How nature cures : comprising a new system of hygiene, also the natural food of man, a statement of the principal arguments against the use of bread, cereals, pulses, potatoes, and all other starch foods / by Emmet Densmore.

Date:
1892
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Credit: How nature cures : comprising a new system of hygiene, also the natural food of man, a statement of the principal arguments against the use of bread, cereals, pulses, potatoes, and all other starch foods / by Emmet Densmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    upon the presence of a sliver or any foreign body in the flesh, the formation of pus, and the subsequent expulsion from the body both of the pus and the foreign body which caused it, are further expressions of curative action. It is one of the objects of this publication to adduce conclu- sive proofs that all disease and all manifestations of dis- ease are friendly efforts and curative actions made by the organism in its efforts to restore the conditions of health. (3) The law of cure may be defined as the unfailing ten- dency on the part of the organism toward health; and since disease, as above defined, is but the expression and re- sult of a disturbance of the conditions natural to life, the only useful office of the physician is to restore those con- ditions ; and there will be seen to follow, as a result of the law of cure, the disappearance of disease and the es- tablishment of health.