Constipation - A new reading on the Subject E-Book

D. M.

• Herausgeber: J. H. Tilden
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

To CURE constipation requires much knowledge, skill, patience,and persistence. It cannot be said that any case of constipation is cured until the subject is cured of all habits that lead to general enervation and toxemia. In all people with the constipation diathesis--a tendency for constipation--any habit of body or mind which leads to enervation will surely bring on constipation. Too much stress cannot be placed on the following truism:To those inclined to constipation, or the diathesis leading to constipation, any depressing influence becomes a cause; hence, to be free from man's worst enemy means,in the first place, to have a rational health knowledge to know that any enervating habit continually practiced leads to disease--and, secondly, to have enough self-control to live the knowledge to be guided by it. Cures for chronic constipation are not for the careless, the shiftless, and the self-indulgent. Those who do not belong to this class, and those of this class who will shake off their self-indulgence, may find freedom from this disease and premature aging by a careful study of this book. Some books are for reading; this one is for study and practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Chapter I.-Toxemia, the Efficient (First) Cause of All Disease

Chapter II.- Causes of Constipation

Chapter III.-Treatment

Chapter IV.-Constipation as Found in Various Derangements

Chapter V.- A Few Personalities

Appendix

Leseprobe

CONSTIPATION

A NEW READING ON THE SUBJECT

By

J. H. TILDEN, M. D.

Author of "Food' " 2 Vols., "Care of Children," "Diseases of Women and Easy Childbirth," "Appendicitis," "Venereal Diseases," "Pocket Dietitian," "Impaired Health, Its Cause and Cure," 2Vols., "Epilepsy," "Hay Fever." Published by The Tilden Health School Association COPYRIGHT 1923

Edition 2018 by David De Angelis - all rights reserved

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CHAPTER I - TOXEMIA THE EFFICIENT (FIRST) CAUSE OF ALL DISEASE

CHAPTER II - CAUSES OF CONSTIPATION

CHAPTER III - TREATMENT

CHAPTER IV - CONSTIPATION AS FOUND IN VARIOUS DERANGEMENTS

CHAPTER V - A FEW PERSONALITIES

APPENDIX

FOREWORD

To CURE constipation requires much knowledge, skill, patience,and persistence. It cannot be said that any case of constipation iscured until the subject is cured of all habits that lead to generalenervation and toxemia. In all people with the constipationdiathesis--a tendency for constipation--any habit of body or mindwhich leads to enervation will surely bring on constipation. Toomuch stress cannot be placed on the following truism: To thoseinclined to constipation, or the diathesis leading to constipation,any depressing influence becomes a cause; hence, to be free fromman's worst enemy means, in the first place, to have a rationalhealth knowledge to know that any enervating habit continuallypracticed leads to disease--and, secondly, to have enoughself-control to live the knowledge to be guided by it. Cures forchronic constipation are not for the careless, the shiftless, andthe self-indulgent. Those who do not belong to this class, andthose of this class who will shake off their self-indulgence, mayfind freedom from this disease and premature aging by a carefulstudy of this book. Some books are for reading; this one is forstudy and practice. The everlasting use of good common sense is theprice all must pay for full efficiency, good health and long life.Diseases, so-called, are a unit and must be recognized as such, forin no other way can confusion be avoided. Diseases, so-called, arepronounced symptoms and must be studied as a part of a whole, forif individualized, chaos and failure cannot be avoided.

