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Feb. 2003 Book Review Continued
 Collectible Treasures Antique and CollectiblesBook Review Feb. 2003
This Month's Book Review is From The Book Title:
The Pulse Test:
The Secret of Building YOUR BASIC HEALTH
by Arthur F. Coca, M.D.
Copyright 1956, 1958 by Arthur F. Coca, M.D.
To: Emil Baron von Dungern scientist, philosopher, poet, my teacher
with gratitude
I am happy to acknowledge the expert assistance that has been so
generously given to the composition of this book by the late
John J. O'Neill, Science Editor of the New York Herald Tribune. A.C.
If you can count to 100 and are determined to be well, you can go a long
way toward eliminating your allergic troubles if you are a usual case. By
"usual case" I mean chiefly the so-called neurotic people who suffer
constantly recurring or persistent headache, "indigestion," constipation,
tiredness, occasional dizziness, stuffy nose, who have consulted one or
more physicians, among them perhaps a "specialist," and have been told
that their health is excellent, but that they are "nervous," and keeping
their minds off their symptoms--"forget them." Such persons can almost
always be permanently relieved of their miseries through the pulse-
dietary tests described in this book.
In the deliverance of the "neurotic" person, then, the first step to be
learned is counting the pulse; and this is almost always very easy to do.
Many young children learn in one-minute demonstrations at school or in
first-aid courses how to find the pulse. It is the rare adult who has not
found his pulse merely by copying the doctor. The following detailed
instructions for finding the pulse will therefore be unnecessary for most
readers.
The pulse can be felt at many spots on the body, and the rate, at any given
moment, is the same in all of them.
The most convenient spot is at the wrist an inch and a half above the base
of the thumb. Place the left hand (if you are right-handed) in the lap with
the palm facing up. Then place the first two fingers of the right hand on
the wrist so that their average distance is about an inch and a half from the
base of the thumb, and three quarters of an inch from the end of the wrist.
Some veins may be seen under the surface of the skin, but these are not
what you want to feel as there is just a steady flow of blood in them and no
pulse-beat. The pulse-beat is felt in the arteries, and there is an artery in
the wrist at a lower depth than that of the visible veins. It carries the
blood coming directly from the heart, and as the heart forces the blood
through the body with strokes like a force-pump, you can feel the pump-
pulses of the heart in the arteries.
The artery in the wrist lies between the sinews in the middle of the upper
surface of the wrist and the bone at the outer side of the wrist. Only a
slight pressure on the finger-tips is usually required in order to feel the
pulse. Move the fingers around slightly and vary the pressure a little
until the pulse is detected.
Once the pulse is found there will be no further difficulty in locating
the right spot.
When counting your pulse have a watch or clock with a second hand close
in view. Pick up the pulse with the finger-tips and wait until the second
hand reaches 60. Then count 1 on the next pulse-beat and continue
counting the beats until the second hand has made a complete circuit and
returned to 60, which will mark the completion of the minute. The
number of the pulse-beats counted in one minute is the pulse-rate.
It will be necessary to count your pulse many times in the course of the
test, but this task is not at all difficult, and the beneficial results which
will follow the close adherence to the test-diet and pulse schedule will be
more than an adequate return for your effort.
What you are buying is not merely relief from present ailment, but, if
you are successful, also health insurance and life extension.
The diagnostic method outlined in this volume is fundamentally simple.
It is based on the fact that allergens speed up the pulse. It consists
essentially of testing isolated foods in order to tell which ones
accelerate the pulse.
On the day the test is started, each "meal" may be limited to a single,
simple food. The pulse is counted in the morning before rising and
again just before the first meal. Thirty minutes after the meal the
pulse is counted, and again at sixty minutes after the meal.
Immediately after the 60 minute count another single food is eaten,
and again the pulse-count is taken after the two half-hour intervals;
and so on through the day.
A record is kept of the foods eaten and of the pulse-counts. The
injurious foods are recognized by the abnormal speed-up of the pulse.
When these foods are dropped from the diet the allergic symptoms
often disappear as if by magic.
That in essence is the procedure.
Later on in this book, the "normal" pulse will be described. The
following preliminary facts are helpful to one who is making a first
attempt to interpret a pulse-dietary record:
A number of competent medical scientists in this country and abroad
(London, Zurich, Madrid), after applying this method of examination
in hundreds of cases of many common ailments, are agreed concerning
the following features of the normal pulse-rate:
1) The pulse-rate in the normal person is not affected at all by digestion,
nor by ordinary physical activity, nor by normal emotional influences.
It is remarkably stable.
2) If a person is not suffering sunburn or an infection such as common
cold, any variation from his normal pulse-rate in usual activity is
probably due to an allergic reaction.
The pulse, then, may be considered a dependable first watchdog of our
health-citadel, telling us promptly whenever we are in possibly injurious
contact with our allergic ememies. The later chapters contain many
examples of this fact.
NOTE: This book contains 16 Chapters, plus Publisher's Preface,
Foreword and a Footnote.
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