The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-12

inutilatcd not more than ten needed to
he placed under the knife In order to
save health or life.
Merely the Fashion.
II has become the fashion to go
through operations, but the woman who
KNOWS even the rudiments of health
ana is willing to practice those rudi-
tnents need not be victim of surgical
skill
During the last five years I have
heard several reports Of marvellous OPP
eratlons, where the surgeons displayed
great skill and the operations were
most successful" but the patients died.
Simple preventives OF operations are
temperance in food and drink not over-
indulgence in meat or coffee or tea or
other stimulants; absolute avoidance
or all drugs and sleeping powders; not
more than two meals a day of solid
foods; plenty of water, buttcrmills or
sour milk taken between these two
meals; keeping the pores open by ex-
ercise and keeping the whole body in
order by internal and external baths
and proper dressing, proper attitudes
Of the body, both in waking and sleep
ing hours
The Causes OF Diseases.
10 Sll WIKI CiNCu-ilI IUSsl, " Walk
with shoulders bent and the lungs
crampcd. TO sleep with the body twisted
or doubled up. all lead to false condi-
lions which produce disease.
woman's body is wonderful and
intricate mechanism. 1t is like deli
cate watch. and needs the wisest care
/ to keep it in good running condition.
Two cases of appendicitis were. to
a II rnWIeHug caused
by an unnatural attitude in sitting.
The woman, who was engaged in work
performed sitting. acquired the habit
of twisting one lower limb under the
body. This stopped natural circula-
tion, and when the right side of her
, body began to feel numb and to give
her pain she attributed it to her hard
work and long hours.
Then she INDUCED in strong coffee
twice a day and ate heavy night
neal Two attacks Of appendicitis re-
suited, but fortunately the woman pos
sessed sufficient common sense to study
cause and effect, and with an ablior-
! renee of the surgeons knife ana a
, strong Will power, and the knowledge
of natural laws, she was cured by fast
| ing and the use of water and the vioist
| and X-rays, and became perfectly well,
Keep In step with pIOSrcss.
! At the very first symptom of weak
ness or pain in the appendix or other
organs Of the body fast for twenty
four or forty hours. taking nothing
but water or broths once an hour.
Use warm baths externally and inter-
nally and then consult a good ray spe-
| cialist.
| The Finsen rays and other forms OF
| this wonderful discovery of science are
! every day curing more and more wo-
I men of maladies which the old school
1 doctors have pronounced incurable.
| They cannot always do this when the
maladies have assumed chronic and
| malignant forms. but they prevent
these malignant conditions when taken
! in time.
!! Before you decide to go on an oper-
ating table for appendicitis or any
/! other internal malady. look into the
simpler and more natural methods OF
cure. and then look toward the light
Skilled physicians are at the head of
these light cures. and If you need an
operation they will tell you SO.
But IL you can be saved from the
knife. they will save you. and you will
save time. suffering and money.
Progress in medical lines means nat
ural methods of cure and the avoidance
of the surgeons knife when possible.
4 Keep in step with progress.