Toxin from retained metabolic waste (checked elimination) and toxin from bacterial fermentation in the digestive tract, evolve such a state of pan-toxemia that crises are repeatedly, often almost continuously, developed. Headaches, tired feeling, nausea, vomiting, constipation, occasional diarrhea, so-called bilious spells, bad taste in the mouth in the morning, coated tongue, dizziness, catarrh, sore throat, colds, closing of the nose, tonsillitis, coughing, asthma, rheumatism, lumbago, sweating feet, flagging memory, "attacks" of so-called "flu," or about every epidemic, remind the subject of his toxin saturation and of the evil of his mode of living.

Jennings declared "disease" to be "mere negation of health," a nonentity. Tilden says, "There is no disease per se: The discomfort and pain named disease are states of health. Health is unthinkable as an entity; the most immatured mind can think of health only as a comfortable, happy state of the body. That a painful, unhappy state should be thought of as a healthy state changed into an entity is not reasonable."

All of the so-called "diseases" represent but different effects of the same cause (toxemia and its complications) operating through different anatomical structures, as well as functional channels. Although this gives us a "great variety of diseases," the organ whose symptoms are most in evidence dominates the pathological picture and the sufferer's state is associated with these dominant manifestations. Where an organ has several functions, one of these functions may be chiefly affected, and thus we get the "disease" of the organs split up into different varieties and these varieties are called "diseases," and named according to the disordered function whose symptoms are most in evidence.

The toxemia theory makes all so-called "disease" a unitary system, in which a cold or a catarrh may be shown to be the beginning of a morbid chain of causes and effects that will end in premature aging and death. Just what morbid tissue-change (pathology) a dead-house examination (autopsy) may reveal, matters little; for end-effects may manifest in great variety. "But what of it?," asks Tilden. "Dead men tell no tales. The great philosophy of toxemia, however, declares that all diseases have one origin. Cancer is not different from other diseases elementally. It is the effect of physical and mental habits which subtly reduce nerve-energy, permitting the accumulation of catabolic debris (the waste products of metabolism), which are toxic, and the retention of which is the cause of Toxemia--the universal cause of all so-called diseases."

Down below every symptom, functional disturbance, and organic change, there is a chronic subtle poisoning insidiously destroying integrity--the nemesis that follows in the wake of enervating habits. An organ subjected to overactivity, toxic influences, and irritants, wears out more quickly than others. The constant overactivity resulting from continuous toxic irritation, slowly, gradually, but surely breaks down the organs of the body producing pathology.

Evolution is not a study of origins--origins precede evolution. Something cannot evolve out of nothing. Evolution must have a starting-point, but is not that starting-point. Evolution gives us the perfect and the imperfect, good health and impaired health, life and death, using the same laws and the same elements. Development proceeds from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex. Pathology begins in simple deviations from the normal and proceeds, step by step, to the most complex forms as seen in advanced Bright's disease, diabetes, dementia, etc.

It is easy to start with the first cold in infancy and trace it to cancer in senility. The ending is not necessarily cancer. It may be any one of the organic changes known as chronic "diseases," or it may end in one of the so-called acute "diseases." The morbid chain of so-called "diseases" differs in individuals; a cold is only a beginning, while the end in one person may be diabetes, in another Bright's disease, in another tuberculosis, in another heart impairment, in another cancer, and other endings in others, depending on inherent or larval weaknesses, occupational and habit stress, stress of frequent crises, etc. Just what tissue, glandular structure, organs, or parts is first to give down before the on-march of toxemia, depends on inherent weaknesses, occupational stress, emotional states, and function-changing influences and habits.

A reasoning mind, professional and lay, should see order in the march of cause and effect, as organ after organ becomes involved under the influence of toxemia and infection and the special stressing from inheritance, occupation or habits. The trained mind should be able to recognize every symptom-complex now recognized as a "special disease." as one of the various links in a pathological chain reaching from the first stomach-upset, or the first cold in infancy, to the cancer or insanity in old age. Not a single link in this chain of so-called "diseases" has a separate origin or individual existence.

In all nature complexity gives rise to the greatest variations. The more variations the more stable the type. Hence, though a syniptom-complex may be so definitely--specifically--formed as to approach individuality, the discerning mind never sees a duplication. The number of possible symptom-complexes is great enough to fill a large book on Medical Nomenclature. The symptom-complexes are so numerous, so varied, and so blended into each other, that the whole is a tangled maze that mystifies and confuses. The more the subject is studied with the purpose of isolating and individualizing each so-called "disease," the less understandable and the more complicated it becomes.

Organic "diseases" (true pathology) are very gradual in their development and are marked by seasons of quiescence, interspersed by crises of longer or shorter duration, and of mild or severe character.

Organic "diseases" are listed under the head of "chronic diseases"; but they are the end-products of years of elimination of toxin poisoning. Chronic "diseases" of all kinds are end-products of a long series, or succession, of varying causes and effects, requiring time for maturation.

What is Cancer? What is senility? What is Bright's disease? What is diabetes? What is rheumatic arthritis? What is paralysis? The end-results of toxemic crises, requiring years of pathological evolution to produce these endings, and everyone of which could have been halted at any time in its course by removing its cause. No mind is keen enough to say which ending a pathological chain of symptoms, starting with a cold or a gastritis, followed with the catarrhal complexes of the air passages, and repeated spells of acute gastritis, will take: whether ulcer, cancer, tuberculosis, or other ending.

Why cannot pathologists, clinicians, diagnosticians and other specialists comprehend that cancer, for instance, is the end of a pathological chain requiring years to evolve; that it is not autonomous or of recent development; that it is not a "special creation." "Cancer has no symptomatology except cachexia," says Tilden; "all other symptoms are those of the diseases of which it is the ending." There are no specific "diseases."