Chapter 2

vomiting and diarrhoea, with rapid collapse of all vitality, and severe brain disturbances manifest themselves, and death frequently occurs after 36 hours. During hot weather bacterial germs impregnating the air, frequently enter the milk, and many children succumb to the disease at the same time, until wind and rain improve the general conditions. This is the explanation of the occasional epidemic appearance of Cholera Infantum--and its established cause.

_Therapy._

_Diet_: The mother's breast or the breast of a healthy wet nurse is the very best remedy for this complaint, if applied at an early stage. If this is impossible, a gruel of barley, oats or mucilaginous rice-water, a decoction of salep (1 teaspoonful to 1 pint of water), or rice water (1 teaspoonful of crushed toasted rice to 1/2 pint water) are recommended. The missing nutritive substance is best supplied by calcareous earth (calcium carbonate), giving 1/4 teaspoonful in a tablespoonful of sweetened water every 3 to 4 hours, for a day or two. It is the simplest, yet most wonderful remedy ever discovered. It is in cases like this that physiological chemistry celebrates its victory. Try it and you will be convinced. For more vigorous means the physician must be consulted, as he should be in any case of this kind, and that as quickly as possible.

_Physical_: Sponging the entire body of the child with lukewarm vinegar and water, using one-half vinegar and one-half water, may prove very successful. Warm packs around the abdomen and extending down to the soles of the feet, often prove very effective. The abdomen must be kept warm. The employment of coloured light for curative purposes has been already explained in the preceding pages. The use of _blue_ curtains is, accordingly enjoined here on account of the invigorating influence of the more violent vibrations of _blue light_ upon an organism suffering under the reduced vibration of a "negative disease."

=The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases.=

In strict adherence to the biological standpoint, it is recommended that a child be separated from the other children in the house as soon as it becomes ill, and if it is not convenient to send the other children away to be taken care of by friends, they must at least be excluded from the sick-chamber. _Each one of these diseases develops some sort of bacillus in its first appearance, and this leaves the body and may fall on receptive soil in the body of another child._ Since all the children in one family live in the same environment and receive practically the same nourishment, and are of the same parentage, the presumption prevails that each one of them is equally susceptible to the disease with which one of the children has been affected. It is, therefore, advisable to adopt preventive and protective measures with them all, by applying abdominal packs and giving them Dechmann's Plasmogen, which will strengthen the white corpuscles of the blood in their fight against possibly intruding bacilli; also Dechmann's Tonogen, in order to give the red corpuscles and the heart the power to endure the greater efforts which the demand for increased vitality will necessitate. The application of these measures will in many cases entirely prevent an impending attack of the disease, and if not, will at least make it easier to control.

_The golden rule_: Keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels open; that is the golden rule to be followed in the treatment of all children's diseases. All means that are applied must have but the one object, that of making the condition of the blood as good as possible, so that it will maintain a fluid form and circulate readily, richly supplied with all the necessary upbuilding substances. This, and not the use of anti-toxins, will guarantee a speedy return to normal conditions.

_Diet_: The importance of the diet in all of these diseases has been indicated on several occasions. Its application is treated extensively under the fever diet; exceptions to be determined by the physician.

_Dech-manna-Compositions_: The compositions to be used in case of children's diseases will, as indicated above, consist mainly of Plasmogen and Tonogen. Small doses of Eubiogen will be of great advantage in promoting the general condition of the patient. These three compositions should always be available in a family where there are children, as their application will prove very beneficial in any case, even before the arrival of the physician.

_Physical_: The correct application of ablutions of vinegar and water, of partial and other packs and various baths, must be left to the prescription of the physician, depending on the nature of the individual case, and the effect on the patient, with the exception of the abdominal pack. This should always be applied immediately: cold in positive, and warm in negative diseases.

THE TONSURE OF THE TONSILS.

Though not strictly within the scope of my intention in the present booklet, I feel that no treatise, however brief, which purports to be a free and candid expression of the ills that child-life is heir to, could afford to ignore the burning and much debated question of the tonsils and their significance, present and future, to the well-being of the child, or could deem the task accomplished without raising a warning and protesting voice on behalf of the helpless victims, whose recurrent name is legion, against the callous and persistent violation and destruction of the functions of vital organs, the only shadow of justification of which is, on the one hand, a fashionable popular delusion on the part of parents and, on the other, interested complacency on the part of their medical advisers, accentuated by a strong and dangerous tendency towards operation and empiric surgery generally.

This is a strong and sweeping indictment, perhaps. Let us therefore pause for a moment whilst we consult other sources of opinion for confirmation or refutal.

And, in the wide range of American and English criteria, what corroboration do we find? We find, as regards America, the venerable Professor Alexander H. Stevens, M.D., a member of the New York College of Physicians, writing as follows:

"The reason medicine has advanced so slowly is because physicians have studied the writings of their predecessors instead of nature."

From England the verdict comes to this effect:

Professor Evans, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, of London, says, in part:

"The Medical Practice of our day is, at the best, a most uncertain and unsatisfactory system: it has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it to confidence."

If such opinions prevail _within_ the sacred, State-protected precincts of the profession, how long, revolted confidence exclaims--how long before a credulous, deluded public awakens from its deep hypnotic trance.

Against Tonsil destruction three arguments stand:

(1) That the primal intention of Universal Mind--(sometimes termed the Soul of Being; the Spirit of All Good or, in simple reverence, "God")--was obviously no malign intention, but an intention for _good_, is an axiom which will be rationally accepted, I presume, as logically and conclusively assured.

(2) That the functions of the tonsils are, in the present state of medical knowledge, practically still unknown is the deliberate and final statement made within the past few years by one of the greatest reputed authorities on the subject.

(3) That the tonsil has some important mission to fulfill is clearly demonstrated by the fact of its frequent recrudescence, or rather, the natural renewal of the organ after surgical removal--a spontaneous physiological organic mutiny, as it were, supported by its lymphatic glandular dependents, against the reckless ignorance of medical practitioners and the perversity of the medico-cum-parental fashion of the day.

For the fact that it is a fashion, and nothing more, is unhappily fully established on ample and high authority within the medical prescriptive pale. And, in fact, even as "The Tonsure" or shaving of the crown, became by fashion and mendicity a feature of priesthood and monastic piety, so has the slaughter of the Tonsils come to be regarded by fashion and mendacity as a feature of childhood and medical expediency and ineptitude.

Professor John D. Mackenzie, M.D., of Baltimore, a distinguished leader of the advanced school of medical science, in the course of a brilliant and exhaustive treatise on the subject written as he says, reluctantly, in the interest of the public health and safety, quotes the deliberate opinion of an equally eminent medical friend to the effect that:

"Of all the surgical insanities within his recollection this onslaught on the tonsils was the worst--not excepting the operation on the appendix."

Dr. Mackenzie then proceeds to show how abysmal has been the ignorance of the functions of these organs from the earliest times, (including a distinguished English medical luminary who went to far as to say: "were I attempting the artificial construction of a man I would leave out the tonsils,") adding that the tonsil was regarded as a useless appendage and "like its little neighbour, the uvula, was sacrificed on every possible pretext or when the surgeon did not know what else to do."

"Never," he says, "in the history of medicine has the lust for operation on the tonsils been as passionate as it is at the present time. It is not simply a surgical thirst, it is a mania, a madness, an obsession. It has infected not only the general profession, but also the laity." In proof of this he adds: "A leading laryngologist in one of the largest cities came to me with the humiliating confession that although holding views hostile to such operations he had been forced to perform tonsillectomy in every case in order to satisfy the popular craze and to save his practice from destruction." He cites an instance in which a mother brought her little six-year-old daughter to him, "to know whether her tonsils ought to come out;"--and in answer to the assurance: "your baby is perfectly well, why do you want her tonsils out?" the fond mother's reply was: "Because she sometimes wets the bed!"

Recent universal inspection of the throats of school children has revealed the fact that nearly all children at some time of life have more or less enlarged tonsils. And the reports maintain that this, for the most part, is harmless if not actually physiologic--natural--and that their removal in these cases is not only unnecessary but injurious to the proper development of the child.

Nevertheless, the reports of the special hospitals for diseases of the nose and throat show to what an appalling extent this destructive operation is perpetrated throughout the land.

"Much wild and incontinent talk," Dr. Mackenzie continues, "for which their teachers are sometimes largely to blame, has poisoned the minds of the younger generation of operators and thrown the public into hysteria. They are told that with the disappearance of the tonsils in man, certain diseases will cease to exist and parents nowadays bring their perfectly sound children for tonsil removal in order to head off these affections. Summing up the writer demonstrates that the functions of the tonsils are, at present unknown and that until known nothing authoritative can be said definitely on the subject, whether they be portals for the entrance of disease or the exit for the very purpose of germs of infection; common sense must decide;--whether they protect the organism from danger or invite the presence of disease."

I, for my own part, am of Dr. Mackenzie's opinion: that there is an endless flow of lymph from their interior to the free surface, which unchecked, _prevents the entrance of germs from the surface and washes out impurities from within_. That in any case, one of the functions undoubtedly is the production of leucocytes or protective white blood corpuscles and that the tonsil is not, as generally understood, a lymphatic gland; that the general ignorance of this fact has led to the useless sacrifice of thousands of tonsils, on the fallacious assumption that their functional activities may be vicariously undertaken by other lymphatic glands; and finally, that the physiologic integrity of the tonsil is of the utmost importance in infant and child life.

The consensus of advanced scientific opinion is now to the effect that the activity of the tonsils as possible accessories of disease has been vastly exaggerated, that like the thousand and one successive misleading theories which in turn, from time to time, have seized upon the imagination and obsessed the minds of the medical fraternity for brief and passing periods, this pernicious craze too, has about run its course. The causes from which this peculiar lust for operation emanates would be perhaps a difficult psychological puzzle to determine; the malign impulse, as regards some special function, seems to spring, as it were, by intuition, unbidden into being from the illusive depths of some perverted intellect, to rage for a while through the medical world with a death roll deadly as the plague and as suddenly to pass into desuetude and disappear behind the impregnable ramparts of "prescriptive right" and "privilege"--terms which in plain parlance mean to the masses in cold actual fact, the absolute negation of all right--the domination of arbitrary, irresponsible and State protected wrong.

