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Explanation of Plate-a, b, gullet; c, stomach; k, duedenum; 
e, gall bladder; f, bile duct, h, h, h, Intestines; 1, m, ascending colon; g, 
p. transverse colon; q, descending colon; r. illlgc colon; s, rectum; t, 
annus. DREH-NI-GEAN 
THE TRUE SECRET 
OF 
Health of the Body 
Based Upon Perfection in Its 
Sanitary Conditions 
BY 
Lucy Bissell Sanders 
NEW YORK 
SANDERS COMPANY 
503 Fifth Avenue Copyright 1899 
By Sanders Company PREFACE. 
The author of this book believes it is pos- 
sible, in most cases, for persons in mature life 
to become their own physicians, to the extent 
they have the power of control over their own 
bodies, in removing obstructions to a healthy 
action, and preventing the recurrence of such 
influences as habits and mode of living, when 
their deleterious effects are once understood. 
For it is upon these facts mainly, .it is believed, 
rests the morale of human action and indi- 
vidual responsibility for one's health, happi- 
ness, and, many times, life itself. 
L. B. S. INTRODUCTION. 
Dreh-Ni-Gean-Dre-ne-gen. 
This is a new system of cure, without drug 
medication, which is most wonderful in its vi- 
talizing effect, in sustaining and restoring 
healthful conditions to all of the organs and 
functions of the body, wisely provided for car- 
rying on the important work of purification 
and removing impurities, and building up and 
repairing the waste, thus restoring lost, or ob- 
structed, action to the vital organism, en- 
abling nature, through her curative processes, 
to restore normal conditions. 
This system of cure is triplex in its charac- 
ter, embodying the use of water, massage and 
diet, all three of which, we believe, are essential 
in securing the highest degree of efficiency in 
the healing art. 
As its name-Dreh-ni-gean-implies, it em- 
braces fully the idea of draining the clogged up 
system of its impurities that exist in the body, 
to a greater or less extent, in all diseased con- 8 
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ditions, as the great fertilizer of bacilli and all 
disease-breeding germs. For this reason it is 
a cure universally applicable to all forms of dis- 
ease, and, it is believed, will successfully meet 
all the conditions necessary to secure a restora- 
tion to health, in all curable cases. 
In fact, it is a system of cure that has stood 
the crucial test of many years of experience 
and practice with it, proving equally beneficial 
in many acute and chronic cases, some of 
which have baffled the skill of prominent phy- 
sicians in this country and Europe. 
It is especially applicable to disease arising 
from impurities of the blood, scrofulous ten- 
dencies, eczema, &c.; cancerous conditions, 
and so-called germ* diseases-la grippe, pneu- 
monia, bronchitis, consumption in its early 
stages, catarrh in all forms, including deafness; 
inflammatory troubles such as rheumatism, 
gout, obesity, weak and diseased eyes. All af- 
fections of the stomach, liver, kidneys and 
bowels, yield readily to this new and philo- 
sophical method of treatment. 
The human body is practically the same to- 
day, subject to the same laws of life and health, 
as in ancient times, when for two thousand Introduction 
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years a doctor was unknown, and, all other 
things being equal, there seems no good rea- 
son why people to-day in most cases should 
not be as free and independent of doctors, if 
they would exercise the same thoughtful care 
in their habits and mode of living as they do in 
other matters pertaining to their social and 
business life. 
If people would pay one-half the attention to 
the internal needs of the body, that they do to 
its outward needs in clothing it properly to 
meet the changes in the weather and climatic 
influences, the health rate of the people would 
be greatly increased, and invalidism, become 
the exception rather than the rule, as at the 
present day. 
This means a great deal when we consider 
the fact that out of the world's population of 
1,600,000,000 of people, it is estimated that 
seventy-five per cent, (1,200,000,000) suffer 
more or less from the ailments flesh is heir to. CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER. PAGE. 
Introduction 7 
I. The Dreh-nl-gean Cure-Its History 13 
II. The Tri-plex Character of the Cure 46 
Water.. 46 
Methods of Applying the Water 57 
Continual Flow... 60 
Temperature of the Water.. 66 
Position of the Body 67 
Fevers 69 
La Grippe 79 
Pregnancy 82 
Massage 83 
Diet.... 89 
III. Province of Food ...... 90 
IV. Dieting 101 
Appendix... 119 CHAPTER I. 
THE DREH-NI-GEAN CURE-ITS HISTORY 
"In treating the ailments of humanity as 
in our social and domestic economy, the lit- 
tle with the knowledge and skill, in its ap- 
plication succeeds, where the ill adapted and 
destructive much fails." 
The little air drill succeeded, but the much- 
contained in the ill adapted, ponderous ma- 
chinery, with its great revolving disk-failed, 
in forcing a passageway through the Hoosac 
Mountain, thus proving that little things 
rightly directed are often more potent than 
great things in accomplishing great results, 
and showing, as well, that the value of means 
employed are to be measured not by their 
greatness or littleness, but by the results at- 
tained. 
This book goes out on its mission as the 
friend in need to the invalid, in its advocacy of 
a perfect system of hygienic home-cure, and Dreh-ni-gean 
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the author can vouch for the fact that it does 
not appear before the public for the purpose 
of making startling statements, however re- 
markable some of them may appear. Nor is it 
advocating any remedial agent because of its 
simplicity merely, except so far, perhaps, as its 
accessibility to all would seem to imply this, 
"For a thing is great or little only to a mortal's thinking." 
I am advocating a system of home-treat- 
ment, while not in the sense of its being a so- 
called "great cure-all," yet it is one I believe to 
be universally applicable as an influence and 
power in assisting nature in restoring health- 
ful conditions. It is true, that I am advocat- 
ing the use of water as a remedial agent of 
chief dependence, not, however, as possessing 
curative action, but as containing properties 
which, in their influence on the body, will as- 
sist nature in the direction she needs assist- 
ance, if at all, in removing obstructions that im- 
pede proper circulation and interfere with the 
process of excretion. 
I have been led to these conclusions, and 
have become so deeply impressed with the im- 
portance and value of the Dreh-ni-gean system 
of cure, because of most peculiar and trying History of the Cure 
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circumstances. Impulse and inclination, many 
times, would have led me away from the try- 
ing ordeal, which a series of circumstances and 
experiences imposed; and yet I was led onward 
and forward by a deeper undercurrent of duty, 
because of the success that attended my effort 
in alleviating human suffering. 
It is because of these experiences that I have 
felt for some time-and many of my patients 
as well-that I should publish a book in the 
interest of the general invalid public, giving 
some of my experiences in the treatment of the 
ailments of suffering humanity, and explaining 
my method, which has been so successful; and 
because it is a system of cure which, when once 
understood, one can always have at com- 
mand-a home-treatment, without drug medi- 
cation, that can be successfully and safely ap- 
plied in all, or nearly all, acute and chronic 
cases. 
In fact, the question of the possibility of se- 
curing a system of hygienic home-treatment 
for invalids, and for general family use, to meet 
all emergencies, one that is simple, easily ap- 
replied, and one which will prove effectual in 16 
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restoring healthful conditions, has long agi- 
tated the public mind. 
It is true, we have our many health institu- 
tions and sanitariums, but, unfortunately for a 
very large class of invalids, these health resorts 
are beyond their reach. They are either too 
expensive, or too far away from their homes, 
and, owing to their condition, they are unable 
to reach them. So they are debarred from any 
benefits that may be derived from a sojourn at 
these places. 
But we find that this numerous class of in- 
valids are just as needy in this respect, and just 
as anxious to get well, as those who are more 
favored with the means for securing health, 
and their lives and health are just as precious 
to them and their friends. To help this class 
of invalids especially, is the inspiration of this 
work. 
It is obvious in order that such a home- 
treatment may be practicable, that it must be 
one which is not only simple and easily ap- 
plied, but it must be more than this to reach 
the majority of cases. It must be as "free as 
water," as the saying goes, and as cheap as all History of the Cure 
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nature's means for securing health can make 
it. 
This is the crowning feature of the Dreh- 
ni-gean system of cure-it is free to all "with- 
out money and without price." In fact it is 
designed to teach every one to become inde- 
pendent of doctors, to a great extent, and 
their own physicians for life- 
If, by the use of such a treatment, results 
have been attained in overcoming the influ- 
ence and power of diseased conditions, show- 
ing that it has efficacy and power, without the 
use of drug medication, does not the Dreh-ni- 
gean cure prove itself worthy of our deepest 
consideration? Must it not command atten- 
tion? 
Are Typhoid fever, Scarlet fever. Quinsy 
sore throat and Diphtheria, forms of acute dis- 
ease to be trifled with and experimented with, 
by remedial agents of no efficacy and power? 
Do they not require prompt action on our 
part, and the best means promptly applied, in 
assisting nature to arrest the onward march of 
the disease? 
If you were called as the last resort and last 
hope, to the bedside of a dying child, as viewed 18 
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from the standpoint of three physicians, who 
had given up the child as a hopeless case, and 
said she could not live, would it be possible, 
think you, reader, for a remedial agent of no 
value to be the means of assisting nature in 
restoring that child back to its parents in 
health? If it was accomplished, does it not 
show that the means employed, however sim- 
ple they may seem to us, were potent in their 
influence and power 
All this and much more has been accom- 
plished by the Dreh-ni-gean cure, which is en- 
tirely free from drug medication. Does it 
seem almost like a mythical statement, to say 
that a person who was insane, and was for a 
time before I took the case, an inmate of the 
Insane Asylum at Northampton, Mass, was in 
three months' time, under this treatment, so 
far restored to health and clothed in her right 
mind, as to do her own housework, which she 
had not been able to do before for three years? 
A short time after treating this patient, I 
received a letter from her husband in which he 
says: "I never saw Abbie look so well as now, 
and she has been cleaning house, and seems to 
take as much interest in her work as ever she History of the Cure 
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did, and it is not medicine that has done it, and 
that is one good thing. I tell you what it is, 
it seems good to be able to live once more. 
It is so long since I have been able to live like 
other folks, that I hardly know how to act." 
This patient, for seven years previous, had 
been taking, at intervals, bromides, nervines 
and opiates to quiet her nerves, and her sys- 
tem was filled with these decoctions. Is it a 
wonder she went crazy? She had none of 
these to quiet her nerves while under my care, 
except in two or three instances, and did not 
require them afterward, when her husband 
wrote me the above letter. 
Soon after the recovery of the sick child re- 
ferred to, I received the following letter from 
its mother: 
"It seems so like a dream to me to think I 
have my dear little Bertie with me She seems 
so well now and so full of life. How I wish 
you could see her. It was only a short time 
ago we had given up all hopes of her recov- 
ery. When you came, dear, friend, I was try- 
ing to be reconciled to say, 'Thy will be done,' 
but, through your kind efforts, she was spared 
to me. How grateful I feel toward kind 20 
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Heaven, and to you, no words can express." 
The first case of scarlet fever in which I ap- 
plied the Dreh-ni-gean cure, was that of my 
daughter Lulu, when she was about six years 
old. It was while we were visiting friends in 
the country. As I had never before tested the 
influence and power of this method of treat- 
ment in a case of this character, I felt a natural 
hesitancy about using the treatment without 
consulting a physician. So I called Dr. Lamb, 
the resident physician. After the doctor 
called twice to see my daughter, he reported 
to my friends that she was a very sick child 
and he was afraid she could not live. And yet, 
out of the twenty cases he had on his hands 
at the time, Lulu's sickness, for some reason 
was of the shortest duration. Five days after 
the doctor was first called, Lulu was able to 
sit up in bed, and the following day she was 
able to be dressed. After that time she 
gained rapidly, while the other cases were slow 
in recovering. As her case was pronounced 
the severest of them all, I can account for her 
more speedy recovery in no other way than 
that she had the Dreh-ni-gean treatment and 
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Now I have no desire to, and would not 
under any consideration, detract from the 
worthy doctor's effort in behalf of my child, 
for I hold him in high esteem, and I gave his 
medicine as he prescribed and directed, for 
two days and nights. At the same time I 
treated the child every day, and many times a 
day, for three days, with an internal applica- 
tion of heated water by enernas. 
Now as to how much the recovery of the 
child was due to the doctor's effort by the use 
of his medicines I will not presume to say. 
How much it was due to the water treatment, 
as I applied it, would depend much upon 
whether it could have accomplished the same 
results had not the medicine been given. How- 
ever this may be, Dr. Lamb seemed to think, 
that the water treatment, as I applied it, was 
of some value in this direction, as he soon 
after made use of it in one of his cases, and 
with good results. 
But I was destined to settle this matter, in 
my own mind at least, much sooner than I ex- 
pected, for I was called upon, not from in- 
clination or desire, but from the force of un- 
foreseen and trying circumstances, to put the 22 
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treatment to other and, if possible, severer1 
practical tests. For in one week after my re- 
turn home from the country with my daugh- 
ter, Lulu, I had three cases on my hands at 
once, in my own family-my oldest daughter, 
and my niece, Mrs. Hawkes, and her little 
daughter, two years old. This little girl had 
the scarlet fever in a mild form. My oldest 
daughter, Carrie, had what is called catarrhal 
fever and quinsy sore throat. Mrs. Hawkes 
had typhoid fever and one of the severest 
diphtheritic sore throats attending it. She 
had recently returned from Cambridge, Mass., 
where she had beep taking care of her father, 
who had been very sick with typhoid fever. 
