Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration

by Louis Dechmann

[D] This amount is given by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in an editorial devoted to the terrible plague on March 16th, 1919.

[E] The pamphlet, which also contains a chart of the Vagus in 2 colors, may be obtained either from the author or through any bookseller. The price is 50 cents.

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INDEX

Dedication, [5]
Foreword, [13]
Introduction, [15]
The Hygienic-Dietetic method of Healing, [19]
Physiologico-Chemical Research, [20]
The Natural Method of Healing, [20]
Prophylactic Therapy or Prevention of Disease, [21]
The New-School of Healing, [22]
"Regeneration" or "Dare to be Healthy", [24]
Distrust of the Medical Fraternity, [25]-[6]
Johannes Müller and his followers, [26]-[7]
The Medical Impasse, [28]-[9]
The Regeneration of the Race, [31]
Dysaemia—the cause of disease, [31]
The process of Natural Healing, [31]
The Human Body a Microcosm, [32]
The body an indivisible Unity, [33]
The Bacteria craze, [33]
Predisposition, [34]
The Allopathic failure, [35]-[36]
Choosing a Physician, [37]
Cell-food Therapy, [37]
Medical Literature, [38]
Chemical elements of the blood, [39]
Dech-Manna, or "Organic Nutritive salts or cell-food Therapy", [39]
"As a man eats, so is he", [46]
Humanity the product of the exhausted fields, [46]
The remedy, the question and the reply, [47]
No "business" in healthy blood, [47]
Truth versus Creeds and Capital, [49]
Health: Hymn of Health, [51]
The Health ideal by Nature set, [52]
Ignorance the basis of disease, [54]
A Means of Enlightenment, [55]
The Dare to be Healthy Club, [57]
The purpose of the Club, [58]
The Teachings of the Club, [58]
Two years' course in Biology, [58]
Physiology, Anatomy, Hygiene,
Physiological Chemistry, Pathology,
according to Biological facts, [58]
Therapy, in accordance with Biological and
Physical Laws and Precepts, [58]
Its comprehensive aim, [58]
The Course of Instruction, [58]
Its Precepts, [59]
Graduates as Teachers, [59]
The Method of Regeneration, [59]
Dr W.C. Rucker Assistant Surgeon Gen.
US Public Health Service on Physiological Chemistry, [60]
The Boerhaave Incident, [62]
The Secret of Disease and Health, [62]
The eternal Lesson Nature Teaches, [64]
Simplicity the Essence of the System, [64]
A Life's Legacy, [65]
The Physician, [66]
Fair Minded Physicians, [66]
Behind the Veil, [66]
Disease the Heritage of the Ages, [67]
The Moment of Release, [67]
Disease a Unit, [68]
The Part of the Physician, [69]
The Teachings of Great Masters, [69]
Hippocrates, [70]
Galen, [71]
Thomas Sydenham, [73]
Boerhaave, [74]
System of Regeneration, [77]
Man as a Unit, [77]
Perpetual Existence, [77]
Functions, [77]
Cell life, [78]
Specialists, [78]
Cause of Disease, [79]
Metabolism, [79]
Creative Matter, [79]
Functions of the Blood, [79]
Foreign Formations, [80]
Nature's Curative Powers, [80]
The Blood as Universal Medium, [80]
The Oneness of Disease, [80]
All Powers Dependent on Nutrition, [80]
Diversity of Construction, [81]
Adaptivity of Cells, [81]
Medical Misconception, [81]
Resultant Errors, [82]
Diagnosis, [82]
Chemical Analysis of Human Body, [82]
The Twelve Tissues, [82]
Secret of Healing, [82]
Tissues Depend Upon the Blood, [82]
The 16 Elements of the Blood, [83]
Dominant Features, [83]
Von Liebig's Law of the Mirimuin, [83]
The Law of Chemotaxis, [84]
Cell Attraction, [84]
Process of Healing, [84]
Constitutional Disease, [84]
New Cell food Treatment, [85]
Old System Superseded, [85]
Dysarmia, [85]
The Bacillus Fallacy, [85]
Predisposition, [86]
Hereditary Disease, [86]
Heredity Not Invincible, [87]
The Dechmann Law of the Cross transmission of Characteristics, [87]
The Theory of Pangenesis, [88]
The Dechmann Law of the Determination of Sex at Will, [89]
Latent Reserve Energy, [89]
Law of the Dominant, [90]
Heredity and Predisposition, [90]
Prevention of Disease, [91]
Terrible Responsibility, [91]
Alternative Betterment, [92]
The "Incurable," Curable, [92]
Chemical Elements Missing, [92]
Three Methods of Supply, [92]
Diet, [92]
Nutritive Preparations, [93]
Physical Treatment, [93]
Nature a Unit, [94]
Natural Elements, [94]
Importance of Minerals, [94]
Testimonials, [95]
Dech-Manna Nutritive Preparations, [97]
The Means of Health and Safety, [98]

