Thanks to a Video Panchito uploaded by Antisthenez, I revisited a speech given by Dr. Russell Trall back in 1862. I read this speech over 20 years ago and it prompted me to create a file on Typhoid Fever, which our so-called experts believe are Caused by Germs. Natural Hygienist, however, know that these are Diseases of Poor Sanitation and that Fasting and Raw Food prevents and reverses these conditions without using Drugs which Cure the Fever by Killing the Patient.

Here is the link to the speech given by the Natural Hygienist Dr. Russell Trall back in 1862 followed by my File Preview from my file on Typhoid Fever for those who still believe that Diseases are Contagious.

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Trall - The True Healing Art - 1862
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• These are examples of dis-eases of poor sanitation due to bad plumbing: small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, typhoid and polio. These dis-eases of poverty still exist today in 3rd world countries with bad plumbing.
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Trall - The True Healing Art - 1862
• MY OBJECTIVE IN GOING TO WASHINGTON
• The soldiers of our camps and hospitals were dying off fast of typhoid fever, pneumonia, measles, dysentery, etc., and quite unnecessarily. I knew that the application of our system of hygienic medication would save most of their lives. I was well advised that there were surgeons of our school in the army who gave no drug medicines in these diseases, and who lost no patients. Also I was in correspondence with nurses who had attended our school, who were saving the lives of all the sick soldiers in their hands by putting aside the drugs and nursing them properly. The subject of the best or most successful treatment of the diseases of our officers and soldiers in the field being of national importance, it seemed to me that I could present the merits of our school versus the drug school, in high places, so as to be heard by the dignitaries of the land, and through them by the civilized world.
• A still greater number of practitioners have come to the same conclusion with regard to particular diseases, for example, scarlet fever, croup, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, rheumatism, measles, dysentery, small-pox, and all forms of typhoid fever; and in every instance when they have discontinued all medicine--everything in the shape of drug or apothecary stuff--and relied wholly on Hygiene, their success has been remarkably increased. To this testimony I believe there is no exception on all the earth in all the ages.
• I have publicly announced that the system of Hygienic Medication which I teach and practice, and which I claim to be the True System of the Healing Art, would, if applied to the treatment of typhoid fevers, pneumonia, measles and dysentery, so prevalent in our camps and hospitals, save to our country the lives of thousands of our officers and soldiers, and to our treasury millions of money.
• Dr. Ames, of Montgomery, Alabama, a few years since published, in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, his experience and observations in the treatment of pneumonia. He had been led to notice, for many years, that patients who were treated with the ordinary remedies--bleeding, mercury, and antimony--presented certain complications which always aggravated the malady, and rendered convalescence more lingering and recovery less complete. Such patients were always liable to collapses and re-lapses; to "run into typhoid; "to sink suddenly, and die very unexpectedly.
• The late Professor Wm. Tully, M.D., of Yale College, and of the Vermont Academy of Medicine at Castleton, Vt., informed his medical class, when I attended his lectures, that some years previous the typhoid pneumonia was so fatal in some places in the valley of the Connecticut River, that the people became suspicious that the physicians were doing more harm than good; and in their desperation they actually combined against the doctors and refused to employ them at all; "after which," said Professor TuIly, "no deaths occurred." And I might add, as an historical incident of some pertinency in this place, that regular physicians were once banished from Rome, so fatal did their practice seem, so far as the people could judge of it.
• So long ago as my earliest school-boy days--and that was not very long ago, for I do not confess to being an old man yet--the advent and career of our district schoolteacher made an impression on my mind which induced me to study medicine much more critically and suspiciously than I would otherwise have done. Western New York was then sparsely populated, and there was no doctor within a dozen or fifteen miles. But people were sick. Agues prevailed. Colds and coughs were as common as rain, sleet, and slosh. Pneumonia and influenza were every-day affairs. Whooping cough, mumps, and measles were as plenty as blackberries; and bilious, inflammatory, and even typhoid fevers, with now and then a case of rheumatism, were well known and duly appreciated. But nobody died. Many persons were very sick, but somehow or other all came out well and sound in the end. Catnip teas, hemlock sweats, warm water for the feet, and gruel for the stomach and bowels, seemed to be infallible in all cases. No doctors were to be had, and nurses were obliged to rely on domestic remedies and common-sense appliances alone. And children were born. It was dreadful to be without a doctor, but, strange to say, all the mothers persisted in getting along "as well as could be expected." But one death occurred in the town those years, and that was the case of an old man who froze to death on a bitter cold December night. The rum-fiend, however, had to do with this death.
• I have myself, during the sixteen years that I have practiced the Hygienic Medical System, treated all forms and hundreds of cases of typhus and typhoid fevers, pneumonia, measles, and dysentery and have not lost a patient of either one of these diseases. And the same is true of scarlet and other fevers. And several of the graduates of my school have treated these cases for years, and none of them, so far as I know or have heard, have ever lost a patient when they were called in the first instance, and no medicine whatever had been given.
• I fear there is too much truth in the statement of Professor B. F. Barker, M.D., of the New York Medical College: "The remedies which are administered for the cure of measles, scarlet fever, and other self-limited diseases, kill far more than those diseases do."
• Magendie also divided his typhoid-fever patients into two classes, to one of whom he prescribed the ordinary remedies, and to the other no medicines at all, relying wholly on such nursing and such attention to Hygiene as the vital instincts demanded and common sense suggested. Of the patients who were treated the usual way, he lost the usual proportion, about one-fourth. And of those who took no medicine, he lost none. And what opinion has Magendie left on record of the popular healing art? He said to his medical class, "Gentlemen, medicine is a great humbug."
• Strange as the announcement may sound in this hail, I must assert that Health is not taught in the popular schools of medicine, nor explained in their books, nor much regarded in the prescriptions of their physicians. But when the typhoid pestilence and the malignant pneumonia appear as the inevitable consequences of the permitted causes, the doctors can drug and dose secundem artem. They can administer quinine in huge doses; give any quantity of calomel, and subdue the vital struggle--and too often the patient--with bleeding and narcotics.
• I have visited the camp and hospitals of our armies in this vicinity, and I have learned--just what I knew before. One of the surgeons told me yesterday that his regiment was the healthiest one in the department. He gives no medicine and his associate almost none. They have had several cases of typhoid fever, many cases of pneumonia, and some hundreds of cases of dysentery to treat, and have lost none.
• I will not mention their names here, for prudent reasons. It might compromise their position. But when this war is ended--on or before the Fourth of July I hope--the names will be given to the world, and these facts will be certified. Suffice it to say now that they are of my school and my faith. Nurses (more than one) in the hospitals inform me that hundreds of sick soldiers implore them to throw away the medicine. They do not want to take a particle of any kind. Many of them fear the doctor's drugs more than they do the rebels' bullets, and well they may. I was assured that in scores of cases of typhoid fever and pneumonia the medicines all went in some other direction than down the esophagus. And did these patients die, think you? No. They all recovered!
• I saw many patients in all stages of these diseases, and of convalescence; all were doing well; none of them had any complications; no one feared relapses or collapses. In the largest hospital in this department are several nurses who give the medicines to the gutter, and they have not lost one patient of disease.
• Ah! When I have read of illness in the presidential mansion, I have trembled; not always for my country, but always for some individual. The more exalted in life is the position of the patient, the more doctors, the more medicines, and the more danger. The London Lancet, of Feb. 1862, in allusion to the death of Prince Albert, makes a very significant remark: "The disease was typhoid fever, not very severe in its early stages. But this is a disease which has inevitably proved far more fatal to sufferers of the upper classes of life than to patients of the poorer kind." Let me be poor, aye, very poor indeed, if I must go through the ordeal of drug medication.
• That the explanation I have given of the nature of disease and the modus operandi of medicines is the true one may be demonstrated in this way. We can take all of the medicines of the pharmacopoeia and produce all the diseases of the nosology. Thus certain combinations of brandy, cayenne pepper, and quinine will produce, in a healthy person, inflammatory fever; calomel, nitre, and opium yield typhus symptoms or typhoid fever; gamboge, scammony, and ipecac simulate cholera morbus; nitre, antimony, and digitalis, the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; cod-liver oil, salt, and sulfur, the scurvy, etc. Castor oil, Epson salts, and a hundred other articles called cathartics, will occasion diarrhea; and lobelia, Indian hemp, tobacco, and many other drugs, will induce vomiting. And what in the name of medical science and the healing art are the diarrhea and the vomiting except efforts of the living system to expel the poisons--purifying processes, diseases?
• Why do persons, for example, have inflammatory, bilious, typhus, typhoid, intermittent, remittent, or continued, etc., fevers? Why one instead of another? Why a fever instead of an inflammation? Why a cholera, or spasm, or dyspepsia, or consumption, instead of either? The answers to all of these questions depend on the solution of the primary problem, what is inflammation? And what is fever? And the answer to these questions must be traced back to the primary premise, what is disease?
• Certain forms of diseases--measles, smallpox, scarlet fever, etc., are said by certain modern authors to be "self-limited"; and medical journals are still discussing the questions, "Where is the seat of fever?" "Is typhoid fever a blood-disease or a nervous affection?
• Fever has no seat; fever is an action. Do not forget the primary question, What is disease? Fever is one form of disease; and as disease is a process of purification, fever must be one of the methods in which the system relieves itself of morbid matter.
• How much longer will medical men expend brain and labor, and waste pen, ink, and paper, in looking for a thing which is no thing at all, and in trying to find a seat for a disease which has no localized existence? As well might a general point his spy-glass to the moon to discover the whereabouts of the electrical force, as for our doctors to turn their mental microscopes to any given locality in the vital domains, to ascertain the local habitation of a fever.
• But there are many kinds of fever, and there are precisely as many different conditions under which the process of purification takes place. A person of vigorous constitution, and not greatly infected with morbid matter, will determine the remedial effect almost wholly to the surface, and this will constitute the inflammatory diathesis of fever, and the continued type. A person of more gross and impure conditions will have the putrid form of fever--the "typhus." Another less gross and feebler will have the nervous form of fever--the typhoid. And those who have been longer exposed to malaria or other causes, so that the liver or other depurating organs have become chronically congested or torpid, will have the intermittent or remittent form, etc. I have not time to follow out these illustrations, but I have indicated the principle which will explain every manifestation of morbid action, and the rationale of all forms of disease.