In all of these cases I used nothing but the 
Dreh-ni-gean system of cure, giving no medi- 
cine, and bringing them safely through their 
sickness back to health. 
The two cases of my daughter and Mrs. 
Hawkes were two as severe cases as is often 
found, and both received prompt and careful 
attention. I treated these cases with an inter- 
nal and external application of heated water. 
The internal application was through the bow- 
els, and applied in each case once an hour for History of the Cure 
eighteen consecutive hours, which produced 
perspiration and broke up the fever. Each day 
after, for nine days, I continued the treatment, 
three or four times a day, as the conditions 
of the patient seemed to require. The body 
is so responsive to the treatment that even 
patients themselves, if not too feeble, can tell 
just when they need the treatment. 
To relieve the intense suffering occasioned 
by the sore throat, I made outward application 
upon the throat, of water as hot as could be 
comfortably applied, and borne by the pa- 
tients, and kept it up four and five hours, 
changing these hot compresses every three or 
four minutes during that time. At the end of 
the fourth hour my daughter was so far re- 
lieved (it was in the evening), that she went to 
sleep, getting a comfortable night's rest. In 
the morning, when she awoke, she looked quite 
bright and felt very much better. 
In the case of Mrs. Hawkes, it required the 
constant application of these hot compresses 
every four minutes, for five hours, before she 
could get relief and rest. In one week these 
two patients were able to sit up a portion of 
each day afterward and be dressed. At the 24 
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end of two> weeks they were so far convales- 
cent as to be able to, walk a distance of half a 
mile and return. 
Some may think that these could not have 
been very severe cases; that they must have 
been a mild form of the disease to have con- 
valesced so rapidly. Possibly that may not be 
an unnatural view, as taken from the stand- 
point of our experiences in treating such cases 
with drug medication, and I have no doubt but 
that, had drug medication been administered, 
these cases would have lingered along into 
weeks, perhaps, as is usual in such cases. But 
does this reflect most against the possible 
severity of the disease, or against the probable 
result in the use of drug medication? 
It is by no means a new idea that powerful 
drugs, administered many times, have more 
to do with lengthening out the time of one's 
illness, in such cases, than we are apt to realize. 
Nor is it a new idea that if often takes a longer 
time to overcome the effect of the medicine 
given than it does in overcoming the disease 
itsel. This is a fact well recognized in the 
medical profession. 
Upon this point Dr. Trail says: "While the History of the Cure 
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ordinary duration of inflammatory fever is 
from one to two weeks, the nervous form of 
typhus from four to six or even eight weeks, 
the putrid form from two to three weeks, re- 
mittent fever from two to four weeks, when 
treated according to the popular system, yet 
under a water treatment," he says, "it is very 
rare for any fevers, except eruptive, to hold out 
over a week; and in eruptive diseases, whose 
febrile excitement usually continues from 
seven to eleven days, the violence of the dis- 
ease is generally entirely subdued within one 
week. I have never personally known a fever 
run over a week under a water treatment, and 
I have treated all the common forms in New 
York city for the last eight years-ephemeral, 
inflammatory, typhus, ship, scarlet, measles, 
smallpox, etc." 
Prof. Thomas Watson, a prominent Eng- 
lish practitioner of the "old school" of prac- 
tice, has this to say: "We know tolerably well 
what it is we have to deal with, but we do not 
know so well how to deal with it. To me, it 
has been a life long wonder, how vaguely, how 
ignorantly, and how rashly drugs are often ad- 
ministered, We try this and? not succeeding, 26 
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we try that, and, baffled again, we try some- 
thing else. Our whole profession is continu- 
ally fluctuating on a sea of doubt, about ques- 
tions of the gravest responsibility." Another 
says: "The whole nation is groaning under 
the present practice of the medical profession, 
■which fosters disease more than it cures it." 
Here is what Dr. E. D. Leffingwell says: 
"After listening to the teachings, and wit- 
nessing the practice of nearly every great hos- 
pital in Europe, I return home to America, 
with a far greater faith in the healing power 
of nature, and a far greater skepticism of the 
curative influence of art, than I ever possessed 
before. As I wandered through hospital after 
hospital, and saw how the greatest of men dis- 
agreed in their treatment of the same disease; 
as I have seen how little they are able to assist 
nature by the means they employ; how, too 
often, the experiences of yesterday, are ren- 
dered worthless by the experiences of to-day; 
as I have thought of the revolutions and con- 
tradictions of therapeutics in the past, it has 
seemed to me, at times, as though there was 
po refuge but in nihilism; that all alike is folly; History of the Cure 
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that rest, quiet and calm were the only human 
fruition." 
Dr. William Thornton, who stands high in 
the medical profession, as an author on med- 
ical subjects, in his work on Therapeutics, ad- 
mits, ''that at least two-thirds of the drugs 
used in the treatment of disease, are useless 
and empirical." He admits that "if we have 
a specific formula for any disease, we can pro- 
duce the same results every time we* use it for 
that disease," but says, "the reason why this 
is not done under the existing methods of 
practice, is, because no uniform action can be 
be depended upon by the use of incompatibles. 
Not until we have learned nature's laws, and 
accepted her methods, can we have an exact 
science of medicine." 
In a recent issue of the Eastern Medical 
Journal, published in Massachusetts, we find 
this thought expressed upon the same subject 
before us. 
"There can be no doubt but that thousands 
have been, and still are, annually consigned 
to untimely graves, besides a still larger num- 
ber who are doomed to linger out a wretched 
existence, by the unnatural, unphilosophical, 28 
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and destructive treatment to which they are 
subjected. It cannot be possible that such a 
mass of incongruous experiments, made up of 
the most virulent poisons, can claim a rela- 
tion to science." 
All this being true; does it seem; so difficult 
to understand, why these cases referred to as 
being treated under a hygienic cure, without 
drug medication, should have convalesced so 
quickly, and not lingered along for weeks and 
months, and, perhaps, have resulted, under 
drug medication, in a life of wretched exist- 
ence? 
Nature, in these cases, having no' medicine 
in the system to combat and expel, and none 
of its baleful influences to counteract, could 
direct all of her curative forces, toward re- 
storing harmony to all the functions of life, 
and repairing the waste. Hence in these cases 
a speedy convalescence. 
Among other patients I have had under 
my care and treatment, there are several of 
special interest, as showing the wonderful ac- 
tion of the water on the system. One of these 
was the case of the mother of the little child 
glready spoken of. I took her case by urgent History of the Cure 
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request, some time after the recovery of her 
little girl. She had been in poor health for 
several years, under the care of several phy- 
sicians at different times, who did not seem 
to reach her case, and it finally terminated in 
lung trouble. It was in the fall of '84 when 
I took this patient, and at the time it was 
thought she would not live through the fol- 
lowing winter. I did not give her friends 
much encouragement, but was willing to do 
what I could for her. I treated her, com- 
mencing in November. For the first few 
weeks it was a very trying case; hardly a treat- 
ment could be applied, during that time, that 
she did not faint dead away. But I kept on 
with the treatment, each time, until she came 
out of the spell and consciousness was restored. 
Gradually she overcame this disposition to go 
into these fainting spells. After treating her 
nearly every day through the winter, in the 
spring she was greatly improved, so much so, 
she told me, that she really believed she never 
felt better in her life. Apparently, all the 
symptoms of lung trouble had disappeared. 
Two years later, while she was living in Woon- 30 
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socket, R. L, I received the following testi- 
monial from her: 
"I feel in duty bound to give my testimony 
as to Dr. Sanders' method of curing disease. 
For nine years previous to going under her 
treatment, I was a great sufferer. During that 
time I had employed many doctors. Some- 
times they were able to relieve my suffering, 
but it only resulted in temporary relief. I had 
lung trouble, with other troubles, and I had 
become so completely discouraged, that I 
gave up all hopes of recovery. In this way 
I lingered along until my little girl was three 
months old. Then she was taken sick with 
congestion of the brain. The doctors who 
had attended her said they could do no more 
for her and said she might live a week and 
might die inside of 24 hours. 
About this time I had heard of Dr. Sanders 
and what she had been able to accomplish 
with her method of treatment. As a last hope 
I sent for her, and after she was so successful 
in restoring my little girl to health, I began 
to have a faint hope that she might help me. 
Previous to this time, I had been strongly 
urged to put myself under her care and treat- 
ment, but to, no purpose, for I had no faith in 
her treatment. I did not believe that a water 
treatment could help me where all else failed. 
But when I saw with my own eyes what it had History of the Cure 
31 
done for my little Bertie I was in hopes she 
might help me, if not cure me. So I con- 
cluded to try her. I went under the treat- 
ment, and was under Dr. Sanders' care for five 
months; after that time I treated myself. For 
more than a year previous I had a severe 
cough, not being able to lie down nights on 
account of it, but was obliged to be bolstered 
up in bed, in a sitting position, to get any re- 
lief and rest. Dr. Sanders told me that if I fol- 
lowed up the treatment, under the instruc- 
tions she had given me, she believed I would 
get entirely well. I did so, carrying out her 
instructions faithfully and now, after two 
years, consider myself perfectly well. 
"(Mrs.) Edith Lock, 
Woonsocket, R. I." 
About this time I was called to attend an 
asthmatic patient, a lady who had been 
troubled with asthma for the past five years. 
She was in a very bad condition, and reduced 
to a state of nervous prostration. She had 
about decided to go to Boston, and enter a 
hospital there to be treated, but, under the 
influence of her friends, some of whom had 
been my patients, she was persuaded to try my 
system of cure. 
She would have very severe attacks of asth- 32 
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ma at intervals of about four months each. 
Usually in these attacks she was prostrated 
in bed for five and six weeks at a time, and 
each succeeding attack was more severe than 
the one preceding it. So much so, that the 
physician who had attended her through the 
last attack, did not think she could live 
through another, and of course suggested that 
she go to the hospital. I must admit it was 
a very trying case, and one over which I spent 
many anxious hours. But I finally succeeded 
in reducing these attacks from the usual run 
of six weeks to one of two weeks' duration, 
so that, in less than two months' time, she was 
able to be up and about the house, and do 
more work, as she expressed it, than she had 
been able to do before during all the five 
years of her sickness 
Do any ask, then, if I considered this pa- 
tient entirely cured of the asthma during this 
time? Most assuredly not, for it takes a long 
time for these old chronic cases to entirely re- 
cover, and bring back a healthy order of action 
to all the organs and functions of life. But 
she was helped by the treatment as no medi- 
cine had been able to help her, and, after that History of the Cure 
33 
time she was able to go on with the treat- 
ment herself, until she secured permanent re- 
lief. 
Here are several testimonials, taken from a 
few of the most important, of patients who have 
been under the Dreh-ni-gean cure:- 
Ashley Falls, Mass., April 31, 1887. 
To all whom it may concern:- 
This is to certify that I, having been in very 
poor health for over three years, and, as the 
doctors all told me, that I was gradually dying 
of consumption, I feel in duty bound to say 
that Dr. Sanders' system of cure has. done 
more for me than all the medicine I have ever 
taken. Last November, not being able to 
work at all, I was persuaded to try this new 
system of cure, which, from my experience 
with it since, I am led to believe it to be one of 
the best remedies for all diseases. I have passed 
a comfortable winter and am better able to do 
work now than in all the past three years be- 
fore. W. E. Scovir,!,. 
Lenox, Mass., Oct. 10th, 1887. 
My Dear Friend:- 
It is wonderful how greatly improved May is 
after the few treatments you gave her during 
our short stay with you. I hope and trust the 
day will come when you will have the oppor- 
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suffering humanity, for I am very sure your 
work is a strong one. Your sincere friend, 
I. S. Freeland. 
East Canaan, Conn., June 8th, 1888. 
Dear Friend:- 
I feel this morning as though it was my duty 
to spend a little time in writing the people 
about my health. I have been sick nearly four 
years, and have suffered everything but death. 
I had everything done for me that could be 
done. I have had six different doctors, but 
they gave very little relief to my intense suffer- 
ing. I was a burden to myself and my family. 
I was introduced to Dr. Sanders, of Canaan. 
As I was very feeble and suffering all the 
time, I asked her if she thought she could help 
me. She thought she understood my case, and 
I believe she does, for to-day after several 
weeks' treatment, I feel as though my life had 
begun anew. I am able to do my own work, 
go to church, and have been to the store three 
times, something I have not been able to do 
before for four years. I suffer no pain, have 
been ride several times-my other doctors 
would not allow me to ride or walk-but I am 
gaining every day. I can safely say that Dr. 
Sanders' treatment has done more for me than 
anything I ever tried, and my neighbors look 
at me with surprise to see how fast I am im- 
proving. (Mrs.) A. Parmelee. History of the Cure 
35 
This patient was under my immediate care 
at my house for three months. Her trouble 
was complete prostration, attended with hem- 
orrhages, occasioned by overwork. 
Kittanning, Pa., June 14, 1895. 
