A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle Idiopathy (?d?'?p??i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. Idiopathy: a novel as unexpected as its title, in which Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan—three characters you won't forget in a hurry—unsuccessfully try to figure out how they feel about one another and how they might best live their lives in a world gone mad. Featuring a mysterious cattle epidemic, a humiliating stint in rehab, an unwanted pregnancy, a mom–turned–media personality ("Mother Courage"), and a workplace with a bio-dome housing a perfectly engineered cornfield, it is at once a scathing satire and a moving meditation on love and loneliness. With unusual verbal finesse and great humor, Sam Byers neatly skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation in a remarkable, uproarious first novel.
Idiopathic generalised epilepsies are characterised by strong genetic factors and multiple clinical phenotypes; animal models of untreated epilepsies are relevant to some of the clinical syndromes found in humans. This volume is the first to confront human clinical, animal (experimental) as well as basic and applied genetic data. Main section headings: Current approaches; Familial neonatal and infantile convulsions; Absence seizures and absence epilepsy; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and related syndromes; Photosensitivity; Pathophysiology of convulsive seizures; Fundamental and therapeutic aspects.
CONTENTS Introduction...............................................................................1 Chapter 1 On the Nature of Disease........................................................4 General Pathology....................................................................9 Dyspepsia................................................................................10 Artificial Dyspepsia................................................................11 Gastro-Enteric Rheumatism..................................................11 Chapter 2 Diseases of Unknown Cause................................................12 Chapter 3 Medicine, its Practice in General..........................................19 To the Rising Generation of Medical Practitioners............19 The Never Ending Difference of Opinions.........................20 The interpretation of Clinical Test Results..........................20 The Proximate Cause.............................................................21 Disease its Nature and Manifestation.................................22 The Nonconformist................................................................23 Scientific Medicine.................................................................24 Medicine..................................................................................26 Chapter 4 Who Speaks for Medicine?....................................................28 Correspondence with Medical Institutions........................29 Chapter 5 Medicine Practice...................................................................35 Health & Disease....................................................................39 Body Mind Soul......................................................................43 Chapter 6 Disease as a Crime..................................................................46 Chapter 7 Understanding the Causes....................................................48 Origin of Disease....................................................................51 Immune Complex Disease....................................................54 Gastrointestinal Tract Plays Important Role Regulating Many Activities of the Human Organism...............................55 Leaky-Gut Syndrome.............................................................59 Intestinal Permeability...........................................................60 On the Natural Faculties.......................................................60 The Cause of Disease.............................................................63 Major Maladies and Their Treatment..................................64 Cause of Physical Disease.....................................................64 Internal Cleansing..................................................................65 Health and Habit....................................................................65 Chapter 8 Alzheimer's Dementia and the Reversal of Cognitive Decline..........................................................................................67 Main Drivers of Alzheimer's.................................................68 Parkinson’s Begins in the Gastrointestinal Tract................68 The Influence of the Brain–Gut axis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease..............................................................................69 Chapter 9 Sinusitis....................................................................................70 Focal Infections from the Accessory Sinuses......................70 Chapter 10 Cause of Paralysis...................................................................73 Beriberi, Pellagra, and Nerve Disorders.............................73 The Irritability of the Nervous System...............................74 Chapter 11 Causes of Mental Disease......................................................76 Mental Influence.....................................................................77 Auto-Intoxication as an Etiological Factor in Many Forms of so-called Mental Disease.......................................................78 The Relation of Oral Infection to Mental Diseases............97 Secondary Foci of Infection...................................................98 General Considerations on Nervous and Mental Diseases......................................................................................100 Psychological Disorders......................................................103 The Aetiological Factors in the Psychoses........................104 Delirium.................................................................................104 Bidirectional link Between the Brain, Gut and Microbiome................................................................................104 The Role of Auto-Intoxication in Mental Disorders.......105 Chapter 12 Constipation..........................................................................120 Heart Symptoms Associated With Constipation.............122 Severe Constipation.............................................................125 Chronic Constipation from Disease...................................127 Atony of the Intestine (Darmatonie) Causes and their Mode of Action..........................................................................127 Diseases of the genital organs in young women.............132 Chronic Enteritis, Chronic Entero-Colitis, Chronic Intestinal Catarrh, Chronic Diarrhea, Chronic Dysentery, Chronic Colitis, Chronic Proctitis......................................133 The