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ways.
It is the general knowledge of the existence of this sentiment which has
called into being the present epidemic of curious cults and
catholicons--due, it would appear, more to this insidious temptation to
such commercial enterprise than to any other cause--and which form so
prominent a feature throughout all sections of the community--and
especially in the press--throughout the length and breadth of the land.
To such, in an alarming degree, the public turns, in protest, as it were,
against the tyranny and turpitude of this "learned profession," with its
kindred corporations and its studied callous disregard of scientific
advancement in any direction which might tend to jeopardize or reduce
the profitable exercise of its own obsolete methods, its system of
poisonous medicaments, and dangerous operations and anti-toxins.
There is no possible efficacy or help to be derived from other teachings,
whatsoever they may be, except from those based absolutely upon the
solid foundation of biological fact. Since Johannes Müller (1833) wrote
the first book on physiology and its chemistry, more than a thousand
so-called "Authorities" in that branch of science have tried to find some
of the secrets of nature pertaining to physiology. A very few (about 10
or 12) may be named as great men who discovered certain laws and
solved certain problems. But the majority added nothing to Müller's

discoveries. Most of them became teachers or authors, one plagiarizing
the work of the other, eulogy being very liberally distributed on all
sides, but valuable deductions from the great masters, very few have
been able to make, and even those were more or less suppressed by the
"orthodox school." In less than half the time since 1833, i.e. 85 years, it
was my good fortune to give more valuable deductions and practical
applications to the student and the reader, than the mediocre talents of
the "old school" were able to give.
* * * * *
I pretend to no miracles and expect none; nor do I arrogate to myself
any so-called super-natural secrets or powers; I simply maintain that,
aided by the erudition of the great scientists of the past and present, this
system has finally been brought to a point which should rightly have
been always the chief aim of Medical Science, namely, an exact
knowledge of human nature and the human organism, as it is.
With this vital knowledge at command I have been able to successfully
formulate a system for supplying the individual organism with any of
the various constituents of which it may be deficient, in a manner in
which it can best receive and assimilate the same, thereby maintaining
a correct balance between the constituents of the blood wherein lies
hidden the sole criterion of health and the fatal secret of disease.
Simple as this may sound, the way has been long and lonely until that
elusive goal was reached; and, even now, in the heat of the controversy
which ensues, we find ourselves sometimes in a somewhat parlous
position, placed, as it were, between two fires; on the one side are those
who, though not without sympathetic feeling for the well-intentioned,
earnest-minded believers in the errors now being exposed, yet cast
aside all scruples in the interest of humanity and truth. On the other
side are those obsessed by care and compunction for these accredited
practitioners who by reason of age or temperament are unable or
unwilling to assimilate new ideas or to relinquish the theories of a life
time in order to enter the field of competition with the men of a
younger generation.

Such is the impasse before which we stand.

REGENERATION OF THE RACE
BY THE LIGHT OF BIOLOGY AIDED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL
CHEMISTRY.
"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members
of that one body, being many, are one body:... whether one member
suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all
the members rejoice with it."
(St. Paul, I Corinthians, XII. 12 & 26.)
"DYSAEMIA, or Impure Blood is the cause and source of disorder in
all constitutional diseases. So spoke the Master. Believe it who will,
that, in a nutshell, is 'the burden of my song'--the Alpha and Omega of
my teaching."
(From Chapter X. "Dare to be Healthy.")
The Process of Natural Healing is the art of curing diseases by natural
methods.
As natural remedies, only those may be included which stand as vital
conditions in constant relation to the organism, assimilable thereby.
Among these are no poisons or chemical preparations, such as were
promulgated by Paracelsus and the medicasters; for these are elements
abnormal to the body, and call forth its reactionary powers, and so,
being useless, they are eliminated; or, after having served an improper
purpose, to suppress some symptom of disease, they become