Suppression Versus Elimination
Good 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.
Sulphur and mercury may drive back the
skin eruptions, antipyretics and antiseptics may suppress fever
and catarrh. The patient and the doctor may congratulate themselves
on a speedy cure; but what is the true state of affairs? Nature
has been thwarted in her work of healing and cleansing. She had
to give up the fight against disease matter in order to combat
the more potent poisons of mercury, quinine, iodine, strychnine,
etc. The disease matter is still in the system, plus the
drug poison.
Proof positive of the retention of drug
poisons in the organism is furnished by the Diagnosis
from the Eye. This will be explained more fully in another
chapter.
When vitality has been sufficiently restored,
Nature may make another attempt at purification, this time, possibly,
in another direction; but again her well-meant efforts are defeated.
This process of suppression is repeated over and over again until
blood and tissues become so loaded with waste material and poisons
that the healing forces of the organism can no longer react against
them by acute diseases. Then results the chronic condition, which
in the vocabulary of the "Old School" of medicine is
only another name for incurable disease.
The more skilled the allopathic school
becomes in the suppression and prevention of acute diseases by
drugs, knife, x-rays, serums, vaccination virus, etc., the greater
will be the increase of chronic dyspepsia, nervous prostration,
insanity, locomotor ataxy, paresis, cancer, secondary and tertiary
syphilis, tuberculosis and many other so-called incurable diseases.
Thus, the standard medical practice is self-supporting; the treatment
of acute conditions assuring a lifelong supply of chronic conditions
for the doctor to treat.
Suppression of acute diseases,
by drugs and knife, is the all-important factor in the creation
of malignant diseases which Dr. Senn had overlooked in his discourse
on the causes of distructive ailments. If he had steudied
his experiences in foreign lands in the light of these explanations
he would have found that these scourges of mankind exist only
in those parts of earth where the drug store flourishes.
These statements may seem exaggerated;
but allow me to cite a few typical cases of suppression and their
effects upon the system from our daily practice.
Paresis, locomotor ataxy and paralysis
agitans are not, as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary
syphilis, but to the mercury administered for the cure
of luetic and other diseases. In less than six months'
time we cure the so-called specific diseases by our natural methods,
provided they are not suppressed and complicated by mercury, iodine
or other poisonous drugs. We never interfere with the original
lesion, but allow Nature to discharge the poisons through the
channels established for this purpose.
Under this rational treatment, discharge
and ulcer act as fontanels to the system. Not only the specific
poison, but much of hereditary and acquired disease matter also
are eliminated in the process; and after such a cure, blood and
tissues of the patient are purer than they were before infection.
The foregoing statement has nothing to
do with the moral aspects involved in acquiring venereal diseases.
In this connection we are dealing solely with the rational or
irrational treatment of the infection after it has been contracted.
We do not wish to intimate that it is advisable to cure the body
by killing the soul.
Nevertheless, we must deal with the facts
in Nature as we find them. Furthermore, a great many persons,
especially women and children, acquire these diseases innocently.
Are we not justified in relieving their minds of needless fear
and in showing them the way to prevent the dreadful sufferings
of the secondary and tertiary stages brought on by suppressive
drug treatment by means of mercury, the iodides, "606,"
etc.?
These poisonous drugs suppress the initial
lesion and diffuse the disease poison through the system. Nature
takes up the work of elimination by means of skin eruptions and
ulcers in various parts of the body, but these also are promptly
suppressed with mercurial ointments and other alternatives. This
process of suppression is continued for months and years, until
the organism is so thoroughly saturated with alterative poisons
that vital force can no longer react by acute reactions against
the original syphilitic poisons. This state of vital paralysis
is then called a cure.
The medical professor, however, knows
better. He instructs the students from the lecture platform: "When,
after two or three years of mercurial treatment, syphilitic symptoms
cease to appear, you may permit the patient to marry--but
never guarantee a cure."
