C / L c / £ ' <& ^ C ^ L f > C C ^ l Y / j (— f (- " £ - Z 'T siy NtO-NATUROPATHY The New Science of Healing or The Doctrine of the Unity of Diseases by &• LOUI5 KUHNt 1 \ Special Authorized American Edition lo \ Published by BENEDICT LUST, N. D„ M. D. Tangerine, Fla. BUTLER, NEW JERSEY New York City Copyright, 1917 PREFACE 0 rJ 1H E 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 thcd microbes are the sole origin of disease, whereas the truth is that disease is primarily caused by the accumula­ tion of fdth, 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 towards organized beings. She destroys the malign agents of disease by transforming them into benefi­ cent materials of animal and plant health and vigor. 4 Preface 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. 1 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 VIVUM or a MATERIES 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 “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 Preface 5 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. “ YungbornButler, N. J., and Sew York Citg CONTENTS a PART ONE PAGSS What led me to the discover}- of Neo-Naturopathy, the New Science of Healing ......................................................................... 9— 16 How does disease arise? What is fever? .................................... 17— 28 The nature, origin, purpose and cure of diseases of children, and their unity ................................................................................ 29— 30 Measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, small pox, whooping cough, scrofula ................................................................................ 31— 12 Disease a transmission of morbid m atter ..................................... 43— 48 Rheumatism and gout, sciatica, crippling: their cause and cure ....................................................................................................... 49— 62 Cold hands and feet, hot head; their cause and cu re .............. 63— 64 Specific cures effected ......................................................................... 65— 66 The science of facial expression .................................................... 67— 69 My rem edial agents ................................................................................ 70— 79 What shall we eat? What shall we drink? The Digestive Process ................................................................................................ 80— 82 The indigestibility of denatured food ........................................... 83— 88 Theoretical principles that demand a rational, natural sys­ tem of diet ......................................................................................... 89— 90 Man a frugivorous anim al.................................................................... 91— 94 Proof of the beneficial value of vegetable d iet ............................ 95— 96 What shall we eat and drink? ........................................................... 97— 101 PART TWO Nervous and mental diseases. Sleeplessness ........................... 102— 108 Pulmonary affections. Inflammation of the lungs. Tubercu­ losis, pleurisy, lupus .................................................................... 109— 112 The cause and cure of nodules......................................................... 113— 116 Tuberculin inoculation condemned ................................................ 117— 121 Sexual diseases ......................................................................................... 122— 124 Sexual diseases only curative crises ............................................. 125— 129 Diseases of the bladder and kidneys. Diabetes. Uraemia. Bed wetting. Liver complaints. Gall stones. Jaundice. Intestinal diseases. Sweating feet. Herpes .................... 130— 135 Heart disease and dropsy .................................................................... 13t>— 142 Contents PAGES Diseases of the spinal cord. Consumption of the spinal cord. Hemorrhoidal affections ............................................................. 143— 146 Poverty of the blood. Chlorosis....................................... 147— 140 Epileptic fits. Agoraphobia ............................................................. 150— 153 Disease of the eye and e a r .................................................. 154— 150 Diseases of the teeth. Cold in the head. Influenza. Diseases of the throat. Goitre .................................................................. 160— 163 Headache. Migraine. Consumption of the brain. Inflamma­ tion of the brain .............................................................. i 164— 166 Typhus. Dysentery. Cholera and Diarrhea .............. 167— 169 Climatic and tropical fevers. Malaria. Bilious fever. Yel­ low fever and ague • 170—173 Leprosy ...................................................................................................... 174— 180 Scabies. Worms. Tapeworm. Parasites. Intestinal hernia 181—182 Cancer. Proud-flesli ............................................................................