Principles and Practice of Naturopathy:

A Compendium of Natural Healing (1925)

Ernest W. Cordingley, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D, etc

Graduate of Oskaloosa College, National University of Therapeutics,

Palmer-Gregory College, Physicians & Surgeons College of Chicago,
Eclectic College, American College of Naturopathy, etc. Formerly
President of the Rational Therapeutics Society, Divisional Director of
the National School of Naturopathy, Clinical Director in Palmer-
Gregory College, Head of the Department of Physiological Therapeutics
of the National Institute, Commercial Law instructor in the "American
Khaki University," at Issoudon, France, during the World War, etc.

Preface
Chapter 1 The Basis of Naturopathy
Chapter 2 Divisions of Naturopathy
Chapter 3 The Collins General Naturoapthic Tonic Treatment
Chapter 4 Natural Correction of Specific Lesions
Chapter 5 Spinal Concussion or Spondylotherapy
Chapter 6 Electro-Therapy
Chapter 7 Quasi-Electrical Methods of Treatment
Chapter 8 The Office Practice of Naturopathy
Chapter 9 Dietetics
Chapter 10 Hydrotherapy
Chapter 11 Psychological Naturopathy

Principles and Practice of Naturopathy:

A Compendium of Natural Healing (1925)
E.W. Cordingley, A.M., Ph.D.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

When, after the brief space of a few months, I found that a second edition of "Principles
and Practice of Naturopathy" was called for, I realized very forcibly that this little book
has been accorded one of the most favored receptions of any book ever written on
drugless therapeutics. Not only have Naturopaths bought it in large quantities, but
practitioners of other systems, both drug and drugless, have read it and recommended it
to their friends. Laymen, likewise, have put its teachings into practice and have

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reported' great success in treating members of their families when unfortunately
overtaken by disease.

I believe this book has filled an evident need. Much has been said and written about
Naturopathy; Naturopathic practitioners have come much into prominence within the
past few years; and everybody seems to be more or less aware of the fact that
practically every sanitarium of any importance in either Europe or America is
Naturopathic in theory and practice, but relatively few understand the basic principles
upon which this ancient and honorable healing art rests. I feel that this little book has
therefore done considerable missionary work in acquainting a larger number of
practitioners and laymen with an art and science which has endured through the
centuries and which is now gathering such momentum that I readily predict that in ten
short years more it will be universally recognized as the world's greatest drugless
healing art.

This second edition is a revised and enlarged edition. Some errors that crept into the
first edition in the press room have been checked un on and corrected, while much new
matter has been added to the chapter on Hydrotherapy. Naturopathy has really builded
its reputation on the "water cure," and this fact should not be lost sight of by present-
day Naturopaths who may be inclined to disregard water applications because of the
fancied trouble in making them.

I would like to express my appreciation to Dr. Benedict Lust, America's pioneer

Naturopath, owner of the "Yungborn" Sanitarium at Butler, N. J., and Editor of the
"Naturopathic Magazine," for many valuable suggestions, and to the American School
of Naturopathy, and the National School of Naturopathy, for the large quantity of books
of the first edition which they purchased for use in their classes.

E. W. C.
Clinton, Indiana
April 27, 1925.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

In presenting this little treatise on the Principles and Practice of Naturopathy to the
Naturopathic profession I have no apology to make. Although numerous books and
special articles have already appeared that deal with various phases of Naturopathy, so
far there has been none that has attempted a comprehensive survey of practically the
entire field of our Science from a distinctly Naturopathic viewpoint as regards its own
pathology and therapeutics. Consequently, I am offering my humble effort toward a
fulfillment of an evident need.

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I have attempted to make this treatise as thoroughly comprehensive and practical as
possible, and to this end I have purposely refrained from going into details in some
more or less irrelevant phases of the subject.

I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness for many valuable ideas contained herein, first
to Dr. Benedict Lust, the untiring pioneer champion of Naturopathic practice in
America, then to Dr. F. W. Collins, the famous scholar and doctor whom we all revere,
for his kind permission to allow me to use his General Naturopathic Tonic Treatment in
this work, next to Dr. Louis Blumer, the sincere benefactor of humanity, for his able
classification of Naturopathy, and last, but by no means least, to Dr. J. E. Cummins, my
old Naturopathic friend, who has given to the world many able Naturopaths, many of
whom, I regret to say, not seeming to appreciate the debt of gratitude they owe to him.

After having studied practically all systems of healing, and graduating in many of them,
I feel that I can say with some authority that Naturopathy is the greatest healing system
the world has ever known. It is the most comprehensive of all, and the members of the
Naturopathic profession I have found to be the most intelligent and broad-minded of
any in the healing art.

I hope it will ever be thus, and that as time goes on, the Naturopath will in even a
greater measure be capable to rendering the greatest possible assistance to the sick and
afflicted.

Table of Contents ||| Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1.

THE BASIS OF NATUROPATHY.

As we review the history of the healing art, we find that mankind has constantly delved
into methods of eradicating human disorders that lead away from unnatural drugging,
and tend toward Nature.

The theories that have been advanced regarding the cause of disease are legion. Wrong
chemical combinations, germs, impingement of nerves, wrong habits of eating, faculty
mental states, and a host of others have each been held responsible as the sole cause of
disease by a host of enthusiastic disciples.

However, after all is said and done, it must be admitted by any fair investigator that
each single system has its shortcomings. Each method will accomplish some good, but
no single method is infallible. For this reason the more intelligent among those who are
devoting their attention to the prevention and cure of disease have come to realize that a
perfect system must include all natural, non-drug methods in so far as each one is
adapted to an individual case.

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As cases vary, remedies must vary. What will help Nature to cure one disease will only
aggravate another. For this reason, a system that is truly eclectic or selective must be
the ultimate in the healing art, and the one, and the only one that can permanently
endure.

It is not our purpose to enter into II discussion of the administration of drugs, but we
may be permitted to say that we are witnessing a marked change in attitude on the part
of medical practitioners relative to drug giving, One or two drugs are now usually given
where a dozen were formerly used, and it is probable that the day is not far distant
when the drugs which will be used will consist almost entirely of cathartics, hypnotics,
anaesthetics and antiseptics in emergency cases and surgery.

What, then, is Naturopathy? "Naturopathy," to quote Dr. Benedict Lust, "is a distinct
school of healing, employing tile beneficent agency of Nature's forces, or water, air,
sunlight, earth power, electricity, magnetism, exercise, rest, proper diet, various kinds
of mechanical treatment, mental and moral science. As none of these agents of
rejuvenation can cure every disease (alone) the Naturopath rightly employs the
combination that is best adapted to each individual case. The result of such
ministrations is wholly beneficent. The prophylactic power of Nature's finer forces,
mechanical and occult, removes foreign or poisonous matter from the system, restores
nerve and blood vitality, invigorates organs and tissues, and regenerates the entire
organism."

Naturopathy is a system of disease-eradication based on the theory that, as DI'.

Cummins says, "Clean blood is the instrument of health and the fountain of happiness,"
or, as the Bible states it, "The life of all flesh is the blood thereof." Whatever the system
we employ, will produce results [sic] only as we purify the blood and clear the system
of poisonous encumbrances.

Let us pause here a moment and see what scientific basis we have for the hypothesis
that impure blood is the cause of disease, or that, "The life of all flesh is the blood
thereof."

For centuries mankind has been searching for the cause of disease. Not content with
taking the Biblical statement and deducting therefrom, pathologists have advanced one
theory after another, only to see each give way and weaken. At present, medical doctors
are almost universally working on the germ theory of disease. But the germ theory is
already weakening and is due for being thrown aside. Dr. Fraser of Canada and Dr.
Powell of California have experimented with billions of germs of all varieties, but they
have been unable to produce a single disease by the introduction of germs into human
subjects. Dr. Waite tried for years to prove the germ theory, but he could not do so.
During the World War an experiment was conducted at Gallop's Island, Massachusetts,
in which millions of influenza germs were injected into over one hundred men at the
Government hospital, but instead of the men taking influenza, the only change in them
was "increased appetite and more vigorous health.