Between facts and fables, the evidence with regard to the tonsils and their functions seems to establish the conclusion that they have been wrongfully and foolishly held responsible for "an iliad of ills." The region of the nose and mouth is obviously the happy hunting-ground of myriads of pathogenic bacteria. It is likewise continually the scene of innumerable surgical operations, performed necessarily without antiseptic precautions, thus extending the area of possible infection indefinitely to the entire upper air tract which medical incompetence so often fails to explore. And indeed, as Dr. Mackenzie freely remarks: "Of far graver, far-reaching and deeper significance are cases of infection in which life has doubtless been sacrificed by clinging to the lazy and stupefying delusion that the tonsil is the sole portal of poisoning."

The mere size of the tonsil, it is shown, is no indication for removal except it be large enough or diseased enough to interfere with respiration, speech or deglutition--that is, swallowing; in which case only a sufficient portion should be taken away, and that without delay. The tonsil may be greatly enlarged or buried deeply in the palatine arcade and yet not interfere with the well-being of the individual. Such tonsils are the special prey of the tonsillectomist. If they are not interrupting function they are best left alone. Moreover, it occasionally happens that the resurrection of a "buried" tonsil is followed shortly by the _burial of the patient_.

The practical illuminating lesson to be gleamed is this: That if in infancy and childhood, we pay more attention to the neglected nasal cavities and to the hygiene of the mouth and teeth, we will have less tonsil disease and fewer tonsil operations.

"The partial enucleation of the tonsil," the writer asserts, "with even the removal of its capsule if desired, is complete enough for all necessary purposes and practically free from danger; moreover, it produces equal or better results than complete enucleation with its many accidents and complications, to say nothing of its long roll of _unrecorded death_."

Another point: From the professional vocalist's point of view. The tonsils are phonatory or vocal organs and play an important part in the mechanism of speech and song. They influence the surrounding muscles and modify the resonance of the mouth. Enlarged by disease, they may cripple these functions and if so, their removal may increase the compass of the voice by one or more octaves; but it is a capital operation and a dangerous one in which a fatal result is by no means a remote possibility.

The object of this interesting paper, it is pointed out, is not to assail operation for definite and legitimate cause, but to warn against the "busy internist"--the hospital surgeon--too busy for careful differential diagnosis--and his "accommodating tonsillectomist" who is "in the business for revenue only." But the onus for the existing deplorable state of affairs he lays frankly upon the shoulders of the teachers and insists that the cure of the evil is largely educational. "When," says he, "_pre-eminent authority proclaims in lecture and text book as indisputable truth the relationship between a host of diseases and the tonsils of the child and advises the removal of the glands as a routine method of procedure, what can we expect of the student whose mind is thus poisoned at the very fountainhead of his medical education by ephemeral theory that masquerades so cheerily in the garb of indestructible fact_?" "How," he exclaims, "are we to offset the irresponsibility of the responsible?" But we hear on all sides--"Look at the results." Results? Here is a partial list from the practice--not of the ignorant, but of the most experienced and skilled: Death from hemorrhage and shock, development of latent tuberculosis, laceration and other serious injuries of the palate and pharyngeal muscles, great contraction of the parts, removal of one barrier of infection, severe infection of wound, septicemia, or bacterial infection, troublesome cicatrices, suppurative otitis media and other ear affections, troubles of voice and vision, ruin of singing voice, emphysemia, or destruction of the tissues, septic infarct,--infected arterial obstruction, pneumonia, increased susceptibility to throat disease, pharyngeal quinsy and last, but not least tonsillitis!

The trenchant and tragic article concludes with the expression of the hope that the day is not far distant when not only the profession but the public shall demand that this senseless slaughter be stopped. "Is not this day of medical and moral preaching and uplifting," it is asked, "a fitting one in which to lift the public out of the atmosphere into which it has been drugged, and as to the reckless tonsillectomist, a proper time to apply the remedy of the _referendum_ and _recall_. It has come to a point when it is not only a burning question to the profession, but also to the public. This senseless, ruthless destruction of the tonsil is often so far reaching and enduring in its evil results that it is becoming each day a greater menace to the public good."

Such is the wisdom of these world-wide sages, They wildly yearn to learn its innermost And break the organ's wondrous works with sledges-- Though music, its sweet soul, for aye is lost; That they have reached the goal, such is their dreaming, When tissues, nerves, and veins reveal their knife-- When in the very core their steel is gleaming-- But, one thing they forget--_and that is life_!

This matter of the functions of the tonsils is fully dealt with in my greater work "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy"--Chapters VII. and VIII., in which I show on the best authority that _the tonsils have a great mission to fulfill_--so great indeed that their treatment according to the present methods of the medical faculty can, in my estimation, only be stigmatized as the equivalent of a crime.

It is the conclusion arrived at scientifically by the greatest authorities that the Tonsils secrete a very potent anti-toxic fluid which is excreted whenever dangerous pathogenic bacilli attempt to enter the pharynx or larynx, constituting in fact the ever watchful sentinels of the oral and nasal portals through which an entrance into the human organism might be surprised by its ever active surreptitious enemies--the bacteria of infection and disease.

PRE-NATAL CARE.

It would be improper to close this section, touching child-life, without some special reference to pre-natal care. It has been well said by eminent authorities that a child's "_education should begin long before its birth_." This to many may seem mysterious or even foolish, according to their advancement on the plane of knowledge. But America has long ago awakened to the truth of it, and pre-natal clinics have been established on a large scale--notably in New York--for the scientific supervision and comfort of expectant mothers who may need it. The natural right of every child to be born in health and happiness, is at length recognized.

Human magnetism, or nerve force, is beginning to be understood and utilized as a great vital, health-compelling, harmonizing factor of vast significance to the future of the race.

The real and practical alliance between the physical and the psychic--between body and mind--is better realized; as for instance: You may be seized with _an idea_, or a passion, and it disturbs your _health of body_; you may take indigestible food, or suffer injury or fatigue, and it disturbs your _health of mind_.

But beyond and behind all else are all those seemingly occult and sinister, pre-natal influences centered in hereditary and kindred considerations which are still more significant and difficult to locate and overcome.

These problems have been thought out and solved long before the dawn of the present social awakening and the conclusions have been tabulated in the closest detail from the first moment of embryonic life, faithfully defining the paths that inevitably lead to the desired goal of Hygienic Birth, of Physical Perfection and the Mental State termed Happiness, in Infancy.

All these things will be found minutely focussed in picturesque relief, in my previous work entitled: "Within the Bud."

ENDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC DISEASE.

Among the most deadly menaces that beset human life upon this planet are those forms of disease classed under the head of so-called Endemic and Epidemic disease and including in its baleful limits Yellow fever, Cholera, Pellagra--otherwise known as Hook-worm, Plague and so-called Spanish Influenza.

Based upon Physiological Chemistry and explained from the Biological standpoint, the explanation of these covers a wide scientific area and geographically treated embraces the globe.

The various problems of their cause and prevention have exercised the mind of science and research to an enormous degree and heavy premiums have been placed upon their solution, with more or less success and much expenditure has been incurred in the examination of local conditions.

As far as this Continent is concerned, perhaps the most troublesome has been Climatic Fever which varies greatly in form and intensity according to temperature and location.

"Yellow Fever," as it is named, has swept some Southern localities from time to time, but Science, Sanitation and Hygiene have curbed its virulence and spread, as in the case of outbreaks of epidemics such as small-pox--for the control of which, by the way, the advocates of the vile and pernicious practice of vaccination, fraudulently claim the credit, even in these advancing times, when the wiles of self interest are disclosed, the worship of the "Putrid Calf" exposed and the days of the vaccine vendor numbered.

Yellow Fever occurs on the Coast of tropical countries and, as a rule, is fatal, after a rapid development of from 3 to 7 days.

The explanation of the cause of the disease is comparatively simple: The air on the hot coast lands is highly charged with evaporated water. Heat and humidity have the effect of diverting from the human organism the electricity which, as already shown, constitutes its vital cohesion and the same influences likewise reduce the oxygen in the atmosphere. These are the two primary causes of Yellow Fever.

Pellagra (hook-worm or Lombardy Leprosy) is, according to the tenets of the Regular School, an endemic skin and spinal disease of Southern Europe. It is said to be due to eating damaged corn but dependent also upon bad hygienic conditions, poor food and exposure to the sun. Its salient features are weakness, debility, digestive disturbance, spinal pain, convulsions, melancholia and idiocy.

More recent investigation has judged it to be a deficiency disease, due to low and unvaried diet and consequent failure of metabolism.

In every case these climatic disease forms are caused by a combination of hot air, lacking oxygen, and evaporated water, including Cholera which also varies in intensity according to heat conditions.

Cholera and Plague originate on the coast of Bengal, India, where conditions are bad enough of themselves without the apology of the illusive bacillus as a causative agent.

That Cholera is contagious cannot be doubted and it is no superstition that fear predisposes thereto. For all emotions consume electrical power in the body and thus break down its power of resistance.

Infantile paralysis, Typhoid-fever, Small-pox, etc., are dealt with elsewhere and therefore need no mention here.

It is impossible to deal adequately with so wide a subject within the narrow limits at my disposal; but the full details and environment of each, together with the respective methods of treatment will be found in detail in the parent work "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy."

THE SPANISH INFLUENZA.

In any attempt to unravel the tangled skein of cause and circumstance which surrounds the subject of the world-sweeping pandemic which masquerades under the misleading title of the "Spanish Influenza," the first and most important initial step must be a keen and careful sifting of the facts and forces, natural and artificial, which control or dominate the situation.

