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abnormal action actually alcohol amount of food animal appear appetite bath become blood bodily body bowels brain breaking the fast cause ceteris paribus chemical CO₂ cold consequently consideration continued cure daily death diet digestion diphtheria disease diseased condition Doctor Dewey Doctor Trall drugs Dyspepsia eaten effects elimination enema excess exercise experience fact feeding feeling food material fruitarian germs heat Horace Fletcher human Hydropathy hygienic impurities increased ingested invariably less living lungs manifest masticated matter meal mental merely method mind morbid muscle muscular Natural Hygiene nervous never normal nutrition observed organism oxidation pain paralysis patient persons physical physicians physiological poison possible pounds practically present prove quantity question reason removed rendered result Says Doctor Science sick sleep stimulation stomach strength supply symptoms temperature theory tion treatment true true cure uric acid vital energy vital force waste Water Cure weight
Popular passages
Page 573 - face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality than now prevails." Dr. A. O'Leary, Jefferson Medical College, Phila., Pa., says: "The best things in the healing art have been done by those who never had a diploma—the first
Page 599 - 1 think I am right in saying this is now the ail-but universally held theory; the older view that they are due to "wandering corpuscles becoming fixed and developing into epithelial cells." (" On the Structure of Cancerous Tumors and the Mode in which Adjacent Parts are Invaded,
Page 572 - It cannot be denied that the present system of medicine is a burning reproach to its profession—if, indeed, a series of vague and uncertain incongruities deserves to be called by that name. How rarely do our medicines do good! How often do they make our patients really worse
Page 572 - John Forbes, FRCP, and Physician to the Queen's Household, said: "No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases or therapeutic agents ever yet promulgated is true or anything like the truth, and none can be adopted as a safe guidance in practice.
Page 571 - as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged." Doctor Stille ("Therapeutics," Vol. I., p. 31) says: " Nearly every medicine has become a popular remedy before being adopted or even tried by physicians; and by far the greater number of medicines were first employed in countries which were and are now in a state of scientific ignorance.
Page 40 - and even curing the system of its diseased condition! Says Doctor Ryan : • "It may be stated generally . . . that a medicine in a large dose is a poison, and a poison in a small dose, is a medicine." 1 "Neither physicians nor patients have yet got rid of the idea of curative
Page 572 - I fearlessly assert that in most cases the sufferer would be safer without a physician than with one. I have seen enough of the malpractice of my professional brethren to warrant the strong language I employ." Again, Sir John Forbes says: "Some patients get well with the aid of our medicines, some without, and still more in spite of them.
Page 373 - But I think the opposite statement is also true, as I have just shown. Or as Sir William Temple wrote long ago : " In the course of common life, a man must either often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick; and the choice seems left to everyone as he likes.
Page 572 - writing in the Medical Journal, he says: "What a difference of opinion! What an array of alleged facts directly at variance with each other! What contradictions! What opposite results of a like experience! What ups and downs! What glorification and degradation of the same remedy!
Page 180 - It seems as if the grand experiment of mankind had ever been to ascertain how far they can transgress the laws of life, how nearly they can approach to the very point of death, and yet not die, at least so suddenly and violently as to be compelled to know that they have destroyed themselves.