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 No. 1. 
 
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 THE 
 
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 CAUSE OF DISEASE 
 
 BY 
 
 F. M. R. SPENDLOVE, MJ). 
 
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 Enured Mcording to Act of P»rli»ment of Canada, in the year one thousand eight 
 hundred and ninety-ieTen, by P. M. R. 8pkndlov«, M.D.. at the Office of the 
 Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa 
 
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 )ffice of the 
 
 CONTENTS OF SEEIES NO. 1. 
 
 PAET I. 
 
 THE NATURE OF DISEASE. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 THE CAUSE OF DISEASE. 
 
 PART III. 
 THE EFFECTS OF DISEASJS. 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE. 
 
 PART V. 
 THE CURE OF DISEASE. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The population of the earth is estimated at 
 1,500,000,000, of which eighty-five per cent, are 
 vegetarians, and fifteen per cent, eat flesh food. Of 
 the latter, eighty-five per cent, of the females and sixty 
 per cent, of the males are suffering from disease in 
 some form. This is probably too low an estimate. 
 With the improved methods of determining the 
 presence of disease at our command, it is doubtful 
 if, among civilized nations, there could be found even 
 ten healthy persons to the hundred, of either sex. 
 
 These pamphlets are not sent oui nth the expecta- 
 tion that the principles embodied therein will meet 
 with immediate universal acceptance. The patient is 
 not prepared to give up "the flesh-pots of Egypt" 
 without a struggle ; and the physician has not the 
 courage to face the consequences following from the 
 acceptance of the fact that drug medication and drug 
 poisoning are synonymous. 
 
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 But " He who represents the Truth that is to be, 
 can afford to be patient ;" and there are some to whom 
 this new interpretation of old and well-established 
 facts will conie like a revelation. From them the glad 
 tidings will spread to others, and the little rills of 
 truth will coalesce and form rivers omnipotent in their 
 energy which shall flood the earth. 
 
 F. M. R. SPENDLOVE. 
 
 Montreal, March 13th, 1896. 
 

 THE CAUSE OF DISEASE. 
 
PREFACE TO PART II. 
 
 The favorable reception of the "Nature of Disease" 
 by the Profession, the Press and the Public, and the 
 reiterated demands for the balance of the series, show 
 that the subject is not without general interest. 
 
 "In all other departments of Nature mankind is 
 willing to acknowledge that there are fixed principles, 
 and permanent and established order and system, but 
 in regard to life, health and disease, every person 
 thinks he is in possession of an intuitive knowledge 
 which enables him to understand his own constitution 
 better than another can do it for him." 
 
 When this personal element has been eliminated, 
 when it is recognized that life, health and disease are 
 governed by laws as fixed and inviolable as those 
 governing the planets in their unerring courses through 
 the heavens, when it is recognized that ph^swal sin 
 like spiritual is 'transgression of the law.' and that 
 
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 physical salvation like spiritual comes only through 
 obedience, then, " as the days of a tree shall he the days of 
 my people." 
 
 F. M. E. SPENDLOVE. 
 
 MoNTRKAL, June 23rd, 1897. 
 
through 
 3 days of 
 
 OVE. 
 
 THE CAUSE OF DISEASE. 
 
 What are the sciences but maps of universal laws : and 
 universal lav^s but the channels of universal power; and uni- 
 versal power but the outgroings of a universal mind." 
 
 Edward Thomson. 
 
 All Truth, all reality, on the physical plane, is a 
 trinity—law— power— mind— and must be studied 
 through the portals of Science and Inspiration. When 
 it is recognized that the methods of study in Inspira- 
 tion are as peculiar to it, as accurate and governed by 
 laws over which it is possible to exercise as much 
 control as those of Science, then it will be found that 
 Science and Inspiration are not antagonistic, not even 
 parallel, but in one and the same straight-line. When 
 Science reaches the boundary of the physical, when 
 weighing and measuring are no longer adequate, then 
 we turn to Inspiratic. to carry us beyond into the 
 region of the UxViversal. 
 
 It^ is into this borderland between Science and 
 Inspiration that we propose to carry the torch of inves- 
 
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 tigation ; sometimes employing the order of conceptions 
 pertaining to Science, at other times those of Inspira- 
 tion, and if anything is found herein that conflicts with 
 the established order in Medicine or in Theology, it is to 
 be remembered that, " not_ directly but by successive 
 approximations does mankind arrive at correct conclu- 
 sions," and that many of the cognitions here given are 
 " suggestive centres " for " concentration " rather than 
 dogmatic statements. 
 
 Two theories are current as interpretations of real 
 existence— life, the theory of a " special creation," and 
 that of "evolution."' These theories, as generally 
 understood, are antagonistic. According to the theory 
 of a " special creation," man was first created perfect, 
 but afterwards degenerated. In the evolution theory 
 man is undergoing a process of slow and gradual devel- 
 opment, evolution, from a lower to a higher plane of 
 existence. In each of these theories will be found, 
 when the husks are removed, a kernel of common truth. 
 In the first chapter of Genesis is given a description 
 of the creation of man on the physical plane in the 
 language of the law ; accurate, concise, complete. In 
 the second chapter is given a description of his creation 
 on the mental plane in the language of parable; as 
 accurate, concise and complete in its adaptation to its 
 subject as the language of the law on the physical 
 plane. 
 
 A failure to interpret aright the language of law and 
 the language of parable in the description of the crea- 
 
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 tion of man, and its adaptation to his different planes, 
 physical and mental, led to a belief in a literal garden 
 of Eden and a literal fall of man from a state of grace ; 
 and to the ignoring of the true teaching which these 
 records were intended to convey. 
 
 Among the early Christians the accuracy of this 
 belief was not called in question, but as man progressed 
 in knowledge on the physical plane, he recognized the 
 impossibility of reconciling the slow and gradual devel- 
 opment of plant and animal life as recorded in the 
 "Testimony of the Eocks" with the traditional and 
 partial interpretation of the Biblical record of a special 
 creation. This led to the theory of a gradual evolution 
 of all life on the physical plane. From this time for- 
 ward Science and Religion took divergent pathways. 
 This hrs been attended with almost disastrous results 
 to both. Divorced from each other neither can stand 
 alone. This must be recognized before real progress 
 can be made in either department. 
 
 Without Science the Bible is a sealed book, a collec- 
 tion of heterogeneous facts, in solution, without centres 
 around which to crystallize, a record of inspired teach- 
 ers, overlaid, in mdny places, with error; sometimes 
 introduced with a purpose, as prejudicial translation, at 
 other times accidental. Without Science, without a 
 knowledge of the Constitution of Man, it is impos- 
 sible to separate the truth from error, to distinguish 
 between the original works of the inspired teachers and 
 the works of man. Without Science the Christian 
 
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 her future course. To add still more to her dilemma 
 
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 Science and Inspiration, is both a " creation " and an 
 
 
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 evolution are not antagonistic, not even parallel, but in 
 
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 one and the same straight line ; creative forces operat- 
 
 
 ing from above, evolutionary forces from below. 
 
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 The creative forces from above operate on the plane 
 
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 below only under certain states or conditions, and 
 alvays in definite relation to these states or conditions. 
 There is not a different creative force from above for 
 the crystal, the organic cell and the thoughts of man, 
 but the one creative force from above acting through 
 the different media or conditions evolved from below. 
 I. Cor., xii., 4-11. 
 
 All force on the plane above is Universal. The " I 
 am " is ever present, ever ready ; yet, in the manifesta- 
 tion of force through "media" on the lower plane 
 acting only through the laws governing the manifesta- 
 tion of force on that plane, viz., in the line of the least 
 resistance. 
 
 In creation and evolution all effort must be in the 
 line of a diminishing resistance from the plane below. 
 This is nature's law ; fitness must precede progression. 
 Christ could change water into wine ; could calm the 
 tempest ; cast out devils ; heal the sick ; restore sight 
 to the blind ; raise the dead ; yet, He could not, without 
 breaking nature's law, compel the rule ridden Jews to 
 accept His teachings. The former were accomplished 
 in obedience to Nature's laws: To have accomplished 
 the latter would have been to perform a miracle. 
 
 God created man in His own image. Studying man 
 on the mental and physical plane we find him measured 
 by a scale of twelve. 
 
 On the mental plane man nas twelve groups of facul- 
 ties ; seven having their sphere of activity on the plane 
 above, the spiritual; five on the plane below, the 
 
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 Vhysical; togetlier making a perfect man on the mental 
 plane. 
 
 Jacob had twelve sons ; in each a different group of 
 faculties was predonnnantly active. They were blessed 
 accordingly. Gen., xlix. Taken togetlier the twelve 
 predominantly active groups of faculties represent the 
 twelve groups of faculties in ^ipcrfect man 
 
 The twelve sons of Jacob were selected to rule over 
 the twelve tribes of Israel. The members composing 
 each tribe, as did the twelve sons of Jacob, possessed a 
 different group of faculties predominantly active; taken 
 together the twelve tribes form an '^wly nation^ 
 
 The New Jerusalem was laid out four square, with 
 welve departments, twelve gates and twelve founda- 
 tions ; together making a perfect city. 
 
