Russell Thacker Trall's classic on health and hygiene - "The True Healing Art: Or, Hygienic vs. Drug Medication." This book influenced the Nature Cure and the Natural Hygiene movements. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D. C. "I have myself, through Natural Hygiene, over 16 years, treated all forms and hundreds of cases of typhus and typhoid fevers, pneumonia's, measles and dysentery's, and have not lost a single patient. The same is true of scarlet and other fevers. No medicine whatever was given." --Dr. Trall, 1862. "These diseases (typhoid and pneumonia) are nothing more nor less than a cleansing process - a struggle of the vital powers to relieve the system of its accumulated impurities. The causes of the diseases are constipating foods, contaminated water, atmospheric miasmas, and whatever clogs up the system or befouls the blood. And the day is not far distant when a physician who shall undertake to aid and assist (suppress) Nature in her efforts to expel impurities, by the administration of poisons (drugs, medicines, shots, radiation, etc.) will be regarded as an insane idiot. But now this practice is called medical science." --R.T. Trall M.D. "The Drug Medical System cannot bear examination. To explain it would be to destroy it, and to defend it even is to damage it." --R.T. Trall M.D.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.

Spiral Bound, Acid Free Paper, Card Stock Cover.

I claim, to have ascertained the true premises of medical science, which discovery enables me to explain all of its hit her to mysterious problems, even those problems which have ever baffled the investigations of medical men, and which are to this day regarded by the standard authors and living teachers as without the pale of human comprehension, to wit: The Essential Natureo f Disease, and the Modus Operandi of Medicines; and thereon to predicatea philosophy and a practice of medicine which is correct in science, in harmony withall of the Laws of Nature, in agreement with every structure and function of the living system, and successful when applied to the prevention or cure of disease. I am about to prove the falsity of the popular medical systems-- 1. By facts universally admitted 2. By the testimony of its advocates 3. By the testimony of its opponents 4. By the Laws of Nature 5. By argument and logic By all the data of science applicable to the subject. These are bold, plain, sweeping assertions--radical, aggressive, revolutionary. But I mean all that my words import, in their strictest literality and in their broadest implications. It is for those who hear me to judge for themselveswhether I make these allegations good.

1880 Hygienic vs. Drug Medication - an address delivered in the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Plus Dr. Trall's Challenge to Dr. Reese, from the Water-Cure Journal for October, 1960 and a short biography of Dr. Trall.