Chapter XI: A of my book, "Regeneration or Dare To Be Healthy." Frequent (2)

This explanation of the real significance of the symptoms of Influenza should make it sufficiently apparent that its cause is fundamental, widespread and deeply rooted in the organism--a menace not to be lightly and tentatively treated with impunity. That the disease is not one that may be met--with any prospect of success--with febrifuges, drugs, serums and specifics--to say nothing of whisky and the like futilities, to use no harsher term, such as are said to have characterized the prescriptions of a very considerable proportion of the Regular Medical Profession and with such terribly disastrous results. What the liquor statistics show on our side of the line I am at the moment unable to say, but I see it reported in the press of an adjoining province that under nominally strict "Prohibition" the sale of liquor had increased no less than 900 per cent, largely upon doctors orders, and that the sales from the Government stores in one city, during the past month had totaled $50,000--as compared with $6,000 for the corresponding period of the previous year.

The Professor's elaborate diagnosis, from a physiologico-chemical point of view seems rather to point to a meaning which he has missed--to indicate a latent, more remote possibility behind the shy bacillus, as the primary cause of the disease.

Let us endeavor to read the riddle rightly. On scientific contemplation it at once becomes apparent that the symptoms as defined by Kuhnemann--and indeed all other observers--are confined to the regions traversed by the _Vagus_ (wandering) or _Pneumogastric_ nerve--a nerve of comprehensive scope and bi-functional activity, _physical and psychic_ and in operation, remarkably in accord with the manifestations of Influenza.

Concisely stated, the physiological function of the _Vagus nerve_ is to regulate the process of breathing, tasting, swallowing, appetite, digestion, etc.; and the result of its failure to function would create coughing, choking, indigestion--separately or in combination. Its mental functions include the expression of shame, desire, disgust, grief, torture, depression and despair.

The following is its academic description:

_Vagus_ or Pneumogastric nerve (tenth cranial); function--sensation and motion; originates in the floor of the fourth ventricle (the space which represents the primitive cavity of the hind-brain; it has the pons and oblongata in front, while the cerebellum lies dorsal), and is distributed through the ear, pharynx, larynx, lungs, esophagus, and stomach; possesses the following branches--auricular, pharyngeal, superior and inferior laryngeal, cardiac, pulmonary, esophageal, gastric, hepatic, communicating, meningeal.

It is interesting to compare the scope and characteristics of the Vagus, as here defined with the details of Prof. Kuhnemann's diagnosis of Influenza and to draw conclusions.

In order to establish more unmistakably the symptomatic sympathetic connection between the Vagus and Influenza, it may be well to touch briefly upon the initial processes of metabolism and nerve production.

An inherent impulse in the ovum (protoplasm or egg cell) serves to separate the albuminous substance into groups of an opposite nature. Water is chemically separated from one portion, which results in thickening the albumen from which it was extracted, while the liberated water aids in liquifying another portion of the albuminous matter. Thus, on one side slender threads arise, termed fibrine or filaments, and on the other lymph fluid appears, which receives the particles of salts freed from the filaments during their chemical separation. When the fibrine and lymph are organized from the protoplasm, the remaining albumen is absolutely unchanged and ready to furnish material for the growth of either.

It is the function of salts to increase the electrical tension of the lymph. All salts possess the property of being electrically positive or negative. The more concentrated a saline solution, the greater its electrical energy.

That the function of the lymph is to assist in the formation and nutrition of the nerves is apparent when the nature of lymph and the composition of nerve substances are compared. The contrast which exists between fibrine and lymph, and the similarity of lymph to nerve fat when taken together, justify the conclusion that the nerve substance lecithin, was formed from lymph in the first instance.

The whole process of life consists of an electro-chemical combustion. This is clearly shown in the case of lecithin, which serves to control both motion and sensation. In the presence of oxygen it burns up, forming a new chemical combination, and throwing off minute quantities of carbonic acid and water in the process. _Every movement and process, both voluntary and involuntary, and every thought and emotion, depends upon oxidation, which consumes muscular tissue and nerve substance._

The greater our physical exertion the more muscular tissue must be consumed. The higher our emotional state, the more we think or agitate ourselves, the greater must be the quantity of nerve substance burned up. All of the substance burned up in labour, in worry and in thought, must be replaced or the flame will flicker out!

The metabolism of muscular tissue is not in question at the moment. We are concerned here with nerve metabolism alone.

This occurs in the following manner: In response to the demand for new material created by the chemical combustion of lecithin, new oil flows down the axis cylinders of the nerve fibrils, which are arranged somewhat in the manner of lamp wicks. The average duration of the flow of this oil is about eighteen hours. When the cerebro-spinal nerves refuse to perform their function any longer, because the supply of oil is running low, fatigue and sleep ensue, and the blood descends from the brain to the intestines. Thus the cerebro-spinal system is permitted to relax and rest. In the meantime the sympathetic nervous system has taken up the task of directing the renewal of worn tissues, which draw their supply of necessary materials from the digestive canal, with a new supply of phosphatic oil. For the carrying out of these processes, which prepare the brain and spinal nerve system for the demands of another day, the magnetic blood current acts as distributor of supplies.

