Home treatment with the cell-salts

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Chapter One. The Need Of A Safe And Efficient Home Treatment

Shown by the fact that some home practice is almost alwaj's used before calling a physician; that very many are obljged to rely upon one all through sickness; that as constructed, there is serious danger that the nature of the disease will be mistaken; that there is great danger that the prescribed remedies will be misapplied; that eminent physicians confess the harmfulness of drug-dosing, even by their own hands; that an over-dose is detrimental and may be fatal; the Biochemic system only, prevents disaster in such circumstances.

Chapter Two. The Efficiency Of The Cell-salts

Demonstrated by the citation of hundreds of cases of people cured by them, as attested in the clinical reports of physicians to physicians (i. e. to medical societies and medical journals, not designed for the eye of the people), therefore absolutely reliable.

Chapter Three. The Biochemic System Of Cure Fully Explained

What disease is; what the Cell-Salts are; their properties and functions; hoiv they cure disease.

Chapter Four. The Indications Or Symptoms That Call For The Use Of Each Cell-salt

All known symptoms of all diseases, so far as they relate to Biochemic remedies, are here classified, not by the names of diseases, for they are of no value, but by the functions and organs, e. g., digestion, thought, heat-production, etc., so that all confusion is avoided.

THE INDEPENDENT AND THE CO-OPERATIVE CURATIVES OF CHRISTIAN FAITH

Introduction

The most natural as well as the most philosophical arrangement of a book for the home treatment of diseases is neither by the ordinary medical classifications, nor by regions as head, stomach, pelvis, etc., but by functions, for of what use is a head if it cannot think, or of a heart if it does not beat, or of a stomach if it cannot digest?

Therefore this book is a treatment of diseases by the functional derangements that they exhibit, and by which their presence is known.

If this new method seem inconvenient at first sight to the reader, he has but to glance at the Outline Plan next to the title page to see its comprehensiveness, symmetry and utility."

And if one is at a loss to know under what function some symptom may be found, a moment's examination of the Index-Glossary will disclose it.

Biochemistry discards as unphilosophical and unscientific the names and classifications of diseases as they are found in the medical text books.

Why not then, have an arrangement of its own, based upon its own cardinal principles, and in harmony with its own use of remedies ?

The important point to be fixed in the mind of the reader is that names of diseases signify nothing.

The functional disturbance is what is to be studied, and to that, not to a name, the remedies are to be fitted.

Other books lay down treatment for certain diseases which are to be distinguished by a few detailed symptoms, but as a matter of fact, the similarity between the symptoms is so close, and the frequency of other symptoms that are not named is so great, that laymen are at their wit's end to know just what disease to treat, and there is a period in the onset of febrile diseases when not a physician on earth can tell with certainty whether he has one disease or another to combat.

All this perplexity is avoided by our method.

A fever is a functional disturbance of the circulation, and should be treated as that purely and simply, without regard to anything that may follow.

Of course this cannot be safely done in the use of drugpoisons. Prof. Alonzo Clark says, "All our curative agents (so-called) are poisons, and as a consequence evendose diminishes the patient's vitality." But our remedies are reconstructive always, therefore are always safe; a consideration of immense moment in placing curatives in the hands of the people.

Medicines have been defined by Dr. C. Wesselhoeft in a lecture before the advanced students of Harvard Medical School as ''substances which if consumed by a well person will make that well person sick."

According to this accepted definition the Biochemic Salts are not medicines.

Very well ; why employ medicines when remedies ( reconstructives) are efficient to euro? The use of this book will demonstrate the superiority of remedies over medicines, and the utter uselessness of the latter, except as germicides in appropriate cases, as explained in Chapter VI.

Those who recognize diseases only by their names find it hard to understand how one remedy can be appropriate for main - and dissimilar diseases.

But when they come to see that the same condition underlies these diseases and that the true philosophy oi cure consists in changing that condition , then the beautiful sim-

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plicity of the system explained in these pages becomes apparent.

Why should two thousand medicines be needed to correct the wrong conditions of the few elements out of which man is made?

Nature is severely simple in her methods ; man is ostentatiously complex in his.

