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THE EVOLUTION 
 
 OF 
 
 PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL 
 SCIENCE 
 
 IN A 
 
 NATURAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE, 
 
 vs. 
 
 THE THEORIES AND FALLACIES 
 
 i >i 
 
 POPULAR MEDICINE 
 
 J. I). Stillman, M. D. 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 1893 
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 Copyrighted 1893 by J. D. Siillman 
 
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 TO 
 
 DAVID JEWETT MOODY, 
 
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 A FK..ND 01 ,; ARS WHOSE RARE - I MAY SAV HEROIC - INDEPENDENT 
 
 HARACTER CHEERED AND INSPIRED, AND WHOSE 
 CLEAR JUDGMENT MATERIALLY 
 AIDED MY LABOR. 
 
The Basis of Medical Science. 
 
 The phenomena of progress is a subject of great interest to 
 the philanthropist, especially from the fact that in all ages there 
 has been manifested a spirit of opposition against all changes 
 that tend to disturb institutions that have been the growth of 
 centuries. 
 
 The pioneers of knowledge have always been forced to meet 
 this opposition in the form of intolerance which greatly prevented 
 the opportunities for the advance of truth. 
 
 Authoritative bigotry and selfishness have ruled mankind 
 with an iron rod that has perpetuated a mental slavery which has 
 kept the world in ignorance and chains. 
 
 The struggles of philosophy against assumptions have ex- 
 posed its devotees to a relentless warfare of ignoble passion that 
 has caused them to become martyrs to the truths of science in 
 every age. Socrates, in the philosophy of reason, Christ, in the 
 philosophy of religion and Copernicus in the philosophy of the 
 laws of the universe have each felt what every pioneer of new 
 truths have suffered from the tyranical persecutions of perverted 
 selfishness and passion in the name of authority and law. They 
 maintained a devoted heroism against public opinion, and torture 
 both mental and physical, because they were noble in natures 
 that were conscious that life was a failure if it did not subserve 
 the great end of existence to put truth forward as the most valu- 
 able means of progress and happiness. They trusted to a pro- 
 gressive illumination of the mind to overcome the stratified pre- 
 judice of centuries that would bring to their followers trophies of 
 
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 victory over ignorance, selfishness and passion. Since the spirit 
 of liberty has developed science in the world, the intellectual 
 conceptions have become so enlarged that progressive tolerance 
 has been the result. 
 
 The freedom of the press and speech have aroused an in- 
 terest in a great variety ot subjects that had heretofore escaped 
 tigation. With this onward march of progress the fields are 
 constantly opening for the advance of new ideas through the 
 anal) tical progress of science which is producing utilizing changes 
 in the world. Political economy is chiefly nourished as a neces 
 growth among free institutions and republican forms of 
 rnment, to institute laws that will meet the demands of the 
 human nature and elevate the aspirations for the welfare and 
 ppiness of mankind. 
 Sociologists are working out the problems of society to 
 unify the race by equalizing the blessings of production, to des- 
 troy those class distinctions that create the spirit of opposition 
 ami restlessness in the passionate elements of human nature 
 which prevent contentment and peace. 
 
 Education is giving a larger culture to the whole nature 
 that is more practical and benencient to society. 
 
 Religion is less fettered with authoritative restraints that 
 corrupted pure principles, and hindered ethical influences 
 renovating the evils of society and establishing the sanctity 
 oi noble amis and pure purposes in every department of life. 
 
 M< ( nanism and the arts have advanced from the discoveries 
 
 • that have evolved a greater manifestation of the powers 
 
 th.it tend to Utility and improvement. The antiseptic 
 
 : modern chemistry have produced rapid strides in 
 
 ss. 
 
 with the view to make medicine more certain and suc- 
 
 ling m a revolution of its principles and precedents 
 
 following presentation of the methods that 
 
 nee ami nature demand to place it upon a dignified and en- 
 
during basis where no failures are necessary in the treatment of 
 disease. 
 
 Science works destructive havoc with old systems ; it grad- 
 ually honeycombs their structures and undermines their founda- 
 tions until they sooner or later fall, though their ruins may be 
 preserved as the relics of antiquated ignorance. But the icono- 
 clastic axe must be sharp and powerful blows become necessary 
 to level the giant oaks of prejudice against the innovations of 
 progress which science always institutes in correcting the errors 
 of the past. From science in medicine we must expect destruc- 
 tive changes, for it has in other arts banished old methods into 
 forgetfulness for new methods, so it will be in the art of healing 
 the sick. 
 
 The coach and four has yielded to the locomotive which is 
 destined to yield to the electric motor. Oil lamps yielded to gas, 
 as gas is now yielding to electrical illumination. 
 
 The machinery of the world is becoming more perfect from 
 year to year, while the rubbish of old inventions are rusting to 
 give place to the new, that are the results of the onward march 
 of science. 
 
 New Inventions of Natural and Certain Remedies are necessary 
 in medicine to keep it abreast with the age of improvement, 
 otherwise the discoveries in cellular pathology in ptomaines and 
 bacteria will be of no practical importance and no wonderful 
 success will be achieved. 
 
 The Theory Of Medicine that disease like error should be 
 combatted by penal measures dissipates the more rational phil- 
 osophy of overcoming evil with good. All disease is only a de- 
 parture from nature's inherent laws of rectitude ; but that de- 
 monical idealization of them as evil spirits to be banished, was 
 a primitive ideal starting point in medicine that has produced 
 untold mischief, as it has its following in the use of poisons as a 
 combative construction, that they destroy the evil spirit of dis- 
 ease in the body. 
 
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 The Enlightened Reason of Science gives us an enlarged and 
 
 definite conception of the forces of nature, intelligence and life ! 
 that is a light which dissipates the old vagaries of ignorant dark- 
 ness that cloud the understanding of those who cling to the un- 
 solvable mysteries of virtue in poisons and severe medicine. 
 
 As difficult as it may be to overcome the prestige of time 
 honored precedents and the medical literature of false instruction 
 founded upon them, especially among those maintaining a pride 
 and selfish interest in the curriculum of the medical colleges, yet 
 this fact is presented to the intelligent investigator that science 
 is leading every thoughtful and intelligent physician farther and 
 farther from the dogmas of the past into new paths that lead to 
 nature, which are comparatively more numerous than those 
 already known. 
 
 To the Ardent Lover of Mankind the aspect is joyful that the 
 gloom and despondency of suffering is yet to be exchanged for 
 a cheerful hope in that progress of natural medicine which will 
 banish from the word the sorrows of disease by administering 
 such a reconstructing aid to nature that all may be able to escape 
 from the progressive evils and devastations of poisons from within 
 and from medicines. 
 
 Science is Expanding the Intellect to seek new methods of 
 
 ration into the heretofore hidden processes of life, and to 
 
 powerful natural agencies that are available to increase vital 
 
 v and to remove the obstructions that produce disease 
 
 wIik h are in accord with the laws of helpfulness to every instinct 
 
 of Life which are wonderful in their effects. 
 
 In the presentation of the principles and demonstrations of 
 
 exact we have no use for the general literature as all 
 
 : ies point to the significant fact that all heal- 
 
 ults from the forces that are evolved by changes 
 
 thai take pla< <• in the matter. 
 
 The Conclusion is Inevitable that the human system must be 
 .1 natural chemical laboratory where all changes 
 
are controlled by the laws that pertain generally to the compli- 
 cated elements of which the matter of the body is composed. 
 The salts of the soil become the salts of the system which are 
 modified by the elements in air and water, all of which are sus- 
 tenance that connects life with the inorganic world. 
 
 The Solution Of Life or a healthy activity of all its func- 
 tions is the supreme problem for the scientific physician to solve. 
 It involves the consideration of all the forces that are produced 
 in the changes of matter upon which development and health 
 are dependent. Science alone can give us that knowledge that 
 will be philosophical and reliable in raveling the mysteries of 
 health and disease, as it gives us light to invent proper medicine. 
 The machinery of life consists of those complex functional oper- 
 ations that reduce organic matter to its ultimates with their 
 most attenuated conditions of attraction and repulsion, to keep 
 up the cleansing and building forces of life. Poisons in all con- 
 ditions of attenuation awaken the defensive instinctive forces of 
 life, and the battle is often decisive against nature, especially 
 when the poisonous forces of decomposition in disease are aug- 
 mented by the poisonous forces of medicine. Then often the 
 warriors mass into legions to invade every portal and destroy the 
 armies of life as they take their citadel and raise the black flag 
 of death. 
 
 There is no More Divine Voice than the preservative instincts 
 
 that represent the harmonious will of nature, in life, and there is 
 no law more sacred than those laws that govern the consecutive 
 changes of nutrition that develop life, hence an intelligent and 
 conscientious warfare for the rights of life is a duty we owe our 
 natures that the penalties of transgression may be prevented. 
 
 Incongruous as it may seem, it is nevertheless a fact that 
 popular medical systems claim the basis of truth while they 
 depend upon theory instead of Demonstrated Facts of 
 Science. The ablest defenders of medicine do not claim that 
 it has ever possessed any real primitive basis of certainty, by 
 
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 which it mu Imitted that it was never founded upon 
 
 th< QStrations of science or the problems of life, and 
 
 re lay no claims to scientific methods. Such a delu- 
 11 () f P 1 to science, has tended to prevent bold inves- 
 
 tigations of an analytical character, that would compare the 
 lations of diseased actions and processes from their incep- 
 tion to their sequence, with the perfect condition of healthy 
 ph< in every pan oi the human system. 
 
 Medical Therapeutics depending upon the materia medica of 
 "i" J poisons have always been stumbling blocks in the 
 
 paths of inductive science, because the remedies are generally for- 
 D to the demands of the human system; hence, there could be 
 no explainable reason why one poison of medicine could be des- 
 tructive to another poison of disease, or why poisons that cause 
 a defensive over-action that always exhaust and lessen vital 
 vers as they lessen thus the sufferings by overcoming vital sen- 
 sibility, should be used by any but reckless experimenters. 
 
 Sunshine Favors Life because it is the embodiment of the at- 
 
 1 flow of the ethereal concentrated infinitesimal elements 
 
 fon <• which pass through our atmosphere from the 
 
 solar changes have prepared them for organic absorp- 
 
 ■ tricity, heat and light are life giving powers 
 
 !li '- ethereal ultimate forces of matter they represent. 
 
 The Universal Force of Life is dependent upon the atteniiative 
 
 matter that progressively develop its ethereal subtle- 
 
 LS their ultimate conditions as they enter into or- 
 
 < < 'institutions. 
 
 The Evolution of Organic Force from the changes of matter 
 
 thin the body and without, is only a link in the chain of 
 
 v - h " '' make life a necessity of favorable condi- 
 
 Hie progressive attenuative changes 
 
 motion and luat is the only basis for a 
 
 1 the problem of life, the change of solids 
 
 i into ethereal forces of 
 
life are both evolving and creative in the development of the in- 
 telligence inherent in the atoms of matter that institutes the order 
 that governs the whole universe by the laws of nature. 
 
 Evolution is the Result of the Economic Reason which is the sover- 
 eign will of the intelligence of atoms that controls all changes of 
 matter and force in life. Food, water, air and electricity are only 
 named conditions of elements of matter upon which life and in- 
 telligence are dependent as a planetary phenomena. 
 
 Food Contains the Same Elements of Power that Explosives Pos- 
 sess but by a larger range of combination they are general and 
 necessarily comprehensive and extensive in forces ; they are di- 
 versified in a powerful manner to keep up a complexity of oper- 
 ations in the human system, the sum of which may well engage 
 our reverence for the powers and the intense energy of the vital 
 forces of circulation. 
 
 Water, simply by the influence of heat, has a progressive ex- 
 pansive power, but it does not find its climax in steam, for when 
 it becomes so attenuated that it is decomposed into its oxygen and 
 hydrogen gases it demonstrates the most marvelous evolutions 
 of force. When the force resulting from gaseous changes of 
 fluids and of gaseous attenuation is generally distributed to 
 the complex operations of life, where these changes take 
 place in the operations of millions of cells in the tissues of 
 the human system in which both alterative reconstructed 
 processes are maintained, there is an inconceivable dis- 
 play of energy which makes life seem so mysterious to the 
 most educated and expanded minds. The value of water 
 becomes wonderful. It is the vehicle of the solvent elements 
 of nutrition and of waste products. Water dissolves the 
 salts of the blood that further the rapidity of change which 
 is a prime factor in the sum of the energies of life, as it is the 
 provmce of salts in explosives. Hence mineral waters are in a 
 measure beneficial and the more so as they contain such saline 
 properties as the human system requires. Restorative medicines 
 
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 are only perfect when they also contain only just such acid and 
 alkaline elements as are natural to the blood and that further 
 the attenuative changes of nutrition which produce the vital 
 forces necessary to maintain all healthy conditions. 
 
 There is no such Thing as Absolute Rest in Nature or Life, a 
 fact which should be recognized in regard to human organisms 
 as manifested by the attractive and repellent forces, the one pre- 
 paring for the needs of the body, and the other taking away use- 
 less particles of matter as debris in the workshop of life. Debris 
 must not be suffered to accumulate to hinder formative opera- 
 tions by which new life is constantly superceding the old in the 
 struggle for existence. This constant repair medical intelligence 
 should aid for the survival of all that is fittest, through the phys- 
 iological adaption of all that is required to perpetuate the high- 
 est condition of life by reconstructive medicines as well as 
 proper nutriment. 
 
 The Study Of Food which has most value and is most 
 thoroughly digested with the least tax upon the powers 
 that bring it to its highest condition of use, becomes important, 
 for the conservation ot energy is the key of success to the suc- 
 cessful physician, who should also learn that his medicines should 
 always be vitalizing and restorative, as well as alterative and ex- 
 pulsatory, that all the forces of life shall be preserved and that 
 they should only accomplish what is necessary to aid nature in 
 her legitimate natural operations to get the mastery over disease. 
 The human system prepares and appropriates nutriment for the 
 successive changes it undergoes through the several functions 
 to develop habits of action which we call vital force. This force 
 clears away the rubbish as it replenishes the store houses all 
 along the way of life up to the brain, where the perfected climax 
 of this power accumulates to control formative and alterative 
 processes, both physical and mental, called the "vis medicatrix 
 natura," through the nerves of involuntary motion and selection. 
 The preservation of this force is ihe most important work of 'ihe 
 
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 scientific physician, which requires chemical and physiological 
 skill in the adjustment of such food and medicine as fully will 
 secure this object, involving a sacred responsibility to the laws 
 that govern human life. 
 
