PERFECT HEALTH 
HOW TO BE YOUNG AT SIXTY AND 
LIVE TO BE ONE HUNDRED 
FORTY-FIFTH EDITION 
(REVISED) 
Rational >ealtfj bureau 
of Emerita 
LAFAYETTE a* INDIANA 
PRICE $3 "In the race of life the man with educated bowels 
will eclipse the man with an educated brain." 
"And Drugs and Chemicals that work while you 
sleep are a little later going to prevent your work- 
ing when awake."-Elbert Hubbard. 
"Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty 
years."-Genesis 6:3. PERFECT HEALTH 
HOW TO BE YOUNG AT SIXTY AND 
LIVE TO BE ONE HUNDRED 
FORTY-FIFTH EDITION 
(REVISED) 
Wfre Rational Health 
of America 
LAFAYETTE] INDIANA 
1924 Copyright, 1924, by 
The National Health Bureau of America INTRODUCTION 
THIS WORK is published for the purpose of making you better 
acquainted with the true conditions which govern the causes, 
effects and cure of constipation, and to warn you against the un- 
wise use of medicine. 
Approximately nine out of every ten people today suffer in 
some degree from a serious trouble which we call constipation. I 
say "serious trouble," for it has been proven beyond question that 
ninety to ninety-five per cent of the ailments of mankind are trace- 
able directly to constipation. 
The above truths are little realized, for many persons foolish- 
ly look upon this trouble as a mere nuisance or inconvenience. Be- 
cause this disease does not force you to take to your bed, you are 
apt to think little of it. You continue to swallow drugs regularly, 
thereby allowing constipation to flourish indefinitely or until some 
serious kindred disease brings you face to face with its inevitable 
dangers. 
No man is stronger than his bowels, for it is there that either 
health or disease often has its origin. Regular bowels and strong 
digestion go hand-in-hand, and health is impossible without them. 
Bowel health is simply a matter of common sense and all who 
choose may now have it. 
There are several reasons why you are constipated, but no 
good reason to remain so. The importance of bowel health can- 
not be too strongly impressed upon you, for it is possibly the back- 
bone of health and happiness. No man or woman can continue 
along the road of success, either in business or society, who is handi- 
capped by the poisoning effects of constipation. Neither can they 
hope for future health and comfort so long as that treacherous dis- 
ease is permitted to inject into their circulation the germs of dis- 
ease and death. The first concern of a physician is for his patient's 
bowels, and it should ever be your first concern. 
Cure constipation and you have dealt disease one of its death 
blows; allow it to flourish and grow and you lay yourself open to 
the attack of almost every disease flesh is heir to. 
5 I want you to read carefully and to follow every word upon 
this subject that you find in this book. You will see why medicine, 
at best, can usually give only temporary, harmful relief. And you 
will find in these pages a positive and permanent cure for constipa- 
tion. 
And I am in hopes that you will consistently apply the only 
scientific, common sense and intelligent method of using Nature's 
great aid to perfect health. With best wishes, 
Very sincerely yours, 
The Author. 
6 PERFECT HEALTH 
The First Step to Health Is an Understanding 
of the Cause of Disease 
PERFECT health is such a condition of the vital organs that 
their presence is never felt in the human body. In other 
words, health is simply physical unconsciousness, where the 
organic functions are so perfectly performed that they never give 
the slightest hint of their action. 
Whenever any of your organs makes its presence felt and 
you become conscious of heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, stomach or 
bowelf, then you may be sure that the organ felt is in distress. 
The sensation of uneasiness or pain is a plain indication that 
something is wrong in the region of distress. This is a signal- 
Nature's warning for you to beware. Unless you recognize and 
obey that signal by taking immediate steps to correct the trouble, 
your, future health, success and happiness are menaced. 
Most of us are brought into this world healthy, normal be- 
ings. Because of ignorance, carelessness, or abuse, few of us re- 
main so. The main trouble is that persons in health rarely ap- 
preciate their good fortune until it has slipped away from them. 
Disease comes like a thief in the night and, unless you safeguard 
your health, it soon has you bound hand and foot. You no doubt 
remember the day when your bowels were regular, when your 
stomach was strong, when you felt hale and hearty. Constipa- 
tion had its beginning, the bowels became a little less regular, 
they had to be coaxed occasionally with some gentle laxative. 
After that the trouble grew rapidly worse, stronger drugs had to 
be used, and other little torments crept in, such as occasional 
headaches, perhaps, or nervousness, sleeplessness or stomach un- 
rest. We have all had these little warnings, which are too fre- 
quently ignored until something more serious grows from these 
little seeds of misery which constipation plants in our bodies. 
You must not make the mistake of believing that constipa- 
tion is not causing you much trouble. Just because you get some 
relief from medicines and are able to be around is nothing to con- 
gratulate yourself over. You know mighty well that you are not 
feeling as well as you should-no sufferer from constipation does. 
You may deceive yourself by blaming the weather, tough luck or 
some other influence, but the whole trouble is in your bowels, and 
7 you never will feel right again until you overcome this trouble. 
It is all well and good to be optimistic and say: "Well, I've had 
this trouble quite a while and I'm not dead yet; guess I'll feel 
better tomorrow." That may work for a little time, but each suc- 
ceeding tomorrow is going to be a little harder until, finally, you 
will find yourself face to face with some serious sickness. If you 
are not feeling as you should, do not delay, but do something at 
once to overcome the disease which is gradually robbing you of 
your health. 
If you place any valuation on your health whatever, you 
must begin at once the work of driving constipation from you. 
Don't underestimate its seriousness and above all things, don't 
let it get the best of you. Remember, that a constipated person 
is a sickly person and one who is in the direct path of serious 
disease and suffering. 
When you admit that you are ailing, you have taken a big 
step towards health. Many persons do not like to admit that 
they are ailing. They like to wrongfully believe themselves in 
health, and willingly deceive themselves in this respect. That is 
all wrong and a severe punishment awaits all such. If you do 
not have dreamless, refreshing sleep, don't call yourself healthy. 
If you have headaches, languor, or nervousness, you are not fit. 
Backache, torpid liver, muddy complexion and discolored eyes 
are indications of disease the same as dyspepsia, indigestion and 
palpitation. These indispositions are only a few of the children 
of constipation and many others can prove their close relation- 
ship to the same distressing disease. This simply shows that 
constipation, besides being a perfect nuisance in itself, has in it 
many serious consequences-sufficient evils to brand it a most 
dreadful affliction, one that should be removed without delay. 
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, perhaps the foremost writer on 
health in this country, said in a recently published article that it 
was only a question of time before the medical profession would 
be devoting its greatest efforts toward the prevention of disease, 
instead of towards the healing of disease. Physicians in China 
are paid to keep their patients well. When the patient is ill the 
doctor's fees cease until his patient is restored to health. 
Health is as simple as A. B. C. Disobey Nature's laws and 
be sick; obey Nature's laws and be well. This is the basic prin- 
ciple of life and health. 
PREVENTION OR CURE 
8 You imagine that your body is worn out; that's absurd. Do 
you think that the Creator made such a beautiful organism as 
the body, to break down in 40 or 50 years? No! The delicate 
adjustment of your body is suffering from abuse, ill use and 
neglect. But there is no reason in the world why you should 
remain so. 
WILL MEDICINE CURE CONSTIPATION?-NO 
No medicine can be relied upon to give anything more than 
harmful relief. This relief at best is only temporary. The day 
following its use you are far worse off than ever. 
The more medicine you take, the more you have to take. 
Each new dose calls for a second dose; then a third one, and so 
on. Finally, the bowels, liver and stomach are so weakened that 
natural action is absolutely destroyed. Medicine has simply 
caused the trouble quickly to pass from an acute attack to the 
severe torments and dangers of chronic constipation. 
The usual directions accompanying some commercial laxa- 
tive is to take a certain amount tonight, for instance, a smaller 
amount tomorrow night and so on until the bowels act inde- 
pendently of medicine. 
Unfortunately, this will not work. It isn't possible to de- 
crease the dose day after day for the opposite occurs in practice. 
The pill or syrup that works now will be found worthless a 
month from now. You will then be taking two or three pills, or 
you will have switched to some stronger drug in order to obtain 
the results you desire. 
The bowels must move so you keep on dosing yourself, add- 
ing fuel to the consuming fire of constipation. (Day after day, 
week after week, year in and year out, you use this drug, then 
that, hoping against hope for permanent relief). 
This is the life tragedy of thousands who can be quickly 
cured by using the treatment as given in this book. 
I believe that the body is its own great curative agent. 
Health is normal, disease is abnormal. 
The internal bath stimulates the body to activity. That 
means a purified blood supply, the elimination of poisons and 
the strengthening of the nerve centers. 
NATURE THE GREAT PHYSICIAN 
9 Get these things right, and Nature, the great physician, will 
discard all abnormal conditions. 
Remember this, nothing is impossible to Nature. 
Disease has no effect on persons who have a sufficient quan- 
tity of rich and pure blood. It only acts on those whose blood is 
watery, impoverished or impure. 
THE AIR 
The air is not one element, but is formed by the mingling 
of two gases, known to the chemist as oxygen and nitrogen, in 
the proportion of one part oxygen to four parts nitrogen. 
It surrounds us on all sides, yet we see it not; it presses 
on us with a load of fifteen pounds to every square inch of sur- 
face of our bodies, or from seventy to one hundred tons on us in 
all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. 
When in motion, its force is sufficient to level the most state- 
ly forests with the earth; and to raise the waters of the ocean into 
ridges like mountains. 
The breath is the life of the body. Without food a man may 
live thirty, forty or even fifty days; without water he can live 
for several days; but without air he will die in a few minutes. 
Of all essentials to life the oxygen in the air is the most impor- 
tant, consequently the more oxygen we breathe the more life we 
sustain. 
Every time you breathe, you breathe two different breaths; 
you take in one, and give out another. The one you take in if 
you are in the open air is pure oxygen and nitrogen. 
The one you let out is dead poisonous gas and should never 
be breathed again. Those who habitually take in fresh air will 
probably grow up large, strong, ruddy, cheerful, active, clear- 
headed and fit for their work. 
But let us look at the other picture. Those who habitually 
take in the breath which has been breathed out by themselves, 
or any other living creature, if they grow up at all, will grow 
up small, weak, pale, nervous, depressed, unfit for work, and 
tempted continually to resort to stimulants and become drunk- 
ards. 
STARTLING INCREASE OF DISEASES 
In the last 15 years diabetes has increased 50 per cent, syph- 
ilis more than 100 per cent, arterial diseases over 150 per cent, 
and feeble mindedness and insanity over 300 per cent. 
10 THE BOWELS 
Fig. 28.-Section of Chest and Abdomen 
A, Heart 
B, Lungs 
C, Diaphragm 
D, Liver 
E, Gall Bladder 
F, Stomach 
G, Small Intestine 
H, Large Intestine 
I will now describe the action of the bowels in health, show- 
ing you just how they should perform their functions. After you 
have studied this chapter you will appreciate the vital part your 
bowels play in the work of sustaining robust life. You will also 
see how nicely Nature has provided every means necessary for 
regulating their complex action. You will also learn what sus- 
tains this action and how easily it may be destroyed. 
The bowels themselves are hollow, different sized muscles, 
having an average length of about thirty feet. To find room in 
the body these muscles wind and twist throughout the abdomen 
in many kinks and turns, now to the right, then to the left, up 
and down. Nature placed them there for a most important three- 
fold purpose: to complete the work of digestion; to supply the 
blood with nutriment or repair elements; and to carry out of the 
body all waste matter. 
11 To facilitate this description, suppose we follow a meal from 
the, time it enters the body to the time it leaves it. This is the 
meal of a healthy person. Now then! Ordinary everyday food 
is chosen, chewed, then swallowed. As soon as this food reaches 
the stomach that organ begins its labor of digestion. The gastric 
juice is secreted into the stomach and thoroughly mixed with the 
food by the strong, muscular action of the stomach muscles, 
which toss the food around and around until the first step in the 
operation of digestion is completed. 
The food then passes from the stomach into the duodenum 
or second stomach and on into the small intestines, where the 
bile and pancreatic juices are introduced. The food is now in 
shape for ready assimilation, for it has been converted into the 
proper proportions of sugars, fats, etc. 
The body is constantly undergoing repair. Every action, 
every thought or impulse is a drain against our energy. The tis- 
sues of the body are constantly being used up and the life cells 
are forever being oxidized or burned up. To make good this 
constant waste-food is introduced into the body and so treated 
that the blood can take from it every element necessary in keep- 
ing the body in good repair. This process of supplying the blood 
with needed materials is called assimilation, and the bowels 
supply the work that makes this process successful. 
Therefore, the necessity of bowel and stomach health is ob- 
vious, for without it your whole body will become diseased, but 
by keeping your bowels and stomach clean you will avoid all the 
ills that flesh is heir to. Isn't that a wonderful fact? And the 
best part is that it offers opportunity to all. A disease cannot 
get into a clean body, and a disease cannot live in a clean body. 
A body clean inside and out is a well body. 
The food, after being thoroughly digested, is slowly moved 
along by the muscular action of the bowels, and in this journey 
it encounters about twenty million-think of it!-20,000,000 lit- 
tle mouths, called lacteals, each sucking from the food its par- 
ticle of nutriment and strength. The blood fastens hold of this 
precious burden, kidneys, liver and lungs purify it, and the cir- 
culatory system, impelled by healthy heart action, carries it here 
and there throughout the body wherever repairs are needed, to 
build up that which is constantly being torn down. As the food 
mass in the bowels is forced along, it is gradually robbed of its 
life-giving elements until finally it is ejected into the large intes- 
12 tine, which is the waste bag of the body, and it should then be 
expelled at once and not lie there for twenty-four hours, as is 
usually the case. 
"Wisdom declares that it is not so much what we eat, but 
how well we eliminate, that decides the issue of health and dis- 
ease." 
"Three times in twenty-four hours foodstuffs are taken into 
the body, and as many times the bowels should be freed of the 
accumulated waste." 
"Constipated people, semi-constipated people, irregular peo- 
ple and twenty-four-hour people are not healthy." 
Nature demands activity of all her creatures; her constant 
demand is to keep moving, and in the bowels this order must be 
obeyed to the letter or trouble results. 
It is constipation that causes stomach trouble by causing 
an undue retention of food in the stomach, and when your food 
remains in the stomach it sours and ferments, forming a gas that 
causes the stomach to get in the way of the heart, slowing down 
the action of the heart, causing shortness of breath, headache, 
dizzy spells, etc. And worst of all, when the food sours in the 
stomach the most of the nutriment is lost, as the blood does not 
want anything that has been poisoned by fermenting and the re- 
sult is you eat and eat and it does you no good. 
The main cause of constipation is not answering the call of 
nature, which causes the waste matter to lie in the large intes- 
tine, and after it has lain there for three or more hours 80 per cent 
is absorbed into the blood, and what is left in the large intestine 
is left there in a hard, dry, sticky state. 
Inattention to the calls of Nature will be followed sooner or 
later by bad results. When the nerves of the intestinal tract 
notify the brain that the intestines are loaded with waste, it is 
essential to health that Nature's call be obeyed immediately. 
When the call is neglected and desire passes away, and the pois- 
onous substance is retained and impairs the sensibility of the 
tract. 
The absorbents (the blood) take up the fluid part of the 
waste, poisoning the blood and the entire body, including the 
brain. This absorption renders the waste matter hard and trou- 
blesome to expel. The overloaded bowels cause pain and sick- 
ness. The distention of the colon (the large intestine) impedes 
13 the circulation of blood in the other organs and thus causes con- 
gestion of the portal system which concerns the liver. In women 
it causes inflammation of the womb and ovaries, displacements 
and menstrual trouble. The unnatural presence of waste in the 
colon deadens the nervous sensibility of the bowels so much that 
powerful purgatives are required to excite them to action; and 
the use of purgatives gives only temporary relief, because they 
are unnatural aids. They must be used repeatedly and the dose 
increased and derangement of the stomach is bound to ensue. 
POISONED 
We are a people poisoned through constipation and diarrhea, 
two affections that derange more lives than all other conditions 
together. If we will keep the stomach and bowels clean we will 
banish the poisons from the human race, poisons that cause every 
disease known to the human body. 
LAXATIVE DRUGS, PURGATIVE OILS, CATHARTIC 
SALTS, ETC. 
Epsom, Rochelle, Glauber and Thermal Salts and How They Act 
These chemicals produce bowel action by absorbing water 
from the blood. By robbing the blood of this much-needed fluid, 
they permit a violent flushing of the bowels. The water is ab- 
sorbed into the intestines in such amounts that the food literally 
runs from the body in a semi-liquid state. Thus the taker of salts 
merely provides a bowel wash day at the expense of the blood. 
The reaction from salts is always very severe and the bowels be- 
come terribly constipated after their use. The reason for this is 
the action is so violent that the bowels become irritated and 
weakened from the unnatural efforts. They were not designed to 
withstand such severe exertion. Frequently the irritation is so 
acute that serious attacks of diarrhoea result. 
Besides impoverishing the blood, weakening the bowels, etc., 
the stomach is quickly upset, for salts greatly interfere with 
healthy digestion. They destroy the digestive fluids and the 
other organs suffer by being deprived of the water which they so 
badly need to eliminate waste. 
People who depend upon salts for bowel action usually have 
weak stomachs, thin blood, etc. The more salts you take the 
14 more you destroy the natural functions of the bowels. Do not, 
for your health's sake, ever take another dose of purgative of 
any kind. 
It isn't the drug, but your system which acts. Ever think of 
that? When you take one of these poisonous drugs into your 
system Nature expels it as quickly as possible. This is done by 
means of the violent and irritating action of the eliminating or- 
gans-bowels, kidneys, etc. The drug has to pass through the 
entire body, and it irritates and inflames every organ it comes in 
contact with. Teeth, throat, stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and 
bladder are insulted, for what purpose? Merely to force an un- 
natural action of the bowels. If you want natural bowel reg- 
ularity and health you must never take laxative medicines of 
any kind. 
CONSTIPATION AND ITS EFFECTS 
I have told you that about ninety-five per cent of the ills of 
mankind find their beginnings in constipation. I shall now prove 
the entire truth of that startling statement. The vast number 
of these diseases make it impossible for me to devote much time 
to each, but I will take the most common ills and show just how 
constipation permits them to take root and flourish. 
You have seen how the needs of the body are secured from 
the blood and how the blood gets its nourishment from the food. 
Understanding this, it is little wonder that constipation causes 
such a multitude of diseases and suffering. When the bowels are 
irregular and constipated, you carry around for hours, and even 
days, quantities of decomposed animal and vegetable matter 
which is giving off poisonous gases and irritating all the nerves 
and delicate tissues of the entire body. 
The products of fermentation formed in this mass not only 
destroy the sensitive membrane lining of the intestinal canal, but 
they inflame the bowel walls to such an extent as to destroy the 
natural peristaltic action of the bowel muscles. Constipation 
causes the appendix to become inflamed, pus is formed and the 
fatal appendicitis makes you a candidate for the surgeon's knife. 
It is also the cause of irritation of the ovaries and displace- 
ment of the womb in women and constriction of the seminal 
glands in men. The above are caused by pressure from an over- 
loaded sigmoid flexure due to constipation. 
Piles are caused by having the sensitive hemorrhoid veins 
elongated and enlarged by overcrowding the rectum with hard, 
15 dry waste matter. The nerves of the intestines are a part of 
the general sympathetic nerve system and, therefore, connect 
with the brain. When constipation irritates these delicate nerve 
centers, the brain feels the harm sympathetically, and there is 
nervous headache, brain fag, listlessness, sleeplessness, mental 
fatigue, loss of memory and a general breakdown of one's former 
mental capacity. 
The importance of pure blood supply is well known, and that 
supply is furnished in the bowels. When the food clogs for even 
a short time, it begins to sour and ferment; forming a congenial 
feeding ground where countless disease germs multiply. Because 
of that fact, constipated bowels have been called "microbe incu- 
bators." These germs produce toxin poisons, which cause much 
disease and misery. The lacteals, reaching out into this stinking, 
fetid mass or poison, absorb into the circulation these deadly 
toxins. They cause a rapid disintegration of the blood corpus- 
cles, and when carried to the liver they cause the liver cells to 
degenerate. The liver tissues are replaced by fatty globules and 
the disease resulting is known as fatty degeneration. Other liver 
disorders arising are biliousness, jaundice and torpid liver and 
their resultant torments, such as coated tongue, discolored eyes, 
foul breath, bad taste and laziness, languor or drowsiness. 
The absorbed poisons pass on to the kidneys and by pro- 
ducing similar changes pave the way to serious diseases in that 
organ and to kindred sufferings, such as rheumatism, backache, 
swollen hands and feet, puffy eyes, etc. The kidneys are able to 
discharge much of their poisons through the urine, but the harm 
does not end there, for irritation develops in the bladder and the 
large deposits of poison in the urine are very apt to cause gall 
stones or gravel. 
Constipation also causes palpitation of the heart, for this 
organ is overworked in its efforts to pump the poison-loaded 
blood through the body. These poisons often lodge in some weak 
spot and cause fevers or they may be deposited on the surface 
in the form of boils, pimples, blackheads, etc. The blood is not 
properly supplied with the repair elements, so the digestive fluids 
are scant and indigestion results; or they are sour and ferment, 
causing gas, sour stomach, and dyspepsia. Many specialists 
claim that constipation leads to the blues, acute melancholia and 
in many cases, insanity. Constipation destroys sexual strength 
and desire. It aids asthma, eczema and insomnia. It causes such 
16 serious bowel complaints as rectal catarrh, rectal ulcers, rectal 
prolapsus, fistulas, chronic diarrhea, dysentery and intestinal in- 
digestion. Profuse and painful menstruation most often result 
from constipation. The blood becomes surcharged with poisons 
and is so impoverished from frequent doses of cathartic chem- 
icals that the menstrual flow is irregular and weakening. There 
are other severe sicknesses which have their beginning in con- 
stipation. This is enough to prove that constipation is a dread- 
ful disease. It is bad enough in itself, but in its many conse- 
quences it is terrible. 
WATER 
A large quantity of water is necessary to carry on the func- 
tions of the body. Water enters every cell and every fibre of 
the body, aiding in nutrition and in the elimination of worn out 
tissues which, if retained, turn into poisons. 
It is astonishing the millions of people there are that drink 
little or no water at all, and especially amazing is it to find this 
lack of sense in people who are suffering from the worst disease 
in the world-constipation. One would think that they, above 
all others, would see the wisdom of washing out the thirty feet 
of sewer through our body. But, oh, what a few there are that 
even give it a thought. 
Three-fourths of our body is composed of water, and, as 
stated above, water must enter every cell and fibre, and in order 
for Nature to do her work and for us to be healthy, we must 
drink at least three quarts of water daily. 
It is a foolish thing for any person to tolerate constipation 
or even semi-constipation caused by the twenty-four hour habit 
of going to the toilet. And next to this foolhardiness is the 
neglect in the matter of drinking every day of your life not less 
than three quarts of pure water to aid in the proper circulation 
of the blood, and in the proper elimination of the waste from 
the body. 
Hot water acts as a stimulant, and it will nearly always give 
instant relief to a foul stomach and intestines. 
Dr. A. B. Jamison, of New York City, says: "If we would 
keep our stomach and bowels clean we would avoid every ill 
known, except those due to accident," and the only way we can 
17 keep our stomach and bowels clean is to get rid of constipation 
and then to drink plenty of water daily. One pint of hot water 
in the morning before breakfast and at least five pints of cold 
water during the day. Not ice water. 
Tea and coffee are in the same category as alcoholic stim- 
ulants. The only difference is in degree, and tea and coffee 
through their more general use do quite as much harm as alcohol. 
The man or woman who would know the full strength and 
length of life should not make a habit of using any one of these 
stimulants. I beseech you to form the habit of drinking plenty 
of water even if it takes you years to do so. 
If you will follow the advice given in this book you will 
know what perfect health is. 
GASTRIC JUICES 
The amount of gastric juice secreted in twenty-four hours 
in the body is about eight pints; of pancreatic juice, one pint; 
of bile there are about two and one-half pints, and of saliva about 
two and one-half pints. Or, fourteen pints in all; think of it, 
seven quarts every day. It is estimated that the juices secreted 
in a man weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, are about 
twenty-five pounds in every twenty-four hours. It is necessary 
that the body do this to carry on the work of digestion properly, 
and to do this the body requires not less than three quarts of 
fresh water daily. 
HOT WATER OR COLD WATER 
You must drink water. As a rule the influence of hot water 
is more pronounced. It is of course understood that under cer- 
tain conditions, such as in fever, cold water only should be used. 
Chief among the benefits of hot water drinking are the following: 
(1) A stomach bath-leaving this organ fresh and clean for 
the coming meal. 
(2) The cure of constipation, not only through the stimula- 
tion of downward peristalsis, but by supplying the liquid neces- 
sary for healthful functioning in this respect. 
(3) Improved appetite and assimilation. 
(4) Improved or accelerated circulation, with increased 
fluidity of blood, thus practically flushing or washing the blood 
vessels. 
18 (5) Bath for other internal organs, so to speak; washing 
out the kidneys, liver and other organs, and stimulating their 
functional activity. 
(6) Stimulating the secretions of all glands. 
(7) Improved elimination, with the consequent purification 
of the blood and the prevention of disease through the cleansing 
effect upon the system. 
(8) Bladder washing, especially in diseased conditions. 
(9) Relief of colic or spasm, through the relaxing influence 
of heat internally supplied. 
(10) General results in the way of increased weight, im- 
proved skin and color, purified blood, and the better health that 
goes with it. 
It is generally supposed that food does not remain in the 
stomach more than a few hours, ordinarily about two hours. But 
in many cases, and especially where the stomach is weak and the 
digestion poor, food may be retained in the stomach for many 
hours longer. 
Hot water drinking is the one effective, simple, natural 
method for overcoming a condition of this kind. What are known 
as "stomach headaches" may be thus relieved, through the direct 
removal of the cause. In fact in some cases a headache of this 
type can be relieved almost as quickly through hot water drink- 
ing as through the use of "headache powders," which act through 
the paralyzing effect of some powerful drug contained in them. 
To those in delicate health the drinking of cold water is 
sometimes depressing, inasmuch as considerable animal heat is 
required to bring it up to the temperature of the body. Those 
who are troubled with poor digestion or any form of alimentary 
trouble should find hot water drinking a boon, not only because 
of the cleansing of the stomach already mentioned, but because 
of the direct stimulation of the glands providing the digestive 
juices. Those who suffer with autointoxication or excessive 
formation of gas should make a feature of this form of treatment. 
In nearly every newspaper you pick up you will read some- 
thing like the following: 
19 "SAYS HOT WATER EACH DAY KEEPS THE 
DOCTOR AWAY 
"Drink a glass of hot water before breakfast to wash the poisons 
out of the system. 
"Life is not merely to live but to live well, eat well, digest well, 
work well, sleep well, look well. What a glorious condition to attain, 
and yet how very easy it is if one will only adopt the morning inside 
bath by drinking a glass of good hot water. 
"Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when they arise, 
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid 
stomach, can instead feel as fresh as a daisy by opening the sluices of 
the system each morning and flushing out the whole of the internal 
poisonous, stagnant matter. 
"Every one, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning, 
before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water to wash indigestible 
waste, sour bile and poisonous toxine, thus cleansing, from the stom- 
ach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day's waste, sweetening and 
purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the 
stomach. 
"The action of hot water on an empty stomach is wonderfully in- 
vigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and 
acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast." 
You will read the above in nearly every newspaper you pick 
up, except they tell you to put something in the water. You don't 
need anything in the water. It is the water that does the work. 
If you will cure constipation and then drink a cup or more 
of hot water every morning and plenty of cold water during the 
day, you will never have stomach trouble of any kind or appen- 
dicitis. Don't you think it is well worth the trouble? 
RAVAGES OF SOCIAL DISEASES MORE DISASTROUS 
THAN EFFECTS OF WAR 
The most horrible of all evils has crept into the bodies, and 
even the souls, of this generation. We have recently had many 
appalling examples of the horrors of war. Shot, shell and 
bayonet can tear human bodies into shreds. Famine sometimes 
counts its victims by the hundreds of thousands. Fire, floods and 
tornadoes have played havoc with human lives. 
But all these cruel, devastating forces are more than equalled 
in horror by the venereal taint. Venereal disease comes on you 
silently. It is usually the result of an indiscretion, but sometimes 
attacks one who is not to blame. And once it has touched you it 
begins to eat its way into your life centers. Millions upon mil- 
lions have paid the heavy penalties that it exacts. 
20 WARN BOYS AND GIRLS 
Warn boys and girls in a manner that cannot possibly be 
mistaken, and then if they have to pay the penalty for their sins, 
they, at least, cannot blame their parents. One of the gravest of 
all responsibilities is that of the parent to his child. And woe 
unto him who fails in this regard! Growing boys should know 
the truth. Nothing should be kept back from them. And the 
girls? Must they be reared in seclusion? 
Does the average parent imagine that a girl is not strongly 
influenced by sex emotions? Next to the desire for food, this is 
the most powerful instinct of all human life. You cannot crush 
or hide it in a girl any more than you can in a boy. 
And a girl must be taught the truth. There is absolutely no 
reason why she should not know as much about this important 
theme as her brother. Some day, if her life is at all normal, she 
will be the mother of some man's children. No father or mother 
could possibly question a girl's just right to possess knowledge 
which is essential to protect her future progeny from the venereal 
taint. 
No girl wants an infected man for a husband or for the 
father of her children. She has a right to know how to protect 
herself, how to avoid danger. She should know enough about 
the signs of the disease to make it possible for her to avoid even 
associating in friendship with those who might be infected. 
Don't fail to read pages 51 to 57 and page 146. 
SPECIAL NOTICE 
Don't fail to read page 144 of this book, "THE ABUSE OF 
THE MARRIAGE RELATION.' 
A NEW LEASE OF LIFE 
If you eat nuts each clay you will not crave meat. If you 
eat apples and other fresh fruits you will not crave stimulants. 
Drink hot and cold water and hot and cold lemonade, and fruit 
juices instead of tea, coffee and soft drinks, and you will take 
on a new lease of life. 
WHY ARE WE TIRED? Tired feelings are the result of 
fever from getting too much food in the body. 
21 THE IMPORTANT BODILY FUNCTIONS 
OUR HEART 
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The heart-you all know where it is. It is the most won- 
derful little pump in the world. There is no steam-engine half 
so clever in its work, or so strong. There it is, in every one of 
us, beating, beating, all day and all night, year after year, never 
stopping, like a watch ticking, only it never needs to be wound 
up. Nature winds it up once for all. 
There are about 970 miles of blood vessels in our body. The 
blood completes a circuit from one hand to the other in twenty- 
four seconds. Under ordinary circumstances all the blood makes 
a complete rotation every two minutes, passing through the 
heart, the capillaries of the lungs, the arteries, the capillaries of 
the extremities, and through the veins. 
The amount of blood expelled by each contraction of the 
heart is about four ounces, therefore the weight of blood moved 
during one minute will be eighteen pounds. In one day it will 
be about twelve tons; in a year four thousand tons; and in sixty 
years two hundred and forty thousand tons. 
Think of the great work that is being carried on in our body 
all the time, by our heart. And the free drinking of water helps 
our heart action wonderfully. 
The heart of a turtle will pulsate, and the blood circulate for 
a week after its head has been cut off; and its heart will throb 
22 regularly many hours after being cut out. The heart of a frog 
or serpent, separated entirely from the body, will contract at the 
end of ten or twelve hours; that of an alligator has been known 
to beat twenty-eight hours after the death of the animal. 
Among the organs of the body the lungs are unique. They 
are the lightest organs in the body; they are the most elastic 
organs in the body; they are the most passive organs in the body. 
The lungs of a healthy adult weigh only forty-two ounces. The 
right lung is somewhat larger than the left. The lungs are pass- 
ive. They have no muscles of their own, no power of their own. 
The size and activity of the lungs depends upon the size and 
flexibility of the chest wall. 
OUR LUNGS 
The capacity of the lungs-in the adult, is three hundred and 
twenty cubic inches, the ordinary breathing air is only about 
one-sixteenth part of that volume, or twenty cubic inches. 
During ordinary calm respiration, we breathe eighteen times 
a minute, seventy-eight gallons of air per hour or sixty barrels 
per day. See that it is pure. 
Our lungs are composed of about six hundred million (600,- 
000,000) little air cells, and it has been estimated that in draw- 
23 ing a full breath, a man exerts a muscular force equal to raising 
two hundred pounds placed upon his chest. 
