Toxemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease (Revised Edition) 1557427607, 9781557427601

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TIL DEN MD .

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MOTOR COMPANY ARCHIVES

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ΤΟ ΜΙΑ EXPLAINED Χ

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By Dr. Tilden

TOXEMIA EXPLAINED DR . TILDEN'S COOK BOOK DR . TILDEN'S

HEALTH REVIEW

E CRITIQUE A Monthly Magazine

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TOXEMIA EXPLAINED REVISED EDITION THE TRUE INTERPRETATION OF THE CAUSE OF DISEASE

HOW TO CURE IS AN OBVIOUS SEQUENCE

AN ANTIDOTE

TO FEAR , FRENZY AND THE POPULAR

MAD CHASING AFTER SO - CALLED CURES

By

J. H. TILDEN , M. DENVER , COLORADO

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Fredator Company

LIBRARY

OcañonN

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MICHIGAN

Copyright 1926 and 1927 By H. TILDEN DENVER, COLORADO

J.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY PRANK J : WOLI , DENVER , COLORADO ...

DEDICATION HAT

more can be asked by any doctor or layman than a phil osophy of the cause of disease that gives a perfect understanding of all the so - called diseases ?

To know cause supplies even the lay man with a dependable knowledge of how to avoid building disease , and how to cure . When people know how to avoid that disease they know an immunization immunizes rationally . of what disease

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cause man's salvation and when can be had with no more effort than that required read care

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fully and understandingly Toxemia Ex plained there little excuse for anyone lay professional ignorance live of

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Few people know anything about the To them this book .

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Table of Contents Preface

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Toxemia Explained . Enervation Is General Poise

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Introduction to Toxemia

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Causes

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A Few Suggestions

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Retrospection ..

Dr. Tilden's Tensing Exercises

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.PREFACE o

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FROM time immemorial, man has looked for a savior ; and , when not looking for a savior, he is looking for a cure . He believes in pa ternalism . He is looking to get something for nothing , not knowing that the highest price we ever pay for anything is to have it given to us. Instead of accepting salvation , it is better to deserve it . Instead of buying, begging , or stealing a cure , it is better to stop building disease . Dis

is of man's own building , and one worse thing than the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe in cures . The false theories of salvation and cures have built man into a mental mendicant , when he should be the arbiter of his own salvation , and certainly his own doctor , instead of being a slave to a pro fession that has neither worked out its own sal vation from disease nor discovered a single cure in on

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the age long period man's existence earth We hear diet cures dietitians balanced rations meat diets vegetable diets and other diets -chemically prepared foods The kinds

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bewildered with hundreds health magazines and thousands health ideas

health who would

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not recognize it if they should meet it on the street . Fanaticism , bigotry, stupidity, and commercial ism are the principal elements in the dietetic com plex that is now belaboring the public . Cures are what the people want , and cures are what doctors and cultists affect to make ; but at most only relief is given . to

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The periodicity which characterizes func derangements body tional the lends color the claims cure mongers that their remedy has cured their patients when the truth that the so called disease ran its course The truth that the called disease was toxemic crisis and when the toxin was eliminated below the toleration point

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automatically the sickness passed health re turned But the disease was not cured for the continued toxin still cause enervating habits accumulates and due course time another Toxemia Unless the cause crisis appears

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engaged doctoring The entire profession curing crises Toxemia and curing un overtaken with chronic disease whatever

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habits are given sense generally understood

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THERE ARE NO CURES

tobacco

heart, what is the remedy ? Stop the use of to bacco , of course . If the heart is worn out from shock , as we see it among gamblers , or among men who are plunging in the stock market, what will cure ? Drugs ? No ! Removing the cause . Every so - called disease is built within the mind and body by enervating habits . The food and dietetic insanity that constitutes the headliner on the medical stage just now is causing the people to demand a diet that will cure them of their pecu liar maladies . The idea prevails that some peculiar diet will cure rheumatism or any other disease . Diet or food will not cure any disease . rest in bed , and the giving - up of ener vating habits , mental and physical, will allow na ture to eliminate the accumulated toxin ; then , if enervating habits are given up , and rational living habits adopted , health will come back to stay , if the one CURED will " stay put ..'" This applies to any so - called disease . Yes , it fits your disease you who write to find out if the Tilden system of cure applies to your case . Yes ; cannot you realize

A fast ,

that law and order pervades the universe ? And it is the same from nebula to stone , from stone to plant , from plant to animal, from animal to man , from man to mind , and from mind to super -mind -God . To use a blanket expression : Law and order pervades the universe , the same yesterday , today and forever , and is the same from star -dust to mind – from electron to mind . Toxemia ex plains how the universal law operates in health [ 11 ]

One disease is the same as another ; one man the same as another ; one flower the same as another ; the carbon in bread , sugar , coal , and the diamond is the same . Yes , one disease can be cured ( ? ) the same as another , unless the organ acted on by toxemic crisis is destroyed . and disease .

For example : If wrong eating is persisted in , the acid fermentation first irritates the mucous membrane of the stomach ; the irritation becomes

inflammation , then ulceration , then thickening and hardening , which ends in cancer at last . The medical world is struggling to find the cause of cancer . It is the distal end of an inflammatory process whose proximal beginning may be any irritation . The end is degeneration from аa. lack of oxygen and nutriment, and , in degenerating , the septic material enters the circulation , setting up chronic septic poisoning called cancer cachexia . Disease is a common expression of universal enervation . And understanding of physiology and pathology necessitates a firm grip on evolution as expressed in biology ; or reasoning will go astray occasionally . Modern cures and immunization are vanity and vexation ; they are founded on the foolish principle of reasoning from effect, which is disease , to cause . The organ which is suffering from many crises of Toxemia is discovered it may be ulcer of the stomach , then the ulcer is cut out ; it may be gall stone , then the stone is cut out ; it may be fibroid tumor of the womb , then the tumor or womb is cut [ 12. ]

out . The same may be said of other effects the medical armament is turned loose on a lot of ef fects . This is accepted by the public mind as ef ficient treatment of disease, when in fact it is a stupid removal of effects. And that is not the worst of such blundering . The operators have not the slightest idea of the cause of the effects they

so

skillfully remove .

In other derangements the same lack of knowl edge of cause prevails . In the treatment of de ficiency diseases, the lacking element is supplied from the laboratory ; but nothing is done in the line of restoring the organ to normality . Why ? Because medical science has not discovered why organs fail to function properly ; and until this dis covery is made , scientific blundering will continue . THE WORLD NEEDS THE SCIENCE OF SURGERY

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If mutilation ( unnecessary surgery ) is re quired in nine hundred and ninety - nine cases to perfect the skill required in the thousandth case , the question of the need of high - class surgery must be answered by the mutilated or vandalized class . Is war necessary ? What would be the answer of the 7,485,000 who were killed in the late World War , if the question were submitted to them ? Estimate $ 5,000 as the man -power loss for each man ; then the world lost $ 37,425,000,000 in this one item alone . Surgery costs the world , in van dalizing the bodies of men , women , and children , as much every year . Is it worth that much for

Why is so much surgery thought to be necessary ? Because of the ignor ance of the people, egged on by a science-mad or

the real good

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does

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selfish profession . It is more spectacular to oper ate than to teach people how to live to avoid chronic disease and operations . ARE PALLIATIVES EVER NECESSARY

?

It is doubtful if the palliation which doctors

and

cultists give is worth the disadvantage that the sick habit taught the patients by their doctor brings them . The drug habit taught the thousands certainly overbalances any relief given . Drugs to relieve pain are never necessary . Twenty - five years in which I used drugs, and twenty -eight in which I have not used drugs , should make my belief, that drugs are unnecessary and in most cases injurious , worth something to those who care to know the truth . YES , VENEREAL DISEASES CAN BE CURED WITHOUT DRUGS

I make no exception

of syphilis, and stand ready to demonstrate the truth of what I say at any time and anywhere to a committee of doctors . Nature cures - nature can eliminate syphilis, or any type of infection , if all enervating habits are given up and a rational mode of living adopted . STIMULANTS ARE SUBTILELY UNDERMINING So insidious in their action are all stimulants that the unwary are surprised by finding them [

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selves more or less slaves to them when they are not conscious of using them to excess. The coffee headache is an example . A time comes when it is not convenient to get the usual breakfast cup . A dullness or languid feeling ap pears three or four hours after breakfast , that cannot be accounted for until some friend suggests that perhaps it is due to missing the coffee ; but

the victim is not convinced until he proves it true by trying it out several times . Some develop a headache , and still others are troubled with gaping

or yawning and a feeling of oppression , due to heart enervation brought on from the use of coffee . At first stimulants gently remove awareness remove tire and actuate the mind and body . It should be obvious to reasoning minds that bor rowed activity must be paid for sooner or later . Using nerve - energy in excess of normal produc tion brings on enervation . Few people waste nerve - energy in one way only . Food is a stimu lant . Overeating is overstimulating . Add to this excess one or two other stimulants - coffee or to bacco - excessive venery , overwork and worry , and one subject to that amount of drain of nerve

will become decidedly enervated . Elimina tion falls far short of requirements ; consequently

energy

toxin accumulates in the blood . This adds a pro nounced auto - toxin stimulation to the coming from overstimulating habits , and completes a vicious circle . This complex stands for a disease - produc ing Toxemia , which will be permanent except as [

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toxin crises - so - called acute diseases - lower the amount of toxin , again to accumulate and continue until the habits that keep the body enervated are controlled . Perfect health cannot be established enervating habits have been eliminated until

BOOK

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of Toxemia and Toxemia the pro cess tissue building metabol ism there cell building anabolism and cell destruction catabolism The broken down tissue toxic and health when nerve energy normal eliminated from the blood as fast evolved When nerve energy dis sipated from any cause physical mental excitement bad habits the body becomes enervated when enervat elimination checked causing re tention of toxin the blood or Toxemia This accumulation of toxin when once established will continue until nerve energy restored by removing the So called disease nature's causes eliminating the toxin from effort All called diseases are the blood crises of Toxemia crises

Introduction to Toxemia

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THE medical world has built an infinite

erature without any ( except erroneous and vacillating ) ideas of cause . Medicine is past time rich in science , but now , as well as in practical ideas suffers from dearth The average doctor all the com often educated out mon sense was born with This however not system his fault the fault the He an educated automaton He has facts scientific facts galore without ideas Ford has mechanical other facts not more perhaps than thousands joined them idea which mechanics but made him multimillionaire Millions have facts but no ideas Thousands doctors have all the scientific data needed but they have not harnessed

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mainly the preven medical research the object tion and cure disease cause not known prevention possible how cure for exam smallpox ple by producing mild form other poisoning healthy person called disease

introducing into his body the pathological products of said disease ? Certainly only pathological think ing can arrive at such conclusions . Vaccines and autogenous remedies are made from the products of disease, and the idea that disease can be made to cure itself is an end- product of pathological thinking . This statement is not so incongruous after we consider the fact that all search and re search work to find cause by medical scientists has been made in dead and dying people. As ridicu lous as it may appear , medical science has gone , and is still going , to the dead and dying to find cause

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At the time of his death , Mackenzie was labor ing to discover prevention . A more worthy work can not be imagined . But the tragedy of his life was that he died from a preventable disease ; and he could have cured the disease that killed him if his.conception of cause had been in line with the Truth of Toxemia — the primary cause of .

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unlikely that the present state any great dissimilarity there would the proportions diagnosed and undiagnosed cases many investigation such series we have made The pro portion depends not training the skill individual practitioners but the unsatisfactory state all medi cal knowledge The similarity the statistical records from the institute and from private practice goes far support this view spite the additional time given at the institute the examination of cases which are undiagnosable general practice and the assistance given by the special departments clinical groups their investigation they remain profoundly obscure though we know that from among them that there will gradually emerge the cases advanced organic dis large propor ease and the end results which form hospital tragedy tion the inmates wards And the that many them suffer from no serious disabilities and might but for our ignorance checked their down ward course

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sharp Isn't this about criticism medical inefficiency Tilden has ever made This brings vividly mind the statement made

about fifty per cent of the time — that he had proved it by post -mortems. Such a statement as this , coming from a man of his standing , means much . To me it means that diagnosis is a mean ingless term ; for , as used , it means discovering what pathological effects — what changes — have been brought about by an undiscovered cause . Diagnosis means , in a few words , discovering ef fects which , when found , throw no light whatever on cause .

