ORTHOPATHY

INTRODUCTION

"Orthopathy"  contains a comprehensive analysis of most known diseases, and a general classification and guide to their treatment, based upon a natural wholistic interpretation and approach.

represents one of the world's greatest authorities in "Natural Hygiene", a philosophy and method of living according to the laws of life and Nature's plan for men's highest health and happiness, compiled from 175 years of experience of some of the most brilliant medical doctors and teachers. He was also the foremost authority on the use of fasting in the treatment of diseases, in which he supervised approximately 50,000 cases.

This natural approach, interpretation and nutritional treatment of disease, is presented here on the internet, I believe, for the first time to the general public as well as professionals, for those who are interested in an alternative, drugless, self-help method of understanding and treatment of most of men's illnesses.
Chapter VII - Acute "Infections"

ANTHRAX
ACTINOMYCOSIS
BLACKWATER FEVER
CHICKEN-POX (Varicella)
CHOLERA
CORYZA
DENGUE
DIPHTHERIA
EPIDEMIC CATARRHAL GASTRODUODENITIS
EPIDEMIC JAUNDICE (Well's Disease)
EPIDEMIC POLIOMYELITIS
ERYSIPELAS
FEBRICULA
GLANDERS
GLANDULAR FEVER
GONORRHEA
INFLUENZA
KALA-AZAR
LEPROSY
MALARIA
MALTA FEVER
MEASLES
MENINGITIS, CEREBROSPINAL
MENINGITIS, SPINAL (Leptomeningitis)
MUMPS
PNEUMONIA
RABIES
RELAPSING FEVER
RHEUMATIC FEVER
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEVER (Tick Fever)
SCARLET FEVER (Scarlatina)
SLEEPING SICKNESS (Trypanosomiasis)
SMALLPOX (Variola)
SYPHILIS
TETANUS (Lockjaw)
TUBERCULOSIS (Consumption)
TULAREMIA
TYPHOID FEVER
TYPHUS FEVER
VACCINIA
VALLEY FEVER
VINCENT'S ANGINA
WHOOPING COUGH (Pertussis)
YAWS
YELLOW FEVER

Chapter VIII - Constitutional Affections

DIABETES INSIPIDUS
DIABETES MELLITUS
OBESITY
RHEUMATIC ARTHRITIS
ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS (Osteo-arthritis)
CHRONIC ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM
GOUT
AVITAMINOSES
BERIBERI (Kakke)
INFANTILE MARASMUS
MEHLNAHRSCHADEN (Meal-Diet-Hurt)
MILCHNAHRSCIIADEN (Milk-diet-Harm)
MALNUTRITIONAL OEDEMA
OSTEOMALACIA and OSTEOPOROSIS
PELLAGRA
RICKETS
SCURVY (Scorbutus)
SPRUE (Psilosis)
XEROPHTHALMIA (Keratomalacia)
FAMINE OPHTHALMIA


