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of this brief brochure to enter into the devious details
which a full explanation of this practical, successful, modern method
would require. It is designed merely for those who, after experiencing
disappointment and failure in other directions, have had recourse, as a
last alternative, to advice and assistance, from myself.
Such patients, as a rule, have heard of my method from others; have
heard that it differs widely, in its frank simplicity, from the empty
pomposity of the old-school "orthodox" elements, though of the
principles of the old-school teaching they have really little or no
conception, beyond a crude, unwholesome, fear of the unknown,
consequent upon the, very necessary, veil of mystery with which its
votaries surround themselves--a semi-superstitious sentiment inherited
from a malignant past and one which does little credit to the vaunted
modern civilization of today.
On this point of difference they ask for enlightenment, and naturally
enquire as to the nature of both, but especially of this new hope which
is held out to them as a refuge in their hour of despair.
This information it is equally my duty and my desire to give, and in the
most convenient and simple form, shorn of all shroud of mystery; for
my object is to educate and not to conceal.
It is my chief desire that patients should thoroughly understand the
methods and principles of the New-School of Healing and should
exercise their own intelligence as to its merits as compared with the old,
and, being once thoroughly convinced--not by faith, or fear, or fashion,
nor yet biased by the unfair influence of the false prestige of a legalized
monopoly detrimental to the interest of the people--they should
forthwith honestly test the new deliverance by faithfully following my
advice and instruction, to their own unfailing ultimate benefit and
relief.

As a labour of love towards the world in general and the people of my
adopted country in particular, I have made it my duty to formulate the
substance of my researches in the field of science--researches which
represent the struggles of a lifetime--in a large and comprehensive
work which, to the scientist as well as to the laymen, will constitute in
the most detailed and complete degree a reliable guide to the
conservation of health which, even now, in the immediate present, has
come to be regarded not only as a scientific phase of education, but as a
duty incumbent upon every citizen. Should sickness supervene, as well
it may sometimes, despite all reasonable precaution, the knowledge and
instructions contained therein are sufficient, if closely followed, to
prevent, for the most part, the serious consequences of disease and to
afford the patient the necessary enlightenment to enable him to
co-operate with the hygienic-dietetic physician in the task of restoring
him to health and ability.
This book, entitled "Regeneration" or "Dare to be Healthy," will
consist of some three thousand or more pages. It will be published
shortly; and, in the common interests of human health will, I trust, find
prominent place on the book-shelf of every home whose inmates either
belong to the ever increasing number of the followers of my patients, or
who, by careful study of my teachings therein contained, may be
finding their independent way back from the dreary depths of suffering
to the glad plains of health.
In following up the general outline of the "New Regeneration" these
pages will not lend themselves to the otherwise necessary encounter
with what are now admitted to be the recognized errors of the,
temporarily dominant, medical school, save in so far as it may be
requisite to remove from the mind of the layman pernicious and
antiquated ideas to which he has been long and persistently educated,
or to protect those who have ceased to believe in them from the pitfalls
to which, as an alternative, they may be exposed amongst the
numberless unscientific, quasi-miraculous, healing cults, or the equally
pernicious nostrums of the spectacular advertising medicine vendor,
both of whom reap golden harvests among the ranks of the so justly
disappointed and despairing people.

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It is, nevertheless, an imperative duty to issue this necessary warning;
namely, that the public should safeguard itself against the absurd, but
possible mistakes of confusing the Legitimate Scientific School of the
Hygienic Dietetic Method of Biological Healing with the nebulous
cults aforesaid. There is no vestige of resemblance between them,
either in thought or principle, and nothing could be more fatal and
foreign to the truth.
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There is one thing, and one only, which, like the rest of the community,
we share with them in common, and this is that growing spirit of
profound distrust with which all classes seem daily more and more
constrained to regard the Medical Fraternity and all its