When the diarrhea of mucous, that is the means of expelling toxins in what is called a cold, has reduced the toxins to the toleration point, the cold ends spontaneously. It is customary to say, it is cured; but this is not so. It merely ended. It is not something to cure--it is a curative process. When toxic accumulation forces elimination, the biogony lasts until the urge is relieved and the symptoms subside. This is not cure. Only the urge of toxic super-saturation is relieved. The subject is still toxemic, and enervated and will remain so until all enervating habits are corrected. No cold, or other biogony, is ever really cured until all the causes of enervation and toxemia are removed. The cold is an indication of a morbid state that will increase in intensity with the passage of years, marked by frequent crises of toxemia (biogonies), unless its causes are removed. If the person who has a cold had not been much below the near-health standard, he would not have developed the cold. When the symptoms have ceased (when the cold is gone), its cause lingers still under the surface of our conventional standard of health.

But a catarrhal condition (cold), the cause of which is not controlled, will gradually extend to all the mucous membranes of the body. When enervating habits are continued and nerve energy is more and more lessened, and toxemia becomes more and more profound, more mucous surface is required through which to eliminate. This means that inflammations are produced in other parts of the mucous membranes, hence the individual has "other diseases." There is really no justification for recognizing all these differently located catarrhs as separate and distinct diseases. Starting with gastritis, or coryza, the individual may develop, one by one, frequent crises, as the different areas of mucous membrane are commandeered to do vicarious duty. Catarrh of the nose, rhinitis, if badly managed--feeding, overheating and enervating practices continued--may involve the entire mucous membrane of the air passages.

When the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels are involved, because of the contiguity of the mucous membranes of the gall-duct and gall bladder, as well as the appendix, the pancreatic duct, etc., these organs take on catarrhal inflammation.

The mucous membranes of the intestines and collateral organs--gall-duct, gall-bladder, pancreas as well as of the reproductive organs--womb, vagina, tubes, urethra, bladder, etc.,--may all become the location of crises--catarrhal "diseases." If this vicarious discharge is sent out of the body through the kidneys, the diagnosis is frequent micturition, or kidney disease. If it goes out by way of the colon, the diagnosis is muco-colitis; by way of the bladder, cystitis. These are mere words--names--but; convey no understanding. Excessive menstruation, nose bleed, diarrhea, flux, amoebic dysentery, etc., are all means of getting rid of excess. An ulcerated foot or mouth becomes a point of elimination of toxin--a fontanel. All of these crises may be modified by infections generated in the gastro-intestinal canal from fermentation and putrefaction going on there. Pneumonia, typhoid fever, menengitis, small-pox, diphtheria, so-called "flu," etc., are all symptom-complexes to which are added complications by feeding, drugging, anxiety and fear created by doctors and nurses, also family and friends. When the catarrhal "diseases" are backed up by a toxin laden blood supply, they take on an ulcerative form, and if protein ingestion is excessive, the ulceration becomes putrescent.

It is customary to divide so-called "diseases" into acute and chronic types. Both of these types are again divided into benignant and malignant. The malignant types of acute "disease" are made malignant by absorption of putrescent infection arising from decomposition of animal foods in the stomach and bowels. The chronic types of "disease" are made malignant by putrescence arising from degeneration (oxygen starvation) within the morbid growth or tissue itself. All organic degenerations--tumors, indurated glands, thickened and hardened tissue--take on malignancy when they begin to decompose and the putrescent or septic material is absorbed, producing cachexia. The sepsis may be called cancer in gouty and tuberculosis in tubercular subjects. This is the dividing line between benignant and malignant chronic so-called "diseases." When a benign tumor that has hardened, for instance, becomes malignant (cancerous), it is because of a growing systemic enervation and toxemia. So long as nerve-energy is near normal, and toxin elimination is nearly efficient, malignancy is prevented. The body is able to protect itself when secretion and excretion are normal.

Tilden says "the development of degenerative diseases may take place in any tissue of the body. If this chain of symptoms is controlled before cachexia (a depraved condition of general nutrition) is established, cancer will not develop. After cachexia (pernicious anemia), or the stage known as cancer, is developed, recovery is as hopeless as when septicemia, which some day will be recognized as acute cancer, develops in a wound, or after childbirth--or the unlooked-for deaths following operations on the appendix."

Without any attempt at completion, the most common crises that develop when toxin accumulation reaches the saturation point, are: in the throat and respiratory tract, coryza, rhinitis, tonsillitis, adenoids, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, croup, catarrhal croup, pneumonia; in the stomach and intestine, gastritis, duodenitis, enteritis, colitis, proctitis; in the genito-urinary tract, cystitis, urethritis, metritis, cervicitis, leucorrhea, or vaginitis. This all means that one or more special areas of mucous membrane have been requisitioned to do special or compensatory service, and the eliminating process--the "disease"--is named according to location.

When the gastric catarrh extends to the duodenum, it finds its way through the gall-duct to the gall-bladder and liver, producing cholangitis, chole-cystitis, and, in gouty subjects, gall-stones, catarrh of the liver. When the catarrh extends up the pancreatic duct into the pancreas it produces pancreatitis, and, finally, diabetes.

When any special area of mucous membrane is forced into repeated or continual crises, chronic inflammation is established. Then coryza becomes rhinitis, with the usual organic changes in the membrane, such as adenoids, hay fever, polyps, ozena, etc., and the inflammation extends into the sinuses, roots of the teeth, etc. Tonsillitis and pharyngitis become enlarged tonsils, and the catarrh extends to the eustachian tube, ears, inner ear, mastoid cells, etc. Laryngitis and bronchitis extend to the lymphatics and adenitis develops, and in those of the tubercular diathesis, enlarged cervical glands and tuberculosis of the pharynx, larynx, or lungs. Gastritis evolves enduration, ulceration and cancer. Duodenitis takes on ulceration, the catarrh finds its way into the gall-bladder and liver and gall-stones or other "diseases" follow. Pancreatitis develops when the catarrh finds its way up the pancreatic duct, and, then diabetes and other "diseases" of the pancreas. In the colon and rectum ulcerative colitis and. proctitis develop; in the kidneys of gouty subjects stones form; in the vagina and womb, ulcers and cancer, in the male prostatitis and prostatic enlargement.