Through the fact that this supply is directly dependent upon nutrition, three possibilities inevitably present themselves:

(1) That any radical change of diet may result in an insufficient
supply of the various elements necessary for the production of
lecithin in the requisite quantities.

(2) That strenuous and unaccustomed physical and mental exertion
may involve a consumption both of nerve substance and muscular
tissue, greater than the outcome of the ordinary diet is able to
compensate.

(3) That a protracted term of emotional strain and agitation may
adversely affect both appetite and digestion while rapidly
consuming the substance of the nerves.

In discussing the causes of disease Julius Hensel lays great stress upon the emotions. He goes so far as to say that they "_undoubtedly occupy the first place amongst the factors causing disease_, and we must not evade the consideration of them. _We shall find that their action also amounts to an electro-chemical process._" I would not for an instant be understood to contend that the emotions alone are sufficient to explain the origin of disease--not at all. There are other factors--jointly or severally dominant--diet, occupation, changes of weather, climate, or conditions.

In the matter immediately under review, however, the world-wide pandemic of "Spanish Influenza," there can remain no shadow of doubt in the mind of any unbiased observer who follows the question fairly along the lines of electro-chemical biology, but that the general emotional disturbances incident upon the war conditions of the world, combined with the chaotic dietetic position with its anxieties and privations under strenuous and unwonted physical demands, do undoubtedly afford a sound and reasonable explanation of the cataclysmal outbreak which has recently fallen upon the nations.

The brazen blast of war, in 1914, with all its ruthless wreck and carnage, shook the universal fabric of the sphere. Fear, fraud and famine were met together, duplicity and greed had kissed each other. Short rations and with some, starvation, were soon the order of the day. The corners of the earth were swept of stale forgotten stores and profiteers waxed fat and prices soared, whilst the vitals of the working world were vastly underfed. The ranks of labour, depleted of its men, were filled by females uninured to toil and dangerous nerve racking environments. Relentless time brings its revenges fast; but still they worked and suffered while malnutrition sapped the life-blood of the race. In the homes of the fighting men fear reigned supreme--ever the sword of Damocles suspended at the hearth. And then the death lists came and the world was wet with human tears and all the furies flew the earth--grief, hatred, revenge, love, pity and remorse, but the wail of mourning was throughout all lands in all the "sable panoply of woe" attending fast lowering vitality, bred by force of pain and hope deferred. Pliny well said: "Dolendi modus, non est timendi"--Pain has its limits, _apprehension none_--and now as in his day, the latter bore the palm.

Such was the position when two years ago the world first felt the impact of the pestilence and millions withered up like blighted corn.

The Vagus nerve with which we have been dealing, is concerned with the expression of emotions such as these; and being so, was burned up rapidly with fervent heat--the flames of sorrow still with fasting fed. In the majority of human lives such was the case, while the sources of nutritive reserve force were depleted by lack of things of universal use and foreign substitutes for normal food. Small wonder then the once steady nerves soon buckled with the strain; that sickness followed swiftly with disaster in its train and that the death rate rose enormously, beyond recorded precedent. And then when seeming good succeeds the storm of ills a plethora of new-born cares arose and worse, more fatal still, reaction from the strain which with relaxing energy demands its deadly share. Here in America we meet our troubles with serener front, unawed by State-fed sacerdotal superstitions; but in England how the scourge has wrung from dire depression its full toll of death. There for the first time deaths exceed the births and for the final quarter of 1918, the deaths exceed those of the former term by 127,000 of which Influenza claimed one hundred Thousand dead. Similar conditions, it would appear, have been more or less general throughout the European and indeed all other Continents and the title "Pandemic" has been richly earned; but the term which would seem to me more descriptive still would be _"Panasthenia"--the general loss of vitality_.

The human organism is, as we know, electro-magnetic. The effect upon the fabric of abnormal disturbance is registered with infinite exactitude by electrons--atoms of electricity--which rise and fall in numerical vibration according to the positive or negative tone of the whole; and excessive manifestations in one direction or the other, indicate respectively, a condition of positive or negative disease.

When the slowly vibrating negative electrons outnumber the rapidly vibrating positive atoms the electronic vibration of the whole body is lowered. As a result, we become depressed, weak, tired and retain little bodily warmth. Digestion is upset, metabolism falls far below normal, and the skin becomes pale, because of the morbid action set up in the mucous membrane by the excess of negative electrons. Catarrh supervenes. This is the condition in which negative disease thrives best: Influenza, nervous debility, anaemia, sleeping disease, cholera, diphtheria and the rest, in all varied forms of negative disease.