Colon as a Site of Focal Infection in Nonspecific Urethritis....................................................................................134 The Clinical Findings of Dr Mayr......................................134 Chapter 13 Headaches & Migraines......................................................136 Head Dizziness.....................................................................137 Remarks on Headaches in General....................................138 Headache...............................................................................138 Cephalalgia Headache.........................................................139 Headache is a Symptomatic Neurosis...............................140 Headache How Caused and Cured...................................143 History of Migraines............................................................145 1 in 7 People suffers from Migraines.................................146 Migraine and Intestinal Stasis............................................147 A Causal Link Between Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Migraine.....................................................................................148 The Gastrointestinal Origin of Migraine...........................148 Migraine and Chronic Intestinal Stasis, Their Relationship and Treatment....................................................151 Etiology and Treatment of Migraine.................................157 Chapter 14 Causes of Skin Disease.........................................................162 Autotoxic Cutaneous Diseases...........................................162 Diseases of the Skin and Kidneys......................................163 Diseases of the Skin..............................................................163 Skin lesions due to Toxemia................................................172 Skin and Psoric Conditions.................................................172 Jaundice.................................................................................173 The control of Health after Eczema and Psoriasis...........174 Nutrition, Health, and Disease...........................................174 The Nutrition of the Skin.....................................................176 Treatment of Psoriasis..........................................................178 Infantile Eczema and Indigestion......................................178 Phenomenon in Eczema......................................................180 Acne Vulgaris........................................................................181 Chapter 15 Arthritis .................................................................................182 Factors to Predispose to Arthritis.......................................183 Principles of Treatment …...................................................184 Evidence of Colonic Disturbance Chronic Arthritis........184 The Rectal Tract as a Source of Focal Infection................185 Colonic Therapy....................................................................186 Clinical Study of the Causation of Arthritis.....................186 The Colon in Relation to Chronic Arthritis......................187 Chapter 16 Atherosclerosis Coronary Heart Disease ….....................191 Chapter 17 Diabetes .................................................................................192 The Chief Cause of Diabetes...............................................193 Type 2 Diabetes it's a Completely Reversible Condition....................................................................................196 Treatment of Diabetes..........................................................197 Chapter 18 Fevers ....................................................................................199 Perspiration is to Eliminate.................................................199 Chapter 19 Rheumatism .........................................................................201 How is Toxemia to be Overcome.......................................202 My First Discovery................................................................202 Rheumatism and Arthritis Showing Colonic Symptoms...................................................................................203 Aetiology of Rheumatism...................................................204 Treatment of Rheumatism and Allied Conditions...........206 Rheumatism Control............................................................209 Rheumatism Disease at the Blood......................................210 Chapter 20 Curing Diseases of Heart and Arteries ….........................212 Correct Treatment of Acute Heart Disease.......................214 Chapter 21 Blood Pressure......................................................................215 The Role of the Alloxuric Bases in the Production of the Cardiovascular Changes of Nephritis....................................216 Relationship Between Certain Products of Metabolism and Arterial Hypertension.......................................................221 Diet in High Blood Pressure...............................................223 The Treatment of Confirmed Cases of High Blood Pressure......................................................................................224 All Varieties of Hypertension Are of Renal Origin..........224 Hypertension and Kidney Disease....................................225 High Tension Pulse..............................................................226 Tinnitus or Mêniêre's Syndromes......................................227 Tinnitus Aurium...................................................................228 Gastro-Intestinal Sepsis, a Cause of Ménière's Symptoms...................................................................................228 Chapter 22 Asthma ..................................................................................231 Vasomotor Instability: Closely Related to such conditions as Asthma...................................................................................232 Raynaud's Disease................................................................234 The Vagus & Vasomotors Influence, or Govern Circulation, Respiration and Digestion.................................234 The Use of Adrenal Substance in the Treatment of Asthma........................................................................................235 The Term Ataxia...................................................................237 Chapter 23 Epilepsy..................................................................................239 Epilepsy: A Study of the Idiopathic Disease....................240 The Fluids and Secretions of the Body in Epilepsy Chemical Pathology Auto- Intoxication................................241 Toxaemia as a Factor in the Cause of Epilepsy.................242 Attacks of Convulsions can be Avoided or Lessened.....243 Acid Intoxication in Epilepsy..............................................243 Gluttony or Food Poisoning As a Cause of Symptomatic Epileptic