The debatable questions appear to be chiefly the following:

(1) The fundamental causes that underlie the great-epidemics or pandemics that the world experiences from time to time--the present one in particular.

(2) The fact or fallacy of the germ as a causative factor or merely an effect or product of disease conditions.

(3) The alternative course, origin and medium of transmission and finally

(4) The soundness and efficiency or otherwise of the preventive and curative measures with which the combined intelligence of the Medical Faculty has risen to the dire emergency of the moment for the protection of the people who have relied so confidently, as by law compelled, upon the standard of their acumen and official aid as competent guardians of public safety.

The findings, as to the first question, are to the effect that it appears, from the earliest recorded annals of disease, that epidemics corresponding to the present outbreak have occurred at irregular periods all up the centuries under names and conditions peculiar to the times, and following usually in the wake of some great social cataclysm, strain or upheaval, the result of wars, persecutions, famines and distress--causes which clearly illustrate the close reactive connection between the mental and physical action of disease.

The great pandemics seem to have originated largely in the Orient--the region of vast congested populations and racial struggles and starvation--the advent of their apparent influence upon the western world depending chiefly upon the rate of commercial or popular intercourse, the movements of armies or the ingress or egress of peoples. The logical establishment of direct proof of the connection between these visitations and local epidemics in distant lands is a problem as yet unsolved. The weight of evidence, at first sight, would seem to lie rather in the other direction--to indicate that such epidemics are the direct outcome of existing local conditions, mental and physical.

For example: At the end of that strenuous period in England's history, between the reign of the first Charles and the fall of the Commonwealth, an epidemic broke out which, as the historian tells us, converted the country into "one vast hospital." The malady--which by the way was fatal to Cromwell--the Lord Protector himself--was then termed "the ague." The term "Influenza" was first given to the epidemic of 1743 in accordance with the Italianizing fashion of the day, but was eventually superseded by the French expression "La Grippe," usually held to represent a more modified form of the disease which appears to vary in intensity and virulence according lo its provocation and derivation.

The old school hypothesis and the deductions therefrom would seem therefore, to be this: That a super-malignant contagium imported from some foreign source falls upon organisms predisposed to infection by mental stress or physical privation and over-strain or both combined; and the contagion thus generated through the medium of some unsuspected "carrier" seizes upon and sweeps through that portion of the community so predisposed, in the form of a great, general epidemic with a maximum of mortality. At later intervals the same repeats itself with less violence and reduced mortality, because a great proportion,--representing the sufferers in the original epidemic,--being now thereby immune, the onus falls upon that section of the younger generation unprotected by individual resistant force who consequently become the chief sufferers--as in the case of the present epidemic, the pandemic form of which is obviously due to the fact that equal conditions of unrest, privation and distress prevail universally throughout the entire nerve plains of the Planet.

The first recorded outbreak in America occurred in the year 1647, followed by a second in 1655 and again in 1789 and 1807. In these the mortality appears to have been confined, after the first outbreak, to a few mere modest thousands whereas in the present visitation a conservative estimate places the figures of the horrible world-holocaust at no less a sum than 18 _million lives_ in all.[D] The ravages in America have been appalling including many of the medical profession.

We pass on then to the second item--the question of the germ.

The illusive germ has come to be regarded by the layman with reserve--nay more--with suspicion. The part of the bacteriologist has been somewhat overdone. The conditions of popular credence are not what they were. A great change has awakened the masses of the people and a new intelligence is born which now discerns that disease is one great Unity just as the body is one inseparable interdependent whole--that _the cause of disease is in the blood_ and dependent upon its nourishment and moreover, that the _physical forces of the body can be exhausted as much by mental strain,--causing the too rapid burning up of nerve fat (lecithin),--as by excessive physical exertion_. For example. Mental disturbance--grief, worry, excitement--produce immediate physical effect in headache, palpitations and the like. Physical exhaustion--privation, hunger and over-work--on the other hand produce mental depression and collapse. The inevitable law of compensation rules.

Thus the germ, bacillus, or microbe, as a direct _cause_ of disease is an exploded fallacy. They are now recognized as the _result_ of disease--_not the cause_: releasing irritants perhaps and possibly carriers or transmitting mediums to other diseased or predisposed organisms.

It follows accordingly that Sero-Therapy or Inoculation with specific serums derived from such germs, as a preventative of disease is simply a pernicious farce; "pernicious," since the introduction of such poisons by inocculation into the blood constitutes in itself a serious menace to life and health.

This has never been more clearly demonstrated than in the present singularly futile efforts of the Regular Medical Faculty to stay the on-rush of the Influenza Epidemic or to save or safeguard its victims--a fact which compels the people in their thousands to turn to the less pretentious but more successful members of the eclectic or Irregular schools among whom both help and healing may be found.

And this is the history of the Influenza germ:

The bacterial criminal was located. We know it, for the discovery was officially proclaimed and vouched for by the press with all due pomp and circumstance. True, it was "so minute as to be _invisible to the most powerful microscope_;"--but it was sensed by science, none the less, and handed over captive, for "culture" to the _manufacturing chemist_. Inoculation followed freely--the people in their thousands and our gallant troops alike submitted to the mandate of the powers that be--the soldiers voiceless and under penalty.

America breathless, awaited the result. There was none.

Finally scare-heads in the Press astonished the land. They were these: "_Medical World is Baffled by the 'Flu'._"--"_Exhaustive Experiments Leave Doctors Mystified._"--"_Every Test a Failure._"--"_Explosion of Accepted Theories Causes Science to Grope for Light._"

It appears that, through the heroism of a _hundred_ of our naval men who volunteered for the purpose at the risk of life, the Medical Authorities in desperation were enabled to try every possible method of infection with the alleged Influenza Germs, our boys submitting to inoculation and even to the repulsive ordeal of introduction into the nose and throat of diseased mucous from and close contact with coughing and spitting bed patients in the severest forms of the disease. The experiments were made simultaneously at San Francisco and Boston under the direction of Surgeons McCoy and Goldberger of the U.S. Health Department and the Naval Authorities.

The astounding negative result as indicated by the press, was described as "The Sensation of the day," for the fact was revealed that _Not one, of the hundred who underwent these drastic and determined tests, developed any symptoms of Influenza._ This picture of failure was surmounted by the summing up of the situation on the part of the highest Medical Authority; to this effect:

"These new experiments in the transmission of Influenza," said Surgeon General Blue, "show how difficult is the Influenza Problem."

The result points clearly to a state of natural immunity enjoyed by those who, like these men of the Naval Service, lead an hygienic, contented well regulated life with the simple accessories of good and sufficient food, fresh air and regular exercise.

The same principle has been recently demonstrated in England in the same connection by the annual report of one of the great public schools celebrated for hygienic methods, where amongst a total of 800 students not a single case of influenza appeared--although no preventive measures were employed beyond the simple rules of health and cleanliness.

Finally, as regards serums and specifics, the judgment of Dr. Karl F. Meyer, of the Hooper Institute of Medical Research of the University of California, may be accepted as focusing the consensus of unbiased opinion on the subject. It was as follows: "Serums have not yet been introduced which produce immunity from Spanish Influenza. The serums now employed are of no use whatsoever. You have no idea how really and truly helpless we are. As an example, take the advice given us by the Public Health Department when we asked what should be done if the epidemic struck West. They said: '_Organise your hospitals and undertakers_.'" In the same statement Dr. Meyer declared that the Medical fraternity _is in total darkness as to the cause and nature of the epidemic_.

Of other preventive measures resorted to--Masks, Quarantine and the veto upon public gatherings--proved equally mistaken and futile. Masks of a texture calculated to baffle the most determined attempts of the minute invisible homicide were made compulsory, and in the great cities masquerading millions became a constant feature of the streets, until an idea of the danger of masks, _as microbe preservers and carriers_, dawned upon the official mind. Thus, beyond fostering fear and depression amongst the citizens nothing was achieved in the direction desired, but rather the reverse; since it is now very generally recognized that such mental conditions with their consequently lowered vitality are a common prelude to disease.

At the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Chicago, following a two days' discussion of preventive measures against Influenza and Pneumonia, Dr. Chas. J. Hastings, president of the organization said: "A tremendous amount of damage is done by interfering with nature, when nature would have done better had she been left alone. We have very little power over pneumonia. I am convinced that as many patients have been _killed_ by physicians as have been _cured_."

The talented "Health" editor of the Los Angeles Times, commenting upon these matters, writes: "The handling of this epidemic by 'health boards' and doctors who have been running around like wet chickens--their eyes, however, fastened on the feed box--has furnished another striking evidence of the futility of what is misnamed 'Medical Science.'"

All this carries one back 50 years to the memory of Sir John Forbes, Court Physician to the late Queen Victoria of England, and the eminent Editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review, who thus tersely recorded the scientific conclusions arrived at in the course of his long, professional experience, in connection with drugs, drug medication and allopathy, under the title of "Why we should not be poisoned because we are sick:" "Firstly,--that in a large proportion of cases treated by allopathic physicians, the disease is cured by nature and not by them. Secondly,--that in not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature in spite of them. Thirdly,--that consequently, in a considerable proportion of diseases it would fare as well or better with patients if all remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned;" and he emphatically adds: "Things have come to such a pass that they must either mend or end." This, be it remembered, was in 1868,--50 years ago--and such frankness would not have been tolerated from other than "Sir John"--for, as was said by an inspired American: "He who dares to see a truth not recognized in creed must die the death." And now indeed is revealed the wisdom of Shakespeare when he said: "Ignorance is the Curse of God;" or of Bolinbroke's bitter assertion: "Plain truth will influence half a score men at most in a nation or an age, while _mystery will lead millions by the nose_."

I am not prepared to endorse the cynical saying of Voltaire: "Regimen is superior to medicine--especially as from time immemorial out of every hundred physicians ninety-eight are charlatans." But this much is certain, that they have found the needs of nature too laborious--the pathway of their leader--the Great Hippocrates--of Galen, Sydenham, Boerhaave, too tame, and have listened to the lure of Paracelsus, and adopted, with its high pontificial manner and medication, the more luxurious empiricism of the medicasters of five centuries ago.

