GENERAL REMARKS. 
Man is the noblest work of God—the most complicated, 
compact and complete of all other machineries. He may be 
compared to the firmament that has planets of various mo- 
tions and divers magnitudes. And after the most powerful 
telescope has spent its powers and scanned all within its 
reach, yet there no doubt remains millions of twinkling stars 
that cannot be reached by the mortal eye or the most power- 
ful telescope, which may be of great magnitude and import- 
ance to hold the solar system together. So with Man, after 
the telescopic powers have been exhausted in scanning the 
frame work, the different organs, glands, muscles, tubes, heart, 
lungs, arteries, veins and blood vessels, water and air tubes, 
both exhalent and inhalent. But, alas, Man is but a flower, . 
exposed to all the bleak winds of adversity, therefore his 
physical as well as mental parts must be looked after, and in- 
asmuch as the author of this book abandons the use of all 
the poisonous mineral drugs, and almost all concentrated 
mineral treatment, and. discards the idea of bleeding, 
vomiting, cupping or blistering, it will be necessary to make 
a few leading remarks by way of explanation. 
“First, I shall endeavor to show from whence almost all dis- 
eases originate—from the stomach ; for it is the fountain of life 
to man, because it receives all food; both in a solid and liquid se 
form—and by it and the surrounding organs it is digested 
and decomposed, and prepared for the nourishment and sup- 
