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THE CURE OF DISEASE 
 
 BY 
 
 Osteopathy, Hydropathy 
 and Hygiene. 
 
 A BOOK FOR THE PEOPLE. 
 
 Giving directions for the Treatment and Cure of 
 Diseases Without the Use of Drug Medicines. 
 
 Fully Illustrated with Half-tone Photographs. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 VALUABLE RULES OF HEALTH 
 
 DR. F\ L. MflTTHAY. 
 
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 TO MY NOBLE AND 
 HONORABLE GRANDFATHER 
 
 FERDINAND GOTTSCHALK ~K~l 
 OF 
 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 
 
 THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY 
 
 DEDICATED, AS A TOKEN OF 
 
 GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM, 
 
 BY 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 This book is intended as a guide for the home, the % 
 missionary, the traveler and the thousands of 
 chronic sick who for years have been dosed with 
 poisons, with no good result and who are on the 
 verge of dispair. When most needed its remedies 
 do not fail. If the treatments are properly admin- 
 istered they can be relied on every time. 
 
 The general knowledge this book imparts and the 
 useful instruction it gives for the preservation and 
 restoration of health, comfort, happiness and beauty 
 is worth more to any family or individual than all 
 the strong drastic medicines in the world. Leaving: 
 out of view the consideration that this will enable 
 the readers of this book to dispense, in a great 
 measure with costly services and the nauseous drugs 
 of the apothecary. 
 
 The Osteopathic Treatment which has recently 
 come into use and won its way to the favorable 
 regard of all classes, and which has never before 
 been given to the public, I have combined with the 
 hygienic remedies which have latterly been so ex- 
 tensively employed in the different parts of Europe. 
 
 The Osteopathic and Hygienic Treatments never 
 injure, while medicines do permanent harm even 
 when they give temporary relief. Medicines are 
 poisonous in their nature, that is, they will make the 
 well sick, and I believe, that anything that will 
 make a w^ell person sick, will only make sick per- 
 sons sicker. 
 
This treatment if given to the well produces no 
 symptom of disease. For this reason a mistaken 
 diagnosis is not so serious a matter where the Osteo- 
 pathic Treatment is given as where strong drugs 
 are administered. 
 
 It is not my intention for a person without the 
 knowledge of diseases or the human machinery to 
 become an Osteopathic physician by the mere read- 
 ing of this little work, on the contrary, to be a skill- 
 ed Osteopath takes years of stud}- and many years 
 of experience. But so many of the treatments are 
 so simple that one without the slightest knowledge 
 of anatomy or physiology and the most unlearned 
 can with a very little common sense apply them suc- 
 cessfully. 
 
 Having been situated for several years as to have 
 the care of a large number of chronic cases, many of 
 whom had tried in vain all remedies which had been 
 presented to them by numerous medical advisors, 
 but without relief, I have found it necessary to give 
 this class of sufferers much careful study and a 
 somewhat larger degree of attention than would 
 have been required in a different field of practice. 
 The result of my observations has been the conclu 
 sion that not only the common people but medical 
 practitioners also are in general very deficient in 
 knowledge on these diseases. This is evidenced in 
 the one case by the persistent continuance of habits 
 which have in many instances been the sole cause of 
 production and perpetuation of their malady; and 
 in the other by the fact that patients are rarely in- 
 
formed of the real cause of the disease, but arc 
 treated with remedies which can at most but palli- 
 ate the symptoms, doing nothing toward removing 
 the cause of the disease and too frequently aggra- 
 vating the patient's sufferings in the end. 
 
 I have had, also, abundant reason for being con- 
 vinced that there is on the part of all classes, not ex- 
 cepting a large share of the average medical prac- 
 titioners, a sad deficiency of information on the sub- 
 ject of hygienic medicine. The relation of hygiene 
 to health, and especially the relation of different 
 dietaries to different morbid conditions of the diges- 
 tive organs are subjects concerning which there is 
 the most lamentable ignorance. I have met numer- 
 ous cases in which the disorders required nothing 
 more than a change of regimen and habits of life, 
 to effect a cure. 
 
 It is the sincere hope of the author that his little 
 volume may be of material service to the large class 
 of chronic sufferers to enable them to successfully 
 pilot their way back to the port of health. 
 
 F. L. M. 
 
 St. Paul, Minn., April 9th, 1900. 
 
10. 
 
 PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENIC MEDICATION. 
 
 That the system of Hygienic Medication may be 
 known to have a basis both scientific and practical, 
 I will give a synopsis of its principles: 
 
 1. All healing power is inherent in the living or- 
 ganism. 
 
 2. Remedial agents do not act upon the living 
 system, but are acted upon by the vital powers. 
 
 3. Disease is a remedial effort — a process of pu- 
 rification and reparation; an effort to restore the 
 balance between the two great forces of the system 
 — the nervous and the muscular forces. 
 
 4. Truly remedial agents are materials and in- 
 fluences which have normal relation to the vital or- 
 gans, and not drugs and poisons, which are abnor- 
 mal and anti-vital. 
 
 5. The True Healing Art consists in supplying 
 the system with whatever of Nature's Materia 
 Medica it can use under the circumstances, and not 
 in the administration of poisons , which it must re- 
 sist and expel. 
 
 6. Drug remedies are themselves causes of dis- 
 ease — if they cure one disease, it is by producing, a 
 drug disease. 
 
 7. Diseases are caused by obstructions, the ob- 
 structing material being poisons or impurities of 
 some kind. 
 
 8. The Hygienic system removes these obstruc- 
 tions, restores proper balance, and leaves the body 
 sound. 
 
11. 
 
 9. Drug medicines add to the causes of obstruc- 
 tion, and change acute into chronic disease. 
 
 10. The Hygienic System of Medication adopts 
 all the remedial appliances in existence, and rejects 
 poisons. 
 
 11. Nature's Materia Medica consists of Earth, 
 Air, Water, Sunlight, Manipulations, Kest, Food, 
 Drink, Water, Sleep, Clothing, Mental Influences 
 and Mechanical or Surgical Appliances. 
 
 OSTEOPATHY. 
 
 Osteopathy is veritably a common sense method 
 of healing diseased conditions of the body, either 
 structural or functional — without knife or drugs — 
 by means of strictly scientific manipulations. It 
 makes no demands upon the vitality of the patient, 
 but enlists the curative powers contained within 
 the body, which readily respond when properly ap- 
 pealed to. Its method is purely mechanical and its 
 cardinal principles might be classified as: Skeleton 
 Adjustment, Glandular Activity, Free Circulation 
 of Blood and Co-ordination of Nerve force. 
 
 Osteopathy comes from the Greek word "osteon" 
 meaning bone and "pathos" pain. While Osteopathy 
 is a new name given to this science by Dr. Still of 
 Kirksville, Mo., and is called a new science, it is 
 known that manipulation and movements were 
 largely practised in ancient China and during the 
 period from three to four thousand years before 
 Christ it constituted the most valuable part of the 
 whole system of the healing art. 
 
12. 
 
 HYDROPATHY OK WATER CURE. 
 
 Next to air water is the most important thing 
 touching human life and health. The water cure 
 has cured tens of thousands of sick people in Eu- 
 rope and America. Europe has hundreds of water 
 cure doctors who cure all curable diseases and often 
 after drugs have been tried for years in vain. 
 
 Four fifths of the human body is composed of 
 water. Water dissolves our food and carries it 
 through the body. It also carries out the waste 
 matter through the skin, lungs, kidneys and bowels. 
 Eminent authorities claim that it is necessary to 
 drink one tumbler full of water to each ten pounds 
 of weight, once every twenty-four hours. 
 
 Every curable disease can be cured by hygienic 
 medicine, which means by diet, bathing, fresh air, 
 Osteopathy, exercise and application of heat and 
 cold. 
 
13. 
 
 ANAEMIA (or Anemia). 
 
 Symptoms — Pale face, weakness, vertigo, insom- 
 nia, impaired appetite, impaired digestion and cold 
 extremities. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1.) Have the patient lying on the side; use the 
 arm as a lever (cut 3) and with your fingers pressing 
 rather hard close to the spine; begin high up close 
 to the vertebra, move the muscles deep upward and 
 outward very gently but thoroughly, the entire 
 length of the spine. Treat the other side similarly. 
 
 Be very careful not to use the tips of the fingers 
 in this treatment as that would cause the patient 
 unnecessary pain. Hold the hands as flat as pos- 
 sible using the fingers about the first joint. 
 
 Very often tender spots are found along the spine; 
 at such places a little additional treatment is indi- 
 cated. These tender spots are often a congested 
 condition over some nerve centre which controls 
 some distant part. 
 
 (2.) Have the patient lying on his back; flex the 
 limbs against the chest and rotate the limb from 
 side to side quite strongly two or three times (cut 4). 
 Extend the limb with a light jerk. 
 
 If this treatment is given properly it will free the 
 femoral artery and vein and should be given thor- 
 oughly when the patient is suffering with cold feet. 
 
14. 
 
 (3.) With one hand on each side of the thigh, the 
 fingers meeting, begin close to the body and move 
 the flesh to the bone from side to side. 
 
 (4,) With the patient on his back, place one hand 
 under the chin, the other hand under the back of 
 the head ; pull gently and rotate the head from side 
 to side. 
 
 (5.) Have the patient on a stool; place your knee 
 between the patient's shoulders, hold the patient's 
 wrists and raise the arms slowly but strongly high 
 above the head, pressing hard with the knee and 
 lowering the arms with a backward motion, (cut 
 5 ) . The patient should inhale, rilling the lungs to 
 their utmost capacity while the arms are raised, ex- 
 haling as the arms are lowered. 
 
 (6.) In all cases where the action of the heart 
 is toe rapid, place one hand on each side of the neck, 
 the fingers almost meeting over the spines of the 
 four or five upper cervical vertebrae; press gently 
 two or three minutes upon the vaso motor centre. 
 ( cut 6 ) . A pressure at this point causes the arter- 
 ies to relax, thus increasing their caliber and slow- 
 ing the action of the heart. 
 
 (7.) Always begin with a very light treatment 
 and increase in strength witl^gach treatment until 
 a point is reached where it wjoltld be unwise to treat 
 with more strength. Th«e,j|perator must use good 
 judgment as to how strong! or light a treatment 
 should be given to produce the best results. 
 
 The patient should always feel refreshed and re~ 
 lieved after each treatment. 
 
16. 
 
 This treatment should be given every other day. 
 Take plenty of sleep and inhale plenty of fresh air. 
 Exerciser little each day. Sun baths and quick 
 sponge baths should be taken daily. 
 
 Bat plenty of fruit, whole wheat bread, grains 
 and vegetables. Avoid all drugs, pork, sweets, pas- 
 try, alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco. 
 
 APPENDICITIS. 
 
 Symptoms — Begins with a feeling of weight, 
 soreness and rapidly developing and severe pain in 
 the lower right abdomen. The pain is increased by 
 lying on the left side, the right leg is drawn, the ab- 
 domen becomes tense, prominent and tender. 
 Fever and loss of appetite. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1.) Have the patient on his back; begin in the 
 lower right abdomen and manipulate gently, but as 
 deep as possible the ascending, transverse and de- 
 scending colon, endeavoring to move any hardened 
 lump of feces towards the rectum. 
 
