Chapter I Personal Experiences

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CHAPTER 1 PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

During my long years of experience along medical lines, I have worked out things that are of value to the human family. There is a crying need for an old fashioned remedy book which people can use themselves. I have been asked many times to write out my experiences so that others may have the benefit of what I have found to be true.

When presenting the subjects on which this book treats, I have many times been asked the reason for my interest in these subjects and what my purpose is in endeavoring to interest others also. It is only fitting, that now,in putting my experience and knowledge in printed form, I should answer these questions. This I can best do by giving a brief sketch of my personal experiences during my youth and early manhood.

I was born and reared on a truck and nursery farm in the northern part of Wisconsin. We raised all kinds of vegetables, also seeds for large seed houses. My father was a practical farmer and nurseryman. We raised nearly everything that we needed, had very few things to buy. We made our own syrup and sugar from beets and carrots, and had an abundance of all kinds of fruits, such as apples, cherries, plums, and the common varieties of berried, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, also grapes and currants. We lived almost entirely upon the natural products of the earth.

After I left home, I lived in boarding houses and hotels, eating little except devitalized foods, until my health began to fail. This continued until I suffered a complete breakdown. My nerves gave way completely, and I became so weak that one time I was in bed three months, suffering with pains no tongue can describe. Death would have been a welcome release.

Finally, when I was able to be up and around again, I went to various sanitariums,, and consulted with doctors and specialists. Sometimes it seemed as though I were getting a little better, and then I would get worse again. Even when I could walk around, if anyone talked to me for only five minutes, holding the most pleasant conversation, I would collapse. Some of the very best doctors said that they did not see how I lived at all, and that I certainly could not live long. My nerves were in such a condition that sometimes when I had my eyes open, I would seem to see flashes of lightning in broad daylight. In this condition I lingered for a number of years.

I had tried every remedy known to the medical profession, and none of my doctors gave me one ray of hope. I, myself, had no thought of ever getting well again, and had made y will and was lingering around, not looking for any further help from the medical profession.

It was then that I came across some books, written by a Mr. And Mrs. James White, who, though not physicians, were great medical missionaries. In those books I found statements like these: "nine out of every ten could get well if they would use simple God-given means." And "Do not eat food robbed of its life-giving elements." "Do not eat food that makes you sick." This was an entirely new line of thought to me. At that time I had never Hear such things mentioned.

Anyone desiring any of Mrs. E.G.White's writings can procure them from the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., Takoma Park, D.C., Southern Publishing Assn., Nashville, Tenn., or Pacific Press Publishing Assn., Mountain View, California.

These were the first things that began to open my eyes, and they gave me encouragement that there might be hope for me. This brought to my mind that in my youth, at home, we never had a doctor. For food we depended on the nuts of the forest, the fruits of the orchard, and the grains of the field. For medicine we used the herbs of the fields and gardens, teas made from the inside barks of certain trees and shrubs, and the health-giving, cooling juices of wild and tame fruits that grew all around us in abundance. Our herbs we gathered and dried in the summertime, and saved, to have on hand in case of sickness, either for ourselves or for our neighbors. Well do I remember how I gathered herbs, barks, and blossoms for the doctors. I recalled many times, when my parents were called to a neighbor's home after someone there had been given up to die, they, with their herbs, fruit juices, and vegetable broths, helped the sick one back to health again.

One time black smallpox broke out in a community a little distance from us. But we were all exposed before we knew it; and though we did not have a doctor, by means of these simple herbs, water, and simple foods, we recovered, though several children of the family had it at the same time. There were also others who used only the herbs, and not one of them died.

In those pioneer days, doctors were scarce in that northern country, and the people largely depended upon each other and the simple means of treatment, as they had a practical knowledge of their effectiveness, gained from their experiences.

All these things came vividly to my mind at this time when I was in such a hopeless physical and mental condition.

Then I began to search further in those books, and I found many useful things and it was not long until my health began to improve, and by the continued use of these simple God-given things, it improved until I was a well man.

One time there was an epidemic of typhoid fever in the locality where I was living, and most of the people were deathly afraid of it, as a great many died. Someone told me of a family, a man and wife who were afflicted with it, and had no one to wait on them. The neighbors would come and set food on the porch, but would not go into the house, so I went to see this family. As I approached the house, I met the doctor outside the door, and asked him if he had any objections to me doing something for these folks. He said "No, no objection," and he added that the woman would recover but the man would die.

