,ver4#aj_/jd_/ja99;,,end99              
,submitted by ,steve ,solomon           
ssolomonsoilandhealth4org    ,nature    
,cure    ,philosophy  ,practice ,based  
on the ,unity of ,disease  ,cure        
,henry ,lindlahr1 ,m4,d4        ,ho1 ye 
who suffer6 ,know ye suffer from        
vowselves4 ,none else  compels--no other
 holds ye that ye live or die4          
--,siddartha      ,,to ,,the            
,,progressive ,,physicians ,,of ,,the   
,,age      ,there are two principal     
methods of treating disease4 ,one is the
  combative1 the other the preventive4  
,the trend of modern medical  research  
and practice in our great colleges and  
endowed research  institutes is almost  
entirely along combative lines1 while   
the  individual1 progressive physician  
learns to work more and more along      
preventive lines4 ,the slogan of modern 
medical science is1 ,kill the  germ and 
cure the disease4 ,the usual procedure  
is to wait until  acute or chronic      
diseases have fully developed1 and then1

 if  possible1 to subdue them by means  
of drugs1 surgical operations1 and  by  
means of the morbid products of disease1
 in the form of serums1  antitoxins1    
vaccines1 etc4 ,the combative method    
fights disease with  disease1 poison    
with poison1 and germs with germs and   
germ products4  ,in the language of the 
,good ,book1 it is ,beelzebub against   
the  ,devil4    ,the preventive method  
does not wait until diseases have fully 
developed and gained the ascendancy in  
the body1 but concentrates  its best    
endeavors on preventing1 by hygienic    
living and by natural  methods of       
treatment1 the development of diseases4 
,by these it  endeavors to put the human
 body in such a normal1 healthy         
condition  that it is practically proof 
against infection or contagion by       
disease taints and miasms1 and against  
the inroads of germs1  bacteria and     
parasites4    ,the question is1 which   
method is the most practical1 the most  
successful and most popular8 ,which will

 stand the test of the  survival of the 
fittest in the great struggle for       
existence8    ,the medical profession   
has good reason to be alarmed by the    
inroads  made in its work by irregular1 
unorthodox systems1 schools and cults   
of treating human ailments2 but instead 
of raging at the audacious  presumption 
of these interlopers1 would it not be   
better to inquire  if there is not some 
reason for the astonishing spread and   
popularity of these therapeutic         
innovations8    ,their success          
undoubtedly is based on the fact that   
they concentrate  their best efforts on 
preventive instead of combative methods 
of  treating disease4 ,people are       
beginning to realize that it is cheaper 
and more advantageous to prevent disease
 than to cure it4 ,to create  and       
maintain continuous1 buoyant good health
 means greater  efficiency for mental   
and physical work2 greater capacity for 
the  true enjoyment of life1 and the    
best insurance against failure and      

poverty4 ,therefore1 he who builds      
health is of greater value to  humanity 
than he who allows people to drift into 
disease through  ignorance of ,nature's 
laws1 and then attempts to cure them by 
doubtful and uncertain combative        
methods4    ,it is said that in ,china  
the physician is hired and paid by the  
year2 that he receives a certain stipend
 as long as the members of  the family  
are in good health1 but that the salary 
is suspended as  long as one of his     
charges is ill4 ,if some similar method 
of  engaging and paying for medical     
services were in vogue in this  country 
the trend of medical research and       
practice would soon  undergo a radical  
change4    ,the diet expert1 the        
hydropath1 the physical culturist1 the  
adjuster  of the spine1 the mental      
healer1 and ,christian scientist1 do not
 pay  much attention to the pathological
 conditions or to the symptoms of       
disease4 ,they regulate the diet and    
habits of living on a natural  basis1   

promote elimination1 teach correct      
breathing and wholesome  exercise1      
correct the mechanical lesions of the   
spine1 establish the  right mental and  
emotional attitude and1 in so far as    
they succeed  in doing this1 they build 
health and diminish the possibility of  
disease4 ,the successful doctor of the  
future will have to fall in  line with  
the procession and do more teaching than
 prescribing4    ,i realize that many of
 the statements and claims made in this 
volume  will seem radical and irrational
 to my colleagues of the regular  school
 of medicine4 ,they win say that most of
 my teachings are  contrary to the      
firmly established theories of medical  
science4 ,all  ,i ask1 of them is not to
 judge too hastily2 to observe1 to think
 and  to test1 and ,i am certain that   
they will find verified in actual       
experience many of the teachings of the 
,nature ,cure ,philosophy4  ,medical    
science has had to abandon innumerable  
theories and  practices which at one    

time were as firmly established as some 
of  the pet theories of today4    ,by   
none of the statements made in this book
 do ,i mean to deny the  necessity of   
combative methods under certain         
circumstances4 ,what ,i  wish to        
emphasize is that the regular school of 
medicine is spending  too much of its   
effort along combative lines and not    
enough along  preventive4 ,it would be  
foolish to deny the necessity of surgery
 in  traumatism1 and in abnormal        
conditions which require mechanical     
means of adjustment or treatment4       
,such necessity1 for instance1 will     
exist in certain obstetrical  cases1 as 
long as women have not learned1 or are  
not willing to live  in such a way as to
 make surgical intervention unnecessary 
in  child-birth4 ,the same is true with 
regard to the treatment of germ         
diseases4 ,as long as people persist in 
violating the laws of their  being1 and 
thereby making their bodies prolific    
breeding grounds for  disease taints1   

germs and parasites which are bound to  
provoke  inflammatory1 feverish         
processes 7,nature's cleansing and      
healing  efforts71 combative measures   
will have to be resorted to by the      
physician1 and precautionary measures   
against infection will have to  be      
observed1 but these should be in harmony
 with ,nature's endeavors1  not contrary
 and suppressive2 they should tend to   
conserve and not  to destroy4           
,natural dietetics1 fasting1 hydropathy1
 osteopathy1 chiropractic1  and mental  
therapeutics1 are combative as well as  
preventive1 but if  properly applied    
they do not in any way injure the       
organism or  interfere with ,nature's   
intent and ,nature's methods4 ,this     
cannot be  said for much of the surgical
 and medical treatment of the old       
school of medicine4 ,we criticize and   
condemn only those methods  which are   
suppressive and destructive instead of  
curative4    ,in many instances already 
the warnings and teachings of ,nature   

,cure  ,philosophy have been verified1  
and had to be heeded and accepted by    
medical science4 ,the exponents of      
,nature ,cure protested against the     
barbarous practice of withholding water 
from patients burning in  fever heat1   
and against the exclusion of fresh air  
from the sickroom  by order of the      
doctor4 ,the cold water and no drug     
treatment of  typhoid fever1 the water  
treatment for other acute diseases1 as  
well  as the open air treatment for     
tuberculosis1 were forced upon the      
medical profession by the ,nature ,cure 
people4 ,for more than half a  century  
the latter have been curing all         
inflammaory1 feverish  diseases1 from   
simple colds to scarlet fever1          
diphtheria1  cerebro-spinal meningitis1 
smallpox1 appendicitis1 etc41 etc41 by  
hydropathy1 fasting1 and other natural  
methods1 without resorting at  all to   
the use of poisonous drugs1 antitoxins  
and surgical  operations4    ,for many  
years before the terrible after-effects 

of ,x-,ray treatment1  of extirpation of
 the ovaries1 the womb1 and of other    
vital organs1  became so patent that the
 physicians of the regular school could 
not  ignore them any longer1 ,nature    
,cure physicians had strongly warned    
against these unnatural practices1 and  
called attention to their  destructive  
after-effects4    ,as far back as ten   
years ago1 when the ,x-,rays were in    
high favor for  the treatment of cancer1
 lupus1 and other diseases1 ,i warned   
against  the use of these rays1 claiming
 that their vibratory velocity was  too 
high and powerful1 and therefore        
destructive to the tissues of  the human
 body4 ,since the failure of the        
,x-,rays and the discovery of           
,radio-activity1 the rays and emanations
 of radium and other  radio-active      
substances are widely advertised and    
exploited as  therapeutic agents1 but   
these rays also are far beyond the      
vibratory  ranges of the physical body  
in velocity and power4 ,therefore1 it   

remains to be seen whether their        
injurious by and after-effects do  not  
out-weigh in the long run their         
beneficial effects4    ,the destructive 
action of these high power rays1 as well
 as of  inorganic minerals1 is very slow
 and insidious1 manifesting only in  the
 course of many years4 ,this new field  
of therapeutics1 therefore1  has not yet
 passed the stage of dangerous          
experimentation4    ,inorganic minerals 
prove injurious and destructive to the  
tissues of  the human body because they 
are too slow in vibratory velocity1 and 
too coarse in molecular structure4      
,it is the intent and purpose of this   
volume to warn against the  exploitation
 of destructive combative methods to the
 neglect of  preventive constructive and
 conservative methods4 ,if these        
teachings  contribute something toward  
this end they will fulfil their mission4
    ,the ,author    ,chicago1 ,nov41    
#aiac4        ,,introduction      ,it   
was the following letter from ,mr4      

,william ,louden to the editor of       
,health ,culture which prompted the     
author to issue the ,nature  ,cure      
,magazine 7published from ,november1    
#aijg1 to ,october1 #aiji74  ,in the    
series of books of which this is the    
first volume1 he will  endeavor to      
collect and systematize all his former  
writings in the  ,nature ,cure          
,magazine1 ,health ,culture1 ,life and  
,action1 the  ,naturopath1 the          
,volksrath1 and other publications1 and 
to  amplify these by new material       
obtained through further research and   
wider experience4    ,mr4 ,albert       
,turner1    ,editor of ,health ,culture4
    ,,dear ,,sir--,i write to ask what  
you consider the best book or pamphlet  
to put into the hands of people         
generally1 in regard to the             
preservation of health4 ,i know ther e  
are a number of very excellent          
publications1 but as a rule they deal   
with certain details or phases  of the  
question1 and do not begin with the     

great underlying  principles in such a  
way as to attract and hold the attention
 of the  masses4 ,one advocates one     
plan1 and another an entirely different1
  and sometimes a directly opposite     
plan--such as uncooked vs4  thoroughly  
cooked food2 a strictly vegetarian diet1
 and mental  culture in place of        
attention to either1 etc4 ,such a state 
of  affairs makes it confusing to       
average people and gets them to  believe
 that health reformers are all at sea1  
and what is good for  one is not good   
for another1 or1 in common language1    
what is one  man's meat is another's    
poison4    ,now1 ,i know it is natural1 
and doubtless best1 that there should be
  a difference of opinion on any        
question1 but at the same time1 if  any 
movement is to be crowned with great    
success1 there should be  some          
underlying principles upon which all    
should agree1 and these  should be      
pressed to the forefront1 so as to      
attract and hold the  attention of the  

people1 in place of the divergent       
details upon  which they disagree4 ,if  
these fundamental laws and principles   
are  thoroughly studied and well        
defined1 it may be found that they would
  explain the discrepancies between the 
different theories1 and that  under     
certain conditions1 one plan is best1   
and that under different  conditions    
another plan is more applicable1 etc4   
,the pushing of  these fundamental      
principles to the front would also tend 
to correct  errors into which the       
different theorists have fallen1 and    
would  certainly tend to make the       
different theories more homogeneous and 
more easily understood by people in     
general1 than at present4    ,in my     
opinion1 the general fundamental        
principles of life and health  are what 
people need to understand more than     
anything else4 ,without  this1 most of  
the details will be meaningless or at   
least confusing  dogmas4 ,i don't mean  
by these fundamental principles the     

details of  anatomy1 or1 for that       
matter1 the details of anything else1   
but the  general rules governing life   
and death1 so that people may know      
which way they1 are tending1 and may    
understand the many illusions  with     
which life and death1 as well as all    
else in nature are beset4    ,yours     
truly1    ,,william ,,louden    ,louden 
,mfg4 ,co41    ,fairfield1 ,iowa4       
,the present volume and others of the   
,nature ,cure ,series which are  to     
follow are an attempt to answer ,mr4    
,louden's inquiry and to  formulate and 
elucidate the fundamental laws of       
health1 disease and  cure for which he  
and many others have been vainly        
seeking4 ,who  among you at some time or
 another1 has not thought and felt like 
,mr4  ,louden and in doubt and          
perplexity voiced ,pilate's query1      
,what ,is ,truth8    ,the exact         
information and rational method of      
teaching which ,mr4  ,louden is seeking1
 has heretofore been wanting in         

health-culture  literature4    ,many1   
indeed1 stand ready and willing to show 
the way to physical1  mental and moral  
perfection4 ,hundreds1 yes1 thousands1  
of different  cults1 isms1 teachers1    
books and periodicals treat of these    
subjects1 but their teachings are so    
manifold1 so contradictory and          
confusing1 that one becomes bewildered  
amid the ever increasing  testimony4 ,as
 is often the case in the study of      
complicated  subjects1 the more one     
reads and the more one hears1 the less  
one  knows4 ,i believe that no one has  
described more strikingly this  state of
 general perplexity than ,mr4 ,louden in
 his excellent letter4    ,nevertheless1
 these simple fundamental laws and      
principles really  exist4 ,they must    
exist1 because everything in ,nature1   
including the  processes of health1 of  
disease and cure1 of birth1 of life and 
death1 are subject to law and order4    
,allopathy1 or ,old ,school ,medical    
,science1 admits that it does not  know 

these fundamental principles2 that it   
reasons1 not from  underlying causes1   
but from external symptoms and personal 
experiences4 ,it is1 therefore1         
self-confessedly full of doubts1  errors
 and confusion2 in short1 empirical--and
 necessarily1 a  failure4    ,many      
teachers of ,nature ,cure1 ,hygiene and 
,health cults have stumbled             
accidentally upon some of the natural   
laws and true methods of  healing1 but  
have failed to grasp and to formulate   
the broad  underlying principles4 ,for  
this reason they are often partly right 
and partly wrong and very apt to overdo 
certain methods to the  neglect of      
others just as effective and essential1 
or even more so4    ,i shall endeavor in
 these volumes to formulate and         
elucidate some of  the fundamental laws 
and principles underlying the phenomena 
of life  and death1 health1 disease and 
cure1 and shall try to ascertain in  the
 light of these laws how much of truth  
and how much of error1 how  much of     

usefulness and how much of harmfulness  
there may be  contained in the various  
theories and systems of living and of   
healing4    ,nature ,owe an ,exact      
,science    ,one of the reasons why     
,nature ,cure is not more popular with  
the  medical profession and the public  
is that it is too simple4 ,the  average 
mind is more impressed by the involved  
and mysterious than  by the simple and  
common-sense4    ,however1 it remains a 
fact that exact science reduces         
complexity  and confusion to simplicity 
and clearness4 ,science becomes exact   
science only when the underlying laws   
which correlate and unify its  scattered
 facts and theories have been           
discovered4    ,these simple laws       
rightly understood and applied will do  
for medical  science what the law of    
gravitation has done for physics and    
astronomy1 and what the laws of chemical
 affinity have done for  chemistry1 they
 will place medical science in the ranks
 of exact  sciences4 ,the understanding 

and proper application of these truths  
will explain every fact and phenomenon  
in the processes of health1  disease and
 cure1 and will enable the student to   
reason from simple1  natural laws and   
principles to their logical effects4    
,the ,regular  school of medicine1 so   
far1 has endeavored to build a medical  
science on the observation of effects   
and experiences1 but  since one         
fundamental law of nature may produce a 
million seemingly  differing effects it 
becomes self-evident that it is utterly 
impossible to found an exact science on 
such uncertain and  conflicting         
evidence4    ,the primary laws and      
principles once understood1 it becomes  
easy to  reason from and to explain     
through them1 the various phenomena     
which  they produce4 ,herein lie the    
merit and achievement of the ,nature    
,cure philosophy4    ,,the ,,upas ,,tree
 ,,of ,,disease    ,,evil ,,is ,,not    
,,an ,,accident1 ,,not ,,an ,,arbitrary 
,,punishment1 ,,not ,,always ,,an       

,,error ,,of ,,mortal ,,mind4 ,,it ,,is 
,,the ,,natural ,,and ,,inevitable      
,,result ,,of  ,,violations ,,of        
,,nature',s ,,laws4 ,,it ,,is           
,,instructive ,,and ,,corrective ,,in   
,,purpose1 ,,and ,,will ,,remain ,,with 
,,us ,,only ,,as ,,long ,,as ,,we ,,need
 ,,its  ,,salutary ,,lessons4           
,chapter ,i      ,what ,is ,nature      
,cure8      ,it is vastly more than a   
system of curing aches and pains2 it is 
a  complete revolution in the art and   
science of living4 ,it is the  practical
 realization and application of all that
 is good in natural  science1 philosophy
 and religion4 ,like many another       
world-wide  revolution and reformation1 
it had its inception in ,germany1 the   
land of thinkers and philosophers4      
,about seventy years ago this greatest  
and most beneficent of  reformation     
movements was inaugurated by ,priessnitz
 in ,grafenberg1 a  small village in the
 ,silesian mountains4 ,the originator of
 ,nature  ,cure was a simple farmer1 but

 he had a natural genius for the art of 
healing4    ,his pharmacopeia consisted 
not in poisonous pills and potions but  
in  plenty of exercise1 fresh mountain  
air1 water treatments in the  cool1     
sparkling brooks1 and simple1 wholesome 
country fare1  consisting largely of    
black bread1 vegetables1 and milk fresh 
from  cows fed on nutritious mountain   
grasses4    ,the results accomplished by
 these simple means were wonderful4     
,before he died1 a large sanitarium1    
filled with patients from all  over the 
world and from all stations of life1 had
 grown up around  his forest home4      
,among those who made the pilgrimage to 
,grafenberg to become patients  and     
students of this genial healer1 the     
simple-minded  farmer-physician1 were   
wealthy merchants1 princes and doctors  
from  all parts of the world4           
,rapidly the idea of drugless healing   
spread over ,germany and over  the      
civilized world4 ,in the ,fatherland1   
,hahn the apothecary1 ,kuhne  the       

weaver1 ,rikli the manufacturer1 ,father
 ,kneipp the priest1  ,lahmann the      
doctor1 and ,turnvater ,jahn1 the       
founder of physical  culture1 became    
enthusiastic pupils and followers of    
,priessnitz4    ,each one of these men  
enlarged and enriched some special field
 of  the great realm of natural healing4
 ,some elaborated the water cure  and   
natural dietetics1 others invented      
various systems of  manipulative        
treatment1 earth1 air and light cures1  
magnetic  healing1 mental therapeutics1 
curative gymnastics1 etc41 etc4 ,von    
,peckzely added the ,diagnosis from the 
,eye1 which reveals not only  the       
innermost secrets of the human organism1
 but also ,nature's ways  and means of  
cure1 and the changes for better or for 
worse  continually occurring in the     
body4    ,in this country1 ,dr4 ,trall  
of ,new ,york1 ,dr4 ,jackson of         
,danville1 ,dr4  ,kellogg of ,battle    
,creek1 and others caught the infection 
and crossed  the ocean to become        

students of ,priessnitz4 ,the           
achievements of  these men in their     
respective fields of endeavor will stand
 as  enduring monuments to the eternal  
truths revealed by the genius of        
,nature ,cure4    ,quimby1 the itinerant
 spiritualist and healer1 became        
successful and  renowned by the         
application of the natural methods of   
cure4 ,at first  his favorite methods   
were water1 massage1 magnetic and mental
  treatment4 ,gradually he concentrated 
his efforts on metaphysical  methods of 
cure1 and before he died1 he evolved a  
complete system of  magnetic and mental 
therapeutics4    ,quimby's teachings and
 methods were adopted by ,mrs4 ,eddy1   
his most  enthusiastic pupil1 and by her
 elaborated into ,christian ,science1   
the latest and most successful of modern
 mental-healing cults4    ,dr4 ,still of
 ,kirksville1 ,missouri1 made a valuable
 addition to  natural methods of        
treatment by the invention of           
,osteopathy1 a  system of scientific    

manipulation of the bony structures1    
nerves and  nerve centers1 muscles and  
ligaments4 ,a later development of      
manipulative science is ,chiropractic1  
originated by ,dr4 ,palmer of           
,davenport1 ,iowa4 ,thus the simple     
pioneers of ,german ,nature ,cure1      
every one of them gifted by ,nature with
 the instinct and genius of  the true   
healer1 who is born1 not made1 laid the 
foundation for the  worldwide modern    
healthculture movement4    ,they were   
not blinded or confused by the          
conflicting theories of  books and      
authorities1 or by the action of a      
thousand different  drugs on a legion of
 different symptoms1 but applied        
common-sense  reasoning to the solution 
of the problems of health1 disease and  
cure4    ,they went for inspiration to  
field and forest rather than to the     
murky atmosphere of the dissecting and  
vivisection rooms4 ,they  studied the   
whole and not only the parts1 causes as 
well as effects  and symptoms4          

,realizing that man had lost his natural
 instinct and  strayed far from         
,nature's ways1 they studied and        
imitated the  natural habits of the     
animal creation rather than the         
confusing  doctrines of the schools4    
,thus they proclaimed the return to     
,nature and the new gospel of  health1  
which are destined to free humanity from
 the destructive  influences of         
alcoholism1 red meat overeating1 the    
dope and tobacco  habit1 and of drug    
poisoning1 vaccination1 surgical        
mutilation1  vivisection and a thousand 
other abuses practiced in the name of   
science4    ,when parents learn how to  
create children in accord with natural  
law1 how to mold their bodies and their 
characters into harmony and  beauty     
before the new life sees the light of   
day1 when they learn to  rear their     
offspring in health of body and purity  
of mind in harmony  with the laws of    
their being1 then we shall have true    
types of  beautiful manhood and         

womanhood1 then children will no longer 
be a  curse and a burden to themselves  
and to those who bring them into  the   
world or to society at large4    ,these 
thoughts are not the mere dreams of a   
visionary4 ,when we see  the wonderful  
changes wrought in a human being by a   
few months or  years of rational living 
and treatment1 it seems not impossible  
or  improbable that these ideals may be 
realized within a few  generations4     
,children thus born and reared in       
harmony with the law will be the  future
 masters of the earth4 ,they will need  
neither gold nor  influence to win in   
the race of life--their innate powers of
 body and  soul will make them victors  
over every circumstance4 ,the offspring 
of alcoholism1 drug poisoning and sexual
 perversity will cut but  sorry figures 
in comparison with the manhood and      
womanhood of a true  and noble          
aristocracy of health4        ,chapter  
,,ii      ,catechism of ,nature ,cure   
,the philosophy of ,nature ,cure is     

based on sciences dealing with  newly   
discovered or rediscovered natural laws 
and principles1 and  with their         
application to the phenomena of life and
 death1 health1  disease and cure4      
,every new science embodying new modes  
of thought requires exact  modes of     
expression and new definitions of       
already well-known words  and phrases4  
,therefore1 we have endeavored to       
define1 as precisely as possible1       
certain words and phrases which convey  
meanings and ideas peculiar  to the     
teachings of ,nature ,cure4    ,the     
student of ,nature ,cure and kindred    
subjects will do well to  study these   
definitions and formulated principles   
closely1 as they  contain the pith and  
marrow of our philosophy and greatly    
facilitate  its understanding4    7#a7  
,what ,is ,nature ,cure8    ,nature     
,cure is a system of building the entire
 being in harmony with  the constructive
 principle in ,nature on the physical1  
mental1 moral  and spiritual planes of  

being4    7#b7 ,what ,is the            
,constructive ,principle in ,nature8    
,the constructive principle in ,nature  
is that principle which builds  up1     
improves and repairs1 which always makes
 for the perfect type1  whose activity  
in ,nature is designated as evolutionary
 and  constructive and which is opposed 
to the destructive principle in  ,nature
    7#c7 ,what ,is the ,destructive     
,principle in ,nature8    ,the          
destructive principle in ,nature is that
 principle which  disintegrates and     
destroys existing forms and types1 and  
whose  activity in ,nature is designated
 as devolutionary and destructive4      
7#d7 ,what ,is ,normal or ,natural8     
,that is normal or natural which is in  
harmonic relation with the  life        
purposes of the individual and the      
constructive principle in  ,nature4     
7#e7 ,what ,is ,health8    ,health is   
normal and harmonious vibration of the  
elements and forces  composing the human
 entity on the physical1 mental1 moral  

and  spiritual planes of being1 in      
conformity with the constructive        
principle of ,nature applied to         
individual life4    7#f7 ,what ,is      
,disease8    ,disease is abnormal or    
inharmonious vibration of the elements  
and  forces composing the human entity  
on one or more planes of being1 in      
conformity with the destructive         
principle of ,nature applied to         
individual life4    7#g7 ,what ,is the  
,primary ,cause of ,disease8    ,the    
primary cause of disease1 barring       
accidental or surgical injury  to the   
human organism and surroundings hostile 
to human life1 is  violation of         
,nature's ,laws4    7#h7 ,what ,is the  
,effect of ,violation of ,nature's ,laws
 on the ,physical  ,human ,organism8    
,the effect of violation of ,nature's   
,laws on the physical human  organism   
are3    ,lowered vitality4 ,abnormal    
composition of blood and lymph4         
,accumulation of waste matter1 morbid   
materials and poisons4    ,these        

conditions are identical with disease1  
because they tend to  lower1 hinder or  
inhibit normal function 7harmonious     
vibration7 and  because they engender   
and promote destruction of living       
tissues4    7#i7 ,what ,is ,acute       
,disease8    ,what is commonly called   
acute disease is in reality the result  
of  ,nature's efforts to eliminate from 
the organism waste matter1  foreign     
matter and poisons1 and to repair injury
 to living tissues4  ,in other words1   
every so-called acute disease is the    
result of a  cleansing and healing      
effort of ,nature4 ,the real disease is 
lowered  vitality1 abnormal composition 
of the vital fluids 7blood and lymph7   
and the resulting accumulation of waste 
materials and poisons4    7#aj7 ,what   
,is ,chronic ,disease8    ,chronic      
disease is a condition of the organism  
in which lowered  vibration 7lowered    
vitality71 due to the accumulation of   
waste  matter and poisons1 with the     
consequent destruction of vital parts   

and organs1 has progressed to such an   
extent that ,nature's  constructive and 
healing forces are no longer able to    
react against  the disease conditions by
 acute corrective efforts 7healing      
crises74  ,chronic disease is a         
condition of the organismin which the   
morbid  encumbrances have gained the    
ascendancy and prevent acute reaction   
7healing crises7 on the part of the     
constructive forces of ,nature4         
,chronic disease is the inability of the
 organism to react by acute  efforts or 
healing crises against constitutional   
disease conditions4    7#aa7 ,what ,is a
 ,healing ,crisis8    ,a healing crisis 
is an acute reaction1 resulting from the
 ascendancy  of ,nature's healing forces
 over disease conditions4 ,its tendency 
is  toward recovery1 and it is1         
therefore1 in conformity with ,nature's 
constructive principle4    7#ab7 ,are   
,all ,acute ,reactions ,healing ,crises8
    ,no1 there are healing crises and   
disease crises4    7#ac7 ,what ,is a    

,disease ,crisis8    ,a disease crisis  
is an acute reaction resulting from the 
ascendancy  of disease conditions over  
the healing forces of the organism4 ,its
  tendency is toward fatal termination1 
and it is1 therefore1 in  conformity    
with ,nature's destructive principle    
7#ad7 ,what ,is ,cure8    ,cure is the  
readjustment of the human organism from 
abnormal to  normal conditions and      
functions4    7#ae7 ,what ,methods of   
,cure ,are in ,conformity with the      
,constructive  ,principle in ,nature8   
,those methods which3    ,establish     
normal surroundings and natural habits  
of life in accord  with ,nature's ,laws4
 ,economize vital force4 ,build up the  
blood on a  natural basis1 that is1     
supply the blood with its natural       
constituents in right proportions4      
,promote the elimination of waste       
matter and poisons without in any way   
injuring the human body4  ,arouse the   
individual in the highest possible      
degree to the  consciousness of personal

 accountability and the necessity of    
intelligent personal effort and         
self-help4    7#af7 ,are ,medicines in  
,conformity with the ,constructive      
,principle in  ,nature8    ,medicines   
are in conformity with the constructive 
principle in  ,nature insofar as they1  
in themselves1 are not injurious and    
destructive to the human organism and   
insofar as they act as tissue  foods and
 promote the neutralization and         
elimination of morbid  matter and       
poisons4    7#ag7 ,are ,poisonous ,drugs
 and ,promiscuous ,surgical ,operations 
in  ,conformity with the ,constructive  
,principle in ,nature8    ,poisonous    
drugs and promiscuous operations are not
 usually in  conformity with the        
constructive principle in ,nature1      
because3    ,they suppress acute        
diseases or reactions 7crises71 the     
cleaning and  healing efforts of        
,nature4 ,they are in themselves harmful
 and  destructive to human life4 ,such  
treatment fosters the belief that  drugs

 and surgical operations can be         
substituted for obedience to  ,nature's 
,laws and for personal effort and       
self-help4    7#ah7 ,is ,metaphysical   
,healing in ,conformity with the        
,constructive  ,principle in ,nature8   
,metaphysical systems of healing are in 
conformity with the  constructive       
principle in ,nature insofar as3        
,they do not interfere with or suppress 
,nature's healing efforts4  ,they awaken
 hope and confidence 7therapeutic faith7
 and increase the  inflow of vital force
 into the organism4    ,they are not in 
conformity with the constructive        
principle in ,nature  in so far as3     
,they fail to assist ,nature's healing  
efforts4 ,they ignore1 obscure  and deny
 the laws of ,nature and defy the       
dictates of reason and  common sense4   
,they substitute1 in the treatment of   
disease1 a blind1  dogmatic belief in   
the wonder-working power of metaphysical
 formulas  and prayer for intelligent   
cooperation with ,nature's constructive 

forces for personal effort and          
self-help4 ,they weaken the             
consciousness of personal               
responsibility4    7#ai7 ,is ,nature    
,cure in ,conformity with the           
,constructive ,principle in  ,nature8   
,nature ,cure is in conformity with the 
constructive principle in  ,nature      
because3    ,it teaches that the primary
 cause of weakness and disease is       
disobedience to the laws of ,nature4 ,it
 arouses the individual to the  study of
 natural laws and demonstrates the      
necessity of strict  compliance with    
these laws4 ,it strengthens the         
consciousness of  personal              
responsibility of the individual for his
 own status of  health and for the      
hereditary conditions1 traits and       
tendencies of  his off-spring4 ,it      
encourages personal effort and          
self-help4 ,it  adapts surroundings and 
habits of life to natural laws4 ,it     
assists  ,nature's cleansing and healing
 efforts by simple natural means and    

methods of treatment which are in no    
wise harmful or destructive to  health  
and life1 and which are within the reach
 of everyone4    7#bj7 ,what ,are the   
,natural ,methods of ,living and of     
,treatment8    ,return to ,nature by the
 regulation of eating1 drinking1        
breathing1  bathing1 dressing1 working1 
resting1 thinking1 the moral life1      
sexual and social activities1 etc41 on a
 normal and natural basis4  ,elementary 
remedies1 such as water1 air1 light1    
earth cures1  magnetism1 electricity1   
etc4 ,chemical remedies1 such as        
scientific  food selection and          
combination1 specific nutritional       
augmentation  with natural food         
concentrates1 homeopathic medicines1    
simple herb  extracts and the           
vitochemical remedies4 ,mechanical      
remedies1 such as  corrective           
gymnastics1 massage1 magnetic treatment1
 chiropractic or  osteopathic           
manipulation and1 when indicated1       
surgery4 ,mental and  spiritual         

remedies1 such as scientific relaxation1
 normal  suggestion1 constructive       
thought1 the prayer of faith1 etc4      
,chapter ,,iii      ,what ,is ,life8    
,in our study of the cause and character
 of disease we must endeavor  to begin  
at the beginning1 and that is with      
,,life itself1 for the  processes of    
health1 disease and cure are            
manifestations of that  which we call   
life1 vitality1 life elements1 etc4     
,while endeavoring to fathom the mystery
 of life we soon realize1  however1 that
 we are dealing with an ultimate which  
no human mind is  capable of solving or 
explaining4 ,we can study and understand
 life  only in its manifestations1 not  
in its origin and real essence4         
,there are two prevalent1 but widely    
differing1 conceptions of the  nature of
 life or vital force3 the material and  
the vital4    ,the former looks upon    
life or vital force with all its        
physical1  mental and psychical         
phenomena as manifestations of the      

electric1  magnetic and chemical        
activities of the physical-material     
elements  composing the human organism4 
,from this viewpoint1 life is a sort of 
spontaneous combustion1 or1 as one      
scientist expressed it1 a  succession of
 fermentations4    ,this materialistic  
conception of life1 however1 has already
 become  obsolete among the more        
advanced biologists as a result of the  
wonderful discoveries of modern science1
 which are fast bridging the  chasm     
between the material and the spiritual  
realms of being4    ,but medical        
science1 as taught in the regular       
schools1 is still  dominated by the old1
 crude1 mechanical conception of vital  
force  and this1 as we shall see1       
accounts for some of its gravest errors 
of theory and of practice4    ,the vital
 conception of life1 on the other hand1 
regards it as the  primary force of all 
forces1 coming from the great central   
source of  all power4    ,this force1   
which permeates1 heats and animates the 

entire created  universe1 is the        
expression of the divine will1 the      
logos1 the  word of the great creative  
intelligence4 ,it is this divine energy 
which sets in motion the whirls in the  
ether1 the electric  corpuscles and ions
 that make up the different atoms and   
elements of  matter4    ,these          
corpuscles and ions are positive and    
negative forms of  electricity4         
,electricity is a form of energy4 ,it is
 intelligent  energy2 otherwise it could
 not move with that same wonderful      
precision in the electrons of the atoms 
as in the suns and planets  of the      
sidereal universe4    ,this intelligent 
energy can have but one source3 the will
 and the  intelligence of the ,creator2 
as ,swedenborg expresses it1 the great  
central sun of the universe4    ,if this
 supreme intelligence should withdraw   
its energy1 the  electrical charges     
7forms of energy7 and with it the atoms1
  elements1 and the entire material     
universe would disappear in the  flash  

of a moment4    ,from this it appears   
that crude matter1 instead of being the 
source  of life and of all its          
complicated mental and spiritual        
phenomena  7which assumption1 on the    
face of it1 is absurd71 is only an      
expression of the ,life ,force1 itself a
 manifestation of the great  creative   
intelligence which some call ,god1      
others ,nature1 the  ,oversoul1 ,brahma1
 ,prana1 etc41 each one according to his
 best  understanding4    ,it is this    
supreme power and intelligence1 acting  
in and through  every atom1 molecule and
 cell in the human body1 which is the   
true  healer1 the vis medicatrix nature1
 which always endeavors to  repair1 to  
heal and to restore the perfect type4   
,all that the  physician can do is to   
remove obstructions and to establish    
normal  conditions within and around the
 patient1 so that the healer within  can
 do his work to the best advantage4     
,here the ,christian ,scientist will    
say3 ,that is exactly what we  claim4   

,all is ,god1 all is mind6 ,there is no 
matter6 ,our attitude  toward disease is
 based on these facts4    ,well1 what of
 it1 ,brother ,scientist8 ,suppose1 in  
the final analysis1  matter is nothing  
but vibration1 an expression of ,divine 
,mind and  ,will4 ,that1 for all        
practical purposes1 does not justify me 
to deny  and to ignore its reality4     
,because ,i have an all-mind body1 is it
  advisable for me to place myself in   
the way of an all-mind  locomotive      
moving at the rate of sixty miles an    
hour8    ,the question is not what      
matter is in the final analysis1 but how
  matter affects us4 ,we have to take it
 and treat it as we find it4 ,we  must  
be as obedient to the laws of matter as 
to those of the higher  planes of being4
    ,life ,is ,vibratory    ,in the     
final analysis1 all things in ,nature1  
from a fleeti g thought  or emotion to  
the hardest piece of diamond or         
platinum1 are modes of  motion or       
vibration4 ,a few years ago physical    

science assumed that  an atom was the   
smallest imaginable part of a given     
element of  matter2 that although       
infinitesimally small1 it still         
represented  solid matter4 ,now1 in the 
light of better evidence1 we have good  
reason to believe that there is no such 
thing as solid matter3 that  every atom 
is made up of charges of negative and   
positive  electricity acting in and upon
 an omnipresent ether2 that the         
difference between an atom of iron and  
of hydrogen or any other  element       
consists solely in the number of        
electrical charges or  corpuscles it    
contains1 and on the velocity with which
 these vibrate  around one another4     
,thus the atom1 which was thought to be 
the ultimate particle of  solid matter1 
is found to be a little universe in     
itself in which  corpuscles of          
electricity rotate or vibrate around one
 another like  the suns and planets in  
the sidereal universe4 ,this explains   
what we  mean when we say life and      

matter are vibratory4    ,as early as   
#ahfc ,john ,newlands discovered that   
when he arranged the  elements of matter
 in the order of their atomic weight1   
they  displayed the same relationship to
 one another as do the tones in  the    
musical scale4 ,thus modern chemistry   
demonstrates the verity of  the music of
 the spheres--another visionary concept 
of ancient  mysticism4 ,the individual  
atoms in themselves1 as well as all the 
atoms of matter in their relationship to
 one another1 are  constructed and      
arranged in exact correspondence with   
the laws of  harmony4 ,therefore the    
entire sidereal universe is built on the
 laws  of music4    ,that which is      
orderly1 lawful1 good1 beautiful1       
natural1 healthy1  vibrates in unison   
with the harmonics of this great        
,diapason of  ,nature2 in other words1  
it is in alignment with the constructive
  principle in ,nature4    ,that which  
is disorderly1 abnormal1 ugly1          
unnatural1 unhealthy1  vibrates in      

discord with ,nature's harmonics4 ,it is
 in alignment with  the destructive     
principle in ,nature4    ,what we call  
,inanimate ,nature is beautiful and     
orderly because it  plays in tune with  
the score of the ,symphony of ,life4    
,man alone can  play out of tune4 ,this 
is his privilege1 if he so chooses1 by  
virtue  of his freedom of choice and    
action4    ,we can now better understand
 the definitions of health and of       
disease1 given in ,chapter ,two1        
,catechism of ,nature ,cure as  follows3
    ,health is normal and harmonious    
vibration of the elements and  forces   
composing the human entity on the       
physical1 mental1 moral and  spiritual  
planes of being1 in conformity with the 
constructive  principle of ,nature      
applied to individual life4    ,disease 
is abnormal or inharmonious vibration of
 the elements and  forces composing the 
human entity on one or more planes of   
being1 in  conformity with the          
destructive principle of ,nature applied

 to  individual life4    ,the question  
naturally arising here is1 ,normal or   
abnormal  vibration with what8 ,the     
answer is that the vibratory conditions 
of  the organism must be in harmony with
 ,nature's established harmonic         
relations in the physical1 mental1      
moral1 spiritual and psychical  realms  
of human life and action4    ,what ,is  
an ,established ,harmonic ,relation8    
,let us see whether we cannot make this 
clear by a simile4 ,if a watch  is in   
good condition1 in harmonious vibration1
 its movement is so  adjusted that it   
coincides exactly1 in point of time1    
with the  rotations of our earth around 
its axis4 ,the established1 regular     
movement of the earth forms the basis of
 the established harmonic  relationship 
between the vibrations of a normal1     
healthy timepiece  and the revolutions  
of our planet4 ,the watch has to vibrate
 in  unison with the harmonics of the   
planetary universe in order to be       
normal1 or in harmony4    ,in like      

manner1 everything that is normal1      
natural1 healthy1 good1  beautiful must 
vibrate in unison with its correlated   
harmonics in  ,nature4    ,obedience the
 ,only ,salvation    ,orthodox medical  
science attributes disease largely to   
accidental  causes3 to chance infection 
by disease taints1 germs or parasites2  
to drafts1 chills1 wet feet1 etc4       
,the religiously inclined frequently    
attribute disease and other             
tribulations to the arbitrary rulings of
 an inscrutable ,providence4            
,christian ,scientists tell us that sin1
 suffering1 disease and all  other kinds
 of evil are only errors of mortal mind1
 or the products  of diseased           
imagination 7though this in itself      
admits the existence  of something      
abnormal or diseased74    ,nature ,cure 
philosophy presents a rational concept  
of evil1 its  cause and purpose1 namely3
 that it is brought on by violation of  
,nature's ,laws2 that it is corrective  
in its purpose2 that it can be  overcome

 only by compliance with the law4 ,there
 is no suffering1  disease or evil of   
any kind anywhere unless the law has    
been  transgressed somewhere by someone4
    ,these transgressions of the law may
 be due to ignorance1 to  indifference  
or to wilfulness and viciousness4 ,the  
effects will  always be commensurate    
with the causes4    ,the science of     
natural living and healing shows clearly
 that what we  call disease is primarily
 ,nature's effort to eliminate morbid   
matter  and to restore the normal       
functions of the body2 that the         
processes  of disease are just as       
orderly in their way as everything else 
in  ,nature2 that we must not check or  
suppress them1 but cooperate with  them4
 ,thus we learn1 slowly and laboriously1
 the all-important  lesson that         
obedience to the law is the only means  
of prevention  of disease1 and the only 
cure4    ,the ,fundamental ,law of      
,cure1 the ,law of ,action and          
,reaction1 and the  ,law of ,crises1 as 

revealed by the ,nature ,cure           
philosophy1 impress  upon us the truth  
that there is nothing accidental or     
arbitrary in  the processes of health1  
disease and cure2 that every changing   
condition is either in harmony or in    
discord with the laws of our  being2    
that only by complete surrender and     
obedience to the law can  we attain and 
maintain perfect physical health4       
,self-,control1 the ,master's ,key      
,thus ,nature ,cure brings home to us   
constantly and forcibly the  inexorable 
facts of natural law and the necessity  
of compliance with  the law4 ,herein    
lies its great educational value to the 
individual  and to the race4 ,the man   
who has learned to master his habits and
  his appetites so as to conform to     
,nature's ,laws on the physical  plane1 
and who has thereby regained his bodily 
health1 realizes that  personal effort  
and self-control are the ,master's ,key 
to all further  development on the      
mental and spiritual planes of being as 

well2  that self-mastery and unremitting
 and unselfish personal effort are  the 
only means of self-completion1 of       
individual and social  salvation4       
,the naturist who has regained health   
and strength through obedience  to the  
laws of his being1 enjoys a measure of  
self-content1 gladness  of soul and     
enthusiasm which cannot be explained by 
the mere  possession of physical health4
 ,these highest and purest attainments  
of the human soul are not the results of
 mere physical well-being1  but of the  
peace and harmony which come only from  
obedience to the  law4 ,such is the     
peace which passeth understanding4      
,chapter ,,iv      ,the ,unity of       
,disease and ,treatment      ,there     
exists a close resemblance between the  
mechanism and the  functions of a watch 
and of the human body4 ,their well-being
 is  subject to similar underlying laws 
and principles4 ,both a watch and  a    
human body may function abnormally as a 
result of accidental  injury or         

unfavorable external conditions1 such as
 extreme heat or  cold1 etc4 ,however1  
in our present study of the causes of   
disease we  shall not consider          
accidental injury and hostile           
environment1 but  confine ourselves to  
causes arising within the organism      
itself4    ,the watch may cease to      
vibrate in accord with the harmonics of 
our  planetary universe for several     
reasons4 ,it may lose time or stand     
still because 7#a7 the wound spring has 
spent its force1 or 7#b7 its  parts are 
not made up of the right constituents1  
or 7#c7 foreign  matter clogs or        
corrodes its mechanism4    ,similarly1  
there exist three primary causes of     
disease and of  premature death of the  
physical body4 ,these are3    ,lowered  
vitality4 ,abnormal composition of blood
 and lymph4  ,accumulation of morbid    
matter and poisons4    ,in the ultimate1
 disease and everything else that we    
designate as  evil are the result of    
transgressions of natural laws in       

thinking1  breathing1 eating1 dressing1 
working1 resting1 as well as in moral1  
sexual and social conduct4    ,in       
,tables ,i and ,,ii1 ,i have endeavored 
to present in concise and  comprehensive
 form the primary and the secondary     
causes or  manifestations of disease and
 the corresponding natural methods of   
treatment4    ,,table ,i    ,,the       
,,unity ,,of ,,disease ,,and ,,treatment
    ,barring trauma 7injury71 advancing 
age and surroundings uncongenial  to    
human life1 all causes of disease may be
 classified as given  below4            
,violations of ,nature's ,laws in       
thinking1 breathing1 eating1  drinking1 
dressing1 working1 resting and in moral1
 sexual and social  conduct result in   
the following3    ,primary and          
,secondary ,causes of ,disease          
,primary ,causes    ,lowered vitality   
due to overwork1 nightwork1 excesses1   
overstimulation1 poisonous drugs and    
ill-advised surgical  operations4       
,abnormal composition of blood and lymph

 due to the  improper selection and     
combination of food1 and especially the 
lack  of organic mineral salts and other
 essential nutritional elements4        
,accumulation of waste matter1 morbid   
matter and poisons due to the  first two
 causes1 as well as to faulty diet1     
overeating1 the use of  alcoholic and   
narcotic stimulants1 drugs both street  
and  prescription1 vaccines1 accidental 
poisoning and1 last but not  least1 to  
the suppression of acute diseases       
7,nature's cleansing and  healing       
efforts7 by poisonous drugs and surgical
 operations4    ,secondary ,causes      
,hereditary and constitutional taints of
 sycosis1 scrofula1 psora1  syphilis2   
mercurianism1 cinchonism1 iodism and    
many other forms of  chronic poisoning4 
,fevers1 inflammations1 skin eruptions1 
chronic  sinus discharges1 ulcers1      
abscesses1 germs1 bacteria1 parasites1  
etc4 ,mechanical subluxations1          
distortions and displacements of bony   
structures1 muscles and ligaments2      

weakening and loss of reason1  will1 and
 self-control resulting in negative1    
sensitive and  subjective conditions    
which open the way to nervous           
prostration1  control by other          
personalities 7hypnotic influence1      
obsession1  possession72 the different  
forms of insanity1 epilepsy1 petit mal1 
etc4    ,table ,,ii    ,,the ,,unity    
,,of ,,disease ,,and ,,treatment    ,in 
correspondence with the three primary   
causes of disease1 ,nature  ,cure       
recognizes the following3    ,natural   
,methods of ,treatment    #a4 ,return to
 ,nature1 or the establishment of normal
 habits and  surroundings1 which        
necessitates3    ,extension of          
consciousness by popular general and    
individual  education4 ,the constant    
exercise of reason1 will and            
self-control4 ,a  return to natural     
habits of life in thinking1 breathing1  
eating1  dressing1 working1 resting and 
in moral1 sexual and social conduct4    
,correction of mechanical defects and   

injuries by means of massage1           
chiropractic or osteopathy1 surgery and 
other mechanical methods of  treatment4 
#b4 ,economy of ,vital ,force1 which    
necessitates3    ,prevention of waste of
 vital force by the stoppage of all     
leaks4  ,scientific relaxation1 proper  
rest and sleep4 ,proper food selection1 
magnetic treatment1 etc4 ,the right     
mental attitude4    #c4 ,elimination1   
which necessitates3    ,scientific      
selection and combination of food and   
drink4 ,judicious  fasting4             
,hydrotherapy 7water cure74 ,light and  
air baths1 friction4  ,chiropratic or   
osteopathy1 massage1 and other          
manipulative  treatment4 ,correct       
breathing1 curative gymnastics4 ,such   
medicinal  remedies as will build up the
 blood on a normal basis and supply the 
system with the all-important mineral   
salts in organic form4    ,in the       
following chapters ,i shall endeavor to 
show that all the  different forms1     
phases and phenomena of disease arising 

within the  human organism1 provided    
they are not caused by accident or      
external  conditions unfavorable to the 
existence of human life1 can be         
attributed to one or more of three      
primary causes 7as outlined in  ,tables 
,i and ,,ii74 ,when we succeed in       
proving that all disease  originates    
from a few simple causes1 it will not   
seem so strange and  improbable that all
 disease can be cured by a few simple1  
natural  methods of living and of       
treatment4 ,if ,nature ,cure can        
accomplish  this1 it establishes its    
right to be classed with the exact      
sciences4    ,the ,three ,primary       
,causes of ,disease    ,we shall now    
consider the three primary causes of    
disease one by  one4    ,lowered        
,vitality    ,there is a well-defined   
limit to the running of a watch4 ,when  
the  wound spring has spent its force1  
the mechanism stops4    ,so also the    
living forms of vegetable1 animal and   
human life seem to  be wound by ,nature 

to run a certain length of time1 in     
accordance  with the laws governing     
their growth and development4 ,even the 
healthiest of animals living in the most
 congenial surroundings in  the freedom 
of ,nature do not much exceed their     
allotted span of  life1 nor do they fall
 much below it4 ,as a rule1 the longer  
the  period between birth and maturity1 
the longer the life of the  animal4     
,all the different families of mammalia1
 when living in freedom1 live  closely  
up to the life period allotted to them  
by ,nature4 ,man is the  only exception4
 ,it is claimed that according to the   
laws of  longevity his average length of
 life should be considerably over one   
hundred years1 while according to life  
insurance statistics1 the  average is at
 present #aiac thirty-seven years4 ,this
 shows an  immense discrepancy between  
the possible and the actual longevity of
  man4    ,even this brief span of life 
means little else than weakness1        
physical and mental suffering and       

degeneracy for the majority of  mankind4
 ,visiting physicians of the public     
schools in our large  cities report that
 seventy-five percent of all school     
children show  defective health in some 
way4 ,diagnosis from the ,eye proves    
that the  remaining twenty-five percent 
are also more or less affected by       
hereditary and acquired disease         
conditions4 ,christian ,science says1   
,there is no disease4 ,nature's records 
in the iris of the eye say  there is no 
perfect health4    ,these established   
facts of greatly impaired longevity and 
universal  abnormality of the human race
 would of themselves indicate that      
there is something radically wrong      
somewhere in the life habits of  man1   
and that there is ample reason for the  
great health-reform  movement which was 
started about the middle of the last    
century by  the pioneers of ,nature     
,cure in ,germany1 and which has since  
swept1  under many different forms and  
guises1 all portions of the civilized   

world4    ,when people in general grow  
better acquainted with the laws         
underlying prenatal and postnatal child 
culture1 natural living and  the natural
 treatment of diseases1 human beings    
will approach much  more closely the    
normal in health1 strength1 beauty and  
longevity4  ,then will arise a true     
aristocracy1 not of morbid1 venous blue 
blood1 but pulsating with the rich red  
blood of health4    ,however1 to reach  
this ideal of perfect physical1 mental  
and moral  health1 succeeding           
generations will have to adhere to the  
natural  ways of living and of treating 
their ailments4 ,it cannot be attained  
by the present generation4 ,the         
enthusiasts who claim that they can1  by
 their particular methods1 achieve      
perfect health and live the  full term  
of human life1 are destined to          
disappointment4 ,we are so  handicapped 
by the mistakes of the past that the    
best which most of  us adults can do is 
to patch up1 to attain a reasonable     

measure of  health and to approach      
somewhat nearer ,nature's full allotment
 of  life4    ,wild animals living in   
freedom retain their full vigor         
unimpaired  almost to the end of life4  
,hunters report that among the great    
herds  of buffalo1 elk and deer1 the    
oldest bucks are the rulers and         
maintain their sovereignty over the     
younger males of the herd solely  by    
reason of their superior strength and   
prowess4 ,premature old age1  among     
human beings1 as indicated by the early 
decay of physical and  mental powers1 is
 brought on solely by their violation of
 ,nature's  ,laws in almost all the     
ordinary habits of life4    ,health     
,positive--,disease ,negative    ,the   
freer the inflow of life force into the 
organism1 the greater  the vitality1 the
 more there is of strength1 of positive 
resisting  and recuperating power4      
,in the book ,harmonics of ,evolution we
 are told that at the very  foundation  
of the manifestation of life lies the   

principle of  polarity1 which expresses 
itself in the duality and unity of      
positive and negative affinity4 ,the    
swaying to and fro of the  positive and 
the negative1 the desire to balance     
incomplete  polarity1 constitutes the   
very ebb and flow of life4    ,disease  
is disturbed polarity4 ,exaggerated     
positive or negative  conditions1       
whether physical1 mental1 moral or      
spiritual1 tend to  disease on the      
respective planes of being4 ,foods1     
medicines1  suggestion and all the other
 different methods of therapeutic       
treatment exert on the individual       
subjected to them either a  positive or 
a negative influence4 ,it is1 therefore1
 of the greatest  importance that the   
physician and every one who wishes to   
live and  work in harmony with ,nature's
 ,laws should understand this           
all-important question of magnetic      
polarity4    ,lowered vitality means    
lowered1 slower and coarser vibration1  
and  this results in lowered resistance 

to the accumulation of morbid  matter1  
poisons1 disease taints1 germs and      
parasites4 ,this is what  we designate  
ordinarily as the negative condition4   
,let us see whether we can explain this 
more fully by a homely but  practical   
illustration3 ,a great many of my       
readers have probably  seen in operation
 in the summer amusement parks the human
  roulette4 ,this contrivance consists  
of a large wheel1  board-covered1       
somewhat raised in the center1 and      
sloping towards  the circumference4 ,the
 wheel rotates horizontally1 evenly with
 the  floor or ground4 ,the merrymakers 
pay their nickels for the privilege  of 
throwing themselves flat down on the    
wheel and attempting to  cling to it    
while it rotates with increasing        
swiftness4 ,while the  wheel moves      
slowly1 it is easy enough to cling to   
it2 but the faster  it revolves1 the    
more strongly the centrifugal force     
tends to throw  off the human flies who 
try to stick to it4    ,the increasing  

repelling power of the accelerated      
motion of the  wheel may serve as an    
illustration of that which we call      
vigorous  vibration1 good vitality1     
natural immunity or recuperative power4 
,this is the positive condition4    ,the
 more intense the action of the life    
force1 the more rapid and  vigorous are 
the vibratory activities of the atoms   
and molecules in  the cells1 and of the 
cells in the organs and tissues of the  
body4  ,the more rapid and vigorous this
 vibratory activity1 the more  powerful 
is the repulsion and expulsion of morbid
 matter1 poisons  and germs of disease  
which try to encumber or destroy the    
organism4    ,health and ,disease       
,resident in the ,cell    ,we must not  
forget that health or disease1 in the   
final analysis1 is  resident in the     
cell4 ,though a minute1 microscopic     
organism1 the  cell is an independent   
living being1 which is born1 grows1     
eats1  drinks1 throws off waste matter1 
multiplies1 ages and dies1 just  like   

man1 the large cell4 ,if the individual 
cell is well1 man1 the  complex cell1 is
 well also1 and vice versa4 ,from this  
it is apparent  that in all our         
considerations of the processes of      
health1 disease  and cure1 we have to   
deal primarily with the individual cell4
    ,the vibratory activity of the cell 
may be lowered through the  decline of  
vitality brought about in a natural way 
by advancing age1  or in an artificial  
way through wrong habits of living1     
wrong  thinking and feeling1 overwork1  
unnatural stimulation and excesses  of  
various kinds4    ,on the other hand1   
the inflow of vital force into the cells
 may be  obstructed and their vibratory 
activity lowered by the accumulation  of
 waste and morbid matter in the tissues1
 blood vessels and nerve  channels of   
the body4 ,such clogging will interfere 
with the inflow  of life force and with 
the free and harmonious vibration of the
  cells and organs of the body as surely
 as dust in a watch will  interfere with

 the normal action and vibration of its 
wheels and  balances4    ,from this it  
is evident that negative conditions may 
be brought  about not only by           
hyperrefinement of the physical         
organism1 but also  by clogging it with 
waste and morbid matter which interfere 
with the  inflow and distribution of the
 vital force4 ,it also becomes apparent 
that in such cases the ,nature ,cure    
methods of eliminative treatment1  such 
as pure food diet1 hydrotherapy1        
massage1 chiropractic1  osteopathy1     
etc41 are valuable means of removing    
these obstructions  and promoting the   
inflow and free circulation of the      
positive  electric and magnetic life    
currents    ,abnormal ,composition of   
,blood and ,lymph    ,as one of the     
primary causes of disease1 we cited     
abnormal  composition of blood and      
lymph4 ,the human organism is made up of
 a  certain number of elements in       
well-defined proportions4 ,chem-istry   
has discovered1 so far1 about seventeen 

of these elements in  appreciable       
quantities and has ascertained their    
functions in the  economy of the body4  
,these seventeen elements must be       
present in the  right proportions in    
order to insure normal texture1         
structure and  functioning of the       
component parts and organs of the body4 
,the cells and organs receive their     
nourishment from the blood and  lymph   
currents4 ,therefore1 these must contain
 all the elements  needed by the        
organism in the right proportions1 and  
this1 of  course1 depends upon the      
character and the combination of the    
food  supply4    ,every disease arising 
in the human organism from internal     
causes is  accompanied by a deficiency  
in blood and tissues of certain         
important mineral elements organic      
salts4 ,undoubtedly1 the  majority of   
these diseases are caused by an         
unbalanced diet1 or by  food and drink  
poisoning4 ,wrong food combinations1 on 
the one hand1  create an overabundance  

of waste and morbid matter in the system
  and1 on the other hand1 fail to supply
 the positive mineral elements  or      
organic salts on which depends the      
elimination of waste and  systemic      
poisons from the body4    ,the great    
problem of natural dietetics and of     
natural medical  treatment is1          
therefore1 how to restore and maintain  
the positivity  of the blood and of the 
organism as a whole through providing in
  food1 drink and medicine an abundant  
supply of the positive mineral  salts in
 organic form4    ,accumulation of      
,morbid ,matter and ,poisons    ,this is
 the third of the primary causes of     
disease4 ,we have learned  how lowered  
vitality and the abnormal composition of
 thevital fluids  favor the retention of
 systemic poisons in the body4 ,if1 in  
addition  to this1 food and drink       
contain too much of the waste-producing 
carbohydrates1 hydrocarbons and         
proteins1 and not enough of the         
eliminating positive mineral salts then 

waste and morbid materials  are bound to
 accumulate in the system and this      
results in the  clogging of the tissues 
with acid precipitates and earthy       
deposits4    ,such accumulation of waste
 and morbid matter in blood and tissues 
creates the great majority of all       
diseases arising within the human       
organism4 ,this will be explained fully 
in the following chapters  which deal   
with the causation of acute and chronic 
disease4    ,more harmful and dangerous1
 and more difficult to eliminate than   
the  different kinds of systemic        
poisons1 that is1 those which have      
originated within the body1 are the drug
 poisons1 especially when  they are     
administered in the inorganic mineral   
form4 ,health is  dependent upon an     
abundant supply of life force1 upon the 
unobstructed1 normal circulation of the 
vital fluids and upon  perfect          
oxygenation and combustion4 ,anything   
that interferes with  these essentials  
causes disease2 anything that promotes  

them  establishes health4 ,nothing so   
interferes with the inflow of the  life 
force1 with free and normal circulation 
of blood and lymph and  with the        
oxygenation and combustion of food      
materials and systemic  waste as the    
accumulation of morbid matter and       
poisons in the  tissues of the body4    
,this ,i have endeavored to explain more
 fully in connection with  lowered      
vitality4 ,let us now see how disease   
and health are affected  by mental and  
emotional conditions4    ,mental and    
,emotional ,influences    ,our mental   
and emotional conditions exert a most   
powerful influence  upon the inflow and 
distribution of vital force4 ,the author
 of ,the  ,great ,work ,the ,great      
,work3 ,the ,constructive ,principle of 
,nature in  ,individual ,life1 by ,john 
,emmett ,richardson #ahec-aice1         
,indio-,american ,book ,company1        
,chicago1 ,,il4 #aijg4 has described    
most  graphically in the chapter on     
,self-,control how fear1 worry1 anxiety 

and all kindred emotions create in the  
system conditions similar to  those of  
freezing2 how these destructive         
vibrations congeal the  tissues1 clog   
the channels of life and paralyze the   
vital functions4  ,he shows how the     
emotional conditions of impatience1     
irritability1  anger1 etc41 have a      
heating1 corroding effect upon the      
tissues of  the body4    ,in like       
manner1 all other destructive emotional 
vibrations ob-struct  the inflow and    
normal distribution of the life forces  
in and through  the organism1 while on  
the other hand the constructive emotions
 of  faith1 hope1 cheerfulness1         
happiness and love exert a relaxing1    
harmonizing influence upon the tissues1 
blood vessels and nerve  channels of the
 body1 thus opening wide the floodgates 
of the life  forces1 and raising the    
discords of weakness1 disease and       
discontent  to the harmonics of buoyant 
health and happiness4    ,let us see    
just how mind controls matter and how it

 affects the  changing conditions of the
 physical body4 ,life manifests through 
vibration4 ,it acts on the mass by      
acting through its minutest  par-ticles4
 ,changes in the physical body are      
wrought by vibratory  changes in atoms1 
molecules and cells4 ,health is         
satisfied polarity1  that is1 the       
balancing of the positive and negative  
elements in  harmonious vibration4      
,anything that interferes with the free1
  vigor-ous and harmonious vibration of 
the minute parts and particles          
composing the human organism tends to   
disturb polarity and natural  affinity1 
thus causing discord or disease4        
,when we fully realize these facts we   
shall not stand so much in awe  of our  
physical bodies4 ,in the past we have   
been thinking of the  body as a solid   
and imponderable mass difficult to      
control and to  change4 ,this conception
 left us in a condition of utter        
helplessness  and hopelessness in the   
presence of weakness and disease4    ,we

 now think of the body as composed of   
minute corpuscles rotating  around one  
another within the atom at relatively   
immense distances4  ,we know that in    
similar manner the atoms vibrate in the 
molecule1  the molecules in the cell1   
the cells in the organ and the organs in
  the body2 the whole capable of being  
changed by a change in the  vibrations  
of its particles4    ,thus the erstwhile
 solid physical mass appears plastic and
 fluidic1  readily swayed and changed by
 the vibratory harmonies or discords of 
thoughts and emotions as well as by     
foods1 medicines and therapeutic        
treatment4    ,under the old conception 
the mind fell readily under the control 
of  the body and became the abject slave
 of its physical conditions1  swayed by 
fear and apprehension under every       
sensation of physical  weakness1        
discomfort or pain4 ,the servants lorded
 it with a high  hand over the master of
 the house1 and the result was chaos4   
,under  the new conception1 control is  

placed where it belongs4 ,it is  assumed
 by the real master of the house1 the   
,soul-,man1 and the  servants1 the      
physical members of the body1 remain    
obedient to his  bidding4    ,this is   
the new man1 the ideal progeny of a new 
and higher  philosophy4 ,understanding  
the structure of the body1 the laws of  
its  being and the operation of the life
 elements within it1 the superman       
retains perfect poise and confidence    
under the most trying  circumstances4   
,animated by an abounding faith in the  
supremacy of  the healing forces within 
him and sustained by the power of his   
sovereign will1 he governs his body as  
perfectly as the artist  controls his   
violin and attunes its vibrations to    
,nature's harmonies  of health and      
happiness4        ,chapter ,v      ,the 
,unity of ,acute ,diseases      ,in the 
last chapter ,i endeavored to explain   
the three primary causes  of disease1   
namely3 7#a7 ,lowered ,vitality1 7#b7   
,abnormal ,composition  of ,blood and   

,lymph1 7#c7 ,accumulation of ,waste1   
,morbid ,matter1 and  ,poisons in the   
,system4    ,we shall now consider some 
of the secondary manifestations         
resulting  from these primary causes4   
,consulting the table on page #ah       
7,chapter  #b1 internet version71 we    
find mentioned as the first one of the  
secondary causes or manifestations of   
disease1 ,hereditary and                
,constitutional ,taints4    ,on first   
impression1 it might be thought that    
heredity is a primary  cause of disease2
 but on further consideration it becomes
 apparent  that it is an effect and not 
a primary cause4 ,if the parents possess
  good vitality and pure1 normal blood  
and tissues1 and if they apply  in the  
prenatal and postnatal treatment of the 
child the necessary  insight and        
foresight1 there cannot be disease      
heredity4 ,in order to  create abnormal 
hereditary tendencies1 the parents1 or  
earlier  ancestors1 must have ignorantly
 or wantonly violated ,nature's ,laws1  

such violation resulting in lowered     
vitality and in deterioration of  blood 
and tissues4    ,the female and male    
germinal cells unite and form the       
primitive  reproductive cell--the       
prototype of marriage4 ,the human body  
with  its millions of cells and cell    
colonies is developed by the            
multiplication1 with gradual            
differentiation1 of the reproductive    
cell4 ,its abnormalities of structure1  
of cell materials and of  functional    
tendencies are reproduced just as surely
 as its normal  constituents4 ,herein   
lies the simple explanation of heredity 
which  is proved to be an actual fact1  
not only by common experience and       
scientific observation but also in a    
more definite way by ,nature's  records 
in the iris of the eye4    ,the iris of 
the newborn child reveals in its        
diagnostic details not  only1 in a      
general way1 hereditary taints1 lowered 
resistance1 and  deterioration of vital 
fluids1 but frequently special weakness 

and  deterioration in those organs which
 were weak or diseased in the  parents4 
,under the conventional 7unnatural7     
management of the  infant1 these        
hereditary tendencies to weakness and   
disease and  their corresponding signs  
in the iris become more and more        
pronounced1 proceeding through the      
various stages of incumbrance  from     
acute1 infantile diseases through       
chronic catarrhal conditions  to the    
final destructive stages4    ,in the    
face of the well-established facts of   
disease heredity we  have1 however1 this
 consolation3 ,if the child be treated  
in  accordance with the teachings of    
,nature ,cure philosophy1 the  abnormal 
hereditary encumbrances and tendencies  
can be overcome and  eliminated within a
 few years4 ,if we place the infant     
organism under  the right conditions of 
living and of treatment1 in harmony with
 the  laws of its being1 the ,life      
,principle within will approach ever    
nearer to the establishment of the      

perfect type4 ,hundreds of ,nature      
,cure babies all over this country are  
living proofs of this  gladsome message 
to all those who have assumed or intend 
to assume  the responsibilities of      
parenthood4    ,natural ,immunity       
,under ,division ,,ii of ,secondary     
,causes or ,manifestations of ,disease  
we find mentioned germs1 bacteria1      
parasites1 inflammations1 fevers1  skin 
eruptions1 chronic sinus discharges1    
ulcers1 etc4    ,modern medical science 
is built up upon the germ theory of     
disease  and treatment4 ,since the      
microscope has revealed the presence and
  seemingly entirely pernicious activity
 of certain microorganisms in           
connection with certain diseases1 it has
 been assumed that bacteria  are the    
direct1 primary causes of most diseases4
 ,therefore1 the  slogan now is3 ,kill  
the bacteria 7by poisonous antiseptics1 
serums  and antitoxins7 and you will    
cure the disease4    ,the ,nature ,cure 
philosophy takes a different view of the

 problem4  ,germs cannot be the cause of
 disease1 because disease germs are also
  found in healthy bodies4 ,the real    
cause must be something else4 ,we  claim
 that it is the waste and morbid matter 
in the system which  afford the         
microorganisms of disease the           
opportunity to breed and  multiply4     
,we regard microorganisms as secondary  
manifestations of disease1 and  maintain
 that bacteria and parasites live1      
thrive and multiply to  the danger point
 in a weakened and diseased organism    
only4 ,if it  were not so1 the human    
family would be extinct within a few    
months'  time4    ,the fear instilled by
 the bacterial theory of disease is     
frequently  more destructive than the   
microorganisms themselves4 ,we have had 
under observation and treatment a number
 of insane patients whose  peculiar     
delusion or monomania was an exaggerated
 fear of germs1 a  genuine              
bacteriophobia4    ,keep yourself clean 
and vigorous from within1 and you cannot

 be  affected by disease taints and     
germs from without4    ,bacteria are    
practically omnipresent4 ,we absorb them
 in food and  drink1 we inhale them in  
the air we breathe4 ,our bodies are     
literally alive with them4 ,the last    
stages of the digestive  processes      
depend upon the activity of millions of 
bacteria in the  intestinal tract4      
,the proper thing to do1 therefore1 is  
not to try and kill the germs1  but to  
remove the morbid matter and disease    
taints in which they  live4    ,instead 
of concentrating its energies upon      
killing the germs1 whose  presence we   
cannot escape1 ,nature ,cure endeavors  
to in-vigorate the  system1 to build up 
blood and lymph on a normal basis and to
 purify  the tissues of their morbid    
encumbrances in such a way as to        
establish natural immunity to           
destructive germ activity4 ,everything  
that tends to accomplish this without   
injuring the system by  poisonous drugs 
or surgical operations is good ,nature  

,cure  treatment4    ,to adopt the      
germ-killing process without purifying  
and invigorating  the organism would be 
like trying to keep a house free from   
fungi  and vermin by sprinkling it daily
 with carbolic acid and other germ      
killers1 instead of keeping it pure and 
sweet by flooding it with  fresh air and
 sunshine and applying freely and       
vigorously broom1  brush and plenty of  
soap and water4 ,instead of purifying   
it1 the  antiseptics and germ killers   
would only add to the filth in the      
house4    ,all bacteriologists are      
unanimous in declaring that the various 
disease germs are found not only in the 
bodies of the sick1 but also  in        
seemingly healthy persons4    ,a        
celebrated ,french bacteriologist       
reports that in the mouth of a  healthy 
infant1 two months old1 he found almost 
all the disease  germs known to medical 
science4 ,only lately1 a celebrated     
physician1  appointed by the ,french    
government to investigate the causes of 

tuberculosis1 declared before a meeting 
of the ,international  ,tuberculosis    
,congress in ,rome that he found the    
bacilli of  tuberculosis in ninety-five 
percent of all the school children he   
had examined4    ,dr4 ,osler1 one of the
 greatest living medical authorities1   
mentions  repeatedly in his works that  
the bacilli of diphtheria1 pneumonia    
and of many other virulent diseases are 
found in the bodies of  healthy persons4
    ,the inability of bacteria1 by      
themselves1 to create diseases is       
further confirmed by the well-known     
facts of natural immunity to  specific  
infection or contagion4 ,all mankind is 
more or less  affected by hereditary and
 acquired disease taints1 morbid        
encumbrances and drug poisoning1        
resulting from age-long violation  of   
,nature's ,laws and from the suppression
 of acute diseases2 but  even under the 
almost universal present conditions of  
lowered  vitality1 morbid heredity and  
physical and mental degeneration it is  

found that under identical conditions of
 exposure to drafts or  infection1 a    
certain percentage of individuals only  
will take the  cold or catch the        
disease4 ,the fact of natural immunity  
is  constantly confirmed by common      
experience as well as in the clinics    
and laboratories of our medical schools 
and research institutes4 ,of  a specific
 number of mice or rabbits inoculated   
with particles of  cancer1 only a small 
percentage develops the malignant growth
 and  succumbs to its ravages4    ,the  
development of infectious and contagious
 diseases necessitates a  certain       
predisposition1 or1 as medical science  
calls it1 disease  diathesis4 ,this     
predisposition to infection and         
contagion consists  in the primary      
causes of disease1 which we have        
designated as  lowered vitality1        
abnormal composition of blood and lymph1
 and the  accumulation of waste1 morbid 
matter and poisons in the system4       
,bacteria3 ,secondary1 ,not ,primary1   

,manifestations of ,disease    ,in a    
previous chapter we learned how lowered 
vitality weakens the  resistance of the 
system to the attacks and inroads of    
disease germs  and poisons4 ,the growth 
and multiplication of microorganisms    
depend  furthermore upon a congenial1   
morbid soil4 ,just as the ordinary      
yeast germ multiplies in a sugar        
solution only1 so the various           
microorganisms of disease thrive and    
multiply to the danger point  only in   
their own peculiar and congenial kind of
 morbid matter4  ,thus1 the typhoid     
fever bacillus thrives in a certain kind
 of effete  matter which accumulates in 
the intestines2 the pneumonia bacilli   
flourish best in the catarrhal          
secretions of the lungs1 and  meningitis
 bacilli in the diseased meninges of the
 brain and spinal  cord4    ,dr4        
,pettenkofer1 a celebrated physician and
 professor of the  ,university of       
,vienna1 also arrived at the conclusion 
that bacteria1  by themselves1 cannot   

create disease1 and for years he        
defended his  opinion from the lecture  
platform and in his writings against the
  practically solid phalanx of the      
medical profession4 ,one day he  backed 
his theory by a practical test4 ,while  
instructing his class  in the           
bacteriological laboratory of the       
university1 he picked up a  glass which 
contained millions of live cholera germs
 and swallowed  its contents before the 
eyes of the students4 ,the seemingly    
dangerous experiment was followed only  
by a slight nausea4 ,lately ,i  have    
heard repeatedly of persons in this     
country who subjected  themselves in    
similar manner to infection1 inoculation
 and contagion  with the most virulent  
kinds of bacteria and disease taints    
without  developing the corresponding   
diseases4    ,a few years ago ,dr4      
,rodermund1 a physician in the ,state of
  ,wisconsin1 created a sensation all   
over this country when he smeared  his  
body with the exudate of smallpox sores 

in order to demonstrate  to his medical 
colleagues that a healthy body could not
 be infected  with the disease4 ,he was 
arrested and quarantined in jail1 but   
not  before he had come in contact with 
many people4 ,neither he nor  anyone    
else exposed by him developed smallpox4 
,during the ten years that ,i have been 
connected with sanitarium  work1 my     
workers and myself1 in giving the       
various forms of  manipulative          
treatment1 have handled intimately      
thousands of cases  of infectious and   
contagious diseases1 and ,i do not      
remember a  single instance where any   
one of us was in the least affected by  
such contact4 ,ordinary cleanliness1    
good vitality1 clean blood and  tissues1
 the organs of elimination in good1     
active condition and1  last but not     
least1 a positive1 fearless attitude of 
mind will  practically establish natural
 immunity to the inroads and ravages of 
bacteria and disease taints4 ,if        
infection takes place1 the organism     

reacts to it through inflammatory       
processes1 and by means of these        
endeavors to overcome and eliminate     
microorganisms and poisons from  the    
system4    ,in this connection it is of 
interest to learn that the danger to    
life from bites and stings of poisonous 
reptiles and insects has  been greatly  
exaggerated4 ,according to popular      
opinion1 anyone  bitten by a            
rattlesnake1 gila monster or tarantula  
is doomed to die1  while as a matter of 
fact the statistics show that only from 
two to  seven per-cent succumb to the   
effects of the wounds inflicted by the  
bites of poisonous reptiles4    ,in     
this1 as in many other instances1       
popular opinion should rather  be called
 popular superstition4    ,in the open  
discussions following my public         
lectures1 ,i am often  asked3 ,what is  
the right thing to do in case of        
snakebite8 ,would  you not give plenty  
of whiskey to save the victim's life8   
,it is my belief that of the seven      

percent who die after being bitten  by  
rattlesnakes or other poisonous snakes1 
a goodly proportion give  up the ghost  
because of the effects of the enormous  
doses of strong  whiskey that are poured
 into them under the mistaken idea that 
the  whiskey is an efficient antidote to
 the snake poison4    ,people do not    
know that the death rate from snakebite 
is so very  low1 and therefore they     
attribute the recoveries to the whiskey1
  just as recoveries from other diseases
 under medical or metaphysical          
treatment are attributed to the virtues 
of the particular medicine  or method of
 treatment instead of to the real       
healer1 the vis  medicatrix nature1 the 
healing power of ,nature1 which in      
ninety-three cases in a hundred         
eliminates the rattlesnake venom        
without injury to the organism4    ,to  
recapitulate3 ,just as yeast cells are  
not only the cause but also  the product
 of sugar fermentation1 so disease germs
 are not only a  cause 7secondary7 but  

also a product of morbid fermentation in
 the  system4 ,furthermore1 just as     
yeast germs live on and decompose       
sugar1 so disease germs live on and     
decompose morbid matter and  systemic   
poisons4    ,in a way1 therefore1       
microorganisms are just as much the     
product as  the cause of disease and act
 as scavengers or eliminators of morbid 
matter4 ,in order to hold in check the  
destructive activity of  bacteria and to
 prevent their multiplication beyond the
 danger  point1 ,nature resorts to      
inflammation and manufactures her own   
antitoxins4    ,on the other hand1      
whatever tends to build up the blood on 
a natural  basis1 to promote elimination
 of morbid matter and thereby to limit  
the activity of destructive             
microorganisms without injuring the body
  or depressing its vital functions1 is 
good ,nature ,cure practice4 ,the  first
 consideration1 therefore1 in the       
treatment of inflammation  must be to   
not interfere with its natural course4  

,by the various statements and claims   
made in this chapter1 ,i do not  wish to
 convey the idea that ,i am opposed to  
scrupulous cleanliness  or surgical     
asepsis4 ,far from it6 ,these are       
dictates of common  sense4 ,but ,i do   
affirm that the danger from germ and    
other  infectious diseases lies just as 
much or more so in internal filth  as in
 external uncleanliness4 ,cleanliness   
and asepsis must go hand  in hand with  
the purification of the inner man in    
order to insure  natural immunity4      
,chapter ,,vi      ,the ,laws of ,cure  
,this brings us to the consideration of 
acute inflammatory and  feverish        
diseases4 ,from what has been said1 it  
follows that  inflammation and fever are
 not primary1 but secondary1            
manifestations of disease4 ,there cannot
 arise any form of  inflammatory disease
 in the system unless there is present  
some  enemy to health which ,nature is  
endeavoring to overcome and get rid  of4
 ,on this fact in ,nature is based what 

