Keith's domestic practice and botanic handbook. A practical treatise on the conditions of the human body called disease and the proper observance of the laws to prevent those conditions ...

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Melville C. Keith. M. D

Dedication

This book is especially dedicated to all mothers and father to all sons and daughters — who are concerned about the welfare, physical and mental, of -those who are dependent upon them for care and preservation ; to every phase of humanity that is interested in becoming better in body, and sound in mind. This book is presented with a belief that it cod tains the exposition of truth, as

its basis, aid whatever is the truth, is eternal.

Author.

Preface

The following is the outcome of about fourteen years of study. The scope is larger than was at first anticipated, and the length and breadth of the subject is not reached. It is simply unmeasured. A sound mind and a sound body — a mind that comprehends the laws of life and all beings and has the courage of its convictions, to obey those laws — is very rare. There are very many of us among whom is the writer, — who have crawled up and out as it were, from the quicksands and mire of ignorance and superstition, so that the clear sky may be discerned beyond us.

We can be sure that this world is a world of law, and if we disobey the law, or the set of laws that surround us, we may expect to suffer the penalties of a broken law from which there is ho positive chance of escape. All our beliefs and our wishes, our hopes and our prayers, will not prevent the penalty from coming upon us for disregarding one or more of nature's laws, which are the laws of God. The following pages or explanations are made to elucidate and make plain the most common of the laws of life, and the results of obedience and disobedience. For the breaking of those laws we see the w r hole world in ignorance and disease.

There is not a tumble down house, nor a decayed body — not a sigh from a cripple, not a chatter from an idiot — that does not betray the fact that the physical laws have been broken, and that the sufferer is now feeling the penalty of that disobedience.

We must believe that the days of stupidity are nearly at an end. In some respects we know they are. In regard to the "Practice," — so called — of medicine, we are still bound by the beliefs and errors of the Fifteenth century.

The sullen, cruel clouds of Barbarism, which were just commenced to be rolled away when Columbus discovered America, have been replaced in part by the degrading Twins of Syphilis and Tobacco. We shall never emerge into the clear daylight; nor, will any man or woman be able to see clearly as long as they are surrounded by this smoky horizon of tobacco, and their feet slipping on the slimy patlrway of hereditary or acquired syphilis.

Coming from the darkness suddenly into light, dazzles and blinds ones eyes. When we strive to open our eyes from out the assertions and assumptions of Alios Pathos — and when we at once get an inkling or a view of what are the conditions and possibilities of the human bod}^ — if we are born right and reared right, — we are

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dazzled and blinded by the glare of the light that comes to us. So many thousands have seen this shadow of perfectness, as it were, and are danced off or switched off backward into the mire of spiritism. Christian Science, Faith Cure, or swallowed by the pig headed and stupid devices of absent treatment, Magnetism, and a thousand other demonaic assertions, which are only the will-of -the- wisps floating in the swamps of uncertainty.

Protoplasmy, if we understand it, is the exposition of the laws of atoms, based on the fact that there are atoms, and that these atoms obey the law, and this law is known as the Vital Force, which force is directly from God and is synonymous with the Spirit and Life Force. In short, that life force, vital force, spirit and life power are all one.

We have taken up more space in endeavoring to make this clear in Fever and Diphtheria, and we think — we are sure — that if any one has the idea of the vital force, and if they understand, even in the most dim way, the fact that the atoms themselves are obedient to this law, (from the Lord, Jehovah,) and that each and every organized plant, beast, bird, fish and man, has his specific distinct vital force inside of them, and that this vital force needs and demands the purest material and the cleanest environments, then they have the basis of the law of Protoplasmy.

Many remedies have been omitted, because, if one understands the basic law of Protoplasmy, but few agents will be needed. We have given those which are most common, easily understood, and obtained. We desire to emphasize — most distinctly, that it is written for the people with no thought of writing any treatise for the medical profession. No school of medicine can be held responsible for these assertions. We are endeavoring to follow out and explain the law of Protoplasmy.

Vital Force demands nourishment, material and proper environments, and if we find the material right, the laws obeyed, we shall have a perfect body, and the mind will be sound in that body. Such is the idea of the writer.

We are not waging an}r war with individuals, but we are fighting against the superstitions and follies of Paracelsus of the fifteenth century. The whole s}^stem of regular medicine to da} T is based on the erroneous fantasies of a country physician, who visited the mines of Tyrol and there imbibed the idea that -a human body could be purified by means of a mineral; and the incongruities, mistakes, assertions, poisons and horrible purgers are to be dated from this visitor to the Tyrol mines, in the early part of the fifteenth cen- -

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tury. Hohenheim — The self styled Paracelsus. The first giver of mercury and minerals to purify the body.

Now, it does not seem possible that all our medical schools, (with the exception of two) are based on these errors, but such is the • fact f and any person with a very moderate amount of education can readily see and be convinced that the human body cannot be benefited by such agents as, mercury, antimony, lead, iron, potash, tin, copper or gold J the simplest thinking animal can understand that the body demands nourishment with care and proper surroundings.

We might go farther and claim that disease is a unit, but we shall not enter into any discussion on minor topics^only to say and assert that any parent or any person interested in the welfare of the human race can easily see by an hour's observation, that the people who have the least to do with doctors, are the best off.^

The Author does not claim that this book represents .any principles or any medical school on earth, or any medical fraternity, except the believers of the medicines of Protoplasmy.

