Book excerpt: Concerning Stasis in the Causation of Disease, And Drainage as a Factor in Resolving Disease CONTENTS Introduction 1 The Lymphatic Constitution and its Relation to Some Forms of Sudden Death...................................................................................3 Chapter 1 In All Parts of the Body Free Drainage Is Essential for the Cure of Infection.......................................................................................4 Urinary Stasis..............................................................................7 Degradation And Clearance........................................................9 Stasis Allows the Absorption of Toxins which Enfeeble the Whole of the Connective Tissue Elements....................................10 Intestinal Stasis and Other Foci of Infection.............................10 Chapter 2 Some Fundamental Causes of Disease......................................12 Endocrine to Organ: Drainage, Detoxification and Disease.....19 Lymphatic Drainage and Neurological Disease........................24 Trauma and Lymphatics............................................................28 Chapter 3 Blood Stasis...............................................................................31 Blood Stasis a Factor in the Causation of Disease....................31 Mechanisms of Compensation of the Blood Circulatory Disturbances in Venous Stasis.......................................................32 Blood Stasis and Atherosclerotic Factors on Cognitive Impairment.....................................................................................33 Chapter 4 Chronic Intestinal Stasis............................................................35 Tonic Colon Hardening.............................................................35 Intestinal Adhesions A Factor in Chronic Intestinal Stasis in Epilepsies.......................................................................................40 The Relationship of Chronic Intestinal Stasis to Epilepsy........42 The Relationship of the Intestinal Flora to Chronic Intestinal Stasis..............................................................................................43 Intestinal Stasis a Factor in the Causation of Cancer................50 The Relation of Chronic Intestinal Stasis to Cancer.................54 Chapter 5 Lymph Stasis.......…..................................................................60 Lymph Stasis Promotes Tumour Growth..................................61 Lymph Stasis in the Causation of Disease................................62 The Relation of Obstructed Cardiac Circulation to Lymph Stasis..............................................................................................66 Lymph Stasis the Precursor of Cancer.......................................68 Cancer is a Product of Lymph Stasis.........................................70 Chapter 6 Breast Cancer.............................................................................72 Lymph-stasis the Precursor of Cancer.......................................73 Lymphoid Tissue In Health.......................................................74 Lymphangioplasty.....................................................................75 Lymph-Stasis The Precursor of Breast Cancer..........................78 Lymphatic Obstruction as the Cause of Chronic Mastitis.........79 Chronic Mastitis........................................................................79 Prevention in the Light of Aetiology.........................................80 The Real Story Behind the Pink Ribbon...................................81 Note on Antiperspirants.............................................................86 Breast Cancer Screening Farce.................................................86 Intestinal Toxaemia in its Relation to Cancer............................88 Constipation and Breast Cancer................................................89 National Health and Examination Survey.................................91 Chapter 7 Stasis..........................................................................................95 Copro-stasis...............................................................................95 Apostasis...................................................................................95 Stasis in the Causation of Disease.............................................97 Venous Stasis in Optic Neuritis.................................................97 Stasis of Bile..............................................................................98 Bile Pigment..............................................................................99 Stasis of Bile: Favours Bacterial Colonization.......................107 Chapter 8 Promoting Cellular Drainage..................................................109 Improper Drainage..................................................................109 The Concept of Drainage........................................................115 Setting up Drainages...............................................................116 Manual Therapy Techniques to Improve Drainages...............117 Drainage of the Head and Neck..............................................118 Draining Cervical Lymphatics................................................119 Lymphatic and Venous Drainage.............................................121 Thoracic Lymph Drainage.......................................................122 To Stimulate Lymph Flow.......................................................122 To Increase the Volume of Lymph..........................................123 Treatment for Drainage and Circulation of the Thorax...........123 List of Toxins and Waste Products Lymph Drained by the Lymph..........................................................................................124 Lymph-Stasis Arising as a Primary Condition in Various Organs, or Partly So.....................................................................124 The Concept of Drainages.......................................................126 Perfect Drainage......................................................................130 Chapter 9 Lymph Drainage Therapeutic Method....................................132 Osteopathic Treatment of the Lymphatic System in Disease..137 Stability of the Internal Environment......................................139 Drainage in Glaucoma.............................................................140 Index 143