,i claim to be the  fundamental ,law of 
,cure4    ,give me fever and ,i can cure
 every disease4 ,thus ,hippocrates the  
,father of ,medicine1 expressed the     
fundamental ,law of ,cure over two      
thousand years ago4 ,i have expressed   
this law in the following  sentence3    
,every acute disease is the result of a 
cleansing and  healing effort of        
,nature4    ,this law1 when thoroughly  
understood and applied to the treatment 
of  diseases1 will in time do for       
medical science what the discovery of   
other natural laws has done for physics1
 astronomy1 chemistry and  other exact  
sciences4 ,it will transform the medical
 empiricism and  confusion of the past  
and present into an exact science by    
demonstrating the unity of disease and  
treatment4    ,applying the law in a    
general way1 it means that all acute    
diseases1  from a simple cold to        
measles1 scarlet fever1 diphtheria1     
smallpox1  pneumonia1 etc41 represent   
,nature's efforts to repair injury or to

  remove from the system some kind of   
morbid matter1 virus1 poison or         
microorganism dangerous to health and   
life4 ,in other words1 acute  diseases  
cannot develop in a perfectly normal1   
healthy body living  under conditions   
favorable to human life4 ,the question  
may be asked3  ,if acute diseases       
represent ,nature's healing efforts1 why
 is it  that people die from them8 ,the 
answer to this is3 the vitality may  be 
too low1 the injury or morbid           
encumbrance too great or the  treatment 
may be inadequate or harmful1 so that   
,nature loses the  fight2 still1 the    
acute disease represents an effort of   
,nature to  overcome the enemies to     
health and life and to reestablish      
normal1  healthy conditions4    ,it is a
 curious fact that this fundamental     
principle of ,nature ,cure  and ,law of 
,nature has been acknowledged and       
verified by medical  science4 ,the most 
advanced works on pathology admit the   
constructive  and beneficial character  

of inflammation4 ,however1 when it comes
 to  the treatment of acute diseases1   
physicians seem to forget entirely  this
 basic principle of pathology1 and treat
 inflammation and fever  as though they 
were1 in themselves1 inimical and       
destructive to  health and life4        
,from this inconsistency in theory and  
practice arise all the errors  of       
allopathic medical treatment4 ,failure  
to understand this  fundamental ,law of 
,cure accounts for all the confusion on 
the part  of the exponents of the       
different schools of healing sciences1  
and  for the greater part of human      
suffering4    ,the ,nature ,cure        
philosophy never loses sight of the     
fundamental ,law  of ,cure4 ,while      
allopathy regards acute disease         
conditions as in  themselves harmful and
 hostile to health and life1 as         
something to  be cured 7we should say   
suppressed7 by drug or knife1 the       
,nature  ,cure school regards these     
forcible housecleanings as beneficial   

and  necessary1 so long1 at least1 as   
people will continue to disregard       
,nature's ,laws4 ,while1 through its    
simple1 natural methods of  treatment1  
,nature ,cure easily modifies the course
 of inflammatory  and feverish processes
 and keeps them within safe limits1 it  
never  checks or suppresses these acute 
reactions by poisonous drugs1  serums1  
antiseptics1 surgical operations1       
suggestion or any other  suppressive    
treatment4    ,skin eruptions1 boils1   
ulcers1 catarrhs1 diarrheas1 and all    
other  forms of inflammatory febrile    
disease conditions are indications  that
 there is something hostile to life and 
health in the organism  which ,nature is
 trying to remove or overcome by these  
so-called  acute diseases4 ,what1 then1 
can be gained by suppressing them with  
poisonous drugs and surgical operations8
 ,such practice does not  allow ,nature 
to carry on her work of cleansing and   
repair and to  attain her ends4 ,the    
morbid matter which she endeavored to   

eliminate  by acute reactions is thrown 
back into the system4 ,worse than that1 
drug poisons are added to disease       
poisons4 ,is it any wonder that  fatal  
complications arise1 or that the acute  
condition is changed to  chronic        
disease8    ,why ,does the ,greater     
,part of ,allopathic ,materia    ,medica
 ,consist of ,virulent ,poisons8    ,the
 statements made in the preceding pages 
are a severe indictment  of regular     
medical science1 but they point out the 
difference in the  basic principles of  
the ,old ,school of healing and those of
 the  ,nature ,cure philosophy4    ,the 
fundamental ,law of ,cure quoted in this
 chapter explains why  allopathic       
medical science is in error1 not in a   
few things only1  but in most things4   
,the foundation1 the orthodox conception
 of  disease being wrong1 it follows    
that everything which is built  thereon 
must be wrong also4    ,no matter how   
learned a man may be1 if he begins a    
problem in  arithmetic with the         

proposition #bx#be1 he never will arrive
 at a  correct solution if he continue  
to figure into all eternity4 ,neither   
can allopathy solve the problem of      
disease and cure as long as its         
fundamental conception of disease is    
based on error4    ,the fundamental law 
of cure explains also why the great     
majority of  allopathic prescriptions   
contain virulent poisons in some form or
  another and why surgical operations   
are in high favor with the  disciples of
 the regular school4    ,the answer of  
allopathy to the question1 ,why do you  
give poisons8  usually is1 ,our materia 
medica contains poisons because drug    
poison  kills and eliminates disease    
poison4 ,we1 however1 claim that drug   
poisons merely serve to paralyze vital  
force1 whereby the deceptive  results of
 allopathic treatment are obtained4     
,the following will explain this more   
fully4 ,we have learned that  so-called 
acute diseases are ,nature's cleansing  
and healing efforts4  ,all acute        

reactions represent increased activity  
of vital force1  resulting in feverish  
and inflammatory conditions1 accompanied
 by  pain1 redness1 swelling1 high      
temperature1 rapid pulse1 catarrhal     
discharges1 skin eruptions1 boils1      
ulcers1 etc4    ,allopathy regards these
 violent activities of vital force as   
detrimental and harmful in themselves4  
,anything which will inhibit  the action
 of vital force will1 in allopathic     
parlance1 cure 787  acute diseases4 ,as 
a matter of fact1 nothing more          
effectively  paralyzes vital force and  
impairs the vital organs than poisonous 
drugs and the surgeon's knife4 ,these1  
therefore1 must necessarily  constitute 
the favorite means of cure 787 of the   
regular school of  medicine4    ,this   
school mistakes effect for cause4 ,it   
fails to see that the  local            
inflammation arising within the organism
 is not the disease1  but merely marks  
the locality and the method through     
which ,nature is  trying her best to    

discharge the morbid encumbrances2 that 
the acute  reaction is local1 but that  
its causes or feeders are always        
constitutional and must be treated      
constitutionally4 ,when1 under the      
influence of rational1 natural          
treatment1 the poisonous irritants  are 
eliminated from blood and tissues1 the  
local symptoms take care  of themselves2
 it does not matter whether they        
manifest as pimple or  cancer1 as a     
simple cold or as consumption4    ,the  
,law of ,dual ,effect    ,everywhere in 
,nature rules the great ,law of ,action 
and ,reaction4 ,all  life sways back and
 forth between giving and receiving1    
between  action and reaction4 ,the very 
breath of life mysteriously comes and   
goes in rhythmical flow4 ,so also heaves
 and falls in ebb and tide  the bosom of
 ,mother ,earth4    ,in some of its     
aspects1 this law is called the ,law of 
,compensation1  or the ,law of ,dual    
,effect4 ,on its action depends the     
preservation of  energy4    ,the ,great 

,master expressed the ethical           
application of this law when  he said3  
,give1 and it shall be given unto you4 4
 4 4 ,for with the same  measure that ye
 mete it shall be measured to you       
again4--,luke #f3ch4    ,in the realms  
of physical nature1 giving and          
receiving1 action and  reaction balance 
each other mechanically and             
automatically4 ,what we  gain in power  
we lose in speed or volume1 and vice    
versa4 ,this makes  it possible for the 
mechanic1 the scientist and the         
astronomer to  predict with mathematical
 precision for ages in advance the      
results  of certain activities in       
,nature4    ,the great ,law of ,dual    
,effect forms the foundation of the     
healing  sciences4 ,it is related to and
 governs every phenomenon of health1    
disease and cure4 ,when ,i formulated   
the fundamental ,law of ,cure in  the   
words1 ,every acute disease is the      
result of a healing effort of  ,nature1 
this was but another expression of the  

great ,law of ,action  and ,reaction4   
,what we commonly call crisis1 acute    
reaction or acute  disease is in reality
 ,nature's attempt to establish health4 
,applied to the physical activity of the
 body1 the ,law of  ,com-pensation may  
be expressed as follows3 ,every agent   
affecting  the human organism produces  
two effects3 a first1 apparent1         
temporary effect1 and a second1 lasting 
effect4 ,the secondary1  lasting effect 
is always contrary to the primary1      
transient effect4    ,for instance3 ,the
 first and temporary effect of cold     
water applied  to the skin consists in  
sending the blood to the interior2 but  
in  order to compensate for the local   
depletion1 ,nature responds by  sending 
greater quantities of blood back to the 
surface1 resulting  in increased warmth 
and better surface circulation4    ,the 
first effect of a hot bath is to draw   
the blood to the surface2  but the      
secondary effect sends the blood back to
 the interior1  leaving the surface     

bloodless and chilled4    ,stimulants1  
as we shall see later on1 produce their 
deceptive  effects by burning up the    
reserve stores of vital energy in the   
organism4 ,this is inevitably followed  
by weakness and exhaustion in  exact    
proportion to the previous excitation4  
,the primary effect of relaxation and   
sleep is weakness1 numbness and         
death-like stupor2 the secondary effect1
 however1 is an increase of  vitality4  
,the ,law of ,dual ,effect governs all  
drug action4 ,the first1  temporary1    
violent effect of poisonous drugs1 when 
given in  physiological doses1 is       
usually due to ,nature's efforts to     
overcome  and eliminate these           
substances4 ,the secondary1 lasting     
effect is due  to the retention of the  
drug poisons in the system and their    
action  on the organism4    ,in theory  
and practice1 allopathy considers the   
first effect only  and ignores the      
lasting aftereffects of drugs and       
surgical  operations4 ,it administers   

remedies whose first effect is contrary 
to the disease condition4 ,therefore1 in
 accordance with the ,law of  ,action   
and ,reaction1 the secondary1 lasting   
effect of such remedies  must be similar
 to or like the disease condition4      
,common1 everyday experience should     
teach us that this is so1 for  laxatives
 and cathartics always tend to produce  
chronic  constipation4    ,the secondary
 effect of stimulants and tonics of any 
kind is  increased weakness1 and their  
continued use often results in  complete
 exhaustion and paralysis of mental and 
physical powers4    ,headache powders1  
pain killers1 opiates1 sedatives and    
hypnotics may  paralyze brain and nerves
 into temporary insensibility2 but1 if  
due  to constitutional causes1 the pain1
 nervousness and insomnia will  always  
return with redoubled force4 ,if taken  
habitually1 these  agents invariably    
tend to create heart disease and        
paralysis1 and  ultimately develop the  
patient into a dope fiend4    ,cold and 

catarrh cures 7871 such as quinine1     
coal-tar products1  etc41 suppress      
,nature's efforts to eliminate waste and
 morbid matter  through the mucous      
linings of the respiratory tract1 and   
drive the  disease matter back into the 
lungs1 thus breeding pneumonia1 chronic 
catarrhs1 asthma and consumption4       
,mercury1 iodine and all other          
alteratives1 by suppression of  external
 elimination1 create internal chronic   
diseases of the most  dreadful types1   
such as locomotor ataxy1 paresis1 etc4  
,so the recital might be continued all  
through orthodox materia  medica4 ,each 
drug breeds new disease symptoms which  
are in their  turn cured 787 by other   
poisons1 until the insane asylum or     
merciful  death rings down the curtain  
on the tragedy of a ruined life4    ,the
 teaching and practice of homeopathy1 as
 explained in ,chapter  ,twenty-,six1 is
 fully in harmony with the ,law of      
,action and ,reaction4  ,acting upon the
 basic principle of homeopathy3 ,similia

 similibus  curantur1 or like cures     
like1 it administers remedies whose     
first1  temporary effect is similar to  
the disease conditions4 ,in accordance  
with the ,law of ,dual ,effect1 then1   
the secondary effect of these  remedies 
must be contrary to the disease         
conditions1 that is1  curative4         
,chapter ,,vii      ,suppression ,versus
 ,elimination      ,my claim that the   
conventional treatment of acute diseases
 is  suppressive and not curative will  
probably be denied by my medical        
colleagues4 ,they will maintain that    
their methods also are  calculated to   
eliminate morbid matter and disease     
germs from the  system4    ,but what are
 the facts in actual practice8 ,is it   
not true that  preparations of mercury1 
lead1 zinc and other powerful poisons   
are  constantly used to suppress skin   
eruptions1 boils1 abscesses1 etc41      
instead of allowing ,nature to rid the  
system through these skin  diseases of  
scrofulous1 venereal and psoric taints8 

,some time ago ,dr4 ,wiley1 the former  
,government ,chemist1 published  the    
ingredients of a number of popular      
remedies for colds1 coughs  and catarrh4
 ,every one of them contained some      
powerful opiate or  astringent4 ,these  
poisonous drugs relieve the cough and   
the  catarrhal conditions by paralyzing 
the eliminative activity of the         
membranous linings of the nasal         
passages1 the bronchi and lungs1 the    
digestive and genitourinary organs2 but 
in doing so1 they throw back  into the  
system the morbid matter which ,nature  
is trying to get rid  of1 and add drug  
poisons to disease poisons4    ,equally 
harmful is suppression by means of the  
surgeon's knife4 ,it  may be a quicker  
and apparently more effective process to
 remove the  inflamed appendix or the   
diseased tonsils than to cure them by   
building up the blood and inducing      
elimination of systemic poisons  by     
natural methods4 ,but operative         
treatment is not eliminative4 ,it  does 

not remove from the system the original 
cause of the  inflammation or           
deterioration of tissues and organs1 but
 it does  remove the outlet which       
,nature had established for the escape  
of  morbid materials4    ,these morbid  
encumbrances1 forcibly retained in the  
body1 weaken and  destroy other parts   
and organs1 or affect the general health
 of the  patient4    ,my own            
observations during nearly fifteen years
 of practical  experience1 confirmed by 
many other conscientious observers among
  ,nature ,cure practitioners as well as
 physicians of other schools and  of    
allopathy itself1 prove positively that 
the average length of  life after a     
major operation1 performed on important1
 vital parts  and organs1 is less than  
ten years1 and that after such an       
operation  the general health of the    
patient is in the great majority of     
cases  not as good as before4    ,in the
 following paragraphs are mentioned some
 very common instances  of suppression  

and some of their usual chronic         
aftereffects  7sequelae74    ,diarrhea  
is suppressed with laudanum and other   
opiates1 which  paralyze the peristaltic
 action of the bowels and1 if repeated1 
soon  produce chronic constipation4     
,gonorrheal discharges and syphilitic   
ulcers are checked and suppressed by    
local injections1 cauterization  and by 
prescriptions containing mercury1 iodine
 and other poisonous  alternatives which
 effectually prevent ,nature's efforts  
to eliminate  the venereal poisons from 
the system4    ,gonorrheal discharges   
and syphilitic ulcers are checked and   
supressed by local injections1          
cauterizatin1 and by prescriptions      
containing mercury1 iodine1 and other   
poisonous alternatives which            
effectually prevent ,nature's efforts to
 elminate the venereal  poisons from the
 system4    ,all feverish diseases are  
more or less interfered with or         
suppressed  by antiseptics1             
antipyretics1 serums and antitoxins4    

,the best books  on ,materia ,medica and
 the professors in the colleges teach   
that  these remedies lower the fever    
because they are protoplasmic  poisons2 
because they paralyze the red and white 
blood corpuscles1  benumb heart action  
and respiration1 and depress all vital  
functions4    ,nervousness1             
sleeplessness and pain are suppressed by
 sedatives1  opiates and hypnotics4     
,every one of the drugs used for such   
purposes  is a powerful poison which    
paralyzes brain and nerve action1 in    
that  way interfering with ,nature's    
healing efforts and frequently          
preventing the consummation of          
beneficial healing crises4    ,epileptic
 attacks and other forms of convulsions 
are suppressed1 but  never cured1 by    
bromides which benumb and paralyze the  
brain and  nerve centers4 ,all that     
these sedatives accomplish is to produce
 in  the course of time idiocy and the  
different forms of paralysis and        
premature senility4    ,however1 is he  

not considered the best doctor who can  
most promptly  produce these and many   
similar deceptive results through       
artificial  inhibition or stimulation by
 means of the most virulent poisons     
found on earth8    ,dandruff and falling
 hair are caused by the elimination of  
systemic  poisons through the scalp4    
,the thing to do1 therefore1 is not to  
suppress this elimination and thereby   
cause the accumulation of  poisons in   
the brain1 but to stop the manufacture  
of poison in the  body and to promote   
its removal through the natural         
channels4    ,dandruff cures and hair   
tonics contain glycerine1 poisonous     
antiseptics and stimulants which are    
absorbed by scalp and brain1  causing   
dizziness1 headaches1 loss of memory1   
neurasthenia1  deaf-ness1 weakness of   
sight1 etc4    ,head lice and similar   
parasites peculiar to other parts of the
 body  live on scrofulous and psoriotic 
taints4 ,when these are consumed1  the  
lice depart as they came1 no one knows  

whence or whither4    ,this is confirmed
 by the fact that these noxious pests do
 not remain  with all people who have   
been exposed to them1 but only with     
those  whose internal or external filth 
conditions furnish the parasites  with  
the means of subsistence4    ,in a      
number of instances we have seen healing
 crises take the form  of lice4 ,at that
 time the patients were living in the   
most clean  surroundings1 taking        
different forms of water treatment every
 day  and infection was practically     
impossible4    ,these people invariably 
recalled that they had been infested    
with  parasites at some previous time1  
and that strong antiseptics1  mercurial 
salves1 or other means of suppression   
had been applied4    ,we prescribe for  
the removal of lice only cold water and 
the comb4  ,even antiseptic soaps should
 be avoided4    ,the ,results of        
,suppression of ,children's ,diseases   
,sycotic eruptions on the heads and     
bodies of infants1 also called  milk    

scurf1 if suppressed by salves1 cream1  
unsalted butter or  merely by warm      
bathing1 are often followed by chorea   
7,st4 ,vitus'  dance71 epilepsy1 a      
scrofulous constitution and in later    
life by  tuberculosis4    ,measles1     
scarlet fever1 diphtheria1 spinal       
meningitis and other  febrile diseases  
of childhood1 if properly treated by    
natural  methods1 are curative or at    
least corrective in their effects on the
  system1 and represent well-defined1   
orderly natural processes for  the      
elimination of inherited or acquired    
disease taints1 drug  poisons1 etc4 ,but
 if arrested or suppressed before they  
have run  their natural course1 before  
,nature has had time to reestablish     
normal conditions1 then the abnormal    
condition becomes fixed and  permanent  
7chronic74    ,in addition to this1 the 
poisons and serums employed to arrest   
the  disease process very often affect  
vital parts and organs  permanently1    
causing the gradual deterioration of    

cells and tissues1  and paving the way  
for tuberculosis1 chronic affection of  
the  kidneys1 cancer1 etc41 in later    
years4    ,these self-evident facts1    
which can be verified by any            
unprejudiced  observer1 account for the 
mysterious sequelae of drug-and         
serum-treated acute diseases1 which     
never occur where natural  methods of   
healing have been correctly employed4   
,some of these  chronic aftereffects are
 deafness1 blindness1 heart and kidney  
diseases1 nervous affections1 idiocy1   
infantile paralysis1 etc4    ,these are 
merely a few ordinary examples of the   
results of  suppression4 ,they could be 
multiplied a hundred fold1 yet medical  
science assures us that the causes of   
cancer and other malignant  diseases are
 unknown4    ,good ,nature ,cure        
,doctrine from an ,allopathic ,authority
    ,the following utterances of the    
late ,dr4 ,nicholas ,senin strongly     
confirm our claims as to the nature and 
cure of disease4 ,coming from  the lips 

of a celebrated surgeon and physician1  
these statements  should carry some     
weight with those who1 being unable to  
reason for  themselves1 worship at the  
feet of authority4 ,the quotations      
referred to are taken from the report of
 an interview granted by the  doctor to 
,chicago newspaper representatives on   
his return from his  trip around the    
world4    ,chicago ,american1 ,august   
#eth1 #aijf4    ,,germs ,,planted ,,by  
,,tight ,,lacing    ,over-,feeding and  
,over-,dressing ,given as ,causes of    
,cancer    ,dr4 ,nicholas ,senn brought 
back from ,africa1 from whence he       
returned  to ,chicago yesterday1        
confirmations of his belief that cancer 
is a  'civilized' disease4    ,dr4 ,senn
 spent from #b1jjj to #c1jjj worth of   
time--at the cash  value per hour of his
 time on his first day at home for four 
months1  telling a half dozen newspaper 
men more than all the world1 except     
himself and a score of specialists like 
him1 know about the fearful  disease4   

,he summed up his own learning in the   
statement that the  disease is still    
incurable except by the knife in its    
incipient  stages and that the best     
preventive is clean1 plain living4      
,his investigations of the natives of   
,africa served to strengthen  his       
conviction that cancer is a product of  
civilization1 'like  apoplexy and scores
 of other exotic ailments1' ,dr4 ,senn  
said4 ,he  could not find or hear of a  
case of cancer among the ',hamites1' as 
he termed them4 ,and from the fact that 
he found the disease1 to be  an unknown 
one to the ,esquimaux of ,greenland1 he 
is assured that  climate has nothing    
whatever to do with it4 ,climate did not
 cause  it1 and climate will not cure   
it4    ,cancer ,caused by ,over-,living 
',the nearer the human race approaches  
the animals in habits and  particularly 
in the matter of diet and dress1 the    
freer it is from  cancer1' he said4     
',cancer comes from over-feeding and    
over-living4    ',drinking1             

gourmandizing1 unnatural habits of      
women1 like lacing1  all those things   
help to plant the seeds of cancer in the
 child4    ',and as we have not learned 
to cure it the best thing to do is to   
prevent it when we can4 ,if children    
were brought up in simplicity by        
natural mothers2 then1 if care should be
 taken to prevent  hypernutrition1 there
 would be much less danger from cancer4 
,cancer  itself is an over-fed          
thing--tissue that never matures1 for if
 ,i  could mature the cells ,i could    
cure the disease4 ,the thing for  people
 to do who fear they may have inherited 
it1 is to live  simply--there are many  
cases among people with a tendency to   
obesity  to one among those of a scanty 
habit of living--and particularly to    
remove all sources of irritation1 like  
bad teeth1 tobacco1 and  clothes that   
chafe4'    ,studies ,african ,race      
,besides his hobby1 as he calls it1 ,dr4
 ,senn studied the ,african  generally  
in his voyage along the ,east ,coast of 

that continent4    ',it was a fine      
trip1' he said1 'with so many things to 
learn4  ,ethnologically ,i am certain   
,africans are of common stock4 ,the     
negro  is a negro wherever you find him4
 ,from ,kaffir to ,bushman and pygmy    
they are all ,hamites4    ',they are    
mostly a fine people physically1 lean   
and tall1 except  the dwarfs4 ,there is 
little tendency toward obesity2 they    
have no  apoplexy1 no distended veins as
 we have in civilization4 ,hence their  
freedom from cancer4 ,they live         
naturally1 and are vegetarians  mostly1 
while the ,northern ,esquimaux are      
meat-eaters1 but both races  eat        
naturally to sustain life1 hence their  
immunity from that  disease4 ,it is     
where eating is made an art that cancer 
is most  prevalent4    ',they are free  
from many other diseases that pester us 
also4  ,tuberculosis is hardly known1   
and only along the coast1 where it has  
been taken by the whites4 ,the real     
curse of the coast country is  malaria4 

,it is bad all up and down the ,east    
shore4 ,i kept away from  it myself by  
taking five grains of quinine and the   
juice of a lemon  once a day on an empty
 stomach4 ,that is a good remedy for    
malaria1  for in all my running around  
,i have never had it4    7,editor's     
,note4--,dr4 ,senn died ,january #b1    
#aijh4 ,the papers stated  after his    
death1 that the doctor had never been   
well since the  return from his long    
voyage1 that his heart and nervous      
system had  been seriously affected by  
the altitudes of the ,andes and of other
  mountains4 ,we wonder whether the high
 altitudes or the five  grains of       
quinine daily were to blame for the     
celebrated  physician's heart disease   
and death47    ,suppression1 the ,cause 
of ,chronic ,diseases    ,dr4 ,senn was 
right4 ,if men and women lived more     
naturally1 the  majority of diseases    
would disappear4    ,the primary cause  
of disease is violation of ,nature's    
,laws4  ,civilization has largely stood 

for artificiality of life and for       
unnatural habits4 ,a higher             
civilization1 yet to come1 will combine 
the most exquisite culture of heart and 
mind with true simplicity  and          
naturalness of living4 ,excessive meat  
eating1 strong spices and  condiments1  
alcohol1 coffee1 tea1 overwork1 night   
work1 fear1 worry1  sensuality1 corsets1
 high heels1 foul air1 improper         
breathing1 lack  of exercise1 loveless  
marriages1 race suicide1 all of these   
and many  other evils of                
hypercivlization have contributed their 
share in  creating the universal        
degeneracy of civilized nations         
commented  upon by ,dr4 ,senn4    ,when 
the unnatural habits of life alluded to 
have lowered the  vitality and favored  
the accumulation of waste matter and    
poisons to  such an extent that the     
sluggish bowels1 kidneys1 skin and the  
other  organs of elimination are unable 
to keep a clean house1 ,nature has  to  
resort to other1 more radical means of  

purification or we should  choke in our 
own impurities4 ,these forcible         
housecleanings of ,nature  are colds1   
catarrh1 skin eruptions1 diarrheas1     
boils1 ulcers1  abnormal perspiration1  
hemorrhages and many other forms of     
inflammatory febrile diseases4          
,sulphur and mercury may drive back the 
skin eruptions1 antipyretics  and       
antiseptics may suppress fever and      
catarrh4 ,the patient and the  doctor   
may congratulate themselves on a speedy 
cure2 but what is the  true state of    
affairs8 ,nature has been thwarted in   
her work of  healing and cleansing4 ,she
 had to give up the fight against       
disease  matter in order to combat the  
more potent poisons of mercury1         
quinine1 iodine1 strychnine1 etc4 ,the  
disease matter is still in the  system1 
plus the drug poison4    ,proof positive
 of the retention of drug poisons in the
 organism is  furnished by the          
,diagnosis from the ,eye4 ,this will be 
explained more  fully in another        

chapter4    ,when vitality has been     
sufficiently restored1 ,nature may make 
another attempt at purification1 this   
time1 possibly1 in another  direction2  
but again her well-meant efforts are    
defeated4 ,this  process of suppression 
is repeated over and over again until   
blood  and tissues become so loaded with
 waste material and poisons that  the   
healing forces of the organism can no   
longer react against them  by acute     
diseases4 ,then results the chronic     
condition1 which in the  vocabulary of  
the ,old ,school of medicine is only    
another name for  incurable disease4    
,the more skilled the allopathic school 
becomes in the suppression  and         
prevention of acute diseases by drugs1  
knife1 x-rays1 serums1  vaccination     
virus1 etc41 the greater will be the    
increase of chronic  dyspepsia1 nervous 
prostration1 insanity1 locomotor ataxy1 
paresis1  cancer1 secondary and tertiary
 syphilis1 tuberculosis and many other  
so-called incurable diseases4 ,thus1 the

 standard medical practice is           
self-supporting2 the treatment of acute 
conditions assuring a  lifelong supply  
of chronic conditions for the doctor to 
treat4    ,suppression of acute         
diseases1 by drugs and knife1 is the    
all-important factor in the creation of 
malignant diseases which ,dr4  ,senn had
 overlooked in his discourse on the     
causes of distructive  ailments4 ,if he 
had steudied his experiences in foreign 
lands in the  light of these            
explanations he would have found that   
these scourges  of mankind exist only in
 those parts of earth where the drug    
store  flourishes4    ,these statements 
may seem exaggerated2 but allow me to   
cite a few  typical cases of suppression
 and their effects upon the system from 
our daily practice4    ,paresis1        
locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans   
are not1 as is  usually assumed1 due to 
secondary and tertiary syphilis1 but to 
the  mercury administered for the cure  
of luetic and other diseases4 ,in  less 

than six months' time we cure the       
so-called specific diseases  by our     
natural methods1 provided they are not  
suppressed and  complicated by mercury1 
iodine or other poisonous drugs4 ,we    
never  interfere with the original      
lesion1 but allow ,nature to discharge  
the poisons through the channels        
established for this purpose4    ,under 
this rational treatment1 discharge and  
ulcer act as fontanels  to the system4  
,not only the specific poison1 but much 
of hereditary  and acquired disease     
matter also are eliminated in the       
process2 and  after such a cure1 blood  
and tissues of the patient are purer    
than  they were before infection4       
,the foregoing statement has nothing to 
do with the moral aspects  involved in  
acquiring venereal diseases4 ,in this   
connection we are  dealing solely with  
the rational or irrational treatment of 
the  infection after it has been        
contracted4 ,we do not wish to intimate 
that it is advisable to cure the body by

 killing the soul4    ,nevertheless1 we 
must deal with the facts in ,nature as  
we find them4  ,furthermore1 a great    
many persons1 especially women and      
children1  acquire these diseases       
innocently4 ,are we not justified in    
relieving  their minds of needless fear 
and in showing them the way to prevent  
the dreadful sufferings of the secondary
 and tertiary stages brought  on by     
suppressive drug treatment by means of  
mercury1 the iodides1  #fjf1 etc48      
,these poisonous drugs suppress the     
initial lesion and diffuse the  disease 
poison through the system4 ,nature takes
 up the work of  elimination by means of
 skin eruptions and ulcers in various   
parts  of the body1 but these also are  
promptly suppressed with mercurial      
ointments and other alternatives4 ,this 
process of suppression is  continued for
 months and years1 until the organism is
 so thoroughly  saturated with          
alterative poisons that vital force can 
no longer  react by acute reactions     

against the original syphilitic poisons4
  ,this state of vital paralysis is then
 called a cure4    ,the medical         
professor1 however1 knows better4 ,he   
instructs the  students from the lecture
 platform3 ,when1 after two or three    
years  of mercurial treatment1          
syphilitic symptoms cease to appear1 you
 may  permit the patient to marry--but  
never guarantee a cure4    ,why not8    
,because the professor is aware that the
 offspring of such a  union are born    
with hereditary symptoms well known to  
every  physician1 and because the       
patient thus cured 787 may turn up in   
the  doctor's office at any time        
thereafter with a hole in his palate1   
ulcers on his body1 caries of the bones 
or with other secondary and  tertiary   
symptoms4    ,mercury has an especial   
affinity for the bony structures4 ,it   
will  work its way through the vertebrae
 of the spine and the bones of the      
skull into the nerve matter of the brain
 and spinal cord1 causing  inflammation1

 excruciating headaches1 nervous        
symptoms1 girdle  pains1 etc4 ,these    
stages of acute inflammation are        
followed in a few  years by sclerosis   
7hardening7 of nerve matter and blood   
vessels1  resulting in paresis1         
locomotor ataxy or paralysis agitans4   
,neither is it necessary to contract    
specific diseases in order to  fall a   
victim to these dreadful conditions3    
mercury1 iodine and  other destructive  
alternatives are given in a hundred     
different  forms for a multitude of     
other ailments4    ,a few years ago we  
had under our care a patient in the last
 stages  of locomotor ataxy1 who for    
years had been suffering the tortures of
  the damned4 ,there had never been a   
taint of specific disease in her        
system1 but four different times in her 
life she had been salivated  by calomel 
7a common laxative containing mercury74 
,this dreadful  poison was given to her 
in large doses for the cure of liver    
trouble  and constipation4 ,she was only

 fourteen years old when1 on account  of
 this1 she first suffered from acute    
mercurial poisoning4    ,another patient
 who1 after fifteen years of slow and   
torturous dying  by inches1 succumbed to
 the same disease1 absorbed the         
mercurial  poison in his boyhood days   
while attending a boarding school4 ,he  
was  twice salivated by mercurial       
ointments applied to cure the itch      
7scabies71 a disease which was epidemic 
at times among the boys4 ,he  likewise  
never had a syphilitic disease4    ,a   
young man1 insane at the age of thirty1 
absorbed the infernal  poison when four 
years of age4 ,he had at the time a     
psoric skin  eruption1 but the family   
physician suspected syphilitic infection
  from the nurse girl and kept the child
 under mercury for six months4  ,how do 
we know that the diagnosis of syphilis  
was false8 ,because the  iris of the eye
 revealed psora as the cause of the     
suspicious  eruption which reappeared   
several times later in life1 and because

  the servant girl was afterwards       
absolutely exonerated by competent      
physicians4    ,proofs by the ,diagnosis
 from the ,eye    ,we have treated many 
hundreds of cases of so-called chronic  
neuralgia1 neuritis1 rheumatism1        
neurasthenia1 epilepsy and idiocy1  due 
to the pernicious effects of quinine1   
iodine1 arsenic1  strychnine1 coal-tar  
products and other virulent poisons     
taken under  the guise of medicine4     
,how do we know that this is so8        
,because the ,diagnosis from the ,eye   
plainly reveals the presence of  these  
poisons in the system4 ,because the drug
 signs in the eye are  accompanied by   
the symptoms of these poisons in the    
system4 ,because  the record in the eye 
is confirmed by the history of the      
patient4  ,because1 under natural living
 and treatment1 diseases long ago       
suppressed by drugs or knife reappear as
 healing crises4 ,because1 in  these    
healing crises1 drugs indicated by the  
signs in the iris of  the eye are       

frequently eliminated under their own   
peculiar symptoms4  ,because1 to the    
extent that a drug is eliminated from   
the system by  a healing crisis1 its    
sign will disappear from the iris of the
 eye4    ,to illustrate3    ,the        
,diagnosis from the ,eye reveals heavy  
quinine poisoning in the  region of the 
brain4 ,this enables us to say to the   
patient1 without  questioning him1 that 
he suffers from severe frontal headaches
 and  ringing in the ears1 that he is   
very irritahle1 and so on through  the  
various symptoms of quinine poisoning4  
,the history of the  patient reveals the
 fact that he has taken large amounts of
 quinine  for colds1 la grippe or       
malaria4 ,under our methods of natural  
living  and treatment1 the patient      
improves2 the organism becomes more     
vigorous1 and the organs of elimination 
act more freely2 the latent  poisons are
 stirred up in their hiding places2     
healing crises make  their appearance4  
,the processes of elimination thus      

inaugurated  develop various symptoms of
 acute poisoning4 ,the eliminating      
crises  are accompanied by headaches1   
ringing in the ears1 nasal catarrh1     
bone pains1 neuritis1 strong taste of   
quinine in the mouth1 etc4  ,every      
healing crisis1 if naturally treated1   
diminishes the signs of  disease and    
drug poisons in the eye4        ,chapter
 ,,viii      ,inflammation      ,from   
what has already been said on this      
subject1 it will have become  apparent  
that inflammatory and feverish diseases 
are just as  natural1 orderly and lawful
 as anything else in ,nature1 that1     
therefore1 after they have once started1
 they must not be checked or  suppressed
 by poisonous drugs and surgical        
operations4    ,inflammatory processes  
can be kept within safe limits1 and they
 must  be assisted in their constructive
 tendencies by the natural methods  of  
treatment4 ,to check and suppress acute 
diseases before they have  run their    
natural course means to suppress        

,nature's purifying and  healing        
efforts1 to court fatal complications   
and to change the  acute1 constructive  
reactions into chronic disease          
conditions4    ,those who have followed 
the preceding chapters will remember    
that  their general trend has been to   
prove one of the fundamental  principles
 of ,nature ,cure philosophy1 namely the
 ,unity of ,disease  and ,cure4    ,we  
claim that all acute diseases are       
uniform in their causes1 their  purpose1
 and if conditions are favorable1       
uniform also in their  progressive      
development4    ,in former chapters ,i  
endeavored to prove and to elucidate the
 unity  of acute diseases in regard to  
their causes and their purpose1 the     
latter not being destructive1 but       
constructive and beneficial4 ,i         
demonstrated that the microorganisms of 
disease are not the  unmitigated        
nuisance and evil which they are        
commonly regarded1 but  that1 like      
everything else in ,nature1 they1 too1  

serve a useful  purpose4 ,i showed that 
it depends upon ourselves whether their 
activity is harmful and destructive1 or 
beneficial3 upon our manner  of living  
and of treating acute reactions4    ,let
 us now trace the unity of acute        
diseases in regard to their  general    
course by a brief examination of the    
processes of  inflammation and their    
progressive development through five    
well-defined stages4 ,we shall base our 
studies on the most advanced  works on  
pathology and bacteriology4    ,the     
,story of ,inflammation    ,to me the   
story of inflammation has been one of   
the most wonderful  revelations of the  
complex activities of the human         
organism4 ,more  than anything else it  
confirms to me the fundamental          
principles of  ,nature ,cure1 the fact  
that ,nature is a good healer1 not a    
poor one4    ,before inflammation can   
arise1 there must exist an exciting     
cause in  the form of some obstruction  
or of some agent inimical to health and 

life4 ,such excitants of inflammation   
may be dead cells1 blood clots1         
fragments of bone and other effete      
matter produced in the system  itself or
 they may be foreign bodies such as     
particles of dust1  soot1 stone1 iron or
 other metals1 slivers of wood1 etc42   
again1  they may be microorganisms or   
parasites4    ,when one or more of these
 exciting agents of inflammation are    
present in the tissues of the body in   
sufficient strength to call  forth the  
reaction and opposition of the healing  
forces1 the  microscope will always     
reveal the following phenomena1 slightly
  varying under different conditions3   
,the blood rushes to the area of        
irritation4 ,owing to this increased    
blood pressure1 the minute arteries and 
veins in the immediate  neighborhood of 
the excitant dilate and increase in     
size4 ,the  distension of the blood     
vessels stretches and thereby weakens   
their  walls4 ,through these the white  
blood corpuscles squeeze their mobile   

bodies and work their way through the   
intervening tissues toward the  affected
 area4    ,in some mysterious way they  
seem to sense the exact location of the 
danger point and hurry toward it in     
large numbers like soldiers  summoned to
 meet an invading army4 ,this faculty of
 the white blood  corpuscles to         
apprehend the presence and exact        
location of the enemy  has been ascribed
 to chemical attraction and is called   
chemotaxis4    ,the army of defense is  
made up of the white blood corpuscles or
  leukocytes and of connective tissue   
cells which separate themselves  from   
the neighboring tissues4 ,all these     
wandering cells possess the  faculty of 
absorbing and digesting microbes4 ,they 
contain certain  proteolytic or         
protein-splitting ferments1 by means of 
which they  decompose and digest poisons
 and hostile microorganisms4 ,on account
  of their activity as germ destroyers1 
these cells have been called  germ      
killers or phagocytes4 ,in their        

movements and actions these  valiant    
little warriors act very much like      
intelligent beings1  animated by the    
qualities of patience1 perseverance1    
courage1  foresight and self-sacrifice4 
,the phagocytes absorb morbid matter1   
poisons or microorganisms by  enveloping
 them with their own bodies4 ,it is a   
hand-to-hand fight1  and many of the    
brave little soldiers are destroyed by  
the poisons  and bacteria which they    
attack and swallow4 ,what we call pus is
 made  up of the bodies of live and dead
 phagocytes1 disease taints and  germs1 
blood serum1 broken-down tissues and    
cells1 in short1 the  debris of the     
battlefield4    ,we can now understand  
how the processes just described produce
 the  well-known cardinal symptoms of   
inflammation and fever2 the redness1    
heat and swelling due to increased blood
 pressure1 congestion and  the          
accumulation of exudates2 the pain due  
to irritation and to  pressure on the   
nerves4 ,we can also realize how        

impaired nutrition  and the obstruction 
and destruction in the affected parts   
and organs  will interfere with and     
inhibit functional activity4    ,the    
organism has still other ways and means 
of defending itself4 ,at  the time of   
bacterial infection1 certain            
germ-killing substances are  developed  
in the blood serum4 ,science has named  
these defensive  proteins alexins4 ,it  
has also been found that the phagocyte  
and  tissue cells in the neighborhood of
 the area of irritation produce         
antipoisons or natural antitoxins1 which
 neutralize the bacterial  poisons and  
kill the microorganisms of disease4     
,with the ,evil1 ,nature ,provides the  
,cure    ,furthermore1 the growth and   
development of bacteria and parasites is
  inhibited and finally arrested by     
their own waste products4 ,we have  an  
example of this in the yeast germ1 which
 thrives and multiplies  in the presence
 of sugar in solution4 ,living on and   
digesting the  sugar1 it decomposes the 

sugar molecules into alcohol and        
carbonic  acid4 ,as the alcohol         
increases during the process of         
fermentation1  it gradually arrests the 
development and activity of the yeast   
cells4    ,similar phenomena accompany  
the activity of disease germs and       
parasites4 ,they produce certain waste  
products which gradually  inhibit their 
own growth and increase4 ,the vaccines1 
serums and  antitoxins of medical       
science are prepared from these         
bacterial  excrements and from extracts 
made of the bodies of bacteria4    ,in  
the serum and antitoxin treatment1      
therefore1 the allopathic  school is    
imitating ,nature's procedure in        
checking the growth of  microorganisms1 
but with this difference3 ,nature does  
not suppress  the growth and            
multiplication of disease germs until   
the morbid  matter on which they subsist
 has been decomposed and consumed1 and  
until the inflammatory processes have   
run their course through the  five      

stages of inflammation2 while serums and
 antitoxins given in  powerful doses at 
the different stages of any disease may 
check and  suppress germ activity and   
the processes of inflammation before the
  latter have run their natural course  
and before the morbid matter  has been  
eliminated4    ,the ,five ,stages of    
,inflammation    ,what has been said in 
former chapters confirms my claim that  
all  acute diseases are uniform in their
 causes and in their purpose4  ,from the
 foregoing description of inflammation  
it will have become  clear that they are
 also uniform in their pathological     
development4  ,the uniformity of acute  
inflammatory processes becomes still    
more  apparent when we follow them      
through their five succeeding stages1   
that is3 ,incubation1 ,aggravation1     
,destruction1 ,abatement and            
,reconstruction1 as illustrated in the  
following diagram3    ,i4 ,incubation4  
,the first section of the diagram       
corresponds to the  period of           

,incubation1 the time between the       
exposure to an infectious  disease and  
its development4 ,this period may last  
from a few minutes  to a few days1      
weeks1 months or even years4    ,during 
this stage morbid matter1 poisons1      
microorganisms and other  excitants of  
inflammation gather and concentrate in  
certain parts  and organs of the body4  
,when they have accumulated to such an  
extent  as to interfere with the normal 
functions or to endanger the health  and
 life of the organism1 the life forces  
begin to react to the  obstruction or   
threatening danger by means of the      
inflammatory  processes before          
described4    ,,ii4 ,aggravation4       
,during the period of ,aggravation the  
battle between  the phagocytes and      
,nature's antitoxins on the one hand1   
and the  poisons and microorganisms of  
disease on the other hand1 gradually    
progresses1 accompanied by a            
corresponding increase of fever and     
inflammation1 until it reaches its      

climax1 marked by the greatest          
intensity of feverish symptoms4         
,,iii4 ,destruction4 ,this battle       
between the forces of disease and the   
healing forces is accompanied by the    
disintegration of tissues due  to the   
accumulation of exudates1 to pus        
formation1 the development  of          
abscesses1 boils1 fistulas1 open sores1 
etc41 and to other morbid  changes4 ,it 
involves the destruction of phagocytes1 
bacteria1 blood  vessels1 and tissues   
just as a battle between contending     
human  armies results in loss of life   
and property4    ,the stage of          
,destruction ends in crisis1 which may  
be either fatal  or beneficial4 ,if the 
healing forces of the organism are in   
the  ascendancy1 and if they are        
supported by right treatment which tends
  to build up the blood1 increase the   
vitality and promote  elimination1 then 
the poisons and the microorganisms of   
disease will  gradually be overcome1    
absorbed or eliminated and1 by degrees1 

the  tissues will be cleared of the     
debris of the battlefield4    ,,iv4     
,abatement4 ,the absorption and         
elimination of exudates1 pus1  etc41    
take place during the period of         
abatement4 ,it is accompanied  by a     
gradual lowering of temperature1 pulse  
rate and the other  symptoms of fever   
and inflammation4    ,v4 ,resolution or 
,reconstruction4 ,when the period of    
,abate-ment has  run its course and the 
affected areas have been cleared of the 
morbid accumulations and obstructions1  
then1 during the fifth stage  of        
inflammation1 the work of rebuilding the
 injured parts and organs  begins4 ,more
 or less destruction has taken place in 
the cells and  tissues1 the blood       
vessels and organs of the areas         
involved4 ,these  must now be           
reconstructed1 and this last stage of   
the inflammatory  process is1 therefore1
 in a way the most important4 ,on the   
perfect  regeneration of the injured    
parts depends the final effect of the   

acute disease upon the organism4    ,if 
the inflammation has been allowed to run
 its course through the  different      
stages of acute activity and the final  
stage of  ,reconstruction1 then every   
acute disease1 whatever its name and    
description may be1 will prove          
beneficial to the organism because      
morbid matter1 foreign bodies1 poisons  
and microorganisms have been  eliminated
 from the system2 abnormal and diseased 
tissues have been  broken down and built
 up again to a purer and more normal    
condition4    ,as it were1 the acute    
disease has acted upon the organism like
 a  thunderstorm on the sultry1 vitiated
 summer air4 ,it has cleared the  system
 of impurities and destructive          
influences1 and re-established          
wholesome1 normal conditions4 ,therefore
 acute diseases1 when treated  in       
harmony with ,nature's intent1 always   
prove beneficial4    ,if1 however1      
through neglect or wrong treatment1 the 
inflammatory  processes are not allowed 

to run their natural course1 if they are
  checked or suppressed by poisonous    
drugs1 the ice bag or surgical          
operations1 or if the disease conditions
 in the system are so far in  the       
ascendancy that the healing forces      
cannot react properly1 then  the        
constructive forces may lose the battle 
and the disease may take  a fatal ending
 or develop into chronic ailments4      
,suppression ,during the ,first    ,two 
,stages of ,inflammation    ,it may be  
suggested that suppression during the   
stages of ,incubation  and ,aggravation 
need not have fatal consequences if     
followed by  natural living and         
eliminative treatment4 ,to this ,i would
 reply3  ,such procedure always involves
 the danger of concentrating the        
disease poisons in vital parts and      
organs1 thus laying the  foundation for 
chronic destructive diseases4           
,furthermore1 it is not at all necessary
 to suppress inflammatory  processes by 
poisonous drugs and other unnatural     

means1 because we  can easily and surely
 control them and keep them from        
becoming  dangerous by our natural means
 of treatment4    ,i shall now endeavor 
to prove and to illustrate the foregoing
  theoretical expositions by following  
the development of various  diseases    
through the five stages of inflammation4
 ,i shall first take  up the commonest  
of all forms of disease1 the cold4      
,catching a ,cold    ,according to      
popular opinion1 the catching of colds  
is responsible  for the greater portion 
of human ailments4 ,almost daily ,i hear
 from  patients who come for            
consultation3 ,all my troubles date back
 to a  cold ,i took at such and such a  
time1 etc4 ,then ,i have to explain     
that colds are not taken suddenly and   
from without but that they  come from   
within1 that their period of ,incubation
 may have extended  over months or      
years1 that a clean1 healthy body       
possessed of good  vitality cannot take 
cold under the ordinary thermal         

conditions  congenial to human life1 no 
matter how sudden the change in         
temperature4    ,at first glance1 this  
may seem to be contrary to common       
experience  as well as to the theory and
 practice of medical science4 ,but let  
us  follow the development of a cold    
from start to finish4 ,this will  throw 
some light on the question as to whether
 it can be caught1 or  whether it       
develops slowly within the organism2    
also whether this  development or       
incubation may extend over a long period
 of time4    ,taking cold may be caused 
by chilling of the surface of the body  
or  part of the body4 ,in the chilled   
portions of the skin the pores  close1  
the blood recedes into the interior1 and
 as a result of this  the elimination of
 poisonous gases and exudates through   
these  portions of the skin is          
suppressed4    ,this catching a cold    
through being exposed to a cold draft1  
through  wet clothing1 etc41 is not     
necessarily followed by more serious    

consequences4 ,if the system is not too 
much encumbered with morbid  matter and 
if kidneys and intestines are in fairly 
good working  order1 these organs will  
take care of the extra amount of waste  
and  morbid materials in place of the   
temporarily inactive skin and  eliminate
 them without difficulty4 ,the greater  
the vitality and the  more normal the   
composition of the blood1 the better the
 system will  react in such an emergency
 and throw off the morbid matter which  
failed to be eliminated through the     
skin4    ,if1 however1 the organism is  
already overloaded with waste and       
morbid materials1 if the bowels and the 
kidneys are already weakened  and       
atrophied through continued overwork and
 overstimulation1 if1 in  addition to   
this1 the vitality has been lowered     
through excesses or  overexertion and   
the vital fluids are in an abnormal     
condition1 then  the morbid matter      
thrown into the circulation by the      
chilling and  temporary inactivity of   

the skin cannot find an outlet through  
the  regular channels of elimination and
 endeavors to escape by way of  the     
mucous linings of the nasal passages1   
the throat1 bronchi1  stomach1 bowels   
and genitourinary organs4    ,the waste 
materials and poisonous exudates which  
are being  eliminated through these     
internal membranes cause irritation and 
congestion1 and thus produce the        
well-known symptoms of inflammation  and
 catarrhal elimination3 sneezing        
7coryza71 cough1 expectoration1  mucous 
discharges1 diarrhea1 leucorrhea vaginal
 dis-charge1 etc4  ,in other words1     
these so-called colds are nothing more  
or less than  different forms of        
vicarious elimination4 ,the membranous  
linings of  the internal organs are     
doing the work for the inactive1        
sluggish  and atrophied skin1 kidneys   
and intestines4 ,the greater the        
accumulation of morbid matter in the    
system1 the lower the vitality1  and the
 more abnormal the composition of the   

blood and lymph1 the  greater will be   
the liability to the catching of colds4 
,what is to be gained by suppressing the
 different forms of catarrhal           
elimination with cough and catarrh cures
 containing opiates1  astringents1      
antiseptics1 germkillers and            
antipyretics8 ,is it not  obvious that  
such a procedure interferes with        
,nature's purifying  efforts1 that it   
hinders and suppresses the inflammatory 
processes  and the accompanying         
elimination of morbid matter from the   
system8  ,worst of all1 that it adds    
drug poisons to disease poisons8        
,such a course can have but one result1 
namely the changing of  ,nature's       
cleansing and healing efforts into      
chronic disease4    ,from the foregoing 
it will have become clear that the cause
 of a  cold lies not so much in the cold
 draft1 or the wet feet1 as in the      
primary causes of all disease3 lowered  
vitality1 deterioration of  the vital   
fluids and the accumulation of morbid   

matter and poisons  in the system4      
,the incubation period of the cold may  
have extended over many years  or over  
an entire lifetime4    ,what1 then1 is  
the natural cure for colds8 ,there can  
be but one  remedy3 increased           
elimination through the proper channels4
 ,this is  accomplished by judicious    
dieting and fasting1 and through        
restoring  the natural activity of the  
skin1 kidneys and bowels by means of wet
  packs1 cold sprays and ablutions1 sitz
 baths1 massage1 chiropractic  or       
osteopathic manipulation1 homeopathic   
remedies1 exercise1 sun and  air baths  
and all other methods of natural        
treatment that save  vitality1 build up 
the blood on a normal basis and promote 
elimination without injuring the        
organism4    ,suppression ,during the   
,third    ,stage of ,inflammation       
,should the inflammatory processes be   
suppressed during the stage of          
,destruction1 the results would be still
 more serious and  far-reaching4 ,we    

have learned that during this stage the 
affected  parts and organs are involved 
in more or less disintegration4 ,they   
are filled with morbid exudates1 pus1   
etc41 which interfere with and  make    
impossible normal nutrition and         
functioning4 ,if suppression  takes     
place during this stage1 it is obvious  
that the affected areas  will be left   
permanently in a condition of           
destruction4    ,here is an illustration
 from practical life3 ,suppose necessary
  changes and repairs have to be made in
 a house4 ,workmen have torn  down the  
partitions1 hangings1 wallpaper1 etc4   
,at this stage of the  proceedings the  
owner discharges the workmen and the    
house is left  in a condition of chaos4 
,surely1 this would not be rational4 ,it
  would leave the house unfit for       
habitation4 ,but such a procedure  would
 correspond exactly to the suppression  
of inflammatory diseases  during the    
stage of ,destruction4 ,this also leaves
 the affected  organs permanently in an 

abnormal1 diseased condition4    ,that  
accounts for the mysterious sequelae or 
chronic after-effects  which so often   
follow drug-treated acute diseases4 ,i  
have traced  numerous cases of chronic  
affections of the lungs and kidneys1 of 
infantile paralysis and of many other   
chronic ailments to such  suppression4  
,in the following ,i shall describe a   
typical case1 which  came under our care
 and treatment a few years ago4         
,suppression by ,means of the ,ice ,bag 
,a few years ago several gentlemen of   
,greek nationality called on me  with   
the request that ,i visit a friend of   
theirs who had been lying  sick for     
about two months in one of our great    
,west ,side ,chicago  hospitals4 ,on    
investigation ,i found that the patient 
had entered the  hospital suffering from
 a mild case of pneumonia4 ,the doctors 
of the  institution had ordered ice     
packs4 ,rubber sheets filled with ice   
were applied to the chest and other     
parts of the body4 ,this had been  done 

for several weeks until the fever       
subsided4    ,as a matter of fact1 ice  
is more suppressive than antifever      
medicines4 ,the continued icy cold      
applications chill the parts of  the    
body to which they are applied1 depress 
the vital functions and  effectually    
suppress the inflammatory processes4    
,the result in this case1 as in many    
similar ones which ,i had  occasion to  
observe during and after the ice-bag    
treatment1 was that  the inflammation in
 the lungs had been arrested and        
suppressed  during the stage of         
destruction1 when the air cells and     
tissues were  filled with exudates1     
blood serum1 pus1 live and dead blood   
cells1  bacteria1 etc41 leaving the     
affected areas of the lungs in a        
consolidated1 liver-like condition4     
,as a consequence of suppression in the 
case of this ,greek patient1  the       
pneumonia had been changed from the     
acute to the subacute and  chronic      
stages and the doctors in charge had    

told his friends that  he was now       
suffering from miliary tuberculosis1 and
 would probably  die within a week or   
two4    ,after receiving this           
discouraging information1 the friends of
 the  patient came to me and prevailed  
upon me to take charge of the case4  ,he
 was transferred to our institution1 and
 we began at once to apply  the natural 
methods of treatment4 ,instead of ice   
packs we used the  regular cold-water   
packs1 strips of linen wrung out of     
water of  ordinary temperature wrapped  
around the body and covered with        
several layers of flannel bandages4     
,the wet packs became warm on the body  
in a few minutes4 ,they relaxed  the    
pores and drew the blood into the       
surface1 thus promoting heat  radiation 
and the elimination of morbid matter    
through the skin4  ,they did not        
suppress the fever1 but kept it below   
the danger point4    ,under this        
treatment1 accompanied by fasting and   
judicious  osteopathic manipulation1 the

 inflammatory and feverish processes    
suppressed by the ice packs soon        
revived1 became once more active  and   
aggressive1 and were now allowed to run 
their natural course  through the stages
 of destruction1 absorption 7abatement7 
and  reconstruction4    ,the result of  
the ,nature ,cure treatment was that    
about two months  after the patient     
entered our institution1 his friends    
bought him a  ticket to sunny ,greece4  
,he had a good journey1 and in the      
congenial  climate of his native country
 made a perfect recovery4    ,i have    
observed a number of similar cases      
suffering from  consolidation of the    
lungs and the resulting asthmatic or    
tubercular  conditions1 which had been  
doctored into these chronic ailments by 
means of antipyretics and of ice4       
,equally dangerous is the ice bag if    
applied to the inflamed brain or  the   
spinal column4 ,only too often it       
results either in paralysis or  in      
death4 ,in many instances1 acute        

cerebrospinal meningitis is  changed in 
this way by drug and serum treatment or 
by the use of ice  bags into the        
chronic1 so-called incurable infantile  
paralysis4    ,we say so-called         
incurable because we have treated and   
cured such  cases in all stages of      
development from the acute inflammatory 
meningitis to the chronic paralysis of  
long standing4    ,in our treatment of  
acute diseases we never use ice or icy  
water for  packs1 compresses1 baths or  
ablutions1 but always water of ordinary 
temperature as it comes from the faucet4
 ,the water compress or pack  warms up  
quickly1 and thus brings about a natural
 reaction within a  few minutes1 while  
the ice bag or pack continually chills  
and  practically freezes the affected   
parts and organs4 ,this does not  allow 
the skin to relax2 it prevents a warm   
reaction1 the radiation  of the body    
heat and the elimination of morbid      
matter through the  skin4               
,suppression ,during the ,fourth and    

,fifth ,stages of ,inflammation    ,let 
us see what happens when acute diseases 
are suppressed during  the stages of    
abatement and reconstruction4 ,if the   
defenders of the  body1 the phagocyte   
and antitoxins1 produced in the tissues 
and  organs1 gain the victory over the  
inimical forces which are  threatening  
the health and life of the organism1    
then the symptoms  of inflammation1     
swelling1 redness1 heat1 pain and the   
accelerated  heart action which         
accompanies them1 gradually subside4    
,the debris  of the battlefield is      
carried away through the venous         
circulation  which forms the drainage   
system of the body4    ,when in this way
 all morbid materials have been         
completely  eliminated1 ,vital ,force1  
the physician within1 will commence to  
regenerate and reconstruct the injured  
and destroyed cells and  tissues4       
,if1 however1 these processes of        
elimination and reconstruction are      
interfered with or interrupted before   

they are completed1 then the  affected  
parts and organs will not have a chance 
to become entirely  well or strong4     
,they will remain in an abnormal1       
crippled condition1  and their          
functional activity will be seriously   
handicapped4    ,the ,after-effects of  
,drug-,treated ,typhoid ,fever    ,in   
hundreds of cases ,i have told patients 
after a glance into their  eyes that    
they were suffering from chronic        
indigestion1  malassimi-lation and      
malnutrition caused by drug-treated     
typhoid  fever2 and every time the      
records in the eyes were confirmed by   
the  history of the patient4    ,in such
 cases the outer rim of the iris shows a
 wreath of whitish or  drug-colored     
circular flakes4 ,i have named this     
wreath the typhoid  rosary4 ,it         
corresponds to the lymphatic and other  
absorbent vessels  in the intestines1   
and appears in the iris of the eye when 
these  structures have been injured or  
atrophied by drug1 ice or surgical      

treatment4 ,wherever this has been done1
 the venous and lymphatic  vessels in   
the intestines do not absorb the food   
materials and these  pass through the   
digestive tract and out of the body     
without being  properly digested and    
assimilated4    ,during the destructive 
stages of typhoid fever1 the intestines 
become denuded by the sloughing of their
 membranous linings4 ,these  sloughed   
membranes give the stools of the typhoid
 fever patient  their peculiar pea soup 
appearance4 ,in a similar manner the    
lymphatic1 venous and glandular         
structures which constitute the         
absorbent vessels of the intestines     
atrophy and slough away4    ,if the     
inflammatory processes are allowed to   
run their normal course  under natural  
methods of treatment through the stages 
of  ,destruction1 ,absorption and       
,reconstruction1 ,nature will rebuild   
the  membranous and glandular structures
 of the intestinal canal  perfectly1    
convalescence will be rapid and the     

patient will enjoy  better health than  
before he contracted the disease4       
,if1 however1 through injudicious       
feeding or the administration of        
quinine1 mercury1 purging salts1 opiates
 or other destructive  agents1 ,nature's
 processes are interfered with1         
prematurely checked  and suppressed1    
then the sloughed membranes and         
absorbent vessels  are not              
reconstructed1 and the intestinal tract 
is left in a denuded  and atrophied     
condition4    ,such a patient may arise 
from his bed thinking that he is cured2 
but  unless he is afterward treated by  
natural methods1 he will never  make a  
full recovery4 ,it will take him1       
perhaps1 months or years to  die a      
gradual1 miserable death through        
malassimilation and  malnutrition1 which
 usually end in some form of wasting    
disease1  such as pernicious anemia or  
tuberculosis4 ,if he does not actually  
die from the effects of the wrongly     
treated typhoid fever1 he will  be      

troubled all his life with intestinal   
indigestion1 constipation1              
malassimilation and the accompanying    
nervous disorders4    ,a ,change for the
 ,better    ,speaking of typhoid fever1 
we are glad to say that for this        
particular form of disease the most     
advanced medical science has  adopted   
the ,nature ,cure treatment1 that is1   
straight cold water and  fasting1 and no
 drugs1 as it was originated by the     
pioneers of  ,nature ,cure in ,germany  
more than fifty years ago4    ,this     
treatment1 which medical science has    
found so eminently  successful in       
typhoid fever1 would prove equally      
efficacious in all  other acute diseases
 if the regular doctors would only try  
it4 ,it is  a strange and curious fact  
that so far they have never found it    
worth while to do so4 ,all ,nature ,cure
 physicians know from their  daily      
experience in actual practice that the  
simple water treatment  and fasting is  
sufficient to cure all other forms of   

acute diseases  just as easily and      
effectively as typhoid fever4 ,by this  
is proved  the unity of treatment in all
 acute diseases4    ,both in typhoid    
fever and in tuberculosis1 progressive  
medical men  have now entirely abandoned
 the germ-killing method of treatment4  
,they have found it absolutely useless  
and superfluous to hunt for  drugs and  
serums to kill the typhoid and          
tuberculosis bacilli in  these1 the two 
most destructive diseases afflicting the
 human  family4 ,they were forced to    
admit that the simple remedies of the   
,nature ,cure school1 cold water and    
fasting in typhoid fever and the        
fresh-air treatment in tuberculosis1 are
 the only worthwhile methods  to fight  
these formidable enemies to health and  
life4    ,if they would continue their  
researches and experiments along these  
natural lines1 they would attain        
infinitely more satisfactory  results   
than through their germ-hunting and     
germ-killing theories  and practices4   

,chapter ,,ix      ,the ,effects of     
,suppression of ,venereal ,diseases     
,another good illustration of           
suppression may be found in the         
allopathic treatment of venereal        
diseases4 ,almost invariably the  drug  
treatment suppresses these diseases in  
the stages of incubation  and           
aggravation1 thus locking them up in the
 system4 ,the venereal  taints and      
germs1 however1 are living things which 
grow and multiply  until the body has   
been completely permeated by them4 ,then
 they must  find an outlet somehow and  
somewhere1 and consequently they break  
out in the manifold so-called secondary 
and tertiary symptoms4    ,the drug     
poisons which are used to cure          
7suppress7 these symptoms1  greatly     
aggravate the disease4 ,they create     
conditions in the system  infinitely    
worse than the venereal diseases        
themselves4 ,thus the  acute1 easily    
curable stages of these ailments are    
changed into the  dreadful and obstinate

 chronic conditions4 ,it is in this way 
that  venereal diseases are made        
hereditary and transmitted to future    
generations4    ,in a special article on
 this subject entitled ,venereal        
,diseases1  published in ,the           
,naturopath1 ,january1 #aiac1 ,i have   
substantiated  the following claims3    
,venereal diseases are not necessarily  
chronic in their progressive            
development4 ,they are essentially acute
 and self-limited4 ,but may  become     
chronic through neglect or through      
suppressive drug  treatment4 ,the       
chronic1 so-called secondary and        
tertiary  manifestations of venereal    
diseases1 such as ulceration of bones   
and  fleshy tissue1 gummata of the      
brain1 sclerosis of the spinal cord1    
arthritic rheumatism1 degeneration and  
destruction of other vital  parts and   
organs of the body1 are not so much the 
result of the  original gonorrheal or   
syphilitic infection1 as of the         
destructive  drug poisons which have    

been taken to cure or rather to suppress
 the  primary lesions and acute         
inflammatory symptoms4 ,venereal        
diseases  in the acute inflammatory     
stages are easily and completely curable
  by natural methods of living and of   
treatment4 ,venereal diseases  treated  
and cured by natural methods during the 
acute inflammatory  stages are never    
followed by any chronic after-effects or
 secondary  and tertiary manifestations 
whatsoever4 ,when venereal diseases have
  reached the secondary and tertiary    
stages1 they are still curable by       
natural methods of living and of        
treatment1 providing there is left      
sufficient vitality to respond to       
treatment and providing the  destruction
 of vital parts and organs has not      
advanced too far4    ,hundreds of cases 
of well-developed locomotor ataxy1      
paresis1 and  other so-called secondary 
and tertiary diseases of the brain and  
the  nervous system1 of bony and fleshy 
tissues1 and of vital organs have  been 

cured by our natural methods of         
treatment4    ,it is self-evident1      
however1 that the treatment and cure of 
the  chronic conditions require more    
patience and perseverance than the  cure
 of acute conditions not tampered with  
and suppressed by drugs4  ,venereal     
diseases treated and cured by natural   
methods are never  followed by chronic  
after-effects4 ,on the other hand1      
mercury1  iodine1 quinine1 and coal-tar 
poisons produce all the so-called       
secondary and tertiary symptoms of      
syphilis in people who never in  their  
lives were afflicted with venereal      
diseases1 but who have  taken or        
absorbed these drug poisons in other    
ways4    4 4 4 ,these facts are proven  
beyond doubt by the ,diagnosis from the 
,eye4 ,all1 destructive poisons taken in
 sufficient quantities will in  time    
reveal their presence and exact location
 in the body through  certain           
well-defined signs or discolorations in 
the iris4    ,these poisons undermine   

the structures of the body and          
deteriorate  vital parts and organs so  
slowly and insidiously that the         
superficial observer does not trace and 
connect cause and effect4    ,the       
,wasserman and ,noguchi ,tests          
,medical men may say to the foregoing   
that the ,wasserman and ,noguchi  tests 
furnish positive proofs of syphilis in  
the system4 ,these  chemical tests are  
supposed to reveal with certainty the   
presence of  venereal taints in the     
body1--at least1 the public is left     
under  this impression4    ,i am        
convinced1 however1 that in many        
instances the positive  ,wasserman or   
,noguchi tests are the result of        
mercurial poison  instead of syphilitic 
infection4 ,in a number of cases where  
these  tests proved positive1 that is1  
where1 according to the theory of       
allopathic medical science1 they        
indicated a luetic condition of the     
system1 the subjects of these tests had 
never in their lives shown  any symptoms

 of syphilis nor1 as far as they knew1  
had they ever  been exposed to          
infection1 but every one of them showed 
plainly the  sign of mercurial poisoning
 in the iris of the eye1 and had taken  
considerable mercury in the form of     
calomel or of other medicinal           
preparations for diseases not of a      
luetic nature1 or they had been         
salivated by coming in contact with the 
mercurial poison in mines1  smelters1   
mirror factories1 etc4    ,this leads me
 to believe that1 sooner or later1      
medical science will  have to admit that
 the ,wasserman and ,noguchi tests      
reveal1 in many  instances at least1 the
 effects of mercurial poisoning instead 
of  the effects of syphilitic infection4
 ,and this would not be  surprising     
since it is well known that mercury has 
very similar  effects upon the system as
 syphilis4    ,it takes the mercurial   
poison from five to ten and even fifteen
  years before it works its way into the
 brain and spinal cord1 and  there      

causes its characteristic degeneration  
and destruction of  brain and4 nerve    
tissues which manifest outwardly as     
locomotor  ataxy1 paralysis agitans1    
paresis1 apoplexy1 hemiplegia1 epilepsy1
  ,st4 ,vitus dance1 and the different  
forms of idiocy and insanity4           
,mercurial poisoning is also in many    
instances the cause of deafness  and    
blindness4    ,when the symptoms of     
mercurial destruction begin to show1    
then they1  in turn1 are suppressed by  
preparations of iodine1 the #fjf1 or    
other alteratives1 and so the merry war 
goes1 on3 poison against  poison1       
,beelzebub against the ,devil1 and the  
poor suffering body has  to stand it    
all4    ,in this way the system is      
periodically saturated with the most    
virulent poisons on earth1 until the    
undertaker finishes the job4  ,and this 
is miscalled scientific treatment4      
,there never was  invented by cruel     
,indian or fanatical inquisition worse  
torture than  this4 ,they mercifully    

finished the sufferings of their victims
  within a few hours or1 at the worst1  
days2 but this torture  inflicted upon  
human beings in the name of medical     
science continues  for a lifetime4 ,it  
means dying by inches under the most    
horrible  conditions for ten1 twenty1   
thirty years or longer4    ,in this     
connection it may be well to quote the  
testimony of  ,professor ,e4 ,a4        
,farrington of ,philadelphia1 one of the
 most  celebrated homeopathic physicians
 of the nineteenth century4 ,he  says1  
in his ,clinical ,materia ,medica1 third
 edition1 page #ada3    ,the various    
constitutions or dyscrasia underlying   
chronic and acute  affections are1      
indeed1 very numerous4 ,as yet1 we do   
not know them  all4 ,we do know that one
 of them comes in gonorrhoea1 a disease 
which is frightfully common1 so that the
 constitution arising from  this disease
 is rapidly on the increase4    ,now ,i 
want to tell you why it is so4 ,it is   
because allopathic  physicians1 and many

 homeopaths as well1 do not properly    
cure it4 ,i  do not believe gonorrhoea  
to be a local disease4 ,if it is not    
properly cured1 a constitutional poison 
which may be transmitted to  the        
children is developed4 ,i know1 from    
years of experience and  observation1   
that gonorrhoea is a serious difficulty1
 and one1 too1  that complicates many   
cases that we have to treat4    ,the    
same is true of syphilis in a modified  
degree4 ,gonorrhoea seems  to attack the
 nobler tissues1 the lungs1 the heart1  
and the nervous  system1 all of which   
are reached by syphilis only after the  
lapse of  years4    ,the ,destructive   
,after-,effects of ,mercury             
,concerning the destructive             
after-effects of mercury1 of which      
homeopaths have made a most careful     
study1 ,professor ,farrington  says1 on 
pages #eeh-eei of the same volume3      
,the more remote symptoms of mercurial  
poisoning are these3 ,you will  find    
that the blood becomes impoverished4    

,the albumin and fibrin of  that fluid  
are affected4 ,they are diminished1 and 
you find in their  place a certain fatty
 substance1 the composition of which ,i 
do not  exactly know4 ,consequently1 as 
a prominent symptom1 the body wastes    
and emaciates4 ,the patient suffers from
 fever which is rather hectic  in its   
character4 ,the periosteum becomes      
affected1 and you then have  a          
characteristic group of mercurial pains1
 bone pains worse in  changes of the    
weather1 worse in the warmth of the bed1
 and  chilliness with or after stool4   
,the skin becomes rather of a  brownish 
hue2 ulcers form1 particularly on the   
legs2 they are  stubborn and will not   
heal4 ,the patient is troubled with     
sleeplessness and ebullitions of blood  
at night2 he is hot and  cannot sleep2  
he is thrown quickly into a             
perspiration1 which  perspiration gives 
him no relief4    ,the entire system    
suffers also1 and you have here two     
series of  symptoms4 ,at first the      

patient becomes anxious and restless and
  cannot remain quiet2 he changes his   
position2 he moves about from  place to 
place2 he seems to have a great deal of 
anxiety about the  heart1 praecordial   
anguish1 as it is termed1 particularly  
at night4    ,then1 in another series of
 symptoms1 there are jerkings of the    
limbs1 making the patient appear as     
though he were attacked by ,st4  ,vitus'
 dance4 ,or1 you may notice what is more
 common yet1 trembling  of the hands1   
this tremor being altogether beyond the 
control of the  patient and gradually   
spreading over the entire body1 giving  
you a  resemblance to paralysis agitans 
or shaking palsy4    ,finally1 the      
patient becomes paralyzed1 cannot move  
his limbs1 his  mind becomes lost1 and  
he presents a perfect picture of        
imbecility4  ,he does all sorts of queer
 things4 ,he sits in the corner with an 
idiotic smile on his face1 playing with 
straws2 he is forgetful1 he  cannot     
remember even the most ordinary events4 

,he becomes  disgustingly filthy and    
eats his own excrement4 ,in fact1 he is 
a  perfect idiot4    ,be careful how you
 give mercury2 it is a treacherous      
medicine4 ,it  seems often indicated4   
,you give it and relieve2 but your      
patient is  worse again in a few weeks  
and then you give it again with relief4 
,by and by1 it fails you4 ,now1 if ,i   
want to make a permanent cure1  for     
instance1 in a scrofulous child1 ,i will
 very seldom give him  mercury2 should  
,i do so1 it will be at least only as an
 intercurrent  remedy4        ,chapter  
,x      ,suppressive ,surgical          
,treatment of ,tonsillitis and ,enlarged
 ,adenoids      ,the following          
paragraphs are taken from an article in 
the ,nature  ,cure ,magazine ,may1      
#aiji1 titled ,surgery for ,tonsillitis 
and  ,adenoids4 ,they will throw further
 interesting light on the  dangerous    
consequences of suppressing acute and   
subacute diseases4    ,the tonsils are  
excreting glands4 ,nature has created   

them for the  elimination of impurities 
from the body4 ,acute1 subacute and     
chronic  tonsillitis accompanied by     
enlargement and cheesy decay of the     
tonsils means that these glands have    
been habitually congested with  morbid  
matter and poisons1 that they have had  
more work to do than  they could        
properly attend to4    ,these glandular 
structures constitute a valuable part of
 the  drainage system of the organism4  
,if the blood is poisoned through       
overeating and faulty food combinations1
 or with scrofulous1  venereal or       
psoriatic poisons1 the tonsils are      
called upon1 along  with other organs1  
to eliminate these morbid taints4 ,is it
 any  wonder that frequently they become
 inflamed and subject to decay8  ,what1 
however1 can be gained by destroying    
them with iodine or  extirpating them   
with the surgeon's scissors or the      
'guillotine'8    ,because your servants 
are weakened by overwork1 would you kill
  them8 ,because the drains in your     

house are too small to carry off  the   
waste1 would you blockade or remove     
them8 ,still1 this is the  orthodox     
philosophy of the medical schools       
applied to the management  of the human 
body4    4 4 4 ,in case of any morbid   
discharge from the body1 wherever it    
be1 whether through hemorrhoids1 open   
sores1 ulcers or through  tonsils1      
scrofulous glands1 etc41 a fontanelle   
has been established  to which and      
through which systemic poisons make     
their way4 ,if such  an outlet be       
blocked by medical or surgical treatment
 the stream of  morbid matter has to    
seek another escape or else the poisons 
will  accumulate somewhere in the body4 
,fortunate is the patient when such an  
escape can be established1  because     
wherever in the system morbid           
excretions1 suppressed by  medical      
treatment1 concentrate1 there will      
inevitably be found the  seat of chronic
 disease4    ,after the tonsils have    
been removed1 the morbid matter which   

they  were eliminating usually finds the
 nearest and easiest outlet  through the
 adenoid tissues and nasal membranes4   
,these now take up  the work of         
'vicarious' elimination and1 in their   
turn1 become  hyperactive and inflamed4 
,sometimes it happens that the adenoid  
tissues become affected  before the     
tonsils4 ,in that case1 also1 relief    
through the surgeon's  knife is sought  
and then the process is reversed3 after 
the adenoids  have been removed1 the    
tonsils develop chronic catarrhal       
conditions4    ,when both tonsils and   
adenoids have been removed1 the nasal   
membranes will1 in turn1 become         
congested and swollen4 ,often the       
mucous elimination increases to an      
alarming degree1 and frequently  polyps 
and other growths make their appearance 
or the turbinated  bones soften and     
swell and obstruct the nasal passages1  
thus again  making the patient a 'mouth 
breather4'    ,but in vain does ,nature 
protest against local symptomatic       

treatment4 ,science has nothing to learn
 from her4    ,when the nose takes up   
the work of vicarious elimination1 the  
same  mode of treatment is resorted to4 
,the mucous membranes of the nose  are  
now swabbed and sprayed with antiseptics
 and astringents1 or  'burned' by       
cauterizers1 electricity1 etc4 ,the     
polyps are cut out1  and frequently     
parts of the turbinated bone and septum 
as well1 in  order to open the air      
passages4    ,now1 surely1 the patient  
must be cured4 ,but1 strange to say1 new
  and more serious troubles arise4 ,the 
posterior nasal passages and  the throat
 are now affected by chronic catarrhal  
conditions and  there is much annoyance 
from phlegm and mucous discharges which 
drop  into the throat4 ,these catarrhal 
conditions frequently extend to the     
mucous membranes of stomach and         
intestines4    ,when the drainage system
 of the nose and the nasopharyngeal     
cavities has been completely destroyed1 
the impurities must either  travel      

upward into the brain or downward into  
the glandular  structures of the neck1  
thence into the bronchi and the tissues 
of  the lungs4    ,if the trend be      
upward1 to the brain1 the patient grows 
nervous and  irritable or becomes dull  
and apathetic4 ,how often is a child    
reprimanded or even punished for        
laziness and inattention when it  cannot
 help itself8 ,in many instances the    
morbid matter affects  certain centers  
in the brain and causes nervous         
conditions1  hysteria1 ,st4 ,vitus'     
dance1 epilepsy1 etc4 ,in children the  
impurities frequently find an outlet    
through the eardrums in the  form of    
pus-like discharges4 ,this may          
frequently avert inflammation  of the   
brain1 meningitis1 imbecility1 insanity 
or infantile  paralysis4    ,if the     
trend of the suppressed impurities and  
poisons be downward1  it often results  
in the hypertrophy and degeneration of  
the  lymphatic glands of the neck4 ,in  
such cases the suppressive  treatment1  

by drugs or knife1 is again applied     
instead of  eliminative and curative    
measures4 ,the scrofulous poisons1      
suppressed and driven back from the     
diseased glands in the neck1 now  find  
lodgment in the bronchi and lungs1 where
 they accumulate and  form a luxuriant  
soil for the growth of the bacilli of   
pneumonia and  tuberculosis4    ,in     
other cases1 the vocal organs become    
seriously affected by  chronic catarrhal
 conditions1 abnormal growths and in    
later stages  by tuberculosis4 ,many a  
fine voice has been ruined in this way4 
,the prevention and the cure of all     
these ailments lie not in local         
symptomatic treatment and suppression by
 drugs or knife1 but in the  rational   
and natural treatment of the body as a  
whole4        ,chapter ,,xi      ,cancer
      ,let us see how our theories of   
the ,unity of ,disease and ,cure apply  
to cancer1 the much-dreaded and rapidly 
increasing disease which is  considered 
absolutely incurable by both the laity  

and the medical  profession4            
,allopathy says that the only possible  
remedy is early operation4              
,nevertheless1 in the textbooks of      
medical science and in medical  schools 
and colleges it is taught that cancer   
and all other  malignant growths always 
return after extirpation4 ,in fact1     
every  student of medicine is expected  
to state this in his examination  papers
 as part of the definition of malignant 
tumors4    ,the great majority of       
medical practitioners hold1 furthermore1
 that  cancer is a local disease4 ,this 
is proved by the fact that they  apply  
local1 symptomatic treatment4    ,in    
reality1 however1 the disease is        
constitutional4 ,therefore1 after       
removal of the growth by surgery1 the   
electric needle1 x-rays1 etc41  the     
cancer or tumor is liable to break out  
again in the same place  or in several  
places4    ,the surest way to change    
insignificant1 so-called benign 7not    
fatal to life7 fibroid or fatty tumors  

into malignant cancer or  sarcoma is to 
operate upon them4 ,wens and warts are  
often made  malignant by surgical       
interference or other local irritation4 
,in my article titled ,what ,we ,know   
,about ,cancer in the ,august1  #aiji1  
issue of the ,nature ,cure ,magazine ,i 
quote from an article by  ,burton ,j4   
,hendrick1 the cancer expert1 published 
in the ,july1 #aiji1  number of         
,mc,clure's ,magazine1 as follows3      
,clinical observation long ago          
established the fact that any           
irritating interference with a cancer   
almost always stimulates its  growth4   
,in his earliest experiments ,dr4 ,loeb 
found that1 by merely  drawing a silk   
thread through a dormant or slowly      
developing tumor1  he could transform it
 into a rapidly growing one4 ,cutting   
with a  knife produced the same effect4 
,this accounts for the commonly         
observed fact that1 when extirpated     
cancers in human beings recur1  they    
increase in size much more rapidly than 

the original growth4    ,the late ,dr4  
,senn1 the great cancer surgeon1        
admitted these facts in  an interview   
given to ,chicago press representatives 
upon his return  from his trip around   
the world in #aijf4 ,the press clipping 
reads as  follows4    ,avoid ,beauty    
,doctors    ,incidentally1 ,dr4 ,senn   
advises women who worry over their      
disfigurement of moles about their heads
 and shoulders to have those  so-called 
beauty spots removed early in life1 but 
he tells them they  should not go to    
beauty doctors to have the operations   
performed4    ,he knows of hundreds of  
cases1 he says1 where cancer has        
resulted  from the irritation of moles  
by an electric needle1 or by constant   
picking it4 ',have a surgeon cut the    
mole out1' is his advice1 as it  will   
hurt little and leave no scar4    ,to   
this we answered in our comments on the 
interview3 ,if the little  knife of the 
beauty doctor causes cancer1 what about 
the big knife  of the surgeon8    ,in   

point of fact1 our office records show  
that a large percentage of  malignant   
growths are the direct result of        
surgical operations4    ,cancer ,not a  
,local1 ,but a ,constitutional ,disease 
,for many years ,i have been teaching in
 my lectures and writings as  well as in
 private advice to patients that cancer 
is a  constitutional disease2 that it is
 rooted in every drop of blood in  the  
body2 that it is caused by the presence 
of certain disease  taints or of food   
and drug poisons in the system2 that    
these poisons  irritate and stimulate   
the cells in a certain locality and     
cause  their abnormal multiplication or 
proliferation in the forms of  benign or
 malignant tumors4    ,i also claim that
 meat eating has much to do with the    
causation of  cancer4    ,certain       
discoveries by ,dr4 ,h4 ,c4 ,ross of    
,london1 ,england1 confirm my  claims   
that cancer is not at all of local and  
accidental origin1 but  that it is      
constitutional1 and that it may be      

caused by the gradual  accumulation in  
the system of certain poisons which form
 in decaying  animal matter4    ,one    
day1 while experimenting in his         
laboratory1 ,dr4 ,ross brought  white   
blood cells or leucocytes into contact  
with a certain aniline  dye on the slide
 of a microscope and noticed that they  
began at once  to multiply by cell      
division 7proliferation74 ,this was the 
first  time that cell proliferation had 
been observed by the human eye  while   
the cells were separated from their     
parent organism4    ,dr4 ,ross realized 
that he had made an important discovery 
and  continued his experiments under the
 microscope in order to find out  what  
other substances would cause cell       
multiplication4 ,he found that  certain 
xanthines and albuminoids derived from  
decaying animal  matter were the most   
effective for this purpose and induced  
more  rapid cell proliferation than any 
other substances he was able to         
procure4    ,dr4 ,ross obtained these   

alkaloids of putrefaction1 as he called 
them1 from blood which had been allowed 
to putrefy in a warm place4  ,he found  
that albuminoids derived from decaying  
vegetable substances  did not have the  
same effect4    ,his discoveries led him
 to believe that the alkaloids of       
putrefaction produced in a cut or wound 
by the decaying of dead  blood and      
tissue cells are the cause of the rapid 
multiplication of  the neighboring live 
cells1 which gradually fill the wound   
with new  tissues4    ,thus1 for the    
first time in the history of medicine1 a
 rational  explanation of ,nature's     
methods for repairing injured tissues   
has  been advanced4    ,dr4 ,ross       
applied his theory still farther to the 
causation of benign  and malignant      
growths1 reasoning that the alkaloids of
 putrefaction  produced in or attracted 
to a certain part of the body by some   
local  irritation are the cause of the  
rapid1 abnormal multiplication of  cells
 in tumor formations4    ,in benign     

tumors the abnormal proliferation of    
cells takes place  slowly1 and they do  
not tend to immediate and rapid decay   
and  deterioration4    ,in malignant    
tumors the wild cells1 created in       
immense numbers1  decay almost as       
rapidly as they are produced because the
 abnormal  growths are devoid of normal 
organization4 ,they have no established1
  regular blood and nerve supply1 nor   
are they provided with adequate  venous 
drainage4 ,they are1 therefore1 cut off 
from the orderly life  of the organism  
and doomed to rapid deterioration4      
,the processes of decay of these tumor  
materials liberate large  quantities of 
alkaloids of putrefaction1 and these1 in
 turn1  stimulate the normal1 healthy   
cells with which they come in contact   
to rapid1 abnormal multiplication4      
,the malignant growth1 therefore1 feeds 
on its own products of decay1  aside    
from the systemic poisons and morbid    
materials already  contained in the     
blood and tissues of the body4 ,these   

morbid  products permeate the entire    
system4 ,they are carried by the        
circulation of the blood into all parts 
of the body4 ,this explains  why cancer 
is a constitutional disease1 why it is1 
as ,i stated it1  rooted in every drop  
of blood4    ,it also explains why      
cancer1 or rather the disposition to its
  development 7diathesis71 is           
hereditary4    ,if the original         
cancerous growth is removed by surgical 
intervention1 x-rays1 the electric      
needle1 cauterization or any  other form
 of local treatment1 the poisonous      
materials 7alkaloids of  putrefaction7  
in the blood will set up other foci of  
abnormal1 wild  proliferation4 ,medical 
science has applied the term metastasis 
to  such spreading and reappearing of   
malignant tumors after  extirpation4    
,dr4 ,ross' findings throw an           
interesting light on the relationship   
between cancer and meat eating4 ,is it  
not self-evident that in a  digestive   
tract filled most of the time with large

 masses of  partially digested and      
decaying animal food enormous quantities
 of  alkaloids of putrefaction are      
created8 ,these are absorbed into the   
circulation1 attracted to any point     
where exists some form of local         
irritation and then stimulate the cells 
in that locality to abnormal            
proliferation4    ,but1 it will be said1
 meat eating alone does not account for 
cancer1 because vegetarians also succumb
 to the disease4 ,this is  true4        
,alkaloids of putrefaction are          
constantly produced in every  animal and
 human body4 ,they form in the          
excretions of living cells  and in the  
decaying protoplasm of dead cells1 and  
if the organs of  elimination do not    
function properly1 these morbid         
materials will  accumulate in the       
system4    ,furthermore1 the ,diagnosis 
from the ,eye furnishes positive proof  
that ,hahnemann's theory of psora is    
based on truth4 ,i quote from my        
article in the ,nature ,cure ,magazine  

