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nite therapeutic advantages attained with their aid, there is no 

 contention, explicit or implied, that the particular proteins thus 

 used have any specific advantages over other types of proteins, 

 of animal or vegetable origin, that may ultimately be introduced. 

 New types of proteins, and new methods of extraction, are con- 

 stantly being sought in my laboratory, and will presently be 

 sought in numberless other laboratories, if I mistake not, as a 

 result of the publication of the present book. It is easily within 

 the possibilities that proteins far more desirable than any hith- 

 erto used may presently be made available. But that is a mat- 

 ter of mere detail. The thing of importance is that the principle 

 of protein response has been so I believe conclusively demon- 

 strated, and that simple extracts of the proteins of alfalfa seed, 

 millet seed, rape seed, hemp seed, clover seed, cotton seed, and 

 the like furnish the therapeutist with new and effective weapons 

 in combating many prevalent maladies associated with disturb- 

 ances of metabolism and the invasion of foreign proteins mal- 

 adies that, in the aggregate, take toll of hundreds of thousands 

 of lives in the United States alone each year, and mar the health 

 of uncounted millions. 



SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE VERSUS EMPIRICISM 



The physician who would handle these new therapeutic agents 

 effectively must have a clear understanding of the principles that 

 underlie their therapeutic action. To that end it is essential 

 to gain a full knowledge of the important bearings of the Pro- 

 teomorphic Theory. I would urge the professional reader who 

 wishes to gain a really comprehensive grasp of the foundations 

 of Non-specific Protein Therapy in general and of Proteal Ther- 

 apy in particular to follow the chapters of this book sequentially, 

 even though he should find some of them repellent because of 

 their technicality. 



When he has done so, it will be clear to him that Proteal 

 Therapy differs from routine medical practice in that it may with 

 propriety be said to be an applied science. Within the wide 

 bounds of the application of the Non-specific Protein method, 

 medicine ceases to be a merely empirical art. No man knows 

 how or why morphine or strychnine or atropine or digitaline pro- 

 duce their perennially observed and perfectly recognized effects. 

 With the Proteals, the case is different. We know how and why 

 they operate. The physiological response that they evoke may 

 be observed and demonstrated under the microscope. The dosage 

 may be gauged in the same way. In administering them, we are 

 no longer groping in the dark, along an empirical pathway. We 

 are practising scientific medicine. 



