverance. The headaches soon abated. The digestion also began to improve slowly from week to week. The number of baths daily had to be most carefully regulated, accord ing to the patients condition and strength. The treatm ent itself was somewhat painful during the first six weeks. During its course, the effect of the so successful operation in Berlin, was very plainly manifested. In place of the old, deep scar on the left breast, there formed, during the very first week of treatment, an open gangrenous sore, which constantly grew in size and depth in the course of the first four weeks, until it was about fifteen square inches in extent. The gangrene of the right breast decreased in like measure as that of the left increased. By operating the left breast, the cause of the cancer had by no means been removed, but merely the extreme seat of the ferm enta tion. The system was thus forced to divert the progress of cancerous fermentation, until at length it was transferred to the right breast, after hard tumors had formed from the right breast and up to the arm-pit. By my treatment the disease was compelled to retrogress, so that there was nothing surprising in the reappearance in the left breast of the morbid matter, in the same acute condition in which it was at the time of the operation. Here again, a striking proof that Nature does not submit to the violence which the medical profession is so ready to commit. Every operation affords a fresh proof of the inadequacy of the modern medical school, and of its absolute poverty as regards all real curatives. Operations are still more unnatural than the use of medicaments. My readers will now understand why on the title page I describe my Science of Healing not only as without medicines, but also as without operations. But to return to the case. By bathing regularly, the pain which the atient had to bear, in consequence of the changes taking place in the ody, became more endurable after the baths. Nor was it long before open suppurating sores appeared at the place of frictiona certain proof that the great internal gangrenous inflammation was being drawn off. Soon the other tumors under the arm-pit likewise softened, and gradually dispersed, being always drawn down more and more towards the abdomen. During the first two months the patient had lived solely on wholemeal bread and fruit. On this diet it was possible for her, by taking the friction baths dilligently for three months, to so far recover, that tne open sores in the left breast were as good as healed and she could journey home. I have treated many other cases of cancer. Amongst them was one of the tongue and another of the throat, both common enough diseases to-day. My treatment here also proved successful. The hard cancer nodules in the throat became soft in a few weeks and excreted pus. The patient was then able to swallow without pain. In the case of cancer of the tongue, after the application of each fric tion bath, a brown coating disappeared from the tongue. The tumors there vanished much sooner than those in the lower part of the body, so that the tongue was soon smooth and normal. The most dangerous m atter in all these cases is the immense hem orr

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hoidal tumors in the abdomen. In cases where the patients are no longer able to take solid food, it is at all events possible to banish the un bearable pains, and so obviate morphinism and starvation. In this way, too, we can dissolve the tumors and cure the sleeplessness. Never theless, there can be no real cure for the patient, since the continual liquid food does not produce normal evacuations of the bowels. The effects of the friction sitz-baths were most striking in attacks of suffocation, such as frequently occur in severe diseases. W ith patients I have treated, who often had several attacks daily, the danger of suffo cation was over only a few minutes after the commencement of the bath. W henever a tumor in the throat dissolved, and poured its pus into the wind-pipe, or threatened to suffocate the patient by swelling up before dissolving, these attacks of suffocation occurred. They were al ways instantly averted by the friction baths. These processes, for the prevention of which tracheotomy has hitherto been the only means tried, are of the greatest significance. In these dangerous crises my friction baths perform the same invaluable service as they do in suffocative attacks occurring in diphtheria, to cure which, physicians unfortunately know no other remedy to try than surgical operations. Injections of serum, as the reports of the hospitals shojv, have in no way diminished the num ber of operations. W e see by this of what small worth these injections are. Proud flesh. Those proliferations and new growths which take place on injured parts of the body, commonly known as proud flesh, are far less dangerous than cancer. They can also be much more rapidly healed, inasmuch as, in the rule, the proud flesh can be transformed into pus more quickly. In this way, the expulsion of foreign m atter from the body occupies less time. This has been amply confirmed by actual cases in my practice, one of which I here cite. The patient was a woman of thirty, whose right forefinger had been in a bad state for some time. The tip, in consequence of an injury sus tained, had become inflamed, and got rapidly worse, until finally a large growth of proud flesh took place at the injured spot. The physician who was treating the case immediately cut this away, cauterizing with lunar caustic and similar corrosives. This was without success, for in spite of repeated operations, the proud flesh always appeared again. The finger finally became gangrenous, when the physician declared that the disease had reached the bone, and that an operation was absolutely necessary to prevent it spreading further. The patient, however, not being able to reconcile herself to an operation, came to me. I explained to her that amputation, such as the doctor had advised, was not only wholly unnecessary, but absolutely prejudicial to the health. The dis eased finger, I further explained, resulted from a definite cause, and only when this latter was removed, could the finger be cured. I pre scribed three to four friction sitz-baths daily, each of half-an-hours dur ation. She was to live on an unstimulating, natural diet, and during the first three or four days take a local steam-bath for the finger before the friction sitz-bath. The woman meanwhile was lying in, and there fore had some scruples about taking friction sitz-baths. W hen I told her, however, that I knew no better advice, she decided at once to fol low it, for otherwise there was nothing but amputation. The cure was most rapid. Already after the first bath, further growth of proud flesh

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had ceased. On the third day the flesh began to be transformed into us, thus indicating a great improvement. The gangrenous condition ad ceased, and consequently all danger as regards the bones and fingers was over. W ithin fourteen days the diseased finger was completely healed, nor was a trace of a scar to be seen.

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PART THREE
TREA TM EN T AND CURE OF WOUNDS W ITHOUT DRUGS AND OPERATIONS

T is no easy m atter to overcome the deep-rooted prejudice in favor of creating wounds according to the principles laid down by surgery. The current belief is that all kinds of injuries, whether internal or ex ternal, as well as wounds, can only be healed by surgical and antisep tic treatment. How erroneous this idea is, is proved by the brilliant suc cess which my method has met with. It is, in fact, precisely in such cases that the rem arkable healing power of hydropathy can be so strikingly demonstrated. And there is no more powerful means of propaganda for the treatment of wounds by water and other natural agents than my system of cure. Apart from its painless character, my system enables us to heal nearly every injury, in scarcely one-third the time required by medical, socalled antiseptic, treatment. This statement is proved by the large num ber of patients whose injuries have been healed. There has not been one single unsuccessful case. Another great advantage of my method is that not only are the disfiguring scars, which surgical operations neces sitate, obviated, but the wounds themselves leave practically no marks behind. W henever an external injury is receiveda cut, stab, contusion, burn, frost-biteit will be at once remarked that the system sets about healing it. The irritation of the nerves, caused by the injury, calls forth an increased flow of blood and other substitute-matter to the wounded part. There is then increased warmth and swelling produced by the friction of the m atter collecting, a process which in tne case of burns and contusions especially, is attended with much pain. If, now, we assist the body in the right manner in its effort to repair the ill, an extremely rapid and painless cure will result. The pains mentioned above usually commence only when the body begins the work of healing. They are nothing more or less than a local traumatic fevera local fever resulting from the wound. And if we remember that, just as in other diseases, so also in the case of wounds, we have to do with fever, even though of a different form, it will not be difficult to find the way to cure. As we have already learned, our first attention must be devoted to subduing the fever, especially where the injury is extensive, so that the local feverish condition may be prevented from becoming general. The pain will at once be taken away if we succeed in stopping the

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fever. Nowhere can we more clearly observe how fever is nothing more than a curative and compensatory effort of the system. Unfortunately, it is a m atter of too common occurrence today that the traum atic fever spreads over the whole body, the wounds healing much more slowly in consequence. There is a deep reason for this. The wounds of a healthy person heal very quickly and easily; not so those of a person whose system is encumbered with morbid m atter, and who therefore is already suffering from an internal fever. Here, the injury and the accompany ing nervous irritation, can very easily form the exciting cause of a still more extended process of fermentation. But even where this is not the case, the cure is retarded. The system drives an increased quan tity of blood to the injured parts, in consequence of which more foreign m atter is carried there. At such a part, therefore, an accumulation of morbid m atter readily gathers; or it may develop into an excretory channel, in the form of an open wound. I have often observed that in the case of animals left quite to them selves, without any aid whatever, wounds heal in an incredibly short time. In studying such quite natural occurrences, I have always been struck bv the immense difference observable between these cures and those of human beings. Nothing has more stimulated me to reflect, and to investigate the secrets of nature. Once I shared the general opinion, that in event of injury the poor animals were far worse off than human beings, commanding all the resources of science, and enjoying the af fectionate care of friends. Experience has shown me, however, that a cure takes place much faster in the case of animals than in the case of patients in the hospital. My observations led me to the conclusion that there could be no mere chance in this matter, but that there must be deep underlying reasons. I will produce some elucidatory examples. A cat had been caught in a steel trap, which had broken the anim als right leg an inch or more above the hough, just where the thick flesh begins. In her endeavors to get free, the cat had dragged the trap about, twisting the leg several times around, and getting the wounded parts covered with dust and chaff. On letting the animal out of the trap, she rushed off with the broken leg dangling in the air. Nothing was seen of her for some days, so that it was thought that she had died. It might have been a week afterwards that a sick cat was found in a neighboring barn, and it turned out to be the one which had been caught in the trap. The hind leg had meanwhile fully healed, in an astonishing manner, a considerable swelling, however, still remaining at the place of fracture. It was evident from the animals emaciated appearance that she had eaten nothing the whole week. Notwithstand ing this, she absolutely refused even the daintiest bits, nor would she touch water. The injured leg she kept carefully stretched out, always in the same position, and every now and then she licked the wound all over. This apparently eased the pain, for she continued to lick the part most perseveringly. There was a significant reason for the cats fasting. As we know, the process of digestion is one of fermentation, and is in conceivable without the production of heat. Now, as the animal had no water to cool the wound, she dispensed with food altogether, so that no greater heat might be generated in the body. Her instinct told her exactly what to do.

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After a few days the animal, now reduced almost to a skeleton, ap peared again, and after receiving some milk, soon became quite lively. After a month the cat was in a fully normal condition, the only sign of the injury being a hard lump at the place of fracture, which, however, in no way impeded her motion. Now, suppose a similar accident had happened to a hum an being; what course would the cure have taken with antiseptic treatm ent? An amputation would have probably been unavoidable, and the affair would have lasted for months, until the patient was so far cured as to be able to live for the rest of his life as a cripple. Even in the best case, sup posing amputation to have been avoided, the leg would under medical treatm ent always have remained stiff. I may here mention another case, also from the animal kingdom, well adapted to explain my treatment of wounds. A dog had been severely, but not fatally wounded by a charge of shot. Several pellets had passed through the fore and hind legs, while two had penetrated the neck from the right side, lying embedded in the skin on the left side. The wind pipe, the oesophagus, and the main arteries were fortunately uninjured. W henever the wounds grew painful, the dog sought out a damp and shady spot, and cooled his body, especially the wounded parts, on the fresh earth, which he always scratched up afresh as soon as it became warm. He incessantly licked the wounds and refused all food. Twice a day he went down to a pond near by to drink water, which was his sole nourishment. Here also, the cure was a rapid one. In five days the in'uries in his legs, which he would lick continually, might be regarded as lealed, if still somewhat swollen. The neck, which the dog was unable to lick, on the contrary, healed more slowly, although not so badly wounded as the legs. The animal did not take any food until about a week after the accident. Meanwhile the wounds on the neck had also quite healed. The pellets were now lying embedded between the skin and muscles. A third case will also interest readers. A large Newfoundland dog had had his right paw run over and much crushed by a coal cart. The skin was stripped off and the bone splintered. The animal was unable to walk, and nad to be conveyed home. Here he crept to a shady place, and licked his paw continually. Not until the fourth day would the dog touch food, the wound then being sufficiently healed to allow him to go about on three legs. In twenty days the animal was again quite well. From these examples we can gather many useful hints regarding the treatment of wounds in the case of man. Cooling with water and abstinence from food, or at all events from all heating food, are the natural remedies in this case also. The surgical method as practised in modern hospitals, according to which the most nutritious foods such as flesh-meat, beef-tea, eggs, milk, wane, are prescribed to raise the patients vitality is a perfectly false one. This is the worst thing that can be done and is quite con trary to the laws of nature. In my opinion, it is best during the first stage of wound treatment, not to burden the body with any work what ever, as this only hinders the curative efforts of the system. In treat ing wounds in the antiseptic m anner with carbolic acid, iodine, corrosive sublimate, cocaine, etc., the medical profession shows how little it under stands even to-day, of the nature and significance of the processes which

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go on in the hum an body. Surgeons, knowing nothing of the rem ark able cures of hydropathy, deviate ever further and further from the right path. The natural way of curing is a thing unknown to them. I will now proceed from these introductory rem arks to a considera tion of the various kinds of wounds, relating some actual cases by way of example. Incised, punctured, contused and lacerated wounds. W hen the body receives a wound through a cut, stab, bruise, or laceration, the larger and smaller blood-vessels thus opened, empty their blood outwards, by reason of the inner pressure, until this latter is concentrated by external counter-pressure. As this process plays an important part in the treat ment of wounds, it will be well to consider it in detail. As is well known, we live under an atmospheric pressure of about 15 lbs. per sq. inch. Our bodies could never sustain and bear this pressure, did they not exert from within a high counter-pressure. In ascending mountains many readers have no doubt observed the difference in pressure. On very high mountains, or during balloon-voyages, the atmospheric press ure is so low, that sometimes blood issues from mouth, nose, eyes and ears, being forced out by the excessive inner pressure. As soon as the inner pressure is again counteracted by an equal one from without, the bleeding instantly ceases. W hen the body receives a wound, it is de prived of the walls which confine the inner pressure of the blood within natural limits, and thus bleeding ensues as the immediate result of a wound. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to staunch the bleeding. The pressure of the blood is greater or smaller, according to the size and depth of the wound, and according as larger or smaller blood-vessels have been injured. W henever possible, all tying of blood-vessels must be avoided, since by ligatures we impede the normal circulation and treat the organism in a m anner which cannot be regarded as natural. There are other more effectual remedies which quite obviate ligation. Only when an injury of large blood-vessels renders such a loss of blood probable as would endanger life, and the necessary compresses are not at hand, can the application of ligatures to arteries, or to limbs, be re garded as justifiable. W ith the hemorrhage, pain generally arises, which must be stopped simultaneously with the bleeding. There is no more suitable means to this end, than to well bandage the wound with a wet linen cloth folded several times, so that the inner pressure of the blood, and with it the hemorrhage, is counteracted. If practicable, the wounded part should afterwards be held in cold water, until the pain is allayed, which may take several hours. If not feasible, the part must be cooled by letting cold water drop, either continuously, or at short intervals, upon the compress, so that the latter is kept well cool. How thick, that is, in how many folds, the coarse linen compress should be made, depends on the nature of the injury, f. e., on the internal pres sure of the blood. For smaller wounds, the cloth may be folded 2, 4, or 6 times; for larger wounds 10,15, 20 or even 30 times. If the compress laid on a large wound were too thin, it would neither prevent bleeding, nor heal so quickly. On the other hand, the compress should not be too thick; cuts on the fingers, for instance, heal far more slowly under a thick

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water compress of say 20 folds, than under a thinner one folded say two to four times. The linen compress must be so folded as not to project more than an inch or so beyond the edges of the wound all around. In this way, the circulation of the blood in the adjacent parts will not be hindered during healing of a wounda m atter of the utmost importance. Over the water compress only a woollen bandage must be wrapped round one or more times. In this way the compress is held in place and the pressure can be regulated; the proper degree of bodily warmth is at the same time thus attained. Before applying the compresses, they should be dipped in clear cold, if possible, soft water, and lightly wrung out. As long as they cool the body, no severe pains will arise. W henever the compress becomes warm, it must be dipped in fresh cold w ater again. If pain is felt, it shows that it is time to apply a colder compress, and this must be done very frequently at first. It is, however, in some cases not advisable to apply the compresses too frequently. It is then better to lay a compress of clay or loam on the wound. To do this, put some well cleaned clay or loam in a pot, and stir it with cold water into a thick paste. Spread this paste thickly on a piece of linen, and then lay it directly upon the wound, with the earthy side in contact with the flesh. This compress can be renewed after some hours. The same process may be followed for proud flesh or gangrenous ulcers. W ithout any real knowledge of hydropathy, the representatives of the orthodox medical school, it may be here remarked, have some time ago invented a brilliant medico-surgical improvement in water com presses. They introduce a sheet of india-rubber between the compress and the woollen cloth. W ater compresses of this kind are of little use, since the rubber prevents the evaporation of the water in the compress and the free perspiration of the body. This kind of hydropathy is simply illusory. Such a compress can never have the desired result: I must distinctly warn all against using such. As already seen, an unstimulating diet exercises a most beneficial in fluence on the healing of wounds. The less food consumed, and the less stimulating the nourishment, the better the process of healing goes on. Wholemeal bread, fruit and water, without any addition, form the best diet. The easiest and most quickly digested foods are the best, since they engender the least heat in the body. This is a point of great importance in the treatment of wounds. There is another remedy, which, where it can be applied, much pro motes the healing process, and this remedy is my friction and hip-baths. By their use the fever at the wound is absolutely prevented, or if local fever has already set in, they will act derivatively. At the same time, the vital powers of the entire organism will be stimulated so as to greatly accelerate the process of healing. These baths are especially necessary for all who are much encumbered with foreign matter. I will illustrate what has been said, by some examples. In a factory, a man of forty-five had had his left hand injured by a circular-saw, which had torn the fleshy cushion between the forefinger and thumb apart, the flesh remaining hanging upon the saw. The bone was fortunately uninjured. A few minutes after the accident, the wounded man fell into a swoon, from which he did not awake for

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about half an hour. Meantime, a linen shirt had been folded several times, and so firmly bound together around the injured hand, that the bleeding as good as ceased. Thus bound, the hand was held in a basin of cold water. Through this procedure the pain abated considerably with in an hour, and in the course of a day quite disappeared. The cooling process had to be kept up day and night at first, but on the fourth day it was possible to lessen tne size of compress, so that parts of the hand could be left free. A compress, folded about twenty times was now laid upon the wound and pressed firmly against it Avith a Avoollen cloth bound round the entire hand. The Avoollen cloth soon w arm ed the rest of the hand, thus promoting a proper circulation of the blood. The compress had at first to be wetted with cold Avater every half hour, and then at longer intervals; and in about a fortnight, the wound Avas so far healed, that direct treatm ent of it Avas no longer necessary. In four Aveeks the m an could again Avork Avith his hand. It should be added that from the second day of the treatment, the patient also took my friction baths tAvice daily, Avhicli essentially accelerated the process of healing. The patients state of health, it m ay be rem arked, Avas far from being good. W ith the antiseptic treatment, in all probability healing Avould have been a long and painful process. The doctor Avould certainly have seAvn the wound, Avhen stiffness and insensibility of the thum b Avould un doubtedly have been the result. W ith my treatment, apart from the rapidity, the wound healed so as not to leave the least trace of a scar. Although at the beginning the wound Avas a very wide one, the body healed it from Avithin, the edges of the wound falling off in time of their OAvn accord. Several im portant nerve-connections having been destroyed by the injury, half of the thum b for the time being lost the sense of touch, so that the patient Avas unable for months to grasp and hold small objects Avith his thumb. After applying my .friction sitz-baths daily for some length of time, the nerve-connections Avere restored, so that the normal sensibility re turned to the finger. Bruises, contusions, and internal injuries. The above treatm ent is also suitable for bruises. It often happens in the case of bruises, con tusions and internal injuries that blood-tumors and blood-cysts form in ternally and exercise a disturbing influence on the entire organism. In those cases which cannot be reached from outside, my friction baths Avill effect rem arkable cures. They cool the system internally7, strengthening the nerves at the same time in the highest degree. In individual cases Avhere my baths m ay not quickly enough disperse in ternal accumulations of coagulated blood, or other products of ferm en tation, local steam-baths may be used Avith excellent results, but must ahvays be folloAved by friction baths. By means of the steam baths all morbid m atter is rendered easier of excretion. A girl Avho had crushed and punctured the forefinger of her right hand in a knitting-machine, once consulted me. During the first Aveek she had been treated by an orthodox physician, avIi o had exhausted the resources of antiseptic practice Avithout having succeeded in healing the wound. He had employed iodoform and carbolic and salicylic acid, and had not hesitated to tell the girl that am putation of the finger or hand might be necessary. The girl suffered dreadful pain and the finger

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swelled more and more until it was quite blue. In the third week, the whole hand was swollen and had assumed the same color. Finally, the doctor asked her if she had courage to have the hand amputated. The thought so frightened the girl that she came to me. I immediately ap plied cold water compresses, and ordered two local steam-baths daily, followed by friction sitz-baths. After only two hours treatment, the pain had almost completely disappeared. Nor did it recur during the entire course of treatment. The excessive swelling of the hand and finger abated hourly, so that in two days they had both regained their natural form and color. In from three to four weeks, the girl could work again, even though unable to use the hand quite freely. In this way an interesting scientific operation was no doubt pre vented, but on the other hand the girl was saved from being a cripple for life. In a similar case, force of necessity compelled a carpenter to consult me. He had crushed and wounded his left hand, both on the palm and back. The man had no confidence in the antiseptic treatment, by reason of form er sad experience. The whole arm up to the shoulder was al ready so badly swollen that he could not move it. In less than three hours of my treatment, the pain was subdued, and after 18 hours, the swelling had completely subsided. In a fortnight, the man was able to return to his work. The two following reports of cures sufficiently prove the fact that the antiseptic treatment effects no real cure, but simply produces an interim state. Two girls working on the same machine were injured in the same m anner on the forefinger. The bone, from the tip of the first joint, was fractured and comminuted, the rem ainder of the finger being unin jured, however. The age and constitution of the girls were likewise the same. One girl went to a physician, who soon applied the antiseptic treatment; whilst the other was treated by me. The doctor at once re moved the splinters of bone and applied iodoform liberally during the operation. The girl had much pain to endure, still in a week the finger was so far healed, that she could work again, if absolutely necessary. The first joint, however, through the operation was completely crippled and the whole finger disfigured. W ith every change of weather the girl for years experienced great pain in the old wound, caused by nothing else than the wrong treatment, whereby foreign m atter (iodoform) had been directly introduced. The finger also remained with feeling. The other patient who used m y method, attained much better results. My first endeavor was to stop the pain, and I succeeded in the course of the very first day. For this purpose I prescribed the already fam iliar means: wet linen compresses and friction bathsthe latter, because the girl was much encumbered in other respects also. W ithout any further application, the splinters of bone festered out of themselves on the third day, without the patient suffering any particular pain. On the sixth day the second largest piece of bone followed; in a month the girl could return to work again. In six weeks the finger was perfectly healed, without any loss of feeling, any crippling, or any scar. Nor have, up till this day any pains set in on changes taking place in the weather. Who then was the better surgeon here, Nature or Antisepsis? Another not less interesting case was that of a man, who in 1879 had

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suffered extensive rupture of the tendinous ligament and muscle bundle in the left ankle. The patient had to keep his bed for two months, and was treated with ointment. After the foot had healed, it was still weak, and remained swollen. This was especially noticeable in walking, the foot frequently turning over and causing much pain. As the man was in poor health, he commenced with my system, in March 1889, and as he found the treatm ent did him good, he continued it for a considerable time. At the beginning of 1890, the feet became inflamed again at those places where he had suffered years before. The inflammation was accompanied by pains which lasted three days. By the aid of my cure these disappeared on the fourth day, and at the same time the form er general debility and weakness of the ankle disappeared. From this case we see how the injury received eleven years before, and not yet properly healed, was absolutely cured by my method. Burns. Also for burns, cold water forms are excellent means for quieting the pain which is always experienced. Often, to get rid of the pain, the wound must be held under water for several hours. If only held in cold w ater for a short time, the pain even increases; one must put up with it until it has disappeared. W hen the burning pain has abated, compresses should be applied as in the case of wounds. River or rain water is preferable to spring-water, as the latter often contains sub stances which hinder the process of healing and increase the pain. It is astonishing how quickly even severe pains are healed by this means; it is certain that many who have found their death through burning and scalding, could have been saved by this method. W hen burns only heal slowly with this treatment, it may be con fidently assumed that the patients body is heavily encumbered with foreign matter, in other words, chronically diseased. In such cases a general treatment of the whole body by means of my friction baths, in conjunction with unstimulating diet is to be recommended. But even should the cure take its wanted course, the curative process will be greatly assisted by these baths, whenever the patient is equal to them. A man had received three very considerable burns, two on the neck being as large as a five-shilling piece; the third, the largest and deepest, was on the foot. The patient was at first under antiseptic treatment, but on account of the excessive pain, could not beqr it longer than a day. He then began self-treatment according to the old Nature Cure system. This, however, likewise not affording sufficient relief, after a week, he consulted me. My first aim was naturally to subdue the pain, which I succeeded in doing with cold compresses within two hours, after having well cleansed the wounds of oil and pus. After two days of this treat ment the wounds presented an entirely different appearance. The smallest burn on the neck was already as good as healed, and the others were healing rapidly. The deep wound on the foot had likewise de creased by half in depth. In five days more the patient could again re turn to the factory. The burns on the neck were fully healed, and that on the foot so far improved, that the man could at any rate walk. Gun-shot wounds. The treatm ent of these is exactly sim ilar to that of
incised and punctured wounds. Nevertheless, on account of their im portance in Avar, it is Avell to submit them to a special consideration. For every soldier is of great im portance to knoAv precisely Avhat to do as a first aid to the wounded. W hen the wounded must lie for hours before

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any help whatever comes, it is no wonder that with many injuries especially in case of antiseptic treatmentgangrene supervenes, usually necessitating amputation, if, indeed, death does not ensue. Amid the general helplessness and ignorance of the nature of life and its condi tions, and of the manner in which the healing of wounds is effected through the organism itself, there is no other resource to be had than to amputation. But amputation never heals wounds, it only inflicts far deeper ones and thus often turns the patient into a cripple for life. The popular and medical belief is that the ball or fragment of the pro jectile, if it still remains in the body, must without fail be extracted to avoid injury to the system. This is a gross error, which has already cost many thousands of lives. For owing to the weight of such shot, etc., it is often most difficult to remove them from the body without injuring it still more. The inner parts of the body are, as is well known, so coated with mucus, that the projectiles easily force their way past them, and whenever they happen to penetrate them, make the smallest aper ture possible, which permits of their passing. This is owing to the fact that by the pressure which the shot exerts upon the tissues, the latter expand somewhat on account of their elasticity. It is exactly as with india-rubber penetrated by a shot. We find that a hole is produced, through which the ball cannot repass, except by stretching out the rubber. W hat is it, then, that we observe when the injured parts begin to swell? Generally the swelling very soon ceases, and the former elasti city is also lost. The injured parts are now surcharged with blood and other curative m atter and are therefore rigid. If, now, we attempt to extract the ball through the same channel that it entered (as is the usual practice, if there appears to be any chance) we shall find it impossible. For the entrance to the wound and the whole passage is swollen, and moreover the tissues have lost their elasticity. Hence the extraction of the ball would involve further laceration and injury. W hat a disastrous effect this would have on the organism may be easily imagined. The ball itself is far less dangerous to the body than its forcible extraction. The system soon renders the great mass of foreign m atter quite uninjurious, first surrounding it by a watery accumulation, changing in time to a firm capsule enveloping the projectile. Sooner or later, when not robbed of its full vital power by the poisonous antiseptic treatment, the system will expel the foreign body, in the manner most suitable for the organism. Thus it has often happened, for instance, that a ball which had remained in the shoulder, festered out after months or years at the hip or thigh. The attention, therefore, must not be devoted to extracting the shot, but to preventing heat in the wound, and to stopping the bleeding. I have already explained how this is to be done. It would, therefore, be well if every soldier were to be furnished with some linen and woollen bandages, in order to aid himself instantly in case of need. In most cases, too, water is readily to be procuredeasier, at all events, than any other remedy. W here none is to be had, the soldier may take any other cooling medium, such as grass, clay, moist earth, or the like. These also may be used in need to allay the heat, as soon as the wound is firmly bandaged. In this manner many wounded soldiers, who are still able to move, can apply the first aid to themselves; without losing timeso precious in such casesin waiting until other assistance

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arrives. It is, therefore, a m atter of prime importance, that every soldier should be thoroughly instructed in this method of the natural treatment of wounds without medicaments and operations. He is then in a position to act promptly and usefully, and not lie helplessly groan ing until a surgeon appears. The soldiers who are slightly wounded, would also be in a position instantly to aid their more severely wounded comrades. From the time of the Franco-German W ar of 1870-71, I have had ample opportunity of gathering experience of the injurious effects of the antiseptic treatment. I will here report a striking case. In the year 1883 a gentleman came to me, who had received a shot through the ab domen in the war of 1870. The ball had come out at the back, close to the spine. In spite of all the antiseptic treatment, the wound had not fully healed up in these thirteen years, but was continually suppurating. At times it had closed together, but only to break out afresh at the first opportunity. The patients condition became worse and worse and he was now unable to walk at all. By means of my Science of Facial Ex pression, I immediately perceived that the cause of this difficult cure was simply the patients heavy encumbrance with foreign matter, and the ac companying chronic state of fever. I did not apply any local treatment to the wound at all, but sought in the first place to subdue the chronic fever by the aid of my friction and steam-baths and a suitable diet. W ithin a week the wound was healed and has never broken open since. In a fortnight the man, delighted at the rapidity of the cure, was able to walk again. At my advice, he continued the treatment for some time longer, until finally the encumbrance was completely removed. A similar happy result was that attained in the case of a soldier who had had his knee-cap shattered in the war. The wound, despite the use of all imaginable remedies, had not been healed. The leg, although not altogether stiff, was much impeded in its freedom of motion. This case is the more remarkable, as the patient had been treated for twenty years according to the principles of the old Nature Cure, without the de sired result being obtained. Twenty years after the accident, the man commenced with my system of treatment, not on account of his knee, but in order to test its value in general. He was not a little astonished, when, after some time, inflammation of the knee-cap set ina proof that the injury had not really been properly healed before. After con tinuing my cure for a further period, however, this inflammation soon disappeared. His astonishment was still greater now, to find that all stiffness had disappeared from the joint, so that he could use his leg as well as ever. Fractures. Amongst diseases which arise through external injuries are fractures, the healing of which goes on more or less slowly. The orthodox doctor generally applies a plaster of Paris dressing, whilst I make use of wholly other and much more certain effective curative means. Above all things, my process exercises an immediate cooling effect, which will continue until the swelling which follows upon a fracture, and the accompanying pain, have fully disappeared. The use of friction baths must also not be overlooked, as they essentially promote the healing. Anyone who discards the natural water-treatment in favor of plaster dressings, is simply denying the truth of definite natural laws. If, for purely local reasons, that is, in those cases where the in-

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jured limb cannot be kept in the necessary position by means of water compresses, a rigid support is necessary, such can be made of wood, pasteboard, bark or other such material. But a plaster dressing should never be used. Those who follow my advice here, will find how surprisingly quick fractures heal, and how the pains are reduced to a minimum. A gentleman, thirty years of age, had broken his right upper-arm close to the elbow. Being an adherent of the Nature Cure method, he immediately applied cold water compresses and arm-baths. The phy sician consulted wished to apply a plaster bandage, at the same time remarking that the arm would probably always remain stiff. This being no very pleasing prospect for the patient, he came to consult me. I advised him to put the arm in a wire gauze and pasteboard splint, and to cool the fracture with compresses according to my method. My friction baths, and a simple unstimulating diet in great moderation, were likewise necessary conditions. The result was astonishing. In twenty-four hours the pain and swelling were completely subdued. In a week, the patient was already able to write a little. In another week, he could lift a chair without difficulty and in three weeks the fracture was completely healed. Open sores. The gash, the stab, received in war, wounds received in honorable fight, these, the result of sudden external injury, are easily and quickly healed. It is quite otherwise with those disgusting open sores of various kinds, wr hich invade all parts of the body. The medical profession may call the suppurating foul secretions what it w ill syphilistic, cancerous, or tuberculousthe fact remains that they are all one and the same thing, and indicate a condition of decomposition in the living body. Allopathy has not yet succeeded in really healing such open sores, even if by the aid of medicaments, it succeeds in preventing the process of decomposition from showing itself; or in transforming it into the body again. To cure this evil, howr ever, allopathy is not able. It has neither the powder nor the means to effectively oppose the dis ease. Thus it is that we see the wounds apparently healed, break out again in another part of the bodyin other words, how the secretion of morbid matter in the body always continues. Such open wounds wdthout external injury, it is true, are not usually painful like acute in juries; but, on the other hand, their cureif sucn is, indeed, possible is much more tedious. They always stand in intimate relation to some deep-lying chronic disease. How7 many of the suicides daily committed are not to be traced to such a diseased condition? Here we see how systematic is mans opposition to our all-wise mother Nature, in his daily actions and mode of life. What is the cause of such sores? I reply that they arise simply from the encumbrance of the system with foreign matter, and are invariably an advanced stage of earlier stages of dis ease which have not been cured, but merely suppressed. In most cases these final stages have been brought about by the saturation with socalled medicinal remedies, such as mercury, iodine, iodide of potas sium, bromine, salicylic acid, digitalis, quinine, etc., which are always powerful poisons for the system. Vaccination is another system of in troducing poison into the body, much to be regretted, for through it the human race becomes ever more degenerated. Vaccination has the effect of greatly weakening the vitality; hence it is, that the morbid matter,

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which has gradually accumulated in the body, no longer makes itself known through small-pox epidemics, but through much more horrible, lingering, often incurable diseases, such as tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, epilepsy and insanity. Unfortunately, the orthodox school has not sufficiently grasped the nature of vitality. W ere it otherwise, the in jurious influences of the poisons contained in the medicaments which are introduced into the patients, whether by inoculation or inunction, would not remain hidden to its discipleseven though such influences may often only appear after many years. Such medicaments, regarding the whereabouts and action of which in the human system, medical science is often in doubt, lay the germs often years in advanceleading to saturation of the body with foreign matter, which is the ultimate cause of the open sores. It is a well-known fact that medical science is ever on the search for new medicines, new disinfectants, new antiseptics. The remedies in crease in strengththe one more poisonous than the other; and it must be so. At the first appearance of a disease (curative crisis), the attempt is made to so diminish the vitality, e. g. by antifebrin, that it is not able to continue the crisis, that is, the disease. The latter now disappears as regards outward symptoms, but the cause of the disease is not removed. Nevertheless, allopathy will call this a cure. If, now, after some time the vitality being in some measure restored, the same disease, or it may be some other, should again make its appearance, the antifebrin will no longer be able to react: a stronger, more virulent means is necessary to produce the first effect. The greater the vitality of the body, the weaker need the medicine be, which will suffice to prevent a curative crisis; the lower the vital power, on the contrary, the stronger must be the drug to be capable of suppressing the crisis. Every medicine is a poison virulent matter foreign to the body. The greater the vitality of the human organism, the more intensively and more rapidly will it act to render sucn foreign matter harmless. The poison becomes enveloped in a covering of mucus. If, on the other hand, the vitality is weakened, a small dose, a weak poison, is insufficient to rouse it. It is more or less insensible, and will only react, when absolutely compelled. Moreover, this process of rendering the person uninjurious, will go on much more slowly. An example from my practice may serve to illustrate what has been said. A physician believed he had discovered an admirable remedy for open sores on the legs, and won great celebrity. The drug operated so effectively, that the sores usually healed up in a very short time, the morbid matter being simply forced back into the system. Thus one gentleman who had deep corroding sores all along the shin-bone, was very rapidly cured by this remedy. But as after two years the old sores broke out again, the patient went once more to the same physician. Alas! the famous remedy failed altogether this time. The doctor in his perplexity explained that the wounds were now of another character: this was not the original disease, and his remedy was not able to cure the new one; there was nothing to do but amputate the limb. Pitiable science! Unlike the undiplomaed practitioner of the Nature Cure system the privileged medical man knows no better way to aid, than to try and protect against disease by vaccination with pus, such as in the case of small-pox, and to cut off limbs, the abnormal condition of which he does not understand.

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In the case of open, corroding wounds, we find the same uniform cause underlying a ll: the encumbrance of the body with foreign matter. Nothing is clearer than the fact that the pus, which is continually being secreted, contains foreign matter. W e have here always to do with a far advanced stage, depending upon an abnormal internal temperature. This high abnormal temperaturefever, as I regard itfirst creates a condition of fermentation, or decomposition of the foreign matter, which greatly assists the development of the bacilli. The foreign matter then changes its form according to the degree of temperature. If we bear this in mind, the way which we may alter the condition and kill the dreaded bacilli, becomes quite clear to us. The abnormally high temperature must be regulated. My friction and steam-baths, and an unstimulating diet, are the best possible means of regulating the tem perature, just as m y Science of Facial Expression affords the most reliable thermometer. I have had innumerable patients under my care, suffering from sores of various k in d s: cancerous, tuberculous, syphilistic. In most cases where the vitality was not absolutely too low, and the body not super charged with drugs, the sores healed in a surprisingly short time. Of these many successful cases I will describe just one, a particularly severe one, where the cure took from three to six times as long as in the average case. A gentleman, fifty years of age, suffered from open, suppurating sores on the feet and legs, up to the knee. There was a mass of wounds, one beside the other, some thirty or forty in number, the largest being fully four inches square. Watery, evil-smelling pus was being continuously discharged. They had already been temporarily healed, but the places then began to itch so violently, that the patient could not bear it, and through the scratching the wounds opened again. This itching was caused simply by the active internal fermentation of the foreign matter confined beneath the skin, and the excessive heat thus occasioned in the leg. As soon as the sores broke out anew, the itching ceased. The whole of the lower part of the leg assumed a dark brown color, a proof that it was already gangrenous. Some of the sores went right to the bone. All the methods of cure which the patient had tried proved fruitless. There remained but the choice of amputation, or dying through the gangrene spreading further; and in his desperation he came to me, though far from being really a believer in my system. By means of the Science of Facial Expression, I at once discovered that the digestion was altogether out of order. The stomach was unable to properly digest even the lightest foods, the body consequently not being in a position to produce normal blood. The lungs also were irregular in their action. It will thus be easy to understand that there was an enormous, and ever-increasing accumulation of foreign matter in the body. The condition of the stomach and lungs was such as to add to the amount daily. The patient had no idea that he was suffering from this chronic encumbrance, which was the cause of the diseased legs. Hence it was, that he could not comprehend why I should lay so much stress on treating the whole body, instead of only the legs. For the sores on the latter, I had simply prescribed light wet linen com presses, covered with a woollen cloth. I laid most weight upon the pa tient using a pure, unstimulating natural diet, getting plenty of fresh air, taking four friction sitz-baths and daily promoting perspiration by

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natural means. The patient, however, from the beginning gave much more attention to the application of the compresses to the legs, than to following my instructions as to diet and baths, the purpose of which he did not understand. The consequence Avas, that for half a year things did not improve much. He was finally persuaded to follow m y directions exactly, and not his own notions. The next six months led to most happy results. The sores had already decreased and many of the lesser ones were completely healed; the troublesome itching had also ceased, wihle the suppuration had almost entirely stopped. The general condition and the digestion were now far better than before, and the affection of the lungs had ceased to advance. Encouraged by these favorable signs, the patient now vigorously pursued my course of treatment. In the second year the sores changed their place from below the knee to above it, those below healing and breaking out anew higher up. The disease was thus nearer the abdomena most favorable sign. Below, the state of the leg grew more and more normal. W hen the first open sore broke out above the knee, where one had never appeared before, the patient believed my cure also was of no use, as the sores were now coming nearer the body. I explained to him that this Avas, on the contrary, a great improvement, for the foreign matter was now in process of retro gression, toward the abdomen Avhence it had come. He saw the truth of this, and continued the regular course of treatment. It lasted three full years, hoAvever, before his digestion and lungs were so far strengthened and improved, that the sores healed permanently. The normal color returned to the skin simultaneously. In this way my method had cured a severe semi-tuberculous, semi-cancerous disease which celebrated physicians had pronounced to be incurable. Nor has there, up till to-day, been the least symptom of the sores returning. Stings of poisonous insects, bites of mad dogs and of snakes. Blood oisoning. The corpuscles of human blood are of the greatest sensiility. The blood reacts vigorously on coming in contact with foreign matter, the result being one similar to the process of fermentation. The bite of a poisonous snake will produce symptoms of fever, nearly iden tical with fermentation, in the blood of even the truly healthy man, notwithstanding the sound condition of his body. When the system is already encumbered Avith foreign matter, the poison, of course, acts much more virulently. This is evident. The foreign matter, in itself a ready producer of fermentation, is greatly in creased if poison enters the bloodwhether through the bite of an in sect or reptile, dog-slaver, pus or other product of decomposition. Large accumulations of foreign matter thus form and actively ferment in the organism, so materially increasing the danger. Now the more foreign matter that is in the body, the more active is the fermentation brought about by such blood poisoning. Hence it is that the sting of a bee in one case may cause an immense sAvelling, whereas it Avould hardly affect another person more than a mosquito bite. I have also seen how one person has got hydrophobia through being bitten by a rabid dog, whereas another person, attacked by the same animal, suffered no ill effects worth speaking of. Snake poison, too, will cause death in one case, and merely fever in another. The danger does not always lie in the bite, but in the state of the person bitten. It is the same thing with so-called blood-poisoning, which is of such frequent occurrence after extremely successful operations.

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My theory of fermentation likewise affords an explanation of the peculiar effects of the bites of mad dogs, where the poison of the saliva first induces a latent, preliminary stage of disease, the acute symptoms only appearing later. The poison first of all influences the abdominal nerves and organs, these effects not being transmitted to the head and brain until after some weeks. It is only then that the convulsive symp toms of so-called hydrophobia make their appearance. The digestion and appetite of rabid dogs, as I have frequently had opportunity to ob serve, will always be found to be quite abnormal. The effect of a snake-bite will be learned from the following case. A boy was bitten on the head by an adder, while lying in a wood. The result was a convulsed condition of the abdomen, which prevented the boy from urinating for fifteen hours. His life was in great danger. My system was now applied, and by means of whole and local steam-baths, the boy was soon brought to perspire profusely. At the same time the cooling baths and a strictly unstimulating diet was necessary. In a short time all danger was over, and the lad had passed a copious quantity of urine. If we now take a review of all the various kinds of blood-poisonings, of whatever origin, we always find that they begin with a swelling of the injured part. There is great heat experienced and high fever, even though at first only locally. To subdue the latter must be the first task, a local cooling of the part being of the greatest service. In the case of serious poisoning, it is frequently necessary to cool the wound directly, by putting itas far as the part admitsdirectly in water, if possible running water. If it is not practicable to hold the part into cold water, cold water compresses of linen must be continually applied. At the same time, my friction hip and sitz-baths must be used alternately. Slighter injuries, such as bee-stinqs, cause a swelling, which remains for a time, and then disappears without leaving further consequences behind. It is here to be remarked that insects generally attack the parts of the body, where there are the largest accumulations of foreign mat ter. Linen compresses of the kind mentioned, w ill in such cases be found amply sufficient to heal the part. Such compresses assist the body in its curative efforts to expel the poison, or to render the matter uninjurious by covering it with mucus. W hen the swelling spreads and threatens neighboring parts of the body, danger is imminent, and there is no time to lose. The part affected must be put in cold water, or should this not be possible, wrapped in wet compresses. W hen circumstances admit, my steam-baths (previously explained), followed by friction sitz or hip-baths w ill bring instant relief. The friction baths must also be used separately, and if there is danger, repeated every two or three hours. By thus leading off the fever heat a great step is made towards a cure. It is w ell to fast, or in any case to eat only a little wholemeal bread and fruit. To drink water is not in jurious. To get warm after the cooling baths, it is good to sit in the sun, and if possible take exercise out of doors. Should the injured parts also have become hard, partial steam-baths are particularly to be recom mended always followed by a cooling friction bath. The steam-bath promotes perspiration, which carries off large quantities of foreign matter. From all this we gather that these injuries also induce a condition of fever; and it is to subdue this fever, that must be our first endeavor.

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A young man, hardly twenty years of age, while in the fields, was stung in the left hand by a poisonous insect. The sting was not so painful, and the part but little swollen, so no further attention was paid to it. After some hours, however, rigors set in, and the entire hand began to swell. Soon the whole arm was swollen up, and the physicians called in, declared it to be a case of blood-poisoning and stated that amputa tion of the arm appeared unavoidable. As it happened, someone ac quainted with my method, was present, and so my system was applied, especially as amputation was not a very inviting operation for the sufferer. Local steam-baths were taken, followed by friction hip-baths, and also the hip-baths sometimes alone. This did not fail to bring aid and prevent the swelling from increasing. Between the baths, cold-water compresses were applied. The patient also had to take plenty of exer cise in the open air, and especially in the sun, in order to promote per spiration. In this simple manner every trace of the sting soon disap peared, and the general health of the patient was greatly benefitted at the same time.