 Each of the twelve departments of the city was made 
 up of members of a special tribe and its gates were 
 named accordingly. Taken together these twelve tribes 
 in their position in the city represent all the faculties 
 of man in the position in which their respective organs 
 are located in the human brain. 
 
 Man on the mental and physical plane ; the twelve 
 sons Jacob; the twelve tribes of Israel; the New 
 Jerusalem and the position of the twelve tribes within 
 the city testify of " the one absolute certainty, that 
 man is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal 
 Energy, from which all things proceed " 
 
 Man on the mental plane has twelve groups of facul- 
 ties, seven having their sphere of activity above, five 
 
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 below. These twelve.groups are centres of evolutionary 
 force, the emanations from which as thoughts, project- 
 ing into the spiritual atmosphere, have each a definite 
 form and color. 
 
 The breast-plate of tlie High Priest contained twelve 
 stones, on each of which was engraved the name of one 
 of the tribes. The plan of the New Jerusalem ; the 
 position of the twelve tribes within the city; the 
 twelve sons of Jacob; the position of the twelve groups 
 of organs in the human brain ; the color of the forces 
 emanating from each of these twelve groujjs determines 
 the color of the stone, the name of the stone for each 
 tribe, and the position of each stone in the breast- 
 plate. 
 
 The breast-plate was never to be severed from the 
 priestly garments and was to be worn as the " memo- 
 rial," a means of calling into activity the spiritual 
 faculties, and as the "breast-plate of judgment," a 
 means of calling into activity the faculties on the lower 
 plane. 
 
 The " law of continuity " could be traced through all 
 the dealings of the Creator with His creatures on the 
 lower plane, but enough has been given to show that 
 there is an " Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which 
 all things proceed," after a definite plan, the key to 
 which is to be found in the Constitution of Man. 
 
 If this is Truth, realiti/, it must have both a material 
 and a spiritual origin, to which all things are related by 
 the law of laws, the " law of continuity." 
 
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 ' of ^hl a.r!?' Tr': ''" "'""'^ '"'-^ the teachings 
 oi tne Christ m this hght. 
 
 to ««i and to save llmt wIM, was lost. L.ike xix 10 
 
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 liUiies we have his oWii testiiuoiiy to prove. 
 "Tim, ,haU love the Lord thy Qod with all thy hmrt 
 
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 Jii Si and great commandment. 
 
 ';And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy 
 
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 X tel, tomake hnn better acquainted with the law, 
 
 tbat he .rnght thereby "have life and have it rn're 
 
 abundant y," the ,uellu>d would conforn, to the mZ 
 
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 be here outlined to show that the metliod and the 
 object were in one and the same straight line. 
 
 The Sermon on the Mount may be considered as the 
 beginning of Christ's public mission. In this sermon 
 He gives to the assembled multitude, and through them 
 to all succeeding generations, five commandments, 
 which, like all truth, have a spiritual and a material 
 significance. Obedience to these commandments calls 
 into activity the five -lower faculties in man which are 
 the stepping stones to the seven higher. 
 
 Recognizing the impossibility of the lost ones pre- 
 paring themselves for the reception of truth from a 
 higher plane, through progress on the lower. Knowing 
 that He would be taken away before the object of His 
 mission could be completed, the character of His 
 teachings changed from this time forward. The Ser- 
 mon on the Mount was Christ's first and only sermon. 
 Selecting twelve who afterwards became his disciples, 
 fiKdrjTKi taught or trained ones he gave them "life," 
 " activity," " more abundantly," on the mental plane. 
 
 With the increased activity came increased power on 
 the same plane, "against unclean spirits to cast them out; 
 and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of 
 disease." 
 
 After the commandments to His disciples, Christ 
 continued to heal the sick and teach the people ; but 
 the latter always in jMrabk ; never in the language of 
 the law, "ivifhoiU a parable spake He not unto them." 
 Questioned by His disciples for a reason, he replied : 
 
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 If 
 
 '^Bfnmr it is gicen unto you to km'w the mysteriea of the 
 hngdoiu of heaven, hut to them it is not given. Became 
 seeing they see not and hearing they hear not, neither do 
 they understand" 
 
 The twelve disciples were sent to " the lout sheep of 
 the house of Israel." As a reward for what they would 
 he called upon to suffer in the cause of their master, 
 when He came into His kingdom, those who had 
 followed Him in the regeneration were to sit upon 
 twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 
 
 Each member of the different tribes of Israel was 
 possessed of a certain group of faculties predominantly 
 active, this determined his position in relation to the 
 tribe of which he was to form a part. The position of 
 each tribe in the city was determiiHsd by the mental 
 development of the individuals composing it. 
 
 Varieties in mental development existed in the 
 twelve disciples, as in the members composing the 
 twelve tril)es. In each of the disciples this develop, 
 ment determined his position in relation to the tribe 
 over which he was to preside, as there is in each indi- 
 vidual a group of faculties predominantly active which 
 will determine his relative position as a member of one 
 or other of the different tribes in the T^ew Jerusalem. 
 
 In some of the disciples the predominantly activ.. 
 faculties did not extend beyond those on the lower 
 mental plane. John xiv., 8, 9. In others it embraced 
 the wholo -ircle of the twelve groups. To Peter were 
 given the .v ■; to the kingdom of heaven, symbolical of 
 
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 Because 
 
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 master, 
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 tiie activity of the complete circle of the twelve j,n()ui>s 
 of faculties. lTp„n tins rock, this circle of faculties 
 constitutijH/ the spiritual and mental planes in man is 
 built the church, which "ihe gaUs of hell shall not 
 prevffil rtrfaiii8t" 
 
 While to Peter were jrjven the kei/s of tlic^ kinj^'dom of 
 heaven, John was permitted to see the Holy City, the 
 New Jerusalem, and to see more clearly, while in the 
 spirit, symbolically, the completion of the mission of 
 the " Lion of the tribe of Judah," the "Koot of David," 
 viz., the manifestation of the Universal Mind, the 
 Universal Intelligence to those on the lower plane 
 through activity of the higlier or spiritual faculties 
 possessed by man since the beginning. 
 
 The seven higher faculties symbolized by ,A7tM, while 
 in the spirit, the function of which is to bring man into 
 more intimate conununion with liis Maker, together 
 with the five lower, the function of which relates to 
 man on ihe physical plane, the activity of which comes 
 through obedience to the five commandments given by 
 Christ in his Sermon on the Mount, complete the circle 
 of the twelve groups of faculties. 
 
 Five of the.se .groups, those on the lower mental 
 plane, in the relation.ship between man and man, are, 
 of necessity, to a greater or less extent, in constant 
 activity ; but the seven higher, or spiritual faculties, in 
 the present condition of the Christian world, are " a^ if 
 slain" 
 
 The Bible, the book that touches nature at a greater 
 
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 nuniljerof points tliiiu any other volume ever compiled, 
 is from Moses, who saw the beginning of Being on the 
 material plane, to John, who saw the spiritual, a record 
 of the activities of faculties possessed by man since 
 created in the image of his Maker, and governed l)y 
 laws as exact, and over which it is his power to have 
 as much control as over any other department of nature. 
 Vast as has been the progress of man in the ast, it 
 is but a dewdrop to an ocean compared to that which 
 is in store for him in the future, when he awakens to 
 the fact that he is the possessor of faculties, the culti- 
 vation of which will open to him, while on t,he physical 
 plane, the book of the Universe, whose author is the 
 Creator, and which contains a record of all things, past, 
 present, future. "And I saw m the right hand of him 
 that sat on the throne a book, written within and on the 
 backside, sealed tcith seven seals." 
 
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II 
 
 From the day that God made man, male and female, 
 and conmianded them to multiply and replenish the 
 earth, the race has been propagated by the separation 
 of a certain portion of the substance of a pre-existing 
 living body by organs especially created for that 
 purpose. 
 
 That is, by means of the contact of the sperm cell 
 with the germ cell, conditions are evolved, from below, 
 which admit of the individualizing of the Universal 
 on the physical plane in the form of man. Thus, not 
 only is man made in the image of his Maker, but he 
 has within himself a part of the creative force from 
 above, in proportion as the conditions from below per- 
 mit of its manifestation. 
 
 Life on any plane io motion, activity on that plane. 
 It is a product of force from the plane above operating 
 through media or conditions from a plane below. It is 
 both a creation and an evolution, all effort, however, 
 must be directed to the evolutionary forces from below; 
 vital iovce obeying the same law as physical, flowing in 
 the line of the least resistance. 
 
 Life on the physical plane might be a never ending 
 creation and evolution could the media for its manifes- 
 tation remain the same. A knowledge of creative laws 
 

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 makes all things possible where physical conditions are 
 under control. 
 
 Man has, in a great measure, the power to regulate 
 these conditions, thus putting spiritual communion, 
 (Inspiration), within the domain of science. 
 
 Fig. a. 
 Diagram Illustrating Division of Cell Contents. 
 
 It is not impossible that in the distant future man 
 will, through control of the media, control the mani- 
 festation of life on the lower plane. 
 