But the time has come when the reign of bigotry, drugs and mystery must have an end--the chartered lien on human life must cease and the antique secret consistories so long omnipotent, must be brought to the enlightened level of the day.

We have come to the parting of the ways, where it becomes the bounden duty of every earnest, fair-minded physician to cast off the manacles of professional caste and secret obligation and to advance with open mind across the wholesome confines of eternal truth. This as much in their own interest as in that of their patients. For there is disaffection in the once solid phalanx, and we find strictures such as these in the standard works of the profession: "It cannot be denied that practitioners in medicine stand too low in the scale of public estimation and, something is rotten in the State of Denmark."

A series of articles appearing recently, in the English Review, from the daring and masterly pen of George Bernard Shaw, deals with the subject with an ungloved hand, taking as opportunity a vitriolic controversy recently raging between exalted lights of the medical profession in London, which raises abruptly the long-drawn curtain of mystery and exposes the secret skeleton to the view of a wondering world. Speaking of the absolute, autocratic powers of the medical monopoly and the superstitious, hopeless complacency of the public, the writer says: "The assumption is that the 'registered doctor' or surgeon knows everything that is known, and can do everything that is to be done. This means that the dogmas of omniscience, omnipotence and infallibility, and something very like the theory of the apostolic succession and kingship by anointment, have recovered in medicine the grip they have lost in theology and politics. This would not matter if the 'legally qualified doctor' was a _completely qualified healer_: but this is not the case; far from it. Dissatisfaction with the orthodox methods and technique is so widespread that the supply of technically qualified _unregistered_ practitioners is insufficient for the demand.... The reputation of the unregistered specialist is usually well founded. _He must deliver the goods._ He cannot live by the faith of his patients in a string of letters after his name."

From all sides the same dissatisfaction is told showing that, with the sick and simple majority, what is termed "the attractive bed-side manner" of the polished practitioner has vastly out-weighed--in the past--the more vital advantage of superior skill on the part of practitioners of the drugless and natural systems which are winning their way to favour, in spite of the organized opposition of the orthodox profession and the powerful "vested interests" of the medicine-men.

To return to the subject proper: The summing up as to the efficacy of inoculation, drugs, serums and specifics for Influenza may best be found in the supplements to the U.S. Public Health reports, and vouched for by Surgeon-General Rupert Blue and the Government experts:

"Since we are uncertain of the primary cause of Influenza, no form of inoculation can be guaranteed to protect against the disease itself." "No drug has as yet been proved to have any specific influence as a _preventive_ of influenza.

"No drug has as yet been proved to have any specific _curative_ effect on influenza--though many are useful in guiding its course and mitigating _is symptoms_.

"In the uncertainty of our present knowledge considerable hesitation must be felt in advising vaccine treatment as a curative measure.

"The chief dangers of influenza lie in its complications, and it is probable that much may be done to mitigate the severity of the affection and to diminish its mortality _by raising the resistance of the body_...."

It is not my purpose in adducing these startling facts to impugn the Allopathic system or to disparage the elder branch of the Profession of Healing. They are simply assembled for the purpose of proving a case in favour of the newer or Hygieo-Dietetic System.

But here in consecutive order of testimony is a truly terrible denouncement--the testimony, as it were, of two hemispheres of the terrestrial globe proclaiming the positive failure of the section of science upon which, for very existence, their inhabitants have been accustomed to rely!

Now Health and Disease are dependent upon degrees of positive and negative vibrations, as is every form of life in the great Cosmic Unity of the Universe. Both are tones with endless modulation, but the integral fact, in either case, _is one_. Disease, then, is a Unit--a degenerate function of the blood--and, such being the case, the failure of any curative principle or system aspiring to remedy that degenerate functioning, in any degree, is a failure of that principle or system as a whole.

The sensational admission, therefore, of the chiefs of the Profession in America and England, as herein cited, amounts in plain language to the tacit admission that drugs and serums are powerless to produce any "preventive influence" or any "curative" effect upon Influenza, (or as it rationally and logically follows, upon any other disease) although, as openly stated in this official proclamation, they may influence the "symptoms."

But, finally--And here is the supreme announcement, wherein at length the Truth comes out triumphant--"The severity of the disease may be mitigated and its mortality diminished _by raising the resistance of the body_."

This in one single sentence is the sum total of the teachings of the eclectic, independent and legally debarred and officially unrecognized Physiologico-Chemical, Hygieo-Dietetic School of Natural Science which I have the honor to represent.

The true teaching of Hippocrates, surnamed "The Father of Medicine"--the ostensible leader, for all time, of the "regular school" of Medicine was comprised in one phrase: the _Vis Medicatrix Naturae_--The Healing Power of Nature.

The teaching of our New, Independent School is identically the same--plus the physiologico-chemical discoveries of the intervening centuries. They are plain and natural precepts, surrounded by no fearsome atmosphere of mystery. They are to this effect:

That the human organism, together with all its interdependent parts, organs and functions, is an inseparable whole--a Unit--subject absolutely to Natural Laws. As said St. Paul: "And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it." (Cor. 12-26.)

That disease, therefore, is likewise a unit with a diversity of manifestations which, like all conflicting elements, develop in the individual organism along the lines of least resistance, according to the weakness--hereditary or acquired--of the individual. This we term predisposition.

The cause of predisposition to disease, centres absolutely and entirely in the blood, causing obstructions to normal circulation, the obstructing materials being poisons and impurities, either hereditary or acquired through malnutrition or the introduction of unassimilable matter into the system in the form of improper food, drugs, medicines or vaccines which remain as poisons in the blood.

Disease is the remedial effort of Nature to throw off such obstructions--a process of purification and regeneration--and its symptoms should be assisted and regulated rather than resisted and suppressed.

"Doctors prescribe--but only Nature cures," is an ancient axiom, but it faithfully represents the "_vis medicatrix naturae_."

The question has recently been publicly propounded "Is sickness criminal?" Very certainly, disease is the outcome of personal neglect, in past or present; but the nature of the question is a sign significant that the laity are awakening to the truth that the healing power of nature rests wholly in the generation and conservation of latent reserve energy.

As regards the influenza controversy the Official verdict is, as we have seen, that the Regular Medical Profession as a whole, has failed in its endeavor to fathom the mystery and is at present "_really and truly helpless_." Let us therefore, seek the cause of this disastrous failure and strive to solve the problem along other lines.

If so poor be the harvest, what of the soil? is the natural enquiry. And it must be generally admitted that this spectacular failure lies in the superficial teaching of the medical schools--its search for causes in the mature, and "specialized," anatomical organs in place of the fundamental physiological, chemical and embryonic causes from which, in their appointed order those various organs are evolved;--first the brain and nervous system, afterwards the tissues and the bones. Thus, unversed in the deeper phases of causation, men are hurried unprepared into ranks of a noble profession to struggle as best they may, through lack of deeper knowledge, with the serious symptoms of disease--at first by rote but later, are tempted to tamper empirically with its issues.

It has been said by a great scientific authority that, in order to thoroughly comprehend and cure any form of disease it is necessary, in the first place, to mentally map out and visualize the course of its growth and to follow it backward, step by step, to its source before it is possible to formulate curative treatment adapted to its cause and phases.

To commence then at the initial stage, let us bring upon the scene one of the greatest chemists of the age: Justus von Liebig, the discoverer of "The Law of the Minimum," which is this: That of the sixteen known constituents of the blood essential to the healthy growth and maintenance of the organs and tissues of the body, the absence of any proportional ingredient, however small, will cause degeneration in the organism and interfere with the proper functioning of one or more of the activities concerned.

_Upon this Law is based the attested, dominant fact that all our mental and physical activities--powers of thinking, feeling, motion and every action, including the reproduction of species are equally dependent upon our blood--and our blood, in turn, depends upon proper nutrition._ The ancient aphorism: "Man is as man eats," is therefore true in theory and in fact.

Human diet and human life being thus closely allied, it becomes a consideration of the first magnitude to see that all food contains in well balanced degree a correct proportion of the sixteen essentials: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine, potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, fluorine, silicon and iodine.

Amongst the chemical salts of such scientific nutrition may, or may not, be found the famous "Vitamines," long sought of science; but what they certainly do supply is the electro-magnetic energy, the impulse of growth and vital function, the secret of bactericide blood and its power of circulation.

It is the magnetic iron in the blood which promotes nerve function in both the brain and the intestinal tract, producing on the one hand intellectual activity and on the other, breathing digestion and excretion. Similar causal action in corelation to the integral elements of food prevails throughout the organs of the body, demonstrating the vital importance of the quality of our daily food for the renewal of tissue and the maintenance of healthy metabolism.

In an attempt to define the _primary cause of Influenza_, Prof. Kuhnemann, a well known authority on practical and differential diagnosis, gives a minute description of its various _symptoms_, terminating with a weak suggestion that the already discredited bacillus _may be regarded as the cause_.

This is, in detail, as follows: "Fever is always present," Prof. Kuhnemann says, "but not of any certain type. At times, after short periods of Apyrexie there is a rise in temperature sometimes swelling of the spleen. There is no characteristic change in the urine; sometimes Albuminuria. There is an inclination to perspire freely; consequently Miliaria is often present; also Herpes, less frequently other Exanthema, Petechien. The mucous membranes are inclined to hemorrhage (Epistaxis, Hematemesis, Menorrhagia, Abortion).

"Complications and after effects:

(1) Of the respiratory system:--Croupose and Broncho-pneumonia of atypical progress (atypical fever of protracted course, relatively strong Dyspnoe, Cyanosis, feeble pulse) and high mortality; after effects serous or mattery Pleuritis, Lung abscesses, Phthisis.

(2) Of the circulatory system:--Myocarditis, Endocarditis, Thrombosis.

(3) Of the digestive tract:--Chronic stomach and intestinal catarrh, Dyspepsia.