 (2.) Have the patient on his left side; hold the 
 right hand of the patient and assistant holding the 
 hip, draw the arm strongly above the head giving 
 thorough extention. (cut 7) 
 
 (8.) Have the patient on his left side; manipu- 
 late deep and strong but gently over the cecum and 
 vermiform appendix, manipulating as thoroughly as 
 possible. 
 
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 If this treatment is given correctly, in a careful 
 and gentle manner, immediate relief will be experi- 
 enced by the patient. 
 
 (4.) Give No. 1 of Anaemia Treatment, (cut 3). 
 
 (5.) Give No. 6 Anaemia Treatment. This 
 treatment should be given every day. The first 
 treatment will usually give relief. 
 
 Use ice cold wet cloths and sitz baths several 
 times a day to allay inflammation. Wash out the 
 bowels by several injections of from two to four 
 quarts of hot water. Take plenty of fresh air. The 
 diet should be very light, gruels from oat-flake, rice 
 or barley. To prevent another attack live according 
 to "The Rules of Health/' 
 
 ASTHMA. 
 
 Symptoms — The attack comes on suddenly with 
 struggles for breath, loud noises and wheezing with 
 each breath. The face is flushed and the eyes have 
 a terrorized expression. Marked dyspepsia and the 
 scanty passage of pale, limped urine. The attack 
 may last a few minutes, hours or days. 
 
 Asthma which is called incurable by the medical 
 profession can always be benefited and most cases 
 can be cured by the following treatments. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1.) Have the patient on his back; stand behind 
 the patient, with the left hand hold the patient's left 
 
20. 
 
 wrist, place your right hand under the shoulder 
 half way between the shoulder blade and the spine, 
 slowly draw the arm upward high above the head, 
 pulling steadily and strongly, at the same time 
 having the patient take large inhalations, lower the 
 arms with the fingers pressing steadily on an angle 
 of the ribs. Treat opposite side in a similar man- 
 ner. 
 
 (2). Give No. 5 of Anaemia treatment. Give 
 this thoroughly. 
 
 (3). Have the patient on his back, with one 
 hand on each side of the thorax, press the ribs up- 
 ward and forward, holding them in this position 
 while the patient fills the lungs. 
 
 (4). Place the hand lightly over the lungs and 
 vibrate gently for a couple of minutes over that 
 portion which seems to be affected. Particular at- 
 tention should be paid to vibration in all lung trou- 
 bles. When properly administered it quickens, 
 stimulates, strengthens and assists very materially 
 in reducing congestion and inflammation and is 
 beneficial in many cases. Vibration should be ap- 
 plied with a loose wrist joint, using no greater pres- 
 sure than the weight of the hand. 
 
 All coughs, colds on the lungs, pleurisy and short, 
 difficult breathing respond quickly to the Asthma 
 cure. All those suffering from Asthma should 
 avoid meat, greasy food, tobacco and stimulants. 
 Eat plenty of fruit; have plenty of fresh air day 
 and night; take a sponge bath daily. The hot sitz 
 bath with hot cloth to the chest and cold along the 
 spine is very beneficial. 
 
21. 
 
 BAD HEARING. 
 
 Symptoms — A lack or deficiency in the sense of 
 hearing. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Have the patient on his back; place one 
 hand under the chin and the other under the back of 
 the head, pull gently and rotate the head in all di- 
 rections. Try to stretch all the muscles of the neck. 
 
 (2). Pull slowly on the head until the body 
 moves. 
 
 (3). Stand behind the patient and with the fin- 
 gers nearly meeting on the back of the patient's 
 neck press hard with the fingers upward and out- 
 ward, manipulate the entire length of the neck in 
 this manner. 
 
 (1). Manipulate the muscles thoroughly and 
 deep in the front of the neck, place the hand under 
 the chin, drawing the neck backward; work as 
 deeply as possible under the jaw. 
 
 (5). Manipulate as deep and thorough as pos- 
 sible all the muscles around the ear. 
 
 (6). With the index finger work as deeply into 
 the ear as possible without giving pain. Move the 
 muscles in all directions. 
 
 (7). Pull gently on the lobule with the thumb 
 and finger. 
 
 All diseases of the ear are greatly benefited and 
 many cured. The usual time required to cure dif- 
 ficult cases is from one to three months. 
 
22. 
 
 The cure is entirely affected through the circu- 
 lation, consequently the above treatment is indi- 
 cated in all cases. Prof. Kirk, of Edinburg, has 
 cured a great number of cases by applying a bag of 
 hot water to the back of the head for an hour each 
 day. Doing this for a week, then omitting it a 
 Aveek, then again for a week, etc. Some have been 
 cured of total deafness by applying hot wet cloths 
 to the back of the head for half an hour each day. 
 Injections of warm Avater into the ear, Avashing out 
 hardened AA T ax, has been found beneficial to some. 
 
 BED-WETTING— ENURESIS. 
 
 Symptoms — Im T oluntary discharge of the urine. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Children who have no control over their 
 urine can be cured with a very few treatments by 
 pressing on the sacrum close to the last lumbar A^er- 
 tebrae and raising the limbs as high as the patient 
 can stand Avithout pain. Adults can also be cured 
 with about four Aveeks of the above treatment. 
 Avoid drinking for three or four hours before re- 
 tiring, empty the bladder regularly and especially 
 before retiring. 
 

24. 
 
 IMPURE BLOOD. 
 
 Give the same treatment as for Anaemia. 
 
 If you have impure blood you need pure food, 
 pure water and pure air ; these are the necessaries. 
 Avoid drugs or patent medicines. 
 
 As the greater part of human blood is water, it 
 is necessary to drink a great deal of it. Drink 
 plenty of pure water and it will do you more good 
 than all the drugs in the world. 
 
 BLOODY FLUX OR ACUTE DYSENTERY. 
 
 Symptoms — Diarrhea, nausea, slight feYer with 
 colicky pains about the navel, also burning pains in 
 the rectum. Evacuation contains blood and pus. 
 Headache and weakness. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Have the patient on his back, stand beside 
 the bed and put both hands under him on each side 
 of the spine about the lumbar vertebrae, raise the 
 patient several inches off the bed, his weight rest- 
 ing on the ends of the fingers. Do this several times. 
 
 (2) . Have the patient on a stool, and place your 
 knee on his back about the lumbar vertebrae, draw 
 the patient backward as far as he can stand, hold a 
 moment. Repeat this several times. (Cut 8.) 
 
 (3). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment to allay 
 fever. 
 
25. 
 
 (4) Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 This treatment should be given every three or 
 four hours, and if given correctly the results will 
 be remarkable. The writer has cured some bad 
 cases by a few treatments and often after the med- 
 ical doctors had failed to give any relief. The pa- 
 tient should rest quietly in bed. Give large injec- 
 tions of either hot or cold water. Apoly hot wet 
 cloths or cold cloths to the abdomen. 
 
 It is best to fast for a day or two, use a limited 
 diet of fruits, gruels and toasted brown bread. 
 
 BRONCHITIS. 
 
 Symptoms Pain in the chest, cough, dry, then 
 loose, chilliness, light fever, acting all over, loss cf 
 appetite. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 Give entire Osteopathic treatment for Asthma. 
 Eat only two meals a day, avoid all rich foods, 
 stimulants and drugs. Inhale plenty of fresh air. 
 
 ACUTE NASAL CATARRH OR COLD IN THE 
 HEAD. 
 Symptoms — Sneezing, a watery discharge from 
 the nose, chilliness, and a little fever. Scabs of 
 dried mucus may form inside the nostrils. 
 
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 TBEATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give a thorough neck treatment. See the 
 first four manipulations for bad hearing. 
 
 (2). Move the muscles around the eyes, and 
 beginning in the corner of the eyes, move the 
 muscles upward and downward with hard pressure 
 the entire length of the nose. 
 
 (3). Manipulate all the muscles of the head 
 thoroughly. 
 
 (4). Give No. 6 of Anaemia treatment. 
 
 In acute cases this treatment should be given 
 every twelve to twenty-four hours ; in chronic cases 
 every other day is sufficient. A hot sitz bath and hot 
 lemonade with a hot foot bath, just before retiring 
 is excellent in acute cases. Those suffering from 
 catarrh should live, as close as possible, to nature. 
 All the treatments and drugs in the world will not 
 cure chronic catarrh unless the patient has plenty 
 of air, sunlight and water. 
 
 Eat only fruits, grains and fresh vegetables, 
 drink frequently of water, and bathe frequently. 
 Take an occasional mud bath and also a sun bath. 
 
 COLD FEET. 
 
 (1). Give No. 2 and No. 3 of Anaemia treat- 
 ment. 
 
 (2). Manipulate thoroughly the feet and limbs, 
 rub the soles of the feet vigorously. 
 
 Treat every day. Exercise a couple of hours 
 each day. Bathe the feet in cold water for two 
 minutes, then rub them dry. 
 
28. 
 
 CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVENESS. 
 Symptoms — Sluggish action of the bowels, the 
 stool is small and hard, liver and kidneys inactive, 
 headache and dizziness. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 ( 1 ) . Give No. 1 of Anaemia treatment and man- 
 ipulate thoroughly about the small of the back. 
 
 (2). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 
 
 (3). Give No. 1 Appendicitis treatment. 
 
 ( 4 ) . Manipulate over and around the liver, with 
 one hand on the ribs, the other over the liver ; press 
 quite strongly. Work as deeply as possible with 
 the fingers over the liver, under the ribs and raise 
 them gently. 
 
 (5). Vibrate over the liver. See No. 4 Asthma 
 treatment. 
 
 (6). Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. Be care- 
 ful to pull the head strongly and turn from right 
 to left; also manipulate the muscles in front and 
 side of the neck thoroughly. 
 
 ( 7 ) . Have the patient on his back ; pound with 
 the fists for a couple of minutes on the sacrum. The 
 treatment is also good in cases of piles or hemorr- 
 hoids. See illustration No. 11. 
 
 This treatment should be given every other day 
 and a cure of the worst form of constipation can be 
 affected in from one to six weeks. Eat plenty of 
 fruits and coarse grains. Take plenty of exercise 
 every day. 
 
29. 
 
 CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS, OR 
 TUBERCULOSIS. 
 
 Symptoms — Generally begins with dyspepsia 
 and cold hands and feet; failure of nutrition and 
 enfeebled circulation are often noticed early. Loss 
 of appetite, shortness of breath, pain in the chest 
 and shoulders, night sweats, hacking cough, bleed- 
 ing from the lungs of small quantities at intervals, 
 expectoration of mucus, becoming frothv and then 
 purulent, red spots on the cheeks, feverishness in 
 evening and easily fatigued. In women derange- 
 ment or suppression of mentrual functions. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (2). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 
 
 (3). Give No. 4 Asthma treatment. 
 
 (4). Give No. 5 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (5). I have found it to good advantage to vib- 
 rate over the spleen. 
 