• Yet I learned that typhoid fevers, diphtheria, pneumonia, and consumption were prevalent. A few minutes after arriving there, I saw a solemn procession of twenty young girls, all dressed in snowy white, with bare heads and bare arms, marching behind the black hearse which contained the corpse of one of their late playmates, a beautiful girl, who had died the day before of diphtheria.
• Let me illustrate how this "curing one disease by producing another" works in practice.
• On the cars between Rock Island and Iowa City my attention was called to an invalid soldier, whose pale, thin face, short, husky cough, and unsteady walk told too plainly that consumption was far advanced. I had seen and heard so much of the "typhoid" in the camps and hospitals of our armies, and of the drug treatment which cured the fever by killing the patient, that I seemed to understand his case at a glance and I remarked to my travelling companions "That poor soldier is going home to die. He has probably had the typhoid fever, and been drugged into a fatal consumption."
• Soon I approached the sufferer, and inquired: "How long since you had the typhoid fever?"
"It was not the typhoid fever at first, but the measles."
"How long were you sick fo the measles?"
"About ten days."
"Did you take medicine for the measles?"
"Yes, lots of it."
"What happened after you recovered of the measles?"
"I had bleeding at the lungs--hemoptysis."
"Did you take drugs for the hemoptysis?"
"Yes, any quantity."
"How long were you doctored for this?"
"About one week."
"What happened next?"
"Then the typhoid set in."
"You took medicines for the typhoid?
"Ever so much, for nearly two weeks."
"Well, what next?"
"I got about, but have had a bad cough since."
"You are now consumptive, probably?"
"Oh, no, I hope not; but I guess I am pretty well on the road toward it."
"Was your constitution originally good?"
"Excellent. I was never sick before in my life."
• My suspicions were confirmed. The bleeding at the lungs, the typhoid, and the consumption, were most clearly the effects of the remedies that were administered for the measles.
• I was called last week to visit an officer of one of the New York regiments. His brief, sad story may be soon told. Two months ago he had jaundice. This was cured with drugs in one week. Then inflammation of the liver "set in." This was drug-cured in another week. Then the typhoid fever "attacked" him. This was drugopathically silenced in another week, and then the rheumatism "supervened." Now, his right arm is badly swollen, his left knee enlarged, and the cords spasmodically contracted, his finger-joints distorted, and the whole body crippled and neuralgic. Yesterday he left for my establishment in New York, where his system will soon be undrugged and his limbs straightened--not for the grave, but for service in the tented field.
• All of these complications, the inflammation of the liver, the typhoid, and the rheumatism, were drug diseases, and were caused by the remedies given to cure the rheumatism. This patient rapidly recovered under hygienic treatment.
• I saw a patient, a few weeks since, in Cleveland, Ohio, on my way to the West. Four years ago, the young man--he was a youth then, and of excellent constitution--had lung fever. His physician reduced his fever and his vitality with powerful doses of antimony, and kept blisters on the chest continually. In two weeks he appeared to be convalescent, but soon relapsed, when calomel was given in large doses. And lingering several weeks, the disease was said to have run into the typhoid, for which more calomel was prescribed. The fever next assumed the intermittent form, attended with profuse sweating, for which iron and quinine were liberally administered. He was drugged continually for six months, when it was discovered that the liver and spleen were badly congested and enlarged, and he was put on a course of mercury in a new shape--blue-pill mass. After this the disease assumed many complications, as well it might, for which a promiscuous medley of medicaments were prescribed for two years longer, among which was hellebore, irritating plasters, several kinds of pills, and a variety of homeopathic pellets and placebos.
• But what has done all this? Drug medicines, and nothing else. Every one of the secondary diseases and complications, for which he has been doctored nearly to death, is the effect of the medicines he has taken. I have seen and investigated thousands of such cases, and know whereof I affirm. The drugs which were administered to cure the primary disease, induced the secondary or drug diseases; and then drugs were given to cure the drug diseases, and this occasioned still other drug diseases, "typhoid," "relapses," and "complications." And all together have induced the indurated organs, curved spine, shattered nervous system, consumptive diathesis, and mined constitution. And even now his drug doctors, having brought him to the borders of the grave, and destroyed the best part of his vital stamina forever, can propose nothing better for this newly old young man than more drugs!
• Let me mention one more case. I have noted the particulars of many similar ones during a recent tour in the Western States. The students of the medical class of the New York Hygienic-Therapeutic College for 1856-7, will recall to mind one of their number, Walter Nevins, a noble youth, full of life, animation, happiness, hope, and promise of future usefulness. He died in December last; but why did he die? Walter was among the earliest, as was his only brother, to volunteer his services at the call of his country. His brother entered the Missouri army, while he received a commission in the army of Kentucky. There, as a result of severe exposure, he sickened of typhoid fever. He was a favorite with all, especially with his superior officers; and the surgeon of his regiment--of course a drug doctor--did all he could to save him, and that was precisely what destroyed him.
• Now I do not regard typhoid fevers, nor pneumonia, of which so many of our officers and soldiers are said to die, as dangerous diseases. They would seldom terminate fatally if the patients were not doctored at all. I have not lost a case in fifteen years, and have treated hundreds. The fatality is attributable to the medication.
• No wonder there are nowadays all sorts of "complications," and "collapses," and "relapses," and "sinking spells," and "running down," and "changing into typhoid," etc. No wonder that new diseases seem to hover around the patient and infest the very atmosphere, like a brood of malignant imps or voracious goblins, ready to "set in," or "supervene," or "attack," whenever the medication has brought the patient to the vulnerable point, or within range of their influence. Under Hygienic treatment these occurrences are wholly unknown.
• How strange, that no sooner had the doctor subdued the rheumatism, than the typhoid "set in" and carried off the patient! Queries--Where was the typhoid while the patient was being doctored for the rheumatism? How did it exist before Senator Douglas had it, or before it had him? Where did it come from? Where did it go? And what was it? I answer: it was the prostration of the patient caused by the treatment. Maltreat any form of febrile or inflammatory disease; reduce the patient sufficiently by bleeding, blistering, or drugging, and the typhoid will be sure to make its appearance.
• The story comes to us in the English newspapers, that Prince Albert was "kept up on stimulants" for five or six days. No one suspected any danger. Physicians did not regard the complaint as anything serious. But, all at once, the patient became prostrated. The typhoid set in. His system refused to "respond" to any further stimulation. Why did his system refuse to respond? Because his vitality had all been stimulated away. His system needed quiet, repose; but he was kept in a feverish commotion, in an inflammatory excitement, in a constant commotion with alcoholic poison--I mean, "respiratory food."
• Ah! This terrible "typhoid." how ready to "supervene," or "set in," whenever and wherever a drug-doctored fellow-mortal is reduced to the dying point!
• So inexplicable and mysterious was the death of Prince Albert, that suspicions were entertained of foul play for political considerations. My own opinion is that the treatment is sufficient to account for the death.
• The late King of Portugal died in a similarly sudden and mysterious manner, as did also his royal brother, and in their cases intentional poisoning was suspected.
• President Harrison was sick, as the medical report vaguely stated, of congestion of the liver and derangement of the stomach and bowels. The patient was physicked and leeched; the typhoid "set in," and handed him over to the grim grasp of death. After his death the medical journals disputed the propriety of the bleeding part of the treatment. Some contended that he was bled too much, and others insisted that he should have been bled more.
• I have publicly declared that the system of the Healing Art which I advocate, if applied to the treatment of typhoid fever, and other diseases prevalent in our army, would save thousands of lives and millions of money. Would you, would the "powers that be," know all the particulars? Do you or they desire information as to the details of the treatment? Would you know how to manage hygienic medication at the bedside of the sick? You have only to indicate the wish for such knowledge, and it will be forthcoming. Tonight I have only time to indicate principles, and present such data as I hope will induce some of you, at least, to investigate further.
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Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu
• Army records also reveal that after vaccination became compulsory in the US Army in 1911, not only did typhoid increase rapidly but all other vaccinal diseases increased at an alarming rate.
• After America entered the war in 1917, the death rate from typhoid vaccination rose to the highest point in the history of the US Army.
• The report of the Surgeon-General of the US Army shows that during 1917 there were admitted into the army hospitals 19,608 men suffering from anti-typhoid inoculation and vaccinia.
• The army doctors knew all these cases of disease and death were due to vaccination and were honest enough to admit it in their medical reports.
• When army doctors tried to suppress the symptoms of typhoid with a stronger vaccine, it caused a worse form of typhoid paratyphoid.
• But when they concocted an even stronger vaccine to suppress that one, they created an even worse disease Spanish flu.
• After the war, this was one of the vaccines used to protect a panic-stricken world from the soldiers returning from WWI battlefronts infected with dangerous diseases.
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1918 Flu Epidemic CAUSED BY VACCINES!
• All the doctors and people who were living at the time of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic say it was the most terrible disease the world has ever had. Strong men, hale and hearty, one day would be dead the next. The disease had the characteristics of the black death added to typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, smallpox, paralysis and all the diseases the people had been vaccinated with immediately following World War 1. Practically the entire population had been injected "seeded" with a dozen or more diseases — or toxic serumss. When all those doctor-made diseases started breaking out all at once it was tragic.
• That pandemic dragged on for two years, kept alive with the addition of more poison drugs administered by the doctors who tried to suppress the symptoms. As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. We knew from the health teachings of Graham, Trail, Tilden and others, that people cannot contaminate the body with poisons without causing disease.
• While the medical men and medical hospitals were losing 33% of their flu cases, the non-medical hospitals such as BATTLE CREEK, KELLOGG and MACFADDEN'S HEALTH-RESTORIUM were getting almost 100% healings with their water cure, baths, enemas, etc., fasting and certain other simple healing methods, followed by carefully worked out diets of natural foods. One health doctor didn't lose a patient in eight years. The very successful health treatment of one of those drugless doctors who didn't lose any patients will be given in the other part of this book, titled VACCINATION CONDEMNED, to be published a little later.
