I come now to the most important and most striking symptom of the growing-old ; the falling out and getting gray of the hair, to which I must devote an entire section, because its appearance generally causes the first and greatest worry and pain over the coming age, and because hitherto science has stood baffled in the face of this problem.

The modern cutting short of the masculine hair on the head, as well as the alarming expansion and earliness of baldness have accustomed even an artistical eye so much to this appearance that we no longer become conscious of the fact how seriously the aesthetic and harmonic figure of man is disturbed by this voluntary and unvoluntary "hair -decapitation." Man, who is not only intellectual, but also as an aesthetic product of nature, "the crown of creation," is being robbed of the splendid crown of his head--the hair. They could be called "living skulls," these beardless, colorless and expressionless heads of to-day! Just imagine the most beautiful woman with a pate! Where is the man that would not turn away with horror? Or a fashion-sport of today hewn in marble! In addition to that the mustache shaped geometrically and angular or trimmed off entirely, then the modern clothing which distinguishes itself from that of all the centuries by the greatest insipidity--and this we find beautiful reasons for which the present-day man gets his beard and hair cut down to a minimum length. The lack of beauty and therewith the un-aesthetic appearance of hair and beard has become so general that in course of time the need of shaving and use of the milllimeter machine have come as a matter of course. In our time of equalization and all-levelling it is preferred, and rightfully so, to cut off these odor, and so to speak, revelation-organs of inner man, instead of furnishing by ugly, disheveled, uneven and hereditary morbid hair a living proof for the descendence theory. Therewith we can understand the maltreatment of the hair. The thought is practically given rise that the getting ugly of one organ or of the entire organism means its inner morbidness, i.e., nature reveals internal physiological disturbances of an organism through disharmony of shape and color. The seriously ill and dead organisms are its extremes. Doubters in my points of view, and bad nature-observers may here be reminded of the law of exception from the rule, and as regards man--of the fact, that neither hygienically nor aesthetically have we any imagination left of the ideal beauty and health of man living under perfectly natural conditions. If the pleasure in the beautiful is a sentence in the favorable sense, then the displeasure felt by an aesthetic eye in looking up the disharmony of shape and color must include to a certain degree the recognition of the pathologic.

Let us return to our subject. We know that medical science is powerless as regards baldness, and that cosmetic and chemistry of tonics have failed to produce even a single new hair.

I have already called the hair, especially of the human head, the odor-organs of the body, which are to conduct away the exhalations of the human body. Everybody knows that sweat is produced first of all on the head and in the arm-pits, and that with this sweat, especially on sick people, is connected a disagreeable odor. Dr. Jäger calls disease somewhere "stench." This, with exceptions, of course, seems to me correct in so far, as I am able to pronounce, on the basis of many years' observation and experiments, the following fundamental uniform conception of disease:

Disease is a fermentation and decay-process of body-substance or of surplus and unnatural food-material, which in course of time has accumulated, especially in the digestive organs, and which makes its appearance in the shape of mucus-excretion.

That is, it means in the last instance nothing but the chemical decomposition, the decay of cellular albumen. As is well known, this process is accompanied by stench, while nature combines the originating of new life with fragrance (the building of plants.) Properly man in perfect health should exhale fragrance, particularly so with his hair.

Poets are rightfully comparing man with a flower and speak of the hair -fragrance of woman. I, therefore, recognize in the hair of the human head a very important organ which aside from protective and warmth-regulating purposes has a highly interesting and useful destination: to conduct away the exhalations, the odor of healthy and sick people, which reveals to experts and acute noses not only individual qualities, but even certain disclosures as regards the inner state of health or sickness of a man. If the doctors have not by far recognized digestive disturbances with the microscopes and test-glasses, there have yet been certain quacks who have been able to state by simple hair-diagnosis the stench-producing inner process of decay--the disease. Why, there are numberless people to-day, still youthful and radiating health with a breath like that of a sewer and who are wondering why their hair is falling out. I have now arrived at the vital spot of my researches and observations.

First one more word about the getting gray of the hair. It has been found that in hair which has become gray the contents of air is increasing, and I am also of the opinion that this "air" consists probably of stinking gases, or at least is mixed with such. I recommend to a chemist with a "strong scent" to discover here the sulphurous acid, then the disappearance of the color of the hair will also have been explained, as it is a well known fact that sulphur-dioxyde bleaches organic substances.

It now seems to me certain, not only theoretically, but also on the basis of my interesting experiments on my own body, that the principal cause of baldness can only be an internal one. If through these odor-tubes or so to speak "gas chimneys of the head" there must be constantly discharged stinking, corroding gases, very probably impregnated with sulphur-dioxyde, instead of natural, fragrant odors, we must not be surprised if the hair together with its root becomes deathly pale, dies off and falls out. Herewith I claim to have recognized the reason for baldness and to have shown the true way for its cure. I add that about ten years ago, when I was afflicted with chronic inflammation of the kidneys, combined with a high degree of nervosity, my hair had become very gray and fell out. After having been cured from this serious disease by a dietetic treatment I saw that at the same time the gray hairs disappeared and that my hair grew into perfect profusion.

If therefore, the main cause of baldness lies in the disturbance of digestion and interchange of matter, it can certainly be cured by regulation of these functions. It can be said that even the absolutely bald heads may again take hope, on the basis of my discovery-- after all the tonics have failed, and must fail. The reason is that the cause is not external and therefore cannot be got at externally. Whoever sees his hair falling out, or whoever is already bald, and wishes to regenerate in this direction, may apply to me for advice. There is no general internal remedy, and whoever has understood me will appreciate that individualization is necessary in every case. On the basis of the influence of my doctrine of diet on digestion and creation of blood and, therefore, the correct nourishment of the hair -bed, I can at least guarantee a stand-still of the falling out of hair, if my advices are followed correctly.

Thus all symptoms of ageing are latent disease, accumulation of mucus and clogging-up by mucus. Everybody subjecting himself to a thorough restoring-cure in case of any disease, by parting with the dead cells through mucus-less diet and eventually fasting, rejuvenates himself simultaneously, and whoever submits to a rejuvenating cure, deprives each and every disease of its foundation. Nobody wants to believe in this possibility. Yet, in each scientific dictionary you will find the theory that at the worst one should die only of disturbance in the exchange of matter, i.e., constipation by mucus, so that life ought to end without any disease whatever. This would be the normal; but, alas, the exception--the disease, has become the rule to-day.

If anybody would live from childhood on absolutely mucusless food, and feed on nothing but fruit, it would be just as certain that he could grow neither old nor sick. I have seen persons who through a mucusless cure have rejuvenated and become beautified to such an extent that they could not be recognized. Since thousands of years humanity dreams, imagines and paints the fountain of youth, and looks for it sentimentally to the stars, in the suggestion.

What is not being expended for remedies for masculine weakness and impotence, for sterility--of course, all in vain! And how easily could some people be helped, especially through correct and nourishing food from the sun-kitchen.

We cannot imagine with what beauty and faculties the paradoic "godlike" man was gifted, what wonderful strong, clear voice he had! The beautification and strengthening of the voice, yes, the winning back of the lost voice is an amazing symptom in my cure, and an especially eloquent proof for the really grandiose effect of my system for the entire organism of the patient. I wish to refer here especially to the wonderful success of the cure submitted to by the Royal Bavarian Chamber Singer Heinrich Knote, Munich, under my directions, whose voice had improved to the amazement of the entire musical world.