INTRODUCTORY 



and involved with the harmonious working of 

 the endocrine glands. 



The mind will rise above and triumph over 

 most diseased conditions, but endocrine disease 

 and disharmony will quench thought and faith 

 alike, and thus turn the whole life into failure. 



Tuberculosis may be conquered or for a time 

 ignored, cancer may be removed by surgery, 

 but endocrine disease or abnormality strikes at 

 the very roots of life, of the vegetative system 

 as of the autonomous, and the most powerful 

 mind goes under. 



We must acknowledge that there are a few 

 diseases but very few that we can treat and cure 

 entirely from without, such as ringworm, scabies, 

 and rodent ulcer. The great mass of morbid 

 conditions must of necessity be attacked from 

 within, and yet this in a sense is wrong, for it 

 is not the disease that has to be attacked but the 

 owner of the disease. A very clever writer who 

 writes without a name says, " Know that there 

 are two ways to be rid of a vice, a right way and 

 a wrong way, the one being slow and uncertain, 

 the other being speedy and sure ; for just as the 

 foolish physician studies disease in order to bring 

 about health, so the wise physician studies health 

 in order to annihilate disease, saying to his 



