cupidity, with its weight of oppression on humanity,—every¬ 
where confusion instead of harmony. 
“Surely the law of cause and effect will produce a reaction 
some day, against our present degenerate system of medical 
science and the method of natural healing will prevail. 
“How else is a general catastrophy to be averted? 
“The process of natural healing is the art of curing diseases 
by natural methods. 
“As natural remedies only those may be included which stand 
as vital conditions in constant relation to the organism. 
“Among these are no poisons or chemical preparations, such 
as were promulgated by Paracelsus and the medicasters; for these 
are abnormal elements to the body, and call forth its reactionary 
powers, and so, being useless, they are eliminated, or, after hav¬ 
ing served their purpose, to suppress one symptom 
or another, they become imbedded in the tissues, there causing 
various forms of medicinal disease. 
“Do we not produce blood poisons enough by our irrational 
modes of living? The human body is a microcosm, a world in 
miniature—and as such, exists in constant interchange with uni¬ 
versal nature. 
“A definite relationship exists between it and the solid, fluid 
and gaseous elements. 
“Solid food, water and air, elements of the universe, must 
become elements of our bodies, if relations with the outer world 
are to be maintained. 
“There must be a constant interchange of matter, and this 
trans-elementation is the cause of life, of health, and of disease; 
therefore we must first of all see that the conditions of this tissue 
metamorphosis are uninterrupted. 
“Food, air, water, light, exercise, must be so furnished that 
the nutrition and metamorphosis of tissue goes on. 
“Skin, lungs, kidneys, intestines, must always be in condition 
to eliminate the abnormal products of decomposition. 
“If then disease be a deranged metamorphosis of tissue, it is 
self-evident that the disease is not confined to one organ alone, 
but that the whole body is diseased. 
“In the treatment we must therefore act upon the whole body. 
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