Theory of nutrition : the treatment of disease, and philosophy of healing, without medicine / by Laroy Sunderland.

  • Sunderland, La Roy, 1802-1885.
Date:
1855
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    That is, they profess to do that for the stomach wliich will relieve it from the necessity and lahor of digesting the necessary amount and the kind of food which the organism requires! Look at this idea. It is as if they were to say, I will relieve your eyes from the necessity of seeing. They are weak, and I will put some visual fluid into them, so that they will he relieved of any necessity of seeing. Nay, you may close them up, as you will have no further use for them. And so we might be told, that the ears may be relieved of all necessity of performing their appropriate functions. Put a newly-discovered patent, auric fluid into them, and that fluid will hear for you. You may be really as deaf as an adder, but that fluid will do all the hearing that will be necessary in your case. And why not ? Why not supersede one function as well as another ? For, observe, we do not now speak of processes, either of medication or diet, for assisting a function, for I have shown by the testimony of Physicians themselves, that the common processes of drugging, regular and irreg- ular, do not assist Nutrition. They do more hurt than good ! That the Invalid does, sometimes, recover in de- spite of the drugs, is no evidence against the position here taken. But if chronic and acute diseases are radically cured in a majority of cases, as far as the trial has been made, without any drugging at all, this is proof to a dem- onstration that Nature's Method op Cure is one far above that of drugging. And such cases I have had, where Invalids have been increased in weight, incredibly, in a few weeks, without eating pepsin, or swallowing large quantities of the so called Revalenta Arabica. * * What purports to be an exotic substance, sometimes made of ground peas or beans! It is by no means equal to good bread made of unbolted wheat.