THE WATER OF LIFE - Thought for Food

made this discovery, he formed the daily habit of drinking three
tumblers full as a prophylactic against disease. He maintained that if
autogenous urine is taken in this way, the more innocuous it becomes.
He applied it to his eyes as a strengthening lotion, and used it, after
shaving, for his complexion. He also advocated its external use for
wounds, swellings, boils, etc. As an aperient he declared it to be
unsurpassed." (See Doctors, Disease and Health, by Cyril Scott.)
I can vouch for the truth of this statement, as Mr. Baxter was for a short
time one of my patients. But what is not mentioned in the above is that
during the treatment he fasted on urine and water only. his fasting, as
the reader will see later, is an, essential part of the treatment‐at any
rate in serious disease conditions.
In some rural districts the use of cow's urine has been advocated by
doctors for boils. A case may be quoted of a man who had a number of
painful boils under his arm. They were quickly cured by compresses of
cow's urine.
En passant, I may mention that not so long ago one of the most
exclusive and expensive toilet soaps was made from the dehydrated
salts and fats of the urine of grass‐fed cows, and another from the urine
of Russian peasants. ( My informant was a chemist who knew what he
was talking about.) Furthermore some expensive facecreams contain
hormones derived from human urine. " What the eye seeth not...."!
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