I found this man in a very critical condition. He had hemorrhage of the bowels and ulcers from his mouth through the entire digestive tract, with a sever pain in his bowels. He was very low. From all appearances, there was no hope for him. But I obtained a cot, put it in his room, and began to treat the man with the simple remedies which I found in the White books. I stopped giving poisonous drugs, and gave him plenty of water and fruit juices, and used other simple means, such as fomentations, which proved a great means of allaying his pains. These were given in the form of hot and cold applications, and I soon had his pain eased.

In about six weeks the man was up and around. When he asked me how much he owed me, I told him he owed me nothing, as I myself had been lingering for years with no hope of ever being well again, and I was glad and happy to be able to do something for him. But the man, said, "No, sir. You will never do this for nothing," and he gave me a check for seventy-five dollars.

This was the beginning of my medical missionary work, as I had never before done anything for the sick. I was so pleased and happy that I had been successful in doing something for someone, that I continued nursing, having the same good results. I nursed for several doctors, who were surprised that one having had no medical training of any kind could get such results.

In a later chapter of this book, entitled, "Fevers," I will give the means I used for the treatment of these cases. I have had the same results many times since. The means are so simple that anyone can use them in his home.

I studied every case that I had, to see what I could learn further on the subject of simple methods of treating the sick. I was so aroused by this time that I began to search for and buy books on these subjects, and subscribe to medical magazines. I have continued this search for many years, writing many letters in search of things that might be a blessing to man. After I found help for myself, I kept up the search for the sole purpose of giving to the world what I might find. I studied the Bible on cooking, baking, and learned also the remedies that were used in Bible times. I found that the healing art which God gave to man to maintain and restore health was to be practiced by ministers and gospel workers. And God has never changed that plan.

I also have many bulletins from the government in which I have found valuable information, analysis of various products, etc. I had the Journal and many of the books which the American Medical Association publishes, from which I learned much.

Man's methods of treating disease are truly complicated and mystifying, but God's ways are so simple that anyone can understand them without a medical education. This led me to think of the simple herbs, fruits, and fruit juices, and barks which my parents used and the means which Mr. And Mrs. White used, so simple and harmless and so inexpensive that everyone can use them for himself. This is God's plan His remedies can be used at small expense.

Here are the simple means which Mr. And Mrs. White, with the aid of their helpers and many others, used: pure air, sunshine, properly prepared food,, non-poisonous herbs, water treatments, pure water to drink, abstemouosness, foods not robbed of their life-giving properties in manufacture, cleanliness of body and premises. When we heed these things, God will do for us what we cannot do. He lets the sun shine on the just and the unjust. If any man or woman would apply these simple, God-given remedies, the results would be the same for both saint and sinner. When physical law is obeyed, by any human being, whether good or bad, he will reap the reward God has promised. When a wicked man, who does not believe in God, tills his soil properly and sows and plants properly, God gives him sunshine and rain the same as he does a righteous man, for God is no respecter of persons.

I have heard many health lectures and have read a great deal on health topics, but it was the books of Mrs. White that first opened my eyes. I have been told that Mrs. White cured herself of cancer by using Red Clover Blossoms, and she used them all during her life as a beverage. She lived to the age of eighty-four years.

It is going on forty years since I was given up by my doctors without hope of every being able to do anything again in this world. Part of the time I have done the work of two or three, and many times the circumstances were such that I could not take proper care of myself, and I would work beyond my strength. Now I am getting to be an old man and have more strength and endurance than many young people. I feel grateful to my heavenly Father for all these simple God-given remedies. It was the reading of such statements as the following which led me to believe that there must be a remedy form me. "Do not eat food that makes you sick." "To eat food as far as possible in its natural state." "Foods that require cooking should be prepared in a simple, palatable way without the use of spices." God has a remedy for every ill of man. I certainly found that remedy.

A short time after I had begun to help people with these simple remedies, as I was driving along the road, a man called to me and said, "Can't you do something for my boy?" A large, strapping young fellow was sitting in the house suffering with an ingrown toenail. His toe was so sore and inflamed that he could not walk. I washed the foot with soap and water and trimmed away the toenail down to the quick. Then I took some peroxide and kept putting it on until the pus and foul matter was cleaned away. Finding there a proud flesh, I put on burnt alum powder. This killed the proud flesh. I then asked him to bathe the foot every day and soak it in hot water, as hot as he could stand, for several minutes, then plunge it into cold water. Then I had them get an old shoe, and cut the leather away at the toe, so his sore toe would not touch it. Then I put a little cotton between the toes so they would not touch each other. Three days later I came along that same road and stopped to see the boy. His father said he was out in the field working.