 Life and deatli, health and disease are not controlled 
 
25 
 
 ions are 
 
 egulate 
 ri union. 
 
 e man 
 mani- 
 
 rolled 
 
 by creative forces from above apart from conditions 
 evolved from below. 
 
 Immediately after contact of the ^erm cell with the 
 germ cell, lively rotary motion is set up in tlie contents 
 of the latter, beginning in the neighborhood of the 
 "attraction particle," (Part I, 3, 1) and resulting in the 
 division of the cell contents. Fig. A. 
 
 Fig. B. 
 
 Diagram illustrating Formation of Membranes. 
 
 Continued activity of the cell contents results in the 
 cells being pushed together against the outer wall in 
 layers, leaving the centre clear. Fig. B. 
 
26 
 
 From these different layers of cells, or membi-anes 
 are developed all the tissues and organ's of thrhuZn 
 
 Why does the sa.„e activity within the contents of a 
 
 «ng!e cell result in the formation of the diiferent com 
 
 plex issues and organs of the body ? The creative 
 
 oree from above being the san.e. we must lookTo I 
 
 conditions on the lower plane for an explanation The 
 
 H 
 
 N 
 
 \ 
 H 
 
 MgHN 
 
 H 
 
 Fc3 N 
 
 \ /(P04) \ /(P04)2. \ /(P04) 
 
 . 
 
 Fig. C. 
 Diagrams Illustrating Principles governing Cell Division. 
 
 elements entering into the formation of the cell contents 
 determine the structure, and through it, the formation 
 o the cells. These elc.^^ents are both fixed and vola- 
 tile. The hxed elements act as centres around which 
 are collected the volatile to form the cell. For example 
 the phospkcUe of magnesium [Fig. 6, MgH, (P04) 1 is' 
 the fixed base of cells composing the nerve tissue; i^ 
 
iron 
 
 27 
 
 [Fe3 (1*04)2] tliat of nuiscle, and calcium [Ca3 (P04)2] 
 that of bone. These fixed or mineral elements are the 
 centres around which are collected tlie volatile or 
 albuminous compounds. In this manner all the tissues 
 and organs of the most complex organism originate in 
 the contents of a single cell. 
 
 Without going into the details of Embryology, it may 
 be stated as a general fact, that from tlie outer layer 
 of cells (Fig. B, 1) the epihlast, arise the structures 
 composing the Nervous system ; from the inner layer 
 or hypoblast (3) arise the organs composing the Nutri- 
 tive system, and from the middle layer or mesoUast (2) 
 the structures composing the Motive system. Thus 
 from the contents of a single cell are developed all the 
 complex structures of the human body, which may be 
 tabulated as follows : — 
 
 (1. Brain. 
 2. Spinal Cord. 
 3. Nerves of the Special Senses. 
 4. Peripheral Nerves. 
 5. Sympathetic Nerves, 
 f\. Digestive Organs. 
 
 2. Respiratory Organs. 
 
 3. Circulatory Organs. 
 
 4. Urinary Organs. 
 ^5. Generative Organs. 
 
 1. Bones. 
 
 2. Ligaments. 
 
 3. Joints. 
 
 4. Cellular Tissues. 
 
 5. Skin and its Appendages, the 
 '^ Hair and Nails. 
 
 II. Vital Svstem?. 
 
 III. Motive Svstem. 
 
!■"!! 
 
 !!V!I 
 
 !li I 
 
 28 
 
 ^y^l^-^^^^^^^^^^^ of three 
 
 and org,,, "'' '^'^ ^^^-^^t classes of tissues 
 
 ^^le liarnionious working .f .. 
 
 '»« the churaeter of the fori """ '»^^- ''y e„„Jot 
 determine pennanenc/of S^"'''""8 "''«•'?'' «.e"„ 
 
 ^^ifcal force is never isoI«h« i ^'^^racter. 
 
 ThprJ.-ft' '"'"ation, one or the nth ^ ^^^"e, 
 
 ' ^^^--t con^binations J^Zl^rf^^^^^^^^ 
 I. j^ •^''^^^'^"^ated as follows: 
 
 I Motive. Vital/ f®''*'o»8. .^r 
 
 All ., ,. I Motive. Motive/ i^®'voH8. 
 
 ^ii the differpn^ «^ i • * ^^'tal 
 
>osed of three 
 sses of tissues 
 
 t parts of the 
 * which they 
 ordination of 
 'ter a definite 
 
 to structure. 
 
 ^y control- 
 
 '■o"gh them, 
 
 'd"'g func- 
 r. 
 
 within the 
 
 one chan- 
 
 edominant 
 
 niotive 
 
 ist alone, 
 'ninating. 
 ! foJJows ; 
 
 Nervous, 
 'ital. 
 
 nts met 
 »n this 
 
 lotion, 
 ermine 
 
 29 
 
 the form. When the nervous system is the channel for 
 its transmission the product is dynamic, when the vital 
 system is the channel the product is chemical, and 
 when the motive system is the channel the product is 
 mechanical energy. 
 
 The following diagram will give a clearer idea of the 
 different forms of force operating through the human 
 body: — ^ 
 
 S 
 
 a 
 
 Chemical. 
 
 3 
 
 Fio. D. 
 
 Mechanical. 
 
 Diagram of Forces operating through tlie Animai Body 
 
30 
 
 The living organism may, for the sake of illustration 
 be compared to a machine, a watch for example; two' 
 factors are essential in both, the machinery and the 
 motive power. The motive power, the spring, is the 
 vital part, the part upon which the motion or life 
 depends, the activity manifested through the second 
 minute and hour hands are but different effectn of the 
 one power acting through different media. 
 
 m. 
 
istration, 
 pie; two 
 and the 
 g, is the 
 or life 
 second, 
 s of the 
 
 III. 
 
 Unde:3tanding the different forms of force operating 
 through the body we are able to enter upon the study 
 of the Cause of Disease with fixed and clearly defined 
 principles as guides. 
 
 Causes that interfere with the manifestation of life, 
 motion, through one or more of the different channels 
 of the body are causes of disease in those channels. 
 
 Given the different cha-.nels of force operating 
 through the human body, the problem to solve, in each 
 individual case, is to determine the strength of the 
 channel, i.e., its inherent vitality, and the quantity arid 
 nature of the obstruction. 
 
 The vital force from above, which determines the 
 total quantity of life on the physical plane, is controlled 
 by conditions, which are handed down since the begin- 
 ning through heredity. 
 
 In the union of the sperm cell with the germ cell the 
 motive system and part of the nervous are given by one 
 parent, the vital and part of the nervous by the other. 
 
 Conditions and individual potency determine the 
 predominance of the system or temperament and 
 through it the form and character of the offspring. 
 
 It is within the power of the individual to extend 
 the life-line beyond its limits in the present age, as it 
 

 ■ 
 
 32 
 
 is within liis power to weaken or cut it short at any 
 point. 
 
 Many of the fixed characteristics of the offspring are 
 the result of habits paternal in orifrin. 
 
 Every tiiought, word and deed is indelibly recorded 
 in its appropriate cell in the organism, the memory of 
 which is transmitted from cell to cell and appears as 
 character in the offspring. 
 
 Young men would do well to reflect upon this before 
 sowing their "wild oats," thinking that they can reform 
 at any time and all will h& forgotten ^nd forgiven. The 
 dogma of "vicarious atonement" finds no countenance 
 in heredity. Death bed repentance is of no aN i^U here. 
 "The iniquity of the fathers shall be visited upon the child- 
 ren and upon the children's children unto the third and 
 unto the fourth generation." 
 
 The acquired characteristics of the offspring come 
 chiefly through maternal influences. The highest cul- 
 tivation of the faculties on the spiritual plane in the 
 mother during the "periods of transmitting influences" 
 would do more to elevate mankind than the combined 
 action of all the Eeform Societies, the Judiciary, and 
 the Church. 
 
 The causes of disease acting as elements of obstruc- 
 tion in the different physiological channels of the body 
 are named according to the channels through which 
 they operate : dynamic, chemical and mechanical. 
 
 The dynamic causes, those operating tlirough the 
 
 is 
 
 k 
 
•t at any 
 
 pring are 
 
 1 
 
 recorded 
 
 
 emory of 
 
 
 ipears as 
 
 s 
 
 is before 
 
 
 ti reform 
 
 ) 
 
 m. The 
 
 
 itenance 
 
 
 i^M here. 
 
 
 he child- 
 
 
 hird and 
 
 
 g come 
 
 
 est cul- 
 
 
 e in the 
 
 
 uences" 
 
 
 mbined 
 
 iry, and '• 
 
 V 
 
 bstruc- 
 
 
 16 body 
 1 which 
 
 
 gh the V 
 
 
 33 
 
 Nervous system, originate from within, Ideo-dynamic, 
 or from without Rejiex-dynamic. 
 Ideo-dynamic causes. 
 
 At birth the mental reservoir is a tabula rasa, ready 
 for the reception oi the subjective from above, through 
 the higher or spiritual faculties, and the hjective from 
 below through the faculties on the lower plane. 
 