The Dare to be Healthy Club, [99]
Business Proposition, [99]
Membership, [99]
Terms and Literature etc., [100]
"Within the Bud", [101]
Cell Foods Special Rates to Members, [102]
The Basis of Proceedings, [103]
Life, Health, Happiness, [104]
Man as a Unit, [105]
Metabolism, [106]
Variety of Organs, [109]
The Idea of Unity, [109]
The Constituent Elements, [111]
Dysaemia, the Cause of All Constitutional Diseases, [113]
Heredity, [116]
Healing, [117]
The Unity of Nature, [119]
The Chemical Process of Disease, [121]
The Twelve Tissues, [123]
1. The Plasmo Tissue (Blood Plasma), [124]
2. The Lymphoid Tissue, [125]
3. The Nerve Tissue, [125]
4. The Bone Tissue, [126]
5. The Muscular Tissue, [127]
6. The Mucous Membrane Tissue, [128]
7. The Tooth and Eye Tissue, [128]
8. The Hair Tissue, [128]
9. The Skin Tissue, [129]
10. The Gelatigenous Tissue, [130]
11. The Cartilage Tissue, [130]
12. The Body Tissue in General, [131]
Degeneration of Tissues, [132]
The Meaning of "Healing", [132]
Grouping of Constitutional Diseases, [133]
The A.B.C. of My System of Healing, [135]
A. Diet, [135]
B. Nutritive Compositions, [135]
C. Physical Treatment, [136]
Diet—Its Vital Importance, [136]
The Reason Why, [137]
The Laboratory of the Body and Functions of Its Branches, [137]
Creation of Life blood, [137]
Building the Framework, [138]
The Material, [138]
The Refuse, [138]
Diet Forms No. I to No. VI, [138]
Nutritive Compositions, [143]
Representations to Government, [143]
Functions of Minerals in Our Food, [148]
Minerals in the Human Economy, [148]
Chemical Elements Essential to Life, [149]
The Impulse of Growth, [150]
The Genesis of Polyps, Tumors and Cancers, [151]
Review of Mineral Elements, [152]
Iron in the Blood, [152]
Generation of Electricity, [152]
Faraday, on Magnetic Blood, [152]
The Motor of Nervous Function, [153]
Creation of Bodily Warmth, [153]
The Secret of Sleep, [153]
The Function of the Spleen, [154]
Rejuvenating Influence, [154]
The Malpighian Bodies, [154]
The Liver and the Bile, [155]
Lecithin or Nerve Fat, [155]
System of Cell Renewal, [156]
Nutrition-Soda and the Bile, [156]
Chemical Fixation, [156]
Sodium Sulphate Essential, [157]
Basis of Muscle Tissue, [157]
Basis of Bones and Teeth, [158]
Growth of the Hair, [158]
Medium of Chemical Combustion, [158]
Human Organism Cannot Assimilate Inorganic Matter, [159]
Necessity of Prepared Nutritive Salts, [159]
Incomplete Fertilization, [160]
Sickly (food) vegetation, [160]
Improper Fertilization Breeds Disease, [161]
The Rock and Its Lesson, [161]
Food Instinct, [161]
An Imperative Duty to Mankind, [162]
Result of Experiments (Poultry), [162]
Results of Experiments (small fruit), [163]
Haemoglobin Eggs for Weakened Constitutions, [164]
Lecithin for Neurasthenia, [164]
Physical Regeneration, [164]
Reserve Energy Essentials, [165]
Nutritive Compositions, [166]
16 Nutritive Cell-foods, [166]
12 "Dech-Manna" Compositions, [166]
Specialities, A. to J., [167]
Explanations, [168]
Schuessler's Absurdity, [170]
Dech-Manna Compositions—
No. 1. Plasmogen—(Plasma Producer), [172]
No. 2. Lymphogen—(Lymph-cell producer), [176]
No. 3. Neurogen—(Nerve-cell producer), [179]
The Ignorance of "Nerve Specialists", [180]
Consequent Increase of Insanity, [180]
A Complacent Public, [181]
Neurasthenia, [181]
No. 4. Osseogen—(Bone cell Producer), [182]
Deformity of Bone Structure, Curvature of the Spine, etc., [183]
The Lime-water Fallacy and Others, [183]
"Fire proof" Bone Structure, [183]
No. 5. Muscogen—(Muscle-cell Producer), [184]
Combination with Eubiogen (No XII), [185]
No. 6. Mucogen—(Mucous Membrane-cell producer), [186]
Pervading Importance of Membrane, [186]
Catarrhal Conditions of Tissues
No. 7. Dento & Ophthogen—(Tooth & Eye cell Producer), [187]
Connection Between Teeth and Eye, [189]
No. 8. Capillogen—(Hair-cell Producer), [189]
Causes of Falling Hair, [190]
Prevention of Baldness, [190]
Failure of "Hair Restorers", [190]
No. 9. Dermogen—(Skin-cell Producer), [191]
The Fallacy of Dermatology, [192]
No. 10. Gelatinogen—(Gelatigenous-tissue Producer), [193]
The Functions of Expansion and Contraction, [193]
No. 11. Cartilogen—(Cartilage Producer), [194]
Prevention of Friction, Bones and Joints, [194]
No. 12. Eubiogen—(Healthy Life Producer), [196]
Positive Composition, [196]
Eulogy of Eubiogen, [196]
