Class J 
 
 Book 
 
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 COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT: 
 
Food Composition 
 
 and 
 
 Human Ills 
 
 Mental and Physiological 
 
 Facts and Figures for Family Use 
 
 By Charles McCormick, President 
 McCormiclc Medical College 
 
 Author of "A System of Mature Medicine," "Neurology 
 
 and Metaphysics," "Optical Truths," "A Synopsis 
 
 of Neurology," "Diet Tables," and Editor 
 
 of "Mature Medicine" for ten years 
 
 Published by 
 McCORMICK MEDICAL COLLEGE 
 
 Founded 1893. Chartered in Illinois. 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 1919 
 
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 Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 
 McCormick Medical College 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 Truth is that which can be demonstrated, theoretically 
 and practically, chemically or mechanically, physically or 
 physiologically. 
 
 So long as any proposition is merely speculative, as are 
 religion and old-school medicine, it is a waste of time to 
 argue, and it is a crime to accept them on the brazenness 
 of their assertions. 
 
 The greatest of all calamities to the human race was the 
 promulgation and acceptance of a substitution of artificial 
 for natural standards in education and practice, because 
 it retarded progress and outraged intelligence. 
 
 Religions have caused more insanity and crime than all 
 other factors combined. Founded on superstition and 
 credulity, armed with the bribe of a heaven and the threat 
 of hell, they trafficked in forgiveness of "sins." The in- 
 consistency and unnaturalness of putting premiums on 
 crime is so apparent, to all who are not afraid to think, 
 that it is pitiful. Not only history, but daily events, physi- 
 cal and physiological, afford ample proofs of the facts 
 stated. 
 
 Out of religious dogmas came the medical ones, which 
 are as dangerous to physiological conditions as the others 
 are to mental ones. From prayers to offering sacrifices; 
 from "miracles" to murder of those who refused to believe 
 in them was an easy step in religion. From herbs and 
 bleeding to mercury and vaccination is the analog in 
 medicine. Is it anything remarkable that such baneful 
 seed produced the awful crop, political autocracy and its 
 complement, bolshevikism? 
 
 If there was a personal creator, as taught by religions, 
 
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he, she or it must have had a creator and that one must 
 have had progenitors; hence all such propositions are 
 undisguised attempts at humbuggery to secure power 
 for the rascally promulgators. 
 
 If it is possible for "Medical Science" to invent or 
 discover "cures" or artificial "preventives" for alleged 
 "diseases" it is also possible to invent medicines or "vacci- 
 nation" to make food and sleep needless, which would 
 save for work at least one-third of the average life. 
 
 There are Natural laws. None know when, where or 
 how they originated. It makes no difference who or what 
 made them; we have them; but neither religious or medical 
 schools of the orthodox type teach anything about them. 
 The astronomy of Joshua is on a par with the "inoculation" 
 of "police-power" medical government. 
 
 Each individual is endowed with mental capacity. 
 Some have better quality or greater amount than others. 
 Some are doubly endowed. Such have the greater respon- 
 sibility, and when they abuse it, Natural laws will regulate 
 them or their progeny. It always has. It always will. 
 
 It is the purpose of this book to introduce methods of 
 analysis of causes of ills by showing: First, what normal, 
 Natural standards of living are; Second, that the one- 
 idea methods, in vogue, have no relation thereto. 
 
 The Author. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 Pertaining to Natural Light. 
 
 Chapter I of the book of Genesis, "holy bible," begins 
 as follows: "And in the beginning God created the heaven 
 and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; 
 and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the 
 spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And 
 God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And 
 God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided 
 the light and the darkness. And God called the light 
 Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the eve- 
 ning and the morning were the first day." 
 
 This is the story which, in various forms, has been 
 handed from generation to generation since long before 
 the Christian god and the "holy bible" were thought of. 
 It grew with repeating until, when the leaders of primitive 
 mankind began to learn how to write and read, they dis- 
 covered they had a means of impressing the herd with the 
 superiority of leaders and of playing a joke on posterity; 
 but I do not believe, for a moment, that the most san- 
 guine of them had the faintest idea they would be taken 
 seriously during all the centuries which have passed. The 
 fanatics of today insist the fact that the humbug still works 
 is proof the statements are facts. 
 
 The old-time leaders took the lives of all who attempted 
 to educate the masses in mathematics, in which field 
 have been found all of the Natural truths ever proved. 
 The leaders of today would, if they dared,' practice similar 
 tactics; but they are as cowardly as they are credulous, and 
 content themselves with slander — and prayer. 
 
 Mathematics, unknown to the authors of the "bible," 
 
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tells us that light is a composite substance, different from 
 everything else. It comprises elements which, when 
 separated by passing it through a transparent prism, exhibit 
 seven distinct colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indi- 
 go, violet. From these it has been found there are four 
 primary colors: red, yellow, green and blue; the first and 
 third and the second and fourth of which are complemen- 
 tary to each other. Try an experiment: Cut small squares 
 from papers of each of these colors and paste them on sep- 
 arate sheets o* white paper; take the red in one hand and 
 a sheet of plain white paper in the other; gaze steadily 
 at the red for a short time when a slight halo will appear 
 around it; then slip the white paper over it and the com- 
 plementary color, green, will appear. Try the green and 
 the red will appear; take the yellow and blue will appear; 
 try the blue and the yellow will exhibit. By this law any 
 shade of the primary colors will c'assify itself when such 
 classification would be difficult otherwise. Pale green is 
 the nearest white, but pale blue is often mistaken for it; 
 this test will settle the matter because if tried on pale blue, 
 yellow will appear, and if on pale green, red will be the com- 
 plementary exhibit. 
 
 Light not only illuminates; it invigorates, physically 
 and metaphysically. The chemistry of the mineral vege- 
 table and animal kingdoms, as well as of the planetary 
 systems, comprises light as a dominant factor. Its laws of 
 refraction, reflection, dispersion and absorption not only 
 enable students to master terrestrial problems, but as- 
 tronomers invade celestial fields and measure distances, 
 sizes, weights and compositions of planets. These laws 
 have not only made possible the telescope, but also the 
 microscope, and, last but not least, lenses with which the 
 enormous nerve strain, caused by defectively developed 
 eyes, is saved by skillful work of competent Ophthalmolo- 
 gists. 
 
 Light combines the fundamental principles of both 
 
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chemistry and mechanics; of theory and practice; of con- 
 stancy and inconstancy; of physics and metaphysics. 
 
 Aristotle, Greek philosopher and teacher, born, 384 
 B. C; died, 322 B. C; controverted Plato's proposition 
 that "the universal is the only 'light' in which the par- 
 ticular can be seen," by declaring and proving that "partic- 
 ulars are necessary in order that we may comprehend the 
 universal." He coined the word "Metaphysics," mean- 
 ing "after physics," as an expression of his reasoning. 
 Aristotle was too advanced for the Athenians, who charged 
 him with "impiety," and, in order to escape the fate of 
 Socrates, he fled the country. 
 
 In the "critical angle" of light, beyond which total re- 
 flection occurs, we have proof of the probability that all 
 laws are limited in their application ; and elsewhere is abun- 
 dant evidence of the fact; hence the religious belief in"god 
 miracles" is proved silly. In the focuses and conjugate 
 focuses of light by lenses the absolute limitations of the 
 laws of refraction, etc., are established and principles elu- 
 cidated which, when the attempt to apply them physio- 
 logically is made, discovers to the student that there is a 
 step between physics and metaphysics, viz.: Physiology. 
 It is demonstrated in the practice of Ophthalmology, and 
 we have found it equally practicable in other branches of 
 our work, not only mechanically but chemically. In the 
 spherical aberration of lenses we find physical reasons for 
 the variety of physiological and mental idiosyncrasies of the 
 human family. In the chromatic aberration of transparent 
 media we have physical evidence which, employed physio- 
 logically and metaphysically, enables us to determine 
 the dispositions and temperaments of patients. In the mul- 
 tiplicity of the problems found in physical optics we learn 
 why the vast majority is content to accept assertions and 
 repeat them as facts, without bothering to learn truths by 
 assiduous labor — they are mentally lazy, almost to the 
 point of atrophy. 
 
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In the study of physical laws we find that matter is 
 indestructible; that when our physical bodies give up the 
 "light" of life, the elements return to the masses from which 
 they came. From this fact we reason, metaphysically, 
 that the intangible mentality probably takes a similar 
 course but one unfathomable to us because of the inappli- 
 cability of physics. Hence, we do not believe in heavens 
 or hells, in resurrections or judgments, in personal gods or 
 omnipotent devils; and we do believe we uttered an incon- 
 trovertible truth in the third paragraph of the introduction 
 to this work. 
 
 "When you set yourself up, 
 
 by 3 r our 
 
 brains, luck or pluck, 
 
 
 Just above the dead level of 
 
 men, 
 
 You have only begun on the fight 
 
 of your life ; 
 
 
 For the envious aim at yon 
 
 then." 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 Condensed Facts About the Human Body. 
 
 For the same reason physics antecedes metaphysics 
 in general, the study of anatomy is precedent to physi- 
 ology; but, after some preliminary specifications and find- 
 ing that both subjects are physiological, they are made 
 more comprehensive by taking them together. 
 
 Chemically the anatomical body is a constant, com- 
 posed of water, four-fifths, and salts (nitrates, phos- 
 phates and carbonates), one-fifth. The elemental com- 
 position includes: Nitrogen, about 3 pounds; Oxygen, 111 
 pounds ;Hydrogen, 14 pounds; Carbon, 21 pounds; Phos- 
 phorous, 2 pounds; Calcium, 2 pounds; Sulphur, Chlorine 
 and Sodium, about 2 ounces each; Iron, Potassium, Magne- 
 sium, Fluorine and Silicon, a few grains each. Oxygen 
 and hydrogen are present in the proportions which form 
 water and amount to about 80 per cent of the whole. 
 Bone is about one-third animal and two-thirds earthy 
 matter; of the latter, approximately five-sixths is calcium 
 phosphate, the remainder being sodium and magnesium 
 compounds. The animal portion is fat, nerves and blood- 
 vessels. 
 
 Chemically the physiological body, which is an incon- 
 stant, requires great variety in food to supply varying 
 quantities of essential elements for digestion and other 
 functions in addition to supplying those utilized in the 
 tearing down and rebuilding processes which are constantly 
 at work during life. 
 
 Mechanically the anatomical body comprises the 
 skeleton or bony structure and the ligaments which artic- 
 ulate them; the muscles and nerves to operate them; the 
 
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fascia, or connective tissue; the blood and lymphatic 
 systems. 
 
 Mechanically the physiological body includes the brain 
 and nervous systems, for sensation and motion; the organs 
 of special sense, (of which seeing and hearing are mechan- 
 ical, while smelling and tasting are chemical); the heart, 
 for pumping blood (about 16 tons daily); the lungs, to 
 throw off carbon dioxide and take on oxygen; the stomach, 
 spleen, intestines and mesenteries, for digestion and assimi- 
 lation; the liver for rectifying crude blood, as it comes from 
 the digestive apparatus; the kidneys and bladder to extract 
 and contain urine, which carries dangerous and waste 
 matter; the sex organs — a topic declared, by religious 
 fanatics, unfit for the public to be informed about in a 
 book of general circulation; a declaration put into the 
 statutes in violation of the Constitution, because it helps 
 establishment of religion. It affords another bit of 
 proof that credulity and ignorance are inconsistent and 
 brutal; that while they pretend to believe their "god" is 
 good, holy, wise and everything, when it is to the interest 
 of their schemes to discredit him they do not hesitate to 
 picture his work as lewd. There will be more on this sub- 
 ject when we come to the point of considering their mental- 
 ities. 
 
 For simplicity and convenience we have made four 
 anatomical divisions and eight physiological ones in the 
 foregoing paragraphs. Combining anatomy and physi- 
 ology we have the following divisions for practical purposes: 
 
 1. The Nervous System. 
 
 2. The Circulatory System. 
 
 3. The Digestive System. 
 
 4. The Egestive System. 
 
 The nervous system comprises the brain, with the 
 cerebrum or intellectual portion above and the cerebellum 
 or physical portion below and behind; the twelve pairs of 
 cranial nerves and the spinal cord with its 31 pairs of trunk 
 
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lines and branches, a total of 43 pairs to express life and 
 operate its functions. Its grand divisions are sensation 
 and motion; its sub-divisions are the special senses, loco- 
 motion, vasculo-motion and metabolism; the latter being 
 the exercise of chemical affinities in the process of recon- 
 struction of tissues. The anatomy of this system is exhibit- 
 ed in the nerve structures ; the physiology is in the electric 
 currents; afferent, toward the brain and efferent, from it. 
 
 The circulatory system includes the lymphatics and 
 four blood systems, viz.: the portal, or crude blood system 
 of branches from the stomach and spleen, superior and 
 inferior mesenteric regions, enfolding the small intestines, 
 to the liver; the pulmonary system, where the rectified 
 blood, sent from the liver via the heart, is aereated; the 
 arterial system, from the lungs, via the heart, into the 
 body generally; the venous system, which carries impurities 
 out of the body by way of the lungs and other divisions of 
 the egestive system. The lymphatic system begins in the 
 lacteals of the mesenteries, which empty into the "recepta- 
 culum chyli," situated in the upper back part of the 
 abdominal cavity, thence to the thoracic duct, into the 
 left subclavian vein, to the heart, lungs and arterial system; 
 also via branches from the duct throughout the body. 
 The object of this system is to carry the elements which 
 sustain life and drain it of impurities and waste. 
 
 The digestive system, includes the mouth, pharynx, 
 oesophagus, stomach, duodenum, jejunum, ileum and 
 colons, and together with the chemistry of the fluids of 
 the stomach, pancreas, liver and intestines, constitute the 
 chemico-mechanical arrangement provided to take needed 
 elements from food and supply them to the nervous system 
 through the agency of the circulatory systems. Here we 
 have a physical-physiological reason why we should have 
 knowledge of what, when and how to eat. 
 
 The egestive system is a most complex one; but, so far 
 as digestion is concerned, its principal divisions are the 
 
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bowels, the urinary tract, the lungs and the sweat glands. 
 The physiological importance of this system cannot be 
 overestimated, because, when it is not in perfect operation, 
 digestion is interfered with, the circulation runs short of 
 supplies and the nervous system begins to send out calls 
 for help, which doctors of the fanatical schools call symp- 
 toms of "disease" indicating the need for drugs to "cure," 
 when, as a matter of fact they are nothing of the sort. 
 Pain, fever, itching, etc., are merely automatic burglar 
 alarms, and if the doctors knew what each means they 
 would not need resort to hypodermics or habit-forming 
 drugs to stop "pains," or cold baths to "relieve fevers," 
 and they would never be led into the gross crime of em- 
 ploying serum therapy to "cure" the sick or to prevent 
 the well from becoming "diseased." 
 
 The nervous system is arranged for involuntary as well 
 as voluntary action in the performance of the functions 
 of all the # systems; but there is such a complete interde- 
 pendence between all of the systems that if one gets out 
 of order notice is immediately given, automatically, through 
 the nervous department. For this reason we insist all ills 
 are nervous ills; we get our first symptoms of disorder and 
 the first signs of return to normal through this medium. 
 In the brain itself we have not only mental symptoms of 
 departure from true balance, but we have positive physical 
 changes there which are regarded as the most distressing 
 of all symptoms; in the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, throat, 
 tongue, teeth, are wires which send out calls for attention, 
 which, if understood as they should be, by not only doctors 
 but the public generally, would be responded to so promptly 
 that many of the minor and some of the major ills would 
 be aborted; in the lungs and digestive apparatus, the eges- 
 tive organs and even the skin are wires always ready to 
 report the first indication of trouble. 
 
 Remembering that perfectly healthy conditions are 
 always comfortable, the following paragraphic enumeration 
 
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of some of the alarms may aid the reader to observe others 
 and value their importance; and obedience to Nature's 
 calls will not only improve general physiological condi- 
 tions, but mental ones will show a corresponding benefit- 
 no plrysiologically deranged person is mentally in perfect 
 balance : 
 
 Mental irritability usually means indigestion. 
 
 Mental dullness means eye strain, particularly in school 
 children. 
 
 Melancholy may be from congenital causes, but is often, 
 from general debility. 
 
 Illusions and fads are indicative of superstition, which 
 means mental weakness, sure to involve body physiolog3 T . 
 
 Jealousy is a confession of the superiority of the 
 person it is directed against; it indicates a malicious dis- 
 position and breeds unhappiness for all who come in con- 
 tact with the exhibitors. 
 
 Religious zeal is largely a product of indigestion, mental 
 and physiological. Exhibitors prove there is a hell— on 
 earth — by making trouble, whenever it is possible, for all 
 who do not agree with them. They employ politics, 
 "moral codes" and other dubious methods to accomplish 
 their objects. 
 
 Carelessness is a mental disorder which has caused lots 
 of trouble. One exhibit is indifference to the rights of 
 others, by failure to keep business or social engagements. 
 It is a crime, punishable, sooner or later, by ostracization. 
 The guilty ones also neglect themselves, because they are 
 deficient in temperament. 
 
 Fear and hope are exhibitions of mental weakness 
 which are utilized successfully by designing leaders to form 
 cults in religion and medicine. They are the stronghold of 
 the "orthodox," who are exemplars of sophism and bigotry. 
 
 Beware of the person who does not like children, ani- 
 mals, music and flowers. Also be cautious in dealing with 
 those who are foolish over them. The first are of criminal 
 
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tendencies; the second are absolutely unreliable in business 
 and social affairs. 
 
 Inflammation of the eyes, growths thereon, twitching 
 of lids, styes, swellings, granulations, suppurations, etc., 
 mean need for glasses, no matter how good the vision is, 
 and nothing but the constant wearing of properly fitted 
 ones will relieve the exhibits permanently. Do not permit 
 oculists to put "drops" in the eyes, nor should you believe 
 anyone who tells you eyes can be fitted to glasses correctly 
 in a few minutes or hours. Anyone should understand 
 that the entire nervous system has to undergo readjust- 
 ment and to do a job right should require several visits to 
 a real Ophthalmologist. It will be an agreeable surprise 
 to many to find how other symptoms may be reached by 
 themselves with the aid of a competent Ophthalmologist, 
 even after some of "the best in the country" have had their 
 innings, from dope to surgery. 
 
 Cross-eyes mean great eye defects or operations for 
 them by surgeons who didn't know enough anatomy to 
 know that knife or scissors surgery is not needed for such 
 cases. Our school and its graduates have been straighten- 
 ing all sorts of cross-eyes without operation for more than 
 twenty-five years. 
 
 If the baby's eyelids stick together in the mornings, 
 wash gently with hot water and a soft cloth, then drop 
 some cold salt water in them, and, as soon as possible see 
 an Ophthalmologist. 
 
 Roaring in the ears, "tinitis aurium," means there is a 
 hypertrophic condition in labyrinth or tube. It is usually 
 associated with so-called "catarrh" of the nasal passages. 
 See chapter on "Home Treatment of Disorders." Pus 
 discharges from the ears, or pains therein need prompt 
 attention. 
 
 Enlarged tonsils, adenoids in the nasal passages, and 
 
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habitual sore throat, with periodical "diphtheria" are in- 
 dicative of wrong living. 
 
 Bad teeth indicate a deficient body chemistry; too much 
 "carbohydrate" food; too much orthodox medical teachings, 
 hence wrong living, not only dietetically, but otherwise. 
 If the roots are bad it usually means "pull." See a dentist, 
 but do not waste much time in "treatments" if the roots 
 are bad. If it is the body of the tooth, it may be fixed 
 readily. 
 
 Pimples, rashes, boils, etc., always mean bad living 
 is one of the chief causes; but there are liable to be many 
 others. They are humiliating and as needless and dis- 
 graceful as "catarrh." Learn rational living and be happy. 
 
 Goitre is an exhibit meaning a radically disordered 
 chemistry, probably partly congenital, but always a com- 
 plication of causes. Do not delay seeking skilled help ; but 
 avoid operations. Their record is bad. 
 
 "Rheumatism," "erysipelas," and other similar "dis- 
 eases" are symptoms of acute blood poisoning. "Cures" 
 do not work on them, or on anything else, for that matter. 
 The entire system needs intelligent overhauling. People 
 who say they can't eat strawberries, or have some other 
 fad, are the common exhibitors of these derangements, 
 and many of them appear to imagine it is quite a circum- 
 stance to be the possessor of something freakish. But when 
 we tell them they are as freakish mentally they do not 
 appear to be quite so proud of that part of it. They make 
 disagreeable, unreliable patients. 
 
 Hunger after eating is a positive indication the chemical 
 apparatus is overloaded. It is a common symptom, even 
 among doctors, who ought to know better than to gorge 
 themselves; but they consistently teach the public to "eat 
 what you please and send for the doctor." We eat any- 
 thing eatable, but we see to it that our foods are combined 
 in such a manner that they are almost self-digesting. 
 
 Need for food is suggested naturally in healthy people 
 
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by a noticeable subnormality of the capacity for consecu- 
 tive thought. It is exhibited more conspicuously in those 
 whose work is largely mental, many of whom neglect them- 
 selves in their interest for the work at hand. 
 
 Sleeplessness may come from temporary mental re- 
 sponsibilities, but, as a rule, it means systemic disorders. 
 
 Nightmare is usually a product of over-eating just be- 
 fore retiring. In this connection, a comparatively small 
 amount of decidedly improper food is worse than an over- 
 load of good items; but overloading quantitatively is as 
 effective in producing bad dreams as qualitative excesses. 
 
 The bowels should act at least once daily; the stools 
 should be soft, free from very offensive odor, of a yellowish- 
 brown color, and copious enough to make it. evident that 
 normal waste is being discharged. 
 
 Urine should be of a pale straw color and practically 
 odorless, except in the morning, when it has been retained 
 all night. Frequent desire to void urine, with only small 
 amounts passed, indicates stricture of the mouth of the 
 bladder. Frequent desire and large amounts of discharge 
 mean systemic chemical derangement which needs prompt 
 attention. 
 
 Dull but constant headaches mean indigestion; even 
 if the bowels are working normally. Periodic sick-head- 
 aches are indications of eye strain with probable need of a 
 general overhauling of the entire physiology. 
 
 Pains range in acuteness from slight twinges to those 
 of such severity they are almost unbearable, as neuralgia, 
 for example; but they all have their meanings. These will 
 be considered more fully in a chapter on "Home Treat- 
 ments for Disorders." A slight displacement of a dorsal 
 vertebra is often exceedingly painful and is often "diag- 
 nosed" by old-school doctors as a "disease." But it dees 
 not follow that all pains in the back are from displacements 
 of vertebrae. This is where the "csteos" and "chiros" make 
 their mistakes. We have found many of the pains of so- 
 
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called "angina pectoris" were not in the heart at all, but 
 were simple products of gastric indigestion. 
 
 Fever is one of the best friends of humanity. It is also 
 one of the symptoms employed by crooked or ignorant 
 doctors to frighten people. The entire nervous system is 
 poised so delicately that it exhibits irritation on slight 
 provocation. Often there is a rise in temperature, but 
 other symptoms, such as tonic spasm to the point of pain, 
 cause the fever to be over-looked. 
 
 A temperature below the normal 98.6 is often a more 
 important symptom than that of 3 points above normal. 
 Fright over any symptom does not help matters any. Al- 
 ways use common sense, but attend to the alarms. If you 
 are unable to locate the cause, seek help. 
 
 Heart troubles, such as "mitral valve disease," are very 
 common ; but they do not mean what the orthodox doctors 
 claim. They do mean an overtaxed nerve supply. Palpi- 
 tation, skipping beats, irregular beats, etc., are all in the 
 same category. There is no particular danger to the heart, 
 but there is immediate need for rest and repairs, else there 
 may be paralysis, cerebral hemorrhages, etc., which, of 
 course, are serious. 
 
 The glands of the groins and arm-pits are the seats of 
 deposits of amyloids, a chalky-starchy mixture, often caus- 
 ing much distress by exhibiting "rheumatic" pains. Some- 
 times these deposits are in joints; and often, there are 
 slight displacements of the hip or shoulder joints, with 
 similar symptoms. The orthodox doctors find drugs do 
 not relieve these troubles and the "cult" doctors find me- 
 chanical therapy does not work. We combine chemistry 
 and mechanics and get there all the time. 
 
 Obesity is a symptom of ignorance of how to live and 
 indifference with reference to learning. The subjects 
 usually expire from "apoplexy." They are easily exhausted 
 with physical effort, hence cultivate easy methods of 
 earning livelihoods; they usually sell mining stocks or runs 
 
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for office. They are often jolly fellows, but woe be when 
 they grow sick. There is an intuition of danger and their 
 conditions are made worse by fear. If one of the fat ones 
 comes down with an enteric disorder, you might as well 
 send for the undertaker. His physical condition and his 
 fear form an almost fatal combination. 
 
 Nose-bleed has saved many from "apoplexy," but it 
 is a symptom of need for a thorough chemical renovation 
 of the entire system. Young people with such exhibits 
 will not live many years if they do not change their habits 
 of living under strict instructions from a Neurologist. 
 
 "Epilepsy" is a symptom indicating not only congenital 
 but acquired causes. The victims are usually spoiled by 
 parents, in childhood, because they are delicate — possibly 
 from eye-strain — they develop tempers, are awfully bad 
 eaters, careless and unreliable mentally, and often the 
 victims i)f iodide of potassium and other dope which never 
 did good and always does more or less damage mentally. 
 
 Bed-wetting by children is a symptom of nervous strain 
 to the spasm point and frequently follows a convulsion, 
 possibly slight, but, nevertheless, a convulsion. If a child 
 complains of morning headaches with this exhibit, it needs 
 prompt attention, not only to its eyes but to its general 
 body chemistry. 
 
 Anaemia, is not always indicated by pallor; and pallor 
 dees not always mean anaemia; but when there is general 
 debility nervously, it is foolish to delay attention to in- 
 dicated conditions. Our method of measuring the nerve 
 supply and demand, and of ascertaining the exact condition 
 of the blood, all through the eyes, which are really the 
 double gauges of the body, place us far and away ahead 
 of all other classes of practitioners. 
 
 Dysmenorrhoea (painful menstruation) is a symptom 
 of tonic spasm of the entire nervous system, which has 
 baffled all systems of practice, except ours. The menstrual 
 function should transpire without pain. Therefore, when 
 
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there is pain it need not be allowed to repeat itself. We 
 do it all without drugs or operations. 
 
 Menorrhagia, (flooding at the menstrual period) is 
 dangerous weakness of the nerve supply. This is a class 
 of cases which are more difficult to handle because they 
 are below normal; hence their treatment should be sought 
 as early as possible after the symptom shows. 
 
 Hysteria is simply a form of nervousness exhibited by 
 many people of both sexes. Literally it means excitability 
 from female disorders; but, as a matter of fact it has come 
 from eye strain more than from any other single cause. 
 
 A coated tongue does not mean a "torpid liver." It 
 does mean chemical derangement that needs more than 
 passing attention. It is an exhibit of the lymphatic system, 
 which is one of the most delicate of all systems in point of 
 carrying warnings. It ranks second only to the nervous 
 system. 
 
 Similar symptoms in different people do not mean the 
 same cause or combination of causes. Different symptoms 
 in several people may prove to be from similar causes; 
 hence it is always well to consult a competent doctor unless 
 the home treatment, described in another chapter, gives 
 relief and there is no recurrence of trouble. 
 
 All talk of "heredity" of "disease," in the sense the 
 words are commonly understood, is unqualified nonsense. 
 
 In this connection the possible causes of ills need intro- 
 duction. We have grouped them in their order of possi- 
 bility, as follows: 
 
 .. Congenital. 
 
 !. Infection. 
 
 \. Malnutritio] 
 
 L Physical Shi 
 
 >. Mental Sho< 
 
 Each of these groups includes a variety of possibilities, 
 so that the total number thereof is great enough to show 
 
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 1. 
 
 Congenital. 
 
 6. 
 
 Physiological Strain. 
 
 2. 
 
 Infection. 
 
 7. 
 
 Mental Strain. 
 
 3. 
 
 Malnutrition. 
 
 8. 
 
 Habits. 
 
 4. 
 
 Physical Shock. 
 
 9. 
 
 Occupation. 
 
 5. 
 
 Mental Shock. 
 
 10. 
 
 Atmospheric Influences. 
 
the impossibilities of "medical science" efforts to devise 
 "cures" or "preventives" along the lines they have always 
 pursued, namely: drug medication and political legisla- 
 tion. The attitude of the public against orthodox medi- 
 cine is a Natural product of their failure to receive benefits 
 and of their actually having suffered harm from the prac- 
 tice and tactics of Medical Unionism. 
 
 In the numerals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, we have all 
 of the figures with which the business of the world is done. 
 In the ten groups are all of the factors for possible com- 
 binations of causes of human ills. It follows that when 
 these are combined in different persons with different 
 physiological and mental capacities and susceptibilities, 
 no arbitrary procedure, such as that adopted by the 
 "regular" school of practice and its imitators, can hope 
 to succeed. Our System of Mature Medicine is strictly 
 in accord with Natural laws, which have always existed; 
 and, while our school is only twenty-six years old, its 
 methods are as old as Creation. 
 
 Congenital refers to conditions preceding birth. To 
 be well born there must be intelligent parentage; healthy 
 mental and physiological conditions of parents, previous 
 to conception, during gestation. Unfortunately orthodox 
 religion and medicine have combined to interfere with 
 education preparatory to parenthood, by "laws" which 
 declare such education "obscene." Naturally nearly all 
 children are accidents, products of lust gratification. A 
 large number of children bred and born under our instruc- 
 tion were delivered without pain or fever; they were fed 
 and otherwise cared for rationally, with the result that 
 while some of them are over twenty years old, none have 
 ever been ill a minute. They have been Naturally immune 
 from everything, from "colic" as babies to "smallpox" and 
 all other "diseases." In handling patients the second thing 
 we inquire about is the family history. These are regarded, 
 of course, as professional secrets, not to be violated. 
 
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Infection, may be congenital or acquired; it ranges from 
 mental distemper to that orthodox "disease," syphilis. 
 It may be caused by accident or "vaccination." It may 
 develop idiopathically, from wrong combinations of foods. 
 It may be chemical or mechanical in origin, or from a 
 combination of both. It may be a combination of con- 
 genital and acquired. 
 
 Malnutrition may be partly due to congenital condi- 
 tions, or to infection; it is rarely from lack of food and often 
 occurs from too much. It is largely due to wrong food com- 
 binations and to physiological strain from eye defects and 
 other items of overtaxation. Nutrition depends upon 
 harmonious action of the four great systems named at the 
 beginning of this chapter; hence all of the possible causes 
 listed as groups above must be considered in laying out 
 a system of practice. The reader may get some idea of 
 his or her limitations in the care of self and family, and 
 realize the value of the services of those who have made 
 the subjects matters of years of deliberate preparation 
 for practice. 
 
 Physical shock may be comparatively slight with very 
 bad effects, or it may be great with little damage; it ranges 
 in possibilities from a child being dropped by its nurse to 
 the shell-shock of war. Those whose nervous systems are 
 in good order survive jolts that would kill ordinary mortals. 
 
 Mental shock may be from physical causes; but the 
 commonest are surprises, such as sudden grief, joy, fear, 
 anger. Those who are already overtaxed nervously from 
 physiological strain or other causes, succumb more easily 
 to this factor. It should, therefore, be the fixed policy of 
 all to not only keep themselves in good physiological con- 
 dition, but to anticipate possible mental shocks and how 
 to receive them. 
 
 Physiological strain means any demands on the nervous 
 system in excess of normal standards. This is an important 
 branch of study, as will be seen by perusal of the chapter 
 
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on "Nerve Strain Through the Eyes." It is in that de- 
 partment we find the basis for all of our standards of meas- 
 uring supplies and demands nervously. Excessive exertion, 
 even by a perfectly normal person, is harmful; note that 
 the prize-fighter is an old man at thirty-five ; an overloaded 
 stomach causes physiological strain, chemical and mechan- 
 ical; normal demands on a subnormal nervous system is 
 strain. 
 
 Mental strain is akin to mental shock; it is more per- 
 sistent and is often unnecessary, because, if a victim of 
 worry will stop to analyze things it will soon be discovered 
 that coolness and deliberation are essential to the proper 
 handling of the problems of life. Preparedness is the surest 
 safeguard against this group of causes. If you can't help 
 a situation, do not worry. If you can help it, do so, and 
 you will not need to worry. 
 