 Light cases of lung trouble can be cured in two 
 weeks by one treatment every day or every other 
 day. In some very stubborn cases from four weeks 
 to two months, providing tuberculosis has not set 
 in. Take daily a sponge bath. The diet should bo 
 mainly of fruits and grains. Take deep inhalations 
 in the open air every hour during the day. Be 
 careful to breath through the nose, live in the open 
 air as much as possible. Give up all bad habits and, 
 tobacco, alcohol, tea, coffee, rich foods, pastry, con- 
 diments, fried foods and drugs. Pains in the chest 
 
30 
 
 are almost instantly relieved by hot wet cloths be- 
 tween the shoulders, and cold wet cloths over the 
 lungs; change both cloths every five minutes. 
 
 DIFFICULT BREATHING. 
 
 This occurs in a large number of diseases. Give 
 the treatment same as for Asthma. Let the patient 
 rest in an easy position and aptij^ hot wet cloths 
 to the chest. Sponge the body once a day with hot 
 water. Be careful as to diet, giving no solid food. 
 
 DIPHTHERIA. 
 
 Symptoms — These in many respects are variable 
 and vary in intensity in different cases. The prom- 
 inent symptoms being often disproportionate to the 
 gravity of the attack. The invasion may be mild, 
 with rigors, succeeded by moderate fever, headache, 
 languor, loss of appetite, stiffness of the neck, ten- 
 derness about the angles of the jaw, or slight sore- 
 ness of the throat. In other cases the invasion is 
 more abrupt and severe, with chilliness, followed 
 by great febrile reaction; 103 to 105° F; pain in 
 the ear, aching of the limbs, loss of strength, pain- 
 ful deglutition and swelling of the neck, compelling 
 the patient to take to the bed from the onset. The 
 urine is scanty, high colored and contains albumen. 
 Grayish white false membrane in the throat; there 
 may be white patches in the throat without Croup 
 or Diphtheria. 
 
 
32. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (2). Move all the muscles of the neck thor- 
 oughly from side to side. 
 
 (3). Manipulate the muscles in the patient's 
 mouth with one finger, this loosens the membrane 
 and it is likely to be expelled. 
 
 (4). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 
 
 (5). Have the patient on his back, put your 
 arms around the patient, your fingers almost meet- 
 ing on the spine below the last rib, press Avith the 
 fingers on each side of the spine and raise the pa- 
 tient's body till only the hips and shoulders rest on 
 the bed, do this two or three times, moving the 
 hands up a couple of inches ; this will stop all vomit- 
 ing. 
 
 (6). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment. This will 
 slow the action of the heart. Diphtheria in its 
 worst form yields readily to the above treatment, 
 sometimes a complete cure is affected in a few 
 days. 
 
 Treatment should be given every six hours and 
 No. 6 may be given oftener as it always relieves. 
 
 Apply ice cold cloths or ice in a rag to the throat. 
 Every half hour apply hot wet cloths to the throat 
 for ten minutes. Hold ice far back in the mouth. 
 Give daily a hot sitz bath or a hot sponge bath. Do 
 not give any food until after the crisis. Some of 
 the most renowned physicians in the United States 
 say that anti-toxine treatment is a complete fail- 
 ure. 
 
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 DYSMENORRHEA, OR PAINFUL MENSTRUA- 
 TION. 
 
 Symptoms — Usually from twenty-four to forty- 
 eight hours before the discharge makes its appear- 
 ance there will be pains in the back and loins and 
 lower part of the abdomen, sometimes extending; 
 down the thighs; this pain varies in character and 
 duration in different persons and forms of this dis- 
 ease. Some suffer but a few hours before relieved 
 by the discharge and others suffer for several days: 
 while the discharge takes place. Some cases are 
 accompanied by constipation, nausea and sensi- 
 tiveness of the stomach with great irritability of 
 mind, fainting, headache and neuralgia may like- 
 wise occur. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Have the patient lying on her face, work 
 on each side of the spine with the thumbs from the 
 waist down, moving the muscles upward and out- 
 ward. 
 
 (2). Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. Give this 
 thoroughly. 
 
 (3). Have the patient on her back, holding 
 firmly to the head of the table or couch ; give gentle 
 extension of the spine by pulling on her feet. 
 
 (4). Vibrate lightly over the uterus for a min- 
 ute or so. See No. 4 Asthma treatment. 
 
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 (5). It is very often advisable in cases of sup- 
 pressed menstruation or dysmenorrhea to give a 
 portion or all of the treatment for Anaemia in ad- 
 dition to the above. 
 
 There is no treatment known that attains the 
 success in the diseases of women as the Osteopathic 
 treatment. It frees and equalizes the circulation 
 and nerve wave to the sexual organs. There is liard- 
 Iv any female disease which does not respond 
 readily to the Osteopathic treatment, except dis 
 eases which are the direct result of tuberculosis. 
 
 Take a hot sitz bath and drink hot water. Rest in 
 bed and eat little. Avoid eating rich foods, pastry, 
 tea coffee and all drugs. Read the Rules of Health 
 carefully, especially rule No. 3. In my experience 
 I have met with great success in the treatment of 
 diseases of women and give advice by mail. 
 
 DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION. 
 
 Symptoms — Perverted appetite, difficult diges- 
 tion, heart burn, flatulency, regurgitation or vomit- 
 ing of portions of partly digested food or acrid fluid, 
 pain or soreness at the pit of the stomach during 
 digestion, tongue either clean or broad, flabby and 
 pale, bowels constipated, drowsiness after meals, 
 with wakefulness at night. Defective memory, 
 headache, flashes of heat and palpitation of the 
 heart. 
 
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 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. Tender 
 spots will usually be found on the spine between the 
 shoulder blades, they will disappear after a few 
 treatments, Avhen the patient will begin to recover. 
 
 (2). In all cases where constipation exists give 
 the Constipation treatment or as much of it as is 
 thought necessary. 
 
 (3). Give No. 5 Anaemia treatment. In giving 
 this treatment press hard with the knee between the 
 shoulder blades as the arms are lowered. 
 
 (4). Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. Also 
 manipulate in the front of the neck thoroughly. 
 
 (5). Vibrate lightly over the stomach for a 
 minute. See No. 4 Asthma treatment. 
 
 Avoid SAveets, fats, starchy foods, tobacco, al- 
 cohol, tea and coffee. Eat largely of fruits and 
 grains, sip one-half glass of water every hour and 
 especially one-half hour before meals. This stim- 
 ulates the circulation and increases the juices of 
 the stomach. Read carefully the Rules of Health, 
 and especially rules 2 and 7. 
 
 SIMPLE FEVER. 
 
 Symptoms — Onset sudden, with abrupt feeling 
 of lassitude, followed by a decided chill or dullness, 
 a sudden or rapid rise of temperature, quick tense 
 pulse, headache, dry skin, great thirst, coated 
 tongue, costive bowels and scanty high colored 
 
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 urine. Cases clue to errors in diet are accompanied 
 by nausea and vomiting. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 ( 1 ) . Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 
 (2). Give No. 4 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 
 (3). In cases of diarrhea give the diarrhea 
 treatment. 
 
 (4). Vibrate for a minute over the abdomen. 
 See Asthma treatment No. 4. 
 
 (5). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment. This 
 treatment should be given every three to six hours. 
 
 As there are a large variety of fevers and no two 
 cases are exactly alike, it is therefore unnecessary 
 to spend the time of illustrating each variety. The 
 Osteopathic treatment and also all natural treat- 
 ments are practically the same in all cases of fever. 
 It therefore depends largely upon the good judg- 
 ment of the operator in applying the correct treat- 
 ment. 
 
 (6). I have found it very beneficial in a large 
 number of cases to give No. 2 and No. 3 Anaemia 
 treatments ; also rub the soles of the feet vigorously. 
 This has a wonderful effect in drawing the blood 
 to the extremities and also cooling the patient. 
 
 You may assist in cooling the fever by sponging 
 with cool water the whole body, except the arms 
 and legs, or by wrapping a cool, wet sheet around 
 the body, keeping the feet warm with hot irons ; put 
 
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 cold rags on the head or pour cold water on the 
 head held over the side of the bed or by keeping 
 cold Avet cloths on the bowels and chest. 
 
 During fever there is little or no digestive fluid 
 in the stomach. Allow but one light meal a day 
 or none for a day or two. Gruels of grains, milk, 
 vegetable soup, grapes, oranges, lemons and cooked 
 apples constitute the best diet. Be sure to have 
 plenty of fresh air in the room either in winter or 
 summer; also have plenty of sunshine in the room. 
 If the bowels do not move every day, wash out 
 by injecting a couple of quarts of tepid water. 
 
 GASTRITIS. 
 See Dyspepsia treatment. 
 
 HEADACHE. 
 
 All headaches not caused by fevers, the stomach, 
 or the uterus, can be cured almost instantly by giv- 
 ing the proper Osteopathic treatment. 
 
 ( 1 ) . Place one hand on the forehead, the other 
 on the back of the head and press for several min- 
 utes quite hard. 
 
 ( 2 ) . Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (3). Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 
 ( 4 ) . Give No. 4 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 
 ( 5 ) . Have the patient on a stool ; stand behind 
 the patient with one hand on each side of the fore- 
 head, stroke backward and downward. 
 
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 (6). With the thumb and fingers of the right 
 hand on either side of the patient's neck and the 
 left hand on his forehead tilt backward gently, at 
 the same time lift the right hand. Rotate the head. 
 As headaches are usually caused by constipation, 
 overloaded stomach, lack of bathing, debility, brain 
 troubles, rheumatism, poor ventilation, alcohol, 
 etc., it is always well to remove the cause if pos- 
 sible, and also to give the other treatments as in- 
 dicated from the cause. 
 
 Give the patient a hot foot bath, and put cold 
 wet cloths on the head. When one is subject to 
 headache they should avoid all grease, fried foods 
 and drugs; also alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco. 
 Read the Rules of Health. 
 
 INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS, OR 
 ENTERITIS. 
 
 Symptoms — Fever, colicy pains about the um- 
 bilicus, abdomen is tender, bowels are loose, stools 
 contain but little fecal matter, are yellow or green- 
 ish yellow in color. If the stools are numerous they 
 become whitish and watery, no blood in stools. 
 
 (1). Give No. 1 of the Appendicitis treatment 
 only in the reversed order; that is, to begin in the 
 lower left-hand corner of the abdomen. Knead the 
 bowels carefully up the descending colon, across 
 the transverse colon and down the ascending col- 
 on. This checks the peristaltic action of the bowels 
 and the diarrhea. 
 
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 (2). Give No. 1 Bloody Flux treatment. 
 
 (3). Give No. 1 The Asthma treatment. 
 
 Exercising great care to press with the fingers 
 hard between the shoulder blades as the arms are 
 lowered. 
 
 (4). If the muscles in the lower part of the 
 spine are in a tender or sensitive condition, treat 
 that part of the spine. See Anaemia treatment, 
 No. 1. 
 
 (5). If fever exists hold the vaso motor for a 
 short time. See No. 6 Anaemia treatment. This 
 treatment should be given very carefully and gently 
 once each day. If given correctly relief will imme- 
 diately ensue. 
 
 Give a very light diet of fruits and grains. A hot 
 sitz bath and also large injections of hot water 
 daily; hot wet cloths on the abdomen will relieve. 
 
 INFLUENZA, OB LA GBIPPE. 
 