(4) Of the nervous system:--Any form of Neuralgia, Paralysis, Neuritis, Psychosis, etc.

(5) Of the sense organs:--Otitis media; Nephritis and Muscular Rheumatism are also observed. Influenza aggravates any case of sickness, especially lung trouble."

All this seems to constitute a very formidable and perplexing indictment, sparkling with learning and bristling with difficulties. But when these mellifluous mysticisms are once translated into "the vulgar tongue" they prove to be, strange to say, easily within the comprehension of the ordinary layman.

For instance, "Apyrexie" means Free from fever; Albuminuria--Albumen present; Miliaria--an acute inflammation of the sweat-glands (Abnormal sweating); Herpes--an inflammatory skin disease characterized by the formation of small vesicles in clusters (Fever rash); Exanthema--Skin eruption; Petechien--Spots; Epistaxis--Nose-bleeding; Hematemesis--vomiting blood; Menorrhagia--Excessive menstruation; Croupose--resembling croup; Broncho-pneumonia--Inflammation of the lungs; Atypical fever--irregular fever; Dyspnoe--Hard breathing; Cyanosis--Blue discoloration of the skin from non-oxidation of the blood; Pleuritis--Pleurisy; Phthisis--consumption; Myocarditis and Endocarditis--Inflammations of the heart; Thrombosis--coagulation of blood; Intestinal Catarrh--Inflammation of the bowels; Dyspepsia--Indigestion; Neuritis--Nerve inflammation; Psychosis--Mental derangement; Otitis media--Inflammation of the ear; and Nephritis--Inflammation of the kidneys.

"Aetiology:--The influenza bacillus (found in blood and excrement) is to be regarded as the cause. The malady is highly contagious. Period of incubation given as, from two to seven days. Runs its course in one or two weeks, recovery as a rule favorable; though convalescence is often protracted. Unfavorable results are brought on through complications, most often by Pneumonia.

"Diagnosis:--Easily determined during an epidemic or marked symptoms. The catarrhal form of influenza differs from simple catarrh of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract through the presence of nervous symptoms and a more abrupt beginning. The symptoms may be similar to those of Measles or Abdominal typhus. In each case, complications with Pneumonia must be considered.

"The proof of the presence of the Influenza bacillus," he concludes, "is of little value in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis in medical practice as the bacillus cannot be distinguished with enough accuracy through the microscopic examination, which must be a very minute culture proceeding."

This is the final dictum of medical Science on the subject--Science which however, adds nothing to our knowledge and leaves us still in darkness and uncertainty, while memory brings a well known couplet to the mind:

He holds the threads of Wisdom's way Loosely, with palsied hand. Why lacks he now, for pity's sake, The grace to understand?

M.B.

(After Goethe.)

But let us weigh this long list of symptoms and estimate their respective significance by the light of physiological perception.

The ever present fever is due to stagnation of the blood. Swelling of the spleen is caused by catabolism of the Malpighian bodies. Albuminuria is the result of cold in the Plexus renalis; Perspiration is due to numbness in the nerve fibrils. The inclination of the mucous membranes to Hemorrhage is explained by congestion of blood in the capillaries, due to lack of vigor in the nerve fibrils. When the nerve fibrils fail to act, the capillary circulation stops and the blood overloaded with carbonic acid presses against the walls until they burst.

The complications and after effects are explained in the following manner:

Complications in the respiratory system are all due to failure to properly treat the acute stage of the disease, and where the resistance of the patient has been sapped they usually end fatally. Complications in the circulatory system are subject to the same explanation as fever. Digestive complications are due to impaired metabolism brought on by loss of energy in the Vagus nerve. Complications in the nervous system are consequent upon the degeneration of the whole Vagus tract. Sensory complications are due to the disease attacking the "minoris resistentia," the point of least resistance in the patient.

This explanation of the real significance of the symptoms of Influenza should make it sufficiently apparent that its cause is fundamental, widespread and deeply rooted in the organism--a menace not to be lightly and tentatively treated with impunity. That the disease is not one that may be met--with any prospect of success--with febrifuges, drugs, serums and specifics--to say nothing of whisky and the like futilities, to use no harsher term, such as are said to have characterized the prescriptions of a very considerable proportion of the Regular Medical Profession and with such terribly disastrous results. What the liquor statistics show on our side of the line I am at the moment unable to say, but I see it reported in the press of an adjoining province that under nominally strict "Prohibition" the sale of liquor had increased no less than 900 per cent, largely upon doctors orders, and that the sales from the Government stores in one city, during the past month had totaled $50,000--as compared with $6,000 for the corresponding period of the previous year.

The Professor's elaborate diagnosis, from a physiologico-chemical point of view seems rather to point to a meaning which he has missed--to indicate a latent, more remote possibility behind the shy bacillus, as the primary cause of the disease.

Let us endeavor to read the riddle rightly. On scientific contemplation it at once becomes apparent that the symptoms as defined by Kuhnemann--and indeed all other observers--are confined to the regions traversed by the _Vagus_ (wandering) or _Pneumogastric_ nerve--a nerve of comprehensive scope and bi-functional activity, _physical and psychic_ and in operation, remarkably in accord with the manifestations of Influenza.

Concisely stated, the physiological function of the _Vagus nerve_ is to regulate the process of breathing, tasting, swallowing, appetite, digestion, etc.; and the result of its failure to function would create coughing, choking, indigestion--separately or in combination. Its mental functions include the expression of shame, desire, disgust, grief, torture, depression and despair.

The following is its academic description:

_Vagus_ or Pneumogastric nerve (tenth cranial); function--sensation and motion; originates in the floor of the fourth ventricle (the space which represents the primitive cavity of the hind-brain; it has the pons and oblongata in front, while the cerebellum lies dorsal), and is distributed through the ear, pharynx, larynx, lungs, esophagus, and stomach; possesses the following branches--auricular, pharyngeal, superior and inferior laryngeal, cardiac, pulmonary, esophageal, gastric, hepatic, communicating, meningeal.

It is interesting to compare the scope and characteristics of the Vagus, as here defined with the details of Prof. Kuhnemann's diagnosis of Influenza and to draw conclusions.

In order to establish more unmistakably the symptomatic sympathetic connection between the Vagus and Influenza, it may be well to touch briefly upon the initial processes of metabolism and nerve production.

An inherent impulse in the ovum (protoplasm or egg cell) serves to separate the albuminous substance into groups of an opposite nature. Water is chemically separated from one portion, which results in thickening the albumen from which it was extracted, while the liberated water aids in liquifying another portion of the albuminous matter. Thus, on one side slender threads arise, termed fibrine or filaments, and on the other lymph fluid appears, which receives the particles of salts freed from the filaments during their chemical separation. When the fibrine and lymph are organized from the protoplasm, the remaining albumen is absolutely unchanged and ready to furnish material for the growth of either.

It is the function of salts to increase the electrical tension of the lymph. All salts possess the property of being electrically positive or negative. The more concentrated a saline solution, the greater its electrical energy.

That the function of the lymph is to assist in the formation and nutrition of the nerves is apparent when the nature of lymph and the composition of nerve substances are compared. The contrast which exists between fibrine and lymph, and the similarity of lymph to nerve fat when taken together, justify the conclusion that the nerve substance lecithin, was formed from lymph in the first instance.

The whole process of life consists of an electro-chemical combustion. This is clearly shown in the case of lecithin, which serves to control both motion and sensation. In the presence of oxygen it burns up, forming a new chemical combination, and throwing off minute quantities of carbonic acid and water in the process. _Every movement and process, both voluntary and involuntary, and every thought and emotion, depends upon oxidation, which consumes muscular tissue and nerve substance._

The greater our physical exertion the more muscular tissue must be consumed. The higher our emotional state, the more we think or agitate ourselves, the greater must be the quantity of nerve substance burned up. All of the substance burned up in labour, in worry and in thought, must be replaced or the flame will flicker out!

The metabolism of muscular tissue is not in question at the moment. We are concerned here with nerve metabolism alone.

This occurs in the following manner: In response to the demand for new material created by the chemical combustion of lecithin, new oil flows down the axis cylinders of the nerve fibrils, which are arranged somewhat in the manner of lamp wicks. The average duration of the flow of this oil is about eighteen hours. When the cerebro-spinal nerves refuse to perform their function any longer, because the supply of oil is running low, fatigue and sleep ensue, and the blood descends from the brain to the intestines. Thus the cerebro-spinal system is permitted to relax and rest. In the meantime the sympathetic nervous system has taken up the task of directing the renewal of worn tissues, which draw their supply of necessary materials from the digestive canal, with a new supply of phosphatic oil. For the carrying out of these processes, which prepare the brain and spinal nerve system for the demands of another day, the magnetic blood current acts as distributor of supplies.

Through the fact that this supply is directly dependent upon nutrition, three possibilities inevitably present themselves:

(1) That any radical change of diet may result in an insufficient supply of the various elements necessary for the production of lecithin in the requisite quantities.

(2) That strenuous and unaccustomed physical and mental exertion may involve a consumption both of nerve substance and muscular tissue, greater than the outcome of the ordinary diet is able to compensate.

(3) That a protracted term of emotional strain and agitation may adversely affect both appetite and digestion while rapidly consuming the substance of the nerves.

In discussing the causes of disease Julius Hensel lays great stress upon the emotions. He goes so far as to say that they "_undoubtedly occupy the first place amongst the factors causing disease_, and we must not evade the consideration of them. _We shall find that their action also amounts to an electro-chemical process._" I would not for an instant be understood to contend that the emotions alone are sufficient to explain the origin of disease--not at all. There are other factors--jointly or severally dominant--diet, occupation, changes of weather, climate, or conditions.

In the matter immediately under review, however, the world-wide pandemic of "Spanish Influenza," there can remain no shadow of doubt in the mind of any unbiased observer who follows the question fairly along the lines of electro-chemical biology, but that the general emotional disturbances incident upon the war conditions of the world, combined with the chaotic dietetic position with its anxieties and privations under strenuous and unwonted physical demands, do undoubtedly afford a sound and reasonable explanation of the cataclysmal outbreak which has recently fallen upon the nations.

