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In a 1902 article entitled ions in the profession discount 300 mg isoniazid otc, rather than attempting to ‘Naturopathy vs Nature Cure’ order isoniazid 300mg visa, Dr Lust articulates that evaluate the relative merits of this perspective buy isoniazid 300 mg with visa. For while the two are ‘distant relatives, it is true – so are example, when he states that naturopathy is the larger the pussy and tiger’. The thrust of the article is that branch of drugless healing he is using the terminology naturopathy is not a limited patent system of proscrip- of the period. Drugless healing was used to differenti- tive natural therapeutics – for example prescribing sitz ate a general category of practice, not only in relation baths and wet sheet packs for all patients. Instead, to non-allopathic systems of healing at the time but naturopathy individualizes treatment in an eclectic also to differentiate the category from homeopathic and progressively minded fashion. The approach of practice and from the botanical practices of the time universal prescription was an early trend derived from such as eclecticism. For example, Dr Staden sion of the therapeutic worldview of the naturopath describes two cases of cancer treated with topical beyond universally applied systems for all disease. Chapter 3 • History of Naturopathic Physical Medicine 63 Lust argued that naturopathy is a larger inclusive field The renaming of the title and Lust’s choice of this that expands beyond its nature cure foundations. So text as a textbook of practice indicates the early orien- what was naturopathic practice like during the first tation of the profession’s leadership. Other modalities such as sunlight, the legislature they declared that the practice of natu- breathing therapy and electricity play a supplemental ropathic therapeutics consists of: role, as do botanical teas, steam baths and injections. There is scant reference to naturopaths prescribing • Dietetics homeopathic or allopathic medications. Prior • Hydrotherapy scholarship was also used to demonstrate historical • Physical Culture antecedents. For example, in 1902 Lust republished • Dynamic Breathing an article from the first half of the 19th century, ‘The Sweating Cure for Hydrophobia’, in which • Massage Richard Metcalfe relates five successful case histories • Swedish Movements of rabies transmitted from animal to human that were • Structural Adjustments treated with Turkish steam cabinet baths (Metcalfe • Sun 1902). These include • Kneipp Cure a 10-month-old paralyzed boy originally diagnosed by allopathic doctors as a case of spinal meningitis, a • Just Cure case of acute peritonitis with a swollen abdomen, • Fasting cancer of the jaw, and pneumonia with ‘brain fever’ • And other simple natural agencies as Rest, (presumably meningitis). The Aside from the non-poisonous herbal remedies uti- cancer case also utilized electric light baths as part of lized in the Kneipp cure, the therapeutic means listed the therapy. The naturopathic treatment procedures in this period for various conditions such as gonorrhea, Eclectic naturopathy syphilis, diphtheria, infantile paralysis, meningitis While the early naturopathic profession included inter- and other infectious diseases detail what are primarily nal medication such as botanical medicine and homeo- physical methods of treatment allied with diet. In a pathic medicine in its larger conception of naturopathic 1909 article on spinal meningitis, Dr Lust refers to the practice, it would not be until the demise of the physi- naturopathic approach to treatment as ‘physical- cian level botanical (e. Originally entitled Physical Therapeutic viduals, professional groups and ideas would be Methods: A Handbook of Drugless Medical Practice when absorbed into the naturopathic profession. The profes- published in 1910, Lust republished the book in 1916 sional literature of the 1930s and 1940s documents the as A Treatise on Naturopathic Treatment: Based on the naturopathic professional absorption of those wither- Principles and Therapeutic Applications of the Physical ing professions with articles that focus more and more Modes and Methods of Treatment(Non-Medicinal Therapy). Naturopathy is a distinct school of healing, employing the beneficent agency of Nature’s forces, or water, air, The ‘Physio-Therapists’ and naturopathy sunlight, earthpower, electricity, magnetism, exercise, In an interesting article ‘The Two Brands of Naturopa- rest, proper diet, various kinds of mechanical thy’ by E. The result therapist’ group that incorporated various physical of such ministrations is wholly beneficent. This categorization is somewhat prophylactic power of Nature’s finer forces, mechanical analogous to the chiropractic division between and occult, removes foreign matter from the system, ‘straights’ and ‘mixers’. The former group advocates restores nerve and blood vitality, invigorates organs limiting practice to adjustment of the spine and the and tissues, and regenerates the entire organism. The naturopathic division was between This eclectic view was also translated into a perspec- one group that would limit themselves to fundamen- tive that all individual natural healing arts – including tal nature cure techniques and the other that would osteopathy and chiropractic and eventually eclectic implement appliances such as sine wave, diathermy, botanical practices and homeopathy – were single galvanic, etc. It was men- By the 1930s and 1940s the ideas of the naturopathic tioned earlier that in 1924 the California State Supreme physiotherapist or mixers of the naturopathic profes- Court determined that chiropractic was a branch of sion were far more prominent. However, it should Naturopathy, osteopathy and massage be pointed out that these methods were utilized in a fashion consistent with the naturopathic and nature The early naturopathic professional view was also cure theories that predominated in the profession at historical and cross-cultural. Claims Medical Doctors have even taken the name of our by individuals to have discovered one of the fields of science, ‘Naturopathy’, and translated it into its Greek drugless therapy, rather than to be elaborating upon synonym ‘Physiotherapy’. Then they have so arranged an ancient and evolving art, were regularly chal- it with the powers that be that a ‘Naturopath’ cannot lenged. For example, in the 1913 article ‘Osteopathy any longer practice his art – in this Commonwealth Not a New Science of Healing’ the author Dr Thirion anyhow [referring to New York] he must be a takes issue with the claim of osteopathy’s ‘discovery ‘Physiotherapist’. Dr Thirion relates the use of early physiotherapy at some institute stipulated by the massage techniques by Herodicus, Hippocrates, medical doctors as the original and sole source of such Asclepiades, Celsus and Galen, as well as the contem- a science. Fight for your rights, for you will never porary practices of the day of Amma-Amma of the get them in any other way. Japanese, Toogi-Toogie in the Tonga Islands, Pidjetten It should be pointed out here that in 1945 the Aus- in Malaysia, and the Turkish bath massage practices. Finally, he lists extensive references prior to Dr Still such as Therapeutic Manip- Naturopathic physical medicine emerges ulation by De Betou (1840), Kinesipathy by Dr Georgii We can make several conclusions regarding naturo- (1850), Cases of Scrofula, Habitual Constipation, etc. Interesting is Thirion’s ref- physical medicine played a tremendously large role erence to Henrik Kellgren, a pupil of Ling, who had in practice. The second is that physical methods were great success in treating infectious diseases such as being employed not only for musculoskeletal ailments Chapter 3 • History of Naturopathic Physical Medicine 65 (the restricted field commonly encountered with The body packs to which Dr Lust refers are the cold modern-day physical therapy) but also for the reha- wet packs of Kneipp, a very commonly prescribed bilitation of chronic disease and for acute infectious method at the time. These modalities of physical medicine to the application of wet packs considerably in Natural included hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, exercise, Therapeutics. The cold towel application in constitu- reflexology, massage, spinal adjustment, cupping tional hydrotherapy and the modern-day warming (vacuum therapy), and various other derivatives and sock are examples of variations of the wet pack. A second dry layer most commonly of physical rehabilitation, the early naturopathic physi- wool is then wrapped over the sheeting, the second cal medicine approach did not limit itself to these layer acting as an insulator.

