MOORE 
SCIENCE OF HEALTH CONSERVATION THE SCIENCE 
HEALTH CONSERVATION 
-AND- 
The True Healing Art- ' 
U r L I A T r~ 
THE TRAIJ. PHILOS0P3SX. 
R. T. TRAIL, M D. 
A LECTURE 
Delivered in the parlors of the Trail Sanitarium, and other articles explaining the 
first principles of Hygienic Medication, or a true Medical Science, and 
exposing the fundamental fallacies of all drug systems, 
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De Witt Clinton Moore, M.D. 
Former Associate of Dr. Trai.i.. MOORE'S HEALTH CONSERVATORY 
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Trail Hygienic Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, 
1029 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
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This institution is intended fora practical school for those who wish to retain their health, as well 
as a sanitarium, upon scientific principles, for the treatment of all classes of invalids. 
THE TREATMENT DEPARTMENT, 
Embraces all approved Remedial Agents, together with the following: 
Oxygen Inhalations, Vacuum Treatment, Thermo-Electric, Turco-American, Electro-Magnetic, 
Galvano-Chemical, Steam, Vapor, Warm Air and all forms of 
ML LIBRARY OF MEDICINE water baths. 
Swedish jfcmemtnflPor Massage, the Health Lift, Spirometer or Lung Strengthener, Steam Atomizers, 
all Electric, Galvanic and Surgical Appliances, Sun Baths and Solar Ray Surgery, new and perfect 
Truss for the Radical Cure of Hernia, lately discovered Chemical Compound for the speedy, safe, 
painless and permanent removal of Cancers, Scientific and Successful Method for the Cure of Piles, 
Dr. Hathaway's Electro-Magnetic Chair, etc. 
Aims to keep abreast with, if not in advance of, the Progressive Age. 
It has been the mission of this System to mold public sentiment, and this institution hopes to be 
the means of much good on this coast. The time has come when physicians of this school can afford 
financially to keep a conscience; in fact it is disastrous financially as well as morally to compromise 
the truth one iota; hence patients can rest assured that they will be treated by the Physicians, after 
the most approved and scientific methods, without poisons, out of pure and enlightened selfishness, 
recognizing the truth and beauty of this great principle. 
" The Universe is so ordered and arranged that the real and permanent good of every creature is best, 
subserved in promoting the real and permanent good of every other being."-Dr. Tkall. 
THE BOARDING- DEPARTMENT. 
Our patients will be allowed the best the excelsior market of the world affords, embracing fruits, 
grains, vegetables, meats, fish, fowl, eggs, cream, etc. Pure food means pure blood. Pure blood means 
good health. 
"The vegetarian school has demonstrated beyond the possibility of a doubt that farinaceous 
dishes, fruit and vegetables, are sufficient to maintain a hard-working man in perfect health. Such a 
diet might certainly be substituted by sedentary people for their greasy steaks and ragouts. "-Popular 
Science Monthly. 
The Rooms are pleasant, warm, well-ventilated and sunny-convenient to treatment rooms, 
so as to afford theibest advantage of nursing and professional attendance. 
Office, Corresponding and General Practice. 
Fevers, and in fact all cases, may be treated at home successfully. Parturition (confinement) cases 
are taken in the Institution, or attended at home in any part of the city or country. Preparatory 
treatment in these cases is most important. Those who cannot come to the Institution may consult 
the physicians by letter, giving their symptoms, and receive a prescription for home treatment. 
Testimonials of extraordinary cases and cures can be seen on application. The most desperate 
cases, and especially those that have been given up as incurable by the old methods, are invited. Write 
for terms. Send 2-cent stamp, or call for further particulars. Address, (stating where you saw this) 
Mrs. E. D. MOORE, M. D., of D. C. MOORE, M. D., 
' <XStreet, San Francisco, Cal. HEALTH OFFICE REFUSES 
TO VOUCH FOR PHYSICIAN 
De Witt C. Moore Declared an Illegal 
Practitioner and Body of Rein- ■ 
hold Goes to Morgue. 
The Health Department refused yes- 
terday to permit the body of August 
F. Reinhold, who died at 825 Grove 
street, to be removed to the California 
College of Osteopathy or Hahnemann 
College at 1401 Van Ness avenue be- 
cause the death certificate was signed 
by De Witt C. Moore, who attaches 
M. D. to his name and who they claim 
is not a licensed physician. Reinhold 
died on March 3, the death certificate 
states, of pneumonia induced by an in- 
jury' to his spine received by a fall. 
He left a will bequeathing his body to 
<he medical college for a ''thorough 
scientific examination," as he termed 
it. 
Reinhold's wife had no religious ser- 
vices held over the body, but merely 
kept it in the house until the next day, 
when it was removed by City Under- 
taker Hagan of 1707 Sacramento 
street to the medical college. When 
Hagan went to the Heafth Office to 
have the certificate recorded the au- 
thorities refused to perform the ser- 
vice, claiming that Moore's name was 
not in the physicains' register. 
The body was then removed by 
Hagan to the City Morgue, as is the 
custom in all cases where there is not 
the signature of a licensed physician 
to the death certificate. 
Moore claims to be a graduate of 
' the old College of Physicians and Sur- 
, gteohs and says that he is registered in 
the County Clerk's office, both in this 
city and in Oakland, having registered 
in 1877. Th!e body will be held at the 
Morgue until an autopsy can be per- 
formed. Death is supposed to have 
been due to natural causes. Reinhold 
was a physician and Moore claims to 
have a hospital in Berkeley. He has 
been in court several times. 
Lowell Boys Beat Modesto Team. 
MODESTO, March 5.-Representa- 
tives from Lowell High School, San 
Francisco, and Modesto High School 
contested here to-day in field events. 
The result was a victory for Lowell 
by the small margin of five points. Up 
to the relay race the teams were tied. 
The manufacture of artificial cam- 
phor bv electrolysis is now assured. J THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE 
It has always been one of the most difficult prac- 
tical problems, how to present new truths so as not 
to offend old errors-how to change men's opinions 
and not seem to assail their prejudices; for men 
are very apt to regard arguments directed against 
their opinions as attacks upon their persons. These 
matters should be well understood by those who 
come before the public as advocates of new sys- 
tems of living and methods of thought, so as to be 
prepared for the trials, the struggles, the difficul- 
ties, and the destiny that await them, for no fact 
in history is more clear than that all reformers or 
advance thinkers have been martyrs. The time 
will come, let us hope, when all normal beings will 
pray, "Q, for the muse of fire that can ascend the 
heaven of invention," for the advancement of uni- 
versal humanity. Then will spring up a rivalry for 
the championship of thought, as exists now for 
physical feats. } 
All useful discoveries and improvements have 
four distinct stages in their progress to universal 
acceptation. The first is when the theory is pro- 
nounced false, contrary to experience, absurd, and 
unworthy the attention of sensible persons. The 
second is when they are denounced as perilous in- 
novations. The third is when they are claimed as 
having been known before. And the fourth is when 
they are received as established truths by everyone. 
In the first place their authors are simply ridiculed. 
In the second place, they are accused of endanger- 
ing the religion and morals of society. In the third 
place, they are deprived of all credit, for more in- 
dustry, discrimination, and originality than others. 
And in the fourth place, the only wonder is that 
the truths in question should ever have been 
doubted, so perfectly are they in harmony with all 
the laws of the universe. 
And thus is presented briefly the history of our 
subject: the Science of Health Conservation and 
Hygeio-Therapy, the True Healing Art, the princi- 
ples of which no one now will attempt to refute, as 
it is rapidly becoming popular. The prevention of 
disease and the treatment of the sick by hygienic 
agencies or materials, to the exclusion of drugs, in- 
volving, as it does, a compliance with every law of 
the vital organism, affecting all the internal condi- 
tions and outward actions of individuals; regulating 
and directing, too, all the sources of supply and 
causes of waste; influencing all that occasions 
pleasure or pain in the organic and in the mental 
domain; and lastly, governing and controlling 
every personal habit and social relation, is the 
most radical, ultra, and revolutionary system that 
has ever been introduced among men, if indeed we 
except the system announced to the world nearly 
1900 years ago, the philosophy of which also, was 
obedience to all law, and its practice comprehended 
in thia simple phrase: "Cease to do evil, and learn 
to do well." This system is not a "reform," as 
many suppose. It does not aim to improve the 
practice, correct the abuses, and mitigate the evils 
of other medical systems. It does not propose to 
amalgamate in any way with any of them ; nor to 
adopt them as auxiliaries ; nor yet to be adopted 
as auxiliary to them. It is opposed to them all, 
not only in theory but also in practice. It repudi- 
ates each and every one of their fundamental 
dogmas, as well as all their remedial agents. It is 
therefore a new system or science. It stands upon 
its own independent premises-Scientific Princi- 
ples. Its philosophy and its remedial agents, its 
theory and its practice, are not only unlike those of 
any other medical system, but are directly opposed 
to them. But as the other medical systems are es- 
tablished, as they already possess the minds of the 
ignorant masses, and are prevalent and popular, 
ours is not only radical and revolutionary, it is 
aggressive. > 
The physicians of the old systems, so long as 
they had the public confidence and the public 
patronage, were naturally content to let things re- 
main as they were. Conservatism was their policy. 
They sought no change, and least of all such a 
change as our system is bringing about. Why 
should they? Having had it all their own way, any 
advance, so far as they were concerned, would only 
be for the worse. But with us, the case has been 
very different. We have been, until recently, un- 
popular, and without reputation or patronage, 
comparatively. Our system has been unknown by 
most people, understood by very few, and con- 
demned by many; hence, we have sought change, 
and still seek to advance. 
And now what is the rationale of Hygeio-Ther- 
apy or Hygienic Medication ? And what is drug 
medication? And wherein do they differ? 
To understand these questions we must compre- 
hend what we are pleased to term first principles, 
especially must we know the nature of the thing, 
or condition, called disease, which they were in- 
tended to cure or direct and regulate-how induced 
and how removed. 
In a general sense, diseases are the consequences 
of unphysiological habits, conditions and circum- 
stances. Our bodies are built up and sustained, 
and the vital machinery kept in harmonious play 
in health, by the use of air, light, food, water, ex- 
ercise, rest, etc., which we call hygienic agencies 
or conditions. ) 
< All external nature and her modes "of motion, 
are the materials and conditions which the body 
uses in health conservation. If the air be viti- 
ated, the light defective, the food bad, the water 
impure, the exercise improper, the rest broken, 2 
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etc., or if any of the materials and conditions are 
deficient or in excess, obstructions occur. The cir- 
culation of blood is unbalanced, the nervous energy 
distribution is irregular, the organs become clogged, 
and diseases result. The cause of the disease is 
the misuse or abuse of these hygienic materials and 
conditions. If poison is taken into the system the 
result is similar. It is misuse or abuse. 
Now it is a plain and good sense, as well as a 
scientific proposition, that if wrong adaptation of 
these things occasions disease, right application of 
them will cure. Effects must follow causes. Im- 
proper habits and conditions induce disease. Proper 
conditions and doing right will remove it. What 
have we to do with drugs here ? They are the 
worst causes of disease. 
He is a knave or fool, who will, in this enlight- 
ened age, attempt to suppress or cure pain or 
disease with medicines or drugs, without making 
any effort to find out or remove the cause. The 
Quack only, is he, who promises to save the wrong- 
doer in his sins. ( \ 
The living system uses all of these agents and 
conditions in all of its processes, whether of health 
or disease. They are the elements of its force ma- 
terial. Its power may be exerted in appropriating 
food, air, water, etc., to the formation of blood and 
tissue, or in expelling noxious materials from the 
system. But all its power is derived from the same 
source-from these hygienic materials. Medical 
men tell us that stimulants will sustain the vital 
powers; that tonic drugs impart strength to the 
system. 
Never was there a greater mistake. And to this 
error, this mis-teaching of the medical profession, 
those fearful curses of our country-the sensual 
indulgence in alcohol, tobacco, opium, etc.-are 
to be attributed more than to all other causes com- 
bined. 
And it is seriously feared that the people will 
never be reformed of these vices until medical men 
revolutionize their doctrines. 
Stimulants, tonics, and the same is true of all 
poisons, call out the strength or power and waste 
it. They occasion vital resistance-defensive war 
so to speak-and this resistance, this disturbance, 
this disease, for disease it is, the doctor mistakes 
for augmentation of vital power. He might as 
well mistake a fever for remarkable vigor, or an 
inflammation for physiological action. And in- 
deed, he does make precisely these mistakes. He 
mistakes loss for gain. He mistakes power ex- 
pended for power acquired. He mistakes virtue 
passing out of the living system in a fight with his 
poison, for force imparted to the system by his 
drug. And on this error, this self-evident absurd- 
ity, this monstrous delusion, is built his whole 
materia medica. 
The horrid and abominable way in which some 
medical men of the drug school treat that simplest 
of all diseases, a fever, illustrates this error in a 
Bad light. A fever is an effort of nature to purify 
the system, and only requires regulating and direct- 
ing, that it may be successful. 
