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Toxemia: The Basic Cause of Disease
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First published March 8, 2014
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May 23, 2024
ARE ‘SO-CALLED DISEASES’ ACTUALLY ‘CRISES OF TOXEMIA’?
John Henry Tilden (1851-1940) was an American physician best known in circles of alternative healthcare for his criticism of pharmaceutics; he was often derided by traditional doctors as a ‘faddist’ and a ‘quack.’
He wrote in an introductory section of this 1926 book, “What more can be asked of a health system than that it simplifies the cause of disease, making it understandable to all open-minded lay minds? [This book] does this very thing. If the reader will read or study this book as he/she must study a public school book in order to understand it, he can know what causes disease, and knowing the cause, it will be an easy matter to avoid developing disease; but if imprudence brings on disease, he has the knowledge of how to overcome it.”
He wrote in the Preface, “Instead of buying, begging to stealing a cure, it is better to stop building disease. Disease is of man’s own building, and one worse thing than the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe in cures. The false theories of salvation and cures have built man into a mental mendicant when he could be the arbiter of his own salvation and certainly his own doctor instead of being a slave to a profession that has neither worked out its own salvation from disease nor discovered a single cure in all the age long period of man’s existence on earth.” (Pg. 5)
He continues, “The periodicity which characterized all functional derangements of the body lends color to the claims of cure-mongers that their remedy has cured their patients, when the truth is that the so-called disease ‘ran its course.’ The truth is that the so-called disease was a toxemic crisis and when the toxin was eliminated below the toleration point, the sickness passed---automatically health returned. But the disease was not cured; for the cause (enervating habits) is continued, toxin still accumulates, and in due course of time another crisis appears. Unless the cause of toxemia is discovered and removed, crises will recur until functional derangements will give way to organic disease.” (Pg. 6)
He advises, “Using nerve energy in excess of normal production brings on enervation. Few people waste nerve energy in one way only. Food is a stimulant. Overeating is overstimulating. Add to this excess one or two other stimulants---coffee or tobacco---excessive venery, overwork and worry, and one subject to that amount of drain of nerve energy will become decidedly enervated. Elimination falls far short of requirement; consequently, toxic matters accumulate in the body. This adds pronounced self-intoxication stimulation to that coming from overstimulating habits and completes a vicious circle. This complex stands for a disease-producing TOXEMIA which will be permanent except as toxin crises---so-called acute diseases---lower the amount of toxin, again to accumulate and continue until the habits that keep the body enervated are controlled. Perfect health cannot be established until all enervating habits have been eliminated.” (Pg. 10-11)
He explains, “DEFINITION of toxemia and crises of toxemia: In the process of tissue building---metabolism---there is cell building---anabolism---and cell destruction---catabolism. The broken down tissue is toxic and in health—when nerve energy is normal---it is eliminated from the blood as fast as evolved. When nerve energy is dissipated from any cause---physical or mental excitement or bad habits---the body becomes enervated. When enervated elimination is checked, causing a retention of toxin in the blood, or toxemia. This accumulation of toxin when once established will continue until nerve energy is restored by removing the causes. So-called disease is nature’s effort at eliminating the toxin from the blood. All so-called diseases are crises of toxemia.” (Pg. 13)
He recounts, “Without toxemia there can be no disease. I knew that the waste products of metabolism were toxic and that the only reason why we were not poisoned by them was because they were removed from the organism as fast as produced. Then I decided that the toxin was retained in the blood when there was a checking of elimination. Then the cause of the checking had to be determined. In time I thought out the cause. I knew that, when we had normal nerve energy, organic functioning was normal. Then came the thought that enervation caused a checking of elimination. Eureka! The cause of all so-called diseases is found! Enervation checks elimination of the waste products or metabolism. Thus retention of metabolic toxin is the first and only cause of disease!” (Pg. 22-23)
