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350 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
Take a full morning bath, with much friction; mid
forenoon, a dripping sheet ; mid afternoon, a wet-sheet
pack one day, and the next a dry blanket pack, or two
wet-sheet- packs and one blanket on pack the third
day ; all packs long and thorough ; at night wear a
bandage from the hips to the armpits.
Such a course as this, or its equivalent, will wash the
disease out of the system, if it has not already produced
fatal disorganization.
When there is local scrofulous disease, the treatment
must still be general. Cold applications
excite the
diseased action. We must pay especial attention to
secure a healthy nutrition. The food can not be too
pure and simple. It should consist of fruit and farinacea,
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with soft water to drink.
The scrofulous matter, with this treatment, does
come out. It exudes from every pore. Sometimes it
comes out in eruptions, or boils, filled with the charac
teristic matter ; and whether the matter comes out by
the pores, or a pint at a time from abscesses, the result
is purification, and purification is health.
All general poisonings of the system, as by opium,
tobacco, coffee, tea, ardent spirits, mercury, lead, qui
nine, syphilis, are to be treated upon the same princi
ples as scrofula. -
Scurvy, hydrophobia, glanders, cancer, rheumatism,
and the more external affections, as salt rheum, psora,
impetigo, and the whole list of skin diseases, are subject
to the same laws, and require, with simple and obvious
modifications, the same course of invigoration and puri
fication. I shall speak of many of these separately, but
I group them here to illustrate a principle.