AND what is true about the "Bulgarized milk" preparation, is equally true about that other "all-cure" remedy known as Fleischman's yeast. In either case we meet the agencies of decay and degeneracy introduced in the defenseless organism. It is poison fighting poison: the "enemies of the household" being fought by the enemies of the frontier. It is the old story of a commonwealth, failing to subdue the industrial upheavals of its own brew of anarchy, inviting the still less tolerable lawlessness of nondescript savage tribes to rout the social rebellion. The business of the Fleisch-man bacillus is to introduce into the human stomach colonies of spores and fungi by the oxidation of which the acids of gastric fermentation may be neutralized and chemicalized into crystals of insoluble elemental salts - a process which in the course of time must run the system into a blockade of calcareous sediments, filling the capillaries, lymph-ducts, and general vascular exchanges with intractable obstructions. Gallstones, kidney calculi, gravel in the bladder, hardening of the joints and arteries, chronic rheumatism, neuralgia, endocarditis, etc., are some of the ailments that spring from the chemical reactions which the introduction into the system of these alien poisons give rise to. In place of being improved, the situation has thus grown incomparably worse. For while in the first case an acid stomach is readily made normal by a conscientious avoidance of the dietetic errors causing the affliction, on the other hand, after the organism starts its career of crystallization, due to the influence of the oxidation of the yeast, the individual faces a long agonizing career of lumbago, sciatica, urinary complications, or some one or other of the ailments and infirmities which assail a physilogically undermined and demoralized organism. And to the extent that Dr. Lindlahr is right: "That all disease is caused by something that interferes, diminishes, or disturbs the normal inflow and distribution of vital energy throughout the system" - every element introduced into the system which does not add regenerative, tissue-producing power to the body, is a drain on its life.* In biology as in theology the sentence holds good: Who is not for me is against me.

*In relation to the Fleischman yeast-theory, the further fact must be observed, that the yeast, through its alkalinity, greatly reduces the natural acidity of the gastric juice, which in order to regain its disturbed balance must bring about a very severe stress upon the nerves of the hydrochloric acid secretion. For unless the normal acidity of the stomach is restored, the digestion of the muscle-forming elements of the blood-the proteids - become disastrously weakened - a fact which seriously undermines the boasted qualities claimed for the yeast as a carrier of soluble vitamines. One of the symptoms of cancer of the stomach is the increase of its alkalinity, due to the presence of the malignant tumor, which like Fleischman's yeast has the power to absorb and neutralize the hydrochloric acid secretion. In either case, the stress of the secretory nerves to overcome the menace sooner or later leads to their permanent exhaustion, which means a growing inability of the stomach to digest but a small percentage of its proteids. What the consequences will be to a system with a ruined digestion is easily foretold, and will always remain so as long as the greed and ignorance of man will manipulate and distort the orderly processes of Nature's methods.