Valere Aude

Valere Aude, by Louis
Dechmann

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Title: Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical
Regeneration
Author: Louis Dechmann
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Valere Aude (DARE TO BE HEALTHY)
or

THE LIGHT of PHYSICAL REGENERATION
A vade mecum on BIOLOGY and the HYGIENIC-DIETETIC
METHOD of HEALING
By Dr. Louis Dechmann Biologist and Physiological Chemist
Second Edition (Compendium) 1919 SEATTLE. WASHINGTON
Christmas 1918
WASHINGTON PRINTING COMPANY SEATTLE USA 1919

DEDICATION
"Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and
Ajax asks no more!"
(Pope)
To you of that great voiceless multitude,
"THE PEOPLE"--
You whose bewildered cry is still for light; whose silent tragedy our
well beloved Longfellow could so well portray:
"O suffering sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the
lips in misery, Longing, and yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely
tried!"
To you and your needs this brief epitome of a coming greater work is
given as a fitting Christmas offering--
"LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
It is the cry which despairing, deluded humanity, in the darkness of its
frenzied ignorance, has flung back hopelessly to heaven since first the
spirit of an Infinite Intelligence brooded upon the race. It is the appeal

of man's immortal unity to the All-Father, from age to age, for
knowledge sufficient for its hourly needs, since ever, back in the far
dim ages of the earth, primeval man, beetle-browed, furtive and
fashioned fearsomely, first felt the faint vibration of a Soul; and, like an
awakened giant, that chief of human faculties, a Mind took form which,
pressing on along the uncertain way, has scaled the giddy heights of
knowledge where genius, enthroned, does battle with an envious world
of shams and greed and venal prejudice. Led by the resistless pulse of
power it follows still that "banner with a strange device:
Excelsior!";--for, ever onward yet it wends its way where'er the devious
pathway trends, whose troubled, varied course is time, whose bourne is
in eternity.
But where seek we, then, the answer to a cry so shrill, that smites the
high face of heaven from a world in pain?
Shall we seek it where false learning leads us in the quest?--Ah no.
It comes, not in the crash of Sinai's thunders with the rockings of a
riven sphere, as in the allegoric stories of a puerile past.
Softly it falls--yes, almost fearfully--from the fervid lips of some lone
world-neglected persecuted man--some patient toil-worn son of science,
whom Genius loves to call her own--though, haply, to the schools, to
fortune and to fame unknown. One whose transcendent, superconscious
mind has dared, Prometheus-like, to snatch from heaven the fire of the
immortal gods and offer it in benefits to all mankind.
Thrice happy he upon the sensory surface of whose open mind such
seeds of knowledge and of wisdom fall, and happy the land where one
and all may dare to warm chill hands and hearts before its sacred flame;
that halcyon land, the Ultima Thule of our fond imaginings, wherein
true freedom reigns; wherein the legalized tyranny of the chartered
libertines of a so-called learned profession shall be finally relegated, in
common cause to the limbo of a sordid and degraded past. For these are
they who seek to maintain a strangle-hold on science, who paralyze the
arm of individual research and, even in this advancing age, still block
the path of progress and of peace, of universal freedom and equality of

intellect, to all beyond the narrow limits of their own elect.
Thus then, to the free fraternity of the open mind I dedicate this brief
resumé of the product of long years of study and of toil, steadfastly
believing that therein is found the missing dimension for their urgent
need, suited alike to all who hold that to maintain the health of body
and of mind is a worthy object for enlightened man. To you, mothers of
the land, who recognize your duty, towards God and to the State, to
rear your children healthy, strong and good to look upon. To all whose
keener common-sense looks upon Nature, the Creator, as logically
therefore, the healing power also. To all endowed with wit to
understand the obvious truth that, not by poisonous drugs is healing
wrought, but