 Through heredity some portals, both on the higher 
 and lower planes, open more easily than others, but by 
 means of the Will man has command over that which 
 shall be allowed to enter and what must remain without. 
 The mission of the Christ was to excite to activity, 
 . to give life, to the faculties possessed by man since 
 created in the image of his Maker, that he might 
 thereby make the subconscious self, the real ego suitable 
 for the exalted position prepared for the blessed in His 
 Father's mansion. The object of the Church has been 
 to supply, on demand, a ready-made article to fill up 
 the mental reservoir of all classes and conditions of 
 mankind. No matter how vile or how debasing the 
 thought-forms that have been continually pouring into 
 the reservoir during the lifetime of the individual, and 
 which are to determine its environment after leaving 
 this sphere, the ready-made article, the "vicarious 
 atonement," erected upon a structure of "circumstantial 
 evidence " can be made to accomplish the desired object 
 in every case. 
 
 It is said that " Nature abhors a vacuum." In pro- 
 portion as the incentive to activity of the spiritual 
 
34 
 
 faculties is removed by supplying the ready-made 
 article, the mental reservoir of the individual is filled 
 with thought-forms from a lower plane. It is through 
 this source that /mr enters in proportion to the vacuum 
 within. 
 
 The inHuence of fear in obstructing the flow of vital 
 energy through the difl'erent channels of the body on 
 the physical plane is becoming more and more recog- 
 nized ; but of its influence on the spiritual atmosphere 
 there is yet no adequate conception. "Ye hove feared 
 the mord; and / will bring a sword upon you, saith the 
 Lord God. 
 
 The injunction to fear not has a spiritual meanincr 
 the importance of which has not been revealed to thos" 
 who seeing yet do not jJerceive. 
 
 Keflex-dynamic causes are those operating throu-h 
 the Nervous system from without. ° 
 
 Keflex motion at any given point within the system 
 as vibratory impulses, comes through the channels' 
 of the periphoral nerves. The eff-ect depending upon 
 the mtensity and duration of the cause and the 
 perfection of the media. 
 
 The vibratory impulse may traverse the nerve 
 channel from the surface to a ganglia or centre, and 
 from there discharge itself in the form of a dynamic 
 chemical or mechanical eflect upon some other part of 
 the system witiiout being carried to the centre of 
 consciousness. Examples are seen in automatic actions 
 and sounds to which we have long been accustomed 
 
eucly-inade 
 al is filled 
 is through 
 lie vacuum 
 
 vv of vital 
 B body on 
 ore recoff- 
 bniosphere 
 are feared 
 , saith the 
 
 meaning, 
 1 to tliose 
 
 through 
 
 J system, 
 channels 
 ing upon 
 and the 
 
 e nerve 
 itre, and 
 lynamic, 
 ■ part of 
 3ntre of 
 ! actions 
 >med. 
 
 3 
 
 o 
 
 « 
 
 Kvery vibratory „u|>„ke «ent through the nerve 
 ehunnel ,3 utten.le,! with an expeiidit^re of e e Jy 
 111 proportion to the frietioii of the ,„e.ha 
 
 Every rea,ler has probably one or more acnnaint- 
 anee, who are exa.nples of perpetnal n,otion. 1 , ZL 
 . I,, ,n,po3.,ibIe for then, to keep j„,< .sitting "r 
 stonhng. son,e part of the body is in constant anoUon. 
 In others it « impossible for them to keep Me,U. lioth 
 are examples of Useless Activity. 
 
 Jear an,l n.seless activity, conscious ami nncon- 
 scions are types of dynamic ean,,es of disease ; causes 
 operating throngh the Nervous system 
 
 OUmM fe,«».-Those acting through the Vital or 
 Nutritive system, as /,»rf and *■»«/!■ 
 
 Practical medicine is the only department in the 
 whole domain of science that is piaced in charge of 
 skilled workmen who have never been taught the 
 na ure, nor the management of the forces they are 
 called upon to control. ^ 
 
 The physician has no fixed principles to enable hira 
 to f,«us the luulftiule of isolated facts composing t^e 
 eience medidne upon the case in hand • thus 
 ;- doctors differ" upon the interpretation of facts whih 
 in any other department of science, would be settled 
 by the principles governing that science 
 
 tio!!"of''f 'r"?''"" 1.""^ "'" ''O"'""^' <"■ ""^^Pre"«- 
 IRUTH ? Has It a material and a spiritual side » But 
 what ,s the pedigrm of its promoter and to what «}u>ol 
 
86 
 
 
 I :! 
 
 does he belong ? These being answered satisfactorily, 
 he is swallowed as the wliale swallowed Jonah — to be 
 ejected again when a more tempting morsel appears, 
 with as little digestion or assimilation. 
 
 To note the birth, development and natural death of 
 the medical fads that have thus sprung up during the 
 past century would be to write a volume. 
 
 One, however, from its importance, from its vitality 
 and from its influence upon the health and morals of 
 the whole Christian world cannot be allowed to pass 
 without notice. This may be christened the Nitrogen 
 fad, according to which the nutritive value of a food, as 
 a tissue builder, is in proportion to the nitrogen, it 
 is found to contain on chemical analysis. 
 
 Every trio in science knows that the methods of 
 study pertaining to one science are not interchangeable 
 with those of another. Chemistry and Physiology are 
 no exceptions to this rule. The former deals with 
 quantity, the latter with quality. 
 
 The physician in accepting the chemical analysis of 
 food as a standard of its nutritive value, instead of 
 studying it in its relation to the system to which it is 
 intended to nourish, has conmiitted a " vice of 
 method," which has led to his giving countenance to 
 the spread of two of the greatest curses that has 
 ever afflicted the civilized world, viz., the use of putre- 
 factive animal matter in the form of butchers' meat, and 
 the use of the produvls of putrefactive vegetable 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
37 
 
 factorily, 
 
 h — to be 
 
 appears, 
 
 death of 
 Liring the 
 
 s vitality 
 morals of 
 I to pass 
 Nitrogen 
 a food, as 
 trogen, it 
 
 jthods of 
 langeable 
 ology are 
 jals with 
 
 lalysis of 
 istead of 
 hich it is 
 ' vice of 
 nance to 
 that has 
 of putre- 
 mcat, and 
 vegetable 
 
 matter in tlie form of alcohol as food for the human 
 organism. 
 
 The most charitable interpretation that can be put 
 upon the conduct of a profession in permitting the use 
 of butchers' meat and alcohol as nouishment for the 
 human body is that not comprehending the nature 
 of the forces they are called upon to control, nor 
 the nature of the morbid actions of these forces, 
 disease, they are called upon to combat, they have 
 permitted man to indulge in that which touches him at 
 his weakest points, his feelings and his appetites ; and 
 also, the plausibility and simplicity of the chemical 
 theory has been a bait so tempting that it is swallowed 
 regardless of any consequences that might follow. 
 
 Organic substances are compounds of carbon, oxygen, 
 hydrogen, nitrogen, water and various inorganic salts. 
 Some organic substances, such as essential oils, contain 
 only carbon and hydrogen, others, as the fixed oils, 
 starch, sugar and alcohol, contain carbon, hydrogen and 
 oxygen. By chemists these are classed together as 
 non-nitrogenoits or carhonaceoiis substances. 
 
 Another group, consisting of the seeds of plants and 
 animal flesh, contains nitrogen in addition to the other 
 elements. This constitutes the nitrogenous group, 
 while water and the various salts make up the inorganic 
 group. 
 
 From a chemical point there is no fault to find with 
 
 this classification. It is simple, concise, comprehensive. 
 
 The chemist, however, cautions the physician from 
 
38 
 
 accepting- this as a working classification from a 
 physiological basis, " the physiological evidence that 
 these classes of elements serve different purposes in 
 nutrition is not so complete as that of their chemical 
 differences," yet to the majority of practical physicians 
 the nitrogenous group are the only tissue builders, and 
 their nutritive value is in proportion to the nitrogen 
 they contain. 
 
 If chemistry cannot determine the nutritive value of 
 the nitrogenous group, of which animal flesh is a type, 
 neither can it that of the non-nitrogenous group, 
 of which, from a chemical point, alcohol is a type. 
 
 Before a substance nitrogenous, non-nitrogenous or 
 mineral can contribute to the function or nutrition 
 of the human organism, it must be vitalized, converted 
 into bioplasm by contact with the vital principle of the 
 cells of which it is to form a part. 
 
 Chemistry has not yet shown the nature of the 
 compound that would result from the union of vitality 
 with alcohol. 
 
 Alcohol taken into the system induces an acid tide, 
 ix., abstracts the elements of water from the tissues, 
 thus increasing their irritability. This is in proportion 
 to the quantity introduced and the composition of the 
 tissues with which it comes in contact. 
 
 For this reason the nervous system is the first to 
 show the effects of its presence. It is through this 
 hardening process, the abstraction of water, that it 
 exerts its mucsihetic action, together with the charac- 
 
 i 
 
from a 
 nee that 
 r poses in 
 chemical 
 hysicians 
 ders, and 
 
 nitrogen 
 
 ! value of 
 is a type, 
 IS group, 
 rpe. 
 
