The natural cure of consumption, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds (fevers) etc. : how sickness originates, and how to prevent it a health manual for the people / by C.E. Page.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
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[1883], ©1883
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    imen he will not depart from a truly natural way, so far as the natural way is possible; but rather use the whole grain, or the whole meal dry, and take the milk (if indulged in at all) by itself, and fruit likewise —after the grain. Several remarkable cases have oc- curred since this book was first issued, in which the curative powers of this diet have been displayed in a most marked manner. I take occasion to mention one. Mrs. L., of Lee, N. H., had been suffering for eight years, during which she had been able to walk but little. She was growing worse, and finally was pronounced by her physician incurably diseased with ovarian tumor. After six months use of uncooked food—, a breakfast of fruit only, with dinner at night com- posed of unsifted wheat meal (from one-third to one- half cupful, at first, the'amount increased later with increased exercise), dry, followed with a little fruit- she is up and about the house, aiding in the house- work, and the past week did the entire family ironing. She has been for eight years a great sufferer, but all her pains have been banished, and her strength and general health are steadily improving under a contin- uance of the diet as above described, together with light, loose clothing, much fresh air, air-baths, self hand-rubbing, and gradually increasing exercise from very small beginnings. 5 [note to page 232.] The Long-sought Principle.—It is confess- edly, a standing disgrace to our profession that, after all the boasted progress in medicine during