The odo-magnetic treatment of nervous debility and all diseases resulting from poorness of blood and an enfeebled constitution : nature's own remedy for physical and mental maladies and all the diseases to which mankind is liable, or, the curative properties of odo-magnetism briefly explained / The Magnetic & Health Appliance Co.

  • Magnetic & Health Appliance Co
Date:
[1905?]
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Credit: The odo-magnetic treatment of nervous debility and all diseases resulting from poorness of blood and an enfeebled constitution : nature's own remedy for physical and mental maladies and all the diseases to which mankind is liable, or, the curative properties of odo-magnetism briefly explained / The Magnetic & Health Appliance Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ] of body and mind, than all the most highly lauded drugs of the Materia Medice. We are after all, and even in spite of our immense progress in every art and science, only on the threshold of that which is knowable, merely, as it were, knocking at the door of know- ledge. In the early days the art of healing relied upon materials which to the senses of the people of our days seem worse than useless and filthy in the extreme. Ground mummy powder, crushed spiders, viper broth, and every conceivable nastiness were believed to have a curative effect in direct proportion to their loathsome filthiness. Metchnikoff, the celebrated Russian chemist and_physi- ologrst, declares that the offspring of healthy parents born with a sound constitution and following the precepts of-nature with undeviating accuracy would live in perfect health all its life, and unless cut off by some accidental cause, finally die, tired of living and glad to die at about the r5oth year of -its age. Unfortunately, those who apply to us have not led healthy lives, meither have they obeyed the dictates of nature. Some no doubt have inherited congenital diseases from their parents or their remote ancestors. Some are the victims of their own follies ; others from some delicacy of constitution suffer greatly from atmospheric changes, and in damp, uncongenial weather are subject to rheumatism, neuralgia, headaches, fits of depres- sion and hypochondria. ‘They are tired of the thousand and one nostrums that have turned out so ineffective. They have
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