 Symptoms — Fever, debility, aching of the whole 
 body, soreness in the back and limbs, stiffness of 
 neck, headache over the eyes, nose, and eyes wa- 
 tery, and loss of appetite. 
 
 TBEATMENT. 
 Give the same treatment as for fever. When nose 
 and eyes are very watery give part of the treatment 
 for Sore Eyes. Follow the same hygienic treat- 
 ment as for fever. 
 
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 GONORRHEA, SYPHILIS, MASTURBATION, 
 IMPOTENCE, GLEET. 
 
 and all diseases of men are successfully treated by 
 the author of this book. See ad. in the back of this 
 book. 
 
 KIDNEY DISEASES. 
 
 I have had great success in the treatment of all 
 kidney and bladder troubles, but as the diagnosis 
 of kidney diseases depends almost wholly upon the 
 analysis of the urine, it is therefore impracticable to 
 give the treatment for each disease. But I would 
 recommend the treatment as laid down for Anae- 
 mia. Also vibrate over the kidneys. 
 
 In all cases of kidney trouble it is well to live on. 
 a diet of fruits, grains and vegetables. Avoid 
 meat, tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Hot 
 sitz baths and hot wet cloths are good for pain 
 in the kidneys or bladder. 
 
 TORPID LIVER. 
 
 Symptoms — Loss of appetite, slight fever, head- 
 ache, furred tongue, nausea, bitter taste and usu- 
 ally constipated. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 ( 1 ) . Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment thoroughly. 
 (2). Give thorough extension of the spine. 
 See No. 3 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 
 ( 3 ) . Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. 
 
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 ( 4 ) . In all cases where constipation exists give 
 all or part of the constipation treatment. 
 
 (5). Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (6). Press and manipulate around the liver. 
 
 ( 7 ) . Vibrate over the liver. See No. 4 Asthma 
 treatment. 
 
 Give all of this treatment in a careful and thor- 
 ough manner once each day. 
 
 Wear a wet towel around the waist at night. 
 Avoid fats, sweets, fried foods, pastry, tea and cof- 
 fee, tobacco, alcohol and eat meat sparingly. Fol- 
 low closely the Rules of Health. 
 
 LUMBAGO. 
 Symtoms — Rheumatic pains in the loins usually 
 shooting upward, increased by muscular exercise, 
 may be chronic or acute. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment, 
 
 (2). Give No. 3 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (3). Give No. 1 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 
 
 (4). Have the patient lying on his side; with 
 one hand manipulate the muscles of the lumbar 
 vertebrae, pressing rather hard at the same time 
 with the other hand, raise the limb and press it 
 from you. ( See cut 9. ) No known diseases yield as 
 readily to Osteopathic treatment as Lumbago and 
 Sciatica. 
 
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 I have cured numerous acute cases with one or 
 two treatments, and many chronic cases of many 
 years' standing* in from two to six weeks' time. 
 And if this treatment is given correctly it will he 
 unnecessary to give anv other treatment. 
 
 Hot sitz baths and hot wet cloths generally give 
 relief. Wearing a hot wet cloth about the small 
 of the back is very beneficial. Drugs do no good 
 in either of these diseases. Live according to the 
 Eules of Health. 
 
 NEURASTHENIA, OK NERVOUS PROSTRA- 
 TION. 
 
 Symptoms — Nervousness, cold hands and feet, 
 fullness in the head with flushes of heat, headache, 
 dizziness, melancholy; in the male there are genito 
 urinary disorders, with pains in the back; in the 
 female, painful menstruation, ovarian irritation 
 and irritable uterus. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (2). Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 
 (3). Give No. 4 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 
 This treatment is beneficial and is usually suffi- 
 cient, but if any other complication exists apply 
 whatever other treatment is necessary. 
 
 Applying the treatment as laid down for Anae- 
 mia is very good. Avoid alcohol, tobacco, tea, cof- 
 fee, condiments, sexual excesses, overwork, irregu- 
 
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 lar habits and drugs. A sponge bath daily and a 
 couple of hours of exercise in the fresh air. Take a 
 good hot bath once a week. Follow the Rules of 
 Health. See rule 9. 
 
 NEURALGIA. 
 
 ( Pain in the Course of a Nerve. ) 
 Symptoms — Darting, burning pain in the course 
 of an affected nerve which ceases at times. The 
 skin usually becomes insensible; pain may last for 
 a few minutes or for days. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 As Neuralgia' may -manifest itself in many parts 
 of the body, no definite treatment can be laid down. 
 If the disease is in the face thorough manipulation 
 of the face and neck should be given. See Bad 
 Hearing treatment. If in the limb as sciatica man- 
 ipulate thoroughly that limb. See Lumbago treat- 
 ment. 
 
 I have permanently cured bad cases of neuralgia 
 of years standing with five or six treatments. 
 Treat every day. Hot wet cloths or cold wet 
 cloths or ice will relieve the pain. Apply along the 
 spine cloths wrung out of cold water; change every 
 few minutes. For a Dermanent cure the patient's 
 health must be improved. Sun baths and exercise 
 with plenty of fresh air is necessary. 
 
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 PLEURISY. 
 
 Symptoms — Pain or stitch in the side, difficult 
 breathing, fever and cough, pain is usually on a 
 level with the nipple. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 Give the entire treatment as laid down for Asth- 
 ma. In acute cases of pleurisy I have found it un- 
 necessary to give all of the Asthma treatment. In- 
 stant relief is afforded after giving No. 2 of the 
 Asthma treatment if given in a thorough and gentle 
 manner. The treatment should be given once a day. 
 Hot wet cloths applied to the pain generally re- 
 lieve, but if this does not suffice, apply cold wet 
 cloths all over the chest. 
 
 PARALYSIS OR PALSY. 
 
 Under the general term of paralysis are classed 
 various conditions which involve inability, partial 
 or complete, to control various muscles of the body. 
 May be caused by nerve diseases, muscular strains, 
 excesses, poisoning, scarlet fever, diphtheria, men- 
 ingitis, etc. ; may also be the result of apoplexy. 
 When one entire side of the body from the head 
 downward, is affected, it is called hemiplegia. If 
 the lower half of the body be attacked it is called 
 paraplegia, and when confined to a limb or set of 
 muscles it is called paralysis. 
 
 Palsy usually comes on with a sudden and inline- 
 
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 diate loss of motion and sensibility of the parts, 
 sometimes preceded by a numbness, coldness and 
 paleness and sometimes b}^ slight convulsive twitch- 
 ings. Occasionally the disease advances more 
 slowly, a finger, hand, arm or the muscles of the 
 tongue, of the mouth or of the eyelid being first 
 affected. 
 
 TKEATMENT. 
 
 In all cases of paralysis I give practically the 
 same Osteopathic treatment as in acute muscular 
 rheumatism, being very careful to manipulate the 
 spinal column on both sides thoroughly. (Anaemia 
 treatment No. 1, illustration No. 3) . Give an exten- 
 sion of the spine, by a strong, steady pull on the 
 patient's feet with an assistant holding the shoul- 
 ders, also manipulate thoroughly the affected parts. 
 If the paralysis is in the lower extremities Anae- 
 mia treatment No. 2 (illustration No. 4) must be 
 given thoroughly. This stretches the great sciatic, 
 one of the largest nerves in the body, which supplies 
 the larger part of the limb. Anions the many cases 
 of paralysis I have successfully treated, I might 
 mention a little boy of St. Paul, Minn. Nine 
 months ago he and his mother made a visit to New 
 York; he was then a bright, active child of three 
 years. In NeAV York he Avas taken sick with fever 
 and spinal meningitis, which left his limbs paral- 
 ysed. They gradually wasted away until there was 
 little left but the skin and bones. He Avas carried 
 
 
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 from one specialist to another while in New York, 
 but they all said nothing could be done for the poor 
 little fellow. The mother brought her child home, 
 still hoping that she would find some one who could 
 help him. They consulted their family physician, 
 who recommended several nerve specialists in St. 
 Paul, but after each examination they all agreed 
 that nothing could be done to make the child walk. 
 
 He was brought to me two months ago. His 
 limbs are developed to normal size and he can walk. 
 
 Persons suffering from paralysis should live 
 strictly according to the Kules of Health. Take 
 plenty of fresh air ; bathe regularly ; avoid tobacco, 
 alcohol and drugs. 
 
 CROUPOUS PNEUMONIA OR LUNG FEVER. 
 
 Symptoms — Chills, fever, deep-seated, dull pain 
 beneath the breast bone or shoulder blade, great 
 feeling of illness, short breath, frequent short 
 cough, skin is hot, expectoration of viscid matter 
 of a green, yellow or pale color, sometimes tinged 
 with blood which forms such tenacious masses that 
 they cling to the bottom of the vessel containing 
 them. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 
 (2). Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 
 (3). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 
 ( 4 ) . Vibrate over the lungs. See No. 4 Asthma 
 treatment. 
 
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 (5). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment to reduce 
 the fever. This treatment will give immediate re- 
 lief and a speedy cure if the case has not gone too 
 far. 
 
 Give a sponge bath daily, cold, wet half oack 
 around the chest, while the fever is high, but sitz 
 bath if the feet and legs are cold. See that the pa- 
 tient has plenty of fresh air. Give a tea cup of 
 milk or gruel every two or three hours ; give plenty 
 of water to drink. 
 
 CATARRHAL PNEUMONIA. 
 
 (Or Inflammation of the Lungs, Beginning With 
 the Bronchi.) 
 Symptoms — Just the same as in Croupous Pneu- 
 monia, only that the disease is in spots, hence it 
 is called Lobular Pneumonia. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 Give the same treatment as for Croupous Pneu- 
 monia. 
 
 ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM. 
 
 Symptoms — Begins suddenly, usually at night, 
 with a chill or chilliness, pain and stiffness in the 
 joints, loss of appetite, followed by fever, the tem- 
 perature soon reaching 102 F to 104° F; in rare 
 cases 108 F to 110° F, the pulse seldom exceeding 
 95, great thirst, profuse acid sweats and scanty 
 high colored acid urine, sometimes showing traces 
 of albumen, bowels constipated. 
 
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 Sleep is prevented by the pain and profuse pers- 
 piration ; the pain is aggravated by motion or pres- 
 sure, the swelling is most armarent in those joints; 
 not covered with muscle : knee, wrist, elbow, ankle., 
 hand and feet. 
 
 TKEATMENT. 
 
 (1). If the disease is located in the lower 
 extremity give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (2). Give No. 3 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (3). Stretch the limb gently by pulling on the 
 foot. 
 
 (4). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment, working 
 principally on the lower part of the spine. As all 
 the joints will be very painful, great care must be 
 taken to give this treatment in a very gentle man- 
 ner. Treatment should be given every other day. 
 
 (1). If the disease is located in the upper 
 extremity, give No. 1 of the Anaemia treatment, 
 manipulating principally on the upper part of the 
 spine. 
 
 (2). Give No. 5 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (3). Have one hand on the patient's shoulder,. 
 with the other hold the patient's elbow, Dressing 
 hard Avith both hands, move the arm upward, for- 
 ward and around. ( See cut 10 ) . 
 
 (4). With one hand hold the patient's wrist 
 and with the other move the muscles from right to* 
 left and from left to rieht the whole length of the- 
 arm. 
 