While our heart is pumping our blood through our lungs 
these six hundred millions of little air cells are taking thirty 
quarts of deadly carbonic acid gas out of the blood every hour, 
and the blood in turn is absorbing about the same amount of 
oxygen (pure air). 
That is the work of the lungs, and for us to be healthy we 
must have plenty of pure, fresh air, and you should practice the 
habit of deep breathing while in the open air. Form the habit of 
doing this when you are walking. Nature intended that we 
should live in the open air all the time. You should never sleep 
in a closed room; it only takes a very short time for the air to 
become impure in a sleeping room. 
History furnishes many painful instances of the effects of 
being forced to breathe the same air over and over again. In 
1756, of 146 Englishmen imprisoned in the Black Hole of Cal- 
cutta, only twenty-three, at the end of eight hours, survived. 
After the battle of Austerlitz, 300 prisoners were crowded into a 
cavern, where, in a few hours, two-thirds of their number died. 
And yet we see our picture shows, theatres, lodge halls, 
churches, etc., crowded, with very little ventilation, and worse 
than all this is the habit of people sleeping in rooms at night 
without the windows wide open. Oh! if you only knew the value 
of the open window day and night. 
Quit buying so much medicine, and buy more covers for your 
beds and sleep with the windows open, and it will do you more 
good than all the medicine ever bottled. 
If people would sleep in the open air and live in the open air 
and drink plenty of good pure water, and eat the right kind of 
food, there would be no such thing as disease. Consumption is 
lung starvation. 
Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., the famous authority on pure food 
and health, says that in treating a tubercular patient the principal 
food should be milk, eggs, and whole wheat bread, and that he 
should live in the open air and not engage in any exhaustive 
business or exercise. 
THE BLOOD 
Every living organism of the higher sort, whether animal or 
vegetable, requires for the maintenance of life and activity a 
24 circulatory fluid, by which nutriment is distributed to all its 
parts. In plants, this fluid is the sap; in insects, it is a water and 
colorless blood; in reptiles and fishes, it is red but cold blood; 
while in the nobler animals and man, it is red and warm blood. 
You feel quite sure that the blood is red, do you not? Well, 
it is no more red than the water of a stream would be if you were 
to fill it with little red fishes. Suppose the fishes to be very, very 
small, as small as a grain of sand, and closely crowded together 
in the whole depth of the stream, the water would look red, 
would it not? And this is the way in which the blood looks red; 
only observe one thing, a grain of sand is a mountain in com- 
parison with the little red bodies that float in the blood, which 
we have likened to little fishes. 
If I were to tell you that they measure about the 3200th part 
of an inch in diameter, you would not be much the wiser; but if 
I tell you that in a single drop of blood, such as might hang on 
the point of a needle, there are a million of these bodies, you will 
perceive that they are both very minute and very numerous. 
The blood takes in the oxygen from the lungs, and gives off 
carbonic acid gas (impure air). Oxygen is the food of the blood 
corpuscles; while the food we eat goes more directly to the 
plasma of the blood. The air then, it is plain, is a sort of food, 
and we should so regard it, and see that it is pure. 
Three times in each minute the blood makes a circuit carry- 
ing oxygen to the tissues and poisons to the lungs to be thrown 
off. Full use of the lungs always means strength. Breathing is 
the most important act of our lives, because one-third of all the 
waste and poisonous matter resulting from the change of body 
tissue is excreted through the lungs. The blood picks up these 
poisons in all parts of the body and carries them to the lungs, 
where they are given up, and exhaled with the breath in the form 
of carbonic acid gas. 
The impure blood goes from the heart to the lungs, from 
which it returns to the heart purified of its poisons and laden 
with life-giving oxygen. Three times in each minute is this 
circuit from heart to lungs made by the blood, the blood carry- 
ing oxygen to all parts of the body and relieving it of its poisons, 
which are carried to the lungs, there to be given up with the out- 
going breath. 
25 Just think a moment of the importance of right breathing 
and active circulation as a means of maintaining the health of the 
body; the oxygen is the life of the blood, and the blood is the 
life of the body. 
The stomach is about the size of your two fists and is lined' 
with a mucous membrane, which contains glands which secrete 
gastric juices, eight pints of which should be secreted daily in the 
normal adult's stomach. 
The gastric juices act on foods containing nitrates, such as 
meats, milk, nuts and eggs. The stomach receives only the men- 
tal ether out of the food. 
Be kind to your stomach. A clean stomach means a strong, 
wholesome body. It means that the blood contains the elements 
which are essential to give vitality and vigor to every cell within 
the body. Disease is no mystery. Whenever you have a symp- 
tom of any kind indicating disease, search for the cause in your 
stomach or alimentary canal. 
Beware of ice water. A wine-glass full of ice water causes 
the temperature of the stomach to fall thirty degrees; and it re- 
quires a half hour before it will recover its natural warmth, which 
is about a hundred degrees. 
THE STOMACH 
DUODENUM 
This second stomach receives the gases out of the food. As 
the food enters the duodenum, three new fluids act upon it, the 
Intestinal, Pancreatic and Bile. All are alkaline and tend to 
neutralize the acid as it comes from the stomach. 
SMALL INTESTINES 
Our twenty-two feet of small intestines are lined with about 
twenty million (20,000,000) little mouths, called lacteals, that 
suck the nutriment out of our food to build up the waste tissues 
that are being destroyed all the time. 
Just stop and think of the necessity of keeping these twenty 
million little mouths clean, so that they can do their work prop- 
erly, and it can only be done by drinking plenty of WATER, 
not beer, tea, coffee, coca cola, soda water, etc. 
26 THE KING OF THE BODY-THE LIVER 
The liver, which is the largest organ in the body, is also one 
of the most important. It not only produces the bile, but has a 
very important work in the changing of foods into such material 
as may be assimilated or used by the cells throughout the body. 
It is part of the function of the liver to bring about chemical 
changes in albuminous foods which make it possible for the tis- 
sues to assimilate them. 
The liver has an important function in connection with the 
excretion of broken down bodily tissue, converting this dead 
matter into a form in which it can be filtered out of the blood by 
the kidneys. Failure of the liver to perform its work satisfac- 
torily will upset the digestive system, or may lead to an accumu- 
lation of uric acid in the body, possibly resulting in rheumatism, 
gout, neuralgia, disturbances of circulation and other evils. In 
fact when the liver goes on a strike you may expect trouble in 
general. If we knew just one-half as much chemistry as the liver 
the secrets of the world would lie before us like an open book. 
We think we have done wonders in discovering a poison 
that will kill or neutralize the toxins of a germ, such as mercury 
or the diphtheria antitoxin; but one little six-sided shallow-look- 
ing lozenger of a liver cell not only can neutralize and destroy 
any one of forty different poisons that are brought to it by the 
blood, but it can actually turn one part into sugar, another into 
fat or starch, and the remainder into harmless bile waste to be 
discharged from the body. It is the most wonderful poison filter 
Nature has ever invented, and the moment it is put out of com- 
mission the body goes to pieces. 
We are the cause of this. We allow constipation to continue 
in our body, and then the liver is choken by its own poisons, by 
its own wastestuff. Do not rest another day until you have got 
to work to cure the one and only disease-constipation. 
Pure blood depends upon the perfect elimination of the 
wastes formed in the body. Health is entirely a question of pure 
blood and you cannot have pure blood and be constipated. If 
one could maintain his blood in absolute purity, disease would be 
impossible. The blood is the life. 
A cup of coffee at breakfast to brace you up, another at noon 
to keep you going, and a cigar after supper to quiet you down, is 
the short road to physical bankruptcy. 
27 OUR KIDNEYS 
Oh, if we only knew more about our kidneys! Thousands 
are suffering from weak kidneys and thousands are dying from 
Bright's disease just because they have not been taught the cause 
and the cure of this terrible ailment. Knowledge is the only 
preventive, and prevention is better than cure. 
Official records at Washington show that deaths from kid- 
ney trouble have increased seventy-two per cent in twenty years. 
This terrible condition is mostly due to ignorance of what the 
kidneys are and what they have to do. 
The kidneys are in the small of the back on either side of the 
spine. The diagram above will give you a good idea of where 
they are, how they look and what they are for. 
Every drop of blood in the body goes through the kidneys 
once every seven minutes, and they filter out the uric acid and 
other poisons as long as they are healthy. But alas! we dissi- 
pate ; we become constipated-poisons are created faster than 
the kidneys can filter them out; they become irritated, inflamed, 
and therefore congested. 
28 The kidneys work just about as hard as the heart. They 
act as filters of the body; they purify every drop of water taken 
into the body; and at the same time discharge all of the liquid 
waste from the body. They work without one moment's inter- 
mission day or night; cleanse themselves and flush themselves, 
and yet they are the most abused organ in the body. 
I believe, and so does every medical man in the world, that 
if our kidneys never had anything to do except what Nature 
intended they would run for one hundred years without ever 
breaking down; and yet there are more people with kidney trou- 
ble than any other ailment, and we are to blame for this condition. 
Tea, coffee, beer, alcohol, etc., are very hard on the kidneys. 
When we are constipated our kidneys have to work about 
three times as hard as Nature ever intended they should. Is it 
any wonder that they break down? Then, to make matters 
worse, we drink very little water. 
The kidneys need washing out often, and it requires pure 
water to do this work. 
What a wonderful piece of machinery the body is, and how 
reckless most of us are with it. Neither love nor money can buy 
another one, so it behooves us to take care of it. All we have to 
do to keep it running for eighty to one hundred years is to keep 
it clean inside and out, drink plenty of pure water, eat the right 
kind of food and get plenty of pure fresh air and sunshine. In 
fact, if we lived as nature intended we should, and ate the kind 
of food intended for man, I see no reason why we should not 
prolong life almost indefinitely. 
Bright's Disease 
Nature's laws when broken, yield pain, misery, suffering, or 
early death. It is in the hands of every individual to set for 
himself the breaking time of his life. Men who drink, use to- 
bacco, and eat rich food, pay for them in Bright's disease or in 
brittle arteries. 
THE SPINE 
The upper portion of the spine, in fact, the first six or eight 
inches below the neck, is the most important portion of the entire 
body, as far as life is concerned. This portion of the spine con- 
tains the nerve centers which preside over the heart, lungs and 
digestive organs, and regulates nutrition and circulation of the 
29 entire body. This portion of the spine should be kept in supple 
condition. Remember that a lack of proper circulation in the 
spinal muscles is at once reflected upon the stomach, the heart, 
the lungs or kidneys. For these reasons, our spinal muscles 
should be exercised regularly; they should be kept in a pliable, 
well nourished condition. 
How may the spine muscles be exercised? Simply by bend- 
ing in any direction except backwards. One of the most effective 
spinal exercises is bending forward. This opens all of the little 
windows of the spine in such a way as to increase the circulation 
to every nerve center in the spine. The result is an increase in 
the activity of all the vital organs of the body. The exercise may 
be made more effective by holding the hands above the head and 
bending forward, keeping the knees stiff, until the tips of the 
fingers touch the floor. Everyone is familiar with this exercise. 
The ability to do it is an indication of youth, or rather contra- 
indication of old age; it shows that one's spine is sufficiently 
supple to insure good nerve supply to all the vital organs. 
The upper portion of the spine may be more effectively exer- 
cised by dropping the head forward so as to rest the chin on the 
chest, then rocking the head from side to side gently, and twist- 
ing the head from one side to the other. Another effective exer- 
cise for the upper spine is taken by simply holding the shoulders 
stationary and moving the head forward and backward, as far as 
possible, at the same time keeping the head held slightly forward 
and downward. It is well to take these simple spinal exercises 
both at arising and retiring. 
When you are tired you can increase your circulation, hasten 
the elimination of fatigue toxins from the body by exercising the 
spine. These exercises will stimulate the heart action and the 
activity of the lungs and digestive organs in such a way as to 
relieve fatigue and invigorate both the muscles and brain in a 
harmless, physiologic manner. 
THE BRAIN 
The brain is the great volume of nervous tissue that is lodged 
within the skull. It is the largest and most complex of the nerv- 
ous centers ; its weight, in an adult, being about fifty ounces. The 
amount of blood sent to the brain amounts to one-fifth of all that 
the entire body possesses. Is it any wonder that you have a 
30 headache when your body is loaded with waste matter, consti- 
pation, etc.? 
Our brains are hundred-year clocks. The Angel of Life 
winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the 
key to the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the 
wheels of thought, our will cannot stop them, they cannot stop 
themselves, sleep cannot stop them, madness only makes them 
go faster; death alone can break into the case. 
Syphilis is looked upon as the most serious of all the venereal 
taints. It is said to be constitutional, that it enters into your 
body and infects its every part. It has what are termed the first, 
second and third stages, though Dr. Hy. Lindlahr states that 
when treated by natural methods, there are no secondary, ter- 
tiary, or congenital stages, and that mercury, iodine, quinine, 
and coal-tar poisons are sometimes the actual cause of these 
symptoms and that these drugs will produce them if taken in 
sufficient quantities by those who never had syphilis. 
Many modern physicians maintain that this disease can be 
cured absolutely, and that it can be eliminated from the system 
entirely, by purifying the blood of the patient and building the 
greatest possible degree of vitality. For example, I have seen 
running sores that have been active in years, entirely healed 
through fasting alone. And when a diet which will insure free- 
dom from constipation is used, similar results can be obtained. 
Physicians who treat these diseases by methods of this kind, 
often follow the fasting process by a rigid milk diet. One thus 
has the advantage of first of all starving the disease out of the 
body, and then by drinking large quantities of milk, the tissues 
of the body are flushed and at the same time nourished with the 
purest of foods. 
The celebrated Dr. Rheinhold says that the cure of syphilis 
means the elimination of certain poisons from the body. Don't 
fail to read pages 51 to 57 and page 146. 
SYPHILIS 
POISONED BY MISTAKE 
Many people poison their bodies and endure great misery 
through the awful mistake of neglecting a lazy liver and inactive 
bowels. Prompt use of the internal bath will avert the disease 
caused from these poisons. 
31 The Digestive Organs or Alimentary Canal 
32 DESCRIPTION OF THE DIAGRAM 
(1) Gullet; (2) and (3) the stomach; (4) duodenum; (5) 
small intestines; (6) where the small intestine empties into the 
colon; (7) caecum and appendix; (8) ascending colon; (9) and 
(10) transverse colon; (11) descending colon; (12) sigmoid 
flexure, the last curve of the colon; (13) rectum; (14) anus; (15) 
liver; (16) hepatic duct, which carries the bile from the liver to 
the cystic and common bile ducts; (17) cystic duct; (18) gall 
bladder; (19) common bile duct; (20) pancreas, the gland which 
secretes the pancreatic juice; (21) pancreatic duct, entering the 
duodenum with the common bile duct. 
"We can do nothing without the body ; let us always take 
care that it is in the best condition to sustain us."-Socrates. 
"Blessed are the pure in mind and body, for theirs is the 
Kingdom of Happiness." 
"Health and happiness are appreciated more by those who 
are deprived of them than by those who possess them." 
"It is possible to be seventy years young instead of forty 
years old."-Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
"The first wealth is health and no means should be spared to 
secure it."-Emerson. 
"All time and money spent in training the body pays a larger 
interest than any other investment."-Gladstone. 
"People limit their powers and shorten their lives by habits 
which are apparently simple and harmless; one of them, that 
of standing and walking with the chest lowered and the body 
collapsed, being found in about nine out of every ten people." 
"Excessive eating is one of the habits that shorten life. The 
free drinking of water, hot and cold, with light mueals will pro- 
long your life many years." 
"Tea and coffee are in the same category as alcoholic stim- 
ulants. The difference is in degree, and tea and coffee through 
their more general use do quite as much harm as alcohol. The 
man or woman who would know the full strength and length of 
life should not make a habit of using any one of these stimulants." 
"It is well to form the habit of sleeping in the natural posi- 
tion, that is, on the front of the body, the face turned to one side." 
"Nearly all of the desirable things in the universe are within 
the reach of all of us, sunlight, air, the beauties of Nature, whole- 
some, nourishing food, and a sweet, attractive home, cost but 
little." 
33 A PERFECT DIET 
Remember that whenever there is the slightest sign of con- 
stipation, white flour products of all kinds should be eliminated 
from the diet. As nearly as possible foods should be used in 
their natural condition. 
Those that can be enjoyed when uncooked are more valuable 
when eaten without cooking. Try and eat about one-third of 
your food in a raw state, such as celery, lettuce, cabbage, etc. 
Fruits of all kinds are valuable; form a habit of eating a few nuts 
every day of your life, and don't ever miss a day without eating 
a little fruit, fresh fruit if you can get it. 
Unquestionably a perfect diet is furnished by nuts and fruits. 
The next diet that closely approximates perfection would be a 
raw or uncooked diet such as nuts, fruits, vegetable salads, 
cereals, and dairy products. 
Food in this raw state possesses a tremendous amount of vi- 
tality-building elements. They are live foods, consequently they 
give one life, energy, vitality, etc. 
There is absolutely no question as to the superiority of a 
diet of this kind over a diet which includes meat and if you want 
to know perfect health leave meat alone. When any living ani- 
mal is killed it then becomes dead. Dead animals are not fit for 
food. At the time of death large quantities of dead and decaying 
matter is on its way out of the animal's body, and there is waste 
matter in every pore of its skin. All this dead and decomposed 
matter remains in and all through its flesh so that .the eaters of 
such flesh take all of that rotten matter into their own systems 
and then wonder why they have boils, sores, tumors, fevers, pim- 
ples, cancers, piles, skin disorders, etc. 
A vegetarian diet, which includes plenty of fruit and nuts, 
will make a better quality of tissue; you will have more endur- 
ance, and there is no question but that you will live a longer 
period than one accustomed to meat. It might be well to state 
right here that a glass of milk has more nutritive value than a 
pound of chicken. Among foods of great value are green salads 
made from celery, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, water-cress, parsley, 
cucumbers, and other foods of this character. Spinach, dande- 
lion leaves and other greens can be recommended in their cooked 
form; in fact all cooked vegetables are of value, if they are cooked 
right. See pages 41 and 147. 
34 Foods that take the place of meat are breakfast foods that 
are made up of whole grains of wheat, corn, oats and barley. All 
kinds of beans are splendid meat substitutes such as navy beans, 
lima beans, and kidney beans; they may be called hearty foods. 
Also dried peas, lentiles and nuts of all kinds are fine meat sub- 
stitutes. Peanuts are a good food also, and chestnuts are very 
valuable. 
While eggs and milk are an animal product I would advise 
the use of eggs, milk, and cheese as they contain a good supply 
of lime, sulphur, iron, phosphorus and other mineral salts needed 
by the body. 
Buttermilk is one of the best meat substitutes we have; if 
you will drink buttermilk, that is to say two or three quarts a 
day, you can rest assured that you will not crave meat. Tea and 
coflfee are destructive to both nerves and health. Postum is a 
good healthy drink to take their place. 
OF WHAT IS MAN MADE 
Man is made up of three things; what he eats, what he 
breathes and what he thinks. He may perform any one of these 
in a wrong manner and cause disease in his body. 
Our bodies are made up of the following fifteen elements; 
hence, we must eat foods containing such ingredients: 
Oxygen 
Carbon 
Sodium 
Sulphur 
Silicon 
Hydrogen 
Potassium 
Phosphorus 
Iron 
Fluorine 
Nitrogen 
Calcium 
Magnesium 
Chlorine 
Manganese 
Vegetables contain all the medicine man requires, but it is 
necessary for you to know what to eat for the ailment that trou- 
bles you. 
The greater number of all born die in childhood and the first 
half of life, due to the general lack of understanding of mere 
essentials. Sickness in infancy and childhood is a crime. Chil- 
dren can and should be born well, and children can and should 
be perfectly healthy. 
Will killing the germs kill the disease? No! The body 
must be made normal; then it protects itself. 
All of these elements are contained in certain foods. 
THE ABUSE OF THE MARRIAGE RELATION 
See page 144 
35 SOME POPULAR DETRIMENTS 
SALT 
Salt is injurious and indigestible. It hardens the tissues and 
dries up the blood. If you do not believe that salt is a poison, 
swallow a teaspoonful on an empty stomach at a time when the 
stomach has nothing else to do but digest it and see if this state- 
ment is not correct. Instead of being digested it will throw the 
stomach into convulsions and cause vomiting. Anything that 
will do this is a pretty good thing to avoid. Break yourself of 
eating it gradually. It causes articular rheumatism, enlargement 
and derangement of the liver and kidneys, disorder of the cir- 
culatory system and the eliminating organs. People acquire the 
salt habit just like they acquire the tobacco habit and all other 
bad habits, by using it until the taste becomes perverted so they 
like it and crave it. Salt is required by the human body, but it is 
supplied in raw vegetables, grains and fruits. English stock 
breeders found salt detrimental to the highest development of 
prize stock; hence they have excluded salt from all stock food. 
Their stock is known to be the finest. Salt is a poison to fowls, 
especially to songsters. Don't try it on your pet bird. 
Avoid giving candy to your babies as you would so much 
strychnine. Children crave sweets; so do older people. The body 
requires a sweet, so plan to let it have it, but not in the form of 
commercial sugar or candy. I believe that sugar eating of today 
is doing more harm than alcohol. This is a broad statement, but 
a true one. Give your children sweets in the form of honey and 
sweet fruits, and instead of buying them candy, buy them dates, 
figs, raisins, etc. You will find that this will satisfy the child 
and be a food at the same time, and will not irritate the stomach, 
or ferment, or cause catarrh, as sugar and every kind of syrup 
will do. On the other hand, do not allow the children to eat even 
these fruits between meals, for the three fruits mentioned are 
heavy in food elements, almost equal to whole wheat or meat. 
CANDY 
VINEGAR 
Vinegar is very injurious and absolutely indigestible. The 
acid which it contains is very irritating to the mucous lining. It 
also renders indigestible any food over which it is poured. It 
36 would be equally sensible to pour carbolic acid over your food. 
If you need a dressing use lemon juice. The system requires an 
acid and our fruits supply them and they fulfill the requirements 
of nature and satisfy the body's craving. The proper use of lemon 
and other acid fruits will do away with the unnatural craving 
some have for pickles, etc. Pickles furnish neither food, strength 
nor medicine to the human body. They do furnish inflammation, 
and the unnatural desire for such things is caused by eating meat. 
NATURAL FOODS OF PECULIAR VIRTUE 
RADISHES 
One hardly thinks of the radish as being a true tissue former, 
but it is nevertheless. After a hard day's work that has drawn 
heavily on your muscular and flesh fiber, the radish eaten is 
highly beneficial by reason of its replacing a good portion of 
those elements of your body that you have lost. It is also rich 
in phosphorus and iron, the first of which is good for brain fag 
while the second builds up the blood. They should be thoroughly 
chewed. They also, in common with other green, fresh vege- 
tables, clear the blood of impurities that it may have gathered 
by reason of the heavy food of the winter season. 
From an edible standpoint there is nothing more appetizing 
than a crisp, newly gathered lettuce leaf, eaten with a dash of 
lemon juice or some other dressing. Its medicinal properties are 
on a par with its table qualities. As a blood cleanser and a 
stomach regulator, this vegetable has few rivals. Also it cools 
the blood by its quiet action on the digestive tract and the gentle 
movement of the bowels that it excites. Lettuce restores the 
normality of the bodily system, and as a result brings back the 
blood to its proper temperature. Never use vinegar on lettuce. 
LETTUCE 
The cucumber is generally regarded as indigestible. The 
celebrated Dr. Abernathy is said to have given the following 
recipe for the preparation of cucumbers: "After peeling the cu- 
cumbers, slice them as finely as possible, then sprinkle them well 
with salt. Now pour plenty of vinegar over them with another 
dash of pepper and salt, then throw them into the ash barrel!" 
CUCUMBERS 
37 Cucumbers prepared in this manner are no doubt indiges- 
tible. Eat your cucumber as you would an apple, or if you prefer 
use a salad dressing on them. Never eat them with starchy 
foods. The cucumber has a tendency to regulate the bowels. 
Never use vinegar on the cucumber. 
TOMATOES 
Not so many years ago tomatoes were held to be of a pois- 
onous nature, their alleged powers for evil ranging from heart 
disease to cancer. Nowadays they are recognized as one of the 
most delicious as well as one of the most healthful vegetables, 
although strictly speaking they are a fruit. 
The pulp and juice contains an acid which is a mild laxative 
and a promoter of gastric juices. So far from causing cancer 
they tend to prevent that and other diseases by keeping the blood 
pure through the medium of the mild acid and cathartic juices 
they contain. Their influence on the kidneys is marked. Dr. 
Chandler Moore, of Buffalo, N. Y., has this to say regarding the 
tomato. "Tomatoes, acting on both liver and kidneys, will not 
only keep the system in good health, but their action on the skin 
is most marked. 
"They clear it and keep it so. If the eye-balls have that 
yellowish tinge that comes from a sluggish liver the continued 
use of raw tomatoes free from condiments of any kind, will soon 
restore the hue to your cheeks." 
It is not known perhaps that slices of tomatoes, if rubbed 
briskly on the cheeks, will quickly remove freckles of long stand- 
ing. stains and sunburn. Tomatoes should be eaten without 
vinegar and preferably without salt. In fact you should accus- 
tom yourself to eat all green vegetables without salt. Green un- 
cooked vegetables are rich in mineral salts of such a nature as to 
be readily absorbed into the system and will furnish all the salt 
the system requires if you eat freely of them and fresh uncooked 
fruits. Tomatoes should always be eaten raw during their season. 
CARROTS 
The fame of the carrot as a health giver and beautifier is 
well known. This is due to the beneficial effect their juices have 
on the organs of digestion and excretion, and through them on 
the blood. But they must be eaten raw in order to extract the 
greatest degree of good from them. A "sour stomach" is quickly 
38 cured by a diet in which raw carrots, preferably young ones, 
enter largely. The carrot needs no dressing unless you wish to 
mix it with other raw vegetables, making a salad; then it is best 
to grind it or grate it and use any raw salad dressing that does 
not contain vinegar. See my Perfect Health cook book for salad 
dressings of different kinds-page 147. 
As a nervine, celery has a reputation of an established nature. 
Used just before bedtime it produces sound sleep. Taken after 
much mental exercise, it acts on the center nerves, soothing and 
regulating them. It should always be eaten raw, for if cooked 
it loses much of the organic salts it contains that produce the 
beneficial effect in question. It also aids digestion and purifies 
the blood. 
CELERY 
CABBAGE 
Cabbage cools and purifies the blood. As a spring food it 
cleanses the system of the heavy edibles that are usually to be 
found in the winter pantry. To those inclined to constipation it 
has a very beneficial effect. It should always be eaten raw and 
without vinegar. Hot cooked cabbage will form gas in the stom- 
ach and bowels. Nature has given us these things to eat and 
they are made to taste good in a raw state, and that is the way 
they should be eaten when possible. 
PARSLEY 
This is a broom that sweeps the stomach, and some of our 
stomachs need a sweeping badly. Oil abounds in the leaves. It 
gently stimulates the gastric juice. 
ONIONS 
There is only one way to use onions. Place them in a baking 
pan with a little water and bake, then squeeze the juice out and 
drink for a medicine. The effect on the kidneys is marked. The 
juice of the onion used in this way or the beet used in a similar 
way will benefit any case of kidney trouble. 
SPINACH 
This vegetable has aperient qualities of an even more marked 
nature than the cabbage and at the same time is rich in iron salts, 
so it is a cleanser and stimulator, and is good for constipation. 
39 It is best eaten raw with eggs, nuts or meat, for those who insist 
on eating meat. Meat should never be eaten unless one or more 
green vegetables are eaten at the same meal. 
This is a useful vegetable in that it has a marked action on 
the kidneys, both when taken as a food and also when the root 
is soaked in water and the juice drunk as a medicine. Used as a 
medicine as indicated it acts on the kidneys and increases the 
urine. As a vegetable it may be eaten cooked or raw in a salad. 
ASPARAGUS 
POTATOES 
Owing to the richness of this tuber in starch, it is a fattener. 
This is especially true of the sweet potato, which in addition to 
starch, contains much sugar. The potato is a staple article of 
food. There is only one way to cook them to get the good out of 
them and that is to bake them with the jackets on. They should 
be eaten sparingly as they are hard on the kidneys. 
WILD GREENS 
There are a number of wild plants that may be added to the 
products of the garden with most beneficial effects. Among 
them will be found the dandelion, sour-dock, and the mustard 
leaves. These are rich in iron and make a fine blood tonic. 
WATER CRESS 
This eaten with condiment of any kind will cause pimples 
and black-heads to disappear quickly from one's complexion, as 
its tendency is to clarify the blood, being rich in organic salts. 
GREEN CORN-A NUTRITIOUS, EASILY DIGESTED 
FOOD 
(By Dr. R. R. Daniels, Denver, Colorado.) 
"Green corn is one of the most valuable of our late summer 
foods. It contains considerable starch and sugar in an easily 
digested form. It conies at a time when the system, in anticipa- 
tion of cooler weather, needs more of this kind of food. When 
eaten properly, green corn will agree with almost everyone. 
There are two principal reasons why this valuable food has fallen 
into disrepute with many persons; one is that it is often eaten 
with a mixture of other foods, which prevents its proper diges- 
40 tion; the other reason is that in occasional persons the hulls of 
the corn irritate the stomach and intestinal walls. Both of these 
objections can be easily overcome. 
"Green corn, to be digested with the greatest ease, should 
be eaten at a meal which contains neither meats, acids, nor other 
starches. In fact little else should be eaten with the corn than 
one or two non-starchy vegetables. Corn takes the place of both 
meat and starchy foods, thus a dinner may be made of all the 
corn one wants with cooked vegetables and a salad." 
To those who are interested in health and like to read good 
works upon that subject, I will say that Dr. Daniels is the editor 
of a magazine called The Hygienist, devoted to the science of 
health. 
Dr. H. Kress, of Chicago, says that eating meat causes di- 
vorce because it makes people quarrelsome. 
How to Prepare Vegetables 
Eat as many of your vegetables raw as are palatable. In 
cooking any vegetable put on enough water only, so when the 
vegetable is clone the water will be nearly gone, and do not pour 
off what remains, but leave it as a sauce for the vegetable, adding 
a little cream and seasoning. (Use as little salt and pepper as 
possible.) Much of the vegetable that is medicine has left the 
vegetable and gone into the water, and even that is changed, and 
if it is poured off you lose it. Never thicken your vegetables 
with flour-it renders them indigestible to many stomachs and 
in many cases will cause sour stomach. Any gravy made of flour 
and milk or water and seasoned with butter, salt and pepper is 
hard to digest. Don't put it in your stomach. You will find 
recipes in my Cook Book for gravies that taste better and will 
do no harm; it contains hundreds of things you ought to know. 
Get my Perfect Health Cook Book; it contains the best recipes 
on the market for preparing vegetable dishes of all kinds. It 
is one book that ought to be in every home in the land. If you 
do not think it worth a hundred times what you pay for it, just 
return it and your money will be gladly returned to you.-See 
page 147. 
BREATHE DEEPLY 
We are a nation of shallow breathers. Great vitality is as- 
sociated with deep breathing. 
41 The condition formerly known as a torpid liver is due simply 
to an overloading of the blood with retained waste matters. The 
liver itself is not the cause of the trouble, but is merely one of 
the several organs involved. One who eats simply and moder- 
ately of plain food, who drinks daily at least two quarts of pure 
water, who exercises freely in the open air and does not worry, 
such a person cannot possibly have the disease known as torpid 
liver. 
TORPID LIVER 
The human body can be sustained and a complete discharge 
of every vital function can be maintained on a diet of whole 
wheat alone. 
Horace Fletcher, a well known Boston author, for fifteen 
years lived on a diet of three whole-wheat biscuits a day with a 
glass of fresh milk at each meal. 
WHEAT A PERFECT FOOD 
RAW FOODS 
Our bodies are made up of living, tiny cells. By using the 
body the cells wear out, and need replenishing. We replenish 
them by eating foods. It is better to take the food in its natural 
state than after it is cooked; then the living principle (Atma) is 
not destroyed. In the raw state they give the consumer vitality, 
and in the cooked state they fill him with disease. 
Cooking destroys the cellulose or fibre which is the frame 
work of foods. This is an indigestible substance which is dis- 
solved on being subjected to artificial heat. When dissolved, it 
fails to do its natural work, which is to give bulk and form to 
waste matter passing from the system and give the bowels some- 
thing to grasp hold of in their peristaltic action in order that they 
may not become sluggish in their movement, and at the same 
time sweep them out, in order that accumulations and wastes 
may not settle along the walls and thus poison the system by 
being reabsorbed. 