,august1 #aiji3    ,for a hundred years1
 ,hahnemann's theory of psora has been  
scouted  and ridiculed by the allopathic
 schools and even among homeopaths  only
 a few have accepted it4 ,now we are    
confronted by the remarkable  fact that1
 at this late day1 the ,diagnosis from  
the ,eye confirms the  observations and 
speculations of the great genius of     
homeopathy4    ,after suppression of    
itchy eruptions1 lice1 crab lice1 etc41 
spots  ranging in color from light brown
 to dark red appear in different  places
 in the iris of the eye4 ,these 'itch   
spots' indicate the  organs and         
localities of the body in which the     
suppressed disease  taints have         
concentrated4    ,such suppressions     
represent not only the scrofulous taints
 which  ,nature was trying to eliminate 
by means of eruptions and parasites1    
but1 in addition to these1 the poisons  
contained in the bodies of  the         
parasites and the drug poisons which    
were used to suppress or  kill them4    

,it has been found that the bodies of   
the itch parasites 7,sarcoptes  scabici 
7 contain an exceedingly poisonous      
substance which the  homeopaths call    
'psorinum'4 ,when these minute animals  
burrowing in  and under the skin are    
killed by poisonous drugs and           
antiseptics1  the morbid taints in their
 bodies are absorbed by the system and  
added to the psoriatic poisons which    
,nature has been trying to  eliminate4  
,thus1 after suppression of itchy       
eruptions or parasites1 the  organism is
 encumbered with three poisons instead  
of one3 7#a7 the  hereditary or acquired
 scrofulous and psoriatic taints which  
the  cells of the body were throwing off
 into the blood stream and which  the   
blood was feeding to the parasites on   
the surface1 7#b7 the  morbid substance 
contained in the bodies of the          
parasites1 7#c7 the  drug poisons used  
as suppressants4 7,such poisons may lie 
latent in  the system for many years    
before they become active and1 in       

combination with other disease taints   
and with food and drug  poisons1 create 
the different forms of chronic          
destructive  diseases47    ,these facts 
explain why the itch spots in different 
areas of the  iris of the eye so        
frequently indicate serious chronic1    
destructive  disease conditions in the  
parts and organs of the body            
corresponding  to these areas1 why2 for 
instance1 in asthma and tuberculosis we 
often find itch spots in the region     
representing the lungs or why in  cancer
 of the liver or of the stomach itch    
spots show in the area of  stomach or   
liver4    ,that the itch or psoriatic   
taint is actually at the bottom of the  
cancerous diathesis is attested by the  
fact that all cancer patients  whom we  
have treated and cured1 with two        
exceptions 7whose healing  crisis took  
the form of furunculosis71 broke out    
with the itch at  one time or another   
during the natural treatment4 ,in most  
of these  cases the bodies of the       

patients were inflamed with fiery       
eruptions  for days or even weeks at a  
time4    ,nature ,cure allows these     
healing crises to run their course      
unhindered and unchecked2 in fact1 we   
encourage them by air and sun  baths1   
cold-water treatment and homeopathic    
remedies4    ,what has been said        
verifies my claim that benign and       
malignant  tumors can be cured only by  
thorough purifying the system of all    
morbid and poisonous taints and by      
building up the blood to a normal       
basis1 that is1 by providing it with the
 proper elements of  nutrition1         
especially with the all-important       
organic salts4    ,that this is not     
merely theory1 but actual fact has been 
proved in  the great cancer institutes  
in ,europe and in this country4 ,the    
scientists in charge of these           
institutions report that they have      
found a positive cure for cancer in     
animals4 ,the treatment is as  follows3 
,the blood is pumped out of the body of 

a dog or other animal  afflicted with   
cancer and immediately afterwards the   
blood of a  healthy animal which has    
shown immunity to cancer inoculation is 
pumped into the body of the diseased    
animal4 ,it is reported that in  nine   
cases out of ten thus treated the       
cancerous growths disappear4    ,this   
treatment1 of course1 entails the death 
of the animal which had  to give up its 
life blood to cure the other and        
therefore this  method of cure is not   
adaptable to human beings4 ,even though 
an  individual1 with suicidal intent1   
would be willing to give up his  life   
for a stipulated legacy to his          
relatives1 the law would not  sanction  
the transaction4    ,however1 we of the 
,nature ,cure school say that it is not 
necessary  to pump the diseased blood   
out of the organism4 ,in the natural    
methods of living and of treatment we   
possess the means of purifying  and     
regenerating that blood while it is in  
the body4 ,that this is  possible we    

have proved in a number of cancer cases4
    ,it is obvious1 however1 that the   
earlier the disease is treated by  the  
natural methods1 that is1 before the    
breaking-down process has  far advanced1
 the easier and quicker will be the     
cure4    ,in the case of tumors1 then1  
we see again verified the fundamental   
law of ,nature ,cure3 the ,unity of     
,disease and of ,treatment4 ,we see     
that the tumor is not of local1 but of  
constitutional1 origin1 that  its period
 of incubation may extend over a        
lifetime or over several  generations4  
,chapter ,,xii      ,women's ,suffering 
,certain ailments peculiar to the female
 organism have become almost  universal 
among civilized races4 ,probably the    
majority of surgical  operations are    
performed for so-called women's         
diseases4 ,that women  suffer untold    
agonies during menstruation1 in         
childbirth and at the  climacteric is   
looked upon as unavoidable and a matter 
of course4    ,the fact that the native 

women of ,africa1 of the ,sandwich      
,islands1  the ,south ,american bush and
 our western plains are practically     
exempt from these ailments indicates    
that the cause of female  troubles must 
lie in artificial habits of living and  
in the  unnatural treatment of diseases4
    ,many are beginning to recognize    
these truths4 ,for them is dawning a    
new era1 when knowledge will free ,woman
 from physical suffering as  it has     
freed her from other bondage4           
,instances like the following are of    
common occurrence in our free  clinics  
for ,diagnosis from the ,eye3    ,a lady
 tells us that she has been suffering   
for many years from a  complication of  
female troubles4 ,her eyes show a heavy 
scurf rim1  indicating an inactive1     
atrophied skin1 poor surface circulation
  and1 as a result of this condition1   
defective elimination through  the skin 
and accumulation of waste matter and    
systemic poisons in  the system4 ,the   
areas of stomach and intestines reveal  

the signs of  chronic catarrhal         
affection and atrophy of the membranous 
linings  and glandular structures4      
,this1 of course1 means indigestion1    
fermentation of foods1 gas formation1   
constipation and a multitude  of        
resulting disturbances4    ,the signs in
 the iris also indicate an atonic1      
relaxed and prolapsed  condition of     
stomach1 bowels and other abdominal     
organs4 ,this is  likely to cause       
sagging of the genital organs1          
relaxation of the  bands and ligaments  
which hold them in place and1 as a      
result of  this relaxation1 misplacement
 of the womb4    ,we tell the patient of
 our findings in her eyes and she admits
 all  the conditions and symptoms which 
we describe1 but she is not  satisfied  
because our diagnosis does not agree    
with that of the  great specialists and 
professors of medicine whom she has     
consulted4  ,every one of them has told 
her that all her troubles are due to the
  fact that her uterus is flexed and    

retroverted1 that it presses on  the    
rectum 7this being the cause of her     
chronic constipation and of  the        
obstructed menstrual flow1 the          
congestion1 pain1 etc471 and that  the  
womb must be placed in its normal       
position by a surgical  operation4      
,in this and many similar cases that    
have come to us for treatment1  it was  
the relaxed and prolapsed condition of  
the stomach and  intestines that caused 
the sinking 7prolapsus7 of the uterus   
with  the attending distressing         
symptoms4 ,in some instances the womb   
and  with it the bladder had fallen so  
low that they protruded from the        
vagina4 ,in all of these cases1 as the  
patients without exception  told us1 the
 professors and specialists assured them
 that surgical  treatment1 shortening of
 the ligaments1 the insertion of        
pessaries1  the cutting loose and       
raising of the womb1 etc41 were the only
  possible means of curing these        
ailments4    ,so we explain to the lady 

that the relaxed and prolapsed condition
  of the genital organs1 the            
misplacement of the womb1 etc41 are not 
causes of disease1 but only the effects 
of the weakened and relaxed  condition  
of the digestive organs1 and that this1 
in turn1 is due to  indigestion1        
malnutrition1 defective elimination     
through skin1  bowels and kidneys2 that1
 therefore1 the only possibility of cure
  lies in correcting and overcoming     
these constitutional conditions  through
 an eliminative diet1 blood-building    
remedies and other  natural methods2    
that the blood must be built up on a    
normal basis1  and that the digestive   
tract and the other abdominal organs    
must be  made more alive and active     
through hydropathic treatment1 massage1 
spinal manipulation1 general and special
 exercises1 air and sun  baths1 etc4    
,in thousands of cases we have thus     
cured female troubles without  poisonous
 drugs or surgical operations1 simply by
 improving the  digestion1 purifying the

 blood and invigorating the abdominal   
organs  in a natural manner4    ,on the 
other hand1 almost daily we meet with   
instances of untold  suffering as the   
direct consequence of operations1 the   
use of  pessaries1 etc41 which only     
served to weaken the genital organs     
still more and resulted in all sorts of 
complications1  inflammations1          
adhesions1 etc41 and in many cases in   
malignant  tumors4    ,in this          
connection ,i would warn especially     
against the use of  pessaries4 ,they are
 at best only a mechanical contrivance1 
and do  not add anything to the         
improvement of the diseased condition4  
,on  the other hand1 they irritate the  
abdominal organs by excessive  pressure1
 which in many instances produces       
inflammation of the  neighboring tissues
 and abnormal growths4    ,suppressing  
inflammation of the genital organs by   
poisonous  antiseptics1 sprays1 tampons 
or other local applications only tends  
to aggravate the chronic conditions4    

,curetting 7scraping7 the womb  does not
 cure the catarrhal affection1 but only 
serves to destroy  its delicate mucous  
lining and to suppress catarrhal        
elimination4  ,holding up the womb by   
means of a pessary in order to          
strengthen its  muscles and ligaments is
 about as reasonable and effective as to
 try  to strengthen a weak arm by       
carrying it in a sling4 ,replacing or   
removing misplaced or affected organs by
 means of surgery does not  contribute  
anything toward correcting the causes of
 these abnormal  conditions1 but in many
 instances makes a real cure impossible4
 ,how  can an organ be cured after it   
has been extirpated with the knife8     
,it is a fact known to every observing  
physician that from fifty to            
seventy-five percent of all women have  
some kind of misplacement of  the       
genital organs and that only a          
comparatively small number of  these    
suffer from local disturbances1         
indicating that1 in most  cases1        

misplacement alone will not create      
serious trouble4    ,it is ridiculous to
 assume that the small1 flabby uterus of
 an  anemic woman can block the rectum  
and cause disease1 but it is an         
excellent talking point1 as effective in
 bringing victims to the  operating     
table as appendicitis with its fairy    
tales of seeds and  foreign bodies      
lodging in the appendix vermiformis4    
,while studying ,nature ,cure in        
,germany1 ,i took special courses in the
  ,thure-,brandt ,massage4 ,by means of 
this internal manipulative  treatment1  
weakness of ligaments and muscles1      
displacements1  adhesions1 etc41 can be 
corrected without the use of knife or   
drugs4  ,during my first years in       
practice1 ,i frequently resorted to the 
internal manual treatment with good     
results2 but ,i found that in  most     
cases it was not at all necessary in    
order to produce perfect  cures4    ,i  
saw that chiropractic and osteopathic   
correction of spinal and  pelvic lesions

 and consequent removal of irritation   
and pressure on  the nerves1 the cure of
 chronic constipation and malnutrition  
by  pure food diet and hydrotherapy1 the
 strengthening of the pelvic  muscles   
and nerves by means of active and       
passive movements and  exercises1 were  
fully sufficient to correct the local   
symptoms in a  natural manner4          
,thousands of cases cured by us by these
 methods  attest the truth of our       
statements2 while those who failed to   
understand the simple reasoning of the  
,nature ,cure philosophy or  lacked will
 power to withstand the arguments of    
friends and  physicians followed the    
siren call of the operating table and   
have  been sorry for it ever since4     
,in case of operation for misplacement  
of the womb1 it is necessary1  in order 
to keep the womb in its new position1 to
 stitch it to the  frontal abdominal    
wall4 ,very frequently it will not stay 
there1  breaks loose1 and relapses into 
an abnormal position4 ,granted that  it 

remains fixed1 woe to the woman if she  
becomes pregnant4 ,the womb  cannot     
assume the constantly changing positions
 of pregnancy1 and  the result is either
 abortion or malformation of the fetus1 
together  with great and constant       
suffering to the woman4    ,the         
operation has done nothing to correct   
unnatural habits of living  or to purify
 the system of its scrofulous and       
psoriatic taints1 of  drug and food     
poisons4 ,frequently these gather in the
 parts that  have been weakened and     
irritated by the antiseptics and by the 
surgeon's knife1 and set up new         
inflammations1 ulcerations and only  too
 often malignant tumors4 ,as a result1  
one operation follows  another4    ,we  
cannot cut in the genital organs without
 cutting in the brain4  ,the nervous    
system is a unit1 and the brain is      
directly and  intimately connected with 
the complex and highly sensitive nerve  
centers of the genital organs4          
,mutilation of the genital nerve        

centers1 therefore1 invariably affects  
the brain1 and thus the  intellectual   
and emotional life of a woman4 ,it is   
almost axiomatic  that a woman whose    
uterus or ovaries have been removed or  
mutilated  is afterward mentally and    
emotionally more or less abnormal4      
,nervousness1 irritability and only too 
often nervous prostration and  insanity 
are the sequelae of operative treatment4
    ,in medical colleges1 among students
 and professors1 these facts are  freely
 admitted and discussed1 but the        
prospective patient hears a  different  
story4 ,cut loose the womb1 shorten the 
ligaments1 put it  into the right       
position1 and everything will be well4  
,this sounds  plausible and seductive2  
but everyday experiences expose the     
inadequacy and the destructive          
aftereffects of local symptomatic       
treatment4    ,the ,climacteric or      
,change of ,life    ,under our          
artificial methods of living1 the       
climacteric or change  of life1 has     

become the bugbear of womanhood4 ,it    
seems to be  universally assumed that   
this period in a woman's life must be   
fraught with manifold sufferings and    
dangers4 ,it is taken as a  matter of   
course that during these changes in her 
organism a woman  is assailed by the    
most serious physical1 mental1 and      
psychic  ailments which may endanger her
 sanity and often her life4    ,like    
rheumatism1 neurasthenia1 neuralgia and 
hundreds of other  medical terms1 change
 of life is a convenient phrase to cover
 the  doctor's ignorance4 ,no matter    
what ailments befall a woman during  the
 years from forty to fifty1 may the     
causes be ever so obscure1  the         
diagnosis is easy4 ,you are in the      
climacteric1 you are  suffering from the
 change of life1 says the doctor1 and   
the patient  is satisfied and resigns   
herself to the inevitable4              
,frequently women come to us for        
consultation1 and after reciting a  long
 string of troubles they conclude with  

the remark3 ,of course1  doctor1 ,i'm in
 the change1 and ,i know that lots of   
these things are  natural at my time of 
life4    ,is it true that all this      
suffering is natural and inevitable8    
,among  the primitive races of the earth
 suffering incident to the change of    
life is practically unknown4 ,the same  
is true in a lesser degree of  the      
country population of ,europe4 ,the     
causes of it must1 therefore1  be sought
 in the artificial modes of living      
peculiar to our  hypercivilization and  
in the unnatural methods of treating    
disease  as commonly practiced4         
,which are the specific causes of the   
profound disturbances so often          
accompanying the organic changes of the 
climacteric8    ,aside from their other 
physiological functions1 the menses are 
for  the woman a monthly cleansing      
crisis through which ,nature eliminates 
from her system considerable amounts of 
waste and morbid matter  which1 under a 
natural regime of life1 would be        

discharged by means  of the organs of   
depuration1 that is1 the lungs1 skin1   
kidneys and  bowels4    ,the more       
natural the life and the more normal1 as
 the result of  this1 the woman's       
physical condition1 the shorter and less
 annoying  and painful1 within certain  
limits1 will be the menstrual periods4  
,through unnatural habits of eating1    
drinking1 dressing1 breathing  and      
through equally unnatural methods of    
medical treatment1 the  kidneys1 skin   
and bowels have become inactive1        
benumbed or  paralyzed4 ,as long as the 
vicarious monthly purification by means 
of  the menses continues1 the evil      
results of the torpid condition of  the 
regular organs of depuration do not     
become so apparent4 ,the  organism has  
learned to adapt itself to this mode of 
elimination4    ,but when1 on account of
 the organic changes of the climacteric1
  menstruation ceases1 then the systemic
 poisons1 which formerly were           
eliminated by means of this monthly     

purification1 accumulate in the  system 
and become the source of all manner of  
trouble4 ,all  tendencies to physical1  
mental or psychic disease are greatly   
intensified4 ,the poisonous taints      
circulating in the blood  overstimulate 
or else depress and paralyze the brain  
and the nervous  system4 ,as a          
consequence1 mental and psychic         
disorders are of common  occurrence2 the
 more so because the waning of the sex  
functions is  accompanied by a tendency 
to negativity and hypersensitiveness4   
,how ,can the ,ailments of the          
,climacteric ,be ,avoided or ,cured8    
,is it not self-evident that the easiest
 way to sidestep the troubles  incident 
to this critical period and to          
reestablish the perfect  equilibrium of 
the organism lies in restoring the      
natural activity  of the organs of      
elimination8    ,this is what ,nature   
,cure accomplishes easily and           
successfully with  its natural methods  
of treatment4 ,air and sun baths1 water 

treatments and massage bring new life   
and activity to the enervated  skin4    
,pure food diet1 chiropractic and       
osteopathic treatment1  curative        
gymnastics1 homeopathic or herb remedies
 restore the  natural tonicity and      
functioning of the stomach1 liver1      
kidneys and  intestines4 ,mental        
therapeutics1 systematically practiced1 
make  every cell in the body vibrant    
with the higher and finer forces of  the
 mental and spiritual planes of being4  
,when the natural equilibrium of the    
organism is thus restored1 there  is    
absolutely no occasion for the troubles 
of the climacteric4 ,we  have proved    
this in hundreds of cases4 ,as kidneys1 
skin and bowels  begin to function      
normally and freely1 physical and mental
  conditions commence to improve1 and   
one after another the dreaded  symptoms 
disappear4    ,let us compare with this 
common sense1 natural treatment the     
orthodox medical practice in such cases3
    ,the medical treatment1 as usual1 is

 entirely symptomatic4 ,the  sluggish   
organs of elimination are prodded by    
poisonous cathartics1  laxatives1       
diaphoretics1 cholagogues and tonics1   
all of which1 after  temporary          
stimulation1 leave the organs in a more 
weakened and the  system in a more      
poisoned condition4 ,if brain and nerves
 are  irritated and aching1 sedatives   
and hypnotics are given to stupefy  them
 into insensibility4 ,if the heart      
action is weak and irregular1  it is    
whipped up by poisonous stimulants2 if  
too fast1 it is checked  and paralyzed  
by sedatives and depressants4    ,thus1 
instead of removing the underlying      
causes1 every symptom is  promptly      
suppressed4 ,drug poisons are added to  
the waste and morbid  matter which are  
already clogging the channels of life4  
,and1 of  course1 under such unnatural  
treatment1 in many instances things go  
from bad to worse4 ,flushes1 headaches1 
rheumatic and neuralgic  pains1         
melancholia1 irritability1 mental       

aberration1 partial  paralysis and a    
multitude of other symptoms appear and  
gradually  increase in severity4        
,when the family physician has arrived  
at the end of his wits1 the  surgeon has
 his innings1 and leaves the patient in 
a still worse  condition of chronic     
suffering4    ,these experiences are so 
common that the manifold troubles of the
  climacteric are regarded as           
unavoidable and as a matter of course4  
,here1 as in so many other instances1   
people fail to see that it is  the      
treatment which prevents the cure4 ,if  
the efficiency of common  sense1 natural
 treatment were more widely known and   
recognized1 how  much unnecessary       
suffering could be avoided4             
,chapter ,,xiii      ,the ,treatment of 
,acute ,diseases by ,natural ,methods   
,in the preceding chapters we have      
described the results of the  wrong1    
that is1 suppressive treatment of acute 
diseases4 ,we shall  now proceed to     
describe the simple and uniform methods 

of natural  treatment4    ,if the       
uniformity of acute diseases be a fact  
in ,nature1 then it  follows that it    
must be possible to treat all acute     
diseases by  uniform methods4    ,that  
it is possible to treat all acute       
diseases most successfully by  natural  
methods1 which anybody possessed of     
ordinary intelligence  can apply1 has   
been demonstrated for more than seventy 
years by the  ,nature ,cure             
practitioners in ,germany1 and by myself
 during the last  ten years in an       
extensive practice4    ,one of the many 
advantages of natural treatment is that 
it may be  applied right from the       
beginning1 as soon as the first symptoms
 of  acute febrile conditions manifest  
themselves4 ,it is not necessary to     
wait for a correct diagnosis of the     
case4    ,the regular physician1 with   
his specific treatment for the multitude
  of specific diseases which he         
recognizes1 often has to wait several   
days or even weeks before the real      

nature of the disease becomes  clear to 
him1 before he is able to diagnose the  
case or even to make  a good guess4 ,the
 conscientious medical practitioner has 
to postpone  actual treatment until the 
symptoms are well defined4 ,meanwhile he
  applies expectant treatment as it is  
called in medical parlance1  that is1 he
 gives a purgative or a placebo1        
something or other to  placate1 or to   
make the patient and his friends believe
 that  something is being done4    ,but 
during this period of indecision and    
inaction very often the  best           
opportunity for aiding ,nature in her   
healing efforts is lost1  and the       
inflammatory processes may reach such   
virulence that it  becomes very         
difficult or even impossible to keep    
them within  constructive limits4 ,the  
bonfire that was to burn up the rubbish 
on  the premises may1 if not watched and
 tended1 assume such proportions  that  
it damages or destroys the house4    ,it
 must also be borne in mind that very   

frequently acute diseases do  not       
present the well-defined sets of        
symptoms which fit into the  accepted   
medical conception of certain specific  
ailments4 ,on the  contrary1 in many    
instances the symptoms suggest a        
combination of  different forms of acute
 diseases4    ,if the character of the  
disease is ill-defined and complicated1 
how1  then1 is the physician of the ,old
 ,school to select the proper  specific 
remedy1 ,under such circumstances1 the  
diagnosis of the case  as well as the   
medical treatment will at best be       
largely guesswork4    ,compare with this
 unreliable and unsatisfactory treatment
 the simple  and scientific1 exact and  
efficient natural methods4 ,the natural 
remedies can be applied from the first1 
at the slightest  manifestation of      
inflammatory and febrile symptoms4 ,no  
matter what  the specific nature or     
trend of the inflammatory process1      
whether it  be a simple cold1 or whether
 it take the form of measles1 scarlet   

fever1 diphtheria1 smallpox1            
appendicitis1 etc4--it makes absolutely 
no difference in the mode of treatment4 
,in many instances the  natural         
treatment will have broken the virulence
 of the attack or  brought about a cure 
before the regular physician gets good  
and  ready to apply his specific        
treatment4    ,in the following ,i shall
 describe briefly these natural methods 
for  the treatment of acute diseases    
which insure the largest possible       
percentage of recoveries and at the same
 time do not in any way tax  the system1
 cause undesirable aftereffects or lead 
to the different  forms of chronic      
invalidism4    ,the ,natural ,remedies  
,the most important ones of these       
natural remedies can be had free of     
cost in any home4 ,they are3 air1       
fasting or eliminative diets1  water1   
and the right mental attitude4    ,i am 
fully convinced that these remedies     
offered freely by ,mother  ,nature are  
sufficient1 if rightly applied1 to cure 

any acute disease  arising within the   
organism4 ,if circumstances permit1     
however1 we  may advantageously add     
corrective manipulation of the spine1   
massage1 magnetic treatment1 advanced   
regenerative modalities 7like  the      
,magnatherm7 and homeopathic1 herbal and
 specific nutritional  supplementation4 
,the ,fresh-,air ,treatment    ,a       
plentiful supply of pure fresh air is of
 vital importance at any  time4 ,we can 
live without food for several weeks and 
without water  for several days1 but we 
cannot live without air for more than a 
few  minutes4 ,just as a fire in the    
furnace cannot be kept up without a     
good draft which supplies the necessary 
amount of oxygen to the  flame1 so the  
fires of life in the body cannot be     
maintained without  an abundance of     
oxygen in the air we breathe4    ,this  
is of vital importance at all times1 but
 especially so in acute  disease1       
because here1 as we have learned1 all   
the vital processes  are intensified4   

,the system is working under high       
pressure4 ,large  quantities of waste   
and morbid materials1 the products of   
inflam-mation1 have to be oxidized1 that
 is1 burned up and  eliminated from the 
system4    ,in this respect the ,nature 
,cure people have brought about one of  
the  greatest reforms in medical        
treatment3 the admission of plenty of   
fresh air to the sickroom4    ,but1     
strange to say1 the importance of this  
most essential natural  remedy is as yet
 not universally recognized by the      
representatives  of the regular school  
of medicine4 ,time and again ,i have    
been called  to sickrooms where by order
 of the doctor every window was closed  
and the room filled with pestilential   
odors1 the poisonous  exhalations of the
 diseased organism added to the stale   
air of the  unventilated and often      
overheated apartment4 ,and this air     
starvation  had been enforced by        
graduates of our best medical schools   
and  colleges4 ,this unnatural and      

inexcusable crime against the sick is   
committed even at this late day in our  
great hospitals under the  direct       
supervision of physicians who are       
foremost in their  profession4    ,it is
 not the cold draft that is to be feared
 in the sickroom4 ,cool  air is most    
agreeable and beneficial to the body    
burning in fever  heat4 ,what is to be  
feared is the reinhalation and          
reabsorption of  poisonous emanations   
from the lungs and skin of the diseased 
body4    ,furthermore1 the ventilation  
of a room can be so regulated as to     
provide a constant and plentiful supply 
of fresh air without  expos-ing its     
occupants to a direct draft4 ,where     
there is only one  window and one door1 
both may be opened and a sheet or       
blanket hung  across the opening of the 
door1 or the single window may be opened
  partly from above and partly from     
below1 which insures the entrance  of   
fresh1 cold air at the bottom and the   
expulsion of the heated and  vitiated   

air at the top4 ,the patient may be     
protected by a screen1  or a board may  
be placed across the lower part of the  
window in such  manner that a direct    
current of air upon the patient is      
prevented4    ,in very cold weather1 or 
if conditions are not favorable to      
constant  ventilation of the sickroom1  
the doors and windows may be opened     
wide for several minutes every few      
hours1 while the patient's body  and    
head are well protected4 ,there is      
absolutely no danger of taking  cold if 
these precautions are taken4 ,under     
right conditions of room  temperature1  
frequent exposure of the patient's nude 
body to air and  the sunlight will be   
found most beneficial and will often    
induce  sleep when other means fail4    
,i would strongly warn against keeping  
the patient too warm4 ,this is          
especially dangerous in the case of     
young children1 who cannot use  their   
own judgment or make their wishes known4
 ,i have frequently  found children in  

high fever smothered in heavy blankets  
under the  mistaken impression on the   
part of the attendants that they had to 
be kept warm and protected against      
possible draft4 ,in many instances  the 
air under the covers was actually       
steaming hot4 ,this surely does  not    
tend to reduce the burning fever heat in
 the body of the  patient4    ,natural  
,diet in ,acute ,diseases    ,from the  
appearance of the first suspicious      
symptoms until the fever  has abated and
 there is a hearty1 natural hunger1     
feeding should be  reduced to a minimum 
or better still1 entirely suspended4    
,in cases of extreme weakness1 and where
 the acute and subacute  processes are  
long drawn out and the patient has      
become greatly  emaciated1 it is        
advisable to give such easily digestible
 foods as  white of egg1 milk1          
buttermilk and whole grain bread with   
butter in  combination with raw and     
stewed fruits and with vegetable salads 
prepared with lemon juice and olive oil4

    ,the quantity of drinking water     
should be regulated by the desire of    
the patient1 but he should be warned not
 to take any more than is  necessary to 
satisfy his thirst4 ,large amounts of   
water taken into  the system dilute the 
blood and the other fluids and          
secretions of  the organism to an       
excessive degree1 and this tends to     
increase the  general weakness and lower
 the patient's resistance to the disease
  forces4    ,water may be made more    
palatable and at the same time more     
effective  for purposes of elimination  
by the addition of the unsweetened juice
  of acid fruits1 such as orange1       
grapefruit or lemon1 about one part  of 
juice to three parts of water4 ,fresh   
pineapple juice is very good  except in 
cases of hyperacidity of the stomach4   
,the fresh1  unsweetened juice of       
,concord grapes is also beneficial4     
,acid and subacid fruit juices do not   
contain sufficient carbohydrate  or     
protein materials to unduly excite the  

digestive processes1 while  on the other
 hand they are very rich in ,nature's   
best medicines1 the  mineral salts in   
organic form4 ,sweet grapes and         
sweetened grape  juice should not be    
given to patients suffering from acute1 
febrile  diseases because they contain  
too much sugar1 which would have a      
tendency to start the processes of      
digestion and assimilation1 to  cause   
morbid fermentation and to raise the    
temperature and  accelerate the other   
disease symptoms4    ,fasting    ,total 
abstinence from food during acute       
febrile conditions is of  primary       
importance4 ,in certain diseases which  
will be mentioned  later on1 especially 
those involving the digestive tract1    
fasting  must be continued for several  
days after all fever symptoms have      
disappeared4    ,there is no greater    
fallacy than that the patient must be   
sustained  and his strength kept up by  
plenty of nourishing food and drink or1 
worse still1 by stimulants and tonics4  

,this is altogether wrong in  itself1   
and besides1 habit and appetite are     
often mistaken for  hunger4    ,a common
 spectacle witnessed at the bedside of  
the sick is that of  well-meaning but   
misguided relatives and friends forcing 
food and  drink on the patient1 often by
 order of the doctor1 when his whole    
system rebels against it and the        
nauseated stomach expels the food  as   
soon as taken4 ,sedatives and tonics are
 then resorted to in order  to force the
 digestive organs into submission4      
,aversion to eating during acute        
diseases1 whether they represent        
healing crises or disease crises1 is    
perfectly natural1 because the  entire  
organism1 including the mucous membranes
 of stomach and  intestines1 is engaged 
in the work of elimination1 not         
assimilation4  ,nausea1 slimy and fetid 
discharges1 constipation alternating    
with  diarrhea1 etc41 indicate that the 
organs of digestion are throwing  off   
disease matter1 and that they are not in

 a condition to take up  and assimilate 
food4    ,ordinarily1 the digestive     
tract acts like a sponge which absorbs  
the  elements of nutrition2 but in acute
 diseases the process is  reversed1 the 
sponge is being squeezed and gives off  
large  quantities of morbid matter4 ,the
 processes of digestion and             
assimilation are at a standstill4 ,in   
fact1 the entire organism is in  a      
condition of prostration1 weakness and  
inactivity4 ,the vital  energies are    
concentrated on the cleansing and       
healing processes4  ,accordingly1 there 
is no demand for food4    ,this is      
verified by the fact that a person      
fasting for a certain  period1 say1 four
 weeks1 during the course of a serious  
acute  illness1 will not lose nearly as 
much in weight as the same person       
fasting four weeks in days of healthful 
activity4    ,it is for the foregoing   
reasons that nourishment taken during   
acute  disease is not properly digested1
 assimilated and transmuted into healthy

  blood and tissues4 ,instead1 it       
ferments and decays1 filling the  system
 with waste matter and noxious gases4   
interferes seriously  with the          
elimination of morbid matter through    
stomach and intestines  by forcing these
 organs to take up the work of digestion
 and  assimilation4 diverts the vital   
forces from their combat against the    
disease conditions and draws upon them  
to remove the worse than  useless food  
ballast from the organism4    ,this     
explains why taking food during feverish
 diseases is usually  followed by a rise
 in temperature and by aggravation of   
the other  disease symptoms4 ,as long as
 there are signs of inflammatory1       
febrile conditions and no appetite1 do  
not be afraid to withhold  food         
entirely1 if necessary1 for as long as  
five1 six or seven  weeks4 ,in my       
practice ,i have had several patients   
who did not take  any food1 except water
 to which acid fruit juices had been    
added1  for more than seven weeks1 and  

then made a rapid and complete          
recovery4    ,in cases of gastritis1    
appendicitis1 peritonitis1 dysentery or 
typhoid fever1 abstinence from food is  
absolutely imperative4 ,not  even milk  
should be taken until fever and         
inflammation have entirely  subsided1   
and then a few days should be allowed   
for the healing and  restoring of the   
injured tissues4 ,many of the serious   
chronic  aftereffects of these diseases 
are due to too early feeding1 which     
does not allow the healing forces of    
,nature time to rebuild sloughed        
membranes and injured organs4    ,after 
a prolonged fast1 great care must be    
observed when commencing  to eat4 ,very 
small quantities of light food may      
safely be taken at  intervals of a few  
hours4 ,a good plan1 especially after an
 attack of  typhoid fever or dysentery1 
is to break the fast by thoroughly      
masticating one or two tablespoonfuls of
 popcorn4 ,this gives the  digestive    
tract a good scouring and starts the    

peristaltic action of  the bowels better
 than any other food4    ,the popcorn   
may advantageously be followed in about 
two hours with a  tablespoonful of      
cooked rice and one or two cooked prunes
 or a small  quantity of some other     
stewed fruit4    ,for several days or   
weeks after a fast1 according to the    
severity of  the acute disease or       
healing crisis1 a diet consisting       
largely of  raw fruits1 such as oranges1
 grapefruit1 apples1 pears1 grapes1     
etc41 and juicy vegetables1 especially  
lettuce1 celery1 cabbage  slaw1         
watercress1 young onions1 tomatoes or   
cucumbers should be  adhered to4 ,no    
condiments or dressings should be used  
with the  vegetables except lemon juice 
and olive oil4    ,hydropathic          
,treatment in ,acute ,diseases    ,we   
claim that in acute diseases hydropathic
 treatment will  accomplish all the     
benefcial effects which the ,old ,school
  practitioners ascribe to drugs1 and   
that water applications will  produce   

the desired results much more           
efficiently1 and without any  harmful   
by-effects or aftereffects upon the     
system4    ,the principal objects to be 
attained in the treatment of acute      
inflammatory diseases are3    ,to       
relieve the inner congestion and        
consequent pain in the affected  parts4 
,to keep the temperature below the      
danger point by promoting  heat         
radiation through the skin4 ,to increase
 the activity of the  organs of         
elimination and thus to facilitate the  
removal of morbid  materials from the   
system4 ,to increase the positive       
electromagnetic  energies in the        
organism4 ,to increase the amount of    
oxygen and ozone  in the system and     
thereby to promote the oxidation and    
combustion of  effete matter4    ,the   
above-mentioned objects can be attained 
most effectually by the  simple cold    
water treatment4 ,whatever the acute    
condition may be1  whether an ordinary  
cold or the most serious type of febrile

  disease1 the applications described in
 detail in the following  pages1 used   
singly1 combined or alternately         
according to individual  conditions1    
will always be in order and sufficient  
to produce the  best possible results4  
,baths and ,ablutions    ,cooling sprays
 or1 if the patient is too weak to leave
 the bed1 cold  sponge baths or         
ablutions1 repeated whenever the        
temperature rises1  are very effective  
for keeping the fever below the danger  
point1 for  relieving the congestion in 
the interior of the body and for        
stimulating the elimination of systemic 
poisons through the skin4    ,however1  
care must be taken not to lower the     
temperature too much by  the excessive  
coldness or unduly prolonged duration of
 the  application4 ,it is possible to   
suppress inflammatory processes by      
means of cold water or ice bags just as 
easily as with poisonous  antiseptics1  
antifever medicines and surgical        
operations4    ,it is sufficient to     

reduce the temperature to just below the
 danger  point4 ,this will allow the    
inflammatory processes to run their     
natural course through the five         
progressive stages of inflammation  and 
this natural course will then be        
followed by perfect  regeneration of the
 affected parts4    ,in our sanitarium  
we use only water of ordinary           
temperature as it  flows from the       
faucet1 never under any circumstances   
ice bags or ice  water4 ,the application
 of ice keeps the parts to which it is  
applied  in a chilled condition4 ,the   
circulation cannot react1 and the       
inflammatory processes are thus most    
effectually suppressed4    ,to          
recapitulate3 ,never check or suppress a
 fever by means of cold  baths1         
ablutions1 wet packs1 etc41 but merely  
lower it below the  danger point4 ,for  
instance1 if a certain type of fever has
 a  tendency to rise to #ajd degree ,f4 
or more1 bring it down to about  #ajb   
degree4 ,if the fever ordinarily runs at

 a lower temperature1 say  at #ajb      
degree ,f41 do not try to reduce it more
 than one or two  degrees4    ,if the   
temperature is subnormal1 that is1 below
 the normal or  regular body            
temperature1 the packs should be applied
 in such a  manner that a warming effect
 is produced1 that is1 less wet cloths  
and more dry covering should be used1   
and the packs left on the body  a longer
 time before they are renewed4 ,more    
detailed instruction  will be given in  
subsequent pages4    ,never lose sight  
of the fact that fever is in itself a   
healing1  cleansing process which must  
not be checked or suppressed4           
,hot-,water ,applications ,are          
,injurious    ,altogether wrong is the  
application of hot water to seats of    
inflammation as1 for instance1 the      
inflamed appendix or ovaries1  sprains1 
bruises1 etc4 ,almost in every instance 
where ,i am called in  to attend a case 
of acute appendicitis or peritonitis1 ,i
 find hot  compresses or hot water      

bottles1 by means of which the inflamed 
parts are kept continually in an        
overheated condition4 ,it is in this    
way that a simple inflammation is       
nurtured into an abscess and made  more 
serious and dangerous4    ,the hot      
compress or hot-water bottle draws the  
blood away from the  inflamed area to   
the surface temporarily2 but unless the 
hot  application is kept up continually1
 the blood1 under the ,law of  ,action  
and ,reaction1 will recede from the     
surface into the interior1  and as a    
result the inner congestion will become 
as great as or  greater than before4    
,if the hot applications are continued1 
the applied heat tends to  maintain and 
increase the heat in the inflamed parts4
    ,inflammation means that there is   
already too much heat in the  affected  
part or organ4 ,common sense1 therefore1
 would dictate  cooling applications    
instead of heating ones4    ,the cold   
packs and compresses1 on the other hand1
 have a directly  cooling effect upon   

the seat of inflammation and in         
accordance with  the ,law of ,action and
 ,reaction their secondary1 lasting     
effect  consists in drawing the blood   
from the congested and heated interior  
to the surface1 thus relaxing the pores 
of the skin and promoting  the radiation
 of heat and the elimination of         
impurities4    ,both the hot-water      
applications and the use of ice are1    
therefore1  to be absolutely condemned4 
,the only rational and natural treatment
  of inflammatory conditions is that by 
compresses1 packs and  ablutions1 using 
water of ordinary temperature1 as it    
comes from the  cold water tap4    ,by  
means of the simple cold-water treatment
 and fasting all fevers  and            
inflammations can be reduced in a       
perfectly natural way within a  short   
time without undue strain on the        
organism4    ,the ,whole-,body ,pack    
,the whole-body pack is most effective  
if by means of it the patient  can be   
brought into a state of copious         

perspiration4 ,the pack is  then removed
 and the patient is given a cold sponge 
bath4    ,it will be found that this    
treatment often produces a second       
profuse  sweat which is very beneficial4
 ,this aftersweat should also be        
followed by a cold sponge bath4    ,such
 a course of treatment will frequently  
be sufficient to  eliminate the morbid  
matter which has gathered in the system1
 and  thus prevent in a perfectly       
natural manner a threatening disease    
which otherwise might become dangerous  
to life4    ,how to ,apply the          
,whole-,body ,pack    ,on a bed or cot  
spread two or more blankets1 according  
to their  weight4 ,over the top blanket 
spread a linen or cotton sheet which    
has been dipped into cold water and     
wrung out fairly dry4 ,let the  blankets
 extend about one foot beyond the wet   
sheet at the head of  the bed4    ,place
 the patient on the wet sheet so that it
 comes well up to the  neck1 and wrap   
the sheet snugly around the body so that

 it covers  every part1 tucking it in   
between the arms and sides and between  
the  legs4 ,it will be found that the   
sheet can be adjusted more snugly  and  
smoothly if separate strips of wet linen
 are placed between the  legs and       
between the arms and the sides of the   
body4    ,the blankets are now folded1  
one by one1 upward over the feet and    
around the body1 turned in at the neck  
and brought across the chest1  the outer
 layers being held in place with safety 
pins4    ,the patient should stay in    
this whole-body pack from one-half hour 
to two hours1 according to the object to
 be attained and the  reaction of the   
body to the pack4 ,if the pack has been 
correctly  applied1 the patient will    
become warm in a few minutes4    ,the   
,bed-,sweat ,bath    ,if the patient    
does not react to the pack1 that is1 if 
he remains  cold1 or if1 as is sometimes
 the case in malaria1 the fever is      
accompanied by chills or if profuse     
perspiration is desired1 bottles  filled

 with hot water or bricks heated in the 
oven and wrapped in  flannel should be  
placed along the sides and to the feet1 
under the  outside covering4    ,this   
form of application is called the       
bed-sweat bath4 ,it may be  used with   
good results when an incipient cold is  
to be aborted4    ,after the pack has   
been removed1 the body should be sponged
 with  cold water1 as already stated4   
,use a coarse cloth or ,turkish towel   
for this purpose rather than a sponge1  
as the latter cannot be kept  perfectly 
clean4 ,dry the body quickly but        
thoroughly1 and finish by  rubbing with 
the hands4    ,in the meantime the damp 
bed clothing should be replaced by dry  
sheets and blankets 7a second cot or bed
 will be found a great  convenience71   
and the patient put to bed without delay
 and well  covered in order to prevent  
chilling and also to induce1 if         
possible1 a copious aftersweat4 ,the    
patient is then sponged off a  second   
time1 put into a dry bed1 and allowed to

 rest4    ,if the patient is too weak to
 leave his bed1 the cold sponge may be  
given on a large rubber sheet or        
oilcloth covered with an old  blanket1  
which should be placed on the bed before
 the pack is  applied4 ,after removing  
the pack1 put a blanket over the patient
 to  prevent chilling and wash quickly  
but thoroughly first the limbs1  then   
chest and stomach1 then the back1 drying
 and covering each part  as soon as     
finished4 ,remove the rubber sheet from 
the bed and wrap  the patient in dry1   
warm blankets1 or lift him into another 
bed4    ,how to ,apply the ,short-,body 
,pack    ,a wide strip of linen or      
muslin1 wrung out of cold water1 is     
wrapped  around the patient from under  
the armpits to the thighs or knees in   
one1 two or more layers1 covered by one 
or more layers of dry  flannel or muslin
 in such a manner that the wet linen    
does not  protrude at any place4        
,similar packs may be applied to the    
throat199 the arms1 legs1  shoulder     

joints or any other part of the body4   
,the number of layers of wet linen and  
dry covering is determined by  the      
vitality of the patient1 the height of  
his temperature and the  particular     
object of the application1 which may be 
to lower high  temperature to raise the 
temperature when subnormal to relieve   
inner congestion to promote elimination4
    ,if the object is to lower high     
temperature1 several layers of wet      
linen should be wrapped around the body 
and covered loosely by one  or two      
layers of the dry wrappings in order to 
prevent the bed from  getting wet4 ,the 
packs must be renewed as soon as they   
become dry or  uncomfortably hot4    ,if
 the object is to raise subnormal       
temperature1 less wet linen and  more   
dry covering must be used1 and the packs
 left on a longer time1  say from thirty
 minutes to two hours4 ,if the patient  
does not react  to the pack1 hot bricks 
or bottles filled with hot water should 
be  placed at the sides and to the feet1

 as explained in connection with  the   
whole-body pack4    ,if inner congestion
 is to be relieved1 or if the object is 
to  promote elimination1 less of the wet
 linen and more dry wrappings  should be
 used4    ,when packs are applied1 the  
bed may be protected by spreading an    
oilcloth over the mattress under the    
sheet4 ,but in no case should  oilcloth 
or rubber sheeting be used for the outer
 covering of packs4  ,this would        
interfere with some of the main objects 
of the pack  treatment1 especially with 
heat radiation4 ,the outer covering     
should  be warm but at the same time    
porous1 to allow the escape of heat and 
of poisonous gases from the body4       
,local ,compresses    ,in case of local 
inflammation1 as in appendicitis1       
ovaritis1  colitis1 etc41 separate      
cooling compresses may be slipped under 
the  pack and over the seat of          
inflammation4 ,these local compresses   
may  be removed and changed when hot and
 dry without disturbing the  larger     

pack4    ,in all fevers accompanied by  
high temperature1 it is advisable to    
place an extra cooling compress at the  
nape of the neck 7the region  of the    
medulla and the back brain71 because    
here are located the  brain centers     
which regulate the inner temperature of 
the body  7thermotaxic centers71 and the
 cooling of these brain centers         
produces a cooling effect upon the      
entire organism4    ,enemas    ,while   
ordinarily we do not favor the giving of
 injections or enemas  unless they are  
absolutely necessary1 we apply them     
freely in  feverish diseases in order to
 remove from the rectum and lower colon 
any accumulations of morbid matter1 and 
thus to prevent their  reabsorption into
 the system4 ,in cases of exceptionally 
stubborn  constipation1 an injection of 
a few ounces of warm olive oil may be   
given4 ,allow this to remain in the     
colon about thirty minutes in  order to 
soften the contents of the rectum1 and  
follow with an  injection of warm water4

    ,just ,how the ,cold ,packs ,produce
    ,their ,wonderful ,results    7#a7  
,how ,cold ,packs ,promote ,heat        
,radiation    ,many people are under the
 impression that the packs reduce the   
fever  temperature so quickly because   
they are put on cold4 ,but this is not  
so1 because1 unless the reaction be bad1
 the packs become warm after  a few     
minutes' contact with the body4    ,the 
prompt reduction of temperature takes   
place because of increased  heat        
radiation4 ,the coldness of the pack may
 lower the surface  temperature         
slightly2 but it is the moist warmth    
forming under the  pack on the surface  
of the body that draws the blood from   
the  congested interior into the skin1  
relaxes and opens its minute blood      
vessels and pores1 and in that way      
facilitates the escape of heat  from the
 body4    ,in febrile conditions the    
pores and capillary blood vessels of the
  skin are tense and contracted4        
,therefore the heat cannot escape1 the  

skin is hot and dry1 and the interior of
 the body remains  overheated4 ,when the
 skin relaxes and the patient begins to 
perspire  freely1 we say the fever is   
broken4    ,the moist warmth under the  
wet pack produces this relaxation of the
  skin in a perfectly natural manner4   
,by means of these simple packs         
followed by cold ablutions1 the         
temperature of the patient can be  kept 
at any point desired without the use of 
poisonous antifever  medicines1 serums  
and antitoxins which lower the          
temperature by  benumbing and paralyzing
 heart action1 respiration1 the red and 
white blood corpuscles1 and thus        
generally lowering the vital  activities
 of the organism4    7#b7 ,how ,cold    
,packs ,relieve ,inner ,congestion      
,in all inflammatory febrile diseases   
the blood is congested in the  inflamed 
parts and organs4 ,this produces the    
four cardinal symptoms  of inflammation3
 redness1 swelling1 heat1 and pain4     
,rubor1 tumor1  colar and dolar4 ,if the

 congestion be too great1 the pain      
becomes  excessive1 and the inflammatory
 processes cannot run their natural     
course to the best advantage4 ,it is    
therefore of great importance to        
relieve the local blood pressure in the 
affected parts and this can  be         
accomplished most effectively by means  
of the wet packs4    ,as before stated1 
they draw the blood onto the surface of 
the body  and in that way relieve inner 
congestion wherever it may exist1       
whether it be in the brain1 as in       
meningitis1 in the lungs1 as in         
pneumonia1 or in the inflamed appendix4 
,in several cases where a child was in  
the most dangerous stage of  diphtheria1
 where the membranes in throat and nasal
 passages were  already choking the     
little patient1 the wet packs applied to
 the  entire body from neck to feet     
relieved the congestion in the throat   
so quickly that within half an hour     
after the first application the  patient
 breathed easily and soon made a perfect

 recovery4 ,the  effectiveness of these 
simple water applications in reducing   
congestion1 heat and pain is little     
short of marvelous4    7#c7 ,how ,cold  
,packs ,promote ,elimination    ,by far 
the largest number of deaths in febrile 
diseases result from  the accumulation  
in the system of poisonous substances1  
which  paralyze or destroy vital centers
 and organs4 ,therefore it is  necessary
 to eliminate the morbid products of    
inflammation from the  organism as      
quickly as possible4    ,this also is   
accomplished most effectively and       
thoroughly by the  application of wet   
packs4 ,as they draw the blood into the 
surface  and relax the minute blood     
vessels in the skin1 the morbid         
materials  in the blood are eliminated  
through the pores of the skin and       
absorbed by the packs4 ,that this is    
actually so is verified by the          
yellowish or brownish discoloration of  
the wet wrappings and by  their         
offensive odor4    ,one of the main     

causes of constipation in febrile       
diseases is the  inner congestion and   
fever heat4 ,through the cooling and    
relaxing  effect of the packs upon the  
intestines1 this inner fever heat is    
reduced1 and a natural movement of the  
bowels greatly facilitated4    ,if      
constipation should persist in spite of 
the packs and cooling  compresses1      
injections of tepid water should be     
given every day or  every other day in  
order to prevent the reabsorption of    
poisonous  products from the lower      
colon4 ,but never give injections of    
cold  water with the idea of reducing   
fever in that way4 ,this is very        
dangerous and may cause fatal collapse4 
,the ,electromagnetic ,effect of        
,cold ,water ,applications    ,one of   
the most important1 but least           
understood1 effects of  hydropathic     
treatment is its influence upon the     
electromagnetic  energies in the human  
body4 ,at least1 ,i have never found any
  allusions to this aspect of the       

cold-water treatment in any books on    
hydrotherapy which have come to my      
notice4    ,the sudden application of   
cold water or cold air to the surface of
  the nude body and the inhalation of   
cold air into the lungs have the  effect
 of increasing the amount of            
electromagnetic energy in the  system4  
,this can be verified by the following  
experiment3 ,insert one of the  plates  
of an electrometer 7sensitive           
galvanometer7 into the stomach  of a    
person who has remained for some time in
 a warm room4 ,now let  this person     
inhale suddenly fresh1 cold outside air4
 ,at once the  galvanometer will        
register a larger amount of             
electromagnetic  energy4    ,the same   
effect will be produced by the          
application of a quick1 cold  spray to  
the warm body4    ,it is the sudden     
lowering of temperature on the surface  
of the body  or in the lungs and the    
resulting contrast between the heat     
within  and the cold outside1 that      

causes the increased manifestation of   
electromagnetic energy in the system4   
,this1 together with the acceleration of
 the entire circulation1  undoubtedly   
accounts for the tonic effect of        
cold-water applications  such as cold   
packs1 ablutions1 sprays1 sitz baths1   
barefoot walking1  etc41 and for the    
wonderfully bracing influence of fresh1 
cold  outside air4    ,the energizing   
effect of cold air may also explain to a
 large extent  the superiority of the   
races inhabiting the temperate zones    
over  those of the warm and torrid      
southern regions4    ,to me it seems a  
very foolish custom to run away from the
  invigorating northern winters to the  
enervating sameness of southern         
climates4 ,one of the reasons ,i        
abandoned1 with considerable  financial 
sacrifice1 a well-established home in a 
,texas city which  is the ,mecca of     
health-seekers1 was that ,i did not want
 to rear my  children under the         
enervating influence of that beautiful  

climate4  ,i1 for my part1 want some    
cold winter weather every year to stir  
up  the lazy blood corpuscles1 to set   
the blood bounding through the  system  
and to freeze out the microbes4    ,in  
our ,nature ,cure work we find all the  
way through that the  continued         
application of warmth has a debilitating
 effect upon the  organism1 and that    
only by the opposing influences of      
alternating  heat and cold can we       
produce the natural stimulation which   
awakens  the dormant vital energies in  
the body of the chronic4    ,increase of
 ,oxygen and ,ozone    ,the liberation  
of electromagnetic currents through     
cold-water  applications has other very 
important effects upon the system       
besides that of stimulation4            
,electricity splits up molecules of     
water into hydrogen1 oxygen and  ozone4 
,we have an example of this in the      
thunderstorm4 ,the powerful  electric   
discharges which we call lightning      
separate or split the  watery vapors in 

the air into these elements4 ,it is the 
increase of  oxygen and ozone in the air
 that purifies and sweetens the         
atmosphere after the storm4    ,in acute
 as well as in chronic disease1 large   
amounts of oxygen and  ozone are        
required to burn up the morbid materials
 and to purify the  system4 ,certain    
combinations of these elements are among
 the most  powerful antiseptics and     
germicides4    ,likewise1 the electric  
currents produced by cold packs1        
ablutions  and other cold-water         
applications split up the molecules of  
water in  the tissues of the body into  
their component parts4 ,in this way     
large amounts of oxygen and ozone are   
liberated1 and these elements  assist to
 a considerable extent in the oxidation 
and neutralization  of waste materials  
and disease products4    ,the following 
experiment proves that sudden changes in
 temperature  create electric currents  
in metals3 ,when two cylinders of       
dissimilar  metals are welded together1 

and one of the metals is suddenly       
chilled or heated1 electric currents are
 produced which will  continue to flow  
until both metals are at the same       
temperature4    ,another application of 
this principle is furnished by the      
oxydonor4  ,if both poles of this little
 instrument are exposed to the same     
temperature1 there is no manifestation  
of electricity2 but if one of  the poles
 be attached to the warm body and the   
other immersed in  cold water or exposed
 to cold air1 the liberation of         
electromagnetic  currents begins at     
once4 ,these electric currents set free 
oxygen and  ozone1 which in their turn  
support the oxidation and neutralization
  of systemic poisons4    ,according to 
my experience1 however1 the cold-water  
applications are  more effective in this
 respect than the oxydonor4    ,the     
,importance of ,right ,mental and       
,emotional ,attitude in ,acute ,disease 
,we have learned that in the processes  
of inflammation a battle is  going on   

between the healing forces of the body1 
the phagocytes and  natural antitoxins  
on the one hand and the disease taints1 
germs1  bacilli1 etc41 on the other     
hand4    ,this battle is real in every  
respect1 as real as a combat between    
armies of living soldiers4 ,in this     
conflict1 going on in all acute         
inflammatory diseases1 mind plays the   
same role as the commander of  an army4 
,the great general needs courage1       
equanimity and presence of mind  most in
 the stress of battle4 ,so the mind1 the
 commander of the vast  armies of cells 
battling in acute disease for the health
 of the  body1 must have absolute faith 
in the superiority of ,nature's  healing
 forces4    ,if the mind becomes        
frightened by the inflammatory and      
febrile  symptoms and pictures to itself
 in darkest colors their dreadful       
consequences1 these confused and        
distracted thought vibrations are       
conveyed instantaneously to the millions
 of little soldiers fighting  in the    

affected parts and organs4 ,they also   
become confused and  panic-stricken4    
,the excitement of fear in the mind     
still more accelerates heart  action and
 respiration1 intensifies the local     
congestion and greatly  increases the   
morbid accumulations in the system4 ,in 
the last  chapters of this volume we    
shall deal especially with the          
deteriorating influence of fear1        
anxiety1 anger1 irritability1           
impatience1 etc41 and explain how these 
and all other destructive  emotions     
actually poison the secretions of the   
body4    ,in acute disease we cannot    
afford to add to the poisonous elements 
in the organism1 because the danger of a
 fatal ending lies largely  in the      
paralysis of vital centers by the morbid
 and poisonous  products of             
inflammation4    ,everything depends    
upon the maintenance of the greatest    
possible  inflow of vital force2 and    
there is nothing so weakening as worry  
and anxiety1 nothing that impedes the   

inflow1 distribution and  normal        
activity of the vital energies like     
fear4 ,a person overcome  by sudden     
fright is actually benumbed and         
paralyzed1 unable to think  and to act  
intelligently4    ,these truths may be  
expressed in another way4 ,the victory  
of the  healing forces in acute disease 
depends upon an abundant supply of  the 
positive electromagnetie energies4 ,in  
the initial chapters of  this volume we 
have learned that health is positive1   
disease  negative4 ,the positive mental 
attitude of faith and equanimity        
creates positive electromagnetic        
energies in the body1 thus infusing  the
 battling phagocytes with increased     
vigor and favoring the  secretion of the
 antitoxins and antibodies1 while the   
negative1  fearful and worrying attitude
 of mind creates in the system the      
negative conditions of weakness1 lowered
 resistance and actual  paralysis4      
,in the paragraphs dealing with the     
effects of cold-water treatment  upon   

the body we learned that the electric   
currents created in the  organism split 
up the molecules of water in the tissues
 into their  component elements         
7hydrogen and oxygen71 thus liberating  
large  amounts of oxygen and ozone2 and 
that these1 in turn1 support the        
processes of combustion and oxidation in
 the system1 burn up waste  and morbid  
matter1 and destroy hostile             
microorganisms4    ,however1 the        
electromagnetic forces in the body are  
not only  increased and intensified by  
positive foods1 exercise1 cold-water    
treatment1 air baths1 etc41 but also by 
the positive attitude of  mind and will4
    ,the positive mind and will are to  
the body what the magneto is to  the    
automobile4 ,as the electric sparks from
 the magneto ignite the  gas1 thus      
generating the power that drives the    
machine1 so the  positive vibrations1   
generated by a confident and determined 
will1  create in the body the positive  
electromagnetic currents which  incite  

and stimulate all vital activities4     
,common experience teaches us that the  
concentration of the will on  the thing 
to be accomplished greatly heightens and
 increases all  physical1 mental and    
moral powers4    ,therefore the victory 
in acute diseases is conditioned by the 
absolute faith1 confidence and serenity 
of mind on the part of the  patient4    
,the more he exercises these harmonizing
 and invigorating  qualities of mind and
 soul1 the more favorable are the       
conditions  for the little soldiers who 
are fighting his battles in the inflamed
  parts and organs4 ,the blood and nerve
 currents are less impeded and          
disturbed1 and flow more normally4 ,the 
local congestion is relieved1  and this 
favors the natural course of the        
inflammatory processes4    ,therefore1  
instead of being overcome with fear and 
anxiety1 as most  people are under such 
circumstances1 do not become alarmed1   
nor  convey alarm to the millions of    
little cells battling in the  inflamed  

parts4 ,speak to them like a commander  
addressing his  troops3 ,we understand  
the laws of disease and cure1 we know   
that  these inflammatory and febrile    
symptoms are the result of ,nature's    
healing efforts1 we have perfect        
confidence in her wisdom and in the     
efficiency of her healing forces4 ,this 
fever is merely a good  house-cleaning1 
a healing crisis4 ,we are eliminating   
morbid matter1  poisons and germs which 
were endangering health and life4    ,we
 rejoice over the purification and      
regeneration now taking place  and      
benefiting the whole body4 ,fear not6   
,attend to your work quietly  and       
serenely6 ,let us open ourselves wide to
 the inflow of life from  the source of 
all life in the innermost parts of our  
being6 ,the life  in us is the life of  
,god4 ,we are strengthened and made     
whole by the  ,divine life and power    
which animate the universe4    ,the     
serenity of your mind1 backed by        
absolute trust in the ,law and  by the  

power of a strong ,will1 infuses the    
cells and tissues with  new life and    
vigor1 enabling them to turn the acute  
disease into a  beneficial1 cleansing   
and healing crisis4    ,in the following
 we give a similar formula for treating 
chronic  constipation4    ,say to the   
cells in the liver1 the pancreas and the
 intestinal  tract3    ,i am not going  
to force you any longer with drugs or   
enemas to do  your duty4 ,from now on   
you must work on your own initiative4   
,your  secretions will become more      
abundant4 ,every day at--o'clock the    
bowels will move freely and easily4     
,at the appointed time make the effort1 
whether you are success-ful  or not1 and
 do not resort to the enema until it    
becomes an absolute  necessity4 ,if you 
combine with the mental and physical    
effort a  natural diet1 cold sitz baths1
 massage and osteopathic treatment1  you
 will have need of the enema at         
increasingly longer intervals1  and soon
 be able to discard it altogether4      

,be careful1 however1 not to employ your
 intelligence and your will  power to   
suppress acute inflammatory and febrile 
processes and  symptoms4 ,this can be   
accomplished by the power of the will as
 well  as by ice bags and poisonous     
drugs1 and its effect would be to turn  
,nature's acute cleansing efforts into  
chronic disease4    ,the ,importance of 
,right ,mental and ,emotional           
,attitude on the ,part of ,friends and  
,relatives    ,what has just been said  
about the patient is true also of his   
friends and relatives4 ,disease is      
negative4 ,the sick person is           
exceedingly sensitive to his            
surroundings4 ,he is easily influenced  
by all depressing1 discordant and       
jarring conditions4 ,he catches the     
expressions of fear and anxiety in the  
looks1 the words1 gestures  and actions 
of his attendants1 relatives and friends
 and these  intensify his own depression
 and gloomy forebodings4    ,this       
applies especially to the influence     

exerted by the mother upon  her ailing  
infant4 ,there exists a most intimate   
sympathetic and  telepathic connection  
between mother and child4 ,the child is 
affected not only by the outward        
expression of the mother's fear and     
anxiety1 but likewise by the hidden     
doubt and despair in the  mother's mind 
and soul4    ,usually1 the first thing  
that confronts me when ,i am called to  
the  sickbed of a child is the frantic  
and almost hysterical mental  condition 
of the mother1 and to begin with1 ,i    
have to explain to her  the destructive 
influence of her behavior4 ,i ask her3  
,would you willingly give some deadly   
poison to your child8  ,certainly not1  
she says1 to which ,i reply3    ,do you 
realize that you are doing this very    
thing8 ,that your fear  and worry       
vibrations actually poison and paralyze 
the vital energies  in the body of your 
child and most seriously interfere with 
,nature's  healing processes8           
,instead of helping the disease forces  

to destroy your child1 assist  the      
healing forces to save it by maintaining
 an attitude of absolute  faith1        
serenity1 calmness and cheerfulness4    
,then your looks1 your  voice1 your     
touch will convey to your child the     
positive1 magnetic  vibrations of health
 and of strength4 ,your very presence   
will  radiate healing power4    ,then ,i
 explain how faith1 calmness and        
cheerfulness on her part will  soothe   
and harmonize the discordant disease    
vibrations in the  child's body4        
,herein lies the modus operandi or      
working basis of all successful  mental 
and metaphysical treatment4    ,summary 
,natural ,methods in the ,treatment of  
,acute ,disease    ,i4 ,fresh ,air    ,a
 plentiful supply of pure air in the    
sickroom4 ,frequent exposure of  the    
nude body to air and sun light4 ,patient
 must not be kept too  warm4    ,,ii4   
,natural ,diet    ,the minimum amount of
 light food1 chiefly fruit and vegetable
  salads1 no condiments4 ,only enough   

water to quench thirst1  preferably     
mixed with acid fruit juices4 ,in       
serious acute febrile  conditions and   
during healing crises no food whatever4 
,in diseases  affecting the digestive   
organs fasting must be prolonged several
  days beyond cessation of febrile      
symptoms4 ,great care must be  observed 
when breaking fast4    ,,iii4 ,water    
,treatment    ,cooling sprays or sponge 
baths whenever temperature rises4 ,fever
 and  inflammation must not be          
suppressed by cold-water applications1  
but  kept below the danger point4       
,neither ice nor hot applications should
  be used4 ,wet packs followed by cold  
ablutions for elimination of  systemic  
poisons4 ,separate compresses over seat 
of inflammation1  also at nape of neck4 
,kind and duration of pack to be        
determined by  condition of patient and 
object to be attained4 ,injections of   
tepid  water to relieve constipation    
when necessary4    ,,iv4 ,medications   
,no poisonous drugs1 nor any medicines  

or applications which may  check or     
suppress the feverish1 inflammatory     
processes4 ,homeopathic  medicines1 herb
 decoctions and specific nutritional    
remedies when  indicated4    ,v4        
,manipulative ,treatment    ,osteopathy1
 massage or magnetic treatment when     
indicated and  available4    ,,vi4      
,mental ,attitude    ,courage1 serenity 
and presence of mind are important      
factors4 ,fear  and anxiety intensify   
disease conditions1 poison the          
secretions of  the body and inhibit the 
action of the healing forces4 ,do not   
suppress acute inflammatory and feverish
 processes by the power of  the will4   
,the right mental and emotional attitude
 of relatives and  friends exerts a     
powerful influence upon the patient4    
,chapter ,,xiv      ,the ,true ,scope of
 ,medicine      ,anyone able to read the
 signs of the times cannot help         
observing the  powerful influence which 
the ,nature ,cure philosophy is already 
exerting upon the trend of modern       

medical science4 ,in ,germany the       
younger generation of physicians has    
been forced by public demand to  adopt  
the natural methods of treatment and the
 ,german government has  introduced them
 in the medical departments of its army 
and navy4    ,in ,english-speaking      
countries1 the foremost members of the  
medical  profession are beginning to    
talk straight ,nature ,cure doctrine1 to
  condemn the use of drugs and to       
endorse unqualifiedly the ,nature  ,cure
 methods of treatment4 ,in proof of this
 ,i quote from an article  by ,dr4      
,william ,osler in the ,encyclopedia    
,americana1 ,vol4 ,x1 under  the title  
of ,medicine3    ,dr4 ,osler on         
,medicine    ,the new school does not   
feel itself under obligation to give any
  medicines whatever1 while a generation
 ago not only could few  physicians have
 held their practice unless they did1   
but few would  have thought it safe or  
scientific4 ,of course1 there are still 
many  cases where the patient or the    

patient's friends must be humored by    
administering medicine or alleged       
medicine where it is not really  needed1
 and indeed often where the buoyancy of 
mind which is the  real curative agent1 
can only be created by making him wait  
hopefully for the expected action of    
medicine2 and some physicians  still    
cannot unlearn their old training4 ,but 
the change is great4  ,the modern       
treatment of disease relies very greatly
 on the old  so-called natural methods1 
diet and exercise1 bathing and          
massage--in other words1 giving the     
natural forces the fullest scope  by    
easy and thorough nutrition1 increased  
flow of blood and removal  of           
obstructions to the excretory systems or
 the circulation in the  tissues4       
,one notable example is typhoid fever4  
,at the outset of the  nineteenth       
century it was treated with 'remedies'  
of the extremest  violence--bleeding and
 blistering1 vomiting and purging1 and  
the  administration of antimony and     

mercury1 and plenty of other heroic     
remedies4 ,now the patient is bathed and
 nursed and carefully tended1  but      
rarely given medicine4 ,this is the     
result partly of the  remarkable        
experiments of the ,paris and ,vienna   
schools in the action  of drugs1 which  
have shaken the stoutest faiths2 and    
partly of the  constant and reproachful 
object lesson of homeopathy4 ,no regular
  physician would ever admit that the   
homeopathic preparations1               
'infinitesimals1' could do any good as  
direct curative agents2 and  yet it was 
perfectly certain that homeopaths lost  
no more of their  patients than others4 
,there was but one conclusion to        
draw--that  most drugs had no effect    
whatever on the diseases for which they 
were administered4    ,dr4 ,osler is    
probably the greatest medical authority 
on drugs now  living4 ,he was formerly  
professor of materia medica at the      
,johns  ,hopkins ,university of         
,baltimore1 ,u4 ,s41 and now holds a    

professorship at ,oxford ,university1   
,england4 ,his books on medical         
practice are in use in probably every   
university and medical school  in       
,english-speaking countries4 ,his views 
on drugs and their real  value as       
expressed in this article should be an  
eye-opener to those  good people who    
believe that we of the ,nature ,cure    
school are  altogether too radical1     
extreme1 and somewhat cranky4           
,however1 what ,dr4 ,osler says         
regarding the ,new ,school is true only 
of a few advanced members of the medical
 profession4    ,on the rank and file1  
the idea of drugless healing has about  
the  same effect as a red rag on a mad  
bull4 ,there are still very few         
physicians in general practice today who
 would not lose their bread  and butter 
if they attempted to practice drugless  
healing on their  patients4 ,both the   
profession and the public will need a   
good deal  more education along ,nature 
,cure lines before they will see the    

light4    ,in the second sentence of his
 article1 ,dr4 ,osler admits the        
efficacy  of mental therapeutics and    
therapeutic faith as a curative agent1  
and ascribes the good effects of        
medicine to their stimulating  influence
 upon the patient's mind rather than to 
any beneficial  action of the drugs     
themselves4    ,with regard to the      
origin of the modern treatment of       
typhoid fever1  however1 the learned    
doctor is either misinformed or he      
misrepresents the facts4 ,the credit for
 the introduction of  hydropathic       
treatment of typhoid fever does not     
belong to the  remarkable experiments of
 the ,paris and ,vienna schools4 ,these 
schools and the entire medical          
profession fought this treatment with   
might and main4 ,for thirty years       
,priessnitz1 ,bilz1 ,ruhne1 ,father     
,kneipp and many other pioneers of      
,nature ,cure were persecuted and       
prosecuted1 dragged into the courts and 
tried on the charges of  malpractice and

 manslaughter for using their sane and  
natural  methods4 ,not until ,dr4 ,braun
 of ,berlin wrote an essay on the good  
results obtained by the hydropathic     
treatment of typhoid fever and  it had  
in that way received orthodox baptism   
and sanction1 was it  adopted by        
advanced physicians all over the world4 
,through the ,nature ,cure treatment of 
typhoid fever1 the mortality of  this   
disease has been reduced from over fifty
 percent under the old  drug treatment  
to less than five percent under the     
water treatment4    ,but the average    
medical practitioner has not yet learned
 from the  ,nature ,cure school1 that   
the same simple fasting and cold water  
which cure typhoid fever so effectively1
 will just as surely and  easily cure   
every other form of acute disease1 as1  
for instance1  scarlet fever1           
diphtheria1 smallpox1 cerebrospinal     
meningitis1  appendicitis1 etc4         
,therefore1 we claim that there is no   
necessity  for the employment of        

poisonous drugs1 serums and antitoxins  
for  this purpose4    ,referring to the 
last two sentences of ,dr4 ,osler's     
article1  homeopaths have1 as a matter  
of fact1 lost less patients than        
allopaths4 ,the effect of homeopathic   
medicine1 moreover1 is not  altogether  
negative1 as ,dr4 ,osler implies4 ,the  
discovery of the  minute cell as the    
basis of the human organism on the one  
hand and  of the unlimited divisibility 
of matter on the other hand explains    
the rationality of the infinitesimal    
dose4 ,health and disease are  resident 
in the cell2 therefore1 the homeopath   
doctors the cell1 and  the size of the  
dose has to be apportioned to the size  
of the  patient4    ,when ,dr4 ,osler   
says that most drugs have no effect     
whatsoever1 he  makes a serious         
misstatement4 ,while they may not       
contribute anything  to the cure of the 
disease for which they are given1 they  
are often  very harmful in themselves4  
,almost every virulent poison known to  

man is found in allopathic              
prescriptions4 ,it is now positively    
proved by the ,diagnosis from the  ,eye 
that these poisons have a tendency to   
accumulate in the system1  to           
concentrate in certain parts and organs 
for which they have a  special affinity 
and then to cause continual irritation  
and actual  destruction of tissues4 ,by 
far the greater part of all chronic     
diseases are created or complicated on  
the one hand by the  suppression of     
acute diseases by means of drug poisons1
 and on the  other hand through the     
destructive effects of the drugs        
themselves4    ,dr4 ,schwenninger1 the  
medical adviser of ,prince ,bismarck1   
and later  of ,richard ,wagner1 the     
great composer1 has published a book    
entitled  ,the ,doctor4 ,this work is   
the most scathing arraignment and       
condemnation of modern medical practice1
 especially of poisonous  drugs and of  
surgery4 ,dr4 ,treves1 the body         
physician of the late  ,king ,edward of 

