Vinegar packs.

In employing vinegar in this connection, it should only be used with mud or water.  Acids are decidedly negative in their electrical action, and therefore, have a curative effect upon inflammatory diseases.  The use of vinegar in connection with clay and water in the treatment of inflammations and fevers is a common, old-time custom; but those who do so, ignorantly perhaps, from force of example or hear-say, unconsciously carry out in so doing one of the plainest scientific laws.  Why so?  Is it because this liquid kills bacilli or destroys morbid products?  No, because it quiets the agitated electrons and equalizes their distribution.

The safest plan is to take two parts water and one part of vinegar.  Vinegar prevents coagulation of the blood-cells, and in consequence, stagnation and inflammation are avoided.

Cooling Drinks.

For a similar reason acid drinks, such as lemonade, raspberry vinegar, and diluted raspberry juice, are of the greatest services in inflammations and fevers.  They compose the system from within outward.  For, as soon as any electrical negative is brought into contact with the system, streams of electricity course through the body and reduce the inflammation.  The best lemonade for this purpose is my preparation “Tonogen,” because it contains all the necessary acids, besides the necessary constituents for inducing circulation and thereby preventing stagnation It is easily established that patients treated according to my method have become very much stronger and healthier than they were before the beginning of their illness.

Formerly, the proportion of deaths among these who contracted typhoid fever reached twenty and thirty per cent and even higher.  These deaths occurred simply because of excessive internal heat.  Today, a wide experience shows that hardly any of such cases succumb.

Temperature Reduction.

The application of water in typhoid fever has secured for it a permanent place in the sickroom.  Not only have we been enabled by reducing the temperature with water, to attain the very best results in the treatment of typhoid cases, inflammation of the lungs, and all positive heat diseases, but by the same measures, we are now able to forestall its development with increasing certainty.

Brand kept typhoid fever away from his soldiers while it raged around them in the severest form, by the simple specific of a daily bath of an hour’s duration in cold water.

It is easy to understand why scarlet fever, measles and chicken-pox—­all positive diseases—­demand the exclusion of sunlight in their treatment.  Experience has shown that the treatment of these diseases makes a more favorable progress when sunlight is excluded.

This fact stands in sharp contrast to all previous observations as to the importance of sunshine in the treatment of disease.

Negative Diseases.