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“The Science and Fine Art of Food and Nutrition - The
Hygienic System: Volume II” by Herbert M. Shelton
• In their efforts to discourage the eating of uncooked fruits and vegetables the regular profession pictured these as reeking with typhoid germs and the germs of other diseases. Cooking was necessary in order to destroy these germs. Lettuce, now shipped all over the country and eaten raw by everybody, was especially covered with hidden dangers in the form of disease germs. Not until the discovery of vitamins did the medical profession lose its fear of germs on vegetables and fruits sufficiently to enable it to sanction the use of uncooked foods. Even so, they never mention Graham, except to ridicule him.
• Milk is held to be the "carrier" of a number of serious diseases such as tuberculosis, colds, septic sore throat, rheumatic fever, heart disease, undulant fever, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, measles, dysentery, and other infections which are said to be frequently "traceable to contaminated milk." Epidemics of ulcers of the stomach and intestinal tracts of children have also been said to have been traced to drinking milk from cows with inflamed udders. Hygienists consider all this to be sheer nonsense that will be outgrown in time. Robert Koch first "discovered" that tuberculosis may be transmitted from cow to man by drinking milk from tubercular cows. The so-called scientific world accepted his alleged discovery. Koch continued his investigations of the matter and came to the conclusion that he had been wrong. He repudiated his "discovery" and said that tuberculosis is not transmitted in this manner. The so-called "scientific" world refused to accept his repudiation. They had found the "discovery" profitable and useful--they refused to give it up.
• Chlorinated water is water that has had chlorine, an "inorganic" acid-forming mineral, added to it, to destroy "typhoid germs." Chlorine is a poison and if enough of it is put into the water to destroy germ life, it will also destroy animal and human life. Chlorinated water is more to be feared than the "typhoid germs."
• All poisons are cumulative in their effects, if they are habitually used. If there is not enough chlorine placed in city water to kill outright, it will produce its effects in time. Sprinkling the lawn with chlorinated water kills the grass and flowers and impairs the soil.
• In Toronto, Canada, where chlorinated water has been used for a period of years, there has been no reduction of typhoid. During the five-year period from 1921 to 1925 there were more deaths from typhoid in Toronto than in the combined cities of Kingston, Cobourg, Cornwall, Brookville, Belleville and Hamilton. These later cities all used the same water and it was not chlorinated.
• Under the tutelage of the Hygienists the people learned to eat raw foods in spite of the dire warnings of the profession. Soon raw lettuce and celery were served in the hotels and restaurants and in the dining cars on the trains. In the homes of the country raw foods were growing more popular. Everywhere more and more of such foods were raised and marketed. Today thousands of train loads a year of lettuce are shipped all over the country. The same is true of celery and other foods. Raw foods are eaten today, of all places, in the homes of the physicians, themselves. What's more, instead of the people dying from typhoid and other "germ disease" as a consequence of eating these "indigestible," "foodless" and germ-laden foods, they actually recovered from diseases that the medical profession had pronounced incurable. Something had to be done. They sent their researchers to the laboratories to find out why the "quacks" were successful where they failed miserably. These gentlemen soon came up with the discovery that these raw fruits and vegetables are richly supplied with vitamins and that these vitamins are responsible for the recoveries. Wonder of wonders! These vitamins enabled physicians to so far forget their bacteriophobia that they actually ventured to eat a leaf of raw lettuce! Some of them actually ate apples that had not been baked.
• Dr. Chas. Sanford Porter, who is considered an authority on milk, declares that pasteurization destroys the lactic-acid forming bacteria and that "these bacteria are not dangerous to health, and the methods of restraining or destroying them are without effect on the bacteria of consumption, typhoid, or other fevers that might contaminate milk in certain places."
• Dr. Kellogg declares that: "Present methods of controlling the milk supply are by no means entirely satisfactory. This is especially true as regards the bacteriological examination of the milk. At the present time this examination usually extends no further than the determination of the total number of bacteria present except when a special research is undertaken, the number of bacteria present is no criteria whatever of the character of the milk as regards its safety to life and health. In general the greater number of bacteria present are ordinary sour germs which are entirely harmless."
• Dr. Kellogg's words mean that it is not customary to make a differential count. Most of the germs present are lactic acid bacilli and not so-called typhoid germs nor so-called tubercular germs, etc. Pasteurization kills the wrong germs.
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THE HYGIENIC CARE OF CHILDREN by Herbert Shelton
• "I am informed that epidemic and endemic infections cause only 12 per cent of all deaths and that this percentage is declining very rapidly. Only 15 per cent of all children would ever get diphtheria, even under epidemic conditions, while 100 per cent are prospects for toxin-antitoxin. The percentage who would ever get smallpox, under present time conditions, is even less; but 100 per cent are prospects for vaccination. Scarlet fever will soon come in for its 100 per cent also, as it may for measles, judging from the reports on that disease. Typhoid fever is disappearing, due to sanitation, but vaccination should be used when the individual travels into unknown territory and countries,"
• Thus another medical leader tells doctors how to increase their incomes by exploiting the children and non-sick adults.
• "Dr. Peters pointed out that when Cincinnati purified its water there was an almost entire elimination of thousands of cases of typhoid fever and other water-carried diseases, treatment of which gave an immense revenue to physicians, nurses and others.
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Plagues & Epidemics
• By the time of the Boer War in 1899-1901, anti-typhoid inoculation was available. By then, typhoid fever was recognized as a waterborne disease, and that the germ could be killed by filtering and boiling water. Far from home in South Africa, the undisciplined British troops succumbed to the hot climate and drank straight from the rivers. Of 400,000 troops, 43,000 contracted typhoid.
• Closer to home, typhoid raged on in colonial New York and Massachusetts. It reappeared for the last time in epidemic form in America in the early 1900s, compliments of the celebrated Typhoid Mary.
• Mary Maflon was a cook for the moneyed set of New York State; her specialty was homemade ice cream. Officially, she infected 53 people - with three deaths - before she was tracked down. Unofficially, she is blamed for some 1,400 cases that occurred in 1903 in Ithaca, where she worked for several families. Never sick herself, it took a lot of persuasion by authorities to convince her that she was a carrier of the disease. Health authorities quarantined her once, let her go, then quarantined her for the rest of her life when another outbreak occurred.
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John Tilden MD (1851-1940) quotes
• "You cannot have a very severe round of typhoid fever unless you have a "first-class" physician to give it strength to down you...... I have not lost a case in 15 years (including typhoid and pneumonia), and I have treated hundreds. Fatality is attributable to the medication." -Tilden
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Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygienic and Dietetic Treatment
By John H. Tilden, M.D.
• The diseases that appendicitis may be confounded with and must be differentiated from are obstruction, renal colic, hepatic colic, gastritis, enteritis, salpingitis, peritonitis due to gastric or intestinal ulcer, enterolith, obstipation, invagination or intussusception, hernia, external or internal, volvulus, stricture and typhoid fever.
• It is no uncommon thing to find people of seeming intelligence who appear surprised when told that they have brought upon themselves such a vulnerable state of health from wrong eating and care of their bodies that they are in line for appendicitis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, bowel obstruction, or blood poisoning. In such types blood poisoning would surely follow a complicated fracture of a bone--a fracture where the ends of the bone cut through the flesh causing an open wound.
• People who think they must have "three square meals a day" must have catarrh, rheumatism, tonsilitis, quinsy, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and all sorts of bowel trouble including appendicitis. Why! Because three meals a day consisting of bread, potatoes, eggs, meat, fish, butter, milk, cheese, beans, etc., overwork the metabolic function and as a consequence organic functioning is impaired, cell proliferation falls below the ideal, bodily resistance falls lower and lower, the intestinal secretions lose their immunizing power more and more, until at last the body becomes the victim of every adverse influence. At first fermentation--indigestion—shows occasionally; the intervals between these attacks of acid stomach, or fermentation, grow shorter and shorter until they are of daily occurrence; accompanying this fermentation there is gas distention of the bowels, and this inflation in time interferes with their motility and weakens them so that sluggishness is succeeded by obstinate constipation.
• Distention, with the straining of the walls from peristaltic onrushes as described above, and the infection that this part of the alimentary canal is subjected to because of the decomposition of food that is going on to a greater or less extent in all victims of constipation, are the causes of inflammation in the cecum. If the inflammation involves the appendix or the cecal location of the appendix, it may be called appendicitis, but the appendix is involved the same as any other contiguous part. Any mind capable of reasoning should have no trouble in rightly assigning the responsibility of this disease, if sufficient attention be given to anatomism.
• There is not any very good reason for one capable of analyzing, to jump at the conclusion that the appendix is the cause of the disease because it is frequently found in the field of inflammation. The same reasoning would make Peyer's glands the cause of typhoid fever.
• According to the theory of bacteriology a micro-organism is to blame for appendicitis. If this were true it would relieve humanity of all responsibility. There is a disposition on the part of man to shirk responsibility and the germ theory is not the first theory of vicarious atonement that he has spun. Those who wish to shirk all kinds of responsibility by adopting the germ theory and by making micro-organisms the scape-goat may do so, but I would advise all sensible people to keep in mind the following truth: _Violated hygienic laws predispose to disease; _then, when resistance is broken down, the immediate and exciting cause may be anything capable of laying on the "last straw."
• The micro-organisms are present wherever there is life and are as necessary to life as they are to death.
• Ochsner states that in nearly all instances the disease can be traced to the common colon bacillus, which is always present when the intestine is normal. The three pus cocci are sometimes blamed, and so are the bacilli of typhoid fever, tuberculosis and the ray fungus (so-called cause of lumpjaw).
• Show me a physician, or if you can not show me one, give me the name of a physician who does not feed children in cholera infantum. I want to know a few physicians who do not feed in typhoid fever. I should like to make the acquaintance of a few physicians who do not feed in appendicitis until the disease is made desperate, and who do not begin to feed long before it is safe to feed.
• In all diseases where there is fever, in all diseases where there is pain, _nutrition is suspended--_metabolism is stationary. I wish some one would be kind enough to inform me of an M. D. who does not feed patients suffering with pain and fever.
• The inflammation or ulceration may remain superficial, and be located in the lower portion of the small intestine, then the disease is enteritis. If the bowels are cleared out and the patient's blood freed from intoxication, the attack ends; if not the disease will be called enteritis or catarrh. If the infection is a little greater and extends a little deeper causes inflammation of Peyer's glands then the type of the disease will be typhoid fever.