,england1 is no less outspoken in his   
denunciation of  drugging than ,drs4    
,osler and ,schwenninger4    ,just a few
 men like these1 foremost in the medical
 profession1 who  have achieved         
financial and scientific independence1  
can afford to  speak so frankly4 ,the   
great majority of physicians1 even      
though they  know better1 continue in   
the old ruts so as to be considered     
ethical  and orthodox1 and in order to  
hold their practice4 ,it is not the     
medical profession that has brought     
about this reform in the  treatment of  
typhoid fever and other diseases4 ,they 
have been forced  into the adoption of  
the more advanced natural methods       
through the  pressure of the ,nature    
,cure movement in ,germany and          
elsewhere4    ,dr4 ,osler's statements1 
made with due deliberation in a         
contribution  to the ,encyclopedia      
,americana1 are certainly a frank       
declaration  as to the uselessness of   
drug treatment1 and on the other hand1  

an  unqualified endorsement of natural  
methods of healing4    ,but it seems to 
me that ,dr4 ,osler pours out the baby  
with the bath  water1 as we say in      
,german4 ,that is1 ,i am inclined to    
think that his  opinion regarding the   
ineffectiveness of drugs is entirely too
  radical4 ,there is a legitimate scope 
for medicinal remedies insofar  as they 
build up the blood on a natural basis   
and serve as tissue  foods4    ,many    
people who have lost their faith in ,old
 ,school methods of  treatment have     
swung around to the other extreme of    
medical  nihilism4 ,in fact1 ,dr4 ,osler
 himself stands accused of being a      
medical nihilist4    ,many of those who 
have adopted natural methods of living  
and of  treating diseases have acquired 
an actual horror of the word  medicine4 
,however1 this extreme attitude is not  
justified4    ,it also appears that some
 of the readers of my writings are under
  the impression that we of the ,nature 
,cure school absolutely condemn  the use

 of any and all medicines4 ,this1       
however1 is not so4    ,the ,position of
 ,nature ,cure ,regarding ,medicinal    
,remedies    ,we do condemn the use of  
drugs insofar as they are poisonous and 
destructive and insofar as they suppress
 acute diseases or healing  crises1     
which are ,nature's cleansing and       
healing efforts2 but on the  other hand 
we realize that there is a wide field   
for the helpful  application of         
medicinal remedies insofar as they act  
as foods to  the tissues of the body and
 as neutralizers and eliminators of     
waste  and morbid materials4    ,in     
every form of chronic disease there     
exists in the system1 on the  one hand1 
an excess of certain morbid materials1  
and on the other  hand1 a deficiency of 
certain mineral constituents1 organic   
salts1  which are essential to the      
normal functions of the body4    ,thus1 
in all anemic diseases the blood is     
lacking in iron1 which  picks up the    
oxygen in the air cells of the lungs and

 carries it  into the tissues1 and in   
sodium1 which combines with the carbonic
  acid 7coalgas7 that is constantly     
being liberated in the system and       
conveys it to the organs of depuration1 
especially the lungs and the  skin4 ,in 
point of fact1 oxygen starvation is due 
in a much greater  degree to the        
deficiency of sodium and the            
consequential  accumulation of carbonic 
acid in the system 7carbonic acid       
asphyxiation7 than to the lack of iron  
in the blood1 as assumed by  the regular
 school of medicine4    ,foods or       
medicinal remedies which will supply    
this deficiency of  iron and sodium in  
the organism will tend to overcome the  
anemic  conditions4    ,the great range 
of uric acid diseases1 such as          
rheumatism1 calculi1  arteriosclerosis1 
certain forms of diabetes and           
albuminuria1 are  due1 on the one hand1 
to the excessive use of acid-producing  
foods1  and on the other hand1 to a     
deficiency in the blood of certain      

alkaline mineral elements1 especially   
sodium1 magnesium and  potassium1 whose 
office it is to neutralize and eliminate
 the acids  which are created and       
liberated in the processes of starchy   
and  protein digestion4    ,in another  
chapter ,i have explained the origin and
 progressive  development of uric-acid  
diseases4 ,our volume on ,natural       
,dietetics  will contain additional     
proof that practically all diseases are 
caused by1 or complicated with1 acid    
conditions in the system4    ,any foods 
or medicines which will provide the     
system with sufficient  quantities of   
the acid-binding1 alkaline mineral salts
 will prove to  be good medicine for all
 forms of acid diseases4    ,the mineral
 constituents necessary to the vital    
economy of the  organism should1        
however1 be supplied in the organic     
form4 ,this will  be explained more     
fully in subsequent pages4    ,from what
 ,i have said1 it becomes apparent that 
it is impossible to  draw a sharp line  

of distinction between foods and        
medicines4 ,all  foods which serve the  
above-named purposes are good medicines1
 and  all nonpoisonous herb extracts1   
homeopathic and vitochemical  remedies  
that have the same effect upon the      
system are1 for the same  reason1 good  
foods4    ,the medical treatment of the 
,nature ,cure school consists largely in
  the proper selection and combination  
of food materials4 ,this must be  so4   
,it stands to reason that ,nature has   
provided within the ranges  of the      
natural foods all the elements which    
,man needs in the way of  food and      
medicine4    ,but it is quite possible  
that1 through continued abuse1 the      
digestive apparatus has become so weak  
and so abnormal that it  cannot function
 properly1 that it cannot absorb and    
assimilate from  natural foods a        
sufficient quantity of the elements     
which the  organism needs4 ,in such     
cases it may be very helpful and indeed 
imperative to take the organic mineral  

salts in the forms of fruit1  herb and  
vegetable juices1 extracts or           
decoctions4 ,among the best of  these   
food remedies are extracts of leafy     
vegetables such as  lettuce1 spinach1   
,scotch kale1 cabbage1 ,swiss chard1    
etc4 ,these  vegetables are richer than 
any other foods in the positive mineral 
salts4 ,the extract may be prepared from
 one or more of these  vegetables1      
according to the supply on hand or the  
tolerance of the  digestive organs and  
the taste and preference of the patient4
 ,they  should be ground to a pulp in a 
vegetable grinder1 then pressed out  in 
a small fruit press1 which can be       
secured in any department  store4 ,one  
or two teacups per day will be          
sufficient to supply the  needs of the  
system for mineral salts4 ,this extract 
should be  prepared fresh every day4    
,then there are the ,kneipp ,herb       
,remedies4 ,most of these are the       
,hausmittel home remedies of the country
 population of ,germany  which have     

proved their efficacy since time        
immemorial4 ,their  medicinal value lies
 in the organic mineral salts which they
 contain  in large quantities and in    
beneficial combinations4    ,the        
homeopathic medications1 as will be     
explained at length in  another chapter1
 produce their good results because they
 work in  harmony with the ,laws of     
,nature4    ,we never hesitate1         
therefore1 to prescribe for our patients
  homeopathic medicines1 herb decoctions
 and extracts1 and the  vitochemical    
remedies which assist in the elimination
 of morbid  matter from the system and  
in building up blood and lymph on a     
normal basis1 that is1 remedies which   
supply the organism with the  mineral   
elements in which it is deficient in the
 organic1 easily  assimilable form4     
,herein lies the legitimate scope of    
medicinal  remedies4    ,all medicinal  
remedies which build up the system on a 
normal1  natural basis and increase its 
fighting power against disease  without 

in any way inflicting injury upon the   
organism are welcome  to the adherents  
of the ,nature ,cure methods of         
treatment4    ,on the other hand1 we do 
not use any drugs or medicines which    
tend  to hinder1 check or suppress      
,nature's cleansing and regenerating    
processes4 ,we never give anything in   
the least degree poisonous4 ,we  avoid  
all anodynes1 hypnotics1 sedatives1     
antipyretics1 laxatives1  cathartics1   
etc4 ,judicious fasting1 cold-water     
applications and1 if  necessary1        
warm-water injections in case of        
constipation will do  everything that is
 claimed for poisonous drugs4           
,inorganic ,minerals and ,mineral       
,poisons    ,for many years past1       
physicians of the different schools of  
medicine1 diet experts and food chemists
 have been divided on the  question     
whether or not mineral substances which 
in the organic form  enter into the     
composition of the human body may safely
 be used in  foods and medicines in the 

inorganic form4    ,the medical         
profession holds almost unanimously that
 this is  permissible and good practice1
 so that nearly every allopathic        
medical prescription contains some such 
inorganic substance1 or  worse than     
that1 one or more virulent mineral      
poisons1 as mercury1  arsenic1          
phosphorus1 etc4    ,so far1 the        
discussion about the usefulness or      
harmfulness of  inorganic minerals as   
foods and medicines was largely         
theoretical  and controversial4 ,neither
 party had positive proofs for its      
contentions4    ,but ,nature's records  
in the iris of the eye settle the       
question for  good and for ever4 ,one of
 the fundamental principles of the      
science  of ,diagnosis from the ,eye is 
that nothing shows in the iris by       
abnormal signs or discolorations except 
that which is abnormal in  the body or  
injurious to it4 ,when substances which 
are uncongenial  or poisonous to the    
system accumulate in any part or organ  

of the  body in sufficient quantities1  
they will indicate their presence by    
certain signs and abnormal colors in the
 corresponding areas of the  iris4      
,in this way ,nature makes known by her 
records in the eye what  substances are 
injurious to the body1 and which are    
harmless4    ,certain mineral elements1 
such as iron1 sodium1 potassium1        
calcium1  magnesium1 phosphorus1        
sulphur1 etc41 which are among the      
important  constituents of the human    
body1 may be taken in the organic form  
in  fruits and vegetables1 or in herb   
extracts and the vitochemical  remedies1
 in large amounts1 in fact1 far beyond  
the actual needs of  the body1 but they 
will not show in the iris of the eye1   
because  they are easily eliminated from
 the system4    ,if1 however1 the same  
minerals be taken in the inorganic form 
in  considerable quantities1 the iris   
will exhibit certain well-defined  signs
 and discolorations in the areas        
corresponding to those parts  of the    

body in which the mineral substances    
have accumulated4    ,obviously1 ,nature
 does not intend that these mineral     
elements should  enter the organism in  
the inorganic form1 and therefore the   
organs  of depuration are not able to   
neutralize and eliminate them4    ,thus1
 for instance1 any amount of iron may be
 taken in vegetable or  herb extracts1  
or in the vitochemical remedies1 but    
this will not be  seen in the eye4      
,whatever is taken in excess of the     
needs of the  body will be promptly     
eliminated4    ,if1 however1 similar    
quantities of iron be taken for the same
 length  of time in the inorganic1      
mineral form1 the iron will accumulate  
in  the tissues of stomach and bowels1  
and begin to show in the iris in  the   
form of a rust brown discoloration in   
the corresponding areas of  the         
digestive organs1 directly around the   
pupil4    ,in similar manner sodium1    
which is one of the most important      
mineral  elements in the human body1 if 

taken in the inorganic form1 will  show 
in a heavy1 white rim along the outer   
edge of the iris4 ,sulphur  will show in
 the form of yellowish discolorations in
 the area of  stomach and bowels4       
,iodine in the medicinal1 inorganic     
form1  prepared from the ash of         
seaweeds1 shows in the iris in          
well-defined  bright red spots4         
,phosphorus appears in whitish streaks  
and clouds  in the areas corresponding  
to the organs in which it has           
accumulated4    ,an interesting         
exception to this rule is our common    
table salt  7sodium chloride71 which is 
an inorganic mineral combination4 ,so   
far1 diagnosticians from the eye have   
not discovered any sign in the  iris for
 it4 ,there seems to be something in its
 nature that makes it  akin to organic  
substances or1 like other inorganic     
minerals and  their combinations1 it    
would show in the iris4    ,this might  
explain why salt is the only inorganic  
mineral substance  which is extensively 

used as food by humanity in general4    
,also  animals who1 guided by their     
natural instincts1 are the finest       
discriminators in the selection of foods
 and medicines1 do not  hesitate to take
 salt freely 7salt licks7 when they     
would not touch  any other inorganic    
mineral4    ,nevertheless1 we do not    
wish to encourage the excessive use of  
salt1  either in the cooking of food or 
at the table4 ,taken in considerable    
quantities1 it is undoubtedly injurious 
to the tissues of the body4    ,before  
the days of canned goods1 scurvy was a  
common disease among  mariners and other
 people who had to subsist for long     
periods of  time on salted meats and    
were deprived of fresh vegetables4 ,the 
disease manifested as a breaking down of
 the gums and other tissues  of the     
body1 accompanied by bleeding and much  
soreness4 ,as soon as  these people     
partook of fresh fruits and vegetables1 
the scurvy  disappeared4    ,the        
minerals contained in these organic     

salts foods furnished the               
building-stones which imparted tensile  
strength to the tissues and  stopped the
 disintegration of the fleshy           
structures4    ,the ,nature ,cure       
regimen aims to provide sodium chloride 
as well as  the other mineral elements  
and salts required by the body in       
organic  form in foods and medicines4   
,when the use of inorganic minerals is  
discontinued and when the  proper       
methods of eliminative treatment1       
dietetic and otherwise1 are  applied1   
these mineral substances are gradually  
dislodged and  carried out of the       
system4 ,simultaneously with their      
elimination  disappear their signs in   
the iris and the disease symptoms which 
their presence had created in the       
organism4    ,in this connection it is a
 significant fact that those minerals   
which are congenial to the system1 that 
is1 those which in their  organic form  
enter into the composition of the body1 
are much more  easily eliminated if they

 have been taken in the inorganic form1 
than those substances which are         
naturally foreign and poisonous to  the 
human organism1 such as mercury1        
arsenic1 iodine1 the bromides1  the     
different coal-tar preparations1 etc4   
,this is proved by the fact that the    
signs of the minerals which are  normal 
constituents of the human body disappear
 from the iris of the  eye much more    
quickly than the signs of those minerals
 which are  foreign and naturally       
poisonous to the system4    ,the        
difficulty we experience in eliminating 
mineral poisons from the  body would    
seem to indicate that ,nature never     
intended them to be  used as foods or   
medicines4 ,the intestines1 kidneys1    
skin1 mucous  membranes and other organs
 of depuration are evidently not        
constructed or prepared to cope with    
inorganic1 poisonous substances  and to 
eliminate them completely4 ,accordingly1
 these poisons show  the tendency to    
accumulate in certain parts or organs of

 the body  for which they have a special
 affinity and then to act as irritants  
and destructive corrodents4    ,the     
diseases which we find most difficult to
 cure1 even by the most  radical        
application of natural methods1 are     
cases of drug-poisoning4  ,substances   
which are foreign to the human organism1
 and especially  the inorganic1 mineral 
poisons1 positively destroy tissues and 
organs1 and are much harder to eliminate
 from the system than the  encumbrances 
of morbid materials and waste matter    
produced in the  body by wrong habits of
 living only4 ,the obvious reason for   
this is  that our organs of elimination 
are intended and constructed to  excrete
 only such waste products as are formed 
in the organism in  the processes of    
metabolism4    ,tuberculosis or cancer  
may be caused in a scrofulous or        
psoriatic  constitution by overloading  
the system with meat1 coffee1 alcohol or
  tobacco2 but as soon as these bad     
habits are discontinued1 and the  organs

 of elimination stimulated by natural   
methods1 the  encumbrances will be      
eliminated1 and the much-dreaded        
symptoms will  subside and disappear1   
often with surprising rapidity4    ,on  
the other hand1 mercury1 arsenic1       
quinine1 strychnine1 iodine1  etc41     
accumulate in the brain1 the spinal     
cord1 and the cells and  tissues of the 
vital organs1 causing actual destruction
 and  disintegration4 ,the tissues thus 
affected are not easily rebuilt1  and it
 is exceedingly difficult to stir up the
 destructive mineral  poisons and to    
eliminate them from the system4         
,therefore it is an indisputable fact   
that many of the most stubborn1         
so-called incurable diseases are drug   
diseases    ,the ,importance of ,natural
 ,diet    ,while certain medicinal      
remedies in organic form may be very    
useful  in supplying quickly a          
deficiency of mineral elements in the   
system1  we should aim to keep our      
bodies in a normal1 healthy condition by

  proper food selection and combination4
 ,a brief description of the  scientific
 basis of ,natural ,dietetics will be   
found in the chapter  on ,diet4         
,undoubtedly1 ,nature has supplied all  
the elements which the human  organism  
needs in abundance and in the right     
proportions in the  natural foods1      
otherwise she would be a very ignorant  
organizer and  provider4    ,we should  
learn to select and combine food        
materials in such a  manner that they   
supply all the needs of the body in the 
best  possible way and thus insure      
perfect health and strength without the 
use of medicines4    ,why should we     
attempt to cure anemia with inorganic   
iron1  hyperacidity of the stomach with 
baking soda1 swollen glands with        
iodine1 the itch with sulphur1 ricket   
conditions in infants with  lime water1 
etc41 when these mineral elements are   
contained in  abundance and in live1    
organic form in fruits and vegetables1  
herbs  and in the vitochemical remedies8

    ,unfortunately1 however1 a great    
many individuals1 through wrong  habits 
of living and of treating their         
ailments1 have ruined their  digestive  
organs to such an extent that they are  
incapable of  properly assimilating     
their food and require1 at least        
temporarily1  stimulative treatment by  
natural methods and a supply of the     
indispensable organic mineral salts     
through medicinal food  preparations4   
,in such cases the mineral elements must
 be provided in the most  easily        
assimilable form in vegetable extracts  
7which should be  prepared fresh every  
day71 and in the vitochemical remedies4 
,what has been said is sufficient1 ,i   
believe1 to justify the attitude  of the
 ,nature ,cure school toward medicines  
in general4 ,it explains  why we avoid  
the use of inorganic minerals and       
poisonous substances1  while on the     
other hand we find a wide and useful    
field for  medicinal remedies in the    
form of blood and tissue foods4         

,chapter ,,xv      ,homeopathy          
,when we recommend the use of           
homeopathic remedies1 the medical       
nihilist says3 ,don't talk homeopathy to
 me6 ,i didn't come to you  for drugs2  
,i have had enough of them4    ,when we 
explain that these remedies are so      
highly refined that they  cannot        
possibly do any harm1 he becomes still  
more indignant4 ,i  don't need any of   
your mental therapeutics in homeopathic 
form1 he  exclaims4 ,i1 too1 believe in 
the power of mind over matter1 but ,i   
have no faith in your sugar of milk     
pellets2 they are poor  substitutes for 
the real article4 ,that kind of         
sugar-coated  suggestion might work on  
some people1 but it doesn't on me4      
,when ,i first entered upon the study of
 medicine1 ,i1 too1 did not  believe in 
the curative power of homeopathic doses2
 but experience  caused me to change my 
mind4 ,the well-selected remedy         
administered  at the right time often   
works wonders4    ,true homeopathic     

medicines in high-potency doses are so  
highly  refined and rarefied that they  
cannot possibly produce harmful  results
 or suppress ,nature's cleansing and    
healing efforts2 on the  contrary1 if   
employed according to the ,law of       
,homeopathy3 like  cures like1 they     
assist in producing acute reactions or  
healing  crises1 thus aiding ,nature in 
the work of purification and repair4    
,homeopathy ,works with the ,laws of    
,cure1 ,not ,against ,them4 ,similia    
similibus curantur 7like cures like7    
translated into practice means  that a  
drug capable of producing a certain set 
of disease symptoms  in a healthy body1 
when given in large1 physiological      
doses1 will  relieve or cure a similar  
set of symptoms in the diseased organism
  if the drug be given in small1        
homeopathic doses4    ,for instance1    
belladonna1 given in large1 poisonous   
doses to a  healthy person1 will cause a
 peculiar headache with sharp1 stabbing 
pains in forehead and temples1 high     

fever1 violent delirium1  dilation of   
the pupils1 dryness and rawness of the  
throat1 scarlet  redness of the skin and
 extreme sensitiveness to light1 jars   
and  noises4    ,it will be observed    
that this is a fair picture of a typical
 case of  scarlet fever4 ,a homeopathic 
prescriber1 when called to a scarlet    
fever patient exhibiting in a marked    
degree three or more of the             
above-described symptoms1 would give a  
trituration of belladonna1  say #fx4 ,in
 numberless cases the fever has subsided
 and its symptoms  have rapidly         
disappeared under such treatment4       
,the reader may say3 ,i do not see any  
difference between this and  the        
allopathic suppression of disease by    
drugs4    ,there is a great difference4 
,the allopathic physician may use the   
same remedy1 belladonna1 in the same    
case1 but he will give from ten  to     
twenty drops of tincture of belladonna1 
repeated every three or  four hours4    
,these doses are from twenty to forty   

thousand times  stronger than the       
homeopathic #cx or #fx4    ,herein lies 
the difference4 ,the allopathic dose    
allays the fever  symptoms by paralyzing
 the organism as a whole and the        
different  vital organs and their       
functions in particular4 ,this is       
frankly  admitted in every allopathic   
materia medica4 ,but by such dosing     
,nature is forcibly interrupted in her  
efforts of cleansing and  healing2 the  
acute reaction is suppressed1 but not   
cured4    ,if fever is a healing effort 
of ,nature1 it may be controlled and    
modified1 but must not be suppressed4 ,a
 minute dose of homeopathic  belladonna1
 acting on the innermost cells of the   
organism which the  coarser allopathic  
doses would paralyze1 stimulates these  
cells to  effort in the right direction4
 ,it brings about conditions similar to 
those produced by ,nature1 and thus     
assists her2 it is cooperation  instead 
of counteroperation4    ,after this     
brief discussion of the practical       

application of  homeopathy1 let us now  
ascertain in how far its laws and       
theories  agree with and corroborate the
 laws and principles of the ,nature     
,cure school4    ,hahnemann discovered  
the ,law of similia similibus curantur  
accidentally1 while investigating the   
effects of quinine on the  human        
organism4 ,ever since then it has been  
applied successfully by  him and his    
followers in treating human ailments4   
,however1 this law has been used        
empirically4 ,neither in the ,organon   
nor in any other writings or teachings  
of ,hahnemann and the  homeopathic      
school can be found a clear and concise 
explanation of  why like cures like4    
,the proof offered has been negative    
rather than  positive4    ,therefore the
 allopath says3 ,you tell me that 'like 
cures like1'  and that you can prove it 
at the sickbed2 but unless you can give 
me good and valid reasons why it should 
be so1 ,i cannot and will not  believe  
that it is your 'similar' which cures   

the patient4 ,how do ,i  know it is your
 'potency'8 ,the patient might recover  
just as well  without it4    ,with the  
aid of the three laws of cure1 ,i shall 
endeavor to give the  reasons and       
furnish the proofs for our contentions4 
,the laws alluded  to are3 ,the ,law of 
,cure1 the ,law of ,dual ,effect and the
 ,law of  ,crises4    ,similia similibus
 curantur is only another way of stating
 the  fundamental ,law of ,nature ,cure3
 ,every acute disease is the result  of 
a cleansing and healing effort of       
,nature4    ,if a certain set of disease
 symptoms are the result of a healing   
effort of ,nature1 and if ,i give a     
remedy which produces the same or       
similar symptoms in the system1 am ,i   
not aiding ,nature in her  attempt to   
overcome the abnormal conditions8    ,in
 such a case1 the indicated homeopathic 
remedy will not suppress  the acute     
reaction1 but it will help it along1    
thus accelerating and  hastening the    
curative process4    ,in the last       

analysis1 disease resides in the cell4  
,the well-being of  the organism as a   
whole is dependent upon the health of   
the  individual cells of which it is    
composed4 ,this has been explained  more
 fully in connection with the action of 
stimulants4    ,in order to cure the    
man1 we must free the cell of its       
encumbrances4  ,elimination must begin  
in the cell1 not in the organs of       
depuration4  ,laxatives and cathartics1 
by irritating the digestive tract1 may  
cause a forced evacuation of the        
contents of the intestinal canal1  but  
they do not eliminate the poisons which 
clog cells and tissues4    ,in stubborn 
chronic diseases1 when the cells are too
 weak to throw  off the latent          
encumbrances of their own accord1 a     
well-chosen  homeopathic remedy is often
 of great service in arousing them to   
acute reaction4    ,for instance1 if the
 system is heavily encumbered with      
scrofulous  taints and if its vitality  
is lowered to such an extent that the   

individual cell cannot of itself throw  
off the morbid encumbrances  by means of
 a vigorous1 acute effort1 sulphur1 if  
administered in  doses sufficiently     
triturated and refined to affect the    
minute cells  composing the organism1   
will start disease vibrations similar to
  those of acute scrofulosis1 and thus  
give the needed impetus to  acute       
eliminative activity on the part of the 
individual cell4    ,the acute reaction1
 once started1 may develop into vigorous
 forms of  scrofulous elimination1 such 
as skin eruptions1 glandular swellings1 
abscesses1 catarrhal discharges1 etc4   
,are ,high-,potency ,doses ,effective8  
,the question now arises3 ,how large or 
how small must the dose be in  order to 
affect the minute cells8    ,in the     
administration of medicines1 the size of
 the dose is adjusted  to the size of   
the patient4 ,if half a grain of a      
certain drug is the  normal dose for an 
adult1 the proper dose of the same drug 
for a  small infant1 say1 less than a   

year old1 may be about one  twenty-fifth
 of the adult dose4 ,how small1 in      
proportion1 should  then be the dose    
given to a cell a billion times as small
 as the  infant8    ,the dose given to  
an adult would paralyze or perhaps kill 
an infant4  ,in like manner the minute  
cell would be benumbed and paralyzed by 
the drug suited to the infant's         
organism4    ,but this is how allopathy 
effects its fictitious cures4 ,it       
suppresses inflammatory processes by    
paralyzing the cells and organs  and    
their vital activities4    ,homeopathy  
adapts the smallness of the dose to the 
smallness of the  cell which is to be   
treated4 ,herein lies the reasonableness
 of the  high-potency dose4    ,the     
,personal ,responsibility of the ,cell  
,the cell resembles ,man not only in    
physical and physiological  aspects1 but
 also in regard to the moral law4       
,elimination must commence in the cell  
and by virtue of the cell's  personal   
effort4 ,its work cannot be done        

vicariously by drugs or the  knife4     
,large1 allopathic doses of medicine may
 be given with the  idea of doing the   
work for the cell by violently          
stimulating or else  paralyzing the     
organism as a whole or certain ones of  
the vital  organs2 but this is          
demoralizing and destructive to the     
cell4 ,the  powerful doses calculated to
 affect the body and its organs as a    
whole make superfluous or paralyze the  
individual efforts of the  cells and    
thus intensify the chronic disease      
conditions in cells and  tissues4       
,alms-giving1 prison sentences and      
capital punishment have a similar       
allopathic effect upon ,man1 the        
individual cell of the social body4     
,instead of providing for him the proper
 environment and the  opportunity for   
natural development and for working out 
his own  salvation1 they take this      
opportunity away from him and weaken his
  personal effort or make it impossible4
    ,the ,efficacy of ,small ,doses     

,the late revelations of chemistry1     
,roentgen rays1 x-rays1  radio-activity 
of metals1 etc41 throw an interesting   
light upon the  seemingly infinite      
divisibility of matter4 ,a small        
particle of a  given substance may for  
many years throw off a continuous shower
 of  corpuscles without perceptibly     
diminishing its volume4    ,for an      
illustration we may take the odoriferous
 musk4 ,a few grains  of this substance 
will fill a room with its penetrating   
aroma for  years4 ,when we smell musk or
 any other perfume1 minute particles of 
it bombard the end filaments of the     
nerves of smell in the nose4  ,therefore
 the musk must be casting off such      
minute particles  continually without   
apparent loss of substance4    ,with the
 aid of this recent knowledge of the    
true nature of matter1  of the          
minuteness and complexity of the atom1  
we can now understand  how the highly   
triturated and refined 7attenuated7     
homeopathic  remedy may still retain the

 dynamic force of the element1 as       
,hahnemann has expressed it1 and how a  
remedy so attenuated may still  be      
capable of exerting an influence upon   
the minute cell4 ,since  chemistry and  
physiology have acquainted us with the  
finer forces of  ,nature1 demonstrating 
that they are mightier than the things  
we can  apprehend by weight and measure1
 the claims of homeopathy do not  appear
 so absurd as they did a generation ago4
    ,undoubtedly1 the good effect       
produced by a well-chosen remedy is     
heightened and strengthened by the      
mental and magnetic influence of  the   
prescriber4 ,the positive faith of the  
physician in the efficacy  of the       
remedy1 his sympathy and his indomitable
 will to assist the  sufferer affect    
both the physical substance of the      
remedy and the  mind of the patient4    
,the varying mental and magnetic        
qualities of prescribers have           
undoubtedly much to do with the varying 
degrees of efficaciousness  of the same 

remedy when administered by different   
physicians4    ,the true ,hahnemannian  
homeopath1 who believes in his remedies 
as in  his ,god1 will concentrate his   
intellectual and spiritual forces on a  
certain remedy in order to accomplish   
certain well-defined results4  ,the     
bottle is not allowed to become empty4  
,whenever the graft runs  low1 it is    
replenished with distilled water1       
alcohol1 milk sugar1 or  another        
vehicle4 ,every time he takes the       
medicine bottle into his  hands1 these  
potent thought forms are projected into 
it3 ,you are  the element sulphur4 ,you 
produce in the human body a certain set 
of  symptoms4 ,you will produce these   
symptoms in the body of this  patient4  
,if there is any virtue at all in       
magnetic1 mental and spiritual  healing1
 the homeopathic remedy must be an      
effective agency for  transmitting      
magnetic1 mental and psychic healing    
forces from  prescriber to patient4     
,transmission of these higher and finer 

forces1 whether directly1               
telepathically or by means of some      
physical agent1 such as  magnetized     
water1 a charm or simile1 etc41 is the  
modus operandi in  all the different    
forms of ancient and modern magic1 white
 or black4  ,it is the active principle 
in mental healing1 ,christian ,science1 
sympathy healing1 voodooism1 witchcraft1
 etc4    ,homeopathy and the ,law of    
,dual ,effect    ,i have formulated the 
,law of ,action and ,reaction in its    
application  to the treatment of        
diseases as follows3    ,every agent    
affecting the human organism has two    
effects3 a first1  apparent1 temporary  
one and a second1 lasting one4 ,the     
second effect  is directly opposite to  
the first4    ,allopathy1 in giving     
large1 physiological doses1 takes into  
consideration only the first1 apparent  
effect of the drug1 and  thereby        
accomplishes in the long run results    
directly opposite to  those which it    
desires to bring about4 ,it produces the

 very  conditions it tries to cure4 ,as 
an example1 note the permanent  effects 
of laxatives1 stimulants and sedatives  
upon the system4 ,this  has been        
explained more fully in ,chapter ,six4  
,on the other hand1 the homeopathic     
physician may use the same  remedies as 
the allopath1 provided they produce     
symptoms similar to  those of the       
disease1 but he administers the         
different drugs in such  minute doses   
that their first effect is noticed only 
as a slight  homeopathic aggravation1   
while their second and lasting effect is
  relied upon to relieve and cure the   
disease4    ,in other words1 homeopathy 
produces as the first effect the        
condition like the disease1 and counts  
on the second and lasting  effect of the
 drug to bring about a permanent change4
    ,if1 in accordance with the ,law of 
,dual ,effect as applied to drugs1  the 
primary1 temporary effect of the        
homeopathic remedy is equal to  the     
disease1 it is self-evident that the    

secondary1 lasting effect  of the remedy
 must be equal to the cure4    ,this law
 has been proved by homeopathy for over 
a hundred years4 ,an  experienced       
homeopathic prescriber would no more    
doubt it than he  would doubt the ,law  
of ,gravitation4    ,homeopathy and the 
,law of ,crises    ,therefore1 if the   
remedy be well chosen in accord with the
 ,law of  similia similibus curantur1   
the first homeopathic aggravation1      
which corresponds to the crisis of      
,nature ,cure1 will be followed by      
speedy and perfect readjustment4 ,nature
 has her way1 the disorder  runs its    
course1 and the return to normal        
conditions will be quicker  and more    
perfect than if the homeopathic remedy  
had not been  employed or if ,nature's  
healing processes had been forcibly     
interrupted and suppressed by large1    
poisonous allopathic doses4  ,homeopathy
 assists ,nature in removing the old    
encumbrances1 whereas  allopathy changes
 the acute1 inflammatory healing effort 

into  chronic1 destructive disease4     
,the ,economics of ,homeopathy    ,the  
,law of like cures like is of great     
practical importance from  another point
 of view1 namely1 that of economics4    
,the best engineer is the one who       
accomplishes the maximum of results     
with the minimum of expenditure of force
 and with the least  friction4 ,the same
 is true of the physician and his       
remedies4    ,we have learned that drugs
 given in the coarse allopathic doses   
attack and affect the organism as a     
whole4 ,if1 for instance1 there  is a   
catarrhal affection of the serous and   
mucous membranes of the  respiratory    
tract accompanied by fever1 the allopath
 will give  quinine in large doses to   
change this condition4 ,he may          
accomplish  his aim2 but if so1 he does 
it by paralyzing the heart1 the         
respiratory centers1 the red and white  
blood corpuscles and the  excreting     
cells of the mucous membranes4 ,the body
 as a whole and  certain parts in       

particular are saturated with the drug  
poison and  correspondingly weakened4   
,as allopathy itself states it3 ,quinine
  reduces fever by depressing the       
metabolism 7the vital functions74       
,homeopathic materia medica teaches that
 ,bryonia has a special  affinity for   
the mucous and serous membranes of the  
respiratory  tract and that its         
symptomatic effects correspond closely  
to those  described in the preceding    
paragraph4    ,if1 in accordance with   
the ,law of similia similibus curantur1 
a  homeopathic dose of ,bryonia be given
 to a patient exhibiting these          
symptoms1 the remedy1 as has been       
demonstrated1 will assist ,nature  in   
her work of cure2 and in doing this1 it 
will not attack and  affect the entire  
organism1 but only those serous and     
mucous tissues  for which it has a      
special affinity and which1 as in the   
case of  this patient1 are the most     
seriously affected4    ,to state it in  
another way3 the large1 allopathic dose 

paralyzes the  whole organism in order  
to produce its fictitious cure4 ,the    
small1  homeopathic dose1 on the other  
hand1 goes right to the spot where it   
is needed1 and by mild and harmless     
stimulation of the affected  parts1     
assists and supports the cells in their 
acute eliminative  efforts4             
,homeopathic medication1 therefore1 is  
not only curative in its  effects1 but  
also conservative and in the highest    
degree economic4    ,homeopathy1 a      
,complement of ,nature ,cure    ,having 
proved the accuracy of ,hahnemann's ,law
 of similia similibus  curantur1 and    
having occasion daily to observe its    
practical  results in the treatment of  
acute and chronic diseases1 we should   
not be justified in omitting homeopathy 
from our system of  treatment4 ,the     
attenuated homeopathic doses of certain 
drugs may be  of great service in       
bringing about the acute reactions which
 we so  earnestly desire1 especially in 
the treatment of chronic diseases of    

long standing4    ,i am aware of the    
fact that in severe and obstinate       
conditions  homeopathy is often         
apparently of no avail4 ,but when the   
system has  been purified and           
strengthened by our natural methods1 by 
a rational  vegetarian diet1            
hydrotherapy1 chiropractic or           
osteopathy1 massage1  corrective        
exercise1 air and sun baths1 normal     
suggestion1 etc41 the  homeopathic      
remedies will work with much greater    
promptitude and  effectiveness4    ,it  
is the combination of all the different 
healing factors which  constitutes the  
perfect system of treatment4    ,no     
disease condition1 whether apparently   
hopeless or not1 can be  called         
incurable unless all these different    
healing factors1  properly combined and 
applied1 have been given a thorough     
trial4 ,it  is no charlatanic boasting1 
but the simple truth1 when we affirm    
that the different natural methods of   
treatment1 as we of the ,nature  ,cure  

school apply them1 can and do cure      
so-called incurable  diseases1 such as  
tuberculosis1 cancer1 locomotor ataxy1  
epilepsy1  eczema1 neurasthenia1        
insanity and the worst forms of chronic 
dyspepsia and constipation1 always      
providing that the patient  possesses   
sufficient vitality to react to the     
treatment and that the  destruction of  
vital parts and organs has not advanced 
too far4        ,chapter ,,xvi      ,the
 ,diphtheria ,antitoxin      ,in this   
country the antitoxin treatment for     
diplitheria is still in  high favor1    
while in ,germany1 where it originated1 
many of the best  medical authorities   
are abandoning its use on account of its
  doubtful curative results and certain 
destructive after-effects4    ,according
 to the enthusiastic advocates of this  
treatment among the  regular physicians 
in this country1 the antitoxin is a     
certain  cure for diphtheria2 but how is
 this claim borne out by actual  facts8 
,the ,health ,bulletins sent regularly  

to every physician in the ,city  of     
,chicago by the ,city ,health           
,department show an average of from     
fifteen to twenty deaths every week from
 diphtheria treated with  antitoxin4    
,i do not deny that the antitoxin       
treatment may have reduced somewhat  the
 mortality percentage of this disease1  
allowing even for the  great uncertainty
 of medical statistics4 ,but we of the  
,nature ,cure  school claim and can     
prove that the hydropathic treatment of 
diphtheria shows a much lower percentage
 of mortality than the  antitoxin       
treatment4    ,the crucial point to be  
considered in this connection is3 ,what 
are  the after-effects of the different 
methods of treatment8    ,this is a very
 important matter4 ,i make the following
 claims3  that the antitoxin1 being     
itself a most powerful poison1 may be   
and  often is the direct cause of       
paralysis1 or of death due to           
heart-failure4 ,that diphtheria treated 
with antitoxin may be and  often is     

followed by paralysis1 heart-failure1 or
 lifelong  invalidism of some kind after
 the patient has apparently recovered   
from the disease4 ,that these           
undesirable after-effects of diphtheria 
do not occur when the disease is treated
 by natural methods1 but  that they are 
the result of the antitoxin treatment   
and of its  suppressive effect upon4 the
 disease4    ,to prove my claims1 ,i    
submit the following facts3 ,i have in  
my  possession clippings from newspapers
 from different parts of the  country   
stating that death had followed the     
administration of the  diphtheria       
antitoxin for prevention or             
immunization1 that is1  where the       
individual had been in good health at   
the time the  antitoxin was given4      
,several cases of this kind created     
quite a sensation in ,germany  about    
fifteen years ago4 ,dr4 ,robert         
,langerhans1 superintendent of  the     
,moabit ,hospital in ,berlin1 a strong  
advocate of the antitoxin  treatment and

 also of vaccination1 had been one of a 
committee of  three appointed by the    
municipal government of the ,german     
metropolis  to investigate the          
efficiency of the diphtheria antitoxin4 
,as a  result of his findings1 he had   
recommended its free distribution to    
the poor of the ,city of ,berlin4       
,not long thereafter the doctor's cook  
was suddenly taken ill with  severe     
pains in the throat and sent to the     
hospital4 ,it was thought  to be a case 
of diphtheria1 and the doctor1 to       
protect his little  son1 one and        
one-half years old1 against possible    
infection1  administered an injection of
 antitoxin4 ,shortly afterward the child
  developed symptoms of blood-poisoning 
and died of heart-failure  within       
twenty-four hours4    ,it is customary  
in ,germany to insert a death-notice in 
one of the  local newspapers and to     
invite the friends of the family to the 
funeral4 ,in his announcement in the    
columns of the ,lokalanzeiger1  ,dr4    

,langerhans stated explicitly that his  
little son had died after  an injection 
of diphtheria antitoxin for             
immunization4    ,another similar case  
is that of ,dr4 ,pistor1 a prominent    
,berlin  physician1 whose little        
daughter contracted a slight            
inflammation of  the throat4 ,the child 
was given an injection of antitoxin1 and
 this  was followed by a severe and     
protracted illness4    ,very            
significant1 in this connection1 are    
certain utterances of ,dr4  ,william    
,osler in his ,practice of ,medicine4   
,he says1 on page #aej3     ,of the     
sequelae of diphtheria1 paralysis is by 
far the most  important4 ,this can be   
experimentally produced in animals by   
the  inoculation of the toxic material  
produced by the bacilli4 ,this is  the  
active principle in the antitoxin4      
,author's note ,the paralysis  occurs in
 a variable proportion of the cases1    
ranging from #aj to #ae  and even to #bj
 per cent4 ,it is strictly a sequel of  

the disease of  the disease treated with
 antitoxin8--,author's note1 coming on  
usually in the second or third week of  
convalescence4 4 4 4 ,it may  follow    
very mild cases2 indeed1 the local      
lesion may be so trifling  that the     
onset of the paralysis alone calls      
attention to the true  nature of the    
disease4 4 4 4    ,the disease is a     
toxic neuritis1 due to the absorption of
 the  poison4 4 4 4    ,of the local    
paralysis the most common is that which 
affects the  palate4 4 4 4 ,of other    
local forms perhaps the most common are 
paralysis of the eye muscles4 4 4 4     
,heart symptoms are not uncommon4  4 4 4
 ,heart-failure and fatal syncope       
7death7 may occur at the  height of the 
disease or during convalescence1 even as
 late as the  sixth or seventh week     
after apparent recovery4    ,it appears 
to me that the mystery of these sequelae
 can easily be  explained4 ,it is       
certain that a mere sore throat1 not    
serious  enough to be diagnosed as      

diphtheria1 cannot produce paralysis or 
heart-failure2 but we know positively   
that the antitoxin can do it  and does  
do it4 ,the cases that ,dr4 ,osler      
refers to undoubtedly  received the     
antitoxin treatment1 because it is      
administered on the  slightest suspicion
 of diphtheria1 nay1 even to perfectly  
healthy  persons for purposes of        
immunization4    ,then is it not most   
likely that these mysterious            
after-effects are  caused rather by the 
highly poisonous antitoxin than by the  
sore  throat8    ,in my own practice1 ,i
 am frequently consulted by chronic     
patients  whose troubles date back to   
diphtheria cured by antitoxin4 ,among   
these ,i have met with several cases of 
idiocy and insanity1 with  many cases of
 partial paralysis1 infantile paralysis1
 and nervous  disorders of a most       
serious nature1 also with various other 
forms of  chronic destructive diseases4 
,in the iris of the eye1 the effect of  
the antitoxin on the system  shows as a 

darkening of the color4 ,in many        
instances1 the formerly  blue or        
light-brown iris assumes an ashy-gray or
 brownish-gray hue4    ,my secretary who
 is taking this dictation and who has   
brown eyes1  tells me that her mother   
informed her that up to her tenth year  
her  eyes had been of a clear blue4     
,about that time she had several        
attacks of diphtheria and a severe      
second attack of scarlet fever1  which  
were treated and cured under the care of
 an allopathic  physician4 ,she does not
 remember whether she was given         
antitoxin1  but recalls that her throat 
was painted and her body rubbed with    
oil1 and that she had to take a great   
deal of medicine4 ,since that  time her 
eyes have turned brown4 ,they show      
plainly the rust-brown  spots of iodine 
in the areas of the brain1 the throat1  
and other  parts of the body4    ,the   
effect upon the iris of the eye would be
 very much the same  whether the attacks
 of diphtheria had been suppressed by   

antitoxin  or by the old-time drug      
treatment4 ,a significant fact in this  
connection is that1 since ,mrs4 ,c4 is  
with us1 following natural  methods of  
living and under the effects of the     
treatments which she  has been taking   
regularly for several months1 her eyes  
have become  much lighter and in places 
the original blue is visible under the  
brown4 ,the nerve rings in the region of
 the brain1 which were very  marked when
 she came to us1 have become less       
defined4 ,there is a  corresponding     
improvement in her general health1 and  
especially in  the condition of her     
nerves4    ,in regard to my claim that  
undesirable after-effects do not occur  
under treatment by natural methods1 ,i  
wish again to call attention  to the    
fact that for fifty years the ,nature   
,cure physicians in  ,germany have      
proved that hydropathic treatment of    
diphtheria is not  followed by          
paralysis1 heart-failure1 or the        
different forms of  chronic1 destructive

 diseases4    ,this has been confirmed  
by my own experience in the treatment of
  diphtheria and other serious acute    
ailments4    ,a ,reply to ,my ,critics  
,my discussions of the germ-theory of   
disease and of the vaccine1  serum1 and 
antitoxin treatment in a series of      
articles entitled3  ,harmonies of the   
,physical and published in ,life and    
,action  called forth a great deal of   
adverse criticism from physicians of    
the regular school of medicine4 ,the    
following paragraphs are  extracts from 
a letter sent by one of these critics to
 the editor of  the above-named         
magazine3     4 4 4 ,i am convinced that
 some statements have been published in 
this particular issue                   
,october-,decemher1 #aiab which have no 
proper  place in this magazine1 the     
earnest champion of the cause of ,truth 
and the official organ of expression of 
the ,u4 ,s4 headquarters of  the        
movement which you evidently have at    
heart4    ,dr4 ,e4 then refers to       

certain passages in my article in the   
,october-,december1 #aiab1 number of    
,life and ,action1 and comments  upon   
them by quoting ,drs4 ,osler and        
,andrews in favor of the  antitoxin     
treatment in diphtheria and by giving   
his own opinion on  the subject4 ,he    
concludes his arguments as follows3     
,i am a subscriber to this magazine and 
have also had my sister's  name put on  
the mailing list4 ,she has a little boy 
about two years  old4 ,now1 suppose she 
should read that article of ,dr4        
,lindlahr's1  and as a result1 refuse to
 permit the use of antitoxin1 and if the
  boy should get diphtheria1 with a     
fatal issue as a result1 ,i could       
hardly feel gratified over the fact that
 ,i had placed that  reading-matter at  
her disposal4 ,i fully appreciate the   
fact that  such an unhappy result might 
easily ensue in some one or more of the 
families who read ',life and ,action'   
and look upon its columns as a  source  
of the truly higher light4    ,perhaps  

,dr4 ,e4 has not read one of ,dr4       
,osler's latest and strongest           
utterances1 his unqualified endorsement 
of natural methods of  healing in the   
,encyclopedia ,americana1 quoted on page
 #aed of this  volume4    ,nature ,cure 
in ,germany    ,that it is possible to  
cure all kinds of serious acute diseases
 by  drugless methods of healing1 has   
been proved by the ,nature ,cure        
practitioners in ,germany1 nearly all of
 whom were laymen who had  never visited
 a medical school4 ,for over half a     
century1 many  thousands of them have   
been practicing the art of healing in   
all  parts of ,germany4 ,with           
hydrotherapy and the other natural      
methods  they have treated successfully 
typhoid fever4 diphtheria1 smallpox1    
appendicitis1 cerebro-spinal meningitis 
and all other acute  diseases4    ,it is
 a significant fact that1 in spite of   
the most strenuous  opposition and      
appeal to the law-making powers on the  
part of the  regular school of medicine1

 the lay doctors could not be prevented 
from practicing the natural methods of  
treatment in law-and  police-ridden     
,germany4    ,on the contrary1 during   
the last few generations there have been
  practicing in ,germany at all times an
 ever increasing number of  ,nature     
,cure physicians1 most of them laymen4  
,this freedom of ,nature ,cure practice 
in ,germany is entirely due to  the     
success of its methods4    ,and this    
success has been demonstrated in spite  
of all kinds of  opposition and         
attempted restriction4 ,while the       
,nature ,cure  practitioner is permitted
 to treat those who come to him for     
relief1  he does not have the right to  
cover his mistakes with six feet of     
earth4 ,if one of his patients dies1 a  
doctor of the regular school  of        
medicine has to be called in to testify 
to the fact and issue the               
death-certificate4    ,thus the lay     
doctors1 the ,nature ,cure physicians1  
were and are  at present constantly     

exposed to the strictest critical       
supervision  by the regulars1 and if the
 latter can prove that a patient has    
died because the natural methods were   
inefficient or harmful1 the  lay        
practitioner can be prosecuted for and  
convicted of malpractice  or            
man-slaughter4    ,but in point of fact1
 while a number of these lay physicians 
were  brought before the courts1 in no  
instance could the actual  harmfulness  
of the methods employed by them be      
proven4 ,the natural  methods of        
treatment became so popular that1 as a  
matter of  self-preservation1 the       
younger generation of physicians in     
,germany  had to fall in line with the  
,nature ,cure idea in their practice4   
,since ,dr4 ,e4 so strongly questions   
the efficacy of our methods1 ,i  may be 
permitted to say something about my own 
professional  experience4    ,nature    
,cure in ,america    ,during the last   
ten years1 ,i have treated and cured all
 kinds of  serious acute diseases       

without resorting to allopathic drugs4  
,in a  very extensive practice1 ,i have 
not in all these years lost a single    
case of appendicitis 7and not one of    
them was operated upon71 of  typhoid    
fever1 diphtheria1 smallpox1 scarlet    
fever1 etc41 and only  one case of      
cerebro-spinal meningitis and of lobar  
pneumonia4 ,these  facts may be verified
 from the records of the ,health        
,department of  the ,city of ,chicago4  
,after the foregoing statements1 ,i     
leave it to my readers to judge  whether
 the ,nature ,cure philosophy is        
inspired by blind fanaticism  and based 
upon ignorance and inexperience1 or     
whether it is  justified in the light of
 scientific facts advanced by the       
,regular  ,school of ,medicine itself   
and demonstrated by the wonderful       
success  of the ,nature ,cure movement  
in ,germany1 which in its different     
forms  has attained world-wide          
recognition and adoption4    ,there is a
 popular saying3 ,the proof of the      

pudding is in the  eating4 ,the         
following letter will explain itself3   
,january #bj1 #aiac4    ,dear ,dr4      
,lindlahr3--    ,you may remember that  
last winter1 ,mrs4 ,white and ,i        
attended your  ,sunday afternoon        
lectures in the ,schiller ,building4    
,those lectures  were an education--,i  
might better say a revelation and an    
inspiration4    ,on the #aath of        
,november last1 our boy1 aged thirteen  
years1 was  taken ill with diphtheria4  
,i called at your office and asked your 
advice4 ,you replied3 ,you know what to 
do--wet packs1 no food except  fruit    
juices1 osteopathic treatment and no    
antitoxin4    ,we called an osteopathic 
physician1 who at once sent a specimen  
from  the boy's throat to the city      
laboratory1 where it was pronounced     
diphtheria4 ,a physician from the ,board
 of ,health came and  quarantined us and
 inquired if we had used the antitoxin  
treatment4  ,when ,mrs4 ,white replied  
,no1 he said3 ,i suppose you know that  

the  percentage of deaths of those who  
do not have it is very high4 ,she  said3
 ,yes1 ,i know1 but we do not intend to 
use it4    ,the boy had all the acute   
symptoms1 was drowsy1 with headache1 and
  on the second day his temperature went
 to #aje degrees4 ,we applied  the wet  
body pack and by night had reduced his  
temperature to #ajj  degrees4 ,with the 
aid of the osteopathic treatment1 which 
he had  each night1 the boy slept well  
all through big illness4 ,on the fifth  
day1 the membrane spread from his throat
 to his nose1 and his  temperature rose 
again2 but the wet body packs again     
reduced it so  that it was never again  
over #ajj degrees4    ,the boy was      
bright1 his mind was clear1 he was able 
to read1 and  after the first week was  
able to play chess with his mother4 ,the
  only unfavorable symptom he had at all
 was an irregular pulse4 ,he  took no   
medicine and no food except fruit       
juices4 ,we used  occasionally the warm 
water enema4 ,on the tenth day he took a

 little  lamb broth1 but refused it the 
next day1 and again asked for fruit     
juices4 ,it was not until two weeks had 
passed that his appetite  returned and  
he began to eat4 ,he lost flesh1 but did
 not lose  strength in the same         
degree--he was able to go to the        
bathroom each  day unaided4    ,on the  
#bast day1 the osteopathic physician    
sent a specimen to the  city laboratory 
which they pronounced positive1 and the 
city  physician found it necessary to   
take as many as four or five  additional
 specimens before he pronounced him free
 from the  diphtheria germ4 ,the boy was
 not released from quarantine until five
  weeks had passed4    ,during all this 
time his only attendant was his mother  
and the  osteopathic physician who came 
daily4 ,the boy has fully recovered  and
 has suffered no bad results that often 
follow such diseases4    ,in contrast to
 this experience of ours1 ,i would like 
to cite the  case of a neighbor of ours 
whose little girl died of the disease   

under the antitoxin treatment4 ,she     
recovered from the diphtheria1  but her 
heart failed and she died suddenly4     
,they had a regular ,m4 ,d4  and a      
trained nurse4 ,her mother took ill1 but
 recovered4 ,the father  told me that   
their drug bill alone amounted to #ge4  
,we want to express to you our gratitude
 for the knowledge and  confidence that 
you have so freely given to us1 and you 
are at  liberty to make whatever use of 
this letter that you desire4            
,sincerely yours1    ,,hinton ,,white   
#addc ,cuyler ,ave41 ,chicago1 ,ill4    
,this letter proves that my claims and  
assertions regarding the  curability of 
diphtheria by natural methods are not   
extravagant or  untrue4 ,in this case1  
as in many others1 ,i gave directions   
for  treatment verbally and over the    
telephone without having seen the       
patient personally4    ,i am convinced1 
furthermore1 that this patient would    
have made just  as good a recovery      
without the osteopathic treatment4 ,i   

recommended  the attendance of an       
osteopathic physician in order to ease  
the  burden of responsibility on the    
part of the parents4 ,if the child  had 
died1 they would have been blamed by    
friends and relatives for  their seeming
 foolhardiness4    ,the experience of   
,mr4 ,white's neighbor is another proof 
of the fatal  effect of the antitoxin   
treatment4 ,the antitoxin cured the     
diphtheria1 but-the child died6    ,once
 more ,i repeat3 ,the hydropathic       
treatment will give equally good        
results in appendicitis1 meningitis1    
scarlet fever1 and all other  forms of  
acute diseases4 ,if this be a fact1 why 
should not my  colleagues of the        
,regular ,school of ,medicine give the  
hydropathic  method a fair trial1 the   
more so since in ,germany1 even among   
the  physicians of the ,regular ,school1
 hydropathy as a remedy is fast         
superseding antitoxin6 ,is it not worth 
while when the mysterious  sequelae     
referred to by ,dr4 ,osler1 and the many

 cases of chronic  invalidism which he  
does not connect with the disease or its
  treatment1 might thus be avoided8     
,chapter ,,xvii      ,vaccination       
,the pernicious aftereffects of         
vaccination upon the system are  similar
 to those of the various serum and      
antitoxin treatments4    ,jenner1 an    
,english barber and chiropodist1 is     
usually credited with  the discovery of 
vaccination4 ,the doubtful honor1       
however1 belongs  in reality to an old  
,circassian woman who1 according to the 
historian ,le ,duc1 in the year #afgb   
startled ,constantinople with the       
announcement that the ,virgin ,mary had 
revealed to her an unfailing  preventive
 against the smallpox4    ,her specific 
was inoculation with the genuine        
smallpox virus4 ,but  even with her the 
idea was not an original one1 because   
the  principle of isopathy 7curing a    
disease with its own disease  products7 
was explicitly taught a hundred years   
before that by  ,paracelsus1 the great  

genius of the ,renaissance of learning  
of the  ,middle ,ages4 ,but even he was 
only voicing the secret teachings of    
ancient folklore1 sympathy healing and  
magic dating back to the  ,druids and   
,seers of ancient ,britain and ,germany4
    ,the ,circassian seeress cut a cross
 in the flesh of people and  inoculated 
this wound with the smallpox virus4     
,together with this  she prescribed     
prayer1 abstinence from meat and fasting
 for forty  days4    ,as at that time   
smallpox was a terrible and widespread  
scourge1 the  practice of inoculation   
was carried all over ,europe4 ,at first 
the  operation was performed by women   
and laymen2 but when vaccination  became
 popular and people were willing to pay 
for it1 the doctors  began to           
incorporate it into their regular       
practice4    ,popular superstitions run 
a very similar course to epidemics4     
,they  have a period of inception1 of   
virulence and of abatement4 ,as germs   
and bacteria become inactive and die a  

natural death in their own  poisonous   
excreta1 so popular superstitions die as
 a natural result  of their own         
falsities and exaggerations4    ,it soon
 became evident that inoculation with   
the virus did not  prevent smallpox1    
but1 on the contrary1 frequently caused 
it2 and  therefore the practice         
gradually fell into disuse1 only to be  
revived by ,jenner about one hundred    
years later in a modified form4  ,he    
substituted cowpox virus for smallpox   
virus4    ,modern allopathy1 in applying
 the isopathic principle1 gives large   
and poisonous doses of virus1 lymph1    
serums and antitoxins1 while            
homeopathy1 as did ancient mysticism1   
applies the isopathic remedies  in      
highly diluted and triturated doses     
only4    ,from ,england vaccination     
gradually spread over the civilized     
world  and during the nineteenth century
 the smallpox disease 7variola7         
constantly diminished in virulence and  
frequency until today it has  become of 

comparatively rare occurrence4          
,therefore vaccination has exterminated 
smallpox1 say the disciples  of ,jenner4
    ,is that really so8 ,is vaccination 
actually a preventive of smallpox8      
,this seems very doubtful when the      
advocates of vaccination  themselves do 
not believe it4 ,what1 ,i hear them say1
 we do not  believe in our own theory8  
,evidently you do not1 my friends4 ,if  
you  believe that vaccination protects  
you against smallpox1 why are you       
afraid of catching it from those who are
 not vaccinated8 ,if you are  thoroughly
 protected1 as you claim to be1 how can 
you catch the  disease from those who   
are not protected8 ,why do you not allow
 the  other fellow to have his fill of  
smallpox and then enjoy a good  laugh on
 him8 ,the fact of the matter is you    
know full well that you  are not safe1  
that you can catch the disease just as  
readily as the  unprotected4    ,german 
statistics are more reliable than those 
of any other country4  ,in the years of 

#ahgj-ga smallpox was rampant in the    
,fatherland4 ,over  #a1jjj1jjj persons  
had the disease1 and #abj1jjj died4     
,ninety-six  percent of these had been  
vaccinated and only four percent had not
  been protected4 ,most of the victims  
were vaccinated1 once at least1  shortly
 before they took the disease4    ,in   
#ahhh ,bismarck sent an address to the  
governments of all the  ,german states  
in which it was admitted that numerous  
eczematous  diseases1 even those of an  
epidemic nature1 were directly          
attributable to vaccination and that the
 origin and cure of smallpox  were still
 unsolved problems4    ,in this message 
to the various legislatures the great   
statesman  said3 ,the hopes placed in   
the efficacy of the cowpox virus as a   
preventive of smallpox have proved      
entirely deceptive4    ,realizing this  
to be a fact1 most of the ,german       
governments have  modified or entirely  
relinquished their compulsory           
vaccination laws4    ,but1 our opponents

 insist1 you cannot deny that smallpox  
has  greatly diminished since the almost
 universal adoption of  vaccination4    
,certainly the disease has diminished4  
,but so have diminished and1 in  fact1  
nearly disappeared the plague1 the      
,black ,death1 cholera1 the  bubonic    
plague1 yellow fever and numerous other 
epidemic pests which  only recently     
decimated entire nations4    ,not one of
 these epidemics was treated by         
vaccination4 ,why1 then1  did they abate
 and practically disappear8    ,not     
vaccination1 but the more universal     
adoption of soap1 bathtubs1  all kinds  
of sanitary measures1 such as plumbing1 
drainage1  ventilation and more hygienic
 modes of living generally have subdued 
smallpox as well as all other plagues4  
,many of us remember how the yellow     
fever raged in ,havanna during the      
,spanish occupancy4 ,within two months  
after the energetic ,yankees  took      
possession and gave the filthy city a   
good scouring1 yellow  fever had        

entirely disappeared--without any yellow
 fever  vaccination4    ,the question is
 now in order why1 of all the dreaded   
plagues of the  past1 smallpox alone    
survives to this day4    ,the answer is3
 on account of vaccination4 ,if         
scrofulous and  syphilitic poisons were 
not artificially kept alive in human    
blood  by vaccination1 smallpox would by
 this time be as rare as cholera  and   
yellow fever4    ,thanks to the         
oft-repeated compulsory vaccination of  
every citizen1  young and old1 we as a  
nation have become saturated with the   
smallpox virus4 ,is it any wonder that  
every once in a while this  latent taint
 breaks out in acute epidemics8         
,undoubtedly1 the almost universal      
systematic contamination and            
degeneration of vital fluids and        
tissues1 not alone with vaccine  virus1 
but also with many other filthy serums1 
antitoxins and drug  poisons1 account in
 a large measure for the steady increase
 of  tuberculosis1 cancer1 insanity and 

a multitude of other chronic            
destructive diseases unknown among      
primitive people that have not  come in 
contact with the blessings 787 of       
vaccination4    ,by weakening the       
system's reactionary powers against one 
disease1  its reactionary powers against
 all diseases are weakened4 ,in other   
words1 creating in the body a form of   
chronic smallpox by means of            
vaccination favors the development of   
all kinds of chronic diseases4    ,quit 
sowing the seed1 gentlemen1 and you will
 cease reaping the  harvest4 ,by the    
mercurial suppression of syphilis and by
 means of  vaccination you are          
perpetuating smallpox4    ,what has     
syphilis to do with smallpox8 ,they are 
very closely  related1 and similar in   
appearance1 symtomatology and in their  
effects upon the organism4    ,a ,german
 physician1 ,dr4 ,cruwell1 who studied  
the subject thoroughly1  says3 ,every   
vaccination with so-called cowpox virus 
means  syphilitic infection4 ,cowpox is 

not a disease peculiar to cattle2 it  is
 always due to syphilitic or smallpox   
infection from the diseased  hands of   
human beings4 ,cowpox pustules have been
 found only on the  udders of milk cows 
which came in contact with human hands4 
,cattle  roaming in pasture and prairie 
have never been affected by cowpox1  nor
 have domesticated steers and oxen4 ,if 
this disease were a  disorder peculiar  
to cattle1 both sexes would be equally  
affected4  ,jenner's cowpox was caused  
by the diseased hands of the syphilitic 
milkmaid1 ,sarah ,nehnes4               
,vaccination of healthy children and    
adults is often followed by a  multitude
 of symptoms which cannot be            
distinguished from syphilis1  viz41     
characteristic ulcers and eczematous    
eruptions1 swellings of  the axillary   
and other lymphatic glands1 atrophy of  
the mammary  glands in the breasts of   
women and of girls above the age of     
puberty1 etc4    ,this explains the     
constantly growing demand for bust foods

 and  bust developers4 ,a perfectly     
developed bust has become so rare  that 
many hundreds of beauty doctors and of  
business concerns that  make a specialty
 of developing the flat-bosomed realize 
thousands of  dollars annually4 ,one    
firm in this city1 and a small concern  
at  that1 has made from #b1ejj to #e1jjj
 a year and has over ten  thousand names
 on its constantly increasing list of   
patrons4    ,it is reasonable to assume 
that almost without exception these ten 
thousand women had been vaccinated from 
one to three times before  the age of   
puberty4 ,when this is realized1 and the
 fact that  vaccination dries up the    
mammary glands is taken into account1 is
 it  not time to pause and consider8    
,the figures of this one small concern  
represent the report of only  one out of
 several hundred such firms doing       
business in all parts of  the country4  
,some years ago1 a disease similar to   
smallpox broke out among the  sheep in  
certain parts of ,scotland4 ,as a       

preventive1 the sheep were  vaccinated4 
,in the course of a few years it was    
noticed that a great  many ewes were    
unable to nourish their lambs4 ,with the
  discontinuance of vaccination this    
phenomenon disappeared4    ,does this   
help to explain why nowadays over fifty 
percent of human  mothers are incapable 
of nursing their babies8    ,looking    
,forward    ,at present the trend of    
allopathic medical science is           
undoubtedly  toward the serum1 antitoxin
 and vaccine treatment4 ,practically all
  medical research tends that way4      
,every few days we see in the daily     
papers reports of new serums and        
antitoxins which are claimed to  cure or
 create immunity to certain diseases4   
,suppose the research and practice of   
medical science continue along  these   
lines and are generally accepted or1 as 
the medical  associations would have it1
 forced upon the public by law4 ,what   
would be the result8 ,before a child    
reached the years of  adolescence1 it   

would have had injected into its blood  
the vaccines1  serums1 and antitoxins of
 smallpox1 hydrophobia1 tetanus         
7lockjaw71  cerebro-spinal meningitis1  
typhoid fever1 diphtheria1 pneumonia1   
scarlet fever1 etc4    ,if allopathy    
were to have its way1 the blood of the  
adult would be a  mixture of dozens of  
filthy bacterial extracts1 disease      
taints and  destructive drug poisons4   
,the tonsils and adenoids1 the appendix 
vermiformis and probably a few other    
parts of the human anatomy  would be    
extirpated in early youth under         
compulsion of the health  departments4  
,what is more rational and sensible3 the
 endeavor to produce immunity  to       
disease by making the human body the    
breeding ground for all  sorts of       
antibacteria and antipoisons1 or to     
create natural immunity  by building up 
the blood on a normal basis1 purifying  
the body of  morbid matter and poisons1 
correcting mechanical lesions and by    
cultivating the right mental attitude8  

,which one of these methods is  more    
likely to be disease-building1 which    
health-building8    ,just imagine what  
human blood will be like in coming      
generations if  this artificial         
contamination with all sorts of disease 
taints and  drug poisons is to be forced
 upon the people6        ,chapter       
,,xviii      ,surgery      ,the         
discoverers of anesthetics are classed  
among the greatest  benefactors of      
humanity1 because it is believed that   
ether1  chloroform1 cocaine and similar 
nerve-paralyzing agents have greatly    
lessened the sum of human suffering4 ,i 
doubt1 however1 that this is  true4     
,anesthetics have made surgery          
technically easy and have done away     
with the pain caused directly by the    
incisions2 but on the other  hand1 these
 marvelous effects of pain-killing drugs
 have encouraged  indiscriminate and    
unnecessary operations to such an extent
 that at  least nine-tenths of all the  
surgical operations performed today are 

uncalled for4 ,in most instances these  
ill-advised mutilations are  followed by
 lifelong weakness and suffering1 which 
far outweigh the  temporary pains       
formerly endured when unavoidable       
operations were  performed without the  
use of anesthesia4    ,we do not wish to
 be understood as condemning            
unqualifiedly any and  all surgical     
interventions in the treatment of human 
ailments4 ,an  operation may            
occasionally be absolutely necessary as 
a means of  saving life4 ,surgery is    
also indicated in cases of injury1 such 
as  wounds or fractured bones1 in       
certain obstetrical complications and   
in other affections of a purely         
mechanical nature4    ,in all such cases
 anesthetics prevent much suffering     
which cannot be  avoided in any other   
way4 ,but anyone who has had an         
opportunity to  watch the prolonged     
misery of the victims of un-called-for  
operations will not doubt that          
anesthesia has been a two-edged sword   

which has inflicted many more wounds    
than it has healed4    ,many physicians 
have recognized more or less distinctly 
the  uselessness and harmfulness of ,old
 ,school medical treatment4             
,dissatisfied and disgusted with        
old-fashioned drugging1 they turn to    
surgery1 convinced that in it they      
possess an exact scientific  method of  
curing ailments4 ,they seem to think    
that the surest way to  cure a diseased 
organ is to remove it with the          
knife--fine reasoning  for school boys1 
but not worthy of men of science4    ,i1
 for my part1 cannot understand how an  
organ can be cured after it  has been   
extirpated and1 preserved in alcohol1   
adorns the specimen  cabinet of the     
surgeon4    ,destruction or             
,cure--,which ,is ,better8    ,but1 the 
surgeon says1 we do not remove organs   
from the body  unless they have become  
useless4    ,however1 this claim is not 
borne out by actual facts4 ,during the  
past ten years thousands of patients    

have come under our  treatment1 both in 
the sanitarium and in the downtown      
offices1 whose  family physicians had   
declared that in order to save their    
lives  they must submit to the knife    
without delay4 ,with very few           
exceptions these people were cured by us
 without using a poisonous  drug1 an    
antiseptic or a knife4    ,several women
 who1 years ago1 were confronted with   
removal of the  ovaries1 are today the  
joyful mothers of children4 ,many of our
  former patients1 who were treated by  
,old ,school physicians for  acute or   
chronic appendicitis and were strongly  
urged to have the  offending organ      
removed1 are today alive and well and   
still in  possession of their vermiform 
appendices4 ,other patients were        
threatened with operations for kidney1  
gall and bladder stones2  fibroid and   
other tumors2 floating kidneys2 stomach 
troubles2  intestinal and uterine       
disorders1 not to mention the multitude 
of  children whose tonsils and adenoids 

were to have been removed4 ,all  of     
these onetime surgical cases have       
escaped the knife and are doing  very   
well indeed with their bodies intact and
 in possession of the  full quota of    
organs given them by ,nature4    ,is it 
not better to cure a diseased organ than
 to remove it8 ,nature  ,cure proves    
every day that the better way is at the 
same time the  easiest way4             
,thousands of men and women operated    
upon for some local ailment  which could
 have been cured easily by natural      
methods of treatment  are condemned by  
these inexcusable mutilations to        
lifelong  suffering4 ,many1 if not      
actually suffering pain1 have been      
unnecessarily unsexed and in other ways 
incapacitated for the normal  functions 
and natural enjoyments of life4         
,cases of this kind are the most        
pitiable of all that come under our     
observation4 ,when we learn that a major
 operation has been performed  upon a   
consultant1 our barometer of hope drops 

considerably4 ,we know  from much       
experience that the mutilation of the   
human organism has a  tendency to lessen
 the chances of recovery2 such patients 
are nearly  always lacking in           
recuperative power4    ,a body deprived 
of important parts or organs is forever 
unbalanced4  ,it is like a watch with a 
spring or a wheel taken out2 it may run1
  but never quite right2 it is          
hypersensitive and easily thrown out of 
balance by any adverse influence4       
,the ,human ,body ,is a ,unit    ,we are
 realizing more and more that the human 
body is a homogeneous  and harmonious   
whole1 and that we cannot injure one    
part of it  without damaging other parts
 and often the entire organism4 ,cutting
  in the vital organs means cutting in  
the brain4 ,it affects the  functions of
 the nervous system most profoundly4    
,a physician in ,vienna has written a   
very interesting book in which  he shows
 that the inner membranes of the nose   
are in close  relationship and sympathy 

with distant parts and organs of the    
body4  ,he located in the nose one small
 area which corresponds to the  lungs4  
,by irritating this area with an        
electric needle he could  provoke       
asthmatic attacks in patients subject to
 this disease4 ,by  anesthetizing the   
same area he could stop immediately     
severe attacks  of asthma and of        
coughing4 ,another area in the nasal    
cavity  corresponds to the genital      
organs4 ,the doctor proved that by      
electric irritation applied to this area
 abortions could be  produced1 and that 
by anesthesia of the same area in the   
nose1  uterine hemorrhages could be     
stopped4    ,these and many other facts 
of experience throw a wonderful light   
upon the unity of the human organism4   
,the body resembles a watch4  ,you      
cannot injure one part of it without    
affecting its entire  mechanism4    ,the
 evil aftereffects of surgical          
operations do not always manifest  at   
once4 ,on the contrary1 the surgical    

treatment is frequently  followed by a  
period of seeming improvement4 ,the     
troublesome local  symptoms have been   
removed1 and aftereffects of the        
mutilation have  not had time to assert 
themselves4 ,but sooner or later the old
  symptoms return in aggravated form1 or
 a new set of complications  arises4    
,the patient is made to believe that the
 first operation was  a perfect success 
and that this latest crop of            
difficulties has  nothing to do with the
 former1 but is something entirely new4 
,at  other times he is assured that the 
first operation did not go deep  enough1
 that it failed to reach the seat of the
 trouble and must be  done over again4  
,and so the work of mutilation goes     
merrily on4 ,the disease poisons  in the
 body set up one center of inflammation 
after another4 ,these  centers the      
surgeon promptly removes2 but the real  
disease1 the  venereal1 psoriatic or    
scrofulous taint1 the uric or oxalic    
acid1  the poisonous alkaloids and      

ptomaines affecting every cell and every
  drop of blood in the body1 these elude
 the surgeon's knife and  create new    
ulcers1 abscesses1 inflammations1       
stones1 cancers1 etc41  as fast as the  
old ones are extirpated4    ,those who  
have studied the previous chapters      
carefully will readily  comprehend these
 facts4 ,they will know that acute and  
subacute  conditions represent ,nature's
 cleansing and healing efforts1 and     
that local suppression by drug or knife 
only serves to turn ,nature's           
corrective and purifying activities into
 chronic disease4    ,the highest art of
 the true physician is to preserve and  
to restore1  not to mutilate or destroy4
        ,chapter ,,xix      ,chronic    
,diseases      ,the ,old ,school of     
medical science defines acute diseases  
as those  which run a brief and more or 
less violent course and chronic         
diseases as those which run a protracted
 course and have a tendency  to recur4  
,nature ,cure attaches a broader and    

more significant meaning to these       
terms4 ,this will have become apparent  
from our discussion of the  causes1 the 
progressive development and the purpose 
of acute  diseases in the preceding     
pages4    ,from the ,nature ,cure       
viewpoint1 the chronic condition is the 
latent1  constitutional disease         
encumbrance1 whereas acute disease      
represents  ,nature's efforts to rectify
 abnormal conditions1 to overcome and   
eliminate hereditary or acquired morbid 
taints and systemic poisons  and to     
reestablish normal structure and        
functions4    ,to use an illustration3  
,in a case of permanent or recurrent    
itchy  psoriasis1 the ,old ,school      
physician would look upon the itchy skin
  eruption as the chronic disease1 while
 we should see in the external  eczema  
an attempt of the healing forces of     
,nature to remove from the  system the  
inner1 latent hereditary or acquired    
psora1 which  constitutes the real      
chronic disease4    ,it stands to reason

 that the exterior eruptions should not 
be  suppressed by any means whatever1   
but that the only true and really       
effective method of treatment consists  
in eliminating from the  organism the   
inner1 latent psoric taint4 ,after this 
is accomplished1  the external skin     
disease will disappear of its own       
accord4    ,as another illustration of  
the radical difference in our respective
  points of view1 let us take           
hemorrhoids 7piles74 ,the regular       
physician considers the local           
hemorrhoidal enlargements in  themselves
 the chronic disease1 while the ,nature 
,cure practitioner  looks upon          
hemorrhoids as ,nature's effort to rid  
the system of  certain morbid           
encumbrances and poisons which have     
accumulated as a  result of sluggish    
circulation1 chronic constipation1      
defective  elimination through kidneys1 
lungs1 and skin and from many other     
causes4    ,these constitutional        
abnormalities1 which are the real       

chronic  disease1 have to be treated and
 corrected4 ,after this has been done1  
the hemorrhoidal enlargements and       
discharges will take care of            
themselves4    ,it is1 therefore1       
absolutely irrational1 and frequently   
followed by  the most serious           
consequences1 to surgically remove the  
piles or to  suppress the hemorrhoidal  
discharges and thereby to drive these   
concentrated poison extracts back into  
the system4    ,in a number of cases we 
have traced paralysis1 insanity1        
tuberculosis1 cancer and other forms of 
chronic destructive diseases  to the    
forcible suppression of hemorrhoids4    
,chronic disease1 from the viewpoint of 
,nature ,cure philosophy1 means  that   
the organism has become permeated with  
morbid matter and  poisons to such an   
extent that it is no longer able to     
throw off  these encumbrances by a      
vigorous1 acute eliminative effort4 ,the
  chronic condition1 therefore1         
represents the slow1 cold type of       

disease1 characterized by feeble1       
ineffectual efforts to eliminate  the   
latent morbid taints and impediments    
from the system4 ,these  efforts may    
take the form of open sores1 skin       
eruptions1 catarrhal  discharges1       
chronic diarrhea1 etc4    ,if acute     
diseases are treated in harmony with    
,nature's laws1 they  will leave the    
body in a purer1 healthier condition4   
,but if the  treatment is wrong1 if     
under the ,old ,school methods fever and
  inflammation 7,nature's methods of    
elimination7 are checked and  suppressed
 with poisonous drugs1 serums and       
antitoxins or if1  instead of purifying 
and invigorating cells and tissues1 the 
affected parts and organs are removed   
with the surgeon's knife1  ,nature is   
not allowed to get rid of the disease   
matter1 and the  poisonous taints and   
morbid encumbrances remain in the       
organism4    ,in this way originate the 
worst forms of chronic diseases which   
now  afflict civilized races4    ,the   

truth of this assertion is proved by the
 fact that chronic  diseases we know are
 rare among the primitive peoples of the
 earth1  such as the early indiginous   
people of ,africa and ,australia or the 
,eskimos of the arctic regions4 ,they   
are not found among people who  do not  
use drugs4 ,all the different forms of  
venereal disease1  chronic rheumatism1  
chronic indigestion1 etc41 are unknown  
in those  countries whose inhabitants   
live in harmony with ,nature4 ,the      
reason  is that these people have not   
learned to suppress ,nature's acute     
purifying and healing efforts by        
poisonous drugs and surgical            
operations4    ,the ,cell    ,let us now
 study the actual condition of the      
cells1 tissues and  organs of the body  
in chronic disease4    ,we know that the
 human body is made up of billions of   
minute cells  of living protoplasm4     
,though these cells are so small that   
they have  to be magnified under the    
microscope several hundred times before 

we  can see them1 they are independent  
living beings which are born1  grow1    
eat1 drink1 throw off waste matter1     
multiply1 decline and die  just like the
 large conglomerate cell which we call  
,man4    ,each one of these little cells
 has its own business to attend to1     
whether it be assimilation1 elimination1
 nervous activities and  functions1 etc4
    ,if these little beings are well    
individually1 the man is well4 ,if  they
 are starved or ailing1 the entire man  
is similarly affected4  ,the whole      
depends upon the parts4 ,in the human   
body as well as in a  nation or a city1 
the welfare of the entire community     
depends upon  the well-being of its     
individual members4    ,if governing    
bodies would realize and apply these    
truths1 and pay  more attention to      
providing wholesome surroundings and    
proper  conditions of living for their  
subjects1 to an adequate supply of  pure
 food and a normal combination of work  
and rest1 instead of  concentrating     

their best efforts upon restrictive and 
punitive  measures 7allopathic          
treatment71 there would be no social    
problems  to solve4    ,it is our duty  
to provide the most favorable conditions
 of living  for the little cells that   
make up the individual human organism4  
,if  we do that1 there will be no       
occasion for disease4 ,natural immunity 
will be the result4    ,herein lies the 
vital difference between the attitude of
 ,nature ,cure  and that of the         
allopathic school toward disease4 ,the  
latter spends  all its efforts in       
fighting the disease symptoms1 while the
 former  confines itself to creating    
health conditions in the habits and     
surroundings of the patient1 from the   
standpoint that the disease  symptoms   
will then take care of themselves1 that 
they will disappear  on account of      
nonsupport4 ,it is the application of   
the injunction  ,resist not ,evil to the
 treatment of physical disease4         
,under the influence of wrong habits of 

living and the suppressive  treatment of
 diseases1 all forms of waste and morbid
 matter 7the  feces of the cells71      
together with food1 drink and drug      
poisons  accumulate in the system1      
affect the cells and obstruct the tiny  
spaces 7interstices7 between them4      
,these morbid encumbrances impinge  upon
 and clog the blood vessels1 the nerve  
channels and the other  tissues of the  
body4 ,this is bound to interfere with  
the normal  functions of the organism1  
and in time lead to deterioration and   
organic destruction4    ,in this        
connection we wish to call attention to 
a difference in  viewpoint between the  
school of osteopathy and the ,nature    
,cure  school4 ,osteopaths and          
chiropractors attribute disease almost  
entirely to impingement 7abnormal       
pressure7 upon nerves and blood  vessels
 due to dislocations and subluxations of
 the vertebrae of the  spine and of     
other bony structures4 ,they do not take
 into  consideration the impingement    

upon and obstruction of nerve channels  
and blood vessels all through the system
 caused by local or general             
encumbrances of the organism with waste 
matter1 morbid products1 and  poisons   
that have accumulated in cells and      
tissues4    ,the ,life of the ,cell     
,every individual cell must be supplied 
with food and with oxygen4  ,these it   
receives from the red arterial blood4   
,the cells must also  be provided with  
an outlet for their waste products4     
,this is  furnished by the venous       
circulation1 which represents the       
drainage  system of the body4 ,if this  
drainage is defective1 the effect upon  
the organism is similar to the effect   
produced upon a house when the          
excretions and discharges of its        
inhabitants are allowed to remain  in   
it4    ,furthermore1 every cell must be 
in unobstructed communication with  the 
nerve currents of the organism4 ,most   
important of all1 it must  be in touch  
with the sympathetic nervous system     

through which it  receives the ,life    
,force which vivifies and controls all  
involuntary  functions of the cells and 
organs in the human body4    ,each      
individual cell must be supplied with   
nerve fibers which convey  its          
sensations and needs to headquarters1   
the nerve centers in brain  and spinal  
cord4 ,also1 each cell must be connected
 with other nerve  filaments which carry
 impulses from the cranial1 spinal and  
sympathetic centers to the cell1        
governing and directing its  activities4
    ,for instance1 if the cell be       
hungry1 thirsty1 cold or in pain1 it    
telegraphs these sensations to          
headquarters in the brain or spinal     
cord and from there directions necessary
 to comply with the needs of  the cell  
are sent forth in the form of nerve     
impulses to the centers  controlling the
 circulation1 the food and heat supply1 
the means of  protection1 etc4    ,this 
circuit of communication from the cell  
over the afferent nerves  to the nerve  

