The royal road to health, or, the secret of health without drugs / by Chas. A. Tyrrell.

  • Tyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred), 1846-1918.
Date:
1919, ©1907
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Credit: The royal road to health, or, the secret of health without drugs / by Chas. A. Tyrrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It has been previously shown that an im¬ pacted colon is neither more nor less than a prolific hot-bed for the wholesale breeding of disease germs—microbes—those infinitesimal organisms which science has demonstrated to be the cause of many phases of disease, or rather, the toxins (poisons) they produce, cause disease. Of course, there are harmless micro-organisms as well as hurtful ones; in fact, a large proportion of them are beneficial rather than otherwise; but some of them (nota¬ bly the tubercle bacillus) are so intimately asso¬ ciated with disease that it is next to impossible to doubt their responsibility. Microbes breed in fermentation; conse¬ quently, every particle of undigested food re¬ maining in the stomach or intestines becomes an ideal nursery for their propagation. It has been demonstrated that food that has been sub¬ jected to the action of the gastric juice decom¬ poses far more rapidly than that which has not —hence, with imperfect digestion, fermenta¬ tion quickly takes place. If microbes are now introduced into the system, either by contact with sick persons, inhaling impure air in