Whatever ailments have been suppressed by former treatment of some previous disease will again show, and the body will find no rest till the suppression has come to light and the disease thrown off.

Smallpox is nothing but this very same effort to throw off waste matter, and it has been said that one who has a severe attack of smallpox will recover from organic chronic disease afterward. And why not? As a rule, no other disease relieves the system of so much corruption.

The body will keep clean if not interfered with, or if the intake of materials every day in the form of food does not continually pile up greater and greater eliminative tasks, till Nature's outside capacity is far overdone, and no system could possibly wrestle with the mass daily created.

Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, one of the really great surgeons of the world and of all time, said not long ago, when entertained by the staff of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical College: "Gentle' men, I will never have cancer; I will never die of cancer; and what I am doing to prevent it any one can do."

He said at another time: "After all, there is but one disease-- deficient drainage."

Here is a man who understands that all the causes of the various things that we call by many disease names, is one thing, and that deficient drainage, which means that we create various wastes every day in the body, and in excess of what we can fully eliminate.

Here is all there is to disease, all in a nutshell, and expressed by a really great surgeon, who has all his life seen only the end' results of disease as they were presented at the operating table, yet he knows what causes disease of all kinds.

Dr. George W. Crile of Cleveland, one of the greatest surgeons of our own country, said not long ago: "There is no natural death; all deaths from so-called natural causes are merely the end-point of a progressive acid saturation."

He said the same thing as Sir William, but in a little different form, and he, like Sir William, is a surgeon who sees only the end-results of disease.

Now this is just what disease really is: a progressive acid saturation, a deficient drainage, an inability of the body to keep as clean inside as it should, and what can we do about this except to quit fouling the fount at its source?

If one were adrift on the open sea in a boat, and this were to spring a leak, would it be the part of wisdom to confine all one's efforts to bailing? It would be much more to the point to stop the leak, if possible, and then bailing would get one somewhere.

The leaking of the boat is but a symptom of the presence of a break in the bottom, the bailing but tampering with the symptoms: concentrating on the inflow of water and ignoring the source, while stopping the leak is radical cure.

It is ever so in our consideration of disease, for unless we recognize the source and eradicate it we are doing nothing constructive for the condition.

Now there is plenty of proof that this view of disease as the evidence of Nature's struggle to keep clean is the correct view of the case, for the thousands of recoveries recorded in cases of chronic organic disease through this point of view are in themselves overwhelming evidence.

The sick get well from all sorts of supposedly incurable states when the continual cause, which is always toxin formation and retention, is removed and kept removed.

It would boot nothing to recite these cases, for taking only the few thousands in the experience of the writer these would scarcely be considered evidence by medical authority.

It would be possible to recite many thousands so far in the experience of this one observer alone, while the accumulated data from the many men who have been looking at disease from this angle for much longer periods would, if collected, make a most imposing volume of proof.

The writer does not have the slightest desire to aggrandise himself, for he does not need this, but he does feel that if he is able to stimulate hope in the breast of some one who is suffering from supposedly incurable disease, and to add one straw to the weight of evidence on the side of Nature, he will not have labored in vain, realizing fully that his medical brethren will not take kindly to this effort, and that he may even be persona non grata to his medical societies.

Yet the truth should be told, and only by telling it and reiterating it can it be properly disseminated in this time so sold to worship at the shrine of medicine and surgery.

There is apparent a great awakening on the subject of personally conducted health, and when the time comes, as it will sometime come, when the common citizen realizes that all his bodily ills are self-created, therefore wholly self-controllable, there will be a different state of affairs in our wonderful country as regards health and disease.

When each realizes that he creates either health or disease at the table, then each will think that a certain amount of time and thought and study spent on the subject of nourishment is not a wholly bad investment for any one in any walk of life, at any age or in any state of health or disease.

Surely the writer, after his twenty-four years spent in applying natural methods in the treatment of the sick and the creation of health, would not easily go back to the archaic viewpoint of medicine, with its unavailing treatment of a condition or conditions for which the body is itself wholly to blame and which the body alone is able to correct.

His experience is not unique, for it has been duplicated by so many other men that he feels he has nothing new to offer, and only excuses himself for this effusion by the thought that somehow the public is still very much in the dark on the subject of self-help and that there is need for yet other books dealing with the subject from this standpoint.