The author is indebted to the following named Biochemic Works for the information that is gathered into this book, and to its publisher for much valuable assistance.

Abridged Therapeutics, founded upon Histology and Cellular Pathology, by Dr. W. H. Schuessler, translated by T. O. Connor, M. D. ; also a translation by Dr. M. Docetti Walker.

The Twelve Tissue Remedies, by Doctors Boericke and Dewey.

The Biochemic System of Medicine, by Dr. Geo. W. Carey.

The Tissue Remedies, by Dr. S. F. Shannon.

If the sum of human sufferings may be diminished by the aid of this effort, the. author will feel profoundly grateful that he has been permitted under a beneficent Providence to have some share in the kindly work.

June 3, 1897. S. H. PLATT.

Chapter I. The Need Of A Safe And Efficient Home Treatment

The general need of a safe and reliable system of home practice is apparent from these considerations, viz. :

i . The fact that some home practice is almost always resorted to before calling a physician. It may be to avoid the expense of the physician's services, or the immediate relief of pain, or from the general feeling that " something ought to be done," but for some reason home efforts arc and will be made. Therefore it is important that they be rightly directed.

2. The limited resources of families, or their distance from physicians in whom they have confidence, necessitates reliance upon home practice all through many sicknesses, to the exclusion of all other helps. It may be a hard necessity, but very many, especially in thinly-settled regions, must combine in one person the office of parent, nurse and physician all through the weary, anxious hours of lingering sickness even to the end, be that end life or death. That the chances for life will be greatly augmented by a safe and efficient home practice none who believe in the law of cause and effect can doubt.

And common humanity strongly insists that if the end must be bereavement, the sufferers have the best aid that a reliable home system of practice can give, so that they may be solaced as others who employ physicians are, by the rellection, " all was done that could be" for recovery.

3. Home practice as ordinarily found is fraught with the serious danger of the great probability that the nature of the disease may be mistaken, i. e., wrong diagnosis made.

Medical books describe hundreds of diseases, each with its own peculiar symptoms, yet many resembling each other so closely that ordinary physicians are often unable to discriminate between them, and a skillful diagnostican (one who diagnoses or detects disease) is among the rarest of medical experts. That the common people should mistake the disease is therefore the most probable of all probable things, and if the error does occur no one can tell the mischief that may result. Hence it is a common experience of physicians to find diseases seriously aggravated by the mistakes of home efforts to relieve. It is therefore of great consequence that those efforts, if they cannot be free from a mistaken direc.ion, may at least escape the the baneful results of injurious medication.

4. Home practice as ordinarily prescribed in books of home treatment is attended with the great probability that the remedies will be misapplied.

If they are allophatic or eclectic, some in most frequent use are deadly poisons ; many are in their nature deleterious, and nearly all are over-dosed. The narcotics, opiates, sedatives, stimulants, etc., most generally prescribed would amaze an intelligent observer were he not so accustomed to the sight. But familiarity with them does not change the nature of opium, chloral, nux vomica, digitalis or the bromides.

Physicians deplore the uncertainty which attends the administration of the most deadly drug- arising from the variations in the proportions of their active principles in different preparations, e. g., opium may contain eight or sixteen per cent of morphine to the grain, i. e., one dose may be one dose, or it may be two. Belladonna contains atropine varying from 0.25 per cent to 0.75 per cent.

Other drugs vary still more widely, yet the books dose i" Home Treatment with the Cell-Suits.

the drug at a fixed quantity, and physicians prescribe them accordingly.

But the " accidents" are attributed to other causes, and so the death-dealing work goes on.

Is it likely to be any less when the same drugs are employed in home prescriptions?

If the medicines are homeopathic, the poisons are prescribed more frequently than the harmless agents, and if they have any efficiency to heal when wisely used, they are equally efficient to injure if unwisely employed. And that they must be unwiselv employed is a necessity arising from the complexity of the system itself. Says Dr. H. A. Anderson, " When we give four thousand symptoms with aggravations for nearly every hour of the day to a single drug, it is a confusion to the student and a stumblingblock to the experienced prescriber."