• These symptoms are of collapse and they may come on in the course of a typhoid fever, or other diseases of the alimentary canal; they always mean a fatal toxemia either from obstruction or perforation, and occasionally the only forerunning symptom is sudden abdominal pain. Circumstances must guide in making a diagnosis. If, during a run of typhoid fever, there should be sudden abdominal pain followed with symptoms of collapse and nothing to account for it, it means perforation; an immediate operation may save the patient; nothing else will.
• I have seen quite a number of this type who had been brought into this unnecessary state by bungling doctors who were treating them for typhoid fever and its complications.
• In diseases such as typhoid fever, appendicitis and typhlitis, we have first of all a constitutional derangement brought on by errors of life. The general resistance is lowered from nerve-exhausting habits; the general tone of digestion is below par and the bowel contents are maintaining a higher toxic state than usual; we have added to this condition an unusual tax in a long run of hot weather, business worries or unusual mental, physical or digestive strain, following which acute intestinal indigestion manifests with a sudden explosion; or there takes place a transformation of the contents of the bowels into an intense putrefaction which infects a portion of the mucosa that has been rendered susceptible by pressure from fecal impaction, concretions, or any cause capable of devitalizing. If the infection takes place in Peyer's patches, typhoid fever is the consequence; if the local trouble is of the cecum, typhlitis will result, and if the local devitalization is in the appendix, brought on from the irritating effects of a fecal calculus, appendicitis will result.
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Peace and Love..........John

Part 2...

Impaired Health
ITS CAUSE AND CURE
BY J. H. TILDEN, M. D.
CHAPTER I
Diseased Brought on From Toxin Poisoning
• CHAPTER I
Diseases Brought On From Toxin Poisoning
1--Typhoid Fever
2--Relapsing Fever
3--Small Pox
4--Chicken Pox
5--Scarlet Fever
6--Measles
7--Mumps
8--Whooping Cough
9--Influenza
10--Pneumonia
11--Diphtheria
12--Erysipelas
13--Rheumatic Fever
14--Cholera Morbus
15--Syphillis
16--Gonorrhea
17--Tuberculosis
18--Rocky Mt. Fever
• I. TYPHOID FEVER
• Definition.--According to modern medical science, the cause of typhoid fever is a germ known by the name of bacillus typhosus. The disease is characterized anatomically by hyperplasia and ulceration of the intestinal lymph follicles, swelling of the mesenteric glands and spleen, and parenchymatous changes in other organs. There are cases in which the local changes are slight or absent; in some others there is ulceration. In severe cases there is a secondary disease set up in the lungs, spleen, kidneys, or cerebro-spinal centers. The disease is marked by fever, and on about the seventh or eighth day red spots appear on the abdomen. Sometimes there is diarrhea, and then again constipation; always abdominal tenderness where the disease is fully developed. Tympanitis is very distressing, and in some cases there is overstimulation of the heart from pressure. Osler declares that these symptoms are extremely inconstant, and even the fever varies in its character.
• The above is as good a definition as can be given of the opinions of the leading authorities. For the benefit of my readers, I shall give my opinion of this disease, and as the treatment proves my opinion right, that should be proof enough.
• Etiology.--Typhoid fever is the result of imprudent eating, bringing on decomposition in the stomach and bowels. Any case of typhoid fever treated properly will not last beyond eight to fourteen days. After the third day there will be no special pain or discomfort, and the patient will rest all night, so that, when asked how he is at the morning call, he will say he is "feeling fine" and rested well. In cases where complications appear, they are produced by improper treatment, and no doubt, on account of the decomposition in the bowels taking place in cases that are treated improperly, there will be developed germs galore; but they are an after-consideration and have nothing at all to do with the beginning of the disease.
• Typhoid fever prevails in temperate climates and constitutes the most common form of continued fever. Indeed, all continued fevers, if badly treated and nursed, will develop typhoid complications to such an extent that they cannot be distinguished from the regular type.
• The disease is pretty generally distributed throughout the World, and of course presents the same characteristics. Why not? The treatment is very much the same in every country, the initiative symptoms are very much the same, and the cause must be the same. In an experience running over many years I can say that I have not seen a case of septic development except in cases that have been badly managed, and there are certainly no germs of typhoid fever until after sepsis has developed.
• According to Osler, the United States has a disgraceful amount of typhoid fever. From 1900 to 1904 the death-rate from this cause was 33.8 per one hundred thousand. It is estimated that from thirty-five to forty thousand persons die of it every year. It is more prevalent in country districts than in the cities. Why? Because cities are better drained; sanitary conditions generally are very much better in cities and towns than in the country.
• In the Spanish-American War one-fifth of the soldiers in the National Encampment had typhoid fever. The disgrace was on the army physicians, who did not do their duty in looking after the sanitary conditions of the army. Today the armies are being taken care of in an enlightened manner, so far as sanitation is concerned. The credit for doing away with so-called typhoid fever is given to typhoid inoculation; but it would be very easy to knock the inoculation belief into discredit, if the sanitary condition of the armies would be allowed to retrograde to the state that existed during the Spanish-American War.
• Sex.--Males and females are equally liable to have the disease.
• Age.--Typhoid fever is a disease of youth and early adult life. Why? This is the age when indulgences are greatest. This is the age when overeating is more common than at any other age, and, as the disease starts from gastro-intestinal derangement, it is perfectly natural that young people should have it.
• Immunity.--Not all who are exposed take the disease. In other words, not all who are imprudent in bringing on gastro-intestinal derangement will take down with the fever. Quite a good many who are imprudent will have a short sick spell, lasting for a few days, with vomiting, sometimes diarrhea, which clears out the stomach and bowels; and the disease goes no farther. Of course, such cases as this will be recognized as gastric fever. But a badly treated case of what is known as gastric fever to start with is often developed into a typical typhoid fever. Those interested in the germ theory are referred to the encyclopedia or some leading text-book on theory and practice. As regards the distribution of germs, those outside of the body, those found in milk, the mode of conveyance, infection in water, typhoid-carriers, infection in food, oysters, flies, etc., the history of these things may be gotten from any first-class text-book; but it does not appeal to me to incumber this work with a lot of history with which I am not in sympathy. I do not teach it, because I do not believe in it. I believe in cleanliness, but not in the germ delusion.
• Morbid Anatomy.--In so-called typical cases there is a catarrhal condition existing throughout the small and large bowels. Specific changes, such as ulceration, are found chiefly in the region of the ilium. This is why this disease is often confounded with appendicitis. Peyer's glands in the jejunum have always been credited with taking on ulceration in typhoid fever, and it is considered diagnostic. These glands, however, will never be involved in any case that is not fed and medicated.
• Necrosis and Sloughing.--When the hyperplasia has taken on ulceration, necrosis or death of the tissues often takes place from a shutting-off of the circulation. This favors sloughing, and even fatal hemorrhage takes place. But, as stated before, no case will ever develop these symptoms unless it is fed and medicated.
• Symptoms.--There is a period, described by the leading authorities on the subject as lasting from eight to fourteen days, known as the stage of incubation. This means that the disease which is to follow the first two weeks is being hatched. In the first fourteen days, if the case has been properly treated, the patient will probably take his first walk in the open air and sunshine at the end of this so-called incubation stage. This opinion, being based on years of private practice, would naturally put me completely out of sympathy, and wholly unfit me for devoting twenty to thirty pages to describing conditions that never can occur except when the disease has been subjected to malpractice.
• There surely could be nothing so unreasonable or absurd as for me to give the amount of space occupied by such a work as Osler's in giving the details of a type of disease that cannot have an existence unless a physician is educated into a plan of treatment that brings out these symptoms.
• All the symptoms anyone will ever see, in treating a case of typhoid fever according to my plan, will be a feeling of discomfort, perhaps dizziness, slight headache, and a feeling of heaviness and dullness, with the patient rather inclined to be stupid. The first day or two, when these symptoms present, there will be no temperature. If there is, it will seldom be above 99-1/2° to 100° F. The tongue will look a little red around the edges. If the case is to be of a nervous type, the tongue will be long and pointed. Most cases will have the usual appetite, and feel rather impatient when told that they should not eat anything. If the food is withdrawn at once, the slight discomfort may continue for seven days--usually only three days. If the patient is sick enough to go to bed, there will usually be backache, aching in the loins, and the legs probably will ache. Some cases of a nervous type will have considerable headache, and the first night or two will be spent in tossing about. The sleep will be very fitful. At the end of the first week the temperature may come up to 101° F.; and from that time on there will be decline. In all cases there will be a sluggish state of the bowels. Just a few will start with a little vomiting and diarrhea. If the case is treated properly, the symptoms enumerated will be all that will ever develop. About the seventh or eighth day there will be rose-colored spots on the abdomen, characteristic of the disease.
• If no trouble can be found with the bowels, there should be an examination of the bladder to see if, from some cause, there be a retention of urine. All these suppositions are far-fetched, because, if the disease is to be typhoid, and the case has been started right in its incipiency, and treated correctly, it is almost, if not quite, impossible to have a complication of any kind spring up. Where there is an unusual symptom, the disease is not typhoid. Complications never occur except where there is septicemia; and septicemia cannot develop unless there is decomposition taking place in the alimentary canal; and decomposition and sepsis cannot develop in the canal unless the patient is fed.
• Treatment.--Osler says: "The profession was long in learning that typhoid is not a disease to be treated mainly with drugs. Careful nursing and a regulated diet are the essentials in the majority of cases." I presume that is in a nutshell what all the leading teachers of the world will say regarding typhoid fever. Then, after making that statement, they will go ahead and tell about how to get the room ready; what kind of a bed the patient should lie on--just the kind of mattress and springs, how the bed should be made up, and the necessity of placing rubbercloth under the sheet, etc.; and then about the necessity of selecting a first-class nurse. Why all this preparation? Because feeding and nursing, along with what little medicine it is considered proper to give, prolong this disease twice to three times the duration it will have on the drugless and foodless treatment; and, when this is true, it is necessary to make extra preparation for the comfort of the patient.
