Facial Diagnosis
"FACIAL DIAGNOSIS" AND "THE CLINICAL EYE."
It is an incident common to the experience of all Natural Hygienic Physicians for
the patient to exclaim in quasi protest: "But Doctor! How can you tell?"
Accustomed to the pompous pantomime of the orthodox physician—the gold watch
and chain trick, while pulse and tongue reveal their hidden records—and then the
well known questions which call forth the personal predilection in the fashion of
disease and diet, (prescriptions which are often not untinged by the physician's own
proclivities), at first the patient misses the old familiar presence. If ill he
must be, he expects that the process should proceed from the outset on the old accustomed,
"strictly respectable" lines, and something like resentment stirs him when, in place
of questioning, a physician presumes to tell him at a glance the substance of his malady unasked.
But such is the method of real efficiency and such the qualification of the men who
practice the new philosophy which shall save the world from shams.
Facial diagnosis is the determining factor of the logical and never failing science of
natural therapy which is coming to the rescue of mankind, in spite of legal and
commercial obstruction.
The "Clinical Eye" is, emphatically, not the sad old "Eye of Faith" which has sent
its millions to their doom, but the sober, steady, practiced introspective hopeful eye
of knowledge and experience.
The external symptoms visible to the clinical eye of a physician worthy of the
name, vastly outweigh in important significance, all the objectionable detailed
examination of parts and organs which from long use has become the habit of the
old-school practitioner. Moreover the swift impressions gathered under the clinical
eye are spontaneous and reliable whereas, as the result of questioning or the
description of the patient, they possibly are not, but rather represent too often some
preconceived notion of alleged heredity or devotional pessimism, sometimes
original but more probably the suggestion of relatives and friends.
The subject is a vitally important one and, with a view to clearing away the
obstruction of old superstitions from the mind of the reader, I shall trespass upon
my allotted space in order to give a brief extract of my remarks thereon as
expressed in my greater work: "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy."
DIAGNOSIS, PHYSIOGNOMY AND PSYCHOLOGY.
The biological healing system, based on the laws of nature and the
acknowledgment of the fact that no two cases of disease are exactly alike, requires
much broader knowledge and much deeper insight on the part of the physician than
did the old-school of medicine with its search for symptoms of special diseases and
its occult prescriptions.
Since the object is to get at the root of the evil in order to regenerate the patient
thoroughly, it becomes imperative to obtain, what is hardest to elicit from him
perhaps, the accurate truth about himself and his ailment.
And though expert in recognizing external symptoms, it is unwise to rely entirely
thereon and research must continue into realms where the patient himself only can
lead us and where, willing or otherwise, he is apt to mislead.
Psychology teaches how to find the way into the darkness of a patient's soul.
Physiognomy teaches, not only to read in the face and external appearance, the
story of a life which is written there in characters which only experience may
decipher, but also to realize when the patient employs physiognomical expressions
to hide what we persistently seek; namely, the truth.
And again, in regard to healing, psychology teaches how to influence the patient so
that he may discontinue to be his own worst enemy; that he may recognize his
mistakes as such and discard them, although possibly he may have grown so
addicted to his tastes as to prefer to continue therein in place of daring to be
healthy
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