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 (5). With one hand on the patient's shoulder, 
 the other on the wrist, stretch the arm. 
 
 When Rheumatism is in any other part of the 
 body except the upper or lower extremities, it is 
 Avell to give a thorough treatment, manipulating 
 principally on the spinal column, also stretch the 
 neck and extremities. 
 
 Take a hot sitz bath one day and a hot air or sun 
 bath the next day. If the bowels do not move wash 
 the bowels out every other dav with an injection of 
 hot water. Eat plentv of fruits and grain. Avoid 
 meat, alcohol, tea, coffee, rich foods and drugs. 
 
 Among many of the remarkable cures I have 
 made is that of a prominent Minneapolis newspa- 
 per man, whom I cured in a few treatments of 
 rheumatism in the feet. He was unable to walk 
 or put on his shoes. 
 
 CHRONIC ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM. 
 
 Symptoms — Pain and stiffness in one or more 
 of the joints, most frequently in a shoulder and 
 knee. This disease very often follows the acute 
 form. In time the affected limb looses its power of 
 motion, and lameness results. The pain is more or 
 less constant, but is worse in damp weather, rarely 
 any swelling or elevation of temperature. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 Give same treatment as for acute articular rheu- 
 matism, only in this form one treatment every other 
 
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 day is sufficient. Great care must be taken to man- 
 ipulate thoroughly all around the affected joints. 
 
 MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM. 
 
 Symptoms — This disease involves the muscles 
 instead of the joints. Its onset is sudden, usually 
 first noticed on attempting to rise in the morning. 
 The first attack is generally acute; in the chronic 
 form it returns frequently and finally becomes con- 
 stant and aggravated when the weather is damn. 
 The suffering may be severe and constant or only 
 on motion. Fever is absent. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 In all forms of rheumatism the treatment is prac- 
 tically the same as for acute muscular rheumatism. 
 When the disease is acute it is best to treat about 
 once everv twenty-four hours; when chronic one 
 treatment every other day is sufficient. See rule 15 
 of the Rules of Health. 
 
 SCIATICA. 
 
 (Pain Following the Course of the Sciatic Nerve.) 
 Symptoms — Sciatica usually follows an attack 
 of Lumbago, the pain becomes fixed in the sciatic 
 nerve. The pain is sharp, tearing, shooting or lan- 
 cinating in character, increased upon motion, shoot- 
 ing along the course of the nerve into the hip, inner 
 side of the thigh, calf of the leg, ankle and heel, at 
 
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 one or all of these points, paroxynis lasting from a 
 few hours to twenty-four hours or longer. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 Give the Lumbago treatment, being careful to 
 give Nos. 2 and 3 Anaemia treatment in a thorough 
 and careful manner. 
 
 SORE EYES OR CONJUNCTIVITIS. 
 Symptoms — Eyelids stuck together on awaken- 
 ing, heavy feeling, itching and burning sensation. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 ( 1 ) . Give Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Bad Hearing 
 treatment, 
 
 (2). Manipulate thoroughly all the muscles 
 around the eye. 
 
 (3). With one finger manipulate thoroughly, 
 but gently, under the edge of the bone surrounding 
 the eye. Be careful not to press on the eyeball. 
 
 (4). Vibrate over the eye with two fingers 
 lightly. See No. 4 Asthma treatment. This treat- 
 ment should be given every day. 
 
 The above treatment should be given for in- 
 flammation of the eyes, granulated eyelids, weak 
 eyes, near sightedness, etc. Be sure to improve the 
 general health by following the rules laid down 
 in this book. Rest the eyes and shade them from 
 the light. Apply cold wet cloths, sponge them with 
 hot water twice a day. If only one eye is dis- 
 eased protect the other by using a different towel. 
 
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 SOKE THKOAT OE ACUTE PHARYNGITIS. 
 
 Symptoms — Stiffness of the neck, enlargement 
 of the cervical glands, hoarseness, chilliness and 
 fever; often white spots on the tonsils. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 ( 1 ) . Give Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bad Hearing treat- 
 ment. 
 
 (2). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 
 
 (3). Vibrate over the larynx. See No. 4 Asth- 
 ma treatment. Give this thoroughly, but gently, 
 every day. 
 
 Take a hot foot bath on going to bed and apply 
 a cold wet cloth on the throat over night. 
 
 TONSILLITIS OR QUINSY. 
 
 Symptoms — Usually one tonsil is affected, some- 
 times both, onset more or less sudden, rise in tem- 
 perature, headache, thirst, pain and swelling at the 
 angle of the jaw, with a constant desire to clear 
 the throat, difficult and painful deglutition from 
 the enlarged tonsils, almost closing the fauces, 
 when the respiration is more or less impeded, some- 
 times earache and deafness. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment, 
 (2). Give Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bad Hearing treat- 
 ment. 
 
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 (3). Manipulate the neck thoroughly, but gent- 
 ly, in the region of the tonsils around the angle of 
 the jaw. 
 
 (4). When fever exists give No. 6 Anaemia 
 treatment. This treatment should be given every 
 day. Give a hot foot bath and applv cold wet 
 cloths to the throat. Allow only a simple diet of 
 fruits, grains and vegetables. Have plenty of fresh 
 air and sunlight. 
 
 TONSILS— ENLARGED. 
 
 Symptoms — Difficult swallowing, enlargement of 
 the tonsils, interference with swallowing, talking 
 and breathing, sometimes hardness of hearing. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 Treat the same as for tonsillitis. Put a cold cloth 
 on the throat over night and for two hours during 
 the day use hot and cold cloths ; hot cloths for half 
 an hour, then cold cloths for half an hour ; change 
 both hot and cold cloths every five minutes. Im- 
 prove the general health by living according to the 
 Rules of Health. 
 
 VERTIGO OR DIZZINESS. 
 
 Symptoms — The attack of giddiness comes on 
 suddenly, indistinct vision and slight confusion of 
 thoughts. In all varieties of vertigo the sensation 
 of objects moving around the patient, or the patient 
 moving around objects which remain stationary is 
 
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 present in some degree. There is no loss of con- 
 sciousness. The ordinary symptoms of vertigo be- 
 ing preceded by headache, nausea, specks before the 
 eyes, and pain in the eveballs. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 When this disease is associated with stomach 
 troubles or if it is caused by a nervous disorder. T 
 have found it advisable to give the entire treatment 
 for Anaemia omitting No. 6. 
 
 When the trouble results from the disease of the 
 semicircular canals and cocklea, give Nos. 1, 2, 3 
 and 4 of the Bad Hearing treatment; also No. 5 
 Anaemia treatment. Treat every other day. 
 
 As this disease is often caused by too much or too 
 little blood in the brain, loss of sleep, sexual ex- 
 cesses, etc., one should live on a plain and simple 
 diet and follow the Rules of Health. 
 
 AMENORRHEA OR SUPPRESSED MEN- 
 STRUATION. 
 
 Symptoms — If caused by phthesis, there is ema- 
 ciation, cough, and night sweats; when caused by 
 anaemia, there is dyspnea and palpitation on exer- 
 tion, loss of appetite, headache, constipation, hys 
 teria and palor. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1) Give no. 1 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 
 
 (2) Have the patient on her face and with both 
 
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 hands on the same side of the spine, move the mus- 
 cles upward and outward very carefully and deep 
 the entire length of the spine, working more thor- 
 oughly the lower part, 
 
 (3) Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. 
 
 (4) Give No. 3 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 
 
 ( 5 ) Vibrate over the uterus, lightly. See Asth- 
 ma Treatment No. 4. 
 
 Very often it is advisable in cases of suppressed 
 menstruation or dysmenorrhea to give all or part of 
 the treatment for Anaemia in addition to the above. 
 
 At the expected time take a hot sitz bath, also 
 drink hot water, apply hot cloths and bricks, rest 
 in bed, avoid corsets and drugs. See 3 and 4 of 
 the Eules of Health. 
 
 SCANTY MENSTRUATION OR OLIGOMEN- 
 ORRHEA. 
 Treat the same as for Amenorrhea. 
 
 PROFUSE MENSTRUATION OR MENORR- 
 HAGIA. 
 
 Symptoms — Excessive and long menstrual flow. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 (1) Give No. 2 Amenorrhea treatment. 
 
 (2) With the patient on her face press rather 
 hard between each vertebrae. Treat every other 
 day. 
 
 As this disease is often caused by plethora or de- 
 
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 bility, great attention should be given to the gen- 
 eral health. Take plenty of out-door exercise and 
 fresh air. Apply cold wet cloths over the lower 
 part of the abdomen. Should the menstruation 
 last too long, it can be stopped by a cold sitz bath. 
 See 3 and 4 of the Eules of Health. 
 
 PLETHORA OR TOO MUCH BLOOD. 
 
 Give the same Osteopathic Treatment as for 
 Anaemia. Do not eat more food than is necessary. 
 Avoid meat, grease, eggs, alcohol, sugar, milk, nuts, 
 tea and coffee. Eat plenty of grains, vegetables, 
 sour and acid foods. Exercise for two hours each 
 day. Take a couple of hot baths each week, also 
 a couple of sun baths. The above treatment is also 
 good for obesity. 
 
 SKIN DISEASES. 
 
 All skin diseases yield readily to the Osteopathic 
 Treatment and are cured in a short time by hygienic 
 living. 
 
 TREATMENT. 
 
 Manipulate the affected parts thoroughly. Take 
 daily a sponge bath also a sun bath and exercise 
 according to strength. Live according to the Rules 
 of Health. 
 
 WEAK STOMACH. 
 All stomach troubles not caused by what we eat 
 
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 or how we eat and drink are caused by a lack of 
 nerve power to the stomach. If we eat too much 
 we over work the stomach. If there is too little 
 nerve power to the stomach there will not be enough 
 juices secreted to digest the food. 
 
 Do not eat too often, the stomach needs rest. 
 Avoid mustard, pepper, horse radish, catsup, spices, 
 large amounts of salt and other seasonings, they 
 irritate the stomach and weaken it, Do not take 
 your food or drink too hot or too cold. I have 
 found that people with electric temperament, that 
 is, dark complected people, should have their food 
 quite warm ; where as, those of a magnetic tempera- 
 ment, that is, light complected people, do well on 
 tolerably cool food. 
 
 See and follow the treatment as laid down for 
 dyspepsia and indigestion. 
 
 LOSS OF APPETITE. 
 
 If the patient has a poor circulation give the 
 Osteopathic Treatment as laid down for Anaemia. 
 
 Sup one-fourth of a glass of water every half 
 hour. See Constipation Treatment. Live in the 
 open, fresh air as much as possible ; take a sun bath 
 every day and bathe the whole body twice a week. 
 Avoid drugs, highly seasoned food and bitters, they 
 do a great deal of harm and no good. No food 
 should be eaten at the beginning of a disease or in 
 fevers as there is little or no juice in the stomach 
 to digest the food. Man is the only animal that 
 will eat when he is sick. 
 

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 SPKAINS. 
 
 By falling and twisting the foot or limbs and by 
 other accidental injuries the ligaments about va- 
 rious joints may be suddenly stretched, constituting 
 a sprain. The pain is usually severe and sharp, 
 swelling and often redness of the parts follow. 
 
 TEEATMENT. 
 