Analysis of Eubiogen, [201]
3 Forms of Eubiogen, [204]
Special Composition B Alternative for Infants
and Feeble Invalids, [204]
Comparative Analysis Human Body and Eubiogen, [206]
Appendix I, [207]
Life Preservers and Elixirs, [207]
Special Dech-Manna Compositions, [207]
A. Oxygenator (Radium Tablets), [207]
Balneotherapy-directions, [208]
B. Eubiogen Liquid. For babies and feeble invalids, [209]
C. Tonogen—Tonic and Beverage, [210]
Universal Scope and Effectiveness, [211]
Combination with Plasmogen, [212]
Appendix II, [213]
Compositions for Specific Cases, [213]
D. Tea, Diabetic, [213]
E. Tea, Laxagen, [213]
F. Salve, Lenicet, [213]
G. Massage Emulsion, [213]
H. Propionic Acid, [213]
I. Oxygen Powder, [213]
J. Anti phosphate or Negative Compound, [213]
Price list Dech-Manna Compositions, [214]
Physical Treatment, [215]
Baths and Packs—Vinegar Water, [215]
Massage and Exercises, [216]
Importance of Ablutions, [216]
The Habit of Gargling, [220]
Vinegar Packs—Their Significance and Basis, [220]
Effect of the Packs, [226]
Temperature, [226]
Construction of Packs, [227]
Length of Application, [227]
Danger of Ice Applications, [228]
Excretion of Auto toxins, [230]
Dissolving, Diverting, Excreting, [230]
General Treatment of Body, [232]
The Key to Success, [232]
General Advice for Packs, [232]
Measurements for Material, [233]
Temperature of Packs, [234]
Duration of Packs, [235]
Changing the Packs, [236]
General Rules, [237]
"Diverting Packs" Important, [237]
The Main Rule, [238]
24. Abdominal Pack, [238]
Divided Packs, [241]
25. The Cross Pack, [242]
26. Leg Packs, [244]
Partial Packs, [245]
Foot and Wrist Packs, [246]
Neck Pack, [247]
Shoulder Pack, [248]
Scotch Pack, [249]
Divided Scotch Pack, [250]
Shawl Pack, [251]
27. Three quarter Packs, [252]
Half Pack, [255]
Whole Pack, [255]
Small Compresses, [257]
28. Gymnastics, [258]
29. Massage, [258]
30. Breathing, [258]
Electric Vibrators, [260]
31. Oxygenator, [261]
32. Radium and Salt Baths, [261]
Diseases, Treatment and Method, [262]
I. Degeneration of the Plasmo Tissue, [263]
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anaemia, [263]
A. Scrofulosis, [266]
B. Tuberculosis, [266]
C. Syphilis, [266]
D. Cancer, [267]
Therapy, [267]
Diet
I. For Anaemic Patients, [267]
I. & II. A. For Scrofulous Patients, [269]
I. & II. B. For Tuberculous Patients, [270]
I. & II. C. For Syphilitic Patients, [271]
I. & II. D. For Cancer Patients, [271]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [271]
Physical, [272]
II. Degeneration of Lymph Tissue,[272]
III. Degeneration of the Nerve Tissue, [273]
Neuralgia Neuritis, Neurasthenia, [274]
Asthma Epilepsy St Vitus's Dance, [274]
Therapy, [275]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [277]
Physical, [277]
IV. Degeneration of the Bone Tissue, [277]
Rickets Osteomalacia and Similar Diseases, [277]
Therapy, [278]
Diet, [278]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [279]
Physical, [279]
V. Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue, [280]
Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, [280]
Infantile Paralysis, Atrophy, [280]
Amyloid Organs, [280]
Therapy, [281]
Diet, [281]
Special Diet
For Disease of Heart and Inactive Kidneys, [282]
For Irritable Kidneys and Diseases of the Bladder, [285]
For Liver Disease, [286]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [287]
Physical, [287]
VI. Degeneration of the Mucous Membrane Tissue, [288]
Catarrh, Acute and Chronic, [288]
Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, [288]
Inflammation of Nose Throat, Bowels, Stomach and Bladder, [288]
Decomposition of Mucous Membrane, [288]
Hemorrhoids, Polyps Benign Tumors, [288]
Bright's Disease, Initial Stages, [288]
Therapy, [289]
Diet, [290]
For Throat and Larynx Disease, [290]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [290]
Physical, [290]
VII. Degeneration of Tooth and Eye Tissue, [291]
Therapy, [292]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [292]
Physical, [292]
VIII. Degeneration of the Hair Tissue, [292]
Therapy, [293]
Diet, [293]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [293]
Physical, [293]
IX. Degeneration of the Skin Tissue, [293]
Therapy, [295]
Diet, [295]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [295]
Physical, [295]
X. Degeneration of the Gelatigenous Tissue, Stomach &

