INTRODUCTORY 



ment. In men, and especially in women, we get 

 often a long history of subjective ailments and 

 symptoms that may help us to form a diagnosis, 

 or that may make it very difficult to get at the 

 kernel of truth. In both cases a great deal of 

 the sifting process is necessary. But when we 

 have done this, we still treat objectively, we attack 

 by medicines, by vaccines, by various forms of 

 electrical or hydropathic treatment, often with a 

 moderate amount of success and often with none. 



Where we fall short or fail completely, is in 

 our persistent objectivity. The poor owner of the 

 diseased body is almost left out of the problem, 

 and yet in him lies the very fountain of successful 

 healing, a source however that is often sealed, 

 stagnant and sometimes, alas ! that is in opposi- 

 tion, counter- suggesting and frustrating the good 

 we would gladly do. 



The initial fault that has produced the disease 

 may be subjective and due to ignorance, or to 

 lapses from physiological law ; these, if not 

 corrected by knowledge and by will power, will 

 go on recurring. The initial fault, again, may be 

 outside, as from infection, or from some other 

 microbic attack, and in such the attack must be 

 largely from outside, but the proprietor of 

 the disease we mostly treat as a nobody. Is 



