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PART V.
PRACTICAL HYGIENE.
Longevity man's natural heritage. The care of the body absolute
cleanliness rare. The function of water in the human organism. Hot
water the natural scavenger. The bath. Description of the skin, and its
function. Hints on bathing. The wet sheet pack. Importance of fresh air.
Interchange of gases in the lungs. Ventilation. Prof. Willard Parker on
impure air. The function of the heart. The therapeutic value of sunlight.


PART VI.
EXERCISE.
Motion is life. Effect of exercise on the fluids of the body. How the
tissues are nourished. Exercise for invalids. Complete system of
breathing exercises for developing the lungs. Improved system of
physical exercises, calling into play every muscle of the body ensuring
harmonious development. Special nerve exercise. how to stand and
how to walk. All the above exercises plainly illustrated.

PART VII.
THE DIET QUESTION.
The replacement of waste. Appetite and hunger. The evils of gluttony.
Vegetarianism versus flesh eating. Diet, a question of latitude. The
cause of old age. Cretinism. Danger of earthy matters in food
substances. Fruits are ideal foods. The true value of bread.
Classification of the ingredients of food substances. Table of
proportions. Table of digestive values. Vegetarianism discussed. A
mixed diet the most reasonable. How to eat. Liquids at meals. When to
eat. The no breakfast plan. The effects of alcohol, tea and coffee.
Improper habits of eating. The influence of mind upon digestion. The
advantages of regularity. Nature's bookkeeping.


PART VIII.
TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
Complete formulas of treatment (with dietary rules) for over fifty
different diseases, including Consumption, Appendicitis, Locomotor
Ataxia, Paralysis, Dyspepsia, Pneumonia, Diabetes Mellitus, Uterine
troubles, etc. Also all the principal ailments of children.


PART IX.
SOME HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS.
Disease is the result of the operation of natural law don't dread it. Don't

treat symptoms; treat the fundamental cause. Pain is Nature's danger
signal. Prevention is better than cure. The elements of prevention.
Importance of a knowledge of physiology. The body, the vehicle of
expression for the mind. The strenuous life. Tear worse than wear. The
importance of reserve energy. The effect of the mind on the body. The
human body as a bank. The importance of a daily balance. Cultivate
cheerfulness. The habit of happiness. The folly of squandering health.
Medicine and surgery compared. What children should be taught. The
final word.
APPENDIX.
Instructions for massage. How to use the stomach bath by three
different methods. How to improvise the Turkish Bath in your own
home, without apparatus. How to use the wet sheet pack. How to care
for the "Cascade".

THE ROYAL ROAD TO HEALTH.



PART I.
DRUGGING PROVED UNSCIENTIFIC.
It is one of the most profound mysteries of our civilization, and has
been one of the most perplexing and discouraging phenomena of
human existence, that, while the world at large has maintained an ever
increasing "medical profession," whose members are popularly
supposed to be competent to deal with all the ills that flesh is heir to;
still there has always been a long list of what are termed "incurable
diseases." But the immense strides made, in recent years, in every
branch of modern science, has led the thinking public to consider such

a condition of things as an outrageous libel on the God of Nature, and
to question whether there can be such a thing as an incurable disease.
Health is such an inestimable blessing, that the individual who shall
devise means to preserve it, or to restore it, when lost, is deserving of
all the thanks and honors that a grateful community can bestow.
Unfortunately, there are very few who estimate life at its true value,
until they are confronted with the grim destroyer, Death. No one can
fully appreciate the priceless blessings of health, until they feel that it
has slipped from their grasp. The oft quoted phrase, "Health is Wealth,"
is truly a concrete expression of wisdom, for without the former, the
latter is well nigh an impossibility. But its interference with the
activities of life is one of the least evils of sickness, for perfect health is
the very salt and spice of life; without it, existence is "weary, stale, flat
and unprofitable."
But let none despair, for it is my purpose to show how those who enjoy
the blessing of robust health may preserve it indefinitely, and how
those who have lost it may regain it with access of vigor, and once
more feel that life is indeed worth living. In presenting a new system of
medication, it is necessary to attack the existing systems, and hence, I
am placed in a delicate position, for of all the problems ever presented
for the ingenuity of man to solve, undoubtedly the most difficult is,
how to present new facts so as