Being in the city of Washington the past 
winter, I met Dr. Sanders, through a friend, 
and decided to put myself under her treatment, 
which, I am happy to say, has benefited me 
very much. It did not entirely remove my 
Rheumatism; which I could scarcely hope in 
so short a time, as the disease had been of 
years' standing, but my general health is much 
better, and I am glad to add this testimonial to 
Dr. Sanders' method of treatment. Respect- 
fully, Sarah A. Crawford, 
To the public: 
It is hard for me to tell the condition I was 
in previous to taking Dr. Sanders' treatment. 
Although in very poor health for twelve years, 
yet I had no disease to which I could give a 
name. If any one asked me what my trouble 
was I could not tell them. I felt badly all over, 
from head to foot, tired at night, and still 
more tired in the morning, and tired all day. 
During the last few years I used to express 
my feelings, by saying, I was more dead than 
alive. I do not think there was a month dur- 
ing the twelve years that I did not take medi- 36 
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cine of some kind. I went first to one doc- 
tor, and then to another. They all thought 
the same thing, viz., that nothing much ailed 
me, and that they could give me something 
that would make me feel better right away. 
But I finally concluded the doctors could do 
me no good, and went to taking the only medi- 
cine that ever made me feel any better, viz., 
quinine. I took it cautiously, at first, being 
afraid of it. But as I found it helped me for 
the time, I kept taking more and more of it, 
until I got to living on it. I ceased to buy 
it in small quantities and bought it at a whole- 
sale rate, as it seemed to be the only thing 
that would keep me off the bed. So I simply 
shut my eyes, as it were, and took it, regard- 
less of the consequences. One of the main 
features of my ill health was constipation, 
something I had been troubled with all my life, 
but had become so bad that, during the last 
three years, I never had a move from my bow- 
els that was not brought about by medicine. 
I had come to be a machine run by medicine. 
All the organs of my body seemed to be in a 
half-paralyzed state, and I felt, as one natur- 
allv would in that condition, as though I was 
half dead. When I heard of this Dreh-ni-gean 
cure, and learned what it was, it struck me as 
being just what I needed, and so it has proved. 
I have taken it regularly for one year and a 
half, and were it not that its wholesome influ- History of the Cure 
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ence came on me so gradually, I would think 
I was an entirely different person, from what 
I was two years ago, or that I had waked up 
in another world with a new body. 
Oberlin Ohio. (Mrs,) Lila A. Upton 
20 Wilkes st., Jersey City, Jan. 20th, 1896. 
To whom it may concern: 
In the fall of 1895, I was taken ill with 
typhoid malaria, and, being generally run 
down from an attack-of measles, from which I 
had never recovered, I was in a very low con- 
dition when Mrs. L. B. Sanders was called in 
to see me, and apply her method of treatment, 
the Dreh-ni-gean cure. My parents did not 
expect me to live, I was so low, but still, hav- 
ing great faith in Mrs. Sanders and her treat- 
ment, hoped she might help me. I had not had 
a good night's sleep for several weeks. After 
the first treatment Mrs. Sanders gave me, 
which was early in the evening, I then, went 
to sleep and slept all through the night and 
did not waken until nearly noon of the next 
day. 
From that time on I gradually grew better. 
My recovery was not rapid but steady and 
sure, under the daily application of this treat- 
ment, and I think it would have been impos- 
sible for any one to have recovered more rap- 
idly from a similar sickness. 
We all have such faith in this method of 38 
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cure, that we will not resort to any other, or 
employ any other doctor than Mrs. Sanders. 
Herbert J. Morris. 
In the spring of 1890, while residing in Jer- 
sey City, my milkman, Mr. Nolan, had a little 
girl two and a half years old, stricken down 
with malignant diphtheria, and urged me to 
go and see her, and see what I could do for 
her. I began by giving her hot water to drink 
every half hour, putting hot compresses on her 
neck and chest, and feeding her from one to 
two teaspoonfuls of Universal Food and milk 
every hour to nourish her, and putting her lit- 
tle feet into hot water. She soon began to 
perspire. We followed this treatment all night, 
and when the doctor came in the morning, the 
child was so much better, that he was very 
much puzzled, as on the day before that he did 
not think she could live through the night, but 
came early in the morning to see how she was. 
But Mr. Nolan dismissed him, stating that if 
he was needed again he would let him know. 
I then went to work and gave the child a thor- 
ough course of treatment, through the bowels, 
and in less than a week she was up and dressed, 
somewhat weak but trotting around the house, 
as usual.. History of the Cure 
39 
The following is from one of my patients, 
the wife of Albert Turner, manager of "Health- 
Culture," New York: 
New York, Jan. 18th, 1896. 
As a child I was considered very delicate, 
having inherited a weak stomach and a scrofu- 
lous enlargement of the neck. Two years be- 
fore marriage I slipped and tore the sciatic 
nerve almost in two; was attended by one of 
the best physicians in the city and given up, 
but lived, leaving me with sciatica and spas- 
modic drawing spells, knotting muscles of my 
limbs, and in the neck so as to cause severe 
pain. I have had severe attacks of diphthe- 
ria, pneumonia, pleurisy and inflammation of 
the bowels. Ten years ago I was thrown out 
of a stage, riding from Chatham Four Cor- 
ners, to Spencertown, Columbia Co., New 
York, striking the end of my spine, causing an 
additional injury to my nervous system. Hot 
compresses from, three to four inches from my 
spine would cause pain. Our house caught 
fire during Mr. Turner's absence, the shock 
causing severe nervous prostration, with loss 
of strength and vitality, until I only weighd 
about 75 lbs. instead of my usual weight of 
130 pounds. I was taken to a sanitarium, and, 
after an examination by physicians, my case 
was pronounced hopeless, and that I would bp 40 
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likely to lose my mind soon. My physician, 
who had attended me for 17 years, knowing 
of Mrs. Sanders' treatment, recommended me 
to try it. 1 was so weak I could scarcely 
think or talk. The door bell had to be dis- 
connected, even the children playing on the 
sidewalk had to be stopped. My head pained 
me so, I feared I would lose my mind, and I 
had heart failure so I could not be left alone 
for a moment, and for weeks did not sleep for 
more than three hours out of the twenty-four. 
My stomach became ulcerated; for two years 
I never ate any kind of condiments or season- 
ing with my food, and did not eat at the table. 
In this condition I commenced taking Mrs. 
Sanders' treatment. At first, I gained very 
slowly but gradually my strength began to re- 
turn, my nervous system became better, I slept 
well, my food digested, good solid flesh came, 
all very slowly but surely, and to-day I con- 
sider myself a well woman. Even my old in- 
herited troubles are gone, and in our family we 
consider this the only remedy to be resorted 
to for any diseased or disturbed condition that 
we may experience. 
Sarah C. Turner. 
Another remarkable case of a cure, under 
this Dreh-ni-gean system, is that of a lady pa- 
tient I was called to attend in Great Barring- 
ton, Mass., in 1896. She was a Catholic History of the Cure 
41 
woman whom, owing to her low condition, 
the priest had prepared for death, as the 
attending doctor had given her up, stating she 
could not live. The way I happened to be 
called to this case was this: I had several other 
patients in the place, some of these friends of 
hers, and her husband sent for me, more, per- 
haps, to satisfy the solicitations of these 
friends than with the feeling, under the cir- 
cumstances, that I could do her any good. 
Knowing of the case and the low condition of 
the patient, I myself felt there was small hope 
of doing anything for her, but still I was will- 
ing to go and see her, which I did. 
I called in the afternoon, and, after examin- 
ing the lady, my impression at once was that 
I could do nothing for her. But I found her 
nurse suffering with an attack of sick head- 
ache. I said to her, "This is no place for you, 
in this condition. You had better let me treat 
you, and cure you of your sick headache." 
She said she would like to have me, so I 
called in the evening, and my treatment gave 
her such relief, that Mr. Smith insisted on my 
trying it on his wife. So I told him, I would 
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and that I would call in the morning, and 
could then tell whether the system was suf- 
ficiently responsive to the treatment for me 
to take her as a patient. When I called in the 
morning, at 7 o'clock, I found that the system 
had responded, and I took her as a patient. 
Her trouble, when I took her, was heavy hem- 
orrhages. She gradually improved under the 
Dreh-ni-gean cure, and at the end of a month 
was able to ride out. Four years afterward I 
heard from her. She was well and had not 
seen a sick day since. She was always ailing 
before. 
This is the perfection of this system of cure. 
It teaches people how to keep well by taking 
care of themselves. 
The following case is a remarkable one, and 
I will let it speak for itself for or against the 
Dreh-ni-gean system of cure. I will give it 
as reported in the New York Recorder in 
1894, the exact date I do not recall. This 
paper, reporting this case, says: 
"This is the case of a lady whose unusual 
physical condition has interested leading 
physicians and specialists of two continents, 
and the fact that her appearance indicates History of the Cure. 
43 
recovery has created wonder in medical circles. 
She lives in this city, but would not go into 
details of her case until assured that her 
identity should not be disclosed in print. 
"Iler trouble is ossification of the tissues. 
This is her experience, given by herself: 
" 'Fourteen years ago, when I had just fin- 
ished my education, I had a severe attack of 
malarial typhoid fever of the typhus form. I 
was always delicate, and this left me in such a 
weakened state that it is wonderful I recov- 
ered. A few months after this, I had an 
attack of sunstroke, superinduced, I suppose, 
by my other illness. From that time on, I was 
subject to the most frightful headaches. You 
cannot imagine what agony I suffered. They 
came two or three times a week. My blood 
was impoverished, and it seemed as if I was 
gradually drying up-indeed, that is just what 
ossification is. 
" 'Finding no relief in this country for my 
sickness, I went to Europe, in search of the 
best medical talent. It was eight years ago I 
went to Europe. The physicians here had told 
me that the ailment was with my liver. I went 
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climate; then on to London. Growing rapidly 
worse, I hastened to Paris and placed myself 
under the care of Dr. Piedvache, the then, at 
least, foremost specialist in diseases of the 
liver; but he could not cure me. He put me 
on a severe diet, but I grew worse. I spent 
the winter in the Bermudas, in the spring re- 
turning to Europe, and visiting the highest 
medical lights of Italy and Germany. 
" 'For five years I have been unable to go 
anywhere, not even for a short ride on the 
cars. A year ago I was thought to be dying, 
and seven of the most distinguished doctors 
said I could not probably live over three days. 
" 'Ten months ago I put myself under the 
care of Dr. Sanders, and she has been in daily 
attendance. If you look at me now and 
imagine from what I have told of my former 
condition, you can see, I think, that I am on 
the road to recovery. My cheeks are filling 
out, those old terrible headaches are leaving 
me, and even my hair is becoming darker.' 
"Dr. Sanders, when interviewed, had this to 
say of this patient. The treatment I am using 
consists simply in dieting her on especially 
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with heated water peculiarly applied, which is 
a necessary adjunct.' 
The peculiarity of this case is that, notwith- 
standing the wonderful progress she was mak- 
ing under this treatment, some of her friends 
thought she was not improving as fast as she 
ought, and finally induced her to give up this 
treatment and take up another, which they 
had been assured was better. Six months 
afterward I saw a notice of her death in the 
paper. CHAPTER II. 
The Tri-peex Character of This System 
of Cure. 
The three great physicians I leave behind me- 
Water, Exercise and Diet.-Demonlieu. 
As stated in the Introduction, the Dreh-ni- 
gean system of cure is triplex in its character, 
embodying the use of water, massage and diet; 
as its three component parts, and the three 
essential elements that make perfect a system 
of hygienic cure. Water, as the great purifier 
and renovator from diseased conditions; mass- 
age, as an auxiliary in restoring lost action; 
diet, to build up and repair the waste, and all 
three interdependent one upon the other, to 
the success of a perfect cure. 
WATER. 
At first thought, to many it may seem 
strange, that so simple an element as water 
should be placed as one of the remedies of chief 
dependence in a system of perfect cure for the The Tri-plex System 
47 
many ailments of humanity. And yet, as Dr. 
Trail, in his Encyclopedia of the History of 
Medicine, says: "If the history of past ages 
in regard to the use of water as a remedial 
agent in the treatment of diseases teaches 
anything, it teaches the reasonableness of the 
universality of its application for there is 
scarcely a disease that can be named where 
water has not been successfully applied and 
recommended." 
So general, and so satisfactory, has been its 
application as a remedial agent of chief de- 
pendence in the past, that one writer asserts: 
"That water is a remedy suited to all persons 
at all times; that there is no better preservative 
from distemper, that it is assuredly serviceable, 
both in acute and chronic disease, and, lastly, 
that its use answers to all indication of preser- 
vation and cure?' 
Is there any other one remedial agent whose 
potency, for good, has been so generally and 
so universally acknowledged and applied, in 
all countries, and in all ages of the world? 
When we once understand the philosophy of 
the action of the water on the system, we can 
then understand the reasonableness of its use 48 
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as a means of relief, and as being peculiarly 
adapted for a remedial agent of chief depend- 
ence. "Not because disease is universally cur- 
able, but because water in some form is univer- 
sally applicable." 
As a mode of treatment in this Dreh-ni- 
gean system of cure, is embodied the use of 
heated water, externally and internally. Ex- 
ternally by the application of hot compresses, 
and internally sometimes by drinking it, but 
mainly through the bowels. 
