Why consult with this type of physician when the best one can get is his disfavor, with no possible chance to change the treatment?

The patient could not lie down for fear of drowning in his own fluids, he could not walk about because too weak and short of breath, so he sat day and night in a large Morris chair, his legs bloated to the limit of the skin, gasping hourly for breath.

He was directed to throw out the medicine and never to take another drop as long as he lived; he was told to take a half pint of Pluto water first thing in the morning to hasten the draining off of the excess fluids that he carried, rushing these out through the bowel because they could not get through the crippled kidneys.

No food was to be given for three days, and the purge used first thing in the morning, but after this had acted freely and thirst set in he was to drink freely of orange juice, lemon juice and water.

This was on Monday evening, and his doctor, who was then out of town, was expected Friday, and would call.

The doctor was not to know that any change had been made in his prescription, and allowed to think that his last medicine was pure magic, so on his arrival he was astonished to find that his patient was scarcely bloated at all, he had walked Thursday and Friday around the block twice each day, and was lying down and breathing as nicely as any one, sleeping all night like a baby, and feeling immense.

The doctor remarked on the wonderful effect of that last increase of ten drops per dose of the digitalis, making a note of this, and the next poor devil will probably have to take this large dose the first thing, and it may kill him.

This was the most unethical thing the writer has ever done, and he has done the same thing when finding on the case some physician who cannot change his thought, and he believes it is justifiable to rescue a patient from the danger of such a physician in every case, but when called to cases where the attendant is unknown to him he always refuses to prescribe or even to examine the case except in the presence of the physician, for this man may be able to reason, and it is not fair to fail to give him the opportunity to show whether or. not he is up to date, or whether he is still in the same old rut of mysticism and medicine worship.

This case made a splendid recovery by learning how to eat so as to need less kidney function, for his kidneys are shortened in function permanently, and he will always have to live within the capacity for elimination of these crippled organs; an easy thing to do when understood.

Now why did this man recover? Not because he was given any magic treatment, but simply because he quit doing the things that were making it impossible for his crippled kidneys to keep the system clear of the particular form of waste that only kidneys can eliminate.

The Pluto water was merely a broom to sweep out quickly much accumulated waste, by removing vast quantities of acid-laden serum from the blood, and lymph from the tissues, and is in no sense a medicine.

The recovery is like all others; if the encumbering waste can be removed down to a possible point for the capacity of the eliminative organs, these will then be capable of keeping the tissues clear, if the patient will stop the usual dietary mistakes and eat those foods in which the necessary body ingredients are fully represented, at the same time combining these compatibly to prevent the usual fermentations.

Those foods are to be eliminated which leave behind them such wastes as are embarrassing the particular organ that is breaking down, or that is broken down, and time does the rest, the same spirit of growth and repair that operates so long as we live.

When we analyze the situation carefully we will be compelled to say that all we can do to cure disease is to stop causing disease. Recovery comes like the dawn, slowly and by almost imperceptible advance, but continuously and finally till the light breaks and we realize another day.

Cases similar to the above could be multiplied indefinitely through the past twenty-four years; nearly all of which were given but a short time to live, definitely condemned by really good physicians, yet who made splendid comebacks when they quit doing the things that had interfered with the law, and when they understood what these things were and just how to avoid their repetition.

Can we cure disease? Absolutely not, nor can we do anything materially beneficial, but the body itself can heal itself if given a chance, as has been proved in thousands of cases in the experience of this one writer alone.

For twenty-four years this writer has been confining all of his treatment for disease to this one plan, assisting by such simple means as the drastic detergent saline purge when time presses, using the enema to assist a feeble colon in its unavailing efforts to keep itself clear of accumulating waste, and definitely stopping the usual food mistakes till recovery has had time to become well advanced, then making such permanent alterations in diet as will approximate as closely as possible the actual needs of each body without embarrassing any lame function, and his patients have recovered only through the ability of the body to heal its own broken defenses.

If you were to hit the thumb nail hard enough with a hammer 'to destroy its function you would lose it, of course. You know this no doubt from early experiences, yet you do not worry, and you 'do not try to make this nail grow on again; you do not use any magic dope, nor do you think any heroic surgical operation even remotely suggested by such condition.

So what do you do to secure another thumb nail? You do nothing but wait, only you do recognize the fact that till this nail grows again it is necessary to stop hitting the thumb with the hammer, also you have learned by experience that it is not wise to hit the thumb with the hammer, and you mentally resolve not to do so again.