Animals which live on natural foods live from five to seven 
times as long as it takes them to develop. Man, who is fed upon 
cooked foods, does not live to twice his growth, the average life 
being about 35 years. He ought to live 100 years or more in 
perfect health, but he drops into the grave when in his youth. 
We are what our food makes us. It only requires one-half the 
quantity of uncooked foods to sustain life as it does cooked. So 
42 here is a chance to cut the cost of living, and live a better life. 
When we take into our bodies such things as coffee, tea, 
vinegar, salt, pepper, mustard, ginger, cloves, alcohol, tobacco, 
etc., we are only aiding the forces of destruction. Animals in- 
stinctively select natural foods, while man takes into his body 
under the name of food everything that he can lay his hands on. 
Such elements as are necessary for the human body can be found 
in a half dozen or less foods. 
Picture a dainty table laden with milk, cream, honey, grapes, 
pears, bananas, apples, grape-fruit, figs, raisins, dates, water- 
melons, muskmelons, lettuce, celery, a dozen kinds of nuts and 
other things too numerous to mention, all of which, being nat- 
ural, to satisfy hunger. 
The term raw food sounds ugly and should not be applied. 
Think of applying such a term to a luscious bunch of grapes, 
or to a pecan that has ripened in the top of a mountain tree where 
live-giving principles have been filtered through 100 feet of clean, 
white wood, or to a delicious apple or peach, rocked in her cradle 
and kissed by the sun. 
These things are finished ready for use by nature. They are 
perfect; they are not raw food. They are done, and when they 
are cooked they are undone. If high degrees of heat are applied 
to food cells, they are coagulated as the white of an egg is when 
boiled. The value of the cell is destroyed and the salts which 
remain are poisonous. 
The fibre or wood element is changed so the system absorbs 
it. It was never intended by nature that the system should 
absorb fiber, but it was intended to pass through the bowels and 
act as a broom, sweeping them out. When it is absorbed by the 
system, it enters the blood as poison, hindering circulation. 
Fresh water that has been exposed to the sun and air is full 
of organic electricity. Fresh milk from the cow is full of animal 
magnetism. Fresh fruit grown in the sun is a regular storage 
battery of life power. This power is given off by the water, milk 
and fruit in our bodies if not subjected to artificial heat. 
An entirely raw diet will cure hot and inflamed conditions in 
the stomach or bowels. 
Any fruit may be used raw. 
Any nuts may be used raw. 
Many vegetables may be used raw. 
Honey may be used for sweets. 
43 "Every element, whether mineral or organic, which is re- 
quired for nutrition, is found in the vegetable kingdom."-Dr. 
Edward Smith. 
Raw Egg and Milk: One of the most nutritious and easily 
digested foods procurable is a glass of milk into which you have 
placed a well beaten egg. This is the only way eggs should be 
eaten, that is, raw. Cooked eggs make sluggish livers. 
APPLES AND TOMATOES 
Apples in winter and tomatoes in summer. They are the 
chief fruits. Remember that both fruits and vegetables have 
more medicinal qualities than they do food qualities. In other 
words, they keep the body balanced and are as essential to the 
body as the heavy food, such as nuts, beans, etc. 
Albumen exists in milk, meat of the grains, and juices of 
many plants; but the purest form is obtained from the white of 
egg. When we consider the muscles, bones, internal organs, 
bills, claws, and feathers with which the chick is equipped on 
leaving his shell, we are impressed with the importance of al- 
bumen as food. Eat your eggs raw with milk, if you wish the 
full benefit of this albumen. 
Proteid Foods: The principal proteid foods are eggs, cream, 
cheese, peas, beans, lentils and nuts of all kinds. Cream, milk 
and nuts are rich in fatty matters. Chestnuts are a most valuable 
article of food. 
ALBUMEN 
Is your physician giving you morphine? If so, he is admin- 
istering death to your body slowly but surely. Perhaps you are 
taking it and do not know it. Morphine causes a backing up in 
the bile duct. Morphine paralyzes digestion and assimilation. 
Morphine will cause gall stones to form. 
Are you taking morphine? Pain can be stopped in other 
and safer ways than by taking drugs. 
More than 50,000 children die each year from preventable 
diseases. Scarlet fever takes 6,000, whooping cough 10,000, and 
common measles 13,000. Get my book on the care and feeding 
of infants and children (see page 138) and learn how this may 
be prevented. 
MORPHINE 
44 PATENT MEDICINE 
"Take away opium and alcohol, and the backbone of the 
patent medicine business would be broken inside of forty-eight 
hours, because these are the only drugs known to science which 
will make any one, no matter what may be the matter with him, 
'feel better,' for a little while, at least, after he takes them."- 
Dr. Woods Hutchinson. 
Dr. Woods Hutchinson says in his book, Common Diseases, 
page 17, that "No drug-save quinine and mercury-will cure a 
disease; only rest, food, sunshine, and fresh air can do that 
miracle." 
KNOW YOUR FOOD 
There are so many thousands who suffer from malnutrition 
without knowing it, from anaemia, from impaired vitality, from 
lowered resistance to disease, from "laziness" and from other 
serious departures from normal physical stamina that end in 
future misery, impaired efficiency and untimely death, that it is 
time indeed the public understood the relationship between base- 
forming and acid-forming foods. 
ACID-FORMING FOODS 
No person can have health and live on the following acid- 
forming foods: Beef, pork, lamb, liver, ham, white bread, soda- 
crackers, wafers, biscuits, doughnuts, buns, rolls, pie crust, lard, 
lard compound, cake, tapioca, polished rice, corn starch, sugar, 
glucose, syrups, cheap jams and jellies, penny candies, etc. 
But all can enjoy health by following a few simple rules and 
living upon the chief base-forming foods, such as oranges, lemons 
and ripe fruits of all kinds, the outer grains, such as whole wheat, 
whole corn, natural brown rice, whole rye, greens of all kinds, 
such as lettuce, beet tops, celery, spinach, cabbage, onions, cauli- 
flower, asparagus, etc., the roots of tubers, such as potatoes, car- 
rots, parsnips, turnips, beets, beans, peas, lentils, nuts of every 
kind and unsulphured dried fruits, such as prunes, black raisins 
and currants. 
BASE-FORMING FOODS 
A TERRIBLE HABIT 
There is no habit that does as much harm to the gastric 
digestion as the taking of purgatives and laxative drugs. They 
45 injure the stomach more than anything else. The pill and purga- 
tive taker gets his stomach into such an irritated condition that 
even the natural presence of food makes the victim uncomfort- 
able. Yet think of the hundreds of millions of dollars that are 
spent every year for these medicines that do you harm instead 
of good. Why will people be so foolish? 
Dr. Wallace Fritz, of Philadelphia, formerly dean of Temple 
Medical University, renounced traditional methods many years 
ago, and relies upon natural methods for cures. 
Dr. B. C. Miller, formerly chief surgeon of Maryland State 
Hospital for ten years, says that colored water and bread pills 
are commonly regarded as safer than drugs. 
MEN DYING 
Twice as many men are dying between the ages of forty and 
fifty of preventable disease than did fifty years ago. Everywhere 
we see heads of families breaking down in health at the prime of 
life with the result that children and wives are forced out to make 
a living. 
Things that have heretofore been a mystery explained in this 
wonderful book. Every woman in the world should read this 
book. See pages 50, 129 and 144. 
THE ABUSE OF THE MARRIAGE RELATION 
WHY WE SIGH 
When grieved or depressed the tendency is to hold the 
breath. That means that the body suffers for oxygen, and the 
long, deep breath which we call a sigh is merely a means by 
which the body obtains for itself the necessary amount of 
oxygen. 
EMOTIONS THAT INVITE DISEASE 
The most destructive of all the emotions is fear. It has a 
benumbing and paralyzing effect upon the body. Its physiolog- 
ical effects resemble those of freezing. A person freezing to 
death and one agitated by great fear and anxiety present a sim- 
ilar appearance. Cold shivers chase down the spine and through 
the benumbed extremities. The blood vessels, nerve channels 
FEAR 
46 and cells of the body are benumbed and congealed, causing ob- 
struction to the free flow of the nerve and blood currents, thus 
shutting off the influx of the vital force. It is this obstruction 
to influx of the life force that causes death by freezing and also 
causes death under the stress of some fear or great anxiety. 
People indulging habitually and continually in the fear-and- 
worry habit may not die at once from the effects of it, but they 
are nevertheless committing slow suicide through physical re- 
frigeration. 
Fear is faith in evil. It is a perversion of the great law of 
faith. He who fears a thing has faith that it can and will master 
him; thus he becomes a psychological coward and the thing he 
fears will surely overpower him. 
ANGER 
While tear freezes, benumbs and paralyzes the organism, 
anger manifests in the opposite conditions of abnormally in- 
creased excitement and heat. As fear corresponds to freezing, 
anger and its kindred emotions affect the body like a consuming 
fire. They may well be called psychological combustion. Anger 
manifests in various phases and degrees of intensity, such as 
impatience, irritability, ill temper, resentment, hatred, rage, fury, 
revenge, bitterness, indignation, exasperation, malice and de- 
structiveness. 
These violently destructive emotions act on the physical 
body like fire. A person thus agitated presents the appearance 
of one overheated. The face is flushed, the blood pressure to the 
brain is greatly increased, which may result in apoplexy or in 
heart failure. The brain is congested as if by the effects of 
alcohol. 
One who is inflamed with anger is as irresponsible as one 
intoxicated with fiery liquor. The crimes of rage intoxication 
are as frequent and as deplorable as those committed under al- 
coholic stimulation. 
SELF-PITY 
A person affected by this degrading phase of emotional self- 
indulgence presents the miserable, haggard, negative appearance 
of a consumptive. The victim of self-pity assumes that he is 
being unjustly dealt with by Providence, by fortune and by his 
fellowmen. He considers himself a martyr, enduring undeserved 
47 hardships, privations and injustice. This results in resentment, 
gloom and depression. It effectually kills cheerfulness, ambition 
and virile initiative. 
ENVY 
Envy represents a combination of the moods of anger and 
self-pity. Anger may be inspired by the thought that somebody 
else possesses the thing which we covet, and self-pity because we 
are deprived of the thing we desire to possess. Envy, therefore, 
consumes and wastes the body, mind and soul of its unhappy 
victims by the combined effects of psychological combustion and 
psychical phthisis. 
Jealousy is a mixture of fear, anger and self-pity. We fear 
that somebody may take from us that which rightfully belongs 
to us, and anger results from such real or imaginary injury or 
injustice. Such fear and anger in turn provoke self-pity at the 
thought of the real or imaginary loss or injury. Thus we are 
torn alternately or all at once by the most powerful destructive 
emotions of the human soul. No wonder the victims of the 
"green monster" suffer the tortures of hell, that overcome by 
passionate resentment and the desire for revenge they commit 
unjust and cruel crimes against the innocent as well as the guilty. 
These terribly destructive emotions, even when seemingly justi- 
fied, will never right a wrong, but only magnify its destructive 
effects upon ourselves. 
JEALOUSY 
THE REMEDY 
The only remedy for these consuming diseases of the soul 
is self-control. 
OPERATIONS-STOP-LOOK-READ 
During the past twenty years operations have been popular 
both with the doctor and the laity. The excuse the doctor gave 
for operating when this "Reign of Terror" commenced was that 
it would cure headaches in the female, that is, by removing the 
ovaries, holding that all headaches which could not be cured by 
drugs, were caused by ovarian trouble. Not one of the laity 
thought of criticising the doctor for this act, for was he not a 
member of a learned profession, having a knowledge of which 
we knew nothing? 
48 The doctor's advice was the same as law, simply unques- 
tioned, and unfortunately this is still true in many cases. Hence, 
thousands of women were unsexed to appease the doctor's pock- 
etbook. 
In many cases the patient was a strong, healthy woman and 
was able to stand the operation pretty well, which induced many 
other women to have their ovaries removed, which operation 
relieved them of the responsibility of childbirth. This particular 
operation became a craze among the well-to-do and aristocratic 
families, so much so that the much talked of "Race Suicide" 
resulted and Mr. Roosevelt, as President, felt called upon to call 
the attention of the public to the question. Mr. Roosevelt, like 
others, was perhaps ignorant of the cause which resulted in the 
great falling off in births, as are many of our men high in state 
who know nothing of the measures which they are called upon 
to endorse. 
However, statistics show that the medical profession, 
through unnecessary operations and by unsexing women and 
other blundering treatment, has prevented two hundred thousand 
births each year, or five million in the past twenty-five years. 
Let us consider further the subject of operations on women. 
Following the craze of removing the ovaries, which in time fell 
somewhat into disfavor, another reign of terror came and is still 
upon us, this time a surgical operation for the removal of the 
appendix for all pelvic disorders, which was a broader field for 
the doctors, as it includes men as victims as well as women. 
There have been thousands of women with tumors who 
would have lived long and useful lives, unconscious of their af- 
fliction, ignorant even of the growth, if doctors had not made the 
discovery for them. 
Many women have been operated on for tumors and have 
lived through it and managed to live in fair health for a few years 
afterwards, but there have been many more who did not live 
through the operation and still more who never recovered their 
former health as a result of the operation. 
The word tumor is now used to frighten women into need- 
less operations, as diseased ovaries and appendix have been used 
in the past and, indeed, still are used. Many women have been 
told by reputable surgeons that they have fibroid tumor and as a 
result suffered with gas in the stomach and bowels caused by 
food not digesting because of fear of a fibroid tumor, which in 
49 fact they never had. The surgeon tells the patient that there is 
no possible hope or help except in an operation and this frightens 
the victim still more and causes the supposed fibroid tumor to 
form quickly, or in other words impairs the digestion and causes 
gas to form in the bowels, which in turn causes pressure on the 
organs in the pelvic region. In this way the medical profession 
builds artificial fibroid tumors and breaks down the health of 
their unsuspecting patients and forces them into an operation for 
something that does not exist. 
Not one in a thousand fibroid tumors require a surgical oper- 
ation. There is no excuse for wholesale butchery of women 
except that it is a surgical craze. Operations do not cure disease. 
The cause of the disease still remains in the subject. Nature, 
if given a chance, unaided by the knife, is able to relieve herself 
of accumulations in abscesses, if the bad habits of life are 
corrected. 
THE ALMIGHTY GOD SAID 
"Be fruitful and multiply, but eat not of the forbidden fruit." 
Childbirth is not a disease; it is just as natural as the act of 
conception. 
This book ought to be read by every man and woman in the 
world. The tree of knowledge is still standing in the garden of 
our earthly paradise. Learn what this forbidden fruit is that is 
wrecking the lives of the women of our land. 
There is a truth contained in this book which may astonish, 
but which should fill with joy the right thinking, judicious man, 
because he now finds it in his own power to be happier in future 
-to remain longer in Paradise, if he so wishes. See page 144. 
HUSBAND UNKIND AND BRUTAL 
The husband and father is unkind, harsh, often even brutal 
toward his wife and children, toward those whom he loves. Later 
he is filled with remorse, not knowing that only his nerves have 
been overheated by poisons in his body. 
A YOUNG WOMAN BECOMES A VIXEN 
The young girl who entered wedlock with the fairest qual- 
ities and a good heart, an angel, becomes a vixen. But do not 
reproach her, poor thing, for the unnatural life which married 
people almost always lead bears fruit and demands as its first 
victim the wife. Read page 144. 
50 MEN AND WOMEN, WE ALL HAVE OUR PART TO DO 
IN FIGHTING VENEREAL DISEASES 
Read Every Word of This Article 
The civilized world has shown its abhorrence of the wanton 
ravage of innocents. Against the iron and steel militarism which 
could decree the starving and sinking and burning and rape of 
unoffending noncombatant villagers, patient peasant mothers, 
harmless children and helpless old men, the civilized human fam- 
ily has risen in wrath. 
Ravage of Innocents Must Stop 
But the ravage of innocents is not ended. In the villages 
and cities of our own country there remain destroyers of women 
and children whose toll of victims in the long years of peace is 
greater and more terrible than the victims of German madness. 
These enemies of civilization are the venereal diseases-gonor- 
rhea and syphilis. 
The germs of syphilis are small-so small that they can be 
seen only through the microscope-but they are none the less 
dangerous and treacherous in their attack. They attack not only 
those men and women guilty of immoral sexual relations. Such 
people are largely responsible for the spread of syphilis, but its 
victims are often blameless wives and helpless children. It in- 
vades the home and is carried from the husband to the wife and 
other members of the family. An innocent woman or child may 
be betrayed to the enemy by a kiss. Syphilis is often very hard 
to detect even when it is transmissible and a husband may expose 
his wife entirely against his wishes and without the knowledge 
of either one of them. If uncured, it enters the blood stream of 
man, woman, or child and there intrenches itself for an attack 
on the vital organs years later. Then it may cause repulsive 
ulcers and eat away the bone and flesh. It may attack nerve 
centers and the brain, causing locomotor ataxia, paralysis, paresis 
(softening of the brain), and insanity. Sometimes in the earlier 
stages when it could be most readily cured it is least visible and 
apparent. A germ enemy intrenched in the nation's blood is 
worse than a human enemy intrenched on the nation's borders. 
But terrible as are the effects of uncured syphilis transferred 
to an innocent wife, the most devastating ravage of this arch- 
51 enemy disease is its transmission from the mother to the child 
before birth. In this way it takes a tremendous, secret toll of 
human life in the form of miscarriages and stillbirths. Worse 
still, children with syphilis in their blood come into the world to 
lead a brief, miserable existence. Those that survive go through 
life with permanent handicaps. Others fill our homes for the 
dependent and insane. Are the ravages of Belgian women and 
children more terrible than this? Wounds on the battlefield do 
not carry physical poison to the wife and children at home. 
Gonorrhea, the other venereal disease enemy, nearly always 
attacks the human body by invading the walls and tube passages 
of the male and female reproductive organs. Direct blows at the 
vitality of the race are thus delivered. In both man and woman 
it may cause, in a variety of ways, sterility, or inability to have 
children. Transmissible mainly by sexual relations, it is often 
passed unknowingly to wives. It is as if an enemy should place 
secret agents especially to attack pregnant women. It causes 
miscarriages, operations, chronic invalidism among women 
whose strength is of such vital importance for the proper care of 
children. In man, if uncured, it may lead to stricture, rheuma- 
tism, and serious organic trouble. As treacherous as syphilis, it 
may lie dormant for months and years to spring up again and be 
passed unknowingly to another person, as for instance, from the 
mother's body to the baby's eyes at birth.* 
Gonorrhea, innocently acquired through contact with in- 
fected persons or articles, often occurs among little girls. With 
these victims the disease is cruelly persistent and hard to cure. 
As secret and treacherous and heartless are these enemies as is 
the submarine. 
The Casualty List 
We do not see the wounded victims nor do the newspapers 
display the casualty lists of the dead from these ravages. But 
the casualties are there, hidden among the death notices, and 
many more unrecorded victims, destroyed before birth or dead 
at birth. The wounded victims fill to the doors our institutions 
for the insane, the blind, and helpless. These are real casualties, 
people dead, bodies wounded, minds destroyed-not heroic vic- 
tims adorned with gold chevrons, but victims as innocent as the 
refugees of France and Belgium! In our homes, hospitals, and 
*Gonorrheal blindness in new born babies may be prevented if the physician will use a 
certain solution at birth. 
52 public institutions this year there will be more injured and killed 
victims of these diseases than the United States lost in France 
during the entire war. 
Allies of the Enemy 
There are, among us, human allies of this enemy of Amer- 
ica's civilization. The quack doctors and the venders of patent 
medicines who prey upon their victims with "quick" cures that 
do not really cure, the person with one of the diseases who ex- 
poses another, the man or woman who directly or indirectly 
promotes the business of commercialized prostitution-such 
persons are giving aid and comfort to the foes of American civ- 
ilization. 
So, too, he who whispers to the youth that gonorrhea is no 
worse than a bad cold, or spreads the lie that there is a sex neces- 
sity for unmarried youth that must be gratified by sex inter- 
course, is an agent of insidious enemy propaganda. And the 
people who suppress all publication of facts and warnings re- 
garding the enemy diseases are unwitting dupes, betraying the 
cause of healthy manhood and womanhood. 
Education 
Every mature man and boy in the United States must be 
taught the truth about his sexual nature. He should learn that 
continence before marriage is entirely compatible with health 
and that promiscuous sexual intercourse is a constant danger to 
health because practically all loose women are carriers of ve- 
nereal diseases. He should learn the very serious consequences 
of venereal diseases to his own body and the danger of passing 
them on to his future wife and children. 
Women and mature girls should learn of the havoc wrought 
by gonorrhea and syphilis. 
All parents should know the facts of sex hygiene and physi- 
ology necessary for instructing their own children and for im- 
parting to them the ideals of a chivalrous spirit, clean mind and 
body-a sure protection against venereal diseases. 
All are needed in the citizen army. Civic organizations and 
clubs, physicians, teachers, lawyers, ministers, nurses, mayors, 
police chiefs, prosecutors, judges, councilmen are needed in the 
fight to make the American family safe for future generations. 
53 The Parents' Part 
The most important preventive against vice and venereal 
disease is the proper education of children with regard to sex. 
Your part as parents in this campaign, then, is to instruct your 
own boy and girl. You can not exempt yourself from this re- 
sponsibility. 
Do you think that while the neighbor's children may need 
some such information, your own children will never have any 
such need? It is no longer possible for you to choose whether 
your child will learn about sex or not. The only question you 
have to decide is whether he or she will learn from you or from 
someone else. If there ever was any justification for the hope 
that a boy or girl could grow up entirely innocent of all knowl- 
edge of sex matters, that hope is forever gone. For better or for 
worse, the prudery and the silence connected with love, passion, 
temptation, marriage and vice are being replaced by an abun- 
dance of discussion and interpretation in literature, drama, espe- 
cially in the "movies." From these sources-or from the much 
worse and unreliable gossip of companions, advertisements of 
quack doctors and patent medicines-your boy and girl will re- 
ceive their sex information unless you yourself offer them some- 
thing better and truer. 
You would, furthermore, by your very silence and evasion of 
the subject be giving the wrong kind of sex education. You 
would be indicating unmistakably to your child that sex is some- 
thing nasty or vulgar and not to be discussed with you. You are 
cutting off his confidence on this most important problem and 
condemning him to secret and unreliable channels. 
It is not natural for your children to be uninterested in the 
vivid drama of the renewal of life they see about them. Only 
an abnormally dull child fails to be curious about such things. 
If your child remains silent about these matters or fails to ask 
any questions, in nine cases out of ten it is getting information 
from other people. If you have refused to answer your child's 
natural questions about these matters, you can be assured that 
these same questions are asked and answered from sources of 
which you would be ashamed. 
Sex education includes the study of the whole process of 
reproduction and the nurture of children, the meaning of mar- 
riage, prostitution, venereal diseases, illegitimacy, and the 
Your Responsibility 
54 hygiene of sound recreation. These can not be taught at any one 
time or place. The co-operation of the homes, the churches, the 
schools, the press, clubs, and societies in your community is 
necessary. 
But you as parent must always be the most important and 
effective adviser of your children in sex matters. Your home is 
the natural place for satisfying their early curiosity, directing 
their adolescent energy and building up habits of self-control. 
Indeed, all that other agencies can do to give your children ac- 
curate knowledge and a wholesome point of view will be nullified 
if you fail to do your part. 
Your Preparation 
The first and principal requirement of you as parent in teach- 
ing your children the facts of sex is that you be truthful. The 
principal defect of mothers and fathers in the past has been that 
they have not told the plain truth, that they have practiced deceit 
of one kind or another and lost forever the confidence of their 
children. To keep the line of communication open between you 
and your children through all their youthful struggles is the best 
guarantee that they will be properly informed. But you destroy 
this easy approach if you fail to be honest with them when they 
come to you. 
In the second place it is necessary that you have the right at- 
titude yourself on the subject of the relation of the sexes. If you 
think of sex as something vulgar and nasty you will be very likely 
to pass on this dangerous viewpoint to torment another genera- 
tion. From the very first the child should be made to feel the 
sacredness of parenthood. He will naturally think of it in this 
way if you do not interpose a foolish embarrassment or taboo. 
To know about sex truly is to realize that it is intimately con- 
nected with the mental, physical, and moral welfare of the indi- 
vidual and the race, and that it is a subject full of purity, noble- 
ness, and health. Do not pass on to your daughter the prudery 
and repressed feelings which will result in needless worry and 
misunderstanding for her years later when she marries. This 
frankness in the home will not prevent you from teaching your 
child that it is perfectly proper to discuss with you many things 
about which it is improper to speak to others. 
In the third place it may be necessary to prepare yourself by 
reading some reliable book or pamphlets on the subject. Do not 
underestimate your own ability, however. The average adult 
55 knows enough facts to satisfy the chihf's curiosity in every es- 
sential way. It is not necessary to know the facts of biology as 
an expert or to have a medical knowledge of venereal diseases. 
The simple truths you know are what the child needs. Do not 
mystify the child by using words ne can not understand. Plain, 
simple language should be used here as in everything else you 
explain to him. The mystery of the process of the renewal of 
life itself is sufficient to give the subject dignity without addi- 
tional use of allegorical words. Some books on this subject are 
not reliable and parents should be careful about the ones they 
choose. 
Instruction of the Child Before Puberty 
Your task in the instruction of the child before he reaches 
the age of puberty is a comparatively simple but very important 
one. Puberty is the period when bodily sexual development is 
especially noticeable. It begins with girls at 11 to 13 years of age, 
and in boys at about 13 to 15 years. Before this time your chief 
problem is answering questions. Your responsibility here is 
great. The first thing you do get the book as advertised on page 
146 of this work and begin teaching your children things that will 
save them untold misery and suffering in years to come. 
Get the facts about venereal diseases-gonorrhea and syph- 
ilis. Gonorrhea in men, gonorrhea in women and children, gon- 
orrhea and marriage, syphilis primary and second stages, syphilis 
and marriage, and the treatment of these diseases. 
You should warn your boy and girl against handling the sex 
organs except for the purpose of cleansing them. Tn the case of 
your boy you should see that the sex organ is kept free from irri- 
tating substances beneath the foreskin. Circumcision may be 
necessary to decrease the irritation and assist him in keeping 
clean. 
Your boy should understand that seminal emissions at night 
generally begin at about fifteen or sixteen, that they are normal 
and that no attention need be paid to them unless the occurrence 
is oftener than two or three times a month. He should also un- 
derstand that the external sex glands manufacture a secretion 
which is absorbed by the blood, thus contributing greatly to the 
vigor of manhood. Boys should not be frightened by exaggerated 
statements regarding the effect of self-abuse, but they should 
understand that such a habit interferes with the development of 
56 the many qualities they are all ambitious to possess. The preva- 
lent idea that it is healthy to exercise the sex organs should be 
corrected. The common sense and idealism of a life of continence 
before marriage can be emphasized at this time. 
It is highly important that girls, before their bodies show 
signs of change, should be told about menstruation. Make your 
daughter understand that this is a normal function; that she will 
have no pain and practically no discomfort if her body is healthy, 
her muscles firm and well developed, her blood and digestion as 
they should be. During early adolescence, if it has not been done 
before, explain to her the reproductive system and the method of 
reproduction. It is in such explanations that the girl learns once 
and for all the danger of illegitimacy connected with irregular 
sexual intercourse. 
As your boy associates more and more with his companions 
and men outside the home, he has a right to some definite knowl- 
edge of venereal diseases. When the girl enters industrial or 
business life or is subjected to the dangers of questionable com- 
panions, she should also be told of the seriousness of these dis- 
eases. Here more than anywhere else you must regulate the 
amount and kind of information to suit the individual boy and 
girl. It is necessary that you have accurate knowledge of the 
seriousness and prevalence of these diseases. The description of 
them as one of many contagious germ diseases is a convincing 
way of handling the matter with normal boys and girls. Girls 
should be guarded against the exaggerations which would lead 
them to believe that all men have exposed themselves to these 
dangerous diseases. 
Order this book Venereal Diseases at once and start edu- 
cating yourself, as well as your children, on this very important 
subject. Find out what to tell your boy and girl 16 to 19 years 
of age. See page 146. 
WHAT ACID STOMACH IS, AND HOW YOU MAY 
BANISH IT 
Excessive acidity of the stomach is one of the most common 
of human ailments. This condition is spoken of in various ways. 
Sometimes it is called "heartburn." At other times it is called 
"Hyperacidity." "Acidosis" is another name applied to a gen- 
eral acid condition of the body, including sour stomach. 
57 A certain acid known as "hydrochloric acid," is a normal 
and necessary ingredient of the gastric or stomach juices. With- 
out it digestion would be seriously impaired. When it is present 
in too large quantities all the uncomfortable symptoms of hyper- 
acidity come to trouble the victim. 
Sour stomach is due, then, not to fermentation of food in 
the stomach, but to an over supply of the acid contents of the 
stomach fluids. 
Certain foods are capable of increasing the quantity of hy- 
drochloric acid in the system. One of these is an excessive diet 
of salt. Common salt, or chlorine, is one of the constituents of 
this acid. The more salt you take the more chance you have 
of hyperacidity. 
If you are subject to sour stomach you should avoid candy. 
Sugar has the property of increasing the production of acid in 
the stomach. Excessive meat eating and the excessive use of tea 
and coffee increase the acidity. 
Constipation is one of the chief factors of hyperacidity. It 
is useless to attempt its cure without removing the constipa- 
tion. One of the interesting things about this subject is that con- 
stipation frequently is present when the victim is unaware of 
its existence. Because he has a bowel movement every day he 
thinks he is normal. As a matter of fact the large intestine may 
be packed full of fecal matter, and through its center there may 
be enough of a passage to permit the exit of a considerable 
quantity daily. At no time, however, is the bowel free or any- 
where near clear. 
In Bright's disease and in diabetes, acidity of the stomach 
is a common symptom. A lot of people carry soda mints all the 
time. They take one or two after each meal. Because there is 
temporary relief of the sourness they are content. 
Needless to say hyperacidity will never be cured by taking 
soda. On the contrary, the ultimate result is harmful. Nature 
generates still more acid to neutralize the soda. If you have 
chronic sourness of the stomach study your indiscretions of diet, 
leave off the foods which disagree, and correct the constipation. 
Don't eat between meals. Never eat till you are hungry, and 
then do not crowd the stomach with a lot more food than you 
need. 
58 MAN IS BEGINNING TO THINK 
At last men have begun to realize that the human body is a 
machine, and the proper working of that machine is health; its 
derangement, disease and its stoppage-death. Disease comes 
not from without, but from within; nothing but a derangement 
of that complex machine called the human body. 
Disease is the eflfort of the body to throw oflf retained waste 
matter. Of the food taken into the body a certain part is con- 
verted into tissue, blood, muscle and bone. The remainder be- 
comes waste matter, then the body itself is constantly breaking 
down, and this total waste of wornout tissue and food must leave 
the body at once. There are four avenues of escape, the skin, 
the lungs, the bowels and the kidneys. The retention of this 
waste in the body is the cause of all disease. That is why no 
person can be healthy and be constipated. There is but one dis- 
ease, although it has thousands of names, just the eflfort of the 
body to throw oflf accumulated waste matter. 
Keep the body clean inside and out, drink plenty of water, 
eat the right kind of food, and breathe the fresh air that God 
gave you, and you will have health. A full bath once a day is an 
absolute essential to health, as well as to cleanliness. Only by 
this method can the daily accumulation of dust, dried perspira- 
tion, dead cells, etc., be properly removed. 
In every walk df life, men are suffering from deterioration 
before their natural time. A man ought to be in his prime be- 
tween his 40th and his 60th years. Instead of that, we too often 
find him a sufferer or a wreck. 
Dyspepsia appears and brings its torments. Hemorrhoids 
begin to sap his strength and destroy his comfort. His bladder 
gives him trouble. Neuralgia, headaches, insomnia, diabetes, 
Bright's disease, asthma, stone in the bladder and other afflic- 
tions may attack him. 
A vital man is at all times thoroughly alive. A vital man is 
enthusiastic. He cannot avoid being ambitious. And conse- 
quently success comes to such a man. But you cannot be vital, 
enthusiastic or ambitious if your body is being poisoned by con- 
stipation. 
59 FOR THAT TIRED FEELING 
Here is a prescription for "that tired feeling" that is guar- 
anteed to relieve or no pay. When yon feel tired, whether it is 
from brain work or from muscular work, or auto-intoxication, 
try this remedy: Drink slowly a large glass of water; go to an 
open window, inhale and exhale slowly, three or four large 
breaths, holding the chin up, the shoulders well back and the 
chest forward, and depressing the diaphragm with each inhala- 
tion. Then clinch your fists tightly and open quickly three or 
four times, roll your shoulders around from front to back, rise 
two or three times, first on the toes, and then on the heels; and 
take three or four more deep breaths. You will go back to your 
work rested and feel renewed vigor and energy. This prescrip- 
tion is a real boon to the tired, overworked housewife, and to the 
busy office man. Try it. 
