Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
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inter-transmission is the cause of life, of health, and of disease;
therefore, we must first of all see that the conditions of this process are uninterrupted. Food, air, water, light, exercise, must be so provided that they condition the process of nutrition and metamorphosis. Skin, lungs, kidneys, intestines, must always be in condition to eliminate the abnormal products of decomposition. If then disease be a derangement of the life process, it is self-evident that disease is not confined to one organ alone, but that the whole body is diseased. The body, thus, being in fact an indivisible unity, the treatment we employ in disease must, logically, act upon it as a united whole. The modern school of medicine in its present, bacteria ridden frame of mind or mania, looks upon the bacillus, or microbe, as the sole cause of disease. The cause, however, is not the bacillus, but rather the impure blood which prepares a fertile soil for the development of those destructive germs. He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene need not fear the bacillus, for man is not born to sickness; he creates sickness for himself by his irrational mode of living. What does the world profit by bacteriological institutions if the people |
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