 Habits, except those of breathing, taking food, dis- 
 charging waste and sleeping, are all acquired. Even those 
 named are usually practiced badly. Of all habits, Natural 
 and acquired, the "eat habit" is the worst. It is a Natural 
 habit perverted; restricted to meals and governed largely 
 by customs; the morning meal is insufficient or omitted 
 entirely and the evening "dinner" is an abomination — it 
 is the chief cause of the no-breakfast habit. Who would 
 think of starting a factory in the morning without a good 
 fire under the boilers? Your bodies are factories with a 
 large number of machines, all of which require force to 
 operate them. The drug and liquor habits are easy to 
 handle in comparison with that of eating, because alleaters 
 are possessed of the notion that they know what is good 
 for them and Medical Trust writers tell them that "God 
 gave us our tastes; eat anything that tastes good." 
 
 Occupation is one of the essentials to health and happi- 
 ness. Some are more hazardous than others, of course, 
 but, after being settled in choice, if each individual will 
 adopt the easiest way of accomplishing tasks, by knowing 
 
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the theoretical as well as the practical side of the work, 
 there will be a minimum mental and physiological strain; 
 then, with proper attention to generalities, all will be well. 
 Atmospheric influences are extreme and temperate, 
 at the poles and on the equator there are few people; in the 
 temperate zones are to be found the population of the world. 
 In the United States we have the East, South and West, 
 all coast territories, with the great Inter-Mountain region 
 from the Alleghenies to the Rockies. The East has its 
 bitter cold storms of the North and the drizzling rain and 
 heat of the South; the Gulf region is swampy and malarious, 
 but is being drained for agricultural purposes and for sani- 
 tary reasons, with wonderful results; the West coast region 
 is practically rainless, with a monotony of sunshine, "fav- 
 orite sons" and real estate agents; the Inter-Mountain 
 region is fifteen hundred miles square and has all varieties 
 of climate; it is the heart of the country; it produces all 
 except tropical fruits and is the chief market for all of those; 
 it is the great grain country; it is the manufacturing region; 
 it is the populous region; it is the healthy region; it has 
 facilities for producing artificially all of the "climatic ad- 
 vantages" advertised for the sick by the regions whose 
 advertisers are either scamps or who are so ignorant they 
 believe atmospheric influences are, alone, sufficient to 
 cure' 
 
 "™ " ills. 
 
 The power of habit is exemplified in the popular 
 passion for sweet and starchy foods; for late din- 
 ners; for "danties", which are poisons, worse than 
 intoxicating liquors. Nearly all ''temperance" fa- 
 natics are bad eaters. 
 
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CHAPTER III. 
 Nerve Strain Through the Eyes. 
 
 Many years ago the present writer announced that 
 nerve strain through the eyes is the primary cause of at 
 least eighty-five per cent, of all human ills. He was ridi- 
 culed and denounced, at first; later the objectors not only 
 approved the statement, but one of the most radical of 
 them declared it the cause, which rather overstated the 
 matter, because of the great number of possible contribut- 
 ing causes, many of which are superinduced by the nerve 
 strain through the eyes. 
 
 Our method of measuring the nerve supply and demand 
 through # the eyes is as accurate as a gas or electric meter 
 or a steam gauge. Anatomically the eyes have four and 
 one-third pairs of nerves out of a total of forty-three pairs 
 supplying the entire body. Physiologically we have been 
 able to measure the current of nerve force by physical 
 standards, finding, first, what constitutes the normal 
 supply and demand; after which it is easy to figure the ex- 
 cess demands in abnormal eye cases, which, of course, is 
 strain; we prove the potentiality of that factor in causing 
 troubles by results we get from correcting eye defects, and, 
 incidentally, removing contributing causes as methodically 
 as we do the eye work. 
 
 It happens that the eyes are the only organs supplied 
 with means of concealing certain deficiencies of develop- 
 ment, which they do by misusing the accommodative appa- 
 ratus, designed for normal eyes at close range, the average 
 daily demand for which is three hours and 100,000 units 
 of power. The subnormal eyes, requiring one unit of con- 
 vex lens power to correct them, work this accommodative 
 apparatus an average of sixteen hours daily at the rate of 
 
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14,400 units per hour, or 230,400 units daily, in excess of 
 the normal 100,000. To do this requires a stronger pres- 
 sure, or voltage, be turned on from the batteries in the 
 cerebellum, or mechanical brain, in the lower back head. 
 This hyper-normal current produces spasm in normal parts, 
 particularly wherever there is a sphincter (circular) muscle, 
 as in the stomach, bladder, uterus, anus, and the spiral 
 nervous action of the circulatory systems and of the intes- 
 tines, with the natural result that the functions of these 
 normal parts are obstructed, digestion is arrested, assimila- 
 tion reduced, egestion is inhibited, and these, in turn, 
 develop other obstacles to systemic harmony, producing 
 the symptoms enumerated in the preceding chapter. 
 
 Orthodox doctors, not having been taught anything 
 about physical or physiological optics, and very little 
 about "diseases" of the eyes, (nearly all of which is false), 
 ridicule our proposition, even in the light of their failures 
 and our successes in handling general disorders. But 
 ridicule never changed a fact, and their persistence in 
 sticking to obsolete and illogical methods has cost them 
 the respect and patronage of a very large per cent, of the 
 population. It has benefited charlatans, temporarily, 
 but they soon run their race and move to newer pastures 
 or quit the field altogether. 
 
 Some of the cults, like "osteopathy," "chiropractic," 
 "naturopathy," etc., have gained footings because of 
 persecutions by the Medical Trust, through which public 
 sympathy and indignation were aroused. This is notably 
 true in Ohio, where a new "law," passed by Trust machina- 
 tions, intended to give the drug doctors a monopoly of 
 practice, hence obviously unconstitutional, had the actual 
 effect of forcing the Medical Trust Board of Examiners 
 to give licenses without examination to something over 
 2,000 "chiros." And the taxpayers of Ohio pay the bills. 
 It should be stated in this connection that of 150,000 drug 
 practitioners in the U. S., less than 30,000 belong to the 
 
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American Medical Association (Medical Trust) and do not 
 approve of its tactics; but they are a complacent lot and 
 do not see that their own rights are curtailed by the bosses, 
 chief of whom is George H. Simmons, an ex-Homeopathic 
 advertising quack and abortionist, of Lincoln, Neb., who 
 was made a "regular" by Rush Medical College of the 
 University of Chicago, after twelve days attendance. 
 
 Good vision is not evidence of normal eyes; indeed, 
 extra good vision is positive proof of hypermetropia (sub- 
 normality). If the cornea is not of spherical curvature 
 light entering the eye is distorted so there is not a true 
 focus; this is known as astigmatism. It is an effect, exhib- 
 ited at the retina, but it causes a constant accommodative 
 effort to overcome it, without the remotest possibility of 
 doing so, and the demand on the nervous system is doubly 
 irritating. This is only true, however, in cases where the 
 distortion is not sufficient to make vision so bad there is no 
 improvement from the accommodative effort — the very bad 
 vision cases do not try to see, hence there is no strain. Of 
 course they should be fitted with glasses to improve vision, 
 but the chief object in our prescribing glasses is to relieve 
 nerve strain. 
 
 Our figures for a normal person show that 100 per cent, 
 supply and demand, for average daily purposes, is expressed 
 by 1,000,000 units. Clinical experience covering twenty- 
 six years proves it. Therefore, with an error of 1 unit in 
 the eyes and a demand for 230,400 units of extra current 
 each day, it is easy to understand the possibilities for 
 trouble. 
 
 The author has 3.50 units of error and for many years 
 supplied 806,400 units extra (over the normal million) 
 daily. As a result he was a dyspeptic, had headaches con- 
 stantly, with periodic sick-headaches of great intensity, 
 putting him to bed for 24 hours at a time. He had skin 
 eruptions (partly due to the crime of vaccination, which 
 infected him with "scrofula"), and was otherwise dis- 
 
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ordered. After thirty-three years of it, during which he 
 studied medicine in the hope of relief which he did not find 
 and which orthodox physicians were unable to furnish, 
 he discovered the eye error, corrected it, and from that day 
 to the present he has not had a single attack; his digestion 
 improved, and with a knowledge of Natural dietetics, ac- 
 quired a little later, he has been able to eat anything and 
 everything reasonable with no trouble whatever. He has 
 handled thousands of cases and has taught over 4,000 
 students how to practice successfully, so that our school 
 is taking care of at least 2 per cent, of the entire popula- 
 tion of the United States each year — and the quota each 
 year are all new patients, because, when we discharge a 
 case it does not need further help, save in rare emergencies. 
 No other school ever did anything that will compare favor- 
 ably with our record. 
 
 The public should beware of the eye practitioners, be 
 they oculist, "optometrist," or alleged Ophthalmologist, 
 who attempts to fit glasses at one sitting for a final correc- 
 tion, or who uses the mirror test known as "retinascopy" 
 or "skiascopy." Also beware of deep meniscus (little moon) 
 lenses. 
 
 It requires more skill and education to fit a pair of 
 glasses correctly than is needed for the greatest of major 
 surgical operations because eye patients are not under 
 anaesthetics and their nervous systems are under excessive 
 tension, both physiological and mental. 
 
 The doctor who employs atropine "drops" in the eyes 
 is unfit to be trusted. It is proof positive he does not know 
 anything about eyes; and we stand ready to show he 
 doesn't even know how to tell when his patient is com- 
 pletely under the influence of the drug — it is commonly 
 known as "deadly night-shade." In practicing our methods 
 we have to make nerve measurements before and after 
 finding the amount of the error, approximately, in order 
 to establish High, Safety, Danger and Low lines with 
 
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reference to the patient's general condition, upon which 
 we base our instructions. The correction of eye errors is 
 not sufficient in itself to remove all of the causes of distress 
 and permit Nature to reassert herself normally. 
 
 The normal eye condition is called "emmetropia," 
 meaning that what are termed "rays" of light, starting, 
 divergent, from a point on its axis at the retina, or posterior 
 pole, are rendered parallel by refraction at the two curved 
 surfaces of the crystalline lens and that of the cornea. 
 The transparent refracting media constitute the "dioptric 
 system," the principal focal distance of which is 15.872 
 millimeters, which figure, divided into 1000, which is the 
 standard distance for 1 unit of lens power, gives the eye 
 63 units of refracting capacity. 
 
 All eyes which are not emmetropic are called "ame- 
 tropic," meaning abnormal. This class includes about 
 99 per cent, of the population of the world. I have taught 
 ophthalmology and been a constant student thereof for 
 nearly thirty years; I have examined thousands of pairs 
 of eyes, and I have never found as much as one per cent, 
 normal. 
 
 "Hyperopia" designates the under-developed eye. 
 About 90 per cent, of all people are hyperopic. "Myopia" 
 is the term used for near-sight. It is found in about 9 per 
 cent, of all cases; many of them being products of systemic 
 changes of a pathological nature, hence regarded as "dis- 
 eases" because they are often progressive and cause blind- 
 ness by intra-ocular pressure on the back of the globe, 
 causing a rupture of the retina. It is overdevelopment. 
 
 Rays starting divergent from a point on the axis at the 
 retina of a hyperope are still divergent after passing the 
 refracting media, hence need convex lenses to finish the 
 job of rendering them parallel. This need for lenses is not 
 discovered by the victims because they use their accom* 
 modative apparatus as has been described, but, as the 
 
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public is educated with reference to symptoms, the use of 
 glasses will become almost universal. A natural question 
 arises here in the minds of the readers : "Why is it so many 
 are possessed of subnormal eyes?" and many have added,, 
 cynically, "when the rest of our bodies are normal?" In 
 reply we have to say that the addition to the query is made 
 under false impressions. As a matter of fact very few of 
 all people are normally developed in all respects: First, 
 nearly all of my querists have had sub-normal noses 
 where there should be a nose-bridge there is a dimple, and 
 I have found such patients careless in following instruc- 
 tions, opinionated, without reasons and generally unre- 
 liable. Second, there is no part of the anatomy which shows 
 deterioration of the race so much as the changes which have 
 occurred in the ears as exhibited in the younger generations; 
 it is rare that we find well developed lobes to ears, and in 
 the chapter on "The Significance of Physiognomy" wilt 
 be found some of the results of my observations in many 
 years of practice. Third, the eyes, like the rest of the body 
 parts, are not fully developed at birth, and because they 
 are used from the beginning more than any other mechan- 
 ical function, their development is arrested to such an 
 extent that after about the eighth to twelfth year they 
 cease to grow. The excessive strain on the nervous sys- 
 tem, by the efforts of accommodation, often interfere with 
 general development. This will be understood better when 
 it is explained that a defect in the eyes sufficient to lengthen 
 the focal distance of the dioptric systems one-fourth of a 
 millimeter amounts to 1 unit of lens correction needed and 
 a nerve strain of 230,400 units daily if it is not worn. A 
 lengthening of one millimeter in the focal distance requires 
 a -f-4.00 lens to correct it and the strain of accommodation 
 to overcome the error is 921,600 units daily. Hyperopia is 
 the cause of fretfulness in children; of hatred of school, 
 and, as I have stated, is the primary cause of a vast ma- 
 jority of all human ills. 
 
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Rays starting divergent from a point on the axis at the 
 retina of a myopic eye, are rendered convergent by refrac- 
 tion through the dioptric system, so they meet at a point on 
 the axis before they have gone far. This is known as the 
 "far point," because it is the greatest distance at which 
 the eye can see clearly. Rays approaching from distances 
 farther than this point are focused in front of the retina, 
 hence vision is poor. Such cases do not suffer from eye 
 strain, but they need concave lenses to neutralize the ex- 
 cessive convexity of the dioptric system. They take rays 
 coming from distant objects and cause them to enter the 
 eye as divergent as if they came from the "far point" thus 
 putting the retina in what is termed "conjugate focus" 
 with the object. Great care must be exercised in fitting 
 such eyes, because too strong lenses create an artificial 
 hyperopia and consequently cause nerve strain. This is 
 a very common mistake of oculists, opticians and "op- 
 tometrists." Our Ophthalmologists are thoroughly trained 
 in physical optics, then in anatomy and physiology, after 
 which they are drilled in the technique of testing eyes and 
 figuring the data obtained, so there is no possibility of 
 mistake unless they are careless, which we teach is the 
 greatest crime in the category. 
 
 Physicians who call themselves "oculists" and make 
 eye work a specialty, had from 48 to 60 hours instruction 
 on alleged "diseases" of the eyes in medical school, during 
 their several years attendance; many of them took post- 
 graduate courses in eye surgery and "diseases;" but very 
 few of them have the faintest idea of the laws of refraction, 
 which constitutes one of the most important subjects of 
 all pertaining to human disorders. They regard the fitting 
 of glasses as a "mere mechanical procedure" requiring 
 no preparation, and the courts have held that the fitting 
 of glasses is not the practice of medicine, which is true, 
 as medicine is taught in the old schools and as said fitting 
 is done by "optometrists" who have actually secured 
 
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"laws" in many states, licensing them as professional 
 people, without the formality of examination as to their 
 competence, moral character or anything else, because or 
 Constitutional provisions against interfering with personal 
 privileges, which Constitutional privilege is at once vio- 
 lated by the conduct of examining boards who endeavor 
 to monopolize practice by shutting out those who would 
 enter the field after such "laws" are in force. The alleged 
 "laws" are frauds on the public and are the rankest sort 
 of class-legislation, as are also all other practice acts. A 
 licensed physician in one state, who has practiced for years 
 and has a good reputation in his profession finds it difficult 
 and often impossible to secure a license in another state, 
 because the alleged "examination" is made so technical 
 and "modern" he cannot pass it. The Medical Trust has 
 provided "reciprocity" between states, but it is restricted 
 to graduates from the schools which are "recognized" by 
 the Trust. 
 
 Anyone can go to an optical supply house and purchase 
 an outfit for .fitting glasses, which includes a card of test 
 letters, made upon a scale established mathematically, 
 but few practitioners know enough about physical optics 
 to figure and find whether the test letters are correct or 
 not. Few of them could figure the size of the picture formed 
 on the retina of an emmetropic eye with the object at any 
 given distance, yet that is only one of a great many im- 
 portant factors in the training necessary for expert eye 
 work. It is a marvelous tribute to the nervous system to 
 be able to prove that with a test letter 8.7 mm. square at 
 6 meters from the eye the image formed on the retina 
 is not larger than the period following this sentence; yet 
 it is a fact that the message to the brain is perfectly clear 
 as to details of the letter down to fifths. It is almost un- 
 believeable that an overdevelopment of the eye which 
 shortens the focal distance a quarter of a millimeter will 
 reduce vision at least 50 per cent., nevertheless it is a fact. 
 
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It is also a fact that no system of practice in relation 
 to human ills is anywhere near complete if it does not in- 
 clude a most thorough knowledge of the laws of refraction 
 and their physiological application, not only in the fitting 
 of glasses but in the general analysis of cases. 
 
 Accident insurance companies pay the face of the policy 
 in case of loss of both eyes; one-half of it for the loss of one 
 eye. 
 
 Nearly all nervous and incorrigible children have eye 
 defects which are largely the cause of their erratic exhibits. 
 Do not neglect them. 
 
 Girls entering womanhood may be saved years of suf- 
 fering by wearing glasses constantly. Do not let pride 
 interfere,, because nothing but the eye correction will 
 accomplish the desired object. Of course, some will need 
 .additional attention to other possible causes. See other 
 chapters for particulars. 
 
 Do not wear colored glasses, except for special occasions, 
 such as trips on snow or water in bright, sunny days; they 
 are injurious, because they give too much shade and make 
 the eyes weak. 
 
 Do not be misled by the fantastic names given to 
 advertised glasses. They are schemes to get your money; 
 they have no especial values. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 The Outrage of Vaccination. 
 
 Vaccination, and all serum therapy, is an outrageous 
 experiment, wrong in theory, because it is unnatural, and 
 vile in practice, as is proved by the effects. 
 
 The "Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry" of the A. 
 M. A., (Medical Trust), met in Chicago in April, 1919, and 
 appointed a committee "to study the problems of serum 
 and vaccine therapy. This to the end that it might pub- 
 lish in the Journal, for the information of the medical pro- 
 fession, the evidence obtainable regarding both the value 
 of, and also the dangers incident to, the use of serum and 
 vaccines. The study is to include (a) an exhaustive review 
 of the literature, (b) a tabulation of the experiences of the 
 Army and Navy as revealed in available official reports, 
 and (c) a review of the data relative to these therapeutic 
 agencies available in the various clinics of scientific stand- 
 ing/' says the Journal of the A. M. A., April 26, 1919. 
 
 In a recent decision (1919) of the Supreme Court of 
 Illinois, affirming a decree that dismissed without equity 
 a bill Of complaint to enjoin the officials of Granite City, 
 Illinois, from preventing the complainants attending the 
 public schools of that. city unless they were first vaccinated, 
 said: "The rule is firmly established in Illinois that school 
 directors and boards of education have no authority to 
 exclude children from the public schools on the ground, 
 simply, that they refuse to be vaccinated, unless, in cases 
 of emergency, in the exercise of the police power, it is 
 necessary, or reasonably appears to be necessary to prevent 
 the contagion of smallpox. But it appeared, in the cases 
 wherein that rule was established, that there was no epi- 
 
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demic or prevalence of smallpox and that the pupils were 
 in a healthy condition and had not been exposed to small- 
 pox; and this court held it to be unreasonable to require 
 vaccination as a prerequisite to admission to the public 
 schools in such cases, and that there was no law in Illinois 
 authorizing such action." 
 
 This decision, omitting to state what constitutes an 
 epidemic, which Webster says means "spreading widely, 
 among great numbers/ ' makes it possible for the Medical 
 Trust officials to declare an epidemic whenever it wants to 
 make a few hundreds of thousands of dollars for its mem- 
 bers. 
 
 Following is an extract from a letter to me by "W. C. 
 Braisted, Surgeon General, U. S. Navy," a member of 
 the Medical Trust, which dominates in government 
 medical affairs and just elected president thereof: 
 
 "One of the regulations of the Navy requires that 
 every one who enlists or enrolls in the service shall be 
 vaccinated and those who enlist or enroll obligate them- 
 selves to conform to the regulations of the Navy. Vac- 
 cination is not done by force, but anyone who refuses 
 vaccination is usually discharged or courtmartialed for 
 violation of the regulations and disobedience of orders. 
 Your paper containing your arguments against vaccina- 
 tion was not received by this bureau. Whatever your 
 arguments may be the law of the Navy is that vaccination 
 shall be done and this will be carried out until the law is 
 abrogated." 
 
 My argument is that if those who believe in the vile rite 
 choose to accept its alleged benefits, they should be allowed 
 to do so; and those who elect to risk smallpox rather than 
 the well-known disasters of vaccination, should also be 
 allowed to do so, because, if vaccination prevents smallpox 
 those who are vaccinated will be perfectly safe. There is 
 just as much reason for not vaccinating any because of 
 the objections of many as there is for insisting all submit 
 
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because a few mercenaries and fools pretend they believe 
 in it. 
 
 The alleged "law of the Navy" is not a law at all. It 
 is merely a Medical Trust rule. That it is a cowardly 
 method of procedure is obvious. That it is regarded by 
 themselves as unimportant is proved by the fact that my 
 daughter, a yeomanette, worked in the Navy Department 
 for five months and was not vaccinated until the day of 
 her discharge, when she was not only vaccinated but was 
 inoculated with "anti-typhoid" serum — by a gob, not a 
 doctor — and when she arrived at home the next day she 
 was in a state of near collapse. Frequent hot baths and 
 thorough purgation aborted the threatened disaster to her, 
 but my indignation over the dastardly assault has not 
 cooled nor will it until I shall have exposed the official 
 martinets most effectively. 
 
 I have it from the Registrar-General's office, London, 
 that vaccination and serum therapy are not compulsory 
 in the English Army and Navy, but it is stated that a 
 "vast majority accept them/' which proves two things: 
 First, that English physicians are not so bigoted that they 
 would insist upon the rite being visited upon intelligent 
 people who object to it; Second, that "the vast majority" 
 do not think. When it was attempted to pass a compulsory 
 law in that behalf a few years ago the intelligent people 
 of England registered such a protest that provision was 
 made that conscientious objectors, over twenty-one years 
 of age, might register their objections for themselves and 
 for those under their guardianship, and be excused from 
 the rite. 
 
 The history of vaccination and serum therapy condemns 
 it conclusively. The history of smallpox is two-fold: 
 First, those who had it and survived, which "the vast 
 majority" did, were in better health thereafter than ever 
 before; Second, in thoroughly vaccinated Japan, where it 
 is done annually to every man, woman and child, they have 
 
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had riotous epidemics of smallpox in very recent years. 
 
 Even in this benighted, Trust-ridden country, pro- 
 vaccination doctors do not vaccinate those who are in a 
 state of poor health, because, they admit, it would be at- 
 tended with great danger. The "researches" now being 
 made are further evidence they are afraid of it themselves; 
 then why force it upon those who see it is illogical and un- 
 natural theoretically and vicious practically? Why do 
 the courts uphold such dubious practices? Are they ig- 
 norant, or are they venal? 
 
 In Minnesota, a few years ago, the people were so 
 vigorous in their protests against the practice that the 
 "health" boards announced the compulsory law would 
 not be enforced and if thousands died from smallpox it 
 would be their own fault. Smallpox was "epidemic," ac- 
 cording to the "authorities," in Duluth and other cities; 
 but it soon exhausted itself and the people won a victory, 
 the news* of which has been carefully suppressed by the 
 Trust Press and the Trust Doctors. 
 
 In the January number of our paper, "Mature Medi- 
 cine," was printed the experience of a Mr. Butler, of Cal- 
 gary, Canada, with vaccination and feeding of cattle. He 
 had about 3,000 head, and, as there was an epidemic of 
 "blackleg" the government ordered the lot to be vaccinated. 
 As one result, the death rate of the herd rose from a normal 
 8 to 48 the first year and to 65 the second year, when the 
 owners refused to submit to further experiments at their 
 expense. Another result was that the females appeared 
 to be sterilized for the birth rate fell as the death rate rose. 
 At another time he tried an experiment in the matter of 
 feeding. He divided his herd equally and fed one lot on 
 whole wheat; the other lot was fed on hay exclusively. 
 The first lot grew fat, but were not strong; the calves were 
 excessively fat, some weighing 110 pounds at birth — they 
 nearly all died at once and the mothers expired in labor 
 very often. The other lot was not so fat, nor were their 
 
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calves, but both mothers and calves were strong, delivery- 
 safe and the death rate practically nothing. 
 
 We know that the same state of affairs exists in the 
 human family — all because fanatics are permitted to force 
 the public to submit to their experiments. It is high time 
 the victims who have survived and the prospective sub- 
 jects arise and resist, with force, if need be, such un-Demo- 
 cratic practices. 
 
 It is a peculiar situation when, on the one hand liquors 
 are abolished because they have been misused by some, 
 while on the other hand, the vaccine and serum fads are 
 forced on people who have the very best of health reasons for 
 not wanting them. Religion has made more maniacs than 
 liquor ever did, yet "laws" are made in its behalf, in viola- 
 tion of a special clause in the U. S. Constitution forbidding 
 it, while the authorities violate the same Constitution to 
 put liquor men out of business. Our soldier boys went 
 abroad to fight for Democracy and while they were gone, 
 this country was made a most outrageous oligarchy at the 
 behest of fanactics and profiteers. That there is great 
 trouble ahead for the United States is as sure as there is 
 a Natural law. As August Bebel predicted the present 
 German predicament to his countrymen in 1904, so I fore- 
 cast disaster in this country if those in office continue their 
 abuses of power at the turning of the thumbs of sects and 
 cliques whose votes are dumped as one for those who sub- 
 mit to their domination. 
 
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CHAPTER V. 
 Foods, Nitrogenous and Carbonaceous. 
 
 We are born according to Natural laws, handicapped 
 by artificial ones. 
 
 A child, born out of wedlock, is declared by religious 
 dictum a "bastard" which "cannot enter the kingdom of 
 heaven." Yet it is alleged God made the laws of pro- 
 creation and love! 
 
 The majority live haphazard and according to fads. 
 Natural results : Mental and physiological disorders which, 
 through assiduously cultivated superstition, make the 
 victims more susceptible to the machinations of religious 
 and medical charlatans, the greatest of which constantly 
 resort to organized slander — organized in the names of 
 "religion" and "scientific medicine" — by which the in- 
 dividual cowards are, in a measure, protected from ex- 
 posure and chastisement. 
 
 The two bodies mentioned comprise less than one-third 
 of the population of the United States and less than one- 
 fifth of the medical practitioners of this Union. Yet both 
 have long dominated politics and the two organizations 
 invariably support each other, no matter what is proposed. 
 
 Orthodox medicine teaches the "carbohydrate" theory 
 of what constitutes proper food, and persists in it, even 
 when their experiments have proved, long since, that it 
 is as false as perjury and a lot more harmful. 
 
 The "American Text-Book of Physiology," authored 
 by the professors of physiology in Harvard, Yale, Columbia, 
 University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins Medical 
 departments, contains the most positive evidence of 
 criminality on the part of "regular" practitioners, because 
 they cannot be ignorant of their error in the face of the 
 following : 
 
 Vol. I, page 277: "We include among carbohydrates 
 
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the starches, sugars, gums, and the like; they contain no 
 nitrogen. Their physiological value lies in the fact that 
 they are destroyed in the body and a certain amount of 
 energy is thereby liberated. The energy of muscular work 
 work and of the heat of the body comes largely from the 
 destruction of carbohydrates." 
 
 Yet, on pages 354-355 we find: "The essential value 
 of the inorganic salts to the proper nutrition of the body 
 does not commonly force itself upon us, since, as a rule, 
 we get our proper supply unconsciously with our food, 
 without the necessity of making a deliberate selection" (I) 
 "Forster fed dogs and pigeons on a diet in which the saline 
 constituents had been much reduced, although not com- 
 pletely removed. The animals were given proteids, fats 
 and carbohydrates, but they soon passed into a moribund 
 condition. It seemed, in fact, that the animals died more 
 quickly on a diet poor in salts than if they had been entirely 
 deprived of food." 
 
 In their classification of "food-stuffs," page 276, they 
 put them in the following order, evidently unconsciously 
 convicting themselves of the sin of omission in their 
 practices : 
 
 "Water; 
 
 "Inorganic Salts; 
 
 "Proteids (nitrogen-containing bodies) ; 
 
 "Albuminoids (a group of bodies resembling proteids, 
 but having in some respects, a different nutritive value); 
 
 "Carbohydrates; 
 
 "Fats." 
 
 On page 277: "In the group of fats we include not 
 only what is ordinarily understood by the term, but also 
 the oils, animal and vegetable, that form such a common 
 part of our foods. Fats contain no nitrogen. Their use in 
 the body is substantially the same as that of the carbo- 
 hydrates. Weight for weight, they are more valuable 
 than the the carbohydrates as a source of energy, but the 
 
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latter are cheaper, more completely digested when fed in 
 quantity and more easily destroyed in the body/' 
 
 In their classification of "enzymes," a name given to a 
 group of bodies existing in plants and animals, which 
 institute and promote normal fermentation in the digestive 
 apparatus, they again convict themselves of the crime of 
 omission in practice. 
 
 Page 280: "Enzymes are classified according to the 
 kind of reaction they produce — namely: 
 
 "1. Proteolytic enzymes, or those acting on proteids, 
 converting them to a soluble modification, peptone or 
 protose. As examples of this group we have in the animal 
 body pepsin, of the gastric juice and t^psin of the pan- 
 creatic juice. In plants a similar enzyme is found in the 
 pineapple family, (bromelin) and in the papaw (papain). 
 
 "2. Amylolytic enzymes, or those acting upon the 
 starches, converting them to a soluble form, sugar or sugar 
 and de*xtrin. As examples we have in the animal body 
 ptyalin, found in the saliva; amylopsin, found in pancreatic 
 juice, and, in the liver, an enzyme capable of converting 
 gtycogen into sugar. In plants the best known example 
 is diastase, found in germinating seeds, known for a long 
 time from the use made of it in the manufacture of beer. 
 
 "3. Fat-splitting enzymes, or those acting upon the 
 neutral fats, breaking them up into glycerine and the 
 corresponding fatty acids. The best example known is 
 steapsin, found in the pancreatic secretion. 
 
 "4. Sugar-splitting enzymes, or those having the 
 property of converting the double into the single sugars. 
 Two enzymes of this character are found in the small 
 intestines of the animal body; they are known as invertase 
 and maltase." 
 
 When it is known that in the regular order of digestion, 
 water, inorganic salts, proteids and albumins are handled 
 altogether in the stomach, save when it is handicapped 
 by the presence of the carbohydrates; that the starches 
 
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are only partly digested in the stomach and the sugars and 
 fats are scarcely attacked until they reach the small 
 intestines, it should become clear to anyone whose mentality 
 is not clouded by sophistry, that such foods as contain 
 tissue building material, (which, it is confessed, only the 
 first named group do), are the ones which should pre- 
 ponderate in food. Yet the old-school theory and practice 
 remain just the opposite, insisting that the carbohydrates, 
 sugars and fats are the producers of heat and energy; a 
 falsehood of the most palpable sort, proved by everj^-day 
 observation of fat people and animals, made so from diets 
 of starches, sweets and fats — they are almost invariably 
 sufferers from heat and cold, are unable to perform labor 
 without tiring quickly, exhibit skin eruptions, "gout," 
 "apoplexy," ambitions for easy jobs, as office-holders, are 
 lazy and not nearly so honest as their leaner fellows. 
 
 We have taken thousands of cases of disorders, pro- 
 duced largely by wrong food, with contributing causes 
 which are always present, and made new people of them 
 in a few -weeks. We reduced Dr. T. C. Seright, of Chats- 
 worth, 111., from 269 to 198 pounds in the thirty days from 
 August 15, to September 15, 1902, and changed him from 
 a weak, nervous person to a strong, happy man. A few 
 years later, when I mentioned the case in one of my classes, 
 a Kentucky physician-student arose and asked for proofs, 
 because I had told the class to not believe anything I 
 taught unless I proved it. I responded that if we were 
 in Kentucky the shooting would be over and his relatives 
 notified; then I began to explain why I was not prepared 
 to establish my veracity in that instance, when I was 
 attracted by a presence in the open door — it proved to be 
 Dr. Seright, whom I supposed was 80 miles away; needless 
 to say I called on him for a statement, at the conclusion 
 of which I asked my student if he would like to call that 
 big fellow a liar. He apologized and the incident was closed. 
 The old-school boys teach it is dangerous to take off fat so 
 
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fast, thus proving they know nothing about the matter 
 and do not want to learn. 
 