Chapter IX - Affections of the Digestive Organs

AFFECTIONS OF THE MOUTH
LUDWIG'S ANGINA (Angina Ludovici)
STOMATITIS
PYORRHEA ALVEOLARIS
RIGG'S DISEASE (Alveolodental Periostitis)
AFFECTIONS OF THE TONGUE
GLOSSITIS
LEUKOPLAKIA BUCCALIS
SYPHILIS OF THE TONGUE
ULCERATION OF THE TONGUE
AFFECTIONS OF THE SALIVARY GLANDS
AFFECTIONS OF THE PHARYNX AND TONSILS
ACUTE PHARYNGITIS
PHARYNGITIS — Chronic
RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS
TONSILLAR AFFECTIONS
ADENOIDS
TONSILITIS
QUINCY
ULCERATION OF THE PHARYNX
AFFECTIONS OF THE ESOPHAGUS
CANCER OF THE ESOPHAGUS
ESOPHAGITIS
STENOSIS OF THE ESOPHAGUS
AFFECTIONS OF THE STOMACH
ATONY OF THE STOMACH
DYSPEPSIA (Indigestion)
GASTRALGIA
GASTRECTASIS
GASTRIC CANCER
GASTRIC FEVER
GASTRIC ULCER
GASTRITIS
GASTRORRHAGIA
GASTROPTOSIS
INDIGESTION
AFFECTIONS OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS
AFFECTIONS OF THE INTESTINES
APPENDICITIS
COLITIS
CONSTIPATION
DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN
DUODENAL ULCER
DYSENTERY
ENTERITIS
FISTULA — Anal
FLATULENCE
INTESTINAL COLIC (Enteralgia)
INTESTINAL INDIGESTION
INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
POLYPS
PTOMAINE POISONING (Botulism)
VISCEROPTOSIS
AFFECTIONS OF THE LIVER
ABSCESS OF THE LIVER
ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY (Icterus Gravis)
AMYLOID LIVER (Waxy Liver)
CARCINOMA OF THE LIVER
CHOLEMIA
CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER
CONGESTION OF THE LIVER (Hyperemia)
FATTY LIVER
HYDATID CYST OF THE LIVER
MOVABLE LIVER
SYPHILIS OF THE LIVER
AFFECTIONS OF THE BILE PASSAGES AND GALL-DUCT
CHOLANGITIS
CHOLECYSTITIS
GALL STONES
JAUNDICE (Icterus)
AFFECTIONS OF THE PANCREAS
CANCER OF THE PANCREAS
CYSTS OF THE PANCREAS
PANCREATITIS
PANCREATIC CALCULI
AFFECTIONS OF THE PERITONEUM
ADHESIONS
ASCITES
HERNIA
PERITONITIS — Acute
PERITONITIS — Chronic


Chapter X - Affections of the Respiratory Organs

AFFECTIONS OF THE NASAL PASSAGES
EPISTAXIS
HAY FEVER
RHINITIS
SINUSITIS
AFFECTIONS OF THE LARYNX
CANCER OF THE LARYNX
ACUTE EDEMATOUS LARYNGITIS
CATARRHAL LARYNGITIS
LARYNGISMUS STIDULUS
SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS (Croup)
"SYPHILITIC" LARYNGITIS
TUBERCULAR LARYNGITIS
AFFECTIONS OF THE BRONCHIAL TUBES
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
BRONCHIECTASIS
BRONCHITIS
COUGHING
AFFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS
ABSCESS OF THE LUNGS
CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS
CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA
GANGRENE OF THE LUNG
HEMOPTYSIS
PULMONARY APOPLEXY
PULMONARY EDEMA
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA
AFFECTIONS OF THE PLEURA
EMPYEMIA (Purulent Pleurisy)
HEMOTHORAX
HYDROTHORAX
PLEURISY (Pleuritis)
AFFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
PNEUMOTHORAX


Chapter XI - Affections of the Heart and Circulatory System

AFFECTIONS OF THE HEART
ATHLETIC HEART
ACUTE MYOCARDITIS
ANEURISM OF THE HEART
ANGINA PECTORIS (Stenocardia)
BRADYCARDIA
CALCIFIED PERICARDIUM
CARDIAC HYPERTROPRY
CARDIAC SYPHILIS
CHRONIC VALVULAR AFFECTIONS
CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL MYOCARDITIS
DILATATION OF THE HEART
ENDOCARDITIS (Valvulitis)
FATTY HEART
HEMOPERICARDIUM
HYDROPERICARDIUM
PERICARDITIS
PNEUMOPERICARDIUM
RUPTURE OF THE HEART
FUNCTIONAL DEFECTS OF THE HEART
ARRHYTHMIA
HEART BLOCK
HEART PAINS
HEART STRAIN
PALPITATION OF THE HEART
WEAK HEART
AFFECTIONS OF THE ARTERIES
ANEURYSM
ANEURYSM OF THE AORTA
ANEURYSMS OF THE LIMBS
ARTEROVENOUS ANEURYSM
APOPLEXY
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
EMBOLISM
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
LOW BLOOD PRESSURE
THROMBOSIS
THROMBO-ANGIITIS OBLITERANS
AFFECTIONS OF THE VEINS
PHLEBITIS
VARICOSE VEINS
HEMORRHOIDS (Piles)
VARICOCELE
VARICOSE ULCER
AFFECTIONS OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
LYMPHADENITIS
LYMPHANGITIS
SCROFULA