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Dr. Fraser found that in many cases of diphtheria and other diseases the germs did not
appear at the outset of the disease, and in some patients the germs did not make their
appearance at all.

What, then, is the purpose of germs? Germs are scavengers. When you see flies
swarming around a garbage can you don't say that the flies brought the garbage, but that
the garbage attracted the flies. The case is the same with germs. The fermentation of
poisonous acids and alkaloids in the human system attracts germs, because they feed
upon it. The nature of the toxin and its localization determine the character of the
disease when an' epidemic breaks out there has been a considerable number of people
in a locality who have eaten the same kind of food, lived under similar conditions, been
subjected to the same climatic and atmospheric changes, and these factors have brought
about an identical fermentation of toxins in the bodies of such persons and manifested
the same group of symptoms. That is why we have epidemics.

Let us very briefly deal with one other theory of the cause of disease, one that has
attracted rather wide attention. That is the theory that "sub-luxations" at the spine cause
disease. These "subluxations" cause the bones to impinge the nerves, so say those who
advocate this theory. However, we have found by dissection that the nerve where it
passes through the opening between the vertebrae is from one-third to one-twelfth the
size of the opening, that it is surrounded by a vaseline-like fatty tissue, und that no
pressure would be possible at that point, even if the disk between the vertebrae were
reduced to nothing. Why, then, do we sometimes have tenderness and contraction at a
spinal segment? Simply because the morbid matter that has localized in an organ or
tissue has set up an irritation there, and this irritation is transmitted "long the nerve to
the related spinal area. and it there produces a condition of contraction and hyperthesia.
When the vertebra is "adjusted" (that is, pushed against) a stretching of ligamentous
and muscular tissue results and an increased irritation is produced which is transmitted
back to the organ or tissue affected where it in turn brings about a marked stimulation
which sometimes causes the organ or tissue to throw off its original irritant. We see a
parallel to this in cases of "sick stomach." If a person eats something which slightly
"sours" in the stomach it will make him feel "upset," but if it "sours" greatly he will
immediately vomit it up and feel better.

This demonstrates why it is that so-called "Straight" Chiropractors sometimes

accomplish results, and it will also indicate the reason why they so often fail.

I would like to discuss several other theories of the cause of disease, but space forbids.

To get back to our real cause of disease, we find that fullness of life means absolute
freedom from disease. Disease in any form causes a limitation of life. Therefore, when
disease (limitation of life) is present, there is some change in the blood, because "The
life of all flesh is the blood thereof."

Naturopathic researches have shown that wrong habits of eating, sleeping, working and
recreation increase the intake of poisonous acids and alkaloids and at the same time so

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weaken the eliminative functions that these toxins are not thrown off, They therefore
float in the blood stream and eventually are deposited in some organ or tissue, causing
disease to develop. Dr. Cummins shows that arterio-sclerosis, rheumatism and calculi
are caused by accumulations of uric and oxalic acids in the blood. Bright's Disease,
dropsy, ulcers and necrosis are brought about through the accumulation of uric and
sulphuric acids. When carbonic acid combines with uric acid in the blood, cell
asphyxiation is brought about, causing anemia, tuberculosis, chlorosis or pneumonia.
And similarly, all other diseases have their origin.

Isn't it remarkable that man should experiment and theorize for so many centuries in an
effort to find the cause of disease, and then, after all his labors, should be brought back
to the Sacred Word revealed by God?

I think the definition of Naturopathy as given by Dr. J.E. Cummins is the best brief
definition ever given. It is as follows: "Naturopathy is the science, art and philosophy of
adjusting the framework, correcting the mental influences, and supplying the body with
its needed elements."

"Single branch" systems all have their day. They all do some good and gain many
adherents, but it cannot be denied that all such "branches" have their limitations, and for
that reason they will eventually have to make room for a system that includes the best
of the underlying principles of all of them—and that system is Naturopathy.

This introduction would be incomplete if I did not add the beautiful idealistic definition
of Edward Earle Purinton, and I will therefore conclude by quoting that definition:

"Naturopathy is the perfected Science of Human Wholeness, and it includes all

agencies, methods, systems, regimes, practices and ideals of natural origin and divine
sanction whereby human health may be restored, 'enhanced, maintained."

CHAPTER 2.

DIVISIONS OF NATUROPATHY.

For the purposes of convenience we will divide Naturopathy into the mechanical,
material, and psychological, in accordance with the plan of Dr. Louis Blumer, the able
Naturopathic pioneer of New England, and we will designate each of these by the
terms, Mechanical Naturopathy, Material Naturopathy, and Psychological Naturapathy.

MECHANICAL NATUROPATHY will include all manual methods of overcoming

lesions of bones, ligaments, muscles and other structures. We will not designate these
methods as osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, mechano-therapy, etc., as we consider
such terms arbitrary [sic]. What is now known us osteopathy was really practiced two
hundred years before the name osteopathy was known in parts of Scandinavia; what are
now called chiropractic and napropathy were practiced a hundred and fifty years before
these names were heard of, in Bohemia and what is known as mechano-therapy today

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has been practiced in China, Japan, Egypt [sic], the South Sea Islands and other parts of
the earth since long before the dawn of the Christian era. It is true, of course, .hat these
various systems have undergone much development and modification at the hands of
rather recent therapeutics" but the basic principle underlying each system was not new
when such "systems" appeared under the names we are now familiar with. Those old-
time natural healers were in reality Naturopaths, regardless of what they called
themselves, and those men of more recent times who have developed these "branches"
were really making developments in the mechanical sphere of Naturopathy.

We would furthermore like to have it distinctly understood that we do not consider that
we have adopted any technic and applied the name "Naturopathy" to it from any present
day "system." We feel that the original research that we have done has enabled us to go
back before the time of osteopathy, chiropractic, etc., to select the technic that we are
here describing, and which we have "woven into the wool and woof" of Naturopathy.
For that reason a Naturopath who is using this technic in his practice cannot be rightly
charged with practicing any other system under/the name of Naturopathy. We desire to
stress this point because some osteopathic, chiropractic and other State' Licensing
Boards may attempt to obtain jurisdiction over Naturopathic practitioners, and we feel
that that would be as unjust as if the case were reversed. Naturopathy is truly a distinct
school of practice. It is in reality the oldest drugless school of healing in existence. It is
no part of the practice of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic or any other method, and
the only kind of a State Board that has a moral right to examine a Naturopath to
determine his right to practice is a Board made up of nothing but Naturopaths. We do
not demand that medical doctors, osteopaths, chiropractors, lawyers, ministers, civil
engineers, pharmacists, embalmers or members of any other profession submit their
credentials to us to determine their right to practice, and we consider our profession so
separate and distinct from all of theirs that we request the same rights that we concede
to them.

In spite of the high-sounding and conflicting theories advanced by each enthusiast of

the present-day systems, there is just one thing that they can accomplish that will result
in curing disease, and that is an acceleration of the blood stream and a consequent
throwing off of impurities through the depurative organs. They may claim to do
something" else, but despite their claims, it is only as they "purify the inner temple" that
they eradicate disease.

MATERIAL NATUROPATHY will include all such methods that tend toward
normalizing the supply of elements to the tissues of the body. As is well known, the
human body is composed of seventeen elements, and it has been found that in certain
diseases these elements are often in improper combination, or deficient. For instance, in
tuberculosis silicon, calcium and iron are deficient in amount, anti if food is selected
that will supply this deficiency, more assurance of a recovery can be had.

As Hydrotherapy, Hydropathy, Hydriatic Treatment, or the Water Cure, as it is

variously called, tends toward the re-arrangement of elements in some instances, we
will for convenience include this method in Material Naturopathy.

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Some forms of electricity as used in therapeutics would for the same reason be included
in Material Naturopathy. Particularly is this true of Galvanism. However, most
electrical modalities have a purely physical or mechanical effect, so for the sake of
convenience all electrical modalities will be dealt [sic] with under the head of
Mechanical Naturopathy.