Convulsions...............................................................244 Dental Irritation as a Factor in the Cause of Epilepsy.....247 Chapter 24 Back Pain ...............................................................................258 Backache and its Treatment................................................258 Chapter 25 The Cause of Acquired Gout..............................................260 The Formation and Excretion of Uric Acid: considered with reference to Gout and Allied Diseases ….....................261 What is the Real Etiology of Gout?....................................268 Gout its Etiology and Treatment........................................269 Chapter 26 Insomnia................................................................................271 Poisons Causing Intrinsic Insomnia..................................271 The Insomnia of Stomach and Intestinal Disease...........274 Chapter 27 On the Origin of Cancer.......................................................275 The Nature of Cancer...........................................................276 Cancer Research....................................................................277 Cancer its Causes..................................................................278 Proportion of Cancers Attributed to Different Factors.........................................................................................280 Lymph-Stasis, Precursor and Factor in some Forms of Cancer.........................................................................................281 Understanding the Causes..................................................283 Natural Washing Out...........................................................283 Avoid Disease by keeping your Body Clean....................284 Cancer of the Colon.............................................................286 Colon Cancer.........................................................................287 Treatment of Cancer with the High Frequency Spark and High Tension Current...............................................................288 Cancer of the Colon Its Causation and Treatment...........289 Cancer of the Colon and Rectum.......................................291 What Causes Cancer............................................................293 Jordan on Cancer..................................................................294 Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, MD, FRCS, on Cancer.................294 The Origin of Cancer of the Colon and Rectum..............295 Oral Sepsis in Relation to Cancer.......................................296 Cancer is Never Primary......................................................301 Chemotherapy.......................................................................303 The Cancer Patient's Dilemma............................................304 Chapter 28 Postpartum Depression.......................................................307 Postpartum Depression Factors to Successful Nursing.......................................................................................307 Some Causes of Insulin Resistance....................................308 Chapter 29 Mental Troubles and Physical Causes...............................309 Colon Irrigation in the Treatment of Mental Disease......313 Dangerous Psychiatry..........................................................316 Balance in Mind and Temper..............................................318 The State of the Colon and its Relation to Human Health.........................................................................................322 Mental Conditions and its Relation to the Colon............322 Case in which Loss of Memory suggestive of Double Personality was due to Colon Disturbance...........................323 A Case of Mania....................................................................324 Vertiginous Attacks Cured by Treatment of Tonic Colon Hardening..................................................................................324 Headaches due to reflex disturbances of Abdominal Origin..........................................................................................324 Mental Depression Associated with Attacks of Colon Pain..............................................................................................325 Colon Origin..........................................................................326 Chapter 30 Sciatica....................................................................................328 The Treatment of Sciatica....................................................328 The Relation of Arthritis of the Sacro-Iliac Joint to Sciatica, With Analysis of 100 cases.......................................................329 Plombieres Treatment..........................................................331 Turpentine in Sciatica...........................................................332 Woman with Sciatica and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.....333 Sciatic Nerve Largest and Longest Spinal Nerve.............333 Chapter 31 The Effect of Intestinal Toxicity..........................................335 Questionnaires to the “Profession”....................................335 Speciality Internal Medicine...............................................336 Speciality Gastro-Enterology..............................................336 Speciality Cardiology...........................................................337 Speciality Neuropsychiatry and Neurology.....................337 Speciality Orthopedics.........................................................337 Speciality Otorhinolaryngology ........................................337 Speciality Ophthalmology...................................................337 Speciality Dermatology........................................................338 Speciality Urology................................................................338 Speciality Gynecology..........................................................338 Speciality Pediatrics.............................................................338 Chapter 32 Bowel Stagnation..................................................................339 Action of the Bowels............................................................341 Impermeability of the Intestine..........................................345 Areas of the Colon where Cancer is More Prevalent......346 Chronic Intestinal Stasis......................................................346 Contribution to the Study of Chronic Intestinal Stasis............................................................................................350 Intestinal Obstruction..........................................................352 Stasis.......................................................................................352 Symptomatology...................................................................353 Classification of Cases of Intestinal Stasis into Clinical Groups, According to Predominant Symptoms...................355 