The brazen blast of war, in 1914, with all its ruthless wreck and carnage, shook the universal fabric of the sphere. Fear, fraud and famine were met together, duplicity and greed had kissed each other. Short rations and with some, starvation, were soon the order of the day. The corners of the earth were swept of stale forgotten stores and profiteers waxed fat and prices soared, whilst the vitals of the working world were vastly underfed. The ranks of labour, depleted of its men, were filled by females uninured to toil and dangerous nerve racking environments. Relentless time brings its revenges fast; but still they worked and suffered while malnutrition sapped the life-blood of the race. In the homes of the fighting men fear reigned supreme--ever the sword of Damocles suspended at the hearth. And then the death lists came and the world was wet with human tears and all the furies flew the earth--grief, hatred, revenge, love, pity and remorse, but the wail of mourning was throughout all lands in all the "sable panoply of woe" attending fast lowering vitality, bred by force of pain and hope deferred. Pliny well said: "Dolendi modus, non est timendi"--Pain has its limits, _apprehension none_--and now as in his day, the latter bore the palm.

Such was the position when two years ago the world first felt the impact of the pestilence and millions withered up like blighted corn.

The Vagus nerve with which we have been dealing, is concerned with the expression of emotions such as these; and being so, was burned up rapidly with fervent heat--the flames of sorrow still with fasting fed. In the majority of human lives such was the case, while the sources of nutritive reserve force were depleted by lack of things of universal use and foreign substitutes for normal food. Small wonder then the once steady nerves soon buckled with the strain; that sickness followed swiftly with disaster in its train and that the death rate rose enormously, beyond recorded precedent. And then when seeming good succeeds the storm of ills a plethora of new-born cares arose and worse, more fatal still, reaction from the strain which with relaxing energy demands its deadly share. Here in America we meet our troubles with serener front, unawed by State-fed sacerdotal superstitions; but in England how the scourge has wrung from dire depression its full toll of death. There for the first time deaths exceed the births and for the final quarter of 1918, the deaths exceed those of the former term by 127,000 of which Influenza claimed one hundred Thousand dead. Similar conditions, it would appear, have been more or less general throughout the European and indeed all other Continents and the title "Pandemic" has been richly earned; but the term which would seem to me more descriptive still would be _"Panasthenia"--the general loss of vitality_.

The human organism is, as we know, electro-magnetic. The effect upon the fabric of abnormal disturbance is registered with infinite exactitude by electrons--atoms of electricity--which rise and fall in numerical vibration according to the positive or negative tone of the whole; and excessive manifestations in one direction or the other, indicate respectively, a condition of positive or negative disease.

When the slowly vibrating negative electrons outnumber the rapidly vibrating positive atoms the electronic vibration of the whole body is lowered. As a result, we become depressed, weak, tired and retain little bodily warmth. Digestion is upset, metabolism falls far below normal, and the skin becomes pale, because of the morbid action set up in the mucous membrane by the excess of negative electrons. Catarrh supervenes. This is the condition in which negative disease thrives best: Influenza, nervous debility, anaemia, sleeping disease, cholera, diphtheria and the rest, in all varied forms of negative disease.

The Vagus, or Wandering Nerve, permeates every vital section of the body, as the accompanying plate will show. It controls, as has been shown, all the highest functions, both mental and physical of human life--that life which depends for its well-being upon electro-chemical combustion, metabolism, and the fuel supply we designate as food. It is the first postulate of healthy vitality in the human frame that metabolism and catabolism--intake and output--shall go hand in hand--that the body must receive continually such fresh nutrition as may replace what it consumes in the process of muscular action and the exercise of mental and emotional activity, and we are consequently brought to the conclusion that such bonds of safety and provision being rudely and suddenly severed, all physical resistance must be quickly broken down, the latent reserve energy is used and disappears, psychic resolution--the immunity of mind--soon abdicates its throne and the depleted organism, robbed of all defense, falls victim to contagion when it comes to kill.

_Treatment._

As regards the treatment, actual and preventive, applicable to Spanish Influenza, the methods employed under the Hygienic-Dietetic System of Healing have been already defined in a previous chapter on the subject of negative disease in general. Instruction, however, devoted to Influenza alone may be found in Chapter VI of the special pamphlet issued in that connection under the title: "Influenza, Cause and Cure,"[E] and also in my greater work: "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy," now in course of completion.

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And now, one final word in conclusion, for the purpose of drawing together, as it were, the multiplicity of threads which constitute the complex skein of causes and effects, with their remedial measures which cover the wide range of human life's vicissitudes--the interruptions of its would-be harmonies--which take the forms, all too common in these times of stress, of physical disturbance and of mental strain which come to us in the combined and threatening guise of suffering and disease.

That these forms are more pronounced, more virulent today than ever before in the records of the race, is surely great Nature's manner, crude and masterful, of pressing her mandate home--right home upon the plastic film of evanescent shadows and ephemeral shades we proudly call our consciousness.

How many, let me ask, how many of us, in the absorbing round of life's futilities, have paused to really recognize the sinister "hand writing on the wall?"

The phase of the world's history through which we pass complacently is of no light portent, its happenings no casual concern, but, in point of crucial fact, a virtual "rending of the sphere"--a cosmic upheaval such as never yet before has racked the tense life sinews of the world, confounding the wisdom of the wise and wrecking in one fell climax of contempt the moral precepts of two thousand years.

The greatest human struggle the world has ever known synchronizes strangely, yet logically with the world's greatest pestilence which has swept successive millions to their doom without exacting from the residue even the sentimental tribute of a tear.

The official brains of the entire globe are leagued in self-protective unison "to make the world safe for democracy;" but Demos dies, by violence and disease, ere yet salvation comes. It appeals to its old-time standards for relief,--they are gone; to its pastors--they are mute; to its masters--they are impotent; to its doctors--they are baffled, helpless and aghast, whilst vainly searching earth and air for some frail pretext of unreal enlightenment, some fragile figment of belief. And yet in hypnotized complacency the masses stand; for meanwhile commerce reaps its costly gains and labour draws in enhanced increment the wages of the living and the dead.

Less serious visitations have, in former times, left their eternal imprint on the age. They served to point the moral of widespread reform--to emphasize the practice of hygiene and sanity. For all such scourges are but signs of Nature's trust betrayed, her sacred laws defied in the wild rush for gain, oblivious of the Law of Compensation's cost, with its inevitable reckoning.

Thus, to the discoverer of the lost initiative, what prospect does the future hold in store?

Pandemics, such as this, repeat themselves; and other forms of dread disease are following the footsteps of mankind. Arterio sclerosis, (hardening of the arteries), with its kindred complaints, for instance, now threatens to become a standing feature of the race through ignorance of the physiological functions of the nerves, their tissue exhaustion and supply.

With such impending dangers are our men distressed; and yet there seems but grudging, slight encouragement for those who seek to stay the onslaught of the foe, by scientific measures of precaution and hygiene.

What the nation needs is now a practical and nation-wide awakening. Let the people realize the danger of their risk; let them rally to the call and loyally support those who thus offer them the safeguard of knowledge as a refuge from the impending storm. Then will so-called "incurable disease" be relegated to the limbo of the past and, among other prophylactic means, this, my latest great discovery--the cause of Influenza, its prevention and its cure, a discovery which must rank amongst the great scientific achievements of the day--will mitigate the force of epidemics on mankind. It should also give to the reader of this little book a fair assurance of what immunity it is possible to secure by careful study and practice of its truths and should prove to the thinker the nucleus of a lesson which can nowhere be better learned than in the teachings and the precepts of the Hygienic-Dietetic School.

"But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be"

FINIS.

Wide and unlimited as the field of biology and the hygienic-dietetic method of healing is, I have in the foregoing pages tried to devise a guide that will indicate the points that are most necessary to the confidence of the patient, based upon knowledge.

If I have enlightened my readers sufficiently regarding the most modern results of biological research, if I have succeeded in showing them the ray of hope, in the midst of their suffering, that will give them courage to live, and live as healthy human beings, I shall feel amply rewarded for the hard work that had necessarily to be done before the present pinnacle in the art of healing could be reached.

Let me repeat: this brochure is not designed to lead any one away from the man who knows, who has gone to the sources of wisdom, to bring salvation to those who demand the right to live in health and vigor. Far otherwise; for my deliberate injunction is that the cure of disease, in any form, should not be undertaken except under the guidance of an hygienic physician who may indicate to them the path, so that they may not tread it blindly, but in the light of knowledge.

The outlines of a great and wonderful science are presented. Another wall between the layman and the professional has been torn down. If, my readers, you can one day say this booklet has guided you to the right path, back to the enjoyment of life in youthful health and vigor, then join with me and others in propagating these sane and safe principles, and make others "Dare to be Healthy," as you have dared yourself.

FOOTNOTES:

[D] This amount is given by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in an editorial devoted to the terrible plague on March 16th, 1919.

[E] The pamphlet, which also contains a chart of the Vagus in 2 colors, may be obtained either from the author or through any bookseller. The price is 50 cents.

