The writer will stand pat on his former statement that all disease is unnecessary, because always self-created from certain well-defined food causes, therefore self-controllable for this same reason.

For nearly twenty-four years the wrecks of humanity from all over the United States and much of Canada, not to mention several foreign countries, have been coming here for treatment for all sorts of supposedly incurable states, usually after having "suffered much at the hands of many physicians," yet a vast majority get rid of their troubles, often enjoying the best health they have ever experienced, after ceasing to cause their troubles or their diseases,' for this is all that is done for them.

They are fairly well cleaned out, detoxicated, and taught why they were sick and just how to prevent a return of their illnesses in future. That is all--no medication, no drugs, no surgery, no local treatment of any kind whatever--but it is enough, for old Mother Nature is after all the very best nurse, if we will for all time cease interfering with her normal and established processes, and when she sets out to right a wrong bodily condition she will succeed if left severely alone.

To interfere with Nature's efforts to heal disease costs too much in money, too much in time, too much in suffering and prolongation of illness, far too much on the whole, for Nature knows how to cure disease but man does not, and Sir William Osier was right when he said that anything that could not be cured by Nature must forever remain uncured.

If a patient with an enteric fever will clean house, stop all intake of food till digestion returns, keep the colon clear daily till normal activity returns, drink plenty of water as the fever makes this seem desirable to him, and, if he does nothing else, he will recover in a few days or a very few weeks, where under the usual feeding and drugging plan in typhoid or other enteric forms of fever he would be ill for four to six weeks, and away from the pay window for twice as long.

From the standpoint of dollars and cents (or sense) he will be a great gainer, from the shorter time required and the earlier return to work. The increased health resulting from such an illness properly managed leaves scarcely any comparison with the usual treatment.

Sickness costs too much, far, far too much, and it should never occur, which makes of its incidental expense a total loss.

When we can regard every acute illness as merely the effort of the body to clean house and right its internal discord, then we can forget the doctor and let things go on as Nature has outlined them.

Humanity has been taught for thousands of years that sickness is an unavoidable evil, and when it occurs the doctor is the one to be consulted, yet the doctor says that the cause of disease is a great mystery, and it is hard to eradicate the effect of these thousands of years of training and to view acute disease as a blessing to a body unable to proceed at its normal rate in the face of accumulating debris of all sorts.

Every acute disease without exception is the effort of the body to readjust to a more normal condition, and should be encouraged, not contended against, as we are taught to believe, and the occurrence of the crisis in each case is full evidence that the body has sufficient vitality to accomplish the program undertaken.

Authorities who have adopted this view in all time aver, or have averred, that no case of acute illness ever occurs on any other basis, and that if such were left to itself recovery would always be the rule, not the exception.

The writer has in mind a little town not far from his early field of practice where formerly physicians lived and seemingly flourished, but where there had been no physician for a number of years. After a time the people there, who had at first bemoaned their sad fate, felt lese and less necessity for the presence of a physician, till in time there was seldom a necessity felt for the doctor, except for accident cases or the death of the aged or the birth of a new arrival, and yet the health of this community was far above the average, with no doubt the usual amount of acute illness that was wholly unattended.

The writer considers that the first sixteen years of his medical life were totally wasted, nay, worse than this, for he now knows that not only did his surgery do much harm (except the repair of wounds and the correction of deformities), but also his prescription of remedies for the symptoms of disease as he recognized these was harmful and suppressive of Nature's efforts to right the internal wrongs in her own way.

He can look back on many a case of pneumonia or typhoid fever that failed to come through, surely on this very account, for he persisted in reading each symptom as evidence of disease, an evidence that he sought promptly to destroy by suppressive treatment.

Now, after twenty-four years of treatment of disease wholly without drugs or surgery he would think it a crime to lose any case of pneumonia that was not already semimoribund when treatment was begun, and his treatment is a let-alone plan, letting feeding alone, letting medicine alone, letting everything alone that the patient does not crave. Nature never fails to restore to health the body thus let alone, usually far better health than before the illness.

Why should not this always be true, if acute disease is really Nature's method of cure? She has cleaned out the offending material and the last state is sure to be better than before the illness, otherwise our reasoning is wrong and we will have to find something that will square with the facts of spontaneous recovery from acute illnesses with a higher health state than before.

Whatever our theory we cannot quarrel with cold facts, which all point in one direction, that of certain recovery with high level of health when the acute troubles are treated in this natural way.