When God created Man He Pronounced His work Good............................................................................................357 The Necessary Enema..........................................................358 Chapter 33 Relation of Colitis to Other Diseases.................................360 Pneumonia, Cystitis, Bright’s Disease...............................362 Neurasthenia and the Neuroses Generally.......................362 Gout an Autotoxis................................................................362 Relation of Gout to Goitre...................................................363 Teeth and General Health...................................................363 Relation of Gout to Colitis...................................................363 Neuroses................................................................................364 Chapter 34 Pellagra...................................................................................365 Chapter 35 Causes that Produce Diseases............................................369 The Source of all Acute Diseases as it is a Consequence of all Chronical ones......................................................................371 How to supply the Place of Medicines by Diet................371 Pathological State of the Intestines of Sick People...........371 All Maladies are Due to the Lack of Certain Food Principles....................................................................................372 Dr Kellogg on Chronic Disease..........................................372 Chronic Rheumatism and Osteo-Arthritis........................372 The Skin.................................................................................373 Eczema...................................................................................373 Psoriasis.................................................................................373 Vertigo....................................................................................373 Disorders of the Urinary and Generative Organs...........374 Foul Tongue and Bad Breath..............................................374 Premature Senility................................................................374 Disease of the Kidneys.........................................................374 Intestinal Toxemia a Cause of Senility...............................374 The Physical Causes of Senility..........................................374 Dr Bieler on Cause and Cure of Disease...........................375 Causes of Diseases of Chest................................................376 Processed Food & Disease...................................................376 The Problems with the Medical Theory on Disease........377 Prevention and Treatment...................................................377 The True Cause of Disease..................................................378 There Is Only One Cause For Disease...............................378 Here, in a nutshell, lies the Secret of Disease...................380 Microzyma …........................................................................388 Autointoxication, The Cause of Most of All Disease.......388 Internal Cleanliness is Health.............................................389 One True Cause and Not Many Different Diseases........390 Dr Ulric Gaster Williams, MD of New Zealand...............391 There are 3 Absolute Indispensables of Good Health.....391 Encumbered, Painful Menstruation...................................393 Chapter 36 What is Disease.....................................................................394 Let me illustrate my meaning.............................................397 The fact is, that the blood is an ever-changing fluid.......407 Edema.....................................................................................404 Chapter 37 Two Factors in Producing Disease.....................................419 Chapter 38 Effects of Diet of the Human System.................................423 A Note on the Work of Denis P. Burkitt............................425 Half the Chronic Disease in Advancing Years due to Dietetic Errors............................................................................425 Life is Found Only in Live Foods.......................................426 Chapter 39 Auto-Intoxication s a Cause and Complication of Disease........................................................................................429 Chronic Excessive Intestinal Toxemia...............................432 Interpretation and Symptoms............................................433 Toxic Causes of Maladies of the Heart..............................434 Chapter 40 The Causes of Disease..........................................................436 Toxaemia: The Understanding of Disease........................438 Acute Malignancy.................................................................440 The Causes of Fatality..........................................................440 Causes of Enervation...........................................................441 Forced Feeding to Increase Weight....................................441 Children Pampered and Spoiled........................................442 The Role of Attitude in Disease..........................................442 The Gluttonous Build Putrefaction in the Bowels...........445 The wise will get busy and correct appetites...................446 Retrospection........................................................................446 Chapter 41 Toxaemia................................................................................447 Poisonous Metabolic Products...........................................447 Toxaemia................................................................................448 What is Toxaemia.................................................................449 The Development and Increasing Symptoms of Disease........................................................................................449 For Toxaemia is the Basic Cause of Chronic Diseases.....450 Chronic Intestinal Toxemia.................................................451 You Cannot Heal Selectively...............................................453 Lane’s Picture of Auto-Intoxication...................................454 Pyorrhoea...............................................................................456 Tuberculosis..........................................................................456 Rheumatoid Arthritis and Loose Joints.............................456 Chapter 42 Intestinal Toxaemia..............................................................457 Stomach Disturbances.........................................................458 Constipation..........................................................................459 Natural Foods.......................................................................459 Exercise..................................................................................460 