Won hygiene 
OR. 
Cutes tor HU 
Without Brugs 
Ry W. FRANK ROSS, A. M., M. D. 
I'RJCE, $1.00. 
8T. LOUIS: 
Published by the Author, 
1895. M EDICAlJ-J YG1ENE 
OR 
CURES FOR ALL DISEASES 
WITHOUT DRUGS 
INCLUDING ESSAYS ON 
Testimony of Leading Drug Doctors, My Drug Teachers, 
When to Use Drugs, John Wesley on Hygienic Medicine, 
The Unity of Disease, The Diet Cure, The Water 
Cure, Valedictory Address, My Trip to Europe, 
If Uncertain What to Do, Remedies of 
Medical Hygiene, Child-Birth Without 
Pain or Danger, Midwifery and 
Infant Nursing. 
'BY 
W. FRANK ROSS, A. M., M. D. 
"TO IMPROVE THE FUTURE, WE MUST DISTURB THE PRESENT." 
St. Louis; 
Published by W. Frank Ross. 
1895. Copyrighted, 1895 
by 
W. FRANK ROSS Gable of Contents. 
Preface 4 
Testimony of Leading Drug Doctors .... 7 
My Drug Teachers 13 
When to Use Drugs 27 
John Wesley on Hygienic Medicine 28 
The Unity of Disease 31 
The Diet Cure 38 
The Water Cure . 44 
Valedictory Address 47 
My Trip to Europe 53 
If Uncertain What to Do, Do This .... 56 
Remedies of Medical Hygiene 57 
Diseases of the Digestive Organs 66 
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs .... 93 
Diseases of the Nervous System 106 
Diseases of the Blood Vessels and Blood ... 132 
Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder . . . .145 
Fevers 153 
Unclassified Diseases 162 
Diseases of Women . 177 
Childbirth Without Pain or Danger . . . .181 
Midwifery, or Obstetrics 184 
Infant Nursing 192 preface. 
Do NOT pour contempt on this book without reading it. Do 
not condemn unheard, nor too quickly. Read, think, ponder, 
then decide. Some of the confessions of the leading drug doc- 
tors are shocking and awful. Would it not be a sin and a 
crime for me to keep silent? Is it not my sacred duty to tell 
the world? 
This book is intended as a complete guide for the home, the 
missionary, the traveler, and the young physician. A trial of 
its remedies will show that it does not fail, just when most 
needed, but it can be relied on in every case. Call in a regu- 
larly educated physician, if you like, to get his diagnosis of 
what the disease is, but do not use his drugs (poisons), remem- 
bering the statement in one of the best books of the celebrated 
Dr. Holmes, that ' 'no families take so little medicine as those 
of doctors, except those of apothecaries. ' ' 
The remedies of hygiene are free to all. They cost nothing, 
except a little trouble. This is no experiment, nor new thing. 
Hygienic medicine, without drugs, has cured tens of thousands 
in this country and hundreds of thousands in Europe. There 
have been plenty of books written on this subject, but they 
were generally too dear or not circulated. I do not give the 
electrical treatment, because this book is for the common peo- 
ple. I want them to know that if a disease can be cured at all, 
it can be cured by very simple means. If I gave the electrical 
treatment, they might think it is necessary, when it is not. It 
is good in some cases, but in most cases you can cure with- 
out it. 
The reasons I write this book are: 1. Because of what the 
leading drug doctors say in their books. 2. Because of what my 
professors taught while a student in the regular drug colleges. 
3. Because of what I saw in Germany, England and Scotland, 
where the hygienic doctors cure tens of thousands of cases, of 
all kinds of disease, without drugs. 4. Because of my own 
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experience, in which, without drugs, I have seen various dis- 
eases speedily get well, including piles, rheumatism, liver and 
kidney troubles, syphilis, asthma, erysipelas, typhoid fever, 
eczema, private diseases, lung fever, hernia, mumps, measles, 
sick headache, dyspepsia, bilious attacks, tonsilitis, bad colds, 
constipation, female diseases, and children's diseases. 5. Be- 
cause of what I have seen and read of hygienic doctors in this 
country. There are scores of them. 6. Inorder to save poor 
people the enormous expense of drugs. It is a fact that the 
mother can treat all common diseases as well as the doctor. 
7. To make missionaries independent of drugs, and keep them 
from getting the heathen into the awful habit of taking drugs, 
which kills more people than drunkenness. 
lacknowledge great indebtedness to Drs. Allinson, Kellogg, 
Dodds, Nichols, Trail, Gossman, Shew, Hall, Holbrook, Kirk, 
Page, Taylor, and many other hygienic physicians in America 
and Europe. 
Many a darling child, loving wife, husband, dear mother or 
father has died, and God was blamed for it, when it was noth- 
ing but drugs that killed them. Full proof of this is given in 
the first two chapters of this book. Sick people need treatment, 
but not drugs. The remedies of hygienic medicine are as pow- 
erful and quick as drugs. 
I appeal to all preachers, teachers, doctors and others who 
are devoted to truth, to help spread the light. Loan your book, 
and buy others as presents for your friends. Send for terms, 
and act as agent to sell them in your neighborhood. God's 
laws for the body are as sacred as God's laws for the soul. 
I do not forget that Doctor Harvey, who discovered the cir- 
culation of the blood, was persecuted to the day of his death by 
the doctors because of then* prejudice, ignorance and bigotry. 
Doctor Parc introduced the common method of to-day of tying 
an artery to stop hemorrhage, instead of applying the hot iron, 
or boiling pitch, and for this he was tormented with persecution 
by the doctors. So when doctors learn the great benefit of 
medical hygiene and utter uselessness of drugs, except to kill 
some parasite, they will adopt it, for many doctors are honest, 
generous and broad-minded, but nevertheless blind leaders of 
the blind. The people like to be humbugged. 
I say with Johnson, when he gave his dictionary to the 
world, that ' 'while a few wild blunders and laughable absurd- 
ities, from which no work of such multiplicity was ever free, 6 
PREFACE. 
may for a time furnish folly with laughter and harden ignorance 
into contempt, .... I look with pleasure on my book, 
however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of 
a man that has endeavored well. ' ' 
I agree with Lowell that: 
They are slaves who will not choose 
Hatred, scoffing and abuse, 
Rather than in silence shrink 
From the truth they needs must think. 
They are slaves who dare not be 
In the right with two or three. 
w. FRANK ROSS, A. M., M. D. 
2935 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 
Permanent Address, Mahomet, III. 
October 1, 1895. MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
of Ucabino Bruo doctors. 
The following fourteen quotations from leading 
drug doctors are copied from the " Home Hand-Book 
of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine," by J. 
IL Kellogg, M. D. Dr. Kellogg is superintendent and 
chief physician and surgeon at the Battle Creek, 
Mich., Sanitarium. He is a member of the State 
Board of Health of Michigan, honorary member of 
the Society d'Hygiene, of France, member of the 
American Medical Association, the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, the American 
Public Health Association, the American Society of 
Microscopists, editor of " Good Health," and author 
of several large and well known medical books. The 
Battle Creek Sanitarium is the largest in the United 
States, and Dr. Kellogg is one among the few leading 
medical men of this country, and these quotations 
are made in his book with his full approval and 
sanction. 
Prof. Gilman, of the New York College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, says: "A mild mercurial course 
and mildly cutting a man's throat are synonymous 
terms." 
John Mason Goode, M. D., F. R. S., says: "The 
effects of our medicines on the human system are in 
the highest degree uncertain, except indeed, that they 
have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence and 
famine combined." 
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MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
Sir John Forbes, M. D., F. R. S.: " Some patients 
get well with the aid of medicine, more without it, 
and still more in spite of it." 
James Johnson, M. D., F. R. S., says: "I declare 
as my conscientious conviction founded on long expe- 
rience and reflection, that if there was not a single 
physician, surgeon, man-midwife, chemist, apothe- 
cary, druggist, nor drug on the face of the earth, 
there would be less sickness and less mortality than 
now prevail." 
Alonzo Clark, Professor in the New York College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, says: " In their zeal to 
do good, physicians have done much harm; they have 
hurried to the grave many who would have recovered 
if left to nature. All our curative agents are poisons, 
and as a consequence every dose diminishes the pa- 
tient's vitality." 
Martin Payne, Professor in the New York Univer- 
sity Medical College, says: " Drug medicines do but 
cure one disease by producing another." 
Prof. S. G. Armor, of the Long Island Hospital, 
says: "Drugs are administered, patients recover, 
and we suppose that we have cured them, whereas our 
remedies have had little or nothing to do with recov- 
ery; very likely it took place in spite of our drugs." 
Prof. J. W. Carson, of the New York College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, says: "Perhaps bread pills 
would cure as many as medicine.'-' 
The celebrated Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., 
says: " Except opium, wine, ether and chloroform, 
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as 
now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it 
would be all the better for mankind and all the worse 
for the fishes." 
Sir John Forbes, M. D., editor of the " British and TESTIMONY OF LEADING DRUG DOCTORS. 
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Foreign Medical Review," and physician to the Queen 
of England, in a book called " Nature and Art in the 
Cure of Diseases," proves that nature is the real 
healing power by the following facts: (1) Wild ani- 
mals suffer the most serious injuries and frequently 
have epidemic disease, and yet recover without artifi- 
cial aid. (If animals don't need drugs, do we?) (2) 
Among savages and half-civilized nations medical 
treatment is either not employed, or consists of mere 
charms. (If sick savages recover without drugs, 
can't we?) (3) Many cases have occurred in which 
persons have had serious sickness and, being unable to 
procure medicine, have gotten well. (4) Many phy- 
sicians have experimented on the sick by giving bread 
pills and colored water, and find that their patients 
get well as surely and quickly as if they had taken 
drugs." 
The venerable Dr. Richards, of New York, cured 
more than one hundred cases of obstinate constipa- 
tion by simply directing the patient to drink a glass of 
cold water half an hour before breakfast each morn- 
ing. 
A surgeon of militia in the medical corps of the 
British Army, and assistant professor of Pathology in 
the Army and Medical School at Netly, said in an ar- 
ticle in the " British Medical Journal:" " The prac- 
tice which in the main guided me in the treatment of 
syphilis was the practice of avoiding mercury as much 
as possible. My sheet anchor has in all cases been 
the frequent hot water baths." 
Drs. Gray and Tuckwell, in the " London Lancet," 
report that " the hygiene plan is alone sufficient to 
cure chorea, and quite as promptly as any drug." 
The eminent Lebert, speaking of typhus fever, 
said: "Drugs, as such, are unnecessary. I give 10 
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them chiefly to satisfy the patients and their friends." 
The following sixteen quotations are copied from 
Dr. T. R. Allinson's work on " Hygienic Medicine." 
A. H. Stevens, M. D., of New York, says: "The 
older physicians grow, the more skeptical they become 
of the virtues of medicine, and the more they are dis- 
posed to trust to the powers of nature." 
J. M. Smith, Professor in the New York College of 
Physiciansand Surgeons, says: "Digitalis has hur- 
ried thousands to the grave. All medicines which 
enter the circulation, poison the blood in the same 
manner as do the poisons that produce disease." 
C. A. Gilman, M. D., of the same college, says: "A 
single drop of laudanum will often destroy the life of 
an infant." 
Alonzo Clark, M. D., of the same college, says: 
"Physicians have learned that more harm than good 
has been done by the use of drugs in the treatment of 
measles, scarlet fever and other self-limited diseases." 
Prof. W. Parker, of the same college, says: "The 
pains of which patients with secondary and tertiary 
syphilis complain are not referable to the syphilitic 
poison, but to mercury with which they have been 
drugged." 
Prof. H. G. Cox, of the same college, says: "Mer- 
cury is a sheet anchor in fevers, but it is an anchor 
that moors your patient to the grave." 
Prof. B. F. Barker, of the same college, says: " The 
drugs which are administered for the cure of scarlet 
fever and measles kill far more than the diseases do. 
I have recently given no medicine in their treatment 
and have had excellent success." 
Prof. J. W. Carson, of the same college, says: " It 
is easy to destroy the life of an infant. This you will 
find when you enter practice. You will find that a TESTIMONY OF LEADING DRUG DOCTORS. 
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slight scratch of the pen, which dictates a little too 
much of the remedy, will snuff out the infant's life; 
and when you next visit your patient you will find 
that the child which you left cheerful a few hours 
previous is stiff and cold. Beware, then, how you 
use your remedies." 
Sir Astley Cooper, M. D., and physician to the 
Queen of England, says: " The science of medicine is 
founded on conjecture and improved by murder." 
Dr. Forth says: "There is scarcely a more dishon- 
est trade imaginable than medicine in its present 
state." 
Dr. C. Kidd says: "Our chiefest hopes of medi- 
cal reform at present exist in the outer educated pub- 
lic. It is a sad but humiliating confession." 
Prof. Evans, Fellow of the Royal College, London, 
says: "The medical practice of our day has neither 
philosophy nor common sense to commend it to con- 
fidence." 
Dr. Ramage, Fellow of the Royal College, London, 
says: " I fearlessly assert that in most cases the suf- 
ferer would be safer without a physician than with 
one." 
Dr. Frank says: " Thousands are annually slaugh- 
tered in the quiet sick room." 
Dr. Francis Coggeswell, of Boston, says: "It can 
not answer to my conscience to withhold the acknowl- 
edgment of my firm belief, that the medical profes- 
sion is productive of vastly more evil than good, and 
were it absolutely abolished, mankind would be infi- 
nitely the gainer." 
Dr. Billing says: "I visited the different schools of 
medicine, and the students of each hinted, if they did 
not assert, that the other sect killed their patients." 12 
MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
Prof. Parker says: "Hygiene is of far more value 
in the treatment of disease than drugs." 
Prof. Clark says: "Pure cold air is the best tonic 
the patient can take. A sponge bath will often do 
more to quiet restless, feverish patients than any 
anodyne." 
Edward Johnson, M. D., author of "Life, Health 
and Disease," who wrote as many as twenty thousand 
drug prescriptions in a single year, read of the hygi- 
enic treatment and adopted it, and said after several 
years' practice of it: "I am perfectly convinced that 
I can cure a greater number of diseases and in a 
shorter time, by the hygienic treatment than I can by 
drugs, and that there are many diseases that I can 
cure by the hygienic plan which are wholly incurable 
by any other means." 
Dr. J. H. Kellogg, M. D., of Battle Creek, Mich., 
says that by the removal of the cause of the disease, 
" a very large proportion of all cases may be brought 
to recovery even without the application of any 
remedial measures whatever." 
I could give hundreds of pages like the above quo- 
tations, if 1 had room to print them. The people are 
not satisfied unless the doctor gives them plenty of 
drugs. When the people learn better than to take 
drugs, the doctors will of course quit giving them, 
t'he celebrated Dr. Holmes says no families take so 
little medicine as those of doctors, except the drug- 
gists' families. Every curable disease can be cured by 
hygienic medicine, which means by diet, bathing, 
fresh air, massage, exercise, electricity and applica- 
tions of heat and cold. MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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teachers. 
While a student at the Barnes Medical College, 
and Marion-Sims College of Medicine, both in St. 
Louis, I took full notes with dates of each lecture. 
These institutions are both what are called regular 
Allopathic drug colleges, yet the professors often 
made confessions in favor of hygienic medicine, as 
will be seen by the quotations below. These quota- 
tions are made without the least personal reflection, 
just as the celebrated J. II. Kellogg quotes his 
teachers in his medical books. From personal obser- 
vation and talking with students from various col- 
leges, I am quite sure that all the medical college 
professors make statements similar to those quoted 
below. I call especial attention to the quotation from 
Dr. Bernays, for he is not only well known all over 
this country, but while I was in Edinburgh, Berlin 
and London, I found he was well known in Europe. 
Drs. Bernays, Atkinson, Meisenbach, Dalton, Lemen, 
Hulbert, Hypes, Young, Love, Geiger and Treutler 
are of the Marion-Sims College; all the others are of 
the Barnes Medical College. 
A. C. Bernays, A. M., M. D.: "Of course you 
young doctors will go out and give plenty of drugs, 
but I want to tell you that ninety-eight people out of 
every one hundred who call in a physician would get 
well if they did not take a single dose of medicine. 
That ought to give us comfort. The best physicians 
in the world do not give a drop of medicine in 
typhoid fever. If I were to take typhoid fever, I 
would not take a single dose of medicine. Rest, cold, 
wet sheet pack, cold sponging and liquid diet are all 
that is necessary to treat typhoid fever. Not hun- 14 
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dreds but thousands of cases are cured by this simple 
treatment. The results, gentlemen, are simply brill- 
iant. Give the cold, wet sheet pack if the fever is 
over 102 degrees. Even if there is hemorrhage of the 
bowels, don't use drugs, but apply ice externally to 
the abdomen. Opium and acetate of lead, as an 
astringent for hemorrhage, is irrational because their 
powers are taken up in the stomach and upper intes- 
tines. I am a rank pessimist so far as drugs are con- 
cerned. To give drugs to a well man is very, very 
wrong, but to give drugs to a sick man is nothing 
short of a crime. Of course you will all give plenty 
of drugs, but I am going to have my say. The home- 
opaths of St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and 
New York have an immense practice in the best fami- 
lies, in the families of the rich millionaires, because 
they have the reputation for giving but little medi- 
cine. Yet homeopathy is an outrageous fraud. Only 
two cases out of every hundred actually needs real 
service, and the homeopath lets them die. Then 
they make a better record than we do. The homeo- 
path treats all cases with nothing. Success in the 
practice of medicine does not depend on dosing. If 
a doctor has pleasing manners, and is smart with the 
women, he will make more money and reputation 
than if he did first-class surgery. There are perhaps 
fifty physicians in St. Louis that make twenty thou- 
sand dollars a year. Anatomy is a real science, while 
medicine is not. Medicine is largely theoretical and 
empiric." 
Dr. Young, D. D. S.: "I am opposed to giving 
any drug that smells or tastes bad." 
B. M. Hypes, A. M., M. D.: "To drink plenty of 
hot water is the best kidney medicine one can take. 
In obstetrics hygiene is the main thing." MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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A. H. Meisenbach, M. D.: "I believe that in this 
country the hydropathic treatment has not been 
understood enough. I think the time will come in 
this country when all our hospitals will have appli- 
ances to use the water-cure treatment in all its forms. 
Formerly this man's limb would have been poulticed 
and he would have been given iron and quinine. We 
gave him no drugs. A good beefsteak and a few eggs 
are worth more to him than a whole drug store." 
H. C. Dalton, M. D.: "Old doctors are all be- 
hind." 
Jacob Geiger, M. D.: "A patient who has been 
sick much of the time, and has endured the tortures 
of the drug store, is a bad surgical patient. Rest and 
nourishment prepare the patient for the operation. I 
knew a man who had his arm torn from his body in a 
railroad accident. In two hours he went from saloon 
to saloon exhibiting it for drinks. If he had had a 
doctor he perhaps could not have done so. 'I do not 
know of a single internal remedy that will do positive 
good for erysipelas. The application of mad-stones 
to mad-dog bites is ridiculous and unscientific. No 
surgical operation is free from danger to life. I knew 
a little girl who had a birth-mark about the size of a 
pea; Monsel's solution was injected into it and she 
died in fifteen minutes. I would rather rely on nutri- 
tious food than anything else to cure carbuncles." 
George F. Hulbert, M. D.: "In croupous pneu- 
monia cold applications over all the chest act as a 
governor during the congestive stage. This helps the 
pain, cough and pulse. The cough will loosen. Con- 
tinue the cold as long as the patient is comfortable, 
and till the patient is helped." 
J. R. Lemen, M. D.: "If you can -cure your 
patient without using drugs, so much the better. It 16 
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is better for you to do what helps your patient, even 
if you have to fool him while you do it. A practicing 
physician told me that when he was convinced that a 
patient could not recover, he would give him a large 
dose of morphine to finish him. If your patient has 
diarrhoea, and the specific gravity of his urine is only 
1006, then he is urinating through his intestines. 
Hence, don't stop the diarrhoea, for if you do you 
will kill the patient by uremic poison." 
O. E. Treutler, M. D.: "Medical science, I am 
sorry to say, is not yet an exact science. Lead salts 
used on the eye often causes white spots which can't 
be removed. Solution of acetate of ammonium is 
harmless, and is very good to give to sick children 
when you do not know what is the matter with them. 
If you are accused of poisoning a patient from an 
overdose, deny the allegation and defy the allegator. 
Excess of food is one of the most frequent causes of 
organic and functional disturbances of the liver. 
Walking increases the amout of oxygen to the liver, 
and therefore increases the amount of bile and excre- 
tion of urea." 
I. N. Love, M. D.: "Beef tea is a fraud of the 
most pronounced type. It is a stone and not bread. 
Eat more fruit and less meat. If you can get the 
stomach to take food and digest it, it is worth more 
than all stimulants. Spell nutrition with a big N. 
Gentle, warm, full bath, keeping the head cool, and 
gradually lowering the temperature of the water, is 
the best means to reduce high fever. My opinion is 
that malignant scarlet fever, malignant croup, or 
malignant anything, is caused by being full of offend- 
ing matters in the bowels. Hence, use large injec- 
tions, and also give physic. I have it almost as a 
stereotyped expression in acute disease, that the less MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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that child eats, the better. Slight starvation is a 
good thing." 
R. C. Atkinson, M. D.: "If we got dollars and 
cents and a reputation, only from our undoubted 
cures, we would have but little reputation and we 
would be on the town (as paupers). When I get 
through these lectures, in which I have been trying to 
fill you up on medicine, I will take up a far more ben- 
eficial subject, which should have come first, namely, 
hygiene. It is rest and rubbing that do the work 
when you use Pond's Extract, McLean's Liniment, 
Volcanic Oil, and all magic ointments. Ordinary 
dysentery may cure itself. More people have died in 
Germany and America who had la grippe, from the 
effects of the antipyretic medicine than from the 
disease. I would advise you to trust to diet rather 
than drugs in ulceration of the bowels. Very often 
hemorrhage of the lower bowels is relieved by injec- 
tions of ice water. It is our duty to learn and teach 
and apply all we can of hygiene. The dead line is a 
movable one, and you can live longer if you live tem- 
perately. In scarlet fever, if the temperature is 
below 103 degrees, cool the fever by sponging with 
tepid water; if above 103 degrees, give the full bath 
in cool water for about ten minutes, or wrap him up 
in a cool, wet sheet. Give hot baths to bring out the 
eruption. If scanty, or no, urine, give hot sitz baths. 
Ice bags to the head and spine are the best thing for 
meningitis, and if you apply them soon enough you 
may save the patient. When we use phenacetin, an- 
tipyrene, or antifebrin, we are not sure of their doing 
the work, and it is purely a matter of chance if they 
do the work. In the Hamburg epidemic of small 
pox in 1892, in one part of the city where they drank 
impure water, the people died like sheep, but in an- 18 
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Other part where the water supply was pure they did 
not have small pox. In cholera give the patient all 
the water he wants, and one great benefit from flush- 
ing the bowels with large injections of water, is that 
the water is absorbed. Cases where the fever reached 
108 degrees have been saved, but they were packed in 
ice around the chest and head. Lumbago from inju- 
ries can only be cured by rest, and the placebo is an 
ointment with which to rub." 
F. D. Wright, M. D.: " The only treatment neces- 
sary for primary, traumatic fever, is to keep the 
patient quiet." 
A. W. Fleming, M. D.: " To reduce inflammation 
of a joint, nothing is so good as rest. Allay the in- 
flammation of a fracture by cold or hot applications." 
J. II. Tanquary, M. D.: "Not fifty years ago, to 
treat pneumonia, they first purged till they were too 
weak to walk, then bled till almost pulseless." 
S. C. Martin, M. D.: " Cold water is the best thing 
to reduce high fever. The treatment for chicken pox 
is simply hygiene. Frequent bathing in hot or cold 
water is the best treatment for prurigo." 
M. D. Jones, M. D.: "When doctors don't know 
what to give, they give quinine. Country doctors 
treat ear troubles, although they don't expect to help 
the case. When the drumhead of the ear ruptures, 
don't wash it out for several hours, so as to let nature 
throw out fibrin to heal it. You can fool around it a 
little so as to make the patient think you are do- 
ing something." 
G. M. Phillips, M. D.: " The homeopath succeeds 
because most acute diseases tend to get well of them- 
selves, if left to nature. Homeopathy is entirely un- 
reasonable. Dr. Loomis says homeopath physicians MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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are fools or knaves. Most cases of acute hydrocele 
cure themselves without any treatment." 
E. R. Meng, M. D.: " We get along pretty well in 
erysipelas without doing anything. Don't paint 
iodine on erysipelas,- for it is an irritant. In men- 
ingitis apply ice water to the head. We have no 
better antiseptic, hardly, than hot water. Two 
drachms of chlorate of potash have killed a child." 
A. R. Kieffer, M. D.: "Nature is generally kind 
and will cure, if the doctor will let her alone." 
R. C. Blackmer, M. D.: "There is no doubt but 
that the doctors killed Garfield." 
C. II. Powell, M. D.: "You will often praise a 
remedy when the disease would have gotten well of 
itself." 
A. M. Carpenter, M. D.: "Always put 'dilute' 
after hydrocianic acid in your prescriptions, or you 
will kill your patient, and you will kill enough uncon- 
sciously." 
Pinckney French, M. D.: "Fibroid tumor never 
kills, unless some surgeon is trying to remove it. If a 
fibroid is growing superficially let it alone." 
J. S. B. Alleyne, M. D.: "Of all branches of 
learning, medicine is the most uncertain. Physic is 
the art of amusing the patient while nature cures the 
disease." 
W. C. Day, M. D.: "A young Kansas druggist be- 
gan the practice of medicine and never lost a case, be- 
cause he only gave starch, pepper, and ginger." 
C. II. Hughes, M. D.: "A quack may perform re- 
markable cures, for most patients have exaggerated 
ideas of their disease and their imaginations are 
largely involved." 
Chas. R. Oatman, M. D.: "A moment's rest is 20 
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sometimes worth millions of dollars. Physiological 
rest is the first principle of cure in all disease." 
J. T. Jelks, M. D.: " Many a doctor has punctured 
through the womb into the abdominal cavity with 
a sharp curette and killed the patient. Doctors are 
queer animals. Electricity is now the fad. We doc- 
tors all do about the same thing at the same time, and 
in a few months we do entirely something else. I 
have cured many a woman of an inflamed uterus by a 
little laxative pill once a day. Ulceration of the 
womb don't exist only as cancer or syphilis. Our 
white blood corpuscles are our good fairies, who pro- 
tect us day and night by eating germs. Chancre will 
get well in a week or two, if you leave it alone. Cal- 
omel and lime water are used as a wash, only to keep 
the patient busy, not to cure him." 
T. E. Murrell, M. D.: "Massage, by rubbing 
round and round, is as good as yellow oxide to clear 
up the cornea in pannus from granular lids, if you use 
vaseline with it. Atropine often causes glaucoma in 
the aged." 
M. C. Marshall, D. D. 8.: "I often inject cold 
water, in extracting teeth, if I have no cocaine, and it 
does just as well, just as you will sometimes give bread 
pills. The hope for the human teeth of the future is 
not in the dentist, but in more sunshine, more exercise 
and less society. I sincerely hope none of you will 
ever use any of the iron preparations to stop hemor- 
rhage in dental work. Never give iron in liquid form 
if you can avoid it." 
John W. Vaughan, M. D.: "Hygiene, including 
fresh air and sunlight, is the main constitutional treat- 
ment for hip joint disease. There are numbers of 
cases on record, where the patient died because bi- 
chloride, or carbolic acid, was injected into the joint. MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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It is not the strong man who lives the longest, but he 
who takes care of himself, eats and sleeps regularly." 
A. R. Kieffer, M. D.: " Three-fourths of the peo- 
ple eat too much. We live on one-fourth of what we 
eat, and in spite of the other three-fourths. It is as 
bad to eat too much as to drink whisky. Liver 
troubles cause piles. Vericocele is most common on 
the left side because the sigmoid flexure being filled 
with feces presses on the veins and prevents the re- 
turn of the blood. Boiled water is about as good as 
bichloride to washout an ulcerating wound." 
R. C. Blackmer, M. D.: "Morphine and quinine 
are often mistaken by both drug clerks and doctors, 
and hence at times, instead of quinine, they give mor- 
phine and kill the patient. Drug stores often have 
drugs in bottles with wrong labels. I knew of a case 
of a doctor buying a dollar's worth of bismuth, as he 
supposed. He gave his wife five grains. She died in 
three hours, for the drug was tartar emetic. It was 
traced back through the drug clerk, and the whole- 
sale drug house, to the manufacturing chemist, where 
the wrong label was put on. I knew a doctor whose 
patient returned and said the medicine purged her 
and made her sick, and she did not want it. The 
doctor, to show it was harmless, drank it, and his 
funeral was preached two days later." 
C. H. Powell, M. D.: "Often the antipyretic 
drugs will do more harm than the disease. The cold 
wet sheet-pack for fifteen or twenty minutes is fine 
to reduce fever. Flint cured acute rheumatism in 
two or three weeks by giving a little lemonade and 
colored water. Typhoid fever is best treated by good 
nursing. Fresh air is nature's remedy for hem- 
orrhage. Swallowing small pieces of ice often in- 
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things of the past. In constipation of typhoid give 
an injection rather than drugs. Curette in the uterus, 
nine times in ten, does more harm than good, for it 
erodes the surface and lets the micrococci in. It is 
more often the meddlesome midwifery of dilating the 
os with fingers, or instruments, that lacerates the os. 
Physicians will often make mistakes and if the patient 
dies, sign the death certificate as died of heart fail- 
ure. Never use nitrate of silver on the cervix, for 
more women suffer from this than from any other 
cause." 
Chas. R. Oatman, M. D.: "There is a craze now' 
for appendicitis, w'hen often it is only an impaction 
of feces from constipation. All diseases of the rec- 
tum may be caused by constipation. I am not in favor 
of medicines for constipation, as a rule. Imagine, 
gentlemen, an impaction of feces as large as the head 
of a fetus in the lower bowel, and some foolish doc- 
tor trying to drive it through by a purgative. Such a 
thing is criminal. Constipation and locked up liver 
are the main causes of ulcers in the rectum and of 
hemorrhoids. Inject cold water into the rectum to 
allay irritation and inflammation. I have practiced 
twenty-five years and never prescribed cod liver oil 
but once, and then it vomited the patient. A hydro- 
gogue cathartic might kill a man with a weak heart. 
Drinking tea instead of water is one cause of piles." 
J. S. B. Alleyne, M. D.: " Louis Cornaro was an 
Italian nobleman who had a wretched condition of 
dyspepsia and stomach trouble, and cured himself 
perfectly by regulating his diet and habits. Some- 
times you may find a case of fever and ague that qui- 
nine will not cure. Then stop the quinine and simply 
regulate the diet and the patient will get well. You 
may find a case of badly diseased eyes, and finding no MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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benefit from drugs, stop all medicines, wash out the 
eyes with simple cold water and they get well. Some- 
times I think the ancients had a better system of 
medicine than we have. Lemon juice, oranges and 
good food will cure scurvy in children. I had a 
severe case of chronic diarrhoea and doctored it sev- 
eral months to no profit, and finally the child got some 
cheese and ate all it wanted, which checked and cured 
the diarrhoea. When glycerine was first brought out, 
it was used for all diseases." 
Pinckney French, M. D.: " Some doctors recom- 
mend belladonna as good for everything, but I never 
found it good for anything. I have known many 
cases where the patients took large doses of iodide of 
potash, which killed the red blood corpuscles, and 
the patient died. There is no need to give a man in 
profound shock any medicine, or drink, because at 
the first reaction he vomits it all up. Old doctors in 
giving calomel, got a frosty coat on the tongue and 
thought that showed the proper effect, but the truth 
is, it showed debility. I know a young doctor who 
operated for appendicitis and killed the patient, and 
it was nothing but murder. Rest is the one main 
thing for wounds. Appendicitis is a fashionable dis- 
ease. My last forty-three cases operated on for ap- 
pendicitis have all recovered. I have never found 
any foreign bodies there, such as grape or cherry 
seeds, but I have found ulcers and inflammations, and 
often I have found concretions of feces. Nine-tenths 
of all cases of gonorrhoea can be cured by drinking 
cold water and going to bed. When I was a boy, 
many children were said to have worms, but in all my 
practice I have never seen a case of worms. I rarely 
give any medicine after a laparotomy. I don't use 
much medicine." 24 
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C. H. Hughes, M. D.: "A cough is a reflex act, 
but a coffin is not. A coffin is often the result of the 
doctor's visit. In nervous diseases give the bromides 
to cause rest, but not to cure, as nature does all the 
repairing. Tranquilization is the keynote of medi- 
cine and nature prostrates, so as to rest. In inflam- 
mations water is as necessary as in a burning building. 
Arsenic for nervous diseases is all a fad and fashion 
among doctors, as it has no more affinity for nerves 
than any other medicine." 
A. M. Carpenter, M. D.: "Many times you will 
ascribe to yourself and your remedies the cure which 
was really done by nature. To give ten grains of cal- 
omel, ten grains of jalap and ten grains of rhubarb is 
a relic of the stupendous idiocy that prevailed when I 
was a student. I had a baby in fearful bad tetanic 
convulsions, and poured cold water on its head and 
quickly relieved it. An injection of water into the 
bowels is like a motion to adjourn, it is always in 
order. The practice of therapeutics dies every four 
or five years, and the doctor who relies on practice 
books written ten years ago, relies on a broken reed. 
Sponge with tepid water and vinegar to cool fever. 
Measles are cured by nature. Tincture of aconite 
will paralyze a man's heart like a rope will paralyze 
his neck. Liebig's and Armour's meat extracts are 
not worth a snap. Give a vaginal injection of hot 
water for leucorrhoea, and for her backache wring a 
towel out of cold water and put around her back, 
with a dry one over it, and when it gets warm, put it 
in the cold water again and renew it. Don't give an 
emmenagogue to a woman whose menses have stopped, 
but nourish her up and when she gets blood she will 
menstruate naturally. Don't give cod liver oil, nor 
any fat, to consumptives, for they can't digest it. MY DRUG TEACHERS. 
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You can do more good for consumptives by hygiene 
than by medicine. Nineteen out of twenty of all 
patent medicines are shams. The Dr. Hall treatment 
serves a good purpose by dissolving out the feces and 
keeps the bowels clear. Stupidity is as rife to-day in 
the medical profession as it is in the political. Sarsa- 
parilla don't cure anything that I know of. Chlorate 
of potash is the most overpraised of any drug, for it 
is not worth much, and I know of many children being 
killed by it. You must learn massage for the ovaries, 
uterus, intestines, neuroses, enlargements, etc. Swal- 
lowing bits of ice will quiet an irritable stomach, and 
we have never quieted it with medicines; hence for an 
irritable stomach keep your hands out of your saddle- 
bags. Give a placebo, a colored tablet, and no one 
knows but it is the most powerful drug. I am sorry 
for you if you try to do everything with medicines. 
All doctors should carry a stomach tube and a com- 
mon rectal syringe. The stomach tube does away 
with the need of a thousand drugs. As for large 
doses of calomel, there is no sense in it,«no use in it, 
and much mischief in it. You cannot cure dyspepsia 
and allow the patient to chew or smoke tobacco. 
Wash the tobacco out of your mouth before you eat 
or it will poison the saliva. You may prescribe for 
womb trouble for years and never cure it, unless you 
treat the stomach. If a man is dyspeptic, cut off his 
tea, coffee and whisky. The cigarette is the most 
damnable of all things, for it causes heart failure. 
Crackers are as bad for children as cigarettes for 
boys. Pepsin is utterly worthless for any disease. 
Every doctor should have a rubber hot water bag, 
which is as useful as a syringe. Out and down with 
castor oil and glauber salts. I don't use them, only 
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rest is the main thing, and about all that is permitted 
is a flannel wrung out of hot water and placed on the 
abdomen. I have known gonorrhoea to stop in three 
weeks without any medicine. Diarrhoea demands but 
little besides rest and abstaining from food and 
drink. Stop hemorrhage of the rectum by rest and 
ice introduced. In dysentery wash out the bowels 
with injections of cold water. The doctor who fails 
to give his patient rest is only an old woman, and if 
he fails to nourish the patient, he is only an old corn- 
stalk. In chronic gastritis keep all drugs out. I 
have not prescribed compound cathartic pills for ten 
years, for they gripe. Don't give solid food for at 
least two months after getting up from typhoid fever, 
for may have perforation of the bowel. I have never 
lost a case of typhoid fever, for I always use plenty of 
cold water. The best way to cool typhoid fever is by 
sponging with tepid water and vinegar, though it may 
be done by cold, wet sheet pack, or full cold bath. 
The Germans have lost all faith in drugs. The 
healthiest men sponge the whole body every morning. 
Cold baths are the best things in scarlet fever and the 
only thing that offers any relief. No medicine will 
reduce a greatly enlarged spleen. Hot baths at home 
will do as much good as at the Hot Springs, Ark. It 
is a stupendous humbug to think a working man 
needs beer or whisky. I know I run contrary to my 
professional brethren when I educate the people and 
tell them my medicine and how it acts, but I don't 
care a continental if I do. I wish they would pass a 
law to prohibit fine white flour from being made. 
Fried food causes dyspepsia." WHEN TO USE DRUGS. 
27 
When to "Use HJvuqs. 
If you will read the chapter on "Testimony of 
Leading Drug Doctors," you will conclude with me 
that you should use drugs only when you want to kill 
something, because the hygienic doctors of Europe 
and America have proven that all diseases can be 
cured without drugs. If you have tape-worm, use 
drugs to kill it. If a child has worms, kill them with 
drugs. Put acid on corns and warts to kill them. 
Proud flesh, growing in a wound, needs burnt alum, 
or other drug to kill it. The itch is caused by a little 
animal that eats into the skin, and needs drugs 
applied to kill them. Bed-bugs and fleas need drugs. 
The surgeon should use drugs to kill the microbes on 
his instruments and on the skin of the patient, 
though some successful surgeons only use hot water 
and soap for this. To disinfect a water-closet, or any 
object, use drugs. If a person, accidentally, or with 
intent of suicide, took poison, I should give another 
poison to act as an antidote in the stomach. But if 
the poisou had gotten out of the stomach into the 
system, I should not give another poison, but get the 
first one out by means of hot baths, wet sheet packs, 
copious water drinking, and proper food. I know of 
only two exceptions to the statement that drugs 
should be used only to kill: one is, during a surgical 
operation to render the patient unconscious of the 
pain; and the other is, where hot sitz baths, drinking 
plenty of hot water, and hot wTet cloths applied do 
not relieve severe pain, I should use an opiate. If a 
few hundred people perish because a steamer sinks 
in the ocean, all the world mourns. If a plague 
attacks a few cities, and a few thousands die, the 28 
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sympathy of the whole world is with those cities. 
The leading medical men of the world admit that 
drugs kill thousands of people, yet the people con- 
tinue to take them when it is entirely unnecessary. 
Without drugs of any kind I have cured piles of 
several years' standing, and after they had tried 
various doctors and medicines. A man who had not 
been able for two years to put on his shoes, or to take 
them off, because of chronic rheumatism, I cured 
perfectly in four weeks without drugs. By hygiene, 
and without drugs, I cured a man of scrotal hernia, 
after he had been wearing a truss for over six years, 
and unable to walk a step without it. I repeat, that 
all diseases that can be cured at all, can be cured 
without drugs, by means of diet, baths, massage, 
fresh air, rest, exercise, electricity and other hygienic 
remedies. 
John Weelep on ibpoienic noctncine. 
When studying the medical books of the library in 
the British Museum, London, I read an old book, 
published in 1747, by the celebrated Rev. John Wes- 
ley, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
called "Primitive Physic, or An Easy and Natural 
Method of Curing Most Diseases." This book passed 
through thirty-four editions. Mr. Wesley was a care- 
ful observer, and recognized by all as a good man. 
