IN the knowledge and application to the human body of the laws and principles that operate in the pharmacopoeia of nature, lies the only guaranty for a safe adjustment and cure of bodily ailments. And as the movements, actuating and stimulating physical growth and dependent conditions of health, involve the operation of every known principle of chemistry, mechanics and dynamics, it follows that the science of healing must continue to extend its researches, and become acquainted with every field or phase of life where such knowledge may be obtained. All the kingdoms of nature: air, water, fire, earth, should diligently be brought to bear upon the diseased body. In place of spending mental and physical energy on the composition or decomposition of natural, God-given foodstuffs, by reducing the precious grain into super-processed, chemicalized, sterilized, devitalized "Health-foods," denatured soup-tabloids or meat extracts, etc., our great food chemists might concentrate their minds on discovering the vital connection between certain plants and certain physiological functions; between the idiosyncrasies of human nature and the corresponding potencies of physical nature; to ascertain with scientific accuracy the true curative value of certain "home-cures" old-fashioned nature-remedies and herbal compounds; why and how, for instance, parsley and watercress are good for the kidneys, tomatoes, dandelion and onions for the liver, celery and garlic for rheumatism, cranberries, internally and externally, for eczema, raw carrots for stomach, skin and intestines, lettuce for the nerves and blood, and beets for the heart and muscles. In other words to find scientifically determinable values for nature herbs by ascertaining their intrinsic chemical-physiological relation to the functions and organs on which they seem to exert an influence; and to establish a standardized terminology between these relations. Such a study would be of epochal value to humanity.

Nor should the purely mechanical phase of human nature be neglected: the stretching of muscles, vibratory stimuli for slow circulation, adjustment of sprained or strained tissues through massage treatments, etc. - employing every measure that aims at restoring man's true relation to nature, and thus to render his body a more worthy, more fit instrument for the service of humanity. The elements of the body are the elements of the universe, performing their functions under the sway of identical laws.

But while the means and instrumentalities of health belong to the molecular, tangible, rationally and scientifically determinable plane of existence, the gauge of judgment and standard of motive must be located on the moral and spiritual planes. The physician must draw his learning from the mental plane, his feeling from the spiritual plane, and his motives from the moral plane; while the patient should be treated on the particular plane of his disease. If his mind be affected, to that extent the treatment must be mental; if his feelings are deranged, approach him from the plane of soul and conscience; if his motives are confused speak to his moral nature - but in any and all cases, the appeals to his conscience and mentality must involve his reason and self-conscious powers of judgment. And as all diseases, with the exception of accidents and congenital disorders, have their root and genesis in the moral plane, in terms of desires and appetites, the road to cure and health must naturally lead through the fields of conscience and morality.