As thus applied through the bowels it is by 
no means a simple injection, and is much more 
than an enema or "flushing the colon." It is 
thoroughly a cleansing and purifying process, 
more far-reaching in the good results attained, 
it is believed, than has ever before been com- 
prehended in the hygienic use of water. 
For the primal object, in this method of 
using the water, is not to remove the fecal 
matter from the lower bowels, although this 
is the first point tO' be gained in the treatment. 
This removing of the fecal matter is only a 
preparatory step to' the introduction of this 
system of cure, for we do not receive the full 
benefit that is to be derived from it as a The Tri-plex System 
49 
remedial agent until it has passed) beyond the 
province of a simple injection, or enema. 
The idea of using an enema is generally 
looked upon as being simply to move the 
bowels and nothing else, and, as generally 
administered, this is all that is aimed at and all 
that is accomplished by it. Even Dr. Hall's 
method of "flushing the colon," as it is termed, 
is nothing more than simply another form of 
expressing the same idea, of an enema. 
In fact I am led to believe, with my experi- 
ence, not with the use of this method of 
"flushing the colon," but with several of my 
patients who have used it and given it up, that 
it was even less satisfactory in its results than 
a simple injection. For this reason: That 
while both a simple enema and "flushing the 
colon" relieve the lower bowels, by removing 
the fecal matter, the process of flushing the 
colon stirs up the system more, without re- 
moving the impurities thus stirred up, which 
are of a more dangerous character than the 
fecal matter, the retention of which, when 
thus stirred up, is carried back into and im- 
pregnates the blood. It is simply a stirring 
up process. It is like dipping out of a cesspool 50 
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a bucketful of its imprities. It is so much of 
its impurities removed it is true, but, if you 
stop here with your cleansing process, you 
had better let it alone. Would you, if you had 
a cesspool about your home, filled with dis- 
ease breeding pestilence, simply dip out a 
bucketful of its contents? Would you not 
think that you had better let it alone, if you 
could not make thorough work of it? Would 
not anything you might do, short of this, only 
stir up this mass of corruption, increase the 
stench and make it even more unhealthy and 
injurious than before? I am sorry to say that 
the house we live in-the body-when its 
sewerage gets out of order is much in the same 
condition. 
The true philosophy of this Dreh-ni-gean 
system of cure, lies in the fact that, because 
this sewerage system gets out of order 
through the inaction of the excretory organs 
and functions, the body becomes clogged, 
secretions harden, and these impede the pro- 
per circulation of the blood. It is this clogged, 
congested condition of the system that needs 
to be relieved, and these hardened secretions 
softened up and passed out of the system. So The Tri-plex System 
51 
that a successful treatment of this nature must 
be more thorough than even ''flushing the 
colon" can be. 
A treatment of this kind, properly applied, 
not only cleanses the bowels from their im- 
purities, but diffuses its influences by stimula- 
tion and warmth applied over the whole sys- 
tem. Starting up an action that tends to 
restore the organs to their proper functional 
action, it also promotes digestion, because it 
equalizes the circulation of the blood. 
Very few, or comparatively few, pesons, we 
apprehend, realize the amount of impurities 
that accumulate and clog the system in its 
various diseased conditions. They have the 
idea, that when a treatment of this kind is 
used, acting directly upon the bowels, and the 
fecal matter is removed, and the movements 
become clear, or almost colorless, that this is 
all that is required. But no one who has 
tested the method of treatment here advo- 
cated, fails to realize the fallacy of this idea and 
fully recognizes the fact, that always, during 
a course of treatment, or during the time of 
taking one of a series of treatments, that the 
blackest and rankest impurities are not 52 
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reached and passed off until after the fecal 
matter is removed from the lower bowels, and 
the sittings at stool have become practically 
colorless. 
In regard to the time required for taking 
the treatment, as well as the amount of water 
to be given, it will vary according to the con- 
dition of the patient, and whether it is a 
chronic or acute cases. Chronic cases require 
a much longer time to restore normal con- 
ditions than acute cases, and a much larger 
quantity of water applied, in order to reach 
the dried up, hardened secretions and calcare- 
ous matter, that lies deep seated in the system. 
Acute cases more readily respond to the treat- 
ment, and are more quickly acted upon. But 
in both chronic and acute cases, some patients 
do not respond so quickly as others, because 
of less inaction in the system, and the same 
patient's responsiveness will sometimes vary 
at different stages of the treatment. They 
may eat wrong, and this will affect the respon- 
siveness of the system; or they may have con- 
tinued the treatment long enough to reach 
some deep seated functional inaction, occa- The Tri-plex System 
53 
sioned, not unfrequently, by the paralyzing 
effect of some drug medicine taken. 
It some times happens, too, and I recall an 
incident in connection with one of my patients 
some years ago, when, during a course of treat- 
ment, the occasion of a painful obstruction in 
the bowels was revealed. The doctor who had 
previously attended the case could not remove 
this obstruction by the medicine he gave. He 
said that if this obstruction could be removed 
the lady would get well, but admitted that any 
attempt to remove it with a knife would mean 
death to the patient. So this was the con- 
dition of things when I was called to the case. 
It was about two months after taking it, and 
applying the Dreh-ni-gean cure daily, and 
some times twice a day, before I was able to 
discover what this obstruction was. Under 
the softening influence of the water applied, 
it was finally loosened from its imbedded posi- 
tion in the bowels, and passed off at one of the 
sittings at stool. It proved to be a fish bone 
one inch long, which the lady remembered to 
have swallowed some six years previous. The 
doctor was right when he said she would get 
well if this obstruction could be removed, and 54 
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she did, for after its removal she gained 
rapidly. 
To secure such results requires a thorough 
couse of treatment such as is only embodied in 
the Dreh-ni-gean system of cure. So that we 
can readily understand that, in most cases of 
chronic invalidism especially, the necessity of 
keeping up with the treatment daily giving 
from one to two hours to each treatment, until 
the impurities and obstructions are reached 
and passed off. For it is these that occasion 
so many backaches, and pains in the groins, 
and causes so much trouble in the diaphragm 
through the pent up gases that arise from the 
fermentation of alimentary matter that does 
not digest and assimilate, because of the con- 
gested, inactive condition of the system. And 
not to continue the treatment many times, as 
indicated, means to leave the bowels in a tur- 
bulent and disturbed condition, and if the 
patient is of an extremely nervous temper- 
ment, it would be better to take no treatment 
of the kind if it cannot be a thorough one. 
There are some doctors, I understand, that 
say that this is an unnatural mode of treat- 
ment. I suppose all remedial agents, as a fact, TheJ'Tri-plex Sy stein 
55 
are in a sense artificial means to an end, as 
viewed from the standpoint of natural condi- 
tions. But, is it more unnatural than to fill 
the stomach with so much drug medication, 
which only destroys the membraneous lining, 
and thus breeds and fosters disease? Is it not 
the true province of the stomach to receive 
and disburse, that which will nourish and sus- 
tain the body, and not that which will nauseate 
it? Shall we make of it, then, a disease-breed- 
ing pest-house, as many do, because of the 
present conditions and methods of practice in 
treating the ailments of humanity? While any 
remedial agent used in the treatment of dis- 
ease is to an extent unnatural, its unnatural- 
ness does not necessarily impair its usefulness. 
But its usefulness and efficiency depend upon 
its adaptability to meet and overcome unfavor- 
able conditions to health. It is generally con- 
ceded, that those remedial agents are the best 
which can secure desired results with the least 
possible irritation to the vital organism. 
But, after all, is it not a fact, that we are not 
dealing with natural conditions, but unnatural 
conditions, in applying our remedial agents? 
It is not natural for a person to be sick and 56 
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suffer as many do. It is unnatural. It is un- 
natural to be diseased, but it is natural in dis- 
eased conditions, that circulation should be- 
come obstructed, the blood become impure, 
and that the resulting congested condition of 
the system should dry up and harden secre- 
tions, which in a healthy condition of the body, 
are the lubricating oils of the machinery of the 
human organism. It is natural, as wisely pro- 
vided, that nature's system of drainage, under 
all favorable conditions, should carry on all of 
the vital processes of purification. But, if 
through the morbific functional inaction of the 
system, or any part of it, these processes are 
impeded or obstructed, as they are more or 
less in all diseased conditions, then it would 
seem, that the best remedial agent for remov- 
ing these obstructions, is the one that acts 
directly upon the organs of excretion them- 
selves, with the least possible vital irritation 
or mechanical injury. That water is the only 
known agent of this nature is a well recognized 
fact. The Tri-plex System 
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THE TWO FEATURES OR METHODS. OF APPLYING 
THE WATER. 
There are two distinct features in the appli- 
cation of the water in the Dreh-ni-gean cure.- 
One of which, especially, as an embodied feat- 
ure in this cure, is entirely a new method of 
applying the water through the bowels, never 
before introduced we believe, and the one that 
makes the Dreh-ni-gean cure the most suc- 
cessful means of reaching deep seated trouble 
in all cases of chronic affections that are cura- 
ble. 
We shall speak of this feature more fully 
under its proper head. In regard to these two 
features. One, in a measure, is a preparatory 
step for the other. The first-except in cases 
named later-is to be used and continued until, 
not only the fecal matter, but the impurities 
that lie directly back of them, are reached and 
passed off. This feature of the application of 
the heated water, is in the usual way of taking 
an enema; the patient lying down on the bed, 
or couch, and taking the water, to commence 
with, at a temperature of blood heat (98 de- 
grees), and as much each time as the bowels 
will hold comfortably before passing it oft at 58 
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stool, continuing this process until the fecal 
matter is passed off, then gradually increase 
the temperature of the water about two de- 
grees at a time, until a temperature of 108 to 
no degrees is reached. By this gradually in- 
creased heat the pent up gases are more quick- 
ly reached, and, with them, the impurities are 
passed off. After the passages become clear 
or almost colorless, we have reached the point 
in the treatment, when we introduce the sec- 
ond and most important feature, or method of 
applying the water, which we term "the con- 
tinual flow," of which we will speak later. 
The Dreh-ni-gean system of cure, reveals 
the fact that it is the impurities that lie back 
of the fecal matter, impacted not only in the 
bowels but in all parts of the system because 
of its inactive, congested condition, that are 
the prolific cause of crankiness, sourness of 
disposition, etc.; for, when they are removed, 
it has a wonderful effect in mellowing down 
one's disposition. Some people may be natur- 
ally mean, and hateful, as it is termed, and 
inherit perhaps, a sour, cranky disposition; 
but who can tell us that this is not largely du? 
to an unhealthy parentage? The Tri-plex System 
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It is the impurities of this class-and what 
impurities are not of this class?-that must be 
reached and passed off before healthful condi- 
tions can be restored and the system built up. 
The time required to accomplish this, will be 
proportionate to the time it took for one to 
get into this condition. Some longer, and 
some shorter. If it has taken a long time for 
the system to get into this congested condi- 
tion, it will surely take some time to bring it 
back to normal conditions. Herein lies the 
true secret of the success of the Dreh-ni-gean 
cure-it harmonizes with nature's efforts. 
Healthy action in all the vital functions, means 
life and health, but these congested conditions, 
in any part of the body, are paralyzing to the 
functions of life, and thus nature's power of 
restoring the system to a healthy, natural con- 
dition, is weakened. So that it is in this direc- 
tion mainly that nature needs assistance, and, 
although her recuperative powers are great, 
they are weakened by the obstruction to a 
healthy action, and sometimes reaction is im- 
possible owing to the weakened condition of 
the patient, without the assistance of remedial 
agents in removing these obstructions, 60 
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What has been said so far, in regard to the 
use of water in this cure, has reference to that 
feature in its use which is the first stage of the 
treatment, and, in many cases, the prepara- 
tory step for the introduction of its most prom- 
inent feature, "the continual flow." This way 
of applying the water (the continual flow), is 
indispensable in most cases of chronic trouble, 
and in severe, acute attacks, when patients are 
too feeble to sit up. I was led into the adop- 
tion of this feature of applying the water, 
through being called to treat many cases of 
this class, and small children. 
But what do we mean by the phrase, con- 
tinual flow? How is it different from the 
other feature? 
As already stated, the first feature of the 
treatment is in the usual way of taking an 
enema, getting up at intervals to pass off the 
water at stool. But the continual flow meth- 
od, as the phrase implies, is a continuous treat- 
ment. Taken while lying down and remain- 
ing in that position without getting up to pass 
off at stool. The water passing into the rec- 
tum and out again at intervals, until such times 
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as sufficient water has been taken, to secure 
the desired result of relieving pain and getting 
the patient sweating. 
To secure this result, and in reaching deep 
seated trouble, there is no other method, I be- 
lieve, equal to it. 
