All of the foregoing is the result of twenty-four years of experience in the application to every sort of diseased condition of the simple plan of treatment founded on the right selection and combination of foods, wholly without remedies of any kind whatever, the entire object being to arrest the formation of acids of adventitious character in the body, through such selection and combination of the ordinary foods as would accomplish this result. During the entire twenty-four years there has never been a time when the writer could consider going back to the medical or surgical treatment that he finally and definitely discarded this rather long time ago.

Being a medical man, he is of course fully licensed to use any "remedies" he may think best for his patient, and also any operation that he seeks to perform he is legally licensed to undertake, but he has definitely turned his back on both the administration of drug or serum remedies, and the attempted correction of internal conditions by means of surgery.

Had he continued in medicine he would have earned and squandered much money, and his decision to drop both was not a hasty one, for he realized fully that the departure from the beaten path would cost him not only a large part of his yearly income but at the same time place him in a peculiar position with his medical brethren.

He adheres to his connections with organized medicine, even though completely out of sympathy with its aims and its practices, so is still a regular physician in good and regular standing.

Having dropped both medicine and surgery for what he considers a much more effective form of treatment it must be evident that there are no dishonest motives back of this change.

His results through these twenty-four years have been such that he could not honestly renounce the present line of practice for something that he has discarded because valueless in the treatment of so much of the disease present in every practice, so he makes no pretense toward either medicine or surgery, being wholly content to eradicate the causes of all disease as he sees them, and he believes that he has done more actual good in every single year of this period than in the entire sixteen years that preceded this time.

His entire efforts are toward making each one of his patients wholly independent of him, and when this is accomplished he feels that he has done this case real and permanent good.

After four years of experiment and study following his own breakdown, when he was forced finally to the conclusion that each body is composed merely and truly of what enters it daily through the digestive canal, it then became impossible for him to continue his former line of work, and he began to separate his very large practice into those who would without question follow his directions, and those who would not.

Those who would not were refused service in every case, and of course took their troubles to someone else; and those who would follow directions soon did not need his services any further, so they too were off the list of contributors to his expense budget.

This was serious business, for the meal ticket had been punched at both ends at once.

But among the rather spectacular recoveries of chronic disease in his obedient patients were many that influenced friends at a distance to come for treatment, and it was the influx of these that kept the wolf from the door for a time, and as the number of these patients from a distance grew rapidly it became necessary to open a sanatorium for their care.

This was twenty years ago last February, and never since that time has there been any dearth of patients from a great distance to keep the old wolf away from the door.

This business has not come through any form of advertising, as there never has been any attempt in this direction beyond one announcement several years ago of special care at the sanatorium for hay fever cases, the only mistake of this kind ever made, and one to which no business was ever traced; so it was a completely wasted gesture.

Surely the business that comes in wholly through successful treatment of cases may fairly be called legitimate business, and should not be charged to unfair means.

Yet, any physician who steps aside from the beaten path in any particular is spotted as a suspicious character, and, as a rule, his presence in medical circles is not craved.

This is all due to the entire misunderstanding of the whole situation by the medical men themselves, for there is nothing concealed, nothing the result of advertising or other questionable methods. Practically every patient treated is one on whom every sort of medical or surgical treatment has been tried, and he is never sent for; he comes of his own volition or is referred by some friend who has himself been treated by the sensible methods of stopping the cause and paying no attention to the end results.

The writer has for several years been instructing several other physicians in his methods, and these men report the same results, which have been so uniformly good that they have, as a rule, forsaken altogether their former line of practice and are removing the acid causes of disease exclusively, with great satisfaction to themselves and deep appreciation on the part of their chronic patients.

Is it not evident that any form of treatment that will bring the chronic sufferer back to the normal will much more easily prevent the same disease from occurring?

The writer has experienced a keen satisfaction in seeing a case of chronic disease swing back into the health column, but this satisfaction is not to be compared with what comes from a wholesale effect on those not yet afflicted with chronic disease, but who wish to prevent it and are willing to take the few simple steps necessary to avoid it.

In every case he has found that all that was necessary to prevent the advent of chronic conditions, that were already showing the infallible indications of their approach, was to so change the dietary habit as to stop at once all acid formation.