Selections from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woolen system / by Gustav Jaeger ... (Tr. from the German.).

  • Gustav Jäger
Date:
1891
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    neons influences, but against the evil effects of its own noxious exhalations. [Any one that has attentively read Dr. Jaeger's book, will see, at once, that he here concedes too much against his System—that he claims less for it than it is entitled to, when he says, there are some diseases to which it affords no protection. The plain implica- tion of his fundamental proposition is against the concession. While it cannot avail to cure heart dis- ease or diabetes, it is evident that even these diseases must be in some degree subject to the general con- dition of the body, either in its tendency to succumb to perturbing influences, or its ability to resist them. —Editor,] The remedial power of the Sanitary Woolen Sys- tem may be summed up as follows : 1. The Sanitary Woolen System cure runs its course similarly to all so-called constitutional cures; ^. e., those which act upon the constitution. The ne- cessity of expelling a disease through the secretions of the body may give rise to critical symptoms, in the form of an acute attack of illness; and, as with all constitutional methods of cure, it may happen that the patient will succumb. 2. The complaints which have proved most readily susceptible to the remedial effects of the Sanitary Woolen System, are precisely those which have been most obstinate, when treated according to the methods previously known. I refer to purely nervous disor- ders; next to which comes the group of catarrhal and rheumatic complaints. Of the more localized diseases of the internal organs, the most susceptible to the System have been lung affections, including tubercles.