What is the theory? Fatigue is merely the presence of pois- 
ons in the blood, toxins and waste material, breathing deeply 
charges the blood with an abundance of oxygen to 1 urn up these 
toxins. Flexing your muscles, sets in motion the burning process, 
and the water flushes the kidneys and carries the poisons off after 
they are burned. 
This is one way to relieve fatigue by removing the cause, and 
a much better way than the temporary relief of a cup of coffee 
or any of the so-called fatigue-relieving decoctions served at the 
soda fountain. Remember fatigue is always due to waste material 
and toxins in the blood. 
Muscular fatigue will be cured by a good night's sleep, Na- 
ture's remedy. The more common form of fatigue is brain fatigue. 
Just here our prescription is of unusual value. Exercise and 
fresh air in smaller or larger doses, relieves the brain congestion, 
exercises the underused muscles, and carries off the poisons due 
to the lack of muscular exercise, that goes with mental overwork. 
And now we come to the most common sort of fatigue, auto- 
intoxication fatigue. This is the sort of fatigue that gets you up 
as tired in the morning, or more so, than when you went to 
bed : the sort of fatigue that makes you tire out by noon, even in 
the days when you have "done nothing;" the sort of fatigue 
that's always relieved by eating, but not relieved to any extent 
by resting. Right here, our prescription is of double value, but 
it should be taken in double doses. And for this sort of fatigue 
eat less meat, bread and potatoes; cut out all frivolous foods, and 
cat plenty of vegetables, both cooked and raw. 
60 Let us remember that the man who eats carefully, under 
modern conditions of work, rarely gets tired; his body is not 
overwhelmed with food poisons, his body sewers are not choked 
as a result of excessive eating. The man who eats right rarely 
ever gets tired. 
We are now consuming more habit-forming drugs than all 
Europe combined. 
Our consumption of opium is far greater, per person, than 
that of China, long looked upon as the worst of all drug-sodden 
countries. 
During the past ten years there has been an annual importa- 
tion and consumption in America of four hundred thousand 
pounds of opium-57 per cent of which is made into morphine. 
In addition to opium we use one hundred and fifty thousand 
ounces of cocaine. 
And still further to swell the total, we use tons of other 
nerve deadening drugs. 
LAW OF LIFE 
'I here is a universal law in organic life, be it vegetable or ani- 
mal, all of which tendencies are toward health. It is as natural 
to be well as to be born. If a plot of grass has sunshine, warmth, 
moisture, and the right kind of food (earth), there is health 
and growth. If food, warmth, moisture or air be taken away, 
there is sickness; and if continued there is death. 
No medicine is needed to secure a restoration of health and 
vigor to the plant that has thus been made ill; all that is neces- 
sary is to supply any or all of the lacking elements of nutrition, 
light, air, moisture and warmth, and there is health again. 
The same with the human body, as long as there is plenty 
of pure air going to the lungs , two or three quarts of water a day 
going into the body, a little sunlight on the outside, and the 
right kind of food to nourish our body, there will be health, but 
let any of these be lacking and there is sickness. 
Whenever and wherever the normal conditions of healthy 
life have been interfered with, and weakness, lassitude, or any of 
the symptoms of ill health appear, as soon as the conditions 
natural to the organism are restored, a movement toward health 
is always sure to follow. 
Dr. Abernathy, a century ago, declared that the three rules 
for health are: keep the feet warm, keep the head cool, and keep 
the bowels open. 
61 Do you know, dear reader, that if these three rules are fol- 
lowed, with a total abstinence from food, and by drinking plenty 
of water, that a sick person is sure to get well, be it measles, 
typhoid fever, smallpox, or any other ailment. The feet must 
be kept warm to insure a good circulation of the blood; the head 
must be kept cool to know that the fever is down, and the bowels 
must be kept open or there never will be health. 
It would seem that how to keep well, or how to make well 
is a very simple thing according to this. It is, all that is needed 
is a little common sense. 
A SICK PERSON AND THE DOCTOR 
A sick person is one who has been overeating, and whose 
system has become clogged by a failure of the skin, kidneys and 
bowels to throw off the residue, after perhaps a more than usual 
hard day's work who, when there is little vital force left to grapple 
with digestion, eats a more than usual hearty dinner. In a few 
hours there is complete stagnation of the digestive organs, great 
pain in the region of the stomach and bowels, the extremities be- 
come cold, the pulse rapidly increases, and a doctor is hurriedly 
summoned. 
The patient pleads with him for something to ease the pain, 
feeling sure that death is threatened unless something is done at 
once to alleviate it. They do not seem to realize that this pain is 
a warning from nature that some law has been broken, and they 
do not try to right that condition. What do they do? 
The physician looks wise, and as often as not administers 
opium ; the nerves of sensation are paralyzed by the drug, and 
the patient no longer feels the pain. Not because anything has 
been done to remove the cause of the illness, but because the fire- 
alarm, so to speak, the warning signals of nautre have been by 
the drug prevented from ringing, and the exhausted patient falls 
to sleep. 
Now nature has an additional difficulty to deal with ; before 
it was bad enough, but it was only the result of a bad habit of 
life and an extra unwholesome dinner; now there is added the 
doctor and his drugs. 
The patient, who under the proper hygienic treatment would 
have been out of all pain in a few hours, and about his work in a 
day or two, is lucky if he gets out of the doctor's hands in a 
62 week or a month, if indeed he recovers at all; and when he finally 
palls through, with several weeks' loss of time, a considerable 
doctor bill and a damaged constitution, he feels under great obli- 
gation to his physician for having skilfully saved his life. 
Nor is the patient alone in his delusion; usually the doctor, 
equally with his patient, is ignorant of the damage he has 
wrought. 
On the other hand, had the same patient known enough to 
apply hot water bottles to the region of pain, to swallow a half 
pint of water every five or eight minutes until either the pain 
was relieved or the contents of the stomach ejected by vomiting, 
and had then thoroughly cleansed the bowels with the Internal 
Bath the patient would have quickly recovered. 
After cleansing the bowels, see to it that the feet are kept 
warm, that he is well covered in bed, with the windows wide open, 
and that he abstains from all food for a couple of days, calling no 
doctor and using no drugs. Under such treatment, this patient 
would have been up and at work in a day or two, feeling all the 
better for the enforced rest of himself and his stomach. 
What follows these circumstances? The doctor and all the 
friends of the patient would feel quite sure that he-was not really 
ill, since if he had been-such mild methods could not have cured 
him. 
This failure on the part of the physician and the patient to 
understand that all illness and pain is only an effort on the part 
of nature to rid the system of disease, is the cause of all the trou- 
ble. Remember that a tendency toward recovery and health is 
the natural part of life. 
In February, 1917, one physician employing methods here 
given, had a number of cases of measles and every child was prac- 
tically well in three days. Measles should not be dangerous, 
and would not be under proper treatment. The same with typhoid 
fever; under natural method of treatment they will be on the 
way to recovery in seven days. 
BEAUTY 
Tf you wish to be beautiful, which is the wish of all women, 
be your own beauty doctor in this way. Beauty, you must under- 
stand, is not found in the cold cream jars, rouge pots, and powder 
puffs, but in health, obtained by right living, diet, exercise, and 
63 the use of pure water, both as the outward bath and the internal 
bath. Constipation is the cause of ugly skin, dull, listless eyes, 
bad breath and thin hair. 
TO EVERY SUFFERER OF DISEASE 
Read this letter and then read it again, and it will save you 
many hours of misery, and a great many dollars. 
Dear Doctor:- 
I am in continual pain most of the time. The parts which suffer 
most are my heart, stomach and head. My head has in it a continued 
ringing, roaring, etc. This is not a ringing at the ears, but seems in the 
head itself. My head feels very large, heavy and congested. On stooping 
over it feels as if it would burst. 
At times I am so dizzy that I cannot stand or walk; at others, I have 
severe headaches in front, sides or back of the head. My heart beats 
loudly and rapidly all the time. There are also strong pulsation and nerv- 
ous twitchings in various parts of the body. 
I suffer very much from sharp pains and dull aches in the region of 
the heart. The pulse is often very slow and full. The stomach is in an 
acid condition most of the time. The slightest touch in the region of the 
stomach is very painful. 
On rising in the morning there is a copperish taste in the mouth. 
The acid arising from the stomach at times is so sour as to set the teeth 
on edge. All food disagrees, nothing digests, at times I will vomit hours 
after eating. There is hot burning in stomach and throat, and hot fluids 
arise so sour as to be almost unendurable. 
My tongue is white, badly coated and full of little red sores. My face 
is covered with pimples and blackheads. My hair is very grey, and I am 
a young man of twenty-seven. My eyes are bloodshot. 
I have doctored for four years, have taken great quantities of medi- 
cine. In spite of all this I have grown steadily worse, until now my 
condition has become such that I don't care how soon it is all ended. 
If there is any help for me, I will be very grateful for any advice 
or help that you may give me. I remain, 
Very truly yours, 
M. V. M. 
In the past five years I have met thousands of such cases. It 
is often difficult to make these patients understand that all these 
varied and alarming symptoms are the result of undigested food 
and accumulated waste in the alimentary canal. But that is just 
where the whole trouble lies, so right that condition and all of 
the above symptoms will leave. It requires very little to keep 
the body in health, and a very little to put it into the grave with 
almost any ailment known. It is actually a sin for a person to be 
sick, as the natural tendencies of the body are toward health. 
64 TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY 
The temperature of the body is about 98.4 degrees and re- 
mains about the same through winter and summer. 
HEALTH MAKES LIFE JOYOUS 
A healthy man finds pleasure in living. The mere fact that 
he is alive is a source of joy to him. For him the sun is always 
shining. No matter how many clouds may obscure the sky, 
there is sunshine in his heart, there is joy in his soul, every task 
is a source of pleasure. Life to such a man is a delightfully pleas- 
ing experience, every day and all day. 
To be sure, when you are able to secure rewards of this 
nature, there must not only be harmony in the physical functions, 
but there must be a proper mental balance. Many persons whose 
physical functions are normal have not the ability to possess 
themselves of the joys described, but this is due entirely to their 
mental outlook. 
Life is what you make it, physically and also mentally. You 
get out of life to a large extent what you put into it. In a figura- 
tive sense it is like a bank-it pays interest on the capital invested. 
Authorities on heredity tell us that we don't inherit acquired 
characteristics. 
That means that we don't inherit the diseases of our fore- 
bears. 
We don't inherit our father's education or his acquired skills. 
Neither do zve inherit his wooden leg or his gout. 
If he was an athlete, we don't inherit his muscle; if he had 
appendicitis, we don't inherit that. 
When we are born, Nature opens up a nezv account book zvith 
us; and, as a general thing, she doesn't charge us with our parents' 
blunders and sins. 
We have the opportunity to start fresh, to stand or fall by 
zvhat zve do, not by what somebody else did. 
That is a fortunate thing for us. Let's make the most of it. 
FIVE MILES A DAY 
The average persons requires exercise to the equivalent of 
a three to five mile walk daily. 
65 TEETH BUILDING FOOD 
The teeth must have good building material, and this is 
found in whole wheat bread. The use of white bread means 
starved teeth and therefore decayed teeth. Brushing the teeth 
is taught in the schools, but children will continue to suffer in this 
respect until they have also been taught the necessity for whole 
wheat bread and until their parents have been sufficiently edu- 
cated to provide same. 
HOW TO DOCTOR 
Rule 1. Whenever anyone is taken ill, partake of no food 
during forty-eight hours ; after that time continue an absolute 
fast from food until the patient has pronounced natural hunger. 
Few realize the simple fact that during the acute stages of 
disease the secretions of the digestive juices stop, and that food 
taken at such a time, works great harm, and cannot be digested : 
what is the result? It must putrefy within the stomach and in- 
testines, forming poisons which are absorbed into the system until 
every organ is deranged. 
You should be made to understand this; that the weak and 
delicate person can digest very little, and that the acutely sick 
person can digest no food at all. You notice any animal when it 
is sick, you cannot force food down it. 
Why cannot human beings have as much sense? When you 
are sick nature is making an effort to clean out the body of pois- 
ons and waste matter. The action of hot water at such times 
tends to wash out the stomach, encourage perspiration, provoke 
a movement of the bowels, and stimulate the action of the kid- 
neys, therefore- 
Rule 2. Administer frequently a glass or two of hot water; 
that is found very helpful whether the patient feels thirsty or not, 
and after a day or so if the patient prefers it, cold water may be 
given, especially if the temperature is high. Nothing is to be add- 
ed to the water, as water alone requires no digestion, and not 
only stimulates excretion, but whatever portion may be needed 
by the body is absorbed into the circulation, and causes no strain 
upon the vital powers. 
Rule 3. See that the feet are kept as warm as possible ; why? 
When one has fever or any acute attack of illness, there is conges- 
tion of blood in the brain and withdrawal of blood from the ex- 
66 tremities. If in such cases heat be applied to the feet, there is 
induced relaxation of the blood vessels, a freer circulation ensues, 
blood enters the feet and is withdrawn from the head; therefore 
see that the feet are kept warm. 
Rule 4. Apply cold cloths to the head ; these cloths should 
be changed as often as the skin becomes heated. 
Rule 5. If patient is suffering pain in any portion of the body, 
apply hot applications to the surface of the body nearest the seat 
of the pain. This is best done with a hot water bottle made of 
rubber, as it will withstand boiling water and easily adjusts itself 
to any part of the body. And it works magical benefits in a very 
short time, and is of priceless value to the sick. Don't be with- 
out one for a minute. 
Rule 6. Whenever a person is taken with a pain in the region 
of the stomach or bowels, let him take a glass of hot water every 
five or eight minutes until there is relief. Pain arises from an 
obstruction to some of the normal activities of the body. The 
drinking of large quantities of hot water not only tends to wash 
out the stomach and intestines, but stimulates to an increased 
activity all the vital organs. The presence of so much water calls 
for increased activity of the kidneys; the water also helps for- 
ward a movement of the bowels. If the pain has arisen from un- 
digested food in the stomach the oft-repeated drings of hot water 
will produce vomiting, and the contents of the stomach will be 
ejected, a matter of great importance in itself. 
Rule 7. This is the most important part of the treatment. 
Use Internal Bath one to three times a day; this will keep the 
Colon clean, and this is of the utmost importance, no matter what 
the disease may be. In some cases, like pneumonia, it should be 
used six to twelve times a day, and it will prove a saving treat- 
ment. See page 94. Don't use drugs of any kind; while in some 
cases they give a temporary relief, they will do more harm than 
good. Natural methods will effect a complete cure, and will 
never do harm. 
Rule 8. When a person is taken sick the circulation of the 
blood is disturbed. In health the normal number of pulsations of 
an adult is usually from 60 to 70 a minute. If a fever is threat- 
ened and the patient is suffering from headache, cold feet, a chilly 
feeling and like symptoms, the pulsation is likely to be 90, 100 
or even as high as 120 and still no serious attack need necessarily 
be feared. If the pulsations rise much above the last named figure 
67 the condition of the patient is more serious. Very little practice 
will enable any person to count the heart's pulsations with ac- 
curacy. The best place to do this is the wrist at the base of the 
thumb, the large artery. 
The normal temperature of the blood is 98.4 Fahrenheit. It 
is one of the wonderful provisions of nature that this temperature 
is the same in all climates. As soon as there is any acute attack 
of illness it will be found that the temperature is raised above 
normal. If the thermometer shows the temperature to be as high 
as 103 a novice may know that there is considerable fever; and 
while this degree of heat is found in conditions not at all danger- 
ous, or even serious, it is still a grave symptom and one to be fully 
noted. Beyond this point each degree of heat increases the grav- 
ity of the situation. And when a temperature of 105 or 106 is 
reached it can almost certainly be set down to be .the result of a 
very serious attack. Above all things see that the feet are kept 
warm and the bowels open, with the Internal Bath. 
Rule 9. Sleep must not be neglected ; an invalid needs all he 
or she can get. Let the sleeping room be kept as quiet as possible, 
with plenty of pure, fresh air, with at least two windows wide 
open. 
Don't you see after all that how to doctor is a very simple 
matter; that if you will follow these few simple rules you will 
save many a dear, sweet life? The death rate of children should 
be less than one per cent, and it is over forty per cent. 
The premises from which this work is deducted cannot be 
stated too often. It is: that it is as natural to be well as it is to 
be born ; that the illness that is seen on every hand and in every 
household is the result of the transgression of natural law. 
When there is a tendency on the part of your child to sleep 
with mouth open, gently press the lips together and so arrange 
the head that it is propped a little forward. How much suffering 
might be saved if this wise precaution were adopted by mothers 
with their infants. 
Mouth breathing is the cause of a great many ailments of 
mankind; when the mouth is closed during sleep, a secretion of 
saliva takes place which floods and cleanses the teeth and gums, 
greatly aiding thereby to maintain them in a healthy and unim- 
paired condition. But when the outer air is permitted direct in- 
gress to the mouth continuously for hours, the mucous membrane 
becomes dry, the flow of saliva is suppressed, and both the gums 
68 and teeth suffer deterioration. Premature decay and loss of teeth 
are no doubt largely the outcome of this habit. 
The eating of fruit tends to stimulate the activity of the liver 
and bowels, and purify and cool the blood. 
It matters not whether we scrutinize the beasts of the field 
and wood, the fishes of the sea, or the birds of the air; the pre- 
vailing condition is health and vigor. If you find a bird or other 
animal ill or lame, you know at once that there has been an ac- 
cident, a combat, or an inadequate supply of food. Now look at 
man ; he is generally out of health, and perfect health is the rarest 
thing in the world today, and it is something that we all ought to 
have. A careful farmer has no difficulty in rearing all the young 
horses, cattle, sheep and the like born on his farm. Yet statistics 
show that about one-half of the human race die before the age 
of five is reached. 
Animals of all kinds live to an average of five times their 
growth; man does not finish his growth until he is twenty; five 
times twenty is 100, yet the average life of man is about 47 years. 
We don't live to twice our growth, and wrong eating and consti- 
pation are the cause. 
MEAT 
Meat will give strength to the lions, tigers, and other carniv- 
orous animals. But meat does not give strength to the bull moose, 
a better fighter than the lion, nor to the elephant, a stronger ani- 
mal than the tiger. Every day is meatless for the bull moose and 
the elephant. Man is not a carnivorous animal and every day 
should be meatless. The food consumed by the livestock of our 
country would support 500.000,0000 human beings. Meat is an 
unscientific food for man. 
The man who eats three big meals daily, smokes and sleeps 
in a room with little or no ventilation, is only half at work during 
working hours. 
EDISON 
Edison eats about one-third as much food as the average 
person, and does about three times as much work. 
"What shall it profit a man if he gain the world" and lose 
his health. 
69 CATARRH CAN BE CURED 
By R. L. Alsaker, M. D. 
Catarrh-What is it? Why is it? Why is it almost uni- 
versal? Is it a dangerous disease? Is it truly curable? Is it a 
germ disease? How can it be overcome? 
These are some of the questions frequently asked about a dis- 
order that afflicts millions in this country, and hundreds of mil- 
lions all over the world. A family without one or more members 
suffering from some form of catarrh is almost a curiosity. 
Catarrh, to the average individual, is a disease of the nose 
and throat. This is the most common form of the trouble, but 
catarrh can be found anywhere in the body where there is a 
mucous membrane. Catarrh of the stomach and of the intestines 
is rather common. 
But in this article we shall confine ourselves to catarrh of the 
respiratory tract, because catarrh of the nose, throat and bron- 
chial tubes is the most prevalent kind. It is a kill-joy to him who 
has it as well as to him who is forced to see and hear its mani- 
festations. 
The most interesting question-Is catarrh curable? will be 
answered first. It is curable. Children and young adults can rid 
themselves of it in a short time. Those who are middle age 
find it more stubborn. Those past middle age find it ever more 
difficult to vanquish. But catarrh can be cured in every instance, 
if the individual has a fair amount of vitality and will power, 
and if the trouble has not advanced so far that the mucous mem- 
brane is badly deteriorated. When the mucous membrane is 
ruined, there can not be a complete cure, but even here the suf- 
ferer can be made comfortable in most instances. Fortunately, 
it takes years to ruin the mucous membrane. 
Let us illustrate the subject with cases from infancy to old 
age. As you read these stories from life you can pick up pointers 
to help yourself or your loved ones who suffer from catarrh. 
Little Elsie was just two years old when she came under ob- 
servation. Being the only child in the family she was idolized, 
and her mother and grandmother had given her what they be- 
lieved to be the best of care. She showed signs of catarrh when 
she was onlv a few weeks old, and she was under the constant 
care of physicians until her second birthday. They used various 
drugs, and prescribed five or six meals a day, including broth, 
70 and toward the last meat at least once a day. As a result of this 
treatment the little girl suffered from indigestion, irritation of 
the bladder, poor rest at night, and catarrh of the entire respira- 
tory tract. Her chest rattled, that is, she was developing bron- 
chitis. At night she was a mouth breather, and she was devel- 
oping the thickened upper nose common to children suffering 
from adenoids. 
We took meat away from her, also all cereal mushes, such 
as oat meal and breakfast foods made of boiled wheat products, 
also white sugar. We reduced the meals to three a day, but al- 
lowed an apple or an orange if she became unduly hungry at four 
o'clock in the afternoon. Instead of giving mushy cereals we 
gave her crisp dry biscuits, that she had to insalivate and masti- 
cate before swallowing; in place of white sugar we gave her such 
foods as sweet prunes, raisins, figs and dates. Instead of meat 
we gave her a glass of milk. Instead of puddings and cakes we 
gave her plainly cooked fresh vegetables, and cooked and raw 
fruits. She got milk three times a day. Crisply baked bread- 
stuffs, such as toast or thin crisp biscuits, she got twice a day. 
The meal in which she got no breadstuff's we gave her baked 
potato. But we fed only two or three kinds of food at any one 
meal. 
These were the results: The third night she slept well and 
she continued to sleep well thereafter, for she had no more blad- 
der irritation. The indigestion disappeared within a week, and 
so did the rattling in the chest. The catarrhal discharge had en- 
tirely disappeared within fourteen days, and it has not returned. 
Results do not always come as quickly as this, but the rule 
is that if young children of good vitality are properly cared for 
they rid themselves of catarrh within a few weeks. 
It is also interesting to know that this little girl had been con- 
stipated since she was about two months old. Under correct 
feeding the constipation vanished in ten days. 
A hy did Elsie have catarrh ? Because they were overfeed- 
ing her, giving her foods not fit for one of her age, such as meat 
and oat meal, and they were giving her too elaborate combina- 
tions for a small child. The wrong feeding first produced indi- 
gestion. 1 he indigestion caused gas, poison formation in the in- 
testinal tract, and an excess of acid. 
1 hese products of indigestion were partly absorbed into the 
blood, which reduced the alkalinity of the entire body, and in the 
71 end caused general hyperacidity or acidosis. Then the organs of 
elimination tried to throw this excessive amount of poison out of 
the body, but the kidneys, the bowels, the lungs, and the skin 
were not equal to the task, and the mucous membrane of the 
respiratory tract tried to help. As a result of this abnormal de- 
mand made on the mucous membrane, it started to protect itself 
by throwing out the lubricant called mucus, and when the mucus 
secretion became excessive it became known as catarrh. 
If you have followed the facts closely you will realize that 
catarrh in itself is not in the beginning a disease. It is an at- 
tempt to throw poisons out of the body and to protect the mucous 
membrane; it is a sign that the blood is overburdened with waste. 
And the condition is generally based on wrong eating, followed 
by some form of digestive disturbance. 
The indigestion may be of such a nature that the sufferer 
does not notice it. Often the catarrh is so bad that the other 
signs of disease are overlooked. 
For the second case we shall select Agnes, a high school girl 
of fifteen. She had been subject to colds since early childhood, 
and for several years had had nasal catarrh at all seasons. She 
frequently coughed, and her parents were fearful of tuberculosis. 
She had pasty complexion and pale lips and was anemic. For 
three years she had been under the care of physicians who gave 
her tonics and advised overfeeding of milk, eggs and beef. As 
she gradually grew worse under this treatment, the parents be- 
gan to give her patent medicines for tonic purposes, also catarrh 
remedies. The cough and the catarrh gradually grew worse 
during the patent medicine year. 
This girl was pampered and petted. The mother could refuse 
her nothing. Agnes daily indulged in brown Hour gravies, rich 
desserts, and heavily seasoned foods. She refused to partake of 
vegetables. She had chocolate candy every day. Her digestion 
was badly disordered but this had escaped notice, because par- 
ents and doctors were concentrating on effects, that is, the res- 
piratory disturbances. 
The cause, atrocious mode of living, was overlooked. The 
mother came to me with a long tale of Agnes' delicate constitu- 
tion. She could not do this and she could not do that, and Agnes 
did not like this and Agnes did not like that. Finally I asked 
the mother why she came to me with such a silly tale. "You are 
72 killing your daughter by letting her have her own way, although 
it is not called murder when it is done in this way." 
The mother returned, bringing her husband along, and they 
agreed to follow directions to the letter. This is what we did : 
The girl had to discard the debutante slouch and she was re- 
quired to take deep breathing exercises with her mother twice a 
day. fl hree times a day she had to take bending exercises and 
arm calisthenics. Automobiling was strictly forbidden for the 
time being, the purpose being to make her walk more. Medica- 
tion was stopped; so was the candy. She got three meals a day, 
and between meals she was allowed to help herself to all the fresh 
air and all the water she desired. But she had no milk, no eggs, 
no candy, no food, either liquid or solid between meals. 
The foods were plainly cooked and simply dressed, and we 
omitted all pastries, flour gravies and strong seasonings. The girl 
was sent to bed before nine o'clock every night. 
When she had completed two months of this routine she had 
red lips, good complexion and a good appetite, and she was thank- 
ful to get fresh fruits and the fresh vegetables that she had prev- 
iously spurned. The cough and the catarrhal symptoms had 
vanished. The next winter she had no colds and no catarrh. In- 
cidentally we cured the mother of the silly habit of being her 
daughter's slave. Why were our results so satisfactory and last- 
ing? Because the family was taught to live so as to have health, 
and they did not return to their previous disease-building ways. 
Bet us travel into the next decade and observe what doctors 
usually call "an interesting case." Mr. M. was a school teacher, 
twenty-two years of age. He had had nasal catarrh from infancy, 
and the catarrhal condition had continued to spread until both 
bronchial tubes were affected. For about seven months each 
winter he had what is called a "cold in the chest," and at times 
his breathing was labored. To use his own words: "The dis- 
charge from my nose and throat is so profuse that I use four 
handkerchiefs or more every day, and they are so soiled that I 
am ashamed to put them in the wash." 
Mr. M. had been under the care of nose and throat special- 
ists for about four years, but there was no improvement. His 
habits of drinking, breathing and exercising were good, but, as he 
expressed it, he "had taken enough dope to float a battleship." 
■ He had also used nasal ointments and sprays. He had also had 
three nasal operations, involving two turbinates and the septum 
73 Why did he have catarrh? Because of his eating habits. 
Meats were cheap then and his mother served them at every meal. 
Sugar was then selling for about five cents a pound and the 
young man used great quantities of it. lie had rich desserts both 
at noon and night, and sometimes he would eat a big wedge of 
pie for breakfast, in addition to fried potatoes, fried eggs, fried 
bacon and hot biscuits with syrup. 11 is digestion was good and 
the foods were well absorbed, but the body was unable to elim- 
inate through the natural channels the excessive amount of waste 
produced by such gluttony. The result was catarrh. 
We allowed him. meat once a day, plenty of fruit two or three 
times a day, plenty of fresh vegetables once or twice a day, a 
reasonable amount of whole wheat bread with butter. But we 
strictly limited his intake of sugar, and for the time being cut 
out all desserts. His recovery was so rapid that the time will not 
be given here. It was difficult for me to believe it, but the evi- 
dence was plain enough. At the end of two weeks he discarded 
his glasses. He also discarded the pimples on his back and chest. 
This happened over seven years ago. and Mr. M. told me last 
week that he has had no catarrh since, in fact, he has not been 
ill since he was educated out of catarrh. The reason he remains 
well is that he learned to live so as to have good health, and be- 
ing a sensible and ambitious young man he has used the knowl- 
edge. 
All the cases so far mentioned are individuals living in the 
damp Mississippi Valley, which is supposed to be favorable to 
the development of catarrh. But climate has very little to do 
with it. I saw about as much catarrh in dry Colorado as 1 have 
seen in the Mississippi \ alley. In arid regions the catarrh is apt 
to be the dry kind; in damp climates the moist catarrh is most 
prevalent. 
For the fourth case we shall select a business man, thirty- 
four years of age. who lives in New Jersey, within view of the 
Atlantic Ocean. 
He was raised in a family that believed in "good living," 
which in this case consisted of the choicest of meats at least 
twice daily, coffee with sugar and cream two or more times per 
day, fine liquor with every dinner, also rich desserts. He exer- 
cised spasmodically. He said he had always had catarrh. 
When Mr. W. came under observation the nasal catarrh was 
rather extreme, and the catarrh of the throat was so bad that his 
74 right ear was out of commission and he had about fifty per cent 
hearing in the left ear. We got him to breathing and exercising 
more, and eating less, especially of the animal foods. He was 
given specific directions to take care of his body, and this is what 
happened: 
Within two months the nasal catarrh had almost vanished, 
and the hearing in the left ear was normal, so the patient said. 
The right ear was much improved. - After following directinos for 
six months this was the report: "My nasal catarrh is cured. 'The 
left ear is as good as new. The right ear is almost all right, but 
the hearing there is not as acute as in the left ear." 
This incident brings out the cheerful fact that in young in- 
dividuals catarrhal deafness is generally curable. Those who 
have had catarrh for more than twenty or thirty years may have 
reached the stage where this affliction can not be remedied, but 
the general rule is that catarrhal deafness in the young can be 
vastly improved or completely remedied ; in elder individuals the 
trouble can often be improved and the progress of the deafness 
stopped, but in cases of long standing where the ear structures 
have become tough and have degenerated the hearing does not 
improve. I H9 
Case number five was Mr. N., thirty-nine years old when he 
decided to get well. He is a banker, and being prosperous, has 
enjoyed the so-called good things of life.| But he failed to avail 
himself of walks and exercise and deep breathing. His worst bad 
habit was overeating of bread, potatoes and pastries. He was 
another pie hound, often indulging his taste for it three times a 
day. At the early age of thirty-nine he had acquired a blood 
pressure of 190. This was what he wished to correct. 
Before two months had elapsed his blood pressure was un- 
der 140, and he was surprised to find that the catarrh of the 
nose and throat which had troubled him for years had also dis- 
appeared, and the tonsils no longer bothered him. The reason he 
still had his tonsils was that the surgeon did not like to operate 
while the blood pressure was so high. When the pressure re- 
turned to normal there was no need of the operation. This shows 
how various diseases go hand in hand. 
In this instance the remedy was to put the individual on a 
balanced diet which contained about one-fourth of the sugar and 
the starch that he had been eating, and three or four times as 
much of the fresh fruits and the fresh vegetables as he had been 
75 accustomed to. Alcohol was eliminated, and so was tea. As soon 
as the blood pressure was under 150 he was instructed to take 
bending and stretching exercises in moderation, and as the blood 
pressure was further reduced the exercises were increased. 
Those who have high blood pressure should not take strenu- 
ous exercise. Reduce the pressure first, and then prescribe the 
exercises. This fact was forcibly brought to my attention this 
past month, for 1 had to deal with a woman whose blood pres- 
sure was 220. Another physician had prescribed very vigorous 
exercises, and the lady almost lost her life. One should use a 
little bit of sense, even in practicing the healing art. 
Mrs. McM. was forty-four years old. She had had catarrh 
of the throat for over twenty years and it was customary for her 
to have three or more attacks of tonsilitis every winter, the at- 
tacks being so severe that she was laid up for about a month 
each time. She was a wealthy woman and has had plenty of 
servants. She has always been inclined to inertia-if it were not 
for her pleasant smile I should call it laziness. She was about 
fifty pounds overweight. This woman was used to flattery from 
professional sources. 
When she came under my observation we had a very frank 
talk in which I did not flatter her in the least, but told her that 
her manner of living was awful and she deserved all her sickness. 
1. pointed out to her that gluttony is one of the most disgusting 
of vices, and then I told her that if she would reform comfort and 
health would come. 