centers in the brain or spinal cord1 and
 from these  centers over the efferent  
nerves back to the cell or to other     
cells  is called the reflex arc4    ,let
 us use an illustration3 ,suppose the   
fingers come in close  contact with a   
hot iron4 ,the cells in the finger tips 
experience a  sensation of burning pain4
 ,at once this sensation is telegraphed 
over the afferent nerves to the nerve   
centers in the brain or spinal  cord4   
,in response to this call of distress   
the command comes back  over the        
efferent nerve filaments3 ,withdraw the 
fingers6 ,at the  same time the impulse 
to withdraw the fingers is sent over the
 motor  nerves to the muscles and       
ligaments which control the movements of
  the hand4    ,if the means of         
communication between the different     
parts of the  organism are obstructed or
 cut off entirely1 the individual cell  
is  bound to deteriorate and to die1    
just like a person lost in a barren     
wilderness and cut off from his         

fellowmen must perish4    ,in warfare it
 is a well-known fact that if one of the
 contending  armies succeeds in cutting 
off the telegraphic communication of the
  other army with its headquarters1 the 
activities of that other army  are      
seriously handicapped4 ,so the waste    
materials in the system1 the  disease   
taints1 narcotic and alcoholic poisons1 
etc41 obstruct the  nerve passages1 and 
thus interfere with the functions of the
 cell by  cutting off its means of      
communication4    ,what has been said   
will serve to elucidate and emphasize   
the  necessity of perfect cleanliness1  
inside as well as outside of the  body4 
,it justifies the dictum of ,kuhne1 the 
apostle of ,nature ,cure3  ,cleanliness 
is ,health4 ,anything that in any way   
interferes with or  obstructs the       
circulation of vital fluids and nerve   
currents in the  system is bound to     
create the abnormal conditions and      
functions  which constitute disease4    
,when the morbid encumbrances and       

obstructions in the organism have       
reached the point where they seriously  
interfere with the  nourishment1        
drainage and nerve supply of the cells1 
the latter  cannot perform their        
activities properly1 nor can they rid   
themselves of the impediment4 ,they may 
be compared to people who are  forced to
 live in bad1 unwholesome surroundings  
and who cannot do  their best work under
 these unfavorable conditions from which
 they  cannot escape4    ,in this way   
originates chronic disease1 which means 
that the cells  have become incapable of
 arousing themselves to acute           
eliminative  effort in the form of      
inflammatory febrile reactions4    ,in  
my lectures ,i sometimes liken the cell 
thus encumbered with  morbid matter and 
poisons to a man buried in a mine under 
the debris  of a cave in such a manner  
that it is impossible for him to free   
himself of the earth and timbers which  
are pinning him down4 ,in such  a       
predicament the man is unable to help   

himself4 ,his fellow workers  or his    
friends must come to his aid and remove 
the obstructing  masses until he can    
assist them and free himself4    ,this  
is a good illustration of the condition 
of the cells of the  body in chronic    
disease4 ,they also have become unable  
to help  themselves and need assistance 
until they can once more arouse         
themselves to self-help by means of an  
acute eliminative effort4    ,what can  
we do to help them8 ,we must endeavor in
 the first place to  furnish the cells  
with the right nourishment4 ,we must    
abstain from  everything that may be    
injurious to the body in food and drink1
 so  as to relieve the cells of all     
unnecessary work4    ,whatever one may  
think of vegetarianism as a continuous  
mode of  living1 a little consideration 
will make it plain that a rational      
vegetarian diet is the sine qua non in  
the cure of chronic  diseases4 ,it      
builds up the blood on a normal basis1  
excludes all  food and drink poisons and

 thereby gives the organism an          
opportunity  to throw off the old       
accumulations of waste and morbid       
materials4    ,in chronic disease1 every
 drop of blood and every cell of the    
organism is affected4 ,in order to      
produce a cure1 the old tissues  must be
 broken down and removed and new tissues
 built up4 ,the more  thorough the      
change in diet1 the greater and more    
rapid will be the  changes for the      
better in cells and tissues1 especially 
if only pure  and eliminating foods are 
used4    ,for these reasons it is       
advisable to omit most red-blooded meat 
while under the natural treatment4 ,all 
animal flesh contains the  morbid       
secretions and other waste products of  
the animal organism1  and this means    
additional work for the cells already   
overburdened  with systemic poisons4    
,then we must work for elimination4     
,cold water applied to the surface  of  
the body is the most powerful stimulant 
to the circulation4 ,it  actually pumps 

and pushes the blood through the system4
 ,one feels  the blood rushing through  
the arteries and veins with greater     
force4    ,the cold-water treatment     
makes the skin more alive and active1   
stirs  up and accelerates the           
circulation throughout the system and   
thus  promotes the elimination of       
systemic poisons through the skin4      
,this stimulating effect of cold water  
upon the organism has been  proved by   
counting the number of red blood        
corpuscles in a drop of  blood before   
and after the application of the cold   
blitzguss4 ,they  were found to have    
doubled in number4 ,that does not mean  
that in an  instant again as many red   
blood corpuscles had come into          
existence1  but it does mean that before
 the cold guss one-half of them were    
dozing lazily in the corners4 ,the cold 
water stirred them up1 forced  them into
 the circulation1 made them travel and  
attend to business4    ,another powerful
 means to promote elimination is        

thorough1  systematic massage4 ,the     
kneading1 rolling1 twisting and clapping
  actually squeezes the stagnant morbid 
matter and the waste products  out of   
the tissues into the circulation1 to be 
carried off through  the venous drainage
 and allows the red blood with its      
nourishment  and fresh supply of oxygen 
to flood the cells and organs4          
,massage is also very effective as a    
means of regulating the blood  supply in
 the system4 ,in every chronic disease  
there is obstruction  or congestion in  
some part of the organism1 causing high 
blood  pressure in the interior of the  
body and insufficient blood supply  to  
the external parts1 especially the      
extremities4 ,massage  distributes the  
blood quickly and evenly4    ,of great  
importance is osteopathy4 ,all          
dislocations1 luxations and             
subluxations of bones and ligaments     
should be corrected by expert           
manipulation4 ,as a matter of fact1     
hardly a person can be found  today     

whose spine is not abnormal in one way  
or another1 just as  there is hardly a  
single normal human eye as far as       
iridology  markings are concerned4      
,manipulative treatment adjusts the     
lesions of the spine and other  bony    
structures1 thus removing abnormal      
pressure upon the nerves and  blood     
vessels and establishing a free and     
abundant flow of nerve and  blood       
currents4    ,air and light baths1 by   
stimulating the skin in a natural manner
 to  increased activity1 also contribute
 to the attainment of the various  good 
results just described4    ,next comes  
physical exercise4 ,corrective and      
curative movements  combined with deep  
breathing promote the combustion        
7oxidation7 of  morbid materials and in 
this way facilitate their elimination   
from  the system4    ,life itself is    
dependent upon breathing4 ,the ,life    
,force enters the  body with every      
breath we draw4 ,show me a man with     
well-developed1  full-breathing lungs1  

and ,i will show you a man with good    
vitality4    ,last but not least among  
the natural methods of treating the cell
 in  chronic disease we mention the     
right mental and emotional attitude4    
,fear1 anxiety and all kindred emotions 
congeal the nerve matter and  thereby   
shut off the supply of nerve force4 ,the
 cells and tissues  starve and freeze4  
,on the other hand1 the emotions of     
hope1  confidence and cheerfulness relax
 and open blood vessels and nerve       
channels and allow the free and         
unobstructed inflow and circulation  of 
vital energy4    ,the different methods 
of natural treatment and their practical
  application in chronic diseases will  
be discussed in detail in  subsequent   
chapters4    ,when through natural      
methods of living and of treatment the  
morbid  encumbrances have been removed  
sufficiently to provide and maintain    
normal blood supply1 better venous      
drainage and the unobstructed  flow of  
the nerve currents1 when lesions of the 

bony structures have  been corrected by 
skilful adjustment1 and when1 through   
right mental  attitude1 a free and      
abundant inflow of ,life ,force has been
  established1 then the cells and       
tissues of the body become once  again  
able to arouse themselves to an acute   
eliminative effort1 and  the organism is
 ready for a healing crisis4            
,chapter ,,xx      ,crises      ,crisis 
in the ordinary sense of the word means 
change1 either for  better or for worse4
 ,in its relation to medicine1 the term 
crisis  has been defined as a decisive  
change in the disease1 resulting  either
 in recovery or in death4    ,we of the 
,nature ,cure school distinguish between
 healing crises and  disease crises1    
according to the character and the      
tendency of the  acute reaction4 ,if an 
acute disease is brought about through  
the  accumulation of morbid matter or   
the invasion of disease germs to  such  
an extent that the health or the life of
 the organism is  endangered1 in other  

words1 if the disease conditions are    
forcing  the crises1 we speak of disease
 crises4    ,but if acute reactions take
 place in the system because conditions 
have become more normal1 because the    
healing forces have gained the          
ascendancy and forced the acute         
inflammatory processes1 we call them    
healing crises4    ,healing crises are  
simply different forms of elimination by
 means of  which ,nature endeavors to   
remove the latent1 chronic disease      
encumbrance from the system4 ,the most  
common forms of these acute             
purifications are colds1 catarrhal and  
hemorrhoidal discharges1  boils1 ulcers1
 abscesses1 open sores1 skin eruptions1 
diarrheas1  etc4    ,healing crises and 
disease crises may seem very much alike4
 ,patients  often tell me3 ,i have had  
this before4 ,i call it an ordinary boil
  7or cold1 or fever74    ,that may be  
true4 ,the former disease crisis and the
 present healing  crisis may be similar 
in their outward manifestations4 ,but   

they are  taking place under entirely   
different conditions4    ,when the      
organism is loaded to the danger point  
with morbid matter1  it may arouse      
itself in self-defense to an acute      
eliminative effort  in the shape of     
cold1 catarrh1 fever1 inflammation1 skin
 eruption1  etc4 ,in these instances1   
the disease conditions bring about the  
crisis and the organism is on the       
defensive4 ,these are disease  crises4  
,such unequal struggles between the     
healing forces and disease  conditions  
sometimes end favorably and sometimes   
unfavorably4    ,on the other hand1     
healing crises develop because the      
healing forces  are in the ascendancy   
and take the offensive4 ,they are       
brought about  through the natural      
methods of living and of treatment and  
always  result in improved conditions4  
,a simple allegory may assist me in     
explaining the difference between  a    
healing crisis and a disease crisis3    
,for years a prizefighter holds the     

championship because he keeps  himself  
in perfect physical condition and before
 every contest  spends many weeks in    
careful training4 ,when he faces his    
opponent in  the ring1 he has eliminated
 from his organism as much waste matter 
and superfluous flesh and fat as        
possible by a strictly regulated  diet  
and a great deal of hard exercise4 ,as a
 consequence1 he comes  off victorious  
in every contest and easily maintains   
his  superiority4    ,these victories in
 his career1 like healing crises in the 
organism1  are the result of training   
and preparation4    ,the prizefighter in
 the one case and ,vital ,force in the  
other are on  the offensive from the    
beginning of the struggle and have the  
best  of the fight from start to finish4
    ,rendered overconfident by          
long-continued success1 our champion    
gradually permits himself to drift into 
a weakened physical  condition4 ,he     
omits his regular training and indulges 
in all kinds  of dissipation4    ,one   

day1 full of self-conceit and           
underestimating the strength of  his    
challenger1 he enters the ring without  
preparation and is  ingloriously        
defeated by a man who1 under different  
circumstances1  would not be a match for
 him4    ,so1 in the case of a patient  
in a disease crisis1 fatal termination  
may be due to the excessive accumulation
 of waste and morbid matter  in the     
system1 to lowered vitality and to lack 
of preparation4  ,victory or defeat in  
acute reactions as well as in the ring  
depends  on right living and preparatory
 training4    ,in the healing crisis1   
vitality is the stronger and gains the  
victory in the struggle2 in the disease 
crisis1 disease conditions  have gained 
the ascendancy and may bring about the  
defeat of the  healing forces4    ,under
 conditions favorable to human life1 a  
body of normal  structure1 healthy blood
 and tissues and good vitality cannot be
  affected by acute disease4 ,such an   
organism is practically immune to  all  

forms of inflammatory febrile reactions4
 ,these always indicate  that there is  
something wrong in the system which     
,nature is trying  to correct or get rid
 of4    ,healing ,crises    ,in ,chapter
 ,two ,catechism of ,nature ,cure1 we   
defined healing  crises as follows3 ,a  
healing crisis is an acute reaction1    
resulting  from the ascendancy of       
,nature's healing forces over disease   
conditions4 ,its tendency is toward     
recovery1 and it is1 therefore1  in     
conformity with ,nature's constructive  
principle4 ,the possibility  of         
producing healing crises and thereby    
curing chronic ailments  depends upon   
the following conditions3    ,the       
patient must possess sufficient vital   
energy and powers of  reaction to       
respond to the natural treatment and to 
a change of  habits4 ,the destruction   
and disorganization of vital fluids and 
organs must not have advanced too far4  
,some patients become frightened at the 
idea of crises4 ,they exclaim3  ,i came 

here to get well1 not to grow worse4    
,however1 there is no occasion for      
alarm4 ,healing crises occur in  mild   
form only because1 under the influence  
of natural living and  treatment1       
,nature has the best of the fight4 ,the 
healing forces of  the organism have    
gained the ascendancy over the disease  
conditions4    ,in fact1 ,nature never  
undertakes a healing crisis until the   
system  has been prepared for it1 until 
the organism is sufficiently  purified  
and strengthened to conduct the acute   
reaction to a  favorable termination4   
,furthermore1 it is well to remember    
that crises cannot be avoided1  because 
it is through fevers and inflammatory   
processes that ,nature  effects the     
cure--that she tears down the old to    
build up the new4    ,on the other hand1
 if patients are possessed of           
exceptionally good  vitality and if the 
organs of elimination are in good       
working order1  the purification and    
adjustment of the organism may          

occasionally  proceed gradually without 
the occurrence of marked acute reactions
  or crises4    ,healing ,crises1 ,when 
,properly ,conducted1    ,are ,never    
,fatal to ,life    ,when well assisted  
by the right1 natural methods of living 
and of  treatment1 healing crises are   
never dangerous or fatal to life4 ,the  
only danger lies in suppressing these   
acute reactions by drugs1  knife1 the   
ice bag or any means whatever4    ,if   
acute reactions are suppressed1 the     
constructive healing crisis  may be     
changed into a destructive disease      
crisis4 ,therefore we  earnestly warn   
our patients never to interfere in any  
way with a  healing crisis lest the     
chronic condition 7which resulted from  
the  suppression of the original        
disease7 become worse than before4      
,when ,nature1 with all the force       
inherent in the human organism1 has     
finally worked up to the point of a     
healing crisis1 another defeat  by a new
 suppression may be beyond her powers of

 endurance and  recuperation4 ,fatal    
collapse may then be the result4        
,therefore1 take heed6 ,if you are not  
willing to endure the healing  crises1  
do not undertake the treatment4 ,when   
you have conjured up  the hidden demons 
of disease1 you must have the courage to
 face and  subdue them4 ,nothing good in
 life comes to us except as we pay the  
price4 ,he who is too cowardly to       
conquer in a healing crisis may  perish 
in a disease crisis4    ,drugs ,versus  
,healing ,crises    ,our explanations of
 the natural laws of cure and of natural
  therapeutics are often greeted by ,old
 ,school physicians and  students with  
remarks like the following3    ,you     
speak as if you had the monopoly of     
eliminative treatment and  of the       
production of crises4 ,with our         
laxatives1 cathartics1  diuretics1      
diaphoretics and tonics1 we are doing   
the same thing4  ,what is more effectual
 for stimulating a sluggish liver and   
cleansing the intestinal tract than     

calomel followed by a dose of  salts8   
,what will produce more profuse         
perspiration than pilocarpin2  or what  
is a better stimulus to the kidneys than
 squills or buchu8  ,can we not by means
 of stimulants and depressants regulate 
heart  action to a nicety8    ,we       
accomplish all this in a clean1         
scientific manner1 without  resorting to
 unpleasant dieting and to barbarous    
applications of  douches1 packs and     
manual treatments4 ,isn't it more       
dignified and  professional to write a  
,latin prescription8 ,how much better   
the  impression on the laity than       
soaking and rubbing6    ,let us see if  
these statements are true1 if laxation1 
urination or  perspiration produced by  
poisonous drugs are identical in        
character  and in effect with the       
elimination produced by natural living  
and  natural methods of treatment       
through healing crises4    ,mercury1 in 
the form of calomel1 is one of the      
best-known  cholagogues an agent        

designed to increase the flow of bile   
and1  thereby1 stimulate lower bowel    
action1 ed44 ,it is the favorite        
laxative and cathartic of allopathy4    
,the prevailing idea is that  calomel   
acts on the liver and the intestines2   
but in reality these  organs act on the 
drug4    ,all laxatives and cathartics  
are poisons2 if it were not so1 they    
would not produce their peculiar1       
drastic effects4 ,because they are      
poisons1 ,nature tries to eliminate them
 from the system as quickly  and as     
thoroughly as possible4 ,in order to do 
this1 the excretory  glands and         
membranes of the liver and the digestive
 tract greatly  increase the amount of  
their secretions and thereby produce a  
forced  evacuation of the intestinal    
canal4    ,thus the system1 in the      
effort to eliminate the mercurial       
poison1  expels also the other contents 
of the intestines4 ,this may effect a   
temporary cleansing of the intestinal   
tract1 but it does not and  cannot      

cleanse the individual cells throughout 
the body of their  impurities4    ,the  
,lasting ,effects of ,artificial        
,purging    ,in accordance with the ,law
 of ,action and ,reaction1 action and   
reaction are equal and opposite2 the    
temporary irritation and                
overstimulation of the sensitive        
membranes of the digestive organs  are  
followed by corresponding weakness and  
exhaustion1 and if this  procedure be   
repeated and become habitual1 by gradual
 atrophy and  paralysis4 ,as atrophy    
progresses1 the dose of the purgative   
must be  increased in order to          
accomplish the desired result and this1 
in its  turn1 hastens the degenerative  
changes in the system4    ,such         
enforced1 artificial purging may flush  
the drains and sewers1  but does not    
cleanse the chambers of the house4 ,the 
cells in the  interior tissues remain   
encumbered with morbid matter4 ,a       
genuine and  truly effective            
housecleaning must start in the cells   

and must be  brought about through the  
initiative of the vital energies in the 
organism1 through healing crises1 and   
not through stimulation by  means of    
poisonous irritants4    ,when1 under a  
natural regimen of living and of        
treatment1 the system  has been         
sufficiently purified1 adjusted and     
vivified1 the cells  themselves begin   
the work of elimination4    ,this is    
what takes place3 ,the morbid matter and
 poisons thrown off  by the cells and   
tissues are carried by means of the     
venous  circulation to the organs of    
elimination1 the bowels1 kidneys1 lungs 
and skin1 and to the mucous membranes   
lining the interior tracts1  such as the
 nasal passages1 the throat and bronchi1
 the digestive  and genitourinary       
canals1 etc4    ,these organs of        
elimination become overcrowded with the 
rush of  morbid matter and the          
accompanying congestion and irritation  
cause  the acute inflammatory processes 
and feverish symptoms  characterizing   

the various forms of colds1 catarrhs1   
skin eruptions1  diarrheas1 boils and   
other acute forms of elimination1 which 
we call  healing crises4 ,in other      
words1 what the ,old ,school of medicine
  calls the disease1 we look upon as the
 ,cure4    ,acute elimination brought   
about in this manner is ,nature's method
 of  housecleaning4 ,it is a true       
healing crisis1 the result of           
purification and increased activity from
 within the cell1 produced  by natural  
means4    ,here interposes ,friend      
,allopath3 ,you claim that you bring    
about  your acute reactions by natural  
means only1 and that these are never    
injurious to the organism4 ,what        
difference does it make if the          
circulation is stimulated and           
elimination increased by a cold-water   
spray or by digitalis8 ,the cold-water  
stimulation produces a  reaction just as
 digitalis does1 and the one must       
therefore be as  injurious as the other4
    ,to this we reply3 ,the stimulating 

effect on heart and circulation         
produced by digitalis is the first      
action of a highly poisonous  drug2 the 
second lasting effect is weakening and  
paralyzing4 ,on the  other hand1 the    
first action of a cold-water spray is   
depressing2 it  sends the blood into the
 interior of the body and benumbs the   
surface4 ,the sensory nerves at once    
report this sensation of cold to        
headquarters in the brain1 and          
immediately the command is  telegraphed 
to the blood vessels in the interior of 
the body3 ',send  blood to the surface6'
 ,as a result1 the blood is carried to  
the  surface1 and the skin becomes warm 
and rosy with the glow of life4  ,in    
this case the stimulation is the second 
and lasting effect of the  water        
treatment1 from which there is no       
further reaction4    ,similarly1 the    
stimulation produced by exercise1       
massage1  manipulation or the exposure  
of the nude body to light and air is    
natural stimulation1 produced by        

harmless1 natural means4 ,it is         
entirely due to the fact that conditions
 in the system have been  made more     
normal1 as explained in other chapters4 
,drugs1 stimulants and tonics1 while    
they produce an artificial1  temporary  
stimulation1 do not change the          
underlying abnormal  conditions in the  
organism4 ,likewise1 the flushing of the
 colon with  water1 the use of laxative 
herb teas and decoctions or forced      
sweating by means of ,turkish or        
,russian baths1 though not as  dangerous
 as inorganic minerals and poisonous    
drugs1 cannot be  classed among the     
natural means of cure4 ,these agents1   
which by many  persons are looked upon  
as natural treatment1 irritate the      
organs of  elimination to forced1       
abnormal activity without at the same   
time  arousing the cells in the interior
 of the body to natural  elimination4   
,dr4 ,h4 ,lahmann1 one of the foremost  
scientists of the ,nature ,cure         
movement1 made a series of interesting  

experiments4 ,his chemists  gathered the
 natural perspiration of certain        
patients1 produced by  ordinary exercise
 in the sunshine4 ,these excretions of  
the skin were  evaporated and analyzed1 
and were found to contain poisons       
powerful  enough to kill rabbits4    ,if
 profuse sweating was produced in the   
same patients by the high  temperature  
of the hot-air box or the electric-light
 cabinet1 their  perspiration1 when     
evaporated and analyzed1 was found to   
contain  only small amounts of toxins4  
,thus ,dr4 ,lahmann proved that3        
,sweating and the elimination of disease
 matter are two different  processes4   
,artificially induced sweating does not 
eliminate disease  matter4 ,the organism
 cannot be forced by irritants and      
stimulants  and artificial means1 but   
eliminates morbid matter only in its own
  natural manner and when it is in      
proper condition to do so4    ,in a     
lesser degree1 this applies also to     
fasting4 ,under certain  conditions it  

becomes a necessity2 but it may easily  
be abused and  overdone4    ,do ,we     
,never ,fail8    ,certainly we fail1 but
 our failures are usually due to the    
fact that  sick people1 as a rule1 do   
not consider ,nature ,cure except as a  
last  resort4 ,the methods and          
requirements of ,nature ,cure appear at 
first  so unusual and exacting that     
people seek to evade them so long as    
they have the least faith in the        
miracle-working power of the poison     
bottle1 a metaphysical healer or the    
surgeon's knife4 ,when health1  wealth  
and hope are entirely exhausted1 then   
the chronic sufferer  grasps at ,nature 
,cure as a drowning man clutches at a   
straw4 ,but  even though ninety percent 
of these cases which come to us are of  
the apparently incurable type1 our total
 failures are few and far  between4     
,if there is sufficient vitality in the 
body to react to natural  treatment and 
if the destruction of vital parts and   
organs has not  too far advanced1 a cure

 is possible4 ,often the seemingly      
hopeless  cases yield the most readily4 
,our success is due to the fact that we 
do not rely on any one method  of       
treatment1 but combine in our work      
everything that is good in the          
different systems of natural healing4   
,the ,law of ,crises    ,everywhere in  
nature and in the world of men we find  
the ,law of  ,crises in evidence4 ,this 
proves it to be a universal law1 ruling 
all  cosmic relations and activities4   
,wars and revolutions are the healing   
crises in the life of nations4          
,heresies and reformations are the      
crises of religion4 ,in strikes1  riots 
and panics1 we recognize the crises of  
commercial life4    ,staid old ,mother  
,earth herself has in the hoary past    
repeatedly  changed the configurations  
of her continents and oceans by great   
cataclysms or geological crises4        
,when the sultry summer air has become  
pregnant with poisonous vapors  and     
miasmas1 atmospheric crises1 such as    

rainstorms1 thunder1  lightning and     
electric storms1 cool and purify the air
 and charge it  anew with life-giving   
ozone4 ,in like manner will healing     
crises  purify the disease-laden bodies 
of men4    ,emanuel ,swedenborg gives us
 a wonderful description of the ,law of 
,crises in its relationship to the      
regeneration of the soul4 ,we quote     
from the chapter in which he describes  
the working of this law1  entitled1     
,regeneration ,is ,effected by ,combats 
in ,temptation4    ,they who have not   
been instructed concerning the          
regeneration of  man think that man can 
be regenerated without temptation4 ,but 
it is  to be known that no one is       
regenerated without temptation2 and that
  many temptations succeed1 one after   
another4 ,the reason is that            
regeneration is effected for an end1 in 
order that the life of the  old man may 
die1 and the new life which is heavenly 
be insinuated4  ,it is evident1         
therefore1 that there must be a conflict

 healing  crisis--author's note 2 for   
the life of the old man resists and     
determines not to be extinguished2 and  
the life of the new man can  only enter 
where the life of the old is extinct4   
,whoever thinks from an enlightened     
rationale1 may see and perceive  from   
this that a man cannot be regenerated   
without combat1 that is1  without       
spiritual temptations2 and further1 that
 he is not  regenerated by one          
temptation1 but by many4 ,for there are 
very many  kinds of evil which formed   
the delight of his former life1 that is1
  of the old life4 ,these evils cannot  
all be subdued at once and  together2   
for they cleave tenaciously1 since they 
have been inrooted  in the parents for  
many ages back the scrofula of the      
soul--author's note  and are therefore  
innate in man1 and are  confirmed by    
actual evils from himself from infancy4 
,all these evils  are diametrically     
opposite to the celestial good perfect  
health--author's note  that is to be    

insinuated and which is to  constitute  
the ,new ,life4    ,thus the inspired   
,seer of the ,north draws a vivid       
picture of what we  call healing crises 
in their relation to moral regeneration4
    ,we cannot help recognizing the     
close agreement of physical and         
spiritual crises2 this1 again1          
demonstrates the continuity and exact   
correspondence of ,natural ,law on the  
different planes of being4 ,the  ,law of
 ,hermes3 ,as above1 so below2 as in the
 inner1 so in the  outer2 as in the     
lesser1 so in the greater4    ,we of the
 ,nature ,cure school know that this    
great ,law of ,crises  dominates the    
cure of chronic disease4 ,every case is 
another  verification of it2 in fact1   
every decided advance on the road to    
perfect health is marked by acute       
reactions4    ,the cure invariably      
proceeds through the darkness and chaos 
of the  crises to the light and beauty  
of perfect health1 periods of marked    
improvement alternating with acute      

eliminating activity 7the  spiritual    
temptations and combats of ,swedenborg71
 until perfect  regeneration has taken  
place4        ,chapter ,,xxi            
,periodicity      ,in many forms of     
acute disease1 crises develop with      
marked  regularity and in well-defined  
periodicity4 ,this phenomenon has been  
observed and described by many          
physicians4    ,it is not so well known1
 however1 that in the cure of chronic   
diseases also1 crises develop in        
accordance with certain laws of         
periodicity4    ,periodicity is governed
 by the ,septimal ,law or ,law of       
,sevens1 which  seems to be the basic   
law governing the vibratory activities  
of the  planetary universe4    ,the     
harmonics of heat1 light1 sound1        
electricity1 magnetism and of  atomic   
structure and arrangement run in scales 
of seven4    ,the ,law of ,sevens       
governs the days of the week1 the phases
 of the  moon and the menstrual periods 
of the woman4 ,every observing          

physician is aware of its influence on  
feverish1 nervous and psychic  diseases4
    ,the ,law of ,sevens dominates the  
life of individuals and of nations  and 
of everything that lives and has periods
 of birth1 growth1  fruitage and        
decline4    ,over two thousand years ago
 ,pythagoras and ,hippocrates distinctly
  recognized and proclaimed the ,law of 
,crises in its bearing on the  cure of  
chronic diseases4 ,they taught that     
alternating1 well-defined  periods of   
improvement and of crises were          
determined and governed by  the law of  
periodicity and by the law of numbers   
7the ,septimal ,law74    ,the following 
quotations are taken from the           
,encyclopedia  ,britannica1 ,vol4 ,,xv1 
p4 #hjj3    ,but this artistic          
completeness was closely connected with 
'the  third cardinal virtue' of         
,hippocratic medicine--the clear        
recognition of disease as being equally 
with life a process governed  by what we
 should now call natural laws1 which    

could be known by  observation and which
 indicated the spontaneous and normal   
direction  of recovery1 by following    
which alone could the physician succeed4
    ,another ,hippocratic doctrine1 the 
influence of which is not even  yet     
exhausted1 is that of the healing power 
of ,nature4 ,not that  ,hippocrates     
taught1 as he was afterwards reproached 
with teaching1  that ,nature is         
sufficient for the cure of diseases2 for
 he held  strongly the efficacy of art4 
,but he recognized1 at least in acute   
diseases1 a natural process which the   
humours went through--being  first of   
all crude1 then passing through coction 
or digestion1 and  finally being        
expelled by resolution or crisis through
 one of the  natural channels of the    
body4 ,the duty of the physician was to 
foresee these changes1 'to assist or not
 to hinder them1' so that  'the sick man
 might conquer the disease with the help
 of the  physician4' ,the times at which
 crises were to be expected were        

naturally looked for with anxiety2 and  
it was a cardinal point in  the         
,hippocratic system to foretell them    
with precision4 ,hippocrates1           
influenced as is thought by the         
,pythagorean doctrine of numbers1       
taught that they were to be expected on 
days fixed by certain  numerical rules1 
in some cases on odd1 in others on even 
numbers--the celebrated doctrine of     
'critical days4' ,it follows from  what 
has been said that prognosis1 or the art
 of foretelling the  course and event of
 the disease1 was a strong point with   
the  ,hippocratic physicians4 ,in this  
perhaps they have never been  excelled4 
,diagnosis1 or recognition of the       
disease1 must have been  necessarily    
imperfect1 when no scientific nosology1 
or system of  disease99 existed1 and the
 knowledge of anatomy was quite         
inadequate  to allow of a precise       
determination of the seat of disease2   
but  symptoms were no doubt observed and
 interpreted skilfully4 ,the pulse  is  

not spoken of in any of the works now   
attributed to ,hippocrates  himself1    
though it is mentioned in other works of
 the collection4    99,the author of    
this article in the ,encyclopedia       
,britannica does not  see that it is the
 modern then as now orthodox scientific 
nosology1 or system of disease which    
obscures the simplicity and  precision  
of the ,hippocratic philosophy of       
disease and cure4    ,in the treatment  
of disease1 the ,hippocratic school     
attached great  importance to diet1 the 
variations necessary in different       
diseases  being minutely defined4 ,in   
chronic cases diet1 exercises and       
natural methods were chiefly relied     
upon4    ,these wonderful truths1 with  
other wisdom of the ancients1 were lost 
in the spiritual darkness of the ,middle
 ,ages4 ,modern medicine looks  upon    
these claims and teachings of the       
,hippocratic ,school as  superstition   
without any foundation in fact4         
,however1 the great  sages of antiquity1

 drawing upon a source of ancient       
wisdom1 deeply  hidden from the         
self-satisfied scribes and wise men of  
the schools1  after all1 proclaimed the 
truth4    ,every case of chronic disease
 properly treated by natural methods    
proves the reality and stability of the 
,law of ,crises4 ,it is  therefore a    
standing wonder and surprise to one who 
knows1 that this  all-important and     
self-evident law is practically unknown 
to the  disciples of the regular        
schools4    ,the ,law of ,sevens    ,in 
accordance with the ,law of             
,periodicity1 the sixth period in any   
seven periods is marked by reactions1   
changes1 revolutions or  crises4 ,it is1
 therefore1 looked upon by popular      
intuition as an  unlucky period4        
,friday1 the sixth day of the week1 is  
regarded as an  unlucky day2 ,friday is 
hangman's day2 according to tradition   
the  ,master1 ,jesus1 was crucified on  
,friday4    ,counting from the first    
sixth or ,friday period in any given    

number  of hours1 days1 weeks1 months1  
years or groups of years1 as the case   
may be1 every succeeding seventh period 
is characterized by crises4    ,this    
explains why #ac is considered an       
unlucky number4 ,it represents  the     
second critical or ,friday period4      
,however1 there is really no cause for  
this superstitious fear of  ,friday and 
the number #ac4 ,it is due to a lack of 
understanding of  ,nature's ,laws4 ,by  
intelligent cooperation with these laws 
we may  turn the critical periods in our
 lives into healing crises and          
beneficial changes4    ,we should not   
fear the crises periods of the larger   
life and the  changes in our outward    
circumstances which they may bring any  
more  than we should fear crises in the 
physical body4    ,a thorough           
understanding of the nature and purpose 
of healing crises  in acute and chronic 
diseases has taught me the nature and   
purpose  of evil in general4 ,it has    
made me understand more clearly the     

meaning of ,resist not ,evil and of the 
saying3 ,we are punished by  our sins1  
not for our sins4 ,it has shown me that 
evil is not a  punishment or a curse1   
but a necessary complement of good1 that
 it  is corrective and educational in   
its purposes1 that it remains with  us  
only as long as we need its salutary    
lessons4    ,the evil of physical       
disease is not due to accident or to the
  arbitrary rulings of a capricious     
,providence1 nor is it always  error of 
mortal mind4 ,from the ,nature ,cure    
philosophy and its  practical           
applications we have learned that1      
barring accidents and  conditions or    
surroundings unfavorable to human life1 
it is caused  in every instance by      
violations of the physical laws of our  
being4  ,so the social1 political and   
industrial evil of the larger life is   
brought about by violations of the law  
in the respective domains of  life and  
action4    ,so long as transgressions of
 the physical laws of our being result  

in hereditary and acquired disease      
encumbrances1 we must expect  reactions 
which may become either disease crises  
or healing crises4  ,likewise1 so long  
as ignorance1 selfishness and           
self-indulgence  continue to create evil
 in other domains of life1 we must      
expect  there also the occurrence of    
crises1 of reaction and revolution4     
,when knowledge1 self-control and       
altruism become the sole motives of     
action1 evil and the crises it          
necessitates will naturally  disappear4 
,therefore1 we should not be afraid of  
changes and crises periods but          
cooperate with them clear-eyed and      
strong-willed4 ,then they will  result  
in improvement and further growth4      
,life is growth1 and growth is change4  
,the only death is stagnation4  ,the    
loss of friends1 home or fortune may    
seem for the time being an  overwhelming
 calamity2 but if met in the right      
spirit1 such losses  will prove         
stepping-stones to greater opportunity  

and higher  achievement4    ,many of our
 patients formerly looked upon their    
diseased condition  as a great          
misfortune and an undeserved punishment2
 but since it  brought them in contact  
with the ,nature ,cure philosophy and   
showed  them the necessity of complying 
with the laws of their being1 they  now 
look upon the former evil as the        
greatest blessing in their  lives1      
because it taught them how to become the
 masters of fate  instead of remaining  
the plaything of ,nature's destructive  
forces4    ,why should we fear even the 
greatest of all crises1 physical death1 
when it1 also1 is only the gateway to a 
larger life1 greater  opportunities and 
more beautiful surroundings8 ,why should
 we mourn  and grieve over the death of 
friends and relatives1 when they have   
only emigrated to another1 better       
country8    ,suppose we ourselves had to
 enter upon the great journey today or  
tomorrow1 shouldn't we be glad to meet  
some of our friends on the  other side  

and to be welcomed1 advised and guided  
by them in the new  surroundings8       
,therefore we should not fear1 nor      
endeavor to avoid the crises in  any and
 all domains of life and action1 but    
meet them and cooperate  with them      
fearlessly and intelligently4 ,they then
 will always make  for greater          
opportunity and higher accomplishment4  
,the ,law of ,sevens ,applied to        
,individual ,life    ,applied to the    
life of the individual1 the ,law of     
,periodicity  manifests itself as       
follows3    ,human life on the earth    
plane is divided into periods of seven  
years4 ,the first seven years represent 
the period of infancy4 ,with  the next  
seven1 the years of childhood1 begins   
individual  responsibility1 the         
conscious discernment between right and 
wrong4  ,the third group comprises the  
years of adolescence2 the fourth marks  
the attainment of full growth4 ,nearly  
all civilized countries take  cognizance
 of this fact by fixing the legal age at

 twenty-one4    ,the twenty-eighth year1
 the beginning of the fifth period1 is  
another milestone along the road to     
development4    ,the sixth period1      
beginning at the age of thirty-five and 
ending at  forty-two1 is marked by      
reactions1 changes and crises4 ,it may1 
therefore1 seem an unlucky period2 but  
if we understand the law and  comply    
with it1 we shall be better and stronger
 in every way after  we have passed this
 period4    ,during the seventh period1 
the effects of the sixth or crises      
period  continue and adjust themselves4 
,it is a period of reconstruction1 of   
recuperation and rest1 and thus the best
 preparation for a new cycle  of sevens 
which begins with the fiftieth year49999
    9999,those who are interested in the
 ,law of ,periodicity as applied to     
life in general1 will find much valuable
 information in a book  entitled        
,periodicity by ,j4 ,r4 ,buchanan1      
,m4,d41 published by the  ,kosmos       
,publishing ,co41 #baab ,sherman ,ave41 

,evanston1 ,il4    ,in this connection  
it is interesting to note that the      
,mosaic law  recognized the law of      
periodicity and fixed upon ,sunday as   
the first  day or birthday of the week1 
and upon ,saturday 7the ,sabbath7 as    
the last or rest day1 in which to       
prepare for another period of  seven    
days4    ,orthodox science now admits   
that the normal length of human life    
should be about one hundred and fifty   
years4 ,this would constitute  three    
cycles of forty-nine years each1 the    
first corresponding to  youth1 the      
second to maturity1 and the third to    
fruition4    ,the ,law of ,sevens in    
,febrile ,diseases    ,if we apply the  
,laws of ,periodicity to the course of  
acute febrile  or inflammatory diseases1
 we find that the sixth day from the    
beginning of the first well-defined     
symptom marks the first  ,friday-period 
or the first crisis of the disease1 and 
that every  seventh day thereafter is   
also distinguished by aggravations and  

changes1 either for better or for worse4
    ,the ,law of ,sevens in ,chronic    
,diseases    ,applied to the cure of    
chronic diseases under the influence of 
natural methods of living and of        
treatment1 the ,laws of ,crises and  of 
,periodicity manifest as follows3       
,when a chronic patient1 whose chances  
of cure are good1 is placed  under      
proper 7natural7 conditions of living   
and of treatment he  will1 as a rule1   
experience five weeks of marked         
improvement4    ,the sixth week1 if     
conditions are favorable1 usually marks 
the  beginning of acute reactions or    
healing crises4 ,this means that the    
healing forces of the organism have     
grown strong enough to begin the  work  
of acute elimination4    ,by all sorts  
of acute reactions1 such as skin        
eruptions1 diarrheas1  feverish1        
inflammatory and catarrhal conditions1  
boils1 abscesses1  mucopurulent         
discharges1 etc41 ,nature now endeavors 
to remove the  latent1 chronic disease  

taints from the system4    ,the         
character of the healing crises and the 
time of their occurrence  in any given  
case can often be accurately predicted  
by means of the  ,diagnosis from the    
,eye 7see ,chapter ,,xiii71 from        
,nature's records in  the iris4    ,but 
the best of all methods of diagnosis is 
the cure iself1 because  weak spots and 
morbid taints in the organism are       
revealed through  the healing crises4   
,the ,same ,old ,aches and ,pains       
,frequently we hear from a patient in   
the throes of crises3 ,these  are the   
same old aches and pains that ,i had    
before4 ,it is exactly  the same trouble
 ,i have been suffering with for many   
years4 ,this is  not a crisis6--,i have 
caught a cold1 or ,i have eaten         
something which  does not agree with me4
    ,the patient has forgotten what we  
taught him regarding the ,law of        
,crises4 ,he loses sight of the fact    
that healing crises are nothing  more or
 less than a coming-up-again of old     

disease conditions1 an  acute           
manifestation of ailments which had     
become chronic through  neglect or      
suppression4    ,of course they are the 
same old aches and pains4 ,nature ,cure 
does  not create new diseases4 ,crises  
mean the stirring up and eliminating  of
 hereditary and acquired taints and     
poisons4 ,under the right  methods of   
treatment1 any previous disease         
condition suppressed by  drugs or knife 
or by mental effort may recur as a      
healing crisis4    ,they are the same   
old aches and pains which so often gave 
trouble in  the past1 but they are now  
running their course under different    
conditions because the patient is now   
living in harmony with  ,nature's ,laws4
    ,under the natural regimen1 ,nature 
is encouraged and assisted in her       
cleansing and healing efforts4 ,she is  
allowed in her own wise way to  tear    
down the old and build up the new4      
,the ,old ,schools of healing proclaim  
,mother ,nature a poor healer4  ,but we 

of the ,nature ,cure school believe that
 the wisdom which  created this         
wonderful1 complex mechanism which we   
call the human  body knows also how to  
preserve and to repair it4 ,every       
healing  crisis passed under natural    
conditions assisted by natural methods  
of treatment leaves the body purified   
and strengthened and nearer to  perfect 
health4    ,our critics and opponents   
frequently ask us how we know that our  
methods are natural and in harmony with 
,nature's laws4    ,to this we reply3   
,the timely appearance of healing       
crises1 their  orderly development and  
favorable termination constitute the    
best  criterion of the correctness and  
naturalness of the methods of  treatment
 employed4 ,the prompt arrival and      
beneficial results of  acute reactions  
are a certain indication that the       
healing forces of  the organism are in  
the ascendancy and that the treatment is
 in  conformity with the natural laws of
 cure and with the constructive         

principle in ,nature4    ,another       
question sometimes asked of us is3 ,do  
healing crises  develop in every chronic
 disease under natural treatment8 ,our  
answer is3 ,if the condition of the     
patient is not favorable to a  cure1    
that is1 if the vitality is too low and 
the destruction of  vital parts too far 
advanced1 the healing crises may be     
proportionately delayed or may not occur
 at all4 ,in such cases the  disease    
symptoms will increase in severity and  
complexity and become  more destructive 
instead of more constructive1 until the 
final fatal  crisis4 ,the end may come  
quickly1 or the patient may decline     
gradually toward the fatal termination4 
,again1 patients ask us3 ,through how   
many crises shall ,i have to  pass8 ,we 
tell them3 ,just as many as you need2 no
 more1 no less4 ,so  long as there is   
anything wrong in the system1 crises    
will come and  go2 but each crisis1 if  
successfully passed1 is another         
milestone on  the road to perfect       

health4    ,it is intensely interesting 
to observe how orderly and intelligently
  ,nature proceeds in her work of       
healing and repair4 ,one problem after  
another is taken up and adjusted4       
,first of all1 the digestive organs are 
put into better condition1  because     
further progress depends upon proper    
assimilation and  elimination4 ,the     
bowels must act freely and naturally    
before any  permanent improvement can   
take place4 ,a treatment which fails to 
accomplish this first preliminary       
improvement will surely fail to  produce
 more important results4    ,in this    
connection it is a significant fact that
 nearly all our  patients1 when they    
come under our care1 are suffering from 
very  stubborn constipation in spite of 
7or possibly on account of7  lifelong   
drugging4 ,neither medicines nor        
operations had given them  anything but 
temporary relief and the trouble had    
grown worse  instead of better4    ,if  
the ,old ,school methods of treatment   

were not successful in  relieving simple
 constipation1 what else can they be    
expected to  cure1 since the overcoming 
of constipation is evidently the primary
  necessity for any other improvement8  
,a system of treatment which cannot     
accomplish this cannot accomplish       
anything else4 ,it is strange1          
therefore1 that a school of medicine    
which has not succeeded1 with all its   
vaunted knowledge and wisdom1  to cure  
simple constipation1 flatly denies that 
natural methods can  cure cancer1       
epilepsy1 locomotor ataxy and other     
so-called incurable  diseases4    ,our  
,greatest ,difficulty    ,the greatest  
difficulty in our work lies in          
conducting our patients  safely through 
the stormy crises periods4 ,the first1  
preliminary  improvement is often so    
marked that the patient believes himself
  already cured4 ,he will say3 ,doctor1 
,i am feeling fine6 ,there is  nothing  
the matter with me any more6 ,i cannot  
understand why ,i  shouldn't go home and

 continue the natural regimen there6    
,this feeling of mental elation and     
physical well-being is usually  the sign
 that the first general improvement has 
progressed far  enough to prepare the   
system for a healing crisis4 ,therefore 
my  answer to the overconfident patient 
may be something like this3  ,remember  
what ,i told you4 ,the first improvement
 is not the cure1 it  is only the       
preparation for the real fight4 ,look   
out6 ,in a few days  you may whistle    
another tune4    ,and sure enough1      
usually within a few days after such a  
conversation  the patient is down in the
 slough of despond4 ,his digestive      
organs  are in a wretched condition4 ,he
 is nauseated1 his tongue is coated1  he
 is suffering from headache and from a  
multitude of other symptoms  according  
to his individual condition4 ,in fact1  
many of the old  aches and pains which  
he thought already cured come up again  
with  renewed force4    ,healing crises1
 representing radical changes in the    

system1 are  always accompanied by      
physical and mental weakness1 because   
every  bit of vitality is drawn upon in 
these reconstructive processes4 ,the    
entire organism is shaken up to its very
 foundation2 deep-seated1  chronic      
disease taints are being stirred up     
throughout the system4    ,the          
eliminative processes of the healing    
crises are often  accompanied by great  
mental depression and a feeling of      
strong  revulsion to the natural regimen
 and everything connected with it4      
,the patient thinks that1 after all1    
,nature ,cure is not for him1 that  he  
is growing worse instead of better4 ,in 
proportion to the severity  of the      
changes going on within him1 he becomes 
disheartened and  despondent4 ,often he 
exhibits all the mental and emotional   
symptoms  of homesickness4 ,in these    
critical days it requires all our powers
  of persuasion to keep the depressed   
and discouraged patient from  giving up 
the fight and from taking something to  

relieve his  distress4 ,he insists that 
something must be done for him1 and     
cannot understand how he will ever get  
out of his awful condition  without some
 good strong medicine4    ,if our       
patients were not continually and       
thoroughly instructed  regarding the    
,laws of ,crises and of ,periodicity and
 if we did not  strongly advise and     
encourage them to persevere with the    
treatment1  few of them would hold out  
during these critical periods4    ,this 
explains why so many people fail to be  
cured and it also  explains why natural 
living and self-treatment often do not  
meet  with the desired results if       
carried on without the instruction and  
guidance of a competent1 experienced    
,nature ,cure physician4    ,so long as 
the improvement continues1 everything is
 lovely and hope  soars high4 ,but when 
the inevitable crises arrive1 the       
sufferer  believes that1 after all1 he  
made a mistake in taking up the natural 
regimen1 especially so when friends and 

relatives do their best to  destroy his 
confidence in the natural methods of    
cure by ridicule  and dire prophesies of
 failure4    ,frightened and            
discouraged1 the patient returns to the 
flesh-pots  of ,egypt and to the good   
old pills and potions and ever          
afterwards  he tells his friends that he
 tried ,nature ,cure and the vegetarian 
diet1 but it was no good4    ,mother    
,nature remains a book sealed with seven
 seals to those who  mistrust1 despise  
and counteract her1 who rely on man-made
 wisdom  and the ever-changing theories 
and dogmas of the schools4    ,but on   
the other hand1 every crisis conducted  
to a successful  termination in         
accordance with ,nature's laws becomes  
an inspiration  to him who follows her  
guidance and assists her with           
intelligent  effort and loving care4    
,chapter ,,xxii      ,what ,about ,the  
,chronic8 ,it ,takes ,so ,long          
,yes1 ,nature ,cure is all right1 but it
 takes so long4 ,now and then  we hear  

this or a similar remark4 ,our answer   
is3 ,no1 it does not  take long4 ,it is 
the swiftest cure in existence4    ,the 
trouble is that1 as a rule1 we have to  
deal with none but the  most advanced   
cases of so-called incurable diseases4  
,people go to  the ,nature ,cure        
physician only after all other methods  
of treatment  have been tried and found 
of no avail4    ,as long as there       
remains a particle of faith in the      
medicine bottle1  the knife or the      
metaphysical formula of the mind healer1
 people  prefer these easy methods1     
which require no effort on their part1  
to  the ,nature ,cure treatment1 which  
necessitates personal exertion1         
self-control1 the changing or giving up 
of cherished habits4 ,this1  however1 is
 what most of us evade as long as we    
can4 ,exercise1 the  cold blitzguss1 no 
red meat1 no coffee8--,i'd rather die6  
,afraid of ,cold ,water    ,the         
most-dreaded terror on the threshold    
seems to be cold water4  ,undoubtedly1  

it has kept away thousands from ,nature 
,cure and thereby  from the only        
possible cure for their chronic         
ailments4 ,if we could  achieve equally 
good results without our heroic methods 
of  treatment1 the sidewalks leading to 
our institution would be crowded  with  
people clamoring for admission4         
,after all1 this foolish fear is        
entirely groundless4 ,cold water is  no 
more to be dreaded than the bogey man4  
,it is one of our  fundamental          
principles of treatment never to do     
anything that is  painful to the        
patient4 ,we always temper the wind to  
the shorn  lamb1 the coldness of the    
water and the force of the manipulations
  to the sensitiveness and endurance of 
the subject4 ,beginning with  mild1     
alternately warm and cool sprays1 which 
are pleasant and  agreeable to everyone1
 we gradually increase the force and    
lower the  temperature until the patient
 is so inured to cold water that the    
blitzguss becomes a delightful and      

pleasurable sensation1 a positive       
luxury4    ,it is amusing to watch the  
gradual change in the attitude of our   
patients toward the cold-water          
treatment4 ,in some instances we have   
had to spend hours in earnest persuasion
 before we could induce a  particularly 
sensitive person to try the first mild  
spray4 ,a few  weeks later if1          
perchance1 something interfered with the
 cold water  applications1 the patient  
would indignantly refuse to take the    
other  treatment if there was to be no  
cold water4    ,there is certainly no   
finer tonic than cold water1 no more    
exhilarating sensation than that        
produced by the artistic  application of
 alternating douches and the blitz4     
,the real cause of this cold-water      
scare1 we believe1 is to be found  in   
the boasting of the veterans4 ,when1    
with protruding chest and  chin in air1 
they brag to the newcomers or to their  
friends about  their heroism and the    
coolness with which they allow the      

cold-water  hose to be turned on them1  
the listener shudders and exclaims3     
,this  cold water may be all right for  
you1 but it would never do for me4      
,no doubt1 it is this bravado of the    
initiated that keeps many a  novice from
 the first plunge into the mysteries of 
,nature ,cure4 ,if  these timid ones    
only knew what they miss6    ,business  
,versus ,cure    ,from a business point 
of view it would1 perhaps1 be better to 
omit  the cold water altogether4 ,it    
would certainly be much less trouble2   
but then1 the rugged honesty of ,father 
,kneipp1 the champion of the  cold-water
 treatment branch of ,german ,nature    
,cure1 has descended  upon his followers
 and compels them to tell the whole     
truth and  nothing but the truth1 to    
make use of everything that is likely to
  be of benefit to the patient and to   
effect a real and lasting cure4    ,our 
friends1 the osteopaths1 have only a    
pitying smile for our  arduous labors4  
,they ask3 ,why fool with cold water and

 drive  patients away1 when pleasant    
manipulations bring the business8 ,if   
we query in return3 ,do your pleasant   
manipulations cure obstinate  chronic   
ailments8 ,they answer3 ,we do not      
expect to cure them4 ,the  effort       
involves too much labor and spoils the  
reputation of our  work4 ,not one in a  
hundred chronics has the patience and   
perseverance to be cured4 ,besides1 if a
 patient comes too long to  the office  
for treatment he drives others away4    
,some of the most successful osteopaths 
in this city make it a rule  not to     
treat a patient longer than six weeks or
 two months4    ,in a number of cases   
this may be sufficient to produce marked
  primary improvement1 but it is not    
enough to launch the patient into  a    
healing crisis and1 therefore1 does not 
produce a real cure  because it does not
 remove the underlying causes of the    
disease4 ,if1  after a while1 the latent
 chronic condition again manifests in   
external symptoms1 the patient returns  

for another course of  treatment2 he was
 cured so quickly before and thinks he  
will be  helped again4    ,in justice to
 the osteopaths it must be said that we 
are not  referring to those chronic     
diseases which are directly caused by   
lesions of the spine or other bony      
structures4 ,if such dislocations  or   
subluxations be the sole cause of the   
trouble1 their correction  by           
manipulative treatment may produce a    
cure within a few weeks4    ,but        
notwithstanding the teachings of        
orthodox osteopathy1 the  majority of   
chronic ailments have their origin in   
other causes4 ,in  most cases1 the      
existing spinal lesions are themselves  
the result of  other primary disease    
conditions which must be removed before 
the  bony lesions will remain corrected4
    ,the mode of treatment depends upon 
the object that is to be  accomplished4 
,if it is to make the patient feel      
better with the  least possible         
expenditure of time1 money1 personal    

effort and  self-control on his part1   
and the least amount of exertion on the 
part of the physician or healer1 then   
osteopathic manipulations or            
meta-physical formulas may be in order4 
,but if the object is to cure  actually 
and permanently a deep-seated chronic   
disease1 all the  methods of the natural
 treatment1 intelligently combined and  
adapted  to the individual case1 will be
 required in order to accomplish        
results4    ,pull the ,roots    ,cutting
 off their heads does not kill the      
weeds4 ,the first sign of  improvement  
in the treatment of a chronic disease   
does not mean a  cure4    ,diagnosis    
from the ,eye1 borne out by everyday    
practical experience1  reveals the fact 
that symptomatic manifestations of      
disease are due  to underlying          
constitutional causes2 that the chronic 
symptoms are  ,nature's feeble and      
ineffectual efforts to eliminate from   
the system  scrofulous1 psoric or       
syphilitic taints and the disease       

products  resulting from food and drug  
poisoning1 or to overcome the           
destructive effects of surgical         
mutilations4    ,an abatement of        
symptoms is1 therefore1 not always the  
sign of a  real and permanent cure4 ,the
 latter depends entirely on the         
elimination of the hereditary and       
acquired constitutional taints and      
poisons4    ,when1 under the influence  
of natural living and methods of        
treatment1 the body of the chronic      
becomes sufficiently purified and       
strengthened1 a period of marked        
improvement may set in4 ,all disease    
symptoms gradually abate1 the patient   
gains in strength1 both  physically and 
mentally1 and he feels as though there  
was nothing  the matter with him any    
more4    ,but the eyes tell a different 
story4 ,they show that the underlying   
constitutional taints have not been     
fully eliminated--the weeds have  not   
been pulled up by the roots4    ,this   
can be accomplished only by healing     

crises1 by ,nature's  cleansing and     
healing activities in the form of       
inflammatory and  feverish processes2   
anything short of this is merely        
preliminary  improvement1 training for  
the fight1 but not the cure4    ,when   
you order a suit of clothes from your   
tailor1 you do not take  it away from   
him half-finished2 if you do1 you will  
have an  unsatisfactory garment4    ,no 
more should you interfere with your cure
 after the first signs of  improvement4 
,continue until you have thoroughly     
eliminated from your  system the hidden 
constitutional taints and the drug      
poisons which  have been the cause of   
your troubles4 ,after that you can      
paddle your  own canoe2 right living and
 right thinking will then be sufficient 
to maintain perfect health and strength1
 physically1 mentally and  morally4     
,is the ,chronic ,patient to ,be ,left  
to ,his ,fate    ,because ,allopathy    
,says ,he ,is ,incurable8    ,frequently
 we have been severely criticised by our

 friends1 our  coworkers or our patients
 for accepting certain seemingly        
hopeless  chronic cases4 ,they exclaim3 
,you know this man has locomotor ataxy  
and that woman is an  epileptic3 you    
certainly do not expect to cure them1   
or1 ,doctor1  don't you think it injures
 the institution to have that           
dreadful-looking person around8 ,he is  
nothing but skin and bones and  surely  
cannot live much longer4    ,sometimes  
open criticism and covert insinuation   
intimate that our  reasons for taking in
 incurables are mercenary4    ,if we    
should dismiss today those of our       
patients who1 from the  orthodox and    
popular point of view1 are considered   
incurable1 there  would not remain ten  
out of a hundred2 and yet our total     
failures  are few and far between4 ,many
 such seemingly hopeless cases have     
come for treatment month after month1 in
 several instances for a  year or more1 
apparently without any marked advance2  
yet today they  are in the best of      

health4    ,yes1 it is hard work and    
frequently thankless work to deal with  
these patients4 ,it would be much       
easier1 much more remunerative and      
would bring more glory to confine       
ourselves to the treatment of  acute    
diseases1 for it is there that ,nature  
,cure works its most  impressive        
miracles4 ,on the other hand1 to achieve
 the seemingly  impossible1 to prove    
what ,nature ,cure can accomplish in the
 most  stubborn chronic cases1 sustains 
our courage and is its own              
compensation4    ,the word chronic in   
the vocabulary of the ,old ,school of   
medicine  is synonymous with incurable4 
,this is not strange2 since the  medical
 and surgical symptomatic treatment of  
acute diseases creates  the chronic     
conditions1 it certainly cannot be      
expected to cure  them4 ,if1 by         
continued suppression1 ,nature's        
cleansing and healing  efforts have been
 perverted into chronic disease         
conditions1 the  following directions   

are given in the regular works on       
medical  practice3    ,when this disease
 reaches the chronic stage1 you can no  
longer cure  it4 ,you may advise the    
patient to change climate or occupation4
 ,as  for medication1 treat the symptoms
 as they arise4    ,we know that the    
symptoms are ,nature's healing efforts2 
when these  are promptly treated1 that  
is1 suppressed1 it is not surprising    
that  the chronic does not recover4 ,in 
fact1 it is the treatment which  makes  
him and keeps him a chronic4    ,why    
,nature ,cure ,achieves ,results        
,nature ,cure achieves results in the   
treatment of chronic diseases  because  
its theories and practices are entirely 
opposite to those  just described4      
,however1 when the ,nature ,cure        
physician claims that  he can cure      
cancer1 tuberculosis1 epilepsy1         
paralysis1 ,bright's  disease1 diabetes 
or certain mental derangements1 the     
regular  physician shows only derision  
and contempt4 ,he will not even         

condescend to examine any evidence in   
support of our claims4    ,since1 then1 
,nature ,cure offers to the so-called   
incurable the only  hope and the only   
possible means of regaining health1 why 
not give  him a chance8 ,many times     
apparently hopeless cases have responded
  most readily to our treatment1 while  
more promising ones offered the  most   
stubborn resistance4 ,even with the best
 possible methods of  diagnosis1 it is  
hard to determine just how far the      
destruction of  vital organs has        
progressed1 or how deeply they have been
  impregnated with drug poisons4        
,therefore1 it is often an impossibility
 to predict with certainty  just what   
the outcome will be4 ,this can be       
determined only by a fair  trial4 ,in   
the past we have treated many a case    
that1 according to  the rules and       
precedents of orthodox science1 should  
be dead and  buried long ago2 yet these 
individuals are today alive and in the  
best of health4    ,every now and then  

incidents like the following renew our  
enthusiasm  and our faith in ,nature    
,cure3 ,recently1 we had three new      
cases1 sent  by three former patients   
who had been under treatment several    
years  ago4 ,these three had been among 
the worst cases ever treated in our     
institution4 ,when they came to us1 one 
was supposed to be dying with  cancer1  
the second was in the advanced stages of
 tertiary syphilis  and the third1 a    
lady1 had survived several operations   
for the  removal of the appendix and the
 ovaries4 ,at the time she took up our  
treatment she had been advised to       
undergo another operation for the       
removal of the uterus4    ,these        
incurables had been exceedingly trying4 
,more than once one or  another had     
quit1 discouraged and disgusted1 only to
 return1 knowing  that1 after all1      
,nature ,cure was their only hope4      
,after they left  us1 we lost track of  
them and often wondered how they were   
getting  on4 ,imagine our pleasant      

surprise when all three were reported by
  the newcomers as being in good health4
 ,what if it did take months or  even   
years to produce the desired results8   
,what would have been the  fate of these
 three patients if it had not been for  
slow ,nature  ,cure8    ,discouraged    
patients frequently ask3 ,why do others 
recover so  quickly when ,i show so     
little improvement8 ,this cure seems to 
be all  right for some diseases1 but    
evidently it does not fit my case4      
,this is defective reasoning4 ,true     
,nature ,cure fits every case  because  
it includes everything good in natural  
healing methods4 ,in  stubborn cases    
,nature ,cure is not to blame for the   
slow and  unsatisfactory results3 the   
difficulty lies in the character and    
advanced stage of the disease4          
,chapter ,,xxiii      ,the ,treatment of
 ,chronic ,diseases      ,let us now    
consider the best methods for producing 
the healing  crises referred to in the  
preceding chapters1 that is1 the best   

methods for treating the chronic forms  
of disease4    ,we found that acute     
diseases represent ,nature's efforts to 
purify  and regenerate the human        
organism by means of inflammatory       
feverish  processes1 while in the       
chronic condition the system is not     
capable  of arousing itself to such     
acute reactions4 ,the treatment must    
differ accordingly4    ,the ,nature     
,cure treatment of acute diseases tends 
to relieve inner  congestion1 to        
facilitate the radiation of heat and the
 elimination  of morbid matter and      
systemic poisons from the body4 ,in this
 way it  eases and palliates the        
feverish processes and keeps them below 
the  danger point without in any way    
checking or suppressing them4    ,while 
our methods of treating acute diseases  
have a sedative effect1  our treatment  
of chronic diseases is calculated to    
stimulate1 that  is1 to arouse the      
sluggish organism to greater activity in
 order to  produce the acute            

inflammatory reactions or healing       
crises4    ,if the unity of diseases as 
demonstrated in a previous chapter is a 
fact in ,nature1 it must be possible to 
treat all chronic as well as  all acute 
diseases by uniform methods1 and the    
natural remedies must  correspond to the
 primary causes of disease4    ,the     
,natural ,methods of ,treatment         
,natural methods of treatment may be    
divided into two groups3    ,those which
 the patient can apply himself1 provided
 he has been  properly instructed in    
their correct selection1 combination and
  application4 ,those which must be     
applied by a competent ,nature ,cure    
physician4    ,to the first group belong
 diet 7fasting71 bathing and other water
  applications1 correct breathing1      
general physical exercise1  corrective  
gymnastics1 air and sun baths1 mental   
therapeutics4    ,to the second group   
belong special applications of the      
methods  mentioned under group #a1 and  
in addition to these hydropathy1        

massage1 manipulation1 medical treatment
 in the form of homeopathic  medicines1 
nonpoisonous herb extracts and the      
vitochemical remedies1  and most        
important of all1 the right management  
of healing crises  which develop under  
the natural treatment of chronic        
diseases4    ,diagnosis    ,correct     
diagnosis is the first essential to     
rational treatment4  ,every honest      
physician admits that the ,old ,school  
methods of  diagnosis are1 to say the   
least1 unsatisfactory and uncertain1    
especially in ascertaining the          
underlying causes of disease4           
,therefore we should welcome any and all
 methods of diagnosis which  throw more 
light on the causes and the nature of   
disease conditions  in the human        
organism4    ,two valuable additions to 
diagnostic science are now offered to us
  in osteopathy and in the ,diagnosis   
from the ,eye4    ,osteopathy furnishes 
valuable information concerning the     
connection  between disease conditions  

and misplacements of vertebrae and other
  bony structures1 contractions or      
abnormal relaxation of muscles and      
ligaments1 and inflammation of nerves   
and nerve centers4    ,the ,diagnosis   
from the ,eye is as yet a new science1  
and much remains  to be discovered and  
to be better explained4 ,we do not claim
 that  ,nature's records in the eye     
disclose all the details of pathological
  tendencies and changes1 but they do   
reveal many disease conditions1         
hereditary and acquired1 that cannot be 
ascertained by any other  methods of    
diagnosis4    ,omitting consideration of
 everything that is at present          
speculative  and uncertain1 we are      
justified in making the following       
statements3    ,the eye is not only1 as 
the ancients said1 the mirror of the    
soul1  but it also reveals abnormal     
conditions and changes in every part    
and organ of the body4 ,every organ and 
part of the body is  represented in the 
iris of the eye in a well-defined area4 

,the iris  of the eye contains an       
immense number of minute nerve          
filaments1  which through the optic     
nerves1 the optic brain centers and the 
spinal cord are connected with and      
receive impressions from every  nerve in
 the body4 ,the nerve filaments1 muscle 
fibers and minute  blood vessels in the 
different areas of the iris reproduce   
the  changing conditions in the         
corresponding parts or organs4 ,by means
  of various marks1 signs1 abnormal     
colors and discolorations in the  iris1 
,nature reveals transmitted disease     
taints and hereditary  lesions4 ,nature 
also makes known1 by signs1 marks and   
discolorations1 acute and chronic       
inflammatory or catarrhal  conditions1  
local lesions1 destruction of tissues1  
various drug  poisons and changes in    
structures and tissues caused by        
accidental  injury or by surgical       
mutilations4 ,the ,diagnosis from the   
,eye  positively confirms ,hahnemann's  
theory that all acute diseases have  a  

constitutional background of hereditary 
or acquired disease  taints4 ,this      
science enables the diagnostician to    
ascertain1 from  the appearance of the  
iris alone1 the patient's inherited or  
acquired tendencies toward health and   
toward disease1 his condition  in       
general and the state of every organin  
particular4 ,reading  ,nature's records 
in the eye1 he can predict the different
 healing  crises through which the      
patient will have to pass on the road to
  health4 ,the eye reveals dangerous    
changes in vital parts and organs  from 
their inception1 thus enabling the      
patient to avert any  threatening       
disease by natural living and natural   
methods of  treatment4 ,by changes in   
the iris1 the gradual purification of   
the  system1 the elimination of morbid  
matter and poisons1 and the             
readjustment of the organism to normal  
conditions under the  regenerating      
influences of natural living and        
treatment are  faithfully recorded4     

,this interesting subject will be       
treated more fully in a separate  volume
 7,iridiagnosis1 published in #aiai by  
,dr4 ,lindlahr74 ,in this  connection ,i
 shall confine myself to relating       
briefly the story of  the discovery of  
this valuable science4    ,the ,story of
 a ,great ,discovery    ,dr4 ,von       
,peckzely1 of ,budapest1 ,hungary1      
discovered ,nature's records  in the    
eye1 quite by accident1 when a boy ten  
years of age4    ,playing one day in the
 garden at his home1 he caught an owl4  
,while  struggling with the bird1 he    
broke one of its limbs4 ,gazing straight
  into the owl's large1 bright eyes1 he 
noticed1 at the moment when  the bone   
snapped1 the appearance of a black spot 
in the lower  central region of the     
iris1 which area he later found to      
correspond  to the location of the      
broken leg4    ,the boy put a splint on 
the broken limb and kept the owl as a   
pet4  ,as the fracture healed1 he       
noticed that the black spot in the iris 

became overdrawn with a white film and  
surrounded by a white border  7denoting 
the formation of scar tissues in the    
broken bone74    ,this incident made a  
lasting impression on the mind of the   
future  doctor4 ,it often recurred to   
him in later years4 ,from further       
observations he gained the conviction   
that abnormal physical  conditions are  
portrayed in the eyes4    ,as a student1
 ,von ,peckzely became involved in the  
revolutionary  movement of #ahdh and was
 put in prison as an agitator and       
ringleader4 ,during his confinement1 he 
had plenty of time and  leisure to      
pursue his favorite theory and he became
 more and more  convinced of the        
importance of his discovery4 ,after his 
release1 he  entered upon the study of  
medicine1 in order to develop his       
important discoveries and to confirm    
them more fully in the  operating and   
dissecting rooms4 ,he had himself       
enrolled as an  interne in the surgical 
wards of the college hospital4 ,here he 

had  ample opportunity to observe the   
eyes of patients before and after       
accidents and operations1 and in that   
manner he was enabled to  elaborate the 
first accurate ,chart of the ,eye4      
,since ,von ,peckzely gave his          
discoveries to the world1 many          
well-known scientists and conscientious 
observers in ,austria1  ,germany and    
,sweden have devoted their lives to the 
perfection of  this wonderful science4  
,the regular schools of medicine1 as a  
body1  have ignored and will ignore it1 
because it discloses the fallacy of     
their favorite theories and practices1  
and because it reveals  unmistakably the
 direful results of chronic drug        
poisoning and  ill-advised operations4  
,in our work we do not confine ourselves
 to the ,diagnosis from the  ,eye1 but  
combine with it the diagnostic methods  
7physical diagnosis7  of the regular    
school of medicine and the osteopathic  
diagnosis of  bony lesions1 as well as  
microscopic examinations and chemical   

analyses4    ,thus any one of these     
methods supplements and verifies all the
  others4 ,in this way only is it       
possible to arrive at a thorough and    
definite understanding of the patient's 
condition4    ,the ,key to the          
,diagnosis from the ,eye outlines with  
precision the  areas of the iris as they
 correspond to the various parts of the 
body4 ,this colored chart of the iris   
has been prepared by ,dr4 ,h4  ,lahn1   
author of ,the ,diagnosis ,from the     
,eye1 and can be obtained  from the     
,kosmos ,publishing ,co41 #baab ,sherman
 ,ave41 ,evanston1 ,ill4        ,chapter
 ,,xxiv      ,vitality      ,in ,chapter
 ,four1 we named1 as the first of the   
primary causes of  disease1 lowered     
vitality4    ,what can we do to increase
 vitality8 ,old ,school physicians and  
people in general seem to think that    
this can be done by consuming  large    
quantities of nourishing food and drink 
and by the use of  stimulants and       
tonics4    ,the constant cry of patients

 is3 ,doctor1 if you could only         
prescribe some good tonic or some food  
that will give me strength1  then ,i    
should be all right6 ,i am sure that is 
all ,i need to be  cured4    ,we fully  
agree with the patient that he needs    
more vitality to  overcome disease1 but 
unfortunately this cannot be obtained   
from  food and drink1 from stimulants   
and tonics4    ,vitality1 life1 life    
force1 whatever we may call it or       
whatever its  aspect1 is not something  
we can eat and drink4 ,it is independent
 of  the physical body and of material  
food4 ,if the body should fall  dead1 as
 we call it1 the life force would       
continue to act just as  vigorously in  
the spiritual body1 which is the exact  
counterpart of  the physical organism4  
,the physical-material body as well as  
the spiritual-material body  are only   
the instruments for the manifestation of
 the life force4  ,they are no more life
 itself than the violin is the artist4  
,but just as the violin must be kept in 

good condition in order to  enable the  
artist to draw from it the harmonies of 
sound1 so food  and drink are necessary 
to keep the physical body in the best   
possible condition for the manifestation
 of vital force4 ,the more  normal our  
physical and spiritual bodies are in    
structure and  function1 the more       
harmonious our thought life and         
emotional life1  the more abundant will 
be the influx of vital force into the   
twofold  organism4    ,this important   
subject has been treated more fully in  
,chapter ,,iv4    ,ignorance of these   
simple truths leads to the most serious 
mistakes4  ,physicians and people in    
general do not stop to think that       
excessive  eating and drinking tend to  
rob the body of vitality instead of     
supplying it4    ,the processes of      
digestion1 assimilation and elimination 
of food and  drink in themselves require
 a considerable expenditure of vital    
force4 ,therefore all food taken in     
excess of the actual needs of the  body 

consumes life force that should be      
available for other  purposes1 for the  
execution of physical and mental work4  
,the ,romans had a proverb3 ,plenus     
venter non studet libenter--,a  full    
stomach does not like to study4 ,the    
most wholesome food1 if  taken in       
excess1 will clog the system with waste 
matter just as too  much coal will      
dampen and extinguish the fire in the   
furnace4    ,furthermore1 the morbid    
materials and systemic poisons produced 
by  impure1 unsuitable or wrongly       
combined foods will clog the cells and  
tissues of the body1 cause unnecessary  
friction and obstruct the  inflow and   
the operations of the vital energies1   
just as dust in a  watch will clog and  
impede the movements of its mechanism4  
,the greatest artist living cannot draw 
harmonious sounds from the  strings of  
the finest ,stradivarius if the body of 
the violin is  filled with dust and     
rubbish4 ,likewise1 the life force      
cannot act  perfectly in a body filled  

with morbid encumbrances4    ,the human 
organism is capable of liberating and   
manifesting daily a  limited quantity of
 vital force1 just as a certain amount  
of capital  in the bank will yield a    
specified sum of interest in a given    
time4  ,if more than the available      
interest be withdrawn1 the capital in   
the  bank will be decreased and         
gradually exhausted4    ,similarly1 if  
we spend more than our daily allowance  
of vital force1  nervous bankruptcy1    
that is1 nervous prostration or         
neurasthenia  will be the result4    ,it
 is the duty of the physician to        
regulate the expenditure of vital  force
 according to the income4 ,he must stop 
all leaks and guard  against            
wastefulness4    ,stimulation by        
,paralysis    ,this heading may seem    
paradoxical1 but it is borne out by     
fact4  ,stimulants are poison to the    
system4 ,few people realize that their  
exhilarating and apparently tonic       
effects are produced by the  paralysis  

of an important part of the nervous     
system4    ,if1 as we have learned1     
wholesome food and drink in themselves  
do  not contain and therefore cannot    
convey life force to the human  body1   
much less can this be accomplished by   
stimulants4    ,the human body has many 
correspondences with a watch4 ,both have
 a  motor or driving mechanism and an   
inhibitory or restraining  apparatus4   
,if it were not for the inhibiting      
balances1 the wound watchspring  would  
run off and spend its force in a few    
moments4 ,the expenditure  of the latent
 force in the wound spring must be      
regulated by the  inhibitory and        
balancing mechanism of the timepiece4   
,similarly1 the nervous system in the   
animal and human organism  consists of  
two main divisions3 the motor or driving
 and the  inhibitory or restraining     
mechanisms4    ,the driving power is    
furnished by the sympathetic nerves and 
the  motor nerves4 ,they convey the     
vital energies and nerve impulses to    

the cells and organs of the body1 thus  
initiating and regulating  their        
activities4    ,we found that the human 
body is capable of liberating in a given
  time1 say1 in twenty-four hours1 only 
a certain limited amount of  vital      
energy1 just as the wound spring of the 
watch is capable of  liberating in a    
given time only a certain amount of     
kinetic energy4    ,as in the watch the 
force of the spring is controlled by the
  regulating balances 7the anchor71 so  
in the body the expenditure of  vital   
energy must be regulated in such a      
manner that it is evenly  distributed   
over the entire running time4 ,this is  
accomplished by  the inhibitory nervous 
system the parasympathetics4    ,every  
motor nerve must be balanced by an      
inhibitory nerve4 ,the one  furnishes   
the driving force1 the other applies the
 brake4 ,for  instance1 the heart muscle
 is supplied with motor force through   
the  spinal nerves from the upper dorsal
 region1 while the pneumogastric  vagus 

nerve retards the action of the heart   
and in that way acts  as a brake4       
,another brake is supplied by the waste 
products of metabolism in the  system1  
the uric acid1 carbonic acid1 oxalic    
acid1 etc41 and the  many forms of      
xanthines1 alkaloids1 and ptomaines4 ,as
 these  accumulate in the organism      
during the hours of wakeful activity1   
they gradually clog the capillary       
circulation1 benumb brain and  nerves1  
and thus produce a feeling of exhaustion
 and tiredness and a  craving for rest  
and sleep4    ,in this way1 by means of 
the inhibitory nervous system and of the
  accumulating fatigue products in the  
body1 ,nature forces the  organism to   
rest and recuperate when the available  
supply of vital  force runs low4 ,the   
lower the level of vital force1 the more
  powerful will become the inhibitory   
influences4    ,now we can understand   
why stimulation is produced by          
paralysis4  ,stimulants precipitate the 
fatigue products from the circulation   

into the tissues of the body4 ,they do  
this by overcoming and  paralyzing the  
power of the blood to dissolve and carry
 in solution  uric acid and other acids 
and alkaloids that should be eliminated 
from the organism4 ,thus will be        
explained more fully in the volume on   
,natural ,dietetics4    ,furthermore1   
stimulants temporarily benumb and       
paralyze the  inhibitory nervous system4
 ,in other words1 they lift the brakes  
from  the motor nervous system1 and     
allow the driving powers to run wild    
when ,nature wanted them to slow up or  
stop4    ,to illustrate3 ,a man has been
 working hard all day4 ,toward night his
  available supply of vitality has run  
low1 his system is filled with  uric    
acid1 carbonic acid and other benumbing 
fatigue products1 and  he feels tired   
and sleepy1 ,at this juncture he        
receives word that he  must sit up all  
night with a sick relative4 ,in order to
 brace  himself for the extraordinary   
demand upon his vitality1 our friend    

takes a cup of strong coffee1 or a drink
 of whisky1 or whatever his  favorite   
stimulant may be4    ,the effect is     
marvelous4 ,the tired feeling           
disappears1 and he feels  as though he  
could remain awake all night without    
effort4    ,what has produced this      
apparent renewal and increase of vital  
energy8 ,has the stimulant added to his 
system one iota of vitality8  ,this     
cannot be1 because stimulants do not    
contain anything that  could impart     
vital force to the organism4 ,what1     
then1 has produced  the seemingly       
strengthening effect8    ,the caffeine1 
alcohol or whatever the stimulating     
poison may have  been has precipitated  
the fatigue products from the blood and 
deposited them in the tissues and organs
 of the body4 ,furthermore1  the        
stimulant has benumbed the inhibitory   
nerves2 in other words1 it  has lifted  
the brakes from the driving part of the 
organism1 so that  the wheels are       
running wild4    ,but this means drawing

 upon the reserve supplies of nerve fats
 and  of the vital energy stored in     
them1 which ,nature wants to save for   
extraordinary demands upon the system in
 times of illness or extreme  exertion4 
,therefore this procedure is contrary to
 ,nature's  intent4 ,nature tried to    
force the tired body to rest and sleep1 
so  that it could store up a new supply 
of vital force4    ,under the paralyzing
 influence of the stimulant upon the    
inhibitory  nerves1 the organism now    
draws upon the reserve stores of nerve  
fats  and vital energies for the        
necessary strength to accomplish the    
extra nightwork4    ,at the same time1  
the organism remains awake and active   
during the  time it should be           
replenishing energy for the next day's  
work1 which  means that the latter also 
has to be done at the expense of the    
reserve supply of life force4    ,during
 sleep only do we replenish our reserve 
stores of vitality4  ,the expenditure of
 vital energies ceases1 but their       