 ;enous or 
 nutrition 
 lonverted 
 )le of the 
 
 •e of the 
 if vitality 
 
 icid tide, 
 3 tissues, 
 roportion 
 on of the 
 
 } first to 
 lugh this 
 , that it 
 3 charac- 
 
 39 
 
 teristic dynamic, chemical and meclianical changes, 
 which will be considered elsewhere * 
 
 " Two ships are passing at sea, one flying the signal 
 of distress. The captain of the other ship orders his 
 men to go on board and cut down the signal. On 
 being remonstrated with by the passengers for such 
 cruelty, he coolly replies, I have given relief, see, 
 there is no signal of distress." 
 
 Alcoliol in disease, through its anwsthetic action, cuts 
 down Nature's signal of distress, leaving the cause 
 untouched. 
 
 In studying the effects of animal flesh upon the 
 human organism we liave to consider : 
 
 a. Its relation to the living organism to which it is 
 to furnish material for growth and repair. 
 
 b. The effects of the waste or in-nutritious portions ; 
 which are inseparably connected with it, and which 
 must be introduced with it into the system, viz., urates, 
 micro-organisms and toxines. 
 
 c. To which also may l)e added the effect upon the 
 spiritual progress of man by slaughtering animals 
 belonging to a lower plane in the animal kingdom. 
 
 a. The vital principle centred in each cell must have 
 its appropriate material for the manufacture of bioplasm 
 for the repair and growth of the cell, and through the 
 cell the tissues and organs composing that system of 
 which the cell forms a part. Tlie cells composing the 
 
 
 *Stiiiea No. 11. 
 
40 
 
 different tissues and organs of the body arp. not inter- 
 changeable one with another. The cells compo3ing one 
 class of tissues or organs are never, under any circum- 
 stances, converted into those of another. For example, 
 nerve cells never by any process become gland, muscle 
 or bone cells, neither does one class of cells take its 
 supply of nourishment from the combination of ele- 
 ments or proximate principles that go to make up the 
 nutritive material of another class. 
 
 Every manifestation of vital force through the dyna- 
 mic, chemical or motive channels is attended with 
 " friction of the media," with changes tending toward a 
 final decomposition into the elements from which they 
 v/ere originally derived, of those tissues and organs 
 which form the channel of communication. When, for 
 example, the nervous system is the channel, the nerve 
 tissue is the one called upon to contribute its textures 
 for the manifestation of dynamic force. The same 
 when the glandular, muscular, or other organs, are the 
 channel. 
 
 Other things being equal the wear of the tissues is 
 in proportion to their activity and appropriate material 
 for their renewal must be supplied or the expenditure 
 will exceed the income, and physical bankruptcy will 
 inevitably follow. 
 
 The navvy who spends his days in hard physical 
 labor and his nights in sleeping the sleep of the just 
 without a thought for the morrow, and the overworked 
 business or professional man, whose mind is intense!" 
 
 V 
 
lot inter- 
 »03ing one 
 y circum- 
 example, 
 d, muscle 
 } take its 
 n of ele- 
 ce up the 
 
 bhe dyna- 
 ded with 
 toward a 
 hich they 
 id organs 
 Vhen, for 
 he nerve 
 textures 
 'he same 
 s, are the 
 
 tissues is 
 
 material 
 
 aenditure 
 
 ptcy will 
 
 physical 
 
 the just 
 
 Brworked 
 
 intensely 
 
 41 
 
 active from fourteen to sixteen hours in every twenty- 
 four, require far different nutritive material to supply 
 the wear of the tissues resulting from " friction of the 
 media"; yet according to the Nitrogen theory each 
 must receive his carbonaceous and nitrogenous food in 
 regulation proportion, "16 to 1." 
 
 In a failure to recognize the simple fact that the 
 nature of the food to be supplied to the human organism 
 must be determined by the channels of activity of the 
 vital force, and that a knowledge of these must be 
 obtained through a study of the human organism and 
 not alone from the chemical analysis of the food, lies 
 the failure to discover tlie cause of those forms of 
 disease which have baffled the skill of the medical 
 profession in all ages, and which are to-day as prevalent 
 the world over as at any time in the history of medical 
 science, viz., pulmonary consumption and cancer. 
 
 In June, 1895, a professional gentleman, twenty-four years 
 of age, had a severe hemorrhage from the lungs. He was of 
 a highly organized temperament, the nervo-motive, and liad applied 
 himself very closely to his studies for some years. For some 
 months preceding the attack he had not been in his usual health, 
 more easily fatigued mentally and physically, sleep disturbed^ 
 slight dry cough after meals and after active exercise. His diet had 
 been, being a single man, the usual boarding-house fare-animal 
 flesh in some form at each meal, fresh baker's bread, pu ^ry, tea and 
 coffee. His friends noticing his changed appearance, u.o loss in 
 weight, the dark circles under his eyes, the pallor and increasing 
 weakness, urged him to take more nourishment, in the form of 
 animal food, to keep up his strength. This he did by increasing the 
 quantity of flesh meat taken at each meal and an occasional extra 
 cup of animal broth or beef tpa. The emaciation, weakness and 
 
42 
 
 cough increased, wi'tli shortness of ),reath on eve.h-n.. , • 
 
 "We mmrioni with hir mml. In i,„ t- "'""""" f" '«ke a 
 the latter part of J,,l .? "^ l'"" '"' '"''"e"'- He left in 
 
 February Zl L 'T A ."""■'""•'' ""'^ """' *« '""<>""« 
 
 -ai of JTe\^i'''^::::r::^ 
 
 exhausted that to take her ac'stomed ,."" " *'°''^"^'^'^ 
 exertion. Her sleen 1, T "'''°"'*°'"«f ^^^^ was too great an 
 
 She he,.„ ^::::'s:::z:>z:.:::::tur' ."t- 
 
 great as when leaving if fi ^ "'V ^ ^^"^^ ot fatigue almost as 
 
 /.«g«i„g day.:r?„ etrirpiZfTr, fr » --'' 
 
 hemorrhage from the lun.. Tif. » . /' '""' " *"■"« 
 
 C;W'r° "-' p"'Xr .^rLtrrt 
 
 victim ''°^"^'"^^' *"^ ?'«^»^o«a,.y tuberculosis claimed another 
 
 <»^^i7r.;r„:t?trTrc^ 
 
 .ppet.t. was irregohr, bad ta,te and tenden^ t tl."n 
 
 notTMrS iT^'f °, "°"""« P^- "' «- .ton,.»h With 
 erootation of ga, and a ,I„ggi,h action of the bowel, Th™. 
 
 August, when, after more than usual active exercise on a very l,„i 
 day, he had a cWl. This was followed by slight fever whS 
 
1 and irregular 
 sat of the day, 
 He was then 
 ;e of climate, 
 was to take a 
 '. He left in 
 the following 
 ids in weight 
 The progress 
 ivhen he went 
 
 in an office, 
 k str -iger, at 
 if, during the 
 ting through 
 and evening 
 
 thoroughly 
 «o great an 
 nth dreams- 
 lie almost as 
 ^fter a very 
 lad a severe 
 
 by several 
 ' work. In 
 country for 
 ;rength, but 
 'Ogress was 
 led another 
 
 occupation, 
 3ight. His 
 nausea in 
 (lach, with 
 Is. These 
 ! following 
 a very hot 
 r'er, which 
 
 
 43 
 
 8ubsi<led after a few days, leaving a short dry couch Th. . 
 
 attracted but little attention until thp f „ l T^ *"""«*' 
 
 weather can.e on, it increased He th ' ""u "' '' '*^' '^''""P 
 
 and it was found that h« H. , , ^''^^^' '""^^•«*1 ^"vice, 
 
 ".a louna that he had tubercular comumntim, tu j- 
 
 progressed in its downward course untr fh T '^"'*''* 
 
 the " Messenger of Death'- r/T . ^^e following spring when 
 sumn^ons. ^ '*"'^ ""^ ^^""^ ''"" ""^^^ly to obey the 
 
 To the average medical practitioner these cases aro 
 without special interest. He sees no evidence of K^t 
 ural Law running through the series. To hhn i f of" 
 no significance that the beain„incr of fi,. 
 which co„«„„ed until the^rt^™ I Lt'^^:; 
 
 kZ'o thf ""f '■ ^° """ '"^ ""- "f ~ 
 gress of tlie symptoms showing the nature „f fh„ 
 
 the advent of the hacilh are without special import 
 
 h 3 a^„^te tvunty-animal flesh, slimulants and rf™„<, 
 .all having the same tendency to cut down Natu^' 
 signals of distress," leaving the cause untouched 
 At flve hundred homes in this fair city ■ at «.^ 
 
 ot Death «,1U each year for his quota of victims from 
 he fairest and brightet of the land through "Zy 
 
44 
 
 i< 
 
 attacks continued, kept down by the daily use of bromide of potash 
 to two and three a month until her forty-ffth year, when they 
 ceased. The bromide was then stopped with considerable 
 rejoicing, both on the part of the patient and of the physician, for 
 had not the brtmiide of potash cured a case of epilepsy, even if 
 it had required fifteen years of almost continuous use. A few 
 months after the cessation of the epileptic attacks, shooting pains 
 began to be felt in the left breast. Attracting little attention 
 at first, but owing to their persistence, she consulted her former 
 medical adviser, who, without comment, sent her to a surgeon. 
 She went with a heavy heart, to find her worst fears realized. It 
 loas a cancer. At the operation it was found that the disease had 
 made considerable progress. It was, however, thoroughly 
 removed. The wound healed, though somewhat slowly. In March 
 she was discharged from further treatment with the advice, *' To 
 take a liberal diet of flesh food and a little stimulant to keep up her 
 strength." The advice was followed. In the early summer the 
 epilepsy returned. The bromide of potash was again resumed. 
 The frequency of the attacks lessened under its continued use, but 
 did not altogether cease. In the following fall the scar over the 
 site of the previous growth became painful, the tissues around 
 it swollen and discolored. These symptoms increasing, she again 
 consulted the surgeon who had performed the operation. He 
 pronounced her death warrant. The cancer had returned. 
 Another operation would be useless. After suffering untold agony 
 for nearly a year she passed away. 
 