 On page 364 of the delectable text-book quoted from 
 may be found under the heading "Potential Energy of 
 Food:" 
 
 "From the standpoint of the law of conservation of 
 energy it is easy to understand that the amount of available 
 energy in any food may be determined by burning it out- 
 side the body and measuring the quanity of heat liberate d." 
 
 If this isn't "bunk" it is most appalling ignorance — 
 any person with a little common sense knows there is a 
 vast difference between physical and physiological com- 
 bustion. But let us take some of their figures and try 
 them out, On page 364 they say: 
 
 "Roughly speaking an adult man gives off from his 
 body in the course of twenty-four hours about 2,400,000 
 calories of heat (1 calorie = the heat necessary to raise 
 1 cubic centimeter of water 1° C). This supply of heat 
 is derived from the metabolism or physiological oxidation 
 of the proteids, the fats and the carbohydrates that we 
 take into the body in our food. * * * * According 
 to Stohman, 1 gram of beef, deprived of fat equals 5,641 
 calories, while 1 gram of veal gives 5,663 calories. For 
 muscle extracted with water, Rubner obtained the fol- 
 lowing figures: 1 gram = 5,778 calories. The combustion 
 equivalent of urea (Rubner) is 2,523 calories. Since 1 
 gram of proteid yields about one-third of a gram of urea, 
 we should deduct 841 calories from the combustion equiv- 
 alent of 1 gram of proteid to get its available energy to 
 the body: 5,778-841 =4,937 calories." 
 
 Very well. Now, 2,400,000-7-4,937 = 486 grams or 
 a little over one pound avoirdupois (1 pound is 453.5 
 grams) of proteids to supply the body with necessary 
 energy. But, they say, further: 
 
 "Practically, however, this value has been found too 
 high. Direct determinations upon the body in a calori- 
 
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meter gave to Rubner the following values, which seem 
 to be generally adopted by workers in this field: 1 gram 
 of proteid equals 4,100 calories; 1 gram of fat equals 9,300 
 calories; 1 gram of carbohydrates equals 4,100 calories. 
 Weight for weight, fat contains the most energy, and, as we 
 know, in cold weather and in cold climates the proportion 
 of fat in the food is increased. In dietetics, however, the 
 use of fat is limited by the difficulty attending its digestion 
 and absorption as compared with the carbohydrates." 
 
 Let us see: 2,400,000 -f- 4, 100 = 585 grams, or 1.3 
 pounds of proteids; 2,400,000-^-9,300 = 257 grams, or 
 .56 of a pound of fat to sustain an able-bodied man daily. 
 The carbohydrates figure the same as the proteids, hence 
 if a man eats half a pound of each of the above daily he 
 will develop 4,800,000 calories of heat, twice as much as 
 he needs, hence he would surely become overheated! Some 
 people eat five times the quantity mentioned, hence, 
 theoretically, such people ought to blow up! Is it a funny 
 proposition to you, reader? It is to me. 
 
 As a matter of fact the whole calorie system is a physio- 
 logical fraud, as is readily proved by simply observing fat 
 people and animals, as suggested before. It is an egregious 
 mistake to assume that "the essential value of the inorganic 
 salts to the proper nutrition of the body does not commonly 
 force itself upon us," in the light of such statements, 
 experiments and figures just given. It is foolish to assert 
 that "as a rule, we get our proper supply unconsciously 
 in our food, without the necessity of deliberate selection." 
 
 In another chapter will be found a list of the elements 
 composing the human body. Of these, iron, potassium, 
 sodium, calcium and magnesium are the bases of the 
 inorganic salts. (So-called "organic chemistry" is that of 
 the carbon compounds). The other body elements, 
 phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen 
 and nitrogen, are the active principles which act upon the 
 metal bases named, forming essential salts, which are 
 
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utilized in the processes of metabolism. The nitrates and 
 phosphates of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium 
 and iron, build bone, muscle, nerve and connective tissue, 
 while combinations having the non-metal, carbon, for a 
 base, make nothing but load for the digestive apparatus, 
 if digested, a load of fat to carry and absorb heat and 
 energy, obstruct nervous and vascular circulations and, 
 finally, return nothing whatever in the line of energy. 
 
 The carbonates are indigestible as well as non-nutritive, 
 if used alone as shown in the experiment quoted, where 
 the dogs and birds died quicker than if they had been given 
 no food, because they wasted energy in trying to "combust" 
 the food which gave no return. Nitrates and phosphates are 
 not only necessary for body repairs, but are absolutely 
 essential to digestion and absorption, hence we designate 
 them as + foods and the carbonaceous ones as — . We 
 employ the same signs in subdivisions of other subjects, 
 hence they do not always mean foods. 
 
 For convenience in making comparisons we use figures, 
 instead of technical symbols, and let 100 per cent, the 
 normal daily demand for digestive purposes, be 1,000,000 
 units of energy. Practical physiological tests, made 
 repeatedly, proved that it takes four times as much energy 
 to handle equal amounts of carbohydrates and nitro- 
 phosphates; therefore in a quantity equally divided as to 
 the + and — we have the ratio 1 to 1, which, in 10 parts, 
 is a proportion of 5 to 5. Dividing the 1,000,000 demand 
 in the proportions 4/5 to the — and 1/5 to the + gives 
 800,000 to the - and 200,000 to the +, or 160,000 per 
 part to the — and 40,000 per part to the + . Thus, at a 
 ratio of 1 to 1 and a quantity of 10 parts, which may be 
 grains, ounces or pounds, we have 
 Ratio. Quantity. 
 -1.00 -5X160,000 = 800,000 
 + 1.00 -f 5X 40,000 = 200,000 
 
 Total daily demand = 1,000,000 
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As the — foods return nothing, the big duty falls on the 
 + . To return 1,000,000 the -f has to do it at the rate of 
 5 for each 1 of its 200,000 drawn. 
 
 One of the waj's in which we proved it does this, or 
 better, is that we took cases who were living according to 
 the carbohydrate schedule, which is a ratio of 4 parts 
 carbohydrates to 1 part nitro-phosphates, and w T ere in a 
 bad state of disorder. We put our standard to the test and 
 found it thus: 
 
 Ratio. Quantity. 
 
 -4.00 -8.00X160,000 = 1,280,000 
 
 + 1.00 +2.00 X 40,000 = 80,000 
 
 Total daily demand = 1,360,000 
 To return the total makes a demand on the+ of 17 
 to each 1 drawn for the nitro-phosphate, which is beyond 
 its capacity. We reversed the ratio and prescribed prac- 
 tically the same quantity as had been used, and the follow- 
 ing shows why we got the results we did : 
 Ratio. Quantitjr. 
 -1.00 -2.00X160,000 = 320,000 
 +4.00 +8.00 X 40,000 = 320,000 
 
 . Total daily demand = 640,000 
 With a reproducing capacity of 5 to 1 the + would re- 
 turn 1,600,000 daily and with a reduced capacity of only 3 
 to 1 it would return 960,000 daily, or 50 percent, more than 
 the demand. Our patients recovered so quickly they sur- 
 prised even ourselves. Of course we did other things beside 
 dieting, but any doctor is supposed to do that. We used 
 no drugs of the artificial sort, however, and we only did 
 rational things, from which, like our diet, no possible harm 
 could ever occur. We win in 100 per cent, of all cases. 
 First, we do not accept any who measure beyond the "limit 
 angle" of Nature's power to come back; second, the laws 
 of Nature always work because we require all patients to 
 
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pay good fees in advance, as guarantees they will follow 
 instructions. 
 
 The foregoing refers exclusively to the ratio of the 
 solids in foods. The normal ratio of water to solids is 
 2 to 1, which is necessary to solubility for purposes of assim- 
 ilation and distribution of the essential elements in the 
 solids. Briefly a normal food composition is 66 2/3 per 
 cent, water, 16 2/3 per cent. — solids and 16 2/3 per cent. 
 + solids. In the average carbohydrate diet of the public 
 (and orthodox doctors) including white flour, dried peas 
 and beans, corn, rye, etc., water ranges from 14 to 25 per 
 cent. — solids from 40 to 75 per cent., + solids from 3 to 
 24 per cent., there is a slow, sometimes, but sure drain on 
 the chemical supply which brings trouble sooner or later. 
 Of course the deficiency of water is often made up by copious 
 draughts thereof with meals, but, in any event there is a 
 lack of the elements with which Nature builds tissue, par- 
 ticularly- muscle and nerve structures, walls of blood- 
 vessels, etc., then there is a dearth of combinations required 
 for digestion and the result is an abnormal fermentation, 
 with its results, as follows : 
 
 The "carbo-hydrate" foods contain practically none 
 of the most important elements: Nitrogen, phosphorus, 
 iron, sulphur, chlorine, potassium, sodium, calcium and 
 magnesium, nine out of a total of fourteen. They do 
 contain starch, sugar, fats and some water, but not enough 
 of the latter, which can be added easily, however. Starch 
 has the formula CeHioOs with a molecular weight of 162; 
 adding water, H 2 with a molecular weight of 18, forms 
 glucose, C 6 H 12 6 with a molecular weight of 180. There- 
 fore, one ounce of starch, 480 grains, plus the proper 
 proportion of water, 53 1 /3 grains, a total of 533 1 /3 grains, 
 affords a basis for figures of fact. If absorbed promptly, 
 without fermentation, it is of little value as food because 
 it lacks the nine important elements named above, and 
 instead of forming heat, as has long been taught, it does 
 
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nothing of the kind, being rather an absorber of heat and 
 motive power, a load rather than a help. If fermentation 
 occurs, as it often does, it splits into 2C0 2 +2C 2 H 6 OH, 
 or carbon dioxide and alcohol, with respective molecular 
 weights of 88 and 92, or 48.89 per cent, carbon dioxide 
 and 51.11 per cent, alcohol. Therefore, one ounce, 480 
 grains, of starch, plus 53 1/3 grains of water, a total of 
 533 1/3 grains, yields 272.6 grains of alcohol. Dividing 
 this figure by .8 (the specific gravity of alcohol) there are 
 340 minims volume. Sixty minims make a fluid drachm, 
 hence there are 5.68 fluid drachms or .71 of an ounce of 
 alcohol. Dilute to whisky, which is 50 per cent, alcohol, 
 this is 1.42 ounces, a pretty big drink for even a "toper." 
 It is not uncommon for people to eat 32 ounces a day of 
 starchy foods and nearly all of them have "acidity of the 
 stomach," which means their distillery is working, so they 
 are making anywhere from a few ounces up to 45.44 ounces 
 of whisky per day. 
 
 That the effects of the ordinary manner of living are 
 bad is thus easily shown, theoretically, and the final proof 
 is not only afforded in the "chronic" conditions of millions 
 who are not ill enough to seek medical aid, other than 
 patent medicines, but in the numerous fads exploited from 
 time to time by fakers and by honest but misguided souls, 
 who range from the herbiverous to the carniverous, 
 including the omniverous who satisify their appetites and 
 send for the doctor. 
 
 It should be apparent to even the casual observer that 
 no system of living, or of medical practice, which does not 
 take into consideration everything pertaining to these 
 great subjects, can be anywhere near correct. Our System 
 of Mature Medicine is the product of endeavors to profit 
 intellectually by the mistakes of others, hence it is the 
 most difficult to practice, because we have to contend with 
 professional jealously and with habits which are generations 
 old. Then it is often difficult to secure the variety in foods 
 
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which are needed; bath tubs are comparatively few; facil- 
 ities for hot water are fewer; people do not want to wear 
 glasses or take proper rest. There are so many "cults," 
 who propose to "cure" ills of all sorts by punching backs, 
 by drugs, by "physical culture," by "Christian" and other 
 ''sciences," by Turkish baths, hypnotism, etc. The 
 "forgiveness of sins" dogma has borne fruit. It is still 
 utilized by the Religious Trust, the Medical Trust, the 
 Newspaper Trust and the Food Profiteers Trust to keep 
 the public filled to redundance with a faith in "authorities" 
 which would be sublime were it not so pathetic. The 
 "Health" columns of the public press are replete with 
 "information" that makes business for the "dope" 
 doctors, who originated "patent" medicines by their 
 "prescription" methods and who now seek legislation 
 to put such competition out of business. The same public 
 press echoes and reechoes the cry for "vaccination" and 
 serum 'therapy, which are unsound theoretically, criminal 
 practically and altogether an experiment. 
 
 The latest jolt given to the faddist was at Camp 
 Wheeler, Macon, Ga., shown in a report of George Douglas 
 Head, M. D., chief of medical service, base hospital, whose 
 story was published in the Journal of the Medical Trust 
 May 3, 1919. It describes an "experiment," tried on 
 soldiers in that camp during an "epidemic of pneumonia." 
 "Two radically different methods were employed," says 
 the report. One was in what is termed the "open war 
 group," where the out-doors-cold-air fad was practiced in 
 966 cases, with a mortality of 13.9 per cent. The other 
 was the rational method of warm rooms, comfortable 
 surroundings, etc., where, with 435 cases the death rate 
 was only 3.2 per cent. It is stated particularly that the 
 comparison between the two methods is fair because "the 
 epidemic was continuous during the time the study was 
 made; the same disease was prevalent, of the same type 
 in both groups." What have the "sleeping-porch" faddists 
 
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to say about it? What have the "health" editors, who 
 exploit fads, to say? Why should "scientific" doctors find 
 it necessary to experiment*! Doctor Head is a Medical Trust 
 doctor, according to the directory published by the Trust; 
 he was graduated in 1895 and is still orthodox. His experi- 
 ment was certainly a deadly one for orthodoxy. 
 
 In the diet tables which are supplied with each copy of 
 this book, Table I gives the percentages and quantities 
 in grains, per ounce, avoirdupois, of Carbonates, Nitrates, 
 Phosphates and Water; Table II gives, in grains and 
 fractions thereof, the amounts of: P. (phosphorous), 
 Fe. (iron), S. (sulphur), CI. (chlorine), K. (potassium), 
 Na. (sodium), Ca. (calcium), Mg. (magnesium), per ounce, 
 avoirdupois. The first four named are active principles, 
 (except that iron is sometimes basic), while the last four 
 are the bases on which combinations are formed by the 
 others, usually associated with nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen 
 and fluorine. These combinations, or "salts," act not only 
 in the metabolic processes, but generate heat and power 
 directly and indirectly, the first about one-ninth to one- 
 fifth of the total produced daily and the second (muscular 
 activity) develops the remainder. 
 
 A standard, normal diet should be at least two-thirds 
 water, one sixth nitro-phosphates and one-sixth carbonates ; 
 then, with the liquids taken with meals and between meals 
 and other departments of physiology in fairly normal 
 conditions, digestion should be complete and the needs of 
 the body supplied. It requires considerable figuring to 
 arrange the items quantitatively in order to get the 
 qualitative proportions and, to practice dietetics as a 
 materia medica, requires a training in physical and physio- 
 logical chemistry which cannot be acquired from a book. 
 The illustrations to follow will show, however, how we can 
 utilize all articles of food, without harm and even with 
 some benefits. The figures in the Diet Tables are per 
 
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ounce, hence must be multiplied by the number of ounces 
 of each item : 
 
 In Table I, for example, apple is 4 per cent, carbonates, 
 and 33 per cent, nitrates and phosphates, with 63 per cent, 
 water. The ratio of the -f solids (nitro-phosphates) to 
 the — solids (carbonates) is 8 1/4 to 1. Referring to Table 
 II, in which the first four columns are the + or active 
 principles and the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th columns are the — 
 or basic elements, we find by comparing the totals of each,, 
 that the ratio of the basic to the active elements present 
 is — 3.52 to + 1.00, which is good because the base has to 
 carry the combination with nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, 
 or fluorine, or several of them — the normal ratio of the 
 
 — to + is about 2 to 1. But apples are not perfect food, 
 because they contain no chlorine, which is one of the 
 essentials for digestion. Adding salt will overcome that 
 deficiency; but there are yet other deficiencies which any 
 attempt to explain here would be wasted unless the reader 
 be first trained as indicated in the preceding paragraph. 
 The only place that training can be had is in our school, 
 where practical physiological chemistry has been developed 
 in a manner consistent with physical laws. It is a sad 
 commentary on the intelligence of those who organized 
 the dominant system of practice that they devoted their 
 time to developing an artificial materia-medica and neg- 
 lected entirely Nature's own, the only true one. 
 
 Apricot, Table I, is 8 per cent, carbonates, 6 per cent, 
 nitro-phosphates and 83 per cent, water. The ratio of the- 
 
 — solids dominates, 1 1/3 to 1; but the water is bountiful 
 and that helps. Table II shows the base is 3.51 to 1; but 
 it is short on chlorine and the total of the elements is onljr 
 .4539, while apple totals 4.5701 grains per ounce. 
 
 Remember all of the figures in Table II are extracted 
 from the nitrate and phosphate columns of Table I. The 
 carbonates yield none of them. 
 
 Asparagus, Table I, is 5.4— to 1-f; but, with, 93.6 per 
 
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cent, water, it is not bad. Table II shows a base ratio of 
 only 1.53, which is not good; yet, if it be eaten with other 
 items, the total being so arranged that the combination 
 is good, as a whole, the Naturally elastic body chemistry 
 will take care of it. 
 
 Beans, (dried), Table I, are 40 per cent, carbonates to 
 27.5 per cent, nitro-phosphates, a ratio —1.45 to +1.00, 
 with water only 14 per cent., which is a bad combination. 
 Table II shows an abundance of elements but a base ratio 
 below which is bad. We can only eat beans with benefit 
 if they be taken in connection with other items which 
 make up their deficiencies. The ratio is found by dividing 
 the smaller total into the larger one. In this instance the 
 total of active elements is greatest. 
 
 Beets, Table I, are bad in solids, with a — ratio of 3.54 
 to 1.00; but the 70 per cent, water helps. In Table II the 
 base ratio of 1.60 is not good, and there is no help for it 
 but combination with other items. 
 
 Beef, Table I, is good, because the nitro-phosphates 
 dominate with a ratio of 1 1 /2 to 1 and the water is about 
 normal. Table II offsets the good in one respect, viz.: 
 the basic ratio is bad, being only 1 to 1 ; But the quantity 
 of elements is good, so all that is necessary to secure the 
 benefits is to supply other items with high basic values. 
 Common salt, NaCl, adds sodium to the bases and frees 
 chlorine to form hydro-chloric acid for digestive purposes. 
 
 Blueberries, Table I, the -fsolids dominating 2.55 to 
 1.00 and water high; hence they are good. Table II shows 
 a fine base ratio of 3.60 and a liberal supply of elements. 
 
 Blackberries, Table I, show the -f- is 4.5 to 1.00, with 
 lots of water; hence good. Table II shows a base ratio of 
 3 and plenty of elements. The seeds in berries are aids to 
 digestion, mechanically. 
 
 Cabbage, Table I, has a ratio of — 3, with a high 
 percentage of water, making it fair. Table II help*, with 
 a base ratio of 2, improving it on the whole. 
 
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Carrots, Table I, are —5.80 to -f 1.00, which is bad; 
 with over 82 per cent, water, which helps. Table II shows 
 a 3.60 base, which is very good; but there is only a trifle 
 over half a grain of elements per ounce, hence it is a light 
 weight food. 
 
 Cauliflower, Table I, is good, with a ratio of 1 to 1 solids, 
 and 90 per cent, water. But Table II gives only a 1.58 
 base; hence it needs to be supplemented with other things 
 to increase the base and the water will stand reduction. 
 
 Corn (N), Table I, is bad, with a — ratio of 5 and only 
 14 per cent, water, which may be increased, but that 
 wouldn't help the other fault, and Table II shows a base 
 of only 1.36, which is bad. 
 
 Corn (S), Table I, is good, with a ratio of 1 to 1 solids; 
 but it is low in water, which is bad. Table II shows the 
 + elements dominating the base, which is bad. 
 
 Corn (G), Table I, gives a — ratio of 1.71 in the solids, 
 but an* abundance of water, which is good. It is low in 
 chlorine, by Table II, and the base is lower than the active 
 elements; hence the tendency to produce colic, when 
 indulged to excess. 
 
 Cheese, Table I, is good, with a -f- ratio of 1.27; and 
 not good with only 36.5 per cent, water, which is easily 
 increased. Table II shows it to be abundant in salts, with 
 a fine base, —3.20. It is one of the best foods there is; 
 but it does not follow that cheese alone would be a practical 
 diet. This reminds us of the man in a boarding house who 
 said he liked prunes for eighty or ninety meals successively, 
 but he'd be damned if he wanted them all of the time. 
 
 Celery, Table I, has a —ratio of 1.7, with 75 per cent, 
 water.s In salts, Table II, it is better, with a base of 2.76 
 and lots of chlorine. 
 
 Cranberry, Table I, with 45 per cent, nitro-phosphates 
 and no carbonates is fine; water is almost normal. Table 
 II shows it prolific in salts with a base ratio of 2.16, which 
 is good. 
 
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Cherries, Table I, are bad, with a — ratio of 7; and 
 the 81.2 per cent, water doesn't offset that. Table II shows 
 a poor value in salts, but with a basic ratio of 2.77, which 
 is good. It is a peculiarity of fruits, with single seeds, 
 that they are poor in salts and carbonates dominate. 
 
 Currants, Table I, show 2.9 per cent. + and no — solids, 
 which is good as far as that goes, and there is lots of water. 
 But Table II shows the + elements dominate in quantity, 
 hence there is liability to be trouble from a deficiency of 
 basic material. 
 
 Cocoanut, Table I, is all bad, with a — ratio of 8.3 
 and no water. Table II, makes a fairly showing, with a base 
 ratio of 3.57; but a comparatively enormous amount 
 of energy has to be expended to get little return out of 
 such items of food. 
 
 Cucumber, Table I, shows a —ratio ojf nearly 3 to 1; 
 but it will be observed it is nearly all water. Table II 
 shows the active elements are more numerous than the 
 basic, hence it is a bad combination. This is aggravated 
 by the fact that this stuff is eaten while it is immature, in 
 which condition it is more or less poisonous; much depend- 
 ing on who it is in. 
 
 Dates, Table I, are 105 to 1 in favor of the carbonates 
 and only 24 per cent, water — more of the single seed 
 badness. And this is made worse by Table II, which shows 
 a total of only .0526 grains of salts, although the basic ratio 
 of 3.53 is good. As a whole there is nothing worth while 
 in this item. 
 
 Egg Plant, Table I, is almost balanced in solids, but 
 is mostly water. Table II shows it pretty good in salts, 
 but with a weak base of 1.58. It is long on phosphorus 
 and potassium, which is suggestive. 
 
 Eggs, Table I, are 1.16+, hence good; water is normal, 
 which is good. But Table II shows the active elements the 
 most numerous, with a large amount of salts, which is bad. 
 
 Figs, Table I, gives carbonates the advantage by nearly 
 
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7 to 1 and the water is low, all of which is bad. Table II 
 shows a base ratio of 6.78, which is good; but the quantity 
 of salts is small. Adding plenty of water together with the 
 digestive aid of the fine seeds will make an egg-fig com- 
 bination all good. 
 
 Fish, Table I, is 20 per cent. +, to no — and 80 per 
 cent, water, which is good. Table II discloses an abundance 
 of salts but a very low base, only 1.12. Combining it with 
 cheese in equal parts would raise the base to 2.16, which 
 is fine. There are many reasons why the combination 
 would not be advisable as a constant diet. 
 
 Fowl, Table I, gives nitro-phosphates 12.8 to 1 of 
 carbonates, which is very good; and the water is bountiful. 
 Table II shows a bad base of only 1.29; hence it needs to 
 be fed in combinations which will raise the base. It is well 
 supplied^with essential elements. Game, as a rule, belongs 
 in this class. 
 
 Grapes, Table I, are 5.25+ to 1 — , and well supplied 
 with water. Table II shows a good base ratio, 2.83, and 
 the seeds are a help to mechanics of digestion. Don't be 
 be afraid of getting them into your appendix. 
 
 Grape Fruit, Table I, is 7 good to bad, and normal 
 in water. Table II shows a 2.93 base and a liberal supply of 
 salts, making it one of the finest as well as one of the most 
 delicious of fruits. Many people spoil it with sugar, because 
 they are fantical in the belief they know as much about 
 foods as anybody can, and they have "God-given tastes" 
 to guide them. A little salt not only sweetens them but 
 adds to the chlorine, which is a little short in this fruit. 
 
 Gooseberries, Table I, are 4 good to no bad and the 
 water is high. Table II shows a base ratio of 2.15, which 
 is good. These should be combined with a little salt, as 
 they are shy on chlorine. We use them for sauce, at our 
 table, as they are palatable and help out other items, both 
 in water and basic ratio. 
 
 Ham, Table I, is 1.23 good to 1 bad; but is short on 
 
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water. This is shown by the thirst which follows eating it. 
 Table II shows it to be bad in base deficiency although 
 abounding in elements. Combine it with strawberries and 
 other extra good items and there will be no thirst after 
 eating, thus exploding the old theory that it is the salt in 
 the ham that makes the thirst. 
 
 Lentils, Table I, are abundant in solids, but the — 
 dominates by 1.4 to 1, and the water is very low, as in 
 beans. Table II shows a poor base, 1.26, but a good value 
 in salts, if arranged to get them without wasting too much 
 energy. 
 
 Lettuce, Table I, is 3 1/3 bad to 1 good, in solids and 
 is 88 per cent, water. Table II gives a base ratio of 2.56, 
 which is fine. The elemental combinations are good, but 
 of limited quantity. 
 
 Lemons, Table I, are 8 good to bad, in solids, with 
 plenty of water. Table II shows salts abundant, with a 
 base ratio of 2.20, which is good. The juice of one lemon, 
 one orange, one grape fruit, some pineapple and straw- 
 berries crushed and put in makes what I have named "the 
 elixir of life." 
 
 Milk, Table I, is 1 1/3 bad to 1 good, with lots of water. 
 In Table II we find it bad in basic properties. This can be 
 much improved by letting it stand until the fat arises to 
 the surface, then skimming it before feeding. Our patients- 
 who are mothers have always made it a practice to feed 
 their babies the blue milk and they never have had a case 
 of colic among them. Milk is one of the antidotes for 
 mercury and potassium poisoning — it is so hungry for 
 basic elements that it will tackle anything; the stuff is 
 thus held in suspension until it can be recovered by emetics 
 or until it passes out by way of the bowels. Don't try to 
 handle poison cases without calling a physician, however. 
 You can't learn all about doctoring people from this little 
 book. 
 
 Mutton, Table I, is 1.4 good to 1 bad, and carries a, 
 
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normal supply of water. But, like other meat, it is deficient 
 in basic ratio, as Table II shows only 1.09. The general 
 -salts value is high and by supplying bases it will become 
 available. 
 
 Mushrooms, Table I, are 1.5 bad to 1 good, with lots of 
 water. Table II shows deficient base, 1.38, adding to the 
 evidence of the necessity of combinations in foods for 
 general use at meals. We often have cases to whom we 
 feed the items individually, as old-school medicine is 
 prescribed; but we do it mathematically, not by the guess 
 -and guess again methods of the orthodox doctors. . 
 
 Oats, Table I, are bad, 2.75 to 1.00, in solids, with a 
 low supply of water. Table II shows them worse, with 
 a basic ratio of 1.05. They are advertised as "great 
 foods" and sold at fabulous prices to suckers. The orthodox 
 doctors prescribe oat-meal soaked in milk to make people 
 fat. It will do it, too; provided it is digested; but it takes 
 a lot of energy and returns practically nothing, which is 
 why the invalids who grow fat, at Battle Creek and other 
 * 'health" resorts, do not remain strong when they return 
 liome for work. 
 
 Olives, Table I, are 89 bad to 1 point good; they have 
 plenty of water; but they are of that single seed family. 
 Table II shows a wonderful base ratio, 19 to 1, but an ounce 
 only yields .0444 of a grain — provided you get it. They are 
 ""bum" as food, no matter what the people who have them 
 to sell say about the subject. 
 
 Onions, Table I, are 5.2 bad to 1 good, with 93.8 per 
 •cent, water. Table II shows they have a good basic ratio, 
 2.30; but there is very little of value in them. The salts 
 combinations afford an example of the microscopic work- 
 ings of natural laws, which are almost Homeopathic in 
 their attenuations. 
 
 Oranges, Table I, are 5.1 good to bad, with normal 
 water supply. Their basic ratio, Table II, is 4.74, which 
 is excellent. 
 
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Oyster Plant, Table I, is 5 points bad to 1 good, with 
 80 per cent, water. Table II gives it a base ration of 3.36, 
 which is good. The item can be utilized to advantage in 
 combinations. 
 
 Peaches, Table I, are 9.6 bad to 1 good; lots of water; 
 another example of the one-seed fruit. Table II shows a 
 high base ratio, 3.48, but practically nothing in quantity 
 of elements. 
 
 Plums, Table I, are worse, being 89 bad to 1 good; 
 71 per cent, water. Table II shows a 3.30 base, but only 
 .0127 of a grain quantity. 
 
 Peas (dried), Table I, are 1.58 bad in solids and only 
 14.1 per cent, water. Table II shows a 1.36 base ratio, 
 but enough salts to be worth arranging a combination 
 to secure them. 
 
 Peas (green), Table I, are 2.12 bad to 1 good, but have 
 plenty of water. Their base ratio, Table II, is even lower 
 than the dried ones and the salts supply is much lower. 
 
 Potatoes (Irish), Table I, are 7 bad to 1 good, but the 
 water supply helps. Table II shows a moderate supply of 
 salts and a bad base, 1.69. 
 
 Potatoes (sweet), Table I, are over 9 to 1 to the bad 
 and are deficient in water. In salts they are practically the 
 same as the Irish. We use potatoes, but not often. They 
 are fine for animals who have nothing to do but play around 
 and digest food. They make fat but not strength. Note 
 the difference between the tenderness of fed stock and 
 those that graze. 
 
 Pork, Table I, is good, about 1.16, with normal water. 
 Table II shows a very low base, 1.05, which is bad. The 
 same is true of all meats, but their salts supply is so good 
 we go after it by raising the base. 
 
 Parsnips, Table I, are bad, over 4.6 to 1, with 80 per 
 cent water. Table II gives a good base, 2.41, with a limited 
 salts supply. The combinations are nutritious, however. 
 
 Pineapple, Table I, is 9.8 good to bad, with normal 
 
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water. Table II gives a fine base ratio of 2.74 and a goodly 
 supply of salts, which are easily secured to the system. 
 
 Peanuts, Table I, are bad; 7.6 to 1, with only 10 per 
 cent, water. In salts, Table II, the ratio is —1.91 and 
 there is a fair supply, but oh! the difficulty attending 
 digestion. Some years ago a wise professor of a business 
 college in this region declared he had found the real mono- 
 diet. He was going to live on peanuts. After much free 
 advertising in the gullible press he began one "holy day." 
 Thursday he was operated on for "appendicitis." No, 
 peanuts are not good for a steady diet. Neither is "peanut 
 butter." 
 
 Radish, Table I, is 3.3— to 1+ and over 89 per cent, 
 water. It has a 2.39 base according to Table II, and 
 contains a fair amount of salts; but it is a distant relative 
 of the cucumber and should be taken with moderation. 
 
 Rice (rough), Table I, is 14.64— to 1-f- in solids and 
 nearly no water; all of which is very bad. Table II shows 
 it still worse, because the + elements dominate the basic 
 ones 1.34 to 1. Never use the stuff except in combination 
 with very high + items all the way through. It has been 
 argued that the Chinese live altogether on rice, which is 
 false — and then, look at the Chinese and see the result! 
 They live largely on fish and fruit. The fish is of low base, 
 but the fruit fixes that; then they spoil it again with rice 
 — and look at the Chinese! 
 
 Rice (polished), Table I, is still worse, 34.4— to 1 + , 
 and 9 per cent, water. Table II shows the, same bad 
 condition as to base as the rough, and much less available 
 quantity of salts. 
 
 Raisins are practically the same as grapes, which see. 
 
 Rhubarb, Table I, is 3.25 bad to 1 good, with lots of 
 water and lots of waste. Table II gives it a 2.79 base, which 
 is good. We use it for sauce, because it is palatable and is 
 mostly water. 
 
 Strawberries, Table I, are 45 per cent, good to no bad 
 
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and with a normal water supply, hence extra good. Table 
 II shows a Fine base of 2.83, and an abundance of salts 
 readily available, which makes them one of the best of 
 items. Some people boast they can't eat them, saying they 
 eause a skin eruption. It is merely a sign the body is 
 chemically disordered and there is a natural attempt to 
 clean house, when the elements are supplied. All such 
 ■cases who come to us soon learn they can eat all of the 
 strawberries they can hold and they will not break out. 
 Spinach, Table I, is 1.65 — , with lots of water; and, 
 Table II shows, with a 2.76 base; hence it is a good item 
 in an occasional combination. It is available all of the 
 year and makes good filling. 
 