PREFACE

CONSTIPATION is the commonest disease to which man is heir; socommon that less is known of its causes perhaps than would be if itwere a more rare malady. Before proceeding with the subject of thisbook, perhaps it would be well, inasmuch as it is destined to beread by more people than any other of my numerous books on healthsubjects, to define disease and health from my standpoint. Thiswill give those who know nothing of my ideas a betterunderstanding, and enable them to read Constipation moreintelligently. In the study of disease it is necessary to have afixed premise from which to reason. My system starts with theproposition that health is not an entity; it is the ideal state ofa living body properly cared for from birth to death. When notproperly cared for, the state of health may be good or bad; bothextremes are unfixed and indefinite, made so by man's haphazardstyle of living, and frequently, in delicate subjects, as unstableas the weather-cock. We call the good state health—goodhealth; the bad state, or bad health, we call disease. The studentmust abandon the idea, or preconception, that disease is anentity--a -something that is an enemy of man; or a nemesis that ison his trail, and is destined to overtake him sooner or later--infact, at any time. Not so. Health is a state that responds withgood for good treatment of mind and body, or responds with bad forbad treatment of mind and body. This being true, it behooves man tostrive for a knowledge of how to live for health, and how to avoida style of living that must bring bad health--disease—andpremature death; and cause, during life, a greatly reducedefficiency, which, of course, is a handicap that forces a failurewhen success is almost won--in fact, within the grasp of a littlemore well-applied health knowledge. Man is not left helpless to bebuffeted about by his environment; indeed not. Before reason wasgiven him he was protected by instinct. Since instinct has givenplace to reason, if man is abused by his environment, it is becausehe refuses to use his protector, his reasoning power, and isallowing himself to be victimized by commercial exploiters. Thereare about 400 individual diseases recorded in medical nomenclature,and because of medical endeavor to maintain distinctive types--tomaintain genera and species--much confusion and unsatisfactorytreatment is the result. I say confusion advisedly, for in aconsultation of a half-dozen physicians there maybe, and often are,as many separate and distinct opinions--diagnoses. The result isthat the one seeking advice will get as many diagnoses as thenumber of physicians consulted. The reasons for this seemingignorance on the part of the wise physicians are many. In the firstplace, when so-called diseases have been established or recurringfor months or years, more and more of the organism becomesinvolved; the treatment, which is largely palliative and changed atevery call of the physician and every change of doctors, mayrelieve, but never cures; and it must never be forgotten that inall so-called diseases (slight or severe) there are respitesmarking the ebb and flow of toxemia. At every flow toxins areeliminated, and this marks a period of discomfort; when toxinsaturation is relieved, this marks an ebb in elimination whentoxins fall below the saturation point and comfort returns. Thisebbing and flowing on the sea of human life is called health anddisease; the flow marks discomfort(disease), the ebb marks asubsidence, with a return of comfort. Doctors declare at the ebbthat they have cured the disease; as well might boys at theseashore declare that they have chased the waves back by the rocksthey have thrown at them. The tru this that patients get better andworse at the ebb and flow of toxin elimination in spite of medicalmen, and if these priests of medical science know nothing of thecause of this ebb and flow of toxemia, how are they to control thephenomenon? They cannot do anything, and at the failure of theirendeavors the patient becomes discouraged and fear adds anothercomplication; the original habits that brought on the disease inthe first place are continued, and so the medley ofdisease-building runs merrily on and on until one or more of thevital organs gives down, driven by recurring functionalderangements, until organic change is developed beyond thepossibility of a return to the normal and the patient dies. Theprevailing toxemic crises are diagnosed—given a name. Theleading symptoms of common derangements take the name and arerecognized by the profession as the alpha and omega--the beginningand ending--of the disease. The science of diagnosis consists indiscovering pathology, when a novice should know the genesis of anypathology must go through an embryonic stage--a period ofcultivation, seeding, germination, gestation, and birth. There is avast unexplored field preceding the stage of pathology that medicalscience has left unnoticed, namely, the cause of pathology. Doctorsstart with a fully developed symptom--pathology. For instance, acold, a "flu," a headache, a cough, a tonsillitis, a pneumonia, atyphoid fever, is recognized