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Excerpt from Water-Cure for the Million: The Processes of Water-Cure Explained; Popular Errors Exposed; Hygienic and Drug-Medication Contrasted, Rules for Bathing, Dieting, Exercising, Etc., Recipes for Cooking, Directions for Home-Treatment, Remarkable Cases to Illustrate, Etc Says Professor C. A. Gilman, M.D., of the same school: Many of the chronic diseases of adults are caused by the maltreatment of infantile diseases. Again: Blisters nearly always produce death when applied to children. Again: I give mercury to children when I wish to depress the powers of life. And again: The ap plication of Opium to the true skin of an infant is very likely to produce death. And yet again: A single drop of laudanum will often destroy the life of an infant. And once more: Four grains of calomel will often kill an adult. And, finally: A mild mer curial course, and mildly cutting a man's throat, are synonymous terms. Says Professor Alonzo Clark, M.D., of the same school: From thirty to sixty grains of calomel have been given very young children for croup. Again: Apoplectic patients, who are not bled, have double the chance to recover that those have who are bled. And again: Physicians have learned that more harm than good has been done by the use of drugs in the treatment of measles, scarlatina, and other self-limited diseases. And yet again: My experience is, that croup can't well be cured; at least, the success of treatment is very doubtful. A different mode of treatment is introduced yearly, to be succeeded by another the next year. Once more: Ten thousand times ten thousand methods have been tried, in vain, to cure diabe tes. Still another: In their zeal to do good, physicians have done much harm. They have hurried many to the grave who would have recovered if left to nature. And, finally: All of our curative agents are poisons; and, as a consequence, every dose diminishes the patient's vitality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.