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NATURAL THERAPEUTICS, VOL. I
PHILOSOPHY
OF
NATURAL THERAPEUTICS
HENRY LINDLAHR, M. D.
FIFTH EDITION
Published by The Lindlahr Publishing Co.

(Not Incorporated)
515-529 South Ashland Boulevard
CHICAGO
1924
Copyright, 1918, by Henry Lindlahr, M. D.
COPYEIGHT, 1919, by Henry Lindlahr, M. D.
AU rights reserved
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
Announcement vii
To Progressive Physicians of the Age 1
The Upas Tree of Disease 8
I. Missing Links 9
II. What Is Nature Cure? 18
III. Catechism of Nature Cure 22
IV. What Is Life? 28
V. The Primary Cause of Disease and Its
Manifestations 37
VI. The Unity of Acute Disease 49
VII. The Laws of Cure 60
Vm. Suppression versus Elimination 68
IX. Inflammation 82
X The Discovery of Microzyma 100
XL Eesults of Suppression 110
Xn. Surgery 122

XIII. Appendicitis 129
XIV. Vaccination 145
XV. The Diphtheria Antitoxin 169
XVI. Suppressive Surgical Treatment of Tonsilitis and

Enlarged Adenoids 181
XVII. Woman 's Suffering 187
XVin. Cancer 202
XIX. What About the Chronic? 227
XX. Diagnosis and Prognosis 236

XXI. Treatment of Chronic Diseases 244
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CHAPTER PAGE
XXII. Crises 255
XXIII. Periodicity 267
XXIV. The True Scope of Medicine 289
XXV. Homeopathy 307
XXVI. Natural Dietetics 319
XXVn. Fasting 322
XXVIII. What Is Positive, What Is Negative? 332
XXIX. Health Is Positive, Disease Negative 344
XXX. Conservation of Vitality 370
XXXI. Onanism or Masturbation 387
XXXII. Spinal Manipulation and Adjustment 399
XXXni. Neurotherapy 417
XXXIV. Magnetic Treatment 425
XXXV. The Legitimate Scope and Natural Limitations of

Mental and Metaphysical Healing 445
XXXVI. The Difference Between Functional and Organic

Disease 454
XXXVIL The Twofold Attitude of Mind and Soul 459
XXXVIIL The Symphony of Life 463
XXXIX. The Threefold Constitution of Man 465
XL. Mental Therapeutics 470
XLI. How Shall We Pray 479
XLII. Scientific Eelaxation and Normal Suggestion 485
XLTTT. Man's Demands Are God's Commands 491

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*'Ho, ye who suffer! Know ye suffer

from yourselves. None else compels —
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no other holds ye that ye live or die.
Siddartha
ANNOUNCEMENT
The term Natural Therapeutics has been adopted to
designate that system of natural living and healing
which I have evolved and demonstrated in many years
of institutional work and outlined in former publica-
tions.
While the pioneers of Nature Cure inaugurated the
great world wide movement for simpler and more ra-
tional ways of living and of treating human ailments,
their teachings and methods were very limited in scope
as compared with our present comprehensive system of
Natural Therapeutics which covers not only the orig-
inal theories and practices but includes all that has been
found good in up to date drugless and bloodless therapy.
As the term "Nature Cure" became more generally
adopted by the public and the healing professions it
did not stand for anything definite in the way of a
school or scientific system. Unfortunately it came to
pass that many who did not have the educational train-
ing or legal qualifications claimed to be practicing Na-
ture Cure.
The time has come when order and unity must be
evolved out of this chaos of theoretical teachings and
practical methods.
On the fifteenth of September, 1918, came into ex-
istence the Lindlahr College of Natural Therapeutics.
This marks the first attempt that has been made in
this or in any other country to establish a truly eclectic
system of natural living and healing on a strictly scien-
tific basis and in compliance with the provisions of the
viu ANNOUNCEMENT
Medical Practice Act of a sovereign commonwealth of

the United States of America. This means that the
Board of Directors of the Lindlahr College of Natural
Therapeutics will earnestly endeavor to comply with
the provisions of the Medical Practice Act of the State
of Illinois insofar as they pertain to the establishment
and maintenance of professional schools for drugless
healing. We realize that only in this way the move-
ment itself as well as its accredited representatives
can secure legal recognition and the merited confidence
of the American public and of the world at large.
DO YOUR BIT
A DUTY AND A PLEASURE
We invite the earnest cooperation in this great work
of all those who have awakened necessity for
to the
more rational living and for radical reform in healing
methods.
While we are freeing the world at large from the
curse of militarism and making it safe for Democracy,
let us also do our bit to liberate the individual from
the more dangerous and permanent menace of the un-
holy trinity of ignorance, selfishness and self-indulgence,
the arch enemies of health, happiness and success.
"Freely we have received, freely give." These words
embrace the highest law of the universe the law of —
Love and Service. Only as we give cheerfully and
freely the best that is in us can we prosper and progress
ourselves.
Surely you cannot render a greater service to your
relatives and friends than by teaching them how to
help themselves to the greatest blessings in life; how
to achieve health, strength, beauty and efficiency.
ANNOUNCEMENT ix
Be not dismayed by ignorance, indifference, opposi-

tion and ridicule. No honest, unselfish effort is ever
lost; some seed will fall on good ground and produce
an abundant harvest.
Thus you will become an active factor in Nature's
great evolutionary scheme and thereby work out your
own salvation physically, mentally, morally and spiritu-
ally here and hereafter, ever and forever.
THE AUTHOR.
Chicago, October 2, 1918.
TO THE PROGRESSIVE PHYSICIANS
OF THE AGE
THERE are two principal methods of treating disease.
One the combative, the other the preventive. The
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trend of modern medical research and practice in our

great colleges and endowed research institutes is almost
entirely along combative lines, while the individual, pro-
gressive physician learns to work more and more along
preventive lines. The slogan of modern medical science is,
"Kill the germ and cure the disease." The usual proce-
dure is to wait until acute or chronic diseases have fully
developed, and then, if possible, to subdue them by the
use of drugs, surgical operations, and by means of the
morbid products of disease, in the form of serums, anti-
toxins, vaccines, etc. The combative method fights disease
with disease, poison with poison, and germs with germs
and germ products. In the language of the Good Book,
it is "Beelzebub against the Devil."
The preventive method does not wait until disease has
fully developed and gained the ascendancy in the body,
but concentrates its best endeavors on preventing, by
hygienic living and by natural methods of treatment, the
development of disease. Thus it endeavors to put the
human body in such a normal, healthy condition that it
is practically proof against infection or contagion by dis-
ease taints and miasms, and against the inroads of bacteria

and parasites.
The question is, which method is the more practical,
the more successful and more popular? Which will stand
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the test of "the survival of the fittest" in the great

struggle for existence?
The medical profession has good reason to be alarmed
by the inroads made in its work by irregular, unorthodox
systems, schools and cults of treating human ailments;
but instead of raging at the audacious presumption of
these interlopers, would it not be better to inquire if
there is not some reason for the astonishing spread and
popularity of these therapeutic innovations ?
Their success undoubtedly is based on the fact that they
concentrate their best efforts on preventive instead of
combative methods of treating disease. People are begin-
ning to realize that it is cheaper and more advantageous
to prevent disease than to cure it. To create and main-
tain continuous, buoyant good health means greater effi-
ciency for mental and physical work ;

greater capacity for
the true enjoyment of life, and the best insurance against
failure and poverty. Therefore, he who builds health is

of greater value to humanity than he who allows people to
drift into disease through ignorance of Nature 's laws, and
then attempts to cure them by doubtful and uncertain
combative methods.
It is said that in China the physician is hired and paid
by the year; that he receives a certain stipend as long as
the members of the family are in good health, but that the
salary is suspended as long as one of his charges is ill.
If some similar method of engaging and paying for medical

services were in vogue in this country the trend of med-
ical research and practice would soon undergo a radical
change.
The diet expert, the hydrotherapist, the physical cul-
turist, the adjuster of the spine, the mental healer and
Christian scientist, pay little attention to the pathological
conditions or to the symptoms of disease. Each of these,

in accordance with his theory of disease and cure, regu-
Vol. 1—2— Sept. 24
NATUEAL THERAPEUTICS
THE UPAS TREE OF DISEASE

Evil is not an accident, not an arbitrary punishment, not always
AN ERROR OF MORTAL MIND. " It IS THE NATURAL AND INEVITABLE RESULT
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OF VIOLATION OF NATURE 'S LAWS. IT IS INSTRUCTIVE AND CORRECTIVE IN

PURPOSE, AND Wlhh REMAIN WITH US ONLY AS LONG AS WE NEED ITS SALU-
TARY LESSONS.
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wonderful simplicity and efficiency has accumulated from

many sources. Some of the missing links in the chain of
evidence have been discovered.
The fundamental principles of Nature Cure philosophy,
which radically differ from allopathic theory and practice,
and which are destined to revolutionize the chaotic teach-
ings of the old schools and to establish in their place an
exact science of medicine, are the following
Every acute disease is the result of a purifying, healing
effort of Nature.
The inflammatory processes back of all acute and sub-
acute diseases are identical in nature and purpose and in
the way they run their courses through the five stages of
inflammation.
The bacteria found associated with acute, subacute
and chronic diseases are not the primary causes and insti-
gators of these abnormal processes, but rather the product
of pathogenic conditions and the agents through which
Nature breaks down complex, disease-producing (patho-
genic) substances into simpler compounds suitable for
neutralization by alkaline elements and for elimination
through the organs of depuration.
The primary cause of germ activity is the morbid soil
in which bacteria breed and multiply. Basing our practice
on these fundamental propositions, we do not endeavor to
"kill the germs" with poisonous drugs, vaccines, serums
and antitoxins, but instead we endeavor through natural
ways of living and natural methods of treatment to purify
the organism of the systemic waste, morbid encumbrances
and disease taints which furnish the soil for the develop-
ment and multiplication of disease germs.
Many who carefully studied the former editions of these
writings were probably not entirely satisfied with the
evidence presented in proof of these fundamental laws
and principles. When I described the processes of inflam-
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mation solely from the viewpoint of the teachings of

Pasteur and Metehnikoff, they may have wondered why
the white blood corpuscles should destroy the disease
germs if the latter were scavengers of morbid matter and
disease taints.
As regards another mooted problem, many inquiries,
running somewhat as follows, have come to me from
readers and from students of the Nature Cure waitings:
"You say that scabies (itch), lice, crab lice and many
other so-called contagious diseases develop in the form of
'healing crises' under circumstances where infection or
contagion is improbable or impossible. If this be true,
where do the germs or parasites come from? In the case
of scabies, lice, crab lice, etc., do you believe in sponta-
neous generation?"
In my former writings I anticipated and answered these
questions by saying: "If our bodies contain the morbid
soil, we need not worry about the microbes of disease they
;
will come from somewhere, because the spores of germs

are present everywhere. Our bodies are alive with them."
At that time, however, I could not have answered the
questions: "What are these spores of disease germs, these
seed germs of bacteria? Where do they come from?"
Lately the solution of this problem also has come to me
in an unexpected manner. Until a few weeks ago I was
not aware of the fact that a French scientist, Antoine
Bechamp, as far back as the middle of the last century,
had given a rational, scientific explanation of the origin,
growth and life activities of germs and of the normal
living cells of vegetable, animal and human bodies. This
information came to me first in a pamphlet entitled "Life's
Primal Architects", by E. Douglas Hume, of London,
England. Thus was I led to an investigation of Bechamp 's
work at first hand. Especially have I made a careful
study of his last work, entitled "The Blood", in which
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left but the original microzyma. Thus he proved that

microzyma are at the beginning and at the end of all
organized beings. He foundthe chalk of Sens and other
calcareous rocks with microzyma, which started
alive
processes of fermentation in blood, milk and other fer-
mentable substances. "When we consider that these geo-
logical microzyma are the remains of fossil organisms
which lived in remote prehistoric ages we must come to
the conclusion that these primal architects of life are
practically indestructible and must be endowed with life
in its most primitive form.
How wonderfully the discovery of microzyma confirms
the claims of Nature Cure philosophy, according to which
bacteria and parasites cannot cause and instigate inflam-
matory and other disease proceeses unless they find their
own peculiar morbid soil in which to feed, grow and
multiply
The translator of Professor Bechamp's last book, enti-
tled"The Blood", comments as follows:
"The experimental facts learnedly elaborated by Professor
Bechamp and his collaborators make- patent the absurdity of all
pretended prophylactics against disease save one, and casts all
—
rational minds back to the one sure and only protection sound
hygiene!
"We are mocked by quarantines, vaccines, inoculations and
other devices for 'conveying' the products of labor into the pockets
of official doctors. We are gulled by them to the fullest extent of
our willingness to be gulled. The opponents of a truly rational
medicine are many and powerful, as evidenced by the suppression,
for more than a generation, of Bechamp 's admirable discoveries
beneath a 'conspiracy of silence', and these opponents of the art
of healing are entrenched in nearly all medical schools, in richly
endowed research institutes, in expensive manufactories of animal
poisons for poisoning men and animals (under the ignorant belief
that they are benefiting us), and in all medical officialdom!"
Knowledge of the researches and teachings of Bechamp

came to me but recently, after the manuscript of this
volume had been practically completed. It was most
gratifying to discover at the last moment this missing
link which corroborates so wonderfully my own experience

and teachings.
Bechamp's profound revelations were soon superseded
by the plausible theories of Pasteur and Metchnikoff,
which fully justified the suppressive poison treatment of
the allopathic school of medicine. Pasteur compared the
human body to a barrel of beer and pronounced it, like
that beverage, at the mercy of extraneous organisms.
—
As these produce good or bad beer a liquid diseased, as
it were, or healthy — so on entering animal bodies micro-
organisms create disease, each after its own order. It
only needed Professor Metchnikoff 's theory of phago-
cytosis and the alleged discovery of "obsonins" or natu-
ral antitoxins in the blood, by Sir Almroth Wright and
Dr. Bulloch, to furnish the medical profession with a
delightfully simple theory as to the origin of disease com-
prehensible to the least intelligent. Upon this basis rests
the entire structure of modern medical theory and practice.
The microzyma evidently is one of the missing links in
the chain of evidence in proof of the Nature Cure phi-
losophy of health, disease and cure. The other one was
discovered by Dr. Thomas Powell of Los Angeles. As far
as I know, he was the first one to advance the claim that
the so called white corpuscles or "phagocytes" instead
of being valiant germ fighters and germ eaters are in
reality particles of morbid, pathogenic matter; that in-
stead of destroying the disease germs they are, in the
inflammatory processes, destroyed by the germs. It is
interesting to note that Bechamp already ridiculed the
idea of "phagocytosis." In his book "The Blood" he
says: " —although their master (Pasteur) had declared
that the cellules (leucocytes) were not living, his disciples
imagined that the leucocytes (under the name of phago-
cytes) were living like amoeba and able to perform move-
ments called amoeboid. And it was imagined that these
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phagocytes formed themselves into ti'oops to pursue and

devour the microbes. There was thus a phagocytosis,
which was trumpeted forth as providential. The precise
knowledge of the blood reduces to its just value this latest
form of the struggle against the mierozymian theory."
Later on I shall explain more fully Bechamp's reasons
for opposing the idea of phagocytosis.
Dr. Powell's discovery of the true nature of the so called
leucocyte together with our knowledge of the activity of
the microzyma furnishes for the first time in medical his-
tory a rational and consistent explanation of the process
of inflammation. Inflammation always starts with obstruc-
tion in the capillary circulation, caused by ''white blood
corpuscles" and other colloid or pathogenic matter. The
obstruction causes the white blood corpuscles in the blood
stream to be forced out into the neighboring tissues ("emi-
gration of the leucocytes"). Stagnation causes them to
disorganize and putrefy. This morbid soil develops the
microzyma of the normal cells into various kinds of "dis-
ease germs" or bacteria.
According to microzyma are the
this theory, then, the
grow and thrive
spores or the seeds of disease germs which
in morbid matter only. Thus the chain of evidence which
proves the "disease germ" as constructive and the white
blood corpuscle (or phagocyte) as pathogenic material, is
complete, and Nature Cure philosophy throughout stands
justified in theory and practice.
Dr. Thomas Powell's theory of the pathogenic nature of
leucocytes is absolutely verified by the clinical records of
our patients. This conclusive evidence of the true char-
phagocyte and of the correctness of natural
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acter of the ' '
treatment is given in Chapter IX.

An interesting confirmation of the truth of Nature Cure
philosophy and practice comes from the battle fields of
Europe. Ever since I began to teach and practice Nature
Cure Ihave advocated the exposure of wounds to air and

light with no antiseptic treatment whatever.
We have cured during the last seventeen years, the
worst kind of wounds, many of which under antiseptic
treatment had eniered upon advanced stages of necrosis.
The treatment in' all such cases consisted of exposing the
wounds freely to air and light, and in keeping them clean
and fresh by frequent wash with diluted lemon juice.
For many years I have been denounced as a dangerous
ignoramous and quack for this and other radical devia-
tions from orthodox theory and practice. During the last
few years, however, reports have come from the battle
fields of Europe, according to which the wounds of sol-
diers, who were left exposed out of doors and did not
receive hospital care and antiseptic treatment, healed
much quicker and more perfectly than those who received
the ordinary surgical treatment.
Of late medical men have frequently lectured on this
wonderful discovery in several Chicago colleges. This, of
course, upsets completely the allopathic theory of the
danger of germ invasion and of the necessity of antiseptic
treatment, and it confirms absolutely the truth of the
Nature Cure teachings as to the true character of germ
activity.
The natural treatment of wounds will be discussed more
fully in Vol. II of this Series.
What the Electron Is to the Atom, the Microzyma Is to

the Cell
"What a wonderful correspondence this theory of the

origin of cell life bears to the latest scientific opinions
concerning the constitution of the atom As all elements
!
of matter and their atoms are made up of electrons vibrat-

ing in the primordial ether, so all cells and germs are
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made up of microzyma. As the electrons, according to

theirnumbers in the atom and their modes of vibration,
produce upon our sensory organs the effects of various
elements of matter, so the microzyma, according to the
medium or soil in which they live, develop into various
cells and germs, exhibiting distinctive structure and vital
activities.
New Light on Heredity

Modern biology teaches us that all permanent, special-
ized cells complicated adult body are
present in the
actually contained in the original procreative cell which
resultsfrom the union of the male spermatazoon and the
female ovum. Science, however, has failed to explain this
—
seeming miracle ^how it is possible that all the perma-
nent cells of the large adult body can be present from the
beginning in the minute procreative cell and in the rudi-
mentary body of the fetus.
Bechamp 's theory of microzyma brings the rational and
scientific explanation. If these microzyma are as minute
in comparison to the cell as the electrons are in compari-
son to the atom, and the atom in comparison to the visible
particles of matter, then the mystery of the genesis of the
complex human body from the procreative cell, as well
as the mysteries of heredity in its various t)hases, are
amenable to explanation.
If the microzyma are the spores, or seeds, of cells, it is
possible to conceive that these infinitesimal, minute living
organisms may bear the impress of the species and of
racial and family characteristics and tendencies, finally
to reappear in the cells, organs and nervous system of the
adult body.
CHAPTER II
WHAT IS NATURE CURE?

is more than a system of curing aches and
vastly
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pains; it a complete revolution in the axt and
is
science of living-. It is the practical realization and appli-

cation of all that is good in natural science, philosophy
and religion.
About seventy years ago this greatest and most
beneficent of reformatory movements was inaugurated by
Priessnitz in Grafenberg, a small village in the Silesian-
mountains. The originator of Nature Cure was a simple
farmer, but he had a natural genius for the art of healing.
His pharmacopeia consisted not in poisonous pills and
potions, but in plenty of exercise, fresh mountain air,
water treatments in the cool, sparkling brooks, and simple,
wholesome country fare, consisting largely of black bread,
vegetables, and milk fresh from cows fed on nutritious
mountain grasses.
The results accomplished by these simple means were
wonderful. Before he died, a large sanitarium, filled with
patients from all over the world and from all stations of
life, had grown up around his forest home.
Amongthose who made the pilgrimage to Grafenberg
to become patients and students of this genial healer, the
simple-minded farmer-physician, were wealthy merchants,
princes and doctors from all parts of the world.
Rapidly the idea of drugless healing spread over the
civilized world.Hahn the apothecary, Kuhne the weaver,
RikU the manufacturer. Father Kneipp the priest, Lah-
mann the doctor, Adolph Just the teacher, and Turnvater
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Jahn, the founder of physical culture, became enthusiastic

pupils and followers of Priessnitz.
Each one of these men enlarged and enriched some
special field of the great realm of natural healing. Some
elaborated the water cure and natural dietetics, others
invented various systems of manipulative treatment, earth,
air, and light cures, magnetic healing, mental therapeutics,
curative gymnastics, etc., etc. Von Peckzely added the
Diagnosis from the Iris of the Eye, which reveals not only
the innermost secrets of the human organism, but also
Nature's ways and means of cure, and the changes for
better or for wôrse continually occurring in the body.
In this country. Dr. Trail of New York, Dr. Jackson of
Danville, Dr. Kellogg of Battle Creek, and others caught
the infection and crossed the ocean to become students of
Priessnitz.
Quimby, the itinerant spiritualist and healer, became
successfuland renowned by the application of the natural
methods of cure. At first his favorite methods were water,
massage, magnetic and mental treatment. Gradually he
concentrated his efforts on metaphysical methods of cure,
and before he died he evolved a complete system of mag-
netic and mental therapeutics.
Quimby 's teachings and methods were adopted by Mrs.
Eddy, his most enthusiastic pupil, and by her elaborated
into Christian Science, the latest and most successful of
modern mental healing cults.
Dr. Still of Kirksville, Missouri, made a valuable addi-
tion to natural methods of treatment by the development
of osteopathy, a system of scientific manipulation of the
framework of the body. Later developments of manipu-
by Dr. D. D.
lative treatment are chiropractic, originated
Palmer of Davenport, Iowa; neurotherapy, evolved by
Drs. Arnold and Walter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
naprapathy, founded by Dr. Oakley Smith of Chicago,
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Illinois; and spondylotherapy, developed by Dr. Alberti

Abrams of Los Angeles, California.*
Thus the simple pioneers of Nature Cure, every one of
them gifted by Nature with the instinct and the genius
of the true healer, who is born, not made, laid the foun-
dation for the world wide modern health culture move-
ment.
They were neither blinded nor confused by the con-
books and authorities, nor by the action
flicting theories of
of a thousand different drugs on a legion of different
symptoms, but applied common sense reasoning to the
solution of the problems of health, disease and cure.
They went for inspiration to field and forest rather
than to the murky atmosphere of the dissection and vivi-
section rooms. They studied the whole and not only the
parts; causes as well as effects and symptoms. Realizing
that man had lost his natural instinct and strayed far
away from Nature's ways, they studied and imitated the
natural habits of the animal creation rather than the con-
fusing doctrines of the schools.
Thus they proclaimed the "return to Nature" and the
"new gospel of health", which are destined to free
humanity from the destructive influences of alcoholism,
meat eating, the dope and tobacco habit, of drug poison-
ing, vaccination, surgical mutilation, vivisection, and a
thousand other abuses practiced in the name of science.
When parents learn how to create children in accord
with natural law, how mould their bodies and their
to
characters into harmony and beauty before the new life
sees the light of day, when they learn to rear their off-
spring in health of body and purity of mind in harmony

with the laws of their being, then we shall have true types
of beautiful manhood and womanhood, then children will
For details regarding Manipulative Treatment, see Vol. II.

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no longer be a curse and a burden to themselves, to those

who bring them into the world or to society at large.
These thoughts are not the mere dreams of a visionary.
When we see the wonderful changes wrought in a human
being by a few months or years of rational living and
treatment, seems not impossible nor improbable that
it
these ideals may

be realized within a few generations.
Children thus born and reared in harmony with the law
will be the future masters of the earth. They will need
neither gold nor influence to win in the race of life their
;
innate powers of body, mind and soul will make them

victors over every circumstance. The offspring of alco-
holism, drug poisoning, and sexual perversion will cut but
sorry figures in comparison with the manhood and woman-
—
hood of a true and noble aristocracy of health, an aris-
tocracy, not of degenerated and vitiated blue blood, but
of pure and wholesome red blood.
CHAPTER III
CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE

^ I ÎIE philosophy of Nature Cure is based on sciences
-'- dealing with newly discovered and rediscovered
natural laws and principles, and with their application
to the phenomena of life and death, health, disease, and
cure.
Every new science embodying new modes of thought
requires exact modes of expression and new definitions
of words and phrases already in common use. Therefore
I have endeavored to define, as precisely as possible, cer-
tain words and phrases which convey meanings and ideas
peculiar to the teachings of Nature Cure.
The student of Nature Cure and kindred subjects will
do well to closely study these definitions and formulated
principles, as they contain the pith and marrow of our
philosophy and greatly facilitate its understanding.
(1) What is Nature Cure?
Nature Cure is a system of man-building in harmony
with the constructive principle in Nature on the physical,
mental and moral planes of being.
(2) What is the Constructive Principle in Nature?
The constructive principle in Nature is that principle
which builds up, improves, and repairs, which always
makes for the perfect type, and which is opposed to the
destructive principle in Nature, whose activity in Nature
is designated as evolutionary.
(3) What is the Destructive Principle in Nature?
The destructive principle in Nature is that principle
which disintegrates and destroys existing forms and types,
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and whose activity in Nature is designated as devolu-

tionary.
(4) Wliat is Normal or Natural?
That is normal or natural which is in harmonic relation
with the life purposes of the individual.
(5) What is Health?
Health is normal and harmonious vibration of the ele-
ments and forces composing the human entity on the
physical, mental and moral planes of being, in conformity
with the constructive principle in Nature applied to indi-
vidual life.
(6) What is Disease?

Disease abnormal or inharmonious vibration of the
is
elements and forces composing the human entity on one

or more planes of being, in conformity with the destruc-
tive principle in Nature applied to individual life.
(7) What is the Primary Cause of Disease?
The primary cause of disease, barring accidental or
surgical injury to the human organism and surroundings
hostile tohuman life, is violation of Nature's laws.
(8) What are the Effects of Violation of Nature's Laws
on the Physical Human Organism?
The effects of violation of Nature 's laws on the physical
human organism are
1. Lowered vitality;
2. Abnormal composition of blood and lymph;
3. Accumulation of waste matter, morbid materials and
poisons .
These conditions are identical with disease, because they

tend to lower, hinder or inhibit normal function (har-
monious vibration), and because they engender and pro-
mote destruction of living tissues.
(9) What is Acute Disease?
What is commonly called "acute" disease is in reality
the result of Nature 's efforts to eliminate from the organ-
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24 NATUEAL THEKAPEUTICS
ism waste material, foreign matter and poisons, and to

repair injury to living tissues. In other words, every
socalled acute disease is the result of a cleansing- and
healing" effort of Nature.
What is Chronic Disease?
(10)
Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in
(a)
which lowered vibration (lowered vitality), due to the
accumulation of waste material and poisons, with the
consequent destruction of vital parts and organs, has pro-
gressed 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 (healing
crises).
(b) Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in
which the morbid encumbrances, having gained the ascend-
ancy, prevent acute reaction (healing crises) on the part
of the constructive forces of Nature.
(c) Chronic disease is the natural consequence of the
inability of the organism to react by acute efforts, or
"healing crises", against conditions inimical to health.
(11) What is a "Healing Crises"?
A healing crisis is an acute reaction, resulting from the
ascendancy of Nature 's healing forces over disease condi-
tions. Its tendency is towards recovery, and it is, there-
fore, in conformity with Nature's constructive principle.
(12) Are all Acute Reactions Healing Crises?
No ; there are healing crises and disease crises.
(13) What is a "Disease Crisis"?
A disease crisis is an acute reaction resulting from the
ascendancy of disease conditions over the healing forces
of the organism. Its tendency is, therefore, toward fatal
termination.
(14) What is Cure?
Cure is the readjustment of the human organism from
abnormal to normal conditions and functions.
CATECHISM OF NATUEE CUEE 25
(15) What Methods of Treatment are in Conformity

with the Constructive Principle in Nature?
Those methods which
1. Establish normal surroundings and natural habits of
life in accord with Nature 's laws
2. Economize vital force
3. Build up the blood on a natural basis that is, supply

;
the blood with its natural constituents in right propor-

tions ;
4. Promote the elimination of waste material and poi-

sons without in any way injuring the human body
5. Correct mechanical lesions;
6. Arouse the individual in the highest possible degree
to the consciousness of personal responsibility and to the
necessity of intelligent personal effort and self-help.
(16) Are Medicines in Conformity with the Constructive
Principle in Nature?
Medicines are in conformity with the constructive prin-
ciple in Nature in so far as they, in themselves, are not
injurious or destructive to the human organism and in so
far as they act as tissue foods and promote the neutraliza-
tion and elimination of morbid matters and poisons.
(17) Are Poisonous Drugs and Promiscuous Surgical
Operations in Conformity with the Constructive Principle
in Nature?
Poisonous drugs and promiscuous operations are not
in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature,
because
1. They suppress acute diseases or reactions (crises),
the cleansing and healing efforts of Nature
2. They are in themselves harmful and destructive to
human life;
3. 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-help.
(18) Is Metaphysical Healing in Conformity with the

Constructive Principle in Nature?
Metaphysical systems of healing are in conformity with
the constructive principle in Nature in so far as
1. They do not interfere with or suppress Nature's
healing effortsj
2. They awaken hope and confidence (therapeutic
faith), and thereby increase the inflow of vital force into
the organism;
3. They teach the law of cause and effect and thus
awaken and strengthen the consciousness of personal

responsibility.
They are not in conformity with the constructive prin-
ciple in Nature in so far as
1. They fail to assist Nature's healing efforts, but ignore,
obscure and deny the laws of Nature and defy the dictates
of reason and common sense
2. They
substitute in the treatment of disease a blind,
dogmatic belief in the wonder-working power of meta-
physical formulas and prayer, for intelligent cooperation
with Nature's constructive forces and for personal effort
and self-help
3. They weaken the consciousness of personal respon-
sibility.
Nature Cure in Conformity with the Construc-
(19) Is
tive Principle in Nature?
Nature Cure is in conformity with the constructive
principle in Nature in that
1. It teaches that the primary cause of weakness and
disease is disobedience to the laws of Nature

2. It arouses the individual to the study of natural laws
and demonstrates the necessity of strictcompliance with
these laws
3. It strengthens the consciousness of personal respon-
sibility of the individual for his own status of health and
CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE 27
for the hereditary conditions, traits and tendencies of his

offspring
4. It encourages personal effort and self-help;
5. It adapts surroundings and habits of life to natural
laws;
6. 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 life, and
which are within the reach of everyone.
(20) What are the Natural Methods of Living and of
Treatment?
1. Return to Nature by the regulation of eating, drink-
ing, breathing, bathing, dressing, working, resting, think-

ing, the moral life, sexual and social activities, etc., estab-
lishing them on a normal and natural basis,
2. Elementary remedies, such as water, air, light, earth
cures, magnetism, electricity, etc.
3. Chemical remedies, such as scientific food selection
and combination, homeopathic medicines, simple herb
extracts, and the vitochemical remedies.
4. Mechanical remedies, such as corrective gymnastics,
massage, magnetic treatment, structural adjustment and,

in cases of accident, surgery.
5. Mental and spiritual remedies, such as scientific
relaxation, normal suggestion, constructive thought, the
prayer of faith, etc.
CHAPTER IV
WHAT IS LIFE?
TN our study of the cause and character of disease we

- must endeavor to begin at the beginning, and that is
LIFE itself 3 for the processes of health, disease and cure
are manifestations of that which we call life, vitality, life
elements.
to fathom the mystery of life we
While endeavoring
soon realize that we are dealing with an ultimate which
no human mind is capable of solving or explaining. We
can study and understand life only in its manifestations,
not in its origin and real essence.
There are two prevalent but widely differing concep-
tions of the nature of life or vital force the material and
the vital.
The former looks upon life or vital force with all its
physical, mental and psychical phenomena as manifesta-
tions of the electric, magnetic and physicochemical activi-
ties of the physical material elements composing the
human organism. From this viewpoint, life is a sort of
"spontaneous combustion" or, as one scientist expresses
it,a "succession of fermentations" or chemical changes.
One of the latest and most pretentious works dealing
with life and its phenomena of growth, reproduction,
decline and disintegration is a book entitled "Senescence
and Rejuvenescence", by Charles Manning Child, pub-
lished by the University of Chicago Press. I have studied
this work carefully and must confess that after its perusal
I was as wise as I was in the beginning concerning the
vital principles involved in the processes of growth, organ-
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WHAT IS LIFE? 29
ization and differentiation and those of disorganization or

dedifferentiation, as the author calls it.
He very interestingly describes phenomena but fails to

explain causes. AVhile tracing the relationship of the
phenomena of life, he tries to prove that life has no place
in the scheme of things.
The vitalistic conception of life regards vital force as
the primary force of coming from the great
all forces,
central source of all life. This force, which permeates,

heats and animates the entire created universe, is an
expression of divine intelligence and will, the "logos",
the "word" of the great Creative Intelligence. It is this
divine energy which sets in motion the whirls in the
ether, the electric corpuscles that make up the atoms and
elements of matter.
These electrons are positive and negative forms of elec-
tricity. Electricity is a form of energy. It is intelligent
energy otherwise
; it could not act with that same wonder-
ful precision in the electrons of the atoms as in the suns
and planets of the sidereal universe.
This intelligent energy can have but one source the :
will and intelligence of the Creator as Swedenborg —

expresses it, of "the great Central Sun of the Universe".
If this supreme Intelligence should withdraw its creative

energy, the electric charges (forms of energy) and with
it the atoms, elements, and the entire material universe,
would disappear in the flash of a moment.

From appears that crude matter, instead of being
this it
the source of life and of all its complicated mental and

spiritual phenomena (which assumption, on the face of
it, is absurd), is but an expression of the Life Force,
itself a manifestation of the great Creative Intelligence
which some call God, others Nature, the Oversoul, Brahma,
Prana, The Great Spirit, etc., each according to his best
understanding.
It is this supreme Intelligence and Power acting in and

through every atom, molecule and cell in the human body,
which is the true healer, the "vis medicatrix naturae"
which always endeavors to repair, to heal and restore the
perfect type. All that the physician can do is to remove
obstructions and to establish normal conditions within and
around the patient, so that "the healer within" can do
his work to the best advantage.
'
Here the Christian That is exactly
Scientist will say : '
what we claim. All is God! All is mind! There is no

matter! Our attitude toward disease is based on these
facts."
"Well, what of
it, Brother Scientist? Suppose, in the
final analysis,matter is nothing but vibration, an expres-
sion of Divine Mind and Will. That, for all practical
purposes, does not justify me in denying and ignoring its
reality. Because I have an "all mind" body, is it advis-
able for me to place myself in the way of an "all mind"
locomotive moving at the rate of sixty miles an hour?
The question is not what matter is in the final analysis,
but how matter affects us. We have to take it and treat
it as we find it. We must be as obedient to the laws of
matter as to those of the higher planes of being.
Life Is Vibratory
In the final analysis, all things in Nature, from a fleet-

ing thought or emotion to the hardest piece of diamond
or platinum, are modes of motion or vibration. Until a
few years ago physical science assumed that an atom was
the smallest imaginable part of a given element of matter;
that although infinitesimally small, it still represented solid
matter. Now, more recent evidence, we
in the light of
have good reason to believe that there is no such thing
as solid matter; that every atom is made up of charges
of negative and positive electricity acting in and upon an
WHAT IS LIFE? 31
omnipresent ether; that the difference between an atom

of iron and one of hydrogen, or of any other element,
depends solely upon the number of electrons it contains
and upon the velocity with which these vibrate around one
another in the ether.
Thus the atom, which was thought to be the ultimate
particle of solid matter, is found to be a little universe
in itself in which electrons revolve around one another
like the sun and planets in the sidereal universe. This
explains what we mean when we say life and matter are
vibratory.
Over two thousand years ago Pythagoras taught that
all matter was made up of three elements, viz., a primor-
dial substance, motion, and number. It is interesting to
note how up-to-date modern science verifies the teachings
of this ancient Greek philosopher. In the language of
modern science the primordial substance of Pythagoras is
the all-pervading ether, motion is electricity, and numbers
are the number of electrons vibrating in the atom.
As early as 1863 John Newlands discovered that when
he arranged the elements of matter in the order of their
atomic weight, they displayed the same relation to one
another as do the tones in the musical scale. Thus modern
chemistry demonstrates the verity of the "music of the
—
spheres" another "visionary concept of ancient mysti-
cism". The atoms of matter in their relation to one
another are constructed and arranged in exact corre-
spondence with the seven primary tones in the musical
scale and therefore with the laws of harmony. Therefore
the entire sidereal universe is built on the laws of music.
That which is orderly, lawful, good, beautiful, natural,
healthy, vibrates in unison with the harmonics of this
great "Diapason of Nature": in other words, it is in
alignment with the constructive principle in Nature.
That which is disorderly, abnormal, ugly, unnatural,
unhealthy, vibrates in discord with Nature's harmonies.

It is in alignment with the destructive principle in Nature.
What we call "inanimate Nature" is beautiful and
orderly because plays in tune with the score of the
it
symphony of life. Man only can play out of tune. This

is his privilege, if he so chooses, by virtue of his freedom
of choice and action.

Dr. J. D. Buck expressed these thoughts most beauti-
fully in an essay entitled The Music of the Spheres
' '
' '
"Modern science has rediscovered enough of the wisdom

of Pythagoras and the old Initiates to discern that all
light, all color, all sound, and every form in nature depend
upon and are determined by different vibrations. The
form of every living being, the crystallizing of every snow-
flake as of every physical substance, the veining of every
leaf, the pencilling and fragrance of every flower, no less
than the forms of thought and the subtle play of human
emotions, are all dependent upon vibration, they all con-
form to the laws of harmony, and belong to the Music of
the Spheres. Nay, every atom of matter in the Universe
is set to music, and whether dancing in light or coalescing
in the deep, dark bowels of the earth, is part of the uni-
versal diapason of Nature. For the universe is not dead,
but literally breathing and pulsating with life, and the
law of that life is harmony.
"Every atom, as every sun and star, through ceaseless
motion, under the law of eternal harmony, is striving for
equilibrium. Man suffers only because he is out of har-
mony with himself, with Nature, and with the Eternal
source of Being. Every pain is the cry of an organ out
of tune every sin and every crime is but the attempt of
;
a soloist to ignore the score of the orchestra to which he

belongs and to which he is indissolubly bound. It is these
discords that drown out the Music of the Spheres, and
we are so intent upon our own discords, and so bound up
in our own performance, that we are deaf to the sym-
phony of life set before us, and when called to account
console ourselves with the reflection that we are no worse
out of time than the other members of the orchestra.
"Nature is full of music, as it exists only through the
WHAT IS LIFE? 33
laws of harmony. Man only is discordant and out of tune.

"It is not alone the movement of matter over matter
that results in sound, or the friction of moving bodies
with the elements of our atmosphere that may become
audible. The basic foundation of the Ethers is sound,
and long before the appearance of heat and light the
immensity of space is filled with resonant vibrations. Both
the resistance of the ether and the revolutions of suns
are constant and uniform. The human ear is a time organ,
and it is because there are no interruptions, nothing to
break the sound of revolving planets, that we do not hear
the sound they make in revolving space. If the mutual
attraction of planets is determined by their size and dens-
ity, and they are held to their orbit by mutual attraction
and repulsion, so also the ratio of movement each to each
and of each to all must coincide. But what is this but
the movement of different instruments of varying tone
as in an orchestra? The symphony of creation must be
a fact and not a fancy, and the singing of the morning
stars a veritable reality. There is a subjective side to the
physical senses, and this only becomes active when the
other is suspended.
"We have only to open our souls to the divine har-
mony, and silence all the discords within, in order to hear
and to understand the Music of the Spheres."
"We can now better understand the definitions of

HEALTH and of DISEASE given in the Catechism of
Nature Cure (pages 22-27), as follows:
Health is normal and harmonious vibration of the ele-
ments and forces composing the human entity on the
physical, mental and moral planes of being, in conformity
with the constructive principle of Nature applied to indi-
vidual life.
Disease is abnormal or inharmonious vibration of the
elements and forces composing the human entity on one

or more planes of being, in conformity with the destruc-
tive principle of Nature applied to individual life.
The question naturally arising here is, normal or ab-
normal vibration with what? The answer is that the

vibratory conditions of the organism must be in har-
mony with Nature's established harmonic relations in the
physical, mental, moral and psychical realms of human life
and action.
What Is an "Established Harmonic Relation"?

Let us see whether we cannot make this clear by a
simple illustration. If a watch is in good condition, "in
harmonious vibration", its movement is so adjusted that
it coincides exactly, in point of time, with the rotations
of our earth around its axis. The established, regular
movement of the earth forms the basis of the established
harmonic relationship between the vibrations of a normal,
"healthy" timepiece and the revolutions of our planet.
The watch has to vibrate in unison with the harmonics
of the planetary universe in order to be normal, or "in
harmony '
'.
In like manner, everything that is normal, natural,

healthy, good, beautiful, must vibrate in unison with its
correlated harmonics in Nature.
Obedience the Only Salvation

Orthodox medical science attributes disease largely to
accidental causes: to chance infection by disease taints,
germs, or parasites, to drafts, chills, wet feet, etc.
The religiously inclined frequently attribute disease and
other tribulations to the arbitrary rulings of an inscru-
table Providence.
Christian Scientists tell us that sin, suffering, disease
and all other kinds of evil are only "errors of mortal
mind", or the products of diseased imagination (though
this in itself admits the existence of something abnormal
and diseased).
Nature Cure philosophy presents a more rational con-
WHAT IS LIFE? 35
cept of evil, its cause and purpose, namely: that it is

brought on by violation of Nature's laws; that it is cor-
rective in its purpose; that it can be overcome only by
compliance with the law. There is no suffering, disease
nor evil of any kind anywhere unless the law has been
transgressed somewhere by someone.
These transgressions of the law may be due to igno-
rance, to indifference or to willfulness and viciousness.
The always be commensurate with the causes.
effects will
(See Upas Tree of Disease, page 8.) This places the
responsibility for disease and evil in general where it
belongs, — on ourselves.
"We are not punished for our sins but by our sins."
The great all-wise and Father-Mother
all-loving principle
does not impose or enforce suffering on its children. AVe
create it ourselves through ignorant or willful violation
of the laws of our being. There is no accident, no ill luck
—
nor misfortune, there is nothing but cause and effect.
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 func-
tions of the body; that the processes of disease are just
as orderly in theirway as everything else in Nature that ;
we must not check or suppress them, but cooperate with

them. Thus we learn slowly and laboriously the all-
important lesson that obedience to natural law is the only
means of prevention of disease and the only cure.
The fundamental law of cure, the law of action and
reaction and the law of crisis, as revealed by Nature Cure
philosophy, impress upon us the truth that there is nothing
accidental nor arbitrary in the processes of health, disease
and cure that every changing condition is either in har-
;
mony or in discord with the laws of our being that only

;
by complete surrender and obedience to these laws can

we attain and maintain perfect physical health.
36 NATUBAL THEEAPEUTICS
Selfcontrol the Master Key-
Thus Nature Cure brings home to us constantly and

forcibly the inexorable operation of natural law and the
necessity of compliance with the law. Herein lies its
great educational value to the individual and to the race.

The man who has learned to master his habits and his
appetites so as to conform to Nature's laws on the phys-
ical plane,and who has thereby regained his bodily health,
realizes that personal effortand selfcontrol are the master
key to all further development on the mental and spiri-
tual planes of being as well that selfmastery and unremit-
;
ting and unselfish personal effort are the only means of

selfcompletion, of individual and social salvation.
The naturist who has regained health and strength
through obedience to the laws of his being, enjoys a
measure of selfcontent, gladness of soul and enthusiasm
which cannot be explained by the mere possession of
physical health. These highest and purest attainments
of the human soul are not the results of mere physical
well-being, but of the peace and harmony which come
only through obedience to natural law. Such is the peace
which passeth understanding.
CHAPTER V
THE PRIMARY cJAUSE OF DISEASE AND ITS
MANIFESTATIONS
WE have learned in the previous chapter that, barring

trauma (injury) and surroundings uncongenial to
human life, the primary cause of all disease is violation of
Nature's laws. Violation of Nature's laws in thinking,
breathing, eating, drinking, dressing, working, resting, as
well as in moral, sexual and social conduct, results in cer-
tain primary and secondary manifestations of disease.
The three primary manifestations of disease coincide
with the three primary life requirements of the cell. Biol-
ogy teaches us that these are innervation, nutrition and
drainage. By innervation is meant a copious influx of
life force and an adequate nerve supply from headquarters
in the brain and spinal cord. Anything, therefore, which
obstructs the nerve connection of the cell with the sympa-
thetic and the central nervous systems lowers the vitality
of the cells, tissues and organs and of the organism as a
whole, and interferes with the transmission of afferent
and efferent nerve impulses.
Nutrition, the second life requirement of the cell, neces-
sitates normal composition of blood, lymph and other fluids
of the body therefore, abnormal composition of the vital
;
fluids constitutes the second one of the primary manifesta-

tions of disease.
The third requirement of the cell, according to biol-
life
ogy, is perfect drainage.Accumulations of waste and

morbid matter interfere with drainage as well as with
nutrition of the cell; therefore, is accumulation of waste
37
and morbid matter in the system the third one of the

primary manifestations of disease.
The following diagram will illustrate the foregoing
statements.
Diagram
Primary Life Requirements of Primary Manifestations of
the CeU Disease
1. Innervation, that is an ade- 1. Lowered vitality.
quate nerve supply through
sympathetic and central nervous
systems.
2. Nutrition, normal composition 2. Abnormal composition of vi-

of blood, lymph and vital fluids. tal fluids.
3. Drainage, that is free and 3. Accumulation of waste and
unobstructed drainage through morbid matter which obstructs

venous and lymphatic circula- the venous and lymphatic circu-
tion. lation.
The following diagram will outline the primary mani-

festations or stages of disease and the secondary stages
resulting from them.
TABLE I
Primary and Secondary Stages or Manifestations of

Disease
Primary Stages or Manifesta- Secondary Stages or Manifes-
tions tations
1. Lowered vitality due to over- 1. Hereditary and acquired
work, night work, weakening taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora,
habits, excesses, over-indulg- syphilis, mercurialism, cinchon-
ence, over-stimulation, poisonous ism, and many other
iodism
drugs, ill-advised surgical opera- forms of systemic and drug poi-
tions and to wrong thinking and soning.
feeling.
2. Abnormal composition of 2. Disease germs, parasites, etc.
blood and lymph due to improper
selection and combination of
food, and especially to lack of
"organic" mineral salts.
PRIMARY CAUSE OF DISEASE 39
3. Accumulation of waste ma- 3. Fevers, inflammation, skin

terial, morbid matter and poi- eruptions, catarrhal discharges,
sons (the pathogen of Dr. ulcers, abscesses, hemorrhages,
Powell, see Chapter IX). These etc. —processes
which indicate
accumulations of morbid matter the oxidation and elimination of
and poisons are caused by low- morbid or pathogenic material,
ered vitality, faulty diet, over-
eating, use of alcoholic and nar-
cotic stimulants, drugs, vac-
cines, and by sup-
antitoxins,
pression of acute disease by poi-
sonous drugs, ice and surgical
operations.
TABLE II
The Unity of Disease and Treatment
In correspondence with the three primary manifesta-

tions of disease, Nature Cure recognizes the following
Natural Methods of Treatment
1. Return to Nature, or the establishment of normal habits

and surroundings, which necessitates
(a) Extension of consciousness by popular general

and individual education;
(b) The constant exercise of reason, will and self
control
(c) A return to natural habits in thinking, breathing,

eating, dressing, working, resting, and in
moral, sexual and social conduct
(d) Correction of mechanical lesions and injuries by

means of massage, osteopathy, chiropractic,
naprapathy, surgery, and other mechanical
methods of treatment.
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2. Economy of Vital Force, which necessitates

(a) Prevention of waste of vital force by stopping all
leaks
(b) Scientific relaxation, proper rest and sleep;
(c) Proper food selection, magnetic treatment, etc.;
(d) The right mental attitude, right thinking and
feeling.
3. Elimination, which necessitates

(a) Scientific selection and combination of food and
drink
(b) Judicious fasting;
(c) Hydrotherapy (water cure)
(d) Light and air baths;
(e) Manipulative treatment;
(f )Correct breathing, curative gymnastics
(g) Such medicinal remedies as will build up the
blood on a normal basis and supply the sys-
tem with the all-important mineral salts in
organic form.
In the following chapters I shall endeavor to show how
all the different forms, phases and phenomena of disease
arising within the human
organism, provided they are not
caused by accident or external conditions unfavorable to
human life, grow out of one or more of the three primary
manifestations of disease (Tables I and II). When we
succeed in proving that all disease originates from a few
simple causes, it will not seem so strange and improbable
that all disease can be cured by a few simple, natural meth-
ods of living and of treatment. If Nature Cure accom-
plishes this, it thereby establishes its right to be classed
with the exact sciences.
The Primary Stages of Disease

"We shall now consider the three primary stages of dis-
ease, one by one.
I. Lowered Vitality
HEALTH POSITIVE—DISEASE NEGATIVE

The freer the inflow of life force into the organism, the
greater the vitality, the more there is of strength, of posi-
tive resisting and recuperating power.
At the very foundation of the manifestation of life lies
the principle of polarity which expresses itself in the

duality of positive and negative affinity. The swaying to
and fro of the and the negative, the effort to
positive
balance incomplete polarity, constitutes the very ebb and
flow of life.
Disease is disturbed polarity or unbalanced chemical

equilibrium. Exaggerated positive or negative condi-
tions, whether physical, mental or moral, tend to disease
on the respective planes of being. Foods, medicines, sug-
gestions and all other methods of treatment exert on the
individual subjected to them either a positive or a nega-
tive influence. It is, therefore, 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 polarity.
Lowered vitality means lowered, slower and coarser
vibration, which results in weakened resistance to the
accumulation of morbid matter, poisons, disease taints,
germs and parasites. This is what we designate ordinarily
as the "negative" condition.
Let us explain this more fully by a homely but practical
illustration: Many of my readers have probably seen in
operation in the summer amusement parks the "human
roulette". This contrivance consists of a large wheel,
board covered, somewhat raised in the center and sloping
toward the circumference. The wheel rotates horizontally,
evenly with the floor or the ground. The merry-makers
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 swiftness. While the wheel
moves slowly easy enough to cling to it but the faster
it is ;
it revolves, the more strongly the centrifugal force tends
to throw off the human "flies" trying to hold fast.

The accelerated repelling power of the revolving wheel
may serve as an illustration of that which we call vigorous
vibration, good vitality, natural immunity or recuperative
power. This is the positive condition.
The more intense the action of the life force, the more
rapid and vigorous are the vibratory activities of the
atoms and molecules in the cells, and of the cells in the
organs and tissues of the body. The more rapid and vig-
orous this vibratory activity, the more powerful is the
repulsion and expulsion of morbid matter, poisons and
germs of disease which encumber and seek to destroy the
organism.
This explains why, with advancing age, waste and mor-
bid matter accumulates more readily in the body. Lowered
vitality means lowered vibration and this means lowered
resistance to the accumulation of waste and morbid ma-
terials. This in turn obstructs the inflow and distribution
of vital energy. Thus it becomes apparent how the pri-
mary manifestations of disease see-saw and aggravate one
another.
HEALTH AND DISEASE RESIDENT IN THE CELL

Health or disease, in the final analysis, is resident in the
cell. Though a minute, microscopic organism, the cell is
an individual living being, which eats, drinks, grows,

throws off waste matter, multiplies, ages and declines, just
like man, the large conglomerate cell. If the individual
cell embodies health, man, the complex cell, is well also,
and vice versa. From this it becomes apparent that in all
our considerations of the processes of health, disease and
cure, we have to deal primarily with the individual cell.

The vibratory activity of the cell may be lowered
through the decline of vitality brought about in a natural
way by advancing age, or in an artificial way, through
wrong thinking and feeling, wrong habits of living, over-
work, unnatural stimulation and excesses of various
kinds.
On the other hand, 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
tissues of the body. Such clogging interferes 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 interferes with the normal action and
vibration of its wheels and balances.
From this it is evident that negative conditions may be
brought about not only by hyper-refinement of the physi-
cal organism, but also by clogging it with waste and mor-
bid matter which tends to interfere with the inflow and
distribution of vital force. The ** positive nourishing"
diet consisting largely of meat, eggs, fats and gluten, clogs
the system heavily with pathogenic waste and morbid
materials, thereby obstructing the inflow and distribution
of the life elements, which is equivalent to lowered vitality
or a negative condition. I call attention to this because
many people are under the impression that fasting, vege-
raw food diet and certain eliminating meth-
tarian diet or
ods of treatment necessarily result in the creation of
negative conditions and that negative patients must be
kept on a heavy meat diet.
It also becomes apparent that in all cases where negative
conditions are caused by clogging with waste and morbid
matter, the Nature Cure methods of eliminative treatment,
such as pure food diet, hydrotherapy, massage, neurother-
apy, etc., must be invaluable means of removing these
obstructions and promoting the inflow and free circulation

of the positive electromagnetic and vitochemieal energies.
II. Abnormal Composition of Blood and Ljrmph
As one of the primary stages or manifestations of dis-

ease,we cited abnormal composition of blood and lymph.
The human organism is made up of a certain number of
elements in well defined proportions. Chemistry has dis-
covered, so far, about eighteen of these elements in appre-
ciable quantities and has ascertained their functions in
the economy of the body. These elements must be present
in the right proportions in order to insure normal texture
and functioning of the component parts and organs of
the body.
The cells and organs receive their nourishment from the
blood and lymph streams. Therefore these must contain
all the elements needed by the organism in the right pro-
portions,and this, of course, depends upon the character
and combination of food elements.
Every disease arising in the human organism from inter-
nal causes is accompanied by a deficiency in blood and
tissues of certain important mineral elements (organic
salts) and this in turn is caused by an unbalanced diet.
Improper food combinations create an over-abundance of
waste and morbid matter in the system, while failing to
supply the positive mineral elements or organic salts on
which depends the elimination of waste materials and
systemic poisons from the body.
The great problem of natural dietetics and of natural
treatment is, therefore, how to restore and maintain the
positivity of the blood and of the organism as a whole
through providing in food, drink and medicine an abun-
dant supply of the positive mineral salts in organic
form.
PEIMARY CAUSE OF DISEASE 45
III. Accumulation of Morbid Matter and Poisons

This is the third of the primary stages of disease. "We
have learned how lowered vitality and the abnormal com-
position of the vital fluids favor the retention of waste
and systemic poisons in the body. If, in addition to this,
food and drink contain too much of the waste-producing
proteins, carbohydrates and hydrocarbons, 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 patho-
genic materials.
Such accumulation of waste and morbid matter in blood
and tissues creates the great variety of diseases arising
within the human organism. This will be explained fully
in the following chapters which deal with the causation
of acute and chronic disease.
More harmful and dangerous and more difficult to elimi-
nate than the various kinds of systemic poisons (those
which have originated within the body), are drug poisons,
especially when they are administered in the inorganic
mineral form.
Health is dependent upon an abundant supply of life
force, upon the unobstructed, normal circulation of the

vital fluids and upon perfect oxygenation and elimination
of waste. Anything which interferes with these essen-
tials causes disease anything which promotes them estab-
;
lishes health. Nothing so interferes with the inflow of life

force, with free and normal circulation of blood and lymph
and with the combustion of food materials and systemic
waste as the accumulation of foreign matter and poisons
in the tissues of the body.
This I have endeavored to explain more fully in connec-
tion with ''Lowered Vitality". Let us now see how health
and disease are affected by mental and emotional condi-
tions.
Mental and Emotional Influences
Our mental and emotional conditions exert a most pow-

upon the inflow and distribution of vital
erful influence
force. Fear, worry, anxiety and all kindred emotions
create in the system conditions similar to those of freezing.
These destructive vibrations congeal the tissues, contract
the minute channels of life and thereby paralyze the vital
activities. Emotional conditions of impatience, irritabil-

ity, anger, fury, wrath, etc. have a heating, corroding
effect upon brain and nerve substance and consume it like

burning fire. Selfpity has been called the consumption of
the soul or psychic phthisis. These mental, emotional and
psychical causes of disease and their treatment are more
fully described in Volume II.
In like manner, all other destructive emotional vibra-

tions obstruct the inflow and normal distribution of the
life forces in and through the organism, while the con-
structive emotions of faith, hope, cheerfulness, happiness,
love and altruism exert a relaxing, harmonizing and vital-
izing influence upon the tissues of the body, thus opening
wide the floodgates of the vital energies and raising the
discords of weakness, disease and discontent to the har-
monics of buoyant health and happiness.
Let us see how mind controls matter and how it affects
the changing conditions of the physical body. Life mani-
fests through vibration. It acts on the mass by acting
through its minutest particles. Changes in the physical
body are wrought by vibratory changes in atoms, mole-
'
cules, microzyma and cells. Health is satisfied polarity '5
' '
that is, the balancing of the positive and negative elements,

forces and energies in harmonious vibration. Anything
that interferes with the free, vigorous and harmonious
vibration of the minute parts and particles composing
the human organism tends to disturb and unbalance
polarity and natural affinity, thus causing discord or

disease.
When we fully realize these facts we shall not stand so
much awe of our physical bodies. In the past we thought
in
of the body as a solid and imponderable mass difficult to
control and to change. This conception left us in a condi-
tion of utter helplessness and hopelessness in the presence
of weakness and disease.
We now think of the body as composed of minute elec-
trons rotating around one another within the atom at
relatively immense distances. We know that in similar
manner the atoms vibrate in the molecule, the molecules
in the mierozyma, and these in the cell, the cells in the
—
organ, and the organs in the body the whole capable of
being changed by a change in the vibrations of its par-
ticles.
Thus the erstwhile solid physical mass appears plastic

and fluidic, readily swayed and changed by the vibratory
harmonies or discords of thoughts and emotions as well
as by foods, medicines and treatment.
Under the old conception the mind fell readily under
the control of the body and became the abject slave of its
physical conditions, swayed by fear and apprehension
under every sensation of physical weakness, discomfort
or pain. The servants lorded it with a high hand over the
master of the house and the result was chaos. Under the
new conception, control is placed where it belongs. Dic-
tatorship is assumed by the real master of the house, the
soul man, while the servants, the physical members of the
body, remain obedient to his bidding.
This is the new man, the ideal progeny of New Thought
and Higher Philosophy. Understanding the structure of
the body, the laws of its being and the operation of the
life elements within it, the superman retains perfect poise
and confidence under the most trying circumstances. Ani-

mated by an abounding faith in the supremacy of the

healing forces within him and sustained by the power of
his sovereign will, he governs his body as perfectly as the
artist controls his violin, and attunes its vibrations to
Nature's harmonies of health and happiness.
CHAPTER VI
THE UNITY OF ACUTE DISEASE
TN the previous chapter I endeavored to explain the three
'- primary stages of disease, namely: (1) Lowered Vi-
tality, Abnormal Composition of Blood and Lymph,
(2)
(3) Accumulation of Waste, Morbid Matter, and Poisons
in the System.
"We shall now
consider some of the secondary manifesta-
tions resultingfrom these primary stages. Consulting the
table on page 38 we find mentioned as the first one of the
secondary causes or manifestations of disease, "Heredi-
tary and Acquired Taints."
On first impression, it might be thought that heredity
is a primary cause of disease but on further consideration
;
it becomes apparent that it is an effect and not a primary

cause. If the parents possess good vitality and pure,
normal blood and tissues and if they apply in the prenatal
and postnatal treatment of the child the necessary insight
and foresight, there cannot be any inherited disease. In
order to create abnormal hereditary tendencies, the par-
ents, or earlier ancestors, must have ignorantly or wan-
tonly violated Nature's Laws, such violation resulting in
lowered vitality and in deterioration of blood and tis-
sues.
The female and male germinal unite and form the
cells
primitive reproductive cell —the prototype of marriage.
The human body with its millions of cells and cell colonies
is developed by the multiplication, with gradual differen-
tiation, of the germ plasm of the reproductive cell, or

rather of microzyma. Herein lies the simple explana-
its
tion of heredity which is proved to be an actual fact, not

only by common experience and scientific observation but
49
also in a more definite way by Nature 's records in the iris

of the eye.
The iris of the new bom child reveals in its diagnostic
details, not only in a general way hereditary taints, low-
ered resistance and deterioration of vital fluids, but fre-
quently special weakness and deterioration in those organs
which were weak or diseased in the parents. Under the
conventional (unnatural) care of the infant, these hered-
itary and congenital tendencies to weakness and disease
and their corresponding signs in the iris become more and
more pronounced, proceeding through the various stages
of infantile diseases through chronic conditions to the
final destructive stages.
In the face of the well established facts of disease inher-
itance we have, however, this consolation : If the child be
treated in accordance with the teachings of Nature Cure
philosophy, the abnormal hereditary encumbrances and
tendencies can be overcome and eliminated within a few
years. If the infant organism be brought under the right
conditions of living and of treatment, in harmony with the
laws of its being, the life principle within will approach
ever nearer to the establishment of the perfect type. Hun-
dreds of "Nature Cure" babies all over this country are
living proofs of this gladsome message to all those who
have assumed or who intend to assume the responsibilities
of parenthood.
Natural Immunity
Under Division II of "Secondary Manifestations of

Disease" we find mentioned germs, parasites, inflamma-
tions, fevers, skin eruptions, catarrhal discharges, ulcers,
etc.
Modern medical science is built upon the germ theory
of disease and of treatment. Since the microscope has
revealed the presence and seemingly entirely pernicious
THE UNITY OF ACUTE DISEASE 51
activity of certain microorganisms in connection with cer-

tain diseases, it has been assumed that bacteria are the
direct, primary causes of most diseases, and that they rep-

resent definite species of living beings whose natural hab-
itat is the air, earth and water. According to this theory
human beings are at the mercy of these invaders ;
—health
and and death, are largely matters of accident
disease, life
over which we have no control. Basing their prophylaxis
and treatment on this idea, the slogan is ''kill the bacteria
(by poisonous antiseptics, serums, antitoxins, etc.) and you
cure the disease."
Nature Cure philosophy takes an entirely different view
of the problem. Bacteria develop from microzyma, the
primal units of living organisms, but this occurs only
under morbid, pathogenic conditions. These microzyma
may be the remains of decomposing bacteria entering the
system from without, or the microzyma of normal cells
may develop into bacteria under pathogenic conditions
within the body. According to this conception the cycle
of germ life works out as follows The microzyma of nor-
:
mal, healthy cells under morbid, pathogenic conditions

may develop into bacteria (see experiment with yeast cells,
page 85). These bacteria feed on and decompose the
morbid matter which brought them into being. Thus
nature, with the evil, provides the remedy. "When the
morbid food supply has been exhausted the microzyma
devour the protoplasm of their own bacteria until there is
nothing left of the bacteria but the microzyma themselves,
which seem to be. practically indestructible under ordinary
conditions, as shown by the finding of living microzyma
in calcareous rocks of ancient geological formation. It is
undoubtedly true that these morbid microzyma of decom-
posed bacteria may again develop into disease germs if
they enter a living body and find their own peculiar mor-
bid soil on which to feed.
At first glance it may seem that this does not differ

materially from the germ theory of the old school of
medicine. On closer consideration, however, it will be
found that there is indeed a vast difference between the
two conceptions which leads to entirely different methods
of treatment. According to orthodox belief, disease germs
are special creations which of their own accord create
disease. If this were true then "killing the germs" would
be good practice. On the other hand, if our conception is
the right one, then we must prevent the development of

morbid conditions and if these exist the treatment must
be directed to their removal. Killing the germs will not
remove the morbid soil and therefore will leave the way
open for the spontaneous generation of bacteria from the
microzyma present in all living matter.
Thus the microzymian theory of disease positively con-
firms the claims of Nature Cure Philosophy that bacteria
and parasites are scavengers of pathogenic materials, that
inflammation is a purifying, healing process and that
therefore acute, febrile diseases are as normal and orderly
as anything else in Nature.
Thus it is demonstrated that microorganisms are sec-
ondary manifestations of disease, that bacteria and para-
sites live, thrive and multiply to the danger point in a
weakened and diseased organism only. If it were not so
the human family would be extinct within a few months'
time.
The fear instilled by the germ theory of disease is fre-
quently more destructive than the microorganisms them-
selves. We have had under observation and treatment a
number of insane patients whose peculiar delusion or
monomania was an exaggerated fear of germs, a genuine
' '
' bacteriophobia '.
Keep yourself clean and vigorous within and you cannot

be affected by disease taints and germs from without.
Bacteria or their microzyma are practically omnipresent.

We absorb them in food and drink, we inhale them in the
air we breathe. Our bodies are literally alive with them.
The proper thing to do, therefore, is njot to try to kill
the germs, but to remove the morbid matter and disease
taints on which they subsist and which they reduce to
simpler forms suitable for elimination through the organs
of depuration.
Instead of concentrating its energies upon killing the
germs, whose activities we cannot escape when the condi-
tions are ripe, Nature Cure endeavors to invigorate the
system, to build up blood and lymph on a normal basis
and to purify the tissues from their morbid encumbrances
in such a way as to make germ activity unnecessary.
Everything that tends to accomplish this, without injuring
the system by poisonous drugs or surgical operations, is
good Nature Cure treatment.
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 killers, instead
of keeping it pure and sweet by flooding it with fresh air
and sunshine and applying freely and vigorously broom,
brush and plenty of soap and water. Instead of purifying
it, the antiseptic and germ killers would only add to the
filth in the house.

Bacteriologists are unanimous in declaring that the vari-
ous disease germs are found not only in diseased bodies,
but also in the bodies of seemingly healthy persons.
A celebrated French bacteriologist reports that in the
mouth of a healthy infant, two months old, he found
almost all the disease germs known to medical science.
But recently a celebrated physician, appointed by the
French government to investigate the causes of tubercu-
losis, declared before a meeting of the International Tuber-
culosis Congress in Rome that he found the bacilli of

tuberculosis in 95 per cent of all the school children he had
examined.
Dr. Osier, one of the greatest living medical authorities,
mentions repeatedly that the bacilli of diphtheria, pneu-
monia and of many other virulent diseases are found in
the bodies of healthy persons.
The inability of bacteria, by themselves, to create dis-
ease is further confirmed by the well known facts of nat-
ural immunity to specific infection or contagion. All
mankind more or less affected by hereditary or acquired
is
disease taints, morbid encumbrances and drug poisoning,

resulting from age-long violation of Nature's laws and
from the suppression of acute diseases but even under the
;
now almost universal conditions of lowered vitality, mor-

bid heredity and physical and mental degeneration, it is
found that under identical conditions of exposure to drafts
or infection, only a certain percentage of individuals will
"take cold" or "catch disease". The fact of natural
immunity is repeatedly corroborated by common experi-
ence as well as in the clinics and laboratories of our med-
ical schools and research institutes. Of a specific number
of mice or rabbits inoculated with cancer, only a small
percentage develop the malignant growth and succumb to
its ravages.
The development of infectious and contagious diseases
necessitates a certain predisposition, or, as medical science
calls it, "disease diathesis". This predisposition to infec-
tion and contagion consists in and is explained by the
unity of disease as demonstrated in the previous pages.
Why Epidemics?
When giving these explanations in lectures I am fre-
quently asked the question: "If what you say is true,
if disease arises within the organism rather than through
invasion from without, —how do you explain epidemics in

which many people become affected at the same time by
similar kinds of diseasegerms?"
The answer to this is The fact that the majority of
:
people in a certain locality are addicted to the same

unnatural habits of living and of treating their ailments
produces in most of them the same kind of morbid soil,
and this favors the development of normal or diseased
microzyma into similar forms of bacteria and the corres-
ponding inflammatory processes.
Certain atmospheric and astrological conditions which
we do not fully understand also have much to do with
the periodic appearance of epidemic or endemic diseases.
Baxjteria: Secondary, Not Primary Manifestations of

Disease
"We have already learned how lowered vitality weakens

the resistance of the system to the attacks and inroads of
disease germs and poisons. The development of microzyma
into bacteria depends furthermore upon a congenial, mor-
bid soil. Just as the ordinary yeast germ multiplies in a
sugar solution only, so the various microorganisms of
disease thrive and multiply to the danger point, each in
its own peculiar and congenial kind of morbid matter.
Thus, the typhoid fever bacillus develops and thrives in
a certain kind of effete matter which accumulates in the
intestines the pneumonia germs flourish best in the mor-
;
bid excretions of the lungs and meningitis germs in the

;
diseased meninges of the brain and spinal cord.

Dr. Pettenkofer, a celebrated physician and professor
of the University of Vienna, also reached the conclusion
that bacteria by themselves cannot create disease, and for
years he defended his opinion on the lecture platform and
in his writings against the practically solid phalanx of
Vol. 1—5
the medical profession. On one occasion he supported his

theory by a startling, practical test. While instructing
his class in the bacteriological laboratory of the Univer-
sity,he picked up a glass containing millions of live chol-
era bacilli and swallowed its contents before the eyes of
the astonished students. The seemingly dangerous experi-

ment resulted only in a slight nausea. Numerous cases
are on record of persons in this country who subjected
themselves in similar manner to infection, inoculation and
contagion with the most virulent kinds of bacteria and
disease taints, without developing the corresponding dis-
eases.
A few years ago Dr. Rodermund, a physician in the
state of Wisconsin, created a sensation all over this coun-
try by smearing 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 disease.
He was arrested and quarantined in jail, but not before
he had come in contact with many people. Not a single
case of smallpox developed through this "exposure".
During the many years that I have been connected with
sanitarium work, my workers and myself, in administering
the various forms of manipulative treatment, have handled
intimately thousands of cases of contagious diseases, and
I do not remember a single instance where any one of us
was in the least affected by such contact. Ordinary clean-
liness, good vitality, clean blood and tissues, the organs
of elimination in good, active condition and last but not
least, a positive, fearless attitude of mind, will practically
establish natural immunity to excessive and destructive
activity of bacteriaand disease taints. If infection takes
place the organism reacts to it through inflammatory proc-
esses and by means of these endeavors to overcome and
eliminate microorganisms and poisons from the system.
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 exaggerated. According to
popular opinion, anyone bitten by a poisonous insect or
reptile, as the rattlesnake, Gila monster or tarantula, is
doomed while as a matter of fact statistics show
to die,
that only from two to seven per cent of such cases prove
fatal. In this, as in many other instances, popular opinion
should rather be called ''popular superstition".
In the open discussions following my public lectures,
I am often asked What is the right thing to do in case
:
* *
of snake bite ? Would you not give plenty of whiskey to

save the victim's life?"
It is my seven percent who die after
belief that of the * *
'
'
being bitten by rattlesnakes or other poisonous reptiles, a

goodly proportion "give up the ghost" because of the
effects of enormous doses of strong whiskey poured into
them under the mistaken idea that whiskey is an efficient
antidote to snake poison.
People do not know that the death rate from snake bite
isso very low, and therefore they attribute the recoveries
to the whiskey, just as recoveries from other diseases
under medical or metaphysical treatment are attributed to
the virtues of the particular medicine or method of treat-
ment applied, instead of to the real healer, the "vis med-
icatrix naturae" — the healing power of Nature—which in
ninety -three cases in a hundred eliminates the rattlesnake
venom without injury to the organism.
To recapitulate: Just as yeast cells are not only the
cause but also the product of sugar fermentation, so dis-
ease germs are not only a cause (secondary) but also a
product of morbid fermentation (inflammation) in the
system. Furthermore, just as the yeast germs devour and
decompose sugar, so the disease germs consume and decom-
pose morbid matter and systemic poisons. In a way, there-
fore, microorganisms are just as much the product as the
cause of disease and act as scavengers or eliminators of

morbid matter.* In order to hold in check the destructive
activity of bacteria and to prevent their multiplication
beyond the danger point, Nature manufactures her own
* '
' antitoxins '.
An apt illustration of this we have in the activity of

yeast germs. While digesting sugar they change it into
alcohol and carbonic acid. As the alcohol accumulates in
the fermenting fluid it gradually checks and finally stops
the activity of the yeast germs. Thus Nature holds in
check the activity of germs by their own waste products.
To this it may be answered, if that is so, then the admin-
istration of antitoxin must be good and natural treatment.
There is a difference, however. Nature does not check or
suppress the activity of bacteria until they have decom-
posed the disease matter (pathogen) on which they live.
The powerful and highly poisonous doses of medical
serums and antitoxins cheek and suppress the inflamma-
tory process before it has run its natural course, and thus,
if the patient survives, leave the system in a condition of
chronic incumbrance. This will be more fully explained in

the following pages.
Whatever tends
to build up the blood on a natural
basis, topromote elimination of morbid matter and thereby
make unnecessary the activity of bacteria and parasites
without injuring the body or depressing its vital functions,
is good Nature Cure practice. The first consideration,
therefore, in the treatment of inflammation must be not to
interfere with its natural course. Secondly, the natural
method of treatment must keep the inflammatory activities
below the danger point and within constructive limits.
This the Nature Cure physician accomplishes by careful
regulation of the diet, or by fasting, by hydropathic,
'This aspect of germ activity will be discussed fully in Chap. X.

manipulative and homeopathic treatment as described in

Vol, II of this series.
By the
various statements and claims made in this chap-
ter, Ido not wish to convey the idea that I am opposed to
scrupulous cleanliness and to surgical asepsis. Far from
it These are dictates of common sense. But I do affirm
!
that the danger from infectious diseases lies just as much,

or more so, in internal filth as in external uncleanliness.
Cleanliness and asepsis must go hand in hand with the
purification of the inner man in order to insure *' natural
'
immunity.
be observed that every statement in this chapter
It will
iscorroborated by the microzymian theory of Bechamp
and by the revelations of Dr. Powell as to the true nature
of leucocytosis. These matters are more fully discussed
in the chapters dealing with inflammation.
CHAPTER VII
THE LAWS OF CURE
THIS brings us to the consideration of acute inflamma-

tory and feverish diseases.From what has been
inflammation and fever are not pri-
said, it follows that
mary, but secondary manifestations of disease. No form
of inflammatory disease can arise in the system unless
there is present some handicap to health which Nature is
endeavoring to overcome and to get rid of. On this fact
in Nature is based what I claim to be the fundamental law
of cure.
"Give me fever and I can cure every disease." Thus
Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine", formulated the
fundamental Law of Cure over two thousand years ago.
I have expressed this law in the following statement:
Every acute disease is the result of a cleansing' and healing
effort of Nature.
This law, thoroughly understood and applied in the
treatment of diseases, will eventually do for medical sci-
ence what the discovery of other natural laws has done for
physics, astronomy, chemistry and other exact sciences.
It will, by demonstrating the unity of disease and treat-
ment, transform the medical empiricism and confusion of
the past and present into an exact science.
Making a general application of the law, we deduce that
all acute diseases, from a simple cold to measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, smallpox, pneumonia, etc., represent
Nature's efforts to remove from the system some form of
morbid matter, virus or poison dangerous to health and
life. In other words, acute diseases cannot develop in a
60
THE LAWS OF CUEE 61
perfectly normal, healthy body living under conditions

favorable to human life. The question may be asked "If :
acute diseases represent Nature's healing efforts, why is
it that people die as a result of them?" The answer to

this is : the vitality may be too low, the injury or morbid
encumbrance too great, or the treatment may be inade-
quate or harmful, so that Nature loses the fight still acute
;
disease represents an effort of Nature to remove the causes

of disease and thus to reestablish normal, healthy condi-
tions.
It is a curious fact that this fundamental principle of
Nature Cure and law of Nature has been acknowledged
and corroborated by medical science. The most advanced
works on pathology admit the constructive and beneficial
character of inflammation. However, when it comes to the
treatment of acute diseases, physicians seem to forget
entirely this basic principle of pathology and treat inflam-
mation and fever as though they were, in themselves, inim-
ical and destructive to health and life.
From this inconsistency in theory and practice arises
all the errors of allopathic medical treatment. Failure to
understand this fundamental law of cure accounts for the
confusion on the part of exponents of the different schools
of healing science, and for the greater part of human
suffering.
Nature Cure philosophy never loses sight of the funda-
mental law of cure. While allopathy regards acute dis-
ease conditions as in themselves harmful and hostile to
health and life, as something to be "cured" (we say
"suppressed") by drug, ice or knife, the Nature Cure
School regards these forcible house cleanings as beneficial
and necessary —necessary so long as human beings con-
tinue to disregard Nature's laws. While, through its
simple, natural methods of treatment. Nature Cure easily
modifies the course of inflammatory and feverish processes
and keeps them within safe limits, it never checks nor

suppresses these acute reactions by poisonous drugs, ice,
serums, antiseptics, surgical operations, suggestion or any
other suppressive treatment.
Skin eruptions, boils, ulcers, catarrh, diarrhea, and all
other forms of inflammatory febrile disease processes are
indications that there is something hostile to life and
health in the organism, which Nature is trying to remove
or overcome by these socalled "acute" diseases. "What,

then, is to be gained by suppressing them with poisonous
drugs and surgical operations? Such practice does not
allow Nature to carry on her work of cleansing and repair
and to attain her ends. The morbid matter which she is
endeavoring to eliminate by acute reaction is thrown back
into the system. Worse than that, drug poisons are added
to disease poisons. Is it any wonder that fatal complica-
tions arise, or that the acute process is changed to chronic
disease ?
Why Does the Greater Part of Allopathic Materia Medica

Consist of Virulent Poisons?
The statements made in the preceding pages are a severe

indictment of socalled "regular" medical science, but
they point out the difference in the basic principles of the
old school of healing and those of Nature Cure philosophy.
The fundamental Law of Cure quoted in this chapter
explains why allopathic medical science is in error, noi. in
a few things but in most things. Their foundation the —
orthodox conception of disease, being wrong, it follows
that everything built thereon must be wrong also.
No matter how learned a man may be, if he begins a
problem in arithmetic with the proposition 2X2=5, he
will never arrive at a correct solution even if he continue
to figure into all eternity. Neither can allopathy solve
THE LAWS OF CURE 63
the problem of disease and cure so long as its fundamental

conception of disease is based on error.
The fundamental law of cure explains also why the
great majority of allopathic prescriptions contain virulent
poisons in some form or other, and why surgical opera-
tions are in high favor with the disciples of the old school.
The answer of allopathy to the question, ''Why do you
give poisons?" usually is, ''Our materia medica contains
poisons because drug poison kills and eliminates disease
poison." We, however, claim that drug poisons merely
serve to paralyze vital force, whereby the deceptive results
of allopathic treatment are obtained.
The following will explain this more fully. We have
learned that socalled acute diseases are Nature 's cleansing
and healing efforts. All acute reactions represent in-
creased activity of vital force, resulting in feverish and
inflammatory conditions, accompanied by pain, redness,
swelling, high temperature, rapid pulse, catarrhal dis-
charges, skin eruptions, boils, ulcers, etc.
Allopathy regards these violent activities of vital force
as detrimental and harmful in themselves. Anything
which will inhibit the action of vital force will, in allo-
pathic parlance, cure ( ?) acute diseases. As a matter of
fact,nothing more effectively paralyzes vital force and
impairs the vital organs than poisonous drugs, ice and the
surgeon's knife. These, therefore, must necessarily con-
stitute the favorite means of cure (?) of the old school of
medicine.
This school mistakes effect for cause. It fails to see that
the local inflammation arising within the organism is not
the disease, but merely marks the locality and the method
through which Nature is trying her best to discharge the
—
morbid encumbrances; that the acute reaction is local,
but that its causes or "feeders" are always constitutional
and must be treated constitutionally. When under the
influence of rational, natural treatment, the poisonous

irritants are eliminated from blood and tissues, the local
symptoms take care of themselves ; it does not matter
whether they manifest as pimple or cancer, as a simple
cold or as consumption.
The Law of Dual Effect
Everywhere in Nature rules the great Law of Action

and Reaction. All life sways back and forth between giv-
ing and receiving, between action and reaction. The very
breath of life mysteriously comes and goes in rythmical
flow. So also heaves and falls in ebb and tide the bosom
of Mother Earth.
In some of its aspects this law is called the law of com-
pensation, or the law of dual effect. On its action depends
the preservation of energy.
The Great Master expressed the ethical application of
this law when he said: "Give, and it shall be given unto
you. . . For with what measure ye mete it shall be
.
measured to you again." Luke VI, 38.

In the realms of physical nature, giving and receiving,
action and reaction, balance each other mechanically and
automatically. What we gain in power we lose in speed or
volume, and vice versa. This makes it possible for the
mechanic, the scientist and the astronomer to predict
with mathematical precision for ages in advance the
results of certain activities in Nature.
The great law of dual forms the foundation of
effect
healing science. and governs every phe-
It is related to
nomenon of health, disease and cure. When I formulated
the fundamental law of cure in the words, "Every acute
disease is the result of a healing- effort of Nature", this
was but another expression of the great law of action and
reaction. What we commonly call crisis, acute reaction or
THE LAWS OF CUEE 65
acute disease, is in reality Nature's attempt to establish

health.
Applied to the physical activity of the body, the Law
of Compensation may be expressed as follows: Every
agent affectirLg- the human organism produces two effects
a first, temporary effect, and a second, lasting effect. The
second, lasting effect is always contrary to the first, tran-
sient effect.
For instance: the first and temporary effect of cold
water applied to the skin consists in sending the blood to
the interior; but in order to compensate for the local
depletion, Nature responds by sending greater quantities
back to the surface, which results in increased warmth and
better surface circulation.
The first effect of a hot bath is to draw the blood to the
surface ; but the second effect sends the blood back to the
interior, leaving the surface bloodless and chilled.
Stimulants, as we shall presently see, produce their
deceptive effects by consuming the reserve stores of vital
energy in the organism. This is inevitably followed by
weakness and exhaustion in exact proportion to the pre-
vious excitation.
The first effect of relaxation and sleep is weakness,
numbness and death-like stupor; the second effect, how-
ever, is an increase of vitality.
The law of Dual Effect governs all drug action. The
first,temporary, violent effect of poisonous drugs, when
taken in physiological doses, is usually due to Nature's
efforts to overcome and eliminate these substances. The
second, lasting effect is due to the retention of the drug
poisons in the system and their destructive action on the
organism.
In theory and in practice, allopathy considers the first
effect onlyand ignores the lasting after effects of drugs
and surgical operations. It administers remedies whose
first effect is contrary to the disease condition. Therefore,

in accordance with the law of action and reaction, the
second, lasting effect of such remedies must be similar to
the disease condition.
Common, everyday experience should teach us that this
is true, for laxatives and cathartics always tend to produce
chronic constipation.
The second effect of stimulants and tonics of any kind
is increased weakness. Their continued use often results
in complete exhaustion and paralysis of mental and phy-
sical powers.
Headache powders, pain killers, opiates, sedatives and
hypnotics may paralyze brain and nerves into temporary
insensibility ; but, if due to constitutional causes, the pain,
nervousness and insomnia will always return with re-
doubled force. If taken habitually these agents invariably
tend to create heart disease and paralysis and ultimately
develop the ''dope fiend".
Cold and catarrh cures ( 1) such as quinin, coal tar
products, etc., suppress Nature's efforts to eliminate waste
and morbid matter through the mucous linings of the res-
piratory tract, causing retention of disease matter, thus
breeding pneumonia, chronic catarrhs, asthma and con-
sumption.
Mercury, iodin, salvarsan and all other alteratives, by
suppression of external elimination, and even more so by
their own destructive effects, create internal chronic dis-
eases of the most dreadful types, such as locomotor ataxia,
paresis, paralysis agitans, etc.
So the recital might be continued all through the ortho-
dox materia medica. Each drug breeds new disease symp-
toms which are in their turn cured (?) by other poisons,
until the insane asylum or merciful death rings down the
curtain on the tragedy of a ruined life.
The teaching and practice of homeopathy, as explained
THE LAWS OF CUEE 67
in another chapter, fully in harmony with the law of

is
action and reaction.Proceeding upon its basic principle

"Similia similibus curantur", or ''like cures like" it—
administers remedies whose first, temporary effect is sim-
In accordance, then, with the
ilar to the disease condition.
law of dual the second effect of these remedies must
effect,
be contrary to the disease condition, that is, "curative".
CHAPTER Vni
SUPPRESSION VERSUS ELIMINATION
MY claim that the conventional treatment of acute

diseasesis suppressive and not curative will prob-
ably be denied by my medical colleagues. They will main-

tain that their methods also are calculated to eliminate
morbid matter from the system.
But what are the facts in actual practice ? Is it not true
that preparations of mercury, lead, zinc, silver and other
powerful poisons are constantly used to suppress skin
eruptions, boils, abscesses, etc., instead of allowing Nature
to rid the system through these "skin diseases" of scrof-
ulous, venereal and psoric taints?
Some time ago Dr. Wiley, former Government Chemist,
published a list of the ingredients of a number of popular
remedies for colds, coughs and catarrhs. Every one of
them contained some powerful opiate or astringent. These
poisonous drugs relieve the cough and catarrhal conditions
by paralyzing the eliminative activity of the membranous
linings of the nasal passages, bronchi and lungs, the diges-
tive and genito-urinary organs but in doing so they throw
;
back into the system morbid matter which Nature is trying

to get rid of, and add drug poisons to disease poisons.
Equally harmful is suppression by means of the sur-
geon's knife. It may be a quicker and apparently more
effective process to remove the inflamed appendix or
diseased tonsils than to cure them by building up the blood
and inducing elimination of systemic poisons by natural
methods. But operative treatment is not eliminative. It
does not remove from the system the original cause of
68
SUPPRESSION VERSUS ELIMINATION 69
inflammation or deterioration of tissues and organs, but

it does remove the outlet which Nature had established
for the escape of morbid material.
These morbid encumbrances, forcibly retained in the
body, weaken and destroy other parts and organs or affect
the general health of the patient.
My own observations during nearly eighteen years of
practical experience prove positively that the average
length of life after a "major" operation, performed on
important, vital parts and organs, is less than ten years,
and that after such an operation the general health of the
patient is, in the great majority of cases, not as good as
before. This is confirmed by many other conscientious
observers among Nature Cure practitioners as well as phy-
and of allopathy itself.
sicians of other schools
In the following paragraphs are mentioned some very
common instances of suppression and some of their usual
chronic after effects (sequelae).
Diaxrhea is suppressed with laudanum and other opi-
ates which paralyze the peristaltic action of the bowels
and, if repeated, soon produce chronic constipation.
Gonorrheal discharges and syphilitic ulcers are checked
and suppressed by local injections, cauterization and by
prescriptions containing mercury, iodin, arsenic (salvar-
san) and other poisonous alteratives which effectually pre-
vent Nature's efforts to eliminate the venereal poisons
from the system.
All feverish diseases are more or less interfered with
or suppressed by antiseptics, antipyretics, serum and anti-
toxins. Professors in colleges and the best books on
Materia Medica teach that these remedies lower the fever
because they are "protoplasmic poisons"; because they
paralyze the red and white blood corpuscles, benumb heart
action and respiration and depress all vital functions.
Nervousness, sleeplessness and pain are suppressed by
sedatives, opiates and hypnotics. Every one of the drugs

used for such purposes is a powerful poison which benumbs
brain and nerve action, in that way interfering with
Nature's healing efforts and frequently preventing the
consummation of beneficial healing crises.
Epileptic attacksand other forms of convnlsions are
suppressed, but never cured, by bromids which benumb
and paralyze brain and nerve centers. All that these
"sedatives" accomplish is to produce in course of time
idiocy and different forms of paralysis and premature
senility.
However, is he not considered the best doctor who can
most promptly bring about these and similar deceptive
results through artificial inhibition or stimulation by
means of the most virulent poisons found on earth?
Dandruff and falling' hair are caused by the elimination
of systemic poisons through the scalp. The thing to do,
therefore, is not to suppress this elimination and thereby
cause accumulation of poisons in the brain, but to stop the
manufacture of poison in the body and to promote its
removal through the natural channels.
Dandruff "cures" and hair tonics contain glycerin,
poisonous antiseptics and stimulants which are absorbed
by scalp and brain, causing dizziness, headaches, loss of
memory, neurasthenia, deafness, weakness of sight, etc.
Head Lice and similar parasites peculiar to other parts
of the body live on scrofulous and psoric taints. When
these are consumed, the lice depart as they came. The
microzyma theory furnishes the solution to this and similar
problems.
This is confirmed by the fact that these noxious pests
do not remain with all people who have been infected with
them, but only with those whose internal or external condi-
tions furnish the parasites with the means of subsistence.
In a number of instances we have seen healing crises
SUPPKESSION VERSUS ELIMINATION 71
take the form of lice. At that time the patients were

living in the most cleanly surroundings, taking various
forms of water treatment every day, so that infection was
practically impossible.
In each of these cases the patient recalled having been
infested with parasites at some previous time, and remem-
bered that sulphur and molasses, mercurial salves or other
means of suppression had been applied.
We prescribe for the removal of lice only cold water
and the comb. Even antiseptic soaps should be avoided.
The foregoing statements, more than any other por-
tions of this volume, have brought down upon it violent
criticism and condemnation. However, many of our
patients who have developed, under natural treatment,
such parasitic crises will testify to their reality.
As I am writing this, one of our guests is just recovering
from one of these parasitic crises. Before this woman
came to us she had lived for many years in her own luxu-
rious home and since she has been with us during the last
four months she has not left our institution. She has
occupied a room alone and has received several water
treatments, including head bath, every day, so that infec-
tion was impossible. Still, four weeks ago, the attendant
who gives her treatment discovered her scalp covered with
nits which within a few days developed into swarms of lice.
The lady was very much alarmed and shed tears of
mortification, until she better understood the nature of
the phenomenon. I showed her the passage in this volume
dealing with psora and parasitic diseases also her original
;
examination report which, in the section devoted to diag-

nosis from the iris, had the entry ''psora positive, several
itch spots", indicating suppression of itchy, parasitic skin
eruptions. "When told that the psora taint on which these
parasites live is the soil of tuberculosis and cancer, she
endured her itchy crisis with great equanimity. The pesky
Vol. 1 — 6.
72 NATUKAL THERAPEUTICS
remained about three weeks and then sud-

little visitors
denly disappeared as they had come. Nothing was used

to combat the parasites except fresh, cold water and the
comb.
Lice, crab lice, scabies (itch parasites), belong to the
same psoric family. They live on psoric taints, just as
bacteria live on other disease taints and systemic poisons.
This patient is now fully convinced of the reality of
parasitic crises. This delicate but interesting subject has
been treated more fully in Volume II of this series.
The Results of Suppression of Children's Diseases
Sycotic eruptions on the heads and bodies of infants,

also called "milk scurf", if suppressed by salves, cream,
unsalted butter, or even by warm bathing, are often fol-
lowed by chorea (St. Vitus' dance), epilepsy, a scrofulous
constitution, and in later life by tuberculosis.
Measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cerebrospinal menin-
gitis, and other febrile diseases of childhood, if properly
treated by natural methods, are curative or at least cor-

rective in their effects on the system,and represent well
defined, orderly, natural processes for the elimination of
inherited or acquired disease taints, drug poisons, etc. But
if arrested or suppressed before they have run their natu-
ral course, or before Nature has had time to reestablish
normal conditions, then the abnormal conditions become
fixed and permanent (chronic).
In addition to this, the poisons, serums and antitoxins
employed to arrest the disease process very often affect
vital parts and organs permanently, causing the gradual
deterioration of cells and tissues, and paving the way for
cancer, tuberculosis, chronic affection of the kidneys, etc.
in later years.
These simple facts, which can be verified by any unpreju-
SUPPRESSION VEESUS ELIMINATION 73
diced observer, account for the ''mysterious sequelae" of

drug and serum treated acute diseases. These never occur
where natural methods of healing have been correctly
employed. Among these chronic after effects are deaf-
ness, blindness, heart and kidney diseases, nervous affec-
tions, idiocy, infantile paralysis, tuberculosis, cancer, etc.
These are merely a few common examples of the results
of suppression. They could be multiplied a hundredfold,
yet medical science assures us that the causes of cancer
and other malignant diseases are ''unknown".
Good Nature Cure Doctrine from an Allopathic Authority

The following utterances of the late Dr. Nicholas Senn
strongly confirm our claims as to the nature and cure of
disease. Coming from the lips of so celebrated a surgeon
and physician, these statements should carry some weight
with those who, being unable to reason for themselves,
are prone to worship at the feet of "authority". 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
world.
[Chicago American, August 5th, 1906.]
GERMS PLANTED BY TIGHT LACING

Over-Feeding and Over-Dres3ing Given as Causes of Cancer
"Dr. Nicholas Senn brought He summed up his own learning
back from Africa, from whence in the statement that the dis-
he returned to Chicago yester- ease is still incurable except by
day, confirmations of his belief the knife in its incipient stages
that cancer is a 'civilized' dis- and that the best preventive is
ease. clean, plain living.
"Dr. Senn spent from $2,000 "His investigations of the
to $3,000 —
worth of time at the natives of Africa served to
cash value per hour of his time strengthen his conviction that
on his first day at home for four cancer is a product of civiliza-
months, telling a half dozen tion, 'like apoplexy and scores
newspaper men more than all of other exotic ailments,' Dr.
the world, except himself and a Senn said. He could not find
score of specialists like him, or hear of a case of cancer
know about the fearful disease. among the 'Hamites, ' as he
termed them. And from the Studies African Bace

fact that he found the disease *
Besides his hobby, as he calls
'
to be an i-.uknown one tc the it. Dr. Senn studied the African

Esquimaux of Greenland, he is generally in his voyage along the
assured that climate has nothing East Coast of that continent.
whatever to do with it. Climate " 'It was a fine trip,' he said,
did not cause it, and climate will 'with so many things to learn.
not cure it. Ethnologieally, I am certain Af-
ricans are of common stock. The
Cancer Caused by Over-Living
negro a negro wherever you
is
" 'The nearer the human race find him. From Kaffir to Bush-
approaches the animals in hab- man and pygmy, they are all
its, and particularly in the mat- Hamites.
ter of diet and dress, the freer " 'They are mostly a fine peo-
it from cancer,' he said.
is ple physically, lean and tall, ex-
'Cancer comes from over-feeding cept the dwarfs. There is little
and over-living. tendency toward obesity; they
"'Drinking, gourmandizing, have no apoplexy, no distended
unnatural habits of women, like veins as we have in civilization.
lacing, all those things help to Hence their freedom from can-
plant the seeds of cancer in the cer. They live naturally, and
child. are vegetarians mostly, while
*
'
'
And
as we have not learned the Northern Esquimaux are
to cure it, the best thing to do meat eaters, but both races eat
is to prevent it when we can. naturally to sustain life, hence
If children were brought up in their immunity from that dis-
simplicity by natural mothers; ease. It is where eating is made
then, if care should be taken to an art that cancer is most preva-
prevent hypernutrition, there lent.
would be much less danger from " 'They are free from many
cancer. Cancer itself is an over- other diseases that
pester us
fed thing —tissue that never ma- also. Tuberculosis is hardly
tures, for if I could mature the known, and only along the coast,
cells I could cure the disease. where it has been taken by the
The thing for people to do who whites. The real curse of the
fear they may have inherited it, coast country is malaria. It is
is to live simply — there are many bad all up and down the East
casesamong people with a tend- shore. I kept away from it my-
ency to obesity to one among self by taking five grains of qui-
those of a scanty habit of living nine and the juice of a lemon
— and particularly to remove all once a day on an empty stom-
sources of irritation, like bad ach. That is a good remedy for
teeth, tobacco, and clothes that malaria, for in all my running
chafe.' around I have never had it.'
"
—
(Author's Note. Dr. Senn died January 2, 1908. The papers
stated after his death, that the doctor had never been well since
the return from his long voyage, that his heart and nervous system
had been seriously affected by the altitudes of the Andes and other
mountains. I wonder whether the "high altitudes" or the "five
grains of quinin" daily, were to blame for the celebrated physi-
cian 's heart disease and premature death.)
Suppression the Cause of Chronic Diseases
Dr. Senn was right. If men and women lived more

naturally, the majority of diseases would gradually dis-
appear.
The primary cause of disease is Violation of Nature's
Laws. ''Civilization" has become almost synonymous
with artificiality of life and unnatural habits. A higher
civilization, yet to come, will combine the most exquisite
culture of mind and soul with true simplicity and natural-
ness of living. Excessive meat eating, strong spices and
condiments, alcohol, coffee, tea, overwork, night wôrk,
fear, worry, sensuality, corsets, high heels, foul air, im-
proper breathing, lack of exercise, loveless marriages, race
suicide, —
all of these and many other evils of "hyper-
civilization" have contributed their share to the universal

degeneracy of civilized nations commented upon by Dr.
Senn.
In order to learn these truths, which have been pro-
claimed for many years by the advocates of Nature Cure,
he was obliged to travel to the arctic circle and to the
tropics. While expatiating upon the beneficial effects of
natural living in relation to cancer, he might have added
that primitive races living in accordance with Nature's
laws are also practically free from heart disease, dys-
pepsia, nervousness, insanity, locomotor ataxia, paralysis
agitans, paresis, and a host of other curses of "civiliza-
tion"; and that the women of these races give birth to
their children without the dreadful labor pains which
the mothers of "civilized" races.
afflict
Dr. Senn, hoAvever, failed to recognize a most impor-

tant cause of the rapid increase of destructive chronic dis-
eases ; in fact, he overlooked the principal factor, which is
the suppression of acute diseases by poisonous drugfs and
surgical operations.
When the unnatural habits of life alluded to have so

lowered the vitality and favored the accumulation of waste
matter and poisons that the sluggish bowels, kidneys,
skin, and other organs of elimination are unable to keep
a clean house, Nature is forced to resort to other, more
radical means of purification or we would choke in our
own impurities. These forcible house-cleanings of Nature
are colds, catarrhs, skin eruptions, diarrheas, boils, ulcers,
abnormal perspiration, hemorrhages, and many other
forms of inflammatory febrile diseases.
Sulphur and mercury may drive back the skin erup-
tions, antipyretics and antiseptics may suppress fever and
catarrh; the patient and the doctor may congratulate
themselves on a speedy cure; but what is the true state
of affairs? Nature has been thwarted in her work of
healing and cleansing. She has had to give up the fight
against disease matter in order to combat the more potent
poisons of mercury, quinin, iodin, strychnin, etc. The
disease matter is still in the system, plus the drug poison.
Proof positive of the retention of drug poisons in the
organism is furnished by the Diagnosis from the Iris of
the Eye. This is explained more fully in Volume VI of
this series.
When vitality has been sufficiently restored, Nature
may make another attempt at purification, this time, pos-
sibly, in another direction ; but again her well meant
efforts are defeated. This process of suppression is re-
peated over and over again until blood and tissues become
so loaded with waste matter and poisons that the healing
forces of the organism can no longer react against them
by acute diseases. Then results "the chronic condition",
which in the vocabulary of the old school of medicine is
only another name for "incurable".
The more skilled the allopathic school becomes in the
suppression and prevention of acute diseases by drugs,
SUPPEESSION VERSUS ELIMINATION 77
knife, X-rays, serums, vaccination virus, antitoxin, etc.,

the greater will be the increase of chronic dyspepsia,
nervous prostration, insanity, locomotor ataxia, paresis,
cancer, secondary and tertiary syphilis, tuberculosis and
many other so called incurable diseases.
Suppression of acute diseases, by drug and knife, is
the all important factor in the creation of malignant dis-
eases which Dr. Senn overlooked in his discourses on the
causes of chronic destructive ailments. If he had analyzed
his experiences in foreign lands in the light of Nature
Cure philosophy he would have found that the great
scourges of mankind exist only in those parts of the earth
where the drug store flourishes.
These statements may seem exaggerated; but allow
me to cite a few typical cases of suppression and its ef-
fects upon the system, on record in our institutional
practice.
Paresis, locomotor ataxia and paralysis agitans are not,
as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary syph-
ilis,but to the mercury or other alteratives administered
for the cure of luetic and other diseases. In less than
six months' time we cure the so called specific diseases
by our natural methods, provided they have not been
suppressed and complicated by mercury, iodin or other
poisonous drugs. We never interfere with the original
lesion, but assist Nature to discharge the poisons through
the channels established for this purpose.
By the natural methods of treatment we moderate the
inflammatory processes and keep them within constructive
limits. A bonfire is useful to burn up the rubbish on the
premises, but it must be watched and tended so it will
not destroy the buildings.
Under rational treatment, discharges and ulcers act as
fontanels to the system. Not only the specific poison, but
much of hereditary and acquired disease matter also is
eliminated in the process. After such a cure, blood and

tissues are purer than before the infection.
The foregoing statement has nothing to do with the
moral aspects involved in acquiring venereal diseases. In
this connection we are dealing solely with the question of
rational or irrational treatment of the infection after it
has been contracted. "We do not wish to intimate that it is

advisable to cure the body by killing the soul. "We must
deal with the facts in Nature as we find them. Further-
more, a great many persons, especially women and chil-
dren, acquire these diseases innocently. Are we not
minds of needless fear and in
justified in relieving their
showing them the way to prevent the dreadful sufferings
of the "secondary" and "tertiary" stages brought on by
suppressive drug treatment by means of mercury, the
iodids, "606", etc.?
These poisonous drugs suppress the initial lesions and
diffuse the disease poisonthrough the system. Nature
takes up the work of elimination by means of skin erup-
tions and ulcers in various parts of the body, but these
also are promptly suppressed with mercurial ointments
and other alteratives. This process of suppression is con-
tinued for mouths and years, until the organism is so
thoroughly saturated with alterative poisons that vital
force can no longer arouse the body to acute reactions
against the original syphilitic taint. This condition of
vital paralysis then termed "cure".
is
The medical professor, however, knows better. He

instructs the students from the lecture platform "When,
:
after two or three years of mercurial treatment, syphilitic

symptoms cease to appear, you may permit the patient to
'
marry but never guarantee a cure.
"Why not ? Because the professor is aware that the
offspring of such a union may be born with "hereditary"
symptoms well known to every physician, and because
the patient thus cured ( ?) may confront the doctor at any-

time thereafter exhibiting a hole in his palate, ulcers on
his body, caries in his bones, or other secondary and
tertiary symptoms.
Mercury will work its way into the nerve matter of
the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation, excru-
ciating headaches, nervous symptoms, girdle pains, etc.,
etc. These stages of acute and subacute inflammation are

followed in a few years by sclerosis (hardening) of nerve
matter and blood vessels, resulting in paresis, locomotor
ataxia, or paralysis agitans.
Neither is it necessary to contract specific diseases in
order to fall a victim to these dreadful conditions; mer-
cury, iodin, salvarsan and other destructive alteratives
are given in a hundred different forms for a multitude of
other ailments.
A few years ago we had under our care a patient in
the last stages of locomotor ataxia,who for years had
been suffering the tortures of the damned. There had
never been a taint of specific disease in her system, but
four different times in her life she had been salivated by
calomel. This dreadful poison had been administered in
large doses for the cure of liver trouble and constipation.
She was only fourteen years old when, on account of this,
she first suffered from acute mercurial poisoning (sali-
vation).
Another patient who, after fifteen years of **slow and
torturous dying by inches", succumbed to the same dis-
ease, had absorbed the mercurial poison in his boyhood
while attending a boarding school. He was twice salivated
by mercurial ointments applied to cure the itch (scabies),
a disease which was epidemic at times among the boys.
He likewise never had a syphilitic infection.
A young man, insane at the age of thirty, absorbed the
infernal poison when four years of age. He had at the
time a psoric skin eruption. The family physician, sus-

pecting syphilitic infection from the nurse girl, kept the
child under mercury for six months. How do we know
that the diagnosis of syphilis was false? Because the iris
of the eye revealed "psora" as the cause of the suspicious

eruption which reappeared several times later in life, and
because the servant girl was afterwards absolutely exon-
erated by competent physicians.
The subject of venereal diseases, their natural and un-
natural treatment, has been fully treated by the author
in a booklet entitled, "Who Provides the Victims of the
Black Stork? Who Makes the Damaged Goods?"
Proofs by the Diagnosis from the Eye
We have treated many hundreds of cases of so called

chronic neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism, neurasthenia,
epilepsy, tuberculosis, cancer and idiocy, due to the per-
nicious effects of quinin, iodin, arsenic, strychnin, coal
tar products and other virulent poisons taken under the
guise of "medicine".
How do we know that this is so?
(a) Because the diagnosis from the iris of the eye
plainly reveals the presence of these poisons in the system.
(b) Because the drug signs in the iris are accompanied
by the symptoms of these poisons in the system.
(c) Because the history revealed the fact that the
patient had some time in the past taken the poison
revealed in his iris.
(d) Because, under natural living and treatment, dis-

eases long ago suppressed by drugs or knife reappear as
healing crises.
(e) Because in these healing crises, drugs indicated by
the signs in the iris of the eye are frequently eliminated,
each under its own peculiar symptoms.
(f ) Because, to the extent that a drug is eliminated from

the system by a healing crisis, its sign will disappear from
the iris of the eye.