Along that same road, the folks were threshing. The man who was doing the feeding was cut in the palm of the hand by the bundle cutter. There was a deep cut in the flesh and the gash was nearly an inch wide. I put a little disinfectant in water and some astringent and soaked his hand in hot water for over an hour. This almost entirely closed the wound. Hot water, of course, was added at intervals to keep it hot. Then I cut some narrow strips of adhesive plaster. I pressed the wound together so it was tightly closed, and put these narrow strips across it to hold it in place. Then I put his arm in a sling. In one week his wound was entirely knit together, and in less than two weeks the man began to work again.

For disinfectant and astringent, a tea made of white oak bark or bayberry bark is excellent. Use a heaping teaspoonful in powder form to a cup of boiling water, and steep thirty minutes, or it can be made a little stronger. Wild alum root, golden seal, and myrrh are also excellent for such purposes. Use a half teaspoonful of any of these three to a cup of boiling water.

A small teaspoonful of myrrh and one of golden seal and half teaspoonful of red pepper to a pint of boiling water makes a very effective surgical dressing, and may be used for any kind of a wound or swelling. After the teas are steeped, there will be some sediment in the bottom of the container. The fluid or tea should be carefully poured off so that the fluid which is used will be entirely clear before it is put in the wound.

A small teaspoonful of myrrh and one teaspoonful of golden seal and half teaspoonful of red pepper put in a pint of alcohol and allowed to stand for seven days, shaken well every day, makes an excellent liniment for sprains or bruises, and can be used anywhere as a liniment for any sore fresh wound or ulcer. Kerosene is also excellent for wounds and bruises.

Look in the Table of Contents for the heading, "Kerosene."

I could multiply similar experiences with these remedies that anyone can use in his own home.

A Swollen Foot

Again I came to a home where a young man was sitting with his foot swollen. The thick part under his foot near the toes was very badly swollen and inflamed so that he was not able to walk. I had them get a large pan of hot water, and one of cold. He soaked the foot in the hot water until it was thoroughly heated, then plunged it into the cold for just a second or tow, putting it immediately back into the hot water, alternating in this manner for one hour. I then took a pan with some kerosene in it, and put his foot into this cold kerosene while the foot was hot and the pores open. We went through this process several times during this same evening and then repeated it the first thing in the morning. The young man went to work that same day. But I advised them to continue this treatment every evening for a few evenings, which entirely cured the soreness in his foot.

Treating Sore Toe with Peroxide

Many years ago I had occasion to treat a young man who had been wearing a shoe that was too tight, or at least it did not fit his foot well, and had caused his large toe to become very sore. It was swollen and had become so painful that he could not work. There was not anything available except some of that old household remedy, peroxide of hydrogen. I washed his foot in very warm water, and then applied peroxide every two or three minutes, until it was perfectly clean and did not bubble any more. This treatment alone removed the inflammation so much that the young man could resume his work. I told him that for several evenings he should soak his foot in first hot, then cold water, and then apply the peroxide or kerosene until the soreness was entirely gone. The toe got well.

A case of Rheumatism

One time four men came to see me and told me of a man who was crippled with rheumatism. They insisted that I go with them to see this man. We found a man about thirty-five years of age in bed with both of his legs drawn up so tightly that they could not be moved to a normal position, and his arms were the same way. His wife fed him with a spoon, as one would feed a little baby.

This man had been doctoring for years with specialists, and spent hundreds of dollars without receiving any help. What the doctors did for him at this time was to inject strychnine and morphine. Without this the man would groan night and day.

I gave him hot blanket packs to sweat in. Then later I gave him baths in the washtub. I covered him with blankets and put his feet in a pan of hot water as you would give a stiz-bath, and then rubbed him with oil. (For herbs used, see Table of Contents for herbs given for Rheumatism." For food, I gave him zwieback, whole wheat flakes, adding a tablespoonful of lime water to every cup of milk given, and an abundance of fresh fruits, and vegetables, and had him drink a great deal of pure water. In one week there was decided improvement, and in a comparatively short time, he was well and resumed his work again with both his arms and legs perfectly limber.

Ulcerated Stomach Causes Spasms

This case was brought to my attention by the man who had the forementioned case of rheumatism. He suggested that I might be able to do something for his aunt, who had not been able to work for a number of years. She had a bad case of ulcerated stomach and bowel trouble. When I met her I inquired about her troubles. She told me that every few days, aside from the constant pain she had, she would get a spell in the form of a spasm, with terrible pain. I said, if I could see her in one of those spells I could tell more about what was the matter. She said, "If you can do anything for me to keep me from having another spell, for God's sake do it, for I'd sooner die than have another spell." I ordered a sitz- and sweat-bath, followed by a salt glow and a high enema. I also put her on a liquid diet, also giving her whole wheat flakes dissolved in boiling water and a little cream. She also had some whole wheat zwiebach with hot milk. A teaspoonful of lime water was added to each cup of milk. We gave her daily hot and cold applications over the stomach and liver, also the spine. I gave her herbs to heal the ulcers in the stomach and to cleanse the system. (See ulcerated stomach in Table of Contents, to find what herbs to use.) In three weeks this woman was so much improved she cold go home, and continue her treatment.