In applying this feature of the treatment, 
as stated, it is applied while the patient is lying 
down on a bed or couch, lying as closely to 
the front edge of the bed as possible, with the 
back toward the front of the bed. Having 
provided a rubber sheet about three feet 
square, to be placed on the bed under the pa- 
tient, to prevent wetting or soiling the bed- 
clothing. Let the front side of this rubber 
sheeting extend down over the front of the 
bed into a foot tub or large vessel placed there 
to receive the water. The top edges of the 
sheeting draw up closely around the body of 
the patient, and pinned together, to form a 
funnel for the water and prevent its wetting 
the patient's clothes as it passes out of the pa- 
tient into the foot tub. In using the fountain 
syringe, for applying the water, hang it on a 
nail as high in the room as possible. With 
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ture and the patient in position, place the rub- 
ber tube in the rectum of the patient. But, be- 
fore doing this let the air out of the tubing and 
so much of the water as is in the tube. Then 
insert the tube as directed and let on the flow 
of water. Some persons feel obliged to take 
out the tube occasionally during the treat- 
ment, but it is better when possible, to keep it 
in the rectum all the time during the treat- 
ment. This, of course, is not always possible, 
as when persons treat themselves, and have no 
one to refill the bag as fast as it is emptied. A 
person can usually take in this way a gallon 
of water in about every eight or ten minutes 
or six gallons in an hour's time, the water 
passing in and out of the bowels constantly 
during that time. 
The object of "the continual flow" method 
is not simply or mainly to wash out the bow- 
els, but, by the heat applied, to relieve the 
congested condition of the system. For this 
purpose, ordinarily, I should say, use an hour's 
treatment of this kind twice or three times a 
week, when taken with the up and down meth- 
od, as before stated. But to reach deep seat- 
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water at a treatment can be used and is ab- 
solutely necessary, at times, if we are to secure 
the best results. Take, for example those 
shrivelled up humanities, who are wasting 
away in decay, because the fluids and liquids 
of the body are drying up and the secretions 
becoming ossified. 
It is unhealthy conditions that have brought 
about this deep seated trouble, and they are 
unhealthy conditions, because they exist in the 
body, as the house we live in>-bodies, in which 
nature has wisely provided a system of purifi- 
cation, through the process of sewerage and 
drainage. 
Perfect health is based upon the perfection 
of these sanitary conditions. Imperfection in 
the working of these processes, means un- 
healthy conditions, and this means ill-health 
or disease. 
In this respect our bodies may be likened to 
our homes and dwellings, especially in our 
cities, where they depend upon a system of 
sewerage and drainage for carrying off the ac- 
cumulation of waste, in order to secure and 
promote healthful conditions within them. 
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health, not only of communities, but of indi- 
viduals, become impaired, or obstructed, does 
it tell upon the health of the inmates of these 
homes; and how quickly are they changed 
from their high purpose of promoting health- 
ful conditions to those that promote unhealth- 
ful, disease-breeding conditions. So it is with 
the body, as the house we live in, the home 
and dwelling of each individual, man, woman, 
and child. 
Hence the prime object of the use of water 
in the Dreh-ni-gean system of cure, is to re- 
move these obstructions and thus restore a 
healthy order of action to these wise provisions 
for cleansing and purifying, and making it a fit 
dwelling for humanity. 
Upon this point, Dr. Shack, a prominent 
physician, in a recent article upon "How to 
Prevent Contamination and Contagion from 
from Cholera," says: 
"Germs of disease as infectious as cholera, 
small-pox, scarlet fever, etc., must find a soil 
in the tissues of the physical system, peculiar- 
ly fertilized for the reception and development 
of said germs, before the disease can be repro- 
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the muco-serous tissues of the alimentary 
canal, by the retention of the contents of the 
bowels until fermentation and decomposition 
takes place. It is persons whose systems are 
in this condition and exposed to infectious 
disease, who are the ones who die of typhoid 
and yellow fevers, smallpox and cholera, and 
no others." 
"The proper thing to do," he says, "is to 
get rid of the soil referred to." And for this 
purpose he advises the use of "hot water" by 
enemas during the whole period of exposure. 
"Keep the inside of the body clean, as well as 
the outside, and cholera can do' us but little 
harm." 
We find that in the application of water as 
a feature of the cure, we have two classes of 
disease to meet-acute and chronic-so that 
the method of treatment will vary somewhat 
according to these conditions. While the 
treatment is believed to be equally applicable 
to all forms of disease, both acute and chronic, 
the amount of water used, its temperature, 
and the length of time required to secure a 
restoation to health, will depend upon1 wheth- 
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tacks are more quickly cured than chronic 
cases, and some chronic cases more quickly 
than others, according to the deep-seatedness 
of the disease. 
In regard to the temperature of the water, 
as applied in "the continual flow" method. 
When following directly after the first process 
of removing the fecal matter, commence it 
with the same temperature of water with 
which we leave off the first process, about no 
degrees. Then gradually increase the tem- 
perature of the water up to 115 to 118 degrees, 
as the case may require, to get relief and pro- 
duce sweating. This is an important matter 
to secure, and not how much water one shall 
use. Some will require more and some less. 
But usually to secure this, not less than the 
amount spoken of (six gallons) is required, 
and often more. 
When "the continual flow" method is used 
independent of the first feature of the treat- 
ment, as in case of chronic invalids who are 
confined to their beds, the water must be 
applied in smaller quantities, and commencing 
with the temperature of the water at 98 de- 
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possible, from the very nature of the case, to 
anticipate all the inquiries that may arise in 
regard to the application of this treatment in 
many cases, that sufficient general instruction 
has been given, to enable the intelligent reader 
to understand and apply it successfully. 
It is doubtless true, that there may be 
among the readers of this book, some invalids, 
perhaps, who would like to consult with the 
author further upon some special feature of 
their trouble. This possible contingency is 
provided for in the Appendix. 
This matter of the position of the patients, 
while taking the treatment, especially in its 
first stages, is an important one. The best 
results are always obtained while lying down, 
in an inclined position. Not only this, T have 
always found that, in commencing each treat- 
ment, it is best that the patient Should first lie 
on the right side The reason for this is, that 
it acts better upon the liver, and allows the 
accumulated gases below the diaphragm to 
pass off. This is accomplished after three or 
four sittings. After this, then let the patient 
lie on the left side, to reach the gases in and 
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around the stomach. Unless this course is 
pursued, and the gases below the diaphragm 
first removed, the treatment is liable to pro- 
duce vomiting, especially among persons with 
a sensitive stomach. This is to be avoided as 
much as possible, for nature's way is the best- 
downward instead of upward. 
Now a word as to when to take the treat- 
ment. In a general way, among many chronic 
invalids, though not all, it may be said, take 
the treatment when you feel like it, or feel the 
need of it. This advice applies better, no doubt, 
to those persons who have been under a treat- 
ment for a while, and appreciate the good re- 
sults obtained by it. In some cases it is best 
to take the treatment when you don't feel like 
it. In such cases, when a person has that 
"tired out feeling," take the treatment by all 
means, and you will feel better after it. More 
specifically as to when to take the treatment, 
and as well when not to take it. Take it usually 
in the middle of the forenoon, or, in case of 
persons who are obliged to work, more or less, 
through the day, take the treatment just be- 
before going to bed. Never take a treatment 
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It will be too apt to stir up the stomach and 
cause vomiting. Then, again, a person should 
be careful about their eating after treating. 
The tendency is to overeat. They must eat, 
of course, for the treatment has started up an 
action of the stomach. It is usually better to 
eat a little at a time and not crowd the stom- 
ach too much, especially among those whose 
stomachs are naturally weak. They should take 
only such food as will the most easily digest 
and assimilate, without calling up the full 
action of the nutritive juices of the stomach, 
which, by the very nature of the case, are in a 
weakened condition. But it is sometimes a 
good idea to take a little food during the time 
of taking a treatment, of some easily digested 
food, especially if there is a desire for food. And 
it is necessary in many acute cases of fever, 
when there is much disturbance in the vital 
organism. 
FEVERS. 
Life in the body is a process of vital exist- 
ence, in all its conditions, in health, and in ill 
health or disease, and in all the changes that 
may take place within it, short of death itself. 
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body work harmoniously, and do perfect work, 
because the applied power is able to operate 
with the least possible friction consistent with 
the process of waste and repair. In ill health 
or disease, there is a change of conditions, but 
not in the purpose of the vital process. 
Irritation, inflammation and congestion, the 
three states of disease, are conditions, it is true, 
that are unfavorable to a healthy action; but, 
under the law of self-preservation, they are like 
friction under the law of resistance-sentinels 
on watch to give warning that the processes of 
life are being retarded, or obstructed. So that 
the damage done to life and health, is not in 
disease, as the expression of life, but to the ex- 
tent that the causes of disease antagonize 
and exhaust vitality. When persons are sick, 
they realize the fact, not because they have 
rheumatism, neuralgia, pneumonia, nor be- 
cause of any other form of disease of a desig- 
nated name; but simply because they do not 
feel well, and they realize the fact because they 
feel unnatural. Now this unnatural feeling is a 
condition opposite a state of ease-the normal 
condition of health. It is not simply a lack of 
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this unnatural feeling and how do we recognize 
it? It is pain, fever, loss of appetite, restless- 
ness, nervousness, &c. This, in one sense, is 
the disease of the body when a person is sick. 
We recognize ill health, then, because of these 
conditions, and manifestly they are the symp- 
toms arising from a disordered condition of the 
body, and express life. As such, we believe 
they may very properly be considered as sig- 
nals of distress, calling into action nature's 
restorative processes, for they are effect pro- 
duced, and not the cause of trouble. The fire 
alarm bell is not simply a signal of distress, to 
tell us of a fire, but designed to call into action 
the wise provisions, instituted for the purpose 
of protecting our property and homes. Is 
nature less wise in providing for the protection 
of "the-house-we-live-in"-our bodies? The 
symptoms arising are the alarm bells, not 
simply to tell us that we are in distress or dan- 
ger, or that they are present as thieves and 
robbers, to steal away health, but that Nature, 
no less wise than our communities, is calling 
into action all of her preservative forces for 
the protection and preservation of life and 
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Now, in regard to fever. When the body is 
diseased, there are certain unmistakable signs 
showing that Nature is at work with her cura- 
tive processes, that become more or less prom- 
inent as the disease is mild or severe. What 
seems to be perhaps the most prominent effect 
produced in all diseased conditions? If not 
fever, What? If it is fever, then fever is a 
curative action and not a disease. Taking this 
view of the case it would hardly be true to say, 
that it is an excess of heat at the surface that 
is unnatural and should not be there. For it 
is natural, it should be there, as a curative ac- 
tion in diseased conditions. But it is doubt- 
less true, that the existence of fever, in many 
of its forms, indicates an alarming condition 
of the system. The fire bells are alarming, not 
because they exist, or because they ring out 
an alarm, but the danger lies in the cause that 
called them into action. 
So with fever. The danger is not in the 
simple fact of its existence, though it may be 
an alarming symptom,; but the danger lies in 
the condition of the system that gave rise to 
it and called it out. There is no question but 
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fever were removed, the fever would disap- 
pear. But how are these conditions to be re- 
moved? 
In determining this matter we must bear in 
mind one fact, that excess of heat at the sur- 
face is at the expense of loss of heat internally, 
and this would indicate that our remedial ef- 
forts should lie in the direction of restoring 
inward heat. The condition of the organism 
in fevers is one of contention between heat and 
cold. In fact there is no difference, in all cases 
of fever, than what is caused by the different 
degrees of cold or loss of inward heat. It is 
life or death between them. If heat gains the 
mastery, it means life and health, but if cold 
gains the ascendancy, death will follow. For 
the natural heat of the body is the safety valve 
of the constitution, as shown by the fact that 
it cannot be increased or diminished beyond a 
certain point without endangering life. 
Fevers, as they are termed, are attended 
with general debility, loss of appetite, more or 
less distress in the pit of the stomach, obstruct- 
ed perspiration, restlessness, languor, aching 
in the back and limbs, and increased sensibility 
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These are the symptoms that arise, more or 
less, at the approach of fever in all its forms. 
What do they indicate? First of all, perhaps, 
they show us that the whole vital machinery is 
thrown out of gear, but, more especially, that 
circulation, the most important function of 
life, is obstructed. Every indication implies 
that prompt action is required. What is the 
most practical course to pursue in sudh cases? 
Shall we wait three or four days, until the 
symptoms are more fully developed, in order 
that we may be able to decide what name to 
give to the approaching fever; or shall we 
apply, at once, a cure that will remove the 
cause that gave rise to these symptoms, and, 
by so doing, prevent the possibility of the dis- 
ease making such inroads upon the vitality as 
to endanger life? Now one of the things of 
first importance in removing the cause of this 
condition is to produce perspiration, which 
allays congestion, promotes circulation and 
starts up an action of the excretory organs. 
There is no way of accomplishing this result 
more quickly, than with the system of Dreh- 
ni-gean cure herein set forth and explained. 
In applying this treatment in fever cases: The Tri-plex System 
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Using a fountain syringe, first commence 
with a quart of water at blood heat, 98 degrees, 
to move the bowels. After this is accomplished, 
apply this amount of water every hour, gradu- 
ally increasing its temperature two or three 
degrees at each treatment, until a temperature 
of 108 to no degrees is reached, and continue 
the treatment at this temperature until the 
desired perspiration is secured. Each day 
after, for a week or more, as the case may re- 
quire, give this treatment once a day, and, 
after this time, reduce the treatment to two 
or three times a week until normal conditions 
are restored. There are some cases, when a 
change in the temperature of the water is re- 
quired-when perspiration is hard to secure. 