 If commenced immediately apply cold running 
 w r ater to the sprain. 
 
 (1) In the immediate region of the sprain ma- 
 nipulate gently but thoroughly all the muscles. 
 
 (2) Give thorough extension and rotation of 
 the joint. Give this treatment every day. 
 
 Under no circumstances should the affected joint 
 be used before recovery. 
 
 SWEATING FEET. 
 
 This is often caused by nervousness. Improve 
 the general health and wash the feet night and 
 morning. Take also a sponge bath daily, wear 
 clean hose daily and shoes with good large soles. 
 Go barefoot an hour each day, if possible, and ex- 
 pose the feet to the sun. See the Kules of Health, 
 rule 7 for sweating feet. 
 
 SITZ BATH. 
 In many of the treatments I have advised a sitz 
 bath — possibly many will not know how this bath 
 is snven. 
 
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 An ordinary wash tub will do, put a brick or 
 thick stick of wood under one side of the tub. Sit 
 in the tub with the feet out side, have enough water 
 to cover the hips. Have a blanket around the neck 
 covering the tub. When taking a hot sitz bath add 
 more hot water every few minutes. 
 
 Fifteen to thirty minutes is long enough to re- 
 main in the water if it is hot, if it is cold two to 
 live minutes. 
 
 The hot sitz bath is excellent to reduce pain, also 
 in female and kidney troubles, etc. 
 
 The cold sitz bath is splendid for piles and other 
 diseases of the rectum, and to stop hemorrhage of 
 the vagina, etc. 
 
 SUN BATH. 
 
 The sun bath is the exposure of the naked skin 
 of the whole body to the sun shine. The sun bath 
 is a splendid tonic and strengthener in all diseases. 
 The patient should be so as to expose the whole 
 body, excepting the head, to the sunshine. 
 
 Beginning with ten minutes, increasing each day, 
 a few minutes. At the end of each sun bath always 
 sponge the body in tepid water. The sun bath is 
 excellent in cases of bad nutrition, nervousness and 
 skin diseases, consumption, dyspepsia, paralysis, 
 neuralgia, rheumatism, hypochondria and conva- 
 lescense from various acute diseases. See rule 
 of the Rules of Health. 
 
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 THE MUD BATH. 
 
 The mud bath is taken by covering the whole or 
 part of the body with soft mud — for from fifteen to 
 thirty minutes. 
 
 This bath is best when taken out in the onen air 
 by a river or lake and combined with a sun bath. 
 
 Always use dark or black earth or clav. Termin- 
 ate the mud bath with a thorough washing. 
 
 The mud bath is excellent in all skin diseases, 
 catarrh, consumption and in many other com- 
 plaints. 
 
 A FEW THINGS THAT ABE GOOD TO DO IN 
 ALL DISEASES. 
 
 Have the windows open and see that the patient 
 has plenty of fresh air. 
 
 Give a quick sponge bath every day. 
 
 Give the patient nothing to eat from twenty-four 
 to forty-eight hours, drinking water when hungry. 
 
 Apply cold cloths to the head and hot irons or 
 bottles to the feet. 
 
 If the patient has fever sponge with cool water 
 over the back, chest and abdomen. 
 
 Avoid tobacco, whiskey, meat, pastry, tea, coffee 
 and fried foods. 
 
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 BULES OP HEALTH. 
 
 For many years I have been engaged daily in 
 treating chronic diseases, and I am thankful to be 
 able to say I have attained a success greater than 
 has any other Osteopathic Physician that I know 
 of— much greater than I dared hope for in my 
 early experience. I attribute a greater part of that 
 success to my putting my patients on the right 
 track in their habits of living. I give all of them 
 the following rules or directions, modifying some 
 to suit the needs of each case. 
 
 Strictly observed they are worth more to any 
 young person, than would be a deed of the best 
 farm in the state. 
 
 1 ) You must sleep eight hours out of the twen- 
 ty-four. For children ten, eleven or even twelve 
 hours. Students eight or nine ; and laborers eight. 
 Plenty of good sound sleep will cure nervous dis- 
 eases. 
 
 (2) After dinner lie down in a comfortably 
 warm room for about thirty minutes, relaxing all 
 your muscles and making yourself passive as possi- 
 ble. By this means and a proper diet with very 
 little manipulation I cure the very worst forms of 
 dyspepsia. 
 
 (3) Must dress loosely, not binding any part 
 of the body tight with corsets, belts, straps, neck- 
 ties or garters. Corsets kill more than cannon. 
 Men only are slain in war. Nature keeps up the 
 
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 balance by inducing women to slay themselves. Our 
 passions, *pride and ignorance send us to the battle,, 
 theirs send them to a slaughter as deadly; so that, 
 after all, the sexes are kept nearly equal in the 
 world; our greater exposure to the perils of travel 
 on land and water and to dangerous and destruc- 
 tive employments, being about balanced by their 
 risks in child-birth and their follies in dress. 
 
 At a very early age pride places these corsets 
 and bands about the tender, delicate body of the 
 school -girl. 
 
 Tight belts sometimes cause inflammation and 
 other serious disorders of the kidneys; tight neck- 
 ties induce fullness of blood in the head, vertigo, 
 dizziness, apoplexy, and even paralysis; tight gar- 
 ters make cold feet, and worn long, cause bursting 
 of the veins, and ugly sores on the shins and an- 
 kles, interrupting the circulation in the extremi- 
 ties, they turn to the brain, and so induce irritabil- 
 ity of the nerves, headache, etc. 
 
 (4) Yon innst suspend all garments from the 
 shoulders — never front the hips or waist. Dress 
 the hips and waist as loose for the day as you do 
 for the night. If this rule is not fully observed 
 there is no hope of recovery from weak back or 
 loins, trembling knees or dragging down pains. 
 
 Men often rupture themselves by not heeding this 
 rule. 
 
 Women induce diseases of the womb from hang- 
 ing their skirts about their loins and hips instead 
 
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 of from the shoulders. Can there be any greater 
 folly than to attempt to cure these diseases with- 
 out removing their cause? 
 
 (5) Dress in light colors. The nearer white 
 the better, under garments and all. 
 
 (6) Spend in the sunlight at least six hours a 
 day that the sun shines if you can, and the more 
 the better. If confined in doors you should be be- 
 fore a window where the sunlight will fall upon 
 you for the time but it is better for you to be out, 
 in it if you can, and if at first it causes you head- 
 ache, shield the head and eyes; but remember the 
 sun-light will do you little good if clad in dark gar- 
 ments. These two rules are to be observed with 
 the greatest care by those suffering from nervous- 
 ness, catarrh or consumption. 
 
 White transmits light, black absorbs it. See the 
 difference between heat and light. Now what the 
 human body needs is light, not the heat from the 
 sun. 
 
 On a bright sunny day, dressed in white one can 
 walk nearly twice as far and endure nearly twice 
 as much, as if dressed in black of the same texture. 
 Then white disposes to cheerfulness and black to 
 gravity and sadness. 
 
 In our present style of living we do not get 
 enough sunlight. It is unnatural to be housed up 
 all day as we are, and we must suffer for it. The 
 windows should be large, and not hidden with cur- 
 
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 tains or blinds, nor shaded with trees. The fear of 
 being tanned leads many women to eliolate them- 
 selves till, like a bleached-celery plant, all whitened, 
 they are fit only for the banquet of the grave 
 Avorms. They and their children become scrofu- 
 lous, consumptive, or cancerous, as do the coal min- 
 ers of England and other countries, who spend 
 their days in the dark mines. These miners are 
 notorious for the prevalence of these diseases 
 among them, and for rickets and deformities. 
 Good health and good sense seek the sunny side of 
 the car in riding, and the sunny side of the street 
 in walking. They abhor the shade and the dark. 
 
 (7) You must keep the feet dry, and if they 
 perspire freely, must change the hose, and better, 
 the shoes or boots, too, at least once or twice a day. 
 Especially if you have catarrh or catch cold easily. 
 Wear woolen hose in winter. 
 
 Nervous, excitable people are very prone to clam- 
 my, cold, damp feet. In some the soles and palms 
 act vicariously for the kidneys. People say they 
 sweat their feet, but it is not really a sweat, nor 
 is it increased at all by warmth, but rather by the 
 cold. It is the result of a very wakeful condition, 
 and the secretion may be said to be the product of 
 the worn-out brain and nerves. It is always moist 
 when the mind is most excited. 
 
 Public speakers, singers and actors suffer much 
 from it, and it predisposes them to catch cold. It 
 troubles least when idling and quiet. A few min- 
 
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 utes' sleep will, at any time, dry up the soles made 
 clammy by excitement. Children are much health- 
 ier for going barefoot while the ground is warm. 
 That draws the blood to the feet, and relieves the 
 brain. 
 
 In insanity, in certain forms of nervous diseases 
 I advise this course for adults also. There is no 
 better tonic for the nerves. But when the ground 
 is cold, woolen socks and warm dry feet, are essen- 
 tial to those prone to catarrhal troubles. 
 
 It is by attention to these little things that I cure 
 many diseases that are considered by conservative 
 physicians, who never pay attention to these tri- 
 fles, to be incurable. No disease is incurable if 
 treated in time, and according to the dictates of 
 common sense and a careful observance of Nature's 
 laws. 
 
 (8) Must not wear rubbers nor oilcloth at all 
 while in doors and better not wear them more than 
 two hours at a time. 
 
 They retain the sweat and waste matter of the 
 system till reabsorbed and thus the blood becomes 
 laden with them — impure, heavy and poisonous. 
 
 (9) Must not indulge in a strong drink of any 
 Jcind nor in tobacco in any form, nor in opium, nor 
 chloral, nor in any other narcotic or artificial stim- 
 ulant. 
 
 But it is best for the health that even a bad hab- 
 it should not be broken too suddenly but gradually, 
 that the system may not suffer from violence. Dr. 
 
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 F. L. Matthay, the celebrated physician and healer 
 cures all bad habits by mail. 
 
 (a) You must not drink strong drinks or liq- 
 uors of any kind. 
 
 ■(b) You must not use tobacco in any form. 
 
 I take pains to repeat the main items of this rule 
 for I attach much importance to the observance of 
 them and I am well convinced that indulgence in 
 one or more of the above is, by all odds, the most 
 common cause of disease in the land. 
 
 It has been justly remarked that insanity and 
 other nervous diseases are increasing at a fearfully 
 rapid rate. I add at a not more rapid rate than is 
 the consumption of the above poisons. Some men 
 deem themselves witty in the remark that these are 
 very slow poisons because some have used them and 
 lived to a very old age. Yet every one knows that 
 there is not one of them, but what will, in small 
 quantities destroy the life of a child or even a man 
 unaccustomed to them. But the system soon learns 
 to tolerate and relish all these. Yet who shall say 
 that because of such tolerance they do not harm? 
 
 I have practiced too long to allow my patients 
 to deceive themselves with the hope that indulgence 
 in such things does them no injury. If my convic- 
 tions in this respect were not well based, I would 
 be but too happy to yield them, for many refuse to 
 submit to my treatment, because I deprive them of 
 other doctors that are more accommodating and 
 these luxuries, and they have no difficulty in finding 
 
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 less scrupulous — doctors who indulge in such 
 things themselves and who permit their families to 
 indulge and who are not ashamed that they and 
 theirs suffer as much from ill-health as do their 
 patients. 
 