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DISEASES OF WOMEN
WING to the complicated structure of the fem ale body, women are subject to a large number of complaints connected with the sexual organs. These ailments are frequently of an extremely distressing character. Apart from irregularities attending the natural processes of menstru ation, pregnancy, accouchement, as also during childbed and suckling, there are also certain other complaints often experienced. These are the direct consequence of the errors of the present age, with its voluptuous ness, its pampering, its perversion; and these it is that lay the foundation of most injurious, chronic derangements of the fem ale organism. They are the cause of a whole series of abnormal conditions, with the cure of which the medical profession for the most part struggles in vain. Now, whence arises this host of diseases, these troubles peculiar to the fem ale sex? They are to be traced to womans wrong manner of living, to neglect of bodily health, to the want of regular exercise in the open air, to inattention to the natural and prompt satisfaction of the bodily needs, to an exaggerated quest after pleasure and to numerous other more or less important deviations from the path of nature. All these influences, in their many combinations, readily affect the wonderfully delicate organism of woman, so that it is not surprising that it loses its power of endurance and is afflicted by numberless ailments. How can it be otherwise? A comparison between the hardy w o m a n even though not always living quite in harmony with natureand the fashionable town-bred lady, is sufficient to prove the truth of my state ment. If then, the fem ale organism is so frequently the seat of innumerable diseases, partly inherited, partly due to individual error, of so much the more importance is my system of healing, which is able to successfully combat all these various complaints. And it is a matter of congratulation, that it is precisely amongst women and girls, that my method has found such ready acceptance, not the less on account of its simple and inexpensive character. Re stored health has offered them the surest guarantee for the reliability of my system. W ithout long discussion of the why and wherefore of the matter, it has convinced them of the marvellous effects of this treatment, based upon natural assumptions, and they have at once become most enthusiastic disciples. At the same time, my new system of diagnosis, the Science of Facial Expression, has won a large circle of friends. It must the more readily win the sympathy of women, since it entirely obviates all examination of the organs of generation, so disagreeable for every female patient, whilst, nevertheless, enabling the precise condition of the body to be determined with surprising exactness. To discover the cause of the complaint, and to discern any deep-seated

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disease, is of special importance with the female sex. Serious illnesses are not infrequently neglected, solely because women and girls hesitate to submit themselves to a medical examination. And how thankful have women shown themselves, that my method, as already stated, precludes once and for all, those unpleasant manipu lations of the sexual organs with instruments. My method of treatment, by reason of its practical effects so readily accepted by women, has met with greatest success. Thus it is, as men tioned above, that amongst women and girls especially, my system has found the fullest acceptancean adequate proof of its efficiency. W hat ever the disease by which she is tortured, my method of healing is able to bring to the patient the long wished for relief. Disturbance in Menstruation. Menstruation signifies a continual state of readiness to propagate. As long as there is no conception, the men strual blood continues to flow, without its purpose having been fulfilled. In the healthy person, however, this process should be accompanied neither by pain, nor other unpleasantness. If such occurs, it may be concluded with certainty that there is an encumbrance of the body with morbid matter. The natural process, as here observed in the fem ale organism, is con nected, as long years of experience have shown me, with the phases of the moon. In a woman in full health, the period, I assert, should ap pear at every full-moon, last 3 to 4 days, and reappear exactly at the end of 29 days. Women, who do not have the menses at, or about, this time, may be assured that they are suffering from an encumbrance of the abdominal organs, which is the greater, the further removed the time of menstruation is from the date of full-moon. Still more chronic will be the encumbrance, if the menses return at intervals of only a fortnight or three weeks, or if the menstrual flow continues for some fourteen days both symptoms being, unfortunately, of extremely common occur rence to-day. Everything in nature is subject to a perpetual change; and so also we find by the menstrual process, a continual rise and fall, a constant in crease and decrease. The times of the menses are of far greater signi ficance for women and girls than is commonly supposed. Quietness and avoidance of all excitement during menstruation, is strongly to be re commended to every woman who wishes to avoid disagreeable, or even serious, results, as I have frequently had the occasion to observe. This is particularly the case, too, with pregnant women. All their thoughts, all their actions, greatly influence the development of the foetus. The ill nesses which occur during this period are usually, as experience has shown me, accompanied by most serious results. To the attentive observer, these natural processes going on in the female organism, bring other noteworthy facts to light. They supply a striking proof of the wonderful unity of the fundamental laws of nature. Upon this point, I have dwelt in detail in my hand-book of the Science of Facial Expression, to which I would refer all who are interested in the subject. As I have pointed out above, if the menses are too abundant or too scanty, if the menstruation remains away, or is irregular, this all forms an unmistakable proof of the presence of an encumbrance of morbid matter. How is this diseased condition to be cured? The New Science of Healing does not fail us here either. Imperfect digestion, caused by

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the accumulation of foreign matter in the abdomen must have preceded menstrual trouble; it is the constant and natural attendant of such. If we improve the digestion, see to regular evacuation of the bowels, and reduce of the abnormally high temperature in the abdomen, the dis agreeable results of such will disappear of themselves. My cooling baths, individualized according to the degree of encum brance, an unstimulating diet, and my other well-known curative means prove most effective in disturbances of the menstruation, as has been amply proved by the cures attained. The menstrual blood, as I am convinced, represents a superfluity of the humors of the body. Upon conception taking place, it is used for nourishing the embryo. And it is a fact, that the most critical days for the development of the embryo, are always those about the time of fullmoon, that is, the days during which in healthy, not pregnant, women, the menses would appear. Equally convinced am I, that those diseases which are connected with the uterus, become worse whilst the moon is crescent, and, on the other hand, grow better as the moon wanes. These processes again prove most clearly, how intimately man is bound up with nature. It may not be uninteresting to my readers to hear particulars of some cases I have met with, showing the importance of the times referred to. The first is that of a woman with child, who had an indescribable dread of mice. One day a mouse ran over her bare arm, exactly at the time where in other circumstances she would be having her period. How great was the womans terror, may be judged by the fact that she could not dismiss the matter from her mind; it even entered into her dreams at night. When the child was born six months later, it had a mouse on its arm, that is, a place of exactly the size and form of a mouse, including a regular mouses tail, covered with fine hair. The whole spot, however, was on a level with the rest of the arm, but covered with peculiar gray hair, just like that of a mouse. In another case, a woman was pregnant with her sixth child. She herself, as well as her husband and five children all had dark hair. Dur ing her present pregnancy, a girl, to whom she was very much attached, was daily with her. This child had luxuriant, bright red, wavy curling haira growth extremely rarely met with. The woman tenderly loved this girl, and cherished the ardent hope that her own child might have similar hair. The wish became most pronounced at those times at which she usually had her period, and frequently she dreamt about the matter. In five months she was delivered of a child, a girl. As regards its features, it resembled its parents, but it had precisely the same strik ing growth of red hair as the child above mentioned. A third case, and not less remarkable, is the following. A lady was taking a carriage-drive with her little lap-dog. Suddenly, the animal, attracted by some passing object sprang from the vehicle and fell so un fortunately that the wheel passed over its head. The lady was so shocked at the accident, that she could not forget the sight of the dogs crushed head. She was just a few months advanced in pregnancy; and when the child arrived six months later, it was still-born, the head hav ing a perfectly crushed appearance. I may cite still a fourth case. A woman bore a child having its mouth reaching from ear to ear. It died soon after birth. The cause of this malformation was a fright which the mother suffered from the sudden

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sight of a mummers mask with an immense mouth. She had been so frightened, that she had been unable to sleep for several nights. This had doubtless occurred during the time of the menstrual flow, otherwise the effect would not have been so pronounced. My readers will thus understand how the different characters and dispositions of children are often dependent upon the spirits and cir cumstances generally, in which the mothers are during pregnancy at those periods where the menses would appear. Should they be sad and pessimistic, this mood will make itself apparent in the children sooner or later. Anger, timidity, courage, kleptomania, deceit, avarice and all other good and evil traits, may be traced to the same cause. Hence we must draw the conclusion, that all those external influences which operate on our senses, that is affect the mental organs, do not exert their chief power there, but by transmission through the nerves, operate upon the abdomen and abdominal organs. If the reader has carefully followed my theory of fever, he will see that I regard the abdomen as the starting point of the causes of all diseases. My theory, which always points to the abdomen as the principal organ of the human body, receives its best and surest support from the above facts, and my system of healing affords at the same time the most incontro vertible proofs. Falling of the womb, Use of the pessary. This disorder arises from the same uniform cause, the encumbrance of the uterus with foreign matter. The morbid matter here, also, causes internal heat and pressure, whereby the uterus, in consequence of its small power of resistance, is pushed outwards. The case is similar to that of intestinal hernia. The real cause of the evil is unfortunately unknown to orthodox practitioners. They rarely go to the root of the matter, but simply insert a rubber ring or other pessary into the vagina, thus holding back the womb. How very many patients I have had were wearing these pes saries; such may be temporary means of relief, but they can never re move the cause. By using my system of treatment, the internal pressure, which caused the relapse, is soon diminished; the morbid matter removed, and thus the use of the pessary rendered superfluous, whilst the possibility of a renewal of the prolapse is, at the same time, prevented. Uterine flexion. This is caused in a quite similar manner by the high internal tension in the abdomen. The latter becomes encumbered with morbid matter to such an extent, that the womb is bent from its natural position, that is, experiences a flexion. This disorder demands the same manner of cure. That this is the correct treatment, is proved by the successful results obtained by means of my method of healing. Surgical operations or manipulations, as experience shows, only result in lasting injury to the organs concerned. Sterility. It is lamentable, the number of women who come to consult me, opening their heart and pouring forth their grief at their marriage having been unblessed by children. Often they think, too, that they are so healthy, notwithstanding. This is a gross error, of course for sterility always signifies the presence of a serious encumbrance, particularly of the sexual partsthe ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, etc. In some casesaccording to the extent of the encumbranceconception may take place; the inflammation in the abdomen, however, caused by the

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accumulation of foreign matter, is then so great, that the consequent tension, or pressure, causes a miscarriage or premature birth. Generally miscarriage takes place within the first four months of pregnancy, and is assisted by any such chance cause, as emotion of any kind, by a fright or blow, all of which tend to bring the morbid matter into more active fermentation. Tight lacing is another factor, favoring abortion. In the country', where women live far more hygienically than in towns, miscarriages are scarcely known. I have known women who up to the seventh month of pregnancy, took an active part in dances, without suffering the least inconvenience afterwards. Miscarriages can only be prevented by removing their cause, that is, the encumbrance of the sexual parts. Operations, injections and other medical manipulations, which so outrage fem ale modesty, can never secure the desired end. They may, indeed, so paralyze the innate curative pow'er of the body, that even by my method a cure is no longer possible. And here I would mention a fact too important to be passed over. It is, as experience shows, no matter of indifference at what time coition takes place. As everywhere in nature, so also in the case of human beings, the vitality is highest in the morning; the morning, therefore, is the time most favorable for fecundation. Coition, at any other time, for instance at night, not only excites, and thus weakens the nerves of both husband and wdfe, but should conception take place at all, the embryo wall not develop with the same vitality as otherwise. If the encumbrance is not too great and the body still has a certain amount of vital power, sterility can be cured. I have often been able by my method of cure, to put women in the position to gratify their in most wash. A lady wdio had already been married for eight years, had the strongest desire to become a mother, and yet had found no aid even from the first specialists. Finally she came to consult me. I explained to her, that her barren condition had its origin in a serious encumbrance of the abdomen, and that the first thing would be to remove this morbid matter. Only in this way could she attain fulfilment of her wash. My prescription wras, two to three friction baths daily, unstimulating diet and a natural manner of living. By this means her encumbrance wT as gradually diminished, and after a fewTmonths, she could make to me the happy announcement that she had conceived. An easy birth and a healthy child were the further convincing proofs of the efficiency of my system of healing. Sore breasts and absence of milk. The best, because the most natural, source of food for the child is the mothers breast. This is a most im portant organ, the functions of wffiich, unfortunately, are to-day far too often ignorantty underrated. This leads to neglect of one of the most precious means for rearing a healthy race. How many mothers do wre find, who are wholly or partly unable to suckle their children. In the full sense of the wr ord, such mothers are not realty capable of propagat ing the species. Is such a thing ever to be seen in the case of animals? Do wre ever find one that cannot give suck to its young, or, by so doing ever get sore dugs? Such is never the case. There must then be very definite reasons which produce this state of affairs in the case of human beings. One such reason is the abnormally full breasts before concep

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tion and suckling. It is well known that many women whose breasts arc thus highly developed are wholly unable to suckle a child, or are troubled with sore nipples during suckling. Such a fully developed bosom during maidenhood is never normal. On the contrary, it is a sure sign that the body is considerably encumbered with morbid matter. In the country, especially, we frequently have occasion to see how women bring children into the world without trouble, and suckle them likewise without any pain, although neither before their pregnancy, nor during the period of suckling do they have large, full breasts. Want of milk can also occur when a woman is unduly thin, a condition point ing to a still more deep-rooted chronic encumbrance. In such cases, especially when the mother is living upon what to-day is considered a good, nutritious diet, i. e. flesh-meat, wine, beer, eggs, milk, etc., I have noticed that women, because of want of m ilk, are no longer able to suckle at all. On the other hand, I have frequently made the experience that an appropriate, unstimulating diet, and the use of my frictionbaths and steam-baths, will remove the inability to give suck and like wise cure sore breasts. A woman was delivered of her third child; she had been unable to suckle either of the two previous ones, although she was most anxious to do so. On the present occasion for some time before her confinement she had used my cure, and her wish was fulfilled, there being an ample supply of milk for the child. Many such cases have occurred in my practice. A case concerning the cure of sore breasts, selected from many others, may here be reproduced. Some weeks after her confinement, a young woman was troubled by serious swelling of the breasts. The fam ily doctor, as a last resource, proposed slitting them on the following day. The patient, however, could not make up her mind to undergo the operation and sent for me late the same evening. I explained to her, that in my opinion an oper ation would not only be useless, but even very dangerous, and that I believed myself to be able to assist her in another way within a very short time. She gladly followed my instructions, taking four friction sitz-baths during the night, each half an hour in duration, in water at a temperature of 55 Fahr. Next day her condition was very much im proved. In a few days more, all the pains had disappeared; and after some weeks cure, her condition was w holly normal, the cause of the disease, the foreign matter, having been expelled from the abdomen. These cures speak more plainly than all the scientific disquisitions of medical men, and afford undeniable proof of the value of my method in cases of this kind also. Puerperal fever. Thousands of happy mothers annually fall victims to this dread disease, pitiless and unsparing in its character; feared the more, since human aid has hitherto proved powerless to cope with it. Its appearance is a certain sign that the organism is heavily encum bered with foreign matter. This dangerous fever can only occur when such morbid matter is present in the body and commences to ferment. Only that woman, therefore, can be attacked by puerperal fever, in whose system, after the birth, sufficient foreign matter has remained to serve as exciter of disease. It is in no way necessary, for instance, that blood which has remained in the womb or cutaneous tissue first passes

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into decomposition (fermentation), and then in turn acts upon the foreign matter present to set up fermentation. If, then, we wish to cure puerperal fever, we must expel its cause, the foreign matter, from the body; and thus may most readily be effected by friction sitz-baths. On the day after her safe delivery, a lady was seriously attacked by puerperal fever. The m idwife had applied warm compresses, of course, without effect. She was ignorant of the great internal heat which had been created in the body by the fermentation of foreign matterheat which could naturally only be got rid of by cooling. I informed the pa tient, that I could certainly help her, but that I feared she would not carry out my instructions. Prescribe whatever you will, was the reply, I w ill do anything. I therefore ordered her to take three or four friction sitz-baths daily, each lasting from 15 to 30 minutes, with water at 64 Fahr. As it was troublesome for her, however, to warm the water to the temperature mentioned, the patient took the water just as it came from the tap (at a temperature of about 50 Fahr. only). In other respects, my instructions were im plicitly followed. Nor was the cooler water a disadvantage, on the contrary, it accelerated the cure, though the warmer water would have been more agreeable at first. W here the curative power of the body is not too low, however, cold water is always more effective. In eighteen hours the fever had abated, and the patient was out of danger. In a week she was able to attend again to her customary duties. Here again was a proof of the astonishingly rapid effect of the friction sitz-baths. The foreign matter was drawn to the natural organs of secretion, whereby its further fermentation, as in any other case of fever, was prevented. After continuing the baths for some time longer, the patient finally became far healthier than she had ever been before. It will be seen that my treatment in this case ran directly counter to that which the orthodox practitioner would have prescribed. The medical men, as I have frequently found, order that the head be cooled with ice-bags, and the abdomen on the contrary kept warm, whereby they simply increase that which they wish to remove. It has always been a mystery to me, why the ice-bag should always be applied to the headthe very way to draw all the blood to this part. And yet everyone knows that the head is not destined to expel the foreign mat ter; that can only be done by the natural secretory organs. Hence the ice not merely cools, but renders the brain torpid. The organism at once attempts to compensate for this cooling action, by producing normal bodily warmth by means of an increased supply of blood. This flow of blood to the brain, will, however, naturally cause a rise in temper ature; we thus have externally a state of torpor, whilst internally there is burning heat. Unless now these two states are able quickly enough to compensate each other, death will rapidly take place. One more case. I was called one day to a lady who, on the day after her delivery had been attacked by puerperal fever. The physicians who had treated her, professors and high authorities in the profession, had not been able to cure the fever, which had now changed from the acute state into a chronic one. Finally, after about a weeks treatment, the brain became affected, and the patient became delirious, so that the medical attendants feared the worst. Such was the sorrowful plight in which I found the patient, as, in response to a telegram, I arrived to take

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up the case. The first work was evidently to cure the latent, chronic fever, which I was soon able to do. A few friction sitz-baths, each of one hours duration, were sufficient to subdue the heat in the abdomen, and bring the patient into a normal mental condition. In this short space of time, the body naturally had not been freed from the morbid matter, causing the fever, still the lady was now out of danger. She continued my baths and dietetic prescriptions for some time longer, and has since been in the best of health, as I have often had occasion to learn, from the relatives residing in Leipzig.

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HOW TO BRING ABOUT EASY AND SAFE PARTURITION

N the kingdom of nature, in the great world of ceaseless activity, governed by eternal and incontrovertible laws, the exact conditions under whicn each individual creature may exist are clearly set down. Let us, then, observe the circumstances under which those animals that have not been degenerated by contact with man, bring forth their young. If we contemplate a dog, a hare, a cat or other animal in a free state we find that such a creature never requires any assistance in parturition; and that this proceeding is never painful, nor of long duration. No where do we see such animals exhibiting any kind of fear, or uneasiness, at the approaching birth. That so often dangerous act, in the case of human beings, in the animal kingdom passes by without trouble, caus ing no derangement whatever in the health of the animals. Not rarely have I carefully observed such creatures, and I have always found, that almost immediately after bringing forth the young they re turned to their usual manner of living, as though nothing whatever had happened, except that they displayed the greatest possible care for their offspring. I have never remarked that Nature, as seen in the healthy animal world, ever varied from this course. I remember the case of a doe-hare, which had just brought forth two young and was disturbed in the act by a sportsman. She rushed off, as though in a normal bodily condition, but was shot. Upon examining her, it was seen that she was with young, and upon being cut open, the young animal was removed from the body in a living state. The other two, which had just been born, were found upon a search being made. W ith women, on the contrary, easy parturitions are of most seldom occurrence. When we see such difficult, painful births, miscarriages, and all kinds of disorders during pregnancy happening daily, we surely have reason to view the matter gravely. Parturition without the aid of a m idwife is a thing scarcely to be imagined to-day; the act of birth is, in fact, more an artificial, than a natural proceeding. Moreover, in order to avoid disastrous consequences, the woman is obliged to keep her bed for a longer or shorter time after the delivery. All these deviations from the immutable law of nature, must neces sarily have a deep-tying reason; they must arise from conditions which run altogether counter to natural laws. Nature never causes such dis turbances herself, her procedure is unchanging. Man alone interferes with the natural organism, controlled by definite laws, and in his ignor ance disturbs the work of nature. It is, then, not Nature and her laws, which have become insufficient for mans well-being; it is man himself who is always approaching nearer towards imperfection. It is no matter of wonder, then, that this rejection of natural laws is avenged by the human race being brought ever nearer and nearer to the

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brink of physical ruin. Only when mankind began to deviate from the course of nature did it become gradually diseased and encumbered with foreign matter. It has soon discovered in what a fatal way this trans gression of the laws laid down by nature, has reacted upon the propaga tion of the human species. Paradise has been lostthat earthly happi ness, revealed in the consciousness of perfect health, which is only at tainable wr here man lives in the closest harmony with nature and in obedience to her laws. Summarizing all that has been said above, we arrive at the following: Really healthy mothers will always have an easy time when pregnant, causing safe births, and healthy children. The word healthy, how ever, must here be understood in the sense already explained in this book, that is, the state of absolute freedom from morbid matter. The child will only be truly healthy, however, when the father is free from all encumbrance. Nature always endeavors to form the embryo developing in the womb, of the best elements of the parents. A direct inheritance of germs of disease, consists, in many cases, simply in certain organs of the father or mother, which have been diseased or encum bered at the time of procreation, being defectively developed in the child; the offspring thus enters the world in an imperfectly proportioned state. If, now, there is an encumbrance of foreign matter in the child, as is practically unavoidable to-day, with vaccination and artificial food, this morbid matter will always tend to accumulate and force its way, where there is least resistance offered. Thus it is precisely in the relatively weakly-developed organs, where the largest accumu lation of foreign matter will take place. In the child, therefore, we find the same disease as in the parents. By means of natural treatment and careful observance of natural laws, we are, however, enabled to exel all such foreign matter, and thus gradually strengthen and keep ealthy those organs which are weaker than is normal, or which are especially exposed to encumbrances. In this manner, it is possible in time to create a healthier and hardier race. Frequently, it may be seen how, where the parents are heavily en cumbered, the children also enter the world in the same state. By their fruits we shall know them, may7 here be said with truth. The un natural manner of living imposed upon the children has brought it about, that the human race becomes more and more degenerated from generation to generation. But there are other circumstances which cause serious injury to the health. Nowhere in nature do we ever find that an animal becomes weaker, uglier or even deformed through bearing young. How different is it with the human race. It is almost the rule that a woman, even after the first confinement, begins to age or become altered in form, for instance by an abnormally large abdomen. The blame is always attri buted to the pregnancy, the parturition and suckling of the child. After successive delivery7 , the majority7 of women, lose more and more in beauty, although living under quite healthy conditions as regards occu pation and diet. I will here point directly to one cause of this. Never in nature, except in the case of mankind, do we see the female, after having once con ceived, courting a further copulation; on the contrary she w ill abso

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lutely refuse to allow it. This is in accordance with the law of nature. Copulation is for the purpose of conception, and not merely for pleas ure. During the act, there is an increased flow of blood towards the sexual organs, which, if the fem ale has already conceived, always acts injuriously upon the embryo in course of development. In particular, also, the female herself suffers, since nature always endeavors to keep the womb free from everything injurious to the embryo. Disobedience to this natural law expresses itself in women, through the speedy decline of the bodily vitality and in the numerous troublesome diseases of women. Those troublesome accompaniments of pregnancy, are frequently the direct results of this transgression of Natures laws. Thus we have morn ing vomiting, nausea, toothache, change of complexion, feverishness alternating with chilliness, inclination to melancholy and tears, great nervous irritability, disgust at accustomed foods, abnormal appetite. In some cases, of course, these symptoms may be due to an inherited en cumbrance. The healthy instinct of every woman forbids her, as ex perience shows, to have further coition after she has once conceived. It is our present-day customs, and the morbidly increased sexual desire of men, caused by "encumbrance of the system with foreign matter, that bring about this unnatural practice. It is an old and well-known fact to farmers, that an unnaturally in creased sexual impulse amongst cattle, is a sure sign of a disease having broken out. And it is the same with man, as anyone can observe who will look about him. I need only mention here the abnormal sexual excitement on the part of consumptives. Sexual impulse in healthy man is something altogether different from that unbridled lust which we see so often to-day. Free from all erotic thoughts, free from all unnatural passion, the sexual impulse is there in man also only for the purpose of maintaining the species. Never must it become a necessity, which when not satisfied for a period causes dis comfort. Naturally it is only he who is healthy and keeps his body pure by unstimulating, and natural diet, that is able to judge correctly of this condition. Whoever, then, would not have his w ill in conflict with that of Nature; whoever would control his body, so that his sexual impulse is kept within proper bounds, so that which under other circumstances would be the severest constraint, is to him a benefitlet such a man re turn to nature. If he follows the rules of health laid down by me, and thus frees his system of the foreign matter encumbering it, he will attain that which will render him content and happy. Everywhere to-day we see unnatural births of various kinds. First we have miscarriages and premature births. Here a breech-birth, and here the child reaches the vagina in a side position. Then again we find children with unnaturally large heads, whilst the generative pas sage of the mother is so narrow, that birth without artificial aid is im possible. In other cases again, the activity of the labor pains is far too feeble. In short, a number of unnatural occurrences happen which can all be explained by the encumbrance, of one kind or another, of the mother with foreign matter, and the inherited encumbrance of the child. A wrong position of the child in the womb is always caused either by the encumbrance of the mother, or through inappropriate work or oc

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cupation, especially during the first half of the period of pregnancy. The child is simply pushed out of the correct position by such accumulations of morbid matter, or as the result of some unsuitable occupation, whereby the abdomen is stretched and strained. W hen the generative passage of the woman is narrowed by the accumulation of foreign mat ter, a difficult birth must certainly result. The child itself may also be so heavily encumbered (supposing the parents were also in such condition), that it is of abnormal size, at birth, especially as regards the head. This also naturally causes difficulty in parturition. An encumbrance of the generative passage consists in all the muscles, sinews and ligaments be ing so permeated with foreign matter, that they appear swollen, and lose considerably in elasticity. An easy birth on the other hand, demands that the whole system be in a perfect condition of health in the true sense of the word. Every muscle which is encumbered, suffers considerably as regards its functional ability; and if, as is the case with the labor pains, it is con vulsively contracted and more exerted than its encumbered state admits of, great pain will be caused. Thus, severe pain at birth always results from an encumbrance with foreign matter, or a disease, in another sense. Adhesion of the after-birth is due to the same cause. Can we, then, wonder that all women who are encumbered, have the greatest fear of child-bearing? Such fear, however, is by no means natural, and is simply the result of the encumbrance. A really health}' woman knows nothing of this oppressive feeling. Anxiety is the voice of instinct, which, though often suppressed, yet in such crises as child birth, clearly shows us that we have made wrong use of the body and health which Nature has given us. But who is able to-day to interpret this voice aright? If there is anyone who still objects that there are, nevertheless doubtless many cases where operation or manipulation is a necessity in child-birth, let such read the following. A woman, aged 36, who was about to give birth to her second child, had already passed two days and two nights in labor and yet the child never moved in the womb. The m idwife was of opinion that medical aid was necessary, or the birth would be impossible. A very skilled phy sician, well-known as an accoucher, was therefore called in. For four hours he operated with all kinds of instruments, and finally decided that owing to the wrong position of the child, it was impossible for it to be born without danger to the mother. The poor woman would, as she said, rather die than endure the tortures of this obstetric assistance any longer. Without having accomplished anything, the physician took leave, declaring that the woman would die, since the child could not be got out. But Nature had decided otherwise than this obstetrician. After 24 hours of continued labor pains, the child was born, without the operation of any physician, but only with the assistance of the midwife. W ho had here been of more use, the famous physician orsimple na ture? The unnatural surgical operations, however, were not without their unhappy results: the woman after the delivery had to lie nine weeks ill and her life was even despaired of. The instrumental manipu lations had nearly lamed her and it was only her strong constitution that ultimately brought about her recover}'. Owing to the general chronic degeneration of the human race, com plications, I admit, may occur at parturition, which neither physician,

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nor obstetrician, are able to get over. As the result of my experience, I am of the opinion that in such cases it is best to quietly leave to nature. No one can help better than she. To aid the inactivity of the labor pains, however, I know of no better means, than the friction sitz-baths. Earth bandages round the abdomen have proved to be also a remedial and >alliative agent. Humid clay or loam is spread not too thinly upon a inen cloth and this with the earthy side upon the abdomen, a woollen cloth bound over the top. The clay may be renewed every hour or two. Through over-hastily undertaking operations at births, thousands of women nave been sent to an early grave. How happy would so many tortured mothers be, and how much misery would many families be spared, if instead of to the obstetrician with his mania for operating, everything at the bedside were left to our all-caring mother Nature. It is always the fault of the woman, if she comes in a situation, where a birth appears impossible without the use of instruments. She had long enough the means of preparing for a safe birth, since she soon saw she was pregnant. Certainly she must also understand how to use the means offered, and to make the best use of them at the right time. Anyone knowing my method, understands what is to be done in order to procure easy births. During the last few years, a large number of further cases have occurred which most clearly confirm my teachings. Never in one of such cases have my friction sitz-baths and dietetic regulations failed in their operation. Everywhere, where my treatment was applied in right time, astonishingly easy births followed. In the letters of thanks addressed to me, unreserved acknowledgment of the efficiency of my friction sitz-baths is everywhere to be found. After all, it must be evident, that it is much easier to obviate a painful birth in right time, than to get aid only in the moment of parturition. The continually increasing need of artificial aid at births, speaks only too clearly and earnestly of the serious and steady spread of chronic disease. Those who would have safe deliveries and healthy children, must, before all, see that their own body is free from foreign matter, that is, healthy, at the time of coition. And one can only be healthy, if all foreign matter has been expelled from the body, and a renewed encum brance obviated by following the advice laid down in my volume. I had a woman under my treatment, who had been suffering from articular rheumatism for a considerable time. She was pretty heavily encumbered with foreign matter, especially in the abdomen. She had already had five children, the circumstances of birth in each case being most distressing. The delivery had always occupied from two to three days, the activity of the labor pains being insufficient. Each time, there fore, the woman had to undergo the most horrible pain, until the accoucher was able to procure the parturition by the aid of his forceps. During the period of pregnancy with her sixth child, she had followed my advice and taken two or three friction siz-baths daily. The result was, that the sixth birth, which in other circumstances would certainly have been the most difficult, was the easiest. The act of parturition itself lasted scarcely an hour; the labor pains from the first followed in proper series and were practically painless. (See further Reports of Cures, Part IV.) This result was altogether incomprehensible to the woman. When I

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had told her before the birth, that I expected such a result, she scep tically remarked that I would not be able to invent painless deliveries. Afterwards she lamented to me that her age was such, that she could scarcely count upon another conception. And yet, now that she knew how to bear without pain, she would so like to have more children. She was also much surprised at being able to give the child the breast, a pleasure she had never been able to enjoy before. And all this had a quite natural cause: the woman since hearing of my system lived strictly in accordance with Nature and used my baths regularly. Her body, formerly heavily encumbered, became, in conse quence, tolerably free from the foreign matter; an increased physical and mental capacity was the direct result. Similar happy results were obtained by another lady, who upon my advice used my system during her pregnancy. After following the treat ment for seven months, the delivery took place and was likewise prac tically painless, lasting about half an hour, no midwife being present. A like satisfactory case was that of a lady, who in consequence wrote me the following letter of thanks in September 1890: I am 28 years of age, and was suffering from disorder of the bladder and kidneys since my 15th year. At first, I was for eight weeks in the TInstitute of this town, with the only result that my catarrh of the bladder during this time became more unbearable. I could only keep in a lying posture, for to stand or walk was impossible on account of the most horrible pain. This went on for four weeks, so I went to the clinic in Lstreet, where after a considerable stay I secured a temporary alleviation of my painful malady. As, however, no one had ever attacked the root of my complaint, it returned again in the course of a year with renewed vigor. At the time, I was staying in Chemnitz and had to go to the hospital there, where I remained for over three months, I was treated, without the least success, with salicylic acid and lunar caustic, with compresses and electricity. In April 1880, therefore, I went to Leipzig and had at once to go to the hospital again. Here for four weeks I was treated for a uterine complaint, likewise without any success. Often I scarcely knew how to get from the hospital to my house, so great was the pain. I left the hospital, because I saw no chance of recovery there, and for four years sought aid at the hands of Dr. M. of Leipzig. He likewise cured me of the catarrh of the bladder and inflammation of the womb, and sent me for three years consecutively to Franzensbad, where I took mud and chalybeate baths and drank the waters. But it was all without permanent result. At my last stay in Franzensbad I was even sent back here by the physician, because in his opinion, an operation was abso lutely necessary. Dr. L of Leipzig, therefore, operated me, and my condition for the time became bearable. Nevertheless, I still always felt the presence of my old complaint and clearly remarked how it had been suppressed, by the operative treatment, but in no way radically removed from the body. From time to time I was obliged to apply compresses and the like to get relief, until finally I was compelled again to seek medical aid. I went to Dr. Z of Leipzig, but after a years treatment felt no better. Dr. Z declared, at last, that I was suffering from a floating kidney, and that there was nothing further to be done; in any case, however, he would advise me to consult Professor S of the same

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city. This gentleman examined me daily for a whole week, at the end of which he likewise said that aid was no longer possible and sent me away. Thus, bereft of hope, in July two years ago I came under your care. The very first two days of the treatment were sufficient to rid me of my unbearable pains, and in four weeks I could again work. I have, by your method, been able to keep health and strength up till the present time. Even during the first year of the cure, I felt so physically refreshed and strengthened, that I married, despite dissuasion on all sides, and the opinion of physicians that I would not come through child-birth with safety. Your advice and my own experience taught me better, and everything has happened just as you foretold. I married, followed your instructions conscientiously during my pregnancy and to general sur prise had a remarkably easy and safe delivery without a midwife. All this I owe to your simple system of healing. Leipzig. * (Mrs.) Louise B.

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CONDUCT AFTER BIRTH

OR the really healthy woman, advice as to how to manage after the confinement would, of course, be superfluous. Not only the animals, but also the women amongst many uncivilized races are able to rise and go about their customary duties almost immediately after the birth. It is very seldom, however, that we find the women of civil ized nations able to do this; on the contrary, it is the custom to keep them in bed for a considerable time after delivery. Formerly nine days was the usual time; now many physicians order twelve days. It is less the want of strength on the part of the mother, that necessitates this, than the abnormal slowness with which the generative organs assume their former position. But this long period of lying in bed is undoubted ly in many ways very injurious to the health. The process of assimila tion becomes weaker, for the digestion suffers from the inactivity of the bodya fact which is proved by the obstinate constipation which nearly always occurs at this period. Nevertheless, to rise before the generative organs have returned again to their usual position is also injurious, caus ing an abnormally large abdomen, such as is so frequently observed in women who have borne several children. I have reflected much upon the best manner in which to get over this evil, without keeping the woman so long in bed, and I have found an ex tremely simple means, and one which has proved extraordinarily suc cessful. As soon as the delivery has taken place, the woman should rest as long as she feels it necessary, and it is very beneficial if she can take a short sleep. Then she should thoroughly wash herself, which is best done by taking a friction sitz-bath. The water may have a temperature of about 7377 Fahr., and stand from one to three inches above the seat-board (See p. 72). After the bath, a bandage should be tied firmly around the abdomen. It should be of porous linen and be provided with strings to tie. The method of applying such a bandage will be seen from the illustration. The strings are first tied to the door-handle: the other end of the bandage is then wrapped round the abdomen and held firmly, whilst the woman then turns herself round and round until the whole length of the bandage lies tightly around her, when the strings can be tied. By this means the internal organs receive the firm support which they require, and the woman can then safely leave her bed, provided she feels otherwise strong enough. If, however, she feels anxious, the bandage need not be applied till the third or fourth day. It should be worn for some three or four weeks altogether. If everything has gone off well, nothing further than the bandage is required. If, however, there should be feverishness, the baths as mentioned above, should be continued, alternately with earth bandages. In this way, the body will soon be caused to perspire, so that the fever will abate, and the neces sary compensatory action take place.

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If possible, the mother should give the child the breast. The supply of milk cannot be forced by means of immoderate eating and drinking or the like; on the contrary, this will probably diminish the flow. The natural precept must be observed here, as elsewhere, only to eat and

drink, when there is hunger and thirst. As a matter of course, the mother must keep to a natural diet. In mothers who are in any way healthy, this diet will produce an ample supply of milk of the best quality.

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TREATMENT OF THE INFANT DURING THE FIRST MONTHS. BRINGING-UP OF CHILDREN

F we attentively follow the course of nature, and observe the relation of the mother and child, we at once recognize that for a long time to come there must exist a close connection between the two. Especially during the first years, the relation of the infant to the mother is a most intimate one, necessary, to begin with, through the need of warmth. It is a great mistake to remove the infant from its mother, and thus with draw from it the warmth so beneficial for its health. Unfortunately far too many mothers entirely overlook this extremely important point. I remember being once called to a family, where the youngest child, an infant of three weeks, would no longer lie quiet in its cradle. The mother was consequently very anxious, the more so as the babys diges tion was also altogether out of order. The natural warmth of the mother, and three daily friction baths, secured the infant rest and brought it into a normal condition of health again. Rearing of children. As already remarked, most mothers nowadays are wholly unable to give suck to their children, or have only a limited supply of milk. Hence it is we find so many poorly developed children. The best substitute for the mothers milk is that of a nurse. But un fortunately this by no means affords a certain guarantee for the health of the child, for if the nurse is not healthy the child becomes still further encumbered with foreign matter, in addition to that which it has in herited. We can, of course, judge of the condition of the nurse by means of the Science of Facial Expression; but a really healthy nurse is most difficult to find. In most cases the child is fed artificially, but generally the food is neither properly selected, nor properly prepared. If cows milk is given, this should only be warmed, but not boiled, for boiled milk is far more difficult to digest. To kill injurious organisms is here a matter of no importance, and proof of this is very easy to adduce. The most nourishing foods are naturally those which are most easy to digest. As long as the digestion is in order, the digestive juice has quite sufficient power to destroy and expel all that is injurious to the system. Whilst unboiled milk is extremely easy to digest, boiled milk remains much longer in the digestive tract, and consequently occasions far more intense fermentation, than would be the case with normal nourishment. This is, without the least doubt, the explanation of the many infant diseases and ever-increasing infant mortality. Infant-foods and ex tracts are simply a means of increasing digestive disorders; they distend the childs stomach, disturb the digestion and cause extreme restless ness. Milk boiled according to the instructions of Professor Soxhlet, and the sterilized, preserved milk, frequently recommended by parish authorities of late, are quite as injurious for children as milk boiled over the fire. For it is precisely that which the learned professors try to kill by boiling, that renders the milk easier of digestion. As soon as the milk

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reaches the digestive canal it should commence to ferment. In nature, of course, we never find the milk first coming in contact with the air be fore being sucked by the child. Milk is nothing else than a nutritive juice, and should pass directly from the mothers breast into the body of the child, without ever coming into contact with the air. As soon as the latter occurs, a change takes place, which acts injuriously upon the digestion of the child. W here the milk, however, is fresh, the change is of little significance. But in any case caution should be used, since the cow also will probably be far from free of morbid matter. It is quite a mistake to imagine, that a fat, well-fed cow, kept summer and winter in the stall, w ill give the best milk. On the contrary, such a cows body is morbidly swollen out, and the milk correspondingly deleteriously affected. The world is, in fact, condemned to drink a product saturated with morbid matter, for healthy cows are scarcely to be found at all in civilized countries. The best substitute for cows milk is oatmeal gruel. This should be made of good, coarse, undried and not bitter oatmeal, and passed through a sieve. Neither salt, butter, nor sugar should be added. Oatmeal is everywhere more or less dried, in order that it may keep better, before coming upon the market. This, however, causes the meal to lose in digestibility, so that it is no longer fit for feeding infants. The oatmeal should be altogether undried. W here such cannot be had, it is best to buy hulled oats and boil these to get a gruel. If these also are not to be bought, whole oats may be taken and crushed in mortar, or ground in a mill or any similar implement, and then boiled to obtain the gruel. This latter gruel is the best of all for children, but there is the trouble of grinding the oats. Nevertheless, this should not discourage anyone, as after a few trials, it w ill be found comparatively easy. I have dwelt fully on this subject, as also on the bringing up of children in general in my little pamphlet, already mentioned, The Rearing of Children. It is most regrettable that so many parents find it such a troublesome thing to bring up their children. The boys w ill not learn, but have al ways their thoughts upon something e lse : are ill-mannered, passionate, irritable; and yet the parents and teachers take the greatest pains with them. It is regarded as inexplicable, that the education should be so difficult, and as no reason can be found, it is finally set down to the spirit of the age, without any thought of there being quite another cause. W herever the youthful body is encumbered with foreign matter, the function of the' brain and of the whole body w ill be unnaturally in fluenced and changed. If, on the other hand, the encumbrance is got rid of, the full, natural condition of health will be then restored. I have frequently observed in my practice, that the worst brought up children were changed by means of my cure, into the quietest and best mannered children possible. Boys who could learn positively nothing, who sat for hours over the simplest task without doing anything, were completely changed upon the foreign matter being expelled from the body. They were again able to learn and quickly comprehend, were no longer languid and tired, and were in every way again the joy of their parents. Anyone who knows what a pleasure it is to bring up healthy children, and how little care and trouble it involves, w ill certainly not neglect to procure for his own the first conditions for such happiness. It is a

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sacred duty of all parents to learn my system of cure and especially, my method of diagnosis, the Science of Facial Expression. In the latter they have the means of perceiving immediately and with infallible certainty, any encumbrance of their children with foreign matter. There is another point which is far too important to be omitted on any account whatever. I refer to the increasing sexual desire in youth, and its natural result, onanism. It is a sad fact, that the origin of this youthful sin has never yet been properly recognized; on the contrary, misled by foolish prudery, people suppress all reference to such matters. The evil will never he got rid of in that way. He who will improve the world, must speak openly of its errors. In the country, where nature and practice still go hand in hand, it has long been recognized, as already stated, that undue sexual desire on the part of animals is a certain sign of a morbid condition. Now man is subject to precisely the same laws, whatever some people may say about his occupying an exceptional place in nature, and hence being under exceptional natural laws. Just as in the case of animals a morbid condition (t. e. an encumbrance of the body with foreign matter), as has been proved, produces an un natural sexual impulse, so also in man. Self-masturbation is always a clear sign, that the sexual organs are encumbered with foreign matter. If this morbid matter is gradually expelled from the body, the unnatural desire will disappear of itself. Whipping the children, as many parents do, for tampering with the sexual parts, is useless. The only w ay to cure the continual irritation is to remove the cause, that is, expel the foreign matter. Even if by strengthening the will of the children, w'e may get them to stop the vice, nevertheless, the inward compulsion to it still remains, and can never be got rid of until the cause has vanished. My long experience in the treatment of masturbators has brought me to the conviction, that there is no more appropriate means of cure than my friction baths, together with unstimulating diet and a natural manner of living. Thus my system is an excellent means of promoting a higher degree of morality amongst our children. And this is a matter of such immense importance, that everyone should look upon it as his bounden duty to convince himself of its truth.

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PART FOUR

REPORTS OF CURES AND LETTERS OF THANKS

N order by actual facts to show those readers who may be resident in more distant places, what extraordinarily successful results have been attained by means of my method, I here print over 100 true reports of cures and letters of thanks concerning all kinds of diseases. The testimonials have for the most part been absolutely unsolicited. May they contribute their share in spreading the truths of the New Science of Healing, to the benefit of suffering hum anity!

No. 1.

Nervous debility, Sleeplessness, Chronic inflammation of the bowels, Gallstone

M rs. R. w as su ffe rin g fro m c h r o n ic in fla m m a tio n o f th e b o w e ls a n d co u ld n o t o b ta in ev a c u a tio n s w ith o u t th e use o f m e d ic in e s a n d en em as. At th e sam e tim e sh e w a s su ffe rin g fro m gallsto n es. F ro m m o n th to m o n th sh e b ec am e m o re an d m o re c o rp u le n t, u n til h e r c o n d itio n w as n o lo n g e r b e a ra b le . She w a s h ig h ly n erv o u s, o b ta in e d n o sleep, an d su ffe re d fro m p a in s in th e reg io n o f th e liv e r, in c o n seq u e n ce o f th e gallsto n es, b e sid e s b ein g tro u b le d w ith an ab so lu te w a n t o f a p p e tite . T h e p h y s ic ia n s w h o w e re tr e a tin g h e r a d v ise d an o p e ra tio n fo r g allsto n e as a la st re so u rc e . H av in g h e a rd so m u c h a b o u t u n su c c e ss fu l o p e ra tio n s, h o w ev e r, sh e cam e, in th is d e p lo ra b le c o n d itio n , to seek a id o f me. T w o to five f r ic tio n b a th s d aily , one o r tw o ste am -b a th s w eek ly a n d non-flesh d ie t th e se w e re a g a in th e re m e d ia l ag en ts o f m y u n ifo rm sy stem o f tre a tm e n t. D u rin g th e first w eek th e c u re w e n t o n slow ly. In th e se co n d w ee k th e a p p e tite , sto o l a n d sleep b ec am e n o rm a l, d u rin g th e th ir d w ee k th e n e rv o u s d is o r d e r d is a p p e a re d . T h e f o u rth w ee k w a s m a rk e d b y th e im m en se q u a n tity o f o b n o x io u sly sm ellin g , b la c k (g an g ren o u s) d y s e n te ric fseces w h ic h w as ev a cu a te d . T h e b o d y h a d lo st n e a rly 30 lbs. d u r in g th is tim e a n d th e p re v io u sly ex c essiv ely large ab d o m e n w a s n o w n o rm a l. A fter five w ee k s tre a tm e n t th e g allsto n es b eg an to d is solve, an d w e re c le a rly to be seen in th e fo rm o f grav el in th e u r in e d isc h arg ed . In seven w eek s th e p a tie n t w a s cu re d .

No. 2. Pulmonary catarrh, Cold feet, Affection of the stomach, Liver disease, Pharyngitis
Mr. H. o f L., aged 27, u se d m y m e th o d f o r th e above c o m p lain ts, g iv in g sp e cia l a tte n tio n to th e fric tio n h ip -b a th s, an d su b se q u en tly also f ric tio n sitz-b ath s an d u n s tim u la tin g diet. T h e c u re w a s m o st r a p id . T h e d ig e stio n a n d a ffe c tio n o f th e sto m a c h w e re a lre a d y b e tte r on th e se co n d day, in c o n seq u e n ce o f w h ic h th e re w as a c o n tin u a l im p ro v e m e n t o f th e o th e r a tte n d a n t tro u b le s g oing on d u rin g th e n e x t d ay s. A fter th re e w eek s th e p a tie n t w as c u re d o f all h is c o m p la in ts, an d w h a t s u rp ris e d h im m ost w as, th a t h is fe e t h a d ag ain a tta in e d th e ir n o rm a lly w a rm c o n d itio n w ith o u t an y lo c a l tre a tm e n t h a v in g b ee n em p lo y ed .

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A B razilian , 25 y e a rs o f age, w as su ffe rin g fro m ca n cero u s u lcers w h ic h h ad been d ev e lo p in g f o r 8 y e a rs an d n o w ex te n d e d fro m n ec k to sto m ac h . A fter a m eal th e y alw a y s b led , an d fro m th e th r o a t o f th e p a tie n t th e re w as so o ffen siv e a sm ell em itte d th a t no one co u ld com e n e a r h im . W as it a m a tte r o f w o n d e r, th e n , th a t th e p a tie n t w as h a u n te d w ith th e id e a o f c o m m ittin g su ic id e ? E n c o u ra g e d b y som e a c q u a in ta n c e s w h o h a d b ee n c u re d b y m eans o f m y m e th o d , he d e te rm in e d to tr y it also. D u rin g th e first th re e m o n th s h e seem ed to g ro w w o rse, as th e c a n c e r n o d u les d isso lv ed , c a u sin g g re a t p a in . He p e rse v e re d , a n d at le n g th tra c e d an im p ro v e m e n t in h is c o n d itio n . At th e en d o f a y e a r th e y o u n g m an w as w ell again. He is n o w a stro n g , c h e e rfu l m an , a n d an e n th u s ia s tic p io n e e r fo r th e N ew S cien ce o f H ealing.

No. k.

Jaundice, Debility, Headaches

In th e s p rin g o f 1887, th e y o u n g d a u g h te r, aged th irte e n , o f Mrs. L. o f L eipzig, co m p la in e d o f g re a t la ssitu d e , d ista ste fo r w o rk , g en e ra l d e b ility , h ea d a c h es in sh o rt, o f fe e lin g a lto g e th e r out o f so rts. A fte r som e d ay s th e w h ite o f th e eyes tu rn e d y ellow , th is sic k ly d isc o lo ra tio n sp re a d in g soon o v er th e w h o le fac e a n d n eck , a n d finally all o v er th e w h o le b o d y . At th e sam e tim e, it w as c le a r th a t th e g irl w as in a h ig h state o f fev er, w h ic h sp re a d fro m th e ab d o m en th ro u g h o u t th e e n tire system , m a k in g its e lf e x te rn a lly v isib le, h o w e v e r, at th e h e a d , in a c c o rd a n c e w ith th e n a tu re o f th e fe rm e n tiv e p ro ce ss. T he tre a tm e n t w as u n stim u la tin g d ie t an d th re e fric tio n b a th s d aily , to d ra w off th e fe rm e n tin g m a tte r an d o p en th e p o re s o f th e sk in . In a fo rtn ig h t th e ja u n d ic e w as fu lly cu re d .

No. 5.

Tuberculosis of the bone

Mr. A. H. o f W . w as su ffe rin g fro m tu b e rcu lo sis o f the bone, a n d h a d b een tre a te d w ith io d o fo rm , c a rb o lic ac id , c o rro siv e su b lim ate etc., u p o n th e a llo p a th ic system , fo r o v e r n in e m o n th s w ith o u t an y success. B oth legs h a d been o p e ra te d u p o n a n u m b e r o f tim es, se v eral p ie ce s o f b o n e h a v in g b een c u t out. T h ro u g h all th is lo cal q u a c k e ry th e c o n d itio n o f th e p a tie n t h a d beco m e so w re tc h e d , th a t h e co u ld no lo n g e r w a lk a t all. In th is c o n d itio n I to o k u p th e case. In th re e m o n th s th e so res at th e legs h ea le d o v er, a n d th e sp ongy, sw o llen b o n es b ecam e firm e r a n d th in n e r . T h e p a tie n t w as soon able to wralk ag ain , an d in th re e m o n th s co u ld say th a t h e w as fu lly cu re d .

No. 6. Sciatica, Crippling, Lameness

O sw ald Z., o f K., a b oy o f tw'elve, fell ill w ith sc ia tic a a f te r h a v in g su ffe re d fro m sev ere cold, a c c o m p a n ie d b y coug h in g . H is c o m p la in ts in c o n seq u e n ce o f th e u n n a tu ra l tre a tm e n t w ith d ru g s, e x te n sio n -b e d , etc., b y v a rio u s p h y sic ia n s, b ecam e so m u c h w o rse, th a t th e p o o r b o y s h ip g rew p e rfe c tly h a rd a n d stiff, a n d re n d e re d h im q u ite lam e. T h e r ig h t leg w as d ev elo p ed a n d th in n e r th a n th e left. I u n d e rto o k n o lo c al tre a tm e n t o f th e stiff, c r ip p le d leg at all, b u t as c h ie f c u ra tiv e agents o rd e re d f ric tio n b a th s an d u n s tim u la tin g d ie t. T h e re su lts o f th is tre a tm e n t w e re soon felt. In a fo rtn ig h t th e b oy w as ab le to wT alk ag ain w ith o ut e ith e r c ru tc h e s o r stick s. In a m o n th th e h a r d h ip h a d ag ain b eco m e n o rm a lly so ft a n d all tra c e o f c r ip p lin g h a d v a n ish e d . T h e leg w as n o w as easy to m ove as th e le ft. W ith in six m o n th s th e u n d ev e lo p e d p a r ts o f th e leg an d fo o t w e re q u ite n o rm a l again.

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General debility, Pains in the back, Cold hands and feet, Poverty of the blood, Easy parturition

Mrs. E. o f W ., n e a r P ., su ffe re d fro m a w h o le se rie s o f illn esses, an d w as a t th e sam e tim e en c ein te. T h e d o c to rs h a d n o t b een able to h elp h e r in th e least, an d , th e re fo re , sh e set h e r la st h o p e on m y m e th o d . I p re s c rib e d a h ip b a th a n d tw o f ric tio n sitz-b ath s d aily , a f te r w h ic h sh e w as to w a rm h e r s e lf in th e sun. I f u rth e r o rd e re d th e sim p le st u n s tim u la tin g diet. A fte r som e m o n th s Mrs. E. cam e ag ain to m e a n d re p o rte d as fo llo w s: She h a d c a r rie d o u t m y in s tru c tio n s e x a c tly an d w ith in a w eek re m a rk e d an im p ro v e m e n t in h e a lth , w h ic h in c re a s e d th e lo n g er sh e c o n tin u e d th e tre a tm e n t. J u s t a m o n th ago sh e h a d b een d e liv e re d o f a ch ild , a n d th is b ir th , to th e a s to n ish m e n t o f th e m id w ife , h a d b een th e e a sie st sh e h a d ev e r h a d . W h e reas f o rm e rly th e re h a d alw a y s b een tro u b le w ith th e a fte r b irth , th e e x p u lsio n o f w h ic h w as each tim e a tte n d e d b y a flow o f v e ry th ic k , g an g re n o u s b lo o d , on th is o cc asio n th e re h a d b ee n no difficulty a t all. T h e c h ild , too, w as p e rfe c tly h e a lth y . F o rm e rly sh e h a d n ev e r h a d m ilk en o u g h fo r th e b a b y , w h ils t th is tim e she h a d an am p le q u a n tity . H er a p p e tite , also, w as m u c h b e tte r th a n b efo re. She c le a rly saw th a t th is m a n n e r o f liv in g w a s n o t o n ly f a r s im p le r, b u t also m u c h h e a lth ie r th a n th e o rd in a ry .

No. 8.

Gland-tumor

E. K., a g irl o f ab o u t n in e y ea rs, w as a fflic te d w ith a sw ellin g o f th e g la n d s on th e le ft sid e o f th e neck, w h ic h in tim e g rew to th e size o f a la rg e egg. I p re s c rib e d d a ily f ric tio n h ip a n d sitz-b ath s ea c h o f ab o u t h a lf-a n -h o u rs d u ra tio n , a n d w ee k ly tw o p a r tia l steam b a th s ; I lik e w ise o rd e re d a su ita b le d iet. At first, th e tu m o r w as d a rk re d , tu r n in g b lu is h a f te r a tim e. A fte r th e p ro c e ss h a d gone on fo r som e th re e w eeks, th e c h ild fo u n d th e ste am -b a th s d isa g re ea b le , h e r h e a d b ein g fo rc e d to one sid e b y th e tu m o r, so th a t sh e co u ld n o t m ove it. In ste a d o f th e ste am -b a th s, h o t w a te r co m p re sse s w e re th e re fo re u sed , th e w a te r b e in g as w a rm as th e sk in co u ld b e a r. T h e m o v e m en t o f th e m o rb id m a tte r co u ld n o w b e c le a rly p e rc e iv e d , fo r th e p u s oozed th ro u g h th e sk in a n d so iled th e clo th w ra p p e d ro u n d th e n eck , alth o u g h th e re w as n o op en sore. At le n g th tw o sm all so res ab o u t th e size o f a p e a a p p e a re d , a n d d isc h a rg e d a q u a n tity o f p u s. T h e tu m o r n o w r a p id ly d e c re a s e d in size, a se c o n d one fo rm in g , h o w e v e r. T h e la tte r, n e v e rth ele ss, soon d is a p p e a re d , a f te r h a v in g d isc h a rg e d its m a tte r th ro u g h th e so res fo rm e d b y th e first one. In a m o n th th e d ise ase w a s so f a r c u re d th a t th e c h ild co u ld go to sch o o l again. In five w eek s all th e tro u b le s w e re o v e r a n d th e h e a d a n d n ec k co u ld ag ain b e fre e ly m oved. T h e g irl h a d sc a rc e ly fe lt a n y p a in th e w h o le tim e , th is b e in g p re v e n te d b y th e p a r tia l ste am -b a th s a n d h o t co m p re sse s on th e o n e h a n d , a n d b y th e fric tio n sitzb a th s on th e o th e r. No sc a rs w e re le ft.

No. 9.

Cancer of the breast and nose

Mrs. S., th e w ife o f a b u tc h e r o f R e u d n itz , L eip zig , h a d tr ie d ev e ry p o ssib le re m e d y fo r h e r se rio u s d iso rd e r, ca n c er o f th e brea st a n d nose, b u t all in v ain . O ne d a y som eone c a lle d h e r a tte n tio n to m y system a n d d e s ire d m e to v isit h er. I d id as re q u e ste d a n d fo u n d th e w o m an in a d e p lo ra b le c o n d itio n . On th e b re a s t w a s a deep sore, p u tre s c e n t an d c o rro d in g , an d so la rg e th a t it co u ld sc a rc e ly b e co v e re d b y th e h a n d . H a lf th e nose w a s a lre a d y d e stro y e d , a n d on th e fo re h e a d tw o la rg e re d can cero u s tu m o rs h a d fo rm e d , w h ic h w e re on th e p o in t o f b re a k in g . A fter m a k in g an e x a m in a tio n , I at o n ce gave th e n e c e ssa ry d ire c tio n s fo r tre a tm e n t, w h ic h p ro v e d m o st su c ce ssfu l. F irs t th e tu m o rs on th e fo re

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h ea d d isa p p e a re d , th e n th e b re a s t h ea le d , an d finally th e nose. As th e p a tie n t, a f te r som e m o n th s tre a tm e n t, cam e to r e p o r t h e r p ro g re ss, h e r a p p e a ra n c e w as still m o st p a in fu l. T o -d ay sh e is ag a in a com ely, one m ay say, good-lo o k in g w o m an . A nd th e m ira c le f o r so it m u st seem to all w h o saw th is p a tie n t d u rin g th e w o rs t p e rio d o f th e d ise ase w as w o rk e d sim p ly b y m ean s o f n a tu ra l d iet, h ip a n d sitz-b ath s an d p ro fu s e p e rs p ir a tio n , w ith o u t a n y lo c al tre a tm e n t w h a te v e r, w h e th e r o f th e b re a st, nose o r fo re h e a d . By c o n siste n tly c a r ry in g o u t th e tre a tm e n t I p re s c rib e d , Mrs. S. w as c u re d o f h e r d isease in less th a n n in e m o n th s.

