14:0 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



of all its terrors. We need not fear it, for the remedy is 

 with us. We can stop it at once and renew ourselves 

 again, even as a house may be painted again and again 

 to preserve it from fungi, which, of course, cannot attack 

 it as readily as though it were not painted. Precisely 

 the same thing occurs in the body when the microbe- 

 killer is applied, as must be evident to those who have 

 followed me through my description of the cures I have 

 effected in chronic diseases. Nothing is more simple 

 than to cure disease when it first begins, provided we 

 deal with it intelligently and according to the directions 

 and principles that I have laid down. 



Any one who goes carefully through the foregoing 

 pages will have to admit that I have set down nothing 

 which is incapable of proof. I deal in no guesswork, 

 empiricism, or theory, but in hard facts ; and these, I 

 think, I have made clear and convincing. 



Man had better never have been created, if he was to 

 be destined to everlasting misery and wretchedness. 

 People's brains are not of equal value or equal force, but 

 everybody has at least some, and, such as they are, he 

 should make the best use of them. They must be very bad 

 indeed if they cannot be made available to do a little 

 thinking, if only just enough to take care of the body they 

 are attached to. The man who, unaffiicted by disease or 

 some natural debihty, cannot take care of himself can 

 hardly expect that other people will take care of him. 

 People should not be led away by every charlatan who 

 jumps up before them and talks ; but as long as the 

 world lasts there will probably be fools in it, and fools 

 are a godsend to rogues. There is a fascination in being 

 humbugged. Make it known to the world that you are 

 going to do some impossible thing, and the world will 

 pay money to come in and see you do it, although well 

 understanding all the while that the thing cannot be 

 done. It is a part, possibly, of the perversity of human 

 nature, which in practice refuses to realize that talking 

 about something and giving proof of it are two very dif- 

 ferent things. There are hundreds and thousands of 