After reading this book I concluded that he must 
have had quite a large medical practice, besides his 
numerous religious duties. 
In his introduction Mr. Wesley says: "As theories 
increased, simple remedies were more and more dis- 
regarded and disused, till in the course of years the JOHN WESLEY ON HYGIENIC MEDICINE. 
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greater part of them were forgotten, at least in the 
politer nations. In the room of these, abundance of 
new ones were introduced by reasoning, speculative 
men; and those more and more difficult to be applied, 
as being more remote from common observation. 
Hence rules for the application of these, and medical 
books, were immensely multiplied, till at length physic 
became an abstruse science, quite out of the reach of 
ordinary men. Physicians now began to be held in 
admiration, as persons who were something more 
than human. And profit attended their employ, as 
well as honor, so that they had now two weighty rea- 
sons for keeping the bulk of mankind at a distance, 
that they might not pry into the mysteries of the pro- 
fession. To this end they increased those difficulties 
by design which began by accident. They filled their 
writings with an abundance of technical terms, utterly 
unintelligible to plain men. They affected to deliver 
their rules and to reason upon them in an abstruse 
and philosophic manner. They introduced into prac- 
tice abundance of compound medicines, consisting of 
so many ingredients that it was scarce possible for 
common people to know which it was that wrought 
the cure; abundance of exotics, neither the names 
nor nature of which their own countrymen under- 
stood; of chemicals, such as they neither had skill, 
nor time, nor fortune to prepare; yea, and of danger- 
ous ones, such as they could not use without hazard- 
ing life, but by the advice of a physician. And thus 
both their honor and gain were secured, a vast 
majority of mankind being utterly cut off from either 
helping themselves or their neighbors, or once daring 
to attempt it." 
Mr. Wesley further says: "The common method 
of compounding and recompounding medicines can 30 
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never be reconciled to common sense. Experience 
shows that one thing will cure most disorders at least 
as well as twenty put together. Then why do you add 
the other nineteen? Only to swell the apothecary's 
bill? Nay, possibly on purpose to prolong the dis- 
ease, that the doctor and druggist may divide the 
spoil. Is it not needful in the highest degree to res- 
cue men from the jaws of destruction? From wast- 
ing their fortunes (on drugs) as thousands have done 
and continue to do daily? From pining away in sick- 
ness and pain, either through the ignorance or dis- 
honesty of physicians? Yea, and many times throw- 
ing away their lives, after their health, time and 
substance. Is it inquired, Are there not books 
enough already on every part of the art of medicine? 
Yes, too many, ten times over, considering how little 
to the purpose the far greater part of them speak. 
But besides this, they are too dear for poor men to 
buy, and too hard for plain men to understand." 
Mr. Wesley, near the close of the book, says that 
"cold bathing cures young children of convulsions, 
coughs, skin inflammations, pimples, scabs, gravel, 
inflammation of the ears, navel and mouth, rickets, 
suppression of urine, vomiting, and want of sleep." 
Speaking of grown people, he says: "Cold bathing 
prevents the hereditary growth of apoplexies, asthma, 
blindness, consumption, deafness, gout, erysipelas, 
melancholy, palsies, rheumatism and stone. It fre- 
quently cures every nervous and paralytic disorder, 
such as asthma, agues of every kind, atrophy, blind- 
ness, cancer, coagulated blood after bruises, con- 
sumption, convulsions, coughs, convulsive pains, 
deafness, dropsy, epilepsy, violent fevers, gout, hectic 
fevers, hysteric pains, inflammations, inability to hold 
urine, or stool, lameness, lethargy, loss of appetite, THE UNITY OF DISEASE. 
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loss of smell, loss of taste, kidney pains, palpitation 
of heart, pain in the back and joints, pain in the 
stomach, rheumatism, rickets, rupture, suffocation, 
sciatica, pains of scrofula, swelling on joints, stone in 
the kidneys, torpor of the limbs, even when the use 
of the limbs is lost, lockjaw, gas in the bowels, ver- 
tigo, St. Vitus dance, varicose ulcers, leucorrhcea or 
whites." 
In this book Mr. Wesley prescribed for all common 
diseases. Here are a few samples: 
" Asthma; take a pint of cold water every morning, 
washing the head in cold water immediately after, 
and use the cold bath." 
"Cancer in the breast; use the cold bath. This 
cured Mrs. Bates, of Leicestershire, of a cancer in 
the breast, a sciatica and rheumatism which she had 
nearly twenty years. N. B.-Generally, where cold 
bathing is necessary to cure any disease, water drink- 
ing is necessary to prevent a relapse." 
" Consumption; cold bathing has cured many deep 
consumptions." 
ZTbc 'Unitp of EHscase, 
Disease is simply abnormal vital action, and is 
caused by the use of abnormal things, or the abuse 
of normal things or conditions. For example, all 
acquired ill health comes from bad habits, expos- 
ure, want of cleanliness, fresh air and exercise, or 
improper food and drink. These causes produce a 
disordered system, which we call disease. No dif- 
ference by what name you call the disease, it is sim- 
ply a deranged system, caused by poisons taken in or 
poisons generated in the body and retained. These 32 
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poisons are thrown off by the skin (sweat), liver (bile), 
kidneys (urine), stomach (vomit), bowels (feces), 
lungs (bad breath and expectoration) and blood ves- 
sels (hemorrhage). 
Dr. S. Dickson says: " Many and various, it is true, 
are the supposed partial complaints which medical 
men usually term local disorders, but, strictly speak- 
ing, local disorders are so rare that, with the excep- 
tion of a few mechanical disorders, I scarcely know a 
so-called local complaint that I have not myself cured 
by internal constitutional measures." Dr. Abernethy 
said an inflamed toe needed constitutional and not 
local treatment. 
Dr. B. W. Richardson says: "The tendency of 
medicine, which a century ago was directed towards 
the division of diseases into many hundred forms, and 
the formation of the most elaborate and complex 
nosologies, is being in this day reversed; and the 
whole meaning of modern medical inquiry is to prove 
that disease is a unity, with a variety of phenomena, 
and that its causes are reducible to a few elementary 
forms." 
Dr. T. R. Allinson, of London, who has a large 
practice and successfully treats all diseases without 
drugs, says on the unity of disease: " I hope to prove 
that instead of having many diseases, we have really 
only one; that is, we have a disordered system with 
various local manifestations, which manifestations we 
call diseases. If I disobey one or many of the various 
laws by which I am governed, I set up disease; the 
amount of disease is according to the laws I have 
broken. Whether I have a dyspepsia, a pleurisy, or 
an attack of rheumatism, it is all the same varied 
state of the system, only the disease is called by a 
different name, since the stomach in one case, the THE UNITY OF DISEASE. 
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pleura in another, and the joints in another, show the 
most prominent symptoms. If we can accept the 
view that all diseases are due simply to an altered 
condition of the system, due to improper living, we 
simplify matters. Then instead ofhaving many kinds 
of doctors and many systems of medicine, we shall 
have only one system, and one which every educated 
person will know more or less of. Then instead of 
treating different symptoms with different remedies, 
we shall try to improve the whole tone of the body; 
then it will be all the same whether we are treating a 
case of dyspepsia, pleurisy, rheumatism, or nervous- 
ness. We shall make the patient observe all the laws 
which govern man and keeps us in what we call health. 
By this system, too, we do away with a great deal 
of unnecessary manipulations. Post-mortems reveal 
to the operator hardened livers, diseased kidneys, 
enlarged hearts, and broken up lungs. These are 
usually seized upon by the operator and put down as 
the cause of death. Nothing of the kind; they are 
simply indications of the disordered state of the sys- 
tem, and instead of being the cause of death, are 
themselves caused by the same variation which caused 
death. As we overwork one particular organ more 
than another, or as one organ is weaker than another, 
we must expect the overworked, or weaker organ, to 
go to the wall when the system is disordered. Hence 
it follows that stomach, lung and skin diseases arise 
according to which organ is weakest in us, and we 
should strengthen that weak organ as much as possi- 
ble. Some readers may here ask, do I mean to say 
that consumption is not primarily a chest disease? I 
answer at once that it is not. I say consumption is a 
disease of general debility, and does not attack a per- 
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fined space. It is brought on by all things which 
lower vitality, such as poor or improper food, expos- 
ure, excessive work, drink, bad habits, etc. The cure 
for it is not to notice the chest, but to improve the 
general health and improve the whole tone of the sys- 
tem. By breathing fresh air night and day, by keep- 
ing the skin open, by taking plain food, and what 
little exercise can be taken, most good will be done 
and most chance of cure will be secured. No other 
mode of treatment is any use. So with rheumatism 
and gout. I do not try to neutralize any special poi- 
son in the system, all I try to do is to put the body 
under right conditions, so that it may improve itself 
up to the standard of health. Then it will throw out 
as fast as it can the material which causes the com- 
plaint, or alter itself in such a way that the disease 
goes. Having now cured most of the known com- 
plaints without drugs by means of hygienic rules, I 
can argue that there must be a unity in disease, as one 
mode of treatment seems to cure them all. The con- 
clusion I come to is that disease means a disordered 
system, showing its disorder by a variety of symptoms. 
The cure is uniform; a correct observation of nature's 
laws, and in a longer or shorter period we shall regain 
health. Many persons cannot understand that all 
diseases require only one mode of treatment. Being 
brought up to the old idea of things, they imagine 
that every disease requires a different remedy. Thus, 
when they hear of liver disease, they think of podo- 
phyllin, blue pill, etc. If they hear of consumption, 
it suggests to them cod liver oil, beer and beef tea; for 
coughs and colds they recommend you ipecac, squills, 
paragoric, etc. For every real or imaginary disease 
they have a fixed remedy; if the person gets better 
while taking the drug, it was the drug that cured him; THE UNITY OF DISEASE. 
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if he does not recover, then they try something else. 
They do not believe that a person can get well without 
drugs, and if you tell them that you successfully treat 
all diseases without drugs, then they ask you what 
drugs were sent for. Many may be astonished when 
I tell them that the same mode of treatment will cure 
diseases of apparently different kinds. Thus, whether 
I am treating gout, consumption, dyspepsia, gall 
stones, fever, hypochondria, pimples or nervousness, 
the treatment must be very much the same. One of 
my readers who did not know me, and with whom I 
was speaking, said I was a fool, because it did not 
matter what ailed you, all you had to do was not to 
smoke, not to drink, to eat brown bread and sleep 
with your window open! This man's summing up of 
my mode of cure was fairly correct. As diseases are 
caused by bad habits, improper food, etc., so cure is 
brought about by stopping all wrong habits, and by 
adopting correct living, then the system rights itself." 
" To get cured of any complaint except those due to 
worms, or to parasites, certain rules must be obeyed. 
In the first place, all bad practices must be discon- 
tinued, such as the use of tobacco, the drinking of 
beer, wines, spirits, and other fermented or alcoholic 
liquors; drugs, medicines and pills must be stopped; 
and if any other bad habits are indulged in they must 
be stopped before cure can take place. The next 
thing to do is to put the system under the best condi- 
tion for the restoration of health. With regard to 
food, if the case is an ordinary one, then No. 1 diet 
may be strictly followed, the nearer that is kept to, the 
better the person will get on, and the sooner he, or 
she, will get well. (See the close of the chapter on 
the Diet Cure for a list of five different diets.) No. 2 
diet is necessary in case of heart disease, scrofula, and 36 
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all cases of low vitality, damaged organs, or delicate 
constitutions. No. 3 diet is useful in chronic diseases, 
and where the system must be cleared of waste before 
cure can be expected. All these diets, be it noticed, 
will support life under the most adverse conditions. 
I have many patients engaged in their usual hard work 
and yet living on the No. 2 or No. 3 diet, for the cure 
of their complaints. The hygienic rules are also 
most important aids to cure, and as useful as the food 
eaten. Fresh air is most important in the treatment 
of diseases, especially those in connection with the 
breathing organs; thus it is the chief part in the cure 
and prevention of influenza, cold in the head, sore 
throat, quinsy, laryngitis, loss of voice, catarrh, 
cough, bronchitis, pleurisy, consumption and asthma. 
Exercise must not be neglected, for exercise burns up 
waste material, improves the circulation of the blood, 
increases the vitality, strengthens the muscles, en- 
livens the spirits, and gives tone of a lasting kind to 
both mind and body. Bathing cools the blood, cleanses 
the skin, lessens feverishness, helps to allay conges- 
tion or inflammation of internal organs, and is in 
every way beneficial. The dietaries given, and the 
hygienic rules I lay down, if carefully adopted, will 
alone cure all systemic diseases that are curable, 
no drugs being necessary. In fact, drugs, instead of 
curing, set up diseases or symptoms of their own, 
and so the person has to fight his own complaint, 
as well as that brought on by the stuff given. I treat 
all my cases of disease without drugs, and I have had 
every kind to deal with. Finally, I ask those readers 
who ail in any way, to try No. 1, No. 2, or No. 3 diet 
(see chapter on the Diet Cure), and obey as many of 
the hygienic rules as they can, and they will have the 
best chance of getting well in the shortest space of THE UNITY OF DISEASE. 
37 
time. They must, at the same time, avoid beer, 
wines, spirits, tobacco, medicines and strong tea or 
coffee. 
" Of all the persons who visit me each week, not 
one does exactly right, while many are wasting life 
and energy by using alcohol and tobacco. The ma- 
jority are eating more than their bodies require, the 
excess of food causes plethora, low spirits, bilious 
attacks, headaches, noises in the head, specks before 
the eyes, pain in the back, pain in the neck and be- 
hind the eyes, failing sight, loss of bodily and mental 
power, &c. Some are eating wrong foods, such as 
white bread, peeled potatoes, meat, or not eating 
enough fruits and vegetables. These suffer from 
constipation, backache, piles, vericose veins, heavy, 
dull feeling, and loss of energy. Some eat too fatty, 
or greasy foods, and subject themselves to heartburn, 
acidity of the stomach, and skin eruptions. Foods 
made sweet by added sugar cause wind in the stomach, 
sleepy feelings, want of energy, skin eruptions, flushes 
of heat, &c. Some do not take enough exercise; 
these suffer from cold hands and feet, poor circula- 
tion, chilblains in winter, red noses and depressed 
feelings. Those who do not breathe pure air may 
suffer from inflamed eyes, deafness, a spitting up of 
phlegm in the morning, morning and evening cough, 
cold in the head, or nasal catarrh, pleurisy, bron- 
chitis, inflammation of the lungs, or any respiratory 
complaint; even consumption itself, may follow from 
a weakly person breathing bad air frequently. Those 
whose skins are dirty are subject to fevers, and in7 
ternal congestions or inflammations. If we add to 
these complaints the cases of sore throat, deafness, 
heart disease, indigestion, cancer, short sight, and loss 
of mental and bodily power produced by tobacco; and 38 
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the inflamed stomachs, hardened livers and kidneys, 
diseased hearts and brains, gout and rheumatism, with 
nervous disorders, all produced by beer, wine and 
spirits, we get a list containing most of the ailments 
which afflict humanity." 
If the reader will read the chapters on the " Testi- 
mony of Leading Drug Doctors" and " My Drug 
Teachers," he will see that not only do the leading 
doctors of St. Louis, but of England and America, 
admit that it is Nature, and not drugs, that cures. 
James C. Jackson, M. D., says in the "Laws of 
Life" for September, 1873: " I have cured sick head- 
ache, nasal catarrh, sore eyes, sore throat, severe 
deafness, cankered sore throat, asthma, dyspepsia, 
pronounced heart disease, liver and kidney com- 
plaints,' spermatorrhoea, leucorrhoea, piles, palsy, 
vertigo, apoplexy, insanity, chronic melancholy, hys- 
teria, rheumatism, neuralgia, and scrofulous eruptions 
on the skin-by curing my patients of constipation of 
the bowels." 
Louis Kuhne, a well known German author, accepts 
the theory of the unity of all diseases. As a result he 
is very successful in his practice. 
Gbe Bfet Cure, 
The cure of disease by diet is not a theory but a 
fact. S. W. Dodds, A. M., M. D., says that diet is 
the most important of all remedies for the cure of 
disease. In France and Germany thousands are cured 
by the grape cure. This consists in living on grapes 
together with a little bread. It has been successfully 
tried in this country. Any fruit would do nearly as 
well as the grape. In the fruit cure you must not eat THE DIET CURE. 
39 
meat or grease of any kind. Prof. Robert Bartholow 
says: " The grape cure consists of a diet exclusively 
of grapes. They are eaten many times a day to re- 
pletion. It is usual to commence with a pound and 
progressively increase the amount to two, three, six, 
or eight pounds, a limit which is not exceeded. The 
first grape meal, which may be the most abundant, is 
in the early morning, but not as are the others, eaten 
in the vineyard. Another is taken at the time of 
breakfast; the next after the morning walk at noon; 
another between the dinner and supper and finally at 
supper. The treatment is continued during the five 
or six weeks' duration of the grape crop. The grape 
cure is used with success for torpid liver, diarrhoea, 
dysentry, hemorrhoids or piles, and engorgement of 
the spleen." 
This is the way the diet cure does its work. Health 
depends upon good blood. Good blood can only be 
made from good food, (air and water are classed as 
food). You can't make good blood by putting pois- 
ons in it; (all drugs are poisons). Fruits, grains and 
vegetables, not only furnish plenty of strength, but 
plenty of pure distilled water in their juices. This 
pure, distilled water goes through every diseased part 
of the body and brings out through the skin, lungs, 
kidneys and bowels, all the diseased matter. In Eng- 
land they have the raspberry cure and currant cure, 
which consists in living almost entirely on these fruits 
for a few weeks. Dried or green fruits can be had 
any day of the year. Bananas, being so concentrated, 
should not be eaten so freely as other fruits. 
The diet cure means eating to live, instead of liv- 
ing to eat. If you will stop and think, you can easily 
see that all acquired diseases of the stomach come 
from what you eat and drink. Bad digestion, then, 40 
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means a bad diet. With bad digestion you get bad 
blood. Bad blood gives bad nourishment to nerves, 
brain, muscles and all parts of the body. Hence 
come nervous diseases, rheumatism, and all manner of 
diseases. Since these diseases are caused by bad blood, 
which comes from bad digestion, which comes from bad 
food, then all will be cured by the proper amount of 
good food, slowly eaten and well chewed. By good 
food I mean plenty of fresh air, day and night; 
plenty of pure water to drink and with which to 
bathe at least once a week, and plenty of fruits, 
grains and vegetables. All who depend largely on the 
diet cure are agreed that a sick person must not eat 
meat. Vegetables should be eaten only for dinner. 
Seeds should be removed from all fruit, or chewed 
finely, especially grape seeds. 
The venerable Dr. Richards, of New York, cured 
over one hundred cases of obstinate constipation by 
simply directing the patient to drink a glass of cold 
water half an hour before breakfast each morning. 
If you are sick drink nothing but water, or water 
flavored with some fruit juice. If you want to stay 
well never drink tea, coffee or chocolate over once a 
day, and only one cup then. Not only is scurvy cured 
by eating fruit, but all blood diseases can be cured in 
the same way. Fevers and all inflammatory diseases 
demand a fast for twenty-four to forty-eight hours. 
During high fevers there are no digestive juices in the 
stomach. No difference what the disease is, it is well 
to fast the first twenty-four hours to give the over- 
worked internal organs a chance to catch up. Dr. C. 
E. Page, of Boston, cures all cases of biliousness, bad 
colds, dyspepsia, gout, rheumatism and various other 
diseases by an absolute fast of one to eight days, giv- 
ing plenty of water to drink when feeling hungry. THE DIET CURE. 
41 
Dr. B. M. Hypes, of St. Louis, says that to drink 
plenty of hot water is the best kidney medicine one 
can take. Dr. T. L. Nichols, of London, recom- 
mends the diet cure for all diseases. 
No difference what the disease is, remember that 
pure blood will cure it. Pure blood can only be made 
from pure food, pure air and pure water, and not 
from drugs. Put your conscience and religion into 
your eating, for seven-tenths of all disease comes 
from the food being improper in quality or amount, 
or too hastily eaten. H. C. Stickney, M. D., says that 
nine times out of ten neuralgia comes from drinking 
tea or coffee. A child with eczema is cured by living 
on wholemeal bread and apple sauce. Most people 
eat too much, and this overworks the stomach, liver 
and kidneys, and setsup disease. 
The celebrated Dr. T. R. Allinson, whose hospital 
I visited in London, numbering his patients by the 
thousands, says that by his patients' using wholemeal 
bread he has cured hundreds of cases of obstinate 
constipation, and that constipation is the main cause 
of piles, varicose veins, liver troubles and a good 
share of man's sickness. He further says that by per- 
suading his patients to keep their bedroom and sitting 
room windows open at least two inches, during all 
kinds of weather, both winter and summer, day and 
night, he has cured by this alone, hundreds of cases 
of chest complaints; such as bronchitis, pleurisy, in- 
flammation and congestion of the lungs, besides 
quinsy, loss of voice and bad colds. By the kind per- 
mission of Dr. Allinson I give below his " General 
Directions in Health and Disease." 
Dietetic.-Have only three meals a day about five 
hours apart; eat the food slowly, chew it well, and 
stop at the first feeling of satisfaction. Eat brown 42 
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bread always, and not white. Do not drink above one 
cup of fluid at a meal, then only lukewarm and not 
too sweet. Cocoa is much to be preferred to tea or 
coffee, as it is less injurious to the system. The 
meals should be eaten deliberately, time allowed for 
them, and a little rest taken after them, if possible. 
Avoid fried, greasy foods. 
No. 1.-Ordinary Diet.-Breakfast: 6 to 8 oz. 
brown bread and butter, cup of cocoa or weak tea; 
or, wheatmeal, oatmeal, hominy, or barley porridge 
eaten with brown bread and stewed fruit. Dinner: 
about four ounces lean beef-or mutton, or of poultry, 
rabbit or fish; two vegetables always; afterwards a 
little milk pudding, stewed fruit, or fruit pie. Sup- 
per: 6 to 8 ozs. brown bread and butter, boiled 
Spanish onion, boiled or raw celery, or other green 
stuff, or stewed fruit or milk pudding. No food for at 
least three hours before going to bed. This diet is for 
ordinary people, who take the world as they find it, 
want to keep in fair health, and yet not to be deemed 
peculiar. 
No. 2.-V. E. M. Diet.-Breakfast as No. 1. Din- 
ner: thick vegetable soup eaten with brown bread, 
followed by a milk pudding and stewed fruit. Or a 
potato, haricot, or vegetarian pie, or the stew in No. 
3 diet. Or simply two vegetables, brown bread and 
some vegetable sauce. As a second course, milk pud- 
ding and stewed fruit. Those who do not eat flesh 
should eat peas, beans, or lentils every other day. 
Supper: same as No. 1. This diet is for those who 
desire to get better health than the ordinary people, 
and for the delicate. It is especially useful in heart, 
liver, kidney, and chronic stomach complaints, in 
syphilis, and in gout and rheumatism. For the hypo- 
chondriacal it is the best diet I know. THE DIET CURE. 
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No. 3.-Macaroni Diet.-For breakfast and sup- 
per about 6 ounces brown bread cut into dice, pour 
boiling milk over this, allow to cool, and then eat. 
Dinner: 4 ounces macaroni cooked and made into a 
pudding; eat with stewed prunes or other fruit. 
Next day have a stew made of about 2 ounces each of 
peas, or lentils, with rice or pearl barley; cook them 
well, flavor with a little carrot, turnip, onion, sweet 
herbs, butter and salt; eat with brown bread. Finish 
up with stewed fruit and bread. This diet is useful 
in all chronic cases, and if observed for some time 
clears the body of waste, and purifies the system gen- 
erally. 
No. 4.-Milk Diet.-Milk and barley or rice water 
in equal parts; a teacupful may be taken cold every 
three hours. This diet, is a quick cure for violent 
sickness or diarrhoea. 
No. 5.-Fever Diet.-Milk and water, gruel, por- 
ridge, vegetable soup, milk puddings, toast water, 
whey, lemonade, bread and milk, fruit fresh and 
stewed, preserve water, etc. These are the foods 
that should be given in erysipelas, measles, scarlet 
fever, small-pox, typhoid or other fevers, and in acute 
attacks of sickness of all kinds. 
Hygienic.-As much fresh air as possible must be 
always breathed. The bedroom window should be 
open at least two inches at night in all weathers; 
while the sitting-room, work-room or other places 
should always have the windows open a little. The 
observance of this will prevent coughs, cold, sore 
throats and chest complaints. Exercise: three hours 
a day is necessary for health; those who work hard at 
an outdoor occupation require no other, but seden- 
tary persons should take two hours a day of some 
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day is about the required amount. Bathing, a tepid 
or cold sponge down daily, aud a fortnightly warm 
bath is good, or a weekly warm bath alone if the other 
cannot be carried out. A Turkish bath once a month 
is a good thing for some to have. These rules should 
be adopted by all, as far as possible, and good health 
must result. 
N. B.-Alcoholic drinks, as beer, wines, spirits, and 
liquors, are only mentioned to be condemned. To- 
bacco must never be used by those who wish to be 
well. All drugs and medicines, patent or otherwise, 
must be avoided. 
Cbe Water Cure, 
Next to air, water is the most important thing 
touching human life and health. The water cure has 
cured tens of thousands of sick people in Europe and 
America. In Scotland, Germany and England, I 
found the water cure well established in the hearts of 
the people; so much-so, that the latest German drug 
physicians give in their books but little or no drug 
treatment. Europe has hundreds of water cure doc- 
tors, who cure all curable diseases, and often after 
drugs have been tried for years in vain. At Cassell I 
visited the largest water cure in Germany. 
The purifications of the laws of Moses were only 
applications of the water cure. Cleanliness is next to 
godliness, and is only obtained by water. Four-fifths 
of the human body is composed of water. Water 
dissolves our food and carries it through the body, 
and also carries out the waste matter through skin, 
lungs, kidneys and bowels. Without food or water, 
man can live nine days. Dr. Tanner, with water THE WATER CURE. 
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alone, lived forty days. To cure any disease, all you 
need is to purify and invigorate, and the water cure, 
assisted by diet, fresh air, and exercise, will do that in 
every curable case. It has been successfully tried in 
tens of thousands of cases. 
Flushing the colon every other day, with large in- 
jections of one to three quarts of hot water, is found 
to cure constipation, cholera, morbus, indi- 
gestion, biliousness, cramp colic, diarrhoea, dys- 
pepsia, liver and kidney troubles, and many of its 
friends claim it will cure piles, hernia, heart trouble, 
and other serious diseases. A wet sheet wrapped 
around the body calls into action the millions of 
pores of the skin and fills the sheet with impurities. 
Scarlet fever, measles, and small pox were all treated 
in a French hospital by a full hot bath up to the neck 
and they were all cured at once. Dr. Lambe says 
that drinking distilled water will cure stone, gravel, 
cancer, and other malignant diseases, if a pure diet is 
used at the same time. Dr. Hypes, of St. Louis, says 
that to drink plenty of hot water is the best kid- 
ney medicine one can take. Dr. Carpenter, of St. 
Louis, says the best way to cool fever is by sponging 
with tepid water. Dr. J. L. Ingram, of St. Louis, 
says he believes in plenty of water internally, exter- 
nally and eternally. Every drop of water that enters 
the body, or touches the body, takes away some im- 
purity. 
The quickest way to reduce a fever is with cold 
water. The quickest and best way to move the bowels 
is by an injection of water. The quickest way to pro- 
duce a sweat is the hot bath. The quickest way to 
stop hemorrhage of the lungs is to apply cold cloths, 
or ice, to the chest. The best stimulant is the hot 
bath, or hot water drinking (no whisky or drug is 46 
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needed as a stimulant). The quickest and best rem- 
edy for convulsions, cramps, and various spasmodic 
diseases is the cold bath. The best cure for constipa- 
tion is drinking a glass of water half an hour be- 
fore meals. The best means to relieve all ordinary 
pain is the hot sitz bath, or the local application 
of hot and cold water. The best remedy for bruises 
and lacerations is the application of cold wet cloths. 
Professor Liebig claims that water is a better altertive 
than mercury. The physiological effects of hot and 
cold water are diluent, dissolvent, sedative, laxative, 
emetic, nervine, expectorant, alterative, antipyretic, 
diuretic, tonic, anti-spasmodic, anodyne, anesthetic, 
diaphoretic, styptic and cholagogue. A fluttering 
heart is quieted instantly by applying over it, a cold 
wet cloth. Vomiting and nausea are checked by 
a cold, wet cloth under the chin. The best remedy 
for sore throat is to apply a cold, wet cloth over night 
for a few nights. Severe pains in the lungs are 
quickly relieved by hot cloths between the shoulders 
and cold cloths over the lungs in front; renew the 
cloths every four minutes. The water cure is applica- 
ble to all diseases and includes, as faithful aids, diet, 
rest, massage, exercise, fresh air, and all hygienic 
principles, besides the different baths and applications 
of water. The above statements are not theories, 
but facts. A fair trial is all I ask. 
For a description of the different baths and treat- 
ment, see the chapter on " Remedies of Medical 
Hygiene." VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. 
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Valctnctorp Hbbrcss. 
The following is an outline of the Valedictory 
address delivered by W. Frank Ross, A. M., M. D., 
on the occasion of the graduating exercises of the 
Barnes Medical College, at Memorial Hall, St. Louis, 
March 16th, 1895: 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:-The 
word valedictorian is derived from two Latin words 
meaning to say farewell. We have come to the part- 
ing of the ways. To-night we say farewell each to 
the other, and with many of us it will be an eternal 
parting. In these few minutes I wish to be historian, 
prophet and counselor. 
Classmates, you have crossed the Rubicon. This, 
our graduation day, forms an epoch in our lives. 
Hitherto we have been dreaming, now we awake for 
the conflict. We turn our backs upon the past, 
which has been full of romance and sham battle, and 
gladly turn our faces toward the future, which is 
radiant with hope and aspiration. To-night we sail 
out of the quiet bay under full sail and with a stiff 
breeze, and our hearts are thrilled as we stand on 
deck and wave farewell to Faculty and students, who 
stand upon the wharf and bid us Godspeed and a 
prosperous voyage. This moment is not without its 
sadness, a tinge at least of the feeling which " resem- 
bles pain as the mist resembles the rain." But our 
hearts are cheered as we remember Longfellow's 
exhortation, "Look not mournfully into the past. It 
comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. 
It alone is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy 
future without fear and with a manly heart." 
As historian, I refer to the fact that the Barnes 
Medical College is only three years old, yet it has the 48 
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largest number of students of any college west of the 
Mississippi. Such remarkable success was never seen 
before in St. Louis, nor the United States, nor the 
world. 
As prophet, I will say that this college was born at 
the proper time. The multitude of new discoveries 
in therapeutics, surgery and microscopy have been 
provided for in our new hospital and laboratories, 
which will be the largest in the United States. These 
advantages will not only make this the school for this 
age, but for generations yet unborn. 
As counselor, I cannot improve upon that given by 
our beloved Faculty. Tireless energy, patience and 
enthusiasm bring sure success. "Plan your work and 
work your plan." You can plant your ladder in low- 
est dust, and, climbing, reach the stars. But, like 
Caesar, you must be "constant as the north star, of 
whose transfixed and resting quality there is no fellow 
in the firmament." Be a man of the people, and not 
like the dude who pronounced Napoleon Bonaparte, 
Nap-o-le-on Bo-nap-ar-te. 
Your main fight will be with the black giant of 
ignorance and prejudice. Victor Hugo said, to in- 
struct is to construct. On the peristyle of the 
World's Columbian Exposition I saw these words of 
Jesus, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free." These words are true in every 
sphere of life. They are philosophic and worthy of 
the chief place. No one is wholly destitute of truth. 
All 'forms of error have some foundation in truth. 
Every gross superstition can be traced back to truth. 
All the false theories of politics, theology and medi- 
cine have some justification. Jesus said, "Now ye 
are clean through these words which I speak unto 
you." St. Peter said, " Seeing you have purified your VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. 
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souls in obeying the truth." It is not the . Holy 
Spirit, nor any mysterious power, but the truth that 
makes free from sin. 
I once heard of a painting in which both the right 
and left hand sides were solid black clouds, with 
thousands of tangled threads running between them. 
In the midst of the threads there was a man's hand, 
trying to untangle them. Such is the intellectual 
effort of an honest, thinking man. To untangle the 
threads we must begin at the correct starting point. 
To illustrate, one physician begins at the nerves and 
says they are not conscious. Going higher, he says 
the cord and brain are identical with the nerves, 
except a little more complex. Hence the brain is not 
conscious. Another physician begins at the brain 
and says it is conscious, and, going lower, says that 
the cord and nerves are identical with the brain, 
except not so complex. Hence the cord and nerves 
are conscious. These are directly opposite conclu- 
sions because of different starting points. 
Every man is a philosopher, though he may not 
recognize it. He has his theories of the universe. 
The materialistic infidel looks at the world as made 
up merely of things. The heathen looks at the uni- 
verse as made up not only of things, but of forces. 
For example, the sun is not only a thing, but a bundle 
of forces; a tree is not only a thing, but a bundle of 
forces. Hence the heathen worship all manner of 
objects, because of this idea of forces. That is why 
the school girl searches for a four-leafed clover. She 
considers it not merely as an object, but as having 
some mysterious power to bless. In other words, she 
considers it as having in it a little god which will give 
good luck. So the horse-shoe is put over the door, 
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reaches down and takes away all bad luck. Scores 
of such heathenish superstitions could be named. 
"What fools these mortals be." They should know 
the truth in order to be delivered from such fearful 
slavery. 
Millions of people have equally as great supersti- 
tions about medicine. In Old Mexico I saw the 
Spanish Indians wearing a rose leaf on each temple, 
both to cure and prevent all disease. People used to 
think that the seventh son of the seventh son had a 
mysterious power to heal. In Queen Elizabeth's time 
they cured disease by hanging different colored cur- 
tains in the room. They thought that the laying on 
of the king's hands would cure erysipelas. Those 
superstitions are gone because the people learned the 
truth, but many such are still alive. For example, 
many wear a red yarn string around their neck to 
cure nose bleed. Many still think that rabbit fat or 
goose grease is better than ordinary hog lard. Some 
burn a few feathers under the bed to stop hem- 
orrhage. A popular remedy for disease is to carry a 
potato or buckeye in your pocket. Hundreds of 
superstitious people in St. Louis are wearing an iron 
ring on their finger to cure rheumatism. Some 
carry a rabbit foot as a charm against disease. The 
truth believed would set such people free from this 
slavery. 
An ordinary piano has eight octaves. That is the 
measure of the present capacity of the human mind. 
Suppose the octaves extended infinitely in both direc- 
tions. That is God's capacity. In searching for 
truth we can only appreciate eight octaves, but these 
will make us free. My chief reason for wishing 
heaven for my eternal home is not because that there 
everybody loves everybody else, but because I will be VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. 
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face to face with truth. I know the ordinary medical 
student is not supposed to believe there is a heaven, 
but the Barnes students know that if there are 
dependent beings in the universe, there must be an 
independent Being, God, upon whom the dependent 
depend. "A fool cannot think, and a bigot will not." 
The normal, unprejudiced mind is open for light from 
all directions. It is easy to think the same as our fath- 
ers and teachers, and very difficult to think contrary 
to them. The only manly position to take is, " I do 
not know it all yet, but I hope to keep on finding 
out." 
Common sense teaches young physicians many 
things. If you have no bougie, use a slippery elm 
stick. If no catheter, use a green rye straw. If no 
tourniquet, use a suspender, or bridle rein. If no drug 
to control a fluttering, wild heart put a cold wet cloth 
on it. If no obstetric forceps, use the fire tongs. If 
no dilators, use a glove stretcher. If no alcohol, or 
ammonia, to stimulate, use hot water internally, ex- 
ternally and eternally. If no trephine, use a chisel. 
If no medicine to control pain, use the hot bath. If 
no dentistry forceps, use a crowbar. 
I am sorry that when people die or get sick they 
blame God with it. God never intended anybody to 
die only from old age or accident. If people die, not 
from these causes, it is the fault either of the patient, 
or the nurse, or the doctor. Sickness is nothing but 
sin, sin in eating, drinking, clothing, or violation of 
some physiological law. A young lady dies and the 
preacher says God called her home. It was not God, 
she had violated some law of nature. On the Bowery 
in New York City, in six minutes, I smelled sixty dis- 
tinct stinks. The physicians nor God can keep peo- 
ple healthy without plenty of fresh air. 52 
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I hope that this graduation class will be as success- 
ful as the doctor who got this letter: " Dear Doctor: 
Two months ago my wife could scarcely speak. She 
has taken two bottles of your medicine and now she 
can't speak at all. Please send two more bottles. I 
would not be without it." 
What does this diploma signify? Much, little or 
nothing. M. D. stands not only for doctor of medi- 
cine, but mule driver. Some graduates, but not of 
this class, are better fitted for mule drivers than to 
practice the healing art. It also stands for mud dig- 
ger. Most of us must dig mud and maybe eat mud 
before we " pluck bright honors from the pale faced 
moon." It stands also for money drunkard. Don't 
get drunk on money and neglect to buy proper books 
and instruments, and exemplify that " man's inhu- 
manity to man makes countless thousands mourn." 
These diplomas will cause to be put in our care the 
only great thing in this world, namely, human life. 
"What a piece of work is man. How noble in rea- 
son, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how 
express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in 
apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world, 
the paragon of animals." 
May all the good influences of Heaven bless you, as 
you begin this noble profession of the healing art. 
May your lives be filled with sunshine and good cheer. 
May the sweet perfume of flowers permeate all your 
deeds. To the faculty and board of trustees who 
have been so faithful and helpful, and to the class 
which has so highly honored me, I bid you all an 
affectionate farewell. MY TRIP TO EUROPE. 
53 
flDp Crip to 
I made a short visit to Europe, to somewhat com- 
plete my education, after ten years' study in the 
Central Normal College, Danville, Indiana; Butler 
University, Irvington, Indiana; Indiana State Uni- 
versity, Bloomington, Indiana; St. Louis Hygienic 
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Marion-Sims 
College of Medicine, and Barnes Medical College, 
both of St. Louis, Mo. I took with me letters 
of recommendation from J. H. Garrison, editor of 
the Christian-Evangelist, St. Louis; J. L. Parsons, 
former pastor of the First Christian Church of St. 
Louis; Scot Butler, President of Butler University, 
and A. McLean, Secretary of the Foreign Christian 
Missionary Society, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
As a tourist I saw much of Ireland, Scotland, 
Germany, France and England, visiting the historic 
places, museums, art galleries and libraries. In the 
hospitals of Edinburgh, Berlin, Paris and London, 
I saw many of the best surgeons operate. In the med- 
ical museums I saw many rare and valuable specimens 
of pathology. But the most important objects I saw 
were Doctor Gossmann's Sanitarium, at Cassell, 
Germany, and Dr. Allinson's Hygienic Hospital, in 
London. The reason I consider these institutions 
more important than the surgical hospitals, the 
scenery of the Rhine, the British Museum, or the 
Louvre at Paris, is because that at these and similar 
institutions, thousands of cases of all curable diseases 
are cured by hygienic remedies, without drugs. By 
hygienic remedies I mean such as baths, diet, elec- 
tricity, massage, Swedish movements, exercise, fresh 
air, and applications of heat and cold. Hygienic 
medicine has no connection with Christian Science, or 54 
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Faith Cure. When a man is sick he needs treatment, 
but not drug treatment. If drugs make a well man 
sick, how can they make a sick man well? These in- 
stitutions prove, beyond a doubt, that drugs are 
not only unnecessary, but harmful. These doctors, 
besides scores of other hygienic doctors in Europe, 
never fail to speedily cure all curable diseases, and 
often after drug treatment has failed. 