Fifteen years later, I received a letter from Mr. Gilson, (who was this woman's brother and had been healed of rheumatism) saying that he wished he could get a few more treatments as he was again feeling a touch of rheumatism. He added in the same letter, "It might please you to know that my aunt has been well ever since, and has not suffered another spell, but is just now feeling a little touch of that old trouble." I had thoroughly instructed them both in the first place that the things which caused the trouble originally would do so again. I could not go to see the, but instructed them by letter what to do, and they got along all right.

Cured of Tuberculosis

About thirty-five years ago a man by the name of Stevens, in the northern part of Wisconsin, very urgently called me to see his wife. I found her sick in bed with tuberculosis. She was a young woman with one child less than a year old. Upon inquiry, we found that three in this family had already died of tuberculosis; her mother, one brother, and one sister. This lady was the fourth in the family to be afflicted with the disease. The doctors had given up her case. She was a frail woman with a small, round chest and very small lungs. A number of my friends advised me not to try to do anything for the woman, as it would be impossible for a cure to be effected. I told both the woman and her husband just what it would mean to undertake this case. I said that if they would not live up to everything I asked them to do, to the last detail that I would not undertake it, and that just as soon as I might find out that they did not live up to every requirement I would drop the case at once. Suffice it to say, it was not more than two weeks before the woman was so that she could walk around. I asked them to get her some warm felt shoes, woolen stockings, and woolen underwear extending down to her ankles, then I had her exercise outdoors every day. As her strength increased I had her exercise more and more. Nearby was a high hill which I had her walk up every day, rain or shine, unless the weather was too stormy. Walking up hill is very beneficial as it compels one to breathe deeply.

This woman got entirely well, and the last I heard of her, had reared a family of children.

There is no need for failure in such cases unless they have gone so far that there are organs of the body destroyed and you have nothing to build on. I could cite many more instances of this kind, but will only give a few more to show the results of the use of simple means that can be used in your own home.

Child Given up to Die

One time I was called to go to a home where there was a little four-year-old child. The doctor had pronounced it pneumonia. Her fever was above 104 degrees, and she had been unconscious for some time. This child was clothed in a heavy woolen undersuit, and also wore a jacket made of batting to cover her lungs, both in front and back. The house was full of people, as they expected the child to die any minute. I asked them to remove her clothes, and the grandfather, who was standing on one side of the bed objected very seriously, saying that it would cause the child's death. But her father said to leave me alone. The doctor had said that the child would die, and unless a decided change came, they all knew that she would.

They asked me the cause of the fever. I told them I did not know the cause, but that no matter what was the cause, the fever must be reduced. We put the child, without any clothes on, between cotton blankets, gave her an enema, then sponged her with tepid water every five minutes, letting the water evaporate. I raised her head every few minutes and filled her mouth with cold water. She would take one swallow, but would not drink. We kept this treatment up all night. When she seemed to be getting a little chilly, I would stop the sponging, and put a hot water bottle to her stomach or feet. As soon as she would get war, we would continue the sponging. At three o'clock in the morning, when I raised her head and gave her a drink of cold water, she opened her eyes for the first time, and said, "Thank you." Her father, who was standing on the other side of the bed, burst into tears and said, "Now I know she is going to get better."

By this time the fever had gone down more than two degrees. We kept this treatment up until three o'clock in the afternoon, a little more than twenty-four hours from the time we started. By this time the child was quite normal, and began to talk, but would get a coughing and choking spell every little while. Upon inquiry as to what might have been the cause of this fever, I found that at suppertime three or four days before this, the child had eaten very freely of beefsteak. Shortly afterward, she became ill. I told them I thought the child was full of worms, that her choking spells were caused by the worms crawling up in her throat. I sent them to their home physician to get some worm medicine. In three or four days the child was entirely well. The cause of this fever was the beefsteak she ate. She was unable to digest it, the worms had a fe4ast on it, and caused a large amount of poison to accumulate. Just as soon as the poison was removed by the enema, the pores opened and the skin make active by sponging so the poisons could escape, and by constantly giving water to drink, we reduced the fever to normal.

Hemorrhage of Uterus

One time I save the life of a person who had bled so much that she was near death. She could only whisper faintly, and could not be heard except by listening close to her mouth. I elevated the foot of the bed, and gave her hot malted nut cream, diluted with grape juice, half and half. After giving her several cups very hot, it had strengthened her so I could understand what she said while standing at the foot of the bed. (Then I followed this up with more treatment as per hemorrhages—see Table of Contents.)

