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Chapter II: Nature’s Great Remedy.2101
It also tends to rest the stomach, and as a sedative. In cases where a patient
has lost a great deal of blood, by hemorrhage, physicians often inject a
quantity of sterilized water, with a small amount of salt, into the circulation,
which gives the heart something upon which to exercise itself, and which
also takes up the weakened, and dying corpuscles clinging to the sides of
the arteries and veins, giving them a fluid in which to live and move and
work, and in other ways acting as a good substitute for the blood until the
system is able to manufacture more.
As to external application, the uses of Water as a healing agent are most
numerous. In this little book we shall have something to say about that side
of the question, giving the reasons for each form of treatment, and the best
methods with which to apply the treatment. We shall also tell you about
“flushing the sewers” of the system, which alone are worthy of the careful
thought and attention of every living person. We shall also have more to
say regarding the use of water, in the way of drinking, so as to produce
beneficial results. And, we shall have much to say regarding the use of water
as a bathing material. All of these phases of the subject are interesting,
and important, and we trust that each and every reader of this book will
give to this subject the careful attention that it certainly deserves. Do not
let the apparent simplicity of the thing cause you to discard it in favor of
some more expensive, complicated and little-understood method or form
of treatment. Remember, that he who sticks close to Mother Nature will
receive the benefit of the methods which formulated by those universal
laws which underlie all of the wonderful work of the cosmos, organic and
inorganic. Nature is the Universal Mother—the Universal Physician—the
Universal Nurse. You will do well to study her methods.