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quote Mackenzie : “ The knowledge of disease is so incomplete that we do not yet even know what steps should be taken to advance our > knowledge .” This being true , there is little excuse for laws to shut out or prevent cults from practic

ing less harmful palliations.

How many repu table physicians have the honesty of Sir James

Mackenzie ? In spite of Mackenzie's high and worthy ambi tions, he could not get away from the profession's stereotyped thinking . The early symptoms of dis

of their cause , and of them would give the facts. But functional derangements are of the same nature and from the same universal cause ease he declared held the secret

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stomach and vomiting No two cases are alike Nervous people suffer most and some present kinds nervous symptoms insomnia headaches etc. Women have painful menstruation and hys terical symptoms some are morose and others have epilepsy As the more chronic symptoms ap pear those the lymphatic temperament not suffer much As the disease progresses few

pallid and develop pernicious anemia , due to gastric or intestinal ulceration and putrid pro tein infection ; in others the first appearance of become

ulcer is manifested by a severe hemorrhage ; others have a cachexia and a retention of food in

the stomach , which is vomited every two or three days, caused by a partial closing of the pylorus. These are usually malignant cases .

To look upon any of these symptom - complexes as a distinct disease, requiring a distinct treat ment , is to fall into the diagnostic maze that now the profession

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organic changes these organs take which are given various names such irritation branes

inflammation , ulceration , and cancer . The path ology (organic change ) may be studied until doomsday without throwing any light on the cause ; for from the first irritation to the extreme ending - cachexia — which may be given the

blanket term of tuberculosis , syphilis, or cancer , the whole pathologic panorama is one continuous evolution of intensifying effects . Germs and other so - called causes may be dis covered in the course of pathological development , but they are accidental , coincidental , or at most

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neither can own prevention wandering After years the jungle medi diagnosis guesswork cal the usual cause and effect and the worse than guesswork treatment becoming and more confounded the time quit profession resolved either the find the cause disease To this was necessary exile myself from doctors and medical conven tions for could not think for myself while listen ing the babblings babeldom took the advice

cal societies and in the society of other doctors , takes postgraduate work , travels , etc., he cannot keep abreast of advancement . This opinion would be true if the sciences of medicine were fitted to a truthful etiology ( efficient cause ) of disease . But , since they are founded on no cause , or at most speculative and spectacular causes , as unstable as the sands of the sea , the doctor who cannot brook the bewilderment of vacillation is compelled to hide away from the voices of mistaken pedants and knowing blather skites until stabilized . By that time ostracism will have overtaken him , and his fate , metaphorically speaking , will be that of the son of Zacharias . An honest search after truth too often , if not

always, leads to the rack , stake , cross , or the blessed privilege of recanting ; but the victim , by

this time , decides as did the divine Jew : " Not my will, but thine , be done ; " or , as Patrick Henry de clared : “Give me liberty or give me death !” The dying words of another great Irishman is the wish , no doubt, of every lover of freedom and truth : That no man write my epitaph ; for , as no man who knows my motive dares now vindicate them , let not pre judice or ignorance asperse them . Let them and me rest in peace , and my tomb remain uninscribed , and my mem ory in oblivion , until other times and other men can do justice to my character . When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth , then , and not until then , let my epitaph be written . ( Emmet ) .

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At first believed that enervation must the general cause that disease then decided ple enervation not disease that disease must

due to poison , and that poison , to be the general cause of disease , must be autogenerated ; and if disease is due to an autogenerated poison , what is the cause of that autogeneration ? dallied long in endeavoring to trace disease back to poison

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taken into the system , such as food eaten after putrescence had begun , or from poisoning due to the development of putrescence after ingestion . In time I decided that poisoning per se is not dis observed where poisoning did not kill ;

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some cases reacted and were soon in full health , while others remained in a state of semi- inva lidism .

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found the same thing true of injuries

and mental shock . It took a long time to develop the thought that a poisoned or injured body, when not overwhelmed by Toxemia , would speedily re turn to the normal ; and when it did not , there was a sick habit — a derangement of some kind — that required some such contingency to bring it within sense -perception .

To illustrate : An injury to a joint is often com plicated with rheumatism ; the rheumatism pre vious to the injury was potentially in the blood . Just what change had taken place in the organ ism which , under stress of injury or shock of any kind , would cause a reaction with fever I could not understand until the Toxemic Theory sug gested itself to my mind , after which the cause of disease unfolded before me in an easy and natural manner . And now the theory is a proved fact . After years of perplexing thought and "watch ( 26 )

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learned that disease what development that with slow ever nature was preparation systemic out even called acute systemic diseases could not manifest few words Without Toxemia there can be disease knew that the waste product metabolism was toxic and that the only reason why we were not poisoned by was because was organism produced removed from the fast Then decided that the toxin was retained the checking blood when there was elimination checking Then the cause the had deter

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O ONE on the outside of the medical pro fession knows so well as doctors them selves the great need of more knowledge

of what disease really is . Never in the history of so - called medical science

has there been so much research work done as in the past decade ; but with every new discovery there follows very closely on

its heels the stark and stalking nemesis that chills the honest and earnest research labor to the bone

-the inevitable word Failure . Why inevitable ? Because , back in the beginning of man's reasoning on the subject of his discomforts , his pains , and

his sicknesses , he made the monstrous mistake that something outside of himself - outside of his own volition - had wished him harm . Man being a religious animal , he early thought he had in some manner offended one of his many deities .. The history of how man evolved the idea of disease being an entity is too long to do more than allude

to it in a book of this kind . Any of the old mythol ogies may be referred to by those who are curious enough to look the matter up . That man is still saturated with centuries of mythological inherit ance was brought out vividly when the germ

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by myself into a medical philosophy there was no real medical philosophy . The cause and cure of disease is and has been a medley of guesswork and speculation which has confounded the best and most industrious medical minds in every genera

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Cause of disease is being looked for everywhere , and no less a personage than the late Sir James

Mackenzie , in " Reports of the St. Andrews Insti tute for Clinical Research ,” Volume I , declared : “ The knowledge of disease is so incomplete that we do not yet even know what steps should be taken to advance our knowledge .”” At another time he wrote : “ Disease is made manifest to us only by the symptoms which it produces ; the first object in the examination of a patient is the detec tion of symptoms , and therefore the symptoms of disease form one of the main objects of our study . " THE VALUE OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY

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into induration or hardening of the pyloric orifice of the stomach . When this develops , there is more or less obstruction to the outlet causing occasional vomiting, and , on thorough examination , cancer is found .

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the symptoms from the first pain and catarrh in the stomach , we shall find the chain of symptoms running along . The first symptom to be noticed is pain . On examination , we find a catarrhal condition of the stomach ; and this а . disease catarrhal condition is not a is a symp tom .

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thickening of the mucous membrane , which finally ends in ulceration . Ulceration is not the disease ; it is only a continuation of the inflammatory symp tom . If the ulcer is removed , it does not remove the disease ; it only removes a symptom . These symp toms continue until there is a thickening and in duration of the pyloris, which is called cancer . And yet we have not discovered anything but symptoms from beginning to end . By removing the cancer , the question of what the disease is has not been answered . Cancer [

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pain and catarrh are not the disease. When the cause of the pain is found , it too will be found a symptom and not a disease . And this will be true to the end . wonder that diagnosticians become per plexed in their search after disease, because they have confounded symptoms and disease . The fact of the matter is, it is impossible to put the finger on any ending of a chain of symptoms and say : " This is the disease ." In the beginning of this

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Many diseases are considered to be of a dangerous nature , and many attempts are made to combat the dan ger , with , however , no perception of its nature . This is particularly the case with epidemic diseases , such as measles , influenza , scarlet fever , and diphtheria . As a consequence , proposals have at different times been put forward to treat individuals who suffer from these dis eases upon some general plan , without consideration of the peculiarities of the individual case and thus we get that rule - of - thumb treatment which is shown in the indis criminate use of a serum or vaccine. During influenza epidemics there is always a cry for a universal method of treatment , and attempts are made to meet this cry in the shape of so -called specifics and vaccines .

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trait that has divided , and always will divide , really great from the mediocre majority . They the are the leaven that leaveneth the whole herd of humanity — the quality of character that could not be found in all Sodom and Gomorrah . There was another discriminating mind in the eighteenth century — another Benjamin , who also was a signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Rush , a physician , a luminary that brought distinction to medical science . He was larger than his profession . He left seeds of thought which , if acted upon by the profession , would have organized medical thought and prevented the pres ent -day confusion . He left on record such golden nuggets as :

Much mischief has been done by the nosological ar rangement of diseases . Disease is as much a unit as fever . . . . Its different seats and degrees should no more be multiplied into different diseases than the numerous and different effects of heat and light upon our globe should be multiplied into a plurality of suns . The whole materia medica is infected with the bane ful consequences of the nomenclature of disease ; for every article in it is pointed only against their names . By the rejection of the artificial arrangement of dis The eases , a revolution must follow in medicine . road to knowledge in medicine by this means will like wise be shortened ; so that a young man will be able to qualify himself to practice physic at a much less expense of time and labor than formerly , as a child would learn to read and write by the help of the Roman alphabet, instead of Chinese characters . Science has much to deplore from the multiplication

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of diseases . It is as repugnant to truth in medicine as polytheism is to truth in religion . The physician who considers every different affection of the different parts of the same system as distinct diseases , when they arise from one cause , resembles the Indian or African savage who considers water , dew , ice , frost, and snow as distinct essences ; while the physician who considers the morbid affections of every part of the body , however diversified they may be in their form or degrees , as derived from one cause , resembles the philosopher who considers dew , ice , frost, and snow as different modifications of water , and as derived simply from the absence of heat . Humanity has likewise much to deplore from this The sword will probably be paganism in medicine . , sheathed forever as an instrument of death , before physi cians will cease to add to the mortality of mankind by prescribing for the names of diseases . There is but one remote cause of disease . These remarks are of extensive application , and , if duly at

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I would as soon believe that ratafia was intended by the Author of Nature to be the only drink of man , instead of water , as believe that the knowledge of what relates to the health and lives of a whole city , or nation , should be confined to one , and that a small or a privileged , order of

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From a short review of these facts , reason and human ity awake from their long repose in medicine , and unite in proclaiming that it is time to take the cure of pestilen tial epidemics out of the hands of physicians , and to place it in the hands of the people . Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of disease , and cause us to blush at our prescrip tions

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What mischief have we done under the belief if I may be allowed the expression, and false theories ! We have assisted in multiplying diseases . We have done more we have increased their mortality . I shall not pause to beg pardon of the faculty for ac knowledging , in this public manner , the weaknesses of our profession . I am pursuing Truth , and while I can keep my eye fixed upon my guide, I am indifferent whither I am led , provided she is my leader .

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Oliver W. Holmes , M. D. , was a man who gave dignity and respectability to the profession . He was a literary man , and from his beginning to his end , was always larger than his profession . He “ I firmly believe that, if the whole once said : materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea , it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes . " " Breakfast - Table Ser will read the intelligent people the future who will know nothing Holmes fight herd doctors for women against the dirty hands

“ Æquanimitas " will keep Osler in the minds of intelligent people when " Osler's Practice of Medi cine " will be found only in the shops of biblio maniacs . Such men as Osler keep the dead weight of mediocre medicine from sinking to oblivion by

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intelligence of the doctor due to lack of necessity for rigid Many conditions conspire to intellectual discipline ? make him an intellectual cheat. Fortunately for us , most diseases are self - limiting . But it is natural for the phy sician to turn this dispensation of nature to his advan tage and to intimate that he has cured John Smith , when actually nature has done the trick . On the contrary , should Smith die , the good doctor can assume a pious expression and suggest that, despite his own incredible

skill and tremendous effort , it was God's ( or nature's ) will that John should pass beyond . Now , the engineer is open to no such temptation . He builds a bridge or erects

a building , and disaster is sure to follow any misstep in calculation or fault in construction . Should such a calam ity occur , he is presently discredited and disappears from view . Thus he is held up to a high mark of intellectual rigor and discipline that is utterly unknown in the world the doctor inhabits .