 Alcoholic Stimulants are a class of deceptive agents which 
 physicians can no longer claim fulfills this purpose, since 
 Sir Ashley Cooper and Dr. Benjamin Richardson have 
 demonstrated that liquors paralyze the minute capillary 
 vessels that always become congested, which gradually de- 
 stroys the power they naturally possess to keep up circulation ; 
 thus stimulants impoverish and change the tissues to produce 
 disease by preventing both formative and alterative processes. 
 The use of liquors produces heat which accelerates activity by 
 the combustion of the hydro-carbon elements, this exhausts the 
 oxygen from the blood and thus checks the natural oxygenic 
 changes of life and leaves the deadly carbonic acid gas and other 
 refuse products in the system, the same as the lamp leaves the 
 deadly vapor and the lamp-black in the room where it burns. 
 These products clog the brain, the nerves and tissues of all or- 
 gans that maintain life, they reduce the normal oxygenic and 
 electrical supply of the nerves, that thus induces still more their 
 cry for aid which the deluded victim interprets must be secured 
 by renewing stimulated activity, which only leaves accumulated 
 burdens to still more increase the desire for the transient effects 
 they produce. 
 
 Alcohol is only one of the many remedies unnatural to the 
 system that produce exhaustion and abnormal appetites, simply 
 because they have only afforded palliative relief to present suf- 
 fering without restorative nourishment. 
 
 Cathartics palliate costiveness, but they tend to increase 
 habitual constipation by an overaction of nerves to produce 
 a lessening of intestinal circulation which creates a con- 
 stant demand for them from the induced intestinal inactivity 
 that is the result of their use ; opiates palliate suf- 
 
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 fering and sleeplessness but exhaustion results from their 
 use, and they are continued as a habitual expediency be- 
 cause they produce a temporary morbid excitement or sooth- 
 ing of the nervous system, opiates become more and more 
 sought for by those who well know that they finally add to the 
 suffering which follows the nervous exhaustion produced by 
 them, but they repeat and continue to repeat their use until 
 they become slaves to an unconquerable appetite which is an 
 induced necessity. 
 
 Tonics Also Increase an Activity They do not Nourish or Sus- 
 tain ; consequently they, too, induce the habit of whipping up 
 the nerves they overtax, until the nervous system by degrees 
 looses its natural activity, consequently all functions suffer from 
 this loss of power snd general debility becomes the result of the 
 protracted use, as nervous diseases become the natural conse- 
 quence. 
 
 All Specifics which are not natural or restorative, or do 
 not supply the power they increase, are vain expedients that, 
 like goads and spurs to an already jaded steed, retard the nor- 
 mal rate of the speed of action when the excitant is withdrawn, 
 which stimulates to cause exhaustion. 
 
 A Thorough Scientific Education is far more necessary for 
 the physician than for any other professional artist, as it is 
 indispensable to the progressive student of nature. It over- 
 comes the narrow contracted tendency to depend upon the 
 opinions and theories of departed and deceived genera- 
 tions, as it inclines one to pursue those analytical methods 
 of inquiry that tend to bring reasonable satisfaction for the 
 efforts to place medical science upon a demonstrative foun- 
 dation. The physician, like the accountant, should be skilled in 
 those exact methods that will enable him to present a balance 
 sheet, to prove that his credits and debits as well as his 1 
 and gains to nature, have been truly estimated. When a poison- 
 ous drug has produced obvious injurious effects, so that death 
 
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 is the manifest result, it may awaken the fear of remorse or a 
 conscientious caution in the theoretic use of poisons, but only to 
 the carefully educated analytical investigator does the consider- 
 ation avail that any remedy that benumbs, stupefies and de- 
 stroys the power of reaction in the critical stages of disease, in- 
 terposes an exceeding dangerous thrust against the jaded forces 
 of life. They are often reduced by degrees to such a low condi- 
 tion of activity that the smallest doses often terminate the feeble 
 activities that are struggling persistently to maintain life. The 
 great failure of medicine is still the same as forages past, he- 
 cause it deals chiefly with symptoms and effects, instead of the 
 main causes that exist, which are always the foundation of the 
 complex variations of disease. 
 
 Specific. medication deals with the branches and the fruits 
 instead of laying the ax at the root of the tree to remove all 
 caw es of disease from the system. Physicians are wonderfully 
 wise in cellular pathology, in the destructive action of ptomaines, 
 and study all the varieties of spores and bacteria that are pro- 
 pagated in the field of fluids and tissues, but they neglect the 
 most curative measures of purification that prevent the sources 
 of all these enemies of life in filthy fluids. They neglect the 
 study of all the complex operations and progressive processes 
 of life to the end that they should aid nature to conquer her foes 
 through the knowledge that organic science has placed within 
 their reach which is certain and effectual. They fail to analyze 
 the symptoms of diseases or to trace them to their legitimate cause, 
 that it may be removed, so that every function may be scrupulouslv 
 guarded from harm by removing all sources of evil. The body 
 has a natural tendency to purify its own fluids if the main sewer 
 is kept in an active condition of progressive expulsion so that the 
 clogging of this large channel is to be prevented if other channels 
 that empty into it are expected to be also cleansed and the work 
 of producing disease overcome. The large quantity of decom- 
 posing filth that is possible to accumulate in the intestinal tract 
 
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 should never be disregarded for not only the kidneys and skin 
 are rendered inactive by it, but also every vital organ is subject 
 to its derangements. The blood is corrupted by it as well as 
 the secretions and fluids of the whole system, they are rendered 
 turbid and tend to decomposition if a putrescent fermentation 
 of a large amount of fluids are the result of their retention from 
 some form of inactivity or constipation in some part of the 
 bowels. 
 
 When the pores of the skin have become inactive the appli- 
 cation of soap and water with brisk rubbing will restore ob- 
 structed circulation and bring a color to the surface, which is to 
 be considered, both medical and mechanical, as means important 
 to health. When the bowels become obstructed and loose ac- 
 tivity and circulation in their tissues, antiseptic, solvent, 
 strengthening cathartic fluids, with kneading and rubbing be- 
 comes quite as important to cleanse their internal surfaces. 
 They arouse obstructed circulation and thus restore muscular 
 contractile elasticity which is always imperative in securing the 
 vibratory wave motion of the foul intestinal gases downwards. 
 Decomposing gases are always offensive and poisonous to the 
 nervous sensibilities of the vital organs. They accumulate and 
 extend to the upper part of the body and the brain through the 
 channels and cavities from filth. The objection which is gener- 
 ally used against saline cathartics for this purpose, that they thin 
 the blood, is easily remedied by adding solving antiseptic and re- 
 storative agents. 
 
 Calomel Contains Great Solvent Power, because by the in- 
 ternal combinations with the chlorine of salt and the diges- 
 tive juices corrosive sublimate is the result, which is power- 
 fully antiseptic to internal filth. It is due to these two proper- 
 ties that it has been considered a powerful remedy, but it is a 
 fierce warrior because from the power that is in proportion to the 
 chlorine that combines with it to cause harm can never be known 
 
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 or controlled. Consequently when its sword is drawn the friends 
 of life as well as her foes fall in the conflict. 
 
 There is no longer any valid reason why it should be de- 
 pended upon, or used in any form on account of its alterative 
 power when its danger is so great from the constant changes it 
 is liable to undergo to make it a powerful disorganizer of natural 
 processes, as well as the tissues of every organ and of every part 
 of the human frame, because powerful and harmless solvent and 
 antiseptic agents have been discovered which are perfectly safe. 
 Their use in combination with restorative adjuvitants is only a 
 matter of chemical knowledge and enterprise to supercede so 
 dangerous an agent as mercury, which in its various forms has 
 consigned millions of human beings to years of suffering and an 
 untimely grave because it is a brutal and pitiless scavenger. 
 Cathartics that produce nausea and griping pains, irritate the 
 nerves of the intestinal tract which increases peristaltic and 
 spasmodic action of the muscles. The action is unequal from 
 the disproportion of the circulation of the blood in the several 
 portions of the bowels. 
 
 The Pressure of Constipation Benumbs, so that one portion is 
 much less sensitive than another, and suffering is greatly ag- 
 gravated thereby because the constipated portion having lost 
 contractile power resists the contractile action of the more active 
 and sensitive parts, so that spasm and pain is the inevitable con- 
 sequence. This interaction of the sensitive nerves produces their 
 exhaustion and lessens their power, so that the more such cathar- 
 tics are used the less normal is the sensitive activity of natural 
 contractile expulsion, hence such cathartics generally in form 
 of pills increase constipation, by reducing general peristaltic 
 power of riiotion. 
 
 This Liability to Unequal Action Applies to all Specifics that by ex- 
 citation act upon the nerves especially to tonics which make 
 them uncertain, illusive and distrustful when general contractile 
 action is not secured by them from exhausting opposing condi- 
 
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 tions. They are in general irritating poisons in large doses, 
 but they are graduated in medicinal use to the general 
 repellant power of nature to so resist t/ie?n as not to produce 
 severe poisonous effects, but the repellent forces of nature vary 
 so much in disease, that a lamentable advantage is often in 
 favor of their poisonous effects when the resisting instincts 
 of vital preservative organic power are so feeble as to cause 
 them to surrender to the poisonous death dealing power 
 specifics possess, which make them so often unavailing, unre- 
 liable and dangerous, to demonstrate the evils of specific medi- 
 cation to which the medical profession are wedded. 
 
 The Rate Of all Vital Forces is proportionate to the perfection 
 of the attenuative changes of nutrient matter, and the free 
 exit of morbid products and are correlative and fixed by 
 natural organic conditions, consequently whatever remedy 
 interferes with the normal rate of one organic activity 
 disturbs the equilibrum of all other natural forces the same 
 as disease. Narcotics and nervines not only tamper with the 
 blood the nervous fluid and through both with the general pro- 
 cess of life, but they stealthily creep up to the throne of life, the 
 brain, and put an illegal injunction upon its governing powers, 
 they are seditious enemies and are treasonable in their attempts 
 to usurp the government of the forces of life. The hypodermic 
 use of narcotic poisons makes possible a bold assault of these 
 reckless enemies of life as they engage in a hand to hand en- 
 counter in strong holds within the walls of the ramparts of life 
 the heart and brain. The direct introduction of either foreign 
 or poisonous agents into the blood is a reckless compounding 
 of a felony against the rights of industrious life. This modern 
 infatuation is, however, likely to continue because it is a quick 
 way of silencing the cry of injured nerves through pain, but its 
 secondary results will be continuedly apparent in the shattered 
 nervous wrecks, heart and brain failures, as they often produce 
 suicidal insanity and sudden deaths. These heart and brain 
 
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 failures are in reality blood failures because they cause the blood 
 to be inadequate in power to support the circulation and the ner- 
 vous system the twin brothers of life. When physicians learn 
 to remove the causes that produce pain as quickly as they now 
 remove the pain, they may discontinue a practice that is fraught 
 with great mischief and then only will they become convinced 
 that the blood is not a random stream without inherent power 
 and organic intelligence to fulfill its mission if it is only supplied 
 with its natural elements and forces through its natural source, 
 organic nutrition. There is no possible chance for the use of 
 science in an art unless it is some imitative representation of 
 nature, hence the art of medicine will never become a science 
 until it furnishes a ground work of practice which is a helpful 
 imitation of nature to increase the powers of aggregation and 
 segregation. They are the attractive and repellent forces of 
 life, the one getting rid of the cause of disease and the other 
 maintaining the nourishment of the tissues as it gives force to 
 the circulation. 
 
 Natural Medicine Must Therefore be Both Alterative and Restorative 
 in order to fulfill the demand of disease for expulsatory as well 
 as recuperative action, which have both become dormant in the 
 system. The blood becomes foul and vitiated from all the im- 
 purities that are retained as morbific agents in every part of the 
 system. It is also dependent upon the forces, of aggregation, 
 segregation and vitality, but all blood medicines have little ser- 
 vice if the intestinal tract is in a sluggish condition of activity 
 because there is a continual cause in the vapors of decomposing 
 internal filth that permeate every fluid and tissue which neces- 
 sarily saturate the blood with its foul emanations, to take the 
 place of its life giving qualities. 
 
 As Every Atom of Organic Matter is necessarily possessed of 
 force which has some relation to life, it is evident that the quality 
 of health which is only another term for physical and mental vigor 
 is dependent upon a supply of those elements of forces through 
 
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 either nutrition or medicine which are sufficient to maintain a 
 given standard, but it is also evident that the general increase 
 in the variety of those elements affords the opportunity of raising 
 the standards of vigor to a satisfactory degree. 
 
 The world is overflowing in the sources of life, but the human 
 being has been limited in his opportunities to make them avail- 
 able for progressive elevation. The vegetable goes down into 
 the soil and gathers what elements are found in its fluids and 
 reaches up into the air for subtle properties; they are stored 
 away in animal food, and represent only limited supplies from 
 the storehouse of nature. The elevation of physical and men- 
 tal conditions to the grandest pinnacle of human development 
 depends upon the sources of life which science must bring 
 forth from nature in the elaboration of its forces which are com- 
 paratively latent in matter. Electricity remained for ages wait- 
 ing for science to display its powers and utilize their adaptation. 
 The progress of life has been slow through the natural changes 
 of nature, waiting for the wand of the chemist and philosopher 
 to enlarge the measure of its activities in more perfected ad- 
 vancement of the human race. Franklin was at first considered 
 a daring sacrilegious adventurer when he sent his kite into the 
 clouds for electricity ; now scientists are encouraged to reach 
 for it in every direction and to manipulate its forces to every pos- 
 sible advantage. Life is still shrouded in the mysterious clouds 
 of ignorance, and it is considered as such a sacred phenom- 
 ena, that the attempt to solve its relation to nature is regarded 
 as visionary and impious, so that the processes of cellular activity 
 are comparatively disregarded as though they were dominated by 
 an unfathomable energy superimposed upon the operations of 
 life. Such physicians forget that there are no organic forces 
 and no physical energies that are not in nature causatively 
 developed and sustained by the changes in the aggregative and 
 segregative operations of cellular action wholly dependent upon 
 the elements that are necessary to life. It is the province of 
 
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 science to rescue the human race from degeneration and supp.y 
 the sources of vitality necessary to lift it into those superior 
 conditions which are imperious to the stages of progress and 
 development. For generations poisons to the body in the form 
 of unnatural agents as medicine have all dominated its deter- 
 iorating conditions of activity, infected mental processes and 
 superimposed the uncertain fictions of imagination to debase 
 the natural order of reason in the human mind and prevent 
 the superior intuitive development of the mental and moral 
 faculties that have been divorced to place all aspirations under 
 the dogmatic sway of superstition. 
 
 Improved Nutrition and Improved Medicine rest upon the same 
 basis, to afford the greatest aid to nature, with the least ex- 
 pense of energy in its appropriation, hence medicines that are 
 always powerful for good and that never produce unpleasant 
 sensations or effects but improve in every direction and at all 
 times, must contain the elements natural to the blood and neces- 
 sarily are complex but natural preparations that simulate the 
 blood in composition and hold the forces that are in harmony 
 with the forces of the system that elevates the activities of 
 health. The change to the use of such medicine involves a re- 
 formation more important to the welfare of mankind than any 
 movement that has been made for centuries, because they insure 
 a great change in the condition of mankind ; they prevent dis- 
 ease and create the opportunities for improving the physical 
 condition of the race. The}- prevent suffering and thus do away 
 with the restless incentives to seek stimulants which so inflame 
 the passions so that crime is the consequence. 
 