Especially is this the case when there is a high 
temperature of the body, and the higher this 
temperature, the greater need of increased 
internal heat by the water applied. For, to 
the extent that the heat is driven to the sur- 
face, to that extent is the power of the organ- 
ism to generate heat lessened. In some cases 
I have treated, I have used the water at a tem- 
perature of 120 degrees, and was obliged to do 
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During the first stages of the treatment of 
fevers, let the patient drink about one-third of 
a cup of hot water every half hour. Have the 
water boiling before taking it off the stove, 
and drink it as hot as possible. The best way 
to take the water, to avoid burning the lips and 
end of the tongue, is to take a spoonful at a 
time, placing the spoon as far back in the 
mouth as possible. I have found that persons 
can take the water much hotter this way than 
in any other. 
Feed the patient every hour or two with a 
spoonful of Universal Food in milk. 
Let us look into this matter a little further. 
The heat of the body at a temperature of 98 
degrees, being the safety valve of t'he con- 
stitution, implies the necessity of sustaining 
the natural warmth of the body, for it is this 
natural warmth that generates the power of 
vital action. So we find that this natural 
warmth, as applied to the body, is vitalizing to 
life and action. But we know for a fact, that 
all heat of the body is not, apparently, of a 
character that is vitalizing to life. This leads 
to the inquiry as to what is implied by the 
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moist heat, or what? We know that as the 
natural heat, and natural moisture as well, is 
reduced or absorbed, from a cold, disordered 
stomach or from any other cause, the functions 
of digestion and nutrition, become enfeebled 
or disordered, and also there is a derangement 
in the secretory organs of the mucous mem- 
brane. 
Upon this point, Professor Thompson says: 
'Tn all cases where the heat of the body is so 
far exhausted as to produce chills and torpor, 
does it become indispensably necessary to use 
a treatment that will supply a moist heat, for 
a dry heat will only serve to dry the air and 
prevent perspiration, whereas a moist heat will 
promote it." Unhealthy conditions of the 
body, in most cases, imply a heat that is 
directly opposite a moist heat, because it is a 
dry heat. Dry heat, in the human organism, 
in diseased conditions, is like dry heat upon a 
machine; it exhausts power. It is not lack of 
heat in fever, inflammation and congestion, 
that makes these conditions weakening and 
exhausting to the vital energies, for it is a heat 
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it is not a natural heat, because it is not a moist 
heat, but a dry heat. 
The importance of sustaining life, in all its 
processes, by means of moist heat, or by means 
of heat and moisture, is not confined alone to 
the human body, but it is equally important in 
all organized life. 
What means that dreary barren waste, that 
dried up shrivelled look in all nature at times, 
as well as in humanity, as if she was fading, 
wasting away, in decay and death? What 
means that dry, parched soil of mother earth? 
Why that drooping flower, that fading rose? 
Why that withering grass, that wasted field of 
grain? Not surely lack of heat, for like the 
heat of the body, in diseased conditions, it is an 
intensified heat. How quickly under the in- 
fluence of this combination of heat and moist- 
ure, of sunshine and shower, is its vitalizing 
power felt, in the freshness and vigor of the 
new life imparted. As we enter the domain of 
embryo life, the little seed, buried beneath the 
earth's surface, contains the germ life of a 
wonderful fruition. But it, too, requires the 
vitalizing influences of warmth and moisture, 
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transformed into its new sphere of life. To-day 
we see it as the little seed, to-morrow trans- 
formed into a spear of grass. Time passes on, 
and we look again-what do we see? Not the 
little seed, not the spear of grass, not a life in 
embryo, but a life developed, full, complete, 
perfect in its fruition. Wonderful mystery of a 
life! How deeply veiled to human thought to 
understand or human intellect to comprehend. 
But not beyond the province of fruitful inquiry 
into the means of its development and growth. 
Not only do we find heat and moisture 
essential to the development and growth of the 
seed life in its embryo state, but in all its 
various stages of development, until the final 
consummation of its fruition, warmth, moist- 
ure, light, air, and sunshine, are the all-impor- 
tant agents that produce favorable conditions 
to this end. Lacking in any of these and to 
that extent is it blighted and its life forces 
paralyzed. 
Nature and humanity alike are governed by 
this same universal law. 
LA GRIPPE. 
I cannot better explain how to treat this 
diseased condition, than to give my experi- 80 
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ence with it in one of the severest cases I have 
treated. This is the case of my daughter, 
Grace. She suffered all one night without 
letting me know how badly she felt. In the 
morning, noting her condition, I commenced 
treating her at once, continuing the treatment 
every hour up to about two o'clock in the 
afternoon, when she became unconscious, re- 
maining in that condition for twelve hours. 
At the same time I kept up these treatments 
at hourly intervals by enemas, with a small 
quantity of water, at a temperature of 98 de- 
grees, for the first few hours, but increasing its 
temperature up to 105 degrees, and continuing 
the treatment, with the water at this tempera- 
ture, during all this unconscious period. At 
each treatment a part of the water would pass 
off and a part would be retained until each suc- 
ceeding treatment, so that a certain amount of 
this heated water was retained in the bowels all 
the time, until a crisis was reached at the end of 
the twelfth hour, when consciousness was re- 
stored, by the passage of secretions that were 
so acid that one was obliged to hold one's nose, 
they stung it so. 
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ly, and slept about three hours, when she awak- 
ened quite refreshed and looking very natural. 
The seat of the trouble had been reached, and 
removed, which was carbonic acid gas, the re- 
tention of which, in such conditions, carries 
off so many people so suddenly. During the 
next twelve hours, after the crisis, or rather 
at the end of the next twrelve hours, she was 
dressed and sitting up, feeling well but weak. 
On the third day she went out doors. Dur- 
ing the first twelve hours of her unconscious- 
ness, I gave her two or three swallows of hot 
water to drink every half hour, to warm and 
stimulate the stomach. Then, once an hour, I 
gave her a teaspoonful of Universal Food in 
milk, and was obliged to pry open her teeth to 
do this. 
One important point to be gained in giving 
the hot water to drink in such cases is to allay 
the irritation and inflammation of the stom- 
ach, from which source arises intense thirst. I 
consider hot water the best to use in all fever 
cases, in quenching thirst, owing to the weak- 
ened condition of the organism to generate 
heat, whereas cold water is too apt to chill the 
blood. I believe that if people would drink 82 
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hot water during the hot weather, instead of 
so much cold drinks, it would quench thirst 
better and would reduce heat prostrations by 
a very large percentage. 
I believe there is nothing better for a woman, 
during the important period of pregnancy, 
than a course of this treatment-not every 
day, perhaps, in all cases, but two or three 
times a week during that period It prevents 
any sickness of the stomach and consequent 
retching, by keeping the bowels open and the 
circulation free. The child will thrive better 
and the labor be more natural. I call to mind 
several such cases, where the ladies have 
blessed this treatment, for making their con- 
finement so much easier than formerly, besides 
making the child much healthier. 
There are cases of pregnancy where a more 
thorough course of treatment is desirable, as 
for example: Not long ago I was called to 
attend a lady who was six months pregnant, 
who had been suffering for some weeks with 
chills and fever, and there was a great danger 
of a miscarriage. After a few treatments I 
succeeded in stopping the chills, and she had 
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83 
no more of them during pregnancy. But, of 
course, it took sometime to remove the bilious 
condition occasioned by the inactive liver, and 
I treated her two or three times daily for about 
five weeks, giving from two to three quarts of 
water at each treatment at a temperature of 
about 105 degrees, and then once a day until 
her confinement. 
This was her third child, and, while hereto- 
fore her confinements had been attended with 
severe and hard labor, at this time she suffered 
comparatively little. The doctor who attended 
her in this confinement, stated that it was the 
most natural confinement case he had ever 
attended. But, perhaps, the most remarkable 
thing about this case is that after he learned 
what she had done, he gave my treatment the 
credit. 
This is an important feature embodied in 
the Dreh-ni-gean system of cure, as already 
stated, for it is a most reasonable and power- 
ful means of controlling and removing the 
pent-up gases, which act so seriously upon the 
fluids of the body so essential to life and health, 
and, as a regulator of vital conditions, is con- 
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sidered, "one of the primordial products of 
life." "In fact," says Dr. Taylor, "there is 
scarcely a chronic affection of any kind, where 
it cannot be successfully applied, in starting 
up an action to the system, and restoring 
healthful conditions." 
"We cannot," says Dr. Hoffman, "perfect 
the art of healing, until we learn to apply 
mechanics and hydraulics to our means of 
cure." 
Exercise is one of the fundamental principles 
upon which healthy conditions of the body is 
based, and hence it becomes no less important 
as a means to be employed in restoring health- 
ful conditions. It is because of, or owing to, 
the inactivity of the functions of life in diseased 
conditions, that "mechanical appliances," such 
as massage, is an important and helpful means 
in restoring action to the vital organism. For 
one of the greatest hindrances and drawbacks 
to the restoration of healthful conditions, lies 
in the complete inactivity of the functions of 
life. A person in ill-health, by the very nature 
of his condition, is in more or less a state of in- 
activity, and needs an influence outside of him- 
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and impart new life,'which the massage treat- 
ment is especially adapted to do, because it 
augments or diminishes, as the case may re- 
quire, the heat, electricity and magnetism of 
the body. The Masseur expends power and 
the invalid receives it; he transmits energy and 
life from his own organism, and it becomes an 
integral part of the patient's organism. 
There are two kinds of massage-internal 
and external-both essential to a perfect cure, 
and both are embodied in the highest degree 
of perfection in the Dreh-ni-gean system of 
cure. For the action of the water itself, as 
applied under this cure, becomes a most 
effectual massage, as it acts directly upon the 
organs themselves through the stimulation of 
the heat applied, and when taken, together 
with its softening influences upon hardened 
secretions and the outward application of the 
massage, makes perfect this part of our sys- 
tem of cure. So that while the application of 
heated water internally, is more or less of a 
stimulating character, according to its tem- 
perature, I have found it to be greatly as- 
sisted, in securing the best results, by an 
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three movements of rubbing, patting and 
kneading, and is to be applied in the following 
manner: 
After the patient has taken so much of the 
water as the bowels will comfortably hold, 
and gets up to pass it off, then the following 
massage is to be applied: First rubbing gently 
down the back and over the kidneys and hips. 
Commencing first at the top of the spine at the 
neck, and working downward each side of the 
spine out under each shoulder blade, right and 
left; then down each side of the spine to the 
small of the back and out each side, over the 
kidneys and hips. It is not always necessary 
to repeat this movement at each sitting, 
although it may be repeated if desired; or, in- 
stead of rubbing, gently patting down the 
back with the ends of the fingers. It is at this 
point at the sides, over the kidneys and hips, 
where so much trouble arises from inflamma- 
tion and deep seated congestion, and, after 
rubbing these parts two or three minutes, 
change the movement, first patting the sides 
and then place the open hand edgewise on the 
fleshy part over the hips, with the bottom of 
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press gently but firmly downward and inward. 
It is wonderful many times the assistance this 
movement gives in passing off the deep seated 
pent-up gases that give so much trouble and 
pain, and, because of the inaction of the sys- 
tem, it may take weeks sometimes before they 
can be reached and passed off. 
In rubbing and kneading the bowels, which, 
after a little practice, many invalids can do 
themselves-and it is better they should when 
they can as the exercise will do them good- 
commence with the rubbing movement at the 
lower end of the ascending colon on the right 
side, proceeding upward, then across the 
transverse colon and down the descending 
colon on the left side Then, gently apply the 
same massage in a rotary movement-in fact, 
all massage movements partake more or less of 
this character-over the whole surface of the 
bowels, commencing at the top and working 
downward from left to right toward the secum 
pouch, at the lower end of the ascending colon 
This movement may be followed by gently 
pressing or kneading the bowels. 
The Dreh-ni-gean cure, with this applied 
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appendicitis, for it is the only safe method of 
removing those conditions that culminate in 
this trouble. 
Some persons, starting out in a course of 
treatment of this kind, when they reach a point 
where pain is produced, have been inclined to 
believe that the treatment was injuring them. 
None of us like pain, nor is it always pleasant 
to bear. But pain produced under the in- 
fluence of the action of the water, in relieving 
congested conditions and dislodging pent-up 
gases, is not an alarming or dangerous symp- 
tom. It might show an alarming condition of 
the system if there was no pain attending the 
use of this treatment. For, while pain in a 
sense may be considered, and is, a punishment 
for violated law, it shows action in the system, 
which is so essential in restoring normal con- 
ditions. Hence it is the organic instinct which 
largely determines and by which we recognize, 
the recuperative power of the organism. The 
recovery of an invalid depends upon restoring 
lost action to the functions of life. Tn the proc- 
ess of securing it, more or less pain is produced, 
so that with no pain attending a course of 
treatment, it would indicate, in many cases, so The Tri-plex System 
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low a state of vitality as to give small hopes of 
recovery. 