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ical tests may be fitted to educational standards which are assembled with intelligence left out . Intelligence , like the cause of disease, is аa. force in nature that can be used under the proper environ ments ; but it cannot be monopolized to the exclu sion of all mankind . Gladstone in youth was passed upon by the psychological test of his teacher , and pronounced incorrigible ; yet at eighty - six he was wielding an ax and translating

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SCIENTIFIC TESTS People should not take too seriously to heart verdicts resting on scientific tests , where a very large part of the integral is scientific assumption and presumption . The New York Life Insurance Company turned me down more than fifty years ago . " Anonymous ," whoever he is ,

writes well, and, as that of an iconoclast , his style is quite fetching. But, to save his bacon , it was well that he criticized from ambush ; for he would make an excellent target . From my point of view , I find him as vul nerable as any Standard A type of professional

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And an equally small number improved or were abol ished by surgical interference . But , in spite of the rela

tively few diseases to which surgery is beneficial , the number of surgeons that flourished in the land is enor mous . The fundamental discoveries of Pasteur , and their brilliant application by Lister , were quickly seized upon in America . The names of Bull , Halstead , Murphy , the brothers Mayo , Cushing , and Finney are to be ranked with those of the best surgeons of any nation . In fact, we may be said to lead the world — to use an apt Ameri canism – in the production of surgeons [ and surgical plants ) , just as we do in that of automobiles , baby -car riages , and antique furniture .

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A delicate woman became my patient, after suf fering from megrim for twenty - two years and taking more or less palliatives from twenty - two different doctors — a few widely known , one a neu rologist of more than national fame; the majority of whom told her that there was no cure , but that, when she changed life , the headaches would cease . This was a “ bum ” guess ; for she declared that her suffering had been greater the past two years , since her menstruation has ceased , than ever be fore. Just how much the psychological sugges tion , made by fifteen or twenty doctors , that she would not get well for a given time , had to do with prolonging her headaches , no one can tell. Drug palliation is always inclined to enervate and build Toxemia . This woman had been relieved by hypo dermics of morphine - аa fiendish treatment . There should be аa. law against such malpractice . But the majority never handicap themselves with prohibi tory laws. My prescription was : No more smoking in the home ( the husband being an inveterate smoker ) ; stay in bed ; fast, take a tub bath and an enema every night until a paroxysm of headache had been missed .

The paroxysms had been coming weekly , begin ning on Tuesday and leaving her prostrate until Friday. Orders were given for a hot bath to be given to full relief, even if it required an hour . The patient had only one paroxysm after becoming my patient, and that required three - quarters of [ 47 ]

an hour in a hot bath to relieve . The husband be came very enthusiastic over the fact that his wife had been relieved of her pain for the first time in twenty - two years without drugs . My comment on his outburst of rejoicing was : “Your smoking and the doctor's drugging were responsible for her unnecessary suffering during nearly a quarter of > a century ." Drugging pain of any kind checks elimination and prevents the human organism from cleaning house. In this case of megrim , every time an elim

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Here were two patients with dreadful afflic tion which was kept dreadful senseless physi and criminal medication and that too colleges cians holding degrees from class

I

refer to these two cases to illustrate what > " Few diseases " Anonymous ” means by saying : Megrim may be cured or ameliorated . ” is not

if

doping , as these two cases were , some other name should be used in designating the procedure . cured

;

and

doped , is ameliorating

CRISES

According to the Toxin Philosophy , every so called disease is a crisis of Toxemia ; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration - point, and the crisis , the so - called dis ease call it cold , “flu , " pneumonia , headache , or typhoid fever - is a a vicarious elimination . Nature endeavoring is to rid the body of toxin . Any treat ment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles nature in her effort at self - curing .

on

an

Drugs, feeding , fear , and keeping at work pre vent elimination . A cold is driven into chronic

if

to

be

be

;

by

.

,

if

;

of

is a

”

;

flu

may catarrh ; " forced take infec fatally ted state pneumonia may end secre drugs already tions are checked we know what becomes headache typhoid will forced into septic state and greatly prolonged the patient not killed

The

is

"

”

.

be

or

illustrates how

a

few cases may cured ameliorated But the story differ ent when the attending physician knows that every above

-c

.

of

-

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49

[

of

a

-

is a

so

complex symptoms signify called disease ing crisis Toxemia nature's house leaning

And she - nature - can succeed admirably if not interfered with by venders of poison , who are en deavoring to destroy an imaginary entity lurking somewhere in the system , which are mightily increased and intensified by the venders ' cures or amelioratives .

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he

,

if

by

"

little watchful waiting and The patient will comfortable "

a

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,

,

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is :

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by

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a

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of

,

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by

.

in

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;

all

I

“

doctors who fight the imaginary foe without ceas saturated with the idea The people are fought that disease must finish that they are not satisfied with conservative treatment Something must they pay for done even every with their lives tens thousands willingness year medi altar the die This one very great reason why cal superstition fundamental medical made real improvement people not demand education the science When

no

of do

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on

of

,

]

50

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in

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to

as be

,

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to

be

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be

keep hands most the time and will say when asked how right am comfortable feel Patients that way when drugged and fed never answer Yes when nature not hindered officious pro fessional meddling sick people can truthfully say when well over crisis house cleaning had very comfortable sickness not re Nature vengeful Great suffering chronic and fatal mal patients adies are built the incorrigibleness meaning belligerent and the well but efforts the

1

do

to all

willing

off

is

off

is a real pleasure for the doctor who knows that he cannot cure anything to watch nature throw these symptoms elimination

medication , vaccination , and immunization will get it .

Is there nothing for a doctor to

—

they

Yes, of with a

do ? enter the sick - room

course ! He should smile and a cheerful word, free from odors , and neat and clean ; be natural , and free from affecta tions . He should not tell at how many confine ments he officiated the night before , or how many thousands he has had in the past ten years . Pro fessional lobbying is not appropriate in the sick room . Patients should have confidence in their doctor ; and if he does a lot of medico - political

lying , the patient will know it, and it sloughs con fidence .

,

a

;

; as a a

at

all

He should advise an enema daily — a stomach wash if it is needed ; something warm to the feet ; perfect quiet ; no food , liquid or solid , and posi tively no drugs, but the water desired warm night necessary bath hot bath when for pain

of

.

,

.

to

to

as

so

,

,

,

as

necessary and often secure comfort Rest quiet Then are curative warmth fresh air and patient physician the should educate his into proper living habits avoid future crises .

Toxemia

a

)

51

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he

if

-

-

; to

be

"

be

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"

or

so

:

be

"

of

,

is

,

is

When this régime carried out and Doctor Nature allowed full control the pessimistic Anonymous that statement few diseases may changed cured ameliorated can read All acute called diseases can cured patient stay practice and the will cured will self control concerning the enervating habits that

brought on his crises of Toxemia . Where this is carried out faithfully , so -called chronic diseases will never be built .

ALL DISEASES ONCE INNOCENT

"

all

Cancer , tuberculosis , Bright's disease , and chronic diseases were once innocent colds amelio

a

an

find the cause disease the concep being tion disease that individual Here where investigators meet their Waterloo All the called diseases are increasing symptom com so -

.

.

is

;

it

of

is of

to

attempt

in

is

on

.

to

a

of

-

,

,

a

”

;

by

“

"

,

rated and which returned and were amelio again rated and again each time accompanied greater constitutional enervation and greater poisoning constitutional toleration for toxin re quiring greater requisition mucous membrane through which eliminate the toxin being carried vigorously Research

as

.

They

an

,

by

,

is

.

no

to

of

plexes due repeated crises Toxemia independent existence have As soon emia controlled they disappear unless

Tox organ

getting rid

the

crises

cause

of

To

.

and Toxemia

of

life

of

,

by

.

,

is

to

degen has been forced innumerable crises organic organ change erate Even when the correcting the not destroyed will come back

]

52

man

by

of

.

cancer find the cause [

As well try

to to

,

tion ulceration

,

,

,

, it

as

,

find the cause cancer start with colds and catarrh and watch the pathology travels from irritation catarrh inflammation indura

ignor

symptoms of

called diseases have one

so -

All

all

ing his conception , embryonic life, childhood , man hood , etc. in

.

it

it

of

go

,

is

.

to

.

is

.

All

all

things diseases are one Unity Polytheism gone and every nature's plan thing pertaining coming and out must

origin

-

HERD BELIEFS

. -

if

Few realize man's possibilities his handicaps handicaps are removed which are old beliefs and on

-

herd instincts

minds until time

all

be

by

all

of .

it

In

.

as is

in

,

of

.

,

is

or

so -

no

is

The Toxemic Philosophy founded the truth that there such thing cure this dif curing systems Every fers from all the called promise pretense thera lines cure peutics grasped false This cannot

for thinking has allowed the idea

,

sit

to

all ,

.

all

kinds

up

,

have bucked

all

I

.

has outgrown superstition against medical superstitions

of

at

-

ox

, in

.

by

at

.

to

,

to

in .

to

soak Convention and superstition have the they down and are unwilling floor and Many learn slowly listen the other side sleep others not and still others are put mentally truth every generation There are cart minds Dayton episode The recent Tennessee should cure the enthusiasm of those who think the world my

-

)

53

(

,

;

on

.

'

-

I as

I

,

on as

know that clear thinking minds are Many compliment me scarce hens teeth my clear reasoning medical subjects but the cross the border line into their ethical moment

life and

moral, and theological preserves , they remind me of my trespassing in no uncertain terms. Even my own profession is quick to ink the waters of my reasoning by declaring that I am an infidel a word that fills the elect with abhorrence . Who is an infidel ? One who rejects a senseless conven tion . Didn't Christ repudiate the Jehovic cult ? The average mind prefers the old interpreta tion of words to the " new -fangled " definitions. Until the world agrees on one dictionary , one Bible, and one God , the tempest in the teapot of misunderstanding will continue to ebullate , send ing the atomized fundamentalists heavenward and the unatomized modernists hellward .

He made every thing . But why not find out just how He made him ? Surely there is as much " glory to God ” in discovering just how He did it as in accepting an infantile interpretation which up to date has got us nowhere . When we know how man is made, we shall understand the laws of his being ; and it will not be necessary for him to die of apoplexy , stone in the gall -bladder or kidney , hardening of the arteries , or any other so - called disease caused by breaking the laws of his body and mind . If we do our duty to our children , shall we teach them the laws of their being and how to respect them , or shall we go on in the same old way , and , when they get sick from breaking the laws of their being and ruin their health , call a surgeon who will cut out God's mistakes ? Think it over ;

Of course , God

made

man

[ 54 ]

.

if you're

fanatical or bigoted to think , pay a surgeon to cut out the effects of wrong living ,

or ,

too

and continue the cause .

LET US REASON TOGETHER

!

,

is ,

on

-

on

.

is

.

If

a

all

Let us do a little homely reasoning . We are inclined to be awed by the word " infinite .” The infinite is limitless to our limited comprehension it is a relative term and ambiguous ; but, as we grow in experience , our once limited comprehen sions take on extended dimensions . Each person's infinite is personal and varies from every other person's comprehension . We cannot think in terms of the limitless, and we should not try ; for, if we know the analysis of an atom of salt , we know the analysis of the infinite amount there is in the world . This is true of all elements . If we know the analysis of a pound of butter , we know the analysis of the infinite amount contained in the world . If we know about man we know all about all men we know what infinite love we know that infinite love of the same character stay We should keep our feet the ground earth- and be satisfied that all worlds are like our .

world

an

about

about Toxemia

and

]

55

[

,

all

.

all diseases We shall tell the reader

part

of all a

intensive study about one disease we know

.

by

THE INFINITE

,

we know

all

If

We know

all

HOW TO MEASURE

1

then he should know all about all diseases ; for Toxemia is the basic cause of all diseases . Instead of beginning at the top of any subject , we should begin at the bottom and work up . The usual way for our finite minds is to accept the in finite on faith ; then to us the comprehensible does not agree with our preconception , our faith is shocked , our house of belief is divided against

This is the parting of the and we must reconcile our faith and knowl edge by transferring our faith to the belief that the way knowledge road to the comprehen sible We must either do this or live doubt con cerning the knowable and accept the unknowable on faith Every truth squares itself with every other science and reason truth every department blends into unit The laws life are those the universe are the laws the cosmos the laws

1

itself , and we fall .