To illustrate:
(a) The diagnosis from the iris of the eye reveals quinin
poisoning in the region of the brain.
(b) This enables us to say to the patient, without ques-
tioning him, that he suffers from severe frontal headaches
and ringing in the ears, that he is very irritable, and so
on through the various symptoms of quinin poisoning, or,
as the medical men call it, "chronic cinchonism".
(c) The history of the patient reveals the fact that he
has taken large amounts of quinin for colds, grippe, or
malaria.
(d) Under our methods of natural living and treatment,
the patient improves; the organism becomes more vigor-
ous, and the organs of elimination act more freely; the
latent poisons are stirredup in their hiding places; heal-
ing crises make their appearance. The processes of elimi-
nation thus inaugurated develop various symptoms of
acute quinin poisoning.
(e) The eliminating crises are accompanied by head-
aches, ringing in the ears, nasal catarrh, bone pains, neu-
ritis, stronge taste of quinin in the mouth, etc.
(f )Every healing crisis, if naturally treated, diminishes
the signs of disease and drug poisons in the eye.
CHAPTER IX
INFLAMMATION
FROM what has already been said on this subject it

will have become apparent that inflammatory and
feverish diseases are just as natural, orderly and lawful
as anything else in Nature; that, therefore, after they
have once started, they must not be checked nor sup-
pressed by drugs, ice, surgery or any other agent.
Inflammatory processes can be kept within safe limits,
and they must be assisted in their constructive tendencies
by the natural methods of treatment. To check and sup-
press acute diseases before they have run their natural
course means to suppress Nature's purifying and healing
efforts, to bring about fatal complications, and to change
acute, constructive reactions into chronic disease con-
ditions.
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 philosophy,
namely, the Unity of Disease and Cure.
We claim that all acute diseases are uniform in their
causes, their purpose, and, where conditions are favorable,
uniform also in their progressive development.
In former chapters I have endeavored to prove and to
elucidate the unity of acute diseases in regard to their
causes and their purpose, the latter not being destructive,
but constructive and beneficial. I have pointed out that
the microorganisms of disease are not the terrible menace
they are commonly thought to be, but that, like every-
thing else in Nature, they serve a useful purpose. I have
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INFLAMMATION 83
shown that it depends upon ourselves whether their activ-
ity isharmful and destructive, or beneficial that is, upon :
our manner of living and of treating acute elimination.

Let us now trace the unity of acute diseases in regard
to their general course by a brief examination of the proc-
esses of inflammation and their progressive development
through five well-defined stages. I shall base our studies
on the most advanced works on pathology and bacte-
riology.
The Story of Inflammation According- to the

Orthodox Interpretation
Before inflammation can arise, there must exist an

exciting cause in the form of some obstruction or of some
agent inimical to health and life. Such excitants of inflam-
mation may be systemic poisons, dead cells, blood clots,
fragments of bone, and other effete matter produced in
the system itself, or they may be drug poisons, or foreign
bodies such as particles of dust, soot, stone, iron, or other

metals, slivers of wood, etc. again, they may be micro-
;
organisms or parasites.
When one or more of these exciting agents of inflam-
mation are present in the tissues of the body in sufficient
strength to call forth the reaction and opposition of the
healing forces, the microscope always reveals the follow-
ing phenomena, slightly varying under different condi-
tions :
The circulation in the affected part or organ seems to

be obstructed. Owing to the increased blood pressure,
the minute arteries and veins in the immediate neighbor-
hood become dilated. The distention of the blood vessels
stretches and thereby weakens their walls. Through these
the white blood corpuscles squeeze their mobile bodies and
work their way into the neighboring tissues.
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 invad-
ing army. This faculty of the white blood corpuscles to
apprehend the presence and exact location of the enemy
(bacteria) has been ascribed to chemical attraction and
is called chemotaxis.
The **army of defense" is made up of white blood
corpuscles or leucocytes. These wandering cells possess
the faculty of absorbing and digesting microbes. They
contain certain proteolytic or protein-splitting ferments,
by means of which they decompose and "digest" poisons
and hostile microorganisms. On account of their activity
as germ destroyers, these cells have been called germ
killers or phagocytes. In their movements and actions
these valiant little warriors act very much like intelligent
beings, animated by the qualities of patience, perseverance,
courage, foresight and selfsacrifice.
The phagocytes absorb morbid matter, poisons, or micro-
organisms by enveloping them with their own bodies. It
is a hand-to-hand fight, and many of the brave little sol-
diers are destroyed by the poisons and bacteria which

they attack. What we call "pus" is made up of the bodies
of live and dead phagocytes, disease taints and germs,
blood serum, broken-down cells, in short, the "debris of
the battlefield".
We can now understand how the processes just described
produce the well known "cardinal symptoms" of inflam-
mation and fever; the redness, heat and swelling due to
increased blood pressure, congestion and the accumula-
tion of exudates; the pain due to irritation and to pres-
sure on the nerves. We can also comprehend how impaired
and destruction in the affected parts
nutrition, obstruction
and organs interfere with and inhibit functional activity.
The organism has still other means of defending itself.
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At the time of bacterial infection, certain germ-killing

substances are developed in the blood serum. Science
has named these defensive proteids obsonins and alexins.
It is alsoclaimed that the phagocytes and tissue cells in
the neighborhood of the area of irritation produce anti-
bodies or natural antitoxins which neutralize the bacterial
poisons and kill the microorganisms of disease.
With the Evil, Nature Provides the Cure
Furthermore, the growth and development of bacteria

and parasites is inhibited and finally arrested by their
own waste products. We
have an example of this in
the yeast germ, which thrives and multiplies in the pres-
ence of sugar in solution. Living on and ''digesting"
the sugar, it decomposes the sugar molecules into alcohol
and carbonic acid. As the alcohol increases during the
process of fermentation, it gradually arrests the develop-
ment and activity of the yeast cells.
Similar phenomena accompany the activity of disease
germs and parasites. They produce certain waste prod-
ucts which gradually inhibit their own growth and multi-
plication. The vaccines, serums and antitoxins of medical
science are prepared from these bacterial excrements and
from extracts made of the bodies of bacteria.
In the serum and antitoxin treatment, therefore, the
allopathic school is imitating Nature's procedure in check-
ing the growth of microorganisms, but with this differ-
ence: Nature does not suppress the growth and multi-
plication of disease germs until the morbid matter on
which they subsist has been decomposed and consumed,
and until the inflammatory processes have run their natu-
ral course through the five stages of inflammation; 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 eliminated.
Besides that, these powerful poisons may cause perma-
nent injury to the cells, tissues and organs of the body,
which frequently results in serious chronic after effects,
the "mysterious sequelae" of medical science. There is
no excuse for resorting to these doubtful and dangerous
agents in the treatment of inflammatory processes when
the Nature Cure methods will produce satisfactory results
in a simple, natural way.
"What has been said in former chapters confirms our
claim that all acute diseases are uniform in their causes
and in their purpose. From the foregoing description of

inflammation it will have become clear that they are also
uniform in their pathological development. The uniform-
ity of acute inflammatory processes becomes still more
apparent when we follow them through their five suc-
cessive stages, viz.: Incubation, Aggravation, Destruc-
tion, Abatement and Reconstruction, as illustrated in the
following diagram
-fi. Destruction ^\
Incubation Reconstructjon
I. Incubation. The first section of the diagram corre-,

sponds to the period of Incubation, the time between the
exposure to an infectious disease and its development.
This period may last from a few moments to several days,
weeks, months or even years.
During this stage morbid matter, poisons, microorgan-
isms and other excitants of inflammation congregate in
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certain parts and organs of the body. When they have

accumulated to such an extent as to interfere with the
normal functions or to endanger the health and life of
the organism, the life forces begin to react to the obstruc-
tion or threatening danger by means of the inflammatory
processes before described.
From the foregoing it appears that allopathy figures the
period of incubation from the time of germ invasion, while
according to our conception, incubation is coexistent with
the three primary stages or manifestations of disease.
(Chapter V.)
II. Aggravation. During the period of Aggravation
the battle between the phagocytes and Nature's antitoxins
on the one hand, and the poisons and microorganisms of
disease on the other hand, gradually progresses, accom-
panied by a corresponding increase of fever and inflam-
mation, until it reaches its climax, marked by the greatest
intensity of feverish symptoms.
III. Destruction. This battle between the forces of dis-
ease and the healing forces is accompanied by the disinte-
gration of tissues due to the accumulation of exudates, to
pus formation, the development of abscesses, boils, fistulas,
open sores, etc. and to other morbid changes. It involves
the destruction of phagocytes, bacteria, blood vessels and
tissues just as a battle between contending human ar-
mies results in loss of life and property. The stage of
destruction ends in crisis, which may be either fatal or
beneficial.
IV. Abatement or Absorption, If the healing forces of
the organism are in the ascendancy, and if they are sup-
ported by right treatment which tends to build up the

blood, increase the vitality, and promote elimination, then
the poisons and the microorganisms of disease will grad-
uaUv be overcome, absorbed or eliminated, and by degrees
tne tissues will be cleared of "the debris of the battle-
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field". This accompanied by a gradual lowering of

is
temperature, pulse rate and other symptoms of fever and

inflammation.
V. Reconstruction. When the period of abatement has
run its course and the affected areas have been cleared
of the morbid accumulations and obstructions, then, dur-

ing the fifth stage of inflammation, the work of rebuilding
begins. The struggle having been more or less destruc-
tive to the cells, tissues, blood vessels and organs of the
areas involved, these must now be reconstructed, and this
last stage of the inflammatory process is, therefore, in a
way the most important. On the thoroughness of regene-
ration of the injured parts depends the final effect of the
acute disease upon the organism.
The Story of Inflammation According to the Pathogenic

Theory
The theory of inflammation according to Metchnikoff

and the pathology of the allopathic school of medicine is
certainly a most interesting and romantic story. The cam-
paigns and battles of the tiny heroic defenders of the body,
the phagocytes or "germ-eaters", against the microorgan-
isms of disease and infectious taints and poisons read very
much like the accounts of skirmishes, battles, captures
and killings in human warfare between the armies of
defense of a country and the invading enemy. It looks,
however, as though we may have to relegate this romance
of pathology to the realm of fairy tales.
There is one phase of this allopathic conception of
inflammation, first advanced by Professor Metchnikoff,
which does not fully agree with the Nature Cure idea of
the activities of bacteria and parasites, and their effect
upon the processes of disease and cure. Nature Cure
philosophy teaches that these microorganisms are scaven-
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gers which live, thrive and multiply on disease matter

only. According to the Metchnikoff theory, the bacteria
are the enemies of the body, the creators of disease, which
have to be killed and eliminated from the system by the
brave little phagocytes and by antibodies and antitoxins
secreted by certain cells and glandular structures.
Dr. Thomas Powell of Los Angeles has advanced another
theory of the pathology of inflammation which is more
in line with the Nature Cure conception of acute disease
and of the origin and functions of bacteria and o'ther
parasites in the economy of Nature. For the last three
years we have examined in our clinical and laboratory
work the two theories from all possible viewpoints and
closely observed the action of leucocytes and bacteria
under varying conditions of health and disease. Our
studies along these lines of research have convinced us
that the phagocytic theory of inflammation is incorrect
and that Dr. Powell's interpretation is the true one.
Everyone interested in the subject should study Dr.
Powell's work, "Fundamentals and Requirements of
Health and Disease".
In the introductory remarks to his exposition of the
new theory of inflammation, Dr. Powell says, on page 297
"It is one of the best known facts of today that not so much as
a single one of these facts [relating to the origin, nature and beha-
—
vior of pathogen Author's note], momentous as they evidently are,
has ever been so much as fairly explained, nor have they been
adequately defined."
On this point he evidently was not well inforrned. A

careful perusal of his book and especially of the extracts
herein quoted will show that all his teachings as to the
fundamental causes of lowered vitality, degene-
disease,
ration of the vital fluids, accumulation of waste and mor-
bid matter (his "pathogen"), are straight Nature Cure
philosophy. Everything he says on these subjects has
been clearly stated and thoroughly explained in the Nature
Cure literature, first in the Nature Cure magazines which

began to appear in 1907, two years before Dr. Powell copy-
righted and published his "Fundamentals and Principles
of Health and Disease", and later in the first edition of
this volume. Many of the expressions and similes used by
him are almost identical with those employed in Nature
Cure philosophy.
The only, and certainly a very valuable, addition which
Dr. Powell has made to the Nature Cure theory of disease
is his version of the nature and activities of the leucocytes.
Dr. Powell agrees with Nature Cure when he attributes

all disease arising in the human body to the accumulation
in the system of certain morbid materials, the end and
by products of digestion and of the metabolic changes in
the cells and tissues of the body. In my writings I
have referred to these a^ "acids, ptomains, xanthins and
poisonous alkaloids". Collectively I have referred to
them as "colloids", and to the resulting conditions and
symptoms of disease as "collemia". Uric acid and other
morbid materials mixed with it form in the system a
sticky, mucoid substance which obstructs the capillary
circulation, irritates the nervous system, forms deposits,
and in that way causes all kinds of symptoms and disease
conditions. I chose these names because "colloid" means
glue-like and "collemia" signifies a glue-like condition
of the blood.
All the destructive effects resulting from these collemic,
and later on arthritic conditions (see chapter on Treatment
of Chronic Diseases) are fully described in the Nature
Cure magazines and in the first edition of "Nature Cure
Philosophy and Practice".
Dr. Powell has made a happy selection of the word
"pathogen" (which means "disease-creating") for these
accumulations of morbid materials. It is a more appro-
priate term than "colloid" and more convenient than
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"acids, ptomains, san thins", etc., or the phrases ** waste

matter, morbid matter and poisons". Therefore, I shall
in further discussions of these subjects employ this word
in preference to the older, more cumbrous phrases.
Briefly stated. Dr. Powell's theory of inflammation, in
conformity with the foregoing quotations and in compari-
son with the allopathic version, as described in this volume,
works out as follows
Developments during the period of incubation, as
explained on pages 86 to 87, are altogether in conform-
ity with Dr. Powell's description of pathogen and its
gradual accumulation in the system. We have only to
substitute theword ''pathogen" for the phrase, ''waste,
morbid matter and poisons".
According to Dr. Powell's theory, the period of aggra-
vation (see page 87) is explained as follows: The con-
gestion of blood in the area where inflammation is in
process of development is caused by the accumulation of
pathogen in the circulation which obstructs the tiny capil-
laries in the affected parts. The accumulation of pathogen
in these parts, aside from the great viscosity of the blood,
is due to lowered vitality, lowered resistance, or to some
kind of irritation or obstruction.
As a result of this pathogen obstruction in the capillary
circulation the blood cannot pass, it surges back and
bulges or distends the capillaries and gradually the larger
blood vessels. This explains the congestion, which is
always the first symptom of inflammation. The capillaries
expand in such a way that the leucocytes are forced out
into the neighboring tissues. This throws new light on
the migration of the leucocytes.
We must remember here that the leucocytes, according
to Dr. Powell's theory, are particles of pathogenic matter
which have been condensed into globular bodies resem-
bling cells. This condensation of pathogen (following his
explanation) takes place in the trabieulae (minute pas-

sages) of the spleen and in the lymph glands or lymph
nodes. This explains why in many diseases characterized
by accumulations of morbid matter in the system, the
lymphatic glands and the spleen become considerably
enlarged. In such cases the allopathic surgeon cuts out
the glands. I have always claimed that this is irrational
and destructive practice.
To recapitulate: From the Nature Cure viewpoint the
functions of the lymphatic glands and of the spleen con-
sist in condensing morbid materials (pathogen) from the
circulation. Enlargement and the ensuing suppuration
of these structures, therefore, means that they are over-
charged or engorged with pathogenic matter.
A perfect analogy of this is found in inflammation and
suppuration of the tonsils and adenoid tissue, which are
also important parts of the drainage system of the body.
The extirpation of these useful eliminating organs is just
as senseless and destructive as the cutting out of lym-
phatic glands or of any other useful organ of the body.
We might as well remove the sewers from a house because
they are clogged with refuse. The slogan of the allopathic
physician and surgeon is destruction; that of the Nature
Cure physician, restoration to health and useful function.
We have left the leucocytes after they had "migrated",
or as we now believe, after they had been forced out
through the distended capillaries into the surrounding
tissues. Next we see them engaged in a life and death
struggle with the bacteria. This coincides with the stage
of destruction (page 87). According to the old version,
the leucocytes were devouring and digesting the bacteria.
Now the story reads the other way. The leucocytes, or
rather the condensed particles of pathogen, disintegrate
into pus under the proteoh'tic action of bacteria.
Thus the patliog:enic conception of inflammation re-
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verses tlie old theory from beginning to end. The leuco-

cytes, instead of being" the intelligent and heroic defenders
of the bodies, are its deadliest enemies. Instead of pur-
suing the disease germs and destroying them, the leuco-
cytes or particles of pathogen, forced into the tissues,
decompose and form the morbid soil for the development
of microzyma into bacteria, which in turn cause the oxida-
tion and disintegration of these morbid products of faulty
metabolism.
At once questions like the following arise in the mind
of the critical examiner of these conflicting stories: "If
leucocytes are particles of pathogen, why have they nuclei
and amoeboid motion —why do they resemble so closely
the living cells of the body?"
While it is true that these particles of morbid matter
in a generalway resemble genuine cells in their appear-
ance and activities, this resemblance may be easily ex-
plained by the new theory of pathogenesis. We have
learned that the more or less cellular form of the particles
of pathogen due to the forcing of the pathogen through
is
the trabiculae of the spleen and the lymph glands, which

condenses the pathogen into compact particles.
The pathogenic theory of disease may bring up another
question:"Why is it necessary that the spleen and the
lymph nodes condense the albuminous pathogenic mate-
rials of the blood into the so called white blood cor-
puscles?" In order to explain this we must briefly con-
sider the processes of nutrition and elimination as they
take place in the tissues of the body.
The elements of nutrition in the forms of oxygen and
of carbohydrates and protein substances are carried in
the salty blood serum through the walls of the capillaries
into the intercellular spaces to be absorbed by the cells.
This passage from the tiny blood-vessels into the neigh-
boring tissues is called osmosis. By osmosis is meant the
passage of a salty fluid through an animal membrane.

To illustrate If a bladder filled with pure water be
:
suspended in a larger vessel also full of pure water, and

if salt be then added to the water in the vessel, the salt
will penetrate through the membrane of the bladder into

the water which it contains.
On the other hand, the carbonic acid and other waste
materials excreted by the cells are collected by the capil-
lary vessels of the venous and the lymphatic system and
through these carried to the organs of elimination. This
passage of the "feces of the cells" from the intercellular
spaces into the venous and lymphatic vessels also takes
place through osmosis.
Prom the foregoing it becomes apparent that the freer
from pathogenic materials the blood serum and the lymph
fluid, the more readily they will pass and repass through
the walls of the blood and lymph vessels into and out of the
intercellular spaces.
If, on the other hand, the blood is in a mucoid, viscous,
sticky condition with excessive amounts of colloid or
pathogenic matter in form, then the passage of the
difi'use
blood serum and lymph fluid through the walls of the

capillary vessels and the cells will be greatly impeded and
may become impossible. This gives rise to obstruction, stag-
nation, congestion, colloid degeneration or inflammation.
It is to prevent this mucoid or colloid condition of the
blood serum and lymph fluid that the lymph nodules and
the spleen condense the pathogenic materials into the
comparatively compact leucocytes. It is also reasonable
to assume that pathogen in the compact form of leuco-
cytes offers a better soil for the action of microzyma than
in the diffuse colloid form.
According to Dr. Bechamp's theory the microzyma in
the decomposing leucocytes create the bacteria. This does
away with the idea that the leucocytes in a mysterious
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way (chemotaxis) hunt up the disease germs in the tissue

and then destroy them.
May this not explain why
in the worst chronic destruc-
tive diseases, as in the advanced stages of tuberculosis,
we find the leucocytes diminished in number. If phago-
cytosis were a fact in nature we would expect the opposite
condition. That is, in the more advanced stages of the
disease the phagocytes should be present in larger num-
bers. We however, that the opposite is the case and
find,
that the lymph nodes are engorged and enlarged with
leucocytes and other colloid materials. This condition is
easily explained by the new version of leucocytosis.
Excessive amounts of pathogenic materials in the circu-
lation cause obstruction in the lung tissues, giving rise to
the inflammatory tuberculous processes. Finally the accu-
mulations of pathogen in the circulation become so great
that the spleen and lymph nodes, being no longer able to
cope with them, become engorged. Thus the number of
leucocytes diminishes in the circulation but at the same
time the vital fluids become more viscous and pathogenic.
This explains the enlargement of the spleen and the swell-
ing and degeneration of the lymphatic glands in such
diseases as tuberculosis, typhoid, malaria, etc. These facts,
instead of contradicting it, are strong evidence in support
of the pathogenic theory of leucocytosis.
Another question that will be asked is, ''If the white
blood corpuscle is not a living cell, why has it a nucleus
and amoeboid motion?"
The following quotation from Dr. Powell's work will
explain the granular and nucleated appearance of the
leucocytes
"When first formed the leucocytes are neither granular nor

nucleated, and are known to science as 'young cells' or 'round
cells'. In the progress of time they begin to decay in some one
of several ways: Sometimes they succumb to the external assaults
of Pasteur's 'microbe generateur du pus', masquerade for a while
96 NATURAL THEEAPEUTICS
as pus corpuscles and finally fall to pieces and disappear as such;
sometimes they yield to the internal assaults of other microorgan-
isms with which they had come in contact. As this form of decay
progresses a 'nucleus' appears; to this other nuclei are soon added.
As time advances these foci increase in size as well as number,
the constituents thereof becoming susceptible first to one dye and
then to another, taking at one stage of the process the stain of eosin,
in which case they are called eosinophilia; at another stage they
take the color of methyl blue, and so on to the end of the list of
the leucocyte stains. Sometimes they undergo fatty degeneration,
in which case they are called myelocytes. The myelocyte is simply
a leucocyte in process of hydrocarbonization, the dangerous leuco-
—
cyte being thus changed into a less dangerous thing namely, fat.
In short, there is no lack of evidence of the fact that the leucocyte
or so-called white blood corpuscle, is a dead thing, that its destiny
is dissolution and that in its downward course it carries disease
and destruction to its host, the living organism.
"Those distortions on which the migratory or amoeboid move-
ments of the leucocyte depend, and which have seemed to indicate
that it is endowed with life, are chiefly attributable to the action
of the carbon dioxide gas that is generated within it as it passed
into decay. That is to say, it is the expansion of this gas that
gives rise to those protrusions of the leucocyte which are called
pseudopodia, wiiile the escape of the gas into the aqueous element
of the blood permits it (the leucocyte) to resume its former shape,
which it does in obedience to that power that gives rotundity to
various things, from the dewdrops to the celestial spheres; the
fact that after a leucocyte has sent out a pseudopod its fundus
is drawn in that direction, is due to the adhesion of the former
to the containing vessel and the subsequent escape of the gas in
question; in short, the leucocyte, or so-called 'white blood cor-
puscle', is not what it appears to be. It has impressed the world
— —
that it is a living organism a living cell while the fact is, it is
not a living cell, but a mortuus corpusculum, or lifeless corpuscle,
owing to its motility to the forces not of life, but of death to —
adhesion, gaseous expansion and chemotaxis.
"I do not hesitate to affirm that every 'nucleus' and every
'nucleolus' that we see in a leucocyte is simply a collection of
residual niatter (the earthy remains of that arch destroyer, patho-
gen) and is to be regarded, therefore, as a focus of decay; that
the segmentation of the leucocyte is not a matter of 'vital dupli-
cation', as has been supposed, but of progressive disintegration;
that the increase of its size is due not to growth, but to accretion
or the adherence of particles of kindred material which are floating
in. the blood stream, as above stated.
"A New Interpretation of Facts"
"The fact that the leucocyte becomes less active in consequence

of the lowering of its temperature, is attributable to the consequent
increase of the disintegrating process; the fact that it is 'killed',
as biologists have declared, by iodin, arsenic and other poisons, is
INFLAMMATIOX 97
due, not to the destruction of its life, as they have supposed, but
to the preservative action of these drugs.
"The leucocytes are not the 'vigilant policemen of the vital
domain ', as we have been led by their performances to believe, but
owe their so-called 'phagocytic' powers to their viscidity, or
extreme adhesiveness. That is to say, they (the leucocytes) gather
the bacteria by sticking to and flowing around them. This is
followed by the destruction, not of the bacteria, but of the leuco-
cytes. The leucocyte is not the destroyer but the thing destroyed."
"We understand now that the microzyma develop into

bacteria while feeding on the decaying materials of the
leucocytes. This is explained more fully in the next
chapter.
The ameboid motions of the leucocytes are caused by
the expansive action of the carbonic acid which is formed
in the oxidation and disintegration of their morbid ma-

terials, somewhat like dough is "raised" by the carbon
dioxide gas which is a product of fermentation.
The foregoing description of osmotic nutrition and lym-
phatic elimination throws additional light on the impor-
tance and the modus operandi of massage treatment. The
lymph stream has not behind it the powerful pressure of
the heart pump. Both the venous and lymphatic circula-
tion become sluggish through pathogenic obstruction of
the capillary vessels and intracellular lymph spaces. It
is readily seen how deep manipulation of the fleshy tissues
and systematic kneading and stroking from circumference
to center will stir up and accelerate the movement of the
venous blood and lymph fluids toward the heart and
toward the outlet into the subclavian vein.
The best proof of all is practical experience. A careful
examination of our patients records discloses the fact that
'
in ninety per cent of all the cases that improved under

our care and treatment, the white blood corpuscles or
leucocytes decreased from 1000 to 4000 or more in num-
ber while the red blood corpuscles showed a proportionate
;
increase. In many cases this increase amounted to several

millions. Practically all of these patients were of the stub-

bom chronic type.
The few cases that went into decline and ended fatally
showed an increase in leucocytes, except in tuberculosis,
which in the last stages usually shows a decrease. This is
because the lymphatic glands and the spleen are so com-
pletely engorged and obstructed with leucocytes and col-
loid matter that they can no longer condense the pathogen
into white corpuscles.
Some cases which at the commencement of treatment
showed an exceedingly low number of leucocjrtes, ranging
from 2000 to 3000, increased up to 4000 under natural liv-
ing and treatment. In these the low number of leucocytes
at the beginning of treatment was due to the fact that the
lymphatic system and the spleen were in a diseased condi-
tion and unable to condense the pathogen. As these organs
improved, the number of leucocytes increased. The aver-
age number of the so called white corpuscles, after six
months of Natural living and treatment, seems to be about
4000. This is 3500 lower than the average adopted as
normal by the allopathic school.
Their standard in this case is too high for the same
reason that their standard acidity of the urine is too high
namely, because they accept the average as the normal,
leaving out of consideration that the average individual is
abnormal. People following the conventional habits of

living suffer from hyperacidity as well as from excessive
amounts of colloid or pathogenic materials because the
ordinary diet is too rich in pathogen-producing proteids,
starches and fats, and deficient in the acid-neutralizing
alkaline mineral elements.
According to allopathic standards, the ratio of the white
to the red corpuscles is as 1 to 666. In animals the propor-
tion is considerably lower than in the human.
I firmly believe that with proper prenatal care, natural
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management after birth, and rational habits of living

throughout life, the average nimiber of leucocytes can be
reduced far below 4000.
It may be said, if the foregoing theories are correct, it
would be good policy to increase as much as possible the
number and parasites in the body, and if this
of bacteria
be desirable then would be good practice to expose one's
it
self to infectious diseases. The answer to this is, there is

no need of artificially introducing the microorganisms of
disease or infectious disease taints, because the presence
of pathogenic matter in the system will bring about germ
activity, whenever that becomes necessary for the protec-
tion of health and life. Pathogenic matter breeds its own
destroyers, the same as any decaying, putrefying material
generates the fungi, parasites or bacterial microorganisms
which decompose and destroy it. Proof of this we see in
the putrefying cadaver and in the uncleaned house full of
filthy rubbish. The rational Avay is to keep the system,
through right living, free from pathogenic matter, then
there will be no need for bacterial scavengers. They can-
not live and cause trouble in a clean body endowed with
good vitality and governed by a positive mind.
The question, where do the microorganisms of disease
come from, I have answered as follows: The spores and
seeds of disease germs and parasites are practically omni-
present they are at the same time the product of disease
;
and the disintegrators of morbid matter. This has been

briefly explained in the following chapter which deals with
Prof. Bechamp's teachings.
CHAPTER X
THE DISCOVERY OF MICROZYMA
TT may be interesting at this point to enter more fully
-- into the researches and deductions of the great French
scientist whose discoveries are destined to revolutionize
Biology.
Among the many posts Antoijie Bechamp held were
those of Professor of Medical Chemistry and Pharmacy in
the Department of Medicine at the University of Mont-
pelier and Professor of Organic and Biological Chemistry
in the Department of Medicine in the Free University of
Lille. He was a contemporary of Louis Pasteur and of
Professor Metchnikojff.
Impartial investigators now claim that Pasteur appro-
priated many and discoveries which made him
of the ideas
world famous, from the teachings of Professor Bechamp.
When these men lived and worked in their respective
fields, a battle royal raged in the scientific world as to
whether substances such as flesh, blood, milk and saccha-
rinaceous (sweet) fluids remained intact when preserved
from all contact with the atmosphere. Pasteur claimed
that they did that organisms in the air were
; needed to
cause in such fluids processes of putrefaction or fermenta-
tion.
Pasteur compared the human body to a barrel of beer
and pronounced it, like that beverage, at the mercy of
extraneous organisms. As these produce good or bad
—
beer a liquid diseased, as it were, or healthy so on —
entering animal bodies microorganisms create disease, each
after its own order.
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THE DISCOVERY OF MICEOZYMA IQl
Pasteur looked upon atmospheric germs as individual

entities,endowed with specific, well defined functions; it
was a special germ ferment that soured milk, a special
germ ferment that turned grape juice to wine and wine
to vinegar, etc. At that time definite organisms had been
noticed in sick animals, particularly tiny rod-like bodies
in cattle suffering from anthrax. Pasteur assumed that
these were caught from the atmosphere and on this he
established the doctrine of specific malignant germs, each
dealing out its specific malady.
It only needed Professor Metchnikoff 's theory of phago-
cytosis and the discovery of "obsonins" or natural anti-
toxins in the blood, by Sir Almroth Wright and Dr. Bul-
loch, to furnish the medical profession with a delightfully
simple theory as to the origin of disease, comprehensible
to the least intelligent. Upon this flimsy basis rests the
entire structure of modern medical theory and practice.
Unfortunately, the world ''and all that therein is" is
the reverse of simple, and these crude explanations of

disease left room for questions from every viewpoint.
Firstly, the origin of malignant, microscopic entities
was an unexplained problem. If plagues be caused by
left
bacillus which passes into man through the flea from the
rat, whence did the rat catch it?
Secondly, if a specific organism produces a specific dis-

ease, why should its effects differ in different species?
Why, for instance, should the organism associated with
anthrax cause splenic fever in cattle and pustules on the
skin of human bodies?
Thirdly, the laboratory-made sicknesses of experimental
work are not produced by organisms caught from the air,
but result from the inoculation of substances taken from
diseased bodies.
Fourthly, the postulates of Koch, which formulate rules
for the recognition of disease germs, have been disproved
by the latter 's contradictory behavior. The "Lancet"

—
(March 20, 1909) had to admit "It must be acknowl-
edged that all these postulates are complied with very
rarely, indeed, if ever."
Let us examine now the teachings of Professor Bechamp,
concerning these mooted problems. During the course of
his researches the French scientist observed fermentative
effects in all parts of living bodies. His work on yeasts
had taught him that fermentation was nothing more than
the chemical changes produced by living organisms in
their environment through feeding and eliminative proc-
esses. For this reason he had always combated Pasteur's
idea of a specific role being attached to a specific ferment
and maintained that under changed circumstances the
achievement of the ferment might be different.
The fermentative effects he noticed in living bodies
were frequently quite dissociated from the presence of
bacteria. This gave him cause for reflection, being to him
clear proof that all organisms were formed of infinitely
minute living beings, all largely occupied, like ourselves,
in the business of feeding.
He understood why believers in spontaneous generation
had never been satisfied that the intrusion of air borne
organisms was the one explanation for varying phe-
nomena.
There was life everywhere. Bodies of plants and ani-
mals alike were made up of living particles. This ex-
plained the necessity for the application of great heat, as
well as exclusion of atmospheric germs, in order to prevent
putrefactive changes in living protoplasm. It was essen-
tial to kill the internal life, as well as to gwaxd against

external.
Pasteur himself, in one of his own experiments, de-
scribed a piece of meat kept air proof, as yet having
become odorous. This in itself should have shown him
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tnat either his method had been faulty, or else that alter-
ation can take place apart from air borne organisms.
What was Bechamp 's explanation ? What did he teach
at a time when there was more or less acceptance of
Virchow's view of the cell as the structural unit of life,
or, so to speak, as the primary individual ?
The Professor of Montpelier taught that the cell or the
germ was no more than a transitory object, built up by
the true entities found within it. To these he gave the
name of microzyma, or minute-ferment-bodies. These are
the same particles now known as microsomes. Of these
primary units of life Edmund B. Wilson, Ph.D., says in his
text book "The Cell in Development and Inheritance",
"Their behaviour is in some cases such as to have led to
the hypothesis long since suggested by Henle (1841) and
at a later period developed by Bechamp and Estor, and
especially by Altmann, that microsomes are actually units
or bioblasts, capable of assimilation, growth and division
and hence to be regarded as elementary units of structure,
standing between the ultimate molecules of living matter
and the cell" (page 21).
The microzyma of Bechamp are the minute granules
that mark the honeycomb structure of the cell and the cell
nucleus, and have been distinguished as chromatin gran-
ules, owing to the deep shade they take when stained for
observation under the microscope.
Before the division of the cell nucleus takes place, the
chromatin granules assume the appearance of a thread
which breaks into pieces known as chromosomes. These
subdivide lengthwise during cell cleavage, thus providing
each derivative cell with an equal number of what are
supposed to be the prime factors of new life and the trans-
mitters of heredity.
Altmann inquired, "How can a granulum (microzyma)
arise without its cell?" Bechamp answered, "Every liv-
Vol. 1 — 8.
ing cell and therefore every living being is reducible to

the microzyma.
It was Bechamp's contention that processes of putrefac-
tion arewrought by microzyma which, upon the corruption
of the body that formed their habitat, are freed to the soil,
water and air, and are themselves, either in their infini-
tesimal form or else in larger shapes as bacteria, the fer-
ments that play so great a role in life and for which the
orthodox school of bacteriology provides no explanation.
All the microorganisms that teem in the air, the ground,
the rocks, are, according to Bechamp, the remains of ani-
mal and vegetable matter. This seems to be proved by the
fact that bacteria abound wherever decaying plant or
animal life is found, and that they are equally scarce
wherever such life is wanting, whether on the bleak tops
of a high mountain range or on the sterile tracts of the
arid desert.
The following statements epitomize Bechamp's impor-
tant discovery The birth of bacteria, as well as of normal
:
cells of living bodies, is from within. These minute beings

are nothing more nor less than the products of life 's primal
architects, the indwelling microzyma or microsomes of
cells and of germs.
*'The cell", he wrote, *'is a collection of an infinite
number of little beings which have an independent life, a

The microzyma of animal cells
special natural history.
(when living in morbid matter) associate two by two
or in larger numbers and extend themselves into bac-
teria."
These microzj^ma are those spores or seed germs of bac-
teria whose existence I presumed and postulated in my
philosophy of the unity of disease and cure.
The fermentation of eggs is a puzzle which the germ
theorists endeavor to solve by declaring that the shell is
not impenetrable to external bacteria. When impenetra-
THE DISCOVERY OF MICROZYMA 105
bility is absolutely assured by artificial means, and yet

change, though in a much lesser degree, takes place, he
is driven to fall back on Pasteur's explanation that prob-
ably germs of putrefaction originally penetrated into the

hen's oviduct.
Bechamp, on the contrary, showed that the same causes
which under normal conditions produce the chicken, give
rise under abnormal conditions to fermentation and even-
tually to putrefaction.
According to his demonstrations, the causes of the nor-
mal abnormal processes are the microsomes,
as well as the
or, as he named them,
the microzyma.
In this connection I may be permitted to quote from a
chapter in this volume, entitled "Vaccination", page 145,
the following paragraph concerning an attack of smallpox
from which my son suffered.
"As far as I could learn, there was not another case of
smallpox in Chicago or vicinity at the time of the boy's
illness. If the contagion theory be true, from whom did he
'catch' the disease, and why did not one of the many
persons living in the same house become infected?
"My answer is, was Na-
this acute eliminative process
ture's way body of inherited scrof-
of purifying the little
ulous and other disease taints." (This was written orig-
inally for the Nature Cure Magazine in 1909.)
Read also on pages 70-72 the description of lice eruptions
during and as a result of healing crises.
The microzyma explain the possibility of contagion and
infection from without as well as spontaneous generation
of bacteria from morbid soil within the system. While
bacteria entering the body from without may instigate
disease processes, such germs must have originated in mor-
bid soil somewhere and upon entering a body they cannot
live and multiply to the danger point unless they find the
morbid materials necessary to their existence. If all germs
could suddenly be wiped out of existence the conditions

which make them necessary would create them anew.
In 1869 Bechamp said, "In typhoid fever, in gangrene,
in anthrax, the existence has been proved of bacteria in
the tissues and in the blood and this has been looked upon
as a case of ordinary parasitism. It is evident, however,
after what we have said, that the diseases before men-
tioned were not caused by the introduction of foreign
germs, but that we have to do here only with a deviation
of functions of microzyma, a deviation indicated also by
the change that has taken place in their form.
"In cases where bacteria have been noted in the blood,
it isnot a case of ordinary parasitism, but rather of abnor-
mal development of primitive normal organisms. The bac-
teria, far from being the cause, are on the contrary the
effect of the malady."
The microzyma is a microcosm, the cell its macrocosm,
just as man is the macrocosm to the cell, and as the sidereal
universe is the macrocosm to man, its microcosm. As the
well being of man depends upon normal nutrition and
wholesome surroundings, so also the health of the cell and
of the microzyma depends upon proper nutrition, drainage
and innervation. Thus provided with its essential life
requirements, the primary unit of life will develop into
the normal cells of the vegetable, animal or human body,
not into disease germs and parasites.
This theory as to the origin of bacteria would explain
such problems as voiced in the "Lancet" (March 20, 1909).
"When a causal organism (bacteria) is injected into an
animal often it happens that it gives rise to a disease
bearing no clinical resemblance to the original malady"
(which produced the bacteria).
This discrepancy, besides betraying the unreliability of
experiments on animals, points to the conditions in the
body as deciding factors, rather than to the parasitic
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invaders which, in any case, have not been taken from the
air, but from a diseased subject. As Bechamp observes
(Les Microzymas, p. 768), ''the inoculation of anthrax
produces splenic fever in cattle and pustules (on the
skin) in human beings, thus demonstrating the control
factors of diseased conditions to be inborn, not ex-
traneous."
"Disease is born of us and in us", wrote Bechamp, ''and
that is should be, because the life of man, and of every

as it
other creature, is no more delivered over to chance than

the course of the stars.
"Life would be delivered over to chance if it depended
upon primitive microbic germs created for destructive pur-
poses." (Les Microzymas, p. 804.)
What an interesting confirmation this is of the funda-
mental postulate of Nature Cure philosophy, according to
which disease is not an accident, not an arbitrary inflic-
tion, but the natural and inevitable result of the violation
of Nature's laws.
If it is bred in us and of us, health
true that disease is
undoubtedly arises in the same way and can be maintained

by attention to the well being of the infinitesimal entities
that build up our bodies and which, therefore, we may
justly call "life's primal architects". The well being of
these minute builders and workers depends upon right
living; that is, our habits of thinking, feeling, breathing,
eating, drinking, exercising, bathing, clothing, as well as
our sexual and social activities, must be in harmonious
relation with the laws of our being.
In commenting upon Professor Bechamp 's teachings,
Hume says: "When all is said and done, could Professor
Bechamp 's microscope, or the most powerful lens of the
present day, ever hope to pry into the primal entity of
life, the first individual unit of organized existence ? Far
beyond all searching in its minuteness must such an ele-
108 NATUKAL THEEAPEUTICS
ment be, and well does August Weissmann in his 'Germ-

plasm; a Theory of Heredity*, write: 'We are thus re-
minded afresh that we have to deal not only with the
infinitely great, but also with the infinitely small; the
idea of size is a purely relative one and on either hand
extends infinity' (p. 468).
Hume continues in his pamphlet
"Since from such infinitesimal beginnings the brain of
a Newton, the music of a Beethoven, the beauty of a Lady
Hamilton are evolved, we find ourselves reconsidering the
Platonic theory of Ideation."
The final reality is the idea in the mind of the creator.
Thought forms are the souls of things and matter convo-
lutes to these soul patterns.
So the relation of thought and feeling to health and
disease appears to be not without scientific basis —the
physical reverts to the metaphysical. The ancient Vedie
teaching is
—
proved afresh "The whole of the universe is
evolved through Sankalpa (thought ideation) alone it is ;
only through Sankalpa that the universe retains its ap-

pearance." (The Varaha Upanishads of Krishna- Yajur
Veda.)
And so "the eternal thought in the eternal mind"
(Bhagavad-Gita) precludes the disseverance of the thought
from the thinker. If, on the one hand, man, in deep
humility, realizes himself a pigmy in an incomprehensible
universe, on the other hand, his consciousness of his one-
ness with the stupendous whole leaves him appalled by
his dignity and the possibilities of his amazing destiny.
Thus, in the mystery of primal architects (micro-
life's
zyma), there may be dimly discerned that unity of Creator
and created which, in the oldest philosophic teachings in
the world found voice in that triumphant cry of faith of
the Vedic utterance
'
' That supreme Brahman, the self of all, the great abode
THE DISCOVERY OF MICEOZYMA 109
of the universe, subtler than the subtle, the Eternal, —That

is thyself, and thou art That."(Kaivalya Upanishad.)
I leave it to the reader to decide for himself which
theory of inflammation is the more rational, the old or the
new. The new version removes the last doubt as to the
beneficent character and constructive activity of the tiny
organisms which so far have been looked upon as the great-
est enemies of mankind. It makes the Nature Cure philos-
ophy of health, disease and cure consistent and rational in
all its principles and deductions.
CHAPTER XI
RESULTS OF SUPPRESSION
If the inflammation be allowed to run its course through
the different stages of acute activity and the final stage
of reconstruction, then every acute disease, whatever its
name and description, will prove beneficial to the organ-
ism, because pathogen and poisons have been eliminated
from the system abnormal and diseased tissues have been
;
broken down and built up again to a purer and more

normal condition.
As it were, the acute disease has acted upon the organ-
ism thunder storm on the sultry, vitiated summer
like a
air. It has cleared the system of impurities and obstruc-
tions and reestablished wholesome, normal conditions.
Therefore acute diseases, when treated in harmony with
Nature 's intent, always prove beneficial.
If, however, through neglect or wrong treatment, the
inflammatory processes are not allowed to run their nat-

ural course, if they are checked or suppressed by drugs,
ice bags or surgical operations, or if the disease conditions
in the system are so far in the ascendancy that the healing
forces cannot react properly, then the constructive forces
may lose the battle and the disease may take a fatal ending
or develop into chronic ailments. "Whether we accept the
old or the new interpretation of inflammation, the fore-
going deductions are true. In either case the inflammatory
process is constructive in nature and purpose.
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 coixse-
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EESULTS OF SUPPRESSION HX
quences if followed by natural living and eliminative
treatment. To this I would reply: "Such procedure
always involves the danger of concentrating the disease
poisons in vital parts and organs, thus laying the founda-
tion for chronic destructive diseases."
Furthermore, it is not at all necessary to suppress
inflammatory processes by poisonous drugs and other
means, because we can easily and surely control them and
keep them from becoming dangerous by our natural meth-
ods of treatment.
I shall now support with proof and illustrations the
foregoing theoretical expositions by following the develop-
ment of various diseases through the five stages of inflam-
mation. I shall first consider the commonest of all forms
of disease, the "cold".
Catching' a Cold
According to popular opinion, the catching of colds is

responsible for the greater part of human ailments. Very
frequently I hear from patients who come for consulta-
tion: "All my troubles date back to a cold I took at such
and such a time '
etc.
', Then I have to explain that colds
are not contracted suddenly and from without but come
from within; that their "period of incubation" may have
extended over months or years or over several successive
lifetimes; that a clean, healthy body possessed of abun-
dant vitality cannot "take cold" under the ordinary ther-
mal conditions congenial to human life, no matter how
sudden the change in temperature.
At first this may seem to be contrary to common experi-
ence as well as to the theory and practice of medical
science. But follow the development of a cold from start
to finish. Nature Cure philosophy will throw light on the
question as to whether a cold can be "caught", whether
it develops slowly within the organism, and whether this

development or "incubation" may extend over a long
period of time.
"Taking cold" may be caused by chilling the surface
of the body or part of the body. In the chilled portions
of the skin the pores close, the blood recedes into the
interior, and as a result the elimination of poisonous gases
and exudates is locally suppressed.
This "catching cold" through being exposed to a cold
draft,through wet clothing, etc., is not necessarily fol-
lowed by more serious consequences. If the system is not
too much encumbered with morbid matter and if kidneys
and intestines are in fairly good working order, these
organs will assist the temporarily inactive skin to take
care of the extra amount of waste and morbid materials
and eliminate them without difficulty. The greater the
vitality and the more normal the composition of the blood,
the more effectively the system as a whole will react in
such an emergency and throw off the morbid materials
which were not eliminated through the skin.
If, however, the organism is already overloaded with
waste and morbid materials if the bowels and the kidneys

;
are already weakened or atrophied through continued

overwork and over-stimulation; if, in addition to this,
the vitality has been lowered through excesses or over-
exertion, and the vital fluids are in an abnormal condition,
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 ^he
nasal passages, the throat, bronchi, stomach, bowels or
genito-urinary organs.
The waste materials and poisonous exudates which are
being eliminated through these internal membranes cause
irritation and pathogenic congestion, and thus produce
EESULTS OF SUPPKESSION II3
the well known symptoms of inflammation and catarrhal

elimination —sneezing (coryza), cough, expectoration,
mucous discharges, diarrhea, leucorrhea, etc., etc.
We may safely assume that these forcible house-clean-

ings do not occur until it becomes necessary for the system
to eliminate excessive accumulations of pathogen. In
other words, the chilling of the surface is merely the spark
that explodes the combustibles stored within.
Why isnecessary that such elimination must take the
it
form of inflammation? Why can it not proceed in the

ordinary way without causing violent acute reaction?
The reason is that the organs of depuration are so con-
structed that they eliminate only waste materials of com-
paratively simple chemical composition. Thus, the skin
eliminates carbonic acid and salts which are neutralized
acids. The kidneys eliminate normally urea and salts;
in abnormal conditions, they also eliminate uric acid,
indican and a few other kinds of acids and ptomains.
The intestines eliminate little else but undigested food
waste. Pathogen, however, is made up of chemically
highly complex substances which cannot be eliminated
through the organs of depuration. Pathogenic substances
must first be broken do"vvn into simple compounds chem-
ically adapted for elimination through these organs, and
this decomposition is accomplished through inflammation
and germ activity.
We now understand that these so called ''colds" are
nothing more nor less than forms of vicarious elimination.
The membranous linings of the internal organs are doing
the work for the inactive, sluggish and atrophied skin,
kidneys and intestines. The greater the accumulation of
morbid matter in the system, the lower the vitality, and
the more abnormal the composition of the blood and
lymph, the greater the liability to the ** catching" of colds.
What is to be gained by suppressing the different forms
of acute catarrhal elimination with cough and catarrh

"cures" containing opiates, astringents, antiseptics and an-
tipyretics ? Is it not obvious that such procedure interferes
with Nature's purifying efforts, that it hinders and sup-
presses the inflammatory processes and the accompanying
elimination of morbid matter from the system ? Worst of
all, that it adds drug poisons to disease poisons? Such a
course can have but one result converting Nature's —
cleansing and healing efforts into chronic disease.
From the foregoing it will have become clear that the
cause of a cold lies not so much in the cold draft, or the
wet feet, as in the primary causes of all diseases : lowered
vitality, deterioration of vital fluids, and the accumulation
of morbid matter and poisons in the system.
The incubation period of the ''cold" may have extended
over many years, an entire lifetime or many successive
lifetimes.
What, then, is the natural cure for colds ? There can be
but one remedy : increased elimination through the proper
channels. This is accomplished by judicious dieting and
fasting,and through restoring the natural activity of the
skin, kidneys and bowels by means of wet packs, cold
sprays and ablutions, sitzbaths, massage, neurotherapy,
homeopathic remedies, exercise, sun and air baths and all
other methods of natural treatment that save vitality,
build up the blood on a normal basis, and promote elimina-
tion without injuring the organism.
Suppression During the Third Stage of Inflammation
Should the inflammatory processes be suppressed dur-

ing the stage of destruction, the results would be still more
seriousand far-reaching.
We have learned that during this stage the affected
parts and organs are involved more or less in a process
BESULTS OF SUPPKESSION 115
of disintegration.They become filled with morbid exu-

which interfere with and make impossible
dates, pus, etc.,
normal nutrition and functioning. If suppression takes
place during this stage, it is obvious that the affected areas
will be leftpermanently in a condition of destruction.
The following may serve as an illustration. Suppose
changes and repairs have been found necessary in a build-
ing. Workmen have torn down the partitions, hangings,
wallpaper, etc. At this stage of the proceedings the owner
discharges the workmen, and the building is left in a con-
dition of chaos. Surely this would be most irrational. It
would leave the house unfit for habitation. But such a
procedure exactly corresponds to the suppression of in-
flammatory diseases during the stage of destruction. Such
suppression leaves the affected organs in an abnormal,
diseased condition and accounts for the '* mysterious se-
'
quelae ' or chronic after effects which so often follow drug
or ice treated acute diseases.
Numerous cases of chronic affections of the lungs and
kidneys, of infantile paralysis, and of many other chronic
ailments are directly traceable to such suppression. The
following typical case came under our care and treatment
a few years ago.
Suppression by Means of Ice Packs

Several gentlemen of Greek nationality called on me
with the request that I visit a friend of theirs who had
been confined to bed for about two months in one of our
great West Side hospitals. On investigation I found the
patient had entered the hospital while suffering from a
mild attack of pneumonia. The doctors of the institution
had ordered ice packs. Rubber sheets filled with ice were
applied to the chest and other parts of the body. This
had been continued for several days until the fever had
subsided.
As a matter is more suppressive than anti-

of fact, ice
fever medicines. Continued icy cold applications chill the
parts of the body to which they are applied, depress the
vital functions and effectually suppress the inflammatory
processes.
The result in this case, as in many similar ones which I
had occasion to observe during and after the ice treat-
ment, was that the inflammation in the lungs had been
arrested and suppressed during- the stage of destruction,
while the air cells and tissues were filled with exudates,
blood serum, pus, live and dead blood cells, morbid micro-
zyma, bacteria, etc., leaving the affected areas of the lungs
in a consolidated condition.
As a consequence of suppression in the case of this
patient, the pneumonia had been changed from the acute
to the sub-acute and chronic stages and the doctors in
charge had informed his friends that he was now suffering
from ''miliary tuberculosis", and would probably die
within a week or two.
Discouraged by this information, the friends of the
patient asked me to take charge of the case. The man was
transferred to our institution and we began at once to
apply the natural methods of treatment. For ice packs
—
we substituted cold water packs strips of linen wrung
out of water of ordinary temperature wrapped around the
body and covered with several layers of flannel bandages.
(See Vol. II.)
The wet packs became warm on the body in a few min-

utes. They relaxed the pores and drew the blood to the
surface, thus promoting heat radiation and the elimination
of morbid matter through the skin. They did not suppress
the fever, but kept it below the danger point.
Under this treatment, accompanied by fasting and judi-
cious manipulation, the inflammatory and feverish proc-
esses which had been suppressed by the ice packs soon
EESULTS OF SUPPEESSION 117
revived, became once more active and were made to run

their natural course through the stages of destruction,
absorption (abatement) and reconstruction.
The result of this Nature Cure treatment was that about
two months after the patient entered our institution, his
friends bought him a ticket to sunny Greece. He with-
stood the fatigue of the voyage well, and in the congenial
climate of his native country his recovery was completed.
I have observed a number of similar cases suffering
from solidification of the lungs and the resulting asthmatic
or tubercular conditions, which had been ''doctored" into
these chronic ailments by means of antipyretics and of ice.
Frequently such treatment results in the accumulation of
fluids in the pleura and lung tissues. Then the allopathic
* '
physician resorts to tapping, but the withdrawal of the
' '
fluids only results in quicker accumulation. Under nat-

ural treatment these morbid excretions absorb gradually
through the lymphatic drains.
Equally dangerous is the ice bag or pack if applied to
the inflamed brain or to the spinal column. Only too often
it results either in paralysis or in death. In many in-
stances, acute cerebro-spinal meningitis is changed in this
way by drug and serum treatment or by the use of ice
bags into the chronic, so called incurable infantile paral-
ysis.
I say "so called incurable" advisedly, because we have
treated and cured such cases in all stages of development
from acute inflammatory meningitis to chronic paralysis
of long standing.
In our treatment of acute diseases we never use ice or
icy water for packs, compresses, baths or ablutions, but
always water of ordinary temperature as it comes from
well or hydrant. The water compress or pack warms up
quickly and thus brings about a natural reaction within
a few minutes, while the ice bag or pack continually chills
and practically freezes the affected parts and organs. This

does not permit the skin to relax ; it prevents a warm reac-
tion, the radiation of the body heat and the elimination
of morbid matter through the skin.
Suppression During the Fourth and Fifth Stages of

Inflammation
Let us see what happens when acute diseases are sup-
pressed during the stages of absorption and reconstruction.
body gain a victory over the
If the healing forces of the
pathogenic conditions which are threatening the health
and life of the organism, then the symptoms of inflamma-
tion, swelling, redness, heat, pain and the accelerated
heart action which accompanies them, gradually subside.
The "debris of the battle field" is carried away through
the venous and lymphatic circulation —the drainage sys-
tems of the body.
When in this way all morbid materials have been
completely eliminated, in other words, when conditions
have become normal, then the microzyma will regen-
erate and reconstruct the injured and destroyed cells and
tissues.
If, however, these processes of elimination and recon-
struction be interfered with or interrupted before they are
completed, the microzyma will continue to create germs
of putrefaction and the affected parts and organs will not
have a chance to become entirely well or strong. They will
remain in an abnormal, diseased condition, and their func-
tional activity will be seriously handicapped.
The After Effects of Drug or Ice Treated Typhoid Fever
In hundreds of instances I have told patients after a

glance into their eyes that they suffered from chronic
indigestion, malassimilation and malnutrition caused by
EESULTS OF SUPPKESSION 119
drug treated typhoid fever; and in every case these rec-

ords in the eyes were confirmed by the history of the
patient.
In such cases the outer rim of the iris shows a wreath of
whitish or drug colored specks or flakes. I have named
this wreath the typhoid or lymphatic rosar}-. It corre-
sponds to the lymphatic glands and other absorbent ves-
sels in the intestines. It appears in the iris of the eye
when these structures have been injured or are engorged
with pathogenic matter as a result of drug, ice or surgical
treatment. Wherever this has happened, 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 having been properly digested
and assimilated.
During the destructive stages of typhoid fever, the intes-
tines become denuded by the sloughing of their mem-
branous linings. These sloughed membranes give the
stools of the typhoid fever patient their peculiar "pea-
soup" appearance. In a similar manner the lymphatic,
venous and glandular structures which constitute the
absorbent vessels of the intestines atrophy and slough
away.
If the inflammatory processes are allowed to run their
normal course under natural treatment through the stages
of destruction, absorption and reconstruction, the micro-
zyma will rebuild the membranous and glandular struc-
tures of the intestinal canal perfectly; convalescence will
be rapid; and the patient will enjoy better health than
before the disease was contracted.
If, however, through injudicious feeding, the applica-
tion of ice or the administration of quinin, mercury, purg-
ing salts, opiates, or other destructive agents, Nature's
processes are interfered with, prematurely checked and
suppressed, then the sloughed membranes and absorbent
Vol. 1 — 9.
vessels are not reconstructed, and the intestinal tract is

left in a denuded and atrophied condition.
Such a patient may arise from bed thinking he is cured
but unless he is afterward treated by natural methods, he
will never make a full recovery. It will take him, perhaps,
months or years to die a gradual, miserable death through
malassimilation and malnutrition which frequently result
in some form of wasting disease, as pernicious anemia or
tuberculosis. If he does not actually die from the effects
of the w^rongly treated typhoid fever, he will be troubled
for the rest of his life with intestinal indigestion, consti-
pation, malassimilation and accompanying nervous dis-
orders.
A Change for the Better
Speaking of typhoid fever, I am glad to say that for this

particular form of disease the most advanced medical sci-
ence has adopted the Nature Cure treatment, as practiced
and taught by the pioneers of Nature Cure more than
fifty years ago —that is, straight cold water and fasting,
and no drugs.
This treatment, which medical science has found so emi-
nently successful in typhoid fever, would prove equally
efficacious in all other acute diseases if the allopaths would
only condescend to try it. It is a strange and curious fact
that, so far,they have never found it worth while to do so.
Nature Cure physicians know from daily experience in
actual practice that the simple water treatment and fast-
ing is sufficient to cure all other forms of acute diseases
just as easilyand effectively as typhoid fever. By this is
proved the unity of treatment in all acute diseases.
For both typhoid fever and tuberculosis, progressive
medical men have now entirely abandoned the germ-
killing method of treatment. They have found it abso-
lutely futile to hunt for drugs and serums to kill the
RESULTS OF SUPPRESSION 121
typhoid and tuberculosis bacilli in these, the two most

destructive diseases afflicting the human family. They
have been forced to admit that the simple remedies of the
Nature Cure school, cold water and fasting in typhoid
fever and the fresh air treatment in tuberculosis, are the
only worth while methods of fighting these formidable
enemies to health and life.
If they could be induced to continue their researches
and experiments along these natural lines, they would
attain infinitely more satisfactory results than through
their complicated germ hunting and germ killing theories
and practices.
The natural treatment of all acute diseases is fully de-
scribed in Volume II of this series.
CHAPTER xn
SURGERY
^
I
^HE discoverers of anesthetics are classed among the
-*- greatest benefactors of humanity because it is be-
lieved that ether, chloroform, cocain and similar nerve
paralyzing agents have greatly lessened the sum of human
suffering. however, that this is true.
I doubt,
Anesthetics have made surgery technically easy and
have done away with the pain caused directly by the inci-
sions; but on the other hand, these marvelous effects of
pain killing drugs have encouraged indiscriminate and
unnecessary operations to such an extent that at least
nine-tenths of all surgical operations performed today are
uncalled for. In most instances these ill-advised mutila-
tions are followed by lifelong weakness and suffering,
which far outweigh the temporary pains formerly endured
when unavoidable operations were performed without the
use of anesthetics.
I do not wish to be understood as condemning unqual-
ifiedly any and all surgical interventions in the treatment
of human ailments. An operation may occasionally be
absolutely necessary as a means of saving life.
Surgery is also indicated in cases of injury, such as
wounds or fractured bones, in certain obstetrical compli-
cations and in other affections of a purely mechanical
nature.
In all such cases anesthetics prevent much suffering
which can not be avoided in any other way. But anyone
who has had an opportunity to watch the prolonged misery
of the victims of uncalled for operations will not doubt
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SUKGERY 123
that anesthesia has been a two edged sword which has

inflicted many more wounds than it has healed.
Many physicians have recognized more or less dis-
tinctly the uselessness and harmfulness of old school med-
ical treatment. Dissatisfied and disgusted with old fash-
ioned drugging, they turn to surgery convinced that in it
they possess an exact scientific method of curing ailments.
They seem to think that the surest way to cure a diseased
—
organ is to remove it with the knife fine reasoning for
school boys but scarcely worthy of men of science.
I, for one, cannot understand how an organ can be cured
when, having been extirpated and preserved in alcohol,
it adorns the specimen cabinet of the surgeon.
Destruction or Cure —^Which Is Better?
"But," the surgeon retorts, "we do not remove organs

from the body unless they have become useless", or he
says, "We do not know what this or that organ is good
for therefore we might as well remove it. You will never
;
miss it.
'
What opinion would you form of a watch maker
'
were he to put a spring, a wheel or a balance into a watch

unnecessarily? We know that every minute part is of
importance, that not a spring, wheel or balance can be
removed without throwing the whole out of equilibrium.
Are we to believe that the Great Artificer who constructed
this wonderful mechanism called man did not know what
He was about when He placed the various organs within
our bodies? Are we to believe that the parts of the body
are of less importance than the springs and balances of a
watch ?
Not long ago surgeons claimed that the thyroid gland in
the neck could be removed without bad effects. They did
—
not know what functions it performed therefore it could
not be of great importance. They found, however, that
every person thus operated on died shortly after the opera-

tion. Then it was claimed that the spleen could be extir-
pated. Again it was found that the clever and "success-
ful" operation was invariably followed by the death of the
patient. Every now and then we read in the papers of
daring and successful removals of stomachs, kidneys, parts
of the brain, etc., but God pity the victims of such surgical
legerdemain ! Their terrible sufferings and miserable end-
ings are never reported.
The inflamed part or organ is usually but a symptom of
the disease.The irritants which cause the inflammation,
growth or tumor are contained in every drop of blood.
They may belong to the scrofulous, psoric, gonorrheal,
syphilitic, tuberculous or pathogenic poisons, or it may be
some destructive drug poison which occasions the dis-
turbance. Suppressing morbid discharges or cutting out
inflamed parts does not eliminate the causes back of the
local symptoms.
Nature usually seeks the easiest possible outlet. If you
block this the chances are that subsequent conditions will
be worse than the first. The procedure is as futile as try-
ing to stop running water by means of a dam. You may
for a time arrest the flow but soon it will rise to the level
of your obstruction, then you will be obliged to raise the
dam. This will happen again and again until the rising
flood will invade and damage the neighboring fields and
finally break through the artificial barrier, sweeping every-
thing before it.
Everyday experience proves that the foregoing is not

mere theorizing nor slandering a noble profession. The
claims of the surgeons are not borne out by actual facts.
During the past seventeen years there have come under our
treatment thousands of patients, both in sanitarium and
home practice, whose family physicians had declared that
in order to save their lives they must submit to the knife
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without delay. "With very few exceptions these people

were cured by us without the use of a poisonous drug, an
antiseptic, or a knife.
Several women who years ago were confronted with
removal of the ovaries are today the happy mothers of
healthy children. Many of our former patients who were
treated by old school physicians for acute or chronic
appendicitisand were strongly urged to have the offend-
ing organ removed, are today alive and well and still in
possession of their vermiform appendices. During the
last seventeen years I have treated hundreds of cases of
appendicitis and so far we have not lost a case and not one
has been operated upon.
Other patients were threatened with operations for
kidney, gall and bladder stones, fibroid and other tumors,
floating kidneys, stomach troubles, intestinal and uterine
disorders, not to mention the multitude of children whose
tonsils and adenoids were to have been removed. All of
these one time "surgical" cases have escaped the knife and
are doing very well indeed, with bodies intact and in pos-
session of the full quota of organs given them by Nature.
Is it not better to cure a diseased organ than to remove
it ? Nature Cure proves every day that the better way is
at the same time the easier way.
Thousands of men and women operated upon for some
local ailment which could have been cured easily by nat-
ural methods of treatment are condemned by these inex-
cusable mutilations to life long suffering. Many, if not
actually suffering pain, have been unnecessarily unsexed
and in other ways incapacitated for the normal functions
and natural enjoyments of life. Cases of this kind are the
most pitiable of all that come under our observation.
When we learn that a major operation has been per-
formed upon a consultant our barometer of hope drops
considerably. "VVe know from much experience that the
mutilation of the human organism has a tendency to lessen

the chances of recovery. Such patients are nearly always
lacking in recuperative power.
A body deprived of important parts or organs is forever
unbalanced. It is like a watch with a spring or a wheel
taken out. It may run, but never quite right ; it is hyper-
sensitive and easily thrown out of balance by any adverse
influence.
The Human Body a Unit
We are realizing more and more that the human body
isa homogeneous and harmonious whole, that we cannot
injure one part of it without damaging other parts and
often the entire organism. As previously stated, cutting
in the vital organs means "cutting in the brain". It
affects the functions of the nervous system most pro-
foundly.
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 body. He located in the nose one
small area which corresponds to the lungs. By irritating
this area with an electric needle he could provoke asth-
matic attacks in patients subject to this disease. By
anesthetizing the same area he could stop immediately
severe attacks of asthma and of coughing. Another area
in the nasal cavity corresponds to the genital organs.
The doctor proved that by electric irritation applied to
this area abortions could be produced, and that by anes-
thesia of the same area in the nose, uterine hemorrhages
could be stopped.
Zone Therapy
Another late justification of my warnings against un-

necessary surgical mutilations has come through the new
system of zone therapy. In this also science reveals in a
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startling manner the connection and interdependence of

the nervous system in its various parts.shows that
It
irritation and pains in distant parts of the body can be
suspended or moderated by pressing certain spots on the
fingers.
These and many other facts of experience throw a won-
derful light upon the unity of the human organism. You
cannot injure one part of it without affecting its entire
mechanism.
The evil after effects of surgical operations do not
always manifest at once. On the contrary, the surgical
treatment is frequently followed by a period of seeming
improvement. The troublesome local symptoms have dis-
appeared and after effects of the mutilations have not had
time to assert themselves. But sooner or later the old
symptoms return in aggravated form, or a new set of
complications arises. The patient is made to believe that
the first operation was a perfect success and that this later
crop of difficulties has nothing to do with the former, but

is something entirely new. Or he is assured that the first
operation did not go deep enough, that it failed to reach
the seat of the trouble and must be done over again.
And so the work of mutilation goes merrily on. The
disease poisons in the body set up one center of inflamma-
tion after another. These centers the surgeon promptly
removes; but the real disease, the venereal, psoric or
scrofulous taint, the uric or oxalic acid, the poisonous
alkaloidsand ptomains affecting every cell and every
—
drop of blood in the body these elude the surgeon's
knife and create new ulcers, abscesses, inflammations,
stones, etc., as fast as the old ones are extirpated.
Those who have carefully studied the previous chapters
will readily comprehend these facts. They will see that
acute and subacute conditions represent Nature's cleans-
ing and healing efforts and that local suppression by knife
or drug only serves to turn Nature's corrective and puri-

fying activities into chronic disease.
I have uttered these warnings, especially against opera-
tions on the genital organs, ever since I started to lecture
and write on this subject. Until a few years ago medical
men would have condemned them along with other Nature
Cure teachings as baseless, preposterous and malicious
attacks upon a noble profession. But lo ! in the meantime
surgical science has convicted itself of past malpractice.
Surgeons now admit that cutting out the ovaries means
and that women robbed of these
''cutting in the brain",
organs become the victims of nervous prostration and of
insanity.
Accidentally it was discovered that the terrible after
effectson the nervous system, mind and emotional nature
following the removal of the ovaries could be avoided if
but a tiny part of the organs, not larger than a pea, were
left. This is now admitted by every uptodate surgeon.
This reveals the immense importance of the secretions of
the ovaries and of the other ductless glands in the economy
of the body. If the secretions of a tiny part of these
organs can exert such a powerful influence upon the
human entity on all three planes of being, why not try to
restore instead of destroying them? That this is easily
possible we have proved in hundreds of such proposed
surgical cases.
The highest art of the true physician is to preserve and
to restore, not to mutilate nor destroy.
As bearing upon this discussion of surgical versus nat-
ural treatment, let us consider in detail the allopathic
conception and handling of appendicitis, following this
with the Nature Cure viewpoint and treatment.
CHAPTER XIII
APPENDICITIS
Allopathic Description and Treatment
THE disease is microorganism usually at

infective, the
fault being the bacillus coli. In most cases the bacil-
lus excites the disease only in presence of some injury to
the mucous membrane of the appendix. Fecal concretions
or foreign bodies such as pins or grape seeds, may become
the exciting causes of inflammation. Even without injury
virulent bacilli may in some instances cause inflammation.
Symptoms: In an ordinary attack the initial symptoms
are pain of sudden onset, at first over the vrhole abdomen
but soon localized to the right iliac fossa; local tenderness,
greatest at McBurney's point; elevation of temperature,
furred tongue, constipation and vomiting. The muscles on
the right side of the abdomen are rigid and frequently
the right thigh is slightly drawn up. A definite swelling
can usually be made out in the iliac fossa.
When perforation into the peritoneum occurs, from
ulcer or from gangrene, the symptoms are those of col-
lapse, followed by those described under general peri-
tonitis.
Treatment (Allopathic) In all cases of appendicitis
:
immediate operation is the best practice. Although com-

plete recovery is the rule in ordinary cases without sur-
gical interference, yet there is no foretelling that a per-
foration may not at any moment occur and cause a fatal
peritonitis. Operation is of course necessary in the pres-
ence of abscess, and where there is generalized peritonitis
129
it affords the only hope of recovery though the hope is but

slender.
Medical treatment finds a place only where operation is
refused or in anticipation of an operation.In such cases,
hot fomentations, enemata to open the bowels, morphia
for the relief of pain, fluid diet (chiefly milk), and abso-
lute rest in bed, are the chief means of treatment.
From the Nature Cure Viewpoint
The Prevalence of Appendicitis. Apropos of appendi-

citis the following story is told of Bill, the newsboy. He
had been absent for some months from his favorite haunts
and on his return was greeted by his mates with, "Hello,
Bill, we hear you had appendicitis". Bill replied, "Huh,
—
appendicitis nothing didn't have money enough for that
— it was just stomach ache!"
Like many another joke this contains more truth than

fiction. The time seems near when the vulgar throng will
be spoken of not as the Great Unwashed but as the Great

Unoperated. Already, at national conventions of physi-
cians, at local gatherings,and in medical journals, the
proposition has been made in all seriousness that appen-
dectomy, together with the removal of tonsils, should be
performed on all infants "in order to prevent affections
of these organs later in life". Why not save our progeny
all future trouble by scientifically and dextrously remov-
ing their heads?
The idea prevails among the laity that appendicitis is
due in most cases to the lodgment of seeds and other for-
eign bodies in the appendix. This, however, is merely a
plausible reply to importunate questioners. As a matter
of fact seeds and other foreign bodies are found in less
than one percent of all cases operated upon for appen-
dicitis.
APPENDICITIS 131
Dr. William Osier says in "The Principles and Practice

of Medicine", page 520: ''Only two instances of foreign
bodies in the appendix came under my observation in ten
years' pathological work in Montreal; in one there were
eight snipe-shot and in another five apple pits."
According to the reports of prominent surgeons, not
more than fifteen percent of those operated upon for ap-
pendicitis really have this disease. The other eighty-five
percent are found to be suffering with inflammations in
the cecum, ascending colon or in the small intestines.
Sometimes the symptoms are caused by touches of peri-
tonitis. The majority of such ailments are diagnosed and
treated as appendicitis. This magic word has attained
such hypnotic power over the public mind that it sends
the patients, without question or remonstrance, straight
to the operating table.
Says the surgeon, "If it is appendicitis only an opera-
tion will save the patient's life". This we positively deny
and have proved untrue in hundreds of cases. We have
never had an operation for appendicitis performed on one
of our patients and we have not lost a single case. Our
own records and our reports to the Board of Health at-
test this fact. If our diagnosis be questioned, I answer
that we have taken numerous cases which had already
been treated for appendicitis by other physicians who
claimed that operation was absolutely necessary.
"What of that?" may be the reply, "Why make such
a fuss over the useless vermiform appendix. It is but the
remains of a part of the human anatomy that has become
obsolete in the course of evolutionary development."
The truth is that in the meat eating mammalia the
appendix is of very small size or rudimentary. It is more
fully developed in herbivorous animals, still more so in
fruit eating apes and most of man. This flatly con-

all in
tradicts the statement that the appendix is the remains

of a defunct and degenerated organ. Instead of deterio-

rating, in the course of evolution, it has become more per-
fectly developed.
"What, then, are its uses ? MacEwen, an English sur-
Dr.
geon who claimed to have performed more operations for
appendicitis than any other surgeon in England, has en-
changed front on the question of operating and now
tirely
warns strongly against it. In an article on the subject he
says:
"Observations of the interior of the cecum seen through defects

in its walls showed that there were differences in the amount and
fluidity of the secretion exuding from its mucous surface. When
irritated mechanically the flow of exudate was greater and more
fluid. —
At a variable interval after a meal one or two hours
peristaltic effects in the colon ensued, resulting in the extrusion
of its contents, and shortly after a clear, thick fluid was poured
from the secreting cecal surface, and in several instances was seen
to exude in considerable quantity from the appendicular orifice.
"On one occasion quite a stream of fluid poured from the ap-
pendix just before the chyme began to pass through the ileo-cecal
valve. When chyme passed through this valve it did so in small
quantities at a time, and there were occasional pauses in which the
ileo-cecal valve seemed to close —
probably by a reflex action. This
fluid from the cecum and the appendix was invariably alkaline.
"Usually the flow from the ileo-cecal valve was slow, the ma-
terial passing into the cecum in small quantities, which slide over
the orifice of the appendix and get smeared by the exudation
therefrom, as well as mixed with the exudation from the general
cecal cavity.
"It seems as though there were a control over the ileo-cecal
valve regulating the amount of material which passes from the
small intestine into the cecum. If the valve by any means be
rendered patent (open) the contents of the small intestine flow
quickly into the cecum and a troublesome escape of semi-digested
material ensues. When this agency is interfered with, cecal in-
digestion occurs, which generally ends in diarrhea of partially
digested matter but which occasionally leads to masses of matter
gathering in the cecum and causing constipation, with subsequent
fermentative action of a kind which is apt to result in irritation
of the mucous membrane and appendix.
"The appendix is regarded as a mere diverticulum of the cecum
and yet itsvascular and nervous supply pertains more to that of
the small intestine than that of the colon.
"When it is recollected that the circular muscles of the cecum
are continuous with those of the appendix and that the longitudinal
cecal bands themselves end on the appendix, it will be understood
how easily the nervous apparatus of the appendix may initiate
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the larger movements of the cecum by first inducing movements in

the appendix and how inhibition of these movements may cause
cecal disturbance. The same agency, by control of the vascular
supply, will regulate the exudation from the appendix, and that
in accordance with the impulse received from the small intestine.
"Let us look now to the character and power of this exudation
emanating from the appendix and cecum.
"In the first part of the large intestine, and especially in the
cecum and appendix, the lymphatic follicles and the glands of
Lieberkuhn are very numerous and well developed, the latter be-
ing larger, deeper and broader than the corresponding cells in the
small intestine and the goblet cells which they contain are larger
and more abundant. This all the histologists admit. So closely
are those glands packed together in the cecum that the united
surface presented by them is immensely larger than the ridges be-
tween the glands, which is all that is left at this place for absorp-
tion. So that the histological structure would point to the cecum
and appendix being made for digestive purposes rather than for
absorption.
"The succus entericus which is exuded by these cells of Lieber-
kuhn is of great assistance in digestion. So powerful is it that
while pancreatic juice alone took six hours to dissolve fibrin and
had not even attacked white of an egg in ten hours, the addition
of some succus entericus to the pancreatic juice dissolved the
fibrin in from three to ten minutes, and the coagulated white of
an egg in from three to six minutes.
"Taking the appendix apart, though there are individual dif-
ferences, one sees in most appendices that the surface is covered
with glands of Lieberkuhn in ah active state of secretion during
health. If one takes the appendix at an average of three and a
half inches and lines that space with glands of Lieberkuhn en-
circling the interior it is seen that a considerable amount of succus
entericus may be exuded from that surface alone, more especially
as it is abundantly supplied with blood.
"Therefore the secretion of the appendix, viewed alone in this
sense would be a valuable aid to digestion, and the excision of that
organ, except in a hopelessly diseased condition, manifestly im-
proper."
The Dangler Spot in the Intestine
Why the cecum is the danger spot in the intestinal tract

is shown in the accompanying sketch. After food leaves
the stomach it passes through the small intestine and
enters the colon through the ileo-cecal valve. The cecum
is pouch formed by the lower end of the ascending colon,
a
and lies below the level of the entrance of the small intes-
tine into the colon or large intestine.
From the cecum the food residue passes upward through

the ascending colon, laterally through the transverse colon,
then downward and out through the descending colon,
sygmoid flexure, rectum and anus. The reader will per-
ceive that the ascending colon is the only part of the intes-
tine which the food residue has to move vertically
in
upward. Therefore, by force of gravity or downward
pressure, the feces tend to accumulate in the cecum and to
Cciecurrj
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T]ex.are.
distend it. Therefore it is the dangerous spot of the intes-

tinal tract.
If, in addition to this, there exists a tendency to slug-
gishness and constipation, the distention of the cecum
becomes very marked food materials accumulate and give
;
rise to fermentation and putrefaction. These morbid proc-

esses frequently result in inflammation of the walls of
the cecum, colon, adjacent small intestines and sometimes
of the appendix.
At other times the fetid accumulations form encrusta-
tions. The secretions of the glandular structures in the
APPENDICITIS 135
appendix are then retained, causing congestion, inflamma-

tion and abscesses with all the accompanying symptoms
of fever, rapid pulse, sharp pains in McBurney's region,
—
etc. in other words, the set of symptoms which are usu-
ally diagnosed as appendicitis.
The True Cause of Appendicitis
From the foregoing it becomes apparent that the great

majority of appendicitis cases are caused not by foreign
bodies but by chronic sluggishness of the bowels. What
does the surgeon do to cure this ? Snipping off the appen-
dix does not change the faulty habits and diseased condi-
tions which produce the intestinal indigestion and consti-
pation.
Several years ago a member of the French Academy of
Science published statistics showing that appendicitis in
different countries and in different classes of society in-
creases in exact ratio with the consumption of meat.
America heads the list in the prevalence of appendicitis
and in the consumption of meat. Next in order come Eng-
land, France and Germany. The disorder is much more
prevalent among the well to do, meat eating classes of
England, France and Germany than among the semi-
vegetarian peasantry.
The principal causes of constipation and therefore of
appendicitis are meat, fish and fowl, eggs, coffee and
white bread. Flesh foods taken in excess result in putre-
faction. This favors the development of bacteria, inflam-
mation and diarrhea, which are followed gradually by
atony and atrophy.
We have learned in Volume III of this series that an
excess of nitrogenous and starchy foods, fats and sugars
form disease producing substances in the human body.
These pathogenic substances, together with zanthins of
Vol. 1—10.
coffee and tea, first stimulate but later invariably benumb

the organs of digestion.They not only make gall, kidney
and bladder stones but also form incrustations in the
bowels in the cecum and appendix. These accumulations
blockade the secretory glands and membranes, become a
source of constant irritation and prevent the assimilation
of food.
Why White Bread Is Constipating
The germs of grains contain two powerful ferments

called diastase and peptase. The diastase changes the
starch of the grain into sugar. The peptase changes the
gluten into proteose and peptones which serves as food
for the growing sprout in similar manner as the yolk and
white of egg serve as food for the chick. In whole grain
flour these ferments are preserved. They take the place
of yeast for the fermenting of the bread, turn the starch
into dextrine and sugar and the gluten into proteose and
peptones, thus predigesting the raw materials in the bread.
They act on the flour in the same way as do the digestive
ferments in the body.
This is the reason why whole grain meal "does not
keep" and why it requires less yeast than does white flour
for lightening. The latter in the milling process has been
deprived of the germ which contains the diastase and pep-
tase and has also been robbed of the hulls which contain
the mineral salts and thus are the carriers of the vita-
mines. The small particles of hull in the whole grain meal
serve as a natural stimulant to the peristalsis of the bowels.
They loosen the starchy mass in the stomach and intes-
tinesand thus favor the penetration of the digestive
juices.
White flour bread, pastry and other products deprived
of the natural ferments and the hulls of the grain tend
to form pasty, lumpy accumulations in the intestines. I
APPENDICITIS 137
have known horses to die from feeding on white bread.