• The very best clinicians, including Dr. Osler, recommend milk, eggs, buttermilk, boiled milk, koumiss, peptonized milk, meat-juices, strained vegetable soup, barley water, iced tea, ice cream, etc.
• The food taken into the stomach at such a time decomposes, the rotting processes that take place in the bowels cause septic poisoning, and every complication that is named in the best works on the practice of medicine is produced by this septic condition. If patients are allowed no food at all, no sepsis will occur; hence there can be no complications; in fact, the prospective typhoid fever is jugulated and in reality never develops. All diseases threatening to take on a typhoid condition, even typhoid fever itself, will thus be expunged from the nomenclature; for they will never have an existence, if treated properly.
• This no doubt sounds exceedingly radical even to liberal-minded physicians.
• A person who is just developing the fever, and who has no well-defined symptoms (indeed, the patient can hardly describe his feelings--he simply knows that he is not feeling well), should be told that he is threatened with typhoid fever, but that, if he will follow instructions, it need not develop. He should go to bed, and stop eating. There is no objection to drinking all the water desired. Every night he should have an enema of two quarts of water and a tablespoonful of salt. If in two or three days there is a feeling of discomfort in the abdomen, a towel wet in cold water should be placed on the abdomen, and a dry towel pinned around the body in such a manner as to keep the wet towel in place. The wetting may be renewed about three times in twenty-four hours. The feet should be looked after; if there is a tendency for them to be cold, or cool, something warm should be put in the foot of the bed--a hot jug or a hot-water bottle. The feet must not be neglected. If they are, it will cause the patient to be sick much longer than necessary.
• It is generally conceded that the poison in scarlet fever is given off from the skin by the shedding of the skin after the rash is gone. This desquamation is supposed to be carried by the air and distributed in communities, thereby causing the disease to spread. I do not agree with this idea at all; for I have known of children desquamating (shedding dead skin) while in school, going among children day after day, until the skin had thrown off all the dead cuticle; yet not a case of the disease developed in the entire school. During a so-called epidemic I found, when in active general practice, that there were about twenty cases of scarlatinal angina to one case of scarlet fever. Those presenting a sore throat probably were not in the physical condition required for a full development of the disease. All cases have indigestion preceding the attack. After holidays, feasts, and social affairs, which break down resistance, those who have been brought to a stage of enervation by improper indulgence are the ones who develop these diseases. Children in full vigor, with perfect digestion and regular bowels, can pass through all the epidemics peculiar to children without taking any of them. Authors declare that no germ has been found, but that the streptococcus pyogenes has often been found in the blood during life and after death, These germs are to be found in the blood of all cases that die of septic poisoning. Children who die of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, or typhoid fever, die of septic poisoning; and the streptococcus would be found in all such cases, if an investigation were made after death. If these diseases had been treated properly there would not have been these complications.
• When desquamation, or shedding of the skin, begins, it will be well to give the child a thorough oil rubbing every night, and then a warm bath in the morning. It will not be necessary to use soap. After the bath, a reasonable amount of light rubbing by the open hand is advisable. When children are nervous, the nurse should be instructed to give a gentle spinal rubbing, the same as described under the treatment of typhoid fever. If the hot bath is given as directed, food is avoided, and the bowels are kept cleared out by enemas, there will be very little danger of renal complications, or any other complications.
• VII. MUMPS (Parotitis)
• On rare occasions the disease is accompanied by a very high grade of fever and great prostration. Even typhoid symptoms may develop. I have never met with such cases in my practice, and I do not believe it is necessary for these complications to arise, for I think they are due to sensuality and imprudent feeding.
• Symptoms.--The incubation period of influenza is from one to four days--generally from three to four days. It usually begins with fever, and sometimes chill. In pronounced cases the mucous membrane is involved from the nose through the entire bronchial tubes; the lungs often become engorged. Pneumonia may develop soon after the attack. It is, however, brought on from improper treatment and nursing. Where the bronchial tubes and lungs are involved, delirium is often present, along with much prostration. According to some of the leading authorities, the disease may develop in a manner similar to that of typhoid fever. Pleurisy is also a disease that is liable to spring up during the life of influenza. There are nervous forms of this disease, characterized by headache, much pain in the joints, also marked prostration. There are quite a good many forms of influenza. One of these is the intestinal--a type that is marked by much fever, and the complications of which are given as pericarditis, endocarditis, septicemia, peritonitis, etc., all of which is brought on from imprudent eating on the part of the patient as advised by the physician.
• X. PNEUMONIA
• The expression of the eyes is that of anxiety, caused by precordial oppression. The expectoration is often tinged with blood during the first twenty-four hours. Then again it will be white and frothy, and the blood tinging does not appear for forty-eight to, sometimes, seventy-two hours. This would indicate that the seat of the trouble is low down in the lungs. Where it is located high, the expectoration becomes diagnostic earlier in the disease. The temperature varies from 102° to 106° F--usually from 101° to 102° in the morning and 104° in the evening. In severe types of the disease it will reach 106°, and even 107°. The distress from coughing and oppression in breathing is persistent until about the seventh day. This is called the crisis in the case. Then the temperature drops down, and the breathing becomes easier. From this point on the convalescence should run along rapidly. In those whose general condition is bad, and whose nursing and treatment have not been exactly what they should be, there may develop a typhoid condition at this stage. Where this is true, the temperature goes up rather than down, and all symptoms increase, typhoid symptoms develop, and death is liable to occur. This disease is very severe on old people; and it is pretty generally understood that drunkards, or those who have the drinking habit, never get over an attack.
• All pneumonia patients possessing a fair constitution should be convalescing nicely in from seven to eight days. When the temperature and pulse are normal, the feeding may be the same as described under typhoid fever.
• The treatment suggested above presupposes that it is begun at the time the patient is taken ill. If, however, a case is taken charge of after it has been badly managed for a week or ten days, and typhoid symptoms are presenting and the patient is delirious, with engorgement of the lungs and precordial oppression pronounced, the treatment should not vary materially from that which has been suggested above. There should be heat to the feet, and a mustard plaster to the chest. After relief comes the mustard plaster may be removed and antiphlogistine substituted, being renewed about twice in twenty-four hours.
• XIII. RHEUMATIC FEVER
• After the disease is thoroughly under control, the patient may be fed as outlined for typhoid fever.
• XVI. GONORRHEA
• Definition.--This is a septic infection of the mucous membrane of the urethra. I have some views that are not strictly orthodox in regard to this disease as well as to syphilis; and all I have to offer as proof that my particular views are well founded is that my plan of treatment works, and works better than any other plan of treatment of which I know. If my ideas are wrong in regard to the cause of syphilis and gonorrhea, or any other disease, I want someone to prove to me that I am wrong, by producing a treatment that is as good as mine, or better.
• Etiology.--It is generally understood that this disease is caused by a germ, gonococcus. As I have stated all specific infections are at the base septic or toxic. Septic inflammation of the urethra is accompanied by the gonococcus. A septic inflammation of Peyer's glands in the bowels develops a typhoid fever, and the character of the septic material is that it is accompanied by the typhoid bacillus. A septic inflammation in the lungs is accompanied by the tuberculous bacillus; etc. etc. The stock-in-trade toxin that accompanies all suppurative inflammations is septic. The location of the disease in the body determines the character of the germ that is found in the necrosed or broken-down tissues and in the excretion and it will never be found in the early stages of any disease.
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Impaired Health
ITS CAUSE AND CURE
BY J. H. TILDEN, M. D.
CHAPTER IV
Diseases Of The Digestive System
• G. DISEASES OF THE INTESTINE
• I. DIARRHEA (Catarrhal Enteritis)
• Such diseases as dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, pyemia, septicemia, tuberculosis, etc., are often accompanied or followed by a state of catarrh of the intestine--colitis. This is according to the leading authorities. I should like, however, to put in a few words of explanation. When those diseases leave in their wake a catarrhal diarrhea, it is more often due to the treatment than to the natural evolution of the disease. In the first place, dysentery cannot end in anything but health, unless it is maltreated. This is true of all the other diseases named above; hence all the causes that are listed as inclined to produce catarrhal diarrhea will fall short of any such effect if they are treated in the most simple, but the most effective manner-namely, by removing their causes.
• H. DISEASES OF THE LIVER
• I. JAUNDICE
• In low forms of fever there is a toxemic jaundice which augurs badly. Indeed, it is a symptom that might be avoided by preventing the disease from taking on a septic state. Such fevers as typhoid, if not medicated and fed, will fail to develop septicemia; hence the complications, such as jaundice, will never develop. This is not only true of typhoid, but it is true of every disease. These symptoms are secondary, and are possible only in malpractice. The word "malpractice," as used in this sense, includes the malpractice supposed to be scientific medicine.
• J. DISEASES OF THE PERITONEUM
• I. PERITONITIS
• In low forms of typhoid fever, where the perforation has occurred after the system has become thoroughly toxemic and the brain dulled by the toxins, the symptoms may develop so insidiously that a fatal state will be evolved before the dangerous condition of the patient will be suspected. However, the watchful physician will observe a swelling of the abdomen, which is a distention of the peritoneal cavity. In other words, tympanitis must be distinguished from gas in the bowels. Both of these distend the abdomen, but there is a vast difference in the two cases. Where tympanitis exists, it means infection of the peritoneum, and, if it is the result of perforation, death will result very soon--within a few hours. In septicemia, following childbirth or abortion, intense pain in the abdomen, quick pulse, flushed face, preceded by a rigor, mean a fatal case, unless it is quickly comprehended and the right treatment used immediately.
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Impaired Health
ITS CAUSE AND CURE
BY J. H. TILDEN, M. D.
CHAPTER V
Diseases Of The Respiratory Apparatus
• A. DISEASES OF THE NOSE
• B. DISEASES OF THE LARYNX
• III. EDEMATOUS LARYNGITIS
• Symptoms.--There is difficult breathing, gradually increasing in intensity. It strikes terror to the patient, and fear increases the trouble. It may be brought on by various influences--scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever. In all these cases there is a kidney derangement, and perhaps albumin in the urine.