PSYCHOLOGICAL NATUROPATHY includes suggestions of various types. It will

be acknowledged by all earnest investigators that the mind to a considerable extent
controls the functional activity of the body, or is capable of doing so. I will not go into
great detail in this department of our Science, because so much that is impractical has
already been foisted on a trusting public under the name of psychology that I do not
want to exaggerate the offense. I believe that suggestion is the best cure of all for
imaginary diseases, and that a cheerful frame of mind will go a long way toward
assisting in a recovery, but when a tortoise-shell spectacled "nice old lady" of either sex
tells us that We can eat decayed meat like a Fuegian, sleep in an air-tight hut like a
Laplander, sew our underwear on for the winter like an Eskimo, wear three-inch heels
like an American "society lady," dance all night long like a "sheik" and spend our work
hours with our ribs cutting into our abdomen like a clerk, and still maintain perfect
health if we keep the "right mental state," then that high-brow "metaphysician" and we
part company.

We believe in suggestion heartily, but we also believe in a common-sense combination

of all natural, God-given agencies for the pro-motion of health and the cure of disease.
We have tried to keep the Section on Psychological Naturopathy free from all
fanaticism, and if some of our views are at variance with those of the reader, we will
most humbly ask for your forbearance.

CHAPTER 3.

THE COLLINS GENERAL NATUROPATHIC TONIC TREATMENT.

As, in its final analysis, all disease is the result of morbid encumbrances in the system,
due to wrong habits of eating, sleeping, working, amusement, heredity, etc., the
ultimate result of all treatment is the freeing of the body of such encumbrances.
Mechanical treatments may speed up nerve force and thereby increase the function of
an organ (the kidneys or liver as an example), but this speeding-up really results in
normalizing the circulation and ridding the body of morbid wastes. As a good general
introductory treatment that is applicable to practically every case. I will first present the
celebrated Collins General Naturopathic Tonic Treatment. Dr. F. W. Collins of
Newark, N.J., Dean of the United States School of Naturopathy, personally gave me
permission to include this treatment in this treatise. It is the culmination of years of
study and research on the part of this able doctor, and I regard it as the best all-around
treatment for office use that has ever been devised.

1. Here it is:
2. Have patient on a straight table, or open bench, in prone position.

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 3. Open up the articulations of the spine superiorly by beginning at the vertebra
prominens (7th cervical) and working downward.
4. Open up the articulations of the spine inferiorly, beginning at the fifth lumbar
and working upward. (Nos. 2 and 3 are accomplished by placing the heel of the
hand against the superior and inferior aspects of the spinous processes
respectively, and then delivering a light thrust.)
5. Standing at the left side of the patient, place the right hand on the right posterior
crest of the right ilium, left hand [sic] on the underside of the acromion process,
and by pushing down on the right hand at the same time that you pull up with
the left hand, open up the articulations of the intercostals on the left side.
6. Reverse the position of the hands, placing the right hand on the left posterior
crest of the ilium, and the left hand on the right acromion process, and open up
the articulations of the intercostals on the right side,
7. Release the muscular contraction of the ribs inferiorly. beginning' at the first rib
and working downward. (This is accomplished by making- contact with the heel
of the hand on each side of the spine with the superior surfaces of the ribs at
their angles and thrusting in an oblique direction, toward the floor and feet of
the patient.)
8. Open up the articulations of the ribs superior, beginning at the tenth pair of ribs
and working upward.
9. Increase the circulation of the trapezius and other back muscles, placing the
right hand on the anterior crest of the ilium of the opposite side and the left hand
on the right shoulder blade. Change to the opposite side of the patient and place
the left hand on the anterior crest of the ilium and right hand on the left scapula,
holding it, and raising [sic] the ilium, and giving it a naturopathic adjustment.
10. Stretch the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle by contact on the first three upper
thoracic vertebrae (by the heel of the hand) and turning the head slightly, in the
opposite direction (toward the operator).
11. Apply the famous S-move (rotating the first two fingers or thumbs deeply in the
muscle mass) on the laminae of the thoracic and lumbar spines.
12. Flex each leg once at the thigh. (By pushing the leg forcibly against the thigh,)
13. Patient in dorsal position (on back). naturopathically treat the colon, beginning
at the sigmoid flexure. (Deep kneading of colon up the left side of abdomen,
then across the transverse colon, and then over the ascending colon on the right
side.)
14. Stretch the abdominal muscles from the hip to the shoulder, both sides, by
drawing up on hip and pushing down just beneath ribs, and vice versa.
15. Flex each leg once and flex the thigh against the body and rotate outward and
inward.
16. Stretch the neck muscles and give a naturopathic adjustment of the cervical
region.
17. Time for each naturopathic tonic treatment: five to seven minutes.

Dr. Collins adds: With hygiene and proper combination of food, this treatment will
remove (cure) about ninety-five per cent of the troubles the human family is heir to.

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 CHAPTER 4.

NATUROPATHIC CORRECTION OF
SPECIFIC LESIONS.

When there are lesions in the spine, between the ribs, pelvic bones, or at other joints, it
is desirable that they be corrected.

If it is found that a spinal segment is sore and inflamed you should examine with the
fingers around the spinous and transverse processes of that vertebra and compare its
position with the vertebra above and the vertebra below it, to detect any mal-alignment.
Then, by grasping the tip firmly between the thumb and forefinger, try to detect in
which direction the movement is limited on account of contracted ligaments and
muscles. When you have made the determination, you should place either your thumb
or the pisiform bone of your wrist against either the spinous or transverse process of the
vertebra, and then give a quick push or "thrust" in the direction that will overcome the
ligamentous or muscular contraction or restore the vertebra to proper alignment with its
fellows, Rather than make severe adjustments with the danger of hurting the patient, it
is better to push fairly firm against the vertebra a number of times (3 to 10), as it has
been demonstrated clinically and in the laboratory that such repeated pressures will
remove the lesion quite as well, and often better, than the severe thrusts. In making
these adjustments it is necessary that the patient be lying prone on a well-padded table.

In the cervical region lesions can be overcome by making contact with the affected
vertebra with the first finger of the hand of the operator just below the metacarpo-
phalangeal articulation, The patient is lying on his back, and the head is supported by
the other hand of the operator cupped over the ear with the wrist against the patient's
forehead. Several moderate pushes against the vertebra will suffice to overcome the
ligamentous and muscular tension contiguous to it.

In the case of rib lesions, where one rib has been" jammed down" against another rib,
the fingers can be hooked over the offending rib while the patient lies on his back, and
it can then be firmly drawn toward its normal position. Raising the patient's arm on the
same side or having the patient inhale deeply while pulling on the rib, will often be of
assistance in replacing it.

Where you find lesions of the hip, or innominate bones, it is well to determine on which
side the pain or tenderness is felt, and then compare the length of the legs at the internal
malleoli. If the leg on the painful side is too short, you have a posterior-superior lesion,
and it can be corrected as follows: Stand on the opposite side of the patient and grasp
under the knee of the shortened lag with one hand, place the heel of the other hand on
the sacro-iliac articulation and push down firmly, at the same time you draw upward on
the knee. Repeat several times at each treatment, and treat each day, or every other day,
until permanently corrected.

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If the leg on the affected side is too long, have the patient lie on his back, and then flex
the leg on the thigh and the thigh on the abdomen with one hand, while with the other
hand placed beneath the affected innominate you assist in rotating the innominate to its
normal position.

In case of an elbow or knee or other joint that has become stiff, it is often of great
benefit to flex the joint as far as possible, holding it there firmly, and then very quickly
and forcibly flexing it about half an inch more. Repeat several times. This will separate
the articulation, stretching the articular structures, and consequently increase the
circulation around the joint.

CHAPTER 6.

ELECTRO-THERAPY.

There is a considerable variety of electrical treatment appliances on the market, which

deliver over a dozen different forms of currents, or modalities, to use the technical term.

Thus, we have the galvanic, faradic, slow, rapid and surging sinusoidal, high frequency
violet ray, diathermy, and auto-condensation, which are the ones most commonly used.

