“And this was my course of reasoning:—As the cellules, 
which are the smallest individual elements of the human system, 
are only products of the blood, and for their composition re¬ 
quire the different chemical substances in alternating quantities, 
it is obviously necessary to fathom what those chemical elements 
of the cellulues may be, what form they take in their mutual re¬ 
lation to the separate parts of the body, and in what way they 
enter the organism. 
“In this way I obtained a clear insight into the actions of the 
so-called mineral material in the organism, and it gradually 
became clear to me that everything is dependent upon the 
introduction of the proper sanguifying or nutritive salts (some 
call them vitalines) into the blood. 
“On this basis I founded the so-called 'organic nutritive 
cell-food therapy’ (called Dech-Manna Therapy). 
“The point may be raised that the elements of the food we 
eat or drink are heterogeneous and that the mineral matter in 
them is naturally and casually acquired, according to the prop¬ 
erties of the soil they grow in. This is the general opinion, but 
not the fact. Our vegetables, grain, meat and milk contain too 
much phosphoric acid and sal ammoniac, and this is due to the 
use of artificial and animal fertilizers, while the sulphurics are 
very often entirely missing. 
“Von Liebig says:—'When we consider that the sugar refin¬ 
eries of Waghausel have an annual output in the market of 600,- 
000 lbs. of potassic salt, which is taken from the soil by the tur¬ 
nips of the Baden fields without being replaced, and that there 
is cultivated in North Germany from year to year, with the as¬ 
sistance of guano, an immense amount of potatoes solely for the 
manufacture of spirits, and that these potato fields are conse¬ 
quently robbed of the essential ingredients which potatoes should 
contain, and as these elements are only partially replaced by the 
insufficient component parts of the guano, we cannot be in doubt 
as to the condition of these fields. The ground may be ever so 
rich in ingredients, but it is exhaustible. The analysis of our 
blood indicates that, in order to remain well i t must contain 
twice as many sulphuric as phosphoric salts. 
“We talk glibly about a natural mode of living, a mild diet; 
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