An abridged therapy : manual for the biochemical treatment of disease / by Dr. med. Schuessler.

  • Schüssler, Wilhelm Heinrich, 1821-1898.
Date:
1898
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Credit: An abridged therapy : manual for the biochemical treatment of disease / by Dr. med. Schuessler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inorganic substances to the various parts of the body, a valuation which neither contemptuously disregards other momenta nor is full of extrava- gant hopes, promises a glorious future both to medicine and to agriculture. It can no more be doubted in the face of the facts bearing upon it, that the substances which remain behind after combustion, the so-called ashy constituents, are as essential constituents of the formative basis of the tissues, and contribute to determining their species just as much as those substances which are volatilized at combustion. Without a basis that furnishes gelatine there are no bones, and just as little can bone be formed without phos- phate of lime, or gristle without the cartilage- salts, or blood without iron, or saliva without calcium chlorate. Man is created from air and earth. The activity of plants called him into being. The corpse is disintegrated into air and ashes, in order that it may unfold new powers in new forms through the vegetable kingdom. This new therapy has become known through- out the world, and there is at this day probably no country in which there are not adherents of