The believers in Protoplasmy will believe in nearly everything that is in this book, that is, this book is the outcome of a belief in the doctrines of Protoplasmy, and this book is for the students of Protoplasmy, wherever they may be, and it is believed by the writer that every intelligent person on the earth will, sooner or later, become a student of Protoplasmy, and will always live in direct opposition to the drug and poison giving of the present day. ( The writer has no quarrel to make with the surgeons of America or Great Britian, but he asserts with the utmost positiveness that the so called "system of medicine" of each and every school are based on erroneous ideas. \

Two points may be mentioned as covering this opposition and the beliefs, in what we, as students of Protoplasmy believe to be correct.

IThe Allopath believes in poisons as medicines. We know positively that poisons cannot in any way, be beneficial to the human body; and we further believe, that the man or woman who believes in these poisons and gives them, is either laboring under a delusion, or is a villian.*

It is evident, that if there are blood corpuscles in the human body, that these corpuscles would never have any mineral placed in contact with them; and, the person who takes in this mineral, does it in ignorance, or is desirous to commit suicide.

This book is an exposition of Law and designs, to help individuals in the care of their families.

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There is no poison medicine or poison drug or mineral that is advised to be taken with an idea of its curative value. In two articles—the Neutralizing Cordial and the Worm Syrup— there will be found a small portion of an Alkali (potash) and this is given, not for any positive curative effect— but, for the purpose of driv-' ing worms or germs from the intestines. There is not a remedy advised in this book that is poisouous, in any degree, and the wrier believes that every formula is, in itself of value to the human body as nourishment for the builders of that body f that is, it furnishes nutriment for the corpuscles, which in their turn, do all the building and perform every action that is performed inside of the human body.§

To the many friends that we have in England and America, we return our thanks and our most profound appreciation for their patience with us, and when it is remembered that this writer has had to read his own proof many times by an inefficient light, and, that he is past sixty-sixjyears of age, the typographical errors may be excused, in view of the fact that the bulk of the book is written in the interests of exact truth, and the desire to benefit the entire human race. It is believed, by the author, that every soul who reads this book will have been called to a larger life and a broader understanding of that life by the Son, of God before this book has come into their hands, and, to every one of our readers we say with sincerity; "welcome you wise one, or you who are called to be wise, to the truths which we place before you." And, if }^ou desire to have more knowledge on any point that is not made plain here, you have full directions for getting that knowledge in James I, 5; "If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally. ' '

In the following pages we have not had space to make plain many of our ideas, and many other conditions have been left out, on account of lack of space. We have taxed the time and paper of the printer in adding the last thirty pages, but we believe they will be found as valuable as any other thirty ; and we have cut out much more — very much more— than we have put in this book, but we have given the basic law of nearly every condition, which is called "disease," and the thinker and the student will not find everything new, but he will find the thoughts of a searcher after knowledge. and one who desires to have the knowledge, which is based on the eternal truths that came- fresh from the hand of God, "when the morning stars first sang together."

Belleville, O., U. S. A., Sept. 16, 1901.

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Abdominal Pack

Abdominal Viscera ,

Accounting' for delirium. . . .

Accounting - for fever ,

Accomplishment of syringe

Acid Hydrocyanic

Actual Necessities

Acute Rheumatism

Action of Vital Force

Acute Specific disease

Acute Infectious disease. . . .

Action of Drugs on brain

Action of Liver.

Action of Calomel

Activity of Vital Force

Aconite

Acquired Fever ,

Advice in Diphtheria

Advice to Mothers . . . .

Advice in Books

-ZEsculapius

After Perspiration

After Measles

After Emetic

Age

Air in Room

Air Cells diminished

Air in Montana

Air Vescicles

Aloes

Alios Pathos

Albumenous bodies

Albumen in urine

Alva Curtis

Alkaline wash

Alkali

Alkali Results

Allowing Patients Water ....

All Cases of illness

Amalgam fillings

Amount of Skin excretion. . .

American Catarrh

Anasarca.

Anti-Toxin Serum

Anthracosis ,

Animal germ in S. F

Animal Magnetism

Answer to desire

Anatomy of Kidney

Anatomy of Nerves

Apollo the Physician

Aperture in Artery 181

Application of Wet Bandage. . 571

327 Application of Pack 336

830 Appetite 385

306 Apples or pears 342-373

244 Arteries 17!)

253 Arrangement of Emetic 185

274 Aromatic herbs 399

313 Aretus 021

234 Articles permitted 618

235 Asthma 550

040 Assisting V. F 237

631 Asphyxia 72!)

418 Authorities of Civilization 232

387 ±3

42 Bare feet 021

25 Bathing in fever 401

202 Baths, Sulphur 101

731 Baths, warm 161

145 Bacillus Typhosus 279

498 Bacteriologists 2s4

18 Bad Breath 785

162 Baking Powder 132-614

752 Bascdow.'s Disease 547

215 Battery in the Jaw 536

285 Basic facts 313,512

431 Bartholow's practice 197, 603

603 Bark plum tree 553

23 Backaches 615

637 BedSores "J 254

644 Berea — on worms 594

292 Beth Root 359

316 Being Slaves 50

647 Beale— Microscopist 50

341 Black Fever 393

339 Bloating 362

536 Bloated Bowels 300

230 Blood Corpuscles 67

644 Bites of insects 842

822 Bites of Red Bugs 843

654 Bites of Snakes , 844

434 Box — device ventilator 100

753 Bleeding from bowels 168

316 Botallian Valve 345

149 Body— Life or Force 72

128 Bodybuilding 54

18 Body dry 303