Dr. Gossmann's is the largest hygienic institution 
in Germany, having extensive and beautiful buildings 
and grounds. Doctor Gossmann kindly showed me 
through all the departments, and fully explained his 
treatment. He recommends the sun bath as a tonic 
in all diseases. This consists in exposing the naked 
body, except the head, to the sunshine for ten to 
thirty minutes daily, followed by a quick sponge bath. 
Many leading physicians also recommend this. The 
steam bath and hot air, which is a modified Turkish 
bath, are much used here. Special cabinets, or boxes, 
are used for giving them, but they can easily be taken 
in any home, as described in the chapter on " Reme- 
dies of Medical Hygiene." He also has special appa- 
ratus for giving steam baths to different parts of the 
body. He recommends the vegetarian diet for all 
sick people. More or less massage is given after 
every wet sheet pack, which is followed by a 
quick sponge bath. Fresh air and exercise are much 
depended on. Doctor Gossmann has the usual elec- 
trical batteries. 
Dr. T. R. Allinson's name is a household word in 
England, for he numbers his patients by the thou- 
sands. He is medical editor of a leading London 
paper and has written several well known medical 
books. During my stay in London, Doctor Allinson 
several times entertained me in his home to dinner MY TRIP TO EUROPE. 
55 
and tea, spending hours explaining to me his treat- 
ment and methods. Several times I went with him 
through his hospital, where he cures all diseases, in- 
cluding the most serious, entirely by hygiene, without 
drugs. He uses the same remedies as Doctor Goss- 
mann, but depends mainly on diet, open windows 
(fresh air), and correct habits of life, while Doctor 
Gossmann depends mainly on the different baths. 
For his diet list, see the close of the chapter on " The 
Diet Cure." Besides a large office practice, Doctor 
Allinson also does a large practice by mail, receiving 
at times over three hundred letters a week. He thus 
prescribes for all diseases. While a drug doctor 
could hardly prescribe by mail, a hygienic doctor can, 
provided a list of questions are answered. The reason 
of this is fully explained in the chapter on "The 
Unity of Disease." Doctor Allinson never uses elec- 
tricity, except for paralysis. 
While in Scotland I read the books written by the 
late Professor Kirk of Edinburgh, against drugs and 
in favor of hygiene. The books exerted a wide influ- 
ence. Besides the usual hygienic remedies, Professor 
Kirk made great use of applieations of heat and cold, 
especially along the spine. 
In Germany over two hundred thousand copies have 
been sold, of a book called "My Water Cure," 
written by Father Kneipp, a Catholic priest. He is 
opposed to all drugs, and depends much on applica- 
tions of cold water. I have tried many of his reme- 
dies, and found them excellent. Father Kneipp has 
had a world-wide influence, curing thousands by 
hygiene alone. 
In the British Museum library I read scores of 
books on hygienic medicine, including those written 
by Doctor Nichols, of which over one hundred and 
fifty thousand copies have been sold. 56 
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Ilf Wlbat to Bo, Bo Gbis. 
1. Give an injection daily of one to three quarts of 
hot water. This is good in all diseases and helps the 
bowels, stomach, liver, kidneys, nerves and every 
organ of the body. 2. Give a quick hot sponge bath 
daily. This is good in all diseases. 3. Allow the 
patient to eat nothing for twenty-four to forty- 
eight hours, drinking water when hungry. This is a 
great help to cure all diseases. 4. Apply cold cloths 
to the head and hot irons or hot bottles to the feet. 
5. Be sure to open the windows, as pure air alone 
cures many diseases and helps all. 6. If the patient 
has fever, sponge with cool water over the back, 
chest and abdomen. If the fever is high, sponge 
with cold water down the spine, or wrap him up in 
a cold wet sheet for about thirty minutes. 7. When 
you feed the patient, let it be a light diet of gruel, 
toast, or fruit. Avoid meat, tobacco, whisky, pastry, 
tea, coffee and fried foods. 8. Never use drugs of 
any kind. 9. If any throat trouble, apply cold, wet 
cloths to the throat. 
The above nine rules will cure nine hundred and 
ninety-nine out of every one thousand. Remember 
Dr. Holmes says nine out of ten will get well if noth- 
ing is done, and Dr. Bernays says ninety-eight sick 
people out of every one hundred will get well without 
any drugs. Of course some cases require special 
treatment. REMEDIES OF MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
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IRcmefcies of flbeOical Ibpoiene. 
Hygiene is generally understood to mean those 
conditions which prevent disease. Whatever means 
or agencies cure disease are medicines. Hence 
the title of this book, "Medical Hygiene," for 
hygiene furnishes plenty of remedies for all diseases. 
Those remedies include the diet cure, the water cure, 
the rest cure, the sun bath, the hot air bath, the fast- 
ing cure, the common air bath, water baths, fresh air; 
applications of heat and cold, exercise, Swedish 
movements, massage, electricity, mental and emo- 
tional influences, and surgical appliances. The diet 
and water cures have been considered in other chap- 
ters; the other remedies will be considered here. 
Sun Bath.-The sun bath consists in the exposure of 
the naked skin of the whole body to the sunshine. 
Dr. Gossmann, at Cassell, Germany, who has the 
largest hygienic sanitarium in that country, told me, 
when I visited his institution, that he recommended 
the sun bath as a spendid tonic in all diseases. The 
well known Dr. Dio Lewis said he cured partial 
paralysis, dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheumatism and 
hypochondria by the sun bath. Dr. T. R. Allinson 
recommends the sun bath highly as a strengthener. 
Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., uses the 
sun bath in cases of bad nutrition, nervous and skin 
diseases, consumption, dyspepsia, and convalescence 
from various acute diseases. Expose the body to the 
sun daily, beginning with ten minutes and gradually 
increase to thirty. Always conclude with a sponge 
bath in tepid water. The patient should lie so as to 
keep the head out of the sunshine. 
Hot Air Bath.-The hot air bath is a modified Turk- 
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with a quilt pinned around his neck from behind, and 
another from the front. Let the quilts drag on the 
floor so as to shut out the air. Place under the chair 
an alcohol lamp, or a small teacup containing alcohol. 
Be careful not to spill the alcohol, also to have the 
outside of the cup dry, or it may set fire to the carpet. 
Light a match and touch to the alcohol. A gas jet 
may be used. About fifteen minutes is the time. All 
hygienic doctors use this bath for rheumatism, stiff 
joints, breaking up a cold, chills and ague, malaria, 
torpid liver, kidneys, or skin, syphilis, dropsy, skin 
diseases, jaundice, and all diseases in which the sys- 
tem is filled with poisons. Ordinarily it should not be 
used more than two or three times a week. Conclude 
it with a sponge bath in tepid water. 
Common Air Bath.-This consists in exposing the 
naked body to fresh air, and rubbing it well with the 
hands. This is a very good substitute for a water 
bath. It removes the old dead skin and many impuri- 
ties. Always walk while taking this bath. Drs. 
Page, Allinson and Kellogg recommend it highly. 
The celebrated American philosopher, Franklin, gen- 
erally sat for an hour entirely naked, while writing or 
studying, and then dressed for breakfast. He said 
the air bath and plain living would cure all diseases. 
Begin with three minutes daily and increase to fifteen. 
Ordinary Sponge Bath.-Every person, and especially 
every sick person, should have a daily sponge bath. 
It can be taken with a pint of water and a towel, if 
more water cannot be had. It consists in rubbing the 
whole body with a wet towel or sponge. If the 
patient is in bed, and the bath given by another, it is 
well to bathe first an arm, then dry it; then the other 
arm, and dry it; then the chest, and dry it; then the 
back, and dry it; then each leg, keeping all the body REMEDIES OF MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
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covered except the part being bathed. This bath is 
for cleanliness and to reduce fever. 
Wet Sheet Pack.-The main object in this is to wrap 
a wet sheet around the body. This can be done in 
any way, but the best way is this: Spread several 
quilts, or comforts, on the bed. On top of these 
spread the dry sheet. Roll the dry sheet up from 
each side to the middle, then fold it about twice and 
dip it in the water. Wring it out so it does not drip, 
but not too dry, and unfold it on the middle of the 
bed, leaving it still rolled up from each side. This 
keeps it hot. Spread the rolls apart a little, and put 
the patient between them, and quickly wrap the sheet 
around him, wrapping each leg separately, and 
quickly covering with the bed-clothes from each side. 
Thirty to sixty minutes is the usual time to remain in 
the pack, and it is best to keep hot bottles to the feet, 
having the bed-clothes tight around the neck to shut 
out all air. If the object is to cool a high fever, or 
reduce an inflammation, use but little covering, and 
wring the sheet out of cold water; otherwise out of 
hot water. The pack not only reduces fever, but 
soothes the nervous system, controls spasms, and 
removes poisons from the system. I have seen 
patients, who have not slept for several days, after 
being put in the pack, be sound asleep in fifteen min- 
utes. Many times, after removing a patient from the 
pack, I have noticed that the sheet would stink with 
the impurities which had been removed from the 
body. This remedy is used in all cases where the 
body is full of poisons and filth, but is not given if 
the patient is bloodless and too feeble. In cooling 
fevers, remove the sheet before the temperature gets 
quite to normal, or a chill may follow. A cold cloth 
on the head removes headache. Always give a sponge 60 
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bath after the wet sheet pack. Dr. T. L. Nichols, of 
London, says this one remedy will cure all curable 
diseases. 
Half Pack.-This is the same as the above, except 
that the legs and arms are not included in the wet 
sheet. It is used on the feeble and for everybody in 
lung fever and other chest troubles. 
Sitz Bath.-A common wash tub will do for this. 
Put a brick or thick book under one side of the tub. 
Sit in the tub, with the feet outside, having enough 
water to cover the hips and lower part of the ab- 
domen. Fifteen to thirty minutes is the time, if the 
water is hot, and two to five minutes if the water is 
cold. Have a blanket pinned around the neck from 
behind, covering the tub and shutting out the air. 
Better still to have another pinned around the neck 
from in front. In taking a hot sitz bath, pour 
in more hot water every five minutes, keeping the wa- 
ter as hot as can be borne. The hot sitz is used to re- 
duce pain, to cause sweating, to relieve torpid liver 
and kidneys, and is a splendid remedy in many female 
diseases. The cold sitz is useful for piles and other 
diseases 'of the rectum, inflammation of the urinary 
organs, and to stop hemorrhage from the vagina. 
Steam, or Vapor Bath.-A simple plan of taking this 
bath is to sit on a chair with two blankets pinned 
around the neck. Place under the chair a bucket, or 
pan, holding a quart of water. Put red-hot brick, or 
stones, into the water, which keeps the steam rising. 
This is used for the same purposes as the hot air bath. 
The Douche.-This is a stream of water, half an inch 
to two inches in size, falling five to fifteen feet. It is 
a powerful remedy, and is used to reduce tumors, 
chronic swellings of the joints, and for spinal troubles. 
Leg, or Arm Baths.-These parts may be immersed in REMEDIES OF MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
61 
cold water for fifteen minutes to an hour, to cure 
ulcers, and swellings of gout, rheumatism and syno- 
vitis. 
Abdominal Wrapper. - This is a wet towel worn 
around the abdomen, during the night, or all the 
time. It is a splendid remedy for liver, kidney, 
bladder and bowel troubles, and for female diseases. 
Doctor Hall Treatment.-This consists of injecting one 
to four quarts of hot water into the bowels, generally 
every other day. This remedy is useful in all diseases. 
Doctor Kellogg has shown that Doctor Hall did not 
originate this treatment. I fully believe that if all 
women would adopt this treatment it would do away 
with fully three-fourths of their ailments and doctor 
bills. Most drug doctors advise against it, for it is 
death to their business. I have seen this remedy work 
wonders in children's diseases, female troubles, dys- 
pepsia, piles, cholera morbus, cramp colic, hypochon- 
dria, bad complexion, and troubles of the liver, stom- 
ach and bowels. 
Rest Cure.-Many sick people cure themselves by 
simply taking a rest with fresh air, and avoiding 
drugs. If you try to rest and take drugs, the drugs 
will make you sicker. Thousands of sick women 
would get well if they would take seven hours' sleep 
at night and lie down and rest a half hour each half 
day. People who go to Hot Springs, Ark., and 
other places, get the rest cure. If they would rest at 
home and take hot baths daily, they would get well as 
quickly as at Hot Springs. Every sick organ in the 
body needs rest. A light diet of fruits and grains, 
avoiding meat and vegetables, gives rest to sick 
stomach, liver and bowels. Not only excessive work, 
but excessive eating and excessive sexual intercourse 
make people sick. If you are sick, rest from work, 62 
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care, worry and sexual intercourse. Many sick peo- 
ple are killed by having too many visitors, and so 
do not get rest. 
Fasting Cure.-This is a most important remedy. In 
an absolute fast you eat nothing, drinking water when 
hungry. A limited fast consists of one or two meals 
a day of a light diet of gruels, toast and such like. In 
the beginning of all diseases there should be an abso- 
lute fast of twenty-four to forty-eight hours. A lim- 
ited fast quickly cures a bad cold and biliousness. 
There is no better remedy than an absolute fast of 
several days for bad dyspepsia, torpid liver, and acute 
rheumatism. Sick people need nourishment, but it 
is a fact and no theory that short fasts have almost 
worked miracles in the cure of disease. The well 
known Dr. Mary Nichols says: "I have seen cancer 
checked in its progress and cured, or at least rendered 
inactive through a life of many years, by the use of a 
simple, spare diet, without flesh, grease of any kind, 
salt, or irritating condiments. A case of congenital 
tumor of the liver, where there was cancer in the fam- 
ily, on both the father's and mother's side, became so 
terrible as to make life hardly endurable, when a 
seven months' fast on one moderate meal a day, with 
no flesh, resulted in a great reduction of the tumor, 
regular sleep, a life of active work, and rest from the 
torment which before had lasted many years. The 
tumor, though not entirely absorbed, is scarcely an in- 
convenience, unless excited by overeating, overwork, 
or mental suffering. A thirty-six hours' absolute fast 
is the best remedy for a fit of gout." 
Massage.-It is a series of movements, best done by 
the hands of a person, though there are various 
machines for the purpose. It acts in quickening the 
flow of all the fluids of the body, such as blood, REMEDIES OF MEDIUAL HYGIENE. 
63 
lymph and chyle. It increases secretion and excre- 
tion. It excites muscular action. There are eight 
different kinds of movements in massage, viz.: pres- 
sure, percussion, stroking, friction vibrations, medi- 
cal gymnastics, passive movements and active move- 
ments. Active movements are also called Swedish 
movements. Pressure is a squeezing, kneading and 
rolling movement. Percussion is a tapping with the 
ends of the fingers, or slapping gently with the palm 
of the hand, or chopping with the edge of the hand. 
Stroking is a gentle drawing of the hand over some 
part of the body, in one direction only, accompanied 
by more or less pressure. Friction is a rubbing, to 
and fro, with pressure. In the passive movements, 
the operator moves all the joints in the usual way, 
while the patient tries to keep the parts from moving. 
For example, the patient lying down, the operator 
grasps a limb and moves it while the patient resists 
the movement. In the active movements, the work is 
just the reverse of the passive. That is, the patient 
moves a joint while the operator resists, until the 
movement is complete. Then the operator forces the 
part back to its original position, while the patient 
resists. The active and passive movements must not 
be carried to fatigue. Medical gymnastics consist in 
certain exercises which strengthen certain muscles. 
Massage is useful for constipation, lumbago, swol- 
len joints, rheumatic pains, stiff joints, paralysis, 
hernia, womb trouble, liver disease, headache, neu- 
ralgia and many other diseases. 
Electricity.-Electric belts, rings and such appli- 
ances are entirely worthless. The good they seem to 
do results from the patient stopping drugs. Electric 
batteries are useful but are very unhealthful if im- 
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use a battery, by the aid of a few simple rules. Dr. 
Allinson, of London, and other successful hygienic 
doctors never use electricity except for paralysis. 
Fresh Air.-If sick people want to get well, and if 
well people want to stay well, they must keep the bed- 
room and sitting-room windows open a few inches 
every hour of the entire year, through all kinds of 
weather. Do not be afraid of night air 
Mental and Emotional Influence. - If a person is 
excited, worried or angry, the liver and other organs 
do not secrete properly; hence keep cheerful and 
contented. 
Exercise.-Every sick person must exercise accord- 
ing to his strength, but not to fatigue. Nervous dis- 
eases require rest, rather than exercise. Two hours a 
day of exercise is necessary for health. This alone 
often cures disease. 
Applications of Heat and Cold.-By this remedy any 
organ in the body can be stimulated, checked or 
soothed. For example, ice cold cloths on the chest is 
the best and quickest remedy to stop hemorrhage 
from the lungs, and hot cloths, or ice, relieve pain. 
Surgery.-This remedy is doing to-day, wonders 
almost equal to miracles. A good surgeon with a 
conscience, is a great blessing to the world, but hun- 
dreds of operations are performed that could be 
cured by hygiene without any surgical operation, such 
as tumors, ulcers, hernia, swollen joints, enlarged 
glands and female troubles. 
Bathing Rules.-Do not eat for half an hour after 
bathing. Do not bathe for an hour at least, better 
two hours, after eating. Wetting the head before a 
bath prevents headache. Cold on the head prevents 
sweating in a bath. Sweating is a good thing and not 
weakening. It is better to close all baths with a quick REMEDIES OF MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
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dash of cool or cold water. Do not bathe while tired. 
Sweating is no objection to the cold bath, unless the 
body is tired. Many take cold in bathing because 
they arc too slow. An ordinary bath should be taken 
in three minutes.  of tbc Bioestivc ©roans. 
Catarrh of the Mouth.-Symptoms.-Burning, smart- 
ing pain; blunted, bitter taste; coated tongue; young 
children refuse to nurse, have slight fever and are 
fretful. 
Causes.-Hot and irritating foods and drinks; diffi- 
cult teething; fevers; disordered digestion; chronic 
form caused by alcohol and tobacco. 
Recovery is t-he rule. Chronic form can only be 
cured by removing the cause. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. If a baby, wash 
the milk out of the mouth. Keep the mouth clean. 
Hold ice water or ice in the mouth. Improve the 
digestion by a strict vegetarian diet and by large 
injections daily of hot water to wash out the bowels. 
Aphthae.-Symptoms.-Same as in catarrh of the 
mouth; saliva increased so as to dribble from the 
mouth; fetid breath; small white spots on inner sur- 
face of lips, cheeks and edges of tongue. 
Causes.-Generally occurs in children from difficult 
teething and disordered digestion. 
Treatment. - The same as for catarrh of the 
mouth. 
Ulcers of the Mouth. - Symptoms.-Swelling and 
ulcers Qn tongue, cheeks and lips; slight fever: fetid 
breath. 
Causes.-Disordered digestion, poor food, unclean- 
liness, rough teeth, syphilis, and mercury (calomel). 
66 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
67 
Treatment.-Remove the cause; give a daily hot 
bath; wash the mouth several times a day with cool 
water; clear the bowels by daily injections of hot 
water; avoid meat, rich foods, tea, coffee, alcohol 
and tobacco. 
Thrush.-Symptoms.-Pain; increased saliva; cheesy 
or curd-like matter on inside of the mouth; often 
diarrhoea and fever. 
Causes.-Uncleanliness of the mouth; sugar teats; 
bad hygiene. 
Treatment.-This disease cannot exist if the mouth 
is kept clean, hence thoroughly wash out the mouth 
with water before and after feeding. Attend to the 
bowels and stomach by diet and injections of hot 
water. 
Glossitis, or Inflammation of the Tongue.-Symptoms.- 
Tongue greatly swollen; high fever; pain; dribbling 
of saliva; enlarged glands at the angle of the jaw. 
Causes.-Direct injury, such as from burns, caus- 
tics; stings of insects; sharp edges of teeth; stem of 
tobacco pipe. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause; reduce the fever 
as shown elsewhere; hold ice in the mouth; frequent 
hot sitz baths. 
Canker of the Mouth, or Cancrum Oris.-Symptoms.- 
Ulcers of the mouth; fever; gums swollen; fetid 
breath; lips and checks swollen; enlarged glands. 
Causes.-Bad hygiene, including bad food and bad 
air; disordered digestion and mercury (calomel). 
Treatment.-Same as for ulcers of the mouth. 
Keep the room well ventilated and let the child be 
exposed to the sunshine. 
• Gangrenous Sore Mouth, or Noma. - Symptoms.- 
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cheeks, nose and sides of the face; prostration; high 
fever; rapid, feeble pulse. 
Causes.-Bad hygiene and mercury as a medicine. 
Treatment.-Under drug treatment recovery is 
rare. Cool the fever as directed elsewhere. Remove 
the poisons from the body by daily sitz baths; daily, 
large injections of hot water to clear the bowels; eat 
very sparingly of fruits and grains only. Oatmeal 
gruel is good, made by boiling two tablespoonfuls of 
oat Hake for thirty minutes in a quart of water. 
Salivation.-Symptoms. - Dribbling of saliva and 
indigestion. 
Causes.-Fever and drug medicines, especially 
mercury. 
Treatment. - Remove the cause. If caused by 
mercury, stop the drug and give sitz baths, wet sheet 
packs and simple vegetable diet, which will remove 
the poison. Dr. J. H. Kellogg claims that mercury is 
useless and harmful in all diseases. 
Sore Throat, or Pharyngitis. - Symptoms. - Hoarse- 
ness; cough; pain; slight fever; often white spots 
on the tonsils. 
Causes.-Exposure; prolonged public speaking or 
singing; breathing dust, or irritating vapors; high 
living. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Take a hot foot 
bath on going to bed and apply a cold wet cloth to 
the throat over night. Repeat this two or three 
nights if necessary. Keep the window open at least 
two inches night and day. If not quickly cured, then 
live on one meal a day for two days. 
Clergyman's Sore Throat.-Symptoms.-Chronic sore 
throat; husky voice; hoarseness; hacking cough. 
Causes.-Sedentary habits; bad colds; bad diet; DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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excessive sexual indulgence; disordered digestion; 
enlarged tonsils. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause; live on a strictly 
vegetarian diet; exercise two hours a day; apply 
cold wet cloths to the throat every night; take large 
injections of hot water twice a week and hot sitz bath 
twice a week; keep the window open day and night; 
eat only whole meal graham bread. This disease is 
very obstinate and hard to cure. 
Tonsillitis, or Quinsy. - Symptoms.-Chill; fever; 
pain; tonsils swollen; headache; often earache; 
suppuration. 
Causes.-Exposure; bad air; predisposition. 
Treatment.-Give hot foot bath; apply cold wet 
cloths to the throat; simple diet of fruits, grains and 
vegetables; clear the bowels by injections of hot 
water; cool the fever by tepid sponging; keep the 
windows open at least two inches day and night. Use 
no drugs. 
Enlarged Tonsils.-Symptoms.-Difficult swallowing; 
constant irritation in the throat; enlarged tonsils. 
Causes.-Scrofula; acute inflammation of tonsils; 
bad hygien 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Apply alternate 
hot and cold wet cloths to the throat, for thirty min- 
utes each, during two hours each day. Take a hot 
foot bath on going to bed and apply a cold wet cloth 
over night. The hot and cold cloths should be 
renewed every five minutes, except where put on to 
stay over night. Improve the general health by daily 
sponge baths, exercise, fresh air day and night, injec- 
tions to clear the bowels, and a strictly vegetarian 
diet. 
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toms.-Pain between the shoulders; painful swallow- 
ing; slight fever. 
Causes.-Hot food or drinks; irritating substances 
swallowed (as fish-bones, pins and needles). 
Treatment. - Same as for inflammation in any 
other part. Apply cold wet cloths. 
Stricture of the (Esophagus.- Symptoms.-Difficulty 
in swallowing increases until the patient cannot swal- 
low at all. It is caused by inflammations, ulcers, 
cancer or other tumors. The treatment is dilatation by 
probes, or other surgical treatment. 
Dilatation of the (Esophagus.-This is the opposite of 
stricture. Fortunately it is very rare, as the treat- 
ment is very unsatisfactory. In severe cases the food 
must be passed through a tube. 
Globus Hystericus, or Ball in the Throat.-Symptoms. 
-Sensation of a ball in the throat; inability to swal- 
low; comes on while eating. 
Causes.-It is of nervous origin. 
Treatment.-Rest; apply ice to the back of the 
neck and between the shoulders. It is sometimes 
relieved by passing a flexible tube down the oesoph- 
agus. Follow the general treatment for nervous 
debility. 
Inflammation of the Stomach, or Gastritis.-Symptoms. 
-Thready pulse; pale face; cold extremities; per- 
sistent vomiting; burning heat at the pit of the stom- 
ach; coated and dry tongue; prostration; great thirst; 
high fever. 
Causes.-Drug poisons; alcohol or old beer; de- 
cayed meat, or some poison. 
Treatment.-Within two hours after the poison 
has been taken use the stomach tube (or pump) ; 
then the proper chemical antidote. Swallow bits of 
ice; apply ice externally to the stomach, and hot DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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applications to the extremities; cool the fever by 
sponging the body in cool water; relieve the thirst by 
injections of warm (not hot) water; milk and gruels 
are the food to be used first; the stomach should 
have absolute rest for a time, during which nutritive 
injections may be used. 
Bilious Attack, or Acute Gastric Catarrh.-Symptoms. 
-Loss of appetite; bad taste; coated tongue; vomit- 
ing; slight fever; sick headache; pain and feeling of 
weight at the stomach; spots before the eyes; dizzi- 
ness. 
Causes.-Errors in diet, or manner of eating; hot 
and cold drinks; sudden changes in temperature. 
Treatment.-Eat nothing for twenty-four hours. 
Stop the vomiting by drinking hot water, applying 
hot wet cloths on the stomach, and applying a cold 
wet cloth under the chin. Give a hot sitz bath and a 
large injection daily of hot water to clear the bowels. 
The diet should consist of fruits, grains and easily- 
digested vegetables. Avoid fatty foods, fried foods, 
sweets, tea, coffee, alcohol, beer and tobacco. Keep 
the window open day and night, and exercise two 
hours a day to prevent future attacks. 
Chronic Gastric Catarrh, or Chronic Dyspepsia.-Symp- 
toms.-Uneasiness after meals; loss of appetite; 
heartburn; vomiting after meals; constipation; highly 
colored urine; coated tongue; depression; sleepless- 
ness. 
Causes.-Same as in acute gastric catarrh. 
Treatment.-Same as in acute gastric catarrh. If 
the stomach refuses to retain all food, then give it 
absolute rest for two or three days, drinking water 
when feeling hungry. Wear a wet towel around the 
abdomen at night. Gruels and other light food 
should be used for a time. 72 
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Ulcer of Stomach.-Symptoms.-Constant pain at the 
pit of the stomach, increased on taking food; vomit- 
ing after meals; tender at one or more points; blood 
may be vomited; constipation. 
Causes.-Extensive burns of the skin; syphilis; 
tuberculosis; general debility; use of hot or cold 
food, and alcohol. 
Treatment.-It generally lasts about a year. Rest 
for the stomach is the most important thing. Hence 
eat only milk, gruels and vegetable soups. Avoid 
meats, vegetables, hot and cold foods, sweets, acids 
and all coarse food. Graham bread, being coarse, 
must not be eaten. In severe cases the stomach must 
have entire rest, and give the food by injections into 
the bowels. A daily sponge bath, and keeping the 
windows open, are great aids. Beat lightly one egg 
with four tablespoonfuls of warm water, and inject 
every three or four hours, always washing out the 
bowels an hour before this with a large injection of 
warm water. 
Cancer of the Stomach.-Symptoms.-Pain after eat- 
ing; emaciation; dropsy of the ankles; vomiting 
blood resembling coffee grains; exhaustion. 
Causes.-Cancer in other parts; heredity; errors 
of diet, as it is admitted that irritation causes cancer 
in other places. To distinguish cancer of the stom- 
ach from ulcer, remember that cancer generally has a 
tumor (ulcer rarely has); cancer is rare under forty 
years of age (ulcer is generally under thirty); cancer 
is generally near the pyloric end of the stomach 
(ulcer is rarely there); cancer rarely has hydrochloric 
acid (ulcer has it in excess); cancer of the stomach 
generally has cancer in other parts (ulcer does not); 
cancer causes rapid aging and loss of flesh (ulcer DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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does not); the pain of cancer is not relieved by vomit, 
while the pain of ulcer is so relieved. 
Treatment.-To cure is perhaps impossible, but 
careful hygienic living will greatly lengthen the life 
and lessen the pains. The diet and treatment should 
be practically the same as for ulcer of the stomach. 
Give daily injections of hot water for the bowels. It 
is well to wash out the stomach daily with the stom- 
ach tube. 
Dilatation of the Stomach.-Symptoms.-Constipa- 
tion; vomiting partly-digested food every day or two; 
heartburn; poor appetite; enlarged abdomen; tumor 
at pyloric end of stomach; noisy moving of wind in 
the bowels. 
Causes.-Occurs in gluttons and drunkards; strict- 
ure of the lower end of the stomach from cancer, or 
other tumor; chronic dyspepsia. 
Treatment.-Injections of hot water to relieve the 
constipation; wash the decaying food from the stom- 
ach every day with a stomach tube, or induce vomit- 
ing by drinking warm water and mustard, aided by 
tickling the throat with the finger; use but little 
drink, and eat a "dry diet," avoiding soups and 
liquid foods; avoid meats, vegetables, tobacco, alco- 
hol, beer and fermented bread; if gas collects in the 
stomach and becomes painful, it can be let off with a 
stomach tube introduced in the rectum. Be careful 
to bathe, and keep the bed-room ventilated at night, 
and take plenty of rest in bed. This is often a hard 
disease to cure. Drugs will do no good. 
Hemorrhage of the Stomach.-Symptoms.-Vomiting 
dark blood, generally in clots; if the blood has not 
been long in the stomach, it will be a bright red: 
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and not frothy; blood will pass from the bowels if it 
is in large quantities in the stomach. 
Causes.-Ulcer; cancer; scurvy; hemorrhagic ma- 
larial fever; congestion of liver or spleen; stopping 
of the menses; yellow fever; disease of the lungs; 
inflammation from poisons. 
Treatment.-Complete rest in bed. Drink ice wa- 
ter, or swallow bits of ice. Apply ice compresses ex- 
ternally. Do not eat for forty-eight hours; drink cool 
water when feeling hungry. Apply hot irons, or bot- 
tles of hot water, to the feet and hands. Do not use 
drugs. 
Neuralgia of the Stomach, or Gastralgia.-Symptoms. 
-Griping pain, usually extending to the back; faint- 
ness; cold hands and feet; over the stomach the ab- 
domen is either puffed out or drawn in; attack lasts 
from a few minutes to several hours, leaving the pa- 
tient exhausted; vomiting at beginning or close of the 
attack. 
Causes.-One of my medical college professors said 
that nine times out of ten all neuralgia was produced 
by tea and coffee. Other causes are malaria, rheum- 
atism, poor blood, nervous debility, womb trouble, 
dyspepsia, ulcer of the stomach, overeating, indigest- 
ible food, and alcoholic liquors. 
Treatment.-Relieve the pain by a hot sitz bath of 
twenty minutes and hot wet cloths over the stomach 
and abdomen, and hot applications to the feet and 
hands. The diet must be simple and of easily digested 
food. Try to remove all the causes. Use large injec- 
tions of hot water every other day to open the bowels. 
Avoid meats, fats, sweets and tobacco. Live strictly 
according to hygiene. Drugs are of no use. 
Dyspepsia, or Indigestion.-Symptoms.-Perverted ap- 
petite; difficult digestion; heartburn; spitting up por- DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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tions of food, or bitter water; pain at the pit of the 
stomach; constipation; highly colored urine; drowsi- 
ness after meals; headache; defective memory; 
flashes of heat; palpitation of the heart; coated 
tongue; acidity; night sweats; sediment in urine; 
nervousness; cold hands and feet; dizziness; pain 
under the shoulder blades or between the shoulders; 
bad taste in the mouth; fits of mental depression. 
Causes.-Worry; fatigue; sedentary habits; hasty 
eating; eating too much; drinking at meals; eating 
between meals; irregular meals; tobacco; beer; 
whisky; badly-cooked food; pastry; tea and coffee; 
hard work just after eating; condiments, such as pep- 
per, vinegar, and mustard; sexual excesses; drugs as 
medicines; fat meats; rich foods; heredity. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Eat largely of 
fruits and grains, such as oat flake, cracked wheat, 
hominy, rice, graham mush. Eat but little meat and 
vegetables. Avoid sweets, fats, starchy food, tobacco, 
alcohol, tea and coffee. Drink a glass of water half 
an hour to an hour before each meal. Every other day, 
until cured, take a large injection of hot water to clear 
the bowels. A daily sun bath is a great help to cure. 
Exercise two hours a day and keep all windows open 
day and night, at least two inches in winter and dur- 
ing a storm, and wider still at other times. Fresh air 
and sunshine are necessary for all diseases. Take 
plenty of sleep and at least two baths a week. Some 
cases are greatly helped by hot, wet cloths to the 
stomach for half an hour after meals. Never use 
drugs. Eat only whole meal graham bread. All va- 
rieties of dyspepsia and indigestion are cured by the 
above treatment, but nothing is so good as a few 
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Study carefully the above list of causes, and remove 
them. 
Colic, or Enteralgia. - Symptoms. - Griping pain 
about the navel; seeks relief by pressure; often nau- 
sea and vomiting; maybe diarrhoea; skin cold; no 
fever. 
Causes.-Constipation; indigestible and poor food; 
chronic malaria; lead poisoning; syphilis; rheumatism; 
hysteria. 
Treatment.-Injections of one to three quarts of 
hot water into the bowels generally relieves in a few 
minutes. Apply wet or dry heat to the abdomen. 
Hot sitz baths are also good. For lead colic see 
"Nervous Diseases." 
Constipation.-Symptoms.-Bowels do not move every 
day, or if they do, the stool is small and hard; bad 
breath; headache; dizziness; liver and kidneys inac- 
tive. 
Causes.-Dyspepsia; sedentary habits; white bread 
and crackers; failure to empty the bowels when the 
desire is first felt; tea, coffee, tobacco and beer; dis- 
eases of the stomach and liver; drugs as medicines. 
Treatment.-A New York physician cured over one 
hundred cases of obstinate constipation by directing 
the patient to drink a glass of water half an hour be- 
fore breakfast. Dr. S. W. Dodds says a week's diet 
of fruit cures all cases. Dr. Allinson says whole meal 
graham bread is a sure cure. I have never failed to 
cure a case by thoroughly kneading the bowels for 
five minutes several times a day. Avoid all the causes. 
In bad cases use injections of hot water every other 
day to move the bowels. Do not use any drugs. Eat 
plenty of fruit and course grains, and take at least 
two hours' exercise each day. 
Diarrhoea.-Symptoms.-Looseness of the bowels. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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Causes.-Indigestible food, impure water, irrita- 
tion of constipation, worms, mental shocks, taking 
cold, injuries from blows on the abdomen; it is found 
in typhoid fever, albuminuria, pyaemia, constipation, 
and other constitutional derangements. 
Treatment.-Fast one meal, drink but little, and 
use large injections of hot water to wash out the 
offending matters from the bowels. If not readily 
cured use injections of cold water, and fast. When 
the kidneys fail to excrete urea, the bowels do it by 
diarrhoea, and thus save life; hence, always examine 
the kidneys. If the abdomen is distended by gas, use 
a common rectal tube to let it off. For chronic 
diarrhoea, use the treatment recommended for dys- 
pepsia. Diarrhoea confined to the large intestines is 
called colitis; confined to the caecum it is typhlitis; 
confined to the rectum, it is called proctitis. 
Typhlitis.-Symptoms.-Pain, tenderness and gener- 
ally a swelling, low down, in front, on the right side 
of the abdomen; bowels distended with gas; consti- 
pation; fever; severe cases have vomiting and great 
depression. 
Causes.-Generally due to the hardened feces of 
constipation. 
Treatment.-Same as for diarrhoea. 
Proctitis. - Symptoms. - Burning in the rectum; 
constant desire for bowels to move; spasmodic con- 
traction of the parts; nausea; fever. 
Causes.-Constipation, piles, sitting on the cold 
ground and stone steps. 
Treatment.-Cold injections and cold sitz baths, 
besides the treatment for diarrhoea. 
Inflammation of the Bowels, or Enteritis. - Symp- 
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bowels; shreds of membrane may be in the stool; 
often nausea and vomiting. 
Causes.-Exposure; fatigue; indigestible food; 
drugs; swallowing foreign bodies; injuries; hardened 
feces from constipation; hernia. 
Treatment.-Rest the bowels by a light diet of 
fruits and grain. Give the hot sitz bath daily and 
three large injections of hot water daily till relieved. 
An absolute fast for one or two days is a splendid 
remedy. Hot wet cloths on the abdomen relieve. 
Drugs do harm and no good. 
Cholera Morbus.-Symptoms.-Vomiting; purging; 
cramps in legs and feet; cold skin; colicky pains. 
Causes.-Unripe fruits, uncooked vegetables, mala- 
ria, stimulating drinks and hot weather. 
Treatment.-Assist the vomiting by drinking luke- 
warm water; when all the food is vomited, stop the 
vomiting by swallowing bits of ice, or applying a cold 
wet cloth under the chin, or by applying hot or cold 
cloths over the stomach. Give an injection of one to 
three quarts of hot water, and repeat if necessary. 
This generally quickly relieves. If the pain continues 
give a hot sitz bath. If there is fever and tenderness 
of the abdomen, give a cold sitz bath. Live on a 
light diet of fruits and grains for a few days, avoiding 
meats and vegetables. Drugs are unnecessary. 
Cholera Infantum, or Summer Complaint.-Symptoms. 
-Vomiting; purging; fever; rapid pulse; abdominal 
pain; cold extremities; great prostration. 
Causes.-Improper food; teething; bad hygiene; 
being kept too warm; overloading the stomach. 
Treatment.-Sponge the body with tepid water to 
cool the fever. This disease is similar to diarrhoea 
and cholera morbus, and requires much the same 
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water. Keep the limbs and arms warm and the body 
cool. Better keep all food out of the stomach for 
twenty-four hours and give only water. No danger of 
starvation. One part of cow's milk, in two parts of 
water, or the white of egg dissolved in cold water, 
may be used as foods. In a neighborhood where sev- 
eral children had died of this disease, I was called to 
treat a baby in the worst stages, after a drug doctor 
had treated it several days, and the child steadily get- 
ting worse; in fact, the father and mother did not 
think it could get well. I stopped all drugs, ami in 
twelve hours, by the above simple treatment, the 
symptoms were much improved and the child speedily 
recovered. Drugs do much harm and no good. 
Acute Dysentery, or Bloody Flux.-Symptoms.-Diar- 
rhoea; nausea; slight fever; colicky pains about the 
navel; burning pain in the rectum; blood and pus in 
the discharges from the bowels; urine scanty and 
high colored; bowels tender; tongue white at first, 
then smooth and slimy; seems to have a ball in the 
rectum and wants to sit a long time on the chamber. 
Causes.-Improper food, malaria, and perhaps spe- 
cific germs. It prevails in summer and early fall. 
Treatment.-Dr. A. M. Carpenter, of St. Louis, 
says that the hydropath treatment is the best. Even 
in the mildest cases, the patient should rest in bed, not 
sitting up a minute. Give large injections of either hot 
or cold water, as in diarrhoea. Apply hot wet cloths, 
or ice cold cloths, to the abdomen for the pain. If 
there is much fever sponge the body in tepid water 
and keep cold cloths on the abdomen. In mild cases 
it is well to take cool sitz baths several times a day. 
It is best to fast a day or two, then limit the diet to 
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and toasted brown bread. Drugs do mischief and no 
good. 
Chronic Dysentery.-This is really a continuation of 
the acute form, and demands the same treatment, 
together with everything to improve the general 
health. Avoid meats, tobacco, beer, whisky, tea, 
coffee, fried foods, pastry, spices, and other condi- 
ments. Do not use drugs. 
