Shelton Herbert M. The Myth of Medicine

Boca Raton, Florida; Cool Hand Communications Inc,; 1995. — 371 p. — ISBN 1-56790-027-5.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 eminently 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.