Itformed solid lumps which caused intestinal obstruction
and thus killed the animals. Is it any wonder human
beings develop constipation and appendicitis when they
try to digest foods which kill a horse ?
When the ordinary constipation producing meat-white-
bread-pastry-coffee diet begins to have the usual effects,
drugs, laxatives and
cathartics are taken to counteract
the evil results. In accordance with the law of action
and reaction these poisonous stimulants only hasten the
chronic atrophy of the intestinal tract.
Prom the foregoing it becomes apparent that the best
preventive of constipation and appendicitis is a well
balanced vegetable diet (Vol. II) containing liberal
amounts of and vegetables and whole grain cereal
fruits
products. The seed bearing fruits, which have been ac-
cused of causing appendicitis, are in reality the best pre-
ventives for thiscommon ailment. This is confirmed by
practical experience. Constipation and appendicitis are
practically unknown among those who live on a rational
vegetarian diet, but the surgeon, well paid for snipping
out the appendix, has no time to waste in preaching
dietetics even if he knew how.
Treatment of Acute Appendicitis

The treatment of acute appendicitis is the same as that
of any other acute inflammatory feverish disease. The
essentials are plenty of fresh air, absolute fasting, hydro-
therapy and manipulative treatment. While fasting the
patient may have as much water with dilute acid fruit
juices of natural temperature as he desires.
In every instance where I have been called to attend
appendicitis patients who had been under treatment by
physicians of other schools, I have had to remove either
hot water compresses or the ice bags. Both applications
are positively harmful and destructive. I have ex-

plained the action of hot water applications in Volume
II. Artificial heat may temporarily relieve congestion
and pain, but at the same time it keeps up the heat
in the affected parts. does not do anything to pro-
It
mote heat radiation and thus favors abscess formation.
The ice treatment chills and freezes the parts and thus
checks and suppresses the inflammatory process, leaving
the affected parts in a condition of destruction or, in
other words, of chronic disease.
Rational treatment lies between the two extremes of
heat and ice. It is strange that none of the other schools
of healing have discovered this fact. The only natural
and rational way is to use for the packs, compresses and
ablutions, water of the ordinary temperature as it comes
from the hydrant or well. (Vol. II.)
If the patient can endure it, we apply the ordinary
abdominal pack or trunk pack, with an additional wet
compress over the seat of inflammation. In serious cases
throat packs and leg packs may be applied in addition
to the trunk pack, in order to reduce high temperature
and to divert the blood from the affected parts. If the
patient is so sensitive that he cannot endure the applica-
tion of packs or if the inflammation runs a mild course,
compresses wrung out of water fresh from the hydrant
may be spread over the abdomen. Of course the com-
presses must be renewed day and night whenever they
become hot or dry.
Neurotherapy, spinal inhibition, magnetic and mental
treatment and the indicated homeopathic remedies are
valuable aids in the natural treatment. Absolutely essen-
tial,however, are complete rest, fasting, water with dilute
fruit juices and hydrotherapy. They will always be suffi-
cient to produce a perfect cure, provided the natural
remedies are applied from the start.
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No
food of any kind should be taken, not even milk
or broth. Nature must be given a free hand. Any kind
of food excites the peristalsis of the inflamed intestines,
thereby preventing the healing processes. Food particles
may become enclosed in the open sores and abscesses,
thus causing decay, chronic irritation and "recurrent
appendicitis."
After all symptoms have subsided the fasting must be
continued for several days, in many cases for a week or
more, in order to prevent relapses and chronic after effects.
By adhering to these simple rules we have cured every
ease which has come under our treatment.
Fasting and cold water treatment keep the inflammatory
processes below the danger point. They allow free heat
radiation, prevent abscess formation and at the same time
do not interfere with nature's purifying healing efforts.
What About Abscesses?
The question may be asked, "What would you do if an

abscess has already formed?" Even then I would adhere
to the same simple, natural treatment and trust to nature
rather than to the surgeon's knife. That this is the best
policy we have proved in a great many instances. Under
right treatment absorption of the abscess will take place
or it break in the direction of least resistance, usually
will
into the cecum, and discharge through the rectum or
through an outlet in the abdominal walls. It is wonder-
ful how nature in such cases, under proper treatment, seeks
and finds the safest outlet.
However, abscess formation, perforation and peritonitis
will not occur if the treatment is natural from the begin-
ning. All these serious complications are the result of
hot water treatment, ice packs, premature feeding or
cathartics. Several cases have come under my treatment
after abscess formation and perforation had taken place.

The resulting peritonitis was easily controlled by the
natural treatment. Most patients make good recoveries.
The Dangers of Surgical Treatment
In order to reach the seat of infection, abscess or per-

foration, the surgeon has to cut through many layers of
tissues and then into the pus and germ filled locality.
Naturally the danger of infecting the peritoneal cavity
is very great. Mother Nature herself ingeniously tries
to minimize the danger of infection. I have several times
heard surgeons remark upon the fact that abscesses are
usually surrounded by strong, fibrous walls in order to
prevent rupture and to protect the organism from infec-
tion. This is an instance of Nature's wonderful provision
for the protection of health and life, for emergencies and
extraordinary demands upon the organism.
Much as I admire Hahnemann, I cannot agree with him
that "Nature is a poor healer". As a rule, the older, the
more intelligent and experienced the physician or surgeon,
the more he recognizes and trusts "vis medicatrix natU'
rae". The young man fresh from school enthusiastically
cuts into everything that presents itself. His elders shake
their heads and say, "Wait a while. See what Nature
will do."
In my experience one of the most remarkable cases of
appendicitis, complicated with general peritonitis, was
that of an elderly gentleman whom I shall call Mr. X.
He had been suffering from diabetes for a long time.
After seeking relief by medical treatment he was con-
verted to Christian Science and for many years he and
his family were staunch believers in Mrs. Eddy's teach-
ings. The disease, however, gained on him steadily and
in his last extremity he returned to allopathic treatment.
APPENDICITIS 141
When his physician candidly told him there was no hope,

he came to us for examination and advice.
The diagnosis from the iris revealed a large itch spot
in the pancreatic area. He remembered distinctly that
in his youth he had suffered from a violent attack of
"seven year itch" and that this had been suppressed
with the usual sulphur-molasses and blue-ointment treat-
ment. Half a year of rational living and natural treatment
put him in fine condition. Then, of course, "Science had
' '
done it and he returned to the flesh pots of Egypt
'
' ' '.
Later on Mr. X. visited me occasionally and told me

exultingly how Christian Science was making good in
every way. "Oh, doctor," he said, "if you only had
Science with your Nature Cure, you would be all right.
As long as I get a daily treatment from my 'healer' I
can enjoy my steaks and chops and hot cakes and coffee
without the slightest inconvenience." Laughingly I an-
swered, "Look out, Mr. X., you cannot cheat Nature for-
ever. If you do not behave you will get your spanking
in spite of 'Science'." So it proved. About six months
later I received a message: "Come at once. Mr. X. is
dying."
Attended by a nurse I hurried to his home and found
him in a very precarious condition. The trouble had orig-
inated in a very serious attack of appendicitis. This had
developed into abscess and general peritonitis.
We at once applied the cold packs and spinal inhibi-
tion, together with magnetic and mental treatment.
Within half an hour we had the condition under control.
The terrific pains had subsided and the patient was resting
easily. He said, "Doctor, for six days I have been in hell.
I have suffered all sorts of pain in my life, but never
anything like this. Through it all I had in attendance at
one time or another six of the best Scientists in Chicago,
'
but obtained no relief.
After the inflammation had somewhat subsided we tried

to flush his bowels by enemas, but without result. We
were forced to "trust to Nature". On the twenty-eighth
day they moved naturally and freely. Prom that time
on, full recovery was only a matter of careful nursing.
During the first few weeks his entire abdomen was cov-
ered with crusty looking eruptions. Nature's cleansing
efforts. There has been no return of the trouble. Mr. X.
is all right as long as he takes his "Science" with a liberal
allowance of Nature Cure.
He told me that after his recovery from diabetes and
return to a flesh diet, he suffered from constipation ; that
at times his bowels did not move for several days, often for
a week at a time. "When he mentioned this to his "healer"
he was told, "Never mind, the Lord will take care of
that". The Lord did take care of it until a filthy condi-
tion of the system brought about the attack of appendi-
citis. The healer who expected the Lord to make good for
his own lack of common sense had been at one time a well
known allopathic physician. Like many other people, not
understanding the basic laws of health, disease and cure,
he had swung from one extreme to another from allo- —
pathic overdoing into Christian Science "nothing doing".
The Chronic After Effects of Appendicitis
It has been customary with surgeons to advise removal

of the appendix even after the patient has recovered from
an acute attack, in order to prevent recurrence. If appen-
dicitis iscured in the natural way there will be no chronic
after effects. Injudicious feeding, the use of drugs and
surgical operations, however, may prevent perfect restora-
tion of the affected parts and result in chronic appendicitis.
Ihave already explained how food materials may in-
vade wounds and abscesses and may become enclosed in
APPENDICITIS 143
them, causing permanent irritation. If the palm of the

hand has a cut we do not continually close and open it;
this would interfere with the healing process. The con-
tact of food with the raw surfaces of the inflamed cecum
and appendix, in similar manner, interferes with healing.
Surgical extirpation is by no means a guarantee for the
nonrecurrence of "appendicitis". I have observed in many
cases that the worst attacks came after the removal of
the organ. This was due to inflammation of neighboring
parts, weakened by the operation.
We have learned that the appendix is a useful organ
and that it performs important functions in the processes
of digestion. Its extirpation, therefore, involves a seri-
ous loss to the economy of the body. "We find that people
thus operated upon nearly always suffer more from diges-
tive disturbances than they did before. There is more
sluggishness, constipationand gas formation. The general
tone of health not as good as formerly and resistance is
is
lowered. Major operations invariably mean a weakening

of the tissues and saturation with poisonous antiseptics.
The affected parts are, therefore, less resistant to deterio-
ration and disease.
Wliy Not Nature Cure Fiist Instead of Last?
Mr. A., an Italian barber in our neighborhood, can

answer this question from sad experience. His trouble
started with chronic constipation and hemorrhoids. To
correct the latter hewas operated upon, but in conse-
quence the rectum contracted to such an extent that an-
other operation became necessary. Then the bowels did
not move at all.
One of the most prominent surgeons in this city per-

formed another operation, removing the appendix. After
that, enemas and the most powerful drugs had no effect
upon the bowels. As a last resort, other experiments fail-

ing, the eminent surgeon made an opening through the
abdominal wall into the ascending colon. Through this
canal, by means of a silver funnel, warm water was poured
into the intestines. This brought the desired result. When
the man came to us for advice he had been pouring a pint
or more of warm water into the intestine, through the
opening in his right side, every day for two years. While
this procedure moved the bowels, the wound was begin-
ning to show signs of necrosis and he was told by physi-
cians that there was grave danger of cancer. This finally
brought him to Nature Cure.
Under the natural regimen, within four weeks his bow-
els moved naturally and freely without irrigation from
above. They have continued to do so ever since.
At first he did not allow the wound to close, being afraid
of a recurrence of his old troubles — constipation and intes-
tinal obstruction. He kept the channel open artificially
by daily inserting the funnel. When the bowels had
acted normally for three months he allowed the wound to
close. It healed perfectly and there has been no trouble
since during a period of several years.
I demonstrated this case before an assemblage of stu-
dents and professors in a medical college. In the course
of my remarks I said: "If it was possible to make the
bowels move naturally and freely by four weeks of natural
diet and treatment after three years of medical and sur-
gical experimentation, how much easier it would have
been in the beginning to accomplish the cure by natural
methods! How much suffering, loss of time and money
might have been avoided."
CHAPTER XIV
VACCINATION
THE pernicious
system
after effects of vaccination upon the
are similar to those of the various serum and
antitoxin treatments.
The discovery of vaccination is usually credited to Ed-
ward Jenner, an English barber and chiropodist. The
doubtful honor, however, belongs in reality to an old
Circassian woman who, according to the historian Le Due,
in the year 1672 startled Constantinople with the an-
nouncement that the Virgin Mary had revealed to her an
unfailing preventive against smallpox.
Her was inoculation with the genuine smallpox
specific
virus. But even with her (or the Virgin Mary) the idea
was not an original one, because the principle of isopathy
(curing a disease with its own disease products) was
explicitly taught a hundred years before by Paracelsus,
the great genius of the Renaissance of learning during
the Middle Ages. But even he was only voicing the secret
teachings of ancient folklore, sympathy healing and magic
dating back to the Druids and Seers of ancient Britain
and Germany.
The Circassian seeress cut a cross in the flesh of the
applicant and inoculated the wound with smallpox virus.
Together with this she prescribed prayer, abstinence from
meat, and fasting for forty days. The fasting was un-
doubtedly the most efficient part of the treatment.
Since at that time smallpox was a terrible and wide-
spread scourge, the practice of inoculation was carried
all over Europe. At first the operation was performed
145
by women and laymen but when vaccination became pop-

;
ular and people showed themselves willing to pay for it,

the doctors began to incorporate it into their regular
practice.
Popular superstitions run a course very similar to that
of epidemics. They have a period of inception, of viru-
lence and of abatement, and they die as a natural result
of their own falsities and exaggerations.
It soon became evident that inoculation with the
virus did not prevent smallpox, but on the contrary fre-
quently caused it; and therefore the practice grad-
ually fell into a state of innocuous desuetude, to be
revived by Edward Jenner about one hundred years
later in a modified form. He substituted cowpox virus
for smallpox virus.
Modern allopathy, in applying the isopathic principle,
gives large and poisonous doses of virus, lymph, serums
and antitoxins; while homeopathy, as did ancient mys-
ticism, applies the isopathic remedies in highly diluted and
triturated doses only. From England vaccination grad-
ually spread over the civilized world and during the nine-
teenth century the smallpox disease constantly diminished
in virulence and frequency until today it has become
comparatively rare.
"Therefore vaccination has exterminated smallpox",
say the disciples of Jenner.
Is that really so ? Is vaccination actually a preventive
of smallpox? This seems very doubtful, especially since
the advocates of vaccination themselves do not believe
it. "What," I hear them say, "we do not believe in our
own theory?" Evidently you do not, my friends. If you
believe that vaccination protects you against smallpox
why are you afraid of "catching" it from those who are
not vaccinated? If you are thoroughly protected, as you
claim to be, how can you catch the disease from those
VACCINATION 147
who are not protected ? Why

do you not allow the other
fellow to have his fill and then enjoy a good
of smallpox
laugh on him? The fact of the matter is you know full
well that you are not safe, that you can catch the disease
just as readily as can the unvaccinated.
In the years of 1870-71 smallpox was rampant in Ger-
many. Over 1,000,000 persons had the disease and 120,000
died. Ninety-six percent of these had been vaccinated, and
only four percent had not been so "protected". Most of
the victims were vaccinated, once at least, shortly before
they took the disease.
In 1888 Bismarck sent to the governments of all the
German states an address in which it was admitted that
numerous eczematous diseases, even those of an epidemic
nature, were directly attributable to vaccination, and that
the origin and cure of smallpox were still unsolved
problems.
In this message to the various legislatures the chan-
cellor said:"The hopes placed in the efficacy of the cow-
pox virus as a preventive of smallpox have proved en-
tirely deceptive." Realizing this to be a fact, most of
the German governments have modified or entirely re-
scinded their compulsory vaccination laws.
"But," our opponents insist, "you cannot deny that
smallpox has greatly diminished since the almost universal
adoption of vaccination."
Certainly the disease has diminished. But the plague,
the "Black Death", cholera, the bubonic plague, yellow
fever and numerous other epidemic pests which until
recently occasionally decimated entire nations have also
diminished and, in fact, nearly disappeared.
Not one of these epidemics was treated by vaccination.
Why, then, did they abate and practically disappear? The
answer is, because of the more general adoption of soap,
bathtubs, all kinds of sanitary measures, such as plumb-
ing, drainage and ventilation, and because of more hy-

gienic modes of living.
Many of us remember how yellow fever raged in Ha-
vana during the Spanish occupancy. "Within a few months
after the energetic Yankees took possession and gave the
filthy city a good scouring, yellow fever had entirely dis-
—
appeared without any yellow fever vaccination.
The question is now in order, why of all the dreaded
plagues of the past smallpox alone survives to this day?
The answer is, because of vaccination. If scrofulous
and syphilitic poisons were not artificially kept alive in
the human blood by vaccination, smallpox by this time
would be as rare as cholera and yellow fever. In this
connection it must be remembered that all vaccines, serums
and antitoxins are alive with morbid (bacterial) micro-
zyma.
Thanks compulsory vaccination of
to the oft-repeated
every young and old, we as a nation have become
citizen,
saturated with smallpox virus. Is it any wonder that
occasionally this latent taint breaks out in acute epidemics?
Undoubtedly the almost universal systematic contami-
nation and degeneration of vital fluids and tissues, not
alone with vaccine virus but also with many other filthy
serums, antitoxins and drug- poisons, accounts in a large
measure for the steady increase of tuberculosis, cancer,
syphilis, infantile paralysis, insanity, and a multitude of
other chronic destructive diseases unknown among primi-
tive people that have not come in contact with the bless-
ings (?) of "syphilization", mercurialization and vac-
cination.
By weakening the system's reactionary powers against
one disease, its reactionary powers against all diseases are
weakened. In other words, creating in the body a form
of chronic smallpox by means of vaccination favors the
development of all kinds of chronic diseases.
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Quit sowing the seed, gentlemen, and you will cease

reaping the harvest. By the suppression of syphilis and
by means of vaccination you are perpetuating" smallpox.
What has syphilis to do with smallpox? They are very
closely related and similar in appearance, symptomatology,
and in their effects upon the organism. Dr. Cruwell, after
having studied the subject thoroughly, says: "Every
vaccination with so-called cowpox virus means syphilitic
infection. Cowpox is not a disease peculiar to cattle; it
is always due to syphilitic or smallpox infection from the
diseased hands of human beings. Cowpox pustules have
been found only on the udders of milk cows which came
in contact with human hands. Cattle roaming in pasture
and prairie have never been affected by cowpox, nor have
domesticated steers and oxen. If this disease were a dis-
order peculiar to cattle both sexes would be equally af-
fected. Jenner's cowpox was caused by the diseased hands
of the syphilitic milkmaid, Sarah Nehnes.
Vaccination of healthy children and adults is often fol-
lowed by a multitude of symptoms which cannot be dis-
tinguished from syphilis, viz., characteristic ulcers and
eczematous eruptions, swellings of the lymphatic glands,
atrophy of the mammary glands in women and in girls
above the age of puberty, etc.
This explains the constantly growing demand for "bust
foods" and "bust developers". A perfectly developed
bust has become so rare that many hundreds of "beauty
doctors" and of business concenis that make a specialty
of developing the flat-bosomed realize thousands of dollars
annually. One firm in this city, and a small concern at
that, has made from $2,500 to $5,000 a year and has over
10,000 names on its constantly increasing list of patrons.
It is reasonable to assume that almost without exception
these 10,000 women had been vaccinated from one to
three times before the age of puberty. When this is real-
ized, and the fact that vaccination dries up the mammary

glands is taken into account, is it not time to pause and
consider?
The figures of this one small concern represent the re-
port of only one out of several hundred such firms doing
business in all parts of the country.
Some years ago a disease similar to smallpox broke out
among the sheep in certain parts of Scotland. As a pre-
ventive the sheep were vaccinated. In the course of a
few years was noticed that a great many ewes were un-
it
able to nourish their lambs. With the discontinuance of

vaccination this phenomenon disappeared.
Do not these facts help to explain why over fifty percent
of human mothers are now incapable of nursing their
babies?
Looking Forward
At present the trend of allopathic medicine is undoubt-

edly toward the serum, antitoxin and vaccine treatment.
Practically all medical research tends that way. Every
now and then the medical journals and the daily papers
announce new serums and antitoxins which are claimed
to cure or create immunity to certain diseases.
Suppose the research and practice of medicine continue
along these lines and are generally accepted; or, as the
medical associations would have it, are forced upon the
public by law. What would be the result? Before a
child reached the years of adolescence it would have had
injected into its blood the vaccines, serums and antitoxins
of smallpox, hydrophobia, tetanus (lockjaw), cerebro-
spinal meningitis, typhoid fever, diphtheria, pneumonia,
scarlet fever, etc., etc.
If allopathy were to have its way, the blood of the adult
would be a mixture of dozens of filthy bacterial extracts,
disease taints and destructive drug poisons. The tonsils
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and adenoids, the appendix vermiformis and probably a

few other parts of the human anatomy would be extirpated
in early youth under compulsion of the health departments.
"Which is more rational and sensible the endeavor to:
produce immunity to disease by making the human body

a swill pot for the collection of all sorts of disease taints
and poisonous antiseptics and germicides, or to create
natural immuiiity by building up the blood on a normal
basis, purifying thebody of morbid matter and poisons,
correcting mechanical lesions and by cultivating the right
mental attitude? Which one of these methods is more
likely to be disease building —which health building?
Just imagine what human blood
will be like in coming
generations if contamination with all sorts of
this artificial
disease taints and drug poisons is to be forced upon the
people.
Why Vaccination Is Responsible for Many Acute and

Chronic Diseases
"We have learned that every inflammatory and feverish
disease is a purifying and healing effort of Nature, In
accordance with this fundamental law of cure the organ-
ism tries to throw off through the sores and ulcers pro-
duced by vaccination not only the recently inoculated
smallpox virus, but also all other hereditary and acquired
disease taints and systemic poisons.
Allopathic physicians recognize this law and apply it in
their practice. "When they make use of ''counter irri-
tants" such as blisters, "Spanish flies", belladonna plas-
ters, leeches, cupping, etc., they endeavor to remove the
internal congestion and inflammation by creating artificial
inflammation on the surface of the body. The Nature Cure
physician accomplishes the same thing in a more natural
way by wet packs and cold ablutions.
The pus-like mass exuding from the smallpox pustule
Vol. 1 — 11.
or the vaccination sore contains the virus not only of

smallpox, but also of scrofula, psora, tuberculosis, syph-
ilis, gonorrhea, anthrax, lumpy jaw and whatever else
there may be of hereditary and acquired disease taints

and poisons in the system of the animal or human from
which the virus is secured. Such filthy exudates are in-
oculated into the bodies of millions of innocent victims
of a "scientific" superstition.
"When vaccination is followed by scrofulous or syphilitic
eruptions, itchy eczemata, swellings of glandular struc-
tures, etc., in children or adults who before vaccination
were free from these disorders, then people who ought to
know better wonder where it all came from, "where the
poor child caught it".
Fathers and mothers have been accused by the family
physician of transmitting syphilis to their offspring when,
as a matter of fact, the foul vaccine poison which the
doctor himself had inoculated into the child was the real
cause of the suspicious sores and eruptions.
An Interesting News Item

The following item appeared in several Chicago dailies
on Monday, May 17, 1909, but was then promptly sup-
pressed by those most deeply interested in upholding the
vicious practice of vaccination,
— —
"Washington, D. C, May 16. (Special) The bureau of animal
industry made public today a report which fastens the blame for
the recent outbreak of the hoof and mouth disease in Michigan,
New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland on a contaminated strain
of vaccine, which originally came from a foreign country. The
disease was traced by inspectors of the bureau to calves that had
been used for the production of virus.
"The report sets forth the belief that the epidemic of hoof and
mouth disease, which it cost the federal government $300,000 to
suppress, was started by these calves at Detroit after they had
been used for the production of vaccine on the H. K. Mulford
farms. The vaccine virus with which they were inoculated was
imported from abroad (Germany) by Parke, Davis and Company,
Manufacturing Chemists, and contained an infection of hoof and
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mouth disease. These calves, after having been used in propa-

gating vaccine, were sent on October 16th to the Detroit stockyards
to be disposed of in the market.
' *
On October 20th three carloads of cattle from points in Michi-
gan reached the Detroit etockyards and some of them were put
into pens that had been occupied by the vaccine calves four days
previously. Some of these cattle were sold for slaughter at De-
troit, while the remainder were shipped to Buffalo and some were
reshipped to Danville and Watsontown, Pa., where the disease was
first observed some days later. The disease spread to various places
in Pennsylvania and New York and to one locality in Maryland.
"Three separate series of experiments were made. Young cattle
and sheep were inoculated with the vaccine virus obtained from
both firms. The hoof and mouth disease was produced in these
animals by the use of vaccine of the same strain obtained from
both sources, while other strains of vaccine tested gave negative
results.
"The disease was also transmittedfrom one animal to another
through several series, in two instances being transmitted by
natural modes of infection.
"Light Shed on New England Outbreak"

"The investigation also indicates that the outbreaks of hoof and
mouth disease in New England in 1902-03 were due to contaminated
vaccine of Japanese origin imported by the Mulford Company."
Why are facts of such, vital importance to the publie

and to our farmers suppressed after the first publication
in the daily press, and who is responsible for such sup-
pression? To day the public is left with the impres-
this
sion that the cause of these epidemics is unknown.
The first point of significance in this interesting report
is that the H. K. Mulford Company, of Glen Olden, Pa.,
used a certain smallpox vaccine virus which was con-

taminated with hoof and mouth disease. In May, 1908,
vaccine of this strain was used for the production of
vaccine virus crops from calves. The procedure is as
follows The flanks of the animals are shaved, then long
:
slits are made in the flesh. The seed vaccine is rubbed

into these wounds. The poison thus inoculated spreads
through the entire organism of the animal and thoroughly
contaminates blood and tissues. Then Nature endeavors
to eliminate the morbid taints. The wounds in the sides of
the animals become ulcerating sores. The revolting mass
exuding therefrom is then prepared for the market and i&

used throughout the country for purposes of vaccination
The report further explains how it was positively proved
that this particular vaccine virus was contaminated with
the taints of hoof and mouth disease. In consequence
of this, thousands of children in all parts of the country
were infected through vaccination not alone with vaccine
virus but also with the cattle disease. While it is true
that this virulent disease may not always prove fatal to
human beings, inoculation with the virus means certain
contamination with another disease taint which in the
human body works insidious destruction in some other
form, as scrofula, tuberculosis, eczema, etc.
Why, in the name of humanity, should we take chances
of contaminating the blood of the innocent with these and
other vile poisons? It has been repeatedly claimed by
different investigators that cowpox is not a disease pecu-
liar to cattle, that oxen have never shown it; that it ap-
pears only on the udders of milch cows and originates
there in syphilitic infection from the hands of venereal
milkers. This statement seems plausible; but whether it
can be proved or not, the fact remains that cowpox as
well as smallpox is a disease taint which should not be
artificially propagated in the blood of human beings.
Never was humanity cursed by a blacker superstition
than this, that disease can be cured and health maintained
by the absorption of virulent poisons. Rational therapeu-
tics will always eliminate morbid matter, not introduce
it into the system. AYitliout doubt, smallpox would be as
extinct in civilized communities as are the plague, cholera
and yellow fever, if it were not kept alive and propagated
by the morbid microzyma of vaccine virus. The trouble
with these disease taints, as with the inorganic poisonous
drugs, is that in most cases their work of destruction in
the human organism is so slow and insidious that the after
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effects are not always traced to their true source. The

anemia, leukemia, scrofulosis, tuberculosis, eczematous
eruption or ulceration of a syphilitic character are hardly
ever traced by the usual methods of diagnosis to vaccina-
tion, antitoxin,serum or tuberculixi treatment. Here
also diagnosis from the iris of the eye is frequently of
inestimable service in disclosing true cause and effect.
Another startling revelation is contained in this report.
One would expect that the calves whose blood and tissues
have been so thoroug-hly saturated with vile disease taints
would be killed and their bodies consumed by quicklime.
Instead, horrifying as it may be, they were sent back to
the stock yards to be sold for meat in the market! It
seems incredible that for a few paltry dollars these wealthy
and respected firms who pose as protectors and preservers
of public health would foist these vile carcasses upon an
unsuspecting public as foodstuff. Such commerce in vac-
cine veal undoubtedly has been going on for years and
is probably flourishing still. All we have to say to our
friends, the meat eaters, is ''hon appetit!"
While the last epidemic referred to was in progress I
lectured on this subject before the "Open Forum" society
in the Masonic Temple, Chicago. read the above quoted
I
extracts from the "Tribune" and other Chicago dailies
and explained the sinister significance of these reports.
After I had finished my lecture a gentleman arose from
the audience and asked permission from the chairman of
the meeting to tell what he knew about the subject under
discussion. His remarks were reported by a stenographer
in the audience and ran as follows
"I am one of the men sent here by the government in
"Washington to subdue the epidemic of hoof and mouth
disease in the stockyards. I am aware that the facts
concerning the causes of former epidemics, as related by
Dr. Lindlahr, are well known to the government officials
in Washington, and there is strong evidence that the pres-

rent outbreak (1914) originated in a similar way. It is
also true that the facts were and are withheld from pub-
lication at the instigation of powerful influences who are
interested in upholding vaccination.
"Mypresent experience in the stockyards has also
proved to me that Dr. Lindlahr is right when he says that
every acute disease is a healing effort of nature and if
treated right will make for cure. This is true even of
hoof and mouth disease.
''As you probably know, several hundred very valuable
high bred animals on exhibition in this city became In-
fected by the disease and were condemned to be killed.
On account of their great value it was decided to make
an effort to save them. Animals affected by this disease
die from starvation, since the tongue becomes so inflamed
and swollen that they cannot take food. "We placed this
bunch of cattle in a high, airy loft, kept them clean and
fed them through rubber tubes stuck into their throats.
After the inflammation in the mouth had run its course
'
every one of them got well.

Is this not a remarkable confirmation of Nature Cure
philosophy and practice? After this test had been made
and proved the easy curability of the disease, why were
the farmers not informed of this wonderful discovery of a
natural cure? Why was the ruthless and unnecessary
destruction of thousands of valuable animals continued?
The diseased animals would have done still better if in-
stead of food nothing but water had been given. Undoubt-
edly anthrax and other animal diseases could be cured in
the same natural manner.
After Effects of Vaccination

A happened to attend a public clinic
few years ago I
in a Chicago medical One of the subjects was a

college.
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strong, healthy looking girl about eighteen years of age.

Although in general appearance she was the picture of
health, her left hand was horribly affected. The thumb
and parts of the inner surface of the hand were disfigured
by destructive ulceration. These sores had begun to
develop about six months previous to the clinical exami-
nation.
The health record of the patient's family was excellent.
For generations past there had been no sign of scrofulous
or tuberculous diseases on either side. Father, mother
and a number of sisters and brothers were living and in
good health. The young woman herself had never in her
life suffered from a serious ailment.
All attempts of the assembled students and professors
to find a cause for this condition of the patient's hand were
futile. I approached the young woman and on looking
into her clear blue eyes discovered that the region of the
iriscorresponding to the upper left arm disclosed a large
—
dark spot inclosed by whitish lines in iridiagnostic termi-
nology, a "closed lesion".
Closed lesions in the iris correspond to scar tissue in the
body. As long as a wound, ulcer or catarrhal defect is
open and active in the body it is represented in the iris
by dark, blackish shadings interwoven with white lines.
When the lesion in the body is healed and closed, this
fact is recorded in the iris by the appearance of a whit-
ish frame around the dark shading. Thus a closed lesion
in the iris stands for the formation of new tissues or "scar
tissue" in the body.
In the case of this young woman the region in the iris
corresponding to the diseased hand exhibited the whitish
clouds of acute inflammatory activity. The scar sign in
the region of the upper arm and the peculiar ulceration
of the hand suggested to me at once the idea of vaccina-
tion.
I addressed the patient as follows: "Not long ago,

say within a year or two, you have been vaccinated on
the left arm, and this was followed by a large, ulcerating
vaccination sore. The ulcer was cured by medicinal treat-
ment."
Somewhat surprised, she confirmed every part of my
diagnosis. She related that a year before, while coming
from Europe on an ocean liner, she had been vaccinated,
and that a large, ugly vaccination sore had developed
which was very slow to heal and was treated for some time
with "salves from the drug store'*.
Thereupon I gave it as my opinion to the clinic that
vaccination and the suppression of the resulting ulcera-
tion were the direct cause of the tuberculous sore on the
hand. My diagnosis created considerable hilarity among
the allopathic students in attendance at the clinic. It
seemed ridiculous to them that anything so thoroughly
orthodox as vaccination could in any way be held respon-
sible forsuch serious after effects, especially since the
sore on the hand did not appear until six months after
vaccination.
Replying to this objection, I asked why luetic sores on
the body and in the throat sometimes do not appear until
six months or longer after the suppression of the original
lesion on the genital organs has taken place, orwhy cancer
does not develop in an organ affected by suppressed itch
(as revealed in the iris of the eye) until many years after
this suppression.
To these questions orthodox medical science has, of
course, no answer. The dean of the college, a liberal and
discerning man, who was conducting this particular clinic,
showed himself susceptible to an understanding of my
side of the controversy by saying: "Dr. Lindlahr has
given at least a very pertinent and plausible theory of
this phenomenon, while you yourselves have given no
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explanation whatever. Therefore, gentlemen, please curb

your hilarity and do some thinking."
Epilepsy Caused by Va,ccination
Another interesting case confirming the creation of

chronic disease through vaccination is that of Mr. B., who
came to us for consultation and treatment several years

ago. For four years he had been suffering from a bad
form of epilepsy. He had consulted with and been treated
by the best physicians in Chicago, but without the slightest
relief.
When I first examined his eyes I noticed in the region
of the corresponding to the left arm a heavy, whitish
iris
streak which contained two black spots. This indicated

an injury to the limb and a subacute condition.
I asked the patient whether he had at any time sus-
tained an injury to his left arm.This he denied, but after
considerable quizzing he finally answered: "When the
epileptic attacks come on I feel a pain in the left hand;
this travels up the arm, and when it reaches the elbow I
'
fall unconscious.
Examining again the lesion in the iris, I asked, "Has
the arm been vaccinated?"
"Yes," he answered, "about four years ago."
"Did it create much of an ulceration?"
"Yes, the arm was swollen twice its size and I was
confined to bed for two weeks."
"Did the epileptic attackscommence about that time?"
"Yes, I never had any previous to that vaccination."
Many people are suffering today from serious chronic
affections of body and mind resulting from vaccination.
These chronic after effects usually develop so slowly and
insidiously that no one thinks of tracing them to their
true cause. The diagnosis from the iris of the eye has
exposed and explained many of these "obscure" eases.

Allopathy, when asked about the causes of these and other
serious chronic ailments, has but one answer, "Nobody
knows". And it assumes that nobody can know.
We explain cause and effect in this case as follows
The filthy vaccine virus injected into the arm caused
blood poisoning. If the resulting ulceration had been
allowed to discharge freely and fully, and if elimination
had been encouraged by proper treatment instead of being
hindered and suppressed by poisonous antiseptics, the
blood would have purified itself and there would have
been no chronic after effects. But the wounds were healed
prematurely by the usual antiseptic treatment and the
system was left in a poisoned condition.
The diagnosis from the eye has revealed the fact that
the epileptic center is located in the cerebellum, just be-
hind the left ear.In this connection it is significant that
the left arm had been vaccinated.
From the description of this case it clearly follows that
the treatment had to be eliminative. The toxins had to
be eliminated from the arm and from the system as a
whole by pure food diet and all other methods of natural
treatment.
During the sixth week, in accordance with the law of
developed on the left arm in the same loca-
crises, a sore
tion where four years before vaccination had caused the
ulceration. This healing crisis verified in a remarkable
manner our diagnosis of the case and also the lesions in
the iris.
The discharges from the arm acted as a fontanelle and

safety valve through which Nature eliminated the sup-
pressed disease taint. After the sore had remained open
for a few weeks, it healed spontaneously. Since that time
Mr. B. has not had another epileptic attack. He has mar-
ried and is now the happy father of several healthy
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children. He lives in the neighborhood of our Chicago

institution and is an enthusiastic booster for Nature
Cure.
According to medical science he was a "defective"
vrho should have been sterilized for the protection of
society.
In our Nature Cure practice we have met with many-
cases of tuberculosis, eczema, pernicious anemia, lockjaw,
paralysis, etc., which were directly traceable to vaccina-
tion. Anti-vaccination societies annually report thousands
of such cases, statistically recorded.
Last year (1908) in Chicago two deaths resulted from
smallpox, while hundreds of serious diseases and fatalities
could be traced directly to vaccination. In most cases,
however, the detrimental after effects of vaccination are
so insidious and obscure in their development that they
are not easily traceable to their true cause the smallpox —
or cowpox virus and its morbid microzyma. It remains
for Iridology to bring proof positive of these hidden
sequelae.
Shortly aiter vaccination the color of the iris darkens,
especially so in the regions corresponding to the digestive
and respiratory organs. This darkening of the color is
noticeable also in cases where, according to common par-
' '
lance, vaccination has '

not taken '. In fact, these persons
often show in their eyes more serious vaccination defects
than those in whom the regular sores developed.
What does this mean? Simply that, in strict accord-
ance with the fundamental laws of cure, those who develop
vaccination ulcers expel through these the vaccine poison.
But children or adults who are already encumbered with
scrofulous conditions and who are possessed of weak
vitality are frequently not able to develop the purifying
ulcerations. Consequently they retain the poisonous infec-
tion, which results in greater deterioration of the organism
in general and of the digestive and respiratory tract in

particular.
"Worst of all, these unfortunate victims of a scientific
superstition are vaccinated again and again. The more
the filthy poison is injected into their circulation the less it
"takes", to the great mystification of the medical fra-

ternity.
Some time ago Chicago papers reported the case of a
girlwho had been vaccinated ten times "without results",
and then the child was refused admission to the public
schools because she was not properly vaccinated. Ten
times the vaccination had not taken. How did the doctors
know had not taken ?
it It is just possible that internally
ithad taken too much. Diagnosis from the eye would
probably have revealed its harmful effects. A little child
inoculated ten times with cowpox virus Is not that suffi-
!
cient to completely saturate the little body wuth the filthy

poison?
To recapitulate Those with whom vaccination "takes"
:
best, retain the least of it. They succeed in expelling the

virus. But those with whom, apparently, it does not
"take" may be the ones most seriously affected. The
darkening of the iris of the eye in the areas of the diges-
tive and respiratory tracts fully explains why vaccina-
tion accountable for all kinds of chronic disorders of
is
stomach, intestines, liver, bronchi, throat and pharynx,

why catarrhal affections and decay of the tonsils, perni-
cious anemia and tuberculosis have increased in every
country where compulsory vaccination has been intro-
duced.
Diphtheria Caused by Vaccination
Diphtheria, as we now know it, was first described by

Bretonneau, a physician of Tours, France, in the year
1820, some time after the general introduction of vacci-
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nation. Many conscientious and competent investigators

claim that diphtheria in its present virulent form and
frequency was not known before that time, and that diph-
theria has faithfully followed vaccination from one coun-
try to another, wherever the smallpox virus has polluted
the blood and lowered the vitality of the people.
Whether or not we accept these radical charges in their
entirety, this much is certain: diphtheria in its modern
virulent form and frequency of occurrence was unknown

in any country before the universal practice of vac-
cination.
This phenomenon explained by the fact that the vac-
is
cination virus, according to evidence furnished by the

diagnosis from the eye, locates and concentrates princi-
pally in the mucous membranes of the digestive tract
and and pharynx. It lowers the
of the bronchi, throat,
and charges them with the poisons
vitality of these parts
contained in the cowpox virus. At the first opportunity
Nature makes an heroic effort to throw off the scrofulous
encumbrance. This opportunity may present itself when
the next cold is "caught" —then the
ordinary tonsilitis,
pharyngitis or laryngitis may become a genuine diph-
theria. We can readily conceive how the morbid soil
created by the vaccine virus may produce microzyma which
will develop into diphtheria germs.
Sometimes we are told that this or that child had diph-
theria, although it had never been vaccinated. To this we
answer that many times the diagnosis of diphtheria is
incorrect. It is always safer for the physician to diagnose
the more serious disease. If the patient recovers, the
glory is so much greater. Since the microzyma of
diphtheria germs flourish in the bodies of vaccinated
children and the air is polluted with them, why should
not an unvaccinated child here and there succumb to the
infection, especially when the blood of our children is
hereditarily contaminated with the vaccine virus back to

the third and fourth generation?
It is amusing to note the confusion of the public as well
as of the scientific mind on the most simple questions of
hygiene. The millionaire owner of a dozen palatial quick
lunch rooms in Chicago is so deeply concerned about the
health of his patrons that at stated intervals, under penalty
of discharge, he compels every one of his employees to
submit to vaccination; yet he sees no wrong in dealing
out to his customers wholesale dyspepsia and nervousness
in the form of cheap sausage, white bread, pie, tea and
coffee. Where one person dies from smallpox, probably
thousands die from the effects of the deadly quick lunch
counter.
Anterior Poliomyelitis Caused by Vaccination
About two years ago I received the following letter

from New Braunfels, Texas:
"Dear Doctor: Allow me to submit to you the case of
a young friend of mine. The patient is about twenty-one
years of age. He was never sick in his life except with
measles, and always enjoyed the best of health. A month
ago on account of a supposed smallpox case in the neigh-
borhood general vaccination was enforced. Mr. A.
directly after vaccination developed blood poisoning, and
this resulted in cerebrospinal meningitis. This disease left
him completely paralyzed from hips down. Water and
feces have to be removed artificially.
"Home doctors say to move him would mean sure
death. What do you think about the case, and would
you advise us to bring him to you for treatment?"
To undertake the treatment of such a case seemed a
risky thing, especially when the patient had to be trans-
ported over a thousand miles. The doctors at home had
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pronounced the case absolutely incurable and transporta-

tion out of the question. Being entirely convinced of the
efficiency of our simple, natural methods, I did not hesi-
tate, however, to assume the responsibility and wrote to
the father to that effect.
Within a week after the arrival of my letter the patient
came to our sanitarium. He was completely paralyzed
from the navel down. The urine had to be removed by
the use of a catheter, and the bowels were emptied with
great difficulty by enemas. Anterior poliomyelitis was
undoubtedly caused in this case by inflammation set up
by vaccine virus, though the doctors at home tried to put
the blame for this terrible predicament on the fall from
a horse three months previous to the onslaught of the
disease. Mr. A. assured me positively that this fall did
not injure him in any way. Having been a cowboy, he
had had a great many falls more serious than this one.
This case, being of comparatively recent origin, yielded
with marvelous rapidity. Within two weeks after his
arrival at the sanitarium his bladder and bowels moved
freely and he began to regain the use of his legs. After
nine weeks he had regained full control over his lower
limbs and began to talk of going home. However, I
advised him to remain longer in order to pull the roots,
that is, to eliminate the last remains of the filthy vaccine
virus from his system.
PersonaJ Experience
From the foregoing ithave become apparent that

will
smallpox, like every other infectious disease, is a filth
disease, that its microzyma grow in morbid soil only

and that the smallpox eruptions are a sign of rapid elimi-
nation of hereditary and acquired disease taints.
A good dose of smallpox may rid the system of more
IQQ NATUEAL THEEAPEUTICS
scrofulous, tuberculous and than could

syphilitic poisons
otherwise be gotten rid of in a lifetime. Therefore small-
pox is certainly to be preferred to vaccination. The one
means the eliminatioii of chronic disease, the other the
making- of it.
"Cheap talk!" someone says. Not so, my friend! This

is not mere talk. I was put to the test in the case of my
own family and therefore speak from personal experience.
My oldest boy was born at a time when both parents
were heavily encumbered with hereditary and acquired
disease conditions. At birth he weighed only two and a
half pounds and his chance for life seemed very slight.
The eyes were of a blackish blue, especially the outer
portion of the iris, and this gradually condensed into a
heavy scurf rim owing to the fact that Nature 's cleansing
efforts in the form of skin eruptions were promptly sup-
pressed with talcum powder and other home "remedies".
For the first five or six years of his life our boy was a
weak, sickly child, having one after another all of the
common infantile ailments. However, we soon learned
to treat these by natural methods and he was not vacci-
nated.
One day suspicious looking eruptions appeared, which
soon spread all over his body. I called in two allopathic
physicians to verify my own diagnosis of smallpox, which
they did unqualifiedly.
We applied the natural treatment, which consisted of
strict fasting, colon flushing and cold water applications.
The child was kept day and night in wet packs strips —
of linen wrung out of water of natural temperature and
covered —
with flannel bandages which were changed
whenever they became hot and dry. The face also was
kept covered with cooling compresses. In addition to
this treatment I gave the indicated high potency homeo-
pathic remedies.
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There was hardly a spot on the boy's body that was

not covered with sores. However, constant renewal of
the cold packs kept the temperature below the danger
point and greatly alleviated the insufferable itching pecu-
liar to the disease.
My wife, her sister and myself by turns slept in the

same room with the child without the least fear of infec-
tion, and although we had not been vaccinated since
childhood we remained unaffected by the "contagious
disease".
The wet packs, of course, greatly furthered the processes
of elimination and the disease practically ran its course
in ten days. From that time on the sores healed rapidly
and nothing remained to indicate the '^ravages" of the
disease but a telltale mark over the left eyebrow and a
few similar scars on the boy's body. These also have now
entirely disappeared.
Under this natural treatment of the disease convales-
cence was rapid and complete, and soon after the eyes
became much clearer and much lighter in color.
Since his recovery from the smallpox this boy has never
had a sick day. He is now in his twenty-first year and
well developed physically and mentally.
As far as I could learn there was not another case of
smallpox in Chicago and vicinity at the time of the boy's
illness. If the infection theory be true, from whom did
he "catch" the disease and why did not one of the many
persons living in the same house become infected? My
answer is: This acute eliminative process was Nature's
way of purifying the little body of inherited scrofulous
and other disease taints.
"With our younger boy we had a somewhat similar expe-
rience. When one year of age he was taken with a severe
attack of cerebrospinal meningitis. Every half hour or
Vol. 1—12.
SO the little body was bent backward in the dreadful

convulsions peculiar to this disease.
Again I had two allopathic physicians make a diagnosis
of the case so that in future the facts might not be ques-
tioned. In both cases nothing but the natural treatment
was used.
For nine days it seemed a hopeless fight to everyone
who had occasion to witness it. Then both eardrums
"broke" and discharged pus and blood. From that time
on all symptoms began to clear up rapidly, and on the
eleventh day the child first took food. Previous to that
he had not received so much as a drop of milk nothing —
but cold water rendered slightly acid with fruit juices.
(This had also been the only ''food" administered in the
smallpox treatment of the little patient's brother.)
For weeks the discharge of pus and blood from the
six
ears continued unhindered and unchecked, but rather
encouraged and promoted by natural methods of treat-
ment and by the indicated homeopathic remedies.
As in the case of the older boy, the physical and mental
improvement and development following the disease were
most gratifying. AMiile before this eliminative crisis the
child had seemed somewhat slow and dull, after the recov-
ery he was much brighter and more active physically and
mentally.
Compare with this splendid recovery and subsequent
improvement in general health the results that follow the
orthodox drug and serum treatment of spinal meningitis.
According to statistics a high percentage of the patients
die and the survivors are either paralyzed or suffer from
some other form of chronic after effects.
I claim that these children eliminated in a few weeks
more scrofulous and psoric taints and poisons from their
systems through smallpox and meningitis than would have
been possible otherwise in many years, or perhaps in a
lifetime.
CHAPTER XV
THE DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN
this country the antitoxin treatment for diphtheria
IN
is still in high favor, whereas in Germany where it
originated many of the hest medical authorities are aban-

doning its use on account of its doubtful curative results
and certain destructive after affects.
According to the enthusiastic advocates of this treat-
ment among the allopathic physicians in this country, the
antitoxin a "certain cure" for diphtheria. But how is
is
this claim borne out by actual facts ?

The Health Bulletins sent regularly to every physician
in the City of Chicago by the City Health Department
show a considerable number of deaths from diphtheria
treated with antitoxin.
Considering the great uncertainty of medical statistics,
I am not prepared to affirm whether or not the antitoxin
treatment actually has reduced the mortality percentage
of this disease, but we of the Nature Cure School claim and
can prove that the hydropathic treatment of diphtheria
insures a much lower percentage of mortality than does
any other treatment.
The crucial point to be considered in this connection is
What are the after effects of the different methods of

treatment?
This is a very important matter. I make the following
claims
(1) That the antitoxin, being itself a most powerful
poison, may be and often is the direct cause of paralysis,
or of death due to heart failure.
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(2) That diphtheria treated with antitoxin may be and

often is followed by paralysis, heart failure, or lifelong
invalidism of some kind after the patient has recovered
from the diphtheria itself.
(3) That these undesirable after effects of diphtheria
do not occur when the disease is treated by natural meth-
ods, but that they are the result of the antitoxin treatment
and of its suppressive effect upon the disease.
To prove these claims I submit the following facts: I
have in my possession clippings from newspapers from
various parts of the country stating death had followed
the administration of the diphtheria antitoxin for pre-
vention or "immunization", that is, where the individual
had been in good health at the time the antitoxin was
given.
Several cases of this kind created quite a sensation in
Germany about twenty years ago. Dr. Robert Langer-
hans, superintendent of the Moabit Hospital in Berlin, a
strong advocate of the antitoxin treatment and also of
vaccination, had been one of a committee of three ap-
pointed by the municipal government of the German
metropolis to investigate the efficiency of the diphtheria
antitoxin. As a result of his findings he had recommended
its free distribution to the poor of the City of Berlin.
Not long thereafter the doctor's cook suddenly devel-
oped sore throat and was sent to the hospital. It was
thought to be a case of diphtheria, and the doctor, to
protect his little sou, one and one-half years old, against
possible infection, administered antitoxin. Shortly after-
ward the child developed symptoms of blood-poisoning
and died of heart-failure within twenty-four hours.
It iscustomary in Germany to insert a death-notice in
one of the local newspapers and to invite the friends of
the family to the funeral. In his announcement in the
columns of the "Localanzeiger", Dr. Langerhans stated
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explicitly that liis little son had died after an injection of

diphtheria antitoxin for immunization.
Another similar case is that of Dr. Pistor, a prominent
Berlin physician, whose little daughter contracted a slight
inflammation of the throat. The child was given an injec-
tion of antitoxin and this was followed by a severe and pro-
tracted illness.
Very significant, in this connection, are certain utter-
ances of Dr. William Osier in his ''Practice of Medicine".
He says on page 150;
"Of the sequelae of diphtheria, paralysis is by far the
most important. This can be experimentally produced in

animals by the inoculation of the toxic material produced
by the bacilli. The paralysis occurs in a variable pro-
portion of the cases, ranging from 10 to 15 and even to
20 per cent. It is strictly a sequel of the disease [Of the
disease treated with antitoxin?], coming on usually in the
second or third week of convalescence. ... It may follow
very mild cases indeed, the local lesion may be so trifling
;
that the onset of the paralysis alone calls attention to the

true nature of the disease. . . .
"The disease is a toxic neuritis, due to the absorption

of the poison. . . .
"Of the local paralysis the most is that which common

affects the palate. ... Of other
forms perhaps the local
most common are paralysis of the eye muscles. Heart . . .
symptoms are not uncommon Heart-failure and .fatal

. .
syncope (death) may occur at the height of the disease or

during convalescence, even as late as the sixth or seventh
week after apparent recovery."
It appears to me that the mystery of these sequelae
can easily be explained. It is certain that a mere sore
throat, not serious enough to be diagnosed as diphtheria,
cannot produce paralysis or heart-failure but we know ;
positively that the antitoxin can do it and does do it.

The cases that Dr. Osier refers to undoubtedly received

the antitoxin treatment, because it is administered on the
slightest suspicion of diphtheria, nay, even to perfectly
healthy persons "for purposes of immunization".
Then is it not mostly likely that these "mysterious after
effects" are caused rather by the highly poisonous anti-
toxin than by the "sore throat"?
In my own practice, I am frequently consulted by
chronic patients whose troubles date back to diphtheria
"cured" by antitoxin. Among these I have met with
several cases of idiocy and insanity, with many cases of
partial paralysis, infantile paralysis and nervous disorders
of a most serious nature, also with various other forms of
chronic destructive diseases.
In the iris of the eye, the effect of the antitoxin on
the system shows as a darkening of the color. In many
instances, the formerly blue or light-brown iris assumes
an ashy-gray or brownish-gray hue.
One of my secretaries had clear blue eyes up to her
tenth year. About that time she had several attacks of
diphtheria and a severe "second" attack of scarlet fever
which were treated and "cured" under the care of an
allopathic physician. She does not remember whether she
was given antitoxin, but recalls that her throat was
painted and her body rubbed with oil and that she had
to take a great deal of medicine. Since that time her eyes
have turned brown. They show plainly the reddish-brown
spots of iodin in the areas of the brain, the throat, and
other parts of the body.
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 treat-
ment. A significant fact in this connection is that, while
Mrs. C. was with us, following natural methods of living
and under the effects of the treatments which she took
regularly for several months, her eyes became much

lighter and in places the original blue became visible
under the brown. The nerve rings in the region of the
brain, which were very marked when she first came to us,
became less defined. Corresponding improvement took
place in her general health and especially in the condition
of her nerves.
In regard to my claim that undesirable after effects do
not occur under treatment by natural methods, I wish
again to call attention to the fact that for fifty years the
Nature Cure physicians in Germany have proved that
their treatment of diphtheria is not followed by paralysis,
heart failure or the different forms of chronic, destructive
diseases.
This has been confirmed by my own experience in the
treatment of diphtheria and other serious acute ailments.
Now comes Dr. Tenison Deane of San Francisco, a
representative in good standing of the allopathic school
of medicine, and confirms my contention concerning the
true cause of diphtheria, in a book entitled "The Crime of
Vaccination". The author subscribes himself as follows:
"A Police Surgeon, S. F. ; Asst. Surgeon, S. F. Emer-

gency Hospital; Adjunct to Chair of Surgery, Post-Grad-
uate School of Medicine, U. of Cal. Assistant Skin and
;
Venereal Clinic, S. F. Polyclinic; Prof. Surgery, Pacific

Coast Regular College of Medicine; lecturer on Surgical
Pathology and Bacteriology, etc."
His attainments entitle him to a respectful hearing
from believers in vaccination. His strong statements
should brace up the weak kneed opponents of vaccination
and determine them to protect themselves and their fami-
lies at any cost from the fearful hazards of this unspeak-
able practice. We are taught by him, as the reader must
note, that the immediate effects of vaccination are as
nothing compared with the latent and lasting ones.
The extracts from the book herein bring home vividly
the appalling fact that health boards and vaccination
doctors are systematically sowing disease of the worst

forms. The author well calls vaccination ''the greatest
mistake ever made, the enormity of which can never be
equaled nor half appreciated". In Chapter IV is the
following
History of a case: *'The author will relate this case,
as one that started him in his investigation and study
on the subject. June 15, 1889, the author was spending
his vacation on the ranch of a wealthy farmer in the
northern part of the State of California, fifteen miles
from the nearest town, a farm of 10,000 acres and no
immediate neighbors. The farmer had a wife and seven
children. The foreman, a negro, had a wife and five chil-
dren. None had ever been vaccinated. Six of them were
selected and vaccinated by the author
The farmer's wife, age 43 years.

The farmer's daughter, age 6 years.
The farmer's son, age 8 years.
The farmer's son, age 25 years.
The negro foreman, age 46 years.
His son, age 12 years.
''All the rest were left out and were not afterwards
vaccinated. On August 1, 1890, the farmer, his wife and
five children went to the mountain ranch forty miles away,
taking with them the foreman, his wife and five children.
There had been no diphtheria in the town nor any in
their neighborhood. The mountain ranch was an un-
inhabited virgin pine forest district with pure water,
where they took up their camp.
"August 24th an epidemic of sore throat and canker
sores developed among the children. Farmer's daughter,
seven years old; son, nine years old, and the foreman's
son, thirteen years old, developed very serious throat and
constitutional symptoms and were taken to the home
ranch, where a doctor was sent for. Diphtheria was the
diagnosis. The farmer's wife also developed diphtheria.
All the rest who had not been vaccinated cured rapidly
of their sore throats. The farmer's daughter, seven years
old, died. The farmer's son, nine years old, did not recu-
perate for one year. The farmer's wife, 44 years old,
had paralysis and sequelae, which lasted over one year.
The foreman's son, thirteen years old, became very weak

and did not return to normal health,
"In 1893, the farmer's son, 29 years old, died in Los
Angeles, Cal., of tubercular intestinal trouble; in 1900,
the foreman, at 57 years of age, died of tubercle or cancer
of larynx; in 1902, the foreman's son, 25 years old, died
of tuberculosis; in 1909, the farmer's wife, 63 years old,
died of cancer; in 1911, the farmer's son, 30 years old,
died of tubercular meningitis.
"The farmer died of old age. All the rest are living
and in perfect health, nor have they ever been vaccinated.
No tuberculosis has shown in any of those living, nor is
there any family history of tuberculosis. All who were
vaccinated in 1889 are now dead.
"In view of the foregoing, what unutterable silliness
the present anti-tuberculosis crusade and the elaborate
'cancer research'. On these, millions are spent yearly,
countless dumb brutes are tortured, and human beings are
experimented on with every nostrum conceivable to 'mod-
ern medicine'. And all the while the state manufacture
of cancer and consumption (as well as other diseases) goes
briskly forward.
"It is a tragedy, repeating itself year after year, as
people are forced to be vaccinated on various pretexts.
School attendance, the chance to earn your bread, to go
—
about your business these are made dependent on getting
vaccinated whenever health boards see fit to order."
Thus, one after another, the "preposterous" claims of

Nature Cure philosophy are verified by "new discoveries"
of scientists of the "regular" school of medicine.
A Reply to My Critics
My discussions of the germ theory of disease and of the

vaccine, serum and antitoxin treatment, in a series of
articles entitled "Harmonics of the Physical", published
in "Life and Action", called forth a great deal of adverse
criticism from physicians of the allopathic school of
medicine.
Dr. E., one of thesecritics, refers to certain passages
in my October-December, 1912, number of

article in the
**Life and Action", and comments upon them by quoting
Drs. Osier and Andrews in favor of the antitoxin treat-
ment in diphtheria and by giving his own opinion on the
subject. He concludes his arguments as follows:
**I am a subscriber to this magazine and have also had
my sister's name put on the mailing list. She has a little

boy about two years old. Now, suppose she should read
that article of Dr. Lindlahr's and as a result refuse to
permit the use of antitoxin, and if the boy should get
diphtheria, with a fatal issue as a result, I could hardly
feel gratified over the fact that I had placed that reading
matter at her disposal. 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 light."
Perhaps Dr. E. has not read one of Dr. Osier's latest
and strongest utterances, his unqualified endorsement of
natural methods of healing, in the Encyclopedia Ameri-
cana, quoted on page 289 of this volume.
Nature Cure in Germany
That it is possible to cure all kinds of serious acute

diseases by drugless methods of healing, has been proved
by Nature Cure practitioners in Germany, nearly all of
whom were men who had never attended a medical school.
For over half a century many thousands of them have
been practicing the art of healing, in all parts of Ger-
many. With hydrotherapy and the other natural methods
they have treated successfully typhoid fever, diphtheria,
smallpox, appendicitis, cerebrospinal meningitis and all
other acute diseases.
It is a significant fact that, in spite of the most stren-
THE DIPHTHEKIA ANTITOXIN I77
uous opposition and appeal to the lawmaking powers on

the part of the regular school of medicine, the lay prac-
titioners could not be prevented from practicing the natu-
ral methods of treatment in law and police ridden Ger-
many.
On the contrary, during the last few generations there
have been practicing in that country at all times an ever
increasing number of Nature Cure practitioners, most of
them laymen. This freedom of Nature Cure practice is
entirely due to the success of its methods.
And this success has been demonstrated in spite of all
kinds of opposition and attempted restriction. While the
Nature Cure practitioner is permitted to treat those who
come to him for relief, he does not have the right, as does
the allopath, to cover his mistakes with six feet of earth.
If one of his patients dies, a doctor of the regular school
of medicine has to be called in to testify to the fact and
issue the death certificate.
Thus the "lay practitioners", the ** Nature Cure physi-
cians", were and are at present constantly exposed to
the strictest critical supervision by the allopaths, and if
the latter can make appear that a patient has died be-
it
cause the natural methods were inefficient or harmful, the

lay practitioner can be prosecuted for and convicted of
malpractice or manslaughter.
But in point of fact, while a number of these lay prac-
titioners were brought before the courts, in no instance
oould the actual harmfulness of the methods employed by
them be proven, and so many grateful patients testified
in their favor that no juries could be found to convict
them. The natural methods of treatment became so popu-
lar that as a matter of selfpreservation the younger genera-
tion of physicians in Germany had to ''fall in line" with
the Nature Cure idea in their practice.
Since Dr. E. so strongly questions the efficacy of our
methods, I may be permitted to say something about my

own professional experience.
Nature Cure in America
During the last seventeen years I have treated and

cured all kinds of serious acute diseases without resorting
to allopathic drugs and in no instance was surgery used.
In a very extensive practice I have not, in all these years,
lost a single case of appendicitis, typhoid fever, smallpox,
scarlet fever, etc., and only one case each of cerebro-
spinal meningitis, lobar pneumonia and diphtheria. These
facts may be verified through the records of the Health
Department of the City of Chicago.
After consideration of the foregoing statements, I leave
it to my readers to judge whether the Nature Cure phi-
losophy is inspired by blind fanaticism and based upon
ignorance and inexperience, or whether it is justified in
the light of scientific facts advanced by the regular school
of medicine itself and as demonstrated by the wonderful
success of the Nature Cure movement in Europe, which in
its different forms has attained world wide recognition
and adoption.
There is a popular saying, "The proof of the pudding
is in the eating". The following letter explains itself:
Dear Dr. Lindlahr:

You may remember that last winter, Mrs. White and I attended
your Sunday afternoon lectures in the Schiller Building. Those
—
lectures were an education I might better say a revelation and
an inspiration.
On the 11th of November last, our boy, aged thirteen years,
was taken ill with diphtheria. I called at your office and asked
your advice. You replied: "You know what to do wet packs, —
no food except fruit juices, colon flushing, spinal treatment and
no antitoxin."
We called an osteopathic physician, who at once sent a specimen
from the boy's throat to the city laboratory, where it was pro-
nounced diphtheria. A physician from the Board of Health came
and quarantined us and inquired if we had used the antitoxin
treatment. When Mrs. White replied "No," he said: "I suppose

you know that the percentage of deaths of those who do not have
it is very high." She said: "Yes, I know, but we do not intend
to use it."
The boy had all the acute symptoms, was drowsy, with headache,
and on the second day his temperature went to 105 degrees. We
applied the wet body pack and by night had reduced his tem-
perature to 100 degrees. With the aid of the osteopathic treat-
ment, which he had each night, the boy slept well all through his
illness. On the fifth day, the membrane spread from his throat
to his nose, and his temperature rose again; but the wet body
packs again reduced it so that it was never again over 100 degrees.
The boy was bright, his mind was clear, he was able to read,
and after the first week was able to play chess with his mother.
The only unfavorable symptom he had at all was an irregular
pulse. He took no medicine and no food except fruit juices. We
used occasionally the tepid water enema. On the tenth day he
took a little lamb broth, but refused it the next day, and again
asked for fruit juices. It was not until two weeks had passed that
his appetite returned and he began to eat. He lost flesh, but did
—
not lose strength in the same degree he was able to go to the
bathroom each day unaided.
On the 21st day, the osteopathic physician sent a specimen to
the city laboratory which they pronounced "positive", 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 germs. The boy was not released from quarantine until
five weeks had passed.
During all this time his only attendant was his mother and the
osteopathic physician who came daily. The boy has fully recovered
and has suffered no bad results that often follow such diseases.
In contrast to this experience of ours, I would like to cite the
case of a neighbor of ours whose little girl died of the disease
under the antitoxin treatment. She recovered from the diphtheria,
but her heart failed and she died suddenly. They had a regular
M. D. and a trained nurse. Her mother took ill, but recovered.
The father told me that their drug bill alone amounted to $75.
We want to express to you our gratitude for the knowledge and
confidence that you have so freely given to us, and you are at
liberty to make whatever use of this letter you desire.
Sincerely yours,
1443 Cuyler Ave., Chicago, HI. HINTON WHITE.
This letter and numerous similar evidences prove that
my claims and assertions regarding the curability of diph-
theria by natural methods are not extravagant nor untrue.
In this case, as in many others, I gave directions for treat-
ment verbally and over the telephone without having seen
the patient personally.
The experience of Mr. White's neighbor is another

proof of the fatal effect of the antitoxin treatment. The
—
antitoxin "cured" the diphtheria but the child died!
Once more I repeat Hydropathic treatment will give
:
equally good results in appendicitis, meningitis, scarlet

fever and all other forms of acute diseases. If this be a
fact, why should not my colleagues of the allopathic
school of medicine give natural methods a fair trial, the
more Germany, even among the physicians of
so since in
the allopathic school, these methods are fast superseding
the use of serum and antitoxin? Is it not worth while,
when thus might be avoided the "mysterious sequelae"
referred to by Dr. Osier, and the many cases of chronic
invalidism which he does not connect with the disease or
its treatment ?
CHAPTER XVI
SUPPRESSIVE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF TON-

SILITIS AND ENLARGED ADENOIDS
IN many of the larger cities of our country, physicians

and nurses, by order of state boards of health, are
regularly visiting the public schools. They examine the
children, gather statistics and give hygienic and medical
advice to teachers and parents.
The idea is a good one and will be productive of much
benefit,provided that the advisors themselves are rightly

informed. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
A large proportion of school children are nowadays
afflictedwith chronic tonsilitis and with inflammation or
hypertrophy of the adenoid tissues, which are located in
the nasal pharynx.
When these abnormal conditions are discovered by
the visiting physicians or nurses, the parents are at once
advised to have the offending tonsils and adenoids re-
moved. Frequently we are consulted by parents about
the advisability of having these operations performed.
In the following paragraphs I shall endeavor to answer all
such inquiries.
The tonsils are excretory glands. Nature has created
them for the elimination of impurities from the body.
Acute, subacute and chronic tonsilitis accompanied by
enlargement and cheesy decay of the tonsils means that
these glands have been habitually congested with patho-
genic matter, that they have had more work to do than
they could properly attend to.
These glandular structures constitute a valuable part of
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the drainagfe system of the organism. If the blood is

poisoned through overeating and faulty food combina-
tions, or with scrofulous, venereal or psoric poisons, the
tonsils are called upon along with other organs to elimi-
nate these morbid taints. Is it any wonder that frequently
they become inflamed and subject to decay? What, how-
ever, is to be gained by destroying them with iodin or
extirpating them with the surgeon's wire snare?
Were the drains in your house too small to carry off
the waste, would you seal or remove them? This, how-
ever, is orthodox philosophy of the medical schools as
applied to the management of the human body.
The surgeon says: "The swollen tonsils and adenoids
are closing up the nasal breathing passages especially at
;
night the child breathes through the mouth. This may

cause all kinds of chronic ailments, deformations of the
chest, changes in the facial expression, sometimes marked
alteration in the mental condition and in certain cases
stunting of physical and mental development.
"The removal of the tonsils will bring quick relief
from all these troubles ; why then delay the simple opera-
tion?"
True, "drying up" or extirpating the tonsils will give
instant local relief. The voice and the breathing will
become unobstructed the Eustachian tube, which forms
;
an air passage from the mouth to the ears, will open and
the parents and the family physician will rejoice over the
splendid results of the "trivial" operation. But, as usual,
they take into consideration the first effects only; the
secondary and lasting ones are regarded and treated as
new diseases.
In case of any morbid discharge from the body, whether
through hemorrhoids, open sores, ulcers or through ton-
sils, scrofulous glands, etc., a fontanelle has been estab-
lished to which and through which systemic poisons

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make their exit. If such an outlet be blocked by medical

or surgical treatment, the morbid matter is forced to seek
another escape or else accumulate somewhere in the
system.
Fortunate is the patient when such an escape can be
established, because in whatever part of the system mor-
bid excretions, suppressed by medical treatment, concen-
trate, there will be found the seat of chronic disease.
After the tonsils have been extirpated, the morbid mat-
ter which they would have eliminated usually finds the
nearest and easiest outlet through the adenoid tissues and
nasal membranes. These now take up the work of vica-
rious elimination and in their turn become hyperactive
and inflamed.
Sometimes it happens that the adenoid tissues become
affected before the tonsils. In that case, also, relief is
sought through surgical treatment, and then the process
is reversed; after the adenoids have been removed, the
tonsilsbecome inflamed.
"When both tonsils and adenoids have been extirpated,
the nasal membranes in turn become congested and
swollen. Often the mucoid elimination increases to an
alarming degree and frequently polypi and other growths
appear or the turbinated bones soften, swell and obstruct
;
the nasal passages. Thus again the patient becomes a

"mouth breather".
But in vain does Nature protest against local symp-
tomatic treatment. "Science" refuses to learn from her.
When the nasal organs take up the work of vicarious
elimination, the same mode of treatment is resorted to.
The mucous membranes of the nose are now swabbed and
sprayed with antiseptics and astringents or "burned" by
cauterizers, electricity, etc. The polypi are cut out, and
frequently parts of the turbinated bones as well, in order
to open the air passages.
Vol. 1—13.
Now, must be cured. But, strange

surely, the patient
to say, new and more serious troubles arise. The
still
posterior nasal passages and the throat now become

affected by chronic catarrhal conditions and there is much
annoyance from phlegm and mucous discharges dropping
into the throat. These catarrhal conditions frequently ex-
tend to the mucous membranes of the stomach and
intestines.
"When the drainage system of the nose and of the naso-
pharyngeal cavities has been seriously impaired, the im-
purities must either travel upward into the brain or down-
ward into the glandular structures of the neck and thence
into the bronchi and the tissues of the lungs.
If the trend be upward to the brain, the patient grows
nervous and irritable or becomes dull and apathetic. Fre-
quently a child is reprimanded, even punished for laziness
and inattention when it is not responsible. In many
instances the morbid matter affects certain centers in the
brain and causes nervous conditions, hysteria, St. Vitus'
dance, epilepsy, etc. In children the impurities frequently
find an outlet through the ear drums in the form of pus
discharges. This frequently averts inflammation of the
brain, meningitis, imbecility, insanity, or infantile
paralysis.
I have frequently traced serious attacks of mastoiditis
(inflammation of the mastoid cells behind the ears) di-
rectly to extirpation of the tonsils and adenoids. In such
cases the surgeon trephines the skull and treats the mas-
toid cells with antiseptics, thereby suppressing the inflam-
mation. I have never applied such destructive treatment
and have never lost a case.
If the trend of the suppressed impurities and poisons
be downward, it often results in the hypertrophy and
degeneration of the lymph glands of the neck. In such
cases the suppressive treatment, by drugs or knife, is
SUPPEESSrVE SUEGICAL TEEATMENT 185
again resorted to. The scrofulous poisons, suppressed and

driven from the diseased glands in the neck, now find
lodgment in the bronchi and lungs where they accumulate
and form a luxuriant soil for the propagation of the bacilli
of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
In other cases the vocal organs become seriously affected
by chronic catarrhal conditions, abnormal growths and, in
later stages, by tuberculosis. Many a fine voice has been
ruined in this way.
Prevention and Cure
Prevention and cure of all these ailments lie not in local

symptomatic treatment and suppression by drugs or knife,
but in the rational and natural treatment of the body as a
whole.
First of all, antitoxins, vaccines and serums must be
avoided because the morbid microzyma of these filthy
preparations breed scrofulous conditions and all sorts of
chronic diseases. Then the diet must be regulated in
accordance with the principles of natural dietetics. The
little bodies must be hardened and elimination through
the skin must be stimulated by air and sun baths and cold
water treatment. Massage and neurotherapy must correct
the spinal lesions, remove the pressure from nerves and
blood vessels and increase the activity of the internal
organs of elimination.
Under such general constitutional treatment, elimina-
tion will be distributed evenly, the membranes and the
glandular structures of nose and mouth will be relieved
and will resume their normal structure and function.
Herein lies the natural, rational cure for tonsilitis, adenoid
vegetations,mouth breathing and kindred diseases.
That this is not mere vagary is proved by the fact that
in hundreds of cases of tonsilitis and kindred ailments
treated during the last seventeen years, we have not in

a single instance resorted to surgical treatment. As
the regeneration of the system through natural living
and treatment proceeded, the affected organs became
normal.
CHAPTER XYII
WOMAN'S SUFFERING
"XX /"OMAN'S physical suffering" is so universal among
' ' very phrase has become
civilized races that the
proverbial. That woman should suffer untold agonies,
especially during the menstrual period, at the climacteric
and in childbirth, is looked upon as unavoidable and as a
matter of course.
The fact that the women of primitive races in Africa,
in South America, in the Arctic circle and on our western
plains are practically exempt from these chronic ailments
indicates that the cause of such acute and chronic ailments
must lie in artificial habits of living and in the unnatural
treatment of disease common among civilized races. Many
are beginning to recognize these truths. For many is
dawning a new era, when knowledge will free woman
from physical suffering as it has freed her from other
bondage.
The various forms of female troubles usually begin to
manifest at the age of puberty, when normal menstrua-
tion should commence. In many instances this flowering
of the sex life is abnormal from the beginning. Frequently
it is irregular, very painful, too profuse, too scanty or
entirely absent. These conditions in themselves do not
constitute disease but are the effects of abnormal disease
conditions in the system, caused by abnormal prenatal
influences,by wrong management of the infant, unnatu-
ral habits of living later in life, and by the suppressive
treatment of acute and subacute diseases.
Violations of Nature's laws, which constitute the pri-
187
mary cause of disease, have been described in other parts

of this volume. Prominent among them are wrong food
combinations overrich in negative, disease producing sub-
stances which clog the system with pathogenic materials.
This leads to defective elimination through skin, intes-
tines and kidneys. The impurities then seek an outlet
through catarrhal conditions of the tonsils, adenoids and
nasal passages. These eliminative efforts of Nature are
promptly suppressed by the extirpation of tonsils and
adenoids and by the destruction of the nasal membranes
by means of poisonous antiseptic sprays and cauterizers.
When the impurities congest the lymphatic glands in
the neck these are extirpated by the surgeon's knife.
When, as described in Chapter XI of this volume, the
pathogenic materials try to eliminate through the mem-
branous linings of the bronchi and the digestive tract in
the form of colds, catarrhs, purgings, etc., the work of
suppression is persistently continued until the organism
in selfdefense endeavors to eliminate these systemic poi-
sons through the membranous linings of the genital organs.
This it endeavors to accomplish through the menstrual
discharge and through leukorrhea.
Nature has established the menstrual function for the
fructifying of the ovae, but she uses it also for the puri-
fication of the organism from pathogenic matter. If these
impurities happen to be of a very irritating, poisonous
nature they may cause inflammatory and painful condi-
tions of the genital organs.
Leukorrhea, like all other catarrhal conditions of the
organism, is a form of vicarious elimination of systemic
poisons. As explained in other parts of these writings,
back of all forms of catarrh is systemic poisoning. The
system is overloaded with pathogenic matter and the
organs of elimination through overwork and continued
irritation have become so clogged and inactive that they
WOMAN'S SUFFERING 189
cannot keep a clean house. Then one of two things will

happen. Either Nature must find an outlet for the morbid
encumbrances through the membranous linings of the
internal tracts, or life will become extinct through the
accumulation of impurities in the body.
"VYhat is the orthodox medical treatment of leukorrhea?
Antiseptic and astringent douches and curetment. These
methods not only suppress Nature 's purifying efforts, but
are in themselves positively destructive. The poisonous
antiseptics and astringents saturate the tissues not only
of the womb but also of the neighboring organs, benumb
and paralyze natural function and disorganize normal
structure. In other %vords, they embalm the tissues and
in time destroy the sex function.
This is well to be considered in connection with the
growing propaganda for birth control which consists
largely in douching with poisonous germ killers and astrin-
gents. Such unnatural practices will result in time in per-
manent sterility, degeneration of tissues and tumor forma-
tion. The retention of the impurities which Nature is
trying to get rid of through menstrual and leukorrheal dis-
charges results in acute and chronic inflammations of the
uterus, Fallopian tubes and ovaries. These symptoms are
in turn suppressed, if possible, by the same form of local
treatment.
Curetment in itself is a barbarous mutilation of the
cradle of life. The surgeon dilates the neck of the womb,
inserts sharp hooks in its interior and drags the womb to
the mouth of the vagina. He then scrapes the internal
walls of the organ with a spoonlike instrument, tearing
off thetender membranes in order to force Nature to
build ones. He does not stop to consider whether,
new
under the diseased condition of the system, they will be
any better than the old ones.
The entire procedure is unnatural and barbarous. The
pulling of the womb to the entrance of the vagina may

result in continued weakening and stretching of the liga-
ments and muscles supporting it. Frequently it causes
the rupturing of adherent tissues and internal hemor-
rhages. The cureting itself often results in serious injury
to the tender membranes of the uterus. It happens not
infrequently that the spoon of the curet penetrates the
walls of the uterus or badly lacerates the openings of the
Fallopian tubes.
The retention of the impurities caused by cureting may
set up serious subacute or chronic inflammation, ulcera-
tion and hardening of the internal tissues of the womb,
and chronic metritis, only too often resulting in the forma-
tion of polypi, benignant or malignant tumors. Obstruc-
tion of the Fallopian tubes frequently follows, and this
interferes with the discharge of the ovae from the ovaries
into the uterus. Many women have told me that they
were curetted in order to facilitate conception. "What an
absurdity! There is no better way to incapacitate the
womb for conception than by cureting. In menstruation
and in childbirth Nature opens the blood vessels of the
womb from within out, through a natural process. The
dilatation of the neck of the womb and the scraping away
of internal membranes is done forcibly in violation of
Nature's ways.
Women have come to us in the most wretched condition
of health, ruined physically, mentally and spiritually
through a dozen or more curetments. One sufferer had
been curetted twenty-one times, hoping every time that
"this would be the last one" and "bring about good
health." How would this be possible, considering the
normal structure and natural functions of the generative
organs?
When acute and chronic inflammations, ulcers, abscesses,
endurations, adhesions and tumors develop as the result
of long continued suppressive treatment, what then ? Sur-

gical extirpation of the affected parts and organs is held
to be the only remedy. Is this cure? It makes a cure
forever impossible. How can that which is mutilated and
extirpated be cured? The surgeon will answer, "When
the organs have become useless through acute or chronic
inflammation and through the development of adventi-
tious tissues and new growth, they might just as well be
removed."
Nature Cure physicians are proving in everyday prac-
tice that acute and chronic inflammations can be cured,
that adhesions can be dissolved and tumors absorbed, pro-
viding they be not too large, by natural methods of living
and treatment. Which is more rational and humane
to destroy, or to cure and preserve?
Shortly after I began to practice, there was brought to
me for examination a woman whose ovaries were in a con-
dition of acute inflammation due to gonorrheal infection
from her husband. He believed that he had been cured of
the infectious disease by allopathic suppression. In fact,
he had been assured by the physician who treated him that
it was perfectly safe for him to marry. Soon after mar-
riage, however, his wife developed acute inflammation of
the vagina and this extended to the ovaries. Before she
came to me, arrangements had been perfected for the
surgical removal of the ovaries. The operation was to
take place on the following day. They had been assured
that this was absolutely necessary in order to save the
woman's life.
After a consultation with me she was placed under our

care and treatment. At the end of the fifth month the
woman was discharged as cured. Since that time she has
had three children. They were brought up in harmony
with the teachings of Nature Cure and are in perfect health
and splendidly developed physically and mentally. The
mother wrote to me a few years ago, "Doctor, thanks to

Nature Cure I am the happiest woman in the world. I
cannot express to you sufficiently my gratitude for saving
me from the dreadful fate of an unsexed woman."
Imagine what her life would have been if the ovaries
had been extirpated! The very foundation of life de-
stroyed, deprived of the joys of motherhood, physi-
cally, mentally and emotionally defective and abnormal,
destined to life-long suffering, doctoring and to premature
death or possibly the insane asylum. This woman was
instrumental in saving a young allopathic nurse from the
same fate under practically the same circumstances. Dur-
ing the last eighteen years we have treated and cured, at
a low estimate, more than a thousand cases of acute and
chronic inflammations of the genital organs. In not a
single instance were the affected organs extirpated.
Prolapsus and Displacements of the Genital Organs
The orthodox medical treatment for these abnormal con-

ditions also consists of surgical operations, shortening of
the round ligaments of the womb, cutting adhesions which
hold the womb inan abnormal position, stitching of the
womb to the frontal walls of the abdomen, etc. This sort
of treatment is purely local, symptomatic and suppres-
sive —not in any way curative.
The sagging of the womb and other genital organs,
sometimes resulting in protrusion of the neck of the womb
from the mouth of the vagina, is caused by general weak-
ness of the system, particularly by a weakened, relaxed
and prolapsed condition of the stomach and intestines.
It is the sagging down of the stomach and intestines, usu-
ally loaded with old accumulations of fecal matter, which
pushes down the genital organs into the bottom of the
pelvis. This interferes with the free movement of the
WOMAN'S SUFFERING I93
womb and crowds it abnormal position resulting in

into
the bending or kinking of the little organ upon itself for-
ward or backward, and in abnormal pressure upon the

bladder or the rectum. These adhesions and flexions of the
womb may interfere with menstrual or leukorrheal dis-
charges or with the entrance of the procreative germ.
Such abnormal pressure on the genital organs may also
result in irritation, inflammation and the formation of
adhesions and tumors.
These conditions may be aggravated by subluxations,
curvatures or anchylosis of the spinal vertebrae which
produce pressure on the nerves passing out between the
vertebrae, irritation and inflammation of the digestive
and pelvic organs, resulting in weakness and atrophy and
in a flabby, relaxed condition of the digestive and genital
organs.
It is a fact known to every observing physician that over
fifty percent of women have some kind of mis-
all civilized
placement of the genital organs and that only a compara-
tively small number of these cases result in local disturb-
ances, indicating that misplacement alone does not always
create serious trouble.
assume that the small, flabby uterus
It is ridiculous to
of an anemic woman
can obstruct the rectum and cause
serious disease; but it is an excellent talking point, as
effective in bringing victims to the operating table as
appendicitis with its fairy tales of seeds and foreign bodies
in the vermiform appendix.
Unhygienic Clothing'
One of the contributing causes to woman's suffering is
unhygienic clothing. Much

has been said about the evil
effects of the corset and of high heeled shoes. It is true
that conventional ways of dressing have done as much to
harm woman's health as smoking and drinking have to

harm man's. Thanks to the influence of Nature Cure and
physical culture movements, tight lacing has gradually
been abandoned, at least until fashion may again decree
the barbarous practice. But even the custom of wearing
the skirts suspended from the waist line by constricting
bands or belts is sufficient to cause unnatural compression
of and pressure on the many organs lying within the cir-
cumference of the waist line. Such constriction always
interferes more or less with the circulation of the blood,
lymph and nerve currents between the upper and lower
parts of the body, thereby causing congestion in the organs
of the abdominal and pelvic cavities and congestion when
;
not properly treated is, as we have learned, the first step

toward inflammation and its manifold destructive conse-
quences.
All clothing should be worn suspended from the shoul-
ders. "Waists designed for this purpose can now be had in
all up to date stores. The skirts are fastened to these
waists by hooks or buttons instead of being tightly belted
around the waist. A normally developed body, not weak-
ened by the corset or waistband habit, does not require
metal or bone stays to support it, notwithstanding claims
to the contrary by the devotees of fashion. All artificial
bracing and supporting of the body is weakening instead
of strengthening.
Pessaries
Cuplike or ring shaped pessaries have been designed to

support and to press upward the prolapsed womb, but
these crude contrivances only serve to aggravate and to
increase the weakness of the organs. Through abnormal
pressure and irritation they cause acute and chronic
inflammation, lasting malformations, or benign and malig-
nant tumors.
This is so obvious that it seems incredible that men who

pride themselves on their scientific knowledge will resort
to the recommendation of such contrivances in order to
correct conditions which are only intensified by their use.
It stands to reason that shortening of the ligaments and
fastening of the womb to the abdominal wall will not over-
come the causes of these abnormal conditions. They will
not invigorate and strengthen the weakened abdominal
organs and raise them to their normal positions, removing
the abdominal pressure on the genital organs. The only
way this can be done is by building up the system gener-
ally, by removing the three primary manifestations of
disease, and especially by invigorating the abdominal or-
gans through curative exercises and manipulative treat-
ment.
While studying Nature Cure in Europe I took special
courses in Thure-Brandt massage.By means of this inter-
nal manipulative treatment, adhesions, displacements,
weakness of ligaments and muscles can be corrected with-
out knife or drugs. During my first years in practice I
frequently resorted to internal manipulative treatment
with good results, but I found that even this was not
always necessary. I learned that correction of spinal and
pelvic lesions and consequent removal of pressure and
irritationon the nerves, the cure of chronic constipation
and malnutrition by pure food diet and hydrotherapy, the
strengthening of the pelvic nerves and muscles by active
and passive movements and exercises were fully sufficient
to correct the local symptoms in a natural manner.
Several thousand patients cured by us in this way attest
the truth of these statements; but those who failed to
understand the simple reasoning of Nature Cure or who
did not have the will power to withstand the arguments of
friends and doctors, followed the siren call of the operating
table and are sorry for it.
When the misplaced womb is torn loose by the knife, in

order to be kept in the new positionit must be stitched to
the frontal abdominal wall. This stretches the organ and

prevents its natural movements, resulting frequently in
serious nerve strain and irritation. Often the womb will
not stay fixed breaks loose and relapses into the same
; it
abnormal position. Granted that it remains fixed, woe to

the woman if The womb cannot
she become pregnant.
assume the constantly changing positions of pregnancy,
and either abortion or malformation of the fetus, together
with great suffering, is the result.
The operation has done nothing to correct unnatural
habits of living or to purify the system of its scrofulous,
venereal and psoric taints, or of drug and food poisons.
These gather in the parts weakened and irritated by the
surgeon's knife, where they set up new inflammations,
ulcerations, and only too often malignant tumors. As a
result, one operation follows another.
We cannot cut in the genital organs without "cutting in
the brain". The nervous system is a unit and, next to the
brain, the genital organs represent the most complex and
sensitive nerve centers. The two are intimately connected.
Mutilations in the genital nerve centers invariably mean
affections of the brain and of the nervous system in gen-
eral. It is almost axiomatic that a woman whose uterus
or ovaries have been operated on is afterwards mentally

abnormal. Nervousness, irritability, and only too often
nervous prostration and insanity are the sequelae of oper-
ative treatment.
In medical colleges, among students and professors,
these facts are freely admitted and discussed, but the
prospective patient hears a different story. "Cut loose
—
the womb or shorten the ligament put it into the right
j
'
position, and everything will be well. This sounds plau- '
sible and is very seductive, but everyday experiences

WOMAN'S SUFFEEING 197
expose the fallacy of these assurances.

