Wound healing without antibiotics
My last post was an extract from A. J. Cronin’s novel The Keys of the Kingdom, about the treatment of a severely infected wound. Below is further confirmation that such wounds could heal perfectly well without antibiotics in the centuries that preceded these so-called life-saving medicines.
An interesting confirmation of the truth of Nature Cure philosophy and practice comes from the battlefields of Europe. Ever since I began to teach and practice Nature Cure I have advocated the exposure of wounds to air and light with no antiseptic treatment whatever.
We have cured during the last seventeen years, the worst kind of wounds, many of which under antiseptic treatment had eniered upon advanced stages of necrosis. The treatment in all such cases consisted of exposing the wounds freely to air and light, and in keeping them clean and fresh by frequent washing with diluted lemon juice.
For many years I have been denounced as a dangerous ignoramous and quack for this and other radical deviations from orthodox theory and practice. During the last few years, however, reports have come from the battlefields of Europe, according to which the wounds of soldiers, who were left exposed out of doors and did not receive hospital care and antiseptic treatment, healed much quicker and more perfectly than those who received the ordinary surgical treatment.