For four years he has been importuned to put into book form the things that are necessary to prevent disease, and for just the same length of time he has found it impossible to escape long enough from the arduous duties of sanatorium and private practice to accomplish this object.

Hence, the present exile, when in a month this record and simple directions are to be compiled for the guidance of those who realize that disease is a preventable condition, and who are seeking means to escape it.

This little book will not appeal to those who are not afraid of disease, those who do not see its approach; but to those who know that they will go the way of all flesh sooner than they wish, unless something different is done to prevent it, there will be much to cause interest in this record.

The writer has to see at least a thousand new cases each year, else he could never make a living, for each case is seen on the average but two to four times, and the cases treated by mail require but the same number of letters, so the income from this very transient and fleeting practice would be pitifully small were it not for the large numbers of patients who come or write for consultation in matters of health.

The writer does not treat disease, in the strictest sense of the word, but seeks only to build health on whatever foundation remains at the time this is undertaken; so he cannot ever say that he cured a single disease in his whole medical practice, nor does he believe that anyone else ever did.

He seeks merely to remove from each case the visible obstacles to Nature's unhampered function, and he knows that this is all that the smartest man in the world can do. Nature alone makes the cure, if it is ever made or to be made.

His entire effort in the practice of his profession for the past twenty-four years has been directed toward making everyone his own physician.

His success in this respect is best attested by the fact that those who have been treated seldom require any medical or surgical care, and by the further fact that cases have been coming in increasing numbers for this entire period from every state in the union, from the most remote provinces of Canada, and from many foreign lands; even from far-away South Africa.

This testifies that the form of practice must be doing good; it must be reaching cases that have failed to get relief at home; yet he does not take to himself one atom of credit, but gives it all to Nature, who does the work.

Most systems of self-treatment are so complicated, have so many strings to the kite, that to undertake to follow them is too discouraging. So many exercises, each of which is supposed to be of especial benefit, so much to watch in the daily care, so many things to be done, each of which is supposed to have some especial bearing on either prevention of or recovery from established disease, that it is small wonder that few adherents of the many systems of cure are to be found. Yet all of these do a great deal of good, as they are almost always a great departure from custom toward Nature, and their adherents, though small in numbers, are usually enthusiastic, as they should be.

All of the systems extant have been studied by the writer, most of these very minutely, and through them all has run the cord of natural foods. No matter to what was attributed their especial effectiveness, whether a system of bathing, bare-foot walking in the early morning dew, certain food selections, yet in one particular, every system that showed effectiveness in the recovery from established disease has had this evidence of the natural foods as its motivating cause of cure.

This realization came to the writer after careful perusal of the more prominent so-called natural methods of cure of the various authors and schools that seemed to have been most successful in treating disease along natural lines, and he began to concentrate on the use of what he considered vital foods in their unchanged condition, often preceding diet with a fast of sufficient scope to rid the system fairly well of the bulk of accumulated toxins.

The farther his studies in foods have carried him the closer has he been forced back to the ancient Edenic standard, . . . the vegetables, the fruits, the nuts, . . . till he now regards anything else as unnatural in the very strictest sense, not that one can not eat some very unnatural food and still retain health, but that ideal health can not be attained with any other line of foods than those outlined by God to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

These, when analysed, represent in toto the things that the body requires every day for its maintenance, and whether we eat the other things or not, we at least must depend on the foods produced by Nature just as she produces them.

These will seem highly restricted to one who has not studied foods, but to one familiar with the endless variety offered by this list there is infinite change in prospect, and no one need feel that he is not getting every day the things he can enjoy most, and in variety enough to please the most fastidious taste, after it has been for a sufficient time trained to this very primitive standard.

In the Sun-Diet Health Service we are trying to compromise with convention and at the same time eradicate the acid development that habitually occurs from a misunderstanding of the most primal laws of food.

In the menus printed herewith there will be found many evidences of this attitude, as dishes are compounded of articles not all natural, but these are so arranged as to prevent their interference one with the other. Therefore no arrest of digestion occurs through wrong chemistry, and the result is a cessation of acid formation.

Of the various foods that go to make up the usual diet, or lack of diet, the carbohydrates, comprising all of the starchy foods of every kind, and all the sugars of every kind, make up the element of chief danger from fermentation, as they require alkalin conditions throughout the entire digestive tract, and acid at any stage of their digestion will permanently arrest this, for it cannot be resumed once it is arrested.