.

God

]

56

.

[

to

;

I

to

I

,

”

"

tionary for

having referred Toxemia its definition

the

dic

1

of

,

all

on

of -

-

is

to

.

,

.

is

,

,

of

a

.

be

, or

step must block truth sidestepped collision Behold the head the Christian world and the wholesale massacre that took place during the World War due undigested truth truth but full The world wrong food combina mental indigestion due universal tions Many think they know what mean when use the word

1

of is

God

Every goal God the will to

man and through man

of

of

to

of an

.

understanding

,

from rock

The road be to

God

.

of

;

a

;

of

.

,

.

in

of

is

by

;

all

ways

TOXEMIA , THE BASAL CAUSE OF DISEASES

ALL

SO -

CALLED

Toxin Poisoning . – Toxin : Any of a class of poisonous compounds of animal, bacterial, and ve getable origin — any poisonous ptomaine . ( Stan dard Dictionary .)

There are so many ways for the blood to be come poisoned that, unless what I mean by " Toxe mia ” is thoroughly comprehended , there must be a confused understanding. This explanation is made necessary because even professional men

I

believe in the pois oning resulting from retained excretions ( consti pation ) and ptomaine ( food ) poisoning ." As stated before , a ptomaine poisoning result ing from the ingestion of food that has taken on a state of putrescence , or a poisoning resulting from this change taking place in food after it has been eaten , and which is generally called auto toxemia , is not an autogenerated poisoning . Both of these poisons are generated on the outside of the body, and must be absorbed before the blood can be poisoned . Food or poison in the intestines is still on the outside of the body. A suppurating wound , ulcer , or chancre is on the outside of the body, and if it causes septic ( blood ) poisoning , it will be because the waste - products are not allowed to drain — to escape. The discharge being ob structed , it becomes septic , and forced absorp pro poisons tion the blood Even vaccinia fails to

its

Oh , yes ,

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57

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have said to me

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of is

;

.

,

,

to

.

of -

on

on

poison duce septic poisoning , because dis charged the surface the outside the Occasionally the waste products are forced body faulty dressings enter the blood because then septic poisoning with death follows

THE DEADLY GERM

,

,

,

).

-

(

,

It

be

forgotten that unobstructed should not free drainage from wounds ulcers canals ducts keep them aseptic non poisonous The deadly

,

it

up

,

in

—

to

an

is

all of It

.

;

or

.

be

,

is

-

-

,

,

of on

germ the hands lips drinking cups hanging straps street cars fact found anywhere and everywhere deadly gets mixed not until deadly dirty filthy physical and men with man's people taught tal habits There are who cannot cleanliness they either scrub their bodies raw neglect them overtime art wear clothes

to

,

,

.

by

,

is

,

.

a

and maintain state cleanliness conducive health Venereal and skin diseases including clothes There the eruptive fevers are fostered something more than prejudice fanaticism and

]

58

[

.

commercialized religion

the wholesale syphiliza keeping with our not

in

It

?

of

that they are engaged tion the people

is in

,

be

.

,

if

.

,

,

of

in

to

partisanship the continued allusion the con generic relationship syphilis vaccination and smallpox The kinship would have been settled long ago vaccine and vaccinia were not commer icalized Will those with millions invested and turning out large dividends willingly convinced

.

,

osculated into the mouth and

The

digested

as

, , it , on is

from there into the stomach

.

germ

is

deadly

”

the

“

it

of

.

its

The deadly germ must be mixed with retained , pent -up waste -products before it becomes meta morphosed into deadly toxic state The dog or other animal licks out his wound When

”

“

all

of

all

or

of

of no

.

to

to

.

as

to to on

of

normal secretions the body the outside body well the inside the are more than enough get away with the deadly germs allotted each person germs and Normal persons are deadly parasites peculiar the human habitat

.

on ;

Normal people have need heaven hell conjurations ignorance these are and filth the search for artificial immunization Truth im

.

munizes the germ fallacy

of .

if

a

be is

.

a

of

Cures and immunization are the products civilization that does not civilize Creedal religion cure and an immunization for those who would good evil did not betide them

,

,

;

at in a

us

.

—

we

If

of

.

as

)

(

if

to

to

of

-

aa

Self control and knowledge the limitations life then the best our privileges bring we are contented live one world time we shall have the best preparation for the tomorrows they come future we live well today live for health mind and body today need germs worry that come tomorrow about the not

)

59

(

is

.

in

,

,

,

do

of

of

of

germs today are the Those who preach fear mental offspring those who have preached fear They God devil hell and heaven the past not know that the fear which they inculcate

.

as

to ,

In

.

so

of

is , to

a

is

of

it at

all

more to be dreaded than the object of their warn ing. Fear does a thousand times more harm than any other cause of Toxemia . Nature goes her limit in the prevention of ab poisons sorption of any and The indurated wall built the base ulceration conservative prevent absorption the mat measure prevention goes ter nature sometimes too far and builds tumors and indurations dense

.

is

It

is

,

it

of

if

or ,

;

all

all

as

of

,

—

diseases

.

is

-an

apology

Rome the unity not necessary

to

ical roads lead

;

of

a

be

.

is

or

,

to

.

,

of

;

obstruct the circulation then degeneration takes place with slow absorption the septic matter poisoning place very insidiously This takes called cachexia and the name given this path lungs syphilis ology the cancer called tuberculosis very great digression thought This may patholog from the subject Toxemia but

THE MEDICAL WORLD IS LOOKING FOR CURES

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60

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in

,

a

of he

, of

a

a

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to

an

no

,

to

a

The medical world has been looking for rem edy cure disease notwithstanding the obvious remedy fact that nature needs she needs only opportunity exercise her own prerogative healing self few years ago sick doctor offered million dollars for cure for cancer he had known the scientifically being cause disease instead educated would not have died believing the passed possibility her cure after nature had

eternal fiat of unfitness in his case . Cancer is the culmination of years of abuse of nutrition , and years of Toxemia from faulty elimination by forc

,

in

,

no .

-

is a

all

of

:

.

so -

,

In

.

,

in

-

of

,

its

ing the bowels to move . This old and conventional method of so - called elimination may get rid of the accumulation in the bowels, causing an extra amount of water to be thrown out by the kidneys and bowels ; but the forcing measure adds to ener vation by overstimulation and further inhibits proper elimination elimination waste prod ucts the blood the source disease produc ing toxins The most powerful eliminant a fast other words give nature rest and she needs Stay called cures Rest means bed poise

to

all

;

to

is a

"

is it .

It

,

is

by

.

“

:

-

, , ,

mind and body and fast Nature then works with the old created out handicaps unless fear sending lay professional mongers the and fear patient the warning dangerous fast you may never live through These wiseacres do not know that there vast difference between

to

is

,

?

do

.

of

in or

,

:

to

do ,

to

-

a

is

.

fasting and starving Here hint for those kill joys who are afraid allow their patients fast You know stay that people who are forced think you espe bed from injury never well and this cially true Why old people Because they are CAUSE OF DISEASE

]

61

[

dying fallacy

.

a

Germs cause disease The bacteriological deadmarch

is is a on ,

of

as

GERMS AS

A

.

overfed

and

those

with their ears to the ground can hear it . Intui tion is forcing the active medical minds to fortify against the coming revulsion ; they are buckling on the armor of endocrinology . Endocrinology , fo cal infection , autogenous and synthetic remedies , vaccine and serum immunization , are some of the high points in the science of medicine today ; but there is a lack of fundamental unity to the system ; and nature abhors chaos as she does a vacuum . Toxemia accepts the germ ( organized fer enzyme unorganized ment ) as it does the ( fer ment ) . Both are necessary to health . My theories have received but little attention except from plagiarists . A few ,> a very few , phy

sicians know what I stand for . Those few , how ever , are enthusiastic , and have proved to their own satisfaction that the theory has a universal application . Many attempt to work Toxemia along with some little two -by - four pet curing sys tem - it means petting a little personal pride ; but it will not work . Toxemia is big enough for the best in any man .

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62

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is

of

of

a

as

;

it

be

.

as is

im

an

a

-

?

so

all

What more can be asked by any doctor than a philosophy of cause that gives a perfect under standing of the cause of To called diseases supplies layman know cause even the with de pendable cure and immunization that Dependable knowledge munizes rationally man's salvation and when can had with required thorough little effort that for under standing lit Toxemia there the Philosophy

to

professional

,

or

lay

man

,

tle

for any

excuse

is

-

as

-

as is

,

a

is

It

.

as

is

,

it

;

a

of

—

in

it .

of

hazard ignorance Toxin the designating poison Toxemia product metabolism constant being constantly evolved and when the nerve energy constantly eliminated normal fast .

evolved

strong

on or

The body

be

-

en

as

,

of

.

to

or

of

.

or

it

is

is

be ,

the case may whether the nerve ergy strong weak And should remem body bered that the functions the are carried on badly according energy well the amount generated weak

depending entirely

-

IMPORTANCE OF NERVE ENERGY

.

on

or

,

is

it

-

-

of

, as be

—

as

.

-

to

up

of

be

-

of

Without nerve energy the functions the var ious organs the body cannot carried Secretions are necessary for preparing the build ing material take the place worn out tis sue The worn out tissue must removed elim inated from the blood fast formed

.

-

up

of

as

-

as

is

As these two important functions de on

on .

process pend

of

a is

it

as

,

of

.

be

,

it

accumulates and toxic the system will poisoned This becomes source enervation Elimination the waste products tissue building just building necessary the

to

so

-

]

63

[

in

in

to

all

-

of

,

be

to

it

,

as

each other and both depend the energy work do their nerve people who would enjoy life well behooves and health the full understand what way frugal they may using nerve energy that

proper amount

they may learn how to live conservatively or pru dently , thereby enjoying the greatest mental and physical efficiency , and also the longest life . ( See

chapter on “ Enervating Habits ." ) To the ignorant, thoughtless , and sensual such suggestions and advice will seem unnecessary , or perhaps the whims or preachments of a crotchety person , or the qualms of a sated sensualist ; but it

.

is the writer's belief

that the more sober and thoughtful will welcome a knowledge that will help them to become masters of themselves. So far the masses have trusted their health and life to a profession that has failed to make good . I say this advisedly ; for now the supposed masters in the profession are looking for the causes of dis ease , and it should be obvious to any thinking mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly

no dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease .

Fifty - four years of independent thinking , un biased by sect or creed , have enabled me to dis cover the true cause of disease ; and it is so simple that even a child can learn to protect itself against the said - to -be " diseases peculiar to children . ” “

These are the times that

try men's souls . ”

If

Tom Paine were here now , he would change the wording of that line to read : “These are the times that try men's nerves . " Nerve -energy and good money are the commodities that are spent very rapidly these days . Chasing the dollar causes great waste of energy ; and the dollar has been [

64

]

up

.

to

This

the automobile pace

.

in

to

adjust humanity will come time

-

to

-

all

chased so much that it has developed wanderlust to such a degree that men enervate themselves catch ing up with a few , but prostrate themselves en deavoring to break them of their wander -habit . There are many ways to use up nerve - energy . It should be the ambition of everybody to conserve the nerve energy possible for the extraordinary keep the speeding necessary amount required

to

Man adjusted himself

the change from the

,

”

-

.

on

be

-

of

-

.

to

of

go

-s

.

"

-

-

,

to

, on

, -

;

,

ox -

Dobbin the flea bitten string halt and blind and the steamboats which our forebears took their honeymoon trips the steam cars family carriage high tepping bays and and Many will the receiver be into the hands high fore the nervous system becomes adjusted power automobiles and flying machines Without nerve energy the functions the body properly present day cannot carried The cart

Everything

on

.

,

,

which checks strenuousness causes enervation elimination and the retained toxins bring on Toxemia body uses up energy Cold and heat require the expenditure adjust the body energy the changes nerve the

.