 Death Always Lurks in Poisons, and their presence in the 
 household casts a shadow over the brightest and most cheerful 
 faces around the family fireside. But medicines that aid nature 
 are like cheerful friends and guardian angels, they induce the 
 gladdening sunshine of joy from the radiant glow of health; they 
 
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 produce and bring gratitude that beams in the sparkling eyes of 
 those who have been freed from the slavery of disease and 
 of poisons by their use, who always desire to extend their 
 utility. They banish largely the misery that is the result of 
 phyical suffering, and bring expectant joy in the hope 
 of health. There is no visible evidence of suffering or moral 
 turpitude in the natural world. Order, harmony and utility 
 characterize the elements in the display of the forces of vegeta- 
 tion and animated existence. 
 
 The joyful satisfaction of health exhibits the cheerful at- 
 tractions and play of all atoms in their upward tendencies from 
 the inorganic to the organic, physical and mental developments 
 of evolution. 
 
 The generation of extensive and complex forces of activity 
 in man make his organism delicate and sensitive and therefore 
 subject him to constant strains from the violation of both physi- 
 cal and mental laws. 
 
 These laws increase in a multiplied variety as the race ad- 
 vances from animality to high intellectual conditions of progress, 
 consequently increased knowledge imposes increased responsi- 
 bility to the advanced laws of activity that intellectuality estab- 
 lishes in the physical constitution. The more complicated and 
 extensive the changes of atoms the more liable to a perturbed 
 distress if the laws of their harmonious activity are violated 
 which induces an increased morbid activity of body and mind 
 as the natural consequence, hence the sensitive and emotional 
 nature affected by climate and barometrical conditions 
 is susceptible to irresponsibility, accident and crime as 
 an epidemic phenomena of nervousness. It is only through 
 the highest grades of satisfaction resulting from a perfect 
 physical existence (but which is seldom attained) that we 
 may expect the conscious realization of the great value of 
 human life. Riches, honor and the fruitions of aspiration and 
 bring only the shadows of blessings to the sickly, weak, 
 
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 diseased or wrecked condition. They bring an increased de- 
 gree of happiness in proportion to the perfection of physical 
 and mental vigor that may be obtained by natural curatives. 
 
 Often the fervid desires or expectations of happiness are 
 turned into dispiriting sorrow, only because men and women 
 have failed to learn that the success of pleasure, as perfect en- 
 joyment, depended upon a healthy condition of the body, as a 
 necessity to an untrammeled flow of the mental powers and the 
 social and moral emotions. When science gives us food and medi- 
 cine thai is jit for the Gods, then may we expect godlike men and 
 women. When science has excluded all forms of food which re- 
 quire the expenditure of a maximum of vital energy to secure a 
 minimum of vitalizing nutriment ive will realize the value of vi- 
 talizing nutrition. When it has excluded all forms of injurious 
 medicine we shall joyfully realize that nature only demands totali- 
 zation for overcoming disease. 
 
 The position I have taken from long critical observation as 
 well as negative demonstration, that the first causes of general 
 disease are due to constipation and its effects upon nutritive 
 perfection and the absorptive processes of assimilation, is more 
 than a rational theory, because it accounts for all the facts of 
 disease. 
 
 Observation has invariably revealed that certain portions of 
 the bowels are obstructed, their circulation and contractions 
 ceasing as resonance disappears, in both acute and chronic af- 
 fections as a proof of such ominous causes. 
 
 Demonstrations have seldom failed in overcoming diseases 
 by establishing an elastic, contractile activity, to these portions 
 of the bowels thus maintaining their power, by which constipa- 
 tion is not only overcome but its tendencies are prevented, and 
 the causes of disease. 
 
 This rational aetiology is the ground work of the only satis- 
 factory explanation of the symptoms or progress of disease, 
 which will stand the test of scientific investigation, or of rational, 
 
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 successful, curative methods. It establishes the fact that the 
 nutritive apparatus is such a perfect chemical arrangement of 
 nature, that no failure in physiological operations are possible, 
 if the proper elements are furnished, and the necessary condi- 
 tions are maintained. 
 
 Dyspepsia never occurs if every portion of the intestinal 
 tract is unobstructed to keep up continuous elastic contractions, 
 fluid progress downward, a resonance of every portion of the 
 bowels on palpation, and regular softened discharges with the 
 necessary exit of intestinal gases. 
 
 In medicine the measures for this result, have been inade- 
 quate for want of a strengthening aperient, to institute a contin- 
 uous restorative power to the nervous system, as it secures the 
 irrigating drainage necessary to remove obstructions. 
 
 There is no greater prophylactic measure neglected than 
 that of keeping the temperature of the bowels in a normal state, 
 for there is no part of the body that needs as much protection 
 from cold to secure evacuation and absorption. 
 
 An unconscious chilled condition of the abdomen checks cir- 
 culation and results in a contractile shrinking of the intestines 
 upon their contents to produce constipation and overcome activity 
 thus producing a barrier to all the chyliferous intestinal pro- 
 cesses of active nutrition, and absorption continuing also, the re- 
 duction of the necessary temperature of these operations. 
 
 Constipation and colds very often result to cause severe pro- 
 gressive diseases and complications attributed to them through 
 congestion and inflammation. For the want of all the attenu- 
 ated intestinal changes of nutriment, the ptomaines or poisons 
 of morbid, decomposed nutriment get the mastery over these 
 delicate operations of health, causing disease. 
 
 In pneumonia by deep kneading you will always find some 
 portion of the bowels hard and tender, this is a local constipa- 
 tion reversing the natural course of fluids ami gases ; turning 
 
21 — 
 
 them upward and backward, to force them through the tissues 
 to the cavities that surround the lungs ; to produce congestion. 
 You may secure a channel through this faecal, hard accumu- 
 lation by ordinary cathartics, but the benumbed muscles of the 
 channel again dilates, the bowels fill up and the inactive, consti- 
 pated condition of this portion of the intestine becomes a con- 
 tinued and persistent cause of progressive inflammation. When 
 you have ordinary colds the constipation is in a lower portion of 
 the bowels and is not so obstinate in its character ; but colds 
 will continue until a thorough activity is finally established in 
 the whole intestinal tract ; and the local constipation entirely 
 overcome as a necessity to insure active, uniform circulation, 
 and an expulsion of congestive gases which are the prime factors 
 of disease. 
 
 In Asthma we have an obstinate condition of constipation in 
 the lower part of the jejunum, preventing the digested fluid, nu- 
 triment, an ingress to the absorptive portions of the small intes- 
 tines. This presents a negative condition to the formative 
 operations of life that results in a weakness of the respiratory 
 nerves and muscles till they become too impoverished in power to 
 resist the decomposing, irritant pressure of gases that are formed 
 above the constipated portion as well as the accumulating pres- 
 sure of noxious protruding fluids. 
 
 This pressure through the cavities and tissues of gases as 
 well as perverted fluids, increase and produce engorgement, spas- 
 modic action and restricted respiration. 
 
 Inflammatory Rheumatism is due to such obstinate constipa- 
 tions often in the upper part of the intestinal tract, by which 
 fluid nutriment is also retained and decomposed, causing those 
 severe irritating gases, whose pressure gives suffering to the 
 nerves in the tissues, as they being more active quickly pervade 
 the system and accumulate in great force. 
 
 Every species of constipation (for they are many and various) 
 in thirty feet of the intestines, has a tendency to grow more and 
 
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 more obstinate by the reduction of power in the nerves of the 
 muscles from the dilating pressure that prevents circulation in 
 the tissues, and thus reduces their size and strength as consti- 
 pation continues. 
 
 Consumption, generally supposed to be a primary affection of 
 the lungs, originates largely from faecal decomposition, the 
 ptions of which institute other destructive processes in 
 products of decomposing nutriment, producing destructive 
 gases, which become constant sources of irritation to the lungs, 
 while the retained, decomposing fluids afford a susceptible source 
 and culture for the bacillus that hastens the destructive progress 
 of the delicate tissues of the lungs, whose only office is the ex- 
 change of the impure gases of the blood for more vitalized 
 changes from the air as a method of gaseous purification ; 
 which is rendered impossible by severe local constipations. 
 
 The Lungs are the sensitive ventilators of the atmosphere 
 
 within the body, they appropriate the nutritive gases within and 
 
 without for the high grade of suste?iance that gives them power. 
 
 When they are deprived of such high grades of sustenance, 
 
 they necessarily fail to receive their active forces from the blood; 
 
 the blood charges its poverty upon the administrative chylifer- 
 
 OUS functions, but they in turn lay the cause of their failure to 
 
 condition of the bowels, and insist that they have been 
 
 i protected to insure their natural temperature nor have 
 
 eth done their duty ; that too much solid food, and 
 
 too little fluid has been given the stomach, and though the 
 
 Stomal h had done the best it could, it had nevertheless turned 
 
 ret to them in such an unsolvable condition that 
 
 i ould not under their disabilities possibly do their work of 
 
 fluid absorption, hence, they were helpless in the struggle to 
 
 1 blood. 
 
 heart and brain making the same complaints to the 
 
 to the Bame rational defenses, and finally close 
 
 theil the blood was bankrupt in forces and loaded 
 
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 down with burdens which caused their failure; they also protest 
 against their culpability because their service alone depended 
 upon the deposits of active blood constituents, that gave them 
 all their working capital and power, but now that these sustain- 
 ing forces were withheld, and continuous burdens were substi- 
 tuted by the blood, it was only a matter of closing the bank of 
 life that had failed for want of vitalizing funds. In all this neg- 
 ative retrograded condition of life, the nervous system becomes 
 the mediating sufferer, between outraged physiological law and 
 its penalties of death ; but it helplessly yields to the tortures of 
 life's impending doom only, after struggles again and again, as 
 it eagerly grasps for every active element of life in the blood for 
 renewing sustenance. 
 
 Catarrh is a disease that attacks any weak constitution that 
 is destitute of that vigor of vital resistance, and those active, 
 physiological conditions which insure perfect circulation and 
 power in the blood. 
 
 A succession of colds decreases the lowered conditions of 
 activity first, in the intestinal tract, next, in the assimilative func- 
 tions, reducing thus extreme circulation as a consequence, when 
 the general obstructions of degraded blood plasma accumulate, 
 which united with morbid fluid impurities then appear on the 
 mucous surfaces for elimination. 
 
 The continuance of this exuding action upon the mucous 
 follicles changes their offices as secreting organs of pure mucus 
 to exuding outlets of muco-purulent products, which finally 
 destroy the follicle and then establish open streams of morbid 
 matter, forming morbid, exuding habits which increase with 
 every subsequent cold, till disease continues on to its gravest 
 results. 
 
 Local Treatment with the ordinary alteratives may have a 
 seeming curative effect, but soon a severe cold is taken and the 
 disease returns in full force. For a thorough cure the blood 
 must positively receive a restored vitalizing power of resistance 
 
U - 
 
 to causes of colds, that will thus throw them off, which can only 
 be secured by a natural vitalizing agent, that, thoroughly establishes 
 t physiological action and power to renew perfect follicles 
 and their functional activity. 
 
 The same necessity is apparent in the treatment of all dis- 
 eases of the respiratory organs and especially of the lungs, or a 
 cure of consumption will continue a failure for the want of the 
 desideratum, to be only secured by a powerful, natural, re- 
 medicine that insures general activity. Skin diseases as 
 ;is mucous diseases are treated by alteratives and local ap- 
 plications, the alterative thins the blood and scours the tissues, 
 the applications soothe the irritated nerves and protect the 
 tissues, but vitalized blood w r ith all its essential reconstructive 
 elements must be secured or the disease will return again and 
 i. to go through the same or similar methods of treatment 
 without a final cure. 
 
 Abscesses and Ulcers may be cleansed and all tissue, dis- 
 charges and destructions maybe temporarily retarded, but they 
 all require restorative elemental tissue-change, through perfected 
 blood, which becomes dependent upon establisJiing perfect diges- 
 tion and the absorption of a perfect assimilating nutriment, that 
 s to all functions, power. 
 
 Dropsy is a Disease From Constipation, and its consequence 
 
 which is imperfect nutrition, that always deprives the blood of 
 
 r to maintain the aggregations and segregations properly, 
 
 part of the human system. Hence, nutritive power gives 
 
 not only proper fluid-action, but proper tissue-change upon 
 
 h all tissues depend. 
 
 The Blood is the Royal Stream of Life, the more pure and per- 
 itritive bran< lies become, the higher is the grade of 
 ! unobstructed drainage is secured to all work- 
 shop hannels. Without thorough, natural, alterative 
 drain innot become rapid, a condition neces- 
 
 of vitality, hence the necessity of in- 
 
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 corporating into medicine for the blood's service, nature's vital 
 principal of solvency, to secure perfected solvent processes of 
 nutrition for every fluid and tissue as they are thus constantly 
 cleansed for the appropriation of reconstructive elements in 
 either food or medicine. Restorative medicines are generally 
 without the solvent power, and hence they become unavailing in 
 the necessities of disease. 
 
 Tonics That Excite Nerves to produce contractile vibration in 
 aggregative and segregative processes being severe poisons in 
 large doses are only available so long as nervous power con- 
 tinues, this power they constantly use up, and therefore lessen, 
 until they fail to arouse it to produce contractile activity, other 
 forms of tonics which excite different susceptibilities of nerve 
 power, may be resorted to, each in their turn, till every nervous 
 element is exhausted, and nervous exhaustion becomes the final 
 result when tonics become useless. 
 
 A Diathesis is a predisposition by which physiological 
 action is determined and the qualitative condition of the blood 
 that flows from generation to generation, subject to the changes 
 of parental combination and the influence of hygiene and 
 medicine. 
 
 The grades of vitality rise above or sink below the level of 
 inherited conditions, and thus surmounts evil tendencies, or 
 hastens the development of disease, according to the service 
 nature requires. 
 
 Medicine, food and physical, asw r ell as physiological habits, 
 largely affect inherited vitality, consequently a knowledge of ap- 
 propriate assistance in the form of chemical elements and phy- 
 siological measures become important in raising the standard of 
 activity necessary to secure health and longevity. 
 
 Unnatural Alteratives change scrofulous conditions to scor- 
 butic tissue destruction, tonics exhaust nervous power, nar- 
 cotics destroy it, while unnatural cathartics institute a warfare 
 that summons all its resisting resources. The continued effects 
 
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 of all forms of unnatural medicine are propagated from parents 
 to children in great varieties, to perpetuate the maladies of poi- 
 sonous medication. 
 
 Localized Constipation producing pressure, dilation and en- 
 larged masses, fluid and gaseous reservoirs, in the intestines, not 
 only checks circulation in them, but also in the contiguous parts, 
 that result in surcharging other more active tissues to produce 
 in them engorgement, congestion and inflammation. 
 
 The free flow of bile and intestinal secretions are also pre- 
 vented, causing dyspepsia, biliousness and the production of 
 malarial conditions to interfere with the functional activity of 
 vital processes and engender fever. The pressure of unequal 
 circulation caused by local constipation also obstructs and affects 
 the kidneys ; it also deranges the pelvic circulation, producing 
 side by side a paralyzed and inflamed condition of nerves, that 
 end in piles, painful emicturation, diseased mucuous discharges, 
 prolapsus enlargements and ulcerations. 
 