She agreed, so we gradually increased her walking and her 
exercising. She started to take deep breathing exercises three 
times a day. She stopped tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate, and 
she substituted plain water. She stopped eating between meals. 
According to directions she reduced her intake of fats, oils, sugar, 
and starches. Until her throat cleared up we omitted meat. Her 
diet in the beginning was all kinds of fresh fruits, all kinds of 
fresh vegetables, both cooked and raw; milk once or twice a day; 
potatoes and bread in great moderation. 
Inside of four months she was normal in weight, she had 
overcome her catarrh and her throat felt all right. She has not 
spent a day in bed for over five years, she informs me. Some- 
times she gets careless and then she gets a queer sensation in 
the throat, which is a warning that she has done wrong. Then 
she acts as follows: Takes an enema, takes a hot bath to equalize 
76 the circulation and produce free perspiration, drinks eight or 
ten glasses of water a day, and goes without food for a day or 
two. If she were prudent all the time her throat would not bother 
her, but she does love the fleshpots. However, she now knows 
die cause of her trouble and what to do about it, and she is wise 
enough to put on the brakes before anything serious happens. 
Perhaps the financial end of her case would be interesting 
to you. Before being educated into common sense living she 
spent over $1,000 a year for doctor fees, to say nothing of large 
drug bills. The past five years her expenditures for health 
maintenance have been nil. Yes, nature keeps us well free of 
charge, if we permit it. 
Mr. O. was a business man, fifty-five years old. He had had 
catarrh as long as he could remember, and he knew that nothing 
could be done for that! But he also had rheumatism (arthritis) 
in four of the large leg joints, and as this interfered with his 
walking he wanted to get rid of it. His catarrh was of that hor- 
rible kind known as ozena, the odor often being so bad that it is 
a sore trial to be near the sufferer. The sense of smell is often 
impaired, but that does not help the family or associates. 
On a diet almost exclusively vegetable the rheumatism 
cleared up rather quickly. This was expected. But the catarrhal 
reaction brought the surprise. Within four months the stench 
was gone, and there was no more excretion of pieces of dried 
mucous, no more pellets of decaying material expelled from the 
sinuses bordering the nasal cavities. The sense of smell partly 
returned. You can imagine the delight of the patient, faithful 
Mr. O. 
Let us skip into the eighth decade and visit Mrs. T. She was 
seventy-five years old before she had the truth presented to her. 
She had had asthma and bronchitis, with accompanying difficult 
breathing, for over forty years. She could not remember being 
without nasal catarrh. She had tried mental, chemical and physi- 
cal "cures" without benefit. At the age of seventy-five she had 
great difficulty in breathing from early fall until late spring, 
spending most of her time in bed. Her chief diet was cake and 
tea, fried bacon and creamed potatoes. 
We convinced Mrs. T. that night air is the only kind of air 
to be had at night, and that foul air is as bad at night as in the 
day time. This resulted in proper ventilation. Instead of the de- 
vitalizing foods she had eaten we gave her fresh milk, fresh 
77 vegetables, and the mild fruits but not the very acid ones. We 
replaced her fancy cake with plain bread thoroughly crisped in 
the oven. 
On acocunt of her weakness and her age the improvement 
was slow, but the nasal catarrh ceased troubling her within five 
months. When she was seventy-six years old her bronchitis 
bothered her for about three weeks instead of the seven months 
as in the previous years, and it was less severe. She had no 
asthma that winter. She is now in her seventy-ninth year living 
in comfort. 
It is both useless and foolish to take drugs for ordinary 
catarrh. The cause of the trouble is wrong mode of living, liv- 
ing contrary to natural laws, and drugs can not remedy that. 
Nor can sprays and salves cure poor quality blood and disordered 
digestion. The remedy is to discard the bad habits and acquire 
good ones. 
Catarrh is not a germ disease. It is a blood and digestive 
disease, that is, it is builded on poor quality of blood, and poor 
blood is caused pirncipally by abnormal digestion plus poor elim- 
ination. Of course, bacteria are present by the millions in catarrh. 
But the excessive number of bacteria is the result of the catarrh, 
not the cause. The ordinary catarrh is the chronic form, but 
there is. also acute catarrh, usually known as a common cold in 
the head, or technically as coryza. A common cold is actually 
a form of fever with mucous membrane irritation or inflamma- 
tion. Most people take cold several times a year. Many gradu- 
ate from the acute catarrh class into the chronic catarrh class. 
Through the use of a moderate amount of will power it is easy 
to prevent and cure ordinary colds. 
The prevention may be given in a few lines: Keep the bowels 
normally active: breathe deeply; exercise freely enough to have 
good surface circulation and keep the blood from congesting in 
the chest and abdomen ; drink sufficient water to flush the waste 
out of the body; eat less of the concentrated staple foods, such 
as bread, meat, potatoes, and sugar; eat more freely of the 
fresh fruits and the fresh vegetables; do not spoil the fruits by 
doping them with sugar, and do not ruin the cooked vegetables 
by draining off the juices in which they are stewed, and then 
adding starchy gravies. 
The quickest, surest and best cold cure is this: Immediately 
when the individual feels that he is taking a cold he should clean 
78 out the intestinal tract; taking a piping hot bath until the perspi- 
ration comes freely, cool off gradually ; drink all the water, warm 
or cold, that is desired; and miss a few meals until the stuffy 
catarrhal feeling is gone. If this is done as soon as one feels the 
cold coming, it is remarkably effective. If there is compromise 
and waiting before it is put into practice, it may not work at all 
quickly. Do it at once. 
The evil effects of catarrh are numerous and serious. Catarrh 
causes deterioration of the mucous membrane; then the air is im- 
properly prepared for the lungs, so that many irritants that 
should be excluded enter; irritation of the lungs ensues, which 
results in local deterioration of the lung structures. As a conse- 
quence the lungs are weakened and easily fall victims of pneu- 
monia, tuberculosis and bronchitis. Bronchitis may be called a 
form of catarrh. Also the blood does not get its due amount of 
oxygen, and this adversely affects the entire body. 
Catarrh and constipation, the two most common of human 
ills, go hand in hand. Sometimes catarrh helps to produce con- 
stipation, and very often constipation is one of the chief causes 
of catarrh. Most of the time these two ailments are allies, work- 
ing together to shorten life and to produce'other discomforts and 
ills so long as life lasts. Neither one is a disease in the begin- 
ning, but merely a symptom showing that the waste elimination 
of the body is abnormal. 
Catarrh is a disease that fills life with woe ; it makes men and 
women inefficient; it decreases the earning capacity; it makes 
the sufferer, in many instances, both a public and private nuis- 
ance, for it is very unpleasant, especially at the table, to have to 
associate with some one constantly being compelled to clear the 
throat; it leads to other diseases; it decreases the joy of living; 
and it often shortens life. Why be handicapped by this trouble, 
which is so easily overcome in the average case? 
Inquiry is frequently made if an individual can through self 
help rid himself of catarrh. That depends on the individual. If 
he is the kind who can take the truth from the printed page and 
persistently apply it, he can get well by himself. If he is the 
kind who has to be coached and encouraged to persist, then he 
will need expert supervision for a while. Unfortunately a large 
part of humanity belongs to the second class. 
Here are some of the most important pointers in ridding 
the body of chronic catarrh: 
79 1. Train the bowels to function satisfactorily at least once 
a day. 
2. Breathe more deeply. Get the habit of having the chest 
out and the belly in. Have the bedroom well ventilated all night 
through all seasons. 
3. Exercise every morning and every evening so as to keep 
good circulation in the limbs. Overcome that tendency to cold 
hands and feet. 
4. For the purpose of maintaining normal surface circula- 
tion, spend at least five minutes every day giving the whole body, 
from neck to soles of feet, a thorough dry rubbing. Use the flesh 
brush or a coarse towel for the rubbing. Do this rubbing your- 
self even if you are worth a billion dollars. Also get the habit 
of "bellying in" several times a day to overcome the tendency 
of the blood to stagnate in the large abdominal vessels. Draw 
the abdominal wall in and up, as if you were going to pull it 
under the ribs. 
5. If you are a victim of the domestic drugs-tea, coffee, 
tobacco and alcohol-the sooner you quit them the better. Also 
avoid all medicines, whether patent or prescribed by physicians. 
Drugs will not help, but if they are freely used they will injure. 
6. Water is the best beverage; it is the drink which most 
effectually helps to cleanse the blood. Coffee and tea both help 
to poison the blood. 
7. Most important of all, learn to eat in a balanced way. 
Many food hints are scattered through this article, but we shall 
enumerate a few which need repetition: Eat more of the fresh 
fruits and the fresh vegetables, both cooked and raw. Eat less 
of such concentrated foods as potatoes, bread, sugar and meats. 
If a vegetarian eat moderately of the mature legumes (beans, 
peas, lentils, peanuts). Green peas and string beans are all right. 
Masticate all food well and eat slowly. Take only two or three 
meals a day, and between meals nothing but water. 
Remember that in ridding the body of catarrh, you are also 
toning it up so. that it can with difficulty take any other disease. 
Long ago Seneca said: "Man does not die: he hills himself." 
Catarrh is one of the things that assists mightily in the almost 
universal suicide. 
This complete article was taken from the Physical Culture 
Magazine. This magazine can be bought at any news stand and 
you will find some good article in every issue. See page 111. 
80 YOU MUST EAT LIME 
Familiar as we are with whitewash on the walls of barns, 
stables, and cellars, we never stop to consider that the chief in- 
gredient of this sweetening, freshening application is also the 
chief ingredient of man's solid structure, and a very important 
and indispensable ingredient of his soft tissues, blood and in- 
ternal secretions. 
Without lime not only would there be no human race on this 
planet, but there would be no single living thing in the form of 
animal or vegetable. Yet lime, which we shall hereafter call cal- 
cium because that is what the "scientists" call it, is one of the 
most tragically neglected and foolishly abused essentials of life. 
Approximately 99 per cent of the calcium consumed by the 
young animal goes to its bones and teeth. An abundance of cal- 
cium for the growing bones is thus needed. 
In its mother"s womb the growing child derives its calcium 
from the mother's food, provided the calcium has not been re- 
moved through refining processes from her food before she eats 
it. When that happens, as it always does on a diet consisting 
largely of white bread, polished rice, modern corn meal, sugar, 
glucose and meat, the mother's bones and tissues, including her 
blood, are called upon to make good the deficiency. 
The laws of Nature are inexorable in this respect, and that 
which the mother does not receive from her food she is obliged 
to contribute from her own being, at her own expense, to the un- 
born. This deficiency of food calcium, with the appalling re- 
sults on the future health of the mother, is entirely preventable 
and wholly uncalled for. 
Natural, unrefined food not only guards against a calcium 
deficiency, but actually makes such deficiency impossible. White 
bread, biscuits, crackers, cakes, farina dishes, cornstarch pud- 
dings, and all other forms of denatured grains, refined sugar, 
literally destroy mother and child before their time, or so rob 
them of normal vitality as to make their lives burdensome and 
miserable. Refined sugar and glucose are calcium free. The tis- 
sue salts of the cane are rich in calcium, as is the kernel of corn 
from which glucose, by chemical processes, is manufactured. 
This calcium is processed out of the finished sweet just as it is 
sifted and bolted out of the white flour foods. 
81 Prescribe foods, robbed of their calcium to the child, and in 
addition recommend the generous use of refined sugar and candy 
in the child's diet, and America's 15,000,000 physically defective 
school children, as reported by the Bureau of Mortality Statis- 
tics, Washington, D. C., wil grow into 10,000,000 physically de- 
fective men and women, while the other 5,000,000 will journey to 
the cemetery in little white caskets. 
Undenatured grains and whole grain breadstuffs, with pars- 
nips, carrots, turnips, egg yolk, greens and pure milk, provide 
the richest calcium foods. Of special importance is calcium to 
the worn-out body suffering from low resitance and threatened 
with tuberculosis. 
Tuberculosis if taken in time, with the aid of food calcium, 
can be cured. What, then, is society's justification for permit- 
ting tuberculosis to develop in a healthy body? 
There is no combination of foods, if consumed as nature 
gives them to us, which can fail to fortify the growing child 
against the ravages of tuberculosis. All food, if unrefined, is good 
food. Let there be no mystery about that. Food unprocessed by 
man, contains all the elements necessary to a successful journey 
through the human body. God put them there for a purpose. 
Any combination of nautral foods, unrefined, which you can 
think of, will place at her disposal the raw materials needed by 
Mother Nature not only in her process of curing tuberculosis, but 
in her function of protecting the body against it. 
God in 11 is wisdom neglected nothing, left nothing to chance, 
but rather from His infinite Providence provided for every human 
need, heeding not alone the requirements of the new born infant 
at its mother's breast, but also the requirements of the adult, 
if the adult will but bend his knee and bow his head, accepting 
without question the dispensation of his Creator's love instead 
of breaking in upon them, disordering, changing, improving, re- 
fining, destroying them. 
Pure food not only endows the child with disease-resisting 
vitality, but it promotes and controls its normal growth and de- 
velopment, and fortifies maternity against the many preventable 
evils that beset the sublimest episode of life. 
Pure food is designed to keep the cradle filled and to stand 
the grave off to its proper time. It is designed to erase the hor- 
82 rible records of childhood mortality and to substitute for them 
the cheering fruits of health. 
At the last Olympic games at Antwerp, Belgium, August, 
1920, the entire world was amazed by the extraordinary showing 
of twenty-four Finnish athletes who competed for first place. 
There were nearly 1,000 athletes assembled, representing Italy, 
Greece, England, Sweden, France, Belgium, Egypt, Canada, the 
United States, Chile, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Aus- 
tria, South Africa and Japan. There were nearly 200 American 
contestants, with a similar number from the United Kingdom. 
There were only twenty-four Finns in the entire contest, yet the 
Finns, in spite of their small representation, came out with the 
second highest number of points scored against the entire world. 
They came out first in throwing the javelin and discus, in 
putting the shot, in the hop, step and jump, in the cross country 
run of ten miles and in the marathon of 26 miles, 386 yards. Four 
Finns actually broke the world's record in javelin throwing. No 
American has ever thrown the javelin farther than 200 feet. In 
fact, no American has ever equalled 200 feet. Yet four of the 
Finns threw the javelin from 209 to 220 feet. 
The diet of the Finns consist chiefly of black bread, porridge, 
fish, milk and root vegetables, all abundant calcium providers. 
ASTHMA CAN BE CURED 
By Senator H. J. Riley, of Pittsburgh, Pa. 
My parents were born in England, of sturdy English stock- 
strong, healthy and robust. My elder brother and sister were 
born in England, and eight other children were born in this coun- 
try. All the children inherited vigorous constitutions from the 
parents, with no taint or tendency to disease in any member of 
our family. 
When I was admitted to the bar of one of the large cities of 
Pennsylvania, I was considered quite a fine specimen of manhood 
from a physical standpoint, and up to that time I had enjoyed 
splendid health. At the age of thirty-five years 1 began to get 
stout, and though it was at this period that the clouds of disease 
were gathering, even my medical associates told me that I was 
looking splendid. They mistook bulk for health. At forty-five 
years of age I was pushing in front of me quite a bay-window; my 
83 breath was short, and the comfortable easy-chair began to hold 
considerable attraction for me. My weight increased to over 
two hundred and thirty-eight pounds. 
I became nervous, irritable, cross and disagreeable. My lips 
and veins became very dark in color. When I went to bed at 
night my head hardly touched the pillow before I would experi- 
ence the most terrible smothering sensation, resulting in gasp- 
ing and fighting for breath, after a few minutes of which I would 
be compelled to jump out of bed lest I smother altogether, and 
pass the rest of the long, dreary night in an easy chair in the 
library. And oh, how endless and dragging are nights under 
such trying conditions! 
I now began to be alarmed over my condition. I consulted 
many physicians, but received little or no benefit, and not much 
encouragement. The great doctors in whom 1 had placed un- 
limited confidence seemed to fail me in the time of my greatest 
need. My experience with those dignified and learned gentlemen 
was a sad and expensive one, and a great disappointment indeed. 
1 will relate one. 
By appointment I called upon a noted specialist in one of the 
large eastern cities. After a clear statement of my case, I in- 
formed him that I had never dissipated in any way that I knew 
of during my life except smoking, and that 1 had never smoked 
until I was twenty-eight years of age. After a thorough 
physical examination he requested me to call the next day, and 
probably the day after for further minor examinations. He said 
he though that in a few days after that he would be able to tell 
me just what conclusion he had come to about my condition. You 
can imagine with what great anxiety I passed the next few days. 
At the appointed time 1 was ushered into his private office and 
he began the delivery of his opinion by using many medical and 
technical phrases. However, that did not awe me in the least, for 
I was more or less familiar with this phase of the profession, but 
my great confidence in doctors and their alleged skill had been 
growing less for some time. 
When he had concluded his learned and dignified discourse 
on my case, I replied. "Doctor, your opinion, to my mind, is 
about as clear as mud. Let us cut into this thing and use simple, 
plain English. You state that none of my vital organs are really 
diseased, but they are in very bad condition, more or less 
clogged up. You also state that I may drop dead any moment 
84 by a stroke. You do not know how I got into this dreadful con- 
dition. You do not know of any remedy or medicine that will 
restore me to a healthy condition. You can not give me any hope 
or encouragement, except temporary relief/' 
He replied that that about summed up my case. I threw 
upon his desk a check for a large fee, which had been agreed upon 
in advance, and with considerable temper intimated very strong- 
ly that he should remove his sign from the building at once, as 
he was receiving money under false pretense. 
For me the outlook surely was dark, and I was in the prime 
of life as the years are counted. A few days after my return 
home from seeing this great physician, a friend called to see me 
one morning. As he entered my private office, he remarked: 
"Senator, I thought you might be interested enough to read an 
article in this magazine," and placing a copy of Physical Culture 
upon my desk he closed the door and left the office. I picked it 
up, and an editorial headed "Nature Cures Disease" attracted 
my attention. The first paragraph hit me like a sixteen-inch 
shell. Every word weighed a pound and every sentence weighed 
a ton. I had never in all my life read anything on the subject 
that appealed so forcibly to my judgment as that article. I read 
every article in that magazine and then sent for other copies. In 
some were references to "Fasting" as a cure for certain ail- 
ments. I had never heard of such a ridiculous poposition as fast- 
ing-starving-why, it was really a crime. But as I continued 
my investigations along these lines, I began to lose my faith in 
medicine altogether. I now call it "dope." I also began to cut 
down my food, missing a meal occasionally, and as it did not kill 
me, began to miss two meals in succession ; then I would eat three 
light meals for two or three days and then abstain from food for 
a whole day or two. I felt no evil results by so doing, but rather 
thought I felt a little improvement in my condition. I concluded 
by this time that I understood quite well the philosophy of fast- 
ing, and I made up my mind that I was going to give it a fair 
chance and abide by the consequences, no matter what the result 
might be. 
So, on June 1, 1908, I cut out all food and entered upon an 
absolute fast that ended on the morning of June 24th. Only pure 
water and air passed my lips during those twenty-three days. I 
drank about three quarts of water a day. I also took an enema three 
times a week. During my fast I walked every day to my office, a 
85 distance of four good miles, and walked home, eight miles each day, 
and I frequently took the Mount Troy road, which was a greater 
distance and very steep. No horse could pull a wagon up that road. 
Climbing the Troy Hill Road gave me a good sweat and tried my 
wind. 
On the third night of my fast I had a delightful surprise- 
instead of the dreadful smothering sensation spoken of, I fell asleep 
almost as soon as my head was laid on the pillow and slept all night 
through like a healthy baby. The desperate struggle for breath- 
which no words can describe-was a thing of the past. Oh, the 
sweet, peaceful and refreshing sleep of that night and the following 
nights I never can forgot, and I may say that a fast of a few days 
will relieve and cure those suffering from that terrible disease called 
"asthma" when no medicine in the world will or can effect a cure. 
On the fourth day of my fast I had battle royal with habit or 
hunger. All the devils of hunger were raising hell. They wanted 
to know if my throat was cut; that made me know in no uncertain 
language that they were not stuck on water, but I stood firm. Finally 
Mother Nature came to my assistance and relieved me of my hunger, 
virtually saying: "It is no use calling for food, neither is there any 
necessity for it, for we will now turn in and clean house. We can 
live thirty, forty or fifty days very well, and after we are through 
cleaning up this body I will return his desire or hunger for food. 
And, if he does not respond to my call, I will kill him within a few 
days thereafter by starvation." 
My wife and relatives were greatly distressed and alarmed 
about my fast. On the tenth day of my fast my wife requested 
that I accompany her and call on Doctor C-, a very good physician 
and a dear friend of ours. She was entitled to that satisfaction and 
I gladly consented. The doctor knew nothing of my fast. His first 
remark was: "Why, what's wrong?" "That's what I'm here to 
find out." He looked at my tongue, it was badly and heavily coated 
and the breath was foul. He thumped and pounded my chest, lis- 
tened to the heart action and felt my pulse. "Do you have a cough?" 
"No." "Do you sleep well?" "Yes, like a baby." "Do you have 
an appetite?" "No." "What did you eat for breakfast?" "Water 
and atmosphere." "What did you eat for dinner last evening?" 
"Well, doctor, I changed my menu for dinner last evening and dined 
on atmosphere and water." "When did you eat last?"' "Ten days 
ago, doctor." "Good God, man," he exclaimed, "what is wrong?" 
"Simply a fast, giving nature a chance to do what you doctors can- 
86 not do." To make a long story short, the doctor found my heart 
strong and acting splendid, not missing even half a beat. My lungs 
were in fine shape, and my pulse was strong. He was astounded! 
He never had seen a case like it and was greatly interested in the 
result of the fast so far, and requested me to call two or three times 
a week during the remainder of the fast, which I did. 
1 learned afterwards that the doctor had put some of his 
patients on short fasts with good results. The first three or four 
days of my fast 1 lost between three and four pounds each day; 
after that about a pound per day. 1 reduced my waist measure- 
ment about eighteen inches, my neck, which had required an 
eighteen-inch collar faded away until I could wear a fifteen-inch 
collar. About the twentieth day of my fast I had another pleas- 
ant surprise. My teeth were always rather dark in color, my 
dentist informing me that my teeth were very hard and that teeth 
of that character were never very white. 
Nevertheless on the morning I speak of, after taking my 
bath and while brushing my teeth, I looked in the mirror and to 
my great surprise found that my teeth were as white as snow. 
They had changed from a dark yellow to very white over night. 
A few days before my fast ended all my pains and aches, 
shortness of breath and smothering had passed away with my 
superfluous weight, and I felt as though I had renewed my youth. 
I was very careful in breaking my fast. I used the juice of half 
an orange strained and taken every half hour, for six hours, 
sipper; then half a glass of milk, sipped. 
The next morning for breakfast I ate a small piece of toast 
with one soft boiled egg. Several hours after I had a little ripe 
fruit. I kept this light diet up for a week. The fast renewed my 
health and almost my youth. I have not had any sickness or even 
a cough or cold for the la'st ten years. I walk on Sundays from 
ten to fifteen miles over country roads, and jump out of bed the 
next morning feeling like a two-year-old thoroughbred. And I 
am not as young as I used to be, for I am crowding three-score 
very hard. 
It makes me sad when I recall the great number of my broth- 
er members of our Bar that have answered the final summons to 
a "higher Court" within the last few years. All of them passed 
over the "Great Divide" in the vigor and flower of their man- 
hood, just in the prime of life, and while they were in love with 
life. It only adds to my gloom as T now believe that they all died 
87 premature deaths. They were successful, prosperous and noble 
men. One of my dear friends after attending a banquet had 
taken his car for home, and as he stepped out at his door, fell to 
the ground dead-only forty years of age. A stroke, the doctor 
called it. Another dear friend-a judge-just as his charming 
daughter called, "Goodbye, Tapa," as she ran out of her beauti- 
ful home on her way to school, stepped into his bath room, reeled 
and fell dead. Indigestion, the doctor called it. He was only 
fifty years of age. 
One of the most handsome members of the Bar and one 
blessed with the most pleasing personality of any man I ever met, 
fell dead just as he entered his home at 5 :30 P. M., on a beautiful 
summer day. He was possessed of and surrounded by everything 
that makes life desirable, and was Lieutenant-Governor of the 
State at the time of his death. He idolized his charming wife and 
family. He died without a moment's warning when only fifty- 
three years old. Apoplexy, the doctor called it. 
Another friend, a lawyer of national reputation, an orator 
who swayed his audiences just as he wished; one of the most 
polished of men, Vice-President of the United States at the time 
of his decease, died within a few moments after leaving the ban- 
quet table. He had attended thirty banquets for thirty consecu- 
tive nights in Washington, D. C. Again the doctor said apoplexy. 
If my friends that are now sleeping in the quiet city of the 
dead had only known the virtue of a simple diet or the blessings 
of a short fast, I am convinced they would be with us today. 
I thank God there is one man that is making this great-truth 
known to the world by and through the Physical Culture Maga- 
zine. Every month it contains a message of "Glad Tidings and 
Great Joy" for the weak, ailing and sick. Personally I am of 
the opinion that I am living today and enjoying splendid health 
by following ts teachings and doctrine. See page 105. 
STOP FOOD POISONING AND CURE "NERVES"-I DID 
By Thomas Clark Hinkle, M. D. 
Since I "came back" nearly nine years ago from "nerves" 
I have seen a good many people in the shape I was. And when 
T see one, I know exactly what they are up against and I think 
about the days when I wandered about in a blind pocket for 
two and a half years doing everything but the right thing. 
88 When a person with "nerves" came to me years ago 1 used 
to do just as all other doctors did. I would say to the individual, 
"rest." And I might just as well have said to a Kansas jack- 
rabbit with a half dozen greyhounds at his heels, "Rest-what 
you need is rest!" And if he had had time to make reply it 
would likely have been: "Good heavens alive, man, Rest!-how 
the devil can I?" 
The thing is, most people have to work to live and mothers 
for the most part have to take care of their little children. These 
things are not set forth here for people who can simply wish their 
diseases away. If they can I'm mighty glad of it. Some of us 
can't. We've got to go along with our bodies, and our minds are 
in about the same shape they are. 
Now at the outset, let me say it good and hard that "nerves" 
are absolutely due to physical reasons and I'll prove it. And 
then I'll tell you how to get well and go right along with your 
work. Unless you live in a dark cellar you can get well prob- 
ably in sixty days-over eighty per cent of one thousand con- 
secutive cases did, and the others (save two, and I will tell you 
about them) got well in 90 days and kept working. 
The sad thing about it is that some people haven't courage 
enough to stay by the simple regimen for even sixty days! Then 
they can't get well. I won't say they are not worth saving be- 
cause I pity a dog with this, affliction. And sometimes I feel 
that when a man gets well of this thing and has a good friend 
who is in the same fix he was, that he ought to go to him and tell 
him that he is not going crazy, but that he ought to if he will not 
stick to the thing sixty or ninety days that will make him well as 
sure as little apples were made. 
I have waited nearly nine years since my own trouble left 
me and 1 am as certain of my ground here as I am of the morn- 
ing sun. You who have never had "nerves"-you do not, you 
cannot know how the other-1 had almost said the other half-■ 
lives. And no matter who you are, how rich or how poor you 
are there is no assurance that this "thing" will not hit you. I 
have just had a letter from an author of international fame who 
writes me that "I have had to give up all my correspondence be- 
cause of some kind of nervous trouble. My physician says I must 
rest until midsummer and maybe until fall. I seem to be unable 
to work at anything." Poor devil! You bet he'll have to rest 
and rest some more and he may never be himself again unless 
he hits the right trail. 
89 And let me make it as strong as T can, that the person who 
gets well of nerves by merely resting is in great danger of going 
to pieces again if he has not learned the cause. It is extremely 
doubtful if hard work ever broke a man down. 
Did you ever stop to really wonder what it was that made 
them do it when you read in the paper the next morning that 
John Williams or Bessie Adams committed suicide? Sometimes 
they shoot themselves while sitting on a park bench, sometimes 
they jump from a bridge into the dark waters of death below. 
I say, did you ever stop to figure it out, just what particular 
brand of ''poor health" (that's always the explanation given) 
it is? In forty-nine cases out of fifty, these people are not insane 
and wouldn't become insane if they lived out their natural time. 
Some of these people actually take their own lives because 
they think they are going insane. Just a bad case of "nerves." 
If I had my way about it I'd give every medical student in 
his senior year one good hard dose of "nerves." A month, not 
more, then cure him and show him how. Then, when a woman 
who thought she was going crazy, called him she'd have a real 
doctor. And he'd tell her how to get well. 
You see, it's mighty easy for a doctor to clear up his throat 
powerfully and make people think he knows when he knows he 
doesn't. I've been there: I know. One of the best surgeons I 
ever knew said to me: "I used to say that when people had 
'nerves' there was nothing the matter with them. I've changed 
my mind about that. I know there is, but hanged if I know what 
it is!" When a doctor or anybody else gets in that frame of 
mind he is learning. We were discussing the case of a broken 
down mother. And I want to repeat here that these women are 
the most pitiful of this group of cases. And 1 am sure that cases 
where no cure can be brought about are very rare if the person 
will do the thing necessary for a cure. 
And before I set forth specifically what the cure is I want 
to say that I am afraid of one thing', that is, that it will be devi- 
ated from just one jot or tittle and so fail utterly. How tremend- 
ously important are these seemingly little things! And how ut- 
terly foolish to fail in the least and expect results. 
And now here it is: The cause of "nerves" is the over-assim- 
ilation of proteid foods and sugar. In all of these cases, not com- 
plicated, there is a highly acid urine and what has been termed 
90 a "pigment ring'' occurs instead of the "Heller's Ring'' in 
Brights disease. 
And if the person afflicted takes into his body that food 
which will cause the "pigment ring" to disappear-presto! the 
gloom is gone-he is well. One thousand cases, consecutive 
cases, were cured by this test and only two (both women) took 
longer than sixty or ninety days. One of them was cured in six 
months and one of them in a year. But look at the 998! Over 
eighty per cent were cured in sixty days and the rest ninety days 
and went right on with their usual work. 
If you want to get well of "nerves" here is what you must 
do, and especially if you want to stay well. 
1. Quit all meat and eggs, absolutely. 
2. Quit sugar, absolutely. 
3. Chew all your food into a cream before swallowing it. 
4. Eat three meals a day, but eat sparingly. Always quit 
while you want more. Try to be out-of-doors at least three hours 
a day. 
5. Eat fruits and vegetables every day-uncooked fruits, 
no sugar. Do not eat fruits with starches. At the starch meal 
eat cooked and uncooked vegetables only. 
People have said to me when I mention diet, "Oh, I have 
tried that and it's no use. But never in a single instance have 
they complied with the above rules with absolutely no deviation 
for even sixty days! I have pinned them down and I know. And 
do as I did. Say you don't believe it. Go at it mad if you want 
to, but do it. Mother Nature will hammer you in shape and you 
can't help it. You see a thing is either susceptible of proof or it 
isn't. This one is. You can get in "cheerful surroundings" and 
try that cure until the sun turns green, but unless you quit the 
things that .are poisoning you, you can't get well and stay well. 
I know there are a few with this trouble who can get well 
on a spare diet alone, but most of them have to hew straight to 
the line as I have stated previously. And if you are going at it 
at all you better underscore every word and make up your mind 
to stay at it without deviation. 
Notice.-Every word of this article is true. Dr. Thomas 
Clark Hinkle, the author, has written nine books for the Rand 
McNally Publishing Co., and I only hope that all persons suffer- 
ing with "Nerves" will follow the treatment and be cured. 
91 HOW TO BE AN OLD MAN AT 40 OR A YOUNG MAN AT 
60 AND LIVE TO REACH 100 
Do you want to be an old man at 40, or would you like to live 
in health to 100? It's up to you to decide, to make your own 
health and longevity record. Physically speaking, you are the 
master of your fate. 
Dr. Charles E. Barker, of Washington, D. C., is an efficient 
expert on health. Tie was former President Taft's health adviser 
during the four years at the White House. Doctor Barker also 
has been health advisor for Frank A: Vanderlip, Henry P. Dav- 
ison, and other noted Americans. 
In Dr. Barker's lecture on How to Live 100 Years, he says: 
"If you want to be an old man at 40, a man with lowered vitality 
and hardened arteries, the first thing for you to do is to eat large 
quantities of red meat. Nothing is better for hardening the ar- 
terial walls. 
"Another way to make yourself old at 40 is to drink lots of 
booze, cocktails and highballs. And smoke from six to twelve 
cigars every day. Twelve are better than six for lowering vitality. 