The Vagus, or Wandering Nerve, permeates every vital section of the body, as the accompanying plate will show. It controls, as has been shown, all the highest functions, both mental and physical of human life--that life which depends for its well-being upon electro-chemical combustion, metabolism, and the fuel supply we designate as food. It is the first postulate of healthy vitality in the human frame that metabolism and catabolism--intake and output--shall go hand in hand--that the body must receive continually such fresh nutrition as may replace what it consumes in the process of muscular action and the exercise of mental and emotional activity, and we are consequently brought to the conclusion that such bonds of safety and provision being rudely and suddenly severed, all physical resistance must be quickly broken down, the latent reserve energy is used and disappears, psychic resolution--the immunity of mind--soon abdicates its throne and the depleted organism, robbed of all defense, falls victim to contagion when it comes to kill.

_Treatment._

As regards the treatment, actual and preventive, applicable to Spanish Influenza, the methods employed under the Hygienic-Dietetic System of Healing have been already defined in a previous chapter on the subject of negative disease in general. Instruction, however, devoted to Influenza alone may be found in Chapter VI of the special pamphlet issued in that connection under the title: "Influenza, Cause and Cure,"[E] and also in my greater work: "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy," now in course of completion.

* * * * *

And now, one final word in conclusion, for the purpose of drawing together, as it were, the multiplicity of threads which constitute the complex skein of causes and effects, with their remedial measures which cover the wide range of human life's vicissitudes--the interruptions of its would-be harmonies--which take the forms, all too common in these times of stress, of physical disturbance and of mental strain which come to us in the combined and threatening guise of suffering and disease.

That these forms are more pronounced, more virulent today than ever before in the records of the race, is surely great Nature's manner, crude and masterful, of pressing her mandate home--right home upon the plastic film of evanescent shadows and ephemeral shades we proudly call our consciousness.

How many, let me ask, how many of us, in the absorbing round of life's futilities, have paused to really recognize the sinister "hand writing on the wall?"

The phase of the world's history through which we pass complacently is of no light portent, its happenings no casual concern, but, in point of crucial fact, a virtual "rending of the sphere"--a cosmic upheaval such as never yet before has racked the tense life sinews of the world, confounding the wisdom of the wise and wrecking in one fell climax of contempt the moral precepts of two thousand years.

The greatest human struggle the world has ever known synchronizes strangely, yet logically with the world's greatest pestilence which has swept successive millions to their doom without exacting from the residue even the sentimental tribute of a tear.

The official brains of the entire globe are leagued in self-protective unison "to make the world safe for democracy;" but Demos dies, by violence and disease, ere yet salvation comes. It appeals to its old-time standards for relief,--they are gone; to its pastors--they are mute; to its masters--they are impotent; to its doctors--they are baffled, helpless and aghast, whilst vainly searching earth and air for some frail pretext of unreal enlightenment, some fragile figment of belief. And yet in hypnotized complacency the masses stand; for meanwhile commerce reaps its costly gains and labour draws in enhanced increment the wages of the living and the dead.

Less serious visitations have, in former times, left their eternal imprint on the age. They served to point the moral of widespread reform--to emphasize the practice of hygiene and sanity. For all such scourges are but signs of Nature's trust betrayed, her sacred laws defied in the wild rush for gain, oblivious of the Law of Compensation's cost, with its inevitable reckoning.

Thus, to the discoverer of the lost initiative, what prospect does the future hold in store?

Pandemics, such as this, repeat themselves; and other forms of dread disease are following the footsteps of mankind. Arterio sclerosis, (hardening of the arteries), with its kindred complaints, for instance, now threatens to become a standing feature of the race through ignorance of the physiological functions of the nerves, their tissue exhaustion and supply.

With such impending dangers are our men distressed; and yet there seems but grudging, slight encouragement for those who seek to stay the onslaught of the foe, by scientific measures of precaution and hygiene.

What the nation needs is now a practical and nation-wide awakening. Let the people realize the danger of their risk; let them rally to the call and loyally support those who thus offer them the safeguard of knowledge as a refuge from the impending storm. Then will so-called "incurable disease" be relegated to the limbo of the past and, among other prophylactic means, this, my latest great discovery--the cause of Influenza, its prevention and its cure, a discovery which must rank amongst the great scientific achievements of the day--will mitigate the force of epidemics on mankind. It should also give to the reader of this little book a fair assurance of what immunity it is possible to secure by careful study and practice of its truths and should prove to the thinker the nucleus of a lesson which can nowhere be better learned than in the teachings and the precepts of the Hygienic-Dietetic School.

"But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be"

FINIS.

