The renewal of life : arguments for subcutaneous injections of oil in the cure and prevention of senility and disease; for the making of the acme of abundant health, stamina, vigor, vitality and constitution; for the cure of consumption and other diseases, particularly those of a chronic nature / by Thos. Bassett Keyes.

  • Keyes, Thomas Bassett.
Date:
1909-10
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Credit: The renewal of life : arguments for subcutaneous injections of oil in the cure and prevention of senility and disease; for the making of the acme of abundant health, stamina, vigor, vitality and constitution; for the cure of consumption and other diseases, particularly those of a chronic nature / by Thos. Bassett Keyes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Immunity From Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a disease of mal-nutrition. This mal-nutrition comes from not eating fats and oils, or if they are eaten they are only partially assimilated. People who eat and assimilate fats and oils in abund- ance do not have tuberculosis. To possess stamina, vigor and vitality in its great- est abundance we must possess a body which is capable of producing or generating large quantities of'' steam heat. Wlien an animal dies of starvation it dies from lack of heat, the fuel of the body having been used up, the body is no longer capable of maintaining its proper temperature, to say nothing of that which is used up in energy and movement. Animals that are cold and dying from starvation are revived more from the ap- plication of heat than from the administration of food. It is found that when an animal is deprived of food there is always that ultimate loss of heat, and when the body has lost about two-fifths of its weight the loss of heat is very rapid and death ensues. People who suffer from thinness, mal-nutrition, who are lacking in stamina, vigor and vitality, suffer from loss of heat production, in a way similar to ani- mals which have been experimented upon and the effects of starvation watched. Thus in starving ani- mals, physiologists tell us that at the beginning the variations in the daily temperature become more marked, the daily fluctuations amounting to 5° or 6° F., instead of 1° or 2° F. as in health. It is this variation in temperature which is so characteristic of these indi- viduals who do not assimilate fats and as a conse- quence are weakened in vitality and subject to colds, who do not ever enjoy vigorous health, are delicate,