The writer has personally examined the case of a homeopathic physician, consisting of sixteen hundred vials, each containing a remedy different in nature or potenev from all the others. Now a system that requires sixteen hundred remedies to treat some thousands of " indications " is certain to have its remedies misapplied by laymen or physicians either, unless they are experts.

It is absurd to say that " if they do no good they will do no harm." If they have no potency, the system is a fraud, and they who recommend it are abettors o\ fraud. If they have potenev, it is for good or ill according as it is wisely or unwisely applied, and the point that I insist upon is, that unwise application is unavoidable in the ease of all but experts. Therefore remedies that are harmless are a prime necessity tor home treatment of disease.

To add to the certainty that serious results will be likely to OCCur in the home use of drug medicines is the taet that they are so generally adulterated that no certainty can be had of securing from the ordinary druggist the medicine that is ordered. As an illustration, the New York Pharmaceutical Association reports that "seven samples of nitrous ether varied so greatly that a pint of one only equaled a teaspoonful of another." A manufacturing pharmacist sent fifty prescriptions precisely alike to fifty drug stores. It called for one article that all drug stores are supposed to keep in stock. Analyses showed that only about three of the fifty were correctly put up, and a large proportion of them did not contain a particle of the test medicine.

They who use drugs in home prescriptions are certain to deal with most uncertain agents.

5. No person who has read the Confessions of noted physicians relative to the uncertainty and harmfulness of the ordinary drug treatment of disease can doubt that a better system of cure is one of the most pressing needs of life.

For example, Dr. Sidney Ringer, the greatest English authority on the action of drugs, says: "The sustained administration of alkalies and their carbonates renders the blood poorer in solids and in ?'cd corpuscles, and impairs the nutrition of the body.' 1

So Dr. Wood, endorsed by Dr. W. L. Stowell, American Medical Bulletin, says: "Present therapeutics is a mixture of science and empiricism." Also Dr. J. J. M. Goss, in Medical Brief, says : "Medicine lacks much of being a fixed science."

"Ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are medical lies ; and medical doctrines are for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." — Professor Gregory, Edinburgh.

"Medicine is a barbarous jargon, and has destroyed more lives than war. pestilence and famine combined." — John Mason Good, M. Z>., F. R. S.

"Thousands are annually slaughtered in the quiet sick room. Governments should banish medical men and proscribe their blundering art." — Dr. Titus. Counselor of the Court tit Dresden.

"The stolid bigotry which will not be enlightened and will not investigate is responsible for many millions of deaths. The gigantic errors of medical men need vigorous criticism by those who are not afraid to speak. — Dr. Buchanan.

" Drugs do not act in the beneficial way they are supposed to do ; according to my reading they are so many poisons, and I am supported by medical books, which speak of the toxic (poisonous) effects of drugs. Many cases are made worse, or recovery is protracted by the use of drugs, whilst some are even killed or their death hastened by the drugs themselves. " — Dr. Allinson, London.

" Medicine is a great humbug. . I know it is called science. Science, indeed ! it is nothing like science. Doctors are merely empirics when they are not charlatans." — M. Magendie, the celebrated French -physiologist.

"All medicines which enter the circulation poison the blood in the same manner as do the poisons that produce the disease. Drugs do not cure disease. Digitalis has hurried thousands to the grave. Prussic acid was once extensively used in the treatment of consumption, both in Europe and America, but its reputation is lost. Thousands of patients were treated with it, but not a case was benefited. On the contrary, hundreds were hurried to the grave." — The venerable Prof. J'os. M. Smith. M. D.

" All our curative agents (so-called) are poisons, and as a consequence every dose diminishes the patient's vitality." — Prof. Alonzo Clark, M. D.

" The medical practice of our day is, at the best, a most uncertain and unsatisfactory system ; it has neither philosophy nor common sense to commend it to confidence." — Prof. Evans, Fellow of the Royal College, London, England.

" Our actual information or knowledge of disease does not increase in proportion to our experimental practice. Every dose of medicine given is a blind experiment upon the vitality of the patient." — Dr. Bostick, author of History of Medicine.

" Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischiefs have we not done under the belief of false facts and false theories ? We have assisted in multiplying disease ; we have done more ; we have increased their fatality." — Benjamin Rush, M. D., Philadelphia.

