Intelligent Self Treatment
While no one will recommend that sick people try on them¬selves surgical operations, or difficult and complicated methods of cure which require special skill or judgment, many physicians themselves will admit that the patient is perfectly safe, and is probably doing himself a great deal of good, when he cooperates with the effort the body itself is making to eliminate poisons. The methods of drugless healing suggested in this volume offer ways and means by which the great vitaliz¬ing forces of water, sunlight, electricity and other natural agents can be safely used to assist the body in its own effort to get well.
Some of the most distinguished physicians now appreciate to the fullest extent the power of the body to heal itself. They are preaching doctrines similar to those enunciated by us thirty years ago. They are advocating adherence to natural, physio¬logical law. They do not commend doping methods that divert or drive inward the symptoms of disease. They believe in mildly stimulating the functions of the body, depending on the vital processes to remedy the symptoms associated with disease.