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organisms, i. e., the organism that is fully identified with both 
the disease and the patient. No other therapy does this. Second, 
they both employ all the toxic products of tissue change, as 
enzymes, ferments, chemical changes in protoplasmic molecules, 
etc., etc. The tissues react against these in a curative manner. 
No other therapy does this. 
Auto-therapy or autopathy is natural therapy, or, as the 
name implies, self-therapy. Auto-therapy employs nature’s 
weapons in combatting disease; we cannot go behind it. 
Now that the way is opened, other methods of safely admin¬ 
istering the toxic products of disease may be developed. The 
development of several ways to safely place all of the toxic sub¬ 
stances developed during the course of the disease, in healthy tis¬ 
sues is given in the text of this thesis. Any method or system of 
medication that employs all of the autogenous toxic substance de¬ 
veloped during the course of the disease to cure the disease comes 
under auto-therapy. Auto-therapy cures disease with its own 
poisons, not with the altered bacterial poison alone, but with all of 
the toxic substances developed during the course of the disease 
against which the tissues rest in a curative manner. 
There may be other methods developed for preparing the bac¬ 
teria or preparing the enzimes, ferments, etc., but the vaccine to 
be most curative must be used in connection with these toxic 
products of tissue change, in localized and loosely localized and 
possibly non-localized diseases. 
By using nature's weapons we but assist in arousing the nat¬ 
ural forces within the body; they alone can bring about a perfect 
cure. 
Auto-therapy is the link that joins isopathy and opsono¬ 
therapy. 
Auto-therapy has a distinct advantage over even natural 
therapy. By auto-therapy the powerful secondary defenses of 
the tissues the antibodies are brought into play earlier than by 
the slower natural process. The patient is not so reduced by the 
fever, or taxed with the poisons of the disease. By placing the 
poisons of the disease in healthy tissues early and not waiting for 