No. 10.

Open sores on the legs

Mr. F., a sc h o o l-te a c h e r in B razil, w rite s to m e o f th e a s to n is h in g su ccess h e h a d w ith m y m e th o d . He h a d been su ffe rin g fo r seven y e a rs fro m o p en sores o n the legs, a n d h a d b ee n to one d o c to r a f te r a n o th e r. H is h a rd -e a rn e d m o n ey w as b e in g r a p id ly sp e n t in c h e m is ts b ills a n d y et th e so res w e re b ec o m in g e v e r la rg e r a n d m o re p a in fu l. T he d re a d fu l agonies w h ic h he h a d to u n d e rg o r e n d e re d h im o fte n q u ite u n fit fo r w o rk . By c h a n c e h e cam e in to p o sse ssio n o f a co p y o f m y te x t-b o o k o f th e N ew S cien ce o f H ealing, a n d a fte r p e ru sa l, d e c id e d to m ak e a tr ia l w ith m y sy stem . He o n ly to o k h ip -b a th s, a n d a f te r ab o u t a y e a r he w a s fu lly cu re d . By m e an s o f fric tio n sitz-b ath s h e w o u ld p ro b a b ly h av e got w ell still so o n e r. T h e p a tie n t c o n trib u te d an a c c o u n t o f h is c u re to a G erm an jo u rn a l in P o rto Alegre.

No. 11. Disease of the kidneys and bladder, Dropsy, Liver disease
M rs. B. o f P . h a d b een su ffe rin g f o r y e a rs fro m d isea se o f th e k id n e y s a n d b ladder. T h e o rth o d o x tre a tm e n t n o t o n ly b ro u g h t ab o u t no im p ro v e m e n t, b u t d id n o t even p re v e n t d ro p s y m a k in g its a p p e a ra n c e . Mrs. B. n o w d e c id e d u p o n try in g m y m e th o d . I o rd e re d h e r tw o h ip -b a th s a n d o n e f r ic tio n sitz-b ath d a ily , to g e th e r w ith n a tu ra l diet, e x c lu d in g soups, h o w ev e r. C rises soon beg an , an d fo r w eek s th e p a tie n t w as a lto g e th e r w ith o u t a p p e tite . She lo st all co u ra g e a n d w o u ld h av e given u p th e tr e a tm e n t h a d n o t h e r d a u g h te r p e rsu a d e d h e r to c o n tin u e it. She w a s w ell re w a rd e d . In p la c e o f th e h ip -b a th s, fric tio n sitz-b ath s w e re also p re s c rib e d , in o r d e r to p ro m o te a q u ic k e r c u re . T h e d ro p sy , k id n e y a n d liv e r diseases g ra d u a lly d isa p p e a re d . A s h o rt tim e ago, Mrs. B. p re se n te d h e rse lf, fu lly cu re d , so th a t n o one w o u ld ev er im a g in e h o w ill she h a d fo rm e rly been.

No. 12.

Heart disease, Muscae volitantes (black specks before the eyes)

A m o st d isa g re ea b le d is o rd e r is th a t in w h ic h b la c k sp e ck s are seen flo atin g b e fo re th e eyes, a lth o u g h th e re is no e x te rn a l o b je c t th e re . T h e d isease is ca u se d b y fo re ig n b o d ie s, c e llu la r p a rtic le s b e in g d e p o site d in th e v itre o u s h u m o r o f th e eye, a n d c a stin g m in u te sh a d o w s on th e re tin a . It is o b v io u s th a t b y cle a n sin g th e system , th e se fo re ig n b o d ie s w ill d is a p p e a r also. T h is is co n firm ed b y th e case o f Mr. F . H., a so lic ito r a t B., w h o re p o rte d to m e, th a t d u rin g th e c o u rse o f th e tr e a t m en t, w h ic h in th e first in s ta n c e h e h a d co m m en c ed to c u re an o ld d ee p ly seated h e a r t d isease, h is m u sca e vo lita n te s d is a p p e a re d also.

No. 13.

Chronic diarrhea, Dysentery

Mrs. W ., an A m eric an la d y , co m p la in e d o f d y se n te ry an d c h r o n ic dia rrh ea , w h ic h h a d b een g oing on f o r f o u r y ea rs. T h e re m e d ie s she h a d tr ie d at th e ad v ice , o f n u m e ro u s p h y s ic ia n s p ro v e d q u ite in e ffec tu a l.

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I p r e s c rib e d an easily d ig e stib le d ie t, su ite d to h e r c o n d itio n , co o lin g f ric tio n b a th s th ric e a day, a n d th re e ste am -b a th s ea ch w eek . H e r tro u b le h a d q u ite d is a p p e a re d a f te r th re e w e e k s tre a tm e n t.

No. lft.

Liver disease, Inflammation of the colon, Perspiring feet, Gastric catarrh

F o r a lo n g tim e Mr. M. o f D. h a d b ee n su ffe rin g fro m in fla m m a tio n o f th e colon, w h ic h h a d beco m e c h ro n ic , b rin g in g on a se v ere liver-d isea se. F o r y e a rs th e p a tie n t h a d b een u n d e r a llo p a th ic tre a tm e n t, w ith o u t an y o f th e re m e d ie s tr ie d b e in g o f a n y a s sista n c e . At th e b e g in n in g o f S e p te m b e r Mr. M. co m m en c ed m y tr e a t m en t. T h e g a stric ca ta rrh fro m w h ic h he w as su ffe rin g a t th e sam e tim e, d is a p p e a re d in a fe w d a y s; th e d ig e stio n b e c am e n o rm a l d u rin g th e first w eek. T h e m o rb id m a tte r, w h ic h f o r y e a rs h a d been s to re d u p in h is b o d y w a s r a p id ly ex p elled , a n d h is c o n d itio n im p ro v e d fro m w ee k to w eek . In tw o m o n th s, d u rin g w h ic h tim e he h a d lo st 15 lbs. in w eig h t, Mr. M. w as co m p letely c u re d a n d th e d is a g re eab ly sm e llin g p e r s p ir in g fe e t w e re also ag ain re s to re d to th e n o rm a l c o n d i tio n .

No. 15.

Consumption of the spinal cord

Mr. M., a co m p o sito r, o f N. w a s su ffe rin g fr o m c o n s u m p tio n o f th e s p in a l co rd , w h ic h th e p h y s ic ia n s o f th e L e ip z ig U n iv e rsity C lin ic p ro n o u n c e d to be in cu ra b le. M. h a d b een tr e a te d f o r o v er a y e a r in th e above h o sp ita l w ith o u t th e slig h te st r e su lt. T h e p o o r m a n w a s in th e m o st p itia b le state, w h o lly w ith o u t m e an s, h e h a d to b e su p p o rte d b y re la tiv e s. T h e o p in io n o f th e d o c to rs, m o re o v e r, h a d ro b b e d h im o f all h o p e o f an im p ro v e m e n t in h is sad c o n d itio n . F o rtu n a te ly h e h a p p e n e d to h e a r o f th e c u re s m ad e b y m y m e th o d , a n d he m a d e u p h is m in d to tr y th e N ew S cie n ce o f H ealing. He m a n ag e d to h o b b le to m e w ith tw o stic k s, in th e w ea k est c o n d itio n , d e s p ite th e n o u ris h in g d ie t w h ic h h a d b een o rd e re d , an d , as f a r as p o ssib le, given to h im . An e x a m in a tio n sh o w ed th a t h e w a s su ffe rin g fro m a b ac k e n c u m b ra n c e , a c c o m p a n ie d by h ig h in te r n a l fev e r. I o r d e re d at firs t h ip -b a th s at 68 72 F a h r., a lte rn a te ly w ith f r ic tio n sitzb a th s, th e la tte r ea c h o f one h o u r s d u ra tio n . T h e d ie t w as to b e a no n -flesh o n e : f o r b re a k fa s t an d tea, w h o lem ea l b re a d a n d f r u it; fo r d in n e r, v eg etab les. E v ery th re e o r f o u r w eek s, a ste a m -b a th w as n e c e s sa rily a p p lie d to th e ab d o m en , so th a t th e p a tie n t d id n o t have to lie u p o n h is b a c k d u rin g th e b ath . In th re e m o n th s Mr. M. co u ld ag a in w a lk to le ra b ly w ell, a n d in six m o n th s even w ith o u t a stick . T h e e n c u m b ra n c e o f th e b a c k w a s so f a r gone, th a t h e co u ld ag ain u n d e rta k e lig h t w o rk , a n d I w a s able to let h im leave m y estab lish m e n t.

No. 16.

Severe menstrual disorder, Uterine hemorrhage

Mrs. W . o f L eip zig h a d b ee n su ffe rin g f o r eig h t y e a rs fro m irreg u la r m e n stru a tio n , th e p e r io d som etim es re m a in in g a w a y a ltogether. At o th e r tim es th e re w e re a b n o rm a l loses o f b lo o d w h ic h co m p letely ro b b e d h e r o f h e r s tre n g th . She at first co n su lte d a L eip zig p h y s ic ia n , D r. S., w h o h a d tre a te d h e r f o r a lo n g tim e, b u t w ith o u t an y su ccess w h a te v e r. T h e d isa g re e a b le lo c al tre a tm e n t in th e L eip zig C lin ic f o r W om en p ro v e d e q u a lly u n su c c e ssfu l. I d ire c te d h e r to ta k e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s d a ily a n d to fo llo w th e u su a l u n s tim u la tin g d ie t. T h e re s u lt w as asto n ish in g . In a s h o rt tim e, Mrs. W. w a s n o t o n ly w h o lly fre e fro m th e h e m o rr hag e, b u t b y c o n tin u in g th is sim p le a n d in e x p e n siv e c u re fo r som e m o n th s , h e r m e n stru a tio n b ec am e p e r fe c tly re g u la r ag ain . H er p h y s ic a l s tre n g th , w h ic h h a d q u ite co llap sed , w a s lik e w ise reg a in ed .

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A w o m an w ho w as su ffe rin g fro m se v ere fa c ia l erysip e la s o n ce c o n s u lte d me. In a d d itio n to m y o th e r in s tru c tio n s , f ric tio n b a th s h a d to be ta k e n , ex a ctly a d a p te d to th e c o n d itio n o f th e p a tie n t. W h en th e fe v e r a n d in fla m m a tio n o f th e fac e b ec am e too g rea t, th e f ric tio n b a th h a d to be p ro lo n g e d f o r tw o h o u rs, th e w a te r b ein g re n e w e d ev e ry h a lf-h o u r, in o r d e r to re d u c e th e fe v e r h ea t. At th e sam e tim e one o r tw o steam b a th s f o r th e h ea d , fo llo w ed b y f ric tio n sitz-b ath s, w e re ta k e n d aily , a n d alw a y s affo rd e d th e p a tie n t g re a t re lie f. In less th a n a w ee k th e d ise ase w a s p e r fe c tly c u re d , a n d th e w o m an fe lt h e a lth ie r a n d f re s h e r th a n e v e r b e fo re .

No. 18.

Encysted tumor, Ringing in the ears

M rs. L. o f G. Z. h a d a la rg e e n c y s te d tu m o r, th e size o f a w a ln u t, u n d e r th e le ft ea r, a n d su ffe re d in c o n seq u e n ce fro m rin g in g in th e le ft ear. F o r th re e y e a rs she h a d b ee n u sin g ev e ry p o ssib le re m e d y a g a in st it, b u t w ith o u t su ccess. T o u n d e rg o an o p e ra tio n , as a d v ise d b y th e fa m ily d o c to r, she co u ld n o t m ak e u p h e r m in d , a n d co n se q u e n tly sh e cam e to c o n su lt m e. H ere also, th e o n ly c u ra tiv e m ean s u sed w e re f ric tio n b a th s, n a tu ra l d ie t a n d an h y g ie n ic m a n n e r o f living. T h e rin g in g in th e e a rs ce ased a f te r th e v e ry first few b a th s ; th e e n c y ste d tu m o r w as c u re d in six w eeks.

No. 19.

Sycosis, Spinal neuralgia

Mr. H. h a d b ee n f o r y e a rs su ffe rin g fro m th e first n am ed d isease. All th e p a r t ab o u t th e b e a rd h a d becom e deep re d a n d w a s c o v e re d w ith scales a n d tu b e rc le s . T h e p a tie n t h a d tr ie d all th e d ru g s at th e d isp o sa l o f a llo p a th y an d h o m e o p a th y a n d h a d also a p p lie d th e old N a tu re C ure m e th o d , b u t w ith o u t a n y su ccess. By m e an s o f m y n ew m e th o d o f d ia g n o sis, I fo u n d th a t th e sy c o s is w as th e re su lt o f an e n c u m b ra n c e o f th e b ac k . A nd it w as th e fa c t th a t th e p a tie n t h a d fo r som e y e a rs b ee n tro u b le d b y p a in s in the back. In co n se q u e n c e o f th e n a tu re o f th e en c u m b ra n c e , th e c u re w e n t o n v e ry slow ly. S ev eral f ric tio n b a th s d a ily , su ita b le d ie t a n d tw o ste a m -b a th s w ee k ly w e re th e c u ra tiv e agents m a d e use o f in th is case too. By th is m ean s th e p a tie n t w as c u re d o f th is c h ro n ic d is o r d e r in five m o n th s.

No. 20.

Impotence

Mr. G. o f S. w as co m p letely im p o te n t. All th e re m e d ie s tr ie d h a d av a ile d n o th ing. By m ean s o f m y tre a tm e n t w h ic h h e c a r rie d out at hom e, c o n s istin g o f a lte r n a te f ric tio n sitz a n d h ip -b a th s, an d a non-flesh d ie t, h is d is o rd e r w as p e r fe c tly c u re d w ith in six w eeks.

No. 21.

Infantile constipation

T h e in f a n t c h ild (6 m o n th s) o f Rev. Mr. Q. su ffered fro m o b stin a te co n stip a tio n , w h ic h w a s n o t rem o v ed b y a n y o f th e n u m e ro u s m e d ic in e s trie d . T h e c h ild w as fe d u p o n m ilk, w h ic h w as b o ile d th re e tim es w h e n p o ssib le. T h e b o d y o f th e c h ild w as la d e n w ith fo re ig n m a tte r, in co n se q u e n c e o f w h ic h it b ecam e ex trem ely fe v e rish a n d su ffe re d fro m c o n v u lsio n s w h ic h re n d e re d it v ery w eak . A g ain st th e c o n v u lsio n s th e d o c to r o rd e re d co ld w a te r co m p resses, w h ic h w e re to b e c h a n g e d ev e ry tw o h o u rs. T h is w as n a tu ra lly w h o lly in a d e q u a te , a n d th e b a b y h a d co n v u lsio n s as m a n y as tw elv e tim es one d ay . N ow th e fa th e r cam e h im s e lf to th e id e a to re n e w th e co m p re sse s e v e ry q u a r te r o f an h o u r. T h e re su lt w as su rp ris in g , th e co n v u lsio n s d isa p p e a re d .

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T h e ca u se o f th e c o n s tip a tio n , h o w ev er, h a d n o t y et been rem o v ed . T h e f a th e r re a d m y te x t-b o o k o f th e N ew S cie n ce o f H ea lin g a n d co m m en c ed at o n ce to give th e in f a n t h ip -b a th s tw ic e a d ay , th o u g h th e w a te r w a s m a d e too w a rm (88 to 93 F a h r .) . T h e effect w as th u s slow , a n d o n ly a f te r 5 w eek s w a s th e c h ild s d ig estio n n o rm a l again. M eanw hile, h o w ev e r, th e food h a d also b een a lte re d ; th e c h ild w as now' given u n b o ile d m ilk a n d o atm ea lg ru el, w h ic h so o n b ro u g h t it fo rw a rd s . It also b ec am e b rig h t an d h a p p y , w h e re a s it h a d fo rm e rly b ee n w e a k a n d sick ly .

No. 22.

Gland-tumor.

Easy parturition

Mrs. M. su ffered fro m gland.-tum.ors on th e n eck , a n d alw a y s h a d to w e a r a n e c k e rc h ie f to co v e r th em . She c o m m en c ed m y tre a tm e n t a n d c o n tin u e d it w ith g re a t p e rse v e ra n c e . T h e h a r d tu m o rs soon b ecam e s o ft a n d d e c re a s e d in size, an d th e w h o le c o n d itio n o f th e p a tie n t n o w b ec am e re m a rk a b ly good. H ow m u c h h e r h e a lth h a d im p ro v e d , M rs. M. co u ld see a t h e r n e x t co n fin em en t. She w as d e liv e re d o f h e r se v en th c h ild , a n d w a s n o t little a s to n ish e d a t th e easy b irth . T h e b a b y ca m e in to th e w o rld a f te r o n ly th re e la b o r-p a in s. T h e c h ild w a s c e rta in ly sm all, n e v e rth e le ss w ell fo rm e d ; a n d as it w a s n o t p a r te d fro m th e a f te r b ir th fo r tw o h o u rs, it k e p t its ro sy co lo r, w h e re a s all th e fo rm e r c h ild r e n h a d b eco m e y ello w soon a f te r th e b ir th . Mrs. M. h a d ea te n no flesh-m eat d u rin g h e r p re g n a n c y , a n d she w as m o st p le a sa n tly s u r p ris e d to fin d th a t sh e co u ld give h e r c h ild th e b re a s t fo r th re e m o n th s, w h ic h sh e h a d n e v e r been a b le to do a t all b e fo re .

No. 23. Sciatica

Som e y e a rs ago, I w a s se n t fo r b y a p h y s ic ia n , D r. B., w h o w as su ffe rin g fro m sc ia tica , w h ic h in sp ite o f all m e d ic a l tr e a tm e n t o n ly g rew w o rse. F in a lly it b e cam e so b a d th a t h e co u ld n e ith e r sta n d n o r lie d o w n , a n d so h a d to sp e n d day a n d n ig h t su p p o rte d on th e sofa. I p r e s c rib e d th e d o c to r tw o d a ily fric tio n h ip b a th s, at fro m 59 to 65 F a h r. a n d a ste am -b a th ev e ry o th e r d a y ; a n d lik e w ise su ita b le d ie t. On th e f o u rth day, a lre a d y , m y b a th -a tte n d a n t re p o r te d an im p o v em en t in D r. Bs. c o n d itio n , sa y in g th e p a tie n t co u ld w a lk a little . In a w eek th e im p ro v e m e n t h a d so f a r p ro g re sse d th a t th e c u re co u ld b e c o n tin u e d w ith o u t m y aid . In fo u r w eeks th e tro u b le w a s cu re d .

No. 2k.

Diphtheria, Scarlet-fever

I w as c a lle d som e tim e ago to a M rs. S., w h o se little b o y o f n in e w as ill w ith r a th e r se v ere sc a rle t-fe v e r a n d d ip h th e ria . T he first th in g w as to give a steam b a th , a n d one o f m y a p p a ra tu s n o t b e in g a t h a n d , w e h a d to im p ro v ise a b a th . W e p la c e d th e b o y u p o n a c a n e-se ate d c h a ir a n d set a p o t c o n ta in in g a b o u t a gallon o f b o ilin g w a te r u n d e rn e a th . T h e fe e t also w e re p la c e d u p o n a p a il h a lf filled w ith b o ilin g w a te r a n d h a v in g tw o s tr ip s o f w o o d a c ro ss th e to p . T h e w h o le b o d y w as th e n c a re fu lly en v e lo p e d in a w o o len b la n k e t. A fter th e p a tie n t h a d p e r s p ire d p ro fu se ly , h e w a s given a f ric tio n h ip -b a th at 50 F a h r., h is ab d o m en b ein g ru b b e d so long, u n til all th e h e a t h a d d is a p p e a re d fro m th e h ea d . It w as in te r e s t in g to o b se rv e h o w th e la b o red b re a th in g g ra d u a lly b ec am e n o rm a l u n d e r th is tre a tm e n t. All d a n g e r w a s n o w over. B efore going, h o w ev e r, I m e n tio n e d to th e m o th e r, th a t sh o u ld th e fe v e r re tu r n ag ain a f te r som e h o u rs, th e f ric tio n h ip b a th s m u st be re p e a te d e n e rg e tic a lly u n til th e h e a t ag ain d is a p p e a re d . In ab o u t 5 d ay s th e b oy w a s q u ite re c o v e re d . T h is is th e w a y to h e a l th e d re a d e d d ip h th e ria , fo r a re m e d y a g a in st w h ic h m e d ic a l sc ien c e is still seeking.

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Mr. S. o f T. c o n su lte d m e ab o u t h is d e a fn e ss in the rig h t ear, a n d a p o ly p u s in the la ry n x . H is d ise ase cau sed h im m u c h tro u b le in sp e ak in g . He h a d v isite d n u m e ro u s h o sp ita ls a n d c o n su lte d m a n y p h y s ic ia n s , b u t n o w h e re d id h e get an y h elp . U p o n d ia g n o sin g h is d isease b y m ean s o f th e S cie n ce o f F a c ia l E x p re ssio n , I fo u n d th a t h is e n c u m b ra n c e w as a f ro n t one, so th a t a fa v o ra b le re su lt co u ld be lo o k ed fo r. A nd so it w as in fac t, ju st as I h a d p re d ic te d . A fte r fo llo w in g m y tre a tm e n t f o r te n days, he in fo rm e d m e th a t th e se n se o f h e a r in g h a d a lre a d y re tu rn e d to th e d e a f ear a n d h is hoarsen ess a n d c h ro n ic ro u g h n e ss in th e th r o a t h ad m u c h d im in ish e d . F o u r w ee k s m o re w e re n e c e s sa ry in o rd e r to effect a co m p lete cu re. A t th e co n c lu sio n , th e p a tie n t d e c la re d th a t he h a d n ev e r fe lt so w ell b e fo re n o t even in h is y o u th as n o w , a fte r g e ttin g r id o f th e e n c u m b ra n c e o f fo r eign m a tte r.

No. 26.

Neurasthenia, Chronic pharyngeal catarrh

Mr. K. o f L eip zig h a d been a v ic tim to n e rv o u s d e b ility , w h ic h fin ally d ev elo p ed in to c h ro n ic n e u ra sth e n ia an d p h a ry n g e a l cata rrh . T h e m a n y c u re s w h ic h h e h ad u n d e rg o n e p ro v e d useless. T h e e n c u m b ra n c e o f th is p a tie n t w as fa v o ra b le , a n d I co u ld th e re fo re a ssu re h im o f a good c h a n c e o f re c o v e ry . N o r d id th e N ew S cien ce o f H ealin g d e s e rt m e, f o r th e re su lt w as asto n ish in g . T h e p a tie n t h a d to p ass th ro u g h se v eral c rise s, b u t finally e v e ry tra c e o f n e u ra s th e n ia a n d p h a ry n g e a l c a ta rr h d isa p p e a re d , a n d th e p a tie n t fe lt as h e s a id b o rn a g a in .

No. 27.

Facial neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Dilatation of the stomach

A Mr. R. B. o f R., aged 39, h a d b een su ffe rin g fo r o v er fo u r y ea rs fro m p e c u lia r, sp a sm o d ic n eu ra lg ic p ains. He h a d c o n su lte d a n u m b e r o f p h y s ic ia n s w ith o u t get tin g an y assista n c e , a n d an e m in e n t p ro fe s s o r a d v ise d h im to u n d e rg o an o p e r atio n . T h is id e a th e p a tie n t d id n o t lik e, a n d so he cam e to tr y m y m e th o d . T h e S cie n ce o f F a c ia l E x p re ssio n sh o w e d an e n c u m b ra n c e o f th e r ig h t sid e, fo r w h ic h rea so n th e p a in s a n d sp asm s alw a y s a p p e a re d on th e r ig h t sid e o f th e face. T h e s o u rc e o f th e d is o rd e r h ad , o f co u rse, to be so u g h t in th e a b d o m e n ; an d i t w as a fa c t th a t th e p a tie n t w a s su ffe rin g fro m d ila ta tio n o f th e sto m a c h . My tre a tm e n t b ro u g h t th e d ig e stio n in to its n o rm a l a n d re g u la r c o n d itio n w ith in a w eek. A fter th re e w eek s Mr. B. co u ld sleep th e w h o le n ig h t th ro u g h w ith o u t a n y p a in , w h ic h fo r fo u r w eek s h a d been im p o ssib le fo r him . In tw o m o n th s Mr. B. w as co m p letely c u re d o f h is p a in fu l d isease, a n d h is a p p e a ra n c e , also, h a d ch a n g ed g re a tly fo r th e b e tte r.

No. 28.

Scrofula, Chlorosis, Far-sightedness, Glandular swelling

Miss H. G., a sc h o o l-te a c h e r, o f G., h a d fo r som e y e a rs been su ffe rin g fro m sc ro fu la , fo llo w ed fin ally b y o b stin a te g la n d u la r sw e llin g a n d tu m o rs, a n d also fa r-sig h te d n e ss. No c u ra tiv e m ean s co u ld be fo u n d a g a in st th e d iso rd e rs. In c o n seq u e n ce o f th e p re sb y o p ia , Miss G. w as o bliged to w e a r sp e c ia l sp e cta cle s, w h ic h , h o w e v e r, soon no lo n g e r p ro v e d sufficient, so th a t in a d d itio n sh e h a d to w e a r a p in ce-n ez. A f rie n d c a lle d h e r a tte n tio n to m y m e th o d , a n d she c a r rie d it o u t fo r h a lf a y e a r m o st co n sc ie n tio u sly . She took tw o f ric tio n sitz-b ath s d aily , ea ch o f 15 to 20 m in u tes d u ra tio n , a n d liv ed o th e rw ise h y g ie n ic a lly . T h e re su lt w as su ccessfu l. F irs t th e d ig estio n im p ro v e d re m a rk a b ly . T h e n th e g la n d u la r sw ellin g s d is a p p e a re d o n e a f te r th e o th e r, a n d at th e sam e tim e th e d isp o s itio n to p u lm o n a ry

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affectio n . A fter all tra c e o f the g la n d u la r sw ellin g s h a d d isa p p e a re d , th e d isease o f th e eye also b ecam e b e tte r; a n d a f te r th e lap se o f a y ea r, Miss G. no lo n g e r r e q u ire d sp e c ta c le s at all. T h a t w h ic h th e m o st re n o w n e d o cu lists co u ld n o t do, I w as able to ac c o m p lish b y m e an s o f m y N ew S cien ce o f H ealing.

No. 29.

Infantile constipation and Sleeplessness. Inflammation of the eyes

A Mrs. H. o f M annh eim cam e w ith h e r little b a b y d a u g h te r, aged tw o m o n th s, to co n su lt me. T h e ch ild su ffered fro m c o n stip a tio n a n d sleep lessn ess, a p r o o f th a t it m u st h av e com e in to th e w o rld e n c u m b e re d w ith fo re ig n m a tte r. A nd as I a s c e r ta in e d b y m ean s o f m y S cie n ce o f F a c ia l E x p re ss io n , th e m o th e r w as su ffe rin g fro m d y sp e p sia, an d h ad , m o reo v e r, fo r a lo n g tim e p re v io u s ly b ee n su ffe rin g fro m in fla m m a tio n o f th e eyes. As th e m o th e r su c k led th e ch ild h e rse lf, th e first th in g to be d one w as to r id th e m o th e rs b o d y fro m all m o rb id m a tte r. T h is w as effected by h e r ta k in g a h ip a n d f r ic tio n sitz-b ath d aily , b y o b se rv in g an u n s tim u la tin g d ie t, an d b y k ee p in g m u ch in th e fre s h a ir. To p ro m o te p e r s p ir a tio n o f th e c h ild , she to o k it in to h e r ow n b ed . A fter tw o d a y s tre a tm e n t, th e b a b y s c o n s tip a tio n a n d sleep lessn ess w e re c u re d ; a n d in a w ee k th e m o th e rs digestiv e tro u b le s a n d in fla m m a tio n o f th e eyes h a d also d isa p p e a re d . H ere again w a s a c le a r p r o o f o f h o w g re a t th e in flu e n c e o f th e m o th e r u p o n h e r c h ild , e x e rc ise d th ro u g h the n a tu ra l n o u rish m e n t, is. D ire c t tre a tm e n t o f so sm all an in f a n t w o u ld h av e b een f a r less s a tisfa c to ry . It w as th e m o th e rs e n c u m b ra n c e w ith fo re ig n m a tte r, th a t w as th e cau se o f th e c h ild s illn ess.

No. 30.

Cyanosis

F ro m th is d isease, th e little d au g h te r, aged 12, o f Mr. E. H. o f P., w a s su fferin g . I e x p la in e d to th e fa th e r th a t in su ch an ad v a n c e d case, esp ec ially w h e re th e re w as so g re a t w ea k n ess a n d w h e re so m u ch m e d ic in e h a d b een a d m in iste re d , th e re w as b u t little c h a n c e o f cu re. S uch w o u ld o n ly be p o ssib le i f th e ab d o m en a n d d ig e stio n w e re c a p a b le o f b e in g in flu e n c e d . T h u s w ith b u t little h o p e th e c u re w as co m m en ced . In a w eek , h o w ev e r, th e p a tie n ts c o n d itio n h a d so im p ro v e d th a t she h a d a h e a rty a p p e tite an d good d ig e stio n . In fo u r w eek s th e cy a n o sis w as c o m p letely c u re d , th a n k s to th e v ita lity o f th e y o u th fu l o rg an ism .

No. 31.

Periodical vomiting, Pulmonary affection, Chlorosis

Mr. M. o f L. h a d b een su ffe rin g f o r 12 y e a rs fro m p e r io d ic a l vo m itin g , a g a in st w h ic h he co u ld find no rem e d y . O nce o r tw ic e ev e ry w eek, re g u la rly , th ese a tta c k s cam e on. T he a tta c k w o u ld c o n tin u e ea ch tim e fro m ris in g in th e m o rn in g till b ed -tim e. T he re s u lt o f a p p ly in g m y h ip a n d f ric tio n sitz-b ath s, o b s e rv in g u n stim u la tin g d ie t an d fo llo w in g m y o th e r g en e ral in s tru c tio n s , w a s b rillia n t. In ste ad o f h is p ale, ash y fe a tu re s, th e p a tie n t b ecam e fre s h a n d h e a lth y lo o k in g . H is d ig e stio n , b e fo re w h o lly d e b ilita te d , w as n o w fu lly n o rm al. T h e a tta c k s o f v o m itin g ceased. F o u r w eek s a f te r th e p a tie n t v isite d m e ag ain , in o r d e r to th a n k m e f o r th e c u re , a s su rin g m e at th e sam e tim e th a t h e fe lt th o ro u g h ly re ju v e n a te d .

No. 32. Severe affection of the heart, Hemostasis, Sleeplessness, Protrusion of the cardiac artery, Asthma
Mrs. M. o f H., a la d y 53 y e a rs o f age, w a s su ffe rin g fro m all th e se co m p lain ts. D u rin g th e la st y e a rs h e r a sth m a tic d iso r d e r h a d beco m e se rio u sly w o rse. F in a lly

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p a in s w ere e x p e rie n c e d in th e r ig h t b re a st, c o n tin u a lly in c re a s in g in sev erity . T he p a tie n t also su ffered fro m p a lp ita tio n an d a tta c ks o f a n x ie ty . T h e to rm e n tin g p a in an d d iffic u lty in b re a th in g le ft th e p a tie n t no sleep at all. She w as u n a b le to w a lk te n p aces, a n d sh e fo u n d i t m o st d iffic u lt to sp e ak . T h en , one d ay , on th e r ig h t b re a s t n o t f a r b elo w th e neck, an a rte ry s u d d e n ly p ro tru d e d , as th ic k as th e finger, w h ic h p u lsa te d w ith g re a t v io le n ce , m u c h m o re q u ic k ly th a n th e h e a rt. T h e p h y sic ia n s in a tte n d a n c e , am o n g st them a v e ry em in e n t a u th o rity , w e re h elp less at th is o c c u rre n c e . At la st th e y d e c id e d th a t th is w as a p ro tr u sio n o f th e ca rdiac a rte ry , a n d c a u tio n e d th e p a tie n t th a t h is a r te ry , filled to its m ax im u m w ith blo o d , m ig h t b u r s t a t a n y m o m en t, w h e n d e a th m ig h t ensu e. T h e five d o c to rs, in c lu d in g also one w ell-k n o w n h y g ie n ic p h y sic ia n , h a d given u p th e p a tie n t, so th a t sh e no lo n g e r h a d an y h o p e as she cam e in to m y c a re . I d ia g n o sed h e r a c c o rd in g to m y n ew m e th o d a n d fo u n d th a t th e cause o f v a rio u s d is o rd e rs w a s an o ld ab d o m in a l c o m p la in t. T h e im m e d ia te re s u lt o f th is w a s th e a s th m a ; th e n th e severe a ffe c tio n o f th e heart, a n d th e h e m o sta sis (sta g n a tio n o f b lo o d ). T h re e f ric tio n b a th s d a ily , a n d n a tu ra l d ie t b ro u g h t ab o u t th e b e st resu lts, f o r in a w ee k all th e p a in h a d d isa p p e a re d . In a f o rtn ig h t th e p u lsa tio n o f th e p r o tru d in g a r te ry h ad ab a te d , a n d in th re e w eeks all tr a c e o f th e d is o rd e rs re s u ltin g fro m th e c h ro n ic a b d o m in a l affec tio n h a d v a n is h e d : a n e w p r o o f fo r th e c o rre c tn e ss o f m y d o c trin e o f th e u n ity o f disease.

No. 33. Diphtheria

E lsie B., a g irl o f 12, w as se rio u sly ill w ith d ip h th e ria . T h e d o c to r, an a llo p a th , h a d u se d all m a n n e r o f m e d ic in e s w ith o u t a n y re su lt. T h e th r o a t w as m u ch sw o llen , e sp ec ially on th e r ig h t sid e a n d w as o b stru c te d in te rn a lly w ith a g re e n ish co a tin g , sm e llin g h o r rib ly a n d as th ic k as th e finger. T h e c h ild w a s a c c o rd in g ly in th e g re a te st d a n g e r o f b e in g su ffo cated . T h e p h y s ic ia n a d v ised im m e d ia te r e m oval to th e h o s p ita l th a t tra c h e o to m y m ig h t be p e rfo rm e d . F o rtu n a te ly th e p a re n ts w o u ld n o t h e a r o f th is, a n d so at th e la st m o m e n t m y m e th o d cam e to b e em p lo y ed . A p ro lo n g e d f ric tio n sitz-b ath w a s th e first th in g o rd e re d , d u rin g w h ic h th e fev e r p e rc e p tib ly d im in ish e d . S im u lta n eo u sly th e g re a t te n sio n in th e sw o llen n e c k co m m en c ed to d ec rease. T h e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s w e re n o w g iven as o fte n as th e situ a tio n d e m an d e d , p e r s p ir a tio n b e in g p ro m o te d a f te r each. T h e w in d o w o f th e ro o m w h e re th e p a tie n t w as, w a s k e p t op en d a y a n d n ig h t. In 12 h o u rs, all d a n g e r w as o v er. In fo u r d a y s th e tu m o r on th e n e c k a n d th e in te rn a l co a tin g h a d d isa p p e a re d . W ith in a w ee k th e d ig e stio n w a s ag ain n o rm a l: th o u g h I in s is te d u p o n th e c h ild still re c e iv in g o n ly d ry , w h o lem ea l b re a d a n d u n co o k e d a c id fru it. On th e te n th d ay , I in s tru c te d th e p a re n ts to le t th e c h ild go o u t in th e sun. On th e fifte e n th day, th e p a tie n t co u ld be p ro n o u n c e d h e a lth y again.

No. 34.

Cancer of the tip

An o ld g entlem an , 72 y e a rs o f age, h a d b ee n tre a te d fo r six y e a rs b y th e m ost fam ous a llo p a th s a n d h o m e o p a th s f o r c a n c e r o f th e lip . T h e g ro w th s on th e lip c o n tin u a lly d ev elo p ed , an d th e re w as a tro u b le so m e a n d p e rp e tu a l flow o f saliva. I d ia g n o sed th e p a tie n t a n d fo u n d th a t th e e n c u m b ra n c e h a d ris e n m o re fro m th e f ro n t a n d sid es to w a rd s th e h e a d . T he re su lt o f m y tre a tm e n t w as soon to b e re m a rk e d . A lrea d y on th e first d a y th e d isa g re ea b le sa liv a tio n ceased , a n d th e n e w g ro w th s, p ro life ra tio n s a n d o p en w o u n d s beg an to d im in ish . W ith in 10 d ay s th e la tte r h a d h ea le d u p , an d th e lip w as n o w b u t one th ir d its fo rm e r size. In eleven d ay s th e p a tie n t h ad a tta in e d a re su lt w h ic h th e fo rm e r six y e a rs tre a tm e n t h a d n o t been able to p ro d u c e . H ere ag ain w a s a case o f c u rin g ca n cer, w h ic h th e m e d ica l p ro fe ssio n , as is w ell k n o w n , d e c la re s to be im p o ssib le !

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Disease of the throat, Scarlet diphtheria

C arl B. o f S ty ria , aged eig h t an d a h a lf y ea rs, w as b ro u g h t to m e b y h is m o th e r fo r tre a tm e n t. T h e m o th e r gave th e fo llo w in g re p o r t o f h e r s o n s h e a lth : T ill th e age o f tw o an d a h a lf y e a rs h e h a d been th o ro u g h ly h e a lth y , b u t sin c e th e n , in c o n se q u e n c e o f v a c cin a tio n , h a d alw a y s b ee n ailin g . At first as a 3 y e a r o ld c h ild h e h a d b een su p p re ss e d b y m ean s o f m e d ic in e s. A fte r th is illn e ss th e b o y h a d n e v e r b een stro n g a n d h a d a m o st n o tic e a b ly w ea k voice. W h ite sp o ts w e re alw a y s to b e seen on th e to n sils. T he th r o a t sw elled u p on th e le a st o cc asio n , ju s t as in d ip h th e ria . M oreover, sin c e th is illn ess, th e b o y s d ig e stio n w a s m u c h w o rse th a n fo rm e rly . In M arch 1891, as th e re s u lt o f a frig h t, th e c h ild got an a tta c k o f a rticu la r rh e u m a tism a n d w as ly in g ill fo r 3 w eek s. A fte r th is , th e b o y w a s so u n h e a lth y th a t as a la st h o p e o f re s to rin g h is h e a lth , it w a s d e c id e d h e sh o u ld go th ro u g h a cure at m y e s ta b lish m e n t in L e ip zig . T h is w a s c o m m en c ed on A p ril 15th, 1891. T h e effect o f m y tr e a tm e n t w as s u rp ris in g . On th e se co n d d ay , ev en th e d ig e s tio n im p ro v e d . On th e th ir d d a y th e d ip h th e r ia w h ic h h a d b een su p p re ss e d r e tu r n e d p r e tty sev erely . T h ese c rise s h a d to be gone th ro u g h , sin c e so m u c h m e d i c in e w as ly in g la te n t in th e b o d y . On th e fifth d ay th e re w as an a b n o rm a l e v a c u atio n o f m o st fo u lly p e s tile n tia l, d a rk lo o k in g fseces, a n d a d isc h a rg e o f sim ila rly b ad sm e llin g co ffee-co lo red u rin e . A fte r e x p e llin g th is m o rb id m a tte r, in 5 w eek s th e b o y w as q u ite c u re d , a n d w h o lly tra n s f o r m e d b o th b o d ily an d in te lle c tu a lly .

No. 36.

Polypi, Indigestion

Mr. B. o f Z., a p h a rm a c e u tic a l ch e m ist, h a d f o r 20 y e a rs b een a su ffe re r fro m p o o r a n d irreg u la r d ig e stio n . In h is la rg e d is p e n s a ry h e h a d ev ery p o ssib le p u r g ativ e at h a n d , b u t n o tw ith s ta n d in g th e ir lib e ra l use, th e y no lo n g e r h a d a n y effect. F o r a s h o rt tim e a d ru g w o u ld h av e th e d e s ire d a c tio n , b u t w o u ld soon p ro v e w h o lly in e ffec tiv e . T h ro u g h h is b a d d ig e stio n a n d th is c o n tin u a l use o f m e d i c in e s n e a rly all h is te e th w e re d ec ay e d . At th e sam e tim e in th e n o se a n d airpassages, p o ly p i a p p e a re d a n d co u ld n o t be got r id of. T h e y w e re , in d e e d , b u t th e n a tu ra l re s u lt o f th e c h ro n ic a b d o m in a l c o m p la in t. T w e n ty -six tim es th e se p o ly p i h a d b een re m o v e d b y o p e ra tio n , b u t th e y sim p ly g rew th e m o re. One sees h e re h o w difficult th e p h y s ic ia n s en g ro sse d in th e false te a c h in g s o f o rth o d o x m e d ic a l sc ie n c e find it to le a rn fro m th e a c tu a l p r a c tic e in d a ily life . By a p p ly in g m y m e th o d o f tre a tm e n t, Mr. B. o b ta in e d m o re in a w eek , th a n in all th e 20 y e a rs o f d ru g g in g . T h e p o ly p o id g ro w th s g ra d u a lly ce ased . In fo u r w eek s th e p a tie n t w as c u re d . Mr. B. h a d th u s e x p e rie n c e d on h is ow n b o d y th e c o rre c tn e s s o f m y m e th o d o f tre a tm e n t; a n d w as so a s to n ish e d a t th e re su lt, th a t o n ta k in g h is d e p a r tu re he d e c la re d th a t he co u ld no lo n g e r c o n s c ie n tio u sly c o n tin u e to k ee p a c h e m is ts sh o p . H e co u ld see th a t b y so d o in g he w o u ld o n ly b e d e c e iv in g an d p o iso n in g p e o p le ; a n d th e re fo r e h e h a d m a d e u p h is m in d to sell h is b u sin e ss as soon as possib le.

No. 37.

St. Vitus dance and Sleeplessness

T h e little d a u g h te r, aged 5, o f M rs. G. o f L., w as a fflic te d w ith th e se tro u b le s. H er w h o le b o d y in c o n v u lsio n s, sh e w a s able n e ith e r to w a lk , n o r sp eak , u na b le to sleep , u n a b le to h o ld a n y th in g , u n ab le to digest h e r fo o d . A fte r h a v in g tr ie d all m a n n e r o f cu res, th e p a tie n t cam e u n d e r m y tre a tm e n t. H ip a n d fric tio n sitz-b ath s, th e la tte r m u c h p ro lo n g e d , e x e rc ise in th e fre s h a ir, su ita b le d ie t th e se soon h a d th e d e s ire d re su lt, so th a t w ith in a w ee k th e c h ild w as able to w a lk again.

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On th e tre a tm e n t b e in g c o n tin u e d , a c o m p lete c u re w as soon effected , th e d ig e s tio n , w h ic h h a d been a lto g e th e r d e b ilita te d , n o w b e c o m in g q u ite n o rm a l. All th is w as b ro u g h t ab o u t sim p ly b y fo llo w in g m y u n ifo rm sy stem o f c u r in g d iseases, w ith o u t d ru g s o r a n y o th e r m e d ic a l a p p lic a tio n .

No. 38.

Nervous spasms (fits)

A Mrs. G. w as su ffe rin g fro m p e c u lia r sp asm s. T h ese c o m m en c ed in th e fin g er tip s a n d p a sse d to th e h e a d , c a u sin g th e p a tie n t th e g re a te s t tro u b le . T h e m o st e m in e n t p h y s ic ia n s o f th e p la c e h a d tre a te d th e p a tie n t, b u t w ith o u t an y su c ce ss; on th e c o n tra ry sh e b ecam e m u c h w o rse. T h e d o c to rs e rro n e o u s ly re g a rd e d th e sy m p to m s as th e re a l d is o rd e r, a n d o v erlo o k e d e n tire ly th e re a l seat o f th e tro u b le th e ab d o m en . No w o n d e r th e n th a t th e c o m p la in t o n ly b ec am e w o rse. T h e re su lt w a s th a t a t le n g th M rs. G. cam e to c o n s u lt m e. I p re s c rib e d f ric tio n sitz-b ath s, a n d th e o b se rv a n c e o f a n a tu ra l m a n n e r o f liv in g . In seven w ee k s th e la d y h a d fu lly re c o v e re d fro m th e d is o r d e r fro m w h ic h she h a d su ffered f o r y ea rs.

No. 39.

Pollutions, Consumption of the spinal marrow, Sleeplessness, Neurosis, Paralysis

A Mr. H., 42 y e a rs o f age, su ffe rin g fro m th e se d iseases, cam e to m e f o r tr e a t m en t. W a lk in g ca u se d h im th e g re a te st tro u b le , a n d to rise a f te r s ittin g w a s also a m a tte r o f g re a t difficulty. F o r y e a rs h e h a d b een su ffe rin g fro m a b a d d ig e stio n , sleep lessn e ss a n d w a n t o f b o d ily w a rm th . H e w a s also tro u b le d w ith p o llu tio n s, a lth o u g h m a rrie d , a c e rta in sign th a t h e h a d a se v ere b a c k e n c u m b ra n c e a n d n ervo u s d iso rd er. M edical sc ie n c e h a d d e s e rte d h im fo r h e h a d tr ie d ev ery re m e d y i t h a d to offer 1 I o r d e re d th e p a tie n t to ta k e tw o f r ic tio n h ip -b a th s d a ily fo r th e first fo rtn ig h t; th e n , d u r in g th e n e x t f o u r w ee k s to ta k e d a ily o ne f ric tio n h ip -b a th a n d tw o f ric tio n sitz-b ath s. T h e su c ce ss w as asto n ish in g . T h e d ig e stio n im p ro v e d a f te r o n ly a fe w b a th s ; th e p a ra ly z e d legs in som e w eek s. T h e c o n s u m p tio n o f th e s p in a l m a rro w w as c o m p letely c u re d in tw o m o n th s. A gain, a p r o o f o f th e c o rre c tn e ss o f m y n e w m e th o d o f tr e a tin g diseases, a n d o f th e in c o m p e te n c e o f m e d ic a l sc ien c e.

No. W.

Deaf-dumbness, Congestion of the brain

T h e little 4 y e a r old d a u g h te r o f M rs. S. o f L. w a s d e a f a n d d u m b , th e re su lt o f v a c c in a tio n as th e m o th e r sa id . T h e n u m e ro u s m e d ic a l a p p lic a tio n s h a d p ro v e d o f no av a il. T h e p o o r c h ild h a d been se v erely m a ltre a te d b y m e an s o f o p e ra tio n s a n d co rro siv e s, a n d c rie d n o w w h e n e v e r it saw a p h y s ic ia n . On a c c o u n t o f its c ry in g a n d fe a r, I co u ld n o t th o ro u g h ly d ia g n o se th e c h ild , b u t sa w n e v e rth e le ss th a t it w a s h e a v ily e n c u m b e re d w ith fo re ig n m a tte r a n d th a t th e b ra in w as c o n g ested . I o rd e re d sim p ly f r ic tio n b a th s a n d a d ry , u n s tim u la tin g , n a tu ra l d iet, sle ep in g w ith op en w in d o w a n d p le n ty e x e rc ise in th e fre s h a ir. T h e re s u lt w as m ost fa v o ra b le a n d in tw o w eek s th e m o th e r in fo rm e d m e, th a t h e r c h ild w as al re a d y m u c h b e tte r an d co u ld h e a r a little. In a n o th e r f o u r w eek s th e little p a tie n t w as th o ro u g h ly c u r e d : co u ld h e a r a n d sp eak , a n d w as n o lo n g e r so shy.

No. kl.

Severe constipation

T h e w ife o f D r. F . o f A. h a d su ffe re d f o r som e 20 y e a rs fro m se vere co n stip a tio n , w h ic h no re m e d y co u ld c u re . As she cam e to co n su lt m e, she o p en ly co n fe ssed th a t a f te r all h e r e x p e rie n c e , sh e re a lly h a d no h o p e b ein g c u re d . A fter fo llo w in g

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m y ad v ic e fo r a w ee k , e sp ec ially as re g a rd e d a s tr ic tly n a tu ra l d ie t, th e d is o r d e r w as rem o v ed , a n u m b e r o f se c o n d a ry c o m p la in ts d is a p p e a rin g at th e sam e tim e. As re g a rd s th e d ie t, th e p a tie n t h a d to live f o r som e tim e on w h o lem ea l a n d a c id fru it, u n til she w as again in a p o sitio n to d ig e st co o k ed food.

No. 42. Sore throat, Disease of the bladder and kidneys. Sexual diseases
D ea r Mr. K u h n e : T h e tre a tm e n t w h ic h y ou a d v ise d m e in y o u r le tte r h a s p ro v e d m o st su c cessfu l. T h e d is o rd e rs o f b la d d e r a n d k id n e y s h av e beco m e b e tte r ; also th e se x u al d isease, th e re b e in g b u t little d isc h a rg e now . T h e p r ic k in g p a in in th e th r o a t (I n o tic e d a y ello w ab scess also, in th e th r o a t) h as d isa p p e a re d . I feel m u c h fre s h e r th a n b e fo re. T h a n k in g y o u fo r th e a d v ic e c o n ta in e d in y o u r letters, w h ic h h a s p ro v e d o f su c h good se rv ic e , I re m a in , Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , B ro m b erg . E. M.

No. k3.

Inflammation of the lcnee-joint, Extreme nervosity, Congestion of the brain, Fatty degeneration of the heart, Disease of the liver, Kidney disorder, Intestinal disease

D ear S ir:A s h o rt tim e ago, on a c c o u n t o f in fla m m a tio n o f th e rig h t k n e e jo in t (c irc u m fe re n c e o f th e k n ee 22 in c h e s) I v isite d y o u r e s ta b lish m e n t a n d a f te r 18 d a y s tr e a t m en t, I am a g a in hom e. T h e s tr ic t diet, w ith f ric tio n h ip -b a th s, a ir a n d lig h t-b a th s, h av e sufficed to re d u c e th e e n c u m b ra n c e o f m y k n ee to o n ly 17 in c h e s. I ow e th is re s to ra tio n to h e a lth to y o u r w ell-k n o w n b ook, T h e N ew S cie n ce o f H ealin g , w h ic h I b o u g h t som e y e a rs ago. F o r som e tim e a f te rw a rd s I k e p t to th e d ie t you h a d a d v ise d a n d th e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s, a n d on y o u r sy stem got r id o f th e fo llo w in g f u r th e r tr iv ia litie s : e x tre m e n e rv o u sn e ss, co n g e stio n o f th e b ra in , f a t t y d e g en e ra tio n o f th e hea rt, diseases o f th e liv e r a n d k id n e y s th o u g h th e la tte r d ise a se h a d been d e c la re d in c u ra b le b y th e m e d ic a l m en. In te s tin a l tro u b les also m ad e th e ir a p p e a ra n c e , b u t h av e v a n ish e d . T h is u n so lic ite d te stim o n ia l yo u m a y use fo r an y official o r legal p u rp o s e y o u m ay w ish . W ith s in c e re s t th a n k s, Y ours fa ith fu lly , T ra u te n a u , B ohem ia. C arl H.

