CHAPTER X. 



THE BLOOD. 



Purgatives, laxatives, and even tonics are generally 

 prescribed or advertised to purify the blood. But what 

 the impurities are which the blood contains physicians 

 and advertisers do not explain. The patient is simply 

 -expected to take his medicine regardless of consequen- 

 ces, without having it proved to him that the particular 

 medicine does purify. Has not the patient a right to 

 know by what process the blood is expected to be pu- 

 rified ? 



If medicine men would take the trouble to examine a 

 drop of bloody taken from a sick person, under a micro- 

 scope of high power, they would see at once groups of 

 microbes and germs of different shapes and colors 

 hetween the discs or corpuscles. The photomicrographs 

 I have made of the blood obtained from sick persons 

 clearly demonstrate this fact (see Plate III., Nos. 10, 

 11, 12). This proves that a blood -purifying medicine 

 must kill the microbes which cause the fermentation in 

 the blood. 



If we test the antiseptic power of alleged blood puri- 

 fiers by placing a little raw meat into them, it will be 

 seen that they do not stop fermentation. This demon- 

 strates that microbes will grow right in these medicines, 

 hence the medicines can never purify the blood, as to 

 purify the blood the fermentation must be stopped. 

 Purgatives and laxatives are excellent for the bowels 

 under certain conditions, and tonics to assist in building 

 up the system ; but they have nothing to do with puri- 

 fying the blood. A remedy that purifies the blood cures 

 all forms of disease, for disease is in the blood only, and 

 when that is clean, sickness is impossible. Considering 