 Squash, Table I, runs about 4 to 1 to the bad, with 
 plenty of water. Table II gives it a 4.44 base, with a very 
 low amount of salts. 
 
 Tomato, Table I, runs over 2 bad to 1 good, but with 
 lots of water and a Table II base Ratio of 2.51 it makes a 
 very desirable food which is relished by nearly everybody. 
 
 Veal, Table I, is good with about 1.4+ to 1 — , and 
 normal water supply. Table II shows plenty of salts but 
 a bad base ratio, only 1.04, to be overcome before the 
 supply is available. 
 
 Whole wheat, Table I, runs over 4 bad to 1 good in 
 solids and practically no water. Table II gives a base 
 ratio of 1, which is bad. 
 
 White flour, Table I, is 19.8 bad to 1 good, with little 
 water. Table II shows a still worse situation, with the 
 active elements outnumbering the basic ones, and a total 
 salts supply per ounce of only .098 of a grain. An ounce 
 of strawberries yields as much essential salts as seven 
 loaves of white bread, and no energy is required to get it 
 from the strawberries. If you don't believe it keep on 
 eating the bread — I'll stick to the berries and other + 
 foods, combined with other natural, simple, non-faddish 
 things. 
 
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We will now give some illustrations of combinations 
 with reference to balancing them and show what happens 
 in balanced and in unbalanced ones: 
 
 PER CENTS. ELEMENTS. 
 
 Article. Oz. C. N-P. W. Active. Basic. 
 
 Apple 4 4 26 63 4.0408 14.2396 
 
 Beef 3 14 21 65 5.5269 5.6115 
 
 Cauliflower 2 4.6 4.6 90 1.3802 2.1858 
 
 Eggs, 2 3 14.9 17.3 67.8 4.8273 4.7346 
 
 Orange 8 0. 5.1 67.2 1.0456 4.9616 
 
 Totals 20 37.5 74.0 353.0 16.8208 gr. 31.7331 gr. 
 
 Final Per Cents 8 16 76. Ratio +1.00 -1.88 
 
 Adding the per cents, and dividing the grand total 
 into each total gives the per cents, of the combination. 
 
 Adding the grain totals we have 48.5539 grains of 
 essential elements, in addition to the nitrogen, oxygen and 
 hydrogen employed in their combinations as salts. 
 
 In the solids we find 16 per cent, -f and 8 per cent. — , 
 which is a ratio of 2 to 1. Hence, figuring according to 
 the proceeding described early in this chapter, we have: 
 
 Ratio In 10 Parts. 
 
 -1.00 = 3^X160,000 = 533,333^ 
 
 +2.00 -6^X 40,000= 266,666^ 
 
 Total nerve demand = 800,000 
 
 266,666^ X 5 =1 ,333,333^ = Product. 
 
 Difference = 533,333^ = Net gain. 
 Now, let us take a combination such as the average 
 citizen lives on; or, rather, tries to live on: 
 
 PER CENTS. ELEMENTS. 
 
 Article. Oz. C. N-P. W. Active. Basic. 
 
 White bread.... 4 78.6 4. 14. .1980 .1940 
 
 Potatoes (1).... 4 15.8 2.3 74.8 .7404 1.2568 
 
 Beef 4 14. 21. 65. 7.3692 7.4820 
 
 Butter 2 50. 0. 50 „_ - 
 
 Tomatoes 3 4.2 1.8 94. .5541 1.3923 
 
 Corn (N) 3 67.5 13.4 14. 1.5987 2.1789 
 
 Totals 20 230.1 42.5 311.8 10.4604 gr. 12.5040 gr. 
 
 Final Per Cents. 39 8 53 Ratio +1.00 -1.19 
 
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Adding the grain totals we have 22.9644 to be com- 
 pared with the 48.5539 in the first calculation, plus the 
 nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen in the combinations. 
 
 In the solids we find 39 per cent.— and 8 per cent, -f, 
 which give a ratio of 4/4 to 1. Figuring as before we have: 
 
 Ratio. In 10 Parts. 
 
 -4# = 8.3 X 160,000 = 1,328,000 
 
 + 1 = 1.7X 40,000= 68,000 
 
 Total nerve demand =1,396,000 
 
 68,000 X 5 = 340,000 = Product. 
 
 Difference = 1,056,000 = Net loss. 
 
 In the first combination there are 25.5895 more grains 
 of essential elements — more than twice as much — not only 
 available, but they are appropriated by the system through 
 digestion, while the limited amount in the second arrange- 
 ment is often lost entirely through lack of digestive 
 capacity. We have purposely omitted sugar, pastry, and 
 milk, all of which are used to a large extent in ordinary 
 households. We use very little of them; hence the com- 
 parison is more favorable to the latter list than it would 
 be, but it is certainly bad enough to account for the rela- 
 tion of food composition to human ills, as a causative factor. 
 
 When a case comes to us, all broken down, or in an 
 
 acute state of suffering, the dietetic part of our procedure is 
 
 something like the following as a daily regimen : 
 
 PER CENTS. ELEMENTS. 
 
 Article. Oz. C. N-P. W. Active. Basic. 
 
 Orange 20 0. 5.1 67.2 2.614 12.404 
 
 Lemon 10 0. 8. 63. 6.571 14.497 
 
 Grape Fruit....30 0. 7. 66. 13.755 40.365 
 
 Pineapple 20 0. 9.8 69.1 12.936 36.778 
 
 Totals 80 0. 29.9 265.3 35.876 104.044 
 
 Final Per Cents 0. 10 90 Ratio -f 1.00 -2.90 
 
 The entire 10 parts solids are -f-, hence: 
 10X40,000=400,000 demand. 
 
 400,000X5 = 2,000,000 product. Anet gain of 1,600,000. 
 
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But, remember, such patients are down-and-outs, 
 hence their reproduction must be at a lower rate than 5 to 
 1. Suppose it is down to 2 — we are able to figure exactly 
 what it is in any case, after we have examined and 
 analyzed it. Then, 400,000X2 = 800,000, showing a net 
 gain of 400,000 daily. This explains why our patients get 
 along so rapidly. Of course we do other things for them 
 which are as great improvements over the old, artificial 
 procedures; but the diet is our chemical materia medica, 
 and, with our methods of utilizing it, we find it works all 
 of the time. 
 
 We sometimes indulge in pastry; but we always serve 
 it first at a meal, so the digestive combinations get at it 
 first; also because the big fault with people generally is 
 they eat too much. They fill up on the tasty, heavy 
 foods, until they have a big job for the digestive apparatus; 
 then they add the pie and cake, cream, etc. By giving 
 the fancy stuff first the appetite is partly satisfied and 
 there is less danger of overloading. When we have pastry, 
 which is largely — , we are careful to follow it with a -f 
 combination on the "safety first" plan. 
 
 In cooking we use the least possible amounts of grease 
 and sweets. It is all nonsense to say it can't be done. 
 We have never had any person about our place who did 
 not say we have the best cook and the best tasting food 
 they ever ate. 
 
 Our morning repast always find everybody "present" 
 with good appetite — because our evening meal is moderate 
 in quantity and decidedly -f • Fruit at bedtime promotes 
 digestion during sleep and people with coated tongues and 
 "dark-brown" tastes in their mouths, from alleged "liver" 
 troubles, soon note the disappearance of those unpleasant 
 symptoms. Ask the next fifty doctors you meet to let 
 you see their tongues — you'll find that according to their 
 dogmatic system they all have liver "disease." They 
 don't even know enough to take care of themselves. 
 
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CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Suggestions for Home Treatment of Disorders. 
 
 On the first appearance of a sore throat get busy with 
 hot baths, to the sweating point. Put patient in the water 
 when it is warm enough to lie in; then turn on the hot 
 and let it run, stirring it so the heat will be distributed; 
 when the patient complains of it being too hot, shut it off a 
 few minutes, then turn on again; give a glass of cold water 
 to drink, as it will help bring out the perspiration. When 
 beads of sweat stand out on forehead turn on the cold water 
 and let it run, distributing it by stirring as before, until the 
 bath is quite cool; this will prevent sweating in bed. Gargle 
 with strong salt water and feed nothing but fruit juices, 
 such as lemon, orange, grape-fruit, pineapple, fresh berries in 
 season, for a few days; get the bowels open early and keep 
 patient quiet until all symptoms are gone. We are not 
 strong on the "contagion" idea; but as many others are, 
 and as there is chance of infection, no child should be sent 
 to school with a sore throat. 
 
 The same treatment and general principles apply 
 equally to colds in the head, to lagrippe, "flu," pneumonia, 
 all fevers and pains, even to those suggestive of "appendi- 
 citis." No possible harm can come from it and many lives 
 may be saved, beside saving doctors and nurses bills. 
 
 In cases of accident with head injuries, the hot baths 
 with cold water applications to the head after the body is 
 well heated and relaxed, will abort possible concussion of 
 the brain. After such baths if the patient is sleepy permit 
 a half hour's sleep, then awaken to see if the mind is clear; 
 if not give more baths and send for a physician. 
 
 There is no fixed temperature f6r hot baths; some 
 people require them hotter than others do to get the same 
 
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effects. All we want is relaxation, and that is apparent 
 when there is sweating. Some oppose hot baths, saying 
 they are weakening. That is nonsense. I spill a dash of 
 cold water on the backs of such complainers and they at 
 once exhibit vigor enough to jump out of the tub. Some 
 faint in the bath, but that is from fright. 
 
 In cases of injuries where the skin is broken, a nail is 
 run in the foot, for example, use spirits of turpentine 
 instead of water to cleanse, injecting it into the wound, 
 where there is no membrane; then give hot baths as fre- 
 quently as may be necessary to prevent complications, 
 which will be indicated by severe pains. In one instance, 
 when I struck my hand on a piece of metal which pene- 
 trated a quarter of an inch, shooting pains in elbow and 
 shoulder began in about an hour; within the next 60 hours 
 I took 28 boil-outs, each followed by cold water applied 
 to shoulder and arm. At the end of the period I was all 
 right and the wound was healed. Turpentine does not 
 hurt like either hot or cold water; it is a perfect antiseptic 
 and promotes the reunion of nerves, making the healing 
 process more rapid. 
 
 For boils and skin eruptions of all kinds, even to small- 
 pox, erysipelas, measles, etc., the hot baths, made quite 
 salty, with opening of the bowels and the effective diet of 
 fruit juices, plus rest and sleep, will often suffice to effect 
 perfect restoration to health. 
 
 The oft-asked question: "How often should baths be 
 repeated?" is answered: Use common sense; when the 
 symptoms return repeat the dose; that is what the drug 
 doctor does, isn't it? Sometimes in pneumonia, after we 
 have reduced the temperature to normal in a few minutes 
 and have put our patients to bed with a cold, salt-water 
 soaked bath towel on the chest, and all is well, the fever 
 returns in an hour or two. This tells us we did not get 
 complete relaxation, so we go after it again. 
 
 All enteric inflammations, including "typhoid" fever, 
 
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should be gone after with the baths, etc., no matter if the 
 patient is in a state of unconsciousness. The employment 
 of cold wet sheets is a crime, contrary to reason, and often 
 fraught with fatal results. 
 
 Rheumatism, of all kinds, will be relieved by the baths 
 and diet; but the inflammatory variety needs much more 
 than home treatment, dietetically, while the others often 
 need mechanical treatment not possible at home. 
 
 Ear-ache and other children's exhibits will be relieved 
 speedily by baths; but such symptoms often mean general 
 disorder of the body chemistry, hence competent specialists 
 should be consulted. Catarrhal conditions are common 
 and nasal adenoids, enlarged tonsils, etc., may result if not 
 attended to in a general way. Operations are dangerous, 
 usually unnecessary, and should be avoided. A child has 
 the right to be well cared for until it is able and learns how 
 to take care of itself. This book is written for children 
 as well as for adults. 
 
 For the pains attending menstruation take hot baths. 
 All talk of it being dangerous belongs to the days before 
 there were steam heat and warm rooms. Our clients of 
 this class always take the baths every night during their 
 periods, as a mere matter of cleanliness. We even give 
 hot baths to arrest flooding — the principle involved 
 is that by relaxing the vaso-motor nerves the blood vessels 
 of the entire body dilate, thus relieving pressure and the 
 flooding ceases. "Scientific" "regular" doctors use cold 
 packs and tampons (plugs), and lose their patients often. 
 We would employ the same treatment even in post-partum 
 hemorrhages. 
 
 Turkish baths, cabinet baths, shower baths, cold plunges 
 and other strenuous methods may not harm the strong; 
 but thejr never did any good. They are on a par with 
 physical exercise for the generally debilitated. 
 
 As a general proposition hot baths and rest, with 
 strictly nitro-phosphatic food, are indicated whenever there 
 
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are symptoms of nervous irritation, whether due to mental, 
 physiological or physical causes. And many causes of 
 debility and collapse will be helped by the same tactics — 
 none can be injured by them. We have a case now, with 
 spinal curvature from one accident and a history of paraly- 
 sis for a year from another fall. She had been on a decline 
 for two years partially recovering from the paralytic stroke, 
 and when she came to us she could not walk alone. After 
 four months under our rational methods, including a hot 
 bath every night, she is able to go as she pleases, play the 
 piano an hour without tiring, has gained one-fifth in weight 
 and has comparatively normal complexion. Hers was a 
 case which the average orthodox doctor would call "per- 
 
 nicious anaemia." 
 
 Acidity of the stomach is not, as is generally believed, 
 too much acid. It is merely the wrong kind. It is carbonic 
 acid g^s, developed from too much carbohydrate food. 
 " Regular" doctors are as ignorant as laymen in this partic- 
 ular. They order abstinence from acid foods, when that 
 is just what is needed. Normal digestion is fermentation 
 produced by the action of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, 
 phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine and iron, on the metal bases. 
 Abnormal digestion, from chemical causes, is produced by 
 a substitution of carbon for the metallic elements. If the 
 attack exhibits with intense gastric pains, a level teaspoon- 
 ful of common salt, dry on the tongue, with a glass of water 
 to wash it down, will give almost instant relief. Then a 
 hot bath and modest eating of +foods, indicated by the 
 diet charts, will prevent the possibility of a return of 
 trouble. Do not acquire the notion that you are warranted 
 in eating anything you please, and taking salt. That 
 would be foolish and dangerous. Do not follow a dose of 
 salt too quickly with strong acid, such as lemon juice. It 
 might do no harm; then it might cause salivation. 
 
 Amenorrhoea, absence of the menstrual function, at 
 
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the age when it should exhibit, is a forerunner of that form 
 of general debility which has been called "anaemia and 
 chlorosis'' by; our "scientific" friends, the "regulars." 
 The hot baths, proper food, out-door exercise of a mild 
 nature, with correction of the eye errors, will do more in a 
 couple of months than all the "dope" or fads of orthodox 
 medicine would fail to accomplish in as many years. 
 
 Aphthae, sore mouth, from indigestion; exhibits white 
 blisters on and under the tongues of small children; in older 
 people the tongue is badly coated, cracked, and the gums 
 are sore. Get the bowels open; reform the eating habits; 
 wash thoroughly with strong salt water. Teach the children 
 the value and politeness of the tooth-brush habit. 
 
 Apoplexy, cerebral congestion, with, sometimes, hemor- 
 rhage, when it is usually fatal. Peculiar to fat people who 
 are always deficient in elasticity and strength of the muscu- 
 lar portions of the vascular walls. There is invariably a 
 history of carbohydrates, sugars and fats, with, often a 
 a mental know-it-all-about-that-food-business attitude, 
 which prevents the possibility of any self-respecting 
 Neurologist accepting their cases. They are often willing 
 to "give us a trial" after they have had a close call for their 
 lives; but we rarely take them then, as our facilities for 
 measuring conditions and prospects are too accurate. Some 
 years ago a fat, joshing doctor, from Sioux City, Iowa, 
 visited our school with another physician who was a student. 
 After half a day of exhibiting good-natured skepticism, 
 he asked if I would like to make a clinic of him. I replied 
 I didn't need to make an examination; that the signs were 
 too positive; that he would not live three years and that 
 he would die of Apoplexy, because his condition headed 
 that way and his temperament was such that he would not 
 accept and follow rational advice. He very obligingly 
 died as promised, in about two and one-half years. 
 
 Arterio-sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, is mostly 
 "bunk." It belongs in the same category with the current 
 
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fad of " blood-pressure." Why, my friends, if you didn't 
 have blood-pressure you would not survive long. We have 
 had all sorts of cases of both conditions and never had any 
 difficulty in getting good results speedily; provided, of 
 course, there were no other complications; but even then 
 we get there eventually, if we take the case. It is a matter 
 of baths, diet, manipulation, exercise, mental training, etc. 
 Asthma, hay-fever, with the trifling difference that 
 when the eyes are not involved it is the former. In either 
 event breathing is difficult and there is general congestion 
 of blood-vessels, proving nervous irritation. The fact that it 
 appears at certain periods of the year in most victims has 
 deceived doctors and laymen alike. The "regular," 
 "scientific" chaps, like Doc Evans, the joke of a "health" 
 editor of the Chicago Tribune, exploit "pollen extracts for 
 testing purposes are now available. Your physician can 
 use these to discover which pollen causes your trouble; 
 after which you can be vaccinated against the offending 
 pollen." But, Doc isn't particular, for he adds: "If this is 
 not available for you, take the chloride of calcium." They 
 remind me of a story of one of their sort, who, on visiting 
 a child in a state of coma, gave some medicine, and when 
 asked what he did it for, replied: "that will throw it into 
 fits; I am hell on fits." Don't pay any attention to "health" 
 editors; they are, almost invariably, doctors who couldn't 
 make honest livings practicing medicine, so they took to 
 teaching the public to indulge in fads. They and "health" 
 officials are all in the same class, except that the officials 
 turn their crooked talents to greater pecuniary advantage. 
 Get busy with the baths, foods, etc., but, as a rule, there 
 are complications of a systemic nature which need the care 
 of a Neurologist, who is familiar with our methods in finer 
 details than could be taught in a book. Your home treat- 
 ment will put the "pollen" devotees to flight in short order. 
 When Dr. William L. Black, of our faculty, came to us in 
 1907, July 4, he had been afflicted with hay-fever for 
 
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twenty years. He had been doped and "educated" in old 
 schools until he was discouraged, and had acquired the 
 opium-cocaine habit under the practices and teachings 
 of the "regular," including the years at the University of 
 Pennsylvania, medical department. He exhibited the 
 hay-fever and the habits during August. I began on him 
 and in a week the asthma was gone; it has never returned. 
 The dope habit was harder to handle; but with his co- 
 operation we conquered that and he has developed into 
 one of the most valuable teachers there are to be found. 
 No patient of ours ever acquires any save Natural habits — ■ 
 we teach some that the majority do not know exist. 
 
 Biliousness, a form of indigestion exhibiting a sallow 
 complexion, loss of appetite ("anorexia"), coated tongue, 
 I recall a class incident of years ago: when I made the 
 statement that any person under six feet tall who weighs 
 over 200 pounds is sick, a physician student, rather in- 
 dignantly, declared he was under six feet, weighed 226 
 and was never sick in his life. Shortly afterward I asked 
 him what he would say if a patient came to him com- 
 plaining and examination showed a tongue coated very 
 thickly with yellow, and a few other symptoms such as 
 are usually found with it. He replied he would pronounce 
 it a disordered liver. Other students were called before 
 him and he was asked to stick out his talker, when he 
 exhibited a beautiful case of "liver" trouble. He took the 
 illustration good-naturedly and put himself on our diet, 
 with the result that in a few weeks he was a new man and 
 weighed only 180. Incidentally he learned that a coated 
 tongue does not mean liver trouble. It does mean that the 
 lymphatic system is clogged and the coating is one of 
 the automatic symptoms Nature has provided that we 
 may take heed timely and save distress and expense. The 
 doctor has never practiced "regular" medicine since he left 
 us, about fifteen years ago. 
 
 Breath, (fetid), is one of the guides to conditions, 
 
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habits, etc., it tells us the variety of indigestion, differ- 
 entiates catarrh, bad teeth, cigarettes, whisky, tobacco 
 and drugs. Nearly every person has more or less indi- 
 gestion, hence the breath is correspondingly unpleasant. 
 A small lump of salt, say the size of a cranberry, taken 
 with water to wash it down, just before going into company, 
 will be found of value; but if proper care is taken in the 
 matter of eating, etc., the breath will be normal and never 
 unpleasant. 
 
 Bronchitis, inflammation of the mucus membrane of 
 the windpipe and bronchial tubes, has the duality in cause 
 comprising systemic disorder primarily, with exposure to 
 sudden climatic changes as the immediate and secondary 
 one. We have proved this abundantly by taking "chronic" 
 and "incurable" cases, following treatment for the acute 
 exhibit by a methodical general overhauling, chemically 
 and mechanically, and the exhibit had not recurred many 
 years afterward, when it had been periodical, irregularly, 
 before. 
 
 Calcareous deposits range from the amyloids of the 
 lymphatics and connective tissue to the stones which 
 form in the liver and kidneys. They are products of 
 carbohydrate living; their exhibits vary from "rheu- 
 matism" to those requiring operation on the organs named. 
 It is not a matter of record that any operator ever told his 
 patient to cease wrong living. There are two possible 
 reasons for this: (a) the doctor didn't know the cause, 
 (b) he saw more operations by keeping still. That this is 
 not a libelous or unfair statement may be learned by 
 observation and intimate acquaintance with the "regular" 
 fraternity, one of whom is quoted in a recent number of the 
 Literary Digest, May 17, 1919. He read a paper in his 
 medical club at Youngstown, Ohio, and it was printed in a 
 medical journal, thence to the public. Among other things 
 he said in arguing for "socialized medicine," that is a class 
 supported by the state: "A few are good collectors and 
 
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couple a little business acumen with their pills and powders, 
 and they prosper in a measure. Some few add a touch of 
 avarice and duplicity, make twice or thrice more calls 
 than necessary, where the pay is good, advise unnecessary 
 treatments and operations, have trade arrangements with 
 specialists and surgeons, as well as other ways of swelling 
 the income. Others, bolder, take up all the surgical work 
 they can get, removing tonsils, adenoids, appendixes, and 
 now and then an ovary, or do other things they would not 
 do but for the money motive." As a final touch he adds: 
 "I say to you, in the face of all of our medical laws, medical 
 codes of ethics and scientific attainments, it is a system of 
 dog eat dog." Home treatment for calcareous deposits 
 would be ineffective because of the complication of causes. 
 
 Catarrh, nasal, faucial, aural, gastric, etc., mean need 
 for. not only local but general, systemic, treatment. The 
 baths and dietary suggested in the first paragraphs will 
 help a lot but each case needs to be under the care of one 
 who has learned the details in college. Snuffing salt-water 
 is better than douches or inhalants, for the nose; pouring it 
 into the ears is better than using a syringe; but there is 
 nothing among ills that needs professional attention more 
 than catarrh. Our patients not only get well of the several 
 varieties, but they learn how to keep themselves well in 
 that respect forever after. 
 
 Chorea, St. Vitus' dance, is a nervous exhibit, often 
 due, primarily, to nerve strain from uncorrected eyes, 
 with contributing causes, too numerous to attempt to 
 describe here. Home treatment is of little use until a case 
 has been overhauled in a sanatarium where no drugs are 
 employed. The dope used on such cases is always del- 
 eterious mentally and worthless physiologically. See 
 epilepsy. 
 
 Conjunctivitis, external eye inflammation, ranging 
 from simple congestion through successive stages, sup- 
 puration, granulation, ulceration, and possible scars which, 
 
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covering the pupillary space, cause blindness. Hot baths, 
 followed by cold-salt-water applications and a visit to a 
 competent Ophthalmologist are the rational procedure, 
 and it means wear glasses all of the time. It is in place here 
 to remark that anyone, under 45 years of age who needs 
 glasses at all should wear them constantly in order to get 
 any benefits worth mentioning. The doctor who pre- 
 scribes bi-focal lenses earlier than about the 45th year is a 
 chump. He doesn't know his business. This is a matter 
 upon which I speak mathematically. 
 
 Constipation, movement of the bowels at long intervals, 
 is never present without indigestion; but indigestion may 
 be experienced with ordinary or even free movements of 
 the bowels. Some of the most dangerous cases of indigestion 
 are those associated with diarrhoea. It is a very common 
 ailment, and is, probably, the most neglected one. Reason- 
 able attention to the selection of foods according to our 
 dietary 'system, coupled with other hygienic suggestions, 
 will soon show appreciable effects. 
 
 Debility may be a normal condition — in the aged. In 
 all other instances it is pathological. Its causes are 
 many combinations from the ten groups, enumerated in 
 another chapter. It should be understood by all that 
 finally all ills are placed in one of two classes: One is 
 hypernormal; the other, subnormal. All who are in the 
 first or + class are comparatively easy for Neurologists, 
 although they often puzzle all other doctors. Those who 
 are in the second, or — class require patience as well as 
 skill. Debility, of course, is — . Anaemia, neurasthenia, 
 melancholy, lassitude, and a general woe-be-gone expres- 
 sion, with grouchiness or hopelessness, are the obstacles 
 we have to contend with. Such cases are worth more to 
 handle, not only so far as cost of handling is concerned, 
 but also from the standpoint of benefits received by patients. 
 They are beyond home treatment and must go away from 
 home conditions to be treated successfully. 
 
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Corns, and callouses, sandpaper and get correct shoes. 
 
 Diabetes, a condition of general obstruction systemi- 
 cally. Found often in short, stout people with well- 
 established eat habits, of the sweets and starches, with 
 contributing causative factors, one of which is mental 
 indifference to apparent conditions until it is too late to 
 do any good. A home regimen would not work; such 
 people have to be bossed. This disorder differs from 
 Bright's disease in being obstructive, clogging, while the 
 latter is simply malignant toxaemia (blood-poison). 
 
 Diarrhoea, dysentery, flux, etc v may be arrested 
 mechanically very quickly in nearly all cases. Seat the 
 patient on a low stool and sit on a chair behind, with your 
 knees in the small of the back. Catch under the arms, 
 lean back and pull steadily until patient complains of 
 hurting; then ease up a little and rock side wise gently, 
 patient's head lying back on your shoulder; hold steady 
 and still with slight pressure for a minute or two, then let 
 there be rest and quiet for half an hour or longer; followed 
 by a big glass full of fruit juice and a steady diet of the 
 same for a few days. If there are other symptoms they 
 must be accorded recognition. I have fixed second-summer 
 babies in two minutes when they had been given up to 
 die by orthodox doctors, who afterwards gave their dope 
 the credit, because they didn't know I had touched the 
 cases. I merely slipped my hand under the little things 
 and, doubling up my fist, put the pressure where it was 
 needed. 
 
 Diphtheria. See the first paragraph of this chapter 
 and get busy. 
 
 Dropsy, an infiltration of lymph into the tissues, from 
 weakness of the walls of the lymph and blood vessels. A 
 long, tedious job to correct, and, as a rule, unreliable 
 patients, temperamentally. See the description of our 
 Neurometric method of analysis, in another chapter. 
 
 Dysmenorrhoea, painful menstruation, has puzzled the 
 
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orthodox doctors since there was such. Our graduates in 
 Ophthalmology have relieved permanently, during the 
 past 25 years, more cases than all the drug doctors in 
 history ever did or ever will, unless they change their 
 tactics. For temporary relief from convulsions or dis- 
 tressing pains take hot baths; but for final relief see a real 
 Ophthalmologist — one with a McCormick diploma. 
 
 Dyspepsia, chronic indigestion, mental physiological. 
 Symptoms, religious fervor; grouchy at home; pleasant 
 with strangers; hypocritical on general principals; bad 
 disposition and worse temperaments. No case for home 
 treatment, unless it be with a stuffed club. They usually 
 have catarrhal and other complications. The worst feature 
 of such is, they are able to be about causing trouble nearly 
 all of the time. They are easy for us because they learn 
 right at the beginning that we are onto them and when we 
 make them put up a substantial fee in advance they come 
 to the line like little ladies and gentlemen. We have 
 actually put them in a laughing humor the first week. Of 
 course they back-slide some because they can't quit their 
 religious habits all at once; but when they learn there is no 
 forgiveness for it, that the unpleasant results follow "as 
 the night the day," they come out all right. 
 
 Earache; give hot baths for general relaxation, work 
 the ears gently and pour water into them until a roaring 
 sound is heard; empty it and repeat several times, then put 
 in a drop of warm oil and a bit of cotton, the latter being 
 removed in half an hour. Continue the baths daily and 
 keep on a rational diet until all symptoms disappear. 
 
 Emphysema, is asthma, which see. 
 
 Enteritis, inflammation of intestines, includes typhoid, 
 yellow and all other intestinal "diseases," also peritonitis, 
 "appendicitis," etc., Give hot baths and get the bowels 
 open. In "appendicitis," which is a telescoping of the 
 ileum into the caecum, (small intestine into the colon), 
 there is often much pain, same as in hernia, and nearly 
 
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always much gas in the intestines, causing abdominal 
 distension; put a tablespoonful of spirits turpentine into 
 a two-quart or three-quart bag of hot water and use as a 
 rectal douche, just before putting into bath, or, afterward, 
 if the patient is unruly. After the bath lay on left side — 
 may be done in the bath — and manipulate the bowels 
 gently to relieve the telescoping; then see that it does not 
 occur again, by keeping the bowels open and feeding on 
 fruit juices for two weeks, giving all patient wants; the 
 more the better. Positive orders to keep quiet, in bed, 
 must be rigidly enforced. Operation is not necessary in 
 one case in a hundred. 
 
 Epilepsy, a disorder, usually congenital, primarily, 
 aggravated by training and living. Eye strain is often an 
 important factor, but incapacity for digestion is the direct 
 cause of seizures, coupled with fits of temper or other mental 
 excitement. The old-school iodides and bromides are 
 worse than no treatment whatever and have rendered 
 many incurable by reducing mental balance to almost an 
 infantile stage. Our process is one of chemical regeneration, 
 mental training and rigid discipline. It takes months to 
 restore Nature's ascendancy, and we only accept those 
 whose mentalities have not been injured by medication, 
 which is illogical and harmful. We require substantial 
 fees in advance, and take no cases unless our examination 
 and analysis give promise of the very best results. It is 
 not a condition for home treatment, except that very 
 young people, say from five to ten years, may be handled 
 at home under instruction. A child addicted to bed- 
 wetting is a candidate for epilepsy; one spoiled by indulgent 
 parents until it exhibits uncontrollable temper is also 
 headed for trouble. 
 
 Epistaxis, nose-bleed, is an indication of weak vascular 
 walls and needs plenty of open air, little close application, 
 correction of eyes and eating habits. A hot bath will stop 
 excessive bleeding, but must not be regarded as a "cure" 
 
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and the real causes neglected. Such cases are of the 
 "apoplexy" or meningitis class and require general recon- 
 struction. 
 
 Glandular enlargement, of the neck, armpits, groins, 
 or elsewhere, indicate systemic conditions needing general 
 overhauling. They presage goitre, and a variety of dis- 
 orders, which only a thorough analysis, after personal exam- 
 ination, can determine. 
 
 Hypochondria and other mental exhibits are often 
 products of physiological derangements, the correction 
 of which will restore normal mental balance. If the public 
 would only realize that procrastination is not only the 
 "thief of time" but something more dangerous, and would 
 consult a reliable doctor, while conditions are fairly good, 
 much unnecessary suffering would be avoided. The 
 general* unreliability of "regular" doctors is so well-known 
 that it is a national disgrace. One way to test a doctor is 
 to ask him what he thinks of his competitor, as a doctor. 
 If he "knocks," don't trust him. We are staunch advocates 
 of medical freedom for the public; we believe in educating 
 the public; we have no complaints against individual 
 doctors, until they expose their crookedness, when we let 
 loose; but we claim it an inherent right to criticize systems 
 and alleged systems of practice. 
 
 Hysteria is a condition opposite to hypochondria and 
 is an easier class of cases to handle, because many of them 
 are physiologically in fair condition, but are the victims 
 of eye strain, habits and fear. 
 
 Impotence is a product of ignorance or wilfull mis- 
 conduct. It is not amenable to home treatment and is 
 difficult for the skilled physician. Mental conditions are 
 always involved and victims have neglected themselves 
 so long that the chances are against them. 
 
