CHAPTER V. 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 



I WILL now proceed to sketch my own experiences, 

 from early life till the present, and the reader who will 

 patiently follow me throughout will have no difficulty in 

 realizing that the discovery I have' made cannot fail to 

 effect a revolution in the treatment and cure of disease. 

 The causes of disease in plants and animals have been 

 already described ; I propose now to detail my methods 

 for curing plants, and then give evidence concerning the 

 means I have used for effecting cures in myself and 

 others. 



While engaged in business with my nursery in Austin, 

 Texas, I suffered from an attack of malaria, or intermit- 

 tent fever, and I had recourse to several doctors, who, 

 in the usual way, prescribed for me various drugs. I 

 swallowed the contents of bottle after bottle, until their 

 number became too great for calculation. I took quinine 

 until it failed to have any effect. I lost color and weight, 

 and was afflicted with an incessant cough that destroyed 

 my rest, wore away my strength, and led me and my 

 friends to the conviction that I was soon to become a 

 victim of consumption. My days seemed numbered. 

 All hope of a cure was abandoned. Everything that had 

 been done by the doctors had failed. Their efforts 

 seemed to be utterly useless. Instead of getting better 

 I gradually became worse. I lost energy and the capa- 

 city to attend to my affairs. Every resource known to 

 the doctors thus far had been used, and my life seemed 

 to be passing away, so that but a shrot time only was 

 needed to determine the result. In this emergency I re- 

 sorted to another doctor, who advised me to try the rare- 

 fied air of Colorado, high up in the mountains, where 