Water.......................................................................................460 Epilepsy..................................................................................460 Sciatic Neuralgia...................................................................460 Eczema...................................................................................461 Psoriasis.................................................................................461 Cancer.....................................................................................461 Prolapsus...............................................................................462 Cysts on the Ovaries............................................................463 Chronic Diseases..................................................................463 Hemiplegia............................................................................463 Relation of Cardiovascular Disease to Hemiplegia.........464 Dilatation of the Stomach on Gastroptosis.......................464 Etiology of Chronic Dilatation of the Stomach................465 Chronic Intestinal Toxemia and Its Treatment.................466 Chronic Ulcerative Colitis...................................................467 Chapter 43 The Bacterial Process in Toxaemia.....................................468 Focal Infection.......................................................................470 Chronic ill Health.................................................................470 Dental Sepsis.........................................................................471 Elcampsia...............................................................................471 Intestinal Toxemia Eclampsia.............................................472 Cardiac Arrest.......................................................................474 Eclampsia...............................................................................474 Chapter 44 Simplicity in Diet .................................................................478 Faulty Food and Digestive Tract Infection........................481 Modern Milk Baby Formula...............................................486 Milk “Formulas” List of Ingredients................................486 Fast Food................................................................................488 Defective Diet and Bad Habits...........................................488 Comorbid and Bipolar Disorders.......................................489 Prevention of Disease...........................................................490 Chapter 45 It's in the Blood ....................................................................491 Inflammation and Chronic Disease...................................492 Causes of Inflammation.......................................................492 Acidosis..................................................................................493 Nephritis, Inflammation of the Kidneys...........................493 Nephritis & Shortness of Breath (Dyspnea).....................494 In Medicine 1,140 Blood Tests Available...........................494 Index..................................................................................498
Unmasteredis a new kind of book that allows us to think afresh about desire. Incisive, moving, and lyrical, it opens up a larger space for the exploration of feelings that can be difficult to express. Touching on experiences of desire and pleasure, as well as grief and pain, the book probes the porousness between masculine and feminine, thought and sensation, self and culture, power and pliancy. Katherine Angel reflects on the history of her own feelings, on her encounters and beliefs, and shows how our lives can be shaped by sexuality and feminism; by the words we use, and the stories we tell. The result is a book letting light into places that are often dark and constrained - a searching, erotic work that shifts in meaning and resonance even as it is read.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2021* 'Exceptional...' Observer * 'Unforgettable...' TLS * 'Outstanding...' Irish Times *'Sam Byers's mastery of tone and attentiveness to every psychological shift confirms him as one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation.' Sunday TimesThe new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion-a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption.Maya is homeless. When her site is razed by ruthless authorities, she's detained. But then, Maya is given a lifeline; a chance to re-enter society again. A tech company - angling to raise its philanthropic profile - offers her a job and a flat. There's one caveat: Maya must document her inspiring progress on Instagram to show that anyone can be productive; perfect.Yet Maya realises that sickness is a kind of revolution. With other outcasts, Maya starts a movement: billboards promoting wellness are defaced all over London and her media feed is flooded with obscene, filthy images. Suddenly, questions arise about the forces unleashed: liberation and madness, protest and anarchy, rebellion and chaos.
A history of dances pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the bodys transcendence of itself. Exploring dances historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a pathology, this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance. In the nineteenth century, medicine becomes a major cultural index to measure the bodys meanings. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of choreas. In its withholding of speech and its use of body code, dance, like hysteria, functions as a form of symptomatic expression. Yet by working like a symptom, dance performance can also be read as a commentary on symptomatology and as a condition of possibility for such alternative approaches to mental illness as psychoanalysis. By redeeming as art what is lost in hysteria, dance expresses non-hysterically what only hysteria had been able to express: the somatic translation of idea, the physicalization of meaning. Medicines discovery of idea manifesting itself in the body in mental illness strikingly parallels a literary fascination with the ability of nineteenth-century dance to manifest idea, suggesting that the evolution of medical thinking about mind-body relations as they malfunction in madness, as well as changes in the cultural reception of danced representations of these relations, might be paradigmatic shifts caused by the same cultural factors: concern about the body as a site of meaning and about vision as a theater of knowledge.
Maria-Nefeli, a young woman who found Cancer in front of her, gives her own answers and describes her struggle against all odds to live her life on her own terms and win the so important "little ones" victories of survival day by day. Maria-Nefeli finds the strength to fight, to live, to overcome physical pain, to photograph images of herself and her environment, to fall in love, to get married, to stand up and say NO to whatever wants to "bring her to her knees" ...