• C. DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI
• ACUTE AND CHRONIC BRONCHITIS
• Etiology.--Acute bronchitis is, in common, everyday language, catarrh--the same as catarrh of the nose and throat, or catarrh of the intestine, such as colitis, etc. Every cold that is caught means an exacerbation of the chronic bronchial disease. Many cases are quite free from bronchorrhea, or the symptoms of cough and expectoration, during the summer, but in the winter frequent colds keep the subject of bronchitis constantly coughing and expectorating. An acute attack, without any previous history of the disease, may be simply an extension of an acute catarrh or cold from the posterior nares through the pharynx to the trachea, and then to the bronchial tubes. Bronchitis is associated with deranged digestion, intestinal toxemia, measles, typhoid fever, and malaria. Subjects of curvature of the spine are liable to have a bronchial cough. Kidney disease and heart disease are frequently accompanied by a chronic form of cough. The disease may appear in children at the breast, and extend all through the different ages to old age. There are people who seem to be predisposed to take on bronchial cough, but these are what I would call cases of chronic bronchitis. The only reason why they have no cough and expectoration all the time is because they are not living in such a way as to encourage this catarrhal state all the time. Some people are out-of-doors so much of the time in summer, and eat so much of fruit and vegetables, and abstain to such an extent from heavy diet, that they get almost normal. There is no disease to which flesh is heir that is so susceptible to the influences of wrong living as chronic bronchitis.
• E. DISEASES OF THE PLEURA
• I. ACUTE PLEURISY
• II. PURULENT PLEURISY
• Authors declare that empyema (pus in the pleural cavity) follows infectious diseases, particularly scarlet fever. Putrefaction of food in the intestine, with absorption of the consequent toxins, is one source of the necessary infection. It is my opinion that people must be predisposed to develop this disease, and then all that is necessary is to live in such a way as to get thoroughly toxemic from the absorption of toxins from intestinal putrefaction. As I see from the experience which I have had, all so-called septic and infectious diseases are made possible by a decided septic infection of the blood through absorption of putrefaction in the bowels. In the first place, it is quite logical to declare that no one will have a pneumonia, or a pleurisy, or a tonsillitis, not even a cold, la grippe or influenza--in fact, infection of any kind--without first having lived in such a way as to bring down the body's resistance, which weakens digestion and favors putrefaction of protein food in the intestine, then the absorption of the toxin which is a natural sequence. If the pleura becomes affected through an ulceration of the lung, the lung infection was brought about by the constitutional derangement above described. There will be no lung infection, and pneumonia will not develop, in a normal individual. Pneumonia, pleurisy, typhoid fever--in fact, any disease--is truly an affection, the real cause of which is to be found, primarily, in enervation and, secondarily, down in the alimentary canal, then in the blood by way of toxins. After the constitution is weakened and the blood stream is polluted, the patient loses his power to resist environmental influences. Then it is that sudden changes in the weather, or the ordinarily recognized conditions of causing a cold, bring him to an attack of one of these diseases.
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Impaired Health
ITS CAUSE AND CURE
BY J. H. TILDEN, M. D.
CHAPTER VII
Diseases Of The Blood And Ductless Glands
• I. ANEMIA
• Hyperpyrexia kills the life of the blood and produces anemia.
• Treatment.--In almost fatal hemorrhage from injuries it is considered good treatment to transfuse blood. My objection to this is that the blood transfused is not adapted to this particular case. Besides, it further shocks the patient to have blood thrown into the veins as suddenly as it has been lost, and the two shocks are more than the patient can stand. I remember having a patient who almost had a fatal hemorrhage from the bowels--a boy eleven years old, with typhoid. The first day he took his bed he bled to syncope. I was sent for. His pulse, as nearly as I could make out, ran about 180, He was apparently about as near death as it is possible to be. I had the pillows taken out from under his head, the foot of the bed raised, and insisted that no one should speak to him or make any noise. Occasionally the nurse was to put a teaspoonful of water to his lips--not in the mouth. Otherwise he was to be left entirely alone, without any nourishment whatever. In ten days his pulse was down to one hundred, and the feeding was begun. He made a splendid recovery.
• Why should transfusion be given in such cases? Nature can make blood out of the tissues of the body as fast as it is necessary to be made; and that is the only legitimate, rational, and logical source of supply. Patients should be left entirely alone. They are shocked by being tormented with dressing and nurses. Where a patient is still living after having excessive hemorrhage, if he can be protected from shocks, such as noises, annoyances, handling, and the usual attention which patients receive, I believe that the majority would get well.
• IX. DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND
• (1) Hyperemia
• (2) Acute Thyroiditis
• This affection may be the sequel of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, or mumps. The entire gland may be involved, or only one lobe of it, and sometimes the isthmus. Where the inflammation ends in suppuration the gland may be destroyed. It is said that exophthalmic goiter has followed an acute thyroiditis, which in turn followed infectious fevers.
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Impaired Health
ITS CAUSE AND CURE
BY J. H. TILDEN, M. D.
CHAPTER IX
Diseases Of The Nervous System
• A. DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD
• B. DIFFUSE AND FOCAL DISEASES OF THE BRAIN
• IV. INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN
• Acute Encephalitis
• Symptoms.--The symptoms of this disease are not well defined. Sometimes it is taken for typhoid fever. Indeed, I see no reason why it may not be an accompaniment of typhoid fever; for the malpractice that causes the so-called typhoid fever to run on for weeks, developing septic poisoning, may develop inflammation of the brain just as readily as toxins generated in any other way. The common symptoms are headache, inability to sleep, coma, delirium, vomiting. Paralysis may follow the disease where patients recover.
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CHILDREN THEIR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DR. J. H. TILDEN
• ERUPTIVE DISEASES
• EXANTHEMATOUS OR ERUPTIVE FEVERS
Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, varicella (Chicken-pox), Variola (Smallpox), Typhoid Fever.
• The germ theory cleared away the mystery of divine retribution--mysterious influences, witchcraft, and the thousand-and-one imaginings of ignorance and superstition, much of which still exists, and is found in high and low places; yes, it can be found conglomerated with some of the highest gray-matter development of our day--today. The belief is contagion, in the same sense that smallpox is contagious, is a modified form of the witchcraft of one hundred years ago. Typhoid Mary is a modern witch. She is made to suffer because of medical belief in an evil influence. Everyone once believed in witches; it was a disease of the mind. Such a belief is a libel on law and order. Yes, sir, such beliefs belong to sensualism and medical commercialism. The profession commercializes on the ignorance and sensuality of the people. It is a fatalistic belief, absurdly out of keeping with law and order. If health, happiness and long life are no'' the rewards for a well ordered life, then turn Beelzebub loose, and on with the dance of perdition.
• Typhoid Fever (more a disease of adult life) is evolved by feeding and medicating acute indigestion and the treatment should be the same as for any of the foregoing so-called infectious fevers.
• PNEUMONIA—BRONCHITIS
• Children with "'colds,'' if fed and otherwise maltreated, will often develop pneumonia or bronchitis. What is pneumonia? It is a catarrhal state of the lungs brought on from putrescence in the intestines. What, in fact, is the symptom-complex named pneumonia? According to scientific medicine, "pneumonia is an acute disease most often due to a specific micro-organism, the pneumococcus. Besides this particular microbe, the streptococcus and the staphylococcus pyogenes may be the cause." This means that pneumonia is often caused by pneumococci, or it may be caused by the above-named bacilli coming from typhoid fever, or some other derangement that causes ulceration. The general understanding, however, is that simple pneumonia is caused by the germ pneumococcus. The whole germ theory can be dismissed with the one word "piffle."
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CONSTIPATION
A NEW READING ON THE SUBJECT
By J. H. TILDEN, M. D.
• PREFACE
• CONSTIPATION is the commonest disease to which man is heir; so common that less is known of its causes perhaps than would be if it were a more rare malady.
• There are about 400 individual diseases recorded in medical nomenclature, and because of medical endeavor to maintain distinctive types--to maintain genera and species--much confusion and unsatisfactory treatment is the result. I say confusion advisedly, for in a consultation of a half-dozen physicians there may be, and often are, as many separate and distinct opinions--diagnoses. The result is that the one seeking advice will get as many diagnoses as the number of physicians consulted. The reasons for this seeming ignorance on the part of the wise physicians are many. In the first place, when so-called diseases have been established or recurring for months or years, more and more of the organism becomes involved; the treatment, which is largely palliative and changed at every call of the physician and every change of doctors, may relieve, but never cures; and it must never be forgotten that in all so-called diseases (slight or severe) there are respites marking the ebb and flow of toxemia. At every flow toxins are eliminated, and this marks a period of discomfort; when toxin saturation is relieved, this marks an ebb in elimination when toxins fall below the saturation point and comfort returns. This ebbing and flowing on the sea of human life is called health and disease; the flow marks discomfort (disease), the ebb marks a subsidence, with a return of comfort. Doctors declare at the ebb that they have cured the disease; as well might boys at the seashore declare that they have chased the waves back by the rocks they have thrown at them. The truth is that patients get better and worse at the ebb and flow of toxin elimination in spite of medical men, and if these priests of medical science know nothing of the cause of this ebb and flow of toxemia, how are they to control the phenomenon? They cannot do anything, and at the failure of their endeavors the patient becomes discouraged and fear adds another complication; the original habits that brought on the disease in the first place are continued, and so the medley of disease-building runs merrily on and on until one or more of the vital organs gives down, driven by recurring functional derangements, until organic change is developed beyond the possibility of a return to the normal and the patient dies. The prevailing toxemic crises are diagnosed--given a name. The leading symptoms of common derangements take the name and are recognized by the profession as the alpha and omega--the beginning and ending--of the disease. The science of diagnosis consists in discovering pathology, when a novice should know the genesis of any pathology must go through an embryonic stage--a period of cultivation, seeding, germination, gestation, and birth. There is a vast unexplored field preceding the stage of pathology that medical science has left unnoticed, namely, the cause of pathology. Doctors start with a fully developed symptom--pathology. For instance, a cold, a "flu," a headache, a cough, a tonsilitis, a pneumonia, a typhoid fever, is recognized as self-existent; or there may be a vague notion that a specific germ has in some manner initiated the disease; a treatment is given, the symptom subsides, and the incident or disease is passed as cured. There may be many repetitions of a like development covering a period of years, until there suddenly and unexpectedly develops an ulcer of the stomach or bowels, pyloric obstruction, stone in the gall bladder, colitis, appendicitis, apoplexy, paralysis, serious ear trouble, glaucoma, tuberculosis, valvular heart disease, or some other organic derangement that has required years to develop. This is a brief picture of the medical and surgical tragedy that is being enacted daily on the world stage--sacrifices to the medical god--a rotten, effete superstition, bombastically flouted in the face of twentieth-century intelligence as ultra-modern medical science. And the people fall for it rather than to sacrifice their sensual excesses which are the ubiquitous germs that Pasteur, Koch, Metchnikoff, et alii failed to find, and which gave them their daily discomforts (for they all were semi-invalids for years before they died) and premature death; and which Rockefeller's ten million foundation will fail to find, notwithstanding the wise old Croesus has discovered them for himself.