INDEX

Dedication, 5

Foreword, 13

Introduction, 15

The Hygienic-Dietetic method of Healing, 19 Physiologico-Chemical Research, 20 The Natural Method of Healing, 20 Prophylactic Therapy or Prevention of Disease, 21 The New-School of Healing, 22 "Regeneration" or "Dare to be Healthy", 24 Distrust of the Medical Fraternity, 25-6 Johannes Müller and his followers, 26-7 The Medical Impasse, 28-9

The Regeneration of the Race, 31 Dysaemia--the cause of disease, 31 The process of Natural Healing, 31 The Human Body a Microcosm, 32 The body an indivisible Unity, 33 The Bacteria craze, 33 Predisposition, 34 The Allopathic failure, 35-36 Choosing a Physician, 37 Cell-food Therapy, 37 Medical Literature, 38 Chemical elements of the blood, 39 Dech-Manna, or "Organic Nutritive salts or cell-food Therapy", 39 "As a man eats, so is he", 46 Humanity the product of the exhausted fields, 46 The remedy, the question and the reply, 47 No "business" in healthy blood, 47 Truth versus Creeds and Capital, 49

Health: Hymn of Health, 51 The Health ideal by Nature set, 52 Ignorance the basis of disease, 54 A Means of Enlightenment, 55

The Dare to be Healthy Club, 57 The purpose of the Club, 58

The Teachings of the Club, 58 Two years' course in Biology, 58 Physiology, Anatomy, Hygiene, Physiological Chemistry, Pathology, according to Biological facts, 58 Therapy, in accordance with Biological and Physical Laws and Precepts, 58 Its comprehensive aim, 58 The Course of Instruction, 58 Its Precepts, 59 Graduates as Teachers, 59

The Method of Regeneration, 59

Dr W.C. Rucker Assistant Surgeon Gen. US Public Health Service on Physiological Chemistry, 60

The Boerhaave Incident, 62 The Secret of Disease and Health, 62 The eternal Lesson Nature Teaches, 64

Simplicity the Essence of the System, 64

A Life's Legacy, 65

The Physician, 66

Fair Minded Physicians, 66

Behind the Veil, 66

Disease the Heritage of the Ages, 67

The Moment of Release, 67

Disease a Unit, 68

The Part of the Physician, 69

The Teachings of Great Masters, 69 Hippocrates, 70 Galen, 71 Thomas Sydenham, 73 Boerhaave, 74

System of Regeneration, 77 Man as a Unit, 77 Perpetual Existence, 77 Functions, 77 Cell life, 78 Specialists, 78 Cause of Disease, 79

Metabolism, 79 Creative Matter, 79 Functions of the Blood, 79 Foreign Formations, 80 Nature's Curative Powers, 80 The Blood as Universal Medium, 80 The Oneness of Disease, 80 All Powers Dependent on Nutrition, 80 Diversity of Construction, 81 Adaptivity of Cells, 81 Medical Misconception, 81 Resultant Errors, 82 Diagnosis, 82

Chemical Analysis of Human Body, 82 The Twelve Tissues, 82 Secret of Healing, 82 Tissues Depend Upon the Blood, 82 The 16 Elements of the Blood, 83 Dominant Features, 83 Von Liebig's Law of the Mirimuin, 83 The Law of Chemotaxis, 84 Cell Attraction, 84 Process of Healing, 84

Constitutional Disease, 84 New Cell food Treatment, 85 Old System Superseded, 85 Dysarmia, 85 The Bacillus Fallacy, 85 Predisposition, 86 Hereditary Disease, 86 Heredity Not Invincible, 87 The Dechmann Law of the Cross transmission of Characteristics, 87 The Theory of Pangenesis, 88 The Dechmann Law of the Determination of Sex at Will, 89 Latent Reserve Energy, 89 Law of the Dominant, 90 Heredity and Predisposition, 90 Prevention of Disease, 91 Terrible Responsibility, 91 Alternative Betterment, 92 The "Incurable," Curable, 92 Chemical Elements Missing, 92 Three Methods of Supply, 92 Diet, 92 Nutritive Preparations, 93 Physical Treatment, 93

Nature a Unit, 94 Natural Elements, 94 Importance of Minerals, 94

Testimonials, 95

Dech-Manna Nutritive Preparations, 97

The Means of Health and Safety, 98

The Dare to be Healthy Club, 99 Business Proposition, 99 Membership, 99 Terms and Literature etc., 100 "Within the Bud", 101 Cell Foods Special Rates to Members, 102 The Basis of Proceedings, 103 Life, Health, Happiness, 104

Man as a Unit, 105

Metabolism, 106

Variety of Organs, 109 The Idea of Unity, 109

The Constituent Elements, 111

Dysaemia, the Cause of All Constitutional Diseases, 113

Heredity, 116

Healing, 117

The Unity of Nature, 119

The Chemical Process of Disease, 121

The Twelve Tissues, 123 1. The Plasmo Tissue (Blood Plasma), 124 2. The Lymphoid Tissue, 125 3. The Nerve Tissue, 125 4. The Bone Tissue, 126 5. The Muscular Tissue, 127 6. The Mucous Membrane Tissue, 128 7. The Tooth and Eye Tissue, 128 8. The Hair Tissue, 128 9. The Skin Tissue, 129 10. The Gelatigenous Tissue, 130 11. The Cartilage Tissue, 130 12. The Body Tissue in General, 131

Degeneration of Tissues, 132 The Meaning of "Healing", 132 Grouping of Constitutional Diseases, 133

The A.B.C. of My System of Healing, 135 A. Diet, 135 B. Nutritive Compositions, 135 C. Physical Treatment, 136

Diet--Its Vital Importance, 136 The Reason Why, 137 The Laboratory of the Body and Functions of Its Branches, 137 Creation of Life blood, 137 Building the Framework, 138 The Material, 138 The Refuse, 138 Diet Forms No. I to No. VI, 138

Nutritive Compositions, 143 Representations to Government, 143 Functions of Minerals in Our Food, 148 Minerals in the Human Economy, 148 Chemical Elements Essential to Life, 149 The Impulse of Growth, 150 The Genesis of Polyps, Tumors and Cancers, 151 Review of Mineral Elements, 152 Iron in the Blood, 152 Generation of Electricity, 152 Faraday, on Magnetic Blood, 152 The Motor of Nervous Function, 153 Creation of Bodily Warmth, 153 The Secret of Sleep, 153 The Function of the Spleen, 154 Rejuvenating Influence, 154 The Malpighian Bodies, 154 The Liver and the Bile, 155 Lecithin or Nerve Fat, 155 System of Cell Renewal, 156 Nutrition-Soda and the Bile, 156 Chemical Fixation, 156 Sodium Sulphate Essential, 157 Basis of Muscle Tissue, 157 Basis of Bones and Teeth, 158 Growth of the Hair, 158 Medium of Chemical Combustion, 158 Human Organism Cannot Assimilate Inorganic Matter, 159 Necessity of Prepared Nutritive Salts, 159 Incomplete Fertilization, 160 Sickly (food) vegetation, 160 Improper Fertilization Breeds Disease, 161 The Rock and Its Lesson, 161 Food Instinct, 161 An Imperative Duty to Mankind, 162 Result of Experiments (Poultry), 162 Results of Experiments (small fruit), 163 Haemoglobin Eggs for Weakened Constitutions, 164 Lecithin for Neurasthenia, 164 Physical Regeneration, 164 Reserve Energy Essentials, 165

Nutritive Compositions, 166 16 Nutritive Cell-foods, 166 12 "Dech-Manna" Compositions, 166 Specialities, A. to J., 167 Explanations, 168 Schuessler's Absurdity, 170

=Dech-Manna Compositions=-- No. 1. Plasmogen--(Plasma Producer), 172 No. 2. Lymphogen--(Lymph-cell producer), 176 No. 3. Neurogen--(Nerve-cell producer), 179 The Ignorance of "Nerve Specialists", 180 Consequent Increase of Insanity, 180 A Complacent Public, 181 Neurasthenia, 181 No. 4. Osseogen--(Bone cell Producer), 182 Deformity of Bone Structure, Curvature of the Spine, etc., 183 The Lime-water Fallacy and Others, 183 "Fire proof" Bone Structure, 183 No. 5. Muscogen--(Muscle-cell Producer), 184 Combination with Eubiogen (No XII), 185 No. 6. Mucogen--(Mucous Membrane-cell producer), 186 Pervading Importance of Membrane, 186 Catarrhal Conditions of Tissues No. 7. Dento & Ophthogen--(Tooth & Eye cell Producer), 187 Connection Between Teeth and Eye, 189 No. 8. Capillogen--(Hair-cell Producer), 189 Causes of Falling Hair, 190 Prevention of Baldness, 190 Failure of "Hair Restorers", 190 No. 9. Dermogen--(Skin-cell Producer), 191 The Fallacy of Dermatology, 192 No. 10. Gelatinogen--(Gelatigenous-tissue Producer), 193 The Functions of Expansion and Contraction, 193 No. 11. Cartilogen--(Cartilage Producer), 194 Prevention of Friction, Bones and Joints, 194 No. 12. Eubiogen--(Healthy Life Producer), 196 Positive Composition, 196 Eulogy of Eubiogen, 196 Analysis of Eubiogen, 201 3 Forms of Eubiogen, 204 Special Composition B Alternative for Infants and Feeble Invalids, 204 Comparative Analysis Human Body and Eubiogen, 206

=Appendix I=, 207 Life Preservers and Elixirs, 207 =Special Dech-Manna Compositions=, 207 A. Oxygenator (Radium Tablets), 207 Balneotherapy-directions, 208 B. Eubiogen Liquid. For babies and feeble invalids, 209 C. Tonogen--Tonic and Beverage, 210 Universal Scope and Effectiveness, 211 Combination with Plasmogen, 212

=Appendix II=, 213 =Compositions for Specific Cases=, 213 D. Tea, Diabetic, 213 E. Tea, Laxagen, 213 F. Salve, Lenicet, 213 G. Massage Emulsion, 213 H. Propionic Acid, 213 I. Oxygen Powder, 213 J. Anti phosphate or Negative Compound, 213

Price list Dech-Manna Compositions, 214 Physical Treatment, 215 Baths and Packs--Vinegar Water, 215 Massage and Exercises, 216 Importance of Ablutions, 216 The Habit of Gargling, 220