Wide and unlimited as the field of biology and the hygienic-dietetic method of healing is, I have in the foregoing pages tried to devise a guide that will indicate the points that are most necessary to the confidence of the patient, based upon knowledge.

If I have enlightened my readers sufficiently regarding the most modern results of biological research, if I have succeeded in showing them the ray of hope, in the midst of their suffering, that will give them courage to live, and live as healthy human beings, I shall feel amply rewarded for the hard work that had necessarily to be done before the present pinnacle in the art of healing could be reached.

Let me repeat: this brochure is not designed to lead any one away from the man who knows, who has gone to the sources of wisdom, to bring salvation to those who demand the right to live in health and vigor. Far otherwise; for my deliberate injunction is that the cure of disease, in any form, should not be undertaken except under the guidance of an hygienic physician who may indicate to them the path, so that they may not tread it blindly, but in the light of knowledge.

The outlines of a great and wonderful science are presented. Another wall between the layman and the professional has been torn down. If, my readers, you can one day say this booklet has guided you to the right path, back to the enjoyment of life in youthful health and vigor, then join with me and others in propagating these sane and safe principles, and make others "Dare to be Healthy," as you have dared yourself.

FOOTNOTES:

[D] This amount is given by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in an editorial devoted to the terrible plague on March 16th, 1919.

[E] The pamphlet, which also contains a chart of the Vagus in 2 colors, may be obtained either from the author or through any bookseller. The price is 50 cents.

INDEX

Dedication, 5

Foreword, 13

Introduction, 15

The Hygienic-Dietetic method of Healing, 19
Physiologico-Chemical Research, 20
The Natural Method of Healing, 20
Prophylactic Therapy or Prevention of Disease, 21
The New-School of Healing, 22
"Regeneration" or "Dare to be Healthy", 24
Distrust of the Medical Fraternity, 25-6
Johannes Mueller and his followers, 26-7
The Medical Impasse, 28-9

The Regeneration of the Race, 31
Dysaemia--the cause of disease, 31
The process of Natural Healing, 31
The Human Body a Microcosm, 32
The body an indivisible Unity, 33
The Bacteria craze, 33
Predisposition, 34
The Allopathic failure, 35-36
Choosing a Physician, 37
Cell-food Therapy, 37
Medical Literature, 38
Chemical elements of the blood, 39
Dech-Manna, or "Organic Nutritive salts or cell-food Therapy", 39
"As a man eats, so is he", 46
Humanity the product of the exhausted fields, 46
The remedy, the question and the reply, 47
No "business" in healthy blood, 47
Truth versus Creeds and Capital, 49

Health: Hymn of Health, 51
The Health ideal by Nature set, 52
Ignorance the basis of disease, 54
A Means of Enlightenment, 55

The Dare to be Healthy Club, 57
The purpose of the Club, 58

The Teachings of the Club, 58
Two years' course in Biology, 58
Physiology, Anatomy, Hygiene,
Physiological Chemistry, Pathology,
according to Biological facts, 58
Therapy, in accordance with Biological and
Physical Laws and Precepts, 58
Its comprehensive aim, 58
The Course of Instruction, 58
Its Precepts, 59
Graduates as Teachers, 59

The Method of Regeneration, 59

Dr W.C. Rucker Assistant Surgeon Gen.
US Public Health Service on Physiological Chemistry, 60

The Boerhaave Incident, 62
The Secret of Disease and Health, 62
The eternal Lesson Nature Teaches, 64

Simplicity the Essence of the System, 64

A Life's Legacy, 65

The Physician, 66

Fair Minded Physicians, 66

Behind the Veil, 66

Disease the Heritage of the Ages, 67

The Moment of Release, 67

Disease a Unit, 68

The Part of the Physician, 69

The Teachings of Great Masters, 69
Hippocrates, 70
Galen, 71
Thomas Sydenham, 73
Boerhaave, 74

System of Regeneration, 77
Man as a Unit, 77
Perpetual Existence, 77
Functions, 77
Cell life, 78
Specialists, 78
Cause of Disease, 79

Metabolism, 79
Creative Matter, 79
Functions of the Blood, 79
Foreign Formations, 80
Nature's Curative Powers, 80
The Blood as Universal Medium, 80
The Oneness of Disease, 80
All Powers Dependent on Nutrition, 80
Diversity of Construction, 81
Adaptivity of Cells, 81
Medical Misconception, 81
Resultant Errors, 82
Diagnosis, 82

Chemical Analysis of Human Body, 82
The Twelve Tissues, 82
Secret of Healing, 82
Tissues Depend Upon the Blood, 82
The 16 Elements of the Blood, 83
Dominant Features, 83
Von Liebig's Law of the Mirimuin, 83
The Law of Chemotaxis, 84
Cell Attraction, 84
Process of Healing, 84