We have already dealt with the use of the sinusoidal and faradic currents in
spondlylotherapy, and many practitioners [sic] prefer these currents to concussion for
eliciting' the vertebral reflexes.

The sinusoidal current is known as an induced current, and in case of the rapid
sinusoidal, is similar in some respects to the faradic, which latter is generated by
magnetism in an induction coil, but differs from the faradic in that the voltage of the
inducing current is higher and its undulations are smoother. My experience has been,
however, as noted in the foregoing chapter, that the faradic current is an excellent
current for eliciting the spinal reflexes, and the faradic equipment has the advantage
that it can be carried around and used anywhere independent of the city current supply,
because the faradic current can be generated by two or three dry cells.

The slow sinusoidal current has proven of value in constipation, a large pad being
placed on the abdomen while a smaller one is placed opposite on the lumbar vertebrae.
The even and slow contraction and relaxation produced increase peristalsis of the
intestines and very often permanently overcome constipation in a relatively short time.

In various forms of paralysis, rheumatism, lumbago, and sciatica, all modalities of the
sinusoidal, as well as the faradic, have proven of value. Where it is desired to affect a
muscle the usual way in which to apply the current is to place one electrode near the
origin and the other near the insertion of the muscle.

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The galvanic is the one polar electricity. That is, the current flows out at the positive
pole, passes through the part of the body being treated, and then returns by way of the
negative pole. Some of the properties of the galvanic curreent are as follows:

THE POSITIVE POLE THE NEGATIVE POLE

Attracts Oxygen. Attracts Hydrogen.
Accumulates Chlorine, Nitric, Accumulates alkalhydrates of calcium,
Phosphoric and Hydrochloric potassium, sodium, and ammonium.
Acids. Alkaline caustic.
Acid caustic. Cicatrix soft and pliable.
Cicatrix hard, dry and unyielding. Dilates arterioles.
Contracts arterioles. Increases hemorrhage.
Stops hemorrhage. Stimulates and irritates.
Relieves inflammation and pain. Hardens Disintegrates tissue.
tissue.

Because of these polar effects it will be seen that it is of great importance in using
galvanism to properly place the pads. If the negative pad is placed where the positive
pad should have been placed, the results are likely to be detrimental rather than
beneficial. However, if the Naturopath will carefully analyze the condition he is
treating he should have no difficulty in placing the pads. For instance, in treating goitre,
the purpose is to disintegrate tissue, therefore the negative pad should be used over the
goitre, and the positive pad placed at the back of the neck or on the abdomen.

In case of extreme pain, as in cases of lumbago, arthritis, etc., the positive pad should
be placed over the painful area, as the positive pole relieves pain. If you are treating a
sluggish liver you place the negative pad over the liver and the positive pad opposite on
the pack, because the negative pad stimulates, and stimulation is what is wanted. If you
are treating an ulcerated stomach the positive pad should be applied over that organ, as
the positive pole stops hemorrhage and relieves pain. If you will keep in mind the
properties of each pole it will be a relatively simple matter to properly place the
electrodes for each case.

The galvanic current can be obtained by a machine made up of dry cells: directly from
the commercial line if it is the direct current and a rheostate is used; through rectifiers if
the alternating is the only available commercial current j or through a direct current
generating equipment. Many regard the galvanic as the most useful of all currents, as it
is the one physiological current. It is, indeed, a current of a wide range of usefulness,
but nothing can really displace the faradic and sinusoidal currents in some disorders.

The high frequency violet ray is a current that is soothing in its effects in many painful
conditions, and it will frequently be found of benefit to use it after administering [sic] a
manipulative treatment to a very tender area. I personally believe that the violet ray has
been grossly over-rated. Many manufacturers especially have advocated the use of the
violet ray for every ailment to which the human family is subject, and many
disappointments have consequently resulted. However, as an adjunct treatment it has its

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uses, and in nervousness, headache. sleeplessness, and some other similar disorders it
has often proven of value even when used alone. I will append a list of benefits that can
derived from the violet ray. Some of the below-enumerated effects are very slight [sic]
in some cases, but still this current is capable of producing each of these effects to a
certain varying extent:

The High Frequency Violet Ray Current:

1. Increases oxidation and local nutrition.

2. Produces hyperemia in areas to which it is applied.
3. Adds oxygen to the blood.
4. Increases elimination of carbon dioxide.
5. Increases elimination of waste products through the skin.
6. Increases the temperature where applied.
7. Locally germicidal .
8. Sparks to upper dorsal spine raises blood pressure.
9. Application at any area for 20 seconds to one minute with sparking is
stimulative.
10. Application for 2 to 5 minutes with electrode held in contact is sedative.

The Diathermy current is a heating current. It is used largely in rheumatic joints, gouty
deposits, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and neuritis. Lately it has come into use in the
treatment of pneumonia with splendid results. Some enthusiasts advocate its use for
nearly every disorder, and inasmuch as the essential part of the current consists in the
production of heat in the deeper tissues, it can be seen that it would naturally be of
value in all conditions which would be benefited by heat, and that applies to a wide
range of ailments. It is applied much like the sinusoidal or faradic, two well-moistened
felt pads, block tin or wire mesh electrodes being used.

The Auto Condensation current, like the Diathermy, is a high tension currant, produced
by a Tesla Coil and Oudin Resonator, which is used principally for the relief of high
blood pressure. The patient sits or lies on a chair or couch pad which is connected to
one pole of the machine, and the circuit is completed through a handle which he holds
in his hands. In my experience, this current is a sovereign remedy in high blood
pressure. There is no other separate method that I know .of that will lower the blood
pressure as rapidly and effectively, as the Auto-Condensation current.

CHAPTER 7.

QUASI-ELECTRICAL METHODS OF TREATMENT

In this chapter will be considered photo-therapy [sic] (light therapy), chrome-therapy

(color-therapy), and Rythmo-therapy (vibration). I characterize these methods as Quasi-
Electrical Methods to differentiate them from the electrical modalities in which the
actual current passes through a part of the body. These methods are electrical simply
because electricity is the force usually used to generate the light or drive the motor in

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the appliances that are used for these methods. Of course, the light could be generated
by gas, oil or some other combustible material, and there are vibrators on the market
that are air-operated, but. the most common appliances are electrically operated, since
electricity. is usually the most accessible and convenient generating power.

I. PHOTO-THERAPY

While attending a post-graduate course in Chicago several years ago, Dr. Denton N.
Higbe, whom I regard as a leading authority on drugless healing, held up a small
therapeutic lamp equipped with a 200-watt carbon-filament bulb, and remarked, "If I
was just entering practice and could choose but one article of equipment this is what I
would select. The cost of the therapeutic lamp in question was but a fraction of the cost
of several other articles of equipment that were in the room when the doctor made the
statement, but, after years of experience with nearly every kind of appliances, Dr.
Higbe had come to the conclusion that he could get more definite therapeutic effects
from a "heat lamp" than he could from almost anyone other appliance.

I do not want to disparage the many excellent equipages for electrical and quasi-
electrical applications. Many of them will accomplish more than a lamp will in some
cases, but what 1 do want to impress upon the reader is the fact that a therapeutic lamp
has the universal application that many other appliances do not have, Heat is of value in
nearly every disease, and the advantage of a therapeutic lamp over hot water bottles,
hot bricks, and other such articles is that it is always ready for use, and the heat
delivered by a lamp is radiant heat, and radiant heat penetrates the tissues more than
any other. The heat from such a lamp will relieve pain at practically any local area to
which it is applied, while if it is applied at a single nerve center a hyperemia can be
quickly produced in the tissue or organ supplied from that spinal area.

Photo-therapy is a subject that I do not need to deal with in detail, because the technic
of its application is self-evident. As an adjunct treatment its possibilities should not be
overlooked.

II. CHROMO-THERAPY.

Chromo-therapy is a method of treatment of disease by the use of radiant colors. Dr.

George Starr White is the leading exponent of this system.