No. 44. Severe Migraine

D ear Mr. K u h n e : F o r a lo n g tim e I h av e in te n d e d to se n d you m y h e a r tfe lt th a n k s, b u t u p till n o w th e re h a s alw a y s b een so m e th in g to p re v e n t m e. P e rh a p s y o u w ill re m e m b e r me. L ast A ugust I cam e, w ith m y d a u g h te r, in tro d u c e d b y M rs. N. o f L., to seek y o u r a id on a c c o u n t o f m y o b stin a te a n d se vere m ig ra in e . On th e se c o n d d a y o f m y b e in g th e re , I h a d d re a d fu l m ig ra in e ; you w e re w itn e ss o f it, as y o u w e re k in d en o u g h to dev o te an h o u r o f y o u r v a lu a b le tim e to us w h e n w e w e re s ittin g in y o u r g ard e n . S in ce th e n I h av e n e v e r b een tro u b le d w ith m ig ra in e ag ain , f o r w h ic h a f te r th a n k in g G od, I h av e also to re tu r n m y th a n k s to you. I feel as b rig h t an d fre e as in m y y o u th , a n d th e re fo re fin d no d ifficulty in k e e p in g to th e d ie t you p re s c rib e d . T h e b a th s p ro v e v ery b en e ficia l, so th a t one c a n n o t afTord to m iss a sin g le one. O nly th e ste am -b a th gives som e tro u b le to p re p a re , as I do n o t po ssess y o u r a p p a ra tu s . I w o u ld th e re fo r e beg yo u to k in d ly f o rw a r d to m e a ste a m b a th in g a p p a ra tu s to g e th er w ith th e n e c e ssa ry th re e pots.

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No. 45. Rheumatism, Gout, Paralysis, Sciatica, Disease of the Eye

I, th e u n d e rsig n e d , w a s ta k en ill w ith th e above d ise ase s in th e au tu m n o f 1892, an d a f te r 3% y e a rs, n o t one o f th e v a rio u s sy stem s o f c u re trie d , h a d b een able to re sto re m e to h e a lth . I h a d been tre a te d w ith o u t su c ce ss b y m o re th a n tw e lv e ce le b ra ted p ro fe sso rs a n d p h y s ic ia n s o f th is c ity . At la st I w a s re c o m m e n d e d b y on e p ro fe s s o r a n d b y a d o c to r a tta c h e d to th e U n iv e rsity H o sp ita l to co n su lt Mr. L. K u h n e. I h a d th u s, u p till now , b een tre a te d fo r y e a rs b y th e m o st e m in e n t m e d ica l a u th o ritie s in L eipzig, b u t m y c o n d itio n h a d o n ly b een g ro w in g m o re a n d m o re w re tc h e d a n d m ise ra b le . In a sp ace o f o n ly th re e w eek s Mr. L ouis K u h n e, by m ean s o f h is n ew m e th o d o f c u re , h a s m ad e m e p e rfe c tly w ell a n d able to w o rk again. A nger, L eipzig. H. K.

No. 46. Tuberculosis of the lung, Defect of the heart, Caries, Inflam mation of the bowels, Hemorrhoidal affection, Hematuria
D ea r Mr. K u h n e : It w as 2 y e a rs ago la st A ugust th a t m y son, Rev. , o rd e re d y o u r b o o k T h e N ew S cien ce o f H ealin g . I w as, at th e e n d o f Ju ly , ly in g at d e a th s d o o r, q u ite given up b y th e a llo p a th s. My son c a lle d m y a tte n tio n to y o u r m e th o d a n d I c lu tc h e d at it, ju s t as a d ro w n in g m an does a t a w isp o f stra w . Y o u r b a th s a n d d ie t h a d a w o n d e rfu l effect. In 5 m o n th s b o th h e m o rr h o id s a n d a ffe c tio n o f th e lung, co m p lic a te d b y d isc h a rg e o f b lo o d w ith the u rin e (h e m a tu r ia ) a n d in fla m m a tio n o f the b o w els ( e n te r itis ) , w e re p e rfe c tly c u re d . T h a t w h ic h th e d o c to rs co u ld n o t c u re in tw elv e y e a rs, th a t w h ic h u n d e r th e ir tre a tm e n t o n ly b ec am e w o rse, you c u re d in 5 m o n th s b y y o u r n a tu ra l sy stem o f tre a tm e n t. Mr. F., w h o h a d y o u r book se n t, on m y re c o m m e n d a tio n , h a s b ee n q u ite c u re d o f a d e fe c t o f th e hea rt. I h av e m a d e m u c h p ro p a g a n d a f o r y o u r system h e re , an d have c u re d se v e ra l o th e r p e rso n s. F o r in sta n c e , a g irl o f 16 h a d b een su ffe rin g fo r 6 y e a rs fro m ca ries a n d co u ld get no a s sista n c e a n y w h e re . P ieces o f b o n e h a d a lre a d y been ex p e lle d fro m th e back, legs a n d arm s. T h e p a tie n t to o k 2 w h o le ste am -b a th s a n d 3 d a ily f ric tio n sitz-b ath s, an d lik e w ise fo llo w ed a s tr ic t d ie t, p re c is e ly a c c o rd in g to y o u r p r e s c r ip tion. T o m y g rea t jo y , w h a t w as p r a c tic a lly a liv in g c o rp se h as b eco m e a p r e tty an d h e a lth y girl. I sen d yo u th ese lin e s o n ly to e x p re ss to you, Mr. K u h n e, m y h e a rt-fe lt th a n k s. Y ours fa ith fu lly , G ro ss-H illigsfeld. . . (W ife o f . U., M. D.)

No. 47.

Paralysis, Constipation, Gland disease, Scrofula.

D ear S ir: F e e lin g it to be m y d u ty , I h av e the h o n o r o f h e re w ith e x p re ssin g to y o u m y sin c e re s t th a n k s f o r y o u r sy m p a th e tic a s sista n c e a n d ex c ellen t ad v ice in m y re c e n t illn ess. S ince 1892 I w as su ffe rin g fro m g la n d d isease (s c ro fu la ), a n d fo r sev eral y ea rs fro m in d ig e stio n . I tr ie d a ll m a n n e r o f re m e d ie s an d c o n su lte d th e m ost

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em in e n t sp e c ia lists, b u t the d is o rd e r o n ly becam e w o rse, so th a t I h a d b u t little co n fid en ce le ft in p h y sic ia n s. In th is h elp less c o n d itio n I h a p p e n e d to h e a r o f y o u r m e th o d o f c u re , a n d s ta rte d at once fo r L eipzig . My le ft heel-b o n e h av in g b een se rio u sly o p e ra te d u p o n , I co u ld on ly w a lk b y m e an s o f a c ru tc h a n d stick . Y our tre a tm e n t w as m o st su c ce ssfu l. In a few d ays I co u ld w a lk q u ite w ell w ith o ut th e c ru tc h an d o n ly re q u ire d slig h t a id fro m th e stick , w h ic h in th re e d ay s m o re w as also q u ite u n n e c e s sa ry . I h av e fe lt v e ry w ell d u rin g th e cu re. H ad I com e to yo u in L eip zig in th e first in sta n c e , I sh o u ld d o u b tle ss h av e b een s p a re d th ese d isfig u rin g sc a rs on th e n eck , w h ic h I n o w hav e, u n fo rtu n a te ly to p u t up w ith . I sh a ll e v e r be g ra te fu l to you, Mr. K uhne, a n d sh a ll s triv e to sp re a d th e p r in c ip le s o f th e N ew S cie n ce o f H ea lin g w h e re v e r I go. Y ours v e ry tru ly , B u rg w in d h e im . B.

No. 48.

Syphilis, Sleeplessness, Affection of the head

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I c o n s id e r it to be m y d u ty , to in fo rm you o f th e g rea t b en efit w h ic h I h av e o b ta in e d fro m th e use o f y o u r m e th o d in m y se rio u s c o m p la in t ( s y p h ilis ) , w h ic h s p e c ia lists d e s c rib e d as in c u ra b le . I h av e fo r 7 o r 8 y e a rs u n d e rg o n e v a rio u s tre a tm e n ts w ith m e rc u ry an d 2 o r 3 tim es gone th ro u g h e x p e n siv e s u lp h u r b a th c u re s. T h ese a p p ea red to do m e good, b u t in re a lity on ly su p p re ss e d th e d isease, w ith o u t b rin g in g it o u t o f th e b o d y . E v ery y ea r, a f te r e a c h cu re , I b ecam e w e a k e r, m o re n erv o u s an d less in c lin e d to w o rk . F in a lly I su ffe re d fro m hea d a ch es, w h ic h n e a rly d ro v e m e m ad . I h a d fo r m o n th s no sle e p ; m y p h y s ic ia n ad v ised m e to ta k e s u lp h u r b a th s ag ain , o th e rw ise so fte n in g o f th e b r a in m ig h t set in. I felt th a t it co u ld n o t go on an y lo n g e r in th is w ay , an d k n e w th a t I w as b ein g c h ro n ic a lly p o iso n e d b y th ese a llo p a th ic c u re s. In d e s p e ra tio n I h a d little h o p e le ft I d e te rm in e d to tr y y o u r m e th o d . T h e re su lts w e re re m a rk a b le . A fte r o nly th re e b a th s, I got re st an d sleep again. H ow m u c h w o u ld be av o id ed , if all p a tie n ts w o u ld o n ly a d o p t th is easy a n d a lto g e th e r p a in le s s tre a tm e n t. I c a n n o t p ra is e it too h ig h ly , a n d w ith p le a su re I te s tify fo r th e b en e fit o f o th e r su ffe re rs, to th e g re a t e r r o r o f th e o rth o d o x d o c to rs, w h o say sy p h ilis is in c u ra b le . W ith m y old, d e e p -ro o te d d iso rd e r, m y c u re w as a tru e m ira c le . I h av e co n tin u e d th e tre a tm e n t fo r som e tim e lo n g er, in o rd e r to th o ro u g h ly clean se th e sy stem , a n d have beco m e, so to say, y o u n g e r looking . I h av e got a h e a lth y co m p le x io n a n d n e w s p irits . F o r all th is I h av e o n ly to th a n k you, Mr. K uhne, a n d I sh all alw a y s feel g ra te ful to you. W ith g re a te st re sp e c t, I am , Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eipzig. F . E.

No. 49.

Vesical calculus, Inflammation of the Kidneys, Hemorrhoids, Dropsy

D ear S ir: Som e y e a rs ago I to o k ill, su ffe rin g first fro m d ise ase o f th e k id n e y s, c o n s tip a tio n , a n d sleeplessness. I h a d to e n d u re th e g re a te st p a in . T h re e y ea rs la te r w h o lly in c a p a b le a n d se rio u sly ill, I h a d to be co n v e y ed to th e c ity h o sp ita l. T h e d ia g n o sis sh o w ed in fla m m a tio n o f th e k id n e y s , vesical

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calculus, h e m o rr h o id s, a n d d isp o s itio n to d ro p sy . I w as tre a te d w ith v ario u s m e d icin es, b u t w ith o u t an y success. F ro m th e h o u r w h e n I co m m en c ed y o u r cu re, m y c o n d itio n im p ro v e d . A nyone seeing m e to d a y co u ld n e v e r b eliev e in w h a t a m ise ra b le c o n d itio n I w as in fo rm e rly . I w o u ld h av e soon b een in m y grave. It is to y o u r system , as I g ra te fu lly ac k n o w led g e, th a t I ow e m y p r e s e n t good h ealth . Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eipzig. G. H.

No. 50.

Toothache, Contusions, Climatic Fever

D ear Mr. K u h n e: I h av e h a d o p p o rtu n ity o f tr y in g y o u r system o f c u re , b o th u p o n m y se lf an d o th e rs, a c c o rd in g to y o u r w r itte n a d vice. In cases o f c lim a tic fe v e r a n d se v ere to o th a c h e , I soon fo u n d h elp th ro u g h y o u r lo c al ste am -b a th s an d co o lin g h ip -b a th s. Also in th e case o f a se rio u s c o n tu sio n o f th e r ig h t h a n d , th e b a th s to o k all th e p a in a w a y im m e d ia te ly . A m ongst th e H o tte n to ts, also, I h av e effected n u m e ro u s cu re s. It h as se v e ra l tim es b een p ro p o se d to th e d ire c to rs o f th e m issio n , to le t all m issio n a rie s stu d y at y o u r in s titu te b e fo re g oing ab ro ad . Y our tru e d isc ip le , W a rm b ad , Cape C olony, A fric a . C. W ., M issio n ary .

No. 51.

Carbuncle, Sleeplessness

Mr. S., o f H alle-on-the-S aale, re p o r ts as fo llo w s: E a rly in A p ril, a h a r d tu m o r a p p e a re d on th e n a p e o f th e neck, a n d I e x p e rie n c e d g re a t la ssitu d e . At first, I took little n o tic e o f it, b u t th e tu m o r in c re a s e d in size. My g e n e ra l h e a lth w a s b y no m ean s s a tis fa c to ry ; m y a p p e tite w as p o o r, m y sleep d is tu rb e d o w in g to a stro n g d ra w in g p a in in th e sm a ll o f th e b ac k . G ra d u ally th e tu m o r b ec am e as large as an egg a n d th e p a in g re w so in te n se , th a t sleep a n d h u n g e r d e s e rte d m e a lto g eth er. In th e ir ste ad a v io le n t fe v e r set in, a n d I d e c id e d n o w to ta k e u p a v ig o ro u s co u rse o f tre a tm e n t. I to o k p a r tia l ste am -b a th s, fo r w h ic h K u h n e s fo ld in g ste a m -b a th in g a p p a ra tu s w a s a g rea t h elp . T h e steam b a th s w e re re p e a te d w h e n e v e r th e p a in s b ecam e u n b e a ra b le , an d r e lie f w a s alw a y s o b ta in e d th ro u g h th em , th e f ric tio n a n d sitz-b ath s. B etw een th e b a th s I p ro te c te d th e d iseased p a r t w ith a clea n m o ist lin e n clo th , co v e red b y a w o o lle n b an d a g e, in o r d e r to p re v e n t ru b b in g a n d soiling. T h e ca rb u n cle , w h ic h h a d assu m ed a v io le t co lo r, at first re m a in e d v e ry h a rd . T h e p a in s c o n s ta n tly re tu rn e d . In 4 o r 5 d ay s, little holes o f th e size o f a p in a p p e a re d in v a rio u s p la ce s. T h e ir n u m b e r in c re a se d to 20. T h e y d is c h a rg e d b lo o d a n d b lo o d y w a te r. T h e tu m o r w as still v e ry g an g re n o u s an d h a rd . In 4 d ay s m o re th e n u m e ro u s little h o le s u n ite d fo rm in g la rg e r ones, fro m w h ic h m a tte r flow ed fre ely . All at once th e w h o le s u rfa c e co llap sed , an d th e e n tire c a rb u n c le fo rm e d one hole, fro m w h ic h flow ed b lo o d a n d p u s. T h is b ro u g h t re lie f; th e p a in s d is a p p e a re d , a n d in a s h o rt tim e a c u re w as effected . I now feel b e tte r th a n ev er b e fo re ; I h av e a fe e lin g as i f a g rea t b u r d e n h a d been ta k en fro m m y b o d y , a n d m y s tre n g th is su ch as w as b e fo re u n k n o w n to me.

No. 52. Weakness of memory, Obesity, Pulmonary affection, Severe nervous debility, Deafness, Disease of the throat, Violent fever
D ear Mr. K u h n e : One m u st be a sc h o la r, I su p p o se , in o rd e r n o t to be able to u n d e rs ta n d th a t 2 an d 2 m ak e 4, fo r as sim p le as th is a rith m e tic a l ex e rcise , so sim p le an d c le a r, a c c o r d in g to m y o w n p r a c tic a l ex p e rie n c e , a p p e a rs y o u r n ew a n d in fa llib le m e th o d o f h ea lin g .

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F o rm e rly , in sp ite o f d a ily g y m n a stic s, I co u ld n o t su p p o rt th e s lig h te st fatig u e w h e re a s now , fre e d , m o re o v e r fro m m y o b esity , I can w o rk fo r h o u rs in th e g a rd e n a n d th e lik e w ith o u t fe e lin g tire d . F o rm e rly I g asp ed w ith o p en m o u th d u rin g m y w a lk s (h a v in g w e a k lu n g s), n o w I b re a th e q u ie tly w ith th e m o u th closed. I h av e b ee n d e a f fo r y e a rs in th e le ft ea r, b u t now7 I c a n , at all events, a g a in h e a r th e tic k in g o f m y w a tc h i f h e ld n e a r th e ea r, th e ru m b lin g o f c a rria g e wrh eels, an d , to m y u n sp e a k a b le jo y , even c o n v e rsa tio n , i f a little lo u d . T h e fe rm e n tin g m a tte r a c c u m u la te d in niv b o d y m u s t h av e ris e n to th e h e a d , fo r I o fte n e x p e rie n c e d p a in th e re , an d w a s tro u b le d also b y an a ffe c tio n o f th e th ro a t, w h ic h n e ith e r d o c to rs n o r sp e c ia lists w e re able to cu re . A nd now7 , f o r som e m o n th s p a st I h av e n o t fe lt th e le a st fe e lin g o f d is c o m fo rt in th e th ro a t. T o tell th e tr u th , th a t c h a rm in g s p e c tr e : S o fte n in g o f th e b ra in ( im b e c ility ) h a d sm iled u p o n m e. S in ce y o u r tre a tm e n t th e h o r rib le sy m p to m s h av e c e ased E x tr e m e w e a k n e ss o f m e m o ry , u n b e lie v a b le n erv o u sn e ss, tr u e p a r o x y s m s o f rage on th e slig h test o c c a sio n , in c re a s in g w a n t o f in te r e s t in e v e ry th in g th a t sh o u ld h av e in s p ire d an d a n im a te d m e, o r w7 h ic h w a s d e a r a n d n e a r to m e. N o th in g in th e w o rld w o u ld h av e in d u c e d m e (o n ly m y h u sb a n d k n e w o f it) six m o n th s ago to h av e sp o k e n to an y o n e a b o u t m y c o n d itio n f o r sp e a k o f th e D evil a n d h e is su re to a p p e a r. I k n e w no one co u ld h elp m e ; b u t now7 it is as th o u g h scales h a d fallen fro m m y e y e s: I feel as i f b o rn again. Y o u r m ira c u lo u s sy stem o f c u re sa v ed m e a few7 m o n th s ago fro m a v ex a tio u s e m b a rra ssm e n t. I to o k an a p p a re n tly h e a lth y se rv a n t g irl with m e to th e c o u n try ; b u t in a w eek, w ith te a rs in h e r eyes, sh e su d d e n ly d e c la re d sh e co u ld n o t w o rk an y lo n g e r. H er fe e t w e re sw o lle n u p , so th a t sh e co u ld d ra w on n e ith e r shoes n o r sto c k in g s; sh e su ffe re d fro m m a d d e n in g h ea d a c h e a n d to o k a v io le n t fe v e r , so th a t sh e co u ld n o t m ove. T o co n v e y th e g irl to St. P e te rs b u rg w7 as n o t to b e th o u g h t of. I a c c o rd in g ly p u t h e r to b ed , w ell c o v e re d , a n d a f te r sh e h a d p e r s p ir e d fo r se v e ra l h o u rs gave h e r a h ip -b a th , ex a ctly a c c o rd in g to y o u r in s tru c tio n s . I th e n e x p la in e d to h e r a b o u t th e f ric tio n sitz-b ath , a f te r th e first o f w h ic h she fe lt so n ic e a n d e a sy ! T h e w7 h o le p r o c e d u re w as a g a in fo llo w ed on th e sam e d a y ; on th e fo llo w in g d a y tw ic e ; a n d on th e th ir d d ay th e g irl w o u ld n o t h e a r o f p e r s p ir in g ag ain , a ffirm in g th a t she w a s as h e a lth y as a fish in th e w7 ater. St. P e te rsb u rg . (M rs.) Aug. E.

No. 53.

Headaches

D ear Mr. K u h n e : On m y d e p a r tu re fro m L eip zig I feel ca lled u p o n to e x p re ss to y o u m y h e a r tfe lt g ra titu d e f o r th e c a re fu l tre a tm e n t re c e iv e d at y o u r h a n d s . I a s c rib e th e c u re o f m y c h r o n ic h e a d a c h e (w h ic h I h a d fo r y e a rs, a n d w7 h ic h fin ally b e c am e in to le ra b le ) solely to th e tr u ly w o n d e rfu l effect o f y o u r b a th s. I sh a ll, th e re fo re , c o n tin u e to use th e se to th e e n d o f m y life . W ish in g y o u a lo n g a n d u n tra m m e le d e x e rc ise o f y o u r b e n e fic e n t in v e n tio n , f o r th e good o f su ffe rin g h u m a n ity , I re m a in , Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , L eipzig. (M rs.) M. W.

No. 54.

Pharyngeal catarrh. Eruption of the face

H e re w ith I beg to c e r tif y to Mr. L ouis K uhne, th a t th ro u g h th e em p lo y m e n t o f h is b a th s f o r se v e ra l m o n th s, a n d a sp e cia l d ie t, I h av e b ee n c o m p letely c u re d o f v e ry o b stin a te p h a ry n g e a l ca ta rrh an d e r u p tio n o f th e fa ce. I sh a ll be h a p p y to f u rn is h d e ta ils at a n y tim e. L eip zig . E m il P.

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D ea r S ir: P e rm it m e to h u m b ly e x p re ss m y g ra titu d e f o r all th a t y ou, th a n k s to y o u r d is co v e ry , h av e in su c h a d is in te re s te d m a n n e r d o n e fo r m y d a u g h te r, o f w h o se r e co v e ry w e h a d lo st all ho p e. All th a t p h y s ic ia n s a n d d e a rly -b o u g h t m e d ic a m e n ts fa ile d to ac c o m p lish , h a s b een p e rfo rm e d b y a n a tu ra l p r o d u c t b y w a te r. P e rm it m e n o w to b r ie f ly d e s c rib e m y d a u g h te rs d iso rd e r. W h en th e first sig n s o f th e d ise a se a p p e a re d , sh e w a s a b o u t n in e y e a rs o f ag e; in th e b e g in n in g w e to o k little n o tic e o f it. S lig h t fa in tin g fits o c c u rre d , b u t soon p assed off. B ut as th e y b eg a n to r e tu r n m o re fre q u e n tly , w e so u g h t th e ad v ic e o f a g en tlem an w ell k n o w n as an able p h y s ic ia n . H e to ld u s th a t th e p a tie n t w as su ffe rin g fro m p o v e r ty o f th e b lo o d a n d n e r v o u s d e b ility . He p r e s c rib e d p o w d e rs a n d m e d ic in e s, w h ic h , in s te a d o f im p ro v in g m a tte rs m ad e th in g s w o rse . T h e fits b e c a m e m o re fre q u e n t a n d m o re v io le n t. W e c o n su lte d se v e ra l o th e r p h y s ic ia n s , b u t alw a y s re c e iv e d th e sam e m e d ic in e s. O ne d o c to r a t le n g th to ld u s th a t th e d is o r d e r w as in c u ra b le , a n d w e th e re fo r e p u t e v e ry th in g a sid e e x c e p t b ro m id e o f p o ta ssiu m . W e w e re firm ly c o n v in c e d th a t th is w as th e sole re m e d y fo r th is d is o rd e r, u n til y ou e x p la in e d to us th e sta te o f th e case. N ow all tro u b le is o v er a n d y ou w ill e v e r be re v e re d a n d esteem ed , as p r o te c to r a n d b e n e fa c to r, b y m y fa m ily a n d m y se lf. P e r m it m e ag a in to ex p re ss m y s in c e re s t g ra titu d e , an d b elieve m e to be Y ours m o st fa ith fu lly , G ablonz, B ohem ia. F . H.

No. 56.

Colds, Fever

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : I c a n n o t sufficien tly th a n k y o u fo r th e se rv ic e s w h ic h y o u h av e r e n d e re d m y m o th e r a n d m y self. A v io le n t co ld , a tte n d e d b y h ig h fe v e r , in d u c e d m e to te st th e effect o f y o u r m e th o d o f c u re on m y ow n p e rso n . T h e e x tre m e ly fa v o ra b le re su lt s u r p ris e d m e v e ry m u c h in d e e d . I am firm ly c o n v in c e d th a t y o u rs is th e m e th o d o f th e fu tu re . H am b u rg . C hr. R. W., P h . D.

No. 57.

Bony tumor

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : I feel c a lle d u p o n to e x p re ss to y o u m y h e a r tfe lt g ra titu d e , f o r I, too, h av e ex p e rie n c e d th e b le ssin g o f y o u r sc ie n c e o f h e a lin g w ith o u t o p e ra tio n s . E ig h t tim es, w h ile u n d e r m e d ic a l tre a tm e n t, w a s m y leg o p e ra te d u p o n . F irs t th e to e s w e re a m p u ta te d ; th e n th e w h o le foot, so th a t n o w I h av e to go a b o u t on c ru tc h e s. B ut in sp ite o f all th e o p e ra tio n s, m y leg d id n o t get w ell. T h e re cam e a d is ag re eab le fee lin g o f h e a v in e ss, a n d a n ew tu m o r fo rm e d as large as th e first, an d v e ry p a in fu l. I fe a re d th a t I sh o u ld h av e to u n d e rg o a n o th e r o p e ra tio n . My a tte n tio n h a v in g b een d ra w n to y o u r n e w m e th o d o f h ea lin g , I so u g h t y o u r ad v ic e at th e b e g in n in g o f M arch. A fte r fo u r w ee k s use o f th e f r ic tio n b a th s an d o b se rv a n c e o f th e o th e r d ire c tio n s y ou gave, th e tu m o r c o m p letely d isa p p e a re d , an d I w a s th u s sp a re d a f u r th e r o p e ra tio n . H ad I su b m itte d m y se lf to y o u r tr e a tm e n t a t th e c o m m e n c e m e n t o f m y d isease, all o p e ra tio n s w o u ld c e rta in ly h av e b een u n n e c e s sa ry , a n d I sh o u ld p ro b a b ly to d ay b e in p o sse ssio n o f all m y lim b s. A gain th a n k in g y ou h e a rtily fo r th e a s sista n c e affo rd e d m e, I re m a in , Y ours fa ith fu lly , R e u d n itz . S o p h ie W .

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No. 58. Uterine cancer and hemorrhage

D ear Mr. K u h n e: In D ecem b er m y w ife w as ta k e n so se rio u sly ill ( h em o rrh a g e ), th a t I w as o b lig ed to fe tc h th e p h y s ic ia n , D r. K., la te as it w as (11 o clo ck at n ig h t) . T h e b lo o d w as te m p o ra rily sto p p e d b y m ean s o f cotton -w o o l, b u t th e n e x t d a y th e h e m o rrh a g e w as w o rse th a n ever, so th a t I n o w fe tc h e d a se co n d m e d ic a l m an , D r. D. H e sa id th a t th e case w as one fo r o p e ra tio n . My w ife b e in g no b e tte r, I c o n s u lte d a th ir d p h y sic ia n , P ro f. H. H e e x a m in e d th e p a tie n t, a n d th e n sta te d th a t an o p e ra tio n m u st be p e rfo rm e d at once, o th e rw ise it w o u ld b e im p o ssib le to save h e r ; it w as a u te rin e c a n c er h e sa id . I a sk ed th e p ro fe s s o r ag ain , i f th e re w as no ch a n c e o f c u re w ith o u t an o p e ra tio n ; h e d e c la re d th a t w ith o u t su ch , a c u re co u ld n o t b e ex p e cted . I th e n w e n t to you. You o rd e re d h ip a n d f r ic tio n sitz-b ath s a n d sp e c ia l d iet. F ro m th e tim e w h e n m y w ife co m m en c ed to fo llo w y o u r ad v ice , sh e b ec am e b e t te r. She ca n n o w go ab o u t h e r w o rk fro m 5 in th e m o rn in g till 10 at n ig h t w ith o u t b ein g tire d , a n d h as, in d e e d , n e v e r b e fo re b ee n so h e a lth y as no w . A ccep t o u r h e a rtie s t th a n k s. W e sh a ll n ev e r n eg lect to rec o m m en d y o u r m e th o d to all sufFerers; w ith o u t it m y w ife w o u ld no lo n g e r b e liv in g . Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , L eip zig. A lb ert W.

No. 59.

Whooping-cough

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : L ast F e b ru a ry I w ro te to y ou fo r a d v ic e as to m y c h ild w h o w as su ffe rin g fro m w h o o p in g -co u g h . F ro m th e e x c e e d in g ly valuable in str u c tio n s c o n ta in e d in y o u r le tte r, w e n o te d p a r tic u la rly th a t w e m u st get th e c h ild to p e r s p ir e p ro fu s e ly b y p u ttin g it to b e d w ith its m o th e r. W h a t else w a s n e c e s sa ry w e h a d a lre a d y do n e, fo llo w in g th e ad v ice given in y o u r book. T h e c o u rse o f th e illn ess w as as fo llo w s: On S u n d a y w e n o tic e d o u r little one (th e n 14 w eek s o ld ) h a d a s h rill, p ip in g cou g h . W e rig h tly su rm iz ed th a t o u r c h ild h a d ca u g h t th e illn ess fro m th e n u r s e m a id , a g irl still a tte n d in g th e school, f o r a g re a t m a n y c h ild re n in th e p la c e w e re su ffe rin g fro m it. W e first se n t th e g irl hom e. O u r b a b y w h ic h re c e iv e d th e b re a s t, a n d w a s b a th e d tw ic e d a ily a t 88 F a h r., w as given a f ric tio n h ip -b a th (81 F a h r.) at noon, w h ic h , h o w ev e r, w e h a d to sh o rte n , to keep th e c h ild fro m c ry in g too long. It p ro v e d effective, n e v e rth ele ss, as it cau sed th e b o w els to m ove. On th e th ir d day, th e s h rill to n e o f th e cough ch an g ed . I t w as th e n th a t w e r e ceiv ed y o u r estee m ed letter. My w ife to o k th e c h ild to b ed w ith h e r a n d got i t to p e rs p ire p ro fu se ly . W e th e n sto p p e d th e m id d a y b a th , a n d in 12 d ay s th e cough w as c o m p letely got r id of. I can, th e re fo re , on ly co n firm w h a t y o u say in y o u r b o o k ab o u t w h o o p in g -co u g h . A gain le t m e th a n k you, b o th on b e h a lf o f m y w ife an d self, fo r n ex t to God it is y o u a n d y o u r m e th o d , th a t have re s to re d o u r d e a r c h ild so so o n to h e a lth again. W ith b e st re g a rd s, Y ours v e ry tru ly , H arzb u rg . E. K.

No. 60. Neurasthenia, Neuralgia, Epilepsy

D ear S ir: To y o u r system o f c u re alone, I ow e m y re c o v e ry fro m n eu ra sth en ia , n eu ra lg ia a n d ep ilep sy, a f te r h a v in g been tre a te d b y tw o o f th e m o st em in e n t p h y s ic ia n s o f D re sd en , fo r a c o n s id e ra b le tim e, a n d given u p b y th em as ir re trie v a b ly lost.

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T h e sta te o f m y illn ess w as such, th a t I w as ly in g ill fo r th re e m o n th s. As a re su lt, I w as ex e m p te d fro m c o n s c rip tio n , a f te r h a v in g p re se n te d m y se lf se v eral tim es f o r e x a m in a tio n (d ia g n o sis: E p ile p sia g ra v is). Y ours fa ith fu lly , D resd en . H an s B.

No. 61.

Difficulty of hearing, Pain in the back, Cough, Suffocative attacks

D ea r Mr. K u h n e: As y o u d e s ire d to h e a r, fro m tim e to tim e, h o w w e go o n, I ta k e th e lib e rty of se n d in g you th e first re p o rt. E v e ry d a y w e sp e a k o f y o u ; ev e ry d ay th a n k th e A lm ig h ty th a t o u r c h ild , by m ean s o f y o u r in v a lu a b le d isc o v erie s, h a s b een c o m p le te ly c u re d o f its c h r o n ic d iffic u lty o f hea rin g . It h a d b ee n su ffe rin g fro m th e c o m p la in t fo r a y e a r a n d a h a lf; n o w it h as b een q u ite w ell sin c e se v eral w eeks. T h a t is th e p r in c ip a l su ccess w e h av e a tta in e d till n o w ; a t th e sam e tim e th e sw o llen to n sils a re v isib ly d e c re a s in g in size, a n d th e b o y seem s, as it w e re , re a lly as th o u g h h e w e re a lto g e th e r tra n s fo rm e d . In ste a d o f th e little m o rta l, alw a y s c ry in g , w e h a v e a m e rry , s p ir ite d boy, m ix in g w ith o th e r c h ild re n . He ru n s ab o u t sh o u tin g an d sin g in g , w h e re a s f o rm e rly h is voice w as as th o u g h su p p re ss e d , h e co u ld sp e ak o n ly in an u n d e rto n e . N o r h av e th e a tta c k s o f c o u g h in g a n d su ffo cativ e sp asm s r e tu rn e d so fa r. E v e ry d ay w e have n ew p ro o fs o f h o w w ell th e c h ild p ro g re sses, b o th m e n ta lly a n d p h y s ic a lly ; ev ery d a y w e sin g y o u r p ra ise s. In th e n am e o f m y h u s b a n d an d m y self, le t m e h e re te n d e r y ou o u r h e a r tfe lt th a n k s , d e a r Mr. K u h n e. As fo r m y o w n h e a lth , I feel se n sib ly b e tte r a n d m o re en e rg e tic th a n f o r y ears. A p a r tic u la r benefit, I find it, th a t I am able to c u re th e to rtu rin g , ra c k in g p a in s in th e b a c k b y such sim p le m ean s as a sitz-b ath . I re m a in , Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , (W ife o f th e Rev. M. o f P.)

No. 62.

Uterine hemorrhage

D ear S ir: F lo rik a S c h e lla riu s, a R o u m an ia n in h a b ita n t o f th is p lace, h a s b ee n su ffe rin g fro m severe h e m o rrh a g e u n in te r ru p te d ly f o r f o u r w eeks. A cc o rd in g to y o u r ad v ice she to o k tw o w ee k ly h ip -b a th s, one ste am -b ath , an d tw o o r th re e fr ic tio n sitz-b a th s d aily , an d o b se rv e d an u n stim u la tin g diet. On th e s ix th d ay a f te r co m m e n c in g th is tre a tm e n t, h e r c o n d itio n m u c h im p ro v e d , a n d to -d ay (th e fiftee n th d ay ) sh e is a g a in q u ite w ell. In th e nam e o f th e p o o r w o m an , a n d o f su ffe rin g h u m a n ity , I e x p re ss m y h e a r tfe lt th a n k s. W ith sin c e re good w ish es, Y ours fa ith fu lly , Z. (T ra n sy lv a n ia , H u n g ary .) T eo d o re D. G reek C ath o lic P rie st.

No. 63. Severe Nervosity, Neurasthenia.

W eak memory

F o r y e a rs m y w ife h a d been h ig h ly n erv o u s. T h e n , in co n seq u e n ce o f o v erw o rk in th e b u sin e ss, she b ecam e so m u ch w o rse, th a t it w as e v id en t a th o ro u g h c u re m u st n o t be p u t off a n y lon g er. O f th e o rd in a r y re m e d ie s o f th e N atu re C ure system , n o n e h a d been le ft u n trie d . S everal b ro u g h t re lie f, b u t n o n e n o t even m a g n etism b ro u g h t a re a l cu re. Also th e tre a tm e n t tr ie d in A p ril 1890 at Mr. L ouis K u h n es e sta b lish m e n t seem ed, at first, to h av e no a p p re c ia b le effect, th in g s

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seem ed to go fro m b ad to w orse. A fter ab o u t seven w eeks, h o w ev er, a ch an g e to o k place. O ne c risis follo w ed u p o n th e o th e r, th is c ritic a l c o n d itio n la stin g fo r m a n y m o n th s a tim e w h ic h w e sh a ll long rem e m b er. T h e c u ra tiv e p o w e r o f th e b o d y , h o w ev e r, assiste d b y th e K u h n e sitz-b ath s, a f te r eleven m o n th s d ilig en t, d a ily use o f th e b ath s, b ro u g h t ab o u t th e b est resu lts. W h e reas fo rm e rly m y w ife , to h e r g re a t d istre ss, h ad n o tic e d a fa ilu re o f h e r m e m o ry , an d fa c u lty o f th in k ing, h e r m e n ta l p o w e r h as n o w re tu rn e d again in a q u ite re m a rk a b le d eg re e; she ag ain feels e n e rg e tic a n d fre sh in a m a n n e r she h a s n ot fo r y ea rs. N ow m en tal a c tiv ity is to h e r a p le a su re , fo rm e rly it w a s a s tra in . A nd as m e n tally , so also p h y sic a lly . D u rin g th e first six m o n th s o f th e tre a tm e n t m y w ife w a s n o t ab le to tak e a w alk o f m o re th a n a cou p le o f m iles w ith o u t restin g . In th e te n th m o n th , h o w ev e r, she co u ld ta k e a d a ily w a lk o f over tw e lv e m iles, w ith o u t fee lin g th e n ee d o f re st at all, o r even o f sto p p in g . All th e o rg an s o f th e b o d y p a r tic ip a te eq u a lly in th is re m a rk a b le tra n s fo rm a tio n . In a w o rd : sh e h as becom e q u ite a n o th e r being, fo rm e rly o ften d ep re ssed , n o w ev er h a p p y . A fte r God, o u r h e a rtfe lt th a n k s a re due to Mr. K u h n e f o r h is ex cellen t ad v ice. May it lo n g be g ra n te d h im to w o rk fo r th e good o f h is fello w -m en , a n d m ay h e in ev e ry p a tie n t w in an e n th u sia stic d isc ip le , w h o w ill a id in s p re a d in g th e p rin c ip le s o f h is sim p le, yet so tru e , sc ie n c e o f h ea lin g . B erlin . C. S.

No. 64. Head affection, Eye disease, Poverty of the blood, Nervosity, Extension of tendons, General debility, Labored breathing
A n E x p re ssio n o f T h a n ks In m y y o u th , I su ffe re d p e rio d ic a lly fro m headach es, esp ec ially w h e n in school. L a te r th e y in c re a se d in in te n sity , a n d w 'ere q u ite n eu ra lg ic. T h e n ab o u t m y fifte e n th y e a r, th ro u g h a fall, I su ffered fro m a se v ere e x te n sio n o f th e te n d o n s o f th e foot. T he p h y s ic ia n s w ere u n ab le to c u re it, a n d fin ally it b ecam e so b ad , th a t it w as alm o st im p o ssib le fo r m e to w a lk at all. F o r five y ea rs I h a d to p u t up w ith th e g rea test p a in . T h e affectio n o f th e h ea d h a d in th e m e an tim e so in c re a se d , th a t in co n seq u en ce o f e x tre m e n e r v o s ity an d p o v e rty o f th e b lo o d I w as b ro u g h t, n e a rly in c u ra b le , to th e h o sp ita l. A s h o rt tim e a f te rw a rd s I w as d isc h a rg e d w ith o u t a n y im p ro v e m e n t in m y c o n d itio n . My eyes h a d lik e w ise beco m e w o rse, I w as d ea d e n e d to e v e ry th in g , in c a p a b le fo r an y k in d o f w o rk ; m y fra m e o f m in d w as su c h as gave m y frie n d s th e g reatest c o n c e rn . I su ffered c o n tin u a lly fro m in te r n a l g an g re n e, fro m d re a d fu lly la b o red b re a th in g a n d c o n tin u a l fe v e r , a n d in a d d itio n h a d th e p ro s p e c t o f b ec o m in g q u ite b lin d . In th is m o re th a n b a d c o n d itio n , fro m w h ic h no on e co u ld fre e m e, I cam e in S ep te m b er o f th is y e a r to Mr. L o u is K u h n e 's E sta b lish m e n t fo r th e S c ien c e o f H ealing w ith o u t M edicines. Im m e d ia te ly a f te r th e first b a th w h ic h w as o rd e re d m e, I e x p e rie n c e d a fee lin g o f g en e ral easin ess a n d im p ro v e m en t, w h ic h in c re a se d as I c o n tin u e d th e b ath s a n d a d o p te d a su ita b le diet. In a few w eek s m y g en e ral c o n d itio n w as no lo n g e r to be c o m p a re d w ith w h a t it h a d been p rev io u sly . N ow , a f te r ab o u t five m o n th s tre a tm e n t, m y sig h t h as so e x tra o rd in a rily im p ro v e d a n d m y g en eral co n d itio n becom e so good, th a t I feel q u ite h a p p y , a n d ca n n o t sufficiently th a n k m y h ig h m in d e d p re se rv e r. I can n o w ag ain see q u ite w ell, can look a f te r m y h o u se h o ld , feel stre n g th e n e d a n d c h e e rfu l at w o rk . My foot, also, h as so f a r im p ro v e d ; th a t I ca n w a lk again

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w ith o u t difficulty, in s h o rt I feel as th o u g h a w h o lly n e w b ein g , a n d all th is I ow e solely to th is e x tra o rd in a r ily effective an d yet so sim p le m e th o d o f cu re. T h e tre a tm e n t is n o w ad o p ted in m y w h o le fam ily , a n d ev e ry w h e re m eets w ith th e sam e c e rta in success. May all su ffe re rs w ith co n fid en ce su b m it them selv es to y o u r c u re l L eipzig. (M rs.) M arie R.

No. 65.

Articular Rheumatism

D ear Mr. K u h n e: F ille d w ith a deep sense o f d u ty , I have th e h o n o r o f ex p re ssin g to you m y w arm e st th a n k s fo r th e k in d sy m p a th y w h ic h you hav e sh o w n m e, th ro u g h y o u r e x c ellen t ad v ice d u rin g m y illn ess. S ince May, la st y ea r, I h a d su ffered co n tin u o u sly fro m a rticu la r rh e u m a tism an d d e sp ite a c u re in T e p litz ,.h a d a still m o re sev ere a tta c k again in th e fo llo w in g N ovem ber. I w as w ith o u t h o p e o f rec o v ery . T h e p h y s ic ia n seem ed a lre a d y to h av e e x h a u ste d h is p se u d o -rem ed ie s, d id n o t p u t in an a p p e a ra n c e fo r som e w eeks, a n d a d v ised m e a sta y in th e s o u th as th e o n ly m ean s o f cu re. In h e r a n x ie ty m y w ife th e n co n su lte d you. You w e re k in d enough to im p a r t m e y o u r a d v ic e b y letter. W ith th e ex c ep tio n o f th e d ie t, h o w ev e r, I w as u n ab le to s tr ic tly fo llo w y o u r p r e s c rip tio n , b ein g too w eak , an d u n ab le to m ove. At th e b e g in n in g o f F e b ru a ry I co m m en ced w ith th e b ath s, a f te r an im p ro v e m e n t a p p e a re d to h av e set in . T h e effect w as so o n a p p a r e n t; fo r a fte r th e th ir d b a th , th e Sym ptom s o f th e d isease a p p e a re d on e a f te r th e o th e r, in a m a n n e r th a t an y o n e n o t p r e p a re d fo r it, b y a s tu d y o f y o u r book, w o u ld h av e been in a sta te o f th e g re a te st a n x ie ty . A nd, in sp ite o f all co n fid en ce, a q u ie t an x io u s fee lin g c re p t th ro u g h m e, to o ; b u t all th e g re a te r, in d e e d , u n sp e a k able, w as m y joy, w h e n a fte r th e fo u rth b a th I re m a rk e d a d ec rease in th e te n sio n o f th e le ft ankle. T he u rin e w as d a r k b ro w n . N ow I re jo ic e d n o tw ith s ta n d in g all m y o th e r p a in s, as I w as firm ly c o n v in ce d I w as u sin g a re m e d y w h ic h w o u ld go to th e ro o t o f th e disease. T h e m o rb id m a tte r now b eg an to d is a p p e a r fro m th e b o d y , in th e sam e o rd e r in w h ic h , at th e co m m en c em en t o f th e illn ess, it h a d b een d e p o site d in th e jo in ts an d m uscles, once m ore, p ro d u c in g p a in a n d in fla m m a tio n . In fo u rte e n d ays I co u ld again ta k e u p m y p ro fe ssio n a l w o rk . M arch w ith its ic y ra in an d w in d w as n o t able to to u c h m e, a n d sin c e th e n I h av e been h a p p y a n d h ea lth y . M eran h a s c e rta in ly one v isito r th e less, b u t y o u r system o f c u re a m eth o d w h ic h c a n n o t b e o v erv a lu ed h a s w o n an a d m ire r a n d p ro p a g a to r. S in c e re ly tr u s tin g an d w ish in g th a t y o u r n a tu ra l system o f tr e a tin g d iseases, m ay find m o re a n d m o re ac c e p ta n c e , le a d in g m a n k in d fro m h y p e r-c iv iliz a tio n b a c k to n a tu re , I am , d e a r Mr. K uhne, w ith d eep g ra titu d e , V ery fa ith fu lly yo u rs, Ju liu s S., R oyal C e rtificated T ea ch e r.

No. 66. Pain in the stomach, want of appetite, Giddiness, Defect of the heart, Hemorrhage, Pulmonary affection, General debility
A P u b lic E x p re ssio n o f T h a n ks T h e w ife o f th e u n d e rsig n e d in h e r 61st y e a r h a d been su ffe rin g fo r a n u m b e r o f y e a rs, a n d p a r tic u la rly sin c e 1890, fro m fits o f g id d in e ss, se vere p a in in th e sto m a c h , w a n t o f a p p e tite an d general d e b ility . In th e R oyal U n iv e rsity H o sp ital h e re , w h e re I b ro u g h t m y w ife in au tu m n 1890, th e d o c to rs co nfirm ed a ffe c tio n o f the sto m a c h a n d k id n e y s a n d p re s c rib e d v ario u s m e d icin es. B ut in ste a d o f b e tte r, m y w ife s c o n d itio n b ecam e ste a d ily w o rse.

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W h en in a d d itio n to th is w h o lly useless m e d ica l tre a tm e n t, th e p h y sic ia n s com m e n ced w ith in o c u la tio n s w ith K o ch s ly m p h , I rem o v ed m y w ife fro m th e h o sp ita l, th e tre a tm e n t h a v in g la ste d till D ec em b e r 1891. In F e b ru a ry , 1891, m y w ife co m p letely b ro k e d o w n ; th e a tta c ks o f g id d in e ss in cre ase d , ca u sin g th e g re a te st a n x ie ty , a n d th e g en e ral d e b ility a n d in a c tiv ity of th e o rg a n s o f d ig e stio n so got th e u p p e r h a n d , th a t th e p a tie n t w a s co n firm ed fo r six w eek s to h e r b ed . T h e p h y s ic ia n co n su lte d , D r. H., p re s c rib e d a p u rg a tiv e , b u t sta te d th a t th e tro u b le w as d u e to a d e fe c t o f th e hea rt, w h ic h w as q u ite in c u ra b le ; h e th e re fo re soon ceased h is v isits. In A p ril, 1891, th e p a in in the sto m a c h b ec am e so m u c h w o rs e th a t th e p a tie n t co u ld s c a rc e ly d ig est a n y th in g , b u t b ro u g h t all fo o d u p again. S im u ltan eo u sly th e re w as g rea t d iffic u lty in b re a th in g a n d p a in in th e ch e st, an d , in g en eral, a d e ra n g e m e n t of. th e w h o le b ody. I n o w m a d e a tr ia l w ith h o m e o p a th y ; b u t th e h o m e o p a th ic p h y s ic ia n lik e w ise d e c la re d th a t m y w if e s illn ess w a s in c u ra b le . A ny a p p re c ia b le im p ro v e m e n t in h e r c o n d itio n w as n o t o b ta in ed . At le n g th , a fte r all th is stra y in g about, fo rtu n a te ly fo r m y sic k w ife , w e cam e to Mr. L o u is K n h n e s E sta b lish m e n t fo r H ealing D iseases w ith o u t D rugs a n d w ith o u t O perations. T h e re m y w ife w a s o rd e re d to ta k e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s tw ic e d aily , a c c o rd in g to sp e c ia l in s tru c tio n s , a n d a d ie t su ita b le to h e r c o n d itio n p re sc rib e d . In a w eek, even, a m a rk e d im p ro v e m e n t in h e r g e n e ra l h e a lth h a d ta k e n p lace. H er d ig e stio n w a s m o re n o rm a l, a n d in a fe w w eek s th e p a in s d ec reased . T h e a tta c ks o f g id d in e ss a n d th e labored b re a th in g a n d o th e r tro u b le s d isa p p e a re d co m p letely an d th e p a tie n ts stre n g th in c re a s e d fro m d a y to day, n o tw ith s ta n d in g th e sp a re diet. T h u s m y w ife fe lt b e tte r a n d h e a lth ie r th a n ev er b e fo re , a n d all w h o saw h e r, w e re p e r fe c tly a s to n ish e d a t su c h a co m p lete re c o v e ry . It s tru c k m e also, th a t m y w if e s sig h t b y th is tr e a tm e n t h a d beco m e m u c h b e tte r th a n e ith e r b e fo re o r d u rin g th e illn ess. All th a t th e e m in e n t p h y s ic ia n s co u ld n o t d o in tw o y ea rs, w a s d o n e in Mr. K u h n e s E sta b lish m e n t in a sp a c e o f less th a n eig h t w eeks. It is n a tu ra l th a t w e sh all e v e r re m a in th a n k fu l to Mr. K uhne, w is h in g h im G ods b le ssin g in h is h u m a n e w o rk fo r su ffe rin g h u m a n ity . H ere is a t le n g th a p h y sic ia n w h o ca n re a lly cu re a n d aid. L eip zig. G ustav P.

No. 67. Incurable disease of the eye, Nervous affection of the head, Chronic pharyngitis, Catarrh of the bladder, Pains in the back and side
D ea r Mr. K u h n e : My d eep fe e lin g o f g ra titu d e does n o t p e rm it m e to r e f ra in fro m se n d in g y o u an e x a c t d e s c rip tio n o f th e co u rse an d r a p id h ea lin g o f m y se vere disease o f th e eye, a n d I beg y o u to m ake fre e u se o f it. S in ce e a rlie s t ch ild h o o d , I h a d su ffe re d fro m a c h ro n ic in fla m m a tio n o f th e eyes, w h ic h h a d re m a in e d fro m th e sm all-pox. I h a d c o n su lte d v a rio u s p h y s i c ia n s in v a in ; f o r alth o u g h th e tro u b le w as te m p o ra rily s u p p re sse d , i t alw a y s a p p e a re d ag ain a fte r a s h o rt in te rv a l, w o rse th an , b e fo re . In v ain calom el, m e rc u ria l o in tm e n t, a n d zin c lo tio n , w e re trie d , b u t w ith o u t re d u c in g th e in fla m m a tio n . I m u st h av e c o n su lte d te n m e d ica l m en d u rin g th e se y ears, b u t n ev e r m e t w ith success. M ean w hile m y eyes w e re b e c o m in g w o rse, u n til fin ally E g y p tia n ey e disease ( tra c h o m a ) set in a n d m y c o n d itio n w as d ep lo ra b le. A lw ays h o p in g fo r c u re ,

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I w e n t to a V ienna o p h th a lm ic c lin ic , w h e re fo r fu lly six m o n th s I w a s tre a te d , tho u g h w h o lly w ith o u t success, w ith b o ra c ic ac id , c a u stic p o ta sh , c o rro siv e su b li m a te a n d io d o fo rm . T h re e o p e ra tio n s w e re p e rfo rm e d on m y rig h t eye, cau sin g m e th e m o st d re a d fu l p a in . In sp ite o f all, m y c o n d itio n w as b ec o m in g w o rse a n d w o rse. W h en , finally, th e d o c to rs saw th a t th e y co u ld do n o th in g , th e y d isc h a rg e d m e, a n d I w o u ld h av e been co n d e m n e d to b lin d n e ss, h a d I n o t a p p lie d y o u r sy stem o f tre a tm e n t. To th is alo n e, I ow e m y c u re a f te r s tric tly fo llo w in g y o u r in s tru c tio n s (u n stim u la tin g d ie t an d f r ic tio n b a th s) f o r six m o n th s. In th e c o u rse o f th e tre a tm e n t n o t o n ly d id m y eye d isease im p ro v e fro m w eek to w eek, b u t a t th e sam e tim e I lo st m y n erv o u s affectio n o f th e h ea d , fro m w h ic h I h a d b ee n su ffe rin g fo r th re e y ears. T h en , m y ch r o n ic p h a r y n g itis an d a to n y o f th e b la d d e r (w h ic h h a d re m a in e d fro m a b la d d er-ca ta rrh w h ic h th e d o c to rs h a d tre a te d w ith d ru g s) w h o lly d isa p p e a re d , to g e th e r w ith v e ry se v ere p a in s in th e b a c k a n d sid es, w h ic h h a d fo llo w ed u p o n p le u r is y eig h t y e a rs b efo re. A lto g eth er m y g en e ral h e a lth h a s becom e th e b est p o ssib le. S in ce th e a p p lic a tio n o f y o u r system , I feel so m e n ta lly fre sh as n e v e r b efo re. W ith th e w ish th a t as m a n y su ffe re rs as p o ssib le m ay com e to use y o u r m eth o d , so th a t th is, w h ic h is th e o n ly tr u e m ean s o f cu re, m ay w in th e in c re a s in g a tte n tio n o f h u m a n ity , I re m a in , Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , S. (T ra n s y lv a n ia ). E u g en K.