Many of the doctors bleed, blister, antiphlogis- 
ticate, mercurialize, narcotize, and stimulate un- 
til " the fever has run its course," which course 
would not have been half so long if left entirely 
alone. But at length the crisis comes ; "the fever 
turns," and "the patient is in danger of running 
down," so the doctor plies constantly his stimu- 
lants-alcoholic beverages with various narcotics 
and tonics. And they really believe that the wine 
and the brandy keep the patient from sinking. 
They actually think he could not live an hour were 
it not for the strength he receives from the alcoholic 
poison. This is the world's most fatal delusion. 
Every dose endangers the patient's life. Every 
particle prolongs the struggle and renders recovery 
less perfect. Every drop sinks the patient stilt 
lower, by calling out and wasting his- vitality. 
What does the patient need under such circum- 
stances ? Rest, simply rest, and nothing else. Af- 
ter the long struggle the organism is fatigued and 
needs quiet-Resting Sleep. It has perhaps success- 
fully accomplished its work of purification, in spite 
of th* doctor and his drugs, and now exhausted and 
weary nature demands a season of repose-a 
resting spell. The doctor, mistaking quiet for 
dying, and stimulation for increased vitality, will 
not let the patient rest. 
He stimulates him into disquiet again. 
He might as well try to prevent a well person 
fatigued with the trials of the day, from going to 
sleep when night comes, for fear of him "running 
down." He might as well apply the spur or lash 
to an over-jaded and exhausted horse in order to 
give him strength. 
He might cause immediate activity, but that 
would only diminish his strength, and this is just 
what he does to his patient, by stimulation in the 
latter stages of fevers. 
We have treated fevers for a score of years, and 
have never, under any circumstance, given a 
particle of stimulus, and the patients have all 
recovered; many of whom were given up to die by 
other physicians. 
Hygienic Medication, we repeat, proposes simply 
to employ the same materials to cure diseased 
persons that nature employs in the normal pro- 
cesses of health conservation. And why not ? 
If diseases are caused by the misuse or abuse of 
these materials, influences, relations, conditions, 
etc., or by the introduction of poisons, does it not 
follow, by irresistible logic, that their right use, 
and a removal of the poisons, is the natural, proper 
and scientific method of cure? In brief, as all 
diseases are caused by unphysiological conditions, 
all cure must be found in a return to the physio- 
logical conditions, or obedience to law. Well, how 
can this be done ? Certainly not by the administra- 
tion of poisons. These necessarily aggravate the 
abnormal conditions. Every drug and poison only 
adds to the burden nature has to bear. But it is 
the general opinion of medical men, that these 
remedies, these drugs, these poisons in some mys- 
terious way, counteract, neutralize, or overcome 
the disease, and so help nature get rid of it. This 
is just what we object to. This is precisely what 
they should not do. The disease is our friend. 
It is the remedial effort. It is the action which is 
to purify the system. It is the process which re- 
moves the poison. Surely this process should not 
be "neutralized," nor "counteracted," nor "sub- 
dued," nor even "cured." It should be regulated, 
not opposed, directed, not subdued. 
The True Healing Art, is radically different from 
a process of poisoning. The theory of medical 
books, and of most medical men, is that disease is 
an enemy, a something that attacks us from with- 
out; a something that gets into us in some myste 
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bleeding, vomiting, purging, sweating, etc., or 
killed within us by antidotes, chemicals or poisons. 
Fatal mistake. And they talk about giving med- 
icine to operate on the seat of disease. Another 
mistake. Disease has no seat. They might as well 
talk of circulation having a seat. Their blind, yet 
honest efforts, to unseat disease, have filled more 
graves prematurely, than all the wars, famine, and 
pestilence, of all the ages. 
Hygienic Medication supplies favorable condi- 
tions, so that the remedial process, the disease, 
may be successful in its work of purification. All 
healing power being inherent in the living system, 
neither drugs, nor even hygienic remedial agents, 
can impart to it any power or virtue. We are born 
with all the healing power we ever can have. 
When it is all expended that is the end of us- 
here. And our lives will be long and happy, or 
short and miserable, as we expend it judiciously or 
otherwise, wisely or ignorantly. 
We have intimated that the drug systems are 
false in principle, absurd in theory, and fatal in 
practice. Perhaps we ought to prove it. This 
we will now proceed to do by the best evidence the 
nature of the case admits of;. by testimony that no 
drug physician can gainsay, no scientist can but 
accept, and no thinking layman question. 
"As we place more confidence in Nature and 
less in preparations of the apothecary, mortality 
diminishes. Hygiene is of far more value in the 
treatment of diseases than drugs."-Prof. Parker, 
M. D.,of N. Y. 
"There has been a great increase of medical men 
of late, but upon my life, diseases have increased 
in proportion."-J. Abernethy, M. D., of London. 
"We have multiplied diseases and increased 
their mortality."-Prof. Benj. Rush, M. D., Phila- 
delphia. 
"I declare, as my conscientious conviction found- 
ed on long experience and reflection, that if there 
was not a single physician, surgeon, man-midwife, 
chemist, apothecary, druggist nor drug on the 
face of the earth, there would be less sickness and 
less mortality."-Prof. James Johnson, M. D., of 
London. 
"I wish not to detract from the exalted profes- 
sion to which I have the honor to belong, and 
which includes many of my warmest and most 
valued friends, yet I cannot be true to my con- 
science and withhold the acknowledgment of my 
firm belief, that the medical profession (with its 
prevailing mode of practice), is productive of 
vastly more evil than good, and were it absolutely 
abolished, mankind would be infinitely the gain- 
er."-Francis Cogswell, M. D., of Boston. 
"All of our curative agents are poisons, and as a 
consequence every dose diminishes the patient's 
vitality."-Prof. Alonzo Clark, M. D., ofN. Y. 
"Vitality once lost can never be regained. What 
is lost from the stock of life power can never be 
replaced. The system is weakened just so much 
as it has lost its vitality."-Prof. John C. Draper, 
M. D., of N. Y. 
"Every dose of medicine is a blind experiment 
upon the vitality of the patient."-Dr. Bostock, in 
History of Medicine. 
"No fever patients die except those who take 
stimulus."-Dr. Wilks, of Guy's Hospital, London. 
"The effect of hygienic treatment is so wonder- 
ful that those familiar with typhoid fever patients 
will not recognize them. By keeping the temper- 
ature below 103 degrees, the exacerbations are 
avoided, and the fever kept to a continuous re- 
mission ; the patients are never unconscious, never 
delirious; the tongue always remains moist and 
clean ; the bronchial catarrh is very light, also the 
diarrhoea, if any at all. There is no tympanites, no 
hemorrhage, no complications, and we have every 
reason to believe that the intestinal ulcerations do 
not occur at all. Under this treatment the course 
of typhoid fever is very mild and short, the con- 
valescence is very rapid, and the mortality none 
whatever."-Dr. Neftel, Physician to the Russian 
Imperial Guard, Crimean War. 
"The language of medical science is a barbarous 
jargon."-Dr. John Mason Good. 
The most accomplished scholar the Medical 
Profession has ever produced. 
"Ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts 
are medical lies; and medical doctrines are, for 
the most part, stark, staring nonsense."-Prof. 
Gregory, M. D., Edinburg, Scotland. 
"The popular medical system has neither philoso- 
phy nor common sense to commend it to confi- 
dence."-The learned Dr. Evans, F. R. 8., of Lon- 
don. 
"I have no faith whatever in medicine."-Dr. 
Baily, of London. 
"Medicine is a great humbug."-M. Magendie, 
M. D. 
The greatest Physiologist and Pathologist of 
France. 
"On baseless theories has grown up a system of 
routine and empirical practice."-Dr. Wakely, late 
Coroner of London, and Editor of the London Lan- 
cet. 
"A change in the theory of disease, which long 
since begun, but is not yet completed [which 
began with Dr. Trail], must profoundly affect the 
work of the physician of the future. Disease was 
formerly believed to be a something which had a 
sort of independent existence, and which went 
about over the earth seeking whom it might assail. 
When this something had entered the body of a 
man it created confusion in his internal economy, 
and order could not be restored Until the intruder 
was driven out. Accordingly, remedies none of 
the gentlest were vigorously applied until the dis- 
ease was scared away or the patient died. It is 
strange how universal among men this belief in a 
possession, an entrance of something into the body 
causing disease, has been. 
"This savage idea was long perpetuated among 
civilized people, and remedies were used which 
were hardly less absurd than the leapings, bowl- 
ings, and rattle-shakings of an Indian- medicine- 
man. The change has come very gradually. At 
first the student of medicine enlarged his field of 
study, from disease and its phenomena, until it in- 
cluded the structure and action of tissues and 
organs in health. Physiology and anatomy, of lit- 
tle importance in the old science of medicine, 
began to have recognized value. After this it was 
found that organs did not always become dis- 
ordered because of assaults from within the body, 
but that they were affected by external influences. 
" In was found that the organs must not 
only preserve equilibrium within the body, 
but that there must also be equilibrium be- 
tween the body and its externals." * * * 
* * * "The modern theories of evolution have 
done great things for medicine, and will do far 4 
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more in the future. They have put in action 
forces that may revolutionize medical science. 
Evolution has shown, as nothing else could, how 
profoundly animals are affected by their environ- 
ment, their food, habits, climate, etc., and, by 
showing how inevitable is the modification of 
structure in other animals, has called attention to 
the same facts in man's existence." 
"Men knew long-ago that animals were greatly 
affected by their surroundings, but this truth was 
far from being fully recognized until evolution re- 
affirmed it, and emphasized its affirmation by facts 
which could not be passed by. Thus man was led 
to ask, 'What application have these principles to 
my own habits of life, to my well-being ? To 
what extent are my diseases induced and fostered 
by external conditions ?' The reply to these inquir- 
ies is found in sanitary science, in health officers 
ahd boards of health, and we have as yet only the 
beginning of the answer. Sanitary science, 
though in its infancy, has already profoundly af- 
fected medical science in many directions. Per- 
haps the most important effect that as yet appears 
is the leading of medicine away from its old, blind, 
absolute faith in remedial agents, in therapeutics, 
toward greater faith in right living, proper diet, 
dress, and drainage." * * * "So long as it is 
less trouble to take quinine than to clear out drain 
or cess-pool, so long as men prefer swallowing 
drugs to abstaining from favorite articles of food, 
or regulating personal habits, so long must the 
medical advisers of a community find their best ef- 
forts to advance sound sanitary science thwarted. 
It will be a long and tedious task-this of educa- 
ting out of the popular mind this strange passion 
for dosing ; but herein lies one of the most impor- 
tant tasks of the physician of the future. If he 
does his work well, he must be strong enough and 
determined enough to stem a powerful current of 
deeply rooted prejudice and self-indulgent un- 
reasonableness; but, if he and his fellows only 
persevere, they will do incalculable good. So diffi- 
cult is this work that many shrink from it. They 
admit the importance of fresh air in hospitals, nay, 
they demand it, but in their private practice they 
say littfe about ventilation.. They are careful that 
their prescriptions shall be' properly compounded 
and regularly taken, but they are much less careful 
about the diet of their patients. They treat 
zymotic diseases, but do not enforce such sanitary 
regulations as they know to be necessary. I do 
not say that all are open to this charge-not all, 
but some-and there should be none. With all 
earnestness would I plead that the people be taught 
how to live, and I would urge this not only for the 
sake of the people, but for that of the doctors as 
well. It is evident that their success as healers of 
disease must be far greater if their patients observe 
hygienic laws than if they do not. * * * The 
relief of suffering, which is commonly thought to be 
the chief mission of the physician, is indeed a great 
and noble work, but I believe that he may do a 
higher and grander work. There are a pathology 
and a morbid anatomy, not of the body only, but 
of the moral nature as well.. Many physical dis- 
orders are also moral and mental, and can only be 
rightly treated as this is understood. If it be 
true that men are not only more comfortable and 
happy when well than when ill, but that they are 
better morally, a new and most important field of 
trefulnees is opened before the physician. If a 
well man, other things being equal, is a better 
man than a sick one, more certain to act wisely, to 
judge candidly and fairly, and live rightly-if a 
well man is of more worth in every way than a 
sick one-then all that has been said of the need 
and the value of hygienic instruction has added 
force. I do not for a moment forget the many 
heroic natures that have been grand enough to 
rise above bodily pain and feebleness, and with 
pathetic earnestness have sought to do some good 
work for the world, and have sent forth from their 
chambers of suffering golden words, melodious, 
heart-stirring verses, helpful soul-inspiring thoughts. 
And yet we need to recognize the fact that good is 
more certain to come from health than from dis- 
ease. Pain may have its mission, physical and 
moral, and may bring out the richness and sweet- 
ness of a character as nothing else can, but in and 
for itself it is not desirable, and it can not be 
doubted that a community that is sound physically 
will be more sound morally than it could be if 
harassed by pain and weakness. I believe there is 
such a thing as sin in the world, and I would not 
call it a disease for which man is not responsible ; 
but none the less do I believe that physical dis- 
order, that sickness and pain, morbid conditions 
of the body .causing morbid conditions of the 
mind, may and do lie at the foundation of very 
much that we call crime. " - Prof. Geo. 11. 
