Natural
Cure -
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Nature Cure Doctrine from an Allopathic Authority -
The following utterances
of the late Dr. Nicholas Senin strongly confirm our
claims as to the nature and cure of disease. Coming
from the lips of a celebrated surgeon and physician,
these statements should carry some weight with those
who, being unable to reason for themselves, worship
at the feet of "authority." The quotations referred
to are taken from the report of an interview granted
by the doctor to Chicago newspaper representatives
on his return from his trip around the world.
[Chicago American, August 5th, 1906.]
GERMS PLANTED BY TIGHT LACING
Over-Feeding and
Over-Dressing Given as Causes of Cancer
"Dr. Nicholas Senn brought back from Africa, from
whence he returned to Chicago yesterday,
confirmations of his belief that
cancer
is a 'civilized' disease.
"Dr. Senn spent from $2,000 to $3,000 worth of
time--at the cash value per hour of his time on his
first day at home for four months, telling a half
dozen newspaper men more than all the world, except
himself and a score of specialists like him, know
about the fearful disease. He summed up his own
learning in the statement that the disease is still
incurable except by the knife in its incipient
stages and that the best preventive is clean, plain
living.
"His investigations of the natives of Africa served
to strengthen his conviction that
cancer
is a product of civilization, 'like apoplexy and
scores of other exotic ailments,' Dr. Senn said. He
could not find or hear of a case of cancer among the
'Hamites,' as he termed them. And from the fact that
he found the disease, to be an unknown one to the
Esquimaux of Greenland, he is assured that climate
has nothing whatever to do with it. Climate did not
cause it, and climate will not cure it."
Cancer Caused by Over-Living
"'The nearer the human
race approaches the animals in habits and
particularly in the matter of diet and dress, the
freer it is from
cancer,'
he said. 'Cancer comes from over-feeding and
over-living.
"'Drinking, gourmandizing, unnatural habits of
women, like lacing, all those things help to plant
the seeds of cancer in the child.
"'And as we
have not learned to cure it the best thing to do is
to prevent it when we can. If children were brought
up in simplicity by natural mothers; then, if care
should be taken to prevent hypernutrition, there
would be much less danger from cancer.
Cancer
itself is an over-fed thing--tissue that never
matures, for if I could mature the cells I could
cure the disease. The thing for people to do who
fear they may have inherited it, is to live
simply--there are many cases among people with a
tendency to
obesity to one among those of a scanty habit of
living--and particularly to remove all sources of
irritation, like bad teeth, tobacco, and clothes
that chafe.'"
Studies African Race
"Besides his hobby, as he calls it, Dr. Senn studied
the African generally in his voyage along the East
Coast of that continent.
"'It was a fine trip,' he said, 'with so many things
to learn. Ethnologically I am certain Africans are
of common stock. The negro is a negro wherever you
find him. From Kaffir to Bushman and pygmy they are
all Hamites.
"'They are mostly a fine people physically, lean and
tall, except the dwarfs. There is little tendency
toward obesity;
they have no apoplexy, no distended veins as we have
in civilization. Hence their freedom from
cancer.
They live naturally, and are vegetarians mostly,
while the Northern Esquimaux are meat-eaters, but
both races eat naturally to sustain life, hence
their immunity from
that disease. It is where eating is made an art
that cancer is most prevalent.
"'They are free from many other diseases that pester
us also.
Tuberculosis is hardly known, and only along the
coast, where it has been taken by the whites. The
real curse of the coast country is malaria. It is
bad all up and down the East shore. I kept away from
it myself by taking five grains of quinine and the
juice of a lemon once a day on an empty stomach.
That is a good remedy for malaria, for in all my
running around I have never had it."
(Editor's Note.--Dr. Senn died January 2, 1908. The
papers stated after his death, that the doctor had
never been well since the return from his long
voyage, that his
heart and nervous system had been seriously
affected by the altitudes of the Andes and of other
mountains. We wonder whether the "high altitudes" or
the "five grains of quinine daily" were to blame for
the celebrated physician's
heart disease
and death.)
Suppression, the Cause of
Chronic Diseases
Dr. Senn was right. If men and women lived more
naturally, the majority of diseases would disappear.
The primary cause of disease is violation of
Nature's Laws. "Civilization" has largely stood for
artificiality of life and for unnatural habits. A
higher civilization, yet to come, will combine the
most exquisite culture of heart and mind with true
simplicity and naturalness of living. Excessive meat
eating, strong spices and condiments, alcohol,
coffee, tea, overwork, night work, fear, worry,
sensuality, corsets, high heels, foul air, improper
breathing, lack of exercise, loveless marriages,
race suicide, all of these and many other evils of
hypercivlization have contributed their share in
creating the universal degeneracy of civilized
nations commented upon by Dr. Senn.
When the unnatural habits of life alluded to have
lowered the vitality and favored the accumulation of
waste matter and poisons to such an extent that the
sluggish bowels, kidneys, skin and the other organs
of elimination are unable to keep a clean house,
Nature has to resort to other, more radical means of
purification or we should choke in our own
impurities. These forcible housecleanings of Nature
are colds, catarrh, skin eruptions, diarrheas,
boils, ulcers, abnormal perspiration, hemorrhages
and many other forms of inflammatory febrile
diseases.
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