Human Life Its Philosophy and Laws
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Human Life Its Philosophy and Laws

An Exposition of the Principles and Practices of Orthopathy

  1. 933 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Human Life Its Philosophy and Laws

An Exposition of the Principles and Practices of Orthopathy

About this book

This book holds a unique place in the history of natural hygiene. It is a book for all times, all seasons, and all people. It was the first book to give detailed historical and practical credit to most all of the brilliant pioneers who were responsible for establishing the foundations for orthopathy. "Orthopathy" also called "Natural Hygiene," is an alternative medical philosophy derived from naturopathy. It advocates a vegetarian, raw food diet with periods of intermittent fasting. Contents: Health and Its Conditions and Requirements; The Laws of Life; Living Matter Cures Itself; Is Disease Friend or Foe; Early Orthopathic Ideas of Disease; Acute Disease a Curative Process; Self-Limited Disease; The Rational of Inflammation and Fever; Physiological Compensation; Acute Disease not a Radical Cure; Unity of Disease and Symptoms; Causes of Disease; Germs; Perversions; Feeding; Fasting; Sunshine and Sun-Baths; Physical Exercise; Hygiene of Health; Care of Wounds; Place of Art; Passing of the Plagues; Suppression of Disease and its Results.-Print ed.

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Information

Publisher
Braunfell Books
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781839749902
Subtopic
Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. PREFACE
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER I-HEALTH-ITS CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
  7. CHAPTER II-THE LAWS OF LIFE
  8. CHAPTER III-LIVING MATTER CURES ITSELF
  9. CHAPTER IV-IS DISEASE FRIEND OR FOE
  10. CHAPTER V-ORTHOPATHIC IDEAS OF THE NATURE OF DISEASE
  11. CHAPTER VI-ACUTE DISEASE A CURATIVE PROCESS
  12. CHAPTER VII-SELF-LIMITED DISEASES
  13. CHAPTER VIII-THE RATIONALE OF INFLAMMATION
  14. CHAPTER IX-THE RATIONALE OF FEVER
  15. CHAPTER X-LIFE’S ENGINEERING
  16. CHAPTER XI-PHYSIOLOGICAL COMPENSATION
  17. CHAPTER XII-LIFE’S STRATEGIC RETREAT
  18. CHAPTER XIII-THE RATIONALE OF CRISES
  19. CHAPTER XIV-ACUTE DISEASE NOT A RADICAL CURE
  20. CHAPTER XV-THE UNITY OF DISEASES AND SYMPTOMS
  21. CHAPTER XVI-THE CAUSES OF DISEASE
  22. CHAPTER XVII-GERMS
  23. CHAPTER XVIII-PERVERSION
  24. CHAPTER IXX-THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASE
  25. CHAPTER XX-FEEDING
  26. CHAPTER XXI-FASTING-PHYSIOLOGICAL REST
  27. CHAPTER XXII-REST, SLEEP, RELAXATION
  28. CHAPTER XXIII-SUNSHINE AND SUN-BATHING
  29. CHAPTER XXIV-PHYSICAL EXERCISE
  30. CHAPTER XXV-MIND IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
  31. CHAPTER XXVI-THE STIMULANT DELUSION
  32. CHAPTER XXVII-CONDITIONS OF CURE
  33. CHAPTER XXVIII-THE HYGIENE OF HEALTH
  34. CHAPTER XXIX-THE HYGIENE OF ACUTE DISEASE
  35. CHAPTER XXX-HYGIENE OF CHRONIC DISEASE
  36. CHAPTER XXXI-THE CARE OF WOUNDS
  37. CHAPTER XXXII-THE PLACE OF ART
  38. CHAPTER XXXIII-THE PASSING OF THE PLAGUES
  39. CHAPTER XXXIV-EARLY RECOGNITION OF SUPPRESSION
  40. CHAPTER XXXV-SUPPRESSION OF DISEASE AND ITS RESULT
  41. CHAPTER XXXVI-THE DELUSION OF CURE
  42. CHAPTER XXXVII-CRITICISM OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF THERAPEUTICS