He states, “The toxemic philosophy is founded on the truth that there is no such thing as cure. In this it differs from all the so-called curing systems. Every pretense or promise of cure in all lines of therapeutics is false. This cannot be grasped by all minds until time for thinking has allowed the idea to soak in. Convention and superstition have the floor and they are unwilling to sit down and listen to the other side. Many learn slowly, others not at all and still others are put to sleep mentally by truth.” (Pg. 43)
He asserts, “The amounts of harm done the army by vaccination and re-vaccination will never be known. No words can describe the harm that immunizing with vaccines and serums has done and is doing except wholesale vandalism.” (Pg. 58)
At the end of the book is an interesting ‘Historical Background’: “Natural Hygiene Press, the publisher of this book, is a division of the American Natural Hygiene Society. The Society is a non-profit, tax exempt organization founded in 1949 for the primary purpose of public education in ‘Natural Hygiene,’ which is a system, based on biology and physiology, for preserving and recovering health through natural living habits. Natural Hygiene came on the American scene as an educational movement in 1830 through the lectures of Sylvester Graham… who stressed the value of fresh fruits and vegetables as the best foods for humanity… Graham pioneered in this country in advocating the teaching of physiology in the public schools and in expounding the value of regular physical exercise, fresh air and well ventilated homes, rest and sleep, sunbathing, emotional control and clothing reform for women from the tight waists and high heeled pointed toes of the day.
“Graham was joined in his work of health education by prominent medical people of the time such as … John H. Tilden, M.D. Many of these pioneers of the Natural Hygiene System had suffered serious illness during their early years which became a strong motivating force in seeking the solution to the disease problem. They came to see in wrong living the true cause of disease and sought to induce mankind to return to a normal way of life by adopting good living habits… It was Dr. Herbert M. Shelton who almost single-handedly resuscitated the works of the early hygienist pioneers and is still today considered the greatest pioneer… The American Natural Hygiene Society now carries on the educational work of this movement though distribution of books … annual public conventions and seminars and a chapter structure which function in many through large cities through the membership.” (Pg. 109-110)
This book will appeal to those distrustful of modern medicine, but be strongly rejected by many/most others.
John Henry Tilden (1851-1940) was an American physician best known in circles of alternative healthcare for his criticism of pharmaceutics; he was often derided by traditional doctors as a ‘faddist’ and a ‘quack.’
He wrote in an introductory section of this 1926 book, “What more can be asked of a health system than that it simplifies the cause of disease, making it understandable to all open-minded lay minds? [This book] does this very thing. If the reader will read or study this book as he/she must study a public school book in order to understand it, he can know what causes disease, and knowing the cause, it will be an easy matter to avoid developing disease; but if imprudence brings on disease, he has the knowledge of how to overcome it.”
He wrote in the Preface, “Instead of buying, begging to stealing a cure, it is better to stop building disease. Disease is of man’s own building, and one worse thing than the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe in cures. The false theories of salvation and cures have built man into a mental mendicant when he could be the arbiter of his own salvation and certainly his own doctor instead of being a slave to a profession that has neither worked out its own salvation from disease nor discovered a single cure in all the age long period of man’s existence on earth.” (Pg. 5)
He continues, “The periodicity which characterized all functional derangements of the body lends color to the claims of cure-mongers that their remedy has cured their patients, when the truth is that the so-called disease ‘ran its course.’ The truth is that the so-called disease was a toxemic crisis and when the toxin was eliminated below the toleration point, the sickness passed---automatically health returned. But the disease was not cured; for the cause (enervating habits) is continued, toxin still accumulates, and in due course of time another crisis appears. Unless the cause of toxemia is discovered and removed, crises will recur until functional derangements will give way to organic disease.” (Pg. 6)