Diet is the third important feature embodied 
in the Dreh-ni-gean system of cure. We speak 
of it last in no sense as being the least in im- 
portance of the three, or that it is even second- 
ary to water or massage, for, in fact, the water 
treatment and massage, are in a sense the pre- 
paratory step for the introduction of proper 
dieting, by removing obstructions and placing 
the body in a more healthful condition to 
receive proper nourishment; for it stimulates 
all the nutritive forces of the system, by remov- 
ing those conditions that unfavorably effect 
the action of the stomach. If, even when per- 
sons first start out in a course of this treatment, 
they have no appetite or desire for food, and 
they revolt against the thought of food, as is 
so often the case, they soon realize the fact 
that they have an appetite and one that must 
be properly cared for. So important is this 
part of our system of cure, that we devote 
Chapter IV to this subject under the head of 
"Dieting," 
DIET. CHAPTER III. 
THE PROVINCE OF FOOD. 
Our bodies, as the house we live in, the 
home and dwelling place of each individual 
man, woman and child, and for the purpose 
of fitting it up properly for occupancy, requires 
certain elements in its construction to best 
serve the purpose for which it is designed. Its 
whole structural composition, of bone, mus- 
cle, fibres and tissues, blood, etc., is composed 
of certain alimentary matter, obtained from 
the food we eat. In its growth and develop- 
ment, under the laws of life and health, from 
infancy to childhood and from childhood to 
manhood's strength and stature, requires cer- 
tain peculiar influences, exerted over it and 
upon it, to secure certain results. What are 
these influences? In order to understand 
what they are, let us first consider some of 
the results or effects produced by them, that 
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that makes it the "house beautiful for the man 
wonderful," who occupies it. It is the prov- 
ince of food to serve this purpose. 
In the first place, and first of all perhaps the 
body needs the influence of the sensation of 
warmth, to secure which requires a certain de- 
gree of temperature, and this requires heat. 
We find, too, that the body requires action 
and motion, and, like a machine, must be prop- 
erly lubricated to facilitate its movements, to 
insure the perfect working of all its parts. 
Then, again, we find it so peculiarly con- 
structed, in all its parts, as to need constant 
repair; not because of the imperfection of its 
construction, but because, under the laws of 
its development and growth, the process of re- 
pair and waste is constant and unceasing. So 
there must needs be an influence over it that 
will not only remove the waste, but build it up 
and enable it to grow and develop, from its 
first beginnings of embryo life, into its matur- 
ity. Food, to accomplish this, must be of like 
character of the composition of the body itself, 
and, as such, may be very properly considered 
and characterized as a constructive element. 
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tain life and build up and repair the waste of 
the body, its province lies principally in the 
direction of a fuel to supply heat; a lubricant 
to facilitate action and motion; and a con- 
structive element to repair waste. For, in one 
sense, food to the body is like coal to an en- 
gine; in another sense it is like oil to a machine, 
and, in still another sense, it is like material 
that goes into the construction of a house. 
First-The body, like an engine, requires 
fuel to supply heat. The engine requires heat 
to generate steam, and steam is the power 
that moves the brain. This heat that gene- 
rates the power that moves the train, is sup- 
plied by the burning of coal. The body re- 
quires heat, which diffuses a sensation of 
warmth over the whole organism, and this, in 
turn, generates that power, by which, light, 
the air we breathe, and the food we eat, are 
made to act upon the body and serve the va- 
rious purposes for which they are required. 
The power thus generated we call vital action, 
which puts in motion the whole machinery of 
the human organism. The heat, that diffuses 
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power, comes from the food we eat and the 
air we breathe. 
It is said that on the average the heat of 
the body, in its natural and normal condition, 
is sufficient to raise five gallons of water from 
the freezing to the boiling point-about equal 
to the burning of a pound of coal. 
This heat-"the unknowable sensation of 
warmth,'' as one has expressed it-comes from 
the wasting away of the substance of the body, 
and it is one of the provinces of food to supply 
this loss, and, in supplying this loss, it supplies 
the fuel that keeps up this heat. This may 
seem at first thought a strange freak of nature, 
for why add fuel to this consuming heat. Cer- 
tainly, no one, to save a burning building, 
would think of adding fuel that would tend to 
make more sure its final destruction. This is 
true, and it goes to show that in diseased con- 
ditions of the body, where the heat of the body 
is not natural, there must be a temporary ces- 
sation of food supply, until regularity in the 
temperature is restored, and under control. A 
house afire burns down because the heat is be- 
yond control. When used as a dwelling it re- 
quired heat to make it comfortable for its in- Dreh-ni-gean 
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mates, and the only difference between this 
heat, and that which consumed it, is that one 
is regulated and under control, and the other 
is not. 
It is natural without a supply of fuel that 
heat should die out and disappear, so this 
would be the case with the heat of the body. 
But, before it was finally extinguished, it 
would have dried up all the liquids and fluids 
of the body, burned away all of its fibres and 
tissues, until finally its whole structure, like the 
burning house, would be destroyed in a con- 
suming fire of dissolution. So that, to sustain 
life, the body must have a constant supply of 
fuel, and this comes largely from the food we 
eat. 
The normal heat of the body is determined 
at 98 degrees. This implies what? That it is 
the safety valve of the constitution. The ne- 
cessity of this implies danger, for the heat of 
the body, not thus regulated and under con- 
trol, may increase or diminish to a point that 
would not only endanger life, but ultimately 
cause death. 
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will facilitate its movements, and this influ- 
ence partakes the character of a lubricant. In 
this sense the body may be likened to a ma- 
chine, as both need constant lubrication. 
A machine needs to be properly oiled, in all 
its bearings and running gear, to insure its 
perfect working and prevent friction. If it 
lacks proper lubrication, or is improperly 
oiled, its bearings and running gear become 
gummed up and clogged by an accumulation 
of waste, and this exhausts power. 
So with the human organism, its food sup- 
ply is its means of proper lubrication. It is a 
wonderful piece of mechanism, the acme of 
perfection, in the construction of all its vari- 
ous parts, all of which need to be properly 
lubricated, by the liquids and fluids that are 
designed for that purpose, and which are sup- 
plied by the food we eat. Improper and un- 
digested food become so much added waste 
material, to gum up and clog all of the ave- 
nues of the circulating system. This results 
in irritation, congestion and inflammation, the 
three conditions or states of disease that act 
upon the organic structure of the body, as a 
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In mechanics we call this power, force. In the 
human economy we call this power, vital-force, 
because the process of life, in all its manifesta- 
tions, are vital processes. We require food, 
then, because it promotes action and motion 
in the body, and hence its province, in this 
direction, is that of a lubricant. 
Third-We require food because it is a con- 
structive element. 
A house, from its foundation to its roof- 
covering, is built up out of material of vari- 
ous kinds, which is especially adapted for the 
different parts of the structure for which they 
are designed, and to which they are applied. 
So likewise the body, the house we live in, from 
its foundation (the feet) to its roof covering 
(the hair of the head) is built up out of ma- 
terial especially adapted to meet all of the re- 
quirements of its perfect construction. 
It has its framework of bone, its walls of 
muscles, and its outer covering, over all, of a 
soft elastic skin. Its eyes are its windows; and 
its ears, with which to hold telephone com- 
munication with the outer world. The mouth 
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the stomach, which was originally designed to 
be used only as a store house for food sup- 
ply-but too often in these days used for other 
purposes, such as storing refuse material that 
breeds and fosters disease. 
Through the wonderful and mysterious 
process of nutrition and assimilation, the food, 
taken and properly digested, forms bone and 
muscle, and builds up and strengthens the 
fibres and tissues. And because these all re- 
cpiire food especially adapted to meet their 
several needs impresses us with the fact that 
we should use the same care and exercise the 
same judgment in selecting the proper mate- 
rial as we use in selecting that which goes 
into the construction of our dwellings. No 
builders with a reputation for doing first 
class work would think of constructing a 
house with unsound or unseasoned lumber. 
But this seems to be about what seventy- 
five per cent, of the people are doing to- 
day. We are our own builders in construct- 
ing the houses we live in, and they are what 
we make them by the material we put into 
them. Sound lumber means health; unsound, 
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As the best constructed house requires the 
best quality of material, it also requires the 
right kind. So food as the constructive ele- 
ment of the body must be of the proper kind. 
The material that goes into the framework of 
the structure must be of a kind best adapted 
to solidify the structure; hence there must be 
a bone element of food. Its walls require a 
material best suited to give strength and en- 
durance; hence there must be a muscle ele- 
ment of food. Its outer covering over all for 
protection must be of a peculiarly soft and 
elastic character; hence there must be a skin 
element of food. The whole structure must 
be well cemented and bound together; hence 
there must be an element or elements in food 
especially adapted for the fibres and tissues, 
and for all the ligaments that hold together 
and in place all of the jointed part of the body. 
The liquids and fluids and blood all require a 
material of its kind, as only such will serve the 
purpose for which in the various parts of the 
body they are designed. 
But because of all these requirements let it 
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chemically analyze, like the druggist com- 
pounding a prescription, every portion of food 
we eat, to see that it contains a due propor- 
tion of the various elements required. This 
would be as impossible in most cases as it 
would be impracticable and unnecessary. For, 
while the All-Wise Maker of our bodies, has 
made these special provisions and require- 
ments for food, He has also as wisely provided 
natural foods, some of which contain all, or 
nearly all, the elements of food required for 
the body. In fact, all kinds of natural foods in 
a pure state are presumed to agree equally 
well with all persons in a healthy condition, 
except, perhaps, so far as they are influenced 
by habit and surrounding climatic conditions. 
For, while all persons require the same ele- 
ments in food, all persons do not require alike, 
at all times, the same proportion one as the 
other. Some require more of one element and 
some of another, according to conditions, and 
these are many and varied, even with persons 
in perfect health. Temperament, climate, 
light or heavy work, mental or physical strain, 
all have much influence in this matter. The 
requirements for food are not the same in a Dreh-ni-gean 
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cold as in a hot climate; one will require more 
and the other less of heat producing food. So 
with the same person under the climatic 
changes of the different seasons of the year. 
Nature calls for a different diet in winter than 
in summer, and makes known her require- 
ments in various ways through our sensations 
of need. 
These same conditions apply, to a certain 
extent, to persons in ill-health. They require 
no change in the essential elements that enter 
into the construction of the body, but they 
differ materially many times in amount re- 
quired as compared to a person in perfect 
health, because of the condition of the vital 
organism. 
This brings us to the question of proper 
dieting, which will be considered in our next 
chapter. CHAPTER IV. 
DIETING. 
While the question of a proper diet is of the 
greatest importance in a system of hygienic 
cure, the object of dieting is not to see how 
little one can eat without starving-the false 
conception of many-but to meet the changed 
condition in the nutritive forces, that have be- 
come weakened because of inaction, or pre- 
verted action, in the force of life. "We must 
eat to make blood," says one. True! But the 
simple act of eating a certain amount of food 
does not make blood. Before it can make 
blood it must be digested, and, before it can 
be digested, it must pass though a certain 
chemical process under the influence of the 
juices and fluids of the system; designed 
especially to prepare food as a nourishment for 
the body. Food itself, in the condition that it 
is taken into the mouth, is not a nourishment, 
and cannot in this condition build up and Dreh-ni-gean 
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strengthen the body. It possesses the elements 
of nourishment, but they must be first trans- 
formed under the process named, before it will 
assimilate and nourish the body. 
Too many fail to realize this fact, and too 
often make of their stomachs, not storehouses 
for nourishing food, but a dumping ground for 
refuse matter, that puzzles Nature herself many 
times to know what to do with. This is espe- 
cially the case with persons with weak stom- 
achs and general debility. Most people, no 
doubt, have some conception of the require- 
ments of food; that it is to nourish and make 
blood; but they seem to think, or act as if they 
so thought, that all they have to do is to keep 
the stomach well filled with anything that is 
relishable to their palate, and that Nature will 
do all the rest; that she can make blood out of 
anything that will pass muster by the sentinel 
on watch at the entrance. If our sensation of 
taste will accept food and permit it to pass into 
the stomach, and its assistant, the sensation of 
smell, can find no fault with it, then it seems 
to be pretty good evidence that as a food ele- 
ment it is all right. But is it always? Here 
are three persons who sit down at a table to- Dieting 
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gether; each will eat a hearty meal. They eat, 
perhaps, each the same amount of food, and 
the same kind, and yet it will not affect all 
alike. It will give strength and muscle to the 
first, surplus flesh and bloat to the second, and 
weakness and emaciation to the third. This 
is because of the difference in the condition of 
the systems of these three persons, one from 
the other. Apparently they all three relish 
their food alike, for it satisfies hunger and 
appeases appetite. Now, what is this difference 
in condition, and why does the same amount 
and kind of food eaten produce these different 
results? Simply because, in the first case, all 
the functions of life are in a healthy condition; 
in the second and third cases the functions of 
life are in an unnatural, abnormal condition. 
The difference in results in these two cases, 
the second and third, is occasioned by the 
different degrees of strength and power of the 
nutritive forces, and both are superinduced by 
over-stimulation. 
