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1894.
COPYRIGHTED, 1893.
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CONTINENTAL PRINTING COMPANY,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
DEDICATION.
To the many broad-minded, liberal, progressive and humane
physicians of America, and other lands, who have so willingly
assisted me, who have so quickly imbibed the true science of
healing and so fearlessly proclaimed it —this book is gratefully
dedicated.
The Author.
PREFACE.
The following work on Biochemistry is offered to the public
with a sincere desire to advance the cause of truth.
The author has no desire to tear down anything good that
may be found in any system of medicine. But this is an age of
—
keen investigation of idol breaking and truth finding. He who
is afraid to investigate for fear that some cherished belief will be
INTRODUCTION.
" In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb driven cattle !
—
Act act in the living present;
Heart within and God o'erhead! "
—
Longfellow.
good uncouth."
"They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth;
J. B. Chapman, M.D.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
PART II.
PART III.
PART IV.
PART I
GENERAL SKETCH
OF THE
ment. All lie knows about his medicines is that they are
poisons, and that when administered under certain conditions
they usually produce certain symptoms.
Biochemistry is science, not experimentalism. There is
no more of mystery and miracle about it than about all
natural laws. The food and drink taken into the stomach,
and the air breathed into the lungs furnish all the materials
of which the body is composed. By the juices of the
stomach, pancreas, arid liver, the food is dissolved and the
useful particles are taken up by the absorbents. These are
carried to the lungs, where, by the addition of oxygen from
the air, they are changed to blood. The blood supplies the
materials necessary for forming every tissue and fluid in the
body and for carrying forward every process.
An analysis of the blood shows it to contain organic and
inorganic matter. The organic constituents are sugar, fats
and albuminous substances. The inorganic constituents are
water and certain minerals, commonly called cell-salts. Of
a living human being, water constitutes over seven-tenths,
the cell-salts about one-twentieth, organic matter the re-
mainder.
Not until recently were the inorganic cell-salts understood
and appreciated. Being little in quantity, they were thought
to be little in importance. But now it is known that the
•cell-salts are the vital portion of the body, the workers, the
builders; that the water and organic substances are simply
inert matter used by these salts in building the cells of the
body.
Should a deficiency occur in one or more of these workers,
of whom there are twelve, some abnormal condition arises.
These abnormal conditions are known by the general term
disease, and according as they manifest themselves in dif-
ferent ways and in different parts of the body, they have
been designated by various names. But these names totally
fail to express the real trouble. Every disease which afflicts
the human race is due to a lack of one or more of these inor-
ganic workers. Every pain or unpleasant sensation indi-
GENERAL SKETCH. 15
truths of the new system, and the perfect ease with which
he overthrew his critics, stamped him as a great man. While
others have taken up the work and carried the banner on up
the hill of difficulty, and faced the many-headed mob, yet
we have no desire to rob the great man of Oldenburg of the
glory he richly deserves.
Wherever Biochemistry unfurls its flag, the name of
Schuessler will be renowned. And, as Hahnemann is called
father by the homoeopaths, so will Schuessler be called the
Father of Biochemistry. It will be a monument to his
Kali phos.
Cactus gr. Stramon. Xanth. Ailan.
, , ,
udation."
The criticism we offer to the above is this: We claim an
excess of fibrine never occurs in the blood, not even in
embolus. The fault lies in a deficiency in Kali mur. mole-
cules — —
the workers in fibrine the creators of fibrine. When
this salt falls below the standard the fibrine collects in quan-
tities, is not diffused properly through the blood, and might
easily mislead the scientific investigator, simply studying the
question from the point of organic chemistry.
we find pure albumen a dis-
In Bright's disease, so-called,
turbing element. There is an affinity between lime phos-
phate and albumen. When the lime molecules fall below
the standard, a portion of the albumen becomes non-func-
tioned and is thrown off through the kidneys.
Furnish lime phosphate in molecular form to fill the gap,
to again establish the continuity in the salt, and the albumen
will again be properly distributed through the organism.
If the albuminous substances thus thrown off should reach
the skin in quantities too great to be excreted through the
pores, it breaks down the tissue of the epidermis, or, in other
words, eats a small section of the skin and thus escapes.
Such a condition is called eczema, a word derived from a
Greek word '
' to boil out. '
. GENERAL SKETCH. 25
CELLULAR PATHOLOGY.