Appendicitis.-Symptoms.-A quiet pain in the lower, 
front part of the abdomen, which returns again and 
again; muscles rigid over the pain; tender on pres- 
sure; in three days a tumor will form; two or three 
degrees of fever; generally occurs between the ages 
of seven and thirty; local distention of the abdomen 
from gas. 
Causes.-Dr. Pinckney French, of St. Louis, whose 
last forty-three cases of operation for appendicitis 
have all recovered, says he has never found any for- 
eign bodies in the appendix, such as grape seed and 
cherry seed, but has often found hardened concre- 
tions of feces from constipation. Foreign bodies and 
twisting of the appendix are generally supposed to be 
the causes. 
Treatment.-Allay the inflammation by ice cold 
wet cloths and sitz baths several times a day in cool 
water. Wash out the bowels by repeated injections of 
+ wo to four quarts of hot water. Cool the fever by 
sponging the body in tepid water. Since fresh air is 
a splendid medicine, keep the windows open. During 
the attack the diet should be very light, consisting of 
gruels from oat flake, rice or barley. Dr. French 
says never to operate during the attack, but between 
the attacks. Never use drugs. To prevent another 
attack, live according to the instructions given for 
dyspepsia and constipation, which will cure most DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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cases. If not thus cured, then resort to a good sur- 
geon, but remember that hundreds are operated on 
when it is entirely unnecessary and some of them die 
from the operation. 
Intestinal Obstruction.-Symptoms.-Complete con- 
stipation; colicky pains; vomiting; distension of the 
bowels by gas; sometimes small stools with blood; 
sometimes vomiting of feces; tumor felt through the 
abdominal walls; cold skin; prostration. 
Causes.-Hardened feces; foreign bodies; strict- 
ures; twisting of the intestine; pressure of tumors or 
misplaced womb; hernia, and intussusception or slip- 
ping of one part of the intestine into another. 
Treatment.-Hardened feces often form large 
tumors and cause complete constipation for many 
weeks. It requires only injections of one to three 
quarts of hot water and kneading the tumor. For- 
eign bodies swallowed pass out with the feces, or else 
form a tumor with the feces, which can be washed 
out with large injections of hot water. A surgical 
operation may be necessary. Strictures located near 
the anus can be dilated. The best treatment for 
twisting, intussusception and strictures that cannot 
be reached, are hot cloths on the abdomen and lower- 
ing the head while large quantities of cold water arc 
injected into the bowels. Dr. Smith, of St. Barthol- 
omew's Hospital, London, assured me he cured many 
cases of intussusception by the above plan. A mis- 
placed womb can be replaced. Tumors from morbid 
growths must be removed by surgery. If there are 
high fever, rapid pulse and local pain, showing 
inflammation, apply ice. Never use drugs. Professor 
Kirk, of Edinburgh, claims to have cured bad cases 
of intussusception, after violent pain and vomiting 
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renewed, and cold wet cloths on the bowels, claim- 
ing that relief came in a few minutes, and complete 
cure in an hour. He claims he has cured it also by 
putting the patient in a bath-tub and pouring a 
bucket full of cold water on the bowels. This makes 
them shorter, and thus cures. If the case is of sev- 
eral days' standing, he recommends to use the hot to 
the spine and cold on the bowels, and after the 
patient is cured to repeat the treatment twice daily 
for a few days to prevent its return. 
Hemorrhage of the Bowels.-This occurs in piles, 
ulcer of the stomach, cancer, intussusception of the 
bowels, dysentery, and typhoid fever. Apply cloths 
wet in ice water and inject ice water into the bowels. 
Eat only fruits, grains and vegetables. Avoid meats, 
tobacco, tea, coffee, beer and whisky. Drugs only do 
harm. 
Peritonitis.-Symptoms.-Chill, followed by three or 
four degrees of fever; severe pain and tenderness 
oyer the abdomen; constipation; pulse 100 to 140; 
abdominal walls rigid; vomiting; hiccough; cannot 
stand up, nor lie except on the back without great 
pain. 
Causes.-Injuries from blows; blood, urine, bile or 
feces escaped into the abdominal cavity; blood pois- 
oning; inflammation of the organs in the pelvis. The 
chronic form is caused by consumption, cancer and 
scrofula. 
Treatment.-Apply cold wet cloths to the abdo- 
men, and inject cold water into the bowels. Some 
prefer hot water and hot wet cloths, instead of cold. 
Avoid eating meat and vegetables for a time. Drugs 
do no good. 
Dropsy of the Abdomen, or Ascites.-Symptoms.- 
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a wave motion of water when the abdomen is tapped 
by the hand; scanty urine; weakness; swelling of 
feet and legs. 
Causes.-Diseases of the liver, heart, lungs or kid- 
neys, or tumors. Some think it is largely due to con- 
stipation. 
Treatment.-Treat the cause. Give a hot air bath, 
or hot wet sheet pack daily to remove the water. 
Inject one to three quarts of hot water into the 
bowels daily. Eat mainly fruits and grains, with few 
vegetables. Avoid meats, fats, sugars, tobacco, alco- 
holic drinks, tea and coffee. If the heart and breath- 
ing are too much interfered with, the fluid may be 
withdrawn by tapping. 
Tapeworms.-Symptoms.-The only positive symp- 
tom is the passage of part of the worm, but there 
may be ravenous appetite, palpitation of the heart, 
disorders of digestion, colicky pains and itching of 
the anus. 
Causes.-Eating uncooked meat, or beef, pork and 
fish not thoroughly cooked. 
Treatment.-Eat nothing but milk for one day. 
The second day eat milk and onions to sicken the 
worm. The morning of the third day, after a light 
breakfast of milk and toasted white bread, take 
twenty or thirty grains (for an adult) of male fern. 
Eight hours later take another dose, and in two or 
three hours take two tablespoonfuls of castor oil to 
remove the dead worm. Watch for the head of the 
worm, for if it is left it soon grows to full size. If 
this fails, enlarge the doses. It is said that a tea- 
spoonful of chloroform in a half glass of milk, taken 
after one day's fasting, never fails to kill the worm. 
Use castor oil to remove it, and keep walking so as 
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the size of a pin-head, and has little black spots on it. 
Thread Worms.-Symptoms.-Intense itching of the 
anus, especially at night, causing the child to kick the 
covers off; can see the worms, which are about half 
an inch long, in the movements of the bowels. 
Causes.-Neglect of cleanliness. By scratching the 
anus the eggs are carried to the mouth or to the 
food. 
Treatment.-Give injections of one to four quarts 
of warm salt water every other day for two weeks, and 
annoint the anus with vaseline. 
Round Worms.-Symptoms.-Colicky pains; nausea; 
vomiting; diarrhoea; starts in sleep; convulsions; 
worms seen when expelled. 
Causes.-Drinking water from ponds or brooks, or 
from wells infected by privies; eating unclean vegeta- 
bles. 
Treatment.-After living one day on milk, gruels 
and soups, and taking a dose of castor oil at night, 
take next morning, while the child fasts, santonin, in 
doses of one grain for children two to four years old; 
two grains for children between four and eight; three 
grains for children between eight and twelve; and 
four grains for all past twelve. Two hours later give 
a large dose of castor oil (two tablespoonfuls for an 
adult), to bring away the worms. Repeat in one week 
if not successful. 
Wind on the Stomach and Bowels, or Flatulence.-Peas, 
beans, onions, cabbage, lentils, radishes and cauli- 
flower are the chief foods causing this. If the stom- 
ach is a little weak then it is also caused by sweets, 
fats, starchy and fried foods. You can avoid this 
trouble by not using tea, coffee, nor the above men- 
tioned foods. If you have it, drink a cup or two of 
cold water and rub the bowels with the hand. Empty DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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the bowels every day. Wear a wet towel around the 
waist at night. 
Weak Stomach.-All stomach troubles come from 
what we eat and drink, or the way we eat and drink. 
If we eat too much, we overwork the stomach, or else 
all the juices which digest our food are used up and 
part of the food is left in the stomach to ferment, un- 
digested, causing dyspepsia, pain or diarrhoea. If we 
eat too often, the stomach gets no rest and disease sets 
up. (There should be at least five hours between 
meals, and not a bite eaten except at meals.) 
Mustard, pepper, horseradish, catsup, large quantities 
of salt, spices, and other seasonings, irritate the 
stomach and weaken it. Hot foods and drinks inter- 
fere with digestion. So do ice-cold foods and drinks. 
Unless the tobacco user washes his mouth before each 
meal, his food is poisoned. Drinking at meals and 
not thoroughly chewing the food, are great sins 
against the stomach. If you have a weak stomach, 
avoid all the above. Avoid tea, coffee, beer, whisky, 
tobacco and meat. 
Spitting' up Food.-This is a prominent symptom of 
dyspepsia and needs the same treatment. Remain 
quiet for an hour after eating. 
Vomiting and Nausea.-Apply a cold wet cloth under 
the chin and hot wet cloths to the stomach. Drink 
hot water (not warm). If this does not relieve, 
swallow bits of ice. 
Heart-Burn and Acidity.-Use the treatment recom- 
mended for dyspepsia. The diet cure is the only 
proper treatment for these ailments. Drugs do harm 
and no good. 
Pain in Stomach and Bowels.-Take an injection of 
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Apply hot wet cloths over the abdomen. If not re- 
lieved, swallow bits of ice. 
Pain on Moving of the Bowels.-Every other day, or 
whenever the bowels move, use an injection of hot 
water. Follow the treatment for dyspepsia and the 
piles, or fissure, which causes the pain, will get well. 
Eat plenty of fruit and grains. 
Constant Desire to Have the Bowels Move.-Take an in- 
jection of cold or ice water. Some prefer hot, instead 
of cold, water. Follow the treatment for torpid 
liver. 
Loss of Appetite.-Drink one-fourth of a teacupful 
of hot water every ten minutes for five hours. Do 
not use warm water, but hot. Take an injection of 
one to three quarts of hot water to clear the poison 
from the bowels. Open the windows, o-r walk in the 
fresh air. People living in the open, fresh air, eat 
twice as much as those who stay always in the house. 
Take a daily sun bath, and bathe the whole body twice 
a week. Avoid drugs and highly-seasoned food. Eat 
largely fruits and grains. During high fever there 
are no juices in the stomach to digest, hence no appe- 
tite. Food should not be eaten then. A fast of one 
or two days is the best of treatment in the beginning 
of all diseases. No sick animal will eat. Bitters do 
harm and no good. 
Appetite too Great.-This is either merely a bad 
habit, or it is caused by diabetes, tape worm, excessive 
sexual intercourse, or masturbation. Avoid the causes 
and exercise self-control. 
Jaundice, or Icterus.-Symptoms.-Yellow or bronze 
skin; white of eye is yellow; yellow or brown urine; 
white stools; bitter taste; constipation; slow pulse; 
itching of the skin; drowsiness; colicky pains; mind 
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Causes.-Obstruction of the gall duct; constipa- 
tion; poisons, as mercury, arsenic or copper; malaria; 
debility; fevers; pregnancy; mental emotions. 
Treatment.-The treatment for jaundice is the 
same as for torpid liver, except jaundice demands rest 
in bed. 
Gall Stones-Biliary Calculi.-Symptoms.- Excruci- 
ating pain in the right side, which subsides and 
comes again; nausea; may be vomiting; cold extrem- 
ities; exhaustion; feeble pulse. I saw a patient with 
gall stones who had convulsions and delirium. 
Causes.-Sedentary habits; hard water; alcoholic 
drinks; excessive use of meats; excessive use of com- 
mon salt, cooking soda and baking powder; rich 
foods. 
Treatment.-Allay the pain with hot sitz bath, ap- 
plication of hot wet cloths, and copious drinking of 
hot water. Stop the vomiting by swallowing bits of 
ice. Dr. S. W. Dodds, of St. Louis, says that this 
disease cures itself by avoiding the causes. The cele- 
brated Dr. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., says that 
drugs do this disease no good. Drink plenty of rain 
water, or distilled water, to dissolve the stones. Be- 
sides the above, follow the treatment recommended 
for torpid liver. 
Weil's Disease.-This occurs epidemically in Ger- 
many, Egypt, and other countries. It consists of 
jaundice with enlarged and tender liver. It is found 
only in men, and generally in butchers, who eat so 
much meat. The treatment is the same as for jaun- 
dice. 
Torpid Liver, or Biliousness.-Symptoms.-Headache; 
loss of appetite; nausea; vomiting; heart-burn; 
coated tongue; depression of spirits; palpitation of 
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edge of the ribs; dry cough; noises in the ears; specks 
before the eyes. 
Causes.-Eating fats, sugars and fried foods; eating 
too much; drinking tea, coffee, beer, whisky and 
wines; sedentary habits; malaria; disease of the heart 
or lungs. 
Treatment. - Remove the cause. Wear a wet 
towel around the waist at night. Eat but two small 
meals a day for a few days. Avoid fats, sweet foods, 
fried foods, pastry, tea, coffee, tobacco and al- 
coholic drinks. Eat especially fruits, grains and veg- 
etables. Eat but little meat. Tomatoes and acid 
fruits are especially good. Drink only water or lem- 
onade. Exercise at least two hours a day. Keep the, 
windows open at least two inches, winter and sum- 
mer, day and night. Take two baths a week. Knead 
and slap the liver with the hand for five minutes 
twice a day. The hot air bath, or hot wet sheet pack, 
should be used twice a week. Twice a week wash out 
the bowels with large injections of hot water. In 
severe cases the hot and cold douche over the liver is 
good. Never use drugs. What is commonly called a 
bilious attack is dyspepsia. 
Abcess of the Liver, or Suppurative Hepatitis.-SvMPTOMS. 
-The symptoms are very obscure; irregular fever; 
profuse sweating; jaundice is rare; dry cough; diffi- 
cult breathing; may be vomiting and diarrhoea or con- 
stipation; if near the surface, then throbbing, tender- 
ness and redness. The aspirator settles the diagnosis. 
Causes.-Malaria, blows, dysentery, ulcer of the 
stomach, emboli and blood poisoning. 
Treatment.-Absolute rest; absolute fasting, ex- 
cept drinking water; remove the pus with an 
aspirator; treat the symptoms; keep the skin clean; 
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open the windows. Half of those having surgical 
operations for abcess of the liver die. 
Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver.-Symptoms.- 
Marked jaundice; very small liver; severe headache; 
fever; rapid pulse; vomiting black blood which looks 
like coffee grounds; convulsions; insensibility. 
Causes.-Unknown, except poisoning by phos- 
phorus. It is a very rare disease and generally fatal 
within a week. 
Treatment.-Treat the symptoms; that is, use the 
usual remedies for fever, jaundice, headache, and all 
the other symptoms. 
Sclerosis of the Liver, or Hob-Nail Liver.-Symptoms. 
-The first stage has no symptoms; second stage has 
abdominal dropsy, dyspepsia, hemorrhages from the 
stomach and intestines, scant urine, dingy skin; latter 
stage has emaciation. 
Causes.-Excessive use of alcoholic drinks, syph- 
ilis, general debility, and spices in the food. Under 
drug treatment it generally causes death in one year. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Eat only fruits, 
grains, and few vegetables. Avoid fats, sweets, 
spices, pastry, tea, coffee, tobacco and drugs. Use the 
remedies recommended for abdominal dropsy and 
torpid liver. 
Amyloid, or Waxy Liver.-Symptoms.-No pain or 
tenderness; anaemia; slight dropsy; spleen and kid- 
neys are generally diseased; emaciation; increased 
urine; vomiting in latter stages. There are no char- 
acteristic symptoms. 
Causes.-Syphilis; cancer; prolonged suppuration; 
exhausting diseases; hip joint disease. 
Treatment.-Cure the cause, which is generally 
chronic suppuration. Give hot air baths, or hot sitz 
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injection of hot water. A daily sun bath is effective. 
Avoid drugs, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, sweets, fats 
and starchy foods. 
Cancer of the Liver.-Symptoms.-Prominent ir- 
regular swelling on the liver; generally cancer in 
other parts of the body; pain increased by pressure; 
jaundice; abdominal dropsy; no fever; anaemia; 
emaciation; shooting pains to the back and shoulder. 
Causes.-Hereditary, or spreads from other or- 
gans. 
Treatment.-A strict diet of fruits, grains and veg- 
etables will greatly lessen the pain. Give hot sitz 
baths and apply hot wet cloths for the pain. Treat 
the symptoms. Such patients generally die in less 
than a year. Fortunately it is very rare. See the 
"Fasting Cure," in chapter on "Remedies of Medical 
Hygiene." 
Enlarged Liver.-This occurs in various liver diseases, 
such as jaundice, torpid liver, abcess, hydatids, 
cancer and waxy liver. Treat these diseases as di- 
rected elsewhere. Simple enlarged liver comes from 
beer drinking, diabetes, malaria, and errors in diet. 
Remove the cause and the enlarged liver gets well. 
In health the lower border of the liver reaches just to 
the lower border of the ribs on the right side. It is 
often easy to see when it extends lower. Never use 
drugs. 
Hydatid Tumor of the Liver. - Symptoms. - May 
have apparent good health; enlargement only in one 
place; may have chills and fever. 
Causes.-The eggs from the tape worm of the dog 
are taken in with drinking water, or on leaves of veg- 
etables, and develop in the liver. As the sheep and 
hog are the main animals having hydatids, the dog 
should not be allowed to eat them. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
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Treatment.-If one-half the fluid is removed with 
an aspirator, the disease generally disappears. 
Fatty Infiltration of the Liver.-Symptoms.-Enlarged 
liver; seldom pain; difficult to lie on left side; 
patient is fat; greasy skin; dyspepsia; no dropsy or 
jaundice; generally fatty degeneration of the heart. 
Causes.-Over-eating, alcohol and lack of exercise. 
Treatment.-Avoid all foods tending to produce 
fat. Take an abundance of out-door exercise, to- 
gether with a hot air bath, or wet sheet pack, twice a 
week. Improve the general health in every way. Do 
not take drugs. 
Functional Disorders of the Liver.-The liver has 
three functions; the glycogenic, which stores up liver 
sugar (glycogen) from starch; the metabolic, which 
affects certain tissue changes; and the biliary, which 
secretes bile. If the first is abnormal, it produces 
diabetes. The second being abnormal produces gout, 
gall stones, stones in the kidney, skin diseases and 
dyspepsia. While the third function, being diseased, 
causes too much or too little bile. Too much bile is 
shown by bilious diarrhoea (green or yellow stools 
with griping pains), nausea, pains in the belly, highly 
colored urine, palpitation of the heart and headache. 
Too little bile causes dyspepsia, coated tongue, bitter 
taste, wind on the bowels, white stools, piles and sal- 
low skin. All these functional disorders are cured by 
observing the remedies recommended for dyspepsia. 
Drugs do no good. 
Inflammation of the Liver, or Hepatitis.- Symptoms. 
-Tenderness on the right side near the border of the 
ribs; enlarged liver; high fever; uneasy if lie on the 
left side; pain if press up under the ribs; short 
breath; hiccough; cough; sometimes vomiting; pain 
under right shoulder blade. 92 
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Causes.-Over-eating; use of fats, sugars and alco- 
holic drinks; impure air and bad hygiene; malaria; 
inflammation of the stomach and intestines; disease 
of the heart and lungs. 
Treatment.-Same as for torpid liver. Apply hot 
wet cloths to the liver for thirty minutes, three times 
a day. 
Enlargement of the Spleen, or Ague Cake.-Symp- 
toms.-General ill-health; uneasiness on the left side, 
but no pain; skin sallow and dry; good appetite but 
loses flesh; dyspepsia. There are no characteristic 
symptoms. 
Causes. - Malaria; taking drugs as medicine; 
fevers; consumption; liver trouble. 
Treatment.-Apply the cold douche three times a 
day, with an inch stream falling eight feet, or with as 
much force as the patient can bear, to the region of 
the lower border of the ribs on the left side. Wear 
the wet towel around the waist at night. Take a 
vapor, or hot air, or hot sitz bath twice a week. Diet 
and other rules the same as for torpid liver. Btecases of the IRcsptratorp ©roans* 
Cold in the Head, or Acute Nasal Catarrh.-Symptoms. 
-Chilliness; little fever; sneezing; discharge from 
nose; watery at first, then purulent. 
Causes.-Exposure, changes of temperature, dust 
and vapors in the air; impure air, eating too much. 
Treatment.-Avoid all causes. Open the windows. 
Eat only fruits, grains and vegetables. It is best to 
eat only one meal a day for two days. Take a hot 
sitz bath and drink hot lemonade with a hot foot 
bath, just before going to bed. Wash out the bowels 
with a large injection of hot water. Use no drugs. 
Chronic Nasal Catarrh.-Symptoms. - " Hawking " 
and spitting in the morning; smelling is impaired; 
frontal headache; greenish scabs in the nose. 
Causes.-Taking cold; liver trouble; excessive use 
of fats and sugars as food; scrofula; syphilis; inhal- 
ing vapors and dust. 
Treatment.-Find the cause and remove it. As 
the liver is always torpid in catarrh, follow closely the 
treatment for the torpid liver. Exercise at least two 
hours a day. Keep the windows open a few inches 
day and night. Take an injection of one to three 
quarts of hot water every other day, with a daily 
sponge bath. If there is frontal headache, bind a 
cold wet cloth around the head, over the eyebrows, 
and leave it on all night. Do this for two weeks, 
then leave it off one week, then repeat it. Take a 
hot air bath, or hot sitz bath, once a week. Avoid 
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drugs, meat, grease, pastry, tobacco, beer and whisky. 
A teaspoonful of salt dissolved in a pint of water and 
snuffed up the nose from the hollow of the hand is a 
great help to some. I greatly relieved a bad case by 
the patient living on two meals a day. This disease 
may progress to the ear, throat or lungs. Climate 
makes but little difference, as 1 have been in nearly 
every part of the United States and find it every 
where. The above strictly followed will help all 
cases. 
Ozaena.-This is simply chronic nasal catarrh with 
ulceration, causing foul smelling discharges, and 
requires the same treatment as catarrh. 
Nosebleed.-Raise the arms over the head. Do not 
bend over, but sit up straight and squeeze the nose 
so as to allow a clot to form. Apply ice to the neck 
and put the feet in hot water. The nostrils may be 
stuffed with cotton from in front, or from behind 
through the mouth. 
Edematous Laryngitis. - Symptoms. - Sore throat; 
difficult breathing which threatens suffocation; weak 
voice; breathing has a whistling sound; gasps for 
breath; passing the finger in the throat the epiglottis 
is felt much enlarged. 
Causes. - Acute laryngitis; abscess; erysipelas; 
scarlet fever; small-pox; syphilis. 
Treatment.-Small bits of ice held far back in the 
mouth, ice or ice cold cloths on the throat for five 
minutes, then hot cloths for five minutes; hot sitz 
bath to cause sweating; large injections of hot water 
into the bowels. If these means fail, then resort to 
the surgical operation of tracheotomy. 
Catarrhal Laryngitis.- Symptoms. - Sore throat; 
hoarseness; cough, dry at first, then loose; slight 
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Causes.-Same as nasal catarrh. 
Treatment.-Give a hot wet sheet pack, or hot air 
bath, daily. Apply alternately cold wet cloths to the 
throat for half an hour, then change to cloths as hot 
as can be borne. Keep the air of the room moist by 
vapor, from putting hot bricks in a pan of water. 
Eat only fruits and grains. Rest the voice. Keep 
the windows open. Relieve the system by large in- 
jections of hot water into the bowels. 
False Croup, or Spasmodic Laryngitis.-Symptoms.- 
Occurs generally in the night; difficult breathing; 
dry, harsh, ringing cough; lasts one-half to two hours. 
Causes.-Taking cold; excess in eating; excite- 
ment. 
Treatment.-Without any treatment it is generally 
well in two nights, but may change to true croup. 
During the attack put the child in a hot bath, with 
cold wet cloths on the throat. Give a large injection 
of hot water into the bowels. 
Croup.-Symptoms.-Slight fever; cough; hoarse- 
ness; difficult breathing; barking cough, with a whist- 
ling or crowing sound; membrane forms which may 
choke the patient to death. 
Causes.-Generally occurs in vigorous, full-fed 
boys, from two to six years old. 
Treatment.-Begin early in the attack with hot 
foot bath, in water hot as can be borne, and cold wet 
cloths to the throat. If not quickly relieved, apply 
hot wet cloths to the throat. If this does not relieve, 
apply ice_with a cloth between it and the throat. 
Wash out the bowels by large injections of hot water. 
Though many die from croup, none will die if the 
above treatment is thoroughly applied early in the 
attack. If the membrane has formed, change every 
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Niemeyer advises to pour a few gallons of cold water 
over the head, neck and back, holding the bucket 
about five feet above the child, having the patient 
in a warm bath at the same time. This causes a 
cough which throws up the membrane. Keep plenty 
of fresh air in the room. Kellogg advises to put lime 
in a tub near the patient and pour water on it. Drugs 
do harm and no good. To avoid croup, keep the 
bed-room windows open; avoid meat and greasy, rich 
foods, and give the child a bath at least twice a week. 
The surgical operation of tracheotomy is performed 
as a last resort. 
Spasm of the Glottis, or Laryngismus Stridulus.- 
Symptoms.-Croupy cough; struggles for breath; 
black in the face; lips and nails blue; skin cold; gen- 
eral spasm. 
Causes.-Occurs in ill-fed children or hysterical 
women. 
Treatment.-A full hot bath, or cold water poured 
on the head relieves the spasm. Moisten the air of 
the room by hot bricks in a pan of water. Have 
plenty of fresh air. Apply alternately hot and cold 
cloths to the throat. Avoid this disease by plenty of 
exercise in the open air, simple diet and regular bath- 
ing. 
Consumption of the Throat. - Symptoms. - Husky 
voice, cough, painful swallowing, short breath, de- 
bility; may precede or follow consumption of the 
lungs. 
Causes.-Same as consumption of the lungs. 
Treatment.-Same as for consumption. Small 
swallows of hot water relieve the cough. Eat mostly 
cooked fruit and grains, avoiding meat, rich foods, 
drugs and stimulants. Keep the room ventilated, but DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 
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warm and moist with vapor. This disease generally 
proves fatal. 
Loss of Voice, or Aphonia.-This is caused by catarrhal 
larnygitis, or consumption of the throat, or hysteria, 
or paralysis of the vocal organs. Treat the cause. 
Improve the health by diet, fresh air, bathing and 
exercise. 
Acute Bronchitis, or Cold on the Chest.-Symptoms.- 
Chilliness; slight fever; aching all over; pain in the 
chest; cough, dry then loose; loss of appetite. 
Causes.-Changes of weather; exposure; excess in 
eating; breathing dust in the air. 
Treatment.-Give the hot wet sheet pack every 
other day, and the hot sitz bath on the day you do 
not give the pack. Eat but two spare meals a day of 
fruits and grains, avoiding meat, rich foods, stimu- 
lants and drugs. Keep the windows open and rest in 
bed. Trying to reach the lungs through drugs in the 
stomach is positively harmful. 
Capillary Bronchitis.-Symptoms.-Generally acute 
bronchitis; fever; frequent and difficult breathing; 
slight cough; noise in the chest. 
Causes.-Occurs in children and aged, following 
exposure, measles and whooping-cough. 
Treatment.-Have plenty of fresh air. Sponge 
with cool water to cool the fever. Give the hot sitz 
bath twice a day at first. Give large injections every 
day of hot water to open the bowels. Apply hot wet 
cloths to the chest and change them every few min- 
utes. Avoid drugs. 
Fibrinous Bronchitis.- Symptoms.- Same as acute 
bronchitis, till a membrane the same shape of the 
bronchi and its branches is spit up. 
Causes.-Associated with laryngitis, asthma, con- 
sumption and exposure. 98 
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Treatment.-Same as for acute bronchitis. 
Chronic Bronchitis. - Symptoms. - Same as acute 
bronchitis, with loose cough, worse at night. 
Causes.-Same as acute bronchitis, besides rheum- 
atism, heart, kidney and lung troubles. 
Treatment.-Keep the windows open. Exercise in 
open air and sunshine. Eat only three meals a day of 
fruits, grains and vegetables. Avoid meat, rich foods, 
drugs, tobacco, beer and whisky. Breathe through 
the nose if possible, so aS to warm the air and keep 
out dust. Take a hot air or hot sitz bath twice a 
week. The diet cure is perhaps best for this dis- 
ease. 
Winter Cough.-This is one form of chronic bron- 
chitis and requires the same treatment. It is caused 
mainly by impure air. 
Asthma.-Symptoms.-Sudden attack; bad dys- 
pepsia; struggles for breath; loud noise, or wheezing, 
with each breath; face flushed; eyes staring; attack 
may last but a few minutes, or hours, or days. 
Causes.-Wind, dampness, dust, and errors in 
diet. 
Treatment.-I knew a bad case of several years' 
standing, cured completely and quickly by avoiding 
meat, greasy foods, tobacco and stimulants, eating 
plenty of fruit, keeping the window open day and 
night, and a daily sponge bath. Take large injections 
of hot water into the bowels; this alone cures many. 
Swallowing small bits of ice often relieves. The hot 
sitz bath, with hot cloths to the chest and cold along 
the spine, cures others. A change of climate helps 
others. Drugs do no good and much harm. 
Difficult Breathing.-This occurs in various diseases. 
Let the patient rest in the easiest position. Keep the 
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to the chest. During the attack eat no solid food. 
Eat a gruel made by boiling for thirty minutes two 
tablespoonfuls of rolled oats in a quart of water. 
Sponge the body with hot water twice a day. 
Hay Fever, or Rose Cold.-Symptoms.-Cold in the 
head; difficult breathing; coated tongue; sneezing; 
worse in daytime; may be some fever. 
Causes.-Pollen of plants breathed, disease of the 
nose, disease of nerves, bad hygiene. 
Treatment.-Drugs do no good. The hot air bath, 
or vapor bath, relieves some and shortens the attack. 
Hot and cold applications to the spine help others. 
Keep the windows open. Eat only fruits and grains 
and easily digested vegetables. Breathe through the 
nose. Some climates, being free from dust, are better 
than others. Improve the digestion by large injec- 
tions into the bowels every other day. 
Whooping Cough.-Symptoms.-Ordinary cough for 
one or two weeks; the attacks of cough with the 
peculiar whoop may occur every hour or only three or 
four times a day. 
Treatment.-Use no drugs. Keep the child out 
doors if good weather. Keep windows open. Give 
a hot bath daily. The diet should be plain and sim- 
ple, avoiding meats, rich food, pastry and condiments, 
and eating mostly fruits and grains. 
Emphysema. - Symptoms. - Short breath; weak 
cough; difficult breathing; may be attacks of asthma 
and bronchitis; chest is barrel-shaped. 
Causes.-Pleurisy, bronchitis, asthma, violent 
coughing. 
Treatment.-Gentle exercise; windows open; diet 
of fruits, grains and vegetables, and only two meals a 
day; live in the country; breathe through the nose; 
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shoulders for five minutes, twice a day; these are the 
best treatment. Avoid drugs, 
Blood-Spitting, or Hemoptysis. - Symptoms.- Blood 
from the lungs is a bright red, no clots, and frothy, 
with a sweet and saltish taste. 
Causes.-Consumption, malaria, heart trouble, con- 
gestion of lungs, or straining. 
Treatment.-Perfect rest, in bed, and ice or cold 
wet cloths to the chest stop it. Do not use the ice 
too long, as it may cause a bad cold. Open the 
windows. Use a light diet of gruels and toast. 
Avoid stimulants and drugs. Treat the cause. 
Cough.-Sips of hot water or sucking a bit of candy 
may relieve a cough. Avoid drugs for a cough. Dr. 
Allinson says: "Lung disease maybe got rid of by 
means of pure air night and day, nose breathing and 
taking long breaths before each meal. Churches, 
theatres and all unventilated rooms must be avoided 
by persons subject to chronic coughs and colds. 
Whether the cough comes from the throat or lungs, 
pure air must be had for its cure. Pure air cures 
enlarged tonsils, elongated uvula, sore and congested 
throat, and like conditions. Cough due to the pres- 
ence of foreign bodies in the ear is only stopped when 
these are removed. Simple and non-flesh diet will 
cure stomach cough. Ancurismal cough only goes 
when the aneurism is cured, and the hysterical cough 
when the hysteria is cured. Unnecessary cough 
should always be stopped by deep breathing and 
a strong determination to suppress it." 
Congestion of the Lungs.- Symptoms.- Short, dry 
cough, or phlegm streaked with blood; distress in the 
chest; palpitation of the heart; face flushed; strong, 
full pulse; rapid and difficult breathing. 
Causes.-There are two forms, active and passive. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 
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Active is caused by overwork, alcohol, excitement, 
heart disease, breathing cold or hot air, croup and 
pneumonia. Passive is caused by heart disease, low 
fevers and Bright's disease. 
Treatment.-Draw the blood from the lungs by 
hot foot bath and wet cloths on the chest, hot as can 
be borne. The full warm bath is useful. In fevers, 
prevent congestion of the lungs by frequent change 
of position. The diet should be fruits and grains, 
avoiding hot foods and drinks and stimulants. Avoid 
drugs and give a large injection of hot water every 
day. 
Lung Fever, or Croupous Pneumonia.-Symptoms.- 
Chills and fever; vomiting or spasm in children; full, 
rapid pulse; short breath; breathing forty or fifty 
times a minute; cough dry, then in two days the spit 
becomes rusty or bloody; red spot on the cheek of the 
affected side; sharp pain in the chest; talks low or in 
a whisper; jerky breathing. 
Causes.-Exposure while tired, and bad hygiene. 
Treatment. - Open the windows; daily sponge 
bath; teacupful of milk or thin gruel every four 
hours; plenty of water to drink; cold wet half-pack 
around the chest while fever is high; hot sitz bath if 
feet and legs are cold; inject a pint of cold water 
in the bowels to cool the fever; use but few bed 
clothes over the patient. I have used the cold wet 
sheet pack for this disease with splendid results. 
Wash out the bowels every other day with large in- 
jections of tepid water. Dr. Mays strongly advocates 
the use of ice bags to the chest in pneumonia. If in 
a warm country and no cold water, then sponge with 
water and expose the wet skin to the air and let the 
water evaporate. No danger of taking cold. Do not 
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Catarrhal Pneumonia.-Symptoms.-The same as in 
croupous pneumonia, except in this the disease is in 
spots, hence it is called lobular pneumonia. 
Causes.-Follows measles, whooping cough, and 
bronchitis; scrofula; heart disease. 
Treatment.-Same as for croupous pneumonia. 
Chronic Pneumonia.-Symptoms.-Cough; pains in 
the chest; difficult breathing; slight night sweats; de- 
bility; sinking in of chest wall. 
Causes. - Pleurisy, bronchitis, pneumonia, con- 
sumption and breathing dust. 
Treatment.-Treat the cause. Avoid all drugs. 
As the part of the lung affected hardens, nothing can 
cure it; but good hygienic living will prevent its 
spreading. 
Consumption, or Tuberculosis.-Symptoms.-Loss of 
appetite; debility; emaciation; red spots on cheeks; 
cough; night sweats; pain in chest and shoulders; 
fever, highest in afternoon; hollow above, and sunk in 
below, the collar bone; may be hemorrhage from the 
lungs; pulse 120 times a minute in last stages. 
Diarrhoea and swollen feet show the last stages. It 
generally begins with dyspepsia and cold hands and 
feet. 
Causes.-Impure air, lack of exercise and clean- 
liness, loss of sleep, poor food, taking cold, catarrh, 
tight lacing, sexual abuses, hereditary disposition; 
using the vessels, dishes, pipes, handkerchiefs, or 
other articles of a consumptive. Kissing a consump- 
tive in the mouth is often the cause of catching 
it. Breathing the dust of stone cutting, iron grinding, 
wool carding and other trades debilitates the lungs 
and disposes to consumption. Alcohol and tobacco 
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consumption, or the meat of diseased animals, 
causes it. 
Treatment.-Consumption is curable in its earlier 
stages. Give up all bad habits. Avoid drugs, to- 
bacco, alcohol, tea, coffee, meat, rich foods, cod liver 
oil, pastry, condiments, fried food. Avoid all the 
causes. Live in the open air; keep the windows 
open. Be careful to breathe through the nose. 
Exercise daily according to strength. Take a daily 
sponge bath. The diet should be mainly fruits and 
grains. Several times a day take several deep breaths 
in the open air. If hemorrhage from the lungs occurs, 
treat it as described elsewhere. For the night sweats 
take a quick, hot sponge bath at going to bed, and 
cover lightly. The cough is relieved by sipping hot 
water. Do not use drugs to stop the cough, as it 
brings up the phlegm and corruption. Cool the fever 
by the cold, wet sheet. Pains in the chest are almost 
instantly relieved by hot wet cloths between the 
shoulders, and cold wet cloths over the lungs. 
Change both the cold and hot cloths every five min- 
utes. 
Mrs. Dr. Nichols died at the age of seventy-four, 
notwithstanding she had severe hemorrhages from 
the lungs at twenty-nine, and also four years later. 
She said: "Labor and anxiety obtained the mastery 
over my feeble frame and injured lungs, and I was 
attacked while giving a course of lectures with severe 
bleeding. I attempted to go on, but was prostrated, 
and bled from my lungs in one week nearly three 
quarts. I was made as weak as a baby. As soon as 
possible I commenced exercise in the open air, and 
very active treatment with water. I used sponge and 
pouring baths, and constantly had my whole chest 
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lungs examined with a stethoscope. The physician 
said there was considerable disease in the upper por- 
tion of the lung. I lived very simply, taking no ani- 
mal food, except a very little butter and a little milk. 
In six months I again had my lungs examined. All 
traces of disease had disappeared. I have continued 
the use of the water since. I have had some slight 
attacks of hemorrhage on occasions of much mental 
suffering and much labor. I find myself perfectly 
able to control the bleeding by means of water. The 
cough I had at first entirely disappeared." 
I have heard several college professors admit that 
drugs did no good in consumption, and also that cod 
liver oil and all fats were very harmful, as they could 
not be digested. A change of climate helps some, 
but hurries others to the grave. Center Point, Texas, 
has a splendid climate, beautiful scenery, with cheap 
yet good accommodations. It is a small town, about 
forty miles north of San Antonio, on the San Antonio 
and Arkansas Pass Ry. Dr. A. M. Carpenter, of St. 
Louis, says that climate, out-door life and attention 
to the stomach will cure a consumptive, if he can be 
cured. 
Pleurisy. - Symptoms.- Chills; fever; pain or 
"stitch in the side" below the nipple; dry cough; 
difficult breathing. Chronic form has slight pain, 
hacking cough, night sweats and palpitation of the 
heart. 
Causes.-Acute variety is caused by injuries, ex- 
posure, or muscular exertion, and occurs with pneu- 
monia, rheumatism, measles and various other dis- 
eases. Chronic variety is caused by an acute attack, 
consumption, alcohol or Bright's disease. 
Treatment.-Rest in bed, light diet, and hot wet 
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then apply cold wet cloths over all the chest. Give a 
daily sponge bath, and keep the room well ventilated. 
Chronic pleurisy is very obstinate. Give two hot air 
or hot sitz baths once a week, and every other day 
wash out the colon with large injections of hot water. 
Apply each day alternately hot and cold cloths. Live 
according to the best hygiene, avoiding drugs, meat, 
tobacco, stimulants, tea and coffee. 
Dropsy of the Chest, or Hydrothorax.-Symptoms.- 
Follows dropsy of abdomen; difficult breathing. 
Causes.-Heart or kidney disease. 
Treatment.-Treat the cause. Use the hot air 
bath, or vapor bath, or hot sitz bath daily. Live 
according to the best hygiene. The majority of cases 
cannot be cured completely. If the fluid is not 
absorbed, after faithful trial of the above, then have 
a surgeon remove the fluid by tapping. 
Pneumothorax.-This is air in the cavity between 
the lung and ribs. It is caused by wounds, or break- 
ing down of the lung from consumption, or abcess of 
the lung. 