 Insomnia is inability to sleep. It may be temporary 
 from indigestion; but when it becomes a habit it is annoying 
 and debilitating. Hot baths, with proper foods, are 
 
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usually sufficient to restore normal sleeping capacity. 
 If they fail it means there are complications needing 
 professional attention. 
 
 Intussusception, telescoping of the bowels at the 
 ileo-caecal valve, commonly called "appendicitis," which 
 is a wilful lie, intended to frighten people into operative 
 procedures, has already been mentioned. 
 
 Lumbago, pain in the small of the back, is often caused 
 by slightly displaced vertebrae. "Regular," "scientific" 
 doctors ridicule the idea, thus proving they do not know 
 their anatomy as they should. It is this ignorance and 
 insolence that has made work for "chiros" and "osteos" 
 who are all half-baked professional people, but they make 
 good sometimes where the others have failed — then the 
 "regulars" go to the legislatures for "laws" to stop such 
 competition. Take hot baths at home, use plenty of good 
 foods, as per diet charts, have your eyes looked after by a 
 competent ophthalmologist, and you will probably need 
 nothing else. If the pain still continues, it means a systemic 
 disorder that requires prompt attention, or it may mean 
 a slipped vertebra. 
 
 Mania should always be treated with hot baths. It is 
 an intense spasm of the nervous system, and while the 
 baths may not be sufficient to break down the exhibit, they 
 give some relief and proper treatment will restore the 
 subject to normal. Professional service should be called 
 as early as possible. 
 
 Marasmus, pernicious anaemia and neurasthenia, in 
 short, general debility of an exaggerated type. Home 
 treatment according to the following will do more good 
 than all the old-school treatments ever devised: First, give 
 hot baths every night; second, feed strictly on nitro- 
 phosphatic food with the carbonates excluded entirely; 
 this shuts out bread and many vegetables, but there is 
 plenty of the proper sort of food and it should be fed in 
 quantities; as much as half a dozen grape fruits, a dozen 
 
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oranges, a few lemons and part of a pineapple daily is an 
 ordinary ration. Only the juices should be employed; they 
 are practically self-digesting and the patient will gain 
 right from the start. We had one case of a man 70 years 
 old with weight reduced from 160 to 90 pounds and he was 
 so weak he could neither walk or talk. In ten weeks we 
 had him walking everywhere he pleased, as much as a mile 
 at a time, his voice was strong and he gained 15 pounds. 
 Younger people yield more readily; but that is pretty quick 
 work. 
 
 Menorrhagia, flooding at the catamenial period, has 
 been mentioned in another place, but, for convenience, we 
 repeat here: Boil them, same as for dysmenorrhoea; then 
 put on rational diet, have eyes corrected and built up the 
 nerve supply. 
 
 Morning sickness, in pregnancy is entirely needless; 
 it is not due to the pregnancy, but to a combination of 
 causes, chief of which is defective eyes; next is wrong 
 living. Such cases need Neurological care and advice in 
 order to develop healthy children and to deliver them 
 without pain or fever. 
 
 Myalgia means muscle pain, and there is no such thing ; 
 it is all nerve pain, for that is the only channel through 
 which we feel. It is an example of old school nomenclature, 
 however, which proves they do not even know how to 
 employ the English language. Baths and manipulation 
 may remove the causes; but there may be chemical dis- 
 orders needing professional service, which will be indicated 
 by the failure of the home work. 
 
 Nephritis is a name for kidney trouble, sometimes 
 called "Bright's disease. " It may or may not be accom- 
 panied by pains in the back. If it is true nephritis it will 
 exhibit in a diminution in vision and in aversion to light 
 very early. This is not a class of cases to be undertaken at 
 at home, even by practitioners. They must be where they 
 can have constant attention until out of danger. They are 
 
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in danger when they are still able to get around and attend 
 to business. 
 
 Neuralgia is nerve pain; hence all pain is neuralgia; 
 but by common consent and usage, only the shooting pains 
 are classed as such. Just why people delay having a general 
 analysis for such symptoms, except it be the old-school 
 failures in treatment, is more than we can understand. 
 Take some baths and try living correctly as to food, etc., 
 and if you do not get all right in a few days consult a 
 Neurologist. Our graduates are not in the "cult" or 
 "sectarian" class. Our school is the only non-sectarian 
 school in existence. We have nothing in common with 
 "regulars" or the "osteos," "chiros," "naturopaths," 
 "christian science" or other fads, drug or drugless. We are 
 not in the one-idea or "cure" classes. We try to be honest 
 with the public and teach it to be honest with itself. We 
 do not solicit students or patients. We only accept those 
 who come up to our requirements, and we are pretty 
 strict, because people have been spoiled so that they 
 cannot imagine anyone can mean exactly what he says, 
 and they try all sorts of interpretations of our announce- 
 ments. It doesn't go with us for a minute. We teach the 
 laws of Nature as dug out by us, with the aid and benefit 
 of the diggings of others in the past. St. Paul is said to 
 have declared he could learn from Greek or barbarian. We 
 have done that very thing. We have frequently come in 
 contact with people who are in good standing in the educa- 
 tional world who did not know the origin of the word 
 "alphabet;" they insisted there are four grand divisions of 
 arithmetic, when there are only two, addition and sub- 
 traction; multiplication is a short method of addition and 
 division a short method of subtraction. We teach and 
 practice on these principles. No one gets credit in our 
 school save for the work he does in it. We have reduced 
 the length of terms to the minimum and we do more work 
 in the time specified than any old school does in seven 
 
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or thirteen years. We have been. the subjects of sneaking 
 slander for 25 years but we have gone ahead and won all 
 of the time. If the slanderers were as eager to learn as 
 they are to slander they would be paragons of knowledge. 
 
 Nymphomania is abnormal sex desire; and there is 
 more of this than is generally believed. All of such cases 
 need the care of a doctor who will not attempt to "cure" it. 
 It doesn't need curing. It needs education. Such people 
 are usually above the average intellectually; hence heed 
 education along rational lines. Neurologists are prepared 
 by us to give the information and in no instance is there any 
 charge for it. The matter is one which has been abused by 
 mercenaries and prudes. Our information is neither 
 "obscene," "immoral/' or embarrassing to anyone. It is 
 for those who need and will appreciate it. The "curious" 
 and "lewd" need not apply. We spot them in a minute. 
 Satyriasis is the term applied to males in this class. As a 
 rule it is an acquired state with them, while in the female 
 it is a natural physiological exhibit, but indicates there is 
 nerve strain through the eyes and elsewhere, which needs 
 correction and with mental counsel the use of drugs or the 
 resort to operation is avoided. 
 
 Paralysis is in the — class of cases, and is a symptom 
 of neglect of other warnings. Only long time and patient 
 work by a professional person will accomplish anything and 
 we do not promise much, although we often have some 
 delightful surprises as results of our fidelity and the patient's 
 cooperation in conforming to Nature's laws as we have 
 learned them. 
 
 Phthisis. See Tuberculosis. 
 
 Pneumonia. See first paragraph of this chapter. 
 
 Quinsy. Treat same as pneumonia. 
 
 Rheumatism requires systematic treatment, profession- 
 ally. There are too many complications of causes to 
 attempt home treatment, save for temporary relief. 
 Sciatica, for example, is one form which is often due to 
 
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displaced vertebrae or to obstructions in the hip joint. It 
 is possible to fix it in one minute. 
 
 Sex ills and skin eruptions are so multitudinous that 
 other than professional treatment is bad, because delay- 
 only adds to complications which may be disastrous. We 
 have "formularys," old-school, containing over 200 pre- 
 scriptions for drug combinations for skin "diseases/ ' which 
 is good evidence of fact their practice is all experimental. 
 
 The facts that medicine and religion are split up into 
 dogmatic schools and associations; that they are intolerant 
 of each other; that they seek legislation to gain advantages; 
 that they substitute artificial ordinances for Natural laws; 
 that they have failed to make good on their propositions; 
 should be sufficient evidence to teach the thinking public 
 to give them all the go-by. 
 
 We recognize no "authority' ' save Mathematics, which 
 is the Natural law of order, out of which all principles of 
 living must come. The vaunted "education" of our time 
 is an arrant humbug. Erudition has made fools of many, 
 which statement recalls the remark of a practical army 
 officer, who in addressing a lot of recruits from a college, 
 said: "Gentlemen, I am glad to see you here; I know your 
 type; I can tell a college man as far as I can see him — but 
 I can't tell him much." The boys were about to cheer, but 
 the last six words cut it short. If every child be taught how 
 to read, write, spell, punctuate and paragraph correctly, 
 then be trained in the principles of arithmetic, followed by 
 the study of geography and history; and have it all done 
 at the age of sixteen, after which be given practical duties 
 where what has been learned may be applied intelligently, 
 there would never be any danger from bolshevism or 
 other forms of unionism in this whole world. People would 
 vie with other to accomplish good for all, instead of striving 
 to "do" one another. 
 
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CHAPTER VII. 
 Composition of Food for Thought 
 
 King Solomon said: "The love of money is the root of 
 all evil." 
 
 Sol. was regarded as the wisest man of his time; but he 
 was mistaken in his "diagnosis." 
 
 Love of power appears, from history and current events, 
 to be the chief weakness of humanity. 
 
 Elect a man road supervisor and he at once concludes 
 he should be county commissioner. Make him mayor of a 
 city and lie aspires to the presidency of the country. Choose 
 him for president and he wants to be chief of a league of 
 nations. Each and all of them will resort to the tactics of 
 a thug to achieve his ambition. 
 
 But there are yet greater personages than even the 
 highest official, viz. : Those who make him — and break him. 
 Money is an essential to the attainment of power; but it is 
 secondary in the final analysis. Superstition and credulity 
 are the primary necessities to insure success in the ma- 
 neuvres to control the destinies of the people. 
 
 Religion and medicine paved the way for politics and 
 profiteers. The world war has taught the people neither 
 the futility of prayer nor idiocy of war. All ancient and 
 modern philosophers have been and are arrayed against 
 both. The first on the ground that if there is an omnipo- 
 tent, all-wise and all-powerful personal creator, prayer to 
 him, her or it, is impudent and unworthy of notice; the 
 second because wars, instead of settling matters, have 
 always bred more and worse wars. The Germans and 
 Austrians are buoyed by the hope that they will some day 
 be revenged for the trouncing they have received at the 
 hands of the allies. This has been called "human nature." 
 
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It is a lie. Nature is kind, and if the people would apply 
 themselves to the study of Her laws, they would have 
 neither time or inclination to "do" others, and they would 
 qualify themselves for adequate defense against those whose 
 ambition is to "do" them. 
 
 That remarkable character, William Shakespeare, is 
 immortal. Not in the superstitious sense, but in the most 
 eminently practical one. The words he makes Polonius 
 say to his son Laertes, as he was about to start out in the 
 world alone, (Hamlet), are as literally worthful today as 
 they were when he wrote them : 
 
 "Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
 
 "Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 
 
 "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
 
 "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
 
 'Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
 
 "But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
 
 'Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware 
 
 "Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, 
 
 "Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. 
 
 "Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; 
 
 "Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 
 
 'Costly thy habit, as thy purse can buy, 
 
 "But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 
 
 Tor the apparel oft proclaims the man. 
 
 "Neither a borrower or a lender be: 
 
 "For loan oft loses both itself and friend; 
 
 "And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
 
 "This, above all: To thine own self be true; 
 
 "And it must follow, as the night the day, 
 
 "Thou canst not then be false to any." 
 
 Nature never made any units of measure. She made 
 natural standards. Man made the units. Naturally we 
 should regard the creative power as of dual gender, if a 
 personality, and as a female in point of delivery. But man 
 created god in his own image — purely an arbitrary and 
 
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artificial standard. Mothers are naturally nearer to their 
 children than the fathers, because they bore them. The 
 mother-love is the stronger. What mother would condemn 
 her child to eternal torture, no matter what crime it might 
 commit? Yet we are told this male god has a hell in store 
 for most of us. The object of the tale is to win power for 
 Bosses, right here on this globe, and right now. The suckers 
 are promised a heaven hereafter if they bow to the masters 
 of the present. The "laws" of the religions have always 
 been: "Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not." 
 
 The laws of Nature will "reveal" themselves to anyone 
 who studies. "Seek and ye shall find" is true in Nature, 
 up to the limit angle of the laws. If any do not know what 
 "limit #ngle" means, study the laws of refraction and re- 
 flection of light; then apply the principle to everything else: 
 patience, physical endurance, mental capacity, etc. And 
 here it is in order to mention a human characteristic product 
 of artificial teachings. I have had thousands of patients 
 and thousands of students in my school-rooms. I have 
 yet to meet the first one who, upon reciting his or her story 
 of physiological ills, and being informed that their mental- 
 ities are as much deranged as their bodies, did not flush 
 with indignation, and many of them were highly offended, 
 thus proving my proposition off-hand. 
 
 Among the first important ideas I gathered through 
 the process of mental digestion was the fact that Nature's 
 laws work on me just as they do on others; and vice versa. 
 What any of us elect to believe about anything does not 
 alter the facts an iota; therefore, if we really are philosophers 
 (lovers of truth), we will search the laws and conform to 
 them as nearly as environment will permit. The first half 
 of my life I was a complacent follower of "accepted 
 authorities," I took my medicine, mental and physical, 
 as a matter of course, and was in a disordered condition 
 all of the time. I awoke, thirty-odd years ago, since which 
 time I have never taken the other fellow's dope, and I have 
 
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never been ill a minute. A wise-guy brother-in-law of 
 mine once told my mother I am the greatest mathematician 
 he ever saw and I am all right on many things but on some 
 subjects I am insane. There was a time when I would have 
 gone five hundred miles to punch his nose. But I merely 
 asked mother how my brother-in-law knows we are not 
 both crazy on the subjects about which we agree. You see, 
 I am out of the fog and he is still in it. I have learned to 
 not assume I am always correct. I talk and write in the 
 hope that I may help some people to think for themselves. 
 I am not going to send them to hell if they do not think; 
 and I am not promising them heaven if they do. It is a 
 very trite expression when one says: "I've done a hell of 
 an amount of thinking' ' about something. 
 
 Practically everything in Nature is present in dualities. 
 One of the reasons we accomplish as much work in a school 
 year as the old schools do in several years is because we 
 employ the duality system in teaching. It has the mathe- 
 matical quality of order, accuracy, consecutiveness and 
 comprehensiveness. It is the foundation of our System of 
 Mature Medicine. It enables us to analyze our cases 
 according to the possibilities of causes, by applying static 
 and dynamic tests, mental and physiological; and we have 
 it down to such fine points that we are able to tell not only 
 the ages of skeptics and others, but we actually measure 
 their dispositions and temperaments. By disposition we 
 mean attitude toward others; by temperament, the relation 
 between the mental and physiological, consciously and 
 subconsciously, in any case. We not only find the relative 
 conditions physiologically, with reference to high, safety, 
 danger and low lines, establish by figures, the treatments 
 necessary, the possibilities and probabilities of recover- 
 ing normal health and the cost to patients in time and 
 fidelity to instructions as well as in the coin of the realm 
 for our services. Now there are those in power who have 
 the impudence to tell the public it has no rights in the 
 
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matter of selecting its own doctors, and there are actually 
 alleged "laws" in some states, which, if enforced, as they 
 cannot be, would imprison every sort of doctor save the 
 old-fogy drug-habit chaps. There are courts who live in 
 terror of political murder, threatened openly by Medical 
 Trust doctors, and they render ridiculous decisions, in 
 support of contentions of "health" officials. But perse- 
 cution only advertises the persecuted. Natural laws work 
 in spite of the machinations of the wicked. The public 
 should remember that there are statutes covering mis- 
 conduct in public office, and it should put the screws to the 
 fanatics, giving them a taste of their own "statutory 
 medicine." We insist that every sane person is competent 
 to choose his or her own doctor, or lawyer, or grocer — and 
 has an inalienable right to do it. We think most people 
 are foolish to resort to "Christian" science, "chiropractic," 
 "naturapathy," or drugs, patent or otherwise; but we do 
 not question their rights in the matter. We are not so 
 cowardly as to fear the competition of those practitioners 
 whom we regard as inferiors, and we do not desire that 
 they shall be legislated out of business. If it were possible to 
 incorporate in this book sufficient information to put all 
 doctors out of business, including ourselves, of course, it 
 would be the happiest task we could imagine. There are a 
 lot pleasanter things to do than listening to tales of woe. The 
 attitude of the Medical Trust toward "irregulars" is not 
 a marker to its designs on the public. It was the written 
 promise of a Boston doctor to the profession that if they 
 would help put the patent medicine men out of business it 
 would divert $165,000,000 annually to the pockets of the 
 physicians. That is a form of bribery not amenable to the 
 statutes. But it didn't work very well. The "patent" 
 people advertise; hence the Advertising Agents Trust, 
 which controls the Newspaper Trust, which steers the 
 Political Trusts at the behest of the Bosses Trust, which 
 owns the big Advertising Patronage of the country, man- 
 
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aged to side-track the Simmons-Billings-McCormack- 
 B e v a n-R u s h-Northwestern-Johns-Hopkins-Harvard 
 Yale-Columbia-University-of -Pennsylvania gang. They 
 are all small fry anyhow. 
 
 Of course it will be said that I have an ax to grind ; that 
 I seek to profit by the downfall of the Trusts and the Bosses. 
 This is a mistake, because I rather enjoy making the 
 heathen rage, and I am amply able to take care of myself 
 in any sort of a melee. I have always fought the people's 
 fight; I have never asked the people for anything and I 
 never will. So far as I am concerned, personally, or cor- 
 poratively, damn the public. I do not accept as students 
 more than one-half of the number who apply, because they 
 are cheap fakers who approach me assuming I am as crooked 
 as they are. Occasionally one gets past me and into the 
 school-rooms; but when I discover them, they get busy or 
 they get out. I have no god to forgive me in job lots 
 Sundays for misdeeds during the week; therefore I endeavor 
 to follow Polonius' advice and have my own self-respect; 
 I thus set an example to my pupils which has never failed 
 to work for good. 
 
 In our school we teach mathematics, true medicine, 
 business, religion, political economy, everything that per- 
 tains to the human race which we have found has to be 
 dealt with in one form or another among patients. We have 
 no fads, unless it be our abhorrence of them. We prove to 
 our students the necessity for variety of opinion, by the 
 variety of elements in the world and in the human body. 
 We demand that when they go out to practice they know 
 enough to do for their patients what Natural law says; not 
 what I or my assistants say. We make no pretense of "au- 
 thority." We have no desire to be leaders of men — it is a 
 thankless job at best. We want to help people to be inde- 
 pendent of leadership. We leave all of that business to 
 individuals of the calibre of Governor Lowden, of Illinois 
 and Governor Harding, of Iowa, except that we do our 
 
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share to make their plans a failure, because we can think 
 of no greater calamity than Socialism, and that is just 
 what such characters as Lowden and Harding, under the 
 management of the Big Bosses are heading the country into. 
 Don't blame the Bolsheviki Socialists, like Debs; they are 
 only the effects of great causes. Lowden, Harding, and 
 their ilk are mere tools with which the Powers work. The 
 Pullman Company, the Telegraph and Telephone Com- 
 panies, the Railway Companies, the Gas and Electric 
 Companies, the Street-franchise Companies, the Newspaper 
 Companies, (which are consolidating in every little town, 
 on the orders of the Powers) , all need such fellows — and you 
 suckers vote for them, because you have wool over your 
 eyes. You read tommy-rot in the papers, and believe it. 
 You read the "food" ads in the magazines and pay $4 a 
 bushel for stuff put up in fancy packages and given a name 
 like "U-need-me," when you could buy it in the rough for 
 half the money, you eat it because you think it puts you 
 in the fashionable class, and you expire after an operation 
 for "appendicitis." You have the "movie" fad — and one 
 C. Chaplin gets your money and time while your brain 
 shrivels to the proportions of a mustard seed from mental 
 malnutrition. It is not remarkable that you are religious 
 and political tools, would-be grafters, but not smart enough 
 to more than wish. Go to it and welcome. But some day 
 you'll admit this paragraph hit you right where you live, 
 and you lacked the gumption to see it and wake up. 
 
 It is the duty of every man, woman and child to learn 
 to think, to analyze propositions theoretical and conditions 
 practical. In order to help them we herewith append 
 specimens of our methods of procedure with patients: 
 
 Sex, height, weight, proportions, physiognomy, dispo- 
 sition, temperament, and physiological conditions are in- 
 dicated, objectively and subjectively, and we go into de- 
 tails systematically, thus: 
 
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f Mental 
 
 Appearance 
 
 (Complexion 
 Attitude 
 
 f Positive 
 Temperament | 
 
 [ Negative 
 
 Personal 
 
 History 
 
 General. 
 
 Physical. 
 
 _• 
 
 f Development 
 f Proportions— \ 
 
 [ Size 
 
 Conditions ... 
 
 fSex 
 
 'Physiological j 
 
 [ Symptoms 
 f General 
 Ocular 
 
 ' Strain...- • 
 
 Shock— 
 
 General. 
 
 k Special. 
 
 ' Physical. 
 
 Mental.— 
 
 f Application 
 Intellectual.... j 
 
 [Worry 
 
 f Infection 
 ( Accident 
 J Joy 
 { Grief 
 f Social 
 [ Financial 
 f Paternal 
 [ Maternal 
 ( Country 
 {city 
 f School 
 
 ' Condition. 
 
 h Longevity. 
 
 Birth. 
 
 Education. 
 
 ( Experience 
 
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' Objective.... - 
 
 ' Quality ... 
 k Quantity. 
 
 Ophthalmoscope ■ 
 
 Habits. 
 
 Subjective.. • 
 
 Infection 
 
 ' Emmetropia.. 
 
 ' Spherical. 
 
 ' Ocular. 
 
 Vision. . 
 
 f Hyperopia. 
 Compound j 
 
 Myopia 
 
 Intellectual 
 
 ' Perception ■ 
 
 Special. 
 
 k Conception • 
 
 Talents. 
 
 f Blood 
 ( Vessels 
 [ Corpuscles 
 ( Branches 
 [ Tobacco 
 [ Liquor 
 f Catarrh 
 ( Indigestion 
 ( Static 
 [ Dynamic 
 
 ( Abnormal 
 
 Ametropia \ 
 
 { Subnormal 
 
 ( + and + 
 [ — and + 
 f Cylinder 
 ( Sphero-Cyl. 
 
 f Superficial 
 
 ' General ] 
 
 [ Mathematical 
 
 f Chemical 
 [ Mechanical 
 
 f Inherent 
 
 ' Capacity { 
 
 [ Acquired 
 
 f Spontaneous 
 
 ( Cultivated 
 
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Then we make tests, dynamic and static, of the nerve 
 supply, for comparison with what we know to be normal 
 physiological demands in every department of the entire 
 body; and when we have finished gathering data we 
 figure the matter out just as we would any other physical 
 problem, and prove the result by a series of checking 
 tests, so that finally we know whether we are warranted 
 in taking the case at all, and how much Nature requires 
 of us and the patient to get desired effects. 
 
 There is nothing mysterious about any portion of the 
 work; no "diagnosis" (guess-work), no experimentation. 
 We have named the series of tables and data by which we t 
 work, the "Neurometer" (nerve measure), and we have 
 added to our already abundant evidence of the mental lazi- 
 ness of professional brethern, as well as of the public gen- 
 erally, a legion of requests for "prices on the machine." 
 It appears nearly all are willing to do anything, except work 
 hard, to get through life easy. This is the reason organi- 
 zations of professional and alleged "scientific" men and 
 women are constantly beseeching legislative enactments 
 which will grant them licenses without examinations or 
 with perfunctory ones and protect them from future compe- 
 tition by giving them control of examining boards, com- 
 posed of unscrupulous persons who will resort to foul means 
 to attain their objects. Medical practice acts, dental, 
 pharmacal, optical, barbers, blacksmiths and all other 
 such acts are vilest class legislation and outrages on the 
 public. The beneficiaries of these "laws" say that my op- 
 position comes from fear graduates from my school will not 
 be able to pass such examinations. My reply has always 
 been a challenge to any and all members of state boards to 
 choose ten or a hundred of their members to compete with 
 a like number of our graduates in an examination for which 
 I will furnish 100 questions, the other side to furnish the 
 same number, and if our representatives do not make better 
 grades on the entire two hundred questions we will forfeit 
 
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our charter, and they have never dared accept the proposi- 
 tion. Our school would continue to run and have plenty of 
 students among those who already have licenses to practice 
 but become conscious of the fact that our graduates accom- 
 plish feats impossible for them, with their limited, dogmatic 
 training. We have never fought a minute for our school; 
 always for the principles of right and justice to the public 
 and we shall continue to do so as long as we live. In our 
 paper, "Mature Medicine," published quarterly, we name 
 the crooks and publish particulars of their acts. That is 
 why they lie about us. None of them have ever dared 
 tackle us with a libel suit. We have stirred them up from 
 Maine to rotten California. They have tried to have the 
 paper suppressed. They have even attempted to murder the 
 editor; but he still lives and the paper is issued with unerring 
 regularity. We send it to any address for 25 cents a year. 
 We accept no advertising and we pay the printers promptly, 
 so none can charge us with conducting it for profit. We 
 send out thousands of free copies each issue, solely with the 
 hope that we can arouse public sentiment so that it will 
 prepare for the chaos which is coming as sure as disability 
 personally will come if symptoms are not attended with 
 prompt action. 
 
 I wonder how many readers of this book ever heard of a 
 "thesaurus. " It means a treasury of words and phrases. No 
 student can afford to be without one. A good dictionary, 
 an encyclopedia of general information and an inquiring 
 mentality are also essential to knowledge. Erudition is not 
 sufficient; study must be supplemented by practical work 
 to prove the truths and detect the plausible. 
 
 Instead of starting children on Sunday school lies, 
 Santa Claus humbuggery, Mother Goose tales and other 
 nonsense, teach them to read, write, spell, then introduce 
 them to arithmetic, with its principles of order, accuracy, 
 detail, and show them how to apply those principles to 
 examine and analyze what they read. Don't lie to them or 
 
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they will learn to lie to you. Do not deceive yourselves with 
 the idea that children do not think. Many of the brightest 
 ideas I ever gathered were from children whose mentalities 
 were not yet clouded by artful falsehoods which fill with 
 fear and inculcate deceit. In my school work I have had 
 rare opportunities to study the effects of a lack of 
 early training in consideration for others, the amenities, 
 the fundamentals and the simplest details of mathematics, 
 with the natural result they are inclined to guess at mat- 
 ters susceptible of categorical answers; they come to us 
 with requests for "credits" because of what they think 
 they know, when, as a rule, they find they have to unlearn 
 a lot before they can grasp the concrete information we 
 give them. We have had college professors, superin- 
 tendents of schools, principals of high schools, physicians, 
 clergymen of nearly all denominations, common school 
 teachers, university boys, high school graduates, grammar 
 school pupils, and some who had served long in the school 
 of experience. After more than twenty-five years' ex- 
 perience we still accept any white man or woman of ma- 
 ture years, good character, a good common school educa- 
 tion or its equivalent, honesty of purpose and willingness 
 to work hard for the duration of the specified term. No 
 others need apply. We work with our students, in the 
 class-rooms, six hours daily, four days of each week and 
 give them tasks the other two days to help them digest 
 and assimilate what we have given them on the subject 
 under attention. We stick to one branch of study until 
 its principles are comprehended; then we couple it with 
 the next in order and proceed. We have designated it the 
 consecutive, continuous method of instruction, and it has 
 finally attracted the attention of the orthodox schools, 
 where it has been proposed for adoption by some of the 
 Bosses who have read the handwriting on the wall which 
 foretells their downfall if they persist in dogmatism. But, 
 there is one feature of it that has been overlooked entirely 
 
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by them, viz. : They haven't teachers who are competent 
 to go into the class-rooms, without notes, and talk on a 
 single subject six hours daily, for days at a time; hence it 
 will be some years before they get under way on that 
 schedule. They are under- weights, metaphysically. 
 
 Some people have theories without practice; others 
 have practice without any theoretical knowledge of their 
 work. Both are necessarily weak — neither is able to an- 
 ticipate a possibility and have a solution ready for action; 
 therefore the majority are failures when judged by the 
 duality standard, which is the only Natural one. The 
 game of chess is the best of all to teach children and grown 
 people. It is an exhibit of Natural tactics; the unvalue 
 of cheating is illustrated practically; the player who loses 
 really wins the game, because he learns how his opponent 
 hit him and how to avoid it in future; it requires, and there- 
 fore cultivates, prescience, which is to science what physics 
 is to metaphysics. 
 
 In affairs generally, political and business, we have 
 to meet almost daily problems of vital importance, not 
 only to individuals but to the public collectively. It is 
 one of the dangerous weaknesses of our form of govern- 
 ment that our "statesmen" are mushroom productions, 
 made in a few hours, at the polls, by a herd filled with 
 prejudice, or dogmatic faith in parties and platforms, 
 which are mere vehicles on which the designing ones ride 
 into power, after which they tell the voter to go to hell — 
 and the voter sneaks away, like the poltroon he is, until 
 his master calls him again. Assistant state's attorney, 
 M. E. Barnhart, of Cook County, Illinois, recently said 
 to me: "You don't think you can impeach the Governor 
 of Illinois for signing a bill, do you?" In reply I called 
 his attention to the fact that the governor took oath to 
 support the Constitution of the state and of the United 
 States to the best of his ability, and I agreed that he might 
 escape on the plea of deficient ability; I also mentioned 
 
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the statutes, Chapter 38, sections 208, 208c and 208d of 
 the Criminal code, which provide who may file complaint, 
 how it shall be done and what the states attorney's duty 
 in the matter is, when such complaints are filed. Mr. 
 Barnhart was evidently under the impression that the 
 ordinary citizen has no rights the governor or states at- 
 torney is bound to respect. He has his job and fealty to 
 his gang is of more importance than any oath he may have 
 taken. The governor was guilty of misconduct in office 
 when he signed a bill providing for something the Supreme 
 Court of the state decided, two years ago, was uncon- 
 stitutional. The members of the legislature who voted 
 for the bill violated their oaths of office, and their presid- 
 ing officers, who signed them also violated their oaths. 
 Of course it is unlikely that they will be fined the $10,000 
 each, provided by law, or that they will be ousted from 
 office, as is also provided by law; but that is because of 
 the power in the hands of those who love it more than 
 they do money. 
 
 In the matter of money the single-gold standard is 
 artificial, unnatural and is the chief cause behind the high 
 cost of living. Even the gold-bug press confesses it when 
 printing statements that the servant girl who had saved 
 $100 several years ago and put it on interest so that today 
 she has $200 is no wealthier than she was when she planted 
 it. Nature does everything on the double standard basis. 
 One is constant and the other is an inconstant. With a 
 double standard of money, say gold for a standard of ex- 
 change between nations, and silver or its equivalent in 
 paper, as the standard of home business, with gold and 
 silver coin as legal tender for all debts, public and private, 
 there could be no panics, no high cost of living, no con- 
 solidation and enormous Power to banks and bankers, 
 no combinations of capital in the form of law-defying 
 Trusts, no labor or professional unions to sap the life-blood 
 of the nation. Of course this means that in fixing a money 
 
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standard, other, subsidiary regulations would be adopted; 
 that follows as a corollary. The home standard would 
 change its value compared with the international one ac- 
 cording to conditions; that would be necessary to keep 
 business in balance. Mr. Bryan's insane notion of a con- 
 stant sixteen-to-one ratio was typical of the fanatical class 
 he represented, and that weakness was the only thing — 
 except Republican "tactics" — that beat him in 1896. It 
 is too big a subject to undertake to discuss at length here; 
 all I seek is the awakening of the public to dangers of the 
 future from the domination of the Powers that control 
 now— the Czar of Russia went down and so will they. 
 Let us avoid the certain bloody crisis by organized, well- 
 balanced effort. Form a new political party and choose 
 for its executive committee men of ability and integrity 
 of an absolutely unimpeachable variety — if they can be 
 found. Remember Diogenes' job, 2,000 years ago. By 
 the way, there was one who learned from children; after 
 making all sorts of sacrifices he could think of he saw a boy 
 drinking from his hand at a well; he exclaimed: "that 
 boy gives me an idea of something I can do without/' and 
 he threw away a pitcher he carried. We can certainly do 
 without a lot of political scull-duggers and hangers-on 
 who only work at election time. 
 