Why not? Because the professor is aware
that the offspring of such a union are born with hereditary symptoms
well known to every physician, and because the patient thus cured
(?) may turn up in the doctor's office at any time thereafter
with a hole in his palate, ulcers on his body, caries of the bones
or with other secondary and tertiary symptoms.
Mercury has an especial affinity for the
bony structures. It will work its way through the vertebrae of
the spine and the bones of the skull into the nerve matter of
the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation, excruciating
headaches, nervous symptoms, girdle pains, etc. These stages of
acute inflammation are followed in a few years by sclerosis (hardening)
of nerve matter and blood vessels, resulting in paresis, locomotor
ataxy or paralysis agitans.
Neither is it necessary to contract specific
diseases in order to fall a victim to these dreadful conditions:
mercury, iodine and other destructive alternatives are given in
a hundred different forms for a multitude of other ailments.
A few years ago we had under our care
a patient in the last stages of locomotor ataxy, who for years
had been suffering the tortures of the damned. There had never
been a taint of specific disease in her system, but four different
times in her life she had been salivated by calomel (a common
laxative containing mercury). This dreadful poison was given to
her in large doses for the cure of liver trouble and constipation.
She was only fourteen years old when, on account of this, she
first suffered from acute mercurial poisoning.
Another patient who, after fifteen years
of slow and torturous dying by inches, succumbed to the same disease,
absorbed the mercurial poison in his boyhood days while attending
a boarding school. He was twice salivated by mercurial ointments
applied to cure the itch (scabies), a disease which was epidemic
at times among the boys. He likewise never had a syphilitic disease.
A young man, insane at the age of thirty,
absorbed the infernal poison when four years of age. He had at
the time a psoric skin eruption, but the family physician suspected
syphilitic infection from the nurse girl and kept the child under
mercury for six months. How do we know that the diagnosis of syphilis
was false? Because the iris of the eye revealed "psora"
as the cause of the suspicious eruption which reappeared several
times later in life, and because the servant girl was afterwards
absolutely exonerated by competent physicians.
Proofs by the Diagnosis from the Eye
We have treated many hundreds of cases
of so-called chronic neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism, neurasthenia,
epilepsy and idiocy, due to the pernicious effects of quinine,
iodine, arsenic, strychnine, coal-tar products and other virulent
poisons taken under the guise of medicine.
How do we know that this is so?
a. Because the Diagnosis
from the Eye plainly reveals the presence of these poisons in
the system.
b. Because the drug signs in the eye are accompanied
by the symptoms of these poisons in the system.
c. Because the record in the eye is confirmed
by the history of the patient.
d. Because, under natural living and treatment,
diseases long ago suppressed by drugs or knife reappear as healing
crises.
e. Because, in these healing crises, drugs indicated
by the signs in the iris of the eye are frequently eliminated
under their own peculiar symptoms.
f. Because, to the extent that a drug is eliminated
from the system by a healing crisis, its sign will disappear from
the iris of the eye.
To illustrate:
a. The Diagnosis from
the Eye reveals heavy quinine poisoning in the region of the brain.
b. This enables us to say to the patient, without
questioning him, that he suffers from severe frontal headaches
and ringing in the ears, that he is very irritahle, and so on
through the various symptoms of quinine poisoning.
c. The history of the patient reveals the fact
that he has taken large amounts of quinine for colds, la grippe
or malaria.
d. Under our methods of natural living and treatment,
the patient improves; the organism becomes more vigorous, and
the organs of elimination act more freely; the latent poisons
are stirred up in their hiding places; healing crises make their
appearance. The processes of elimination thus inaugurated develop
various symptoms of acute poisoning. The eliminating crises are
accompanied by headaches, ringing in the ears, nasal catarrh,
bone pains, neuritis, strong taste of quinine in the mouth, etc.
e. Every healing crisis, if naturally treated,
diminishes the signs of disease and drug poisons in the eye.