Naturopathy

“they were effect rather than cause, agents that established themselves in the body only after it had already begun to deteriorate ‘because of our unnatural mode of living.’ . . . Whenever anything (clogging of tissue spaces, impermeable clothing) interfered with nature’s processes of elimination of waste through kidneys, bowels, lungs, and skin, sickness was sure to result. Then, and only then, did germs appear, drawn to the feast of putrid fluids pooling in unpurified tissue. In short, naturopathic etiology was hygeiotherapy’s physical Puritanism reborn in the age of bacteriology” (Whorton, 205-207).