as self-existent; or there may be avague notion that a specific germ has in some manner initiated thedisease; a treatment is given, the symptom subsides, and theincident or disease is passed as cured. There may be manyrepetitions of a like development covering a period of years, untilthere suddenly and unexpectedly develops an ulcer of the stomach orbowels, pyloric obstruction, stone in the gall bladder, colitis,appendicitis, apoplexy, paralysis, serious ear trouble, glaucoma,tuberculosis, valvular heart disease, or some other organicderangement that has required years to develop. This is a briefpicture of the medical and surgical tragedy that is being enacteddaily on the world stage--sacrifices to the medical god--a rotten,effete superstition, bombastically flouted in the face oftwentieth-century intelligence as ultra-modern medical science. Andthe people fall for it rather than to sacrifice their sensualexcesses which are the ubiquitous germs that Pasteur, Koch,Metchnikoff, et alii failed to find, and which gave them theirdaily discomforts (for they all were semi-invalids for years beforethey died) and premature death; and which Rockefeller's ten millionfoundation will fail to find, not with standing the wise oldCroesus has discovered them for himself. Pure statistics demand amortuary report in keeping with this scientific diagnosis.Ulceration of the stomach is the ending of a syndrome running overyears of discomfort, requiring many causes that the diagnosis andmortuary report throw little light upon. Cirrhosis of the liverindicates nothing of cause; and cause must be known or treatmentwill be of no avail. Infantile convulsions means nothing. Adiagnosis of constipation, colitis, locomotor ataxia,arteriosclerosis, apoplexy means nothing, for they are pronouncedsymptoms--culminating climaxes of symptoms--complexes--originatingback in the heyday of life when appetite, passion and emotions runriot. These hey-day peccadillos did not presage the end, nor do themortuary reports determine or throw light on the beginning--thehey-day excesses. Constipation is not a disease; it is a symptomthat is found in all (so-called) diseases; it is never found aloneand is never found without enervation to the extent of checkingsecretions and excretions. To say all that is to be said on thecorrection of constipation, the whole subject of nomenclature wouldhave to be gone over. To treat constipation per se would be toignore cause; it would be similar to treating pain, fever, cough,hook-worm or corns without giving any thought to cause. The correctway to treat constipation is to correct all errors of life,physical and mental; to bring the organism back to the normal,which means restoring nerve energy which would establish normalsecretions and excretions; in other words, overcome the toxemicstate. Forget constipation and do what is necessary to establishnormal habits of life. Those who use stimulants, overeat, eatimprudently, neglect exercise, bathing and care of the skin, whooverwork the emotions and are unpoised in mind and body, indulge invenery and cultivate a lustful mind, need not hope to be cured ofconstipation or any other so-called disease until the habits ofmind and body that brought on these conditions are corrected. Inthis day and age man must fight against allowing himself to bedrawn into the whirlpool of conventionality and commercialism. Itsinfluence is insidious and grows its psychology unawares. Beforethe most intelligent are conscious of personal danger, they havegrown a psychology that holds them victims of convention andexpediency. They are victims of convention's lies, and arecompelled to acquiesce and say the only thing to do is theexpedient thing to do, even if it be giving up to surgicalvandalism or standing for the infecting of the blood with anabominable fetich. When completely victimized by convention, theydo no thinking, and it is then easy for them to believe the mostabsurd delusions regarding disease, its cause, its immunization andits cure. The medical convention of today is very arbitrary.Indeed, if it grows any worse it will require a revolution to crushits imperialism. Apropos of the foregoing I suggest the followingaxiom to be memorized, namely: The sense perception for truth isforfeited by unquestioned loyalty to authority and conventionalpsychology. Disobedience is sometimes the greatest loyalty totruth. At the proper place the cause of toxemia and the influenceof bacteria in health and disease will be explained; and in defenseof my teaching, as against the prevailing or popular theories, Iwill say, as a matter of fact, toxemia properly applied makes goodunder the most severe tests, namely, in eradicating all diseases,even syphilis, without drugs; a claim that elicits bitter denial,if given any notice at all, by the ultra-scientific. Afterpracticing haphazard medicine and conventional surgery fortwenty-five years, and toxemia for twenty-five years, Iunhesitatingly affirm that there is no excuse for drugs; andperhaps ten per cent of the surgery practiced in time of peace islegitimate. In war, where the injured are taken