" The drugs which are administered for the cure of scarlet fever and measles kill far more than the diseases do. Instead of investigating for themselves, medical authorities have copied the errors of predecessors, and have thus retarded progress and perpetuated errors." — Prof. B. E. Barker, M. D.

6. An over-dose of the remedies of the systems to which the above citations refer produce disturbance of the functions in proportion to the dose.

Official reports from seven European hospitals show under homeopathic treatment a mortality of 4.22 per cent.

Official reports from five European hospitals under allopathic care give a death rate of 12.61 per cent., thus showing the beneficent effects of the least medication as compared with the freer use of drugs, even in the hands of skilled physicians.

The cell-salt remedies if over-dosed or misapplied are simply not appropriated by the absorbents and are carried as waste matter out of the body with no functional disturbance. Therefore they are perfectly safe.

NO person who is familiar with the figures showing the enormous sale of patent and proprietary medicines can doubt that the pcupk have taken the work of curing their countless ailments into their own hands. They buy and take blindly because they do not know what better thing to do.

Home treatment doctor books representing all the leading " pathies " have been sold broadcast, yet the people feel that the right system has not come to them yet.

Fortunately, this can be said no longer. The Biochemic System is the most safe, scientific and satisfactory theory and practice of cure that the world has ever seen.

It was not elaborated for the use of the people, and for thirty years has been kept from them.

This book is the first systematic effort that has ever been made in the English language to adapt the system to the comprehension, and adjust the treatment to the use of those who know nothing of the sciences that are supposed to be a necessary part of a medical education.

Can it be done? Unquestionably it can, for among the author's own patrons it has been successfully employed in very many instances. And why not? No acquaintance with anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica (medical substances) nor therapeutics (to cure by remedies) is necessary in the home use of the cell-salts.

Names of diseases are entirely ignored, and conditions only art' considered.

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These conditions are not some hidden, mysterious things that only a doctor can discriminate, but such as the color of the coat of the tongue, the color and consistency of expectoration or of a discharge, the kind of pain, i. e., shifting or steady, shooting or grinding, etc. Surely these matters any person of ordinary intelligence can determine positively, and with that knowledge he has only to ask this book what salt to use in such conditions, and it answers with a certainty that is as unfailing as human judgment can make it, and is as refreshing as it is sure when compared with the timid, hesitating uncertainty that most people feel in the use of the home doctor books and drug medicines of the past.

This great fact only has but to be stated to show the absolute superiority of this practice over all others, and the necessity for it, because it is thus superior.

The people ought to have the best.

Chapter II. The Efficiency Of The Cell-salts

There are two methods of determining this question.

The first is the one pursued by patent medicine manu facturers, viz., the collection of testimonials from those who as patients have used the nostrums and certify to their value.

The objections to this class of evidence are :

i . The very great liability to mistake on the part "of those unfamiliar with diseases, and their consequent false report of their real condition.

2. The nearly universal tendency of the human mind to make reports as startling as possible — thus leading to exaggeration.

3. The fact that such testimonies are often influenced^ sometimes bought outright, and sometimes transferred from one article to another.

4. The fact that no nostrum is ever found so poor in virtue that large numbers of testimonials are not offered in its favor.

This item alone should cause the acceptance of such evidence to be considered as a very weak foundation on which to rest the use of compounds affecting human life.

The other method of reaching the truth as to the efficiency of the Cell-Salts is :

To collect testimonials from physicians who have prescribed them, and who certify their value in specific conditions to their fellow physicians, whose knowledge of the import of those conditions furnishes a safeguard against undue exaggeration, and who, by the very circumstances in which the testimony is given, can neither be influenced nor bought.

Such evidence from professional men is the strongest that can possibly be adduced outside of a court of justice.

Such is the testimony that is here cited.

These reports are also of peculiar value as detailed examples of the actual use of the remedies in every-day practice, thus furnishing to the intelligent layman hints of the wise selection for the conditions named.

Surely the same remedies for the same conditions can be no less efficient if dealt out by unprofessional hands.

It will be observed that in some cases potences other than the 6x are employed.