Perkins, M. D., University of Vermont. 
"It will probably require a generation of doc- 
tors, brought up under better conditions of culture 
and practice to wholly sweep away the old savage 
theory and barbarous practice. The conditions 
are growing up around us, however, and their in- 
fluence will be all-prevading before long. The 
intercommunication of scientific thought plays 
here a most important part, and the union of sci- 
entific minds is, or ought to be organic, but owing 
to the bigotry and ignorance of the profession, on 
public sympathy the sanitary physician has mainly 
to rely for support."-John Tyndall, F. 11. S., L L. 
D., M. D. 
"The national necessities as the basis of national 
education are first and foremost these, that 
although in the early days of youth the simple 
elementary educational practices of learning to 
read, to write, and to calculate, are necessities for 
the time, they are comparatively valueless unless 
combined with further necessities of a physical 
kind, namely: sound" and systematical muscular 
training ; freedom of breathing and circulation of 
the blood ; practical training, so that the body can 
be structurely built up and sustained in health; 
preparation for all duties requiring precision, de- 
cision, presence of mind and endurance ; and read- 
iness to acquire any craft or handicraft that may 
bring a useful living ; in a word, an education that 
shall bring the mental and physical qualities of 
every person into faithful harmony and good-will. 
We urge that without this symmetrical education 
there can be no beauty, there can be no health."- 
B. IK. Richardson, M. D., F. 11. 8. 
"Nervous diseases and weaknesses increase in a 
country as the people come to live on the flesh of 
warm-blooded animals. Meat is highly stimula- 
ting, and the meat-eater lives at high pressure. It is 
the cause of most of the ills to which highly civilized 
and luxurous classes are liable."-London Lancet. 
"Diseases must be treated in conformity with 
natural laws and by men and women who under- THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
5 
stand what those laws are. " - Popular Science 
Monthly. 
"In all fevers [and fever is a type of all diseases 
or remedial effort] ascribed to a malarial origin, 
the success of the conventional mode of treatment 
depends chiefly upon the efficacy of chemical anti- 
septics which temporarily suppress or palliate the 
symptoms of the disease, but (aside from the dele- 
terious after-effects of such drugs), the disease 
itself [the patient he means] can be cured only by 
the removal of the cause, [with natural remedial 
agents.]"-Felix L. Oswald, M. D. 
"The conclusion forced on us is, that the pursuit 
of individual happiness within those limits pre- 
scribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to 
the attainment of the greatest general happiness. 
To see this it needs but to contrast one whose self- 
regard has maintained bodily well-being, with one 
whose regardlessness of nature's health laws, has 
brought its natural results, and then ask what 
must be the contrast between two societies formed 
of two such kinds of individuals." 
"Boundingout of bed after an unbroken sleep, 
singing or whistling as he dresses, coming down 
with beaming face, ready to laugh on the smallest 
provocation, the healthy man of high powers, 
conscious of past success, and by his energy, 
quickness, resource, made confident of the future, 
enters on the day's business not with repugnance 
but with gladness ; and from hour to hour experi- 
encing satisfactions from work effectually done, 
comes home with an abundant surplus of energy 
remaining for hours of relaxation, recreation, 
social, mental and moral development. Far other- 
wise is it with one who is enfeebled by great neg- 
lect of self." [Errors in diet, want of proper ex- 
ercise, neglect of bathing, persistence in the 
son habit," in some one or all of its hideous forms- 
tobacco, alcohol, opium, quack medicines, mineral 
drugs, etc., etc.] - Herbert Spencer's Data of 
Ethics. 
Oar hearers may be pardoned for being a little 
startled at this array of testimony from the bright 
and shining lights of the profession against the 
whole drug system-this pungent and unqualified 
condemnation of its whole theory, and nearly all 
of its practice. 
These are individual opinions, which could be 
extended to fill a large volume ; and as no one of 
them is authorized to speak for the rest, we will 
let the profession itself speak. The American 
Medical Association in convention assembled, a 
few years ago, adopt and record the following con- 
fession and declaration: 
"It is wholly incontestable that there exists a 
wide-spread dissatisfaction with the old systems of 
medical practice. Multitudes of people in this 
country and Europe express an utter want of con- 
fidence in physicians and their physic. The cause 
is evident; erroneous theory and springing from it 
injurious and very often fatal practice. Nothing 
will now subserve the absolute requisitions of an in- 
telligent community, but a medical doctrine 
grounded upon right reason, in harmony with and 
avouched by the unerring laws of Nature and of the 
vital organism, and authenticated and confirmed 
by successful results." i 
False in theory and fatal in practice. These ob- 
jections and charges are rather serious indeed. Is it 
surprising that we all should become skeptical ? Is it 
.. ny wonder that millions in all countries are de- 
manding a rational and good sense system ? To 
meet this demand the profession are everywhere 
adopting our system, but only as they are forced to 
by the overwhelming demand of an outraged peo- 
ple. As an evidence of this the Michigan State 
Allopathic Medical Society, in convention at Bat- 
tle Creek in June, 1877, adopt and record the re- 
port of a committee that-"Hygeio-Therapy or 
Hygienic Medication is strictly Scientific and Reg- 
ular." 
Hygeio-Therapy is a new and exact science. Hy- 
gienic Medication is the true "Healing Art 
Divine." There can be no art that is not based, 
upon the recognition of scientific principles, and 
there can be no science that is not founded upon, 
demonstrable Laws of Nature. 
Laws of Nature, which the dictionaries can only 
define as inherent tendencies, can be nothing more 
or less than the methods of action or the modes of 
motion of Matter. Our system rests upon the re- 
monstrated Laws of Nature, which are manifested 
through and which control and govern the vital 
organism, constituting all the Laws of Vitality or 
Life. 
Hence it is a complete and perfect and all-suffi- 
cient system, and can only be improved by the dis- 
covery of some new law of life, or force of Nature. 
It brings the system under all known laws of Life 
and Health. It supplies all the conditions which 
nature requires, and removes all the impediments 
in the way of her successful efforts. And what 
more can mortal ask ? 
But you may inquire; "will hygienic agents 
cure all cases that drugs seem to cure?" They 
will, and many that drugs do not seem to 
cure. We cure all curable cases. The 
ordinary causes of disease, left entirely alone, 
with no medication of any kind, would not de- 
stroy the human race half so fast, nor induce half 
so many lingering and chronic diseases, as do the 
ordinary remedies (?) given to combat, counteract 
or cure them. Of course, then, we charge, most 
distinctly and emphatically, that society has re- 
ceived more evil than good from the medical pro- 
fession. 
We are not alone in this opinion, as you have 
perceived by the foregoing testimony. * It is the 
belief of the best minds of the age, and of the most 
intelligent half of all civilized communities. But 
let our position here be fairly understood. We do not 
charge that physicians, as men, are bad. We 
must do the profession the justice to say that, in 
all ages, its ranks have been distinguished and 
ennobled by the brightest scholars ; by the gifted 
sous of genius ; by patriots and philanthropists. 
We have no quarrel with medical men. Our 
controversy is with principles, or rather dogma 
and general ignorance. We concede, the mem- 
bers of the medical profession are generally intel- 
ligent ; and that they do as well for society as is 
possible to be done with such a system (and this 
will apply to the clerical and legal or governmental 
professions equally well). But their system is a 
wrong one, and society would be infinitely better 
off with none at all, just as blank ignorance is less 
evil than positive error. The only advantage 
that could have been derived from it,-is in this 
light that "humanity can only know the right by 
suffering the wrong." The only way now for the 
profession to redeem itself, is to adopt our 
Rational Method. But we wish to make one 6 
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
■point clear, that there is no virtue in any drug 
medicine "whatever, nor, indeed, in remedial 
agents of any kind. This has been the chief 
obstacle in the way of the advancement of true 
medical science; and it is the stumbling-block that 
now meets us everywhere in our endeavors to lead 
the people to think, reason and understand for 
themselves. Almost every person is fully in- 
doctrinated in the notion that virtue dwells iu the 
things outside of the domain of organic life ; that 
medicines or remedial agents cure diseases or dis- 
eased persons; that they impart something desir- 
able to the living system ; or that they act, in 
some mysterious way, on disease itself-an errone- 
ous theory which, as we have already intimated, 
is the foundation for nearly all the bad habits in 
society. This false doctrine has grown with our 
growth and strengthened with our strength. The 
people have been educated into it, or it into them, 
for many centuries. They may, almost, be said to 
be born with it. They certainly are bred in it; 
and it seems to be now a part of their very being. 
And when we attack it, they often regard us as 
having given a personal insult. People do not 
easily let go long-cherished opinions, even after 
their absurdity has been abundantly demonstrated. 
All of us know how hard it is to shake off the preju- 
dices of early education, and to rise above the 
trammels of confirmed habits of thought. There 
are but two ways of educating the public mind. 
One consists in exposing error ; the other in pre- 
senting truth. But how to do one and not the 
other is a perplexing question. •' 
We can only know truth and error by the con- 
trast. And right here let us say again that when 
we tell you we have a better and a true system of 
the healing art, we do not wish to be understood as 
proposing a substitute for any other system. 
Truth is no substitute for a falsehood. Right is 
no substitute for wrong. We propose simply to 
supersede all other systems. Three fourths of the 
physicians, even now, are ready to adopt it, and 
try to practice it, if the people only knew enough 
to demand it. It is a part of our mission to create 
such a demand. Public sentiment makers, if you 
please, we have been for twenty years. Hence, 
we are working for physicians as well as all hu- 
manity. 
A patient, of a class whose name is legion, often 
comes to us full of aches and pains. He is neu- 
ralgic all over, and dyspeptic all through, and ner- 
vous all under. His condition is a puzzle to him- 
self and to all the doctors. He has tried this, that 
and the other nostrum, all of which have "done 
him no good." He then tries it awhile without 
drugs, but still grows no better very fast. At 
length he gets, from some source, the idea that 
cold water is a great substitute for cold calomel; 
takes a shower-bath that almost strangles him ; 
sits down in a sitz-bath till he is chilled half to 
death ; takes a steam-bath till he is parboiled ; 
leaves off tobacco, does not eat any meat, but 
absolutely gormandizes on mush and milk with 
sugar, and takes in graham bread and vegetables 
as though his stomach was a mere reservoir, and 
the next morning wonders why he is not well ! 
Poor man ! Little, perhaps, does he dream that 
he has a job of months or years before him. He 
supposed the virtue was in the things outside of 
himself-in the water, cracked wheat, potatoes 
and squashes; and so he applied them vigorously, 
in' order to get virtue transformed from them to 
himself as rapidly as possible. "A little learning 
is a dangerous thing," and so he is killing himself 
in order to get vital power out of something else. 
But let us go back and investigate his case, and 
see what really ails him. Years ago he had a "bil- 
ious attack." The doctors were consulted, who ad- 
ministered a few doses of "blue pill." His mouth 
was slightly affected-salivated-but this he did 
not regard as anything important. In a few days 
he was about. The doctor pronounced him cured; 
and he has not seen a well day since. He has now 
an idea that the calomel, in some way, did him 
great damage; and yet he thinks it saved his life 
by killing his disease, which otherwise might have 
killed him. Thus, he is falsely taught. Here is 
his mistake and his physician's delusion. The 
calomel damaged him precisely to the extent that 
it killed his disease. The "bilious attack" has 
been superseded by a mercurial disease. And this 
poison is now corroding his vitals ; while he im- 
agines almost everything else to be the cause of 
his troubles. This drug-mercury-is very diffi- 
cult to get out of the system. It is often a process 
of years. The doses taken in a single day have 
often rendered a whole life miserable. Some au- 
thors think it can not be gotton out of the system 
at all. Prof. E. S. Carr, M. D., of Albany and 
New York City colleges, testifies: "Mercury, 
when administered in any form, is taken into the 
circulation and carried to every tissue of the body. 
The effects of mercury are not for a day, but for 
all time. It often lodges in the bones, occasioning 
pains years after. I have often detected in pa- 
tients' bones after death this subtile, poisonous 
agent." 
The Galvano-Thermal bath has dislodged it, in 
some cases, from the joints and dense tissues so 
that it could be detected in the bottom of the tub. 
Calomel, in the system, is often changed to cor- 
rosive sublimate, producing sudden death. The 
intelligent person knowing this fact, can not be 
induced to swallow mercury in any form. 
And now what says Science in relation to 
Hygieo-Therapy or Hygienic Medication ? The 
fundamental principles of the science of health- 
conservation and of a successful healing art are : 
1st. A correct theory of life and health; 2d. The 
essential nature of disease; 3d. The rationale of the 
different forms of disease; 4th. The relations of 
dead and living matter; 5th. The modus operandi, 
or properly the rationale of the effects of remedial 
agents; 6th. Rationale of the different classes of 
so-called medicines, properly, disease causes; 7th. 