care of wholesaleand without all the conveniences, anesthetics and opiates should beused in moderation, but never to the extent of educating the boysinto "drug fiends." There can be but one reason given for thisuniversal bowing down to prevailing medical fallacy, and that Ihave given above. Before branding the writer a fanatic or anegomaniac, refer to history, and there it will be found on allgreat and important questions the majorities are usually wrong.Remember at one time everybody except one man believed the worldflat. When a voice is raised against convention, and its fallaciesare pointed out, the natural thing for convention to do is toignore it, but if the voice is sufficiently loud to be heard it maybe branded the voice of a fanatic, a fool or a knave; but if it isthe voice of truth and if persistent, it will be heard. In apologyfor any apparent lack of completeness, I will say that what I knowand what I write are in a state of evolution, and the beliefs Ihave recorded in this and other books are the best that I know upto date, but I shall not promise to be consistent and never change;indeed, the most vital information contained in this offering isnot five years old, yet it annuls some beliefs that have beenadvocated for years before. It has required years to evolvetoxemia, and it requires years more to prove all things accordingto the toxemic hypothesis, but that it is as broad as science andphilosophy there is no question nor doubt that can besubstantiated. The majority of physicians are agreed that germscause disease, but the time will come when all must agree thatgerms are one of many factors. Many who read my writings get theidea that I do not believe in germs; this, too, in spite of myconstant protestation that toxemia, the toxins of which are partly,but secondarily, derived from the toxin of bacteria, is the causeof all diseases. Of course I believe in germs. I believe in yeast,but yeast is not the cause of bread, but is one factor in goodbread-making. I believe in enzymes, but enzyme is not the cause oftissue-building. I believe in the germ that is the nucleus ofbeing. I believe in the germinal nucleus as an individualizingfactor, but impotent without auxiliary aid. Germs must haveenvironing factors and physical auxiliaries to a successfulgeneration of specificity. The warmth imparted by the hen or theincubator is an important and indispensable adjunct, not evenfactor, in causing the egg elements to metamorphose into a being.Twenty-one consecutive days of warmth are necessary to cause theegg to hatch; twenty are not enough. In the germination of diseaseenervation, inhibited elimination and secretion, germs, time,temperature, and moisture are necessary factors, but no one issufficient as a disease-builder. Germs per se are impotent ever tobe anything but an auxiliary cause. In ridding the Panama Canaldistrict of malarial germs, quinine, a supposed specific, wasimpotent. The extermination was not accomplished by a germiciden oran anti-microbe, but by modifying the moisture which changed theclimate. The two factors, heat and moisture, were changed bydrainage--and the malarial germ was placed hors de combat. The sameexperience anticipated the Panama Canal phenomenon in many sectionsof the middle states and other malarial countries. Drainage of landis death to malaria as well as to the mosquito. Stress is laid onthe alleged fact that man can not develop yellow fever unlessbitten by a mosquito that has feasted on a yellow fever patient;but we are not told how the first patient became infected. I insistthat toxemia is a fundamental necessity for the developing ofdisease, and certainly we can have no germ toxin without bacterialfermentation, and no bacterial fermentation without an over supplyof food and bacteria. When the bowels are empty, as in thehibernating animal, there are no bacteria. On the other hand, wehave no digestion without enzymic fermentation, and no enzymicfermentation without enzymes and food. When the stomach and bowelsare empty, as in the fasting or hibernating animal, there are noenzymes secreted. The bacteria do not infect the empty stomach andbowels; neither do the enzymes digest the empty stomach and bowels.Why should I declare that germs cause disease by toxin infection,when the real fault is a deficiency of enzymes, or, as is mostcommon, there is a normal amount of digestive ferments, but thefood consumption is far beyond their digestive power? This beingtrue, why shall I not say that toxemia is caused by a deficiency ofenzymic ferments, or from overeating? For when the eating is withinenzymic control there can be no bacterial fermentation. Enzymicefficiency always means bacterial control. When man's eatingactivities are well within his nutritive efficiency, the bacteriathat are ever present are well subordinated; when germs become the"master of the show" it is when enervation is so pronounced thatmetabolism is no longer equal to the system's requirements inrepair and waste; then it is that bacterial toxin finds an ally inretained excretions.

CHAPTER I - TOXEMIA THE EFFICIENT (FIRST) CAUSE OF ALL DISEASE