"To continue the prescription don't take any exercise. Al- 
ways make it a point to ride to and from your work. Remember 
that if you walk you will get daily exercise which may interfere 
with your growing old quickly. Stay out late at night, and don't 
forget to worry as much as possible about your business and do- 
mestic affairs. By following this program you can be almost sure 
of lowering your vitality and hardening your arteries until you 
are physically an old man at 40." 
Within the last few years science has discovered that there 
is no reason why a man may not get his body into such magnifi- 
cent condition that he will be practically immune from disease 
of any sort and only die of old age. 
"No less a person than Doctor Victor Vaughn, former presi- 
dent of the American Medical Association and an authority on 
the prevention of diseases and the lengthening of life, says that 
by a proper amount of sleep, moderate and regular eating and 
the habit of cheerfulness, with some systematic daily exercise, 
disease practically can be avoided. 
Dr. Barker says :* "A man can be actually young at 60 and 
can have expectation of at least 40 years or more of life if he will 
follow certain simple hygienic rules. 
92 "First, he must eat moderately and intelligently. If he is 
the average man, he should cut down the quantity of his food 
about one-third. In three months he will feel immeasurably bet- 
ter. Eat meat but once a day, drink plenty of good pure water, 
chew your food slowly and never-eat between meals. The amount 
of sleep necessary depends on the individual. For the average 
man seven to eight hours is necessary to keep the nerve batteries 
replenished. 
"Every man should take moderate exercise daily in a form 
which exercises the muscles of the chest and abdomen. Deep 
breathing, and bending exercises are what you need with plenty 
of walking." 
Hudson Maxim, the inventor of smokeless powder, Maxi- 
mite, and other high explosives, says of cigarettes: "It is a maker 
of invalids, criminals, and fools, not men." 
Mr. Luther Burbank, the great plant wizard of California, 
says: "No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if 
he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would 
make of him." 
Thomas A. Edison says that no man or boy who smokes cig- 
arettes can work in his laboratory. He says that even men who 
smoke one cigar a day cannot be trusted to do some of his work. 
There are no three names more familiar in America among 
scientists than those of Edison, Maxim and Burbank. 
These men do not make wild statements, nor make assertions 
that are not based on facts. 
Cigarette smokers are not wanted in business; they are 
barred from athletics. With these facts in front of you it seems 
strange that men and boys would indulge in them. 
"I have seen children sick with eruptive fevers, such as 
measles and scarlet fever, relieved of fever in a few hours by 
giving them warm water enemas without doing anything more. 
It teaches that fevers are caused by filthy bowels, and by washing 
the bowels fever subsides and the system recovers.'"-Elmer Lee, 
M. D. 
SICK CHILDREN 
Two or three days of no food except fruits and green vege- 
tables will cure the most obstinate spring cold. 
93 CONSTIPATION IN INFANCY 
You take a baby of three months, it may be constipated, 
don't give it a laxative, give it more water to drink, warm water 
about 98 to 102 degrees, use a little baby syringe about once a 
week, washing out its little colon and instead of drugs give two 
or three tablespoons of sweet orange juice without sugar; avoid 
all other fruit juices for a baby. Do this and your baby must 
have health. 
DIRECTIONS FOR TAKING THE INTERNAL BATH 
For Infants-Use a common baby syringe; it can be pur- 
chased at any drug store for twenty-five cents, and holds about 
one-half cup of water; have the water nice and warm. Inject 
the water and hold the baby so the water will flow to all parts 
of the Colon. Never allow your baby to go a day without an ac- 
tion of the bowels; keep your baby from being constipated and 
you will always have a healthy child. Using the water in this way 
can never harm ; in fact, it is the most natural way known to 
move the bowels. 
For Children-(Two to six years of age) Same directions as 
for adults, except use one pint of warm water. 
For Children-(Six to twelve years of age) Use one quart 
of warm water. Never allow your children to become constipated. 
If there is any time in our lives that we should be free from Con- 
stipation it is when we are children and growing. If your chil- 
dren become Constipated it will stunt their growth by keeping 
their blood impure all the time, causing them to be sickly and 
pale, to lack memory, etc. But if you will keep them from ever be- 
coming constipated it will keep their blood pure all the time and 
you will always have bright, healthy children, and their tonsils 
will never bother them if their stomach and bowels are kept 
clean. Don't you think it worth while to see that this is done? 
Never give them a laxative of any kind as it will do harm instead 
of good in every case. 
For Adults-Get a two-quart fountain syringe, like the one 
on page 115 which can be purchased at any drug store for 50c to 
$2.00. (No home should be without one.) Use two quarts of 
warm water, just as warm as you can bear the elbow in ; hang 
the bag about four feet from the floor and get in position No. 1 
as shown on next page. 
94 No. 1 
Insert the rubber tube into the rectum and allow the water 
to flow into the colon ; you will notice that by getting in this po- 
sition the water is running down hill. You won't even know when 
the bag is empty, as soon as the two quarts of water has been re- 
ceived get in position No. 2 as shown below. 
No. 2 
While you are lying in this position the water is in the trans- 
verse section of the colon ; notice picture of same on next page 
and While in this position massage this section of the colon two 
or three minutes. As you are massaging with the water in the 
colon, you are breaking up any waste matter and preparing it for 
elimination. Next turn to the right side as shown by illustration 
No. 3 on next page. 
95 No. 3 
You will notice by this cut that you are lying on your right 
side; this will allow the water to flow to the.ascending section of 
the colon. You will notice that the appendix is on this side, 
and if this side is kept clean you will never have appendicitis. 
Now while you are on your right side massage the ascending 
section of the colon for two or three minutes and then turn to the 
left side as shown below. 
No. 4 
This is the last position. This will allow the water to flow 
back to the left side or descending section of the colon so that 
when yon get to your feet the water is all ready to leave the body. 
While in this position massage the descending section, or the left 
side, for two or three minutes; then get to your feet and stand 
until the water is ready to leave the body. It may be five or ten 
minutes in some cases, but you will feel a hundred times better as 
soon as you are rid of this waste matter. 
96 VERY IMPORTANT-READ 
READ every word in this book before you begin taking any 
of the following treatments. There is nothing vague, intangible 
or supernatural connected with the treatments that follow. They 
appeal to nothing but the hardest kind of common sense, and that 
is the kind most needed when one is suffering. That is the kind 
that will make one understand one's self, and one's disease, its 
causes, cure and prevention. The following treatments are in- 
tensely practical and scientific, based on simple, natural laws, 
easily understood and obeyed. 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES-DYSPEPSIA, INDIGES- 
TION AND ALL STOMACH TROUBLES 
Nature never intended us to have stomach trouble of any 
kind, and if we had lived as nature intended we never would 
have such a thing. No case of stomach trouble can be cured 
as long as we are constipated. Constipation causes an undue re- 
tention of food in the stomach, which causes it to sour and fer- 
ment, and is an irritation to the stomach. The causes of stomach 
trouble are constipation, fast eating, eating of rich pastries, 
etc., and taking of purgatives. To cure this trouble read this 
treatment and the treatment for indigestion and sour stomach. 
Take an internal bath every night until you are having at least 
two good free movements of the bowels daily. Drink a glass of 
hot water a half hour before eating, and plenty, of water during 
the day. Never eat in a hurry, never eat when worried, never eat 
when you are not hungry. Eat only such foods as agree with you 
and chew every mouthful thoroughly. Eat plenty of fresh fruits 
and vegetables of all kinds, except beans and dried peas. It will 
be far better for you if you will leave meat alone. Use no drugs 
or stimulants of any kind. This includes tea, coffee, alcohol, etc. 
Never take laxatives as they only irritate the stomach. 
People who have had chronic dyspepsia for years expect a 
cure in three days. Let me tell you that you will not get a cure 
in three days and you may not get it in three months. But if you 
will use the following treatments you will effect a cure. (See 
Page 128, under "Oat Meal Water.") 
Indigestion is the most widespread of all diseases, and medi- 
cine will never cure this trouble. Inappropriate foods and too 
INDIGESTION 
97 much of them are the cause. It is not a disease in one sense but 
merely the natural result of errors in diet, and all the medicine 
in the world will never correct it. The word indigestion denotes, 
not a disease, but an admonition. It is the language of the stom- 
ach telling you that the wrong foods are going there, but you con- 
tinue to ignore these warnings until you have something far 
worse than indigestion. 
Few realize the simple fact that during the acute stages of 
disease the secretions of the digestive juices stop and that food 
taken at such a time will work g'reat harm. They cannot be di- 
gested; what is the result? It must putrefy within the stomach 
and intestines, forming poisons which are absorbed into the sys- 
tem until every organ is deranged. 
You should be made to understand this, that the weak and 
delicate person can digest very little; and that the acutely sick 
person can digest no food at all. You notice any animal when it 
is sick, you cant force food down it. Why can not human beings 
use as much sense as an animal? 
In treating indigestion, don't drink till food is chewed. Eat 
very slowly, and chew each mouthful thoroughly. Remember 
that the longer your food stays in the mouth, the less time it will 
stay in the stomach. Avoid very hot or very cold food. Over- 
eating is the great sin of the day and the prime cause of all dis- 
ease. Very few people ever starved to death, but millions have 
killed themselves-from over-eating. Try and rest for a half hour 
before eating, and never eat when excited or fatigued. (Read 
treatment for sour stomach). 
Stomach acidity is due to the excessive use of starchy foods, 
over-eating, or the wrong combination of food, sweets, etc. These 
foods ferment in the stomach and bowels and generate large quan- 
tities of lactic and butyric acid. In addition to this they set up 
an irritation of the entire intestinal tract, and frequently, an over 
activity of the hydrochloric acid glands in the stomach. Regard- 
less of the length of time your disease has been standing, if you 
will cut down your starchy food until the gas disappears in the 
bowels entirely, avoid sweets altogether, eat plenty of vegetables, 
and mildly acid fruits in your diet, you will in due time, over- 
come your disease entirely. 
STOMACH ACIDITY 
98 SOUR STOMACH 
If foods sour in your stomach you are eating too much and too 
many combinations, and perhaps the wrong combination of food. 
You may have a craving for food that you cannot control, but this 
is not hunger. Stop eating for two days, and drink a pint of hot 
water every hour during the day. Wash out the bowels twice daily 
during these two days. Put juice from one-half lemon in part of 
the water you drink, using juice from, say two lemons, during each 
of these two days-no sugar. Ordinarily this would be too much 
acid to put in the stomach in so short a time. If you taste of any 
food, even a mouthful, you will spoil results. Refrain from tasting 
or eating anything; remember you are after a cure. You may have 
a headache, but let it ache; it will pass off in due time. It is not 
hunger that brought it on; you would have had it anyway. On the 
third day after the fast, confine your diet to the following: 
Breakfast 
All the hot water you can drink with juice of half a lemon 
in it. Drink this one-half hour before eating, and see that it is 
not less than a pint. Eat a small dish of soaked prunes, say about 
four prunes with their juice. Chew them well. Eat nothing else. 
The prunes should be prepared by washing, then pour over them 
hot water and allow to soak for thirty-six hours-no sugar. 
Dinner 
A small sauce dish of some vegetable, any except dry beans 
or potatoes. Beans are not a vegetable, but some consider them 
as such, so mention is made of them for fear they might be eaten. 
Do not put .any fancy dressing on the vegetable, such as thick- 
ened milk, but eat it straight. Then shave a little raw cabbage 
and half a raw apple, chopped fine. Over this pour a dressing 
made of a well beaten raw egg with lemon juice and sweetened 
with honey. A small dish of this, not a big bowlful. This is 
enough for your dinner-eat no more. 
Supper 
A baked apple and kernels from ten pecans, well chewed- 
nothing else. Do not use any cream on the apple. And don't 
think yon are going to starve to death, but you are going to cure 
stomach trouble ; remember that, and your whole system will be 
better for the treatment. The above outline is only a sample. I 
will give you one more as follows, for the second day. 
99 Breakfast-(Second Day) 
Half an hour before eating drink at least a pint of hot water, 
into which you have put juice from half a lemon. Eat one 
biscuit made of graham or whole wheat flour with butter and 
honey. Chew well and eat nothing else. 
Dinner 
A small dish of some vegetable, any except beans or pota- 
toes. Also a bowl of vegetable soup. This must not have rice, 
potatoes, barley or beans in it. You may eat one egg-nothing 
else. Use no crackers in soup. This egg should either be raw or 
hard boiled for at least an hour. 
Supper 
One glass of milk and a dish of fresh apple sauce-nothing 
else. 
You can overcome sour stomach, or stomach trouble of any 
kind if you will stop making a swill tub of your stomach. In 
either of the two outlines given you will obtain all the food the 
body in its present burdened condition can assimilate, perhaps 
more than it can assimilate in its weakened condition. You have 
been abusing your stomach for years or you would not have sour 
stomach. 
CATARRHAL CONDITION OF THE STOMACH 
AND BOWELS 
If you have inflamed condition in stomach or bowels you 
must avoid all meats, all gravies thickened with flour and all 
sweets, (this means jam, jellies, sugar, candy and syrups). You 
must not eat anything made of white flour. You must omit beans 
and potatoes. A milk diet is best. Drink a pint of hot water half 
an hour before each meal. When treating for stomach trouble of 
any kind leave tea, coflfee, etc., alone. If you wish a hot drink 
you will find Postum a good substitute, and it will do you no 
harm. 
There is one reason why I advise, and am continually insist- 
ing on the daily use of fresh uncooked fruit and vegetables. People 
who undertake to live without raw fruit and vegetables, and who 
live entirely on cooked vegetables, refined flour, and meats, be- 
come dyspeptic; they are pale; their breath is bad ; they not only 
100 lack iron in the blood, but they lack soda, potash, magnesia, phos- 
phorus, etc.; they lack everything that helps a man to stand up 
and look like health. 
Disease is what people buy, and pay for with health, for 
eating sugar, candy, cake, bread, meat, doughnuts, preserves, 
coffee, tea, and the foods ordinarily placed on the family table. 
The people who eat in this way are the people who often say they 
cannot eat fruit-that fruit never agrees with them. 
When people get pale, the doctors say they need to take iron 
or phosphates. The medical men seldom think of correcting the 
lives of the patients by giving them the proper food, but they send 
them away with a prescription for phosphates, and often some- 
thing to make the heart a little more active. Drugs can do noth- 
ing; they cannot cure wrong eating and bad habits. If such peo- 
ple would refuse to take drugs, and add fruit and a combination 
salad to their menus, within a week they would feel better. 
Excessive thinness usually means decreased digestive power, 
due to over-feeding. 
NERVOUSNESS 
Nervousness is the rampant epidemic of the day. Practically 
every one suffers more or less from nervousness. Few, even 
among those considered thoroughly healthy, are free from it. 
It is a run down condition of the vital system that can be 
blamed for this trouble, or in other words the body is producing 
less energy than it uses. The main point to consider in the treat- 
ment is to correst errors of diet. One of the main causes of nerv- 
ousness is the taking of food excessive in quantity or variety. 
Very often the mere work of digesting a quantity of food, far in 
excess of the needs of the body, is the cause of the nervousness. 
Lack of ventilation, or lack of pure air day and night, and in- 
activity of the bowels and kidneys are the main cause of nervous- 
ness through permitting the accumulation of retained waste in 
the body. 
Another common cause is worry; worry is a mental disease; 
cure it at once. Worry is simply a useless, pernicious, and absurd 
mental habit. To cure nervousness remove the cause,-constipa- 
tion, worry, and wrong eating. Take an internal bath every 
night, and a tub bath every morning for three or four weeks, or 
longer, if necessary. Get plenty of sleep and eat plenty of fresh 
101 fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk, and get plenty of pure fresh air in 
the sleeping room at night, and plenty of sunshine during the day 
and your trouble will soon disappear. Drink no tea, coffee, coca- 
cola, or stimulants of any kind. 
BETTER THAN PHYSIC 
Internal bathing for constipation is far better than taking drugs, 
but it must be remembered that the internal bath by itself is not a 
cure for constipation. The internal bath cleanses the colon thorough- 
ly, where drugs fail. But to cure constipation one must resort not 
only to the internal bath, but to the eating of plenty of laxative foods, 
water drinking and exercise. The best known exercise for consti- 
pation is the daily practice of the familiar forward bending, finger-to- 
floor movement. This done twenty times daily makes for increased 
activity in the functioning of the kidneys, liver, lungs, stomach and 
intestines. Massage in the region of the bowels for about two min- 
utes morning and evening is a fine thing to do, and by following 
these rules a cure can in time be realized. Meat is one article of 
diet that should not be eaten. You will find that my "Perfect Health 
Cook Book" as advertised on page 147 will be of great value to 
you in the cure of this trouble. 
For Constipation 
It should be understood that chonric constipation may be pres- 
ent even though there is a regular movement of the bowels daily. 
Phe causes of constipation are many and varied. Perhaps the most 
common cause is an insufficient amount of fluid in the system. The 
human body is about three-fourths water and needs from two to 
three quarts of water daily to keep it in proper working order. Few 
people get this much and constipation is one of the many evil effects 
of this water starvation. Another common cause of constipation is 
neglect to evacuate the bowels promptly whenever you have that call 
from nature. 
To cure constipation drink plenty of water, leave white bread 
and white flour products alone, eat graham bread or that made from 
the whole wheat, rye, barley or corn. Salads of various kinds not 
only have a great value as a food for the nerves, but also a mild 
laxative effect. All cooked green vegetables will likewise be helpful, 
and fruits are of even greater value for their laxative qualities. One 
should use them daily for the food value alone, but especially when 
suffering from constipation; prunes and figs are of great value in 
102 the treatment of this disease. Cheese is very constipating and should 
be avoided. Cathartics are always to be condemned. 
Take the internal bath only when needed before going to bed. 
To begin with if there is marked constipation, with hardened and 
packed feces in the colon, a cup of molasses and two tablespoonfuls 
of glycerine should be added to the water. This will cause a more 
thorough cleansing than the most powerful cathartic. And please re- 
member that this treatment can do you no harm; drink plenty of 
water daily, hot water in the morning and cold water during the day. 
If you will keep the stomach and bowels clean you will avoid all the 
ills that flesh is heir to. And water will do the work better than 
all the drugs in the world. Never take a purgative of any kind, as 
the taking of laxatives will cause constipation. 
FLOATING KIDNEY 
Did you ever hear of a floating stomach or a floating bowel? 
There are just as many cases of these as there are of floating kidney. 
In fact, the kidneys never float, neither do the stomach or bowels. 
If your case is so diagnosed it is done for the purpose of inducing 
you to submit to an operation. When the stomach, bowels or kid- 
neys become weakened through overwork, the muscles supporting 
them also become weak or relaxed and fail to do their work of 
holding these organs in place; the result 'is, they will fall or drop 
or become prolapsed. And this is called floating kidney, and an 
operation will never cure it. A renovation of the entire system and 
a right line of diet will. Take treatment for stomach trouble, con- 
stipation, and kidney trouble. 
KIDNEY TROUBLE 
What is the cause of kidney trouble? Irritation. Irritation of 
the kidneys may be brought about by anything that puts extra work 
upon these organs. The liver becomes inactive, and the blood is 
charged with poisons which the kidneys try to get rid of. You are 
constipated and the blood is loaded with poisons, and again the kid- 
neys are called upon to do overwork. You catch cold and the mil- 
lions of pores of the skin are closed up; and the kidneys bear the 
burden of this sin. What is the result of all this overwork, or irri- 
tation? First congestion, then chronic or acute inflammation, and 
then degeneration of the kidney cells. And remember that you and 
you alone are responsible for this condition. Get the liver, stomach 
and intestines into working order, and thus cease to make the kid- 
neys do overwork. In flushing the colon with hot water, the liquid 
103 passes directly in front of both kidneys, so that the influence of the 
heat on the kidneys is direct. It cannot fail to stimulate them to 
action-without, at the same time, irritating them. Again the kid- 
neys can be washed out by going to bed with one quart of water in 
the colon, after taking the internal bath; this water will pass through 
the kidneys in about three hours, washing the kidneys and bladder 
and doing them at lot of good. Read pages 38-40 about tomatoes, 
onions, asparagus, and potatoes. Take an internal bath every night 
for six weeks, or, until cured. Drink plenty of hot water in the 
morning and plenty through the day of hot or cold (not ice water). 
If you wish a cure do not drink tea, coffee or alcoholic drinks of any 
kind. Eat plenty of fruit, vegetables and nuts. Take a hot bath 
every night, so hot that you will perspire freely, then follow with a 
cold sponge, and you will sleep fine all night. Take a sponge bath 
every morning. See page 119. 
RHEUMATISM 
The diet in rheumatism should be very simple-all animal foods, 
meat, cheese, milk, cream, eggs, etc., should be avoided. In severe 
cases of acute articular rheumatism a fast of from three to eight 
days has invariably resulted in complete relief. Dr. A. Casey Wood 
reports that out of forty cases so treated none failed of rapid and 
complete cure. Dr. Wood believes that rheumatism is merely a form 
of indigestion, and the result of this treatment in his hands, as well 
as in my own, go far toward proving such to be the case. 
At the same time, and in fact all the time the patient should 
drink freely of pure cold water. At least two quarts a day should 
be taken. This amount of water flushes the kidneys and bowels, ac- 
celerates the action of the skin and lungs and increases the activity 
of all the vital functions. One of the most valuable measures in 
rheumatism, either articular or muscular, is the hot bath. A sweat 
bath may be taken every day during the acute stage of the disease, 
except in cases where there is heart involvement. 
To cure this trouble take treatments for sour stomach and kid- 
ney trouble. Your form of living must be changed; and the diet 
must be changed. Rheumatism can be cured, but not with medicine. 
Drink a pint of hot water one-half hour before eating and about 
the same amount before going to bed at night, also a good sweat 
bath daily (except as above stated). Eat. the same as for stomach 
trouble, and if you wish a cure do not touch tea, coffee, tobacco, or 
alcoholic drinks, but drink plenty of water. Nature is sure in all 
104 her cures and if you will follow the advice given on this page you 
will have your reward. Poor nutrition is at the bottom of rheum- 
atism, and only improved nutrition can cure it. 
DIARRHEA 
The cause of diarrhea is eating foods that are difficult to digest; 
eating when we are sick, eating too heavy foods in hot weather, 
or drinking ice water with meals. 
Simple attacks of diarrhea would pass off in a few hours if 
properly treated, but when treated by drugs to "check," the bowels 
are converted into long drawn out attacks, often followed by chronic 
diarrhea. When the poisons of diarrhea are locked up in the system 
and multiplied by frequent feeding to keep up the strength, high 
fever, prostration and long unnecessary illness with possible damage 
to the kidneys and chronic diarrhea are'the result. The diarrhea 
will cease of its own accord as soon as the poisons have been elimi- 
nated and this will be quite soon, providing of course, the formation 
of the poisons is not kept going by feeding during the attack. If 
nature's wishes are carried out she can be depended upon to stop 
the diarrhea as soon as it is no longer needed. 
Don't check diarrhea. Diarrhea is an effort on the part of the 
system to carry poisons out of the body which are dangerous to 
health, and it can be seen at once that any plan to "check" the diar- 
rhea is in oposition to nature's plan and is a decided detriment to 
health. To check diarrhea is to lock the poisons in the system. This 
causes the absorption of these poisons through the system. 
Attacks of diarrhea treated with the internal bath and a total 
abstinence from food, yields in a surprisingly short time, with no 
danger. This treatment carries the poisons out of the body in the 
shortest possible time, and prevents formation of added poisons, and 
with no danger to the vital organs. Therefore the treatment is plain. 
Stop eating, and drink all the hot water you can, and take internal 
baths twice a day and you will soon be all right. 
MALARIA, BILIOUS FEVER AND CHILLS 
Take internal bath daily, and treat same as for typhoid fever. 
This treatment will cure an ordinary case of bilious fever in three 
or four days. Don't take medicine of any kind and no food until 
nature calls for it. 
105 THE WET SHEET PACK 
The wet sheet pack has been found to be of great value in cases 
of fever of all kinds. The treatment should be given as follows: 
Wrap patient (after all clothing has been removed) in a sheet 
which has been wrung out of cold water; then cover body with 
about two or three comforts and put hot irons to the feet; also have 
patient drink plenty of cold water; have cold towel on the head. 
Remain in pack as long as comfortable. Patient will soon perspire 
freely, and that is the end desired. Have room well ventilated. 
BILIOUS ATTACKS 
Twenty years from now, it will be just as disgraceful to be 
bilious as it is now to be drunk. Biliousness is an intoxication 
or poisoning of the system due to over indulgence on food, and 
over indulgence on food, just as over indulgence in drink, is bad, 
both morally and physically, possibly not to the same degree, as 
over indulgence in drink. 
A bilious attack is a process of elimination. It is a house 
cleaning, if you please, it is an occasion upon which the body gets 
rid of poisons that have accumulated to the degree that they 
threaten health. The term bilious attack, is applied by different 
persons to include a rather wide variety of more or less similar 
disturbances of various degrees of severity. But, in different 
persons there are similar characteristics and the symptoms vary 
largely only in the severity. 
Those who are subject to bilious attacks of the severe variety 
usually notice that a day or two before the explosion there is 
some change in the bowels, usually more or less constipation, and 
gas in excess of the usual amount. Usually the day preceding the 
attack, the appetite is excessive, the person craves considerable 
food and foods that are not good for him. About this time he 
may feel better than usual, have apparently more strength and 
vigor. The actual attack usually begins with a headache, over 
one eye, though often in the back of the head. As the headache 
becomes more severe nausea follows and the nausea is often ac- 
companied by vomiting, first of the stomach contents, then of bile. 
The attack usually lasts for a few hours, but in some persons 
several days are required to clear up the attack entirely. After 
a severe attack the person usually feels weak and depressed for 
several days. 
106 Between the attacks, the victim of biliousness is eating a 
little more food than his physical activities will permit him to 
use up and is usually eating foods that are hard to digest. He 
often uses coffee and tobacco, the soda fountain habit, eating be- 
tween meals, and the midnight lunch habit are all closely akin 
to biliousness. As a result of this sort of eating the candidate 
for the bilious attack keeps up a constant fermentation and 
putrefaction of unusued food in the bowels. The poisons that are 
formed here, probably accumulate in the liver, and when the time 
comes that they actually threaten health, they are destroyed by 
means of the bilious attack. 
What are the bilious foods? An excess of any food will 
cause biliousness in those whose tendencies lie in this direction. 
Even too much meat, potatoes and bread, and especially the mix- 
ture of these foods will cause biliousness. Usually, however, 
sweets such as candy and pastry, soda fountain decoctions and 
rich foods generally, have more to do with bringing about bil- 
iousness than the simple foods, even when eaten in excess. Coffee 
to some persons is a particularly bilious article of diet. Many 
victims of biliousness have been cured by omitting coffee. It is 
Ikely that the coffee causes biliousness by affecting the kidneys 
so as to prevent the proper elimination of the food poisoning 
formed in the intestine from unused food. 
When you notice yourself getting bilious, notice on rising in 
the morning that your mouth is a little dry, your tongue is coated, 
and that you are dizzy, cut off the source of the poisoning by 
leaving off your breakfast, and take in its stead the juice of a 
whole lemon in a glass of hot water. If you are not feeling de- 
cidedly better by noon, take only a fruit lunch; and if necessary, 
take at night only a salad and two or three green cooked vege- 
tables ; omit all of the heavy food. In addition you should be 
certain that the bowels are cleaned out thoroughly with the 
internal bath. In those who have warning of a bilious attack, 
this simple treatment will usually avert the attack. 
However, if a bilious attack comes on without warning, it is 
still the part of good treatment to- clean out the intestinal tract 
as quickly as possible and to keep it empty until nature has 
destroyed the accumulated poisons and the body equilibrium has 
been restored. A hot bath and frequent doses of bicarbonate of 
soda will help to relieve the nausea and also the headache. 
Of course, the real cure of biliousness must be accomplished 
by treatment between the attacks. The diet must be changed in 
107 such a way as to stop the stream of poisons pouring into the liver, 
from the stomach and intestines. Those who are afflicted with 
biliousness will find the two meal a day plan much better than 
the usual three meals. Care should be taken, however, not to eat 
the three meals at the two sittings. Milk and cream should be 
eaten sparingly, while sweets should be almost entirely omitted, 
and coffee cut out altogether. Meats should also be eaten 
sparingly and care taken in regard to the combination of foods 
as well as to their cooking. It is bad cooking and bad mixtures 
that have as much to do with bringing about bilious attacks as 
anything else. 
Biliousness means food poisoning. During the actual attack 
the body is destroying poisons that are generated between the 
attacks from unused food. While sweets, pastry, soda fountain 
decoctions, and rich foods generally have much to do with bil- 
iousness, over-eating on plain foods and indiscriminate mixing 
and bad cooking will do it quite as well. Two meals a day of 
simple food rightly cooked, with plenty of fruits and vegetables, 
will clear up practically every case of biliousness. 
FEVERS 
With natural methods any fever can be broken in forty- 
eight hours. Omit all medicines. A fever is heat inside the 
body, and when it gets very intense it shows up outside. All 
wastes must be removed from the inside and for this use the 
internal bath with water very warm every two hours until 
fever is broken. Wring a towel out of cold water and lay over 
the abdomen next to the skin, repeat this as often as it gets 
warm. This brings the fever to the surface. Do not use any 
nourishment as long as there is any fever. Let patient drink lots 
of water, three or four quarts a day. Continue with the internal 
bath and cold cloths as long as there is any fever. You will soon 
have it under control. There will be no danger of the bowels 
becoming punctured or of having a hemorrhage of the bowels, if 
you will leave medicine alone and follow these directions, to- 
gether with keeping the pores open by keeping the outside of 
the body clean. 
TYPHOID FEVER 
Dr. J. H. Tilden, M. D., says in "Philosophy of Health," 
June issue, 1918, page 59: "Suppose we consider typhoid. What 
does 'regular,' exact therapeutics do for such cases? Kill twelve 
108 to fifteen per cent, and keep those who get well down for three 
weeks to three months, and land many in chronic invalidism for 
life. Whereas, correct nursing and feeding will control all cases 
in from seven to fourteen days, and there will be no deaths. 
In "The Story of Bacteria,'' by Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, 
director of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 
City, (chapter 8, page 85), we find: 
"The typhoid germ attacks the body through the intestinal 
canal. When it gets into the intestines, if in sufficient quantities, 
and the conditions are favorable it multiplies and enormous num- 
bers of the germs are thus produced." 
Every person should bear this in mind, that it is impossible 
for a person who is clean both inside and out to take typhoid 
fever, there being no facilities for the germs to breed. The man 
or woman who is to fall a victim of typhoid fever during the 
late summer or early fall, begins to get ready for the disease 
many months before by over-eating and by allowing himself to 
become constipated. 
Fever germs always attack the body through the intestines. 
It is in the intestines that the germs breed, and to prevent or 
cure this condition it is of the utmost importance that the in- 
testines be kept clean. 
To give a laxative to a typhoid fever patient is a great mis- 
take. Instead of assisting Nature, it does harm. Common sense 
tells us what to do; first we must remove the waste matter from 
the body, so the germs will have no place to breed, and we must 
begin the treatment by giving the patient a pint of hot 
water to drink and repeat every ten minutes until the contents 
of the stomach have been vomited, then let the patient rest for 
about an hour, giving small drinks of cool water. Then use the 
internal bath with water just as hot as patient can bear; in 
thirty minutes repeat the internal bath and this time have pa- 
tient retain water as long as possible-that is, ten minutes at 
least. Next the patient should have a sweat bath to open the 
pores of the skin and for this purpose the wet sheet pack should 
be used as given on page 106. While taking the wet sheet pack 
have hot irons at the feet and a cold towel on the head. Give 
plenty of cold water to drink and see that the patient has plenty 
of fresh air. Give a cold water bath daily or a cold sponge while 
the fever is high, and use internal bath daily. Give no food until 
109 the body is free from fevei. hollow the above and health will be 
restored very quickly. 
The following is a list of diseases from which meat is ex- 
cluded from the diet of those who have them in one of the largest 
hospitals in New York: 
Uraemic Poisoning, Ulcer of Stomach, Cancer of Stomach, 
infectious fevers, gastric catarrh, Bright's disease, high blood 
pressure, diarrhoea, hardening of arteries, rheumatism, diabetes, 
neuritis, obesity, gout. 
If meat proves harmful in the diet for those who have these 
diseases is there not reason to believe that meat is a primary fac- 
tor contributing to the cause of them? 
