Volume 1

The natural method of healing : a new and complete guide to health / by F.E. Bilz ; translated from the latest German edition.

Friedrich Eduard Bilz

Date:: [1898]

Credit: The natural method of healing : a new and complete guide to health / by F.E. Bilz ; translated from the latest German edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$'\rde?e?verabö to te n eSiof,ed thai Ldicmes in wh,ch It deserves a so lu j treatment under a different Ihe patient has faith or a chan e oi ^ ^- -^ influence, in doctor, etc ;. ^5' 1^ be^reduced physically and men- X bv ^he nroadsSe upfn the constitutiJn by a. long disease W ly, by mroaus f animated by a certain hope when The reason of this 'If '°Jf.' w hope plavs an important Via KAo-ins a new system oi cure, uul nupc ^^vo t Silho^r; Äin^hfdL^s:.:^a t:x^^ conditfon i's often sensibly fmproved in consequence. A hopeful natient is Cured sooner than a despondent one. . „ P How frequently this favourable influence on the patient may have been ascribed to nostrums and medicines . j- ^ The following is an error, which I would rectify. The medicines, thev do not, therefore, come into direct contact with the diseased organ. 1 sa^ once more, all the good that these mixtures (which people credit with possessing such great healing PO^er and which are looked upon by many as something precious), can do, consi^sts^ drawmg the increased flow of blood, which so frequently produces pain in the unsound part of the body, away from that part and towards the stomach; or, if the medicme is of a narcotic nature, in deadening the sensibihty of the nerves, and so causing the pain to diminish for the moment. ... , 2 In stimulating nature to excretion, by perspiration, increased flow of urine, or diarrhoea; because nature promptly makes an eflfort to eject from the system, by those processes, the poisonous or irritating medicines. . . , • ^ Consequently it is not these inert bodies (the poisons ano uriiants) that have any effect, and that can, as it were take hold of the excreta, the urine, the perspiration, and thrust them out of the body; but nature herself takes hold of the poison which has been introduced, and ejects it from the body through the medium of the excrement, urine, and perspiration:—that is, it she is still strong enough to do so; if not, the poison remains m the system, and no effect is noticeable. This is the case with a goor$