 A married lady, vital temperament, mother of Several children, 
 had been feeling poorly for several months. Easily fatigued, 
 burning pain in the stomach, worse when fasting, often relieved by 
 taking food, dryness of the mouth and throat, bad taste and 
 sometimes nausea in the morning, tongue deep red color, deeply 
 fissured, irregular appetite, flatulence, constipation, giddiness, 
 cramps and numbness in the limbs, worse at night, very nervous, 
 losing weight, pale, with dark circles under the eyes, palpitation 
 and shortness of breath on taking active exercise. For some 
 months she h»d noticed indications of !utern.-rl derangements of 
 
e of potash 
 when they 
 •nsiderable 
 'sioian, for 
 y, even if 
 e. A few 
 itiiig pains 
 
 attention 
 ler former 
 a, Hurgeon, 
 ilized. It 
 isease had 
 horoughly 
 
 In March 
 ?ice, "To 
 3ep up her 
 mmer the 
 
 resumed, 
 i use, but 
 r over the 
 es around 
 
 she again 
 'ion. He 
 
 returned. 
 :o]d agony 
 
 children, 
 fatigued, 
 elieved by 
 taste and 
 )r, deeply 
 giddiness, 
 f nervous, 
 lalpitation 
 For some 
 
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 a catarrhal nature, which, through their persistence and change in 
 character, led her to seek medical aid. 
 
 There was some doubt about the exact nature of the disease. 
 An operation would give her the benefit of the doubt. The 
 operation was performed. She died eighteen months after from a 
 return of the disease, internal cancer. 
 
 A middle-aged gentleman, motive tetnperament, formerly led a 
 very active life, but for the ten yearo previous to his last 
 illness, took much less active exercise, regular habits. During the 
 winter of 1891 his appetite became capricious ; he suffered from 
 dryness of the mouth and throat, especially in the morning, tongue 
 red, deeply fissured, flatulence, nausea at times, heartburn, 
 especially after taking anything sour, sometimes a feeling of " pins 
 and needles," at other times cramps in the limbs, worse at night, 
 muscular weakness, and loss in weight. Sought medical aid, but 
 obtained only temporary relief. In the following summer a small 
 abrasion was noticed on the lower lip at the left side. Attracting 
 little attention at first, but enlarging and refusing to heal under 
 simple local treatment, a surgeon was consulted. He advised 
 immediate removal of the affected portion of the lip. The opera- 
 tion was performed. A few months after an abrasion, sirnilar in 
 appearance to the first, appeared at the same point on the lip. 
 The glands on the left side of the neck began to swell and become 
 painful. A second operation was performed, removing a larger 
 portion of the lip. A few months later the disease again 
 re-appeared at the same point on the lip. The enlarged glands 
 suppurated, leaving large openings into the mouth and throat. 
 Further operative measures were considered useless, and death 
 ended his sufferings a few months later. 
 
 To the surgeon this group of cases are not of special 
 interest. He sees no evidence of natural law running 
 through the series. He sees only what he wants to see— 
 Nature's signals of distress in the form of local disease, 
 which it is his duty to cut down, leaving the cause 
 untouciicd. 
 
46 
 
 The object of introducing tliese case reports here 
 is not to describe the respective diseases, that will 
 be done elsewhere,* but to show the similarity in the 
 symptoms that preceded the local disease in each 
 group, and to show the uselessness of measures adopted 
 for the removal of a disease when directed against an 
 effect instead of its cause. 
 
 The recognition of the fact that disease in its origin, 
 progress and termination is governed by laws as exact 
 as those governing the "planets in their unerring 
 courses through the heavens," or any other of Nature's 
 forces, will bring a brighter day both to suffering 
 humanity and the physician, but the dawn is not 
 yet. The uselessness of the old must first be recog- 
 nized, and the soil made ready that new ideas may be 
 planted in clean places. " Fitness must proceed 
 progression." This is a law of Nature from which 
 there is no appeal. 
 
 h. In the chemical analysis of flesh food no dis- 
 tinction is made between the nitrogen present as 
 forming part of the structure of the tissues and that 
 present as the part of compounds, the product of tissue 
 degeneration. The presence of the latter in the form 
 of urates, their compounds and antecedents, is a more 
 frequent cause of obstruction to the flow of the vital 
 force through the different channels, disease, than all 
 
 *A description of the nature, cause, symptoms, prevention and 
 cure of Pidmoiiary Conaximptiow and Cancer will appear in separate 
 pamphlets, forming part of .Series No. II. 
 
 \ 
 
)rts here 
 bhat will 
 ;y in the 
 in each 
 adopted 
 gainst an 
 
 ts origin, 
 as exact 
 unerring 
 Nature's 
 suffering 
 I is not 
 le recog- 
 niay be 
 proceed 
 n which 
 
 no dis- 
 isent as 
 md that 
 of tissue 
 Aie form 
 
 a more 
 he vital 
 than all 
 
 ation and 
 1 separate 
 
 i 
 
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 other causes combined. Nitrogenous sul>stances are 
 introduced into the system chieHy through animal 
 nesh an and me.Ua and, tlirough grains and vegetables, 
 an allmhne media. 
 
 The first essential of the life of cells is that they 
 should be capable of continuous change, motion. In the 
 language of science, "capable of undergoing a process 
 ot change in continuous adjustment with their sur- 
 roundings." 
 
 In the healthy organism every part is in a state 
 ot constant Jliu, continuous change. Anything that 
 mterferes with thi« process causes obstruction, disease 
 in the channel in which the obstruction exists, dynamic' 
 chemical, mechanical. 
 
 The presence of the element Nitrogen in a compound 
 lessens the affinity of that compound for oxygen 
 
 The effects of the presence of the nitrogenous 
 compounds, in the form of urates, in the system is 
 to lessen oxidation, to interfere with the life of the 
 cells through lessening their ability to maintain "a 
 process of change in continuous adjustment with their 
 surroundings." 
 
 The tissues and organs affected depend upon the 
 chemical reaction of the nutrient matter of the cells, 
 
 THE TIDES OF THE CELLS. 
 
 During the oxygen tide the urates are retained 
 within the tissues and organs, and the blood is com- 
 paratively free from them. During the cwrhon tide the 
 
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 urates are re-dissolved, washed (Jut of the tissues and 
 appear in the blood current in their passage from the 
 tissues to the various outlets of the body. The blood 
 in this tide contains a (quantity of the products of tissue 
 degeneration in the form of urates in [)roportion to the 
 amount previously stored and the activity of the 
 various vital processes within the body. 
 
 The nature of tlie food determines, in a great 
 measure, the character of the tides, and. through them, 
 of the solubility of the urates, and thus their presence 
 whether within the cells and tissues, or within the 
 channels of the body. 
 
 A clear distinction must be made between the two. 
 Chemical processes within the channels of the body do 
 not differ from those without. Within the living cells, 
 however, there is no chemistry ; between the vital 
 principle of the cells and the chemical processes going 
 on without there can be no affinity. 
 
 Animal tlesh and acid substances generally prpcipitate 
 the urates within the tissues, increasing their retention 
 within the system. 
 
 Grains and most vegetable substances increase the 
 solubility of the urates and thus favor their elimination. 
 Heat and cold exert a powerful influence over the 
 tides, and, through them, over the retention or elimina- 
 tion of wates. 
 
 By means of heat they are drawn from the tissues 
 into the blood current, and through the agency of cold 
 they may be directed to any of the outlets of the body 
 
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 that may be considered the iiiOHt suitable for their 
 elimination in each particular case, thus giving to 
 Hydroimtky a precision which, heretofore, has been 
 wanting. 
 
 Food and temperature have an important bearing 
 upon the tides of the individuals composing a nation, 
 and thus largely control the character of the diseases of 
 a nation. ^ 
 
 The Englishman, with his diet of butchers' meat and 
 acid drinks, in the form of coffee, wines and malt 
 liquors, keeps his system in a state of constant hyper- 
 acidity, tlius storing up urates until the tissues become 
 saturated. How long a time is required to accomplish 
 this depends ujjon the quantity introduced from 
 without and the amount nianiif<u i nred from within. 
 The latter depends, in a -leat measure, upon the 
 temperament. In the vital, tissue change, and the 
 production of urates, is more rapid than in the nervous 
 or motive temperament. 
 