Any ordinary therapeutic lamp of about 50 candle-power may be used in Chromo-

therapy, with a color screen placed in front of it. This color screen can be made of
glass, as many of them are, but Dr. White is partial to the use of silk cloth for the
screens. The silk is mounted on a wire frame, this frame being made to fit over the
reflector of the lamp.

The color rays must be applied directly to the skin, and not through clothing, and the
colors must be pure and not intermingled with other colors.

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The therapeutic action of colors thus applied has been found to be as follows:

RED has a stimulating effect on blood and nerves. It is indicated in

tuberculosis, anemia, physical exhaustion, paralysis, and all debilitated
conditions.

CONTRAINDICATED in inflammatory, feverish or excitable

conditions.

YELLOW AND ORANGE are nerve stimulants. They are valuable in

constipation, impaired digestion, and pelvic disorders in women.

CONTRAINDICATED where there is an over-excited system.

REDDISH-ORANGE is valuable in cancer and other malignant growths.

GREEN is quieting and soothing upon the nerves and body generally. It
must be a true green and have no tendency toward yellow.

BLUE AND VIOLET are nervines, astringent, febrifuges, and sedatives.

They soothe the nerve and vascular systems, and are good where there is
inflammation or nervousness. Indicated in sciatica, hemorrhage, cerebro-
spinal conditions, neuralgia and rheumatism.

III. RYTHMO-THERAPY.

Rythmo-therapy is the use of vibration in the treatment of disease. Vibration is of value

in some painful conditions and has proved particularly useful in lumbago. The technic
employed in lumbago is to apply moderate vibration to the muscles in the lumbar
region of the spine for from three to five minutes at a treatment, changing the position
of the patient frequently during treatment so as to better break down the muscle spasm.

Mild vibration to the stomach and bowels is often of benefit in "sour" stomach and
constipation, but care must be taken not to treat the viscera too vigorously by this
method, as injury may result.

It is also a good auxiliary method of treatment in many other troubles, the technic for
which will readily suggest itself.

CHAPTER 9.

DIETETICS.

Dietetics is a subject that has been much abused, and many Naturopaths have been
confused with the conflicting theories of "food faddists." For that reason, we want to
keep this chapter free from faddism. and instead present only such fundamental

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principles as are approved by science as the result of impartial investigation and
research [sic].

One matter that should never be overlooked in regards to the prescribing- of diet is that
a dietetic regime that works out excellently with one person will not agree at all with
another. There are great variations in individuals. and there is more than a grain of truth
in the old adage that "what is one man's food is another man's poison."

At the outset, We have two well-defined temperaments in human beings, one known as
the electric temperament (or ox-type) and the other know as the magnetic temperament
(or tiger-type).

Persons of the electric temperament are small-boned, have moderate-sized joints, and
have a tendency to become stout and to an accumulation of minerals in the system.
Food for persons of this type should be rich in acid fruits and meager in starches.

Persons of the magnetic temperament have a heavy bony structure, large joints, and
have a tendency to become thinner with advancing- years and to an accumulation of
acids in the system. Food for persons of this temperament should consist principally of
vegetables and non-acid fruits, with a minimum of acid fruits.

The human body is composed of seventeen mineral elements, the chief of which are
Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon. To give you an idea of the relative
proportions of the various elements, I will append the following table, which shows the
approximate amount of each element for a person weighing about 157 pounds:

Oxygen, 89 lbs Sodium, 3 ozs

Nitrogen, 2 ozs. Potassium, 2 1-2 ozs.
Hydrogen, 15 lbs. Manganese, 1-2 oz.
Carbon, 45 lbs. Silicon, 1 1-4 ozs.
Iron, 2 ozs. Iodine, 1-4 oz.
Chlorine, 1 3-4 Ibs. Sulphur, 3 3-4 ozs.
Calcium, 4 1-2 lbs. Magnesium, 3 1-2 ozs.
Fluorine, 3 3-4 ozs. Bromine, (a trace).
Phosphorus, 2 Ibs.

Some one, with commercial values in mind, has suggested that in a man there is enough
water (hydrogen and oxygen) to wash two blankets, enough- sulphur to kill the fleas on
a good sized dog, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, enough lime (calcium oxide
[sic]) to whitewash a small chicken coop, and that the cost of these would be 98 cents. I
understand that it is Dr. C. A. Pierle, Chemist at the West Texas Teachers' College, who
made this analysis.

VITAMINS.

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As is well known, some foods contain a larger percentage of the essential elements
needed in the body than others. Some of the older physiologists found that wheat, corn
and rice came the nearest to being' perfect and complete foods, taken individually, than
any others, and for that reason they called them "The Three Staffs of Life." Wheat is
considered the more nearly complete of all.

However, it was found that the way in which these foods are often prepared for trade
really renders them unfit for food. Thus, the removal of the bran from wheat, and the
hull from rice by polishing, seemed to take from them something needed to sustain the
body.

It has long been observed that whole wheat flour become" "wormy" with 'age, whereas
white (bleached) flour does not. For this reason some people prefer the white flour.
However, a better way to look at it is that if white flour is so lacking in sustaining
elements that even the worms won't cat it, it surely is not fit for human consumption.

In the Philippine Islands a very prevalent disease is beri-beri, which is a form of

multiple neuritis. It was thought that exclusive rice eating was the cause of beri-beri,
until some of the natives suffering from the disease were fed on the "polishings" from
the rice, when the disease quickly cleared up. It was found that the important sustaining
part of the rice was contained in the "hull" which had been polished away.

Therefore, it becomes apparent that to cat wheat or rice just as nature prepared it is the
only way in which we can get the life-sustaining qualities from it.

These elements contained in the bran of wheat and in the hull of rice, and, of course, in
a great number of other foods, have been named vitamins. Just what vitamins are has
not been determined with certainty, but it is evident that, whatever their nature, human
life cannot be sustained without them.

For convenience vitamins have been classified as (1) Fat-soluble A; (2) Water-soluble
D; and (3) Water-soluble C.

(1) Fat-Soluble A is found mainly in animal fats (except in lard), and in the foliage of
plants, It is essential for growth. Milk, butter, cream, lettuce, spinach and other leafy
vegetables contain this vitamin, which is also known as the anti-rachitic vitamin
because it prevents rickets, Children require Fat-soluble A for growth, and adults
require it to maintain strength of bones.

(2) Water-soluble B is the vitamin that is removed from rice when it is polished, and
lack of it is the cause of beri-beri, which we dealt with in a preceding paragraph. This
vitamin is also necessary for growth, and a lack of it gives rise to nervous diseases. This
vitamin is found principally in wheat, corn, rice, peas, beans, cereals, and egg-s. 1t is
sometimes called the anti-neuritic vitamin.

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(3) Water-soluble C is found in fresh meats, oranges, lemons, tomatoes and the leafy
vegetables, It is known also as the anti-scorbutic vitamin, because lack of it will cause
scurvy. The reason why scurvy sometimes breaks out among sailors on a long- sea
voyage is because food containing this vitamin is lacking- in the diet.

FLESH FOOD VS. VEGETABLE DIET.

In the foregoing discussion of vitamins it will be noticed that I listed meats along with
vegetables as containing vitamins. I do not want to convey the impression that, because
I listed meat, I approve of its use by mankind, It is probable that a moderate amount of
meat can he eaten by a normal, healthy person without causing much trouble, and it
may be true that such meats as chicken and veal are not as harmful as some others, but,
nevertheless, the fact cannot be denied that the "internal make-up" of man is more like
that of a guinea pig (cavy) than that of any other animal, and the guinea pig is a strict
vegetarian. As compared with the digestive tract of a lion, tiger, dog or cat, or meat-
eating animal (carnivore), man's intestine is five times too long, and his liver one-third
too small for a meat-eater. The meat putrifies and decays in man's long intestine, a/Ill
his liver is not large enough to secrete a sufficient quantity of bile to counteract the
large amount of uric acid that meat contains. A large part of our diseases can be traced
directly to meat eating. The rotten, decayed particles of meat floating in the blood-
stream are a prolific source of disease.