This is well enough for physicians, but as Schuessler advised, the 6x should be the standard, only to be departed from when that obviously fails, not because wrongly selected, but because the system of the patient is incompetent to assimilate it. In most of these cases cited herein there is no evidence that 6x would not have done as well as the potency actually employed.

The life-long habits of drug dosing have created a timidity in the use of remedies unless specifically prescribed by professional authority on the part of many who rely upon their physicians only, but such need not fear to follow these prescriptions in similar cases ; first, because these remedies are not poisonous ; second, because these reports are precisely the same kind of authority that physicians follow in making their prescriptions, and the same authority likewise that is relied upon by physicians in writing medical books, and that constitutes the foundation and largely the substance of the lectures to the students in medical colleges.

The names of diseases are retained here both because

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they are in the articles cited and to aid the reader in identifying the conditions treated under those names. The articles are considerably condensed for this place.

Abscess OF Ear. — Carrie A., age 16. Severe pain in left middle ear. with all the symptoms of gathering. Calc. Sulph., 3x, twice a day, cured in two days. — The Homeopathic News. • Accident. — Clara M., 7 years. Thrown and dr by a horse. Left arm broken above elbow in two places, about three inches apart ; left hand badly bruised : right arm and body bruised ; hoof-marks on face, right side of which was crushed down : head and neck swollen out an inch ; both eyes closed ; mouth and tongue badly swollen. I reached her one and a half hours after accident, and found her in death-like stupor. Gave Kali Phos.. 3X, every ten minutes, which banished the stupor. Then gave Kali Mur. and Ferrum Phos. alternately every fifteen minutes. Set the arm under chloroform. Second day gave remedies every thirty minutes, and fourth day every hour. Steady improvement from the first, and in three weeks bandages were removed and she was dismissed a well girl. Her life was saved by Ferrum Phos. and Kali Mur. in large doses. — j'. C. Ferrell, M. 1).

Acute Ailments. — In mostly all acute ailments Ferr. Phos. is absolutely the remedy to begin with, and if rightly and early enough given will cut short the disease. When once exudation or suppuration has taken place, it is no longer the indicated remedy, and we must look farther. Still I would strongly advise the practitioner not to change too quick from Ferrum Phos. to another remedy. He cautious in this regard. — Win. Stcinrati/, M. D.

After Birth, Removing. — Young lady, age 27. The labor was normal, but as soon as the child was expelled.

the uterus contracted with walls of abdomen hard, rigid and conical. I used several remedies to relax, but in vain. At last I gave Mag. Phos., fifteen grains (three doses in one), in hot water. In five minutes the relaxation occurred, and the placenta came away without further difficulty. — Wm. Chapman, 31. D.

Anaemia. — Young lady, age 17. Became greatly debilitated ; had no appetite and no ambition ; her menses were irregular ; absent for months, then a flow varying in quantity. I gave her Calc. Phos., 6x, as principal remedy, also at times Ferrum Phos. as well. A few months and she was able to resume her studies. — Dr. C. T. M.

Anaemia. — Lizzie F,, age 16. Almost bloodless, nervous, almost strengthless, been so for months. Cured in five weeks with Calc. Phos., Kali. Phos. and a few doses of Kali. Mur.— Dr. J. C. Ferrell.

Asthma, Chronic. — Female, married, age 42. Subject to attacks for years ; expectoration greenish and remarkably copious. Natr. Sulph. every three hours. Improvement began after a few doses, expectoration becoming paler and less abundant ; has felt better since than for years ; and one noteworthy fact is, that the expectoration stopped in a few doses, whereas in previous attacks it had continued for weeks, thus indicating that the Natr. Sulph. had gotten at the root of the evil. — Dr. Wm. J. Guernsey.

Asthma, Humid. — Old, chronic cases. In one instance respiration sounded like thin boiling mush. Two grains of Kali. Sulph., 3X, every two and a half hours has given me the most surprising results. I could ask for nothing better. — Dr. G. W. Harvey.

Asthma. — Young gentleman, J. G. Had been subject to severe attacks of asthma for several years. He tried Kali Phos. and Kali Mur.. and experienced relief more

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quickly than by any other remedy he had tried. — From Schuessler .