-

to

to

.

of

that acts

]

65

[

. be

.

to

on

all

up

in

-

let

of

a

be

to

,

After middle life those who would keep well and live old must have care concerning keeping warm and avoiding chilling the body They must table pleasures and practice Allowing the feet ways self restraint

cold for any length of time- allowing the body to chill when a top -coat would prevent — is using up nerve - energy very fast .

Work with worry will soon end in flagging

energy

enervation . As no provision is made for the demand of an extra supply of energy at a given time, it is neces sary , very necessary , to know how to conserve what we have and build more . -

OF ENERGY THE GREATEST THERAPEUTIC MEASURE

CONSERVATION

so -

of

,

of

.

to a

.

,

in

to

in

its

.

or

a

of all

Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the cause of the only disease ( Toxemia ) to which mankind is heir , it is easy to see that the so - called science of medicine , as practiced , is an ally extraordinary of the causes enervation curing and becomes builder disease instead ameliorating man's sufferings Every called very Even nature causes enervation cure making the drugs used relieve pain end greater pain and sometimes kill The drugs

]

66

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aa

in to .

.

.

of

in

of to

is

.

,

.

-

in

pneumonia sometimes kill the relieve cough patient Removing stone from the gall bladder does not cure the cause and more stones form Rest from habits that enervate the only way put nature curing Sleep line for and rest body and mind are necessary keep sufficient energy supply active life rest Few people enough

WHY ENERVATION IS THE CAUSE AND NOT THE DISEASE

Enervation per se is not disease . Weakness , lost power , is not disease ; but, by causing a flag ging of the elimination of tissue -waste , which is toxic, the blood becomes charged with toxin , and this we call Toxemia - poison in the blood . This is disease , and when the toxin accumulates beyond the toleration -point, a crisis takes place ; which means that the poison is being eliminated . This we call disease , but it is not. The only disease is Toxemia , and what we call diseases are the symp toms produced by a forced vicarious elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane . When the elimination takes place through the a cold mucous membrane of the nose , it is called a ; Catarrh of the nose and where these crises are repeated

for years , the mucous membrane thick

ens and ulcerates , and the bones enlarge , closing the passage , etc. At this stage hay - fever or hay

asthma develops . When the throat and tonsils , or any of the respiratory passages , become the seat of the crises of Toxemia , we have croup , tonsilitis ,

pharyngitis, laryngitis , bronchitis, asthma , pneu monia , etc. What is in a name ? All are symp toms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at the different points named , and are essentially of the same character and evolving from the one cause -namely , Toxemia - crises of Toxemia .

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bigotry explain ? Surely knavishness is unfit . It has been said of me, because of my stand against the germ theory and vaccination , that I have

peculiar views ;" by some, that I am " an ignor amus . ” I am , it is strange that fundamentally my thoughts I find and beliefs running parallel with one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century — the famous English philosopher Her bert Spencer . I was browsing in my library a few > days ago , and picked up “ Facts and Comments . “

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show that there the matter does not end . The interfer ence with the order of nature has various sequences other than that counted upon . Some have been made known . A Parliamentary Return issued in 1880 (No. 392 ) shows that , comparing the quinquennial periods 1847 1851 and 1874-1878 , there was in the latter a diminution in the deaths from all causes of infants under one year old of 6,600 per million births per annum ; while the mor tality caused by eight specified diseases , either directly communicable or exacerbated by the effects of vaccina tion , increased from 20,524 to 41,353 per million births per annum - more than double . It is clear that far more were killed by these other diseases than were saved from smallpox . To the communication of diseases thus demonstrated must be added accompanying effects . It is held that the immunity produced by vaccination implies some change in the components of the body — a necessary assumption . But now , if the substances composing the body , solid or liquid or both , have been so modified as to leave them no longer liable to smallpox , is the modification otherwise inoperative ? Will anyone dare to say that it produces no further effect than that of shielding the patient from a particular disease ? You cannot change the constitu tion in relation to one invading agent and leave it un changed in regard to all other invading agents . What change per unhealthy must the be ? There are cases of typhoid , , sons in whom a serious disease as fever is fol lowed by improved health . But these are not normal + This was in the days of arm -to -arm vaccination , when medi cal men were certain that other diseases ( syphilis , for instance ) could not be communicated through the vaccine virus. Anyone who looks into the Transactions the Epidemiological Society of some thirty years ago will find that they were suddenly convinced to the contrary by a dreadful case of wholesale syphilization . In these days of calf -lymph vaccination , such dangers are excluded ; not that of bovine tuberculosis , however . But name the fact as showing what amount of faith is to be placed in medical opinion .

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tend ever to disturb the balance , as do also var ious foods , excessive exertion , mental strain . We have no means of measuring alterations in resisting power , and hence they commonly pass unremarked . There are , however , evidences of a general relative debility . Measles is a severer disease than it used to be , and deaths from it are very numerous . Influenza yields proof. Sixty years ago , when at long intervals an epidemic occurred , it seized but few , was not severe , and left no serious sequelæ ; now it is permanently established , affects multi tudes in extreme forms, and often leaves damaged con changes

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frightful degeneracy of teeth among young people in recent times ; and we need not wonder at the prevalence of weak and defective eyes among them . Be these sug gestions true or not , one thing is certain : The assump tion that vaccination changes the constitution in relation to smallpox , and does not otherwise change it , is sheer

folly .

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every interference and can correct every evil ef fect that is not fatal , if the influence is removed . Stimulants , continued over a long period , cause a gradual deterioration , and finally , unless the

habit is stopped , end fatally . Toxin is aa stimulant and a natural product of metabolism . When the body is normal, the toxin is removed as fast as generated ; but when any enervating habit is prac ticed beyond the power of recuperation , the toxin

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jungles . Infection took place, which probably would have killed a less robust man . He returned home , and continued his enervating habits , pre venting his fine body from cleaning house. Such cases can be brought back to the normal, but never under conventional treatment. When toxemic subjects are infected , the infec

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pernicious practices in vogue today is treating so called disease with disease, and immunizing with the products of disease . One of the first things to do to get rid of any so - called disease is to get rid of Toxemia ; for it is this state of the blood that makes disease possible . Infection , drug- and food - poisoning may kill ; but if they do not, they will be short - lived in a subject

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free from enervation and Toxemia . Conversely , the poisoning will linger in the system until Tox emia is overcome ; then elimination will remove all traces of infection . Syphilitic infection in a pronouncedly toxemic subject is thrown into great virulency by conven tional treatment. The infection is the least of fender of the trio . Add fear and wrong eating , and we have a formidable symptom - complex , justi fying that professional syphilomaniacs say and write about the disease Remove Toxemia drug ging fear and vile eating and there little left easily What there can thrown out nature

Poise state or quality of being balanced . Figura tively , equanimity ; répose . T Equanimity - Evenness of mind or temper ; composure ; calmness . ( Standard Dictionary .)

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Contentment

has found his work . " This means that he is fully occupied and contented with his work , not its emoluments . No man is satisfied with work that has nothing in it but the dollars he gets out of it . Nothing but creative work satisfies the mind . What is there in it ? Advancement , self- devel opment , and a a chance in the future to do good are about as little as will satisfy ambition . To make for contentment , the work must oc cupy and satisfy the mind . Idle minds are dissat [ 80 ]

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the commonest blessings man ninety per kind that about nine cent our people wants we never realize most could cut they wish their lives would out time often greatly shortened wish were this time One

next year .” “ I wish now were ten years from now ; I should then be through college and established in business . ” The disposition of most people is to seek abridgement . Nature abhors a vacuum , and that is what abridgements are . " Get -Rich -Quick Wall ingford ” is the ideal of all.

Short - cuts to success ; salesmanship that means coercing the vacillating C— those of weak will, those who can be persuaded to buy prematurely , those who do not know their own minds ; in short, induc ing people to buy what they do not need and can not afford is called good salesmanship . What is the matter with the people today ? General debtedness . The sales -people have made more than they know how to spend wisely on themselves— they do not know how to fill their vacuums. Those who have been persuaded to run in high when they should have stayed in low - or , what would have been better , continued to ride a bicycle or re mained on foot - are distressed because of pre mature supply . Both extremes lack poise , and build restlessness and dissatisfaction . The auto mobile is a necessity ; but it has been forced into a

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we send impulses of irritation , discontent , un happiness ,, complaining , hate , envy ,, selfishness , greed , lust , etc., the subconscious builds us in the image of our order .

If we send to the sub - conscious sensual im pulses , our order is returned to us blear - eyed , with swollen features , headaches, bad breath , pain here , pain there , blurred intellect , carelessness in busi ness, of friends , and of self. We interpret our state as disease, and send for a doctor , who finds albumin in the urine , rheumatism in the joints, a leaky heart, threatened apoplexy , dropsy , et al. We take his dope, his operations , his immuniza tions ; but we continue to send sensual impulses big dinners, strong cigars , lascivious indulgences . The doctor does no good . Another and another is sent for. Skillful examinations are given . Syphilis

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heart and stomach are immoderate when they use tobacco at all. Fortunate is the person who knows his limita tions and respects them . Of such a person may be said that he is poised . IMMUNIZATION

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leaving the waste - toxin the blood , causing poisoning Toxemia or self — the first, last, and only true disease that man is heir to. All other poisons are accidental and evanescent, and without Tox emia can have no entree to the system . Poisons may be swallowed , infected , or inoculated into the body, and poison or even kill ; but such an experi ence is not to be classed as disease, any more than a broken leg or a gunshot wound . Toxin is a normal, natural product of the sys Being a constant , it answers tem , always present. a universal cause of every requirement for a so called diseases All the different symptom com plexes which are given special names take their the toxin crisis names from the organs involved they are only symp but they are not individual toms the vicarious elimination For example Tonsilitis gastritis bronchitis pneumonia coloni are each and every one Toxemic crises differ ing only location and symptoms called dis many just different locations where eases are being toxin eliminated All are different mani festations one disease Toxemia

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why many the only explanation examining young men were refused boards the during the late war Many were sent over France who soon found the hospital for they were near the limit their toxin resistance The ex citement used their nerve energy The ener quickly Their followed by Toxemia vation was sicknesses were given names but the truth was Toxemia

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that they had Toxemia , and their diseases were crises of Toxemia , which means vicarious elimina tion : After the numerous vaccinations to which the boys were subjected on entering the army , prob ably fear or apprehension was next in order of enervating influences . DIAGNOSIS A MEDICAL DELUSION

Diagnosing

according to modern medical symptomatology of that means nothing except a guide in discovering organic change - pathological change ; and if no change or pathology is found , the case is sent home , with the advice to return again in a few months ; or per haps it will be kept under observation for a while . Even cases presenting pathological changes, such science is . a scheme

we see in rheumatic arthritis , I have known of being sent home for six months , because no point of infection could be found . The patient would be sent away with the statement : " After аa. thorough examination , we cannot find the cause of your dis ease . Come back in about six months , and it may be showing up in that time . ” : So much for the in fluence that focal infection has on the mind of the profession . Suppose infected teeth were found, or sinus infection , what of it ? What causes the teeth and sinuses to be infected ? Why is rheu matism a symptom of infection , and the focal in fections not a symptom of rheumatism ? The truth is that rheumatism , infected teeth , as

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and sinus infections, as well as every other pathol ogy found in the body, are effects . Symptoms with out lesions represent functional derangements which have not been repeated long enough or often , as diagnosis enough to cause organic change.