• INTRODUCTION
• The bacteriologists have Nero and his show of lions devouring Christians skinned a country block, for they have organized a microscopic circus, menagerie and hippodrome, in which they have the phagocytes (white corpuscles) trained to devour bacteria. When the white corpuscles or phagocytes are not hungry, or the microbes are a bum lot, carrying perhaps a repugnant odor, the ring masters, known as doctors, smear on the rejected bacilli a little opsonin--a condiment. This causes the phagocytes--the lions of the blood--to have a ravenous appetite and they devour the bacilli in large quantities. When the microbes are too shy, or too wary, the masters of the show spread a little tangle-foot, called agglutinin--an anti-body that is found in the serum of the blood of an ex-typhoid fever patient--on the bacilli; this causes them to come together and stick to each other, on the principle that united we stand but divided we fall. When this union is formed and a little lysin is added, the white corpuscles are induced to gluttonize again.
• This savagery entertains the sporting element in the professional men of our time, but there are some drawbacks to a life of sport. One is that all play and enjoyment palls on the players; and another is that the victim in whose blood this show is pulled off cannot stand the wear and tear. It is true the germs are devoured, but the patient dies. Not all, but too large a percentage. In the United States for 1916 the death rate from typhoid fever was 13.3 per cent, against 12 per cent in the Massachusetts General Hospital seventy years ago, before this bacteriological aggregation was dreamed of.
• More food is eaten than can be digested properly, or it may be that the combinations are wrong, and instead of physiological, enzymic fermentation --digestion--taking place, pathologic, or bacterial, fermentation takes place. The germs of fermentation--the bacteria or microbes, or organized ferment, that are everywhere--set up fermentation in carbohydrate foods, causing acidity; and decomposition in proteid foods, and putrescence is a product of this fermentation; any and all of which when absorbed, or taken into the blood, causes toxemia. Where there are enough digestive ferments--enzymes--the ever-present germs (bacteria) have no power to act. When man is prostrate with disease--with the evil influence of bacterial fermentation--then he should not eat; for his enzymic power (power to digest) is already overpowered by germs, and to feed under such circumstances is to encourage bacterial fermentation and toxemia. In acute diseases, from a common cold to pneumonia on to typhoid fever, feeding complicates and increases the mortality.
• CHAPTER II
CAUSES OF CONSTIPATION
• 2--Water Drinking
• There is one cause of constipation that is of my own discovery, so far as I know, and it is more far-reaching than thinkers on these lines will be willing to admit for years to come, namely, excessive water drinking.
• It should be obvious to the discerning that if constipation is a prominent link in the chain of affections above enumerated, it would be foolish to undertake to isolate that particular symptom and give it special treatment. The idea of finding a specific remedy for constipation is as absurd as it would be to undertake to discover a single remedy for catarrh, typhoid fever, malaria, syphilis, or a single remedy for toxin poisoning. Constipation should be looked upon as a leading symptom of a constitutional derangement for which the blanket term chronic toxin poisoning is quite fitting. And when the disease is cured, it will have to be cured by righting the errors of life, so as to bring the general health back to the normal. This we shall endeavor to describe in the following.
• DRY MOUTH AND ITS MEANING
• When the mouth is dry a fast is in order, and anything that forces the bowels to move is wrong in theory and injurious in practice. To eat under such circumstances is to outrage the requirements of nature, invite bacterial fermentation (multiplication), and place the intestinal tract in a septic state favoring typhoid fever; puerperal septicemia in the parturient woman; septic exanthemata in children; hemorrhagic and black types of smallpox in epidemics of that disease. Influenza and pneumonia are made very fatal by physic and feeding when secretions and excretions are suspended.
• CHAPTER III
TREATMENT
• 3--Diet Cure for Constipation
• OXYGENATED AND DEOXYGENATED FOODS
• The animal protein, when eaten beyond digestive capacity, undergoes putrefactive fermentation, developing acute septic or putrid fevers, or ptomaine poisoning. Where this state exists for a long time scorbutic and scrofulous symptoms manifest. Such symptoms--crises--or so-called diseases as scurvy, pyorrhea, tuberculosis, pernicious anemia, Bright's disease, goiter, Hodgkins's disease, cancer, and many others develop. The acute symptoms of putrefactive fermentation manifest in many crises, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, pneumonia, smallpox, laryngitis, asthma, hay fever, bronchitis and others.
• 6--Laxatives as a Cure for Constipation
• It is a mistake, which is liable to end fatally, to begin the treatment of typhoid fever with anything to move the bowels except daily enemas. Why? Because this fever starts with putrescence in the small intestine, and a cathartic forces infection of adenoid tissue and lymph follicles. The exanthematous (eruptive) fevers, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, et alii, are complicated and made severe by any drugs, strong or mild, that are given to move the bowels. They tend to retrocede the eruption to the intestine, favoring infective toxemia.
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“Vol. III Fasting and Sun Bathing”
By Herbert M. Shelton
• The fact that fakers have pretended to fast for such incredibly long times, and have been revealed as frauds, however, is not evidence that real fasting for prolonged periods has not been done. A brief mention of a few fasts in men and women will help to dispel the lingering doubts about the ability of man to go without food for long periods of time. Muni Shri Misrilji, a member of the Jan religious sect, underwent a fast which lasted 132 days, to impress upon his co-religionists the need for unity. Although this fast was not carefully watched, there seems to be no doubt that the man actually fasted this long. In 1828 the Parisian medical journals reported the case of a young girl who had typhoid fever and who took no food for 110 days.
• One great source of toxins is decomposing food in the digestive tract. Fasting soon eliminates this completely. The alimentary canal becomes practically free of bacteria. Only a week of fasting is required to result in the complete disappearance of all germs from the stomach. The small intestine becomes sterile. The hibernating bear and other hibernating animals lose all their colon bacilli during hibernation. Typhoid cases that fast through their illness are free of "typhoid bacilli" at the end of the acute stage and are not "dangerous" as "carriers."
• The stomach, intestines and colon are given a complete rest by the fast and are enabled to repair damaged structures. Piles, proctitis, colitis, appendicitis, enteritis, enteric fever (typhoid), gastritis, etc., speedily recover under the fast. The alimentary tract becomes practically free of bacteria during a fast. The small intestines become sterile. But a week of fasting is required to result in a complete disappearance of all germs from the stomach. The quickest means of remedying bacterial decomposition in the digestive tract is fasting. Dr. Tilden says: "The fact that the hibernating bear loses its colon bacilli is not acted upon, and a fast recommended when disease results from overeating, bacterial decomposition and toxin poisoning."
• There is much fear on the part of many, that fasting may result in tuberculosis. They have the idea that to get thin is to lay oneself liable to this "disease." This fear is unfounded and is based on a false view. The thinness in tuberculosis is not the cause of the trouble but the result of its cause. Loss of weight seems to be essential to recovery from acute "disease," and nature makes certain that the acute sufferer loses weight no matter how much food is taken. Indeed, a typhoid fever patient will lose weight and strength more rapidly if fed in the usual manner, than if fasting. Due to the fact that the fasting patient recovers more quickly, and even better, during the most prolonged fast, than when fed the accustomed amounts of "good nourishing food," such a patient will lose less weight if he fasts than if he is fed.
• 5. "The observation has been made that after a prolonged fast, when the body has been built up by proper feeding, there is apparently present an unusual degree of vigor and an enhanced sense of well-being." He tries to escape the implications of this admission by adding: "It is to be noted, however, that a similar observation is often made following recovery from typhoid fever, or some other acute wasting disease in which the patient has been greatly reduced. It is to be further noted, also, that notwithstanding this apparent rejuvenation accompanying convalescence from fever, the life expectancy of such persons is only one-half that of the average person of the same age. Hence, there is ground for believing that notwithstanding the apparent improvement resulting from the fast as well as from the fever, a certain constitutional damage is done, the effects of which become apparent later."
• In typhoid and other acute ills, there are present powerful toxins which induce damages. There are also, in most cases, the powerful drugs of the physician as well as the forced feeding. Damages resulting to the body in such a state, which show up later, are not properly attributed to the wasting of the body, while the toxins and the drugs are ignored. Dr. Kellogg should show that the life expectancy of typhoid cases is cut in half where no drugs, serums and food are employed. He should also show that fasting cuts short one's life expectancy.
• In inflammation of the digestive tract, such as gastritis, enteritis, peritonitis, dysentery, diarrhea, typhoid fever, typhus, cholera, typhlitis, appendicitis, etc., it is essential that fasting be continued for several days after fever and other symptoms have subsided. Even in mild acute disease, it is well always to continue the fast for at least twenty-four hours after the symptoms have subsided.
• Paradoxical as it may seem, the weakest persons often derive the greatest benefit from a fast. The weakness of the average person is not due to lack of food but to toxin poisoning. The elimination of these while fasting often registers a great increase in strength while the fast is in progress. This is to say, the patient grows stronger while he is still fasting and completes the fast stronger than when he began it. No matter how strong the man, if he becomes ill, he is weak. A Hercules may be prostrated in pneumonia or typhoid fever. Muscular strength is suspended during such periods.
• With the stomach in this condition, with appetite lacking, and with no digestive juice secreted, eating would be worse than folly. It would seem criminal to add more food to the "decomposing, fermenting, irritating mass" in the stomach. Fasting in such a condition is the only rational procedure. Yet in typhoid fever, with the stomach in an even worse condition, with the intestines in a much worse state and with temperature high, most medical men insist upon heavy feeding; a high calorie diet being generally recommended and employed.