No. 68.
D ear Mr. K u h n e:

Inflammation of the lungs, Diphtheria

I c a n n o t r e f r a in fro m o p en ly e x p re ssin g to y ou m y h e a r tfe lt th a n k s a n d ac k n o w l ed g e m e n t fo r y o u r re m a rk a b le success in th e tre a tm e n t o f m y little d a u g h te r, n in e y e a rs o f age. My fa m ily p h y s ic ia n d ia g n o sed in fla m m a tio n o f th e lungs a n d tre a te d th e ch ild fo r n e a rly tw o m o n th s w ith o u t success. My w ife a n d I p r e p a re d fo r th e w o rst, fo r w e h a d n o lo n g e r h o p e o f th e c h ild re c o v e rin g . It w a s in th is d is tre ss th a t I th o u g h t o f you. I w ro te yo u a c a rd beg g in g y ou to call, a n d you s a i d : I f you h av e co n fid en ce, a n d sto p th e tre a tm e n t re c o m m e n d e d b y y o u r p h y sic ia n , th e c h ild w ill re c o v e r in a s h o rt tim e, p ro v id e d you c a r ry o u t m y in s tru c tio n s e x a c tly . My w ife a n d I p ro m ise d , a n d fo llo w ed y o u r ad v ice, an d th e re su lt w a s th a t th e re w as a v isib le im p ro v e m e n t even a t th e v e ry n e x t day. At th e end o f a w ee k w e co u ld say, o u r c h ild is saved. T o -d ay it is p e r fe c tly w ell, ca n ru n ab o u t, la u g h an d p la y . I am c o n v in c e d , th a t h a d y ou n o t in te rv e n e d , m y c h ild w o u ld n o w b e re s tin g b e n e a th th e sod. At th e sam e tim e an old v is ito r p a id m e a c a ll: th e m u c h d re a d e d d ip h th e ria , a g a in st w h ic h w e h a d stru g g le d 14 y ea rs b e fo re . It a tta c k e d m y o th e r five c h ild re n o ne a fte r th e o th e r, b u t u n d e r y o u r c a re fu l tre a tm e n t, th e y h av e all b een cu re d . I, th e re fo re , ex p re ss to you ag ain in w ritin g m y w a rm e s t th a n k s, a n d beg you to use th e above as o ften as y o u m ay desire. W ith s in c e re s t esteem , I re m a in , Y ours v e ry th a n k fu lly , L eipzig. K a rl I.

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Chronic, gastric and intestinal catarrh, Nervosity, Weakness of memory, Thoughts of suicide

D ear S ir: I am in th e p le a s a n t p o sitio n o f b ein g able to se n d you a m o st fa v o ra b le re p o rt. F ro m th e a c c o u n t o f m y illn e ss, s e n t to you b e fo re I c o m m en c ed y o u r tre a tm e n t, y o u w ill re c o lle c t m y c o n d itio n . My c o m p la in t w as a v e ry se rio u s o n e; m y n erv e s, e sp ec ially , h a d su ffered sev erely fro m b a d d ie t d u rin g fo u r y ea rs. I t is, th e re fo re , easy to see, th a t I co u ld n o t be co m p letely c u re d in a co u p le o f vveeks o r even m o n th s. I m ay m e n tio n , th a t m y m e m o ry h as g re a tly im p ro v e d , a n d th a t I ag ain feel q u ite c h e e rfu l. O f su ic id e I th in k no m o re n o t in th e le ast, n o r do I lo n g e r su ffer fro m d u ll h e a d a c h e s; th e se h av e q u ite d isa p p e a re d . I h av e also fo llo w ed y o u r good ad v ice as to sle ep in g su m m e r a n d w in te r w ith op en w in d o w , a n d find it m ost b en eficial. Y ou see y o u r m e th o d h a s d o n e m e e x c e lle n t se rv ic e. I w ish fr o m th e b o tto m o f m y h ea rt, th a t m a n y su c h su ffe re rs m a y v isit y o u r e sta b lish m e n t. I can w ith c e r ta in ty say, th a t I sh o u ld still h av e re q u ire d m a n y y e a rs to o b ta in th e sam e re su lt as I h av e in six m o n th s b y u sin g y o u r sy stem o f cure. W ish in g ev e ry su c ce ss f o r th e fu tu re o f y o u r in s titu te , I b eg to re m a in w ith m a n y th a n k s, Y ours v e ry tru ly , St. (M oravia) H ugo B., A u strian P o stm a ster.

No. 70.

Suppression of the menses

D ear Mr. K u h n e : Y ou w ill still rem e m b er, th a t la st au tu m n I w ro te to y o u ab o u t m y w ife , w h o sin c e th e b e g in n in g o f A ugust w as tro u b le d w ith su p p re ssio n o f th e m en ses. T h is m ad e m e an x io u s, as I th o u g h t it m ig h t be d a n g e ro u s fo r m y w ife ; h e n c e m y le tte r o f O cto b er 10th beg g in g fo r y o u r ad v ice , w h e n you re p lie d th a t I n eed n o t w o rry , as all w o u ld so o n com e rig h t. T h is p re d ic tio n h a s p ro v e d c o rre c t a f te r u sin g y o u r tre a tm e n t on M arch 19th 1894, m y w ife h a v in g u p till th e n h a d no m e n s tru a l flow f o r n e a rly n in e m o n th s. H ere, again, a m a g n ifice n t su ccess fo r y o u r m e th o d . S u ch a re s u lt c e rta in ly is n o t o fte n m e t w ith , so I w ill n o t n eg lec t to ex p re ss to you m y g re a t jo y at the a s to n ish in g c irc u m sta n c e . Y ours fa ith fu lly , K iel. H. H.

No. 71.

Whooping-cough

D ea r S ir: I h av e em p lo y ed y o u r m e th o d o f tre a tm e n t on th e re p e a te d re c o m m e n d a tio n o f a c q u a in ta n c e s w dth s u r p ris in g su ccess in th e case o f m y th re e c h ild re n , w h o w ere all ta k e n ill a t th e sam e tim e w ith th a t d a n g e ro u s d is o rd e r, th e w h o o p in g -co u g h . I co m p letely c u re d th em o f th e tro u b le in th re e d ay s, a n d th e re fo re beg to sen d y ou, d e a r Mr. K uhne, m y s in c e re s t th a n k s. May y o u r m e th o d o f tre a tm e n t p ro v e, as I c a n n o t b u t d o u b t it w ill, eq u a lly b en e ficia l in all o th e r ca ses; a n d m ay th e g re a t value o f th is n ew N a tu re C ure system be m o re a n d m o re w id e ly reco g n ized . Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eipzig. (M rs.) T h e re se B.

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D ea r S ir: I t gives m e th e g re a te st p le a su re to b e able to in fo rm y ou, th a t so f a r I h av e m et w ith b est su ccess in th e tre a tm e n t o f m y d a u g h te r a c c o rd in g to y o u r le tte r o f in stru c tio n s. E v en a fte r th e u se o f th e first few f ric tio n h ip -b a th s th e re w a s a m a rk e d im p ro v e m e n t; th e la ssitu d e d is a p p e a re d , th e a p p e tite r e tu rn e d , c o n stip a tio n w as c u re d , a n d th e y e llo w c o lo ra tio n o f th e s k in h as, sin c e u sin g y o u r sy stem , g ra d u a lly given p la c e to a fine ro sy co m p lex io n . W ith b est co m p lim e n ts, Y ours fa ith fu lly , K lein falk e. F . B.

No. 73.

Rheumatism, Liver disease, Hemorrhoids

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : N early tw o y e a rs h av e p a sse d sin c e m y re s to ra tio n to h e a lth b y m ean s o f y o u r sy stem o f tre a tm e n t. T h e re h a s b een n o th in g w h a te v e r th e m a tte r w ith m e sin c e th e n , so th a t I re a lly seem lik e a w a lk in g m ira c le , b o th to m y se lf a n d to all w h o k n ew m e as I w as in th o se d ays a n d as I am to-d ay . You k n o w in w h a t a c ritic a l c o n d itio n I first cam e to you. I h a d n e v e r b een re a lly w ell all m y life ; rh e u m a tism , co ld s a n d o th e r d iso rd e rs o f all k in d s fo llo w ed one a n o th e r in c o n s ta n t su c cessio n . T h en , on a c c o u n t o f h e m o rrh o id s an d a se ve re liv e r c o m p la in t, I fo r te n y ea rs w as in th e h a n d s o f n u m e ro u s p h y s ic ia n s , b o th h o m e o p a th s a n d allo p a th s, th e la st I c o n s u lte d b e in g a c e le b ra te d p ro fe s s o r a t B onn U n iv e rsity . D u rin g th is tim e I g rew so ill th a t I co u ld s c a rc e ly fo llo w m y v o ca tio n , a n d h a d , so to sp eak , se ttle d ac c o u n ts w ith life . T h e w o n d e rfu l su ccess o f y o u r tr e a tm e n t in m y case h as in d u c e d m a n y o th e r su ffe re rs to seek a id fro m you, a n d th e y h av e n o t been d is a p p o in te d . I have a lre a d y in fo rm e d y ou o f th e g ra titu d e w h ic h I m y s e lf a n d m y fa m ily w ill alw a y s feel to w a rd y o u ; th e p u rp o s e o f th e p re s e n t le tte r is sim p ly to b eg y ou, in th e in te re s t o f th e good cau se an d o f th e h o st o f o th e r su ffe re rs, to give th e w id e s t p u b lic ity p o ssib le to th e r e p o r t o f m y c u re . I co u ld say m u c h m o re o f th e su ccesses, w h ic h I h av e h a d an o p p o rtu n ity o f o b se rv in g b o th in m y o w n an d o th e r fam ilies th ro u g h th e use o f y o u r b a th s an d a n a tu ra l m o d e o f lif e ; b u t th is w o u ld le a d m e too fa r. I am n o w 51 y e a rs o f age, h av e b ee n fo r 16 y e a rs th e s u p e rin te n d e n t o f th e E v an g e lic al M ission in th is to w n o f 115,000 in h a b ita n ts . P a rtic u la rs are , th e re fo re , o b ta in a b le a t a n y tim e. W ith k in d e s t re g a rd s, I re m a in , E v e r g ra te fu lly y o u rs, B arm en . E rn s t F .

No. 74.

Affection of the stomach, Nervous disease, Constipation

. . . .1 feel th a t I ow e you a d eep g ra titu d e , you h av in g , b y m ean s o f y o u r n ew m e th o d o f c u re w ith o u t d ru g s a n d w ith o u t o p e ra tio n s, b ro u g h t m e r e lie f in less th a n a fo rtn ig h t, in m y se rio u s case o f g a s tric a n d n erv o u s d is o r d e r fro m w h ic h I h a d b een su ffe rin g fo r som e six y ea rs. In five d ays y ou p e rfo rm e d w h a t c e le b ra te d p h y s ic ia n s a n d all im a g in a b le m e d ic in e s co u ld not do fo r m e, n am ely , re g u la tio n o f th e stool. F o rm e rly I h ad alw ay s to em p lo y enem as. V., W est P ru ssia . Z., S chool T e a c h e r.

No. 75.

Disease of the nerves

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I feel the in w a r d n eed o f g iv in g ex p re ssio n to m y feelin g s. Y o u r m e th o d o f cu re is o f in c a lc u la b le value as c o n tra ste d w ith all th o se w h e re d ru g s a re em p lo y ed , an d

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w h ic h , as n u m e ro u s cases attest, b rin g m isery an d d e s tru c tio n to su fferin g h u m a n ity , even at th e h a n d s o f sc ie n tific m en. A lm ost ev ery o n e h a s ex p e rie n c e d th is in h is fam ily , o r in h is ow n p e rso n . It w o u ld be w illfu l b lin d n e ss, in v iew o f th is fac t, still to d elay , e n d a n g e r o n e s life o r th e liv es o f th o se d e a r to one, fo r th e sake o f p re ju d ic e o r h a b it, b y k n o w in g ly av o id in g N atu re. I c a n n o t close th is le tte r w ith o u t ag ain re p e a tin g to y ou w h a t I h av e so o fte n s a i d : th a t I c o n s id e r th e m eth o d d isc o v e re d b y you fo r h ea lin g th e d iseased b o d y to be th e p r o d u c t o f rea l g en iu s; an d th is, m y o p in io n is n o t fo u n d ed m e re ly u p o n a fa v o ra b le p re p o sse s sio n , b u t u p o n th e e x p e rie n c e o f y ea rs, a n d the b r illia n t su ccess w h ic h y o u h av e a tta in e d in m y fam ily. W e can w ith o u t h e s ita tio n say y o u h av e sav ed m y s is te rs life. T h e w o n d e rfu l effect o f y o u r tre a tm e n t on m y c h ild re n also, w h o m you c u re d o f v a rio u s d is o rd e rs w ith in th e sh o rte s t sp a ce o f tim e, m ake m e re g a rd y o u r a c q u a in ta n c e as one o f th e m ost v alu ab le a c q u isitio n s o f m y e n tire sta y in L eipzig. R est assu re d o f m y g ra te fu l re m e m b ra n c e , w h e re v e r I m ay be, an d o f m y zealous s u p p o rt o f y o u r d o c trin e s. W ith k in d re g a rd s, Y ours v e ry tru ly , V ienna. (M rs.) Olga L.

No. 76.

Articular rheumatism

D ear S ir: I am h a p p y to te stify , th a t b y th e re p e a te d use o f y o u r steam a n d f ric tio n h ip b ath s, I w as sp e e d ily c u re d o f m y se v ere a r tic u la r rh e u m a tism ; a f te r o n ly th e seco n d b a th , I co u ld ag ain w a lk w ith o u t a ssista n ce . I ca n th o ro u g h ly rec o m m en d y o u r b a th s to all su ffe rin g fro m lik e d iso rd e rs. L eipzig. G. E.

No. 77.

Lame Arm

My y o u n g est son, b y m y first m a rria g e , A ugust von B., a t th a t tim e 12% y ea rs old, co m p la in e d e a rly in D ecem b er 1886, o f v io le n t p a in a n d h ea v in e ss in th e rig h t arm . I t soon b ecam e so m u c h w o rse th a t he w as u n ab le to use th e h a n d an d arm , a n d h a d to c a r ry th e la tte r in a sling. V ario u s re m e d ie s tr ie d p ro v e d in effectiv e. By c h a n c e I h e a rd o f Mr. K u h n es tre a tm e n t, a n d th a t h e h ad a lre a d y c u re d sim ila r cases su c ce ssfu lly , so d e c id e d to p la c e m y c h ild in h is h an d s. I s tr ic tly fo llo w ed Mr. K u h n e s in stru c tio n s. A lth o ugh a c o n s id e ra b le tim e elap sed , an d o u r p a tie n c e th u s p u t to th e p ro o f, a tu r n f o r th e b e tte r at le n g th a p p e a re d in th e b o y s o b stin ate d iso rd e r. N o t o nly w as th e lam e arm q u ite c u re d by th e f ric tio n h ip an d sitz b a th s, an d th e u n stim u la t in g d ie t (th is, too, a c c o rd in g to in s tru c tio n s ) , b u t b o th th e u tte rly p ro s tra te d ig estio n an d th e a p p e tite w e re re sto re d . D resd en . E d le K. (w ife o f L ie u te n a n t Colonel K.)

No. 78.

Serious abdominal disorder, Leucorrhea

D ea r S ir: On m y d e p a rtu re fro m h ere , I feel th e d e sire to e x p re ss to you, b e n e fa c to r o f m a n k in d , m y sin c e re th a n k s fo r th e c u re y o u r tre a tm e n t h as b ro u g h t m e. I co n su lted th e b est p h y sic ia n s fo r y e a rs a n d rec eiv e d m o re in ju r y th a n benefit. T h ey all in s iste d u p o n an o p e ra tio n , b u t I have now , b y y o u r a id , rec o v ered fro m m y d is o rd e r w ith o u t a n y th in g o f th e k in d . I sh a ll tell ev e ry w h e re o f th e b r illia n t su ccesses you a tta in in all diseases, an d h o w it is p o ssib le to reg a in h e a lth w ith o u t d o c to rs a n d w ith o u t o p era tio n s. W ith th e re n e w e d ex p re ssio n o f m y deep g ra titu d e fo r y o u r k in d a tte n tio n , I rem a in , Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , L eip zig. (M rs.) E. L.

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D ear S ir: I w ish to th a n k you, in m y w if e s nam e, f o r y o u r p r e s c rip tio n o f th e b ath s. My w ife s h e a lth h a d b ee n w h o lly d iso rd e re d f o r fo u r y e a rs ; d u rin g all th is tim e she fo u n d r e lie f n e ith e r fro m a llo p a th s n o r h o m e o p ath s, an d d e a th s ta re d h e r in the face. In o u r d e s p a ir w e co n su lte d you. N ow , a f te r e m p lo y in g y o u r tre a tm e n t fo r 5Vi m o n th s, m y w ife is c o m p letely re s to re d to h e a lth an d v ig o r. B efo re co m in g to y o u she w e ig h e d 104 lbs., sh e n o w w eig h s 126 lbs. W ith o u r best th a n k s a n d good w ish es, S in c e re ly y o u rs, K irc h h a in , L o w er L u satia. T. W.

No. 80.

Easy pregnancy and birth

D ear S ir: A llow m e, th o u g h u n so lic ite d , to in fo rm you, th a t th e tre a tm e n t y o u p r e s c rib e d in y o u r le tte r h a s p ro v e d o f good se rv ic e. My w ife h a s h a d till n o w f o u r c o n finem ents. T he first w a s a v e ry difficult o n e; in th e seco n d , th e fo rc e p s w e re r e q u ire d ; b e fo re th e th ir d a n d f o u rth w e em p lo y ed y o u r tre a tm e n t. T h is p ro v e d m o st s a tisfa c to ry , b o th d e liv e rie s b ein g v e r y easy. B oth in m y ow n n am e a n d in th a t o f m y w ife , I beg to offer you sin c e re th a n k s. S u ch a re su lt d eserv es th a n k s in d e e d , fo r a difficult b ir th is a b a d m a tte r. W ith b est w ish es, F a ith fu lly yo u rs, M unich. G eorg S.

No. 81.

Podagra and Gout

D ear S ir: H e re w ith I ta k e th e lib e rty o f se n d in g yo u m y h e a rtie s t th a n k s fo r y o u r tr e a t m en t. My d isease h a d b een c h ro n ic so long, re a c h in g b a c k in to m y sch o o l-d ay s, th a t I sc a rc e ly h o p e d fo r rec o v ery . E v en as a bo y o f 12, I h a d p a in s in th e g reat toe, w h ic h d ev elo p ed in to podagra a n d gout. In th e co u rse o f y e a rs m y c o n d itio n co n tin u a lly g rew w o rse a n d m o re in to le ra b le , esp ec ially as all th e n u m e ro u s d o c to rs co n su lte d w e re u n ab le to h elp me. My h a n d s a n d fee t w e re so tum efied a n d in d u ra te d at th e jo in ts , th a t fin ally I co u ld use n e ith e r. F o r o v er 1 Y2 y e a rs I le d a h o p eless life , w h o lly u n ab le to m ove; m y m ise ry b ein g all th e h a r d e r to b e a r fro m th e fa c t th a t no p h y s ic ia n co u ld b r in g re lie f. I w as u n ab le to do th e sm allest th in g m y self, an d h a d even to be fe d b y a n o th e r p e rso n . I w as as h elp less as a n ew -b o rn b ab y , a n d th e re fo re all th e m o re difficult to w a it on. Im m e d iate ly on co m in g u n d e r y o u r tre a tm e n t, 6 m o n th s ago m y gouty sy stem b eg an im p ro v in g . My feet a n d legs, in p a r tic u la r, in tw o o r th re e w eek s b ecam e so easy, th a t I w as at la st able to m ove m y lim b s an d w a lk ab o u t. My h a n d s a n d fingers, w h ic h w e re d re a d fu lly b e n t a n d sw ollen, h av e also b eco m e d a ily m o re su p p le a n d n o rm al. O nly th o se w h o have k n o w n m y w re tc h e d c o n d itio n in th e p ast, ca n co n ceiv e th e g ra titu d e w h ic h I feel in w ritin g you th ese lines. Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eipzig. E m il W.

No. 82.

Chronic disease of the throat

H e re w ith I b eg to c e rtify th a t Mr. K uhne, h y g ie n ic p ra c titio n e r, L eipzig, h as c u re d m e o f a c h ro n ic d isease o f th e th ro a t, w h ic h re fu s e d to y ie ld to th e tr e a t m e n t o f an e m in e n t sp e cia list. F o r tw o y e a rs I hav e em p lo y ed th e b a th s p r e

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s c rib e d b y h im a n d feel so g re a tly in v ig o ra te d b y th e m , th a t I c a n give 30 sin g in g lesso n s w ee k ly w ith o u t o v e r-e x e rtio n . L eip zig . C lara C. T e a c h e r o f Singing.

No. 83.

Headache, Fainting-fits, Throat disease

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : In c o n s id e ra tio n o f y o u r a d m ira b le c u ra tiv e m e th o d , b y w h ic h I h av e b een fre e d fro m hea d a ch e, fa in tin g -fits a n d th ro a t disease, I feel it m y d u ty to se n d you h e re w ith m y w a rm e s t th a n k s fo r th e su c c e ssfu l resu lt. W ith th e w is h th a t y o u m ay lo n g be s p a re d to la b o r, w ith G ods b le ssin g f o r su ffe rin g h u m a n ity , I re m a in , Y ours tru ly , L eipzig. C a ro lin e K.

No. 8k.

Epilepsy

T h e u n d e rsig n e d ce rtifies w ith p le a su re th a t Mr. L o u is K u h n e, p r o p r ie to r o f th e H y d ro p a th ic E sta b lish m e n t, F lo ssp la tz, L eipzig, h a s p e rfe c tly c u re d o f o b stin a te e p ile p s y a b o y n am ed Golle, a fo rm e r p u p il o f th e u n d e rsig n e d . T h e e p ile p tic fits o c c u rre d se v e ra l tim es a d ay a t le ast, a n d as re g a rd s o u tw a rd sy m p to m s, a p p e a re d re a lly lik e fre n z y . S in ce th e c u re , no o th e r fit h a s o c c u rre d an d th e b o y h a s g a in e d a fine h e a lth y co m p lex io n . T h e u n d e rs ig n e d feels th a t h e sh o u ld sp e c ia lly m e n tio n , even i f c o n tra ry to Mr. K u h n e s w ish e s, th a t fo r th e co m p lete c u re , la stin g o v e r 4 m o n th s, Mr. K u h n e n o t o n ly to o k no fees, b u t even fin a n c ia lly s u p p o rte d th e b o y s w id o w e d m o th e r, Mrs> Id a Golle, so th a t sh e co u ld b e tte r a tte n d to h e r son. T h is f a c t h a s u n til n o w , b e sid e s to Mrs. Golle, o n ly b een k n o w n to th e u n d e rsig n e d . H e w h o a c c e p ts a p a tie n t in su c h a se lf-sa c rific in g m a n n e r, is c e rta in ly th e m an w h o w ill p ro v e a tr u e a d v ise r f o r th e sic k u n d e r all c irc u m sta n c e s. L eip zig. E . H.

No. 85.

Curvature of the spine, Nervous disorder

My d e a r Mr. K u h n e : It is w ith s in c e re sa tis fa c tio n th a t I beg to sta te h o w p le a se d I am w ith th e r e su lt o f th e tre a tm e n t so f a r, b o th in re g a rd to its effect on m y s o n s c o n d itio n ( cu rv a tu re o f the sp in e ) a n d m y o w n ( d isease o f th e n e r v e s ). A fter an e x p e rie n c e o f six m o n th s, w e a re c o n tin u in g th e tre a tm e n t w ith fu lle st co n fid en ce. I w o u ld h av e no h e s ita tio n w h a te v e r in e x p re ss in g m y s e lf th u s, w h e n e v e r asked. I leav e it q u ite to you to m ak e o f u s w h a te v e r yo u m a y d e s ire o f th is sta te m en t. W ith b est w ish e s, Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , W e im a r. B., A d m iral.

No. 86.

Influenza, Aberration of the mind, Agitation, Sleeplessness

re n d e re d m y h u sb a n d b le ssfu l effect o f y o u r ill w ith in flu e n z a th a t e x te n t th a t h is u n d e r

D ear Mr. K u h n e : F ille d w ith th a n k s fo r th e in v a lu a b le se rv ic e w h ic h y o u in h is se v ere illn e ss, I m u st n o t n eg lec t to ac k n o w led g e th e e x c ellen t m e th o d . A bout th e m id d le o f D ecem b er, 1893, m y h u sb a n d fe ll so w e fe a re d th e w o rs t. T h e b r a in w a s affec ted to su c h an s ta n d in g w a s q u ite clo u d ed .

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T o o u r d ee p est c o n c e rn , w e o b se rv e d fo r a w h o le fo rtn ig h t a d a ily in c re a s in g a b erra tio n o f the m in d a n d p e rp e tu a l ag ita tio n w h ic h re n d e re d c o n s ta n t w a tc h in g o f th e p a tie n t, d a y a n d n ig h t, n e c e s sa ry a n d ca u se d us th e g re a te st a n x iety . T h e p h y s ic ia n in w h o se tre a tm e n t m y h u sb a n d w as, d e c la re d th a t th e re w as n o th in g to be d o n e a n d o r d e re d q u iet. It w as th e n , u rg e d b y m y frie n d s w h o w ere co n v in c e d o f th e m a rv e lo u s effect o f y o u r m e th o d o f c u re , th a t I d e c id e d to give w a y a n d to call in y o u r ad v ice , d e a r Mr. K uhn e. As you w e re k in d e n o u g h to give th e first five b a th s p e rs o n a lly , y o u h a d o cc asio n y o u rs e lf to observ e th a t a f te r th e v e ry first b a th th e re w as re m a rk a b le q u ie tu d e ; th a t a f te r th e seco n d , sleep cam e, w h ic h in sp ite o f ev e ry k in d o f so p o rific h a d b een im p o ssib le fo r a fo rtn ig h t; a n d th a t a f te r ev e ry su b se q u e n t b a th sig n s o f re tu r n in g u n d e rs ta n d in g w e re to be re m a rk e d . T h e m in d b ec am e h o u rly c le a re r, a n d a f te r 4 d ay s th e re seem ed to be a w o n d e rfu l a w a k e n in g to fu ll co n scio u sn e ss, as fro m a d ream . T ill th is d ay , th a n k s to God, n o th in g se rio u s h as o c c u rre d again. A lth o ugh fo rm e rly fu ll o f d o u b t, I m u st n o w co n fess, th a t y o u r tre a tm e n t re a lly w o rk e d m ira cle s. T he ceaseless a n x ie ty a n d c a re fro m w h ic h y o u h av e fre e d m e an d m in e, co m p els m e to te n d e r y ou m y sin c e re s t th a n k s. A nd m y h u sb a n d re g a rd s y ou, d e a r Mr. K uhne, as h a v in g saved h is life . L ike m e, he is filled w ith g ra titu d e a n d esteem fo r y ou a n d y o u r v alu ab le system . I re m a in , w ith sin c e re s t re g a rd s fro m m y h u sb a n d , V ery fa ith fu lly y o u rs, D re sd en . C lo th ild e W.

No. 87.

Severe headache

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I c a n n o t r e f r a in fro m e x p re ssin g to you m y sin c e re s t th a n k s fo r th e c u re o f m y sev ere h ea d a c h e, w h ic h la ste d f o r a fo rtn ig h t a n d ca u se d m e m u c h c a re a n d a n x i ety, on a c c o u n t o f m y d e a r ones. F ro m y o u th I fre q u e n tly h a d h e a d a c h e s ; fo r m a n y y e a rs, a t le ast once a m o n th , I su ffe re d se v erely fo r 24 h o u rs ; d u rin g th e la st eig h tee n m o n th s I h a v e b ee n tro u b le d w ith th e m ev e ry w e e k ; a n d th re e w eek s ago m y h e a d w as so b a d f o r 10 to 14 days, th a t I re a lly fe a re d m y w h o le b r a in w a s in a sta te o f severe in fla m m a tio n , w h ic h h a d affec ted th e w h o le o f th e le ft sid e o f th e h ea d a n d also m y eyes. F o r th e la tte r w e re lik e w ise p a in fu l a n d d e e p ly su n k e n . Y et th e first b a th in five m in u te s h a s c u re d m e o f m y d is o r d e r ; a n d I h av e b e com e so m u c h stro n g e r, th a t I ca n n o w w a lk ag a in as q u ic k ly as ev er, a n d as th o u g h re ju v e n a te d , th o u g h I am 52 y ea rs o f age. I h av e, h o w e v e r, n o t sat on a b o a rd , b u t in th e co ld w a te r, a n d h av e th e n fo llo w ed y o u r in s tru c tio n s , w h ic h h av e n o w b eco m e so d e a r to me. In five m in u te s th e b u tto c k s b e c am e w a rm , a n d th is feelin g in c re a s e d d u rin g th e w h o le o p e ra tio n , w h ic h I c o n tin u e d fo r a b o u t 20 m in u tes. A fte rw a rd s I to o k a little w a lk fo r a b o u t a q u a r te r o f an h o u r. I h av e c o n tin u e d th is n o w fo r 12 days, alw a y s w ith an e q u a lly good re s u lt a c o m fo rta b le fee lin g o v er th e w h o le b o d y a n d also in th e h ead . I am th e re fo re ex tre m e ly in d e b te d to you. B ut I sh o u ld lik e to do m o re th a n m e re ly th a n k y o u ; I sh o u ld lik e to h e lp you b y m a k in g y o u r N ew S cien ce o f H eal in g k n o w n to m y n e ig h b o rs a n d all o v e r th e v ic in ity . I f y o u p u b lis h le aflets, I sh all be h a p p y to d is trib u te sam e, esp e c ia lly am o n g all su ffe re rs. My se rv ic es a re at y o u r co m m an d . Y ours v e ry tru ly , T u b in g e n . G. A. L.

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Easy pregnancy and birth

D ear Mr. K u h n e : J u s t r e tu r n e d fro m a jo u rn e y , I h av e h e a rd w ith p le a su re o f y o u r ju b ilee , an d h a ste n to se n d y ou m y h e a rty co n g ra tu la tio n s. E x a c tly a y e a r ago I a rriv e d in L eipzig, d e a d tir e d a n d m ise ra b le ; m y o n ly h o p e a f te r God w as in you. A fte r h a v in g v isite d th e m o st fam o u s w a te rin g -p la c e s o f th e w o rld , a n d c o n su lte d th e g re a te st p h y sic ia n s, alw ay s in v ain , I felt so m u c h b e tte r a f te r on ly th re e w eeks o f y o u r sim p le system o f cu re , th a t I v o w ed I w o u ld n o t sto p it fo r th e p re se n t. D u rin g th e w in te r, in th e g re a te st cold, d e sp ite th e fa c t th a t I w as en c ein te, I took tw o f ric tio n sitz-b ath s d a ily a n d liv e d a c c o rd in g to y o u r in s tru c tio n s . T o m y g re a t h a p p in e s s I h a d an easy, sa fe b irth , a n d d u rin g the w h o le p e r io d o f p reg n a n c y n e v e r once fe lt u n w e ll. T h e m ost re m a rk a b le th in g , h o w ev e r, is th a t w h e re a s fo r th e tw o first c h ild re n I h a d to engage w e t-n u rse s, n o t h a v in g an y m ilk m y se lf; m y p re s e n t b a b y I h av e th e fo rtu n e to b e able to su ck le m y self, an d give h im in a d d itio n th ic k o atm ea l gruel. E v e ry ev e n in g I give h im a h ip -b a th fo r 5 m in u tes, h is ab d o m en b e in g too la rg e ; in th e m o rn in g I give h im a b a th at 88 F a h r. a n d d o u ch e h im o v e r w ith co ld w a te r. I w is h y o u co u ld see h im , n o w th re e m o n th s old, a re a lly stro n g an d h e a lth y c h ild . T h e v e ry p eo p le w h o a t first la u g h ed at m e ab o u t m y c u re , n o w c o n fe ss o p en ly to m e, th a t I look ten y e a rs y o u n g er, a n d th a t m y b a b y bo y a n d I look lik e a p ic tu r e o f h e a lth . T h e re a re fu lly 12 fa m ilie s h e re in Z iillich au w h o a re fo llo w in g y o u r sy stem w ith en th u sia sm . My s iste r, w h o w as w ith m e th e n in L eipzig, a n d w h o w a s lik e w ise p re g n a n t, d id n o t live as I d id , b u t ate p le n ty flesh-m eat, etc. She h a d a v e ry difficult co n fin e m e n t; h a s h a d to give th e c h ild to a w e t-n u rse a n d is n o w ly in g s e rio u s ly ill. T o all w h o feel th e le a st d o u b t a b o u t y o u r system o f c u re , I c ry fro m a f a r; R e pose fu ll co n fid e n ce in Mr. K uhne, th is m an g ra c e d b y God. I w rite y ou th ese lin e s on th e o cc asio n o f y o u r ju b ile e to p ro v e to y o u h o w th a n k fu l I am , a f te r to God, to y o u ; a n d h o w I sh all ev er b e one o f y o u r m ost e n th u s ia s tic d isc ip le s. W ith k in d e st good w ish e s to y o u rs e lf a n d fam ily , I rem a in , Y ours sin c e re ly , Z iillichau. C. B.

No. 89.

Liver disease, Gallstones, Nervousness, Rheumatic headache, Abdominal disease

D ear S ir: Y ou w ill c e rta in ly re m e m b e r th a t I w as a p a tie n t a t y o u r in s titu te in L eipzig fro m Ju n e 24th to Ju ly 13th. As y ou k n o w , I w a s su ffe rin g fro m liver-d isea se an d gallstone. As I le ft you, m y c o n d itio n w as g rea tly im p ro v e d , so th a t y o u h o p ed b y c o n tin u in g m y c u re I w o u ld soon be co m p letely re s to re d to h e a lth . A fter I h a d b ee n b a c k h e re a fe w days, I e x p e rie n c e d v io le n t p a in s ag ain , an d tw o m o re gall sto n e s w e re p assed . D u rin g th e p a in s I to o k som e h ip -b a th s, w h ic h d id m e m u ch good. S in ce th e n , h o w ev e r, all has gone w ell, a n d I ca n w o rk all d a y w ith o u t fee lin g u n d u ly tire d , th e p eo p le lo o k in g u p o n m e as a m ira c le ; I m u st th e re fo re ex p re ss to y ou m y fu lle st ack n o w led g e m e n t. E n c o u ra g e d b y th e su ccess o f y o u r tre a tm e n t in m y case, a p o o r w id o w h e re , w h o fo r y e a rs h a d b een s u ffe rin g fro m n ervo u sn e ss, rh e u m a tic hea d a ch e a n d a b d o m in a l disease d e te rm in e d to tr y y o u r system . T h e d o c to r w h o h a d b een tr e a tin g h e r d e c la re d th a t h e r illn ess w as o nly im a g in a ry . She h a d re a d y o u r b o o k T h e N ew S cien ce o f H ealin g , an d to o k tw o o r th re e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s d aily . She w as p r e tty c o rp u le n t, so it w as n o tic ea b le

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h o w m u c h th in n e r she b ecam e in a f o rtn ig h t; she sa id th a t th e a b d o m in a l p a in s h a d n e a rly d isa p p e a re d . Y ours fa ith fu lly , V o lm a rstein . L. S.

No. 90. Asthma, Hemorrhoidal affection, Inflammation of the throat

D ear Mr. K u h n e : T o w a rd s th e en d o f O cto b er la st I w ro te to you f o r ad v ice , a n d re c e iv e d y o u r esteem ed re p ly u n d e r d a te N o v em b er 3 rd . H e re w ith I beg to c o m m u n ic ate to you b rie fly th e c o u rse th e c u re h a s ta k e n . My w ife h as ta k e n th e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s re g u la rly f o r 6 m o n th s, th re e tim es d aily , an d som etim es o fte n e r w h e n she h a d in c lin a tio n ; a n d also w a rm f ric tio n h ip -b a th s a n d ste am -b a th s a lte rn a te ly . She lives alm o st w h o le ly on w h o lem eal b re a d a n d a p p les, e a tin g on ly n o w a n d ag ain vegetab les a n d o th e r lig h t foods. She sleeps w ith op en w in d o w s, is m u c h in th e o p en a ir, a n d feels b e tte r th a n ev er b efo re. D u rin g th e first m o n th s o f th e tre a tm e n t, la rg e b lis te rs fo rm e d in th e reg io n o f th e se x u al o rg an s, a n d a f te r d is c h a rg in g th e ir c o n te n ts, filled again. An u lc e r h a d also fo rm e d on th e ab d o m en , d isc h a rg in g m u c h rep u lsiv e-sm e llin g m a tte r. T he to r tu r in g a sth m a tic a l a ffe c tio n an d th e h e m o r r h o id s h av e n o w n e a rly d isa p p e a re d . My w ife n o lo n g e r finds w a lk in g tro u b le so m e, an d h e r a p p e a ra n c e has, in d e e d , q u ite ch a n g ed . A fte r th e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s she alw a y s fe lt e x tre m ely cold, n a tu ra l p e r s p ir a tio n w as, o f co u rse , se ld o m to b e p ro d u c e d . N ow th is ch illin e ss h as d ec reased . She h a s a h e a lth y a p p e tite a n d h e r d ig e stio n is m u c h im p ro v e d , fo r w h a t sh e eats is now a s sim ila te d b y th e b o d y . I h av e g re a t c o n fidence in th e c u re , a n d find c o n firm a tio n o f th e sta te m en t, th a t it w o rk s slo w ly b u t su rely . All fo rm e r illn esses r e tu r n , b u t a p p e a r in a less degree. I h av e u sed th e f r ic tio n sitz-b ath s a n d ste am -b a th s w ith e x tra o rd in a r y su ccess in th e case o f m y little 3% y e a r old c h ild w h o w as su ffe rin g fro m in fla m m a tio n o f th e th ro a t, a n d I c a n fu lly confirm th e sta te m e n t th a t y o u r m e th o d is th e tru e one. W ith k in d e st re g a rd s a n d m a n y th a n k s, I beg to re m a in , Y ours fa ith fu lly , H e rm sd o rf. P. L., S chool T ea ch e r.

No. 91.

Rheumatism, Swollen feet

D ea r Mr. K u h n e: I c a n n o t r e f r a in fro m e x p re ssin g m y b est th a n k s to you fo r th e r a p id re c o v e ry fro m m y d re a d fu l c o m p la in t. Y our sim p le sitz-b ath s h av e fre e d m e in 3 m o n th s o f m y te rrib le d iso rd e r. I h a d su ffe re d fo r a lo n g tim e fro m rh e u m a tis m in h a n d s a n d feet. T he b o n es o f th e h a n d s w e re so p ro m in e n t th a t m y h a n d s lo o k ed q u ite c rip p le d . I co u ld h o ld n o th in g , an d h a d so m u c h p a in to e n d u re , th a t I sc arce ly k n e w w h a t to do. My fe e t w e re so sw o lle n up, th a t I w as h a rd ly able to go u p sta irs at all. I w is h to ex p re ss to you m y w a rm e st th a n k s f o r th e r a p id an d in e x p en siv e re c o v e ry fro m m y se rio u s c o m p la in t. E v ery o n e su ffe rin g fro m su ch a d isease, I ad v ise to co n su lt y o u ; y o u r tre a tm e n t is m o st sim p le an d co sts b u t little. I am , Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eipzig. (M rs.) T.

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Louis Kuhne
Uterine tumor, Leucorrhea

One d a y Mrs. H. o f M., ca lle d u p o n m e an d re p o rte d as f o llo w s : H er n ie ce h a d u n d e rg o n e a m o st su c ce ssfu l c u re in m y e sta b lish m e n t in th e s p rin g a n d w as n o t sa tisfie d u n til h e r a u n t h a d ta k e n u p th e sam e tre a tm e n t in th e w a y in w h ic h she h a d le a rn e d . I h av e , she c o n tin u e d , fo r m a n y y e a rs b ee n su ffe rin g fro m an affec tio n o f th e ab d o m en , a n d h av e b ee n tr y in g re m e d ie s fo r a lo n g tim e p a s t w ith o u t success. My p h y s ic ia n sa id th a t I h a d a tu m o r in th e uterus, w h ic h , h e sa id , w as g ro w in g slo w ly b u t ste a d ily . An o p e ra tio n w o u ld v e ry soon be n e c e s sa ry . I m y se lf fe lt so m ise ra b le , th a t I d e c la re d to th e p h y s ic ia n th a t I co u ld n o t th in k o f u n d e rg o in g an o p e ra tio n . I f I h a d to die, I w o u ld do th is w ith o u t th e o p e ra tio n , f o r I felt m u c h too w e a k f o r su ch . W ith v e ry little h o p e I b eg an y o u r tre a tm e n t ju st as m y n ie ce sh o w e d me. T h e stool, w h ic h fo r y e a rs h a d b ee n h a rd a n d irre g u la r, b eg an to be q u ite n o rm a l fro m th e se co n d d ay o f th e tre a tm e n t, fro m th is d ay th e ev a c u a tio n fro m th e b o w els w as m o re re g u la r th a n p rev io u sly . I h a d also to u rin a te th re e o r fo u r tim es as fre q u e n tly as b e fo re ; in sh o rt, I o b se rv e d h o w th e m o rb id m a tte r in m e w as d a ily b e in g ex p e lle d . My ab d o m en d e c re a se d in size fro m w ee k to w eek , b e c o m in g m u c h m o re n o rm a l in size. E v ery n ig h t I p e rs p ire d , su c h as h a d n e v e r b ee n th e case b e fo re , a n d fro m d a y to d a y I felt b e tte r a n d stro n g e r. I w as m o st s u r p ris e d to find d u rin g th e c u re , th a t ev ery d ay a f te r th e f ric tio n b a th th e re w as an e x c re tio n (le u c o rrh e a ), w h ic h I h a d ' n ev e r h a d u n til th e n . S u ch e x c re tio n s to o k p la ce o n ce o r tw ic e n e a rly ev e ry d ay fo r f o u r w eeks. T h e n s u d d e n ly one d a y a p ro la p se o c c u rre d . T h e p h y s ic ia n ca lled in sta te d , h o w e v e r, th a t th is w as no p ro la p s e b u t a u te r in e tu m o r h a v in g th e fo rm o f a coffee p o t a n d w e ig h in g 4Vi lbs. I t h a d fo rc e d its w ay th ro u g h th e os u te ri a n d h a d g ro w n u n to th e in te r io r o f th e u te ru s w ith tw o p e d ic le s. T h is g ro w th g ra d u a lly fre e d its e lf, a n d h a v in g c o n tin u e d th e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s a n d th e d ie t fo r som e tim e lo n g e r, I n o w feel b e tte r th a n e v e r b e fo re .

No. 93.

Complete lameness through leg being too short, Chronic hip-disease, Melancholia

M rs. H., in a le tte r o f th a n k s, w rite s as fo llo w s ab o u t th e f o rm e r c o n d itio n o f h e r d a u g h te r: My d a u g h te r E lsa, aged 4% y ea rs, w a s a tta c k e d b y h ip -d ise a se in O cto b er 1889. At first sh e w a s tre a te d a llo p a th ic a lly , b u t w ith o u t p e rm a n e n t su c c e ss; fo r ea rly in F e b ru a ry 1890, th e leg affected b ec am e s h o r te r th a n th e o th e r; in d e e d th e c h ild h a d n o t b ee n able to w a lk fo r a lo n g tim e. A p la ste r bandage w as u sed f o r th re e w eeks, a n d an e x te n sio n -b e d fo r a m o n th , b u t also w ith o u t su ccess, w h ils t th e c h ild w a s su b je c te d to m u c h p a in . She w as th e n p u t in to th e h a n d s o f P ro fe s s o r S. o f L eip zig to u n d e rg o a se v eral w ee k s co u rse o f tre a tm e n t. She h a d to lie al w ay s in b e d a n d be ru b b e d w ith d iffe re n t e m b ro c a tio n s. T h e tre a tm e n t co u ld n o t, h o w ev e r, be s tr ic tly c a r rie d out, as th e p a tie n t w as u n a b le to lie q u ie t fo r w eeks to g e th e r; th is tre a tm e n t also, th e n , w as w ith o u t re su lt. A t le n g th I to o k m y d a u g h te r to th e L eip zig H o sp ita l, w h e re she w as tre a te d u n su c c e ssfu lly f o r th re e w eek s lo n g er. T h e h ip , w h ic h u n til th e n h a d alw a y s b ee n so ft, g re w q u ite h a rd a n d stiff a f te r th is tre a tm e n t. T he leg d id n o t g ro w at all, a n d th e c h ild h a d b een u n a b le to w a lk f o r 9 m o n th s. B ut w o rs t o f all, m y c h ild , th ro u g h th e tre a tm e n t in th e h o s p ita l h a d becom e q u ite m e la n c h o lic , so th a t I lo st all h o p e o f h e r b e in g cu re d a t all. B efore th e tre a tm e n t, she co u ld a t le ast sta n d , b u t th is w as n o w no lo n g e r p o ssib le. In th is c o n d itio n I e n tru s te d m y E lsa to y o u r ca re. I s c ru p u lo u sly fo llo w ed y o u r in s tru c tio n s , a n d to m y u n sp e a k a b le jo y th e m e lan c h o lia v a n ish e d a f te r th e first th re e f ric tio n sitz-b ath s, a n d m y d a u g h te r w as ag ain able

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to sta n d . In th re e d ay s, to m y e x tre m e s u rp ris e , sh e co u ld w a lk ag ain a n d w a s * so m u c h im p ro v e d in a fo rtn ig h t th a t sh e co u ld m o u n t th e fo u r flig h ts o f s ta irs fro m th e stre e t u p to m y flat w ith o u t assista n c e . D u rin g th is tim e th e h a rd e n e d m u scles a b o u t th e h ip ag ain b ec am e q u ite so ft, a n d a f te r fo u r w e e k s tre a tm e n t on e co u ld d is tin c tly see th a t th e s h o rte n e d leg h a d g ro w n lo n g er. T o d ay , th re e m o n th s la te r, all tra c e s o f th e d isease h av e d is a p p e a re d , a n d b o th legs a r e o f th e sam e le n g th a n d ca n b e u se d eq u a lly w e ll. L eipzig. (M rs.) M inna H.

No. 9k.

Rheumatism, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Typhus, Prolapse of the uterus, Whooping-cough, Scarlet-fever

D ear S ir : I cam e in to p o sse ssio n o f th e se co n d e d itio n o f y o u r tex t-b o o k , T h e N ew S cie n ce o f H ealin g , at th e en d o f th e su m m er o f 1891. T h e c o rre c tn e ss o f y o u r te a c h in g w as c le a r to m e fro m th e first. S in ce th a t tim e, w ith m y w ife a n d th e y o u n g est c h ild re n I h av e liv e d in ev e ry re s p e c t a c c o rd in g to y o u r sy stem , a n d o b ta in e d su c h b en efits th a t I h av e fo r lo n g fe lt th e o b lig a tio n to w rite y o u to ex p re ss m y g ra titu d e . I w as th e n 52 y e a rs o f age, a n d as th e re s u lt o f m y fo rm e r m a n n e r o f liv in g at tim es m o st ir re g u la r a n d fa st I su ffe re d fro m in te n se n e r v o s ity a n d also rh e u m a tism . I w as q u ite u n fit f o r w o rk a n d o fte n felt tir e d o f life . I to o k f ric tio n sitz-b ath s a n d o n ce a w ee k a ste a m -b a th ; liv e d on an u n s tim u la tin g d ie t, a n d sle p t w ith o p en w in d o w , as m y w ife a n d I still alw a y s do. F o r o v er 114 y e a rs n o w , I have b ee n q u ite h e a lth y a n d eq u al to m y w o rk , a n d feel alto g e th e r h a p p ie r a n d q u ie te r th a n e v e r b efo re. By n a tu re in c lin e d to be q u ic k te m p e re d , I feel m y se lf n o w q u ite ch a n g ed . C onjugal h a p p in e ss a n d p e a c e h av e r e tu r n e d to o u r h o m e. My w ife w as su ffe rin g se v erely at th e tim e fro m a p ro la p se o f th e u teru s, w h ic h an a llo p a th ic p h y s ic ia n h a d b een tr e a tin g fo r a y e a r a n d a h a lf w ith o u t su ccess. She b eg an , at th e sam e tim e as I, to ta k e a f ric tio n sitz-b ath th re e tim es d aily , an d in g en e ral fo llo w ed p r e tty m u c h m y system o f liv in g . T h e re su lt w as, th a t on th e v e ry n ex t d ay sh e w as able to p ro p e r ly e v a cu a te th e b o w els she w as a v ic tim to c o n s tip a tio n a n d sle p t m u c h b e tte r at n ig h t. She w as q u ite re s to re d to v ig o r; in six w eek s h e r a b d o m in a l c o m p la in t w as c u re d , a n d h e r h e m o r r h o id a l a ffe c tio n n e a rly so. T h u s re lie v e d o f h e r d is o rd e rs , sh e w a s d e liv e re d o f a so n w h o , b ro u g h t u p a c c o rd in g to y o u r p r in c ip le s , h a s g ro w n to b e a h e a lth y , liv e ly c h ild , f a r in a d v a n c e o f m a n y c h ild re n o f h is age. At th e sam e tim e h e eats p ro b a b ly b u t on e th ir d o f w h a t o th e r c h ild re n a re c o m p e lle d to sw allo w . O f p u e r p e ra l fev er, u lc e ra te d b re a sts, etc., m y w ife h as k n o w n n o th in g . A bout tw o y e a rs ago m y w ife got ty p h u s, p o ssib ly in c o n seq u e n ce o f th e overe x e rtio n a n d m u c h w o rry a b o u t m y tw o e ld e r sons. By c a re fu lly fo llo w in g y o u r p r e s c rip tio n she w a s c u re d in ab o u t a fo rtn ig h t. My s ix th boy, th e n 4% y e a rs old, c a u g h t sc a rle t-fe v e r a n d fo r th re e d ay s w a s ex tre m e ly d e lirio u s. E a c h tim e th e fe v e r w a s h ig h w e gave h im a h ip -b a th fo r a q u a r te r o f an h o u r; a n d as a ru le b e fo re th is tim e h a d elap se d , h is co n scio u sn e ss w as fu lly re sto re d . D u rin g th e la st v e ry b a d day, w e gave h im five o f th e se h ip b ath s, a n d th e fo llo w in g n ig h t tw o o r th re e . F ro m th e n ex t m o rn in g , th e d e liriu m d isa p p e a re d , a n d re c o v e ry w as c o m p a ra tiv e ly r a p id . At th e c o m m e n c e m e n t o f th e fev er, w e h a d given th e c h ild som e ste am -b a th s in th e b ed , b y m ean s o f h o t b o ttles, w h ic h b ro u g h t o u t p ro fu se p e r s p ira tio n . S o m etim e a fte rw a rd s th e b o y ca u g h t w h o o p in g -c o u g h ; w e th e re fo re gave h im tw o h ip -b a th s d a ily ea c h la stin g a q u a r te r o f an h o u r. H ere, too, th e illn ess p assed off w ell, th e p a tie n t b e in g q u ite c u re d in th re e o r fo u r w eeks.