 The Pressure of Constipated Masses confined in the walls of 
 the pelvic cavity in females, by preventing circulation, robs the 
 Buspensary muscles and ligaments of their normal strength, 
 resulting in an increased prolapsed pressure upon the nerves of 
 the lower pelvic region, that produces the severe progressive 
 diseases that end in the unavailing treatment of pessaries, 
 cauterization and injections. 
 
 The congestive effects of obstructed pelvic circulation, also 
 produce fistulas and ulcerations, especially under the use of 
 stimulants, that irritate congestive action to increase irritative 
 inflammation, purulent disc harms, hemorrhages and protrusion. 
 D be no perfection of fluids or tissues without per- 
 f< < tion in the Mood ; this alone insures their qualitative activity 
 
 in maintaining health and Curing disease. 
 
 Bright's Disease which is only cured by establishing intestinal 
 <>f perfei t nutritive absorption, whereby perfect fluids 
 
are secured and perfect blood changes are affected in the tissues, 
 can not be cured by specifics that affect kidney action only. 
 
 All Kidney Diseases Yield to the intestinal drainage of disease 
 producing fluids, if continued until it relieves the kidneys of 
 those noxious fluids imposed upon them by constipation, it 
 further allows the functions of nutrition to be again renewed by 
 aiding the processes that supply the essential chemical elements 
 of physical forces. 
 
 Restoratives must be solvent representatives of the elements 
 of nutrition, so compounded to hold the known forces that are 
 the result of those chemical changes which aid nature in life. 
 The eyes from their irritative motion of winking and constant 
 impure fluid secretions, are little benefited by local treatment ; 
 still less the ears from an opposite condition of exposure, by 
 which their delicate tissues cannot be reached. Hence, both 
 require high grades of alUrating sustenance from the blood, as 
 the only effective means of changing diseased tissues into healthy 
 states ; through the solving and restorative processes of recon- 
 structive vitality, that removes both the cause and effects of ob- 
 structions and inflammations. 
 
 Deafness yields only when the exuding causes are thoroughly 
 removed and a vitalized circulation has given proper aggregative 
 as well as segregative changes ; that causes the tissues to be re- 
 stored to their normal size and power of activity and sensitive- 
 ness. 
 
 All the internal organs are restored to their proper con- 
 dition with the same means by which their activities are per- 
 fected, and their proper functions established, so that enlarge- 
 ments disappear and atrophied tissues are enlarged, as their 
 morbid circulation is changed, by a vitalized, nutritive, physiol- 
 ogical power, cumulative and progressive in the natural direction. 
 
 This alterative and nutritive power in the blood, is increased 
 by such a combination of the salts, hydro-carbon and proteid 
 elements, as hold the organic gases in that susceptible form of 
 
28 — 
 
 nascent evolvement which adds to, and maintains the natural 
 forces of healthy action based upon physiological, pathology and 
 chemical considerations. It must be remembered that consti- 
 i robs the blood of these elements, as well as the power 
 through nutrition. Hence, waste products and their 
 decompostions accumulate in all fluids and tissues as morbid 
 s of disease. 
 Under all weakened conditions of nervous power, the stim- 
 ulation of the various functions through the nerves maintaining 
 . often prove a tantalizing delusion, and the fitful glare of 
 hope fades away into discomfiture and failure, as the "horizon 
 of life," grows darker and darker under the ignis-fatuus light of 
 ;tic medication to which all medical system are wedded. 
 The Restorative Antiseptic Drainage of the Intestinal Tract. 
 which physiological knowledge and common sense so earnestly 
 nid as rationally curative, has never received the attention 
 of the medical savants, conventions or colleges, notwithstand- 
 c beacon light shining through success in the "irrigation 
 method, " of a new treatment for cholera at the hospital of 
 Russia. 
 
 This indicates a stolidity both in the perceptions and con- 
 
 < eptions of all medical professions toward those enlightened 
 
 methods, which are practical in the prevention and cure of 
 
 LSC. The idolatrous worship of poisons in minimum or 
 
 :iium doses pn vents any attention in this direction, but 
 
 new form of poison, or some product of disease will be ex- 
 
 illy given by the stomach, or introduced directly into 
 
 lood hypodermically with hypothetical chances of attaining 
 
 cine. The inexorable logic of nature's teach- 
 
 ir< o mmanding authority over all these delusions 
 
 of th' periment before medicine can become a science 
 
 01 bring (O mankind t 5 which the age demands. 
 
 must become enlightened upon the great problem 
 
 <>f lift that unfolds the organic complexities 
 
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 of chemical change in the most perfected grades of life ; that 
 maintain a victorious triumph over the minute skeletons of des- 
 tructive bacterial organisms, that are only rendered possible in 
 retrograded decomposition that produce internal animal filth. 
 
 The Mysteries Of Disease will disappear as the complicated 
 processes of life become more fully known and its laws and ne- 
 cessities are established upon a solid foundation. Nature's laws 
 are inexorable and supreme, and must become recognized au- 
 thoritatively, as the only true basis of a progress in medicine. 
 
 All applications for warrants against disease before the 
 royal courts of Nature will be filed, Life vs. Death, and no tes- 
 timony, but facts and certain knowledge will avail in the future 
 science of medicine which will never be firmly established upon 
 an enduring basis until the fictions of unnatural medicine are 
 dissipated and the monumental authorities of poisonous medica- 
 tion are overthrown. 
 
 There is no Argument so Convincing as a presentation of princi- 
 ples and facts which are corroborated by nature and experience. 
 The argument of science rests upon the laws that govern the 
 forces of nature. To understand these laws requires a knowledge 
 not only of the forces of matter, but also of their foundation and 
 source. The knowledge of electricity and of the explosive forces 
 of compounds of matter in solid, fluid or gaseous states, and of 
 forces under conditions of expansion, condensation and combin- 
 nation, is a comparatively modern acquisition. Science has 
 taught us that these forces are locked up in inert matter and 
 are evolved by chemical changes which liberate these latent 
 agents of nature. It also teaches that all conditions of life from 
 the lowest to the highest forms are dependent upon the muta- 
 tions of matter. In the rational presentation of any scientific 
 subject, conjecture and hypothesis must be laid aside for analyt- 
 ical methods so that all results shall become definite and certain. 
 Such investigations when applied to medicine cannot fail to cast 
 a halo of authoritative light upon a noble profession which has 
 
;;0 — 
 
 suffered from the incubus of superstitions, that have been propa- 
 from age to age, and that have discouraged efforts to found 
 
 ractice upon the principles of nature and science. Physi- 
 and chemistry afford the proper basis of arriving at the 
 definite operations of organisms essential to secure a knowledge 
 of the conditions of health. It is therefore plain to the judgment 
 of the intelligent investigator and philosopher that medical 
 e implies a thorough knowledge of the vital functions and 
 of the active operations of the organs of the human system as well 
 as the combinations of organic elements which produce those 
 
 >S that maintain health. Important as it is to know gener- 
 ally how to prevent disease from external sources the conserva- 
 tion of healthy conditions is of even more value. This demands 
 a thorough mastication of proper food as the necessary requisite 
 of perfect digestion; also a regular evacuation of waste products 
 and an active circulation of the blood, to secure all the changes 
 required in the general processes of life. Physical development, 
 vigor, energy, bodily strength and mental activity depend upon 
 a nutritive supply of all the chemical and organic elements of 
 the body in food or medicine. 
 
 Perfect food, perfect medicine and perfect physiological 
 habits only secure the highest physical development of the human 
 
 IMPORTANCE OF CHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 In the selection of nutritous food that will fully afford the 
 nece tnenta which are demanded lor the perfection of all 
 
 I tissues, a knowledge of the chemistry of organic pro- 
 cesses and of food products is important. Practical experience 
 I value of organic chemistry when it secures 
 BUCh t food &S will furnish the blood with nourish- 
 
 tablish a condition of permanent vigor 
 and health. waste of functional energy 
 
— 31 — 
 
 consequent upon the necessary expulsion from the bowels of 
 the useless products of both innutritious and unmasticated or 
 undigested food. For they not only greatly burden the system 
 by their useless presence but they fail, for want of proper diges- 
 tive decomposition to supply the active demands of life with the 
 chemical elements of nutrition. Surplus food likewise becomes 
 a positive burden in the results of the wasting decomposition 
 that it undergoes which is always deleterious. 
 
 EVIL EFFECTS OF INDUCED CONSTIPATION. 
 
 It is exceptional when any generally diseased individual is 
 entirely free from the evil effects of intestinal inactivity, both 
 muscular and glandular. Even when forced passages occur 
 they fail to carry away those decomposing accumulations in the 
 convolutions and folds of the bowels. Such accumulations 
 ordinary cathartics do not always thoroughly remove. The 
 habitual congested conditions of the bowels caused in early 
 youth, by neglecting the calls of nature, reduces the natural 
 nervous, contractile activity of the intestinal muscles. This, in 
 turn, manifests itself not only in the diseases of childhood, but 
 it prepares the way for diseases of maturity that result from in- 
 duced habits of constipation, habits that are evil and only evil 
 in their consequences upon health. 
 
 Solid food which passes through the bowels in an undissolved 
 and undigested condition therefore is not only a waste of nutri- 
 ment that uselessly occupies absorptive surfaces but it induces 
 constipation and local impactions that confine within the body in 
 all conditions of activity fluid faecal products subjected to the tem- 
 perature of the body, which frequently undergo further decom- 
 positions of such fermentative and putrescent character as cause 
 disease by the destructive poisons generated. 
 
 These fluids become the source of ptomaines, mkrobes and 
 bacteria. They produce intestinal gases which penetrate all 
 
— 82 
 
 channels, cavities and tissues, inflame, irritate and even paralyze 
 the nerves, and interfere with the healthy conditions of every func- 
 tion of health. These dangerous gases unceremoniously invade 
 rtal of Life, like an internal wave of pestilence and an- 
 tagonize every vital operation of the human system. Conse- 
 ;iv an antiseptical evacuation of these intestinal accumula- 
 tions in all stages of disease, is the most important feature of 
 rational medical practice. After the nutritive properties of food 
 become absorbed, its presence in the system is not only 
 it burdensome and injurious. 
 Consequently the waste products should be regularly evac- 
 uated so that they will not hinder the active formative life pro- 
 cesses, or the operation of the evacuent forces of life. 
 
 To Secure That Most Important Necessity of Health, a regular 
 activity of the muscles of the intestinal tract, nature must be 
 I by a natural solvent evacuant that removes gently all ob- 
 structions and gives vital forces through the blood to every 
 of the body. Nothing else can so thoroughly overcome 
 the fii es of nearly all those classified diseases that prey 
 
 upon the human system which are either directly due to clog- 
 the main sewer of the body or indirectly to the effects of 
 such Every fluid is more or less depraved by consti- 
 
 depravity which disturbs all functional processes, pre- 
 sue-change and checks the active elimina- 
 products not only from the bowels and kidneys but 
 the skin and from the lungs by their hindrance to blood 
 through the process of respiration. The fatalties that 
 m the ordinary methods of treating impactions of the 
 racter arc of such serious consequence as 
 consideration of the value of a cathartic 
 tion ol its harmless antiseptical permeating 
 ■ annel through or around impacted faecal 
 and allow the same solvent cathartic fluid to follow 
 
THE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS OF POPULAR MEDICINE. 
 
 The reason of the significant failure of general medical 
 practice is obvious, since it does not regard the complex demands 
 of life in medicine. This infidelity to the laws of nature, en- 
 courages the popular heresy of specific medication which will 
 continue to maintain its irrational sway in therapeutics as long 
 as all authorities of medical practice combine to prevent and 
 discourage the analytical study of the necessary elements and 
 vitalizing forces of health, and the synthetical adaptation of 
 medicine which contains only the principles of life. It is because 
 independent rational processes of scientific investigation are not 
 licensed by medical authority, and are consequently discarded, 
 that there exists such a profound ignorance of the inherent 
 forces of popular medicines. 
 
 Quinine Regarded as an Antidotal Specific for an unknown dis. 
 called malaria, is the king of febrile specifics, only because it is 
 the king of tonics. Its value is due to the power it possesses 
 over nerves to produce powerful action and contractility through 
 them, that secures extreme circulation contractile expulsion 
 of biliary and other intestinal morbid secretions which often 
 become cultures of spores, microbes and bacteria as well as of 
 other disease-producing disorganizations. These tonics, how- 
 ever, by exciting nervous action cause such a cumulative con- 
 tractile strain upon the nerves as to exhaust nervous force and 
 unpleasant effects necessarily follow their use. The digestion 
 becomes deranged and the over-action induces a final partial 
 paralysis and deafness from a nervous exhaustion. 
 
 All Tonic Action is due to the excitation of this contractile 
 nervous force which expels morbific elements, giving nature 
 greater freedom for recuperation. Powerful tonics like quinine 
 and strychnine in large doses, produce contractile cathartic 
 effects, but all unnaturally forced action exhausts the nervous 
 
— ?>4 
 
 system, reduces its natural activity and ends in nervous debility; 
 this also is the case with all unnatural medicine which by exci- 
 tation increases activity without furnishing a supply to the sources 
 of vital power. This explains the uncertainties of specifics, for 
 the nervous power is not maintained by them, hence, they lose 
 effects by exhaustions which they produce. Tonics may 
 at first increase depuration and tissue-changes, but they also 
 exhaust the blood of its vital nerve elements which they fail to 
 supply, and hence lose their power upon nerves by continued use. 
 
 This is also the Case with Applied Electricity which produces 
 the same contractile exercise by its influence upon the nerves 
 but supplies no permanent organic elements for nerves which is 
 essential to the blood to maintain the action produced and pre- 
 xhaustion. There are many specifics in general use for 
 fever, inflammation, pain and increased temperature that contain 
 latent compound gases which unite atomically and antisepticaily 
 in the circulation with the compound noxious gases of disease. 
 
 The Antipyretics and Analgesics from coal tar and phenyl sources 
 produce antiseptic changes in the blood but often the blood 
 becomes so burdensomly surcharged with resultant deleterious 
 < .'inpound hydro-carbon products that a sudden and unaccount- 
 able death is the result when used largely for pain, inflammation 
 
 Heart Failure gets the blame although the physician knows 
 full well that these medicines are all destitute of any solvent 
 eliminating or vitalizing power. 
 
 A Natural Ozonic Antiseptic Evacuent is not only far more effec- 
 
 i producing the proper changes but also rapidly removes 
 
 all morbid products, and is valuable for its safety instead of 
 
 because of its vitalizing and restorative elements. 
 
 ble that medical savants should so neglect the 
 
 id physiological science for the inscrutable 
 
 .1 experiment and thus attempt the discov- 
 
 iot only from newly discovered poisons 
 
— 35 — 
 
 but from the animal poisons of disease, the bacilli of their pro- 
 ducts, and the ptomaines of diseased processes. It is strange 
 that the medical profession should become so enthusiastic over 
 faint gleams of hope in a mythical field of observation, while 
 they disregard the rational possibilities of natural antiseptics 
 which secure also to the blood those desirable changes which 
 purify it and supply it with forces and elements that insure per- 
 fect tissues and thus secure a cure of all forms of disease and a 
 vigorous condition of health. 
 