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Glomerular blood pressure provides the driving force for water and solutes to be filtered out of the blood and into the space made by Bowman’s capsule; the resulting glomerular filtrate is further processed along the nephron to form urine generic isoniazid 300mg free shipping. Including erythropoietin purchase isoniazid 300mg otc, which regulates red blood cell production in the bone marrow purchase 300 mg isoniazid visa, rennin, which is a key part of the rennin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, and the active forms of vitamin D (calcitriol) and prostaglandins. Maintaining a balance of several substances, some of which are summarised in Table 10. The kidney’s ability to perform many of its functions depends on the three fundamental functions of filtration, re-absorption and secretion: • Filtration is driven by both hydrostatic and oncotic (colloid osmotic pressure) transport. These transport processes are driven by hydrostatic, oncotic, diffusion and active transport. Some key regulatory hormones for re-absorption include aldosterone, which stimulates active sodium re-absorption (and water as a result), and antidiuretic hormone, which stimulates pas- sive water re-absorption. Usually only a few substances are secreted, unless they are present in great excess, or are natural poisons. There are several categories of diuretics, all of which increase the excretion of water, but in a distinct way: 1. Diuretics that cause a substantial diuresis, up to 20% of the filtered load of NaCl and water. Loop diuretics, such as furosemide, inhibit the re- absorbtion of sodium at the ascending loop, which leads to a retention of water in the urine. Other examples of high-ceiling loop diuretics include ethacrynic acid, torsemide and bumetanide. Diuretics that act on the distal convoluted tubule and inhibit the sodium chloride symporter, leading to retention of water in the urine. Aldosterone normally acts to add sodium channels in the principal cells of the collecting duct and late distal tubule of the nephron. Spironolactone prevents aldosterone from entering the principal cells, preventing sodium re-absorption. The thiazides and potassium-sparing diuretics are considered to be calcium-sparing diuretics. The thiazides cause a net decrease in calcium lost in urine; the potassium-sparing diuretics cause a net increase in calcium lost in urine, but the increase is much smaller than that associated with other diuretic classes. Their presence leads to an increase in the osmolarity of the filtrate; to maintain osmotic balance, water is retained in the urine. In diabetes mellitus, the concentration of glucose in the blood exceeds the maximum resorption capacity of the kidney; glucose remains in the filtrate, leading to the osmotic retention of water in the urine. Diuretics that have a rapidly flattening dose effect curve (in contrast to ‘high ceiling’, where the relationship is close to linear). However, there are certain classes of diuretic which usually fall into this category, such as the thiazides. Diuretics are used to treat oedema in heart failure, liver cirrhosis, hypertension and certain kidney diseases. Some diuretics, such as acetazolamide, make the urine more alkaline and are helpful in increasing excretion of substances such as aspirin in cases of overdose. Within hypothalamic neurons, the hormone is packaged in secretory vesicles together with a carrier protein called neurophysin; both are released upon secretion. The single most important effect of anti-diuretic hormone is to conserve body water, by reducing the loss of water in urine. In the absence of anti-diuretic hormone, the collecting ducts of the kidney are virtually impermeable to water. Anti-diuretic hormone stimulates water re-absorbtion through the insertion of ‘water channels’, or aquaporins (see Section 10. Aquaporins transport solute-free water through tubular cells and back into blood, leading to a decrease in plasma osmolarity and an increased osmolarity of urine. Regulation of anti-diuretic hormone secretion is primarily through the plasma osmolarity. Osmolarity is sensed in the hypothalamus by neurons known as osmoreceptors, which in turn stimulate secretion from those neurons that produce anti-diuretic hormone. Secretion of anti- diuretic hormone is also simulated by decreases in blood pressure and volume, conditions sensed by stretch receptors in the heart and large arteries. Changes in blood pressure and volume are not nearly as sensitive a stimulator as increased osmolarity, but are nonetheless potent in severe conditions. For example, loss of 15–20% of blood volume by haemorrhage results in a massive secretion of anti-diuretic hormone. Another potent stimulus of anti-diuretic hormone is nausea and vomiting, both of which are controlled by regions in the brain with links to the hypothalamus. The most common disease state related to anti-diuretic hormone is diabetes insipidus. This condition can arise from either of two situations: • Hypothalamic (‘central’) diabetes insipidus. This results from a deficiency in secretion of antidiuretic hormone from the posterior pituitary. The major indication of either type of diabetes insipidus is excessive urine production; as much as 16 l of urine per day. If adequate water is available for consumption, the disease is rarely life-threatening. Hypothalamic diabetes insipidus can be treated with exogenous anti-diuretic hormone.