Symptoms.-Sudden pain in the side; intensely 
difficult breathing; cold skin; cold sweat; may be 
violent cough; enlargement of affected side, bulging 
out the space between the ribs; placing the ear to 
the side and shaking the patient, you can hear a 
splashing sound. 
Treatment.-Hot sitz baths, and hot wet cloths 
applied to relieve the pain. Have a surgeon remove 
the fluid with an aspirator, then treat for chronic 
pleurisy and consumption. Bfseaees of tbe IRcrvous Spstcm. 
Meningitis, or Brain Fever.-Symptoms.-Vomiting; 
fretful; headache; pupils of the eyes generally dilated 
and not same size; pupils do not contract when more 
light is thrown on them; spasms; fever generally low 
until near the close; pale face flushes at times; severe 
pain in the back, like in small-pox; may not be able 
to swallow; stupor. 
Causes.-Consumption; wounds; adjacent disease, 
such as inflammation of the eye, nose or ear, erysipe- 
las, measles, scarlet fever, small-pox, typhoid, rheu- 
matism, lung fever, blood poisoning and mental over- 
work. 
Treatment.-Keep quiet in a dark room, with ice 
cold wet cloths, or ice, on the head. Cool the fever 
also by injecting a pint of cold water in the bowels, 
several times a day, if necessary. Give a daily large 
injection of hot water to clear the bowels. The food 
should consist of gruels, toast, grains and cooked 
fruit. If the legs and hands are cold, apply hot irons, 
or bottles of hot water to them. Give a daily, quick 
hot sponge bath. Sponge down the spine with cool 
or cold water to cool the fever. Avoid all drugs. 
For the vomiting, keep all food out of the stomach, 
and apply a cold cloth under the chin, with a hot wet 
cloth on the stomach and drink hot water, or swallow 
bits of ice. If the head is tender and sore, use tepid 
water and let it evaporate. Cerebritis requires the 
same treatment as the above. 
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Congestion of the Brain. - Symptoms.- Headache; 
disorders of vision and hearing; vertigo; blunted in- 
tellect; bad dreams; jerking of limbs in the sleep, 
and twitching of muscles of the face. In children 
there will be vomiting, nightmare, contraction of 
pupils of the eye and spasms. 
Causes.-Heart disease; sunstroke; mental over- 
work; excess in eating; mental anxiety; alcohol; 
opium and drugs as medicines. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause if possible. Ele- 
vate the head. Apply cold on the head, ice if neces- 
sary, and hot to the feet. Take a hot wet sheet pack 
twice a week, and on other days take a hot sitz bath 
twice a week. Take a rest for a few weeks and live 
on a spare diet. For sleeplessness take a quick 
sponge bath, and hot foot bath just before going to 
bed, and wear a wet towel around the head all night. 
Never eat less than three hours before bedtime. The 
diet should consist mainly of fruits and grains. 
Avoid meat, greasy foods, pastry, drugs, tea, coffee, 
alcohol and tobacco. 
Anaemia of the Brain.-Symptoms.-Headache, re- 
lieved by lying down; dizziness, worse after exertion; 
fainting; convulsions, if the attack is sudden; pupils 
dilated; cold feet and hands. 
Causes. - Hemorrhages; mental shock; general 
anaemia; female diseases; tobacco and sexual ex- 
cesses. 
Treatment.-Improve the general health by plenty 
of fresh air, sunshine, regular bathing, and two hours' 
exercise each day. Take seven hours' sleep at night 
with a short sleep just after dinner. Keep the bed- 
room window open a few inches at night. Take an 
injection of one to three quarts of hot water every 
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tables. Do not eat meat more than once a day. Ob- 
serve the rules somewhat for dyspepsia. Avoid 
drugs, tea, coffee, tobacco and stimulants. 
Compression of the Brain.-Symptoms.-Pupils of 
eyes dilated, and if strong light is brought near them, 
they contract; comatose, or abnormally deep sleep. 
Causes.-It is caused by exudation of the serum of 
the blood in fevers, and accidental wounds. 
Treatment.-Perfect quiet, in a well ventilated 
room, and Nature will absorb the extra serum. If the 
head is cool, do not apply cold. Keep the feet and 
hands warm. Avoid drugs and stimulants. Consult 
a surgeon. 
Apoplexy.-Symptoms.-May begin suddenly or with 
warnings of faintness-, noises in the ears, confused 
vision and loss of memory. Patient falls suddenly 
unconscious and motionless; face flushed; breathing 
is irregular and noisy; pupils are not affected by 
light; temperature is generally a little below the nor- 
mal; generally paralysis of one side; maybe vomit- 
ing. The paralysis of one side may come without loss 
of consciousness. 
Causes.-Alcohol; old age; syphilis; heredity; 
gout; over-eating; sexual excesses; fits of anger or 
terror, and over-exertion. 
Treatment.-Carry to a cool, quiet place. Raise 
the head. Apply ice to the head and give a foot bath, 
hot as can be borne. Loosen the clothing. Keep the 
feet and hands hot and the head cold. Place the 
patient on his side, so his tongue will not fall back 
into his throat. Sponge with cool water to cool the 
fever. Keep the bowels open with an injection of one 
to three quarts of hot water every other day. Two 
weeks after the attack begin and massage the para- 
lyzed muscles twice a day for ten minutes. Keep the DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
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window open. If the bladder does not empty itself, 
it must be emptied with a catheter two or three times 
a day. The diet should consist of grains (rolled oats, 
cracked wheat, rice, barley) in mushes, gruels and 
soups, with cooked fruit. Avoid meat, vegetables, 
fats, sweets, rich foods, tea, coffee, beer, whisky and 
tobacco. Do not bleed nor use drugs. Do not allow 
visitors. To prevent bed sores, do not allow the 
patient to lie always in one position and keep the skin 
perfectly clean with a daily bath. If the bed sore 
forms, dress it with a cloth greased with vaseline and 
get a round air cushion from a surgeon for the patient 
to lie on. Give a daily sun bath if possible. - Some 
recover in a few weeks, while others improve after 
several months. 
Cerebral Abcess.-Symptoms.-Vomiting; paralysis; 
convulsions; mental dullness; impaired memory; 
exaggerated knee jerk. There may be meningitis. 
Causes.-Blood poisoning; glanders; apoplexy; 
thrombosis; chronic ear disease, and wounds. 
Treatment.-The treatment is surgery. 
Tumors of the Brain.-Symptoms.-Headache; de- 
fects of vision, hearing, taste and speech; dizziness; 
vomiting; spasms; palsies. 
Causes.-Injuries; syphilis; consumption and can- 
cer. 
Treatment.-No hope of cure, but a strictly 
hygienic mode of life will render the patient more 
comfortable. The diet should be strictly fruits, 
grains and easily-digested vegetables. Surgery is 
promising to do something for this disease. 
Aphasia, or Loss of Speech.-Symptoms.-Partial, or 
complete loss of speech. 
Causes.-Injuries; hysteria; meningitis; abcess of 
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Treatment.-Treat the cause. Surgery may help. 
Follow the treatment for nervous debility. 
Vertigo, or Swimming of the Head.-Causes.-Too 
much or too little blood in the brain; diseased mus- 
cles of the eye; indigestion; ear disease; neuralgia; 
gout; tobacco; sexual excess; tea and coffee; loss of 
sleep. 
Symptoms. - Objects moving around; may be 
nausea, vomiting and palpitation of the heart. 
Treatment.-Remove all causes. Live on a plain, 
simple diet, and obey all hygienic rules. Avoid drugs, 
tobacco, meat, rich foods, tea and coffee. Keep the 
windows open at night. Take an injection of one to 
three quarts of hot water every other day. In severe 
disease of the ear it is very hard to cure vertigo. 
Sick Headache, or Migraine, or Megrim.-Symptoms.- 
It is generally on one side; glimmer before the eyes 
for five to thirty minutes before the attack; mental 
depression; some part of the body, as the arm, may 
tingle and feel asleep; noises in the ears; bilious 
vomiting. 
Causes.-Errors in diet; debility; overwork. 
Treatment.-I have seen many cases relieved by 
absolute fasting. Kellogg reports many cases entirely 
cured by quitting the use of tea, coffee and tobacco. 
Exercise in the open air. Take two baths a week. 
Eat plenty of fruit and grains. Avoid fats, sweets, 
drugs, tea, coffee and tobacco. To relieve an attack, 
take a hot sitz bath and eat nothing. 
Alcoholism, or Drunkenness.-Symptoms.-Exhilara- 
tion; half-delirium; deep sleep; face bloated; pupils 
contracted; pulse feeble; skin cold. 
Causes.-Intoxicating drinks. 
Treatment.-The powerful medicines of the Kee- 
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insane, and paralyzed. It is a proven fact that all 
desire for intoxicating drinks is taken away by avoid- 
ing meat, greasy, rich foods and condiments, such as 
pepper, mustard, horseradish, catsup, vinegar and 
salt. These things irritate the stomach, and cause 
thirst and a demand for strong drink. Salt meat and 
salty food are great cause of so much drunken- 
ness. Cooks and wives, I beg you to put on the table 
more fruits and grains (rice, oats, wheat, hominy, 
barley), and less meat and highly seasoned foods. 
Within a few days the taste gets accustomed to food 
without pepper, mustard, vinegar and salt. Pouring 
cold water on the head and back of the neck brings 
some men out of a drunken stupor. Sunstroke, 
apoplexy, paralysis or other nerve trouble may be 
mistaken for drunkenness by a policeman, and the 
sick man taken to jail instead of the hospital. 
Delirium Tremens.-Symptoms.-Loss of sleep; hor- 
rid dreams, visions and imaginations; if spoken to he 
answers properly, but he is delirious the next mo- 
ment; generally, trembling and restlessness; face 
flushed or pale; attack lasts two to four days. 
Causes.-Not only drunkenness, but constant 
drinking, though never drunk. 
Treatment.-Rest in bed, in a dark room, without 
any visitors, and only one nurse. Avoid tying him if 
possible. Apply cold to the head, and give the hot 
wet sheet pack, which opens the skin and thus 
relieves. Do not use any drugs. Open the bowels 
with large injections of hot water. 
Morphine Habit, or Opium Habit.-Symptoms.-Loss 
of appetite; emaciation; skin pale and sallow; sleep- 
less; loss of energy; restless; some claim that the 
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Causes.-Generally from using morphine as a med- 
icine. 
Treatment.-Resolutely refusing to use it for two 
weeks may cure. A long sea voyage may cure. Sepa- 
ration of the patient and a special nurse to watch are 
generally necessary. Then adopt the best hygiene of 
baths regularly, fresh air, exercise, and plenty of 
fruits and grains, avoiding drugs, meat, tobacco, beer, 
whisky, and rich, highly-seasoned foods. Kellogg 
cures by shutting off all morphine for two days, then 
allowing small doses for a few days, then shutting it 
off for two days, then still smaller doses, and so on, 
giving the patient to understand he must bear some 
pain. 
Tobacco Habit.-There are now on the market sev- 
eral patent medicines which claim to cure this habit. 
It can be cured much better without them, for 
the poison of the drug has a bad effect upon the 
body. First, be determined to quit, then take a daily 
hot sitz bath, or a daily hot air bath, or a daily hot 
wet sheet pack, for about ten days, to completely re- 
lieve the system. Also take an injection of one to 
three quarts of hot water every other day for a month. 
Keep thebedroom window open at night, and exercise 
at least two hours a day. 
Sun Stroke, or Heat Stroke.-Symptoms.-Face and 
lips pale; skin clammy; head hot; pulse feeble; 
dizziness; dim vision; dilated pupils; nausea; high 
fever. 
Causes.-Exposure to great heat. 
Treatment.-If patient dies, it is generally in nine 
hours from the attack. Carry to a cool place and ap- 
ply ice to the head, or pour cold water on the head. 
Keep the legs and arms warm. If high fever, apply 
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cold water, or wrap him in a cold wet sheet. Many 
never completely recover from sun stroke. 
Acute Hydrocephalus.-Symptoms.-Resulting from 
Bright's disease, or a general dropsy; has nausea and 
vomiting and in two days convulsions, which pass into 
stupor and death. Resulting in children begins with 
restlessness, dizziness, sleeplessness, twitching of 
muscles, and in several days convulsions, stupor and 
death. 
Causes.-Consumption, errors in diet, too much 
mental work by children. 
Treatment.-Apply cold to the head and hot to the 
feet and hands. Keep quiet in a dark room. Apply 
the hot wet sheet pack daily. Most cases die. 
Chronic Hydrocephalus or Water on the Brain.-Symp- 
toms.-Large size of head; emaciation; eyes prom- 
inent. 
Causes.-Generally scrofula, consumption or syph- 
ilis in the mother. 
Treatment.-Tapping by surgery is so far the only 
successful treatment, withdrawing but a few ounces 
of fluid ata time, having bands around the head. 
Chronic Poisoning from Mercury.- Symptoms.- In- 
flammation of stomach; ulcers in the mouth; 
diarrhoea; foul breath; tremors or palsy; ulcers of 
bones; may be hallucinations. 
Causes.-Taking calomel and other form of mer- 
cury as medicine and working with mercury, such as 
makers of mirrors, thermometers, barometers and 
workers in mines of mercury. 
Treatment.-It is generally curable. Adopt the 
best hygiene. The diet should be confined to cooked 
fruits and grains, avoiding meat, fats, sweets, tobacco 
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day, and on the other days a hot wet sheet pack. 
Keep the windows open. Avoid drugs. 
Chronic Lead Poisoning.-Symptoms.-Anaemia; skin 
earthy or dull; derangement of digestion; mouth dry 
and sweet taste; foul breath; coated tongue. Lead 
colic has also blue line on gums, cold sweat, scanty 
urine, severe pain in abdomen. 
Causes.-Working in lead mines, painting, plumb- 
ing, soldering, printing, working in type foundry, 
making lead toys; lead pipes for drinking water; food 
wrapped in lead foil. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Lead paralysis 
comes after repeated attacks of lead colic. If lead 
paralysis, then use massage to the affected part. Use 
an injection every day of one to three quarts of hot 
water. Keep the windows open day and night. Take 
a daily sponge bath, and the treatment recommended 
for chronic poisoning from mercury. 
Chronic Poisoning by Arsenic.-Symptoms.-Loss of 
appetite; rheumatic pains in the legs; pain in the ab- 
domen; headache; inflamed eyes; cannot bear the sun 
light; muscles weak; may be paralysis; eruption on 
the skin; nervous prostration; skin peels off. 
Causes.-Using arsenic as a medicine; handling 
green and brown wall paper and artificial flowers; 
manufacturing green paint and dyes; breathing air 
from arsenic wall papers; leather dressing. 
Treatment.-Same as for chronic poisoning from 
mercury. 
Spinal Hyperaemia.-Symptoms.-Pain in the lower 
part of the back, shooting into the hips; tingling in 
the legs and feet; difficult to walk; may be difficult 
breathing and palpitation of the heart. 
Causes.-Exposure, arrested menstruation, malaria, 
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Treatment.-Rest in bed. Do not lie on the back. 
Apply cold cloths or ice to the spine. Follow the best 
hygiene in nursing. Drugs are useless. 
Spinal Meningitis.-Symptoms.-Chill; pain in the 
back, which is greatly increased by movement; dizzi- 
ness; vomiting; muscles of the back are rigid; stiff 
limbs, neck and trunk; high fever; can't bear to 
be touched or moved; often difficult to empty the 
bowels or bladder; fever moderate or high; difficult 
breathing; spasms; stupor; may be some paralysis. 
Causes.- Exposure; bad hygiene; consumption; 
wounds of the spine; concussion from falls. It occurs 
generally in children. 
Treatment.-Under drug treatment they generally 
die. Perfect rest in bed; very simple, light diet of 
gruels, toast and milk; open windows; sponging with 
cool water, or wrapping in the cool wet sheet, to cool 
the fever; alternately hot and cold cloths on the 
spine for thirty minutes each; these are the best 
treatment. Give an injection daily to clear the 
bowels. If the bladder is not emptied two or three 
times a day, then use a catheter to empty it. Avoid 
drugs and solid, heavy food. 
Myelitis or Inflammation of the Spinal Cord.-Symp- 
toms.-Slight fever; tingling in the limbs; rheumatic 
pains; cramps in legs; partial or complete paralysis; 
loss of feeling in limbs; loss of control of bladder and 
rectum. 
Causes.-Exposure, wounds, stopping of menstrua- 
tion, blood poisoning, drunkenness, syphilis. 
Treatment.-It is often cured. Drugs are harm- 
ful. Give absolute rest is best. Give a hot wet sheet 
pack daily and also the injection of hot water daily. 
Hot air baths are recommended. Apply cold and hot 
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Infantile Paralysis.-Symptoms.-Sudden paralysis 
of a leg or an arm, or all one side of the body. 
Causes.-Sitting on stone steps; exposure; inju- 
ries; eruptive fevers. 
Treatment.-Perfect rest in bed; ice to the spine 
to stop the inflammation; after the inflammation sub- 
sides apply the hot cloths alternately with cold on the 
spine. The diet should be fruits and grains. Keep 
the window open day and night. Massage the mus- 
cles twice a day. Avoid drugs. 
Muscular Atrophy, or Wasting Palsy.-Symptoms.- 
Generally begins in arm, then shoulder and back; 
paralysis results; face is not affected; wasting in legs 
is rare. 
Cause.-Syphilis, injuries, exposure, over-use of 
the muscles. 
Treatment.-Massage the muscles twice a day. 
Adopt the best hygiene of pure air, vegetarian diet, 
and regular bathing. Apply hot and cold wet cloths 
to the spine. 
Lateral Sclerosis.-Symptoms.-Legs get weaker and 
weaker until both of them are completely paralyzed. 
Causes.-Syphilis; heredity; drug poisons as medi- 
cines; alcohol; injuries. 
Treatment.-Same as for muscular atrophy. If 
caused by drug poisons, syphilis or alcohol, then give 
the hot wet sheet pack every other day and the large 
injection of hot water every other day. 
Locomotor Ataxia.-Symptoms.-Lightning pains in 
the legs; inability to walk properly; pupil of the eye 
is contracted and does not change when light is 
thrown on it; some loss of feeling in the skin; no 
knee jerk; often loss of sexual power. 
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or epileptic; overfatigue, as in soldiers; prolonged 
mental anxiety; sexual excess; alcohol. 
Treatment.-It is rarely cured if fully developed. 
It requires five or ten years to cause death. It is 
often relieved by rest, daily sponge bath, application 
to the spine of hot and cold cloths, each for thirty 
minutes for two hours a day; massage to the affected 
muscles, plenty of fresh air and light diet. Drugs 
are useless. The cold douche to the spine is recom- 
mended. Give an injection of one to three quarts of 
hot water every other day and the hot wet sheet pack 
twice a week. 
Ataxic Paraplegia. - Symptoms.-Begins slowly; 
trembling in lower limbs, with aching; sexual power 
is lost; has locomotor ataxia, not being able to stand 
with the feet together and the eyes shut; the knee 
jerk is increased; often cannot hold the urine; grad- 
ual paralysis of lower half of the body. 
Causes.-Heredity, syphilis, exposure, alcoholic 
and sexual excesses. 
Treatment.-Same as for locomotor ataxia. 
Simple Neuritis, or Inflammation of a Nerve.-Symp- 
toms.-Constant pain which is increased by move- 
ment or pressure; the pain may radiate to other 
parts; maybe redness, slight swelling and tingling; 
may be cramps, wasting of muscles and paralysis. 
Causes.-Wounds, malaria, dislocation of bones, 
taking drugs as medicine, violent contraction of mus- 
cles, sprains, exposure; may come from inflamed tis- 
sues in that region, which is the hardest kind to cure. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Give perfect 
rest. If due to cold, then take a sweat in a hot sitz 
bath. If due to wounds, then apply cold along the 
nerves. If there is wasting of the muscles or par- 
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sist of fruits, grains and vegetables. Drugs are use- 
less. Apply hot cloths or ice along the nerve, and 
take hot sitz baths for the pain. Keep the window 
open and take a large injection of hot water every 
other day to clear the bowels. The pain is apt to lin- 
ger a long time in the aged. 
Multiple Neuritis.-Symptoms. - May begin with 
numbness, loss of power to hold up the hands or 
feet; paralysis of various muscles; loss of feeling in 
the limb; may be paralysis of leg muscles and only 
loss of feeling in the hands. This disease is the in- 
flammation of many nerves at once or in rapid suc- 
cession. The pain may last a year or two. 
Causes.-Poisons of alcohol, lead, arsenic, silver, 
or following diphtheria, small-pox, variola, typhoid, 
consumption, syphilis, malaria, rheumatism and gen- 
eral debility of old age 
Treatment.-Discover the cause and remove it by 
the treatment recommended elsewhere in this book. 
Rest is of the greatest importance. Prevent any 
position of the body that would cause deformity; 
hence keep the legs and feet straight. Use the treat- 
ment recommended for neuritis. 
Neuroma, or Tumors in the Nerves.-Symptoms.- 
Pain not only at the diseased part, but in the parts 
where the nerve goes; pain may ache or be shooting; 
seldom muscular weakness; tumor is more movable 
in the transverse than in the long axis of the limb; 
pressure causes pain both in the part and where the 
nerve goes; in some cases there are no symptoms at 
all. 
Causes.-Wounds, syphilis and nervous debility. 
Treatment.-Strict hygienic living cures some, 
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not be cured at all. Avoid drugs. When the symp- 
toms become stationary they do not get worse. 
Sciatica.-Symptoms.-Pain may be constant or at 
intervals of hours; pain is generally worse at the mid- 
dle of the thigh, back of the knee and on top of the 
foot; dull, heavy ache; may be cramps of the leg. 
Rheumatism has pain only on movement. 
Causes.-Poor blood; rheumatism; gout; malaria; 
alcohol; syphilis; tumors; exposure; sitting too 
much on hard chairs; constipation; sexual excesses 
or pressure of the womb. 
Treatment.-The same as for neuralgia. Avoid 
drugs. Rest if severe. Bandage the leg in a hot wet 
towel and leave on all night. Take a hot sitz bath 
next morning. 
Sciatica of the Arm.-Symptoms.-Pain above the 
collar bone, under the shoulder blade, in the arm pit, 
and down the arm; dull pain in the whole arm. 
Causes.-It accompanies gout and muscular rheu- 
matism, and hence is hard to cure. The patient is 
generally past fifty years of age. 
Treatment.-It is generally very tedious. Take 
plenty of rest and a hot sitz bath, or hot wet sheet 
pack every other day. Take an injection of one to 
three quarts of hot water every other day. Avoid 
drugs, meat, rich foods, alcohol, tobacco, tea and 
coffee. Use the treatment for neuralgia. After the 
tenderness is gone, the arm can be gently rubbed. 
Beriberi. - Symptoms.-Anaemia; dropsy of the 
whole body; debility; numbness; pain; difficult 
breathing; may be paralysis of legs, and of the arms 
also; scanty urine; heart troubles. 
Causes.-It resembles multiple neuritis, and re- 
quires the same treatment. It is found in Asia, Africa 
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America. Europeans in foreign lands seldom have it. 
Neuralgia.-Symptoms.-Darting pains which cease 
at times; finally the pain is constant; pain often 
radiates to other nerves; skin becomes quite insensi- 
ble; generally no fever; may last a few minutes, or 
several days. There are two forms of neuralgia, 
superficial and deep. The superficial is in the face 
(tic-douloureux), back and top of the head, in arm 
pit and down the arm, in the ribs (generally by the 
fifth and sixth ribs), in the small of the back, in front 
or inner side of the thigh and at the lowest end of the 
spinal column. The deep neuralgia is of the heart, 
stomach, womb, ovaries, urethra, bladder, rectum, 
kidneys and testes. 
Causes.-Eating too much meat; poor food; rheu- 
matism; syphilis; malaria; anaemia; scars; anxiety; 
exposure; poisoning; tobacco; alcohol; tea and 
coffee. One of my college professors said that nine 
times out of ten neuralgia was caused by tea and 
coffee. 
Treatment. - In old age it is often hard to 
cure. Remove the cause. Hot wet cloths, or 
cold wet cloths, or ice, will relieve the pain. Dry 
heat, as a hot smoothing iron, hot water in a bot- 
tle, or hot bag of meal, may relieve. Sometimes a 
hot sitz bath relieves. Rubbing gently with the 
hand is often helpful. Neuralgia of the head is 
quickly relieved by wrapping the head up in a blan- 
ket wrung out of water nearly boiling hot. Kirk re- 
lieves some cases by applying along the spine, towels 
wrung out of cold water, and changed every five min- 
utes. This soothes the inflamed nerves as it does in 
chorea, or St. Vitus' dance. Kellogg recommends 
the application for three to five minutes of a mixture 
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it permanently the patient's health must be improved. 
Keep the windows open day and night. Read the 
above list of causes and avoid all of them. The diet 
must be simple and plain, avoiding fats, sweets, rich 
foods, pepper, vinegar, mustard and other condi- 
ments. Take a daily sponge bath. Sun baths several 
times a week are helpful. Keep the bowels open by 
large injections of hot water every other day. 
Paralysis of the Face.-Symptoms.-Corner of the 
mouth is depressed; eylids open; unable to spit, 
whistle or swallow; cannot wink or close the eye 
on the paralyzed side. 
Causes.-Exposure to cold; injury; syphilis; disease 
of the middle ear; heart disease. 
Treatment.-If caused by exposure, then give a hot 
sitz bath every other day and on other days a hot wet 
sheet pack. Every other day give a large injection of 
hot water. Eat plenty of fruits and grains and but 
little meat. Massage the affected muscles several 
times a day by rubbing and pinching them. Be sure 
to always breath pure air day and night. Galvanic or 
Faradic electricity applied every other day is a help. 
Th is paralysis generally gets well. 
Shaking Palsy, or Paralysis Agitans.-Symptoms.- 
Trembling in hand, arm or leg; sleeplessness; often 
mental changes. 
Causes.-Old age, debility and constipation. 
Treatment.-Rest for both body and mind is of 
great importance. Improve the general health by 
pure air, daily hot sponge bath, and a diet of fruits, 
grains and vegetables. Avoid tobacco, stimulants, 
meat, rich foods, drugs, tea and coffee. Massage the 
affected muscles. Every day give an injection of one 
to three quarts of hot water to keep the bowels open, 
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disease. Prof. Kirk of Edinburgh has had great suc- 
cess in palsy and all forms of paralysis by the 
thorough application of hot or cold cloths (generally 
hot) to the spine where the nerves branch off to the 
affected part. For example, if the legs were affected 
the hot cloths were vigorously applied to the lower 
part of the spine; if the arms were affected, then the 
hot cloths were applied between the shoulders. 
Paralysis of the Lower Limbs, or Paraplegia.-Symp- 
toms.-Power of motion and feeling lost; usually the 
bladder and rectum are paralyzed. 
Causes.-Heredity; syphilis; concussion from-a 
fall; exposure to wet cold; prostration of childbirth 
or abortion; sexual excess; debility; excessive athletic 
exercise. 
Treatment.-The same as for palsy. Dr. Trail 
generally cured paralysis of one side of the body by 
hygiene alone. Curing paralysis depends on the 
cause, as some can not be cured. Complete recovery 
is rare. 
Wasting of One Side of the Face.-Symptoms.-One 
side of the face grows thinner and smaller than the 
other; the bones of the face may also be smaller; ear 
and teeth may also be smaller on that side; whiskers 
don't grow on that side. 
Causes.-Injuries; has followed scarlet fever and 
diphtheria 
Treatment.-There is little hope for improvement 
unless it comes on in adult life or from an injury. 
Treatment the same as for palsy. 
Paralysis Following Acute Diseases.-Paralysis some- 
times follows diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, 
erysipelas, variola, measles, mumps, malaria, diar- 
rhoea, dysentery, acute rheumatism and influenza. No 
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diseases is largely the cause of the paralysis, because 
hygienic doctors of wide experience never have 
serious complications (sequelae) following their treat- 
ment of these diseases. This paralysis usually comes 
on suddenly on one side of the body, and may be loss 
of speech. It generally passes away, but may con- 
tinue. The paralysis following diphtheria generally 
passes away in six or eight weeks. In the diphtheretic 
paralysis it may be almost impossible to swallow, and 
the voice is nasal from paralysis of the soft palate. 
Also there may be grave heart symptoms and the eyes 
may be troubled. The bladder suffers only in the 
worst cases. If the swallowing muscles are so par- 
alyzed that the food goes into the windpipe, then the 
food must be passed into the stomach through a 
rubber tube, or injected into the rectum. The treat- 
ment consists of the best hygiene, viz.: pure air day 
and night, daily sponge bath, diet of fruits, grains and 
vegetables, sun baths, massage, and essentially the 
same treatment as for palsy. 
Chorea.-Symptoms.-In slight attacks there are 
only twitchings and jerkings of various muscles. In 
severe cases these symptoms are greatly increased so 
the patient cannot sit nor lie down. In walking the 
steps are unequal and irregular. It may affect only 
one side of the body. The skin is often worn 
through and no complaint of pain. It is always 
accompanied by poor digestion and constipation. 
There is a kind that comes on in old age. 
Causes.-Constipation; poor hygiene; masturba- 
tion, and anaemia. 
Treatment.-Loss of sleep and heart troubles are 
the main dangers. Take plenty of exercise in the 
open air. Keep the windows open a few inches night 
and day. The diet should be mainly fruits and 124 
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grains, with few vegetables. Avoid all drugs, meat, 
rich foods, tobacco, stimulants, tea and coffee. Take 
a daily, quick, hot sponge bath, and a daily injection 
to move the bowels. Eat only three meals a day, and 
not a bite to eat between meals. It is well to mas- 
sage the whole body daily. Prof. Kirk, of Edin- 
burgh, says he never failed to cure the most serious 
cases of this disease in a few days by the following 
plan: Take an ordinary towel and fold it eight-ply 
longways, so as to make a thick bandage. This is 
wrung out of the coldest water at hand, and placed on 
a dry towel folded four-ply. As carefully as possible 
both are placed along the whole length of the spine, 
the wet one next to the skin, and the patient is gently 
laid down on them. In two or three minutes some 
little lessening of the dance may be seen. After 
about four minutes you make ready another cold 
towel, and change it for the first one wrung out. 
When you have done this about six times, you will 
let the patient lie still on the towels for about fifteen 
minutes, and then repeat the six changes again. 
Then give another rest of fifteen minutes. Now take 
the towels off, and rub all the back gently with warm 
olive oil (sweet oil). This process is to be gone 
through with every morning till all movement of an 
involuntary, jerky character has entirely disappeared. 
This will generally be in about eight days even in the 
worst cases. 
Epilepsy, or Falling Sickness.-Symptoms.-Sudden 
falling; loss of consciousness for a few minutes; 
white face; spasms, or fits; frothing at the mouth. 
Causes.-Heredity; syphilis; brain disease; womb 
disease; sexual excesses; alcohol; tobacco; mental 
overwork, and errors in food. 
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parents had epilepsy, or if it comes from brain 
trouble, it perhaps cannot be cured. Many can be 
cured by hygiene. During the fit little can be done, 
except apply cold water on the head, and keep the 
patient from biting his tongue by a wedge of wood 
between his teeth. When the patient can tell just 
before an attack comes, it can often be prevented by 
putting the hands in cold water, or by grasping firmly 
some object. Dr. Trail says that the diet is the main 
agent of cure, and should consist of fruits, grains, 
vegetables and wholemeal bread. Avoid drugs, meat, 
tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee. Take a daily sponge 
bath, and every other day a large injection to move 
the bowels. Take plenty of sleep, and exercise in the 
open air. Eat only three meals a day, the supper 
being light. Kellogg says that eating too much is a 
great hindrance to cure. Keep the windows open 
day and night. 
Hysteria. - Symptoms.-Patient talks excitedly, 
laughs, cries, falls down, groans, sobs; may last a 
minute or an hour; seems to be a ball in the throat; 
palpitation of the heart; may become cold and lose 
consciousness. 
Causes.-Idleness; sexual excess; errors in diet; 
nervous debility and womb disease. 
Treatment.-Loosen the clothing; admit fresh air 
and apply cold or hot wet cloths along the spine. 
Prevent future attacks by removing the cause and liv- 
ing according to the directions given for torpid liver. 
Be sure to take an injection of one to three quarts of 
hot water every other day. 
Nervous Prostration, or Neurasthenia.-Symptoms.- 
Nervousness; peevishness; sleeplessness; cold hands 
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ziness; weariness; melancholy, and scores of other 
symptoms. 
Causes.-Overwork; loss of sleep; sexual excess- 
es; tobacco and alcohol; errors in diet; such as tea, 
coffee, condiments and excessive use of meat; too 
little exercise; irregular habits; drugs as medicines. 
Treatment.-Avoid strictly all the things enumer- 
ated as causes. You will improve and get well if you 
will take a daily sponge bath, two hours' exercise 
daily, keep the windows open day and night; drink a 
cup of water half an hour before meals; eat only 
three meals a day and eat nothing between meals; 
take a hot sitz bath once or twice a week; take a large 
injection every other day to move the bowels. 
Exopthalmic Goitre.-Symptoms.-Enlarged gland on 
the front of the neck; eyes staring; palpitation of 
the heart; anaemia; debility; nervousness; sleepless- 
ness. 
Cause.-Nervous exhaustion; heredity; great 
fright; heart disease. 
Treatment.-Some cases get well. Avoid drugs. 
Take rest for both body and mind and follow mainly 
the treatment for nervous exhaustion. 
Lockjaw, or Tetanus.-Symptoms.-Comes on sud- 
denly; stiffness of jaws and neck; children may have 
the mouth partly open; difficulty in swallowing; 
spasms; body maybe bent backward in form of an 
arch; may bend forward and head nearly touch the 
knees; great suffering. Symptoms appear in a few 
hours, or as late as two weeks after the injury. 
Causes.-Generally from wounds; may be from 
exposure to wet cold. 
Treatment.-Rest and quiet. Apply ice along the 
spine. Give a full hot bath. Keep the windows open. 
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jections. Death generally results in three to fourteen 
days. 
Spasms of Muscles in the Arm and Leg:, or Tetany.- 
Symptoms.-Spasms of muscles of the hands, feet, 
arms and legs. It may last only a few minutes or 
hours. 
Causes.-Exposure to wet cold, Bright's disease 
and lead poisoning. 
Treatment.-It generally passes off without any 
special treatment. Apply cold wet cloths, or better, 
ice, to the spine. Prevent future attacks by living 
according to the treatment recommended for nervous 
exhaustion. 
Writer's Cramp, and Cramp of Piano-Players, Vio- 
lin Players, Blacksmiths, Telegraphers and Dancers. 
-Symptoms.-Stiffness, pain, cramp and may be par- 
alysis in the muscles used. 
Causes.-Overwork of the muscles. 
Treatment.-As soon as the trouble is discovered, 
give the muscles complete rest, which often brings 
complete recovery. Improve the general health by 
hygiene. Massage with cold and hot applications 
cures some. Some are incurable. 
Cramp.-Symptoms.-Contraction of a muscle with 
great pain. 
Treatment.-It is generally easily cured by firm 
pressure with the hand, or if in the foot pressing it 
against any hard object. I have often seen it quickly 
relieved by application of cold. Hot wet cloths re- 
lieve it. A hot sitz bath and a large injection of hot 
water relieve cramp in the stomach. The habit of 
cramping can be cured by strict hygienic living. 
Wry Neck, or Torticollis.-Symptoms.-Twisting of 
the head away from the natural position; may be a 
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Causes.-There are three varieties. One is con- 
genital or fixed, in which the muscles are shortened, 
and the head is pulled to one side. This can be cured 
only by surgical operation generally, but slight attacks 
can be cured by massage and hygienic living. The 
second form is spasmodic and of nervous origin. It 
may be slight or severe, and if fully developed is hard 
to cure. It needs only the treatment recommended 
for nervous prostration. The third form is of rheu- 
matic origin and is cured by hot sitz baths and strict 
hygienic living. 
Uraemic Convulsions.-Symptoms.-May be preceded 
by partial or total loss zof sight; unusually severe 
spasms (fits) come together, separated by a few min- 
utes or hours; albumen in urine; resembles an epi- 
leptic fit. 
Cause.-Kidney disease. 
Treatment.-As in all convulsions use plenty of 
cold air, and cold water on the head, and the body in 
a hot bath. Treat the kidneys. Drugs are useless 
and harmful. 
Trance, or Catalepsy, or Hypnotism. - Symptoms.- 
Muscles are hard and limbs stiff; later the limbs can 
be moved and they remain where they are put; 
breathing and pulse slow; consciousness may or may 
not be lost; may come at certain periods. 
Causes.-Hysteria; heredity; debility; exhausting 
diseases, or an object placed before the eyes. 
Treatment.-Cold wet cloths, or ice, to the head 
and spine to stop an attack. Between attacks treat 
the same as hysteria. 
Lumbago.-Symptoms.-Pain in the back, usually 
shooting upwards, and increased by muscular exer- 
cise; sometimes accompanied by sciatica. Lumbago 
is called a neuralgia by some and muscular rheuma- DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
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tism by others. Rheumatism has soreness while neu- 
ralgia has not. 
Causes.-Cold and damp; rheumatism; malaria; 
sexual excesses and overwork. One attack predis- 
poses to another. 
Treatment.-Rest is the first thing. Hot sitz baths 
twice a day and the application of hot wet cloths gen- 
erally relieve. Take injections of one to three quarts 
of hot water. Some cases are quite hard to cure, and 
if not relieved by the above, then eat only one meal a 
day, and massage by firm pressure and rubbing the 
affected part. Drugs do no good. Treat the same as 
neuralgia and wear a hot wet towel around the small 
of the back all night for several nights. 
Intercostal Neuralgia.-Symptoms.-Deep breathing; 
laughing, coughing and sneezing are exceedingly pain- 
ful; pain usually continuous; pain in the chest, on 
one or both sides; it is confined to the spaces be- 
tween the ribs and has three tender points, near the 
breast bone, straight down under the arm pit and near 
the spine. 
Causes.-Same as neuralgia. 
Treatment.-Apply cold and hot wet cloths thor- 
oughly to the spine opposite the affected part. Treat 
same as neuralgia. 
Headache.-The usual causes of headache are con- 
stipation; torpid liver; inactive kidneys; overloaded 
stomach; lack of bathing; poor blood; womb trouble; 
stomach and lung diseases; fevers; syphilis; debility; 
rheumatism; brain troubles; too much or too little 
blood; hysteria; poor ventilation; alcohol; tea; 
coffee; late suppers and heart disease. 
Treatment.-Remove all the above causes if possi- 
ble. Generally it can be relieved by a hot foot bath 
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a ch trouble, apply hot wet cloths on the stomach. If 
subject to headache, avoid tea, coffee, alcohol, fried 
food and drugs. Take a quick sponge bath daily. 
Keep the windows open day and night. Exercise at 
least two hours a day. Take an injection of one to 
three quarts of hot water every other day. Eat plenty 
of fruits and grains (rolled oats, cracked wheat, gra- 
ham bread, hominy and barley). 
Spasm of the Face.-Symptoms.-Twitchings of vari- 
ous muscles of the face and head. 
Treatment.-Same as for nervous exhaustion. 
Sleeplessness, or Insomnia.-Causes.-Late suppers; 
too little exercise; mental overwork; indigestion; to- 
bacco; drugs; tea; coffee; an afternoon nap; lack 
of bathing; constipation; cold feet; excitement; 
novel reading or hard study just before going to bed. 
Treatment.-This is a very serious disease and re- 
quires prompt attention. Remove all the above 
causes. Exercise an hour (walking, for example) just 
before going to bed. A cool sponge bath or a warm 
bath just before going to bed cures some. If you can 
not sleep do not get up and read. Sleep comes to 
some by throwing back the bed-clothes and exposing 
for a few minutes the naked body to the air, rubbing 
the skin gently at the same time. Some get sleep by 
taking several deep breaths very slowly. Keep the 
windows open night and day. 