Since the foregoing paragraphs were written for the
first edition of this volume, the medical profession has
admitted the truth of my claims and thus has convicted

itself of malpractice in the past. During the last few years
surgeons have not been extirpating the ovaries entirely.
They now freely admit that complete excision of these
organs is followed by serious nervous ailments, lowered
vitality and insanity, and that these dire consequences can
be averted by leaving only a tiny part ''as much as the
size of a pea" of the organs intact. Since the secretions
of these "ductless" glands are so vitally important to the
organism, why not cure the organs by natural methods
instead of mutilating them?
The Climacteric or Change of Life
Under our artificial methods of living, the climacteric,

or change of life, has become the bugbear of womanhood.
It seems to be universally assumed that this period in a
woman's life must be fraught with manifold sufferings
and dangers. It is taken as a matter of course that during
these changes in her organism a woman is assailed by
serious physical, mental, and psychic ailments which may
endanger her sanity and often her life.
Like rheumatism, neurasthenia, neuralgia, and hundreds
of other medical terms, "change of life" is a convenient
phrase to cover the doctor's ignorance. No matter what
ailments befall a woman duriag the years from forty to
fifty, be the causes ever so obscure, the diagnosis is easy.
"You are in the climacteric, you are suffering from the

change of life", says the doctor, and the patient, satisfied,
resigns herself to the inevitable.
Frequently women come to us for consultation, ana
after reciting a long series of troubles conclude with the
remark: "Of course, doctor, I'm in the change, and I

know that lots of these things are natural at my time of
life.'*
Is it true that all this suffering is natural and inevitable 1

Among primitive races suffering incident to the change
of life is practically unknown. The same is true in a lesser
degree of the peasant population of Europe. The causes
of it must, therefore, be sought in the artificial modes of
living peculiar to our hyper-civilization and in the unnat-
ural suppressive methods of treating disease.
What are the specific cfenises of the profound disturb-
ances so often accompanying the changjes of the climac-
teric?
Aside from their other physiologic functions, the menses
are for women a monthly cleansing crisis through which
Nature eliminaies from the system considerable amounts
of waste and morbid matter which under a natural
regimen of life would be discharged by means of the
organs of depuration, viz., the lungs, skin, kidneys and
bowels^
The more natural the life and the more normal the
woman's physical condition, the shorter and less annoying
and painful will be the menstrual periods.
Through unna«tural habits of eating, drinking, dressing,
breathing, and through equally unnatural methods of med-
and bowels have become
ical treatment, the kidneys, skin
inactive and benumbed. As long as vicarious monthly
purification by means of the menses continues, the evil
results of the torpid condition of the regular organs of
depuration do not become so apparent. The organism has
learned- to adapt itself to this mode of elimination.
But when on account of the organic changes of the
climacteric menstruation ceases, then the systemic poisons
(pathogen) which formerly were eliminated by means of
thismonthly purification, accumulate in the system and
WOMAN'S SUFFEEING 199
become the source of all manner of trouble. All tendencies

to physical, mental, or psychic disease are greatly intensi-
fied. The poisonous taints circulating in the blood over-
stimulate or else depress the brain and the nervous system.
As a consequence, mental and psychic disorders are of
common occurrence the more so because the waning of the
;
sex functions is accompanied by a tendency to negativity

and hypersensitiveness.
How can the. ailments of the climacteric be avoided or
cured?
Is it not self-evident that the easiest way to side-step
the troubles incident to this critical period and to re-
establish the perfect equilibrium of the organism, lies in
restoring the natural activity of the organs of elimina-
tion?
This what Nature Cure accomplishes easily and suc-
is
cessfully with its naturalmethods of treatment. Air and

sun baths, water treatments and massage bring new life
and activity to the enervated skin. Pure food diet, neuro-
therapy, curative gymnastics, homeopathic or herb reme-
dies restore the natural tonicity and functioning of the
stomach, and intestines.
liver, kidneys, Psycho-therapy,
systematically practiced, makes every cell in the body
vibrant with the higher and finer forces of the mental and
spiritual planes of being.
"When the natural equilibrium of the organism is thus
restored, there is absolutely no occasion for the troubles
of the climacteric. We have proved this in hundreds of

cases. As kidneys^ skin and bowels begin to function nor-
mally and freely, physical and mental conditions com-
mence to improve, until, one after another, the dreaded
symptoms disappear.
Let us compare with this common-sense, natural treat-
ment the orthodox medical practice in such cases :
This treatment, as usual, is entirely symptomatic. The

Vol. 1—14.
sluggish organs of elimination are prodded by poisonous

cathartics, laxatives, diaphoretics, cholagogues and ton-
ics, all of which, after temporary stimulation, leave the
organs in a more weakened, and the system in a more
poisoned condition. If brain and nerves are irritated and
aching, sedatives and hypnotics are given to stupefy them
into insensibility. If the heart action is weak and irregu-
whipped up by poisonous stimulants if too fast,
lar, it is ;
it is benumbed by sedatives and depressants.
Thus, instead of removing the underlying causes, every

symptom is promptly suppressed. Drug poisons are added
to the waste and morbid matter which are already clog-
ging the channels of life. Under such unnatural treat-
ment, in many instances the victims go from bad to worse.
Flushes, headaches, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, melan-
cholia, irritability, mental aberration, partial paralysis
and a multitude of other symptoms appear and gradually
increase in severity.
When the family physician has arrived at the end of his
wits, the surgeon has his innings. He, in turn, leaves the
patient in a worse condition of chronic suffering.
still
These experiences are so common that the manifold

troubles of the climacteric are regarded as unavoidable
and as a matter of course. Here, as in countless other
instances, it is the treatment which prevents the cure.
If the efficiency of common sense, natural treatment were
more widely known and recogfnized, how much unneces-
sary suffering could be avoided!
The various ailments of the female organs and their
Volume Y
rational treatment will be fully described in
of this series, "The Natural Treatment of Special Dis-
eases".
THE EFFECTS OF SUPPRESSION OF VENEREAL

DISEASE
This was the title of a chapter in the previous edition
of this volume. Everjrthing" pertaining- to this subject is
fully explained in my booklet "Who Provides the
entitled
Victims of the Black Stork? Who Makes the Damaged
Goods?"
CHAPTER XVIII
CANCER
TN August, 1909, I wrote the following article for the

- Nature Cure Magazine. Its contents confirm in so
many ways the teachings of Nature Cure philosophy that
I may be permitted to reproduce it in this volume.
"What We Know About Cancer"

This is the title of an able article by Burton J. Hendrick
in the July number of McClure's Magazine. It is a sum-
mary of all that up to date medical science claims to know
about cancer. The author has evidently made a thorough
study of the subject and can be regarded as an authority
in this field of inquiry.
The truth of most of his statements I knew before read-
ing the article and could have given them expression, but
they would not have been as convincing to the adherents
of old schools of healing. It is for this reason that I
quote so extensively from Mr. Hendrick 's article. He
received his training and information from the regular
school of medicine and is in sympathy with its methods.
Introducing the subject of his article, he says on page
254:
"The medical profession has learned more about cancer in the

last six years than in the preceding six thousand. True as this
statement is, however, it must not be misconstrued. No cancer
'cure' has been discovered. Investigators have penetrated many
secrets of the disease, but they have not yet restored a single human
sufferer to health."
202
CANCER 203
This is an unqualified admission that the regular treat-

ment of cancer by means of drugs, surgical operations,
X-Rays, radium emanations, freezing, etc., has never cured
a single case of the disease. One of the characteristic
symptoms of malignant tumors mentioned in every text
book on pathology is that they return after extirpation.
In fact every medical student is expected to state this in
his examination papers as part of the definition of malig-
nant tumors.
The same statements are made by the professor in the
class room. To the patient in the consultation room, how-
ever, the facts are presented in a somewhat modified form.
"While no positive assurances of cures are made, the advice
runs somewhat as follows: "An early operation presents
the only possibility of cure there is at least a chance that
;
the cancer will not recur; the operation will surely tend
to prolong the life of the patient, etc."
These claims, however, are not true, because the surest
way to turn a benign tumor into a malignant one and to
make the latter more malignant is to operate. Mr. Hen-
driek confirms this on page 264. He says
"Clinical observations long ago established the fact that any

irritating interference with a cancer almost always stinaulates its
growth. In his earliest experiments Dr. Loeb found that, by merely
drawing a silk thread through a dormant or slowly developing tumor,
he could transform it into a rapidly growing one. Cutting with a
knife produced the same effect. This accounts for the commonly
observed fact that, when extirpated cancers in human beings recur,
they increase in size much more rapidly than the original growth."
Dr. Senn, the great cancer surgeon, admitted the same

facts in an interview given to Chicago press representa-
tives upon his return from his trip around the world. He
was reported as saying
"Avoid Beauty Doctors"

"Incidentally, Dr. 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 life, but he tells
them they should not go to beauty doctors to have the operations
performed.
"He knows of hundreds of cases, he says, where cancer has
resulted from the irritation of moles by an electric needle, or by
constant picking it. Have a surgeon cut the mole out, is his advice,
as it will hurt little and leave no scar,"
To this I answered in my comments on the interview,

"If the little knife of the beauty doctor causes cancer,
what about the big knife of the surgeon?" Indeed, our
office records show that a large percentage of malignant
growths are caused directly by surgical operations on

benign tumors.
Dr. Senn, however, fails to recognize a most important
cause of the rapid increase in destructive chronic diseases
in reality, he has overlooked the principal factor, which is
the suppression of acute diseases by poisonous drugs and

surgical operations.
The more skilled the allopathic school becomes in the
suppression and in the prevention of acute diseases by
drugs, knife. X-ray, serums and vaccination virus, the
greater will be the increase in dyspepsia, nervous prostra-
tion, insanity, locomotor ataxia, paresis, cancer, secondary
and tertiary syphilis, tuberculosis and many other socalled
incurable diseases. Suppression of acute diseases by drugs
and knife, is the all-important factor in the creation of
malignant diseases, which Dr. Senn has overlooked in his
discourse on the cause of chronic destructive diseases.
If he will study his experience in foreign lands in the
light of these explanations, he will find that these scourges
of mankind become more prevalent in direct ratio to the
increase in thenumber of drug stores.
These theories of the origin of chronic destructive dis-
eases find expression in all my writings. Please notice
whether they are confirmed in Mr. Hendriek's statements.
He says on page 255
CANCER 205
"One in Every Eight Women Past the Age of Thirty-five Dies of

Cancer"
"It is peculiarly appropriate that the United States should take
a leading part in this work. In all probability, cancer is the worst
physical scourge with which we have to deal. It annually destroys
half as many lives as tuberculosis; but it is an even greater menace,
because, whereas the mortality from tuberculosis steadily decreases
year by year, that from cancer steadily increases. The actual facts
even medical men themselves hesitate to discuss. How many
realize, for example, that, in England, of all women who have
reached the age of thirty-five years, one in every eight dies of
cancer, and one in every eleven men? Yet the.^latest official report
of the Registrar General of England coldly declares that this is the
present situation. Whether the same figures apply to the United
States cannot be determined with available statistics; but as living
conditions and medical practice represent about the same standards
in both countries, the probability is that they do.
"Indeed, medical science would not be surprised to learn that the
mortality is greater in the United States than elsewhere. We pride
ourselves upon our general prosperity and enlightenment, and those
seem precisely the two factors that chiefly encourage the growth of
cancer. Spread out a map of the world, and mark the countries that
have progressed farthest in material well-being, in education, gov-
ernment, sanitation (and drug stores), and other essentials of
modern civilization; those are the countries that suffer from the
cancer plague. In the eastern world, not Asia or Africa, but
enlightened Europe; in the western, not Mexico, Honduras, or
—
Panama, but the United States and Canada these are the coun-
tries most grievously afflicted. No savage tribe is absolutely im-
mune, but cancer assails most violently those peoples that have
reached the highest points in civilization. And not only this, but it
apparently bears heaviest upon the most sanitary and enlightened
parts of these countries. In Europe the nations that suffer most are
not Russia or Hungary or Italy or Spain, but Germany, France,
Sweden, Norway, and, above all, England. In London, the greatest
mortality is found, not in the East End, but in Hampstead, Maryle-
bone, and Chelsea, which include the city's wealthiest parts. Sim-
ilarly, in New York, the Russian Jews and Italians who so largely
populate the crowded tenement sections are immune, whereas the
more sanitary parts of the town are favorite breeding-places. Where
diseases of known contagiousness, such as tuberculosis, typhoid
fever, diphtheria, and pneumonia, most abound, cancer seems to find
a less strong foothold than in other more salubrious sections; as by
some mysterious and inexplorable law of compensation it finds its
way mainly into the homes of the prosperous and enlightened.
"Thus cancer, like death itself, apparently loves a shining mark.
It strikes, not so frequently at the vicious, the uncleanly, the miser-
able, but at those lives that promise most to themselves and their
communities. '
Dr. Senn, in an interview already referred to in this

made the following statements:
article,
*'The negro a negro wherever you find him. From KaflBr to

is
Bushman and pygmy they are all Hamites.
"They are mostly a fine people physically, lean and tall, except
the dwarfs. There is little tendency toward obesity; they have no
apoplexy, no distended veins as we have in civilization. Hence tlieir
freedom from cancer.
"They are free from many other diseases that pester us also.
Tuberculosis is hardly known, and only along the coast where it
has been taken by the whites."
The report of his address concluded as follows
"His investigations of the natives of Africa served to strengthen

his conviction that cancer is a product of civilization, like apoplexy
and scores of other exotic ailments. Dr. Senn said. He could not
find nor hear of a case of cancer among the 'Hamites,' as he termed
them. And from the fact that he found the disease to be an
unknown one to the Esquimaux of Greenland, he was assured that
climate has nothing whatever to do with it. Climate did not cause
it, and climate will not cure it.
'
Among the primitive races in Africa, Australia and in

the polar regions, acute diseases are never suppressed.
Nature is allowed to eliminate through these acute reac-
tions, unhindered and unchecked, the systemic poisons
which accumulate in human bodies. In this way the mor-
bid matter which furnishes the soil for the development of
tubercle bacilli and malignant tumors is promptly elimi-
nated. In those European countries which are lagging
behind in the march of civilization, most of the doctoring
among the poorer classes is done by the shepherd, the wise
man or the wise woman, by means of simples, prayers and
charms. Doctors and drugs are resorted to only in the
gravest emergencies. Among the peasantry in Germany,
I have often heard expressions such as the following:
"Oh no, I would not think of curing that eruption on
baby's head it takes disease out of his body; it would be a
;
sin to suppress it."

In the common forms of acute diseases, a physician is
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seldom called. The peasants apply water treatment and

home remedies — ^herbs, which they gather in season and
preserve.
In the homes of the wealthy and refined, the doctor is
called for every passing ailment. Colds, catarrhs, diar-
rheas, skin eruptions and every other form of acute elim-
ination must be treated promptly and thoroughly with
antiseptics, antipyretics, antitoxins, and all sorts of other
"antis". Antiseptic lotions, soaps, tooth-powders, etc.
are constantly applied in order to kill germs and to prevent
infection.
On the other hand, wrong habits of living, food poison-
ing, alcohol, nicotine, vaccine and antitoxins systemat-
ically poison the human organism, and when nature en-
deavors, by means of acute reactions, to free the system of
morbid accumulations, she is thwarted by suppressive
treatment. These practices repeated from generation to
generation must lead finally to deterioration of blood and
tissues and to the development of hereditary taints. That
is why cancer loves a shining mark
'
* *
Hendrick continues
'.
on page 256:
*
If all the lap dogs of Fifth Avenue and our other fash-
*
ionable quarters were examined, a considerable proportion

would be found to be afflicted with one or more malignant
'
tumors.
It is, more often
indeed, a significant fact that dogs are
afflictedby malignant tumors than are other animals.
They partake of man's unnatural food. The lap dogs of
Fifth Avenue and other fashionable quarters especially
are pampered with sweetmeats and highly seasoned tid-
bits from the tables of the rich and are doctored as care-
fully by the veterinary surgeon as their mistresses are by
high-priced specialists.
Judging from the following quotation, page 257, the
author seems to think that nature ''just for spite" creates
cancer in order to undo the work of medical science. He

'
medical science spites nature and reaps
fails to see that '
'
'
what it sows.
"These considerations bring us face to face with a most startling
circumstance: that nature seems to be subtly attempting to undo
much of the work of modern medical science. We save yearly by
diphtheria antitoxin the lives of thousands of babies and children,
only that they may grow up to become victims of cancer. We rescue
many thousands of young men and women from tuberculosis, so
that they may reap, as their whirlwind, an even more dreadful
malady. '
The author explains at great length that cancer is not

contagious; that can be transmitted only by means of
it
transplantation of the cancer cells themselves into the

flesh of healthy individuals and that even then it "takes"
only in a small percentage of cases.
In the cancer laboratories, the experiments are made
entirely on mice and rats, because these animals are cheap
and plentiful. Speaking of the attempts to transplant
cancerous growths from one animal to others he says,
page 264
"In the early attempts there were only a small proportion of
'takes.' Thus, the first experimenters failed because they used only
one or two, or, at most, a dozen animals. But one of the important
facts learned is that, in the first transplantations, only a few ani-
mals, even of the same species, are susceptible to these grafts.
Sometimes only one mouse in a hundred can be inoculated. At the
Imperial Cancer Institute in London, a primary tumor has been
transplanted nearly four hundred times without being made to
grow on a single mouse.
"In two years the Buffalo Laboratory inoculated 1,600 mice with
the Jensen strain of tumor, and, of these, 1,250 proved absolutely
resistant. The remaining 350 animals, in which cancers developed,
were kept under the closest observation."
These interesting observations confirm my claim that

in order to develop cancer or any other chronic destructive
disease a certain diathesis or diseased condition of the
body is needed. In order to develop tuberculosis or cancer
something more is necessary than the tubercle bacillus or
the cancer cell ; there must be that in the system on which
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these parasites (or rather their mierozyma) live and thrive.

If the cancer cell of its own accord
could create cancer
every animal inoculated with it would develop the fatal
disease. The cancerous growth in itself is only a symptom
of the disease; the real disease is the constitutional taint
(the morbid matter which develops normal mierozyma into
cancer cells) which stimulates and feeds the malignant
growth therefore a real cure can consist only in eliminat-
;
ing from the system the poisons which irritate the cells
and stimulate them into unlimited multiplication.
Extirpation by drugs, knife or freezing only removes
the local manifestations of a constitutional taint or miasm.
Malignant tumors grow in "bad blood" only; their favor-
ite breeding places are to be found in scrofulous and psoric
constitutions, especially where hereditary conditions are
aggravated by food and drug poisoning or where spinal
lesions irritate the nerves and the tissues which these
nerves supply. What, then, can be gained permanently by
destroying the local growth, when the disease soil from
which it springs, or the spinal irritation, still remains?
Our claim a constitutional disease is again
that cancer is
confirmed by the admission that cancer is hereditary.

Even death, Nature 's most radical operation, does not cure
cancer ; it returns in the offspring.
I quote as follows
'
' The Question of Heredity in Cancer* *
"Eesults recently obtained in experimental breeding, however,

—
indicate that cancer is hereditary at least in mice. Recent experi-
ments at the Harvard Medical School^ conducted by Dr. E. E. Tyzzer,
tend to substantiate this impression.
"Dr. Tyzzer found a female mouse with a large growing tumor
and mated her with a normal healthy mouse. In a short time this
couple had one hundred descendants, all of which were kept under
close observation. It takes about five months for a mouse to reach
—
maturity reach the period, that is, when it becomes susceptible to
cancer. Mortality among the young animals is high, and of this
brood, one hundred strong, thirty-five died of common mice iafec-
tions before attaining mature age. Of the sixty-five that reached
the cancerous period, twenty developed tumors, of which they ulti-
mately died. One in every three, in other words, fell victim to the
mother's disease. According to Dr. Bashford, of the British Cancer
Institute, one out of every twenty-five hundred mice naturally
develops cancer. Unquestionably the disease is far more common
than this; but the frightful mortality among Dr. Tyzzer's one hun-
dred mice can be explained only on the grounds of heredity. That
the descendants of this cancerous parent inherited the disease out-
right, that the cancer cell or possibly a cancer parasite was directly
transmitted from mother to offspring, does not necessarily follow.
The tuberculous children of tuberculous parents inherit, not the
disease, but a constitution especially adaptable to it (what is really
transmitted are the cancer microzyma), and so these cancerous mice
probably derive from their parent an increased susceptibility."
The foregoing statements show that advanced medical

science concedes the heredity of cancer, not by direct
transmission of the cancer cells but by disposition, diathe-
sis, or, as we should express it, by hereditary taints. If
the parent organism is tainted with poisonous miasms it
is to be expected that the seminal cell originating there-
from will be similarly affected. The fetus being only a
multiplication of the parent cell, abnormal and diseased
constituents of this cell (diseased microzyma) reproduce
themselves as do the normal constituents. Weeds often
multiply more rapidly than do useful plants.
Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, recognized the
hereditary transmission of disease taints and proclaimed
it in his theory of psora. He taught that the ordinary itch
eruptions are accompanied by the elimination
(scabies)
of internal scrofulous taints, which in turn, are a survival
of the ancient leprosy. He asserted that systematic sup-
pression of the external lepra continued throughout the
ages, gradually transformed this external skin disease into
the internal psora, which manifests occasionally on the
surface in the acute forms of itch, lice, crab-lice, hives,
itchy eczemata, and internally, as tuberculosis, cancer,
etc.,
sarcoma, asthma and other chronic destructive diseases.

The following quotations from Hahnemann's book, "The
CANCER 211
Nature of Chronic Diseases", will make interesting read-

ing in connection with our present subject.
For a hundred years, Hahnemann's theory of psora has
been scouted and ridiculed by the allopathic schools, and
even among homeopaths but few have accepted this theory.
Now we are confronted by the remarkable fact that, at
this late day, the diagnosis from the eye confirms the
observations and speculations of the great genius of
homeopathy.
After the suppression of itch eruptions, lice or crab-lice,
there appear, in certain parts of the iris, spots ranging in
color from light brown to dark red. These "itch spots"
indicate the localities in the body in which the suppressed
disease taints have concentrated.
These suppressions represent not only the psoric taints
which Nature was trying to eliminate through the erup-
tions and parasites, but also the poisons contained in the
bodies of the parasites and the drug poisons which were
used to kill them. It has been proved that the bodies of
the parasites contain a poisonous taint called by homeo-
paths, psorinum. When the minute animals burrowing
in and under the skin are killed by drug treatment, the
morbid taints in their bodies are absorbed by the human
organism and added to the psoric taints which Nature was
trying to eliminate. Thus, after suppression, the organism
is cumbered with three poisons instead of one; first, the
hereditary and acquired scrofulous and psoric taints which

the tissues of the body were throwing off into the blood
stream and which the blood stream was feeding to the
parasites on the surface; second, the morbid taints con-
tained in the bodies of the parasites and, third, the drug
poisons used as suppressants.
These facts explain why the itch spots in the eye fre-
quently indicate serious chronic, destructive diseases in
the corresponding parts of the body; why in asthma and
tuberculosis we often find itch spots in the lungs; why

cancer of the liver is indicated by itch spots in the liver
area, etc. That itch or psora is actually at the bottom of
the cancerous diathesis isby the fact that all
attested
cancer patients whom we
have treated and cured have,
with two exceptions, broken out with itchy, burning erup-
tions at one time or another during the natural treatment.
The bodies of most of these patients were inflamed with
fiery eruptions from head to foot for days and often for
weeks.
We allow these healing crises to run their course unhin-
dered and unchecked; we rather encourage them by air
and sun baths, cold water treatment and homeopathic
remedies. "When the parasites have consumed the poison-
ous taints on which they feed, they depart as they came,
no one knows whence nor whither. Bechamp 's microzyma
now explain the mystery. For the removal of lice we pre-
scribe only water and comb; even antiseptic soaps must
be avoided lest they kill the parasites burrowing in the
skin and flesh.
Speaking of cancer heredity, Hendrick says on page
264:
"Families in which cancer seems abnormally prevalent are famil-
iar facts of everyday life. Several of these apparently cancerous
families, the most notable being the Bonapartes, having figured in
history. Napoleon himself died of cancer of the stomach, as did his
father, his brother Lucien, and his sisters Caroline and Pauline.
Among human beings, however, cancer is so common that any large
family is almost certain to have its victims. On the other hand,
the fact that when cancer is common in a family it almost always
—
takes the same shape in all sufferers the cancerous Bonapartes, for
—
example, all dying of cancer of the stomach supports the popular
idea that heredity is an important factor."
It is reported by the biographers of Napoleon that at

and
different times in his life he sufi'ered with the itch,
undoubtedly it was suppressed in due form; this and the
subsequent development of cancer by the great Corsican
furnish historical confirmation of the theory of psora.
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"Does Nature Ever Cure Cancer?"

"Medical science has now established one fundamental fact:
that, in practically all bacterial infections, the employment of drugs,
as direct curatives, is virtually useless. No factor, extrinsic to the
body ever cured a human being of typhoid fever, diphtheria,
itself,
tuberculosis, or any other bacterial disease. '
This is good Nature Cure doctrine. Much suffering-

could be prevented if the medical profession would always
keep these truths in mind and act accordingly. Unfor-
tunately, however, for humanity, medical practice on the
—
whole continues along the old lines antiseptics, antipy-
serums, antitoxins and surgical extirpations are
retics,
employed as much as ever before.
In a foot note to the previously quoted paragraph, our
author swerves from the straight path of Nature Cure
reasoning back into allopathic doctrine. He says:
**The only apparent exceptions to this rule are the successful use
of quinin in malaria and mercury in syphilis. These diseases, how-
ever, are caused, not by (vegetable) bacteria, but by animal para-
sites." (?)
In other articles I have shown that quinin and mercury

are by no means exceptions to the rule that poisonous
drugs do not cure diseases. I have demonstrated that they
merely suppress Nature's acute healing and cleansing
efforts and change them into chronic destructive forms of
disease. I have proved that mercury is the most terrible
of all suppressants ; that it is responsible for the existence
of secondary and tertiary syphilis and for the majority
of all cases of locomotor ataxia, paralysis agitans and
paresis.
Page 265
**The really curative agency is t'lis great physical power called

immunity. This may be defined as the resistance manifested by the
normal body to any extrinsic forces that seek to destroy it. The
animal organism is not passive in the face of these attacks; when
assailed, it rouses itself and brings against the invader powerful
though liitherto quiescent forces."
This also is good Nature Cure doctrine. By the very

name which we have chosen for our school of healing we
have indicated that Nature, not the doctor, cures. All that
we can do is to remove obstructions, to correct mechanical
lesions, to build up the blood on a natural basis, and to
promote elimination. The actual regeneration of diseased
tissues is accomplished by the "physician within". Here
we touch elbows with the metaphysician; the difference
is that the latter expects the Lord to do it all, while we
believe in giving Him a helping hand. Thus Nature Cure

travels the common sense middle road between the allo-
pathic extreme of suppression and the other extreme of
metaphysical nihilism.
—
The fundamental law of cure "Every acute disease
is the result of a healing and cleansing effort of nature"
affirms the fact that the really curative agency is the great
Life Force. What the old school of medicine calls disease,
we call Nature's healing effort.
Page 265
"For every minute body that assails it from without, it produces

an anti-body within; for every toxin evolved by the invading bac-
teria, it produces its antitoxin. Though these forces in some shape
always exist within us, it is only when the specific disease appears
that they manifest themselves in useful form. Thus, when the
diphtheria toxin assails us, the body in turn manufactures its diph-
theria antitoxin to destroy it. If the patient recovers, these anti-
—
toxins remain in the blood indefinitely which explains why, when
once we have rid ourselves of a specific contagious disease, we
seldom contract it again."
This expresses the allopathic conception of the bacterial

origin of diseases. From the Nature Cure viewpoint the
microzyma, omnipresent in living protoplasm, develop in
the morbid soil of the diphtheria sore throat into diph-
theria germs and these feed on and decompose the morbid
matter, which is probably the product of vaccine virus.
Naturally, as the food supply decreases the diphtheria
germs decrease also. It is this which explains the gradual
CANCER 215
subsidence of the inflammatory process, not the germ de-

vouring leucocytes, nor the mysterious, never yet identi-
fied obsonins or antitoxins.
Fevers, inflammations, skin eruptions and mucous dis-
charges consume and eliminate the morbid matter in
which bacteria grow and We have an example of
thrive.
this in yeast fermentation. Yeast germs will grow in a
sugar solution only when they have split up all the sugar
;
into alcohol and carbonic acid, fermentation ceases be-

cause the germs have nothing to feed on but they are not
;
dead by any means. Transplanted into another sugar

solution they will thrive lustily.
Man's powerful poisonous antiseptics, antipyretics and
antitoxins do not allow fevers and inflammations to con-
sume the morbid matter in the system they interrupt the
;
processes of oxydation (combustion) and elimination be-

fore nature has had a chance to perform her work
of housecleaning and repair; in other words, while
nature merely regulates the work of housecleaning,
poisonous antiseptics, germicides and antitoxins stop it
entirely.
The cure is due to the
of bacterial diseases, therefore,
fact that the disease soil inwhich germs and bacteria
thrive and multiply has been removed from the system.
In other words, bacteria are not the unmitigated evil they
are pictured to be; like everything else in nature, they
serve a useful purpose. They are scavengers which con-
sume and remove waste and morbid matter. It would be
just as sensible to kill the ''white wings", working with
brooms and shovels in our streets, as to kill these busy
microbes in our bodies. So long as we are foolish enough
to burden our system with all sorts of morbid matter to
such an extent that our organs of elimination cannot take
care of it, nature must provide some other radical forms
of housecleaning, such as fevers, inflammations, catarrhal
Vol. 1—15.
conditions, bacterial diseases, etc. —otherwise we would

perish in our own impurities.
"We do not have to kill these useful little scavengers;
and they become innocuous, when they
their activity ceases
have consumed the morbid matter on which they live.
They cannot thrive in pure blood and normal tissues, any
more than yeast germs can grow in a fluid devoid of sugar.
Upon What Does Natural Immunity Depend?

Natural immunity depends upon the following factors:
First: Upon perfect nutrition and drainage, and re-
sulting from these.
Second Upon the normal composition and purity of the
:
vital fluids and tissues.

Third: Upon adequate nerve supply to the cells and
organs.
Fourth : Upon the vigor and harmony of the vibratory
activities on all three planes of being.
Page 266
"These records soon disclosed a momentous fact. While most of
the cancers kept increasing in size until the animal died, a few
clearly stopped growing, and others began to retrogress, in many
cases diminishing to the vanishing point. An inspection of the
animals more graphically emphasized the same fact. In some the
cancer grew as large as a hazelnut or an almond, and then slowly
began to grow smaller. When they disappeared, they left absolutely
no trace, not even a scar, and there was no recurrence. The skin and
hair above the spot where this malignant tumor had been became
white, glossy, and indistinguishable from the remaining surface.
In the course of two years' observation it developed that about
twenty per cent of all mouse cancers ultimately disappeared. In
a few cases these were fairly large; in most instances they were
quite small, perhaps an eighth of an inch in diameter. In other
words, the smaller the tumor, the greater chance it had to become
absorbed.
"Cancer, in Principle, Is Not an Incurable Disease"

"What did this mean? Simply this: that cancer was a curable
disease; the destructive cells did not necessarily mean death.
Clearly nature herself knew how to rid the animal body of this
malignant growth. The presence of the cancer cell started into life
CANCER 217
certain forces that arose in all their might and threw off the incubus.
These simple experiments for all time took human cancer out of the
class of incurable diseases. Precisely how nature accomplishes this
work is not known now, and may indeed never be known; the
method may be too complex for the human mind to grasp: but, in
principle, the disease can be mastered."
This mystery also is readily explained by the work of

the minute scavengers, the microzyma. When the cancer
soil is consumed they cease producing cancer cells.
When, during the last few years, I asserted that we
could cure cancer by natural methods of treatment, my
claims were scouted and ridiculed. Many a poor sufferer
has missed his chance of recovery because he believed that
his only possible salvation lay in a surgical operation.
Now comes advanced medical science and positively con-
firms my claim that cancer is curable, and in many in-
stances, even selfcurable.
If the constructive forces in Nature can cure cancer
spontaneously, how much more effectiveand speedy will
be their work of cleansing and repair aided by our natural
methods of treatment. If cases of spontaneous cures are
more closely investigated it will be found that they are
preceded by itch eruptions or some other form of vigorous
elimination. Not long ago I heard of a man who was
cured of consumption by a good dose of smallpox. The
smallpox in this case acted as a healing crisis.
Page 268:
"Dogs Can B© Cured of Cancer"
"Though we cannot cure cancer in human beings, we can cure
it in dogs. It was Loomis Laboratory, through experiments
at the
conducted by Dr. S. P. Beebe and Dr. George W. Crile, of Cleveland,
that its curability was demonstrated.
"At these experiments nine dogs in succession were cured of
malignant growths and restored to normal health. The experi-
menters accomplished this result simply by transfusing into the
diseased animals the blood of other dogs that were demonstrated to
be immune to this type of cancer. They inoculated a considerable
number of dogs; in some the tumor developed and in others it failed
to do so. The latter were therefore regarded as resistant to the
disease. After the growth had gained marked headway and the
patients manifested nearly all the symptoms of cancer in its last
stages, practically all the blood in their bodies was drained off. In
its place was transfused the blood of animals which had proved
resistant to inoculation. In nine out of ten cases the sick dogs got
well; their tumors entirely disappeared, their condition became
normal, and their own blood could then be used to effect similar
cures. These experiments seem to indicate that, while the immune
properties in cancer are not found in the serum when it is separated
from the blood, they may be found when the whole body of the
blood is used. Another explanation is that the blood of the diseased
animal contains nourishment especially adaptable to the cancer
cell, and that when this was withdrawn, the cancer cell was vir-
tually deprived of its food. On the other hand, the blood of the
second animal furnished no nourishment to the cancer, as evidenced
by the fact that, after the inoculation of the growth, it failed to
develop. When this blood, therefore, was transfused into the body
of the diseased dog, it supplied wholesome nourishment to his normal
tissues, but absolutely none to the cancer cells, which consequently
atrophied and disappeared.
"For dogs afflicted with this particular tumor, science has thus
—
discovered that great medical desideratum an actual cure for
cancer. In the course of the writer's visit to the Buffalo Laboratory,
a large, fine, valuable English bulldog was brought in fearfully
afflicted with this disease; the treatment was at once begun, and
in a few weeks he will unquestionably be sent back entirely well. * '
The foregoing proves conclusively our assertion that

cancer not a local ailment but a constitutional blood
is
disease. have always claimed that the root of cancer

I
is in every drop of blood in the body and that therefore
local extirpation by any means whatsoever is worse than

useless.
Common sense should teach us that the only possible
cure for these deep-seated disorders can consist in nothing
less than a thorough purification, regeneration and vitali-
zation of the organism as a whole, and such indeed is the
case.
Nature Cure Has Solved the Problem
Referring to the cure of cancer in dogs by the trans-

fusion of blood of healthy animals into the bodies of
diseased ones, Mr. Hendriek continues:
"With human beings the reproduction of the conditions of the
experiment is absolutely impossible. For practical purposes it
would be impossible to accomplish this, and the experiments, there-
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fore, outside of their practical importance in restoring suffering dogs

to health, are interesting chiefly for the new light which they shed
upon the general problem, and for the additional demonstration that
cancer, in itself, is not incurable."
However, we of the Nature Cure school say that it is

not necessary to pump the diseased blood out of the organ-
ism. In the natural methods of living and of treatment
we possess the means of purifying^ and regenerating that
blood while it is in the body. That this is possible we have
proved in a number of cancer cases.
It is obvious, however, that the earlier the disease is
treated by the natural methods, that is, before the break-
ing down process has far advanced, the easier and quicker
will be the cure.
I maintain that external cancers in the first stages of
development, that is, before they have grown to large
proportions, belong to the easily curable forms of disease.
Cures become morte difficult when the tumors affect inter-
nal vital parts and organs, but even then we have been
successful in many cases.
This article has already far outgrown the limits origi-
nally assigned to it, but I cannot refrain from illustrating
my deductions by at least one typical case taken from our
clinical records.
About six years ago there came to us a Polish woman
whose head, on the right side, was covered by an enormous
cancerous growth. She gave to us the following history
of her case
At firstshe had a large wen on the right side of her
head. This was removed by a beauty doctor. The wound
healed, but soon after opened and formed an ugly sore.
This was treated surgically in a north side hospital. After
a while the wound opened again and became more viru-
lent than before. Skin grafting was now resorted to in
order to cover the large exposure of raw flesh, yet the
wound refused to stay cured, and two more operations
were performed in the same hospital. Powerful antisep-

tics were used to cauterize the sores, and they were burned
with hot irons. This was done so thoroughly that a piece
of the bone became charred and worked out during our
course of treatment; it resembled a piece of charcoal.
After the fourth operation, when the entire side of the
head was covered by a cancerous mass, she was dismissed
as incurable. She then came under our treatment and
after five months the sores had entirely disappeared and
the wounds, including the hole in the skull, were covered
with new, sound skin.
During the treatment, the patient passed through the
usual crises in the forms of catarrhs, coughs, diarrheas,
itchy skin eruptions, etc. After the wounds on the head
had healed perfectly, she began to use meat and coffee.
Within a few weeks the scars reopened and began to bleed.
She then confessed she had transgressed our rules. After
returning to the natural regimen and treatment, the
wounds closed again. Later on she repeated the same
experiment with the same results. Since then there has
never been a recurrence of her trouble and today she is
in perfect health. She has never had occasion to employ
doctors since she was with us. In the meantime she has
married, and now has three healthy children.
Since this article was written for the Nature Cure Maga-
zine in 1909, certain discoveries by Dr. H. C. Ross of
London, England, have confirmed my claims that cancer
is not at all of local and accidental origin, but that it is
constitutional, and that it may be caused by the gradual

accumulation in the system of certain toxins (morbid
microzyma) which develop in decaying animal matter.
One day, while experimenting in his laboratory, Dr.
Ross brought living cells into contact with a certain anilin
dye on the slide of a microscope, and noticed that they
began at once to multiply by cell division (proliferation).
CANCEB 221
Dr. Ross realized that he had made an important dis-

covery and continued his experiments under the micro-
scope in order to find out what other substances would
cause cell proliferation. He found that certain xanthins
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 procure.
Dr. Ross obtained these ''alkaloids of putrefaction",
from blood which had been allowed to
as he called them,
putrefy in a warm place. He found that albuminoids
derived from decaying vegetable substances did not have
the same effect.
His discoveries led him to believe that the "alkaloids
of putrefaction" produced in a cut or wound by the decay-
ing of dead blood and tissue cells are the cause of the
rapid multiplication of the neighboring live cells, which
gradually fills the wound with new tissues.
Thus, for the first time in the history of medicine, a

rational explanation of Nature's methods for repairing
injured tissues has been advanced.
Dr. Ross applied his theory still farther to the causa-
tion of benign and malignant growths, 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 rapid, abnormal multiplication of cells in
tumor formations.
In benign tumors the abnormal proliferation of cells
takes place slowly, and they do not tend to immediate
and rapid decay and deterioration.
In malignant tumors the "wild" cells, created in im-
mense numbers (from microzyma feeding on psoric taints
and systemic poisons), decay almost as rapidly as they are
produced because the abnormal growths are devoid of
normal organization. They have no established, regular
blood and nerve supply, nor are they provided with ade-
quate venous and lymphatic drainage. They are, there-
fore, cut off from the orderly life of the organism and
doomed to rapid deterioration.
The processes of decay of these tumor materials liberate
large quantities of "alkaloids of putrefaction", and these
in turn stimulate the normal, healthy cells with which
they come in contact to rapid, abnormal multiplication.
(The alkaloids of putrefaction change the microzyma of
normal cells into the morbid microzyma of cancer cells.)
The malignant growth, therefore, feeds on its own prod-
ucts of decay, aside from the systemic poisons and morbid
materials already contained in the blood and tissues of
the body.
These morbid products permeate the entire system.
They are carried by the circulation of the blood into all
parts of the body. This explains why cancer is a consti-
tutional disease, why it is, as I stated it, "rooted in every
drop of blood".
It also explains why cancer, or rather the disposition
to its development (diathesis), is hereditary.
If the original cancerous growth is removed by surgical
intervention. X-rays, the electric needle, cauterization, or
any other form of local treatment, the poisonous materials
(alkaloids of putrefaction) in the blood will set up other
foci of abnormal, "wild" proliferation. Medical science
has applied the term "metastasis" to such spreading and
reappearing of malignant tumors after extirpation.
Dr. Ross' findings throw an interesting light on the
relationship between cancer and meat eating. Is it not
self evident that in a digestive tract filled most of the
time with large masses of partially digested and decay-
ing animal food enormous quantities of "alkaloids of
putrefaction" are created? These are absorbed into the
circulation, attracted to any point where exists some form
CANCER 223
of local irritation, and then stimulate the cells in that

locality to abnormal proliferation.
"But," will be said, "meat-eating alone does not
it
account for cancer, because vegetarians also succumb to

the disease."
It is true thatvery rarely vegetarians are afflicted with
cancer; but must be remembered that vegetarians may
it
be affected hereditarily with psoric and scrofulous taints,

that a high protein vegetarian diet may be disease pro-
ducing as well as a meat diet, and that a natural diet
without treatment may not be sufficient to eliminate the
cancer soil. Alkaloids of putrefaction are constantly pro-
duced in every animal and human body. They form in
the excretions of living cells and in the decaying proto-
plasm of dead cells, and if the organs of elimination do
not function properly, these morbid materials will accu-
mulate in the system and produce morbid microzyma.
Will Radium Cure Cancer?
Newspapers and magazines almost daily bring articles,

news items and discussions about the interesting element,
radium. The propaganda is so persistent and orderly that
one cannot help suspecting the artistic hand of the press
agent. Factions are forming in the medical profession for
and against the use of the metal in the treatment of
cancer and other diseases. Schweninger, a prominent
European physician, says the radium treatment is a gigan-
tic swindle. Others claim to have produced, within forty-
eight hours, most marvelous cures of cancer by means of
the radium rays. The surgeons declare there may be
some good in the radium treatment, but that, after all,
the safest way lies in the early removal of tumors by the
knife.
The extravagant claims of the radium advocates are
bound to arouse new hope in many thousands of people

who suffer from the dread cancer malady, and undoubt-
edly multitudes will try the new remedy, only to be dis-
appointed in the end.
It seems cruel to kill the hopes of those who have pinned
their faith to the miracle-working power of radium; but
it is not right to give positive assurance of cures when
this method of treatment is still in the period of danger-

ous experimentation and when it is a well known fact
that malignant tumors tend to recur after local extirpa-
tion within a period of two years. For this latter reason
alone, it will require several years to prove the efficacy
of radium treatment. Furthermore, it is not right to lead
inquiry into doubtful and dangerous paths, when the only
rational and effective way has already been discovered and
positively demonstrated.
About ten years ago, similar positive and extravagant
claims were made for the Roentgen-rays. Institutions for
X-ray treatment sprung up all over the country. What
has been the result ? It is now a well established fact that
the X-rays, instead of curing cancer, create it. Already
evidence is accumulating which indicates that the radium
emanations are just as dangerous as the X-rays.
These agents, on account of immense vibratory velocity
and power, are altogether too strong and too destructive
for the tissues of the human body. Their work is slow
and insidious, but nevertheless certain. The pernicious
effects of the X-rays do not manifest until a few years after
exposure. I have over thirty newspaper clippings gath-
ered during the last ten years which report the develop-
ment of cancer-like growths after exposure to X-rays. One
of the first victims was an assistant to Thomas A. Edison.
After repeated exposure to the rays, in the course of
scientific experimentation, the flesh of his body decayed
and fell off in pieces until death ended his terrible suffer-
CANCER 225
ing. Thousands of others have suffered the same fate, but

I have failed to hear of a single, well authenticated case
of cancer cured by the Roentgen-rays.
Several cases have come under my observation where
the application of these rays for some insignificant local
lesion was followed by the development of cancer-like
—
decay of the flesh, and finally death in one instance,
suicide.
The radium rays are more powerful than the X-rays,
and while they may destroy the abnormal cells of the
cancerous growth, they have also a weakening and de-
structive effect upon the normal cells of the surrounding
tissues and nearby organs. But these destructive after
effects may not manifest for many months or for several
years after exposure. Authentic reports of such cases are
already on record.
The following quotations taken from an article in the
December, 1913 issue of "The New Age", entitled "New
Rare Elements of Great Cost", vividly describe the im-
mense power of the X-ray emanations and report the
death of several scientists as a result of exposure to the
radium rays:
"New Eare Elements of Great Cost"
"What will radium do? That is the question that is still puzzling
science, for the metal has strangely contradictory properties. It
has been found valuable in the treatment of cancer by Dr. Abbe,
who claims to have made many cures with it. The Paris Radium
Institute announces a large percentage of cures out of many cases
of surface cancer. All kinds of cutaneous affections have been
treated successfully, and chronic rheumatism and tuberculosis have
yielded to the treatment.
"There is a strong anti-radium party in the medical profession
which points out that Dr. John H. Edwards, president of the British
Electro-therapeutic Society, suffered from a cancerous growth due
to constant exposure to radium. His left arm had to be amputated.
Another, Clarence Dally, had to have his fingers amputated, then
his arm, and he finally died from the same cause. There have been
other deaths, too, laid to the effect of radium, notably those of
Wolfram G. Furths, of Chicago; Dr. Louis Weigel, of Rocheater, and
M, Radignet, of Paris. The debate over radium's curative power
is still on, full force.
"Of all its strange properties, perhaps the oddest, and without
precedent as far as science knows, is that a fragment of radium is
always six degrees Fahrenheit hotter than its surrounding medium.
This seems in direct defiance to one of the most important of
physical laws, the law of the conservation of energy. Radium gives
out heat incessantly and yet remains superheated. William Ramsey
declares that a given bulk of radium would melt its own weight in
ice every hour and keep on doing so for a thousand years.
'
Radium is the only substance with the property of self-electrifi-
'
cation. The energy contained within a tiny particle of it is amaz-

ing. Sir William Ramsey has estimated that the energy in a ton
of radium, could it be utilized, would be sufficient to propel a ship
of 15,999 tons with engines of 15,000 horsepower at a speed of
fifteen knots an hour continuously for thirty years. To do that
now requires a million and a half tons of coal.
"These are but a few of its powers. Daily others are discovered,
but even so radium is yet an unsolved riddle."
The foregoing statements certainly indicate the neces-

sity of caution in the application of the radium rays and
emanations.
However, the principal point at issue in this controversy
is : Why should we experiment with these dangerous and
doubtful agents when we a
are already in possession of
safe and certain method for curing benign and malignant
tumors in their incipient and even somewhat advanced
stages of development? This does not refer to surgical
extirpation, because this is just as futile to cure cancer
as are all other purely local methods of treatment. The
simple reason for this is, as has been explained previously,
that cancer is not a local ailment, but a manifestation of

constitutional disease.
CHAPTER XIX
WHAT ABOUT THE "CHRONIC"?
It Takes So Long
YES, Nature Cure is all right, but it takes so long."

Now and then we hear this or a similar remark.
Our answer is: "No, it does not take long. It is the
swiftest cure in existence."
This wrong idea has grown out of the fact that, as a
rule,we have to deal with, none but the most advanced
cases of so called incurable diseases. The afflicted turn
to the Nature Cure physician only after all other methods
of treatment have been tried and found of no avail.
As long as there remains a particle of faith in the medi-
cine bottle, the knife or the metaphysical formula of the
mind-healer, people prefer these "easy" methods which
require no effort on their part, rather than the Nature
Cure treatment which necessitates personal exertion, self-
control, the changing or giving up of cherished habits.
This is what most of us evade as long as we can. "Exer-
cise, the cold blitz-guss, no meat, no coffee ? Not for me
I'd rather die!"
Afraid of Cold Water
The most dreaded "terror on the threshold" seems to
be cold water. Undoubtedly it has kept away thousands
from Nature Cure and thereby from the only possible cure
for their chronic ailments. If we could achieve equally
good results without our "heroic" methods of treatment,
the roads leading to our institutions would be crowded
with anxious ones clamoring for admission.
227
After all, this foolish fear is entirely groundless. Cold

water is no more to be dreaded than the "bogey man".
It is one of our fundamental principles of treatment never
to do anything that is painful to the patient. We always
—
"temper the wind to the shorn lamb" the coldness of
the water and the force of the manipulations to the sensi-
tiveness and endurance of the subject. Beginning with
mild, alternately warm and cool sprays, which are pleasant
and agreeable to everyone, we gradually increase the
force and lower the temperature until the patient is so
inured to cold water that the "blitz-guss" becomes a
delightful and pleasurable sensation, a positive luxury.
It is amusing to watch the gradual change in the atti-
tude of our patients toward the cold water treatment. 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 spray. A few weeks later, if,
perchance, something interfered with the continuation of
the cold water treatment, the patient vrould vigorously
protest against taking the other treatment without it.
There is certainly no finer tonic than cold water, no
more exhilarating sensation than that produced by the
skillful application of alternating douches and the "blitz".
The real cause of this cold water scare, we believe, is to
be found in the boasting of the "veterans". "When, with
chest distended and chin in air, they brag to new-
comers or to their friends about their heroism and the
calmness with which they allow the cold water hose to
be turned on them, the listener shudders and exclaims:
"This cold water may be all right for you, but it would
never do for me."
No doubt it is this bravado of the initiated which keeps
many a novice from the first plunge into the mysteries of
Nature Cure. If these timid ones only knew what they
miss
WHAT ABOUT THE "CHRONIC"? 229
Business Versus Cures
From a business point of view it would, perhaps, be bet-
ter for us to leave off the coldwater altogether. It would

certainly be much less trouble but the rugged honesty of
;
Father Kneipp, the champion of the cold water treatment

branch of Nature Cure, has descended upon his followers
and compels them to tell the whole truth and nothing but
the truth, to make use of everything- that is likely to be of
benefit to the patient and to effect a real and lasting cure.
Our friends, the osteopaths, chiropractors and napra-
paths, have only a pitying smile for our arduous labors.
They ask, "Why fool with cold water and drive patients
away, when pleasant manipulations bring the business?"
If we query in return, "Do your pleasant manipulations
cure obstinate chronic ailments?" they answer: "We do
not expect to cure them. The effort involves too much
labor and spoils the reputation of our work. Not one in
a hundred chronics has the patience and perseverance to
be cured. Besides, if a patient comes too long to the of&ce
for treatment he drives others away."
Some of the most "successful" osteopaths, chiroprac-
tors and naprapaths in this city make it a rule not to treat
a patient longer than six weeks or two months.
In a number of cases this may be sufficient to produce
marked primary improvement, but it is not enough to
launch the patient into a healing crisis and, therefore,
does not produce a real cure because it does not remove
the underlying causes of the disease. Furthermore, if a
healing crisis be produced under manipulative treatment
the physician, if he does not understand the law of crisis,
may suppress the healing crisis by more manipulative
treatment. (See page 421, Loban.) If after a while
the latent chronic condition again manifests in external
symptoms, the patient returns for another course of treat-
ment. He was "cured" so quickly before he feels sure

of the same result again.
In justice to the osteopaths, chiropractors and napra-
paths, 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 structures. If such lesions be
the sole cause of the trouble, their correction by manipu-
lative treatment may produce a cure within a few weeks.
But notwithstanding the teachings of orthodox osteop-
athy, the majority of chronic ailments have their origin
in other causes. In most cases the existing spinal lesions
are themselves the result of other primary disease condi-
tionswhich must be overcome before the spinal lesions
willremain corrected.
The mode of treatment depends upon the object that is
to be accomplished. If it is to make the patient "feel
better" with the least possible expenditure of time, money,
personal effort and self control on his part and the least
amount of exertion on the part of the physician or "heal-
er", then spinal manipulations or metaphysical formulas
may be in order. But if the object is to cure actually and
permanently a deep seated chronic disease, all methods
of natural treatment, intelligently combined and adapted
to the individual case, are required in order to accomplish
satisfactory results.
Pull the Roots
Cutting off their tops does not kill weeds. The first
sign of improvement in the treatment of a chronic disease

does not mean a cure.
Diagnosis from the iris of the eye, borne out by every
day practical experience, discloses the fact that symp-
tomatic manifestations of disease are due to underlying
constitutional causes; that the chronic symptoms are
Nature's feeble and ineffectual efforts to eliminate from

the system scrofulous, psoric or syphilitic taints and the
disease products resulting from food and drug poisoning,
or to overcome the destructive effects of surgical mutila-
tions.
An abatement of symptoms is, therefore, not always the
sign of a real and permanent cure. The latter depends
entirely on the elimination of the hereditary and acquired
constitutional taints and poisons.
When, under the influence of natural living and methods
of treatment, the body of the chronic becomes sufficiently
purified and strengthened, a period of marked improve-
ment may set in. All disease symptoms gradually abate,
the patient gains in strength both physically and mentally
and feels as though there was nothing the matter with
him any more.
But the eyes tell a different story. They show that the
underlying constitutional taints have not been fully elim-
—
inated the weeds have not been pulled up by the roots.
This can be accomplished only by healing crises, by
Nature's cleansing and healing activities in the form of
inflammatory and feverish processes. Anything short of
this is merely preliminary improvement, "training for the
fight" but not a cure.
When you order a suit of clothes from your tailor you
do not take it away from him half finished if you do you
;
will not have a satisfactory garment.

No more should you interfere with your cure after the
first signs of improvement. Continue until you have thor-
oughly eliminated from your system the hidden constitu-
tional taints and the drug poisons which are the cause of
your troubles. After that you can paddle your own canoe
right living and right thinking will then be sufficient to
maintain perfect health and strength, physically, mentally
and morally.
Vol. 1—16.
Is the Chronic to Be Left to His Fate Because Allopathy

Says He Is Incurable?
Frequently we have been severely criticized by our

friends, ourcoworkers or our patients for accepting seem-
ingly hopeless chronic cases. They exclaim "You know
:
this man has locomotor ataxia and that woman is an

epileptic; you certainly do not expect to cure them!"
or ''Doctor, don't you think it injures the institution to
have that dreadful looking person around? He is noth-
ing but skin and bones and surely cannot live much
'
longer.
Sometimes open criticism and covert insinuation inti-
mate that our reasons for taking "incurables" are mer-
cenary.
If we should dismiss today those of our patients who,
from the orthodox and popular point of view, are consid-
ered incurable, there would not remain ten out of a hun-
dred. Yet our total failures are few and far between.
Many such seemingly hopeless cases have come for treat-
ment month after month, in several instances for a year
or more, apparently without any marked advance; yet
today they are in the best of health.
Yes, it is hard work and frequently thankless work to
deal with these cases. It would be much easier, much more
remunerative and would bring more glory if we should
confine ourselves to the treatment of acute diseases, for
it is there that Nature Cure works its most impressive
miracles. On the other hand, to achieve the seemingly

impossible, to prove what Nature Cure can accomplish in
the most stubborn chronic cases, sustains our courage and
is its own compensation.
The word "chronic" in the vocabulary of the old school
of medicine is synonymous with "incurable". This is not
strange, for since the medical and surgical symptomatic
treatment of acute diseases creates the chronic conditions,

it certainly cannot be expected to cure them.
If by continued suppression Nature's cleansing and

healing efforts have been perverted into chronic disease
conditions, the following directions are given in the "reg-
ular" works on medical practice:
''When this disease reaches the chronic stage, it is no
longer curable. The patient may be advised to change
climate or occupation. As for medication, the symptoms
are treated as they arise."
"We know that the symptoms are Nature's healing ef-
forts ; when these are promptly treated, that is, suppressed,
it is not surprising that the chronic does not recover. In
fact it is the treatment which malies ajid keeps him a
chronic.
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 described. However, when the
Nature Cure physician claims that he can cure cancer,
consumption, epilepsy, paralysis, Bright 's disease, diabe-
mental derangements, the allopath expresses
tes or certain
only derision and contempt. He will not even condescend
to examine any evidence in support of our claims.
Since, then. Nature Cure offers to the so called incurable
the only hope and the only possible means of regaining
health, why not give him a chance? Many times appar-
ently hopeless cases have responded most readily to our
treatment, while more promising ones offered the most
stubborn resistance. Even with the best possible methods
of diagnosis it is hard to determine just how far the
destruction of vital organs has progressed or how deeply
they have been impregnated with drug poisons.
Therefore it is often an impossibility to predict with
certainty just what the outcome will be. This can be

determined only by a fair trial. In the past we have
treated many a case that, according to the rules and prece-
dents of orthodox science, should be dead and buried long
ago yet these individuals are today alive and in the best
;
of health.
Every now and then incidents like the following renew
our enthusiasm and our confidence in Nature Cure: Re-
cently three eases were sent by three former patients who
had been under treatment several years ago. These three
had been among the worst cases ever treated in our insti-
tution. When they came to us, one was supposed to be
dying with cancer, the second was in the advanced stages
of tertiary syphilis and the third had survived several
operations for the removal of the appendix and the ovaries.
At the time the latter took up our treatment she had been
advised to undergo another operation for the removal of
the uterus.
These "incurables" had been exceedingly trying. More
than once the one or the other had quit, discouraged, only
to return, knowing that after all Nature Cure was their
only hope. After they left us we lost track of them and
often wondered how they were getting on. All three were
reported by the newcomers as being in good health. What
if it did take months or even years to produce the desired
results? What would have been the fate of these three
' '
patients if it had not been for slow Nature Cure ?
' '
Discouraged patients frequently ask: "Why do others

recover so quickly when I show such slow improvement?
This cure seems to be all right for some diseases but evi-
dently it does not fit my case."
This is defective reasoning. True Nature Cure fits every
case because it includes everything good in natural healing
methods. In stubborn cases Nature Cure is not to blame
for the slow and unsatisfactory results; the diflBculty lies
WHAT ABOUT THE " CHRONIC"? 235
in the character and advanced stage of the disease —in

failure to turn to natural methods soon enough.
In the following chapters I shall briefly outline the nat-
ural methods of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of
chronic diseases.
CHAPTER XX
DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS
Diagnosis from the Nature Cure Viewpoint
THE
upon
allopathic school of medicine lays
correct diagnosis than
more stress
upon treatment. This
is the natural result of looking upon all chronic disease
as incurable. Many times have I seen the presiding pro-
fessor in a clinic spend an hour or more in analyzing
minutely the anatomical, physiological and psychological
aspects of a case.
—
To my question "What is the cause of the trouble?'*
—
he would answer "Nobody knows."
"What can we do for him?"
"Nothing. The case is incurable. Give him a placebo
(make-believe)."
Our professor on Diseases of the Eye, Ear and Nose
was doing post-graduate work in Vienna. From time to
time he reported to our class his experiences in this great
center of medical science. In one of these letters he wrote
as follows: "This is certainly the greatest place in the
world for doctors, but I doubt whether it is for patients.
All that the doctors seem to be interested in is to see their
diagnoses verified on the postmortem table. Treatment
is of secondary importance." Contrast this with the atti-
tude of the Nature Cure school toward diagnosis and
treatment of chronic diseases.
Though we make more thorough examinations and give
a more minutely accurate diagnosis and prognosis of dis-
ease in all its forms than does any other school of medical
236
DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS 237
science, from our viewpoint diagnosis is of relatively

small importance in the treatment and cure of any par-
ticular disease. To ns, curing is far more vital than
diagnosing.
Here our orthodox colleagues interpose: *'This shows
your Nature Cure to be empirical and not at all scientific.
How can you cure if you do not first determine what is the
disease?"
To this we answer: "The unity of disease is a fact in
Nature. All disorders can be traced back to three primary
manifestations, namely (1) Lowered vitality (2) Abnor-
:
;
mal composition of blood and lymph; (3) Accumulation of

waste materials, morbid matter and poisons. '
It then follows that whoever succeeds in correcting these

three underlying causes, thereby removes whatever disease
originates from them.
Very simple, is it not? What is more, it is absolutely
incontrovertible logic. To show that we are wrong it is
necessary to disprove the Nature Cure postulate of the
unity of disease and cure, as explained in Chapter VI.
To illustrate: Suppose a stranger should come to me
and say, "Doctor, I am suffering from some serious chronic
disease. Can you cure me without the customary exami-
'
nation ?
I should say to him without hesitation, "If that is your
wish, I shall gladly do so. And furthermore, I am con-
fident of excellent results, if in the nature of the case
improvement be possible."
In accordance with the primary law of disease, I would
first instruct the patient how to avoid all waste of vitality
in his habits of thinking, feeling, eating, drinking, bath-
ing, breathing, working, resting, and in his sex life.
I should then instruct him how to regulate his meals

and combine his foods in such a way as to take in a mini-
mum of disease producing and a maximum of blood build-
ing and purifying food elements. By blood building and

purifying food elements I refer to the juicy fruits and
fresh, leafy vegetables.
I would apply all methods of natural treatment which
tend to make the skin, bowels and kidneys more active
and alive. I would use good, old fashioned massage to
"squeeze" the morbid matter out of the tissues into the
venous and lymphatic circulation and to stimulate the
inflow of red arterial blood with its freight of oxygen and
other elements of nutrition.
Next in order would be Swedish movements and the
best suited manipulative treatment based on our prin-
ciples of neurotherapy tending to correct spinal and other
mechanical lesions in bony structures, muscles, ligaments
and connective tissues.
I would teach him how to distinguish discordant and
destructive from harmonious and constructive thinking
and feeling, and how to help himself by positive, opti-
mistic affirmations and suggestions.
In response to these teachings and treatments the pa-
tient's condition would gradually improve and he would
steadily advance toward the enjoyment of perfect health.
The only conditions which might prevent this happy con-
summation would be (1) vitality so lowered as to make
response to treatment an impossibility; (2) destruction of
vital organs beyond the possibility of repair; or (3) me-
chanical obstructions such as congenital malformation,
large tumors, large stones, etc., which might have to be
removed by surgical operation.
These statements are made not to discourage thorough
examination, diagnosis and prognosis, but to show the
wonderful possibilities and the simplicity of Nature Cure
philosophy and practice. While the foregoing claims are
in absolute conformity with Nature's laws, corroborated
by long experience and conclusive tests, it is quite true
DIAGNOSIS AND PKOGNOSIS 239
that thorough examination gives the physician a much

better understanding of abnormal conditions with which
he must contend, and thereby greatly facilitates efficient
treatment.
Moreover, the patient is entitled to a correct diagnosis
of his case and to a rational and reliable prognosis. Such
explanation, in conformity with the findings in the case,
confirms the faith of the patient in the physician and
secures his hearty cooperation in bringing about the
desired results.
Nature Cure Diagnosis
In our methods of examination and treatment we com-

bine all that has proved true and efficient in all systems,
from the oldest to the most advanced, whether "orthodox"
or "irregular", provided it conforms to the fundamental
laws of cure. This is what makes Nature Cure philosophy
and practice the only true eclectic system of treating
human ailments.
On pages 240-241 found reproductions of a few
will be
sheets from our "DiagnosisReport" booklet. After thor-
ough examination the findings are typewritten on these
sheets and bound together to form a booklet. One copy
ispresented to the patient, another to the physician who
commits the case to our care and the third remains in our
files.
be seen that in these reports we give both the

It will
scientificstandard and the patient's standard of blood,
urine, sputum, etc. The patient's standard is estimated
according to sex, age, height, weight, etc. The next
column contains a report of the patient's own specimen
which he may compare with the scientific standard and
with his own standard.
On the back pages of the booklet are given full expla-
nations of the scientific names and terms employed in these
IRIDIACNOSIS
PHYSICAL!
'Wc dff AOt cMM
chat th« DagixMU from the tri* at the Eye rrmU iW aUmrmjiUi i,
Inthe body, but wc can affirm that Naturc'trecorilaintK* iriafuntuh a incat dcjl olvatu.i
inforiBalion u
to abnormal proccswl and cspcctAlly aa to the un3crtyinc cautea of ai
and chfooic diaâsn. These records in the iris reveal the mhwsat %itality jnd "tone"
the ryatem, tb« prrsrnce ol hereditary disease tainia and ot druf poiion*. (he nature i
Sead find Neck: location of ntorbid e'ncumhrances and ihe progreia o( all diaeaKt through the hereUil
acute, chronrc catarrhal, anil &nal dcilruclive catarrhal Itasca.
ClrcuUtory System:
Blood Presrare (Systolic):

COLOR: Normally the Indo-Caucasian net and it) •ub-4'Jcn: ami Kcb
light bhie in
brown in all Gradual darkening ol the color ia a>«ocuted with in(.-rea*
precedinf raCc*.
Respiratory System i
morbid encumbrance* ayatem and lowered viUlity. Gradual clearing up ot dart.r
of the
cohir and disappearance of •bnormal pigment*, indicate* purification <A the i>'>ten) ,
profTCM toward* norntal.

Digestive System:
'En61TT:..P«ret.Qf dfnaiiy co^r»ro^^^^ tfl.dKrc
loirovi me and ol hrr abnormal pfo<-e»wi are U\ orabl)
2LMI W)^'p:Trmy<
rTX?i:Tf
Headaches, Insomnia, Eye Disordera.

Catarrhal Deafness, Etc.
Dizziness, Catarrii of tfose ft Throat.
Goiter, Ttnsilitis, Etc.
Heart Trouble, Lunf Disorders.
Stomach and LiTcr Trouble*.
URINE ANALYSI; VMiMit Nature (Buxt ^mtnatssi

licroscopical test* determind HCMRV UHPLAHR, M. P..
y the kidney* from (he blood. •
but al»o indicate wh Maim opnca

Y»,
work of tho various on DM SOUTH ASHLAND BOULCVARO
ory 6nding* invariably sug] CHICAGO. lUJNOn
mr figurea in the "normal" ci3
try the authorilie* ot the n%\i

ard* of normality of the med>
[iotu of the "average health)-
It the average condition of ij
It
drug poisoning, and promi&o]
normal, that is, below the
dd obtain if habili ot living aif
J
Sxamtttati0rt
Sjep0rt0
Solids in Urine. (Caryrlgki l«t» by Tk. LMUr Htun Co* taittaUi}
'
Acidity of Urine.
Itame- _.
foods. If allowed
:
A<ldre88__
the intestines. Ind..an may.

I
.Ti.Being an abnormal wa^tt
I
I do with the preparation and 1
<ance ot the Otbe* finding* fr

I
I physicians, _ PRESERVE THESE REPORTS FOR rUTURE REFERENCE
DIAGNOSIS AND PEOGNOSIS 241
DIAGNOSIS FROM Tl Laboratory reports
BLOOD COUNT Specimen Specimen Spedme:

.•/<>j; B. Normal
-^pf Leukocytes 7,500
'/^ Erythrocytes 5,000,000
Ratio— White to Red 1 to 666
•' Hemogtobto 100 i

Color Index
Color:
Pathological Cells
Density]
Differential Count
Scuif Rim:
Psora:
C SPUTUM EXAMINAHON
S;mp. Wreath I
Herre Rings: toWH

Laboratory reports
Lymphatics: Height: Ft. In. Weight: Lbs^ Kgs.
Normal Patient's Specimen Specime Spe<
Drue Signs: Per KG. Normal
Clear Straw.
22J
Acute Signs: 1015
.786
Subacute Signs: NeutraL. Neutral.
Chronic Signs:
i.
BASIC DIAGNOSIS
.225
Closed Lesions: 0_i —Digesti« Organ-System:
Physical
0_J
0~J Moral— Reproductive Organ-System:
0_
0.J Mental— Respinttor; Organ-System:
I REMARKS:
^... ..Sin:fet.mia-s..MQdjjct.d;gctent.tg«:a.upcm .diff.Tfjl..indiviil>i»lfi.
SPINAL ANALYSIS
Regions
OSTEOPATHY. NEUROPATHY. CHKOPRACnC NAPRAPATHY. SPONDYIOTIIERAPY,
Uiioit V . H R. Ptlp. I
M*jor> LiotitbU Ret. Hyp.
C«rrical
III iiiiiiiBaA ™t
history sheet
TJioracIc
Date; Number:
Name: nativity:
Address: Telephone:
Age: S«tf Civa State: Ocaipatioot

Coccyx Cbildien'
Family Hlstoiy'r
S temtm» Personal EQstotyt

Clavicles
Sleep: Appetite: PeasSs;
SBt BSVEXtsB smir

reports. way the various reports have some mean-

In this
ing to the layman, whereas the ordinary report on blood,
urine, etc. from a chemical laboratory has little or no
meaning to the patient, unless fully explained, and even
then it is usually soon forgotten. Our unique examination
report is not only fully comprehensible to the layman, but
it is also of great value in ascertaining improvement or
deterioration when subsequent examinations are made.

But while our physical and laboratory examinations are
made in accordance with the most advanced methods of
the regular school of medicine, our interpretation is often
at wide variance with the established theories of the old
Bchool of medicine. Some of these differences are pointed
out in the explanations on the back pages of the exami-
nation sheets.
The diagnosis from the iris of the eye is of great interest
and importance, not only because it gives accurate infor-
mation about causes of disease which cannot be diagnosed
in any other way, but also because these wonderful records
confirm the fundamental principles of Nature Cure phi-
losophy and practice. This fact must be strongly im-
pressed upon the mind of the reader so that it may not
be lost sight of in studying the interesting revelations of
the signs in the iris.
We have heretofore made the statement, and it is here

repeated, that we do not claim to be able to read in the
iris all the details of disease and of specific pathological
conditions. I do claim emphatically, however, that this
science contains so much of paramount importance in the
diagnosis and rational treatment of disease that the con-
scientious physician and even the intelligent layman can-
not afford to ignore nor discredit it.
As will be seen by reference to our examination reports,
we do not by any means depend upon this method of
examination and diagnosis alone. But by combining
DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS 243
approved methods of examina-

iridiagnosis with all other
tion we and confirms the others.
find that one elucidates
In our diagnosis work the patient proceeds from one
physician to another, each one making his own particular
without any
tests as regards eyes, spine, vital organs, etc.
reference to the results of the other examinations. The
patient is pleasantly surprised to notice that the eye diag-
nostician finds and describes the same "lesions" in the
eyes which the spinal therapist discovers in the spine and
nerve centers, and which the medical examiner finds
through his physical examination. If their reports are
correct they will be confirmed by the findings in the labo-
ratory as well. This explains why we very rarely fail
in giving a reliable diagnosis and prognosis of a case
which has undergone thorough systematic examination by
our combined methods.
CHAPTER XXI
THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES
THE old school of medical science defines acute diseases

as those wliich run a brief and more or less violent
course, and chronic diseases as those which run a pro-
tracted course and have a tendency to recur.
Nature Cure attaches a broader and more significant
meaning to these terms. This has become apparent from
my discussion of the causes, the progressive development
and the purpose of acute diseases in the preceding pages.
From the Nature Cure viewpoint, the chronic condition
is the latent, constitutional disease encumbrance, whereas
acute disease represents Nature's efiôrts to rectify abnor-

mal conditions, to overcome and eliminate hereditary or
acquired morbid taints and systemic poisons and to re-
establish normal structure and functions.
To use an illustration In a case of permanent or recur-
:
rent itchy psoriasis, the old school physician would look

upon the itchy skin eruption as the "chronic disease",
while we see in the external eczema an attempt of the
healing forces of Nature to remove from the system the
inner, latent hereditary or acquired psora, which consti-
tutes the real chronic disease.
It stands to reason that the exterior eruptions should
not be suppressed by any means whatever, but that the
only true and really effective method of treatment con-
sists in eliminating from the organism the inner, latent
psoric taint. After this is accomplished the external "skin
disease" will disappear of its own accord.
As another illustration of the radical difference in our
244
TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES 245
respective points of view, let us take hemorrhoids (piles).

The allopathic doctor considers the local hemorrhoidal
enlargement in itself the chronic disease, while the Nature
Cure physician looks upon hemorrhoids as one of Nature 's
efforts to rid the system of certain morbid encumbrances
and poisons which have accumulated as a result of slug-
gish circulation, chronic constipation, defective elimina-
tion through kidneys, lungs and skin, and from many
other causes.
These constitutional abnormalities, which are the real
chronic disease, have to be treated and corrected. After
this has been done, the hemorrhoidal enlargements and
discharges will take care of themselves.
It is, therefore, absolutely irrational, and frequently
followed by the most serious consequences, to extirpate
the piles or to suppress the hemorrhoidal discharges, and
thereby to drive these concentrated poison extracts back
into the system.
In a number of cases we have tra-ced paralysis, insanity,
tuberculosis, cancer and other forms of chronic destruc-
tive diseases to the forcible suppression of hemorrhoids.
Chronic disease, from the viewpoint of Nature Cure
philosophy, means that the organism has become perme-
ated with morbid matter and poisons to such an extent
that it is no longer able to throw off these encumbrances
by vigorous, "acute" eliminative effort. The chronic con-
dition, therefore, represents the slow, cold type of disease,
characterized by feeble, ineffectual efforts to eliminate
the latent morbid taints and impediments from the system.
These efforts may take the form of open sores, skin erup-
tions, catarrhal discharges, chronic diarrhea, etc., etc.
If acute diseases are treated in harmony with Nature's
laws, they will leave the body in a purer, healthier condi-
tion. But if the treatment is wrong, if under the old
school methods fever and inflammation (Nature's methods
246 NATURAL THEKAPEUTICS
of elimination) are checked and suppressed with poisonous

drugs, serums and antitoxins, or if, instead of purifying
and invigorating cells and tissues, the affected parts and
organs are extirpated with the surgeon's knife, Nature is
not allowed to get rid of the disease matter and the poison-
ous taints and morbid encumbrances remain in the or-
ganism.
In this way originate the worst forms of chronic diseases
which now aflBict civilized races.
The truth of this assertion is proved by the fact that the
most destructive chronic diseases are not found among
any of the primitive peoples of the earth, as the negroes
in Africa and Australia and the Esquimaux of the arctic
regions. They are not found among people who do not
use drugs. The different forms of venereal disease, cancer,
tuberculosis, many forms of paralysis and paresis, etc.,
are unknown in those countries whose inhabitants live in
harmony with Nature. The reason is that these people
have not learned to suppress Nature's acute purifying and
healing efforts by poisonous drugs and surgical operations.
The Cell
Let us now study the actual condition of the cells, tissues
and organs of the body in chronic disease.

We know that the human body is made up of millions
of minute cells of living protoplasm, and that the life of
the protoplasm and especially of the germ plasm is inher-
ent in the microzyma. Though these cells are so small
that they have to be magnified under the microscope
several hundred times before we can see them, they are
individual living beings which grow, eat, drink and throw
off waste matter, just like the large conglomerate cell
which we call "man".
Each one of these little cells has its own business to
TEEATMENT OF CHKONIC DISEASES 247
attend to, whether

be digestion, assimilation, elimina-
it
tion or the performance of any other of the thousand and

one functions and activities which make up the metabo-
lism of the human organism.
If these little beings are well individually, the man is
well. If tliey are starved or ailing, the entire man is sim-
ilarly affected. We know now that the health of the cell
depends upon the well being of its microzyma. The whole
depends upon the parts. In the human body as well as in
a nation or a city, the welfare of the entire community
depends upon the well being of its individual members.
If governing bodies would realize and apply these truths
and pay more attention to the provision of wholesome sur-
roundings and proper conditions of living for their sub-
jects, to an adequate supply of pure food and a normal
combination of work and rest, instead of concentrating
their best efforts upon restrictive and punitive measures
(allopathic treatment), there would be few social problems
to solve.
It is our duty to provide the most favorable conditions
of living for the little cells that make up the individual
human organism. If we do that, there will be no occasioii
for disease. ** Natural immunity" will be the result.
Herein lies the vital difference between the attitude of

Nature Cure and that of the allopathic school toward
disease. The latter spends all its efforts in fighting the
disease symptoms, while the former confines itself to cre-
ating health conditions in the habits and surroundings of
the patient from the standpoint that the disease symp-
toms will then take care of themselves, that they -svill dis-
appear because of non-support. It is the application of
the injunction "Resist not evil but overcome evil with
good" to the treatment of physical disease.
Under the influence of wrong habits of living and the
suppressive treatment of diseases, all forms of waste and
Vol. 1—17.
morbid matter (the feces of the cells), together with food;

drink and drug poisons, accumulate in the system, injure
the cells and obstruct the minute spaces (interstices)
between them. These morbid encumbrances impinge upon
and clog the blood vessels, the nerve channels and the
other tissues of the body. This is bound to interfere with
the normal functions of the organism and in time leads to
deterioration and organic destruction.
In this connection we wish to call attention to a differ-
ence in viewpoint between the school of Osteopathy and
the Nature Cure school. Osteopaths and Chiropractors
attribute disease almost entirely to "impingement" (ab-
normal pressure) upon nerves and blood vessels due to
dislocations and subluxations of the vertebrae of the spine
and of other bony structures. They do not take into con-
sideration the imping-ement upon and obstruction of nerve
channels and blood vessels all through the system caused
by local or general encumbrances of the organism with
waste matter, morbid products and poisons that have ac-
cumulated in cells and tissues.
The Life of the Cell
Every individual must be supplied with food and

cell
with oxygen. These it from the red arterial blood.
receives
The cells must also be provided with an outlet for their
waste products. This is furnished by the lymphatic and
venous circulations which constitute the drainage system
of the body. If drainage is defective, the effect upon the
organism is similar to the effect produced when drains are
obstructed and sewage is forced back into a building.
Furthermore, every cell must be in unobstructed com-
munication with the nerve currents of the organism. Most
important of all, it must be in touch with the sympathetic
nervous system through which it receives the life force
TKEATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES 249
which vivifies and controls all involuntary functions of

the cells and organs in the body.
Each individual cell must be supplied with two sets of
nerve connections, one to convey its sensations and needs
to ''headquarters", the nerve centers in brain and spinal
cord the other to carry impulses from the cranial, spinal
;
and sympathetic centers to the cell, governing and direct-

ing its activities.
For instance, if the cell be hungry, thirsty, cold or in
pain, 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 cir-
culation, the food and heat supply, the means of protec-
tion, etc., etc.
This circuit of communication from the cell over the
afferent nerves to the nerve centers in the brain or spinal
cord, and from these centers over the efferent nerves back
to the cell or to other cells is called "the reflex arc".
Let us use an illustration Suppose the fingers come in
:
close contact with a hot iron. The cells in the finger tips
experience a sensation of burning pain. At once this sen-
sation is telegraphed over the afferent nerves to the nerve
centers in the brain or spinal cord. In response to this
call of distress the command comes back over the efferent
nerve filaments: "Withdraw the fingers!" At the same
time the impulse to withdraw the fingers is sent over the
motor nerves to the muscles which control the movements
of the hand.
If the means of communication between the different
parts of the organism are obstructed or cut off entirely,
the individual cell is bound to deteriorate and to die, just
as a person lost in a barren wilderness and cut off from his
fellow men must perish.
In warfare it is a well known fact that if one of the con-
tending armies succeeds in cutting off the food supply or

the telegraphic communication of the other army with its
headquarters, the activities of the enemy are seriously
handicapped. So the waste materials in the system, the
disease taints, narcotic and alcoholic poisons, etc., obstruct
the nerve passages and thus interfere with the func-
tions of the cell by cutting off its means of communi-
cation.
What has been said will serve to elucidate and empha-
size the necessity of perfect cleanliness, inside as well as
outside of the body. It justifies the dictum of Kuhne, one
of the pioneers of Nature Cure, "Health is cleanliness."
Anything that in any way interferes with or obstructs the
circulation of vital fluids and nerve currents in the system
is bound to create abnormal conditions and functions
which constitute disease.

When the morbid encumbrances and obstructions in the
organism have reached the point where they seriously
interfere with the nourishment, drainage and nerve sup-
ply of the cells, the latter cannot perform their activities
properly, nor can they rid themselves of the impediment.
They may be compared to individuals who are forced to
live in unwholesome surroundings and who cannot do their
best work under these unfavorable conditions.
In this way originates chronic disease, which means
that the cells have become incapable of arousing them-
selves to acute eliminative effort in the form of inflamma-
tory febrile reactions.
In my lectures I sometimes liken the cell thus encum-
bered with morbid matter and poisons to a man buried in a
mine under the debris of a "cave in" in such a manner
that it is impossible for him to free himself of the earth
and timbers which are pinning him down. In such a pre-

dicament the man is unable to help himself. His fellow-
workers or his friends must come to his aid and remove
the obstructing masses so that he may be able to free him-

self.
This is a good illustration of the condition of the cells
of the body in chronic disease. They also have become

unable to help themselves and need assistance until they
can once more arouse themselves to self-help by means of
acute eliminative effort.
What can we do to help them? We must endeavor, in
the first place, to furnish the cells with the right nourish-
ment. "VVe must abstain from everything that may be
injurious to the body in food and drink so as to relieve
the cells of all unnecessary work.
Whatever one may think of vegetarianism as a contin-
uous mode of living, a little consideration will make it
plain that a rational vegetarian diet is the "sine qua non"
in the cure of chronic diseases. It builds up the blood on
a normal basis, excludes all food and drink poi-
sons and thereby gives the organism an opportunity to
throw off the old accumulations of waste and morbid ma-
terials.
In chronic disease, every drop of blood and every cell
of the organism is affected. In order to produce a cure,
the old tissues must be brokendown and removed and new
tissues built up. The more thorough the change in diet,
the greater and more rapid will be the changes for the
better in cells and tissues, especially if only pure and
eliminating foods are used.
For these reasons it is advisable to omit meat from the
dietary. All animal flesh contains the morbid excretions
and other waste products of the animal organism, and
thismeans additional work for the cells already over bur-
dened with systemic poisons.
Then we must work for elimination. Cold water ap-
plied to the surface of the body is the most powerful
stimulant to the circulation. It pulls and pushes the blood
through the system. One actually feels the blood rushing

through the arteries and veins with greater force.
The cold water treatment makes the skin more alive and
active, stirs up and accelerates the circulation throughout
the system and thus promotes the elimination of systemic
poisons through the skin.
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 applica-
'
'
tion of the cold blitz-guss
' In some instances they were
'.
found to have doubled in number. This does not mean

that in an instant twice as many red blood corpuscles
had come into existence but it does mean that before the
;
cold ''guss" one-half of them were dozing lazily in the

corners. The cold water stirred them up, forced them into
the circulation, made them travel and attend to business.
Another powerful means to promote elimination is thor-
ough, systematic massage. The deep kneading, twisting,
rolling and stroking actually squeezes the stagnant morbid
matter and the waste products out of the tissues into the
circulation, to be carried off through the venous drainage.
This allows the red blood with its nourishment and fresh
supply of oxygen to flood the cells and organs.
Massage is very effective as a means of regulating the
blood supply in the system. In every chronic disease there
is obstruction or congestion in some part of the organism,
causing high blood pressure in the interior of the body and

insufficientblood supply to surface and extremities. Mas-
sage distributes the blood quickly and evenly.
Of great importance is neurotherapy. Impingement on
nerves and blood vessels should be corrected by expert
manipulation. As a matter of fact, hardly a person can
be found today whose spine is not abnormal in one way
or another, just as there is not a single perfectly normal
human iris.
Neurotherapy removes abnormal pressure upon nerves

and blood vessels and establishes a free and abundant
flow of nerve and blood currents.
Air and light baths, by stimulating the skin in a natural
manner to increased activity, also contribute to the attain-
ment of the various good results just described.
Next comes physical exercise. Corrective and curative
gymnastics combined with deep breathing promote the
combustion (oxidation) of morbid materials and in this
way facilitate their elimination from the system.
Life itself is dependent upon breathing. The Life Force
enters the body with every breath we draw. Show me a
man with well developed, full breathing lungs and I will
show you a man with good vitality.
Last but not least among the natural methods of treat-
ing the cell in chronic disease we mention the right mental
and emotional attitude. Fear, anxiety and all kindred
emotions congeal the nerve matter and thereby shut off
the supply of nerve force. The cells and tissues actually
starve and freeze. On the other hand, the emotions of
hope, confidence and cheerfulness relax and open blood
vessels and nerve channels and allow the free and unob-
structed inflow and circulation of fluids and of vital
energy.
The different methods of natural treatment and their
practical application in chronic diseases are fully described
in the treatment section of Volume II of this series.
When, through natural methods of living and of treat-
ment, the morbid encumbrances have been removed suffi-
ciently to provide and maintain normal blood supply, bet-
ter venous and lymphatic drainage and the unobstructed
flow of the nerve currents, when lesions of the bony struc-
tures have been corrected by skillful adjustment and when,
through the right mental attitude, a free and abundant
inflow of Life Force has been established, then the cells
and tissues of the body become once again able to arouse

themselves to an acute eliminative effort and the organism
is ready for a healing crisis.
To recapitulate —the objects to be obtained by the nat-

ural treatment of chronic diseases are
(1) to economize vitality;
(2) to promote assimilation;
(3) to promote the elimination of waste and morbid
matter
(4) to correct mechanical lesions;
(5) to adjust and to harmonize mental and emotional
conditions.
In the following chapters the laws and principles under-
lying healing crises and their periodicity will be fully
described.
CHAPTER XXII
CRISES
CRISIS in the ordinary sense of the word means change,

either for better or for worse. In medical parlance
the term ** "a decisive change
crisis" has been defined as
in the disease, resulting either in recovery or in death".
We of the Nature Cure school distinguish between
"healing crises" and ''disease crises", according to the
character and the tendency of the acute reaction. If an
acute disease is brought about through the accumulation
of morbid matter to such an extent that the health or the
life of the organism is endangered, in other words, if the
disease conditions are forcing the crisis, we speak of dis-

ease crisis. But if acute reactions take place in the system
because conditions have become more normal, because the
healing forces have gained the ascendancy and forced the
acute inflammatory processes, we refer to them as healing
crises.
Healing crises are simply different forms of elimination
by means of which Nature endeavors to remove the latent
chronic disease encumbrance from the system. The most
common forms of these acute purifications are acute
catarrhal colds and hemorrhoidal discharges, boils, ulcers,
abscesses, open sores, skin eruptions, diarrheas, hemor-
rhages, abnormal perspiration and all sorts of inflamma-
tory processes.
Healing crises and disease crises may seem very much
alike. Patients often tell me: "I have had this before.
an ordinary boil (or cold, or fever)."
I call it
That may be true. The former disease crisis and the
255.
present healing crisis may be similar in their outward

manifestations. But they are taking place under entirely
different conditions.
When the organism is loaded to the danger point with
morbid matter it may arouse itself in self-defense to an
acute eliminative effort in the shape of cold, catarrh, fever,
inflammation, skin eruption, etc. In these instances, the
disease conditions bring about the crisis and the organism
ison the defensive. These are disease crises.
Such unequal struggles between the healing forces and
pathogenic conditions sometimes end favorably and some-
times fatally.
On the other hand, healing crises develop because the
healing forces are in the ascendancy and take the offensive.
They are brought about through natural methods of living
and of treatment, and always result in improved condi-
tions.
A simple allegory may assist in making clear the differ-
ence between a healing crisis and a disease crisis
For years a prize fighter holds the championship because
he keeps himself in perfect physical condition and before
every contest spends many weeks in careful training.
When he faces his opponent in the ring, he has eliminated
from his organism as much waste matter and superfluous
fleshand fat as possible by a strictly regulated diet and
a great deal of vigorous exercise. As a consequence, he
comes off victorious in every contest and easily maintains
his superiority.
These victories in his career, like healing crises in the
organism, are the result of training and preparation. The
prize fighter in the one case and Vital Force in the other
are on the offensive from the beginning of the struggle and
have the advantage from start to finish.
Rendered over confident by long continued success, our
champion gradually permits himself to drift into a weak-
CRISES 257
ened physical condition. He omits his regular training

and indulges in all kinds of dissipation.
One day, full of self conceit and underestimating the
strength of his challenger, he enters the ring without ade-
quate preparation and is ingloriously defeated by a man
who, under different circumstances, would not be a match
for him.
So, in the case of a patient in a disease crisis, fatal ter-
mination may be due to the excessive accumulation of
waste and morbid matter in the system, to lowered vitality
and to lack of preparation. Victory or defeat in acute
reactions, as well as in the "ring", depends upon right
living and preparatory training.
In the healing crisis, vitality is the stronger and gains
the victory in the struggle; in the disease crisis disease
conditions have gained the ascendancy and bring about
the defeat of the healing forces.
Under conditions favorable to human life, a body en-
dowed with healthy blood and tissues and good vitality
cannot be affected by acute disease. Such an organism is
practically immune to all forms of inflammatory febrile
reactions. These always indicate that there is something
in the system which Nature is trying to correct or to get
rid of, namely, pathogenic matter.
Healing Crises
In the catechism of Nature Cure I have defined healing
crises as follows: A healing crisis is an acute reaction
resulting from the ascendancy of Nature's healing forces
over disease conditions. Its tendency is toward recovery,
and it is, therefore, in conformity with Nature's construc-
tive principle.
The possibility of producing healing crises and thereby
curing chronic ailments depends upon the following con-
ditions :
(1) The patient must possess sufficient vital energy and

power of reaction to respond to the natural treatment
and to a change of habits.
(2) The destruction and disorganization of vital fluids and
organs must not have advanced too far.
Some patients become frightened at the idea of crises.
They exclaim: ''I came here to get well, not to grow
worse."
However, there is no occasion for alarm. Healing crises
occur in mild form only because under the influence of
natural living and treatment, Nature has the advantage in
the fight. The healing forces of the organism have gained
the ascendancy over the disease conditions.
In fact. Nature never undertakes a healing crisis until
the system has been prepared for it, until the organism is
sufficiently purified and strengthened to conduct the acute
reaction to a favorable termination.
Furthermore, it is well to remember that crises cannot
be avoided, because it is through fevers and inflammatory
—
processes that Nature effects the cure, that she decom-
poses pathogen into simpler compounds suitable for elim-
ination.
On the other hand, if a patient is possessed of good
vitality, isnot too heavily encumbered with pathogenic

materials classified in Column VI of Diagram on page 347,
and if the organs of elimination are in good working order,
the purification and adjustment of the organism may pro-
ceed gradually without the occurrence of marked acute
reactions or crises. When the morbid encumbrances con-
sist largely of highly complex ptomains, leukomains and
alkaloids which resist neutralization by alkaline mineral
elements, then Nature has to resort to bacterial activity
and inflammatory processes in order to reduce these patho-
genic materials to simpler compounds (see Column V)
suitable for elimination through the natural channels.
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Healing Crises, When Properly Conducted, Are Never

Fatal to Life
"When well assisted by right, natural methods of living

and of treatment, healing crises are never dangerous or
fatal to life. The only danger lies in suppressing these
acute reactions by drugs, knife, ice or other means.
If acute reactions are suppressed, the constructive heal-
ing crisis may be changed into a destructive disease crisis.
Therefore we earnestly warn our patients never to inter-
fere in any way with a healing crisis lest the chronic con-
dition become worse than before.
When Nature, with all the force inherent in the human
organism, has finally worked up to the point of a healing
crisis, another defeat by a new suppression may be beyond
her powers of endurance and recuperation. Fatal collapse

may then be the result.
Therefore, take heed If you are not willing to endure
!
healing crises, do not undertake the treatment. Nothing

good in life comes to us unless we pay the price. He who
is too cowardly to conquer in a healing crisis may forfeit
his life in a disease crisis.
Drugs Versus Healing Crises
Our explanations of the natural laws of cure and of

natural therapeutics are often greeted by old school phy-
sicians and students with remarks like the following
"You speak as if you had the monopoly of elirainative
treatment and of the production of crises. "With our laxa-
tives, cathartics, diuretics, diaphoretics and tonics, we are
accomplishing the same thing. W^hat is more effectual
for stimulating a sluggish liverand cleansing the intestinal
tract than calomel followed by a dose of salts? What
will produce more profuse perspiration than pilocarpin;
or what is a better stimulus to the kidneys than squills or
260 NATURAL THERAPJl'UTICS
buehu? Can we not by means of stimulants and depres-

sants regulate heart action to a nicety?
"We accomplish all this in a clean, scientific manner,
without resorting to unpleasant dieting and to the appli-
cations of douches, packs and manual treatments. Isn't
it more dignified and professional to write a Latin pre-
scription? How much better the impression on the laity

than soaking and rubbing!"
Let us see if these statements be true, whether laxation,
urination or perspiration produced by poisonous drugs is
identical in character and in effect with the elimination
produced by healing crises brought on through natural
living and natural methods of treatment.
Mercury, in the form of calomel, is one of the best-known
cholagogues. It is the favorite laxative and cathartic of
allopathy. The prevailing idea is that calomel acts on the
liver and the intestines but in reality these organs act on
;
the drug".
All laxatives and cathartics are poisons; if it were not
so,they would not produce their peculiar, drastic effects.

Because they are poisons, Nature tries to eliminate them
from the s^^stem as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.
In order to do this, the excretory glands and membranes
of the liver and the digestive tract greatly increase the
amount of their secretionsand thereby produce a forced
evacuation of the intestinal canal.
Thus the system, in the effort to eliminate the mercurial
poison, expels also the other contents of the intestines.
This may affect a temporary cleansing of the intestinal
tract, but it does not and cannot cleanse the individual
cells throughout the body of their impurities.
Second and Permanent Effects of Artificial Purging

"Action and reaction are equal and opposite." In
accordance with the law of action and reaction, the tem-
CRISES 261
porary irritation and over-stimulation of the sensitive

membranes of the digestive organs are followed by corre-
sponding weakness and exhaustion, and if this procedure
be repeated it becomes habitual. As atrophy progresses
the dose of the purgative must be increased in order to
accomplish the desired result and this, in its turn, hastens
the degenerative changes in the system.
Such enforced artificial purging may flush the drains
and sewers but does not cleanse the inner chambers of the
house. The cells in the interior tissues remain encumbered
with morbid matter. A genuine and traly effective house-
cleaning must start in the cells and must be brought about
through the initiative of the vital energies in the organism,
through healing crises and not through stimulation by
means of poisonous irritants.
When, under a natural regimen of living and of treat-
ment, the system has been sufficiently purified, adjusted
and vivified the cells themselves begin the work of elim-
ination.
This is what takes place: the morbid matter and poi-
sons thrown off by the cells and tissues are carried by
means of the venous circulation to the organs of elimina-
tion, the bowels, kidneys, lungs and skin, and to the
mucous membranes lining the interior tracts, such as the
nasal passages, the throat and bronchi, the digestive and
genito-urinary organs, etc.
These organs of elimination become overcrowded with
the rush of morbid matter and the accompanying conges-
tion and irritation cause the acute inflammatory processes
and feverish symptoms characterizing the various forms
of colds, catarrhs, skin eruptions, diarrheas, boils and
other acute forms of elimination which we call healing
crises. In other words, what the old school of medicine
calls the disease, we look upon as the cure.
Acute elimination brought about in this manner is, as
previously explained, Nature's method of housecleaning.

It is a true healing crisis, the result of purification and
increased activity from within the cell, produced by nat-
ural means.
Here interposes Friend Allopath: **You claim that you
bring about your acute reactions by natural means only,
and that these are never injurious to the organism. What
difference does it make if the circulation is stimulated and
elimination increased by a cold water spray or by digi-
talis? The cold water stimulation produces a reaction
just as digitalis does and the one must therefore be as
injurious as the other."
To The stimulating effect on heart and cir-
this I reply :
culation produced by digitalis is the first action of a

highly poisonous drug; the second lasting effect is weak-
ening and depressing. On the other hand, the first action
of a cold water spray is depressive ; it sends the blood into
the interior of the body and leaves the surface bloodless.
The sensory nerves at once report this sensation of cold to
headquarters in the brain, and immediately the command
is telegraphed to the vasomotor centers which control the
circulation, "Send blood to the surface !" As a result, the

blood is carried to the surface and the skin becomes warm
and rosy with the glow of life. In this case the stimula-
tion is the second and lasting effect of the water treatment,
from which there is no further reaction unless the patient
be in a very weakened condition. Then the treatment must
be modified accordingly.
Similarly, the stimulation produced by exercise, mas-
sage, neurotherapy, or the exposure of the nude body to
light and air, is natural stimulation produced by harmless,
natural means. It is entirely due to the fact that condi-
tions in the system have been made more normal, as
explained in other chapters.
Drugs, stimulants and tonics, while they do produce an
CRISES 263
artificial, temporary stimulation, do not change the under-

lying abnormal conditions in the organism. Likewise, the
flushing of the colon with water, the use of laxative herb
teas and decoctions, or forced sweating by means of Tur-
kish or Russian baths, though not as dangerous as inor-
ganic minerals and poisonous drugs, cannot be classed
among the natural means of cure. These agents, which by
many persons are looked upon as natural treatment, irri-
tate the organs of elimination to forced, abnormal activity
without at the same time arousing the cells in the interior
of the body to natural elimination.
Dr. H. Lahmann, one of the foremost scientists of the
Nature Cure movement, made a series of interesting experi-
ments. From certain patients he gathered the natural
perspiration produced by ordinary exercise in the sun-
shine. These excretions of the skin were evaporated and
analyzed and were found to contain powerful toxins.
"When, however, profuse sweating was produced in the
same patients by high temperature of the hot air box or the
electric light cabinet, their perspiration, when evaporated
and analyzed, was found to contain only small amounts of
toxins. Thus Dr. Lahmann proved that
(1) sweating, and the elimination of disease matter are
two different processes;
(2) artificially induced sweating does not eliminate dis-
ease matter;
(3) the organism cannot be forced by irritants and stimu-
lants and artificial means, but eliminates morbid mat-
its own natural manner and when it is in
ter only in
proper condition to do so.
In a lesser degree this applies also to fasting. Under
certain conditions it becomes a necessity but it may easily
be abused and overdone. This subject is treated at length
in Chapter XXVII.
That the medical profession does not understand the
Vol. 1—18.
principle of natural elimination is proved by the fact that
in eases where the system works up to some form of nat-

ural elimination in the way
of purging, catarrhal dis-
charges, skin eruptions, they forthwith suppress these
etc.,
purifying processes by poisonous drugs or other agents.
Do We Never Fail?
Certainly we fail, but our failures are usually due to

the fact that the sick, as a rule, do not consider Nature
Cure except as a last resort. The methods and require-
ments of Nature Cure appear at first so unusual and exact-
ing that most persons seek to evade them as long as they
have the least faith in the miracle working power of the
poison bottle, a metaphysical healer or the surgeon's
knife. "When health, wealth and hope are entirely ex-
hausted, then the chronic sufferer grasps at Nature Cure
as a drowning man clutches at a straw. But even though
ninety percent of the cases which come to us are of the
apparently incurable type, our total failures are few and
far between.
If there is sufficient vitality in the body to react to nat-
ural treatment and if the destruction of vital parts and
organs has not advanced too far, a cure is possible. Often
the seemingly hopeless cases yield the most readily.
Our success is due to the fact that we do not rely on any
one method of treatment, but combine in our work every-
thing that is practical and beneficial in all different sys-
tems of natural healing.
The Law of Crises
Everywhere in nature and in the world of men we find

the Law of Crises in evidence. This proves it to be a uni-
versal law, ruling all cosmic relations and activities.
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Wars and revolutions are the healing crises in the life

of nations —of social and political life.
Heresies and reformations are the crises of religion.

