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THE ROYAL ROAD TO HEALTH OR THE SECRET OF HEALTH
WITHOUT DRUGS.
By Chas. A. Tyrrell

TO MY WIFE.
Whose Enthusiasm, and unflagging interest in all matters pertaining to
health is excelled by none, and who has been a faithful coworker in
building up the system treating disease by hygienic methods herein set
forth,
This book is affectionately dedicated.

Copyright 1907
By
Charles A. Tyrrell, M.D.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DIAGRAM
ILLUSTRATING THE
DIGESTIVE ORGANS OF MAN.
1. Esophagus or Gullet. 2. Cardiac end of Stomach. 3. Pyloric end of
Stomach. 4. Duodenum. 5, 6. Convolutions of Small Intestine. 7.
Caecum. 7* Vermiform appendage of Caecum, called the appendicula
vermiformis. 8. Ascending Colon. 9, 10. Transverse Colon. 11.
Descending Colon. 12. Sigmoid Flexure, the last curve of the Colon
before it terminates in the Rectum. 13. Rectum, the terminal part of the
Colon. 14. Anus, posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through
which the excrements are expelled. 15. Lobes of the Liver, raised and
turned back. 16. Hepatic Duct, which carries the bile from the liver to
the Cystic and Common Bile Ducts. 17. Cystic Duct. 18. Gall Bladder.
19. Common Bile Duct. 20. Pancreas, the gland which secretes the
pancreatic juice. 21. Pancreatic Duct, entering the Duodunum with the
Common Bile Duct.

PREFACE
TO THE ONE HUNDREDTH EDITION.
In presenting to the public the one hundredth edition of this work, it is a
matter for profound gratification to be able to state that the treatment
described in its pages has steadily increased in public favor since its
introduction. Tens of thousands of grateful people testify to its
efficiency, not only as a remedial process, but better still, as a
preventive of disease. Truth must ever prevail, and this treatment being
based on natural law (which is unerring), must achieve the desired

result, which is the restoration and preservation of health.
This edition has been completely revised and much of it rewritten, and,
while the essential principles remain unchanged, some slight departures
from previously expressed opinions may be noted; for in the years that
have elapsed since the first edition saw the light, some notable
advances have been made in rational therapeutics and dietetics, and no
one can afford to lag behind the car of Progress.
The arrangement of the book has been still farther altered, by adding
another part, making nine in all, each part being devoted to a special
phase of the general subject, thus simplifying it, and making its
principles easier of application. Quotations have been freely made from
articles written during the past three years by the author, in his capacity
as editor of "Health," and several new formulas for the treatment of
important diseases have been added to those that have appeared in
previous editions.
While painfully conscious that the critically disposed may find
something to condemn in its pages, the work is sent forth with the
fervent hope, that despite any defects it may possess it may, in the
future, as in the past, prove the means of restoring to suffering
thousands the possession of their natural and rightful heritage health.
THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.
PART 1.
DRUGGING PROVED UNSCIENTIFIC.
Health is wealth. The truth about "Materia Medica." Medical opinions
on drugs they do not cure disease. Opinions of British physicians. The
most important medical discoveries made by laymen. There is no "law
of cure," only a condition. Drugs do not act on the system, but are acted
upon.

PART II.
THE TRUE CAUSE OF DISEASE.
Only one cause of disease. There is only one disease, but many
modifications. Digestion and assimilation explained. Evil effects of the
retention of waste. The horrors of faecal impaction. How auto infection
is accomplished. The mysteries of the circulation. Disease shown to be
the result of imperfect elimination.


PART III.
RATIONAL HYGIENIC TREATMENT.
Nature cures, not the physician. The action of microbes. The cathartic
habit. The true action of cathartics explained, and popular suppositions
corrected. A correct solution of the difficulty. "Flushing the colon" as
an ancient practice. Dr. Turner's post mortem experiences. Colon
distortion illustrated. Objections to the ordinary appliances danger in
using the long, flexible catheter. Invention of the "J. B. L. Cascade,"
and description of it.


PART IV.
HOW TO USE IT.

The complete process of "flushing the colon" explained, step by step,
so that even a child might understand it. Objections answered. Advice
to users of the treatment.