Children: Their Health And Happiness | by J. H. Tilden

Foreword

The laws of nature--or God, if you please--have been broken before disease manifests. Disease is a crisis, which means an effort on the part of the body to eliminate pent-up toxins. It is a ...

Toxemia is the Basic Cause of All Diseases

Toxemia is the basic cause of all diseases. To prevent Toxemia, avoid enervation in children. Of all the nerve-destroying influences to which children are subjected, the most pernicious ...

Preventing Toxemia

Exercise All through pregnancy the tensing exercises, as given in my book, ...

Eating Habits

The mother should not change her habits of eating during this period, except to see that she does not overeat. The breakfast should be light--merely a little fruit, such as apples, pears, oranges, ...

Morning Sickness

Morning sickness is nature's punishment for past sins committed. Prospective mothers who have morning sickness have abused their privilege in all lines. They have sought pleasure to excess, have ...

Care of the Breasts After Childbirth

Breast-pumps are builders of abscesses, if they are not used properly. When mothers are forced to their use, they should have them manipulated by someone who is well skilled in their use. I never ...

Miscarriage and Abortion

The word abortion means throwing-off of the foetus before the third month. It may be criminal abortion or brought on accidentally. After the third month it is called miscarriage. ...

After Labor: Tired Mother, Tired Baby

If the labor has been hard--if the mother has been in labor from six to twenty-four hours, and is quite worn out the baby should be anointed with some bland oil, like olive or cottonseed oil, ...

Bathing

The baby should be given a daily bath from birth, but not a daily soaking. Many children suffer from depletion of their vital energy by being overbathed---soaked--in water. The daily bath should ...

Air-baths and Sun-Baths

As soon as it is possible, put the child on its face--I mean allow it to lie on its stomach. When the weather is warm and the room comfortable, and the sun shines through the window, very young ...

Clothing

Children should sleep in nightgowns, which should be changed as often as twice a week. During the hot weather, when the days and nights are warm, as they are in many of the southern and ...

Child Weight

The weight of the child, even at birth, depends much on the build of the parents. One should not expect to find a so-called fat baby where the mother and father are of the long, lean type. This is ...

Teething, Talking and Walking.

There is no hard and fast rule which can be laid down regarding the proper age for walking, talking, and teething in babies. As to walking, parents who eat beyond their needs, making ...

Care of the Eyes and Mouth in Children

Sprue is a whitish, stringy-like substance that collects in the mouth, under the tongue and around the gums--in fact, all over the inside of the mouth when the condition is bad. It is caused by ...

Daily Habits at School Age

Children just beginning school should retire at eight o'clock at night in winter. Those who have been in school several years may remain up until nine o'clock. In the summer time, when school is ...

How Often Should a Child Be Fed?

This is a question that will continue to be asked as long as children are born, and the answer will vary according to the prejudices, superstitions, and customs of the locality in which they are ...

Feeding Babies

Modified Milk The milk of cows, goats, and mares, modified, is the best substitute for mother's milk. Reduction by adding water is about all the modification that is ...

Baby Diet: No Salt or Sugar Has Been Recommended

I have not prescribed salt or sugar. Why add these condiments, when all children would thrive much better without them? If a salt-and-sugar habit is not developed in childhood, fiends for these ...

Regular Meals for Children

Breakfast Some form of starch such as toasted whole-wheat bread or Shredded Wheat, followed with fresh or sweet dried fruits. The bread should be well dried out and then toasted. Eat the ...

Eating Habits for Children

Children should be taught correct eating habits. Those who eat with the usual limited express speed will never know how much more bread they consume than they need. Such children ...

Feeding Children

There are very few subjects talked more about, and about which there is less known, than feeding of children--malnourishment, loss of appetite, underweight, etc., etc. Medical science ...

Inheriting Diseases

I am frequently asked concerning inheriting disease. There is no such thing as inheriting disease. Nature has safeguards in every way possible through gestation and birth. Mothers may be abusing ...

Causes of Disease

What causes it? Enervation. This is brought on from excessive play, excitement, overindulgence, overeating, eating between meals, excessive starch-eating, becoming too tired from outings, neglect ...

Constipation in Children

Doctor, will a treatment based on the Toxin Philosophy cure constipation? My baby is very constipated. The Toxin Philosophy which is nature's system, understood and applied ...

Irritation of the Stomach and Bowels in Children

Grinding teeth in children always means irritation of the stomach and bowels. Children are fed irregularly and allowed too much of improper food mixtures. Such children should be fed according to ...

Gastritis or Catarrh of the Stomach in Children

What is in a name? Gastritis is inflammation or catarrh of the stomach. When the inflammation is of the small bowels, it is called enteritis, and when the inflammation is of the large bowels, it ...

Cholera Infantum

Cholera infantum is indigenous to the Mississippi Valley and other parts of the country where the climate is hot and moist. It is a disease seldom met with in high and dry altitudes. ...

