-PREFACE. 



Through many years' acquaintance with the dis- 

 orders of man and beast, I have learned the principal 

 cause of abnormal conditions. To remove a cause is 

 to provide the sovereign remedy. The " medicine " 

 is no less worthy of confidence because costing abso- 

 lutely nothing and always at hand. 



Instructions which are specially designed for the 

 benefit of novices, will, of course, be recognized and, 

 doubtless, approved of by the veterans who may 

 chance to examine the work. Where the suggestions 

 are evidently intended for the veterans themselves, 

 being in direct opposition to prevaiHng practices, I 

 trust that some will deem them at least worthy of 

 consideration and trial. 



One object of this work is to recommend a re- 

 formed system of feeding, calculated to conserve vital 

 force at points where it is often expended in the most 

 destructive manner, viz. : the digestive and excretory 

 systems. If the digestive organs become diseased, 

 the excretories are certain to be overtaxed, since it is 

 their office to eliminate the foul products of indiges- 

 tion, as well as the normal waste of the organism. 