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S in ce th e n , also, b y fo llo w in g y o u r te a c h in g s, w e h av e c u re d m a n y less se rio u s illn esse s, so th a t I h av e re c o m m e n d e d y o u r m e th o d o f c u rin g o n ev e ry o ccasio n . To h av e h a d th e above cases tre a te d b y a m e d ica l m an , w o u ld h av e co st m e in n u m e ra b le g u in e as in fees, a n d th e re su lts w o u ld h av e b ee n d o u b tfu l. T h e fo llo w in g o f y o u r p r e s c rip tio n as given in y o u r b o o k h as co st m e no m o n ey , b u t o n ly a little tro u b le , su c h as one g la d ly u n d e rg o e s fo r th e sak e o f th o se d e a r to one. Y o u r so sim p le m e th o d o f c u rin g d iseases an d th e d ie t in c lu d e d in th e sy stem , r e n d e rs one n o t o n ly p h y sic a lly , b u t also m o ra lly h e a lth ie r. Y ou ca n m a k e a n y use y ou lik e o f th e above, ju s t as you c o n s id e r w ell in th e in te re s ts o f y o u r m e th o d o f c u re , w h ic h su rp a sse s ev e ry o th e r as y e t fo rm u la te d . W ith s in c e re good w ish e s, Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , E lb e rfe ld . B. H.

No. 95.

Calculous disease

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : H e re w ith I ta k e th e lib e rty o f a c q u a in tin g you w ith a re m a rk a b le c h a n g e w h ic h h as ta k e n p la c e in m y p h y s ic a l c o n d itio n . P e rh a p s it w ill n o t b e s u r p ris in g to you,- th o u g h I h av e b ee n m u c h a s to n ish e d , b ec au se I w as q u ite ig n o ra n t o f th e fac t th a t th is p a r t o f m y b o d y also w as e n c u m b e re d to su c h an e x te n t w ith fo re ig n m a tte r. F o r tw o m o rn in g s r u n n in g I h a d m u c h d ifficulty in p a s sin g u r in e , a n d also f u r th e r p a in , te m p o ra rily , b e h in d above th e le ft h ip . In th e a fte rn o o n fo llo w in g , in u r in a tin g a sm all sto n e (m o re p ro p e r ly a s p lin te r o f sto n e ) w a s p a s se d , a n d f o r se v eral d a y s a f te rw a rd s a tu r b id flu id o f th e c o lo r o f th e sto n e, also w ith a n o th e r little firm sto n e sp lin te r, th is tim e, h o w e v e r, w ith o u t p a in . My s u r p ris e w a s a m o st h a p p y one, sin c e th is case c o n v in c e d m e still m o re o f th e c u ra tiv e effect o f y o u r tre a tm e n t. I see h e re a c o n firm a tio n o f th e sta te m e n t in y o u r v olum e, r e g a rd in g th e re n a l c a lc u li b e in g d isso lv ed , a n d se v e re illn esses th u s av o id ed . I feel it to be m y d u ty to c o m m u n ic a te to you th e ab o v e fa c ts, an d beg to re m a in w ith sin c e re th a n k s, Y ours v e ry tru ly , B re d ste d t. A.

No. 96.

General debility, Disease of the eye, Abdominal disease

D ear Mr. K u h n e: A tro u b le so m e a b d o m in a l d is o rd e r, a tte n d e d b y n e rv o u sn e ss, fro m w h ic h m y w ife h a d su ffe re d fo r som e 14 y e a rs, re fu s e d to y ie ld to th e tre a tm e n t o f th e v a rio u s p h y s ic ia n s co n su lte d . In th e c o u rse o f y ea rs, h e r c o n d itio n g re w so m u c h w o rs e th a t g e n e ra l d e b ility set in , a n d sh e co u ld n o t even p e rfo rm th e lig h te st w o rk in th e h o u se h o ld . T h e a tte n d a n t w ea k n ess o f th e eyes also re n d e re d it n e x t to im p o ssib le fo r h e r to rea d . On M arch 17th 1884, m y w ife b eg an to ta k e th e b a th s an d fo llo w y o u r o th e r in s tru c tio n s ; a n d I am n o w ab le to state, th a t th e above m e n tio n e d d is o rd e rs h av e b een c u re d . I w a rm ly re c o m m e n d th is tre a tm e n t to all p a tie n ts s im ila rly afflicted . Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eip zig . G. F.

No. 97.

Serious nervous disorder

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I c a n n o t h e lp w ritin g to th a n k y ou once m o re fo r th a t w h ic h you h av e d o n e fo r m y life a n d h e a lth . W ith o u t y o u r h elp I sh o u ld p ro b a b ly n e v e r b e h e re n o w to

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sp e a k ; fo r as c o u n tless w itn e sse s k n o w , I h av e b een co n so led b y th e m o st e m in e n t p h y s ic ia n s a n d th e n le ft to m y su ffe rin g . L et it th e n be c le a rly p ro c la im e d , th a t y o u alo n e re s to re d m e to life at a tim e w h e n I h a d g iv en u p all h o p e. T h a t y o u r sim p le, a n d th e re fo re g ra n d , d isc o v e ry m a y beco m e u n iv e rsa lly k n o w n fo r th e g en e ral good, is th e sin c e re w ish a n d h o p e of Y ours g ra te fu lly , V ienna. E m m a P.

No. 98.

Digestive troubles, Sleeplessness

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : W ith g re a t p le a su re I am n o w able to in fo rm you, th a t m y h e a lth , a f te r u sin g th e f ric tio n h ip a n d sitz-b ath s, in c o n ju n c tio n w ith th e ste am -b a th s, fo r som e tim e, is g re a tly im p ro v e d . T h e d ig e stiv e d era n g em en ts fro m w h ic h I su ffe re d h av e b een c u re d . I feel in v ig o ra te d , a n d m y s p ir its a re also m u c h m o re c h e e rfu l. I m u st o b serv e, fu rth e r , th a t I n o w sleep v e ry w ell, w h ic h I co u ld n o t do b e fo re . W ith sin c e re th a n k s, I re m a in , Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eip zig. A m alie F.

No. 99.

Chronic constipation, Hemorrhoidal affection, Gastralgia

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : As I in fo rm e d you b y m y c a rd tw o d ay s ago, I am e x tre m e ly sa tisfie d w ith th e re su lts o f y o u r a n ti-d ru g tre a tm e n t. I am e x tre m e ly h a p p y to be ab le to in fo rm y ou, th a t th e c h r o n ic c o n stip a tio n , f o r -which I h av e tr ie d all m a n n e r o f re m e d ie s w ith o u t success, f o r th e p a s t 40 y ea rs, a fte r I h a ve fo llo w e d th e in str u c tio n s co n ta in e d in y o u r le tte r h a s been co m p letely c u re d . T h e b o w els m ove n o w re g u la rly tw ic e ev e ry day. S im u lta n eo u sly , th e h e m o rr h o id a l a ffe c tio n , w h ic h a p p e a re d at th e sam e tim e as th e c o n s tip a tio n , e a rly in th e fifties, im p ro v e s d aily . T h e gastralgia ( en la rg em e n t o f th e liv er) h a s q u ite gone aw a y , a n d even a p a in I h a d on th e r ig h t sid e o f th e sto m ac h h as n o w d is a p p e a re d , w h e re a s th re e m o n th s ago, th e le a st p re s s u re on th e p a r t ca u se d m e d re a d fu l p a in . In sh o rt, I feel th e effects o f y o u r n e w m e th o d o f c u rin g d isease ev e ry d a y , f o r all th e tro u b le s fro m w h ic h I h av e su ffe re d fo r n e a rly 40 y e a rs, a n d w h ic h h o m e o p a th y , also, w as p o w e rle ss to c u re , h av e ste a d ily d e c re a se d . I have liv e d in a c c o rd a n c e w ith y o u r ad v ice on a p e rfe c tly u n s tim u la tin g d ie t, a n d in a d d itio n to o k 3 f r ic tio n h ip -b a th s ev e ry m o rn in g . W ith k in d re g a rd s, Y ours fa ith fu lly , A ib lin g. F. C.

No. WO.

Nervousness, Toothache, Headache, Sleeplessness, Hoarseness

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I first h e a rd o f y o u r m e th o d in 1887, a n d b y m e an s o f it c u re d m y sev ere n erv o u s disease. S ince th e n I h av e fre q u e n tly h a d o cc a sio n o f p ro v in g th e b e n e ficent effect o f y o u r c u ra tiv e m ean s. D u rin g one o f th e la st w in te rs I w as to rm e n te d b y d re a d fu l to o th a c h e, ca u se d b y a hollow 7 to o th th e fu rth e s t b ack on e in th e u p p e r ja w . T h e in fla m m a tio n wras so sev ere, th a t th e w7 h o le o f th e r ig h t sid e o f m y fac e u p to th e te m p le w as sw7 o llen , c a u sin g a th r o b b in g p a in , r e n d e rin g sleep im p o ssib le. F ric tio n sitz-b ath s o f s h o rt d u ra tio n , se v eral o f w7 h ic h I to o k d aily , o nly b ro u g h t slig h t re lie f. W h e n , h o w e v e r, fo llo w in g y o u r ad v ice , I

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to o k a ste am -b a th la stin g o v er h a lf an h o u r, an d th e n fo llo w ed th is by a p ro lo n g ed fric tio n sitz-b ath , m y e x c ite d n erve s w e re at o n ce so o th ed , a n d th e p a in g ra d u a lly d e c re a s e d . W ith in a few h o u rs th e tro u b le w as over. O f late, I h av e u sed a ste am -b a th fo r th e h e a d w ith th e b est re su lts f o r h ead a ch es, la n c in a tin g p a in s in the eye, etc. I t w ill also in te r e s t yo u to h e a r o f a n o th e r success, w h ic h h a s fo llo w ed th e use o f y o u r f ric tio n sitz-b ath s. I h a d , as o n e says, c a u g h t a c h ill, an d w as so h o a rse th a t even to w h is p e r ca u se d m e difficulty. T h is c o n d itio n la ste d tw o days, w h en on th e m o rn in g o f th e th ir d , still e x tre m e ly h o a rse , I to o k a f ric tio n sitzb ath a t 8 :3 0 a. m. I fo u n d th a t th e b a th p ro v e d ex c e e d in g ly b en e ficia l to m e in m y c o n d itio n , a n d p ro lo n g e d it u n til th e w a te r b ecam e too w a rm . A fter h av in g re n e w e d th e w a te r tw ic e a n d h a v in g b a th e d alto g e th e r fo r 2Vi h o u rs, I fo u n d th a t m y h o a rsen ess h a d alm o st e n tire ly v a n ish e d , so th a t I co u ld sp e ak a n d s in g at th e u tm o st p itc h o f m y v oice. T h is e x tra o rd in a r ily s a tis fa c to ry re su lt, w h ic h w o u ld c e rta in ly n o t have been a tta in e d by an y o th e r m e th o d , filled m e w ith th e g rea test a sto n ish m e n t, a n d m ad e m e all th e m o re se n sib le o f th e g ra titu d e I ow e to y o u a n d y o u r v alu ab le system . As it m ay be o f value fo r m a n y p e rso n s to k n o w o f su c h c u re s as th ese, I a u th o riz e y ou to m ak e an y use y ou m ay th in k fit o f th is le tte r. B elieve m e to be Y ours fa ith fu lly , L eip zig . K arl L.

No. 101.

Easy parturition

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : I fee l it to be m y d u ty , th o u g h u n s o lic ite d , to ex p re ss to you m y th a n k s f o r th e su c ce ssfu l tr e a tm e n t y ou re c o m m e n d e d , an d w h ic h m y w ife fo llo w ed b e fo re th e b irth s o f o u r se c o n d a n d th ir d c h ild re n . T h e b ir th o f o u r first c h ild , I m ay re m a rk , w as a p a r tic u la rly difficult one a n d n e c e s sita te d th e a s sista n c e o f a m e d ica l m an . In d e e d , th e p h y s ic ia n c a u tio n e d us a g a in st h a v in g o th e r c h ild re n , as m y w ife w as n o t o f n o rm a l s tru c tu re . T he last tw o b irth s, h o w e v e r, th a n k s to y o u r m e th o d , w ere o v e r in 2 Vi a n d 1 h o u r, re sp e c tiv e ly , a n d w ith o u t a n y m id w i fe l T h e la st c h ild , too, w as h e a v ie r th a n th e o th e rs. Y our v e ry tru ly , D albke. P a u l K.

No. 102.

Neuralgia

H e re w ith I beg to te n d e r m y h e a rtie s t th a n k s to Mr. L ouis K u h n e fo r th e r e lie f w h ic h I h av e a tta in e d th ro u g h th e em p lo y m e n t o f h is n a tu ra l m e th o d o f cu re. By its m ean s I have been fre e d fro m c h ro n ic a n d v io le n t n eu ralgia, m y g en e ral h e a lth b e in g also m o st fa v o ra b ly in flu e n ced . I th e re fo re m ost w a rm ly rec o m m en d Mr. L ouis K u h n e s H y d ro p a th ic E sta b lish m e n t, 24 F lo ssp la tz, L eip zig , to all sufTerers. L eipzig. (M iss) E. F ., A rtist.

No. 103.

Discharge from the ear, Pain in the ear, Climatic fever

D ea r S ir: In re c e ip t o f y o u r le tte r o f a d vice , I am h a p p y , a f te r sc a rc e ly th re e w e e k s tre a tm e n t, to be able to re p o r t to y ou m y co m p lete re c o v e ry fro m m y old c h ro n ic c o m p la in ts : d isc h a rg e fr o m the ear ( o to r r h e a ), p a in in the ear (o ta lg ia ), a n d tro p ica l fe v e r . I beg to offer y ou m y sin c e re an d h e a rty th a n k s fo r y o u r assista n c e . I am e x tre m e ly w ell, a n d am o n ly n o w u n d e rg o in g an a fte rtre a tm e n t

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No. 10b.

Chronic gout

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I am ab le to in f o rm y ou th a t I have ju s t c u re d a m an , P au l K o f c h r o n ic g out fro m w h ic h h e h a d su ffered fo r 25 y ea rs. He h a d b ee n d e c la re d in c u ra b le by five p h y s ic ia n s ; I c u re d h im in six w ee k s b y m ea n s o f y o u r s y s te m o f trea tm en t. Please h av e th e k in d n e ss to se n d m e p e r p o st a co p y o f y o u r b ook, T h e N ew S cie n ce o f H ea lin g , eleg a n t clo th , G erm an ed itio n . I re m a in , Y ours tru ly , H ee rd t, K reis N euss. F ra n z S.

No. 105.

Hepatic colic, Hysterical crying

D ear Mr. K u h n e : As re g a rd s m y h e a lth , I can give you th e b est r e p o rt. I h av e v e ry o ften h ad h e p a tic colic, alw a y s la stin g som e d ay s. A w ee k a f te rw a rd s I h a d fits o f h y s te r ic a l c ry in g , fro m w h ic h I h av e alw a y s su ffered m u c h . B y fo llo w in g y o u r p re sc rip tio n s I h av e n o w c u re d m y se lf o f all th e se old tro u b le s. T h e g re a te s t fu n I h av e is w ith th e p h y sic ia n s, w h o h av e tre a te d m e so lo n g w ith o u t su ccess. W h en I m eet one o f th em , h e w ill alw a y s sto p m e an d ask w h a t I h av e d o n e w ith m y d iseases, as I have n o w q u ite a slim figure a n d su c h fre s h y o u th fu l co m p lex io n . T h e re w e re o v er 30 p h y s ic ia n s in B ielefeld w h o m I c o n su lte d d u rin g m y 20 y e a r s illn ess. All th a t w e co u ld h av e saved h a s b ee n th ro w n a w a y in d o c to rs fees an d c h e m is ts bills. Y ours fa ith fu lly , B ielefeld. M. H.

No. 106.

Diphtheria, Constipation, Pain in the back, Irregular menstruation, Headache, Pain in the eyes

D ea r Mr. K u h n e : L ast au tu m n m y son h a d an a tta c k o f d ip h th e ria , w h ic h I h av e c u re d b y y o u r sy stem alone. T h e m e d ic in e p re s c rib e d by th e d o c to r all fo u n d its w ay d o w n th e sin k . H e w a n te d at th e v e ry c o m m e n c e m e n t o f th e illn ess to h av e m y son ta k en to th e h o sp ita l, as h is c o n d itio n w a s se rio u s. I h av e also u sed y o u r c u re w ith th e g re a te st su ccess in m y o w n case. I w as su ffe rin g fro m se v ere c o n stip a tio n , p a in in th e back, irreg u la r m e n stru a tio n , h e a d ache, p a in in the eyes, w h ic h all soon d isa p p e a re d . E v en th e first b a th h a d th e d e s ire d effect on th e b ow els, ju st as you d e s c rib e in y o u r book. I am so th a n k fu l, th a t c h a n c e p u t y o u r vo lu m e in m y w ay. Y ours fa ith fu lly , Celle. (M rs.) E. H.

No. 107.

Epilepsy, Convulsive attacks

D ear Mr. K u h n e : .1 feel it m y o b lig a tio n to e x p re ss m y h e a rty th a n k s to y o u fo r th e q u ic k re c o v e ry o f m y little c h ild , aged 10, fro m e p ile p s y a n d c o n v u lsiv e a tta c ks o f th e w o rs t k in d . A fter w e h a d b een u sin g m e d ic in e fo r a lo n g tim e, an d th e d o c to r h a d a t la st d e

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c la re d th a t he co u ld n o t f u r th e r assist, ad v isin g us to co n su lt P ro fe ss o r , w e h e a rd o f y o u r in v a lu ab le m e th o d . A cting on y o u r ad v ice, w e gave d aily b ath s a n d s tric tly n a tu ra l diet. To o u r g re a t sa tisfa c tio n th e co n d itio n o f o u r c h ild , ex trem ely b ad as it w as, im p ro v e d at once. In a w e e k th e ch ild , b o d ily a n d m e n tally re s to re d , w as able again to ta k e u p th e school-lessons. I sh a ll n o t fa il to re c o m m e n d y o u r v alu ed m e th o d o f c u re w h e re v e r I can , an d w ith re n e w e d th a n k s beg to rem a in , Y ours tru ly , S ch onefeld. F ra n z A nton B.

No. 108.

Inflammation of the spinal-cord, Nervousness

D ear S ir: A fte r h a v in g e x p e rie n c e d w h a t y o u r m e th o d o f h e a lin g h as w o rk e d u p o n m y b ody, I c a n n o t r e f r a in fro m w ritin g to you. I am 28 y ea rs o f age an d w as su ffe rin g fro m e x tre m e n ervo u sn e ss a n d in fla m m a tio n o f the sp in a l-c o rd , w h ic h m e d ic a l tre a tm e n t h a d b ro u g h t so fa r, th a t I co u ld n e ith e r sit n o r w alk , an d w as at la st d e c la re d b y th e m e d ica l m en to be in cu ra b le. A fte r u sin g y o u r system o f cu re, w h ic h h a d b een re c o m m e n d e d to me, fo r o n ly tw elv e w eeks, I w as a lre a d y w ell enough to get ab o u t w ith th e a id o f a stick , a n d to -d ay I am in th e h a p p y p o sitio n o f b e in g able to w a lk an h o u r or m o re w ith o u t a n y s tic k at all. I te n d e r yo u m y b est th a n k s, a n d m ore, Y ours v e ry tru ly , B e rk sd o rf, n e a r Z ittau . G ustav S.

No. 109.

Gastric catarrh, Cancer of the stomach, Induration of the liver, Enlargement of the spleen, Bladder and kidney complaints, Constipation, etc.

D ear Mr. K u h n e : I feel c a lle d u p o n to offer yo u m y s in c e re s t th a n k s fo r h av in g , th ro u g h y o u r system o f c u re , fre e d m e fro m a m o st d a n g e ro u s illn ess. W ith th e a id o f th e h ip -b a th , a n d a p p ro p ria te m a n n e r o f liv in g w h ic h you o rd e re d m e, I h av e got r id o f th e co m p la in ts m e n tio n e d b elow , w h ic h fa c t I h av e m u c h p le asu re, w ith o u t so lic ita tio n , in re c o rd in g , in o rd e r to in d u c e o th e r su ffe re rs to tru s t th e ir cases to y o u r m e th o d o f cu re. I su ffe re d fo r yea rs fro m g a stric catarrh, w h ic h w as th re a te n in g to b rin g on ca n cer o f th e sto m a ch , a n d ca u se d m e th e m o st d re a d fu l to rtu re an d p a in . In a d d itio n to th is I w as tro u b le d w ith in d u ra tio n o f th e liver, en la rg em e n t o f the spleen , b la d d er a n d k id n e y co m p la in ts, a n d co m p le te su p p re s sio n o f th e stool, etc. All th e m e d ic in e s used, all th e c o n s u lta tio n s o f various s p e c ia lists (P ro fe sso rs at th e U n iv e rsity H o sp ita l), w e re n o t in th e least able to in d u c e re g u la r m o tio n o f th e bow els, m u ch less to d e c re a s e m y o th e r d iso rd e rs. O nly sin c e I h av e a d o p te d y o u r system h as full v ita lity ag ain e n te re d in to m y w h o le body. W ith a th o u sa n d th a n k s, Y ours v e ry tru ly , T etsch e n on th e E lbe. W . A., Im p e ria l C ustom -house Officer.

No. 110.

Advanced consumption

D ear Mr. K u h n e: A fter h a v in g m ad e som e v e ry b ad e x p e rie n c e s w ith m e d ica l m en, I b o u g h t y o u r tex t-book T he N ew S cience o f H ealin g . My c h ild , w h ic h w as su ffe rin g fro m a d v a n c ed co n su m p tio n , h a d b een given u p b y th e p h y sic ia n , w h o d e c la re d th a t it w as

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No. 111.

Burns

My d e a r S i r : My son, A ugust, sc a ld ed h is rig h t h a n d w ith b o ilin g w a te r. I t w as fo rtu n a te th a t I p o ssessed y o u r book, a n d w as th u s in a p o sitio n to tre a t th e sc ald s a c c o rd in g to y o u r in s tru c tio n s. T h e re su lt w a s a s to n ish in g : w ith in a w e e k e v e r y b u rn w as h ea led a n d n o t a sin g le sc a r h a s re m a in e d fro m th e tre a tm e n t. I feel th e m o re th a n k fu l to you, b ec au se a sim ila r th in g h a p p e n e d to m e som e y ea rs ago, a n d n ot k n o w in g a n y th in g o f y o u r system th e n , I co n su lte d a m e d ica l m an . Com p a re d w ith y o u r m e th o d , h is tre a tm e n t w a s lik e n ig h t to d ay . I am , th e re fo re , h a p p y to p u b lic ly a w a rd you ev ery ack n o w led g e m e n t. I am , Y ours v e ry tru ly , T en g e rn . H e in ric h B.

No. 112.

Affection of the stomach, Weakness of the chest, Pulmonary catarrh

H av in g been re sto re d to h e a lth b y Mr. K u h n e s m e th o d o f tre a tm e n t, I feel ca lle d u p o n to p u b lic ly e x p re ss m y o b lig a tio n to him . F o r 16 y ea rs I su ffered d re a d fu lly fro m an a ffe c tio n o f th e sto m a c h , th e b ow els n e v e r m o v e d unless th ro u g h a p u rg a tive , a n d d u rin g th e la st 4 o r 5 y ea rs I h av e been, so to say, unable to urinate. I h a d also a w e a k ch e st a n d su ffered fro m p u lm o n a ry catarrh. I co n su lte d n u m e ro u s p h y s ic ia n s in F re ib u rg , B ern an d G eneva, w h o w e re u n fo rtu n a te ly u n ab le to h elp m e, n o t even b ein g in a p o sitio n to b r in g m e a little re lie f. A fter h a v in g fo llo w ed th e sp e c ia l in stru c tio n s o f Mr. K u h n e fo r se v eral w eeks, I am ag ain p e rfe c tly able to a tte n d to m y b u sin ess, an d to c o n d u c t m y hotel, c o rre sp o n d e n c e , book-k eep in g , etc. I feel m y se lf ag ain th o ro u g h ly w ell a n d equal to m y w o rk th ro u g h fo llo w in g th e d ie t a n d o th e r p re s c rip tio n s o f Mr. K uhne a n d th is I am p le a se d to c e rtify w h o lly u n so lic ite d . S ch w arzse eb a d , C anton F re ib u rg , (S w itz e rla n d ). E. W. S.

No. 113. Running from the ear, Headache, Polypus in the ear and throat, Discharge from the auditory ossicles
D ear Mr. K u h n e: My son h a d been su ffe rin g fo r 7 y ea rs fro m diseases o f th e ear a n d throat, all m e d icin es p ro v in g useless. L ast S ep tem b er m y c h ild w as tro u b le d w ith d re a d fu l ru n n in g fr o m th e ear a n d h ea d a ch es; w h e re fo re I c o n su lte d a sp e c ia list fo r d is eases o f th e ear, nose an d th ro a t. He d ia g n o sed p o ly p u s in th e ear a n d n o se an d ad v ised o p e ra tio n , w h ic h w as a c c o rd in g ly at o n ce p e rfo rm e d . A fter th re e w eeks I h a d m y c h ild ex a m in e d again, an d th is tim e th e p h y s ic ia n sta te d th a t th e re w as a d isch a rg e fr o m th e a u d ito r y ossicles, an d th a t a se co n d o p e ra tio n w as n ec es sa ry . I co n su lte d a h o m e o p a th ic p h y sic ia n , b u t he co n firm ed th e d iag n o sis. W h ilst on a jo u rn e y , h o w ev e r, I h a p p e n e d to h e a r o f y o u r e sta b lish m e n t, a n d I th e re fo re tra v e lle d to L eip zig w ith m y son. A fter tre a tin g m y ch ild fo r five w eek s a cc o rd in g to y o u r sp ecia l in stru c tio n s, h e w as q u ite cu red . I th e re fo re look u p o n it as m y d u ty , to sen d y ou m y h e a rtfe lt th a n k s. N ot m y se lf p o sse ssin g a

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co p y o f y o u r book, T he N ew S cien ce o f H ea lin g , a n d w ish in g , h o w ev e r, to have it, I beg you to k in d ly f o rw a r d m e a c o p y o f th e w o rk . It is a v e rita b le h o u se h o ld tre a su re , a n d sh o u ld n o t fa il in a n y fam ily . I rem a in , Y ours v e ry tru ly , V o llm arsliain . B ru n o S.

No. l l i .

Stone in the bladder, Easy parturition, Pulmonary affection

D ear Mr. K u h n e : It affo rd s m e m u c h p le a su re to be able to re p o r t to y ou, th a t I am g oing on v ery w ell a n d feel ag ain m u c h b e tte r. A nd I ca n give a lik e r e p o r t o f o th e r p a tie n ts w h o h av e m a d e th e b e st e x p e rie n c e s w ith y o u r m e th o d , w h e n s tric tly fo llo w ed . T h e y o u n g son o f a m ille r, fo r in sta n c e , w as su ffe rin g fro m sto n e in th e b la d d er, an d th e tre a tm e n t o f th e p h y s ic ia n s w a s o f n o avail. At le n g th h e fo llo w e d y o u r p re s c r ip tio n s e x a c tly a n d in a s h o rt tim e th e sto n e s d isso lv ed a n d w e re ex p elled fro m th e b o d y by p a s sin g w ith th e u rin e . A w o m an , 37 y e a rs o f age, w h o h a d a lre a d y h a d se v eral difficult b irth s , an d n ev e r b een able to give th e c h ild re n th e b re a st, lik e w ise a d o p te d y o u r tre a tm e n t. T h e re s u lt w a s th a t th is tim e she bore tw in s, an d h a d a v e ry easy b irth , w ith o u t th e a tte n d a n ce o f a m id w ife . A nd w h e re a s th e w o m an h a d n e v e r b een able to su ck le a n y o f h e r f o rm e r c h ild re n , she h a d n o w a b u n d a n t m ilk fo r b o th b ab ies. A y o u th su ffe rin g fro m p u lm o n a ry d isease is n o w u s in g y o u r tre a tm e n t, a n d h is c o n d itio n is ste a d ily im p ro v in g , alth o u g h he h a s b een d e c la re d in c u ra b le b y th e d o cto rs. Y our m e th o d m akes g re a t p ro g re ss h ere. Y ours v e ry tru ly , G erm a n ia C osta de S e rra , B razil. H. S.

No. 115.

Disease of the eye, Eruption of the skin of the face, Disease of the throat, Diphtheria, Measles, Scarlet fever

D ear Mr. K u h n e : It is still q u ite as difficult fo r m e to -d ay , as ever, to find sufficient w o rd s to th a n k y o u fo r w h a t I ow e you. A lth o u g h I w as n e a rly alw a y s ro sy ch e ek e d an d sto u t, I w as fre q u e n tly ill. E ven as a little c h ild I su ffered fro m a p a in fu l disease o f th e eye, w h ic h , h o w e v e r, q u ite d is a p p e a re d as I g rew o ld e r. F ro m th a t tim e, h o w ev e r, I h a d a p e rp e tu a l a n d tro u b le so m e e ru p tio n o f th e s k in , e s p e c ia lly o f th e fa c e . N ever a y e a r p a sse d b u t w h a t I w as se rio u sly ill. E v e ry y e a r I su ffered fro m disease o f th e throat, d ip h th e ria , m easles o r sc a rle t-fe v e r, o fte n so se rio u sly th a t m y re c o v e ry w as d o u b tfu l. W h e n I n o w reflec t h o w w re tc h e d ly ill I th e n w as an d h o w w ell I n o w am , I sim p ly c a n n o t find th e w o rd s to d e sc rib e m y feelin g s. T h e tre a tm e n t yo u re c o m m e n d e d m e in y o u r le tte r w as a ra d ic a l one. My re la tio n s to ld m e a fte r I re c o v e re d , th a t m y p h y s io g n o m y w as q u ite a n o th e r. I t is su p erflu o u s to assu re you o f m y th o ro u g h b e lie f in y o u r sy stem . I w a rm ly re c o m m e n d y o u r m e th o d on ev ery o cc asio n . T h a n k in g yo u ag ain fro m th e b o tto m o f m y h e a rt, I re m a in , Y ours v e ry sin c e re ly , O ettin g en . L in a M.

No. 116.

Tuberculosed knee, Splinters of bone

D ear Mr. K u h n e: I re a lly do n o t k n o w in w h ic h m a n n e r, a n d w ith w h a t w o rd s , I c a n b est give you a c lea r p ic tu r e o f m y p re s e n t fra m e o f m in d , a n d th a n k y o u fo r all th e good se rv ic e s you h av e re n d e re d me.

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I feel h o rrifie d n o w , w h e n I th in k h o w m y tu b e rc u lo se d k n e e w as tre a te d b y th e d o c to rs f o r 5 y ea rs, so th a t finally th e bo n e becam e sp lin te re d , an d I h a d to be o p e ra te d u p o n . I am alw a y s te llin g o f it. Suffice it h e re to say, th a t w h e n , th re e m o n th s a f te r th e o p e ra tio n , th e p h y s ic ia n s d e c la re d I w as q u ite c u re d , I m y se lf fe lt m is e ra b ly ill. You h a d th e b est p r o o f o f th is, w h e n I cam e to you fo r tr e a t m ent. T he k n ee, in sp ite o f th e b an d a g e 10 y a rd s lo n g , w h ic h I h a d w o rn fo r 5 y ea rs, w as sw o llen up ag ain an d h a d b ro k e n o p en a t th e p la c e o p e ra te d . A fter th e v e ry first d ay o f y o u r tre a tm e n t, th e b a n d a g e 'w a s no lo n g e r n e c e s sa ry . T h e k n ee assu m ed its n o rm a l size ag ain a n d th e w o u n d b ec am e g ra d u a lly sm a lle r u n til it closed. T o -d ay I am in th e h a p p y p o sitio n o f se ein g m y leg h e a le d , h e n c e m y sin c e re th a n k s , a n d m y h ig h re s p e c t fo r you. May G od re w a r d you fo r th e good se rv ic es you h av e p e rfo rm e d fo r m e an d so m a n y o th e rs ; an d m a y y ou, d e a r Mr. K u h n e, lo n g b e s p a re d to y o u r fam ily , to w o rk m a n y y e a rs fo r th e good o f m a n k in d . W ith m a n y k in d re m e m b ra n c e s, B elieve me, Most sin c e re ly y o u rs, C zern ow itz, B u k o w in a. S tefan S., T h eo lo g ica l S tu d en t.

No. 117.

Spondylitis, Easy pregnancy

My d e a r S ir: T h e la d y w h o is n o w m y w ife w as su ffe rin g som e tim e ag o ,-as th e p h y sic ia n sa id , fro m s p o n d y litis ( in fla m m a tio n o f a v e rte b ra ). F o r o v er tw o y e a rs she h a d alw ay s to keep in a re c lin e d p o sitio n a n d w as tre a te d o rth o p a e d ic a lly w ith p la ster bandages, etc., b u t w ith o u t th e d isease b e c o m in g in a n y w a y b e tte r. She w as fin ally given u p b y th e p h y s ic ia n s , w h o e x p e c te d th e fo rm a tio n o f an ab scess o r th e like. J u s t a t th is tim e h e r a tte n tio n w as ca lled to y o u r b o o k ; she p u rc h a s e d it, an d se n t it to m e fo r m y ad v ice. I re a d th e vo lu m e th ro u g h , a n d a d v ise d th e p a tie n t to m ak e a se rio u s tr ia l o f y o u r system . T he re su lt w as an a s to n ish in g o n e : th e ab scess e x p e c te d by th e d o c to rs d id n o t m ake its a p p e a ra n c e . On th e c o n tra ry , th e p a tie n ts g en e ral c o n d itio n im p ro v e d c o n s id e ra b ly , so th a t sh e w as soon able to rise a n d to th e a s to n ish m e n t o f th e p h y s ic ia n s w a lk w ith o u t a ssista n ce . She w as also ahle b e fo re lo ng to d is c a rd th e sp in e -ja c k e t sh e h a d to w e a r. L ast y e a r th e p a tie n t, given u p b y th e p h y s ic ia n s , b ecam e m y w ife , an d I h o p e in th e se days w ill p r e s e n t m e w ith a h e a lth y c h ild . B oth o f us, m y w ife an d I, a re c o n v in ce d th a t it w as y o u r sy stem o f c u rin g d iseases w h ic h saved h e r life . I beg, th e re fo re , to be allo w ed to e x p re ss m y h e a r tfe lt th a n k s to you, b o th in m y o w n n am e a n d in th a t o f m y w ife . W ith sin c e re good w ish e s, I re m a in , Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , Z u ric h . M. von S.

No. 118.

Tuberculosis

D ear Mr. K u h n e: I cam e in to p o sse ssio n o f y o u r book, T h e N ew S cien ce o f H ealin g , tw o y ea rs ago, an d am n o w able to in fo rm you th a t I h av e o b ta in e d su c h re m a rk a b le resu lts in m y illn ess, tu b e rcu lo sis, th a t I feel I ow e y ou life -lo n g th a n k s. T h e d a u g h te r o f an in n -k e e p e r in th is n e ig h b o rh o o d is a c rip p le , an d th e m e d ica l m en say th a t an im p ro v e m e n t in h e r c o n d itio n is im p o ssib le . N ev e rth e less I am c o n v in c e d th a t so m e th in g can be done. W ill you be good en o u g h to sen d m e y o u r o p in io n a n d a d v ic e ? I am , F a ith fu lly yo u rs, O b e rste in a c h , B a v aria. Jo se p h H.

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No. 119. Trachoma

D ear Mr. K u h n e : F o r five y ea rs I w as su ffe rin g fro m tra ch o m a (E g y p tia n eye d ise a se), a n d th e re w as no m e d ica l m an w h o co u ld h elp me. I w a s co m p elled , th e re fo re , to tr y y o u r m eth o d , a n d o b ta in e d e x tra o rd in a r ily good resu lts. W ith in tw o m o n th s m y eyes w e re q u ite c le a r a n d th e d isease h as n o t re tu rn e d . I f p o ssib le, I in te n d g oing to L eip zig n ex t y e a r in o r d e r to v isit y o u a n d y o u r fa r-fa m e d estab lish m e n t. May I beg y ou to se n d m e som e 30 G erm an a n d 30 H u n g a ria n g ra tis-lea flets w ith re p o rts o f c u re s ? I w ish to d istrib u te th e m am o n g st m y fr ie n d s . B elieve m e to be, V ery tru ly yo u rs, B u d apest, H u n g ary . K arl T.

No. 120.

Dropsy, Swollen legs, Headaches, Constipation

D ear S ir: I h ave h a d y o u r book ab o u t th e N ew S cie n ce o f H ealin g n o w fo r a y ear. At m y re c o m m e n d a tio n m a n y frie n d s h av e p ro c u re d it, an d th e y all find it v e ry good a n d p r a c tic a l. My w ife , 32 y e a rs o f age, h a d su ffered sin c e c h ild h o o d fro m c o n s tip a tio n an d h eadaches a n d h a d been co m p elled to sw allo w all k in d s o f m e d ic in e s a n d p u rg ativ es. S ince u sin g y o u r cu re, h o w ev e r, all th e se tro u b le s have v a n ish e d , even h e r sw o lle n legs a n d d r o p s y as d ia g n o sed by th e p h y sic ia n s h av e becom e w ell. I h av e m y se lf u sed y o u r b a th s w ith b est su ccess ag a in st co n stip a tio n . P lease se n d m e copies o f y o u r o th e r w o rk s, in c lu d in g th e volum e on th e S cien ce o f F a c ia l E x p re ssio n a n d a c o o k e ry book. I t w ill alw ay s be m y e a rn e st e n d e a v o r in th e fu tu re , as n o w , to s p re a d th e p r in cip le s o f th e N ew S cie n ce o f H ealing. I re m a in , D ear S ir, Y ours fa ith fu lly , B o lk en h a in , (S ile sia ). K arl K.

No. 121.

Hemorrhoidal affection, Sleeplessness, Paroxysms of rage, Constipation

D ea r S ir: A fter h a v in g d isp e n se d w ith th e se rv ic es o f m y p h y s ic ia n s w h o h a d tre a te d m e fo r th re e y ea rs w ith o u t ac c o m p lish in g a n y th in g at all, I co m m en ced fo llo w in g th e a d vice y o u h a d se n t m e p e r letter. I to o k th e b a th s s tr ic tly a cc o rd in g to y o u r in stru c tio n s, a n d also th e diet. My w ife a n d c h ild re n h av e been a sto n ish e d , w h e n I h av e la u g h ed som etim es re c e n tly , fo r th a t is so m e th in g w h ic h I h av e n o t do n e fo r 3 y ears. My b o w els are n o w in order, th e p ile s an d also p a ro x y sm s o f rage, fro m w h ic h I su ffered , are b o th c u re d ; I ca n also sleep w ell, w h e re a s fo rm e rly I h av e alw ay s su ffered fro m in so m n ia . P e rm it m e to te n d e r you m y sin c e re th a n k s, a n d b eliev e me, D ea r Mr. K uhne, Y ours m o st tru ly , St. P e te rsb u rg , R ussia. H. W.

No. 122.

Liver disease, Constipation

D ear S ir: H e re w ith allow us (Mr. B. a n d m y self) to offer y o u o u r b est th a n k s fo r w h a t you h av e done fo r us. W e w e re in L eipzig in Ju ly 1893 a n d h a d su c h su ccess w ith y o u r c u re th a t w e alw ays feel h a p p y to reflect u p o n it.

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Mr. B w as su ffe rin g se v e re ly fr o m th e liv e r a n d all frie n d s h e re in D en m ark look u p o n it as a re a l m ira c le th a t it w as p o ssib le to c u re h im . I su ffered fro m c o n stip a tio n an d lik e w ise w as q u ic k ly cu re d . W e h av e m an y v isito rs co m in g an d w ish in g to h e a r o f y o u r sy stem a n d books. P lease sen d m e som e o f y o u r p ro p a g a n d a le a fle ts in D anish a n d S w e d is h , an d I w ill d istrib u te them in D en m a rk , N o rw ay , a n d S w eden. It is th e n e a sie r fo r m e to in tro d u c e y o u r boo k s a n d to c o n v in ce peo p le. Y ours v e ry tru ly , M o rd ru p g a ard , D en m a rk . (M rs.) H. B.

No. 123.

Consumption, Cough, Discharge of mucus from mouth, Sputum containing blood.

D ear S ir: O vercom e b y m y feelin g s, I c a n n o t r e f r a in fro m e x p re ssin g m y sin c e re s t a n d w a rm e st th a n k s fo r th e tre a tm e n t y o u so c a r e fu lly p re sc r ib e d fo r m e in m y serio u s illness. I w as su ffe rin g fro m c o n s u m p tio n a n d cough, disch a rg e o f m u c u s fr o m th e m o u th , an d o f s p u tu m c o n ta in in g blood. I h a d h a d th e d isease fo r 8 yea rs in severe fo r m . N e ith e r d o m e stic re m e d ie s, n o r d o c to rs, n o r ch e m ists se rv e d a n y p u rp o se , on th e c o n tra ry I b ecam e w o rse. T h e d isease w as c h ro n ic , to an ex ten t no o ne im a g in e d ; m y c o n d itio n w as in ev e ry w a y d e p lo ra b le , an d m y fa ith in m e d ica l m en v a n ish e d e n tire ly . On D ecem b er 4th, m y a tte n tio n w as d ra w n to y o u r N ew S cien ce o f H ealing. B y fo llo w in g y o u r tre a tm e n t I o b ta in e d r e lie f a lre a d y on th e seco n d o r th ir d d ay ; m y c h ro n ic c o m p la in t b ec am e b e tte r fro m w eek to w eek an d n o w , a f te r th re e m o n th s, is c o m p letely c u re d . I feel fre sh a n d h e a lth y , an d o n ly w ish th a t all o th e r su ffe re rs w o u ld tr y y o u r m e th o d th a t it m ay p ro v e a p e rp e tu a l so u rc e o f c o m fo rt to sic k h u m a n ity . It alo n e is th e tru e m ean s o f c u rin g all diseases. I re m a in , Y ours v e ry tru ly , P lo tzk , G ouvern em en t B e ssarab ia, R ussia. G o ttfried M. (44 y ea rs o f ag e).

No. 12k.

Dropsy, Pleurisy, Pulmonary consumption

D ear Mr. K u h n e: I am o n ly se n d in g you th e se lin e s to e x p re ss m y sin c e re th a n k s fo r th e ex cellen t h e a lth "which y o u r m e th o d h as re sto re d to m e. I h av e th e g rea test esteem fo r you, w h e n I c o n s id e r w h a t yo u have do n e fo r m e. You a re a tru e sa v io r to su ffe re rs. F o r tw o y e a rs I h a d b een su ffe rin g sev erely fro m p le u r is y an d h a d to keep m y b ed . D ro p sy also m ad e its a p p e a ra n c e . T h e d o c to rs trie d to allev iate th e tro u b le , b u t in v ain , a n d I at la st cam e to h av e a re g u la r h o r r o r o f p ro fe sso rs an d m ed ical m en g en erally . T h ro u g h y o u r p r e sc rip tio n s alone, I h av e b een c u re d . On th e v ery first d ay o f th e tre a tm e n t, even, I felt b e tte r, a n d th e tu m o rs on th e ab d o m en dissolved. F o r m y re c o v e re d h e a lth , I m u st ag ain offer y o u m y w a rm e st th a n k s, D ear Mr. K uhne, an d beg to rem a in , Y ours v e ry sin c erely , B in zik o n , S w itze rlan d . (M iss) Id a S.

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Glandular swelling, Toothache, Eye disease, Pharyngeal catarrh, Pulmonary catarrh, Shortness of breath, Asthma, Pollutions

T h e w r ite r o f these lin e s, a m is sio n a ry b y p ro fe ssio n , co u n ts h im s e lf h a p p y fo r h a v in g com e to k n o w an d stu d y y o u r N ew S cience o f H ealing. It w as th e sim ple fa c t th a t y o u r book h as b een tra n s la te d in to 25 lang u ag es w h ic h d re w m y a tte n tio n to it. I am n o w stu d y in g y o u r S cien ce o f F a c ia l E x p re ssio n an d o th e r w r it in g s; a n d ev e ry w h e re I go, I w ill s p re a d a k n o w led g e o f y o u r m eth o d . I su ffe re d sev erely fro m toothache, sw e llin g o f the gla n d s on b o th th e rig h t and le ft sid es, d u lln e ss o f the eyes, a n d s lim e d th ro a t (p h a ry n g ea l c a ta rrh ). H ere in S ch o n au I fo llo w ed y o u r w ritte n in s tru c tio n s as closely as p o ssib le a n d th e re s u lt w as m o st h a p p y . I have n o th in g w h a te v e r a g a in st y o u r m a k in g use o f th is f a c t in y o u r le ctu res, o r w h e re y ou m ay w ish . I sh o u ld , w ith o u t d o u b t, h av e d ie d of co n s u m p tio n in a few y e a rs; but, as it is, h av e com e u p o n th e rig h t p a th in tim e. My sh o rtn e ss o f breath, p u lm o n a ry catarrh an d asth m a h av e n o w been co m p letely c u re d an d lik e w ise th e p o llu tio n s. W ith g rea test re sp e c t a n d b est re g a rd s, Y ours v e ry fa ith fu lly , S ch o n au . (R ev.) E.

No. 126.

Easy pregnancy and birth

D ear Mr. K u h n e: As you to ld us, so it h as com e about. My w ife w as s a fe ly d e liv e re d o f a s tu rd y b o y on A p ril 3rd. She h a d fo llo w e d y o u r sy ste m w ith th e g re a te st en e rg y b e fo re th e ac co u c h em en t, e x a c tly in a cc o rd a n ce w ith y o u r in stru c tio n s. D u rin g p re g n a n c y all w e n t v e ry w ell. At 9 :3 0 th e la b o r p a in s co m m en ced , an d at 9:45 th a t is, in a q u a rte r o f an h o u r th e c h ild w a s b o rn . My fam ily p h y sic ia n , w h o a tte n d e d a t m y req u e st, h a d gone aw a y ag ain ju st an h o u r b e fo re th e d eliv ery , n o t e x p e c tin g it fo r tw o days. C o n tra ry to h is ex p e ctatio n s, th e ch ild a rriv e d soon a f te r h is d e p a rtu re , so I officiated m y se lf as ac c o u c h e u r. A fter th e d e liv e ry m y w ife felt q u ite w ell im m e d ia te ly ; h e r first th o u g h ts w e re o f you, Mr. K u h n e: T h a t is all ju s t as Mr. K uhne p r e d ic te d , w e re h e r first w o rd s. A ccep t o u r s in c e re s t th a n k s f o r y o u r m o st e x c e lle n t a d vice . Y o u r b o o k is, an d w ill ev er re m a in , a h o ly gospel. O u r fam ily d o c to r, w h o c a lle d la te r, sa id th a t n e v e r in h is w h o le 41 y e a rs p ra c tic e (h e is 65 y e a rs o f age) h a d he seen a n y th in g lik e th is b e fo re . T h is case w as a tr iu m p h fo r y o u r system 1 W ith k in d re g a rd s fro m b o th Mrs. S. an d m yself, I re m a in , T ru ly y o u rs, Schloss L., H olland. A. S., C a p tain o f H orse.

No. 127.

Rectal fistula, Intestinal ulcer

My d e a r S ir: I am in re c e ip t o f y o u r f u rth e r le tte r in q u ir in g as to m y c o n d itio n a f te r fo llo w in g y o u r p re v io u s le tte r o f ex a ct in stru c tio n s. W ith m u ch p le a su re I can in fo rm you th a t th e recta l fistu la a n d th e in te stin a l ulcer h av e b een c u re d a fo rtn ig h t ago. At first, I w as u n fo rtu n a te ly u n ab le to fo llo w y o u r in s tru c tio n s e x a c tly ; b u t a f te r w a rd s c a r rie d o u t all y o u r ex c ellen t advice. D u rin g th e seco n d w eek o f Ja n u a ry , I co m m en ced to ta k e 2 o r 3 fric tio n sitz-b ath s d aily , b u t, on ac c o u n t o f th e severe cold, at a te m p e ra tu re o f fro m 66 to 68 F a h r., I lik e w ise fo llo w ed o ut th e d ie t v e ry p re c ise ly , an d am n o w th o ro u g h ly w ell. W ish in g th a t y o u r ex c ellen t volum es m ay o b ta in a la rg e circ le o f re a d e rs, I r e m ain , w ith m a n y th a n k s, Y ours fa ith fu lly , H olte, n e a r C openhagen, D en m ark . Ju lia L.

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H e re w ith I beg to th a n k Mr. K uhne fo r th e h elp w h ic h he r e n d e re d m e, th ro u g h h is system o f cu re, d u rin g the severe illn ess o f m y 3 y e a r old ch ild . N e ith e r th re a ts , n o r p u n ish m e n t could p re v e n t th e c o n d itio n . F ric tio n sitz-b ath s an d s tr ic t d iet, h o w ev er, cu re d m y c h ild com p letely o f n ervo u sn e ss an d o n a n ism . W ith all co n v ic tio n , I rec o m m en d Mr. K u h n es system ev e ry w h e re . L eipzig. H. S.

No. 129.

Dropsy of the pericardium, Chronic asthma

D ea r S ir: F o r m o re th a n th re e y e a rs I h av e su ffered fro m d ro p s y o f the p e r ic a rd iu m an d severe a sthm a. I have b een in th e tre a tm e n t o f a n u m b e r o f m ilita ry an d civ il p h y sic ia n s, even o f th e fam o u s P ro fe ss o r P. o f C racow , b u t all in vain . It is th ro u g h y o u r a d v ic e an d y o u r text-b o o k alone, th a t I have been cu re d , now' 6 m o n th s ago, fro m m y severe an d d an g e ro u s illn ess. F o r th is rea so n I b eg to offer you m y h e a rtfe lt th a n k s, a n d re m a in , V ery sin c e re ly y o u rs, R zeszow , G alicia. M. A., C lerk in th e D is tric t C o u rt Offices.