In strikes, riots and panics we recognize the crises of
commercial life.
Staid old Mother Earth herself has in the hoary past
repeatedly changed the configuration of her continents
and oceans by great cataclysms or geological crises.
When the sultry summer air has become pregnant with
poisonous vapors and miasms, atmospheric crises, such as
rainstorms and electric storms, cool and purify the air
and charge it anew with life giving ozone-.
In like manner will healing crises purify the disease
laden bodies of men.
Emanuel Swedenborg gives us a wonderful description
of the law of crises in its relationship to the regeneration
of the soul. I quote from the chapter in which he describes
the working of this law, entitled, "Regeneration is Ef-
fected by Combats in Temptation".
*'They who have not been instructed concerning the
regeneration of man man
can be regenerated
think that
without temptation. toBut it is be known
that no one is
regenerated without temptation; and that many tempta-
tions succeed, one after another. The reason is that regen-
eration is effected for an end, in order that the life of the
old man may die, and the new life which is heavenly be
insinuated. It is evident, therefore, that there must be a
conflict" (healing crisis) "for the life of the old man
;
resists and determines not to be extinguished; and the

life of the new man can only enter where the life of the
old is extinct.
"Whoever thinks from an enlightened rationale, may
see and perceive from this that a man cannot be regener-
ated without combat, that is, without spiritual tempta-
tions and further, that he is not regenerated by one temp-
;
tation, but by many. For there are very many kinds of

evilwhich formed the delight of his former life, that is, of
the old life. These evils cannot all be subdued at once
and together for they cleave tenaciously, since they have
;
been inrooted in the parents for many ages back" (the

scrofula of the soul) ''and are therefore innate in man,
and are confirmed by actual evils from himself from
infancy. All these evils are diametrically opposite to the
celestial good" (perfect health) "that is to be insinuated
and which is to constitute the New Life."
Thus the inspired Seer of the North draws a vivid
picture of what we call healing crises in their relation to
moral regeneration.
We cannot help recognizing the close agreement of phy-
sical and spiritual crises. This, again, demonstrates the
continuity and exact correspondence of Natural Law on
the different planes of being.
"We of the Nature Cure school know that this great Law
of Crises dominates the cure of chronic disease. Every
case is another verification of it in ; fact, every decided
advance on the road to perfect health is marked by acute
reactions.
The cure invariably proceeds through the darkness and
chaos of healing crises to the light and beauty of perfect
health, periods of marked improvement alternating with
acute eliminative activity (the "spiritual temptations and
combats" of Swedenborg) until perfect regeneration has
taken place.
CHAPTER XXIII
PERIODICITY
TN many forms of acute disease, crises develop with

*- marked regularity and well defined periodicity. This
phenomenon has been observed and described by many
physicians. It is not so well known, however, that under
the treatment of chronic diseases by natural methods
crises develop in accordance with certain laws of peri-
odicity.
This periodicity is governed by the septimal law, or the
law of sevens, which seems to be the basic law governing
the vibratory activities of this planetary universe.
The law of sevens dominates the life of individuals and
of nations and of everything that lives and has periods of
birth, growth, fruitage and decline.
The law of sevens governs the days of the week, the
phases of the moon, the menstrual periods of the woman.
Every observing physician is aware of its influence on
feverish, nervous and psychic diseases.
Over two thousand years ago Pythagoras and Hip-
pocrates distinctly recognized and proclaimed the laws of
crises and of periodicity in their bearings on the cure of
chronic diseases. They taught that alternating, well de-
fined periods of improvement and of crises were deter-
mined and governed by the law of periodicity or the law
of numbers (the septimal law).
The following quotations are taken from the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica, Vol. XV, p. 800
' But this artistic completeness was closely connected with

* ' the third
—
cardinal virtue' of Hippocratic medicine the clear recognition of dis-
267
ease as being equally with life a process governed by what we should
now call natural laws, which could be known by observation and which
indicated the spontaneous and normal direction of recovery, by follow-
ing which alone could the physician succeed. . . .
"Another Hippocratic doctrine, the influence of which is not even

yet exhausted, is that of the healing power of nature. Not that Hippoc-
rates taught, as he was afterwards reproached with teaching, that
nature is sufficient for the cure of diseases; for he held strongly the
efficacy of art. But he recognized, at least in acute diseases, a natural
—
process which the humours went through being first of all crude,
then passing through coction or digestion, and finally being expelled by
resolution or crisis through one of the natural channels of the body.
The duty of the physician was to foresee these changes, 'to assist or
not to hinder them,' so that 'the sick man might conquer the disease
with the help of the physician.' The times at w^hich crises were to be
expected were naturally looked for with anxiety and it was a cardinal
;
point in the Hippocratic system to foretell them with precision. Hip-

pocrates, influenced as is thought by the Pythagorean doctrine of num-
bers, taught that they were to be expected on days fixed by certain
numerical rules, in some cases on odd, in others on even numbers
the celebrated doctrine of critical days '. It follows from what has
'
been said that prognosis, or the art of foretelling the course and event
of the disease, was a strong point with the Hippocratic physicians.
In this perhaps they have never been excelled. Diagnosis, or recogni-
tion of the disease, must have been necessarily imperfect, when no sci-
entific nosology, or system of disease, existed, and the knowledge of
anatomy was quite inadequate to allow of a precise determination of
the seat of disease but symptoms were no doubt observed and inter-
;
preted skillfully. The pulse is not spoken of in any of the works now
attributed to Hippocrates himself, though it is mentioned in other
works of the collection.
' * In the
treatment of disease, the Hippocratic school attached great
importance to diet, the variations necessary in different diseases being
minutely defined. ... In chronic cases diet, exercises and natural
methods were chiefly relied upon. '
The author of this article in the Britannica does not see

that it is the modern, orthodox "scientific nosology, or
system of disease", which obscures the simplicity and
precision of the Hippocratic philosophy of disease and
cure.
These wonderful truths, with other wisdom of the an-
cients,were lost in the spiritual darkness of the middle
ages. Modern medicine looks upon these claims and teach-
ings of the Hippocratic school as "superstition, without
foundation in fact". However, the great sages of antiq-
uity, drawing upon a source of ancient wisdom deeply
PERIODICITY 269
hidden from the selfsatisfied scribes and wise men of the

schools, after all proclaimed the truth.
Every case of chronic disease properly treated by natu-
ral methods proves the reality and stability of the law
of crises. It is, therefore, a standing wonder and surprise
to one who knows, that this all important and selfevident
law is practically unknown to the disciples of the regular
schools.
The Septenary Law in Nature and in the Life of Man
To Dr. J. R. Buchanan belongs the credit of having

written a very interesting little book on the Law of
Periodicity. While he has traced its workings in many
domains of life and action, he was not aware of some
of its plainest manifestations in Nature as well as in the
life of man. He evidently did not recognize that our
planetary universe is built on this law of sevens ; that the
atoms of matter and all forces and energies in Nature obey
the rule of the septenary.
He one of the plainest
also apparently failed to discern
manifestations of the law, namely, its rule in the con-
structive changes (healing crises) occurring in chronic
diseases under the salutary influence of natural living and
treatment.
As far back as human traditions and records reach, the
septenary law was known and reverenced as one of the
basic principles in Nature. Madame Blavatsky in "The
Secret Doctrine" devotes over two hundred pages to this
interesting subject.On page 638 of Volume II she says
—
"All the ancient cosmologies the oldest cosmographies
of the two most ancient people of the fifth root-race, the
Hindu Aryans and the Egyptians, together with the early
Chinese races, the remnants of the fourth or Atlantean
—
race based the whole of their mysteries on the number
ten; the higher triangle standing for the invisible and
metaphysical world, the lower three and four, or the sep-

tenate, for the physical realm.
"It is not the Jewish Bible that brought the number
seven into prominence. Hesiod used the words, 'the sev-
enth is the sacred day', before the Sabbath of Moses was
ever heard of. The use of number seven was never confined
to any one nation. This is well testified by the seven vases
in the Temple of the Sun, near the ruins of Babian in
Upper Egypt; the seven fires burning continually for ages
before the altars of Mithra; the seven holy fanes of the
Arabians; the seven peninsulas, the seven islands, seven
seas, mountains and rivers of India; and of the Zohar;
the Jewish Sephiroth of the seven splendours; the seven
Gothic deities; the seven worlds of the Chaldeans and
their seven spirits; the seven constellations mentioned by
Hesiod and Homer and all the interminable sevens which
;
the Orientalists find in every manuscript they discover."
And on page 658 of the same volume
"There is a harmony of numbers in all nature; in the

force of gravity, in the planetary movements, in the laws
of heat, light, electricity, and chemical affinity, in the
forms of animals and plants, in the perceptions of the
mind.
"The direction, indeed, of modern natural and physical
science is towards a generalization which shall express
the fundamental laws of all by one simple numerical ratio.
"We would refer to Professor Whe well's 'Philosophy
of the Inductive Sciences' and to Mr. Hay's researches
into the laws of harmonious coloring and form. From
these it appears that the number seven is distinguished
in the laws regulating the harmonious perception of forms,
colors and sounds, and probably of taste also, if we could
analyze our sensations of this kind with mathematical
accuracy.
"So much so, indeed, that more than one physician has
stood aghast at the septenary periodical return of the
cycles in the rise and fall of various complaints, and natu-
ralists have felt themselves at an utter loss to explain this
law.
"The birth, growth, maturity, vital functions, healthy
PEEIODICITY 271
QIVOS:
a^S»|f Xti.^
#
^p
iScdte
revolutions of change, diseases, decay and death, of insects,

reptiles, fishes, birds, mammals, and even of man, are more
or less controlled by a law of completion in weeks (or
periods of seven days)."
Fohat, in the Buddhistic allegory, stands for the source

of alllife and power in this universe, for that which we
call God. Fohat sends forth seven sons, or rays. Each

one of these in turn has seven sons, making forty-nine in
all. Fohat, the primary cause, becomes apparent to our
sensory organs in the seven primary manifestations known
in our modern scientific vernacular as motion, sound, heat,
light, cohesion, electricity and magnetism. These primary
manifestations each gives rise to seven degrees of vibra-
tory activity, viz., in sound, to seven primary tones; in
light, to seven primary colors, etc. Later on we shall find

that the cycles in human life are made up of forty-nine
years. (See Fig. 2.)
Here we have the occult number seven times seven,
which, as scientific research proves, becomes more and
more apparent in the physical structure and the vibra-
tory activities of our planetary universe. Hellenbach, the
well known scientist, confirms the esoteric doctrine of
Buddhism when he says:
"It has been established that, from the standpoint of

phenomenal law, upon which all our knowledge rests, the
vibrations of sound and light increase regularly, that they
divide themselves into seven columns, and that the suc-
cessive numbers in each column are closely allied, i.e.,
that they exhibit a close relationship which not only is
expressed in the figures themselves, but also is practically
confirmed in chemistry as in music, in the latter of which
the ear confirms the verdict of the figures. The fact that
this periodicityand variety is governed by the number
seven undeniable, and it far surpasses the limits of mere
is
chance, and must be assumed to have an adequate cause,
which cause must be discovered.
"We thus see that chemical variety, so far as we can
PERIODICITY 273
grasp its inner nature, depends upon numerical relations,

and we have further found in this variety a ruling law for
which we can assign no cause we find a law of periodicity
;
governed by the number seven."
Periodicity of the Atom

As described elsewhere (Chapter XXVIII), the atoms of
matter are made up of negative particles of electricity
moving with infinite velocity and creating whirls in the
ether, which verifies the teachings of Pythagoras, accord-
ing to which all matter is made up of three factors, sub-
stance, motion and number. In the light of modern science,
substance is the primordial ether; motion, the negative
electrical charges in the ether; and numbers, the number
of electrons vibrating in the atom.
Modern science, furthermore, has discovered that the
weight of the atom depends upon the number of electrons
it contains, and the character of the element of which the
atom is the smallest particle depends upon the number

of electrons in the atom and their modes of vibration.
Science has succeeded in ascertaining approximately the
number of electrons in hydrogen, the lightest of all ele-
ments, "We are told that an atom of this element contains
about eight hundred electrons. This is one of the achieve-
ments of modern science which fills us with wonder at the
Godlike possibilities of the human mind when it works on
a basis of natural law.
As before stated, the number of electrons in the atoms
increases in direct ratio with their increasing atomic
weight, or vice versa, which is determined by the weight
of the hydrogen atom a unit. In other words, what

as
the pound is as a commercial measure of weight, the weight
of the hydrogen atom is in relation to the weight of atoms.
A trained musician can produce by his voice or on a
musical instrument a sol tone or any other tone in the
musical scale, because when given the pitch, he knows

exactly the musical quality of the note. So the trained
chemist knows by the location of the atom in the ascend-
ing atomic scales its qualities and characteristics.
The Russian chemist, Mendeleeff, was the first one to
complete a table of the atoms arranged in groups of seven
according to their increasing atomic weights. At the time
he constructed this table, many of the atoms of matter
known to science at the present time were not discovered,
but by means of the periodic arrangement of the atoms
scientistswere able to foretell what qualities these atoms
would possess if they were discovered.
For instance, when Mendeleeff constructed his table the
element fitting into the pigeonhole now occupied by
helium had not been discovered. Later this element was
discovered by the spectrum in the sun and therefore
named helium, after Helios, the Greek word for sun or
the sun god. Still later the element was discovered on
earth. It is found in small quantities in the air which we
inhale.
When this element was actually discovered by science,
it was found tohave all the properties and characteristics
assigned to it by science in accordance with its location
in the septenary groups of the atoms. In similar manner
many other elements not known fifty years ago have been
discovered since that time and have been found to fit
exactly into the pigeonholes reserved for them in the

periodic tables of Newlands and Mendeleeff.
Thus modern science demonstrates that our planetary
universe is built on the laws of music and thereby justifies
the ancient esoteric conception of the "music of the
spheres" which expresses itself in the order and beauty
of Nature. All Nature save man plays in tune and pro-
duces harmony. By virtue of his sovereign will and power
of free choice and volition, man may play in discord, either
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through ignorance or through willful violation of the law,

thus himself creating all that he looks upon as evil.
The seven primary colors of the spectrum are another
manifestation of the septenary law or the law of period-
icity. As science progresses in its research it becomes
more and more apparent that the ether, gravitation, light,
sound, heat, electricit-y, magnetism and all other forms of
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forcesand energies manifest in groups or degrees of sevens.
The following diagram gives an illustration of the prin-
ciple in its application to the groups of the atoms, to the
tones of the musical scale and to the grouping of the
primary colors.
The corresponding units in the lower and higher scales
form octaves, as, for instance, the Do tones in the musical
scales, or the red shades in the color scales. They are the
same as to vibratory quality but differ as to pitch or shade.
The same is true of the atoms of matter when arranged in
accordance with their increasing atomic weights. Thus

sodium, the first atom in one septenary row, corresponds to
or forms an 'octave with potassium, the first atom in the
next row. They resemble one another in physical and
chemical qualities in a manner similar to the resemblance
exhibited by the units in the octaves of sounds and colors.
In giving the atomic weights of the atoms I have omitted
the fractions as unessential for the purpose of this illus-
tration.
Crises, or "Friday" Periods

In accordance with the law of periodicity, the SIXTH
period in any seven periods is marked by reactions,
changes, revolutions or crises. It is, therefore, looked
upon by popular superstition as an unlucky period. Fri-
day, the sixth day of the week, is regarded as an unlucky
—
day Friday is hangman 's day
'
'
'
according to tradi'tion
'
;
the Master, Jesus, was crucified on Friday.

Counting from the first sixth or Friday period in any
given number of hours, days, weeks, months, years or
groups of years, as the case may be, every succeeding
seventh period is characterized by crises.
This explains why
13 is considered an unlucky number.
It represents the second critical or Friday period.
However, there is really no cause for this superstitious
fear of Friday and the number 13. It is due to a lack
of understanding of Nature 's laws. By intelligent coopera-
tion with these laws we may turn the critical periods in.
our lives into "healing crises" and beneficial changes.
"We should not fear the crisis 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 body.
A thorough understanding of the nature and purpose
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of healing crises in acute and chronic diseases has taught

me the nature and purpose of evil in general. It has made
me understand more clearly the meaning of "Resist not

Evil" and of the saying: "We are punished by our sins,
not for our sins." It has shown me that evil is not a
punishment or a curse, but a necessary complement of
good that it is corrective and educational in its purposes
;
that it remains with us only so long as we need its salu-

tary lessons.
The evil of physical disease is not due to accident or
to the arbitrary rulings of a capricious Providence, nor
is it always "error of mortal mind". From the Nature
Cure philosophy and its practical application we have
learned that, barring accidents and conditions or sur-
roundings unfavorable to human life, it is caused in every
instance by violations of the physical laws of our being.
So the social, political and industrial evil of the larger
life is brought about by violations of the law in the
respective domains of life and action.
So long as transgressions of the physical laws of our
being result in hereditary and acquired disease encum-
brances, we must expect reactions which may become
either disease crises or healing crises. Likewise, so long
as ignorance, selfishness and selfindulgence continue to
create evil in other domains of life, we must expect there
also the occurrence of crises, of reaction and revolution.
"When knowledge, selfcontrol and altruism become the
sole motives of action, "evil" and the crises it necessi-
tates will automatically disappear.
Therefore should not be afraid of changes and crises
we
periods but cooperate with them clear eyed and strong
willed. Then they will result in improvement and further
growth.
Life is growth, and growth is change. The only death
is stagnation. The loss of friends, home or fortune may
seem for the time being an overwhelming calamity; hut

if met in the right spirit, such losses will prove stepping
stones to greater opportunity and higher achievement.
Many of our patients formerly looked upon their dis-
eased conditions as great misfortune and undeserved
punishment; but since it brought them in contact with
Nature Cure philosophy and showed them the necessity
of complying with the laws of their being, they now look
upon the former "evil" as the greatest blessing in their
lives, because it taught them how to become the masters
of fate instead of remaining the playthings of Nature's
destructive forces.
Why should we fear even the greatest of all crises,
physical death, when it, too, is but the gateway to larger
life, greater opportunities and more beautiful surround-
ings? Why should we mourn and grieve over the death
of friends and relativeswhen they have only emigrated
to another, better country?
Suppose we ourselves were to enter upon the great
journey today or tomorrow, shouldn't we be glad to meet
some of our friends on the other side and to be welcomed,
advised and guided by them in the new surroundings?
Therefore we should not fear or endeavor to avoid the
crises in any domain of life and action, but meet them and
cooperate with them fearlessly and intelligently. They
then will alv/ays make for greater opportunity and higher
accomplishment.
The Law of Sevens Applied to Individual IJfe
We primary division of time into weeks

find that our
consisting of seven days is in accord with the septenary
law. In like manner the years in a lifetime arrange them-

selves into groups of sevens, seven times seven years form-
ing a cycle which corresponds to the forty nine sons of
Fohat. When we apply to the seven periods in the cycle
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of life the names of the days of the week, the panorama

of life unfolds itself as follows
The first, or Sunday period, includes the first seven
years of life. This is the birthday period characterized
by the weakness and helplessness of the newborn and its
entire dependence upon parents or guardians.
The second, or Monday period, includes the years from
eight to fourteen. This is the age of childhood, still char-
acterized by weakness and dependence. Esoteric science
teaches that the end of the firstperiod marks the develop-
ment of reason, willpower and selfcontrol in a sufficient
degree to impose upon the individual the obligation of
personal responsibility. In other words, with the com-
pletion of the seventh year the child becomes to a certain
degree morally responsible. The age of childhood is best
adapted for the acquisition of the simpler forms of useful
knowledge.
The third, or Tuesday period, reaches from the fifteenth
year to the twenty first. This is the period of youth, or
adolescence, and should also be spent under the guidance
and protection of parents or guardians. It is still a period
of immaturity and should be utilized for the further acqui-
sition of knowledge and for active preparation for the
business oflife. Nearly all civilized countries take cogni-
zance of the completion of the third period by fixing the
legal age at twenty one. Civil law thus recognizes the
fact that at the completion of the third cycle the indi-
vidual is qualified to take care of himself, to paddle his
own canoe on the stream of life.

The fourth period (Wednesday), extending from the
twenty second to the twenty eighth year, is characterized
by the beginning of an independent struggle for exist-
ence. During this time of life the normal individual
endeavors to establish himself firmly in some line of work,
business or profession.
Vol. 1—19.
During the fifth (Thursday) period of life, which ex-

tends from the twenty ninth to the thirty fifth year, the
individual should succeed in establishing himself firmly
enough to be able to found and support a family and thus
to fulfill one of the primary purposes of existence, the
reproduction of the species. This period is therefore called
the age of maturity and fruitage.
Nature, however, does not intend us to continue indefi-
nitely in the security of a well established routine of life
and therefore during the sixth or Friday period provides
for reactions, changes, or "crises" from the thirty sixth
to the forty second year. With the achievement of pri-
mary objectives comes unrest and the striving for the
satisfaction of new ambitions and for the attainment of
higher ideals. way on a small scale
Success in a financial
leads to larger undertakings and more risky speculations.
The attainment of financial independence gives rise to
political ambitions, to the desire for distinction in other
fields of endeavor or to the awakening of altruistic and
philanthropic impulses.
The sixth or Friday period is, therefore, characterized
by sudden upheavals and changes in business affairs and
home surroundings and the taking up of new lines of
endeavor. This period of life is also frequently charac-
terized by changes in the physical conditions, by the
development of disease crises as the result of wrong living
and wrong treatment of minor ailments in the past. These
changes and reactions in the affairs of life naturally
involve unrest, uncertainty, losses, deprivations and the
necessity for fresh starts, reconstruction on a new basis
and all the anxiety and concentrated effort which this
requires. This sixth period of the cycle is therefore con-
sidered unlucky, but if we understand the law of periodic-
ity and the true significance of the sixth or Friday period,
we look upon the reactions and changes which it brings
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about not as "unlucky", unfortunate or destructive, but

as experiences necessary for the further development of
our latent faculties, capacities and powers, as necessary
exercise for the strengthening of our physical, intellectual
and moral fibre. If Nature allowed us to continue indefi-
nitely in the snug security of old accustomed surround-
ings and circumstances, we would stagnate and fossilize.
Better to burn out the flame of life in a few years of
brief but intensely interesting and useful activity than

to drag along through a century of humdrum, selfeentered
stagnation. This optimistic conception of the nature and
purpose of seeming misfortunes, trials and tribulations of
life has become to me a matter of positive conviction since
I have had occasion to verify it in many thousands of cases.

During the seventh period the effects of the sixth or
crisis period continue and adjust themselves. It is a period
of reconstruction, of recuperation and rest, and thus the
best preparation for a new cycle of sevens which begins
with the fiftieth year.
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 week,
and upon Saturday (the Sabbath) a^ the last or "rest"
day in which to prepare for another period of seven days.
Orthodox science now admits that the normal length of
human life should be about one hundred and fifty years.
This would constitute three cycles of forty nine years
each, the first corresponding to youth, the second to matu-
rity and the third to fruition.
The Law of Sevens in Febrile Diseases
If we apply the law of periodicity to the course of acute

we find that the sixth day
febrile or inflammatory diseases
from the beginning of the first well defined symptom
marks the first "Friday period" or the first crisis of the
disease, and that every seventh day thereafter is also

distinguished by aggravations and changes either for
better or for worse.
The Law of Sevens in Chronic Diseases
Applied to the cure of chronic diseases under the influ-

ence of natural methods of living and of treatment, the
law of and periodicity manifests as follows:
crisis
When a chronic patient, whose chances of cure are good,
is placed under proper (natural) conditions of living and
of treatment he will, as a rule, experience five weeks of

marked improvement.
The sixth week, if conditions are favorable, usually
marks the beginning of acute reactions or healing crises.
This means that the healing forces of the organism have
grown strong enough to begin the work of acute elimi-
nation.
By all sorts of acute reactions, such as skin eruptions,
diarrheas, feverish, inflammatory and catarrhal conditions,
boils, abscesses, muco-purulent discharges, etc.. Nature
now endeavors to remove the latent, chronic disease taints

from the system.
The allopathic school of medicine looks upon these
acute reactions as the disease we of the Nature Cure
;
school recognize them as milestones on the road to cure.

The entire structure of allopathy is built upon a mis-
conception of the true nature of disease. At this funda-
mental point the ways of the old school and the Nature
Cure school part, never to meet again.
Many allopathic physicians who read the foregoing
statements will indignantly deny their truthfulness. They
will claim that the old school of medicine also regards
acute reactions as manifestations of Nature's eliminative
activity and that it endeavors to promote the same by all
possible means.
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"We are aware that in many instances the teachings of

the allopathic school acknowledge, theoretically at least,
the eliminative character of acute diseases. But how does
practice agree with theory?
Skin eruptions and boils are ''cured" (into the body)
with metallic ointments; coughs, mucous discharges and
diarrheas are arrested by opiates and astringents; fevers
and inflammations are subdued by quinin, coal tar prod-
ucts or the ice bag; headaches and pains of all kinds are
stopped by morphin, cocain, phenacetin, salicylates, etc.;
excited nerves and restless brain are paralyzed and stupe-
fied with bromids and chloral syphilitic ulcers and gonor-
;
rheal discharges are checked by cauterization, drying

powders or strong antiseptic injections scrofulous glands
;
and goiters are "absorbed" by iodin; diseased tonsils or

the inflamed appendix are extirpated with the surgeon's
knife ; —
and so on, ad infinitum.
Are such suppressive tactics calculated to induce and
promote elimination?
The character of healing crises and the time of their
occurrence in any given case can often be accurately pre-
dicted by means of the diagnosis from the iris of the eye
(Vol. VI), —
from Nature's records in the iris.
But the best of all methods of diagnosis is the cure
itself, because weak spots and morbid taints in the organ-
ism are revealed through the healing crises.
The Same Old Aches and Pains
Frequently we hear from a patient in the throes of

crises: "These are the same old aches and pains that I
had before. It is exactly the same trouble I have been
suffering with for many years. This is not a crisis! —
have caught a cold, or I have eaten something which does
not agree with me."
The patient has forgotten what we taught regarding

the law of crises. He loses sight of the fact that healing
crises are nothing more nor less than a coming-up-again
of old disease conditions, an acute manifestation of ail-
ments which had become chronic through neglect or
suppression.
Of course they are "the same old aches and pains".
Nature Cure does not create new diseases. Crises mean
the stirring up and eliminating of hereditary and acquired
taints and poisons. Under the right methods of treatment
any previous disease condition suppressed by drugs or
knife or by mental effort may recur as a healing crisis.
They are the same old aches and pains which so often
gave trouble in the past, but they are now running their
course under different conditions because the patient is
now living in harmony with Nature's laws.
Under the natural regimen Nature is encouraged and
assisted in her cleansing and healing efforts. She is
allowed in her own wise way to "tear down the old and
build up the new".
The old schools of healing proclaim Mother Nature a
"poor healer". But we of the Nature Cure school believe
that the wisdom which created this wonderful, complex
mechanism which we call the human body knows also
how to preserve and to repair it. Every healing crisis
passed under natural conditions assisted by natural meth-
ods of treatment leaves the body purified and strengthened
and nearer to perfect health.
Our critics and opponents frequently ask how we know
that our methods are "natural" and "in harmony with
Nature's laws".
To this we reply: The timely appearance of healing"
crises, their orderly development and favorable termina-
tion constitute the best criterion of the correctness and
naturalness of the methods of treatment employed. The
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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 Nature.

Another question we frequently hear is: "Do healing
crises develop in every chronic disease under natural
treatment?" Our answer is: If the condition of the
patient is not favorable to a cure, that is, if the vitality
be too low and the destruction of vital parts too far
advanced, the healing crises may be proportionately de-
layed or may not occur at all. In such cases the disease
symptoms will increase in severity and complexity and
become more destructive instead of more constructive
until the final fatal crisis. The end may come quickly or
the patient may decline gradually toward the fatal termi-
nation.
Again, patients ask us: "Through how many crises
shall Ihave to pass?" We tell them just as many as —
you need no more, no less. So long as there is anything
;
wrong in the system, crises will come and go but each ;
crisis, if successfully passed, is another milestone on the

road to perfect health.
It is intensely interesting to observe in how orderly and
intelligent a manner Nature proceeds in her work of
healing and repair. One problem after another is taken
up and adjusted.
First of all the digestive organs are put into better
condition because further progress depends upon proper
assimilation and elimination. The bowels must act freely
and naturally before any permanent improvement can
take place. A treatment which fails to accomplish this
first preliminary improvement will surely fail to produce
more important results.

In this connection it is a significant fact that nearly all
our patients, when thej' come under our care, are suffer-
ing from stubborn constipation in spite of (or on account
of) lifelong drugging. Neither medicines nor operations
had given them anything but temporary relief, and the
trouble had grown worse instead of better.
If the old school methods of treatment were not success-
ful in relieving simple constipation, what can they be
expected to cure, since it is evident that the overcoming
of constipation is the primary necessity for any other
improvement ?
A system of treatment which cannot accomplish this,
cannot accomplish anything. Is it strange, therefore, that
a school of medicine which, with all its vaunted knowl-
edge and wisdom, has not succeeded in curing simple
constipation, flatly denies that natural methods can cure
cancer, epilepsy, locomotor ataxia and other so called
incurable diseases?
Our Greatest DiflSculty
The greatest difficulty in our work lies in conducting

our patients safely through the stormy crisis periods. The
first, preliminary improvement is often so marked that the
patient believes himself already cured. He will say:

"Doctor, I am feeling fine! There is nothing the matter
with me any more! I cannot understand why I shouldn't
go home and continue the natural regimen there!"
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

crisis. Therefore my answer to the overconfident patient
may be something like this: "Remember what I told you.
The first improvement is not the cure, it is only the prepa-
ration for the real fight. Look out! In a few days you
may whistle another tune."
And sure enough, usually within a few days after such
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a conversation the patient is down in the slough of de-

spond. His digestive organs are in a wretched condition.
He is nauseated, his tongue is coated, he is suffering from
headache or from any one of a multitude of other symp-
toms, according to his individual condition. In fact, many
of the old aches and pains which he thought already cured
may come again with renewed force.
Healing crises, representing radical changes in the sys-
tem, are always accompanied by physical and mental
weakness, because every bit of vitality is drawn upon in
these reconstructive processes. The entire organism is
—
shaken to its very foundation deepseated chronic disease
taints are being stirred up throughout the system.
The eliminative processes of the healing' crises are often
accompanied by great mental depression and a feeling of
strong revulsion from the natural regimen and everything
connected with it.
The patient may think that, after all, Nature Cure is
not for him, that he is growing worse instead of better.
In proportion to the severity of the changes going on
within him, he may become disheartened and despondent.
Often he exhibits all the mental and emotional symptoms
of homesickness.
In these critical days it requires all our powers of per-
suasion to keep the depressed and discouraged patient
from giving up the fight and "taking something" to
relieve his distress. He insists that "something" must
be done for him and cannot understand how he will ever
get out of his "awful condition" without some good strong
medicine.
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 treatment, few of them would hold out
during these critical periods.
This explains why so many people fail to be cured and

it also explains why natural living and selftreatment often
do not meet with the desired results if carried on without
the instruction and guidance of a competent, experienced
Nature Cure physician.
So long as the improvement continues everything is
lovely and hope soars high. But when the inevitable crises
arrive the sufferer believes that after all he made a mis-
take in taking up the natural regimen, especially when
friends and relatives do their best to destroy his confidence
in the natural methods of cure by ridicule and dire prophe-
cies of failure.
Frightened and discouraged, the patient may return to
the "flesh-pots of Egypt" and to the good old pills and
potions and ever afterwards will tell his friends that "he
tried Nature Cure and the vegetarian diet, but it was no
good."
Mother Nature remains a "book sealed with seven
seals" to those who mistrust, despise and counteract her,
who rely on man made wisdom and the ever changing
theories and dogmas of the schools.
But on the other hand, every crisis conducted to a suc-
cessful termination in accordance with Nature's laws
becomes an inspiration to him w^ho follows her guidance
and assists her with intelligent effort and loving care.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE TRUE SCOPE OF MEDICINE
ONEobserving
able read the signs of the times cannot help
to
the powerful influence which Nature Cure
philosophy is already exerting upon the trend of modern
medical science. 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 navy.
In English speaking countries the foremost members
of the medical profession are beginning to talk straight
Nature Cure doctrine, to condemn the use of drugs and
to endorse unqualifiedly the Nature Cure methods of treat-
ment. As an illustration I quote from an article by
Dr. William Osier in the Encyclopedia Americana, Vol, X,
under the title of "Medicine":
Dr. Osier on "Medicine"
"The new school does not feel itself under obligation

to giveany medicines whatever, while a generation ago not
only could few physicians have held their practice unless
they did, but few would have thought it safe or scientific.
Of course, 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 needed,
and indeed often where the buoyancy of mind which is the
real curative agent, can only be created by making him
wait hopefully for the expected action of medicine; and
some physicians still cannot unlearn their old training.
289
But the change is great. The modern treatment of disease

reliesvery greatly on the old so called 'natural' methods,
diet and exercise, bathing and massage, — in other words,
giving the natural forces the fullest scope by easy and
thorough nutrition, increased flow of blood, and removal
of obstructions to the excretory systems or the circulation
in the tissues.
''One notable example is typhoid fever. At the outset
of the nineteenth century itwas treated with 'remedies'
—
of the extremest violence, bleeding and blistering, vom-
iting and purging, and the administration of antimony and
mercury, and plenty of other heroic remedies. Now the
patient is bathed and nursed and carefully tended, but
rarely given medicine. This is the result partly of the
remarkable experiments of the Paris and Vienna schools
in the action of drugs, which have shaken the stoutest
faiths and partly of the constant and reproachful object-
;
lesson of homeopathy. No regular physician would ever

admit that the homeopathic preparations, 'infinitesimals',
could do any good as direct curative agents; and yet it
was perfectly certain that homeopaths lost no more of
their patients than others. There was but one conclusion
to draw, —
that most drugs had no effect whatever on the
diseases for which they were administered."
Dr. Osier is one of the greatest medical authorities on
drugs now living. He was formerly professor of materia
medica at the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore,
U. S., and now holds a professorship at Oxford University,
England. His books on medical practice are in use in
probably every university and medical school in English
speaking countries. 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 radical, extreme, and some-
what "cranky".
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However, what Dr. Osier says regarding- the "New

School" is true only of a few advanced members of the
medical profession.
On the rank and file the idea of drugless healing has
about the same effect as a red rag on a mad bull. There
are very few physicians in general practice today who
would not lose their bread and butter if they attempted to
practice drugless healing on their patients. Both the
profession and the public needs a good deal more educa-
tion along Nature Cure lines before rational methods can
become general.
In the second sentence of his article Dr. Osier admits
the eflScacy of mental therapeutics and therapeutic faith
as a curative agent and ascribes the helpful effects of
medicine to their stimulating influence upon the patient's
mind rather than to any beneficial action of the drugs
themselves.
With regard to the origin of the modern treatment of
typhoid fever, however, the learned doctor is either mis-
informed or purposely misrepresents the facts. The credit
for the introduction of hydropathic treatment of typhoid
fever does not belong to the ''remarkable experiments of
the Paris and Vienna schools". These schools and the
entire medical profession fought this treatment withmight
and main.
For thirty years Priessnitz, Bilz, Kuhne, Father Kneipp
and many other pioneers of Nature Cure were persecuted
and prosecuted, they were dragged into the courts and
tried on the charges of malpractice and manslaughter for
using their sane and natural methods.
Not until Dr. Brandt 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 sanction, was it adopted by advanced physi-
cians all over the world.
Through Nature Cure treatment of typhoid fever, the

mortality of this disease hasbeen reduced from over 50
per cent under the old drug treatment to less than 5 per
cent.
But the average medical practitioner has not yet learned
from the Nature Cure school that the same simple fasting
and cold water treatment used so effectively in the cure
of typhoid fever, is just as effective in the treatment of
every other form of acute disease as, for instance, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, smallpox, cerebro-spinal meningitis,
appendicitis, etc. Therefore, we
hold that there is no
necessity for the employment of poisonous drugs, serums
and antitoxins for these purposes.
Referring to the last two statements in Dr. Osier's
article, homeopaths have as a matter of fact lost fewer
patients than have allopaths. The effect of homeopathic
medicine, moreover, is not altogether negative, as Dr.
Osier implies. The discovery of the minute microzyma
as the basis of the human organism on the one hand, and
of the unlimited divisibility of matter on the other, ex-
plains the rationality of the infinitesimal dose. Health
and disease are resident in the microzyma; therefore the
homeopath treats this primary unit of life, and the size
of the dose is apportioned to the size of the patient.
When Dr. Osier says that most drugs have no effect
whatsoever, he makes a serious misstatement. While they
may not contribute to the cure of the disease for which
they are given, they are often very harmful in them-
selves.
Almost every virulent poison known to man is found
in allopathic prescriptions. It is now definitely estab-
lished by the diagnosis from the iris of the eye that these
poisons have a tendency to accumulate in the sj^stem, to
concentrate in certain parts and organs for which they
have a special affinity, and there to cause continual irri-
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tation and actual destruction of tissues. The greater part

of all chronic diseases are created or complicated by the
suppression of acute diseases by means of drug poisons
and through the destructive effects of drugs themselves.
Dr. Schwenninger, the medical adviser of Prince Bis-
marck, and later of Richard Wagner, the great composer,
has published a book entitled "The Doctor". This work
is the most scathing arraignment and condemnation of
modern medical practice, especially of poisonous drugs and

of surgery. Dr. Treves, the body physician of the late
King Edward of England, is no less outspoken than Drs.
Osier and Schwenninger in denunciation of the practice of
drugging.
Only a few men who, like these, have achieved financial
and scientific independence in the medical profession can
afford to speak so frankly. The great majority of physi-
cians, even though they know better, continue in the old
ruts so as to be considered ethical and orthodox and in
order to hold their practice. It is not the medical pro-
fession that has brought about this reform in the treat-
ment of typhoid fever and other diseases. They have been
forced into the adoption of the more advanced natural
methods through the pressure of the Nature Cure move-
ment in Europe and America.
Dr. Osier's statements, made with careful deliberation
in a contribution to the Encyclopedia Americana, are
certainly a frank declaration as to the ineffectiveness of
drug treatment and an unqualified endorsement of natural
methods of healing.
But it seems to me that Dr. Osier "pours out the baby
with the bath". That is, I am inclined to think that his
opinion regarding the ineffectiveness of drugs is entirely
too radical. There
a legitimate scope for medicinal
is
remedies in so far as they build up the blood on a natural

basis and serve as tissue foods.
Many people who have lost their faith in old school

methods of treatment have swung to the other extreme.
In fact, Dr. Osier himself stands accused of being a
''medical nihilist".
Many of those who have adopted natural methods of
living and of treating disease have acquired an actual
horror of the word "medicine". However, this extreme
attitude is not justified.
It alsoappears that some of the readers of my writings
are under the impression that we of the Nature Cure
school absolutely condemn the use of all medicines. This,
however, is not the case.
The Position of Nature Cure Regarding

Medicinal Remedies
We do condemn the use of drugs in so far as they are

poisonous and destructive, and in so far as they suppress
acute diseases or healing crises, which are Nature 's cleans-
ing and healing efforts but, on the other hand, we realize
;
that there a wide field for the helpful application of

is
medicinal remedies in so far as they act as foods to the

tissues of the body and as neutralizers and eliminators
of waste and morbid materials.
In every form of chronic disease there exists in the
system an excess of certain morbid materials and a defi-
ciency of certain mineral constituents, "organic" salts,
which are essential to the normal functions of the body.
Thus, in all anemic diseases the blood is lacking in iron,
which picks up the oxygen, in the air cells of the lungs and
carries it into the tissues, and in sodium, which combines
with the carbon dioxide (coal gas) that is constantly being
liberated in the system and conveys it to the organs of
depuration, especially the lungs and the skin. In point
of fact, oxygen starvation is due in a much greater degree
THE TEUE SCOPE OF MEDICINE 295
sodium and the consequent accumu-

to the deficiency of
lation of carbon dioxide in the system (carbonic acid
asphyxiation) than to the lack of iron in the blood, as
assumed by the old school of medicine.
Foods or medicinal remedies which supply this defi-
ciency of iron and sodium in the organism tend to over-
come the anemic conditions.
The great range of uric acid diseases, such as rheuma-
tism, calculi, arterio-sclerosis, certain forms of diabetes
and albuminuria, are due on the one hand to the excessive
consumption of acid producing foods, and on the other
hand to a deficiency in the blood of certain alkaline min-
eral elements, especially sodium, magnesium, lithium and
potassium, whose office it is to neutralize the acids which
are created and liberated in the processes of starch and
protein digestion.
In another chapter I have explained the origin and
progressive development of uric acid diseases (see page
350). The volume on "Natural Dietetics" contains
additional proof that practically all diseases are caused
by or are complicated with acid conditions in the sys-
tem.
Any foods or medicines which provide the system with
sufficient quantities of the acid binding, alkaline mineral
salts prove good medicine for all forms of acid diseases.
Lime, potassium, phosphorus and silicon are needed to
impart textile strength and stamina to the bony and fleshy
tissues of the body.
The mineral constituents necessary to the vital economy
of the organism should, however, be supplied in the live,
organized form. This will be explained more fully in
subsequent pages.
From what I have said it becomes apparent that it is
impossible to draw a sharp line of distinction between
foods and medicines. All foods which serve the above
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named purposes are "good medicines", and all non-

poisonous herb extracts and homeopathic remedies that
have the same effect upon the system are, for the same
reason, good "foods".
The medical treatment prescribed by the Nature Cure
school consists largely in the proper selection and combi-
nation of food materials. This must be so. It stands to
reason that Nature has provided with in the ranges of
the natural foods all the elements which man needs in the
way of food and medicine.
But it is quite possible that, through continued abuse,
the digestive apparatus has become so weak and abnormal
that cannot function properly, that it cannot absorb and
it
assimilate from natural foods a sufficient quantity of the

elements which the organism needs. In such cases it may
be very helpful and, indeed, imperative to prescribe the
organic mineral salts in the forms of fruit, herb and vege-
table juices, extracts or decoctions. Among the best food
remedies are extracts of leafy vegetables such as lettuce,
spinach, Scotch kale, cabbage, Swiss chard, etc. These
vegetables are richer than any other foods in the salts of
positive mineral elements. The extract may be prepared
from one or more of these vegetables according to the
supply on hand or the tolerance of the digestive organs
and the taste and preference of the patient. They should
be ground to a pulp in a vegetable grinder, then pressed
out in a small fruit press which can be secured in any
department store. One or two teacups per day will
be sufficient to supply the needs of the system for min-
eral salts. This extract should be prepared fresh every
day.
The "Tissue Remedies" first prepared by Schuessler,
one of the pioneers in the Nature Cure movement, are
refined triturations of the positive mineral elements needed
by the human organism. However, they remain in the
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inorganic mineral state and therefore cannot supplant the

organic mineral salt combinations prepared in the best
possible form in Nature's own laboratory in the fruits,
vegetables, cereals and dairy products.
The Difference Between Organic and Live,

Organized Matter
Professor Bechamp, the discoverer of the microzyma,

has pointed out distinctly the difference between organic
and live, organized substances. He taught that what
chemists call ''organic" matter consists of various com-
binations of carbon with other elements of matter, while
"live, organized" substances are those which contain live
microzyma. He says on page 44 of "The Blood," "The
distinguishing of organic matter reduced to the condi-
tion of definite proximate principles (that is to say,
of the organic matter of the chemists, which is not liv-
ing) from natural organic matters, such as they exist
in animals and plants; that is to say, of the organic
matter of physiologists and of anatomists, which is reputed
living or as having lived. The proximate principles are
naturally unalterable, do not ferment even when they are
left in contact with a limited quantity of ordinary air. in
water at a physiological temperature. On the other hand,
natural organic matters, under the like conditions or
absolutely protected from atmospheric germs, invariably
alter and ferment."
This distinction made by the great scientist between the
"organic" and "live, organized" substances to me is as
interesting and important as the discovery of the micro-
zyma. It confirms what I have frequently claimed, that
Nature's live foods and medicines in vegetable and animal
matter cannot be imitated and substituted by the chemist
in the laboratory. The organic matter of the chemist is
not alive with microzyma whose ferments produce all the

great changes in the normal metabolic processes of the
living body. In order to produce live, organized foods
and medicines the chemist should have the power of
creating microzyma.
^Vhile I admit that the so called organic compounds are
less destructive than inorganic minerals like mercury,
arsenic, etc., in the crude, earthy form, it is also true that
the carbohydrate and protein compounds produced by the
chemist in the laboratory cannot take the place of Na-
ture's live foodsand medicines in vegetable, animal and
human protoplasm. It is for this reason that the Schuess-
ler "Tissue Foods" never take the place of the products
of Nature's own laboratory, because they are not even
organic substances.
The claims of Professor Bechamp are proved by the fact
that organic or proximate food substances (both are iden-
tical in nature) cannot sustain life. It has been proved
by scientists of the Nature Cure school, long ago, that
animals fed on chemically pure starch, white sugar or
other organic or proximate food elements die sooner than
animals who receive no food but water. The obvious
explanation now is that organic compounds do not contain
the microzyma whose ferments are necessary to "digest"
the food materials.
Medicinal Remedies
This brings us face to face with another revelation as
regards the chemistry and physiology of digestion. For-
merly it was assumed that all the ferments which digest
the foods are produced by the body. It now appears that
to a large extent the ferments which digest the foods are
produced by the microzyma in the foods themselves, pro-
vided, of course, that the foods are of the live, organized
varieties.
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The homeopathic medicaments, as will be explained at

length in another chapter, produce their good results
because they work in harmony with the laws of Nature.
"We never hesitate, therefore, to prescribe for our pa-
tients homeopathic medicines, herb juices and extracts,
which assist in the elimination of morbid matter from the
system and in building up blood and lymph on a normal
basis; that is, remedies which supply the organism with
the mineral elements in which it is deficient, in the live,

organized, easily assimilable form. Herein lies the legiti-
mate scope of medicine.
All medicinal remedies which build up the system on
a normal, natural basis and increase its fighting power
against disease without in any way inflicting injury upon
the organism are endorsed by the adherents of the Nature
Cure methods of treatment.
But we reject all drugs or medicines which tend to
hinder, check or suppress Nature's cleansing and regen-
erating processes. We never prescribe anything in the
least degree poisonous. We avoid all anodynes, hypnotics,
and like harm-
sedatives, antipyretics, laxatives, cathartics
ful agents. Judicious fasting, cold water applications,
manipulative treatment, and, if necessary, warm water
injections in case of constipation, will do everything that
is claimed for poisonous drugs.
Inorganic Minerals and Mineral Poisons
For many years past physicians of the various schools

of medicine, diet experts and food chemists have been
divided on the question as to whether mineral substances
which in the live form enter into the composition of the
human body may safely be used in foods and medicines
in the inorganic form.
The medical profession holds almost unanimously that
this is permissible and "good practice", so that nearly
every allopathic medical prescription contains some such

inorganic substance or, worse, one or more virulent mineral
poisons, as mercury, arsenic, phosphorus, etc.
So far the discussion about the usefulness or harmful-
ness of inorganic minerals as foods and medicines has
been largely theoretical and controversial. Neither party
had positive proofs for its contentions.
But Nature's records in the iris of the eye settle the
question forever. One of the fundamental principles of
the science of diagnosis from the iris of the eye is that
nothing shows in the iris by abnormal signs or discolora-
tions except that which is abnormal in the body or in-
jurious to it. When substances which are uncongenial
or poisonous to the system accumulate in any part or
organ of the body in sufficient quantities, their presence
is indicated by certain signs and abnormal colors in the
corresponding areas of the iris.
In this way Nature makes known by her records in the
iris which substances are injurious to the body and which
are harmless.
Certain mineral elements, such as iron, sodium, potas-
sium, lime, magnesium, phosphorus, sulphur, etc., which
are among the important constituents of the human
body,
may be taken in the live form in fruits and vegetables
or in herb extracts in large amounts, in fact far beyond
the actual needs of the body, but they will not show in the
iris of the eye because they are easil}^ eliminated from
the system.
If, however, the same minerals be taken in the inorganic
form in considerable quantities, the iris will exhibit cer-
tain well defined signs and discolorations in the areas
corresponding to those parts of the body in which the
mineral substances have accumulated.
Obviously, Nature does not intend that these mineral
elements should enter the organism in the inorganic form,
THE TRUE SCOPE OF MEDICINE 301
and therefore the organs of depuration are not designed

to neutralize and eliminate them. Thus, for instance, any
amount of iron may be taken in vegetable or herb extracts
but will not show in the iris. "Whatever is taken in excess
of the needs of the body will be promptly eliminated.
If, however, similar quantities of iron be taken for the
same length of time in the inorganic mineral form, the
iron will accumulate in the tissues of stomach and bowels
and begin to show in the iris in the form of a rust brown
discoloration in the corresponding areas of the digestive
organs, directly aroimd the pupil.
In similar manner, sodium, which is one of the most
important mineral elements in the human body, if taken
in the inorganic form such as sodium bicarbonate or
sodium salicylate, will show in a heavy, white ring near
the outer edge of the iris. Sulphur will show in the form
of yellowish discolorations in the area of stomach and
bowels. lodin in the inorganic form, prepared from ash
of sea weeds, shows in the iris in well defined bright red
spots. Phosphorus appears in whitish-yellow streaks and
clouds in the areas corresponding to the organs in which
it has accumulated.
An interesting exception to this rule is our common

table salt (NaCl, sodium chlorid), which is an inorganic
mineral combination. So far, iridologists have not dis-
covered any sign in the iris indicating that this mineral
substance accumulates abnormally in the body. It may
be that this salt is more easily eliminated from the system,
since it is normally present in large amounts in the blood
serum. It is also possible that the salt is split up into
sodium and chlorid and that these units enter into new
chemical combinations.
This might explain why salt is the only inorganic
mineral substance which is extensively used as food by
humanity in general. Advocates of the liberal use of
table salt usually argue that animals guided by their

natural instinct do not hesitate to habitually visit ''salt
licks". Animals will do this when the vegetation on
which they subsist is deficient in mineral salts as the
result of deficiency of the minerals in the soil.
It must be remembered that animals, as well as human
beings, may acquire bad habits. Horses will founder on
oats when they have free access to grass and hay. In
Montana at one time we kept in confinement a splendid
elk. He would eat more chewing tobacco in a day than
could have been consumed by a dozen cowboys.
Though undoubtedly a limited amount of inorganic
sodium chlorid can be utilized by the body, I do not
encourage the excessive use of salt, either in cooking
food or at the table. Taken in considerable quantities,
it is very injurious to the tissues of the body. The boil-
ing of foods precipitates the salts of sodium, magnesium,
potassium, etc. This is the reason why "cooked foods"
crave more salt than raw food. The various aspects of
the table salt problem have been fully discussed in an
article in the Nature Cure Cook Book, entitled "To Salt
or Not to Salt".
Before the days of canned vegetables and fruits, scorbut
or scurvy was a common disease among mariners and
others who had to subsist for long periods of time on
salted meats and were deprived of vegetables. The disease
manifested as a breaking down of the gums and other
tissues of the body, accompanied by bleeding and much
soreness. As soon as these people partook of fresh fruits
and vegetables, the scurvy disappeared. The minerals
which occur in organized combinations in these foods
furnished the building stones which imparted textile
strength to the tissues and stopped the disintegration of
the fleshy structures.
The Nature Cure regimen aims to provide sodium
chlorid as well as the other mineral elements and salts

required by the body m
organized form in foods and
medicines.
When the use of inorganic minerals is discontinued and
the proper methods of eliminative treatment are applied,
these mineral substances are gradually dislodged and car-
ried out of the system. Simultaneously with their elimi-
nation disappear their signs in the iris and the disease
symptoms which their presence had created in the
organism.
In this connection it is a significant fact that those
minerals which are congenial to the system, that is, those
which in their organized form enter into the composition
of the body, are much more easily eliminated, if they
have been taken in the inorganic form, than those sub-
stances which are naturally foreign and poisonous to the
human organism, such as mercury, arsenic, bromids, the
different coal tar preparations, etc.
This is proved by the fact that the signs of the minerals
which are normal constituents of the human body dis-
appear from the iris of the eye much sooner than the signs
of those minerals which are foreign and naturally poison-
ous to the system.
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 medicines.
The intestines, kidneys, skin, mucous membranes, and
other organs of depuration are evidently not constructed
or prepared to cope with inorganic, poisonous subst-ances
and to eliminate them completely. Accordingly, these
poisons show a tendency to accumulate in certain parts
or organs of the body for which they have a special
affinity or, where the resistance is lowered, there to act
as destructive irritants.
The diseases which we find most difficult to cure, even
304 NATURAL THERAPEUTICW
by the most radical application of natural methods, are

cases of drug poisoning. Substances which are foreign to
the human organism, especially the inorganic mineral poi-
sons, positively destroy tissues and organs 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 The obvious reason for
living.
this is that our organs of eliminations are intended and
constructed to excrete only such waste products as are
formed in the organism in the processes of metabolism.
Tuberculosis or cancer may be caused in a scrofulous or
psoric constitution by overloading the system with meat,
coffee, alcohol or tobacco but as soon as these bad habits
;
are discontinued, and the organs of elimination treated

by natural methods, the encumbrances will be eliminated
and the much dreaded symptoms will subside and dis-
appear, often with surprising rapidity.
On the other hand, mercury, arsenic, quinin, strychnin,
iodin, etc., accumulate in the brain, spinal cord, and the
cells and tissues of the vital organs, causiag actual de^
struction and disintegration. The tissues thus affected
are not easily rebuilt and it is exceedingly difficult to stir
up the destructive mineral poisons and to eliminate them

from the system.
Therefore it is an indisputable fact that many of the
most stubborn, so called "incurable" diseases are drug
diseases.
The Importance of Natural Diet
"While certain medicinal remedies in organized form

may be very useful in supplying quickly a deficiency of
mineral elements in the system, we should aim to keep
our bodies in a normal, healthy condition by proper food
selection and combination. A brief description of the
scientific basis of "natural dietetics" will be found in the

chapter on Diet.
Undoubtedly Nature has supplied in overabundance all
the elements which the human organism needs in natural
foods, otherwise she would be a very poor organizer and
provider.
We should learn to select and combine food materials
in such a manner as to supply all the needs of the body
in the best possible way and thus insure perfect health
and strength without the use of medicines.
Which is more in harmony with the basic laws of moral-
ity and with wise common sense, —
to leave people in total
ignorance of the principles of natural dietetics, thus allow-
ing them to drift into all sorts of diseases through food
and drink poisoning and then to "cure" them with arti-
ficial chemical preparations ; or, to teach them how to eat
and drink in such a way as to establish perfect, natural
immunity to disease ? Which depends upon vicarious sal-
vation ? Which constitutes rational self-help in conformity
with personal responsibility?
Why should we attempt to cure anemia with inorganic
iron, hyperacidity of the stomach with baking soda,
swollen glands with iodin, the itch with sulphur, rachitic
conditions in infants with lime water, etc., etc., when these
mineral elements are contained in abundance and in live,
organized form in fruits, vegetables and herbs?
Unfortunately, however, a great many individuals,
through wrong habits of living and of treating their
ailments, have weakened their digestive organs to such a
degree that they are incapable of properly assimilating
their food and require, at least temporarily, natural
stimulative treatment and a supply of the indispensable
organic mineral salts through medicinal food prepara-
tions.
In such cases the mineral elements must be provided in
306 NATUKAL THEEAPEUTICS
the most easily assimilable form in vegetable extracts

which should be prepared fresh every day.
"What has been said is sufficient, I believe, to justify
the attitude of the Nature Cure school toward medicines
in general. It explains why we condemn the use of in-
organic minerals and poisonous substances, while we find
a wide and useful field for medicinal remedies in the form
of blood and tissue foods.
CHAPTER XXV
HOMEOPATHY
"TT THEN we recommend
the use of homeopathic reme-
» ' "medical nihilist" protests: "Don't talk
dies the
homeopathy to me I didn 't come to you for drugs I
! ;
have had enough of them."

When we explain that these remedies are so highly
refined that they cannot possibly do any harm, he becomes
still more indignant. "I don't need any of your mental
therapeutics in homeopathic form!" he exclaims. "I, too,
believe in the power of mind over matter but I have no
faith in your sugar of milk pellets. They are poor sub-
stitutes for the real article. That kind of sugar-coated
suggestion might work with some people, but not with
me!"
When I first entered upon the study of medicine, I, too,
could not believe in the curative power of homeopathic
doses but experience caused me to change my mind. The
;
well selected remedy administered at the right time often

works wonders.
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 efforts on the contrary, if employed accord-
;
—
ing to the law of homeopathy "Like cures like" they —
assist in producing acute reactions or "healing crises",
thus aiding Nature in the work of purification and repair.
In order to make clear the minuteness of the high
potency dose I will briefly explain the process of tritura-
307
tion. To begin with, the more dilute and refined the dose,
the higher the potency.
The first potency is prepared by mixing one part of the
drug with nine parts of milk sugar. Milk sugar is used
because it is a constituent of the human organism and
therefore neutral. The mixture is macerated in a mortar
for about twenty minutes. The product constitutes the
first trituration or potency of the drug.
To one tenth of the first potency is added nine parts of

milk sugar and the mixture treated as in the first tritura-
tion. The product constitutes the second trituration or
potency.
To one tenth part of the second potency is added nine
parts of milk sugar as before, constituting the third
potency. This process may be repeated to the hundred
thousandths or much higher potencies. The true Hahne-
mannian homeopath would consider the fiftieth potency
—
as a low one, still it represents a dilution of the drug
written with fifty naughts. In the higher potencies alcohol
may be substituted for the milk sugar.
Homeopathy works with the laws of cure, not against
them. "Similia similibus curantur" translated into prac-
tice means that a drug capable of producing a certain
set of disease symptoms in a healthy body when given in
"cure" a similar
large, physiological doses, will relieve or
set of symptoms in the diseased organism if the drug be
given in small, homeopathic doses.
For instance, belladonna given in large, poisonous doses
to a healthy person will cause a peculiar headache with
sharp, stabbing pains in forehead and temples, high fever,
violent delirium, dilation of the pupils, dryness and raw-
ness of the throat, scarlet redness of the skin, and extreme
sensitiveness to light, jars and noise.
It will be observed that this is a fair picture of a typical
case of scarlet fever. A homeopathic physician when
HOMEOPATHY 309
called to a scarlet fever patient exhibiting in a marked

degree three or more of the above described symptoms,
would prescribe a trituration of belladonna, say 6-X. In
numberless cases fever has subsided and its symptoms
rapidly disappeared under such treatment.
The reader may say: *'I do not see any difference be-
tween this and the allopathic suppression of disease by
'
drugs.
There is a great difference. The allopathic physician
may use the same remedy, belladonna, in the same case,
but he will give from ten to twenty drops of tincture of
belladonna, repeated every three or four hours. These
doses are from twenty to forty thousand times stronger
than the homeopathic 3-X or 6-X.
Herein lies the difference. The allopathic dose allays
the fever symptoms by paralyzing the organism as a whole
and the different vital organs and their functions in par-
ticular. This is frankly admitted in every allopathic
materia medica. But by such dosing Nature is forcibly
interrupted in her efforts of cleansing and healing; the
acute reaction is suppressed but not cured. If fever be
a healing effort of Nature, it may be controlled and
modified, but must not be suppressed. A minute dose of
homeopathic belladonna, acting on the innermost cells of
the organism and their microzyma, which the coarse allo-
pathic doses would paralyze, stimulates these cells to effort
in the right direction. It brings about conditions similar
to those produced by healing crises and thus assists Na-
ture 's purifying effort ; it is cooperation instead of counter-
operation.
After this brief discussion of the practical application
of homeopathy, let us now ascertain in how far its laws
and theories agree with and corroborate the laws and
principles of Nature Cure philosophy.
Hahnemann discovered the law of "similia similibus
curantur" accidentally while investigating the effects of

quinin on the human organism. Ever since then it has
been applied successfully by him and his followers in
treating human ailments.
However, this law has been used empirically. 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 like".
The proof offered has been negative rather than positive.
Therefore the allopath says: ''You tell me that 'like
cures like' and that you can prove it at the sickbed; but
unless you can give me good and valid reasons why it
should be so I cannot and will not believe that it is your

'similar' which cures the patient. How do I know it is
your 'potency'? The patient might recover just as well
without it."
With the aid of the three laws
of cure, I shall endeavor
to give the reasons and furnish the proofs for my con-
tentions. The laws alluded to are The Law of Cure, the
:
Law of Dual Effect and the Law of Crises.

"Similia similibus curantur" is only another way of
stating the fundamental law of Nature Cure Every acute :
disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of

Nature.
If a certain set of disease symptoms is the result of a
healing effort of Nature, and if I remedy which
give a
produces the same or similar symptoms in the system,
am I not aiding Nature in her attempt to overcome the
abnormal condition?
In such a case, the indicated homeopathic remedy will
not suppress the acute reaction, but will help it along,
thus accelerating and hastening the curative process.
In the last analysis, disease resides in the cell. The
well being of the organism as a whole is dependent upon
the health of the individual cells of which it is composed.
HOMEOPATHY 311
This has been explained more fully in connection with

the action of stimulants.
In order to cure the man we must free the cell of its
encumbrances. Elimination must begin in the cell, not
in the organs of depuration. Laxatives and cathartics,
by irritating the digestive tract, may cause a forced evac-
uation of the contents of the intestinal canal but they do
not eliminate the poisons which clog cells and tissues.
The eliminating organs do not make waste products;
they are elaborated in the tissues of the body. Stimulating
the activity of the kidneys or the skin with drugs does
not neutralize and oxidize the morbid materials in cells
and tissues.
In stubborn chronic diseases, when the cells are too
weak to throw encumbrances of their own
off the latent
accord, a well chosen homeopathic remedy is often of
great service in arousing them to acute reaction.
For instance, 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 vigorous, acute
effort, sulphur, if administered in doses sufficiently tritu-
rated and refined to affect the minute cells composing the
organism and the still more minute microzyma of the
cells, will start "disease vibrations" similar to those of
acute scrofulosis and thus give the needed impetus to
acute eliminative activity on the part of the individual cell.
The acute reaction once started may develop into vigor-
ous forms of scrofulous elimination such as skin eruptions,
glandular swellings, abscesses, catarrhal discharges, etc.
Are High Potency Doses Effective?

The question now arises : How large or how small must
be the dose in order to affect the minute cell or the still
smaller microzyma?
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In the administration of medicines, the size of the dose

is adjusted to the size of the patient. If half a grain of
a certain drug is the normal dose for an adult, the proper
dose of the same drug for an infant, say one year old, is
one twelfth of a grain. How small, in proportion, then,
should be the dose given to a cell a billion times as small
as an infant ! Can we conceive how infinitely small must
be the dose to fit the microzyma?
The dose given to an adult would paralyze or perhaps
kill an infant. In like manner the minute cell or micro-
zyma would be benumbed and paralyzed by the drug suited
to the infant's organism.
But this is how allopathy effects its fictitious cures. It
suppresses inflammatory processes by paralyzing the cells
and organs and their vital activities.
Homeopathy adapts the smallness of the dose to the
smallness of the microorganism which is to be treated.
Herein lies the reasonableness of the high potency dose.
The cell resembles man not only in physical and physi-
ological aspects, but also in regard to the moral law.
Elimination must commence in the cell and by virtue of
the cell 's personal effort. Its work cannot be done vicari-
ously by drugs or the knife. Large allopathic doses of
medicine may be given with the idea of doing the work for
the cell by violently stimulating or else benumbing the
organism as a whole or certain ones of the vital organs;
but this is demoralizing and destructive to the cell. The
powerful doses calculated to affect the body and its organs
as a whole make superfluous or paralyze the individual
efforts of the cell,and thus intensify the chronic disease
conditions in cells and tissues.
Alms giving, prison sentences, and capital punishment
have a similar ''allopathic" effect upon man, the indi-
vidual cell of the social body. Instead of providing for
him the proper environment and the opportunity for nat-
HOMEOPATHY 313
Tiral development and for working out his own salvation,

society takes this opportunity away from him and weakens
or makes impossible his personal efforts.
The Efficacy of Small Doses
The late revelations of chemistry, Roentgen rays.

X-rays, radioactivity of metals, etc., throw an interesting
light upon the seemingly infinite divisibility of matter.
A small particle of a given substance may for many years
throw off a continuous shower of corpuscles without per-
ceptibly diminishing its volume.
For illustration we may take the odoriferous musk. A
few grains of this substance will fill a room with its pen-
etrating aroma for years. When we smell musk or any
other perfume, minute particles of it ** bombard" the end
filaments of the nerves of smell in the nose. Therefore the
musk must be casting off such minute particles continually
without apparent loss of substance.
With the aid of this recent knowledge of the true nature
of matter, of the minuteness and complexity of the atom,
we can now understand how the highly triturated and
refined homeopathic remedy may still retain the "dynamic
force" of the element, as Hahnemann expressed it, and
how a remedy so ** attenuated" may still be capable of
exerting an influence upon the minute cell or the still more
minute microzyma. Since chemistry and physiology have
acquainted us with the finer forces of Nature, dem-
onstrating that they are mightier than the things we
can apprehend by weight and measure, the claims of
homeopathy do not appear so absurd as they did a gen-
eration ago.
Undoubtedly, the good effect produced by a well-chosen
remedy is heightened and strengthened by the mental and
magnetic influence of the prescriber. The positive faith

of the physician in the efficacy of the remedy, his sympathy

and his indomitable will to assist the sufferer affect both
the physical substance of the remedy and the mind of the
patient.
The varying mental and magnetic qualities of prescrib-
ers have undoubtedly much to do with the varying degree
of efficaciousness of the same remedy when administered
by different physicians.
The true Hahnemannian homeopathist, who believes in
his remedies as in his God, will concentrate his intellectual
and spiritual forces on a certain remedy in order to accom-
plish certain well defined results. The bottle is not allowed
to become empty. Whenever the "graft" runs low, it is
replenished with distilled water, alcohol, milksugar, or
another neutral vehicle. Every time he takes the medicine
bottle into his hands these potent thought forms are pro-
jected into "You are the element sulphur (or whatever
it :
it may be). You produce in the human body a certain set

of symptoms. You will produce these symptoms in the
body of this patient."
any virtue at all in magnetic, mental and
If there be
psychic healing, the homeopathic remedy must be an effect-
tive agency for transmitting these healing forces from pre-
scriber to patient.
Transmission of these higher and finer forces, whether
directly, telepathically, or by means of some physical
agent, such as magnetized water, a charm or simile, etc.
is modus operandi in all the different forms of ancient
the
and modern magic, "white" or "black". It is the active
principle in mental healing. Christian Science, sympathy
healing, voodooism, witchcraft, etc.
We may assume that the infinitely minute and sensitive
microzyma are even more easily affected by the higher
and finer forces and vibrations than the comparatively
large and complex cell.
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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 follows:
"Every agent affecting- the human organism has two
effects:a first, temporary one and a second, lasting one.
The second effect is directly opposite to the first. '
Allopathy, in giving large, physiological doses, takes

into consideration only the first effect of the drug, and
thereby accomplishes in the long run results directly oppo-
site to those which it desires to bring about. It produces
the very conditions which it tries to cure. As an example,
note the permanent effects of laxatives, stimulants, and
sedatives upon the system. This has been explained more
fully in Chapter XXX.
On the other hand, the homeopathic physician may use
the same remedies as the allopath, provided they produce
symptoms similar to those of the disease, but he adminis-
ters the various drugs in such minute doses that their first
effect is noticed only as a slight "homeopathic aggrava-
tion", while their second and lasting effect is relied on to
relieve and cure the disease.
In other words, homeopathy produces as the first effect
a condition "like the disease", and counts on the second
and lasting effect of the drug to bring about the opposite,
or health, condition.
If, in accordance with the law of dual effect as applied to
drugs, the first, temporary effect of the homeopathic
remedy is equal to the disease, it is self evident that the
second, lasting effect of the remedy must be equal to
the cure.
This law has been proved by homeopathy for over a
hundred years. An experienced homeopathic prescriber
would no more doubt it than he would doubt the law of
gravitation.
Homeopathy and the Law of Crises
If the remedy be well chosen in accordance with the law

of "similia similibus eurantur", the first homeopathic
aggravation, which corresponds to the crisis of Nature
Cure, will be followed by speedy readjustment. Nature
has her way, the disorder runs its course, and the return
to normal conditions
is 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 large, poisonous allopathic doses.
Homeopathy assists Nature in removing the old encum-
brances, whereas allopathy changes the acute, inflamma-
tory healing effort into chronic, destructive disease.
The Economics of Homeopathy

The law of "like cures like" is also of great practical
importance from another point of view, that of economics.
The best engineer is he who accomplishes the maximum
result with the minimum expenditure of force and with the
least friction. The same is true of the physician and his
remedies.
We have learned that drugs given in coarse allopathic
doses attack and affect the organism as a whole. If, for
instance, there is a catarrhal affection of themucous mem-
branes of the respiratory tract accompanied by fever, the
allopath will give quinin in large doses to change this con-
dition. He may accomplish his aim; but if so, he does it
by paralyzing the heart, the respiratory centers, the red

blood corpuscles and the excreting cells of the mucous
membranes. The body as a whole and certain parts in
particular are saturated with the drug poison and corre-
spondingly weakened. As allopathy itself states it:
"Quinin reduces fever by depressing the metabolism'*
(the vital functions).
HOMEOPATHY 3I7
Homeopathic materia mediea teaches that bryonia has

a special affinity for the mucous membranes of the respira-
tory tract and that its symptomatic effects correspond
closely to those described in the preceding paragraph.
If, in accordance with the law of "similia similibus
curantur", a homeopathic dose of bryonia be given to a

patient exhibiting these symptoms, the remedy, as has been
demonstrated, will assist Nature in her work of cure. In
doing this it will not attack and affect the entire organism,
but only those mucous tissues for which it has a special
and which, as in the case of this patient, are the
affinity
most seriously affected.
In other words, the large allopathic dose paralyzes the
whole organism in order to produce its fictitious cure.
The small homeopathic dose, on the other hand, goes right
to the spot where it is needed, and by mild and harmless
stimulation of the affected parts assists and supports the
cells in their acute eliminative efforts.
Homeopathic medication, therefore, is not only curative
in its effects but also conservative and in the highest
degree economic.
Homeopathy a Complement of Nature Cure
Having proved the accuracy of Hahnemann's law of

''similia similibuscurantur" and having occasion daily to
observe its practical results in the treatment of acute and
chronic diseases, we should not be justified in omitting
homeopathy from our system of treatment. The triturated
homeopathic doses of certain drugs may be of great service
in bringing about the acute reactions which we so ear-
nestly desire, especially in the treatment of chronic dis-
eases of long standing.
I am aware of the fact that in severe and obstinate con-
ditions homeopathy is often apparently of no avail. But
when the system has been purified and strengthened by

—
our natural methods a rational vegetarian diet, hydro-
therapy, neurotherapy, massage, corrective exercise, air
and sun baths, normal suggestion, etc. —the homeopathic
remedies will work with much greater promptitude and
effectiveness.
It is the combination of all the various healing factors
which constitutes the perfect system of treatment.
No disease condition, even when apparently hopeless,
can be pronounced incurable unless all these different
healing- factors, properly combined and applied, have been
given a thorough trial. It is no charlatanic boast, but the
simple truth, when we affirm that the various natural
methods of treatment, as we of the Nature Cure school
apply them, can and do cure so called incurable diseases,
such as tuberculosis, cancer, locomotor ataxia, epilepsy,
eczema, neurasthenia, insanity, and the worst forms of
—
chronic dyspepsia and constipation 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 far. Hence our claim that
while there are incurable patients, there are no incurable
diseases.
CHAPTER XXVI
NATURAL DIETETICS
T^HE chemical composition of blood and lymph depends
*- upon the chemical composition of food and drink
and upon the normal or abnormal condition of the diges-
tive organs.
The purer food and drink, the less it contains of morbid
matter and poison producing materials and the more it
contains of the elements necessary for the proper execu-
tion of the manifold functions of the organism, for the
building and repair of tissues and for the neutralization
and elimination of waste and systemic poisons, the more
normal and the more natural will be the diet.
The system of dietetics of the Nature Cure school is
based upon the composition of MILK, which is the only
perfect natural food combination in existence.
In its composition milk corresponds very closely to red,
arterial blood and contains all the elements which the new
born and growing organism needs in exactly the right
proportions, providing, of course, that the human or ani-
mal body which produces the milk is in good health and
lives on pure and normal foods.
Therefore, if any food combination or diet is to be nor-
mal or natural it must approach in its chemical composi-
tion the chemical composition of milk or of red, arterial
blood. This furnishes a strictly scientific basis for an exact
science of dietetics and proves true not only in the chem-
ical aspect of the diet problem but also in every other
aspect and in its practical application.
The orthodox school of medicine pays little or no atten-
319
tion to rational food regulation. In fact, it knows nothing

about it, because the subject of natural dietetics is as yet
not taught in medical schools.
As a result, the dietary advice given by the majority of
old school practitioners is something as follows: "Eat
what agrees with you: plenty of good, nourishing food.
There is nothing in dietetic fads. "What is one man's meat
is another man's poison, etc., etc."
However, if we study dietetics from a strictly scientific

point of view we cannot help finding that certain foods
among these especially the highly valued fleshfoods, eggs,
—
pulses and cereals create in the system large quantities
of morbid, poisonous substances; while fruits and vege-
tables which are rich in the organic salts, tend to neutral-
ize and to eliminate from the system the waste materials
and poisons created in the processes of protein and starch
digestion.
The accumulations of waste and systemic poisons are
the cause of the majority of diseases arising within the
human organism. Therefore it is imperative that the neu-
tralizing and eliminating food elements be provided in
sufficient quantities.
Around this revolves the entire problem of natural diet-
etics. While the old school of medicine looks upon
starches, sugars, fats and proteids as the only elements
of nutrition worthy of consideration, Nature Cure aims to
reduce these foods in the natural dietary and to increase
the purifying and eliminating fruits and vegetables.
In this volume we cannot go into the details of the diet
question. They have been treated in Volume III. I will
mention here in a general way that in the treatment of
chronic diseases, with few exceptions, I favor a strict veg-
etarian diet for the reason that most chronic diseases are
created, as before stated, by the accumulation of the feces
of the cells in the system.
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Every piece of animal flesh is saturated with the excre-

ment of the cells in the form of uric and many other kinds
of acids, alkaloids of putrefaction, xanthins, ptomains,
etc. The organism of the meat eater must dispose not only
of its own impurities produced in the processes of digestion
and of cell metabolism, but also of the morbid substances
that are already contained in the animal flesh.
Since the cure of chronic diseases consists largely in
purifying the body of morbid materials, it stands to reason
that a chronic must cease taking these in his food and
drink. To do otherwise would be like sweeping the dirt
out of a house through the back door and throwing it in
again through the front door.
Whether one approves of strict vegetarianism as a con-
tinuous mode of living or not it will be admitted that the
change from a meat diet to a non meat diet must be of
great benefit in the treatment of chronic diseases.
The cure of chronic conditions depends upon radical
changes in the cells and tissues of the body, as explained
in a former chapter. The old, abnormal, faulty diet will
continue to build the same abnormal and disease encum-
bered tissues. The more thorough and radical the change
in diet toward normality and purity, the sooner the cells
and tissues of the body will change toward the normal
and thus bring about a complete regeneration of the
organism.
Anything short of this may be palliative treatment, but
not worthy the name of cure
' '
is ' '.
The various systems for dietetic treatment for chronic

diseases are outlined in Volume II.
CHAPTER XXVII
FASTING
NEXT in importance to building up the blood on a

natural basis is the elimination of waste, morbid
matter and poisons from the system. This depends to a
large extent upon the right (natural) diet but it must be
;
promoted by the various methods of eliminative treat-

ment: fasting, hydrotherapy, massage, physical exercise,
air and sun baths, and, in the way of medicinal treatment,
by homeopathic remedies.
Foremost among the methods of purification stands
fasting", which of late years has become quite popular and
is regarded by many people as a panacea for all human
ailments. However, it is a two-edged sword. According

to circumstances it may do a great deal of good or a great
deal of harm.
Kuhne, the German pioneer of Nature Cure, claimed that
"disease is a unit", that it consists in the accumulation of
waste and morbid matter in the system. Since his time
many ''naturists" claim that fasting offers the best and
quickest means for eliminating systemic poisons and other
encumbrances.
To **fast it out" seems simple and plausible but it does
not always prove to be successful in practice. Fasting

enthusiasts 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
organism.
If the encumbrances consist merely of superfluous flesh
and fat or ofaccumulated waste materials, fasting may be
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FASTING 323
sufficient to break up the accumulations and to eliminate

the impurities that are clogging blood and tissues.
If, however, the disease has its origin in other causes or
if it be due to a weakened, negative constitution and low-

ered powers of resistance, fasting may aggravate the abnor-
mal conditions instead of improving them.
We hear frequently of long fasts extending over many
weeks, recklessly undertaken without the prescription and
guidance of a competent dietetic adviser, without proper
preparation of the system and the right subsequent treat-
ment. Many a good constitution has thus been perma-
nently injured and wrecked.
When Fasting Is Indicated
Persons of sanguine, vital temperament, with the animal

qualities strongly developed, enslaved by bad habits and
evil passions, will be greatly benefited by occasional short
fasts. In such cases, the experience aside from promoting
morbid elimination affords a fine drill in self discipline,
strengthening of self control and conquest of the lower
appetites.
Vigorous, fleshy people, positive physically and men-
who do not take sufficient physical
tally, especially those
exercise, should take frequent fasts of one, two or three
days' duration for the reduction of superfluous flesh and
fat and for the elimination of systemic waste and other
morbid materials. Such people should never eat more
than two meals a day and many get along best on one meal.
However, different temperaments and constitutions re-
quire different treatment and management.
People of a nervous, emotional temperament, especially
those who are below normal in weight and physically and
mentally "negative", may be seriously and permanently
injured by fasting. They should never fast except in acute
diseases and during- eliminative healing crises, when Na-

ture calls for the fast as a means of cure.
People of this type are usually thin, with weak and
flabby muscles. Their vital activities are at a low ebb and
their magnetic envelopes (aura) are wasted and attenu-
ated like their physical bodies. The red aura, which is
created by the action of the purely animal functions and
forces, is more or less deficient or entirely lacking. Such
people have the tendency to become abnormally sensitive
to conditions in the magnetic field (the astral plane).
Next to the hypnotic or mediumistic process, there is
nothing that induces abnormal psychism as readily as
fasting. During a prolonged fast the purely animal func-
tions of digestion, assimilation, etc. are almost completely
at a standstill. This depression of the physical functions
arouses and increases the psychic functions and may pro-
duce intense emotionalism and abnormal activity of the
senses of the spiritual material body, the individual thus
becoming abnormally clairvoyant, clairaudient and other-
wise sensitive to conditions on the spiritual planes of life.
This explains the spiritual exaltation, visions of "heav-

enly" scenes and beings or the fights with demons which
are frequently, indeed uniformly reported by hermits,
ascetics, saints, yogi, fakirs and dervishes.
Fasting facilitates hypnotic control of the sensitive by
positive intelligences either on the physical or on the spirit-
ual plane of being. In the one case we speak of hypnotism,

in the other of mediumship, obsession or possession. These
conditions are usually diagnosed by the medical practi-
tioner as nervousness, nervous prostration, hysteria, para-
noia, delusional insanity, double personality, mania, etc.
The various forms of abnormal psychism are fully de-
scribed in "Nature Cure Eugenics".
The destructive effects of fasting are intensified by soli-
tude, grief, worry, introspection, religious exaltation or
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any other form of depressive or destructive mental and

emotional activity.
Spirit "controls" often force their subjects to abstain
from food thus rendering them still more negative and
submissive. Psychic patients when controlled or obsessed
will frequently not eat unless they are forced or fed like
an infant. When asked why they do not eat, these patients
reply, ''I mustn't. They me." "When we say,
will not let
"Who?" the answer"These people. Don't you see
is,
them?" pointing to a void and becoming impatient when

told that no one is there. The allopathic school says
"delusion"; we call it abnormal clairvoyance.
In other instances the control tells the subject that his
food and drink are poisoned or unclean. To the obsessed
victim these suggestions are absolute reality.
To place persons of the negative, sensitive type on pro-
longed fasts and thus to expose them to the dangers just
described is little short of criminal. Such patients need an
abundance of the positive dairy products and vegetable
foods in order to build up and strengthen their physical
bodies and their magnetic envelopes which form the divid-
ing and protecting wall between the terrestrial and astral
planes.
A negative vegetarian diet, consisting principally of
nuts, cereals and pulses but deficient in animal foods (the
dairy products, eggs, honey) and in the vegetables growing
in or near the ground, may result in conditions similar to
those which accompany prolonged fasting.
Animal foods are elaborated under the influence of a
higher life element than that controlling the vegetable
kingdom and foods derived from the animal kingdom are
necessary to develop and stimulate the positive qualities
in man.
In the case of the psychic who is already deficient in the
physical (animal) and over developed in the spiritual
qualities, it is especially necessary in order to restore and

maintain lost equilibrium to build up in him the animal
qualities.
Fasting- in Chronic Diseases
At all times some of our patients may be found fasting,

but they do not begin until the right physiological and
—
psychological moment has arrived until the fast is indi-
cated. When the organism, or rather the individual cell,
is ready to begin the work of elimination, then assimila-
tion should cease for the time being because it interferes

with the excretory processes going on in the system.
To fast before the system is ready for it, means mineral
salts starvation and defective elimination.
Given a vigorous, positive constitution, encumbered with
too much flesh and with a tendency to chronic constipation,
rheumatism, gout, apoplexy and other diseases due to food
poisoning, a fast may be indicated from the beginning.
But it is different with persons of the weak, negative type.
Ordinarily the organism resembles a huge sponge which
absorbs the elements of nutrition from the digestive tract.
During a fast the process is reversed, the sponge is being
squeezed and gives off the impurities contained in it.
However, this is a purely mechanical process of flushing
and deals only with the mechanical aspect of disease
with the presence of waste matter in the system. It does
not take into consideration the chemical aspect of disease.
We have learned that most of the morbid matter in the
system has its origin in the acid end products of protein
and starch metabolism.
In rheumatism and gout the colloid and earthy deposits
collect in the joints and muscular tissues; in arteriosclero-
sis, in the arteries and veins in paralysis, epilepsy and kin-
;
dred diseases, in brain and nerve tissues.

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The accumulation of these waste products is due, in

turn, to a deficiency in the system of the alkaline, acid
binding" and acid eliminating mineral elements. In point
of fact, almost every form of disease is characterized by a
lack of these organic mineral salts in blood and tissues.
Stones, gravel (calculi), etc. grow only in blood sur-
charged with acid elements and they must be dissolved
and eliminated by rendering the blood alkaline. This is
accomplished by the absorption of alkaline salts contained
most abundantly in the juicy fruits, leafy and juicy vege-
tables, the hulls of cereals and in milk.
How are these all important solvents and eliminators to
be supplied to the organism by total abstinence from
food?
Prolonged fasting undoubtedly lowers the patient's
vitality and powers of resistance. But natural elimination
of waste products and systemic poisons (a healing crisis)
depends upon increased vitality and activity of the organ-
ism and the individual cells that compose it.
For these reasons we find in most cases that proper
adjustment of the diet, both as to quality and quantity,
together with the various forms of natural treatment, must
precede fasting. The great majority of chronic patients
have become chronics because their skin, kidneys, intes-
tines and other organs of elimination are in a sluggish
condition. As a result the system is overloaded with mor-
bid matter which must be promptly eliminated to prevent
reabsorption. Even normal organs, unless properly pre-
pared, eliminate waste with difficulty. This may explain
why patients frequently suffer severely without any
demonstrable lesion in the iris.
The atrophic condition of the organs of depuration
makes prompt elimination impossible and there are not
enough alkaline mineral elements to neutralize the de-
structive acids. Therefore the impurities remain and
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accumulate in the system and may cause serious aggrava-

tions and complications.
Therefore before fasting is enforced it is wiser first to
build up the blood on a normal basis by natural diet and

to put the organs of elimination in good working order by
natural methods of treatment. This is, indeed, the only
rational procedure and will always be followed by the best
results.
When under the influence of a rational diet the blood
has regained a more normal composition when mechan- ;
ical obstructions to the free flow of blood and nerve cur-

rents have been removed by manipulative treatment when ;
skin, kidneys, bowêls, nerves and nerve centers, in fact

every cell in the body has been vitalized into vigorous
activity by the various methods of natural treatment
then the cells themselves begin to eliminate their morbid
encumbrances. 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 diar-
rheas, catarrhal discharges, fevers, inflammations, skin
eruptions, boils, abscesses, etc.
Now the sponge is being squeezed and cleansed of its
impurities in a natural manner. The mucous membranes

of stomach and bowels are called upon to assist in the work
of house cleaning ; hence the coated tongue, lack of appe-
tite, digestive disturbances, nausea, biliousness, sour stom-
ach, fermentation, flatulency, and occasionally vomiting
and purging.
These digestive disturbances are always accompanied
by mental depression, "the blues", homesickness, irrita-
bility, fear, hopelessness, etc.
With the advent of these cleansing and healing crises
the physiological and psychological moment for fasting
has arrived. All the processes of assimilation are at a
standstill. The entire organism is eliminating.
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"We have learned that these healing crises usually arrive

during the sixth week of natural treatment.
To take food now would mean to force assimilation and
thereby to stop elimination and perchance to interfere
with or check a beneficial healing crisis.
Therefore we regard it as absolutely essential for the
patient to stop eating as soon as any form of acute elimina-
tion 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 subsided, whether this
requires a few days, a few weeks or a few months.
Some time ago we treated a severe case of typhoid
malaria. No food except water mixed with a little orange
or lemon juice passed the lips of the patient for seven
weeks. When all disease symptoms had disappeared we
allowed a few days for the rebuilding of the intestinal
mucous membranes. Thereafter food was administered
with the usual precautions. The patient gained rapidly
and within six weeks weighed more than before the fever.
A thorough discussion of the technique of fasting as
well as regimen for fasting and for breaking the fast,
suited to various constitutions and types of diseases, will
be found in Volume II.
Fear of Fasting Unfounded

The majorit)^ of those who undergo their first long fast
are most pleasantly surprised to find that the terrors of
"starvation" exist only in people's minds. It has hap-
pened that people stranded on barren islands or lost in
desert places or entombed in mines, even where they had
water, have died apparently from starvation in the course
of a week or two. It is now fully proved by thousands
who have fasted for long periods ranging from forty to
ninety days that death in such cases is not due to actual
starvation. The real cause must be fear and apprehen-
sion —proving again that the things we fear we materi-

alize.
We cannot reiterate too often that fear is a perversion

of the great law of faith. It is faith in evil. By submitting
to fear we give evil power over us. The most necessary
requirement therefore for a successful fast is the profound
conviction that it cannot harm us in any way but that on
the contrary it will prove of great benefit, physically, men-
tally and morally, because it not only will purify the body
but will strengthen will poAver and self control.
Self control the master key to hig"her attainment. There
is no other practice that has so desirable an effect upon
the highest and finest qualities of the soul as fasting under

the right conditions. It subdues the lower animal crav-
ings, appetites and passions. It proves to us that we can
master even the most primitive instinct of animal and
human nature. To attain such control is the very purpose
of being. Self mastery is the key to all higher develop-
ment, mentally, morally and spiritually. It is the only
key to mastership. This is the gist of the teachings of all
the saviors of mankind and of the wise men of all the ages.
It is the sum and substance of science, philosophy and
religion.
Nature Cure philosophy of natural living in strict accord
with Nature 's laws is for this reason the only true and safe
foundation for all higher development. "While he who has
not mastered completely his physical habits of living may
claim high mental and spiritual development, these great
attainments will not save him from physical and conse-
quent mental and moral shipwreck if he persists in violat-
ing Nature's laws on the physical plane. Time and again
I have seen people of high attainments who had become
spiritual giants and a source of inspiration to thousands
of hungering souls suffer mental and moral shipwreck
before their work was finished, thus cutting short the most
FASTING 331
brilliant careers and consigning to oblivion great con-

structive movements which, might have blessed humanity
for ages to come. All because they attempted to master
spiritual and psychical conditions before they had learned
to conquer the physical.
The most brilliant woman I have ever known, a woman
whose writings were epoch making in the realms of science
and philosophy, had many a friendly tilt with me over my
"radical ideas". She contended that a little meat and
coffee did not hurt anybody but were necessary in order
to maintain a positive condition of body and mind, and that
allopathic drugs had their good as well as bad effects.
The result of her "positive" diet and of the poisonous
heart tonics which she was in the habit of taking in order
to suppress symptoms of uric acid poisoning, brought
about a total collapse at a time of life when her work had
just attained its highest degree of usefulness to humanity.
Through pathogenic clogging and the benumbing effects
of long continued drug poisoning her system failed to
react to further stimulation and she passed away after a
few days' coma. There was no reason why, under natural
living and treatment, her life should not have been doubled
in years.
Strict compliance with the natural laws of living means
much more than the curing of physical pains or frazzled
nerves. It is the foundation for all higher development on
the mental, moral and spiritual planes. He who has not
learned to control his physical habits will never attain
mastership on the intellectual, moral or spiritual planes of
being. Those who have attained perfect control on the
physical plane find the way clear and easy to higher attain-
ment. It is a fact we see continually verified in e\ ery day
experience that most people find it more easy to exert
necessary self control in moral matters than in their com-
mon, every day habits of life.
CHAPTER XXVIII
WHAT IS POSITIVE, WHAT IS NEGATIVE?
EVERYWHERE in the literature of today and in the

social vernacular we meet with the expressions "pos-
itive" and "negative". Science speaks of positive and
negative substances, forces and energies. We hear of
positive and negative personalities and traits of character.
—
Nature Cure philosophy claims that all disease physical,
—
mental, moral, spiritual and psychical is originally nega-
tive, and that health on all planes of being is positive. Let
us see, then, whether we can define what constitutes posi-
tivity and negativity.
As regards substances, science divides the atoms of
matter and their corresponding elements into positive and
negative, according to their electromagnetic qualities. In
lectures I have frequently been asked the question : "How
do you know whether a substance is positive or negative?"
It is a relative proposition, very much as with heat and
cold. Nobody can fix the dividing line where cold ceases
and heat begins. The scales of heat and cold on the vari-
ous kinds of thermometers are based on arbitrary starting
points and standards. So, also, is the positivity and nega-
tivity of atoms a relative proposition.
For instance, if we arrange the elements of matter found
in animal and human bodies and in the foods which they
require in such a manner that the negative elements, car-
bon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur,
fluorin, chlorin, and iodin are placed to the left of hydro-
gen, and the positive elements, iron, lime, sodium, potas-
sium, manganese, magnesium and lithium, on the right of
332
WHAT IS POSITIVE, WHAT IS NEGATIVE? 333
hydrogen, then we find that hydrogen is positive to the

negative elements on its left but negative to the positive
alkaline mineral elements on the right.
For, while hydrogen is the positive and dominating ele-
ment in negative substances like acids, ptomains, alkaloids,

xanthins, etc. it has to relinquish its dominating position
at the approach of a positive alkaline mineral element.