It is apparendy important to believe that the mind can influence matter purchase 300mg isoniazid visa, or at least not to disbelieve it can purchase isoniazid 300 mg overnight delivery. This suggests that its origins lie in some more primitive condition buy cheap isoniazid 300 mg line, which is pre­ served in the unconscious and later smothered by acquired cultural and intellectual pressures. But to discover som ething m ore than rate fluctuations due to nor­ mal stimuli such as drugs and sleep, more penetrating experim ents were designed. Gray W alter, a British neuro­ physiologist, has explored the relationship between epilepsy and brain wave frequencies. He found that spontaneous seizures could be induced in known epileptics by flashing light into the subject’s eyes at alpha-rhythm range— roughly 8 to 12 cycles per second. He then found that about 1 of 20 persons who had never experienced a seizure responded, some spasmodically, some with nausea, to light flickers trained on their eye surfaces. This research was extended by others into analyses of the impact of other frequencies and in particular “infra­ sounds”— frequencies at less than 10 to 20 cycles per second—below the threshold o f hum an hearing. Professor Gavraud from Marseilles always felt ill at work, not an unusual experience. But Gavraud, a curious and diligent worker, decided to find out why he was always sick. A fter some false starts he located the trouble—his office was vibrating at a low frequency as a result o f the thrum of an air conditioner unit on top of the building directly across the street. Low frequency sound waves do affect the body, and in some cases illness can result. Perplexed by the phenom enon, he built a 6-foot whistle, powered with compressed air and modeled after the whistle carried by French gendarm es. It is not known whether Gavraud had taken out the French equiva­ lent of workm en’s compensation coverage, but one can only hope so because the technician G avraud enlisted to aid him in the first trial with the superwhistle expired on the spot Medicine, Society, and Culture 171 when it was blown. In later, m ore carefully controlled work, Gavraud only succeeded in shattering windows. Most o f us, since we live and work in artificial environm ents, are constantly exposed to artificial light. But the principal them e in John O ttt’s Health and Light65 is that natural light is healthier. Ott gets to this conclusion through some studies; unfortunately, few are rigorously empirical. In one of the m ore thorough studies, Ott investigated the influence o f wave lengths of light on spontaneous tum or developm ent in C3H mice. For example, he reports on a poten­ tial relationship between the use of full-spectrum lighting —rarely used in commerce today—and the contraction of flu: During the winter of 1968-1969 a serious outbreak of Hong Kong flu swept the country. The Health Department reported 5 percent of Sarasota County—or 6,000 people—sick with the flu at one time. Employee illness caused the temporary closing of one supermarket, a social club, and the shutdown of two areas of the Sarasota Memorial Hos­ pital because sixty-one nurses were out with the flu. Obrig Laboratories, located just north of Sarasota, is one of the largest manufacturers of contact lenses and has approximately one hundred employees. During the entire flu epidemic not one employee was absent because of any flu type ailment, according to Philip Salvatori, Chairman of the Board. Obrig Laboratories was the first to design a new building using full-spectrum lighting and ultraviolet-transmitting plastic panes throughout the entire office and factory areas. The added ultraviolet seemed to tie in closely with the results noted at the “Well of the Sea” restaurant in Chicago. Salvatori also mentioned that the Obrig employees had not been given any mass inoculation against the Hong Kong flu, although some individuals may have received shots from their private physi­ cians. If the preservation o f perishables is possible in pyramids and cyclical frequencies of light and sound affect man, the implications for health are enormous. Today, the physician’s arm am entarium is limited to sharp instrum ents, pills, and cryptic advice. Professor Gavraud could have swallowed hundreds of pills and had a frontal lobotomy and still felt ill. How many infrasounds pulse through the average hospital stuffed with sophisticated apparatus? Hos­ pitals and physicians do not concern themselves with sound and light because they perceive different problems and un­ dertake different missions. But that is the point: They pro­ vide medical care, and only incidentally does that result in health. Much of the research on interconnectedness is inexplica­ ble; we have done little work so far, and we consequently know very little. But this much is clear: Explanations of hum an life in parochial and mechanistic term s will have to be modified, if not abandoned. Aside from the mysticism that always dances at the edge of accepted knowledge, we have generally con­ structed explanations o f how things work out o f our material and social environm ent. T he spirituality of Michelangelo is soaring, but at the same time earthbound, as if the gods were etched into an im perm eable um brella just 174 The Climate for Medicine a few miles above us. O ur demonic and spiritual imagery —our religious expressions—have been decidedly an- thropocentric. O ur sense of oneness with the rest o f our world and beyond has been truncated; and correspondingly, our sense of reality has been tragically limited. It is common in economic theory to refer to “externalities” in the production of material goods. But in the conven­ tional view, while there can be too many products and un­ fortunately byproducts in the form o f externalities as well, it is not generally thought that services generate externalities.