liberation in  the system continues4    
,therefore sleep is the sweet restorer4 
,nothing can take its place4  ,no amount
 of food and drink1 no tonics or        
stimulants can make up for  the loss of 
sleep4 ,continued complete deprivation  
of sleep is bound  to end in a short    
time in physical and mental exhaustion1 
in  insanity and death4    ,that the    
body1 during sleep1 acts as a storage   
battery for vital  energy is proved by  
the fact that in deep1 sound sleep the  
aura  disappears entirely from around   
the body4    ,the aura is to the        
organism what the exhaust steam is to   
the engine4  ,it is formed by the       
electromagnetic fluids which have       
performed  their work in the body and   
then escape from it1 giving the         
appearance of a many-colored halo4      
,with the first awakening of conscious  
mental activity after sleep1  the aura  
appears1 indicating that the expenditure
 of vital force has  recommenced4    ,in
 the above diagram we have an           

illustration of the true effect of      
stimulants upon the system4 ,the heavy  
line ,a-,b represents the normal  level 
of available vital energy in a certain  
body for a given time1  say1 for        
twenty-four hours4 ,at point ,c a       
stimulant is taken4 ,this  paralyzes the
 inhibitory nerves and temporarily      
precipitates the  fatigue products from 
the blood4    ,as we have seen1 this    
allows an increased1 unnatural          
expenditure of  vital energy1 which     
raises the latter to point ,d4 ,but when
 the  effect of the stimulant has been  
spent1 the vital energy drops from  the 
artificially attained high point not    
only back to the normal  level1 but     
below it to point ,e4    ,the increased 
expenditure of vital energy was made    
possible at the  expense of the reserve 
supply of vitality2 therefore the       
depression  following it is in          
proportion to the preceding stimulation4
 ,this is  in accordance with the law3  
,action and reaction are equal1 but     

opposite4    ,the falling of the vital  
energy below the normal to point ,e is  
accompanied by a feeling of exhaustion  
and depression which creates  a desire  
to repeat the pleasurable experience of 
an abundant supply  of vitality1 and    
thus leads to a repetition of the       
artificial  stimulation4 ,as a result of
 this1 the expenditure of vitality is   
again raised above the normal to point  
,f1 only to fall again below  the       
normal1 to ,g1 etc4    ,in this way the 
person who resorts to stimulants to keep
 up his  strength or to increase it1 is 
never normal1 never on the level1  never
 at his best4 ,he is either             
overstimulated or abnormally  depressed4
 ,his efforts are bound to be fitful and
 his work uneven in  quality4           
,furthermore1 it will be only a matter  
of time until he  exhausts his reserve  
supply of nerve fats and vital energy   
and then  suffers nervous bankruptcy in 
the forms of nervous prostration1       
neurasthenia or insanity4    ,such a    

person is acting like the spendthrift   
whose capital in the  bank allows him to
 expend ten dollars a day1 but who1     
instead1 draws  several times the amount
 of his legitimate daily interest4      
,there can  be but one outcome to this3 
in due time the cashier will inform him 
that his account is overdrawn4    ,the  
same principles hold true with regard to
 stimulants given at the  sickbed4      
,one of the arguments ,i constantly hear
 from students and physicians  of the   
,old ,school of medicine is3 ,some of   
your methods may be all  right1 but what
 would you do at the sickbed of a       
patient who is so  weak and low that he 
may die at any moment8 ,would you just  
let him  die8 ,would you not give him   
something to keep him alive8    ,i      
certainly would1 if ,i could4 ,but ,i do
 not believe that poisons can  give     
life4 ,if there is enough vitality in   
that dying body to react  to the        
poisonous stimulant by a temporary      
increase of vital  activity1 then that  

same amount of vitality will keep the   
heart  beating and the respiration going
 a little longer at the slower  pace4   
,nature regulates the heartbeat and the 
other functions  according to the amount
 and availability of vital force4 ,if   
the  heart beats slow1 it is because    
,nature is trying to economize          
vitality4    ,in the inevitable         
depression following the artificial     
whipping up of  the vital energies1 many
 times the flame is snuffed out entirely
  when otherwise it might have continued
 to burn at the slower rate  for some   
time longer4    ,however1 ,i do not deny
 the advisability of administering      
stimulants  in cases of shock4 ,when a  
shock has caused the stopping of the    
wheels of life1 another shock by a      
stimulant may set them in motion  again4
    ,the ,effects of ,stimulants upon   
the ,mind    ,the mental and emotional  
exhilaration accompanying the indulgence
 in  alcohol or other poisonous         
stimulants is produced in a similar     

manner as the apparent increase of      
physical strength under the  influence  
of these agents4 ,here1 also1 the       
temporary stimulation and  seeming      
increase of power are effected by       
paralysis of the governing  and         
restraining faculties of mind and soul3 
of reason1 modesty1  reserve1 caution1  
reverence1 etc4    ,the moral1 mental   
and emotional capacities and powers of  
the human  entity are governed by the   
same principle of dual action that      
controls physical activity4 ,we have on 
the one hand the motor or  driving      
impulses1 and on the other hand the     
restraining and  inhibiting influences4 
,in these higher realms appetite1       
passion1 imagination and desire         
correspond to the motor nervous system  
in the physical organism1 and  the power
 of the will and the reasoning faculties
 represent the  inhibitory nervous      
system4    ,the exhilarating and        
stimulating influence of alcohol and    
narcotics  such as opiates or hashish   

upon the animal spirits and the         
emotional  and imaginative faculties is 
caused by the benumbing and paralyzing  
effect of these stimulants upon the     
powers of will1 reason and              
self-control1 the brakes on the lower   
appetites1 passions and  desires which  
fire the emotional nature and the       
imagination4  ,however1 what is gained  
in feeling and imagination1 is lost in  
judgment and logic4    ,alcohol1        
nicotine1 caffein1 theobromine1 lupulin 
7the bitter  principle of hops71 opium1 
cocaine1 morphine1 etc41 when given in  
certain doses1 all affect the human     
organism in a similar manner4    ,in    
small quantities they seemingly         
stimulate and animate2 in larger        
amounts they depress and stupefy4 ,in   
reality1 they are paralyzers  from the  
beginning in every instance1 and their  
apparent1 temporary  tonic effect is    
deceptive4 ,they benumb and paralyze not
 only the  physical organism1 but also  
the higher and highest mental and moral 

qualities1 capacities and powers4       
,these higher and finer qualities are   
located in the front part of  the brain4
 ,in the evolution of the species from  
lower to higher1 the  brain gradually   
developed and enlarged in a forward     
direction4 ,thus  we find in the lowest 
order of fishes that all they possess of
 brain  matter is a small protuberance  
at the end of the spinal cord4 ,as the  
species and families rose in the scale  
of evolution1 the brain  developed      
proportionately from behind forward and 
became  differentiated into three       
distinct divisions3 the medulla         
oblongata1  the cerebellum1 and the     
cerebrum4    ,the medulla oblongata1    
situated at the base of the brain where 
it  joins the spinal cord1 contains     
those brain centers that control the    
purely vegetative1 vital functions3 the 
circulation of the blood1  the          
respiration1 regulation of animal heat1 
etc4    ,the cerebellum1 in front of and
 above the medulla1 is the seat of  the 

centers for the coordination of muscular
 activities and for  maintaining the    
equilibrium of the body4    ,the frontal
 brain or cerebrum contains the centers 
for the sensory  organs1 also the motor 
centers which supply the driving        
impulses for  the muscular activities of
 the body1 and in the occipital and     
frontal lobes1 the centers for the      
higher and highest qualities of  mind   
and soul1 which constitute the governing
 and restraining  faculties on which    
depend the powers of self-control4      
,thus we see that the development of the
 brain has been in a forward  direction1
 from the upper extremity of the spinal 
cord to the  frontal lobes of the       
cerebrum1 from the low1 vegetative      
qualities of  the animal and the savage 
to the complex and refined activities of
  the highly civilized and trained mind4
    ,it is an interesting and most      
significant fact that paralysis of      
brain centers caused by alcohol and     
other stimulants1 or by  hypnotics and  

narcotics1 proceeds reversely to the    
order of their  development during the  
processes of evolution4    ,the first to
 succumb are the brain centers in the   
frontal lobes of  the cerebrum1 which   
control the latest-developed and        
most-refined  human attributes4 ,these  
are3 modesty1 caution1 reserve1         
reverence1  altruism4 ,then follow in   
the order given3 memory1 reason1 logic1 
intelligence1 will power1 self-control1 
the control of muscular  coordination   
and equilibrium and finally             
consciousness and the vital  activities 
of heart action and respiration4        
,when the conscious activities of the   
soul have been put to sleep1  the       
paralysis extends to the subconscious   
activities of life or  vital force4     
,respiration and heart action become    
weak and labored1  and may finally cease
 entirely4    ,in order to verify this1 
let us study the effects of alcohol1 the
  best-known and most-used of           
stimulants4 ,many people believe that   

alcohol increases not only physical     
strength1 but mental energy  also4      
,regular medical science considers it a 
valuable tonic in all  cases of physical
 and mental depression4 ,it is often    
administered in  surgical operations and
 in accidents with the idea of          
prolonging  life4 ,i have frequently    
found the whisky or brandy bottle at the
  bedside of infants and on it the      
directions of the attending  physician4 
,watch the effect of this tonic on a    
group of convivial spirits at a         
banquet4 ,full honor is done to the art 
of the chef1 and the wine  flows freely4
 ,the flow of animal spirits increases  
proportionately2  conviviality1 wit and 
humor rise by leaps and bounds4 ,but the
  apparent joy and happiness are in     
reality nothing but the play of  the    
lower animal impulses1 unrestrained by  
the higher powers of mind  and soul4    
,the words of the afterdinner speaker   
who1 when sober1 is a sedate  and       
earnest gentleman1 flow with unusual    

ease4 ,the close and  unprejudiced      
observer notices1 however1 that what the
 speaker has  gained in eloquence1      
loquacity and exuberance of style and   
expres-sion1 he has lost in logic1      
clearness and good sense4    ,as ,king  
,alcohol tightens his grasp on the merry
 company1 the  toasters and speakers    
lose more and more their control over   
speech  and actions4 ,what was at first 
mischievous abandon and merry jest1     
gradually degenerates into              
loquaciousness1 coarseness and querulous
  brawls4 ,here and there one of the    
maudlin crowd drops off in the  stupor  
of drunkenness4    ,if the liquor is    
strong enough and if the debauch is     
continued long  enough1 it may end in   
complete paralysis of the vital         
functions or  in death4    ,hypnotism   
and ,obsession    ,again1 we find the   
seeming paradox of stimulation by       
paralysis  exemplified in the phenomena 
of hypnotism and obsession4 ,the        
abnormally exaggerated sensation1       

feeling and imagination of the  subject 
under hypnotic control are made possible
 because the higher1  critical and      
restraining faculties and powers of     
will1 reason and  self-control are      
temporarily or permanently benumbed and 
paralyzed  by the stronger will of the  
hypnotist or of the obsessing           
intelligence4    ,there is a most       
interesting resemblance between the     
effects of  stimulants1 narcotics or    
hypnotic control and blind1 unreasoning 
faith4 ,the latter also benumbs and     
paralyzes judgment and reason4 ,it      
gives full sway to the powers of        
imagination and thus may produce        
seemingly miraculous results4    ,this  
explains the modus operandi of faith    
cures as well as the  fitful strength of
 the intoxicated and the insane1 or the 
beautiful  dreams and delusions of      
grandeur of the drug addict4    ,the    
close resemblance and relationship      
between hypnotic control and  faith     
became vividly apparent to me while     

witnessing the performance  of a        
professional hypnotist4 ,his subject on 
the stage was a young  woman who1 under 
his control1 performed extraordinary    
feats of  strength and resistance4      
,several strong men could not lift or   
move  her in any way4    ,what was the  
reason8 ,in the ordinary1 waking        
condition her judgment  and common sense
 would tell her3 ,i cannot resist the   
combined  strength of these men4 ,of    
course1 they can lift me and pull me    
here  and there4 ,as a result of this   
doubting state of mind1 she would  not  
have the strength to resist4            
,however1 the control of the hypnotist  
had paralyzed her reasoning  faculties  
and therewith her capacity for judging1 
doubting and not  believing4 ,her       
subconscious mind accepted without      
question or the  shadow of a doubt the  
suggestion of the hypnotist that she did
  possess the strength to resist the    
combined efforts of the men and  as a   
result she actually manifested the      

necessary powers of  resistance4    ,it 
is an established fact that the         
impressions 7records7 made upon  the    
subconscious mind under certain         
conditions as1 for instance1  under     
hypnotic influence absolutely control   
the activities of the  physical body4   
,does not this throw an interesting     
light on the power of absolute  faith1  
on the saying3 ,everything is possible  
to him who believeth8  ,blind1          
unreasoning faith benumbs and paralyzes 
judgment and reason  in similar manner  
as hypnotic control or stimulants and in
 that way  gives free and full sway to  
the powers of imagination and           
autosuggestion for good or ill1 for     
white magic or black magic1  according  
to the purpose for which faith is       
exerted4    ,it also becomes apparent   
that such blind1 unreasoning faith      
cannot  be constructive in its influence
 upon the higher mental1 moral and      
spiritual faculties4 ,these can be      
developed only by the conscious  and    

voluntary exercise of will1 reason and  
self-control4    ,from the foregoing it 
will have become evident that we cannot 
increase vital force in the body through
 any artificial means or  methods from  
without1 by food1 drink or stimulant4   
,what we can and  should do1 however1 is
 to put the organism into the best      
possible  condition for the liberation  
and manifestation of life force or      
vital energy4    ,the more normal the   
chemical composition of the blood1 and  
the more  free the tissues are from     
clogging impurities1 poisons and        
mechanical obstructions1 such as lesions
 of the spinal column1 the  more        
abundant will be the liberation and the 
available supply of  vital energy4      
,therefore perfect1 buoyant health1     
which ensures the greatest  possible    
efficiency and enjoyment of life1 can be
 attained and  maintained only by strict
 adherence to the natural ways of living
  and1 when necessary1 by the natural   
treatment of diseases4        ,chapter  

,,xxv      ,natural ,dietetics      ,the
 chemical composition of blood and lymph
 depends upon the  chemical composition 
of food and drink1 and upon the normal  
or  abnormal condition of the digestive 
organs4    ,the purer the food and      
drink1 the less it contains of morbid   
matter  and poison-producing materials  
and the more it contains of the         
elements necessary for the proper       
execution of the manifold  functions of 
the organism1 for the building and      
repair of tissues  and for the          
neutralization and elimination of waste 
and systemic  poisons1 the more normal  
and the more natural will be the diet4  
,the system of dietetics of the ,nature 
,cure school is based upon the          
composition of ,,milk1 which is the only
 perfect natural food  combination in   
existence4    ,in its composition1 milk 
corresponds very closely to red1        
arterial  blood and contains all the    
elements which the newborn and growing  
organism needs in exactly the right     

proportions1 providing1 of  course1 that
 the human or animal body which produces
 the milk is in  good health and lives  
on pure and normal foods4    ,therefore1
 if any food combination or diet is to  
be normal or  natural1 it must approach 
in its chemical composition the chemical
  composition of milk or of red1        
arterial blood4 ,this furnishes a       
strictly scientific basis for an exact  
science of dietetics1 and  proves true  
not only in the chemical aspect of the  
diet problem1 but  also in every other  
aspect and in its practical application4
    ,the regular school of medicine pays
 little or no attention to  rational    
food regulation4 ,in fact1 it knows     
nothing about it1  because natural      
dietetics are as yet not taught in      
medical  schools4 ,as a result of this  
condition1 the dietary advice given by  
the majority of ,old ,school            
practitioners is something as follows3  
,eat what agrees with you3 plenty of    
good1 nourishing food4 ,there is        

nothing in dietetic fads4 ,what is one  
man's meat is another man's  poison1    
etc4    ,however1 if we study dietetics 
from a strictly scientific point of     
view1 we find that certain foods--among 
these especially the highly  valued     
flesh foods1 eggs1 pulses and           
cereals--create in the system  large    
quantities of morbid1 poisonous         
substances1 while on the other  hand    
fruits and vegetables1 which are rich in
 the organic salts1  tend to neutralize 
and to eliminate from the system the    
waste  materials and poisons created in 
the processes of protein and starch     
digestion4    ,the accumulations of     
waste and systemic poisons are the cause
 of the  majority of diseases arising   
within the human organism4 ,therefore it
  is imperative that the neutralizing   
and eliminating food elements be        
provided in sufficient quantities4      
,on this turns the entire problem of    
natural dietetics4 ,while the  ,old     
,school of medicine looks upon starches1

 sugars1 fats and  proteins as the only 
elements of nutrition worthy of         
consideration1  ,nature ,cure aims to   
reduce these foods in the natural       
dietary and to  increase the purifying  
and eliminating fruits and vegetables4  
,in this volume we cannot go into the   
details of the diet question4  ,they    
will be treated in full in our          
,vegetarian ,cookbook and in our  volume
 on ,natural ,dietetics4 ,we shall say  
here in a general way  that in the      
treatment of chronic diseases1 with few 
exceptions1 we  favor a strict          
vegetarian diet for the reason that most
 chronic  diseases are created1 as      
before stated1 by the accumulation of   
the  feces of the cells in the system4  
,every piece of animal flesh is         
saturated with these excrements of  the 
cells in the form of uric acid and many 
other kinds of acids1  alkaloids of     
putrefaction1 xanthines1 ptomaines1 etc4
 ,the organism  of the meat eater must  
dispose not only of its own impurities  

produced in the processes of digestion  
and of cell metabolism1 but  also of the
 morbid substances that are already     
contained in the  animal flesh4         
,since the cure of chronic diseases     
consists largely in purifying the  body 
of morbid materials1 it stands to reason
 that a chronic must  cease taking these
 in his daily food and drink4 ,to do    
otherwise  would be like sweeping the   
dirt out of a house through the front   
door and carrying it in again through   
the back door4    ,whether one approves 
of strict vegetarianism as a continuous 
mode of  living or not1 it will be      
admitted that the change from a meat    
diet  to a nonmeat diet must be of great
 benefit in the treatment of  chronic   
diseases4    ,the cure of chronic       
conditions depends upon radical changes 
in the  cells and tissues of the body1  
as explained in ,chapter ,twenty4 ,the  
old1 abnormal1 faulty diet will continue
 to build the same abnormal  and        
disease-encumbered tissues4 ,the more   

thorough and radical the  change in diet
 toward normality and purity1 the       
quicker the cells  and tissues of the   
body will change toward the normal and  
thus bring  about a complete            
regeneration of the organism4           
,anything short of this may be          
palliative treatment1 but is not  worthy
 the name of cure4    ,natural ,foods   
,in the following ,i shall give the     
outline a natural diet regimen  which   
has been found by experience to meet all
 requirements of the  healthy organism1 
even when people have to work very hard 
physically  or mentally4 ,in case of    
disease1 certain modifications may have 
to  be made according to individual     
conditions4 ,persons in a low1  negative
 state1 whether physical1 mental or     
psychical1 may  temporarily require the 
addition of flesh foods to their diet4  
,dietetics ,in ,a ,nutshell    ,food    
,classes    ,predominant    ,chemical   
,elements    ,functions in ,vital       
,processes    ,foods in ,which the      

,elements of the ,respective ,groups    
,predominate    ,,group ,i              
,carbohydrates    ,starches and         
,dextrines    ,carbon    ,oxygen        
,hydrogen    ,producers of ,heat and    
,energy    ,,cereals3 ,the inner1 white 
parts of wheat1 corn1 rye1 oats1 barley1
  buckewheat and rice4 ,,vegetables3    
,potatoes1 pumpkins1 squashes4          
,,fruits3 ,bananas4 ,,nuts3 ,chestnuts  
,,group ,,ii    ,carbohydrates          
,sugars    ,carbon    ,oxygen           
,hydrogen    ,producers of    ,heat and 
,energy    ,,vegetables3 ,melons1 beets1
 sorghum4 ,,fruits3 ,bananas1 dates1    
figs1  grapes1 raisins4 ,,dairy         
,,products3 ,milk4 ,,natural ,,sugars3  
,honey1 maple  sugar4 ,,commercial      
,,sugars3 ,white sugar1 syrup1 glucose1 
candy4 ,,nuts3  ,cocoanuts4    ,,group  
,,iii    ,hydrocarbons    ,fats and     
,oils    ,carbon    ,oxygen    ,hydrogen
    ,producers of    ,heat and          
,energy    ,,fruits3 ,olives4 ,,dairy   
,,products3 ,cream1 butter1 cheese4     

,,nuts3  ,peanuts1 almonds1 walnuts1    
cocoanuts1 ,brazil nuts1 pecans1        
pignolias1 etc4 ,,commercial ,,fats3    
,olive oil1 peanut oil1 peanut  butter1 
vegetable-cooking oils4 ,,the ,,yokes   
,,of ,,eggs    ,,group ,,iv    ,proteids
    ,albumen    7white of egg7          
,gluten    7grains7    ,myosin    7lean 
meat7    ,carbon    ,oxygen    ,hydrogen
    ,nitrogen    ,phosphorus    ,sulphur
    ,producers of ,heat and ,energy2    
,building ,materials for ,cells and     
,tissues    ,,cereals3 ,the outer1 dark 
parts of wheat1 corn1 rye1 oats1 barley1
  buckwheat1 and rice4 ,,vegetables3    
,the legumes 7peas1 beans1 lentils71    
mushrooms4 ,,nuts3 ,cocoanuts1          
chestnuts1 peanuts1 pignolias 7pine     
nuts71 hickorynuts1 hazelnuts1 walnuts1 
pecans1 etc4 ,,dairy ,,products3  ,milk1
 cheese4 ,,meats3 ,muscular parts of    
animals1 fish1 and fowls4    ,,group ,v 
,organic ,minerals    ,organic          
,mineral    ,elements    ,sodium    ,na 
,ferrum 7,iron7    ,fe    ,calcium      

7,lime7    ,ca    ,potassium    ,k      
,magnesium    ,mg    ,manganese    ,mn  
,silicon    ,si    ,chlorine    ,cl     
,flourine    ,fl    ,eliminators3       
,bone1 ,blood1 and ,nerve    ,builders2 
,antiseptics3    ,blood ,purifiers2     
,laxitives2    ,cholagogues2            
,producers of    ,electro-magnetic      
,energies    ,,the ,,red ,,blood ,,of   
,,animals4 ,,cereals3 ,the hulls and    
outer1 dark layers  of grains and rice4 
,,vegetables3 ,lettuce1 spinach1        
cabbage1 green  peppers1 watercress1    
celery1 onions1 asparagus1 cauliflower1 
tomatoes1 string-beans1 fresh peas1     
parsley1 cucumbers1 radishes1  savoy1   
horseradish1 dandelion1 beets1 carrots1 
turnips1 eggplant1  kohlrabi1           
oysterplant1 artichokes1 leek1 rosekale 
7,brussels  sprouts71 parsnips1         
pumpkins1 squashes1 sorghum4 ,,fruits3  
,apples1  pears1 peaches1 oranges1      
lemons1 grapefruit1 plums1 prunes1      
apricots1 cherries1 olives4 ,,berries3  
,strawberries1 huckleberries1  cranb    

erries1 blackberries1 blueberries1      
raspberries1 gooseberries1  currants4   
,,dairy ,,products3 ,milk1 buttermilk1  
skimmed milk4 ,,nuts3  ,cocoanuts4      
,in the accompanying table entitled     
,dietics ,in ,a ,nutshell we have       
divided all food materials into five    
groups3    ,,group3    7,carbohydrates73
 ,starches4 7,carbohydrates73 ,dextrins 
and sugars4  7,hydrocarbons73 ,fats and 
oils4 7,proteids73 white of egg1 lean   
meat1  the gluten of grains and pulses1 
the proteins of nuts and milk4          
7,organic ,minerals73 ,iron1 sodium     
calcium1 potassium1 magnesium1  silicon4
 ,these are contained in largest amounts
 in the juicy fruits  and the leafy1    
juicy vegetables4    ,as a general rule1
 let one-half of your food consist of   
,group ,v and  the other half of a      
mixture of the first four groups4    ,if
 you wish to follow a pure food diet1   
exclude meat1 fish1 fowl1  meat soups   
and sauces and all other foods prepared 
from the dead  animal carcass4    ,this 

is brief and comprehensive4 ,when in    
doubt1 consult this rule4    ,also do   
not use coffee1 tea1 alcoholic          
beverages1 tobacco or  stimulants of any
 kind4    ,good foods are3    ,dairy    
,products3 milk1 buttermilk1 skimmed    
milk1 cream1 butter1 fresh  cottage     
cheese4 fermented cheeses1 as ,american1
 ,swiss1 ,holland and  ,de,brie1 should 
be used sparingly4 ,the stronger cheeses
 like  ,camembert and ,roquefort should 
not be used at all    ,eggs3 ,raw1      
soft-boiled or poached1 not fried or    
hard-boiled4 ,eggs  should be used      
sparingly4 ,two eggs three times a week 
or on an  average one egg a day1 is     
sufficient4    ,white of egg is much    
easier to digest than the yolk1         
therefore the  whites only should be    
used in cases of very weak digestion4   
,beaten  up with orange juice1 they are 
both palatable and wholesome2 or they   
may be beaten very stiff and served cold
 with a sauce of prune juice  or other  
cooked fruit juices4 ,this makes a      

delicious and very  nutritive dish4     
,honey is a very valuable food and a    
natural laxative4 ,it is not  generally 
known that honey is not a purely        
vegetable product1 but  that in passing 
through the organism of the bee it      
partakes of its  life element 7animal   
magnetism74    ,honey is one of the best
 forms of sugar available4 ,the white   
sugar  is detrimental to health1 because
 it has become inorganic through  the   
refining process4 ,the brown1 unrefined 
granulated sugar or maple  sugar should 
be used instead4    ,figs1 dates1       
raisins1 bananas and all the other sweet
 fruits are  excellent to satisfy the   
craving of the organism for sweets4     
,cereal ,foods3 ,rice1 wheat1 oats1     
barley1 are good when properly  combined
 with fruits and vegetables and with    
dairy products4 ,use  preferably the    
whole-grain preparations such as        
shredded wheat or  corn flakes4 ,oatmeal
 is not easily digestible2 it is all    
right for  robust people working in the 

open air1 but not so good for invalids  
and people of sedentary habits4    ,thin
 mushes are not to be recommended1      
because they do not require  mastication
 and therefore escape the action of the 
saliva1 which is  indispensable to the  
digestion of starchy foods4    ,avoid   
the use of white bread or any other     
white-flour products1  especially       
pastry4 ,white flour contains little    
more than the starchy  elements of the  
grain4 ,most of the valuable proteins   
which are equal  to meat in food value  
and the all-important organic salts     
which  lodge in the hulls and the outer 
layers of the grain have been  refined  
out of it together with the bran4 ,the  
latter is in itself  very valuable as a 
mechanical stimulant to the peristaltic 
action of  the bowels4    ,in preference
 to white bread eat ,graham bread or    
whole rye bread4  ,our health bread     
forms the solid foundation of a         
well-balanced  vegetarian diet4 ,it is  
prepared as follows3    ,take one-third 

each of white flour1 ,graham flour and  
rye meal 7not  the ordinary ,bohemian   
rye flour1 but the coarse pumpernickel  
meal  which contains the whole of the   
rye1 including the hull74    ,make a    
sponge of the white flour in the usual  
manner1 either with  good yeast or with 
leavened dough from the last baking1    
which has  been kept cold and sweet4    
,when the sponge has risen sufficiently1
  work the graham flour and rye meal    
into it4 ,thorough kneading is of       
importance4 ,let rise slowly a second   
time1 place in pans1 and bake  slowly   
until thoroughly done4    ,by chemical  
analysis this bread has been found to   
contain more  nourishment than meat4 ,it
 is very easily digested and assimilated
  and is a natural laxative4 ,eaten with
 sweet butter and in  combination with  
fruits and vegetables1 it makes a       
complete and well  balanced meal4    ,a 
good substitute for bread is the        
following excellent whole wheat         
preparation3 ,soak clean1 soft wheat in 

cold water for about seven  hours and   
steam in a double boiler for from eight 
to twelve hours1  or cook in a fireless 
cooker over night4 ,eat with honey and  
milk or  cream1 or with prune juice1 fig
 juice1 etc41 or add butter and dates   
or raisins4 ,this dish is more          
nutritious than meat1 and one of the    
finest laxative foods in existence4     
,nuts are exceedingly rich in fats 7#fj 
percent7 and proteins 7#ae  percent71   
but rank low in mineral salts4          
,therefore they should be  used         
sparingly1 and always in combination    
with fruits1 berries or  vegetables4    
,the coconut differs from the other nuts
 in that it  contains less fats and     
proteins and more organic salts4 ,the   
meat of  the coconut together with its  
milk comes nearer to the chemical       
composition of human milk than any other
 food in existence4    ,vegetables      
,leguminous ,vegetables1 such as peas1  
beans and lentils in the  ripened state 
are richer in protein than meat 7#be    

percent71 and  besides they contain a   
large percentage of starchy food        
elements 7#fj  percent72 therefore they 
produce in the process of digestion     
large  quantities of poisonous acids1   
alkaloids of putrefaction and noxious   
gases4    ,they should not be taken in  
large quantities and only in combination
  cooked or raw vegetables4 ,as a       
dressing use lemon juice and olive  oil4
    ,peas and beans in the green state  
differ very much from their  chemical   
composition in the ripened state4 ,as   
long as these  vegetables are green and 
in the pulp1 they contain large         
quantities  of sugars and organic       
minerals1 with but little starch and    
protein4  ,as the ripening process      
advances1 the percentages of starches   
and  proteins increase1 while those of  
the sugars and of the organic  minerals 
decrease4 ,the latter retire into the   
leaves and stems  7polarization74    ,in
 the green1 pulpy state these foods may1
 therefore1 be classed  with ,group ,,ii

 7,sugars7 and with ,group ,v 7,organic 
,minerals71 while in  the ripened state 
they must be classed with ,groups ,i    
7,starches7 and  ,groups ,,iv           
7,proteids74    ,dried peas1 beans and  
lentils are more palatable and wholesome
 when  cooked in combination with       
tomatoes or prunes4    ,the ,leafy and  
,juicy ,vegetables growing in or near   
the ground are  very rich in the        
positive organic salts and therefore of 
great  nutritive and medicinal value4   
,for this reason they are best suited   
to balance the negative1 acid-producing 
starches1 sugars1 fats and  proteins4   
,lettuce1 spinach1 cabbage1 watercress1 
celery1 parsley1 savoy  cabbage1        
brussels sprouts1 ,scotch kale1 leek and
 endive rank highest  in organic mineral
 salts4 ,next to these come tomatoes1   
cucumbers1  green peppers1 radishes1    
onions1 asparagus1 cauliflower and      
horseradish47,see also ,group ,v in     
,dietetics in a ,nutshell47             
,splendid1 cooling summer foods1 rich in

 the blood-purifying organic  salts1 are
 watermelons1 muskmelons4 cantaloupes1  
pumpkins1 squashes  and other members of
 the melon family4    ,the green        
vegetables are most beneficial when     
eaten raw1 with a  dressing of lemon    
juice and olive oil4 ,avoid the use of  
vinegar as  much as possible4 ,it is a  
product of fermentation and a powerful  
preservative which retards digestion as 
well as fermentation1 both  processes   
being very much of the same character4  
,use neither pepper nor salt at the     
table4 ,they may be used sparingly  in  
cooking4 ,strong spices and condiments  
are more or less irritating  to the     
mucous linings of the intestinal tract4 
,they paralyze  gradually the nerves of 
taste4 ,at first they stimulate the     
digestive  organs2 but1 like all other  
stimulants1 in time they produce        
weakness and atrophy4    ,cooking of    
,vegetables    ,while most vegetables   
are not improved by cooking1 we do not  
mean  that they should never be cooked4 

,many diet reformers go to extremes     
when they claim that all the organic    
salts in fruits and vegetables  are     
rendered inorganic by cooking4 ,this is 
an exaggera-tion4 ,cooking  is merely a 
mechanical process of subdivision1 not a
 chemical  process of transformation4   
,mechanical processes of division do not
  dissolve or destroy organic molecules 
to any great extent4    ,nevertheless1  
it remains true that the green leafy    
vegetables are  not improved by cooking4
 ,it is different with the starchy      
tubers and  roots like potatoes1        
turnips1 etc41 and with other starchy   
foods  such as rice and grains4 ,here   
the cooking serves to break up and      
separate the hard starch granules and to
 make them more pervious to  penetration
 by the digestive juices4    ,how to    
,cook ,vegetables    ,after the         
vegetables are thoroughly washed and cut
 into pieces as  desired1 place them in 
the cooking vessel1 adding only enough  
water  to keep them from burning1 cover 

the vessel closely with a lid and  let  
them steam slowly in their own juices4  
,the leafy vegetables 7cabbage1 spinach1
 kale1 etc471 usually contain  enough   
water for their own steaming4    ,cook  
all vegetables only as long as is       
required to make them soft  enough for  
easy mastication4 ,do not throw away a  
drop of the water  in which such        
vegetables as carrots1 beets1 asparagus1
 oyster plant1  egg plant1 etc41 have   
been cooked4 ,use what is left for the  
making  of soups and sauces4    ,the    
organic mineral salts contained in the  
vegetables readily boil  out into the   
water4 ,if the vegetables1 as is the    
usual custom1 are  boiled in a large    
quantity of water1 then drained or1 what
 is still  worse1 pressed out1 they have
 lost their nutritive and medicinal     
value4 ,the mineral salts have vanished 
in the sink1 the remains are  insipid   
and indigestible and have to be soaked  
in soup stock and  seasoned with strong 
condiments and spices to make them at   

all  palatable4    ,fruits and ,berries 
,next to the leafy vegetables1 fruits   
and berries are the most  valuable foods
 of the organic minerals group4 ,lemons1
 grapefruit1  oranges1 apples are       
especially beneficial as blood          
purifiers4 ,plums1  pears1 peaches1     
apricots1 cherries1 grapes1 etc41       
contain large  amounts of fruit sugars  
in easily assimilable form and are also 
very  valuable on account of their      
mineral salts4    ,the different kinds  
of berries are even richer in mineral   
salts than  the acid and subacid fruits4
 ,in the country homes of ,germany they 
are always at hand either dried or      
preserved to serve during the  winter   
not only as delicious foods but also as 
valuable home  remedies4    ,fruits and 
berries are best eaten raw1 although    
they may be stewed  or baked4 ,very few 
people know that rhubarb and cranberries
 are very  palatable when cut up fine   
and well mixed with honey1 being allowed
  to stand for about an hour before     

serving4 ,prepared in this way1  they   
require much less sweetening and        
therefore do not tax the  organism      
nearly as much as the ordinary rhubarb  
or cranberry sauce1  which usually      
contains an excessive amount of sugar4  
,cooking of ,fruits    ,it is better to 
cook apples1 cranberries1 rhubarb1      
strawberries1 and  all other acid fruits
 without sugar until soft1 and to add   
the sugar  afterward4 ,much less sugar  
will be required to sweeten them        
sufficiently than when the sugar is     
added before or during the  cooking4    
,dried fruits rank next to the fresh in 
value1 as the evaporating  process only 
removes a large percentage of water1    
without changing  the chemical          
composition of the fruit in any way4    
,prunes1 apricots1  apples1 pears1      
peaches and berries may be obtained in  
the dried  state all through the year4  
,dates1 figs1 raisins and currants also 
come under this head4    ,olives are an 
excellent food4 ,they are very rich in  

fats 7about #ej  percent71 and contain  
also considerable quantities of organic 
salts4  ,they are therefore a good      
substitute for animal fat4    ,avoid    
factory-canned fruits4 ,in the first    
place1 they have become  deteriorated by
 the cooking process and secondly1 they 
usually  contain poisonous chemical     
preservatives4 ,home-preserved fruits   
and  vegetables are all right providing 
they do not contain too much  sugar and 
no poisonous preservative4    ,bananas  
differ from the juicy fruits in that    
they consist almost  entirely of        
starches1 dextrines and sugars4 ,they   
belong to the  carbohydrate groups and  
should be used sparingly by people      
suffering  from intestinal indigestion4 
,however1 we do not share the belief    
entertained by many people that  bananas
 are injurious under all circumstances4 
,we consider them an  excellent food1   
especially for children4    ,mixing     
,fruits and ,vegetables    ,many people1
 when they first sit down to our table1 

are horrified to  see how we mix fruits 
and vegetables in the same meal4 ,they  
have  been taught that it is a cardinal 
sin against the laws of health to  do   
this4 ,after they overcome their        
prejudice and partake heartily of  the  
meals as we serve them1 they are greatly
 surprised to find that  these          
combinations of vegetables and juicy    
fruits are not only  harmless1 but      
agreeable and highly beneficial4    ,we 
have never been able to find any good   
reason why these foods  should not be   
mixed and our experience proves that no 
ill effects  can be traced to this      
practice except in very rare instances4 
,there  are a few individuals with whom 
the mixing of fruits and vegetables     
does not seem to agree4 ,these1 of      
course1 should refrain from it4 ,we     
must comply with idiosyncrasies until   
they are overcome by natural  living4   
,eating fruits only or vegetables only  
at one and the same meal  limits the    
selection and combination of foods to a 

very considerable  extent and tends to  
create monotony1 which is not only      
unpleasant  but injurious4 ,the flow of 
saliva and of the digestive juices is   
greatly increased by the agreeable      
sight1 smell and taste of  appetizing   
food and these depend largely upon its  
variety4    ,with very few exceptions1  
every one of our patients 7and we have  
in  our institution as fine a collection
 of dyspeptics as can be found          
anywhere7 heartily enjoys our mixed     
dietary and is greatly benefited  by it4
    ,mixing ,starches and ,acid ,fruits 
,occasionally we find that one or       
another of our patients cannot eat      
starchy foods and acid fruits at the    
same meal without experiencing          
digestive disturbances4 ,whenever this  
is the case1 it is best to  take with   
bread or cereals only sweet1 alkaline   
fruits such as  prunes1 figs1 dates1    
raisins1 or1 in their season1           
watermelons and  cantaloupes or the     
alkaline vegetables such as radishes1   

lettuce1  onions1 cabbage slaw1 etc4    
,the acid and subacid fruits should then
  be taken between those meals which    
consist largely of starchy foods4    ,a 
,word ,about the ,milk ,diet    ,when we
 explain that the natural diet is based 
upon the chemical  composition of milk  
because milk is the only perfect natural
 food  combination in existence1 the    
question comes up3 ,why1 then1 not  live
 on milk entirely8 ,to this we reply3   
,while milk is the natural  food for the
 newborn and growing infant1 it is not  
natural for the  adult4 ,the digestive  
apparatus of the infant is especially   
adapted  to the digestion of milk1 while
 that of the adult requires more  solid 
and bulky food4    ,milk is a very      
beneficial article of diet in all acid  
diseases1  because it contains          
comparatively low percentages of        
carbohydrates  and proteins and large   
amounts of organic salts4    ,however1  
not everybody can use milk as a food or 
medicine4 ,in many  instances it causes 

biliousness1 fermentation and           
constipation4    ,in cases where it is  
easily digested1 a straight milk diet   
often  proves very beneficial4 ,as a    
rule1 however1 it is better to take     
fruits or vegetable salads with the     
milk4    ,directly with milk may be     
taken any sweetish1 alkaline fruits such
  as melons1 sweet pears1 etc41 or the  
dried fruits1 such as prunes1  dates1   
figs1 and raisins1 also vegetable       
salads4 ,with the latter1 if  taken     
together with milk1 little or no lemon  
juice should be used4    ,all acid and  
subacid fruits should be taken between  
the milk meals4    ,a patient on a milk 
diet may take from one to five quarts of
 milk  daily1 according to his capacity 
to digest it4 ,this quantity may be     
distributed over the day after the      
following plan3    ,breakfast3 ,one to  
three pints of milk1 sipped slowly with 
any of the  sweetish1 alkaline fruits   
mentioned above1 or with vegetable      
salads  composed of lettuce1 celery1 raw

 cabbage slaw1 watercress1 green        
onions1 radishes1 carrots1 etc    #aj3jj
 ,a4,m43 ,grapefruit1 oranges1 peaches1 
apples1 apricots1 berries1  grapes or   
other acid and subacid fruits4          
,luncheon3 ,the same as breakfast4      
#c3jj ,p4,m4 ,the same as #aj a4m4      
,supper3 ,the same as breakfast4 ,an    
orange or apple may be taken  before    
retiring4    ,when it is advisable to   
take a greater variety of food together 
with  large quantities of milk1 good    
whole grain bread and butter1 cream1    
honey1 cooked vegetables1 moderate      
amounts of potatoes and cereals  may be 
added to the dietary4    ,buttermilk    
,buttermilk is an excellent food for    
those with whom it agrees4 ,in  many    
instances a straight buttermilk diet for
 a certain period will  prove very      
beneficial4 ,this is especially true in 
all forms of uric  acid diseases4       
,sour milk or clabber also has excellent
 medicinal qualities and may  be taken  
freely by those with whom it agrees4    

,drinks    ,it has been stated before   
that coffee1 tea and alcoholic beverages
  should be avoided4    ,instead of the 
customary coffee1 tea or cocoa1         
delicious drinks1  which are nutritious 
and at the same time nonstimulating1 may
 be  prepared from the different fruit  
and vegetable juices4 ,they may be      
served cold in hot weather and warm in  
winter4 ,recipes for fruit and          
vegetable drinks will be included in our
 new ,vegetarian ,cookbook1  now in     
preparation4    ,if more substantial    
drinks are desired1 white of egg may be 
added or  the entire egg may be used in 
combination with prune juice1 fig  juice
 or any of the acid fruit juices4 ,other
 desirable and  unobjectionable         
additions to beverages are flaked nuts  
or bananas  mashed to a liquid4    ,the 
juice of a lemon or an orange1          
unsweetened1 diluted with twice  the    
amount of water1 taken upon rising1 is  
one of the best means of  purifying the 
blood and other fluids of the body and1 

incidentally1  clearing the complexion4 
,the water in which prunes or figs have 
been  cooked should be taken freely to  
remedy constipation4    ,as a practical 
illustration1 ,i shall describe briefly 
the daily  dietary regimen as it is     
followed in our sanitarium work4        
,breakfast consists of juicy fruits1    
raw1 baked or stewed1 a cereal  7whole  
wheat steamed1 cracked wheat1 shredded  
wheat1 corn flakes1  oat meal1 etc471   
and our health bread with butter1       
cottage cheese or  honey4 ,nuts of      
various kinds1 as well as figs1 dates1  
or raisins1  are always on the table4   
,to those of our patients who desire a  
drink1 we serve milk1 buttermilk or     
cereal coffee4    ,twice a week we serve
 eggs1 preferably raw1 soft boiled or   
poached4    ,luncheon is served at      
noontime and is composed altogether of  
acid  and subacid fruits1 vegetable     
salads or both4 ,we have found by       
experience that1 by having one meal     
consist entirely of fruits and          

vegetables1 the medicinal properties of 
these foods have a chance to  act on the
 system without interference by starchy 
and protein food  elements4    ,dinner  
is served to our patients between five  
and six4 ,the items of  the daily menu  
comprise relishes1 such as radishes1    
celery1 olives1  young onions1 raw      
carrots1 etc41 soup1 one or two cooked  
vegetables1  potatoes1 preferably boiled
 or baked in their skins1 and a dessert 
consisting of either a fruit combination
 or a pudding4    ,we serve soup three  
times a week only1 because we believe   
that a  large amount of fluid of any    
kind taken into the system at meal time 
dilutes and thereby weakens the         
digestive juices4 ,for this reason it   
is well to masticate with the soup some 
bread or crackers or some  vegetable    
relish4    ,as drinks we serve to those 
who desire it water1 milk or buttermilk4
    ,prunes or figs1 stewed or raw1 are 
served at every meal to those who       
require a specially laxative diet4      

,chapter ,,xxvi      ,acid ,diseases    
,the origin1 progressive development and
 cure of acid diseases are  very much   
the same whether they manifest as       
rheumatism1  arteriosclerosis1 stones   
7calculi71 gravel1 diabetes1 ,bright's  
disease1 affections of the heart or     
apoplexy4    ,the human body is made up 
of acid and alkaline constituents4 ,in  
order to have normal conditions and     
functions of tissues and organs1  both  
must be present in the right            
proportions4 ,if either the acid or  the
 alkaline elements are present in       
excessive or insufficient  quanitities1 
abnormal conditions and functions1 that 
is1 disease  will be the result4    ,all
 acids1 with the exception of carbonic  
acid1 exert a tensing  influence upon   
the tissues of the body1 while alkalies 
have a  relaxing effect4 ,the normal    
functions of the body depend upon the   
equilibrium between these opposing      
forces4    ,acidity and alkalinity      
undoubtedly play an important part in   

the  generation of electricity and      
magnetism in the human organism4 ,every 
electric cell and battery contains acid 
and alkaline elements2 and  the human   
body is a dynamo made up of innumerable 
minute electric  cells and batteries in 
the forms of living1 protoplasmic cells 
and  organs4    ,it has been claimed    
that what we call vital force is        
electricity and  magnetism1 and that    
these forces are manufactured in the    
human body4  ,this1 however1 is but a   
partial statement of the truth4 ,it is  
true  that vital force manifests in the 
body as electricity and magnetism1  but 
life or vital force itself is not       
generated in the system4    ,life is a  
primary force2 it is the source of all  
activity animating  the universe4 ,from 
this primary force other1 secondary     
forces are  derived1 such as            
electricity1 magnetism1 mind force1     
nerve and  muscle force1 etc4    ,these 
secondary1 derived forces cannot be     
changed back into vital  force in the   

human organism4 ,nothing can give life  
but ,,life itself4    ,when the physical
 body is dead1 as we call it1 the life  
which left  it is active in the         
spiritual body4 ,it is independent of   
the  physical organism just as          
electricity is independent of the       
incandescent bulb in which it manifests 
as light4    ,after this digression we  
shall return to our study of the cause  
and  development of acid diseases4      
,nearly every disease originating in    
the human body is due to or accompanied 
by the excessive formation  of different
 kinds of acids in the system1 the most 
important of  which are uric1 carbonic1 
sulphuric1 phosphoric and oxalic acids4 
,these1 together with xanthines1        
poisonous alkaloids and ptomaines1  are 
formed during the processes of protein  
and starch digestion and  in the        
breaking down and decay of cells and    
tissues4    ,of these different waste   
products1 uric acid causes probably the 
most trouble in the organism4 ,the      

majority of diseases arising  within the
 human body are due to its erratic      
behavior4 ,together with  oxalic acid1  
it is responsible for arteriosclerosis1 
arthritic  rheumatism and the formation 
of calculi4    ,dr4 ,haig of ,london has
 done excellent work in the             
investigation of  uric-acid poisoning1  
but he becomes one-sided when he makes  
uric  acid the scapegoat for all disease
 conditions originating in the          
organism4 ,in his philosophy of disease 
he fails to take into  consideration the
 effects of other acids and systemic    
poisons4 ,for  instance1 he does not    
mention the fact that carbonic acid is  
produced in the system somewhat         
similarly to the formation of coal  gas 
in the furnace2 and that its            
accumulation prevents the entrance  of  
oxygen into the cells and tissues1 thus 
causing asphyxiation or  oxygen         
starvation1 which manifests in the      
symptoms of anemia and  tuberculosis4   
,neither does ,dr4 ,haig explain the    

effects of other destructive            
by-products formed during the digestion 
of starches and proteins4  ,sulphurous  
acid and sulphuric acid 7vitriol71 as   
well as phosphorus  and phosphoric acids
 actually burn up the tissues of the    
body4 ,they  destroy the cellulose      
membranes which form the protecting     
skins or  envelopes of the cells1       
dissolve the protoplasm and allow the   
latter  to escape into the circulation4 
,this accounts for the symptoms of      
,bright's disease1 the presence of      
albumen 7cell protoplasm7 in blood  and 
urine1 the clogging of the circulation1 
the consequent  stagnation and the      
accumulation of blood serum 7dropsy7 and
 the  final breaking down of the tissues
 7necrosis7 resulting in open  sores and
 ulcers4    ,excess of phosphorus and   
the acids derived from it overstimulates
  the brain and the nervous system1     
causing nervousness1 irritability1      
hysteria and the different forms of     
mania4    ,an example of this is the    

distemper of a horse when given too much
  oats and not enough grass or hay4 ,the
 excess of phosphorus and  phosphoric   
acids formed from the protein materials 
of the grain1 if  not neutralized by the
 alkaline minerals contained in grasses1
 hay  or straw1 will overstimulate and  
irritate the nervous system of the      
animal and cause it to become nervous1  
irritable and vicious4 ,these  symptoms 
disappear when the rations of oats are  
decreased and when  more fresh grass or 
hay is fed in place of the grain4       
,similar effects to those produced upon 
the horse by an excess of  grains are   
caused in the human organism1 especially
 in the sensitive  nervous system of the
 child1 by a surplus of protein foods1  
of meat1  eggs1 grains and pulses4      
,still1 when patients suffering from    
overstimulation of the brain and        
nervous system consult their doctor1 his
 advice in almost every  instance is3   
,your nerves are weak and overwrought4  
,you need plenty  of good1 nourishing   

food 7broths1 meat and eggs71 and 'a    
good  tonic4'    ,the remedies          
prescribed by the doctor are the very   
things which  caused the trouble in the 
first place4    ,as stated before1 uric 
acid is undoubtedly one of the most     
common  causes of disease and therefore 
deserves especial attention4 ,through   
the study of its peculiar behavior under
 different circumstances and            
influences1 the cause1 nature and       
development of all acid diseases  will  
become clearer4    ,like urea1 uric acid
 is one of the end products of protein  
digestion4 ,it is formed in much smaller
 quantities than urea1 in  proportion of
 about one to fifty1 but the latter is  
more easily  eliminated from the system 
through kidneys and skin4    ,the       
principal ingredient in the formation of
 uric acid is nitrogen1  one of the six 
elements which enter into all proteid or
 albuminous  food materials1 also called
 nitrogenous foods4 ,uric acid1 as one  
of  the by-products of digestion1 is    

therefore always present in the  blood  
and1 in moderate quantities1 serves     
useful purposes in the  economy of the  
human and animal organism like the other
 waste  materials4 ,it becomes a source 
of irritation and cause of disease  only
 when it is present in the circulation  
or in the tissues in  excessive amounts4
    ,how ,uric ,acid ,is ,precipitated  
,the alkaline blood takes up the uric   
acid1 dissolves it and holds it  in     
solution in the circulation until it is 
carried to the organs of  depuration and
 eliminated in perspiration and urine4  
,if1 however1  through the excessive use
 of nitrogenous foods or defective      
elimination1 the amount of uric acid in 
the system is increased  beyond a       
certain limit1 the blood loses its power
 to dissolve it and  it forms a sticky1 
glue-like1 colloid substance1 which     
occludes or  blocks up the minute blood 
vessels 7capillaries71 so that the blood
  cannot pass readily from the arterial 
system into the venous  circulation4    

,this interference with the free passing
 of the blood is greater in  proportion 
to the distance from the heart1 because 
the farther from  the heart1 the less   
the force behind the circulation4       
,therefore we  find that slowing up of  
the blood currents1 whether due to uric 
acid  occlusion or any other cause1 is  
more pronounced in the surface of  the  
body and in the extremities than in the 
interior parts and  organs4    ,this    
occlusion of the surface circulation can
 be easily observed and  even measured  
by a simple test4 ,press the tip of the 
forefinger of  one hand on the back of  
the other4 ,a white spot will be formed 
where  the blood has receded from the   
surface on account of the pressure4     
,now observe how quickly or how slowly  
the blood returns into this  white      
patch4    ,dr4 ,haig says that1 if the  
reflux of the blood take place within   
two  or three seconds1 the circulation  
is normal and not obstructed by  uric   
acid4 ,if1 however1 the blood does not  

return for four or more  seconds1 it is 
a sign that the capillary circulation is
 obstructed  by colloid uric acid       
occlusion4    ,in this connection ,i    
would call attention to the fact that   
the  accumulation of carbonic acid in   
the cells and tissues1 and the          
resulting oxygen starvation1 may produce
 similar interference with  the         
circulation and result in the same      
symptoms1 including the slow  reflux of 
blood after pressure1 as those which    
,dr4 ,haig ascribes to  the action of   
uric acid only4    ,when this           
obstruction of the circulation by uric  
or carbonic acid  prevails throughout   
the body1 the blood pressure is too high
 in the  arterial blood vessels and in  
the interior organs1 such as heart1     
lungs1 brain1 etc41 and too low in the  
surface1 the extremities and  in the    
venous circulation4 ,the return flow of 
the blood to the heart  through the     
veins is sluggish and stagnant because  
the force from  behind1 that is1 the    

arterial blood pressure1 is obstructed  
by the  uric acid which clogs the minute
 capillaries that form the  connection  
between the arterial and the venous     
systems4    ,because of this            
interference with the normal circulation
 and  distribution of the blood1 uric   
acid produces many annoying and         
deleterious effects4 ,it irritates the  
nerves1 the mucous membranes  and other 
tissues of the body1 thus causing       
headaches1 rheumatic  pains in joints   
and muscles1 congestion of blood in the 
head1  flushes1 dizziness1 depression1  
fainting and even epilepsy4    ,other   
results of uric acid irritation are3    
inflammatory and  catarrhal conditions  
of the bronchi1 lungs1 stomach1         
intestines1  genitourinary organs2 rapid
 pulse2 palpitation of the heart2 angina
  pectoris2 etc4    ,these colloid      
substances occlude the minute excretory 
ducts in  liver1 spleen1 kidneys and    
other organs1 interfering with their    
normal functions and causing the        

retention of morbid matter in the       
system4    ,all these troublesome and   
destructive effects of uric acid        
poisoning  may be greatly augmented by  
excessive accumulation of sulphuric1    
phosphoric and other acids1 and by the  
formation of ptomaines and  poisonous   
alkaloids during the metabolism of      
proteid substances4    ,the entire group
 of symptoms caused by the excess of    
uric acid in  the system and the        
resulting occlusion of the capillary    
blood  vessels by colloid substances is 
called collemia a glutinous or  viscid  
condition of the blood4    ,if in such a
 condition as collemia the amount of    
uric acid in the  circulation is still  
farther increased by the taking of uric 
acid-producing food and drink and the   
saturation point of the blood  is       
reached1 that is1 if the blood becomes  
overcharged with the acid1  a curious   
phenomenon may be observed3 the         
collaemic symptoms  suddenly disappear  
as if by magic1 giving way to a feeling 

of  physical and mental buoyancy and    
strength4    ,this wonderful change has 
been wrought because the blood has lost 
its capacity for dissolving uric acid   
and holding it in solution and  the acid
 has been precipitated1 thrown out of   
the circulation and  deposited in the   
tissues of the body4    ,after a period 
of rest1 that is1 when no uric acid-or  
xanthine-producing foods have been taken
 for some time1 say1  overnight1 the    
blood regains its alkalinity and its    
capacity for  dissolving and carrying   
uric acid and begins to reabsorb it from
 the  tissues4 ,as a consequence1 the   
blood becomes again saturated with  uric
 acid and the collaemic symptoms        
reappear4    ,this explains why the     
hilariousness and exaltation of spirits 
at the  banquet is followed by          
,katzenjammer hangover in the morning4  
,it  also explains why many people do   
not feel fit for their day's work       
unless they take a stimulant of some    
kind on arising4 ,their blood is        

continually filled with uric acid to the
 point of saturation and the  extra     
amount contained in the coffee or       
alcohol repeats the process  of         
uric-acid precipitation1 the temporary  
stimulation and relief4    ,every time  
this precipitation of uric acid from the
 circulation is  repeated1 some of the  
morbid materials remain and accumulate  
in  different parts and organs4 ,if     
these irritating substances become      
lodged in the joints and muscles1       
arthritic or muscular rheumatism  is the
 result4 ,if acids1 xanthines and       
oxalates of lime form earthy  deposits  
along the walls of arteries and veins1  
these vessels harden  and become        
inelastic1 and their diameter is        
diminished4 ,this  obstructs the free   
circulation of the blood and causes     
malnutrition  of the brain and other    
vital organs4 ,furthermore1 the blood   
vessels  become brittle and break easily
 and there is danger of hemorrhages4    
,this explains the origin and           

development of arteriosclerosis         
7hardening of the arteries7 and         
apoplexy4    ,apoplexy may also be      
caused by other acids and drug poisons  
which  soften1 corrode and destroy the  
walls of the blood vessels in the       
brain4    ,in individuals of different  
constitutions1 accumulations of uric    
acid1 xanthines1 oxalates of calcium and
 various other earthy  substances form  
stones1 gravel or sandy deposits in the 
kidneys1 the  gall bladder and in other 
parts and organs4    ,the diseases      
caused by permanent deposits of uric    
acid in the  tissues are called         
arthritic diseases1 because the         
accumulations  frequently occur in the  
joints4    ,thus we distinguish two     
distinct stages of uric acid diseases3  
the  collaemic stage1 marked by an      
excess of uric acid in the circulation  
and resulting in occlusion of the       
capillary blood vessels1 and the        
arthritic stage1 marked by permanent    
deposits of uric acid and other  earthy 

substances in the tissues of the body4  
,during the prevalence of the collaemic 
symptoms1 that is1 when the  circulation
 is saturated with uric acid1 the urine 
is also highly  acid4 ,when             
precipitation of the acid materials from
 the blood into  the tissues has taken  
place1 the amount of acid in the urine  
decreases materially4    ,i have        
repeatedly stated that xanthines have   
the same effect upon  the system as uric
 acid4 ,caffeine and theobromine1 the   
narcotic  principles of coffee and tea1 
are xanthines2 and so is the nicotine   
contained in tobacco4 ,peas1 beans1     
lentils1 mushrooms and peanuts1  besides
 being very rich in uric acid-producing 
proteins1 carry also  large percentages 
of xanthines1 which are chemically      
almost  identical with uric acid and    
have a similar effect upon the organism 
and its functions4    ,from what has    
been said1 it becomes clear why the     
meat-eater craves  alcohol and          
xanthines4 ,when by the taking of flesh 

foods the blood  has become saturated   
with uric acid and the annoying symptoms
 of  collaemia make their appearance in 
the forms of lassitude1 headache  and   
nervous depression1 then alcohol and the
 xanthines contained in  coffee1 tea and
 tobacco will cause the precipitation of
 the acids  from the circulation into   
the tissues of the body1 and thus       
temporarily relieve the collaemic       
symptoms and create a feeling of        
well-being and stimulation4             
,gradually1 however1 the blood regains  
its alkalinity and its  acid-dissolving 
power and enough of the acid deposits   
are reabsorbed  by the circulation to   
cause a return of the symptoms of       
collaemia4  ,then arises a craving for  
more alcohol1 coffee1 tea1 nicotine or  
xanthine-producing foods in order to    
again obtain temporary relief  and      
stimulation1 and so on1 ad infinitum4   
,the person addicted to the use of      
stimulants is never himself4 ,his       
mental1 moral and emotional equilibrium 

is always unbalanced4 ,his  brain is    
muddled with poisons and he lacks the   
self-control1 the  clear vision and     
steady hand necessary for the           
achievement of  success in any line of  
endeavor4    ,we can now understand why 
one stimulant craves another1 why it is 
almost impossible to give up one        
stimulant without giving up all  others 
as well4    ,from the foregoing it will 
have become clear that the stimulating  
effect of alcohol and of many so-called 
tonics depends upon their  power to     
clear the circulation temporarily of    
uric and other acids4  ,those who have  
read this chapter carefully1 will know  
why this  effect is deceptive and       
temporary and why it is followed by a   
return  of the collaemic symptoms in    
aggravated form1 and how these are      
gradually changed into chronic arthritic
 uric acid diseases4    ,in order to    
give a better idea of the various phases
 of uric acid  poisoning1 ,i have used  
the following illustration in some of my

  lectures3    ,a man may carry a burden
 of fifty pounds on his shoulders       
without  difficulty or serious          
discomfort4 ,let this correspond to the 
normal  solving-power and               
carrying-capacity of the blood for uric 
acid4  ,suppose you add gradually to the
 burden on the man's back until its     
weight has reached one-hundred and fifty
 pounds4 ,he may still be  able to carry
 the burden1 but as the weight increases
 he will begin  to show signs of        
distress4 ,this increase of weight and  
the attendant  discomfort correspond to 
the increase of uric acid in the blood  
and  the accompanying symptoms of       
collaemia4    ,if you increase the      
burden on the man's shoulders still     
further1  beyond his individual         
carrying-capacity1 a point will be      
reached  when he can no longer support  
its weight and will throw it off        
entirely4 ,this climax corresponds to   
the saturation point of the  blood1 when
 the limit of its acid-carrying capacity

 is exceeded and  its acid contents are 
precipitated into the tissues4    ,the  
,treatment of ,acid ,diseases    ,the   
treatment of acid diseases is the same  
as of all other diseases  that are due  
to the violation of ,nature's laws3     
purification of  blood and tissues from 
within and building up of the vital     
fluids  7blood and lymph7 on a natural  
basis through normal habits of  eating1 
dressing1 bathing1 breathing1 working1  
resting and thinking  as outlined in    
other parts of this volume4    ,in      
severe cases which have reached the     
chronic stage1 the treatment  must be   
supplemented by the more aggressive     
methods of strict diet1  hydrotherapy1  
curative gymnastics1 massage1           
manipulation and  homeopathic           
medication4        ,chapter ,,xxvii     
,fasting      ,next in importance to    
building up the blood on a natural basis
 is  the elimination of waste1 morbid   
matter and poisons from the system4     
,this depends to a large extent upon the

 right 7natural7 diet2 but it  must be  
promoted by the different methods of    
eliminative treatment3  fasting1        
hydrotherapy1 massage1 physical         
exercise1 air-and sunbaths  and1 in the 
way of medicinal treatment1 by          
homeopathic1 herb and  vitochemical     
remedies4    ,foremost among the methods
 of purification stands fasting1 which  
of  late years has become quite popular 
and is regarded by many people  as a    
panacea for all human ailments4         
,however1 it is a two-edged  sword4     
,according to circumstances1 it may do a
 great deal of good or  a great deal of 
harm4    ,kuhne1 the ,german pioneer of 
,nature ,cure1 claimed that disease is a
  unit1 that it consists in the         
accumulation of waste and morbid  matter
 in the system4 ,since his time1 many   
naturists claim that  fasting offers the
 best and quickest means for eliminating
 systemic  poisons and other            
encumbrances4    ,to fast it out seems  
simple and plausible1 but it does not   

always  prove to be successful in       
practice4 ,fasting enthusiasts forget   
that  the elimination of waste and      
morbid matter from the system is more   
of a chemical than a mechanical process4
 ,they also overlook the fact  that in  
many cases lowered vitality and weakened
 powers of  resistance precede and make 
possible the accumulation of morbid     
matter in the organism4    ,if the      
encumbrances consist merely of          
superfluous flesh and fat or  of        
accumulated waste materials1 fasting may
 be sufficient to break  up the         
accumulations and to eliminate the      
impurities that are  clogging blood and 
tissues4    ,if1 however1 the disease   
has its origin in other than mechanical 
causes1 or if it is due to a weakened1  
negative constitution and  lowered      
powers of resistance1 fasting may       
aggravate the abnormal  conditions      
instead of improving them4    ,we hear  
frequently of long fasts1 extending over
 days and weeks1  undertaken recklessly 

without the prescription and guidance of
 a  competent medical adviser1 without  
proper preparation of the system  and   
the right subsequent treatment4 ,many a 
good constitution has  thus been        
permanently injured and wrecked4        
,when ,fasting ,is ,indicated           
,persons of sanguine1 vital temperament1
 with the animal qualities  strongly    
developed1 enslaved by bad habits and   
evil passions1 will  be greatly         
benefited by occasional short fasts4 ,in
 such cases1 the  experience affords a  
fine drill in self-discipline1          
strengthening of  self-control and      
conquest of the lower appetites4        
,vigorous1 fleshy people1 positive      
physically and mentally1  especially    
those who do not take sufficient        
physical exercise1  should take frequent
 fasts of one1 two1 or three days'      
duration for  the reduction of          
superfluous flesh and fat and for the   
elimination  of systemic waste and other
 morbid materials4 ,such people should  

never eat more than two meals a day1 and
 many get along best on one  meal4      
,however1 different temperaments and    
constitutions require different         
treatment and management4 ,people of a  
nervous1 emotional  temperament1        
especially those who are below normal in
 weight and  physically and mentally    
negative1 may be seriously and          
permanently  injured by fasting4 ,they  
should never fast except in acute       
diseases  and during eliminative healing
 crises1 when ,nature calls for the     
fast as a means of cure4    ,people of  
this type are usually thin1 with weak   
and flabby muscles4  ,their vital       
activities are at a low ebb and their   
magnetic envelopes  7aura7 are wasted   
and attenuated like their physical      
bodies4 ,the red  aura1 which is created
 by the action of the purely animal     
functions  and forces1 is more or less  
deficient or entirely lacking4 ,such    
people have the tendency to become      
abnormally sensitive to  conditions in  

the magnetic field 7the astral plane74  
,next to the hypnotic or mediumistic    
process1 there is nothing that  induces 
abnormal psychism so quickly as fasting4
 ,during a prolonged  fast1 the purely  
animal functions of digestion1          
assimilation and  elimination are almost
 completely at a standstill4 ,this      
depression  of the physical functions   
arouses and increases the psychic       
functions and may produce intense       
emotionalism and abnormal activity  of  
the senses of the spiritual-material    
body1 the individual thus  becoming     
abnormally clairvoyant1 clairaudient and
 otherwise  sensitive to conditions on  
the spiritual planes of life4    ,this  
explains the spiritual exaltation and   
the visions of heavenly  scenes and     
beings or the fights with demons which  
are frequently1  indeed uniformly1      
reported by hermits1 ascetics1 saints1  
yogi1  fakirs and dervishes4    ,fasting
 facilitates hypnotic control of the    
sensitive by positive  intelligences    

either on the physical or on the        
spiritual plane of  being4 ,in the one  
case we speak of hypnotism1 in the other
 of  mediumship1 obsession or           
possession4 ,these conditions are       
usually  diagnosed by the regular       
practitioner as nervousness1 nervous    
prostration1 hysteria1 paranoia1        
delusional insanity1 double             
personality1 mania1 etc4    ,the        
destructive effects of fasting are      
intensified by solitude1  grief1 worry1 
introspection1 religious exaltation or  
any other form  of depressive or        
destructive mental and emotional        
activity4    ,spirit controls often     
force their subjects to abstain from    
food1  thus rendering them still more   
negative and submissive4 ,psychic       
patients1 when controlled or obsessed1  
will frequently not eat  unless they are
 forced or fed like an infant4 ,when    
asked why they do  not want to eat1     
these patients reply3 ,i mustn't4 ,they 
will not let  me4 ,when we say3 ,who8   

the answer is3 ,these people4 ,don't you
 see  them8 pointing to a void1 and     
becoming impatient when told that no    
one is there4 ,the regular school says  
delusion2 we call it abnormal           
clairvoyance4    ,in other instances the
 control tells the subject that his food
 and  drink are poisoned or unclean4 ,to
 the obsessed victim these  suggestions 
are absolute reality4    ,to place      
persons of the negative1 sensitive type 
on prolonged fasts  and thus to expose  
them to the dangers just described is   
little  short of criminal4 ,such        
patients need an abundance of the most  
positive animal and vegetable foods in  
order to build up and  strengthen their 
physical bodies and their magnetic      
envelopes1 which  form the dividing and 
protecting wall between the terrestrial 
plane  and the magnetic field4    ,a    
negative vegetarian diet1 consisting    
principally of fruits1 nuts1  cereal and
 pulses1 but deficient in animal foods  
7the dairy  products1 eggs1 honey7 and  

in the vegetables growing in or near the
  ground may result in conditions       
similar to those which accompany        
prolonged fasting4    ,animal foods are 
elaborated under the influence of a     
higher  life-element99 than that        
controlling the vegetable kingdom1 and  
foods  derived from the animal kingdom  
are necessary to develop and  stimulate 
the positive qualities in man4          
99,this subject will be treated more    
fully in another volume of this  series 
entitled ,natural ,dietitics4    ,in the
 case of the psychic1 who is already    
deficient in the physical  7animal7 and 
overdeveloped in the spiritual          
qualities1 it is  especially necessary1 
in order to restore and maintain the    
lost  equilibrium1 to build up in him   
the animal qualities4    ,how to ,take  
an ,occasional ,therapeutic ,fast       
,before1 during and after a therapeutic 
fast1 everything must be done  to keep  
elimination active1 in order to prevent 
the reabsorption of  the toxins that are

 being stirred up and liberated4        
,fasting involves rapid breaking down of
 the tissues4 ,this creates  great      
quantities of worn-out cell materials   
and other morbid  substances4 ,unless   
these poison-producing accumulations are
 promptly  eliminated1 they will be     
reabsorbed into the system and cause    
autointoxication4    ,to prevent this1  
bowels1 kidneys and skin must be kept in
 active  condition4 ,the diet1 for      
several days before and after the fast1 
should consist largely of uncooked      
fruits and vegetables and the  different
 methods of natural stimulative         
treatment to assure proper  bowel action
 should be systematically applied4      
,during a fast1 every bit of vitality   
must be economized2 therefore  the      
passive treatments are to be preferred  
to active exercise1  although a certain 
amount of exercise 7especially walking7 
daily in  the open air accompanied by   
deep breathing should not be neglected4 
,while fasting1 intestinal evacuation   

usually ceases1 especially  where there 
is a natural tendency to sluggishness of
 the bowels4  ,injections salt and      
baking soda enemas are best are         
therefore in  order and during prolonged
 fasts may be taken every few days4     
,by prolonged fasts we understand fasts 
that last from one to four  weeks1 short
 fasts being those of one1 two or three 
days' duration4    ,moderate drinking is
 beneficial during a fast as well as at 
other  times2 but excessive consumption 
of water1 the so-called flushing of  the
 system1 is very injurious4 ,under      
ordinary conditions from five  to eight 
glasses of water a day are probably     
sufficient2 the  quantity consumed must 
be regulated by the desire of the       
patient4    ,those who are fasting      
should mix their drinking water with the
 juice  of acid fruits1 preferably      
lemon1 orange or grapefruit4 ,these     
juices  act as eliminators and are fine 
natural antiseptics4    ,never use      
distilled water1 whether during a fast  

or at any other  time4 ,deprived of its 
own mineral constituents1 distilled     
water  leeches the mineral elements and 
organic salts out of the tissues of  the
 body and thereby intensifies dysemic   
blood deterioration  conditions4        
,while fasting1 the right mental        
attitude is all-important4 ,unless  you 
can do it with perfect equanimity1      
without fear or misgiving1 do  not fast 
at all4 ,destructive mental conditions  
may more than offset  the beneficial    
effects of the fast4    ,to             
recapitulate3 ,never undertake a        
prolonged fast unless you have  been    
properly prepared by natural diet and   
treatment1 and never  without the       
guidance of a competent ,nature ,cure   
doctor4    ,fasting in ,chronic         
,diseases    ,at all times some of our  
patients can be found fasting2 but they 
do  not begin until the right           
physiological and psychological moment  
has  arrived1 until the fast is         
indicated4 ,when the organism1 or rather

  the individual cell1 is ready to begin
 the work of elimination1 then          
assimilation should cease for the time  
being1 because it interferes  with the  
excretory processes going on in the     
system4    ,to fast before the system is
 ready for it1 means mineral salts      
starvation and defective elimination4   
,given a vigorous1 positive             
constitution1 encumbered with too much  
flesh and with a tendency to chronic    
constipation1 rheumatism1 gout1         
apoplexy and other diseases due to food 
poisoning1 a fast may be  indicated from
 the beginning4 ,but it is different    
with persons of  the weak1 negative     
type4    ,ordinarily1 the organism      
resembles a huge sponge1 which absorbs  
the  elements of nutrition from the     
digestive tract4 ,during a fast the     
process is reversed1 the sponge is being
 squeezed and gives off the  impurities 
contained in it4    ,however1 this is a 
purely mechanical process and deals only
 with the  mechanical aspect of disease3

 with the presence of waste matter in   
the system4 ,it does not take into      
consideration the chemical aspect  of   
disease4 ,we have learned that most of  
the morbid matter in the  system has its
 origin in the acid waste products of   
starchy and  protein digestion4    ,in  
rheumatism and gout1 the colloid        
7glue-like7 and earthy deposits  collect
 in the joints and muscular tissues2 in 
arteriosclerosis1 in  the arteries and  
veins2 in paralysis1 epilepsy and       
kindred diseases1  in brain and nerve   
tissues4    ,the accumulation of these  
waste products is due1 in turn1 to a    
deficiency in the system of the         
alkaline1 acid-binding and              
acid-eliminating mineral elements4 ,in  
point of fact1 almost every  form of    
disease is characterized by a lack of   
these organic mineral  salts in blood   
and tissues4    ,stones1 gravel         
7calculi71 etc41 grow in acid blood     
only1 and must be  dissolved and        
eliminated by rendering the blood       

alkaline4 ,this is  accomplished by the 
absorption of the alkaline salts1       
contained most  abundantly in the juicy 
fruits1 the leafy and juicy vegetables1 
the  hulls of cereals and in milk4      
,how1 then1 are these all-important     
solvents and eliminators to be  supplied
 to the organism by total abstinence    
from food8    ,prolonged fasting        
undoubtedly lowers the patient's        
vitality and  powers of resistance4 ,but
 natural elimination of waste products  
and  systemic poisons 7healing crises7  
depends upon increased vitality  and    
activity of the organism and the        
individual cells that compose  it4      
,for these reasons we find1 in most     
cases1 that proper adjustment of  the   
diet1 both as to quality and quantity1  
together with the  different forms of   
natural corrective and stimulative      
treatment1  must precede the fasting4   
,the great majority of chronic patients 
have become chronics because  their     
skin1 kidneys1 intestines and other     

organs of elimination are  in a         
sluggish1 atrophied condition4 ,as a    
result1 their system is  overloaded with
 morbid matter4    ,moreover1 during the
 fast the system has to live on its own 
tissues1  which are being broken down   
rapidly4 ,this results in the production
  and liberation of additional large    
quantities of morbid matter and         
poisons1 which must be eliminated       
promptly to prevent their  reabsorption4
    ,however1 the atrophic condition of 
the organs of elimination makes  this   
impossible and there are not enough     
alkaline mineral elements  to neutralize
 the destructive acids4 ,therefore the  
impurities remain  and accumulate in the
 system and may cause serious           
aggravations and  complications4    ,is 
it not wiser first of all to build up   
the blood on a normal basis  by natural 
diet and to put the organs of           
elimination in good working  order by   
the natural methods of treatment before 
fasting is  enforced8 ,this is1 indeed1 

the only rational procedure and will    
always be followed by the best possible 
results4    ,when1 under the influence  
of a rational diet1 the blood has       
regained  its normal composition1 when  
mechanical obstructions to the free     
flow of blood and nerve currents have   
been removed by manipulative  treatment1
 when skin1 kidneys1 bowels1 nerves and 
nerve centers1 in  fact1 every cell in  
the body has been stimulated into       
vigorous  activity by the various       
methods of natural treatment1 then the  
cells  themselves begin to eliminate    
their morbid encumbrances4 ,the waste   
materials are carried in the blood      
stream to the organs of  elimination and
 incite them to acute reactions or      
healing crises in  the form of          
diarrheas1 catarrhal discharges1 fevers1
 inflammations1  skin eruptions1 boils1 
abscesses1 etc4    ,now the sponge is   
being squeezed and cleansed of its      
impurities in a  natural manner4 ,the   
mucous membranes of stomach and bowels  

are  called upon to assist in the work  
of housecleaning2 hence the coated      
tongue1 lack of appetite1 digestive     
disturbances1 nausea1  biliousness1 sour
 stomach1 fermentation1 flatulence and  
occasionally  vomiting and purging4     
,these digestive disturbances are always
 accompanied by mental  depression1 the 
blues1 homesickness1 irritability1 fear1
  hopelessness1 etc4    ,with the advent
 of these cleansing and healing crises  
the  physiological and psychological    
moment for fasting has arrived4 ,all    
the processes of assimilation are at a  
standstill4 ,the entire  organism is    
eliminating4    ,we have learned that   
these healing crises usually arrive     
during the  sixth week of natural       
treatment4    ,to take food now would   
mean to force assimilation and thereby  
to  stop elimination and perchance to   
interfere with or to check a  beneficial
 healing crisis4    ,therefore we regard
 it as absolutely essential to stop     
eating as  soon as any form of acute    

elimination makes its appearance and we 
do  not give any food except acid fruit 
juices diluted with water until  all    
signs of acute eliminative activity have
 subsided1 whether this  require a few  
days or a few weeks or a few months4    
,some time ago ,i treated a severe case 
of typhoid malaria4 ,no food1  except   
water mixed with a little orange or     
lemon juice1 passed the  lips of the    
patient for eight weeks4 ,when all      
disease symptoms had  disappeared1 we   
allowed a few days for the rebuilding of
 the  intestinal mucous membranes4      
,thereafter food was administered with  
the usual precautions4 ,the patient     
gained rapidly and within six  weeks    
weighed more than before the fever4     
,during the entire period ,i  saw the   
patient only twice1 the simple          
directions being carried out  faithfully
 by his relatives4        ,chapter      
,,xxviii      ,hydrotherapy ,treatment  
of ,chronic ,disease      ,while in our 
treatment of acute diseases we use wet  

packs and cold  ablutions to promote the
 radiation of heat and thereby to reduce
 the  fever temperature1 our aim in the 
treatment of chronic diseases is  to    
arouse the system to acute eliminative  
effort4 ,in other words1  while in acute
 disease our hydropathic treatment is   
sedative1 in  chronic diseases it is    
stimulative4    ,the ,good ,effects of  
,cold-,water ,applications    7#a7      
,stimulation of the ,circulation4 ,as   
before stated1 cold water  applied to   
the surface of the body arouses and     
stimulates the  circulation all over the
 system4 ,blood counts before and after 
a  cold-water application show a very   
marked increase in the number of  red   
and white blood corpuscles4 ,this does  
not mean that the cold  water has in a  
moment created new blood cells1 but it  
means that the  blood has been stirred  
up and sent hurrying through the system1
 that  the lazy blood cells which were  
lying inactively in the sluggish and    
stagnant blood stream and in the clogged

 and obstructed tissues are  aroused to 
increased activity4    ,undoubtedly1 the
 invigorating and stimulating influence 
of cold  sprays1 ablutions1 sitz baths1 
barefoot walking in the dewy grass or   
on wet stones and all other cold-water  
applications depends largely  upon their
 electromagnetic effects upon the       
system4 ,this has been  explained in    
,chapter ,ten1 ,natural ,treatment of   
,acute ,diseases4    7#b7 ,elimination  
of ,impurities4 ,as the cold water      
drives the blood  with increased force  
through the system1 it flushes the      
capillaries  in the tissues and cleanses
 them from the accumulations of morbid  
matter and poisons which are one of the 
primary causes of acute and  chronic    
diseases4    ,as the blood rushes back  
to the surface it suffuses the skin1    
opens  and relaxes the pores and the    
minute blood vessels or capillaries  and
 thus unloads its impurities through the
 skin4    ,why ,we ,favor ,cold ,water  
,in the treatment of chronic diseases   

some advocates of natural  methods of   
healing still favor warm or hot         
applications in the form  of hot-water  
baths1 different kinds of steam or sweat
 baths1  electric light baths1 hot      
compresses1 fomentations1 etc4          
,however1 the great majority of ,nature 
,cure practitioners in ,germany  have   
abandoned hot applications of any kind  
almost entirely because  of their       
weakening and enervating aftereffects   
and because in many  instances they have
 not only failed to produce the expected
 results1  but aggravated the disease   
conditions4    ,we can explain the      
different effects of hot and cold water 
as well  as of all other therapeutic    
agents upon the system by the ,law of   
,action and ,reaction4 ,applied to      
physics1 this law reads3 ,action and    
reaction are equal but opposite4 ,i have
 adapted the ,law of ,action  and       
,reaction to therapeutics in a somewhat 
circumscribed way as  follows3 ,every   
therapeutic agent affecting the human   

organism has a  primary1 temporary1 and 
a secondary1 permanent effect4 ,the     
secondary1 lasting effect is contrary to
 the primary1 transient  effect4    ,the
 first1 temporary effect of warmth above
 the body temperature1  whether it be   
applied in the form of hot air or water1
 steam or  light1 is to draw the blood  
into the surface4 ,immediately after    
such  an application the skin will be   
red and hot4    ,the secondary and      
lasting effect1 however 7in accordance  
with the  ,law of ,action and           
,reaction71 is that the blood recedes   
into the  interior of the body and      
leaves the skin in a bloodless and      
enervated condition subject to chills   
and predisposed to catching  cold4      
,on the other hand1 the first1 transient
 effect of cold-water  applications upon
 the body as a whole or any particular  
part is to  chill the surface and send  
the blood scurrying inward1 leaving the 
skin in a chilled1 bloodless condition4 
,this lack of blood and  sensation of   

cold are at once telegraphed over the   
afferent nerves  to headquarters in the 
brain1 and from there the command goes  
forth  to the nerve centers regulating  
the circulation3 ,send blood into  the  
surface6    ,as a result1 the           
circulation is stirred up and           
accelerated  throughout the system and  
the blood rushes with force into the    
depleted skin1 flushing the surface of  
the body with warm1 red blood  and      
restoring to it the rosy color of       
health4 ,this is the secondary  effect4 
,in other words1 the well-applied       
cold-water treatment is  followed by a  
good reaction and this is accompanied by
 many  permanent beneficial results4    
,the drawing and eliminating primary    
effect of hot applications1 of  sweat   
baths1 etc41 is at best only temporary1 
lasting only a few  minutes and is      
always followed by a weakening reaction1
 while the  drawing and eliminating     
action of the cold-water applications1  
being  the secondary1 lasting effect1   

exerts an enduring1 invigorating and    
tonic influence upon the skin which     
enables it to throw off morbid  matter  
not merely for ten or fifteen minutes1  
as in the sweat bath  under the         
infiuence of excessive heat1 but        
continually1 by day and  night4    ,the 
,danger of ,prolonged or    ,excessively
 ,cold ,applications    ,as we have     
pointed out in the chapter dealing with 
water treatment  in acute diseases1 only
 water at ordinary temperature1 as it   
comes  from well or faucet1 should be   
used in hydropathic applications4 ,it   
is positively dangerous to apply ice    
bags to an inflamed organ or to  use icy
 water for packs and ablutions in       
febrile conditions4    ,likewise1 ice or
 icy water should not be used in the    
hydropathic  treatment of chronic       
diseases4 ,excessive cold is as         
suppressive in  its effects upon the    
organism as are poisonous antiseptics or
  antifever medicines4    ,the baths1   
sprays1 douches1 etc41 should not be    

kept up too long4  ,the duration of the 
cold-water applications must be         
regulated by the  individual conditions 
of the patient and by his powers of     
reaction2  but it should be borne in    
mind that it is the short1 quick        
application that produces the           
stimulating1 electromagnetic effects    
upon the system4    ,in the following   
pages are described some of the baths   
and other  cold-water applications that 
are especially adapted to the treatment 
of chronic diseases4    ,how to ,keep   
the ,feet ,warm    ,the proverb says3   
,keep the head cool and the feet warm4  
,this is  good advice1 but most people  
attempt to follow it by doctoring  their
 cold feet with hot-water bottles1      
warming pans1 hot bricks or  irons1 etc4
 ,these are excellent means of making   
the feet still  colder1 because heat    
makes cold and cold makes heat4    ,in  
accordance with the ,law of ,action and 
,reaction1 hot applications  drive the  
blood away from the feet1 while cold    

applications draw the  blood to the     
feet4 ,therefore1 if your feet are cold 
and bloodless  7which means that the    
blood is congested in other parts of the
  body71 walk barefoot in the dewy      
grass1 in a cool brook1 on wet  stone   
pavements or on the snow4    ,instead of
 putting a hot-water bottle to the feet 
of a bedridden  invalid1 bathe his feet 
with cold water1 adding a little salt   
for  its electric effect1 then rub and  
knead 7massage71 and finish with a      
magnetic treatment by holding his feet  
between your hands and  willing the     
blood to flow into them4 ,this will have
 a lasting good  effect not only upon   
the feet1 but upon the entire organism4 
,the following cold-water applications  
are very effective for curing  chronic  
cold feet3    7#a7 ,foot ,bath    ,stand
 in cold water reaching up to the ankle 
for one minute only4  ,dry the feet with
 a coarse towel and rub them vigorously 
with the  hands1 or walk about briskly  
for a few minutes4 ,repeat if necessary4