Chapter XII - Affections of the Blood

ABNORMAL STATES OF THE BLOOD
ANEMIA
PRIMARY ANEMIAS
SECONDARY ANEMIA
SPLENIC ANEMIA (Banti's "disease")
ERYTHREMIA (Vaquez' "disease")
HEMOPHILIA ("Disease" of Kings)
HODGKIN'S "DISEASE" (Pseudoleukemia)
LEUKANEMIA
LEUKEMIA (Leukocythemia)
PURPURA

Chapter XIII - Affections of the Ductless Glands

AFFECTIONS OF THE ADRENALS
ADDISON'S "DISEASE"
AFFECTIONS OF THE PARATHYROIDS
TETANY
AFFECTIONS OF THE PITUITARY
ACROMEGALY
GIANTISM
HYPOPITUITARISM
AFFECTIONS OF THE SPLEEN
GAUCHER'S "DISEASE"
MOVABLE SPLEEN
PRIMITIVE SPLENOMEGALY WITH ANEMIA
RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN
AFFECTIONS OF THE THYMUS
STATUS LYMPHATICUS
AFFECTIONS OF THE THYROID
ACUTE THYROIDITIS
CRETINISM
GOITRE
HYPEREMIA OF THE THYROID
MYXEDEMA (Hypothyroidism)

Chapter XIV - Affections of the Urinary System

AFFECTIONS OF THE KIDNEYS
AMYLOID KIDNEY
HYDRONEPHROSIS
HYPEREMIA OF THE KIDNEYS
MALIGNANT TUMORS OF THE KIDNEYS
NEPHRITIS — Acute
NEPHRITIS — Chronic Interstitial
NEPHRITIS — Chronic Parenchymatous
NEPHROLITHIASIS
NEPHROPTOSIS
PERINEPHRITIC ABSCESS
POLYCYSTIC "DISEASE" OF THE KIDNEYS
PYELITIS AND PYELONEPHRITIS
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE KIDNEY
UREMIA
AFFECTIONS OF THE BLADDER
CYSTITIS — Acute
CYSTITIS — Chronic
CYSTIC CALCULI
PARALYSIS OF THE BLADDER
SPASM OF THE BLADDER
TUMORS OF THE BLADDER
AFFECTIONS OF THE URETHRA
URETHRITIS

Chapter XV - Affections of the Male Reproductorium

BALANITIS
BUBO
CHANCRE (Hard Chancre)
CHANCROID (Soft Chancre)
CHORDEE
COWPERITIS
EPIDIDYMITIS
GLEET
HEMATOCELE
HERPES OF THE GENITALS
HYDROCELE
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS
ORCHITIS
PARAPHIMOSIS
PHIMOSIS
PIMPLES ON THE GENITALS
PAPILLOMATA
POSTHITIS
PRIAPISM
PROSTATIC ENLARGEMENT
PROSTATITIS
SATYRIASIS
SPERMATORRHEA
STRICTURE

Chapter XVb - Affections of the Female Reproductorium

ABORTION (Miscarriage)
ATRESIA
CANCER OF THE UTERUS
HOODED CLITORIS
LEUCORRHEA (Whites)
MENOPAUSE (Climacteric)
METRITIS
METRORRHEA
NYMPHOMANIA
OVARITIS (Oophoritis)
PIN-MOUTH WOMB
PRURITIS
SALPINGITIS
UTERINE FIBROID
UTERINE POLYPI
VAGINITIS
VAGINISMUS
"DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION"
AMENORRHEA
DYSMENORRHEA
IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION
MENORRHAGIA
VICARIOUS MENSTRUATION
AFFECTIONS OF THE BREAST
ABSCESS OF THE BREAST
CANCER OF THE BREAST
DELAYED DEVELOPMENT OF THE BREASTS
LUMPS IN THE BREASTS
MASTITIS
PAGETS "DISEASE"
RETRACTED NIPPLES
AFFECTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD
DIFFICULT URINATION
ECLAMPSIA
HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM
INCONTINENCE OF URINE
MILK FEVER
PUERPERAL FEVER
SUBINVOLUTION
SWELLING OF THE FEET
VARICOSE VEINS