)L,L, diseases that are curable, are cured in a natural
manner through the circulation; the constituent
parts of the human organism that are carried by
the blood-vessels and transude through the walls
of the veins and capillaries into the surrounding
tissue, restores normal conditions when the blood
contains the proper amount
of its inorganic salts, water,
sodium, ferrum, potassium, calcium, silica and magnesium.
When a deficiency of one or more of the constituent parts
of the blood occurs, a disturbance arises in some part of the
organism and a symptom (pain, spasm or some cry of
fever,
distress) is set up, in order that the intellect may heed and
supply the want; or it may be that while the blood contains
a proper balance of the vital principles a disturbance may
arise because, of a condensed condition of a group of cells,
tissue,muscles or nerves, the salt solution of the blood fails
to enter and feed. In either case, a fine dilution of the salt
indicated by the symptoms is needed, either to supply the
lack of it in the blood, or to restore the normal condition of
the part affected.It will be observed that there is nothing
—
miraculous about this process it is simply a natural law ;
and in no other way can a normal condition be restored in
disease.
No improvement can be made on the human organism in
this respect. The constituent parts of our bodies, placed
there by the harmony, when
Creator, keep all in perfect
rightly understood; and harmony cannot be restored by an
attempt to improve on God's plan, by introducing a poison
into the system. The symptom may be changed to one that
manifests itself in a different manner, but the patient is not
cured. Calomel does not cure: it simply sets up a dysentery
28 BIOCHEMIC SYSTEM OE MEDICINE.
has taught that for general use the sixth trituration, where
each grain contains the one-millionth part of a grain of the
cell-salt, is the most desirable.
Comparative Treatment:
BlOCHEMIC, HOMCEOPATHIC AND ALLOPATHIC.
ERYSIPELAS.
Mortality in England, 2,000 annually.
COMPARATIVE TREATMENT. 37
PNEUMONIA.
Inflammation of the Lungs.
Spongia, Bryonia,
Cham., etc.
(Sputa yellow, greenish,
purulent.;
COMPARATIVE TREATMENT. 39
TYPHUS FEVER.
With the new remedies can
this disease, in its typical form,
be cut short very rapidly by the use of only one remedy,
Ferrum phos. Kali mur. meets early secondary conditions.
;
Stupor, twitchings
Natr. mur. Opium, Rhus toxi-
codendron.
Partial paralysis :
Kali phos. Rhus tox., Strych.,
Galvanism.
Putrescence:
Kali phos. Carbo veg., Arsen.,
Rhus tox., Baptisia.
NEURALGIA.
BIOCHEMIC HOMCEOPATHIC ALLOPATHIC
TREATMENT. TREATMENT. TREATMENT.
the song."
From the teachings of Biochemistry, life chemistry, I
learn that nothing cures that does not supply deficiencies,
because the conditions for which remedies are administered
are caused solely and entirely because of a "lack of some
constituent of the blood at the part affected;" this being
true, the cures are not effected by the law of similia simili-
bus curantur, but by the law that cures hunger. The
stumbling-block to homoeopaths on the road to Biochemistry
is the fact that they use high potencies of agents which,
POTENCIES.
* MAY 2- 1917
f
PART II.
MATERIA MEDICA
OF THE
CALCAREA FLUORICA.
—
Synonym. Calcium fluoride.
—
Common Names. Fluoride of lime ; Fluor spar.
^O know that a certain inorganic cell-salt is indicated
by symptoms, is one thing; but to know the
certain
process by which it works to accomplish certain re-
sults, is quiteanother thing. The fluoride of lime
isfound in the enamel of teeth, connective tissue and
the elastic fibre of all muscular tissue. A lack of
elastic fibre in muscular tissue causes falling of the womb,
varicose veins and a general sagging-down feeling.
'
' Swell- '
'
ings of stony hardness are due to a lack of this salt the sub- —
stance that causes the hard accumulation being elastic fibre
or lime.
When a deficiency in this lime-salt, and consequently a
deficiency of elastic fibre, occurs in connective tissue between
the cerebrum and cerebellum, an abnormal process of thought
occurs, causing groundless fears of financial ruin.
But the student of Biochemistry will doubtless wish to
understand where elastic fibre, of which I speak, comes
from; as he will, of course, see that the fluoride of lime
molecules themselves are not elastic fibre. My opinion is
that the lime-salt in question unites with albumen and forms
i.e. creates, elastic fibre; of course, other organic substances
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