 (c) You must not drink tea, coffee or chocolate 
 to excess, not drinking over one cup at each meal, 
 When you are thirsty drink what the birds drink, 
 what the beasts drink, Avhat all creatures drink. It 
 is enough, the universal perfect drink. No harm 
 to take a glass of water But I find it is advisable 
 to drink water in small quantities and often; sip- 
 ping about one-half glass every hour, and especially 
 one-half glass before each meal. 
 
 This stimulates the action of the stomach and in- 
 fluences the circulation which causes increased ap- 
 petite and consequently increased nutrition and 
 vitality. 
 
 Do not be so foolish as to hope to cure dyspepsia 
 with bitters and pills. The reason it is so rarely 
 cured and that so many travel far and wide in seek 
 of relief, yet still continue to suffer is that the phy- 
 sicians do not appreciate these laws but allow their 
 patients to carry their bad habits with them. 
 
 ( 10 ) Must not eat any sausage, mince pie, head- 
 cheese, salt meats, nor salt -fish, nor pork in any 
 form or preparation, salt or fresh, fat or lean 
 anything that ever came from any part of a hog — • 
 as lard or ham, or soused feet; uor any food boiled 
 with meat or cooked with grease. 
 
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 Pork, in whatever way prepared, is a coarse, rank 
 diseased meat, and there is just as good reason to 
 prohibit its use today as there was in the days of 
 Moses. There are many sick people and many that 
 are only half well in this country, from eating the 
 unclean hog. 
 
 Mixed meats, whether as sausage, hash, mince 
 pie or whatever else are greasy, foul and offensive 
 to the body, if not the tongue. 
 
 Those who are all day out doors may burn them 
 off through the breath, but those of sedentary hab- 
 its cannot stand them. The life is gone too long 
 and far from salt meats or fish; they should not 
 be eaten. Used to the exclusion of the fresh, they 
 induce scurvy. They tend to bind the bowels, and 
 cause fever and thirst. Ah, says one, your laws 
 are good for the rich, but I am too poor, or too far 
 from the market, to get fresh meat often. Well. 
 I answer, you can do without it, without any meat, 
 for a long time. We eat vastly too much meat in 
 this country. Some of the healthiest men in the 
 world eat it but rarely — once or twice a year. The 
 Highland soldier, a well-built, strong, healthy man, 
 is raised on oats; the laborer in Ireland, of fine 
 form, good health, and quick wit, on potatoes, with 
 only a rasher of bacon for Christmas ; the Hollander 
 grows fat and large on cabbage. Coming to this 
 country, they eat salt meats, drink tea and coffee, 
 and get bilious with withered and black lips, bad 
 breath, foul stomach, and then come and ask me if 
 
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 I would advise them to go back to the Old Country 
 for their health. They would be just as well here 
 as there if they would, live on the same kind of food. 
 I find some few that, having accumulated property, 
 do go back, but having means to procure the same 
 food and drink there as here, find themselves no 
 better for the change, and then return to America 
 perplexed and discouraged. I have put more than 
 one such on the right track. 
 
 No vegetable should be cooked with meat, but in 
 clean water. Cabbage boiled with meat, onions 
 fried with steak, will be tasted six hours after eat 
 ing; but cabbage boiled in pure water, is as digesti- 
 ble as bread, and an excellent article of diet ; so are 
 onions boiled in pure water, with a little salt, or 
 better still, baked. 
 
 Fried meat is an abomination to a weak stomach 
 or diseased liver. Indeed no food should be cooked 
 in or with grease at this side of Labrador. They 
 can stand it there. 
 
 (11) Must not eat any fried food whatever or 
 warm oread or biscuit, especially if prone to bil- 
 iousness. 
 
 (12) You must not make an exclusive or too 
 free a 'use of bread, toast, crackers, cake, pudding 
 or pastry made of white or bolted flour, thev all con- 
 stipate; so does cheese. Unbolted flour is much 
 better. Cheese is a very rich article of animal diet 
 and one very difficult of digestion. 
 
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 (13) Must not eat meat more than twice a day 
 and it should be lean and fresh, the more rarely 
 done the better. 
 
 Beef or mutton is best, game in season is good ; 
 fowl is not bad, but you must not eat the stuffing 
 or dressing. Some people may with propriety eat 
 meat two or three times a day. While others are 
 better for not eating it at all. And it is not easy 
 here to advise. 
 
 If bilious you must use all kinds of animal food 
 very sparingly, if at all for they all tend to load and 
 clog the liver. 
 
 (a) Better eat no animal food, not even milk, 
 until well. Butter makes one bilious. You must 
 abstain from it. This rule is given only to those in 
 a bilious condition. 
 
 Butter is a delicious and tempting grease, a great 
 cause of sick headache, heart-burn, water-brash, 
 green, catarrh, pimples, boils, etc., but not apt to 
 cause any two of these in the same person. 
 
 (14) Eat heartily of fruits and vegetables two 
 or three times a day, but the fruits must be fresh 
 and ripe, and the vegetables, when cooked, must 
 be thoroughly cooked — baked, roasted or boiled in 
 soft, pure water. 
 
 Some of my patients come and say, after reading 
 my rules, that I am going to starve them. See what 
 they include : potatoes, tomatoes, corn, oatmeal, 
 peas, beans, barley, rice, beets, turnips, cabbage, 
 onions, celery, asparagus, cauliflower, parsnips, cu- 
 
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 cumbers, melons, all the different berries, cherries, 
 plums, prunes, grapes, figs, oranges, apples — an 
 abundant list to be partaken of two or three times 
 a day, and by children oftener. With a little skill 
 in cooking, an excellent meal may be made without 
 going beyond these, except, perhaps, to add a little 
 milk or very little butter for sauce, and that only 
 in cooking a few of them. There is no better arti- 
 cle of diet than a good potato or a good apple. 
 
 But a raw, half cooked potato, though good for 
 the cattle, is a poor thing for a man ; yet it is often 
 found on the table in that state. 
 
 (15) Must abstain from pickles and relishes of 
 all kinds, and from condiments, pepper, salt, mus- 
 tard, horse-radish, etc. 
 
 Pickles set the teeth on edge and destroy them. 
 They contain little or no nourishment, are of no use 
 to the economy only as they may please the taste, or 
 perhaps stimulate an abnormal appetite for food 
 when the system has no need of it; so of most of 
 the relishes. But I do not persist in a very strict 
 observance of this rule except in some forms of in- 
 digestion, catarrh, pimples, red or inflamed nose 
 or lips and scaly eruptions; and I always forbid 
 salt to those suffering any kind of rheumatism or 
 its traces, also certain affections of the heart, or 
 joints, lumbago, sciatica and neuralgia. 
 
 I am certain that it aggravates all these. Where 
 entirely free from them, I permit its use in moder- 
 ation, remembering that a desire for it, while nat- 
 
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 ural to a very large class of creatures, including 
 ourselves, may be by habit or excitement increased 
 to an abnormal extent. Watch your use of salt and 
 salted food. 
 
 (16) You should take your food moderately 
 warm, not cold or hot. I have found those of a 
 dark electric temperament to do better on warm 
 food and warm drinks, and all those of a light mag- 
 netic temperament on cool food and drink. 
 
 The temperament of the stomach can be told by 
 looking at the lips ; if they are dark red or purplish 
 the stomach is electric and warm food and drink is 
 best ; if they are bright red the stomach is magnetic 
 and cool food and drink will be found advisable. 
 
 Extremes of temperature in food or drink destroy 
 the teeth, vitiate the saliva and impair the diges- 
 tion. 
 
 (17) May use moderately of sugar, so of molas- 
 ses or syrup; but must abstain from all colored can- 
 dies. They are injurious. Do not eat too freely of 
 sweets. They inflame the liver as much as fats do. 
 
 Sweets of all kinds tend to induce heat and in- 
 flammation first, and most obviously of the mu- 
 cous membrane, catarrh, colds, sore throat, and 
 second, and more remote of the skin, inducing, pim- 
 ples, itching and eruptions. The wise use sweets 
 only in moderation. 
 
 Nearly all the colors of candy are injurious and 
 made of offensive substances. 
 
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 Much of the blame that is laid to sugar, belongs 
 to the colors in candies. These colors please the 
 eye and poison the stomach. 
 
 ( 18) You must keep your rooms well ventilated, 
 especially sleeping rooms. A sleeping room should 
 have at least one window open all day till about 
 sundown, then close it, when the weather is damp, 
 cold or chilly, have a fire built in an open fire place 
 or a stove with an open draught if you can. 
 
 Better sleep alone. If your room is small, any- 
 thing less than twelve feet square and nine feet high 
 you must sleep with your door slightly open, so as 
 to admit the dry air from the hall or other rooms, 
 or else sleep with your window slightly open. If 
 your throat and lungs are healthy and the region 
 free from malaria, you will be safe to sleep with 
 your window open. Be careful not to sleep in a 
 draught. 
 
 ( 19 ) If your throat and lungs are over sensitive 
 or diseased, you must carefully avoid exposure to 
 night air. If it is necessary to go out breathe 
 through the nostrils only. If unable to breathe 
 through the nose put a muffler or your sleeve or 
 handkerchief to the mouth. This rule also applies 
 to public singers and speakers. 
 
 (20) Yoit must exercise in the open air by icalk- 
 ing, riding, skating, rowing, fishing or whatever 
 you delight in, at least two hours a day, storm or 
 shine taking care to protect yourself from inclem- 
 ent weather. Increase your exercise gradually 
 
 
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 both in vigor and length of time as your strength 
 increases, be moderate at first until you become ac- 
 customed to it. Carefully avoid exercising to 
 weariness or fatigue — always stop short of that. 
 This is a busy world and yet there is more sick in 
 it from idleness and the languor and debility which 
 it causes than from hard work. Many women are 
 invalids because their employments give no exer- 
 cise, no fresh air or sunlight, they accustom them- 
 selves to confinement in doors and come to dread 
 going out till the muscles get so weak they cannot 
 walk a mile. 
 
 Some hardihood, exposure and endurance are es- 
 sential to good health. 
 
 (21) You must practice deep breathing in the 
 open air at least three times a day, taking large in- 
 halations of pure air, through the nose expanding 
 the chest to its utmost capacity. Always walk erect 
 with the shoulders thrown well back. For those 
 who are inclined to be stoop shouldered I would ad- 
 vise the use of the Ideal Shoulder Brace until the 
 correct position of the shoulders becomes natural. 
 
 (22) Do not fret, worry or allow excitement of 
 the passions. 
 
 We have many illustrations of the fatal results 
 of such. I have not room here even for one, but 
 simply to say that they are becoming more numer- 
 ous daily. Who does not know that anger makes 
 the heart beat violently,flushes the face and retards 
 digestion ; that sorrow brings tears to the eyes and 
 
 u •/ o. 
 
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 wastes the tissues of the body ; that fright causes 
 physical exhaustion and sometimes results in the 
 loss of sight or hearing? 
 