 The Superiority of Restorative Purification over all forms of spe- 
 cific inoculation, in overcoming tendencies to contagion or 
 disease, will never be universally demonstrated so long as physi- 
 cians do not make investigations into the fundamental principles 
 of substances that embrace not only the elements but the forces 
 of nature in their proper relation to all forms of life, and so fail 
 to consider natural methods of treating disease. 
 
 It is Significant that there is not a single subject or fact that 
 has the entire unity of the medical profession. This realm of 
 uncertainty suggests that the whole range of theoretical thera- 
 peutics is neither based upon the simple facts of nature or 
 science which are always as lucid as they are certain and relia- 
 ble. Natural restorative medication being based upon the de- 
 mands of nature in organism is divested of all the incongruities 
 of medical literature that are piled like Ossa upon Pelion to 
 reach mythical authority and crush out reason and common 
 sense which is as simple in science as it is in practice. 
 
 THE TRUE SOURCE OF CURATIVE POWER. 
 
 Animal Electricity, a natural contractile force is constantly 
 produced in the human system by the electrolytic processes of 
 aggregation and segregation between the acids and metallic 
 bases of the salts of the blood, which produces also organic 
 gaseous changes and their resultant active forces. 
 
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 Food or Natural Medicine must necessarily be reduced to a 
 fluid condition before it can be carried by the blood to the tis- 
 sues. Consequently perfect nutrition, whether of food or medi- 
 cine, in its most assimilable form, must represent that soluble 
 condition of organic matter which contains the vital elements of 
 the system and forces held by the metals that are represented 
 bv alkaline combination with oxygen. 
 
 The Various Metals of the Blood are acted upon by the acids of 
 the system and develop that compound force of life as animal 
 electricity, or the motive power of all tissue change. This or- 
 ganic power accumulates in healthy action and is a refined im- 
 ponderable agent that especially flows through the nervous sys- 
 tem to perpetuate action in every direction in the whole organ- 
 ism, with all its qualitative powers. This compound impon- 
 derable and unfathomed magnetic fluid, the epitome of all 
 the organic and intelligent forces of nature, merged into the 
 sublime phenomena of human life, is a constant production 
 of the perfectly organized individual, and may by the at- 
 tractions of condition as positive will, become a hypnotic or 
 mental curative power to others in whom negative states exist, 
 as in disease. For it is this concentrated organic utilized motive 
 power of life and activity that is the essential necessity of health in 
 human being, and is consequently, when thus delegated, 
 e of forces from the brain and nerves that kindles anew the 
 fires of life. 
 
 A Solvent that Aids Nutrition and provides the acid and alka- 
 
 ements of nutrition to the blood in a proper form neces- 
 
 Barily furnishes electrical vitality and increases vital and mental 
 
 Its mission is therefore majestically grand as a provident 
 
 lias power over the nursery of life. This solvent power 
 
 all morbid obstructions does away with the supposed neces- 
 
 t the unnatural i onti act He actions of tonics, it supplies the 
 
 t natural nervous contractile power which becomes 
 
 cumulative and produces all the desired changes from disease to 
 
health. It supports not only the eliminative forces but the ag- 
 gregative processes that are necessary to the full enjoyment of 
 physical and mental power. Consequently it never fails to ac- 
 complish not only a thorough renovation of the blood but an in- 
 crease of all the elements of organic force and the elements of 
 mentality. 
 
 CURATIVE MEDICINE MUST BE NATURAL. 
 
 Reliable forces that are always available must be natural to 
 the operations of life. When such forces are so combined in a 
 medicine, that it is a chemical representative of the constituents 
 of the blood, it becomes not only safe and pleasant but far more 
 effective than dangerous compounds that may cure or kill. It 
 is entirely unnecessary that natural curative forces should be 
 combined with dangerous elements. 
 
 Chlorine a compound oxy-hydrogen gas is a natural solvent, 
 and alterative evacuant, but, when combined with mercury in 
 calomel, more chlorine may be abstracted from the chlorine 
 salts of the blood, when calomel is changed to corrosive subli- 
 mate, which produces salivation, ulceration and even sudden 
 death. Mercury is also liable to undergo these very destructive 
 changes, when taken in any form on account of its great affinity 
 for chlorine, which always exists in the blood, in the digestive 
 juices, and in the salt used in foods. Conscious of its terrible 
 effects upon the human constitution, from the observable results 
 that often follow salivation, suspicious caution detects its pres- 
 ence in many of the secret proprietary nostrums that are still 
 sapping by destructive alteration the life of the present genera- 
 tion, as well as in the prescriptions of most noted physicians 
 who disguise it under the appellation of the mild chloride, which 
 is mild only in the impression the language conveys, for it con- 
 tinues, with other destructive remedies, to find innumerable 
 victims even in the front ranks of intelligence and talent. 
 
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 Wrecks in mind and body, they are excused from usefulness and 
 society, as lunatics, or from the sphere of earthly existence by 
 the medical certificate given of heart disease, softening of the 
 brain, inanition or suicide from dementia and the lid of the coffin 
 closes upon the fatality of medicines that are unnatural and des- 
 tructive to the fluids and tissues as well as to the vital and men- 
 tal forces of the human system. 
 
 Thus in all Unnatural Medicines there lurk dangerous elements 
 that may combine in the chemical laboratory of life to create 
 serious and destructive compounds, or unite with the animal 
 poisons of disease to produce sudden disorganization of the 
 blood and tissues. 
 
 The Natural Restorative Evacuant necessarily secures the bene- 
 ficial and powerful effect of chlorine as a solvent cathartic or 
 natural alterative without the evil effects of mercury. This 
 natural evacuant builds as it eliminates ; a conservative im- 
 provement which should secure recognition because it preserves 
 all tissues and the forces of life and is far more effective and 
 safe than calomel. 
 
 The Natural Activities Of Life are preservative against the evil 
 effects of a large number of unnatural elements used in medicine. 
 If it were not for the resistance of the vital forces, death would 
 claim for its victims most of the patients that are treated by the 
 popular physician. But as the hardiest soldier yields to long 
 marches, miasma, exposure and the hardships of war, so when 
 disease is crying with uplifted symptoms in its arms for aid, the 
 human system burdened with everything except that which nature 
 demands, is gradually broken down by poisons and the habits 
 of disease take the place of the organic instincts of life. 
 
39 
 
 THE EVIL EFFECTS OF MORBID CAUSES ON CIRCULATION. 
 
 All the alkaloid poisons and poisonous gases, that are gen- 
 erated in an active form in the intestinal tract which permeate 
 the channels and tissues of the body, not only interfere with 
 natural healthy circulation by loading the blood with morbid 
 elements, but they change its nutritive plasma into devitalizing 
 products which form diseased plastic deposits as they also un- 
 dergo afterwards decomposing changes that increase the 
 active causes of disease. This impure and devitalized part 
 of the blood burdens particularly extreme anastomosing cir- 
 culation externally as well as internally and the pores of 
 the skin become closed to the escape of gaseous and vap- 
 orous impurities and there results a tendency in the extrem- 
 ities to the reduction of temperature that produces a chill, 
 or to colds which so often occur without any external cause. 
 The internal membranes then necessarily take on vicarious ac- 
 tion where the temperature of the system is maintained, but 
 they being finally overburdened by degraded, effete, waste-pro- 
 ducts, become congested, when decomposing inflammatory ac- 
 tion follows and exudation is the consequence. They are catar- 
 rhal in the mucous surfaces but more highly inflammatory in the 
 serous membranes that have no outlets, causing pleurisy and 
 pneumonia. The delicate lung-tissue becomes so burdened as 
 to finally yield to consumption from the congestive condition 
 that locates morbid action. 
 
 The Nutritive Elements of the Blood having become depraved 
 cannot be used for proper tissue growth, for want of those proper 
 reductive chemical electrolytic changes that produces the vital 
 forces of life. Consequently the organic gases that result from 
 proper tissue change do not exist then in the blood to favor the 
 vital changes of respiration, but these devitalized elements con- 
 tinue in the blood as the chief source of catarrhal exudations 
 
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 and indurations of tissue and also undergo decomposition in 
 pulmonary cells, inducing ulceration and the destruction of the 
 lungs and other tissues of the body. A perfect and complete 
 condition of all the blood elements and forces necessary to pro- 
 duce thorough tissue changes is the fundamental basis of 
 healthy action. This is not the case in the unbalanced activities 
 of the consumptive diathesis. It must be entirely changed by a 
 thorough natural form of restorative medicine which not only 
 contains the elements that are exhausted, but also the active 
 forces that have been lost in order to renew the harmony of 
 action which is necessary in both the aggregative and the segre- 
 gative work of tissue change which also preserves and increases 
 the quality of durability in the tissues and the adipose matter 
 that depends upon such perfection. 
 
 Hydro-Carbons in the Form of Cod-Liver Oil and Stimulants fail to 
 reach the condition of exhaustion which this disease often pro- 
 duces, because there must first be a thorough exaltation of the 
 vital activities of the entire organism, which can only be secured 
 by a restorative that contains both natural elements and forces 
 that will re-establish the equilibrium and harmony required by 
 nature before hydro-carbons or nutriment can be of service. 
 
 In this disease the disorganization of organic fluids and 
 structures induces putrefactive cultures of bacteria and opens 
 channels of waste that ultimately destroy the whole body though 
 the more delicate tissues of the lungs are the first to yield. 
 
 Learned Experimenters may discover agents that will destroy 
 the bacilli of consumption, but to cure they must necessarily 
 invent those harmless yet active alkaline and acid combinations 
 that are so effective in a natural restorative. Such a restorative 
 accomplishes the desired results most thoroughly through the 
 natural channels of supply from the stomach, because it also 
 destroys the source of the bacteria, that also originate in the de- 
 graded fluids and secretions of the intestinal tract and pass 
 lood to the tissues. The subcutaneous method of 
 
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 introducing agents directly to the blood is disturbing to the cir- 
 culation, and can check and protract, but never entirely stay 
 the progress of this insidious disease originating as it does in 
 disordered organic action, which if not corrected will continue 
 until the end is death. Such disordered action of the processes 
 of life, increase fluids corrupted by decomposing and degraded 
 elements of nutrition, and the morbid accumulations become 
 the cause of bacteria especially manifest in those wasting and 
 progressive diseases, which resist the so-called specific treat- 
 ments of the medical profession ; treatments which universally 
 fail to accomplish the cure, because they do not establish the 
 organic activities of life. 
 
 A General Increase of Vital Activity is necessary not only to resist 
 the inroads of the bacilli tuberculosis of consumption but to 
 overcome the depraved condition of the organic fluids in which 
 they rapidly increase. This calls for a general restorative which 
 has reconstructive vitalizing power over organic processes. Colds 
 are often the result of internal noxious gases that induce para- 
 lyzed and obstructed conditions of extreme circulation, causing 
 a nervous collapse of the perspiratory functions of the skin. 
 Then all the fluids, gases and vaporous impurities of the blood 
 are obliged to seek internal surfaces, where they congest or ac- 
 cumulate to produce febrile or inflammatory action. 
 
 The First Notice in Colds the nerves give of internal gaseous 
 pressure and its irritating burdens is a sneeze, which is a heroic 
 effort of nature to relieve the congested mucous surfaces, and 
 throw back the tide of circulation to the extremities. At the 
 same time it exercises a spasmodic effort of contraction upon the 
 muscles of the bowels, as an expulsatory force to dislodge the 
 faecal matter which has confined the noxious gases pervading 
 the circulation that would have passed downward. The in- 
 creased pressure of these retained gases that accumulate above 
 the constipated portions of the bowels, by its deadening influ- 
 ence upon circulation very often is the main cause of the cold- 
 
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 ness of the extremities that results in a chill, and the reaction is 
 manifested by a fever or inflammation. 
 
 A Vitalizing Restorative Evacuant overcomes both the first causes 
 of fever and inflammation and insures a reorganized nutritive 
 purity, and thorough natural circulation to the blood, producing 
 such magical effects that its use induces belief in its sure and 
 sovereign power over diseases often pronounced mortal by phy- 
 sicians. The changes that take place in fluids and in the forma- 
 tive nutrient plasma of the blood that becomes devitalized, 
 are so varied in chemical decomposition, and especially in 
 their degenerative formative character in disease, that a mul- 
 tiplicity of forms of deviation from their normal qualities, is the 
 result in tissues. Devitalized organic action produces indura- 
 tion, enlargements, tumors, epigenic growths, false membranes, 
 and degenerated tissues, as well as destruction of tissues, which 
 are so often causes of death. There is no successful method of 
 changing this faulty plasma to its proper and perfect state, 
 except by the use of an alterative natural restorative evac- 
 uant, that is powerful enough, not only in elements, but in the 
 active forces, to promptly meet, by large doses, such acute dis- 
 eases as croup and diphtheria, or other destructive forms of in- 
 flammation that have a rapid course. 
 
 The Destructive Gases of Organic Decomposition that pervade 
 the air from both animals and vegetables vitiate the atmosphere 
 and cause severe forms of disease, often of an epidemic charac- 
 ter, attended with microbes and bacteria, they poison and dis- 
 organize the blood. Still more should they be recognized as 
 the active causes of disease when they are generated from the 
 decomposition of animal and vegetable food confined by consti- 
 pation within the very citadel of life ; hence the importance of 
 securing not only proper mastication and a perfect digestion of 
 food, but also a free, natural and regular evacuation of the de- 
 composing contents of the bowels, by a thoroughly restorative 
 Strengthening solvent, which is also an eliminating cathartic. 
 
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 This measure will insure also a vigorous circulation of the blood 
 through the tissues of the bowels, and al.l those active contrac- 
 tions of their vermicular muscles that are so important in secur- 
 ing a downward progress of f;rcal products. It will also aid in 
 the free escape of the destructive intestinal gases, that otherwise 
 would pervade the system and seriously affect the blood and for- 
 mative fluids of the system, vitiating all the secretions, caus- 
 ing torpidity of the liver and bilious derangements, and inciting 
 causes of general disease. 
 
