John Henry Tilden

John Henry Tilden
Born (1851-01-21)21 January 1851
Van Burensburg, Illinois
Died 1 September 1940(1940-09-01)
Denver, Colorado
Nationality American
Fields Medicine

John Henry Tilden (1851 – 1940) was an American medical doctor now best known in circles of alternative healthcare for his criticism of pharmaceutics and for his theory explaining disease via "toxaemia".

Medical education

John Henry Tilden was born in Van Burensburg, Illinois, on January 21, 1851. He began studying medicine under the supervision of his father, Joseph G Tilden MD. At age 17, the younger Tilden joined the medical office of J. Fellows, of Nokomis, Illinois, and studied medicine another two years. In 1872, Tilden graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, and practiced in Nokomis for eight years. Meanwhile, in 1877, he took a post-graduate course at the American Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri.

Medical practice

In 1879, Tilden moved to St. Louis, and, at the college, lectured in anatomy and physiology for two years. In 1881, he moved to Litchfield, Illinois, where, practicing four years, he "established a fine reputation."[1] In June 1882, he was elected Adjunct Professor of Anatomy in St. Louis. In 1886, Tilden moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he drew acclaim,[1] and in 1890, moved to Denver, Colorado.

Personal life

In 1873, Tilden married Rebecca Maddux, a native of Hillsboro, Illinois, and daughter of Nathaniel Maddux. They had two children, a daughter, Edna, born in 1876, and Elsie, born in 1878 (who died in 1884). Tilden was "a prominent member of the National Eclectic Medical Society, and also of the State Medical Society, of Illinois."[1]

He died in Denver, Colorado, on September 1, 1940, at age 89.[2]

Healthcare views

Early in practice, doubting drug treatment, Tilden began favoring preventive healthcare. In this interest, he began publishing a monthly magazine, The Stuffed Club, in 1900. It was renamed The Philosophy of Health in 1915, and renamed Health Review and Critique in 1926. Also in 1926, Tilden published the book Toxaemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease.[3][4] Years later, Henry Bieler mentioned Tilden as one of his own influences.

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan., retrieved 5 September 2012
  2. ↑ Dr. John H. Tilden DR. Tilden's Biography, Frederic N. Gilbert
  3. ↑ Tilden, John H. (1997). Toxaemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease. Kessinger.
  4. ↑ Book passages:
    • "Food is a stimulant. Overeating is overstimulating. Add to this excess one or two other stimulants—Coffee or tobacco—excessive venery, overwork and worry, and one subject to that amount of drain of nerve-energy will become decidedly enervated. Elimination falls far short of requirements; consequently toxin accumulates in the blood. This adds a pronounced auto-toxin stimulation to that coming from overstimulating habits, and completes a vicious circle. This complex stands for a disease-producing Toxemia, which will be permanent except as toxin crises—so-called acute diseases—lower the amount of toxin, again to accumulate and continue until the habits that keep the body enervated are controlled".
    • "According to the Toxin Philosophy, every so-called disease is a crisis of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration-point, and the crisis, the so-called disease—call it cold, “flu,” pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever—is a vicarious elimination. Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin. Any treatment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles nature in her effort at self-curing".
    Tilden, Toxaemia Explained, 1926.

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