The latter will take its place and change the negative acid
or xanthin into a new substance, a neutral salt. Both

kinds of elements display varying degrees of positivity
and negativity among themselves.
However, there are certain tests by which positive and
negative polarity can be determined. The positive pole
of a magnet attracts negative elements and repels the posi-
tive. In similar manner can the polarity of substances be
determined by electrolysis. Positive substances will gravi-
tate towards the negative pole, and vice versa.
The law of polarity is one of the fundamental laws, if
not the fundamental law, of Nature. On it are based the
constitution and vital activities of this universe. Accord-
ing to this basic law of Nature every entity seeks vibratory
correspondence or union in or with another like entity of
opposite polarity.
In harmony with this law, electromagnetically positive
atoms are attracted to and seek vibratory union with nega-
tive atoms, and vice versa. This attraction which mani-
fests in the mineral kingdom as electromagnetic affinity,
appears in the vegetable kingdom in the rudiments of sex
life. Separation of the sexes becomes physically complete
in the animal kingdom. On the human plane, sex influ-
ence manifests in and modifies the mental, ethical, moral
and spiritual qualities as well as the purely physical char-
acteristics. Thus the law of polarity or the law of sex
runs all through Nature, from the affinities and repulsions
of atoms to the subtle sympathies and antipathies, affini-
ties or"^Vahlverwandtschaften" of the most highly de-

veloped and cultured human beings.
What Are Electricity and Magnetism?
This question could be answered by saying, "Every-

thing is electricity". One modern scientist never tires of
saying, "There is nothing but electrons" — and electrons
are negative particles or charges of electricity.
A few thousand years ago Pythagoras and many other
wise men and mystics of antiquity claimed that "all mat-
ter is made up of three elements, substance (the one
primordial substance), motion and numbers". Now, ad-
vanced modern science seems to verify the teachings of the
ancient wise men.
The discovery and the study of the X-rays, of radium
and radioactivity has revealed the fact that the atoms of
all the different kinds of matter are made up of negative
charges or particles of electricity, called electrons or cor-
puscles, which revolve around one another without ever
touching as the planets in the starry heavens swing around
their central suns. These electrical whirls or vortices tear
through the ether (primordial substance) like the cen-
tripetal force of the eddy tears through the water.
Furthermore, it has been found that the number of the
particles of negative electricity (electrons) vibrating in
the atom determine the physical qualities of the atom or
element. In other words, whether an atom or element
impresses our sensory organs with the physical properties
of iron, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen or of any one of the
other elements of matter depends upon the number of
electrons in theatom and their modes of vibration.
It has been found that the number of electrons or cor-
puscles in the atom determine its atomic weight. Science,
in its wonderful achievement, has gone so far as to count,
approximately, the number of electrons in the atoms — at

least in the lighter ones.
The electrons, or negative charges of electricity in the
atom, are accompanied or surrounded by spheres of posi-
tive electricity.
Thus we find the teachings of the ancient wise men and
mystics verified by the discoveries of modern science. The
"primordial substance" of Pythagoras is the ether in vari-
ous stages of refinement. "Motion" is the oscillation or
vibration of the electrons in the atom, and "numbers" is
the number of electrons or corpuscles which make up the
atom of matter.
Science teaches that the electromagnetically negative
atom has more (negative) corpuscles than are necessary
to balance its positive electricity, and that the electro-
magnetically positive atom has fewer negative corpuscles
than are needed to balance its positive sphere of elec-
tricity. It is this deficiency or superfluity of negative cor-
puscles which constitutes positive and negative magne-
tism or polarity, which causes the desire of the negative
atom by union with a positive atom.
to equalize its polarity
This what constitutes the chemical affinity or valency
is
—
combining power of the various atoms or elements of
matter. The greater the surplus of negative corpuscles in
an atom, the greater will be its desire or chemical affinity
for atoms having adeficiencyof negative electrons orwhich
are, in other words, surcharged with positive electricity.
Therefore, according to the predominance of the positive
or negative qualities in force, matter or entity, we speak
of them as positive or negative. We learn from the fore-
going that the law of polarity is fundamental in Nature.
On the activities which it provokes and regulates is built
the entire structure of the universe. The cessation of these
second would cause the uni-
activities for the fraction of a
verse to disappear into nothingness in a flash.
Polarity of Substance
From the foregoing it becomes apparent that a sub-

stance is positive or negative according to the electro-
magnetic quality of the elements of w^hich it is composed.
Thus we speak of wheat as being a negative food because
it contains very large amounts of negative food elements
in the forms of starch, dextrin, sugar, fat and protein,

.
while it ranks exceedingly low in positive mineral ele-

ments (Vols. II and III, tables of food analysis and
"Dietetics in a Nutshell.")
On the other hand we speak of spinach as being a posi-
tive food because it contains only negligible amounts of
starch, protein and sugar, but large amounts of positive
mineral elements.
Polarity and the Life Elements
However, the positivity or negativity of substances as

well as of forces and energies is influenced by another
factor of equal importance. This second factor is the life

element which dominates the substance, force or energy
in question. In every higher sphere matter is made to
vibrate to higher velocities and is moulded into compounds
of greater refinement and of increasing complexity. The
higher the degree of complexity, refinement and vibratory
activity of a compound or substance, the greater its poten-
tial energy.
Four distinct life elements or ranges of vibratory activ-
ity control the four great kingdoms of Nature. The lowest
plane under the domination of the electromagnetic life
is
element; the next higher, or vegetable kingdom, is con-

trolled by the vitochemical life element; the still higher
animal kingdom is animated by the spiritual or animal life
element, and the highest, or human plane, by the soul life
element.
On the lowest plane the electromagnetic life element

binds together the elements into the simple inorganic com-
pounds of the mineral plane. The vibrations of this plane
are the slowest and its substances are the coarsest in our
planetary universe.
In the vegetable kingdom the vitochemical life element
by the aid of sun energy builds up the elements and com-
pounds of air, water and minerals into the refined and
complex living molecules of organic vegetable matter.
While the compounds of the mineral kingdom are crys-
talloid in structure, the substances of the vegetable king-
dom are colloid or amorphous (without form) in structure.
It is well to remember this distinction in order to be able
to judge whether foods or medicines belong to the mineral
or the vegetable kingdom. For instance, water belongs
to the mineral kingdom as proved by the fact that it crys-
tallizes in the form of snow and ice.
However, here a vital distinction becomes necessary.
Most chemists look upon carbon compounds as organic
and alive and as belonging to the vegetable kingdom.
Prof. Bechamp, the discoverer of microzyma, has shat-
tered this scientific error also. He pointed out that carbon
compounds are not alive and do not belong to the vegetable
kingdom as long as they are not the product of living
microzyma. This constituted the difference between ordi-
nary calcareous rocks unable to produce fermentation and
'
the calcareous rock of the ' *
chalk of Sens ' capable of pro-
ducing fermentation. The term "organic" for carbon
compounds belonging to the mineral kingdom is therefore
inappropriate. The term should be applied only to sub-
stances that are alive, have organs and are capable of using
organs. All such things are alive by virtue of their micro-
zyma. In these discussions I have not deviated from com-
mon usage in the employment of the term "organic" but
truly living beings I have called organized or alive in
distinctionfrom the lifeless carbon compounds of the min-

eral kingdom. As, for instance, white sugar may be called
by chemists "organic" but it is no longer alive, while
the natural product of the maple, cane and beet, is live
food in the true sense of the word. The dead product of
the refineries is crystalloid in form, while live, unrefined
sugar is amorphous.
The spiritual life element governing the animal king-
dom seizes upon the living matter of the vegetable plane
and refines, organizes and vivifies it to still higher poten-
cies of vital force and creative energy.
The life principle governing the animal kingdom has
been called the spiritual life element because it manifests
in the phenomena of consciousness, animal intelligence and
volition.
The life element dominating the human kingdom has
been called the soul life element because it manifests in
the human entity as self consciousness which differs from
animal consciousness in that it is capable of reasoning and
philosophizing upon its own nature, origin and destiny,
of which the animal is incapable. The intellectual and
volitional capacity of the animal is limited and circum-
scribed by heredity and instinct.
Materialistic science would make us believe that animal
instinct is altogether the product of adventitious influences,
of the struggle for nutrition in an hostile environment, of
the struggle for reproduction, etc. This, however, is un-
thinkable on the face of it. If that were true, then the
various individuals of the same species or family of animals
would not display that marvelous uniformity and identity
of structure and of instinctive impulse. There would be as
many different shades and degrees of physical, intellec-
tual and volitional qualities and tendencies as there are
individuals according to the varying conditions of hostile
environment, of struggle for nutrition, reproduction, etc.
We find, however, that marvelous as is the instinctive rec-

ognition and application of social, mathematical and geo-
metrical principles revealed in the doings of the bee and
the ant, their intellectual and social activities are the same
today as they were thousands of years ago. They must be
fixed and regulated by something more stable than the
struggle for existence, for nutrition and reproduction in
an hostile environment,and this something is the spiritual
life element which manifests in animal intelligence and
instinct.
On the other hand we find that human intelligence is
not hampered by heredity and instinct but is capable of
infinite development and expansion until it has assimilated
all there is and experienced in the sidereal
to be learned
universe. We
cannot imagine limitations of the possibili-
ties of growth and expansion of the human mind and soul
anywhere this side of the Godhead itself.
To recapitulate The four great kingdoms of earth life
:
are animated and governed by four distinct life elements

which are equivalent to progressively higher, more refined
and more potent ranges of vibratory activity. Increase of
vibratory activity means increase of potential and kinetic
or working energy. The building of atoms into molecules
involves the absorption of the energy which builds, into
that which it is building therefore every additional atom
;
in the molecule means additional inherent potential en-

ergy.
Every higher kingdom of Nature in addition to its own
lifeelements is animated by the qualities of the life ele-
ments governing the lower kingdom. Thus the vegetable
kingdom in addition to the vitochemical life element is
animated by the electromagnetic life element of the min-
eral kingdom, etc.
While as yet on this we have become
earth plane
acquainted with only four kingdoms of Nature and their
corresponding life elements, I do not believe these consti-

tute the entire range of vibratory planes or of life and
action. In accordance with the septimal law we may
expect three higher kingdoms of Nature or of life and
action in this planetary universe.
Possibly these are the
astral, spiritual —
and celestial spheres of life or whatever
the names by which they may be designated.
The ascending life elements, or progressive manifesta-
tions of vital force, resemble the power of steam at differ-
ent degrees of tension. Steam at ten pounds of pressure
may be sufficient to run a churn or grindstone but it would
not be powerful enough to run a harvester or a traction
engine. Steam at one hundred pounds' pressure can per-
form a much greater amount and variety of work than
steam at fifty pounds' pressure. In similar manner, each
higher expression of vital force exhibits more powerful
potential and kinetic energy and produces substances of
greater refinement and complexity than a lower one. The
greater the tension of steam, the greater its capacity for
work the higher the vibratory tension of the life element,
;
the more potent, complex and refined its manifestations

and products.
This is illustrated in the formation of ice. The *'cold"
which solidifies the molecules of water is absorbed and
becomes latent in the icy crystals which it builds. When
the particles of ice disintegrate under the influence of
"heat", cold is liberated. In similar manner the ''heat"
which gives warmth and comfort to our homes is sun
warmth which was absorbed in the formation of vege-
table cells in the growing plants and trees of primeval
jungles and forests. Coal, though classed among the min-
erals, possesses infinitely greater heat producing qualities
than other minerals because originally its elements were
elaborated under the vibratory influence of the vitochem-
ical or vegetable life element. The latter element ranges
much higher in the scale of vibratory activities than does

the electromagnetic life element which elaborates and con-
trols the simple compounds and crystals of the mineral

kingdom.
The animal cell being synthesized under the operation
of the spiritual or animal life element, is alive with still
higher potencies of vital force than those in the vegetable
cell. It is for this reason that animal food substances con-
tain something that is not present in vegetable protoplasm,
namely, the animal life element or animal magnetism. This

aspect of the food question is overlooked by our friends,
the simon pure vegetarians or advocates of raw food diet
who exclude from their dietary even the dairy products.
However, in order to receive the benefits of the animal
life element or animal magentism in our diet, we do not
need to consume animal flesh with its systemic poisons and

alkaloids of putrefaction. This subtle but potent life prin-
ciple which is absent in the products of the vegetable king-
dom is presented to us in the most refined form, unim-
paired by cooking, in the dairy products because Nature
has refined milk, eggs and honey and charged them with
the highest potencies of animal magnetism to serve as food
for the newborn animal and human.
It is interesting to note that the "newly" discovered
vitamines of orthodox medical science are identical with
the life elements of Nature Cure philosophy. In fact the
word "vitamine" is a literal translation of "life element".
I predict that one of the next great "new" discoveries of
medical science will be the fact that the positive mineral
elements are the carriers of the life elements in the lower
kingdoms of Nature. The life elements in the mineral
and vegetable kingdoms are vital force transformed into
electromagnetic and vitochemical or physiochemieal ener-
gies. Positive mineral elements are good conductors neg- ;
ative elements are poor conductors for these electro mag-

netic energies. We
cannot conduct electricity over ropes
made of starchy or protein matter: this requires wires
made of metals. Science now admits that nervous energy
in a form of electromagnetic energy. This explains the
great importance of the mineral elements as carriers and
conductors of the vital or nervous energies in animal and
human bodies.
Sexual Polarity
As already explained, the principles of positivity and

negativity affect sexual, mental, emotional and psychical
activities as well as the qualities of so called inanimate
substances, forces, and energies. In sex life, the positive
male qualities manifest as creative power, initiative, self
reliance, aggressiveness and love of material and intellec-
tual domination. The corresponding faults are coarseness,
self indulgence, obstinacy and intellectual vanity.
The predominating negative qualities of the female sex
nature are intuitional, emotional, passive, conservative,
and pacific. The corresponding faults are excessive emo-
tionalism, deceitfulness and personal vanity.
The mental and emotional activities under the headings
of positive and negative, arrange themselves somewhat as
follows
Mental and Emotional Polarity
Positive Negative
Will power Indecision
Self-control Vacillation
Self-reliance Self-indulgence
Courage Diffidence
Aggressiveness Laziness
t
Initiative Fear
Confidence Worry
Faith Anxiety
Cheerfulness Apprehension
Positive Negative
Creativeness Hatred
Happiness Jealousy
Love Selfishness
Helpfulness Depression
Altruism Melancholy
Self-pity
Psychical Polarity
Considered from the psychical viewpoint, positivity

means predominance of reason, will power and self-control
—
over the emotions, appetites and passions independence
and poise of character. These positive qualities are the
best safeguards against psychical negativity or subjectiv-
ity which may lead to hypnotic subjection, mediumship,
obsession and possession and their various manifestations
of abnormal psychism. These are fully described in ''Na-
ture Cure Eugenics", the third volume in this series.
Vol. 1—23.
CHAPTER XXIX
HEALTH IS POSITIVE, DISEASE NEGATIVE
order to prove the truth of this proposition we

IN
must study the workings of the law of polarity in the
lower kingdoms, insofar as these are concerned in the pro-
duction of wholesome foods and medicines and of harmful
substances and destructive poisons. Chemical science
so far has discovered in animal and human bodies and
likewise in the foods which feed and sustain them, seven-
teen elements in appreciable quantities. These seventeen
elements must be present in animal and human bodies
and consequently in their food supplies in well balanced
and sufficient quantities to fill all their requirements and
thus to insure healthy tissue and normal function.
If some of these elements are present in overabundance
and if others are deficient or entirely lacking in food and
drink, then the chemical balance of the organism and its
functions will be disturbed and abnormal function or

disease will, sooner or later, be the inevitable result.
Let us now study more closely the chemical processes
which determine health or disease. Practically all
diseases arising in animal and human bodies, always bar-
ring accidents and surroundings uncongenial to life and
health, are caused ultimately by the deleterious or
destructive action of certain acids, ptomains, alkaloids,
xanthins or other pathogenic substances and toxins.
These disease producing chemical substances to which
we refer collectively as pathogen are made up of hydrogen
in combination with negative elements. If food and
drink consist almost entirely of these negative, pathogen
344
HEALTH IS POSITIVE, DISEASE NEGATIVE 345
producing elements, then in time abnormal or diseased

conditions must develop.
The foods most highly valued by the medical profes-
sion and the laity for their "nourishing" qualities, namely
proteins, dextrins, starches, fats and sugars are, when
chemically pure, made up of hydrogen in combination
with negative, acid forming elements. These are carbon,
oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur.
Hydrogen is the basic element in all acids. Oxygen is
found in practically all acids, ptomains, xanthins and col-
loids. These two basic elements are reinforced in patho-
genic (disease producing) substances by more or less of
carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorin, fluorin,
iodin and other negative elements found in foods, medi-
cines and tonics. Carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen are the
basic elements in all toxic substances in the body.
This explains why the customary American meat-white-
bread-potato-pie-and-coffee diet, unbalanced by organic
mineral salt foods, must in time produce abnormal condi-
tions in the tissues and functions of the human body. In
Chapter VI of the "Nature Cure Cook Book and ABC
of Natural Dietetics" I have quoted a selection of disease
producing acids, ptomains, xanthins, colloids and toxins.
It will be seen that not one of these contains a single posi-
tive element. Nor have I been able to find one in any
other of these negative, pathogenic substances.
Naturally the question arises, how can we prevent the
formation of these negative, disease producing substances?
The answer to this is now self evident namely, by provid-
;
ing in foods and medicines sufficient amounts of positive,

alkaline, mineral elements in the live, organic form. If
this is taken into consideration and properly attended
to then the positive mineral elements will, through chemi-
cal affinity, unite with the negative atoms and molecules
and thus produce chemically balanced combinations
which are not injurious but rather beneficial in the vital

economy of the body.
Physiological science now admits that all cell waste is
chemically acid and that it must be neutralized by alkaline
elements as quickly as it is formed in order to prevent the
accumulation of morbid waste products. Thus the salts
eliminated through the kidneys and skin are neutralized
acids. When through the excessive intake of negative
I n in
CELL ClLLSUDSTAm ACID WASTE
UUTMTION PK0T0PLA5M PRODUCTS
CArbdWydrA-tes-C OH CArbonic"
(StArches.dextrmej
Lactic—— -QUA
Oxalic
Dl6.cetic— -QUA
Butyric —
Nitric- -H(NQ)
Hyd roc<^rbons-COH
(JdXt And oils)
'
Nitrous •H(NOJ
Uric - CnRQ
Glycoholic-CM„MQ
Bilivirdinic— CA^Q
]ndol2LSk<^tol-C.M,M
Proleids COMN?S
(rie.di.tiih.fowl eggs,
Phosphoric WO)
,
Phosphoroa5-h,(PQ^
cheese.nuls, Debris. pciiS,
lentils .mushrooms. etc. Sulpnurio- —
liLlSQJ
Sulphurous— tUSQ^
Hydrochloric-HCl
foods and the subsequent excessive production and neutral-

ization of acids, more salts are formed than can be elim-
inated by the organs of depuration, then these salts also
form morbid deposits and become pathogenic substances
in rheumatic joints, in calculi, ''hardened" arteries and
HEALTH IS POSITIVE, DISEASE NEGATIVR 347
obstructed capillaries. The "new discoveries" of ortho-

dox science confirm my claim that originally all disease is
negative or acid. They also verify the fundamental prin-
ciples of natural dietetics.
The diagram on page 346 illustrates the chemical
changes involved in cell nutrition and in the neutralization
and elimination of cell waste.
Column I. The three principal classes of cell foods are
IV V VI
POSTTIVL NtUTRALIZLD ^,,PT0HAIM5

ALKALINI WASTE PRODUCTS" TuKOMAINS
ELEH ENTS
Sodium G5Tbond;te-N6.t1(CQ Cj.d<werin~CM,J^
Iron fe llre<^ CO(NhJ^ Cholin-ai„Na
Cdlciuin oxd6fe-Go(CJiO^ ATny)(b.min-GM.N
Poldssium dcet<ste-K(C,t-1,Q;) GAdinin-GtiNQ
Linie Ca n6snesiumbutyrc\1erg(CH^Q teU\r\ QIbNQ
Sodium — Sodium nitrate— IMdOMQ) hydrocollidin-QIM
Nd Sodium nitrite Na(MO) Pulrescin-
Sodium urAte-NdCQUXQ) Neurin— CH.,NO
CMM*
Poldssium-K Iron9lycohoUe-re(ai„NQ Mydd:toxin-atU^lQ
Iron bilivirdiriAle-TeCQHNCS Guexnidin-GW,
Lithium — Li IndicAn saJt- —
K(QliMSQ») Gerontm-^QHjNL
Sodium phosphdde-]^Ji(PO PAr<j.x6aithmqn,NQ
Md<5nesLUTn^M8 Sodium phosphiie-Md^JiPQ* XdntKin-CsHXa
Calcium sulphdle— CdiSO^) Xc^nthocreîm^hiHO
M&nÂnese-'Mrj Calcium sulphite- CajSC^ ReducirvCUljNlA
Sodium chloride NaCI
1. —
Carbohydrates starches, dextrins and sugars. These
food substances, when chemically pure, contain car-
bon, oxygen and hydrogen.
2. —
Hydro-carbons fats and oils, when chemically pure,
contain carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.
348 • NATUEAL THEEAPEUTICS
3. Proteids —when chemically pure, contain carbon,

oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sul-
phur.
Column II. Shows the schematic outline of a cell with
its nucleus. The cell substance or protoplasm, when chem-
ically pure, contains the elements carbon, oxygen, hy-

drogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur. These corre-
spond to the elements contained in the cellfoods in
Column I.
Column III. Contains some of the most common forms
of cell waste. The cell protoplasm and its food materials
are broken down in the metabolic processes of cell life, of
digestion, nutrition and elimination into their component
atoms and molecules. These enter into new combinations,
for no atom or group of atoms will remain alone and
isolated if it has a chance to combine with other chemical
units the same as a normal human being will not remain
;
alone and separated from association with his fellow

beings if he can prevent it. Since acids are made up of
hydrogen plus electromagnetically negative elements, and
since pure protoplasm consists of hydrogen plus four or
five other negative acid forming elements, it follows that
all cell waste must be of an acid nature, or must consist of
other negative pathogenic materials such as ptomains,
leukomains, etc.
The acid waste products given in Column III are
cell
convertible into neutral salts, by combination with posi-
tive alkaline mineral elements, shown in Column IV. These
alkaline elements neutralize acids by replacing the hydro-
gen atoms, thus changing the harmful acids into neutral
salts.
A number of these salts, the products of acid neutraliza-
tionby alkaline elements, are given in Column V. For
is changed into sodium carbonate.
instance, carbonic acid
Urea is one of the normal end products of proteid and
carbohydrate metabolism. Sulphuric and sulphurous acids

are changed by combination with calcium into calcium sul-
phate or sulphide, etc.
Column VI. Contains morbid products of abnormal cell
and food metabolism which are constituents of what we
designate as pathogen.
These substances when they accumulate in the system in
excessive quantities may cause (in the form of leucocytes
and colloid matter) capillary obstruction, followed by in-
flammation and exudation of the pathogenic materials into
the neighboring tissues, resulting in putrefactive changes
as described in the chapters dealing with inflammation.
These morbid processes favor the development of normal
as well as abnormal microzyma into bacteria. The bac-
teria feed on and decompose the pathogenic materials
(leucocytes and colloids) into simple compounds, suitable
for neutralization by alkaline elements and for elimination
through the natural channels. When the pathogenic ma-
terials have been decomposed the bacteria are either elim-
inated from the system or the microzyma consume the
protoplasm of their own bacteria, leaving nothing but the
microzyma themselves. These under favorable conditions,
that is, morbid soil in their own or other
in a congenial
bodies, may
again develop into scavengers, or bacteria, as
science calls them. That this process under certain cir-
cumstances actually takes place is admitted by orthodox
science. They give the name "spores" to what Bechamp
called microzyma.
The foregoing- explains why healing become neces-
crises
sary when the pathogenic encumbrances in the body of a
'
"chronic ' contain excessive amounts of morbid substances
classified in Column VI.
The following quotation is taken from the Principles of '
'
Bacteriology" by A. C. Abbott, M. D., a standard work

used in many medical colleges, page 54:
". . . but as soon as these conditions (the life requirements

.
of the cell) become altered by the exhaustion of nourishment, the

presence of detrimental substances, unfavorable temperatures, etc.,
there appears in their life cycle the stage to which we have referred
as spore-formation. This is the process by which the organisms
are enabled to enter a state in which they resist deleterious in-
fluences to a much higher degree than is possible for them when
in the growing or vegetative condition.
"In the spore, resting, or permanent state, as it is variously
called, no evidence of life whatever is given by the spores; though
as soon as the conditions which favor their germination have been
renewed these spores develop again into the same kind of cells as
those from which they originated, and the appearances observed
in the vegetative or growing stage of their history are repeated.
"Multiplication of spores, as such, does not occur; they possess
the power of developing into individual rods of the same nature as
those from which they were formed, but not of giving rise to a
direct reproduction of spores.
"When the conditions which favor spore-formation are present,
the protoplasm of the vegetative cells is seen to undergo a change.
It loses its normal homogeneous appearance and becomes marked
by granular, refractive points of irregular size and shape. These
eventually coalesce, leaving the remainder of the cell clear and
transparent. When this coalescence of highly refractive particles
is complete the spore is perfected. In appearance the spore is oval
—
or round, and very highly refractive glistening. It is easily differ-
entiated from the remainder of the cell, which now consists only of
a cell-membrane and a clear, transparent space which surrounds the
spore. Eventually both the cell-membrane and its fluid contents
disappear, leaving the oval spore free; it then gives the impression
of being surrounded by a dark, sharply defined border. When thus
perfectly developed, the spore may be regarded as analogous to the
seeds of higher plants. Like the seed, it evinces no evidence of
life until placed under conditions favorable to germination, when
there develops from it a cell identical in all respects with that from
which it originated. Its tenacity of life, as in the case of seeds,
is almost unlimited. It may be kept in a dry state, and this has
actually been done, for years, without losing the power of germina-
tion. . . ."
The spores or microzyma herein described are of excep-

tionally large size. The microzyma of other cells or bac-
teria may be so minute that they escape observation
through the microscope.
Acid Diseases
The human body is made up of acid and alkaline con-

stituents: in order to have normal conditions and func-
HEALTH IS POSITIVE, DISEASE NEGATIVE 35I
tions of tissues and organs both must be present in the

right proportions. If either the acid or the alkaline
elements are present in excessive or insufficient quantities,
then abnormal conditions and functions, that is Disease,
will be the result.
Acidity and alkalinity undoubtedly play an important
part in the generation of electricity and magnetism in
the human organism. Every electric cell and battery
contains acid and alkaline elements ; and the human body
is a dynamo made up of innumerable minute electric cells
and batteries in the forms of living, protoplasmic cells
and organs.
It has been claimed that what we call ** vital force"
is Electricity and Magnetism and that these forms of
energy are manufactured in the human body. This, how-

ever, is but a partial statement of the truth. It is true
that vital force manifests in the body as electricity and
magnetism, but life or vital force itself is not generated
in the system.
Life is a primary force. It is the source of all activity
animating the universe. From this primary force other,
secondary forces are derived, such as electricity, magne-
tism, mental, emotional and nervous energy.
These secondary, derived forces and energies cannot be
changed back into vital force in the human organism.
Nothing can give life but LIFE itself.
When the physical body is dead, as we call it, the life
which left it is active in the spiritual body. It is inde-

pendent of the physical organism just as electricity is
independent of the incandescent bulb in which it mani-
fests as light.
After this digression we shall return to our study of
the cause and development of acid diseases. Nearly every
disease originating in the human body is due to or accom-
panied by the excessive formation of different kinds of
acids or other pathogenic substances in the system. These

are formed during the processes of protein and starch
digestion and in the waste products of cells and tissues.
Of these various waste products uric acid probably
causes the most trouble in the organism. The majority
of diseases arising within the human body are due to
its erratic behavior. Together with oxalic acid and oxy-
lates it is responsible for arteriosclerosis, arthritic rheu-
matism and the formation of calculi. Their presence in
excessive quantities aggravates all other forms of
disease.
Dr. Haig of London has done excellent work in the inves-
tigation of uric acid poisoning, but he becomes onesided
when he makes it the scapegoat for all disease conditions
originating in the organism. In his philosophy of disease
he take into consideration the effects of other acids
fails to
and systemic poisons. For instance, he does not mention
the fact that carbonic acid is produced in the system some-
what similarly to the formation of coal gas in the fur-
nace; and that its accumulation prevents the entrance of
oxygen into the cells and tissues, thus causing asphyxia-
tion or oxygen starvation, which manifests in the symp-
toms of anemia and tuberculosis.
Neither does Dr. Haig explain the effects of other de-
structive byproducts formed during the digestion of
starches and proteins. Sulphurous acid and sulphuric
acid (vitriol) as well as phosphorus and phosphoric acids
actually burn up the tissues of the body. They destroy
the cellulosemembranes which form the protecting skins
or envelopes of the cells, dissolve the protoplasm and allow
the latter to escape into the circulation. This, together
with pathogen obstruction, accounts for the symptoms
of Bright 's disease —the
breaking down of the cells and
the presence of (cell protoplasm) in blood and
albumen
urine, the clogging of the circulation, the consequent stag-
nation and the accumulation of blood serum (dropsy) and

the final breaking down of the tissues (necrosis) resulting
in open sores and ulcers.
Excess of phosphorus and the acids derived from it
overstimulate the brain and the nervous system, causing
nervousness, irritability, hysteria and the different forms
of mania.
An example of this is the ''distemper" of a horse when
given too much oats and not enough grass or hay. The
excess of phosphorus and phosphoric acids formed from
the protein materials of the grain, if not neutralized by
the alkaline minerals contained in grasses, hay or straw,
will overstimulate and irritate the nervous system of the
animal and cause it to become nervous, irritable and
vicious. These symptoms disappear when the ration of
oats is decreased and when more fresh grass or hay is fed
in place of the grain. Hard working horses develop dis-
temper when their food contains over five percent total
protein. What about inactive humans consuming much
larger proportions of protein and starchy foods ?
Similar effects to those products upon the horse by an
excess of grains are caused in the human organism, espe-
cially in the sensitive nervous system of the child, by a
surplus of proteid foods, of meat, eggs, grains and pulses.
Still, when patients suffering from overstimulation of
the brain and nervous system consult the doctor, his ad-
vice in almost every instance is: "Your nerves iire weak
and overwrought. You need plenty of good, nourishing
food (broths, meat and eggs), a good tonic and rest."
The remedies prescribed by the doctor are the very things
which caused the trouble in the first place.
As stated before, uric acid is undoubtedly one of the
most common causes of disease and therefore deserves
especial attention. Through the study of its peculiar
behavior under different circumstances and influences the
cause, nature and development of all acid diseases will

become clearer.
Like urea, uric acid is one of the end products of proteid
digestion. It is formed in much smaller quantities than
urea, in proportion of about one to fifty, but the latter
being more soluble is more easily eliminated from the
system.
The principal ingredient in the formation of uric acid
is nitrogen, one of the six elements which enter into all
proteid or albuminous food materials, also called nitrog-
enous foods. Uric acid, as one of the byproducts of metab-
olism, is therefore always present in the blood and in
moderate quantities serves useful purposes in the economy
of the human and animal organism as do the other waste
materials. It becomes a source of irritation and cause
of disease only when it is present in the circulation or in
the tissues in excessive amounts.
How Uric Acid Is Precipitated
The potentially alkaline blood takes up uric acid, dis-

solves it and holds it in solution in the circulation until
it is neutralized, its salts carried to the organs of depura-

tion and eliminated in perspiration and urine. If, how-
ever, through the excessive use of nitrogenous foods or

through defective elimination, the amount of uric acid and
other waste products in the system is increased beyond a
certain limit, the blood loses its power to dissolve and neu-
tralize these substances and they form a sticky, gluelike
"colloid" substance which occludes or blocks up the
minute blood vessels (capillaries) so that the blood cannot
pass readily from the arterial system into the venous cir-
culation.
This interference with the free passing of the blood
increases in proportion to the distance from the heart,
because the farther from the heart the less force behind
the circulation. Therefore we find that slowing up of the

blood currents, whether due to uric acid occlusion or to
any other cause, is more pronounced in the surface of the
body and in the extremities than in the interior parts and
organs.
This occlusion of the surface circulation can be easily
observed and even estimated by a simple test. Press the
tip of the forefinger of one hand firmly on the back of the
other and then release it. A white spot will be formed
where the blood has receded from the surface because of
the pressure. Now observe how quickly or how slowly
the blood returns into this white patch.
Dr. Haig states that if the reflux of the blood take place
within two or three seconds the circulation is normal and
not obstructed by uric acid. If, however, the blood does
not return for four or more seconds it is a sign that the
capillary circulation is obstructed by colloid occlusion. In
this connection I would call attention to the fact that the
accumulation of carbonic acid in the cells and tissues and
the resulting oxygen starvation may produce similar in-
terference with the circulation and result in the same
symptoms (including the slow reflux of blood after pres-
sure) as those which Dr. Haig ascribes to the action of
uric acid alone.
When this obstruction of the circulation by uric or
carbonic acid or other pathogenic substances prevails
throughout the body, the blood pressure is too high in the
arterial blood vessels and in the interior organs, such as
heart, lungs, brain, etc., and too low in the surface, the
extremities and in the venous circulation. This gives rise
to the much dreaded high blood pressure.
The return flow of the blood to the heart through the
veins is sluggish and stagnant because the force from be-
hind, that is, the arterial blood pressure, is obstructed

by pathogen which clogs the minute capillaries that form
the connection or bridge between the arterial and the

venous systems.
Because of this interference with the normal circulation
and distribution of the blood, uric acid produces many-
annoying and deleterious effects. It irritates the nerves,
the mucous membranes and other tissues of the body,
thus giving rise to headaches, rheumatic pains in joints
and muscles, congestion of blood in the head, flushes, dizzi-
ness, depression, faintingand even epilepsy.
Other results of uric acid irritation are inflammatory
and catarrhal conditions of the bronchi, lungs, stomach,
intestines, genito-urinary organs; also rapid pulse, palpi-
tation of the heart, angina pectoris, etc.
These colloid substances occlude the minute ducts and
capillaries in liver, kidneys and other organs, interfering
with their normal functions and causing the retention of
morbid matter in the system.
All these troublesome and destructive effects of uric
acid poisoning may be greatly augmented by excessive
accumulation of sulphuric, phosphoric and other acids and
by the formation of ptomains, leukomains and poisonous
alkaloids incidental to the metabolism of protein sub-
stances.
The entiregroup of symptoms caused by the excess of
uric acid or pathogen in the system and the resulting occlu-
sion of the capillary blood vessels by colloid substances is
called coUemia.
If in such a condition of collemia the amount of uric
acid in the circulation is still further increased by the
taking of uric acid producing food and drink and the

saturation point of the blood is reached, that is, if the
blood becomes overcharged with acid materials, a curious
phenomenon may be observed the coUemic symptoms sud-
:
denly disappear as if by magic, giving way to a feeling of

pli3'sieal and mental buoyancy and strength.
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 precipitated,
thrown out of the circulation and deposited in the tissues
of the body.
After a period of rest, that is, when no uric acid and
xanthin producing foods have been taken for some time,
say over night, the blood regains its alkalinity and its
capacity for dissolving and carrying uric acid and begins
to reabsorb it from the tissues. As a consequence the
blood again becomes saturated with uric acid and the
collemic symptoms reappear.
This explains why the hilariousness and exaltation of
spirits at the banquet is followed by "Katzenjammer" in
the morning. It also explains why many people do not
feel "fit for their day's work" unless they take a stimu-
lant of some kind, "a hair of the dog that bit them", on
arising. Their blood with pathogen to the point
is filled
of saturation and the extra amount of xanthins contained

in the meat, coffee or alcohol causes uric acid precipita-
tion, giving temporary stimulation and relief.
Every time this precipitation of uric acid from the cir-
culation is repeated some of the morbid materials remain
and accumulate in different parts and organs. If these
irritating substances become lodged in the joints and
muscles, arthritic or muscular rheumatism is the result.
If acids, xanthins and oxalates of lime form earthy de-
posits along the walls of arteries and veins, these vessels
harden and become inelastic and their diameter is dimin-
ished. This obstructs the free circulation of the blood
and causes malnutrition of the brain and other vital or-
gans. Furthermore, the blood vessels become brittle and
*This chapter appeared in the Nature Cure Magazine before the

publication of Powell's "Fundamentals and Eequirements of
Health."
358 NATUEAL THEKAPEUTICS
break easily and there is danger of hemorrhages. This

explains the origin and development of arteriosclerosis
(hardening of the arteries), high blood pressure and
apoplexy.
Apoplexy may also be caused by other acids and drug
poisons which soften, corrode and destroy (gummata) the
walls of the blood vessels in the brain.
In individuals of certain constitutions accumulations
of uric acid, xanthins, oxalates of lime and various other
earthy substances form stones, gravel or sandy deposits in
the kidneys, the gall bladder and in other parts and organs.
Thus Haig distinguishes two distinct stages of uric
acid diseases: the collemic stage,marked by an excess of
uric acid or pathogen in the circulation and resulting in
occlusion of the capillary blood vessels and in local irri-
tation and the arthritic stage, marked by permanent de^
;
posits of uric acid and other earthy substances in the tis-

sues of the body.
During the prevalence of the collemic symptoms, that
is, when the circulation is saturated with uric acid, the
urine is also highly acid. When precipitation of the acid
materials from the blood into the tissues has taken place
the amount of acid in the urine decreases materially.
have repeatedly stated that xanthins have the same
I
effect upon the system as uric acid. Caffein and theo-
bromin, the narcotic principals of coffee and tea, are xan-
thins and so is the nicotin contained in tobacco. Peas,
beans, lentils, mushrooms and peanuts, besides being very
rich in uric acid producing proteids, carry also large per-
centages of xanthins which are chemically almost identical
with uric acid and have a similar effect upon the organism
and its functions.
From what has been said it becomes clear why the meat
eater craves alcohol and xanthins in the form of coffee,
tea, etc. When by the taking of flesh foods the blood
has become saturated with uric acid and the annoying

symptoms of collemia make their appearance in the forms
of lassitude, headache, and nervous depression, then alco-
hol and the xanthins contained in coffee, tea and tobacco
will cause the precipitation of the acids from the circula-
tion into the tissues of the body and thus temporarily
relieve the collemic symptoms and create a feeling of well
being and stimulation.
Gradually, however, 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 collemia. Then arises a craving for more
alcohol, coffee, tea, nicotin, or xanthin producing foods
in order to again obtain temporary relief and stimulation,
and so on, ad infinitum.
The person addicted to the use of stimulants is never
himself. His mental, moral and emotional equilibrium is
always unbalanced. His brain is muddled with poisons
and he lacks the self-control, clear vision and steady hand
necessary for the achievement of success in any line of
endeavor.
We can now understand why one stimulant creates a
craving for another, why it is almost impossible to give up
one stimulant without giving up all others as well.
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 tempo-
rarily of uric acid or pathogen. Those who have read
this chapter carefully will know why this effect is decep-
tive and temporary and why it is followed by a return
of the collemic symptoms in aggravated form, and how
these are gradually changed into chronic pathogenic con-
ditions.
Not understanding the deceptive effects of artificial
stimulation and acid precipitation, your friends will say
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3(50 NATUEAL THEEAPEUTICS
to you, ''Why shouldn't I take a cup of coffee (a toddy or

a cigar, as the case may be ) when I know it does me good ?
'
In order to give a better idea of the various phases of

uric acid poisoning, I have used the following illustration
in some of my lectures
A man may carry a burden of fifty pounds on his shoul-
ders without difficulty or serious discomfort. Let this
correspond to the normal solving power and carrying
capacity of the blood for uric acid. Suppose you add grad-
ually to the burden on the man's back until its weight
has reached 150 pounds. He may still be able to carry

the burden, but as the weight increases he will begin to
show signs of distress. This increase of weight and the
attendant discomfort correspond to the increase of uric
acid in the blood and the accompanying symptoms of
collemia.
you increase the burden on the man's shoulders still
If
further, beyond his individual carrying capacity, a point
will be reached when he can no longer supportweight its
and he will throw it off entirely. This climax corresponds

to the saturation point of the blood when the limit of its
acid carrying capacity is exceeded and its acid contents
are precipitated into the tissues.
The Treatment of Acid Diseases
The treatment of acid diseases is the same as of all other

diseases that are due to violation of Nature's laws, namely,
purification of blood and tissues from within, and building
up (blood and lymph) on a natural
of the vital fluids
basis through normal habits of eating, dressing, bathing,
breathing, working, resting and thinking as outlined in
thisand other volumes of this series.
In severe cases which have reached the chronic stage,
the treatment must be supplemented by more aggressive
HEALTH IS POSITIVE, DISEASE NEGATIVE 3^1
methods of strict diet, hydrotherapy, curative gymnastics,

massage, neurotherapy and homeopathic medication.
The only permanent preventive for acid diseases is not to
take in excessive amounts of pathogen making food and
drink.
If we substitute the terms pathogen and pathogenic
for Dr. Haig's "uric acid," we have a still better picture
and a clearer understanding of the condition prevailing in
a human body saturated with colloid or mucoid matter in
the form of uric acid and other waste and morbid mate-
rials which accumulate in the system as the result of an
excessive intake of negative food materials (proteids,
starches and fats) and of normal cell and tissue waste.
The accumulation of these morbid byproducts of diges-
tionand of the metabolic changes in the system is further
increased through defective elimination.
The mucoid detritus clogs the capillaries and forms mor-
bid deposits in the system, especially in those parts and
organs whose vitality and resistance are already lowered.
Nature attempts to rid the system of these pathogenic
encumbrances through the mucous membranes of the in-
ternal tracts and cavities, thus giving rise to all kinds of
catarrhal troubles, but orthodox medical science with its
suppressive treatment of catarrhal conditions forces the
disease matter again into the system.
If through the chilling of the skin or for any other
reason an excessive amount of this mucoid matter is con-
centrated into a weakened organ the tiny capillaries be-
come clogged so that the blood cannot pass through. This
distends the capillaries, the pressure from behind forces
the mucoid matter and leucocytes from the blood vessels
into the neighboring tissues, thus developing inflam-
mation and fever wherever the mucoid obstruction
occurs.
The statements made in the preceding pages concern-
ing the disease producing effects of higli acidity on the sys-

tem have been repeatedly verified in our institutional prac-
tice and through special laboratory experiments conducted
by Dr. Jean du Plessis, a member of our staff.
Before proceeding to explain the nature of these experi-
ments, let us consider briefly the role performed by acids,
alkalines and salts in the human body.
During the chemical changes which occur in the cells
of the body and in the food while it is being digested or
metabolized, acid compounds are formed in considerable
quantities. The more the foods contain of negative ele-
ments, the greater the production of acids, ptomains, xan-
thins, etc. However, from the following it will become
evident that the system is strongly fortified against the
accumulation of these negative pathogenic substances.
The blood and lymph contain from two-tenths to three-
tenths percent of potential alkalies; hence all acids tend
to be neutralized into salts immediately upon their forma-
tion. These chemical reactions take place in conformity
with the following laws
When an acid combines with a base (one or more alka-
line elements) the positive alkaline element neutralizes
the acid and changes it into a salt. These salts are easily
eliminated through the kidneys and skin.
Should the potential alkalinity of the blood be insuffi-
cient to neutralize all the acids and other pathogenic sub-
stances, then kidneys and skin eliminate the acid products
as such in order to maintain a slight predominance of the
basic (alkaline) elements over the acids and other nega-
tive substances in the blood stream. The amount of acid
found in the urine during the twenty-four hours, therefore,
furnishes a reliable clue as to the amount of acid which
the system is unable to neutralize. The amount of salts
in the urine, on the other hand, indicates the amount of
acids which the system has succeeded in neutralizing.
Physicians, students and nurses employed in our insti-

tutions have submitted at different times to dietetic experi-
ments in order to practically demonstrate the foregoing
statements. When their urine showed a low state of acid-
ity as the result of a vegetarian low protein diet they were
given three consecutive meals rich in negative, acid form-
ing proteins, starches and fats, such as eggs, legumes,
bread, potatoes, butter, etc., with no additions of fruit
and leafy vegetables. In every instance the acidity of the
urine increased considerably during the next twenty-four
hours.
The ordinary mixed diet or a vegetarian diet like the
above, persisted in for a considerable length of time, inevi-
tably results in hyperacidity and this causes irritation and
in time destruction of cells and tissues. Nerve cells being
especially sensitive, are more readily affected than other
cells. This is the reason why hyperacidity causes nerv-
ousness, neurasthenia, neuritis and neuralgia. In this re-
lation some very important work has been done by Dr.
Crile of Cleveland, Ohio. The following illustration rep-
resents the results of some of his experiments
No. 1. Cell of a normal, healthy rabbit. Note clear

outline.
No. 2. Cell of rabbit after the ingestion of small doses of
dilute hydrochloric acid. Note pale, indistinct outlines
due to destructive irritation by acid.
No. 3. same amount of hy-

Cell of rabbit having taken
drochloric acid as No. 2, followed by an equivalent amount
of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). Compare No. 1
with No. 3 and note improvement due to neutralizing
action of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCOg).
No. 4. Cell of rabbit having undergone same test as No.
3, but instead of being killed right away was kept alive
and awake for thirty hours. No. 4 is as bad as No. 2,
showing the temporary effect of inorganic baking soda.
This proves our contention that the positive, alkaline
mineral elements in order to be congenial to cell life must
be taken in the live, organized form in the protoplasm of
and dairy products.
fruits, vegetables,
The individuals before mentioned, under the same en-
vironment, were again given the same kind and the same
amounts of food as previously described, but this time
fresh fruits and green vegetables were added to the high
protein diet; thereby the acidity was reduced more than
one-half during the next twenty-four hours.
After having been told of the neutralizing action of the
positive mineral elements found in fruits and vegetables,
our patients frequently answer: "If I take plenty of
fruits and vegetables with meat, eggs, white bread and
pastry the starches and proteids surely cannot hurt me,
because the alkaline elements in the fruits and vegetables
will neutralize the acids produced by the flesh foods, eggs
and pastry."
Experiments, however, prove that in each case where the
acidity was thus neutralized, invariably the amount of
solid, waste products was raised dangerously high. Vigor-
ous, healthy eliminating organs may be able to cope with
this extra work for some time. Sooner or later, however,
they are bound to give way under the strain and will then
fail to eliminate even the regular daily amount. The
urine, in such cases, shows a percentage of solids less
than normal, indicating the retention of these waste prod-

ucts in the system.
The autopsy of a well known Chicago physician and
surgeon who died in middle life when he should have been
at his best as far as professional efficiency is concerned,
showed deposits of urates and carbonate of sodium in the
heart muscles.
We see this further verified in the composition of stones,
gravel and earthy deposits in various parts of the body.
For instance, kidney and bladder stones are composed of
the following constituents, mentioned in the order of their
frequency
(1) uric acid and urates of sodium, potassium and
calcium
(2) phosphates of sodium and calcium;
(3) oxids of calcium
(4) carbonates of calcium;
(5) xanthins, cystin, indican, etc,
Nos. 1, 2 and 5 result from excessive protein food.

Nos. 3 and 4, from excess of starches, sugars and fats.
This means that these calculi are made up largely of

saltswhich are neutralized acids.
The only safe rule, therefore, as regards diet, is to limit
the consumption of starches, proteins and fats the patho- —
—
gen or mucous forming elements to the proportions and
amounts which science and experience has taught us to
be the normal.
Acidity During- Healing Crises
Another phenomenon of frequent occurrence during

healing crises also confirms our teachings concerning the
nature of acid diseases. During the first five weeks of
natural living and treatment the acidity is greatly reduced.
As a rule, from the beginning of the sixth week on, acute
eliminative crises develop in the forms of purgings, skin

eruptions, boils, acute catarrhal discharges, inflammations,
fevers, hemorrhoids, hemorrhages, etc.
"With the onset of these acute reactions we usually find
a considerable increase in the acidity of the urine. Fre-
quently it rises to 110° and even as high as 150°. Since
these patients for many weeks past have lived on a low
protein diet, in other words have not consumed acid form-
ing materials, there is but one explanation for the sudden
rise in acidity and other waste products in the urine. That
is, they must have come from the pathogenic deposits in
the tissues of the body.

This sudden increase of waste products in the urine and
other excretions of the body during healing crises also
confirms our claim that these acute reactions are indeed
purifying, healing efforts of Nature.
The Cause and Cure of High Blood Pressure

matter of frequent occurrence that patients come
It is a
to us whose urine registers 100° to 150° acidity. Such
abnormally high acidity is usually accompanied by high
blood pressure. As explained in the previous pages, there
is a direct relationshipbetween the two. Hyperacidity
means excessive amounts of colloid or mucoid matter in
the circulation. These obstruct the capillary circulation,
especially in the surface. This in turn makes the blood
surge back into the internal large blood vessels of the
heart, lungs and brain.
During the last few years high blood pressure has be-
come the bugbear of the medical profession and of life
insurance companies. Many years ago in my lectures and
in the first issues of the Nature Cure Magazine I called
attention to the prevalence of colloid obstruction and its
causes, and also explained the natural treatment. Life
insurance companies are losing many millions of dollars
of new business annually because they reject people on

account of high blood pressure. Thereby they admit that
their eminent medical advisers are unable to cope with
this simple problem.
Under natural living and treatment hyperacidity and
high blood pressure decrease with wonderful rapidity.
Many patients have come to us because examiners of life
insurance companies had rejected them on account of
arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and heart disease.
This, together with fear of apoplexy, induced them to
give natural methods a fair trial. We have taken many
such patients who registered a blood pressure of 250° or
more and reduced it to normal or near normal within
three to nine months time. They were then able to secure
life insurance without further difficulty.
One of the stock arguments most frequently met with

and patients is
in talking natural dietetics to our friends
the following
"There must be something wrong with your vegetarian
know men and women seventy or eighty
theory, because I
years old who have lived on the ordinary meat diet and
have used tea and coffee, tobacco and whisky all their
lives."
The obvious answer to this is that these fortunate ones
were born with excellent constitutions and good vitality.
Their organs of elimination happened to be strong enough
to throw off the food and drink poisons so that they did
not endanger life and health. But it so happens that few
of us are endowed with such excellent constitutions and
active organs of depuration ; therefore we cannot indulge
in reckless habits of living without suffering the penalty.
Because my neighbor can drink a quart of whisky every
day and consume a dozen cigars without showing any
immediate ill effects, it is not to be assumed that I can do
likewise with impunity.
Another common argument met with is that of the

Christian or Mental Scientist: "Why should I pay atten-
tion to rules of diet, since Nature in her great wisdom
transmutes foods in the system into substances most
needed and best adapted to the body?"
Anyone who has read carefully the preceding pages will
see that this is not scientific reasoning, but superficial
sophistry. Surely Nature will do the best she can to
maintain the integrity of the human organism to the very
limit of her resources. Nature Cure philosophy teaches
and emphasizes this over and over again. But there is
a limit to Nature's ability to neutralize injurious and toxic
substances. One thing is sure, she does not change her
immutable laws of chemical affinity to please the fancies
of Mental or Christian Scientists.
Arguments of Mental Scientists
If the reasoning of these ''Scientists" be true it should

hold good in the animal creation which is truly under the
guidance and control of Mother Nature. It is now posi-
tively proved that the terrible beri-beri disease results from
the prevalence of unpolished rice or white flour products in
the diet. Pigeons or other test animals fed for a few
months on white flour or polished rice develop symptoms
of the disease and die unless they are given in time small
quantities of the hulls of the grain or polishings of rice
which contain the positive mineral elements (and together
with these the vitamines, life elements) which neutralize
the poisonous acids and ptomains responsible for the
development of beri-beri, scorbut, rachitic diseases, etc.
A striking example of the disease producing effect of
a one sided starchy diet occurred a few years ago when
the Kronprinz Frederick, a German raider, surrendered
to the United States authorities at Newport News because
ninety percent of the crew were ill with a disease resem-
bling beri-beri.The explanation was that during the many

months of chasing and being chased on the high seas, they
were unable to make port anywhere and had been thereby
limited to a daily dietary of potatoes, rice, cereals, meat,
coffee,and cakes and bread made from white flour.
After medical treatment had utterly failed to bring
about any improvement in the condition of the men, a
dietary of fruits and vegetables brought speedy recovery.
As long as forty years ago scientists of the Nature Cure
school proved by actual experimentation that animals fed
on nothing but white sugar or pure starch (organic but
not live food) died sooner than those who received no
food at all.
If Christian Scientists by concentration on metaphysical
formulae can change the results of such experiments on
animals or human beings, then I shall gladly admit the
truth of their theories.
CHAPTER XXX
CONSERVATION OF VITALITY
IN Chapter Y I named as the first of the primary

manifestations of disease, lowered vitality.
What can we do to increase vitality 1 Old school physi-
cians and the public 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 tonics.
Everlastingly weak, sickly humanity cries out in de-
spair: "Oh, doctor, if you could only prescribe for me
some nourishing food or tonic to give me more strength,
then I would be all right!" Through all the ages alchem-
ists, doctors and scientists have been searching in vain for
the wonderful elixir which will rejuvenate the body, cure

all human and prolong human life indefinitely.
ills
Ever began to study the problems of health,

since I
disease and cure I have been convinced that we would
be able to cure all disease instantaneously if we could
increase the activity of vital energy sufficiently. All
disease is caused by something that interferes with, dimin-
ishes or disturbs the normal inflow and distribution of
vital energy throughout the system.
Acute disease represents a temporary increase in activ-
ity of the vital force in order to overcome obstructions
in the system caused by pathogenic conditions. Chronic
disease is permanent obstruction to the activity of vital
energy. In chronic and tissues of the
disease the cells
body are so heavily encumbered with waste, morbid mat-
ter and poisons that they cannot rouse themselves to acute
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CONSERVATION OF VITALITY 37I
healing efforts in the form of acute disease or healing

crises. In other words, acute disease is the battle between
the healing forces and the diseased condition. Cure means
the victory of the vital energies over pathogenic obstruc-
tion.
Vitality, physical and mental energy, power of resist-
ance and capacity for the enjoyment of life are various
forms and manifestations of vital energy, and these are
transmutations of vital force. The problem, then, before
us in the healing of disease as well as in maintaining the
highest possible efficiency and capacity for the enjojmient
of life, is to increase the inflow and distribution of life
force, which means "life more abundant".
This glorious consummation has been and always will
be doomed to failure as long as the medical profession
and the laity look for the source of vital energy in
"nourishing foods, strengthening tonics and stimulants".
These substances cannot give life because they are second-
ary manifestations of life. Secondary derived energies
—
cannot be transmuted back into life force the primary
source of all force. If this were possible we could, indeed,
prolong life indefinitely.
The relationship of the life force and its derivatives,
vitality, strengthand recuperative power, to foods, medi-
cines, drugs and stimulants has been described as follows
in the Nature Cure Cook Book and A. B. C. of Natural
Dietetics
This life force which flows into us from the one great
—
source of all life in this universe from that which we
call God, Nature, Creative Force or Universal Intelligence
—is the primary source of all energy, from which all other
forms and kinds of energy are derived.
It is as independent of the body and of food and drink
as the electric current is independent of the glass bulb
and the carbon thread through which it manifests as heat
and light. The breaking of the glass bulb, though it
extinguishes the light, does not in any way diminish the

amount of electricity back of it.
In a similar manner, if the physical body should "fall
dead", as we call it, the vital energy would keep on acting
with undiminished force through the spiritual material
body, which is the exact duplicate of the physical body
but whose material atoms and molecules are infinitely
more refined and vibrate at infinitely greater velocities
than do those of the latter.
This is not merely a matter of faith and of speculative
reasoning, but a demonstrated fact of natural science.
When St. Paul said (I Cor. 15:44) "If there is a natu-
ral body there is also a spiritual body" he stated an actual
fact in Nature.
Indeed, it would be impossible to conceive of the sur-
vival of the individual after death without a material
body which serves as the vehicle of consciousness, memory
and of the reasoning faculties and as an instrument for
physical functions. Without a body it would be impos-
sible for the soul to manifest itself to other souls or to
communicate with them.
Therefore, if survival of the individual after death be
a fact in Nature, and if the achievement of immortality
be a possibility, a spiritual material body is a necessity.
Someone may say, "If the life force is independent of
the physical body and of food and drink, why do we have
to eat and drink to keep alive?"
The answer is Food and drink are necessary to keep
:
the organism in the right condition, so that vital force

can manifest and operate through it to the best advantage.
To this end food is needed to build up and to repair the
tissues of the body. It also serves to a certain extent as
fuel material, which is transmuted into animal heat and
vital energy.
Furthermore, just as coal has to come in touch with
fire before it can be transmuted into heat, so the life force
is needed to "burn up" or to "explode" the fuel mate-
rials. When "life" has departed even large amounts of
sugars, fats, proteins, tonics and stimulants are not able
to produce one spark of vital energy in the body.
On the contrary, digestion and assimilation of food and
drink and elimination of waste materials require the ex-
CONSERVATION OF VITALITY 373
penditure of considerable amounts of vital energy. There-

fore all food taken in excess of the actual needs of the body
wastes vital force instead of giving it.
If these facts were more generally known and appre-
ciated people would not habitually overeat under the
mistaken idea that their vitality increases in proportion
to the amount of food they consume neither would they
;
believe that they can derive strength from poisonous stim-

ulants and tonics. They would not be so much afraid of
fasting. They would better understand the necessity
of fasting in acute diseases and healing crises and would
avail themselves more frequently of this most effective
means of purification. They would no longer believe them-
selves in danger of dying if they were to miss a few meals.
Briefly stated, all that food and drink can do is to keep

the body in normal, healthy condition. On this depends
the flow of life force into the body and its free distribu-
tion by way of the nervous system to the various organs

and to every individual cell.
Anything and everything in natural methods of living
and of treatment that will help to build up the blood on
a normal basis, that will purify the system of waste and
morbid matter, that will correct mechanical lesions and
harmonize mental and emotional conditions will insure a
greater supply of life force and its derivatives, strength,
vitality, resisting and recuperative power. In other words,
the more normal, healthy and perfect the organism, the
more copious will be the inflow of vital energy.
Never before in any writings dealing with dietetics or
food chemistry has there been revealed the true relation-
ship between the life force and food, medicines, tonics and
stimulants.
All the different schools, systems and cults of healing
deal only in a partial way with the problem of vital force.
Some confine their efforts to dietetic measures, others to
the administration of drugs and to surgical treatment.
The hydropath stimulates the flow of vital fluids and nerve
currents through hot and cold water applications. Manip-

ulative schools of healing endeavor to facilitate the dis-
tribution of vital energy through the system by correcting
mechanical lesions in the bony structures, ligaments,
muscles and connective tissues. Mental scientists, Chris-
tian scientists and spiritual healers confine their efforts to
establishing the right mental and spiritual attitudes. All
these and other systems of treating human ailments deal
only vrith one or several phases of the problem.
The only system so far devised that endeavors to com-
bine and apply all that is good in natural healing methods
is Natural Therapeutics. It draws the line only at the em-
ployment of destructive methods such as the use of poison-

ous drugs, promiscuous, uncalled for surgical operations,
hypnotism and mental therapeutics based on erroneous
and misleading premises.
Ignorance of the simple truths before explained leads
to the most serious mistakes. 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 it.
The Romans had a proverb: "Plenus venter non studet
—
libenter" "a full stomach does not like to study". The
most wholesome food if taken in excess will clog the
system with waste matter just as too much coal will
dampen and extinguish the fire in the furnace.
Furthermore, the morbid materials and systemic poisons
produced by impure, unsuitable or improperly combined
foods clog the cells and tissues of the body, cause unneces-
sary friction and obstruct the inflow and the operations
of the vital energies, just as dust in a watch clogs and
impedes the movements of its mechanism.
The greatest artist living cannot draw harmonious
sounds from the strings of the finest Stradivarius if the
body of the violin be filled with dust and rubbish. Like-
wise, the life force cannot act perfectly in a body filled

with morbid encumbrances.
The human organism is capable of liberating and mani-
festing daily a limited quantity of vital force, just as a
certain amount of capital in the bank will yield a specified
sum of interest in a given time. K more than the avail-
able interest be withdrawn the capital in the bank will
be decreased and gradually exhausted.
Similarly, if we spend more than our daily allowance
of vital force, "nervous bankruptcy", that is nervous
prostration or neurasthenia, will be the result.
It is the duty of the physician to regulate the expendi-
ture of vital force according to the income. He must stop
all leaks and guard against wastefulness.
Stimulation by Paralysis
This heading may seem paradoxical but it is borne out

by Stimulants are poison to the system. Few people
fact.
realize that their exhilarating and apparently tonic effects
are produced by the paralysis of an important part of
the nervous system.
As we have wholesome food and drink in them-
learned,
selves do not contain and therefore cannot convey life
force to the human body. Much less can this be accom-
plished by stimulants.
The human body has many points of correspondence
with a watch. Each has a motor or driving mechanism
and an inhibitory or restraining apparatus.
If it were not for the inhibiting balances, the wound
watchspring would run off and spend its force in a few
moments. The expenditure of the latent force in the
wound spring must be regulated by the inhibitory and
balancing mechanism of the timepiece.
Similarly, the nervous system in the animal and
human organism consists of two main divisions: the
Vol. 1—25.
"motor" or driving and the "inhibitory" or restraining

mechanism.
The driving power is furnished by the sjrmpathetic
nerves and the motor nerves. They convey the vital ener-
gies and nerve impulses to the cells and organs of the
body, thus initiating and regulating their activities.
We have found that the human body is capable of
liberating in a given time, say in twenty four hours, only
a certain limited amount of vital energy, just as the wound
spring of a watch is capable of liberating in a given time
only a certain amount of kinetic energy.
As in the watch the force of the spring is controlled by
the regulating balances (the anchor), so in the body the
expenditure of vital energy must be regulated in such a
manner that it is evenly distributed over the entire run-
ning time. This is accomplished by the inhibitory nervous
system.
Every motor nerve must be balanced by an inhibitory
nerve. The one furnishes driving force, the other applies
the brake. For instance, the heart muscle is supplied with
motor force through the spinal nerves from the upper
dorsal region, while the pneumogastric nerve retards the
action of the heart and in that way acts as a brake.
Another brake is supplied by the waste products of
metabolism in the system, the uric acid, carbonic acid,
oxalic acid, etc. and the many forms of xanthins, alka-
loids and ptomains which make pathogen. As these accu-
mulate in the organism during the hours of wakeful activ-
ity they gradually clog the capillary circulation, benumb
brain and nerves, and thus produce a feeling of exhaustion
and weariness and a craving for rest and sleep.
In this way, by means of the inhibitory nervous system
and the accumulating fatigue products in the body. Nature
forces the organism to rest and to recuperate when the
available supply of vital force runs low. The lower the
CONSEEVATION OF VITALITY 377
level of vital force, the more powerful will become the

inhibitory influences.
Furthermore, stimulants benumb and paralyze tempo-
rarily the inhibitory nervous system. In other words
they ''lift the brakes" from the motor nervous system
and allow the driving powers to run wild when Nature
wanted them to slow up or stop.
To illustrate: A man has been working hard all day.
Toward night his available supply of vitality has run low,
his system is filled with uric acid, carbonic acid and other
benumbing fatigue products and he feels tired and sleepy.
At this juncture he receives word that he must sit up all
night with a sick relative. In order to brace himself for
the extraordinary demand upon his vitality, our friend
takes a cup of strong coffee or a drink of whisky or what-
ever his favorite stimulant may be.
The effect is marvelous. The tired feeling disappears
and he feels as though he could remain awake all night
without effort.
What has produced this apparent renewal and increase
of vital energy? Has the stimulant added to his system
one iota of vitality? This cannot be, because stimulants
do not contain anything that could impart vital force to
the organism. What, then, has produced the seemingly
strengthening effect?
The whatever the stimulating poison
caffein, alcohol or
may have been has precipitated the fatigue products from
the blood and deposited them in the tissues and organs
of the body. Furthermore, the stimulant has benumbed
the inhibitory nerves, it has lifted the brakes from the
driving part of the organism so that the wheels are run-
ning wild.
But means we draw upon the reserve supplies of
this
vital energy which Nature wants to save for extraordi-
nary demands upon the system in times of illness or
extreme exertion. Therefore this procedure is contrary

to Nature's intent. Nature tried to force the tired body-
to rest and sleep so that it could store up a new supply of
vital force.
Under the paralyzing influence of the stimulant upon
the inhibitory nerves the organism now draws upon the
reserve stores of nerve fats and vital energies for the
necessary strength to accomplish the extra night work.
At the same time, remaining awâke and active during
the night prevents the storing up of a reserve supply of
vital energy for the next day's work, which means that
the latter also has to be done at the expense of the reserve
supply of life force.
Only during sleep do we replenish our reserve stores of
vitality. The expenditure of vital energy ceases, but its
liberation in the system continues.
Therefore sleep is "the sweet restorer". Nothing can
take its place. No amount of food and drink, no tonics
or stimulants can make up for the loss of sleep. Con-
tinued complete deprivation of sleep is bound to end in a
short time in physical and mental exhaustion, in insanity
and death.
That the body during sleep acts as a storage battery for
vital energy is proved by the fact that in deep, sound sleep
the aura disappears entirely from around the body.
The aura is to the organism what the exhaust steam is
to the engine. It is formed by the electromagnetic fluids
which have performed their work in the body and then
escape from it, giving the appearance of a many colored
halo.
"With the first awakening of conscious mental activity
after sleep the aura appears, indicating that the expendi-
ture of vital energy has recommenced. The return of
the aura is more fully described in the chapter entitled
''Magnetic Treatment."
The Effects of Stimulants upon the Physical Organism

In the preceding diagram we have an illustration of
the true effect of stimulantsupon the system. The hori-
zontal line A-B represents the normal level of available
vital energy in a certain body for a given time, say for
twenty four hours. At point C a stimulant is taken. This
paralyzes the inhibitory nerves and temporarily precipi-
tates the fatigue products from the blood.
As we have seen, this allows an increased, unnatural
expenditure of vital energy which raises the latter to
point D. But when the effect of the stimulant has been
spent the vital energy drops from the artificially attained
high point back not only to the normal level, but below
it to point E.
The increased expenditure of vital energy was made
possible at the expense of the reserve supply of vitality;
therefore the depression following it is in proportion to
the preceding stimulation.
This is in accordance with the law, "Action and re-
action are equal, but opposite".
The below the normal to
falling of the vital energy
point E
accompanied by a feeling of exhaustion and
is
depression which creates a desire to repeat the pleasur-

able experience of an abundant supply of vitality and
thus leads to a repetition of the artificial stimulation. As
a result of this the expenditure of vitalityis again raised
above the normal to point F, only to fall again below the

normal, to G, etc., etc.
In this way the person who resorts to stimulants to
keep up his strength or to increase it, is never normal,
never "on the level", never at his best. He is either over-
stimulated or abnormally depressed. His efforts are bound
to be fitful and his work uneven in quality. Furthermore,
it is only a matter of time until he exhausts his reserve
supply of vital energy and then suffers nervous bank-

ruptcy in the form of nervous prostration, neurasthenia
or insanity.
Such a person is acting like the spendthrift whose capi-
tal in the bank allows him to expend ten dollars a day,
but who instead draws several times the amount of his
legitimate daily income. There can be but one outcome
in due time the cashier will inform him that his account is
overdrawn.
The same principles hold true with regard to stimulants
given at the sickbed.
One of the arguments I constantly hear from students
and physicians of the old school of medicine is "Some of
:
your methods may be all right, but what would you do at

the sickbed of a patient who is so weak and low that he
may die at any moment? Would you just let him die?
Would you not give him something to keep him alive?"
I certainly would if I could. But I do not believe that
poisons can give life. If there is enough vitality in that
dying body to react to the poisonous stimulant, then that
same amount of vitality will keep the heart beating and the
respiration going a little longer at the slower pace. Nature
regulates the heart beat and the other functions according
to the amount and availability of vital force. If the heart
beats slow it is because Nature is trying to economize
vitality.
CONSERVATIOISI OF VITALITY 381
In the inevitable depression following the artificial

*
whipping up " of the vital energies, many times the flame
'
is snuffed out entirely when otherwise it might have con-
tinued to burn at the slower rate for some time longer.

However, I do not deny the advisability of administering
stimulants in cases of shock. When a shock has caused the
stopping of the wheels of life, another shock by a stimulant
may set them in motion again.
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 manner similar to the apparent increase of

physical strength under the influence of these agents.
Here, also, the temporary stimulation and seeming in-
crease of power are effected by paralysis of the governing
and restraining faculties of mind and soul: of reason,
modesty, reserve, caution, reverence, etc.
The moral, mental and emotional capacities and powers
of the human entity are governed by the same principle
of dual action that controls physical activity. We have
on the one hand the motor or driving impulses and on the
other hand the restraining and inhibiting influences.
In these higher realms appetite, passion, imagination
and desire correspond to the motor nervous system in the
physical organism and the power of the will and reasoning
faculties represent the inhibitory nervous system.
The exhilarating and stimulating influence of alcohol
and narcotics such as opiates, ''hashish", etc. upon the ani-
mal spirits and the emotional and imaginative faculties is
caused by the benumbing and paralyzing effect of these
stimulants upon the powers of will, reason and self control,
which are the brakes on the lower appetites, passions and
desires.
However, what is gained in emotionalism and imagina-

tionis lost in judgment and logic.
Alcohol, nicotin, caft'ein, theo-bromin, luppulin (the

bitter principle of hops), opium, cocain, morphin, etc.,
when given in certain doses, all affect the human organism

in a similar manner.
In small quantities they seemingly stimulate and ani-
mate; in larger amounts they depress and stupefy. In
reality, they are paralyzers from the beginning and in
every instance and their apparent, temporary tonic effect
is deceptive. They benumb and paralyze not only the phy-
sical organism but also the higher and highest mental and
moral qualities, capacities and powers.
These higher and finer qualities are located in the front
part of the brain. In the evolution of the species from
lower to higher, the brain gradually developed and en-
larged in a forward direction. Thus we find in the lowest
order of fishes that all they possess of brain matter is a
small protuberance at the upper extremity of the spinal
cord. As the species and families rose in the scale of evo-
lution, the brain developed proportionately from behind
forward and became differentiated into three distinct divi-
sions the meduUa oblongata, the cerebellum, and the
cerebrum.
The medulla oblongata, situated at the base of the brain
where it joins the spinal cord, contains those brain centers
which control the purely vegetative, vital functions, the
circulation of the blood, respiration, regulation of animal
heat, etc.
The cerebellum, in front of and above the medulla, is the
seat of the centers for the coordination of muscular activi-
tiesand for maintaining the equilibrium of the body.
The frontal brain, or cerebrum, contains the centers for
the sensory organs, also the motor centers which supply the
driving impulses for the muscular activities of the body
and in the occipital and frontal lobes the centers for the
higher qualities of mind and soul, which constitute the
governing and restraining faculties on which depend the
powers of self control.
Thus we see that the development of the brain has been
in a forward direction, from the upper extremity of the
spinal cord to the frontal lobes of the cerebrum, from the
low, vegetative qualities of the animal and the savage to
the complex and refined activities of the highly civilized
and trained mind.
It is an interesting and most significant fact that paral-
ysis of brain centers caused by alcohol and other stimu-
lants, or by h3rpnotics and narcotics, proceeds reversely to
the order of their development during^ the processes of
evolution.
The succumb are the brain centers in the frontal
first to
lobes of the cerebrum which control the latest developed
and most refined human attributes. These are modesty,
caution, reserve, reverence, altruism. Then follow in the
order given, memory, reason, logic, intelligence, will power,
self control, the control of muscular coordination and
equilibrium and, finally, consciousness and the vital activi-
ties of heart action and respiration.
When the conscious activities of the soul have been put
to sleep paralysis extends to the subconscious activities of
Life or Vital Force. Respiration and heart action become
weak and labored and may finally cease entirely.
In order to verify this let us study the effects of alcohol,
the best known and most used of stimulants. Many people
believe that alcohol increases not only physical strength
but mental energy also. Medical science considers it a
valuable tonic in all cases of physical and mental depres-
sion. It is often administered after surgical operations
and in accidents with the idea of prolonging life. I have
frequently found the whisky or brandy bottle at the bed-
side of infants and on it the directions of the attending

phj'sician.
Watch the effect of this tonic on a group of convivial
spirits at a banquet. Full honor is done to the art of the
chef and the wine flows freely.The flow of animal spirits
—
increases proportionately conviviality, wit and humor
rise by leaps and bounds. But the apparent joy and hap-
piness are in reality nothing but the play of the lower
animal impulses unrestrained by the higher powers of
mind and soul.
The words of the after dinner speaker, who when sober
is a sedate and earnest gentleman, flow with unusual ease.
The close and unprejudiced observer notices, however,

that what the speaker has gained in eloquence, loquacity
and exuberance of style and expression, he has lost in
logic, clearness and good sense.
As King Alcohol tightens his grasp on the merry com-
pany, the toasters and speakers lose more and more their
control over speech and actions. "What was at first mis-
chievous abandon and merry jest gradually degenerates
into loquaciousness, coarseness and querulous brawls.
Here and there one of the maudlin crowd drops off in the
stupor of drunkenness.
If the liquor be strong enough and the debauch contin-
ued long enough it may end in complete paralysis of the
vital functions or in death.
Hypnotism and Obsession
Again we find the seeming paradox of "stimulation by

paralysis" exemplified in the phenomena of hypnotism
and obsession. The abnormally exaggerated sensation,
feeling and imagination of the subject under hypnotic con-
trol are made possible because the higher, critical and
restraining faculties and powers of will, reason and self
control are temporarily or permanently benumbed and
paralyzed by the stronger will of the hypnotist or of the

obsessing intelligence.
There is a most interesting resemblance between the
effects of stimulants, narcotics or hypnotic control and
blind, unreasoning faith. The latter also benumbs and
paralyzes judgment and reason. It gives full sway to the
powers of imagination and thus may produce seemingly
miraculous results.
This explains the modus operandi of faith cures as well
as the fitful strength of the intoxicated and the insane, or
the beautiful dreams and "delusions of grandeur" of the
drug fiend.
The close resemblance and relationship between hyp-
notic control and faith became vividly apparent to me
while witnessing the performance of a professional hyp-
notist. His subject on the stage was a young woman who
under his control performed extraordinary feats of
strength and resistance. Several strong men together
could not lift or move her in any way.
What was the reason? In the ordinary, waking condi-
tion her judgment and common sense would tell her:
"I cannot resist the combined strength of these men. Of
course they can lift me and pull me here and there." As
a result of this doubting state of mind she would not have
the strength to resist.
However, the control of the hypnotist had paralyzed her
reasoning faculties and therewith her capacity for judg-
ing, doubting and "not believing". Her subconscious
mind accepted without the shadow of a doubt the sugges-
tion 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 resist-
ance.
It is an established fact that the impressions (records)
made upon the subconscious mind under certain condi-
tions, as for instance under hypnotic influence, absolutely

control the activities of the physical body.
Does not this throw an interesting light on the power of
absolute faith, on the saying: "Everything is possible to
him who believeth"? Blind, unreasoning faith benumbs
and paralyzes judgment and reason in similar manner as
do hypnotic control or stimulants, and in that way gives
free and full sway to the powers of imagination and auto-
suggestion for good or ill, for ** white magic" or "black
magic" according to the purpose for which faith is exerted.
It also becomes apparent that such blind, unreasoning
faith cannot be constructive in its influence upon the
higher mental, moral and spiritual faculties. These can
be developed only by the conscious and voluntary exercise
of will, reason and self control.
The limited space of this volume allows me to touch but
briefly upon these vital physiological subjects. They will
be treated more fully in Vol. IV of this series, entitled
*' Nature Cure Eugenics, or Man-Building on the Physical,
Mental and Moral Planes of Being".

From the foregoing it will have become evident that we
cannot increase vital force in the body through any arti-
ficial means or methods from without, by food, drink or
stimulant. What we can and should do, however, is to put
the organism into the best possible condition for the lib-
eration and manifestation of life force or vital energy.
The more normal the chemical composition of the blood
and the more free the tissues from clogging impurities,
poisons and mechanical obstructions such as lesions of the
spinal column, the more abundant will be the available
supply of vital energy, and the freer its liberation.
Therefore perfect, buoyant health which ensures the
greatest possible efficiency and enjoyment of life, can be
attained and maintained only by strict adherence to nat-
ural ways of living and, when necessary, by the natural
treatment of disease.
CHAPTER XXXI
ONANISM OR MASTURBATION
Undoubtedly one of the most serious leaks of vital force
is created through onanism or masturbation. This destruc-
tive habit is frightfully common among those who can
least afford it, namely young people and children who need
their vital energies for the upbuilding of their physical
organism and for the development of their mental, imag-
inative and creative faculties, capacities and powers.
There is a close relationship between genius and virility.
Positivity on all planes of being depends largely upon
sexual virility. Therefore the wasteful expenditure of sex
fluid and sex life stunts growth and development in all
directions. It lowers resistance to physical disease and
creates negative conditions on the mental, moral and
spiritual planes of beingwhich may lead to serious mental
and psychical disorders.
The main reason why this body and soul destroying
habit is so common among those of tender age is because
the subject, like that of venereal diseases, is too much
avoided in discussions and instruction in the school,
church and home. The topic is taboo especially among
those who pride themselves on their education and refine-
ment.
In view of the untold harm done by this foolish avoid-
ance and concealment of a vital problem, religious instruc-
tors, teachers, parents and physicians should learn how to
deal properly with this delicate but vital phase of child
life. Therefore the free discussion of the subject should
be encouraged among those most deeply concerned and
in health culture literature.
First let us examine some of the causes of this disease,
387
for disease truly is of body, mind and soul. The true

it
causes of are not well enough understood. The seed of

it
this weakening indulgence is frequently sown during the

prenatal period. Abnormally strong sexuality in one or
both parents may .be transmitted hereditarily. Especially
so if intercourse takes place during- pregnancy. This is
one of the worst crimes that can be committed against the

pregnant mother and the unborn. In the animal world
the female is never sexually active during the period of
gestation; but in this respect as in many others man has
sunk below the standard of the animal.
It is a sad commentary on our system of education,
scholastic as well as religious, that our young people are
not instructed before and after marriage in these all impor-
tant laws of nature. To do this should be the duty of the
minister who unites them in marriage or of the family
physician. We all know how the slightest prenatal char-
acteristics are repeated in the offspring; how the unborn
infant is apt to be "marked" by transitory impressions,
especially by sudden fright and other strong emotions.
Is any wonder that the most powerful of human emo-
it
tions should leave its impress upon the growing sex centers
in the brain and nervous system of the child, causing
abnormal and precocious development?
Truly in such cases perversion is born and bred in the
flesh and bone before the child sees the light of day. The
mother cannot be blamed for this "slaughter of the inno-
cents", for she has not been instructed on the subject.
Even when intuitively abhorrent to her, being dependent,
she thinks she must submit in order to maintain her hold
upon the man, and many a life is thus cursed from its very
beginning. The fault lies primarily with those of the med-
ical profession who teach our young men that the free
indulgence of sexual passion is not only legitimate but
necessary to manly vigor.
ONANISM OR MASTURBATION 389
This dictum of pseudo science is almost universally con-

curred in by spiritual guardians and other teachers. No
more pernicious falsehood was ever promulgated from the
abyss of Hades. If our young men were taught that
greater happiness is attained by the exchange of tender
affection than by the indulgence of the coarser animal
appetites and that the creative forces thus preserved
develop and strengthen their finest capacities of body,
mind and soul they would be wise as well as chivalrous in
protecting mother and child and in conserving their own
moral integrity.
Many a man whom we have thus advised has become a
lifelong friend in consequence. In no other way is it pos-
sible to call forth the deepest gratitude and unfailing
esteem of a true woman.
Young men should be made aware that in this regard
as well as in other habits desire grows in exact ratio to
indulgence, and that through such indulgence he who
should be the master becomes the abject slave. This is
true of overeating, drinking, gambling and drugging as
well as of the habits under discussion.
This places the responsibility not so much with the
*' defective" child as with the ignorant or inconsiderate
parents.
Before leaving this delicate but highly important sub-
ject I wish to call attention to one phase of which I
it
occasionally meet in my professional work. Now

and
then a woman confides to me that the real cause of her
physical, nervous and mental ailments lies in excessive
intercourse; that this produces loathing and revulsion
which she dares not reveal to her husband, being afraid
that she might disappoint and offend him.
On several occasions I have taken it upon myself, with-
out the knowledge of the patient, to have a confidential
talk with the husband and to apprise him of the situation.
In every instance the man

expressed great surprise and
regret for having in his ignorance caused such suffering
and anguish of mind. His reply would be somewhat as
follows: "I was under the impression that her desire was
as strong as mine and often thought it necessary to her.
I will cheerfully exercise self control forher sake as well
as my own." In several instances understanding and con-
fidence established in this way between husband and wife
have transformed a very unhappy relationship into per-
fect and affectionate harmony.
What a commentary upon a system which permits people
to enter upon a relationship of such vital importance in
total ignorance of its fundamental laws
Whata curious revelation of the workings of the human
mind and heart in love and marriage Ignorance as well
!
as excessive delicacy and hypersensitiveness prevent many

well-intentioned people from establishing a thorough
understanding concerning this intimate relationship. This
leads to much unnecessary suffering, unhappiness and
anguish of spirit which might easily be avoided by a freer
and more sympathetic exchange of conjugal confidence.
Among the animals copulation does not take place
except for reproduction. While I am not prepared to
take the extreme stand that this should be the ironclad
rule in the human family, still continence is certainly to
be desired, and self mastery will enhance true conjugal
and love instead of diminishing or destroying it.
affection
Few men are aware of the fact that the normally consti-
tuted woman craves affection and kindly consideration
rather than sexual indulgence.
Many men, afraid of real or imaginary weakness, remain
single because they have a false idea of the sexual demands
of woman. A free and confidential understanding in
regard to these matters between those who contemplate
matrimony would frequently prevent marital unhappiness.
Stimulating Influence of Meat Eating-

Next in importance to prenatal influence comes the
diet after weaning and during early childhood and ado-
lescence. Most of the poisonous acids and alkaloids con-
tained in the flesh of dead animals are powerful stimu-
lants. I have frequently noticed that people who have
long abstained from meat on first partaking of it again
experience symptoms resembling those of intoxication.
We have learned elsewhere in this volume that these
stimulating principles of meat are similar to alcohol, caf-
fein, thein and nicotine and that meat eating invariably
fosters an appetite and craving for these other stimulants.
The legumes or pulses, peas, beans and lentils, are close
seconds to meat in pathogen producing qualities. Eggs
also contain considerable ready made uric acid and a great
deal of phosphorous and sulphur which form many nerve
stimulatiag acids, alkaloids and ptomains. For these
reasons meat, pulses and eggs are always danger foods to
the child.
The most serious aspect of this question lies in the stim-
ulative influence of these food poisons on the sex centers
in the brain and nervous system. It is a well known fact,
verified by close observation, that flesh foods stimulate the
sexual passions to a marked degree. This tendency is
greatly increased by the use of coffee, tea, and alcoholic
stimulants in the form of wines, liquors and medicines.
If the sensitive nervous organism of a child is over-
wrought by these powerful irritants there can be but one
result, precocious sexual awakening.
Next to prenatal influence and stimulating food and
drink, ignorance is the main cause of sexual perversion.
If religious instructors, teachers and parents do not early
enough give the child the necessary information concern-
ing the sex functions and their legitimate use and abuse,
the child may learn concerning these things from unscru-
Vol. 1—26.
pulous and vicious servants and playmates in a way not at

all conducive to health and morality. This subject, instead
of being something to be shunned as unclean by refined
and sensitive people, is most sacred and worthy of confi-
dential discussion between parent and child. What more
beautiful and inspiring picture can we think of than a
loving and sympathetic parent introducing to the child
mind the marvels of creative life and its modes of mani-
festation in the vegetable, animal and human kingdom?
The workings of the procreative principle may be thus
traced through the ascending kingdoms of nature with the
utmost delicacy and with no offense to the sensibilities of
teacher or child.
Effects of Masturbation
Next in order we must consider the weakening and
destructive effects of masturbation. I have become thor-
oughly convinced through much experience in dealing
with such cases that the destructive effects of onanism are
in many instances more of a mental and psychical than
of a physical nature. Too weak to resist the almost uncon-
trollable desire, the victim of the disease struggles vainly
in loneliness and silence with no one to confide in and no
one to go to for advice and encouragement. The vague
allusions to the terrible consequences of the habit which
he hears and reads about here and there, the terrifying
literature of quack doctors and unscrupulous medical
publicists who prey upon the fears of these unfortunates,
fill their minds and souls with remorse, dread of the future
and expectancy of impotency and early decline.

As is always the case, fear materializes that which it
fears. Fear is faith in evil, and faith has creative power
for evil as well as for good. Deep down in his soul the
victim of morbid imagination sees himself weak, diseased,
impotent, prematurely old and in an early grave, and "as
'
he thinketh in his heart so is he '.

Much
experience in an extensive practice along these
lines hastaught me that the physical effects of the habit
can be overcome easily by natural methods of living and
treatment as soon as the patient ceases to violate the most
sacred laws of his being. Sympathetic advice and the right
kind of suggestive treatment will greatly aid him in doing
this.
His self confidence must be aroused, his faith renewed
and his will power strengthened. I find this as a rule more
difficultthan the regeneration of the physical organism.
He must be made to realize that his consciousness is part
of the universal intelligence, that his will is an expression
of divine creative force, that these are superior to the
weakness and the animal desires and propensities of the
lower self.
The best way to awaken and to strengthen this con-
structive faithis to practice the formulas given in the last
chapter of this volume on pages 495 to 499. This auto-

suggestive treatment may be practiced at any time during
the day when there is an opportunity for concentration,
even though it be for only a few minutes. The best time
in the twenty-four hours for practicing this mental magic
is just before dropping to sleep. done faithfully
If this is
and persistently, with fervent desire of the spirit and
uncompromising determination of the soul, the patient
cannot possibly fail in his resolve. This mental attitude
was what Jesus had in mind when he said, What things *
'
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive

them and ye shall have them". Simple as these methods
may seem, there is no better way to strengthen the weak-
ened will, or to overcome bad habits and establish better
ones.
How to Regenerate the Physical Body
The natural ways of living and of treatment are the
simplest and most efficient remedies for overcoming phy-
^94 NATURAL THEEAPEUTICS
sical and nervous debility. A well balanced vegetarian

diet will nourish the body abundantly, while it does not
overstimulate the sex centers in the brain and spinal cord
as is done by meats and eggs, coffee, tea, alcoholic liquors
and tobacco. Nothing on earth stimulates a sluggish cir-
culation and tones up a debilitated nervous system like a
brisk cold rub in the mornng and a cold sitz bath in
the evening. The morning cold rub (Vol. II) should
be followed by deep breathing and other exercises while
nude. If an open airbath cannot be provided the exer-
cises should be taken before an open window. Deep breath-
ing not only provides a generous supply of oxygen but
takes in the breath of life itself.
Corrective gymnastics, especially internal massage and
the exercises while lying on the back (Vol. II) will
strengthen and vivify the flabby muscles and debilitated
nerves of the abdominal and genital organs.
Overeating and the use of meat, eggs, coffee, tea, alco-
holic liquors and tobacco should be strictly avoided.
Faithful adherence to this natural regimen will overcome
indigestion, malnutrition, constipationand sluggish circu-
lation, which usually accompany sexual weakness and
nervous debility and help to produce them.
Doctors almost universally treat involuntary emissions
too lightly. They say that such discharges are an indica-
tion that the sex organs are generating an excess of sex
fluids, and that these might just as well be got rid of
through nocturnal emissions. Some doctors and many
habitual masturbators apply similar sophistry to the prac-
tice of onanism. Such opinions, however, are based upon
grave error. It is a fact that, as a rule, the sexually strong-
est individuals are not subject to involuntary emissions,
while those so afflicted are most often weakly, sickly and
of the nervous, debilitated type.
The true explanation is the following : Any excess of sex
normally absorbed into the system through the

fluids is
lymphatic structures of the inguinal glands, and serves to
stimulate and invigorate all the vital functions and the
creative capacity of mind and soul. But if these glands are
engorged with pathogenic materials the sex fluids are riot
absorbed into the system they stagnate in the sex organs
;
and cause abnormal sexual stimulation, neurotic dreams,

unnatural craving for intercourse or masturbation, or, as
an alternative, involuntary emissions. Such pathogenic
obstruction in the absorbent glandular structures we over-
come by natural diet and treatment, particularly by manip-
ulative treatment of the lymphatic glands themselves, for
the purpose of relieving them of pathogenic engorgement.
In hundreds of the most stubborn cases we have proved the
wonderful eflScacy of these natural methods in combination
with constructive mental, moral and psychical influences.
In order to correct actual impotence, doubt and nervous
impatience must be overcome. Perfect confidence and
serenity must be established. The treatment should be
undertaken not in a spirit of doubt and anxiety, but in the
"I-do-not-care-whether-I-succeed-or-not" attitude of mind,
exactly the same attitude with which one must meet
insomnia or the performance of difficult tasks in any line
of effort; as, for instance, passing a difficult examination
or giving a public performance. While in all effort there
must be strong resolve to succeed and the concentration of
mind necessary to do so, this must be accompanied by the
"care-less" attitude of mind.
A Word of Warning
It is the duty of all parents to warn their growing chil-
dren of the pitfalls and vices which lie in their path and
threaten their welfare. Too often this duty is shirked or
postponed until boys and girls learn from impure sources
what they should have learned quietly and without undue
emphasis from their fathers and mothers. Fathers have

not fulfilled their duty to their sons until they have coun-
seled them along the following lines :
There are two roads before the young man starting out
in life and leaving his boyhood days behind him. One is
the Good Koad, the other the Bad Road. To follow the
first is uplifting, inspiring, wholesome, healthful, character
building, and will lead to the making of a true man. To

follow the second is degrading, low, miserable, destructive,
and leads to the deepest mire of depravity.
The young man wîo leans to the good will be guided by
his own conscience as to what is right or wrong and will
not easily be led astray, but the one whose conscience is not
thus active, readily becomes a victim to folly and a mis-
guided life and dearly does he pay for it in time.
The one deep pitfall, the one great crime facing a young
man in his teens, is self abuse. It is the crime of crimes as
regards personal health and manhood. The young man
who practices it is committing slow suicide, nothing short
of self murder. The victim who indulges in this low vice
has this advantage, that he can commit his acts in secret
and for a long time without being suspected, but oh with !
w'hat terrible results!

The luster of his eyes, once bright, becomes dim and
faded, the healthy freshness of youth disappears from his
face and it becomes pale, sad, sickly and full of pimples.
His breath grows putrid, his eyes sunken, his cheeks hol-
low. He loses interest in his work, becomes neglectful and
slovenly, is dissatisfied, grows dreamy where he should be
alert his health breaks down, he grows irritable and fret-
;
ful, shuns company, especially the other sex, seeking to be

alone that he may indulge his solitary vice.
Month by month he sinks deeper into the mire until he
has no willpower of his own and no desire to stop this hor-
rible practice which is sapping his very life blood. Like a
ONANISM OR MASTUEBATION 397
drunkard he becomes debauched and depraved. His mind

weakens, he grows more and more listless, unsteady and
unreliable; his growth is stunted; he lacks courage and
self-respect, is timid, shy and cowardly. The very essence
of life is drained from his system, till he becomes utterly
unfit for business and is lost forever to the nobleness of true
manhood.
Broken in health, he becomes alarmed. At last he realizes
his true condition. A thousand horrors rise before his
vision. Through sleepless nights he is haunted with re-
morse. His nerves give way, insanity stares him in the
face the asylum looms up before him, a living tomb.
;
Countless thousands thus destroy forever their chances

for success in life and are swept into untimely graves, who
otherwise might have become leaders, noble characters,
fathers of happy families, nation builders, great artists or
writers. Only he who lives the true and unstained life can
perceive and understand the beauty of life and nature
and the grandeur of the universe.
My boy, if you have ever fallen a victim to self abuse,
stop it. Stop it now, STOP IT FOREVER. HEED THE
WARNING Do not blight your future life with this
I
damnable curse. Do not exchange your health, your hap-

piness, your manhood for a ruined life, a horrible night-
mare which words fail to picture. Instead, seek that which
is good, noble and uplifting. You are the one that must
act, you are the one to choose you have come to the part-
;
ing of the ways. Upon you depends the future.

