HISTORY OF MY DISCOVERY. 



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Spite all the knowledge of human ills and all the science 

 of which the medical profession claims to have a mon- 

 opoly. 



Those persons who have followed me through the pre- 

 ceding pages will see readily why the reward has never 

 been called for. Disease is fermentation, and fermenta- 

 tion without microbes is impossible. Therefore disease 

 must be accompanied by microbes. You cannot have 

 an effect without a cause, and where a particular effect 

 can be produced only by one cause it is at once appa- 

 rent what that cause must be. Nothing is easier than to 

 talk and to say what is and what is not, but talking is 

 of no value in an assertion without proof, and directly 

 we come down to proof my position is impregnable. 

 The few doctors who say that disease can exist without 

 microbes are either ignorant or guilty of wilful deception, 

 and they show their weakness by refusing my offer. 

 When a disease has been years in the system it has be- 

 come almost a part of it. Indeed, there are instances 

 where an old complaint having been apparently re- 

 moved, another, in a different form, makes its appear- 

 ance, showing that an abnormal condition has become 

 so much a part of the being as to be rendered almost 

 normal. In a chronic disease the entire body is more 

 or less involved. But when the trouble has been of short 

 duration only, it may be but local ; or, if not, it certainly 

 has not acquired the same hold upon the constitution. 

 It is therefore very clear why a chronic disease requires 

 greater patience and more steady perseverance if we 

 would remove it entirely. 



The example of the weeds in the garden illustrates 

 this again. Where they are few and of but short dura- 

 tion they yield readily to our efforts for their removal, 

 but when they have seeded through several seasons they 

 resemble a chronic disease in man, and are more difficult 

 to deal with and require a longer time. Then note the 

 effect of weeds, and our illustration goes farther. Ob • 

 serve a field of corn where the land is clean and in good 

 order, and compare it with the adjoining field, where, 