Constitutional Disease, 84
New Cell food Treatment, 85
Old System Superseded, 85
Dysarmia, 85
The Bacillus Fallacy, 85
Predisposition, 86
Hereditary Disease, 86
Heredity Not Invincible, 87
The Dechmann Law of the Cross transmission of Characteristics, 87
The Theory of Pangenesis, 88
The Dechmann Law of the Determination of Sex at Will, 89
Latent Reserve Energy, 89
Law of the Dominant, 90
Heredity and Predisposition, 90
Prevention of Disease, 91
Terrible Responsibility, 91
Alternative Betterment, 92
The "Incurable," Curable, 92
Chemical Elements Missing, 92
Three Methods of Supply, 92
Diet, 92
Nutritive Preparations, 93
Physical Treatment, 93

Nature a Unit, 94
Natural Elements, 94
Importance of Minerals, 94

Testimonials, 95

Dech-Manna Nutritive Preparations, 97

The Means of Health and Safety, 98

The Dare to be Healthy Club, 99
Business Proposition, 99
Membership, 99
Terms and Literature etc., 100
"Within the Bud", 101
Cell Foods Special Rates to Members, 102
The Basis of Proceedings, 103
Life, Health, Happiness, 104

Man as a Unit, 105

Metabolism, 106

Variety of Organs, 109
The Idea of Unity, 109

The Constituent Elements, 111

Dysaemia, the Cause of All Constitutional Diseases, 113

Heredity, 116

Healing, 117

The Unity of Nature, 119

The Chemical Process of Disease, 121

The Twelve Tissues, 123
1. The Plasmo Tissue (Blood Plasma), 124
2. The Lymphoid Tissue, 125
3. The Nerve Tissue, 125
4. The Bone Tissue, 126
5. The Muscular Tissue, 127
6. The Mucous Membrane Tissue, 128
7. The Tooth and Eye Tissue, 128
8. The Hair Tissue, 128
9. The Skin Tissue, 129
10. The Gelatigenous Tissue, 130
11. The Cartilage Tissue, 130
12. The Body Tissue in General, 131

Degeneration of Tissues, 132
The Meaning of "Healing", 132
Grouping of Constitutional Diseases, 133

The A.B.C. of My System of Healing, 135
A. Diet, 135
B. Nutritive Compositions, 135
C. Physical Treatment, 136

Diet--Its Vital Importance, 136
The Reason Why, 137
The Laboratory of the Body and Functions of Its Branches, 137
Creation of Life blood, 137
Building the Framework, 138
The Material, 138
The Refuse, 138
Diet Forms No. I to No. VI, 138

Nutritive Compositions, 143
Representations to Government, 143
Functions of Minerals in Our Food, 148
Minerals in the Human Economy, 148
Chemical Elements Essential to Life, 149
The Impulse of Growth, 150
The Genesis of Polyps, Tumors and Cancers, 151
Review of Mineral Elements, 152
Iron in the Blood, 152
Generation of Electricity, 152
Faraday, on Magnetic Blood, 152
The Motor of Nervous Function, 153
Creation of Bodily Warmth, 153
The Secret of Sleep, 153
The Function of the Spleen, 154
Rejuvenating Influence, 154
The Malpighian Bodies, 154
The Liver and the Bile, 155
Lecithin or Nerve Fat, 155
System of Cell Renewal, 156
Nutrition-Soda and the Bile, 156
Chemical Fixation, 156
Sodium Sulphate Essential, 157
Basis of Muscle Tissue, 157
Basis of Bones and Teeth, 158
Growth of the Hair, 158
Medium of Chemical Combustion, 158
Human Organism Cannot Assimilate Inorganic Matter, 159
Necessity of Prepared Nutritive Salts, 159
Incomplete Fertilization, 160
Sickly (food) vegetation, 160
Improper Fertilization Breeds Disease, 161
The Rock and Its Lesson, 161
Food Instinct, 161
An Imperative Duty to Mankind, 162
Result of Experiments (Poultry), 162
Results of Experiments (small fruit), 163
Haemoglobin Eggs for Weakened Constitutions, 164
Lecithin for Neurasthenia, 164
Physical Regeneration, 164
Reserve Energy Essentials, 165

Nutritive Compositions, 166
16 Nutritive Cell-foods, 166
12 "Dech-Manna" Compositions, 166
Specialities, A. to J., 167
Explanations, 168
Schuessler's Absurdity, 170