He advises, “Using nerve energy in excess of normal production brings on enervation. Few people waste nerve energy in one way only. Food is a stimulant. Overeating is overstimulating. Add to this excess one or two other stimulants---coffee or tobacco---excessive venery, overwork and worry, and one subject to that amount of drain of nerve energy will become decidedly enervated. Elimination falls far short of requirement; consequently, toxic matters accumulate in the body. This adds pronounced self-intoxication stimulation to that coming from overstimulating habits and completes a vicious circle. This complex stands for a disease-producing TOXEMIA which will be permanent except as toxin crises---so-called acute diseases---lower the amount of toxin, again to accumulate and continue until the habits that keep the body enervated are controlled. Perfect health cannot be established until all enervating habits have been eliminated.” (Pg. 10-11)
He explains, “DEFINITION of toxemia and crises of toxemia: In the process of tissue building---metabolism---there is cell building---anabolism---and cell destruction---catabolism. The broken down tissue is toxic and in health—when nerve energy is normal---it is eliminated from the blood as fast as evolved. When nerve energy is dissipated from any cause---physical or mental excitement or bad habits---the body becomes enervated. When enervated elimination is checked, causing a retention of toxin in the blood, or toxemia. This accumulation of toxin when once established will continue until nerve energy is restored by removing the causes. So-called disease is nature’s effort at eliminating the toxin from the blood. All so-called diseases are crises of toxemia.” (Pg. 13)
He recounts, “Without toxemia there can be no disease. I knew that the waste products of metabolism were toxic and that the only reason why we were not poisoned by them was because they were removed from the organism as fast as produced. Then I decided that the toxin was retained in the blood when there was a checking of elimination. Then the cause of the checking had to be determined. In time I thought out the cause. I knew that, when we had normal nerve energy, organic functioning was normal. Then came the thought that enervation caused a checking of elimination. Eureka! The cause of all so-called diseases is found! Enervation checks elimination of the waste products or metabolism. Thus retention of metabolic toxin is the first and only cause of disease!” (Pg. 22-23)
He states, “The toxemic philosophy is founded on the truth that there is no such thing as cure. In this it differs from all the so-called curing systems. Every pretense or promise of cure in all lines of therapeutics is false. This cannot be grasped by all minds until time for thinking has allowed the idea to soak in. Convention and superstition have the floor and they are unwilling to sit down and listen to the other side. Many learn slowly, others not at all and still others are put to sleep mentally by truth.” (Pg. 43)
He asserts, “The amounts of harm done the army by vaccination and re-vaccination will never be known. No words can describe the harm that immunizing with vaccines and serums has done and is doing except wholesale vandalism.” (Pg. 58)
At the end of the book is an interesting ‘Historical Background’: “Natural Hygiene Press, the publisher of this book, is a division of the American Natural Hygiene Society. The Society is a non-profit, tax exempt organization founded in 1949 for the primary purpose of public education in ‘Natural Hygiene,’ which is a system, based on biology and physiology, for preserving and recovering health through natural living habits. Natural Hygiene came on the American scene as an educational movement in 1830 through the lectures of Sylvester Graham… who stressed the value of fresh fruits and vegetables as the best foods for humanity… Graham pioneered in this country in advocating the teaching of physiology in the public schools and in expounding the value of regular physical exercise, fresh air and well ventilated homes, rest and sleep, sunbathing, emotional control and clothing reform for women from the tight waists and high heeled pointed toes of the day.
“Graham was joined in his work of health education by prominent medical people of the time such as … John H. Tilden, M.D. Many of these pioneers of the Natural Hygiene System had suffered serious illness during their early years which became a strong motivating force in seeking the solution to the disease problem. They came to see in wrong living the true cause of disease and sought to induce mankind to return to a normal way of life by adopting good living habits… It was Dr. Herbert M. Shelton who almost single-handedly resuscitated the works of the early hygienist pioneers and is still today considered the greatest pioneer… The American Natural Hygiene Society now carries on the educational work of this movement though distribution of books … annual public conventions and seminars and a chapter structure which function in many through large cities through the membership.” (Pg. 109-110)
This book will appeal to those distrustful of modern medicine, but be strongly rejected by many/most others.
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