The Body’s Healing Power
Progressive doctors change their methods year after year. They never really graduate. They remain students through¬out their entire lives. They are learning every’day, and their Jatients naturally secure the benefit of this vast storehouse of knowledge which they secure from a varied experience. The more experienced and learned a physician is the less rigid and conservative he is likely to be. He recognizes that the body is distinctly a self-regulating organism. The processes used by the physical organism in effecting a cure of any complaint are beyond detailed analysis. Xo physician yet can tell you much about the processes or about the workings of the physiological laboratory in which the body works out the problem of recla¬mation. Hence in offering these methods of drugless healing we are in nowise encroaching on the special province of the physician, or running contrary to the best doctors.
First AID FOR THE ILL.-—Frequently these books will fall into the hands of someone who is ill, who has not already heard of the general physical culture regimen, and who wishes spe¬cific advice about just what to do and where to begin to help himself. Even at the risk of repeating ourselves somewhat, we may say: “Begin with a fast, and with plenty of fresh air day and night. Cleanse the bowels with enemas, as suggested in this book, daily, and keep the skin perfectly clean, as sug¬gested herein, beginning with friction rubs. Drink plenty of water. Experiment with rest in bed, or with exercises, as your condition seems to warrant.” This gives you the basis of further cure. It can harm no one, whatever his disease may be,sand is almost invariably helpful. Beyond that the individual can proceed carefully, using this volume in connection with the volumes on diet and exercise and the following two volumes, trying to understand his own case and to help himself to get well.