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in the tissues, there causing various forms of medicinal complication or
morbid condition.
Do we not produce blood poisons enough by our irrational diet and
modes of living? The human body is a microcosm--a world in

minature--and as such, exists in constant interchange with universal
nature.
A definite relationship exists between it and the solid, fluid and gaseous
elements.
Solid food, water and air, elements of the universe, must become
elements of our bodies, if relations of universal unity are to be
maintained.
There must be a constant interchange of organic matter, and this
inter-transmission is the cause of life, of health, and of disease;
therefore, we must first of all see that the conditions of this process are
uninterrupted.
Food, air, water, light, exercise, must be so provided that they condition
the process of nutrition and metamorphosis.
Skin, lungs, kidneys, intestines, must always be in condition to
eliminate the abnormal products of decomposition.
If then disease be a derangement of the life process, it is self-evident
that disease is not confined to one organ alone, but that the whole body
is diseased.
The body, thus, being in fact an indivisible unity, the treatment we
employ in disease must, logically, act upon it as a united whole.
The modern school of medicine in its present, bacteria ridden frame of
mind or mania, looks upon the bacillus, or microbe, as the sole cause of
disease.
The cause, however, is not the bacillus, but rather the impure blood
which prepares a fertile soil for the development of those destructive
germs.
He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene need not
fear the bacillus, for man is not born to sickness; he creates sickness for

himself by his irrational mode of living.
What does the world profit by bacteriological institutions if the people
continue to live in the old sins against health and hygiene?
Man may be born with a predisposition to disease, but not with disease
itself.
Our health depends entirely upon the conditions of our life.
In cases of predisposition to disease, therefore, as well as in disease
itself, according to the principles of hygiene, we must employ only the
hygienic and dietetic methods of treatment.
Is the medical science of the day, then, totally incompetent? You may
well ask.--Have the patient studies and researches of nearly two
thousand four hundred years, since the days of Hippocrates, been all in
vain?
The reply lies ready to your hand, from the lips of one of the brightest
scientific spirits that ever illumined this dull earth of ours with
knowledge and sincerity.
In Goethe's Faust the following lines are found,--lines which sad
memory brings back to the minds of many an unfortunate who,
according to the dictates of the medical science of today, is pronounced
incurable--a sufferer from one or other of the so-called chronic
diseases--and in dire need of both physical and spiritual support.
"I have, alas, philosophy, Medicine, jurisprudence too, And, to my cost,
theology With ardent labour studied through, And here I stand with all
my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before"
Like Faust, such sufferers study day and night the opinions of learned
doctors and follow their prescriptions with ardent zeal. The more they
study, the more doctors they consult, the more rapidly does strength fail
them, until at length they realize that, in spite of all their lore, they are
but "poor fools, no wiser than before."

For more than two thousand years it has been, in fact, as it is to a great
extent today; the physician prescribes to the best of his knowledge,
medicines compounded according to certain rules dogmatically laid
down in the schools.
Here we have at once the fatal mistake at a glance.
Instead of studying nature and the laws of nature, instead of using
natural means to heal disease, they administer deadly poisons to allay
suffering, poisons, which doubtless may be able to repress pain or to
temporarily suppress the symptoms of disease; but can never remove
the cause, which alone may rightly be called healing.
The drugs prescribed by thousands of physicians today, with but a
casual acquaintance with their action, are bound by their nature to
produce evils worse than the disease itself.
To cite an instance:
Physicians prescribe creosote in cases of consumption to stop the
expectoration of blood.
Creosote will do this, and may suppress the cough, as well as the
accompanying pain; but will it cure consumption or destroy or remove
the cause of this deadliest of diseases?
On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis after a very
short time. It destroys the head of the windpipe and the patient dies in
consequence of the destruction of one of the most important organs of
the body.
In most instances the physician is either oblivious