Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure

of Acute

sease, namely: (1) Lowered Vitality, (2) Abnormal Composition of Blood and

Consulting the table on page 18 (Chapter 2, internet version), we find mentioned as the first

vitality and pure, normal blood and tissues, and if they apply in the prenatal and postnatal treatment of the child the necessary insight and foresight, there cannot be disease heredity. In order to create a

with gradual differentiation, of the reproductive cell. Its abnormalities of structure, of cell materials and of functional tendencies are reproduced just as surely as its normal constituents. Herein lies

erioration in those organs which were weak or diseased in the parents. Under the conventional (unnatural) management of the infant, these hereditary tendencies to weakness and disease and their correspondi

cies can be overcome and eliminated within a few years. If we place the infant organism under the right conditions of living and of treatment, in harmony with the laws of its being, the Life Principle within will approach ever ne

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ase" we find mentioned germs, bacteria, parasites, inflammations

ly pernicious activity of certain microorganisms in connection with certain diseases, it has been assumed that bacteria are the direct, primary cause

sease germs are also found in healthy bodies. The real cause must be something else. We claim that it is the waste

and parasites live, thrive and multiply to the danger point in a weakened and diseased org

croorganisms themselves. We have had under observation and treatment a number of insane patients

within, and you cannot be affected by

the air we breathe. Our bodies are literally alive with them. The last stages of the dig

ry and kill the germs, but to remove the morbi

p blood and lymph on a normal basis and to purify the tissues of their morbid encumbrances in such a way as to establish natural immunity to destructive g

ing it daily with carbolic acid and other germ killers, instead of keeping it pure and sweet by flooding it with fresh air and sunshine and applying freely

e various disease germs are found not only in the bodi

cience. Only lately, a celebrated physician, appointed by the French government to investigate the causes of tuberculosis, declared before a meeting of th

eatedly in his works that the bacilli of diphtheria, pneumonia and of m

ws and from the suppression of acute diseases; but even under the almost universal present conditions of lowered vitality, morbid heredity and physical and mental degeneration it is found that under identical conditions of exposure to drafts or infection, a certain percentage of individuals only will take the cold or catch the d

ase diathesis." This predisposition to infection and contagion consists in the primary causes of disease, which we have designated

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il. Just as the ordinary yeast germ multiplies in a sugar solution only, so the various microorganisms of disease thrive and multiply to the danger point only in their own peculiar and congenial kind of morbid matter. Thus, the typhoid fever

dical profession. One day he backed his theory by a practical test. While instructing his class in the bacteriological laboratory of the university, he picked up a glass which contained millions of live cholera germs and swallowed its contents before the eyes of the students. The seemingly dangero

exudate of smallpox sores in order to demonstrate to his medical colleagues that a healthy body could not be infected with the disease. He was arr

nce where any one of us was in the least affected by such contact. Ordinary cleanliness, good vitality, clean blood and tissues, the organs of elimination in good, active condition and, last but not least, a positive, fearless attitude of mind will practically estab

exaggerated. According to popular opinion, anyone bitten by a rattlesnake, gila monster or tarantula is doomed to die, while as a matter of f

es, popular opinion should rather

n asked: "What is the right thing to do in case of snakebite? W

es, a goodly proportion give up the ghost because of the effects of the enormous doses of strong whiskey tha

iseases under medical or metaphysical treatment are attributed to the virtues of the particular medicine or method of treatment instead of to the real healer, th

germs are not only a cause (secondary) but also a product of morbid fermentation in the system. Furthermore, just a

or eliminators of morbid matter. In order to hold in check the destructive activity of bacteria and to prevent

o limit the activity of destructive microorganisms without injuring the body or depressing its vital functions, is good Nature Cu

ar from it! These are dictates of common sense. But I do affirm that the danger from germ and other infectious diseases lies just as much or more so in intern