Infantile Paralysis

A few years ago, a woman brought a three-year-old boy who had infantile paralysis, to me. His head was drawn clear over to his shoulder, his arm was drawn up to his chest, and his shoulder blade stuck out ve5ry much. This child had been permitted all the candy, ice cream, cakes, and cookies he wanted, nearly all the food he had been eating was robbed of its life-giving properties. The mother said they had consulted several physicians in the city where they lived, and had taken him to another city to some of the best specialists they could find. All the physicians gave her no hope for the boy's recovery, and said that it would probably take years for him to outgrow it.

I ordered them to give the child plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, but no candy, ice cream, cake, or cookies of any description, and no white flour products, or cane sugar products. I had them give the boy hot and cold applications to the spine, stomach, and liver, and then massage his entire body. Also hot baths, finished with short cold. I had him take lots of exercise in the open air. Anyone could notice improvement from the first few days. In six weeks this boy could throw a ball with the hand that had been drawn up to his chest. His head, which had been drawn clear down to his should, was perfectly straight, and the shoulder blade was almost entirely normal. All that was done for this child anyone can do in his home. This was quite a number of years ago. The child has been well every since, and is a normal high school student today. (See Table of Contents for herbs for Infantile Paralysis.)

Another Case of Infantile Paralysis

Not long ago my wife asked me to go and see a neighbor's child who had been stricken with infantile paralysis that day. Upon entering the home, I found the mother holding in her arms a plump baby, who was not yet a year old. The mother also was fleshy. This child was nursed exclusively by the mother and had never had any other food. Upon inquiring about the mother's diet, I found that she was practically living on white bread, and white biscuits made with soda, pork, peeled potatoes with white flour gravy. For breakfast she would have pancakes and syrup. She also used some milk, but very few vegetables. All these foods are high in calorie value and make fat, but have little life-giving properties in them. This is what caused the baby's paralysis, because the mother was not eating food that would properly nourish the nerves We at once gave the woman oatmeal and bran water to drink, and fresh fruits. My wife cooker her a kettle of vegetable soup, carrots, onions, potatoes, and natural brown rice. We gave the baby oatmeal water and tomato juice. We then gave the baby some baths, both hot and cold, and rubbed her well, repeating this treatment several times, and in a few days every symptom of paralysis was gone, and the child got well. Of course we thoroughly instructed the mother how to eat to have a healthy baby and to avoid sickness.

Complete Paralysis

Many years ago, a man awoke me about one in the morning, saying that his wife was paralyzed all over. I went with him to his home, and began treatment at once. First, we gave her an enema, then hot and cold applications to the spine, stomach, and liver. We then gave a hot towel rub, just as hot as we could give it, following with a cold towel rub. We then gave her a thorough massage from head to foot. We kept this up practically all the rest of the night, giving hot and cold to the spine, then percussion, hacking movement, and spatting. When morning came we rested a while. We could already see marked improvement in the pulse beat, but there was as yet no sign of life or any feeling. In a short while, we repeated the treatment in full. The second day we began to see signs of life when we pricked her with a needle. We kept up this treatment for hours each day, and part of the night. The fourth day she could stand alone, without any assistance, but as yet was not able to walk. We kept up this treatment for some time, but not so vigorously or so prolonged. In less than two weeks she was up, doing her housework again. I knew this lady for years afterward, and know that she stayed well. This was nearly thirty years ago, and the last I heard she was rearing a family.

I have had many experience with treating spinal meningitis and paralysis. I will mention just one more case, the worst that I have ever seen or heard of.

Two Strokes of Paralysis

This was my own wife. We had been married only a short time. One morning when I got up I noticed that my wife did not act as she usually did. Upon examination I found that she was half paralyzed from her head down to her feet. I could take a needle and stick it into one side of her face, her arm, leg or her foot and there was no sign of life. I at once called the best doctor that we knew, and in whom we had the most confidence. He gave her a thorough examination and said that nothing could be done aside from giving general good care. He said that she would be likely to die at any time, that this stroke would be followed by another stroke which would cause her death.

I started the same course of treatments which I had used with the neighbor's wife, which incident I just related. In the course of three weeks my wife was around the house in the usual way, and we could again listen to the beautiful tones which she is capable of producing on the piano.