Relation of >einedial agents, and all external ob- 
jects, to the living organism, in health or disease. 
SEVEN BASIC PRINCIPLES. • 
1st. Life or vitality is the aggregate of the 
peculiar properties of the three classes of -living 
tissue - muscular, organic-nervous and cerebro- 
spinal nervous-conjoint motion of all parts of the 
vital machinery. Motion or action of muscular 
tissue is contractillity ; of organic-nervous tissue is 
irritability; and of cerebro-spinal nervous tissue is 
sensibility. The sum of these properties consti- 
tutes the living principle. Reduced to an ultimate 
analysis, all the functions of the human body, are 
just three-feeling, action and thought. The or- 
ganism is endowed with the power of growth or 
development-the ability to transform usable ele- THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
7 
ments into its own structure ; to resist, reject and 
expel non-usable things ; and to take cognizance of 
all objects and relations. The great error of med- 
icists, chemists, physiologists and metaphysicians 
has consisted in confounding vitality with spirit or 
soul on the one hand, or merging it into chemical 
affinity on the other. It is neither the one or the 
other. Health is the normal play of the whole 
machinery of life; and in the true sense-the 
deepest, the broadest and the highest light-is 
synonymous with happiness or goodness. 
2d. Nature of disease. Health being the result 
of strict obedience to all the laws of Nature, di- 
sease can be nothing more or less than the result 
of disobedience, of the individual, his parents or 
society to some one, many or all of those laws, 
as the laws of Nature are ever operative and 
unchangeable. The great misfortune of the race 
consists in not perceiving that the same laws are 
operating in sickness as in health, in happiness as 
in misery, in sin as in goodness. Error is truth in 
disguise, or the misrelation or abuse of truth. 
Evil is the false relation of things intrinsically 
good, as a lie is the malposition or false relation of 
the data of a true statement. Sickness, disease, 
disorder, is the abuse or misrelation of the condit- 
ions of health, order and harmony. There is no 
possibility of dosing away the consequences of dis- 
obedience-evil doing. On this blind belief the 
human race is fast going to perdition in all con- 
ceivable ways. To recognize this universal reign 
of law is to perceive the utter futility of lawlessness, 
the impossibility of escaping consequences and the 
grandeur and beauty of obedience, righteousness or 
Godliness. Disease is the effort of the system to 
overcome the effects of wrong-doing, and to get 
back to the normal state. 
3d. The rationale of the different forms of dis- 
ease. As all diseases, aside from mental impressions 
and mechanical injuries, are caused by obstructions 
to harmonious action-poisons ; engendered within 
the body by retained excretions or imbibed from 
without-in food, water* and air-it follows that 
the same poisons produce all the different diseases, 
dependent in form, type and diathesis, upon pecu- 
liarities of constitution, temperament and habits of 
life. What causes simple fever in one may in an- 
other, more gross in habits, etc., produce the "fatal 
typhoid," or, in others, develop pleurisy, rheuma- 
tism, dyspepsia, catarrh, consumption, etc., etc. 
All diseases are correlated, and, although they 
may require very different treatment, the true 
physician well knows they only differ as types of 
the same species. If the blood is impure the sys- 
tem chooses, with seeming capriciousness, various 
strategems of remedial warfare. Thaft part which 
seems to the system, as well as mere instinct can 
judge, to be the outlet for the impurities that can 
be used with the least wear and tear is selected, 
and this remedial warfare will be successful or not, 
as the effort is guided and directed by the judg- 
ment of the skillful physician. The germ theory 
of contagious diseases does not alter this doctrine. 
If the germs are introduced into a comparatively 
healthy system, they are expelled through the ex- 
cretory organs without any manifestation of disease, 
but if the system is impure in blood and every 
tissue, the disease will be manifested in the usual 
forms, according to the foregoing philosophy. 
4th. The relations of living and dead matter. 
The primary fallacy, and fundamental cause of all 
medical dogmas, is the nonsensical belief that dead 
matter-medicine, drugs and poisons-acts on living 
matter in their relation to each other. True science 
teaches, and it requires only a very small amount 
of good sense, untrammeled by medical sophism, to 
perceive, that the action is everywhere and always 
on the other side. The living system only acts, 
dead matter is acted upon-is passive and quies- 
cent everywhere in relation to living. Hence the 
so-called modus operandi is a strange and absurd 
delusion handed down from the dark ages without 
question or investigation. There are just three 
kinds of primary action or modes of motion, in 
matter-mechanical, chemical and vital. Mechan- 
ical action relates to the position or motion of 
bodies in bulk, living or dead, subject to the laws 
of gravitation, attraction, repulsion, etc. Chemi- 
cal action relates to combination and separation of 
the particles or elements of inorganic matter- 
molecular motion. Vital action transforms usidde 
things, expels non-usable substances and takes cog- 
nizance of all nature-objects and relations. It is 
formation and disintegration. Or action, feeling 
and thought-education. Air, water, food, etc., 
are used, and all poisons are resisted and expelled. 
This is the true philosophy of use and abuse; 
the distinction between food and poison, the line 
of demarcation between chemistry and physiology, 
and between physiology and pathology. There is 
therefore no chemical action in living structures, 
nor vital action in drugs or chemicals. All drugs, 
medicines and chemicals are toxicological agents or 
disease causes. 
6th. The rationale of the different classes of 
so-called medicine-properly disease causes. One 
class of poisons the system can best eject by vomit- 
ing, these are called emetics ; another by purging, 
cathartics; another through the kidneys, diuretics; 
another by the lungs, expectorants; and those 
that are thrown off through the blood vessels and 
skin, stimulants, etc., etc. And why the stomach 
or the kidneys, etc ? Because of a similar mo- 
lecular arrangement between each organ and the 
medicine that is said to have a special affinity for 
it. There is an affinity, for instance, between cal- 
omel and the liver, but no union can take place 
between their elements until the liver is dead- 
until it destroys itself in the struggle to maintain 
its integrity. This struggle of the liver is repug- 
nance for that class of drugs, and an effort to pro- 
tect itself, which medical men mistake for action 
of the calomel. And this is true of the other 
organs and parts, the efforts of the system to expel 
poisons through the various channels, are mistaken 
for action of the drugs on those organs and parts. 
This is how the doctors come to have different 
classes of medicines. The most formidable objec- 
tion that has ever been brought against this theory 
is the action in, or the effects of, cauterization. 
It is urged that, as caustics applied to the body 
occasion rapid decomposition of the tissues, the 
drugs must in these cases, act on the system ; for, 
it is asked, would the living system destroy itself ? 
Is that remedial effort which destroys the tissue 
and results in death ? We answer "remedial effort" 
or action is not necessarily successful in always 
accomplishing its purpose or task it was meant by 
the system to perform. The body aims to rid it- 
self of the enemy; to remove the abnormal and 
offending material. It may wear itself out in the 
struggle. It may die in the attempt. It must 8 
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
oppose and war upon whatever is injurious, what- 
ever is incompatible with its functions, so long as 
they are present and it lives, otherwise it could 
not be vital. The several stages of the pathologi- 
cal vital action of cauterization are : 1st, determi- 
nation of blood to the part; 2d, suppuration or 
formation of pus; 3d, disorganization ; 4th, death, 
if the cautery is not removed, and, if removed, 
granulation or healing and cicatrization. All this 
is vital action. And this is precisely the distinc- 
tion between living and dead matter. The living 
will not tolerate the presence of the dead. ■*' 
7th. The relation of truly re,medial agents-all 
external objects and relations to the living organ- 
ism in health or disease. As all conserving and 
healing power is inherent in the living system, 
there is no virtue in anything or condition outside 
and independent of the body. The living system 
takes cognizance of and uses all nature, according 
to its various wants. Objects or modes of motion 
do not, as is universally believed, make impress- 
ions upon us, but we, through the five senses, take 
cognizance of them. "Our sensations, our pleas- 
ures, our pains and the relations of these make up 
the sum total of the elements of positive unquest- 
ionable knowledge." The sense of taste is the 
recognition of the peculiar molecular arrangement 
of food, etc., and if unperverted for several gener- 
ations, would be a sure guide in selection of food. 
The sense of smell is also recognition of molecular 
arrangement and motion. The sense of sight is a 
cognizance of objects, etc;-The sense of hearing is 
a cognizance of modes of motion, and they may all 
be summed up in the sense of feeling or cerebro- 
spinal nervous action-sensation. Sensation then 
is the equivalent in terms of consciousness for a 
mode of motion of the matter of the cerebro-spinal 
center-the sensorium. You may ask, "What is 
matter, motion and mind ? " Huxley says : "All 
that we know about motion is that it is a name for 
certain changes in the relations of our visual, 
tactile and muscular sensations ; and all that we 
know about matter is that it is the hypothetical 
substance of physical phenomena-the assumption 
of the existence of which is as pure a piece of 
metaphysical speculation as that of the substance 
of mind." You may ask again, "What is the drift 
of all this ? " and say " it only shows the emptiness 
and uselessness of metaphysical speculation." We 
answer, certainly it does; but, pardon us, you were 
profoundly ignorant, and you did not know it. On 
the contrary, you thought you knew a great deal, 
and were quite satisfied with the particularly ab- 
surd notions of the dead past. You thought that 
your sensations, your emotions, your aspirations, 
your inspirations, were properties of external 
things or beings that had an existence outside of 
yourself, together with many other absurdities. 
We have just learned enough to know that we 
know scarcely anything compared with what is 
beyond. Let us make a desert of that which is not 
demonstrated, and begin peacefully to explore it 
by the scientific and obedient or religious method. 
Evolved from these first principles we have 
twelve rules or laws of health conservation ; and 
as the same laws operate in sickness as in health, 
the same number of truly remedial agents and 
conditions: Air, Light, Temperature, Exercise, 
Food, Water, Rest, Sleep, Clothing, Electricity, 
Passional Propensities, and Mental and Moral 
Influences. ~ 
♦TWELVE RULES OF HEALTH. 
First-Air. Health is enjoyed and life perpetu- 
ated, just in proportion to the breathing capacity. 
The first and most important necessity of life- 
pure aii-is composed of oxygen, nitrogen, ozone, 
and a small amount of carbonic acid gas. Air once 
properly breathed, without any constriction of the 
handles of the bellows, the abdominal muscles, by 
tight lacing, or without the instinctive contraction 
of the lungs, to keep out the smoke and- dust of 
tobacco, opium and other poisons, has lost the chief 
part of its oxygen-the blood purifier and food 
assimilator, and acquired a proportionate increase 
of carbonic acid gas, which is a poison ; therefore, 
vigorous health requires that we breathe an 
abundance of pure air, and that only once, or a 
fresh supply for each inhalation. To secure this 
air supply, ventilation is becoming an important 
science. Motion is the first law of Nature. Every- 
thing in Nature is accomplished by motion. Motion 
or action is life. Stagnation is death. Motion is 
the soul of the universe; therefore, the fundamental 
principle of ventilation is motion or agitation of the 
air. San Francisco is the best naturally ventilated 
city on the continent. If it were not thus venti- 
lated by nature, Chinatown and other abominations 
would produce as severe a penalty for violated law 
as is suffered in southern cities, in the form of 
yellow fever, cholera, small-pox or the plague. 
Cities and towns should be so situated that nature 
could ventilate them, and those not so situated, if 
they become foul, should be artificially ventilated. 
Streets should be wide, and narrow blind alleys 
and air-tight back-yards, should be a thing of the 
past dark ages, in any civilized community. The 
air of heaven, full charged with oxygen and ozone, 
should be entirely free from dust, filth and disease 
germs, and kept so by a free use of water, earth 
and other disinfectants, upon every spot where 
those causes of disease may otherwise arise. It is 
the duty of physicians to instruct those in authority 
-the servants of the people-how to establish such 
regulations, for the common good. * , 
House ventilation is accomplished in'a scientific 
manner by the improved Boswell Heater (manu- 
factured and for sale by the author.) Deflected 
hot air, in circulation and motion, with escape for 
carbonic acid gas and other impurities, and inlet for 
pure air, automatically heated. The air is not de- > 
oxidized by contact with red-hot cast-iron, and I 
carbonic oxide or carbon de oxide, (which passes I 
through red-hot «ast-iron as water through a sieve)' 
is prevented escape, by the stove being made of 
heavy wrought iron. The following from "Butler's 
Ventilationof Buildings" is to the point: 
"Before Heave this part of my subject, I willmen- 
tion one other difficulty in the way of ventilation, 
and this by no means a small one-I mean the cost. 
Although efficient ventilation will not cost a very 
large sum per room it cannot be denied that some- 
what will be added to the expense of the house, and 
this * somewhat ' the speculative builder never will 
add until he finds that intending tenants and 
purchasers refuse to take houses which are not 
properly ventilated. 
"As with houses, so with other buildings and 
works; if we make up our minds to ventilate them, 
we must also resolve to pay for it. 
"I fear that even persons who build houses for 
their own occupation are but little in advance of 
the speculative builder, as far as any recognition ol THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OP LIPE. 
