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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Sonnenschein Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE BASIC ERROR OF PHYSICIANS. It has been pointed out that the necessary conditions for the restoration of health to the grass-plot are very simple, and consist chiefly in adequate nutrition. A close study of the subject will show that the necessary conditions for the restoration of a human being to health (where disorganization has not already taken place) are also very simple, and also consist chiefly in adequate nutrition. Dr. Abernethy, a century ago, declared that the three prime rules for health are: keep the feet warm, keep the head cool, and keep the bowels open. If an obedience to these rules and a few others equally simple is all that is required when a person is taken ill, why is it that learned physicians and scientists have been so much in error in the matter of therapeutics? An examination of the methods of operation of orthodox old-school medicine shows that these physicians, although able, learned, earnest, and scientific, have been utterly misled as to the nature of disease. They have considered disease an organized enemy and positive force, which has taken up a position within the body and is carrying on a warfare with the vital powers; and the legion of heroic remedies (so-called) which orthodox physicians have prescribed and are prescribing for suffering invalids are the shot and shell hurled at the invisible enemy, in the hope of dislodging and expelling it. Not understanding the law of cure -- that there is always coincident with life a tendency toward health -- these well-meaning physicians have accepted a recovery made in spite ...