Among the people of Egypt cancer is very common, but it has been found that the
Mohammedan's of Egypt, whose religion prohibits tile use of meat, practically never
have a cancer, while among the Christians and Copts, who are meat eaters, cancer is
very common. It is probable that in a hot climate such as Egypt the meat putrifies in the
human body even quicker than it does in cooler climates, thereby being' even a greater
evil there than it would be in many other localities.

DIET IN THE CURE OF DISEASE.

What I have already written will give the reader many practical fU6gestions on the
regulation of diet to cure disease. If you will turn to the article on vitamins you will see
what foods to advise to combat nervous disorders, rachitic conditions, and scorbutic
complaints. You will see that the elimination of meat from the diet will aid in a
recovery in many cases, and it will be evident that the first thing to do with a patient
who has, say, cancer of the stomach, is to get him away from meat eating. So, I will
leave the prescribing of diet to the reader, which he can do along .the general lines I
have laid down. I will, however, before passing on to the next phase of this subject,
suggest that, as it has been found that the acid in tomatoes exerts a very destructive
influence upon cancer, tomatoes should be given to a patient suffering from cancer to as
great an extent as he will eat them. The fresh tomatoes are to be preferred, but when
fresh ones cannot be had the canned ones will have to do. And then in tuberculosis,
silicon, calcium and iron are the three elements most markedly deficient in the body,
and if oatmeal (which contains silicon), milk and cheese (which contain calcium), and

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spinach, lettuce, and dark-colored berries (which contain iron) are eaten, to the
exclusion of other foods, a prompt change for the better is usually quickly observed.

RAW FOODS.

Some investigators favor the use of raw fruits and vegetables, rather than cooked ones,
as they contain the food elements in a "live" and unaltered form. Dr. George J. Drews is
the foremost authority on the use of raw foods. He calls his system of curing disease by
raw foods "Trophotherapy," and he has found that:

1. Raw parsley and carrots, melons and cucumbers will stimulate the kidneys.
2. Raw dandelions, tomatoes, sweet peppers, egg plant, plantain and Irish potatoes
stimulate the liver.
3. Raw tomatoes (as noted above) are of benefit in combatting cancer. Some pain
may be caused at first.
4. Horse-radish, nasturtiums, and celery will overcome painful urination and
eliminate pus.
5. Roots make the blood alkaline.
6. Raw pumpkin and squash make rich blood.
7. A combination of ground pumpkin or squash seeds and chopped yarrow leaves
will expel maw worms.

THE MILK DIET.

T:1C milk diet, or milk fast, consists in taking no nourishment what-ever but milk for a
period of from one to four weeks. In many gastrointestinal diseases the milk diet has
accomplished almost the miraculous after many other forms of treatment have failed.
Holstein milk is preferred, but any good milk that does not contain too large a
percentage of cream will do, If the milk is certified or of known purity it is far to be
preferred raw (un-Pasteurized).

The milk is ordinarily taken cool, but in cold weather or in case of weak digestion it can
be slightly warmed, but never boiled. One glass every half hour while the patient is
awake should be taken. This is the ideal. Occupational, or other circumstances, may
necessitate some modification. Moderate exercise with plenty of rest, fresh air, and not
too frequent manipulative treatment, should be taken with the milk diet.

The milk diet, or milk fast, like any other fast, should be. Carefully supervised and
"broken" gradually at its termination [sic]. To get back on "regular" diet two or three
days should be required. A little popcorn can first be added, and then, gradually
decreasing the quantity of milk, oranges, and then other light foods can he eaten.

THE FRUIT DIET.

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In a few cases the milk diet will not agree with the patient. It then should be broken,
and the "Fruit Diet" substituted. The Fruit Diet consists in foregoing all food but the
following:

For breakfast: two oranges and one apple.

For dinner: two oranges and one apple.
For supper: two oranges and one apple.

This "fast" should likewise he continued for from one to four weeks, and then been
"broken" gradually.

CHAPTER 10.

HYDROTHERAPY.

Hydrotherapy, Hydropathy, Hydriatic Treatment, or the Water Cure, as it is variously

called, has been successfully used in nearly all diseases to which human flesh is heir.
The treat popularity of Turkish Baths, and Mineral Springs, for rheumatism is well
known, an.) the fact that a host of other disorders can he overcome by water
applications should be self-evident to any Naturopath, because the chief effect of them
is an eliminative one, and, since the Naturopath appreciates the fact that disease, in its
final analysis, is retention of morbid wastes, he can readily see that any means that will
cause an elimination of such accumulations will effect a cure. The action on the body of
many Mineral Springs is not understood by the laity, Many suppose that some peculiar
mineral quality of the water really effects the cure, whereas ad a mater of fact, such is
seldom, if ever, the case. Such water comes out of the ground very warm, and the
patient is instructed to bathe in it almost continually during the day, and to drink
quantities of it. Constant bathing keeps the pores of the skin open, and causes the effete
matter to be expelled, and copious water drinking' speeds up the elimination through
the kidneys and bowels, and in this way the patient's system is ridded of the cause of
disease. The mineral content of most Mineral Springs can be closely duplicated by
adding about a teacupful of Epsom salts and Glauber salts (3 parts to 2 parts, to twelve
gallons of water (the usual amount of water used in a bath-tub). Then if the patient will
bathe in this as many hours a day as he would at a Mineral Springs, and drink as much
of it as he would there, he can expect equally as good results. Or, better yet, if he will
take just pure hot water to bathe in and drink. The water really does the work anyway,
and the mineral content has little value in such a small proportion as it is found in most
of these watering-places.

There is one bath that I am particularly fond of in rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago;

sciatica and similar disorders, and that is as follows: To 12 gallons of hot water (so hot
that one can just comfortably get into it (add three pounds of Epsom salts. Then lie in it
for 30 to 40 minutes at each treatment, and take from two to six such baths a week,
according to the strength of the patient and the severity of his com-plaint. The Epsom
salts counteracts and dissolves the uric acid in the blood and causes it to be eliminated
through the pores.

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Kneipp, Kuhne, Just, Ehret, Bilz, Lust, Preisnitz, and Lahman are the principal
developers of Hydrotherapy as this system is now used, but water applications for the
cure of disease are nearly as old as the human race. Ancient Rome was noted for its
wonderfully appointed public baths. Baths with them were a national institution. There
are many ruins of Rome's celebrated baths still to be seen. Their armies erected baths as
soon as they encamped for the night. Among many other ancient nations baths were
found in every city, and the people were frequent bathers, As a result disease was kept
at a minimum. In Siberia today steam baths similar to our Turkish baths, are found in
nearly every town, and they give evidence of being a custom that has come down for
several centuries. As Dr. Cummins has so well remarked, people are warding off
disease every day by the simple process of taking a bath, and the 'fortunate person
seldom realizes how near taking a disease he was. Every now and then some obscure
doctor with little knowledge and ability, and less common sense, will get his name in
the newspapers in connection with a claim of his that bathing is a dangerous practice,
on account of the "germs" that lurk around the sides of a bathtub. When you read such a
statement just feel sorry for the man who is responsible for it and go ahead and take
plenty of baths. The regrettable thing about such statements is that some people will be
influenced by them, and thereby take some sickness that they would have avoided if
they had continued to take frequent baths.

The Rev. Sebastian Kneipp of Bavaria is the well-known advocate of the cold water
cure, and his armamentarium [sic] includes packs, sprays and douches principally.

Louis Kuhne of Leipzig was impressed with the fact that diseases are all caused by
morbid accumulations in the system, and on that theory he built up his system, which is
substantially as follows:

Two steam baths weekly (15 to 30 minutes' duration), taken in a steam

bath cabinet much like our present-day vapor cabinets.
Then from one to three hip baths daily, except that in gynecological
cases Sitz-baths are taken instead of hip baths. Temperature of water
should be about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

"Hip-baths" differ from "Sitz baths" in that the former are given with the patient sitting
in water up to his iliac spines, whereas in the latter the patient sits on a stool, the seat of
which is on a level with the surface of the water; the water then being lifted up and
rubbed vigorously about her hips with a coarse linen cloth. Vigorous friction is used in
either case, using the linen cloth. This bath is continued from 5 to 20 minutes. After the
bath, the patient is warmed by exercise, or, if too weak, by being put to bed.