Chapter XVI - Affections of the Brain & Nervous System

AFFECTIONS OF THE CEREBRAL MEMBRANES
CHRONIC CEREBRAL LEPTOMENINGITIS
CHRONIC CEREBRAL PACHYMENINGITIS
HEMORRHAGIC PACHYMENINGITIS
TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS
AFFECTIONS OF THE CEREBRUM
APHASIA
ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS.
APOPLEXY - Cerebral
CEREBRAL ANEMIA
CEREBRAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS
CEREBRAL HYPEREMIA
CEREBRAL PARALYSIS IN CHILDREN
HYDROCEPHALUS
SUPPURATIVE ENCEPHALITIS
TUMORS OF THE BRAIN.
INSANITIES
DEMENTIA PRAECOX
MELANCHOLIA
PARETIC DEMENTIA
AFFECTIONS OF THE SPINAL CORD
BULBAR PARALYSIS
CHRONIC ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS
HEREDITARY ATAXIA
HYPERTROPHIC CERVICAL PACHYMENINGITIS
MYELITIS - Acute
PSEUDO-HYPERTROPHIC MUSCULAR ATROPHY
SPINAL HYPEREMIA
SPINAL PACHYMENINGITIS
SPINAL SCLEROSIS
SYRINGOMYELIA
SPINAL TUMORS
AFFECTIONS OF THE NERVES
DIVER'S PARALYSIS
EPILEPSY (Falling Sickness)
HERPES ZOSTER (Shingles)
FACIAL PARALYSIS
NEURALGIA
SIMPLE NEURITIS
NEUROMATA
PARALYSIS AGITANS
RAYNAUD'S "DISEASE"
TRAUMATIC NEUROSIS
FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS AFFECTIONS
CHOREA
HEADACHE
HYSTERIA (Hypochondriasis)
INSOMNIA
MIGRAINE
NEURASTHENIA (Nervous Prostration)
OCCUPATION NEUROSES
NERVOUS CHILDREN
BITING THE NAILS
ENURESIS NOCTURNA
GRINDING THE TEETH
INFANTILE ECLAMPSIA (Spasms)
PICKING AT THE NOSE

Chapter XVII- Affections of the Muscles

"CHARLEY HORSE"
CONGENITAL AMYOTONIA
CONGENITAL MYOTONIA
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
MYALGIA (Muscular Rheumatism)
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

Chapter XVIII- Affections of the Bones and Joints

AFFECTIONS OF THE BONES
ATROPHY OF THE BONE
BREAKS AND FRACTURES OF BONES
CARIES OF THE BONE
EXOSTOSIS
INFLAMMATION OF BONE
OSTEOMYELITIS
POTT'S "DISEASE"
AFFECTIONS OF THE JOINTS
ANKYLOSIS
BURSITIS
CRACKING OF THE JOINTS
SYNOVITIS

Chapter XIX- Affections of the Eyes

BLINDNESS
CATARACT
CONGESTION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA
CONJUNCTIVITIS — Catarrhal
CONJUNCTIVITIS — Granular
CONJUNCTIVITIS — Purulent
DETACHMENT OF THE RETINA
EYE HEADACHES
GLAUCOMA
IRITIS
KERATITIS
OPTIC ATROPHY
OPTIC NEURITIS (Papillitis)
RETINITIS
RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA
STYE
TREMBLING OF THE EYELIDS
ULCERS OF THE CORNE

Chapter XX - Affections of the Ears

AUDITORY POLYPI
DEAFNESS
OTITIS EXTERNA
OTITIS INTERNA
OTITIS MEDIA
MASTOIDITIS
MENIERE'S "DISEASE"
STRICTURE OF THE EUSTACHIAN TUBE
ANEMIA OF THE LABYRINTH
HEMORRHAGE INTO THE LABYRINTH
HYPEREMIA OF THE LABYRINTH

