Neo-naturopathy : new science of healing, or the doctrine of the unity of the unity of diseases

1917·25.3 MB·English

by  Kuhne, Louis

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NLO-NATUROPATHY
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The Science of Healing
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The Doctrine of the
Unity of Diseases
by
LOUIS KUHNL
Special Authorized American Edition
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Published by BENEDICT LUST, N. D., M. D.
Tangerine, Fla. BUTLLR, NLW JERSEY New York City
Copyright, 1917
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PREFACE
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J^HE healing art is as old as mankind. Man had always been divorced
•* from perfect health by the effects of sin, crime, sensuality, wrong
methods of eating and drinking, plagues, famine, the struggle for ex-
istence, and the horrors of war. The killing that goes on in nature is
not nearly so devilish as the bloody wars of extermination among men.
Official medicine is as blindly at work today as it has ever worked,
promulgating false methods of medical treatment to conceal its failures
to cure by the equally false methods it has discarded, and the medical
methods of today will, in turn, be discarded for the grotesque and equal-
ly false methods of tomorrow. Official schools of medicine and indi-
vidual practitioners are flooding the medical journals with literature on
the practice of medicine that is based on the treatment of symptoms, but
which has no effect on the cause of the given ailment.
Bacteriologists contend that microbes are the sole origin of disease,
whereas the truth is that disease is primarily caused by the accumula-
tion of filth, or dead organic matter, in the tissues of the body, that can
only be removed by agents consisting of an application of the forces of
nature from without, or by nature herself, by the calling into being
micro-organisms, or microbes, that are the product of fermentation, and
are the indispensable agents that convert all manurial matter into the
saline constituents that are essential for the nutrition of vegetable life.
In the natural purification of the atmosphere from its carbonic acid,
and carbonic dioxide by plants, and the natural purification of filth-
polluted streams by micro-organisms, we see how nature works. Na-
ture is a ceaseless round of beneficence toivards organized beings. She
destroys the malign agents of disease by transforming them into benefi-
cent materials of animal and plant health and vigor.
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Official medicine seeks to remove disease in an organism by treating
the symptoms with a pill or a potion, and for the most part ignores the
simple agents of cleanliness within and without, pure air, simple food,
sunshine, water, exercise, active or passive, that strike at the cause of
the given ailment.
The Federal Government of the United States, the governments of the
various states, the municipalities of various cities and wealthy individ-
uals vie with each other in founding institutions of medical research,
where cures for symptoms in the form of serums, inoculations and vac-
cines (the medical fashion of the hour) are obtained from the torture
of animals, the familiars of such inquisitions being persuaded that by
cursing animals they can bless mankind with such curses.
This book is devoted to a consideration of the doctrines of the masters
of healing in naturopathic pathology, who seek to attack the cause of
disease by liberating upon and within the organism, the beneficent forces
of nature already referred to, and who have achieved renown by their
methods. I give the first place in this publication of lectures on Neo-
Naturopathy, or the Science of Natural Healing, by that great master
of the healing art, the late Louis Kuhne of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
Mr. Kuhne was a genius in the art of healing, and his discovery of the
cause of all diseases and the remedies therefore, created a veritable
epoch in the field of drugless medicine. Living just prior to the age of
serums and vaccines, he rightly recognized that all disease was the re-
sult of a CONTAGIUM YIVUM or a MATER1ES MORBI, a fermentation
of poisonous matters that were not eliminated from the system, and he
devoted his energies to the elimination of such poison by the most sim-
ple and natural methods. His lectures are a reproduction of his cele-
brated work, entitled i(The Science of Natural Healing,'* which caused
a profound effect on its appearance, and which has been translated into
over fifty languages. It is strange that a book like this should be known
in European, South American, Asiatic and African countries, and not
known in the United States. Its reproduction, therefore, will make the
medical theories and practice of the author all the more prized by its
readers.
It was in 1888 that I first heard of this work by Louis Kuhne, and it
became the inspiration of my life work. I feel today that it is the very
cornerstone of Naturopathy, and that every honest investigator will ap-
prove of its teachings.
In publishing this treatise, my aim is to prove Naturopathy a logical
and exact science; to make this book worthy of the profession it is
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devoted to, and to make the drugless doctor a bigger and a better doctor,
and the patient more appreciative of the merits of natural healing.
This book is dedicated to the members of the American Naturopathic
Association, whose help, loyalty and encouragement has made drugless
healing a national profession.
It is further dedicated to all those drugless healers without the fold
who are yet blind and ignorant of the vital, elemental principles of the
healing art.
It is further dedicated to the public at large, that has been bled and
tortured, that has suffered and will suffer more for the want of the
knowledge of the great and benign principles of Naturopathy.
Yungbom," Butler. .V. /., and Sew York City