=Dech-Manna Compositions=--
No. 1. Plasmogen--(Plasma Producer), 172
No. 2. Lymphogen--(Lymph-cell producer), 176
No. 3. Neurogen--(Nerve-cell producer), 179
The Ignorance of "Nerve Specialists", 180
Consequent Increase of Insanity, 180
A Complacent Public, 181
Neurasthenia, 181
No. 4. Osseogen--(Bone cell Producer), 182
Deformity of Bone Structure, Curvature of the Spine, etc., 183
The Lime-water Fallacy and Others, 183
"Fire proof" Bone Structure, 183
No. 5. Muscogen--(Muscle-cell Producer), 184
Combination with Eubiogen (No XII), 185
No. 6. Mucogen--(Mucous Membrane-cell producer), 186
Pervading Importance of Membrane, 186
Catarrhal Conditions of Tissues
No. 7. Dento & Ophthogen--(Tooth & Eye cell Producer), 187
Connection Between Teeth and Eye, 189
No. 8. Capillogen--(Hair-cell Producer), 189
Causes of Falling Hair, 190
Prevention of Baldness, 190
Failure of "Hair Restorers", 190
No. 9. Dermogen--(Skin-cell Producer), 191
The Fallacy of Dermatology, 192
No. 10. Gelatinogen--(Gelatigenous-tissue Producer), 193
The Functions of Expansion and Contraction, 193
No. 11. Cartilogen--(Cartilage Producer), 194
Prevention of Friction, Bones and Joints, 194
No. 12. Eubiogen--(Healthy Life Producer), 196
Positive Composition, 196
Eulogy of Eubiogen, 196
Analysis of Eubiogen, 201
3 Forms of Eubiogen, 204
Special Composition B Alternative for Infants
and Feeble Invalids, 204
Comparative Analysis Human Body and Eubiogen, 206

=Appendix I=, 207
Life Preservers and Elixirs, 207
=Special Dech-Manna Compositions=, 207
A. Oxygenator (Radium Tablets), 207
Balneotherapy-directions, 208
B. Eubiogen Liquid. For babies and feeble invalids, 209
C. Tonogen--Tonic and Beverage, 210
Universal Scope and Effectiveness, 211
Combination with Plasmogen, 212

=Appendix II=, 213
=Compositions for Specific Cases=, 213
D. Tea, Diabetic, 213
E. Tea, Laxagen, 213
F. Salve, Lenicet, 213
G. Massage Emulsion, 213
H. Propionic Acid, 213
I. Oxygen Powder, 213
J. Anti phosphate or Negative Compound, 213

Price list Dech-Manna Compositions, 214
Physical Treatment, 215
Baths and Packs--Vinegar Water, 215
Massage and Exercises, 216
Importance of Ablutions, 216
The Habit of Gargling, 220

Vinegar Packs--Their Significance and Basis, 220
Effect of the Packs, 226
Temperature, 226
Construction of Packs, 227
Length of Application, 227
Danger of Ice Applications, 228
Excretion of Auto toxins, 230
Dissolving, Diverting, Excreting, 230
General Treatment of Body, 232
The Key to Success, 232
General Advice for Packs, 232
Measurements for Material, 233
Temperature of Packs, 234
Duration of Packs, 235
Changing the Packs, 236
General Rules, 237
"Diverting Packs" Important, 237
The Main Rule, 238
24. Abdominal Pack, 238
Divided Packs, 241
25. The Cross Pack, 242
26. Leg Packs, 244
Partial Packs, 245
Foot and Wrist Packs, 246
Neck Pack, 247
Shoulder Pack, 248
Scotch Pack, 249
Divided Scotch Pack, 250
Shawl Pack, 251
27. Three quarter Packs, 252
Half Pack, 255
Whole Pack, 255
Small Compresses, 257
28. Gymnastics, 258
29. Massage, 258
30. Breathing, 258
Electric Vibrators, 260
31. Oxygenator, 261
32. Radium and Salt Baths, 261

