Already Hippokrates had uniformly recognized the "disease-material" for all diseases. Prof. Jäger has defined the "Common" as "Stench," but not discovered the source of this "bad smell." Dr. Lahmann and other representatives of the physical-dietetic tendency, especially Kuhne, came on to the tracks of this "common foreign matter." But all of them did not show, recognize or prove by experiment that it is just this mucus of culture-food, which loads up our organism from very childhood, and attacks it at a certain degree of fermentations forms pathologic beds, i.e., decomposes the cellular tissue of the body itself into pus and decay. It is being mobilized in case of casual colds or high temperatures, etc., and produces, in its tendency to leave the body, symptoms of abnormal functions which hitherto have been regarded as the disease itself. It is, therefore, for the first time possible to define what is meant by "disposition." The more the "mucus" (bad mother's milk and all its substitutes) is being administered from childhood on, or the less this mucus is being excreted, owing to hereditary weakness, through the organs made to perform this task, the greater is the inclination to catch cold, fever, to freeze, to admit parasites, to get sick and to grow old. Very likely by this the veil has been lifted from the secret which hitherto has always surrounded the nature of the white-corpuscles. I believe, that here, as in many other cases, we have to do with an error of the medical science. The bacteria throw themselves upon the white largest extent of this mucus denounced by me. Are not the bacteria being bred on this mucus by the millions outside of the organism? --on potatoes, broth, gelatine, i.e., on mucus, i.e., nitrogenous, vegetable or animal substances consisting of an alcalically reacting fluid containing granulated cells of the appearance of the white blood-corpuscles! Perhaps in an entirely healthy condition the so-called mucus membrane should not at all be white, slimy, but clean and red like on animals. Perhaps this "corpse-mucus" is even the cause of the paleness of the white race? Paleface! Corpsecolor!

With this "mucus-theory" to be confirmed by experiment the spectre "disease" has been finally deprived of its demoniac mask. He who believes me can heal not only himself, if everything else fails, but we have for the first time been given the means to radically prevent disease and to make it definitively impossible. Even the dream of lasting youth and beauty is now about to become true. The animal, and especially the human organism is, from a mechanical standpoint, a complicated tube-system of blood-vessels with air-gas impetus by means of the lungs in which the blood-fluid is constantly kept moving and regulated by the heart as a valve. The decomposition of the air-gas is accomplished by each breath in the lungs (separating of the air into oxygen and nitrogen): thus the blood is constantly kept moving and the human body does its service incredibly long without fatigue. Let nobody come to me with the silly excuse of the "daily experience of the absolutely natural compulsion of much-eating," prescribed for working man, etc., before it has not been experienced by such complainant, how long it is possible to work or march, without fatigue, after fasting or fruit-food. Fatigue is in the first place a reducing of strength by too much digestion-work, secondly a clogging-up of the heated and consequently narrowed-down blood-vessels, and thirdly a "self- and re-poisoning" through the excretion of mucus during the motion. All organic substances of animal origin excrete cyan groupes in their decomposition, which the Chemist Hensel has defined as bacilli proper. The air is not only the highest and most perfect operating material of the human body, but simultaneously the first element for the erection, repair, substitute, and very likely, the animal organism derives nitrogen also from the air. On certain caterpillars an increase of weight through air alone has been stated.