I have employed the term chemical toxemia for the want of a better one. By this I mean poisoning by drugs, chemicals, radium, dyes, food adulterants, bleaches, vaccines, serums, antitoxins, etc., whether taken accidentally, or taken for the "prevention and cure of disease." Every drug, vaccine, and serum in use poisons the body. They are sent into the body through the lungs, by inhalation; through the skin by absorption and injection ; through the mouth, by swallowing; and through the membranes of the eyes, nose, ears, colon, vagina, womb and urethra by absorption. Always they enervate and usually they produce more or less tissue destruction and organic impairment. By overstimulation they add to metabolic toxemia, while complicating it.

The use of anesthetics and other depressing substances may so inhibit metabolism and hinder the oxidation of fats as to give rise to toxic substances that often greatly damage the liver and other organs. Tobacco and coffee each depress the digestive system and permit decomposition of food. Food poisoning is thus added to drug poisoning.

Experiments have revealed that otherwise non-toxic substances become toxic when introduced directly into the blood stream. Even milk proves poisonous when thus introduced. An animal's own blood, if withdrawn and allowed to stand in the syringe for a few minutes, proves toxic when re-introduced. All foreign proteins, when so introduced are highly toxic. Smallpox vaccine is septic, producing septic infection. Blood transfusion gives rise to toxic symptoms which may range all the way from a mild reaction to speedy death.