To the healthy man and woman this book is respectfully dedicated. They have done certain things (consciously or subconsciously) in order to bring themselves from infancy to healthy, normal maturity. And if you (who may not be so healthy and normal) will do just these same things, there is no reason why you, too, should not be just as are they. And this little book is our attempt to tell you just what this healthy man and woman did in...

Practical Hints in Regard to Food and the Usefulness or Harmful Effects of the Various Articles of Diet. From the Preface: "Probably but very few physicians have so frequently an opportunity to observe the harmful consequences of a faulty mode of nourishment as one who is practising as a Carlsbad bath physician. It is a surprising fact that even scholars well versed in a great variety of subjects often display the veriest ignorance o...

It is a matter of interest, primarily to the farmer, that certain of the well-known weeds now either generally or locally infesting the country are the sources of crude drugs at the present time obtained wholly or in part by importation from abroach Roots, leaves, and flowers of several of the species most detrimental in the United States are gathered, prepared, and cured in Europe, and not only form useful commodities there but supp...

Fully illustrated. This is an extremely rare 19th century treatise on Chinese medicine, particularly the practices of the Kung Fu school. Although best known for a fighting style, Kung Fu includes a whole range of medical practices based on late Taoist alchemy. Dudgeon describes the use of yoga-like postures, movements similar to Tai Chi, the use of healing sounds similar to mantras, as well as massage and other techniques. He gives ...

Written by the Founder and President of The National League for the Prevention of Spinal Curvature; Founder and President of the International Society for Lymphatic Research; Editor of a Quarterly Journal Published by that Society; Anatomical Artist, Originator of Watermarked Spine in Stationery for the Osteopathic Profession; Author of Poliomyelitis; Author of Applied Anatomy of The Lymphatics. It's basically a book for aspiring Ost...

A Treatise Advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of our Race, Inscribed to the Members of the Vegetarian Society by their Vice President the Author.

If anyone should be writing a book about how to defeat death, it would have to be this gentleman, who lived to the grand old age of 100. Alright, he never defeated death, but he gave it a really good shot. Anyway, this book covers lots of subjects, including: The ethics of flesh eating; Death too fashionable; The foods of the world’s great men; The prophet-poet, Hesiod; The poet Ovid’s vegetarianism; Atoms and the finer forces; The e...

The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā is a classic Sanskrit manual on hatha yoga, written by Svāmi Svātmārāma, a disciple of Swami Gorakhnath. Said to be the oldest surviving text on the hatha yoga, it is one of the three classic texts of hatha yoga, the other two being the Gheranda Samhita and the Shiva Samhita.

The outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus has posed a serious threat to people's health.However, the prevention and control of such a sudden outbreak requires more scientific knowledge and the participation of the public, so that the disease can be defeated and the epidemic can be controlled. "New coronavirus pneumonia prevention manual" to enhance the public and the relevant professional understanding and the understan...

The secret to permanent weight loss revealed. The real reason diets fail has nothing to do with calories and everything to do with the balance of bacteria in your gut. A simple guide to show you how to finally achieve your ideal weight. The 100 trillion bacteria that live in your digestive tract—which make up 90 percent of the cells in your body—are the real reason you gain or lose weight. When those microbes are out of balance, chro...