The great mistake

“NONE BUT THAT WHICH IS PURE AND SOFT SHOULD BE TAKEN.”

—WATER-CURE FOR LADIES, 1844.

The following is numerically out of order, but is pertinent to show this is most definitely a Distilled Waters book.

From CHAPTER VIII.
Water—Drinking—Proper Quality of Water.

Page 111…

“The quality of water to be used is easy to be understood. NONE BUT THAT WHICH IS PURE AND SOFT SHOULD BE TAKEN. To obtain this many will be obliged to depend upon the cistern and filer. These can be constructed at a small expense.”

Preface, page i…

Preface, iv…

From the preface, page viii…

From page 23…

From page 29…


Page 47…


Continuing on, Shew writes…

“The facts in regard to the dietetic use of salt, according to Dr. S. Graham, are these:

1. Salt is wholly innutritious ;—it affords no nourishment to any structure or substance of the human body.

2. It is utterly indigestible ;—it enters the body as a mineral substance,—it is absorbed unchanged, as a mineral substance,—it goes the rounds of the general circulation as an unassimilated, mineral substance, and is finally eliminated from the body, through the kidneys, lungs, skin, &c., as an unassimilated, mineral substance.

3. Its acrid quality is offensive to the vital sensibilities of the organs, —always causing vital reaction or resistance ; and this vital reaction constitutes the only stimulation ever provided by salt; and is, therefore, always attended with a commensurate degree of irritation and vital expenditure, and followed by a correspondent degree of indirect debility and atony ; and consequently it always and inevitably tends to produce chronic debility, preternatural irritability and disease;—the stomach, intestines, absorbents, veins, heart, arteries, and all the other organs of the system, are always irritated, exhausted and debilitated, by its presence.

4. It never, in any measure, promotes digestion nor any of the assimilating functions of the system ; on the contrary, it always retards those functions, and is unfavorable to all the vital changes.”

Page 96…

— Marie Louise Shew, from, Water-Cure for Ladies, Revised by Joel Shew, M.D., First Published in New York, 1844.

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2 Comments

  1. excelente!! pense gracias a eso como muchos seres directamente mueren con la sal, sapos, caracoles, y nosotros le ponemos a todo???? pasta. salsa carne, etc hasta en el chocolate QUE LOCURA!!!

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