CASE AGAINST MEAT 
By taking injections of hot water in a kneeling position, the 
hot water and the position of the body both favor the flow of 
the blood from the blood vessels at the rectum, and thus relieves 
the congestion of the hemorrhoids. Under this treatment I have 
seen large hemorrhoidal tumors grow smaller day by day until 
in a few weeks they were nothing but little tabs of skin. 
Piles is the enlargement of the blood-vessels at the rectum, 
due to congestion, which congestion is due to sluggishness of the 
liver, as a rule. 
PILES OR HEMORRHOIDS 
PROTRUDING PILES 
Constipation is usually the cause of this condition, but 
whatever the cause, you must cure constipation before you can 
cure piles of any kind. So take an internal bath daily until you 
know you are cured of constipation and after taking the in- 
ternal bath inject one quart of cold water into the colon in a 
sitting position, and retain this water in this position for about 
ten minutes. If it is a very bad case use this treatment morning 
and night. This will take out the soreness and the rectum gut 
will go back into place, and Nature will do the healing. Con- 
tinue this treatment daily until cured. 
ITCHING PILES 
Itching piles are usually caused by small pin worms that 
breed in the large intestine or colon, usually in the sigmoid 
flexure, an S-like turn of the colon, just before it joins the 
110 rectum gut. The cure is very simple-take internal bath until the 
colon is clean and the trouble is ended. 
BLIND AND BLEEDING PILES 
Read this whole page and then follow treatment as given 
in each and you will accomplish results, that is sure. Take in- 
ternal bath morning and night, using water as warm as you can 
stand : allow water to flow into the colon very slowy and retain 
it in a kneeling position for about five minutes. Hot water is 
nature's cure and never fails. If you will continue this treat- 
ment your trouble will soon disappear. 
CATARRH 
Neither germs nor climate cause catarrh. Catarrh is due to 
improper eating, so are asthma and hay fever, and these condi- 
tions can be prevented and cured through right eating. 'The right 
kind of food properly eaten, makes pure blood and produces 
health, vigor and strength. The right kind of food builds a sound 
body, puts catarrh, coughs, colds, asthma and hay fever to flight, 
and paints roses on the cheeks. 
Catarrh, asthma and hay fever can be conquered, surely and 
permanently. It has been done in thousands of cases. If you 
have catarrh you have eaten your way to it. You can cure your- 
self-you can eat your way out of disease into health, and while 
you are losing your catarrh you will rid yourself of other physical 
ills. 
It is marvelous what the common foods do for the sick, when 
properly combined and intelligently eaten. 
Dr. Alsaker is a regular medical graduate, a physician in 
active practice who has proved his knowledge in guiding the sick 
back to health. See page 70. 
(By R. L. Alsaker, M. D.) 
ASTHMA 
There are several types of asthma. Just the ordinary bron- 
chial asthma-catarrhal asthma-can be corrected very easily by 
correcting the food supply. Stop eating until breathing is free. 
Go to bed without anything to eat. That late supper that many 
eat, and over-eating, are all wrong and must stop. If asthma is 
present in the morning,.do not take any breakfast, and do not 
take anything to eat until breathing is free. If the disease has 
111 a deep hold, it may be necessary to stay away from all food 
for a month. But the results obtained will more than pay you 
for the trouble. Asthma can be cured in this way. See page 83. 
ASTHMA, CATARRH AND HAY FEVER 
Read next article on hay fever. These three ailments can 
only be cured by a general upbuilding of the entire system. If 
you will follow the treatment given it will effect a cure in from 
two to seven months. You have been years in getting these trou- 
bles and you cannot get rid of them in a day. But if you will 
follow the treatments for indigestion, sour stomach, constipation, 
and kidney trouble, you will get relief in a very short time. 
These three treatments work into one very nicely. See pages 70 
and 83. 
HAY FEVER 
The cause of hay fever is chronic indigestion; of this there 
is no doubt in my mind. Hay fever may well be looked upon as 
the stepbrother of asthma, as both of them have the same parent, 
bad digestion, which has persisted for a long time. As in asthma, 
the curing of the digestive trouble cures the hay fever. 
To understand the connection of stomach trouble with hay 
fever we must remember the unobstructed passage from the 
stomach to the mouth, and from here to the nose and to the 
inner ear, and from the nose to the eyelids and the frontal cells, 
which are cavities in the bone under the eyebrows. All these are 
lined with mucous membrane. If volatile, irritating acid gases 
are formed in the stomach these will rise, enter all the passages 
and irritate and inflame them. 
The passage from the nose to the eyelids carries the dis- 
charges from the eyes to the eyelids and also the tears, and these 
passages are called the tear canals. The opening of these canals 
is in the inner corner of the lower lid and can be seen as a small 
dot. 
Sometimes before the attacks of hay fever the patient feels 
generally weak and is disinclined to work, has a disturbed appe- 
tite, feels rather cold and likes to be in warm places and to dress 
himself warm ; he may also have palpitation of the-heart and a 
sensation of choking, suffocation and constriction, and there is 
also noticed a general itching of the body and the appearance of 
eruptions like a nettle rash. He soon begins to feel an itching, 
112 pricking, smarting and burning sensation in the eyes, as if there 
were sand in them. 
There is a tingling, tickling sensation of the roof of the 
mouth, a fullness and tightness across the bridge of the nose, 
fulness in the head, pain in the forehead and behind the ears. The 
patient rubs at the inner angles of the eyes, because here he has 
the most irritation. 
The back of the throat and the tonsils are red and swollen, 
and he has difficulty in swallowing. The irritation spreads to the 
larynx, down into the bronchial tubes and lungs, and the patient 
gets hoarse. 
Soon all these inflamed surfaces begin to discharge a clear 
fluid; the eyes look swollen and watery and the discharge runs 
into the nose through the tear canals. The combined discharge 
from the eyes and nose may become so great that patients have 
been known to use up two or three dozen handkerchiefs a day. 
The irritation of the nose causes violent spasms of sneezing, 
which may produce swelling and puffiness of the face and some- 
times some blood vessels may rupture under the skin. 
Both daylight and artificial light hurts the eyes, which be- 
come red and puffy. The senses of taste and smell are interfered 
with, and thus the disease runs its course for a few weeks, to 
reappear the next season. Lucky is the one in whom the hay 
fever does not ultimately lead to asthma-hay fever and asthma 
being so closely connected. The same treatments as given for 
asthma and catarrh will cure this trouble. 
HEADACHE 
Are you one of its victims? Have you been subject to what 
is called sick headache, bilious, or nervous headache? If you 
read every word of this article, and then follow the treatment 
given, you will be freed from this terrible condition. 
You remember how it comes on. You awake in the morning 
not feeling just as you should, and you don't know whether you 
want any breakfast or not; yet you eat it; and feel worse after 
you have. There is no headache, only a dull feeling in the brain, 
just as a warning of the coming storm. 
You say to yourself, "I am afraid I am in for a siege of head- 
ache." And despair siezes you when you remember the horrors 
before you, yet you have hope that it will not be as bad as usual. 
113 You get your cup of tea, or something else-no use, struggle as 
you will, it gradually settles upon you. 
You wish to see no one; you are cranky, and the pain com- 
mences. Just a little at first, and you try to throw it off-no 
use. Now the pain gets more and more intense. Some little imp 
is digging about among the roots of the nerves. Or, a small tool 
is being driven into the brain over the left eye; or the whole 
top of the head is being crushed in under a brick. And then a 
strange feeling comes over you apparently from the stomach. It 
makes you sick to think of eating, and you are sick at the stom- 
ach-of that you are sure. 
If death would only come, and come quickly! After hours 
of torture, the storm begins to lull; you fall asleep, and oh, what 
sweet rest it is; it is surely Heaven after one of those sick head- 
aches. 
Do not take medicine for headache. It can be asserted that 
there is not one "headache cure" sold at the drug store that is 
not dangerous. Many of these nostrums weaken the heart, and to 
exchange a chronic headache for chronic heart disease is a poor 
trade. The best cure for headache is to correct the habit of living. 
When people learn how to eat, exercise, and take care of the 
bowels they do not need drugs or mind cures. 
Headaches are preventable by using common sense in eating 
and drinking. To cure this trouble follow the treatments as given 
for kidney trouble, stomach trouble, and constipation, and you 
will cure this trouble very quickly. 
CANCER 
Cancer is seldom found among negroes. Cancer is preceded 
by disease of the stomach and intestines. It occurs in the latter 
half of life, sometimes earlier. Cancer is the result of gradual 
self-poisoning. Food and drink that is unfavorable to man will 
lay a foundation for cancer. It induces a cancerous condition of 
the cells. Tobacco, liquor, coffee, tea, help in the development of 
a bodily condition favorable for cancer. Flesh eaters are more 
subject to cancer than those who live vegetarian. I incline to 
regard cancer as a condition of low vitality due to anything and 
everything unfavorable to health, but especially due to imperfect 
foods and misuse of hygiene in the continuous care of the body, 
day by day, year after year. Low vitality, due to malnutrition, is 
back of every case of cancer. 
114 The best plan of treatment is dietary and hygienic. No diet- 
ary will be better than that which is composed of fruit and veg- 
etables, with enough fresh ground cereal mush, and a liberal use 
of lettuce, to correct acidity in the system. A combination of 
fruit and vegetable, with green leaf vegetables offer a hope for 
a cure Of cancer superior to anything artificial, drug, serum, 
Knife, or what not. Cereals most suitable are Scotch oats and 
wheat meal, to be made into mush. The best fruit for fall and 
winter is the apple. All fruit is useful in season. See page 147. 
GALLSTONES AND DRUGS 
Question. What do you think of "Fruitola," a remedy for 
st mach trouble and gallstones? 
Answer. According to the Indiana State Board analysis, 
Fruitola is olive oil and seidlitz powder. This combination will 
form a fair imitation of gallstones in the human intestines. It will 
remove no "gallstones" other than those which it manufactures. 
The Journal of the American Medical Association terms it a fake. 
The best natural treatment for gallstones is taking the in- 
ternal bath every night until the stones have passed away; the 
drinking of half a cup of olive oil every night will hasten the 
cure. 
DON'T TAKE PATENT MEDICINE-WHY? 
The State Board of Health of Vermont issues the following 
warning: 
Seven Reasons Why You Should Let Patent Medicines Alone. 
1- There may be any one of a hundred things the matter 
with you. You can't tell which trouble you have. 
2- There are a hundred different concoctions advertised. 
You can't tell which one you need. This again is guesswork when 
life and health are in a balance. 
3- In either case, if you guess wrong, positive injury is 
done; for any medicine strong enough to do good work when 
needed will do harm when not needed. 
4- A remedy useful in one stage of a disease may be posi- 
tively injurious at some other stage of that disease. With patent 
medicines there is no discrimination. 
5- Because you get well after using a certain preparation, 
is no reason you get well because of it. When you are sick there 
are fifty chances to one that you will get well anyhow, and 
115 if you take a patent medicine, the chances are that you recover 
in spite of taking it, and not because of taking it. 
6- The recuperative powers in the body are the natural ten- 
dency to throw off disease, readjust our physical machinery, and 
get things back in good order; these are your greatest helps in 
getting well again, and a drug which is not needed by your sys- 
tem hinders and checks these recuperative powers. And if you 
use patent medicines, there are a hundred chances to one that 
you will get a drug that is not needed for your particular malady 
and your particular stage of that malady. 
7- Right living will make it unnecessary to drug yourself 
except at very rare intervals, but if you do get sick enough to 
really need treatment, do not take a concoction of drugs pre- 
pared by a man who probably has no medical training, has never 
seen you, and knows nothing of your case, and whose mixture 
has ninety-nine chances of missing you to one of hitting. 
WORMS 
The meats of three ounces of pumpkin seeds well chewed 
and swallowed at night, with three ounces of castor oil next 
morning, also with the use of the internal bath every three hours 
will bring the tapeworm head and all. 
PELLAGRA NOT CONTAGIOUS 
Pellagra is a disease caused by improper diet. It is not 
a germ disease, and consequently not contagious. 
About ten years ago we began to hear of pellagra in the 
Southern states. It was a new disease in America, though long 
known among the peasants of Italy. 
In 1907, the U. S. Health Service began collecting data of 
pellagra. The disease increased, and in the following five years, 
a total of 16,000 cases were reported in eight Southern states, 
nearly 40 per cent, of which terminated fatally. 
Pellagra is recognized by four groups of symptoms: Digest- 
ive disturbances, skin eruptions, nervous disorders, and mental 
degeneration. It was a disease chiefly of the poorer classes. It 
was a disease from which women suffered three times as often as 
the men. 
It was a disease of the late winter and spring. After in- 
vestigating the condition for years, it was discovered that poor 
116 diet caused the disease and that the right diet would cure the 
trouble. 
The Government investigators say it is a lack of protein. 
They could have said with as much reason, a lack of mineral 
salts. For the corn meal, fine flour, and fat pork diet that caused 
pellagra is deficient in these salts. 
The addition of milk, eggs, and fresh vegetables, will correct 
the diet, and by taking the internal bath daily and drinking hot 
water in the morning, noon, and night, before every meal, keep- 
ing the stomach and bowels clean and dieting, the disease can 
be cured. Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables; take a bath 
daily. 
WARNING AGAINST THE WHOLESALE REMOVAL OF 
THE TONSILS 
Don't have your tonsils cut out too quickly, even the medical 
profession is no longer unanimous in advising the removal of 
these parts. It is rare that a tonsil needs to be removed. Many 
children while growing rapidly have enlarged tonsils which do no 
harm but return to a normal condition. When people are taught 
to keep elimination sufficiently active, enlarged glands disappear. 
A poisoned blood is the essential underlying factor in tonsil en- 
largement and inflammation. Eliminate waste substances from- 
the blood and there will be no enlarged tonsils. 
"If any public service corporation, for instance a telephone 
company, cut holes in as many beautiful shade trees on the public 
streets and lawns of any community as our specialists cut holes 
in the throats of helpless children there would be such a howl 
of protest as would awaken the laziest official from his civic 
sleep." These were the startling words of warning uttered by 
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, of New York City, in a paper read be- 
fore the American Institute of Homeopathy, in a warning against 
the wholesale removal of tonsils. 
Keep the bowels clean with the Internal Bath, drink plenty 
of water each day, and a glass of hot water the first thing in the 
morning. Eat plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables in a raw state, 
and the trouble will soon disappear. 
Skin diseases of all kinds are caused by the impurities and 
poisons of the blood, and in trying to rid itself of these poisons 
ECZEMA AND ALL SKIN DISEASES 
117 through the pores of the skin eruptions of all kinds occur. Con- 
stipation causes impure blood, and impure blood causes skin dis- 
eases, so to cure the disease we must remove the cause, and get 
the impurities out of the blood and skin. To do this: Take 
internal bath every night for six or eight weeks, and then twice 
a week until your skin is perfectly clear again. Drink hot water 
every morning before you eat, and plenty of water during the 
day. Take a hot tub bath every three days for two months (using- 
no soap). Have the water hot so you will perspire freely, and 
then sponge oft with cold water. The hot bath is important, as 
the impurities must be gotten out of the skin. Do not take 
medicine of any kind, but eat plenty of fresh fruits and vege- 
tables, nuts, etc. Do not eat meat. Do not drink tea, coffee, or 
adulterated drinks of any kind. 
GAS IN THE STOMACH 
This trouble will be cured by taking the internal bath until 
you are cured of constipation, and by the drinking of hot water 
in the morning and plenty of cold water during the day. 
GRAVEL 
Gravel, either of the kidneys or the liver, consists of hard- 
ened albuminous waste from the blood, and by lessening the con- 
sumption of milk, eggs, and meat, less albumin enters the system. 
To remedy this condition, take internal bath every night 
for twenty nights, and take a fruit fast for ten days, that is- 
eat nothing but fruit for that length of time, and for the next 
ten days live on just fruits and vegetables except beans and po- 
tatoes. Follow the above treatment and the gravel will be dis- 
solved and eliminated from the system with the bile and urine. 
MEASLES 
This is not a dangerous disease, but a disease peculiar to chil- 
dren. The first thing to do is to bring out the rash, and this is 
accomplished by the use of the internal bath twice a day, and 
the giving of hot drinks every little while; giving no food of 
any kind until rash is out. 
When the eruption is out, use the internal bath once a day 
and see that the outside of the body is kept clean with a daily 
bath; use warm water and guard against taking cold. 
The following is a case of measles treated by a New York 
doctor: 
118 "Muriel, a child of three, had measles, a hard case, with 
high fever and vomiting. Prior to my treatment she had been 
treated with drugs. The case becoming alarming, I was asked to 
take it. I gave warm water enemas a few times; copious, green, 
foul discharges followed, and in three days the child was per- 
fectly well. 
"Elmer Lee, M. D., New York City." 
WHAT TO DO FOR KIDNEY TROUBLE 
Government vital statistics for 1914 show that over one 
hundred thousand persons die of Bright's disease, or nephritis, 
each year. This means that every twelfth man is dying of kidney 
disease, therefore it behooves us to look well to the safety of the 
kidneys. When we consider the function of this organ, that its 
purpose is to remove wastes from the body and prevent self- 
poisoning, that it is one of the most important organs of elimina- 
tion, then perhaps we can discover a reason for the difficulties 
it encounters. Evidently it is called upon to remove too large an 
amount of poison. 
Now if poisons are taken in the food and drink, these must 
add to the burden of the kidneys. Such poisons we find in alco- 
holics, tea, coffee, and tobacco, also in the excessive use of eggs 
and meat. Constipation always means an extraordinary burden 
thrown upon the kidneys. There is one other item that we might 
speak of, wherein the kidneys are greatly abused; that is in the 
excessive use of table salt. 
Now just a word with reference to the management of 
Bright's disease, which is a general term for all kidney affections. 
It becomes apparent that if certain things are factors in the pro- 
duction of kidney diseases, the careful elimination of those factors 
is the first aid to the kidneys. The first aid to the kidneys in 
nephritis is to stop all fermentation and putrefaction in the ali- 
mentary canal; hence it will be necessary to watch food combina- 
tions. For instance, avoid milk and sugar together, and do not 
eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. Partake of acids and 
acid fruits at one meal, and starches and starchy vegetables at 
another. We also discover that in dropsical conditions due to 
the kidney affections, if salt is entirely excluded from the dietary, 
the dropsy will disappear. See page 103. 
Many persons starve to death every year, but it is the kind 
of starvation that goes with a full stomach. 
119 PILES 
Piles are easily and quickly cured. Don't let them run on for 
years; they are very dangerous-the little touches of piles that 
we have over a period of many years, are an invitation to the 
development of that deadly enemy, cancer in the lower bowels, 
resulting from chronic inflammation. See pages 110 and 111. 
PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY 
In "The Health Culture Magazine" of March, 1920-the first 
article in that issue is "Pneumonia-Cause, Prevention and 
Cure," by Dr. Elmer Lee. The doctor states the following: 
"Any pneumonia, however slight, is a call for warm enemas, 
frequently administered, to keep the intestinal way clear, clean 
and free from gas. 
"A purgative is too slow, too irritant and harsh. Warm 
enemas are immediate and can be repeated at will and act with- 
out disturbing the stomach and small intestines. In extreme 
cases an enema can be administered as many as a dozen times a 
day with safety and good effect. 
"Next to enemas the most important part of the treatment 
is giving of little drinks of water, warm or cold. Little drinks 
every little while, and little enemas, in themselves almost com- 
prise the saving treatment in pneumonia; also pleurisies. 
"Pleurisy is almost always a complication of pneumonia, or 
pneumonia a complication of pleurisy." 
The above treatment is just what I would recommend. I 
only wish I had the space to give the whole article on the subject 
as to diet, nursing, etc. 
CONSUMPTION OR TUBERCULOSIS 
No person with a good pair of lungs and a clean colon ever 
got consumption. Do not get it into your head that consumption 
is inherited, for it is not. 
Consumption is due to poor nutrition. If you breathe a mil- 
lion consumption microbes a day, they will do you no harm as 
long as your nutrition is good. 
To cure this trouble it is important that you have plenty of 
fresh air, live in the open as much as possible, and sleep in the 
open air, or see that every window is open in the sleeping room. 
Take internal bath daily for six or eight weeks, and bathe 
the body daily. Eat plenty of good nourishing food, such as 
120 fruits, fresh vegetables, nuts, milk and raw eggs. And practice 
the habit of deep breathing to strengthen the lungs. 
Consumption is lung starvation, and poor nutrition. Drink 
all the hot water you can in the morning, and plenty of cool water 
during the day. Do not drink tea, coffee, alcohol, beer, soda 
water or adulterated drinks of any kind. 
By Dr. J. H. Robinett. 
APPENDICITIS 
"Appendicitis is an inflammation of the Vermiform Ap- 
pendix. According to modern pathologists, inflammation of the 
appendix is the same as inflammation of any other part of the 
body. There is no specific type of inflammation in the appendix, 
and under proper treatment an inflammation of this structure in 
the great majority of cases can be cured without the use of the 
knife the same as inflammations are cured in other structures of 
the body. The chief cause for appendicitis is constipation. The 
disease is about four times as common in males as in females, and 
the larger per cent, of cases are in individuals between fifteen 
and thirty years of age. The only way appendicitis can be cured 
is by the removal of the obstruction and permitting the abscess to 
drain into the colon. In acute cases, hot or cold packs will be 
of value in the relief of pain. If fever precedes pain it is not 
appendicitis. If vomiting precedes pain the chances are that the 
condition is not appendicitis." 
Appendicitis is caused by constipation. You will notice the 
illustration on page 32; notice the location of the appendix 
at the beginning of the large intestine-the colon ; it is waste mat- 
ter at the opening that causes it to become inflamed. Remove this 
waste and the trouble will disappear. 
To cure this trouble, take an internal bath every night until 
you know you are completely cured. Remember it is the right 
side of the colon that needs to be kept clean, so get in position 
No. 1 to receive the water; then position No. 2, and then to posi- 
tion No. 3 on the right side, and hold the water in the right 
side for about five minutes and massage gently around the ap- 
pendix. If this treatment is followed, pain and inflammation 
will soon disappear, and you will find an operation is unnecessary. 
VAGINAL DOUCHE 
It is absolutely necessary to speak here of the value of the 
vaginal douche. It has been taught for centuries, and it is 
121 practiced by the majority of civilized women with the same 
regularity that they use the tooth-brush. Yet there are undoubt- 
edly women to whom that very statement will come with surprise. 
Women who, because of lack of early teaching, or because of 
that strange, false delicacy that makes them avoid all preach- 
ments on the subject, are, more or less unconsciously, actually 
unclean all their lives. Fortunate are they if they do not suffer 
because of it. Let such women consult with a physician or a 
wiser sister. They will learn that a syringe is as essential to 
bodily purity as is a sponge, a tooth-brush, or a towel, and in fact, 
a thousand times more so. 
Bodily purity always means bodily health. As for Indelicacy, 
there is no indelicacy as bad as uncleanliness, and no delicacy 
that will atone for it. The vaginal douche not only promotes 
cleanliness, but it alleviates pain, reduces inflammation and their 
122 constant secretions, regulates the menstrual periods and often 
acts as a general invigorator and tonic to the entire system. 
Nearly all female troubles are fought and cured by the 
syringe alone, and they can all be guarded against by its use. 
Surely this is an appliance that deserves the best that can be 
said of it and deserves the respect and attention of all women of 
refinement. 
FEMALE TROUBLE 
A B 
Effect of Lacing on the Organs of Chest and Abdomen 
A-Normal position of organs. B-Position of organs after lacing. 
I only wish that every woman in the world would study the 
above cuts one hour every day of their lives. Is it any wonder 
that nearly every woman has female trouble, stomach trouble, 
kidney trouble, displacements, menstrual troubles, diseased 
ovaries, etc.? 
You will never be healthy in the world as long as you wear 
tight clothing, and you do not deserve to. God never intended 
us to disfigure our body in any such way. To correct this trouble, 
wear loose clothes and take plenty of exercise of the right kind. 
Take the "Physical Culture Magazine" and follow its teachings 
and you will have a perfect form and health. 
Eighty-five per cent, of all cases of female trouble are caused 
by constipation and wrong eating. An enlarged colon will cause 
menstrual troubles, displacements, diseased ovaries, etc. Rut re- 
gardless of the cause the same treatment is to be used. 
Perhaps you are not adhering to the old-style methods of 
tight lacing, but you must admit, on your part, that a corset 
123 and skirt bands prevent the free movement of the abdominal 
muscles back and forth with every respiration. You would ap- 
preciate the importance of this free movement of the abdominal 
muscles more if you knew that with each movement of these 
muscles in breathing, the plevic organs in natural condition rise 
and fall. Every time the abdominal muscles move outward the 
pelvic organs rise; every time these muscles are drawn in in 
expelling the breath the organs fall. This natural rise and fall 
takes place twenty times per minute, twelve hundred times per 
hour, all day long. 
But when you put a constricting band around the waist, 
and hold the muscles of the abdomen still, the organs fall and 
stay fallen; there is no more rise until night, when the clothes 
are removed. So you see that such habit of dress tends to cause 
displacement of the pelvic organs. In time the natural supports 
of these organs become permanently stretched, and then the 
organs fail to rise even when the clothing is removed. And sooner 
or later you are bound to have "womb trouble'' and there is no 
drug known, when taken into the blood, to lift these organs into 
place and hold them there. But it can be done by natural methods, 
if you are willing to take the time and trouble. And if you 
are not willing to do this, all I can say is, you deserve to be sick. 
You have caused this condition, and you must right it. We may 
be thankful that tight-lacing is rapidly becoming a thing of the 
past. 
The first thing I want to impress upon your mind is the one 
fact that female trouble can be cured. I have thousands of walk- 
ing advertisements to that fact. There are a few exercises that 
you can follow in your own home, that in a few weeks will cause 
the natural rise and fall of these parts again as nature intended. 
There is a certain position for you to lie in for about two 
hours during the middle of the day, and practice abdominal 
breathing. This increases the pump-like action of the stomach, 
which in turn causes the displaced organs to fall and rise. 
There is a certain position for you to lie in while sleeping, 
and there are five other simple rules for you to follow besides the 
eating and drinking advice I give you. You will find the treat- 
ments very easy to follow, and they are worth thousands of 
dollars to every woman in the world that is suffering from a dis- 
placement or female trouble of any kind. 
TREATMENT 
124 The following of this treatment will strengthen the supports 
holding the displaced organ and it will only be a short time until 
they will return to their position nature intended. Remember 
that at least 98 out of every 100 can be cured entirely. 
In November, 1916, I had a case of a woman in the follow- 
ing condition. Not only was the flow too long continued, but it 
was too frequent. Before she had fully recovered from one 
period, another came on. The result was that the drain on her 
strength kept her in a weak condition all the time. 
Theffreatment as given in my book affected a complete cure 
in five weeks. I could name hundreds of like cases and a great 
many worse ones. I will name one more as follows: 
A mother of three children, the youngest of whom was four 
years, had extreme pain at the monthly period, and this pain had 
increased in the last two years so that it was almost unbearable. 
In fact at times she would become unconscious from the terrible 
suffering; about the worst case I have ever seen. She started the 
treatment as given in my book, and in 18 days her monthly period 
came on with very little pain; the next month she experienced no 
pain whatever, and today she is a well woman. 
In order to give this treatment and give it so that you would 
get the value from it, would require a number of pages as it is 
thorough, is all that is needed, and it is the only thing that will 
right this condition. I do not have room in this book to give 
the treatment as I wanted you to have it, so I have had a special 
book written on this subject and also the subject of childbirth, 
which should be almost painless. For future mothers this is a 
wonderful book. See page 144. 
NEURALGIA 
The term Neuralgia is taken from two Greek words and 
means nerve pain. The most important symptom is pain. This 
may last for several moments or for several days. It may be 
simply a dull ache or it may be a pain so severe and lasting as to 
utterly exhaust the patient's strength. 
The cause of neuralgia is defective nutrition of the nerves 
or in other words, neuralgia is the cry of a starved nerve for 
healthly blood. It is usually accompanied by derangement of the 
digestion. The excessive use of tea, coffee or tobacco is frequently 
a cause of neuralgia. 
125 Neuralgia may also occur from an external injury, or from 
pressure of a tumor or some misplaced bone or ligament upon 
the nerve trunk. And if it should be caused from a misplacement 
see a good Osteopath doctor at once. 
Treat same as for rheumatism and you will get relief very 
quickly, and be sure and leave tea, coffee, and stimulants of all 
kinds alone. 
TOBACCO HARDENS THE ARTERIES, OVERTAXES 
THE HEART AND SHORTENS LIFE 
Says Dr. Connor, formerly of Johns Hopkins Hospital: Hun- 
dreds of thousands of men who smoke and chew and who believe 
themselves healthy are suffering from progressive organic ail- 
ments. They would never have been afflicted had it not been 
for the use of tobacco and most of them would soon get well if 
they would only stop the use of tobacco. 
The best known habit forming principle of tobacco is nico- 
tine, but the most deadly and demoralizing is furfural. Both are 
deadly poisons, which, when absorbed by the system slowly, but 
surely, affect the nerves, membranes, tissues, vital organs and 
vitality of the body. 
The harmful effect of tobacco varies and depends on circum- 
stances and the individual. In some it causes general debility, 
others catarrh of the throat, indigestion, constipation, extreme 
nervousness, sleeplessness, loss of memory, lack of will power, 
cowardice and fear, mental confusion, etc.; in others it causes 
heart disease, bronchial troubles, hardening of the arteries, pal- 
pitation of the heart, tuberculosis, blindness, cancer and the com- 
mon affliction known as tobacco heart. See pages 137, 138, 143. 
OUR NEW BOOK-"VENEREAL DISEASES" 
This book is written for men, women, and children. There 
are a number of things you ought to know, that I did not think 
best to put in this book. So I have had a special book written 
taking up venereal disease-Syphilis, Gonorrhea. Do not be 
deceived by the lying advertisements of unprincipled quacks- 
that any drug can cure you. Read pages 51 to 57 of this work 
and see special offer on page 146. 
VEGETABLE DIET BEST 
Vegetarian diet is the purest and best because vegetables 
contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. It 
126 should be remembered that dead flesh can never be wholesome 
because decay commences at the moment when the creature is 
killed, and products are formed in this process of retrograde 
change which are poisonous. 
In the Scripture of the Hindus only three diseases existed, 
one of which was old age, but when people began to eat flesh, 78 
new diseases appeared. Man is not naturally carnivorous, and 
flesh food is not suited to him. Men are stronger and better on 
a vegetarian diet. I know people say: "You will be weak if 
you do not eat flesh,'' which is untrue. 
There is not a meat eater in the world who has the strength, 
vitality, and endurance, of a man or woman who does not eat 
meat, if they will only eat the right kind of foods. Get my Per- 
fect Health Cook Book; it is worth its weight in gold. See page 
147 for special offer. 
DOCTORS 
Doctors would starve to death or go to work at some other 
work if the people of this country would follow the teachings of 
the National Health Bureau. 
No! I am not fighting doctors, or any one else. I am only 
doing what I can for suffering humanity. I see clearly how lack 
of knowledge of our physical condition is the cause of all organic 
troubles-and why? For the want of applied common sense, and 
too much faith in Allopathy, our asylums and hospitals are 
crowded with organic imbeciles and victims of appendicitis and 
other popular ailments, all of which are easily cured and pre- 
vented by assisting nature and without operation. 
Doctor Osler was formerly Professor of Materia Medica at 
the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, Md., and until his 
death held the professorship at Oxford University, England. His 
books on medical practice are in use in almost every university 
and medical school in all English-speaking countries. 
Dr. Osler states that most drugs have no effect on the disease 
for which they are administered. 
Also the following: "Almost every virulent poison known 
to man is found in allopathic prescriptions; these poisons have a 
tendency to accumulate in the system, to concentrate in certain 
parts and organs, and then to cause continual irritation and 
actual destruction of tissues. By far the greater part of chronic 
diseases is created or complicated through the suppression of 
127 acute diseases by means of drug poisons, and through the de- 
structive effects of the drugs themselves." 
Dr. Schwenninger, the medical adviser of Prince Bismarck, 
and later of Richard Wagner, the composer, condemns poisonous 
drugs and surgery. 
Dr. Treves, the body-physician of the late King Edward, of 
England, was no less outspoken in his denunciation of drugging 
than Drs. Osler and Schwenninger. 
OATMEAL WATER 
This is a raw food and may be used in stomach and bowel 
troubles. It is a complete food. It may be taken alone at one 
meal, or alone for all meals three times a day, or, in a weakened 
condition of patients, take less and oftener than three times a day. 
