The first edition of this little book was published under the
simple title, Rubies In The Sand. It is presented here unchanged except
for this Foreword and the Addendum. The book was originally written
in an effort to uncover from the sands of time precious jewels of truth
about health, disease and healing and to discover, if possible, the
means of preserving and restoring health that were so successfully
employed by our primeval forebears before the origin of the first
shaman, priest and physician. It is a source of much satisfaction to the
writer that he was eminendy successful in this effort. It is also
gratifying to know that mankind never actually lost these precious
jewels. They have simply been pushed aside and neglected while all the
emphasis has been placed upon anti-vital, inhuman and unnatural
methods and systems that have been offered as substitutes for nature's
own plan of care. The system of Natural Hygiene that I have stressed
in the following pages is not a new discovery, but a revival.
Hygiene is the employment of materials, activities and
influences that have a normal relation to life, in the preservation and
restoration of health. In other words, hygiene is the employment of
nature's own means of life in the care of both the well and the sick.
Vegetarianism and other forms of dietary reform, physical
culture, the various psychological and metaphysical movements, etc.,
are mere fragmentary approaches to the many and complex problems
of life and are inadequate to meet the needs of modem life. Hygiene, by
insisting upon an all-out approach to life's problems and upon a total
approach to these, constitutes a full system of mind-body care in both
health and illth. Other systems resort to treatments, substitutes and
compromises. All systems of so-called or alleged healing, both drug
and drugless, employ therapeutic means and measures that bear no
normal relation to life, fulfill no need of the living organism, and are
positively harmful, while their use is predicated upon no known law of
life.
Author(s): Herbert M. Shelton
Publisher: Cool Hand Communications
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 352
City: Boca Raton, FL
Foreword 1
Introduction 5
1 Hidden Jewels 11
2 The Crystal Fountain 22
3 Light From Eden 29
4 Eden Revisited 38
5 *Man' s Original Hygiene 52
6 A World That Was.. 68
7 Westward From Eden 89
8 Man's Primeval Majesty 95
9 Heritage From Eden 103
10 It Is God That Heals Ill
11 Eden's Golden Glow 118
1 2 Lucifer on Eden' s Doorstep 142
1 3 Clouds Across The Sky 155
14 The Dragon's Teeth 158
1 5 Noisome Weeds in Paradise 161
1 6 Shadows on the Moon 1 64
17 Witches in Eden 169
1 8 Mephitic Vapors 1 79
1 9 The Father of Physic 1 90
20 Extinguishing the Light 1 99
21 Glowing Embers in the Dark 207
22 The Gods Come to Earth 211
23 Dark Detour 218
24 *Medicine in the Middle Ages 240
25 *Renaissance Medicine 249
26 *Nineteenth Century Medicine 259
27 *The Development of Modem Medicine 265
28 *Twentieth Century Medicine 269
29 The New Dawn 278
30 *Criticisms of Modem Medicine 285
3 1 *Chaos and Tyranny 294
32 Resplendent Horizon 298
33 Eden Restored 309
34 Light of Life 318
35 The Great Deception 328
36 *What Is Needed 342
* Addendum (Chapters intended for the second edition of "Rubies In The Sand")