Louis Kuhne used this method for every disease, and people came to his sanitarium
from many parts of the world. To the Naturopath who has the true pathology of disease
well in mind it is very evident why this method should be applicable to all classes of
diseases, and I personally regard Kuhne's system as among the most valuable of
hydrotherapeutic methods.

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 REDUCTION OF FEVER.

When all other means fail to overcome fever you will find the following
hydrotherapeutic methods almost infallible. Usually one application will suffice, but if
it does not, it can be repeated at the end of several hours:

Give full bath at 99 degrees Fahrenheit, gradually decreasing the

temperature while the patient is in the bath. Then tepid sponge baths can
be given after the patient has been put back to bed.

Or, where no heart complications exist (organic disturbances):

1. Place two or three woolen blankets on the bed.

2. Wring a sheet from cold water and place on blankets.
3. Have patient lie on sheet.
4. Wrap the sheet quickly around the patient, with the legs
separated from each other and the arms separated from the body,
but completely enclosed in the sheet.
5. The woolen blankets are then wrapped closely around the
patient.
6. Patient remains until sweat ceases or until he feels clammy, then
the sheet is removed and he is given a brisk rub-down.

CAUTION: If the patient begins to turn blue, due to blood stagnation,

remove the pack and rub the extremities vigorously toward the heart.

Daily tepid sponge baths should be given all fever patients.

THE BIOLOGICAL BLOOD-WASHING METHOD.

Dr. Christos Parasco is the discoverer of the Blood-Washing Method, but Dr. Benedict
Lust is the principal developer of this system.

It is of particular value in overcoming the signs of advancing years, and for this reason
it has been designated as the "Fountain of Youth." For effecting a speedy reduction of
weight it perhaps has no equal, while its effect in hardening the constitution and
rejuvenating the body has had many practical demonstrations.

It consists in having the patient lie under a continuous shower of water at a temperature
of 106 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

The patient lies under the shower for a continuous period of from two to eight hours,
the water being in turn directed upon the abdomen, lower part of back, and other
regions of the body, for periods of ten minutes to one hour on each part of the body.

HOT AIR, STEAM AND VAPOR BATHS.

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One of the quickest, and surest, ways to produce elimination of toxins from the system
is by means of the modern hot air, steam and vapor bath cabinets,

These cabinets possess a great advantage over "hot rooms" and "steam rooms", such as
are used in many bath establishments, in that the patient's head is 'allowed to remain in
the cooler air of the room.

This is more comfortable to the patient, and it often makes it possible for a weak person
to remain in the bath for a longer time than would be possible in a heated room.
Another advantage of the cabinet is that it accommodates one patient at a time only, so
that the heat can be brought on gradually and regulated to the comfort of each
individual. This is an important advantage, inasmuch as acute disorders and
neurasthenic conditions are best benefitted [sic] by a tonic application consisting of
from ten to fifteen minutes exposure to about 115 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit of heat,
whereas chronic disorders [sic] respond best to an exposure of 30 to 45 minutes at a
temperature of 105 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

These, bath cabinets are made in two general types: reclining And upright. The
reclining cabinet enables the patient to lie down and fully relax, which relaxation
facilitates elimination and the takes the "load" off the heart, but the upright cabinet has
the advantage that it occupies less floor space and ordinarily docs not frighten nervous
patients as much as the reclining- cabinet. The choice of a cabinet rests largely with
individual idiosyncrasies. It would be well for an institution to have both types. The
author is partial to the reclining cabinet, if a choice had to be made, but a practitioner
contemplating purchasing a cabinet should take into consideration his class of patients,
amount of floor space, and possibly many other factors.

The principal noticeable effect of hot air, steam or vapor bath is copious perspiration,
and the question may arise as to whether such a bath would be of much value to a
patient in the summer-time who is engaged in vigorous physical exercise which causes
him to perspire profusely. The answer is emphatically, yes! Perspiration caused by
exercise will not eliminate many of the disease toxins which a bath cabinet will draw
out, for the reason that in physical exertion the circulation is accelerated, the blood
moving the uric acid and other crystals rapidly along the blood vessels, while the more
liquid portions of the blood are thrown out of the pores as sweat. In the bath cabinet the
case is other-wise. The patient is relaxed and the circulation is slowed. The heat is
enabled to penetrate deeply into the tissues, dissolving and extracting the morbid
accumulations of toxic acids and alkaloids. Satisfactory proof of this assertion is
offered in the fact that many men who had insisted that they did not need cabinet baths
because they perspired freely and bathed often, were agreeably surprised to see the
cabinet bath extract considerable [sic] effete matter from their pores. A microscopic
examination of the perspiration brought out in this way will likewise reveal the
prescribe of a large amount of uric acid and other crystals.

Many bath cabinets are arranged so as to give either hot air, vapor or steam baths. The
dry heat is infinitely the best for neuritis, neuralgia, muscle spasms and similar troubles,

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while the moist heat is considered [sic] better for rheumatism and uric acid diatheses in
general. Dry heat can be tolerated at a higher temperature than moist heat, and many
cabinets deliver the dry heat modality by means of electric lights. These electric light
baths fire indicated in practically every diseases to which humanity is subject, because
they combine radiant heat with its energizing deep penetration with facile elimination.

Steam baths are produced by placing a pan of water over the heater in the cabinet,
which boils and thereby throws off steam, and vapor baths are had by putting oil of pine
needles, eucalyptus oil, sulphurated potassium, epsom salts, or other oils or drugs in
small amounts in the pan. Inasmuch as elimination is the end sought, we cannot see that
these drugs increase the value of the bath, although it is sometimes advisable to add a
few drops of essential oils '(such as wintergreen, pennyroyal, eucalyptus or oil of pine)
to act as a deodorant and to keep the cabinet smelling clean and fresh.'

The question may arise in the mind of the reader as to what these baths are good for.
The answer is that they are good for practically
every disorder and for every patient. It would be a splendid thing if everybody, whether
sick or not, could be induced to take such a bath at frequent intervals. As fresh air,
sunshine, pure food, and clear water are good for everybody, sick or well, so
elimination is of value to every human being. Elimination will ward [sic] off disease in
the well and throw off the toxins of disease in the sick. The universal adoption of these
baths by mankind would do far more toward conquering diseases, .n our estimation,
than can be accomplished 'by any and all other means.

The length of time for a cabinet bath varies with the condition of the patient, but the
time can be roughly stated at from ten to forty-five minutes and sometimes even longer.
Plenty of water should be drunk before entering the cabinet and while in it.

After the. hath the cabinet should be allowed to cool down for a few minutes before the
patient leaves it, so as to prevent such a shock as would 'be likely to occur if he
immediately left the high temperature of the cabinet and entered that of the room. Then
he should be given a sponge or shower bath to remove the perspiration yet clinging to
his body. and it would also be advisable to then give him a thorough manipulative
treatment, such, for instance, as the General Naturopathic Tonic Treatment described in
Chapter Three.

HOT AND COLD FOMENTATIONS

APPLIED TO THE SPINE.

A splendid tonic treatment to increase the vital resistance of a patient consists in

applying hot and cold fomentations to the spine. A heavy flannel cloth is wrung out of
very hot water and placed along the dorsal and lumbar spine. The flannel cloth should
be folded six or eight times and should be only about four inches wide when folded and
about eighteen inches long. It is then quickly withdrawn and a cloth of the same size
wrung out of cold water is placed along the spine, which 'is also quickly withdrawn.

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The hot cloth can be held on for about five seconds, and the cold one for about ten
seconds; Two alternate hot and cold applications are thus made.