Cultivate courage, cheerfulness, nobleness of character,
and contentment and happiness will be the natural result.
In fact this is the only way to secure them. Aim to be of
some use to humanity. Let good deeds crown your life.
According to the great law of compensation, as you give,
so will you receive no more, no less. Read good books
;
study the fine arts and become familiar with the great
geniuses of the world. Cultivate the finer qualities of mind

and heart. Love to do the right ; be kind and just in all
your dealings.
And HEED THE WARNING, AND DO NOT
once more,
BE AFRAK) TO ASK QUESTIONS.
CHAPTER XXXn
SPINAL MANIPULATION AND ADJUSTMENT
By Jean du Plessis, M. D.
History
In many European countries ** bone-setters" have, in a

crude way, been treating strains and sprains of the spinal
column since time immemorial. These bone-setters usually
belong to the peasantry and the art has been transmitted
in the same families from father to son for many gener-
ations.
Incidentally, these simple people observed that their
treatment relieved not only sprained, tired and painful
backs — the result primarily aimed at —
but frequently
exerted a favorable influence upon disease processes in
remote organs and parts. This empirical discovery has
gradually led to a wider application of this method of
treatment.
The various modern systems of spinal manipulation,
namely, osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neuropathy,
spondylotherapy and our own neurotherapy, are all of
distinctlyAmerican origin.
During the last quarter of a century millions of Ameri-
cans through personal experience have become staunch
adherents to one or more of these systems of treatment.
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 mechan-
ism through which to apply therapeutic measures.
It therefore behooves every health seeker to acquaint
399
himself with the theories and claims of these various sys-

tems of manipulative treatment-
Osteopathy
The autobiography of Dr. A. T. Still contains the fol-

lowing interesting statement:
"In the year 1874 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 body. That in no case could
it be done without a broken or suspended current of arterial blood,
which by Nature was intended to supply and nourish all nerves,
ligaments, muscles, skin, bones and the artery itself. * * * *
The rule of the artery must be absolute, universal and unob-
structed or disease will be the result. I proclaimed then and
there that all nerves depend wholly on the arterial system for
their qualities such as sensation, nutrition and motion, even
though by the law of reciprocity they furnish force, nutrition and
motion to the artery itself."
It may be argued that as early as 1805 the Ling System

of Swedish Movement was founded on the same principle,
namely, "permanent health through perfect circulation".
The evidence at hand, however, strongly suggests that
the founder of osteopathy arrived at his conclusions inde-
pendently.
The further claims of Dr. Still as to the cause and cure
of disease are briefly as follows: Partial displacements
of any of the various bones of the body exert pressure
on neighboring blood vessels, thereby interfering with
the circulation to the corresponding organs. These dis-
placements, called "bony lesions", are best "reduced" by
manipulations called osteopathic "moves".
Chiropractic
In 1895, Dr. D. D. Palmer put forth the following claims

as to the cause and cure of diseases Sprains of the spine
:
result in partial displacement of one or more of the verte-

SPINAL MANIPULATION AND ADJUSTMENT 401
brae which go to make up the spinal column thus exerting

pressure on the neighboring nerves. This shuts off the
vitality of the organs supplied by the affected nerves,
hence disease results. These displacements, called ''ver-
tebral subluxations", are best "adjusted" by means of
manipulations in the form of chiropractic ''thrusts".
As soon as osteopathy and chiropractic were properly
established, the more broad-minded exponents of both
systems began mutual investigation and amalgamation.
As a result, we find that only seven years after the
birth of chiropractic, osteopathic literature began to
mention vertebral subluxations as pressing on nerves,
thereby causing disease. On the other hand, advanced
chiropractors soon began to realize the importance of
relaxing tense muscles prior to delivering their thrusts.
They also began to pay attention to the bony lesions other
than those occurring in the spine. Many of the chiroprac-
and much of its technique of today has been
tic principles
gleaned from osteopathy, while the reverse statement
holds equally true.
Naprapathy
The "connective tissue doctrine of disease" was first

proclaimed by Dr. Oakley Smith in 1907. It may be briefly
stated as follows: A vertebrae does not become mis-
placed without being fractured or completely dislocated.
What is called a bony lesion by the osteopath and a sub-
luxation by the chiropractor, is in reality a "ligatight",
that a shrunken condition of the connective tissue form-
is
ing the various ligaments that bind the vertebrae together.

Ligatights are best "corrected" by means of napra-
pathic "directos". These differ from chiropractic thrusts
in that they aim not at adjusting subluxated vertebrae
but at stretching definite strands of shrunken connective
tissue. Ligatights occur not only in the spine but also in
Dr. Smith has evolved a charting system for recording

the thorax and pelvis, in fact, wherever connective tissue
is found in the body.
the various types of ligatights found upon spinal analysis,
as well as the directos to be employed for their correction.
Spondylotherapy
This method of treatment, introduced by Dr. Albert
Abrams, consists of stimulating one or more of the spinal
nerve centers by means of concussion (light hammering),
deep pressure or electricity. The aim in view is to origi-
nate nerve reflexes that will relieve or modify the disease
process in the part of the body to be treated.
Dr. Abrams also lays stress on the fact that inflamma-
tory processes almost invariably give rise to more or less
localized tender spots in the region of the spine with
which the nerves of the inflamed parts are associated. It
can readily be demonstrated that these tender spots are
either the forerunners or the symptoms of spinal lesions.
Neuropathy
This system of manipulative treatment was originated
in 1899 by Drs. John Arnold and Harry Walter of Phila-
delphia. Their claims may be briefly stated as follows:
Morbid matter, poisons and irritants of various kinds,
acting upon the vasomotor nerves which control the blood
vessels, produce abnormal changes in circulation which,
if perpetuated, finally lead to disease manifestations.
The nerve impulses coming from diseased parts travel
to the spinal cord and, like all other nerve impulses, are
transmitted along those branches of the spinal nerves
which supply the structures (muscles, blood vessels, etc.)
along each side of the spine. Here these impulses bring
about abnormal circulatory changes similar to those found
in the diseased organs or parts.
Since nerve impulses are transmitted from diseased or-

gans to the spine, it is evident that they can be made to
travel also in the reverse direction. Neuropathic treat-
ment, therefore, consists of manipulations and thermal
applications which aim at correcting the abnormal circu-
latory changes as found in the spine, thereby correcting
corresponding abnormal processes in the organs or parts
supplied by the nerves coming from that region of the
spine.
These men also emphasized the fact that the circulation
within the blood vessels, being propelled by the heart,
needs less attention during disease than the circulation
of the fluids in the spaces between the cells and through
the lymph vessels and glands. Neuropathy, therefore,
also lays great stress on applying manipulation and ther-
mal applications to the lymphatic system.
Dr. A. P. Davis of Los Angeles was the first to attach
the name "neuropathy" system of manual and me-
to a
chanical treatment which, however, is not based on the
above principles.
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 cause, their
methods of treatment furnish considerable evidence of
satisfactory results. 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 exponents.
It will be shown presently that, in their final analysis, the
osteopathic spinal lesion, the chiropractic subluxation and
the naprapathic ligatight represent one and the same
thing.
Natural Therapeutics is broad enough to embrace all
methods of treatment, no matter what their source, pro-

vided they harmonize with the fundamental laws of cure.
Gradually, therefore, after having gathered the con-
structive elements from all the various methods of manip-
ulation, after considerable spinal dissection and, above
all,after close observation of the results obtained in hun-
dreds of obstinate acute and chronic cases, we of the
school of Natural Therapeutics have evolved our own
system of spinal manipulation and have named it neuro-
therapy.
Before proceeding with the discussion of neurotherapy,
letus pause for a brief survey of the spine and its associ-
ated structures so that we may grasp more readily that
which is to follow.
Anatomy of the Spine

The column or backbone is made up of a series
spinal
of separate bony segments called vertebrae. These are
placed one on top of another thus forming a strong sup-
porting pillar or column. Throughout the length of this
runs a hollow cylindrical canal which lodges and protects
the spinal cord.
Between the vertebrae of human beings are found pads
of tough, resilient fibrocartilage (gristle) which form the
main bonds of union and serve as shock absorbers.
To the vertebrae are attached strong bands of tough
fibrous tissue called ligaments which serve to restrict the
motions of the spine. These motions are regulated by the
spinal muscles which are responsible for actively holding
the vertebrae in alignment.
Between the adjacent vertebrae on either side are found
oval openings called intervertebral foramina, which com-
municate with the spinal canal and each of which contains
the following structures :*
*Tlie profession is indebted to Dr. Harold Swanberg for the

light he has thrown on this important part of the anatomy.
(a) The spinal nerve, composed of fibres which bring'

inquiries (impulses) from the various parts of the body to
the cord, as well as fibres which convey instructions from
the cord to the outlying organs and parts. The spinal
cord, therefore, is the switchboard, as it were, of the nerv-
ous system controlled by the brain.
(b) A few small arteries which carry nourishment to
the corresponding segment of the spinal cord.
(c) A few small veins and lymph vessels which drain
waste products away from the corresponding segment of
the cord. The nerve cells in each segment of the cord,
therefore, are supplied on both sides by arteries and
drained by veins and lymphatics.
(d) A small amount of fibrous connective tissue which
surrounds all these structures and forms a cobweb-like
arrangement the meshes of which are filled with
(e) Semifluid compressible fat tissue which is the most
abundant substance present and fills all space not occupied
by the other structures.
The Mechanics of the Skeleton
A careful study of the mechanics of the skeletons of all

backboned animals reveals the significant fact that the
spine comprises the central sustaining shaft which sup-
ports all the rest of the framework. For instance, the
skull is attached to it in front, the ribs and forelimbs to
the sides, the hip bones, hindlimbs and tail in the rear.
Broadly speaking, the various parts of the skeleton are
mere offshoots from In the
this central pivot, the spine.
field of perhaps best illustrated in the grad-
biology this is
ual development of the complete skeleton of a frog from

the "lineshaft" of a tadpole.
Another important fact is that all backboned animals
walk on all-fours. The suspension of the spine in a hori-
zontal direction makes possible a perfect interlocking of

the articular processes of the vertebrae.
The human spine, however, has to perform its function
in the erect position. This not only prevents the proper
interlocking of the vertebrae but also brings the weight
of the head and chest outside the center line of the body,
thus necessitating the development of the normal curves
of the spine maintained by powerful supportive muscles
along the back.
In the erect position, the weight of the body, sustained
by the spinal column, rests upon the pelvic circle or plat-
form. This in turn is supported from underneath by the
two thigh bones. Since these fit into sockets which are
placed well toward the front, the body weight resting
upon the rear of this platform actually falls far behind
these two points of support, the thigh bones.
From an engineer's standpoint, therefore, the biped man
indulges in a constant struggle to maintain the erect posi-
tion thereby rendering his weight-bearing column more
susceptible to strains and sprains of all kinds.
Spinal Lesions and Their Causes
The terra "lesion" in its broadest sense signifies any

departure from the normal. Spinal lesions may be defined
as those deviations from the normal of the bones (sub-
luxations), ligaments (ligatights) or muscles of the spine,
which lead to or result from disease in corresponding or-
gans and parts.
Since the spine is the weight-bearing shaft which sup-
ports the entire framework all external force, no matter
where or how applied, is transmitted to this central axis.
From the time the infant falls out of its cradle, through
the "rough-and-tumble" life of childhood, all the way
through youth and maturity to old age, the human spine
is constantly subjected to falls, jars, blows, twists, over-

exertion, fatigue, etc. These mishaps, however, the indi-
vidual promptly dismisses from his mind hence he rarely
;
sees the relation between a past accident and his present

ailment.
The above mentioned strains and sprains, unless severe
enough to produce an actual dislocation, result in a
wrenched or overstrained condition of the ligaments of
the injured joint. Since the body manifests a constant
tendency to return to normal, this strain is frequently
repaired during sleep when all muscles are relaxed and
the spine is in a recumbent position with no weight to
support. In more severe cases, however, the proliferation
and subsequent shrinking of the connective tissue of the
injured ligaments decreases the motility of the affected
intervertebral joint or series of such joints.
The function of a stiffened region of the spine is readily
compensated for by an increased motility of the spinal
joints above and below it. Being thus allowed to remain
inactive, it becomes fixed to a varying degree. This proc-
ess is greatly facilitated by the presence of an excessive
amount of waste products in the system.
A process of stiffening tends to follow also sprains of
such joints as the ankle, the wrist, the knee, etc. How-
ever, since it is hardly possible for these joints to shift
their function, the slight adhesions which form here are
readily broken up.
In view of all the foregoing facts, is it any wonder that
osteopaths, chiropractors and naprapaths would have us
believe that as long as human beings are unfortunate
enough to possess spinal columns these will persist in get-
ting out of order?
It should be remembered, however, that the spine is im-
mune against all such injuries as previously enumerated
unless they are severe enough or X-
*
prolonged
-o enough
o to
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overcome the resistance of the supporting muscles and

ligaments. In other words, the degree of force required
to produce a lesion is determined by the degree of
strength of the spine.
Injuries, therefore, constitute merely the exciting cause
of lesions. The predisposing factor is a weak spine, which
in turn is the result of insufficient exercise, malnutrition,

faulty posture in standing, sitting or lying and other de-
bilitating factors.
Another important cause of spinal lesion, from the
standpoint of Natural Therapeutics, is the following:
Nerve impulses coming to the spinal cord from inflamma-
tory processes, are promptly reflected to the supporting
structures of the region of the spine. Here these abnormal
impulses subsequently bring about sufficient irritation to
produce lesions such as will be described presently.
Since abuse of function causes disease even in an indi-
vidual with a perfectly normal spine, it is evident that
many spinal lesions are the effects and not the primary
causes of disease. These secondary lesions in turn tend
to perpetuate the original disturbance, thereby establish-
ing a vicious circle.
The Nature and Effects of Lesions
Osteopaths, chiropractors and naprapaths all put forth

different claims as to what spinal lesions actually are and
just how they produce the harmful effects for which they
are held responsible. Spinal dissection confirms some of
these claims and contradicts others. Out of consideration
for our nonprofessional readers we must of necessity omit
excessive technical detail. Suffice it to say that a lesion is
invariably associated with an increase in and a shrunken
condition of the connective tissue comprising the liga-
ments of the affected joint. Most noticeable is a decrease
in the thickness and the resiliency of the intervertebral

disk —either in part or as a whole.* In major lesions dis-
section reveals, in addition to the above, a slight shifting
of the adjacent articular processes upon each other.
Either a bony or a ligamentous lesion alters both the
size and the shape of the adjacent intervertebral foramen.
This tends to interfere with the functions of the struc-
tures passing through it. Within each foramen the spinal
nerve is comparatively well protected. It occupies on an
average only one fifth of the total area, is situated in the
largest part of the foramen, is free from all bony contact
and is imbedded in semifluid compressible fat tissue. The
functions of the blood and lymph however, are
vessels,
more readily disturbed by changes in the size and shape
of the foramen.
As the nerves and vessels leave the foramen, the fat
surrounding them gradually decreases while the connec-
tive tissue increases in amount, until finally they are en-
tirely clothed in fibrous connective tissue. Shrinkage of
this connective tissue, brought about as previously de-
scribed, is bound to have an untoward effect, if not on the
nerves and vessels within the foramen then surely on
their branches immediately outside the foramen. Irrita-
tion to the nerve, according to a law in neurology, first
increases and later decreases the intensity of the nerve
impulses conveyed to the corresponding organs or parts,
thus giving rise first to acute and later to chronic dis-
turbances.
The motility of a joint in which a lesion occurs is in-
variably decreased. This is due partly to the shrunken

connective tissue already described and partly to tension
or infiltration of the muscles governing that joint. The
*As a result of wrong living it is usual for the disks to become

compressed and less resilient with advancing years. Finally the
adjacent vertebrae may become entirely ankylosed.
degree of normal activity in any joint determines the

amount of blood supply to that joint and to its adjax;ent
structures. Restricted motion of an intervertebral joint,
therefore, will impair the nutrition of the corresponding
segment of the spinal cord. This will naturally pervert
the functions of the nerve cells from which originate the
nerve fibres coming through the affected foramen.
Interference with the nerve supply to any part of the
body predisposes that part to the secondary causes of
disease, thereby leading first to functional and later to
organic derangement.
Other Structural Lesions
It should be born in mind that lesions occurring in

other joints of the body give rise to disturbances also.
This is especially true of the joints uniting the hip bones
and the ribs to the spine.
The so called "innominate" more fre-
lesions are far
quent than is During pregnancy all
generally suspected.
the joints of the pelvis become more supple. Even after
pregnancy these joints frequently remain in a relaxed
condition due to improper food and irrational living be-
fore, during and after this important period.
Again, in order to compensate for rigidity in the "small
of the back", the joints between the hip bones and the
spine almost invariably become abnormally relaxed. As
already explained, the erect position places the pelvis at
a mechanical disadvantage, thereby subjecting these joints
to a considerable strain. Should they be weakened from
any cause, then falls, twists, false steps, over exertion,
etc. frequently result in lesions which give rise to sciatica,
urinary and menstrual disturbances and other pelvic dis-
orders.
Lesions at the junction between the ribs and the verte-
brae, between the coccyx and the sacrum and in other

joints of the frame work are of great importance also.
Lack of space, however, excludes the discussion of their
causes, nature and effects.
The Detection of Lesions

In diagnosing any given abnormal manifestation, a care-
ful analysis of the corresponding region of the spine fur-
nishes indispensable information as to the role played by
structural lesions in causing or perpetuating the trouble
in question. The most elaborate examination, therefore,
isincomplete without a painstaking analysis of the spine
and those parts of the framework attached to it.
The most important steps in this procedure consist in
noting peculiarities of gait and posture, the absence or
presence of the normal spinal curves, the relative tone
of the spinal tissues, the absence or presence of tender
spots along the spine, the alignment of the vertebrae, ribs
and hip-bones; but, above all, the degree of motility of
each joint of the spine and its attached structures.
The above procedure necessitates the viewing of the
bodily mechanism through the eyes of an engineer. It
also requires a sense of touch sufficiently keen to detect
the least variation in the density and the motility of the
various parts of the spine and framework; it literally
means "seeing" with the finger tips.
Every vertebrae apparently out of line does not neces-
sarily indicate the presence of a lesion. It may merely
signify a deformed spinous process.

On the other hand, where inspection and palpation of
the spine suggest no apparent abnormalities, tests for
motility frequently reveal obscure lesions in the form of
more or less fixed joints. This impaired mobility is usu-
allycompensated for by increased pliability of the joints
above and below it.
Briefly stated, a spinal lesion manifests, among other

characteristics, varying degrees of tenderness and mus-
cular rigidity during its acute stage and tension in the
joint during its chronic stage. In all puzzling cases an
X-ray examination is of great assistance.
The space allotted to this article necessarily crowds out
the discussion of chiropractic nerve tracing and other
detail procedures, which will become apparent upon glanc-
ing at the following chart.
Structural Analysis —Neurotherapy

Structural analysis constitutes only one of several pro-
cedures to be employed in arriving at a definite diagnosis.
It must be supplemented by physical examination, iridiag-
nosis,urine, gastric and fecal analysis, blood count,
sputum examination, basic diagnosis and every other
method of examination that will throw light on the past
and present condition of the patient.
Not until after the findings from all these sources have
been compared and correlated can there be established a
diagnosis that will reveal not only the nature of the ab-
normal process but also its underlying causes, both pri-
mary and secondary.
The Correction of Lesions
Acute lesions require rest of the injured part, careful

inhibition over the tender areas and, in severe cases, cold
packs. Graded massage and passive movements are to be
given at an early date. Thrusts and directos during this
period are not only uncalled for but prove positively
detrimental.
Chronic lesions, as above stated, constitute joints that
have become stiffened to a varying degree. Treatment,
therefore, should aim at reestablishing normal motility.

We caution against the manipulation of tubercular joints
in the spine or elsewhere and also against indiscriminate
attempts at the breaking up of long standing ankyloses.
Although the application of neurotherapy differs with
each individual case, the procedure in general consists of
the following steps. These are not necessarily adminis-
tered in this sequence nor are they all employed at the
same time.
(a) The muscles governing the affected joints are
deeply kneaded if infiltrated, and stretched if contracted.
(b) The spine as a whole is put on a good general stretch
in every direction. The ligaments of the stiffened joints
naturally are the first to feel this force because those of
the normal joints are slack.
(c) To the tensed joints are applied such osteopathic
moves normal motility in every di-
as tend to reestablish
rection. These enhance the metabolism of the joints and
the neighboring structures including the spinal cord.
(d) To the bony lesions, careful chiropractic thrusts
are given. These tend to readjust the shifted particular
processes by stretching those bands of shrunken connective
tissue which are responsible for maintaining the bony
lesion.
(e) The ligamentous lesions are corrected by means of
naprapathic directos. These aim at stretching the definite
strands of shrunken connective tissue in the ligaments of
the affected joints.
(f) Spondylotherapy concussion is given whenever in-
dicated.
(g) At the end of each treatment the flabby areas of
the spine are stimulated and the overactive areas and
tender spots are carefully inhibited by neuropathic ma-
nipulations.
This last procedure is of the utmost importance because
'*. . . in addition to correcting structural lesions, every

osteopathic spinal twist, stretch or pressure, every chiro-
practic thrust, every naprapathic directo, will and does
originate nerve reflexes."*These reflexes exert either a
beneficial or a detrimental influenceon some other ab-
normality from which the patient may be suffering at the
time.
In recent years chiropractors have been teaching that
during and after the removal of a lesion the disease process
caused by that lesion gradually reverses itself. It begins
to pass from the abnormal back to the normal. The symp-
toms which manifest themselves as a result are spoken of
as "retracing" symptoms. These are looked upon by the
medical profession as "aggravations" if they occur in the
diseased part itself. Should they appear elsewhere they
are dealt with as "complications". Naprapaths have
been referring to such symptoms as "repair changes".
The school of Nature Cure for more than half a century
has recognized these apparently alarming symptoms as
attempts at reconstruction or healing crises. These crises
tend to develop during each and every disease process,
whatever its cause, no matter whether it is being treated
correctly or wrongly or not at all. For further informa-
tion regarding the law of crises, the reader is referred to
Chapter XXII.
For the purpose of restoring the normal curves of the
spine, active movements (curative gymnastics) are de-
vised. These aim at developing those groups of muscles
which are responsible for maintaining the normal spinal
curves, thereby keeping the weight of the head and chest
within the center-line of the body.
Other active and stretching movements are devised for
promoting suppleness and for strengthening the spine as
•Quoted from an article by the writer in the Tractice Builder

Magazine of July, 1916.
a whole. These exercises are specific for each case and

are not prescribed until the more severe lesions have been
corrected.
Physical culturists in general devote entirely too much
time and effort to those exercises which bring into play
mainly the upper and lower extremities. If they realized
that man is as young as his spine is limber and strong,
they would pay more attention to developing the spine
and to limbering up each of its joints. By so doing they
will derive twice the benefit in one-half the time and will
prevent the harmful effects resulting from indiscriminate
exercises which do not take into consideration the normal
spinal curves or the presence of lesions.
The Relation of Neurotherapy to Other Methods of

Healing
According to the teaching of Doctors Still, Palmer and

Smith, the —
human organism is self-regulating health is
automatic. Disease is merely a process during which
—
health is laboring under difficulties it is health handi-
capped. Since the body is also a self-repairing organism,
treatment calls for nothing more nor less than the re-
moval of handicaps. Spinal lesions and their correction,
therefore, constitute all there is to the cause and cure of
disease.
In this relation note the following quotation from the
naprapathic propaganda literature "If a puddle of water
:
on the floor is produced by a small leak in the roof, find,

treat and cure the leak. . The naprapath, instead of
. .
treating the organic or functional disturbance (the pud-

dle), finds, treats and cures the diseased ligament (the
leak)."
If a puddle of water is on your floor as the result of a
leak in your roof, would you leave the puddle to spoil
your floor and merely patch up the leak, leaving your roof
in such a condition that it is liable to spring other leaks?
That is what the naprapath, chiropractor or osteopath
does when he merely adjusts the spine.
"Would you not carefully wipe up the puddle, repair
the leak and so reinforce your whole roof that it will
be able to withstand future rain storms? That is what
Natural Therapeutics does when it promotes the elimina-
tion of morbid matter from the system (the wiping up),
readjusts the spine (the repairing), and makes it lesion-
proof by means of corrective exercises (the reinforcing).
It is encouraging to note that osteopaths in general
have already detected the inadequacy of their slogan,
"Find the lesion and remove it." The fact, however,
that they aregradually adopting also the allopathic
maxim, Find the germ and kill it, proves that they are
'
'
'
'
not as yet familiar with the fundamental laws of cure.

As evidence of this, osteopaths are today advocating the
use of germicides, antitoxins, serums and vaccines. In
addition, they practice major surgery and allow adver-
tisements of patent medicines in their journals.
Let be understood that in order to manifest perfect
it
health the body cells demand not only an unimpaired

nerve supply, but also the proper amount and kind of
nourishment, as well as the prompt elimination of their
waste products.
Given an unimpaired nerve supply under natural sur-
rounding, health would be automatic.
It is essential to "adjust" not only a patient's spine
but also his food supply, his mental attitude, his environ-
ment and his habits of living in general.
CHAPTER XXXIII
NEUROTHERAPY
Osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neurotherapy and
spondylotherapy are various systems of manipulative
treatment which have been devised mainly to correct
spinal and other bony lesions, shrinkage and contracture
of muscles, ligaments and other connective tissues.
Dr. du Plessis has explained in the previous chapter in
detail the philosophy and practice of these various sys-
tems. I shall onlythrow upon them a few sidelights from
the viewpoint of Natural Therapeutics.
Important as these methods are in the treatment of
acute and chronic diseases, by themselves they are not all-
sufficient because they deal only with the mechanical
causes of disease, not with the chemical, thermal, nor with
the mental and psychical. The most efficient spinal treat-
ment cannot make good for the bad effects of an unbal-
anced diet which contains an excessive amount of poison
producing materials and is deficient in the all important
mineral elements or organic salts. Just as surely as mental
therapeutics and a natural diet cannot correct bony lesions
produced by external violence, just so surely is it impos-
sible to cure monomania or obsession, or to supply iron,
lime, sodium, etc., to the system by correcting spinal
lesions.
The trouble with the manipulative schools and their
graduates is that they adhere too closely to the mechan-
ical theory and treatment of disease; that they reject
practically all natural methods of treatment aside from
manipulative, and that so far as the osteopathic school is
417
concerned its practitioners show a strong tendency to fall

back upon the old school methods of drugging and of
surgical treatment. This is due to the fact that in many-
types of diseases manipulative treatment by itself has
proved insufficient to produce satisfactory results.
In order to do justice to our patients and not neglect
our responsibilities toward them we must use in the treat-
ment of disease all that is good in all the natural methods
of healing. In serious chronic cases any single one of
these methods, whether it be pure food diet, hydrotherapy,
massage, spinal treatment, mental therapeutics or home-
opathy, is not by itself sufficient to achieve satisfactory
results or to produce them fast enough.
To use an illustration : Suppose a wagon full of freight
requires the combined strength of six horses to move it
and suppose that number of horses is available. Would

it not be foolish to try to move the load with one, two,
three, four, or even five horses? Would not common
sense suggest the saving of time and effort by putting all
six horses towork at once ?
In Natural Therapeutics every one of the various meth-
ods of treatment is supplemented and assisted by all the
others.
The manipulative schools of healing maintain that prac-
tically all diseaseis caused by mechanical abnormalities
of the spinal column or of muscles, ligaments and other

connective tissues, due to injury or impingement. The
philosophy of Natural Therapeutics, on the other hand,
points out that a large percentage of such spinal and
other mechanical lesions are secondary manifestations of
disease, not primary causes; that acute or subacute in-
flammatory conditions in the interior of the body may
cause nervous irritation and thereby contraction of mus-
cles and ligaments and, as a result of these, luxations of
vertebrae or of other bony structures.
NJiUROTHERAPY 419
The naprapathic theory of disease postulates that it is
the shrinkage and contraction of the connective tissues,

which serve as a support and protection for the nerve
matter contained in the nerve trunks and filaments, that
causes interference with the normal nerve supply of
cells and tissues and thereby abnormal function and
disease.
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 accumu-
lation of waste and morbid matter in the tissues of the
body which, all through the system, interfere just as
effectually with nutrition, drainage and innervation of
the cells and tissues as do spinal lesions and ligatights.
While the other systems of manipulative treatment con-
fine themselves almost entirely to the correction of bony
and other connective tissue lesions, to "pressing the but-
ton" as it is called, neuro therapy besides this, aims at
other very important results.
In disease the tissues are either in an abnormally tense
and contracted or in a weak, relaxed condition. The func-
tional activities are either hyper-active as in acute in-
flammation, or sluggish and inactive as in chronic atonic
and atrophic conditions. These extremes can be power-
fully influenced and equalized by manipulative inhibition,
relaxation or stimulation.
During an acute attack of gastritis, for instance, the
neurotherapist would exert strong inhibition on the nerves
which supply the stomach. This is accomplished by deep
and persistant pressure on the nerves where they emerge
from the spinal openings (foramina). This diminishes
the rush of blood and nerve currents to the inflamed
organ, and thereby eases but does not suppress the in-
flammatory process and the attending congestion and
pain.
In case of extreme tension in any part of the system,
relaxation of the shrunken tissues can be brought about
by gentle but persistent stretching of the nerves and ad-
jacent muscles and ligaments, in a manner similar to that
of the naprapathic directos.
When the vital organs and their functions are weak and
inactive or when nerves, muscles, ligaments and other
connective tissues are in a relaxed, atonic or atrophic con-
dition, certain stimulating movements applied to the
nerves where they emerge from the spinal column will
energize the vital functions all through the system. Many
patients imagine that such manipulative treatment is su-
perficial. To them it is just ''rubbing" and seems all
alike. 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 body, mak-
ing them more alive and active. This internal stimulation
of vital activities is attained also by good massage through
energizing the nerve endings all over the surface of the
body.
Some of my
readers may entertain the idea that the
chiropractic, naprapathic and osteopathic schools have
practically the same conception of acute diseases and heal-
ing crises as the school of Natural Therapeutics. This, how-
ever, is not the case. On the contrary, osteopaths, napra-
paths and chiropractors on the whole adhere to the allo-
pathic idea of acute disease as being in itself harmful and
dangerous to health and life, something which therefore
ought to be cheeked as quickly as possible.
If anyone should doubt this, the following extracts from
NEUROTHEKAPY 421
an article in the April-May, 1913, number of the Inter-

national Chiropractic Journal, entitled "Fevers", by Dr.
Joy M. Loban, will convince him to the contrary. Similar
Nature Cure conception of acute disease
criticisms of the
and healing crises have of late appeared in osteopathic
journals.
"The latest current, I have said, is the Nature Cure current. It
offers a seductive course in which to steer. Let us test it with our
compass and take for our test the question of fever, contrasting the
Nature Cure theory and the Chiropractic theory and measuring
them with the facts.
"The Chiropractic theory, which I affirm, is briefly this: The
primary cause of every fever is vertebral subluxation impinging
nerves so as to disturb the heat-regulating mechanism of the body.
The subluxation operates chiefly (in fever) by controlling the
caliber of blood-vessels and thus the amount of blood in a given
part of the body at a given time. For an explanation of the heat-
regulating mechanism of the body see any standard Physiology.
Butler, on Diagnostics, contains a brief description. Fever is a
process, instituted through the co-operation of primary cause (sub-
luxation) and secondary cause (poison, germ, etc.) which is de-
structive to the body and tends to destroy life unless checked. It
is a malign process which Nature strives to prevent and to correct
when once in operation.
"The Nature Cure theory, which I deny, is in brief: Fever is a
process resulting from a house-cleaning effort on the part of Nature,
who seeks to remove from the body the filth accumulated there
through faulty habits of living. It is a beneficent process which
should not be cheeked lest its arrest harm the organism and leave
it in its state of filth. The primary cause of fever is error of diet,
lack of exercise, etc.
"Let us contrast the two. A recent discussion of this question
among a group of twelve Chiropractors, from at least six schools,
brought out the fact that every one seeks to suddenly check, or
abort a fever by adjustment; that all believe that less damage is
done to the body, that there is less liability of unpleasant sequelae
when the fever is checked as soon as possible. Are they all wrong?
If the Nature Cure theory is correct, then every Chiropractor
should avoid 'breaking up' a fever. Logically, he should aid
elimination and do as much as possible to give vitality to the pa-
tient, but the fever should run until the body is thoroughly
'cleansed'. Literally, we must be 'purged by fire'.
"Here are some facts of common experience, verifiable by all.
The most frequent reduction of temperature in pneumonia is two
degrees in from five to ten minutes following the adjustment. It
is the rule that all acute fevers disappear in from a few minutes to
two days after adjustment is commenced.
. . . "If the Chiropractic theory is correct, we check the fever
by reversing the process of its causation."
I shall not comment at length upon the above quoted

utterances of Dr. Loban, This entire volume constitutes
my answer to this and other critics of Nature Cure
philosophy.
In this connection I shall only say that, in the first place,
I do not believe acute diseases of a serious character such
as scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, pneumonia,
cerebrospinal meningitis, etc., after they once have a good
and well defined start, can be suppressed in a few days'

time by osteopathic, chiropractic, naprapathic or manipu-
lative treatment.
In the second place, if such suppression were possible it
should not be permitted because it would surely result in
serious harmful after effects and pave the way to chronic
disease as do other forms of suppression of Nature's acute
reactions. I am justified in expressing an opinion in this
matter because for over fifteen years graduates of the
best osteopathic, chiropractic and (of late) naprapathic
schools have been working and teaching in our institutions.
Suppose a person should develop a good healing crisis
in the form of a diarrhea, acute catarrhal elimination,
skin eruption, boils, carbuncles or some other inflamma-
tory feverish form of elimination. What would happen
to such a purifying, healing effort of Nature under Dr.
Loban 's care? According to his own statement, he would
arrest it as quickly as his adjustments would enable him.
Thereby he would undoubtedly throw the patient back
into the chronic condition. Such may be considered good
chiropractic treatment, but it is certainly not in harmony
with the fundamental law of cure and the law of crises.
I do not wish to convey the impression that manipula-
tion, properly applied, may not be very helpful in the
treatment of acute diseases. But I do insist that the in-
flammatory processes, after they have once started, must
—
not be checked or suppressed that the most essential part
NEUROTHEBAPY 423
of the natural treatment in such eases consists in fasting

and hydrotherapy. These promote the elimination of mor-
bid matter more thoroughly than does any other method
of treatment.
The underlying causes of disease must be removed be-
fore we can bring about a normal condition of the organ-
ism. Suppose the chiropractor, osteopath or naprapath
should succeed in suddenly stopping a fever. The patient
would continue to "load up" more morbid materials
(especially since these schools do not teach the impor-
tance of natural living), and it would be only a matter of
time until the morbid accumulations in the body would
excite new acute reactions, necessitating more adjust-
ments. This may be all right for the practitioner, but
what about the patient ? In the long run it can have but
one result, and that is chronic disease.
Massage
Massage has very much the same effects upon the system
as the coldwater treatment. It accelerates the circulation,
draws the blood into the surface, relaxes and opens the
pores of the skin, promotes the elimination of morbid
matter and increases and stimulates the electromagnetic
energies in the body.
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 body. These morbid

encumbrances obstruct the circulation, interfere with
osmosis and prevent the normal activity of the organs of
elimination, especially the skin.
The deep going massage, the squeezing, kneading, roll-
ing and stroking, actually squeezes the stagnant blood
and morbid accumulations out of the tissues into the
venous and lymphatic circulation, speeds this return cir-
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culation, charged with waste products and poisons, on

its way to the lungs and other organs of elimination and
enables the arterial blood with its freight of oxygen and

nourishing elements to flow more freely into the less
obstructed tissues.
Thorough manipulation of the deeper tissues draws the
blood to the surface of the body, and in this way greatly
facilitates the elimination of morbid matter through the
relaxed and opened pores of the skin.
Very important are the electromagnetic effects of good
massage upon the system. The positive magnetism of the
masseur stirs up and intensifies the latent electromagnetic
energies in the body of the patient, very much as a piece
of iron or steel magnetized by rubbing it with a magnet.
is
The more normal and positive, morally and mentally as

well as physically, the masseur, the more marked will be
the good effects of the treatment upon the weak and
negative patient.
CHAPTER XXXIV
MAGNETIC TREATMENT
During the first years of my work as a practitioner of
Natural Therapeutics I administered magnetic treatment
in addition to the regular manipulative movements and
corrections. The ordinary magnetic treatment is admin-
istered by laying the hands on the affected parts or by
making passes over the body while at the same time exert-
ing the power of therapeutic faith, will and sympathy. I
soon discovered, however, that by some patients the nature
and meaning of the treatment was misunderstood, that
they looked upon it with suspicion and fear as a sort of
witchcraft or hypnotic process. Such apprehension is un-
founded. Hypnotic and magnetic treatments differ
decidedly in method and effect.
Through the hypnotic process the operator or hypnotist
benumbs and paralyzes temporarily or, in extreme cases,
permanently the highest faculties and powers of his sub-
ject, namely, reason, will and selfcontrol. While these
higher attributes of the soul are temporarily benumbed
and paralyzed the hypnotist, through the concentrated
exertion of his imagination and will power, dominates the
subconscious mind and by suggestion controls and di-
rects the physical, mental and emotional activities of his
subject. This process is, indeed, to be feared because it is
destructive in its effects upon both operator and subject.
It involves the usurpation of the highest functions of
mind and soul. As explained in the volume on Eugenics,
it results in soul murder and has been called the great
psychological crime.
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The magnetic healer does not attempt to subdue and

control the will power and mental and emotional faculties
of his patient. The latter remains during the treatment
fully conscious and self possessed. The magnetic treat-
ment affects only the purely vital conditions of the sub-
ject. It arouses, strengthens and harmonizes his weak-
ened, negative and discordant vibrations. As has been
demonstrated in other chapters disease is negative, health
positive. The one is discordant the other harmonious
vibration of the parts and particles composing the human
entity on the physical, mental and psychical planes of
being.
As the life force enters the human organism it is trans-
muted on the lower planes into electromagnetic and vito-
chemical energies. The ordinary electric cell contains
two plates of opposite polarity immersed in acidulated
water. For instance, one of the plates may be zinc which
is positive, the other copper which is negative. The ves-
sel is partly filled with a weak solution of
sulphuric acid.
The plates of zinc and copper are con-
nected by copper wires at the bottom and
at the top. (See Fig. 3.) The positive
current flows from the zinc to the copper
within the fluid and from the copper to
the zinc through the wire connecting the
upper ends of the plates above the fluid.
The arrows in the illustration indicate
Fig. 3
the complete voltaic circuit of the cur-
rent.
The positive electricity of the zinc traverses the liquid
to the copper over which it flows through the copper wire
to the zinc. The effect is that the part of the wire at-
tached to the copper is positive (+) and is called the

positive pole or electrode, while the end attached to the
MAGNETIC TEEATMENT 427
zinc is negative ( — ) and is called the negative pole or

electrode.
The generation of accompanied by chemi-
this current is
cal action in the cell. Experiment shows that the mere
contact of dissimilar materials such as copper and zinc
electrifies them, zinc being positive and copper negative
but contact alone does not yield a continuous current of
electricity. When we plunge the two metals, still in con-
tact either directly or indirectly through a wire, into
water, preferably acidulated, a chemical action is set up,
the water is decomposed and the zinc is consumed. Water,
as is well known, consists of oxygen and hydrogen. The
water combines with the zinc to form oxide of zinc and
the hydrogen is set free as gas on the surface of the cop-
per plate. So long as this process continues, that is to

say so long as there is zinc and water left, we get an elec-
tric current in the circuit.
The existence of such a current may be proved by a
very simple experiment. Place a penny above and a dime
below the tip of the tongue, then bring the edges into
contact and you will feel an acid taste in the mouth.
A living body is a great electric battery for the produc-
tion of electromagnetic and vitochemical energies. Every
minute cell in the body is an electric cell. Cell substance
or protoplasm, aswe have learned, is made up of hydro-
gen plus negative substances. Protoplasm is, therefore,
negative in character. Under the microscope the cells
appear like tiny islands surrounded by moving streams
of blood and lymph.
The blood is highly charged with positive mineral ele-
ments and also contains small amounts of acids. Here,
then, we have all the constituents present in an electric
cell or battery, the negative elements in the protoplasm
in contact with the positive mineral elements in the blood,
and the acid constituents of blood and lymph correspond-
ing to the acid fluid in the cell. Acting through these cells
and batteries in living bodies, the life force is transmuted
into electromagnetic and vitochemical energies.

All the tissues and organs of the body are electromag-
netic batteries made up of innumerable minute electric
cells. The internal and external membranes of the vari-
ous organs and tissues, like the two elements in an electric
cell, are of opposite polarity. In some organs the inner
membranes are electromagnetically positive while the
outer membranes are negative. In other organs, the elec-
tromagnetic conditions are reversed. The secretions of
these membranes, also of opposite polarity, mingle and
promote the liberation of electromagnetic and vitochem-
ical energies. I use the word ''liberation" advisedly be-
cause these energies cannot be permanently produced by
the physical material elements of the body.
Vital force is transmuted through the electric cells and
batteries which make up the living body into electromag-

netic and vitochemical energies. "When vital force leaves
the body at death the production of vital energy ceases,
although the physical material alkaline and acid elements
are still present in the rapidly disintegrating body. For
these reasons we should not say the body produces but
rather the body liberates vital energy.
According to the ancient vedic teachings, vital force
enters the body through the pituitary bodies and is dis-
tributed through the sympathetic and central nervous sys-
tems. Modern physiology affirms that the involuntary
functions and activities of the body are controlled through
the sympathetic nervous system.
The brain is the most powerful and active electromag'
netic battery in the body. In its infinite multitude of
glandular structures and minute cells and batteries, vita]
force is transmuted into nervous, intellectual and emov
tional energy. The brain and nervous system are the
MAGNETIC TREATMENT 429
central power stations whose batteries and dynamos sup-

ply the organs with the various forms of vital energy.
all
The nerves and their ramifications are the wires which
conduct and transmit vital energy.
Health, which is normal activity of the vital functions,
depends upon the perfect balance of the positive and nega-

tive elements and energies, and this, in turn, depends
largely upon the correct combination of food elements.
Electricity and magnetism produced by inanimate ob-
jects such as electric batteries or machinery belong to the
mineral kingdom. These forms of electromagnetic energy
are three kingdoms removed from the human. Their vibra-
tory activities are, therefore, too slow and coarse for
human bodies and not suitable for the treatment of dis-
ease. (Chap. XXVIII, "What is Positive, What Nega-
tive.")
In each higher kingdom of nature, under the influence
of the life elements, all forms of matter and energy
undergo constant refinement and assume higher velocity
of vibration and greater complexity of structure and
function.
It is for the foregoing reasons that in our work we have
discarded electromagnetic treatment by means of electric
contrivances. Several years of experimentation convinced
me that this kind of treatment in the long run did more
harm than good. In place of these dangerous agencies we
apply through the various forms of manipulative and
magnetic treatment the healing and harmonizing influ-
ences of the vital energies of the human plane.

As these vital energies are expended in the organism in
the forms of physical, nervous, mental and emotional
energy, they are thrown off and form around the body
somewhat to the
the multicolored aura which corresponds
exhaust of an engine.
The aura is visible only during the hours of wakeful
activity. It disappears entirely during sound sleep and

reappears on awakening with the beginning of physical
and mental activity. The weaker and more negative a
person is, the weaker the aura the healthier and stronger
;
and more active mentally, the more voluminous the aura.

It varies from dark and muddy colors to the most beau-
tiful tints of the rainbow. The more harmonious the vibra-
tory conditions on the ascending planes of being, the
brighter and more beautiful the color effects of the aura.
The vital energies manifest in higher or lower ranges of
color according to their higher or lower degree of vibra-
tory velocity and refinement. Thus purely vital energy,
that which has been called "animal magnetism", appears
close to the body as a vivid red, the color of blood. Red
represents the lowest vibratory range in the color scale.
The higher the degree of velocity and refinement of the
vital activity, the higher it manifests in the vibratory
range of the color scale. The finer shades of red express
activity of sex passion ; the higher love nature produces
beautiful effects in pink and lavender; emotions of a re-
ligious character appear in shades of blue; intellectual
activity, In shades of yellow. Violet and purple indicate
intellectualand moral development of a high degree.
They are the badge of mastership and royalty. "We are
told that on the spiritual planes of life angelic beings of
a high order of spiritual development appear surrounded
by a golden aura. This is the significance of the golden
halo with which painters surround the heads of saints and
angelic beings.
It is the vibratory quality of the aura of a person which
affects us pleasantly or otherwise. This constitutes at-
traction or repulsion, sympathy or antipathy. Likewise
the vibratory quality of the aura determines the thera-
peutic effect of magnetic and manipulative treatment. The
purer and more powerful the magnetic vibrations, the
greater the healing power. The more passive and sensi-

tive the vibratory condition of a person, the more ame-
nable he is to the tonic and harmonizing influences of a
pure and powerful aura. This explains why certain

persons have a soothing effect upon children and sick
people, while others have a disturbing effect. It is a prob-
lem with which we have to deal in the selection of our
operators.
The belief in a healing power emanating from spiritual
or celestial planes of life may
not be as superstitious as it
appears to the worldly wise. Since we understand the
possibilities of the wireless telephone, why should it be
impossible for the powerful auras of angelic or divine
beings to affect those who open themselves to their heal-
ing influence ? Why should it not be possible for the ema-
nations of the highest spiritual and celestial spheres, filled
with beings of godlike nature and divine power, to pene-
trate into the lower planes of this planetary universe?
As we connect our mental and emotional wireless with
the higher spiritual and celestial planes of life or with the
hells and purgatories, so will be the character of the influx
—harmonizing or discordant, constructive or destructive.
Since spiritual love is the highest possible vibratory
activity of the human most power-
soul, it is therefore the
ful element in magnetic, mental and spiritual healing.
The sympathy healers among the peasantry in European
countries rightfully name sympathy as one of the basic
elements in occult healing, the other two being absolute
faith and the positive will. To these I would add a vivid
imagination.
The secret of the healing power of Jesus undoubtedly
lay in His great love for and sympathy with suffering hu-
manity. Those who give manipulative and magnetic treat-
ment shoulder a great responsibility. On the purity and
power of their own physical, mental and moral vibrations

depends the therapeutic effect of their treatment.
I am often asked the question, "Is there danger of
losing my vitality and becoming negative by giving manip-
ulative and magnetic treatment?"
It is true that manipulative and magnetic work, like
everything else, can be overdone and that thereby it may
produce harmful effects upon the operator. But within
reasonable limits, massage and magnetic treatments will
not deplete the power of the person giving them, provid-
ing he keeps his system in good condition. His own vibra-
tions must be harmonious on all planes of being the —
physical, mental, moral and spiritual. He must be in-
spired and actuated by the faith that he CAN heal, by the
positive will to heal and by sympathy with the suffering
of the one he is trying to heal.
Such an operator makes himself an instrument for the
transmission of life force, which is healing force, from
the source of all life. As he gives, so he receives, for
this is the basic law of the universe, the law of compen-
sation. If he gives the treatments in the right spirit he
will gain vital force instead of losing it. lie 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 him. "He who loses his life
shall find it."
Like a musician who tunes up (puts in harmonious vi-
bration) the relaxed strings of his instrument, so the mag-
netic healer "tunes up" and harmonizes the weakened
and discordant vibrations of his patient.
The basic law of this universe is the law of compensa-
tion. It manifests in the relationships of human life in
giving and receiving. Give, and ye shall receive. " " With
* *
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you."

These are not merely the expressions of a religious en-

thusiast. They are scientific truths.
—not necessarily of money and precious
Give, give, give
stones, but of treasures far beyond these in value— sympa-
thy,good cheer and loving service. Giving Himself freely
and unceasingly, the Creator has accumulated innumerable
solar systems with myriads of man-bearing planets, until
the abyss of space sparkles with stars as thickly as the
morning grass with dewdrops. From the great central
sun, rays of light shootoutward until they become solidi-
fied and individualized in the ultimate forms of matter.
In these the oversoul loses its self-consciousness. The
Creator becomes the created the positive becomes the
:
negative. When man becomes the master, the angel and

the God, the great snake of the Cosmos swallows its tail
— the circle of being is completed. Involution and evo-
lution have run their course.
The majority of people on this earth plane recognize
and apply only one aspect of the law of giving and receiv-
—
ing ^the receiving. They are only too willing to take, to
acquire and to hold, but very reluctant to give a fair
equivalent for that which they receive and most unwilling
to render service without expectation of reward.
From this one-sided application of the law of compen
sation in social life arises all the injustice, cruelty ant'l
suffering which partakes of the nature of heU on thin

earth plane or on any other sphere ; for all there is of hell
anywhere in the universe is selfishness and all there is 0.'/.
heaven is unselfish service.

The keynote of the higher life here and on the highî-r
spiritual spheres is that of unselfish, loving service, while
that of the lower spheres taking and withholding.
is selfish
Our present day commercial and political cus-

social,
toms and usages are dictated by selfishness and greed.
These breed extreme poverty and privation on the one

hand and excessive wealth and luxury on the other. They
are the causes of constant strife between capital and labor
and of the great calamity which is now destroying the
white race in internecine conflict.
'
All this I have discussed in The Unity of Disease in the
'
Physical and Social Body", "The Spirit of Christmas",

and "The Spirit of Hades". (Vol. 4, "Eugenics.")
In all commercial pursuits the interests of seller and
buyer are hostile. Good business policy dictates that each
take from the other as much as he may and give as little
as possible. Only too often the servant is the paid enemy
of him who hires. The mistress treats her servant with
contempt or supercilious condescension; the clerk and
saleswoman suffer from arrogance and lack of considera-
tion on the part of those whom they serve.
More harmonious and congenial is the relationship be-
tween physician and nurse, on the one hand, and the pa-
tient on the other. No matter how selfish and inconsiderate
a person may be, he usually shows the best side to those
from whom he expects the healing of his ailments. The
best and most successful physicians and nurses are those
who are able to establish between themselves and their
patients a sympathetic understanding and on this basis
mutual faith and confidence. Thus the practice of healing
brings out the best and finest qualities of human nature.
The more each gives to the other of consideration and
confidence, the greater the benefit to patient and physi-
cian. There is no greater work than that of healing; it
is the work of the Master.
Every institution for the healing of the sick should be
a center for spiritual power. "Who can doubt that the
many and patients
physicians, operators, nurses, students
in such a place, working together in unity of purpose and
in perfect harmony of faith, can establish a spiritual center
radiating healing power? Such is the meaning of the

**Holy Grail".
There no better method for generating and concen-
is
trating healing power than by daily meetings and lectures

in which the principles of true healing are discussed and
demonstrated. Many grateful guests have said to me,
"The daily lectures are the best part of your work". I
doubt not that our success in treating so called incurable
chronic ailments depends to a large extent upon the opera-
tion of these higher and finer forces.
Many of our patients who leave for home before they
are cured, thinking that they can eat and drink, bathe and
exercise just as well at home, find that "something" is
lacking, that the physical methods alone are not sufficient
to attain the desired results. This something is the intel-
lectual, magnetic and spiritual atmosphere of a center
conducted in the right spirit for the healing of human
ailments.
Nervous, mental and psychical ailments are especially
by the operation of these higher
influenced and benefited
and finer forces.
To surround people suffering from various phases of
abnormal psychism and obsession with these vitalizing,
harmonizing and protecting influences is the most effective
part of the treatment.
It is on this basis only that I have been able to explain
to myself and to others the rapid cures of such cases
which could not possibly result from physical treat-
ment alone. This seems to be confirmed by the fact
that in psychical cases as a rule we are not able to ob-
tain satisfactory results in the ordinary home surround-
ings.
The nature and treatment of psychical disorders is de-
scribed fully in the second and fourth volumes of this
series.
The weakness in chronic disease and the inability of

the organism to arouse itself to acute activity caused by
is
a deficiency of vital energy. The beneficial effect of mag-

netic treatment is not so much due to the transmission of
vital force from operator to patient as to the arousing and
stimulating of the latent positive electromagnetic and
vitochemical energies of the sufferer —in the polarizing of
his magnetic forces.
The positive magnetism of the operator up and
stirs
intensifies the inactive vital energies in the body of the
patient, very much as a piece of iron is magnetized by
rubbing it with a magnet. The magnet does not impart
its own magnetism to the piece of iron, but the active
electromagnetic energy in the magnet arouses the latent
vibratory activity in the iron. This is proved by the fact
that the magnetized iron retains its power as long as it is
used for magnetizing other substances and that its mag-
netic qualities will diminish and disappear entirely with
disuse.
A healthy person, animated by lofty ideals and the
earnest desire to allay pain and suffering,is constantly
radiating healing power whether he be aware of it or not.

Use of this power for the healing of the sick cannot deplete
and weaken the physician on the contrary, the more he
;
gives of these higher and finer energies, the more he re-

ceives from the inexhaustible storehouse of life and heal-
ing power. However, the work of the healer will gain in
effectiveness in direct proportion to the conscious and
concentrated effort he makes to benefit his patients.
The electromagnetic energies of the organism can be
controlled by the will and either concentrated in or sent
away from any part of the body, just as the circulation of
the blood can be controlled. 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 by the power of
his will. "While this was accomplished by means of a

destructive process, it taught a most valuable lesson re-
garding the power of the will to control the physical con-
ditions and vital energies.
I have frequently noticed in my own manipulative work
how much the conscious and concentrated effort of the
will has to do with the effectiveness of treatment. Often
when I had given the usual massage or neurotherapy treat-
ment and the patient still complained of pain in a certain
locality of the body, I would lay my hands on the affected
area and concentrate my will upon dissolving the conges-
tion in that particular part and upon harmonizing its
discordant vibrations. Very shortly, usually within a few
minutes, the congestion would be relieved and the pain
lessened.
Try it yourself. Next time you have one of your annoy-
ing headaches, recline comfortably in a chair or on a
couch, relax completely and then will the blood to flow
away from the brain in order to relieve the congestion
and the attendant pain. Many of our patients have learned
to treat themselves or members of their family in this way.
It is obvious that magnetic treatment will not perma-
nently remove pain if the latter be due to irritation caused
by a luxated bone, by some foreign body or by local ac-
cumulation of morbid matter and poisons in any part or
organ. In all such cases the local cause of the irritation
must be removed before the pain can subside or disappear.
The Practice of Magnetic Healing*
Mesmer, a French physician, was the first to experi-

ment scientifically with human magnetism and to use it
for healing purposes. For him this method was called
Mesmerism. Unfortunately, the term is also used to des-
ignate hypnotism and has thus contributed to the eonfu-
sion as to the true nature and meaning of these greatly

differing practices.
Mesiner made his discoveries toward the end of the
eighteenth century. About the middle of the nineteenth
century Baron von Reichenbach, a German scientist, took
up the work where Mesmer had left it and brought actual
proof of the existence of the electromagnetic energies and
of their manifestation in the aura.
He conducted his experiments in a dark chamber im-
pervious to light rays from without. Psychically sensi-
tive persons, after remaining in the dark chamber for a
short time, were able to perceive the aura more or less
distinctly in the form of light or bluish vapor emanating
from living objects placed before them. Clairvoyant
psychics, or "sensitives" as he called them, were able to
distinguish various colors of the aura.
Von Reichenbach was one of the greatest chemists of
his orany other age. He first prepared from coal tar,
paraffin and some of the analin dyes. The latter part of
his life he devoted almost entirely to the study of the
electromagnetic fluids emanating from living bodies. He
called this emanation Od-Kraft, after Odin, the highest
deity of Scandinavian mythology. He wrote a number
of valuable treatises on this subject. The title of one
booklet is "Who is Sensitive and Who is Not?" In this
he gives many rules and methods for determining the
degree of psychic sensitivity of a person.
I ascribe this sensitivity to a high degree of refinement
of the sensory organs of the physical body or to the func-
tioning of the sensory organs of the spiritual body. Mat-
ter on the physical plane is perceived by the sensory organs
of the physical body only, while spiritual matter and its
emanations of light, color, sound, etc., are perceived by
the sensory organs of the spiritual body only.
The following simple experiments will make the purely
physical emanations of the aura visible to ordinary sight

In a room dark enough to leave the hands just visible,
alternately approach and separate the finger tips. If a
person is in good, healthy physical condition streaks of
bluish light or vapor will appear between the finger tips.
The bluish streams can be stretched out and moved in
various directions like rubber bands.
If you wish to see the aura emanating from the body,
prepare a room containing one window in the following
manner : On window hang a curtain
the wall opposite the
of dull, black cloth. The window should have a shade
which can be raised or lowered as may be required. Cover
the lower part of thewindow with some fabric impervious
to light and in front of the black curtain place a person
nude to the waist. The observers stand in front of and
with their backs turned to the window. The transition
between daylight and darkness is the best time of day for
this experiment. The inflow of light into the dark cham-
ber is regulated by pulling the window shade down to a
narrow slit so as to admit just enough light to leave the
room in semi-darkness. "When the condition of light, or
rather of darkness, in the room is perfectly adjusted, the
observers, with their backs to the window and their gaze
fixed upon the subject, will soon see around the nude body
a bluish light or vapor. The emanation will be more or
less strong and distinct according to the positive or nega-
tive condition of the subject. The healthier and stronger
physically, intellectually and morally the person, the more
voluminous and distinct will be his aura.
This bluish vapor, visible to the physical eye, represents
the purely physical emanation of the subject. The higher
and finer intellectual, emotional and moral emanations are
visible only to clairvoyant sight. I found that about eight
or nine persons in ten were capable of seeing the physical
aura when the conditions were right. To spiritual sight
Vol. 1—29.
the physical emanation appears, as before explained, red

—the color of blood.
I have elsewhere explained that the aura disappears
entirely during sound sleep and reappears with the awak-
ening of consciousness, with the beginning of physical and
mental activity and that during the hours of sleep the
;
body acts as a storage battery for the accumulation of

vital energy. When this is exhausted in the daily work
the tired feeling makes its appearance and there is a desire
for rest and sleep. Sleep is the only restorer of vital
energy.
Magnetic Treatment
Vital energy is active not only through the laying on of

hands, or magnetic passes, but also through the eyes, the
sound of the voice and, most of all, through the breath.
The principal rule to be observed by the physician when
administering magnetic treatment is to place himself in
such a position to the subject that opposite parts of their
bodies come into juxtaposition, that is the right hand
must touch or pass over the left side of the patient, and
vice versa.
Magnetic passes must proceed from the head downward
over the body, the hands returning in a sweeping outward,
circular movement so as not to counteract the downward
passes. If you should treat a person from behind or while
he is lying on his stomach, your hands must be crossed
and passed over the body in that way from the head
downward in order to cover the opposite poles in the body
of the patient.
Magnetic Treatment for Poor Circulation in the

Extremities
Have the patient lying on a couch or bed with shoes

and stockings removed; lay your hands flat against the
soles of his feet or grip his feet firmly around the ankles.
Slight friction will aid reaction. While thus applying
your magnetic current, will the vital fluids to flow into
the extremities and to warm them with the glow of life.
I have cured in this manner many cases of chronic cold
feet and always advise our nurses and operators to apply
this natural treatment in place of the hot water bottle,
which brings about a cold reaction and in the long run
makes the circulation more inactive.
When giving the magnetic passes in a sitting position
the subject should remain in a comfortable, relaxed and
receptive condition. The more receptive and sensitive the
subject, the more distinctly he will feel the magnetic vibra-
tions like a mild current from an electric battery.
A simple experiment to test the existence and strength
of the magnetic emanations of a person, is the following
The subject stretches out his hands horizontally while
the operator approaches them from below, his finger tips
approaching each other and turned upwards. As he
slightly moves the finger tips in close proximity to the
palms of the subject the latter will feel the magnetic vibra-
tions, according to his degree of sensitiveness, as a slight
breath of air or as a more or less powerful electric current.
The degree of sensation will vary according to the nega-
tivity or sensitivity of the subject and the positivity of
the operator.
One of the best ways of administering magnetic treat-
ment is through magnetized water. Water may be charged
with positive or negative magnetism as required by the
character of the ailment. Positive magnetism has an
astringent effect upon the tissues of the body, while nega-
tive magnetism has a relaxing effect. Positive magnetism,
therefore, would be in order for the treatment of chronic
diarrhea, while negative magnetism is most effective for
the treatment of constipation.
In order to charge water or any other fluid positively

the lefthand is placed under the vessel, while the right
hand with fingers pointing downward and in close prox-
imity to the fluid makes circular passes. If a substance is
to be magnetized negatively, the process would be re-
versed, that is the fingers of the left hand must do the
charging. In like manner, fabrics and other substances
may be charged magnetically.
In every family a person possessed of good, healthy
magnetism should train for giving this valuable method
of treatment. It will be found very valuable and helpful
in many forms of acute and chronic diseases.
I have been asked the question whether there is not dan-
ger of suppressing crises by the administration of mag-
netic treatment. There is no danger in this respect because
the right kind of magnetic treatment arouses and stimu-
lates the vital energies, and as healing crises are manifes-
tations of increased vital activity magnetic treatment will
help to produce them and to increase their constructive
activity.
Sympathy Healing
This is a form of healing practiced among the country

population of Northern Europe. It is an occult science
handed down from father or mother to son or daughter in
certain families known for their probity and piety. While
I was studying Nature Cure in Europe my attention was
repeatedly called to the seemingly mysterious and mirac-
ulous results obtained by these healers. This led me to
investigate their methods and after convincing one of
these healers of my sincerity of purpose, he confided to
me the secrets of his art.
Their remedies consist in prayers, charms and similes.
Some plant or object that in some way resembles the dis-
ease is given to the sick person. In this connection it is
interesting to remember that Jesus many times made use

of material similes when performing works of healing, as
when he told the leper to bathe in the River Jordan when
;
he rubbed the eyes of the blind man with spital.

The mystical remedies become efficient only when ad-
ministered with faith, will and sympathy. The healer
must have absolute faith that he can heal with the aid of
the higher powers and he must have the positive will to
heal and sympathy with the sufferings of the one he is
trying to benefit.
The work of healing must be done in silence, without
reward and without vain boasting. "While going and
coming on the errand of mercy the healer does not utter
a word unless it be of prayer. He does not accept any
material reward for his services nor does he ever speak
of his cures. To break any of these sacred obligations
would be sacrilegious and would in his opinion bring
about the loss of his power.
I have had plenty of proof that their methods are some-
times strangely successful but at other times they fail
equally mysteriously.
The villagers in Northern Europe to a large extent
depend upon these occult healers for treatment and un-
doubtedly in most cases with more lasting results than
under orthodox poison treatment. These primitive meth-
ods date back to the time when the Germanic matron, the
Druid or the tribal priest combined in their ministrations
the holy offices of physician, prophet and priest.
This shows that mental and spiritual methods of healing
did not originate with leaders of modern mental healing
cults. One cannot help but observe how infinitely more
unselfish,pure and spiritual are the methods of these
simple country folk than the commercialized, self-adver-
tising practices of certain modern mental healers. If
simony or trading in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and in
the power of the Holy Ghost was branded as a sin and a

crime by the disciples of Jesus, why is it "Christian"
science now ?
The specious arguments of our modern healers as to
"the necessity of making a living" and "the laborer is
worthy of his hire" are effectively contradicted by the
unselfish ministrations of the sympathy healers.
CHAPTER XXXV
THE LEGITIMATE SCOPE AND NATURAL
LIMITATIONS OF MENTAL AND
METAPHYSICAL HEALING
TOURING the last generation people have perceived
"—' more or less clearly the fallacies of old school medi-
cine and surgery. They have grown more and more suspi-
cious of orthodox theories and practices. From allopathic
"overdoing" the pendulum has swung to the other extreme
of metaphysical nihilism, to the "underdoing" of mental
and metaphysical systems of treating human ailments.
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 truth.
However, a thorough understanding of the fundamental
laws of cure, as I have explained them in this volume, will
reveal in how far their teachings and their practices are
based upon truth and in how far they are inspired by
erroneous assumptions.
Let us then apply the weights and measures of Nature
Cure philosophy in testing the true value of the claims of
metaphysical healers.
For ages people have been educated in the belief that
almost every acute disease will end fatally unless the
patient is drugged or operated on. When they find to
their surprise that the metaphysical formulas or prayers
of a mental healer or Scientist will cure baby's measles
or father's smallpox just as well as and possibly better
445
than Dr. Dopem's pills and potions, they are firmly con-
vinced that a miracle has been performed in their behalf
and straightway they become blind believers in and fanat-
ical followers of their new idols.
They simply exchange one superstition for another the :
drugs and surgical operations for

belief in the efficacy of
the belief in the wonder working power of a metaphysical
formula, a selfappointed savior, or a reason stultifying
and Mall benumbing cult. 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 force, the
"physician within", that under favorable conditions cures
measles and smallpox as easily as it repairs the broken
blade of grass or heals the wounded deer of the forest.
"That is exactly what we say!" exclaim healer and
Scientist. "Have unlimited faith in the God within and
all will be well!"
True, Brother, faith is —
good ^but faith and works are
better. Though we cannot heal and give life we can in
many ways assist the healer within. We can teach Na-
ture's laws, we can remove obstructions and we can make
the conditions within and around the patient more favor-
able for the action of Nature's healing forces.
When the Great Master said: "Go forth and sin no
more, lest worse things than these befall you," he acknowl-
edged sin, or the transgression of natural laws, to be the
primary cause of disease and made health dependent upon
compliance with the law. The necessity of compliance with
the law, in all respects and on all the planes of being, is
still more strongly emphasized in the following:
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend
in one point, he is guilty of all."
The skeptic and the superficial reader may reply :
'
' This
saying is utterly unreasonable. Stealing a penny is not
committing a murder; overeating does not break the law
LEGITIMATE SCOPli OF MENTAL HEALING 447
of chastity; how, then, is it possible to break all laws by

'
breaking any single one of them ?
There is, however, a deeper meaning to this seeming
paradox which makes it scientifically true.
Selfcontrol the Whole Law

Obedience to all laws on all planes of being depends
primarily on selfcontrol. Selfcontrol is, therefore, in a
sense "the whole law", for man
cannot break any one law
unless he breaks first this fundamental "law of all laws".
This implies that the demoralizing effect of sinning or law-
breaking on any one of the planes of being does not depend
so much upon the enormity of the deed as upon the loss
of selfcontrol. Continued weakening of selfcontrol in
trivial things may therefore, in the end, prove more de-
structive than a murder committed in the heat of passion.
If there is not selfcontrol enough to resist a cup of coffee
or a cigar, whence shall come the will power to resist
greater temptations ?
Truly, lack of selfcontrol in small things is the "dry
'
rot ' of the soul.
Is it not, then, 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 overeating, meat eating,
whisky drinking, smoking, tobacco chewing, drugging,
and a thousand and one other transgressions of natural
laws?
In spite of the finest spun metaphysical sophistries,we
continue to burn our fingers in the fire until we know
enough to leave it alone. Herein lies the corrective pur-
—
pose of that which we call evil suffering and disease.
The rational thing to do is not to deny the existence of
Mother Nature's punishing rod, but to escape her salu-
brious spankings by conforming to her laws.
What About the "Cures"?
As in medicine, so also in metaphysical healing, men

judge by superficial results, not by the real underlying
causes. The usual answer to any criticism of Christian
Science or kindred methods of cure is: "That may be
all right but see the results
; Nobody can deny their
!
wonderful cures," etc.

Let us see whether there really is anything wonderful
or supernatural about these cures or whether they can be
explained on simple, natural grounds.
In another chapter we explain the difference between
functional and organic disease and show how in diseases
of the functionaJ type the life force or healing force, which
always endeavors to establish normal conditions and the
perfect type, may work unaided up to the reconstructive
healing crises and through these eliminate the morbid
encumbrances from the system and reestablish normal
structure and function.
It is in cases like these that metaphysicians attain their
best results simply because Nature helps herself.
On the other hand, in cases of the true organic type,
where the vitality is low and the destruction of vital
parts and organs has progressed to a considerable extent,
the system is no longer able to rouse itself to selfhelp.
In such cases faith alone is not sufficient to obtain re-
sults. must be backed and assisted by
It all the natural
methods of treatment at our command.
"Healers" Work with Laws Which 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 surgery. People commence doctoring

LEGITIMATE SCOPE OF MENTAL HEALING 449
for little troubles which are aggravated by every dose of
medicine and every surgical operation until they end in

big troubles.
Is it marvelous that such patients improve and that
many are cured when they are weaned from drugs and the
knife ?
Metaphysical healers unconsciously do their best and

most beneficial work because they induce their followers
not to suppress acute diseases and healing crises by drugs
and surgical operations, thus allowing them to run their
natural course in harmony with the fundamental law of
Nature Cure namely, that every acute disease is the result
;
of a cleansing and healing effort of Nature, People will

refrain from the suppressive drug treatment under the
influence of metaphysical teachings which appeal to the
miracle loving element in their nature, when they cannot
be convinced by common sense Nature Cure reasoning.
Thus metaphysicians assist Nature indirectly by non-
interference and directly by soothing fear and worry, by
instilling faith, hope and confidence. Frequently they also
aid Nature by prohibiting the use of tobacco, alcohol and
pork, and by otherwise regulating the life and habits of
their followers.
Let us consider the problem from another point of view.
Let us assume, for argument's sake, that the average per-
son passes in the course of a lifetime through a dozen dif-
ferent diseases. He recovers from eleven of these no mat-
ter what the treatment. It is only the twelfth to which he
succumbs. Yet whosoever happened to treat the first
eleven diseases claims to have cured them and, perhaps, to
have saved the patient's life when, very often, the recovery
was in spite of the treatment and not because of it.
These explanations account for the seemingly miracu-
lous results of metaphysical healing. If healers and Sci-
entists were to explain their cures by the laws and princi-
pies of Nature Cure philosophy, mystery and miracle

would be taken out of their business.
"Faith Without Works" Dangerous

To God or Nature will overcome the natural
believe that
effects ofour ignorance, laziness and viciousness by won-
ders, signs and metaphysics, or to deny the existence of
and suffering, must lead inevitably to intel-
sickness, sin
lectualand moral stagnation and degeneration. I am a
thorough and consistent optimist and New Thought enthu-
siast,but I do not overlook the fact that in this, as in
everything else, there lurks always the danger of over-
doing and of exaggerating virtue into fault.
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 reality ; that he may become a dreamer
instead of a thinker and doer; and that he may mistake
selfish, emotional sentimentalism for practical charity and
altruism.
This unhealthy "all-is-good, there-is-no-evil" emotion-
alism leads only too often to weakening of personal effort,
a deadening of the sense of individual responsibility and
thereby to mental and moral atrophy for any of our vol-
;
untary functions, capacities and powers which we fail to

exercise will in time become benumbed and parab'zed.
Unprejudiced observers who come in close contact with
metaphysicians cannot help perceiving the pernicious
affect of their subtle sophistries on reason and character.
A chronic invalid who had been under the treatment of
a faith healer for several years exclaimed, when we gave
her our various instructions for dieting, bathing, breath-
ing exercises, etc.: "How glad I am that you give me
something to do I fear I have been imposing too long on
!
the goodness of the Lord, expecting Him to do my work

LEGITIMATE SCOPE OF MENTAL HEALING 45I
for me." Often afterwards, while recovering from life-

long ailments, she expressed her happiness and content-
ment in that she herself was doing something which in her
opinion was rational and helpful because it assisted Na-
ture's healing efforts.
We believe firmly and fully in the influence of mind over
matter, in the fact that vibrations of the physical plane
by continuity create corresponding vibrations on the men-
tal and psychical planes and vice versa. AVe know that, in
accordance with this law, anything which affects the mind
or the moral life of a person affects also his physical
condition; but instead of hypnotizing the minds of our
patients by law-defying, reason-and-will-benumbing dog-
mas and formulas, we strengthen and harmonize their
mental vibrations by appealing to reason, by teaching and
explaining natural laws instead of obscuring and denying
them.
The more more amenable he
intelligent the patient, the
will be to suchnormal suggestions based on scientific truth
and on the dictates of reason and common sense.
While nonresistance to Nature's healing efforts is bet-
ter than suppression by drugs or the knife, there is some-
thing still more helpful and rational than the mere
negative attitude toward disease on the physical plane
assumed by metaphysical cults. That "something" is
intelligent cooperation with Nature's cleansing and heal-
ing efforts.
Where the old school fails by sins of commission the
faith schools fail by sins of omission. Daily many patients
are sacrificed through fanatical inactivity when their lives
might be saved by the wet pack or cold sponge bath, by
the internal bath, rational diet, judicious fasting, scientific
manipulation, or other simple yet powerful natural rem-
edy. To permit a patient to perish in a burning fever,
depending solely upon the efiicacy of prayers, formulas
and induced mental attitude, when wet packs and

self
cold sponging would in a few minutes reduce the tempera-
ture below the danger point, is manslaughter even though
it be done in the name of religion.
Incidents like the following are common in our prac-

tice :A little girl in the neighborhood of our institution
contracted diphtheria. The mother, an ardent Christian
Scientist, called in several healers of her cult but the
child grew worse day by day until the false membranes
in the throat began to choke her to death.
A boarder in the house, who was a follower of Nature
Cure, finally induced the mother to call upon us for advice
by threatening to notify the City Health Department.
Within an hour after the application of the whole-body
packs and the cold ablutions, the blood was sufficiently
drawn away from the local congestion in the throat into
the surface of the body so that the child breathed easily
and freely and from then on made a splendid recovery.
Another instance A man had been suffering from sci-
:
atic rheumatism for fifteen years. He had swallowed

poisonous drugs to no avail. For several years he had been
under Mental Science treatment but the suffering had
grown more intense.
When
he applied to us for help we found that the right
hip bone (the innominate) had slipped upward and back-
ward. A few manipulative treatments replaced the bone
where it belonged and the "sciatic rheumatism" was
cured.
In this case, the combined ''concentration" and prayers
of all the metaphysical healers on earth would not have
succeeded in replacing the dislocated hip bone, which

required the full strength of a trained manipulator.
Metaphysicians could not have accomplished this feat
any more than they could have moved, by their mental
efforts, a hundred-pound weight from one place to another.
LEGITIMATE SCOPE OF MENTAL HEALING 453
Mechanical lesions of that kind (and there are many of

them) require mechanical treatment.
Another factor which makes converts to metaphysical
healing cults by the hundreds and thousands is the "get-
rich-quick" instinct in human nature, the desire to get
"something for nothing" or for as little effort as possible.
Herein lies the seductive pull of old-time drugging and of
modern metaphysics, "It does not matter how you live,
when you get into trouble, a bottle of medicine or a meta-
physical formula will make it all right." That sounds
—
very easy and promising, but the trouble is ît does not
always work.
Our forefathers were too pessimistic; "higher thought"
enthusiasts are often too optimistic. While the former
poisoned their lives and paralyzed their God-given facul-
ties and powers by dismal dread of hell's fire and damna-
tion, our modern healers and Scientists have drifted to the
other extreme. They tell us there is no sin, no pain, no
suffering. If that be true, there is also no action and reac-
tion, our modern healers and Scientists have drifted to the
no need of self control, selfhelp nor personal effort.
The ideal of the faith healer is the ideal of the animal.
The animal trusts implicitly, it has absolute faith. Guided
by instinct, God or Nature, it follows the promptings of
its appetites and passions without worrying about right or
wrong. It acts today as it did ten thousand years ago.

In man, rea,son has taken the place of instinct. We
must think and manage for ourselves. We are free and
responsible moral agents. If we deny this, we deny the
very foundations of equity, justice and right. It behooves
us to use the talents which God has given us, to study the
laws of our being and to comply with them to the best of
our ability so that enlightened reason may take the place
of animal instinct and guide us to physical, mental and
moral perfection.
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL AND
ORGANIC DISEASE
MUCH confusion concerning the curability of chronic

by the various methods of treatment arises
diseases
through failure to understand the difference between func-
tional and organic chronic disease.
For instance, there is a close resemblance between
pseudo and true locomotor ataxia. Often it is difficult to
distinguish functional lung trouble from the organic type
of the disease. In our practice, several cases of mental
derangement which had been diagnosed as "true paresis"
proved to be of the functional type and under natural
treatment recovered rapidly.
Functional diseases may present a very serious appear-
ance, may be labeled with awe inspiring Greek or Latin
names and yet yield readily to natural methods of living
and treatment.
In diseases of an organic nature, however, right living
and self treatment are usually not sufficient to insure sat-
isfactory results. In such cases all forms of active and
passive treatment must be applied and even then it is fre-
quently difficult and sometimes impossible to produce a
cure.
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 circulation of
the blood and nerve currents and with the normal func-
tions of the cells, organs and tissues of the body.
454
FUNCTIONAL AND ORGANIC DISEASE 455
Such cases resemble a watch which is losing time because

its works are filled with dust. All that such a waste
encumbered watch or body needs, in order to restore nor-
mal functions, is a good cleaning. Natural diet, fasting,
systematic exercise, deep breathing, cold bathing and the
right mental attitude are usually sufficient to accomplish
this physical house cleaning and to restore perfect health.
Functional disorders yield readily to the various forms
of metaphysical treatment. Remove such patients from
the weakening and destructive effects of poisonous drugs
and of surgical operations, supplant fear and worry by
courage and faith, 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 attitude.
In diseases of the organic type, however, good results
are not so easily achieved. A body affected by organic
disease resembles a watch whose mechanism has been
injured and partly destroyed by rust and corrosive acids.
If such be the case, cleaning and oiling alone will not be
sufficient to put the timepiece in good working order.
The watchmaker has to replace the damaged parts.
That is easy enough in the case of the watch but it is
not so easily accomplished in the human body. Besides,
in many instances the corroding acids are the very medi-
cines 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 operations.
The watchmaker may remove those parts of the watch
which are suffering from "organic" trouble and replace
them by new ones. This the surgeon cannot do. He can
extirpate but he cannot replace. Operative treatment
leaves the organism forever after in a mutilated and there-
fore unbalanced condition and often prevents or seriously
interferes with Nature's cleansing and healing crises.
Vol. 1—30.
The Limitations of Metaphysical Healing

It is often claimed by metaphysical healers that they can
cure organic diseases as easily and as quickly as func-
tional ailments. If they better understood the difference
between functional and organic disorders as explained in
the foregoing pages, they would not make such deceptive
and extravagant claims. They would then realize the
natural limitations of metaphysical healing.
"When waste matter, ptomains 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 structures or new
growths and accumulations in the forms of tumors, stones
or gravel obstruct the blood vessels and nerve currents,
shut off the supply of the vital fluids, and thus cause malnu-
—
trition and gradual decay of the tissues ^when in addition
to this the organism has been poisoned or mutilated by
drugs and surgical operations, then its purification and
repair becomes a tedious and difficult task.
Not only must the mechanism of the body be cleansed
and freed from obstructive and destructive materials, but
the injured parts must be repaired, morbid growths and
abnormal formations dissolved and eliminated, and lesions
in the bony structures corrected by manipulative treat-
ment.
In organic diseases the vitality is usually so low and
destruction so great that the organism cannot arouse itself
to selfhelp. Even the cessation of suppressive treatment
and the stimulating influence of mental and metaphysical
therapeutics are not sufficient to bring about the recon-
structive healing crises. This can only be accomplished
by the combined influences of all the natural methods of
living and of treatment.
FUNCTIONAL AND OKGANIC DISEASE 457
It is in cases like these that metaphysical healing and

hygienic living find their limitations. Such organic de-
fects require systematic treatment by all the methods,
active and which the best Nature Cure sanitariums
passive,
can furnish. It may
be slow and laborious work to obtain
satisfactory results and if the vitality be too low or the
destruction of vital parts and organs have too far ad-
vanced, even the best and most complete combination of
natural methods of treatment may fail to produce a cure.
However, this can be determined only by a fair trial of
the natural methods. The forces of Nature are ever ready
to react to persistent, sj'stematic effort in the right direc-
tion and when there is enough vitality to keep alive there
is enough to purify and reconstruct the organ-
likely to be
ism and in time to bring about improvement and cure.
This explains why, in the organic types of diseases,
metaphysical methods of treatment alone are insufficient.
At least one half of the patients who come to the Nature
Cure physician have faithfully tried these methods without
avail, but the failures are easily excused by "lack of
faith", ''wrong mental attitude", or "something wrong
with the patient or his surroundings".
In our experience with patients who had formerly tried
metaphysical methods of healing faithfully but without
results, we sometimes come face to face with a curious
and amusing phase of human nature. As our patients
improve under the natural regimen and treatment they
gradually return to their "first love" and ascribe the good
effects of natural treatment to a better understanding of
Science. As health and strength return they say :"For-
merly I did not know just how to apply Science, but now
I know and that is why I am growing better".
I suppose this form of selfdeception which we have fre-
quently observed is due to the fact that people feel flat-
tered by the idea that Providence has taken a special inter-
est in their caseand cured them by miraculous interven-

tion, or that the cure has been effected by a mysterious
metaphysical principle. It is so much more interesting to
be cured by some occult principle than by simple diet and
cold water.
Undoubtedly it is this miracle loving element in human
nature that makes metaphysical healing so much more pop-
ular than plain, common-sense Nature Cure.
Not long ago Professor Miinsterberg investigated the
claims made by Christian Scientists that they were "con-
stantly curing diseases of the organic type". He reported
his findings in a series of articles inMcClure's Magazine
(1908), stating that he inquired personally into one hun-
dred cases said to have been cured by Christian Science
and found that ninety-two of them had been of the func-
tional type, while eight were claimed to have been organic
but that in no instance could this be proved beyond doubt.
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE TWOFOLD ATTITUDE OF MIND AND SOUL
THE response
following
in
is an extract from a
to one of myarticles in
letter sent to
The Nature Cure
me
Magazine.
'
Sometimes you say we must rely on our own personal
'
efforts and at other times you teach dependence upon a

higher power. This to me is contradictory and confusing.
I cannot understand how, consistently, we can do both at
the same time. "Which is right? Is it best to rely upon
our own power and our personal efforts or upon the
'Higher Power'?"
There is nothing contradictory or incompatible in the
teachings of Nature Cure philosophy concerning the phys-
ical and metaphysical methods of treating human ail-
ments. Both the independent and the dependent attitudes
of mind and soul are good and true and may be entertained
at the same time. It is necessary for us to rely on our own
personal efforts in carrying out the dictates of reason and
of common sense. 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
being.
This twofold attitude of mind and soul is justified not
only by reason and intuition, but also by the anatomical
structure of the human organism and its physiological
and psychological faculties, capacities and powers.
The activities of the human organism are governed by
459
two different systems of nerves, the sympathetic and the

motor. The sympathetic nervous system is the conveyor
of vital force to the organs and cells of the body. Just
what this vital force is and where it originates wê do not
know. It is a manifestation of that which we term God,
Nature, Life, the Higher Power or the Divine Within,
Heart action, the circulation of the blood, respiration,
digestion, assimilation of food, elimination and all other
involuntary activities and functions of the human organ-
ism are controlled by means of the sympathetic nervous
system. The nature of the controlling force itself is not
known to us. We do know that it is supremely powerful,
intelligent and benevolent.
The more we study the anatomy, physiology and psy-
chology of the human organism, the more we wonder at
its marvelous complexity and ingenuity of structure and
function. Every moment there are enacted in our bodies

innumerable mechanical, chemical and psychological mira-
cles. Who or what performs these miracles? We do not
know. Yet every moment of our lives depends upon the
infinite care and wisdom of this unknown intelligence and
power.
Why, then, shouldwe not trust the one so faithful?
Why should we not ask aid from one so powerful? Why
not seek enlightenment from one who is so wise and so
benevolent ?
However, not all of the human entity is dependent upon
a controlling power, nor are all its functions involuntary.
Within the house prepared by the Divine Intelligence there
dwells a sovoreign in his own right and by his own might.
He is endowed with freedom of desire, of choice and of
action. 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 fibres of
the motor nerves to the voluntary muscles and makes them
TWOFOLD ATTITUDE OF MIND AND SOUL 461
do his bidding; some he commands to walk, others to

laugh, to eat, to speak, etc.
This independent principle in man we call the ego, the
individual intelligence. It imagines, desires, reasons,
plans and works out, by the power of free will and inde-
pendent choice, its own salvation or destruction, physi-
morally and spiritually. By means of the
cally, mentally,
motor nervous system this thinker and doer directs and
controls from the headquarters in the brain all the vol-
untary functions, capacities and powers of the human
organism.
This part of the human entity can evolve and progress
only through its own conscious and voluntary personal
efforts.
In this Man differs from the animal creation. The ani-
mal is able to take care of itself shortly after birth. It
inherits, fully developed, those brain centers for the con-
trol of the bodily functions which the new born human
must develop slowly and laboriously through patient and
persistent effort in the course of many years.
Of voluntary capacities and powers the new bom infant
possesses more than the simplest unicellular ani-
little
malcule, about all it can do is to scent and swallow food.

Its cerebral hemispheres are as yet blank slates to be
inscribed gradually by its conscious and voluntary exer-
tions. it can think, reason, speak, walk or do any-

Before
thing else must first develop in its brain special centers
it
for each and every one of these voluntary faculties and

functions.
Through these persistent personal efforts, reason, will
and self control are gradually evolved and developed;
while the animal, being hereditarily endowed with the
faculties and functions necessary for the maintenance of
life,has no occasion for the development of the higher
faculties and powers and therefore remains an irresponsi-
ble automaton which cannot be held accountable for its
actions.
To recapitulate: Freedom of choice and of action dis-
tinguish thehuman from the animal. In the animal king-
dom, reasoning power and freedom of action move in the
narrow limits of heredity and instinct, while Man through
his own personal efforts is capable of unlimited develop-
ment physically, mentally, morally and spiritually, both
here and hereafter. We
say physically advisedly, for in
the spiritual realms in the life after death the physical
(spiritual material) body also is capable of deterioration
or of ever greater refinement and beautification.
Through the right use of his voluntary faculties, capaci-
ties and powers Man is enabled to become the master of
himself and of his destiny.
Thus we find that the human organism consists of two
distinct parts or departments, the one acting independ-
ently of the ego and derivingits motive force from an
unknown source and the other under the conscious and

voluntary control of the ego.
This twofold nature of the human entity justifies the
—
twofold attitude of mind and soul 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 facul-
ties, capacities and powers with which Nature has en-
dowed us.
It is our privilege and our duty to maintain both atti-
tudes, the dependent as well as the independent. The

desire and the will to plan, to choose and to perform are
ours, but for the power to execute we are dependent upon
a higher source.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE SYMPHONY OF LIFE
HUMAN LIFE appears to me as a great orchestra in

which, we are the players. The great composition
'
to be performed is the ' Symphony of Life
'
', its infinitude

of dissonances and melodies blending into one colossal
tone picture of harmony and grandeur. We players must
study the laws of music and the score of the great sym-
phony and we must practice diligently and persistently
until we can play our parts unerringly in harmony with
the concepts of the Great Composer. At the same time
we must learn to keep our instrument, the body, in the
best possible condition; for even the greatest artist, en-
dowed with a profound knowledge of the laws of music
and possessed of the most perfect technique, cannot pro-
duce musical and harmonious sounds from an instrument
with strings relaxed or over tense, or with its body filled
with rubbish.
The artist must learn that the instrument, its material,
its construction and its care are just as much subject to
law as are the harmonics of the score.
In the final analysis, everything is vibration acting in
and on the universal ethers which are held to be the
primordial substance. Possibly the ethers themselves are
modes of vibration.
That which is constructive is harmonious vibration.
That which is destructive is inharmonious or discordant
vibration.
Against this it may be urged that devolution has its
harmonics as well as evolution, that every symphony is
made up of dissonances as well as of harmonies. To this
463
I answer, "Unadulterated harmony may, solely from lack

of change, become monotonous; but discords alone never
create harmony, health or happiness".
As the artist seeks vibratory harmony between his
instrument and the harmonics of the universe of sound,
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 universe.
The atoms and molecules in the wood and strings of
the violin, as well as the sounds produced from them, are
modes of motion or vibration. In order to bring forth
musical and harmonious notes, the vibratory conditions
of the physical elements of the violin must be in harmoni-
ous vibratory relationship with Nature 's harmonics in the
universe of sound.
The elements and forces composing the human body are
also vibratory in their nature. They also must be kept in
a certain well balanced chemical combination, mechanical
adjustment and physical refinement, if they are to vibrate
in unison with Nature's harmonics in the physical uni-
verse and thus produce the harmonies of health and
strength and beauty.
If our instrument is out of tune or if we ignorantly or
wilfully insist on playing in our cwti way regardless of
the score, we create discords not only for ourselves but
also for our fellow artists in the great orchestra of life.
Sin, disease, suffering and evil are but discords pro-

duced by the ignorance, indifference or malice of the
players. Therefore we cannot attribute the discords of
life to the Great Composer. 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 Score. For in this way
only can we ever hope to master the art and science of
right living and to enjoy the harmonies of peace, self-
content and happiness.
CHAPTER XXXIX
THE THREEFOLD CONSTITUTION OF MAN
THE following diagram and accompanying explana-

tions will serve to illustrate the Three Planes of
Being, the corresponding Threefold Constitution of Man,
and their analogy to the artist and his instrument.
The Threefold Constitution of Man
Planes
of Being
contempt and derision for the man who believes in or

knows of a spiritual body or a soul.
He is like an artist who says: "My violin is all there is
to music. The musician 's art consists in keeping his instru-
ment in good condition. Technique and the laws of har-
mony are matters of imagination and of superstitious
belief."
On the other hand, mental healers, Christian Scientists
and upon either
faith healers concentrate all their efforts
the mental or the soul plane, frequently making no dis-
tinction between the two. In the treatment of disease they
ignore the conditions and needs of the physical body and
some of them even deny its existence.
These metaphysicians are like the artist who devotes
all his time and energy to the study and practice of tech-
nique, counterpoint and harmony, neglecting his instru-
ment and taking no heed whether its mechanism is out of
order or with rubbish. His knowledge

its interior filled
of the laws of harmonics and his execution may be ever so

perfect; but with his instrument out of tune and out of
order he will produce discord instead of harmony.
The true artist realizes that MIND, the player, must
study SOUL, the harmonics ; and that the mind must also
have its instrument, the BODY, in perfect condition in
order to interpret perfectly and artistically the harmonies

of the "Symphony of Life".
Likewise, the Nature Cure physician will look for causes
of disease and for means of cure upon the material, mental
and psychical planes of being.
Thus will higher civilization and greater knowledge
lead back to the natural simplicity of primitive races,
where physician and priest are one.
After all, physical health is the best possible basis for
the attainment of mental, moral and spiritual hcaltli. All
building begins with the foundation. We do not first sus-
THREEFOLD CONSTITUTION OF MAN 467
pend the steeple in the air and then build the church under
it. So also the building of the temple of human character
should begin by laying the foundation in physical health.
We have known people who have attained high intellec-
tual, moral and spiritual development and then suffered
utter shipwreck physically, mentally and in every other
way, because ignorantly they had violated the laws of their
physical natures.
There are others who believe that the possession of
occult knowledge and the achievement of mastership con-
fer absolute control over Nature's forces and phenomena
on the physical plane. These people believe that a man
is not a master if he does not miraculously heal all manner
of disease and raise the dead.

