Produced by Bryan Ness, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) * * * * * Transcriber’s Note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the TRANSCRIBER’S AMENDMENTS near the end of the text. To preserve the alignment of tables and headers, this etext presumes a mono-spaced font on the user’s device. Words in italics are indicated like _this_. Text emphasized with bold characters or other treatment is shown like =this=. The FOOTNOTES: section is located near the end of the text. * * * * * THE NATURAL CURE OF CONSUMPTION, CONSTIPATION, BRIGHT’S DISEASE, NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, “COLDS” (FEVERS), ETC. _HOW SICKNESS ORIGINATES, AND HOW TO PREVENT IT._ A HEALTH MANUAL FOR THE PEOPLE. BY C. E. PAGE, M.D., AUTHOR OF “HOW TO FEED THE BABY,” ETC. NEW YORK: FOWLER & WELLS CO., PUBLISHERS, 753 BROADWAY. 1886. COPYRIGHT, 1883, BY FOWLER & WELLS. EDWARD O. JENKINS, _Printer and Stereotyper_, North William Street, New York. TO THE SICK AND SUFFERING, EVERYWHERE, THE HOPELESSLY SICK WHO WOULD DECLINE IN COMFORT, AND THE THOUSANDS, WHO, NOW DYING, BUT, HAVING THE WAY POINTED OUT, MAY PROVE THEMSELVES STILL “FIT TO SURVIVE” I Dedicate THIS NATURAL CURE OF DISEASE. PREFACE. The inexpert,——they who can not claim sufficient acquaintance with a given subject to enable them to _think freely_ (“free thinking” being altogether another matter),——find it sufficiently difficult to obtain an author’s meaning, when they are really desirous of so doing, and devote some time and patience to the work in hand; it is impossible, often, to arrive at just conclusions otherwise. The liability to error is increased many fold when the subject is not merely not popular, but is, in fact, _un_-popular. It is a prevalent custom to “skim over” a volume, and then praise or condemn it, according to the reader’s preconceived notion.