Bed-Ridden. — Miss R.. age 24. Left bed-ridden nine

years ago from typhoid fever. lias been treated by noted physicians of all schools. I prescribed Kali Mur., }x, two grains every six hours. Improved at once, and in less than one year gained thirty-rive pounds in weight, and is walking about without the assistance of a cane. — V. W. ( onnor, M. I).

Biliousness. — A case of bilious vomiting followed by voracious appetite, bitter taste and yellow skin. I prescribed Nat. Sulph. for the biliousness, and Kali. Phos. for the appetite. The second dose of Kali. Phos. relieved the stomach, and in forty-eight hours the skin was clear. This was after the quinine and pills of another physician had failed.—/ 1 . S. Dunham, M. D.

Another Case. — J. W., age 56. Cutting pains in abdomen, bilious stools, coated tongue, yellow eyes and skin, heat in bowels, worse in damp weather. Dr. H. S. Phillips prescribed Nat. Sulph., which resulted in speedy cure.

Bites from Centipede and Scorpion. — Less than three grains of Nat. Mur. rubbed in with saliva on my little linger relieved me thoroughly in twenty minutes from the effects of the bite of a large centipede (live to six inches ) .

In scorpion bites, I suggest Ferrum Phos. in addition to Nat. Mur., should Nat. Mur. alone prove insufficient. — Dr. C. I '. Lorander.

Blind Spells and Headache. — Mr. B., engineer, age 59. Blind spells, then flashy lights shooting out in rays and circles from one-half an hour to two hours, then an intense headache. Come from once a day to once in three days. Back head stiff and sore. Troubled live years. I gave Silica, I2x, and Calc. Flour, 3X, on alternate days, with occasionally Nat. Mur., 3X, and he was cured in three months. — F. D. Bittinger, M. D.

Bronchitis. — Lady Louisa has been subject to attacks of bronchitis for several winters, the first attack proving very serious. Ferrum Phos., a dose every hour, and a few doses of Kali. Phos. for exhausted condition, were steadily taken for a few days, and then Ferrum Phos. and Kali. Mur. alternately. The doctor who called to see her shortly after stated that the bronchial symptoms were all gone. — Dr. .

Bronchitis, Chronic. — Archibald Herbert, suffering from chronic bronchitis, had an attack of pneumonia ; had been exposed to great heat and took a chill and inflamma- ,tion of right lung set in ; high fever, distressing cough, deep-seated pain in right side, expectoration tenacious, rusty colored. Ferrum Phos. in alternation with Kali. Mur., a dose every half hour, was taken for twenty-fowr hours ; then every hour. As the color of the sputa changed to yellow, he took Kali. Sulph. instead of Kali. Mur., and as this condition was remedied Nat. Mur. and Calc. Phos. completed the cure in a little more than ten days. — Dr.

Cancer of the 'Stomach. — Mrs. L., age 62, an Hebrew lady, came under m}" care suffering with sharp, lancinating pains in the stomach. External examination, cachexia, and all significant symptoms seemed to point to the one condition of cancer. In order to be sure of the diagnosis I took the liberty and precaution to have an examination made by two other physicians in whom I have great confidence, both of whom pronounced it cancer of the stomach, with the prognosis of course of the speedy termination of my patient's life. I remarked that I expected to get her

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up. My constant use of the Tissue Remedies has shown me what I can usually expect of them, and the remedies used were Calc. Phos., 3X, in alternation with Kali. Phos., 3X : a good-sized powder every three hours, until the cachexia and appearance of the face had changed to a more natural color, then I put her on Kali. Sulph., 6x, Nat. Mur., 6x, and Silica, I2x. In this order occasionally changing back to the Calc. Phos., Calc. Sulph., or Kali. Phos., as required by any change in her condition, and once or twice Nat. Phos. was used to quiet the pain. In sixty days our patient was out of bed, and inside of ninety days she was out on the street, feeling as w r ell as ever in her life. She is alive and well to-day, and there has been no return of any symptoms that would lead us to suppose the whole trouble was not cured. — F. D. Bittinger, M. J).