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or unaware of these
facts. He follows those old-standing doctrinal sophisms laid down by
human "science" but discredited by nature.
His courage is called "audacity" by those who have not lost all feeling
for humanity.

Meanwhile, those who regard medical science from a business
standpoint only, are very quick to pronounce judgement upon any
natural treatment of disease and to condemn the most successful natural
physicians as charlatans and frauds.
In order to be competent to decide upon a correct course in the
treatment of disease the physician must possess a thorough chemical
knowledge of all the fundamental substances of which the human
organism is constructed. With the patient therefore rests the
responsibility of choosing his physician, since no physician can be of
any assistance who cannot define what substances are deficient in the
blood, and who does not possess the requisite technical knowledge to
supply this deficiency by adequate dietetic means.
In my nutrition cell-food therapy for constitutional diseases, I have
followed consistently upon the lines of one of the greatest masters of
physiological chemistry that the world has known, who, in one of his
medical colloquies spoke as follows: "In order to thoroughly
understand any form of sickness or disease, so as to undertake the cure
of the same, it is first of all necessary to picture before one's mental
vision the ways and means of its inceptive formation, and by degrees to
trace its origin, step by step, before one is enabled to decide upon
adequate remedial measures conformable to the individual stages of the
same."
In this sense it has ever been my strenuous endeavor to fathom the
secret of the inception of constitutional diseases; but the entire medical
literature did not advance me further than pathological anatomy, which
informs us that the original cause of disease is a change in the form of
the cellular elements of different digestive organs,--in explanation of
which the customary technical terms are used, such as "atrophy,"
"degeneration," "metamorphosis," etc. But, I reasoned with myself, this
surely cannot be seriously regarded as the origin of disease!
The cause of the visible changing of the cellules must be sought in the
conditional interstitial substances which cause the invisible changes or
shiftings of the cellular forms, and which are scientifically termed
"Changed nutritional conditions."

By the aid of physiological chemistry I was successful in finding a
pathway to the centre of those mysterious occurrences of life.
And this was my course of reasoning: As the cellules, which are the
smallest individual elements of the human system, are only products of
the blood, and for their composition require the different chemical
substances in sufficient quantities, it is obviously necessary to fathom
what those chemical elements of the cellules may be, what form they
take in their mutual relation to the separate parts of the body, and in
what way they enter the organism.
In this manner I obtained a clear insight into the actions of the so-called
mineral material in the organism, and it gradually became obvious to
me that everything is dependent upon the introduction of the proper
sanguifying or nutritive mineral salts into the blood.
On this basis I founded the so-called "organic nutritive cell-food
therapy" (called the Dech-Manna therapy).
The point may be raised that the elements of the food we eat or drink
are heterogeneous and that the mineral matter in them is naturally and
casually acquired, according to the properties of the soil they grow in.
This is the general opinion, but not the fact. Our vegetables, grain, meat
and milk contain too much phosphoric acid and sal ammoniac, and this
is due to the use of artificial and animal fertilizers, while the sulphurics
are very often entirely missing.
Von Liebig says: When we consider that the sugar refineries of
Waghausel have an annual output in the market of 600,000 lbs. of
potassic salt, which is taken from the soil by the turnips of the Baden
fields without being replaced, and that there is cultivated in Northern
Germany, year by year, with the assistance of guano, an immense
amount of potatoes solely for the manufacture of spirits, and that these
potato fields are consequently robbed of the essential ingredients which
potatoes should contain, and as these elements are only partially
replaced by the insufficient component parts of the guano, we cannot
be in doubt as to the condition of these fields. The ground may be ever
so rich in ingredients, but it is exhaustible. The analysis of our blood

indicates that, in order to remain healthy, it must contain twice as many
sulphuric as phosphoric salts.
We talk glibly about a natural mode of living, a simple diet; but where
in our civilized countries can we find food that really serves healthy
sanguification?
The crux of the question is this: Why