upon any natural treatment of disease and to condemn the most 
successful natural physicians as swindlers. 
"‘In order to be competent to decide upon a correct course 
of treatment for this disease the physician must possess a 
thorough chemical knowledge of all the fundamental sub¬ 
stances of which the human organism is constructed. With 
the patient therefore rests the responsibility of choosing his 
physician, since no physician can be of any assistance who 
cannot define what substances are deficient in the blood, and 
does not possess the requisite chemical sagacity to supply 
this deficiency by adequate dietetic directions. 
“In my nutrition cell-food therapy for constitutional 
diseases, I have followed consistently the suggestions gathered 
from the words of Privy Councillor Prof. Schweninger of Ber¬ 
lin, who once gave the following instructions in one of his medical 
colloquies: ‘In order to understand a sickness or disease and to 
undertake to thoroughly cure the same, it is first of all necessary 
to unfold before one’s mental vision the ways and means of its 
formation, and by degrees to trace its origin, before one is en¬ 
abled to prepare therapeutic measures comformable to the in¬ 
dividual stages of the same.’ 
“In this sense I have strenuously tried to get at the bottom 
of the inception of constitutional diseases, but the entire medical 
literature did not advance me further than to pathological ana¬ 
tomy, which informs us that the original cause of the disease is 
the change in the form of the cellular elements of different 
digestive organs, in the explanation of which the customary 
technical terms are used, such as atrophy, degeneration, meta¬ 
morphosis, etc. But I reasoned to myself, this surely cannot be 
the origin. 
“The cause for the visible changing of the cellules must be 
sought in the conditional interstitial substances which cause the 
invisible changes or shiftings of the cellular forms, and which 
are scientifically termed ‘changed nutritional con¬ 
ditions.’ 
“With the aid of physiological chemistry I was success¬ 
ful in finding the path to the playgrounds of those mysterious 
occurrences of life. 
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