Not long after that I arose at an early hour, as my custom was, and went about my work. When I cam in for breakfast, I inquired where Mrs. Kloss was and the answer was that they had not seen her yet that morning. I went to the bedroom and found her lying in bed. When I talk to her, there was no response. When I took hold of her, it felt as if I were taking hold of a dead person, only she was not entirely cold. I tried to get her to say something, but she gave not a sound of any kind. Then I took a needle, and pricked her face and neck. But she did not flinch or wink er eye. I went down her body to her fee on both sides, but there was not a flinch or response of any description. I I called loud in her ear, and asked her if she could hear me. Then I put my finer on her eyeballs, but she did not wink. Her pulse was so weak that on the arm I could not find a pulse beat at all. There was just a very faint pulse beat on the neck.

After I saw the situation, I sent for the best doctor I knew of in that section of the country. He thoroughly examined Mrs. Kloss, and said that she was liable to drop off any minute. Then I began to work on the same line of treatments already mentioned. After one day's treatment, her pulse beat had increased materially, and in four weeks she was able to walk around. In five or six weeks she was playing the piano again and went about her work as usual. She has been well ever since, which is about twenty-six years. I wish that you could see her today. She is active, well, and cheerful.

History of My Wife's Case

I know that many would be interested to know how her health ever came to be in such bad conditions. Before I met her she had had sleeping disease. She would sleep for a week or two and no one could wake her up. The cause of all this was that she was a bookkeeper for twelve years, and instead of working six or eight hours, would work twelve to fourteen hours. Sometimes she kept two or three sets of books. That was not the worst of it. She would hurry at lunch to get a white bread sandwich, then go back to work. She did not get the proper food to nourish the nervous system. Besides auditing the books and working late into the night, she did not get enough sleep, and she lacked getting proper exercise. She kept this up until she had a complete breakdown. There was no one to advise her to do the right things.

Thank God, there is a remedy for every ill of man. The angels in heaven weep because of the dreadful suffering that is going on because of ignorance. And I have wept until I could not weep any more, when I have seen the untold amount of suffering in the world and knew that most of it might be prevented if people only knew what to do to prevent it. The only thing that I feel conscience stricken for is that I have not done more to bring to the notice of the public and show by practical experience what really can be done for suffering humanity with simple remedies which can be used in every ordinary home. I could write volumes, giving my personal experiences, but will mention only a few more for practical lessons.

Rheumatism

An elderly minister came to me, saying he was full of aches and pains, all stiffened up, and feeling very badly generally, and asked me if I would do something for him. I gave him an enema and some herbs to cleanse his system thoroughly. I put him in a tub of hot water, keeping him there several hours, rubbing his body while in the water, and at the last, gave him a vigorous salt glow, using half epsom salts and half common salt. I gave him several glasses of water to drink while in the bath, then gave him some herbs for his rheumatism. In a few days he wen about his work. See Table of Contents for herbs for Rheumatism.

Pneumonia Case

Another time I was called to see a young lady who had been given up to die with a relapse of pneumonia. When I got to the house, I found the young lady in bed with a very high temperature. She had been sick for some time, and was very low. They had a graduate nurse, but she knew little about water treatments. This woman's lungs were in very bad shape. I could hardly hear a sound of air with the stethoscope on any part of the lungs.

I sent at once for one of my best graduate nurses, who understood water treatments. We started in by giving an enema. Then we placed her between cotton blankets and sponged her with tepid water, giving her frequent sips of cold water, short hot and cold applications to both the chest and back of lungs. In the course of two hours with this treatment, her lungs began to open up, and we could hear air in her lungs through the stethoscope. In four hours with this treatment, we had run the temperature down two degrees.

We kept up the treatment, sponging her body with tepid water, letting the water evaporate. Sometimes she would show signs of chilliness, and we would stop the treatment and put a hot water bag to her stomach and cover her up. We continued giving her sips of cold water, and wrapped a cold towel around her head and neck, changing it frequently. Never let a cloth on the head or neck get hot. Just as soon as IT GETS WARM, TAKE IT OFF. We gave her a liquid diet and fruit juices. In four days her temperature was normal. This woman is alive today. Her illness was nearly twenty-five years ago.

Many cases of pneumonia would get well if taken in time, and the right treatment given. I mention these cases to show what can be done in the home by using these simple treatments. There will be many times when you cannot get a doctor or nurse and it is a most blessed thing to know how to relieve suffering.

Anyone wishing the detailed particulars of this case may obtain same from the mother of this young lady, Mrs. Alma M. McGrath, 406 W. Water Street, Austin, MN, or from the young lady, who is now Mrs. William Haesecke, St. Peter, MN.

Pneumonia Resulting from wrong habits of living

Many years ago, before there were any automobiles, I was in the extreme northern part of Wisconsin, in a Country Club. The manager was a drinking man and a high liver. He had had frequent spells of pneumonia. The last time he had pneumonia, the doctor told him that if he got another spell there would be no means on earth to save him. He told the man not to call him, that he would not come if he were called.

