A new health era / by William Howard Hay.

  • William Howard Hay
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: A new health era / by William Howard Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This tendency of man in illness to look to someone else who was supposed to know some means of vicarious relief from the ills from which he suffers, has always been the motive for service along the lines of treatment for disease, and still continues to be the prime motive for this whole system of treatment, not more so in the dark ages than today. This tendency has come from man’s misunderstanding of his own body and its processes, a misunderstanding that has furnished opportunity for exploitation in all times. Even as in the so-called dark ages, today the case is no different, and man himself creates this seeming need for expert guid- ance in matters of health and disease. It has been discovered that thousands of years ago in Egypt surgery had reached a certain degree of efficiency that per- mitted of internal operations, trephining of the skull, section of the abdomen, and much that we today practice, that we thought originated with the'present civilization. Also, the ad- ministration of drug remedies had been practiced long before our present civilization was in existence, showing that even so long ago there was some sort of medical training, and some form of recognized treatment for disease. Galen brought us a fair understanding of anatomy, and his work, combined with that of Hippocrates, was the foundation of our present system of medical and surgical treatment. This all presupposes an extraneous cause for disease, a false conception of the very nature of the thing, for disease is intrinsic to the body, created by the body itself, through manufacture of the acid end-products of digestion and meta- bolism, ashes of the body itself and the oxidative processes by which it maintains its activities. When these ashes or end-products are manufactured in amount greater than can be fully eliminated, we suffer from retention of these, and a state develops that is variously called auto-intoxication, acid-autotoxicosis, toxaemia, self-poisoning, [19]
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