If even the small number of cases before recited cleared up under a purely physical detoxication and correction of the daily diet, wholly without psychic treatment, or even suggestion, it is to be supposed that at least a fair percentage of all cases would do similarly.

Only recently, within the past three years, a case diagnosed as dementia precox (or reported by her family as so diagnosed) was brought in for treatment of the supposed neurasthenia, the husband admitting some mental aberration which he described as deep blues or depression that caused a great deal of crying, a not unusual condition.

She was accepted and the husband departed to his home, somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Further examination of the patient developed the fact that she was wholly irrational, could not even answer questions, having both amnesic and ataxic aphasia, cried continually, and required a special nurse to restrain her from throwing herself out of the window. She passed stool and urine involuntarily and apparently unconsciously. She refused food or ate like a hungry dog, bolting everything offered, no matter what its character.

She was obstinately constipated, with foul breath and heavily coated tongue. Pulse was rapid and feeble. Sleep was nearly impossible, even under heavy hypnotics.

As detoxication progressed all her symptoms cleared up, but not for two weeks did she quit trying to escape, even to throw herself out of the window.

She stopped crying before the end of the first two weeks and before the end of the third week she was one of the very sunniest and brightest patients in the place, and unless she returns to her former mistakes in selecting and combining her foods it will be safe to guarantee that her mental trouble will never return.

What did we do for her? Nothing, in a sense, but to stop her from doing the things that before had caused her troubles.

We did use the saline purge freely at first, common Pluto water, a solution of Epsom and Glauber salts, for three days in succession, accompanying these three days with copious quantities of orange and lemon juice, nothing more; and following this three-day period of preliminary housecleaning she took twice a day a full enema of tepid or slightly cool water, to clear the colon and to keep it daily cleared.

Diet after the first three days was limited to the natural foods in their natural state, the fresh fruits and vegetable salads, though because she would not chew her food these were given in the form of extracted juices for perhaps the first week.

No other food of any kind was used, nothing at all was done except these simple things, and the result was that when the body had thrown off enough of the encumbering waste, mentality came back as good as ever, and she returned to her home in four weeks as sane as she had ever been before in her life, and a very bright young woman.

This case is cited as typical of the regime and results where the patient has been at all controllable, and it is easy to see that only a controllable case could be so treated.

However, in the State institutions, equipped with means for complete control, all these things can be carried out even on the unwilling, and without cruelty or force.

All institutions for the insane have been for years stressing methods of detoxication, but these consist of baths, rubs, sunshine, fresh air, and such modalities, none of which go deep enough to reach a case already well progressed with this condition.

For this reason they have not been able to show striking results, though their statistics do show better results than without using these partially corrective measures.

If a nutritionist who fully understands these essentials of detoxication and properly corrected diet could be turned loose in the average insane hospital with carte blanche to go as far as he wished, there is little doubt that in one year he could empty the place of fully half its inmates, for in one year he would be able to change the physical state of the entire group so that only those rather advanced with degenerative change would fail to show an improvement that would convince any one of even half open mind that the table is the cause of insanity, and its cure.

Here again we see the relationship between body and mind, and we are the more impressed with this relationship, as with each year, more and more evidence is produced of its intimate character.

It has now been twenty years since the writer definitely accepted the belief that the human body is merely a composite of what goes into it daily in the form of foods. He has definitely stopped quarrelling with the thing, being forced to this position by accumulating evidence, and it is only since his acceptance of this belief that the practice of healing has ever given him a kick or any pleasure, the work before being done perfunctorily, as a mere pot-boiling occupation, a means of livelihood.

The ancient and honorable trade of medicine meant nothing to him, and he many times regretted his commission to practice it as a life calling.

Every particle of respect was removed for the treatment of disease by drugs even before his graduation, though he went to New York with the firm belief that if one knew enough of the body and its diseases he would be smart enough to find a way to relieve these.

The entire lack of agreement among the various authors, as well as among the more closely related members of the teaching and demonstration force of the college, completely dispelled his naive expectation that medicine was a science, and the ruin was complete when dear old Doctor Loomis, Professor of the Practice of Medicine, said in one of his lectures: "Gentlemen, I sometimes think that if you will give me morphine you may have the rest of the Materia Medica."

From that time on study on Materia Medica was only sufficient to secure a passing mark, while study was concentrated more on anatomy, physiology, pathology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, things that did seem to have something somewhat concrete in their teachings.