There was great excitement when he came down with a high fever of 104 degrees F., and was very sick. They were fifteen miles away from a doctor. They had a fine driving team which he ordered hitched up at once. He did not know about any of my medical experience, but his wife had heard something about it. She called me in to see him, and asked the driver to wait a few minutes. The man was very much excited and urged them to hurry on for a doctor. The wife made the plea that he knew what the doctor had said. She said I had had splendid results with these cases, and urged him to give me a trial. When he got over his excitement a little, he consented for me to go ahead. The team was unhitched. I gave him an enema, removed all his clothing, had him lie between cotton blankets, and began sponging him with tepid water all over, giving him cold water to drink. The room should be 75 degrees F. And well ventilated. I kept on sponging him every five minutes. Sometimes he would get a little chilly and we would stop for a little while and cover him up. I kept up the cold water drinking and tepid sponging. Tepid sponging feels very agreeable to a patient with high fever.

The next day at three o'clock, just twenty-four hours from the time the fever began, it was almost entirely gone. His temperature was below 100 degrees F. The man said he felt just as well as he ever did in his life, and wanted to get up. I advised him not to get up for a day or two at least. I knew this man for years afterward, and he never had another attack of pneumonia while I knew him.

In all these cases, and I might say in all cases, I constantly hold before them and remind them of the things that put them in that condition, and how to avoid sickness. (Look in the Table of Contents under heading of "Fever" and "Pneumonia" to find what herbs to use and how to feed the patient.) Never forget that water puts out fire, and that it is one of the best known remedies to cure fevers, to be used both internally and externally.

Post Mortem Reveal Secrets

I connected with an emergency hospital just to get the experience. It was a wonderful help to me in many ways. I witnessed scores of post postmortems, under competent surgeons. It was very interesting to see the organs of people whose lives we had previously known, and knew just what they had been in the habit of eating and drinking.

We opened up one man who had been a great eater of meats, rich pastries, pies, cakes, puddings, white bread, and peeled potatoes, etc. We found his liver about three times its normal size. There were tumors all around the liver, and some in the liver, ranging in size from a small marble to a small-sized potato. The heart was also very much enlarged, more than once again its normal size, and the walls of the heart were very thin and flabby and of a dark color as if bloodshot. The spleen and pancreas were both enlarged and diseased, and he had gallstones and gravel in the bladder. His stomach was also very much prolapsed and diseased.

He was a middle-aged man, quite fleshy, who had died of heart-failure. One evening at about six o'clock as he prepared to take a bath, he reached up to get a drink glass standing on a shelf about as high as his head. As he reached for it, he fell dead.

Another man, past middle age, was cancerous. He always complained of a pain right around his navel, but there was no outward sign. The only indication that could be seen on the outside of his body was a little lump under his jaw. After he had died and we opened him up, we found his bowels full of cancerous growths and where he had complained of his pain, it had eaten right into the bowels and opened them up. This, of course, seemed to cause his death. He was all full of cancerous growth from his head clear down to his feet. You could not cut him anywhere without finding cancer. All his organs were in bad shape.

I could mention many cases but it is not necessary. We have many unfailing evidences and proof of what effect a wrong diet will have upon the system.

Experience in a Small Sanitarium

Several years ago, much was said about the wonderful cures effected through operations. Many cures were said to have been obtained through the use of electricity and much expensive electrical apparatus was manufactured. The manufacturers of these instruments spent a great deal of money in advertising what their apparatus would do. I, like thousands of others, thought there might be something in it. So I equipped a small sanitarium in a beautiful little town, in the best spot in that city. It was located near a park.

I equipped it with bathrooms for both men and women, so that we could give Turkish and Russian baths, electric baths, showers, tub baths, etc. It was also equipped with a very fine operating room and a room with electrical apparatus. I bought one of the best X-ray, static and high frequency current, galvanic, and sinusoidal current, German ultra-violet rays, sun-rays, and several other rays.

I took a medical electrical course in one of the best medical electrical schools. I hired by the year one of the best medical doctors I could find. He had been graduated as a nurse, and had learned the water cure, then had taken the regular medical course, being graduated from that. He had also studied in Europe, taking several post-graduate courses. I hired graduate nurses from recognized institutions. I extended invitations to the doctors in that city to bring their cases to this institution, which they did. I gave the anesthetic for many years, prepared the patients for their operations, and took care of them after the operations, assisted by my corps of workers.

Here I had an opportunity to learn all I wanted to know about the use of electricity, also operations.

