“During the last thirty years I developed my “Dechmanna” 
based on the law of the ‘Minimum’ and the law of ‘Chemotaxis,’ 
and it has proved to be the most beneficial method for creating 
bactericide blood in the human system since the time of Hippo¬ 
crates. 
“By the law of the ‘Minimum,’ as given by Justus von Liebig, 
one of the greatest chemists the world has ever known, we under¬ 
stand, that if the minutest ingredient is missing in our nourish¬ 
ment, our blood-cells must gradually decline, and the result will 
be disease. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link. At 
present the physiological chemist knows that sixteen organic 
mineral constituents form a blood-cell, and if the blood-cell is 
to be a healthy one, these sixteen ingredients must be present in 
proper proportions and combinations. Otherwise, so-called dys- 
aemia (disarrangement in the bloodcells) will supervene. It is 
unhappily true that we are not taught this in the established uni¬ 
versities of to-day; but the time must soon come 
when a knowledge of the essential principles of my 
method will enable those who so desire, to grasp the truth. 
“The fundamental principle of what we have been discussing 
is ‘Nutritive/ not healing, agents. 
“No prescriptions are required, only the re-establishment in 
the blood of those constituents which are lacking. 
“Upon the basis of a careful diagnosis, the necessary nutri¬ 
tive salts or cell-foods, carefully compounded in accordance with 
the law of chemotaxis must be administered. This law discovered 
by Engelmann, requires that these cell-foods must be admin¬ 
istered in digestible and assimilable forms so that the cells will 
be attracted by the chemical reaction, which may be of a posi¬ 
tive or a negative character. 
“This being so, we can easily build up the tissues, of which 
there are twelve principal ones, by studying their chemical com¬ 
positions and supplying to the system that which is necessary, 
in the form of food. The cell will take care of the rest. Each 
tissue has its specific cell-system, and each cell will be attracted 
only by those ingredients which are needed for the mother tissue. 
“To point the moral with regard to my discoveries, let me cite 
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