Intestinal Disease, [295]
Therapy, [296]
Diet, [296]
Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases, [297]
General Hints for Nourishing Treatment, [298]
Treatment, [298]
In case of Constipation, [299]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [299]
Physical, [299]
XI. Degeneration of the Cartilagenous Tissue, [300]
Ankylosis. Gout. Arthritis, [300]
Therapy, [300]
Diet, [300]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [300]
Physical, [300]
XII. Degeneration of the Body Tissue in General, [301]
Infantile Paralysis, [303]
Facial Diagnosis and "The Clinical Eye", [306]
Diagnosis, Physiognomy and Psychology, [308]
The Biological Healing System, [308]
The Psychological Side, [308]
Regeneration and Retrogression, [309]
The True Physician's Principle, [309]
External Symptoms, [310]
Perspiring Hands and Feet, [310]
Quality of the Nails, [311]
Baldness, Gray and Dishevelled Hair, [311]
The Evidence of the Eyes, [312]
Prof Liljequist on the Colour of the Eyes, [312]
The Shades of Death, [313]
Testimony of the Mouth and Tongue, [313]
Indications of the Nose, [314]
Diagnosis by Odour, [315]
Story of the Teeth and Gums, [316]
Demonstrations of the Neck, [317]
Significance of Chest Formation, [317]
Signs of the Abdomen, [317]
Indications of the Legs, [317]
Indications of the Skin, [318]
Freckles, [318]
Chemical Construction, [318]
Prevention and Cure, [319]
Simple Precautions, [319]
Children's Disease. Introduction, [319]
The Cause of "the Poor", [319]
The Child of Mortality, [319]
Parental Egotism and Pedagogy, [323]
Maternal Solicitude—and Ignorance, [320]
Vital Statistics, [324]
O Tempora! O Mores!, [325]
The World's Indifference to Truth, [326]
For the Understanding of Disease—the sine qua non, [326]
Back to Nature, [326]
"The Age of Nerves", [327]
Medical Polemics, [327]
"Existence is Movement"—Progress, [328]
Man, the Sceptic, [328]
The X-Rays and the Sequel, [329]
The Atom and the Electron, [330]
"Man's Passing Strange, Complex Mortality", [332]
The Vibrations of Electrons, [332]
Electro-Magnetic Control, Mundane and Solar Forces, [333]
The Ocean a Storage Battery, [333]
The Action of Acids and Alkalies, [334]
Electro-Magnetic Processes and Metabolism, [335]
Weather and Local Influences, [336]
Negative and Positive Vibrations, [337]
Healthy Blood Formation, [338]
Dech-Manna Diet, [338]
Electrons and the Effect of Injury, [339]
Bacteria, [340]
Febrile, or Positive Diseases, [340]
Curative Process, [341]
The Law of Opposites, [341]
Action of Water, [341]
Action of Earth on Mud, [341]
Vinegar Packs, [342]
Cooling Drinks, [342]
Temperature Reduction, [343]
Negative Diseases, [344]
Curative Process, [344]
Sun Baths, Light Baths, [344]
Exercise, [345]
Massage, [345]
Coloured Light Treatment, [346]
Internal Treatment, [346]
The Salts of the Body, [346]
Nourishment, [347]
The Science of Food, [347]
Diet, [348]
Food Standard, [348]
Heat Production, [348]
Discretion in Diet, [348]
Diet of Children in General, [349]
Diet for School Children, [351]
Fever and its Treatment Based on Biology, [354]
A. General Description, [354]
B. Treatment, [357]
C. Diet in Cases of Fever, [362]
Scarlet Fever, [367]
Measles, [371]
German Measles, [372]
Chicken-pox, [373]
Small-pox, [374]
Typhoid fever or typhus abdominalis, [375]
A. General Description, [375]
B. Essentials, [376]
C. Symptoms and Course, [377]
Stage of Development, [378]
The Climax, [378]
Stage of Healing, [378]
Respiratory Organs, [381]
Organs of Circulation, [381]
Nervous System, [381]
Bones and Joints, [382]
Urinary and Sexual Organs, [382]
Skin, [382]
Recurrence, [383]
D. Treatment, [384]
Mental condition, [385]
E. Relapsing fever (Typhus Recurrens), [386]
F. Diet in Cases of Typhus, [387]
Dech-Manna compositions, [392]
Physical Treatment, [392]
Negative Children's Disease (so called), [393]
Catarrh, [393]
Bronchitis, [393]
Grippe, [393]
Influenza, [393]
Catarrhal Inflammations, [393]
Cholera Infantum or Summer Complaint, [393]
Therapy, [393]
Physical Treatment, [394]
The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases, [394]
The Golden Rule, [395]
Diet, [395]
Dech-Manna Compositions, [395]
Physical Treatment, [396]
The Tonsure of the Tonsils, [396]
A Strong Indictment, [396]
American and English Corroboration, [397]
Arguments Against Tonsillotomy, [397]
A Medico-cum parental craze, [398]
Prof Mackenzie's Denunciation, [398]
Maternal Ineptitude, [399]
Wild and Incontinent Superstitions, [400]
Operators and Their Teachers, [400]
Facts and Fables, [401]
A "Lazy and Stupifying Delusion", [402]
The "Roll of Unrecorded Death", [402]
A trenchant and Tragic Article, [404]
The True Mission of Tonsils, [405]
Pre-natal Care, [405]
Pre-natal Clinics, [405]
Human Magnetism, [405]
Hygienic Birth, [406]