 The white lips of rage or fear show how quickly 
 the heart draws its supplies home, while the redden- 
 ing neck and cheek of modesty show equally how 
 swiftly it can pour a generous supply to the head 
 and face. The continuance of the deeper, sadder 
 and more unhappy feelings are especially powerful 
 in depressing the circulation and in producing va- 
 rious diseases. 
 
 Perhaps jealousy and her malignant sister envy, 
 do more in this direction than does any other of the 
 horrid brood of passions. As far as possible main- 
 tain a cheerful, hopeful, trustful, contented state of 
 mind. Many will remark, "That is easy to say, but 
 impossible to do." It is not impossible. Make up 
 your mind that you can and will. The power lies 
 within you— possess your own soul — be yourself. 
 
 The author expects to publish soon a book called 
 The Influence of the Mind on Organs of The Body 
 and Mental Cause and Cure of Disease. 
 
 (23) You must bathe or ivash the tvhole person 
 once a day in summer and at least once a iveek in 
 winter. 
 
 I do not attach as much importance to the daily 
 bath as I did, but I cannot conceive of a condition 
 of life in which a bath once a week is not essential 
 to good health and cleanliness. 
 
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 Those who follow dusty pursuits should bathe 
 daily so should those who are bilious, for through 
 the skiu may thus be worked off much of what oth- 
 erwise would clog the liver. 
 
 The best time for painters and those who work in 
 dusty or foul air, or air loaded with impure or poi- 
 sonous vapors, to bathe, is just before retiring to 
 remove such poisons from the skin, else they will 
 be absorbed during sleep. 
 
 Remember the skin absorbs, takes in matter 
 whether good or bad rapidly in sleep or in drowsy, 
 lazy moods, but very little when one is wide awake, 
 bright or excited; but, on the contrary exhales or 
 throws off matter very rapidly. 
 
 If you are exposed to malaria or any contagious 
 disease always keep wide awake, even if you have 
 to take strong tea to do it. As soon as the expos- 
 ure is over change your garments and bathe thor- 
 oughly, use soap, then put the exposed garments 
 away. If exposed to smallpox put them in an oven 
 and bake them, put on clean night garments and 
 you can retire and sleep in safety. In such cases 
 always clean the ears, beard and meshes of the hair 
 thoroughly, they are apt to retain dust and conta- 
 gion. 
 
 (24) Wash the feet and lower parts of the body 
 especially the latter, before retiring. Both health 
 and cleanliness demand this on the part of both 
 sexes and all ages. It is wonderful how uncleanly 
 some otherwise decent people are where they do not 
 expect to be seen. 
 
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 The health and strength of the sexual and uni- 
 nary organs are greatly promoted by this daily 
 lavement and it does much toward preventing piles 
 and also emissions and seminal weakness in men, 
 and to promote strength and vigor of the womb, 
 ovaries and back in women. 
 
 Children should be taught at a very early age, to 
 pay attention to these important parts of the body. 
 
 (25) Avoid any great excitement or indulgence, 
 however honest, legitimate or lawful, of the sex 
 passion. You have reason to be particularly guard- 
 ed and careful in this respect, if you suffer from 
 weakness, debility or pains in the back or loins — 
 especially in the small of the back, across the back 
 part of the hips — or if you experience great languor 
 and lassitude, with aversion to exertion or unus- 
 ual irritability of the nerves. 
 
 This is the most important of all these rules or 
 directions, for there is no other habit in practice 
 more destructive to life and health than that of in- 
 dulging too freely in the sex passion, even in the 
 martial relation, or in private practices, or in 
 dreams, or indeed indulging in it at all before the 
 age of maturity. It destroys many even very young 
 children, frequently causing convulsions, epilepsy 
 and other disturbances of the nervous system. 
 
 I know of no other cause of disease and death 
 and disaster to the race as great as that of over in- 
 dulgence of the sex passion. True, it is nature's 
 method in many things — what creates also destroys. 
 
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 Growth and decay are convertible terms. Oh, it is 
 our appetites and passions that lead us down to 
 Avoe. Well, Ave must watch and control them all 
 and always, if we would have SAveet health, peace 
 and happiness. 
 
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 A PEW CLOSING AVOKDS. 
 
 Your body is indispensable to your existence 
 here, it is yours to honor, preserve and defend. Do 
 not poison or injure it and remember nature alone 
 is the skillful repairer of damage to your body. 
 Aid her in every way possible and do not admit such 
 tramps and loafers as tobacco, alcohol and poison- 
 ous drugs. 
 
 Investigate. Learn what a wonderful structure 
 your body is, learn Iioav every part is intended for 
 use, how delicate the structure and how easily de- 
 stroyed. 
 
 People fail to realize the importance of keeping 
 clean, they are filthy inside and out and erronously 
 think that disease is caused by germs or climate, 
 they formerly believed they were caused by the 
 devil. 
 
 In time of sickness if you do not understand the 
 laws of your body and teachings of this book, then, 
 and then only, call a physician, but see that he is a 
 follower of nature and not a believer in false doc- 
 trines ; that disease is a devil and has to be poison- 
 ed out of the system. Drugs, antitoxine, vaccina- 
 tion, etc., are no better than dead lice for indiges- 
 tion and black beetles for the kidneys, the two lat- 
 ter being Chinese cures, but just as sensible as 
 some used by the medical men today. 
 
iinde:?c. 
 
 A Few Closing Words 82 
 
 A Few Things Good to do in All 
 
 Diseases 63 
 
 Ache, Head 37 
 
 Acute Articular Rheumatism 48 
 
 Acute Dysentery 24 
 
 Acute Nasal Catarrh 25 
 
 Acute Pharyngitis 54 
 
 Amenorrhea 56 
 
 Anemia 13 
 
 Antitoxine 82 
 
 Appendicitis '.* 16 
 
 Appetite, Loss of 60 
 
 Articular Rheumatism 48 
 
 Articular Rheumatism, Chronic 50 
 
 Asthma 18 
 
 Bad Hearing 21 
 
 Bathe 78 
 
 Bath, Mud 63 
 
 Bath, Sitz 61 
 
 Bath, Sun 62 
 
 Bed Wetting 22 
 
 Blood, Impure 24 
 
 Blood, Too Much 58 
 
 Bloody Flux 24 
 
 Bowels, Inflammation of 38 
 
 Breathing 77 
 
 Breathing Difficult 30 
 
 Bronchitis 25 
 
 Catarrh Nasal 25 
 
 Catarrhal Pneumonia 48 
 
 Chloral 68 
 
 Chronic Articular Rheumatism 50 
 
 Coffee, Tea, etc 70 
 
 Cold Feet 26 
 
 Cold in Head 25 
 
 Conjunctivitis ! 53 
 
 Constipation 28 
 
 Consumption of Lungs 29 
 
 Corsets 64 
 
 Costiveness 28 
 
 Croupous Pneumonia 47 
 
 Cure, Water 12 
 
 Deformities 67 
 
 Difficult Breathing 30 
 
 Diphtheria . s 30 
 
 Diseases, Things good in 63 
 
 Diseases of Kidneys , . , 40 
 
 Diseases, Skin 58 
 
 Diseases of Womb 65 
 
 Disorders, Sexual 40 
 
 Dizziness 55 
 
 Dress 66 
 
 Drink 68-69 
 
 Drugs 82 
 
 Dysentery 24 
 
 Dysmenorrhea 33 
 
 Dyspepsia 34 
 
 Emissions 80 
 
 Enuresis 22 
 
 Enlarged Tonsils 55 
 
 Enteritis 38 
 
 Envy ...78 
 
 Eruptions, Scaly 74 
 
 Exercise 76 
 
 Exposure 76 
 
 Eyelids Granulated 53 
 
 Eyes, Inflammation of 53 
 
 Eyes Sore 53 
 
 Feet Cold 26 
 
 Feet Dry 67 
 
 Feet Sweating 61 
 
 Fever Simple 35 
 
 Flux 24 
 
 Fret 77 
 
 Fried Foods 72 
 
 Fruits 73 
 
 Garments, Suspend 65 
 
 Gastritis 37 
 
 Gleet 40 
 
 Gonorrhea 40 
 
 Granulated Eyelids 53 
 
 Grip 39 
 
 Head-ache '. 37 
 
INDE X— Continued . 
 
 Head, Cold in 25 Profuse Menstruation 57 
 
 Health, Rules of 64-82 Prostration Nervous 42 
 
 Hearing Bad 21 Quinsy or Tonsillitis 54 
 
 Hydropathy 12 Relishes 74 
 
 Hygienic Medication 10 Rheumatism Acute Articular 48 
 
 Impotence 40 Rheumatism Chronic Articular 50 
 
 Impure Blood 24 Rheumatism Muscular 52 
 
 Indigestion 34 Rickets and Deformities 67 
 
 Indulgence 80 Rubbers 68 
 
 Inflammation of Bowels 38 Pules of Health 64-82 
 
 Inflammation of Eyes 53 Rupture 65 
 
 Influenza 39 Scaly Eruptions 74 
 
 Itching 75 Scanty Menstruation , 57 
 
 Kidney Diseases '..WW. ........... A0 Sciatica 52 
 
 Da Grippe 39 Seminal Weakness 80 
 
 Liver Torpid '. '. '. .' 40 Sexual Disorders 40 
 
 Loss of Appetite' .' ,' ..'.'..'.".'.'.'.'.'.. W.Qi) Sex Passion 80-81 
 
 Lungs, Consumption of 29 Simple Fever 35 
 
 Lung Fever 47 Satz Bath 61 
 
 Masturbation ~. . .40 Skin Diseases 58 
 
 Meat 73 Sleep 64 
 
 Medication Hygienic 10 Smallpox 79 
 
 Menorrhagia 57 Sore Eyes 53 
 
 Menstruation Painful 33 Sore Throat 54 
 
 Menstruation Profuse 57 Sprains 61 
 
 Menstruation Scanty 57 Stomach, Weak 58 
 
 Menstruation Suppresed 56 Sun Bath 62 
 
 Mud Bath 63 Sunlight 66 
 
 Muscular Rheumatism 52 Suppressed Menstruation 56 
 
 Neuralgia 44 Sweating Feet 61 
 
 Neurasthenia 42 Syphilis 40 
 
 Obesity 58 Te ' a ' Coffee, etc 70 
 
 Oligomenorrhea 57 Th ' r oat Sore 54 
 
 Opium 68 Tonsillitis 54 
 
 Osteopathy 11 Tonsils Enlarged ' 55 
 
 Ovaries 80 To ° Mucn Blood 5S 
 
 Painful Menstruation' .' .' .' ... WW .... 33 Torpid Liver 40 
 
 Palsy 45 Tuberculosis 29 
 
 Paralysis . ......'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'.'. 45 Vaccination 82 
 
 Passions 77 Vegetables 73 
 
 Pharyngitis 54 Ventilation 76 
 
 Pickles 74 Vertigo 55 
 
 Pil es g Water Cure 12 
 
 Pimples' " '74 Weak Eyes 53 
 
 Plethora 58 Weak Stomach 58 
 
 Pleurisy 45 Weakness Seminal 80 
 
 Pneumonia' Catarrhal ' .' .' ......WW" 48 Wetting Bed 22 
 
 Pneumonia Croupous 47 Womb Diseases of 80 
 
 Principles of Hygienic Medication. . .10 
 
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