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found in the disease , at what stage are we to look for it ? Is it at the be ginning, or in the fully developed organic change, or in the dead man ? Mackenzie believed that it should be looked for at the very beginning , which meant with him the earliest change. He believed that an intensive study at this stage would dis cover cause . This was a mistaken idea of his , which is proved by the fact that the cause of rheu matism and cancer cannot be found early or late, and that those who believe germs cause disease cannot find them until pathology is found. It ap pears to me , after being in the game for over fifty years , that a plan which has received so much labor without reward should be abandoned . Diagnosis is so fraught with the element of un certainty that no reliance can be placed upon it . Research occupies an army of laboratory ex perts in hunting the cause of disease, and also cures . They are doomed to fail ; for how is it pos sible to find cause in effects ? goes , the cause is to be

The specialist is so limited in his knowledge of the philosophy of health and disease that he be comes deluded on the subject ; and this delusion often causes him to see meningitis , appendicitis , ovaritis — or any disease that happens to be the (

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palliations When the cause causes enerva tion are discovered and removed the nerve energy returns normal Elimination removes toxin as developed health This metabolism fast any this there cure few words Stop enervating habits stop eating rest until normal When this restored nerve energy patient accomplished the cured short long fast beneficial most sick people Those fasting who are afraid should not fast All

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most a passing palliation ; but enough such cures are performed daily to keep a large army of doc tors and cultists in bread , butter , and a degree of respectability . Their cured patients , however , glacier - like, move steadily down to the river Styx -thousands and thousands of them years before their time , many even before their prime , and maintaining false belief concerning what disease and more foolish notion concerning cures TOXEMIA SIMPLIFIES THE UNDERSTANDING

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So long as there is fever , rest assured that the bowels are not cleaned out . Provide plenty of fresh air and water , and keep the patient quiet . See to it that nothing but water goes into the stomach until the fever and discomfort are en tirely overcome ; then give very light food at first . A child that is given meat and eggs and an ex cess of milk is liable to develop putrefactive dis eases . It is doubtful ( and I believe impossible ) if any child brought up on fruit , whole wheat and other grains , and vegetables can ever evolve diph theria , scarlet fever , or smallpox , or develop sep

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tic fever_typhoid . The methods of the regular practice of medicine are in keeping with the habits of body and mind that lead to malignant diseases, epidemics , etc. As a man thinketh , so is he . The regular profession believes in antitoxin , vaccine , and autogenous remedies ; and these reme living that dies the psychology mode

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will say : " Suppose it is a case of diph Antitoxin should be used , for it is a spe cific .” What is diphtheria ? A toxemic subject with gastro - intestinal catarrh becomes infected from decomposition of animal food eaten in excess of digestive powers . The symptoms are those of tonsilitis , showing a grayish exudite covering the tonsils or other parts of the throat, accompanied by a disagreeable , pungent , fetid breath . There Doctors

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is great prostration . Subjects developing these symptoms have been living haphazardly . Their eating has been too largely of animal foods and starch - the conventional mixtures and devoid of raw vegetables and fruit. The only animal food may be milk , and the patient a young child . There have been running before , for a longer or shorter term , gastric irritation , constipation , perhaps sev eral gastric attacks - acute indigestion .

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some cases the physical

state is so vicious that a severe development of gastro -intestinal putrefaction may end fatally in from one to three days. These are the cases supposed to be over whelmed by the diphtheritic toxin , which means an acute protein -poisoning - intestinal putrefac tion — in a subject already greatly enervated and toxemic . [ 98 ]

ACUTE MALIGNANCY DEFINED

Malignancy occurs in toxemic subjects who have been carrying continuously a state of gastro intestinal indigestion from a surfeit of food , in which animal substances , possibly only milk , pre dominated . The entire organism is more or less infected by the proteid decomposition . A feast day comes along ; an excess produces a crisis ; and the organism , which is enervated and toxemic to the point of no resistance , is overwhelmed by septic poisoning . ?

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and bowels are thoroughly cleared putresence The life the patient depends upon getting rid the putrid food still remaining the bowels before enough putresence absorbed epidemic are wholesale diseases All cause death food poisonings among people who are pronounc stomach

edly enervated and toxemic . The poisoning by food is on the order of poisoning by chemicals . Those who have least resistance ( are most éner vated and toxemic ) suffer most and succumb the easiest ; for the poisoning brings on a crisis of Toxemia , and the two nerve -destroying influences overwhelm the reduced resistance , and may end

in death unless wisely treated . All acute diseases

are gastro - intestinal infections acting on toxemic subjects . The more enervated and toxemic the subject , the more severe the crisis . Certainly any one with intelligence should see the danger in giv

ing food when the exciting cause of the disease is food - poisoning

Keep the patient warm and quiet , and in good air . More treatment is meddlesome. Getting rid of putrefaction is most important. Such diseases develop only in those of pronounced enervation and toxemic , and those of very bad eating habits . TO SUM UP

To sum up briefly the difference between the toxemic methods and " regular medicine ” ; Tox emia is a system based on the true cause of disease -namely Toxėmia . Before Toxemia is developed , natural immunization protects from germs, para sites , and all physical vicissitudes . Toxin is a by -product'as constant and necessary as life itself . When the organism is normal , it is produced and eliminated as fast as produced . From the point of production to the point of elin 100 ]

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ination , it is carried by the blood ; hence at no time is the organism free from toxin in the blood . In a normal amount it is gently stimulating ; but when the organism is enervated , elimination is checked . Then the amount retained becomes overstimulat ing - toxic - ranging from a slight excess to an amount so profound as to overwhelm life . The treatment is so simple that it staggers

in curing . Heroic treatment is disease - building. Find in what way nerve -energy all

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irritable , grouchy , and dies prematurely. Excesses transform a man into a disgusting brute . The word " brute " is used here to express the state of one being devoid of self -control. Those becomes

of fine constitutions are often converted into neu rotics , who have left health and comfort far be hind. Many know comfort only for short periods , and then at the instigation of drugs or stimulants .

The youths of our country are fast developing a state of multi - inebriety - jazz, tobacco , alcohol , and petting parties ; are developing a sex -neurosis that will be followed by a generation of paralytics, epileptics , insane , morons , idiots , and monstrosi ties , embracing all who do not die of acute disease . This class live from thirty until the chloroform ing age - sixty years . The majority die early in life . We are fast coming to an age of impotence. I knew one of superior mind who died of ataxia at thirty - five. I quote a few lines from his own writ ings concerning his state the last year of his life :

I but

crystallize these midnight tears gather from their beaded bitterness And A rosary for burning lips to press , Some pain -born token of these joyless years , Could

To teach the faith that saves , the hope that cheers ; Then would I bid these fountains of distress Flow fast and free , if their sad floods could bless Or murmur peace in some poor sufferer's ears .

My world has shrunk at last to this small room Where , like a prisoner , I must now remain . ( 103 )

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often think how once these stumbling feet , That now can scarcely bear me to my bed , Were swift to follow , as the wind is fleet , That baleful beam that to destruction led ; Thou domineering power , or love, or lust , Or passion , or whatever else thou art , How have thy crimson roses turned to dust And strewn their withered leaves upon this heart Though through my vitals now thy venomed dart Strikes like an adder's sting , yet still I feel From Egypt's flesh - pots it is hard to part ; And my weak , wandering glances often steal Back to sweet sinful things , until my senses reel.

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should not sleep in their mothers ' arms ; should not be exposed to bright lights , loud talking , noises, too much heat or cold ; should not be jolted about in baby - buggies, automobiles , trains , street cars . The very young are made sick by too much ex citement of kinds Very young children should kept quiet enough favor sleep the time except when bathed and when clothes are changed They should not every time they taken any fretting make them All that needed dry and change their positions Young children should not fed oftener than every four hours and not that often unless they very un are awake To awaken child for food necessary and harmful human being cerebro pinal dynamo and kept possible should much static state conserving nerve energy for future use Poise teaching self control child contented alone must be started birth

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grow craving for food enormous But when ing child forced the limit nervous capac nature must conserve some way and way sidestep convention's eternal there grind the normal desire for food lost Weight Feeding Increase The system feeding destroying whole school one enervating health not killing the will ruining thousands The federal government our young men teaching them the sick habit pension and The government should give them pernic turn them loose The present coddling only soldier but also for those for the ious not keeping who are interested their hospital jobs of

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irritability the bad and enervating habits wilfulness overeating improper eating and tem

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per Many the older children use tobacco coffee and an excessive amount sweets and pastry many and Self abuse begins early the cause symptoms stomach Adolescence comes with sleep smoking drink excessive dancing loss ing lasciviousness venereal disease and the fear springing from the contemplation the conse

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control children . They should be compelled to obey . But do not wait until they are sick . A cranky irritability will help bring on disease and keep a child sick . 1

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Fear is the greatest of causes many fears enervation Children are subject They are educated fear the dark the bogy man and punishment Parents often keep children irritably cuffing them for the state fear Fear

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There much fear and anxiety child's life No child can thrive living state fear Discipline taught home school church re spected parenets brings love and not fear Longevity has increased since hell fire and taught and brimstone have ceased build

to all

fear . A morality kept intact by fear is not health imparting , and is not a morality at all. Remove the fear , and mob license succeeds it . Fear and love are antidotal. Man has been taught to fear God , and at the same time love Him . Where the fear is real, the love is fictitious . Love being the basis on which ethics is built , a love founded on fear builds humbug ethics ; and this is the founda tion of all the conventional lies of our civilization . on

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syphilis but caused pinal caused cerebro enervation brought from sensuality forms partic ularly venereal Subjects this disease usually begin onanism early life Parents should teach destroying children avoid habits have had locomotor ataxia cases confess me that they be Ataxia fact

gan their self -pollution as early as eight years of age . Ten to fifteen are the years when active pol lution begins . Unless a physician is very tactful , youths will not confess . I will say that very few boys have been untruthful to me . This practice is not quite so common with the opposite sex .

The physical abuse in this line is not nearly so enervating as allowing the mind to dwell on sex

Lascivious dreaming debauches the vic tim as much as excessive venery . Early pollution ,

subjects .

followed by excessive venery , often commonizes a mind that would shine in the forum and in intel

.

,

if

fit

lectual pursuits. There is a difference , however , in garrulity and garrulous parroting , and giving a feast of reason . Bright intellects at twenty and twenty - five often degenerate into mediocrity at forty - five because of brain -enervation due to venereal excess . Add to sex -abuse tobacco , coffee , tea , alcohol , and excessive or wrong eating , and no for little else than chlor wonder man at sixty is oforming nature has not already administered euthanasia ADULTS

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their Adults too have much fear problem gives anxiety bread and butter enough has been accumulated that unnecessary this line fear felt that may happen that will put them back confidence There line Why

Business

Worries . - Business

worries are a

source of enervation . Business any business worry is not the cause of . A work well done is a delight, and anything that delights is character building. A work slovenly carried on dissatisfies ; but the worrier never looks within to find the cause . This life brings enervation in time , and disease as a sequel; then more worries looking for a cure. Business is what a man makes of it . A of business , with honesty and industry, removes worries and saves nerve Worry does not build efficiency neither energy worrying Worry lack inefficiency removed control over the emotions improper eating stimulants all build disease

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worry become ener wives who carry burden vated and lose health The cause their worry eating lack control lack control the emotions lack care the body and lack efficiency resolutely going Instead work they them downed are their defects remove An uncontrollable temper must downed Gossip will down the one who gives way

not an admirable quality , and , unless overcome , it will in time drive friends away . Envy and jeal ousy are cancers that eat the soul out of those who indulge them . What is left to love when the soul is gone ? When anyone , from indolence and health - de

stroying habits , allows himself to gravitate below the standard expected of him by his friends , he must not be surprised when they run away from him

.

Who are the old people who are left alone ? Those who have lived selfish lives — who have de manded entertainment when they should have been entertaining themselves. Happiness and enter tainment must come from within from a love of

If

this fountain of service , work , and books . youth and pleasure is not found before old age creeps over us , we shall find ourselves alone . Even

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in the midst of аa throng we shall be alone, forever alone . What could be more pathetic ? Self -Indulgence . - Self - indulgence is contrary to ethics and brings condemnation What about gluttons the ethics what about their religion of

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Names are all mislead , ing ; for the cause — first last , and the time body selfish and mind destructive self —

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time comes when the last cigar the last cup coffee the last hearty meal snaps the always unex vital cord and the contingency surprise pected and Overwork said enervate but this cuse behind which are hidden many bad habits that kill rather than the work Work without pleasure enervating and disease building the work engage unsatisfied mind desire some other work before efficiency has been attained the work engaged more desire for pay than good work work never well done until ,

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should created the creator

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ings, abusing the credulity of friends , abusing the confidence of those who confide in us — enervate and time build incurable disease Those who are

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very enervating daily Anger anger will build profound enervation shock temper that flies the slightest provocation ruins Unless con digestion and builds nervousness epilepsy may trolled evolve and cancer may end life The chronic grouch liable build ulcer control who cannot Those the stomach cancer their temper often build rheumatic arthritis hard .

