713 HYGIENIC TREATMENT. 



THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF DISEASE 



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PRKSKRVATION OK HEALTH 



"Without the Use of Medicine. 



The object of this article is to teach the sick and afflicted how to apply 

 what experience has taught to be one of the most simple and effective meth- 

 ods yet discovered for curing many of the worst forms of disease without the 

 use of medicine. It consists in cleansing the stomach and alimentary canal, 

 or intestines. 



In order that those who have no knowledge of the anatomy of the human 

 system, may fully understand what is to follow, we will say that when the 

 food that has been taken into the stomach leaves that organ, it first passes 

 into the small, then into the large intestines or colon, after which the refuse 

 passes from the system. If the stomach always digested its food properly, 

 no trouble would arise and the conditions would be different, but through 

 the abuses of the laws of nature, the stomach is often rendered incapable of 

 properly performing its function, and the food instead of being properly 

 digested and prepared for assimilation, is left in the stomach in a fermented 

 and decayed condition, and as such passes into the intestines where the 

 absorbent vessels take up this food in its poisonous condition and it is carried 

 through the blood, deranging every organ of the body. 



On considering the colon, we find it acting as a sewer, or receptacle for 

 the waste matter of the system. If the calls of nature were promptly 

 attended to, these accumulations would, as a rule, only remain a few hours in 

 the colon; but with man, business, etiquette and a hundred other excuses 

 causes a postponement of nature's calls. From this, as well as from some 

 other causes, this fecal matter with its impurities, is kept in the colon and 

 constipation ensues. 



And here again as above, the absorbents are at work taking up and dis- 

 tributing through the system, impurities, while the dried and heated fecal 

 matter clogs in the folds of the colon, forming a crust to which other accumu 

 lations are added, until the colon is almost filled with hard putrefying matter, 

 which remains for months and sometimes years, leaving only a small opening 

 in the centre through which nature forces a passage. 



Many suppose that because they have daily movements of the bowels, 

 however slight, that they are free from constipation, whereas they have this 

 affliction in its worst form, with the colon incrusted on all sides with 

 impacted excrement of long standing, with only a small central channel, as 

 before stated, for a daily discharge. 



Dissections have been made of persons who had died from disease en- 

 gendered from constipation, and in some instances from constipation itself, 

 where the colon was found to be impacted with fecal matter that had become 

 almost as hard as wood. 



This condition of the system gives rise to a greater variety of diseases 

 than is generally supposed. If space permitted, it could be easily explained 

 how this disastrous condition of the system is the prime cause that produces 

 a very great variety of the worst forms of human maladies. 



To overcome these diseased conditions, two results are to be accom- 

 plished, viz. : that of removing the impurities from and cleansing the colon, 