Chapter XXI - Affections of the Skin

SKIN INFLAMMATIONS
ACNE
ACRODYNIA
ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA
CARBUNCLE
DERMATITIS (Cutitis)
ECTHYMA
ECZEMA
ERYSIPELOID
ERYTHEMA
FURUNCLE (Boil)
FURUNCULUS ORIENTALIS (Oriental sore)
GANGRENOUS ECTHYMA
HERPES SIMPLEX
IMPETIGO (Scrum pox)
LICHEN
LUPUS
PEMPHIGUS
POMPHOLYX (Dysidrosis)
PRURIGO
PRURITIS (Itch)
PSORIASIS (Lepra)
ROSEOLA
SYCOSIS VULGARIS (Barber's Itch)
URTICARIA (Nettle Rash, Hives)
URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA
ATROPHIES OF THE SKIN
ALBINISM
ATROPHODERMA NURITICUM (Glossy Skin)
LEUKODERMA (Vitiligo)
SCLERODERMA (Hard Skin)
XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM
ATROPHIC DERMATITIS
HYPERTROPHIES OF THE SKIN
CALLOSITY (Callous)
CLAVUS (Corn)
CORNU CUTANEUM (Horny skin)
KERATOSIS
NEVUS PIGMENTOSA (Mole)
KELOID (Kelis)
ICHTHYOSIS (Xeroderma)
VERRUCA (Warts)
NEUROSES OF THE SKIN
HYSTERICAL DERMATOSES
NERVOUS ITCH

Chapter XXI continued - Affections of the Skin, Nails, Hair

AFFECTIONS OF THE OIL DUCTS
ASTEATITIS
COMEDONES (Blackheads)
CRUSTA LACTEA (Milk crust)
MILIUM (Grutum)
SEBORRHEA
SEBORRHEA SICCA (Dandruff)
AFFECTIONS OF THE SWEAT GLANDS
ANIDROSIS
BROMIDROSIS (Osmidrosis)
CHROMIDROSIS
HEMATIDROSIS
HYDROCYSTOMA
HYPERIDROSIS
SUDAMEN
URIDROSIS
AFFECTIONS OF THE HAIR
ALOPECIA (Baldness)
ALOPECIA AREATA
CANITIES (Gray hair)
AFFECTIONS OF THE NAILS
ATROPHY OF THE NAILS
LEUCONYCHIA
ONYCHIA
ONYCHORRHEXIS
ONYCHAUXIS
PANARIS
SKIN AFFECTIONS CAUSED BY OUTSIDE AGENTS
ARGYRIA
CHAPPED SKIN
ECCYMOSIS (Black-eye)
FROSTBITE
INTERTRIGO (chafing)
MILIARIA (Prickly heat)
PERNIO (Chilblain)
SUNBURN
NEOPLASMS OF THE SKIN
EPITHELIOMA
CYSTS
FATTY TUMOR (lipoma)
FIBROMA
STEATOMA (Wen)
PARASITIC SKIN AFFECTIONS
BOTFLY
ERYTHRASMA
GROUND ITCH
HARVEST MITE
PEDICULOSIS (Lousiness)
PORK MEASLES
RINGWORM
SCABIES (Itch)
STRAW ITCH
TINEA FAVOSA (Favus)
TINEA VERSICOLOR (Chromophytosis)

Chapter XXII - Tumors

Myoma
Endothelioma
Osteoma
Lipoma
Adenoma
Fibroma
Fibro-adenoma
Sarcoma
Neuroma

Chapter XXIII - Cancers

CARCINOMA (epithelioma, or cancer of the epithelial tissues)
SARCOMA (cancer of the connective tissue)

Chapter XXIV - Affections due to Parasites

ROUND WORMS (Nematode infection)
PIN-WORM (Seat-worm)
HOOK-WORMS (Ankylostomum Duodenale)
TRICHINOSIS
FILARIASIS (Dracontiasis)
FILARIA BANCROFTI
FILARIA LOA (Filaria Diurna)
TAPE WORM (Cestode infection)

Chapter XXV - "Diseases" due to Physical Agents and Intoxications

POISONS & TOXINS
ANAPHYLAXIS (vaccine & serum poisoning)
ARSENICAL POISONING
IVY POISONING
LEAD POISONING
DRUG ADDICTIONS
ALCOHOLISM (Inebriety)
CHRONIC OPIUM POISONING (Morphinomania)
CHLORALISM
COCAINISM
NICOTINISM
HEAT STROKE