She had taken so many cathartics in such large and increasing doses that they would no longer act on the bowels, and she began to use the enema for the immediate relief it gave her. She was warned by her physicians, of whom her own brother was one, that this would paralyse her colon and she would never again have normal movements; but she replied that already the colon was well paralyzed, and she did not believe anything would or could further deplete its function. So she kept on with its use, and was at sixty-five years of age much younger looking than are most women of fifty years. She never had any more sick headaches or bilious attacks, and said that if the enema was missed one day the bowels always moved voluntarily, something they never did while depending on laxatives.

Five years later she was again seen on the street, still looking as young as ever, and saying the enema had saved her life and continued to keep her in health.

Now surely this patient did herself no harm with even this very protracted use of the enema, and her history showed that the colon was much more active after twenty-two years of this assistance than when it was first used.

Careful fluoroscopic examination of the colon after varying periods of the enema's use in a wide variety and age of patients has definitely proved to the writer that the use of the enema daily is a beneficient affair, not in any way interfering with the normal function of the colon, and of great assistance to a colon behind with its work.

Surely it is more closely in line with Nature to remove this decaying mass than to allow it to remain and continue to putrefy and ferment, distributing the debris of this through every part of the body, even showing in the breath.

Both halitosis and bromidrosis, that is, both foul breath and foul body odors, originate in the character of this uneliminated debris found in the usual colon, for experiments before referred to showed that the average length of residence in the colon of debris is seventy-two hours, in those who are blessed with one stool every day, and who do not for this reason class themselves as constipated.

Food eaten today must be voided entire tomorrow, else we are to this extent constipated, even if we have two stools a day, for every hour after twenty-four allows too great opportunity for this fermentation and putrefaction to augment, till the condition of the average colon is that of a foul sewer.

The remedy for this is under immediate control with no harm to the body from such control, and as the enema is merely doing for the colon what it is trying to do for itself but cannot, it should be considered a natural proceeding, instead of being decried as it is in all medical circles.

Now just what has this to do with a medical millennium?

Everything that removes from the body fears and depression and all hampering thought is hastening the day when fear will be banished from the earth, and a proper and enlightened understanding of the body and the processes by which it retains its efficiency, or loses it through disease, will predominate.

As said before, we do not fear what we fully understand, and when we understand disease properly we will cease to fear it.

Life insurance then will not mean so much to any, but accident insurance will always be advisable, or life insurance from the standpoint of the savings account, as it is surely a good institution from this viewpoint even if we never expect to die.

Can you imagine what sort of world this would be if all fear were removed?

Financial panics would be past; fear of ill health or death would cease to crimp our plans for the future; we would plan and expect to carry through things from which we now shrink, and the work of the world would at once be on a greatly advanced plane.

This in itself is a millennial thought, but from the medical standpoint a millennium is an end to fears of illness and death, due to a proper understanding of the causes that lead up to both.

The public carries continually a great fear of germs, a dread of contagion, of contacts with disease-producing foci or agencies, that is born of a complete misunderstanding of the means by which we acquire disease.

When we thoroughly understand this there will be no thought of immunization against disease of any kind, for we will know that in the very nature of the thing there can be no immunization except through our own heightened resistance, from a normal body in full function.

Evidence of the efficiency of serum immunization is still entirely lacking, for we have no way of knowing whether one supposedly immunized against any form of disease would ever take such disease under even extreme exposure.

We do know that not every one does take the communicable diseases, and there must be some form of natural protection, an immunity to these diseases, that the body carries habitually, and that is lost on occasion by certain of these, thus opening the way for infection from the outside.

This natural immunity is nothing more than normal functional efficiency, health, and cannot be created artificially by any means of any kind, being a strictly personal matter.

Speaking of fears in connection with deficient health, the writer recalls a very striking case that illustrates the effect which a cleaner and better body has on fixed fear.

A little lady from New York City, who was staying at the sanatorium with her husband, and who was epileptic, had a fixed and nearly life-long fear of thunder-storms, and when one of these occurred, her husband would generally find her under the bed or in a dark closet.

After she had been nearly four weeks there a tremendous thunder storm broke one afternoon, and she stood with her husband on the front porch and laughed at it, all fear of it being gone.

She was constipated and toxic, her epilepsy coming from this cause, as is generally the case, and after the colon was brought up to date and kept there she had no more convulsions, nor even the petit mal, or little sickness, that indicates the tendency to epilepsy.