Sleep-Walking, or Somnambulism.-This is a nervous 
disease caused by disordered digestion, worms in the 
alimentary canal and brain diseases. Treat the cause. 
Dr. Kellogg says a strip of tin or wet carpet placed 
near the bed, so that when the person gets up he will 
put his feet on it, will wake him up. 
Hypochondria. - Symptoms. - Excessive anxiety in 
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symptom; false ideas as to the presence of disease 
though faithful examinations can produce no evidence 
of disease. 
Causes.-Heredity; weak nerves; disordered diges- 
tion; former ill-health, though now comparatively 
well. It may lead to melancholia when tendency to 
suicide develops. 
Treatment.-The acquired form can be cured, but 
not the form from heredity. Cure any actual ailment. 
Live strictly according to hygiene, with daily sponge 
bath, plenty of exercise, fresh air and diet of fruits, 
grains and vegetables. Avoid drugs, meat, tea, 
coffee, rich foods, tobacco and stimulants. Have 
some work to do to keep the mind off of the disease. 
The cure is slow. If she is well, show her she is, and 
insist on it. diseases of tbe JBloob Vessels anb ®loob. 
Inflammation of the Heart-Case, or Acute Pericarditis. 
-Symptoms.-Rough, rubbing sound heard on listen- 
ing to the heart; generally acute pain under the left 
nipple, which is increased by breathing and coughing; 
may be fever, nausea, palpitation, difficult breathing, 
faintness, hiccough and irregular pulse. Inflamma- 
tion of the sac surrounding the heart may be well 
marked and yet have no characteristic symptom. 
Causes.-Dr. Trail says the main cause is drugs 
taken for rheumatism and other diseases. It gen- 
erally follows some other disease, as rheumatism, 
pleurisy, influenza, scarlet fever, variola, puerperal 
fever, consumption, Bright's disease, blood poisoning, 
gout, scurvy, diabetes, measles or peritonitis. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Rest (if sevele 
give perfect rest in bed with perfect quiet). Plain 
diet, avoiding meat, tea, coffee, rich foods, tobacco 
and alcohol. Apply hot wet cloths to the pain. 
Sponge with tepid water to cool the fever. It being 
an inflammation, use the cool wet sheet pack daily. 
If there is severe dropsy of the heart, the water may 
be removed by tapping with an aspirator, though 
this will very rarely be necessary if thorough use is 
made of the hot wet sheet pack and hot sitz bath 
on alternate days. Do not use drugs. Keep the 
windows open. 
Chronic Pericarditis, or Inflammation of the Heart-Case. 
-Symptoms.-Pain and distress under the left nipple; 
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irregular and feeble pulse; difficult breathing and 
rough, rubbing sound heard on listening to the heart. 
Cause.-An acute attack. 
Treatment.-Same as for acute pericarditis. 
Dropsy of the Heart.-Symptoms.-Dry cough; pain 
under left nipple; difficult breathing; irregular and 
feeble pulse; cannot swallow; putting the ear over 
the heart, the heart-sounds seem far away. 
Causes. - Generally dropsy, Bright's disease, 
sudden pneumothorax, aneurism, tumors, or disease 
of the veins of the heart. 
Treatment.-Treat the cause. Give very plain, 
dry diet. Drink only for thirst. Use the hot wet 
sheet pack one day and the hot sitz bath the next, 
with a daily sponge bath. Clear the bowels every 
other day with an injection of hot water. If not re- 
lieved after a faithful and thorough trial of the above, 
remove the water by tapping with an aspirator. 
Avoid drugs, stimulants, tobacco, alcohol and meat. 
Inflammation of the Lining Membrane of the Heart, or 
Acute Endocarditis. - Symptoms. -Palpitation; cough; 
fever; vomiting; rapid pulse; noises in the ears; 
slight difficulty in breathing; various peculiar sounds 
heard on listening to the heart. 
Causes and Treatment.-Same as for inflamma- 
tion of the heart-case. 
Malignant Endocarditis.-This is a malignant inflam- 
mation of the lining membrane of the heart. The pulse 
is rapid, irregular and feeble, and associated with a de- 
pressed state of the body, as shown by headache, deli- 
rium, sordes on the teeth, irregular fever, vomiting 
and chills. So far this has been associated with lung 
fever, influenza, erysipelas and blood poisoning. No 
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Treatment same as for inflammation of the heart- 
case. 
Chronic Endocarditis, or Valvular Disease of the Heart.- 
Symptoms.-General dropsy; stomach, kidney and liver 
troubles prominent; murmurs heard on listening to 
the heart; palpitation of the heart and other usual 
heart symptoms of pain and difficult breathing. 
Causes.-Alcohol, syphilis, Bright's disease, and 
following rheumatism, pleurisy, and infectious dis- 
eases. 
Treatment.-Treat the symptoms of dropsy, kid- 
ney, liver and stomach troubles. It is generally in- 
curable, but life may be prolonged greatly by a reg- 
ular, temperate and hygienic life. Avoid overwork 
of body and mind. Avoid drugs, exposure, alcohol, 
tobacco, meat, tea, coffee and sexual excesses. 
Hypertrophy, or Overwork of the Heart.-Symptoms. 
-Palpitation; frequent and irregular pulse; difficult 
breathing; can't sleep with head low; can see the 
chest wall rise with each beat of the heart, but lower 
and to the left of the normal place; visible pulsation 
of the arteries; extended area of dullness on per- 
cussion. 
Causes.-Valvular disease of the heart, alcohol, 
tobacco, excessive use of tea and coffee, and Bright's 
disease. 
Treatment.-Avoid all causes. Rest on the back 
several hours a day. The diet should be plain and 
consist of fruits, grains and vegetables. Niemeyer 
recommends wearing constantly over the heart a 
rubber bag filled with ice water. In Germany this 
disease is cured by living entirely on grapes and a 
little bread. Almost any sub-acid fruit will do as well 
as grapes, such as apples, peaches or pears (dry or 
fresh). Use very little or no sugar on fruit. Use the DISEASES OF THE BLOOD VESSELS. 
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daily sponge bath, open windows, and hot sitz bath, 
or hot wet sheet pack twice a week. Avoid drugs. 
Dilatation of the Heart.- Symptoms.- Feeble pulse; 
pain; liver, stomach and kidney troubles; cough; can- 
not lie down; often great relief from the above symp- 
toms during the disease; finally dropsy. 
Causes.-Valvular disease of the heart; over-exer- 
tion in the young; syphilis; Bright's disease; alcohol 
and gout. 
Treatment.-It can be cured if the kidneys, lungs 
and other organs are not too badly diseased. Rest is 
of the first importance. Treat the symptoms of 
dropsy, liver, stomach and kidney troubles. Kellogg 
says he has seen splendid results from the application 
of electricity to the spine, neck and over the heart. 
Avoid drugs and follow the treatment for overgrowth 
of the heart. 
Inflammation of the Muscle of the Heart, or Myocarditis. 
-Symptoms.-Symptoms are very obscure, as feeble 
pulse, difficult breathing, palpitation, debility, first 
sound of the heart weak or absent. 
Causes.-Alcohol, tobacco, syphilis, and high 
fevers. 
Treatment.-Rest, diet of fruits, grains and vege- 
tables, daily bath and other hygienic measures are the 
best general treatment. Drugs do no good. Like all 
inflammations it needs cold; hence wear cold wet 
cloths over the heart several hours a day. Hygienic 
treatment of high fevers prevents it. 
Fatty Degeneration of the Heart.-Symptoms.-Easily 
tired; difficult breathing; cold feet; dropsy of the 
ankles; short breath; faintness. There is generally a 
pearly, opaque cresent on the upper and lower parts 
of the cornea. Symptoms are generally obscure. 
May be irregular breathing. 136 
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Causes.-Eating excess of fat foods; alcohol; gout; 
Bright's disease, and poisoning by phosphorous. 
Treatment.-If not too chronic it can be cured by 
hygiene. Drugs are useless. Avoid eating fats and 
sugars. Moderate exercise, open windows, daily 
sponge bath, hot sitz baths or hot wet sheet pack 
twice a week, plain diet, and an injection every other 
day to. clear the bowels, are the best treatment. 
Avoid excitement, anger, violent exercise, alcohol, 
tobacco, tea and coffee. 
Palpitation of the Heart.-Symptoms.-Excessive ac- 
tion of the heart; pain; difficult breathing. 
Causes.-Valvular disease of the heart; disorders 
of digestion; dyspepsia; womb trouble; excitement; 
tea; coffee; tobacco; alcohol; anaemia, and sexual 
excesses. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Place a cold wet 
cloth or ice over the heart, or press strongly on the 
large arteries on the sides of the neck to relieve an 
attack. To prevent future attacks, cure the dyspep- 
sia, nervous exhaustion, anaemia and other causes. 
Rapid Heart, or Tachycardia. - Symptoms. - The 
pulse increases to 150 to 250 a minute. The usual 
pulse is about 72 a minute. 
Causes.-"Change of life"; tobacco; nervous ex- 
haustion and chronic inflammation of the stomach. 
Treatment.-Same as for palpitation. 
Rupture of the Heart.-Symptoms.-Intense pain; 
rapid, irregular pulse; restlessness; pallor; cold skin; 
vomiting; greater area of dullness because of hem- 
orrhage. 
Causes.-Fatty degeneration, dilitation, abcess, 
and aneurism of the heart. It generally occurs past 
sixty years of age. 
Treatment.-The patient may die suddenly, or DISEASES OF TllE BLOOD VESSELS. 
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may live as long as eight days. Give him rest, and 
ease his pains by hot wet cloths or morphine (since 
he cannot get well) in one-eighth or one-fourth grain 
doses every hour or two. 
Misplaced Heart.-The normal location of the heart 
is shown by the beating of the heart, which is seen in 
the space between the fifth and sixth ribs, and half 
way between the left nipple and the breast bone 
(sternum). This visible beat (of the apex) of the 
heart is misplaced upward by abdominal tumors, 
dropsy of the abdomen, excessive gas in the abdomen, 
shrinkage of upper part of the left lung, and dropsy 
of the heart. The heart is misplaced down by emphy- 
sema, pneumothorax, and enlargement of the left 
ventricle of the heart. It is misplaced to the left by 
fluid in the right pleura (between the right lung and 
the ribs), and enlargement of the left ventricle of the 
heart. It is misplaced to the right by left pneu- 
mothorax, or fluid in the left pleura, and shrinkage 
of the right lung. Treat the cause. 
The heart may be misplaced from the time of birth, 
so as to be in the right side, or in the middle line or 
even in the abdomen, below the diaphragm, instead of 
in the left side, as is normal. If the heart is well 
formed, in the abnormal positions it does not matter. 
Nothing can be done, except be careful. 
Slow Heart, or Bradycardia.-Svmptoms.-Pulse from 
50 to only 10 a minute. The usual pulse is about 
72 a minute. 
Causes.-Nervous diseases; poisoning; fatty heart; 
uraemia; high fevers, and rheumatism. 
Treatment.-Treat the cause. Hot sitz baths and 
hot wet cloths over the heart will relieve. Daily 
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plain diet of fruits, grains and vegetables are best. 
Do not use drugs. 
Irregular Pulse, or Arrhythmia.-Symptoms. -Irreg- 
ular pulse and others, depending on the cause. 
Causes.-Dyspepsia, tobacco, tea, coffee, hysteria, 
melancholia, nervous exhaustion and heart disease. 
Treatment.-It can be cured, unless it is caused by 
chronic heart disease. Remove the cause as directed 
for the various diseases. Give rest to body and mind. 
Drugs do no good. 
Angina Pectoris, or Neuralgia of the Heart.-Symp- 
toms.-Intense pain and oppression about the heart, 
which may extend across the chest and back to left 
shoulder; faintness; great pallor of the face; gen- 
erally frequent and excessive urine. 
Causes.-Heredity; nervous exhaustion; rheum- 
atism; tobacco; malaria; exposure and indigestion. 
Treatment.-Treat the cause. Live mainly as di- 
rected elsewhere for nervous exhaustion. To relieve 
an attack pour cold water on the head, warm the legs 
and arms by hot foot bath and hot irons or bottles of 
hot water, and give an emetic of plenty of warm water 
and tickling the throat. 
Hardening of the Arteries, or Artheroma.-Symptoms. 
-The arteries on the wrist and other places feel hard 
and bony. 
Causes.-Old age; syphilis; alcohol; heredity; 
rheumatism; kidney trouble; malaria and lead pois- 
oning. 
Treatment.-Nothing can remove the deposit after 
it forms, but further progress of the disease can be 
stopped by strict hygiene. Daily sponge bath, open 
windows, two hours' exercise each day, avoiding alco- 
hol, tobacco, meat and rich foods is the best treat- 
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Aneurism.-This is a tumor, or swelling, containing 
blood and communicating with an artery. It may be 
found in any part of the body, but generally inside 
the chest, on the aorta. When large it may be mis- 
taken for an abcess. Women rarely have it. The 
symptoms are trouble with the heart and one or both 
arms become dropsical. The tumor pulsates, and 
putting the ear to it a blowing sound is heard. Dr. 
Tuffnell has given some conclusive examples of the 
complete cure of abdominal aneurism by absolute 
rest, day and night, in bed, for at least three months, 
and a restricted diet. The restricted diet reduces the 
heart's action. Tuffnell's cures were proven true by 
dissections after death. He cured one case of 
aneurism on the arch of the aorta by the same means. 
The rest is total, never leaving the bed for three 
months nor moving, except to turn on the side once 
in a while. The diet was ten ounces of solid food 
and eight ounces of liquid a day. Surgical opera- 
tions are recommended, together with strict hygiene. 
Never use drugs. 
Embolism and Thrombosis.-An embolus is a blood 
clot or other body floating in the blood. An embo- 
lism is clogging of a blood vessel by an embolus. 
This may cause apoplexy, paralysis or wasting of 
muscles in those parts. Thrombosis is a clot formed 
at the point where it is found. The brain, kidneys, 
liver and lungs are the organs generally affected by 
embolism. 
Causes.-Disease of the heart and surgical opera- 
tions. 
Treatment.-Perfect rest, light diet, open windows 
and daily sponge bath are the best treatment. Clots 
of blood in wounds may form embolism if the patient 
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Inflammation of the Veins, or Phlebitis.-Symptoms.- 
Pain on pressure; swelling and redness along the 
veins. 
Causes.-Wounds, surgical operations and throm- 
bosis. 
Treatment.-Hot or cold wet cloths applied, and 
the cool wet sheet pack twice a day. Drugs do no 
good. 
Varicose Veins.-Symptoms.-Veins greatly dilated 
and winding. Piles and varicocele are different vari- 
eties of this disease. 
Causes.-Constipation; pregnancy; tight garters; 
tumors; a truss; or being on the feet too much, and 
stimulants (as tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and 
drugs). 
Treatment.-If not promptly and properly treated 
they form ulcers. Dr. Allinson, of London, says: 
" With proper treatment no ill results need be feared. 
Avoid operations, such as cutting, strangulation of 
them, as these operations are nearly always useless. 
Elastic stockings, rubber bandages, and such things, 
do no good, but may cause mischief in other 
structures. Do not use tobacco, beer, wines, spirits, 
tea, coffee, white bread, rice, sugar, tapioca or pota- 
toes. Whole meal bread, fruits and vegetables must 
be consumed freely. Exercise (walking) must be 
taken regularly. Eat but little meat. Garters must 
not be worn below the knee. Pregnant women must 
not expect to lose their vericose veins till after their 
confinement. To rub the veins upward with the hand 
night and morning is a good practice." Dr. Allinson 
says he has cured cases just by their eating whole 
meal bread (not the stuff which bakers make out of 
bran, white flour and molasses and call it graham 
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141 
Inflammation of the Lymphatics.-Symptoms.-Pain- 
ful lumps in the neck, or armpits, or groins. 
Causes.- Malignant diseases (as gonorrhoea and 
syphilis) and ulcers. 
Treatment.-Apply hot fomentations. I have had 
splendid results in this disease from the cool wet 
sheet pack. If the enlargement ulcerates, let it get 
perfectly ripe before opening, then dress it with cold 
wet cloths. 
White Blood, or Leucaemia.-Symptoms.-Anaemia; 
enlarged spleen; enlarged glands in the groin; great 
pallor; swelling of abdomen; fever; delirium; death. 
Causes.-The books say that the cause is unknown. 
I saw one case and am quite convinced it comes of too 
much drugs as medicine. 
Treatment.-Practically the same as anaemia (sun- 
shine, daily bath, pleasant surroundings, open win- 
dows, massage, diet of fruits, grains and easily 
digested vegetables). Drugs only do harm. 
Anaemia.- Symptoms.-Pale face; weakness; de- 
bility; cold hands and feet. 
Causes.-Poor food; hemorrhage; worms; lack of 
exercise and fresh air; excessive nursing; malaria; 
Bright's disease; sexual excesses; mental overwork; 
dyspepsia; fever. 
Treatment.-Find the cause and remove it. Iron 
is useless and harmful. The cure is very simple and 
very sure. Take plenty of sleep. Keep the windows 
open a few inches. Exercise according to strength, 
until finally two hours a day. Sun baths and quick 
sponge bath should be taken daily. If not able to ex- 
ercise, then have massage for half an hour daily. 
Eating plenty of fruit, whole meal bread, grains and 
vegetables makes blood and cures constipation. 
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coffee and tobacco. Take a hot sitz bath twice a 
week. Take an injection every other day. 
Green Sickness, or Chlorosis.-Symptoms.-Anaemia; 
dark circles about the eyes; suppressed or scanty 
menstruation; depression of mind. 
Causes.-Poor food; improper food; lack of sun- 
shine and fresh air, and heredity. 
Treatment.-Same as anaemia. 
Pernicious Anaemia.-This is a progressive anaemia 
which usually resists all drug treatment. The spleen 
is not enlarged. 
Causes.-Found in pregnancy and syphilis. 
Treatment.-They usually die in six weeks to a 
few months. This is a very rare disease. Rest is the 
main treatment, together with all else that is recom- 
mended for anaemia. 
Hodgkin's Disease.-Symptoms.-Anaemia with en- 
larged glands in various parts of the body. The cause 
is unknown. 
Treatment.-Same as for anaemia. Do not use 
drugs. The liver is generally diseased, hence treat it. 
Bronzed Skin, Addison's Disease.-Symptoms.-Loss of 
appetite; indigestion; langour; dizziness; yellow then 
bronze colored skin. 
Causes.-Consumption, scrofula and syphilis, and 
degeneration of the capsule on the top of the kidneys 
have been thought to be the causes. 
Treatment.-It is incurable. The patient gen- 
erally lives a year or two. Prolong his life by prac- 
tically the same treatment as for anaemia. 
Bleeder's Disease, or Haemophilia.-Symptoms.- 
Bleeding from a slight scratch which does not stop; 
spontaneous bleeding from nose, mouth, lungs, 
stomach, bowels, or urinary organs. The bleeding DISEASES OF THE BLOOD. 
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may continue for days or weeks in spite of all treat- 
ment by drugs or hygiene. 
Cause.-Hereditary. 
Treatment.-Keep the bleeding part cold with ice 
and the legs and hands hot. Cold air and ice are the 
best means to stop*bleeding. If the bleeding con- 
tinues a long time, use hot wet cloths alternately 
with the ice. Hot water in the stomach will often 
stop bleeding elsewhere. Mechanical means may be 
used, as stuffing the vagina full of cold wet cloths or 
the nose full of cotton. Prolonged and steady pres- 
sure sometimes stops it. There is no remedy to per- 
manently cure, but would be less likely to have it if 
strict hygiene is followed. Avoid drugs. 
Scorbutus, or Scurvy.-Symptoms.-Anaemia; debil- 
ity; swollen gums, which bleed easily; depressed 
spirits; dry, rough skin. ' 
Causes.-Lack of fruits and vegetables as food; 
melancholia; prolonged heat. 
Treatment.-Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. 
Take a daily bath. Keep the windows open a few 
inches. 
Purpura.-Symptoms.-Simplex variety has small, 
bright red spots under the skin which fade to purple. 
Urtican variety has small elevations on the skin like 
wheals, without itching, on the legs, breast and arms. 
Bleeding variety has besides the spots under the skin, 
a bleeding from the mucous surfaces. Moderate fever 
and debility accompany purpura. 
Causes.-Unknown. Children and aged people 
have it. 
Treatment.-Rest and good hygiene as recom- 
mended for anaemia. Avoid drugs. 
Blue Disease, or Cyanosis.-Symptoms.-Blue skin; 
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Cause.-Heart is deformed. 
Treatment.-It can not be cured. Avoid exposure 
to all diseases and live according to hygiene. 
Impure Blood.-This is a disease many people think 
they have and so they take drugs and patent medi- 
cines. Only three things can make pure blood, viz.: 
pure food, pure water and pure air. If you have im- 
pure blood these three things will make it pure. Do 
not take drugs or patent medicines. About four- 
fifths of human blood is water. Water is cheap. 
Drink a pint of hot water and it will do you more 
good than all the drugs in the world. I drink only 
boiled water if I can get it EHseascs of tbc Ikfbneps anb SBIabbcr. 
Congestion of the Kidneys.- Symptoms. - Urine 
abundant, scanty and pale; pain over the kidneys; 
constant desire to pass water; maybe scanty urine 
with blood in it. 
Causes.-Exposure, fevers, drugs as medicines, 
diseases of the heart and lungs, or pregnant womb. 
Treatment.-B. M. Hypes, M. D., says that drink- 
ing plenty of hot water is the best kidney medicine 
one can take. Wet sheet pack or a hot bath twice a 
week. Diet of fruits, grains and vegetables. Avoid 
drugs, tea, coffee, alcohol and meat. 
Acute Bright's Disease.-Symptoms.-Pain in kid- 
neys; fever; scant, highly-colored, smoky urine; 
dropsy; anaemia. 
Causes.-Exposure, scarlet fever, diphtheria, 
drugs as medicines, injuries, alcohol and tobacco. 
Treatment.-Hot wet cloths over the pain. Hot 
sitz bath, or hot air bath, daily. Avoid all causes as 
well as meat, tea and coffee. Drink water. 
Chronic Bright's Disease, or Albuminuria.-Symptoms. 
-Debility; urine frothy when shaken; albumen in 
urine, as shown by white'appearance when mixed with 
nitric acid; palpitation; vomiting; dizziness; defec- 
tive vision; dropsy a late symptom; neuralgiac 
pains; urine scanty. 
Causes.-Syphilis, malaria, alcohol, consumption, 
pregnancy, opium; drugs which act on the kidneys, 
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exposure, excessive use of meat, and consumption. 
It rarely occurs after forty. 
Treatment.-The skin must relieve the kidneys, 
hence the hot air bath and hot wet sheet pack twice a 
week. If the dropsy is severe give the hot air 
bath daily, or cover him well with blankets and 
put hot irons or bottles of hot water around 
him. The diet should be limited to fruits and 
grains. Sun baths, open windows day and night, 
and daily sponge baths are useful. Sips of hot 
water or swallowing bits of ice, with a cold wet cloth 
under the chin, relieve the vomiting. Dr. C. E. Page 
says Bright's disease never attacks those who live on 
coarse food, live abstemiously and drink water chief- 
ly. II. W. Dickinson, M. D., F. R. C. P., says that 
"without treatment of any kind there is reason to 
suppose that a large majority of the subjects of it 
would recover. We must avoid the use of any drugs, 
which under the name of stimulating diuretics, might 
exasperate the existing disease. Of all diuretics 
water is the best." I repeat that Dr. Hypes says that 
drinking plenty of hot. water is the best kidney medi- 
cine one can take. Dr. C. E. Page says that the 
causes of Bright's disease (and of all kidney troubles 
as a rule) are: " (1) Excess in diet; (2) the use of 
foods that cannot, or are not properly masticated and 
insalivated, as mush, or bread wet and washed down 
with any sort of artificial fluids, gravy-drowned vege- 
tables, etc.; (3) stimulating drinks, as beer, spirits, 
tea and coffee; (4) excess of animal food." He 
claims that avoiding the above four causes, and eating 
only two spare meals a day, with exercise, fresh air 
and bathing, will cure it. Avoid tobacco, alcoholic 
drinks, and highly seasoned food. 
Small Red Kidney, or Interstitial Nephritis.-Symp- DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER. 
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toms.-Abundant pale urine; seldom dropsy; fre- 
quent nose-bleed; puffiness under the eyes; disor- 
dered vision; often uraemic poisoning. 
Causes.-D. E. Hughes, a prominent physician of 
Philadelphia, says in "Compend of Practice," "I 
have slowly become convinced that the large increase 
of nephritic cases can be attributed to the, wide-spread 
use of drugs of the salicylic order." 
Treatment.-Same as for Chronic Bright's disease. 
Suppurative Kidney, or Pyelitis.-Symptoms.-Chills; 
fever; pain in the small of the back; urine looks 
milky and contains pus. 
Causes.-Gravel, drugs as medicine, inflammation 
of the bladder. 
Treatment-Hot sitz baths and hot wet cloths for 
the pain. Diet and other rules same as for Bright's 
disease. 
Uraemic Poisoning, or Uraemia.-Symptoms.-May be 
dropsy in various parts; nausea; vomiting; itching of 
the skin; tremors; convulsions resembling epileptic 
spasms; fever; drowsiness or deep sleep (coma). 
Causes.-Suppression of urine from Bright's dis- 
ease; consumption, or cancer, of kidney; child-bear- 
ing, or surgical operations on the genito-urinary or- 
gans. 
Treatment.-Treat the symptoms. For the con- 
vulsions give a full hot bath and pour cold water on 
the head. Follow this with a hot air bath, or hot 
wet sheet pack, to cause sweating and relieve the 
system. Sponge with cool water to cool the fever. 
Follow the diet and general rules of chronic Bright's 
disease. Drugs only do harm. 
Gravel of the Kidney, or Renal Calculi, or Renal Colic.- 
Symptoms.-Severe pain in the small of the back, 
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the same side; pain may cause convulsions; great de- 
sire to pass water; blood in the urine; pain stops after 
a few minutes or hours. 
Causes.-Not fully understood; errors in diet and 
drink. 
Treatment.-Sit in a tub half full of water hot as 
can be borne. Drink several eups of hot water. Ap- 
ply hot cloths to the pain. Take an injection of one 
to three quarts of water hot as can be borne. Future 
attacks can be prevented by daily sponge baths, two 
hours' exercise each day, windows open a few inches 
day and night, eating only three light meals a day, 
avoiding meat, alcoholic liquors, tobacco, tea, coffee 
and drugs as medicines. Better to eat only two meals 
a day, as thousands do. Better drink soft water, or 
boil all hard water. 
Hemorrhage from the Kidneys or Bladder,-Symptom. 
-Blood in the urine. 
Causes.-Gravel; congestion of the kidney; acci- 
dents. 
Treatment.-Same as for gravel, or renal colic, 
except use the word " cold " where the word " hot " 
is used in gravel treatment. 
Fatty Degeneration of the Kidneys.- Symptoms.-De- 
bility; puffiness under the eyes; frequent urination; 
general dropsy; albumen in the urine; cloudy urine; 
symptoms of uraemia. 
Causes.-Excessive use of fats; alcoholic liquors; 
exposure; lack of exercise, and acute inflammation of 
the kidneys. 
Treatment.-If the disease is far advanced it is im- 
possible to completely cure. Better to eat only two 
moderate meals a day. Avoid alcoholic liquors, beer, 
tea, coffee, meat, fats, sweets, tobacco, and all 
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plenty of soft, or boiled, water. Take hot air bath or 
sitz bath, or hot wet sheet pack once a week. 
Movable or Floating Kidney.-Symptoms.-It may 
exist a long time and patient not know it. It is felt as 
a movable tumor, the shape of the kidney. While 
lying on the side the tumor can often be seen, but ly- 
ing on the back it can not. 
Causes.-Pregnancy; corsets; severe falls, or con- 
genital. 
Treatment.-It very rarely does any harm. If 
there is slight pain, wear a bandage around the ab- 
domen. No treatment except a surgical operation can 
fasten the kidney in place. The work of the kidneys 
should be lessened by daily sponge baths and avoiding 
meat, fats, alcoholic drinks, tea, coffee and tobacco. 
Catarrh of the Bladder, or Cystitis.- Symptoms.- 
Acute cystitis has frequent urination; chilliness; 
pain in lowest front part of the abdomen; burning 
along the urethra; cloudy urine. Chronic cystitis has 
slight pain; scanty but frequent urination; white sed- 
iment of pus settles in the chamber; debility; mental 
depression. 
Causes.-Gonorrhoea; inflammation of the womb; 
drugs as medicines; exposure; gravel; Bright's dis- 
ease; long retention of urine; careless use of cath- 
eter. 
Treatment.-The acute variety gets well in a few 
days without much treatment. For the chronic variety 
avoid meat, alcoholic drinks, tea, coffee, and all con- 
diments, such as spices, pepper, mustard and vinegar. 
Eat but little or no salt. Take a daily sponge bath 
and a hot sitz bath or wet sheet pack once a week. If 
the bladder is much enlarged, the urine should be 
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use any drugs. Drink plenty of soft water, or hard 
water after it is boiled. 
Irritability of the Bladder.-Symptoms. - Frequent 
urination; desire to pass water after the bladder is 
emptied; smarting pain in urination. 
Causes.-Sexual abuses; masturbation; alcoholic 
liquors; excessive use of meat; holding the urine too 
long. 
Treatment.-Avoid all the causes. Avoid tea, 
coffee, tobacco, meat, alcoholic drinks, spices and 
highly seasoned food. Take a daily sponge bath. 
Take a cold sitz bath for three minutes twice a day. 
Eat plenty of fruit. Wash out the bowels with a 
large injection of hot water every other day. Drugs 
do no good. 
Paralysis of the Bladder.-Symptoms.-Retention of 
urine; often severe pain in bladder. 
Causes.-Same as cause paralysis elsewhere. 
Treatment.-Empty the bladder with a catheter 
three times a day. Treat paralysis as directed else- 
where. Remove all causes. For an hour a day keep 
hot wet cloths, changed every five minutes, on the 
lower part of the spine, with cold wet cloths over the 
abdomen. 
Gravel, or Stone in the Bladder.-Symptoms.-Same 
as irritability of the bladder; white or red sediment 
settles in the chamber; after exercise may be blood in 
urine; while passing urine the flow may suddenly stop. 
Causes.-Drinking hard water; excessive use of 
soda, baking powder and salt; excessive use of meat 
and alcoholic liquors. 
Treatment.-Remove all causes. Drink plenty of 
distilled or soft water, or hard water after it is boiled 
(it can be cooled after boiling). Take a daily sponge 
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open day and night. Treat the irritable bladder as 
described elsewhere. Some claim that drinking 
plenty of pure soft water will dissolve the stone. 
Have the stone crushed, as a last resort, by a surgical 
operation. Drugs do harm and no good. A hot wet 
sheet pack once a week is helpful. 
Inability to Hold Urine.-Symptoms.-Passing water 
every few minutes. 
Causes.-Catarrh of the bladder; partial paralysis; 
drugs as medicine, and alcoholic drinks; debility. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause by proper treat- 
ment. Follow the treatment of irritability of the 
bladder. To cure wetting of the bed avoid drinking 
for three hours before retiring; empty the bladder 
just before going to bed. Follow the directions for 
torpid liver. The celebrated Father Kneipp says: 
" I advised six children, from eight to twelve years 
old, to walk for three to five minutes in a bath tub 
with so much cold water as to reach the calves of the 
legs, and then to take brisk exercise, either in the 
room or in the open air. After five days only two of 
the six children wetted their bed; in a few more days 
these also were cured. After the walking in water 
they made every time use of the arm-bath, holding 
their arms in cold water for a few minutes." 
Retention of Urine.-In this there is tenderness over 
the bladder. The urine is held in the bladder because 
of inflammation, paralysis, stricture, tumor, or stone. 
Generally a hot sitz bath or hot wet cloths over 
the lower part of the abdomen, or the sound of pour- 
ing water from one vessel to another, will relieve. If 
not, then use the catheter three times a day. 
Suppression of the Urine.-Apply hot wet cloths over 
the kidneys for an hour. Give hot air baths, or hot 
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one to three quarts of hot water. If not relieved, ap- 
ply alternately ice and hot wet cloths to the kidneys 
for twenty minutes each and repeat twice, and follow 
the treatment for congestion of the kidneys. Do 
not use drugs. 
Painful Urination.-This is generally relieved by a 
daily warm sitz bath and avoiding highly seasoned 
foods, spices and alcoholic drinks. 
Diabetes Mellitis, or Glycosuria. - Symptoms. - De- 
bility; emaciation; large quantities of urine contain- 
ing sugar as shown by a sweetish taste, or the follow- 
ing test: "Place in a small bottle two or three tea- 
spoonfuls of the urine and add an equal amount of 
strong solution of caustic potash. Now add a strong 
solution of sulphate of copper, drop by drop, until 
the blue precipitate which is formed is no longer dis- 
solved. Then heat to the boiling point. If sugar is 
present the blue color will be changed to yellow or 
orange." 
Causes.-Sexual excesses; eating large quantities 
of sugar; malt liquors. 
Treatment.-It is admitted by leading drug doctors 
that this should be treated by diet and not by drugs. 
Treat the symptoms of dyspepsia, anaemia and 
nervous exhaustion as directed elsewhere, omitting 
whatever contradicts the specific treatment mentioned 
below. Do not eat sweets or starchy food, as pota- 
toes, peas, rice, oatmeal, cracked wheat, honey, corn 
meal, and sweet fruits. Eat all kinds of meat, but 
very little bread; sour fruits (oranges, peaches and 
sour apples), and green vegetables, as lettuce, cucum- 
bers, asparagus and green beans. Keep the skin 
active by a daily sponge bath and hot sitz bath once a 
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patient nothing to eat but two or three quarts a day of 
skimmed milk. Exercise two hours a day. 
Diabetes Insipidus.-Symptoms.-Great thirst; pass- 
ing one to five gallons a day of pale urine, free from 
sugar or albumen. A pint and a half to three pints a 
day is the normal amount of urine. 
Causes.-Heredity; malaria; syphilis; debility. 
Treatment.-Drink but little. Eat only fruits, 
grains and vegetables. Avoid meat, tea, coffee, 
tobacco and alcoholic drinks. Do not use iced drinks 
or foods. Take a daily sponge bath, and a hot sitz 
bath or hot air bath twice a week. Avoid all drugs. 
Keep the windows open a few inches day and night. 
fevers. 
Any Fever.-All fevers, no difference by what name 
they are called, are treated practically in the same 
way. The quickest, surest and best way to cool any 
fever is by one of the following hygienic plans: 
(1) Sponging the whole body, except arms and legs, 
with cool, or tepid water. (2) Wrapping a cool wet 
sheet around the body, keeping the feet warm with 
hot irons, and cold cloths on the head. (3) Pouring 
cold water on the head, held over the edge of the 
bed. (4) Injecting into the bowels a pint or 
quart of cold water, even ice-cold in high fevers. 
(5) Putting the whole body, up to the chin, in cool 
water. Some put the body in tepid water, then cool 
it by cold water and ice. (6) Keeping cold wet cloths 
on the bowels and chest and sponging down the 
middle of the back. (7) Giving the patient ice 
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been treated by the above and always with success, 
never with failure. I have heard drug doctors admit 
that the drugs given to cool the high fevers often 
killed the patient. If the fever is only moderate, 
then sponging with cool water is sufficient. I have 
seen high fevers reduced to normal in ten or fifteen 
minutes just by pouring cold water on the head (this 
also relieves nausea and vomiting). Use any one of 
the above plans until the fever is reduced to nearly 
normal. This will take ten minutes to three hours, 
and if the fever returns repeat the remedy. The cool 
wet sheet should be used when the fever is at its 
highest, at least not when the fever has been going 
down till it is already near normal. A sick person 
should have to drink all he wants of water, or water 
flavored with fruit juice. As to diet, in the beginning 
of any sickness it is best to eat nothing for twenty- 
four or forty-eight hours. In high fever there is 
little or no digestive fluid in the stomach. Toast, 
gruels of the grains, milk, vegetable soups, grapes, 
oranges, lemons and cooked apples are the best diet in 
fevers and sickness, avoiding vegetables, meat, sweets, 
meat soups and beef tea. In sickness drinking plain 
hot water and putting hot irons or bottles of hot wa- 
ter around the body, is a better stimulant than whisky. 
I have often seen stomachs too weak to hold anything 
down, keep and digest a gruel made by boiling for 
half an hour two tablespoonfuls of rolled oats in a 
quart of water. Be sure to keep the windows open 
day and night, winter and summer, for both sick and 
well. Let plenty of sunshine in the room. (Dr. I. 
N. Love, of St. Louis, says in the Medical Mirror for 
August, 1895, that " the vitality of the germs of con- 
sumption is rapidly destroyed by direct sunshine.") 
Have but little cover over a fever patient. Do not FEVERS. 
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allow visitors or callers except to nurse or help work. 
Keep the room quiet, but don't whisper. When nec- 
essary to speak, talk out loud. Keep the room cool, 
about sixty-five or seventy degrees, if possible. 
Fevers, the same as all other diseases, are greatly 
helped toward cure by a daily quick hot sponge bath, 
which keeps the skin pores open. Treat all symp- 
toms, as headache, diarrhoea, sleeplessness, hemor- 
rhage and debility as directed elsewhere in this book. 
Cold wet cloths or ice on the head relieves delirium. 
Pains in the back or legs are relieved by warm baths 
and hot sponging. Ice on the abdomen, bits of ice in 
the rectum, or sitting in cold water, stops bleeding 
in the bowels. 
Wash out the bowels every day by injecting one or 
two quarts at a time of tepid water. You do this be- 
cause many, if not most, diseases come from constipa- 
tion, because the filth staying in the bowels is ab- 
sorbed and goes all over the body, poisoning every 
part. If there is great prostration it is better to cool 
the fever by sponging the back and chest, not using 
the wet sheet or pouring cold water on the head. 
Avoid all drugs, meat, alcoholic stimulants, tea, 
coffee, tobacco, cake and other pastry. The chamber 
should always contain a solution of copperas, one 
pound to the gallon of hot water, or other disinfect- 
ant, and as soon as the chamber is used it should be 
removed from the room and its contents buried in the 
earth at a safe distance from any well or cistern. The 
discharges of a patient suffering with a contagious or 
communicable disease should not be put in a common 
privy or water closet, for this often spreads the dis- 
ease. It is well for every family to have a fever ther- 
mometer. Ninety-eight and one-half degrees is the 
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fever; three degrees above is moderate fever, and 
four to seven degrees is high fever. Hold the ther- 
mometer in the mouth or tight in the armpit for five 
minutes. Be sure to shake the mercury down to 98 
before using it. 
Dr. C. E. Page says in the "Arena" for September, 
1892: "In my fever practice I have frequently ob- 
served the effects of fasts of six, eight, ten and twelve 
days to be in the highest degree productive of the 
health and comfort of patients, as, on the other hand, 
I have, during the past twenty years, observed deplor- 
able effects of the almost universal plan of constant 
feeding. In some of these most distressing cases that 
have happened to be thrown in my way, when all hope 
in the minds of friends had been abandoned, I have 
found that withdrawal of food, drugs and stimulants, 
and the substitution of simple, fresh, soft water, has 
produced results that seemed almost miraculous." 
Simple Tever.- Symptoms.-Chilliness; fever; head- 
ache; coated tongue; scanty, highly-colored urine. 
Causes.-Over-work; over-eating; excitement; ex- 
posure. 
Treatment.-Rest in bed. Fast a day or two, or at 
least eat but one light meal a day. Open the skin 
pores by a hot sponge bath. Cool the fever by spong- 
ing with cool water. Move the bowels by a large in- 
jection daily. Do not use drugs. 
Influenza, or Grip, or La Grippe.-Symptoms.-Chill; 
fever; aching of the whole body; watery eyes and 
nose; loss of appetite; debility. 
