With the epilepsy went the fears, for both were caused by the lowered condition of body tone due to the very toxic state.

Reports from this case several years later were that neither the epilepsy nor the fear of storms returned, evidence that she was adhering pretty closely to the directions for food selection and combination, and also that she had evidently used the enema for a long enough time to permit the corrected dietary to restore the missing colonic action.

Substandard states of the health are the cause of senseless and useless fears, and every one can recall cases that are afraid of every-thing--driving, walking, even staying at home, for whom everything hides an imaginary danger. What women, especially, suffer from these useless fears is enough alone to create bad states of the body.

Here again we have the vicious cycle in full operation, for fears depress function, including the function of elimination; retained waste creates still greater fears, till there is often a breakdown of the nerves; and the same old argument starts all over again as to whether the nerve state causes the toxic condition or vice versa.

If the body is not allowed to begin this accumulation of toxins there will be no starting point for an intoxication that makes the depressing fears, so as we can easily control the toxic manufacture we are in a position to prevent the advent of the vicious cycle.

If all fears of disease were removed what would become of the doctor? He might have to seek other employment, which would be wholly evil from his standpoint, but from the standpoint of the patient this is mixed with at least some good.

Never to need the doctor is far better than to need him and recover through his ministrations, surely; and when we understand what makes disease of all kinds we will then appreciate better the fact that the doctor has little or nothing to do with this, as it is self-created and can be controlled in no other way than through self.

There is a very evident awakening on this subject of the self-created causes of disease, and it looks now as though it would be no great while till people come to accept their individual responsibilities in disease prevention, and when that day dawns it will surely be the beginning of a true medical millennium.

When everyone realizes that he or she can be well or sick through the manner in which the food is selected, prepared and combined, then surely there will be some attention paid to this most vital part of our daily care of the body.

If the food is right the body will be right, not most of the time but all of the time, and exercise can safely be left to take care of itself.

Exercise is natural to the well body; it is unnatural to a body less than well, and very many are wrecked by forcing exercises when unable to profit by these, when the exercise still further exhausts and depletes a body desiring rest above everything else.

The writer has frequently been called an idealist and dreamer for taking such optimistic view of disease, but the experiences of the past twenty-four years have proved conclusively to him that disease is so perfectly easy to control through a few simple cares daily that he can see no reason for gloom, and he verily believes that the time is not far distant when a realization of these very things will be quite universally in evidence.

We have a glorious country, we live in a wonderful age, we are in a position such as never was enjoyed before by any nation in any age to accomplish things of lasting benefit to humanity; yet we are forestalled in much of our planning and endeavor by ill health in some form, either in our own person or our families or employees. If we could realize all the great change that would come into our lives by this understanding of disease we would then take every means to further the teaching of such doctrine as is here held forth.

There are more and more large employers of labor who are discovering that a little attention paid to the health of those under their care pays large dividends. They are organizing playgrounds, gymnasia, bathing pools, to assist their help in taking care of their health. But a much more direct means toward this end would be a cafeteria or restaurant at which were served only those foods that are best for the body, and in such combination as would preclude the possibility of the usual fermentations.

Any employer following out this idea intelligently would be astonished by the great change in efficiency in his employees, and in a surprisingly short space of time.

The proper restaurant, selling foods that are real food, is here, it has come to stay, and it is the forerunner of much business along the eating line, for so many are waking up to the fact that their health, happiness and efficiency depend almost wholly on what is eaten each day, that the army of those who will patronize nothing but a proper restaurant is bound to grow to such proportions that the market for foods of this character will soon reflect the desire.

If the government would only interest itself in the prohibition of processing of foods, there would be much accomplished at once toward a lessening of the deficiency evil in our land. The government is fully cognizant of the facts of nutrition, as many feeding experiments were conducted in the Section of Foods, Department of Agriculture; even the feeding experiments before referred to as occuring in the Rockefeller Institute were duplicated in this section, with comparable results.

So Uncle Sam is a party to the demineralization of our national foods by not forbidding it.

Part of very big business, the millers and bakers, is interested in the denaturing of foods, and Uncle does not like to offend big business, for he has found that it does not pay.

He watches the composition of the feed for calves and chickens, and is very severe on any one who sells corncob meal for these innocents, but he does not interest himself in the feeding of the future citizens in the slightest.

This is not as it should be, of course, but what can we do about it? Big business needs the money so we will have to continue to eat of the emasculated food products which they are allowed to sell to us, and which Uncle Sam helps them to advertise under very misleading statements.

It is too much to expect that this state of affairs will ever change itself, and there seems to be but one thing that we can do about it, and that is personally to refuse everything that is in any way processed or refined, and when enough are doing this there will be forced a change in the whole system of preparing and marketing foods.

This is our individual part, and it is probably all that we will ever be able to do to help correct this great evil.

If people knew what they do to their bodies when they take any considerable amount of the refined starchy or sugary foods they would hesitate, for the number of voluntary suicides is rather small, unless we include those who are actually insane.

Surely no one in his or her right mind would take into the body something that does great harm, when there is always something just as good and that will give us as much pleasure and at the same time do no harm to the body.

Now what will bring about a medical millennium?

Only the better understanding by the individual of the causes of disease and how to avoid them.

This is the very thing that is now happening, and it is most encouraging that speakers on such themes always get a hearing and much sympathetic attention wherever they speak. One patient from Florida said only a few days ago that when an address on any phase of health or foods is announced at any hotel of the many wintering places, there is almost surely a crowd that will pack the audience room to the doors.

Not so many years ago such an announcement would not attract a corporal's guard for audience; now the tendency is toward a better interest and understanding in health matters, as these apply to the individual.

If every one were to take even the menus here outlined for one month, there would be noticeable a change for the better in general health that would astonish any one who has not so far interested himself in the subject.

These are not by any means ideal diets, but are intended to apply to those who have not before dieted to any extent, and are more in the nature of a compromise between conventional habit in eating and the ideal diet for one who has gone far with food study.

The writer does not hesitate to promise that if even such changes in eating as are indicated by these menus were put into effect they would practically end all deficiency and acid conditions, for the complete absence of fermentation from the use of such menus would open the eyes of any one who has previously suffered much from this cause of acid states.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if any reader is inclined to take issue with the statements heretofore in this little book he is requested before making up any fixed opinion on the subject to adhere faithfully to the indicated diet of the earlier chapter for one month, till he has gone through to the end of the four weeks, and then he is allowed to form his own conclusions, and no one will quarrel with his decisions.

Any such must remember that in adopting such diet for even four weeks he is starting a changed body chemistry, and symptoms may be noted that are not at first pleasant, but these are always incidental to better states of the body, as function is freed more and more from the depression of acid formation and again rises to heights that may mean a reaction, when some form of acute housecleaning takes place.

If such should occur it is only necessary to go right on, for this means very much better conditions of health in the near future.

If every one could be induced to adopt at once a non-acid-forming habit of food selection and combination, the wished-for medical millennium would already be well launched, and there would then be no further difficulty in securing the full cooperation of any in the spreading of this information broadcast.

When each child, down into the grades even, is taught the necessary fundamentals of foods, again this medical millennium will be well launched, and better conditions in sight for the coming generation than we have ever known.

We have it in our power to speed this day, if we have such outcome really at heart.

TALK HEALTH!

The dreary, never changing tale

Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.

You cannot charm, or interest, or please

By harping on that minor chord, disease.

Say you are well, or all is well with you,

And God shall hear your words and make them true.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.