 When the accumulation reaches near the saturation 
 point, the future progress will depend upon the 
 individual and his environment. 
 
 (a) In persons past middle life, of regular habits 
 and who have been storing up urates slowly but 
 regularly for a number of years, there is less likelihoctd 
 of their having had any acute illness to favor elimina- 
 tion. These are the most dangerous cases. After 
 sudden exertion, passion, excitement or rise in 
 temperature, tiie urates arc dissolved out of the tissues 
 
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 into the blood current in quantities, to be precipitated, 
 perhaps, in some vital part, causing sudden death, 
 or the onset of a severe attack of some form of acute 
 illness. 
 
 The number of sudden deaths is, from this cause, 
 notably increased during the winter months when mild 
 weather is followed by a sudden fall of temperature. 
 
 In children and robust adults the effects are mani- 
 fested in acute and infectious forms of disease, the 
 blood during the carbon tide offering a suitable soil for 
 the multiplication and development of micro-organisms. 
 
 (b) The urates on becoming soluble by heat or other- 
 wise are carried to one or other of the different 
 phannels of elimination, as the lungs, for example, 
 in such quantities that they cause irritation, which, if 
 allowed to continue, end in disease and destruction 
 of these organs. 
 
 If there is no special attraction to a particular 
 part of the body, through local irritation or hereditary 
 weakness, they may become deposited in these tissues 
 or organs where the circulation is most sluggish, as 
 sand is deposited in those parts of the stream where 
 there is the least current. For example, in organs that 
 were once active but where function has practically 
 ceased. 
 
 The rapidity of progress of the disease in these cases 
 is in proportion to the quantity of urates previously 
 stored in the tissues, the conditions favoring their 
 
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 solubility and the inherent vitality of the parts 
 affected. 
 
 (c) The quantity of urates in the system at one time 
 may never reach a point sufificient to cause local 
 disease, but simply a general disturbance. Such indi- 
 viduals live on an ever varying plane of health, not 
 knowing one day nor hour what they will be like tbp 
 next. This intermitting elimination of urates prevents 
 accumulation beyond a certain point. These are the 
 most favorable cases ; " creaking doors often wear the 
 longest." 
 
 Among the inhabitants df hot countries, as the 
 Hindoo, for example, with a diet of rice and rancid 
 butter, the production of urates from within is greater 
 in proportion than their introduction from without. 
 The nature of the diet and the hign temperature tends 
 to prolong and intensify the carbon tide, the blood 
 containing an excess of waste matter, the products 
 of tissue degeneration, offers a suitable soil for the 
 spread of zymotic or fomentable diseases. The plague, 
 for example, which would be impossible with a more 
 acid condition of the system, or a colder climate. 
 
 The rheumatic and gouty condition of the Englishman, 
 from retention and precipitation of urates, finds its 
 counter part in the Hindoo in the formation of calculi 
 through the presence of the products of tissue 
 degeneration in excess in the secretions. 
 
 In proportion as the flow of vital force through the 
 amereut channels is obstructed, the resolution of the 
 
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 structures entering into the formation of these channels 
 back into their primary elements, decomposition com- 
 mences. It may be local, affecting only a few cells, or 
 It may be general, affecting the whole structure ;' in 
 either case, it is failure to maintain a process of change 
 in continuous adjustment with its surroundings— <?e<?/l 
 Nature, to accomplish her purpose of resolving all 
 organic compounds back to their simple elements with 
 the least possible delay, after life has become extinct, 
 sends her scavengers, in the form of micro-organisms to 
 accomplish the worlc. These micro-organisms are 
 skilled workmen specialized, specks, according to the 
 work they have to perform. Ever present, yet confined 
 withm boundaries which they cannot pass, from the 
 dead to the living tissues ; unless, by their numbers 
 and the poisonous products resulting from their debris, 
 they may destroy the healthy tissues with which they 
 are in constant contact, then these, in their turn 
 become food for them, and thus they may extend their 
 field of labor from a small beginning until the whole 
 organism has become invaded. 
 
 Animal flesh, fish and fowl, anything that has once 
 possessed animal life, but which has become extinct, is 
 teeming with myriads of micro-organisms, doing their 
 best to resolve the putrefactive, poisonous matter back 
 to its simple innocuous elements. 
 
 That a Christian nation can make this seething mass 
 of corruption a food shows to what extent the human 
 mind can be debased by custom and appetite. 
 
 
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 -death. 
 
 Leading medical and scientific persons in all coun- 
 tries are recognizing the dangers of introducing 
 putrefactive animal flesh into the human organism, and 
 are raising a warning voice against it, as a few 
 quotations will show : — 
 
 " It is a vulgar error to regard meat in any form as 
 necessary to life. All that is necessary to the human 
 body can be supplied by the vegetable kingdom." -'" 
 
 Sir H. Thompson, M.D., F.RC.^:;. 
 " Every element, vhether mineral or organic, which 
 is required ir trition is found in the vegetable 
 kingdom." i!.DWARD Smith, M.B., F.E.S., LL.B. 
 
 " Animal diet is not essential to man." 
 
 Lord Playfair, M.D., C.B. 
 " One-fifth of the total amount of meat consumed is 
 derived from animals killed in a state of malignant or 
 chronic disease."— Professor Gamzie, Fifth Report to 
 the Privy Council. 
 
 "Tubercular phthisis, so prevalent in England, 
 appears to be due to the excessive use of animal food, 
 and when there is a tendency to consumption in the 
 young, it should be counteracted by strictly adhering 
 to a diet of the farinacea and ripe fruits." 
 
 Dr. Buchan. 
 " All the bloodshed caused by the warlike disposition 
 of Napoleon is as nothing compared to the myriads 
 of persons loho have sunk into their graves throiigh a 
 misplaced confidence in the value ofheeftea." 
 
 Dr. Milner Fothergill. 
 
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 " In our Hospitals and public institutions, where the 
 physicians of the present day get their knowledge 
 of dietetics, a broth diet is considered the proper food 
 for those who are too ill to keep body and soul together 
 upon a /?^// diet."* 
 
 " The administration of flesh food, beef tea, or animal 
 broths of any sort, in cases of diphtheria and scarlet 
 fever, is practically equivalent to administering a dose 
 ^^ P^^««"" J. H. Kellogg, M.D. 
 
 "Animal meat may directly engender many painful 
 and loathsome diseases. Scrofula itself, that fecund 
 source of suffering and death, not improbably owes its 
 origm to flesh eating habits. It is a curious fact that 
 the word ' scrofula' is derived from ' scrofa,' a sow 
 To say that one has scrofula is to say that he has 
 swines evil." jy^ ^ Kingsford. 
 
 '•' The public do not know it, but it is none the less a 
 fact, that scrofula has come to be a household disease 
 in the United States." James C. Jackson, M.D. 
 
 " The future is with the vegetarians." 
 
 Professor Virchow. 
 
 c. The slaughtering of animals retards man's spiritual 
 progress. 
 
 In nature everythin g proceeds from a lower to a 
 
 *From some Observations upon the Nature, Symptoms and 
 Triatment of the Pre-Tubercular Stage of Pulmonary Con- 
 sumption by the wnter in The Canada Medical Record of July, 
 
inhere the 
 
 Qowledge 
 
 3per food 
 
 together 
 
 r animal 
 3 scarlet 
 ig a dose 
 ,M.D. 
 
 J painful 
 '• fecund 
 owes its 
 Pact that 
 ,' a sow. 
 i he has 
 
 5F0RD. 
 
 le less a 
 disease 
 M.D. 
 
 :)How. 
 ipiritual 
 
 er to a 
 
 rOMS AND 
 IRV CON- 
 > of July, 
 
 • 
 
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 higher order. Nothing exists for itself alone, but for 
 something above and superior to itself. 
 
 " Nothing walks with aimless feet." Every kingdom 
 is a generator of force by which conditions are evolved 
 on the lower plane, admitting the manifestation of the 
 Universal on a higher plane from below. 
 
 The mineral kingdom exists, not for itself, but for 
 the kingdom above it. ^ 
 
 The vegetable kingdom exists, not for itself; its 
 object is something higher. 
 
 In the animal kingdom the same order exists 
 throughout, from the mollusk to the mammal. 
 
 Existence of a hisfher species is impossible without 
 the force evolved from the one immediately below. 
 Man did not appear upon the earth until sufficient 
 force had been evolved through the animal kingdom to 
 make his existence possible; and in proportion as 
 he destroys animal life on the plane below him, he cuts 
 off the power that evolves conditions through which he 
 is able to reach a higher plane. 
 
 " Kill not— for Pity's sake— and lest ye slay 
 The meanest thing upon its upward way." 
 
 BODD.-JA. 
 
 " TJiey shall not hurt 7wr destroy in all my holy 
 mountain, for the earth shall, be full of the knmvledge of 
 the Lord as the waters cover the sea.'' 
 