Causes.-Claimed to be little organisms; baccilli. 
Treatment.-Same as simple fever. Dr. Atkinson, 
of St. Louis, said that more people who had la 
grippe died from the antipyretic medicine than from FEVERS. 
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the disease. Instead of whiskv, or other stimulant, 
drink hot water and take hot foot baths. 
Typhoid Fever.-Symptoms.-Begins slowly; usual 
fever symptoms of chills, headache, nausea and loss 
of appetite; may be nosebleed; diarrhoea or constipa- 
tion; temperature rises to 103 or 106 degrees; more 
Or less delirium; at end of first week a few red spots 
appear on the abdomen, chest or back; low down on 
the right front side of the abdomen tenderness and 
gurgling on pressure; may be hemorrhage from the 
bowels; first two weeks fever is about same all the 
time; beginning of third week the fever is less and 
less in the morning, but the same in the evening. It 
generally lasts several weeks. 
Causes.-Contaminated water and milk. It is next 
to impossible to take typhoid if you drink only boiled 
water (not merely filtered) and wash the bowels out 
once or twice a week with an injection at one time of 
one to three quarts of hot water. 
Treatment.-Keep the bowels washed out thor- 
oughly with large injections of hot water. Use the 
hot wet sheet pack daily for an hour the first two 
weeks to draw the poison from the system. The well 
known Dr. A. C. Bernays, of St. Louis, says the best 
physicians do not now use a single dose of medicine 
for typhoid fever. Follow the treatment recom- 
mended for " Any Fever " at the beginning of this 
chapter. Water, orangeade, and sour lemonade are 
the only foods necessary. Some use milk. Use no 
solid food for a month or two after all fever has 
stopped. Keep cold wet cloths on the abdomen to 
avoid hemorrhage and to cool the fever. 
Typhus Fever, or Ship Fever.-Symptoms.-Largely 
same as typhoid, except it begins suddenly and has 
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Causes and Treatment.-Same as typhoid. In 
two weeks the fever suddenly declines. 
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.-Symptoms.-About the same 
as spinal meningitis, except this is epidemic, has 
eruptions on the skin, and begins suddenly. 
Causes.-Not known. 
Treatment.-Same as spinal meningitis, and "Any 
Fever" at the first of this chapter. 
Relapsing Fever, or Bilious Typhoid.-Symptoms.- 
Begins suddenly; usual high fever symptoms; no 
eruption; fever disappears in one or two weeks, but 
may return in a few days and have three or four of 
these relapses; spleen greatly enlarged. 
Causes and Treatment.-Same as for typhoid. 
Ague, or Chills and Fever, or Intermittent Fever.- 
Symptoms.-It has a cold, a hot and a sweating stage. 
These three symptoms may come every one, two, 
three or four days. 
Causes.-Malaria. 
Treatment.-Fast on the chill day. Take a hot 
sitz bath or hot wet sheet pack for an hour on the 
well day. Eat plenty of sour fruits. Warm the 
patient in the cold stage by hot bricks and drinking 
hot water, and cool him in the hot stage, and let him 
alone in the sweating stage. Follow the general 
directions given under "Any Fever" at the first of 
this chapter. Quinine and all drugs are unnecessary. 
If the case continues, then move out of the malarious 
district. People who sleep and live upstairs do not 
have the ague. For ague cake, see page 92. 
Bilious, or Remittent Fever.-Symptoms.-Cold, hot 
and sweating stages, with the usual symptoms of 
fever (headache, vomiting and coated tongue). 
Causes.-Malaria. 
Treatment.-Practically same as typhoid. Use FEVERS. 
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the cool wet sheet pack to cool the fever, and the hot 
air bath or hot sitz bath when the fever is lowest or 
absent, to remove the poison. Do not use drugs. 
Typho-Malarial Fever.-This is typhoid, complicated 
with malaria, and needs same treatment as typhoid. 
Congestive Chills, or Pernicious Fever.-Symptoms.- 
Chills; violent symptoms, as extreme coldness, or con- 
vulsions, or hemorrhage, or vomiting. 
Causes.-Excessive poison by malaria. 
Treatment.-Same as for ordinary ague, except 
much more vigorous. During the chill apply hot 
bricks, bottles of hot water, and drink hot water; rub 
the skin vigorously. Apply ice cold cloths and ice to 
the head. Do not use drugs. 
Yellow Fever.-Symptoms.-Three stages: (1) Vio- 
lent fever for one to three days with delirium; (2) 
no fever for one to four days; (3) collapse with high 
fever, yellow skin, and often a black vomit. 
Causes.-A specific poison with hot weather. 
Treatment.-Experience has proven the following 
to be the best treatment: Use no drugs. Wash out 
the bowels by large injections twice a day; ice cold 
cloths for the pain in the head; put nothing in the 
stomach but water till convalescence occurs; then 
gruels. Follow the directions for "Any Fever" given 
at the first of this chapter. 
Dengue, or Break-Bone Fever.-Symptoms.-Usual 
fever symptoms, with great aching, soreness and 
swollen joints. 
Treatment.-Same as for "Any Fever" at first of 
this chapter. 
Scarlet Fever.-Symptoms.-High fever, followed in 
twenty-four hours by a bright scarlet rash on the neck 
and chest, which covers the whole body in a few 
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Treatment.-Same as for "Any Fever" at the first 
of this chapter. Drugs are useless and harmful. 
Remove all carpets, curtains and useless furniture 
from the room. Thoroughly disinfect or burn all 
clothes, toys and vessels. Give a hot sponge bath 
twice a day. It is highly contagious. Do not allow 
visitors. When the patient has recovered, burn two 
pounds of sulphur in the room tightly closed, and 
leave closed for twenty-four hours. Scrub or re-paper 
the walls. 
Measles.- Symptoms.- Resembles a severe cold; 
eruption begins on the neck; red spots run together; 
the eruption fades away in five or six days. 
Treatment.-Wash out the bowels daily with large 
injections of hot water. Wrap up in a hot wet sheet 
or take a full hot bath to bring out the measles. 
Drink cold water. Eat but little. Take a hot sponge 
bath daily. Keep the windows open day and night. 
Drugs do no good. 
German Measles, or Rubella.-Symptoms and treat- 
ment the same as measles. 
Smallpox.- Symptoms.- Chill; vomiting; intense 
pain in the back; great prostration; eruption appears 
the third day; sixth day the spots arc little blisters; 
eighth day the pus forms, with the point of the cone 
depressed. 
Treatment.-Treat the same as for "Any Fever" 
at the first of this chapter. It may be necessary to 
tie the hands to keep them from scratching. To pre- 
vent pitting, cover the face and hands with linseed 
oil, and keep them covered with cool wet cloths, fre- 
quently changed. Use no drugs. Keep the room 
well ventilated, and there is but little danger of the 
nurse catching smallpox. 
Chicken-Pox, or Varicella.-Treat the same as "Any FEVERS 
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Fever" at the first of this chapter. Avoid drugs. 
Erysipelas.-Symptoms.-High fever; nausea; skin 
swollen, glossy and red; eyes may swell shut. 
Treatment.-Never use iodine nor any drug. I 
have seen erysipelas in its worst form treated success- 
fully as described for "Any Fever" at the first of this 
chapter. 
Rose Rash.-Treat same as measles. 
Diphtheria.-Symptoms.-Slight fever; prostration; 
glands of throat and back of neck enlarged; grayish- 
white false membrane in the throat. There may be 
white patches in the throat without croup or diph- 
theria. 
Treatment.-Open the bowels with large injections 
of hot water, two to four times a day. Keep the feet 
and hands hot. Apply ice cold cloths, or pounded 
ice in a muslin rag, to the throat. Every half hour 
apply hot wet cloths to the throat for ten minutes. 
Hold ice far back in the mouth. Give daily a hot sitz 
bath or hot sponge bath. Do not give any food till 
the crisis is past. The above treatment will save 
every case if begun early and carried out thoroughly. 
Follow the advice for "Any Fever" at the first of 
this chapter. As a disinfectant for the throat, mix 
one part glycerine and three parts of water, and put 
into this four drops of carbolic acid to the ounce of 
the mixture. Swab the throat with this mixture every 
half hour. Some of the best physicians of New York 
City have declared the anti-toxine treatment a com- 
plete failure. 
Mumps.-Symptoms.-Painful swelling below the ear. 
Treatment-Follow the advice for "Any Fever" 
at the first of this chapter. If they "go down" into 
the scrotum, simply rest in bed with cold wet cloths 
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diseases. 
Acute Rheumatism.-Dr. C. E. Page says that a fast 
(drinking water when hungry) of one to eight days 
cures every case of acute rheumatism, as well as many 
other diseases. Treat same as chronic rheumatism. 
Avoid drugs. 
Chronic Rheumatism.-Follow the treatment for tor- 
pid liver. Take a hot sitz bath one day, and a hot air 
bath or hot wet sheet pack the next for two weeks. 
Then take a hot sitz bath or hot wet sheet pack twice 
a week for two weeks. Wash the bowels out every 
other day with an injection of one to three quarts of 
hot water at a time. Avoid meat, alcoholic drinks, 
tea, coffee, rich foods, tobacco and drugs. Boil all 
hard water used to drink. Eat plenty of fruit and 
grains. Eat only three meals a day. Keep the win- 
dows open day and night. Rub and knead the bowels 
twice a day for five minutes. For a half hour each 
day have massage, or practice gymnastic exercises 
(such as standing up and bending the body forward, 
sidewise and backward; lying on the back and lifting 
the feet straight in the air several times, etc.). If 
painful and stiff joints, rub them and apply hot wet 
cloths. By the above plan, without drugs, I cured a 
man in four weeks who had not been able to cross his 
legs or put on his shoes for two years. 
Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism.-This generally affects the 
knee, but may go to other joints. It comes on at any 
stage of gonorrhoea or gleet. Remove the cause, and 
treat same as chronic rheumatism. 
Gout.-Avoid meat, eggs, alcoholic drinks, tea, 
coffee and drugs. Treat same as acute and chronic 
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Muscular Rheumatism.-Wear flannel. Apply hot 
wet cloths and bottles of hot water. Treat same as 
rheumatism. 
Synovitis.-This is an inflammation of the lining 
membrane of a joint; shown by swollen joint. Treat 
same as rheumatism, together with rest to the joint, 
application of hot cloths, massage (rubbing and mov- 
ing the joint thoroughly twice a day). As soon as 
possible exercise should be taken. Avoid drugs. 
White Swelling.-This is chronic synovitis, and needs 
the same treatment. 
Cholera.-The best prevention of cholera is a diet of 
fruits and grains, and washing out the bowels every 
other day with large injections. Abundance of ex- 
perience has shown that the best treatment, even 
after the patient is in the state of collapse, is to wash 
out the bowels three or four times a day with two to 
four quarts at a time of hot salt water, and put him 
in a full hot bath to produce sweating. Use no drugs. 
Cool the fever, and manage as described for "Any 
Fever" at the first of this chapter. 
Hydrophobia.-Not one in a thousand bitten by a 
mad dog takes hydrophobia. Under drug treatment 
it is never cured, but with hygiene it is generally 
cured. J. Laurie, M. D., says the thorough vapor 
bath has cured it, even after convulsions have com- 
menced. S. W. Dodds, M. D., says the full hot bath 
up to the neck has cured several cases. Mad dog 
stones and drugs are useless. If bitten, have some 
one suck the wound, then take a full hot bath to 
open the skin, and wash out the bowels daily with in- 
jections of one to three quarts of hot water at a time. 
Scrofula.-This requires exactly the same treatment 
as anaemia and nervous exhaustion. 
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I have cured bad cases of six and seven years' stand- 
ing without drugs or surgery. Follow the treatment 
recommended for torpid liver, and take a hot sitz 
bath every other day. Moderate gymnastic exercises 
are good. This will cure in from one to four weeks. 
It is much better to eat only wholemeal (graham) 
bread. 
Fistula in Ano.-Dr. T. R. Allinson says this disease 
generally gets well in a few months by practically the 
same treatment as for torpid liver. 
Prolapsus of the Bowel.-I cured one case of this by 
the same treatment as for piles. 
Chronic Ulcers.-I have cured several cases simply 
by the constant application of cold wet cloths, after 
they had used various drugs and doctors. Take a 
daily sponge bath; keep the windows open day and 
night. Avoid meat, grease, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, 
tea and coffee. 
Hernia.-This can often be cured without surgery, 
truss or drugs. I cured a bad case, without drugs or 
surgery, where the patient had worn a truss for seven 
years, and was unable to walk a step without it. 
Send to John B. Alden, New York, N. Y., for " Pelvic 
and Hernial Therapeutics," by G. II. Taylor, where 
the full treatment is described. Massage, ice, cold 
water, hot water, and full hot bath are remedies to 
reduce a hernia that does not go back into place. 
Common Cold.-Take a hot foot bath (not merely 
warm) and drink plenty of hot lemonade, or plain 
hot water, just before going to bed, and do not eat 
any breakfast next morning. It is better to take a hot 
sitz bath before going to bed, as the object is to 
sweat. Eating only one meal a day for two or three 
days cures all common colds. Never take drugs. 
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more food than necessary. A working man needs 
more food than one who has but little exercise. 
Avoid all drugs and anti-fat medicines, for they injure 
the health. Avoid meat, grease, eggs, alcoholic stim- 
ulants, sweet fruits, sugar, milk, sweet foods, nuts, 
tea and coffee. Eat but three spare meals a day of 
green vegetables, sour and sub-acid fruits, and grains. 
Do not use sugar or grease in the cooking. Exercise 
vigorously at least two hours a day. Take at least 
two hot baths a week. Keep the bowels open with 
injections. Keep the windows open day and night. 
Plethora.-This is too much blood, and needs the 
same treatment as obesity, and also every other day a 
hot air bath, or hot sitz bath, or hot wet sheet pack. 
Pain.-Pain is relieved by heat, cold, electricity, 
rubbing, rest and position, diet and drugs. Drugs 
are needed only in very rare cases. Hot wet cloths, 
or bottles of hot water and hot bricks, relieve most 
ordinary pains. Ice, or ice water, or cold water, 
relieves pain of inflammation, beginning felon, some 
forms of neuralgia, headache, toothache and rheuma- 
tism. Freezing by ice relieves pain of cancer. Hot 
sitz baths or hot air baths relieve most pains, espe- 
cially of menstruation. Rubbing with the hand often 
relieves headache, neuralgia or pain in the joints. 
Pressure by bands, or the hands, often relieves head- 
ache, pleurisy and pleurodynia. Abstaining from tea, 
coffee, meat, tobacco and alcoholic drinks often 
relieves neuralgia and cancer. Drinking large quan- 
tities of hot water relieves pain in kidneys, bladder 
and painful urination. Dr. J. H. Kellogg says: "As 
a general rule, too, the drug employed for the relief 
of pain, when it is long continued, creates a disease 
often worse than that it is attempting to cure." 
Insanity.-Dr. Page, in "Natural Cure," published 166 
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by Fowler and Wells, New York, says: "Compara- 
tively few, even of the co-called hopelessly insane, but 
might in the early stages of their disease be com- 
pletely restored, and at any period so long as there is 
great vital force." His plan is fresh air, bathing, an 
absolute fast, then a limited fast, always abstaining 
from drugs, meat, rich foods, condiments, tea, coffee, 
tobacco and alcoholic drinks. Hot air baths are also 
highly recommended for insanity. 
Toothache.-Consult a dentist. Avoid sweet foods, 
tea, coffee and alcoholic drinks. A day's fast gener- 
ally cures it. 
Earache.-Take a hot foot bath, or a hot sitz bath, 
and apply large hot cloths to the ear, or hot bricks, 
or bottles of hot water. Have them hot as can be 
borne; or press gently and firmly a cold damp (not 
wet) cloth to the back of the head, and have hot to 
the feet. Do not simply put on a wet cold cloth. 
Fast a day or two, if necessary. Do not put oil in the 
ear. 
Running Ears.-Wash or syringe the ear with warm 
water twice a day. Apply cold, or hot, wet cloths for 
a half hour twice a day. Be sure to take a daily hot 
sponge bath. Exercise two hours a day. Keep the 
windows open day and night, and avoid meat, tea, 
coffee, tobacco, alcoholic drinks and drugs. 
Bad Hearing.-By the above plan for running ears I 
cured a case of total deafness for three weeks from 
rupture of the drumhead of the ear by an abcess. 
Prof. Kirk cured some by applying to the back of the 
head for an hour each day a rubber bag of hot water. 
Do this for a week, then omit it a week, then apply it 
again for a week, and in a few weeks good hearing 
will return. Some have been cured of total deafness 
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hot wet cloths to the back of the head, and also mas- 
sage every day to the back of the head and neck. 
Applying cold wet cloths to the ears cures some. 
Treating enlarged tonsils cures some. Injections of 
warm water into the ear, washing out hardened wax, 
cures some. Some cannot be cured. 
Catarrh of the Middle Ear.-Symptoms.-Pain; noises 
in the ear; uneasiness in the ear; suppuration. Fast 
a day or two. Apply cold wet cloths, then hot wet 
cloths, each for half an hour a day. Pour cold water 
on the head for five minutes three times a day. Wash 
out the bowels once a day with a large injection. 
People subject to this disease should take a daily 
sponge bath, keep the windows open day and night, 
and avoid meat, rich foods, tea, coffee, tobacco, alco- 
holic drinks and drugs. 
Rupture of the Drumhead of the Ear.-This is caused 
by blows on the ear, loud sounds, accidents and ab- 
cesses. It sometimes causes permanent deafness, but 
generally heals itself without deafness, if left alone a 
few weeks. 
Singing, or Noises in the Ear.-This is caused by ear 
wax, anaemia, plethora, biliousness, sick headache, 
gout, heart disease, Bright's disease, chlorosis and 
changes of structure. All but the last form can be 
cured by removing the cause. 
Foreign Bodies in the Ear.-Bend the head to hold 
the affected ear down, then gently syringe in warm 
water. The forceps, or a loop of fine wire may 
remove it. Use great care. If an insect, drop in a 
little sweet oil or glycerine. 
Gonorrhoea, Sterility, Syphilis, Masturbation, Impotence, 
Gleet, and all diseases of men are described and suc- 
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called "Mysteries and Diseases of Men,'' by the 
author of this book. 
Cancer.-Symptoms.-Hard tumor; cutting pains; 
fetid, watery ulcer, with thick lips. 
Treatment.-Many cases have been cured, or ren- 
dered inactive for life, by eating only one spare meal 
a day of fruits, grains and vegetables, avoiding meat, 
tea, coffee, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, condiments, 
rich foods, pastry and drugs. Take a daily sponge 
bath, keep the windows open day and night, and 
exercise according to strength. The above diet, even 
if three meals a day are eaten, greatly lessens the 
pain. Surgical operations arc rarely successful. 
Many growths are called cancer that are not. 
Tumors.-Most tumors are best treated by a surgical 
operation, but many can be cured by hygiene. Im- 
prove the general health. Eat only three, better two, 
spare meals a day of fruits, grains and vegetables, 
avoiding meat, rich foods, tobacco, drugs, alcoholic 
drinks, tea and coffee. Drink filtered rain water, or 
boil all hard water. Take a hot sitz bath or hot wet 
sheet pack once a week. Take a daily sponge bath 
and keep the house well ventilated day and night. 
Take a large injection every other day to remove all 
poisons from the bowels. Massage the tumor and 
apply the cold douche daily. 
Dropsy.-Wherever the dropsy is, it requires a dry 
diet. Drink nothing but water and only for thirst. 
Take daily a hot air bath, hot wet sheet pack, or hot 
sitz bath. The diet should be simply fruits and 
grains, avoiding meat, alcoholic drinks, tobacco, tea, 
coffee and drugs. 
Sore Eyes, or Conjunctivitis.-Give the eyes rest; 
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twice a day. Be sure to improve the general health 
with a sponge bath every day and keep the windows 
open all the time. Every other day take a hot wet 
sheet pack. One of the busiest and most widely 
known eye doctors in St. Louis, says that drugs used 
in well eyes would make them sore, therefore he says 
do not use them to cure sore eyes, for drugs only 
make sore eyes worse. The diet should be simple and 
light. If only one eye is sore, protect the other by 
using separate towels for the two eyes. 
Granular Lids.-Treat same as sore eyes, except 
apply also hot wet cloths for ten minutes once a day. 
Stye.-This is a small boil on the eyelid. Ice cold 
cloths applied thoroughly at iirst may shorten their 
time, but it is generally best to apply hot wet cloths. 
Twitching of the Eyelids.-This is a nervous disease, 
though it may occur in people who seem well. Treat 
same as for nervous exhaustion. 
Inflammation of the Cornea, or Pannus.-Apply hot 
wet cloths and massage (rub the eye round and round 
with the hand). Treat as for sore eyes. 
Cataract.-A plain vegetarian diet, bathing and good 
hygiene often cures this. A surgical operation is 
often successful. 
Spots Before the Eyes.-Follow the treatment for 
torpid liver and indigestion. 
Poor Sight.-An eye specialist, or oculist, should be 
consulted, and buy properly fitting glasses, having 
each eye tested separately. Never buy of spectacle 
peddlers. 
Any Disease of the Eye should be treated by hygiene, 
surgery, or eye-glasses. Never use a drop of patent 
eye waters or drugs in the eye. 
Blacked Eye.-A blow on the eye may turn the skin 
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Rickets.-Symptoms.-Pale face;'emaciation; head 
enlarges; curvature of the spine; joints enlarge and 
long bones become curved. 
Treatment.-Avoid drugs. Keep the child in the 
fresh air and sunshine with a daily hot sponge bath. 
If the child is nursing, the mother should eat only 
fruits, grains and vegetables, and observe all the 
rules of hygiene. If the child is not nursing it should 
eat plenty of fruits, with grains (rolled oats, cracked 
wheat, hominy and rice) and vegetables, avoiding 
meat, tea and coffee. Give a hot wet sheet pack 
twice a week. 
Ulcer of Bone, or Caries. - These are cured by 
hygiene. The spinal column, the foot and ankle, are 
the most commonly affected. Improve the health, 
and as the blood improves the ulcer heals. Take a 
daily hot sponge bath. Keep the windows open night 
and day; keep the ulcer well wrapped in cold wet 
cloths; take a daily sun bath, or walk in the sun; 
exercise according to strength; wash out the bowels 
with large injections every other day. Eat but three 
spare meals a day of fruits, grains and vegetables, 
avoiding meat, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, tea, coffee, 
rich foods, pastry, eggs, milk, vinegar, mustard, pep- 
per, spices and drugs. Take a wet sheet pack, or hot 
air bath, or hot sitz bath, twice a week. Avoid 
surgery. 
Necrosis, or Death of Bone.-This is similar to caries 
and requires the same treatment. 
Softening of Bones, or Osteomalachia.-Symptoms.- 
Aching in the bones; back, ribs and pelvis are first 
affected and serious deformities occur; pains resem- 
ble rheumatism; occurs always in pregnant women. 
Causes are unknown. 
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incurable. Good hygiene prevents its attack. Treat 
same as rickets. 
Osteitis, or Inflammation of Bone.-Symptoms.-Ob- 
scure at first; rheumatic pains in bones; bone tender, 
and may suppurate or enlarge and deform. 
Causes.-Injury; syphilis; scrofula; rheumatism. 
Treatment.-Remove the cause. Give rest and 
apply hot wet cloths and treat the same as rickets. 
Skin Diseases.-The treatment given for " ulcer of 
bone, or caries," will cure nearly all skin diseases, no 
difference what their name, including erythema, 
eczema, herpes, rash, psoriasis, blebs, comedo, pru- 
rigo, pityriasis,, impetigo, dry skin, dandruff, exces- 
sive sweat, itching, freckles and others. Many skin 
diseases are helped by keeping the skin soft with 
vaseline. Dr. T. L. Nichols, speaking of hygiene cur- 
ing all skin diseases said, " Leprosy, that would in 
some countries condemn its victim to lifelong seclu- 
sion from relatives and friends, I have cured by wet 
sheet packs and hot air baths." 
Sea Sickness.-This is caused by the motion of the 
ship affecting the nervous system. In an eight days' 
voyage across the Atlantic, I was deathly sick four 
days, although I had been careful in diet for a month 
previous. If I kept my eyes on the floor of the deck, 
I had no inclination to vomit, but one glance at the 
waves brought nausea. 
Treatment.-Drugs nor alcoholic drinks are of any 
service. Eat nor drink nothing but hot water till the 
attack is well over. Take a daily sponge bath and 
stay on deck in the fresh air. 
Night Sweats.-This accompanies consumption and 
general debility. It is not a sure sign of consump- 
tion. Consumptives do not always have it. I have 
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asleep and be so great as to completely wet the night- 
dress. The best treatment is to take a hot sponge 
bath at bed time, and eat a light supper. Drugs do no 
good. 
Bad Breath.-In diabetes the breath smells sweet 
like apples. In Bright's disease it smells like urine. 
In last stages of consumption it is very offensive. It is 
also caused by bad teeth, high fever, indigestion, 
ulceration of the mouth, constipation and lack of 
washing the teeth. Remove the cause. 
Cold Feet.-Exercise two hours a day. Wear under- 
wear long enough to go inside the shoe tops, not a few 
inches above the shoe top. Take a cold foot bath for 
two minutes, then rub them dry. Follow the treat- 
ment for anaemia. 
Sweating Feet.-Improve the general health. Take 
a daily sponge bath. Wash the feet night and morn- 
ing. Wear clean, not simply dry socks, and broad- 
soled shoes. 
Fainting.-Lower the head to a level with the feet; 
sprinkle cold water on the face; loosen the clothing. 
To cure it, follow the treatment for anaemia. 
Pimples.-Arc generally quickly cured by avoiding 
meat, grease, butter, rich foods, pastry, sugar, mas- 
turbation, and large amounts of salt. 
Burns and Scalds.-Immerse the burnt part in cold 
water, or apply cold wet cloths. If the burn is small 
apply common cooking soda; if large, apply cloths 
covered with melted fresh lard (unsalted lard), or 
carron oil. Carron oil is composed of equal parts of 
linseed oil and lime water. Leave these cloths on till 
matter forms, then remove them and wash with warm 
water and castile soap. After that change the greased 
(or oiled) dressings once a day, and wash with warm 
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Keep the patient quiet. Keep the windows open. 
The diet should be light at first, as gruels, toast, or 
milk and barley water in equal parts. Avoid drugs, 
meat, tea, coffee, and alcoholic stimulants. 
Boils and Carbuncles.-Eat only three spare meals a 
day of fruits, grains and vegetables, avoiding fats, 
meat, sweet and rich foods, pastry and drugs. Ice ap- 
plied early may cut them short. Hot wet cloths ease 
the pain. Do not open till they are fully ripe. After 
the core is pressed out, apply cold wet cloths. 
Itch.-Mix two ounces of sulphur with one pound of 
lard and rub on the clean skin for three nights, then 
wash it all off. This kills the little animals in the 
skin that cause itch. 
Ringworm.-This is caused by a parasite. Apply 
common black ink twice a day to kill it. If on the 
scalp the hair must be cut short. Improve the health 
with daily bath, exercise fresh air and plain food. 
Felon or Whitlow.-Dr. Allinson says never to cut a 
felon and that "simple diet, rest and hot wet cloths 
will quickly cure such complaints and without opera- 
tion." Apply the hot wet cloths thoroughly every 
four hours. Eat nothing but a glass of hot milk four 
or five times a day till the bad symptoms are passed. 
I have seen felons cut short and driven back by hold- 
ing the hand in ice water for ten minutes about every 
hour. 
Red Nose.-Follow the treatment for dyspepsia. 
Eat but three meals a day. 
Chilblains.-Just before going to bed take a foot 
bath hot as can be borne, followed by a cold foot 
bath. Take plenty of exercise and observe the best 
hygiene. 
Lice.-For head lice and crab lice saturate three 
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for crab lice apply red precipitate mixed with lard. 
For body lice simply change clothing and bathe. Kill 
those on the clothing by hot water. 
Nightmare.-Avoid meat, late suppers, over-eating, 
sweetmeats, tea and coffee. Take a daily bath and 
keep the windows open day and night. 
Abcess.-They form as a result of inflammation and 
are generally accompanied by slight fever, chills, 
swelling, pain and throbbing. Failing health is about 
the only sign of a chronic abcess. The best treatment 
is to apply hot wet cloths and when fully ripe open 
with a knife if they do not open themselves. Wash 
them out daily with hot water and apply cold wet 
cloths. 
Cuts and Wounds.-Stop the bleeding; wash out the 
dirt and remove foreign bodies; bring the edges of the 
wound together by stitches, or sticking plaster, or a 
bandage. Stop the bleeding by pressure, or tightly 
tie a handkerchief between the wound and heart. If 
the wound is serious call a surgeon or take the patient 
to him. In sewing up a wound use white silk thread 
and a clean needle, leaving them in boiling water for 
five minutes before using. Put the stitches about one- 
fourth of an inch apart and remove them after three 
or four days. Cold wet cloths should be kept on the 
wound. Get clean cloths every day. Give a sponge 
bath daily, with daily large injection into the bowels, 
and a spare diet. 
Accidental Poisoning.-1. Drink a pint of warm water 
(with a teaspoonful of mustard in it is better), and 
tickle the throat to cause vomiting. Repeat this. 2. 
Give white of egg, or cream, sweet oil. 3. If an acid, 
give a teaspoonful of common soda in a glass of milk. 
4. If an alkali (as potash or lye), give the juice of two 
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wants to go to sleep, apply alternate hot and cold to 
the spine and walk him about. Drink plenty of hot 
water. A hot wet cloth over the heart stimulates it if 
it flags. 
Convulsions.-These may last only a minute, or half 
an hour. Put the child in a hot bath and pour cold 
water on its head. When the hole in its head sinks in 
during a convulsion, showing lack of blood, turn its 
feet higher than its head. 
Wetting the Bed.-This is caused by poor health, 
drinking too much, late suppers, constipation, worms, 
kidney disease, stone in the bladder, masturbation, 
and a lazy habit. Remove the cause and treat as de- 
scribed for inability to hold the urine on page 151. 
Falling of the Bowel, or Prolapsus Ani.-When the 
bowels move, the intestine comes out a little way. It 
is caused by poor health, constipation, worms, and 
straining at stool. Carefully put the intestine back 
with your finger. Remove the cause. Improve the 
health by daily sponge bath, open windows night and 
day, sunshine, exercise, and a diet of fruits, grains 
and vegetables. Avoid drugs, rich food, meat, tea 
and coffee. 
Scald Head, or Eczema of the Scalp.-This is gener- 
ally found in scrofulous children and is often started 
by lice and uncleanliness. Treat same as scrofula 
and skin diseases. 
Stammering.-This is a habit, rather than a disease, 
and comes from imitation and excitement. Encour- 
age the child; calm it; encourage it to sing, to recite 
poetry, and if it begins to stammer stop it, and have 
it begin at the beginning. 
Curvature of the Spine.-If the disease is not too 
chronic it can be cured by hygiene. Follow the treat- 
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back for half an hour twice a day. Swing by the 
hands for five minutes three times a day. Climb a 
ladder hand over hand for five minutes twice a day. 
This may cure if applied thoroughly for two or three 
months before a plaster jacket is employed. 
Hip Joint Disease.-It is generally caused by hered- 
itary consumption and an injury. Symptoms are 
drawing up of the leg; wasting muscles; pain in the 
knee; child cries out in its sleep. 
Treatment.-Hot sponge bath every other day. 
Open windows day and night. Plenty of sun baths 
and sunshine. Diet of fruits, grains and vegetables. 
Injections of iodoform and sweet oil into the joint by 
a surgeon. Walk on crutches and have a raised sole 
put on the shoe. Do not allow any cutting into the 
joint. Avoid drugs. 
A Sick Child.-Many children from two to fourteen 
years of age, vomit, have fever, coated tongue, head- 
ache and loss of appetite. I have cured many cases 
with a hot bath, a large injection into the bowels, and 
wearing over night a hot wet towel around the chest. 
Repeat all the treatment next night if necessary. 
Eat but little. Use no drugs. HHseaoeo of Women. 
Painful Menstruation, or Dysmenorrhoea.- This is 
caused by corsets, constipation, high living, nervous 
exhaustion, taking cold, torpid liver, and wrong posi- 
tion of the womb. Remove the cause. Take a hot 
sitz bath and drink hot water. Rest pn bed and eat 
but little. Keep the feet hot. Apply hot wet cloths. 
Follow the treatment recommended for anaemia. I 
have seen severe cases greatly improve by taking a 
large injection of hot water into the bowels every 
other day. Avoid eating meat, rich foods, pastry, tea, 
coffee, and all drugs. Avoid corsets and hang the 
skirts from the shoulders. 
Scanty Menstruation.-Improve the health by the 
treatment recommended for anaemia and when the 
woman gets plenty of blood she will menstruate 
fully. Never use drugs. A consumptive whose men- 
struation stops should never try to force menstrua- 
tion. If there are tumors or a wrong position of the 
womb, they should be treated. A hot sitz bath in- 
creases the flow. Avoid corsets. 
No Menstruation, or Amenorrhoea.-Causes.-Preg- 
nancy; taking cold; change of diet or residence; con- 
sumption; ulcer of stomach; piles or other bleeding; 
deformity. Remove the cause. At the expected 
time take a hot sitz bath, or a hot wet sheet pack, 
with drinking hot water and applying hot cloths and 
bricks. Rest in bed. Avoid all drugs. If there is 
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a deformity the abdomen will swell and give pain, and 
this needs a surgeon. 
Profuse Menstruation.-This is generally caused by 
plethora, or debility, or congestion of the womb. 
Treat the cause. If there is plethora eat but two 
meals a day, with plenty of out-door exercise and two 
cold sitz baths each day between menstruation. Ap- 
ply cold wet cloths over the lower part of the abdo- 
men. If the menstruation lasts much too long it is 
instantly stopped by a cold sitz bath. Wear the 
union suit underwear and hang the skirts from the 
shoulders. 
Menstruation too Close Together.-This is caused by 
debility. Some menstruate normally every three 
weeks. Apply cold cloths if profuse. Improve the 
general health by two hot sitz baths a week, and a 
diet of fruits, grains and vegetables. Take an injec- 
tion of one to three quarts of hot water at a time 
into the bowels every other day. Avoid meat, rich 
foods, drugs, and sexual excesses. Keep the windows 
open day and night. Take a daily sponge bath. Lie 
down and rest a half hour every forenoon and after- 
noon. Knead the bowels for five minutes twice a 
day. I have seen the above work wonders. Wear 
the union suit underwear and hang the skirts from the 
shoulders. 
Ovarian Trouble.-Symptoms.-Pain or tenderness 
in the groin; increase of pain at menstruation; pain 
in standing or walking; general distress. 
Treatment.-Rest in bed; apply hot wet cloths; 
daily hot sitz bath; daily hot vaginal douche; daily 
injections of one or two quarts of hot water into the 
bowels; sun bath daily; diet of fruits and grains; 
open windows; massage. Avoid drugs, caustics and 
surgical operations. DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
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Inflammation of the Womb.-Symptoms.-Debility; 
leucorrhoea; painful menstruation; pain in lower part 
of the back, extending around the body; pain and 
tenderness on the lowest front part of the abdomen; 
may be swelling of abdomen. 
Treatment.-Same as for ovarian trouble. I have 
seen severe cases thus quickly cured. 
Whites, or Leucorrhoea.-Symptoms.-Discharge of a 
viscid mucous from the vagina between menstruation 
periods. 
Treatment.-Same as for ovarian trouble, especially 
the hot sitz baths and hot douche. 
Inflammation of Vagina, or Vaginitis.-Symptoms.- 
Hot, burning pain; leucorrhoea; frequent and painful 
urination. 
Treatment.-Same as for ovarian trouble. 
Gonorrhoea.-Is treated same as for ovarian trouble. 
Avoid drugs. 
Itching of the Genitals, or Pruritus.-Remove the 
cause. Take a cold sitz bath for two minutes twice a 
day and apply vaseline to the parts. 
Painful Sitting, or Coccyodynia.-Apply cold and hot 
wet cloths each for half an hour twice a day, and take 
a daily sponge bath. 
Inflammation of the Breast, or Masittis.-Symptoms.- 
Burning pain; tender and hard swelling. 
Treatment.-Apply wet cloths, hot as can be 
borne, for half an hour, then ice-cold cloths for half 
an hour. Do this for several hours. If an abcess 
forms, let it ripen, open it and treat same as common 
abcess. Avoid all drugs. 
Displacements of the Womb.-(Anteversion, retro- 
version and prolapsus.)-The symptoms are dragging 
pain in the lower part of the back, extending around 
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ness over the lowest front part of the abdomen; 
painful menstruation. 
Treatment.-Do not wear corsets. Hang the skirts 
from the shoulders. Follow the treatment for ovarian 
troubles. Gymnastics and movements which I have 
used to cure displacements of the womb are fully de- 
scribed in a book called "Pelvic Therapeutics," by 
Taylor, published by John Alden, New York, N. Y. 
Send for that book, or apply to a hygienic doctor. 
Avoid all drugs, pessaries, and supporters. A 
surgical operation is rarely necessary. 
Sterility. - After years of childless marriage, 
children have been born, by both the husband and 
wife adopting these rules: (1) Avoid tobacco, alco- 
holic drinks, tea, coffee and drugs. (2) Vegetarian 
diet is best. (3) Keep the windows open day and 
night. (4) Take a daily sponge bath. (5) Exercise 
two hours a day. (6) Hot air bath every two weeks. 
(7) Cure all leucorrhcea and misplacements. (8) 
Avoid sexual intercourse oftener than twice a week. 
Ulceration of the Neck of the Womb.-This requires 
the same treatment as for ovarian trouble. 
Nymohomania.-This is a high degree of sexual ex- 
citement, as the passions are uncontrollable. It needs 
cold sitz baths for two minutes twice a day, and cool 
injections into the bowels. Avoid meat, rich foods, 
pastry, pepper, mustard, vinegar, catsup, spices and 
drugs. 
Miscarriage and Abortion.-Symptoms are pain in the 
batik, followed generally by a flow of mucus and 
blood, then bearing down pains. The pains some 
times come on before any show of blood. Miscar- 
riage is caused by diseases of the womb, over-exer- 
tion, long railway and ocean journeys, shocks, leucor- 
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general debility. The treatment for threatened abor- 
tion is rest in bed, light diet, cold drinks, and appli- 
cation of cold wet cloths over the lower part of the 
abdomen. Avoid much exercise for a week or two. 
If the miscarriage occurs, then the treatment is the 
same as above with the addition that if the hemor- 
rhage is not readily stopped by cold wet cloths, then 
sit just two minutes in a tub half full of cold water. 
No danger; I have used it. Avoid drugs. Women 
who are in the habit of miscarrying can carry their 
children to full term if they will improve their 
health by living according to the chapter on " Child- 
birth without pain," avoid sexual excess, and if preg- 
nant, keep quiet at about the usual time of menstru- 
ation and avoid all causes of miscarriage. Women 
who have miscarried many times have become happy 
mothers by the above advice. Then they may have so 
many children as to cause them to consult the doctor 
on how to prevent conception. 
"Change in Life," or Menopause..-This comes between 
forty and fifty years of age with flashes of heat, more 
or less leucorrhoea, and liability to be sick. Use no 
drugs. Keep the hands and feet warm; drink hot 
water; take hot half pack daily and otherwise as for 
menstruation too close together. 
Childbirth Without Pain or Danger.-It is a fact that 
the heathen women and savages bring forth children 
with little or no pain. These women work till the 
hour of confinement, and after a painless delivery are 
up and at work in a few hours, or the next day. In 
Sicily childbirth is neither painful nor dangerous. 
The women of North American Indians, on the march, 
will go aside to some stream, bring forth her 
child, wash it and herself in the cold water, and 
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because of health. Civilized women could do, and 
have done, the same by a nine months' strict hygienic 
living. 