 It is apropos to mention the fact that the Hun element 
 in office is a nuisance and a very dangerous one. They 
 have it in their power to alter or destroy valuable records, 
 and there can be no doubt many of them will do so as a 
 part of the German scheme of revenge. The best time 
 to lock the barn is before, not after the horse is stolen. 
 The complacent damned fool "patriot" will declare I am 
 a pessimist. Not for a minute. I am an optimist; as sure 
 that Nature will come out on top in the final show-down 
 as I am that I exist. I have lived for more than twenty- 
 eight years within a thousand feet of Lake Michigan. I 
 have seen storms that tossed steamer after steamer on 
 
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shore, wrecked beyond hope of repair; I have seen the 
 bodies of passengers and crew, pallid in death, after the 
 waves subsided and the surface was as calm as a mill-pond; 
 so I am sure Nature rules supreme; but I am equally sure 
 there will be some wrecked business boats and many lives 
 sacrificed to that juggernauth, Power. I am playing chess; 
 I call "check," it is your move. 
 
 "I honor the man who is willing to sink 
 "Half his present repute for the freedom to think; 
 "And, having thought, be his cause strong or weak, 
 "Will sink t'other half for the freedom to speak. 
 "Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in 
 
 store, 
 "Be that mob the upper ten thousand, or lower." 
 
 — Lowell. 
 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
 Appearances, Actions and Idiosyncrasies 
 
 Phrenology, physiognomy, and similar subjects, have 
 been made butts of ridicule and the hobbies of specialists 
 who overestimated their importance. But, after all, they 
 are "straws" which indicate trends. They certainly ex- 
 emplify the ancient axiom, that "where there's smoke 
 there must be fire." 
 
 None are surer than children and animals in sizing up 
 character from appearance and conduct. One of the 
 greatest mistakes of parents is the assumption that chil- 
 dren are incapable of grasping mentally the bigger affairs 
 of life; that there is information which should be withheld 
 from them until they are almost of voting age. 
 
 In teaching and practicing a profession which has to 
 do with human ills, it is absolutely necessary that we 
 study all phases, mental and physiological, chemical and 
 mechanical, theoretically and practically. It not only 
 qualifies for best work, but it saves time and temper. 
 
 The president of a great university, in Chicago, has 
 been quoted as saying there are thirteen physiognomical 
 exhibits which are bad; that he is faulty in ten of them, 
 and woe to the person who shows them all. I have never 
 met him personally but I have seen him and want to make 
 it a matter of record that he must be an adept in conceal- 
 ing them from ordinary mortals, for I formed a most agree- 
 able opinion of his general personality objectively and 
 found an abundance of corroborative evidence in studying 
 him subjectively by his acts and utterances. I have had 
 an experience with the head of another great institution, 
 a relative, who is known as "the Chancellor." He was 
 
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about to undertake the arduous and dubious task of com- 
 piling the family genealogy and desired some information 
 from me. Instead of addressing me personally, he did it 
 through his secretary, who wrote: "The Chancellor" 
 this and "the Chancellor" that until it nauseated me. If 
 I had such a secretary I'd give him a dog-button. I held 
 my temper and replied politely and supplied such in- 
 formation as had been wished on me by ill advised mem- 
 bers of our tribe, for which I received "the Chancellor's" 
 thanks through the aforesaid secretary in the same gush- 
 ful language. I could not avoid being impressed with the 
 idea that "the Chancellor" estimates his personality at 
 a higher value than he does the institution of which he 
 is the head, and that the Chicago University president 
 reverses the order. I hope, most sincerely, that some day 
 I may find it merely a hero-worshiping secretary; the evi- 
 dent "atmosphere" in which that secretary lives persists 
 in raising doubts. 
 
 In studying the dualities of individuals I have found 
 that we all have not only the mental and physiological, 
 but that our mentalities are dual. I applied tests to my- 
 self and others and was puzzled until, once upon a time, 
 my colleague, Dr. Black, took a front view photograph 
 of me, printed it obversely and reversely, then, cutting 
 it vertically through the middle of the nose, and pasting 
 the right half of one with the left of the other, pictured 
 me as if both sides of my face were alike. Comparing them 
 with the original print, I appeared as three persons. Of 
 the composite ones, one appeared as an individual who 
 might buy a gold brick, or if compelled to walk a mile 
 with another would "go with him twain;" while the other 
 face indicated a cool, calculating villian a dog would growl 
 at. My puzzle was solved. I know now why some people 
 impose on me for a long time and I know why they run 
 against a snag at last. I have been called a "god" and a 
 "devil" by people whom I regarded as rather unbalanced; 
 
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now I know they were probably right — it all depends on 
 which half of my mental duality is dominating. From 
 my own case I have been able to discover that all are en- 
 dowed, or afflicted with this dual mentality, and that 
 physiogomies are pretty true indexes of their respective 
 domination. 
 
 Some one has remarked that to say a woman is pretty 
 is a compliment; but to say man is the same, is an insult. 
 That is custom. Nature says the average artificial stand- 
 ard of beauty, in male or female is such facial symmetry 
 that all marks of character are absent. I have rarely seen 
 a so-called "beauty," of either sex, who was not absolutely 
 insipid, self-conscious and tiresome. Many years ago, 
 when still a subject of custom, I attended a public meeting 
 in Richmond, Indiana, where the wife of one of the pro- 
 fessors of Earlham college had occasion to speak. When 
 she arose it flashed over me that she was the homliest 
 woman I had ever seen; but she hadn't talked five minutes 
 until her whole aspect changed. I knew her well after- 
 ward and she grew in my estimation until she was one of 
 the most beautiful women I have ever known — no, it was 
 not a case of personal affection; she was older than my 
 mother; it was the character reflected in her face. Then 
 I recalled the first fist-fight I ever had as a child: A boy 
 remarked in my hearing that my chum's sister was an 
 ugly girl. She had always been so good to me, and her 
 brother, that we regarded her as absolutely beautiful. I 
 hit him and we had a rough-and-tumble, out of which we 
 both came somewhat the worse for wear. I went home 
 with a black eye. When my angel met me she was hor- 
 rified and attended me promptly; during the operation 
 she insisted on knowing what the row was about. When 
 I told her she laughed and said: "Why, dear, I am homely." 
 I took a look and for the first time I made a comparison 
 of faces according to popular standards; but I was still 
 loyal and declared: "You are beautiful to me, anyhow, 
 
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and I'll lick anyone who says you're not" — then she cried, 
 woman-like. 
 
 In estimating physical values, the general proportions 
 are important. One may be large or small, but if well- 
 proportioned the appearance is agreeable — unless there 
 are physiognomical marks which give other impressions. 
 
 The general shape of the head is significant: It must 
 not be too round, nor too long and narrow; the forehead 
 must be well-set; if it is decidedly vertical and low it may 
 mean a mathematical or musical person, talented but 
 unscrupulous. Much depends upon its combination with 
 other symptoms. If the forehead is high and slopes back- 
 ward to almost a point high on the back of the head, it 
 indicates an insufferable egotist and a weak mentality; 
 it is unpleasant to look at because it is so out of propor- 
 tions; in connection with it is usually found a small lower 
 back head, indicating weakness physically. The head 
 that is smaller above the top of the ears than below that 
 line is deficient intellectually, tending to exhibit more of 
 the animal than the intellectual nature. The head that 
 is big all over, with square outlines, somewhat concealed 
 by fat, is dominated by a mentality which caters more 
 to pleasures than to work, is usually found on office-holders 
 and politicians — they are often men of considerable ability, 
 but, as a rule absolutely selfish and unscrupulous in ob- 
 taining what they want. They are large and rather vain 
 about it; but are of the calibre, mentally that they would 
 accomplish by might that which would not be counte- 
 nanced as right. 
 
 One of the most conspicuous marks of degeneration 
 is exhibited in the forms of ears. Note the well-balanced 
 ears of many old people, a well rounded top and rim, with 
 a well-defined lobe; then examine the younger ones, par- 
 ticularly the rising generation, over-fed, not only phys- 
 ically, on the sweets, starches and fats constituting the 
 orthodox diet, but also mentally, on "movies," "jazz bands," 
 
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"topical" songs, "society" rot, etc., and you will find ears 
 without lobes and otherwise misshapen. Study the men- 
 talities of the old and the young at close range and you will 
 find the young as badly warped as are their ears. Ego 
 in the young will cause them to resent this, or their ignor- 
 ance and carelessness will prevent their taking heed of 
 their conditions and endeavoring to offset this bad mark 
 by overcoming the faults indicated. The object of these 
 paragraphs is to help readers to see themselves "as others 
 see them," so they may, if they will, proceed to make 
 alterations in their mentalities, which will, eventually, 
 change their physiognomies. It is not meant that they 
 will grow lobes on their ears; but there will be changes 
 which will modify the effects of the appearance of those 
 organs. I had a pupil once whose ears stood straight out 
 from the head and in analyzing him, by request, I pointed 
 to that exhibit as one indicating he was an easy mark; 
 that he agreed with everybody, merely to be agreeable 
 and thus became insipid. I told him he could overcome 
 the weakness by mental application. He heard me through, 
 thanked me, then went to a dermatologist and had his 
 ears set back by operation! That struck him as the easier 
 way — but he is still a "sucker." A good fellow, but a 
 light-weight, mentally, and always will be. He had other 
 indications, which emphasized the ear markings; but they 
 were of such a nature they could not be operated. 
 
 A retreating chin, is a bad mark, intellectually; yet 
 I have known people with this symptom, who were so 
 well-marked and developed, in other respects, that they 
 were able to pass as perfectly well-balanced, by wearing 
 chin whiskers. Some early observer named the point of 
 the chin the "mental process" and I hold him in great 
 respect for doing it. When a chin is too long vertically 
 or the mental process protrudes too far it indicates bull- 
 dog propensities. When it is too short vertically 
 and the mental process is not well-marked, the 
 
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reverse is true — unless there are other, offsetting exhibits. 
 
 What has been called a "dish-face," because of its 
 roundness, with a flat nose and wide pupillary distance, 
 has so many weak points that it is unpleasant to look at 
 and is often intensified, in women, by wearing a hat with 
 the rim turned squarely up in front; but many of them are 
 intelligent and have qualities which make us forget their 
 homeliness. They never have any taste, in the matter of 
 dress, worth mentioning favorably; many of them are 
 inclined to be opinionated without any reason for the 
 assumption, but quite a lot are well-informed and if stirred 
 up by calling apparent bluffs, we may learn much from 
 them. 
 
 The narrow, hatchet-face, is as narrow mentally; is 
 jealous, full of pretense, stubborn, mostly wrong in con- 
 troversies, hunts trouble continuously and often finds it; 
 is most content when worrying others. 
 
 Square jaws indicate a conceit which is wearisome. 
 They observe the mark in their mirrors, and being often 
 well developed otherwise, conclude they are handsome 
 and those jaws indicate firmness, which is sometimes true, 
 physically. They are great posers for photographers and 
 are flattered by the results. They are absolutely incon- 
 siderate of others and even make special efforts to cause 
 inconvenience. They often boast that they do not allow 
 business to interfere with pleasure — and are usually 
 "broke" financially. 
 
 High cheek-bones mean weak constitutions, physically, 
 unless offset by other marks. 
 
 A large nose with a slightly arched bridge, is a fine 
 mark; it means good-nature, good sense, consideration 
 for others, but not too self-sacrificing. Too much of an 
 arch means the owner will take advantage of you if he 
 can gain anything by it. When there is a dimple where 
 the nose-bridge should be it indicates a "smart- Aleck," 
 a careless and heedless person, one from whom we require 
 
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written and well-secured contracts when we do business. 
 
 Deep set eyes, indicate hyperopia, (under-developed 
 eyes), hence nerve strain and consequent peevishness. 
 Prominent eyes are usually associated with very agreeable 
 people. They may be hyperopic, however, and the nerve 
 strain, causing indigestion and other disorders, may upset 
 their natural agreeability. Symptoms, if understood and 
 attended, constitute steps to health and happiness. 
 
 Puffs and dark crescents under the eyes indicate de- 
 fective eyes, and poor blood circulation from deficient 
 nerve supply. In women a contributing cause is disorder 
 peculiar to their sex. • 
 
 A mouth that droops at the ends indicates a "grouch. " 
 
 One that turns up at the ends is the reverse. 
 
 A cupids-bow mouth may be pretty but it is usually 
 exhibited on the faces of those who are "pretty/ ' vain 
 and insipid. 
 
 Straight mouths, which remain straight under all 
 circumstances, whether laughing or not, and formed of 
 thin lips, indicate ill-nature, jealousy, gossip of the slan- 
 derous sort, and a general grudge at mankind. 
 
 Thick, bulging lips are bad, particularly if the lower 
 one rolls out and down. The owners are menaces to the 
 peace of the family, although they often put up a "good 
 front" with strangers. It doesn't pay to become intimate 
 with them. 
 
 Eyes too close together mean lack of stamina, impet- 
 uosity, poor judgment, but often much ability in special 
 lines. The owners are easily influenced, hence if they fall 
 into the right company they may develop well. 
 
 Eyes that twinkle affectedly as they look at you have 
 vanity and duplicity behind them, which they are con- 
 scious of and foolishly imagine they conceal it in that 
 manner. 
 
 Black eyes are in dangerous heads. They are the 
 windows of jealous brains and guide a hand that carries 
 
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a dagger. They are particularly dangerous if accompanied 
 by a short upper lip. They indicate a highly emotional 
 person who is always self-centered. 
 
 Brown eyes are, usually, indications of amiability. 
 They are foud in people who are inclined to boasting to 
 the extent of exaggeration. They are possessed by people 
 of many good qualities, but lax in keeping engagements, 
 social and business, much to the annoyance of those who 
 have to do with them. The possessors who look straight 
 at you, when talking, are trustworthy. They are not very 
 energetic, are content with what they have and are real 
 "homy" people, if of average size or larger. 
 
 Blue eyes are in honest heads as a rule, unless they are 
 too pale, when they are tricky. There are more blue-eyed 
 people than of any other class, hence they require more 
 critical tests than others, particularly a comparison with 
 other points. 
 
 Gray eyes are found in steady-going people, reliable, 
 but rarely stir up much excitement because there is not 
 enough friction in their make-up. They look straight 
 at you and see clear through you. Don't lie to them if 
 you want their friendship. If they do not look straight 
 at you, beware. 
 
 Narrow teeth indicate weakness congenitally. Broad 
 teeth indicate the reverse. 
 
 A long upper lip indicates obstinacy when the pos- 
 sessor thinks he is right; a lack of it when he is uncertain. 
 Usually honest, but when the opposite he is bad. I have 
 never seen such a person who was of a jealous disposition. 
 
 Ears too close to the head mean selfishness in the mean 
 sense. 
 
 People who talk too much have little time for thought. 
 They are easily influenced in a manner that breeds con- 
 tempt for them. Those who cannot talk without laughing 
 almost constantly are insincere and vain. Women gigglers 
 are fools. 
 
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" Crow's feet" at the outer corners of the eyes, indicate 
 eye strain. 
 
 Vertical wrinkles between the eyes mean the same thing. 
 
 A high point on the top head, on a line with the ears, 
 means veneration for things of the superstitious class. 
 
 Heavy jowls and a thick neck exhibit in those more 
 interested in the physical than the intellectual. They 
 may have good educations and be capable of thought, but, 
 as a rule, they are intellectually lazy. 
 
 Those who boast of expertness, usually lack it. 
 
 Those who profess great gentility rarely exhibit the 
 fine qualities which we naturally expect from them. 
 
 Idiosyncrasies are sometimes irritating, occasionally 
 amusing, often pitiful and never interesting save to stu- 
 dents of the peculiarities. They are exhibited by devotees 
 of fashion, who are governed by custom, or who seek 
 prominence by cheap false pretenses. 
 
 Nearly all men part their hair on the left side, as a mat- 
 ter of convenience, because the vast majority are right- 
 handed. It follows that those who do otherwise have some 
 other reason. Those who split it in the middle evidently 
 needed it to keep their brains in balance, because they near- 
 ly always exhibit rather small mental calibre. Those who 
 do not part it at all, but comb it carefully back over their 
 tops, generally have physiognomies and mentalities to 
 match; they appear conscious of a difference between 
 themselves and others, but never to their disadvantage. 
 
 Mothers of light mentalities name their children fan- 
 tastically in the belief that a ''grand" name will develop 
 a great man. Such lads usually grow up in the atmos- 
 phere peculiarly suggested by the naming, and improve 
 on it by "distinguished" arrangement, such as "G. Wash- 
 ington Brown," "A. Hamilton Smith," "H. Clay Jones," 
 "J. W. Wilson Pennypacker." Then the notion of family 
 nobility is perpetuated by "Elbert Hubbard II." "Marsh- 
 all Field III," etc., all of which is harmless, but signifies 
 
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an impression that individuals are greater than things or 
 causes. With the general public it is a decided handicap. 
 It has been my misfortune, to have never met a man who 
 did the "J. Pierpont" act who was well balanced and on 
 the square in his dealings with fellow mortals. I have 
 known some who tried it as a fad for a time, but recovered 
 under pressure of ridicule or by reason of their own horse 
 sense. 
 
 Few people boast of having an insane member of the 
 family; but nearly all like to discuss their own and others' 
 physiological ills. It is very common among patients of 
 doctors to exhibit great pride in the fact that their cases 
 are puzzles, indeed, if a physician wants to flatter the aver- 
 age patient he can easily do so by telling him or her that 
 the case is the most complex he ever saw. When one of 
 those cases comes to me I listen to the recital of their tales 
 and what others have said about their conditions, then 
 I suggest that there is one point of importance which ap- 
 pears to have been overlooked by all, namely: The mental 
 derangement which always accompanies physiological 
 disorders. Then they become highly indignant, which 
 proves the accuracy of my statement. Many insist that 
 their physiological deficiencies have automatically made 
 their mentalities keener. In one sense this may be true, 
 but they are unbalanced just the same. Some have argued : 
 "Do you admit that when you are out of normal condition 
 systematically your mentality is affected?" to which I 
 reply: "Law is law; it works on us all alike. The fact 
 that I recognize the truth, helps me take care of myself, 
 just as it aids me in setting you right, provided you follow 
 instructions." When I am making copy and feel mentally 
 sluggish I know I am not up to normal physiologically. 
 When I grind out work while feeling disordered physi- 
 ologically I know it is not up to my normal mental ca- 
 pacity. This will explain some of the variations in the 
 effects on my readers. I have written articles for my 
 
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paper which hit tender spots in readers who wrote me: 
 "If you could realize what a lot of 'rot* you write you 
 wouldn't print it." I reply: "If you could see the 'rot' I 
 write and do not print you would be thankful." It doesn't 
 all get by me when I have time to look it -over. But that 
 isn't the question. I do not write to pick at people. I 
 am presenting conditions as I have found them. Read 
 and heed or ignore, just as you like. I bear no malice 
 toward any. I play no favorites in presenting proposi- 
 tions. If my own experiences will help others I do not 
 spare myself in giving them. The cause is greater than 
 the individual. 
 
 Character, like ill health, is a product of many possible 
 combinations of causes; hence it would be manifestly unfair 
 to attempt to judge people by a few symptoms. It has 
 been my pleasure to discover that faults obtrude them- 
 selves upon us and we must search for the good points in 
 each case; I have found more good than bad in every 
 person I have ever known, by applying the credit and 
 debit system of ordinary bookkeeping. Let others apply 
 the same tactics and they will be happier. This is com- 
 mended especially to readers who are fanatically ambitious 
 to be their brothers keepers; the "moralists," who are so 
 lewd they see it reflected in others. 
 
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CHAPTER IX. 
 The Menace of Old-School Medicine. 
 
 The menace of old-school medicine is not limited to its 
 uncertainty and the Russian tactics of its political bosses, 
 through the mediums of alleged "laws." Thousands of 
 practitioners have learned that it is largely guess-work, 
 and their lists of usable drugs are limited to the less harmful 
 ones; they are not at all in sympathy with the persecution 
 of drugless competitors; but they are an apathetic lot, 
 many of them indigent, and the few who are earning as 
 much as $2,500 a year are afraid to leave their practices to 
 take up the study of more certain methods, because they 
 cannot trust their colleagues with their patients. Many 
 have told me so. 
 
 The practice by artificial standards is, necessarily, 
 almost wholly experimental. Happily for them, the public 
 has been hypnotized by religious influences, until it has 
 more faith in the doctor than in itself — when it is sick — 
 hence, there are always some for them to collect fees from. 
 But the advent of the "cults," who brazenly announce 
 "cures" by methods ranging from "Christian science 
 adjusting lateral displacements of the lumbar vertebrae," 
 and the "licensing" of many of them by reason of slips in 
 Medical Trust "laws," has put a crimp in orthodox practice, 
 so that many have resorted to "prescribing" narcotic drugs 
 for those who have the habit; also for those who are in pain, 
 until they have produced an alarming lot of "dope fiends," 
 according to a report by a committee, composed of Congress- 
 man Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois, Prof. Reed S. Hunt, of 
 Harvard University, Deputy Commissioner B. C. Keith, 
 of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and Dr. A. G. Dumez, of 
 the United States Public Health Service, which committee 
 
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found that the number of addicts "exceeds 1,000,000 at 
 the present time." 
 
 But, instead of placing the blame for the condition of 
 affairs where it belongs, and advocating statutes absolutely 
 forbidding the employment of such drugs in practice, it is 
 urged that special legislation be enforced and more enacted. 
 What is the use of more, if they are unable to enforce what 
 they have? It is all bunk. They are afraid their family 
 doctors will poison them if they attack their hobby of 
 deadly drugs in lethal doses. 
 
 The "health" officer of New York reports a total of 
 103,000 addicts in that city, and on that basis the com- 
 mittee, figures there are 1,908,000 in the country. It is a 
 safe bet they do not know half of them. It has been reported 
 in orthodox medical journals that there are over 33,000 
 doctors, out of a total of 150,000, who are habitual users of 
 opium, cocaine and other habit-forming drugs. I have 
 information that one of the professors in the University of 
 Pennsylvania, some years ago, who did not believe the 
 "habit-forming" story, put it to the test and died from the 
 experiment. But they continue to teach and use the dope 
 in their school and in the field. 
 
 It is figured, grotesquely, that national prohibition will 
 increase the number of drug addicts. State prohibition 
 never prohibited and national nonsense will not do it, 
 either. As long as there are corn, wheat, rye, barley, etc., 
 there will be liquor. A lot of fanatics are in the saddle, and 
 there is going to be chaos. 
 
 Many years ago, while editing a daily paper in Indiana, 
 I proposed a solution of the liquor question which alarmed 
 the "temperance" fanatics and the saloon men so much 
 that they united in denouncing me, for different reasons, 
 of course the liquor men because it would put them out of 
 business, with no chance to demand reparation, in a few 
 days; the fanatics, because it would also put them out of 
 
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business by obliterating the subject of controversy. My 
 plan was simple: 
 
 Let Congress pass an act removing all taxes, of every 
 description, from the stuff. Let no state, county, or 
 municipality impose a license for selling. Then every 
 grocer could keep it in stock and it would be as cheap as 
 cider, not over forty cents a gallon. Then, if any person 
 used it to excess, and became disorderly in the family or 
 community, or in any manner neglected his duties to his 
 family or the state on account of liquor, he should be 
 arrested and given a suspended sentence for the first offense. 
 For a second offense, be he or she rich or poor, the first 
 sentence should be executed with an addition of six months 
 in a workhouse, during which period no "luxuries" should 
 be permitted and no favoritism of any sort practiced. 
 
 There would be very few second doses if the offenders 
 knew the result would surely follow. But the hypo- 
 critical fanatics, who make money out of the "temperance" 
 campaigns, argued that "everybody would be in the gutters 
 the first week." I suppose they feared the temptation to 
 themselves. The liquor men denounced the proposition 
 because they said it would wipe out their business in a jiffy, 
 for, "who would pay ten or fifteen cents for a drink when 
 he could get a quart for a dime?" 
 
 The allopathic, or "regular," school of practice repre- 
 sentatives number about 125,000; the homeopaths, about 
 20,000; the eclectics, about 4,000; and the physio-medical- 
 ists, about 1,000, in the United States. Of these, the first- 
 named are the great offenders in the employment of "habit- 
 forming" drugs; next in order are the homeos, but they use 
 such attenuated forms it is doubtful if they have done 
 much harm; next are the eclectics, who use very little 
 poisons of any sort, and the physio-meds, who do not use 
 them at all. Other offenders are the "patent" medicine 
 and "proprietary" fellows. The first named are those who 
 advertise to the public, and the second are the smarter ones 
 
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who stand in with the allopaths by "advertising to the 
 profession" only. Thus the medical journals are fine com- 
 mercial enterprises. See the Journal of the American 
 Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society 
 Journal, and others scattered all over the country. 
 
 I charge all of the "reformers" and "investigators" 
 with deliberate insincerity. The way to get rid of a nuisance 
 is to tackle its roots, and the suggestion I have repeated is 
 the only Natural solution of the alleged problem. I charge 
 the press of the country with infidelity to the public and 
 with deliberate, malicious cruelty, in carrying "patent" 
 medicine advertisements, and, what is worse, with printing 
 the aHeged "health" articles they do as special features, 
 holding out that their contributors are "authorities," when 
 they are the cheapest sort of political healers or are ignorant 
 tools of the Medical Trust scheme to mislead the people so 
 they will live in a manner which will surely make business 
 for the allopaths. Ask any allopath you know what he 
 thinks of the author of this book. He will tell you I am an 
 ignoramus and a faker. It makes no difference whether he 
 ever heard of me or not — I expose his class, hence he must 
 discredit me if possible. Tell him he dare not come and tell 
 me I am a faker. I confess I do not know it all. I know 
 enough to make them squirm and I am not afraid to tell it. 
 I have no "Christian" affiliations by which I can get 
 absolution Saturday nights for my week's sins, so I try to 
 be on the square all of the time. I know something of the 
 libel laws and I know the rights of a free press and of free 
 speech. I hold myself in readiness to prove what I write 
 or say. 
 
 There is a scheme on foot right now, which, if successful, 
 will put the public health in jeopardy to a greater extent 
 than anything ever dreamed of. It is to have a Medical 
 Trust cabinet officer, with a department of government to 
 be used to persecute progressive doctors who repudiate 
 drug medication, hence are dangerous competitors of the 
 
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Trust; but worse of all, its promotors are unscrupulous 
 fanatics who will inflict compulsory vaccination and 
 serum "therapy* ' (experiments all) upon every man, 
 woman and child in this country. It is claimed that "inoc- 
 ulation' ' prevented typhoid fever in the army, when anyone 
 who thinks knows it was the good sanitary conditions that 
 prevented it. They are unable to account for the deadly 
 effects of the "flu," but it is easily apparent to all who 
 think, and figure, that it was the "inoculation' ' effects. 
 In England, where they keep honest statistics, vaccination 
 is voluntary, and they are so conservative in the matter of 
 experimentation on the public that none of it is permitted. 
 I have never been an enthusiast over biographies or auto- 
 biographies, but in this instance a bit of chronological 
 biography appears necessary in order that the readers 
 may be better able to understand how I came to be able 
 to do some of the things I have done and how I have be- 
 come able to judge people and things on symptoms as well 
 as acts: 
 
 Born in Allegheny, Penna., in 1858 of parents who were 
 both school teachers, and the second child of a mother who 
 had from childhood been afflicted with almost constant 
 headaches, which I many years later learned were from 
 eye strain and chronic indigestion partly due to the same 
 cause but largely due to wrong living. As a consequence of 
 her condition following my birth I was taken by her sister 
 to Ohio at the age of four months where she lived with her 
 husband, James E. Nelson, on her father's farm, he having 
 retired and moved into town. I was never adopted by 
 this uncle and aunt but lived with them until he died, 
 when I was a little over fifteen years old. He always 
 told people in a pleasant way that I was his "borrowed" 
 boy and I was taught to call them uncle and aunt, but no 
 parents ever had greater attachment than I gave them as 
 long as they lived. He died on the 25th anniversary of 
 their marriage and she died on the 50th anniversary. 
 
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They never had other children than myself, and instead of 
 spoiling me I was made a companion from the time I could 
 talk; all family affairs were discussed in my presence and 
 I was taught to keep our affairs to myself as the best 
 policy. 
 
 When I was about one year old medical "science" having 
 discovered vaccination, as described in a later chapter, 
 inoculated me with what was called scrofula or King's 
 evil, which exhibited tubercular swellings followed by erup- 
 tions and scabs until I was anything but an agreeable 
 sight; but these good people stuck to me and spent a lot 
 of money on the doctors with very little returns until I 
 got big enough to develop notions of my own about what 
 I should eat. I had been forbidden salt and fruits and fed 
 sweets and starches until they nauseated me and I was 
 a nervous wreck. In the meantime we had moved into town 
 and my uncle was in the grocery business midway between 
 our home and the school I attended, so I had abundant 
 opportunity to indulge stealthily and began to improve at 
 once. My parents had moved to our town so that I knew 
 them but had no desire to change my place of living, and 
 indeed the matter never came up until I was past nine years 
 of age, when uncle found a location in Missouri and wrote 
 for my aunt to join him and to keep me with her if the pa- 
 rents consented. This was my first fright but it disappeared 
 quickly when we easily secured mother's consent for me to 
 go. In Missouri we went back to the farm and for the 
 next three years, even though rather small and youthful, 
 I did all sorts of work, from herding sheep to fighting 
 prairie fires and doing everything else that would keep me 
 in company with my uncle. It was a new country and 
 shortly after the civil war, among people who were South- 
 ern sympathizers, with a few other invaders like ourselves. 
 The public school system was instituted and we all got along 
 agreeably, the horseback riding and other work conducing 
 to my health, except that for many years I continued to 
 
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have skin eruptions and when I at intervals applied to 
 physicians who were reputed to know things they invariably 
 pronounced the cause gonorrhoea or syphilis, neither of 
 which disorders I have ever had, hence I charge orthodox 
 medical science with being as great a humbug as Christian 
 Science, not only for what it did to me as a child and young 
 man, but for what is to follow in this article and throughout 
 this book. I cannot see how readers can fail to be convinced 
 I know what I am talking about and am right. That 
 uncle of mine was a thoughtful man of good education for 
 his time and was as practical in his advise to me as Shakes- 
 peare made Polonius to Laertes, quoted elsewhere. One 
 thing he advised was against gambling and his reason, 
 "it's the other fellow's game." 
 
 At the age of fourteen we were again established in town 
 where my uncle who was an expert boot and shoe maker, 
 opened a shop. The first pair of boots I ever wore I made 
 myself; uncle cut them out and I did the rest, of which we 
 were both very proud. I made friends with a doctor who 
 was the head of a drug firm where the Post Office was 
 located, and through having been a volunteer nurse for a 
 mutual friend at a time when adult nurses were impossible 
 and having successfully carried through several delirious 
 nights I was not infrequently taken to the country with 
 the doctor and had experience administering anaesthetics 
 and otherwise acting the part of a mature person without 
 any special consciousness, so I became a part of the drug 
 store and Post Office, where I was sworn in as Assistant 
 Post Master before I was fifteen and made good. I had 
 other experiences than mercantile, one of which was closing 
 the shutters over the front windows of the store on periodi- 
 cal visits from the Younger brothers and other desperadoes 
 who occasionally invaded and shot up the town. I found it 
 safe to go out and do that work where men would have 
 found it somewhat dangerous; it also gave me an oppor- 
 tunity to get acquainted with the desperadoes who rather 
 
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regarded me favorably on account of my "nerve" as they 
 called it and we became fairly good friends. 
 
 In February, 1874, we held a family council and it was 
 decided at least polite that I go back to Ohio and spend a 
 few months with my parents in the hope that I might 
 have some higher schooling than I had yet received. I was 
 advised to sell a horse my uncle had given me when we 
 came to town and use the money for the trip. I never 
 have since tackled quite as hard a job as it was to stay in 
 the stage by which I had to make the first twenty-one 
 miles of the journey after my uncle told me good-bye 
 when we drove by the shop for that purpose. I could 
 scarcely resist the desire to jump right out and stay there. 
 Then when the news came to me a month later that he had 
 assisted at the burial of a friend on a rainy day and died 
 of pne'umonia two days afterward I felt I had made the 
 mistake of my life in leaving him. As soon as my aunt 
 closed up her affairs she came back to Ohio and when I 
 found after eight months of life at my father's home that 
 it was so unnatural I could not stand it, aunt and I went to 
 housekeeping and lived happily many years. 
 
