RARE 1961 1st Edition Rubies in the Sand by Herbert M. Shelton - Natural Hygiene History

RARE 1961 1st Edition Rubies in the Sand by Herbert M. Shelton - Natural Hygiene History

'In the following pages I have endeavored to separate the many practices of mankind that have, heretofore, been classed as medicine, from the bewildering mishmash that the "historians" have created for us, into their logical classifications, and to set each element in its proper place. I have attempted to separate the normal, necessary practices and activities and instinctive behavior patterns of man from the magic practices of the shaman and each of these from the poisoning practices of the physician. I have attempted to disentangle medicine from the system of magic from which it demonstrably evolved and from which the cleavage has never been quite complete. In all of this I have endeavored to go beyond the medical "histories" and construct a fresh synthesis on a basis, both of historic and archeologic data and biologic and Hygienic data that the "historians" persist in ignoring or ridiculing.

It has been observed that the synthesis achieved in one day requires years of previous analysis. The new synthesis here presented is the work of nearly four decades of analysis. I do not assert that this book could not have been written by some other Hygienist (perhaps some other Hygienist could have done a much better job), but I do assert that only a Hygienist could have written it. Only one well versed in the principles and practices of Natural Hygiene could have separated the different practices of the past, one from the other, and re-synthesized them in the manner that is here done. The reader is, therefore, invited to undertake a study of history such as he has never undertaken before, and, at the same time, to acquire a new and, what must appear to him to be, a radically different view of life and of man's past insofar as our subject relates to his past.' (From the introduction) 

Details

• Hardcover without dust jacket (has light signs of wear and tear)
• First Edition, 1961
• Condition: Good, sticker on the inside of the front cover, name on the first page, no further notes/stamps. 
  
• Publisher: Dr. Shelton's Health School San Antonio Texas