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physical may ener vate kill heart failure permanent nervousness Wrong eat followed overeating may prevent ing health return many The shell shock that soldiers suffered dur ing the World War was converted into permanent invalidism tobacco and other enervating habits Certainly overeating prevents health return Shock

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is against him . This causes enervation and Tox emia , which lead on to many nervous derange ments , and even insanity . A misanthrope loves self above everything and everybody . The moment the nearest and dearest friend is suspected , the friend's head comes off figuratively . The egotist hates who fail feed his vanity Hate and anger are tap but draped with always choleric smile stratagem when finesse demands Friendship veracity honor honesty and must when self being impinged upon neglected love Men gratitude They demand this type have everything and give nothing without ulterior may not motive Where egotism mild be disagreeable overbearing selfishness yond

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Why inheritance follows Because ambition piqued selfish ambition than Love oftener affection Selfishness leads on enervation and Toxemia

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Ambition selfish type brings many disappoint health for meets with ments Where successful enables the one who gratify his sensual nature resulting succeeds the called diseases following the wake Ambition

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selfish gratification noble ambition with self control and service mankind

goes

and

health and long life are two of the rewards. Am bition for display , ostentation , gives an evanescent gratification ; but it costs more in wasted nerve energy than it is worth .

of semi- invalid women bring on toxemic crises as their reward for giving dinners and displaying dress, homes , and furnishings . Thousands

Women gratify silly , stupid ambitions, and pay for their thrills in broken health .

Many waste more energy at an afternoon card party than they can renew in a week . Envy . - Envy of a low and disease- producing type is of a begrudging nature . The man possess ing this kind of envy is a vandal. He will slip a monkey -wrench into the machinery of those whom he envies . He will poison reputations by innuendo .

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Who steals my purse steals trash ; ' tis something, nothing ; ' Twas mine, ' his and has been slave thousands But he who filches from me by good name Robs me that which not enriches him Shakespeare And makes me poor indeed

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person will the limit bodily doing even those whose merits harm tower over his Laudable envy that desire rejoice equal To success the one envied try equal where them and others the success the success has been achieved merit builds healthy mind and body

When safe such

Love and Jealousy . According to Solomon : " Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave. " Solomon should have known . Shakespeare knew about everything worth up knowing to his time . He said : How many fools

jealousy ! jealous The venomed clamors of a woman Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth . serve maddened

The systematic poisoning of overwrought emo

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osophy Toxemia The pathology Shakespeare knew well evidenced

of by

,

its

tions has been known since reasoning began ; but, aside from knowing that “ a poison is generated in the system ” from great anger , love , jealousy , hate, and grief, just what the poison is , and the modus production have never been satis operandi of factorily explained until made clear the Phil

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psychological storm Jealousy and unrequited love when not malig nant developing vicious unmoral subject

in time undermine the constitution by keeping up a gradually increasing state of enervation and Toxemia . Catarrhal inflammations and ulcera tions get better and worse , with no hope of final re covery until the causes of enervation are overcome -namely , enervating habits of mind and body, of which jealousy is chief. Overeating . - Overeating is a common and uni versal enervating habit ; eating too much cream , butter , fat meats, oils, rich pastries , sweets ; eating too often ; eating between meals , and checking digestion with water -drinking be tween meals . Food - inebriety is more common than alchol

fat

inebriety . The subconscious is as busy as a hive of bees in substituting, antidoting, and reparation work ; substituting one stimulating excess for an other —- demanding whisky ,, tobacco , opium , etc. , for gluttonous eating ; thrills , shocks, sensual ex Ungratified sense cesses for food - poisoning . appeased by demands are food excesses or other

stimulants ; and when nature is balked in her de mands , the victim runs amuck . A French sheep -herder's daughter , being op posed by her father in marrying a lover , killed the parent while he slept by their campfire . A short time after the tragedy some men came upon the camp and discovered the girl eating her father's heart , which she had cut out and roasted in the

When surprised at her cannibalistic feast, she held up what was left of the heart, and, with a

fire.

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118

)

sardonic laugh , declared and I am eating his .”

:

“

He broke my heart ,

Only a short time ago the overwrought nerves of a jazz- and alcohol - crazed girl forced her to kill her mother because the latter undertook to oppose her in the gratification of her subconscious de mands for more stimulation . When enervation and Toxemia have reached the stage of inebriety seen in the two girls men tioned above , civil and moral laws have abdicated to the subconscious laws, which , like cosmic law and order , are unmoral, but run true to necessity . Psychological, like physical , cyclones are out of the regular order ; yet they are obeying the laws of their nature. They have no scruples to gainsay , but tear through order as ruthlessly as fiends . Every human being should know that such phe nomena are potential to him , and that the road to such catastrophes in enervating habits. Prohibition is a beautiful ideal, but it is palliat ing one social disease while it is building a greater . What mother would not rather have her son brought home from the corner grog -shop drunk than see him escorted to jail hand - cuffed to an officer ?

of

all

Enervation and Toxemia focused on the brain bring out neurotic states, with symp kinds

Drunkenness substitutes for bank robbery and other outlawry long food prestige profes drunkenness retains with the prescribed sions doctors babbled Sun 119

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days, and deciding our brawls on Monday — it will take more than statutes to force law and order . Most of our laws are made while the law -makers are drunk on food and tobacco . Drunkenness and crime of all kinds are vicar ious toxin eliminations - crises of Toxemia . En

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forcing temperance and control of crime must fail temper object namely causing people in ob The reason should ate and law abiding vious the student nature Our wants are based our subconscious needs sentiment and ethics have nothing with Our subcon belongs scious not moral nor immoral the systematic perfect Great Cosmos which any kind es order but unmoral Intemperance tablishes want which not satisfied the usual being ways way will turn satisfied other perhaps anodynes surgeon relieve and laws The removing effects but cures are based causes Legislatures are quack doctors Self control the only cure To develop self control the need must .

be understood

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mucous membrane becomes turgid with blood

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A battle - royal

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tablishing a mucorrhea ( excessive secretion of mucous . ) This is what we call catarrh . This secre tion mechanically obstructs absorption of putres cence , and also antidotes the poison by bringing the antibodies from the blood . all by

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is on the time the intestines gluttonous the The subconscious musters the help possible and when the system drained autogenerated antidotes the victim sent his subconscious find alcohol tobacco coffee condiments and more food Moral preach Solons ments and prohibitory laws passed putresence drunk toxin bowel and tobacco .

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like monstrosities are abortions Insatiable desire for food and stimulants means from

driving desire for food three times

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only little farther means enervation trouble The wise will get busy and correct appetites overeating Perverted appetites are built eating rich food until enjoyment lost for staple

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Gossips are always slanderers and slanderers they are always and forever potential liars

do not know that they are broadcasting lies, they are criminally careless in not endeavoring to find whether the tale they gossip is true or not . Gossip enervates the gossiper . Gossips are always enervated ; for they live in fear of being discovered . Their secretions are always acid . They are inclined to develop pyor

rhea and mucous -membrane infections. They are slow to recover from catarrhal crises of Toxemia . Gossips are empty -headed slaves to their habits of slander and spite ; they are malignant parasites that feed upon carrion . They are the lowest type of criminals ; hell -monsters that kill with their breath .

They often die of cancer .

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Sycophancy . - Flatterers look like friends , as wolves like dogs. ( Byron . ) He hurts me most who lavishly commends . ( Churchill . ) people who are not A real sycophant , like ,

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Dishonesty the arteries and cancer ends

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Retrospection ORE might have

been said , and no doubt

VL

better said , about how we human beings vandalize our minds and bodies ; but enough has been told for open -minded people to see that the only nemesis on our heels is our habits .

0. W. Holmes , in his “ The Autocrat of the Break fast Table , ” had this to say concerning habit : Habit is the approximation of the animal system to the organic . It is a confession of failure in the highest function of being , which involves a perpetual self - deter mination , in full view of all existing circumstances .

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sidestep disease and the medical oc controlled topus that unwittingly vandalizes the sick army The profession made edu

cated men ; and I believe the majority are gentle men , and are endeavoring to serve humanity. Education and ethics, when established on fallacy and given the prestige of numbers — given an over

whelming majority - can make the fallacy true, so

far as the herd is

concerned .

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is honestly to put my philosophy to the acid test . Yes , prove , if possible , that I am mistaken , and then give me what is coming to me ! Man makes his own diseases . This book tells how he does it . And he is the one who can bring health back . He and his subconsciousness alone can cure . Doctors cannot cure . Only very rarely

is surgical vandalism a dernier resort, unless bad treatment forces unnecessary emergencies .

The body is strong or weak , as

the case may be, depending en tirely on whether the nerve -en ergy is strong or weak . And it

should be remembered that the functions of the body are carried on well or badly according to the amount of energy generated .

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The first thing on awaking in the morning , the Tilden system of tensing exercises should be prac ticed for from fifteen to thirty minutes . ( See ex ercises at the end of this chapter . ) Following the exercise , go to the bathroom and, while standing in warm water , take a quick , warm sponge - bath . Then follow this with plenty of dry -towel or fric tion -mitten rubbing. At night, before retiring , give the body a thorough friction rubbing again . If not convenient to take the warm sponge -bath in the morning , use the dry rub in the morning and the warm sponge -bath at night before retiring .

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DR . TILDEN'S TENSING EXERCISES Begin by tensing the leg muscles from the toes to the body , as follows : First extend the toes as far as you can ; then grip , as it were , by forcing the toes forward toward the heels , and at the same time make the muscles of the legs hard to the body . Com pletely relax . Do not repeat the tension again until the muscles are soft ; then tense again , repeating the contraction and extension . Tense the hands and arms in the same way . Extend the fin gers as far as possible , making the muscles hard to the shoulders ; then grip the fingers and shut the fist, hardening the muscles to the shoulders . Do this five times ; then tense the legs five times ; then the hands and arms again .

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head drops back it will not touch anything. Lift the head forward , the chin to the chest ; drop the head back again as far as it will go ; then lift. Do this four or five times . Then , with the pillow still under the shoulders , lock the fingers under the head, allowing the head to rest in the hands . Swing the head from side to side , up

and down , and rotate , carrying each movement as far as possible . Then push the folded pillow down under the hips and go through the leg movements of riding a bicycle . Then , with legs extended in the air , move each leg from side to side , allowing one to pass the other , scissor - fashion ; changing , however , each time they pass , having first one leg forward and then the other .

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INDEX A

Bright's disease , once innocent

Acute disease , cannot manifest without preparation , 27. Acute malignancy , defined , 99 . Adults , fear in , 110 . Alcohol , use of , 103 , 110 , 121 .

Ambition , selfish , enervating , 115 . Anemia , pernicious , 22 . blood transfusion for , 78 . Anger , enervating , 113 , 114 . " Anonymous , " quotations from , 42 .

Antitoxin , 97 . in diphtheria , Apoplexy , 33 , 54 . Appendix , removal

98 .

of,

107 .

cold , 52 .

Bronchitis , 92 . Business worry ,

111 .

C Cabot , Dr., on diagnosis , 19 . Cancer , how built , 12 , 22 , 23 , 35 , 60 .

once innocent cold , 52 . cause of , 53 , 60 . Care , in case of megrime , 47 . of acute diseases , 53 . of patients , 61 , 67 , 99 . of children , 80 , 96 , 105 . of muscle fatigue, 88 .

Catarrh , 12 , 22 , 34 , 53 , 67 . Catching cold habit , 69 . Cause , of disease , 10 , 15 , 18 ,

Arteries , hardening of , 54 . Asthma , 67 . Ataxia , locomotor , 103 , 109 . Athletes, die early , 84 . Autogenerated poison , cause of disease , 26 , 57 . Auto - immunization , 91 .

B Babies , habits in , 105 . Bathing , proper , 125 .

Blood , ruptured vessel , 33 . amount of toxin in varies, 72 , transfusion in pernicious anemia , 78 . degeneration of vessels , 84 . state of , makes disease possible , 79 , 92 . toxin carried by , 101 . Bowels , derangement of , 91 . attention to , 96 , 99 , 126 . Brain , hemorrhage in , 33 .