No. 130. Articular rheumatism, Cardiac disease, Uterine cancer, Hemorrhoids, Disturbance of the digestion, Indigestion, Pain in the side and back
D ear Mr. K u h n e: As p re s id e n t o f th e K uhne S ociety o f th is to w n , h a v in g a m e m b e rsh ip o f o v er 300, a n d still m o re as a h e a rty a d m ire r o f y o u r m a rv ello u s g en iu s an d h ig h ta len t, I feel m y se lf ca lle d u p o n to re p o r t to y ou h o w y o u r sy stem h as m ad e even th e d y in g h ea lth y , fo r too o fte n a re p a tie n ts given u p as d o o m ed b y friv o lo u s an d u n th in k in g p h y sic ia n s. One p a tie n t c u re d b y y o u r sy ste m , w as su ffe rin g in th e last stag e o f a rticu la r rh e u m a tism , w h ic h h a d a lre a d y gone to th e h eart. A w o m an su fferin g fro m u te rin e ca n c er lik e w ise ad o p ted y o u r sy stem o f cu re. She h a d been tre a te d a lre a d y b y ten m ed ic a l n o ta b ilitie s w ith o u t su ccess. A m ongst th em w as th e d ire c to r o f th e to w n h o sp ita l h ere, w ho co m m en ced o p e ra tin g , b u t a f te r h av in g la id open the ab d o m en , fe a re d to co m p lete th e o p e ra tio n , th e p a tie n t b ein g e x tre m e ly w eak. T he disease h a d gone so f a r th a t all th e p h y s ic ia n s sta te d th e w om an could n o t live lo n g e r th a n 3 m o n th s at th e m ost. In sp ite o f th is, sh e has n o w liv ed 6 m o n th s, an d h e r in c u ra b le d isease h a s v an ish ed . I h a ve fo llo w e d y o u r p re sc rip tio n s m y se lf fo r m ore th a n a y e a r a n d h av e so m u c h im p ro v e d in h e a lth , th a t I m ay c o n s id e r m y se lf c u re d . My tro u b le s w e re h e m o rrh o id s an d d is tu rb a n ce o f th e d ig e stio n , w h ic h cau sed v ery u n p le a sa n t d iso rd ers o f th e sto m a ch , p ain s in th e fr o n t, sid e an d back. You ca n m ake an y use you deem ad v isab le o f th e fo re g o in g u n so lic ite d te stim o n y . W ith b est co m p lim e n ts an d th a n k s, I am , Y ours v e ry tru ly , B uenos-A ires. V in ce n t D., P re s id e n t o f th e K u h n e N atu re C ure S o ciety .

No. 131.

Disease of the eye

D ear Mr. K u h n e: I ow e you too m a n y th a n k s to o m it to b riefly re p o r t to you th e co u rse o f th e disease o f th e eye w h ic h tro u b le d m y son, aged 12 y ears. A fter re c e iv in g y o u r esteem ed le tte r in re p ly to m y n o te a sk in g fo r a d vice, I s tric tly fo llo w ed th e

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p re sc rip tio n s you w ro te. H ow ca n I d e s c rib e m y a s to n ish m e n t? A fter th re e w eeks o f th e b a th s m y b oy w as n e a rly c u re d ; in a w eek m o re h e w as q u ite w ell, an d sin c e th a t d ate n o th in g m o re is to be seen o f th e disease. T h e la d is p e rfe c tly h ea lth y . W h a t th e d o c to rs w ere u n ab le to a c co m p lish in 3 y ea rs, you, S ir, h av e b ro u g h t ab o u t in 4 w eeks by m eans o f y o u r system . A ccep t m y h e a rtie s t th a n k s. I sen d y ou th ese lin e s w h o lly u p o n m y ow n in itia tiv e ; you m ay m ak e w h a te v e r use o f th em y ou m ay c o n s id e r to be in y o u r in te re st. Y ours fa ith fu lly , R em sch eid -H asten . G. F.

No. 132. Stricture of the urethra

D ear S ir: It is w ith p le a su re th a t I ta k e up m y p e n to r e p o rt to you th a t y o u r m eth o d of tre a tm e n t w h ic h I h av e fo llo w ed out s tr ic tly in a cco rd a n ce w ith the in stru c tio n s y o u se n t m e in y o u r letter, fro m A ugust 23rd to O cto b er 1st, h a s b ro u g h t m e good h ealth. At th e co m m en c em en t o f th e seco n d w eek, th e in flam m atio n h a v in g gone d o w n , th e str ic tu r e d isa p p e a re d , an d to d a y I find no difficulty in u rin a tin g w ith a stro n g stream , su c h as I w as n ev er able to do b e fo re , even w h e n in. o rd in a r y h ea lth . P ra y a c c e p t th e n , S ir, m y sin c e re a n d h e a rty th a n k s. God b less you a n d y o u r ex c ellen t sy stem ; an d m ay th e la tte r find its w ay ev e ry w h e re o ver th e w h o le e a rth 1 In a few d ays I sh a ll be w ritin g to d e s c rib e to you th e c o n d itio n o f Mrs. H., w h o h as b een su ffe rin g fo r 5 y e a rs fro m d ea fn ess, an d beg th a t y o u w ill th e n k in d ly fo rw a rd m e a le tte r o f in stru c tio n s. I h o p e to be able to call u p o n you p e rso n a lly at an e a rly date. I rem a in , Y ours fa ith fu lly , A ltsohl, H u n g ary . J. H., M an u fa ctu rer.

No. 133.

Public acknowledgement of thanks

On m y d e p a rtu re fro m L eipzig, I feel th a t I c a n n o t n eg lect, w h o lly u n so licited , to p u b lic ly te n d e r m y th a n k s to Mr. L ouis K uhne, o f 24 F lo ssp latz, L eipzig, fo r th e re m a rk a b le c u re w h ic h I have o b ta in e d b y m ean s o f h is ap p ro v e d system . I am 66 y e a rs o f age, a n d su ffered fo r a long tim e fro m d ia b etes m ellitu s, ab o u t w h ic h I co n su lted n u m e ro u s p h y sic ia n s, b u t w ith o u t an y success. Some B arm en frie n d s th e n d re w m y a tte n tio n to K u h n e s N e w S c ie n c e o f H ealing w ith out D rugs a n d w ith o u t O perations. I a c c o rd in g ly tra v e lle d to L eip zig a n d co n sc ie n tio u sly fo llo w ed out all Mr. K u h n es sp e cia l in s tru c tio n s . A fter a fo rtn ig h ts tre a tm e n t th e su g ar h a d d im in is h e d fro m 1.85% to 1.10%; an d a fte r a n o th e r w eek it h a d alto g eth er disap p ea red . O th er tests, m ad e a fte r 4 an d 5 w ee k s tre a tm e n t, lik e w ise sh o w ed no tra c e s o f sugar. All th is w as ce rtified to, q u ite in d e p e n d e n tly o f each other, b y th e sw o rn an a ly sts to th e L eip zig L aw C o u rts; D r. R o h rig , D r. E isn e r, D r. B ach an d D r. P ra g er. W ith a good co n scie n ce , th e re fo re , I can th o ro u g h ly re c o m m e n d K u h n e s s y s tem o f tre a tm e n t to all su ffe re rs, th e m o re so sin c e I h av e p e rso n a l a c q u a in ta n c e s b o th h e re an d in B arm en w h o h av e been c u re d b y Mr. K uhne. L. B., o f B arm en, L eipzig, A ugust 8th, 1898. M a n u fa ctu rer.

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A bdom en, a b n o rm a lly large .................................................................................................. steam -b ath s fo r .................................................................................................... A b d o m in al tu m o rs 18, 75, d iseases 123, 252, 253, A b e rra tio n o f th e m in d ........................................................................................................... A b o rtio n 209, A cute d iseases ............................................................................................................................. A fte r-b irth , a d h e sio n o f th e ............................................................................. 217, 228, A g itatio n , n erv o u s . ................................................................................................................ A g o rap h o b ia ................................................................................................................................. Ague ................................................................................................................................................ A lcoholism , c h ro n ic ................................................................................................................ A llo p ath y , a n d th e N ew S cie n ce o f H e a l i n g .................................................................. A m au ro sis .................................................................................................................................... A m p u ta tio n ................................................................................................................ 191, 198, A nalyses, c h e m ic al .................................................................................................................... A naem ia ............................................................................................... 75, 150, 153, 228, A nger, a cause o f f e r m e n t a t i o n ........................................................................................... A nkle, w ea k ................................................................................................................................ A n tife b rin 45, 171, A n tip y rin ................................................................................................................. 45, 170, A n tisep tic tre a tm e n t 190, A nxiety, a tta c k s o f 136, D irec tio n s fo r b a k in g b re a d ................................................................................................ ta k in g ste am -b ath s ..................................................................................... A ppetite, w a n t o f 81, A pples an d re d cabbage, a p p les a n d green b ea n s, ap p les a n d r i c e ..................... A rm , b ro k e n ................................................................................................................................ p a ra ly z e d ......................................................................................................................... A rtic u la r rh e u m a tism ........................................................... 51, 218, 236, 247, 252, A ssim ilab ility o f foo d s ........................................................................................................... A sthm a ............................................................................................109, 114, 120, 234, 251, A tro p in e, tre a tm e n t w i t h 155, A tro p h y o f th e b r a in ................................................................................................................ A ural d iseases 154, 231, 262, A u scu ltatio n ................................................................................................................................ B B acilli o f le p ro sy ...................................................................................................................... a p ro d u c t o f fe rm e n ta tio n .................................................................... 23, 25, Baby, tre a tm e n t o f 234, Back e n c u m b ra n c e 274, h u m p e d ............................................................................................................................. p a in s in th e .................................................................. 228,231, 245, 248, 263, B a cteria .......................................................................................................................................... B aking d ire c tio n s f o r one o r m o re p e r s o n s .................................................................. B aldness ........................................................................................................................................

226 72 165 256 254 214 25 230 254 150 170 184 12 155 205 87 243 22 197 201 171 197 234 99 70 245 100 199 252 271 85 270 157 108 265 110

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' page B andages, e a r t h ....................................................................................................... 79, 194, 218 p la s te r 258, 267 B a rre n n e ss ..................................................................................................................................... 209 B aths, f r ic tio n h ip ............................................................................................................. 75 f ric tio n s i t z ..................................................................................................................... 75 steam ................................................................................................................................ 70 73 su n .................................................................................................................................... B eans, g reen , a n d a p p l e s ......................................................................................................... 100 h a ric o ts a n d tom atoes ................................................................................................. 100 B ed -w ettin g ..................................................................................................................................... 133 Bee stin g s 203, 204 B eer, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f ........................................................................................................... 81 B e etro o t sa lad ................................................................................................................................. 101 B everages d iilicu lt o f d ig e stio n ........................................................................................... 83 B ilia ry ca lc u li 133, 226, 256 B ilious fe v e r .......................................................................................... B irth , c o n d u c t a f t e r ..................................................................................................................... 221 B irth s, b re e c h ................................................................................................................................. 216 e a s y ................................................................... 214-220, 228, 232, 256, 266, 267, 270 B irth s, p re m a tu re 209, 215, 218 B ites o f sn a k es a n d m ad d o g s .............................................................................................. 203 B lack sp e ck s b e fo re th e e y e s ................................................................................................... 229 B la d d e r c a t a r r h ................................................................................................................ 133, 248 diseases 130-135, 171, 238, 248, 264, 266 sp asm s o f th e ............................................................................................................... 133 sto n e in th e 131, 240, 260, 266 Blood, a c c u m u la tio n s o f ........................................................................................................... 195 d isc h a rg e d w ith u r in e ............................................................................................... 230 loss o f ..................................................................................................................... 65, 230 p o iso n in g ......................................................................................................................... 203 p o v e rty o f th e ................................................................... 75, 147-149, 228, 243, 246 sta g n a tio n o f t h e .................................................................................... 136, 137, 234 tu m o rs a n d cy sts .......................................................................................................... 195 vessels, ty in g u p ............................................................................................................. 193 B o d ily fo rm , ch a n g e o f 14, 18, 19 Body, n o rm a l .............................................................................................................................. 57 w h ic h is h e a tlh y ..................................................................................................... 13, 14 98 B oiled m ilk .................................................................................................................................. Boils 73, 113, 114 Bone, s p lin te re d .......................................................................................................................... 266 tu b e rc u lo sis o f th e .................................................................................. 119, 227, 266 B ony tu m o r ................................................................................................................................... 243 B ottles o f fe rm e n tin g fluid, e x a m p l e s ..................................... 23, 29, 35, 50, 53 B ow els, in fla m m atio n o f t h e 226, 230, 239 B rain , affec tio n o f th e .............................................................................................................. 212 a tro p h y o f th e ................................................................................................................ 108 co n g e stio n o f th e .............................................................................................. 63, 237 co n su m p tio n o f t h e ...................................................................................145, 164 166 in fla m m a tio n o f t h e ................................................................................... 145, 164 166 s o fte n in g o f t h e ............................................................................................................. 241 w a te r on t h e .................................................................................................................... 155 99 B rea d -b ak in g r e c i p e s ................................................................................................................ w h o lem ea l ........................................................................................................................ 99 re c ip e f o r .................................................................................................. 99 c o a rse ....................................................................................................... 84 B rea k fast, n a tu ra l d ie t r e c i p e s ............................................................................................. 99 B rea k in g o p e n o f w o u n d s ............................................................................................. 200 202 B reasts, so re 209, 210 c a n c e r o f th e ....................................................................................... 184-186, 248 B rea th in g , difficulty in .................................. 109, 120, 126, 134, 246, 257, 270, 271 B re e c h -b irth s ............................................................................................................................... 216 B ro m id e o f p o ta ssiu m ............................................................................................................. 147 B ro m in e ........................................................................................................................................ 200 B ro n ch ial c a t a r r h 109, 226, 233, 242, 248, 270 B ro n ch o cele .................................................................................................................................. 162

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B ru ises ........................................................................................................................................... Bubo ................................................................................................................................................ Bullets, th e ir e x tra c tio n fro m w o u n d s ............................................................................... B u rn s 195, B u tterfly, in sta n c e o f .................................................................................................................

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C abbages a n d g ro a ts ................................................................................................................ 100 99 re d , a n d a p p l e s ......................................................................................................... w h ite , a n d to m a t o e s ................................................................................................ 99 C alculi, b ilia ry 133, 226, 256 C alculous d isease 131-133, 238, 260 C an cer....................................................................... 4 4 ,1 2 6 ,1 8 3 - 1 8 9 ,2 0 1 ,2 2 7 ,2 2 8 ,2 3 5 , 264 o f th e b re a st 184, 186, 228 o f th e lip ...................................................................................................................... 235 o f th e n ose ...................................................................................................... 184, 228 o f th e sto m ac h .............................................................................................. 183, 264 o f th e to n g u e ............................................................................................................. 184 o f th e u te ru s ............................................................................................ 184, 244, 271 C a n ce ro u s n o d u le s a n d t u m o r s .....................................................................................113 116 C arb o lic a c id .......................................................................................................................... 192, 195 C a rb u n c le s ............................................. * 73, 241 C a rd ia c a r te ry , p r o tru s io n o f ............................................................................................. 234 d i s e a s e s ................................................................... 19, 126, 134, 234, 247, 248, 271 valves, d e fe c ts o f ..............................................................................................130 135 C a rn iv o ra ........................... 27 C aries .................................................................................................................. 109, 119, 239, 266 C a rro ts a n d p o t a t o e s ........................................................................................................ 100 Cat, in s ta n c e o f a ...................................................................................................................... 191 C a ta ra ct, b l a c k .................................................................................................................... 155 g ree n ............................................................................................................................. 155 g rey .................................................................................................................. 155, 157 C a ta rrh , b l a d d e r .............................................................................................................. 133, 248 C a ta rrh , b r o n c h i a l 109, 226, 233, 242, 248, 270 g a s tric ....................................................................................... 230, 250, 264, 271 in te s tin a l ...................................................................................................................... 250 nasal ................................................................................................................................ 109 p h a ry n g e a l .............................................................. 109, 226, 233, 242, 248, 270 p u lm o n a ry .......................................................................................226, 265, 266, 270 Chaff, im p o rta n c e of, in h o rse f o o d .................................................................................... 84 C hanges in b o d ily f o r m ......................................................................................... 14, 17, 18 C h a n cre .............................................................................................................................. 122, 123 C h em ical an a ly ses ...................................................................................................................... 87 C h e rry tre e , in s ta n c e o f ........................................................................................................ 74 Chest, p a in in t h e ................................................................................................................. 247, 265 C h ick en -p o x .................................................................................................................................. 36 C h ild re n , b r in g in g u p o f ................................................................................................223 225 d iseases o f ...............................................................29-43, 232, 235, 249, 263, 266 tre a tm e n t o f .....................................................................................................223 225 C h illin e s s 25, 30 C h lo ro sis .................................................................................................67, 75, 86, 150-153, 233 C h lo ro tic co lo r o f th e s k i n ............................................................................................ 86 C h o lera ..................................................................................................................................... 167 169 C h o rea 144, 236 C h ro m ic a c id ............................................................................................................................... 134 C h ro n ic c o n s tip a tio n .............................................................................................................. 86, 153, 164-166, 169, 233, 236-239, 251-253, 256, 260, 261, 271 C h ro n ic d iseases, d ev e lo p m e n t o f ...................................................................................... 21 in fla m m atio n o f th e b o w els .............................................................................. 226 p h a ry n g e a l c a ta rr h 233, 248 C igars ............................................................................................................................................. 87 Clap 122-124, 126 127 C lim atic f e v e r ................................................................................................ 170-173, 241 262

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Closet p a p e r ............................................................................................................................. 15, 86 C o c a i n e ............................................................................................................................................ 192 Cocoa, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f .................................................................................................... 81 Coffee, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f .................................................................................................... 81 Cold h a n d s an d f e e t ......................................................................... 63, 64, 140, 226, 228 in th e h e a d 46, 127, 161 140 p e rs p ira tio n ......................................................................................................... w a te r c o m p r e s s ...................................................................................................... 193, 197 C o l d s ............................................................. 22,46, 63, 64, 127, 152, 160, a cau se o f fe rm e n ta tio n ...................................................................................... 22 25 Colic, h e p a tic ............................................................................................................................... 263 Colic, n e p h r itic .......................................................................................................................... 131 Colon, in fla m m atio n o f th e .................................................................................................... 230 C om presses 193, 194, 197 C o n cep tio n ................................................................................................................................... 216 C o n f in e m e n t.................................................................214-220, 228, 232, 256, 266, 267, 270 tre a tm e n t a f te r ....................................................................................... 221 222 C ongestion o f th e b r a i n ......................................................................................... 63, 64, 237 C o n stip atio n . . . . 67, 86, 149,164, 167, 231, 233, 236, 238, 239, 260, 261, 268 in fa n tile 231, 234 C o n su m p tio n , g allo p in g ................................................................................................. 109 112 o rig in o f ............................................-............................................................. I l l o f th e b ra in ................................................................................... 145, 164 166 o f th e lungs 109, 112, 118, 119, 126, 200, 227, 230, 239, 264, 266, 267, 269 o f th e sp in a l c o rd ..................................................... 143-146, 230, 237 C ontagion, d a n g e r o f ..................................................................................................... 25, 43 C o n tu sions ......................................................................................................................... 195, 241 C o n v alescents ............................................................................................................................... 44 C o n v u ls io n s ....................................................................... 43, 147-149, 236, 243, 254, 263 C ooking suggestions ........................................................................................................ 97 99 re c ip e s ............................................................................................................. 99, 101 C ooling th e b o d y a f te r a s te a m - b a th .................................................................................. 71 C o rp u len ce 14, 226, 241 C o rro sive su b lim ate ....................................................................................................... 140, 248 C ostiveness 67, 86, 153, 164, 169, 231, 233, 236, 238, 239, 261, 268 C oughs .................................................................................................................................. 245, 269 C reosote .......................................................................................................................................... 113 C rip p lin g ............................................................................................................. 41, 49-62, 227 C rises, c u ra tiv e ............................................................................................... 24, 39, 74, 236 C ro o k ed b a c k ............................................................................................................................ 56 62 C ry in g , h y s te ric a l ...................................................................................................................... 263 C u rativ e agents, m y ........................................................................................................ 70- 79 c rise s .................................................................................................. 24, 39, 74, 236 efforts o f n a tu re ...................................................................................................... 39 C ure o f d isease ........................................................................................................................ 9 16 C ures, re p o rts o f ................................................................................................................. 226 272 C u rv atu re o f th e s p i n e ........................................................................................... 60-62, 254 C yanosis ........................................................................................................................................ 234 Cysts, b l o o d .............................................................................................................................. 195 D D eaf m utes ................................................................................................................................... 237 D eafn ess 158, 233, 237, 241 D eb ility, g en e ral 197, 227, 246, 247 m en tal 102-108, 255 D ec o m p o sitio n o f m o rb id m a tte r 17-28, 111 p ro c e ss of, in p u lm o n a ry d isease Ill D e f o r m itie s ................................................................................................................................ 56 62 D ep o sit o f m o rb id m a tte r ...................................................................................................... 25 D e rb y sh ire n e c k ....................................................................................................................... 154 D esp o n d e n cy 140, 258

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D iabetes ......................................................... : 132, 272 D iagnosis o f th e N ew S cience o f H e a l i n g .................................................................... 9 16 D ia rrh e a ............................................................................................... 83, 132, 167-169, 229 D iet, c o r r e c t .............................................................................................................89, 90, 97 101 fo r in v a lid s 98, 99 n a tu ra l ............................................................................................................................99 101 D ig estib ility o f flu id s ............................................................................................................... 83 o f foods ........................................................................................................ 83 88 D igestion, fe rm e n tiv e p ro c e ss o f ................................................................................ 23, 84 D igestive c a n a l ............................................................................................................................. 90 p o w e r o f th e sto m ac h ........................................................................................ 87 p ro c e ss .................................................................................................... 83, 85, 88 t r o u b l e s ................ 86, 149, 164, 167, 231, 233, 236, 238, 260, 261, 268 D ig italis .......................................................................................................................................... 200 D ila tatio n o f th e sto m ac h ...................................................................................................... 233 D in n er, n a tu ra l d ie t .................................................................................................................. 99 D ip h th e ria 34, 35, 232, 236, 249, 263, 266 D ip so m a n ia ................................................................................................................................. 184 D ire c tio n s fo r m a k in g w h o lem eal b r e a d ....................................................................... 99 D ire c tio n s fo r m a k in g w h o lem eal g r u e l ....................................................................... 99 D isease, h o w it arise s ............................................................................................19-28, 29 30 p re v e n tio n o f ............................................................................................................. 30 p re d is p o s itio n to .......................................................................................................... 47 tra n sm issio n o f ............................................................................................................ 47 30 u n ity o f ........................................................................................................................ v a rio u s fo rm s o f ...................................................................................................... 28 D iseases o f w o m en 27, 206 213 D isin fe c ta n ts ...................................................................................................................47, 48, 200 D isto rtio n s ................................................................................................................ 41, 56, 227 D istu rb a n c e in m e n stru a tio n ............................................................................................... 207 D izziness ........................................................................................................... 74, 147-149, 243 Dog, in sta n c e o f w o u n d e d .................................................................................................... 192 Dogs, b ite s o f m ad .................................................................................................................... 203 D om estic an im als, o v e r f e e d in g ............................................................................................. 81 D ouble v isio n ............................................................................................................................... 156 D ouches 10, 13 D ressin g s, p la s te r 258, 267 D ro p sy ............................................. 19, 126, 136-142, 174, 229, 240, 268, 269, 271 o f th e h e a rt .................................................................................................................... 271 D rugs, p o iso n o u s ........................................................................................................................ 103 D um bness ...................................................................................................................................... 237 D u m p lin g s, p o ta to ...................................................................................................................... 101 D y s e n t e r y ..................................................................................................................84, 85, 167 169 E E ar, d isc h a rg e fro m t h e 154, 158, 262, 265 d iseases o f th e ....................................................................... 158, 159, 231, 262, 265 p o ly p u s o f th e .................................................................................................................. 265 rin g in g in th e .................................................................................................... 158, 231 E a rth b an d a g es 79, 194, 218 E atin g , m o d e ra tio n in ................................. 97, 98 E c z e m a ............................................................................................................................................ 135 E ffe m in atin g th e b o d y ................................................................................................. 109, 110 Eggs, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f .............................................................................................. 81, 87 E g y p tia n eye d isease 155, 234, 248, 268 E le c tric a l p o w er, g e n e ra tio n o f ............................................................................................ 97 E m issio n s, n o c tu rn a l 123, 143, 237, 270 E m o tio n a cause o f fe rm e n ta tio n 22, 23 E n c u m b ra n c e o f the b a c k 56-62, 274 o f th e f ro n t 56-62, 273, 275 o f th e s i d e 56-62, 275 in h e rite d .......................................................................................................... 43 v a rie tie s o f ............................................................................................... 273 275

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E n c y ste d tu m o r .......................................................................................................................... E p id e m ic s 24, E p ile p sy 148, 200, 201, 243, 244, 254, E ru c ta tio n 87, E ru p tio n o f th e f a c e ........................................................................................ 120, 121, 242, o f th e sk in 19, 120, 121, 134, 135, 173, 242, E ry sip e la s o f th e fac e ............................................................................................................. E sta b lish m e n t, o p e n in g o f m y .......................................................................................... 9 E v a c u a tin g th e bow els, so ilin g b o d y i n 15, E v en in g m eal ............................................................................................................................... E ye d iseases ...................................................... 154-158, 229, 234, 239, 248, 268, 270, E g y p tia n 155, 234, 248, la n c in a tin g p a in in th e ...................................................................................... 261, Eyes, b la c k sp o ts b e fo re th e ............................................................................................... w ea k ................................................................................................................................... E x a m in a tio n s, lo cal .................................................................................................................. E x c ite m e n t a cause o f f e r m e n t a t i o n .................................................................................. E x crem en ts, co lo r o f ............................................................................................................... E x c re to ry o rg an s ........................................................................... 14, 15, E x iste n c e o f b ein g s, c o n d itio n s o f .................................................................................. E x te n sio n b ed ........... ........................................................................................................ 227, 80-82,97 E x tra c ts, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f .......................................................................... F

231 46 263 130 266 266 231 16 86 99 271 268 262 229 260 207 24 86 123 74 258 224

F ace, e ru p tio n o f t h e .............................. ................................................ 120, 121, 242, 266 e ry sip e la s o f th e , ......................................................................................................... 231 F a c ia l n e u ra lg ia ........................................................................................................................... 233 e x p re ssio n , ex a m p le s illu stra tiv e o f .........................................................273 275 S cie n ce o f ........................................41, 67-69, 96, 110, 150, 273 275 F aeces, co lo r o f ...................................................................... 86 re te n tio n o f ............................................................................................................... 131 F a in tin g fits ..................................................................................................... 74, 147-149, 243 F ar-sig h te d n e ss ........................................................................................................................... 233 81 F a stin g ............................................................................................................................................. F eed in g , w r o n g ...................................................................................................................... 80 82 F eet, c o l d .................................................................................................... 63-64, 140, 226, 228 d is to rtio n s o f .................................................................................................................... 41 s w e a t i n g .................................................................................................................. 133, 134 sw o llen .............................................................................................................. 241, 242, 257 F em ale d i s e a s e s ..................................................................................................................... 206 213 F e rm e n tin g m a tte r, d ire c tio n it t a k e s 24, 25 F e rm e n ta tio n , cause o f ...................................................................................................... 23 25 o f m o rb id m a t t e r .................................................................................... 17 28 F e rm e n tiv e p ro c e ss o f d ig e stio n ............................................................................... 83 88 F ev er, b ilio u s ............................................................................................................................... 170 c lim a tic .............................................................................................. 170-173, 241, 262 F ev er, c u rin g ............................................................................................................................... 27 e x p la n a tio n o f 17-28, 241 m a la ria l ................................................................................................................... 170 173 p u e r p e r a l .................................................................................................................. 211 213 sc a rle t 32, 232, 236, 266 tr o p ic a l 170-173, 262 ty p h o id 167, 168, 259 w o u n d .............................................................. 191 y e l l o w ..........................................................................................................................169, 172 F istu la , in te stin a l 133, 270 re c ta l ............................................................................................................................. 270 F rig h t a cau se o f fe rm e n ta tio n ........................................................................................... 24 F la tu le n c e 87, 130 F lesh -m eat i n j u r i o u s 81, 87 F lex io n o f th e u t e r u s 209, 259 F lu id s difficult to dig est ........................................................................................................ 83 F o o d , n u tritiv e m a te ria l in 87, 88

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F o ods, d ig e stib ility o f ..............................................................................................83- 88 in sa liv a tio n o f ................................................................................... 83, 84 n a tu ra l a n d co oked .......................................................................... 81, 82 p ic k lin g a n d sa ltin g ................................................................................................ 83 F o rm , b o d ily , ch a n g e o f .............................................................................. 14, 15, 17. 18 F o rm s o f disease, v a rio u s ......................................................................................... 27, 28 F ra c tu re s ...................................................................................................................................... 199 F ric tio n h ip a n d sitz b a th s ............................................................................................. 70 79 F ro n t e n c u m b ra n c e .................................................................................................... 273, 275 F ru g iv o ra ...................................................................................................................................... 90 F ru it, u n r ip e ............................................................................................................................... 97 F u ll b a th ........................................................................................................................................ 13 F u ll steam b a th ...................................................................................................................... 70- 72 F u ry , p a ro x y sm s o f 150, 241, 268

Gall b la d d e r, d isease o f t h e ................................................................... 133, 226, 256, 263 sto n e 133, 226, 256, 263 G allo p in g co n su m p tio n .................................................................................................... 109 112 G astric c a ta r r h ......................................................................................... 230, 250, 264, 271 G en eral d e b i l i t y 197, 226, 246, 247 G id d in e ss ........................................................................................................... 74, 147-150, 243 G lan d u lar sw ellings a n d tu m o rs ........................................... 17, 18, 228, 233, 239, 270 G la u c o m a ................................................................................................................................... 155 G nats, in s ta n c e o f ................................................................................................................... 26 G o itre ............................................................................................................................................. 162 G o n o rrh e a .....................................................................................................................123, 122-129 G out ..............................................................................................................54, 174, 239, 253, 263 G rain as fo o d 84, 85 G reen s i c k n e s s 67, 92, 93, 150-153, 233 G roats a n d cab b ag e .................................................................................................................. 100 G ruel, o atm eal ............................................................................................................................. 98 G u n p o w d er m agazine, in sta n c e o f .................................................................................... 30 G u n sh o t w o u n d s ..................................................................................................................197-199 H H air, loss o f .................................................................................................................................. H alf-b ath ...................................................................................................................................... H an d s, c o l d ............................................................................................................63, 64, 140, d isto rtio n s o f ................................................................................................................ H are, in sta n c e o f ...................................................................................................................... H aric o ts a n d t o m a t o e s ............................................................................................................. H ead, co n g e stio n o f th e ............................................................................................ 63, 64, h o t ...................................................................................................................................... its sig n ific an c e fo r th e N ew S cien ce o f H e a l i n g .............................................. p re s s u re o f m o rb id m a t t e r ..........................................................................63, 64, steam -b ath fo r th e ....................................................................................................... H ea d ac h e 74, 132, 164-166, 227, 240, 241, 242, 245, 248, 254, 255, 261, 263, 265, r h e u m a t i c ................................................................................................................. H earin g , diflicu lty o f 158, 233, 237, H ea rt, d e fe c t o f t h e ............................................................................................................. 239, d i s e a s e s ...................................................................17-28, 1 2 6 ,1 3 6 -1 4 2 ,1 7 1 ,2 4 7 , d ro p sy o f th e ............................................................................................................... p a lp ita tio n o f th e 137, p a ra ly s is of th e ........................................................................................................... H e a rtb u rn ...................................................................................................................................... H e m a t u r i a ............................................................................................................................... ' ' H em o rrh ag e, u te rin e 230, 244, H e m o rrh o id a l a f f e c t i o n s ..................... 145, 164-166, 239, 240, 251, 257, 261, 268, H ep a tic co lic ............................................................................................................................. H erb iv o ra ..................................................................................................................... H ern ia , i n t e s t i n a l ......................................................................................................................... \ 120 13 228 41 81 100 237 63 17 237 73 268 256 241 247 270 270 234
137 87

239 245 271 263 90 182

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H e rp e s 65, 109, 110, 132, 134, 231 H igh s h o u l d e r s ............................................................................................................................ 63 H ip d ise ase 55, 227, 258 H ip -b ath s, f ric tio n ....................................................................................................................... 75 H o a r s e n e s s .............................................................................................................................. 233, 261 H o m eo p ath y a n d th e N ew S cien ce o f H e a l i n g 12, 13 20 H orse, in s ta n c e o f ...................................................................................................................... H ot h e a d ....................................................................................................................................63 164 H u m p b a c k s ............................................................................................................... 41, 65, 66, 227 H y d ro c e p h a lu s ........................................................................................................................... 155 H y p e r-n u tritio n ...................................................................................................... 83-88, 97, 98 H y p o c h o n d ria (see also N ervous d iseases) ............................................................... 102 108 H y ste ric a l c ry in g ...................................................................................................................... 263 H y ste ria (see also N ervous d iseases) .......................................................................... 102 108

I m b e c i l i t y ..................................................................................................... 44, 102, 200, 201, 241 I m p o te n c e .........................................................................................................................127-129, 231 Im p u lse, s e x u a l 123, 127, 128, 216, 224, 225, 270 I n d i a n - c o r n .................................................................................................................................... 99 In d ig e stio n . . .85, 149, 256, 169, 231, 233, 234, 236, 237, 239, 250, 251, 253, 259, 268 In d u ra tio n o f th e l i v e r ............................................................................................................... 264 tissu es ................. 18 In fa n tile c o n s tip a tio n 231, 234 In fe c tio n , d a n g e r o f ....................................................................................................... 25, 43 48 In fla m m a tio n a t th e p la c e o f f r i c t i o n 77, 185 o f th e b r a i n ......................................................................................145, 164, 166 colon ....................................................................................................... 230 240 k id n e y s ................................................................................................ la ry n x ................................................................................................... 161 lungs 114, 249, 269 264 sp in a l c o rd ......................................................................................... In flu en za 46, 161, 254 I n h e rite d e n c u m b r a n c e ........................................................................................................... 44 I n j e c t i o n s ..................................................................................................................................125, 126 o f so lu tio n o f le a d ............................................................................................. 126 z i n c ............................................................................................................................... 126 In ju rie s, e x te rn a l (w o u n d s) ........................................................................................... 190 205 i n t e r n a l ...................................................................................................................195 198 I n o c u l a t i o n ..........................................................................38, 43, 44, 117, 154, 200, 236, 276 In sa liv a tio n o f fo o d ..................................................................................................... 83, 84, 98 In s a n ity 4 5 ,1 0 2 ,2 0 1 , 241 In sects, stin g s o f ................................................................................................................... 203 205 I n s o m n i a ............................................ 102-108, 226, 233, 234, 236, 237, 240, 254, 261, 268 In s tin c t, n a t u r a l .......................................................................................................................87, 178 In stitu te , o p e n in g o f m y ...................................................................................................... 9 16 In te rn a l in ju r ie s ........................................................................................................................ 195 In te stin a l, c a t a r r h ...................................................................................................................... 250 fistulae a n d u lc e rs 133, 270 h e r n ia ........................................................................................................................ 182 In u n c tio n s, m e rc u ria l 122, 125, 127, 150, 200 In v a lid d i e t .................................................................................................................................... 98 Io d id e o f p o ta ssiu m 125, 200 I o d i n e ............................................................................................................................... 125, 192, 200 I o d o f o r m .....................................................................................................125, 126, 192, 195, 248 Iro n , a d m in is tra tio n o f 150, 153 Itc h 181, 182 Itc h in g o f th e sk in .................................................................................................................... 202 J J a u n d i c e .................................................................................................................................... 133, 227

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K K id n ey s, d iseases o f th e 130-135, 171, 238, 240, in flam m atio n o f ...................................................................................................... K ih is e ru p tio n ............................................................................................................................. K nee, tu b e rc u lo sis o f th e 121, L

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264 240 173 266

L a c e ra tio n s ...........................................................................................................................193 205 L a n c in a tin g p a in in th e e y e ............................................................................................. 261 L ary n g ea l p o ly p u s .................................................................................................................... 233 L ary n x , in fla m m atio n o f t h e ............................................................................................ 162 L ead so lu tio n s, in je c tio n o f ............................................................................................. 126 L eaven, ex a m p le o f ............................................................................................................. 44 Leg, b ro k e n ............................................................................................................................. ; . 199 so res on t h e ................................................................................................................... 229 stiff ......................................................................................................................................... 227 Legs, sw o llen ............................................................................................................................... 268 L en tils, m o st d ig e stib le m a n n e r o f b o ilin g .................................................................. 101 a n d p ru n e s .................................................................................................................. 101 L etters o f t h a n k s ........................................................................................................238, 272 L ep ra, b a c i l l i .................................................................... .................................................... 140 142 L e p r o s y ...................................................................................................................140-142, 174 186 L e t t u c e ........................................................................................................................................ 101 L e u c o r r h e a .................................................................................................................... 123, 252, 258 L ife, d ev e lo p m e n t o f .......................................................................................................... 26 194 L ig a tu r e s ......................................................................................................................... 193, L in en c o m p re s s e s ........................................................................................................ 193, 194, 197 L ip, c a n c e r o f t h e ................................................................................................................. 235 L iv e r d i s e a s e 133, 251, 256, 261, 264, 268 in d u r a tio n o f th e ......................................................................................................... 264 L ocal e x a m in a tio n ................................................................................................................. 206 L u m b a g o ..........................................................................................................................143, 144 Lungs, affectio n o f th e . . . .109-112, 126,200, 234, 239, 241, 247, 249, 265, 267, 269 in fla m m atio n o f t h e ...................................................................................114, 249 tu b e rc u lo sis o f th e 109, 112, 118,119, 126, 200, 227, 230, 239, 264, 266, 267 269 Lupus 109, 110, 120, 121 o f th e f a c e 120, 121, 242, 266 M Mad dogs, b ite s o f ................................................................................................................. 203 Maize ............................................................................................................................................... 99 M a la r ia .........................................................................................................................170-173, 177 M alignant g r o w t h s ..................................................................................................... 183, 235 M a s tu r b a tio n ................................................................................................................. 127, 225, 271 Meals, n a tu ra l d i e t ............................................................................................................... 99 101 M easles ................................................................................................................................ 31, 32, 266 Meat, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f ....................................................................................................81, 87 M ed icin al p o i s o n s ................................................................................................................. 103 M elancholia (see also N ervous d iseases) 140, 258 M em ory, w ea k n ess o f .............................................................................................. 241, 245 Men, sexual diseases o f .................................................................................................... 122 129 M enses, su p p re ss io n o f t h e .................................................72, 148, 207-213, 230, 250, 263 M en stru ation, d istu rb a n c e s in ............................................................................................. 207 M ental d i s e a s e s 102-108, 200, 254 M ercu rial i n u n c t i o n s .............................................................................. 122, 125, 1 2 7 ,150, 200 43 M ic r o b e s ......................................................................................................................................25, M iction 130, 131 M id-day m e a l .......................................................................................................................... 99 M igraine 164-166, 238 Milk, ab sence of, in m o t h e r s ............................................................................................ 210 b o ile d a n d u n b o i l e d 98, 223

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Milk, p re se rv e d ........................................................................................................................... 223 S o x h let a p p a ra tu s fo r b o i l i n g ...................................................................... 223 s t e r i l i z e d ............................................................................................................................. 223 M is c a r r ia g e s ........................................................................................................ 209, 210, 214, 216 M o d eration in e a t i n g ...........................................................................................................97, 98 Moon, in re la tio n to th e m e n stru a l p e r i o d .................................................................... 207 M orbid m a tte r, d e p o s it o f ....................................................................................................... 25 fe rm e n ta tio n o f ..................................................................................... 21 26 M o rn in g m e a l ................................................................................................................................ 99 M o r p h ia ........................................................................................................................................... 44 M ucus, d isc h a rg e of, fro m m o u t h ......................................................................................... 269 M u m p s .............................................................................................................................................. 25 Muscae v o l i t a n t e s ......................................................................................................................... 229 M ushroom s a n d p o t a t o e s ......................................................................................................... 101 My d isc o v e rie s, a g e n e ra l resu m e o f ......................................................................... .... 9- 16 M yopia 155, 157, 158 N N asal c a t a r r h ................................................................................................ 109 N a tu ra l diet, h in ts on se le c tio n o f ................................................................................99 101 i n s t i n c t .................................................................................................................... 87, 178 N atu re, c u ra tiv e effo rts o f ....................................................................................................... 39 c u re system , e a r l i e r .................................................................................................. 10 N a u s e a .............................................................................................................................................. 234 N e a r- s ig h te d n e s s ......................................................................................................... 155, 157, 158 N eck, its sig n ific an c e fo r th e N ew S cie n ce o f H ealin g 17 ste am -b a th fo r t h e ......................................................................................................... 73 N e p h ritic c o l i c ............................................................................................................................. 131 N erv o u s d iseases 102-108, 226,237, 240, 241, 245, 246, 248, 250, 251, 254, 256, 260, 261, 264, 271 re stle ssn e ss .................................................................................................................. 254 s p a s m s ........................................................................................................................... 237 N ervus sy m p a th ic u s ........................................................................................................... 77, 143 N e u r a l g ia ........................................................................................................................233, 244, 262 f a c i a l .......................................................................................................................... 244 N e u ra sth e n ia 233, 244, 245, 262 N ew S cie n ce o f H ealing, w h a t le d m e to t h e ................................................................9 16 N ico tin e p o i s o n i n g ..................................................................................................................... 87 N o c tu rn a l e m i s s i o n s ......................................................................... .. . . 122, 143, 237, 269 N o d u les a n d tu m o r s .................................. 17, 75, 113-116, 131, 228, 235, 236, 239, 269 N ose, c a n c e r o f t h e ....................................................................................................... 184, 228 73 d iseases o f th e ................................................................................................................ steam b a th f o r ................................................................................................................ 73 N o rm al fo rm o f b o d y ................................................................................................................ 56 N o u rish m e n t o f y o u n g a n im a ls ........................................................................................... 90 N u tritio n , v a rio u s fo rm s o f ........................................................................................... 80 101 N u tritiv e m a te ria l in foods ...............................................................................87, 95-101, 210 O O aten g ro ats a n d c a b b a g e ......................................................................................................... 100 O atm eal g r u e l ................................................................................................................................ 98 O b e s i t y ............................................................................................................................ 14, 226, 241 O in tm en t, m e r c u r i a l 122, 125, 127, 150, 200 O m n iv o ra ....................................................................................................................................... 90 O n an ism 127, 225, 271 O pen s o r e s ........................................................................................................... 200, 203, 229, 235 O p eratio n s ............................................................................................................................. 186, 187 O p h th alm ic d i s e a s e s ........................................154-158, 229, 234, 239, 248, 268, 270, 271 O rgans o f sense ....................................................................................................................... 90 O talgia ............................................................................................................................................. 262 O to rrh e a 154, 262, 265 O v er-fe ed in g .........................................................................................................80 90

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P ack s, w et ....................................................................................................................... 10, 37, 200 P ain , n a tu re o f ........................................................................................................................... 51 P ain s in th e b a c k 228, 231, 245, 248, 263, 271 .................... sid e 248, 271 P a lp ita tio n o f th e h e a r t 137, 234 P a r a l y s i s ................................................................................................................45, 102, 237, 239 o f th e a rm ................................................................................................................ 252 h e a r t ............................................................................................................. 137 p ro g re ssiv e ..........................................................................................................45, 102 P a ra site s 181, 1,82 P aro x y sm s o f rag e 241, 268 P a rt r .................... ....................................................................................................................... 9 P a rt I I ......................................................................................................................................... 102 P a rt III ........................................................................................................................................... 190 P a r t IV ............. 226 P a rtu ritio n , e a s y 214-220, 228, 232, 236, 256, 266, 267, 270 P eas, m o st d ig e stib le m a n n e r o f b o i l i n g ......................................................................... 101 P e p p e rm in t te a ........................................................................................................................... 171 P ep sin e ........................................................................................................................................... 153 P e rc u ssio n ..............................................................................................................................109 112 P e ric a rd iu m , d ro p sy o f t h e ..................................................................................................... 271 P e rs p ira tio n , c o l d .................................................................................................................. 140 P e rs p irin g feet 133, 134, 200 P e ssa ries ................................................................. 209 P h a ry n g e a l c a t a r r h ........................................................................ 109, 226, 233, 242, 248, 270 P h e n a c e tin ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........... 45 P h th isis .109,' 112, 118, 1 1 9 ,1 2 6 , 200, 227, 230, 239, 264, 266* 267, 269 P ic k lin g f o o d s ......................................................................................................................... 83 P i l e s ................................................................................... 113, 139, 145, 146, 164-166, 268, 271 P ills 151, 153, 183 P lac en ta , a d h e sio n o f th e 217, 228 P la ste r d r e s s i n g s ....................................................................................................................258, 267 P le u risy 114-116, 249, 269 P o iso n in g , b lood ......................................................................................................................... 203 P o iso n o u s m e d ic in e s ................................................................................................................ 103 P o l y p u s ........................................................................................................................... 233, 236, 265 la ry n g e a l ....................................................................................................................... 233 o f th e e a r ............................................................................................................... 265 th r o a t ................................................................................................................... 265 P o llu tio n s 1 2 3 ,1 4 3 ,2 3 7 , 269 P o tassiu m b r o m i d e ............................................................................................................... 147 io d id e ........ 125, 200 P o tato d u m p lin g s ...................................................................................................................... 101 an d a p p le sa la d ........................................................................................................... 101 P o tato es an d c a rro ts ................................................................................................................ 100 m u sh ro o m s ....................................................................................................... 101 s p i n a c h .................. 100 tu r n ip s ............................................................................ 100 47 P re d isp o sitio n to d i s e a s e .................................................................................................... P re g n a n c y 207, 208, 214, 220, 256, 267 P re m a tu re b i r t h s 209, 215, 218 P re sb y o p ia ... 233 P re v e n tio n o f d isease ............................................................................................................. 30 P ro g ressiv e p a ra ly s is 45, 102 P ro la p se o f th e u te ru s 209, 259 P ro life ra tio n s 183, 235 P ro p a g a tio n , c a p a c ity o f ................................................................................................122 129 P ro u d flesh ..............' . ........................................................................................................... 183 189 P ru n e s an d le n tils .................................................................................................................... 101 P u e rp e ra l f e v e r .................................................................................................................. 211 213 P u lm o n a ry a fT e c tio n s ...............................109-112, 126, 200, 226. 234, 241, 247, 268 270 c a ta rr h .........................................................................................226, 265, 266, 270 co n su m p tio n 109-112,118,119,126, 200, 227, 230, 239, 264, 266, 267, 269

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.................................................................................................................................... 45, 150, 171, R

48 200

R a b id dogs, b ite s o f ................................................................................................................ Rage, p a ro x y sm s o f 241, R ecip e fo r w h o lem eal b re a d ............................................................................................. gru el ............................................................................................... R e ctal fistula ................................................................................................................................ R ectu m ....................................................................................................................................... 15, R ed n ess o f th e sk in .................................................................................................................. R em ed ial agents, m y ........................................................................................................... 70 R enal affec tio n s 130-135, 171, 238, 248, 264, R estlessness, n e r v o u s ................................................................................................................ R e tro g re ssio n o f fe rm e n tiv e p ro c e ss th ro u g h fa ll o f te m p e ra tu re ..................... R e te n tio n o f th e f a e c e s ............................................................................................................. u rin e .................................................................................................... R h e u m a tic h e a d a c h e ................................................................................................................ R h e u m a tis m ............................................ 49-62, 218, 239, 247, 251, 252, 256, 257, 259, a r t i c u l a r ...................................................................51, 218, 247, 251, 252, R ice .................................................................................................................................................. a n d ap p les ......................................................................................................................... p u d d i n g ................................................................................................................................ R ick ets 119,

203 268 99 98 270 86 132 79 266 254 17 131 131 256 271 271 99 100 100 126

S alic y lic a c i d 133, 195, Salt ....................................................................................................................................................... S atie ty o f l i f e .....................................................................................................103, 140, 153, S cab ies 181, S cald -h ead ........................................................................................................................................ S cald s 195, S c a rle t F e v e r ........................................................................................................32, 232, 236, S c ia tic a 55, 227, 232, 239, S c ro fu la 40-42, 106, 126, 233, S e c re to ry o r g a n s ........................................................................................................................ S e lf - a b u s e ................................................................................................... 127, 129, 225, 231, Sem en, n o c tu rn a l em issio n s o f 122, 143, 237, S em in al fluid 110, Sexual d iseases ...................................................................................... 122-129, 231, 238, of m e n 1 2 2 ,1 2 9 ,2 3 1 ,2 3 8 , e x c ite m e n t, excessive ................................................................................................ im p u ls e 123, 127, 128, 216, 224, 225, S hocks a cause o f fe rm e n ta tio n 24, S h o rt-sig h ted n e ss ....................................................................................................... 155, 157 Shot, e x tra c tio n of, fro m w o u n d s ...................................................................................... S h o w e r b a t h s ................................................................................................................................... S ick -d ie t 98, S ide e n c u m b ra n c e 56-62, S itz-b ath s .......................................................................................................................................... f ric tio n ............................................................................................................... 70 S kin, a c tiv ity o f th e ................................................................................................................... c h lo ro tic co lo r o f t h e ................................................................................................... d iseases o f t h e 67, 109, 121, 132, 134, e ru p tio n o f t h e 19, 120, 121, 134, 135, 173, 242, " itc h in g o f th e ................................................................................................................... re d n e ss o f t h e ................................................................................................................... te n sio n o f th e ............................................................................................ S le e p le s s n e s s 102-108, 226, 233, 234, 236, 237, 240, 254, 261 S m all-pox 31-42,

200 83 250 182 42 265 266 258 239 123 271 269 111 240 240 216 270 25 158 197 13 99 275 13 79 34 86 231 266 202 132 24 268 167

