tue Science or Mrotcie How Chronle Diseases are Cured: Medicinally.—Rested Ballan. darrolda,, London.
Raptasi "Roche. New and what he has acquired of understanding from his own experience in treatment of disease to the age-old accumulations of wisdom (or folly. fas be may count iti) that have come from the work of many generations The author and the book have had many fore-runners and will have any successors. It, is the tale of ihe Medicine-Man." In all lands and in all times he has appeared. He cures disease, He, and no other tone, can do this. All the long story fof tie centuries with the slow pro-fees of search and trial for under-[standing of the meaning of disease and finding the remedy, by the thering of knowledge ' in com~ parison of observed facts as to ill health and noting things that. have faction upon its course in the human fifewthis great stock of thought and belief which everywhere and always man has accepted for a body of Tearning as a guide to practice in treatment of the sick, must be rejected as worthless and harmful, Mr. Raphael Roche says so, He knows, Here are some of his views. Diseates cannot be-cured by explicable rations of drugs, but only drugs whose action cannot be explained. No drugs or diseases should be classified or named—that a hindrance to the study of them. Mr. Roche classifics diseases as acute and chronic, and tells of his successes in curing chronic. diseases such as those which he classifics or names as cancer, diabetes, tuber~ culosis, constipation and " bleeding piles, chronic colitis, nasal catarrh, hydrocele, facial neuralgia, intern: tumour, theumatold arthritis, writer's ramp," sciatic tone Kidney, psoriasis -and dropsy, and Uuleer of stomach and many others which he puts.a name to. Mr. Roche says it must not be inferred that his system 1s inapplicable to acute diseases, but the cure cannot easily be demonstrated, The Method What is Roche's system of treating understanding word "the totality of symptoms bod and mental, to which an indi vidual is hereditarily able"? Briefly, a drug plus Vital Force, Neither drugs nor Vital Force are clearly defined: cone and without any runs in much that no" analysis, chemical. or spec-{roscople, "will" discover their' exist-
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