regarding disease as a unity, or as arising from a single primary source, the intellect trained in the application of natural means of treatment finds no cause for fear, but rather reason for rejoicing. Nature has entered the open avenue of assistance presented and is proceeding rapidly to effect relief and cure.
In any method for the treatment of disease nothing can be done unless nature co-operates. In some methods her means of cure, elimination, triumphs in spite of the treatment, and this is nowhere so fully displayed as in traditional orthodoxy, which is trained to look upon the symptom, or the appearance of disease, as its cause. As a result the efforts of medicine have been directed to check, to suppress, to turn into other channels, the sign manifested. The fact has been and is ignored that, thus turned aside and unremoved, disease is certain of return in redoubled force.
The whole of the human race has been educated for years along wrong curative lines. For instance, in orthodoxy if the heart action is high, a depressant drug is administered; if it is low, a stimulant is given. In either case reaction occurs, and the organ is less able to recuperate when the clogged channels of