 In a Constipated Condition of the Bowels the tendencies to 
 putrefactive and putrescent changes are increased by these re- 
 tained noxious gases. They also paralyze functional action and 
 produce nausea, dyspepsia, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism 
 and nervousness. They pass through the tissues of the bowels 
 into other channels and cavities, produce pressure and pains 
 in the side, chest and back, oppress respiration, heart and 
 us action, and thus induce palpitation, vertigo, and 
 the unpleasant sensations of sickness of every form. They 
 produce unbalanced circulation and disturb the functional ac- 
 tions generally throughout the system. They not only interfere 
 with nutritive absorption, active assimilation and tissue change, 
 but they retard the depuration of morbid products of every de- 
 scription and they lay the foundation of general paralysis and de- 
 bility. They prevent the active llow of bile and other intestinal 
 secretions which are unnaturally retained in the system to under- 
 go decomposing morbid changes that develop still more active 
 poisons. These are also absorbed by the blood to oppress and 
 still farther interfere with its natural circulation and the general 
 processes of aggregation and segregation, so as to corrupt every 
 fluid and every tissue with the poisons of disease. The con- 
 tinued decomposition of morbid products retained in the ali- 
 mentary tract constantly increases the volume and virulency of 
 these noxious internal gases that at last become the poisonous 
 waves of death. Nature institutes channels of escape for these 
 
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 putrid gases, sometimes by those fluxes that take place below 
 their sources, namely, the constipated portions of the bowels, 
 the distension of which prevents both circulation and natural 
 contractile expulsive action weakening the whole of the lower 
 intestines. Tenesemus and pain result from the consequent 
 peristaltic disturbance and diarrhoea or dysentery is manifested 
 as the efforts of nature to expel the irritant matter in the lower 
 portion of the bowels below the constipation. What is required 
 to remove such disease is an antiseptical solvent that has per- 
 meating power to institute thorough continuous channels, so that 
 not only the obstructions but also the waste of decomposition 
 with its putrid gases shall be disinfected and evacuated from 
 the intestinal tract as fast as it accumulates, until finally all de- 
 composing accumulations either hard or soft shall be expelled 
 from the system. 
 
 Such a Solving and Cleansing Process stays the process of 
 
 disease until its causes are removed, enabling the physician to 
 control the morbid forces of disease and keep the system improv- 
 ing until a perfect recovery takes place. 
 
 A Natural Cathartic by its solvent and active properties incites 
 an easy expulsion of the faecal obstructions and noxious gases. 
 It restores natural circulation, contractility and healthy secre- 
 tions to the whole alimentary tract, and institutes through the 
 blood, depuration and restorative changes that prevent and 
 overcome disease. 
 
 It demonstrates the value of the conservation of vital forces 
 which is so generally disregarded in medical practice. 
 
 All the Popular Antiphlogistics, Alteratives and Tonics either 
 antagonize or exhaust the powers of life, but such a natural re- 
 storative evacuant increases them, and while it aids nature to 
 expel burdens, it supplies exhaustions and sends natural ele- 
 ments and forces through the blood to the nervous system and 
 the tissues, to give vigor and health. 
 
 When Even a Fetid Death-Like Odor announces the fatal effect 
 
— 45 — 
 
 of internal life-destroying gases resulting from protracted de- 
 composition, and the eyes grow dim and the stomach revolts 
 against nourishment, a large draught of this evacuant water of 
 life can be taken without nausea. For from the nascent libera- 
 tion of oxygen, it disinfects by its evolution of ozone the putrid 
 fluids and all the offending gases of disease, and robs the angel 
 of death of a victim that seemed firmly bound in his grasp, 
 strength revives, the eyes grow bright, circulation, sleep, and 
 appetite return to prove that a natural evacuant and vitalizer 
 is a boon demanded by nature in her struggles with disease. 
 
 It also Proves that disease and death are chiefly due to the 
 culmination of changes in these deadly gases that increase in 
 quantity and pernicious power until they ultimately destroy the 
 vitality of the blood, and finally check respiration and the action 
 of the heart. This natural cathartic that possesses sob ent, 
 strengthening, antiseptic and restorative properties, promptly 
 removes these fatal causes, as it may also be used in smaller 
 doses as an alterative invigorator. It strengthens every function 
 of elimination and is important for diseases of the bowels such 
 as diarrluea, dysentery, piles and hemorrhoids which are gen- 
 erally treated, irrationally and unsuccessfully, with astringents 
 and opiates, as for all those diseases that arise from the various 
 retained visceral accumulations which favor all those processes 
 of diseased action so inimical to life. 
 
 For the Want of Such a Solvent and Strengthening Cathartic, 
 which can be used in large doses perseverin^iy without exhaust- 
 ing the patient, the use of general cathartics, which are painful 
 and exhausting, is generally discontinued before all the serious 
 offending contents of the bowels are removed, and therefore the 
 causes of the disease are not dislodged. On account of their 
 evil and manifestly depressing effects, these cathartics cannot be 
 persistently continued as could the one referred to, which has 
 no weakening or unpleasant effects. A partial evacuation of 
 the bowels such as ordinary cathartic treatment only secures 
 
— 4(5 — 
 
 seldom prevents the progress of severe attacks of disease. It is 
 only when a general resonance of the entire abdominal region is 
 known to exist by palpation (a method of examination which 
 is unwarrantedly neglected) that a reasonable hope of success 
 in the removal of the causes of disease or that certainty of a 
 speedy cure can be entertained. The ordinary use of cathartics 
 only serves to dislodge matter most easily removed from those 
 parts of the bowels were muscular activity has not been lost. 
 They form only channels through the contents of inactive portions 
 that are closed by solid faeces which fill up afterward, and these 
 portions remain obstructed in disease. 
 
 The location of persistent constipations and the particular 
 diseases that result from them in their various positions in the 
 bowels are easily learned by close observation and ever}' physi- 
 cian should study the rational methods of preventing and over- 
 coming them. 
 
 The Alimentary Tract being the conservator of life, is also 
 the seat of disease. Consequently remedies effective to over- 
 come disease and re-establish the forces of life, are those that 
 restore the stomach and bowels to a normal condition. Hence 
 a natural evacuant and restorative that commences its curative 
 work in the stomach, and then cleanses the bowels, and by ab- 
 sorption to the whole system through the blood, reaches every 
 condition of disease, re-organizes health}' action in every tissue 
 of the entire body, becomes both curative and reconstructive in 
 every sense. 
 
 For Overcoming the General Causes of Acute Diseases, for 
 jugulating or rapidly aborting them, a strengthening antiseptic 
 cathartic becomes a discovery of incomparable value, because 
 it can be used as frequently and freely as the severity of the 
 case demands. It reduces all impactions and all the concretions 
 to a semi-fluid state, especially those which persistently remain 
 in the convoluted recesses of the bowels generally undissolved 
 even after the ordinary cathartic action has been secured. This 
 
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 restorative cathartic dissolves, expels and strengthens, and 
 therefore may be perseveringly used until all morbific obstruc- 
 tions are removed and diseases disappear. Not only is it effica- 
 cious in severe conditions of disease but it removes the causes 
 of slight indisposition and quickly restores the system to proper 
 action without any unpleasant sensation or result. This thor- 
 oughly antiseptic cathartic, if used with a perseverance not prac- 
 ticable with any other medicine, removes all noxious conditions 
 that result from intestinal obstructions, as well as the depraved 
 and decomposing exudations that accumulate upon mucous and 
 serous surfaces. 
 
 This Evacuant thoroughly cleanses the system of all un- 
 healthy fluids and gaseous products. It eradicates from every 
 part of the system disease-producing accumulations and thus 
 prepares the absorptive tissues to receive the life-supporting 
 chemical elements which this evacuant contains. It enables the 
 blood which is purified and supplied with its natural elements and 
 forces to reconstruct all diseased tissues, and to carry healthy 
 vigor to every organ and channel of life. 
 
 Disinfection and a copious supply of water in drains and 
 sewers are not more important in preventing disease, than is a 
 harmless, antiseptic, restorative cathartic to dissolve, counteract 
 and remove the solid, fluid and gaseous intestinal tilth which, 
 confined by constipation, becomes a general source of disease. 
 
 The conclusion is inevitable, that a preparation which over- 
 comes the potent causes of disease and increases vital forces, is 
 indispensable to the healthy condition of body and mind. 
 
 It certainly meets the demands of brain-labor, which espec- 
 ially requires relief from the vitiated contaminations of pent-up 
 poison, that through the nervous system interfere with mental 
 processes and destroy mental and physical powers. 
 
 The Demand of the Human System for a large number of ac- 
 tive constructive organic elements often necessitates its use per- 
 severingly, in obstinate cases, where a continued supporting 
 
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 cathartic action is needed in order to overcome and remove 
 causes of severe mental or physical depression, debility, weak- 
 ness and prostration. Such a vitalizing evacuant, diluted with 
 either hot or cold water as the case may require, becomes a bev- 
 erage that is gratefully received by the patient. Large draughts 
 remove unpleasant sensations, by expelling the causes from the 
 system, they also afford oxygenic power to strengthen the circu- 
 lation and give new life to the suffering. 
 
 The significance of natural antiseptic corrective medicine is 
 demonstrated in infancy by overcoming the pain and restlessness 
 that causes crying and the distortion of the muscles of the face, 
 securing that condition of repose and that harmony of develop- 
 ment natural to infants in perfect physical conditions which 
 causes children to become beautiful in features and expression. 
 
 The same principle follows in the growth of children to ma- 
 turity with such constant attending influences upon body and 
 mind to produce an entrancing physical rotundity and su- 
 perior facial lines of beauty combining intellectual and emo- 
 tional expression. These effects are secured from the ozonic 
 waves of life that dissipate and destroy the poisonous, irritating 
 vapors of disease banishing the sensations of sickness and pain 
 as the sun dispels the chilly mists of the night. 
 
 The Ethics of Natural Medicine. In my apology for a con- 
 tinued repetition of the essential factors in the production 
 of disease and the certain principles available for their 
 permanent cure, it is fit that I explain why a sense of duty 
 has constrained me to dwell to such an extent upon the serious- 
 ness of retained internal noxious gases and upon the value 
 of a restorative cathartic which contains the saline ele- 
 ments of the blood and forces of vitality locked up in its 
 combination. It has been done to furnish a rational basis for 
 medicine, with the expectation that the intelligent vanguard 
 of rational progress may force the medical profession to break 
 
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 the shackles of dogmatic authority which have prevented both 
 logical investigation and the freedom of a pure and rational phil- 
 osophy in medicine. 
 
 Professional Liberty is the first requisite for scientific reforma- 
 tion in medical practice. It will alone sanction those chemical 
 medicines which a scientific knowledge of the processes of life 
 requires, and which contain elements in such combination as 
 will eradicate the causes of disease, and supply organic forces 
 for the purpose of aiding nature under all its burdens. 
 
 Chemistry is taught in the medical colleges without even the 
 pretense that all medicines should be practically adapted to the 
 chemical requirements of disease or the chemical necessities of 
 health, and consequently it is an adornment to a professional 
 reputation, of little practical value, since it gives little authority 
 to medicine as a science, and is not of value to the physician or 
 patient, however indispensable to success in medicine. 
 
 The Ethics of the Medical Profession demand that not only 
 every formula but that the chemical combinations through all 
 stages of every preparation should be given to them. My apol- 
 ogy for deferring such valuable information until it will be kindly 
 received from a scientific interest in the principles involved in- 
 stead of being treated as a delusion, is based not only upon op- 
 portunities for extensive test cases of curative demonstration, 
 but also upon collegiate opportunities for teaching principles of 
 natural medicine, which are opposed to those that have univer- 
 sally pervaded medical practice. Making no compromise with 
 the irrational therapeutics of general medicine, I have been ob- 
 liged to burn all the bridges I have heretofore crossed, in order 
 to arrive at positive knowledge. My experiments in combining 
 organic chemical elements that easily separate — in the system — 
 to evolve vital forces have been made without the sanction or 
 encouragement of the medical profession, and in compara- 
 tive obscurity, and in a new direction. My aim has been 
 the production and application of such combinations as 
 
— DO — 
 
 would contain natural elements and forces that would aid 
 nature to gain supremacy over disease. Such a proceeding 
 never having received the sanction of the renowned leaders 
 of the medical profession, the publication of experiments 
 (of the chemical process) and formulas without wide world 
 demonstration would have . benefited neither the physician 
 nor his ardent worshipper, for each would have treated 
 them as visionary and impracticable, and like the sower's seed 
 which fell upon stony places where it had not much earth, they 
 would have had no root, and would have been of no service to 
 the world. My experience with a restorative evacuant, which is 
 a fortunate combination apparently demanding no improvement, 
 and without objections, has suggested that there are no limits 
 to the progress of science in explaining the mysteries of disease 
 or the mysteries of nature. It has opened the doors of investi- 
 gation into the mysteries of life by its practical use and has dem- 
 onstrated that the forces of life may be increased, so as to over- 
 come all conditions of disease. This demonstrated must event- 
 ually have its effect in inducing progressive physicians to adopt 
 a rational science, as a basis for their researches into the possi- 
 bilities of natural medication. A restorative evacuant affords 
 this satisfaction : that it overcomes fatigue, gives energy to 
 mind and body, vigor to the aged, and strengthens every func- 
 tion of life. 
 
 It is Beneficent in Securing the Pleasure of Success in Life by 
 protracting it, and by overcoming obstacles to the perfect action 
 of body and mind. Its importance is not less significant in pre- 
 venting the diseases of infancy and childhood that have a serious 
 effect upon the physical and mental habits of later years. It also 
 secures the satisfaction of thorough sustenance and growth and a 
 constant condition of youthful happiness, that not only insures 
 general development but beaut)' of feature and expression such as 
 nature always wears when relieved from the impress of pain and 
 suffering. It is difficult to estimate the economic value of a natural 
 
restorativethat prevents sickness and suffering, that increases years 
 of usefulness, that saves days, weeks and months of watchful 
 care over prostrated cases of illness, and loss of time from the 
 pursuits and pleasures of existence, and that transfers the great 
 expense of employing family physicians to the purposes of thrift 
 and the means to make independence a common boon to man- 
 kind. 
 
 Gold and silver cannot measure the value of a universal 
 remedy that cheaply and quickly overcomes not only all tenden- 
 cies to disease but all general forms of sickness, and that is in 
 harmony with the instincts and demands of nature and is certain 
 in its ministrations to all unnatural conditions of life. It is also 
 certain in producing the same beneficial results upon ever} - in- 
 dividual because its aids all of nature's cheerful forces and sus- 
 tains the emotions of pleasure that tend to development. 
 
 Its value in rapidly removing morbid and poisonous gases 
 from the system, and as a means for overcoming oppression, as 
 it changes the activities that produce disease to those of health, 
 is fully demonstrated by the sensation of relief which it creates, 
 as though it were driving away the foul gaseous shadow of death 
 with its enrapturing glow of vitality. It cannot fail to suggest 
 the superiority of vitalized restorative elements over stimulants, 
 in those cases when the flickering lamp of life is about to go out 
 for the want of the ozonicand supporting force, which this liquid 
 life affords when assimilating nutriment is also judiciously given. 
 
 THE URGENT DEMAND FOR A REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE. 
 
 The most essential service the physician can render his 
 patient is to remove all morbid accumulations and the waste of 
 tissues from every part of the human system without depletion, 
 while at the same time he aids the vital powers, by supplying 
 supporting elements to the circulation, instead of simply fighting 
 
symptoms, by those specifics which may or may not find the 
 elements as a basis of nervous power in the blood necessary to 
 secure the result desired of the specific. Knowledge of 
 the sources of disease is of no less moment than the discovery 
 of available means to remove the main cause. Any one may 
 learn to sound the abdomen by laying the fingers of the left 
 hand flat upon it, and then striking them forcibly with the tips 
 of the fingers of the right hand. The impaction or inactive con- 
 stipated region will be indicated by the dead dull sound pro- 
 duced. Here is where the intestines are crowded full, so that 
 the intestinal gases and fluids do not pass downward through 
 them, but are forced to permeate the tissues, thus producing 
 the varied manifestations by the course they take which are de- 
 nominated symptoms of disease. 
 
