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ance in the patient soon after the medication 

 on the original disease begins. This is apt 

 to occur in the case of fevers. No sooner is 

 the first trouble "cured" than another su- 

 pervenes, when it, too, is drugged and cured 

 only to give place to another, and so on, the 

 patient losing vitality all the time. These 

 "complications " under drug treatment 

 are nothing less than drug diseases. They 

 are successively caused or superinduced by 

 the medication. They never occur under 

 proper hygienic treatment. Nearly every 

 ailment known to humanity can be produ- 

 ced in well people by the administration of 

 the various drug poisons of the Allopathic 

 Pharmacoepia. Let any competent drug 

 doctor deny this and he will find me ready 

 in the proper place to substantiate it. In- 

 deed only a few of them know it. If they 

 did they would be wilful murderers in con- 

 tinuing to " cure one disease by producing 

 another " worse one till the patient dies. 

 This is what happened with Prince Albert, 

 the husband of Victoria, who had but a 

 slight indisposition at first, but the doctors 

 were called, drugs given, the first trouble 

 suppressed, but another induced, and one 

 " complication " after another drugged and 

 drugged till his life was drugged and stim- 

 ulated out of him — not intentional of course, 

 but scientifically ( ? ) and successfully all 

 the same. "The more doctors the more 

 danger " as a rule. Of course the surgeon 

 has his place, and the specialist has his ; 

 but the average drug-doctor, on general 

 principles, who believes that medicines, 

 instead of the vis Medicatrix Saturae, 

 cure diseases, and that a man " ought to 

 be poisoned because he is sick" ought to 

 have no place at the bed-side. 



But to return to water. What is the rem- 

 edy ? Take the cleanest soft water you 

 can get and filter it, or boil it thoroughly, 

 for drinking and domestic use. Kain water 

 boiled or filtered is all right. Kaoka (home 

 made) at meals may be substituted for tea 

 and coft'ee. 



We now come to breathing. Everybody 

 breathes, but hardly anybody knows just 

 how to breathe or what to breathe. And the 

 evils arising from this ignorance are tre- 

 mendous and lamentable, because this is 

 the most vital function. ^Ve may live for 

 days without eating, but not long without 

 breathing. How to breathe : Breathe 

 through the nostrils — not the mouth— and 

 breathe deeply. What to breathe : Breathe 



as pure air as possible, night and day, sum- 

 mer and winter. Many people say by their 

 actions that pure air is neccessary through 

 the day, but not at night. They close every 

 opening to their sleeping-rooms and keep 

 the fires agoing. What with the lungs of 

 the stoves and the human lungs in the room 

 — all consuming oxygen— the air is soon 

 positively poisonous, and this they breathe 

 till morning, when they find themselves 

 feeling heavy with headache, etc., wonder- 

 ing what the cause of it all is ! They would 

 be dead in the morning only for the key 

 hole and little cracks where the air finds its 

 way in. Let everybody remember, and 

 never forget it, that air breathed once or 

 twice is no longer fit to breathe again, and 

 that the worst kind of so-called " night air " 

 outside the house is not one tenth as bad as 

 the vitiated air inside. Many people imag- 

 ine, too, that cold air is pure. Not necess- 

 arily : it may be just as foul as the heated 

 air. 



I cannot go into the " bathing and rai- 

 ment " and other matters here, as this arti- 

 cle is perhaps already too long. 



The gist of hygienic living and hygienic 

 medication may be summed up briefly thus: 

 First, exercise the faculties of mind and 

 body as evenly and normally as possible, 

 avoiding the excessive action of some and 

 the deficient action of others, for health 

 consists in a balance of function. Second, 

 use plain, wholesome food, proportioning 

 the amount to the amount of exercise : in 

 other words let the eating correspond with 

 the breathing, as the food taken into the 

 stomach must be oxygenated in the lungs or 

 it is worse than useless — clogs the system 

 and impairs the blood. The less fresh air, 

 exercise, and breathing, the less food can 

 be properly assimilated. Third, breathe 

 pure air, and drink pure water as a beverage, 

 and leave all stimulants alone, such as liqu- 

 ors, tobacco, tea, coffee, and condiments 

 generally. Fourth, keep the skin clean and 

 the pores open by regular bathing, frequent 

 change of linen, and exercise. Eifth, use 

 raiment for the comfort and protection of 

 the body rather than for show, and keep the 

 head cool and the feet warm. Sixth, if you 

 get sick give nature a chance, for it is 

 nature that cures every time. All the best 

 nurse or doctor can do is to assist her. Rest, 

 quiet, cleanliness, pure air and water, com- 

 fortable temperature, cheerful surroundings 

 — these are the hygienic remedial influences 