If such things were possible, they would overthrow the
laws of cause and effect and of compensation. They would
abolish the basic principles of morality and constructive
spirituality. If it is possible in one case to heal disease
and to overcome death through the fiat of the will of a
master, then it must be possible in all cases. If so, then
we can ignore the existence of Nature's laws, indulge our
appetites and passions to the fullest extent and Avhen the
natural results of our transgressions overtake us, we can
go to a healer or master and have our disease "instantly
and painlessly" removed, like a bad tooth.
I say this with due reverence for and faith in the
all
efficacy of true prayer, and with full knowledge of the

healing power of therapeutic faith but I do not believe
;
that God, or Nature, or a master, or metaphysical formulae

can or will make good in a miraculous way for the inevi-
table results of our transgressions of the natural laws that
govern our being.
If such miraculous healing were possible and of common
occurrence, what occasion would there be for the exercise
of reason, will and self control? "What would become of
the scientific basis of morality and constructive spiritu-

ality ?
All this leads us to the following conclusions

If there is in operation a constructive principle of Nature
on the ethical, moral and spiritual planes of being with
which we must align ourselves and to which we must con-
form our conscious and voluntary activities in order to
achieve individual completion and happiness, then this
constructive principle must be in operation also in our
physical bodies and in their correlated physical, mental and
emotional activities. If the constructive principle is active
in the physical as well as in the moral and spiritual realms,
then the established harmonic relationship of the physical
to the constructive law of its being must constitute the
morality of the physical 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
life.
To recapitulate : our well being on all planes and

First,
in all relationships of depends upon the existence,
life
recognition and practical application of the great funda-

mental laws and principles just explained.
Second: Physical health as well as moral health is of
our own making. We are personally responsible not only
for our own physical and mental health, but we are also
morally responsible for the hereditary tendencies of our
offspring toward health or disease.
Third: The attainment of physical health through com-
pliance with Nature's laws is just as much our duty as is
our ethical, moral and psychical development.
The Unity and Continuity of the Law

That which we call God, Nature, the Creator or the
Universal Intelligence is the great central cause of all
THREEFOLD CONSTITUTION OF MAN 469
things, and the vibratory activities produced by or pro-

ceeding from this central or primary cause continue
through all spheres of life, as the light waves of the sun,
moon and fixed stars penetrate through the intervening
spheres of life to our plane of earth. Therefore all powers,
forces, laws and principles which manifest on our plane,
proceed and continue from the innermost Divine to the
outermost external plane in physical nature. This explains
the continuity, stability and correspondence on all planes
of being of that which we call National Law.
'
* *
In others
'
words, "Natural Law is the established harmonic rela-

tionship of effects and phenomena to their causes, and of
all particular causes to the one great primary cause of all
things."
CHAPTER XL
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
higher. The physical body with its material elements is
dominated and guided by the mind. The mind is inspired
through the inner consciousness which is an attribute of
the soul.The soul of man is in communion with the over-
soul which is the source of all life and all intelligence
animating the universe.
Wherever this natural order is reversed there is discord
or disease. Too many people think and act as though the
physical body were all in all, as though it were the only
thing worth caring for and thinking about. They exagger-
ate the importance of the physical and become its abject
slaves.
The physical body the lowest and least intelligent of
is
the different principles making up the human entity. Yet

people allow their minds and their souls to become domi-
nated and terrified by the sensations of the physical body.
When the servants in the house control and terrify the
master, when the master becomes their slave and they can
do with him as they please, there can be no order and
harmony in that house.
We must expect the same results when the lower princi-
ples in man it over the higher.
lord When physical weak-
and pain fill the mind with fear and dismay,
ness, illness
reason becomes clouded, the will atrophied and selfcontrol
is lost.
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MENTAL THERAPEUTICS 471
Every thougflit and every emotion has its direct effect

upon the physical constituents of the body. The mental
and emotional vibrations become physical vibrations and
structures. Discord in the mind is translated into disease
in the body, while the harmonies of hope, faith, cheerful-
ness, happiness, love and altruism create in the organism
the corresponding health vibrations.
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 groups? Dry sand strewn on the
top of a piano on which harmonious tone combinations are
produced shows a tendency to arrange itself in symmet-
rical patterns.
In this you have a visual illustration of the translation
of harmonious sound vibrations, which express "the har-
monics of the soul's emotions", into correspondingly har-
monious arrangements and configurations in the physical
material of the paper roll.
A jumble of discords of sound, if reproduced on a music
roll, would present a chaotic jumble of perforations.
Thus the purely mental and emotional is translated into

its corresponding discords or harmonies in the physical.
As the perforations on the paper music roll arrange

themselves either symmetrically or without symmetry and
order, in strict accordance with the harmonies or discords
of the composition, so the atoms, 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 con-
veyed to them from the mental and emotional planes.
Another illustration Two violins, as they leave the shop
:
of the maker, are exactly alike in material, structure and

One of the two instruments is constantly
quality of tone.
used by beginners and persons incapable of producing
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472 NATUEAL THEBAPEUTICS
pure notes. 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 quality.
After a few years compare the two violins again. You
will find that the one used by the tyros in music has
deteriorated in its musical qualities, while the one in the
hands of the has greatly improved in quality and
artist
purity of tone. What
is the reason ? The atoms and mole-
cules in the wood of the two instruments have grouped
themselves according to the discords or the harmonies
that have been produced from them.
If this rearrangement of atoms is possible in "dead"
wood, how much easier must be this adjustment of atoms,
molecules and cells to discordant or harmonious vibratory
influence in the living, plastic and fluidic human organism
What harmony is to music, hope, faith, cheerfulness,
happiness, sympathy, love and altruism are to the vibra-
tory conditions of the human entity. These emotions are
in alignment with the constructive principle in Nature.
They harmonize the physical vibrations, relax the tissues
and open them wide to the inflow of the life force.
Swedenborg truly says "The warmth of life is the heat
:
of the divine love permeating and animating the uni-

verse". The more we possess of hope, faith, love and
kindred emotions, the more we open ourselves to the inflow
and action of the vital energies. The good natured, cheer-
ful, sympathetic person is more alive than the crabbed,
morose, selfish individual.
It has been proved over and over again by everyday
experience that mental and emotional conditions posi-
tively afifect the chemical composition of the tissues and
secretions of the body. The destructive emotions of fear,
worry, anger, jealousy, revengefulness, envy, etc. actually
poison the fluids and tissues of the body. The bite of an
angry man may cause blood poisoning, and prove as fatal

mad dog. Sudden fear, anger or any other
as the bite of a
destructive emotion in the nursing mother may cause ill-
ness or even death of the infant.
In psychological laboratories it has been found by scien-
conducted experiments that under the influence of
tifically
destructive mental and emotional conditions, the secre-
tions and excretions of the body show an increase of mor-
bid and poisonous elements.
Selfishness, fear and worry contract and congeal the
blood vessels, the nerve fibres and the other channels
through which the life forces are conveyed from the inner-
most source of life to different parts and organs of the
physical body. The flow of the life currents is impeded
and diminished. Such are the actual physiological effects
of fear, anxiety and egotism on the physical organism.
A man under the influence of great fear and one exposed
to freezing present the same outward appearance. In both
cases death may result through the congealing of the
tissues and the shutting out of the life currents. The per-
son afflicted with the worry habit may not die suddenly
like one overcome by great and sudden fear. Nevertheless,
fear and worry vibrations constantly maintained will
surely obstruct and diminish the inflow of the life force,
lower the vitality and therewith the resistance to the
encroachment of influences inimical to the health of the
organism.
The cells in the body are negative, or at least they should
be negative to the positive mind. The relationship of the
mind to the cell should be like that of hypnotist to sub-
ject. If the mind could not exert such absolute control
over the cells and cell groups, it would be impossible for
us to walk, talk, write, dodge danger, etc. with almost
automatic ease.
The cells are not able to reason upon the truth or
untruth of the suggestions conveyed to them from the

mind. They accept its promptings unqualifiedly and act
accordingly.
Thus, if the mind constantly thinks of, say, the stomach
as being in a badly diseased condition, unable to do its
work properly, 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
mind.
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
heaJthy stomach or liver or whatever organ may be
involved in any particular case.
Positive Afl&nnatioiis
The foregoing explains why affirmations of health are

justifiable in the face of disease. The health conditions
must be first established in the mind before they can be
conveyed to and impressed upon the cells.
The wellbeing of the human body as a whole depends
upon the health of the billions of minute cells which com-
pose it. These cells are so small that they have to be mag-
nified several hundred times under a powerful microscope
before we can see them. Yet they are independent living
beings which grow, assimilate food, work and die like the
big cell, Man.
These little cells are congregated in communities which
form the organs and tissues of the body and in these com-
munities they carry on the complicated activities of citi-
zens living in a large city. Some are carriers, bringing
food materials to the tissues and organs or conveying
waste and morbid matter to the excretory channels of the
body. Other cells manufacture chemical substances, such

as sugar, fats, ferments, etc. for the production of which
complicated factories are required.
The marvelous work performed by these minute organ-
isms, as well as observations made in the dissecting room
and under the microscope, strongly indicate that these
cells areendowed with some sort of individual intelligence.
They do their work without our aid or conscious volition.
Nevertheless, they are greatly influenced by the varying
conditions of the mind. While their activities seem to be
controlled through the sympathetic nervous system, they
stand in direct telegraphic communication with "head-
quarters" in the brain and every impulse of the mind is
conveyed to them.
If there be dismay and confusion in the mind, this con-
dition is telegraphically conveyed over the nerve trunks
and filaments to every cell in the body, and as a result
these little workers become panic-stricken and incapable of
rightly performing their manifold duties.
The cell system of the body resembles a vast army. The
mind is the general at the head of it. The cells are the
groups for special work.
soldiers, divided into
Much of the work of an army is carried on through well
established departments, as the commissariat, hospital
service, scouts and pickets, etc. Though the life and the
activities of the army are so well regulated that they seem
automatic, nevertheless much depends upon the com-
mander.
The vital processes of the human organism, digestion,
assimilation, elimination, respiration, circulation of the
blood, etc., are going on without our volition whether we
be awake or asleep. These involuntary activities are
impelled by the sympathetic nervous system, while the vol-
untary functions of the body are controlled through the
motor nervous system. This division, however, is not a
sharp one, the two departments frequently overlapping one

another.
The sympathetic nervous system resembles the commis-
sarial department of the army which attends to the
material welfare of the soldiers, while the motor nervous
system, with headquarters in the brain, corresponds to
the commander with his executive staff, the nerve centers
in the spinal cord and other parts of the body being the
subordinate officers in the field.
While the physical wellbeing of the army depends upon
the almost automatic work of its various departments, its
mind and soul is the man commanding it. He determines
the spirit, the energy and the efficiency of the vast organ-
ization.
If the commander-in-chief lack insight, force and deter-
mination, the discipline of the army will be lax and its
efficiency greatly impaired. If he be a craven, without
faith in himself and in the cause he represents, his lack of
courage, his doubt and indecision will communicate them-
selves to the whole army, resulting in discouragement and
defeat.
The most successful commanders have been those who
were possessed of absolute confidence in themselves and
in the efficiency of their army, who in the face of grave
danger and discouraging situations pressed on to the pre-
determined goal with dogged courage and resolution.
Determination and pertinacity of this kind create the mag-
netic power which imparts itself to every individual sol-
dier in the army and makes him a willing subject, even
unto death, to the will of his commander.
When the pest was invading Napoleon's army, that
great general entered the hospitals where the victims of
the plague were lying, took them by the hand and con-
versed with them. He did this to overcome the fear in the
hearts of his soldiers and thus to protect them against the
dread disease. He said: "A man whose will can conquer

the world, can conquer the plague".
To my mind, this was one of the greatest deeds of the
Corsican.At a time when ''New Thought" was practi-
cally unknown, the genius of this man had grasped its
principles and was making them factors in his apparent
success. "Apparent" because, while we admire his genius
we deplore the ends to which he applied his wonderful
powers.
At times when would
the battle seemed lost, Napoleon
go to the front where the danger was greatest, and by the
mere sight of him the hard pressed soldiers under his com-
mand were inspired to superhuman effort and final vic-
tory.
As long as the glamour of invincibility surrounded him
Napoleon was invincible, because he infused into his sol-
diers a faith and courage which nothing could withstand.
But when the cunning of the Russian broke his power and
decimated his ranks on the icebound steppes, the hypnotic
spell was broken also. Friends and enemies alike recog-
nized that, after all, he was but a man, subject to chance
and circumstance. From that time on he was vulnerable
and suffered defeat after defeat.
The power of the mind over the physical body and its
involuntary functions (the functions which are regulated
and controlled through the sympathetic nervous system)
may be illustrated by the demonstrated facts of hypnotism.
Through the exertion of his own imagination and his
willpower, the hypnotist can so dominate the brain and
through the brain the physical body of his subject, as to
influence not only the sensory functions but also heart
action and respiration. By the power of his will the hyp-
notist is able to retard or accelerate pulse and respiration
and even to subdue the heart beat so that it becomes hardly
perceptible.
If it is possible thus to controlby the power of will the

vital functions in the body of another person, it must be
possible also to control these functions in our own bodies.
Many Hindoo and yogi have developed this power
fakirs
of the mind over the physical body to a marvelous extent.
Here lies the true domain of mental therapeutics. 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
illnessor danger. "We can by the power of will direct the
vital currents to those parts and organs which need them
most, and we can relieve congested areas by equalizing
the circulation, by drawing therefrom the surplus of blood
and nerve currents and distributing the vital fluids over
other parts of the body.
We must be careful, however, to use our higher powers
in conformity with Nature 's intent ; that is, we must not
endeavor to suppress Nature's cleansing and healing
efforts. It is possible to do this by the power of will as
well as by ice bags and drugs.
Mentally and emotionally as well as physically we must
work with Nature, not against her. When we understand
the fundamental laws of disease and cure we cannot well
do otherwise.
CHAPTER XLI
HOW SHALL WE PRAY?
OHALL we say, "Father, give
—
me this!" "Father, do
^ for me that!" Or, "Behold, I am perfect! Imperfec-
tion, sin and suffering are only errors of mortal mind " ? !
Or shall we pray: "Father, give me of Thy strength

that I may live in harmony with Thy law, for thus only
will all good come to me " ? !
The first is to beg, the second to steal, the third to earn

by honest effort.
"Father, give me this!"— "Father, do for me that!"
Thus prayed our fathers, not understanding the great
law of compensation, the law of giving and receiving,
which demands that we give an equivalent for everything
we receive. To receive without giving is to beg.
The lily, in return for the nourishment it receives from
the soil and the sun, gives of its beauty and fragrance.
The birds of the air give a return for their sustenance by
their songs, their beauty of plumage, and by destroying
pests which are the enemies of plants and men. Every
living thing gives an equivalent for its existence in some
way or other.
With man the fulfillment of the law of service and of
compensation becomes conscious and voluntary and his
selfrespect refuses to take without giving.
"Behold, I am perfect! Imperfection, sin, and suffering:
are only errors of mortal mind!" Such is the prayer of
certain metaphysical healers.
To assume the possession of goodness and perfection
without an earnest effort to develop and to deserve these
479
qualities is to steal the glory of the only Perfect One. The

assumption of present perfection precludes the necessity
of striving and laboring for its attainment. If I am already
all goodness, all love, all wisdom and all power, what
remains for me to strive for?
Herein lies the danger of metaphysical idealism. "While
it may dispel pessimism, fear and anxiety, it inevitably
weakens the will power and the capacity for selfhelp and
personal effort.
The ideal of the metaphysician is the ideal of the animal.
The animal does not worry about right or wrong, nor, with
few exceptions, does it make provision for the future. Its
care and forethought extend only to the next meal. But
this perfect, ideal, passive trust in Nature 's bounty causes
the animal to remain animal and prevents its rising above
the narrow limitations of habit and instinct.

The inherent faculties, capacities and powers of the
human soul can be developed only by effort and use. The
savage, living in the most favored regions of the earth,
depending for his sustenance in perfect faith and trust on
Nature's bounty, has remained savage. Through ages he
has risen but little above the level of the beasts that perish.
The great law of use ordains that those faculties and
powers which we do not develop remain in abeyance and
that those which we possess weaken and atrophy if we fail
to exercise them.
The Master, Jesus, emphasized this law of use in many of
his parables and sayings.
''For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he
shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not, from
:
him shall be taken away even that he hath."

What does this mean? Those who have the desire and
the will to work out their own salvation, acquire greater
knowledge and power in exact proportion to their well
directed efforts but those who have neither the desire nor
;
HOW SHALL WE PEAY? 481
endowments
the will to help themselves, lose their natural
and the possibilities and opportunities which these would
have conferred upon them.
The anatomy and physiology of the human brain reveal
the fact that for every voluntary faculty, capacity and
power of body, mind and soul which we wish to develop,
we have to create new centers in the brain. In this respect,
Nature gives us no more and no less than we deserve and
work for. If we try to cheat by usurping the perfection
and the power which we have not honestly earned and
developed, then some time, somewhere, we shall have to
balance the account.
The Right Way to Pray
After all, the only true prayer is personal effort and

selfhelp. This does not mean that we should not invoke
the help of the higher powers, of those who have gone
before us, of the Great Friends and Invisible Helpers and,
of the Great Father, the giver of all life, all wisdom and
all power. We should pray for strength to do our work,
not to have it done for us. The wise parent will not da
for the child the home tasks assigned him at school. Nei-
ther will the powers on high or the Great Friends perforin
our allotted tasks for us.
This life is a school for personal effort. If it were not
so, life would be meaningless. From the cradle to the
grave, our days are one continuous effort to learn, to
acquire, to overcome difficulties. Only in this way can
we develop our latent faculties, capacities and powers.
These cannot be developed by having our tasks done for
us, nor by assuming that we already know and possess
everything.
The athlete must do his own training. No one else can
do it for him. Therefore the assumption of cmperiority
over his opponent will not develop his suppleness of body

and strength of muscle. To be sure, faith and courage
are essential to victory, but they must be backed by care-
ful and persistent training. Vainglorious boasting alone
wîll not vrin the contest.
So in the battle of life, the more faith we have in God,
in the Great Friends and in our own powers, the wider do
we open ourselves to the inflow of wisdom and strength
from all that is good and true and powerful in the universe.
But through persistent and well directed effort alone can
we control the powers and fashion the materials which
Nature has so lavishly bestowed upon us.
The creative will, actuated by desire and enlightened
by reason, brings order and harmony out of chaotic forces
and materials. And yet certain metaphysicians tell us
that we ourselves must do nothing to overcome weakness,
sin and suffering that we must depend entirely upon the
;
efficiency of metaphysical formulae that the deity and the

;
powers of Nature are jealous of our personal efforts; that

we must not try to help ourselves lest we forfeit their
good will.
Is it not blasphemous to assume that God would blame
us and withhold his aid because we dared to use the
faculties, capacities and powers with which he has endowed
us? You say, "Nobody is foolish enough to claim such
things." But this is the teaching of a popular healing
cult. Its members are forbidden, on penalty of expulsion,
to use in the treatment of human ailments the most inno-
cent natural remedies. The giving of an enema or the
common sense regulation of diet are regarded as sufficient
to nullify the power of their metaphysical formulae and
to prevent the working of Nature's healing forces.
One of our patients who had been under such treatment
until she was in a dying condition told us afterwards that
her bowels often did not move for a week and when she
HOW SHALL WE PRAYT 483
complained to her "healer" about this condition and

asked permission to take an enema, he answered: "Pay
no attention. The Lord is taking care of that in some
other way."
This "healer" had been a prominent allopathic physi-
cian who, like somany others ignorant of Nature's sim-
ple laws, had swung from one extreme to the other, from
allopathic overdoing to metaphysical underdoing. In this
instance, the Lord "took care" of the patient's bowels
until she was down with a severe attack of appendicitis
and peritonitis.
Amidst all the extremes. Nature Cure points the com-
mon sense middle way. Basing its teachings and its prac-
tices on a clear understanding of the laws of health, dis-
ease and cure, it refrains from suppressing acute diseases
with poisonous drugs or the knife, knowing that they
are in reality Nature 's cleansing and healing efforts. Nei-
ther does it sit idly by and expect the Lord or metaphys-
ical formulae or the medicine bottle and the knife to do
our work and to make good for our violations of Nature's
laws.
Understanding the Law, Nature Cure believes in co-
operating with the law; in giving the Lord a helping
hand. It teaches that "God helpshim who helps him-
self," that He will not become angry and refuse His help
if His children use rightly the reason, the will power and
the selfcontrol with which he has endowed them so that

they may achieve their own salvation.
Nature Cure from beginning to end is one grand, true
prayer. It teaches the law on all planes of being the —
physical, the mental, the moral and the spiritual; and it
insists that the only way to attain perfect health of body,
mind and soul is to comply with the law to the best of our
ability. When we do that we place ourselves in alignment
with the constructive principle in Nature, and in exact
proportion to our intelligent and voluntary cooperation

with the laws of our being all good things will come to us.
Therefore we pray "Father, give me Thy strength
: that
I may live in harmony with Thy law, for thus only will
all good come to me."
CHAPTER XLII
SCIENTIFIC RELAXATION AND NORMAL
SUGGESTION
T T NDER the strain of workaday hurry and worry, your
^-^ nerve vibrations are apt to become more and more
intense and excited. They run away with you until, as
the saying goes, you are "flying all to pieces".
A good illustration of this condition of the nervous
system maybe found in a team of horses shying at some
object in the path. The driver, panic stricken, drops the
reins, the frightened horses take the bits between their
teeth and dash headlong down the road, until their mas-
ter regains control, checks the animals in their maddened
course and compels them to resume their ordinary pace.
So the highstrung, oversensitive individual must gain
control over his nervous system and must subdue his run-
away mental and emotional activities into restful, harmo-
nious vibrations.
This is done by insuring sufficient rest and sleep under
the right conditions and by practicing scientific relaxation
at all times.
The nervous person gets easily excited. Comparatively
things will cause an outbreak of intense irritation or
little
emotional hyperactivity.
Usually, the victim of unbalanced nerves is of the high-
strung, sensitive type, naturally inclining to more rapid
vibrations on all planes, capable of greater achievement
than the stolid, heavy, slow-vibrating person who "doesn't
know that he has any nerves", but also is in greater dan-
ger of mental and emotional overstrain and physical deple-
485
tion as a result of the excessive and uncontrolled expendi-

ture of life force and nervous energy.
Watch your nervous friend while performing some
picking up something from the floor or put-
trivial task,
ting a book in its accustomed place. The fitful, jerky
movements betray the inner impatience and irritability.
Worry, hurry and flurry do not hasten the task in hand.
They only retard it. They cause neglect and bungling,
which require more time to straighten out than deliberate
and patient work in the first place.
Watch him while he is resting or sleeping. Instead of
"letting go" of the body his muscles are drawn and tense.
The body is screwed up into all sorts of awkward posi-
tions and acrobatic distortions. He nervously clutches the
arm chair, or strenuously clings to the bed, as though
these aids to rest and comfort were trying to escape from
under him. The sleep is fitful and disturbed, as are the
physical and mental vibrations.
To the sensitive the aura is visible, indicating continu-
ous expenditure of nerve force. This interferes with the
accumulation of vital energy in the millions of tiny storage
batteries in the brain, the spinal cord and the sympathetic
ganglia, with the result that during sleep not sufficient
reserve force is stored for the work of the following day.
Such an one expends as much vitality while sleeping as
another who has learned the art of restful relaxation ex-
pends while working. No wonder he feels all fagged out
in the morning —
as tired as when he went to bed
Relaxation While Working
At first glance this expression may seem paradoxical.

However, experience proves that it is not only possible
but absolutely necessary that we perform our work in a
relaxed and serene condition of body and mind. The most
strenuous physical or mental labor will then not cause
RELAXATION AND NORMAL SUGGESTION 487
as much exhaustion as light work done in a state of nerv-

ous tension, irritability, fretfulness or worry.
Relaxation while working necessitates plan and system.
Most nervous breakdowns result not so much from over-
work as from the vitality wasted through lack of orderly
procedure.
Therefore, 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 (making sure that it is the right way) and at
the same time of the day. Orderly system will soon be-
come habitual and result in saving much valuable time and
energy.
Always cultivate a serene and cheerful attitude of mind
and soul, taking whatever comes as "part of the day's
work", doing your best under the circumstances but abso-
lutely refusing to worry and fret about anything. Do
not "cross a bridge before you get to it" and do not
waste time regretting something that cannot be undone.
Relaxation While Sitting
Sit upright in a comfortable chair without strain or

tension, spineand head erect, the legs forming right angles
with the thighs (the chair should be neither too high nor
too low), feet resting firmly upon the floor, toes pointing
slightly outward, the forearms resting lightly upon the
legs with the hands upon the knees. This must be accom-
plished without effort, for effort means tension.
Dismiss all thoughts of hurry, care, worry or fear and
dwell upon the following thoughts
I am now completely relaxed in body and mind. I am
receptive to Nature's harmonious and invigorating vibra-
tions — ^they dispel the discordantand destructive vibra-
^' worry,
tions of hurry, ^' fear and anger. New life, new
Vol. 1—32.
health, new strength are entering into me with every

breath, pervading my whole being.
Repeat these thoughts mentally, or if it helps you say
them aloud several times quietly and forcefully, impress-
ing them deeply upon your inner consciousness.
After practicing relaxation in this manner, lie down
for a few minutes' rest if circumstances permit, or prac-
tice rhythmical breathing (Vol. II). Then return to your

work and endeavor to maintain a calm, trustful, controlled
attitude of mind.
If you are inclined to be irritable, suspicious, jealous,
fault-finding, envious, etc. dwell on the following thought
pictures
am now fully relaxed, at rest and at peace. The world
I
is an echo. If I send forth irritable, suspicious, hateful
thought vibrations, the like will return to me from other
minds. I shall think such thoughts no longer. God is
love, love is harmony, happiness, heaven. The more I
send forth love, the more I am like God the more of love
;
will God and men return to me; the more shall I realize
true happiness, true health, true strength, and true
success.
Relaxation Before Going to Sleep
When ready to go to sleep on your back so that

lie flat
as nearly as possible every part of the spine touches the

bed, extend the arms along the sides of the body, hands
turned upward, palms open, every muscle relaxed.
Dismiss all thoughts of work, annoyance or anxiety.
Say to yourself: I am now going to sleep soundly and
peacefully. I am master of my body, my mind and my
soul. Nothing evil shall disturb me. At .... a. m., neither
earlier nor later, I shall awaken rested and refreshed,
strong in body and mind. I shall meet tomorrow's tasks
and duties promptly and serenely.
RELAXATION AND NORMAL SUGGESTION 489
Simple as this formula mayhas helped cure

seem, it
many a ease of persistent insomnia and nervous pros-

tration.
Having thus set your "mental alarm clock", with a
few times' practice you will be able to wake up, without
being called, at the appointed time and to demonstrate
to yourself the power of your mind over your body.
The quality of your sleep and its effect upon your sys-
tem depend on the character of the mental and psychic
vibrations carried into it. If you harbor thoughts of
passion, worry or fear, these destructive thought vibra-
tions will disturb your slumbers and you will awaken in
the morning weak and tired.
If, however, you repeat mentally a formula like the
above, suggesting harmonious, constructive thoughts, un-

til you lose consciousness, you will carry into your slum-
bers vibrations of rest, health and strength, producing

corresponding effects upon the physical organism.
After a perfectly relaxed condition of body and mind
has been attained, it is not necessary to remain lying on
the back. Any position of the body may then be assumed
which seems most restful.
My patients frequently ask what position the body is
best during sleep. It is not good to lie continuously in

any one position. This tends to cause unsymmetrical
development of the body and to unfavorably the
affect
functions of various organs. change occa-
It is best to
Bionally from one position to another, as bodily comfort
seems to indicate and require.
Many persons fret and worry if sleep does not come
as quickly as desired. They picture
themselves in
to
darkest colors the dire results of wakefulness.
Such a state of mind makes sleep impossible. If per-
sisted in, it will inevitably lead to chronic insomnia.
Instead of indulging in hurtful worry, say to yourself:
**I do not care whether I sleep or not! Though I do not

sleep I am lying here perfectly relaxed, at rest and at
peace. I am strengthened and rested by remaining in a
state of peaceful relaxation,"
However, the "I do not care" must be actually meant
and felt, must not be merely a mechanical repetition of
words.
Nothing is more conducive to sleep, even under the most
trying circumstances, than such an *'I-don't-care" attitude
of mind. Try it and the chances are that just because
you do not care you will fall fast asleep.
CHAPTER XLIII
MAN'S DEMANDS ARE GOD'S COMMANDS
OUR
for
critics
it, why
say :
is it
"If Nature Cure is all that
not more generally accepted by the
you claim
medical profession and the public?"

The greatest drawback to the spreading of the Nature
Cure idea is the necessity of selfcontrol which it imposes.
If our cures of socalled incurable diseases could be made
without asking the patients to change their habits of liv-
ing, without the demand for effort on their own part,
Nature Cure sanitariums could not be built fast enough
in this country.
No matter how marvelous the results of the natural
methods —when investigators learn that the treatment ne-
cessitates the control of indiscriminate appetite and self-
indulgence and the persistent practice of ''natural" living
and all that this involves, they exclaim: ''The natural
regimen may be all right, but who can live up to it ? You
are asking the impossible. You are looking for a perfec-
tion which does not exist. Your directions call for an
amount of willpower and selfcontrol which nobody
possesses."
Fortunately, however, this is not true. Human nature
is good enough and strong enough to comply with Na-
ture's laws. Furthermore, the natural ways must be the
most pleasant in the end or Nature is a fraud and a cheat.
True enjoyment of life and happiness are impossible with-
out perfect physical, mental and moral health, and these
depend upon natural living and natural treatment of
human ailments.
491
The strengthening of Willpower and Selfcontrol
If I were asked the question: "What do you consider

the greatest benefit to be derived from the Nature Cure
'
regimen ? " I should answer : ' The strengthening of will-

'
power and self control

This is the very purpose of life. Upon it depends all
further achievement. Selfcontrol is the "master's key"

to all higher development on the mental, moral and spir-
itual planes of being; but before on we can exercise it
the higher planes, we must have on

learned to apply it
the lower plane in the management and control of our

physical appetites and habits. When we have learned to
control these, "higher development" will come easily.
A good method for strengthening the willpower is auto-
suggestion. The most opportune moments in the twenty
four hours of the day for practicing this "mental magic"
are those before dropping to sleep. At this time there is
the least disturbance and interference from outside influ-
ences, the mind is most passive and susceptible to sug-
gestion, and impressions made under these favorable condi-
tions upon the "phonograph records" of the subconscious
mind are the most lasting and the most powerful to control
physical, mental and moral activities.
When thoroughly relaxed, at rest and at peace, say to
yourself: "Whatever duties confront me tomorrow I shall
execute them promptly without wavering or hesitation. I
shall not give in to this bad habit which has been con-
trolling me. I shall do that only which reason and con-
science approve."
In order to be more and systematic and to
specific
obtain results more surely and quickly, concentrate upon
one weakness at a time. When that has been overcome,
take up another, until in this way you have attained per-
fect control over your thoughts, feelings and actions.
MAN'S DEMANDS AEE GOD'S COMMANDS 493
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 ablutions. Then,
the night before impress upon the subconscious mind
deeply and firmly the following suggestions: "Tomorrow
morning on awakening I shall jump out of bed without
hesitation and go through my morning exercises with
zest and vigor."
Or, suppose you are subject to the fear and worry habit.
Say to yourself ''Tomorrow or any time thereafter when
:
depressing, gloomy thoughts threaten to control me, I

shall overcome them with thoughts of hope and faith and
with absolute confidence in the divine power of the will
within me to overcome and to achieve."
Or, when in need of strengthening guidance, "Almighty
Love, Creative Love, purify, strengthen, enlighten me."
In this manner you may give the subconscious mind
suggestions and impressions for overcoming bad habits
and for establishing and strengthening good habits.
If a serious problem is confronting you and you are
unable to solve it to your satisfaction, think upon it just
before you are dropping off to sleep and confidently de-
mand that the right solution come to you during the hours
of rest. The inner consciousness is always awake. It is
the watchman who awakens you at the appointed time in
morning. It will work upon your problem while your
the morning. It will work upon your problem while your
justification for the popular phrase: "Before I decide
the matter I'll sleep over it."
In the practice of mental magic, as in everything else,

success depends upon patience and perseverance. It would
be entirely useless to go through these mental drills occa-
sionally and in a desultory fashion; but if persisted in
faithfully and intelligently, they will prove truly magical
upon the development of willpower and

in their effects
and on these depend the mastery of conditions
selfcontrol,
within and without, the conquest of fate and destiny.
Constructive Aflfirmations
Desire and will are the open doors to heaven and hell.
I am spirit: I rejoice in an abundance of life, health,
strength, wisdom and divine love.
Selfcontrol —the only key to mastership.

I am thy child created in thy likeness. Help me to
know the power that Thou hast given me.
I radiate Faith, Power, Goodness and Love.
I am thankful
because Faith has taken the place of fear,
and knowledge the place of ignorance and superstition.
All good will come to me as I obey the laws of my being.
I am Harmony I radiate Health and Happiness.

;
I am now drinking from the well of Everlasting Life

within me.
Giving is God's way of accumulating.
Thou art my physician Thou renewest my
: body with
the waters of Life, of Health and of Strength.
I am made whole through the renewing of my mind.
My soul is a magnet which draws to itself the vitality
and healing currents of Nature.
I am now living in harmony with the Law, and the Law
will make me whole.
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
I sow words of Life and reap Health and Happiness.
The Divine Energy within me harmonizes and puts in
order the material elements of my body.
Only as I live above the attraction and discord of mortal
things and fill my mind with immortal truth do I realize
the peace and perfection of divine being.
MAN'S DEMANDS ARE GOD'S COMMANDS 495
All good comes to me because I am learning to live in

harmony with the laws of my being.
Infinite Love and Faith fill my mind and thrill my body
with Healing Life.

"Omnipotent Goodness and Love, we are now in Thy
sacred presence.By Thy breath the whole Universe is
created. By Thy love the whole Universe leaps with joy
and gladness,"
My mind now rests from all material activity. I am at
Peace in the health and strength-giving life of the Spirit.
My flesh is alive with the Life, Strength and Intelli-
gence of the Healing Spirit.
My doubts and fears are dissolved and dissipated. I
rest in confidenceand peace in Thy unchangeable law.
"Through Faith I am quickened into life. My faith
makes me whole."
The Divine Will within me rises victorious over dis-
ease and death. I am the Master of my fate.
My soul is radiant with Divine Peace. Every cell in my
body is vibrant with Divine Harmony and Power.
I will be what I will to be.
I now vibrate in unison with all that is good and true

and perfect on the Higher Planes of Being.
All forces are against us until we learn to conquer them,
then they become our obedient servants.
My mind my kingdom is : my will the King
The more I live in harmony with things spiritual the
more I am freed from the bondage of things physical.
I am an instrument sounding forth the harmonics of
health and happiness.
Health is the natural state of man. Do not allow any
thought opposed to this to dominate your mind. Say
with positive assurance "The Peace and Harmony of
Divine Mind makes me perpetually whole."
I am one with God, I am one with the Great Life Prin-

ciple, I am one with Eternal Vitality I am almighty —
Energy.
By Faith I transmute evil into good.
With every breath I absorb Infinite Omnipotent Life.

Through a deeper understanding of the mysteries of life
my entire being is regenerated.
I am an intelligent soul power searching through the

depths of Nature's storehouse of life for healing essence,
for vitalizing power, for the mystic medicines of healing
with which God has stored his Universe.
Faith and Will are the Master Keys which unlock to us
the treasures of the Universe.
The more I give the more I receive from the Infinite

and Everlasting Storehouse of riches and power.
Mighty Spirit: In Thy strength I am strong; in Thy
healing atmosphere I am realizing health from Thy vital ;
spirit flows the vigor that my body needs.
I am a center for the concentration and radiation of

spiritual power as I give so I receive.
;
Fear destroys. Through Faith I am quickened into Life.
"Till one appears who hears

—
All Nature silent is silent for evermore.
Beating its waves of force on an unanswering shore
*
Till one appears who hears. '
"Men grumble because God put thorns with roses;

would not be better to thank God that He put roses
it
with the thorns?"
"Talk Faith: The world is better off without your

uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. If you have Faith
in God or man or self, say so if not, push back upon the
;
shelf of silence all your thoughts till Faith shall come no ;
one will grieve because your lips are dumb."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
MAN'S DEMANDS AEE GOD'S COMMANDS 497
"Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good."

"Faith opens wide the flood gates of life."
He who thinks he can, develops within himself the

power that can.
Nature is full of music, as it exists through the laws of

harmony. Man only is discordant and out of tune.
"He that believeth on Me, the works that I do he

also. And greater works shall he do.
'
shall do
"Where two or three are gathered together in my name,

theream I in the midst of them."
Calm demand brings all good things in time ; impatient
demand drives them aAvay.
Man is a macrocosm. As he learns to rule his Universe
within he learns to master the Universe without.
"Father, give me of Thy strength and Thy wisdom
that I may comply with Thy law in all things. Thus only
can I come into the possession of the divine heritage which
Thou hast prepared for me from the beginning."
I now assert my freedom and integrity as an independent

individual, intelligence and free moral agent. Only as I
grow and expand mentally and spiritually can I throw
off the fetters of ignorance, poverty, disease and failure.
Evil is not a punishment, not a curse, but a necessary

complement of good.
The active principle in my will is the force which creates
and governs the Universe.
"All forces have been steadily employed to complete
and to delight me. Now on this spot I stand with my
—
robust soul." Walt Whitman.
"Be still, my soul, and know that peace is thine; Be

steadfast, heart, and know that strength divine belongs
to thee Cease from thy turmoil, mind, and thou the ever-
;
lasting rest shall find."

Only as I give the best that is within me can I receive

the best that is without me.
Suffering is often the greatest blessing to humanity.
Itcompels us to search out and remove its cause and thus
we learn the beauties of eternal law.
A vivid imagination, a positive faith and a powerful
will are the workers of mental magic.
Health and happiness depend upon the attainment of
poise and power.
Eagerness and indolence are both obstructive and re-
sult inweakness and suffering. Nothing can come to us
except we draw it. Nothing can stay when we let go.
Nothing can go till it has fulfilled its purpose.
Each man his prison makes. You are not bound but as
you bind yourself. Within deliverance must be sought.
The way of peace is the way of power. It brings us
repose without lethargy, activity without effort, love with-
out anxiety, and joy without reaction.
"Our lives are songs, God writes the words,

And we set them to music at leisure.
And the song is sad or the song is glad
As we choose to fashion the measure."
We
attract to ourselves whatever influences we choose.
The greatest force in the universe is the power of many
minds united in purpose, faith and will. The higher and
better the motive, the greater the power.
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."
The only death imaginable is stagnation.
I am today what my past thoughts and emotions have
made me.
I am a free born citizen of this boundless Universe.
Nothing can bind me, hold me or limit me but my own
opinions and my own actions.
Almighty Love, creative Love, purify, strcnghten, en-
lighten me
MAN'S DEMANDS ARE GOD'S COMMANDS 499
'
God of the granite and the rose,
Soul of the sparrow and the bee
The mighty tide of being flows
Through every creature, Lord, from Thee.
It leaps to life in birdand flowers,
Through every grade of being runs,
Till from creation's radiant towers
Its glories flame in stars and suns.
Kiiow that like bird and grass and flower.
The life within thee is divine
Nor time, nor space, nor human power,
The God within thee can confine.
God of the granite and the rose,
Soul of the sparrow and the bee
The mighty tide of being flows
From every creature back to Thee
Thus round and round the circle runs —
A mighty sea without a shore
While men and angels, stars and suns,
Unite to praise Thee evermore."
REFERENCE INDEX
Abbott, A. C, M.D, — Principles of Bacteriology
' '
' 349. ',
Abscesses —product of inflammation, 87; in appendicitis, 139; treat-

ment, 139.
Acid—uric acid diseases, 295, 350; 346;
cell •waste acid, table, neu-
tralized, 346composition of, 348 Dr. Haig on uric acid diseases,
; ;
352; uric acid, how precipitated, 354; results of precipitation, 356;

effect of stimulants, 357-359; treatment of acid diseases, 360;
role in body, 362; experiments by Dr. Crile, Ulus., 363; acidity
during healing crises, 365 ; acidity of urine, 366.
—
Action and Eeaction acute reactions, 24; law of, 64, 65; of drugs,
260-262; of water, air, 262; in homeopathic treatment, 310, 379.
Acute Disease — definition of, 10, 23; see also Disease.
—
Adenoids eliminating organs, 92; removal of, 181-185.
—
Adhesions curable by natural treatment, 191.
—
Affirmations positive, 474 constructive, 474.
;
—
After Effects of drug or ice treated typhoid, 118; of surgical
operations, 127; of wrongly treated appendicitis, 142; of vacci-
nation, 148-152, 173-175; of vaccines, serums, shown in eye, 155;
of vaccination, a case, 156-159; of vaccination, epilepsy, a case,
159-161; of vaccination, diphtheria, 162; anterior poliomyelitis
from vaccination, 164-165; of diphtheria antitoxin, 169, 170; of
diphtheria do not occur under natural treatment, 173 of removal ;
of tonsils, 183-185 of curetment of womb, 189 of womb opera-

; ;
tions, 196, 197; of extirpation of moles, 203, 204; of suppression

of eruptions, 210, 211 ; of laxatives, 260, 261; harmful after effects
of manipulative suppression of fever, 422.
—
Air Baths and Light in chronic diseases, 262.
—
Alcohol stimulates by paralysis, 375-380; effect on mind, 381;
383.
effects of,
Alkalines — of
role body, 312.
in
Alkaloids —poisonous, 90; of putrefaction, 220; diagram, 346, 347.
Allopathy—inconsistency of theory and 61, 283; use of
practice,
poisons, 62; mistakes effect for cause, 63; treatment suppressive,
66; treatment of venereal diseases, 77; interpretation of inflam-
mation, 83 ; has adopted natural treatment for typhoid, 120, 291,
292; conception and handling of appendicitis, 129; treatment of
diphtheria, 169 treatment of tonsilitis, 181 treatment of leukor-
; ;
rhea, 189; treatment of prolapsus, 192; treatment at climacteric,

199-200; confirmation of our theories as to cause of chronic dis-
eases, 204, 205; says drugs useless in cancer, 213; conception of
bacterial origin of disease, 214; chronic means incurable, 232;
treatment makes and keeps the chronic, 233 lays more stress on.
;
diagnosis than treatment, 236; treats symptoms as disease, 244;

501
defence of drugs, 259; use of digitalis, 262; cannot cure consti-
pation, 286; forced to adopt natural methods, 289; Dr. Osier oa
Medicine, 289-291; Dr. Schwenninger on medical practice, 293;
legitimate scope of medicine, 293, 294; inorganic minerals and
poisons harmful, 300; action of allopathic dose of belladonna,
308 view of high blood pressure, 366.
;
—
Alteratives mercury, iodin, arsenic, etc., 62.
—
Anesthetics encourage indiscriminate operations, 122; beneficial and
destructive effects of, 122; has inflicted more wounds than has
healed, 123.
Animal —unreliability of experiments on, 106; cancer in dogs, 207;
experiments on mice, 208, 209, 216; dogs cured of cancer, 217,
218; kingdom, what controlled by, 336; instinct, 338; elements
in, 344 ; difference between man and animal, 461.
—
Anterior Poliomyelitis caused by vaccination, 164.
—
Anthrax germ, effects of, 101, 107.
—
Antiseptics confirmation of our theories from battlefields of Europe,
15; use in leukorrhea and birth control, 189; suppress inflamma-
tion, 215.
—
Antitoxins natural and allopathic, 85; diphtheria, effects of, 169;
for prevention, 170, 171; effects shown in eye, 172; Hendrick
on, 214.
—
Appendicitis allopathic conception and treatment, 129; foreign
bodies in appendix, 131; true cause of, 135; prevention of, 137;
treatment of, acute, 137-139; abscesses, 139; case of, 140-142;
after effects, 142.
—
Appendix foreign bodies in, 131; uses of , 132; a case, removal, 143.
—
Arteriosclerosis (Hardening of the Arteries) after effect of mer-
cury, 79 ; from excess of salts, 346 from excess of pathogen, 352,
;
357, 358 ; curable by natural treatment, 367.

—
Atoms composition of, 16; vibration, 30; weight of depends on elec-
trons in, 273 ; positive, negative, 332, 334.
—
Aura pale in nervous temperaments, 324 ; cause of, visible only during
waking hours, 429; colors of, 430; experiments to make visible,
438.
Bacteria —
not cause of disease, 10 originate from microzyma, 11, 99,
;
104 see also Microzyma feed on and decompose morbid material,

; ;
51; thrive in diseased organisms only, 52; secondary cause of

disease, 15, 55 found in healthy bodies, 53 inability of to create
; ;
disease, 54; why epidemics? 54, 55; immunity by right living, 56;
test by Dr. Rodermund in smallpox, 56 action of serum and anti-
;
toxins, 58; arrest of, 85; development of microzyma into, 93;

Pasteur's theory of, 101; morbid soil necessary to growth, 105;
not cause but effect of disease, 106; diphtheria bacteria, how
developed, 163; action of, 215, 216; Abbott on, 349, 350.
—
BfiCHAMP theory of microzyma, 9-17, 94; discovery of microzyma,
100; "The Blood", organic matter, 297, 337; 349.
—
Belladonna allopathic use, homeopathic use, 308.
—
Birth Control means and results, 189.
—
Bites snake and insect, 57.
—
Blavatsky, Madame on Septenary Law, 269, 270.
REFEEENCE INDEX 503
—
Bl/OOD normal and abnormal composition, 44; pathogenic obstruction,
94; proportion of white and red corpuscles, 97, 98; contamination
by vaccines, 154; root of cancer in, 218; "The Blood", quota-
tion from, 297; what chemical composition depends on, 319; pre-
cipitation of uric acid into, 354; high blood pressure produced,
355; composition of, 362; cause and cure of high blood pressure,
366; high blood pressure curable by natural treatment, 367;
charged with positive mineral elements, 427; flow controlled by
wiU power, 437.
Bowels —see Intestines.
Brain —
effect on of operations on genital organs, 196 ; effect of stimu-
lants on, 381; construction of, 382; most powerful electromagnetie
battery in body, 428.
—
Brandt, Dr. on water treatment of typhoid fever, 291.
—
Bread ^white, constipating, 136; whole grain, action of, 136.
—
Bright 's Disease how caused, 352.
—
Bromids benumb and paralyze brain and nerve centers, 70.
Buchanan, Dr. J. R. —on Periodicity, 269.
Buck, Dr. J. D. —quotation from "Music of the Spheres", 32.
Calomel —see Mercury.

Calculi—must be dissolved by rendering blood 327; alkaline, from
accumulation of pathogen, 346, 352 composition; 365. of,
Cancer—Dr. Senn 73; Hendrick on, 202-219; recurrence
on, after
extirpation, 203; not contagious, 208; experiments on mice, 208-
210 ; heredity in, 209 ; psora cause of, 212 ; in principle not incur-
able, 216-219; cured in dogs, 217; blood disease, 218; as result
of wen removal, 219; experiments of Dr. Ross, 220, 221; relation
of meat eating to, 222, 223; radium and x-ray for, 203-206.
—
Carbon compounds, 337.
—
Catarrh of genital organs, 188.
—
Causes of Disease see Disease.
Cecum— description, use, 132-135.
Cells— origin from microzyma, 12; composed of microzyma, 16; per-
manent cells of adult present in procreative cell, 17; life require-
ments of, 38; health and disease resident in, 42; germinal, 49;
nutrition of, 93 ; elimination from, 94 ; not structural unit of life,
development and division, microzyma of, 103; health of, 106 j
in chronic disease, 246; needs of, 248; interference with activity
of cells creates disease, 250; dose for, 311; cell nutrition, compo-
sition, waste, diagram, 346-348; Abbott on cell metabolism, 349;
experiment by Dr. Crile, illustration, 363; are negative, 427; cell
system, 429 cell protoplasm is hydrogen plus negative substances,
;
427; see also Microzyma.

—
Chemical processes of health and disease, 344; chemical substances
disease producing, 344, 345; chemical composition of tissues
affected by mental and emotional conditions, 426.
—
Child creation and rearing in accord with natural law, 20; disease
heredity, 49 hereditary taints shown in the eye, 50 diseases, 72
; ;
prenatal influences, 388; need of sex instruction, 391,

Vol. 1—33.
Chiropractic —
definition of, 400; school of adheres to allopathic idea
of acute disease, 420; theory of fevers, Dr. Loban, 421; harmful
effects of chiropractic suppression of fever and other crises, 422.
—
Christian Science in appendicitis, 140, 142; argument of, 365; faith
without works is dangerous, 450; a case, 452; limitations of, 456;
dangers of, 480 see also Metaphysical Healing.
;
—
Chronic Disease definition of, 24; cause of, 75; confirmation of
Nature Cure theories of origin, 204; time to cure, 227; must pull
the roots, 230; abtement of symptoms not cure, 231; should
chronic be left to fate, 232; natural treatment only hope of
chronic, 233; treatment of, 244; caused by suppression of acute
disease, 245; relation of cell life to, 246, 251; why meat has bad
effect, 251; cold water and manipulative treatment for, 252; air
and light baths, exercise, right mental attitude, 253 healing ;
crises, 258 ; do we fail, 264 law of crises dominates cure of, 266
;
healing crises, periodicity, 267 law of sevens in, 282 why many
; ;
not cured, 286-288 causes of uric acid diseases, 295 many caused
; ;
by drugs, 304; importance of natural diet, 304-306, 320; fasting in,

326; why healing crises necessary in, 349; acid diseases, 350; why
metaphysical healers cannot cure, 448, 457.
—
CiNCHONiSM see Quinin.
—
CiviiiiZATiON Senn on diseases of, 73; artificiality of, cause of dis-
ease, 75.
Cleanliness —health 250. is,
Climacteric —Change of Life, see Woman's Ailments.
Clothing—unhygienic, 193.
Coffee— on uric acid condition, 357; paralyzing
effect effect on
diagram,
nervous system, 377; effects of stimulation, 379; effect
on mind, 381.
—
Cold catching a, 111; cause of, 114; cure of, 114.
—
Cold Water see Water.
—
collemia 90, 356.
Colloids— 90, 356,
—
Compresses see Packs.
—
Congestion see Inflammation.
—
Consciousness extension of, 34.
—
Constitution threefold constitution of man, 465-469; diagram of,
465.
Constructive—principle Nature, 22; natural treatment
in in con-
formity with, 25 thoughts, 472 afiirmations, 494.
; ;
Contagion — safety from good condition, 56; explained, 105.

if in
Corpuscles — white, see Leucocytes; 334. electric,
Crises —healing 24;
crises, definition of, 24; 71;disease, lice, child-
hood drugs,
diseases, 72; elimination of healing
80; crises^ as
eruptions in natural treatment of cancer, 212; healing crises
essential to cure of chronic disease, 231, 258; healing and disease
crises described, 255, 256; healing crises properly conducted not
fatal, 259; law of crises, 264; Swedenborg on crises of soul, 265;
periodicity of, 267; "Friday periods", 276; should not fear
healing crises, 277; law of sevens in febrile diseases, 281; in
chronic diseases, 282; character and approach of healing crises
shown in eye, 283 ; former symptoms appear in healing crises, 283
REFERENCE INDEX 505
how many, 285; healing crises often accompanied by depression,

287, 310; homeopathy and law of crises, 316; fasting in, 324
time for fasting, 328; why necessary in morbid conditions, 349
acidity during, 365; called by chiropractors "retracing", 414
effect of Loban 's treatment of crises, 422.
—
Cure definition of, 24 general application, 60 ; unity of, 82 ; in meta-
;
physical healing, 448,

—
CtTRETMENT of womb, destructive, not curative, 189.
Dairy—products, composition of milk red

close to blood, 319.
arterial
Dandruff —caused by—elimination of systemic poisons through scalp, 70.
Deane, Dr. Tenison "Crime of Vaccination", 173-175.
Destructive Principle— 22; disease conforms
definition of, to, 33.
Diagnosis —from the Iridiagnosis; and prognosis, 236;
eye, see allop-
athy lays more stress on diagnosis than on treatment, 236; cure
more important than diagnosis in Nature Cure, 237 ; our method
most thoro, 239; diagram of report, 240, 241; from eye of great
interest and importance, 242.
—
Diarrhea effect of suppression by opiates, 69.
DIETETICS—function of natural, 44; wrong diet cause of appendicitis,
135; white bread constipating, 136; action of whole grain bread,
136; use of salt, 302; importance of natural diet, 304-306; natural
diet based on composition of milk, 319; allopathic mistakes in,
320; necessity for vegetarian diet, 321; negative vegetarian diet,
325; positive and negative foods, 336; meat not necessary for
animal magnetism, 341 ; elements in body necessary in foods,
344; wrong diet, 345; chemical changes in nutrition, tables, 346-
348 ; experiment in, 363 why excess of proteids, starches and
;
fats not safe even with plenty of vegetables, 364; only safe rule,
365, 367.
Digestion— action in intestines, 132 ; ferments necessary to, 298.
—
Digitalis effects of, 262.
—
Diphtheria caused by vaccination, 162; first described, 162-164;
antitoxin, after effects, 169; antitoxins for prevention, 170; sup-
pression shown in eyes, 172; no bad after effects under natural
treatment, 173; Deane on cause of, 173-175; letter from Hinton
White, 178.
—
Disease bacteria not cause of, 10; cause of disease bacteria, 11; see
also Microzyma; definition of acute, 23; definition of chronic, 24;
primary cause of acute, chronic, 23; is inharmonious vibration,
33; is Nature's effort to eliminate morbid matter, 35; primary
cause of, violation of Nature's laws, 37; manifestations of dis-
ease, diagrams, 38 ; unity of, 39 primary stages of, 40 negative,
;
;
41, 332; secondary manifestations of, 49; cause of chronic, 75;

bacteria the effect of, 106; not an accident, 107; relation of
thought to, 108; pneumonia, a case, 116; typhoid, 120; appen-
dicitis, 129; hoof and mouth, 152-154; transmission of hereditary
taints, 210 ; unity of disease proves diagnosis not of great impor-
tance, 237; Nature Cure helps to remove, 244; cause of uric acid
disease, 295; fasting in rheumatism, 326; fasting in stones, gravel,
327; chemical processes of, 344; acid diseases, 350; acute gas-
tritis, treatment by neurotherapy, 419.
Vol. 1 — 34
Disease Crises —see Crises.
Disease Germs —see Bacteria.
Douches —antiseptic for womb, 189.
Drinks —see Coffee and Tea; fruit juice in diphtheria, 179; in fast-
ing, 329; see Alcohol.
Drugs —are destructive, 25; causes of disease, 39; poisonous, 63;
reactions, 63, 65; suppression by, 69; proofs of presence in
system, 80; after effects of drug treated typhoid, 119; anesthetics,
results of, 122; vs. healing crises, 259; how laxatives act, 260;
effects of digitalis, 262; Osier on use of, 289-293; Nature Cure
in regard to, 294; cause chronic disease, 294; high potency doses,
307-313.
—
Dual Effect ^law of, see Action and Reaction.
Electricity—what is, 334 ; in re life force, 351 ; electric cell described,
426; produced by inanimate objects belongs to mineral kingdom,

429.
—
Electromagnetic ^life element, 336, 339; energies in body intensified
by massage, 324 energy derived from life force, 426 brain most
; ;
powerful electromagnetic battery in body, 428; treatment by

electric contrivances discarded as harmful, 429; energies can be
controlled by will, 436.
—
Electrons what electron is to atom, microzyma is to cell, 16; vibra-
tory, 81 number in atom, atomic weight depends on, 273, 334.
;
—
Elimination methods of, 40, 72; process of, 94; through colds, 112;
of hereditary taints through smallpox, 165-168; through tonsDs,
181; leukorrhea, form of, 188; menses, form of, 198; by fevers,
etc., 215; from cells, 248; in chronic disease, 251; experiments
by Dr. Lahmann, sweating, etc., 263; of mineral poisons difficult,
303; effect of diet, 320; by fasting, 322; through natural organs
of depuration, 346.
—
Emotions influence of, 46; effect of, 471 effect of blind faith, 386;
;
influence of sex emotions of parents, 388; effects of food on,

391; effects of fear, 392; power of strong aspiration, 393; as
healing power, 431, 436; unhealthy "all is good" emotionalism,
452; effect in the body, 472476.
—
Epidemics explained, 54.
—
Epilepsy suppressed, not cured by bromids, 70; caused by vaccina-
tion, treatment, 160 caused by removal of tonsils, 184.
;
—
Eruptions sycotic, milk scurf, measles, etc., 72 ; as healing crises, 212.
—
Eye Diagnosis see Iridiagnosis.
Faith —blind faith related to hypnotism, 386; without works danger-
ous, 450; rational faith justified, 459-462; increases inflow of
vital force, 472.
—
Fallopian Tubes obstruction of, 190.
—
Fasting in appendicitis, 138; fruit juice for drink in, 179; in typhoid,
292; when indicated, 323; induces abnormal psychism, 324; dan-
gers of, 325; in chronic disease, 366; procedure before, 328; fear
of unfounded, 329.
—
Fear and the germ theory, 52; effects of, 427.
Female — see Woman.
REFERENCE INDEX 507
Fermentation— life a succession of, 28; cause of, 102.

Fever — Inflammation chiropractic theory Loban, 421 harmful
see ; of, ;
effectsof suppression by manipulative treatment, 422.

FOHAT—and seven diagram, 271; explanation, 272, 278.
sons,
Food— see Dietetics; and drink in themselves cannot convey life force,
371, 375; Life Force.
see
Fruits—seed bearing not cause of appendicitis, preventive
fruits of,
137; juice as drink in diphtheria case, 179; are neutralizing and
eliminating, 320, 327 ; juice in fasting, 329 ; are acid reducing, 364.
—
FuNCTiONAi/ disease, 408; see Disease.
Gastritis —acute, treatment by neurotherapy, 419.

Genital Organs —curetment 189; extirpation, case of gonorrheal
of,
infection, 191; prolapsus and displacement
of, 192; inflammation
of cured by natural treatment, 192; prolapsus may prevent con-
ception, 193 ; result of operations in later pregnancy, 196 cutting ;
in the brain, 196 effect of leaving small part of ovary, 197.

;
—
Germs originate from microzyma, 11, 99; see Bacteria.
—
Glands function of spleen and lymphatic, 92; engorgement of, 95;
effect of massage on, 97 effect of removal of thyroid and spleen,
;
123; of Lieberkuhn, 133; tonsils, use, removal, etc., 181.

—
Gonorrhea see Venereal Diseases.
Habits —^how to overcome bad habits and acquire good ones, 492, 493.
Hahnemann—210, 309.
—on acid poisoning,
Haig, Dr. uric 352.
Hardening op Arteries— see Arteriosclerosis.
Harmonics — with
relation 23; life, Buck, "Music of the Spheres",
32; established harmonic relations, 34; of health, 46, 418; soul
the harmony of life, mind the player, body the instrument, 420.
—
Headache Powders paralyze brain, results of use, 66.
—
Healing Crises see Crises.
—
Health definition of, 23, 33; positive, 41, 335, 344; resident in cell,
42 ; relation of thought to, 108.
—
Hellenbach on Periodicity, 272, 273.
—
Hemorrhoids chronic after effects of suppression of, 245.
—
Hendrick, Burton J. on cancer, 202-219.
—
Heredity new light on, 17; and acquired disease taints, 38; disease
tendencies, 49 ; taints eliminated through smallpox, lo4 ; in cancer,
209-210, 212, 222; of abnormal sexuality, 388.
High Blood Pressure — see Blood.
—
Hippocrates 60; on law of Periodicity in crises, 267; quotation
from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 267.
— —
History of Nature Cure, 18.
Homeopathy ^medicines, 299, 307; medicines, how prepared, how
act, 308; belladonna, 308; highpotency dose, 311; efficiency of
small dose, 313; and law of dual effect, 315; and law of crises,
316; economics of, 316; complement of Natural Therapeutics, 317.
—
Hoof and Mouth Disease news item, 152-154 government agent on, ;
155; natural treatment of, 156.

—
Human Body a vmit, 126; elements in, 344; body great electric
battery, 427.
—
Hume, E. Douglas "Life's Primal Architects", 11; quotations, 107.
—
Hydrotherapy effects of in acute disease, 180; fear of cold water,
227; why we use cold water, 229; how cold water acts in chronio
disease, 251, 262; in typhoid and other acute diseases, 292.
Hypnotic — control by fasting, 324; difference between hypnotic
process and magnetic treatment, 425.
Hypnotism and Obsession —384 ; destructive, 425.
Ice—suppression by, 155; after of treated typhoid, 118.

effects ice
Immunity —natural, 54; antitoxin 170;
50, agency, 213;
for, curat'-ve
on what depends, 216.
it
Indigestion — resulting from wrong treatment of typhoid, 118.
Infection — see Contagion.
Inflammation —suppressed by serums, toxins, 58; constructive tend-
encies of, 82; orthodox interpretation of, 83; Nature Cure inter-
pretation, 85; diagram, 86; Powell's theory, 89; old theory
reversed, 92; suppression of first two stages, 110; suppression of
third stage, 114; suppression of fourth and fifth stages, 118;
of genital organs cured by natural treatment, 192 ; is eliminative,
215; luxations of bony structures may be caused by, 418.
—
Inhibitory Nervous System 376; paralyzed by stimulants, 377.
—
Intestines action of, 132; danger spot in, 133; diagram, 134; case
of operation on, 144; effect of suppression of hemorrhoids, 245;
effect of laxatives, 260.
—
Inorganic Minerals and Poisons 300; salt, 302; difficult to elimi-
nate, 303.
—
Insanity from operation on genital organs, 196; during climacteric,
197.
—
Insomnia suppressed by sedatives, 65; cure by relaxation, 488-490.
—
Iodism secondary cause of disease, 38.
—
Iridiagnosis proofs by, 80 ; typhoid or lymphatic rosary, 119 ; results
of vaccines traced by, 155; showing after effects of vaccination,
a case, 156; showing epilepsy after vaccination, a case, 159-161;
signs of vaccination, 161; effects of antitoxin in eye, 172; itch
spots (psoric), 211; not depended on alone, but of great impor-
tance, 242 proves poisons accumulate in the system, 292, 300, 303.
— ;
Iris see Iridiagnosis.

—
Itch see Psora.
Kidneys — eliminated through are neutralized acids, 346.

salts
Koch —postulates contradicted, 101.
Lahmann, Dr. H. —experiments re sweating, 263.
in
Law of Action and Reaction—see Action and Reaction.
Lavp" of Compensation — basic law of universe, 432; see Action and
Reaction.
Law of Dual Effect—see Action and Reaction.
Law of Sevens — see Periodicity.
Laxatives —how they 260. act,
Leucocytes — 14 allopathic explanation
; 84 Powell theory of, ; 's of,
90-93; explanation of granular and nucleated appearance and
amoeboid motion, 95-97 decrease of, 97 standard of, 98.
; ;
REFERENCE INDEX 5O9
Leukorrhea —cause of, 187 ; allopathic treatment of, 189.

Lice —Bee Parasites.
Life —conceptions of, 28; elements, 336; vitamines, 341; positive
mineral elements carriers of life elements in lower kingdom, 341
force, 351, 371; symphony of, 463; force in human organism
transmuted into electromagnetism and vitochemical energy, 472;
also see Life Force.
—
Life Force see Vital Force.
—
LoBAN, Dr. Joy M. quotation "Fevers", chiropractic theory, 421.
Locomotor Ataxia —cause of, 213.
Luetic Diseases— Venerealsee Diseases.
Luxations — Spinal Manipulation.
see
Lymph—abnormal composition 44; nodes condense pathogen,
of, 37, 93.
Lymphatic—glands, functions 92; swelling of, 95; in tuberculosis,
signs in iris, 119.
—
Magic modus operandi of white and black, 314.
—
Magnetic treatment, how administered, 425, 440; difference between
magnetic treatment and hypnotism, 425 magnetic healer does not ;
attempt to control will power, 426; treatment does not deplete

power of operator, 432; operator must have faith, will and sym-
pathy, 432; history of magnetic healing, 437; treatment for poor
circulation, 440; experiment to test strength of magnetic emana-
tions, 441 magnetized water, 441 sympathy healing, 442.
; ;
—
Magnetism what it is, 334 in re life force, 351 effects in massage,
; ;
424.
—
Malassimilation resulting from wrong treatment of typhoid, 118.
—
Malnutrition resulting from wrong treatment of typhoid, 118.
—
Malignant see Cancer and Tumors.
—
Manipulative Treatment internal, quotation Thure Brandt, 195 in ;
chronic diseases, 252 see Spinal Manipulation and Massage.

;
—
Marriage need of training for, 388; relations, 389.
—
Massage action of, 97; Thure Brandt, 195; internal stimulation
secured by, 420; effects of, 423; electromagnetic effects of, 424;
more positive the operator the more positive the effects of, 424.
—
Masturbation see Onanism.
—
Matter and vital force, 28-30 influence of mind over, 46.
;
MacEwen, Dr.—opposes removal of appendix, 132.

Meat— of carcasses of vaccine calves for meat, 155;
sale composition
of meat and effect of eating, 321; effect on uric acid condition,
357-358.
—
Medicines are they in conformity with natural treatment? 25; Osier
on, 289 Nature Cure position regarding, 294 ' Tissue Reme-
; ; '
dies", 297; Medicinal Remedies, 298; Homeopathic, 299; inorganic

minerals and poisong used by allopathy, 300 ; stimulating effect of,
380.
—
Mendeleefp ^Russian chemist, table of atoms, 274.
—
Menstruation see Woman's Ailments.
—
Mental states, influence of, 46 ; importance of mental states in cure
of chronic disease, 253; arguments of mental scientists, 365; thera-
peutics cannot correct bony lesions, 417 healing not modern, 443
;
healing, 445, 470; healing, limitations of, 456; threefold consti-

tution of man, 465; conditions affect composition of tissues and
secretions, 472; also see Emotions.
—
Mercury secondary cause of disease, 38; results of, 77, 79, 213;
how it acts, 260.
—
Metaphysical Healing 26, 368, 369; nihilism, 445; healing from
within, 446 ; self control the whole law, 447 cures, 448 ; faith
;
without works dangerous, 450; a case, 452; ideal of the faith

healer is ideal of the animal, 453; limitations of, 456; dangers
of, 480.
—
Metchnikoff theory of bacteria, 88 contemporary of B4champ, 100.
;
Methods of Treatment —see Treatment.

Microorganism — see Bacteria.
MiCROZYMA —
9; explanation of heredity, 49, 94; develop into bacteria
in morbid soil, 93; discovery of, 100; development of, 214; create
wild 221; necessary to produce live, organized foods, 297;
cells,
digestiveferments produced by, 298; size of dose for, 311;
development into bacteria, 349,
—
Milk standard for natural dietetics, 319.
—
Milk Scurf see Eruptions.
—
Mind errors of mortal, 34; effect of stimulants on, 381; and soul,
459; the player, 466; twofold attitude of mind and soul, 459; see
Mental.
—
Mineral substances must be in live, organized form, 295; vegetable
extracts, how prepared, 296; difference between organic and live
organized, 297; inorganic, 299; use of salt, 302; difficult elimina-
tion of inorganic minerals, 303; structure of, 337; positive mineral
elements carriers of life elements to lower kingdoms, 341.
Moles — results of extirpation, 203.
Mouth Breathing —cure of, 185.
—
Moral Regeneration Swedenborg, 265.
—
Morbid Matter bacteria product of, 10; accumulation of interferes
with celldrainage and nutrition, 37; diagram, 38; soil for bac-
teria, 51; see Microzyma; accumulation of from meat eating, 321;
product of cell and food metabolism, 349, 357.
Naprapathy — definition of, 401 ; school adheres to allopathic idea of

acute disease, 420.
Natural Dietetics see — Dietetics.
Natural Law violation— of, cause of disease, compliance with, neces-
sary to overcome, 35 ; defined, 423.
Natural Therapeutics — includes Nature Cure; see
definition of,
Announcement; value of spinal manipulation from viewpoint of,
417; each method of treatment supplemented by all others, 418;
see Nature Cure.
—
Nature return to, 39; not a poor healer, reliable, 284; orderly and
intelligent in repair, 285; law of polarity or sex in, 333; four
kingdoms of, 336.
—
Nature Cure history of, 18; definition of, 22; included in Natural
Therapeutics, sec Announcement; of venereal diseases, 77; of
inflammation, 86; of suppressed pneumonia, 116; treatment of
typhoid adopted by allopathy, results of, 120, 291; operations
obviated by, 125; viewpoint of appendicitis, 130; in Germany,
EEFERENCE INDEX 511
176; in America, 178; of tonsilitis, 185; of gonorrhea, 191; of

disorders of genital organs, 192, 195; during climacteric, 199;
of cancer, 214; Nature cures cancer, 216; cancer, a case, 219;
swiftest cure, 227; Natural Therapeutics only system that com-
bines all that is good in healing, 228, 374; works easiest in acute
disease, 232 why achieves results, only hope of chronic, 233
;
diagnosis not important, 237; diagnosis most thorough, 239;

helps Nature remove disease, 244; treatment of chronic diseases,
251-254; do we ever fail? 264; correctness of methods proved by
crises, 284; allopathy adopting methods of, 289; position regard-
ing medicines, 294; treatment, foods and remedies, vegetable
extracts, 296; use of homeopathic medicines, 299, 307; impor-
tance of natural diet, 304-306; homeopathy complement of, 317;
how it works, 483; why not more generally accepted, 491.
—
Negative disease is, 41, 332, 344; electrons, 334; what is negative,
335; food, 336; quality of sex, 342; producing diet, 345; cell
waste negative, 348.
—
Nervous System 375; motor, inhibitory, sympathetic, 376; inhibi-
tory paralyzed by stimulants, 377; effects of stimulants on, dia-
gram, 379; manipulative stimulation of, 420; action of, 475.
—
Nervousness from operations, 196 nervous prostration, 375.
;
—
Neuropathy definition of, 402.
—
Neurotherapy in chronic diseases, 252; definition of, 403; aims at
results other than correction of lesions, 419; treatment in acute
gastritis, 419.
Obsession —
— see
Hypnotism.
Obsonins 85.
—
Onanism (Masturbation) causes of, 387; effect of meat eating,
391; effects of, 392; how to regenerate, 393; parents should warn
children, 395.
—
Operations see Surgery.
—
Organic difference between organic and "live organized", 297, 337;
difference between organic disease and functional, 408; disease,
see Disease.
—
Organized live organized form of mineral salts, 295; difference
between organized and organic forms, 297, 337.
OsLER, Dr. —on medicine, 289-293.
Osmosis— 93.
Osteopathy— 400; school adheres
definition of, to allopathic idea of
acute diseases, 420.
Packs —in appendicitis, 138 in smallpox, 167.

;
Paralysis —of brain by bromids, 70; caused by diphtheria antitoxin,

169-171; agitans, cause of, 213; by suppression of hemorrhoids,
245; stimulation caused by, 375.
—
Parasites ^head lice, 70; suppression, crises, 71; suppression of, 211;
removing head lice, 212.
—
Paresis cause of, 213.
—
Pasteur 11, 12 germ theory, 109. •
— ;
Pathogenic bacteria product of pathogenic conditions, 10 Powell 's

;
theory verified by records of our patients, 15; obstruction starts

inflammation wliicli develops microzyma, 15; theory of inflam-
mation, 89.
Pathogen —lymph nodes condense, 93 producing diet, 345, 346.
Periodicity —the law of sevens, 267 ;
taught by Hippocrates, 268

;
Buchanan on, 269; Blavatsky on, 269; Buddhistic allegory, Fohat,

271-272; law of sevens applied to music, colors, etc., 272; Hellen-
bach on, 272; of the atom, 273; Pythagoras on matter, 273; seven
primary colors, etc., diagram, 275 Friday periods, superstitions
;
relating to, 276; should not fear crisis periods, 277; law of sevens
applied to individual life, 278; law of sevens in febrile diseases,
281 in chronic diseases, 282 Nature Cure methods proved by
; ;
crises, 284.
—
Peritonitis natural treatment, 140.
—
Perspiration see Sweating.
—
Pessaries use of and effects, 194, 195.
—
Phagocytes Powell's theory of, 14; allopathio explanation, 84;
theory of inflammation, 89 see Leucocytes.
—
;
Phagocytosis Powell's theory of, 14; allopathic theory, 84; facts

opposed to, 95; see Leucocytes.
——
Pneumonia suppression by ice, 115 natural treatment, 116.
;
Polarity 41; health is satisfied polarity, 46; law of, 333; of sub-
stance, and life elements, 336; sexual, 342; mental and emotional,
342 psychical, 343.
;
Positive—health is, 41, 332, 344; what is, 335; food, 336; mineral
elements, carriers of life elements in lower kingdom, 341 ; quality
of sex, 342; the more positive the masseur the better effects of
massage, 424; aflGlrmations, 474.
—
Potency high potency doses of drugs, 307; are they effective, 311.
—
Powell, Dr. Thomas pathogenic theory, 14; theory of inflamma-
tion, 89; earlier statement in Nature Cure literature, 90; on leuco-
cytes, 95.
Prayer —must be backed by right 468; how living, shall we pray?
479right way
; pray, 481.
to
Pregnancy— of intercourse during, 388.
effects
Priessnitz—founder of Nature Cure, 18.
"Principles of Bacteriology" —Aljbott, 349.
Protoplasm— 346-348.
cell,
Psora— for parasites, 71; internal, cause of cancer,

soil etc., 210;
suppression of, sign in eye, 211; eruptions in natural treatment
of cancer, 212.
—
PsYCHiSM abnormal induced by fasting, 324, 325; psychic polarity,
343.
Ptomains — 90.
Purging— artificial, first and permanent effects, 260, 261.
Pus — composition of, 84.
Pythagoras — theory of numbers, 31; taught law of crises, 267; on
composition of matter, 273 ; " primordial substance ' of Pythago-
'
ras, 335.
Quinin —symptoms and elimination of, 81; allopathic effect of, 316;
homeopathic effect of, 317.
KEFERENCE INDEX 5I3
Eadium —in cancer, 203, 223.

Reaction — Action,
see
Reason —benumbed by stimulants, 377; benumbed by hypnotism, 384;
has taken place of instinct,
407, 416.
Relaxation—by neurotherapy treatment, 420; 485; while
scientific,
working, 486; before sleeping, 488.
Rheumatism—fasting 326; caused by morbid deposits, 346, 356;
in,
effect of coffee and meat on, 357; arthritic stage, 358.
RoDERMUND, Dr. —experiment with smallpox exudate, 56.
Ross, De. H. C. —experiments in 220-222.
cell proliferation,
Salt—use of, 302.

Salts—neutralized acids, too much formed, 346; diagram, 347; role
in body, 362.
Salvarsan ("606") — of in venereal
ScHUESSLER— Tissue Remedies", 296.
iodids, etc., effect disease, 78.
*
ScHWENNiNGER, Dr.—Condemns modern medical practice, 293.

'
Scrofula—a secondary cause of disease, 38.

Scurvy, or Scorbut—cause 302 on German
of, cure, cause
; raider, of,
368, 369.
Sedatives —dual action on brain and nervous system, 66.
Self Control—the master key, 36 of fasting
; 330 benumbed
effect on, ;
by stimulants, 377; benumbed by hypnotism, 384; the whole law

of healing, 447; strengthening of, 492.
Senn, Dr. NicHOLAS^n cancer, 73, 206; on removal of moles, etc.,
204.
SeptimalLaw— Periodicity. see
— After
Sequelje see Effects.
Serums—suppressive, 85; see also Vaccines.
Sex— 333; sexual
^law of, polarity, 342; indulgence not necessary to
health, 388; need of sex instruction before marriage, 388; mar-
riage relation, 389, 390; effect of meat eating, 391; need of sex
instruction for chUd, 392.
—
Skin elimination of neutralized aeids through, 346.
—
Smallpox experiment by Dr. Rodermund, 56; natural immunity,
151; beneficial effects of under natural treatment, 165; case in
author 's family, 165-168 ; see also Vaccination.
—
Soul ^life element, 336; twofold attitude of mind and soul, 459; soul
the harmonies, 466; powers of developed by use, 480; spiritual
love highest vibratory activity of, 431.
—
Spinal Manipulation ^history of, 399 ; osteopathy, 400 chiropractic, ;
400; naprapathy, 401; spondylotherapy, 402; neuropathy, 402;

neurotherapy, 403; anatomy of spine, 404; mechanics of the
skeleton, 405; spinal lesions and their causes, 406; nature and
effects of lesions, 410; detection of lesions, 411; struethral anal-
ysis, 412 ; correction of lesions, 412 ; value of curative gymnastics
in restoring normal curves, 414 ; relation of neurotherapy to other
methods of healing, 415; cannot make good for an unbalanced
diet, 417; luxations may be caused by inflammatory condition,
418; chiropractic theory of fevers, 421; harmful effects of sup-
pression by, 422; properly applied is helpful in acute diseases, 422.
514 NATUEAL THERAPEUTIUa
Spiritual —
life element, 336; life active in body after death of
physical body, 351; institution for healing should be center for
spiritual power, 434.
—
Spleen see Glands.
—
Spondylotherapy definition of, 402; see also Spinal Manipulation.
—
Stimulants effect on nervous system, 377-380; effect on mind, 381.
— —
St. Vitus ' Dance caused by removal of tonsils and adenoids, 184.
Suggestion 439.
Suppression — inflammation by serums, 58;
of conventional treatment
of acute diseases is suppression, 68 ; of diarrhea, venereal diseases,
etc., 69, 70; of children's diseases, 72; the cause of chronic dis-
eases, 75, 245; cases of, 77; of inflammation, 85; results of,
during first stages of inflammation, 110; results of, during third
stage of inflammation, 114; by ice, 115; of last stages of inflam-
mation, 118; after effects of drug or ice treated typhoid, 118; of
diphtheria, 172, 173; by surgical treatment of tonsilitis and
adenoids, 181-185 ; of colds, etc., result in catarrhal condition of
genital organs, 188; not practiced by primitive races, 206; of
psora, cause of cancer, 210-212; mercury worst suppressant, 213;
of hemorrhoids causes paralysis, 245; of fever by chiropractic,
harmful effects of, 421-422.
—
Surgery promiscuous surgery not constructive, 25; suppressive, 68;
length of life after operation, 69; results of use of anesthetics,
122; when indicated, 122; extirpation not cure, 123; removal of
thyroid gland and spleen, 123, 124; effect of major operation,
125; obviated by natural treatment, 125; Zone Therapy in rela-
tion to, 126; after effects not immediately manifest, 127; on
genital organs, 128; warning against operations by surgeon, 132;
dangers of operation in appendicitis, 140; removal of hemor-
rhoids and appendix, a ease, 143 removal of tonsils and adenoids,
;
effects of, 181-185; curetment of womb, 189; treatment of pro-

lapsus of genital organs, 192; results of womb operation in later
pregnancy, 196; effect of on brain, 196; effect of leaving small
piece of ovary, 197; in cancer not cure, 202; removal of moles
causes cancer, 203.
—
Sweating Dr. Lahmann, experiments, artificial, natural, 263.
SwEDENBORG, Emanuel quotation, 265. —
—
Sycotic Eruptions see Eruptions.
—
Symphony of life, 463.
—
Syphilis see Venereal.
Taints — hereditary, 49 see also Disease.

disease, ;
Tea— why injurious, 358.

Thure-Brandt Massage— 195.
Thyroid Gland— see Glands.
'
Tissue Eemedies — Schuessler, inorganic, 296.
'
' '
Tonsilitis — surgical treatment 181-185; prevention and

of, effect,
185, 186.
cure,
Tonsils — eliminating organs, 92; removal 181; use 181-182; of, of,
of removal, 183.
effects
Treatment— constructive and destructive, 26; unity 82; 25, of, 39,
natural methods of, 39 ; allopathic treatment of appendicitis, 129
EEFERENCE INDEX 515
natural treatment of appendicitis, 137-139; natural treatment of

hoof and mouth disease, 156; natural treatment of smallpox,
165-168; surgical treatment of tonsilitis and adenoids, 181; natu-
ral treatment of tonsilitis, 185; natural treatment of woman's
ailments, 195; natural treatment in chronic diseases, 251-254;
natural treatment of acid diseases, 360; neurotherapy treatment
of acute gastritis, 419.
Tuberculosis — 95.
Tumors —caused by curetting, 190; caused by pessaries, 194; Dr. Ross'
experiments, 221.
Typhoid Fever—after when drug or
effects treated, 118; rosary,
ice
119; allopathy adopted natural methods of treatment of, results
of, 120, 291; fasting in, 329.
—
Unit human body a, 126.
—
Unity of Cure see Treatment.
—
Unity of Disease see Disease.
Uric Acid — see Acid.
Urine — acidity of, 366.
Vaccination —
discovery of, 145; has it exterminated smallpox? does
it protect? 146; after effects, 148; effect on mammary glands,
150; produces acute and chronic diseases, 151; after effects, a
case, 156-159; epUepsy caused by, a case, 159-161; signs in eye,
161; diphtheria caused by, 162-164; anterior poliomyelitis, caused
by, 164; cause of diphtheria, 173.
—
Vaccines 84; what they contain, 152; responsible for hoof and mouth
outbreak, 152 ; manufacture of, 153 ; calves producing vaccines
sold for meat, 155; results of shown in eye, 155; government
agent on hoof and mouth disease, 156; produce morbid matter,
214.
Vedic Teaching 108. —
—
Vegetable extracts, how prepared and administered, 296; negative
vegetable diet, 325 ; kingdom, 336 ; diet may give animal magnet-
ism, 341.
—
Vegetarian Diet see Dietetics.
—
Venereal Diseases gonorrheal discharges and syphUitie ulcers sup-
pressed, 69; effects of suppression of, 77, 201; cured by natural
methods, 77; from vaccination, 148, 152; case of gonorrheal
infection, 191 ; cause of secondary and tertiary syphilis, 213.
—
Vibration and life, 30; in health and disease, 46; four ranges of
vibration control kingdoms of Nature, 336; mechanical electrical
vibration too coarse for human bodies and treatment of disease,
429; vibratory quality of aura constitutes attraction or repulsion,
430; spiritual love highest vibratory activity of the soul, 431; of
magnetic healer must be harmonious, 432; constructive, destruc-
tive, 463 ; emotional, 471.
—
Violation op Nature 's Laws see Natural Law.
Vital Force —definition
28; economy of, 40, 351; not derived from
of,
food and drink, when vital force leaves body at death, production
of vital energy ceases, 428.
Vitality— lowered, 38, 41, 370increase, 373
; to ; reserve, 375 ; storing
of during sleep, 378.
ViTAMiNES —meaning 341. of,
ViTOCHEMiCAL— element, 336, 339; vitochemical
life energy from life
force, 426.
—
Water treatment, see Hydrotherapy.
—
White Blood Corpuscles see Leucocytes and Phagocytes.
—
White, Hinton letter from in re diphtheria case, 178.
—
Will Power benumbed by stimulants, 377; benumbed by hypnotism,
384; strengthening of, 492; can control electromagnetic energies
and blood flow, 478,
—
Woman's Ailments primitive woman exempt from, abnormal men-
struation result of, 187-188; leukorrhea, caused by, 188, 189; birth
control, 189; curetment of womb, 189; extirpation of organs not
cure, natural treatment can cure, 191; case of gonorrheal infec-
tion, 191-192; prolapsus and displacement of genital organs,
192-193; unhygienic clothing, 193-194; pessaries, 194; natural
treatment, 195; result of womb operation in later pregnancy,
196; climacteric, causes of disturbances accompanying, 197-198;
menses, 198 climacteric under allopathic treatment, 199, 200.
;
—
Womb see Genital Organs.
Xanthins —what are they, 90.
X-Ray— in cancer, 203, 224.
Yeast Germ —experiment of Bechamp, 12, 85; see also Germ.
Zone Therapy— surgery, 126.

^relation to
APPENDIX
THE LINDLAHR SYSTEM OF NATURAL
THERAPEUTICS
The Lindlahr Institutions were established, first, for the
purpose of providing suitable environment and facilities
for the care and treatment of patients desiring to be cured
of acute and chronic ailments second, to train young men
;
and women in the arts of natural healing, to turn them

out as qualified nurses and physicians; third, to publish
and distribute literature for the purpose of educating the
public in the proper care of body and mind, thus promot-
ing the ideas of natural living; fourth, to establish local
centers throughout the country to further the work of
education.
The Lindlahr Institutes are essentially educational in
character and bear the stamp of liberality in thought, con-
sistent with the highest ideals of the age.
The work is divided into departments which are con-
trolled by men and women of superior ability and breadth
of vision. All departments are personally supervised by
Dr. Lindlahr.
THE SANITARIUMS
In the Sanitariums facilities are provided for the thor-
ough, conscientious treatment of those who are unable
to undertake their treatment at home. There are many
serious conditions which require supervision and treat-
ment by experienced physicians and nurses. The Sani-
tariums provide the proper facilities and ideal environ-
NATTTEAL THERAPEUTICS
ment for carrying out the natural regimen and for ad-
ministering the various methods of natural treatment.
Diagnosis. To begin with, a careful analysis is made of
every patient's condition to determine the exact nature
of his ailments and the degree of his vitality and recuper-
ative powers. For this purpose advantage is taken of all
the latest and best methods of diagnosis. These include
1. Physical Diagnosis. Each patient is subjected to a
thorough physical examination.
2. Laboratory Analysis. Examinations are made of the
patients' blood, sputum and urine and, if necessary, also
of stomach contents and of feces. Records are kept and
comparisons made from time to time with previous anal-
yses in order to determine the degree of improvement.
3. Diagnosis from the Eye. The iris of the eye holds
records of many abnormal changes in structure and func-
tion as they occur in the body. Upon the patient's en-
trance to our institution the records in the iris are care-
fully noted, and signs of improvement are recorded dur-
ing the course of treatment.
4. Spinal Analysis, according to the various systems of
manipulative treatment, offers a valuable addition to diag-
nostic science. It reveals mechanical interference with the
circulation of vital fluids and of nerve currents and points
out the best methods of correction.
5. Basic Diagnosis. In this we possess a valuable
method for determining the general constitutional tend-
encies toward health or disease and for prognosing the
chances of recovery in any given case. The findings are
based on the relative strength and activity of the three
principal organ systems of the body, viz., the digestive,
respiratory and reproductive systems.
6. X-Ray Diagnosis. "Wherever necessary the X-Ray is
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APPENDIX
The essential element in curative treatment is a natural
environment in which the patient is provided with proper
food and subjected to the beneficial influences of the great
natural curative forces found in sunlight, air and inti-
mate contact with mother earth. But these regenerative
influences are not sufficient to bring about marked im-
provement or recovery in serious chronic cases.
"Chronic" means that the system can no longer help it-
self, that the cells and organs have become so encum-
bered and weakened by pathogenic conditions that they

cannot arouse themselves to acute curative effort. In
such cases the purifying and tonic influences of the vari-
ous methods of natural treatment are absolutely neces-
sary to bring about the desired results. In many in-
stances one kind or several kinds of treatment are not
sufficient. The cure requires *'the whole bill of fare"
and then it is difficult and tedious enough to try to the
uttermost both physician and patient.
For these reasons Natural Therapeutics selects and com-

bines everything that is good in dietetic treatment, hy-
drotherapy, massage, osteopathy, chiropractic, naprap-

athy, neurotherapy, Swedish movements, curative gym-
nastics, breathing exercises, and in magnetic and mental
therapeutics.
Thus everything is overcome the primary man-

done to
ifestations of disease, lowered vitality, abnormal
viz.,
composition of vital fluid, accumulation of pathogenic

materials, mechanical lesions and destructive mental and
emotional activities. In this way only can we secure a
more copious inflow of the Life Force, which is healing
Force, and through this perfect health, happiness and
greater efficiency.
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
This department has been established for the benefit of
tiose who are not sick enough to need institutional treat-
ment or those who for some reason are not able to take
advantage of it. These patients may receive advice and
special instructions by mail or telegraph. Dr. Lindlahr
takes entire charge of this work and daily dictates letters
and telegrams to sufferers all over the country who are
relying on his advice to make them whole again. Details
regarding this department will be mailed on request.
Transient Treatment Department. Both in Elmhurst
and in Chicago a department is maintained for transient
patients. Besides their treatments these patients receive
instructions in diet, home treatment and natural living.
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
Exceptional opportunities are offered to young men and
women desiring a vocational training.
The college department is maintained at the expense of
the institution for the education of physicians, nurses and
teachers.
For this purpose a number of courses of instruction have
been arranged to meet the ever growing demand.
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This course prepares students for college and at the
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Our sanitariums are open to young women who desire
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a liberal educati-"-n and vocational training while at the
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same time earning fair wages and in many instances high

wages on the commission plan.
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This course makes it possible for every young man and
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principles underlying the science of eugenics and the arts
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To the graduates of other schools we offer finishing
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Yearly thousands of tracts, booklets and other forms of
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The first book written by Dr. Lindlahr was entitled
**Nature Cure Philosophy and Practice." It was a monu-
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scientific exposition of Nature Cure philosophy and prac-
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first publication has been thoroughly revised and en-
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voted entirely to philosophy and principles, and the other
to treatment. The third volume of the series will be a
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Relationship, of foods to acid diseases; Fasting, when
indicated and how managed.
Hydrotherapy, importance of water treatment;
Why we use cold water; Application in acute and
chronic diseases; Packs, how to use them; Epsom
Salt Treatment. Air and Light Baths; Importance
of skin as organ of elimination. Correct Breathing.
Physical exercises, classified and described. Consti-
pation, cause and cure. Natural Treatment for the
eyes. First Aid. Nervous Diseases. Insanity, cause
and cure. Origin, nature and treatment of mental,
emotional and psychical diseases. Telepathy; the
secret of spiritual healing.
A Complete Course in the Cure of Acute and Chronic
Diseases and the promotion of Health on the three
planes of self expression.
Cloth, Profusely illustrated with pen drawings.

$2.40 postpaid.
Lindlahr Publishing Co. Notmc.

Volume in
The Lindlahr Vegetarian Cook Book

and A B C of Natural Dietetics
By Henry Lindlahr, M.D., and Anna M. Lindlahr
(15th Edition)
Newly revised and enlarged
Splendid Index New Chapters on Vitamines

The importance of diet is recognized by all schools of therapeutics,
but has remained for Dr. Henry Lindlahr to perfect a system of
it
dietetics which brings order out of the conflicting and confusing
theories of food "specialists."
The Lindlahr Vegetarian Cook Book furnishes an absolute standard

for determining the relative values of foods and their proper selection
and combination. The 988 vegetarian recipes have been tested
through twenty years of institutional work. The heading of each
recipe gives the food elements it contains. For assistance to physi-
cians, nurses and housewives all foods are classified into groups and
their medicinal properties explained. Thus it becomes a very easy
matter to work out well balanced meals that will satisfy any palate
and meet therapeutic requirements.
Some of the Subjects Treated Are:
Key to recipe markings; Raw foods; IMedicinal vegetables; Recipes

for Relishes, Salads, Croquettes and Roasts, Vegetables, Desserts,
Cereals, Breads, Legumes, Dairy Products, Eggs, Sandwiches and
Beverages.
Why we favor a vegetarian diet; Psychology of digestion; Over-

eating; To
salt or not to salt: Fermented bread; Mono-diet; Masti-
cation; Frequency of meals: Drinking distilled water; Drinking at
meals: Mixing starches with acid fruits, and vegetables; Fallacy of
the "calory" theory; The true nature and source of vitamines.
The recipe for the famous Health Bread, used at The Lindlahr
Sanitarium and Health Resort is given on page 210.
Lindlahr Publishing Co. Not inc.

Volume VI
IRIDIAGNOSIS
by
Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
THE LAST WORD IN IRIDOLOGY
The Science of Reading Internal Conditions of Health and Disease
from Nature's Records in the Iris of the Eye
—
To the Physician It offers another valuable method of
human
diagnosing-
To the Iiayman —ailments.
By observing the changing signs in the
eyes enables the layman to ascertain whether the internal
it
changes in tlie body are tending toward health or disease.
Iridiagrnosis thus furnishes an unfailing test by which to
detei'mine whetlier a person's habits of living and the treat-
ment of ins ailments are constructive or destructive.
We do not claim, that Iridiagnosis is all sufficient, that it
—
reveals all diseases or all abnormal conditions this cannot
—
be said of any one method of diagnosis but
We do assert and prove positively that Nature's records
in tlie iris reveal mahy diagnostic secrets which cannot be
discovered in any other way.
WHAT WE DO KNOW
Every organ and part of the body is represented in the
iris ofthe eye in a well defined area.
By means ol: various marks, signs, abnormal colors or dis-
coloratiuns in the organ areas of the iris Nature reveals:
Hereditary and congenital diseases.
Acute and chronic inflammatory or catarrhal condi-
tions.
Xiocal lesions and destruction of tissue.
The presence and location of drug poisons.
Structural changes caused by accidental injury or
—
surgical operations the latter modified by anesthesia.
The nature of Healing" Crises which must be passed
on tile read to health. No conscientious physician or
intelligent layman can afford to be ignorant of this
wonderful science.
Profusely illustrated witli charts, eye drawings from
life and a color plate displaying the color signs of drug
jioisons, psora spots, nerve rings, lymphatic rosary, scurf
ring, etc. From the artistic and scientific standpoint these
illustrations aie the best and most accurate ever produced.
For the first time tliey make it possible to ac(iuire a prac-
tical knowledge of Iridology from a text book.
Lindlahr Publishing Co. Not me.

W. B. C.

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Published by The Lindlahr Publishing Co.

To Progressive Physicians of the Age 1

The Upas Tree of Disease 8

II. What Is Nature Cure? 18

III. Catechism of Nature Cure 22

IV. What Is Life? 28

V. The Primary Cause of Disease and Its

VI. The Unity of Acute Disease 49

VII. The Laws of Cure 60

Vm. Suppression versus Elimination 68

X The Discovery of Microzyma 100

XL Eesults of Suppression 110

Xn. Surgery 122

XV. The Diphtheria Antitoxin 169

XVI. Suppressive Surgical Treatment of Tonsilitis and

XVII. Woman 's Suffering 187

XVin. Cancer 202

XIX. What About the Chronic? 227

XX. Diagnosis and Prognosis 236

XXIII. Periodicity 267

XXIV. The True Scope of Medicine 289

XXV. Homeopathy 307

XXVI. Natural Dietetics 319

XXVn. Fasting 322

XXVIII. What Is Positive, What Is Negative? 332

XXIX. Health Is Positive, Disease Negative 344

XXX. Conservation of Vitality 370

XXXI. Onanism or Masturbation 387

XXXII. Spinal Manipulation and Adjustment 399

XXXni. Neurotherapy 417

XXXIV. Magnetic Treatment 425

XXXV. The Legitimate Scope and Natural Limitations of

XXXVI. The Difference Between Functional and Organic

XXXVIL The Twofold Attitude of Mind and Soul 459

XXXVIIL The Symphony of Life 463

XXXIX. The Threefold Constitution of Man 465

XL. Mental Therapeutics 470

XLI. How Shall We Pray 479

XLII. Scientific Eelaxation and Normal Suggestion 485

XLTTT. Man's Demands Are God's Commands 491

*'Ho, ye who suffer! Know ye suffer

Medical Practice Act of a sovereign commonwealth of

Be not dismayed by ignorance, indifference, opposi-

trend of modern medical research and practice in our

ease taints and miasms, and against the inroads of bacteria

the test of "the survival of the fittest" in the great

ciency for mental and physical work ;

failure and poverty. Therefore, he who builds health is

If some similar method of engaging and paying for medical

conditions or to the symptoms of disease. Each of these,

THE UPAS TREE OF DISEASE

OF VIOLATION OF NATURE 'S LAWS. IT IS INSTRUCTIVE AND CORRECTIVE IN

wonderful simplicity and efficiency has accumulated from

mation solely from the viewpoint of the teachings of