Dr. J. H. Tilden said the below in his book, "Constipation"
At the birth of each new cell the life of the old is given up, and at its death the cell
disintegrates into ashes, and toxin is formed. The old life builds the new, and the toxin
stimulates the new cell, giving it vigor to meet its requirements.
The toxin formed by the disintegration of the cell is the ashes of love, out of which life,
phoenix-like, rises. Every life is the child of death. The acorn gives its life, its body, to
fertilize the infant oak. In death, decomposition, toxin and life are evolved and nurtured.
Toxin is an element of the blood, its property is that of stimulation, and, like all stimulants,
when used in excess it depresses and enervates. Toxin becomes disease-producing only
when the quantity contained in the blood becomes excessive from lack of proper
elimination.
If too much fertilizer is furnished plant life, there will be overgrowth, with arrested
germination--sterilization. In animal life an oversupply of nourishment produces plethory
and sterility. The enervation brought on from overwork renders the body a prey to germs and
parasites. Those who eat beyond digestive power weaken the digestive secretions to such an
extent that germs and the germinal seeds of parasites, which enter the stomach and bowels
with the food, instead of being digested as they are in a normal state, find a kindly host who
allows them to germinate and develop. This is why some people are infested with parasites
and why others are not. When the body's enzymic protection is below par from general
enervation, then the ubiquitous bacillus mixes up in all the affairs of life and gives
plausibility to the idea that germs cause disease.
Toxin is as necessary to the blood as other elements when restricted to the proper amount;
it is stimulating and health-imparting; but when the organism is enervated from any cause,
toxin elimination is impeded, favoring the accumulation of a disease-producing amount. An
overaccumulation of any stimulant produces drunkenness, and the consequent enervation.
The excessive accumulation of toxin is what I am pleased to call Toxemia, which I have
found to be the first cause--the efficient cause--the cause extraordinary--of all diseases.
After reading the above carefully, then read the following, which is an extract from an
article entitled "On the Urgency of Research on the Great Portal to Disease in the Body," by
Prof. A. B. Macallum, McGill University, in the February 16, 1923, number
of Science, official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
It should be observed that the discoverer of the Toxemic Hypothesis, tiring of the failures
of research and re-research work by medical science, began an original search and succeeded in finding that "The Portal to Disease in the Body" is broken down from the
inside--that the enemy to man's health is autogenerated--and the portals are thrown open
from within; after which external enemies to man's health gain entrance and join with the
rebels of the blood.
It is quite interesting how a deep study of RBTI says essentially the same thing. The brilliance of Reams is that he discovered how to chemically measure & evaluate what Tilden only summarized.
disintegrates into ashes, and toxin is formed. The old life builds the new, and the toxin
stimulates the new cell, giving it vigor to meet its requirements.
The toxin formed by the disintegration of the cell is the ashes of love, out of which life,
phoenix-like, rises. Every life is the child of death. The acorn gives its life, its body, to
fertilize the infant oak. In death, decomposition, toxin and life are evolved and nurtured.
Toxin is an element of the blood, its property is that of stimulation, and, like all stimulants,
when used in excess it depresses and enervates. Toxin becomes disease-producing only
when the quantity contained in the blood becomes excessive from lack of proper
elimination.
If too much fertilizer is furnished plant life, there will be overgrowth, with arrested
germination--sterilization. In animal life an oversupply of nourishment produces plethory
and sterility. The enervation brought on from overwork renders the body a prey to germs and
parasites. Those who eat beyond digestive power weaken the digestive secretions to such an
extent that germs and the germinal seeds of parasites, which enter the stomach and bowels
with the food, instead of being digested as they are in a normal state, find a kindly host who
allows them to germinate and develop. This is why some people are infested with parasites
and why others are not. When the body's enzymic protection is below par from general
enervation, then the ubiquitous bacillus mixes up in all the affairs of life and gives
plausibility to the idea that germs cause disease.
Toxin is as necessary to the blood as other elements when restricted to the proper amount;
it is stimulating and health-imparting; but when the organism is enervated from any cause,
toxin elimination is impeded, favoring the accumulation of a disease-producing amount. An
overaccumulation of any stimulant produces drunkenness, and the consequent enervation.
The excessive accumulation of toxin is what I am pleased to call Toxemia, which I have
found to be the first cause--the efficient cause--the cause extraordinary--of all diseases.
After reading the above carefully, then read the following, which is an extract from an
article entitled "On the Urgency of Research on the Great Portal to Disease in the Body," by
Prof. A. B. Macallum, McGill University, in the February 16, 1923, number
of Science, official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
It should be observed that the discoverer of the Toxemic Hypothesis, tiring of the failures
of research and re-research work by medical science, began an original search and succeeded in finding that "The Portal to Disease in the Body" is broken down from the
inside--that the enemy to man's health is autogenerated--and the portals are thrown open
from within; after which external enemies to man's health gain entrance and join with the
rebels of the blood.
It is quite interesting how a deep study of RBTI says essentially the same thing. The brilliance of Reams is that he discovered how to chemically measure & evaluate what Tilden only summarized.