 Until I spent the several months at my parents' home in 
 1874 I had never been involved in anything like suspicion 
 of the theory or practice of religion. There I found United 
 Presbyterian fanatics. We children were not allowed to 
 say "Sunday." It was to be "Sabbath." On that day we 
 were not allowed to read anything but religious literature, 
 in one of which journals, published in Pittsburgh, I found a 
 very interesting and bitter exposure of Free Masonry 
 which I investigated further some years later, taking the 
 degrees Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master 
 Mason, which I have remained for thirty-eight years. 
 My mother's health was not such as conduced to happiness 
 in the home, for, while I was not mistreated, I found my 
 sister and younger brother were, and as my mother's 
 sister who had raised me had never said a cross word to 
 
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me in my life the comparison disappointed me. Other 
 things combined to help me reach the conclusion that any 
 religion which had for its fundamental proposition the 
 promise of a heaven for those who embraced it and the 
 threat of a hell for those who didn't must be a simple fraud 
 on its face. It didn't fit with my experience in life thus far, 
 so in October I packed my valise and told my mother my 
 sentiments, after which I took my permanent departure. 
 For a time we were not on very good terms but later I 
 occasionally visited them for a day and many years after- 
 wards I had the pleasure of doing for mother what all the 
 medical "science" of her life had failed to do. I removed 
 the causes of her headache and indigestion, making her 
 last years comfortable and much less fanatical. Of course 
 she never quite recovered from my pronounced atheism 
 but she sometimes gave evidence that she had some lurking 
 suspicions I was right in my conclusion. 
 
 During the summer I was at my father's house he had a 
 visit from an old time Pittsburgh friend who was an amateur 
 phrenologist, and a very interesting man. He offered to 
 demonstrate some of his propositions by examining my head 
 and those of my brother and sister. After he finished he 
 told father I had a very remarkable head, that if given 
 opportunity to develop it I would become one of the 
 greatest lawyers of the time. This news didn't hurt me any 
 because my Uncle Jim had taught me to never let my head 
 get swelled over anything; he taught me that I had a mind 
 and not only the right but the ever present duty to use it. 
 He and his friend, the county superintendent of schools in 
 Missouri, had discovered and cultivated some mathe- 
 matical talent so that I have always had to put everything 
 in figures before I can satisfy myself I understand the 
 subject. One of my reasons for disbelief in a future life is 
 that having proved our bodies return automatically to 
 their original elements after death, it naturally follows, 
 in the mental section, that while we have not the physical 
 
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demonstration we have reason to believe there is something 
 analogous. So I did not make any effort at the time, or 
 since, to become a great lawyer. In 1876, however, I did 
 have an opportunity to take up the study of law part of the 
 time with Judge William H. West, a man who had been a 
 member of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who had practiced 
 criminal law thirty-five years and never lost a case, who in 
 1884 was proclaimed "the blind orator of Ohio, who nom- 
 inated for President, James G. Blaine, at the Chicago 
 convention." Judge West taught me common law and 
 the fundamental principles of law in general. He indulged 
 his habit of quizzing on me in order to stir me to thought 
 and expression, and one day in February, 1877, he informed 
 me during one of our little combats, when I argued that 
 when an attorney is admitted to the bar he becomes a 
 member of the court and owes duties to society at large 
 which are paramount to anything he owes a criminal 
 client, that I was too fanatically honest to ever make a 
 successful trial lawyer. Right across the hall from his 
 office was a first class country newspaper and printing 
 office, established by Petroleum V. Nasby (D. R. Locke) 
 and then run by J. Q. A. Campbell, a civil war veteran, 
 who came of a family of printers and editors. I accepted 
 the judge's verdict and applied to Mr. Campbell for the 
 opportunity to learn his business. He accepted me after I 
 went across to the court house and brought my father to 
 sanction the bargain. My salary was three dollars a week 
 the first year, four dollars a week the second year, and five 
 dollars a week the last year. The hours were from seven 
 A. M. to six P. M., with one hour for dinner, and occasional 
 extra night work without pay. I not only learned to set 
 type, straight matter, advertising and job work, run presses 
 and everything else that was done in those days about a 
 printing office by the regular employes, but I was mailing 
 clerk from the first week. I sometimes kept books, collected 
 bills, gathered news and applied myself generally with the 
 
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idea of becoming not a mere printer but a newspaper man. 
 I went to the office nearly every morning at six o'clock and 
 found time to read exchanges. I learned by many routes 
 that the best educated men in the country, many legisla- 
 tors and congressmen and other leading citizens were the 
 editors of country newspapers. It was a necessity and 
 honor to be a "graduate of the case." As one of the necessi- 
 ties they knew news from slander and they knew the laws 
 relating to their rights of publication, so my experience 
 with Judge West previous to and during my life with Mr. 
 Campbell came in very well. Within a month after my 
 three years had expired in February, 1880, 1 was part owner 
 of a small country paper and during the next two years I 
 learned a lot more, one item of which was that patent 
 medicine had become quite an industry, having developed 
 from two roots: first, the teachings of medical practitioners 
 that drugs cured; second, that the general public was so 
 easily humbugged it not only patronized the doctors who 
 practiced and sold patent medicines but they bought 
 Warner's Safe Kidney Cure, Mother Winslow's Soothing 
 Syrup, and hundreds of other widely advertised articles 
 for which I soon acquired a hearty contempt and was 
 probably the first newspaper man in America to cut out 
 patent medicine advertisements because I had chronic 
 headache and indigestion which the medical fraternity 
 told me I had "inherited" from my mother, and which 
 neither prescription nor patent dope helped; also because I 
 found they were not reliable in the matter of paying bills. 
 After about two years during which I acquired consider- 
 able practical information and a greater ambition, but 
 found that good health would be my greatest need, I sold 
 my interest and went westward to the neighborhood of 
 Cincinnati, where I did type setting and other newspaper 
 work while I studied orthodox medicine in order to find 
 what all others I knew had failed to do. I studied medicine 
 on the same critical plan that a proof reader in the printing 
 
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office does his work. For instance, on one occasion our 
 alleged teacher of ophthalmology, who was about to 
 operate on a case of cross eyes, told us the cause was 
 pWalysis of the sixth nerve, of the turning eye. My 
 curiosity got the better of me and I covered the fixing eye, 
 asking the boy if he could see with the other, when he turned 
 it out most naturally and I ejaculated, without any thought 
 of being offensive to the doctor, " that's a hell of a case of 
 paralysis." It did give offense, the doctor didn't operate, 
 but roasted me and I apologized. Really that event was 
 the cause of my discovering, seven years later, what the 
 cause o£ cross eyes is and how to fix them without operation. 
 When I had acquired all the instructions and misinforma- 
 tion I felt I had the capacity for and with many of my 
 fellow students was about to take my departure, I was 
 asked very cordially by one of our old surgeons, where I 
 expected to practice. I told him in a newspaper office as 
 that was my trade and profession and that I hadn't learned 
 enough about medicine to fortify me to look a sheep in the 
 face and give it the dope I had been taught. Of course 
 my frankness gave offense and I lost favor, if any was ever 
 due me from those people. 
 
 After several years more of newspaper work, with the 
 incidental headaches and indigestion, I gave it up and came 
 to Chicago in the fall of 1891, to take charge of a small 
 wholesale optical house for some relatives who could sell 
 goods but lacked knowledge of bookkeeping and such other 
 work as I could do very well. Incidentally I decided to 
 qualify myself to talk optics to our customers, so I pur- 
 chased a lot of text books and took some alleged courses, 
 all of which I found disappointing because neither the books 
 nor the teachers gave evidence of knowing anything 
 about physical optics, hence the rest of their teachings 
 must be doubly wrong. Applying myself after the manner 
 I worked in the printing office, combining what I had 
 learned about anatomy and physiology, I soon discovered 
 
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how nerve strain through the eyes could cause headache 
 and even involve other functions, such as the digestive 
 apparatus. With the assistance of my office boy, under 
 instructions, I found a considerable defect and corrected 
 it, determining to wear the glasses constantly for at least 
 thirty days. My headaches disappeared the first day 
 and have never returned. My office boy was blind in one 
 eye and was cross-eyed. I figured some more and decided 
 the cause in such cases as his was the same kind of defect I 
 had, with other combinations sufficient to cause nervous 
 spasm, and, his eyes not being mates, naturally exhibited 
 the symptom. My common sense told me if I would break 
 down that spasm his eyes would straighten themselves. 
 I fixed him in two weeks and in later years gave him a 
 training so that he is in practice today in Chicago. Later 
 I found that while glasses stopped the headache they did 
 not fix the indigestion and newspaper instinct suggested 
 the investigation of food quality and quantity, the which I 
 did most effectively as the sequel has shown during more 
 than twenty-five years last past. 
 
 So many new things came up that I wanted to know and 
 couldn't learn, I decided, in the fall of 1893, to open a real 
 school of ophthalmology, hoping that it would yield 
 remuneration enough to support me and my family while 
 I studied more of that subject and others. The money came 
 in with the students, but so did expenses, and they clung 
 together so persistently that in figuring recently on my 
 experience for the last twenty-six years, compared with 
 John D. Rockefeller's, who started the Chicago University 
 the same year I started my school, I found the following: 
 he was a very rich man in 1893 and has spent on his school 
 fifty million dollars but is still very rich; while my school 
 has cost me half a million, I started a poor man financially 
 and have held my own but I have the satisfaction of know- 
 ing that my efforts have turned out about five thousand 
 good doctors, ophthalmological and otherwise, who are 
 
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relieving human suffering every day and are treating at 
 least two per cent of the entire population of the United 
 States every year; they are practicing rational methods 
 and succeeding with cases who have been pronounced 
 "chronics" and "incurables" by the orthodox doctors and 
 their imitators. 
 
 Naturally, when I acquired health I yearned for news- 
 paper work but I soon found that I had something that 
 beat it. I had a cause to present to the suffering world 
 but there was no promise of fortune in it. In 1894 I pub- 
 lished a little book on Optics and in 1898 I launched a 
 larger tme. In 1900 I started a monthly journal which was 
 continued for ten years; I also wrote several more books 
 and tackled almost all subjects in my paper, particularly 
 those in which the public should be protected from Medical 
 and other grafters such as politicians and like conspira- 
 tors. In 1910 my work was piling up on me to such an 
 extent that I ceased publishing my first paper and began 
 publishing quarterly, "Mature Medicine," which has been 
 continued ever since and will be so long as I am able to 
 furnish the copy. It is published in large quantities, for 
 free circulation, but in order that we may not impose upon 
 anybody by giving them too many copies and in order that 
 we may make a wider distribution, we established a "Must 
 List" on which we put the names of those who want to 
 receive copies of each issue and remit twenty-five cents for 
 a year or a dollar for several years. 
 
 My original newspaper training, coupled with over forty 
 years of experience has made me competent to continue 
 to judge the character of men and their methods, news- 
 papers and their lack of methods, and a few other matters 
 to which I have given expression heretofore and to which 
 I shall give much attention in the future in "Mature 
 Medicine" and in books. 
 
 In July, 1913, I printed in 50,000 copies of "Mature 
 Medicine" sworn testimony that George H. Simmons, 
 
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then secretary of the A. M. A. (Medical Trust) and still 
 editor of its paper, by virtue of the rascality of the "com- 
 mittee" employing him, is an ex-homeopathic advertising 
 quack and abortionist, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and was 
 made a "regular" by Rush Medical College for 12 days 
 attendance. I mailed 20,000 copies to members of the 
 American Medical Association and it cost about 7,000 
 members; George was dethroned as secretary at the next 
 meeting, but, by the unvirtue of Bossism, has been retained 
 as editor of the Journal, and, possibly, other devilment. 
 
 There was some talk of suing me for libel, in imitation of 
 what the newspaper crowd did in 1908, when they made 
 Mayor Busse and some courts and lawyers first-class 
 "goats," the exposure of which is coming now. But the 
 failure in the Busse instance made them consult real 
 lawyers who told them I was probably familiar with 
 Chapter 38, Sec. 179, Illinois Statues: "Justification: In 
 all prosecutions for libel, the truth, when published with 
 good motives and for justifiable ends, shall be sufficient 
 defense." There was no libel suit and there will be none 
 that will not be met with the damnedest fight its promoters 
 ever imagined. 
 
 There is on now a dastardly attempt to control the 
 Constitutional Convention, to be held in January. It is 
 my intention to tell truths about some of the characters 
 I know, if they attempt some things I have heard they in- 
 tend to do. I know a lot of Masons who violate their 
 obligations and decency in general in order to promote 
 individual powers. Governor Frank O. Lowden has not 
 only violated his oath of office in his animosity toward me 
 and the cause of Medical Freedom, but he has forfeited his 
 Masonic honor, probably, to get the thirty-third degree. 
 I count my years of membership as my degrees, and I am 
 just completing my thirty-eighth. I will force Lowden's 
 respect, even if it only exhibits as fear. 
 
 The Chicago City Health Department is run by John 
 
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Dill Robertson, an Electic who was graduated _from a 
 branch of Loyola University, a Catholic institution, yet 
 he is listed in the Medical Trust directory as a member of 
 the despicable society. He appears to be popular with the 
 Tribune, Daily News and other daily papers, which have 
 long been exploiters of every attempt to frighten the 
 people into vaccination and general serum medication 
 even when the Supreme Court of the state has forbidden 
 school board practices with reference to vaccination. Now 
 Robertson is proposing an anti-smoke campaign in which 
 he is enlisting a lot of butt-in-ski women and he is boasting 
 through the papers that lawyers have told him he has 
 great powers. He is also reported to be a Mason and I am 
 going to do my part to keep him in his place by due expos- 
 ure when he deserves it, if I have to print the entire Masonic 
 Ritual. He is a politician and holds his eight-thousand- 
 dollar-a-year position by appointment of Mayor Thomp- 
 son who has been elected twice under the frantic opposition 
 of the Tribune and Daily News, two newspapers which 
 are, and have been, robbing the city school children of 
 something like fifty thousand dollars a year each under the 
 leases of the ground their buildings are on. To illustrate 
 the character of these papers I am going to drop back 
 eleven years and show what happened when I attacked 
 those newspapers and their gang in 1908 by printing and 
 circulating the following circular, inspired by President 
 Roosevelt's attack upon Governor Haskell of Oklahoma 
 whom he charged as being an immoral man, unfit for a 
 position on the Democratic Finance Committee, because 
 he had been in the employ of the Standard Oil Co. and also 
 for reasons made obvious in the circular, in one paragraph 
 of which it will be noted that I stated I was fully aware 
 that in dealing with such a gang I was taking no small 
 risk. Following the circular reproduced as a reminiscence, 
 I will show what the newspaper trust attempted to do to 
 me, and incidentally will show that the gang included not 
 
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only those named in the circular but judges of the courts, 
 some of whom are still on the bench, the bar association 
 and others. Here is a copy of the circular except the last 
 page which was a half-tone picture destroyed by the chief 
 of police who illegally confiscated editions of my paper and 
 as many of the circulars as he and his police could get hold 
 of: 
 
 A FEW NASTY FACTS. 
 
 President Roosevelt and the Republicans of Chicago, and the 
 Nation, should know that: 
 
 Fred A. Busse, the "high priest and chief works of the Republican 
 party in Cook County," according to the Chicago Tribune, 
 is a moral leper. 
 
 The Chicago Tribune, Record-Herald and Daily News are equally as 
 bad. They protect Busse in his devilment, and he lets them 
 run the city. 
 
 They know that the said Fred A. Busse, late Roosevelt appointee 
 to the Postmastership of Chicago, and now Mayor of Chicago 
 by virtue of the manipulation of said newspaper trust, has 
 been proved to be a thug and saloon bum- — they know that 
 
 Busse's latest escapade has been to disgrace a fairly respectable 
 colored family by marrying one of the daughters — he being 
 her third husband. 
 
 This same Busse is, by virtue of Governor Deneen's appointment, 
 Chairman of the State Republican Finance Committee. 
 
 On the same committee, and also on the National Republican 
 Committee, are Fred A. Upham and Roy O. West, members 
 of the Board of Review of Cook County, 111. 
 
 This Board of Review reduced the personal taxes of the millionaires 
 over six millions of dollars this year, hence they are just the 
 people to be on a Republican finance committee. 
 
 While they reduced the taxes of the millionaires, they raised the 
 taxes of the poor. In the Tribune, Sept. 24th, John S. Coates 
 writes a protest, saying that he is taxed more on the contents 
 of his flat than the owner of the building is taxed for the build- 
 ing, and swears he will not pa}' it. 
 
 We wonder if President Roosevelt will ask for the resignations of 
 these scoundrels while he is demanding that Democratic com- 
 mittee members resign. 
 
 To the Decent Citizenship of Chicago, Illinois, and the Country at 
 Large : 
 When bold, impudent corruption passes the limit angle it becomes 
 a matter of necessity that some decent citizen take the initiative in 
 bringing the matter to a head. Now, therefore, I, Charles Mc- 
 Cormick, No. 2100 Prairie Avenue, Independent Candidate for 
 Representative in Congress from the First District of Illinois, 
 submit the following for the consideration of the voters of the dis~ 
 
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trict, city, state and country, being fully aware that in dealing 
 with such a gang I am taking no small risk, but being fully 
 prepared for anything they may do, I am proceeding deliberately, 
 and there will be several more doses before election day. 
 
 1. The daily press of Chicago is in control of a Republico- 
 Democratic Newspaper Machine that stops at nothing to accom- 
 plish its ends. It whipped the Council into line, and turned the 
 streets over to the City Railway Companies, in spite of a 12 to 1 
 vote of the people against the proposition. It manipulates both 
 Party Machines and gives offices only to those whom it can control, 
 regardless of the characters of said persons. As a part of its plan 
 to debauch the public it ordered its Aldermen to vote a salary of 
 $18,000 a year to the Mayor of Chicago, and fooled the people 
 into making the length of the Mayor's term four years; then it 
 manipulated President Roosevelt's friend, Postmaster Fred A. 
 Busse, into the office of Mayor. 
 
 2. Who is Busse? It has been proved by the oaths of reputable 
 citizens that said Fred A. Busse is a thug; that he is a frequenter of 
 dives. It is shown herewith that he recently disgraced a respectable 
 colored family by marrying one of the daughters, he being her 
 third husband. Self-respecting colored people have no use for him, 
 yet said Busse was declared by the Tribune (first column, first page, 
 Aug. 20th, 1908) to be "the High Priest and Chief Works of the 
 Republican party in Cook County" and in the same paper, Sept. 
 23d, it was recorded that Governor Deneen had selected his "Hon- 
 or" as Chairman of the Republican State Finance Committee. He 
 is also an associate of F. A. Upham on the National Republican 
 Finance Committee. It is to be presumed that if "Thug" Busse 
 and "Board of Review" Upham cannot get money for the Repub- 
 licans it will be because there is none in circulation. 
 
 3. This man Upham, by the way, with Roy O. West, another 
 Republican Committeeman, both members of the Board of Review 
 of Cook County, Illinois, reduced the personal assessments of the 
 big rich over six millions of dollars this year, while the comparative- 
 ly poor had to fight to prevent their assessments being raised. When 
 I fought a raise of 50 per cent they attacked me through the Trust 
 Papers, and sought to discredit me in the community by alleging 
 that I exceeded my rights in writing to those rascals that I would 
 "be damned if I'd stand for the raise." West had the impudence 
 to^ask me if I was not "afraid of Uncle Sam" when I called at the 
 Board rooms to demand my rights, and the papers declared under 
 scare heads that "neither Uncle Sam nor the Board of Review hold 
 terrors for Dr. Charles McCormick, President of McCormick Neu- 
 rological College, No. 2100 Prairie avenue." It is a safe bet they 
 haven't, nor have "Thug" Busse, "Big Stick" Roosevelt, Daily 
 News Lawson, Tribune Patterson, or any others. My mud batter- 
 ies are loaded to the muzzles — let them touch 'em off if they dare. 
 I have not lived in Chicago seventeen years and been blind and 
 deaf. If they want me to cut loose, let them say the word. This is 
 only a comparatively random shot. 
 
 4. To the public particularly: You haven't seen any scare 
 heads in the newspapers telling of Mayor Busse's escapades, have 
 you? Neither have you seen any scare heads, nor any other kind 
 
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of a head, telling the truth about the dangers of vaccination. But 
 you have seen scare heads telling of the dangers of turning this 
 country over politically, thus taking it out of the hands of the 
 rascals who are being exposed here. The Healy-Wayman contest 
 for the State's Attorney's nomination is a sample of the despera- 
 tion of the Republic machine. The Democratic machine is just 
 as bad. In the First District Martin B. Madden is the Represen- 
 tative in Congress of this gang. He may be a very nice man, but 
 it must be extremely doubtful in view of the company he keeps. 
 M. L. Mandable is the Democratic machine nominee. He is a good 
 fellow, as I know, but he is without political experience, while I 
 have had thirty years of it as a newspaper and professional man. 
 Inasmuch as I have proved my capacity in the last fifteen years by 
 whipping the Medical Trust single-handed and establishing an 
 independent school of medicine with more than one thousand 
 graduates, practicing in almost every State in the Union, and as I 
 desire to kill two birds with one stone, viz., help wipe out a political 
 oligarchy and get another whack at the meanest trust of all — the 
 Medical Trust — in Congress, where it proposes to seek legislation 
 giving the old drug schools an absolute monopoly to traffic in human 
 ills, I present myself as an Independent Candidate and ask that 
 you scratch the names of the candidates for Congress on your 
 tickets in the First District and give me your votes, pledging you 
 that if elected I will be found always on the side of outspoken 
 justice to all. 
 
 If elected to Congress and opportunity offers I shall vote for: 
 
 1. National Bank Deposit Guarantees, because the Govern- 
 ment demands guarantees, for its deposits with national banks and 
 I believe individuals and firms should have the same protection. 
 There are 18 national bankers in Ft. Leavenworth prison today. 
 
 2. I will vote for Postal Savings Banks, as the most absolutely 
 sure protection for the public's savings. 
 
 3. I will vote for all reasonable Trust regulation and imprison- 
 ment of those guilty of Violations thereof. 
 
 4. I will fight to the last ditch that "the citizens of each state 
 shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens 
 in the several states." 
 
 A postal or letter of encouragement from voters and others wlli 
 be thankfully received. 
 
 Will President Roosevelt be as keen for Busse and Upham to re- 
 sign from National and State Committees and from the office of 
 mayor as he has been for Senator Foraker to keep out of the cam- 
 paign or for Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, to cease taking part 
 in Bryan's campaign? 
 
 The ten introductory sub-headings were sufficient in 
 themselves to show that I had no particular spite at any- 
 body and it is a fact that I never saw the mayor mentioned 
 nor all of the others. The first thing the newspaper gang 
 did was to select the expression, "moral leper," as applied 
 to the mayor, for which they secured from a gang grand 
 
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jury headed by Wm. J. Strickland, an indictment against 
 me for "criminal libel.' ' All that came of this was that 
 after several months of skullduggery and newspaper write- 
 ups, when they found that I would fight the case to the 
 . finish and disgrace the city of Chicago, their lawyers either 
 bought or bulldozed mine, and by a trick combined with 
 democratic judge George Kersten they took me before him 
 one *norning and without my consent plead guilty to "crim- 
 inal libel," upon which the said judge, after asking casually 
 if I consented and being informed by me that I was the 
 victim of a conspiracy, he assessed a fine of $50.00 with 
 $20.00 costs, which I paid because, having a large class in 
 my school who would be inconvenienced by me taking 
 several weeks' time in court, I preferred to spare them. 
 Also the attorneys and the court pledged me that I would 
 not be molested further by the mayor or his friends. This 
 because early in the game I had been assaulted with intent 
 to murder by three individuals whom the newspapers 
 declared were my students and whom Inspector Wheeler, 
 of the police force, and others, told various stories about 
 which the papers published. While they were doing this 
 a sergeant of police who had suffered indignities at the hands 
 of Capt. O'Brien and others, informed me that my assail- 
 ants were Billy McKenzie, Pat Loftus and Harry Smith, 
 the first two being police officers, the third being an attache 
 of the mayor's office, and all under orders to do me up. 
 There were no other charges of libel from any of the gang 
 named, and it will be noted that after naming Busse as the 
 "moral leper" I said "the Chicago Tribune, Record-Herald, 
 and Daily News are equally as bad." The whole truth is 
 that they all knew they were in danger of exposure and 
 made Mr. Busse their goat. I was not really a candidate 
 for Congress because Representative Madden has always 
 suited me, but the mention of him in Paragraph No. 4 
 was made to give him a pointer on the Republican gang he 
 
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was dealing with. The last paragraph in the circular will 
 explain how Mr. Roosevelt was in it. 
 
 I am still living in spite of a lot of threats, while Mr. 
 Roosevelt is dead, Mr. Tribune Patterson is dead, Mr. 
 Busse is dead, as is also his chief of police, who instigated 
 outrageous acts against me, State's Attorney Wayman 
 committed suicide to escape punishment for his acts, and 
 the gang has generally gone to pieces. 
 
 Now we come to the present "Nasty Facts": It has long 
 been known to me that the newspapers were controlled by 
 Big Interests. It was discovered during the war that they 
 made a special deal in March, 1915, and Representative 
 Callaway has made it a part of the Congressional Record 
 that 179 of the big papers sold controlling interests to the 
 Morgan crowd who edited them to suit themselves. But 
 that isn't a marker to the medico-religio business grab 
 about to be presented, including newspaper weaknesses or 
 deliberate criminality. 
 
 First, the newspapers love power, and, knowing the 
 affinity between the churches and the orthodox medical 
 profession, they do anything to stand in with them. 
 
 Second, the churches traffic in souls; orthodox medicine 
 traffics in bodies. Hence they combine to run hospitals 
 because they can get newspaper advertising for nothing 
 and also keep the people terrified until they easily become 
 victims 
 
 In order to get business the medical colleges make a 
 specialty of "Internships" as one of the essentials of gradua- 
 tion. Then the surgeons who take cases to the hospitals for 
 convenience or for special mercenary purposes are the large 
 producers of business. 
 
 The Catholic Church controls, probably, more hospitals 
 than all others but they have imitators in the other churches 
 as the Presbyterian, in Chicago for example. Then there 
 are the cheap skate "business" hospitals who permit any 
 old kind of work. In the Catholic hospitals are to be found 
 
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not only sisters and priests, but confessionals, chapels, 
 various typical figures suggestive of their fanaticism. 
 These institutions are always in charge of church authori- 
 ties and the whole thing is a business deal as the sequel 
 will show. 
 
 All hospitals are beset with nurses, male and female, 
 and they are apportioned out according to the profits they 
 bring. One of the most outrageous features of the nurse 
 business is that in which male nurses are being exploited 
 upon several points of graft through the papers and other- 
 wise, particularly where they are on tap for transient 
 hospital patients and others at $35.00 per week, and room 
 and board, when as a matter of fact they are either common 
 bullies or are the rankest sap-heads, generally both at inter- 
 vals. This is a situation all over the world but particularly 
 in the United States. 
 
 My recent experience is a typical one, hence its recita- 
 tion will be valuable to all who want to know what will 
 happen to them under similar circumstances: 
 
 July 10th I met with an accident in my home, fracturing 
 my skull by falling from a step ladder. I was committed to 
 the offices of an orthodox surgeon. 
 
 First, I was taken to Mercy Hospital by an undertaker's 
 wagon for $5.00 — about seven weeks later a Yellow Taxi 
 brought three of us away, the same distance for 85 cents. 
 At the hospital I was put under ether seven hours after the 
 accident and when it had been decided I didn't have a 
 chance in a thousand. Proceeding along speculative lines 
 they opened up my thatch on the left side, quite a space 
 above my ear, and found some blood clots which they re- 
 moved. A little later I showed signs of recovery and after- 
 wards, according to them, I broke all records for that 
 class of injuries. By the next morning I was in Room 226 
 at the hospital and in line for the grafters, first excessive 
 rates for room without conveniences, second a hold-up by 
 the bullies and soft-heads who pretended to be male 
 
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nurses. As I began to regain consciousness from the ether, 
 my instinct of self-preservation began to work and I there- 
 fore came in contact with violence from the aforesaid 
 bullies and soft-heads, the which I resented and fought until 
 I have established quite a reputation in Mercy Hospital 
 and the neighborhood; I also came out of it the worse for 
 wear because in my struggles against handcuffs and other 
 outrages, injury was done my arms, particularly my good 
 right arm, from which I will not recover speedily. Al- 
 together I have what I would regard for anyone else as good 
 grounds for a big damage suit. 
 
 There is one feature that impressed me more strongly 
 than any other, and that is that the orthodox doctor who 
 contributes patients to the hospital, and I understand 
 there are about 50 of them feeding Mercy, is really a stool- 
 pigeon for a system of graft and a line of treatment follow- 
 ing operation which often makes it worthless. The sur- 
 geons are often good fellows in themselves, although I 
 am not willing to agree that their methods are correct or 
 even rational. One of their weaknesses is orthodoxy, and 
 some of them are fanatical as any churchman. For exam- 
 ple I was a whole month in Mercy before I came back to 
 myself so that I knew who I was, and I have no recollection 
 of my battles, but, having been a student of the mental 
 and physiological arrangement of the nervous system, 
 when I did come to myself partially I began to take meas- 
 ures and that is how I came to analyze the male nurse and 
 nurses generally. One of my surgeons, whom I make all 
 allowance for under the circumstances, came in to me one 
 day and showed the usual orthodox understanding of my 
 mental condition by telling me, after the nurse had com- 
 plained of my conduct toward him, in denouncing him as an 
 unmitigated ass in his pretenses of wisdom and capacity, 
 that if I didn't behave myself and do as the nurse directed 
 he would send me to Kankakee or Dunning Asylum. Now 
 the Doctor was so orthodox he believed I was crazy and he 
 
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could scare me. We had a big spat right there when I 
 promised to get an attorney and fight them; but after he 
 departed for the day I decided upon other tactics, and the 
 next day had a laugh over the matter with him and as a 
 result succeeded in a few days in getting an order from him 
 to the hospital to permit my departure. You see, my friends, 
 they have the scheme so arranged that when a patient is 
 committed to one of these hospitals by contributing sur- 
 geons,, he or she is regarded as practically imprisoned. Of 
 course being a fighter, I could have waited a few days until 
 I could put up a battle and then got up and walked out, 
 but I preferred to use diplomacy to make my expose all the 
 more complete. I came out on release by order of my 
 surgeon on the 41st day. I think the operation was a 
 mistake as I am considerably disfigured from it; and I 
 believe I would have recovered without the injuries by the 
 alleged nurses had I been treated by my own emergency 
 methods; but as the orthodox surgeons know nothing of 
 those, I forgive them. The expense incident to the 41 days 
 is what will interest the public who may be victims and 
 should interest the officials whose duty it is to protect 
 the public against the colossal system of graft which is 
 rampant all over this country in the name of hospitals. 
 The surgeons got $350.00; Mercy Hospital got $308.50 
 from me; just how much they got from the nurses I have no 
 means of knowing, except that when I got those fellows 
 to confessing they stated various amounts of percent- 
 ages claimed from them by the hospitals and from the 
 agencies who placed them after charging them a registra- 
 tion fee of $2.00 each. The pirates who pose as nurses, 
 when they are not telling fairy stories about inventions 
 they are masters of and about what they have done in the 
 U. S. service, got $425.00. The undertaker who trans- 
 ported me to the joint got $5.00, making a grand total of 
 $1,088.50. When this is considered against the damage 
 done me and with the knowledge that according to their 
 
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own confessions whatever good has come out of it has been 
 entirely due, not to their skill, but to my eternal come- 
 back-a-tiveness, it makes a clear case against medico- 
 religio-business tactics and if the authorities do not put 
 on the screws the victims and their relatives should do so 
 in a manner which will put the scoundrels out of business. 
 
 As I have remarked before, the surgeons who are the 
 decoy-ducks for such institutions are often good fellows 
 personally, but they are so obsessed by orthodoxy that they 
 do such things thoughtlessly often. Of course, no doubt, 
 a lot of them must be as deliberately crooked as the people 
 who founded the whole outrageous scheme. If there is 
 one honest newspaper of any consequence in the country 
 it should take this matter up and go the limit with it. 
 
 I filed a complaint for disbarment against my attorneys 
 Lynn and House 1908; after considerable correspondence 
 I was informed by John L. Fogle, attorney for the grievance 
 committee, that my complaint was not sufficient for 
 action on their part. I still have a lot of correspondence 
 in one letter of which I notified Mr. Fogle that I suspected 
 my charges would be passed because I already had abun- 
 dant reason for believing "the whole damned bar associa- 
 tion is as corrupt as Lynn, in his conversation with me, 
 charged the judges with being.' ' Early in the game I had 
 a letter from Richard Lloyd Jones, editor of Collier's 
 Weekly, asking me for detailed information as the matter 
 proceeded, and I still have a copy of the final letter. I wrote 
 him telling of the outcome of the case and giving him 
 Lynn's story which may yet make interesting reading. 
 Part of it was given to Mr. Taft while he was President, 
 when the Tribune and Daily News were boosting one of 
 the judges for a Federal appointment, for which I received 
 a note of thanks and a pledge that the man would not be 
 appointed, which he was not. 
 
