Towards Healthy Humanity
From childhood to adulthood,
an individual's health is paramount. Whether it is a matter
of your children's nutrition or teen
weight loss, in the plan of production of a regenerated
and healthy humanity, every individual of this kind must be
regarded as a foe who interferes with the prevention of disease
both now and in future. To win such a one over, to make him
an enthusiastic believer in the theory that health is a necessity,
and, a task less easy, to prevent his relapse into his previous
degenerate manner of life and health, this is another branch
of science for which psychology and physiognomy are more needful
than anything else.
Here again it is the true physician's
principle to enlighten the layman, and not to surround his
methods with a mysterious, but imposing wall of secrecy. We
do not hesitate to reveal the main points of our system of
diagnosis, which is much broader than the old system of scholastic
medicine, the performance with auscultation, percussion, X
rays and the rest. Certain knowledge of these things will
lead every one, ere long, to submit all disturbances of health
to the hygienic physician while prevention is still probable
and possible, instead of waiting until disease has taken firm
hold.
In medical terminology Anabolic
Steroids are considered a very important drug for the
treatment of AIDS and cancer. Since 1991, steroids and other
drugs have been used in the treatment of Myotonic Dystrophy
(MMD) and muscle atrophy.
It will also enable men to realize that the old-school
practitioner who pronounces them sound while they feel for themselves that there is
something wrong within has yet "a something" left to learn.
The realm of psychology, however, is beyond the scope of my present endeavour,
save in so far as it may serve to show that we are fortified with this particular
knowledge, and to the end that this book may constitute a help to the aspiring
hygienic-dietetic physician, calling his attention to the necessity of acquiring as
profound a knowledge of psychology as may be.
I will confine myself at present, therefore, to the external symptoms which must be
observed, though they are not generally considered as symptoms of disease; and yet
they indicate disease or the disposition thereto, individual or hereditary, as the case
may be.
I shall consequently deal with
the peculiarities of hands and feet, nails and hair, eyes
and ears,
nose and teeth, mouth, forehead, tongue, chin, cheeks, neck,
chest, abdomen, legs, and your periodontist
will tell you, even your gums! Nature has endowed us with
strong discriminating faculties against certain external indications
of disease. We experience a pleasant feeling when the hand
is pressed by another hand that is warm and dry, but we shrink
from the hand that is cold and moist and clammy.
Perspiring hands and feet are a sure indication that some process of degeneration is
going on within the body, the production of diseased cells being in excess of what
the body, under normal conditions, is able to excrete, and therefore they seek
unusual channels of leaving the body, that is, through the skin and mucous
membranes.
Perspiring feet are a symptom of disposition to colds and possibly tuberculosis,
while perspiring hands indicate certain nervous diseases and disposition to gout;
constantly cold hands and feet are usually found in people who suffer from
scrofulosis or anaemia.
In many cases the quality of nailsleads to the conclusion that there is a thorough
disturbance of the process of nutrition. If they are fragile and brittle, there is no
question but that there is lack of certain nutritive salts in the blood. Swollen and
deformed nails indicate special disturbances in circulation, chronic heart and lung
diseases.
Hair, or rather the absence of hair, especially in early life, is sometimes another
indication of faulty nutrition.
Baldness or premature gray hair is usually a pathological indication, as is also the
dishevelled hair of nervous people and children suffering from scrofulosis, while
rich, glossy hair is always a sign of good health.
The development of the hair depends upon the activity of the skin, the nerves and
the composition of the blood. The blood of dark-haired people is lacking in water
and fat, but richer in albuminous matter. Poor quality of hair is indicative of living
in bad air, poor nutrition of the skin, hard mental work, pain and sorrow. Sexual
excesses during youth are often the cause of premature baldness and thin hair.
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