There are many schools of treatment, not only the Allopathic or old school, but the Homeopathic, the Eclectic, the Osteopath, the Chiropractor, the Naprapath, the Neuropath, the Spondylotherapist, the Christian Science school, all of them, with the exception of the last named, trying to do something for the disease, when as a matter of fact there is nothing that can be done about the disease or for it but to stop doing the things that have culminated in the body's desire to rid itself of this accumulating waste that is the occasion for all disease of every character.

The Christian Scientist seems to be the only one who does not rely on some remedy for the cure of disease, and may this not account for the fact of so many recoveries under their ministrations, with so very few deaths?

We know there are few deaths, for each time such a death has occurred Heaven and Earth were moved to have the practitioner punished for this, under the impression that the death occurred because of the practitioner's failure to do something "curative".

The Scientist ignores the existence of the body, and takes the ground that it exists only as the mind gives it existence, therefore it is wholly amenable to the mind.

Even this is better than to try to undo all the efforts of Nature to repair her own work, as is generally done by all forms of treatment.

If the Scientist could couple with his implicit faith in the ability of the soul, the higher self, to heal, an understanding also of the body's complete ability to heal, with or without faith and understanding, by the simple process of refraining from doing the things that have occasioned the necessity for this crisis that we call disease, then indeed would his work be praiseworthy.

Now let us return again to the question of cost, and to the staggering total of six billions of dollars let us add all the heartaches caused by illness, all the missed opportunities, all the crushed hopes, all the deferred plans, the discomfort, the suffering, the grief, occasioned in two millions of people and their immediate families or close friends, and let us reflect again that this is all unnecessary, wholly so, if we will but study and put into practice the present common knowledge possessed on the subject of competent foods, and we will say that we are chumps to go on thus wasting time, money, energy on anything so silly and inexcusable as sickness.

You will think it too broad a statement to say that all disease is preventable, but this is exactly so, as we will hope to prove to you before you have reached the end of this little book, and we are willing to let you be the judge.

The causes of disease are now so well defined that we know what causes disease, no matter if Sir William Osier did say not long before he died: "The cause of disease is still a great mystery." No matter that thousands of other teachers have said and are still saying that same thing. It is true so far as they are concerned, but in many quarters now the cause of all disease is so well known that he who runs may read the thing, and the proof is that chronic disease does get well when these now known causes are discontinued.

If well-seated disease will leave the body under the application of what is now known about the causes of disease, surely it must be evident that the same thing would have been prevented far more easily by application of the same principles before it occurred.

We can stand the six billion dollars loss every year, for we are rich, richer than was ever any nation in the world to this very time, but in health we are the poorest of all, and what is our money worth if we have not the health to enjoy it?

You have all seen a man who had amassed great riches by his own efforts, seeking all over the world for the health he lost in his frantic search for wealth.

He would pay millions of dollars for the lost zest of youth, perhaps even for relief from positive suffering, yet he travels every where in vain, for health is not to be found here or there; like the kingdom of Heaven it is within you.

Years ago John D. Rockefeller was doing this very same thing, traveling everywhere, consulting the very best specialists in the world for relief from the pangs of indigestion, yet he found no one who could earn the million dollars he promised to the one who could cure him.

Cure lay all the time within himself, and was distant but a few weeks at any time, and he discovered this in time and wasted no more money on travel fees or doctor bills in trying to get rid of something that only he could possibly get rid of.

When he learned to eat a little more carefully, more scientifically, to chew his food better, and to avoid certain incompatible mixtures of his foods, he had no further trouble, and is today over ninety years of age, in good condition for one of his years.

Expense meant nothing to him, for he could afford it, but he had to learn the lesson that we cannot buy immunity to pain or suffering with money; we earn this by keeping within the law in our manner of living.

The laws by which we keep always well are so very simple that they have been overlooked too long, and you cannot blame the medical man for refusing to become interested in their promulgation when their general acceptance would eliminate him almost wholly from the picture.

One is never greatly interested in what robs him of income or makes him unnecessary in the scheme of living, and you would no doubt take the very same view.