    7#b7 ,leg ,bath    7a7 ,stand in    
water up to the calves1 then proceed as 
above4    7b7 ,stand in water up to the 
knees1 then rub vigorously or walk as   
directed4    7#c7 ,barefoot ,walking    
,walk barefoot in wet grass or on wet   
stone pavements several times a  day1   
from ten to twenty minutes at a time1 or
 less in case of  weakness4 ,the early  
morning dew upon the grass is especially
  beneficial2 later in the day wet the  
grass or pavement with a hose4    ,after
 barefoot walking1 dry and rub the feet 
thoroughly and take a  short1 brisk walk
 in shoes and stockings4    7#d7 ,indoor
 ,water-,treading    ,stand in a bathtub
 or large foottub containing about two  
inches of  cold water1 step and splash  
vigorously for several minutes1 then dry
  and rub the feet and increase the     
circulation by walking around the  room 
a few times4    7#e7 ,foot ,spray       
,turn the full force of water from a    
hydrant or hose first on one  foot1 then
 on the other4 ,let the stream play     

alternately on the  upper part of the   
feet and on the soles4 ,the coldness and
 force of  the water will draw the blood
 to the feet4    ,these applications are
 excellent as a means of stimulating and
  equalizing the circulation and a sure 
cure for cold and clammy feet1  as well 
as for sweaty feet4    ,in this         
connection1 we warn our readers most    
strongly against the  use of drying     
powders or antiseptic washes to suppress
 foot-sweat4  ,epilepsy and other       
serious nervous disorders have been     
traced to  this practice4    7#f7       
,partial ,ablutions    ,partial         
ablutions with cold water are very      
useful in many instances1  especially in
 local inflammation or where local      
congestion is to be  relieved4 ,the     
,kalte ,guss cold water splashing forms 
an important  feature of the ,kneipp    
system of water cure4    ,sprays or     
showers may be administered to the head1
 arms1 chest1  back1 thighs1 knees or   
wherever indicated1 with a dipper1 a    

sprinkler or a hose attached to the     
faucet or hydrant4 ,the water  should be
 of natural temperature and the guss of 
short duration4    7#g7 ,limb ,bath     
,take up cold water in the hollow of the
 hands from a running faucet  or a      
bucket filled with water1 rub arms and  
legs briskly for a few  minutes4    7#h7
 ,upper ,body ,bath    ,stand in an     
empty tub1 take water in the hollow of  
the hands from a  running faucet or a   
bucket filled with cold water and rub   
briskly  the upper half of the body from
 neck to hips1 for two or three         
minutes4 ,use a towel or brush for those
 parts of the body that you  cannot     
reach with the hands4    7#i7 ,lower    
,body ,bath    ,proceed as in 7#h71     
rubbing the lower part of the body from 
the waist  downward4    7#aj7 ,hip ,bath
    ,sit in a large basin or in the     
bathtub in enough water to cover the    
hips completely1 the legs resting on the
 door or against the sides  of the tub4 
,while taking the hip bath1 knead and   

rub the abdomen4    ,dry with a coarse  
towel1 then rub and pat the skin with   
the hands  for a few minutes4    ,the   
duration of the hip bath and the        
temperature of the water must  be       
adapted to individual conditions4 ,until
 you are accustomed to  cold water1 use 
water as cool as can be borne without   
discomfort4    7#aa7 ,the ,morning ,cold
 ,rub    ,the essentials for a cold rub1
 and in fact for every cold-water       
treatment1 are warmth of the body before
 the application1 coolness  of the water
 7natural temperature71 rapidity of     
action and friction  or exercise to     
stimulate the circulation4 ,no          
cold-water treatment  should be taken   
when the body is in a chilled condition4
    ,directly from the warmth of the    
bed1 or after sunbath and exercise  have
 produced a pleasant glow1 go to the    
bathroom1 sit in the empty  tub with the
 stopper in place1 turn on the cold     
water1 and as it  flows into the tub1   
catch it in the hollow of the hands and 

wash  first the limbs1 then the abdomen1
 then chest and back4 ,throw the  water 
all over the body and rub the skin with 
the hands like you  wash your face4     
,do this quickly but thoroughly4 ,the   
entire procedure need not take  up more 
than a few minutes4 ,by the time the    
bath is finished1 there  may be from two
 to four inches of water in the tub4    
,use a towel or  brush for the back if  
you cannot reach it otherwise4    ,as   
long as there is a good reaction1 the   
cold rub may be taken in  an unheated   
bathroom even in cold weather4    ,after
 the bath1 dry the body quickly with a  
coarse towel and finish  by rubbing with
 the hands until the skin is dry and    
smooth and you  are aglow with the      
exercise1 or expose the wet body to the 
fresh air  before an open window and rub
 with the hands until dry and warm4     
,a bath taken in this manner combines   
the beneficial effects of cold  water1  
air1 exercise and the magnetic friction 
of the hands on the  body 7life on      

life74 ,no lifeless instrument or       
mechanical appliance  can equal the     
dexterity1 warmth and magnetism of the  
human hand4    ,the bath must be so     
conducted that it is followed by a      
feeling of  warmth and comfort4 ,some   
persons will be benefited by additional 
exercise or1 better still1 a brisk walk 
in the open air1 while  others will get 
better results by returning to the      
warmth of the  bed4    ,there is no     
better means for stimulating the general
 circulation and  for increasing the    
eliminative activities of the system    
than this  cold morning rub at the      
beginning of the day after the night's  
rest4  ,if kept up regularly1 its good  
effects will soon become apparent4      
,this method of taking a morning bath is
 to be preferred to the  plunge into a  
tub filled with cold water4 ,while      
persons with very  strong constitutions 
may experience no ill effects1 to those 
who are  weak and do not react readily1 
the cold plunge might prove a severe    

shock and strain upon the system4       
,when a bathtub is not available1 take  
the morning cold rub in the  following  
manner3    ,stand in an empty washtub4  
,in front of you1 in the tub1 place a   
basin or bucket filled with cold water4 
,wet the hands or a towel and  wash the 
body1 part by part1 from the feet       
upward1 then dry and rub  with the hands
 as directed4    7#ab7 ,the ,evening    
,sitz ,bath    ,the morning cold rub is 
stimulating in its effects1 the evening 
sitz  bath is quieting and relaxing4    
,the latter is therefore especially     
beneficial if taken just before going to
 bed4    ,the cold water draws the blood
 from brain and spinal cord and  thereby
 insures better rest and sleep4 ,it     
cools and relaxes the  abdominal organs1
 sphincters1 and orifices1 stimulates   
gently and  naturally the action of the 
bowels and of the urinary tract1 and is 
equally effective in chronic            
constipation and in affections of the   
kidneys or bladder4    ,the sitz bath is

 best taken in the regular sitz bathtub 
made for the  purpose1 but an ordinary  
bathtub or a washtub or pan may be used 
with equally good effect4    ,pour into 
the vessel a few inches of water at     
natural temperature1  as it comes from  
the faucet1 and sit in the water until a
 good  reaction takes place--that is1   
until the first sensation of cold is    
followed by a feeling of warmth4 ,this  
may take from a few seconds to  a few   
minutes1 according to the temperature of
 the water and the  individual powers of
 reaction4    ,dry with a coarse towel1 
rub and pat the skin with the hands1    
then1  in order to establish good       
reaction1 practice deep breathing for a 
few minutes1 alternating with the       
internal massage described in a  later  
chapter4    7#ac7 ,the ,head ,bath      
,loss or discoloration of the hair is   
generally due to the lack of            
hair-building elements in the blood or  
to sluggish circulation in  the scalp   
and a diseased condition of the hair    

follicles4 ,nothing  more effectually   
stimulates the flow of blood to brain   
and scalp or  promotes the elimination  
of waste matter and poisons from these  
parts than the head bath together with  
scalp massage4    ,under no             
circumstances use hair tonics1 dandruff 
or eczema cures1 or  hair dyes4 ,all    
such preparations contain poisons or at 
any rate  strong antiseptics and        
germcides4 ,dandruff is a form of       
elimination  and should not be          
suppressed4 ,when the scalp is in good  
condition1  it will disappear of its own
 accord4    ,the ,diagnosis from the    
,eye reveals the fact that glycerine1   
quinine1  resorcin and other poisonous  
antiseptics and stimulants absorbed     
from scalp cures and hair tonics and    
deposited in the brain are in  many     
cases the real cause of chronic         
headaches1 neuralgia1  dizziness1       
roaring in the ears1 loss of hearing and
 sight1 mental  depression1 irritability
 and even insanity4    ,cold water is an

 absolutely safe and at the same time a 
most  effective means to promote the    
growth of hair1 as many of our  patients
 can testify4    ,whenever you have     
occasion to wash the face1 wash also the
 head  thoroughly with cold water4      
,while doing so1 vigorously pinch1 knead
  and massage the scalp with the finger 
tips4 ,when feasible1 turn the  stream  
from a hydrant or a hose upon the head4 
,this will add the  good effect of      
friction to the coldness of the water4  
,have your hair cut only during the     
third quarter of the moon4 ,the  ladies 
may clip off the ends of their hair     
during that period4  ,skeptics may smile
 at this as another evidence of         
ignorance and  superstition4 ,however1  
fools deride1 etc4 ,the country people  
in  many parts of ,europe1 who are much 
closer and wiser observers of  ,nature  
and her ways than the conceited wise men
 of the schools1 do  their sowing and   
reaping in accordance with the phases of
 the moon4  ,in order to insure vigorous

 growth1 they sow and plant during the  
growing moon2 but their cutting and     
reaping is done during the  waning moon4
    7#ad7 ,the ,eye ,bath    ,for the   
eye bath the temperature of the water   
should be as cold as  the sensitive     
eyeball can stand1 but not cold enough  
to cause  serious discomfort4 ,a few    
grains of salt may be added to make the 
water slightly saline4    ,submerge     
forehead and eyes in a basin of water1  
open and close the  lids under water    
from six to eight times2 repeat a few   
times4 ,bend  over a basin filled with  
water and with the hands dash the water 
into the open eyes4 ,fill a glass       
eye-cup 7which can be bought in any     
drug store or department store7 with    
water1 bend the head forward  and press 
the cup securely against the eye2 then  
bend backward and  open and shut the lid
 a number of times4    ,many ailments of
 the eyes1 for instance1 the            
much-dreaded cataract1  are caused by   
defective circulation and the           

accumulation of  impurities and poisons 
in the system in general and in the     
mechanism  of the eyes in particular4   
,all such cases yield readily to our    
combination of natural methods of       
treatment1 such as water  applications1 
massage and special exercises1 combined 
with the  general ,nature ,cure regimen4
    ,in a large number of cases treated 
in our sanitarium1 patients who  had    
worn glasses for years were able to     
discard them4 ,weakened  eyesight and   
many serious so-called incurable        
affections of the eye1  including       
cataract and glaucoma1 have been        
permanently cured4        ,chapter      
,,xxix      ,air and ,light ,baths      
,even among the adherents of ,nature    
,cure there are those who think  that   
air and light baths should be taken out 
of doors in warm  weather only and in   
winter time only in well-heated rooms4  
,this is a mistake4 ,the effect of the  
air bath upon the organism is  subject  
to the same ,law of ,action and         

,reaction which governs the  effects of 
water applications4    ,if the          
temperature of air or water is the same 
or nearly the same as  that of the body1
 no reaction takes place1 the conditions
 within the  system remain the same4    
,but if the temperature of air or water 
is  considerably lower than the body    
temperature there will be a  reaction4  
,in order to react against the chilling 
effect of cold air or water1  the nerve 
centers which control the circulation   
send the blood to  the surface in large 
quantities1 flushing the skin with warm1
 red1  arterial blood4 ,the flow of the 
blood stream is greatly accelerated1    
and the elimination of morbid matter on 
the surface of the body is              
correspondingly increased4    ,what ,is 
the ,cause of ,poor ,skin ,action8      
,man is naturally an air animal4 ,he    
breathes with the pores of the  skin as 
well as with the lungs4 ,however1 the   
custom of hiding the  body under dense1 
heavy clothing1 thus excluding it from  

the  life-giving influence of air and   
light1 together with the habit of  warm 
bathing1 has weakened and enervated the 
skin of the average  individual until it
 has lost its tonicity and is no longer 
capable  of fulfilling its natural      
functions4    ,the compact1 almost      
airtight layers of underwear and outer  
clothing  made of cotton1 wool1 silk and
 leather prevent the ventilation of  the
 skin and the escape of the morbid      
excretions of the body4 ,the  skin is an
 organ of absorption as well as of      
excretion2 consequently  the systemic   
poisons which are eliminated from the   
organism1 if not  removed by proper     
ventilation and bathing1 are reabsorbed 
into the  system just like the poisonous
 exhalations from the lungs are         
reinhaled and reabsorbed by people      
congregating in closed rooms or         
sleeping in unventilated bedrooms4      
,who would think of keeping plants or   
animals continuously covered  up1 away  
from the air and light8 ,we know they   

would wither and waste  away1 and die   
before long4    ,nevertheless1 civilized
 human beings have for ages hidden their
  bodies most carefully from sun and    
air1 which are so necessary to  their   
well-being4 ,is it any wonder that the  
human cuticle has become  withered1     
enervated and atrophied1 that it has    
lost the power to  perform freely and   
efficiently its functions of elimination
 and  absorption8 ,undoubtedly1 this has
 much to do with the prevalence of      
disease4    ,in the iris of the eye the 
atrophied condition of the skin is      
indicated by a heavy1 dark rim1 the     
so-called scurf rim4 ,it  signifies that
 the skin has become anemic1 the surface
 circulation  sluggish and defective1   
and that the elimination of morbid      
matter  and systemic poisons through the
 skin is handicapped and retarded4      
,this1 in turn1 causes autointoxication 
and favors the development of  all kinds
 of acute and chronic diseases4    ,the 
,importance of the ,skin as an ,organ of

 ,elimination    ,of late physiologists 
have claimed that the skin is not of    
great  importance as an organ of        
elimination4 ,common experience and the 
,diagnosis from the ,eye teach us       
differently4 ,the black rim seen more   
or less distinctly in the outer rim of  
the iris in the eyes of the  majority of
 people has been called the scurf rim1  
because it was  found that this dark rim
 appears in the iris after the          
suppression  of scurfy and other forms  
of skin eruptions and after the external
  or internal use of lotions1 ointments 
and medicines containing  mercury1 zinc1
 iodine1 arsenic or other poisons which 
suppress or  destroy the life and       
activity of the skin4    ,therefore1    
when we see in the iris of a person a   
heavy scurf rim1 we  can tell him at    
once3 ,your cuticle is in a sluggish1   
atrophied  condition1 the surface       
circulation and elimination through the 
skin  are not good and as a result of   
this there is a strong tendency to      

autointoxication1 you take cold easily1 
and suffer from chronic  catarrhal      
conditions4 ,therefore1 a heavy scurf   
rim frequently  indicates what is       
ordinarily called a scrofulous          
condition4    ,this certainly shows the 
great importance of the skin as an organ
 of  elimination and the necessity of   
keeping it in the best possible         
condition4 ,it explains why an atrophied
 skin has so much to do with  the       
causation of disease and why in the     
treatment of both acute and  chronic    
ailments air and cold water produce such
 wonderful results4    ,the favorite    
method of diagnosis employed by ,father 
,kneipp1 the  great water cure apostle1 
was to examine the skin of his patients4
  ,if the jacket1 as he called it1 was  
in fairly good condition1 he  predicted 
a speedy recovery4 ,if he found the     
jacket shriveled and  dry1 weakened and 
atrophied1 he shook his head and        
informed the  patient that it would take
 much time and patience to restore him  

to  health4 ,he1 as well as other       
pioneers of the ,nature ,cure movement1 
realized that elimination is the keynote
 in the treatment of acute  and chronic 
diseases4    ,when ,air ,baths ,should  
,be ,taken    ,on awakening in the      
morning and several times during the    
day1 if  circumstances permit1 expose   
your nude body to the invigorating      
influence of the open air and the       
sunlight4    ,during the hot season of  
the year and in tropical countries the  
best  time for taking air and sun baths 
is the early morning and the late       
afternoon4    ,persons suffering from   
insomnia or nervousness in any form are 
in  nearly every case greatly benefited 
by a short air bath taken just  before  
retiring1 either preceding or following 
the evening sitz  bath1 as may be most  
convenient4    ,where ,air ,baths       
,should ,be ,taken    ,if at all        
possible1 air baths should be taken out 
of doors4 ,every  house should have     
facilities for air and sun baths1 that  

is1 an  enclosure where the nude body   
can be exposed to the open air and the  
sunlight4    ,if the air bath out of    
doors is impracticable1 it may be taken 
in  front of an open window4 ,but indoor
 air1 even in a well-ventilated  room1  
is more or less stagnant and vitiated1  
and at best only a poor  substitute for 
the open air4    ,it is the breezy1     
moving outdoor air1 permeated with      
sunlight and  rich in oxygen and ozone1 
that generates the electric and magnetic
  currents which are so stimulating and 
vitalizing to everything that  draws the
 breath of life4    ,this is being      
realized more and more1 and air-bath    
facilities will  in the near future be  
considered as indispensable in the      
modern1  up-to-date house as is now the 
bathroom4    ,we predict that before    
many years the roofs of apartment houses
 will  be utilized for this purpose and 
people will wonder how they ever  got   
along without the air bath4    ,our     
sanitarium has two large enclosures on  

its roof1 open above and  surrounded on 
all sides by wooden lattice work1 which 
allows the air  to circulate freely1 but
 excludes observation from neighboring  
roofs  and windows and the streets      
below4 ,one compartment is for men and  
one for women1 each provided with       
gymnastic apparatus and a separate      
spray room4    ,how ,air ,baths ,should 
,be ,taken    ,at first expose the nude 
body to cool air only for short periods 
at  a time1 until the skin becomes      
inured to it4    ,likewise1 unless you  
are well used to the sun1 take air baths
 of  short duration1 say from ten to    
twenty minutes1 until your skin and     
your nervous system have become         
accustomed to the influence of heat  and
 strong light4 ,prolonged exposure to   
the glaring rays of the  noonday sun    
might produce severe burning of the     
skin1 aside from a  possible harmful    
effect upon the nervous system4    ,the 
novice should protect head and eyes     
against the fierce rays of  sunlight4   

,this is best accomplished by means of a
 wide-brimmed straw  hat of light       
weight4 ,in cases where dizziness       
results from the  effect of the heat    
upon the brain1 a wet cloth may be      
swathed around  the head or placed      
inside a straw hat4    ,it will be found
 very pleasurable and invigorating to   
take a cold  shower or spray off and on 
during the sun bath and to allow the air
  to dry the body4 ,this will also      
increase its electromagnetic effects    
upon the system4    ,the ,friction ,bath
    ,while taking the air bath1 the skin
 may be rubbed or brushed with a  rough 
towel or a flesh brush in order to      
remove the excretions and  the atrophied
 cuticle4 ,the friction bath should     
always be followed  by a spray or a     
cold-water rub4    ,at the time of the  
air bath1 practice breathing exercises  
and the  curative gymnastics appropriate
 to your condition4 7,see ,chapters     
,twenty-,eight and ,thirty on ,correct  
,breathing and ,physical  ,exercise47   

,if the air bath is taken at night1     
before retiring1 the less active        
breathing exercises1 as numbers #a1 #c1 
#g and #ac1 may be taken with  good     
results1 but all vigorous stimulating   
movements should be  avoided4    ,as the
 plant prospers under the life-giving   
influence of water and  light1 so the   
cuticle of the human skin becomes alive 
and active  under the natural           
stimulation of water1 air and sunlight4 
,from the  foregoing paragraphs it will 
be seen why the air and light baths are 
regarded among the most important       
natural methods of treatment in  all the
 great ,nature ,cure sanitariums of     
,germany4        ,chapter ,,xxx         
,correct ,breathing      ,the lungs are 
to the body what the bellows are to the 
fires of the  forge4 ,the more regularly
 and vigorously the air is forced       
through  the bellows and through the    
lungs1 the livelier burns the flame in  
the smithy and the fires of life in the 
body4    ,practice deep1 regular        

breathing systematically for one week1  
and  you will be surprised at the       
results4 ,you will feel like a different
  person1 and your working capacity1    
both physically and mentally1  will be  
immensely increased4    ,a plentiful    
supply of fresh air is more necessary   
than food and  drink4 ,we can live      
without food for weeks1 without water   
for days1  but without air only a few   
minutes4    ,the ,process of ,breathing 
,with every inhalation1 air is sucked in
 through the windpipe or  trachea1 which
 terminates in two tubes called bronchi1
 one leading  to the right lung1 one to 
the left4 ,the air is then distributed  
over  the lungs through a network of    
minute tubes1 to the air cells1 which   
are separated by only a thin membrane   
from equally fine and minute  blood     
vessels forming another network of      
tubes4    ,the oxygen contained in the  
inhaled air passes freely through these 
membranes1 is absorbed by the blood1    
carried to the heart and thence  through

 the arteries and their branches to the 
different organs and  tissues of the    
body1 fanning the fires of life into    
brighter flame  all along its course and
 burning up the waste products and      
poisons  that have accumulated during   
the vital processes of digestion1       
assimilation and elimination4    ,after 
the blood has unloaded its supply of    
oxygen1 it takes up the  carbonic acid  
gas which is produced during the        
oxidation and  combustion of waste      
matter and carries it to the lungs1     
where the  poisonous gases are          
transferred to the air cells and        
expelled with  the exhaled breath4 ,this
 return trip of the blood to the lungs  
is  made through another set of blood   
vessels1 the veins1 and the blood1  dark
 with the sewage of the system1 is now  
called venous blood4    ,in the lungs   
the venous blood discharges its freight 
of  excrementitious poisons and gases1  
and by coming in contact with  fresh air
 and a new supply of oxygen1 it is again

 transformed into  bright1 red arterial 
blood1 pregnant with oxygen and ozone1  
the  life-sustaining elements of the    
atmosphere4    ,this explains why       
normal1 deep1 regular breathing is      
all-important  to sustain life and as a 
means of cure4 ,by proper breathing1    
which  exercises and develops every part
 of the lungs1 the capacity of the  air 
cells is increased4 ,this1 as we have   
learned1 means also an  increased supply
 of life-sustaining and health-promoting
 oxygen to  the tissues and organs of   
the body4    ,bad ,effects of ,shallow  
,breathing    ,very few people breathe  
correctly4 ,some1 especially women1 with
  tight skirtbands and corsets pressing 
on their vital organs1 use  only the    
upper part of their lungs4 ,others      
breathe only with the  lower part and   
with the diaphragm1 leaving the upper   
structures of  the lungs inactive and   
collapsed4    ,in those parts of the    
lungs that are not used1 slimy          
secretions  accumulate1 irritating the  

air cells and other tissues1 which      
become  inflamed and begin to decay4    
,thus a luxuriant soil is prepared for  
the tubercle bacillus1 the pneumococcus 
and other disease-producing  bacilli and
 germs4    ,this habit of shallow       
breathing1 which does not allow the     
lungs to  be thoroughly permeated with  
fresh air1 accounts in a measure for    
the fact that one-third of all deaths   
result from diseases of the  lungs4 ,to 
one individual perishing from food      
starvation1 thousands  are dying from   
oxygen starvation4    ,lung culture is  
more important than other branches of   
learning and  training which require    
more time and a greater outlay of time1 
money  and effort4 ,in the ,nature ,cure
 regimen1 breathing exercises play an   
important part4    ,breathing ,exercises
    ,general ,directions    ,the        
effectiveness of breathing exercises and
 of all other kinds of  corrective      
movements depends upon the mental       
attitude during the  time of practice4  

,each motion should be accompanied by   
the conscious  effort to make it produce
 a certain result4 ,much more can be    
accomplished with mental concentration1 
by keeping your mind on what  you are   
doing1 than by performing the exercises 
in an aimless1  indifferent way4        
,keep in the open air as much as        
possible and at all events sleep  with  
windows open4    ,if your occupation is 
sedentary1 take all opportunities for   
walking  out of doors that present      
themselves4 ,while walking1 breathe     
regularly and deeply1 filling the lungs 
to their fullest capacity  and also     
expelling as much air as possible at    
each exhalation4 ,undue  strain should1 
of course1 be avoided4 ,this applies to 
all breathing  exercises4    ,do not    
breathe through the mouth4 ,nature      
intends that the outer air  shall reach 
the lungs by way of the nose1 whose     
membranes are lined  with fine hairs in 
order to sift the air and to prevent    
foreign  particles1 dust and dirt1 from 

irritating the mucous linings of the    
air tract and entering the delicate     
structures of the lungs4 ,also1  the air
 is warmed before it reaches the lungs  
by its passage through  the nose4       
,let the exhalations take about double  
the time of the inhalations4  ,this will
 be further explained in connection with
 rhythmical  breathing4    ,do not hold 
the breath between inhalations4 ,though 
frequently  recommended by teachers of  
certain methods of breath culture1 this 
practice is more harmful than           
beneficial4    ,the ,proper ,standing   
,position    ,of great importance is the
 position assumed habitually by the body
  while standing and walking4           
,carelessness in this respect is not    
only  unpleasant to the beholder1 but   
its consequences are far-reaching in    
their effects upon health and the       
well-being of the organism4    ,on the  
other hand1 a good carriage of the body 
aids in the  development of muscles and 
tissues generally and in the proper     

functioning of cells and organs in      
particular4 ,with the weight of  the    
body thrown upon the balls of the feet  
and the center of gravity  well focused1
 the abdominal organs will stay in place
 and there will  be no strain upon the  
ligaments that support them4    ,in     
assuming the proper standing position1  
stand with your back to  the wall1      
touching it with heels1 buttocks1       
shoulders and head4 ,now  bend the head 
backward and push the shoulders forward 
and away from  the wall1 still touching 
the wall with buttocks and heels4       
,straighten the head1 keeping the       
shoulders in the forward position4  ,now
 walk away from the wall and endeavor to
 maintain this position  while taking   
the breathing exercises and practicing  
the various arm  movements4    ,take    
this position as often as possible      
during the day and try to  maintain it  
while you go about your different tasks 
that must be  performed while standing4 
,gradually this position will become    

second  nature1 and you will assume and 
maintain it without effort4    ,when the
 body is in this position1 the viscera  
are in their normal  place4 ,this aids  
the digestion materially and benefits   
indirectly  the entire functional       
organism4    ,persistent practice of the
 above will correct protruding abdomen  
and  other defects due to faulty        
position and carriage of the body4      
,the following breathing exercises are  
intended especially to develop  greater 
lung capacity and to assist in forming  
the habit of  breathing properly at all 
times4 ,the different movements should  
be  repeated from three to six times1   
according to endurance and the  amount  
of time at disposal4    7#a7 ,with hands
 at sides or on hips1 inhale and exhale 
slowly and  deeply1 bringing the entire 
respiratory apparatus into active play4 
7#b7 7,to expand the chest and increase 
the air capacity of the  lungs47        
,jerk the shoulder forward in several   
separate movements1 inhaling  deeper at 

each forward jerk4 ,exhale slowly1      
bringing the shoulders  back to the     
original position4    ,reverse the      
exercise1 jerking the shoulders backward
 in similar  manner while inhaling4     
,alternate the movements1 forcing the   
shoulders first forward1 then backward4 
7#c7 ,stand erect1 arms at sides4       
,inhale1 raising the arms forward and   
upward until the palms touch above the  
head1 at the same time  raising on the  
toes as high as possible4 ,exhale1      
lowering the toes1  bringing the hands  
downward in a wide circle until the     
palms touch  the thighs4    7#d7 ,stand 
erect1 hands on hips4 ,inhale slowly and
 deeply1 raising  the shoulders as high 
as possible1 then1 with a jerk1 drop    
them as  low as possible1 letting the   
breath escape slowly4    7#e7 ,stand    
erect1 hands at shoulders4 ,inhale1     
raising elbows  sideways2 exhale1       
bringing elbows down so as to strike the
 sides  vigorously4    7#f7 ,inhale     
deeply1 then exhale slowly1 at the same 

time clapping the  chest with the palms 
of the hands1 covering the entire       
surface4    7,these six exercises are   
essential and sufficient4 ,the following
  four may be practiced by those who are
 able to perform them and who  have time
 and inclination to do so47    7#g7     
,stand erect1 hands at sides4 ,inhale   
slowly and deeply1 at the  same time    
bringing the hands1 palms up1 in front  
of the body to the  height of the       
shoulders4 ,exhale1 at the same time    
turning the palms  downward and bringing
 the hands down in an outward circle4   
7#h7 ,stand erect1 the right arm raised 
upward1 the left crossed  behind the    
back4 ,lean far back1 then bend forward 
and touch the  floor with the right     
hand1 without bending the knees1 as far 
in  front of the body as possible4      
,raise the body to original posture1    
reverse position of arms1 and repeat the
 exercise4 ,inhale while  leaning       
backward and changing position of arms1 
exhale while bending  forward4    7#i7  

,position erect1 feet well apart1 both  
arms raised4 ,lean back1  inhaling1 then
 bend forward1 exhaling1 touching the   
floor with both  hands between the legs 
as far back as possible4    7#aj7       
,horizontal position1 supporting the    
body on palms and toes4  ,swing the     
right hand upward and backward1 flinging
 the body to the  left side1 resting on 
the left hand and the left foot4 ,return
 to  original position1 repeat the      
exercise1 flinging the body to the      
right side4 ,inhale while swinging      
backward1 exhale while returning  to    
position4    ,diaphragmatic ,breathing  
,the diaphragm is a large1 flat muscle1 
resembling a saucer1 which  forms the   
division between the chest cavity and   
the abdominal  cavity4 ,by downward     
expansion it causes the lungs to expand 
likewise  and to suck in the air4 ,the  
pressure of air being greater on the    
outside of the body than within1 it     
rushes in and fills the vacuum  created 
by the descending diaphragm4 ,as the    

diaphragm relaxes and  becomes          
contracted to its original size and     
position1 the air is  expelled from the 
body4    7#aa7 7,to stimulate the action
 of the diaphragm7    ,lie flat on floor
 or mattress1 the head unsupported4     
,relax the  muscles all over the body1  
then inhale deeply with the diaphragm   
only1 raising the wall of the abdomen   
just below the ribs without  elevating  
either the chest or the lower abdomen4  
,take about four  seconds to inhale1    
then exhale in twice that length of     
time1  contracting the abdomen below the
 ribs4    7#ab7 7,internal massage7     
,lie on your back on a bed or couch1    
knees raised4 ,relax thoroughly1  exhale
 and hold the breath after exhalation4  
,while doing so1 push  the abdomen out  
and draw it in as far as possible each  
way4 ,repeat  these movements as long as
 you can hold the breath without        
straining1 then breathe deeply and      
regularly for several minutes1  then    
repeat the massage movements4    ,next  

to deep breathing1 ,i consider this     
practice of greater value  than any     
other physical exercise4 ,it imparts to 
the intestines an  other abdominal      
organs a washboard motion which acts as 
a powerful  stimulant to all the organs 
in the abdominal cavity4 ,internal      
massage is especially beneficial in     
chronic constipation4 ,this  exercise   
may be performed also while standing or 
walking4 ,it should  be practiced two or
 three times daily4    ,breathing       
,exercises to ,be ,taken in ,bed        
7#ac7 ,with hands at side1 inhale slowly
 and deeply1 as directed in  ,exercise  
,number 7#a71 filling and emptying the  
lungs as much as  possible1 but without 
straining4 ,practice first lying on the 
back1  then on each side4    7#ad7      
,using one-or two-pound dumbbells1      
position recumbent on back1  arms       
extended sideways1 dumbbells in hands4  
,raise the arms with  elbows rigid1     
cross arms over the chest as far as     
possible1 at the  same time expelling   

the air from the lungs4 ,extend the arms
 to the  sides1 inhaling deeply and     
raising the chest4    7#ae7 ,lie flat on
 the back1 arms at sides4 ,grasping the 
dumbbells1  extend the arms backward    
over the head1 inhaling4 ,leave them in 
this  position for a few seconds1 then  
raise them straight above the  chest1   
and lower them slowly to the original   
position4 ,exhale during  the second    
half of this exercise4    ,as a         
variation1 cross the arms in front of   
the body instead of  bringing to sides4 
,rhythmical ,breathing    ,it is a fact 
not generally known to us western people
 7our attention  had to be called to it 
by the ,wise ,men of the ,east71 that in
  normal1 rhythmical breathing          
exhalation and inhalation take place    
through one nostril at a time3 for about
 one hour through the right  nostril and
 then for a like period through the left
 nostril4    ,the breath entering       
through the right nostril creates       
positive  electro-magnetic currents1    

which pass down the right side of the   
spine1 while the breath entering through
 the left nostril sends  negative       
electro-magnetic currents down the left 
side of the spine4  ,these currents are 
transmitted by way of the nerve centers 
or  ganglia of the sympathetic nervous  
system1 which is situated  alongside the
 spinal column1 to all parts of the     
body4    ,in the normal1 rhythmical     
breath exhalation takes about twice the 
time of inhalation4 ,for instance1 if   
inhalation require four  seconds1       
exhalation1 including a slight natural  
pause before the new  inhalation1       
requires eight seconds4    ,the         
balancing of the electro-magnetic       
energies in the system depends  to a    
large extent upon this rhythmical       
breathing1 hence the  importance of     
deep1 unobstructed1 rhythmic exhalation 
and  inhalation4    ,in order to        
establish the natural rhythm of the     
breath when it has  been impaired       
through catarrhal affections1 wrong     

habits of  breathing1 or other causes1  
the following exercise1 practiced not   
less than three times a day 7preferably 
in the morning upon arising1  at noon1  
and at night71 will prove very          
beneficial in promoting  normal         
breathing and creating the right balance
 between the positive  and the negative 
electro-magnetic energies in the        
organism4    ,the ,alternate ,breath    
,exhale thoroughly1 then close the right
 nostril and inhale through  the left4  
,after a slight pause change the        
position of the fingers  and expel the  
breath slowly through the right nostril4
 ,now inhale  through the right nostril 
and1 reversing the pressure upon the    
nostrils1 exhale through the left4      
,repeat this exercise from five to ten  
times1 always allowing twice  as much   
time for exhalation as for inhalation4  
,that is1 count three1  or four1 or six 
for inhalation and six1 eight1 or       
twelve1  respectively1 for exhalation1  
according to your lung capacity4 ,let   

your breaths be as deep and long as     
possible1 but avoid all strain4    ,this
 exercise should always be performed    
before an open window or1  better yet1  
in the open air1 and the body should not
 be constricted  and hampered by tight  
or heavy clothing4    ,alternate        
breathing may be practiced standing1    
sitting1 or in the  recumbent position4 
,the spine should at all times be held  
straight  and free1 so that the flow of 
the electro-magnetic currents be not    
obstructed4 ,if taken at night before   
going to sleep1 the effect of  this     
exercise will be to induce calm1 restful
 sleep4    ,while practicing the        
alternate breath1 fix your attention and
  concentrate your power of will upon   
what you axe trying to  accomplish4 ,as 
you inhale through the right nostril1   
will the  magnetic currents to flow     
along the right side of the spine1 and  
as  you inhale through the left nostril1
 consciously direct the currents  to the
 left side4    ,there is more virtue in 

this exercise than one would expect1    
considering its simplicity4 ,it has been
 in practice among the ,yogi  of ,india 
since time immemorial4    ,the wise men 
of ,india knew that with the breath they
 absorbed not  only the physical        
elements of the air1 but life itself4   
,they taught  that this primary force of
 all forces1 from which all energy is   
derived1 ebbs and flows in rhythmical   
breath through the created  universe4   
,every living thing is alive by virtue  
of and by partaking  of this cosmic     
breath4    ,the more positive the       
demand1 the greater the supply4         
,therefore1  while breathing deeply and 
rhythmically in harmony with the        
universal breath1 will to open yourself 
more fully to the inflow of  the life   
force from the source of all life in the
 innermost parts of  your being4        
,this intimate connection of the        
individual soul with the great          
reservoir of life must exist4 ,without  
it life would be an  impossibility4     

,warning    ,while the alternate        
breathing exercises are very valuable   
for  overcoming obstructions in the air 
passages1 for establishing the  habit of
 rhythmic breathing and for refining and
 accelerating the  vibratory activities 
on the physical and spiritual planes of 
being1  they must be practiced with     
great caution4 ,these1 and other ,yogi  
breathing exercises1 are powerful means 
for developing abnormal  psychical      
conditions4 ,they are therefore         
especially dangerous to  those who are  
already inclined to be physically and   
mentally  negative and sensitive4 ,such 
persons must avoid all practices which  
tend to refine excessively the physical 
body and to develop  prematurely and    
abnormally the sensory organs of the    
spiritual body4  ,the most dangerous of 
these methods are long extended fasting1
 raw  food diet1 that1 is1 a diet       
consisting of fruits1 nuts1 oils and raw
  vegetables and excluding the dalry    
products1 ,yogi breathing1 and  sitting 

in the silence4 ,that is1 sitting in    
darkness1 in seclusion  or in company   
with others1 while keeping the mind in a
 passive1  receptive condition for      
extraneous impressions4 ,these practices
 tend  to develop very dangerous phases 
of abnormal and subjective  psychism1   
such as clairvoyance1 clairaudience1    
mediumship and  obsession4              
,chapter ,,xxxi      ,physical ,exercise
      ,aside from breathing1 gymnastics 
in general--or in the case of  illness  
or deformity1 special corrective and    
curative  exercises--should be taken    
every day4    ,physical exercise has    
similar effects upon the system as      
hydrotherapy1 massage and manipulative  
treatment4 ,it stirs up the  morbid     
accumulations in the tissues1 stimulates
 the arterial and  venous circulation1  
expands the lungs to their fullest      
capacity1  thereby increasing the intake
 of oxygen1 and most effectively        
promotes the elimination of waste and   
morbid materials through skin1  kidneys1

 bowels and the respiratory tract4      
,furthermore1 well-adapted1 systematic  
physical exercises tend to  correct     
dislocations of spinal vertebrae and    
other bony structures4  ,they relax and 
soften contracted and hardened muscles  
and ligaments  and tone up those tissues
 which are weakened and abnormally      
relaxed4  ,regular physical exercise    
means increased blood supply1 improved  
nutrition and better drainage for all   
the vital organs of the body4    ,by    
means of systematic exercise1 combined  
with deep breathing1 the  liberation and
 distribution of electromagnetic        
energies in the  system are also greatly
 promoted4    ,most persons who have to 
work hard physically are under the      
impression that they need not take      
special exercises4 ,this1 however1  is a
 mistake4 ,in nearly all kinds of       
physical labor only certain  parts of   
the body are called into action and only
 certain sets of  muscles exercised1    
while others remain inactive4 ,this     

favors unequal  development1 which is   
injurious to the organism as a whole4   
,it is  most necessary that the ill     
effects of such one-sided activity be   
counteracted by exercises and movements 
that bring into active play  all the    
different parts of the body1 especially 
those that are  neglected during the    
hours of work4    ,systematic physical  
exercise is an absolute necessity for   
brain  workers and those following      
sedentary occupations4 ,they not only   
need breathing gymnastics and corrective
 movements mornings and  evenings1 but  
should take regular daily walks1 no     
matter what the  condition of the       
weather4 ,unless they do this           
faithfully1 their  circulation will     
become sluggish and their organs of     
elimination  inactive4 ,the cells and   
tissues of their bodies will gradually  
become clogged with morbid encumbrances1
 and this will inevitably  lead to      
physical and mental deterioration4      
,general ,rules    ,weak persons and    

those suffering from malignant diseases1
 such as  cancer1 tuberculosis1 heart   
trouble1 asthma1 or from displacements  
and ruptures1 or who are liable to      
apoplectic seizures1 etc41 should  not  
take these or any other vigorous        
exercises except under the  supervision 
of a competent physician4 ,at least     
twice a day all parts  of the           
respiratory apparatus should be         
thoroughly exercised 7see  ,chapter     
,twenty-,eight on ,breathing            
,exercises74 ,deep breathing should     
accompany every corrective movement1    
whether it be a special  breathing      
exercise or not4 ,begin your exercises  
each day with light  movements and      
change gradually to more vigorous ones1 
then reverse  the process1 ending with  
light1 relaxing movements4 ,when        
beginning  to take systematic exercise1 
do not make the separate movements too  
vigorous or continue them too long4 ,if 
any of them cause pain or  considerable 
strain1 omit them until the body becomes

 stronger and  more flexible4 ,the      
muscular soreness often resulting from  
exercise  at the beginning is1 as a     
rule1 of little consequence and         
disappears  before long4 ,the different 
movements should be practiced in spite  
of  it1 because that is the only way to 
relieve and overcome this  condition4   
,stop when you begin to feel tired4     
,never overdo2 you  should feel         
refreshed and relaxed after exercising1 
not tired and  shaky4 ,do not take      
vigorous exercise of any kind within an 
hour and  a half after eating1 nor      
immediately before meals4 ,it is a good 
plan  to rest and relax thoroughly for  
about fifteen minutes before  sitting   
down to the table4 ,whenever            
practicable1 exercise out of  doors4 ,if
 indoors1 perform the movements near an 
open window or  where there is a current
 of fresh air4 ,exercise undressed1 if  
possible1 or in a regular gymnasium suit
 that gives free play to all  the       
muscles4 ,if dressed1 loosen all tight  

clothing4 ,ladies should  wear their    
garments suspended from the shoulders by
 means of  shoulder braces1 or so-called
 reform waists1 the skirts being        
fastened to these4 ,always relax        
physically and mentally before  taking  
exercise4 ,apparatus is not necessary to
 produce results4  ,however1 dumbbells1 
wands or ,indian clubs may be used1 but 
they  should not be too heavy4          
,one-pound dumbbells are sufficiently   
heavy  in most cases4 ,the exercises    
described here are intended for         
muscular control1 flexibility1          
improvement of the circulation and      
increased activity of the vital         
functions rather than for mere  animal  
strength4    ,in the following          
paragraphs we offer a selection of      
corrective  movements1 graduated from   
the more simple to those requiring      
considerable agility and effort4    ,in 
practicing these exercises1 it is best  
to alternate them1 that  is1 to select1 
say1 six or seven movements1 suited to  

individual  conditions with a view to   
secure all-around general development   
and  special practice for those parts   
and organs of the body that need  extra 
attention4 ,the time at your disposal   
will also have to be  considered4       
,practice these exercises daily for a   
week4 ,for the following week  select   
six different exercises1 then six more  
for the third week1  and so on1         
supplementing the list here given as may
 be required by  your particular needs4 
,then start over again in a similar     
manner4    ,this is better than doing   
the same stunts every day4 ,it promotes 
all-around development of the body and  
keeps the interest from  flagging4      
,corrective ,gymnastics    7#a7 ,raise  
the arms forward 7at the same time      
beginning to inhale71  upward above the 
head1 and backward as far as possible1  
bending back  the head and inhaling     
deeply4 ,now exhale slowly1 at the same 
time  lowering arms and head and bending
 the body downward until the  fingers   

touch the toes4 ,keep the knees         
straight4 ,inhale again1  raising arms  
upward and backward as before4 ,repeat  
from six to ten  times4    ,for         
exercising the muscles between the ribs 
and the abdominal  muscles in the back3 
7#b7 ,inhale slowly and deeply1 with    
arms at side4 ,now exhale1 and at  the  
same time bend to the left as far as    
possible1 raising the right  arm        
straight above the head and keeping the 
left arm close to the  side of the body4
 ,assume the original position with a   
quick  movement1 at the same time       
inhaling4 ,exhale as before1 bending to 
the right and raising the left arm4     
,repeat a number of times4    ,for      
making the chest flexible4 ,also        
excellent for the digestive  organs3    
7#c7 ,chest ,stretcher3 ,this exercise  
must be performed vigorously1 the       
movements following one another in rapid
 succession3    ,stand erect4 ,throw the
 arms backward so that the palms touch  
7striving to bring them higher with each

 repetition71 at the same  time rising  
on the toes and inhaling4 ,without      
pausing1 throw the  arms forward and    
across the chest1 the right arm         
uppermost1 striking  the back with both 
hands on opposite sides1 at the same    
time  exhaling and lowering the toes4   
,throw the arms back immediately1       
touching palms1 rising on toes and      
inhaling as before1 then bring  them    
forward and across the chest again1 left
 arm upper most4 ,repeat  from ten to   
twenty times4    ,an excellent massage  
and vibratory movement for the lungs4   
7#d7 ,exercises for filling out scrawny 
necks and hollow chests3    ,stand      
erect4 ,without raising or lowering the 
chin and without  bending the neck1 push
 the head forward as far as possible1   
then  relax4 ,repeat a number of times4 
,push the head straight back in  similar
 manner1 making an effort to push it    
farther back each time4  ,do not bend   
the neck4 ,repeat4 ,stand erect4 ,bend  
the head toward the  right shoulder as  

far as possible1 then relax4 ,do not    
rotate the  head4 ,repeat4    ,bend the 
head to the left shoulder in a similar  
manner1 then  alternate the two         
movements4 ,stand erect4 ,bend the head 
forward as  far as possible1 making an  
effort to bring it down farther each    
time4 ,relax4    ,bend the head backward
 as far as possible4    ,bend the head  
first forward1 then backward4 ,repeat4  
7#e7 ,for exercising the muscles of the 
chest and the upper arm4    ,stand      
erect1 elbows to sides1 hands closed on 
chest1 thumbs inward4  ,thrust out the  
arms vigorously and quickly1 first      
straight ahead1  then to the sides1 then
 straight up1 then straight downward1   
then  backward4 ,repeat each movement a 
number of times1 then alternate  them1  
each time bringing arms back and hands  
to the original  position quickly and   
forcefully4    ,as a variation1 raise   
the elbows sideways to shoulder height  
with  fists on shoulders1 then strike   
vigorously as before1 opening the  palms

 and stretching the fingers with each   
thrust4 ,repeat from ten  to twenty     
times or until tired4    7#f7 ,stand    
erect1 hands on hips4 ,keeping the legs 
straight1 rotate  the trunk upon the    
hips1 bending first forward1 then to the
 right1  then backward1 then to the     
left4 ,repeat a number of times1 then   
rotate in the opposite direction4       
,especially valuable to stir up a       
sluggish liver3    7#g7 ,lie flat on    
your back on a bed or1 better still1 a  
mat on the  floor1 hands under head4    
,without bending knees1 raise the right 
leg  as high as possible and lower it   
slowly4 ,repeat a number of times1  then
 raise the other leg1 then alternate4   
,as the abdomen becomes  stronger1 raise
 both legs at once1 keeping knees       
straight4 ,it is  important that the    
legs be lowered slowly4    ,for         
exercising the abdominal muscles and    
strengthening the pelvic  organs4 ,this 
and the following exercise are          
especially valuable for  remedying      

female troubles3    7#h7 ,lie flat on   
back1 arms folded on chest4 ,place the  
feet under a  chair or bed to keep them 
in position4 ,raise the body to a       
sitting  posture1 keeping knees1 back   
and neck straight4 ,lower the body      
slowly to its original position4 ,repeat
 from five to ten times1  according to  
strength4    ,supplementary ,exercises  
7#i7 ,stride-stand position 7feet about 
one-half yard apart74 ,raise  the arms  
sideways until even with the shoulders1 
then1 without  bending the back1 rotate 
the trunk upon the hips1 first to the   
right1 then to the left4    ,as a       
variation of this exercise1 rotate from 
the waist only1 keeping  the hips       
motionless4    ,an excellent massage for
 the internal organs3    7#aj7 ,see-saw 
motion3    ,stride-stand position1 arms 
raised sideways4 ,bend to the right     
until  the hand touches the floor1 left 
arm raised high4 ,resume original       
position4 ,repeat several times1 then   
bend to the left side1 then  alternate4 

7#aa7 ,chopping exercise3               
,stride-stand position4 ,clasp the hands
 above the left shoulder4  ,swing the   
arms downward and between the legs1     
bending well forward4  ,return to       
position and repeat a number of times1  
then repeat with  hands on right        
shoulder1 then alternate4    7#ab7      
,cradle rock3    ,clasp hands over head1
 elbows straight4 ,bend the trunk to the
 right  and left side alternately and   
without pausing a number of times4      
7#ac7 ,stand erect1 feet together4 ,jump
 to the stride-stand position1  at the  
same time raising arms sideways to      
shoulders1 jump back to  original       
position and lower arms4 ,repeat from   
ten to twenty times4    7#ad7 ,lie flat 
on back1 arms at side1 legs straight4   
,raise both legs  till they are at right
 angles with body4 ,from this position  
sway  legs to the right and left side   
alternately4    7#ae7 ,lie flat on back1
 arms extended over head4 ,swing arms   
and legs  upward simultaneously1        

touching the toes with the hands in     
midair1  balancing the body on the hip  
bones and lower part of spine4 ,return  
to original position and repeat4        
,this is a difficult and strenuous      
exercise1 and should not be  attempted  
at first3    7#af7 ,lie flat on stomach1
 hands under shoulders1 palms down-ward1
  fingers turned inward1 about six      
inches apart4 ,this will give free  play
 to the muscles of the chest4 ,raise the
 upper half of the body  on the hands   
and arms as high as possible1 keeping   
the body  straight4 ,return to position 
and repeat until slightly fatigued4     
7#ag7 ,same position as before4 ,raise  
the entire body on hands and  toes1     
keeping arms and legs straight4 ,return 
to relaxed position and  repeat the     
exercise4    ,as a variation1 sway      
forward and backward while in the raised
  position4    7#ah7 ,lie flat on       
stomach1 arms extended in front4 ,fling 
the arms  upward and raise the upper    
part of the body as high as possible1   

keeping the legs straight4 ,return to   
position and repeat1 but avoid          
excessive strain4    7#ai7 ,same        
position as before1 but hands on hips or
 clasped in back4  ,raise upper part of 
body without assistance from hands or   
arms4    7#bj7 ,rocking chair motion3   
,sit on a mat or bed1 legs straight1    
arms at side4 ,recline so that  the     
upper part of the body almost touches   
the mat1 at the same time  swinging the 
legs upward4 ,return to original        
position and repeat  without any pause  
between the movements1 rocking back and 
forth  until slightly tired4    ,as you 
get stronger1 clasp the hands behind the
 head4 ,as a  variation1 rock with the  
knees bent1 hands clasped below them4   
,special ,exercises for ,reducing ,flesh
 and    ,strengthening the ,abdominal   
,organs    7#ba7 ,lie flat on stomach1  
heels and toes together1 hands stretched
  out in front4 ,fling head and arms    
upward1 at the same time raising  the   
legs1 knees straight4 ,avoid straining4 

7#bb7 ,same position1 hands clasped on  
back1 feet together4 ,roll from  side to
 side4    7#bc7 ,lie flat on back1 seize
 a bar 7bed rail or rung of chair7 just 
behind the head4 ,keeping the feet close
 together1 raise the legs as  high as   
possible1 then swing them from side to  
side4 ,as a variation1  swing legs in a 
circle without flexing the knees4       
7#bd7 ,same position4 ,raise and lower  
the legs up and down without  letting   
them touch the floor1 keeping the knees 
straight4    7#be7 ,lie flat on the     
back1 fold the hands loosely across the 
stomach4 ,raise and lower the upper body
 without quite touching the  floor4     
7#bf7 ,stand erect1 heels together1 arms
 raised above the head4 ,bend  forward  
and downward1 endeavoring to place the  
palms of the hands on  the floor in     
front of the body without flexing the   
knees4 ,return  slowly to original      
position and repeat4    7#bg7 ,stand    
erect1 hands on hips4 ,keeping the body 
motionless from  the hips downward1 sway

 the upper part of the body from side to
 side  and forward and backward1 and in 
a circle to right and left4    7#bh7    
,stand erect1 raise the arms above the  
head4 ,rotate the trunk  upon the hips  
with extended arms1 bending as far as   
possible in each  direction1 but        
avoiding undue strain4 ,these are       
strenuous movements  and should not be  
carried to excess or performed very long
 at a  time4    ,physical ,exercises for
 ,invalids    ,persons who are very weak
 and unable to be on their feet for any 
length of time need not1 for this       
reason1 forego the benefits to be       
derived from systematic physical        
exercise4    ,a low chair1 with straight
 or very lightly curved back and no     
arms1  or a rocking chair of similar    
construction with a wedge placed under  
the rockers in such a manner as to keep 
the chair steady at a  suitable angle1  
is well adapted to the practice of a    
number of  corrective movements1 such as
 rotating of hips and waist1 forward    

and sideward bending of the trunk1 the  
various arm and neck  exercises1 bending
 and twisting of feet and toes1 the     
internal  massage 7,exercise ,number    
#ab7 and ,breathing ,exercises to be    
,taken in  ,bed1 in previous ,chapter4  
,chapter ,,xxxii      ,manipulative     
,treatment ,massage      ,massage has   
very much the same effects upon the     
system as the  cold-water treatment4 ,it
 accelerates the circulation1 draws the 
blood into the surface1 relaxes and     
opens the pores of the skin1  promotes  
the elimination of morbid matter and    
increases and  stimulates the           
electromagnetic energies in the body4   
,we have learned that one of the primary
 causes of chronic disease is  the      
accumulation of waste matter and        
systemic poisons in the tissues  of the 
body4 ,these morbid encumbrances clog   
the capillaries1 thus  obstructing the  
circulation and interfering with or     
preventing the  normal activity of the  
organs of elimination1 especially the   

skin4    ,the deep-going massage1 the   
squeezing1 kneading1 rolling and        
stroking1 actually squeezes the stagnant
 blood and the morbid  accumulations out
 of the tissues into the venous         
circulation1 speeds  the venous blood1  
charged with waste products and poisons1
 on its  way to the lungs and enables   
the arterial blood with its freight of  
oxygen and nourishing elements to flow  
more freely into the  less-obstructed   
tissues and organs4    ,through         
manipulation of the fleshy tissues1 the 
blood is drawn to  the surface of the   
body and in that way the elimination of 
morbid  matter through the relaxed and  
opened pores of the skin is greatly     
facilitated4    ,very important are the 
electromagnetic effects of good massage 
upon  the system4 ,the positive         
magnetism of the operator will stir up  
and  intensify the latent               
electromagnetic energies in the body of 
the  patient1 very much like a piece of 
iron or steel is magnetized by  rubbing 

it with a horseshoe magnet4 ,the more   
normal and positive1  morally and       
mentally as well as physically1 the     
operator1 the more  marked will be the  
good effects of the treatment upon the  
weak and  negative patient4    ,magnetic
 ,treatment    ,the beneficial effect of
 magnetic treatment is not so much due  
to  the actual transmission of vital    
force from operator to patient as  to   
the arousing and stimulating of the     
latent1 inactive  electromagnetic       
energies of the latter1 the polarizing  
of his  magnetic forces4    ,the        
horseshoe magnet does not impart its own
 magnetism to the piece  of iron which  
is rubbed with it1 but the              
electromagnetic energies in  the magnet 
arouse to vibratory activity the latent 
electromagnetic  energies in the iron4  
,this is proved by the fact that both   
magnet  and iron will remain magnetic as
 long as they are used for  magnetizing 
other substances1 but through disuse    
both will lose  their magnetic          

qualities4    ,i am often asked by my   
operators and others3 ,how can ,i best  
develop  my magnetism8 and ,is there    
danger of losing my vitality and        
becoming 'negative' by treating the sick
 in this way8 ,it is true  that         
manipulative work1 like everything else1
 can be overdone and  produce harmful   
effects upon the operator4 ,but within  
reasonable  limits1 massage and magnetic
 treatments will not deplete the person 
giving them1 providing he keeps his     
system in good condition4 ,his  own     
vibrations must be harmonious on all    
planes of being1 the  physical1 mental1 
moral and spiritual4 ,he must be        
inspired and  actuated by the faith that
 he ,,can heal1 by the positive will to 
heal1 and by sympathy for the one he is 
trying to benefit4    ,such an operator 
makes himself the instrument for the    
transmission  of life force1 which is   
healing force1 from the ,source of all  
life4  ,as he gives1 so he receives2 for
 this is the basic law of the  universe1

 the ,law of ,compensation4 ,if he gives
 the treatments in the  right spirit1 he
 will gain vital force instead of losing
 it4 ,he will  actually feel his own    
intensified life vibrations and after   
treating  he will experience a feeling  
of buoyancy and elation which nothing   
else can impart to him4 ,he who loses   
his life shall find it4    ,like a      
musician who tunes up 7puts in          
harmonious vibration7 the  relaxed      
strings of his instrument1 so the       
magnetic healer tunes up  and harmonizes
 the weakened and discordant vibrations 
of his  patient4    ,good massage will  
produce electromagnetic effects even    
though the  operator is not aware of it 
and does not understand the underlying  
laws2 but his work will gain in power   
and effectiveness in direct  proportion 
to the conscious efforts he makes to    
benefit his patients  by the influence  
of these higher and finer forces4    ,i 
have frequently noticed in my own       
manipulative work how much the          

conscious and concentrated effort of the
 will has to do with its  effectiveness4
 ,often1 when ,i had given the usual    
massage or  osteopathic treatment and   
the patient still complained of pain in 
a  certain locality of the body1 ,i     
would lay my hands on the affected  area
 and concentrate my will upon dissolving
 the congestion in that  particular part
 or organ and upon harmonizing its      
discordant  vibrations4 ,very shortly1  
usually within a few minutes1 the       
congestion would be relieved and the    
pain would subside4    ,the             
electromagnetic energies of the organism
 can be controlled by  the will and     
either concentrated to or sent away from
 any part of  the body1 just as the     
circulation of the blood can be         
controlled4  ,the latter ,i saw done by 
a hypnotist who made the blood flow into
  and out of the arms and hands of one  
of his subjects simply by the  power of 
his will4    ,while this was            
accomplished by means of a destructive  

process1 it  taught me a most valuable  
lesson regarding the power of the will  
to  control physical conditions4    ,try
 it yourself4 ,next time when you have  
one of your annoying  headaches1 recline
 comfortably in a chair or on a couch1  
relax  completely and then ,will the    
blood to flow away from the brain in    
order to relieve the congestion and the 
attendant pain4 ,many of my  patients   
have learned to treat themselves        
successfully in this way4    ,it is     
obvious that magnetic treatment will not
 remove pain  permanently if the latter 
is due to irritation caused by a        
subluxated bone or by some foreign body 
or by local accumulation of  morbid     
matter and poisons in any part or organ4
 ,in all such cases  the local cause of 
the irritation must be removed before   
the pain  can subside or disappear4     
,spinal ,manipulation and ,adjustment   
,history    ,in many ,european countries
 bonesetters have1 in a crude way1 been 
treating strains and sprains of the     

spinal column since time  immemorial4   
,these bonesetters usually belong to the
 peasantry and  the art has been        
transmitted in the same families from   
father to son  for many generations4    
,incidentally1 these simple people      
observed that their treatment  relieved 
not only sprained1 tired and painful    
backs--the result  primarily aimed      
at--but frequently exerted a favorable  
influence  upon disease processes in    
remote organs and parts4 ,this empirical
  discovery has gradually led to a wider
 application of this method of          
treatment4    ,the various modern       
systems of spinal manipulation1 namely1 
osteopathy1 chiropractic1 naprapathy1   
neuropathy1 spondylotherapy  and our own
 neurotherapy1 are all of distinctly    
,american origin4    ,during the last   
quarter century millions of ,americans  
through  personal experience have become
 staunch adherents to one or more of    
these systems of treatment4 ,this fact  
has been instrumental in  directing the 

attention of numerous sincere and       
scientific  investigators to the spinal 
column with its associated structures as
  a mechanism through which to apply    
therapeutic measures4 ,it  therefore    
behooves every health seeker to acquaint
 himself with the  theories and claims  
of these various systems of manipulative
  treatment4    ,osteopathy    ,the     
autobiography of ,dr4 ,a4 ,t4 ,still    
contains the following  interesting     
statement3    ,in the year #ahgd ,i     
proclaimed that a disturbed artery      
marked the  beginning to an hour and a  
minute when disease began to sow its    
seeds of destruction in the human body4 
,that in no case could it be  done      
without a broken or suspended current of
 arterial blood1 which  by ,nature was  
intended to supply and nourish all      
nerves1 ligaments1  muscles1 skin1 bones
 and the artery itself4  ,the rule of   
the artery  must be absolute1 universal 
and unobstructed or disease will be the 
result4 ,i proclaimed then and there    

that all nerves depend wholly on  the   
arterial system for their qualities such
 as sensation1 nutrition  and motion1   
even though by the law of reciprocity   
they furnish  force1 nutrition and      
motion to the artery itself4    ,it may 
be argued that as early as #ahje the    
,ling ,system of ,swedish  ,movement was
 founded on the same principle1 namely1 
permanent  health through perfect       
circulation4 ,the evidence at hand1     
however1  strongly suggests that the    
founder of osteopathy arrived at his    
conclusions independently4    ,the      
further claims of ,dr4 ,still as to the 
cause and cure of disease  are briefly  
as follows3 ,partial displacements of   
any of the various  bones of the body   
exert pressure on neighboring blood     
vessels1  thereby interfering with the  
circulation to the corresponding        
organs4 ,these displacements1 called    
bony lesions1 are best  reduced by      
manipulations called osteopathic moves4 
,chiropractic    ,in #ahie1 ,dr4 ,d4 ,d4

 ,palmer put forth the following claims 
as to the  cause and cure of diseases3  
,sprains of the spine result in partial 
displacement of one or more of the      
vertebrae which go to make up the       
spinal column1 thus exerting pressure on
 the neighboring nerves4  ,this shuts   
off the vitality of the organs supplied 
by the affected  nerves1 hence disease  
results4 ,these displacements1 called   
vertebral subluxations1 are best        
adjusted by means of  manipulations in  
the form of chiropractic thrusts4    ,as
 soon as osteopathy and chiropractic    
were properly established1  the more    
broad-minded exponents of both systems  
began mutual  investigation and         
amalgamation4 ,as a result1 we find that
 only seven  years after the birth of   
chiropractic1 osteopathic literature    
began  to mention vertebral subluxations
 as pressing on nerves1 thereby  causing
 disease4 ,on the other hand1 advanced  
chiropractors soon  began to realize the
 importance of relaxing tense muscles   

prior to  delivering their thrusts4     
,they also began to pay attention to the
  bony lesions other than those         
occurring in the spine4 ,many of the    
chiropractic principles and much of its 
technique of today has been  gleaned    
from osteopathy1 while the reverse      
statement holds equally  true4          
,naprapathy    ,the connective tissue   
doctrine of disease was first proclaimed
 by  ,dr4 ,oakley ,smith in #aijg4 ,it  
may be briefly stated as follows3 ,a    
vertebra does not become misplaced      
without being fractured or  completely  
dislocated4 ,what is called a bony      
lesion by the osteopath  and a          
subluxation by the chiropractor1 is in  
reality a ligatight1  that is1 a        
shrunken condition of the connective    
tissue forming the  various ligaments   
that bind the vertebrae together4       
,ligatights are best corrected by means 
of naprapathic directos4  ,these differ 
from chiropractic thrusts in that they  
aim not at  adjusting subluxated        

vertebrae but at stretching definite    
strands of  shrunken connective tissue4 
,ligatights occur not only in the spine 
but also in other parts of the body4    
,neuropathy    ,this system of          
manipulative treatment was originated in
 #ahii by ,drs4  ,john ,arnold and      
,harry ,walter of ,philadelphia4 ,their 
claims may be  briefly stated as        
follows3 ,morbid matter1 poisons and    
irritants of  various kinds1 acting upon
 the vasomotor nerves which control the 
blood vessels1 produce abnormal changes 
in circulation which1 if  perpetuated1  
finally lead to disease manifestations4 
,the nerve  impulses coming from        
diseased parts travel to the spinal cord
 and1  like all other nerve impulses1   
are transmitted along those branches  of
 the spinal nerves which supply the     
structures 7muscles1 blood  vessels1    
etc47 along each side of the spine4     
,here these impulses  bring about       
abnormal circulatory changes similar to 
those found in  the diseased organs or  

parts4    ,since nerve impulses are     
transmitted from diseased organs to the 
spine1 it is evident that they can be   
made to travel also in the  reverse     
direction4 ,neuropathic treatment1      
therefore1 consists of  manipulations   
and thermal applications which aim at   
correcting the  abnormal circulatory    
changes as found in the spine1 thereby  
correcting corresponding abnormal       
processes in the organs or parts        
supplied by the nerves coming from that 
region of the spine4    ,these men also 
emphasized the fact that the circulation
 within the  blood vessels1 being       
propelled by the heart1 needs less      
attention  during disease than the      
circulation of the fluids in the spaces 
between the cells and through the lymph 
vessels and glands4  ,neuropathy1       
therefore1 also lays great stress on    
applying  manipulation and thermal      
applications to the lymphatic system4   
,neurotherapy    ,while the exponents of
 the above systems of spinal            

manipulation  differ widely in their    
theories as to the cause of disease and 
the  means of removing such cause1 their
 methods of treatment furnish           
considerable evidence of satisfactory   
results4 ,this seems to suggest  that   
there must be some real value in each   
system and that a great  deal of the    
difference between these apparently     
opposed methods of  treatment lies in   
the claims of their exponents4 ,it will 
be shown  presently that1 in their final
 analysis1 the osteopathic spinal       
lesion1 the chiropractic subluxation and
 the naprapathic ligatight  represent   
one and the same thing4    ,natural     
,therapeutics is broad enough to embrace
 all methods of  treatment1 no matter   
what their source1 provided they        
harmonize with  the fundamental laws of 
cure4    ,gradually1 therefore1 after   
having gathered the constructive        
elements from all the various methods of
 manipulation1 after  considerable      
spinal dissection and1 above all1 after 

close  observation of the results       
obtained in hundreds of obstinate acute 
and chronic cases1 we of the ,school of 
,natural ,therapeutics have  evolved our
 own system of spinal manipulation and  
have named it  neurotherapy4    ,the    
,relation of ,neurotherapy to    ,other 
,manipulative ,systems    ,osteopathy1  
chiropractic1 naprapathy1 neurotherapy  
and  spondylotherapy1 as we have        
learned1 are various systems of         
maipulative treatment which have been   
devised mainly to correct  spinal and   
other bony lesions1 shrinkage and       
contracture of muscles1  ligaments and  
other connective tissues4    ,important 
as these methods are in the treatment of
 acute and chronic  diseases1 by        
themselves they are not all-sufficient  
because they  deal only with the        
mechanical causes of disease1 not with  
the  chemical1 thermal or with the      
mental and psychical4 ,the most         
efficient spinal treatment cannot make  
good for the bad effects of  an         

unbalanced diet which contains an       
excessive amount of  poison-producing   
materials and is deficient in the       
all-important  mineral elements or      
organic salts4 ,just as surely as mental
  therapeutics and a natural diet cannot
 correct bony lesions produced  by      
external violence1 just so surely is it 
impossible to cure  dementia praecox1   
monomania or obsession1 or to supply    
iron1 lime1  sodium1 etc41 to the system
 by correcting spinal lesions4    ,the  
trouble with the manipulative schools   
and their graduates is  that they adhere
 too closely to the mechanical theory   
and treatment  of disease2 that they    
reject practically all natural methods  
of  treatment aside from manipulative   
and that so far as the osteopathic      
school is concerned its practitioners   
show a strong tendency to fall  back    
upon the ,old ,school methods of        
drugging and of surgical  treatment4    
,this is due to the fact that in many   
types of diseases  manipulative         

treatment by itself has proved          
insufficient to produce  satisfactory   
results4    ,in order to do justice to  
our patients and not neglect our        
responsibilities toward them we must use
 in the treatment of disease  all that  
is good in all the natural methods of   
healing4 ,in serious  chronic cases any 
single one of these methods1 whether it 
be pure  food diet1 hydrotherapy1       
massage1 spinal treatment1 mental       
therapeutics or homeopathy1 is not by   
itself sufficient to achieve            
satisfactory results or to produce them 
fast enough4    ,to use an illustration3
 ,suppose a wagon full of freight       
requires the  combined strength of six  
horses to move it and suppose that      
number  of horses is available1 would it
 not be foolish to try to move the  load
 with one1 two1 three1 four or even five
 horses8 ,would not  common sense       
suggest the saving of time and effort by
 putting all  six horses to work at     
once8    ,in ,natural ,therapeutics     

every one of the various methods of     
treatment is supplemented and assisted  
by all the others4    ,the manipulative 
schools of healing maintain that        
practically all  disease is caused by   
mechanical abnormalities of the spinal  
column  or of muscles1 ligaments and    
other connective tissues1 due to        
abnormal strain or injury4 ,the         
philosophy of ,natural ,therapeutics1   
on the other hand1 points out that a    
large percentage of such spinal  and    
other mechanical lesions are secondary  
manifestations of  disease1 not primary 
causes2 that acute or subacute          
inflammatory  conditions in the interior
 of the body may cause nervous          
irritation  and thereby contraction of  
muscles and ligaments and1 as a result  
of  these1 subluxations of vertebrae or 
of other bony structures4    ,the       
naprapathic theory of disease postulates
 that it is the  shrinkage and          
contraction of the connective tissues1  
which serve as  a support and protection

 for the nerve matter contained in the  
nerve  trunks and filaments1 that cause 
interference with the normal nerve      
supply of cells and tissues and thereby 
abnormal function and  disease4    ,the 
philosophy of ,natural ,therapeutics    
points to the fact that this  shrinkage 
and contraction of the connective       
tissues surrounding and  permeating the 
nerve trunks and filaments is caused by 
certain acids  and other pathogenic     
materials which are produced by faulty  
diet and  defective elimination and that
 the same causes produce accumulation   
of waste and morbid matter in the       
tissues of the body which1 all  through 
the system1 interfere just as           
effectually with nutrition1  drainage   
and innervation of the cells and tissue 
as do spinal  lesions and ligatights4   
,while the other systems of manipulative
 treatment confine themselves  almost   
entirely to the correction of bony and  
other connective  tissue lesions1 to    
pressing the button1 as it is called1   

neurotherapy1 besides this1 aims at     
other very important results4    ,in    
disease the tissues are either in an    
abnormally tense and  contracted or in a
 weak1 relaxed condition4 ,the          
functional  activities are either       
hyperactive as in acute inflammation1 or
  sluggish and inactive as in chronic   
atonic and atrophic conditions4  ,these 
extremes can be powerfully influenced   
and equalized by  manipulative          
inhibition1 relaxation or stimulation4  
,during an acute attack of gastritis1   
for instance1 the  neurotherapist would 
exert strong inhibition on the nerves   
which  supply the stomach4 ,this is     
accomplished by deep and persistent     
pressure on the nerves where they emerge
 from the spinal openings  7foramina74  
,this diminishes the rush of blood and  
nerve currents to  the inflamed organ   
and thereby eases but does not suppress 
the  inflammatory process and the       
attending congestion and pain4    ,in   
case of extreme tension in any part of  

the system1 relaxation of  the shrunken 
tissues can be brought about by gentle  
but persistent  stretching of the nerves
 and adjacent muscles and ligaments1 in 
a  manner similar to that of the        
naprapathic directos4    ,when the vital
 organs and their functions are weak and
 inactive or  when nerves1 muscles1     
ligaments and other connective tissues  
are in  a relaxed1 atonic or atrophic   
condition1 certain stimulating          
movements applied to the nerves where   
they emerge from the spinal  column will
 energize the vital functions all       
through the system4    ,many patients   
imagine that such manipulative treatment
 is  superficial4 ,to them it is just   
rubbing and seems all alike4 ,they  do  
not realize that manipulative           
stimulation applied to the nerves  near 
the surface of the body travels all     
along their branches and  filaments like
 electricity along a complicated system 
of copper  wires and thus reaches the   
innermost cells and organs of the body1 

making them more alive and active4 ,this
 internal stimulation of  vital         
activities is attained also by good     
massage through energizing  the nerve   
endings all over the surface of the     
body4    ,the ,fundamental ,difference  
,between ,neuratherapy  and ,other      
,manipulative ,systems    ,the following
 paragraphs will explain the fundamental
 difference  between neurotherapy and   
the older systems of manipulative       
treatment4 ,the older systems1 the same 
as the allopathic school of  medicine1  
look upon acute diseases as destructive 
processes  dangerous to health and life2
 therefore they endeavor to check or    
suppress them as quickly as possible by 
their various methods4    ,neurotherapy 
so far is the only system of            
manipulative treatment  that bases its  
work on the fundamental laws of ,natural
 ,therapeutics4  ,according to these    
laws every acute disease is the result  
of a  purifying1 healing effort of      
,nature4 ,therefore neurotherapy would  

not suppress acute processes by         
manipulative treatment any more than  by
 drugs1 ice1 antitoxins1 surgery or any 
other suppressive method4    ,to        
illustrate3 ,supposing that             
spontaneously or as a result of  natural
 living and treatment a patient         
suffering from chronic  constipation1   
indigestion1 etc41 develops a vigorous  
purging1 which  we of the ,nature ,cure 
school would consider a splendid healing
  crisis4 ,under allopathic as well as  
under the treatment of other            
manipulative schools such an acute      
reaction would be immediately           
suppressed4 ,this can be accomplished   
very easily by a few  manipulative      
moves1 but it would mean the suppression
 of a purifying  healing crisis and this
 would result in throwing the patient   
back  into his old chronic condition4   
,the underlying causes of disease  must 
be removed before we can cure chronic   
disease and bring about a  normal       
condition of the organism4    ,suppose  

manipulative treatment should succeed in
 stopping a fever  instantaneously4     
,this would suppress ,nature's          
purifying1  regenerating efforts1 the   
patient would continue to load up more  
morbid materials 7especially since these
 schools do not teach the  importance of
 natural living7 and it would only be a 
matter of time  until the morbid        
accumulations in the body would excite  
new acute  reactions1 necessitating more
 adjustments4 ,this may be all right for
  the practitioner2 but what about the  
patient8 ,in the long run it can  only  
have one result1 and that is chronic    
disease4        ,chapter ,,xxxiii       
,legitimate ,scope and ,natural         
,limitations  of ,mental and            
,metaphysical ,healing      ,during the 
last generation people have perceived   
more or less  clearly the fallacies of  
,old ,school medicine and surgery4 ,they
  have grown more and more suspicious of
 orthodox theories and  practices4 ,from
 allopathic overdoing the pendulum has  

swung to the  other extreme of          
metaphysical nihilism1 to the underdoing
 of  mental and metaphysical systems of 
treating human ailments4    ,some of    
these systems and cults of metaphysical 
healing have met  with success and wide 
popularity and this is looked upon by   
their  followers as a proof that all the
 claims and teachings of these  cults   
and isms are based upon absolute truth4 
,however1 a thorough understanding of   
the fundamental ,laws of ,cure1  as ,i  
have explained them in this volume1 will
 reveal in how far  their teachings and 
their practices are based upon truth and
 in how  far they are inspired by       
erroneous assumptions4    ,let us then  
apply the yardstick and the weights and 
measures of  ,nature ,cure philosophy in
 testing the true value of the claims of
  metaphysical healers4    ,for ages    
people have been educated in the belief 
that almost every  acute disease will   
end fatally unless the patient is       
drugged or  operated on4 ,when they find

 to their surprise that the metaphysical
  formulas or prayers of a mental healer
 or ,christian ,scientist will  cure    
baby's measles or father's smallpox just
 as well as1 and  possibly better than1 
,dr4 ,dopem's pills and potions1 they   
are firmly  convinced that a miracle has
 been performed in their behalf and     
straightway they become blind believers 
in and fanatical followers  of their new
 idols4    ,they simply exchange one    
superstition for another3 the belief in 
the  efficacy of drugs and surgical     
operations for the belief in the        
wonder-working power of a metaphysical  
formula1 a self-appointed  savior or a  
reason-stultifying and will-benumbing   
cult4 ,they have  not been taught that  
every acute disease is the result of a  
healing  effort of ,nature and therefore
 fail to see that it is vital force1    
the physician within1 that1 if          
conditions are favorable1 cures  measles
 and smallpox as easily as it repairs   
the broken blade of  grass or heals the 

wounded deer of the forest4    ,that is 
exactly what we say1 exclaim healer and 
scientist4 ,have  unlimited faith in the
 ,god within and all will be well4      
,true1 faith is good1 but faith and     
works are better4 ,though we  cannot    
heal and give life1 we can in many ways 
assist the healer  within4 ,we can teach
 and explain ,nature's ,laws1 we can    
remove  obstructions and we can make the
 conditions within and around the       
patient more favorable for the action of
 ,nature's healing forces4    ,when the 
,great ,master said3 ,go forth and sin  
no more1 lest worse  things than these  
befall you1 he acknowledged sin1 or the 
transgression of natural laws1 to be the
 primary cause of disease1  and made    
health dependent upon compliance with   
the ,law4 ,the  necessity of complying  
with the ,law1 in all respects and on   
all the  planes of being1 is still more 
strongly emphasized in the following3   
,for whosoever shall keep the whole law 
and yet offend in one point1  he is     

guilty of all4    ,the skeptic and the  
superficial reader may reply3 ,this     
saying is  utterly unreasonable4        
,stealing a penny is not committing a   
murder2  overeating does not break the  
law of chastity2 how1 then1 is it       
possible to break all laws by breaking  
any single one of them8  ,there is1     
however1 a deeper meaning to this       
seeming paradox which  makes it         
scientifically true4    ,self-,control1 
the ,whole ,law    ,obedience to all    
laws on all planes of being depends     
primarily on  self-control4             
,self-control is1 therefore1 in a sense1
 the whole law1  for man cannot break   
any one law unless he breaks first this 
fundamental ,law of all ,laws4 ,this    
implies that the demoralizing  effect of
 sinning or law-breaking1 on any one of 
the planes of  being1 does not depend so
 much upon the enormity of the deed as  
upon  the loss of self-control4         
,continued weakening of self-control in 
trivial things may therefore1 in the    

end1 prove more destructive  than a     
murder committed in the heat of passion4
 ,if there is not  self-control enough  
to resist a cup of coffee or a cigar1   
whence  shall come the will-power to    
resist greater temptations8    ,truly1  
lack of self-control in small things is 
the dry rot of the  soul4 ,is it not1   
then1 somewhat unreasonable to expect   
,god or ,nature  to strain and twist the
 immutable laws of ,nature at the       
request of  every healer in order to    
save us from the natural consequences of
  overeating1 red meat eating1 whisky   
drinking1 smoking1 tobacco  chewing1    
drugging and a thousand and one other   
transgressions of  natural laws8    ,in 
spite of the finest-spun metaphysical   
sophistries1 we continue to  burn our   
fingers in the fire until we know enough
 to leave it alone4  ,herein lies the   
corrective purpose of that which we call
  evil--suffering and disease4 ,the     
rational thing to do is not to deny  the
 existence of ,mother ,nature's         

punishing rod1 but to escape her        
salubrious spankings by conforming to   
her ,laws4    ,what about the ,cures8   
,as in medicine1 so also in metaphysical
 healing1 men judge by  superficial     
results1 not by the real underlying     
causes4 ,the usual  answer to any       
criticism of ,christian ,science or     
kindred methods of  cure is3 ,that may  
be all right2 but see the results6      
,nobody can  deny their wonderful cures1
 etc4    ,let us see whether there      
really is anything wonderful or         
supernatural about these cures or       
whether they can be explained on        
simple1 natural grounds4    ,in another 
chapter we explain the difference       
between functional and  organic disease 
and show how in diseases of the         
functional type the  life force or      
healing force1 which always endeavors to
 establish  normal conditions and the   
perfect type1 may work unaided up to the
  reconstructive healing crises and     
through these eliminate the morbid      

encumbrances from the system and        
reestablish normal structure and        
function4    ,it is in cases like these 
that metaphysicians attain their best   
results simply because ,nature helps    
herself4    ,on the other hand1 in cases
 of the true organic type1 where the    
vitality is low and the destruction of  
vital parts and organs has  progressed  
to a considerable extent1 the system is 
no longer able to  arouse itself to     
self-help4    ,in such cases1 faith     
alone is not sufficient to obtain       
results4 ,it  must be backed and        
assisted by all the natural methods of  
treatment  at our command4    ,healers  
,work with ,laws that    ,they ,do ,not 
,understand    ,in our critical analysis
 of ,old ,school methods we found that  
by  far the greater part of all chronic 
ailments is due to drugging and  to     
surgery4 ,people commence doctoring for 
little troubles1 which are  aggravated  
by every dose of medicine and every     
surgical operation  until they end in   

big troubles4    ,is it marvelous that  
such patients improve and that many are 
cured  when they are weaned from drugs  
and the knife8    ,metaphysical healers 
unwittingly do their best and most      
beneficial  work because they induce    
their followers not to suppress acute   
diseases and healing crises by drugs and
 surgical operations1 thus  allowing    
them to run their natural course in     
harmony with the  fundamental law of    
,nature ,cure1 which states that every  
acute  disease is the result of a       
cleansing and healing effort of ,nature4
  ,people will refrain from the         
suppressive drug treatment under the    
influence of metaphysical teachings1    
which appeal to the  miracle-loving     
element in their nature1 when they      
cannot be  convinced by common sense    
,nature ,cure reasoning4    ,thus       
metaphysicians assist ,nature indirectly
 by noninterference and  directly by    
soothing fear and worry1 by instilling  
faith1 hope and  confidence4 ,frequently

 they also aid ,nature by prohibiting   
the use  of tobacco1 alcohol and pork1  
and by regulating otherwise the life    
and habits of their followers4    ,let  
us consider the problem from another    
point of view4 ,let us  assume1 for     
argument's sake1 that the average person
 passes in the  course of a lifetime    
through a dozen different diseases4 ,he 
recovers  from eleven of these1 no      
matter what the treatment4 ,it is only  
the  twelfth to which he succumbs4 ,yet1
 whosoever happened to treat the  first 
eleven diseases claims to have cured    
them and1 perhaps1 to  have saved the   
patient's life when1 as a matter of     
fact1 he  recovered very often in spite 
of the treatment and not because of  it4
    ,these explanations account for the 
seemingly miraculous results of         
metaphysical healing4 ,if healers and   
,christian ,scientists were to  explain 
their cures by the laws and principles  
of ,nature ,cure  philosophy1 mystery   
and miracle would be taken out of their 

business4    ,faith ,without ,works ,is 
,dangerous    ,to believe that ,god or  
,nature will overcome the natural       
effects of  our ignorance1 laziness and 
viciousness by wonders1 signs and       
metaphysics1 or to deny the existence of
 sickness1 sin and  suffering1 must lead
 inevitably to intellectual and moral   
stagnation  and degeneration4 ,i am a   
thorough and consistent optimist and    
,new  ,thought enthusiast1 but ,i do not
 overlook the fact that in this1 as  in 
everything else1 there lurks always the 
danger of overdoing and  of exaggerating
 virtue into fault4    ,the greatest    
danger of this revulsion from old-time  
pessimism to  modern optimism lies in   
the fact that the ,higher ,thought      
enthusiast  may cut from under his feet 
the solid ground of reality2 that he may
  become a dreamer instead of a thinker 
and doer2 and that he may  mistake      
selfish1 emotional sentimentalism for   
practical charity and  altruism4        
,this unhealthy all-is-good1            

there-is-no-evil emotionalism leads     
only too often to weakening of personal 
effort1 a deadening of the  sense of    
individual responsibility and thereby to
 mental and moral  atrophy2 for any of  
our voluntary functions1 capacities and 
powers  which we fail to exercise will  
in time become benumbed and  paralyzed4 
,unprejudiced observers who come in     
close contact with  metaphysicians      
cannot help perceiving the pernicious   
effect of their  subtle sophistries on  
reason and character4    ,a chronic     
invalid who had been under the treatment
 of a faith healer  for several years   
exclaimed1 when we gave her our various 
instructions for dieting1 bathing1      
breathing exercises1 etc43 ,how  glad ,i
 am that you give me something to do6 ,i
 fear ,i have been  imposing too long on
 the goodness of the ,lord1 expecting   
,him to do  my work for me4 ,often      
afterwards1 while recovering from       
lifelong  ailments1 she expressed her   
happiness and contentment in that she   

herself was doing something which in her
 opinion was rational and  helpful      
because it assisted ,nature's healing   
efforts4    ,we believe firmly and fully
 in the influence of mind over matter1  
in  the fact that vibrations of the     
physical plane by continuity create     
corresponding vibrations on the mental  
and psychical planes and vice  versa4   
,we know that1 in accordance with this  
law1 anything which  affects the mind or
 the moral life of a person affects also
 his  physical condition2 but instead of
 hypnotizing the minds of our  patients 
by law-defying1 reason-and              
will-benumbing dogmas and  formulas1 we 
strengthen and harmonize their mental   
vibrations by  appealing to reason1 by  
teaching and explaining natural laws    
instead  of obscuring and denying them4 
,the more intelligent the patient1 the  
more amenable he will be to  such normal
 suggestions based on scientific truth  
and on the  dictates of reason and      
common sense4    ,while nonresistance to

