FirstGarden
01-23-2007, 05:26 PM
Hi Everyone.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/02healthlibwelcome.html
This website is a goldmine of free books offered as downloads. They are public domain and absolutely free. (They do ask for a $10 donation, but you are still given permission to download, regardless. No catches, gimmicks or memberships.)
I mention a few books offered on Fasting (below).
There's also a lot of books on some very practical health topics. Almost every book there is out of print. I was pleased to see the writings of such giants as Herbert Shelton & Arnold Ehret.
Hope this blesses someone.
FirstGarden
DeVries, Arnold. Therapeutic Fasting. Los Angeles: Chandler, 1963.
A complete, sensitive and intelligent survey of fasting and of fasting literature. Arnold DeVries was an American researcher, writer and hygienist, who already in the 1950's changed from a fruitarian (Fountain of Youth, 1946) to a paleolithic understanding of what constitutes optimum human nutrition (Primitive Man and His Food, 1952, Elixir of Life, 1952). Therapeutic Fasting, 1963) has been one of his most popular and widely used titles. Downloads as a single PDF of about 275 kb. Thanks are owed to Dr. Bass of the International Natural Hygiene Society for providing this excellent book. OUT OF PRINT.
Ehret, Arnold. Rational Fasting: Regeneration Diet and Natural Cure for All Diseases.
Translated from the German, translator unknown. English version originally published prior to 1922. Downloads as a small PDF.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Fielder, Dr. John L. The Principles & Practice of Fasting. Cairns, Queensland: Academy of Natural Living, 2001**
Although it is in print and for sale, Dr. Fielder has graciously permitted the Soil and Health Library to freely offer this valuable 52 page guide. Dr. Fielder lives on his 300 acre highland farm, still tropical but comfortably above the steamy heat of Cairns. He has demonstrated the principles of Natural Living and Natural Hygiene for more than 30 years. During that period he has helped hundreds of people regain their health by his own personal example as much as by the advice he has offered. Dr.Fielder uses no form of medication in his practice, be they so-called "natural" or otherwise, including supplementation. He believes solely in the self-reparative nature of the organism and its ability to heal itself given the necessary care, attention and environment. Downloads as a PDF of 245 kb. IN PRINT; AVAILABLE BY PERMISSION.
Goldstein, Jack. Triumph Over Disease by Fasting and Natural Diet. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1977.
A personal testamonial in the vein of a true-confession story, only this story is not of love and betrayal, but of a young man who, through receiving much conventional medical treatment for ulcerative colitis, had been so damaged by the medicos that he approached death. In the nick of time he discovered natural hygiene, fasted for over 40 days and began to recover health and enjoyment of life. Gruesome in its detailed description of the disease and shocking in its recounting of the brutal and constitution-destroying treatments he received, interesting in the detailed inner-experience of a long-time water faster. Downloads as a PDF of 633 kb. OUT OF PRINT.
Hazzard, Linda. B., D. O. (1927 edition). Scientific Fasting: The Ancient and Modern Key to Health. New York: Grant Publications. This is taken from one of a series of editions going back many years before 1927.
****One of the wisest books on natural medicine ever written, and written totally from decades of personal practice. Also contains a great deal of advice about handling children. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Lovewisdom, Johnny. Modern Live Juice Therapy.
Permission to put this work here granted by David Mujahed, who asserts that he is the current copyright holder. David states: "Modern Live Juice Therapy was started in 1962 and finished in 1964, thus first published in 1964. Omangod press published in 1980. My publishing name is Paradisian Publications and I published it first in 2000. Offered with permission of David S. Mujahed . . ." David also states that he is in the process of printing Dr. Lovewisdom's books. If these ever become available Soil and Health Library will refer people to their point of purchase. Downloads as a single PDF of 135 kb.
Shelton, Herbet M. The Hygienic System, Vol. III, Fasting and Sun Bathing. San Antonio, Texas: Dr. Shelton's Health School, Third Revised Edition, 1950. First Published 1934.
In his exhaustive study of therepeutic fasting, Shelton claimed: " In more than thirty years of conducting fasts, I have conducted over twenty-five thousand fasts, ranging in duration from three days to more than two months. I have conducted about six fasts that have gone sixty or more days, the longest being sixty-eight days. I have had literally hundreds of fasts that have lasted from forty to fifty and more days." Despite Shelton's possible overstatement of "twenty-five thousand," likely no one else has ever equalled his experience with fasting for the purpose of healing disease. PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Sinclair, Upton. (1921). The Fasting Cure. Originally published by the author circa 1920. 215KBytes. Public domain.
A famous author's personal experience with the fasting cure. The main chapter of this book, "Perfect Health" is also offered in French, the translation, Parfaite Santé!, translation courtesy of Paul Barbu & Diane Hébert. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Székely, Edmond Bordeaux. Fasting and Grape Cure. Tecate, California: Essene School of Life, 1950.
***This booklet, one of a series of many similar publications, provides Székely's take on two related subjects. The text also includes a full list of publications of the Essene School of Life. Thanks are owed to Mrs. Deborah Székely for lending this rare booklet for OCR. Downloads as a PDF of 217 kb. OUT OF PRINT.
Székely, Edmond Bordeaux, Prof. Dr. The Therapeutics of Fasting. Tecate: Essene School of Life, 1942.
***The poor quality wartime paper used to print this booklet has become browned to the point that Optical Character Recognition is not possible. Thus it is offered as a bitmap scan of rather large file size. (The scanned images were adjusted in Photoshop to brighten the backgrouind and make the type more legible.) Thanks are owed to Mrs. Deborah Székely for lending this rare booklet. Downloads as a PDF of 1.86 mb. OUT OF PRINT.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/02healthlibwelcome.html
This website is a goldmine of free books offered as downloads. They are public domain and absolutely free. (They do ask for a $10 donation, but you are still given permission to download, regardless. No catches, gimmicks or memberships.)