• Not in acute gastritis and typhoid only, but in cholera and other intestinal ills, it is the custom to insist upon plenty of good nourishing food. Indeed, food is literally forced upon the sick. Part of the recognized formula of nursing invalids is to tickle their palates with food dainties. Food is urged upon their unwilling stomach in spite of strong protests.
• Dr. Chas. E. Page says: "There is neither pleasure nor nourishment in forced feeding--only pain, poisoning and starving. The fasting cure universally and rationally applied, would save thousands of lives every year. For example, there would be practically no 'typhoid fever,' as all fevers would be aborted in a few days of stomach rest; and never a death or prolonged illness from whooping-cough, which is always a stomach cough from inflammation of that organ. In my busy practice of forty years, no fever has developed into 'typhoid'; nor has there been any whooping beyond a few days, and never a death."
• TYPHOID
• Typhoid fever patients become comfortable in three to four days if the fast is instituted at the "onset" of the "disease," and in from seven to ten days are convalescing. The patient will have such a comfortable sickness and recover so speedily that friends and relatives will declare he was not sick. And, indeed, he will not be very sick.
• It requires feeding and drugging to convert those simple natural processes we call acute "diseases" into serious and complicated troubles. It is not possible to have a typical case of typhoid fever, as described in allopathic text-books, without typical text-book treatment. Unthwarted nature never builds such complications and such serious "diseases" as are described in allopathic works. All this mass of pathology is built by drugging, serum squirting and feeding.
• In a voluminous work on diet, contributed to by a number of medical authorities in dietetics and edited by G. A. Sutherland, M.D., F.R.C.E., and entitled A System of Diet and Dietetics (published by the Physicians and Surgeons Book Co., of New York City) I find a few interesting paragraphs in the chapter on Diet In Fever and Acute Infectious Disease, contributed by Claude E. Ker, M.D., F.R.C.P., Ed., which are worth quoting. He says, in discussing the "starvation treatment" in enteric fever (typhoid fever):
• "The same idea which underlies the empty bowel theory is no doubt responsible for the attempts made to treat enteric fever with either no food by the mouth at all, or at the most with very little quantities. Thus Queirolo has recommended that feeding should be entirely rectal, a lemonade made up with a little hydrochloric acid being the only drink allowed, provided that the bowel of a patient so treated was first emptied by a dose of calomel, or other suitable purgative. Such method of dieting should secure complete rest for the affected parts and absolutely exclude the possibility of fermenting masses of partially digested material lying in the gut. The nutritive value, however, of rectal feeding in a prolonged disease is so limited that this method may be fairly regarded as a treatment by starvation.
• "Similar in its objects and effects is the method suggested by Williams, who, believing that the exhausting diarrhea of the fever is due to improper feeding, endeavors to secure that the bowels shall, as far as possible, remain empty. Only water is allowed in severe cases, sometimes for days at a time, and he regards half a pint of milk in twenty-four hours as a liberal diet, seldom apparently exceeding this amount until the temperature is normal. The method seems drastic, but I have reason to know that the cases do remarkably well. I have often marvelled at the amount of starvation which a typhoid case can safely tolerate after a hemorrhage, and it is only rational to suppose that the patient would support starvation even better before such a depressing complication had occurred. Under such a regime Williams probably more nearly attains the ideal of the 'empty bowel' than any other observer. It seems almost incredible that patients so treated should occasionally gain weight and that they do not in any case waste more than patients more liberally fed; but it is, after all, obvious that, if food is not assimilated there is no benefit to be derived from it, and in many cases of enteric fever assimilation is undoubtedly extremely poor.
• Dr. Ker is unwilling to recommend what he mistakenly calls the "starvation treatment," but thinks there is much to be learned from such things and adds: "It encourages us to starve for two or three days, if necessary, severe cases with marked gastric and intestinal disturbances, probably very much to their advantage. It is, however, unnecessarily severe for the average patient, even while we admit that in enteric fever there is no certainty as to what may happen from day to day."
• We have it stated that the exhausting diarrhea of typhoid is probably due to improper feeding.
• We have it admitted that a "starvation treatment" seems complete rest for the affected parts of the intestine.
• We have it admitted that typhoid patients may "starve" for days and make remarkable improvement during this time.
• We have it admitted that they may do this even after a hemorrhage.
• We also have it admitted that in this "disease" "assimilation is undoubtedly extremely poor." (It is so poor that there is none). We have it admitted that "starvation" leaves no rotting food in the intestines to irritate and poison the inflamed and ulcerated intestinal wall.
• Every one of these things, Hygienists have been pointing out for a hundred years. We have been denounced as "quacks" and "ignorant pretenders" for so doing and our methods have been rejected by the medical profession as a whole, and, even now, the authorities, in adopting our methods in part, and in reporting favorably upon them, neglect to give credit where credit is plainly due.
• Dr. Ker overlooks the important fact that where typhoid patients are not fed, ulceration is not likely to occur, and that hemorrhages are extremely rare, while he seems to be wholly unaware of the body's ability to heal wounds, broken bones, open sores, ulcers, etc., while fasting.
• The theoretical objection offered to fasting, in enteric fever, is based on ignorance. It completely ignores the preceding statement that "assimilation is undoubtedly extremely poor," and it appears to be made in utter ignorance of the body's own internal resources. The author does not seem to be cognizant of the fact that repair of tissues does go on during a fast. What is more, he overlooks the fact that if feeding is stopped at the "onset" of the "disease" there is not likely to be any ulceration or any hemorrhage. Besides this, the patient is more comfortable and the "disease" of shorter duration--providing no drugging is resorted to. It is encouraging to note that he does not offer, as an objection, the old notion that fasting lowers one's resistance to germs.
• The fault I find with the method of Queirolo is that he does not stop feeding at the outset instead of waiting until the "disease" becomes well developed and not that it is "too severe for the average patient." On the contrary, it is the easiest, safest and best plan. The feeding and drugging plan is the drastic plan; the plan than intensifies and prolongs the patient's suffering. It is no ordeal to do without food in acute illness. The ordeal consists in eating at such times. All we ask when acutely sick is to be let alone and to be free of worry of any kind.
• Dewey emphasized the fact that the bodies of the acutely ill always waste, no matter what they are fed nor how much. Indeed, he insisted that in typhoid and other severe fevers, the patient that is fed wastes most. This fact that in acute disease wasting goes on whether food is eaten or not, and that in fact, it is frequently true that the more the patient is fed, the greater the wasting, shows unmistakably that no food is absorbed and used during acute illness. Certainly, if it cannot be digested, it will not be absorbed and if it is not absorbed, it will not be assimilated, and if it is not assimilated, it can do the patient no good.
• If the food eaten is not digested, of what value can it be to the sick man or woman? A two hundred pound man may become sick with typhoid fever. He will lose weight no matter how much he is fed, until, when he is well, he is but a shadow of his former self. In fact, the more he is fed the sicker he becomes, the more prolonged his illness, and the more he will lose in weight. What more conclusive evidence is needed to prove that the food eaten does harm and not good? What is true of typhoid is also true of other "diseases."
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Article #2: Chronic Gastritis by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
• Chronic gastritis often follows acute diseases, such as typhoid fever and dysentery. In these instances the gastritis, except the initial acute gastritis that is sure to be present, is most likely caused by the drugging for dysentery and typhoid. Drugging in acute disease frequently so impairs the stomach that chronic gastritis evolves. Feeding in acute disease doubtless assists in the development of chronic gastritis. In like manner, the chronic gastritis that is said to be caused by arthritis, gout, etc., is due, in large measure, to the drugging. Aspirin, for example, has a very irritating effect upon the stomach. When chronic drugging is added to the wrong feeding and other causes of disease in these diseases, chronic gastritis is almost inescapable.
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Herbert Shelton: How Diseases Are Cured
• Only some so-called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. For example, Forel says: "One attack of gonorrhea in no way protects against a second infection, but rather predisposes to it, and when this disease becomes chronic exacerbations or relapses of the acute stage often occur without fresh infection." Nobody thinks that one "attack" of a cold renders one immune to future "attacks." It is well known that one may have pneumonia numerous times. The same is true of typhoid fever. The fact is that only a minority of the so-called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. Of these, there is not one that people have not had two or more times. For example, there are records of men and women having had smallpox as many as five times.
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***Crisis of Toxemia***
• “According to the Toxin Philosophy, every so-called disease is a crisis of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration-point, and the crisis, the so-called disease--call it cold, "flu," pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever--is a vicarious elimination. Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin. Any treatment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles nature in her effort at self-curing.”
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5-25-13
• Let’s do a Follow Up Post on Typhoid Mary and Russell Trall and I might start a new Thread or I might Follow Up on the Thread with Tam where she brings up Typhoid Mary. I also need to start a Thread for Russell Trall and the Process of Purification and he got that from Hippocrates where he said, “Diseases are Crises of Purification, of Toxic Elimination.” And then, tie those 2 into Tilden’s expression, “Diseases are a Crisis of Toxemia” and list all of his References or quotations.
• These few snippets from my file on Infectious Diseases might help you understand Typhoid Mary a little better…
Typhoid fever, a slightly different ailment than typhus, involves a Salmonella bacillus that is found in the feces and urine of man. The symptoms are so similar to typhus that the two were not differentiated until 1837. Prince Albert died from typhoid in 1861.*
*JR Insert: According to Dr. John Tilden in “Toxemia Explained”, Prince Albert died from the drugs (alcoholics stimulants) given to him by the physicians.
• A similar chart below it refers to tuberculosis and typhoid from 1900 to 1960, and again the line's a straight slopes downward, and you can see that the epidemics simply ran their course naturally, and are totally unaffected by the vaccination programs, but the medical industry wants you to believe that vaccines are what wipe out diseases and that is totally a bold-faced lie.
• As cities became crowded, they also became the nesting places of waterborne, insect borne, and skin -to-skin infectious diseases that spurted out unchecked and seemingly at will. Typhus was most common, reported Thomas Sydneham England's first great physician, who lived in the 17th century and studied early history. Next came typhoid and relapsing fever, plague and other pestilential fever, smallpox and dysentery’s-the latter a generic class of disease that includes what's known as dysentery, as well as cholera.
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