So long as the people can be kept in ignorance of disease, in general, so long as the press through the agency of newspapers, magazines, and various other publications give space to advertisements which are gotten up with the specific idea and intention of creating imaginary disease, just so long will an unhealthy and unwholesome condition exist in the minds of hundreds and thousands of individuals who may be unfortunate to become victims to reading these misleading and lying advertisements. In giving publication to many of these advertisements, the press is a partner to fraud. The object of these advertisements is to make the people imagine they have dangerous diseases, that is, they aim to play upon the credulity of the public with the intention of exciting fear - fear of disease. The next thing the patient imagines he must buy the medicines to cure what is an imaginary ailment.

Let it be distinctly understood that medicines never cure disease, with one or two possible exceptions, in which case a poison in the blood is combatted with another poison as an antidote. Medicines relieve or remove disease conditions, but do not cure them. The cure of disease consists first in the removal of the cause, which may necessitate the removal of an individual from unhygienic surroundings, a change of occupation or environment; secondly by the upbuilding of the body with the only natural agencies in existence : pure food, pure air, and pure water. These are the only agencies which make pure blood. Many individuals make immense fortunes by propagating the falsehood that medicines - their medicines - cure disease. The only agent that cures disease is pure blood. Pure blood is not made with medicines of any kind, but only by pure air, pure food and pure water.

In general it may be said that medicines act just as so much poison when taken into the human body. Even physicians have been deluded into believing in the curative action of drugs. Medicines of a certain kind may remove the cause which produces disease, and in doing this the disease is said to be cured. For instance, an inflammatory condition of the bowels may be relieved by an active cathartic, whose action is to rid the system of a putrefying mass of food, the presence of which would cause disease of the character mentioned. With the removal of the cause the body heals itself. Unquestionably there are medicines which are a boon to humanity, and without which we could not well dispense, but the systematic drugging of the body with the so-called blood medicines, having the idea of building up the body, is a weak attempt to do what Nature does to perfection, when pure air, food and water are supplied her. Medicines are not tolerated by the system as most people seem to think. Nature tears them up and throws them off as foreign matter. No better instance of this can be furnished than by showing the manner in which pepsine is handled by the body. Outside of the body, pepsine is a splendid digestive agent, as evidenced in its dissolving egg albumin. However, when pepsine is introduced into the human body, it is not recognized as a digestive agent, but only as so much albuminous material, and is broken up in the same manner as is all other food matter.

The same remark applies to pancreatin, another digestive agent, which has been administered for digestive troubles Nature makes her own gastric juice out of the blood, and never from any artificial gastric aids, as pepsine and pancreatin.

Barrelfuls of pepsine and pancreatin have been administered to individuals suffering with dyspepsia. They are still suffering. Anent dyspepsia, it may be remarked, in passing, that in every instance it is entirely curable, and without drugs of any kind. Mankind is still laboring under the delusion, which is perpetuated in one way or another through the public press, that medicines cure. This is false. The healing power is to be found in the blood, and not from the uses of any medicines. If man would only live, eat and drink, as he should, there would be absolutely no indication for medicines. However, if one transgresses in eating, of the ways of relief, fasting, or purging by medicines, the latter is the quicker and more expeditious way. If there is one class of medicines more commendable than another it is the laxatives. They have the distinction of being harmless, effective and rapid in their action.

Structural or organic disease of any kind, such as tuberculosis, commonly known as consumption, cancer, Bright's disease, leprosy, etc., cannot be cured by any medicines. The only thing that can be done is to upbuild the body by the natural medicines, pure air, food and water, so that assisted Nature may be enabled to stop the progress of the disease. There are medicines of undoubted value, but they never cure disease. They remove conditions, while Nature heals and cures.

The white corpuscles of pure blood are capable of performing miracles in protecting the body against disease and injury. This has been most beautifully shown and explained by Metchnikoff. The white cells have been called "The effective policemen of the blood."

In the blood there is a power which continually heals and renews the body, creating new tissue and replacing that which has been destroyed. It is the blood which heals. The importance of the blood is to be found time and again expressed in the old Bible in the words "The life of the flesh is in the blood." Lev. 17 : 11. "The blood is the life," etc.

The wonderful healing and creating power of the blood is frequently lost sight of. In the healing of wounds in man, we see what takes place as an every day occurrence, but this is, none the less, some of Nature's most beautiful handiwork. Without Nature's aid in such matters, doctors, nurses and medicines would be useless. It is to the animals, however, that we must go if we would know what creative power there is in the blood. In many of the lower animal orders, notably in the crawfish, lobster and lizard families, it is a matter of common observation that lost legs, claws, tails, and even eyes are readily and quickly replaced by Nature's efforts. Man is not thus favored, for some reason. It would be extremely convenient if he could have a lost eye, leg, or arm replaced, as occurs with the crawfish or lobster.

The Fallacy of Drugging. - Of the thousands of medicines which exist, they might all, with a few exceptions, be cast into the sea of oblivion, forever to remain. The remaining ten to twenty medicines, however, are a boon to humanity. Most physicians, after an experience of a number of years, must come to the inevitable conclusion that they must have been hypnotized, in their younger days, into the belief that medicines cure disease. In his early practice the physician is always on the look-out for a medicine which will cure disease of one kind or another. As his experience increases he thinks of medicines as relieving conditions, not as curing diseases.