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which cunning times put on to entrap the
wisest."
Courageous, then, must be the knight who sets his lance in rest to tilt
against the windmills of the world.
Nevertheless, although the truth is still banned as "heterodox" by
common consent--or tacit connivance--an attitude patent to commercial
instincts in view of the cataclysm which must naturally ensue, with
deadly results to the vested interests of orthodoxy, so soon as the
long-trusted barriers of plausible and pretentious mystery and
importance shall be swept away by the rising tide of popular
indignation. When the masses become educated to discriminate
between truth and falsehood and thus shall come into their rights, then
and not till then, will the dawn of physical salvation break.
Still, I maintain, there are, and have been all along the way, eminent
medical men of high intelligence, who, unlike the drones of the medical
hive, have dared to think for themselves and have even dared to speak
their thoughts.
Thus, for instance, spoke Sir William W. Gull, Physician to her late
Majesty Queen Victoria: "Having passed the period of the goldheaded
cane and horsehair wig, we dare hope to have also passed the days of
pompous emptiness; and furthermore, we can hope that nothing will be

considered unworthy the attention of physicians which contributes to
the saving of life."
Again, an authority of the first rank, Prof. Oesterlin, says in his noted
work on the Materia Medica:
"The studious physician of our century will hardly expect to accomplish
by force, through some strange drug or other, that which only nature
can bring about when assisted by all the rational accessories of
hygiene and dietetics.
Nature alone can furnish the beneficient means, sufficient for all
needs,"--which the science of medicine never has afforded and never
can.
As we survey the civilization of our age and its medical science, we see,
on the one hand, the crude superstitions of the masses, the subtler
superstitions of the educated classes; gross materialism, bewildering
Darwinism, pessimism, and degenerate political economy; on the other
hand, unmitigated quackery and cupidity, with its weight of oppression
on humanity,--everywhere confusion instead of harmony.
Very surely,--and perhaps more speedily than we think--a reaction will
come, when our present degenerate system of medical
subterfuge--misnamed science--will have passed away, to be replaced
by accredited methods of natural healing consistent with the dignity of
an enlightened, self-respecting people.

"Ignorance is the curse of God: Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly
to heaven"
(Shakespeare)
THE HYGIENIC-DIETETIC METHOD OF HEALING
Biology, the Science of life, has developed under my hand that system
of natural healing which I practice, in common with some of the most

successful physicians on the continents of Europe and America.
Although based upon the same biological laws, their systems of
therapy--or healing--differ materially from one another. My system is
entirely my own, developed during the last thirty-five years to that
degree of perfection it has attained today.
I am, naturally, honestly proud of the success achieved during this
strenuous period, yet am I still as anxiously imbued as ever with the
spirit and habit of research which is now directed to the endeavour to
further simplify my method of treatment, by further discoveries in the
realm of that most abstruse of the sciences, Physiological Chemistry.
In this baffling but wonderful domain I am inspired by the ambitious
hope that some, at any rate, of the many unsolved problems of the
Science of Life may yet give up their secrets to the demand of my
persistency, exerted in the interest of the well-being of humanity.
After centuries devoted by the faculty to a futile and arrogant attempt to
counteract the disturbances of health, which we call diseases, in the
stereotyped manner known as "orthodox;" after endless complications,
infinite "specializing"--in itself a futility--and unblushing complicity
with the powers that be, we find them now at length, baffled,
discredited, but unashamed, cast back, discomforted, upon Mother
Nature's kindly breast, their victims humbly seeking healing in simple
unity from her ample store.
Based upon this firm foundation, we term the new departure the
"Natural Method of Healing."
The greatest physicians of all time, from Hippocrates to our own day,
were satisfied to be simply natural physicians. They were not satisfied
to merely suppress the symptoms of suffering and to quiet the sufferer
by abnormal appliances. Their higher, more ambitious aim was to reach
the active source of distress--and in this they succeeded.
For, not only did they achieve where others failed, but, in addition to
healing, they also prevented the recurrence of disease, and, more

noteworthy still, they established a system of Prophylactic Therapy,
which is the highest function of the healing art; namely, the prevention
of disease by treatment before full development, or, in other words, the
preservation of health.
It is not the object