9 
the absolute necessity of efficient is 
concerned. Many hold to such crude devices as 
open windows and doors, others think a hole of any 
size or in any part of the wall quite sufficient, 
while, I believe, a majority ignore the whole ques- 
tion. 
"It then becomes the duty of scientific men and 
bodies, to educate the public up to the recognition 
of the fact that ventilation is every whit as impor- 
tant as drainage to individual houses, and that man 
can no more live in a foul atmosphere than he can 
while constantly drinking poisonons water. 
"Ventilation is a want arising chiefly from mod- 
ern ways and customs, and is, therefore a compara- 
tively new branch of science, and we owe our 
present knowledge of the subject especially to 
modern researches and discoveries." 
Decomposing vegetable and animal matter yields 
miasma and various noxious gases and germs, to 
befoul the air, which enter the body through the 
lungs and by absorption corrupting the blood and 
tissue; therefore, we should avoid malarial dis- 
tricts (or plant eucalyptus trees, drain and venti- 
late the soil, and use some means of protection 
from the lancets of mosquitoes etc., which I have 
long thought the most potent source of malaria), 
and disinfect every doubtful spot about the dwell- 
ing, observing strict domestic cleanliness. Old 
carpets, papered walls, questionable beds, bedding, 
etc., are believed to be prolific sources of disease 
germs; therefore, we should have fine hardwood 
mled floors in all working, living or sleepingrooms, 
whenever practicable, and only the best wood, 
paper, cork, oil-cloth or Brussels carpet when 
necessary, the woven wire-spring bed with cotton 
or curled hair top mattress, and scrupulously clean 
linen and blankets. All walls should be hard fin- 
ished, painted and varnished. 
In diseases of the lungs and air passages, the 
result of defective and bad breathing, the remedial 
plan consists, first of all, in breathijig pure air at 
all times as near as possible, and at stated intervals 
to take deep, full inhalations with gentle percus- 
sions of the chest, and prolonged and forcible ex- 
halations. This simple practice alone under the 
supervision of a skillful physician has been known 
to cure catarrh, ministers' sore throat, indigestion, 
constipation, mal-assimilation and even consump- 
tion. 
"The Medicinal Oxygen Inhalations," com- 
posed of oxygen, nitrogen and ozone, has worked 
wonders in all cases of defective breathing, mal- 
assimilation, head, throat, lung and nerve affections 
and brain or mental derangements. 
What is the modus operandi of thk wonderful 
remedial agent, or more properly the philosophy of 
its remedial effects? The chemical or "combus- 
tion " theory is exploded, all popular writers 
(and even some one in the foremost health journal 
- The Science of Health) to the contrary notwith- 
standing. 
"There is no chemistry in living structures," 
hence the absurdity of the following, by J. S. C., 
in Phrenological Journal, Dec. '78, perhaps the 
only incorrect sentence in the whole admirable 
article: "The blood also contains in varying pro- 
portions the waste and effete products of vital 
action, which are poured into it by the lymphatic 
system or are absorbed directly through the walls 
of the capillaries, and is a necessary factor in the 
prod-uction of animal heat, carrying oxygen to 
every part of the bpdy to bum up the worn-out 
particles of matter and thus maintain the temper- 
ature necessary for healthy vital action." 
By looking a little deeper into first principles of 
physiology, the following will be perceived to be 
true: 
Air-not oxygen-but air composed of oxygen, 
nitrogen, and ozone, is taken into the system via 
the lungs, on the same principle as food and water 
via the stomach, by the same law of nature-de- 
mand by vacuity-hunger, to be used by the sys- 
tem in its work of formation and disintegration- 
all vital action. 
Instead of "animal heat" being the result of 
burning, it is produced by friction or the arrest of 
motion. Heat is a mode of motion. Motion is the 
soul of the universe. The motive power of the cir- 
culation, therefore, is not the result of the chemical 
union of oxygen with the carbonaceous impurities 
in the blood, but it is the evaporation of water, 
caused by the arrest of motion-friction, which pro- 
duces heat to generate the steam-the heart being 
the balance wheel of the machinery of Life, and not 
the engine as generally supposed. 
Reduced to an ultimate analysis, life itself is but 
a "mode of motion." Its duration will be long or 
short as the machinery is kept in working order. 
The life is the soul. We make no attempt to 
analyze the spirit. Of this, and what becomes of 
us after death, no mortal man can know. 
The excretion of carbonic acid gas is a vital 
action or process, as is the excretion of perspiration, 
urine, feces, and bile. Air (natural, or artificial, 
in form of medicinal oxygen inhalations) is not a 
stimulant or sedative in the drug medical sense, 
but truly invigorating nourishment-hence de- 
serves to stand at the head of the list of normal 
remedial agents, as the great blood purifier. 
Second-Light. The influence from the parent 
of the earth with all its life, the sun, exerts a 
power unequaled upon the growth, vigor, and de- 
velopment of man, animals, and plants. Therefore 
our dwellings should admit it freely and our lives 
be as much as possible in the glorious sunlight. 
If we have been confined to dark, damp, gloomy 
abodes, dungeons, cellars, mines, etc., and become 
diseased, we should take sun baths. Paralysis, 
rheumatism, indigestion, constipation, and general 
torpidity, as well as inflammation, nervousness, 
insanity, and general irritability are remarkably 
amenable to this treatment, as an important part 
of the rational remedial plan. 
There is no danger of sun-stroke if our habits of 
eating, drinking, exercising, working, etc., are 
correct, and if our animal propensities are under 
control. Concentrated sun rays, local and general 
baths, are useful in some cases. 
The solar-ray, in surgery, for removing cancers, 
tumors, birth-marks, India ink, and all abnormal 
growths and discolorations of the skin is used with 
remarkable success. 
Third - Temperature. Warmth sufficient to 
maintain the normal standard of the body is neces- 
sary for all its functions; therefore, health depends 
upon an equilibrium, which should be maintained 
by exercise, clothing, and fire. The necessary 
warmth for dwellings is best produced by the ven- 
tilating heater above mentioned. If the balance 
of action and temperature of the body is lost, indi- 
cated by cold extremities, congestions, inflamma- 
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THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia, mal-assimila- 
tion, etc., the thermo-electric bath is the best 
equalizer and warmer. Temperature applications, 
general or local, are accomplished with water and 
various other substances also, as well as by warm 
air and steam. Every degree of temperature from 
ice to steam is useful in some cases. The universal 
rule of practice is "Balance the temperature," 
hence, must follow, equalized circulation of blood, 
and regular distribution of nervous energy, and 
following this, purification of blood and tissue, by 
all depurating organs resulting in health-normal 
vital action. 
Fourth-Exercise. It is through exercise that 
we grow in every department of our nature, physio- 
logically, intellectually and morally, or from a 
want of it that we decay and die. Physical exer- 
cise warms, invigorates and purifies the body, 
mental exercise develops all the faculties, moral 
exercise-doing good for the sake of truth and hu- 
manity-develops the whole being.- 
Nothing is so essential to health, which in the 
true sense is happiness, as goodness, and nothing 
will save us from perdition if we are selfish, mean, 
sensual, low and groveling, and persist in being so; 
therefore to maintain perfect health, we must exer- 
cise all parts of our three-fold machinery in har- 
mony with all the laws of nature and of the vital 
organism. 
If we suffer in any part from excess or want of 
exercise, a course may be directed, by those who 
understand the science to suit each case; consisting 
of active and passive exercise (the health lift and 
gymnastics, active; and Swedish movements or 
Massage, passive), and a mental and moral disci- 
pline, bringing into activity torpid parts, and 
restraining those over-active. 
How many of the most admirable character-traits 
of the ancient Greeks, and how much of their suc- 
cess in the arena of life, may be distinctly traced 
to this source of mental and physical health ? 
Neither in delicacy of execution nor in grandeur 
of conception, can we measure ourselves with the 
Greeks of the ante-Alexandrian era, nor would it 
be easy to say in what they were not our superi- 
ors. Health, in the comprehensive sense, as it 
should be now and always, was indeed the pri- 
mary characteristic of their age, for health, physical 
and mental vigor, and happiness or goodness are 
synonymous. 
The same process of adaptation that qualifies 
the body for the performance of athletic feats or 
productive work, disqualifies it for the develop- 
ment of any morbid elements, the causes of disease, 
and accelerates the elimination of effete or worn out 
matter from the organism. The immunity of hard- 
working people from the consequences of wrong or 
over-feeding, is a proof that nine-tenths of your 
fashionable diseases might be cured mechanically 
instead of chemically, by climbing a tree, or chop- 
ping it down, if you prefer, instead of swallowing 
its bark, or mineral, animal, and vegetable poisons. 
Exercise by accelerating the circulation of the blood 
invigorates the activity of all the organs of the body 
whose functions conjointly constitute the phenom- 
ena of life. .Bodily exercise, all parts in harmony, 
will counteract innumerable functional disorders, 
all of which affect more or less the nervous system, 
and the organ of the mind, the brain. •'. 
Mental pathology, when rightly understood,*will 
prove to be a purely physical science which would 
recognfte the intimate connection and inter-rela- 
tion of mind and body, and that every derangement, 
even of the most subtle functions of the brain, is 
influenced and caused by some physical disorder. 
It is now known that no mental derangement can 
exist without some physical disease, disorder or ab- 
normal condition preceding it. Most cases of 
so-called softening of the brain will be found, on 
close analysis, to be preceded by hardening of the 
bowels-constipation-or some other derangement 
of digestion. " Overworked brains " is a ridiculous 
and false expression. Such cases never exist. Keep 
your bodies in working order, by right living, and 
work your brains all you can; the more the better. 
This editorial from the Popular Science Monthly 
is appropriate here: " One of the inevitable effects 
of the advancement of science in various directions 
is the establishment of new connections of thought 
which are often most striking and significant. 
What can Darwinism have to do with exercise ? 
Restricting the term Darwinism, as we must do, to 
natural selection, Du Bois-Reymond shows that 
they are very closely related. Viewing organic 
nature mechanically, the series of living beings has 
been unfolded during unlimited time by adaptation 
to new conditions, the course of movement being 
in an ascending scale. ' From this point of view, 
organic nature appears not only as a machine, but 
also as a self-improving machine. ' But the law of 
self-improvement is, that powers and faculties are 
strengthened and grow by exercise, and are weak- 
ened by non-exercise. In the struggle for exist- 
ence, therefore, those will win and survive in whom 
exercise has developed superior capacities and re- 
sources, while the less exercised and weaker fail 
and perish. The principle of exercise is thus a 
kind of motive-power in animal evolution, and, as 
might be expected, is full of the most important 
results in the higher spheres of physiological and 
psychical activity." 
"The predominance of pugilism and athletic 
sports, which depend upon 'muscle,' have favored 
the idea that the chief influence and benefit of ex- 
ercise is upon the muscular system ; but Professor 
Reymond shows that this is an error. An impor- 
tant effect is, of course, produced in the develop- 
ment of the muscles, which is very fully and 
interestingly traced out; but by far the most im- 
portant and valuable influence of physical exercise 
is shown to be upon the nerve centers. ' It is 
easy to show the error of the common view, and 
demonstrate that such bodily exercises as gymnas- 
tics, fencing, swimming, riding, dancing, and 
skating are much more exercises of the central 
nervous system, of the brain and spinal inarrow. 
Every acti£h of our body as a motive apparatus 
depends not less but more upon the proper co-op- 
eration of the muscles than upon the force of their 
contraction. In order to execute a composite 
motion, like a leap, the muscles must begin to 
work in the proper order, and the energy of each 
one of them must increase, halt, and diminish, ac- 
cording to a certain law, so that the result shall be 
the proper position of the limbs, and the proper 
velocity of the center of gravity in the proper di- 
rection.' " 
"But when it is established that the central 
nervous system is not only amenable to the law of 
exercise, but is the chief object of its influence, we 
then begin to see how the highest mental effects 
are involved in the question. Improvement by THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
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means of exercise and deterioration from non-ex- 
ercise apply to the gray matter of the brain as well 
as to the muscles. From this point of view which 
is that of the philosophy of human educatibility, 
the subject has a comprehensive interest, and we 
hope our readers will recognize that, in furnishing 
them articles that imply some effort in their mas- 
tery, we are conforming to the only law by which 
real mental improvement can be secured." 
Fifth-Food. The solid parts of our bodies 
waste continually and require to be repaired by 
fresh substances. Normal food is organically ar- 
ranged cell-structure compounds, produced by the 
process of growth. 
It is the order of nature that man and the ani- 
mal kingdom can in no wise use any substance that 
is not so arranged. Fruits, grains, and vegetables, 
properly prepared (which science is in its infancy), 
are of the first importance. Flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, 
milk, cream, etc., are of second rate. Why second- 
rate ? In all organized animal matter, there is a 
constant change-a breaking down of cell-structure, 
called disintegration-going on. Hence all flesh, 
fish, and fowl are largely composed of this waste or 
effete matter-this poison, for poison it is, as it is 
not food. It is this effete matter that makes flesh 
stimulating. And this stimulating property the 
profession, and the whole community mistake for 
extra nutrition. Hence you have come to think 
that beef is the most nutritious food. Science 
shows that the best beef has only about 28 per 
cent, nutrition, while wheat has 88. Fish, the 
great brain-food of the profession, has still less nu- 
trition than flesh or fowl. The fact is, those who 
live largely upon fish have very indifferent brains. 