 Fomentations and kneading of these portions, together 
 with the persevering and free use of this solving and strengthen- 
 ing cathartic will never fail to unlock these closed gates, and by 
 maintaining healthy conditions in the intestinal tract, send new 
 life to every part of the human system. 
 
 Symptoms Of Disease are the advanced couriers of nature that 
 give information concerning the foes of life. They plead as best 
 they can for rational intelligence and analytical discernment on 
 the part of the physician, that will secure scientific skill and 
 such uniformity of success as the age demands for conquering 
 all disease. 
 
 Pain is the call of nature for assistance in removing causes 
 of inflammation from the nerves. To confess ignorance of the 
 means which will safely and effectually overcome those causes, 
 and to proceed to stifle the voice of suffering by narcotics is only 
 to throttle with a murderous hand and give a stone for bread. 
 
 Restless Nervousness is only the expressed wretchedness of 
 exhausted nervous forces, the need is a restorative supply of 
 elements that will re-establish energy and the vital sources of 
 physical and nervous power necessary for mental equilibrium 
 
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 and consequent contentment and pleasure. Nervous sedatives 
 and quietants when used only produce a lethean slumber, that 
 is but a procrastinating delusion, which ignores the demand of 
 nervous sustenance. 
 
 The Pangs Of Suffering that have been voiced by the victims 
 of narcotics, nervines and stimulants, like the wail of eternal 
 despair, plead at the throne of justice in vain for revenge upon 
 the popular system of medicine and its devotees who have filled 
 the land with fettered slaves of habit, whose only hope of deliv- 
 erance is the grave. Yet with all the known fatalities and in- 
 juries that result from the use of this class of medicines they 
 are yet greedily sought for by the popular medical practitioners 
 of the age. 
 
 The Humanitarian will vainly plead that harmless medicine 
 should overcome the causes of suffering so long as rational 
 causes are overlooked, and there is no r< ward offered for efforts 
 to originate natural medicines that are effective and safe. Such 
 effort would result in professional denunciation and sarcasm, as 
 
 I know from personal experience with my medical brethren, be- 
 cause the precedents laid down for ages by medical authority 
 prevent the dignity of an assumption in this direction, and much 
 more an opportunity for demonstration. The cry of disease and 
 suffering humanity revibrates in dismal wails over the continued 
 wrecks of medical failures. " Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is 
 there no physician there," upon whom I may calmly rest my 
 anxieties in the joyous hope of life ? This answer from the 
 medical profession comes to chill the innate struggle for life. 
 
 II Our medicines are the enemies of life. Poisons we skillfully 
 use to combat your enemies, the diseases of mankind, but we 
 know nothing about positively safe and effectual medicines that 
 will always cure, and never kill. We know nothing about life ; 
 it is a mystery. We only seek to cure the diseases as enemies 
 that pray upon the human system." They egotistically make 
 this thrust of ignorance against the teachings of nature that all 
 
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 organisms result from certain elements and forces, and science 
 is thus crucified by dogmatic authority. 
 
 THE PLEA OF SCIENCE FOR CHEMICAL LIFE. 
 
 The organic nature of plants and vegetables has been rec- 
 ognized by the scientific agriculturist, who successfully improves 
 the vigor and qualities of his crops, by introducing into the soil 
 chemical elements not already found. The mystery of vegetable 
 life has not been a subject forbidden to reason and common 
 sense, or to the discoveries and applications of science. No 
 superstitious medical monks control scientific farming. Conse- 
 quently the plant that is sickly is treated with a combination of 
 elements that are natural to it, and which give it vigor and life 
 by a chemical enrichment of the soil 'from which it draws its 
 nourishment. 
 
 The Devotees of Science and Medicine have been forced to stand 
 aloof from each other, because their methods were antagonistic. 
 While science maintained precise and certain results as a basis 
 of all knowledge, physicians only claimed theoretical and experi- 
 mental knowledge with uncertain results. The scientist has 
 sought fields of usefulness where he was not fettered by the 
 tyranny of dogmatic assumption, which is as cruel to him as it 
 is to the medical investigator, who dares to be free in his search 
 for knowledge. In this natural conflict the meek mediator, the 
 chemical pharmacist propitiates the wrath of the Gods of medi- 
 cine by the inventions of chemical poisons for medicine ; at the 
 same time timidly placing upon the altar of science antiseptics, 
 the active principles of specifics and chemical food, and cries to 
 both good Lord and good devil as he lays up treasures upon 
 < arth with no thought for the hereafter of medicine as a perfect 
 science. 
 
It is not a Difficult Matter tor the scientific pharmacist physi- 
 cian to originate any effective and safe medicine required, or an- 
 alyze my combinations. But he is prevented by the ethics of 
 medicine from even solving the problems of life or the encroach- 
 ment of disease by scientific methods of inquiry that are philoso- 
 phic and independent of the superstitious creeds of medical au- 
 thority. Hence it is not strange that the ignorance of the reg- 
 ular physician should extend to the real causes of disease as well 
 as to the combinations of organic elements in medicine that will 
 overcome those causes and aid the powers of life. 
 
 Rest is Recognized as Indispensable to the victim of overwork 
 and mental exhauston, so that nature may have an opportunity 
 to restore, in her own way. the loss. This is an admission that 
 nature cures when she has the proper aid, and is a strong argu- 
 ment for a medicine which aids all the processes of nature, and 
 is more powerfully restorative than rest or sleep to both physi- 
 cal and mental forces. 
 
 SCIENCE THE NECESSITY OF PROGRESS. 
 
 The mysteries of the past are dissolving before the march 
 of science. The principles of natural forces have been dis- 
 covered and applied to explosives, to locomotion and machinery 
 as well as to the production of light. The range of the senses 
 has extended, the intellect has been stimulated, knowledge is 
 being rapidly disseminated over the world. To the student of 
 nature the elements contain latent forces of unlimited power 
 which need only to be developed by the sagacity of scientific in- 
 vention to become available for all the necessities of mankind in 
 health or disease. 
 
 Electricity was a Mystery, when Volta discovered that it was 
 evolved by the action of acids upon metals, in which oxygen then 
 
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 seemed the procuring element of this wonderful force. It is a 
 mystery still, but science has utilized laws and relations until a 
 great force of nature has become most valuable in its service to 
 mankind. The forces of nature that are centered in the human 
 organism embrace a range of activity that proceeds from com- 
 pounds of metals and oxygen which are full of latent power for 
 organic action. 
 
 Sodium, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium and Phosphorous as 
 well as Sulphur, Iron and Carbon, have such powerful affinities for 
 oxygen, the priestess mother of life, that they seem to demand 
 their natural and proportionate place in the blood, as the royal 
 train that ministers at her sacred shrine. Then why should this 
 mystery of chemico-electrical life be less a study, than electricit}' 
 applied to the arts ? Life depends upon elements and their com- 
 binations, which present to it the largest range of natural 
 sources, and the fewest obstacles that interfere with its delicate 
 sensibilities. It chooses its own methods cf overcoming obsta- 
 cles to healthy action, and insists upon those supplies that are 
 not only natural in elements but abundant in the forces which 
 organic action requires. 
 
 The Responsibility of the Physician requires not only a knowl- 
 edge of the practical application of the elements and forces of 
 life, but a sacred caution in the use of medicines, which in any 
 way obstruct or destroy the operative forces of life, and espec- 
 ially of those that paralyze functional nerves and exhaust organic 
 elements. It is through vital processes of chemical digestion 
 that all forms of nutriment are finally brought first to a fluid and 
 then to a gaseous condition. 
 
 It is the Ultimate Gaseous and Electrical Principles of Life that 
 food and medicines contain which make either available to the 
 purposes of the human system. Oxygen is the active mediating 
 principle of organic change. It brings into service all elements 
 that minister to the need of healthy growth and vigor. It gen- 
 erates the electrical forces of vitality that are combined with the 
 
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 metallic elements of organism. It unites with carbon, elements 
 to form carbonic acid gas which is constantly produced by the 
 chemical changes of circulation. It is lost with the carbon in 
 respiration only to receive larger volumes fresh from the air. 
 The hydrogen of water unites with carbon in the system to form 
 flesh, and nitrogen enters into complex combinations in the pro- 
 duction of tissues, to equalize the activity of oxygenic change 
 in the combinations of aggregative sustenance and of seggrega- 
 tive disorganization with proteid elements. 
 
 There is no Avocation More Sacred than that of the physician 
 in whose hands are placed the lives, the happiness and welfare 
 of his patients. His position in society involves an intelligent 
 and consecrated responsibility and demands his most earnest 
 efforts to bring order out of confusion in medical practice. 
 Consequently he cannot if educated stand before the mirror of 
 nature free from the pangs of remorse, when he neglects the 
 petitions of the medical philanthropist unless he lacks the most 
 essential quality of his profession, an interest in the rational 
 and practical advancement of medicine, as a science. 
 
 That egotistical stupidity and arrogance which lead the 
 physician to boast of his ignorance concerning the elemental 
 sources of life, must inexcusably compromise the dignity of the 
 medical profession, which claiming to be an authorative necessity 
 of civilization, yet ignores the natural fundamental elements of 
 medicine as a science. That timid repugnance which the general 
 physician manifests toward the investigation of nature's modes 
 of action, which would encourage the use of natural medical 
 restoratives does not prevent boldness in persisting to grope on 
 in Egyptian darkness, away from the light of science, insisting 
 upon the use of poisons while he continues from year to year to 
 stumble over the skeletons of the victims of his own ignorance. 
 This obstinacy exhibits servility to an authority whose edicts 
 demand recognition through the tyranny of custom that exalts 
 assumption over scientific progress. 
 
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 NATURE'S ETHICS. 
 
 Compensation which is the practical essence of justice de- 
 mands a commensurate return to the human system of all the 
 elements and forces of life which are exhausted by medicine. It 
 is a robbery to take away from the citadel of life its most reliable 
 of defenses without adequate recompense. Those who meekly 
 submit to authorized methods of medical larceny jeopardize 
 their lives in the hands of protected criminals against nature's 
 laws. He who uses poisonous medicines which destroy the 
 natural forces of life is not less responsible because the process 
 may be slow, than he would be if it were instantaneous. Justice 
 allows no mitigating excuses for the crimes of propagated ignor- 
 ance, though they may be licensed by medical authority, or pro- 
 fessional policy. It absolutely forbids the use of poisons as a 
 wrong against nature and human life. 
 
 The Instincts of the Brute Creation protect and preserve their 
 health and their senses seem keen to avoid poisons. Knowledge 
 and experience should not produce less caution in man. The 
 kind consideration and almost worship extended to physicians 
 by great and good minds are based upon what the profession 
 should be, in its position of honor and service. Hence it can 
 scarcely be construed as slanderous, harsh or pessimistic to con- 
 trast the evils and errors of the past and present with the bright 
 future when nature and science shall coincide. Not only should 
 newly discovered truth be contrasted with error, but error should 
 be so plainly indicated as to prevent careless routine and ignor- 
 ant disregard of the most sacred of all rights, those that pertain 
 to life. The quality and healthful action of fluids, tissues and 
 organs, always depend upon the organic quality of the blood. 
 The emotions and the intellectual and moral faculties are also 
 subject to the vitality of the blood. Hence the importance of 
 studious attention to the relation of a sound mind to perfect 
 physiological conditions. 
 
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 The Quality of Blood is as much dependant upon proper medi- 
 cines as it is upon proper food and proper physiological habits. 
 
 Unnatural Medicine deteriorates the blood and disturbs the 
 proper relation of its elements to the tissues of the system and 
 thus institutes a condition of impurity, resulting from imposi- 
 tions upon the natural cleansing process of nature, as well as 
 upon the blood itself. That morbid condition of the blood 
 which disturbs the functions of the skin and mucous surfaces in 
 eruptive diseases, or produces false membranes in croup and 
 diphtheria, is corrected by a free use of e restorative preparation 
 which quickly solves and removes all arterial obstructions that by 
 their continued presence affect the proper circulation of the blood 
 in these tissues. It institutes also an elastic contractility in the 
 bowels, that secures a downward progress of virulent intestinal 
 gases, thus removing all permeating ethereal tissue impurities, 
 enabling the blood to absorb such elements from the restorative 
 as tend to overcome the virulent character of these diseases. 
 
 When any Portion of the- Bowels has lost their elastic contractil- 
 ity so that there is no downward escape of the intestinal gases 
 there remains a fruitful cause of all chronic affections, which 
 can only be removed by a persevering use of this vitalizing sol- 
 vent. The value of this reconstructive vitalizer which removes 
 obstructions as certain means of assistance against disease is 
 demonstrated beyond question by its power to overcome and 
 prevent the incubative development pertaining to exanthemous 
 diseases by destroying the morbid cultures in which the bacteria 
 are propogated. Whooping cough, measles, scarlatina and 
 small pox are aborted by using this preparation freely in their 
 nrst stages. As a prophylactic it possesses principles that are 
 equally powerful to prevent pestilential epidemics and the ma- 
 larial and endemic scourges that so frequently baffle sanitary and 
 disinfectant efforts. 
 
 Yellow Fever and Cholera are not exceptions to its potent effi- 
 cacy. The certainty of controlling and checking their ravages 
 
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 by this comparatively unknown preparation has only to be full) 
 demonstrated by giving it that candid attention which its unfail- 
 ing success demands. In the hands of every physician, or of 
 every man, woman and child it is a safe and easy experiment 
 that justice requires should be made for the most sacred interests 
 of mankind. Discoveries like diamonds uncut may be for a long 
 time unnoticed, until the genius of some great artist finds oppor- 
 tunity to bring theni before the world. 
 
 The Perfect Mellenium of Physical Happiness has never been 
 prophesied by the sages of medicine nor have they made those 
 achievements to aid nature that would give them exultant hopes 
 for the future of medical science. Why then may they not study 
 nature's methods and her imperative demands, and with one 
 bold effort throw the rubbish of past ages behind them, take one 
 step forward in the great march of human science and the phil- 
 osophy of life, and be men in fellowship with nature. Let their 
 analytical researches be followed by synthetical application to 
 formulate medicine natural to life and its needs. 
 
 The Progressive Significance of Such Efforts may be laudably 
 justified by the fact that their theories of disease neither coincide 
 with nature or science and that disintegration is certain to make 
 its sad havoc upon old institutions of learning and that it is only 
 a question of time when medicine will be thoroughly revolu- 
 tionized by the criticisms of independent investigators of the 
 problems of human life. 
 
 The Significant Failures in their medical treatment (by the 
 most learned physicians), of female diseases, suggest that nature 
 must eventually be consulted for successful means to restore 
 power, activity and perfect functional conditions in the reproduc- 
 tive organs. These diseases have originated in conditions of 
 intestinal inactivity inducing diseased circuits of circulation from 
 retained morbid products, the first cause of general debility and 
 nervous exhaustion. 
 
