Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-01-19

placed upon the head and forehead
and a glass of cool water given to
drink every five minutes or oftener
if desired.
One of the reasons for pneumonia
is natures attempt to eliminate the
bodily poisons through the mucous
membrance Of the lungs. Cleanse
the body and blood of poisons so the
production of fetid mucvus ceases and
pneumococci pneumonia germs) will
die just as grains of wheat will cease
to germinate in dry sand.
Clean out the alimentary tract with
a good dose of castor oil and enemas
every four hours until the main sew
er of the body has been so cleansed
that the blood may throw off into the
sewer the poisons with which it is
charged and which it will pick UP
from the lungs and carry to the
bowels if given the opportunity. The
contents of the bowels must be kept
moving on frequently during this i'll
ness and carried on out of the body
with three, four or five bowel move
ments day, in order that this viru-
lent poison thrown by the blood into
VIC IIdCL may UC Ccll lSlt
out before it can be reabsorbed.
This treatment should be kept up
until the temperature is normal. I'm
til then not one mouthful of food
should be taken. Drink water freely.
1t matters not whether the tempera-
ture persists three days or three
weeks, take no food until it is nor
NAL. Food is a poison to the human
body when there is any rise in the
temperature, because digestion does
not function properly with increased
temperature of the body. Foods then
taken will ferment and putrefv. and
in passing on through 26 or % feet
of intestines enough of the ferment-
ing putrefying mass will be absorb
ed to thoroughly poison the body.
Many deaths occur, not from dis
eases, but from food poisoning dur
ing fever.
You see now, if you accomplish
the pulling Of the blood away from
the lungs by bringing it to the sur
face of the body in gorging the
sweat glands, you stop the progress
of the disease right where it is and
there is no second stage, because the
pressure on the walls of the blood
vessels of the lungs is relieved and
infiltration does not take place.
When pneumonia goes on into the
second stage the serum which infil-
trates into the air cells becomes
hepatized Or solidified and then it
can only be expelled from the lungs
when the stage of resolution sets in
and the solidified material breaks
down and is coughed up as a rusty
sputum frequently streaked with
blood. To complete this cycle, how
ever, requires some weeks and need
never be gone through. If immediate
action is taken whenever one expert
ences any socalled severe cold of the
lungs, accompanied by pain, difficult
breathing and construction of the
chest.
An important thing to remember
is that this procedure will draw the
blood from an inflamed kidney or in
case of pleurisy or in inflammatory
rheumatism from the inflamed area
just as the same as in pneumonia.
If your child comes home with a
sore throat and you suspect diph-
iberia, follow this same procedure
and you will pull the blood away
from the inflamed tonsils just as il
is pulled away from the lungs or any
other internal organ. Do not give
your child thing to eat until the
temperature is normal. This with
enemas and laxatives in sufficient
quantity to keep the bowels freely
moving, will stop diphtheria right
where it is and clean blood will soon
do the rest.