Diseases, Treatment and Method, 262
I. Degeneration of the Plasmo Tissue, 263
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anaemia, 263
A. Scrofulosis, 266
B. Tuberculosis, 266
C. Syphilis, 266
D. Cancer, 267
Therapy, 267
Diet
I. For Anaemic Patients, 267
I. & II. A. For Scrofulous Patients, 269
I. & II. B. For Tuberculous Patients, 270
I. & II. C. For Syphilitic Patients, 271
I. & II. D. For Cancer Patients, 271
Dech-Manna Compositions, 271
Physical, 272
II. Degeneration of Lymph Tissue,272
III. Degeneration of the Nerve Tissue, 273
Neuralgia Neuritis, Neurasthenia, 274
Asthma Epilepsy St Vitus's Dance, 274
Therapy, 275
Dech-Manna Compositions, 277
Physical, 277
IV. Degeneration of the Bone Tissue, 277
Rickets Osteomalacia and Similar Diseases, 277
Therapy, 278
Diet, 278
Dech-Manna Compositions, 279
Physical, 279
V. Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue, 280
Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, 280
Infantile Paralysis, Atrophy, 280
Amyloid Organs, 280
Therapy, 281
Diet, 281
Special Diet
For Disease of Heart and Inactive Kidneys, 282
For Irritable Kidneys and Diseases of the Bladder, 285
For Liver Disease, 286
Dech-Manna Compositions, 287
Physical, 287
VI. Degeneration of the Mucous Membrane Tissue, 288
Catarrh, Acute and Chronic, 288
Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, 288
Inflammation of Nose Throat, Bowels, Stomach and Bladder, 288
Decomposition of Mucous Membrane, 288
Hemorrhoids, Polyps Benign Tumors, 288
Bright's Disease, Initial Stages, 288
Therapy, 289
Diet, 290
For Throat and Larynx Disease, 290
Dech-Manna Compositions, 290
Physical, 290
VII. Degeneration of Tooth and Eye Tissue, 291
Therapy, 292
Dech-Manna Compositions, 292
Physical, 292
VIII. Degeneration of the Hair Tissue, 292
Therapy, 293
Diet, 293
Dech-Manna Compositions, 293
Physical, 293
IX. Degeneration of the Skin Tissue, 293
Therapy, 295
Diet, 295
Dech-Manna Compositions, 295
Physical, 295
X. Degeneration of the Gelatigenous Tissue, Stomach &
Intestinal Disease, 295
Therapy, 296
Diet, 296
Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases, 297
General Hints for Nourishing Treatment, 298
Treatment, 298
In case of Constipation, 299
Dech-Manna Compositions, 299
Physical, 299
XI. Degeneration of the Cartilagenous Tissue, 300
Ankylosis. Gout. Arthritis, 300
Therapy, 300
Diet, 300
Dech-Manna Compositions, 300
Physical, 300
XII. Degeneration of the Body Tissue in General, 301

Infantile Paralysis, 303

Facial Diagnosis and "The Clinical Eye", 306

Diagnosis, Physiognomy and Psychology, 308
The Biological Healing System, 308
The Psychological Side, 308
Regeneration and Retrogression, 309
The True Physician's Principle, 309
External Symptoms, 310
Perspiring Hands and Feet, 310
Quality of the Nails, 311
Baldness, Gray and Dishevelled Hair, 311
The Evidence of the Eyes, 312
Prof Liljequist on the Colour of the Eyes, 312
The Shades of Death, 313
Testimony of the Mouth and Tongue, 313
Indications of the Nose, 314
Diagnosis by Odour, 315
Story of the Teeth and Gums, 316
Demonstrations of the Neck, 317
Significance of Chest Formation, 317
Signs of the Abdomen, 317
Indications of the Legs, 317
Indications of the Skin, 318
Freckles, 318
Chemical Construction, 318
Prevention and Cure, 319
Simple Precautions, 319

Children's Disease. Introduction, 319
The Cause of "the Poor", 319
The Child of Mortality, 319
Parental Egotism and Pedagogy, 323
Maternal Solicitude--and Ignorance, 320
Vital Statistics, 324
O Tempora! O Mores!, 325
The World's Indifference to Truth, 326
For the Understanding of Disease--the sine qua non, 326
Back to Nature, 326
"The Age of Nerves", 327
Medical Polemics, 327
"Existence is Movement"--Progress, 328
Man, the Sceptic, 328
The X-Rays and the Sequel, 329
The Atom and the Electron, 330
"Man's Passing Strange, Complex Mortality", 332
The Vibrations of Electrons, 332
Electro-Magnetic Control, Mundane and Solar Forces, 333
The Ocean a Storage Battery, 333
The Action of Acids and Alkalies, 334
Electro-Magnetic Processes and Metabolism, 335
Weather and Local Influences, 336
Negative and Positive Vibrations, 337
Healthy Blood Formation, 338
Dech-Manna Diet, 338
Electrons and the Effect of Injury, 339
Bacteria, 340
Febrile, or Positive Diseases, 340
Curative Process, 341
The Law of Opposites, 341
Action of Water, 341
Action of Earth on Mud, 341
Vinegar Packs, 342
Cooling Drinks, 342
Temperature Reduction, 343
Negative Diseases, 344
Curative Process, 344
Sun Baths, Light Baths, 344
Exercise, 345
Massage, 345
Coloured Light Treatment, 346
Internal Treatment, 346
The Salts of the Body, 346
Nourishment, 347
The Science of Food, 347
Diet, 348
Food Standard, 348
Heat Production, 348
Discretion in Diet, 348
Diet of Children in General, 349
Diet for School Children, 351

Fever and its Treatment Based on Biology, 354
A. General Description, 354
B. Treatment, 357
C. Diet in Cases of Fever, 362

