The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-04
HOME HEALTH CLUB
9Edited by -pg David H. Feeder, 4 Chigago1.

Chigago1.
 REAL MEDICINE vs. DEADLY DRUGS The pendulum of the clock swings back and forth. Its movements measure what we call time. The pen I-dulum of human actions, fads, fancies 1 or beliefs swings to and fro, action and reaction
 The history of medicine, to the close observer shows that the medical pro tfession has always been slow to give iup certain methods of treatment, no matter how erroneous time may prove fsucf methods ito have been Reforms in praticaI and safe methods of treat ment have nearly always been led by fear-headed far-sighted, deep-thfnk- l ing Iaymen, the kind that are called lcranks or fadists. They get their first Information from the physician. As a rule they are sufferers and happen to l go to the right doctor who tells them 1 the truth about their condition and the safe means of home cure. They apply the means with their natural enthus- iasn1 are cured and at once become 8 missionary, preaching the gospel of health by the same road that restored them. We call them cranks and fad I ists because the same method that l cured Hiram of Rheumatism will not always cure a Bunion, nor sore throat in the case of Mary Ann. Those who do find really helpful things and advocate them strongly are nearly al- 1 l ually by the people who should give l them the greatest aid.
 Old Doctor Samuel Thompson of New Hampshire, the blacksmith, botanist.
 was practically the father of non 1 poisonous herb medicines and for the great pains he took and the many cures l that were wrought under his treat
 ment- he was arrested time after time by men who styled themselves the lege1 practitioners of medicine and could L A. A1- -.- ~rs~v +. Ideally poison without fear of the law. l In our day. such men as Bernarr Nc 1 Fadden, Ealgene Christian and many I other advocates of -dFugless healing
 have had to defend themselves in the courts
 For a number of years the pendulum
 of practice was in favor of the deadly poisons, opiates, narcotics, coal tar preparations and their kindred. Along with these came sugery and there lseemed for a. time to be perfect car T nival of gore, each surgeon trying to I outdo the others in the number and
 daring of his operations. According to the usual reports the operation was highly successful, but the patient very linconsiderate of the doctors feelings in the matter, died of shock.
 Properly selected foods (and as foods I class all the herbs that are used in 2 l the treatment of disease) properly eaten, together with hydro -therapy exercise massage osteopathy, fresh air, sunshine and a reasonable san itation about the home will do more for the sick than all the poisons. op- iates, narcotics and coal tar prepar- ations ever compounded by the most Iskf1lful chemist in the world.
 l After a person has been pronounced I I'scured'' by these means they turn, as
 a rule to those of us who love mother nature and they try to follow her laws I The hardest part of our task is to get those foreign clements out of the sys- tenn after which the original cause of
 the suffering can usually be removed, then nature does the curing.
 l Your body is made out of the food you eat. If you are not we'll you are not eating wisely or well. There are, to be sure, many mechanical canses I for i'll health but not so many as
 some surgeons would have us believe Get in line with the Home Health Club,
 nature, good health and happy homes
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 | Dear Doctor:-I received your last I letter and as 1t is now month since
 started fixsth the exercises, I wish to
 now let you know how I am getting along.
 The Goitre does not grow smaller lvery fast but I feel much better in | my throat. I can now draw my body up so that have my chin over the bars My neck does not burn so very much, so I can easily apply the. ex- lternal treatrne ent. I have taken treat ment for the Goitre before, of two doctors, but without permanent help,
 but hope that this is the right treat meat. ~ 7
 Not long ago read tnat someone l wanted a cure for Tickets. It was a
 child Of three years who suffered. I
 know of a treatment which is better than medicine, and think it is better than anything else. I cured my oldest son with it. He was so weak and sick
 had attacks every day; I tried doctors for him, but he did not get better before my mother told me of this, and then the attacks disappeared fmned- iately afterwards and he became well and e<strong. People wondered over I-that could -hecame Men, when Re had been so weak before. When I was a child I had Rickets, also my 1 brother. My mother cured us both with this treatment.
 Make very hard dough of about tone-haf cup syrup and wheat four, then have tub ready for bath; take two handfulS of course rye four, and
 two handfuls of salt, and gut it in the
 bath; then lay a piece of white cloth
 over the tub and place 1the child in the asame. First bathes the child a
 little -waters-but not the head;
 then take the hard dough in the hands, wet it in the bath water, and spread
 it over the whole body, as if it were soap and water Something will then
 come out of the pores, something sharp
 resembling points They will mostly appear on the back, chest and shoulders You should not try to wash lOff the points have wooden
 blanket, take up the, child and roll him
 in the same, without drying him at tall. Let the child lay wrapped in the
 blanket and sleep, when he will sweat
 a great deal. The treatment should be repeated every other day, or twice
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