To prepare, place some rolled oats in a dish and cover with water 
and allow to soak for thirty minutes, then with a spoon stir or 
beat until it becomes milky. Add some water and strain through 
wire strainer and drink slowly. If you wish it sweet add a little 
honey; this makes a delightfully refreshing as well as nourish- 
ing drink. Let your patient live on this. It is cooling and heal- 
ing and will make new blood rapidly. This can be retained in 
the stomach when exerything else is refused. It is heavy and 
rich in food. Do not overfeed patient. 
HOT AND COLD BATHS 
Cold baths are chiefly tonic in effect; hot baths mainly puri- 
fying. The true hot bath is one at a temperature above that of 
the blood, and may be anywhere from 102 to 110 degrees Fahren- 
heit. 
The most important fact about hot baths is not that they are 
externally cleansing, but that they are internally cleansing. 
Wastes and poisons in the system are rapidly eliminated through 
the pores in a hot bath. The skin thus substitutes for the kidneys 
to a marked extent, and Bright's disease victims are sometimes 
kept alive by this treatment. 
The hot bath is best followed by a cool sponging or cold 
spray. It is the best thing in the world to break up a cold, espe- 
cially if you are vigorous enough to take it quite hot, 108 to 112 
degrees, and avoid consequent chilling. It relieves chronic 
catarrh wonderfully. It is a blood purifier of the most active type 
in any disease requiring the elimination of poisons and not 
128 marked with fever. Drink water freely before getting into the 
hot bath. It is the most effective treatment for convulsions in 
children, in uremic poisoning, kidney insufficiency, etc. 
THE ABUSE OF THE MARRIAGE RELATION 
There is a belief that woman's nature has been formed by the 
Creator to be weakly, sickly and changeable. How foolish! Is 
woman's nature really so constituted, that these evils are in- 
separably connected with her? The observer of Nature cannot 
under any circumstance grant this, for it would mock all laws of 
Nature. Woman resembles a plant which, as a rule, grows more 
than one blossom, and the time that she conceives and bears 
children is her time of blossom, for only blossoms are fructified 
and ripen to fruit. 
And just in this period occur the combined symptoms called 
Hysterics, which make of woman a problem. With the beginning 
of matrimony, commences, with most women, the period of all 
suffering; the blossom fades with astonishing rapidity, and the 
husband, who in conjunction with his wife should verify the con- 
ception of a perfect "human being," has only the sorry satisfac- 
tion that it was he who has deflowered this tender blossom. 
THIS MYSTERY IS FULLY EXPLAINED-SEE PAGE 144. 
BALDNESS 
The hair does not die when we do, but frequently grows long 
after death. This means that to a certain extent it has a life of 
its own, which is independent of the life of the body. 
If you wish your hair to grow, see that your head gets about 
five minutes massage every night before you retire, do not wear a 
tight hat hand; expose your hair to the air and sun whenever you 
can. Shampoo at least once a week in summer and once a month 
in winter, using nothing except a pure cocoanut oil soap, a cheap 
but a good soap for the purpose. 
DANDRUFF 
For Dandruff nothing is better than frequent washing to 
keep the scalp clean; then massage freely both morning and 
night, adding a little sunshine to your scalp daily. This is the 
best tonic in the world. 
129 MID-SUMMER HEALTH HINTS 
1. Don't drink ice water. 
2. Drink plenty of water between meals. 
3. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and too much food are the prin- 
cipal cause of heat prostration. 
4. If you are going to eat ice cream and ices and take cold 
drinks, do so on an empty stomach. 
5. Most of our summer stomach and bowel disorders are 
caused by overeating of heavy foods, drinking ice water, and 
flooding the stomach with water while digestion is under way. 
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6. Don't forget that the real cause of much of our hot 
weather discomfort is an excess of meat, bread, and potatoes 
which the body must burn up, and which generates more or less 
excess heat. 
7. Summer is fruit time; if you would keep cool, eat more 
fruit and less of other foods. 
To put it in plain English, smallpox is a complication of 
symptoms resulting from retained waste matters, lowered vital 
resistance, and a general impure atmospheric condition. 
No person with a clean colon, kidneys working right, body 
properly nourished with food and plenty of pure water and fresh 
air could ever get smallpox. One can render himself immune to 
smallpox as well as other diseases by taking measures to prevent 
the retention and accumulation of waste in the body, and by 
maintaining the vital force at the highest possible point. 
The proper action of the skin, lungs, bowels, and kidneys is 
essential. Free water drinking is the most important influence 
in regulating the action of kidneys, bowels, and skin. 
To cure this trouble, abstain from food of all kinds through- 
out the few days of the acute stage, take an internal bath daily 
with cool water, free drinking of cold water, treatment of the 
skin several times daily by cool sponge baths, to control the tem- 
perature and to maintain the activity. Add to this plenty of pure 
air, freedom from worry, and we are in possession of a curative 
method which robs smallpox of its terrors, and registers another 
triumph for common sense methods of treatment of disease. 
SMALLPOX 
130 The point of attack is generally one of the small joints, as of 
the hand or foot. The first joint of the big toe is a frequent joint 
of deposits. There is great pain, with redness and swelling of 
the joint and excessive tenderness. There is usually a rise of 
temperature and disturbance of the heart action, as well as indi- 
gestion, headache, fever, and dizziness. All of the above as well 
as the gout itself is due to the one cause-retention of waste mat- 
ter and poisons in the system. Follow the treatment for rheuma- 
tism and you will get relief very quickly. 
GOUT 
A vein is varicose when it is permanently enlarged. The most 
frequent places for varicose veins are the lower extremity, the 
rectum, and the testicles. Causes are lack of nourishment, over- 
feeding, and pressure upon the veins from outside or inside. 
Therefore constipation is the one great cause; tight garters are 
also a bad thing to wear. All obstacles to circulation should be 
removed, and cold applications are of great value when applied 
to the leg, the rectum or the testicles. These latter parts, if ef- 
fected, can be relieved by the douche, or by immersion of said 
parts. The cold sitz bath for ten minutes is of great value for 
varicocele or hemorrhoids, and you must cure constipation above 
all things. Attention to general health, with the free drinking 
of water will right the condition. Follow treatment for indiges- 
tion and for constipation with the treatment given above. 
VARICOSE VEINS 
DIRECTIONS FOR SITZ BATH 
Fill a small tub about one-third full of cold water and sit in 
same for about 10 or 15 minutes. For all inflammations of the 
generative organs or of the rectum, in fact of any of the abdom- 
inal viscera, this bath is of the greatest value. In the so-called 
female troubles the coM sitz bath has preserved many sufferers 
from the surgeon's knife and would save many others if used. 
The cold sitz bath is also of great value as a general tonic. 
INFANTILE PARALYSIS 
Infantile paralysis, or, as it is technically called, poliomyelitis, 
is a disease which occurs almost entirely in children between the 
ages of one and four years, usually in those about eighteen 
months old; occasionally it attacks older children, and rarely 
adults are affected. 
131 Infantile paralysis is apparently an innocent disorder; it 
comes on much like an ordinary attack of indigestion in children. 
It is preceded usually by one day of disinclination to play and a 
desire to be left alone; then follows one day of fever with vomit- 
ing. Then about the third or fourth day it will be noticed that 
the child is paralyzed. So you can see the necessity of quick 
treatment. 
You will notice that infantile paralysis attacks the child at 
the age when it is first taken to the table and fed anything and 
everything, foods that were never intended for an infant. It must 
be remembered that a child can digest very little except milk and 
fruit until after it is four years of age. And there is no doubt that 
the feeding of wrong kinds of foods, which ferment and putrefy 
in the stomach and intestines are the direct cause of this as well 
as other diseases of children. 
If you want to prevent this disease see that the child is fed 
on just fruit, green vegetables and milk, no white bread, in fact 
no white flour products of any kind; no meat, remember this, no 
meat. See that the child drinks plenty of water (not ice water) 
and no tea and coffee, and above all things see that the bowels are 
kept open with the internal bath at least twice a day. 
Some physicians say it is contagious, while others maintain 
it is not. Statistics of 1916 show that only one out of every one- 
hundred and sixty-six that were exposed acquired it. Can a dis- 
ease be termed contagious when only fourteen persons out of two 
thousand and seventy directly exposed to it afterwards acquired 
it? Fear is unquestionably a devitalizing agent. It takes away 
one's courage. Under its influence one frequently gives up. We 
should understand this much, that we should not fear any disease. 
No child in splendid health, with bowels and kidneys normal, 
could possibly acquire infantile paralysis. It has its origin in 
disease of the stomach or bowels. Bowel diseases exact a fearful 
toll of child life. 
Derangements of the alimentary canal are the primary cause 
of infantile paralysis. It is the prevention we are after-not the 
cure; one prevention is worth a hundred cures. If the suggestions 
are rigidly followed as given for the prevention of this disease, 
you need not have the slightest fear of your child acquiring this 
much dreaded complaint. 
See that your child is out of doors as much as possible, and 
that there is plenty of fresh air in the sleeping room; don't let 
132 your child overeat, don't let him eat between meals, see that 
he eats plenty of fruit and drinks plenty of water. Be careful of 
sweet milk unless you are sure it is above suspicion. And see 
that the child has a daily bath. 
Epidemics occur in infantile paralysis principally during the 
summer, just why it is hard to explain. But every doctor that 
has a grain of common sense knows that it is not caused by bac- 
teria, virus, micro-organisms, or germs. Symptoms of infantile 
paralysis are identical with constipation; stagnated colon and auto- 
intoxication. Internal bath should be used daily. 
Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute lab- 
oratories, may be said to be the foremost authority on infantile 
paralysis in the United States today. Dr. Flexner says that sani- 
tation, cleanliness and protection of food are the best infantile para- 
lysis foes. 
OBESITY 
Obesity is a disease, caused from eating more food than the 
digestive juices can convert into the right kind of tissue building 
material. And the eating of the wrong kind of food and too much 
of it causes a low grade tissue to be formed and deposited. This 
is a brief, but plain, statement of the cause of obesity. Treat as 
follows: 
The main thing is the diet; arrange a diet of plain, simple foods, 
just enough to sustain the body. Try a breakfast of just fruit; for 
dinner a good meal of fruit or vegetable salads, greens, celery, let- 
tuce, tomatoes, whole wheat bread and peanut butter. Supper about 
the same as breakfast. Avoid meat, eggs, cheese, sugar, salt and 
butter. Take internal bath daily, drink glass of hot water a half 
hour before each meal, and see that you drink not less than two 
quarts of water each day, but not with your meals. Drink more 
and eat less. Follow the above and you will effect a cure. 
COLIC 
Apply heat over the seat of the pain with hot water bottle, and 
give hot water to drink every five minutes, if the child is old enough. 
If over four years of age, use internal bath at once. If an infant,- 
use the baby syringe so that the bowels will move at once. 
Same treatment as for colic, except let the patient draw a deep 
breath and hold it as long as possible; keep repeating this. 
HICCOUGH 
133 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE 
It has been only in the past few years that the public has heard 
of high blood pressure. This is because only recently have instru- 
ments been devised to compute easily the blood pressure. High 
blood pressure is a disease as old as man; but its far-reaching effects 
are just being recognized. The big insurance companies have done 
much to increase our knowledge of this disease. By means of the 
blood pressure they can foretell with reasonable certainty the ap- 
parently healthy men who may drop dead or develop serious disease, 
in the prime of life. 
The blood is kept at a certain pressure at all times, at a pres- 
sure which moves the vital fluid at a rapid rate through the larger 
blood vessels, and which forces it through the smaller capillaries and 
even through the minute spaces between the individual cells. In the 
body this blood pressure is maintained, for the most part, by the big 
pumping station, the heart. 
Here is a simple rule for blood pressure: Up to the age of 
twenty the blood pressure should be between ioo and 120. Between 
the ages of twenty and forty it should not exceed 130. After the 
age of forty it should not increase more than one point added to 
130, for each two years. 
The big robust man, overweight, overfed, and overstimulated, is 
usually the man in whom high blood pressure occurs. As the cele- 
brated Dr. Osler says, "High blood pressure is found most often 
among the big, robust men who eat a good deal, smoke a good deal, 
and drink a good deal." Occasionally it occurs in thin, nervous per- 
sons. High blood pressure rarely develops early in life. The pres- 
sure begins to rise between the age of thirty and forty, and has 
reached the excessive, often dangerous, point between forty and fifty. 
High blood pressure is simply an increase of the pressure of the 
blood in the arteries and smaller vessels. The increase may be any- 
where from two or three points to one hundred points or even more. 
A blood pressure of over 200 is dangerous, although any increase over 
normal is decidedly undesirable. At first an increase in the blood 
pressure acts as a powerful stimulant often leading to an unnatural 
exhilaration. However, the gradually increasing pressure over- 
strains the arteries and gradually brings about their degeneration. 
It also overworks the heart, leading to degeneration of the heart 
The Cause and Treatment of This Disease 
134 muscles. Likewise it brings about more or less degeneration of the 
kidneys. High blood pressure lowers the disease-resisting powers: 
influenza and pneumonia are particularly fatal in the presence of this 
disease. 
There are four fatal terminations of high blood pressure. One 
is apoplexy or rupture of a degenerated vessel in the brain. While 
the first attack is not always fatal, unless something is done at once 
to lower the pressure and to keep it lowered, the second attack in 
a year or two usually terminates life. The second result of high 
blood pressure is heart failure due to heart overwork in maintaining 
the excessively high pressure. At post mortems following sudden 
death from blood pressure the heart walls are found actually torn 
apart as a result of a degeneration of the muscle fibers and the 
tremendous pressure exerted against them. Bright's disease, or de- 
generation of the kidneys, is another frequent result of high blood 
pressure and the factors which cause it. Many cases of obscure 
disease in persons past fifty are also due to the degeneration of the 
arteries caused by excessive blood pressure. 
High blood pressure is due to toxins circulating in the blood. 
These toxins affect the nerves controlling the millions of the smallest 
of the blood vessels so as to cause a constant contraction of these 
vessels; in this way the heart is obliged to increase the blood pres- 
sure in order to force the blood through the narrowed vessels. 
It is true that high blood pressure often develops in high-strung 
men who lead the strenuous life, who work on their nerve force. 
However, much of the ill effects of the so-called "strenuous life'' 
are really the result of too much food, too many smokes, late hours, 
and a bad body care generally, rather than the result of hard work. 
Auto-intoxication always makes the highstrung man more nervous. 
From observations in hundreds of cases the toxins that cause 
high blood pressure and accompanying degeneration of the vital 
organs, are food toxins. The man who develops high blood pressure 
has overeaten for a good many years; has taken considerably more 
food than he has needed. Usually he has had an excellent digestion, 
"everything agrees with him;" much of his pleasure of life comes 
from eating, and he can see no harm in eating what he wants. 
Nevertheless, he has kept his body overfilled with food toxins, and 
his kidneys and other organs of excretion constantly overworked. 
Sooner or later these organs begin to lag in their effort to keep the 
body clear of waste, then the toxins accumulate and a gradual in- 
crease in the blood pressure takes place 
135 Added to the excessive waste material in the blood from digested 
food, we usually have in the high blood pressure case, the toxins 
generated from unused, undigested food in the bowels. In nineteen 
cases out of twenty of high blood pressure there is intestinal gas, 
indican is found in the urine, and in addition all the other evidences 
of fermentation and putrefaction of unused food in the bowels are 
present. Added to these food toxins we often have the poisons of 
tobacco, coffee, liquor, drugs, and syphilis. Germ poisons from 
chronic infections such as diseased tonsils, pyorrhea, or other tooth 
infections, may also assist in keeping up the toxemia which increases 
the blood pressure. However, the principal cause of high blood pres- 
sure is food-poisoning due to wrong eating, which means eating in 
excess of one's needs, and eating foods that are indigestible or dif- 
ficult to digest. This is the one most important cause of high blood 
pressure. 
What are the symptoms of high blood pressure? Very often, 
especially in the ultra robust, there are no alarming symptoms. 
With a gradual onset the person may become accustomed to the 
gradual increase until he goes on to the day of his death with apo- 
plexy or heart failure without having realized that he is really in a 
dangerous condition. High blood pressure is often discovered by 
accident at a life insurance examination. However, in the majority 
of cases there is ample warning. In fact, in persons of a nervous 
temperament, an increase in blood pressure of even fifteen points 
may bring on a multitude of nervous symptoms. 
The usual symptoms of high blood pressure are a feeling of full- 
ness in the head, often with a sensation of a band around the head 
or a hot spot on the top, headache, often intense, nervousness, in- 
somnia, more or less nervous irritability, often with a fear of impend- 
ing danger; one or more of these are usually present in increased 
blood pressure. There is often loss of memory and the inability to 
concentrate mentally. Shortness of breath, weakness, especially upon 
physical exertion, and dizziness are also usually symptoms of in- 
creased blood pressure. 
To cure high blood pressure it is necessary to reduce the food 
to just what the person needs, to what he can actually use up, and 
for the time being to a little less. In addition to this the food should 
be cooked and combined so that it can be easily digested. Only in 
this way can the stream of poisons from the fermenting food in the 
intestines be cut off and the waste materials of the body eliminated. 
The majority of cases of high blood pressure have been put upon 
two meals a day with only fruit, or a glass of buttermilk, or a glass 
136 of malted milk, or a dish of ice cream at noon. The breakfasts 
usually consist of cantaloupe or one of the fruits containing very 
little acid, cereals and well baked bread. Coffee is omitted. 
Coffee, pastries, rich desserts, candy, and fried foods must all 
be eliminated from the diet of the man who has developed high blood 
pressure and who wishes to bring it down and to keep it so. Like- 
wise, tobacco and alcoholic drinks must be avoided. 
The man with high blood pressure should stimulate elimination 
through the lungs by an abundance of fresh air both day and night. 
He should also keep the skin, the great body sewer, active by taking 
a tepid sponge bath each day. He must also keep open the principal 
body sewer, the bowels; this is usually accomplished by the diet 
necessary to reduce the blood pressure. Of course, the man having 
high blood pressure should learn to avoid mental strain, learn to do 
his work easily and without exhausting his nerve force. 
Follow treatment as given for constipation, stomach trouble, 
and kidney trouble. Nature is sure if you will give her a chance. 
CRAMPS 
Bathe the parts affected in hot water, containing a little salt. 
EARACHE 
Apply cloths wrung out of hot water to the seat of the pain, 
give hot drinks, moisten a bit of cotton with sweet oil and put in 
the ear. 
WOMEN AND TOBACCO 
The woman who permits herself to drift into the cigarette 
habit soon loses self-control and goes the limit, and it is only a mat- 
ter of time, which depends upon her physical constitution, how long 
she will last. There is nothing she can do that will so surely bring 
about her mental and moral ruin as the use of tobacco. 
It changes her mental attitude towards life and she lets down 
the last bar of reason and seeks and courts congenial companionship 
among the unfortunates of her class and in time it degrades every- 
thing in woman that is worth while. 
In short while the lovely, devoted, clean wife and mother be- 
comes negligent of her womanly duties and responsibilities, and if 
an alcoholic history has not previously existed, in time she will also 
acquire that vice. Can you picture a more disgusting human being 
than an alcoholic and nicotine-poisoned woman? 
You may think there are only a few women that have this habit, 
but listen, friends, there are thousands upon thousands of them; 
137 that is why this article is written. When women begin to dissipate 
they travel faster and farther than do men. 
There is no real man who, even though he uses tobacco himself 
looks with favor upon a woman using it, and I have never seen a 
real man indulging in the use of tobacco with women. 
I f the young women who use tobacco knew the mental estimate 
m which men hold them, there would be few tobacco users among 
them. They are immediately associated with the morally low; it 
makes no difference what their breeding or social standing may be. 
They are looked upon with suspicion, and time, place, and cir- 
cumstances permitting, they sooner or later have to defend their vir- 
tue or lose it. 
No worse case of drug habit has ever come under my observa- 
tion than that of the confirmed female tobacco user. There is noth- 
ing that she can do that is going to so surely rob her of her good 
looks, and of everything in her life and make-up that is pleasing 
and fascinating to men-and the men who tolerate their smoking are 
the first to kick them aside for those who are younger and prettier, 
when the tobacco has worked its irreparable havoc. 
Women, there is a positive cure for the tobacco habit; the prin- 
ciple part of the treatment is following the advice I give as to foods 
and drinks. 1 have studied this condition for the past five years and 
I now have the treatment where it is a success. I want every woman 
to have it. I want every man to have it. I want every boy and girl 
to have it. Your children should have this book to read, as it will 
open their eyes to conditions that they are in ignorance of. Remem- 
ber the only prevention is knowledge; see that they have it. This 
wonderful book-"The Tobacco Habit and How to Cure It''-will 
be sent to any address for 50c. See page 143. 
WARNING! 
Don't use tobacco unless you want to be thin, nervous and 
dyspeptic. 
MEN, BOYS AND TOBACCO 
In ninety-nine cases out of every one hundred you get the reply, 
"It does not hurt me." Does not hurt you! Wait and see. In years 
to come, when you ought to be in your prime, you will be poor, 
nervous, irritable, nerve dried creatures. Your hands will tremble, 
your head will ache, your sleep will be fretful and disturbed, your 
digestion impaired-in short, the pleasure you get from the use of 
138 tobacco on one side, will be more than counterbalanced by the dis- 
comfort and misery on the other from using the dirty weed. The 
end of all science is to secure long life and good health to the 
individual and the race, and it ought to be a part of the rational 
creed of every good man and woman to abjure the use of tobacco, 
and to keep others from falling into the vice. 
Nicotine-the most active drug in tobacco-is very powerful; 
it gains a peculiar hold upon its victim, a hold stronger than alcohol. 
You may think that tobacco is doing you harm; oh! if I only had 
the space to give you what I know about the harm it is doing in this 
little world of ours. To begin with, tobacco is a poison and a deadly 
poison at that; one that gets you into a spell that just makes you 
believe you just must have it. The tobacco habit kills; yes, it has 
killed more men than pneumonia, diphtheria and typhoid fever put 
together. Not only that, but tobacco causes insanity and blindness. 
Tobacco poisons the entire system, and is never harmless, never was 
and never will be. 
Tobacco causes general weakness and apoplexy, loss of memory, 
paralysis, heart failure and hardening of the arteries. And oh! men 
if you only knew how it is reducing your efficiency, you would never 
smoke another cigar or cigarette as long as you live. And as for a 
woman that will smoke a cigarette, as Billy Sunday says: "She will 
do anything." 
Men, I have studied these conditions for the past five years; T 
have been experimenting for the past three years, and I now have 
a complete cure for the tobacco habit. Space will not permit me 
to give it in this book, but it is given in my book entitled The Tobacco 
Habit and how to cure it. 
I want you to have this book; if you do not need it yourself, get 
it for a friend; you will be doing him a world of good. If you have 
any children be sure that you have a copy of this book in the home, 
it will put them wise to a lot of things they never knew, as knowledge 
is the great prevention for children. This wonderful book will be 
sent to any address for 50 cents. It is a very valuable work, and ought 
to be in every home in the world. See page 143. 
It is the hope of the author that you will not only read this 
page, but every page in this bookit is written for your help and 
the author has made a study of these conditions for a great many 
years, and the writings in this book are from actual experience, and 
they are worth thousands of dollars to you and yours. 
139 HOW TO WELL AND HAPPY AFTER FORTY 
To begin with, every woman looks forward to several years 
of ill health when she reaches the neighborhood of forty. She is 
educated to expect it. It is all wrong. That is, you can make it all 
wrong, by making it all right. 
You are supposed, after forty to take a toboggan slide down 
Old Age Hill, but you need not if you are wise; you may instead, 
take a very delightful journey that will last many years. And 
perhaps some day we will learn how to grow younger after forty, 
instead of older. 
If you wish to get through the forties enjoyably, ease up for a 
year and let your body catch up its over-spent vitality. At this time 
the body has not only its regular work to do, but the extra work of 
adjusting the new conditions, and it needs extra vitality. 
And beware of congestion in any of the body's departments, 
especially the alimentary canal. Take a food rest, meat about half 
the usual amount; arrange the menu with less solid foods; eat more 
fruit and drink more cold water; and hot water in place of tea and 
coffee. When you have passed pleasantly through the forties keep 
right on with this menu, for you cannot grow old safely on too much 
food or stimulants. After the body has reached its growth very little 
building material is needed to keep it renewed; it is quality that 
counts. 
A woman never knows physical freedom until after forty. She 
cannot attain her normal health and strength until after forty. She 
is not fitted for any work outside the home. When from necessity or 
choice she does go outside, it is at a great disadvantage. Some day 
woman will attain her normal development, then she will be free 
without waiting for forty to arrive. Until then, forty is the bright 
goal to which she may look for freedom. 
Having passed safely through the forties, many years of devel- 
opment, accomplishment and enjoyment follow. As the body grows 
stronger the mind grows clearer and more active. The first half of 
a woman's adult life--if she marries and has a family, is crowded 
with domestic occupations-the begetting, caring for and bringing 
up children. If she attempts to add anything to this work she is 
over-burdened. After forty she is released from at least half of 
these duties, and she feels as though she had actually been given the 
wings of a dove, and could fly away and be-wherever she might 
choose. 
140 And now is the time for the woman to choose the work she 
loves. There is nothing like love for the blossoming of youth, and 
the woman begins to grow young. But the woman who has no 
chosen work, no interest in anything, simply retires from active life, 
will go to pieces by the express route. After forty make a specialty 
of something even if you have no choice, make yourself take an 
interest. If you are still bound to necessary work, add to it some 
work you love, or some course of study or reading. 
At least, take an interest in things. Take an interest in people 
and things outside the family; or if you already have the interest, be 
sure to maintain it. There is nothing so disintegrating to the body 
as an empty mind. Beware of dropping one interest after another, 
because you are "getting on;" you are at the beginning of your 
independent life and the world is full of many interesting things. 
And make new friends; relatives and friends vanish, one by one, and 
there are aching voids in the heart. Pass on to the newer genera- 
tion; beware of dropping out. Some of the happiest experiences 
of your life are ahead of you, and some of the dearest friends. We 
are sent here to grow, and it is not meant that we should stop grow- 
ing midway of life's journey. 
If you can lose your expectation of being ill during the forties, 
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your blessings instead of your sorrows and disappointments, if you 
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Forty means opportunity; new opportunities; greater phys- 
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period of the forties, but rather should welcome it. 
A man nearing fifty may profit by these same suggestions. 
The all-important thing is to conserve vital energy. His health 
and often his life depends upon this. 
That's the whole story-conservation of vitality. 
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The National Health Bureau's 
Corrective Diet 
FIRST DAY 
BREAKFAST 
Juice of two oranges. 
Plain omelet cooked in butter. 
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LUNCHEON 
Lettuce and tomato salad. 
Cream cheese sandwich. (Whole wheat bread.) 
Sliced orange and banana. 
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DINNER 
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Glass of milk. 
SECOND DAY 
BREAKFAST 
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Medium boiled eggs. 
Glass of milk. 
LUNCHEON 
Baked potatoes with creamery butter. 
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Hot graham muffins. 
Glass of milk. 
DINNER 
Baked bananas. (Should be baked with skins on.) 
Spinach with hard boiled egg. 
Celery and apple salad. 
Whole wheat muffins or bread. 
Glass of milk. 
149 Extract from PERFECT HEALTH EXERCISE BOOK.-See page 148. 
150 Extract from PERFECT HEALTH EXERCISE BOOK.-See page 148. 
Exercise No. 2 
This is the most valuable of any exercise the 
National Health Bureau has given to the public. 
It is a great exercies for the muscles of the stom- 
ach and bowels, the neck, back, legs and arms; in 
fact, the whole body receives a great benefit by 
this exercise. 
Seemingly it is somewhat difficult to learn, but 
if you practice it until you get it right you will be 
well paid for the trouble of learning it, and if it is 
followed correctly the waist line is soon lost and 
a fat stomach is quickly reduced. 
First place the hands behind the back and clasp 
the fingers together, then bend over, knees stiff, 
raise the hands high from the back, fingers still 
locked, then bend over with a quick motion until 
the head touches the knees. You may have to do 
it several times before you have accomplished it, 
but do it and do it before an open window or in 
the open air, and try to do it twenty times or 
more. You will not need any adjustments by a 
chiropractor if you follow this wonderful exercise. 
151 Extract from PERFECT HEALTH EXERCISE BOOK.-See page 148. 
152 Extract from PERFECT HEALTH EXERCISE BOOK.-See page 148. 
Exercise No. 10 
This is a very fine exercise for stimulating the 
muscles of the whole body. 
To do this lie flat on floor, arms stretched high 
above head and resting on floor and thumbs 
hooked together, then raise body to sitting posi- 
tion and with thumbs still hooked and knees stiff, 
stretch arms from body until your finger tips 
touch toes. Then lie back on the floor and repeat 
the first motions. Do this many times daily. 
153 Perfect Health 7 
Prevention or Cure (Dr. Woods Hutchinson) 8 
Will Medicine Cure Constipation? 9 
Nature, The Great Physician 9 
Startling Increase of Disease 10 
The Bowels 11 
Laxative Drugs, Purgative Oils, Cathartic Salts, Etc 14 
Constipation and Its Effects 15 
Water 17 
The Heart 22 
The Lungs 23 
The Blood 24 
The Stomach 26 
The Liver 27 
The Kidneys 28 
The Spine 29 
The Brain 30 
Syphilis 31 
Description of the Digestive Organs - 33 
A Perfect Diet 34 
Of What Is Man Made? 35 
Salt, Candy, Vinegar 36 
Radishes, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Carrots, Celery, 
Cabbage, Parsley, Onions, Spinach, Asparagus, Potatoes, 
Wild Greens, Water Cress 37 
How to Prepare Vegetables 41 
Raw Foods 42 
Morphine and Patent Medicines 44 
Acid Forming and Base Forming Foods 45 
A Terrible Habit (Laxative Drugs) 45 
Fear, Anger, Self-Pity, Envy, Jealousy 46 
Operations 48 
Venereal Diseases 51-57 
What Acid Stomach Is, and How You May Banish It 57 
Man Is Beginning to Think 59 
INDEX 
155 INDEX 
For That Tired Feeling .. 60 
Law of Life 61 
A Sick Person and the Doctor . 62 
To Every Sufferer of Disease 64 
How to Doctor 66 
Catarrh Can Be Cured . 70 
You Must Eat Lime 81 
Asthma Can Be Cured 83 
Stop Food Poisoning and Cure "Nerves" 88 
How to Be Young at 60 and Live to Be 100. .. 92 
Directions for Taking the Internal Bath 94 
Treatment of Diseases-Dyspepsia 97 
Indigestion , 97 
Stomach Acidity 98 
Sour Stomach-Breakfast, Dinner and Supper 99 
Catarrhal Condition of the Stomach and Bowels .100 
Nervousness 101 
Constipation .102 
Floating Kidney .103 
Kidney Trouble ....103 
Rheumatism 104 
Diarrhoea 105 
Malaria, Bilious Fever and Chills ..105 
The Wet Sheet Pack 106 
Bilious Attacks ...106 
Typhoid Fever 108 
Piles or Hemorrhoids ' 110 
Protruding Piles .110 
Itching Piles .110 
Blind and Bleeding Piles .Ill 
Asthma, Catarrh and Hay Fever .112 
Headache 113 
Cancer i 114 
Gallstones and Drugs 115 
Don't Take Patent Medicine (Seven Reasons) 115 
156 INDEX 
Worms 116 
Pellagra 116 
Warning Against the Removal of the Tonsils (Dr. Copeland) 117 
Eczema and All Skin Diseases 117 
Gas in the Stomach 118 
Gravel 118 
Measles ...118 
Pneumonia and Pleurisy .120 
Consumption or Tuberculosis 120 
Appendicitis .....121 
Vaginal Douche (For Women) 121 
Female Trouble .123 
Neuralgia 125 
Tobacco Hardens the Arteries, Overtaxes the Heart and 
Shortens Life 126 
Doctors 127 
The Abuse of the Marriage Relation 129 
Smallpox ; 130 
Gout 131 
Varicose Veins 131 
Sitz Bath 131 
Infantile Paralysis 131 
Obesity 133 
Colic, Hiccough, Cramps, Ear Ache ...133 
High Blood Pressure 134 
Women and Tobacco 137 
Men, Boys and Tobacco 138 
How to Be Well and Happy After 40 .140 
Printed by Haywood Press, La Fayette, Ind. 
157 THOMAS A. EDISON 
SdyS» "The doctor of the future will 
give no medicine, but will interest his 
patients in the care of the human frame, 
and in the cause and prevention of 
disease." 
LIVE 150 YEARS 
Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research, and 
other scientists, declare, as a result of 
their researches, that there is no physi- 
ological reason why human beings can- 
not live 150 years.