Eggs are stimulating and clogging to the liver of 
some persons. Milk clogs the liver and bowels of 
others. It is a secretion in the normal state of the 
animal, but may become an excretion - impure. 
Milk is good food for the calf, if it is allowed to 
take it from the mother itself, in the natural way. 
Proximate principles, as such (separate, as starch, 
sugar, fat, albumen, etc.), are not food at all nor 
can they be combined in any way to make them 
nourishing. Primary elements, minerals, salts, 
earths, etc., are poisonous for man or animals but 
food for plants. This points to important considera- 
tions in Agriculture and Horticulture. Fertilizers 
to be food for plants must be reduced to earth,- 
elementary substances. Digestion being a periodi- 
ical function, regular meal times should be observed, 
and nothing eaten between times; therefore, food 
which is to repair the body, "the temple of the 
living God," which, according to the great book of 
Nature, as well as Scripture, is "the kingdom of 
heaven," should be of the purest quality, prepared 
after the most approved scientific method, at reg- 
ular intervals, with due regard to exercise and 
waste of the body, and consistent with all other 
conditions and states of body and mind. If the 
health is deranged from any error in diet the hy- 
gienic physician should know how to overcome the 
difficulty. As nothing should be taken into the 
mouth but food and water, it follows that alcohol, 
tobacco, opium and all poisons as sensual indul- 
gences or as medicine, from the infinitesimal " po- 
tency "-(?) of the homoeopathist, up through the 
ponderous dose of the heroic allopathist, to the 
suicidal amount taken by the madman to separate 
the spirit from its tenement of clay, should be per- 
sistently avoided. 
Sixth-Water,-Drink and Bathing. Three- 
fourths of our bodies is water, which is constantly 
wasting, by evaporation etc., and requires to be 
replenished, in proportion to the solid food as nine 
to one. There is but this one fluid in our bodies. 
It is the carrier of nutrient material to, and of 
effete or disintegrated matter from, all parts of the 
body ; therefore, pure water only is necessary, and 
no artifice can produce a better drink. Water is 
the great internal and external cleanser, and as a 
therapeutic agent has no superior, to equalize ac- 
tion, circulation, nervous energy and temperature, 
by those versed in the science ; but nothing is 
more dangerous in disease if improperly applied. 
Seventh-Rest. Brain and body rest are equal- 
ly as essential to health and happiness as exercise; 
therefore, recreation should succeed study or work, 
or alternate. There is also a deeper meaning to 
rest, that peace which alone comes of a clear Con- 
science-the consciousness of having done as well 
as possible under the circumstances; in short, duty, 
to self and neighbors. 
Eighth-Sleep. "Late hours," with dissipation 
or anxious pursuits, exhaust the whole body in 
brain, nerve and every part, producing disease and 
premature death. It is during natural sleep that 
assimilation takes place, and all repairs are made ; 
therefore, the hours of study, work, recreation and 
digestion should be equaled by those of sound as- 
similating sleep-"nature's sweet restorer." -.In 
the hygeio-therapeutic method of treating all 
diseases or derangements, sleep without opiates or 
narcotics is the great object to be attained. Health 
is sure to follow natural sleep. 
Ninth-Clothing. The object of clothing, beside 
the purpose of civilization and distinguishing the 
sexes, is to preserve an equal temperature and to 
protect that highly organized membrane, the skin, 
which is full of minute pores, cells, blood-vesels 
and nerves, which imbibes moisture or poisons 
according to the state of the atmosphere and the 
condition and temperature of the body; which also 
breathes as do the lungs, though less actively, and 
on this account requires frequent cleansing by 
bathing and friction. All the internal organs sym- 
pathize with the skin ; therefore, we should clothe 
our bodies with due reference to all the foregoing. 
Clothing next the body in order of superiority is 
silk, linen, cotton, wool. All clothes should allow 
freedom of motion to every part-should be sus- 
pended from the shoulders and without tight bands 
or ligatures of any kind. Shoes should have broad 
soles and low heels and loose enough to allow free 
circulation of the blood. 
( .Tenth-Electricity. This subtle mode of motion, 
correlative with, and convertible into magnetism 
and heat, exerts an influence beyond conception 
upon humanity ; therefore, the electrical condition 
of our bodies and of all our surroundings should be 
understood and appreciated. 
As a remedial agent, it is a method of exercise, 
the exercise or action being so intense, if necessary, 
as to disorganize tissue, as with the galvano- 
cautery. The most effectual means of eliminating 
mineral and other poisons, is by conjoint effect of 
electricity, galvanism, magnetism; heat and water. 
Electricity, now, as was true also of water after 
the success of Priessnitz, is all the rage ; but un- 
fortunately for the cause of progress, as was the 
fate of water, it is used in the drug medical sense, 
and only as a substitute for drugs. Now evil 12 
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OR LIFE. 
things should not be substituted ; they should be 
let alone severally. Our good friends, the allo- 
pathists, who are so jealous of those they call 
quacks, for using medicines without proper know- 
ledge, etc., etc., would think it rather hard if the 
hygienic school were to prevent the stealing of our 
thunder and lightning, electricity, Swedish move- 
ments or Massage, "water treatment in fevers," 
etc.? and claiming them as original discoveries, 
right in face of the fact that they have been em- 
ployed by us for a quarter of a century. But this 
is not the worst of it; if they were used properly 
instead of experimentally, empirically, and as sub- 
stitutes for drugs, no fault would be found. 
Magnetism-Human or animal electricity at- 
tractions and repulsions as manifested in all rela- 
tions of life, are universally recognized as power- 
ful for good or evil; therefore, our conditions and 
relations should be harmonious. If we have become 
diseased, deranged or demented from this cause, 
those with more positiveness and power may use it 
by laying on of hands, rubbing, etc., to advantage, 
to restore the normal state-not as a remedy to 
cancel penalties of violated law, but as apart of a 
plan to establish better conditions of health. 
Eleventh-Passional Propensities. "Self-con- 
trol " or the harmony of action in the organs of the 
lower brain, is the great accomplishment. It is ab- 
solutely essential to perfect health and long life. 
To yield to anger, hate, jealousy, fear, abnormal 
appetite, inordinate lust, etc., may produce indi- 
gestion, biliousness, jaundice, paralysis, or worse 
diseases and insanity; therefore, we all should 
cultivate self-control. 
Twelfth-Mental and Moral influences. The 
states and conditions of the mind affecting the 
health, for good or evil, are as infinite as the ob- 
i'ects and relations of which we take cognizance; 
lence, only a sample or two will be mentioned 
here. I.-Harmony, of thought, feeling and 
action, and appreciation of heaven's first law- 
order, contributes much to the fund of health and 
happiness ; therefore, mental athletics, vocal and 
instrumental music, - self-culture-is health-con- 
serving for the individual and for those by whom 
he is surrounded. As a remedial agent all music is 
of high value. Invalids should practice singing an 
hour or two each day ; weak lungs may thus be 
invigorated and consumption warded off. The 
effect is excellent on both body and mind. Music 
with the "poetry of motion," dancing, in accord- 
ance with the laws of health are for both body and 
mind, invigorating. Frequently the dying may be 
saved by gentle faith and hope-inspiring music. 
II.-Prosperity, as a health conservator, is of 
immense influence, and gold as a remedial agent 
might be used to great advantage. That is, society 
might save money and trouble by loaning money to, 
and educating poor discouraged persons how to use 
it, etc. Many persons end their miserable existence 
for want of the comforts of life; and thousands of poor 
starving souls would love life and enjoy health more 
deeply, and be more ambitious for culture and devel- 
opment if they possessed the necessary amount of 
gold. Money means a home, comfort, good books, 
good clothes, good social surroundings, travel, edu- 
cat ion and all the necessaries of life; therefore, 
blessed is the man or woman who has money and 
knows how to use it. 
The use of money is to do good to ourselves and 
suffering humanity. The insane worship of pelf, 
and that chiefly as a means of dissipation, is the 
great crying evil of the age in which we live. 
A knowledge and control of self in the deepest 
and broadest sense, an abiding faith in the eternal 
spirit of truth, and an absolute obedience to law, 
are the conditions of health, happiness and long 
life. Therefore, KNOW THYSELF. 
Mechanical and Surgical Appliances are used 
when necessary. 
Chemical agents and compounds are used in 
various ways to neutralize other poisons (as in the 
stomach,) and to destroy abnormal growths. 
As there is no use for chemical elements in the 
system to supply any of its wants, and as it is 
considered as adding insult to injury to attempt to 
antidote poisons in the blood and tissues, no med- 
icine is used, (in the ordinary sense). 
As health results from a right use and relation 
of these things and conditions, disease must be 
caused by abuse or misrelation of them ; hence the 
true healing art consists in returning the patient 
to obedience to these laws-by placing him in true 
relation to his environment-in removing the 
causes of disease and supplying the best conditions 
of health. The Physician, the conservator of the 
public health, should' know the exact truth in re- 
lation to all the foregoing principles and laws 
before attempting to medicate morbid conditions 
or interfere with abnormal relations. To under- 
take to practice without such knowledge is pure 
and unmitigated empiricism-the source of all 
Quackery. So long as there is one person who be- 
lieves he must swallow some drug or combination 
of poisons, because he is impure and sick, there 
will be some accommodating quack ready to com- 
pound and administer the same-all legislation to 
the contrary notwithstanding. In the language of 
the greatest medical man who has ever lived-"So 
long as the regular medical profession employs 
drug poisons in the treatment of disease, so long 
will the irregular trade flourish. And why should 
it not? It is vastly the least of the two evils. All 
the remedies which the swindling quacks make so 
much money in compounding and selling, are found 
in the Scientific (?) Materia-Medica of the profess- 
ion ; and if they are mixed and proportioned in a 
little different manner from the officinal prepara- 
tions of the approved pharmacopoeias (so as to ren- 
der them "original inventions " and " new discov- 
eries" to swear by), they are only the safer for the 
patient. If they do not cure more diseases, they 
will kill a less number of persons. It is a fact that 
quack nostrums do not kill more that one patient, 
while the regular profession kills ten. Were those 
who resort to quack medicines to die as rapidly, as 
unaccountably and as unexpectedly as do patients 
under regular drug treatment, the quacks would 
be put on trial for manslaughter, and their busi- 
ness would be ruined. Suppose that Wilson, Sum- 
ner, Greeley, Douglas, Meade, Thomas, Rawlings, 
Prince Albert, Count Cavour, Dickens, Byron, 
Taylor, Harrison, Washington, Garfield, and thou- 
sands of others (all of whom were sent out of the 
world by the remedies (?) prescribed by eminent and 
regular physicians) had died similarly while being 
attended by some quack, who does not know that the 
poor quack would have been mobbed in the streets, 
if not hung on the nearest tree. The delusion of 
the people consists in presuming that educated 
physicians can deal out these destructive poisons 
with more safety than the illiterate quacks. They THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
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could, if their education were based on a correct ] 
theory of disease; but then they would have no < 
occasion to employ them. The regular physician 
can kill secundum artem and find ample protection, 
in public sentiment and general ignorance. The 
remedy for quackery, and the only remedy, will 
be found, if found at all, in educating the people 
out of the idea of drug medication altogether-out 
of the notion of poisoning themselves because they 
are sick." 
We claim, and without fear of successful con- 
tradiction, that science has discovered a better method, 
and that we no longer have any use for drugs, ex- 
cept we want to kill an abnormal growth, or offend- 
ing material remove. That Hygienic Medication 
is the truly scientific method of treating the sick, 
hundreds of physicians all over the world are ready 
to defend and demonstrate. Many of these are 
graduates of its only college (The Kygieo-Thera- 
peutic, of N. Y.), and many more are graduates of 
other schools of medical education. Hundreds of 
them are in the highest standing, as you have ob- 
served by the foregoing quotations. 
Beecher may talk of the ' 'Burdens of the people 
Bain elocute on the expense of drunkenness; 
Murphy preach on the beauties of temperance, and 
Kearney rave about monopolies, land-grabbing and 
the Chinese curse ; but all these questions dwindle 
into insignificance as compared with the Problem of 
Health. Indeed, none of them can have any prac- 
tical solution except in the recognition of this basic 
principle, viz: that integrity in the vital structures 
of the masses-Physical, Intellectual and Moral 
Purity-must bring health and social harmony. 
So long as the people live in such a way as to be- 
foul the blood and produce a low order of nerve 
and brain tissue, and transmit the same to their 
children, we can expect nothing but abnormal 
mental and moral manifestations. 