 The two cannot co-exist, a knowledge of ihe Creator 
 and the wilful destruction of His creatures. 
 
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 The drink of a nation is second only in importance to 
 its food. 
 
 The character of the latter determines the former. 
 A nation consuming a large amount of animal .esh 
 must have a drink-poscming anmsthetic properties 
 
 The necessity of this is easily shown. In addition to 
 the products of tissue degeneration in the form of 
 nitrogenous compounds, wra^es, and th^ micro-organisms 
 present m all decomposing animal flesh, there are other 
 irritating and noxious compounds formed in the tissues 
 of all sentient creatures when under the influence of 
 fear. Together these form a trinity, to which the vital 
 principle of the cells offer a measure of resistance- 
 disease, in proportion to its vigor when presented with 
 this compound, consisting of the debris of tissue 
 degeneration, micro-organisms and other products of 
 putrefaction in the form of hUchers' meat, as material 
 for the manufacture of bioplasm for the renewal and 
 growth tissues and jrgans of the human organism 
 
 This condition of irritation, this sense of ^is-ease 
 ever present with the consumer of animal flesh when 
 not under its immediate stimulating influence, impera- 
 tively calls for something to give relief, something 
 of an anmsthetic nature. 
 
 Tea, coffee, tobacco and liquor possess this property 
 in common, increasing in degree in the order named 
 
 Observations show that their consumption by a 
 nation is in proportion to its consumption of butchers' 
 meat. 
 
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 In England more than one thousand sentient 
 creatures are hourly slaughtered for the sole object of 
 having their carcasses buried in the " stoniatic 
 sepulchres" of men and women constituting a Christian 
 nation, and who, to stifle the rebellion of outraged 
 nature against such practice, consume annually 25,000 
 tons of tobacco, and has a National Drink Bill equal to 
 about £4 per head of the whole population. 
 
 From the slaughter of the animal to the slaughter- of 
 the human is biit a step. After nineteen centuries of 
 Christianity it requires an annual expenditure of 
 £140,000,000 upon Standing Armies to prevent Inter- 
 national Butchery. 
 
 The United States, as a nation, lead all other nations 
 on earth in the consumption of swines' flesh, and in 
 tobacco clmoing, while statistics show their consumption 
 of liquor for a single twelve months amounted to 
 $1,080,000,000. 
 
 If the prevalence of scrofula among the individuals 
 composing a nation is in proportion to their con- 
 sumption of swines' flesh, and the prevalence of crime in 
 proportion to their consumption of liquor, what must 
 the harvest be ? 
 
 The average "New Woman" can talk glibly of the 
 best method of conducting anti-liquor campaigns, of 
 how best to convert her neighbor's brother, husband or 
 father, but ask her what she would provide for her 
 own family dinner to replace putrefactive animal flesh 
 and she is silent, and this in Taee of the fact that 
 
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 throtigh vegetarianism lies the solution of the Ihuor 
 'problem. 
 
 The ancesthetic action of tea and coffee, like tobacco 
 and alcohol, are due to their hardening effects upon the 
 tissues, not all of which are equally affected. The 
 higher nerve centres are the first to suffer. Tea and 
 coffee drinking parents may look forward, with a fair 
 degree of certainty, to weak or defective eyesight in 
 their offspring. 
 
 Of the causes that mechanically obstruct the flow of 
 force through the different channels of the body, drugs 
 may be taken as «, type. 
 
 Throughout all nature force is diial in its operation 
 upon matter, positive and negative, attractive and 
 repulsive, resulting in contraction and subsequent 
 recoil or relaxation, wave motion. Within the animal 
 body from the most important complex organs, as the 
 heart and brain, down to the individual cell, all life, all 
 motion is dependent upon contraction, followed by 
 subsequent recoil or relaxation — ivave motion. 
 
 In a state of health the vital force flows through the 
 different channels with the least possible fiiction of 
 the media, each channel receiving its due proportion ; 
 contraction and relaxation are equal, and the different 
 vital processes throughout the body are at an equili- 
 brium. Health is equilibrium of motion. 
 
 In disease there is disturbance in the equilibrium of 
 force operating thi ugh the different channels, a 
 disturbance in the equilibrium of motion. 
 
 
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 These facts give a basis for a natural system of 
 prevention and cure of disease, which, being Truth is 
 " ^7"^^^ "P«n a rock." and is not, therefore, the 
 exclusive possession of any school or sect, but free 
 as the air we breathe. 
 
 The cell tissues and organs of the human body, 
 as material substances, are governed by the same 
 Vhysical laws as those governing any other forms of 
 matter. 
 
 Force on the physical plane being always diml, to 
 every action there is an equal and contrary re-action. 
 Foreigii matter, driujs, for example, within the body 
 obeys the same physical laws as regards relationship to 
 the material structures of the body as governs the 
 relation of matter without. 
 
 The globules of mercury, for example, would remain 
 m contact with the cells of the liver until some 
 disturbing force changed their relationship, then there 
 would be motion in the line of the least resistance. 
 
 Within the human body there is a force external and 
 above that governing the relationship o^ matter on the 
 physical plane, this is vital force. Upon this force 
 there can be no dual action. There is no relationship 
 between vitality and drugs. 
 
 The " vital principle" of the cells, the " breath of life," 
 is above and beyond the influence of dnig medication. 
 
 Action and re-action between the cells, tissues and 
 organs of the body and foreign matter, drugs, for 
 example, being equal and in opposite directions, what- 
 
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 ever manifestdtion of force there is in response to the ' 
 prrsence of the foreign matter, drugs, it must come 
 from oitahty; therefore, every drug taken into the 
 body is a poi,son and exhausts the vital energy of 
 the channel through which if operates directly Is its 
 quantity and inversely as its specific gravity. 
 
 The law of Association of Ideas is one of the 
 strongest operating upon the mental faculties. 
 
 The belief that man can find absolution from the 
 effects of transgression of the physical law— physical 
 sm— disease, through " vicarious substitution," in the 
 form of drug mejiication, is an offspring of the parent 
 belief in man's absolution from the effects of trans- 
 gression of the spiritual law— spiritual sin— through 
 " vicarious atonement." 
 
 Neither belief has its foundation upon the rock of 
 Truth. 
 
 Man after reaching a plane of knowledge beyond 
 which it requires increased effort to progress, to obtain 
 broader views of Truth, instead of putting forth that 
 effort, more often attaches himself to those who have 
 already found a resting place upon the same plane To 
 this fact the different "schools" and "sects" in Medicine 
 and in Theology owe their origin and existence. 
 
 Of the divergent schools composing the body of 
 the medical profession of to-day, which is loithout a 
 Imd, the "Eegular" and the "Homeopathic" may be 
 selected as the extremes, within which all the others 
 are embraced. 
 

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 In disease when a drug is given which causes an 
 obstruction in a different channel of the body from the 
 one obstructed by the foreign matter, the effect of 
 which IS not to remove the obstruction from the body 
 to cure the disease, but to change its form, to direct it 
 into new channels, then the drug is given upon the 
 principles governing the "Regular" school, whose 
 watchword is " contrari contrariis mrantur." 
 
 When a drug is for the purpose of causing a 
 disturbance in the same channel of the body as that 
 already obstructed by the foreign matter, the effects of 
 which IS not to remove the obstruction, to cure the 
 disease, but to add more foreign matter, to still further 
 tax the vitality of the patient, then the drug is given 
 upon the principle governing the "Homeopathic" school 
 whose watchword is " similia similihus curantur." 
 
 For the past century the members of the " Regular" 
 and the " Homeopathic" schools have worked side by 
 side, having a common object, the prevention and cure 
 of disease, but instead of obeying the command of the 
 Great Healer, to "love one another," they have had 
 nothing in common beyond their object, each a " doer 
 in the manger,", standing guard over the principles 
 ot his school, of which he understands as little as in the 
 case of the proverbial dog. A mfire ludicrous, a more 
 humiliating position for members of a learned profession 
 to occupy, history has never l)efore, nor will probably 
 ever again, have occasion to record. When the truth 
 
 about " drncr Tnprlinnt.ifm" ic ---,-. i > , 
 
 — J3 „i««itawon lb uiicc grasped oy the 
 
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 profession and, the public, when it is once clearly 
 understood that there is no affinity, and can be none 
 betweea vitality and driigs, that, within the body' 
 drugs are always, and. under all conditions, foreign 
 matter and exhaust the vital forces in proportion to 
 their quantity and divvtahility ; then it will be recog- 
 mzed that for transgression of the physical law-- 
 physical sin-the punishment of which is disease, there 
 is no absolution through " drug medication." 
 
 "Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse ; 
 Clear minds, clean bodies, need no Soma juice." 
 
 Buddha. 
 " Whatsover a man soweth that shall he also reap." 
 
 Is it a matter of surprise that a profession having for 
 Its object the preservation of health and the cure of 
 disease and having for its methods putrefactive anvnial 
 nesh, liqum and dru^s, should be under a cloud— 
 dissensions and jealousy from within— distrust from 
 without-while the Grim Destroyer stalks unmolested 
 throughout the land ? 
 
 End of Part II. 
 

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