I mention a few books offered on Fasting (below).
There's also a lot of books on some very practical health topics. Almost every book there is out of print. I was pleased to see the writings of such giants as Herbert Shelton & Arnold Ehret.
Hope this blesses someone.
FirstGarden
DeVries, Arnold. Therapeutic Fasting. Los Angeles: Chandler, 1963.
A complete, sensitive and intelligent survey of fasting and of fasting literature. Arnold DeVries was an American researcher, writer and hygienist, who already in the 1950's changed from a fruitarian (Fountain of Youth, 1946) to a paleolithic understanding of what constitutes optimum human nutrition (Primitive Man and His Food, 1952, Elixir of Life, 1952). Therapeutic Fasting, 1963) has been one of his most popular and widely used titles. Downloads as a single PDF of about 275 kb. Thanks are owed to Dr. Bass of the International Natural Hygiene Society for providing this excellent book. OUT OF PRINT.
Ehret, Arnold. Rational Fasting: Regeneration Diet and Natural Cure for All Diseases.
Translated from the German, translator unknown. English version originally published prior to 1922. Downloads as a small PDF.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Fielder, Dr. John L. The Principles & Practice of Fasting. Cairns, Queensland: Academy of Natural Living, 2001**
Although it is in print and for sale, Dr. Fielder has graciously permitted the Soil and Health Library to freely offer this valuable 52 page guide. Dr. Fielder lives on his 300 acre highland farm, still tropical but comfortably above the steamy heat of Cairns. He has demonstrated the principles of Natural Living and Natural Hygiene for more than 30 years. During that period he has helped hundreds of people regain their health by his own personal example as much as by the advice he has offered. Dr.Fielder uses no form of medication in his practice, be they so-called "natural" or otherwise, including supplementation. He believes solely in the self-reparative nature of the organism and its ability to heal itself given the necessary care, attention and environment. Downloads as a PDF of 245 kb. IN PRINT; AVAILABLE BY PERMISSION.
Goldstein, Jack. Triumph Over Disease by Fasting and Natural Diet. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1977.
A personal testamonial in the vein of a true-confession story, only this story is not of love and betrayal, but of a young man who, through receiving much conventional medical treatment for ulcerative colitis, had been so damaged by the medicos that he approached death. In the nick of time he discovered natural hygiene, fasted for over 40 days and began to recover health and enjoyment of life. Gruesome in its detailed description of the disease and shocking in its recounting of the brutal and constitution-destroying treatments he received, interesting in the detailed inner-experience of a long-time water faster. Downloads as a PDF of 633 kb. OUT OF PRINT.
Hazzard, Linda. B., D. O. (1927 edition). Scientific Fasting: The Ancient and Modern Key to Health. New York: Grant Publications. This is taken from one of a series of editions going back many years before 1927.
****One of the wisest books on natural medicine ever written, and written totally from decades of personal practice. Also contains a great deal of advice about handling children. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Lovewisdom, Johnny. Modern Live Juice Therapy.
Permission to put this work here granted by David Mujahed, who asserts that he is the current copyright holder. David states: "Modern Live Juice Therapy was started in 1962 and finished in 1964, thus first published in 1964. Omangod press published in 1980. My publishing name is Paradisian Publications and I published it first in 2000. Offered with permission of David S. Mujahed . . ." David also states that he is in the process of printing Dr. Lovewisdom's books. If these ever become available Soil and Health Library will refer people to their point of purchase. Downloads as a single PDF of 135 kb.
Shelton, Herbet M. The Hygienic System, Vol. III, Fasting and Sun Bathing. San Antonio, Texas: Dr. Shelton's Health School, Third Revised Edition, 1950. First Published 1934.
In his exhaustive study of therepeutic fasting, Shelton claimed: " In more than thirty years of conducting fasts, I have conducted over twenty-five thousand fasts, ranging in duration from three days to more than two months. I have conducted about six fasts that have gone sixty or more days, the longest being sixty-eight days. I have had literally hundreds of fasts that have lasted from forty to fifty and more days." Despite Shelton's possible overstatement of "twenty-five thousand," likely no one else has ever equalled his experience with fasting for the purpose of healing disease. PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Sinclair, Upton. (1921). The Fasting Cure. Originally published by the author circa 1920. 215KBytes. Public domain.
A famous author's personal experience with the fasting cure. The main chapter of this book, "Perfect Health" is also offered in French, the translation, Parfaite Santé!, translation courtesy of Paul Barbu & Diane Hébert. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Székely, Edmond Bordeaux. Fasting and Grape Cure. Tecate, California: Essene School of Life, 1950.
***This booklet, one of a series of many similar publications, provides Székely's take on two related subjects. The text also includes a full list of publications of the Essene School of Life. Thanks are owed to Mrs. Deborah Székely for lending this rare booklet for OCR. Downloads as a PDF of 217 kb. OUT OF PRINT.
Székely, Edmond Bordeaux, Prof. Dr. The Therapeutics of Fasting. Tecate: Essene School of Life, 1942.
***The poor quality wartime paper used to print this booklet has become browned to the point that Optical Character Recognition is not possible. Thus it is offered as a bitmap scan of rather large file size. (The scanned images were adjusted in Photoshop to brighten the backgrouind and make the type more legible.) Thanks are owed to Mrs. Deborah Székely for lending this rare booklet. Downloads as a PDF of 1.86 mb. OUT OF PRINT.