 To restore vigor and nervous power, to the tissues, consti- 
 
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 pation in the lower bowels and those diseased currents it pro- 
 duces must be overcome and a thorough alterative resolution se- 
 cured by such natural medicine as shall furnish the chemical or- 
 ganic elements which the sexual organs require. The value of 
 restorative medicines is thus demonstrated by their ability to pre- 
 vent and cure female diseases, and to restore vigor and nervous 
 power to the reproductive functions. As a consequence of both 
 a general and special functional debility through the weakened 
 nerves, the muscles and ligaments become relaxed and their elas- 
 tic contractile power of supporting the organs which should be 
 firmly held by them in proper position is destroyed. The loss 
 of this contractile power, which preserves the permanent 
 strength and purity of all of the tissues, allows displacement 
 that cause a continued strain upon the relaxed suspensory sup- 
 ports, hindering circulation and proper tissue change and pro- 
 ducing irritations degraded fluxes, and ulcerations as a result of 
 exhaustions which increase with the attendant nervous suffering. 
 The persistent maladies which arise from the neglect of thorough 
 restorative and strengthening medicines in these diseases have 
 convinced the most advanced and thoughtful physicians that 
 caustics and mechanical supports have been of no avail, and 
 that the medical practioners have blundered in their indecent 
 methods of torturing the female sex with no satisfactory results. 
 
 It is a significant fact that some of the most learned and 
 prominent professors of gynecology are now publicly confessing 
 and bewailing their sins through the medical journals, and turn- 
 ing to restorative methods, as the only practical means of cure. 
 
 The Reproductive System necessarily receives its energy from 
 the perfect correspondence that exists in all the active powers of 
 the animal economy to the concentration of the organic elements 
 and nervous forces that properly maintain thepropagative annex 
 of life for the preservation of vigor and the perpetuity of the 
 race. 
 
 Consequently the perfection and healthy conditions of pro- 
 
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 geny can be secured only through an exaltation of organic activity 
 by restorative vitalizers which overcome debility and disease of 
 the sexual organs, and meet the demands of all the functions 
 of life. It is to the absence of such sources of organic power 
 in the specifics so generally used that sexual weakness and other 
 disorders which they do not reach end in physical and nervous 
 debility. 
 
 The scientific adaptation to the demands of animal life and 
 intellectual activity of powerful medicine free from useless and 
 burdensome or injurious elements, has not hitherto entered into 
 the department of hygiene, and much less into the province of 
 medical science. The life long struggles of the nervous forces 
 against imperfect and burdensome nutrition and the inward foes 
 to life which they produce without assistance by natural medi- 
 cines even in comparatively health} 7 organisms has been over- 
 looked, still this expenditure of vital energy is constantly less- 
 ening the cumulative power and strength of the human system, 
 shattering the constitution and robbing it of that perfection 
 which gives the pleasure of healthful progeny as well as length 
 of life. The quality and progress of the human race depend 
 upon its sources and environments. So the " survival of the 
 fittest" is insured not only by the stamina and force of hereditary 
 power but also by the sustenance and habits that are in best 
 accord with the highest demands of life. 
 
 Civilization is Leaving the Store House of Treasures that nature 
 affords and starves upon husks that do not supply the organic 
 nature of man with pure and unadulterated sustenance. Science 
 must come to the aid of physical and mental wrecks to restore 
 their energy by a supply of those inorganic chemical elements 
 which secure the organic changes that all chemical nutrition 
 must undergo before it can maintain functional activity in every 
 department of the living laboratory of the human system. 
 
 It is a matter of the utmost importance that a revolution 
 should take place in the treatment of all forms of chronic dis 
 
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 ease requiring vitalizing and restorative elements for the blood, 
 in order to secure thorough circulatioh and perfect tissue change, 
 and thus to overcome diseased tissues, abnormal growths or ex- 
 hausting discharges, and produce a healthy condition in every 
 part of the body. 
 
 Dropsy, rheumatism, asthma, eruptions, ulcers, tumors, 
 deafness, chronic inflammations) diabetis, cancerous growths. 
 enlargements, atrophy, paralysis, general debility, impotency and 
 sterility all demand powerful and natural restorative medicine. 
 
 Albuminuria or Bright's Disease, a malady which is not only 
 serious, but generally fatal under the most perfected methods of 
 specific treatment, yields to this restorative method, because all 
 the fluids are corrected and degenerative tissues are reconstruct- 
 ed, through the general change that is effected in digestion, as- 
 similation and natural elimination of morbid elements. 
 
 Scrofulous Abscesses that have made havoc upon the bones, 
 
 and which continue to return at intervals until the blood seems 
 
 filled with scrofulous matter which by expectoration and copious 
 
 discharges produces emaciation and inflammatory suffering, have 
 
 entirely cured by this means and its effectiveness has been 
 
 gnally demonstrated as to excite wonder by its miraculous 
 power over the severed dissolutions of disease. 
 
 THE REFORMATORY TENDENCIES OF NATURAL MEDICINE. 
 
 The success of one alterating and vitalizing general restor- 
 ative which produces such unexampled satisfaction in every con- 
 dition and form of private disease, demonstrates that the popu- 
 lar plan of treating these diseases with mercury, iodine and ex- 
 haustive alteratives, has been entirely opposite to that which a 
 rational study of these diseases should have suggested. For in 
 no form of disease is there demanded more attention to natural 
 alteration, and to tissue-elements in the medicine that are com- 
 plete in their restorative character. This evacuant restorative 
 
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 not only constantly eliminates easily from the blood, fluids and 
 tissues, the different forms of all destructive organic poison 
 which has resulted from these most serious and corroding de- 
 compositions of active concentrated organic elements, but it 
 robs the system of the fluid cultures of bacterial life, by its anti- 
 septic check against disorganization, while it also institutes 
 through the blood and fluids a powerful vital resistance to the 
 inroads of these diseases that prey upon the tissues of the 
 system. 
 
 The Intelligence Of the Age demands a thorough scientific med- 
 ical education which will not excuse the physician for his ignor- 
 ance of the organic changes produced by disease, or of the chem- 
 ical nature of the medicine required to produce desired results. 
 
 His familiarity with the prescriptions that are changed at 
 every visit, to impress the patient with the experimental re- 
 sources of uncertain medicines, must cease to be regarded as 
 evidence of rational medical skill and knowledge. The progress 
 of the age is prolific of practical scientific improvement in all the 
 arts, except the art of treating disease, but it is patiently waiting 
 for a dawn of rationality in the theory and practice of medicine, 
 which will conform it to the principles of science, and satisfy all 
 inquiries about disease. 
 
 Ponce De Leon could endure the hardships of a pioneer in 
 his search over high mountains, and through far reaching val- 
 leys, for a fountain whose waters should sparkle with the crys- 
 talline elements of life, only because he was impressed with the 
 general uniformity and exactness of nature's laws, that require 
 chemical elements and vital principles for the support of vege- 
 table and animal existence. 
 
 All this he hoped to find in in the waters of some mineral 
 spring or fountain. There was too broad a chasm between food 
 and medicinal specifics to satisfy this earnest investigator of 
 nature's laws, and his ardent hopes centered in the discovery of 
 some powerful liquid that should contain the concentrated ele- 
 
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 merits and forces of life. All the mineral and vegetable com- 
 pounds he knew had deluded the hopes of all those who believed 
 that there was a certain specific cure for every disease, either in 
 the vegetable kingdom or from among the minerals of the earth; 
 and yet his ardent intuitive aspiration led him over the sea to a 
 new world to seek for nature's certain fundamental spring that 
 held the principles of life. But modern aspirations for discov- 
 eries which minister to the powers of life, and overcome disease, 
 are opposed by the bold illogical medical assumption, that every 
 known poison has a therapeutical value, in a legitimate form of 
 corrective penalty, which is supposed by the physician to be 
 
 ;sary to inllict upon nature in order to prostrate and scourge 
 the powers of life in order to release the demon of disease, before 
 they can be permitted to make a healthful effort for salvation. 
 
 All Those Superstitious Myths of Medical Literature had then 
 origin in an irrational age in which a profound ignorance ex- 
 isted concerning organic chemical processes and physiological 
 law. Akin to these are volumes of ancient medical literature 
 that contain traditions and fallacies which are handed down from 
 professors of medicine to physicians, and from physicians to the 
 people, as the mysterious abstrusities of a scholastic profession, 
 while they are so plainly of a conjectural nature, and so clouded 
 with inconsistency and ignorance, that to a rational and philo- 
 sophic mind they seem both foolish and absurd. They are so in- 
 capable of explanation or demonstration that they induce a pro- 
 fessional antipathy to all forms of physiological medical inquiry, 
 lest the monumental authority of poisonous medication might 
 sutler before iconoclastic investigations of a rational character. 
 When inquisitive efforts are made to secure information, and they 
 are repulsed by the physician, as presumptuous attempts to pur- 
 loin the consecrated secrets of the medical profession, the intel- 
 lectual inquirer, in the freedom of his manhood, revolts against 
 the surveillance that is thus imposed upon his honest efforts for 
 knowledge, and he deems it an unwarranted assumption in phy- 
 
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 sicians to set up such dominating authority over the inquiries of 
 progressive minds. 
 
 Homeopathy, though it may have dispelled much of the fear 
 of disgusting and distressing potions in the form of severe 
 emetics or of the nauseating and painful cathartic experiences of 
 repulsive medication, has instituted no means of thoroughly re- 
 moving- the general causes of disease or of aiding nature to es- 
 tablish conditions of vigor such as the perfection of the physical 
 and mental constitution requires. 
 
 In all Other Modern Departures from regular medicine the same 
 most important consideration is overlooked. Hence all methods 
 of modern origin have been partial and unsatisfactory. The 
 methods of even modern restorative medicine have been both 
 specialized and crude, so far as a practical supply of the most 
 essential elements and principles are concerned, and the boasted 
 methods ol jugulation have been as incomplete as they have 
 been delusive. 
 
 The Juggernaut Worship of the crude mysticisms of all unex- 
 plainable systems of the past will soon necessarily yield to the 
 relentless march of human progress, that seeks utility in every 
 direction. 
 
 Revolution in Medicine is demanded by the practical intelli- 
 gence of the age, that is seeking light, safety and improvement, 
 and it accepts with mental reservation the services of all forms 
 of medical practice which are enveloped in unfathomable mys- 
 tery. A scrutinizing fear of medicines is often manifested in the 
 facial expressions of those who stand over their loved ones, 
 which evidently annoys the physician, as it pathetically pleads 
 for a method of treatment that will not embrace uncertain or 
 dangerous remedies. 
 
 THE ANTITHESIS AND CONCLUSION. 
 
 Man turns from the gloom and sorrow of the sick room to 
 the shady groves for meditation. He hears a chant of joy in the 
 
music of the insect world, cheerfulness and anthems of pleasure 
 in the songs of the birds, and evidence of delight in the crowing 
 and cackle of the fowls, in the neighing of the horse and the 
 lowing of the cattle. There is a playful mirth among the fishes 
 and reptiles that sport in the gurgling waters. 
 
 In Nature, Health is the Rule, and sickness the exception. But 
 when he turns his thought upon man, clothed with powers of in- 
 tellect and moral sense as the sources of most exquisite and per- 
 lect happiness, he finds him groping in tears, uttering sighs, and 
 wearing weeds of sorrow and grief. Even the cottage of pleasure 
 becomes a scene of gloom as the funeral procession of mourners 
 moves slowly and sadly toward the grave to bury the loved ones 
 who have become victims of disease. In the early ages of the 
 world a nation mourned when a child sickened and died among 
 the royal families of the kingdom. Physicians were almost un- 
 known. Life was simple and free from the long catalogue of 
 diseases, resulting from destructive medicines that have increased 
 the maladies of mankind from age to a 
 
 Plain and simple food was then used to sustain a life of 
 simplicity, and physical labor was not exhausting, when 
 nutrition was limited in its deleterious methods of complex prep 
 aration to a natural appetite. The fruits of the earth supplied 
 the necessary saline and acid elements for the solvent activity 
 of the blood, and a life of physical exercise secured evacuation 
 and tissue change. There was little use of medicine, when men 
 only ate to live, but in this age of luxury, where they live to eat, 
 and strain every nerve to its utmost tension, a natural supporting 
 evacuant becomes necessary to aid nature in its struggles against 
 the consequences of the exceedingly deleterious habits of modern 
 society. The reconstructive elements of a natural medicine that 
 overcomes all constitutional tendencies to disease, that es- 
 tablishes vigor for organic purity and strength, are a plea for its 
 use as a philanthropic agent in the preservation of the race. 
 
 Benevolence and human sympathy demand it for the suffer- 
 
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 ing and also for a reform in medical practice, which may turn 
 back the tide of death and produce higher types of manhood 
 with physical beauty and constitutional vigor, through its life- 
 giving power. This one discovery that has turned medical dark- 
 ness into light, that has so met the demands of the human sys- 
 tem by preventing and overcoming disease, has not greater 
 value in dispelling the gloom that surrounds the bed of sickness, 
 than it has in inaugurating an era of progress in medicine which 
 will tend to bring the boon of health to mankind. Then in the 
 realms of an extatic philosophy the student of nature would find 
 joyous paths, that extend to the temple of progressive medical 
 science, where were displayed the illustrated mysteries of life 
 and the trophies of a conflict and victory over the errors of learn- 
 ing and the assumptions of ignorance that have dominated the 
 medical profession in the treatment of disease. 
 
 History Furnishes Examples of Heroic Men and Women, whose 
 calm resignation arose from the hope of a surcease of sorrow in 
 the grave, and a blissful immortality beyond it. But there is a 
 grander consolation in the confidence of those benefactors who 
 use a system of treating disease that is crowned with general 
 success. It is a grateful and rapturous exaltation of the intel- 
 lect and moral nature that brings forth benedictions upon those 
 whose trophies in the warfare of nature and science are the lives 
 they have saved and the years of youthful vigor they have added 
 to declining years. 
 
 The Principles of Natural Science give both ethical importance 
 and satisfaction to the philosophies of rational therapeutics that 
 insure their consideration among the intelligent masses of man- 
 kind. 
 
 It is Particularly Interesting to the practical utilitarian and phil- 
 anthropist that a mission of devoted service to human sufferings 
 which has been clouded with darkness, uncertainty and distrust 
 should be illuminated with the bright sunshine of hope and con- 
 fidence in the certainty of success in tli«- tre itment of disease. 
 
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 It Brings to the Benevolent a fruitful field of usefulness and 
 gives them a constant satisfaction in their humane and sympa- 
 thetic ministrations to the poor, which not only secure health to 
 the afflicted but also their heartfelt gratitude for the efforts that 
 they have made to open the prison doors to human misery to 
 the race. When they are encouraging the progress of medical 
 science, they are supporting a practical realization of joy and 
 happiness in the world through physical, mental and spiritual 
 development.