Scarlet Fever, 367

Measles, 371

German Measles, 372

Chicken-pox, 373

Small-pox, 374

Typhoid fever or typhus abdominalis, 375
A. General Description, 375
B. Essentials, 376
C. Symptoms and Course, 377
Stage of Development, 378
The Climax, 378
Stage of Healing, 378
Respiratory Organs, 381
Organs of Circulation, 381
Nervous System, 381
Bones and Joints, 382
Urinary and Sexual Organs, 382
Skin, 382
Recurrence, 383
D. Treatment, 384
Mental condition, 385
E. Relapsing fever (Typhus Recurrens), 386
F. Diet in Cases of Typhus, 387
Dech-Manna compositions, 392
Physical Treatment, 392

Negative Children's Disease (so called), 393
Catarrh, 393
Bronchitis, 393
Grippe, 393
Influenza, 393
Catarrhal Inflammations, 393
Cholera Infantum or Summer Complaint, 393
Therapy, 393
Physical Treatment, 394

The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases, 394
The Golden Rule, 395
Diet, 395
Dech-Manna Compositions, 395
Physical Treatment, 396

The Tonsure of the Tonsils, 396
A Strong Indictment, 396
American and English Corroboration, 397
Arguments Against Tonsillotomy, 397
A Medico-cum parental craze, 398
Prof Mackenzie's Denunciation, 398
Maternal Ineptitude, 399
Wild and Incontinent Superstitions, 400
Operators and Their Teachers, 400
Facts and Fables, 401
A "Lazy and Stupifying Delusion", 402
The "Roll of Unrecorded Death", 402
A trenchant and Tragic Article, 404
The True Mission of Tonsils, 405

Pre-natal Care, 405
Pre-natal Clinics, 405
Human Magnetism, 405
Hygienic Birth, 406

Endemic and Epidemic Disease, 406
Climatic, or Yellow Fever, 407
Pellagra, or Hook worm, 407
Cholera and Plague, 408
The Spanish Influenza, 409
The World's Great Pandemics, 410
Terminological Notes, 410
Fundamental Causes, 410
Sero Therapy, or the Illusive Germ Theory, 412
The Alternative Origin, 412
The Attitude of the Public, 413
The History of the Influenza Germ, 413
Culture and the Manufacturing Chemist, 413
The Great Experiment, 413
The Dictum of Surgeon Genl. Blue, 414
Serums and Specifics, Hospitals and Undertakers, 415
Opinions of the Press, 416
The Parting of the Ways, 417
George Bernard Shaw's Views, 418
Public Health Reports, 419
Raising the Resistance of the Body, 419
The Vis Medicatrix Naturae, 421
St Paul, on the Unity of the Body, 421
The Cause of Medical Failure, 421
The Law of the Minimum, 423
The Sixteen Essentials, 423
Prof Kuhnemann, on the Influenza, 424
The Interpretation, 427
The Professor and the Shy Bacillus, 428
The Vision of the Vagus Nerve, 429
Its Vast Responsibility, 431
Three Nutritive Possibilities, 432
The Emotions as Factors of Disease, 432
"Panasthema," the General Loss of Vitality, 434
The Seat of Affection in the Vagus, 435
"The Writing on the Wall", 437
Demos Dies by Violence, 438
Nature's Trust Betrayed, 438
The Law of Compensation, 438
A Great Scientific Discovery, 440

Finis 440

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6, line 28 from top read, Sinai's
19, line 5 from top read, continents
134, line 10 from top read, adenoids
149, line 9 from top read, haemoglobin
149, line 27 from top read, fluorine
150, line 6 from top read, a comma after 'itself'
152, line 5 from top read, tumors
152, line 20 from top read, grams
156, line 34 from top read, two of ammonium
156, line 45 from top read, ammoniacal
157, line 44 from top read, phosphate of ammonium
161, line 44 from top read, avidity
166, line 7 from top read, fluorine
182, line 9 from top read, organic lime
186, line 14 from top read, indispensible
187, line 1 from top read, dimensions
192, line 17 from top read, the patient
200, line 22 from top read, vain
201, line 16 from top read, sinews
223, line 1 from top read, oxygenous blood
244, line 22 from top read, leg
261, line 6 from top read, allow him to extend the area
276, line 27 from top read, Alcohol and alkaline
279, line 11 from top read, legumes
281, line 3 from top read, Amyloid degeneration
301, line 31 from top read, space at my disposal
315, line 20 from top read, the hypochondriacal
365, line 16 from top read, Form III comprises
409, line 34 from top read, social cataclysm.
414, line 37 from top read, consensus.
423, line 36 from top read, chlorine.
427, line 21 from top read, to numbness in the nerve.
429, line 35 from top read, more unmistakably.
430, line 31 from top read, nerve substance lecithin.
438, line 16 from top read, hypnotized complacency.
440, line 12 from top read, Hygienic-Dietetic.

[Transcriber's Note: The items on the list of Errata have been corrected in the text.]