Some old ways of treating and understanding about smallpox. Well worth the look!
The sane view of Small-pox is that it is a beneficent disease, or rather Nature’s way of eliminating disease.
When one banishes from one’s mind all the professional abuse that has been hurled at Small-pox for over a hundred years, and when one studies it calmly and without professional prejudice, it is perceived that Small-pox is nothing more nor less than a healing crisis.
Small-pox removes impurities by bringing them to the surface and getting rid of them by pustular eruption, and this mighty effort of Nature to free the body from undesirable matter is familiar to all students of Nature cure as "A Healing Crisis."
Small-pox is not a disease contracted by the action of some mysterious microbe. If the body is almost clogged with poison and Small-pox is contracted, then the patient will have it thoroughly, because Nature will make a correspondingly big effort to eliminate the poison from the system. The temperature will be high and perspiration profuse to get rid of some of it in that way. A great area of the skin surface will be in a state of eruption to eradicate some of it by means of pustules, and unusual thirst will cause the patient to take more liquid- Nature’s means of elimination via the kidneys. In fact, the more clearly we realise Nature’s aims and needs, the more we appreciate the perfection of this great healing crisis.
Patients who take it lightly are those who are less encumbered with poison than those who take it severely.
THE BENEFICENT DISEASE
Most people, through wrong living, lack of fresh air, exercise and right diet, carry within themselves more or less organic poison. This poison tends to accumulate unless it is kept in check by suitable baths, right breathing, fasting etc. When it has increased to such an extent as to interfere seriously with the normal functioning of the body, then nothing that medical knowledge and skill can do will be so thoroughly beneficial as an attack of Small-pox.
To those who have had neither the opportunity nor the time to study the subject, and to those who have always accepted without question the claptrap that has been written about Small-pox during the last forty years, this considered statement of fact may sound like the irresponsible raving of a lunatic.
Yes they do sound like the ravings of a lunatic.
No offence meant to anyone who believes the above, but I will still have my daughter and myself vaccinated when vaccine is aaliable. Are you talking about the above? Not good advice IMHO!
If vacinations don't work, then why is it that those who have been vacinated against getting smallpox, have never gotten it ?