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]
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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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    index, as the contents of this work are indicated there more fully - than was possible or practical in the alphabetical order in which the book is arranged. 26 —Each form of treatment, as given after the description of each disease, is in many cases doubly efficacious when combined with a course of massage performed by an expert. For this reason M It is well to peruse the article on massage several times, and ° other books on the same subject should be read too and the illu- ' strations well examined in order to become, by degrees, fully familiar with the topic. ' ^ The forms of .treatment given here should be applied most scrupulously. First and foremost, never indulge in exaggeration, small means often effect great results. It is nature that cures, not we. In serious cases, everyone who has not yet mastered our ,. system of cure should always consult a physician, an advocate j of the natural treatment (not a medical man, eager to apply his J physics). If such a one is not at hand, it is a more imperative 1 duty to become as speedily as possible conversant with the method 1 of the natural treatment. If the correct course be pursued at once, | the malignant character of the disease will in most cases j-ield to i a milder one in a comparatively short time. With wrong treatment, however, the disease will get worse, or at best be protracted. The principal point, therefore, is to have due regard to the ^ patient's individuahty, i. e., to consider well what forms of treat- ment are the most suitable for him and his condition, and there is no doubt that one who is at home on this ground will be better able to determine this than an uninitiated person. 4 In order to obtain a correct view of this method of healing, \ and before being able to act with intelligence, it is all-essentiai to know that it is not the remedies we apply which cure, but 1 that the power of healing resides in man himself. Divine nature placed it there at the creation of each being. Thus it is not < necessar}'' that we should swallow this power of healing, this vital j power, in the shape of physic, pills, decoctions, etc., or to apply • it to the limb of a patient by means of a plaster, in order to effect a cure, no, this power has long been inherent in us. It is this self-same vital power (called here power of healing) that pre- ^ serves our life from day to day, from year to year, and manifests itself daily and hourly, at the same time healing the countless injuries, disorders and diseases which befall the bodj^, and ad- ,j justing them. Our only task then is to aid this vital power, and the subject of this present work is to thoroughly teach how it may be done.
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