There is a remedy among herbs, correct food, sunlight, fresh air, and pure water for most cases of tonsillitis, appendicitis, gallstones, stones in the kidneys, stones in the bladder, piles, and hemorrhoids.

Health Food Factory at Nashville, TN

Many years ago I purchased a large food factory near Nashville, TN. Here I gained a most wonderful experience along food lines, as we were making a large variety of foods in larger quantities than I had ever made before. Her we had a large reel oven and an up-to-date cracker machine. We made a very fine line of crackers, five different kinds. Our capacity was from twelve to twenty hundred pounds per day. Besides this, we made a very fine cereal coffee and various breakfast foods, whole-wheat flour and quite a line of gluten and nut food preparations to take the place of meat, also malt honey and malt extract.

I had an experienced baker and health food maker. I subscribed for various journals on cracker making, bread making, etc., and bought the best books obtainable on breadmaking, canning, and cooking. I had a regular experimental outfit, which I have till this day. I have been experimenting with foods all the time, for the sole purpose of giving to the public the best.

My purpose in this was not to establish some commercial business, but to get before the public healthful things which are to take the place of the harmful articles of foods which are filling the world with chronic invalids. While I was operating this food factory, I took in people at different times who were interested and wanted to learn the business. I gave them my recipes, and helped them to find where they could get things needed to make health foods, also proper machinery. I gave them much other necessary information.

Since then I have helped others to start a food business in different parts of the United States. They are doing a successful business. I will not be satisfied until I have so many of these factories in operation-to make the foods of various sorts in the baking line as well as others—that the people who want to live right and avoid sickness, can get these wholesome products everywhere.

I am now spending my time conducting public food demonstrations, cooking schools, and health lectures. My main object is to have everyone learn in his own home how to make these things. I have4 spent a good deal of money and simplified these things so that everyone can make the foods in an ordinary home.

I tell the people where they can get the various products that are wholesome at a reasonable price, and condemn the hurtful articles. I help manufacturers everywhere to make wholesome articles which will take the place of many injurious articles. Anyone wishing to manufacture any of these health foods in the baking line or in canning, etc., may obtain from me my best information where to get machinery and needed articles.

I am especially interested in having people everywhere start health restaurants with a health food store in connection with them so that these products can be sold and served at the same time.

After I had run this large factory at Nashville for a number of years, I sold it to an industrial school. It was moved to their school campus and is still operating in connection with their school. A few years later I opened another factory at Brooke, VA, and equipped it with machinery for a large capacity. After operating this factory for a number of years, I sold it. At the same time I was teaching others how to make health foods, and they are now operating factories in different parts of the United States.

There should be a large number of factories so that these healthful articles could be obtained in every grocery store. I have a number of new articles which have not as yet been put on the market, and I am still experimenting, for the sole purpose of giving it to those who will make use of it

(Extract from "The Sawdust Trail," by Rev. William (Billy) Sunday, in the Ladies Home Journal, September, 1932,) "During the first three years of my life, I was sickly and could scarcely walk. Mother used to carry me on a pillow which she made for that purpose. There were no reside physicians in those pioneer days, and itinerant doctors would drive up to our cabin and ask, "Any body sick her?'

The Country Doctor

"One day, Doctor Avery, a Frenchman, called at our cabin and mother told him, 'I have a little boy three years old who has been sick ever since he was born.'

The old doctor said, 'Let me see him,' He gave me the once over while I yelled and screamed like a Comanche Indian. Then he said to mother, 'I can cure that boy.'

"She asked him how much he would charge, and he replied, 'Oh, if you will feed me and my old mare, that will pay the bill.'

Mother said, ''All right, but you will have to sleep up in the garret. We have no stairs and you'll have to climb the ladder.' "He replied, 'That suits me.' He then went into the woods and picked leaves from various shrubs, including mulberry leaves and elderberries, dug up roots, and from them made syrup and gave it to me. In a short time I was going like the wind and have been hitting on all eight ever since. From that day to this, elderberries and mulberries have been my favorite wild fruits, and I like sassafras tea.

"I do not believe that there is a disease to which human flesh is heir but that somewhere there is growing a weed or an herb or plant that will cure it. Somewhere there is a remedy for the dread plagues of the human race, consumption and cancer. God has made the cure and is waiting for man to discover it.

"The greatest doctor this world ever knew is an old Christian mother, and my mother was the greatest of all. I regret that I did not write down the names of all the herbs and roots she knew, and the diseases they would cure. When she put on her 'specks' to look at the sore and spread salve on it, that made it almost well. "You may name this suggestive therapeutics or the power of mind over matter. All these designations are as useless as the name of the horse that Paul Revere rode. The fact remains."