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Hygienic ReviewVol. XXVII September, 1965 No. 1What Was Incurability?Herbert M. SheltonWhat is meant when a patient is told that his disease is incurable? Some diseases are said to be incurable and some patients are declared to be incurable. There are those who declare that, while there are no incurable diseases, there are incurable cases. What, then, is an incurable disease and what is an incurable patient? I do not find any clear-cut replies to these questions and I note that practitioners of all schools do not hesitate to treat "diseases" and patients that are declared to be incurable. At the same time researches are carried on in efforts to discover cures for the incurable diseases.For those of us who do not believe that any so-called disease is curable or that there is any such thing as a cure, the whole

concept of curability and incurability is wrong. We regard all the effort devoted to administering cures as wasted effort. Curing disease is a form of voodooism that should be outgrown by enlightened and civilized peoples. There should be a search for causes and an effort made to correct or remove these, but no effort should be made to cure disease.Now it is a generally known fact, one that no intelligent medical man will deny, that many thousands of patients who had been told by their physicians that they were incurable, have recovered health after deserting medicine and seeking cure through other channels. Many thousands of so-called incurables gained health through the application of Water-Cure processes; many more did so through the efforts of the Ling Movement-Cure; many thousands have regained health, after being told by their physicians that they were hopelessly incurable, by recourse to Christian Science, the same

thing may be said of the great armies of hopeless invalids who regained health after turning to Mechano - Therapy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Physical Culture (Physcultopathy), Naprapathy, Neuropathy, Naturopathy, the Emanuel Movement, the Unity School of Christianity, herbalism, radiesthesis, acupuncture, ultrasonics, and a host of other methods and systems.Mass experiences of this kind, having occurred under the very noses of medical men, and not without their knowledge, should long ago have completely upset the medical ideas regarding the curability and incurability of disease. If they declare a disease to be incurable and cases do recover under Christian Science or under Water-Cure or if a patient is told that he cannot be cured and he gets well under chiropractic, should not the medical man re-examine both his theories and his practices?It is safe to say that more than eighty per cent of the patients going to

these other schools for care or treatment or prayer, have given medical physicians weeks, months and years of opportunity to restore them to health. Great numbers of them have been pronounced incurable. They do not all get well when they go to these other practitioners and they patronize first a chiropractor, then a naturopath or a Christian Scientists, but a sufficient number of them are either greatly improved or recover health that they supply these other practitioners with enough case histories of success to keep them in practice and in popular favor.To be assured, by one or more scientific physicians that you are hopelessly incurable, to go through a medical clinic and be informed that there "is no cure" for your disease, to have the verdict of a consultation of physicians handed to you in the word, incurable, to be treated for years with drugs and surgery and grow progressively worse, and then to turn to some form of

"quackery" and recover health, is to upset your faith in science.Now, I believe that these medical men are right in their judgements of the incurability of these cases. I believe that everyone of them would die of their "disease, " as told they will by their physicians, should they remain under medical care. The people have no sort of conception, nor have physicians much better conception of the health-destroying effects of drugs. Every dose of every drug administered to a patient is not only disease producing in its own right, but it depresses the healing operations that are always going on in the sick organism. When the drugging is discontinued, when the body is relieved of this intolerable burden, it can do for itself much that it fails to do while being poisoned.One thing all of these various schools have in common is their rejection of drugs. They do not remove causes, they do not cure disease, they do not make

an intelligent effort to supply the physiological needs of the body or supply healthful conditions, but they do eschew drugs. There is no drug in a Christian Science prayer, there is no drug in a chiropractic thrust, these is no drug in a water application, the mechano-therapist does not have any drugs in his manipulative procedures, the New Thought practitioner administers no drugs in her metaphysical formulas.Now there have also been numerous instances of recovery in incurable cases in which nothing, other than the abandonment of drugging, was done. When drugs are abandoned, whether the patient turns to some other and ineffective mode of treatment or merely resigns himself to the seeming inevitable, a most prolific cause of chronic disease and organic impairment is removed. The strength of the body's self-healing efforts is graphically illustrated in those many instances in which they succeed in restoring health in spite

of the use of drugs. Should we, then, be surprised that they are frequently successful in more advanced cases, when drugs are abandoned? Incurability is often nothing more than chronic drug poisoning.Incurability is often due entirely to the fact that the original and sustaining causes of the disease (to which drug poisoning is merely an addition) are not corrected or removed. As the other schools of "healing" also fail to remove causes, we have every reason to think that more incurables would recover than do, were these original causes removed coincident with the cessation of drugging; No case should be classed as incurable until, after the full correction of all causes, it fails of recovery.Another reason for failure of recovery is the failure to provide the sick organism with adequacies of the primordial requisites of organic existence. If the drugs are discontinued and nothing is done other than chiropractic

adjustments or Christian Science jollying, and the physiological needs of life are neglected, many will fail of recovery who might speedily recover were these Hygienic requirements fully and adequately met. As none of the schools of "healing" make an effort to meet all these needs of life, it must be certain that many incurables are sacrificed to this neglect.No practitioner, of whatever school of so-called healing, who ignores cause, provides only inadequately and haphazardly for the physiological wants of the sick organism, and contents himself with throwing monkey-wrenches into the vital machinery, can have any adequate conception of the marvelous efficiency of the body's self-healing abilities when operating under favorable or healthful conditions. To take only a simple example, the common cold: no one who has not watched it repeatedly can know with what greater speed and satisfaction one who rests and fasts recovers

from a cold, as contrasted with recoveries under drugging and feeding.There can be no doubt that there are irreversible pathologies; there are patients who are so badly impaired that they are past vital redemption. But there was a long stage in the disease of these before irreversibility was reached, when they could have recovered health. We can say of these that failure to remove causes, failure to provide primordial requisites, and drugging and enervating palliatives have persisted so long that an irreversible stage has been reached. Correct means of care, even if now employed, come too late.In the final analysis, then, it seems correct to say that incurability, which exists far less often than popularly and professionally thought to be the case, is almost always due to maltreatment, ignorance and simple neglect of the most elemental needs of life. None of the schools of so-called "healing, " can be exempt from the

charge of contributing to the production of incurability, but it must be recognized that the drugging school is by far the worst offender in this respect. Perhaps if correct care is inaugurated in the initial stages of disease, no such thing as incurability would ever evolve.This brings us to a brief consideration of the question: what and when are the initial stages of disease? The Hygienist regards the first cold or diarrhea or skin eruption of infancy as representing an already established toxemia. This is the initial stage of a pathological evolution that will culminate years later in apoplexy, Bright's disease, heart disease, cancer, etc. The time to begin to head off the evolution of advanced and incurable pathologies is in infancy or even before birth. There is no time of life when it is safe to neglect its genuine needs or to subject it to abuses.-- Peace be with you,Don "Quai" Eitner"Spirit

sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal and wakes in man."Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Baptiste Molière, Le Malade ImaginaireThe obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb-- In compliance with the highest standards of Universal Law, this email has been thoroughly disinfected and purified in the solar flares of the sun. Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/45 - Release Date: 7/9/05