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men — ay, and women too — who have a great deal to 

 say about disease and medicine who have the stamp of 

 impostors branded on their face. It is not enough that 

 a man shall promise to cure disease ; let him give prac- 

 tical demonstration of his ability to do what he says. 

 Until he has done that, he is unworthy of credence or 

 confidence. It is nothing that he writes books and calls 

 it science, and asks the people to pay for it as such. He 

 must show by actual proof that it is not the outpouring 

 of worse than unpardonable ignorance. Genuine science 

 gives facts and proof that they are facts, so that people 

 who will take the trouble may judge for themselves and 

 be satisfied. 



That is the principle that has actuated me in my dis- 

 covery. I religiously abstain from making any promise 

 which I cannot fulfil. I have stated nothing as a fact 

 which I cannot prove. I have given honestly and as 

 plainly as possible, so that all may understand, the whole 

 history of my discovery, how I came to make it, and 

 what it has done, and there is not a single assertion 

 throughout this book bearing upon the microbe-killer 

 which is not absolutely true. But, to put the whole mat- 

 ter as concisely as possible, the facts which I have dis- 

 covered and which I am especially prepared to prove are 

 these : 



1. The discovery that the cause of all diseases is fer- 

 mentation, and that this fermentation is caused by mi- 

 crobes. Any person who tries to contradict this must 

 show by facts that there is one single disease which is 

 not caused by microbes. 



2. The discovery of the universal remedy which will 

 stop fermentation in the human body without killing 

 the patient or causing injury in any manner. The uni- 

 versal remedy may be called the cure of all diseases. 



In addition to discovering the cause of all diseases and 

 the cure of all diseases, I have conclusively proven the 

 following facts : 



1. That the sick can be cured without regard to symp- 

 toms. 



