The biochemic system of medicine : comprising the theory, pathological action, therapeutical application, materia medica, and repertory of Schuessler's Twelve tissue remedies.

  • Carey, George W. (George Washington), 1845-1924.
Date:
1917
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Credit: The biochemic system of medicine : comprising the theory, pathological action, therapeutical application, materia medica, and repertory of Schuessler's Twelve tissue remedies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    animate, but a condition due to a lack of some inorganic con- stituent of the blood, it follows naturally that the proper method of cure is to supply to the blood that which is lacking. In the treatment of disease the use of anything not a constituent of the blood is unnecessary; and to give poisons to a sick person is simply barbarous and inhuman. True, many have survived it, but equally many have been hurried thus to their graves. Biochemistry would seek to ascertain what is lacking and supply it in just the form needed. Any disturbance in the molecular motion of these cell-salts in living tissues constitut- ing disease can be rectified and the requisite equilibrium re- established by administering the same mineral salts in small quantities. This is brought about by virtue of the operation of chemical affinity in the domain of histology, and hence this therapeutic procedure is styled by Schuessler the Biochemic Method, and stress is laid on the fact that it is in harmony with well-known facts and laws in physiological chemistry and allied sciences. It is the blood that contains the material for every tissue of the body, that supplies nutriment to every organ, enabling it to perform its individual function; it is, indeed, a micro- cosm, able to supply every possible want to the animal economy. It does this by transudation of a portion of its plasma into the surrounding tissues through the capillary walls. This pabulum is a material sui generis, called irritable matter or protoplasm, and is the only living matter, and is universally diffused throughout the organism, of which it constitutes about one-fifth, the remaining four-fifth being organized and, there- fore, dead matter. In its physical character it is nitrogenous, pulpy, structureless, semi-fluid, translucent, homogeneous, simi- lar to that of the ganglionic nerves and to the grey nervous matter. In this translucent fluid appear the fine granules; these unite to form germs, from which again cells develop. By the union of these cells are formed the tissues of every kind needed for the upbuilding of the whole organism. Two kinds of substances are needed in this process of tissue