At the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium this is a favorite application, it being followed
by a "salt glow", in which the body is slightly moistened and vigorous massage with
handfuls of common salt (sodium sulphate) is applied to the entire body with the
exception of the face, neck and head. Then the "percussion douche" is given, consisting
of playing a' steady stream of water at 110 degrees Fahrenheit up and down the patient's
back. The treatment is concluded with a light general massage.

In giving the above treatment many practitioners have substituted a therapeutic lamp of
the type known as a "Baker", for the hot flannel cloth. This lamp has a hood which is
about two by three feet in size, equipped with four to six nitrogen-filled carbon lamps.
In using this lamp, the heat application should be of longer duration, as it is of slower
penetration, and it, can be turned off long enough to allow the cold application to be
quickly made. Such a lamp saves trouble, as it is always ready for use, an important
consideration in localities where hot water is not always available.

Another excellent treatment which is given to fully 99 per cent of the patients at another
Naturopathic (Nature Cure) sanitarium is as follows:

First: the patient is given an enema.

Second: he (or she) is put in a vapor bath cabinet.
Third: the salt glow is given.
Fourth: general massage is applied.

The world is badly in need of more "water cure" institutions, and it would he advisable
for every true Naturopath to direct his efforts toward equipping his office to give such
treatments. There is no agency that has the universal applicability that water has, and
none that can reach and cure so many ailments. People journey from all parts of the
world to the famous Nature Cure sanitariums, where thousands are restored to health
after consulting leading and expensive specialists in v\in. and the main part of the
armamentarium of these sanitariums is the "water cure."

EFFECTS OF VARIOUS TEMPERATURES.

The effects of the various temperatures of water can be briefly stated as follows:

108 to 120 degrees F. is the tonic range.

100 to 1 05 degrees F. is the relaxant range.
94 to 98 degrees F. is the sedative range.
65 to 90 degrees F. is the depressant range.
32 degrees F. or below is the anesthetic [sic] range.

To increase body temperature (by prolonged hot or short cold applications) increases
metabolism.

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To decrease body temperature (by short hot or prolonged cold applications) causes
dissipation of heat from the body and decreases metabolism.

Short cold applications cause a rise in body temperature.

Short hot applications cause a fall in body temperature.
Prolonged cold applications cause a fall in body temperature.
Prolonged hot applications cause a rise in body temperature, and an
increased oxidation of the blood.

According to Dr. Gummins the skin will tolerate a temperature of dry air at 250 to 300
degrees F., vapor up to 140 degrees F., and water from 115 to 120 degrees F.

Neutral baths (at about blood heat, 97 to 99 degrees F, in which the patient is
submerged in a bath tub of water, cause no change in metabolism, but they soothe the
nerves.

Where the patient's trouble is accompanied with an active congestion (indicated by

redness in inflamed areas), a sedative application at 94 to 98 degrees F. is indicated,
while if a passive congestion is present (indicated by blueness) a tonic application of
108 to 120 degrees F. is called for.

These various applications can be made in the form of either a full bath or a sitz bath,
and some of them can also be made in the bath cabinet.

CHAPTER 11.

PSYCHOLOGICAL NATUROPATHY.

Psychology is the study of the mind. By making various observations on mind action,
psychologists have been able to deduce many rules and principles that aid us in our
daily lives.

Practical psychology occupies a most novel field in the healing" art, but' the great
quantity of tommy-rot that has been foisted upon the public for the last decade under
the name of Psychology has already made this subject al\ unpopular one with many.

As one reviews the voluminous literature on Psychology and near-Psychology he feels

that he much in the position of a person who would attempt to glean grain from a straw
stack. One great evil in the realms of psychology [sic] is the army of vultures who
represent failures in many other walks of life, who arrive at intervals in every principal
city of the United States and offer a "course of six lectures on Psychology for $30."
Many of these "psychologists" [sic] offer a "sure cure for poverty," and many people
who are dissatisfied with their lot in life dig down into their scanty funds to turn over
the necessary "tuition fee, II only to find that the only "sure cure for poverty" that the
lecturer had was a sure cure for his own poverty,

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However, to get down to "brass tacks," what is wanted in a treatise of this kind is not a
lengthy discussion of the rules of psychology, however valuable that may be, but a few
rules of application that will enable every Naturopath to make psychology work FOR
him and not against him.

That the mind can to a considerable extent control the functional activities of the body
is admitted by all careful investigators. It is well known that if a person starts out in the
morning feeling disgruntled and half-way "peeved" at things in general, he needs only
to meet a good-natured friend who will "crack a joke" or two and get him smiling, and
immediately life takes on a different hue.

And vice-versa, if one is feeling quite well-satisfied with the world and with himself,
and some long-faced pessimist whom he meets tells him of a particularly bad streak of
luck that is headed his way, he will immediately lose his buoyancy and take on the
appearance of having "lost his last friend." That is, he will if he allows such things to
worry him,

Worry has been known to cause gray hair, and strong emotional excitement has made
nervous wrecks of people who ordinarily had strong constitutions. I remember a case
that was reported in the newspapers several years ago, of a lady in Chicago who was
suffering with a headache. She went lo her medicine chest to get a Seidlitz powder, but
immediately after she took it her daughter announced in alarm that she had mistakenly
taken arsenic, which her son had been using for preserving bird skins which he
collected. The lady thereupon, being greatly frightened and displaying the outward
symptoms of poisoning, died within a few minutes. An autopsy was performed, when it
was found that she had really, after all, only taken a Seidlitz powder, and that her death
was due to fright.

If then, states of mind are capable of producing such dire effects in people, it behooves
all Naturopaths to make use of the same principles constructively in their work of
eradicating disease.

Taking it for granted that you agree with me that the mind does, to a measure at least,
control the functional activities of the body, I will lay down a few simple rules to be
followed in creating and maintaining the proper attitude on the part of the patient,
which will assist in effecting a cure.

RULE 1. The more impressive the appearance of your office, the better able will you be
of convincing your patient that you can help him, If your equipment is selected with
care and so arranged in your office that it "stands out" prominently, you will have made
the first step in getting control of the right mental attitude.

RULE 2. If your own appearance is neat, and you go about your work deliberately and
confidently, showing in that way that you know what you are doing and understand
your work, the patient will immediately gain that feeling of reposeful confidence in
your ability that is always a desirable asset to you.

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RULE 3. Let the patient know what headway he is making, if the headway is really
being made. If his heart sounds better than it did when he commenced taking
treatments, tell him about it, and don't fail to impress upon him what a great
improvement in his physical well-being his improved heart will eventually bring about.
At all times during his course of treatments put great stress upon how splendidly he is
responding, and the more you get him thinking he is making good headway, the better
headway he will make.

RULE 4. If you have a patient who is not responding well to treatment, or one who is
hysterical (you know we all get such patients occasionally who seem to take a special
delight in being sick, or thinking they are, and who will not allow you nor anybody else
to get them well) try to arrange to have that patient come at a time when there is no one
else waiting, If a patient of this type sits in your waiting room and tells the other
patients all about his or her real or imaginary ailments, they. may become discouraged
and thus be prevented from recovering their health.

It is recorded in the Bible that even Christ was unable to do mighty works in his own
country because of the unbelief of the people. Therefore, it is evident that you must get
your patients to believe in you and your methods. They have some belief when they
come to you, else they would not have come, and it behooves you by your every act and
word to increase that belief.

If a patient complains of his stomach, explain to him how your treatment is increasing
the amount of nerve force or the quantity [sic] of blood to that organ, and how the
trouble is being benefited thereby. If he complains of constipation and you use
mechanical treatment, or faradic or sinusoidal electricity, explain to him how 1he
peristaltic action is being increased, and how the liver and intestinal secretions that you
are stimulating are searching out and softening up the hardened accumulations of waste
matter, and moving them along, thus leaving his intestines clean and purified.

If he has headaches of a congestive variety tell him how your treatments are causing.
the impure, stagnated blood to be carried out of the head, and in turn how it is being
replaced with pure, energizing, oxygenated blood. Let your patient visualize the
improvement that is being brought about. If you will do this you will multiply your
ability to cure.

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