 ,nature's healing efforts is better    
than  suppression by drugs or the knife1
 there is something more helpful  and   
rational than the negative attitude     
toward disease on the  physical plane   
assumed by metaphysical healing cults4  
,that  something is intelligent         
cooperation with ,nature's cleansing and
  healing efforts4    ,where the ,old   
,school fails by sins of commission1 the
 ,faith ,schools  fail by sins of       
omission4 ,many patients are sacrificed 
daily through  fanatical inactivity1    
when their lives might be saved by a wet
 pack  or a cold sponge bath1 by an     
internal bath1 rational diet1 judicious 
fasting1 scientific manipulation or some
 other simple yet powerful  remedy of   
natural healing4 ,to permit a patient to
 perish in a  burning fever1 depending  
solely upon the efficacy of prayers1    
formulas and mental attitude1 when wet  
packs and cold sponging would  in a few 
minutes reduce the temperature below the
 danger point1 is  manslaughter1 even   

though it be done in the name of        
religion4    ,incidents like the        
following are common in our practice3 ,a
 little  girl in the neighborhood of our
 institution was taken with  diphtheria4
 ,the mother1 an ardent ,christian      
,scientist1 called in  several healers  
of her cult1 but the child grew worse   
from day to  day1 until the false       
membranes in the throat began to choke  
her to  death4    ,a boarder in the     
house1 who was a follower of ,nature    
,cure1 finally  induced the mother to   
call upon us for advice by threatening  
to  notify the ,city ,health            
,department4 ,within an hour after the  
application of the whole-body packs and 
the cold ablutions1 the  blood was      
sufficiently drawn away from the local  
congestion in the  throat into the      
surface of the body1 so that the child  
breathed  easily and freely1 and from   
then on made a splendid recovery4       
,another instance3 ,a man had been      
suffering from sciatic rheumatism  for  

fifteen years4 ,he had swallowed        
poisonous drugs to no avail4 ,for       
several years he had been under ,mental 
,science treatment1 but the  suffering  
had grown more intense4    ,when he     
applied to us for help1 we found that   
the right hip bone  7the innominate7 had
 slipped upward and backward4 ,a few    
manipulative  treatments replaced the   
bone where it belonged1 and the sciatic 
rheumatism was cured4    ,in this case1 
the combined concentration and prayers  
of all the  metaphysical healers on     
earth would not have succeeded in       
replacing  the dislocated hip bone1     
which required the full strength of a   
trained manipulator4    ,metaphysicians 
could not have accomplished this feat   
any more than  they could have moved1 by
 their mental efforts1 a hundred-pound  
weight from one place to another4       
,mechanical lesions of that kind  7and  
there are many of them7 require         
mechanical treatment4    ,another factor
 which makes converts to metaphysical   

healing cults by  the hundreds and      
thousands is the get-rich-quick instinct
 in human  nature1 the desire to get    
something for nothing1 or with as little
  effort as possible4 ,herein lies the  
seductive pull of old-time  drugging and
 of modern metaphysics4 ,it does not    
matter how you  live2 when you get into 
trouble1 a bottle of medicine or a      
metaphysical formula will make it all   
right4 ,that sounds very easy  and      
promising1 but the trouble is--it does  
not always work4    ,our forefathers    
were too pessimistic2 higher thought    
enthusiasts are  often too optimistic4  
,while the former poisoned their lives  
and  paralyzed their ,god-given         
faculties and powers by dismal dread of 
hell's fire and damnation1 our modern   
healers and ,scientists have  drifted to
 the other extreme4 ,they tell us there 
is no sin1 no pain1  no suffering4 ,if  
that be true1 there is also no action   
and reaction1  no ,law of ,compensation1
 no personal responsibility1 no need of 

self-control1 self-help or personal     
effort4    ,the ideal of the faith      
healer is the ideal of the animal4 ,the 
animal  trusts implicitly1 it has       
absolute faith2 guided by instinct1     
,god1  or ,nature1 it follows the       
promptings of its appetites and passions
  without worrying about right or wrong4
 ,it acts today as it did ten  thousand 
years ago4    ,in man1 reason has taken 
the place of instinct2 we must think and
  manage for ourselves4 ,we are free and
 responsible moral agents4 ,if  we deny 
this1 we deny the very foundations of   
equity1 justice and  right4 ,it behooves
 us to use the talents which ,god has   
given us1 to  study the laws of our     
being and to comply with them to the    
best of  our ability1 so that           
enlightened reason may take the place of
 animal  instinct and guide us to       
physical1 mental and moral perfection4  
,chapter ,,xxxiv      ,the ,difference  
,between ,functional and ,organic       
,disease      ,much confusion concerning

 the curability of chronic diseases by  
the  various methods of treatment arises
 because people do not understand  the  
difference between functional and       
organic chronic disease4    ,for        
instance1 there is a close resemblance  
between pseudo-and true  locomotor      
ataxy4 ,often it is difficult to        
distinguish functional  lung trouble    
from the organic type of the disease4   
,in our practice1  several cases of     
mental derangement which had been       
diagnosed as true  paresis proved to be 
of the functional type and under natural
  treatment recovered rapidly4          
,functional diseases may present a very 
serious appearance and may be  labeled  
with awe-inspiring ,greek or ,latin     
names1 and yet yield  readily to natural
 methods of living and treatment4    ,in
 diseases of an organic nature1 however1
 right living and  self-treatment are   
usually not sufficient to obtain        
satisfactory  results4 ,in such cases   
all forms of active and passive         

treatment  must be applied1 and even    
then it is frequently difficult and     
sometimes impossible to produce a cure4 
,chronic diseases of a functional nature
 develop when an otherwise  healthy     
organism becomes saturated and clogged  
with food and drug  poisons to such an  
extent that these encumbrances interfere
 with the  free circuation of the blood 
and nerve currents1 and with the normal 
functions of the cells1 organs and      
tissues of the body4    ,such cases     
resemble a watch which is losing time   
because its works  are filled with dust4
 ,all that such a waste-encumbered watch
 or body  needs1 in order to restore    
normal functions1 is a good cleaning4   
,pure food diet1 fasting1 systematic    
exercise1 deep breathing1 cold  bathing 
and the right mental attitude are       
usually sufficient to  perform this     
physical housecleaning and to restore   
perfect health4    ,functional disorders
 yield readily to the various forms of  
metaphysical treatment4 ,remove such    

patients from the weakening and         
destructive effects of poisonous drugs  
and of surgical operations1  supplant   
fear and worry by courage and faith1 and
 the results often  seem miraculous to  
those who do not understand the power of
 the  purifying and stimulating         
influence of clean living and of the    
right  mental attitude4    ,in diseases 
of the organic type1 however1 good      
results are not so  easily achieved4 ,a 
body affected by organic disease        
resembles a  watch whose mechanism has  
been injured and partly destroyed by    
rust  and corrosive acids4 ,if such be  
the case1 cleaning and oiling alone     
will not be sufficient to put the       
timepiece in good working order4  ,the  
watchmaker has to replace the damaged   
parts4    ,this is easy enough in the   
case of the watch1 but it is not so     
easily accomplished in the human body4  
,besides1 in many instances  the        
corroding acids are the very medicines  
which were given to cure  the disease   

and the injury and destruction of vital 
parts and organs  is only too often the 
direct or indirect result of surgical   
operations4    ,the watchmaker may      
remove those parts of the watch which   
are  suffering from organic trouble1 and
 replace them by new ones4 ,this  the   
surgeon cannot do4 ,he can extirpate1   
but he cannot replace4  ,operative      
treatment leaves the organism forever   
after in a mutilated  and therefore     
unbalanced condition1 and often prevents
 and  frustrates ,nature's cleansing and
 healing crises4    ,the ,limitations of
 ,metaphysical ,healing    ,in the      
writings of metaphysical healers we     
often meet the assertion  that they can 
cure organic diseases as easily and     
quickly as  functional ailments4 ,if    
they understood better the difference   
between functional and organic disorders
 as explained in the  foregoing pages1  
they would not make such deceptive and  
extravagant  claims4 ,they would then   
realize the natural limitations of      

meta-physical healing4    ,i do not     
underestimate the great value of mental1
 metaphysical  and spiritual healing    
methods4 ,of these ,i shall speak more  
fully in  subsequent chapters4 ,but ,i  
do claim that we can and should aid     
,nature's healing efforts not only by   
the right mental attitude and  the      
prayer of faith1 but also by natural    
living and many different  methods of   
physical treatment4    ,mental attitude 
alone will not clean the watch4 ,to     
concentrate on  the work of             
housecleaning without using broom1 soap 
and water is not  sufficient4 ,reason   
and common sense teach us that the      
removal of  physical1 material          
encumbrances can be1 to say the least1  
accelerated by the use of physical or   
physiological agents4 ,anyone  who has  
observed or himself experienced the     
efficacy of natural  diet1 cold-water   
treatment1 massage and osteopathy in    
dealing with  the morbid accumulations  
in the system will never again          

underestimate the practical value of    
these brooms4    ,in our study of the   
nature and purpose of acute diseases we 
have  found that ,nature tries to purify
 the system from its morbid             
encumbrances through inflammatory1      
febrile processes 7acute  diseases7 and 
that these cleansing efforts of ,nature 
are generally  prevented1 checked and   
suppressed by allopathic methods of     
medical  and surgical treatment1 and    
thus changed into chronic disease       
conditions4    ,the metaphysical healers
 do away with these suppressive methods 
of  treatment and allow ,nature's acute 
cleansing and healing efforts to  run   
their natural course4 ,thus they profit 
by the fundamental laws  of cure without
 understanding them4 ,the acute disease1
 whose very  existence they deny1 is in 
reality the cure4    ,furthermore1      
rational mental and metaphysical        
treatment supports  ,nature's efforts   
actively by supplanting the weakening   
and  paralyzing fear vibrations with    

relaxing and invigorating vibrations  of
 hope1 confidence and faith in the      
supremacy of ,nature's healing  forces4 
,under these favorable conditions1 the  
organism will arouse  itself to the     
purifying and constructive healing      
crises 7the  chemicalizations of        
,christian ,science7 and through these  
eliminate  the morbid encumbrances and  
restore normal structure and functions4 
,while functional disorders1 in nearly  
every case1 yield  readily enough to the
 natural methods of living and of       
treatment and  to the right mental      
attitude1 it is different with organic  
diseases4    ,when waste matter1        
ptomaines or poisonous alkaloids and    
acids  produced in the body as a result 
of wrong diet and other violations  of  
,nature's laws have brought about       
destruction and corrosion in  vital     
parts and organs--when dislocations and 
subluxations of bony  structures1 or new
 growths and accumulations in the forms 
of tumors1  stones or gravel obstruct   

the blood vessels and nerve currents1   
shut  off the supply of the vital fluids
 and thus cause malnutrition and        
gradual decay of the tissues--when1 in  
addition to this1 the  organism has been
 poisoned or mutilated by drugs and     
surgical  operations1 then its          
purification and repair becomes a       
tedious and  difficult task4    ,not    
only must the mechanism of the body be  
cleansed and freed from  obstructive and
 destructive materials1 but the injured 
parts must be  repaired1 morbid growths 
and abnormal formations dissolved and   
eliminated and lesions in the bony      
structures corrected by  manipulative   
treatment4    ,in organic diseases1 the 
vitality is usually so low and          
destruction  so great that the organism 
cannot arouse itself to self-help4 ,even
  the cessation of suppressive treatment
 and the stimulating influence  of      
mental and metaphysical therapeutics are
 not sufficient to bring  about the     
reconstructive healing crises4 ,this can

 only be  accomplished by the combined  
influences of all the natural methods   
of living and of treatment4    ,it is in
 cases like these that metaphysical     
healing and hygienic  living find their 
limitations4 ,such organic defects      
require  systematic treatment by all the
 methods1 active and passive1 which  the
 best ,nature ,cure sanitariums can     
furnish4 ,it may be slow and  laborious 
work to obtain satisfactory results1 and
 if the vitality  is too low or the     
destruction of vital parts and organs   
has too far  advanced1 even the best and
 most complete combination of natural   
methods of treatment may fail to produce
 a cure4    ,however1 this can be       
determined only by a fair trial of the  
natural  methods4 ,the forces of ,nature
 are ever ready to react to persistent1 
systematic effort in the right direction
 and when there is enough  vitality to  
keep alive there is likely to be enough 
to purify and  reconstruct the organism 
and in time to bring about improvement  

and  cure4    ,this1 then1 explains why1
 in the organic types of diseases1      
metaphysical methods of treatment alone 
are insufficient4 ,at least  one-half of
 the patients that come to the ,nature  
,cure physician have  faithfully tried  
these methods without avail1 but the    
failures are  easily excused by lack of 
faith1 wrong mental attitude or         
something  wrong with the patient or his
 surroundings4    ,in our experience    
with patients who had formerly tried    
metaphysical  methods of healing        
faithfully1 but without results1 we     
sometimes  come face to face with a     
curious and amusing phase of human      
nature4  ,as our patients improve under 
the natural regimen and treatment1  they
 gradually return to their first love   
and ascribe the good  effects of natural
 treatment to a better understanding of 
the  ,science4 ,as health and strength  
return1 they say3 ,formerly ,i did  not 
know just how to apply the ,science1 but
 now ,i know1 and that is  why ,i am    

growing better4    ,i suppose this form 
of self-deception which we have         
frequently  observed is due to the fact 
that people feel flattered by the idea  
that ,providence has taken a special    
interest in their case and cured  them  
by miraculous intervention4 ,it is so   
much more interesting to  be cured by   
some occult principle than by diet and  
cold water4    ,undoubtedly it is this  
miracle-loving element in human nature  
that  makes metaphysical healing so much
 more popular than plain1  commonsense  
,nature ,cure4    ,not long ago         
,professor ,munsterberg investigated the
 claims of  ,christian ,scientists that 
they were constantly curing diseases of 
the organic type4 ,he reported his      
findings in a series of articles  in    
,mc,clure's ,magazine 7#aijh71 stating  
that he inquired personally  into one   
hundred cases said to have been cured by
 ,christian ,science  and found that    
ninety-two of them had been of the      
functional type1  while eight were      

claimed to have been organic1 but that  
in no  instance could this be proved    
beyond doubt4        ,chapter ,,xxxv    
,the ,two-fold ,attitude of ,mind and   
,soul      ,the following is an extract 
from a letter sent to me by a reader of 
my articles in ,the ,nature ,cure       
,magazine4    ,sometimes you say we must
 rely on our own personal efforts and at
  other times you teach dependence upon 
a higher power4 ,this1 to me1  is       
contradictory and confusing4 ,i cannot  
understand how1  consistently1 we can do
 both at the same time4 ,which is right8
 ,is it  best to rely upon our own power
 and our personal efforts or upon the   
',higher ,power'8    ,similar inquiries 
have come from other friends4 ,i shall  
now endeavor  to answer these and other 
questions4    ,there is nothing         
contradictory or incompatible in the    
teachings of  the ,nature ,cure         
philosophy concerning the physical and  
metaphysical  methods of treating human 
ailments4 ,both the independent and the 

dependent attitudes of mind and soul are
 good and true and may be  entertained  
at the same time4 ,it is necessary for  
us to rely on our  own personal efforts 
in carrying out the dictates of reason  
and of  common sense4 ,but this need not
 prevent us from praying for and        
confidently expecting a larger inflow of
 vital power and intuitional            
discernment from the ,source of all     
intelligence and power in the  innermost
 parts of our being4    ,this two-fold  
attitude of mind and soul is justified  
not only by  reason and intuition1 but  
also by the anatomical structure of the 
human organism and its physiological and
 psychological faculties1  capacities   
and powers4    ,the activities of the   
human organism are governed by two      
different  systems of nerves1 the       
sympathetic and the motor4 ,the         
sympathetic  nervous system is the      
conveyor of vital force to the organs   
and  cells of the body4 ,just what this 
vital force is and where it  ultimately 

comes from1 we do not know4 ,it is a    
manifestation of that  which we call    
,god1 ,nature1 ,life1 the ,higher ,power
 or the ,divine  ,within4    ,heart     
action1 the circulation of the blood1   
respiration1 digestion1  assimilation of
 food1 elimination and all other        
involuntary  activities and functions of
 the human organism are controlled by   
means of the sympathetic nervous system4
 ,the nature of the  controlling force  
itself is not known to us4 ,we do know  
that it is  supremely powerful1         
intelligent and benevolent4    ,the more
 we study the anatomy1 physiology and   
psychology of the  human organism1 the  
more we wonder at its marvelous         
complexity and  ingenuity of structure  
and function4 ,every moment there are   
enacted  in our bodies innumerable      
mechanical1 chemical and psychological  
miracles4 ,who1 or what1 performs these 
miracles8 ,we do not know4 ,yet  every  
moment of our lives depends upon the    
infinite care and wisdom  of this       

unknown intelligence and power4    ,why1
 then1 should we not trust the ,one so  
faithful8 ,why should we  not ask aid   
from ,one so powerful8 ,why not seek    
enlightenment from  ,one who is so wise 
and so benevolent8    ,however1 not all 
of the human entity is dependent upon a 
controlling  power1 nor are all its     
functions involuntary4 ,within the house
  prepared by the ,divine ,intelligence1
 there dwells a sovereign in his  own   
right and by his own might4 ,he is      
endowed with freedom of  desire1 of     
choice and of action4 ,he creates in his
 brain the nerve  centers which control 
the voluntary activities of the body and
 from  these brain centers he sends his 
commands through the fibers of the      
motor nerves to the voluntary muscles   
and makes them do his bidding2  some he 
commands to walk1 others to laugh1 to   
eat1 to speak1 etc4    ,this independent
 principle in man we call the ego1 the  
individual  intelligence4 ,it imagines1 
desires1 reasons1 plans and works out1  

by  the power of free will and          
independent choice1 its own salvation or
  destruction1 physically1 mentally1    
morally and spiritually4 ,by means  of  
the motor nervous system1 this thinker  
and doer directs and  controls from the 
headquarters in the brain all the       
voluntary  functions1 capacities and    
powers of the human organism4    ,this  
part of the human entity can evolve and 
progress only through  its own conscious
 and voluntary personal efforts4    ,in 
this1 ,man differs from the animal      
creation4 ,the animal is able to  take  
care of itself shortly after birth4 ,it 
inherits1 already fully  developed1     
those brain centers for the control of  
the bodily  functions which the newborn 
human must develop slowly and           
laboriously through patient and         
persistent effort in the course of  many
 years4    ,of voluntary capacities and 
powers the newborn infant possesses     
little more than the simplest           
unicellular animalcule1 that is1 about  

all it can do is to scent and swallow   
food4 ,its cerebral hemispheres  are as 
yet blank slates1 to be inscribed       
gradually by its conscious  and         
voluntary exertions4 ,before it can     
think1 reason1 speak1 walk or  do       
anything else1 it must first develop in 
its brain special centers  for each and 
every one of these voluntary faculties  
and functions4    ,through these        
persistent personal efforts1 reason1    
will and  self-control are gradually    
evolved and developed2 while the animal1
  being hereditarily endowed with the   
faculties and functions  necessary for  
the maintenance of life1 has no occasion
 for the  development of the higher     
faculties and powers and therefore      
remains  an irresponsible automaton1    
which cannot be held accountable for its
  actions4    ,to recapitulate3 ,freedom
 of choice and of action distinguish the
  human from the animal4 ,in the animal 
kingdom1 reasoning power and  freedom of
 action move in the narrow limits of    

heredity and  instinct1 while ,man1     
through his own personal efforts1 is    
capable of  unlimited development       
physically1 mentally1 morally and       
spiritually1  both here and hereafter4  
,we say physically advisedly1 for in the
  spiritual realms1 in the life after   
death1 the physical                     
7spiritual-material7 body also is       
capable of deterioration or of  ever    
greater refinement and beautification4  
,through the right use of his voluntary 
faculties1 capacities and  powers1 ,man 
is enabled to become the master of      
himself and of his  destiny4    ,thus we
 find that the human organism consists  
of two distinct parts  or departments1  
the one acting independently of the ego 
and deriving  its motive force from an  
unknown source and the other under the  
conscious and voluntary control of the  
ego4    ,this two-fold nature of the    
human entity justifies the two-fold     
attitude of mind and soul1 on the one   
hand the prayerful and  faithful        

dependence upon that mysterious power   
which flows into us  and controls us    
through the sympathetic nervous system  
and on the  other hand the conscious and
 voluntary dominion over the various    
faculties1 capacities and powers with   
which ,nature has endowed us4    ,it is 
our privilege and our duty to maintain  
both attitudes1 the  dependent as well  
as the independent4 ,the desire and the 
will to  plan1 to choose and to perform 
are ours1 but for the power to  execute 
we are dependent upon a ,higher ,source4
        ,chapter ,,xxxvi      ,the      
,symphony of ,life      ,human life     
appears to me as a great orchestra in   
which we are the  players4 ,the great   
composition to be performed is the      
,symphony of  ,life1 its infinitude of  
dissonances and melodies blending into  
one  colossal tone picture of harmony   
and grandeur4 ,we players must study    
the laws of music and the score of the  
,great ,symphony and we must  practice  
diligently and persistently1 until we   

can play our part  unerringly in harmony
 with the concepts of the ,great        
,composer4 ,at  the same time we must   
learn to keep our instrument1 the body1 
in the  best possible condition2 for the
 greatest artist1 endowed with a        
profound knowledge of the laws of music 
and possessed of the most  perfect      
technique1 cannot produce musical and   
harmonious sounds from  an instrument   
with strings relaxed or overtense1 or   
with its body  filled with rubbish4     
,the artist must learn that the         
instrument1 its material1 its           
construction and its care are just as   
subject to law as the  harmonics of the 
score4    ,in the final analysis1       
everything is vibration acting in and on
 the  universal ethers1 which are held  
to be the primordial substance4         
,possibly the ethers themselves are     
modes of vibration4    ,that which is   
constructive is harmonious vibration4   
,that which is  destructive is          
inharmonious or discordant vibration4   

,against this it may be urged that      
devolution has its harmonics as  well as
 evolution1 that every symphony is made 
up of dissonances as  well as of        
harmonies4 ,to this ,i answer3          
,unadulterated harmony may1  solely for 
lack of change1 become monotonous2 but  
discords alone  never create melody1    
harmony1 health or happiness4    ,as the
 artist seeks vibratory harmony between 
his instrument and the  harmonics of the
 universe of sound1 so the health-seeker
 must  endeavor to establish vibratory  
unison between the material elements  of
 his body and ,nature's harmonics of    
health in the physical  universe4       
,the atoms and molecules in the wood and
 strings of the violin1 as  well as the 
sounds produced from them1 are modes of 
motion or  vibration4 ,in order to bring
 forth musical and harmonious notes1 the
  vibratory conditions of the physical  
elements of the violin must be  in      
harmonious vibratory relationship with  
,nature's harmonics in the  universe of 

sound4    ,the elements and forces      
composing the human body are also       
vibratory  in their nature1 the same as 
the material elements of the violin4    
,they also must be kept in a certain    
well-balanced chemical  combination1    
mechanical adjustment and physical      
refinement before  they can vibrate in  
unison with ,nature's harmonics in the  
physical  universe and thus produce the 
harmonies of health and strength and    
beauty4    ,if our instrument is out of 
tune1 or if we ignorantly or willfully  
insist on playing in our own way1       
regardless of the score1 we create      
discords not only for ourselves1 but    
also for our fellow artists in  the     
great orchestra of life4    ,sin1       
disease1 suffering and evil are nothing 
but discords1 produced  by the          
ignorance1 indifference or malice of the
 players4 ,therefore we  cannot         
attribute the discords of life to the   
,great ,composer4 ,they  are of our own 
making and will last as long as we      

refuse to learn  our parts and to play  
them in tune with the ,great ,score4    
,for in this  way only can we ever hope 
to master the art and science of right  
living and to enjoy the harmonies of    
peace1 self-content and  happiness4     
,chapter ,,xxxvii      ,the ,three-fold 
,constitution of ,man      ,the         
following diagram and accompanying      
explanations will serve to  illustrate  
,three ,planes of ,being1 the           
corresponding ,three-fold  ,constitution
 of man1 and their analogy tothe artist 
and his  instrument4    ,the ,three-fold
 ,constitution of ,man    ,planes of    
,being    ,three-fold ,constitution of  
,man    ,analogy    ,psychical or ,moral
    ,soul    ,music1 ,laws of ,harmony  
,mental    ,mind    ,player    ,material
    ,bodies    7,physical and           
,spiritual7    ,violin    ,man lives and
 functions on three distinct planes of  
being3 the  physical-material and       
spiritual-material1 the mental and the  
soul  7psychical or moral7 planes4      

,he may be diseased upon any one or more
 of these planes4 ,the true  physician  
must look for causes of disease and for 
methods of  treatment upon all three    
planes of being4    ,the purely         
materialistic physician concentrates all
 his study and  effort upon the         
physical-material plane of being4 ,to   
him1 mental1  spiritual1 psychical1 and 
moral phenomena are merely chemical and 
physiological actions and reactions of  
brain and nerve substance4 ,he  has     
nothing but contempt and derision for   
the man who believes in or  knows of a  
spiritual body or a soul4    ,he is like
 an artist who says3 ,my violin is all  
there is to music4  ,the musician's art 
consists in keeping his instrument in   
good  condition4 ,technique and the laws
 of harmony are a matter of  imagination
 and of superstitious belief4    ,on the
 other hand1 mental healers1 ,christian 
,scientists and faith  healers          
concentrate all their efforts upon      
either the mental or the  soul plane1   

frequently making no distinction between
 the two4 ,in the  treatment of disease1
 they ignore the conditions and needs of
 the  physical body1 and some of them   
even deny its existence4    ,these      
metaphysicians are like the artist who  
devotes all his time  and energy to the 
study and practice of technique1        
counterpoint and  harmony1 neglecting   
his instrument and taking no heed       
whether its  mechanism is out of order  
or its interior filled with rubbish4    
,his  knowledge of the laws of harmonics
 and his execution may be ever so       
perfect2 but with his instrument out of 
tune and out of order he  will produce  
discords instead of harmony4    ,the    
true artist realizes that ,,mind1 the   
player1 must study ,,soul1 the          
harmonics2 and that the mind must also  
have its instrument1 the  ,,body1 in    
perfect condition in order to interpret 
perfectly and  artistically the         
harmonies of the symphony of life4      
,likewise1 the  ,nature ,cure physician 

will look for causes of disease and for 
means  of cure upon the material1 mental
 and psychical planes of being4    ,thus
 will higher civilization and greater   
knowledge lead back to the  natural     
simplicity of primitive races1 where    
physician and priest  are one4    ,after
 all1 physical health is the best       
possible basis for the  attainment of   
mental1 moral and spiritual health4 ,all
 building  begins with the foundation4  
,we do not first suspend the steeple in 
the air and then build the church under 
it4 ,so also1 the building of  the      
temple of human character should begin  
by laying the foundation  in physical   
health4    ,we have known people who had
 attained high intellectual1 moral and  
spiritual development and then suffered 
utter shipwreck physically1  mentally   
and in every other way1 because         
ignorantly they had  violated the laws  
of their physical nature4    ,there are 
others who believe that the possession  
of occult knowledge  and the achievement

 of mastership confer absolute control  
over  ,nature's forces and phenomena on 
the physical plane4 ,these people       
believe that a man is not a master if he
 does not miraculously heal  all manner 
of disease and raise the dead4    ,if   
such things were possible1 they would   
overthrow the ,laws of ,cause  and      
,effect and of ,compensation4 ,they     
would abolish the basic  principles of  
morality and constructive spirituality4 
,if it is  possible in one case to heal 
disease and to overcome death through   
the fiat of the will of a master1 then  
it must be possible in all  cases4 ,if  
so1 then we can ignore the existence of 
,nature's laws1  indulge our appetites  
and passions to the fullest extent1 and 
when  the natural results of our        
transgressions overtake us1 we can go to
  a healer or master and have our       
diseases instantly and painlessly       
removed1 like a bad tooth4    ,i say    
this with all due reverence for1 and    
faith in1 the efficacy of  true prayer  

and with full knowledge of the healing  
power of  therapeutic faith1 but ,i do  
not believe that ,god1 or ,nature1 or a 
master or metaphysical formulas can or  
will make good in a  miraculous way for 
the inevitable results of our           
transgressions of  the natural laws that
 govern our being4    ,if such          
miraculous healing were possible and of 
common occurrence1  what occasion would 
there be for the exercise of reason1    
will and  self-control8 ,what would     
become of the scientific basis of       
morality  and constructive spirituality8
    ,all this leads us to the following 
conclusions3    ,if there is in         
operation a constructive principle of   
,nature on the  ethical1 moral and      
spiritual planes of being1 with which we
 must  align ourselves and to which we  
must conform our conscious and          
voluntary activities in order to achieve
 self-completion1  self-content1        
individual completion and happiness1    
then this  constructive principle must  

be in operation also in our physical    
bodies and in their corelated physical1 
mental and emotional  activities4 ,if   
the constructive principle is active in 
the physical  as well as in the moral   
and spiritual realms1 then the          
established  harmonic relationship of   
the physical to the constructive law of 
its  being must constitute the morality 
of the physical2 and from this it       
follows that the achievement of health  
on the physical plane is as  much under 
our conscious and voluntary control as  
the working out of  our individual      
salvation on the higher planes of life4 
,to recapitulate3    ,first1 our        
well-being on all planes and in all     
relationships of life  depends upon the 
existence1 recognition and practical    
application of  the great fundamental   
laws and principles just explained4     
,second3 ,physical health1 as well as   
moral health1 is of our own  making4 ,we
 are personally responsible not only for
 our own physical  and mental health1   

but we are also morally responsible for 
the  hereditary tendencies of our       
offspring toward health or disease4     
,third3 ,the attainment of physical     
health through compliance with          
,nature's laws is just as much a part of
 the ,great ,work as our  ethical1 moral
 and psychical development4    ,the     
,unity and ,continuity of the ,law      
,that which we call ,god1 ,nature1 the  
,creator or the ,universal              
,intelligence is the great central cause
 of all things and the  vibratory       
activities produced by or proceeding    
from this central or  primary cause     
continue through all spheres of life1 in
 like manner  as the light waves of the 
sun1 moon and fixed stars penetrate     
through the intervening spheres of life 
to our plane of earth4  ,therefore all  
powers1 forces1 laws and principles     
which manifest on  our plane proceed and
 continue from the innermost ,divine to 
the most  external plane in physical    
nature4 ,this explains the continuity1  

stability and correspondence on all     
planes of being of that which we  call  
,natural ,law4 ,in other words1 ,natural
 ,law is the established  harmonic      
relationship of effects and phenomena to
 their causes and  of all particular    
causes to the one great primary cause of
 all  things4        ,chapter ,,xxxviii 
,mental ,therapeutics      ,the new     
psychology and the science of mental and
 spiritual healing  teach us that the   
lower principles in ,man stand or should
 stand  under the dominion of the       
higher4 ,the physical body1 with its    
material elements1 is dominated and     
guided by the mind4 ,the mind is        
inspired through the inner              
consciousness1 which is an attribute of 
the soul4 ,the soul of man is in        
communion with the ,oversoul1 which  is 
the ,source of all life and all         
intelligence animating the  universe4   
,wherever this natural order is         
reversed1 there is discord or  disease4 
,too many people think and act as though

 the physical body  is all in all1 as   
though it is the only thing worth caring
 for and  thinking about4 ,they         
exaggerate the importance of the        
physical and  become its abject slaves4 
,the physical body is the lowest and    
least intelligent of the  different     
principles making up the human entity4  
,yet people allow  their minds and their
 souls to become dominated and terrified
 by the  sensations of the physical     
body4    ,when the servants in the house
 control and terrify the master1 when   
the master becomes their slave and they 
can do with him as they  please1 there  
cannot be order and harmony in that     
house4    ,we must expect the same      
results when the lower principles in    
,man  lord it over the higher4 ,when    
physical weakness1 illness and pain     
fill the mind with fear and dismay1     
reason becomes clouded1 the will        
atrophied and self-control is lost4     
,every thought and every emotion has its
 direct effect upon the  physical       

constituents of the body4 ,the mental   
and emotional  vibrations become        
physical vibrations and structures4     
,discord in the  mind is translated into
 physical disease in the body1 while the
  harmonies of hope1 faith1             
cheerfulness1 happiness1 love and       
altruism  create in the organism the    
corresponding health vibrations4        
,have you ever noticed how the written  
or printed notes of a tone  piece or the
 perforations on the paper music roll of
 an automatic  player are arranged in   
symmetrical and geometrical figures and 
groups8 ,dry sand strewn on the top of a
 piano on which harmonious  tone        
combinations are produced shows a       
tendency to arrange itself in           
symmetrical patterns4    ,in this you   
have a visual illustration of the       
translation of  harmonious sound        
vibrations1 which express the harmonics 
of the  soul's emotions1 into           
correspondingly harmonious arrangements 
and  configurations in the physical     

material of the paper roll4    ,a jumble
 of discords of sound1 if reproduced on 
a music roll1 would  present a chaotic  
jumble of perforations4    ,thus the    
purely mental and emotional is          
translated into its  corresponding      
discords or harmonies in the physical4  
,as the perforations on the paper music 
roll arrange themselves  either         
symmetrically or without symmetry and   
order1 in strict  accordance with the   
harmonies or discords of the            
composition1 so the  atoms1 molecules   
and cells in the physical body group    
themselves in  normal or abnormal       
structures of health or of disease in   
exact  correspondence with the          
harmonious or the discordant vibrations 
conveyed to them from the mental and    
emotional planes4    ,another           
,illustration3 ,two violins1 as they    
leave the shop of the  maker1 are       
exactly alike in material1 structure and
 quality of tone4  ,one of the two      
instruments is constantly used by       

beginners and  persons incapable of     
producing pure notes4 ,the other passes 
into the  hands of an artist who        
understands how to use the instrument to
 the  best advantage and who draws from 
it only musical tones that are  true in 
pitch and quality4    ,after a few      
years1 compare the two violins again4   
,you will find that  the one used by the
 tyros in music has deteriorated in its 
musical  qualities1 while the one in the
 hands of the artist has greatly        
improved in quality and purity of tone4 
,what is the reason8 ,the  atoms and    
molecules in the wood of the two        
instruments have grouped  themselves    
according to the discords or the        
harmonies that have been  produced from 
them4    ,if this rearrangement of atoms
 is possible in dead wood1 how much     
easier must be this adjustment of atoms1
 molecules and cells to  discordant or  
harmonious vibratory influence in the   
living1 plastic  and fluidic human      
organism6    ,what harmony is to music1 

hope1 faith1 cheerfulness1 happiness1   
sympathy1 love and altruism are to the  
vibratory conditions of the  human      
entity4 ,these emotions are in alignment
 with the constructive  principle in    
,nature4 ,they harmonize the physical   
vibrations1 relax  the tissues and open 
them wide to the inflow of the life     
force4    ,swedenborg truly says3 ,the  
warmth of life is the heat of the divine
  love permeating and animating the     
universe4 ,the more we possess of  hope1
 faith1 love and their kindred emotions1
 the more we open  ourselves to the     
inflow and action of the vital energies4
 ,the  good-natured1 cheerful1          
sympathetic person is more alive than   
the  crabbed1 morose or selfish         
individual4    ,it has been proved over 
and over again by everyday experience   
that  mental and emotional conditions   
positively affect the chemical          
composition of the tissues and          
secretions of the body4 ,the            
destructive emotions of fear1 worry1    

anger1 jealousy1  revengefulness1 envy1 
etc41 actually poison the fluids and    
tissues  of the body4 ,the bite of an   
angry man may cause blood-poisoning and 
prove as fatal as the bite of a mad dog4
 ,sudden fear1 anger or any  other      
destructive emotion in the nursing      
mother may cause illness or  even death 
of the infant4    ,in psychological     
laboratories it has been found by       
scientifically  conducted experiments   
that under the influence of destructive 
mental  and emotional conditions1 the   
secretions and excretions of the body   
show an increase of morbid and poisonous
 elements4    ,selfishness1 fear and    
worry contract and congeal the blood    
vessels1  the nerve fibers1 and the     
other channels through which the life   
forces are conveyed from the innermost  
source of life to different  parts and  
organs of the physical body4 ,the flow  
of the life currents  is impeded and    
diminished4 ,such are the actual        
physiological effects  of fear1 anxiety 

and egotism on the physical organism4   
,a man under the influence of great fear
 and one exposed to freezing  present   
the same outward appearance4 ,in both   
cases death may result  through the     
congealing of the tissues and the       
shutting out of the  life currents4 ,the
 person afflicted with the worry habit  
may not die  suddenly like the one      
overcome by great and sudden fear4      
,nevertheless1 the fear and worry       
vibrations maintained constantly  will  
surely obstruct and diminish the inflow 
of the life force1  lower the vitality  
and therewith the resistance to the     
encroachment  of influences inimical to 
the health of the organism4    ,the     
cells in the body are negative1 or1 at  
least1 they should be  negative to the  
positive mind4 ,the relationship of the 
mind to the  cell should be like that of
 hypnotist to subject4 ,if the mind     
could  not exert such absolute control  
over the cells and cell groups1 it      
would be impossible for us to walk1     

talk1 write1 dodge danger1 etc41  with  
almost automatic ease4    ,the cells are
 not able to reason upon the truth or   
untruth of the  suggestions conveyed to 
them from the mind4 ,they accept its    
promptings unqualifiedly and act        
accordingly4    ,thus1 if the mind      
constantly thinks of1 say1 the stomach  
as being in  a badly diseased condition1
 unable to do its work properly1 the    
mental images of weakness and disease   
with their accompanying fear  vibrations
 are telegraphed over the efferent      
nerves to the cells of  the stomach and 
these become more and more weakened and 
diseased  through the destructive       
vibrations sent to them from the mind4  
,i often advise my patients to procure a
 book on anatomy and  physiology and to 
study and keep constantly before their  
mind's eye  the normal structure and    
functions of a healthy stomach or liver 
or  whatever organ may be involved in   
any particular case4    ,positive       
,affirmations    ,this explains why     

affirmations of health are justified in 
the face  of disease4 ,the health       
conditions must be first established in 
the  mind before they can be conveyed to
 and impressed upon the cells4    ,the  
well-being of the human body as a whole 
depends upon the health  of the billions
 of minute cells which compose it4      
,these cells are so  small that they    
have to be magnified several hundred    
times under a  powerful microscope      
before we can see them4 ,yet they are   
independent  living beings which grow1  
assimilate food1 multiply and die like  
the  big cell1 ,man4    ,these little   
cells are congregated in communities    
which form the  organs and tissues of   
the body and in these communities they  
carry  on the complicated activities of 
citizens living in a large city4  ,some 
are carriers1 bringing food materials to
 the tissues and organs  or conveying   
waste and morbid matter to the excretory
 channels of  the body4 ,other cells    
manufacture chemical substances1 such as

  sugar1 fats1 ferments1 hormones etc41 
for the production of which  man        
requires complicated factories4 ,still  
others act as policemen  and soldiers   
which protect the commonwealth against  
bacteria1  parasites and other hostile  
invaders4    ,the marvelous work        
performed by these little organisms1 as 
well as  observations made in the       
dissecting room and under the           
microscope1  strongly indicate that     
these cells are endowed with some sort  
of  individual intelligence4 ,they do   
their work without our aid or  conscious
 volition4 ,but1 nevertheless1 they are 
greatly influenced  by the varying      
conditions of the mind4 ,while their    
activities seem  to be controlled       
through the sympathetic nervous system1 
they stand  in direct telegraphic       
communication with headquarters in the  
brain  and every impulse of the mind is 
conveyed to them4    ,if there be dismay
 and confusion in the mind1 this        
condition is  telegraphically conveyed  

over the nerve trunks and filaments to  
every cell in the body1 and as a result 
these little workers and  soldiers      
become panic-stricken and incapable of  
rightly performing  their manifold      
duties4    ,the cell system of the body 
resembles a vast army4 ,the mind is the 
general at the head of it4 ,the cells   
are the soldiers1 divided into  groups  
for special work4    ,much of the work  
of an army is carried on through        
different  well-established departments1
 as the commissariat1 the hospital      
service1 the scouts and pickets1 etc4   
,though the life and the  activities of 
the army are so well regulated that they
 seem  automatic1 nevertheless much     
depends upon the commander4    ,the     
vital processes of the human organism1  
digestion1 assimilation1  elimination1  
respiration1 the circulation of the     
blood1 etc41 are  going on without our  
volition1 whether we be awake or asleep4
 ,these  involuntary activities are     
impelled by the sympathetic nervous     

system1 while the voluntary functions of
 the body are controlled  through the   
motor voluntary nervous system4 ,this   
division1  however1 is not a sharp one1 
and the two departments frequently      
overlap one another4    ,the sympathetic
 nervous system resembles the           
commissarial department  of the army1   
which attends to the material welfare of
 the soldiers1  while the motor nervous 
system1 with headquarters in the brain1 
corresponds to the commander with his   
executive staff1 the nerve  centers in  
the spinal cord and other parts of the  
body being the  subordinate officers in 
the field4    ,while the physical       
well-being of the army depends upon the 
almost  automatic work of its different 
departments1 its mind and soul is  the  
man commanding it4 ,he determines the   
spirit1 the energy and the  efficiency  
of the vast organization4    ,if the    
commander-in-chief lacks insight1 force 
and determination1  the discipline of   
the army will be lax and its efficiency 

greatly  impaired4 ,if he is a craven1  
without faith in himself and in the     
cause he represents1 his lack of        
courage1 his doubt and indecision  will 
communicate themselves to the whole     
army1 resulting in  discouragement and  
defeat4    ,the most successful         
commanders have been those who were     
possessed of  absolute confidence in    
themselves and in the efficiency of     
their  army1 who in the face of gravest 
danger and discouraging situations      
pressed on to the predetermined goal    
with dogged courage and  resolution4    
,determination and pertinacity of this  
kind create the  magnetic power which   
imparts itself to every individual      
soldier in  the army and makes him a    
willing subject1 even unto death1 to the
  will of his commander4    ,when the   
plague was invading ,napoleon's army1   
that great general  entered the         
hospitals where the victims of the      
plague were lying1  took them by the    
hand and conversed with them4 ,he did   

this to  overcome the fear in the hearts
 of his soldiers1 and thus to protect   
them against the dread disease4 ,he     
said3 ,a man whose will can  conquer the
 world1 can conquer the plague4    ,to  
my mind1 this was one of the greatest   
deeds of the ,corsican4 ,at a  time when
 ,new ,thought was practically unknown1 
the genius of this  man had grasped its 
principles and was making them factors  
in his  apparent success4 ,apparent     
because1 while we admire his genius1 we 
deplore the ends to which he applied his
 wonderful powers4    ,at times when the
 battle seemed lost1 ,napoleon would go 
to the front  where the danger was      
greatest2 and by the mere sight of him  
the  hard-pressed soldiers under his    
command were inspired to super-human    
effort and final victory4    ,as long as
 the glamour of invincibility surrounded
 him1 ,napoleon was  invincible1 because
 he infused into his soldiers a faith   
and courage  which nothing could        
withstand4 ,but when the cunning of the 

,russian  broke his power and decimated 
his ranks on the ice-bound steppes1  the
 hypnotic spell was broken also4        
,friends and enemies alike  recognized  
that1 after all1 he was but a man1      
subject to chance and  circumstance2 and
 from that time on he was vulnerable and
 suffered  defeat after defeat4    ,the 
power of the mind over the physical body
 and its involuntary  functions 7the    
functions which are regulated and       
controlled through  the sympathetic     
nervous system7 may be illustrated by   
the  demonstrated facts of hypnotism4   
,through the exertion of his own        
imagination and his will-power1 the     
hypnotist can so dominate the  brain and
 through the brain the physical body of 
his subject1 as to  influence not only  
the sensory functions1 but also heart   
action and  respiration4 ,by the power  
of his will the hypnotist is able to    
retard or accelerate pulse and          
respiration1 and even to subdue the     
heart beat so that it becomes hardly    

perceptible4    ,if it is possible thus 
to control by the power of will the     
vital  functions in the body of another 
person1 it must be possible also to     
control these functions in our own      
bodies4 ,many a ,hindu fakir and  yogi  
have developed this power of the mind   
over the physical body to  a marvelous  
extent4    ,here lies the true domain of
 mental therapeutics4 ,we can learn to  
dominate and regulate the vital         
activities and the life currents in  our
 bodies so that they will do their work 
intelligently and  serenely even under  
the stress of illness or of danger4 ,we 
can1 by  the power of will1 direct the  
vital currents to those parts and       
organs which need them most and we can  
relieve congested areas by  equalizing  
the circulation1 by drawing from the    
surplus of blood and  nerve currents and
 distributing the vital fluids over     
other parts of  the body4    ,we must be
 careful1 however1 to use our higher    
powers in conformity  with ,nature's    

intent2 that is1 we must not endeavor to
 suppress  ,nature's cleansing and      
healing efforts4 ,it is possible to do  
this by  the power of will as well as   
with ice bags and drugs4    ,mentally   
and emotionally1 as well as physically1 
we must work with  ,nature1 not against 
her4 ,when we understand the fundamental
 laws of  disease and cure1 we cannot   
well do otherwise4      ,chapter ,,xxxix
      ,,how ,,shall ,,we ,,pray8        
,shall we say3 ,father1 give me this    
,father1 do for me that68 ,or  shall we 
say3 ,behold1 ,i am perfect6            
,imperfection1 sin and suffering  are   
only errors of mortal mind68    ,or     
shall we pray3 ,father1 give me of ,thy 
strength that ,i may live  in harmony   
with ,thy law1 for thus only will all   
good come to me68    ,the first way is  
to beg1 the second1 to steal1 the third1
 to earn by  honest effort4    ,father1 
give me this6--,father do for me that6  
,thus prayed our  fathers1 not          
understanding the great law of          

compensation1 the law of  giving and    
receiving1 which demands that we give an
 equivalent for  everything we receive4 
,to receive without giving is to beg4   
,the lily1 in return for the nourishment
 it receives from the soil  and the sun1
 gives its beauty and fragrance4 ,the   
birds of the air  give a return for     
their sustenance by their songs1 their  
beauty of  plumage1 and by destroying   
worms and insects1 the enemies of plants
  and men4 ,every living thing gives an 
equivalent for its existence in  some   
way or other4    ,with ,man1 the        
fulfillment of the law of service and of
 compensation  becomes conscious and    
voluntary1 and his self-respect refuses 
to  take without giving4    ,behold1 ,i 
am perfect6 ,imperfection1 sin1 and     
suffering are only  errors of mortal    
mind6 ,such is the prayer of certain    
metaphysical  healers4    ,to assume the
 possession of goodness and perfection  
without an  earnest effort to develop   
and to deserve these qualities1 means to

  steal the glory of the only ,perfect  
,one4 ,the assumption of present        
perfection precludes the necessity of   
striving and laboring for its           
attainment4 ,if ,i am already all       
goodness1 all love1 all wisdom1 and  all
 power1 what remains for me to strive   
for8    ,herein lies the danger of      
metaphysical idealism4 ,while it may    
dispel  pessimism1 fear1 and anxiety1 it
 inevitably weakens the will power  and 
the capacity for self-help and personal 
effort4    ,the ideal of the            
metaphysician is the ideal of the       
animal4 ,the  animal does not worry     
about right or wrong1 nor1 with few     
exceptions1 does it make provision for  
the future4 ,its care and  forethought  
extend only to the next meal4 ,but this 
perfect1 ideal1  passive trust in       
,nature's bounty causes the animal to   
remain animal  and prevents its rising  
above the narrow limitations of habit   
and  instinct4    ,the inherent         
faculties1 capacities1 and powers of the

 human soul can  be developed only by   
effort and use4 ,the savage1 living in  
the most  favored regions of the earth1 
depending for his sustenance in  perfect
 faith and trust on ,nature's           
never-failing bounty1 has  remained     
savage4 ,through ages he has risen but  
little above the  level of the beasts   
that perish4    ,the great law of use   
ordains that those faculties and powers 
which  we do not develop remain in      
abeyance1 and that those which we       
possess weaken and atrophy if we fail to
 exercise them4    ,the ,master1 ,jesus1
 emphasized this law of use in many of  
his  parables and sayings4    ,for      
whosoever hath1 to him shall be given1  
and he shall have more  abundance3 but  
whosoever hath not1 from him shall be   
taken away even  that he hath4    ,what 
does this mean8 ,those who have the     
desire and the will to work  out their  
own salvation1 acquire greater knowledge
 and power in  exact proportion to their
 well-directed efforts2 but those who   

have  neither the desire nor the will to
 help themselves1 lose their  natural   
endowments and the possibilities and    
opportunities which  these would have   
conferred upon them4    ,the anatomy and
 physiology of the human brain reveal   
the fact that  for every voluntary      
faculty1 capacity1 and power of body1   
mind1 and  soul which we wish to        
develop1 we have to create new cells and
  centers in the brain4 ,in this        
respect1 ,nature gives us no more and   
no less than we deserve and work for4   
,if we try to cheat by  usurping the    
perfection and the power which we have  
not honestly  earned and developed1 then
 sometime1 somewhere we shall have to   
square the balance4    ,the ,right ,way 
to ,pray    ,after all1 the only true   
prayer is personal effort and self-help4
  ,this does not mean that we should not
 invoke the help of the ,higher         
,powers1 of those who have gone before  
us1 of the ,great ,friends and          
,invisible ,helpers1 and of the ,great  

,father1 the giver of all life1  all    
wisdom1 and all power4 ,but we should   
pray for strength to do our  work1 not  
to have it done for us4 ,the wise parent
 will not do for  the child the home    
tasks assigned him at school4 ,neither  
will the  powers on high or the ,great  
,friends perform our allotted tasks for 
us4    ,this life is a school for       
personal effort4 ,if it were not so1    
life  would be meaningless4 ,from the   
cradle to the grave1 our days are  one  
continuous effort to learn1 to acquire1 
to overcome difficulties4  ,only in this
 way can we develop our latent          
faculties1 capacities1  and powers4     
,these cannot be developed by having our
 tasks done  for us1 nor by assuming    
that we already know and possess        
everything4    ,the athlete must do his 
own training4 ,no one else can do it for
 him4  ,the assumption of superiority   
over his opponent will riot develop  his
 suppleness of body and strength of     
muscle4 ,to be sure1 faith and  courage 

are essential to--victory1 but they must
 be backed by  careful and persistent   
training4 ,vainglorious boasting alone  
will  not win the contest4    ,so in the
 battle of life1 the more faith we have 
in ,god1 in the  ,great ,friends1 and in
 our own powers1 the wider do we open   
ourselves  to the inflow of wisdom and  
strength from all that is good and true 
and powerful in the universe4 ,but      
through persistent and  welldirected    
effort alone can we control the powers  
and fashion the  materials which ,nature
 has so lavishly bestowed upon us4      
,the creative will1 actuated by desire  
and enlightened by reason1  brings order
 and harmony out of chaotic forces and  
materials4 ,and  yet certain            
metaphysicians tell us that we ourselves
 must do nothing  to overcome weakness1 
sin1 and suffering1 that we must depend 
entirely upon the efficiency of         
metaphysical formulas1 that the  deity  
and the powers of ,nature are jealous of
 our personal efforts1  that we must not

 try to help ourselves lest we forfeit  
their good  will4    ,is it not         
blasphemous to assume that ,god would   
blame us and withhold  his aid because  
we dared to use the faculties1          
capacities1 and  powers with which he   
has endowed us8 ,you say1 ,nobody is    
foolish  enough to claim such things4   
,but this is the teaching of a powerful 
healing-cult4 ,its members are          
forbidden1 on penalty of expulsion1 to  
use in the treatment of human ailments  
the most innocent natural  remedies4    
,the giving of an enema1 or the         
common-sense regulation of  diet are    
regarded as sufficient to nullify the   
power of their  metaphysical formulas   
and to prevent the working of ,nature's 
healing  forces4    ,one of our patients
 who had been under such treatment until
 she was  in a dying condition1 told us 
afterwards that her bowels often did    
not move for a week1 and that1 when she 
complained to her healer  about this    
condition and asked permission to take  

an enema1 he  answered her3 ,pay no     
attention4 ,the ,lord is taking care of 
that in  some other way4    ,the man who
 said this had been a prominent         
allopathic physician  before he turned  
healer4 ,he1 too1 like so many others   
ignorant of  ,nature's simple laws1 had 
swung from one extreme to the other1    
from  allopathic overdoing to           
metaphysical underdoing4 ,in this       
instance1  the ,lord took care of the   
patient's bowels until she was taken    
down with a severe attack of            
appendicitis and peritonitis4    ,amidst
 all the extremes1 ,nature ,cure points 
the common-sense middle  way4 ,basing   
its teachings and its practices on a    
clear understanding  of the laws of     
health1 disease1 and cure1 it refrains  
from  suppressing acute diseases with   
poisonous drugs or the knife1  realizing
 that they are in reality ,nature's     
cleansing and healing  efforts4 ,neither
 does it sit idly by and expect the     
,lord1 or  metaphysical formulas1 or the

 medicine bottle and the knife1 to do   
our work and to make good for our       
violations of ,nature's laws4           
,understanding the ,law1 ,nature ,cure  
believes in cooperating with the  law2  
in giving the ,lord a helping hand4 ,it 
teaches that ,god helps  him who helps  
himself1 that ,he will not become angry 
and refuse ,his  help if ,his children  
use rightly the reason1 the willpower1  
and the  self-control with which he has 
endowed them1 so that they may  achieve 
their own salvation4    ,nature ,cure   
from beginning to end is one grand1 true
 prayer4 ,it  teaches ,the ,law on all  
planes of being1 the physical1 the      
mental1  the moral1 and the spiritual2  
and it insists that the only way to     
attain perfect health of body1 mind1 and
 soul is to comply with the  law to the 
best of our ability4 ,when we do that1  
we place ourselves  in allgnment with   
the constructive principle in ,nature1  
and in exact  proportion to our         
intelligent and voluntary co-operation  

with the  laws of our being1 all good   
things will come to us4    ,therefore we
 pray3 ,father1 give me of ,thy strength
 that ,i may live  in harmony with ,thy 
law1 for thus only will all good come to
 me4        ,chapter ,,xl               
,scientific ,relaxation and ,normal     
,suggestion      ,under the strain of   
work-a-day hurry and worry1 your nerve  
vibrations are apt to become more and   
more intense and excited4 ,they  run    
away with you until1 as the saying goes1
 you are flying all to  pieces4    ,a   
good illustration of this condition of  
the nervous system may be  found in a   
team of horses shying at some object in 
their path4 ,the  driver1               
panic-stricken1 has dropped the reins1  
the frightened horses  have taken the   
bits between their teeth and are dashing
 headlong  down the road1 until their   
master regains control1 checks the      
animals in their maddened course1 and   
compels them to resume their  ordinary  
pace4    ,so the high-strung1           

oversensitive individual must gain      
control over  his nervous system and    
must subdue his runaway mental and      
emotional  activities into restful1     
harmonious vibrations4    ,this is done 
by insuring sufficient rest and sleep   
under the right  conditions and by      
practicing scientific relaxation at all 
times4    ,the nervous person gets      
easily excited4 ,comparatively little   
things will cause an outbreak of intense
 irritation or emotional  hyperactivity4
    ,usually1 the victim of unbalanced  
nerves is of the high-strung1  sensitive
 type1 naturally inclining to more rapid
 vibrations on all  planes1 capable of  
greater achievement than the stolid1    
heavy1  slow-vibrating person who       
doesn't know that he has any nerves1 but
  he is also in greater danger of mental
 and emotional overstrain and  physical 
depletion as a result of the excessive  
and uncontrolled  expenditure of life   
force and nervous energy4    ,relaxation
 while ,working    ,at first glance this

 expression may seem paradoxical1 but   
experience  will teach that it is not   
only possible1 but absolutely necessary 
that we perform our work in a relaxed   
and serene condition of body  and mind4 
,the most strenuous physical or mental  
labor will then not  cause as much      
exhaustion as light work done in a state
 of nervous  tension1 irritability1     
fretfulness or worry4    ,relaxation    
while working necessitates planning and 
system4 ,most  nervous breakdowns result
 not so much from overwork as from the  
vitality wasted through lack of orderly 
procedure4 ,therefore1 take  some time  
to plan and arrange your work and form  
the habit of doing  certain things that 
have to be done every day as nearly as  
possible  in the same way 7making sure  
that it is the right way7 and at the    
same time of the day4 ,such orderly     
system will soon become habitual  and   
result in saving much valuable time and 
energy4    ,always cultivate a serene   
and cheerful attitude of mind and soul1 

taking whatever comes as part of the    
day's work1 doing your best  under the  
circumstances1 but absolutely refusing  
to worry and fret  about anything4 ,do  
not cross a bridge before you get to it1
 and do  not waste time regretting      
something that cannot be undone4        
,relaxation while ,sitting    ,sit      
upright in a comfortable chair without  
strain or tension1 spine  and head      
erect1 the legs forming right angles    
with the thighs 7the  chair should be   
neither too high nor too low71 feet     
resting firmly  upon the floor1 toes    
pointing slightly outward1 the forearms 
resting  lightly upon the legs with the 
hands upon the knees4 ,this must be     
accomplished without effort1 for effort 
means tension4    ,dismiss all thoughts 
of hurry1 care1 worry or fear and dwell 
upon  the following thoughts3    ,i am  
now completely relaxed in body and mind4
 ,i am receptive to  ,nature's          
harmonious and invigorating             
vibrations--they dispel the  discordant 

and destructive vibrations of hurry1    
worry1 fear and  anger4 ,new life1 new  
health1 new strength are entering into  
me with  every breath1 pervading my     
whole being4    ,repeat these thoughts  
mentally1 or1 if it helps you1 say them 
aloud  several times1 quietly and       
forcefully1 impressing them deeply upon 
your inner consciousness4    ,after     
practicing relaxation in this manner1   
lie down for a few  minutes' rest--if   
circumstances permit--or practice       
rhythmical  breathing 7see ,chapter     
,twenty-,eight74 ,then return to your   
work and  endeavor to maintain a calm1  
trustful1 controlled attitude of mind4  
,if you are inclined to be irritable1   
suspicious1 jealous1  fault-finding1    
envious1 etc41 dwell on the following   
thought  pictures3    ,i am now fully   
relaxed1 at rest and at peace4 ,the     
world is an echo4  ,if ,i send forth    
irritable1 suspicious1 hateful thought  
vibrations1  the like will return to me 
from other minds4 ,i shall think such   

thoughts no longer4 ,god is love1 love  
is harmony1 happiness1 heaven4  ,the    
more ,i send forth ,love1 the more ,i am
 like ,god2 the more of love  will ,god 
and men return to me2 the more shall ,i 
realize true  happiness1 true health1   
true strength and true success4         
,relaxation ,before ,going to ,sleep    
,when ready to go to sleep1 lie flat on 
your back1 so that as nearly  as        
possible every part of the spine touches
 the bed1 extend the arms  along the    
sides of the body1 hands turned upward1 
palms open1 every  muscle relaxed4      
,dismiss all thoughts of work1 annoyance
 or anxiety4  ,say to yourself3 ,i am   
now going to sleep soundly and          
peacefully4 ,i  am master of my body1 my
 mind and my soul4 ,nothing evil shall  
disturb me4 ,at 4444 ,a4 ,m41 neither   
earlier nor later1 ,i shall awaken      
rested and refreshed1 strong in body and
 mind4 ,i shall meet  tomorrow's tasks  
and duties promptly and serenely4       
,simple as this formula may seem1 it has

 helped cure many a case of  persistent 
insomnia and nervous prostration4       
,having thus set your  mental alarm     
clock1 with a few times1 practice you   
will be able to  wake up1 without being 
called1 at the appointed time and to    
demonstrate to yourself the power of    
your mind over your body4    ,the       
quality of your sleep and its effect    
upon your system depend on  the         
character of the mental and psychic     
vibrations carried into it4  ,if you    
harbor thoughts of passion1 worry or    
fear1 these destructive  thought        
vibrations will disturb your slumbers   
and you will awaken in  the morning weak
 and tired4 ,if1 however1 you repeat    
mentally a  formula such as the above1  
suggesting harmonious1 constructive     
thoughts1 until you lose consciousness1 
you will carry into your  slumbers      
vibrations of rest1 health and strength1
 producing  corresponding effects upon  
the physical organism4    ,after a      
perfectly relaxed condition of body and 

mind has been  attained1 it is not      
necessary to remain lying on the back4  
,any  position of the body may then be  
assumed which seems most restful4    ,my
 patients frequently ask what position  
of the body is best during  sleep4 ,it  
is not good to lie continuously in any  
one position4 ,this  tends to cause     
unsymmetrical development of the        
different parts of  the body and to     
affect unfavorably the functions of     
various organs4  ,it is best to change  
occasionally from one position to       
another1 as  bodily comfort seems to    
indicate and require4    ,many persons  
fret and worry if sleep does not come as
 quickly as  desired4 ,they picture to  
themselves in darkest colors the dire   
results of wakefulness4 ,such a state of
 mind makes sleep impossible4  ,if      
persisted in1 it will inevitably lead to
 chronic insomnia4    ,instead of       
indulging in hurtful worry1 say to      
yourself3 ,i do not  care whether ,i    
sleep or not6 ,though ,i do not sleep1  

,i am lying here  perfectly relaxed1 at 
rest and at peace4 ,i am strengthened   
and  rested by remaining in a state of  
peaceful relaxation4    ,however1 the ,i
 do not care must be actually meant and 
felt1 must  not be merely a mechanical  
repetition of words4    ,nothing is more
 conducive to sleep1 even under the most
 trying  circumstances1 than such an    
,i-don't-care attitude of mind4 ,try it1
  and the chances are that just because 
you do not care1 you will fall  fast    
asleep4        ,chapter ,,xli           
,conclusion      ,our critics say3 ,if  
,nature ,cure is all that you claim for 
it1 why  is it not more generally       
accepted by the medical profession and  
the  public8    ,the greatest drawback  
to spreading the ,nature ,cure idea is  
the  necessity of self-control which it 
imposes4 ,if our cures of  so-called    
incurable diseases could be made without
 asking the  patients to change their   
habits of living1 without the demand of 
effort on their own part1 ,nature ,cure 

sanitariums could not be built  fast    
enough in this country4    ,no matter   
how marvelous the results of the natural
 methods--when  investigators learn that
 the treatment necessitates the control 
of  indiscriminate appetite and         
self-indulgence and the persistent      
practice of natural living and all that 
this involves1 they exclaim3  ,the      
natural regimen may be all right1 but   
who can live up to it8  ,you are asking 
the impossible4 ,you are looking for a  
perfection  which does not exist4 ,your 
directions call for an amount of        
willpower and self-control which nobody 
possesses4    ,fortunately1 however1    
this is not true4 ,human nature is good 
enough  and strong enough to comply with
 ,nature's laws4 ,furthermore1 the      
natural ways must be the most pleasant  
in the end or ,nature is a  fraud and a 
cheat4 ,true enjoyment of life and      
happiness are  impossible without       
perfect physical1 mental and moral      
health and  these depend upon natural   

living and natural treatment of human   
ailments4    ,strengthening of          
,will-,power and ,self-,control    ,if  
,i were asked the question3 ,what do you
 consider the greatest  benefit to be   
derived from the ,nature ,cure regimen8 
,i should  answer3 ,the strengthening of
 willpower and self-control4    ,this is
 the very purpose of life4 ,upon it     
depends all further  achievement4       
,self-control is the master's key to all
 higher  development on the mental1     
moral and spiritual planes of being2 but
  before we can exercise it on the      
higher planes1 we must have learned  to 
apply it on the lower plane1 in the     
management and control of our  physical 
appetites and habits4 ,when we have     
learned to control  these1 higher       
development will come easy4    ,a good  
method for strengthening the willpower  
is autosuggestion4 ,the  most opportune 
moments in the twenty-four hours of the 
day for  practicing this mental magic   
are those before dropping to sleep4 ,at 

this time there is the least disturbance
 and interference from  outside         
influences1 the mind is most passive and
 susceptible to  suggestion and         
impressions made under these favorable  
conditions  upon the phonograph records 
of the subconscious mind are the most   
lasting and the most powerful to control
 physical1 mental and moral  activities4
    ,when thoroughly relaxed1 at rest   
and at peace1 say to yourself3          
,whatever duties confront me tomorrow1  
,i shall execute them  promptly1 without
 wavering or hesitation4 ,i shall not   
give in to  this bad habit which has    
been controlling me4 ,i shall do that   
only  of which reason and conscience    
approve4    ,in order to be more        
specific and systematic and to obtain   
results  more surely and quickly1       
concentrate upon one weakness at a time4
  ,when that has been overcome1 take up 
another one1 until in this way  you have
 attained perfect control over your     
thoughts1 feelings and  actions4        

,suppose you have acquired the habit of 
remaining in bed and dozing  after your 
mental alarm clock has given its signal 
to arise and you  dread the effort of   
going through your morning exercises and
  ablutions4 ,then1 the night before1   
impress upon the subconscious  mind     
deeply and firmly the following         
suggestions3 ,tomorrow morning1  on     
awakening1 ,i shall jump out of bed     
without hesitation and go  through my   
morning exercises with zest and vigor4  
,or1 suppose you are subject to the fear
 and worry habit4 ,say to  yourself3    
,tomorrow or any time thereafter when   
depressing1 gloomy  thoughts threaten to
 control me1 ,i shall overcome them with
 thoughts  of hope and faith1 and with  
absolute confidence in the ,divine power
  of the will within me to overcome and 
to achieve4    ,in this manner you may  
give the subconscious mind suggestions  
and  impressions for overcoming bad     
habits and for establishing and         
strengthening good habits4    ,if a     

serious problem is confronting you1 and 
you are unable to solve  it to your     
satisfaction1 think upon it just before 
you are dropping  off to sleep and      
confidently demand that the right       
solution come to  you during the hours  
of rest4 ,the inner consciousness is    
always  awake4 ,it is the watchman who  
awakens you at the appointed time in    
the morning4 ,it will work upon your    
problem while your physical  brain is   
asleep4 ,in this lies the psychological 
justification for  the popular phrase3  
,before ,i decide the matter ,i'll sleep
 over it4    ,in the practice of mental 
magic1 as in everything else1 success   
depends upon patience and perseverance4 
,it would be entirely useless  to go    
through these mental drills occasionally
 and in a desultory  fashion2 but if    
persisted in faithfully and             
intelligently1 they will  prove truly   
magical in their effects upon the       
development of  willpower and           
self-control1 and on these depend the   

mastery of  conditions within and       
without1 the conquest of fate and       
destiny4  ,,pain',s ,,soliloquy    ,by  
,c4 ,j4 ,buell1 ,president ,minnesota   
,health ,league    ,i    ,i am          
,pain--most people hate me1    ,think me
 cruel1 call me heartless1    ,study    
ways to bribe and fool me1    ,try by   
every means to slay me1    ,dope        
themselves with anaesthetics1    ,fill  
themselves with patent nostrums1        
,call the doctor with his poisons1      
,seek the ,christian ,science healer1   
,beat the tom-tom of the savage1        
,build the altar1 burn the incense1     
,seek to sate the wrath of devils1      
,pray to saints1 and ,gods1 and angels2 
,not to cure the ills within them1      
,not to cleanse and purify them1        
,just to calm the pain that hurts them1 
,just to-kill the guide that warns them4
    ,,ii    ,pain am ,i1 but when you   
know me1    ,when you once have learned 
my secret1    ,how ,i come to help and  
bless you1    ,warn you1 guide you1     

teach and lead you    ,when you know my 
loving nature1    ,how at first ,i      
gently twinge you1    ,lightly twinge   
you as a warning1    ,hoping thus1 by   
kind reminder1    ,you will bear my     
voice and listen--    ,sure am ,i that  
when you know me1    ,you will gladly   
then embrace me1    ,call me friend and 
give me welcome1    ,call me friend and 
ask my message4    ,,iii    ,this the   
message ,i would bring you1    ,this the
 reason for my visits1    ,this the     
warning ,i would give you1    ,this the 
secret ,i would teach you3    ,when you 
learn to live as ,nature    ,in her     
great and boundless mercy1    ,in her   
tender1 loving kindness1    ,in her     
wisdom and her goodness    ,meant that  
men should live and labor1    ,when you 
learn to shun the by-ways    ,leading   
off to vicious habits1    ,when you     
learn to keep your body    ,strong and  
clean and pure and active1    ,give it  
work in right proportion1    ,give it   
air1 and food1 and water1    ,fit to    

build its every member1    ,fit to      
nourish every function1    ,when you    
teach your mind and spirit    ,pure and 
noble thoughts to harbor1    ,drive out 
fear1 and hate1 and malice1    ,cherish 
love and kindly motive1    ,when you    
learn these things ,i've told you1      
,when you know them1 when you do them1  
,then ,i will depart and leave you1     
,then no more will ,pain be needed4     
,,iv    ,this is1 then1 the truth ,i    
bring you1    ,that ,i hurt you but to  
warn you1    ,not to harm you but to    
heal you1    ,that ,i come to guide and 
teach you4    ,i am ,god's most blessed 
angel1    ,sent to point the way to     
virtue1    ,sent to teach the noblest   
manhood1    ,sent to fill the mind with 
wisdom1    ,sent to rouse the soul to   
action4    ,v    ,love me1 trust me1    
heed my message2    ,i will bring you   
peace and bless you6