When men and women become intelligent, self- 
relying and strong enough to comprehend princi- 
ples, to exercise self-government and the right of 
private judgment, they learn that all things are con- 
trolled by law, and that they must obey or suffer 
the consequences. They learn also that God is not 
an omnipotent personality independent of or above 
Nature, but that all the Laws of Nature are the 
attributes of God, and are equally sacred. This 
beautiful language by one of the most gifted icomen 
of the age is, according to this Philosophy of Life, 
"Our faith in the supreme power of God is our 
faith in the wonderful power, order and harmony 
which we see in nature and which we feel in our- 
selves. Trustfully we can put our faith as to our 
destiny, in this God of power and law." We must 
obey these laws, if we would find health, harmony 
and heaven, and by the irresistible law of progress, 
humanity must and will obey them, in the compar- 
atively near future. We can hasten the glorious 
day of Health, Happiness and Social Harmony, by 
giving up, quickly, the notion that science con- 
flicts with religion. Science destroys old forms of 
truth, but it can never destroy the good, or the 
principles of Truth, which were the life of these 
forms. Science cannot destroy our faith in any- 
thing that is true and good and right in the uni- 
verse On the contrary, it will give us perfect 
confidence in the results of our struggles for a 
higher life, and a higher social condition. A cor- 
rect definition of terms will settle forever this 
seemingly "irrepressible conflict." 
Science is the actually demonstrated knowledge 
of the laws of Nature-all laws of the universe. 
True Religion is nothing more or less than cog- 
nizance of, and obedience to, all these laws. Why, 
then, this wretched wrangle and dalliance? 
Christ's command, and all the laws of God say, 
"Go, work," "Cease to do evil and learn to do 
well," right here and now, and leave no room for 
dark-lantern witchcraft, spiritual jugglery, abnor- 
malism, sectarianism, superstition, quackery, sin, 
crime and misery. Health or integrity is the 
watchword. Integrity, at the very fountain 
head of maternity, and so throughout every mole- 
cule, cell, fiber, footstep, action, feeling and thought 
of existence. 
EXTRACTS FROM DR. TRALL's FAMOUS LECTURE, OF 
OVER TWO AND A HALF HOURS, TO THE ELITE OF 
THE COUNTRY, IN SMITHSONIAN INSTI- 
TUTE,WASHINGTON, D. C. 
"There are, aside from accidents-mechanical 
injuries-but two sources of diseases in the world, 
viz.: germs and poisons or impurities taken into 
the system from without, and effete or waste mat- 
ter retained. In either case the result is obstruc- 
tion. These extraneous particles are the causes 
of disease, and aside from mental impressions and 
bodily injuries, the only causes. And w'hat is 
this mysterious thing, disease ? Simply the ef- 
fort to remove obstructing material from the or- 
ganic domain, and to repair damages. Disease is a 
process of purification. It is remedial action. It 
is a vital struggle to overcome obstructions and to 
keep the channels of the circulation free. Should 
this struggle, this self defensive action, this 
remedial effort, this purifying process, this attempt 
at reparation, this war for the integrity of the liv- 
ing domain, this contest against the enemies of the 
organic constitution, be repressed by bleeding, or 
suppressed with drugs, intensified with stimulants 
and tonics, subdued with narcotics and anti- 
phlogistics, confused with blisters and caustics, 
aggravated with alteratives, complicated and mis- 
directed, changed, subverted, and perverted with 
drugs and poisons generally ? * * * All his- 
tory attests the fact, that wherever the Drug 
Medical system prevails, desolation marks its 
track, human health declines, vital stamina di- 
minishes, diseases become more numerous, more 
complicated, more fatal, and the human race 
deteriorates. On the contrary, wherever the 
Hygienic Medical system is adopted-and there is 
no exception-renovation denotes its progress, and 
humanity improves in all the relations of its ex- 
istence. * * * * If I am right, the people 
ought to know it. If I am wrong, somebody 
ought to show it. 
I appeal to your medical men, to yonr profes- 
sors of science, to show wherein I am in error. I 
appeal to them as conservators of the public 
health, and for the cause of suffering humanity, 
to admit and adopt the principles I have presented, 
or else to controvert and refute them ; for I assure 
them that the doctrines I advocate are rapidly ex- 
tending among the people,. My school is sending 
out every year lecturers and practitioners-Mis- 
sionaries of the Gospel of Health-who are con- 
tinually and surely indoctrinating the masses in 14 
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
favor of Hygienic and against drug Medication. 
If they are teaching truth, it is the duty of men 
of power, and place, and influence, to bid them 
God-speed in their good work. If they are teach- 
ing falsity, it is their duty to expose and denounce 
it." * * 
I have treated all forms of fevers-bilious, typhus, 
typhoid, remittent, intermittent, congestive, scarlet, 
etc., without losing a patient; 5th-I have saved 
forty-seven out of fifty cases of typhoid and 
puerperal fever cases after they were given up to 
die, by a council of "regular" physicians. The 
three who died, were in articulo mortus when I was 
called, but I prolonged their lives from a week to 
ten days, and caused them to pass away painless 
and happy, by equalizing their temperature with 
heat, electricity, magnetism, etc.; 6th-I have 
treated a large number of cases of measles, small- 
pox, erysipelas and other eruptive diseases, and 
have not lost a case, nor are any of the small-pox 
cases pitted or marked; 7th-I have treated many 
cases of influenza, pneumonia, lung fever and 
convulsions in children, diarrhoea, dysentery, 
cholera-infantum, cholera-morbus, and a few cases 
of cholera, without losing a case; 8th-I have 
cured all the cases of gout and acute, inflamatory 
and chronic rheumatism that I have treated, some 
of them of twenty years standing; 9th-I have 
cured a few cases of confirmed consumption, Bright's 
disease, and cancer, the three "Incurable Diseases" 
of the profession ; 10th-I have cured, radically, 
nine-tenths of the cases of dyspepsia, liver-com- 
plaint, constipation, hemorhoids, piles, neu- 
rasthenia or nervous exhaustion, paralysis, neu- 
ralgia, general debility, spinal irritation, sperma- 
torrhoea, prostatorrhoea, leuchorrhcea, sterility, im- 
potency, and all the horrid train of effects of 
dissipation, folly and sin, that have come under my 
care; 11th-I have cured many cases of uterine 
inflammation, ulceration, obstruction, enlargement, 
displacement and prolapsus, failing in no case that 
I have treated. These, and all the diseases 
peculiar to women, including puerperal mania, are 
readily amenable to rational treatment with na- 
ture's means ; 12th-I have never failed to promptly 
cure all cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, gleet,- 
venereal in all its forms and phases-and my ex- 
perience coincides with that of Dr. Trail, as ex- 
pressed in the following words : "Along course of 
observation and much experience in the treatment 
of syphilis in all its forms and phases, primary and 
secondary, have satisfied me, beyond all shadow 
of doubt, that constitutional and tertiary syphilis 
are in a very great majority of cases, the effects of 
mineral drugs, administered as remedies, and not 
of the disease. 
I have not in a single case known any secondary 
nor tertiary complications-no ulcers of the throat, 
no caries of the bones, no decomposition- of the 
palate, no destruction of the nose, no nodes, etc., 
etc.,-in patients whom I have treated for the pri- 
mary symptoms, and I have watched this point in 
hundreds of cases, and for more than twenty years." 
13th.-Not only have I treated successfully nearly 
all the physical disorders known to the noseology, 
but all forms of mental derangement as well- 
Insanity, mania, melancholy, epilepsy, delirium 
tremens, alcoholism, opium mania, tobacco folly, 
"the poison habit," and other forms of idiocy. 
14th.-And finally, no Allopath, Homecepath or 
Eclectic, regular or quack, can truthfully make a 
similar statement. 
BEWARE OF QUACKS I 
AN INSTANCE IN WHICH A MAN-MADE LAW ACCORDS 
WITH THE LAWS OF NATURE. 
The law of Nature says: Diseases, being efforts of 
the living system to remove obstructions, poisons- 
all causes of derangement-should not be cured, 
suppressed or bafiled, with nostrums, drugs, medi- 
cines or any other means ; but should be regulated 
and directed by Health Conserving Agencies, until 
the causes are removed, and a "moving equilib- 
rium" established. Then the disease, "remedial 
effort," abnormal vital action, defensive warfare, 
etc., will cease, there being no more work of a 
healing, repairing and purifying character to per- 
form. 
Disease, with all its pain and suffering, is the 
effect or penalty of violated law on the part of the 
individual, his parents or society, and Nature has 
not so stultified herself as to provide a remedy. 
The only way to avoid a continuance of the disease, 
effect or penalty, is to return to obedience to the 
Laws of Health, and take only such treatment as 
harmonizes with Nature's methods of reparation, 
or with "The Vis Medicatrix Naturae." 
Hence, the Law of Nature declares him to be a 
quack, who claims that it is possible by any means, 
to save the violator of law in his sins. In other 
words, to cure the effects of his folly and trans- 
gression, without his ceasing to do evil. The man 
made law "Regulating the Practice of Medicine in 
the State of California" in Section 12, "Re-enacts 
the Law of God," by compelling every such quack, 
"regular, irregular and defective," to pay a heavy 
license. As it is impossible for any of them to pay 
the amount, it means the absolute suppression of 
quackery. This is the meaning of the law, "any 
person who shall profess to cure disease by any 
medicine, drug or drugs, nostrum, manipulation, or 
other expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred 
dollars a month." The educated, scientific physi- 
cian cures his patient, not the disease, by removing 
the causes of the disease, with rational and Health 
Conserving Agencies; therefore, be wise in time, 
employ only such, and, Beware of Quacks! 
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE. 
We not only cure our patients, but teach them 
how to keep well without our services, and, conse- 
quently are constantly ruining our own busi- 
ness. Hence, the necessity of continuous 
and persistent efforts to get new patrons. 
For this purpose, and for the good of hu- 
manity, I make the following statement of 
facts : 1st-I have practiced the Healing Art over 
ten years without giving a particle of medicine that 
was poisonous, or that could not be assimilated as 
food; 2d-I have not destroyed any lives; 3d-I 
have not damaged any human eonstitution; 4th- 
D. C. .MOORE, M. D., 
t Hygeio-Therapeutist and Sanitarian, 
630 Market Street, San Francisco. THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
15 
CATARRH. 
substance in the air, as dust, smoke, carbonic acid 
gas, from want of ventilation, etc. Localities that 
are cold or damp, as San Francisco, are more liable 
to produce catarrh, because those conditions di- 
minish the action of the skin, which gives the 
other excretory organs more than their share of the 
work of house cleaning; they get over-worked and 
tired out, the impurities accumulate and the ven- 
tilating tubes, or flues-the nasal passages-get. 
foul, resulting in irritation, inflamation, ulcera- 
tion, etc. 
In the remedial plan, that is of the first im- 
portance, which will increase the action of the skin 
and liver, as the Turco-American and Thermo- 
Electric Baths. No matter how persistently you 
may clean the lamp chimney, if the oxygen is not 
increased or the carbon decreased, it will get 
smoked again. (Exercise and breathe more and 
eat less). 
Hence, ventilation on the one hand, and pure 
food on the other, are all important. Proper exer- 
cise and a mode of treatment as is adopted at the 
Trail Hygienic Sanitarium, is the only road to per- 
manent cure. 
ITS NATURE, CAUSES, AND THE TRUE REMEDIAL PLAN. 
Acute Catarrh is "common cold." Through a 
want of knowledge of the nature of disease, this 
condition is called a "cold in the head." The ac- 
quiring of this abnormal state is termed "taking" 
or " catching a cold." In the earlier ages of the 
world, when the mind of man was not sufficiently 
evolved to grasp a principle, comprehend condi- 
tions and relations, or form ideas, without some- 
thing for the senses to rest upon, all diseases were 
thought to be actual entities, ghosts, evil spirits, 
or something outside and independent of the body, 
that they "attack it," "run a course," "have laws 
of their own," "are self-limited," etc. 
This disease is a type of all diseases. All dis- 
eases are correlated, or of the same species. In- 
stead of being "a cold" it is heat-a condition. 
Not taking or catching a cold, but acquiring heat- 
inflammation. It is a condition of fever, abnormal 
vital action, remedial effort-a process of purifica- 
tion. The house cleaning will be of long or short 
duration, according to the amount of dirt to be re- 
moved. 
The disease is not a thing or entity, but a strug- 
gle for existence according to "the first law of 
Nature--self preservation." If dirt accumulates 
as fast as the disease-acute catarrh-can remove 
it, the house cleaning is kept up indefinitely. It 
is then called chronic catarrh. 
The nature of this diease may be shown by anal- 
ogy. Take a kerosene lamp when lighted, draw 
a handkerchief around its waist and shut off its 
supply of air. It does not breathe enough oxygen 
to set free all the carbon, hence the upper air pas- 
lage becomes smoked-clogged and foul. 
Another analogy; the sewerage system of a city. 
If the filth, etc., is sufficient to clog up the main 
channels and outlets, artificial escape somewhere 
must take place, and if not stopped may result 
disastrously in various ways. 