Vinegar Packs--Their Significance and Basis, 220 Effect of the Packs, 226 Temperature, 226 Construction of Packs, 227 Length of Application, 227 Danger of Ice Applications, 228 Excretion of Auto toxins, 230 Dissolving, Diverting, Excreting, 230 General Treatment of Body, 232 The Key to Success, 232 General Advice for Packs, 232 Measurements for Material, 233 Temperature of Packs, 234 Duration of Packs, 235 Changing the Packs, 236 General Rules, 237 "Diverting Packs" Important, 237 The Main Rule, 238 24. Abdominal Pack, 238 Divided Packs, 241 25. The Cross Pack, 242 26. Leg Packs, 244 Partial Packs, 245 Foot and Wrist Packs, 246 Neck Pack, 247 Shoulder Pack, 248 Scotch Pack, 249 Divided Scotch Pack, 250 Shawl Pack, 251 27. Three quarter Packs, 252 Half Pack, 255 Whole Pack, 255 Small Compresses, 257 28. Gymnastics, 258 29. Massage, 258 30. Breathing, 258 Electric Vibrators, 260 31. Oxygenator, 261 32. Radium and Salt Baths, 261

Diseases, Treatment and Method, 262 I. Degeneration of the Plasmo Tissue, 263 Anaemia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anaemia, 263 A. Scrofulosis, 266 B. Tuberculosis, 266 C. Syphilis, 266 D. Cancer, 267 Therapy, 267 Diet I. For Anaemic Patients, 267 I. & II. A. For Scrofulous Patients, 269 I. & II. B. For Tuberculous Patients, 270 I. & II. C. For Syphilitic Patients, 271 I. & II. D. For Cancer Patients, 271 Dech-Manna Compositions, 271 Physical, 272 II. Degeneration of Lymph Tissue,272 III. Degeneration of the Nerve Tissue, 273 Neuralgia Neuritis, Neurasthenia, 274 Asthma Epilepsy St Vitus's Dance, 274 Therapy, 275 Dech-Manna Compositions, 277 Physical, 277 IV. Degeneration of the Bone Tissue, 277 Rickets Osteomalacia and Similar Diseases, 277 Therapy, 278 Diet, 278 Dech-Manna Compositions, 279 Physical, 279 V. Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue, 280 Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, 280 Infantile Paralysis, Atrophy, 280 Amyloid Organs, 280 Therapy, 281 Diet, 281 Special Diet For Disease of Heart and Inactive Kidneys, 282 For Irritable Kidneys and Diseases of the Bladder, 285 For Liver Disease, 286 Dech-Manna Compositions, 287 Physical, 287 VI. Degeneration of the Mucous Membrane Tissue, 288 Catarrh, Acute and Chronic, 288 Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, 288 Inflammation of Nose Throat, Bowels, Stomach and Bladder, 288 Decomposition of Mucous Membrane, 288 Hemorrhoids, Polyps Benign Tumors, 288 Bright's Disease, Initial Stages, 288 Therapy, 289 Diet, 290 For Throat and Larynx Disease, 290 Dech-Manna Compositions, 290 Physical, 290 VII. Degeneration of Tooth and Eye Tissue, 291 Therapy, 292 Dech-Manna Compositions, 292 Physical, 292 VIII. Degeneration of the Hair Tissue, 292 Therapy, 293 Diet, 293 Dech-Manna Compositions, 293 Physical, 293 IX. Degeneration of the Skin Tissue, 293 Therapy, 295 Diet, 295 Dech-Manna Compositions, 295 Physical, 295 X. Degeneration of the Gelatigenous Tissue, Stomach & Intestinal Disease, 295 Therapy, 296 Diet, 296 Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases, 297 General Hints for Nourishing Treatment, 298 Treatment, 298 In case of Constipation, 299 Dech-Manna Compositions, 299 Physical, 299 XI. Degeneration of the Cartilagenous Tissue, 300 Ankylosis. Gout. Arthritis, 300 Therapy, 300 Diet, 300 Dech-Manna Compositions, 300 Physical, 300 XII. Degeneration of the Body Tissue in General, 301

Infantile Paralysis, 303

Facial Diagnosis and "The Clinical Eye", 306

Diagnosis, Physiognomy and Psychology, 308 The Biological Healing System, 308 The Psychological Side, 308 Regeneration and Retrogression, 309 The True Physician's Principle, 309 External Symptoms, 310 Perspiring Hands and Feet, 310 Quality of the Nails, 311 Baldness, Gray and Dishevelled Hair, 311 The Evidence of the Eyes, 312 Prof Liljequist on the Colour of the Eyes, 312 The Shades of Death, 313 Testimony of the Mouth and Tongue, 313 Indications of the Nose, 314 Diagnosis by Odour, 315 Story of the Teeth and Gums, 316 Demonstrations of the Neck, 317 Significance of Chest Formation, 317 Signs of the Abdomen, 317 Indications of the Legs, 317 Indications of the Skin, 318 Freckles, 318 Chemical Construction, 318 Prevention and Cure, 319 Simple Precautions, 319

Children's Disease. Introduction, 319 The Cause of "the Poor", 319 The Child of Mortality, 319 Parental Egotism and Pedagogy, 323 Maternal Solicitude--and Ignorance, 320 Vital Statistics, 324 O Tempora! O Mores!, 325 The World's Indifference to Truth, 326 For the Understanding of Disease--the sine qua non, 326 Back to Nature, 326 "The Age of Nerves", 327 Medical Polemics, 327 "Existence is Movement"--Progress, 328 Man, the Sceptic, 328 The X-Rays and the Sequel, 329 The Atom and the Electron, 330 "Man's Passing Strange, Complex Mortality", 332 The Vibrations of Electrons, 332 Electro-Magnetic Control, Mundane and Solar Forces, 333 The Ocean a Storage Battery, 333 The Action of Acids and Alkalies, 334 Electro-Magnetic Processes and Metabolism, 335 Weather and Local Influences, 336 Negative and Positive Vibrations, 337 Healthy Blood Formation, 338 Dech-Manna Diet, 338 Electrons and the Effect of Injury, 339 Bacteria, 340 Febrile, or Positive Diseases, 340 Curative Process, 341 The Law of Opposites, 341 Action of Water, 341 Action of Earth on Mud, 341 Vinegar Packs, 342 Cooling Drinks, 342 Temperature Reduction, 343 Negative Diseases, 344 Curative Process, 344 Sun Baths, Light Baths, 344 Exercise, 345 Massage, 345 Coloured Light Treatment, 346 Internal Treatment, 346 The Salts of the Body, 346 Nourishment, 347 The Science of Food, 347 Diet, 348 Food Standard, 348 Heat Production, 348 Discretion in Diet, 348 Diet of Children in General, 349 Diet for School Children, 351

Fever and its Treatment Based on Biology, 354 A. General Description, 354 B. Treatment, 357 C. Diet in Cases of Fever, 362

Scarlet Fever, 367

Measles, 371

German Measles, 372

Chicken-pox, 373

Small-pox, 374

Typhoid fever or typhus abdominalis, 375 A. General Description, 375 B. Essentials, 376 C. Symptoms and Course, 377 Stage of Development, 378 The Climax, 378 Stage of Healing, 378 Respiratory Organs, 381 Organs of Circulation, 381 Nervous System, 381 Bones and Joints, 382 Urinary and Sexual Organs, 382 Skin, 382 Recurrence, 383 D. Treatment, 384 Mental condition, 385 E. Relapsing fever (Typhus Recurrens), 386 F. Diet in Cases of Typhus, 387 Dech-Manna compositions, 392 Physical Treatment, 392

Negative Children's Disease (so called), 393 Catarrh, 393 Bronchitis, 393 Grippe, 393 Influenza, 393 Catarrhal Inflammations, 393 Cholera Infantum or Summer Complaint, 393 Therapy, 393 Physical Treatment, 394

The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases, 394 The Golden Rule, 395 Diet, 395 Dech-Manna Compositions, 395 Physical Treatment, 396

The Tonsure of the Tonsils, 396 A Strong Indictment, 396 American and English Corroboration, 397 Arguments Against Tonsillotomy, 397 A Medico-cum parental craze, 398 Prof Mackenzie's Denunciation, 398 Maternal Ineptitude, 399 Wild and Incontinent Superstitions, 400 Operators and Their Teachers, 400 Facts and Fables, 401 A "Lazy and Stupifying Delusion", 402 The "Roll of Unrecorded Death", 402 A trenchant and Tragic Article, 404 The True Mission of Tonsils, 405

Pre-natal Care, 405 Pre-natal Clinics, 405 Human Magnetism, 405 Hygienic Birth, 406

Endemic and Epidemic Disease, 406 Climatic, or Yellow Fever, 407 Pellagra, or Hook worm, 407 Cholera and Plague, 408 The Spanish Influenza, 409 The World's Great Pandemics, 410 Terminological Notes, 410 Fundamental Causes, 410 Sero Therapy, or the Illusive Germ Theory, 412 The Alternative Origin, 412 The Attitude of the Public, 413 The History of the Influenza Germ, 413 Culture and the Manufacturing Chemist, 413 The Great Experiment, 413 The Dictum of Surgeon Genl. Blue, 414 Serums and Specifics, Hospitals and Undertakers, 415 Opinions of the Press, 416 The Parting of the Ways, 417 George Bernard Shaw's Views, 418 Public Health Reports, 419 Raising the Resistance of the Body, 419 The Vis Medicatrix Naturae, 421 St Paul, on the Unity of the Body, 421 The Cause of Medical Failure, 421 The Law of the Minimum, 423 The Sixteen Essentials, 423 Prof Kuhnemann, on the Influenza, 424 The Interpretation, 427 The Professor and the Shy Bacillus, 428 The Vision of the Vagus Nerve, 429 Its Vast Responsibility, 431 Three Nutritive Possibilities, 432 The Emotions as Factors of Disease, 432 "Panasthema," the General Loss of Vitality, 434 The Seat of Affection in the Vagus, 435 "The Writing on the Wall", 437 Demos Dies by Violence, 438 Nature's Trust Betrayed, 438 The Law of Compensation, 438 A Great Scientific Discovery, 440

Finis 440

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[Transcriber's Note: The items on the list of Errata have been corrected in the text.]