The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without DrugsTyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
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The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs
Tyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
Enema; Health; Health -- Popular works; Health promotion; Hygiene
We would point out that a simple hygienic mode of life (including
careful diet and the regular practice of the “Cascade Treatment” during
pregnancy), will not only have the effect of making the labor easy, and
the recovery rapid, but will almost preclude the possibility of any of
the above complaints manifesting themselves.
During pregnancy the “Cascade Treatment” should be regularly used twice
a week, by which means the absorption of the poisonous waste matters of
the system into the circulation is completely avoided, and the future
health of the infant assured. The body should be bathed daily, or, if
impracticable, then a brisk rubbing from head to foot, with a towel, and
exercise--more or less--taken every day. The diet should consist largely
of vegetables and fruit, especially after the fourth month, avoiding
farinaceous foods as much as possible, such as wheat, peas, beans,
barley, and especially fine wheaten flour. These foods contain the bony
constituents, and their avoidance tends to deossify the systems of both
mother and child, and make childbirth what Nature intended it to be, a
comparatively painless proceeding.
Careful attention to the foregoing hygienic mode of life, during
pregnancy, will effectually prevent the appearance of those distressing
complaints (before mentioned), peculiar to Nursing Mothers.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BREAST
Would never occur, if the “Cascade” had been regularly used, and the
treatment for it, when present, is to use the “Cascade” thoroughly, and
apply cool wet clothes, well covered with dry ones, to the breasts. If
there is a surplus of milk, draw it off with the breast pump, or the
more convenient method--the mouth.
SORE NIPPLES
Do not require anything but a little cream or olive oil applied to them,
with occasional applications of cold, wet cloths when they are hot and
painful, and occasional fomentations when they are cracked and sore--but
do not fail to “flush the colon.”
MILK FEVER
Is principally due to over-heated, or ill-ventilated rooms, and should
be treated by at once flushing the colon, and if the patient is not too
weak, use the wet sheet pack (see end of book), otherwise tepid
ablutions should be frequently used.
PUERPERAL SWELLED LEG
Should be treated as an acute inflammation. The colon should be
thoroughly flushed, the wet sheet pack or tepid bath used frequently,
and cold wet compresses applied to the afflicted limb. The patient may
drink cold water freely, and the diet should consist mainly of Indian or
wheat-meal gruel.
FISTULA.
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