Still another; the social system. If the blood of 
government and society, the circulating medium of 
trade-money-accumulates in certain parts at the 
expense or detriment of others, with all the accom- 
paniments-selfishness, bigotry, tyranny, dissipa- 
tion, debauchery, etc., the whole body politic soon 
becomes corrupt and impure. In this condition, 
remedial struggles must take place in various ways, 
which are usually guided only by instinct, or cer- 
tainly very often, with very little judgment, as 
communistic movements, for instance. These move- 
ments are remedial efforts, and when judgment, 
statesmanship and science are brought to bear to 
guide and direct them, purification, equilibrium, 
harmony and social health will follow. 
The Causes of Catarrh are accumulated filth, 
impurities, poisons in the blood-retained excre- 
tions; carbonacious, biliary, perspirable, urinary 
and fecal, and poisons from without, swallowed, 
inhaled, absorbed, etc. 
Everything in the food that is not assimilated, 
as fat, sugar, salt, and all condiments, after the 
disease is established, tends to keep it up as surely 
as effect follows cause.C All these poisons (every 
thing that is not food or water) impurities, broken 
down cell structure, effete or disintegrated matters, 
are the predisposing causes of catarrh. The excit- 
ing causes are, extremes of temperature, irritating 
Homcepathic Life Insurance.-A charter has- 
been obtained and a company organized in this 
city to conduct a life insurance business on homoe- 
pathic principles. The peculiar feature of the in- 
stitution consists in the fact that the lives of those 
who adopt the infinitesimal mode of treatment 
will be insured at "judiciously reduced rates." Of 
course, the corporators either believe that homoe- 
pathy will save more lives, or will kill less than 
allophathy. The Post says:/'By adopting this feat- 
ure the company gives a very decided proof of its 
conviction that the homoepathic method is the saf- 
est." But what a commentary on druggery of every 
kind. Is it that one system is safer than another ? 
Why should any medical system be unsafe at all ? 
Why should the healing art be dangerous ? When- 
ever the true healing art is understood, no one will 
talk of its being unsafe or dangerous in any case. 
Any system of which this may be justly said is a 
false one. There is no question that an insurance 
company can afford to insure the lives of those 
who resort to little doses of poison, when sick, at a 
much lower rate than they can those who swallow 
big doses. We once suggested to an agent of an 
insurance office that he ought to insure hygienists, 
who take no dose at all, at a reduced premium. 
His reply was: "Your hygienic folks never adopt 
the system until they are pretty effectually ruined 
with drugs." There was more truth than poetry 
in this reply.-Dr. Trail. 
A JUDGE'S IDEA OF JUSTICE. 
We clip the following from one of the city dailies r 
"A female who still bore the traces of having 
seen better days, named Fanny Bell, was this morn- 
ing conducted to the Tombs Police Court before 
Judge Dowling, by Police Officer Underhill of the 
Fourth Precinct, who accused her of the double 
charge of intoxication and disorderly conduct in 
the streets of that ward, at half-past ten o'clock 
last night. 
_ "Fanny at one time was very well off, and it is 
not many years since that she moved in the best 
of circles, she having been the proprietress of a. 16 
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
fashionable mansion up town; but the demon drink 
got the better of her passions, and she fell a victim 
to its influences. Justice Dowling recognized in 
her still beautiful features the woman who had not 
long ago captivated the hearts of many by her smiles 
of siren-like sweetness, and said; 
"What have you to say, Fanny, concerning the 
charges preferred by the officer ?" 
Fanny: "Nothing your honor, you know how I 
have fallen." 
Judge: "I see that is very evident, you have 
indeed fallen within a few years. Why do you 
not give up drinking?" 
Fanny: "I've often tried, but I always fail." 
Judge: "Then you deserve no pity. You have 
none but yourself to blame. Upon the statement 
of the officer I will commit you to the City Prison 
for ten days." 
What can exceed this reproach in cool inhuman- 
ity? The poor woman tries to do right but fails, 
and deserves no pity! She will not be the judg- 
ment of the angels in heaven. She is entitled to 
praise for the attempt to give up drinking, and to 
pity for her failure. But how come she to be a 
drunkard? Probably the insatiable appetite for 
liquor was caused by its use as a medicine under 
the advice of her temperance physician. We have 
known many persons to become drunkards in con- 
sequence of alcoholic medication. Professor B. F. 
Barker, M. D., of this city, states that he has 
known several ladies to become habitual drunkards 
because alcoholic liquor was administered to them as 
medicine. Edward C. Delavan stated in the National 
Temperance Convention at Saratoga Springs, in 
August, 1865, that he had known several ladies die 
■of delirium tremens in one street in Albany, all the 
result of alcoholic medication. The temperance re- 
formation, we fear, will never prosper so long as its 
leading advocates-its Beechers, its Greeleys, etc. 
-stultify themselves and their teachings by ad- 
vocating alcoholic medication. Nor will Heaven 
ever smile on the administration of our criminal 
code until, instead of sending the victim of the rum- 
seller to prison, the judge shall order the abatement 
of the rum-shop. - Trail Health Journal. 
[We see similar cases almost daily.] 
' 7. Never eat more than three times a day, and 
make the last meal very light. For many dyspep- 
tics, two meals are better than more. • 
8. Never eat a morsal of any sort between 
meals. 
9. Never eat when very tired, whether ex- 
hausted from mental or physical labor. 
10. Never eat when the mind is worried or the 
temper ruffled, if possible to avoid doing so. 
11. Eat only food that is easy of digestion, 
avoiding complicated and indigestible dishes, and 
taking but one to three kinds at a meal. 
12. Most persons will be benefited by the use of 
oatmeal, wheat meal, or graham flour, cracked 
wheat, and other whole-grain prepations, though 
many will find it necsssary to avoid vegetebles es- 
pecially when fruits are taken.-Good Health. 
FASHION. 
How can fashion ruin the world ? It has- ruined 
thousands, as every one knows ; and as it has ruined 
many, what hinders it from ruining all when they 
become sufficiently fashionable? We eat, drink, 
sleep, exercise, rest, dress, etc., etc., not so much 
from any intelligent recognition of the right or 
wrong thereof, as because others do so-it is the 
fashion. Fashion has already destroyed more lives 
than famine; indeed, it has occasioned more famines 
than all other causes combined. Men must change 
the shape of their hats, boots and shirt-collars oncr 
or twice a year, and ladies must alter their bonnet 
hair-rigging, skirts and shoes once a quarter or on 
a month, not because anything better has been d) 
covered, but because frequent changes are t', 
fashion. And twice a year there must be a genei* 
revolution in the entire outfit of a lady's fashio; 
able wardrobe, not because any improvement 1 
been made or thought of in the matter of dress, b 
because fashionable society expects it, and d. 
goods merchants depend on it. The constant was 
of time and material is the least of the evils 
fashion. It destroys mind and soul. It mak 
human beings selfish, conceited and frivolous, 
renders them mentally, servile ; morally, characte 
less; socially, imbecile; and individually, powerles 
-Dr. Trail. 
A Few Rules for Dyspeptics. 
1. Eat slowly, masticating the food very thor- 
oughly, even more so, if possible, than is required 
in health. The more time the food spends in the 
mouth, the less it will spend in the stomach. 
2. Avoid drinking at meals ; at most, take a 
few sips of warm drink at the close of the meal, 
if the food is very dry in character. 
3. In general, dyspeptic stomachs manage dry 
food better than that containing much fluid. 
4. Eat neither very hot nor cold food. The 
best temperature is about that of the body. Avoid 
exposure to cold after eating. 
5. Be careful to avoid excess in eating. Eat 
no more than the wants of the system require. 
Sometimes less than is really needed must be taken 
when digestion is very weak. Strength depends 
not on what is eaten, but on what is digested. . 
6. Never take violent exercise of any sort, either 
mental or physical, either just before or just after 
a meal!6 It is not good to sleep immediately after 
eating, nor within four hours of a meal. 
TRUE BEAUTY. 
Where is true beauty found ? In lily fair 
Doth it abide in rose, in pearly dew, 
On the broad prairie of such varied hue ? 
In some great work of art ? Perhaps *tis there, 
In noble statue, or in painting rare ; 
In ocean deep-above, in sky of blue? 
In thousand forms is beauty brought to view. 
The lovely child can aught of earth compare 
With so much beauty? What can outvie 
The maiden? what excel her artless grace? 
What charm can match her winning loveline . 
Only that jewel of surpassing wealth, 
Which rivals form of grace and sparkling eye; 
> Rare gem, 'tis found alone in perfect health 1 
-Gospel of Health, MOORE'S METHOD 
of Treatment 
Which is rapidly becoming popular, is known as the Hygejo-Therapeutic, or Hygienic Medical 
System, as taught in the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College, founded by the world- 
renowned R. T. Trail, M.D., and chartered by the State Legislature, with many of the leading men 
of the age as trustees, among whom were: Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, O. B. Frothingham, 
Hon. H. R. Low, Hon. U. D. French, James O. Bennett, M. C., Renselaer Fancher, H. C. Lowen, 
AAL AV. AVier, M.D., O. T. Lines, M.Di, C. R. Blackall, M.D., Chas. II. Shepherd, M.D., B. 
Le Baron, LL.D., and many others equally prominent. 
The System is now endorsed and adopted in great measure by the leading men of the profession 
all over the civilized world. It is the same method of treatment that is so successful in the following 
great Sanitariums. (Send for Circular and Journal of each. An admirable view of the first-named, 
which lias the best natural advantages, is given here): 
Drs. Walter's Mountain Park, Wernersville, near Reading, 'Penn. 
Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich. 
Drs. Jackson's Health Institute, Dansville, N. Y. 
Drs. Heald's Hygeian Home, Wilmington, Del. 
We receive subscriptions for the following Journals and Books: Good Health, $1.60 per year; 
Health, by Dr. Walter, 50 cents per year; Lairs of Life, $1.00 per year; Science, of Health, $2.00 
per year; Dio Lewis's Monthly, $2.50 per year; Popular Science Monthly, $5.00 per year; Dr. Kellogg's 
Hand-Boole, and other works. Dr. Cowan's Science of a, New Life ; all of Dr. Trail's works, thosft 
of Spencer and others, are kept for sale at publishers' prices. Agents wanted. Addresil, 
MOORE'S HEALTH CONSERVATORY, 
4/. Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. DR. HATHAWAY'S ELECTRIC CHAIR. 
We have secured the Agency for this Valuable Invention. 
EVERY PHYSICIAN SHOULD HAVE ONE. 
"We think that Dr. Hathaway has hit upon the very best method of getting all the good out of 
Farradic electricity that there is in it. The experience of the profession has not yet established the 
estimate of value to be placed upon this therapeutic agency in many cases, but all will at once concede 
that there is power in electricity which, if it can be made available for good in any case, is too valuable 
to be neglected. In this office the chair has become a favorite means of treating many nervous 
disorders in which, before its introduction, drugs alone were employed. The change is not only more 
satisfactory to the physicians, but to the patients who are after all, in many cases, the best judges 
of the measure of relief afforded."-Chicago Medical Times, July, 1877. 
"The Electro-Magnetic Chair.-This is a convenient contrivance for the administration of 
this powerful therapeutic agent without giving the patient any trouble whatever. He or she simply 
sits in an easy chair, and the electric currents are sent to and through any and all parts of the body 
at the will of the operator. When in Chicago, at the National Convention, I took the pains to call at 
Dr. Hathaway's office, and examine this Chair, as he had it in operation. I wanted one immediately, 
for it is so convenient. Many people are benefited by electricity, but the use of it, as ordinarily 
applied, requires so much time and care that the busy practitioner can hardly afford to appropriate it. 
But this contrivance does away with the objections. It is easily managed, pleasant to the patient, 
and where electro-magnetism is required, it is the thing. I am greatly pleased with it, and will freely 
give any information I can in regard to it to anybody wanting a Chair."-American Medical 
Journal, St. Louis, July, 1880. 
"A\ hile in Chicago last month, June, 1880, we visited the office of Dr. R. W. Hathaway, on 
Madison street, to inspect his famous Chair. One or two patients were at the time undergoing its 
peculiar administration, and appeared to be doing well. In order to test its working, we also asked 
to be treated. The toilet for the occasion is very simple and scriptural, to remove the covering of the 
feet. All the electricity required in the apparatus is so adjusted that the patient may receive the 
current through any specific portion of the body, the chest and arms, abdomen and pelvic organs. 
It is easy to vary the energy of the current, so that any desired effect may be produced. The whole 
is so simple that each patient may administer to himself; and as a piece of furniture, the Chair is 
certainly handy to have in the house. It has been used with advantage where electric treatment 
is and we see every reason why every household should have one. This is an electric age in 
medicines as well as in science and art, and this Chair comes in accordingly with great appropriate- 
ness."-New York Medical Tribune, July, 1880. 
Call or send stamp for Pamphlets, Circulars, Price Lists, etc. 
db. Hathaway's electric chair. 
Address, D. C. MOORE, M.D. 
630.*" Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.