The way to have childbirth almost without pain and 
danger is very simple. It is obtained thus: 1. Eat 
fruits, grains and vegetables, with meat not more than 
once a day. Eat only three meals a day, and vege- 
tables only for dinner. Eat only wholemeal bread or 
corn bread. Avoid all highly seasoned foods and 
rich, complicated dishes. Avoid fats and sugars and 
all alcoholic drinks. Use tea or coffee only once a 
day. Better to use no tea or coffee, but hot water. 
Drink a glass of water half an hour before each meal. 
2. Take a daily sponge bath, with a full warm bath 
with soap once a week. Finish the weekly warm bath 
with a quick dash of cold water. For two months be- 
fore delivery, the patient must take a daily cool sitz 
bath for five or ten minutes. Do not have it cold nor 
warm, but cool. If the water is hot or cold it might 
cause a miscarriage. A warm vaginal douche should 
be used each time the sitz bath is taken. The cool 
sitz bath should be used once a week during the first 
months of pregnancy. 3. Breathe only pure air both 
night and day. Have the bedroom window open an 
inch or two in all kinds of weather. 4. Since the 
work of childbirth is mostly muscular, the muscles 
must be kept strong by daily exercise. She should do 
ordinary house work and take a long walk in the open 
air daily, except during storms. She should be on 
her feet all the time possible, for sitting down all the 
time causes malpositions of the child, adhesions of 
placenta, and other disorders. Light gymnastic exer- 
cise is good. If the patient cannot exercise then she 
must have light massage and light Swedish move- 
ments daily. She should continue all exercise clear DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
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up to the day of confinement. 5. Avoid all drugs, 
no difference what the disease, especially opium. 6. 
The dress must be loose and no corset worn. Deter- 
mination and daily exercise will soon strengthen the 
muscles so as to do without a corset. If possible the 
underclothing should be flannel. 7. Avoid overwork 
and worry. 8. It is much better, both for mother 
and child, if there is no sexual intercourse during 
pregnancy, especially the last three or four months. 
Mrs. Dr. Nichols, who had an extensive obstetric 
practice in New York City and afterward in London, 
in speaking of childbirth without pain, said: "My 
practice at the period of birth is as follows: When the 
delivery is perfectly accomplished, which includes, of 
course, the placenta, I allow the patient to rest ten 
minutes. I then with a vagina syringe, throw a pint 
of cold water upon the uterus. This greatly facili- 
tates its contraction and gives immunity from after 
pains, which are caused by the efforts of the uterus 
to contract, and it is a law that diseased nerves give 
pain in contracting. This ready contraction of the 
uterus secures the woman against flooding and prolap- 
sus. As soon as I have thus used the syringe,. I put a 
broad bandage wrung from cold water around the 
abdomen, and pin it closely, compressing the abdo- 
men. I then wash the patient thoroughly in cold 
water with a sponge or wet towel, and change her 
clothes, and leave her to rest. She generally sleeps 
six hours. When she awakes, she rises and goes into 
a sitz bath, and is bathed over the whole body, and has 
a fresh bandage. She is able to walk and sit up for 
fifteen minutes after this bath in ninety-nine cases 
out of a hundred." The pain of childbirth comes 
largely from the diseased, starved nerves. If those 
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hygiene, then the pain is just that much less. If the 
pregnant woman has the usual drug treatment, of 
course it is not safe for her to get up so soon. 
Obstetrics, or flOibwiterp. 
The Signs of Pregnancy.- Stopping of menses; 
morning sickness comes on in about five weeks; the 
breasts begin to enlarge in about six weeks; in three 
months the abdomen enlarges; the child can be felt 
moving about the fourth month. To tell if a woman 
is pregnant for past four months, dip the hand in cold 
water and lay it on the lower part of the abdomen 
and the child will move. 
Prevention of Pregnancy.-Because of poverty, dis- 
ease, deformity, already too many children, or other 
reasons, some want to prevent conception and so con- 
sult a doctor. Some methods are comparatively 
harmless and others are not. 
Diseases of Pregnancy.-Do not use drugs for any of 
the diseases of pregnancy. Live according to the 
chapter on " Childbirth Without Pain." 
Toothache may be relieved by opening the bowels 
with large injections and living on a light diet for 
a day or two. Avoid sweets. 
Morning sickness may be relieved by eating very 
little for supper and breakfast; also by eating some- 
thing fifteen minutes before getting up. In very bad 
cases let the stomach have entire rest for two or three 
days, the patient drinking hot water. 
Constipation needs only coarse foods and a large 
injection into the bowels every other day. OBSTETRICS, OR MIDWIFERY. 
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Piles need the same remedy as constipation and 
frequent cool sitz baths. See page 163. 
Acidity, flatulency, heartburn, sick-hcadache, sleep- 
lessness and diarrhoea are generally promptly relieved 
by a correct diet of fruits and grains. 
Cramps in limbs are relieved by vigorous rubbing, 
or hot and cold applications. See page 127. 
Itching of the parts demand to bathe the parts 
often and frequent tepid sitz baths. 
For frequent urination drink as little as possible. 
For retained urine give a hot sitz bath or hot vag- 
inal douche and let the patient try to pass water dur- 
ing the bath or douche. Use a catheter if necessary. 
For inability to hold the water let the patient lie 
down as much as possible, and while walking wear 
the abdominal bandage, as it is caused by misplaced 
womb. 
Craving or longing for certain food should not be 
gratified. No danger of marking the child. 
Varicose or enlarged veins need plenty of rubbing 
upward. Patient should not exercise too much, and 
while sitting the feet should be raised. See page 140. 
Neuralgia comes from bad food and drink, and 
needs hot wet cloths or dry heat. Avoid tea, coffee, 
beer and drugs. See page 120. 
Swelling of feet and limbs need rubbing upward 
for half an hour twice a day. If the whole body is 
dropsical, it demands a diet of fruits and grains, with 
a hot wet sheet pack or hot air bath daily. 
Difficulty of breathing is best relieved by good hy- 
giene and avoiding over-eating. 
Fainting is relieved by putting the patient flat on 
her back, or even elevate her feet higher than her 
head, and open windows. 
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Palpitation of the heart is instantly relieved by cold 
wet cloths over the heart. Being caused by indiges- 
tion, it needs correct diet and frequent injections to 
relieve the bowels. See page 136. 
Convulsions rarely occur. Live according to the 
chapter "Childbirth Without Pain," to prevent 
them. If they come, make the patient sweat by pack- 
ing around her hot blankets, and bottles filled with 
hot water, or hot irons. If she becomes profoundly 
insensible, apply cold to the head. As a last resort 
use a whiff of chloroform 
Pains in the breast need cold wet cloths if there is 
much heat, but if they are like neuralgia, then apply 
hot. 
Flooding needs cold wet cloths over the lower part 
of the abdomen, while the patient is lying down. If 
this does not stop it, let her sit two minutes in a tnb 
half full of cold water. No danger, and a sure cure. 
I have tried it. 
Management of Labor.-I will here give such com- 
plete instructions that any man, or any woman, of or- 
dinary intelligence, can do all that needs to be done, 
in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases in a thousand. 
I write this fully, because I trust this book will be 
used by foreign missionaries, who can not obtain a 
drug doctor, and by home missionaries who must 
save expense. I write this after carefully studying 
the books on this subject by Doctors Allinson, Kel- 
logg, Trail and Nichols, all of whom are well known 
as men of large experience. Childbirth is natural. 
Would nature form the child and then not expel it 
properly? Dr. Nichols says that out of twelve thou- 
sand six hundred and five deliveries at the Maternity 
Hospital in Paris, only one hundred and seventy-eight 
required assistance; and instruments were used in OBSTETRICS, OR MIDWIFERY. 
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only thirty-seven cases. Some doctors prefer, for 
many have told me, to use instruments in the majority 
of cases. They have told me their two main reasons 
were, it shortened the time, and also they charged a 
much larger fee by using instruments. 
Let the pregnant woman live according to the rules 
in the chapter on " Childbirth Without Pain," eating 
mainly fruits and vegetables; plenty of fresh air day 
and night; daily bath and plenty of exercise, avoiding 
all drugs. 
When the first labor pains begin, let the patient 
and nurse go to the bed-room, which should be as 
large and light as possible. The bed should be hard, 
not feathers, and protected by oil cloth or old quilts. 
The bowels should be moved by a large injection of 
warm water. One to three days before labor begins 
there is a mucous discharge, streaked with blood and 
accompanied by grinding pains. To tell if the true 
labor has begun, let the patient lie on her back, with 
the knees slightly drawn up. Oil the forefinger and 
carefully pass it up the vagina to the mouth of the 
womb. If the neck of the womb is gone and the 
mouth is expanded an inch, the labor is well begun. 
Your main work now is to help the patient to be com- 
fortable. Let her stand, sit, walk or lie down just as 
she chooses. When she lies down she may take any 
position she likes. If the labor lasts some hours, be 
patient. When the pains become so great that the 
patient decides to lie down, let her clothes be pulled 
up out of the way. The clothing should be such as 
to be easily removed. 
Prepare conveniently several towels, warm and 
cold water, a vaginal syringe, a pair of sharp scissors 
and two strong cords. 
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you can ease the pain by firm pressure with the hand 
on the lower part of the back. Perhaps the patient 
becomes anxious to know if all is well. You then in- 
troduce your forefinger, well oiled. You can feel the 
bag of waters protruding, and by patience can tell 
what part of the child is presenting. If it is the head, 
breech or feet, there will likely be no difficulty. Ac- 
cording to Boivin, nine hundred and sixty-nine out 
of every thousand are of the head presentation, and 
eighteen are breech. 
When the pains become more frequent and the con- 
traction of the uterus greater, the bag of waters 
will burst and the head of the child will be born, or 
else stops at the perineum. In the latter case, the 
upper part of the vaginal orifice may seem as small as 
ever. Wait a few minutes. Suddenly the head is 
born and the patient is relieved. If the body delays 
coming, you can hook your finger in the armpit and 
gently pull it out. In the breech presentation, if 
there is much delay it is easy to introduce the hand 
and bring down the legs, when the remainder will 
easily be born, especially if you also pull down the 
arms. In all cases of delay you can cause the womb 
to contract by laying a cold wet cloth on the ab- 
domen. In rare cases the presentation will not be of 
the head, breech or feet, in which cases it is easy to 
put one hand on the abdomen, over the womb, and 
with the other hand well oiled and introduced into 
the womb, turn the child so as to bring down the 
feet. Dr. Nichols says that in ninety-nine cases out 
of every hundred the patient will need no help from 
the midwife, no difference which part of the child is 
born first. He further says that for the midwife or 
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keep trying to stretch the vagina is an indecent hum- 
bug. 
Some claim it is necessary for the midwife to press 
upon the perineum while the head is being born, 
to prevent laceration. Others claim this pressure 
produces laceration. If the child does not cry as 
soon as born, or only gasps, or breathes feebly, 
sprinkle cold water upon its chest and back, or wet 
them. This will generally make it breathe. If not, 
then hold its head down and press on its chest every 
few seconds. If the face is purple, put it in a bath 
as hot as can be borne by the skin, dash cold water on 
the chest, press on the chest every few seconds. 
These efforts have brought children to life after 
they have been apparently dead for an hour. 
After the babe is born place your hand on the 
woman's abdomen to see if there is one or more to 
follow. If not, then attend to the babe. Wipe its 
eyes. Tie the navel string firmly with cord, about an 
inch from the body. About an inch further tie it 
again, and with sharp scissors cut in between the two 
knots. Then put it on a soft blanket to be washed 
with warm water and fine soap. Place a soft linen 
rag around the navel and hold this in place by a 
bandage around the body, not too tight. Over this 
put on the babe's night gown. If there is a curd-like 
matter on the skin, it will dry up and disappear. 
Wring a towel out of cold water and fold it once or 
twice and lay it on the mother's abdomen. This 
causes the uterus to contract. You then take the 
navel cord in your left hand, and follow it up with 
the right and pull it gently. This brings away the 
afterbirth. If you do not thus pull them away, they 
will be expelled in a few hours by the contracting 
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be sure to inject a pint of cold water into the womb. 
This refreshes, stops hemorrhage, and causes the 
womb to contract. Fix the mother comfortably in 
bed. Put the baby to the breast, then let the mother 
sleep. Give both mother and child a cool sponge bath 
daily. Give the mother a hot vaginal douche daily. 
Let the mother rest in bed for a week, though she 
may be up some in three or four days. 
The labor may last from one to forty-eight hours. 
Proper living for nine months before reduces it to a 
short and almost painless experience. In very rare 
cases the pelvis may be too small, or the womb may 
become exhausted and it will become necessary to call 
in a surgeon. Dr. Dewees, of Philadelphia, in three 
thousand labor cases, never found it necessary to de- 
stroy the life of a single child. If the labor is of 
reasonable length, the woman should have no food, 
drink or medicine, except occasionally a swallow of 
water or lemonade; otherwise let her eat gruels and 
thick soups. 
Rarely hemorrhage occurs at the beginning of labor. 
In this case, introduce the hand, well oiled, separate 
the placenta, bring down the feet of the child and de- 
liver it. If hemorrhage occurs after labor, because of 
retained placenta, introduce the hand and remove it, 
together with the blood clots. Then apply a cold wet 
cloth on the abdomen, which causes the womb to con- 
tract and the hemorrhage to cease. If the hemor- 
rhage does not close readily, let the woman be placed 
for just two minutes in a tub half full of cold water, 
just from the well. This will do no harm, and stop 
the hemorrhage instantly. I have tried it, and others 
of wide experience in labor cases recommend it. 
To show that missionaries and nurses of the poor 
can act as midwife, Dr. Trail says, " I have known OBSTETRICS, OR MIDWIFERY. 
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females in the city of New York adopt a reform sys- 
tem of living-a plain, simple, vegetable diet, with a 
daily cold bath, and go through the period of preg- 
nancy without losing an hour from sickness, the 
ordeal of childbirth with no assistant or attendant in 
the room save the husband, take the entire charge of 
the child from the moment of its birth-assisted, of 
course, by its other parent-and ' recover ' without a 
single simptom of anyone of the numerous diseases so 
common to the lying-in period." 
If the real labor pains have progressed several 
hours to no purpose, then call a surgeon to use in- 
struments. Do not take his drugs under any circum- 
stances. If the vagina or perineum is ruptured, have 
a surgeon sew it up. Do not put a "belly-band" 
on either mother or child. Their abdominal muscles 
need all the freedom possible. The baud does not 
prevent large abdomens, and by pressure does great 
harm. If the mother's bowels do not move the 
second day, give her an injection of hot water. 
If the baby's bowels and bladder are not emptied 
naturally within twenty-four hours after its birth, 
they should be examined to see if the parts are closed 
with a membrane. Put the babe to the breast every 
few hours, though milk does not usually come for two 
days. 
The food of the mother should consist of fruits, 
grains and vegetables. Avoid fats, sweets, alcoholic 
drinks, beer, tea and coffee. If she has too much 
milk, then dry toast, wholemeal bread, potatoes, and 
such like will correct it. By all means she should 
eat only bread made from wholemeal, not of white 
flour. If the baby suffers from wind, the mother 
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nipples should be washed in cold water both before 
and after nursing. 
Diseases Following Labor.-Sore nipples are healed 
by cleanliness and applying vaseline. 
Inflammation of the breast, shown by swelling, 
pain and redness, needs hot wet cloths for two hours, 
then cold wet cloths for five minutes, then hot again. 
If not relieved, apply ice till the symptoms disap- 
pear, keeping a rag between the ice and skin. 
Breasts can be dried up (if the child is born dead or 
for other cause) by the mother not taking any drink 
for a few days, and eating dry food, together with 
only partially emptying the breasts. 
Milk leg, has swelling, pain and general fever, and 
needs rest in bed with the leg elevated. Apply hot 
and cold cloths, each for half an hour at a time. Take 
a daily sponge bath, and every other day an injection 
of one to three quarts of hot water into the bowels. 
The diet should be fruits and grains. Keep the 
windows open day and night. Use no drugs. 
Insanity, or puerperal mania (madness) requires 
only a very light diet of fruits and grains, open 
windows, daily sponge bath, and no visitors nor ex- 
citement. Avoid drugs. 
Puerperal fever, or peritonitis, is best treated by 
ice-cold wet cloths on the abdomen, tepid wet sheet 
pack, cold to the head and hot bricks to the extremi- 
ties, with large injections of cool water to free the 
bowels. Drugs are harmful. 
Flooding is stopped by sitting in a tub half full of 
cold water for two minutes. No danger. 
Infant Nursing.-As it takes three hours for milk to 
digest, a new-born babe should not have the breast 
oftener than once in three hours. During the night 
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old the time between feeds must be four hours, and 
none at night. Dr. Page's rule is, for babes up to 
seven months old, if hand-fed, one pint of milk, one- 
half pint of water, and one and a half tablespoons of 
rich cream, well mixed, and given one-third of this 
at each of the three meals, and slightly increase till at 
nine months it gets one and one-third pints of 
milk. Sugar added to baby's food causes colic and 
restlessness. 
About one-third of all children born die under one 
year of age. This is due mainly to wrong feeding and 
medicines. Most babes are fed too much. No babe 
should ever have a dose of medicine. Eighty-five die 
that are fed by hand where fifteen die that are nursed 
by the mother. Give the babe a daily bath. Too 
much or too often feeding causes colic and crying. 
Don't feed because it cries. Nine times out of ten it 
cries because its stomach already is overloaded. 
Don't give any solid food before it has teeth, which is 
about the seventh month, and then no flesh, but ripe 
fruit and porridge of oatmeal, wholemeal of wheat or 
hominy. Wean at nine or ten months, generally, and 
do it gradually, giving the first solid meal for dinner. 
Do this for a month. Do not allow it to eat a bite be- 
tween meals or after supper. The only drinks babes or 
young children should have are water, milk, lemonade, 
orangeade, or thin gruels. Coffee, tea and chocolate 
cause nervousness. It should have but little salt or 
sugar in its food, and no pepper, mustard, vinegar, or 
such appetizers. Let the child sleep all it will. Be 
sure it has fresh air night and day, hence always have 
the windows open. Children should be out in the 
open air all the time possible. Let them run all they 
please, for exercise means growth and health. Never 
trot a child on your knee, nor allow others to do it, 194 
MEDICAL HYGIENE. 
for this, like rocking in the cradle, is well called 
churning the baby's brains. 
The movements of the bowels the first few days of 
the baby are dark and watery, then grow yellow, or 
more firm. A little diarrhoea at teething does no 
harm. Proper diet, cool injections after each move- 
ment of the bowels, and cool wet cloths on the bowels 
will stop a diarrhoea. Never give drugs. When the 
teeth are coming through, give a teaspoon of cool 
water occasionally to cool the mouth. Rub the gums 
with your finger. Do not lance the gums. Baby 
should not wear any of the clothes at night it wore 
during the day. Do not try to have the baby fat, for 
fat babies are much more likely to have croup, 
sore throat, diphtheria, and all bowel troubles. If the 
baby has constipation, thoroughly knead its bowels 
for fifteen minutes before breakfast every morning, 
and this will cause the bowels to move. Do not fear 
to give an injection of warm water when you want 
its bowels to move. Let the baby wear flannel in 
summer and winter, but in summer during the heat 
of the day have it dressed cool. Being kept too warm 
is one great cause of cholera infantum. Do not put 
anything in the water in which you give the baby a 
quick, cool sponge bath daily. By no means let it 
have candy or pastry. Teasing spoils a child as 
surely as it does a colt. If you want the baby to talk 
plainly, do not let any one talk baby talk to it. 
Infantile diseases will be few, or none, if baby is 
reared according to this advice. Remember fasting 
and half rations are as much needed in baby's sickness 
as in yours. For colic apply hot flannels to the 
bowels, hot irons to the feet, give it an injection of 
hot water, give it hot water to drink, and keep all food 
out of its stomach till it is better. More milk or OBSTETRICS, OR MIDWIFERY. 
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food in the stomach makes the colic worse. For 
hiccough give it hot water to drink and less to eat. 
If baby takes cold give it an injection to open its 
bowels, a hot bath to open the skin, rest in bed, and 
feed it less till relieved. Remember a little undi- 
gested food in baby's stomach will cause high fever, 
and even convulsions. Cough, rapid breathing, and 
flapping of the wings of the nose point to lung trouble 
in children. Squinting and fixed pupils show brain 
trouble. Jerking of the legs, and hard abdominal 
muscles show colicy pains. Hoarseness is an early 
sign of congenital syphilis. Vomiting is a common 
symptom in the beginning of all acute diseases of 
children. Worms do not trouble a child that is fed 
and cared for according to the above rules. 
COLLEGE OF HYGIENIC MEDICINE. 
There is a Hygienic Medical College at 230 West Seventh St., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. It is chartered by the State. It had 32 
students last year. Besides Medical Hygiene, it teaches all 
subjects usually taught in a Medical College, except Drugs. 
Write to Geo . C. Kolb , M. D., for a Catalogue. fln&er. 
Abcess, 174. 
Abcess of brain, 109. 
Abdominal dropsy, 82. 
Abdominal wrapper, 61. 
Accidental poisoning, 174. 
Acidity, 85. 
Addison's disease, 142. 
Ague, 158. 
Ague Cake, 92. 
Air bath, 58. 
Air, fresh, 64. 
Alcoholism, 110. 
Alligator, 16. 
Amenorrhcea, 177. 
Amyloid liver, 89. 
Anaemia, 141. 
Anaemia, pernicious, 142. 
Anaemia of brain, 107. 
Aneurism, 138. 
Angina pectoris, 138. 
Ani, prolapsus of, 175. 
Any fever, 153. 
Aphasia, 109. 
Aphonia, 97. 
Aphthae, 66. 
Apoplexy, 108. 
Appendicitis, 80 , 22 , 23. 
Appetite, loss of, 86. 
Appetite, too great, 86. 
Arsenic, 24. 
Arteries hardened, 138. 
Artheroma, 138. 
Ascites, 82. 
Asthma, 98. 
Ataxia, 116. 
Ataxic paraplegia, 117. 
Bad breath, 172. 
Bad hearing, 166. 
Ball in throat, 70. 
Barnes Medical College, 147, 13. 
Bathing rules, 64. 
Bath, air, 58. 
Bath, arm, 60. 
Bath, hot air, 57. 
Bath, sponge, 58. 
Bath, sitz, 60. 
Bath, steam, 60. 
Bath, sun, 57. 
Bed wetting, 175, 151. 
Beef tea, 16. 
Beriberi, 119. 
Biliary calculi, 87. 
Bilious attack, 71. 
Biliousness, 87. 
Blacked eye, 169. 
Bladder diseases, 149. 
Blebs, 170. 
Bleeder's disease, 142. 
Blood, impure, 144. 
Blood, spitting, 100. 
Blood, white, 141. 
Bloody flux, 79. 
Blue disease, 143. 
Boils, 173. 
Bone inflammation, 171. 
Bowels, hemorrhage of, 82. 
Bowels, inflammation of,J77. 
Bowels, pain on moving, 86. 
Brain, abcess, 109. 
Brain anaemia, 107. 
Brain compression, 108. 
Brain congestion, 107. 
Brain fever, 106. 
Brain tumors, 109. 
Breast inflamed, 179. 
Bread pills, 20. 
Breathing difficult, 98. 
Bright's Disease, 145. 
British Museum, 28. 
Bronchitis, acute, 97. 
Bronchitis, chronic, 98. 
Bronchitis, capillary, 97. 
Bronchitis, fibrinous, 97. 
Bronze skin, 142. 
Burns and scalds, 172. 
Cancer, 168. 
Cancer of liver, 90. 
Cancer of stomach, 72. 
Cancrum oris, 67. 
Canker of mouth, 67. 
Calculi biliary, 87. 
Carbuncles, 173. 
Caries, 170. 
Catalepsy, 128. 
Cataract, 169. 
Catarrh of bladder, 149. 
Catarrh of ear, 167. 
Catarrh of mouth, 66. 
Catarrh of nose, 93. 
Catarrh of stomach, 71. 
Catarrhal pneumonia, 102. 
Cerebritis, 106. 
Change in life, 181. 
Chest, dropsy of, 105. 
Chicken pox, 160. 
Chilblains, 173. 
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Child, sick, 176. 
Chills, 158. 
Chlorosis, 142. 
Cholera, 163. 
Cholera infantum, 78. 
Cholera morbus, 78. 
Chorea, 123. 
Clergy sore throat, 68. 
Coccyodynia, 179. 
Cold in head, 93. 
Cold on chest, 97. 
Cold, common, 164. 
Cold feet, 172. 
Colic, 76. 
Colic, renal, 147. 
Colic, lead, 114. 
Comedo, 170. 
Congestion of brain, 107. 
Congestion of lungs, 100. 
Congestive chill, 159. 
Conscience, 11. 
Constipation, 76, 38, 22. 
Consumption of lungs, 102. 
Consumption of throat, 96. 
Consumptives, 25. 
Convulsions, 128, 175. 
Cough, 100. 
Cough, whooping, 99. 
Cough, winter, 98. 
Cramp, 127. 
Croup, 95. 
Croupous pneumonia, 101. 
Cure by diet, 38. 
Cure by fast, 62. 
Cure by rest, 61. 
Cure by water, 44. 
Cure by grapes, 39. 
Curette, 22. 
Curvature of spine, 176. 
Cuts and wounds, 174. 
Cystitis, 149. 
Dandruff, 171. 
Deafness, 166. 
Delirium tremens, 111. 
Diabetes, 152, 153. 
Diet cure, 38. 
Diet lists, 42. 
Diarrhoea, 76. 
Difficult breathing, 98. 
Digestive diseases, 66. 
Diphtheria, 161. 
Disease, 31. 
Disease, hip joint, 176. 
Diseases of bladder, 149. 
Diseases of blood, 141. 
Diseases of digestion, 66. 
Diseases of kidneys, 145. 
Diseases of men, 167. 
Diseases of nerves, 106. 
Diseases of pregnancy, 184. 
Diseases following labor, 192. 
Disease; heart, 132. 
Diseases of women, 177. 
Diseases, respiratory, 93. 
Disease, skin, 171. 
Displacement of womb, 179. 
Dizziness, 110. 
Douche, 60. 
Dropsy, 168. 
Dropsy of abdomen, 82. 
Dropsy of chest, 105. 
Dropsy of brain, 113. 
Dropsy of heart, 133. 
Drugs, 26 , 23. 
Drugs, doctors, 7. 
Drugs, when to use, 27. 
Drunkenness, 110. 
Dry skin, 171. 
Dysentery, acute, 79. 
Dysentery, chronic, 80. 
Dysmenorrhoea, 177. 
Dyspepsia, 74. 
Earache, 166. 
Ears, bodies in, 167. 
Ears, catarrh of, 167. 
Ears, noises in, 167. 
Ears, running, 166. 
Ears, rupture, 167. 
Eczema, 171. 
Eczema of head. 175. 
Electricity, 63. 
Endocarditis, 133. 
Enlarged liver, 90. 
Enlarged spleen, 92. 
Enteralgia, 76. 
Enteritis, 77. 
Embolism, 139. 
Emphysema, 99. 
Epilepsy, 124. 
Erysipelas, 161, 19. 
Erythema, 171. 
Europe, 53. 
Eyes, sore, 168, 169. 
Excessive sweat, 171. 
Exercise, 64. 
Fainting, 172. 
Falling sickness, 124. 
Falling of bowel, 174. 
False croup, 95. 
Fasting cure, 62. 
Fatty liver, 91. 
Feet, cold, 172. 
Feet, sweating, 172. 
Felon, 173. 
Fever, any, 153. 
Fever, bilious, 158. 
Fever, bilious typhoid, 158. 
Fever, brain, 106. 
Fever, break bone, 159. 
Fever, hay, 99. 
Fever, scarlet, 159. 
Fever, simple, 156. 
Fever, spinal, 158 
Fever, pernicious, 159. 
Fever, relapsing, 158. 
Fever, typhoid, 157. 
Fever, typho-malaria, 159. 
Fever, typhus, 157. 
Fever, yellow, 159. 
Fever, intermittent, 158. 
Fistula in ano, 164. 
Flatulence, 84. 
Freckles, 171. 
Floating kidney, 149. 
Flux, 79. 
Fresh air, 64. 
Gall stone, 87. 
Gangrenous mouth, 67. 
Gastric catarrh, 71. 
Gastritis, 70. 
Genitals, itching, 179. 
Germany, 53. 198 
INDEX. 
Gleet, 167. 
Glycosuria, 152. 
Globus hystericus, 70. 
Glossitis, 67. 
Glottis spasm, 96. 
Goitre, 126. 
Gonorrhoea, 167, 179, 26, 23. 
Gonorrhoeal rheumatism, 162. 
Grape cure, 39. 
Gravel, kidney, 147. 
Gravel, bladder, 150. 
Green sickness, 142. 
Great appetite, 86. 
Grip, 156. 
Habit, alcohol, 110. 
Habit, morphine, 111. 
Habit, tobacco, 112. 
Haemophilia, 142. 
Half pack, 60. 
Hall treatment, 61. 
Hamburg epidemic, 17. 
Hay fever, 99. 
Headache, 129. 
Headache, sick, 110. 
Heart diseases, 132. 
Heart, fatty, 135. 
Heart, dropsy, 133. 
Heart, inflamed, 132. 
Heart, irregular, 138. 
Heart, misplaced, 137. 
Heart, neuralgia, 138. 
Heart, palpitation, 136. 
Heart, rapid, 136. 
Heart rupture, 136. 
Heart, slow, 137. 
Heartburn, 85. 
Heat and cold, 64. 
Heat stroke, 112. 
Hemorrhage of lungs, 100. 
Hemorrhage of bowels, 82. 
Hemorrhage of stomach, 73. 
Hemoptysis, 100. 
Hepatitis, 91 
Hernia, 164. 
Herpes, 171. 
Hipjoint disease, 176. 
Hodgkin's disease, 142. 
Homeopathy, 14. 
Hot air bath, 57. 
Hospital hygienic, 53. 
Hydrocephalus, 113. 
Hydrophobia, 163. 
Hydrothorax, 105. 
Hygiene, 12. 
Hygienic rules, 43. 
Hygienic hospital, 53. 
Hypertrophy of heart, 134. 
Hypochondria, 130. 
Hypnotism, 128. 
Hysteria, 125. 
Icterus, 86. 
If uncertain, 56. 
Indigestion, 74. 
Impetigo, 171. 
Impotence, 167. 
Infant nursing, 192. 
Infant paralysis, 116. 
Inflammation of bowels, 77. 
Inflammation of heart, 132. 
Inflammation of brain, 106. 
Inflammation of breast, 179. 
Inflammation of liver, 91. 
Inflammation of nerve, 117. 
Inflammation of stomach, 70. 
Inflammation of tongue, 67. 
Inflammation of vagina, 179. 
Inflammation of womb, 179. 
Influenza, 156. 
Insanity, 165. 
Insomnia, 130. 
Itch, 173. 
Itching genitals, 179. 
Intestinal obstruction, 81. 
Intussusception, 81. 
Impure blood, 144. 
John Wesley, 28. 
Jaundice, 86. 
Kansas druggist, 19. 
Kidney diseases, 145. 
Kidney, fatty, 148. 
Kidney, floating, 149. 
Kidney, gravel, 147. 
Kidney, hemorrhage, 148. 
Kidney, red, 146. 
Kidney, suppuration, 147. 
Labor, 186. 
Laryngitis, catarrhal, 94. 
Laryngitis, edematous, 94. 
Laryngitis, spasmodic, 95. 
Laryngismus stridulus, 96. 
Lateral sclerosis, 116. 
Lead colic, 114. 
Lead poisoning, 114. 
Leucaemia, 141. 
Lice, 173. 
Liver, abcess, 88. 
Liver, atrophy, 89. 
Liver, cancer, 90. 
Liver, enlarged, 90. 
Liver, fatty, 91. 
Liver, hob nail, 89. 
Liver, inflamed, 91. 
Liver, sclerosis, 89. 
Liver, torpid, 87. 
Liver, tumor, 90. 
Liver, waxy, 89. 
Lockjaw, 126. 
Locomotor ataxia, 116. 
Lungs, congestion, 100. 
Lungs, consumption, 102. 
Lungs, hemorrhage of, 100. 
Lumbago, 128. 
Loss of appetite, 86. 
Loss of speech, 109 
Loss of voice, 97. 
Lymphatics, 141. 
Madstones, 15. 
Marion-Sims College, 13. 
Massage, 62 , 20. 
Mastitis, 179. 
Masturbation, 167. 
Measles, 160. 
Megrim, 110. 
Meningitis, 106. 
Menopause, 181. 
Menstruation, no, 177. 
Menstruation, painful, 177. 
Menstruation, scanty, 177. 
Menstruation, profuse, 178. 
Menstruation, too soon, 178. 
Mercury poisoning, 113. 
Migraine, 110. INDEX. 
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Miscarriage, 180. 
Milk diet, 43. 
Morphine habit, 111. 
Mouth diseases, 66, 67. 
Multiple neuritis, 118. 
Mumps, 161. 
Muscular atrophy, 116. 
My teachers, 13. 
Nasal catarrh, 93. 
Nausea, 85. 
Necrosis, 170. 
Nephritis, 146. 
Nervous diseases, 106. 
Nerve, inflamed, 117. 
Nervous prostration, 125. 
Nerve, tumor, 118. 
Neurasthenia, 125. 
Neuralgia, 120. 
Neuralgia of stomach, 74. 
Neuroma, 118. 
Neuritis, simple, 117. 
Neuritis, multiple, 118. 
Niggers, 25. 
Nine rules, 56. 
Nightmare, 174. 
Night sweats, 171. 
Noma, 67. 
Nose bleed, 94. 
Nose, red, 173. 
No menstruation, 177. 
Nursing, infant, 192. 
Nymphomania, 180. 
Obesity, 164. 
Obstruction, intestinal, 81. 
(Esophagus diseases, 69, 70. 
Old Mexico, 50. 
Opium habit, 111. 
Osteitis, 171. 
Osteomalachia, 170. 
Ovarian trouble, 178. 
Pack. 59. 
Pain, 165. 
Painful menstruation, 177. 
Painful urination, 152. 
Painful sitting, 179. 
Painful stool, 86. 
Palpitation, 136. 
Palsy, 116, 121. 
Paralysis, infantile, 116. 
Paralysis, legs, 117. 
Paralysis, face, 121. 
Paralysis, bladder, 122. 
Paralysis, following acute diseases, 
122. 
Pericarditis, 132. 
Peritonitis, 82. 
Pernicious anaemia, 142. 
Phlebitis, 140. 
Pharyngitis, 68. 
Piles, 163. 
Pimples, 172. 
Pityriasis, 171. 
Plethora, 165. 
Pleurisy, 104. 
Pneumonia, croupous, 101. 
Pneumonia, catarrhal, 101. 
Pneumonia, chronic, 102. 
Pneumothorax, 105. 
Poisoning, 174. 
Poisoning, arsenic, 114. 
Poisoning, lead, 114. 
Poisoning, mercury, 113. 
Pregnancy, diseases of, 184. 
Pregnancy, signs of, 184. 
Pregnancy, prevention of, 184. 
Prevention of pregnancy, 184. 
Proctitis, 77. 
Profuse menstruation, 178. 
Prolapsus of bowel, 164. 
Prolapsus ani, 175. 
Prolapsus of womb, 179. 
Prurigo, 171, 18. 
Puritus, 179. 
Purpura, 143. 
Pulse, irregular, 138. 
Psoriasis, 171. 
Pyelitis, 147. 
Quacks, 19. 
Quinine, 18. 
Quinsy, 69. 
Rapid heart, 136. 
Rash, 171. 
Rash, rose, 161. 
Remedies of hygiene, 57. 
Rest cure, 61. 
Respiratory diseases, 93. 
Red nose, 173. 
Rickets, 170. 
Ringworm, 173. 
Rheumatism, 162, 163. 
Rose rash, 161. 
Round worms, 84. 
Running ears, 166. 
Salivation, 68. 
Scalds, 172. 
Scald head, 175. 
Scanty menses, 177. 
Sciatica, 119. 
Sclerosis of liver, 89. 
Scorbutus, 143. 
Scurvy, 143. 
Scrofula, 163. 
Sea sickness, 171. 
Scarlet fever, 159. 
Sick child, 176. 
Sick headache, 110. 
Sitz bath, 60. 
Skin diseases, 171. 
Sleeplessness, 130. 
Sleep walking, 130. 
Smallpox, 160. 
Soft bones, 170. 
Sore mouth, 67. 
Sore eyes, 168, 169. 
Sore throat, 68. 
Spasm of face, 130. 
Spasms, 128, 175. 
Spasm of glottis, 96. 
Speech lost, 109. 
Spinal curvature 176. 
Spinal hyperaemia, 114. 
Spinal inflammation, 115. 
Spinal meningitis, 115. 
Spitting up food, 85. 
Sponge bath, 58. 
Spleen, enlarged, 92. 
Stammering, 175. 
Steam bath, 60. 
Sterility, 167, 180. 
Stomach, cancer, 72. 
Stomach, catarrh, 70. 
Stomach, dilated, 73. 200 
INDEX. 
Stomach, hemorrhage, 73. 
Stomach, inflamed, 70. 
Stomach, neuralgia, 74. 
Stomach, ulcer of, 72. 
Stomach, weak, 85. 
Stomach, wind on, 84. 
Stone, gall, 87. 
Stricture, 70, 167. 
Stye, 169. 
Summer complaint, 78. 
Sun bath, 57. 
Sunstroke, 112. 
Surgery, 64. 
Sweat, excessive, 171. 
Sweat, feet, 172. 
Sweat, night, 171. 
Swimming of head, 110. 
Synovitis, 163. 
Syphilis, 167. 
Tapeworm, 83. 
Tetanus, 126. 
Tetany, 127. 
Thread worms, 84. 
Throat, ball in, 70. 
Throat, consumption, 96. 
Throat, sore, 68. 
Thrombosis, 139. 
Thrush, 67. 
Tobacco habit, 112. 
Tongue inflamed, 67. 
Tonsilitis, 69. 
Tonsils, enlarged, 69. 
Too much fat, 164. 
Toothache, 166. 
Torpid liver, 87. 
Torticollis, 127. 
Trance, 128. 
Traumatic fever, 18. 
Tremens, delirium, 111. 
Trip to Europe, 53. 
Trouble, ovarian, 178. 
Tuberculosis, 102. 
Tumors, 168. 
Tumors of liver, 90. 
Tumors of brain, 109. 
Tumors, nerve, 118. 
Typhlitis, 77. 
Typhoid fever, 157, 13. 
Ulcers, 164. 
Ulcers of bone, 170. 
Ulcers of mouth, 66. 
Ulcers of stomach, 72. 
Ulcers of womb, 180. 
Uncertain, if, 56. 
Unity of disease, 31. 
Uraemia, 147. 
Uraemic convulsions, 128. 
Urine, retention, 151. 
Urine, suppressed, 151. 
Urine, dribbling, 151. 
Urination, painful, 152. 
. Vagina, inflamed, 179. 
Vaginitis, 179. 
Valedictory address, 47. 
Vapor bath, 60. 
Varicella, 160. 
Varicose veins, 140. 
Veins, inflamed, 140. 
Veins, varicose, 140. 
Vertigo, 110. 
Vomiting, 85. 
V. E. M. diet, 42. 
Water cure, 44. 
Weil's disease, 87. 
Wesley, John, 28. 
Wet sheet pack, 59. 
Wetting the bed, 175, 151. 
White blood, 141. 
Whitlow, 173. 
White swelling, 163. 
Whites, 179. 
Whooping oough, 99. 
Wind on stomach, 84. 
Winter cough, 98. 
Womb troubles, 179. 
Women, diseases of, 177. 
Worms, round, 84. 
Worms, tape, 83. 
Worms, thread, 84. 
Wounds and cuts, 174. 
Wry neck, 127.