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26 , 27 , 28 , 54 , 72 , 79 , 91 , 97 , 100 , 102 .

must be found , 16 , 19 , 96 . is constant , 22 . true, 26 . of autogenerated poison , 26 . medley of guesswork , 31 . serum as , 62 . of enervation , 102 . Children , our duty toward , 61 . diseases peculiar to , 64 . must be kept busy , 81 .

fever

in , 96 .

not sick unless toxemic , 97 . enervating habits in , 105 , 106 .

pampered , 107 . Clothes and cleanliness , 58 . Coffee headache , 15 . Cold feet , detrimental, 64 .

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Disease Continued toxemic crisis , 10 , 49 , 50 ,

Colds , at first functional , 23 . defined , 67 .

catching habit , 69 . Colonitis , a toxemic crisis , Complexes of symptoms ,

67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 92 , 95 , 120 .

organic , cause of , 10 , 20 , 70 . Tilden system covers all, 11 . a common expression of uni versal enervation , 12 .

92 .

dis-

ease , 52. Conservation of nerve energy , greatest therapeutic measure ,

deficiency , 13 . early stages of organic , 22 . perverted health , 23 . , 38 , not an entity , 29 , 31 , 33 >

66 .

Constipation , 57 , 86 . Contentment , necessary , 80 . Convulsions , 90 .

69 .

not influence extraneous cause of, 30 . made manifest by symp toms, 33 .

Crises of Toxemia , is disease , 10 , 49 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 92 , 95 , 120 . Croup , 67 .

Cure, man looking for, 9 . there is none , 10 , 86 , by diet , 11 .

what is ,

95 .

on removal of cause , 16 . what is it , 18 , 38 , 44 . medley of guesswork , 31 . doctors do not , 50 . all acute diseases can re ceive , 52 : product of civilization , 59 .

Mackenzie on , 36 . nature's housecleaning , 49 . all, once innocent , 52 . unity of, 60 , 70 . germs as cause of, 61 . peculiar to children , 64 . acute , 100 . in children , 107 . Dishonesty , enervating , 122 . Doctor , man his own , 9 . cannot cure anything , 50 , 87 , 124 . duty of , 51 .

D Deadly germ , 58 . Defficiency diseases , 13 . Diagnosis , Mackenzie , on , 19 . Cabot , on , 19 .

what is it ,

Dropsy , 87 . Drug habit , 14 . Drugs , venereal disease curable

20 .

without ,

delusion , 93 . Diagnostitians perplexed , 36 . Diets , too many , 9 , 11 . Diphtheria , 96 . medical

antitoxin in ,

confounded ,

36 .

depends

a delusion , 97 . Cystitis , 68 , 90 .

35 , 84 .

symptoms

and

14 .

and medical science , 30 . check elimination , 48 , 49 .

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Disease , cause of , 10 , 15 , 18 , 23 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 54 , 72 , 79 , 91 , 97 , 100 , 102 .

cure of , 10 , 11 , 16 , 17 , 31 , 38 , 44 , 49 , 52 , 59 , 86 , 95 ,

Eating , excessive ,

not cause have been studied ,

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Egotism , enervating , 114 .

Eliminant , most powerful, 9. Elimination , checked , toxin accumulates , 15 , 26 , 117 . checked by drugs, 48 . vicarious , disease , 49 ,

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waste products of tissue building , 63 .

Emotion , excessive , 117 . Enema, use of, 96 , 99 , 126 . Energy , nerve , waste of , 15 , 64 . normal, effect of, 27 . controls bodily strength , 63 . importance of , 63 .

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conservation

must be removed , 15 , 95 . what are they , 105 .

in children , 105 . Enervation , cause of, 15 , 17 , 102 . not general cause of disease , 26 .

effect of , 27 , 52 , 65 , 69 , 91 . cause , and not disease , 67 . general , 71 . prevents elimination of in fection , 78 . Entity , disease not an , 29 , 31 , 33 , 38 , 69 .

Etiology , truthful

49 .

scarlet , 96 .

Focal infection , 62, 93 . , on outside of Food, in intestines > body , 57 .

poisoning, 57 , 99 . proper for children ,

effect

of

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wrong , 79. drunkards produce cases , 99 . for sick , 99 . for young children , 105 . inebriety , enervating , 118 . driving desire for , 120 . when to take, 125 . Forced feeding increases weight,

fatal

106 .

Functional pre derangement cedes structural change , 71. G

35 , 92 .

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fear of , 95 . Fatality , what causes , 99 . Fear , prevents elimination , effect of , 79 , 90 . in children , 108 . in adults , 110 . Feet, cold , harmful , 64 . Fever , septic , cause of, 77 .

Gall -bladder , stone in , 54 , 66 . Gastric lavage , use of, 99 . Gastritis , early stages of, 22 ,

112 , 116 .

Exercise , excessive , harmful , 83 . tensing , 125 , 128 . Excessive ,

61 .

66 .

Enervating habits , if continued , build disease , 10 , 11 , 69 .

Envy , enervating, Epidemics, 97 , 99 . Epilepsy , 21 .

Facts , without ideas , 16 . Fast , most powerful eliminant,

enervating ,

15 .

eating , 69 . exercise , harmful , 83 . Extraneous influence , not cause of disease , 30.

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deadly , 58 . as cause of disease , 61 , 76 . Toxemia accepts , 62. Gland impotency , 78. Goiter , 90 . Gossip enervating , 121 .

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must be removed , 15 , 54 , 95 . what are they , 105 . sick , 85 , 106 .

drug, 14 . Hardening of arteries, Hay fever , 67. Headache , coffee , 14 . nervous

54 .

symptoms of , 21 .

what is it ,

49 .

cause of, 88 . Health , should be studied , 23 . good , greater force than bad , 76 . what is it , 95 . Heart , degeneration of , 83 . leaky , 87 . disease , 112 . Hemorrhage , of stomach , 22 . in brain , 33 .

Herd - beliefs , 53 . Holmes , Oliver W. , quotation from , 41 . Hyperemia , symptoms of , 33 .

84 .

L Languor , due to excess , Laryngitis , 67.

15 .

Limitations , knowledge of bring best of life , 59 . Locomotor

ataxia , 103 , 109 . 108 .

M Mackenzie , Sir James , on cure , 17 .

Idleness brings discontent , Indigestion in children , 90 . Infantile paralysis , 96 .

on diagnosis , 19 . on symptoms , 20 , 33 . on disease , 36 . Malignant disease , 97 . Malignancy , acute , defined , 99 . Malignant type of septic fever ,

80 .

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77 .

Mastication , thorough , neces sary , 126 . Medical philosophy , Toxemia the

teeth , 93 .

Infinite , what is it, 55 . Immunity to disease , 91 . Immunization , 91 . product of civilization , 59 .

harm of , auto , 91 .

Keep patient warm , 65 , 100 . Keep children quiet , 105 . Kidneys, overworking , 61 . disease of , 112 . Knowledge, dependable man's salvation , 62 . seasoned by time, necessary ,

Love , enervating , 117 .

Ideas , medicine lacks, 16 .

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Infection , protein , focal, 62 , 93 . of sinus , 94.

Jazz , enervating , 103 . effect of , 119 . Jealousy , enervating , 112 , 117.

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only real, 31 . Medical science founded on false premise , 30 .

Medicine, lacks ideas ,

16 .

on sound scientific rests foundation , 37 . Megrime, two cases of , 47 .

Insomnia , 21 . Introduction to Toxemia , 17 .

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96 .

Metabolism , toxin , waste prodcut of , 27 . Toxin , a product of, 63 , 71 , 76 , 100 .

Moderation , what is it, 91 . Muscle fatigue, 88.

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cures when so allowed , 107 .

Nerve energy , waste of, 15 , normal, effect of, 27 . controls bodily strength , importance of , 63 , 100 . conservation 66 .

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Nerve leaks , must be stopped , 101 .

Nerves , impinged , 30 . Neuralgia , 88 . Neuritis , 88 . Neurosis , 86 .

Occupational diseases , 90 . Operation , for tumors , stone , ulcers , 12 . no excuse for , 107 . Organic disease , cause of, 10 , 20 , 70 . early stages of , 22 .

se , not disease , 26 , 92 . auto -generated , 26 , 57 . ptomaine , 57 . Preface , 9. Prevention , what is it , 18 . Prohibition , a beautiful idea ,

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Protein infection , 22 . Psychological cyclones , 119 . Psychologists , work of , 30 , 81 . Ptomaine poisoning , 57 . Q Quiet, necessary

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Palliatives , are they ever necessary , 14 .

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is enervating , 118 . Overwork , does not enervate ,

most cures are , 95 .

Poise , defined , 80 . lack of , 84, 88 , 90 . necessary , 102 , 111 . Poison , disease indirectly due to ,

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Pernicious anemia , 22 . blood transfusions for , 78 . Pharyngitis , 67. Piles , 88 . Pneumonia , 67 , 92 .. fatality of, 49.

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infantile , 96 . Pathology , study of , 20 , 23 , 52 . of jealousy , 117 . Perfect health , how to establish , 15 .

N Nature needs no remedy , effect of interfering

Paralysis ,

Remedy , for tobacco heart, 10 . nature needs no , 60 . Regular medicine and Tilden Philosophy compared , 100 . Rest , necessary for cure , 11 , 61 , 66 .

Retrospection , 123 . Rheumatism , cure of , 11 .

cause of, 27 , 88 . an effect , 93 . Roosevelt , cause of death of , 77 . [ 135 ]

Rules, my principle , 125 . Rush , Benjamin , thought

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a chain of , 34 . , and disease confounded 36 . pain , first , 34 , 36 . complex of , signifies crises of Toxemia , 49 , 50 , 67 . all have same origin , 53 .

s Scarlet fever , 96 . Scientific tests , 44 . of body , overcomes Secretions , . 59 germs , , Self abuse in children 107. in life, brings best Self control 88 , 90 , 120 . Self indulgence , 112 .

vary ,

14 .

one cause of , 60 . in toxemic subjects , 79 . presence of, 87 .

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Septic fever , cause of, 77 . Septic poisoning , 57 . following vaccination , 76 .

Teeth , infected , cause of , 93 . Temper , must be controlled , 101 . Tensing exercise , beneficial, 125 . explained , 128 .

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Tension , must be overcome , 85 ,

Sinus , infected , 94 . Sleep , unnatural , 85 . Smallpox , cure or prevention of , 16 .

Smoking must be overcome , 101 . Spencer , Herbert , on vaccination , 73 . Stimulants , subtilely undermining, 14.

remove awareness , 15 . continued use of , 76 . , Stone in gall bladder , 54 66 . , Subconscious , influence of 87 . moral nor immoral, 120 .

not

alone , can cure , 124 . Suggestions , a few , 125 . Summing up , 100 . Surgery , world needs science

68 .

drugs, Syphilis , curable without

Self pity , disease building , 85 . , Selfishness , enervating 115 .

, Serums, in children 105 Shock , enervating, 114 . Sick habit, 85 , 106 .

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cause of , 90 . Tests, scientific , 44 . Tilden meals , 125 . Tilden system applies to all

dis

ease , 11 . Tissue , worn out must be re moved , 63 , 88 . Tobacco , use of , 47 , 103 , 107, 110 , 113 , 114 , 121 .

heart, remedy for, 10 . Tonsilitis , 67 , 92 , 98 . Tonsils must not be removed ,

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Toxemia , cause moved , 10 .

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defined , 57 , 67 . accepts germ , 62 . simplifies understanding of disease , 96 . Toxemic crises is disease , 10 , 67 , 69 . philosophy founded on truth , 53 . Toxin , must be eliminated , 11 . product of metabolism , 63 ,

Vaccines - Continued are poisons , 72 . effect of , 76 . use of in children , 107 . disease , can be cured

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without drugs, 14 . fostered by clothes ,

Venereal 109 .

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elimination , 49 , 67 , 102 .

71 , 76 , 100 .

in blood varies , a stimulant , 76 , 101 . amount

product , 92 .

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Vaccines , 57 . made from products ease , 18.

Worry , its connection with dis ease , 40 , 68 .

must be overcome , 101 . business , 111 . Wound , suppurating , 57 .

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Weight , forced feeding increases 106 .

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