Endemic and Epidemic Disease, [406]
Climatic, or Yellow Fever, [407]
Pellagra, or Hook worm, [407]
Cholera and Plague, [408]
The Spanish Influenza, [409]
The World's Great Pandemics, [410]
Terminological Notes, [410]
Fundamental Causes, [410]
Sero Therapy, or the Illusive Germ Theory, [412]
The Alternative Origin, [412]
The Attitude of the Public, [413]
The History of the Influenza Germ, [413]
Culture and the Manufacturing Chemist, [413]
The Great Experiment, [413]
The Dictum of Surgeon Genl. Blue, [414]
Serums and Specifics, Hospitals and Undertakers, [415]
Opinions of the Press, [416]
The Parting of the Ways, [417]
George Bernard Shaw's Views, [418]
Public Health Reports, [419]
Raising the Resistance of the Body, [419]
The Vis Medicatrix Naturae, [421]
St Paul, on the Unity of the Body, [421]
The Cause of Medical Failure, [421]
The Law of the Minimum, [423]
The Sixteen Essentials, [423]
Prof Kuhnemann, on the Influenza, [424]
The Interpretation, [427]
The Professor and the Shy Bacillus, [428]
The Vision of the Vagus Nerve, [429]
Its Vast Responsibility, [431]
Three Nutritive Possibilities, [432]
The Emotions as Factors of Disease, [432]
"Panasthema," the General Loss of Vitality, [434]
The Seat of Affection in the Vagus, [435]
"The Writing on the Wall", [437]
Demos Dies by Violence, [438]
Nature's Trust Betrayed, [438]
The Law of Compensation, [438]
A Great Scientific Discovery, [440]
Finis [440]