Rickets in Children

It is difficult to write on the subject of rickets without including all deficiency diseases. And are there any so-called diseases that are not deficient in some way? My philosophy makes a ...

Cold in Babies

Cold in a baby is not different from a cold in grown people. All colds rest upon a basis of Toxemia plus indigestion. The child becomes enervated in various ways. It is not necessary for me to ...

Sore Throat is Quite Common in Children

Sore throat is quite common in children. When the tonsils are involved, it is called tonsilitis; when the larynx is involved, the child's cough will be croupy--this is named catarrhal croup; and ...

Ear Ache in Kids

Earache may be due to a reflex irritation from teething, or to catarrh of the stomach extending to the throat, nose, and ears. Most earaches in children are brought on from catarrh. Many children ...

Catarrhal Croup

Catarrhal Croup is very simple, but very formidable at times, when septic. The simple is quite enough to scare the family and friends, and give the appearance that the child will surely ...

Septic or Diphtheritic Croup

Septic or Diphtheritic Croup is a disease of a very different nature. It means catarrhal croup intensified by a putrescent state of the intestinal canal. It is the so-called contagious ...

Eruptive Diseases

What I have to say concerning eruptive diseases will be more heretical, if possible, than my teachings concerning other so-called diseases. Physicians, and most lay people, will not agree with me ...

How to Assist Nature in Throwing Off Disease.

Disease is a crisis of Toxemia; it is an effort to eliminate retained toxin that has failed to pass out because the body has been enervated from various influences. When a crisis is on--when a so-...

Unity of Disease

All so-called diseases are one. You think infectious diseases must be treated differently from common fevers? This belief in the individuality of disease has been a stumbling-block to medical ...

Infantile Paralysis. Acute Infectious Poliomyelitis

Infantile paralysis is technically called Acute Infectious Poliomyelitis, from polio (gray matter) and myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord). Children subject to this disease ...

Neurosis in Children

Neurosis, the foundation of neurotic diseases--convulsions, paralysis, incorrigibility, delinquencies, and the petty nervous diseases that will be referred to--is an inborn potential requiring ...

A Nervous Twitching of the Muscles

A nervous twitching of the muscles of the arms, sometimes of the legs and sometimes of both, including a jerking of the head. Before the disease has developed into its severe form there is a ...

Prickly Heat or Miliaria

Prickly heat, or miliaria, is an inflammatory skin derangement affecting the sweat-glands. Symptoms Prickling, stinging, and itching of the skin. Hot weather has but little to do ...

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

Cerebro-spinal meningitis is not a very common disease. In years gone by (fifty or sixty), when man's eating was far more irrational and environments more crude than they are today, we had ...

Petit Mal

Petit Mal is a slight epilepsy, characterized by momentary loss of consciousness. Sometimes the child will be standing on its feet, and drop heavily to the floor as if sitting down. The ...

A Brownish-gray Scale on the Heads of Babies

A brownish-gray scale that develops on the heads of babies whose mothers are afraid they will hurt them by a too vigorous use of the washcloth. The disease is due to lack of cleanliness. If baby's ...

Eczema

Eczema comes under the head of neurosis. It is a neurotic so-called disease. In other words, children develop this peculiar form of skin derangement when they are enervated, toxemic, and ...

Hives

Hives is caused by irritation of the stomach brought on from eating too frequently and eating an excess of starch in connection with milk. Only those with catarrh of the stomach are troubled with ...

Hernia in Children

Hernia in children is not difficult of management. If a well-fiitting truss is adjusted and looked after carefully to keep it in place, the tendency in all cases is to recover. Where the hernia ...

Circumcision

Circumcision is an operation that is seldom, if ever, necessary in very young children. Sometimes a tight prepuce has been neglected for five to ten years, and, as cleanliness is impossible, ...

Vulvitis

Vulvitis is inflammation of the external organs of generation in girls. Symptoms Itching and rubbing of the genitals attract the mother's attention, if she has not noticed ...

Vaginitis

This is inflammation of the vagina in infants and children. It may be an extension of the vulvitis, especially in children large enough to injure themselves with rubbing and scratching. It ...

A Stand Against Vaccination And Serumization

It is now the endeavor of scientific medicine to educate people into believing that, if they are inoculated with all kinds of prevention, and often enough, disease will be made impossible for them....

Spasms or Convulsions in Children

There are many causes for spasms or convulsions, but the common cause is gastro-intestinal indigestion. The indigestion may have a physical or mental base. Almost invariably a child has been ...

Kiss of Death

The age of medical filth, dirt, and germ insanity is passing. Occasionally a medical neophyte evolves in his experience to the kissing-bug stage. He attracts the attention of a few who have not ...

Concerning Children Crying

This is a question asked by many mothers. Crying is not nearly so injurious as its causes. And what are the causes? Too much attention, too much coddling; educating the child into believing that ...