Diphtheria : its history, symptoms, cause, and radical, speedy cure, without the use of poisonous medication: scarlet fever, and its successful treatment : measles : with causes of throat diseases : catarrh and kindred constitutional disturbances / by Melville C. Keith.

  • Keith, Melville C. (Melville Cox), 1835-1903.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Diphtheria : its history, symptoms, cause, and radical, speedy cure, without the use of poisonous medication: scarlet fever, and its successful treatment : measles : with causes of throat diseases : catarrh and kindred constitutional disturbances / by Melville C. Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    THEKIA. To commence properly, we desire to lay down a f eAv planks wliicli must be agreed upon by every one. First we lay down the broad proposition that: You cannot make something out of nothing. Second, that if one eats a degraded class of food or drinks degraded water or breathes degraded air, one must expect to have degraded blood, tissues and formed material. The word ^^degradecT' is used here to express a low, filthy, polluted, putrid, unfit class of foods. It is also used to denote and describe a dirty, vile polluted bacteria swarming water. It is also used to express foul, polluted, re-breathed or smoky air. What we desire to state, is the fact that one cannot expect to have a good, sound, healthy body, and at the same time eat polluted, degraded food—drink the vile rotten water and breathe the horrible air one finds in many places in a city or in the country where they hate to ventilate. Read this over again so as to get this idea in your head. We desire you to take plenty of time to have this idea well established. Decide whether it is true or not. Last summer a man had some hogs. The hogs had the cholera and except one, all died. The one that lived was fattened and the man sent half of the fat hog to his brother. At the present writing (December, 1887,) some have died and all the rest are sick with a disease akin to cholera. Degraded and impure food made or produced this disease and the deaths followed. It is publicly asserted that the tobacco users in Gree- ley's Arctic expedition succumbed to cold and disease quicker than those who did not use tobacco. Why? Because the use of tobacco degrades, kills or weakens the molecules or bioplasm of the body. It is a well known and authenticated fact that per- sons who continually sleep in a room lighted by a kero-