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S m oking foods ........................................................................................................................... 83 tob acco ...................................................................................................................... 87 S nake b i t e s .................................................................................................................................... 203 81 in sta n c e o f ........................................................................................................................ S o fte n in g o f th e b ra in ........................................................................................................... 241 S o ld iers, in sta n c e o f .................................................................................................................. 54 Sore b re a sts 209, 210 th ro a t .................................................................................................................................... 238 S oups difficult to d i g e s t ........................................................................................................ 80, 83 S o x h lets p ro c e ss ...................................................................................................................... 224 S p asm s 42, 148, 200, 201, 243, 244, 254, 263 o f th e b l a d d e r ............................................................................................................. 133 S p ecialism .................................................................................................................................... 105 S p ices in foo d s ........................................................................................................................... 82 S p in a c h an d p o ta to es ............................................................................................................. 100 S p in al c o rd , c o n su m p tio n o f t h e ........................................................... 143-146, 230, 237 d iseases o f t h e .............................................................. 143-146, 230, 237, 264 264 in fla m m atio n o f th e ...................................................................................... S p in e, c u rv a tu re o f t h e ................................................................................................. 60-62, 254 S p leen , en la rg e m e n t o f th e .................................................................................................. 264 S p lin te r in flnger, effect o f .................................................................................................... 14 S p lin te re d b o n e ......................................................................................................................... 266 S p o n d y litis .................................................................................................................................. 266 269 S p u tu m c o n ta in in g b lo o d .................................................................................................... S q u i n t i n g ........................................................................................................................................ 156 St. V itu s d a n c e ........................................................................................................... 143, 236, 237 S tag n atio n o f th e b l o o d ..........................................................................................136, 137, 234 S team -b ath s .................................................................................................................................. 70 a p p a ra tu s f o r .................................................................................................... 70 fo r th e ab d o m en ............................................................................................. 72 S team -b ath s fo r th e h e a d , n ec k a n d n o s e ......................................................................... 73 73 p a rtia l .................................................................................................................... p o ts w ith alco h o l h e a te rs fo r b a th s 70, 71 S te rility ........................................................................................................................................... 209 S terilized m ilk ........................................................................................................................... 223 S tiffness o f leg ........................................................................................................................... 227 Stings o f in se cts ..................................................................................................................203 205 S to m ach , affectio n o f t h e ...............................24, 226, 230, 247, 251, 260, 261, 265, 271 c a n c e r o f t h e ..................................................................................................... 183, 264 c a ta rr h o f t h e ............................................................................. 230, 250, 264, 271 digestive p o w e r o f th e ....................................................................................... 87 S tone 131, 240, 260 S to u tn e s s ......................................................................................................................................... 226 S tric tu re s 227, 272 S u ck lin g o f c h ild re n 209, 210 S uffocative a t t a c k s ............................................................................................................... 182, 245 S u icid e, th o u g h ts o f .................................................................................... 102, 139, 153, 250 99 S u p p e r ............................................................................................................................................. S u p p re ssio n o f th e m e n s e s ................................................................... 72, 148, 207-213, 230 Sun a n d w a te r, jo in t effect o f 250, 263 S u n - b a th s ........................................................................................................................................ 73 S w e atin g feet 133, 134 S w e llin g s .............................................................................................................257, 264, 268, 270 S y c o s i s ............................................................................................................................................. 231 S y p h i l i s ........................................................................................................... 44, 122-129, 200 240 T T abes d o r s a l i s 143-146, 230, 237 T ap e-w o rm .............................................................................................................................181 182 T ea, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f ...................................................................................................... 81, 87 T e a rs ............................................................................................................................................... 16 T eeth , c le a n in g th e .................................................................................................................. 161 d iseases o f t h e ......................................................................... 160-163, 241, 261, 270

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T eeth , e x tra c tio n o f ................................................................................................................. 170 h o llo w ............................................................................................................................. 160 T eeth , loss o f ............................................................................................................................... 14 T e m p e ra tu re , ch a n g e o f ...................................................................................................... 23, 24 re g u la tio n o f ...................................................................................................... 202 T en d o n s, ex ten sio n o f ............................................................................................................. 246 T en sio n o f th e s k i n .................................................................................................................... 24 T e tte rs .................................. 66 T h ro a t, diseases o f t h e 109, 161, 236, 238, 241, 257, 265 in fla m m atio n o f t h e 162, 238, 257 T h ru s h ............................................................................................................................................ 42 39 T h u n d e rsto rm s, in s ta n c e o f .................................................................................................. T issu es, in d u r a tio n o f ............................................................................................................. 18 T o b acco , elfects o f s m o k i n g .................................................................................................. 87 T o n g u e, c a n c e r o f t h e ............................................................................................................. 184 T o o t h a c h e .............................................................................................................. 14, 241, 261, 270 T ra c h e o to m y ............................................................................................................................... 235 T ra c h o m a 155, 234, 248, 268 T ra n sm issio n o f disease ........................................................................................................ 47 T ra u m a tic f e v e r ................................................................................................................................ 191 T ro p ic a l f e v e r ................................................................................................................170-173, 262 T u b e rc u la r c o n su m p tio n 109-112, 118, 119, 126, 200, 227, 230, 239, 264, 266, 267, 269 n o d u les 117, 146 T u b e rc u lin ............................................................................................................................. 109 112 T u b ercu lo sed k n ee 121, 266 T u b e rc u lo sis o f th e b o n e 119, 227, 266 b r a i n .............................................................................. 144, 1 4 5 ,1 6 4 166 lungs .109,112,118,119,126,200,227,230,239,264,266,267, 269 T u m o r s ............................................................ 17, 70, 113, 114, 131, 164, 228, 233, 235, 239 b lood ............................................................................................................................. 195 b o n y ................................................................................................................................ 243 e n c y s t e d ........................................................................................................................ 231 g l a n d u l a r ............................................................................17, 18, 228, 233, 239, 270 on th e a b d o m e n ............................................................................................ 18, 75, 165 T u m o rs on th e n e c k .................................................................................17, 228, 233, 235, 239 u t e r i n e ........................................................................................................................... 258 100 T u rn ip s a n d p o t a t o e s ............................................................................................................... T y in g u p b lood v e s s e ls ............................................................................................................. 193 T y p h o id f e v e r ...............................................................................................................167, 168, 259 U U l c e r s ....................................................................................................................... 73, 1 1 4,227, i n t e s t i n a l .................................................................................................................... 133, U n ity o f disease ......................................................................................................................... U n rip e f r u i t .................................................................................................................................. U ra:m ia ........................................................................................................................................... U re th ra , s tr ic tu r e o f t h e ...................................................................................................227, U rin a tio n ................................................................................................................................ 131, U rin e, b lood in t h e .................................................................................................................... re te n tio n o f t h e .......................................................................................................131, U terin e c a n c e r ............................................................................................................. 184, 244, tlexion .....................................................................................................................209, h e m o r r h a g e ....................................................................................................230, 244, tu m o r ............................................................................................................................. U terus, p ro la p se o f t h e ...................................................................................................... 209, V V a c c in a tio n ................................................................................ 38, 44, 117, 154, 200, 236, 276 V erm in , in sta n c e o f 25, 26 V erte b ra , in fla m m atio n o f a ................................................................................................. 267 V ital p o w e r .................................................................................................................... 24, 78, 82 V o m itin g ....................................................................................................................................169, 234 270 270 30 97 132 272 132 230 132 271 259 245 258 259

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W ater, a c c u m u la tio n of, in th e body ................................................................................. 138 an d sun, jo in t effect o f ...................................................................................... 250, 263 c o m p r e s s e s .....................................................................................................193, 194, 197 on th e b r a i n ...................................................................................................................... 155 W e ath er, ch a n g e of, a cause o f fe rm e n ta tio n ................................................................... 24 W hites, t h e .........................................................................................................122, 123, 252, 258 W hole ste am -b a th s ............................................................................................................... 70 79 W h o lem eal b re a d ..................................................................................................................... 99 99 g ru el ........................................................................................................................ W h o o p in g -co u g h ............................................................................................. 38, 244, 250, 259 W ine, in ju rio u s n a tu re o f ...................................................................................................... 83 W om b, p ro la p se o f th e ..................................................................................................209, 259 W om en, diseases o f ..................................................................................................... 27, 206 213 W o rm s ....................................................................................................................................181, 182 202 W o u n d s, b re a k in g op en o f ...........................................................................................200, co n tu sed , in c ise d , la c e ra te d , p u n c tu re d ................................................193 205 fe v e r ac c o m p a n y in g .............................................................................................. 191 g u n sh o t ................................................................................................................197 199 th e ir tre a tm e n t a n d c u re w ith o u t d ru g s a n d w ith o u t o p e ra tio n s, 190 205, 265 Y Yeast, ex a m p le o f ...................................................................................................................... 44 Yellow fe v e r ........................................................................................................................ 169, 172 Young an im als, h o w fed ....................................................................................................... 90 Y outh, d iseases en su in g th ro u g h e r r o rs o f 122-129, 225, 271 Z Z inc, in je c tio n o f ......................................................................................................................... 126

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F lorida N a tu re Cure R e so r t and R ec rea tio n H o m e A R R Y IN G out th e p rin ciples of the genuine N ature Cure as practised a t th e fam ous Y ungborn at Butler, N. J th is F L O R ID A Y U N G B O R N offers splendid advantages to those seeking relief an d cure by the N atu ral M ethods. R ates for patients w ith m assage and full tre a t m ent, $125 p er m onth, $35.00 per w eek and upw ards. R ates for boarders, convalescents and invalids, $100 per m onth, $25.00 per week. V isitors, $3.50 per day. B. LUST, BUTLER, N. J.
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Beco m e A Do cto r Of Na t u r o p a t h y
w h i c h w i l l q u a l i f y y o u a t t h e s a m e t i m e a s O s t e o p a t h , C h ir o p r a c t o r , H y d r o p a t h , D i e t i t i a n , E l e c t r o p a t h , A le c h a n o t h e r a p is t , N e u r o p a t h , Z o n e t h e r a p is t , M e n t a l S c i e n t i s t , e t c .
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NATURECURE ^P R A C T IC E
Based on the Unity of Disease and Cure By H. LINDLAHR, M. D.
T h is v o lu m e w i l l m e e t th e d e m a n d o f th o s e w h o h a v e b e e n w a itin g f o r a w o r k d e a lin g in a s tr ic tly s c ie n tif ic m a n n e r w ith th e n a t u r a l la w s a n d f u n d a m e n ta l p r in c ip le s u n d e r ly in g tlie p ro c e s s e s o f h e a lth , d is e a s e a n d c u re . T h e s e b a s ic p r in c ip le s o f N a tu re C u re P h ilo s o p h y , w h e n r ig h t ly u n d e r s to o d a n d a p p lie d , w ill d o f o r M ed ic a l S c ie n c e w h a t th e L a w o f G r a v ita tio n h a s d o n e f o r p h y s ic s a n d a s tr o n o m y , a n d w h a t th e L a w s o f C h e m ic a l A llin ity h a v e d o n e f o r c h e m is tr y ; th e y w ill p la c e th e s c ie n c e o f m e d ic in e in th e r a n k s o f e x a c t s c ie n c e s. T h e s e te a c h in g s w ill e n a b le th e s tu d e n t to d i s c r im in a te b e tw e e n t r u t h a n d e r r o r i n th e th e o r ie s a n d p ra c tic e s o f th e v a r io u s s c h o o ls , c u lts a n d s y s te m s d e a lin g w ith th e p r o b le m s o f h y g ie n e a n d o f tr e a tin g h u m a n a ilm e n ts . T h e s tu d e n t o f N a tu r e C u re w ill n o t b e d e p e n d e n t u p o n th e e x p la n a tio n s a n d a d v ic e o f a n y o n e . H e w ill b e a b le to ju d g e f o r h im s e lf , to a n a ly z e a n d s o lv e c o r r e c tly a n y p r o b le m o f N a tu r a l L iv in g a n d H e a lin g . I n s h o r t, h e w ill b e c o m e h is o w n d o c to r . T h is b o o k c o n ta in s c o m p le te d ir e c tio n s f o r N a tu r a l L iv in g a n d f o r th e N a tu r a l T r e a tm e n t o f a c u te a n d c h r o n ic d is e a s e s . T h e s e i n s tr u c tio n s a r e m o re p r a c tic a l a n d c o m p re h e n s iv e th a n th o s e c o n ta in e d in a n y o f th e w id e ly a d v e r tis e d $25.00 h e a l th a n d p h y s ic a l c u ltu r e c o r r e s p o n d e n c e c o u rs e s .

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W h a t is to th e P r o g re s s iv e P h y s ic ia n s o f th e Age N a tu r e C u re ? C a te c h is m o f N a tu r e C u re . W h a t is L ife ? T h e U n ity o f D is e a s e a n d T r e a tm e n t T h e T h r e e P r im a r y C au se s o f D is e a s e . T h e U n ity o f A c u te D is e a s e N a tu r a l I m m u n ity B a c te ria -S e c o n d a ry , N o t P r im a r y M a n if e s ta tio n s o f D isea se. T h e L aw s o f C u re T h e L a w o f D u a l E f fe c t. S u p p r e s s io n v e rsu s E lim in a tio n S u p p r e s s io n th e C au se o f C h ro n ic D is e a s e s . I n f la m m a ti o n T h e F iv e S ta g e s o f I n f la m m a tio n . T h e E f fe c ts o f S u p p r e s s io n o n V e n e re a l D is e a s e s T h e D e s tr u c tiv e A fte r- E ff e c ts o f M e rc u ry . S u p p r e s s iv e S u r g ic a l T r e a tm e n t of T o n s iliti s a n d E n la r g e d A d e n o id s. C a n c e r N o t a L o c a l, b u t a C o n s titu tio n a l D isea se. W o m a n s S u f f e r in g T h e C lim a c te ric o r C h an g e o f L ife . T h e T r e a tm e n t o f A c u te D is e a s e s b y N a tu r a l M e th o d s T h e N a tu r a l R em ed ie s T h e E le c tro -M a g n e tic E f fe c ts o f C o ld W a te r A p p lic a tio n s . T h e T r u e S co p e o f M e d ic in e D r. O sie r on M e d ic in e I n o r g a n ic M in e ra ls a n d M in e ra l P o is o n s T h e E f fic ie n c y o f th e S m a ll D ose H o m e o p a th y a C o m p le m e n t o f N a tu re C ure. H o m e o p a th y T h e P e r s o n a l R e s p o n s ib ility o f th e C ell. T h e D ip h th e r ia A n tito x in . V a c c in a tio n . S u r g e r y D e s tr u c tio n o r C u re : W h ic h is B e tte r? T h e H u m a n B o d y a U n it. C h ro n ic D is e a s e s . C ris e s D is e a s e C ris e s H e a lin g C ris e s D ru g s V e rs u s H e a lin g C ris e s . P e r io d i c ity T h e Law o f S ev en s.

22. T h e T r e a tm e n t o f C h ro n ic D is e a s e s D ia g n o sis fr o m th e E y e T h e S to ry o f a G re a t D is c o v e ry . 23. W h a t A b o u t th e C h ro n ic ? I t ta k e s so lo n g A f r a id o f C o ld W a te r P u ll th e R o o ts Is th e C h ro n ic to b e L e ft to H is F a te B e c a u se A llo p a th y S a y s H e is I n c u r a b le ? W h y N a tu re C u re A c h ie v e s R e s u lts . 24. V ita lity S tim u la tio n by P a ra ly s is H y p n o tis m a n d O b se s sio n . 25. N a tu r a l D ie te tic s M ix in g F ru its and V e g e ta b le s M ix in g S ta rc h e s and A cid F r u its . 26. A cid D is e a s e s T h e R e la tio n s h ip Be tw e e n F o o d s a n d A c id D is e a s e s . 27. F a s tin g W h e n F a s tin g is I n d ic a te d . 28. H y d r o th e r a p y in th e T r e a tm e n t of C h ro n ic D is e a s e s W h y W e F a v o r CO LD W a te r. 29. A ir a n d L ig h t B a th s T h e Im p o r ta n c e o f th e S k in a s a n O rg a n o f E lim in a tio n . 30. C o rre c t B re a th in g R h y th m ic a l B r e a th in g Yogi B re a th in g . 31. P h y s ic a l E x e rc is e s . 32. M a n ip u la tiv e T r e a tm e n t M assag e O ste o p a th y C h iro p ra c tic e . 33. T h e L e g itim a te Scope o f M e n ta l a n d M e ta p h y s ic a l H e a lin g . 34. T h e D iff e r e n c e B etw een F u n c tio n a l a n d O rg a n ic D is e a s e T h e L im ita tio n s of M e ta p h y s ic a l H e a lin g . 35. T h e T w o - fo ld A ttitu d e o f M in d a n d S oul. 36. T h e S y m p h o n y o f L ife . 37. T h e T h r e e - f o ld C o n s titu tio n o f M an. 38. M en ta l T h e r a p e u tic s P o s itiv e A ffirm a tio n s . 39. H o w S h a ll W e P r a y ? 40. S c ie n tific R e la x a tio n a n d N o rm a l S u g g e s tio n R e la x a tio n W h ile W o rk in g . C o n c lu s i o n T h e S tr e n g th e n in g o f W ill-P o w e r a n d S e lf-C o n tro l.

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N ature Cure, P h ilo s o p h y a n d P r a c t i c e ..................................... R egu lar P r ic e $2.25 The N a tu r o p a th f o r one y e a r ......................................................R egu lar P ric e $2.00 For sale by

BENEDICT LUST, N. D.

BUTLER, NEW JERSEY

THE REDISCOVERY OF THE LOST FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

FOR NERVOUS AFFLICTIONS AND NERVE EXHAUSTION, INCLUDING MENTAL ILLS AND SEXUAL DISEASES
by DR. EL LERNANTO,
e ste rn o , F lo rid a

O U R P R E M IS E : A s every organ and fu n ctio n o f the brain ( the organ o f the m ind, or intellect and w ill) has its corresponding organ and function in the body; consequently, the influence o f a physicians mind, as w ell as that o f the patients, w ill act as a curative factor in m en tal ( nervous ) and sexual diseases; specifically, if the A B C m ethod, as herein outlined and prescribed is adopted. E ven in physical diseases, the sam e influence, in conjunction w ith the material means, w ill hasten the process o f healing, and w ill establish a state o f health and happiness, never before experienced.

CONTENTS
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E q u ilib riu m o f M in d a n d B ody th e G re ate st F a c to r o f L ife a n d C onsequent E n jo y m e n t o f H e a lth A C o m p ariso n M a terialism , S p iritu a lism o r M en talism T h e P ro c e ss o f M a stic a tio n T h e P ro c e ss o f D igestion (C h u rn in g and D issolv i n g ) T h e P ro c e ss o f A ssim ilatio n (C o n v e y in g a n d A b s o rb in g ) T h e Ju ic e-S u b stance o f F o o d T h e A lchem ical L a b o ra to ry and C o n se rv a to ry , W h e re the R eal S ource o f M irth fu l H e a lth a n d J o y fu l L ife Is G e n era ted T h e G lan d u la V ita e o r G land o f L ife, th e R eal S o u rc e o f P u re B lood M a k in g T h e C o n a riu m o r P in e al G land, the S e a t o f S e n su a l D e te rm in a tio n C hange o f th e A rte ria l a n d V en u s C ir cu la tio n T h e Office o f th e H e a rt, L u n g s a n d C ap illaries M ental E q uilibrium th e G re ate st F a c to r fo r G ood B lood-M aking, a n d C onsequent E n jo y m e n t o f H e a lth T h e Office o f th e M y ria d s o f B ra in -C e lls T h e U n ite d P ro c e ss o f C o n ariu m a n d B rain -C ells, a n d O rig in o f H u m o -V ito -E le c tro -M a g n e tis m Ig n o ran c e C on c ern in g the S e c ret O rig in a n d R e se rv o ir o f S p erm a n d G erm H o w th e B rain Is S et in M otion a t B irth T h e S upply o f L ig h t (P n e u m a o r E le c tric ity ) and H e a t (P sy c h e o r M a g n e tism ) to th e B ody a n d B ra in T h e P ro c e ss o f A lchem ical Com b ustion Is th e L aw o f R eciprocal A c tio n a n d R e la tio n o f the In n e r a n d O u te r M an H ow . M en tal H e a lin g Is M ade P ossible, a n d an A b so lu te F a c t H o w L ife Is G e n era ted H o w U p liftin g a n d B e a u tifu l Is T r u th ! T h e Im p o rta n c e o f M a sti c ating F o o d T h o ro u g h ly , a n d the E qual Im p o rta n ce of B eing M o d e rate in E a tin g a n d D rin k in g A cute D yspepsia o r In d ig e s tio n C hronic D yspepsia W h a t

S h all W e E a t and D rin k ? o f L ess Im p o rta n ce , a n d W h y M ental E quilibrium M ore Im p era tiv e T h a n the K ind o f F ood T h e In te lle c t S h o u ld Be F irs t and L ast the D ire cto r, G uide a n d P ro te c to r o f th e B ody T h e Seed, the F in a l S tre n g th o f M an, A nim al a n d V egetable T h e U ltim a te P o te n tia l E n e rg y o f M a n s B eing Is th e S eed o f M an T h e S tro n g e st a n d D eepest P a ssio n in M an R e ad in g the T h o u g h ts o f M enT h e S perm o f M ale a n d G erm o f F em ale th e V e rita b le E ssence o f M irth fu l H e a lth a n d Jo y fu l M o rta l L ife O ne o f the M o st W eig h ty M a tte rs o f th e L aw o f L ife T h e S ex -E sse n ce th e G re ate st P o w e r fo r G ood o r E vil in the U n iv erse T h e R ed em p tio n o f O u r B ody D roll, L u d ic ro u s a n d R id icu lo u s! D esire f o r L o w e r o r H ig h e r L ife, W h ic h ? T h e H id d e n M a n n a T he L oom s o f God a n d th e M ystic W eb ( P o e m ) ............................................................................. 17-38
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A R ay o f L ig h t, a F o u n ta in o f L ife a n d a G old M ine o f Jo y F o u rte e n A ll-Im p o rta n t S u g g e stio n s D e riv atio n a n d D efinition o f the T e rm S u b stitu tio n , A sp i ra tio n a n d R e ite ra tio n T h e ir D ep th o f M e a n in g E ig h te en In d isp en sab le P o in ts o f H ow to A pply to O n e se lf the L aw o f S u b s titu tio n A T e stim o n y T h e Science o f M e m o riz in g P ro m in e n t a n d D eficient F a c u lties o f th e B ra in A C olossal M is tak e o f th e School S y ste m C ra m m in g a n d Its B ad E ffec tsT h e Im p o rta n ce o f Physiology, P h re n o lo g y , C h iro g n o m y o r C hirosophy, B iology a n d A stro lo g y C ram m ing, a M eth o d o f th e M iddle A ges W h a t th e Science o f M em o rizin g Is, a n d W h a t Tt Is N o t M a ste r a n d M istre ss o f th e M icrocosm In tellec t, W ill and E d u c a tio n T h e B lessing o f F o rg e tfu ln e s s T h irty E x am p les o f S u b stitu tio n , A sp ira tio n a n d R e ite ratio n , w ith Im p o rta n t C o m m en ts T h e T riu m p h a n t S ong o f M oses and th e C h ild ren o f Is ra e l Be V ig ila n t; S u b stitu te G ood fo r E v il; R ep eat I t O e r a n d O e r ( P o e m ) ..............................................................................................................39-60
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The Kneipp Cure

A L IT E R A L TR A N SLA TIO N O F M E IN E W A S S E R K U R , BY V E R Y R E V . M S G R . S E B A S T IA N K N E I P P , P A R IS H P R I E S T O F W O E R IS H O F E N , BA V A R IA . W IT H 200 IL L U S T R A T IO N S AND A P O R T R A IT OF T H E A U TH OR.

H I S is a com plete d e scription o f the w orld fam ed K neip p W a te r and H er b C ure by that celeb rated apostle o f h y d r o p a t h y , S ebastian K neipp. F a t h e r K neipp, one o f the w o r ld s greatest philanthropists, had been condu cting a private hyd rop athic clinic for the cure of alm ost every disease that afflicts hum anity w ith ex traordinary success, for a period o f more than 45 ye a is, w h en the thousands w h o had b e e n restored to health through his m inistrations, urged him to w rite a book on his m ethod o f healin g, to the end that the w orld at large m ight learn o f a p an acea for its troubles. H is system o f cure w a s too precious to die w ith its originator, and this consideration prevailed upon the m ind o f the sim ple, generous healer, and the oresent book (w h ic h has p assed through one hundred and fifty-five ed ition s) is the result. {J F ather K n eip p s theory regarding the w ater cure is that w ater o f different tem pera tures, variou sly ap p lied to the system , w ill

Cj C o-op erative w ith his hy dropathic m inistrations. F ather K neip p ad vocates the use o f a dry, sim ple, nourishing house hold fare, not sp oiled by art or condim ents, and for drink, w ater only. He also gives minute instructions as re gards b r e a th in g and clothing. I T h e first part o f the book is deto an exo f the various baths, gushes, douches, com presses, packs, etc., covering the entire procedure o f hydropathic treat m ent, illustrated by num erous cuts. T h e second part is given over to a con sideration o f the m edicinal plants used by F ather K neip p in his treatm ent o f his pa tients, also illustrated. < ]J T h e third part o f the book is com posed o f an accou nt o f the m any diseases afflicting hum anity, particularly those that are am en ab le to the w ater treatm ent. M a n y w on derfu l cures are reported, all o f w h ich are absolu tely v ou ch ed for b y the relator. Q It seem s extraordinary that diseases can be cured b y the sim ple m eans em p loyed by F ath er K neip p, w h ich have b affled the most learned p h ysician s, but the testim ony is un im peachable. CJ T h is book has foun d its w a y through the w h ole civilized w orld and is w orth its w eight in g o ld . N o one w h o believes in na tural m ethods o f cure can d o w ithout it. T ra n sla ted into 4 8 langu ages and dialects.

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The Philosophy of Fasting f

A MESSAGE TO SUFFERERS AND SINNERS
By EDWARD EARLE PURINTON
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A CAREFREE FUTURE
T H E GO SPEL OF N E W L IF E , P H Y S IC A L IM M O R T A L IT Y , SUN, T R O P IC S , L IF E R E N E W IN G D IE T , ETC. A G L I M P S E INTO T H E D E P T H AND D ISTA N C E FO R T H E S E L E C T IO N OF M A N K IN D FOR T H E R E F L E C T IO N O F A LL FOR C O N SID E R A T IO N AND S T IM U L A T IO N

B y A u g u st E n g e lh a rd t

In der Sonne ist d a s L e b e n gervonnen. In the sun is life w on . T h is is the motto o f the author o f this w ork w h ich p reaches helio therapy in its mtensest form. T w o you n g and enthusiastic G er m ans resolved to flee the so -c a lle d civilized life o f beer, pork, tob ac co and bread to live natu rally on tropic fruits on the island o f K a bak on, in the B ism ark A r ch ip e la g o , in the rom antic Sou th S e a , and this w ork is the fruit o f their m editations and the storehouse o f their recom m endations. T h e y unequivo c a lly d eclare that to live natu rally on liv ing fruits, m eans to accu m ulate life, strength and beauty. T o d o this in a lan d in the tropics w h ere the sun-rays are vertical, m eans receiving the greatest am ount o f energy from the sun. B esid es the abundance o f fruits, the w arm th o f the tropics preclud es to a very great extent, the n eed for cloth in g, so that by living in a m ore or less nude state the b o d y is continually b ath ed in air and light an d like a v egetab le, reaches its greatest

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stature and finest d evelopm ent in the lands o f the sun. T h e vigor and b eauty o f the native races in the tropics prove this. T h e area o f their b od ies exp osed to the sunlight is the m easure o f their p h ysical vigor. T h e writer re gards the cocoanut tree as the tree o f life and identifies it w ith that tree o f life that grow s in the p aradise o f G od . T ro p ica l life is a com bination o f sunlight, nudity and cocoanuts, and they contrast this w ith the life o f fur coats, frost an d roast m eat o f the tem perate regions. M a n w a s gen erated in the tropics. H e feasts on flesh and fat in p olar regions, on grains and vegetab les in the tem perate regions an d on fruits exclu sively in the tropics, therefore he is d istinctly a frugivorous anim al. T h e book is further an appeal to all fruit eaters and friends o f the natural w a y o f living to establish the fruit-eating king dom o f the w orld , first in the islands o f the Sou th S ea and C u ba, and from thence throughout the tropical w orld.

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Boll Weevil, or The Laws * Governing Nature and Mankind

T h e F o u n d a tio n o f R a tio n a l, C u ltu ra l L ife . A N e w D o ctrin e o f L ife and H ea lin g fo r th e th orough, basic and p e r m a n e n t cure o f P la n ts, A n im a ls, a n d M en, w hich h a ve th e ir o rig in in th e d eg en era tio n o f th e blood and o f th e H um ors. T he n e w A g ric u ltu re a nd n e w N a tu ra l H o rtic u ltu re

By Prof. Alexander Riggs

S th e orthodox b oll w eevil is the parasitic enem y of the cotton plant, so also the m edical treatm ent o f all human m aladies is the destructive agent o f physical and m ental health. T h is is the th esis o f the present work. T he author regards the doctrine of m edicine as a doctrine of delusion, and that it is a fundam ental cause of human distress. H e also regards the w idespread use o f devitalized foods, of foodstuffs deliberately defrauded o f their m ineral con stitu ents, o f their precious vitam ines, as a prime cause o f d is tress and disease. t A s the cotton plant, w hen grow n on so il devoid of the proper fertilizing conditions, becom es a choice victim of the b oll-w eevil, so also the human organism deprived o f its en ergy and vitality by m eans of im poverished food stuffs, and illusive, m endacious serum s, vaccines and in ocu lation s con cocted by savage cruelty to anim al life, in m ysterious secrecy, has its ow n form of boll w eevil that m ust be destroyed by a strenuous cam paign for proper food and the strangling of the octopus of official m edicine. 1f Our author points out the serious scarcity o f low -priced, w h olesom e foods that w ill supply the organism w ith the m ost valuable nutritive salts, or blood builders. H e show s that the lack o f such sa lts causes a thickening of the blood that sh ow s itself in ulcers, and m any other ailm ents, besides a lack o f energy and w ill pow er, and a p redisposition to the attacks o f m icrobes of all kinds. If T he w ork is a book o f ISO p ages in w hich the author dilates on lihe para sitic evils that prey on plants, anim als, and m en and is largely illustrated with pictures of boll w eevils and in sects that are m istaken for such parasites. T f Our author fears for the dow nfall of A m erican industrial and com m ercial life in the near future as a result of the increasing im poverishm ent of farm products not supplied w ith proper natural fertilizers. T he boll w eevils of the cotton belt are the prophets o f our d egeneracy. In a patriotic attem pt to stem such a disaster the author has prepared a m edicam ent called H ygeia or Lava Tea, w hich contains all the nutritive sa lts that are lacking, or have been extracted from natural foodstuffs properly charged w ith such salts. If T he m oral of the book is to live the natural life, eat only such vegetable food s as have not been b oll w eevilized by lack o f their vital mineral qualities, w hether by unscientific culture, or denaturing processes o f manufacture. V isit natural cure resorts w here drugless physicians m ake it their business to supply their patients w ith food and treatm ent carefully and skilfully co-ordinated to the needs of the individual.

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H IS m agazine, w hich is the pro fessio n al o rg a n of the A m erican N a tu ro p a th ic A ssociation, first app eared in 1896 as T h e K neipp W a te r C ure M o n th ly ; th e n in 1902 it becam e know n as T he N a tu ro p a th an d H erald of H e a lth ; and finally, in J a n u a ry , 1916, it becam e T h e H erald of H e alth an d N a tu ro p a th . As the n am e in d icates, th is pu b licatio n is the exp o n en t of every phase of d ru g le ss healing. I t is m any years o ld e r th a n the N a tu ro p a th ic S ociety, th e nam e by w hich the A m erican N a tu ro p a th ic A ssociation w as first know n, and w hich w as founded D ecem ber 2nd, 1902, in th e c ity of N ew York. T h e H e ra ld of H e alth an d N a tu ro p a th is the only jo u rn a l p u blished in the U n ite d S ta te s th a t espouses th e h ealin g of disease by the sim ple and n a tu ra l m ethods, as opposed to the vile n o s tru m s and s u p erstitio n s of A llo p ath y , o th erw ise know n as official m edicine. T he N a tu ra l S y stem of H e alin g alone has the cou rag e to a ss e rt th a t N a tu re cures, th a t the only h ealin g force is th e vis n a tu ra e m ed icatrix , an d n o t ;the potions, pills and pow ders of the em pirics. I t had its in cep tio n in G erm any. P riessn itz of G rafenberg, K uhne of L eipzig, S c h ro th of L indew iese, B ilz o f D resd en , and K neipp o f W oerish o fen , established san a to ria, and proved to a w orld sick u n to d e ath w ith sw allow ing p a ra ly z in g p alliativ es, of a n n ih ila tin g fe rm e n tin g sub stan ces w ith chem icals, of su p p re ssin g fevers w ith poison, of reliev ing c o n stip atio n w ith p u rg a tiv e s, c au s in g the m u scu lar sy stem of the in te stin es to lose tone and e la stic ity , all p ra c tic es a n ta g o n izin g n a tu re in h e r ben ig n efforts to g e t rid of th e o ffending m ateries m orbi th a t is th e cause of the specific disease, th a t the b e n ig n forces of su n sh in e, air, lig ht, exercise, sim ple foods, e a rth cure, w ater cure, m en tal science, etc., are a th o u san d tim es m ore c u ra tiv e of the ills of m ankind th a n the po iso n s of th e allo p ath s. T he epoch -m ak in g w ork done b y these g re a t p io n eers in N a tu ra l H e alin g is fully described in the pages of o u r m agazine. T h e tw e n tie th c e n tu ry w ill be know n as the C en tu ry of N a tu ro p a th y . T he lo n g slav ery of m an k in d to th e b a g of b o n es and feath ers of the p rim itive m edicine m an, the W itc h es B ro d th of th e M iddle A ges, th e vacu o u s m eg rim s and v a p o rs of le d o c te u r a la mode, the b leed in g craze o f o u r im m ediate fo refath ers, the d ru g g in g craze, and the p re sen t craze for serum s, in o cu latio n s, and vaccines, has been b ro k en a t last, and m an y a llo p a th s are now tu rn in g n a tu ro p a th s , th u s fleeing from th e w ra th to com e. T he specialties in N a tu ra l H ealin g , no m a tte r b y w hom in tro d u ced , receive m ost elaborate expo sitio n . T hese include the G erm an W a te r C u re ; the N a tu re C ure or N a tu ro p a th y , w hich includes D iet, H y d ro th e ra p y , T h e rm o th erap y , P h o to th erap y , H elio th erap y , C hro m o th erap y , E lec tro th erap y , P sy c h o th erap y o r M ental H ealing, in clu d in g suggestive th e ra p e u tics, M echanotherapy, or M assage, and P h y sical C u ltu re, O steo p a th y , O p h th alm o lo gy, C h iro p ractic and S pondylotherapy. All these v ario u s d ru g le ss m ethods, and o th ers n o t specifically m entioned, are p a rts of an im m ense whole th a t form s a body of m edical p rin cip les and p ractice th a t are the very a n tith e sis of a llop ath ic m edicine, w hich is b u t a sy stem of ig n o rin g th e cause of disease, th u s leaving it in ta c t to b reak fo rth again. T he sy stem is an a tte m p t to en ab le m an to v iolate the law s of n a tu re , and yet secure im m u n ity from p u n ish m e n t for so d o in g b y the v icarious v irtu es of dru g s, serum s and vaccines. T h is false sy stem of finding c u re s for disease, by tre a tin g th e effect, even if su c cessful, w ould only re s u lt ,in o u r seein g a new series of ailm en ts s p rin g in g from the u n e x tirp a te d ro o ts thereof, each re q u irin g a new artificial rem ed y , p roduced in m o st cases w ith the infinite suffering of anim als in the sham bles of th e m edical la b o ra to ry . T he N a tu ra l M ethod of H ealin g , on th e c o n tra ry , seeks to change the v e ry h a b its of th e in d i vidual b y u rg in g a re tu rn to n a tu re in eatin g , d rin k in g , b re a th in g , b a th in g , w o rking, re stin g , d re s s ing, th in k in g , by m ak in g use of e lem en tary rem edies o f n a tu re , b y c o rre c t p hysiological principles. T H E H E R A L D O F H E A L T H A N D N A T U R O P A T H c o n ta in s bio g rap h ical sk etc h e s of all the pro m in en t p io n eers o f N a tu ro p a th y , n o t o n ly th o se of foreign co u n tries, b u t a lso those of the U n ite d S tates. B io g rap h ies of Dr. T rail, G raham , Jac k so n , K ellogg, W alters, P age, Still, the o rig in ato r of O steo p a th y , W eltm er, w ho enlarged su g g estive th e ra p e u tics, P alm er, o rig in ato r of C hiro p ractic, B. L u s t of N ew Y ork and B u tler, N. J., th e N a tu ro p a th , D rs. L a h n , S tru eh , Lindlahr, C arl S ch u ltz, C ollins, D ein in g er, D avis, H av ard , p ro fesso rs of N eu ro p a th y , D r. 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THE MEDICAL QUESTION

The Truth About Official Medicine and Why We Must Have Medical Freedom
M ed ical L a w s vs. H u m a n R ig h ts a n d C o n s titu tio n . T h e G re a t N eed of th e H o u r. W h a t C o n s titu te s th e T ru e Science a n d A r t of H e alin g

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E R E is a book th a t cheers one lik e a d ra u g h t of ozone a fte r h a v in g b re a th e d the m ephitic v ap o rs of th e p h ilo so p h y of official m edicine, th a t exploits th e im m o rality of v iv isectio n , an d sw ears b y th e un scien tific a n d useless p ro d u c ts of th e to rtu re tro u g h . I t co n sists of 600 p ag es, w ritte n b y th e tre n c h a n t pen of one w ho is m a ste r of his su b ject. I t em bodies th e re v o lt of th e la te st and m o st efficient school of m edical healin g a g a in st th e ty ra n n y an d ig n o ran ce of th e d ru g doctors, w ho, w hile a tta c k in g sym ptom s, fail to u n d e rstan d th e need of th e h ig h e r p ra c tic e of tre a tin g the causes of disease in stead . T h e c h a rla ta n ry an d inefficiency of official m edicine h a s reason to be envious of th e successes of th e n a tu ra l school w hose philosophic p ra c tic es a re h e re fully m anifested. H e is th e sw orn enem y of the D r. E rz m akes v ery c le ar his scientific m edicine of th e allo po sitio n in th e a rt of healing. H e p a th s, th a t con sists of poisonous is an e n th u siastic N a tu ro p a th . H e d ru g s on th e one han d , and the believes th a t w hen a m an becom es eq u ally poisonous and w holly dan ill, he should em ploy th e n a tu ra l g e ro u s serum s, in o c u la tio n s and forces of h y d ro p a th y , d ie t, ex er v accines on th e o th e r, th a t form a cise, sunshine, e lectricity , meb o d y of m edical su p e rstitio n th a t chan o -th erap y , m assage, an d all is p ro p a g a tin g disease ra th e r th a n the h ealin g agencies th a t h av e c u rin g it. H e discusses, one by proven th e ir w o rth as p ro p h y la c one, th e m o st loudly-praised p ro tics, and th e ir a b ility to arouse d u c ts of m edical re search , and th e in h e re n t re sto ra tiv e p o w er fo r p ro v e s th e m e ith e r to be u tte rly h e alth th a t resid es in every o r useless, or of deadly d a n g e r to ganism . H is in fo rm atio n is il lu m in a tin g in th e h ig h e st degree. th e duped and u n su sp e c tin g p a tie n t. In su p p o rt of h is sta te m e n ts, h e q u o tes th e o p in io n s of th e g re a te st e x p o n en ts of official m edicine w ho confess th a t a llo p ath ic m edicine has pro d u ced m ore m isery and p re m a tu re d e ath th a n fam ine, p e stilen c e a n d w a r com bined. A s B illro th say s, O u r p ro g re ss is ov er m o u n tain s of corpses. H e p roves th a t th e A m erican M edical A sso ciatio n , an d th e v ario u s S ta te and C ounty A sso c iation s affiliated th e re w ith , form one v a st engine of o p pression, arm ed w ith leg al pow er to h a ra ss, crush, an d if p o ssib le d e stro y , th e tru e saviors of m ankind, th e e x p o n en ts of n a tu ra l healing, w hose a ctiv itie s n a tu ra lly d iscred it official m edicine. B y le g a lly se c u rin g a m onopoly of p ra c tisin g m edicine, T H E Y A R E A B L E T O M A K E I T M O R E O F A C R IM E T O C U R E A P E R S O N T H A N T O K I L L H IM . H e show s how easy it is to u n d e rsta n d w hy th e u n th in k in g le g islato r favors official m edi cine to th e exclusion of th e n a tu ra l school of th e ra p y . T h e p sychological p re ssu re of an in s titu tio n , no m a tte r h o w d e sp o tic its use of p o w er m ay be, o r how false and d e ad ly its p ro d u c ts are, th a t has its ro o ts d eep ly ro o ted in h isto ry , is v a stly g re a te r on th e un en lig h ten ed m ind, th a n a tru e an d no b le in s titu tio n th a t w as b o rn b u t y e ste rd a y w here m an does n o t know c onserv atism rules. D r. E rz fu lly p roves th a t th e so-called rem edies of m edical re sea rc h a re violatio n s of every law of n a tu re , of h e alth , of life, and a d isre g ard of ev ery p rinciple of physiology, biology and th e ra p e u tics.

T he peo p le w ere n e v e r co n su lted a bout th e se law s, and n e v e r a sk ed fo r th e m

T h ey are th e p ro d u c t of m edical feudalism , w hich m eans in to le ra n c e, in ju stic e and b ru ta lity , instead of c h arity , ju stice an d d ig n ity . T h e people sh o u ld rise in th e ir m ig h t and sta y the infam ous a ctiv ities of th e se m edical m alefactors. I t is a s ta rtlin g in d ic tm e n t of h u m a n ity th a t its sav io rs are n ev er recognized u n til the advance g u ard , an d m an y of th e m ain a rm y , are killed, o r tro d d e n u n d erfo o t, and official m edicine in A m erica, th e g lorious L a n d of F reed o m , is b u sy a t th is m om ent, as it has been for m an y y ears p a st, in h u n tin g dow n th e d ru g le ss1 p ra c titio n e r, w hose o nly fa u lt is th e fact th a t h e cures p a tie n ts b y n a tu ra l m eth o d s, w h e re th e v en d o rs of ro tte n pus h ave sig n ally failed. H e is a rre sted , an d h eav ily fined, o r th ro w n in to ja il fo r th e offense of p ra c tisin g m edicine w ith o u t a p u s-v en d o rs license. D r. E rz rig h tly ad v o cates th e u rg e n t need of a g re a t A cadem y of N a tu ra l H e alin g to con vince th e th in k in g m asses of th e s u p erio rity of th e N a tu ra l H e alin g S ystem , and to p ro te c t it ag ain st all m isre p re se n ta tio n s an d abuses, and assu re its efficiency and p erm a n e n t success. M edical F reed o m is th e g re a t need of th e h o u r to p ro v e th a t N a tu re s co n stru ctiv e law s over shadow all ig n o ran ce, su p erstitio n and am b itio n . As th e ex p o n en t of a s tan d a rd of drugless healing, an d as a m o n ito r, m e n to r, an d defence of h u m a n ity fro m ra p a c ity and su p erstitio n , such an in stitu tio n w ould be of en o rm o u s v alu e to m ankind. D r. E rz s w o rk is a sta n d a rd c o n trib u tio n to th e g re a t p ro p a g a n d a of D ru g less T h e ra p y th a t is sw eeping o v er th e lan d . N o d ru g less p ra c titio n e r can afford to b e w ith o u t its in sp irin g com panionship. I t m ark s an epoch in th e h is to ry of th e g ra n d science and a rt of N a tu ra l H ealing.

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THE NATURAL METHOD OF HEALING

A N ew a n d C o m p le te G u id e to H e a lth

H IS S ta n d a rd w o r k is a n e n c y c lo p e d ia of th e n a tu r a l s y s te m o f h e a lin g , re g a rd e d a s a s p e c ia l s c h o o l o f m e d ic in e , n o m a tte r b y w h o m p r a c tic e d , a n d c o n ta in s n o t o n ly a d e s c r ip t io n o f th e m e th o d s e m p lo y e d b y th e a u th o r a t h is fa m o u s B ilz S a n a to r iu m a t R a d e b e u l, D re s d e n , G e rm a n y , b u t a ls o th e m e th o d s e m p lo y e d b y a ll o th e r p io n e e r s o f N a tu r o p a th y , so a s to p r e s e n t a c o m p le te s u r v e y o f n a t u r a l h e a lin g s c ie n c e . R a tio n a l th e r a p y is a m o d e r n r e v o lt f r o m th e a llo p a th ic m e th o d s o f tr e a tin g d is e a s e b y u s e o f in t e r n a l m e d ic in e , w h ic h , w h e th e r h o m e o p a th ic , o r a llo p a th ic , o n ly i n te r f e r e w ith th e a c tio n o f th e v ita l fo rc e , a n d a r e p r o v o c a tiv e o f a sec o n d a ry illn e s s , m a n u f a c tu r e d w ith th e id e a o f s u p p la n t in g th e o r ig in a l o n e , a n d a t th e s a m e tim e m e re ly p la c a te s y m p to m s , a n d d o n o t a tta c k th e c a u s e o f th e d is e a s e . P e o p le h a v e a w h o le s o m e h o r r o r o f b e in g p o is o n e d b y p i l l s a n d p o tio n s , s e r u m s , v a c c in e s a n d in o c u la tio n s , o f w h o s e p r o p e rtie s th e y k n o w n o th in g , b u t f e a r th e w o r s t. C o m m o n s e n se a n d th e h a v o c w r o u g h t b y th e s u p e r s tit io n s o f a llo p a th y h a v e in tr o d u c e d a new e r a o f h e a lin g , a n d th e p r o f e s s o r s o f th e n a t u r a l m e th o d o f h e a lin g a r e m u ltip l y in g b y th e th o u s a n d s , u n t i l , a s P r o f e s s o r B ilz s a y s , p e o p le a r e g iv in g th e m s e lv e s u p , h a n d a n d fo o t, to th e b la n d is h m e n ts o f so m e q u a c k o r s w i n d l e r w h o is f la u n tin g in t h e i r fa c e s th e e n tic in g flag o f th e N a t u r a l M eth o d o f H e a lin g . A s a ll r e a lity c a s ts its s h a d o w , so a ls o th e n a t u r a l m e th o d o f c u r e w ill h a v e its m o u n te b a n k s , lik e e v e r y o th e r in s t i t u t i o n o n e a r th . P r o f e s s o r B ilz goes d e e p ly in to th e p h ilo s o p h y o f h is s u b je c t, a n d s h o w s how t h a t c r o p s w ith o u t th e n a t u r a l fo rc e s o f s u n , a i r , r a i n , m in e r a l fo o d a n d tilla g e w o u ld p e r is h , so a ls o , i f a p a t i e n t is d e n ie d th e n a t u r a l m e a n s o f h e a lin g , s u c h a s p r o p e r fo o d , a i r , lig h t, w a te r , c h a n g e s o f te m p e r a tu r e , so e s s e n tia l to h is w e ll- b e in g , a n d is b e in g c o n s ta n tly s u p p lie d w ith p o is o n o u s m e d ic in e s , th e p ro c e s s o f c u r e in itia te d b y th e v ita l fo rc e , w h ic h is c a lle d u p o n to t u r n th e m o r b i d m a tte r o u t o f th e b o d y , w ill be p a r a ly z e d , a n d th e p a tie n t w i l l s o o n e r o r l a t e r s u ffe r, a t le a s t, m o s t s e r io u s ly , if n o t to th e e x te n t o f lo s in g h is lif e . P r o f e s s o r B ilz p la c e s th e la c k o f p r o p e r fo o d a t th e h e a d o f a ll d e g e n e ra tiv e a g e n ts , f o r h e c o n s id e r s th a t d is e a s e s a r e n o th in g e ls e th a n i r r e g u l a r itie s p r o d u c e d d u r in g th e p r o c e s s o f fo o d a s s im ila tio n in th e d ig e s tiv e o r g a n s , b o th b y th e d e g e n e ra tiv e in flu e n c e s o f w ro n g fo o d s , a lc o h o l, te a , co ffee, s p ic e s , g o rm a n d iz in g , 'l a c k o f e x e r c is e , th e w ro n g a p p lic a ti o n o f o th e r w is e h e a l th f u l a g e n ts , a l l c o n s ti tu tin g a f o r m id a b le lis t o f e x te r n a l d e p r e s s iv e in flu e n c e s , t h a t p r i m a r i l y c a u s e a d is tu r b a n c e o f f o o d - a s s i m ila tio n , w h ic h le a d s to th e m o s t v a r ie d f o r m s o f d i'se a se . I n th e tw o v o lu m e s t h a t c o n s ti tu te th e B ilz e n c y c lo p e d ia o f h e a lin g , th e s u b je c t m a tte r is d iv id e d in to tw o s e c tio n s , v iz ., a c o n s id e r a tio n o f th e v a r io u s d is e a s e s to w h ic h h u m a n ity is s u b je c te d , w ith a d e s c r ip t io n o f t h e ir tr e a tm e n t, e n title d T h e N a tu r a l M eth o d o f H e a lin g a n d Its M e r its , th e s e c o n d s e c tio n tr e a tin g m o re e x c lu s iv e ly o f M odes o f T r e a tm e n t in th e N a t u r a l M eth o d o f H e a lin g , b o th s e c tio n s b e in g a r r a n g e d a lp h a b e tic a lly . A s m a y b e e x p e c te d , th e b e n e fic e n t u s e s o f n u t r i t i o n , d ie t, w a te r u s e d e x te r n a lly a n d in t e r n a l l y , a i r , w a r m th , lig h t, d w e llin g s , e x e r c is e , re s t, m a s s a g e , s a n d b a t h s , m u d b a th s , e le c tr o p a th ic tr e a tm e n t, p a c k s a n d c o m p re s s e s , etc ., a r e d ila te d u p o n , th e w h o le f u r n i s h i n g a m o s t v a lu a b le g u id e f o r th e p r a c tic a l n a t u r o p a t h . T h e R e p o rts o f C u re s sh o w a li s t o f o v e r th r e e h u n d r e d d if f e r e n t a ilm e n ts t h a t y ie ld r e a d ily to th e n a t u r a l s y s te m o f h e a lin g . T o th e K n e ip p W a te r C u re is a c c o rd e d 115 p a g e s o f d e s c r ip tiv e m a tte r , r a n g in g fr o m th e c u re o f c a n c e ro u s u lc e r s to c o m m o n c o ld s . 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T h is c u re is b a s e d o il th e th e o r y th a t th e r e i s b u t o n e d is e a s e e x p re s s e d i n m a n y f o r m s , a n d c a u s e d b y th e a c c u m u la tio n o f fo r e ig n s u b s ta n c e s , o r m o r b i d m a t t e r in th e b o d y . <See a f u l l a c c o u n t o f th e K u h n e C u re in th e U n iv e rs a l N a tu r o p a th ic E n c y c lo p e d ia , D ire c to ry , D ru g le s s Y e a r B o o k a n d B u y e r s G u id e , v o l. 1, 1918. P u b li s h e d b y D r. B. L u s t, B u tle r,' N . J . 1,000 p a g e s . ?10.00 p o s tp a i d .) T h e tr e a tm e n ts g iv e n a t th e B ilz S a n a to r iu m m a k e u s e o f e v e r y m e th o d o f c u re th a t i s r e c o m m e n d e d b y e x p e r ie n c e . F o r e x a m p le , th e v a r io u s S w e d is h s y s te m s o f C u r a tiv e G y m n a s tic s a r e la r g e ly e m p lo y e d w ith im m e n s e b e n e fit to its p a tie n ts . A ll th e s e a r e f u ll y d e s c r ib e d . 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The True, Natural Method of Healing and Living, Through Physical, Mental and Spiritual Means
T h e R e s to r a tio n to H e a lth b y th e Use of W A T E R , L IG H T , A IR , E A R T H ( c la y ) , a n d t h e P r o p e r K ind o f Food. T h e B o o k of B o o k s f o r t h e D r u g le s s D o c to r a n d t h e I n t e l l ig e n t S e e k e r f o r t h e V e ry B e s t in N a t u r a l H e a lin g
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