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ERRATA IN VALERE AUDE

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6, line 28 from top read, Sinai's
19, line 5 from top read, continents
134, line 10 from top read, adenoids
149, line 9 from top read, haemoglobin
149, line 27 from top read, fluorine
150, line 6 from top read, a comma after 'itself'
152, line 5 from top read, tumors
152, line 20 from top read, grams
156, line 34 from top read, two of ammonium
156, line 45 from top read, ammoniacal
157, line 44 from top read, phosphate of ammonium
161, line 44 from top read, avidity
166, line 7 from top read, fluorine
182, line 9 from top read, organic lime
186, line 14 from top read, indispensible
187, line 1 from top read, dimensions
192, line 17 from top read, the patient
200, line 22 from top read, vain
201, line 16 from top read, sinews
223, line 1 from top read, oxygenous blood
244, line 22 from top read, leg
261, line 6 from top read, allow him to extend the area
276, line 27 from top read, Alcohol and alkaline
279, line 11 from top read, legumes
281, line 3 from top read, Amyloid degeneration
301, line 31 from top read, space at my disposal
315, line 20 from top read, the hypochondriacal
365, line 16 from top read, Form III comprises
409, line 34 from top read, social cataclysm.
414, line 37 from top read, consensus.
423, line 36 from top read, chlorine.
427, line 21 from top read, to numbness in the nerve.
429, line 35 from top read, more unmistakably.
430, line 31 from top read, nerve substance lecithin.
438, line 16 from top read, hypnotized complacency.
440, line 12 from top read, Hygienic-Dietetic.

[Transcriber's Note: The items on the list of Errata have been corrected in the text and a Table of Contents was added.]