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Cure." "Grape Cure." "Grape Cure." Now we have a cherry cure, peach 

 cure, plum cure, apricot cure, as well as a grape cure. It is simply the fruit 

 juice, the raw juice of the fruit; the natural food substance which is exactly 

 suited to us just as God made it for us. 



We find at the sanitarium a very great use for fruit in various ways; we 

 find it wonderfully helpful, especially in antagonizing this chronic auto- 

 intoxication which almost everybody is suffering from. You have headaches 

 every once in a while, feel dull and stupid — Auto-intoxication. If you will 

 stop eating the greas}^ dishes for a day or two, or three days, and eat nothing 

 but fruit, you can save a doctor's bill and a whole lot of sickness and wretch- 

 edness. Get in the habit of eating plenty of fruit every day. You will be 

 surprised to see how it will antagonize this bilious tendency. Biliousness 

 is nothing in the world but auto-intoxication. 



Do not imagine I am charging you who have suffered from biliousness 

 ■with being intemperate. I said to a lady the other day, who had tawny 

 skin, a tongue that looked as though the city scavenger ought to be after 

 it, a tainted breath, a terrible stench arising from the body, and perspiration 

 had an odor to it, I said "Madam, I think you are suffering from auto-in- 

 toxication." "You are entirely mistaken, sir, I have not taken a drink 

 of whiskey since day before yesterday." 



Auto-intoxication is the condition in which a man has got the distillery 

 within himself, the whole thing, the brewery and all. 



It is these unfriendly germs I am telling about that are feeding upon the 

 meat you eat, the fragments of undigested meat of various kinds that have 

 found their way into the colon, where there are fragments of undigested 

 food stuffs sometimes actually for weeks. What happens to a dead rat, 

 cow or sheep, that lies off in the corner in a warm place somewhere? The 

 same thing happens to that dead sheep or cow that happens to you: Put- 

 refaction takes place inside as well as outside. If it remains in the intestine, 

 it will rot. 



Some of you have tried a beefsteak poultice over your stomach or over 

 a carbuncle or boil — beefsteak poultice. You know what the condition of 

 the beefsteak is. You want it changed in a few hours. Suppose that beef- 

 steak is inside instead of outside. The very same thing happens to it; it 

 has not been digested; it is bound to happen to it, because of the germs 

 that are in it. The codfish and mackerel and salt fish and herring, and 

 various things you buy in the market are simply swarming with germs. The 

 same is true of cheese. Cheese has a great many germs in it; but fortunately 

 the germs in cheese are of a friendly kind almost entirely. I am sure you 

 will thank me for saying that. That is why people can eat such quantities 

 of cheese apparently without doing them any harm. But that depends. 

 There are certain kinds of cheese this is not quite true of. Certain kinds of 

 cheese have the unfriendly germs growing in them; and sometimes, especially 

 Germans carr}' a tin box around in their pockets. A story is told of a German 

 in one of the West India Islands who sat opposite a Spaniard at dinner; 

 and he took out a little tin box and passed it to the Spaniard and asked 

 him if he would have a little. The Spaniard said, "No, thank you," and 

 turned his face to the wall. " Do you think it unhealthy to eat Limburger?" 



"No," said the Spaniard, "I think it an unnatural crime." So it is. 

 Substances of that sort are simply in a state of advanced decay, and they 

 are not fit to go into the body. 



Fruit is one of the most important means of killing the germs off, and 

 disinfecting the germicidal acids in the intestines, which make it impossible 