But, in considering this question of proper 
dieting, we must bear in mind the fact that the 
province of food primarily is not to please the 
palate, or appease one's hunger, but to sustain Dreh-ni-gean 
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life and build up and repair the waste of the 
system. We do not live to eat, but we eat to 
live. So that the question of dieting is not as 
to whether we shall or shall not eat, for the 
body, in all its conditions of health and ill- 
health, must be properly nourished. It may be 
stated, further, that all persons alike, sick or 
well, require essentially the same elements of 
food, for the change of the body from normal 
to abnormal conditions does not change the 
nature of the food required. Hunger and thirst 
are the organic instincts by which nature 
makes known her needs and requirements for 
nourishment. The supposition is, then, that 
when we are hungry we should eat, and when 
we are thirsty we should drink. Hence, if a 
person is in good health, he is simply fulfilling 
natural conditions in complying with and 
heeding these sensations of need. But it is also 
presumed, that in fulfilling these natural con- 
ditions, that unnatural conditions will not 
follow. But we find that unnatural conditions 
do sometimes and too often follow. Food 
eaten that does not digest and assimilate, pro- 
duces unnatural conditions, such as an uncom- 
fortable, depressed feeling about and within Dieting 
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the stomach, followed by a sense of fullness 
that is burdensome. So that, when such feel- 
ings arise, we may know that the appetite has 
overstepped the province of its normal 
activity; slightly at first perhaps; but, if long 
continued, a perverted or craving condition, is 
as sure to follow as that an effect will follow a 
cause. 
While it is true that food is the essential 
material out of which the organic structure is 
to be built up and strengthened, we must not 
lose sight of the fact that this presupposes 
good digestion and the power of assimilating 
food, and these, again, depend upon a healthy 
action of all the vital processes. This is the 
foundation of a healthy body. But if the 
foundation is weak, then the power of assimi- 
lating and digesting food is proportionately 
lessened, and hence, strange as it may seem, 
food thus taken becomes poison, under the 
chemical changes it undergoes, and is an added 
force to the many influences that undermine 
the constitution. 
Brick and mortar are the essential materials 
in the construction of a brick house, but the 
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conditions were favorable to that end. But if 
the foundation is weak, then there must be a 
cessation from the usual process of supplying 
the material until the foundation is strength- 
ened; otherwise the piling up of bricks, one 
on top of another, while it may have the 
appearance of a strong, massive structure, in- 
stead becomes an accumulation of destructive 
forces that endanger the safety of the struc- 
ture, if they do not finally accomplish its down- 
fall and ruin. 
So that, while a person in health or ill health, 
requires the same elements of food, the amount 
required will vary according to these con- 
ditions. For the power of digesting and as- 
similating food is one thing in health, and an- 
other thing in ill-health, and, so much does the 
health become impaired in many cases, when 
the system fails to secrete the necessary diges- 
tive juices, that "it not only indicates," says 
one writer on the subject, "that the stomach 
and blood purifying organs need rest, but that 
the eliminating the effete and morbid matter 
from the system, is the more easily accom- 
plished when there is a temporary cessation of 
the work of blood making food." Dieting 
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Here are two persons. One is healthy, 
hearty, full of life and energy; the other, poor 
and thin in flesh, palefaced and weak. Both 
require food to sustain life, and, from the gen- 
eral appearance of both, one would naturally 
infer perhaps, that the latter individual was the 
one in most need of a wholesome, hearty meal. 
And yet, experience teaches us that the reverse 
is true, and that the amount of food required 
to sustain life in the well person, would weaken 
and, under certain conditions, endanger the life 
of a person in ill-health. Why this is the case 
we have already indicated. I recall the case of 
a man of my acquaintance, who had such a 
good appetite, that his wife for a time, nearly 
one year, was obliged to get up at two o'clock 
every morning and cook him a hearty meal. 
But under this regime of diet, in addition to his 
three other daily meals, the man continued to 
grow poorer and more emaciated. It satisfied 
the craving appetite, but did not give him 
strength. Naturally, he coughed incessantly, 
for over-eating is quite as likely to produce a 
cough as taking cold. All this goes to show, 
what? Not that hunger as a sensation of need 
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its reliability is based upon conformity to the 
laws of life and health, and this implies integ- 
rity in all the functions of nutrition. But we 
know, from our own experience as individuals, 
that it is not always of this uniform character, 
owing to a changed condition from natural to 
unnatural. For then our appetites may become 
craving or morbid, vitiated or depraved, 
through influences acting upon the body such 
as our habits, mode of living, etc., which do not 
promote healthful conditions. As before stated, 
we know of these influences by the effect pro- 
duced. Not always, and indeed rarely, at first, 
are we cognizant of the change, that is gradu- 
ally creeping over us, on account of them. For 
Nature is long suffering, and for a time at 
least, will try and adjust herself to these new 
influences without complaint, or with simply 
a mild reproof, such as a fulness, or depressed 
feeling, more or less burdensome, as we con- 
tinue on in this way of living. But if we do not 
heed this mild reproof, then Nature's voice 
grows louder and more imperative, until finally 
we have reached, perhaps, the deplorable con- 
dition of the man referred to. I presume that 
many readers of this book are more or less of Dieting 
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the invalid class. Some troubled with one com- 
plaint and some with another, and among 
them all, perhaps, is represented a large varie- 
ty of ailments flesh is heir to. All are anxious to 
get well. Most of them realize to some extent 
that a proper course of dieting is necessary if 
they are to gain strength, and secure a restora- 
tion to health, and, naturally, become inter- 
ested in the question of what they shall eat. 
But in the midst of the. great variety of 
opinions among doctors and writers on the 
subject of diet, so widely at variance with each 
other, it is not very encouraging, to say the 
least, for any one to attempt to sift out of this 
mass of confusion, that course of dieting that 
will best suit one's individual case. 
The great trouble with this diet question, as 
with many others, lies as much, perhaps, in an 
overdose of prescription, as in any other di- 
rection. It is true that many invalids, without 
a radical change in their habits and mode of 
living, in diet, etc., could not hope to secure 
health. Yet, in dealing with the various dis- 
eased conditions of persons in ill health, and 
advising in regard to their dieting, we must 
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well as what is true in theory, owing to the 
various conditions and circumstances that sur- 
round them. For the aim, after all, in direct- 
ing dietetic practice among invalids is not 
only to cure their present infirmities, but to 
teach them the "way of life" in relation to eat- 
ing, as well as in all other voluntary habits. 
Two factors enter into this question of prop- 
er dieting-the assimilativeness of food and 
the power of the nutritive forces to receive it. 
It is because we may not always readily deter- 
mine the relative strength of the nutritive 
function, that it is necessary to secure such 
nutrient as will produce the least friction or 
irritation, which will draw the least upon the 
already enfeebled digestive organs. This is 
why, under hygienic systems of cure, grain 
foods in some form of preparation are consid- 
ered the best nutrient in most cases of in- 
validism, especially in the earlier stages of a 
course of its treatment. The wheat grain 
contains all, or nearly all, of the elements of 
which the body is composed. I have, during 
my 20 years of practice, made it the principal 
diet of all my patients, and certainly I have 
found it the most safe diet to give ip securing Dieting 
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the best results, in all the cases I have treated. 
A great many doctors, when you seek their 
advice in regard to the use of these prepared 
grain foods, will tell you, perhaps, with a cer- 
tain air of disdain, that they are only fit for 
babes and infants. To my mind this is one of 
the strongest arguments in favor of their use 
for invalids generally. In the majority of cases 
they are simply grown up babes, owing to 
their weak and feeble condition, in their abil- 
ity tO' digest food. By what course of reason- 
ing, then, if infants and babes can be built up 
and grow strong on this kind of food, are we 
to infer that like results cannot be obtained to 
the grown up invalid, whose capacity for re- 
ceiving nutriment is reduced to that of a child, 
and many times even to less than that of a 
healthy babe? But the inference to be drawn 
is not to be mistaken. The doctor wishes you 
to understand that in his judgment, such food 
as grain foods, have not sufficient nutrient 
properties to sustain, strengthen and build up 
the body of a grown up invalid in all his con- 
ditions of ill health. Is this true? If I am 
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many of my patients, I should say emphatical- 
ly, "No!" 
Take for example, that preparation of grain 
food "Universal Food," prepared by The 
Health Food Co., of New York. What is it? 
In the first place it is a nutrient entirely free 
from inert and insoluble particles, composed 
of the germs of wheat and barley carefully re- 
moved from their respective grains, and then 
cooked for easy and speedy digestion. It is 
rich in nitrogenous and phosphatic albumin- 
oids, and hence a strong blood-making and 
waste-repairing food. I invariably prescribe it, 
and with success, in all cases of much debility 
and general prostration, and in all irritations 
of the stomach and bowels. Its special excel- 
lence lies in the fact, that it alone is compe- 
tent to sustain the greatest energy, and is as 
well a specific, being formed only of those con- 
structive principles which are most active in 
assimilation, even in the absence of natural 
support from the digestive fluids. One pack- 
age of this food is claimed to be nutritively 
equal to forty quarts of good cow's milk, or 
sixty eggs, or to ten pounds of beef or mut- 
ton. A remarkable feature about it is: MixecJ Dieting 
113 
with three volumes of water or milk in a glass 
tube, at a temperature of 98 degrees Fahren- 
heit, it is converted into blood-substance in 
from 40 to 50 minutes, by the addition of one 
volume of fresh gastric juice. 
The wheat gluten, under its various forms 
of preparation in bread, mushes, etc., is per- 
haps the most valuable single article of food 
known to chemical science. It is doubtless 
true that we cannot live on bread alone, and 
yet it is "the staff of life." As a food element 
it is unequalled by any known element. It 
has been termed the lean meat of inanimate 
life, since it contains precisely the same blood- 
making constituents which are found in the 
edible muscular fibres of animals. 
Gluten is the dark, grayish substance of the 
wheat grain, and is a pure vegetable nitrogen, 
containing all the elements demanded for the 
support of the body, with the exception of 
the carbonaceous element. It holds in abun- 
dance the very food that nourishes the mus- 
cles, tissues and bones, and sustains the brain 
and nervous system. It is especially com- 
pended by the medical fraternity generally as 114 
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almost the only allowable bread food for dia- 
betes. 
These articles of food named, together with 
granula and wheatena, are sufficient for the 
specific purpose of meeting all the require- 
ments for nourishment of the body, during a 
course of treatment under the Dreh-ni-gean 
cure. Of course I am aware that these foods 
referred to are not always accessible to all 
those who may require a course of proper diet- 
ing. While it is true that cereal foods of vari- 
ous kinds are to be found in all localities, still, 
a selection of a proper diet from this promis- 
cuous mass, for most invalids, is not very de- 
sirable or satisfactory. And I would suggest, 
to all who can, to send direct to the Health 
Food Company, 61 Fifth Avenue, New 
York-who are the pioneers in this respect- 
and who prepare these foods for invalids espe- 
cially, and, as well, for persons in ordinary 
health. 
In thus prescribing this simple, routine diet, 
it is not that an occasional change from this 
is not sometimes permissible, but because, 
generally speaking, persons whose power of 
digesting and assimilating food has become Dieting 
115 
greatly weakened, will gain much faster in 
strength while under treatment, with a well 
regulated, simple diet as named, always bear- 
ing in mind that it is not the amount we eat, 
but the amount of food that we can digest, 
that will nourish and strengthen the body. 
Many invalids find it difficult often to con- 
form to a restricted diet, owing to their former 
habits of living. The great change often re- 
quired in this matter seems to them a process 
of self-denial, which appears a tribulation 
rather than a source of benefit to them. Upon 
this point one dietetic writer presents these 
interesting facts in regard to those invalids 
whose condition has been especially produced 
by particular articles of food, or plan of diet. 
He says that "such persons will almost in- 
variably be inordinately attached to those 
articles of food, or that plan of living. Thus 
gout is often produced by concentrated fari- 
naceous food, and it is very rare to find a gouty 
subject who has not a strong repugnance to 
all other kinds of farinaceous food. Those 
persons, too, whose diseases are attended with 
an inflammatory diathesis produced by the ex- 
cessive use of flesh-meats, will almost always 116 
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manifest a particular horror toward just what 
they need-strict vegetable diet. No person 
is more wedded to or more passionately fond of 
strong tea or fine tea biscuits, than the female 
whose stomach is contracted to half its natural 
size, whose nervous system is completely 
shattered by their use; and no spoiled child is 
more crazy after candies and sweet cakes than 
the one rendered feeble, dull, and gaunt by 
them." 
In regard to the quantity of food an invalid 
should eat, that will vary, of course, according 
to the condition of the patient. Generally 
speaking, however, eat sufficient to satisfy 
actual hunger, without causing any uncom- 
fortable or depressed feeling. In other words, 
do not eat to satiety. Dr. Franklin gave us a 
good example when he said he always left the 
table when he could eat more food with a relish. 
The Maker of your body, and mine, reader, 
lid not pronounce His work "Good," until He 
had wisely provided, within itself, the means 
of its own preservation, and the power to resist 
and overcome disease. How else can we con- 
clude, then, than that until the masses are ed- 
ucated up into a position where they can com- Dieting 
117 
prehend and grasp the idea of taking care of 
their bodies and preventing wasting disease 
will the truth that "the greatest study of man- 
kind is man" ever remain an enigma. And to 
"know thyself" bodily and physically, as well 
as morally and spiritually, will ever remain to 
them as at present, a meaningless sounding 
phrase. APPENDIX. 
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