THE CAUSE OF ALL DISEASE. 



CHAPTEE I. 



" Would we the mystery of this world know, 

 We must to Nature's deepest recess go." 



— Shakespeare. 



If we attempt to trace back any great element of 

 knowledge to its primary source, we find ourselves in- 

 evitably led up to Nature. Not the Sciences only, but 

 the Arts, the appliances, aids, and engines of modern 

 civilization, the devices of Humanity, the weapons with 

 which natural forces themselves are overcome and by 

 which wondrous powers are controlled and utilized, are; 

 but the outcome of knowledge that sprang from intricate 

 causes in the material world around us, and which ex- 

 periment and experience have put into practical form. 



A great book of revelation has lain open before the 

 human intellect at all times and throughout all ages, 

 which, if properly studied, contains the germ of all 

 knowledge. Its pages are the blue skies and the green 

 fields ; they are seen in the rocks and the oceans, in the 

 rivers and the rain, in the air and the clouds, in the 

 sunshine and the darkness. In Nature's laws we have 

 guides that put us on our way and indicate the course 

 that must be pursued if any useful goal is to be attained, 

 to ascertain how she destroys, what the destroying ele- 

 ment really is, in order that when we know the cause 

 we may go on and look for the remedy that will effec- 

 tually stop this destroying element. 



We are apt to think that man in this nineteenth century 



has arrived at a high degree of civilization. So perhaps 



he has, but it is only relative. The possibilities of the 



future cannot be divined. Yet the expenditure of hu- 



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