 As I am a "graduate of the case" with more than forty 
 years' experience, I am a competent judge of newspaper 
 
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situations and other experiences have shown me their 
 criminal side. Just now we have an illustration: On Sept. 
 25th the Hearst sheets were wildly proclaiming "Garrity 
 will stay, Faherty says." On the Saturday before Police 
 Lieut. John F. Sullivan, having resigned from the force, 
 because of dissatisfaction, took advantage of the weak- 
 lings who were running the Tribune and ran a column 
 interview, first column, first page of the second section in 
 which he said what I have always contended: "Politicians 
 controlled the police when I joined, twenty-nine years ago, 
 and they still do. It isn't the policemen, it's the system. 
 Special privileges shown negroes by order of politicians 
 bred the hatred that brought on the race riot. The young 
 fellow who joins the force now must do so because of lazi- 
 ness or larceny." I haven't space to print the whole story 
 but add a sample from it because it refers back to 1908: 
 "Why, I remember when Busse was mayor, Paddy 
 Hogan and I were working out in the bureau. An order 
 comes in one day transferring Paddy who was detailed to 
 horse thieves. I said to P. D. O'Brien, detective chief 
 then, 'it's a damn shame; Paddy's doing good work.' 
 P. D. agreed. He told me later that he went to Chief 
 Shippey's office and finding him out walked into Busse's 
 office and told him his views. Busse, he told me after- 
 ward, turned to a phone and called up Roger Sullivan. 
 Seems Paddy had bothered somebody who knew a friend 
 of Sullivan's. '0, to the devil with that fellow' Busse 
 told Sullivan after a conversation and Paddy stayed. 
 But they finally got him." This in reference to Paddy's 
 discharge the other day by the civil service commission. 
 Here's another one from Sullivan. "It's the same all over. 
 A policeman takes a case into court and the city prosecutor, 
 usually a political worker in that very district, tells the 
 judge, '0, this lad's all right, I know him,' and it's all over. 
 If the prosecutor didn't look after his men neither he nor 
 the judge could ever hope to keep in with the organiza- 
 
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tion." And here's another which applies proper titles: 
 "A saloon in the shadow of the city hall at the time it 
 closed was the headquarters for all the pay roll robberies 
 in Chicago and as far east as Cleveland. Across the street 
 from the detective bureau the politicians and their high- 
 binders knew of and even directed the jobs. O, the high- 
 binders are running things with as much rein as they did 
 in the days of police inspectors. I am quitting and glad 
 I'm through." 
 
 Incidentally any farmer may find whether a newspaper 
 is owned by the "highbinders" by looking for the follow- 
 ing paragraph, which is always headed "Member of the 
 Associated Press," the paragraph always reads the same 
 because written by a crooked lawyer for the crowd: "The 
 Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- 
 publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not 
 otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news 
 published herein. All rights of republication of special 
 dispatches herein also are reserved." 
 
 But not all papers are owned by the interests. The 
 Mobile Register, in its one hundred and sixth year of con- 
 secutive publication, hands the medical trust in Alabama 
 the following editorial Tuesday, Sept. 16th, which I re- 
 print in full in order to encourage emulation of the example : 
 
 WORK OF THE DOCTORS' TRUST. 
 
 The doctors' trust bill proposes the regulation of barbers in fine 
 shape. No barber must do this and no barber must do that; but 
 he is to do thus and so, and wash his hands every time he does it. 
 The only thing missing is an injunction to the barber not to talk. 
 
 Meanwhile and for forty years, the doctor's trust has been in 
 charge of the sanitation of the state of Alabama, and mosquitoes, 
 flies, malaria and filth diseases are about as prevalent as ever. It is 
 true that the doctors are making a lively ado here about screens to 
 keep out the flies, but when it comes to stopping the flies at their 
 source, namely, in the stables and other favorite breeding places, the 
 ordinances, as far as has been observed, are a dead letter. It is an 
 elegant house of cards the doctors have built for themselves, but 
 of its real value to Alabama as a preventer of disease the less said 
 the better. 
 
 We believe that the line of weakness that runs through the whole 
 
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structure is the absence in the medical association of any sense of 
 responsibility. Being a law unto itself, in the sense that it is self 
 instituted and self-operative, and accountable to no one, it works 
 or not as it sees fit; and generally not. 
 
 It is a powerful political affair, however, and whereas it doesn't 
 do much for the state it seldom fails to get the state to do much for 
 it. The association is asking now for "more." Will it succeed? 
 We hope not. 
 
 Now, in closing this chapter I want to remind the public 
 and the "highbinder" politicians that my paper, "Mature 
 Medicine," will continue for more years, beginning with 
 January, and that all should remember "A chiePs amang 
 ye takin' notes, an', faith, he'll prent it." Our college is the 
 publisher of the paper and it is circulated freely every 
 quarter. Any who desire to receive it regularly should get 
 their names on our "Must List" by remitting twenty-five 
 cents annually or one dollar every several years. We appre- 
 ciate these remittances for two reasons: first, they tell us 
 some people are deeply interested; second, it gives us that 
 much more money to blow distributing the balance of each 
 issue to names selected from Bradstreet's and other direc- 
 tories. 
 
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CHAPTER X. 
 Straws Show How the Wind Blows. 
 
 "Keep 'em scared." This appears to be the slogan of all 
 the dominating powers from Uncle Sam's "vocational 
 education" board on down the line. And they are all 
 working for "Religion" and "Health." So far as I have 
 been able to discover they are all dyed with the same 
 devilish stuff: Profit for the favored ones at all costs to 
 the public. First, they want to steer everybody to their 
 orthodox medical schools and even propose that Uncle 
 Sam shall pay the bills; second, they have official food 
 controllers beginning with Mr. Hoover, a sample Califor- 
 nia specimen, all of whom are out on the principle, "do 
 others before they do you"; third, the hue and cry from 
 alleged "health" officers with reference to the "flu," vaccina- 
 tion and other general foolishness; fourth, the public 
 conspiracy of chief crooked politicians in both parties to 
 divide the spoils of office without any reference to the 
 voters or the law. 
 
 It is easy to see why religion and politics are worked 
 together: they are both alike, crooked. The President of 
 the United States wrote some books several years before 
 he mixed his religion and politics, in which he apparently 
 criticized the power of a President ; but within the past few 
 months he has shown by his conduct that it was not criti- 
 cism, in putting it into practice in negotiating a treaty 
 without taking the Senate or the public into his confidence. 
 He even went so far as to stir up rebellion and some senators 
 have charged him with betrayal of his country. The 
 evidence is pretty much all against him, and, were it not 
 for the nasty fact that politicians are too nearly all alike 
 
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I would advocate the permanent retirement of the Demo- 
 cratic party. A sage long ago remarked: "Coming events 
 cast their shadows before," and as I see the shadows it is 
 proper to remark that what we have seen in the way of 
 strikes, riots, profiteering and political skullduggery in 
 the last few years isn't a circumstance to what is going to 
 happen within the next twenty-four months. 
 
 It is reported that Coal Oil Johnny Rockefeller has 
 donated 20,000,000 dollars to be distributed among the 
 orthodox medical schools and that much of it is coming to 
 Chicago, probably to Rush, because it is affiliated with the 
 Chicago University on which John has already spent 
 fifty millions. I believe I have shown in another chapter 
 that in the twenty-six years that old robber has been 
 squandering money my school has earned and used up only 
 half of one million, but has done things. It is proper to 
 add here that it has had to fight for honest principles all 
 along the line. More than twenty years ago we whipped 
 a combination of the Illinois State University, the North- 
 western and the Chicago Universities before the Illinois 
 legislature and cut out the first named's appropriation for 
 two years. After that whipping President Harper died; 
 we chased Henry Wade Rogers of the Northwestern and 
 the chap who was then in charge of the State University 
 to other parts of the country. There are others in various 
 parts of the land who need and fear exposure more than 
 all else they can imagine and they are about to get a lot 
 of it which they cannot suppress or enjoin. When people 
 are practicing things which are inimical to justice and even 
 of a character which is traitorous it becomes imperative 
 that it be exposed in detail. I have made exposures in the 
 past and murder was attempted upon me. I pulled through 
 and feel more competent than ever before; hence it cannot 
 be later than January, 1920, when our quarterly paper, 
 "Mature Medicine," will be widely circulating facts with 
 proofs that no President, governor, mayor, alderman, or 
 
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"health officer" can survive. In order to be sure of this 
 I appeal to every reader of this book who suffers indignity 
 at the hands of any of them, individually or collectively, 
 to supply particulars to me, supported by affidavits of wit- 
 nesses wherever possible. It makes no difference what 
 part of the country nor how prominent the perpetrators, I 
 want the facts so I can give them to the public. This 
 applies to alleged boards of health, school boards, direc- 
 tors of education, etc. 
 
 Among the medical humbugs is the " quarantine," em- 
 ployed for advertising purposes, but while the common 
 people are made to suffer inconvenience the deadly doc- 
 tors are running from quarantined homes into others and 
 if there was such a thing as contagion it would mean dis- 
 aster. The public answer to a quarantine should be to 
 shoot the doctor that comes out of a quarantined home and 
 enters an unquarantined one. The only thing that equals 
 the bombastity of the average political health officer is 
 his personal cowardice and when the public hears the 
 bombast let it prepare ammunition for the scoundrel. 
 
 The average "trained nurse" has been found to be only 
 trainable because she hasn't any sense. This applies to 
 the male animal as well, who is a bully and a coward as 
 well as a grafter with all the rest of it. They all use ther- 
 mometers, catheters, stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, 
 hypodermics and other accessories which keep them strong 
 with the doctors and the hospital grafters. None of these 
 instruments are worth three hoots in hades as a matter of 
 fact. In this connection the entire kit of the average old 
 school doctor is as worthless as his orthodox education. 
 Just think of it as one of the facts connected with old school 
 education: It is generally known that at least one-third of 
 all such graduates are addicted to the constant use of 
 habit-forming drugs. Now you may understand why John 
 Rockefeller wants to spend money spreading old school 
 medical education. 
 
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Operations are performed every day by alleged surgeons 
 under the protection of alleged practice acts which they 
 wouldn't dare perform if they were not licensed according 
 to the rules of the medical trust. Most of these surgeons 
 do not know anatomy or anything else. My own case is 
 one of the many proofs I can and will produce: The sur- 
 geons who put a drainage tube into my head evidently 
 mistook me for one of Rockefeller's artesian wells. 
 
 But doctors do not monopolize damn-foolishness, and 
 they are not as offensive under any circumstances as the 
 grouchy religious devil who is in the habit of going about 
 attempting to be his brother's keeper. I happen to know 
 some of this class who have made money out of their reli- 
 gion by real estate and banking deals or some equally 
 profitable scheme. I do not know one who with all his 
 tricks has made as much money with his brains and his 
 means as I have made honestly. They held on to theirs 
 and mine all got away, but I have accomplished things 
 which enabled people to do the same thing. I have not 
 spent my time hunting faults in people as have my prohibi- 
 tion acquaintance, hence I am free from the worry which 
 they have brought on themselves. I laugh at them and tell 
 them I have drank more whiskey than they but I have 
 never made as much. They are all infernal eaters and what 
 they usually regard as their religion I have found upon 
 analysis to be indigestion. I have a life-long friend who is 
 from July to Christmas younger than I who has wasted a 
 lot of time doing two things which I have never tried to 
 break him of, namely: praying for my salvation and work- 
 ing for national and international prohibition, and I am 
 sure that he has never found the happiness in his sixty-one 
 years that I have found in a few months at a time. 
 
 This hobby of one set of people attempting to dominate 
 all others and limit their liberties in eating, drinking, 
 dressing or undressing has always appeared to my natural 
 mind as unworthy of indulgence. I have been a news- 
 
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paper man or a doctor all my life. I know a great variety of 
 people. I know one man who has been advertised, ridi- 
 culed, abused and lied about so much that nearly every- 
 one in the United States knows him and many regard him 
 as any thing from a pompadour-haired poet to a wholesale 
 dealer in white slavery. I know him and have known 
 him and I would trust him with my money or my life, or 
 on any other question involving decency, as far as I would 
 trust the most exemplary of his critics who call him "Bath 
 House John." He is John Coughlin, first ward Alderman, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Notable among the American curiosities are the "world's 
 greatest newspapers" with their "health" editors, minis- 
 terial contributors, their society buds, their fake advertis- 
 ing by people who pretend to be foot doctors and fleece 
 people out of anywhere from seventeen dollars to one 
 hundred dollars, while the same newspaper is persecuting 
 some physician who has an office down town but doesn't 
 advertise with them. Automatically the time will come 
 when respectable newspapers will limit their advertising to 
 things that are reasonable and will protect subscribers 
 and the public generally by that terrible weapon, Publicity. 
 Most of the papers have been utilizing that weapon for 
 disreputable purposes and it is only a matter of time until 
 they are exposed and entirely discredited. 
 
 This appears to be The Age of Sillies, because of what 
 nations and people have done and do and stand for. None 
 seem to have learned anything. Each one tries to "do" 
 all the others. It is humiliating to people with a little sense 
 to have constantly displayed before them those who delight 
 in being paraded as prominent citizens, made into briga- 
 dier generals, etc. Even the President's physician has 
 been made an Admiral — some of us imagine we know 
 the reason. The newspapers are exploiting magazines of 
 fiction which must be a joke because they haven't contained 
 anything but fiction for several years. 
 
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One of the hopeful happenings of these days is the series 
 of periodical race wars which if continued rationally may 
 eventually result in extermination of vast numbers when 
 the high cost of living will, naturally, go down. 
 
 One thing is quite evident even to the most casual 
 observer, that is, pro-germanism is still rampant in this 
 country, even the militarism, against which our managers 
 pretended to be fighting, has been adopted and promises 
 to cut quite a swath because it is easy to make officers and 
 get votes and class legislation. 
 
 The Chicago Tribune's "health" editor, who has long been 
 a joke, naturally finds all the silliness of the A. M. A. and 
 reprints it. One of his latest is that 50 to 80 per cent, 
 of American girls suffer from painful menstruation; then 
 he goes on with a prescription for drugs even to atropine, 
 the common name for which is deadly nightshade. Twenty- 
 five years ago I wrote a book in which I declared that nerve 
 strain through defective eyes is the primary cause of at 
 least 85 per cent, of all human ills. Since that time my 
 5,000 graduates have corrected the eyes of thousands of 
 women and girls who had long suffered the menstrual 
 pains and they relieved every one of them. It is proper 
 to add here that Doc Evans was "health" commissioner 
 under the notorious Tribune and Daily News mayor, 
 Fred Busse, when he drew eight thousand dollars a year for 
 serving the medical trust in all the contemptible ways that 
 could be imagined. By the way, Chicago borrowed a 
 "health" officer from Uncle Sam once. His name was Dr. 
 Young, who grew so rambunctious over some of my com- 
 ments on his conduct that I had to practically chase him 
 out of town. 
 
 We read in local papers frequently reports of the murder 
 of doctors; but we do not find similar reports of the murders 
 by doctors which are probably much more frequent. Of 
 course they have licenses to do it and convictions would 
 be rather difficult under existing rules of court procedure. 
 
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I have had a narrow escape myself recently, but I am 
 practically unkillable. When people learn to employ 
 drugless doctors, but not the osteo-chiro type, there will be 
 a slump in the undertaking business. 
 
 As bad as our American press is I sometimes get an idea 
 from its foreign correspondence. Phillip Gibbs, writing 
 from Paris, tells what realists the French people are: 
 "They face facts squarely and do not camouflage by 
 financial hopes or romance. Not even victory covers by 
 one grain of dust their realization of the horrors of war. 
 Military glory has no meaning to them, except in stern 
 duty and the endurance of abominable things." 
 
 He was being waited on in a restaurant by a man wearing 
 military decorations and complimented him. The waiter 
 turned away for a moment in disgust, then turned and said, 
 " Magnificent, bah! it is reward for dirty work. Up to your 
 knees in mud, dead bodies everywhere, the stench of blood, 
 fear and abomination. It is better to be here serving 
 coffee and beer and adding up little figures. It is a better 
 job." This is a nice little lesson to our bloviating Americans 
 who are organized officially to steer ex-soldiers out of agree- 
 able paths after laying down their arms. My school has a 
 little proposition before it now which is going to result in a 
 general ripping up the back, of Uncle Sam's "vocational 
 organization" if a lot of the cooties operating it do not 
 change their methods. 
 
 The strike fever has spread to farm hands and the farmers 
 are complaining that it goes against the grain with them to 
 work 10 or 12 hours a day to feed employes who only work 
 six. I have worked on a farm and almost every other 
 respectable place in my life. I never had any use for 
 unions or strikes and have observed that when carpenters 
 were getting from $2 to $3 per day they did more and 
 better work, as did also all other mechanics, they lived 
 better and were happier. I have also observed that our 
 over-dose of foreigners, particularly Skees, Skis, and Witch- 
 
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es, has been the chief accompaniment of unionism. For 
 several years the first printer's union we had in this country- 
 was an honorable one, its memberships being guarantees 
 of competence. There has been a great change in this in 
 the last twenty years. A vast majority of the murders 
 committed have been by strikers. 
 
 Illinois is about to have a state Constitutional Conven- 
 tion and if it gets through without several first-class hang- 
 ings it will only be because a lot of the highbinders have 
 seen the handwriting on the wall. It is time that the very 
 populous middle class of people who have been ground 
 between the two mill stones, capital and labor, get busy 
 with shot guns and greased ropes. 
 
 To people of mental capacity the United States comes out 
 of the world war in disgrace. First, the outrageous extrav- 
 agance during the war; second, the mistreatment of soldiers 
 since the war; third, the prices and limitations on sugar 
 and other food stuffs right up to the present minute. It 
 is worth remarking here that during the war people who 
 practiced our teachings always outdid Hoover in limiting 
 themselves to sugar and other carbonaceous materials. 
 If the Government would utilize its freedom of the press to 
 advise the public to investigate our methods there would 
 soon be an automatic adjustment of prices on all things. 
 Of course this would deprive some greedy government 
 officials of their jobs, and the graft that goes with them. 
 
 Senator Hiram Johnson has been greeted in Californy 
 as the next president. Why, darn his hypocritical soul, I 
 know lots of Californians who think he ought to be in San 
 Quinten. 
 
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CHAPTER XI. 
 For Prospective Students and the Public. 
 
 Physics covers the entire field of study of natural laws 
 as they relate to all things except organized bodies possessed 
 of physiological action. Its chief duality is chemistry and 
 mechanics. 
 
 Anatomy (means, literally, "to cut") covers the study 
 of the chemical composition and mechanical arrangement 
 of the various parts of organized bodies, human and animal. 
 
 Physiology is the reason for anatomy, as anatomy is one 
 of the products of physical laws. The word means the 
 study of the functions of organized bodies. These func- 
 tions are in a measure regulated by physical law, but we 
 regard them by rules rather than laws for the reason that 
 they represent unfathomable combinations of the laws, 
 particularly of chemistry. We calculate to a certainty 
 physical questions so long as they relate to unorganized 
 bodies, but we can not tell exactly what is going to happen 
 when we expose ourselves to atmospheric changes, to 
 medicines, or even foods. Hence we might say physiolog}" 
 is the study of the exhibits of physical laws in organized 
 bodies, particularly of those endowed with extra animal 
 intelligence as is the human family. 
 
 Metaphysics carries us a step farther than physiology 
 into the vast domain of the causes of human ills because we 
 find in the study of physiology a constantly increasing 
 uncertainty in our calculations, hence the necessity of 
 applying ourselves more carefully to physics and anatomy. 
 But even then we find ourselves bewildered by the evident 
 presence of an outside influence and have discovered that 
 each individual is endowed with more or less mentality which 
 consciously and sub-consciously influences the physiologi- 
 
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cal actions as is evidenced by the effects of anger, joy, 
 grief, ambition, upon the heart action, digestion, etc., 
 therefore we adopt Aristotle's word "Metaphysics' ' as 
 covering the subject of the non-atomic force which acts 
 upon physiology conjointly with or antagonistic to physi- 
 cal law. We hold that the reason for the antagonism is 
 largely due to the early introduction of artificial standards 
 of conduct which were substituted for the natural ones 
 with the most natural result: Ignorance of the truth, 
 theoretical and practical. 
 
 Symptomatology is the study and comparison of normal 
 and pathologic exhibits physiologically and mentally. 
 We do this by a series of objective and subjective tests, 
 some of them diagnostic or theoretic, but most of them 
 analytic, hence eminently practical. 
 
 Analysis is the practical procedure of utilizing our 
 knowledge of physics, anatomy, physiology, metaphysics 
 and symptomatology to arrive at conclusions with refer- 
 ence to the mental and physiological conditions of our- 
 selves and our patients. We can employ the same general 
 principles to arrive at solutions of all problems provided 
 our capacity is great enough and we are philosophers — 
 lovers of truth — instead of slaves to dogmas which deny 
 the right to analyze. 
 
 Therapy is that branch of our work which covers what 
 we are to do after we have completed our analysis in order 
 to aid the natural laws to resume their ascendancy in an 
 orderly manner when there has been confusion as a result 
 of the influences described above. Being naturalists, we 
 at once return to physics, our guide, for instruction, when 
 we find that its chief duality is chemistry and mechanics; 
 therefore whatever assistance we render must be either 
 chemical or mechanical or both. Other schools of practice 
 prescribe from diagnosis and administer artificial remedies 
 in so-called "medicine" and when those fail they apply 
 operative surgery promising "cures," but we have observed 
 
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that in cases where the difficulties were really serious 
 they always fail. On June 8, 1914, in Los Angeles, Cal., a 
 wealthy Chicago lady, Mrs. Purcell, daughter of the late 
 Wm. Gray, D. D., for 27 years editor of the Interior, 
 an orthodox Presbyterian paper, committeed suicide, 
 leaving a note saying that for many years she had been 
 fighting for health and after seven fruitless operations she 
 had decided to give it up. She had been taking orthodox 
 medical treatment too. When we turn to Nature she does 
 not tell us anything about the artificial combinations 
 forming so-called drugs, except that they are artificial, 
 therefore dangerous. In rational chemistry we find the 
 duality, inorganic and organic matter; the first is represent- 
 ed by water and salts, the salts being combinations of 
 elements found in the human body and in vegetable and 
 animal life used for food; the organic includes compounds 
 represented by what are known as carbohydrates and fats. 
 We were the first and are now the only school to employ 
 the chemistry of food as a materia-medica. It is much 
 more complicated than the materia-medica of the old 
 schools because with all their theoretical materia-medica 
 as published and exploited in their books on theory and 
 practice, physiological chemistry, etc., the old schools 
 have only about a dozen "remedies" which they employ 
 haphazard in all sorts of cases; viz: Quinine, mercury, 
 strychnine, digitalis, nitroglycerine, potassium, phos- 
 phorus, iron, sodium, calcium, coal tar products and patent 
 medicines, the latter as "advertised only to physicians" 
 in medical journals. In mechanics we find as interesting 
 though not so complicated instruction as we do in chem- 
 istry. It enables us to know our anatomy and physiology 
 better. Employing the laws of optics and dynamics we are 
 enabled to measure the nervous system so accurately that 
 our analysis wins the admiration of all who investigate it. 
 In mechanics we find a substitute for old school surgery 
 just as we found in chemistry a substitute for old school 
 
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materia-medica. Our Manual Therapy not only enables 
 us to avoid the necessity of removing parts but we 
 employ it without possible danger to patients, with- 
 out anesthetics, without necessity for hospitals, with- 
 out hurting our patients and without injury to ourselves. 
 The schools of practice which only employ Manual Therapy 
 are as far from the truth as are the drug and surgery schools. 
 While not so dangerous in their treatments as the drug 
 schools they lack all the essentials of a mature system, 
 and they assume, ignorantly, that the causes of all human 
 ills are purely mechanical. Like all other one-idea systems 
 they will have their day, largely because of the failure of 
 the old schools and of the credulity of a public which has 
 been trained for ages to believe in "miracles" and "cures." 
 Then there are the "Faith healers" who assume, pretend 
 to believe and actually teach with reference to human 
 ills, that there is no such thing, that all is imaginary, 
 some even asserting that nothing is material; and it is a 
 fact worthy of more than passing notice that these people, 
 who have exhibited a capacity for securing material dollars 
 and building material churches free of taxation, have 
 actually secured special privileges in the treatment of 
 human ills by being exempted from the provisions of 
 medical statutes in every state of every "Christian" country. 
 Such statutes are insults to Nature and to human intelli- 
 gence. They are dogmatism, graft, pure and simple, and 
 are contrary to the Constitution of the United States 
 which declares that no laws shall ever be passed pertaining 
 to the establishment of a religion. They are in defiance 
 of the spirit of the Constitution which is against class 
 legislation. They violate the Constitution in giving health 
 boards power to seize person and enter homes without the 
 consent of those most interested. They defy the Consti- 
 tution in denying people the freedom guaranteed by it. 
 They restrict even licensed doctors to limited territory. 
 At first it was to state borders, now in some states it is to 
 
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counties, and in Iowa it is limited to their offices with the 
 exception that they may go to the houses of their patients ; 
 but no doctor can go from one town to another making 
 periodical visits, and have an office without paying a 
 special license of $600 a year — it is not a crime to work 
 the people provided the State Board of medical grafters 
 gets the $600. These Boards undertake to regulate the 
 kind of a school a student must attend and how long he 
 can go. The laws originally provided for an examination 
 of candidates, no matter where they came from if they 
 presented good references; now they demand a high school 
 education, which is notoriously worthless, and at least 4 
 years in an orthodox medical school. If they can legally 
 demand all this they can increase it to 20 or 50 years. The 
 Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and other states have de- 
 cided they have no such rights. The Medical Trust is a 
 political power. It comprises less than 30,000 of the 150,- 
 000 drug physicians in the United States, but with church 
 influence, acquired through the distribution of army 
 and navy chaplaincies and through the gratuitous services 
 of Trust doctors to influential clergymen, the social and 
 political pulls are monstrous. 
 
 Let it be observed that our therapy includes the anatomy 
 and physiology, pathology and symptomatology of the body 
 politic as well as of individuals; and, following the natural 
 course, as we do in all other cases, personal feelings have no 
 influence in the matter. We are not in a struggle for per- 
 sonal gain or ascendancy in any particular. We simply 
 demand unconditional surrender to Nature and we will 
 take our professional chance with the Greek or with the 
 Barbarian. The Medical Trust, the Religious Trust, the 
 Political Trust and others have seen their own weak- 
 nesses and have seen that the public sees them; they hope 
 to avoid being "hanged separately" by "hanging together." 
 This is satisfactory to us because we propose to hang them 
 all together. By "we" it is intended to convey the im- 
 
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pression that at least 75,000,000 of the 100,000,000 popula- 
 tion are agreeable to the above sentiment or will be when 
 their attention is called directly to the subject. 
 
 Sexology is the study of the influences, mental and phy- 
 siological, on males and females of cohabitation. Here 
 again we find the awful results of dogmatism and credulity; 
 of grafters and grafted; of the substitution of artificial 
 standards for natural ones. Taking the subject analytically, 
 we find the first attempt of the grafters to dominate the 
 world through the sex passions was the establishment of a 
 marriage system in which the officiating officer, a priest, 
 got a fee. To force people to pay up, it was decreed by the 
 grafters that all persons living together without sanction 
 of the code should be ostracized, and it was further an- 
 nounced when it was discovered that natural laws worked 
 and children were begotten independent of the marriage 
 ceremony, that such children were "bastards" and would 
 be damned — a hell of a religion, wasn't it? When the 
 grafters found that the marriage scheme had two big faults : 
 one, that it would not work on everybody and the other that 
 it did not work very satisfactorily on those who accepted 
 it, they originated a divorce law, which gives the lie to 
 their own pretensions of belief in "Whom God hath joined 
 together let no man put asunder." This divorce law be- 
 came necessary because the public having been taught that 
 the sex question was an obscene one, fit only for priests to 
 study, they went into the marriage relation in ignorance, 
 and, after a brief experience they decided to enlarge their 
 field of experiments, being reassured by the announcement 
 that it was a sin to chase around after other women or 
 men than their wives and husbands, but that upon ex- 
 hibiting penitence thereafter they could be forgiven — 
 for a fee — thus the so-called sporting house was the second 
 development of the system. The grafters found marrying, 
 divorcing and forgiving sins were prolific sources of income, 
 but they needed another to complete the quadrality and it 
 
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came automatically: The abuses of natural privileges 
 develop two classes of diseases, one of which was discovered 
 early, viz: venereal disorders, and this was seized as a new 
 source of revenue, the priests becoming doctors. But 
 Nature was working all this time and pretty soon the 
 remuneration from the genito-urinary practice was too 
 much for the good " Fathers," so many of them withdrew 
 from the three other departments and became purely 
 temporal workers, calling themselves Medicum Doctorum. 
 Nature worked farther, the altruistic spirit developed in 
 some individuals and they exposed the fallacies of the 
 church by pointing out that while it was possible to fool 
 the people part of the time by inducing them to believe 
 they could forgive sins, they fell down when they under- 
 took to cure syphilis by the same methods. These phil- 
 osophers also showed that the medical doctors were equally 
 wrong; that they could not cure syphilis either; that their 
 drugs and experiments only developed other troubles. 
 Many of the philosophers were assassinated, some after 
 warnings and some without, by order of the church and the 
 doctors. But the philosophers had taught there are natural 
 laws, that all should feel free to study them. The grafters 
 could assassinate individuals but they could not assassinate 
 Nature. Still, by their machinations and show of authority 
 they have managed to secure a continuance of ignorance 
 and "sin," marriage and syphilis, with profit to the present 
 day. But Nature kept on working. She has exhibited 
 in this institution, not by "inspiration" but automatically, 
 another feature of sex ills of far greater importance than 
 venereal ones, and it is so simple, so provable, so beneficent, 
 so wonderful, that it is remarkable it has not been dis- 
 covered before. It covers the subject of genesiology* (in- 
 cluding the employment of sex conditions mental and 
 physiological), hygienically as well as procreatively. As 
 Nature ignored dogmatism, so must we; therefore we omit 
 marriage as a natural factor and study the subject as we 
 
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study the brain, the eyes, lungs, digestive and egestive 
 apparatuses, the nervous, lymphatic, circulatory and mus- 
 cular systems. We have found that while comparatively 
 few are the victims of venereal disorders and other products 
 of violation of the so-called moral code, millions are victims 
 of misuse of their sexual functions either from zealous 
 neglect and consequent underdevelopment, or atrophy, 
 or from over-indulgence in a manner strictly in accordance 
 with the code, and it is a fact that probably the greatest 
 of factors, after eye strain and wrong eating, among the 
 primary causes of human ills, is right here. We have found 
 that right and wrong as a moral question is one thing and 
 as a natural proposition is quite another. Nature tells us 
 by the effects following our acts whether they are right 
 or wrong and if we are faithful students we learn by our 
 experiences that in doing those things which exalt our 
 mentalities, but not our ego, and which make us physio- 
 logically well and comfortable, we are doing right. If the 
 reverse occurs we know we were doing wrong and we em- 
 ploy our intelligence to learn better ways and conform to 
 them. We know theoretically and practically that in com- 
 bating dominant ideas and practices we give offense. We 
 know that if we expressed the whole truth in writing and 
 circulated it as it should be circulated into every home in the 
 "land of the free and the home of the brave" we would be 
 arrested, tried, convicted and jailed by order of the grafters. 
 But that would not change the facts one iota, any more 
 than it changed them when Socrates was compelled to 
 drink hemlock tea, nor when Cotton Mather burned here- 
 tics at the stake on Boston Common. Ours is a system 
 of medical practice and from start to finish it is natural 
 because it is consistent with physical laws as we have been 
 proving for over 26 years. We are not "reformers." We 
 are not grafters. We merely demand equal privileges with 
 the grafters to put them out of business. The public has 
 been opening i'ts eyes from time to time to the outrages 
 
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which are being committed in the names of Christianity 
 and Medicine and the proofs are evident in empty church 
 pews and in the desertion of old school medicine; and we 
 might mention free thought publications and the National 
 League for Medical Freedom. Neurology offers to those 
 who want it, not a "cure," but a prophylactic system which 
 when practiced with reasonable consistency insures con- 
 tinued health and happiness; and to those who are suffering 
 from disorders, but are not beyond the powers of natural 
 metabolism, restoration to mental and physiological vigor. 
 Chemistry is that branch of physics devoted to the study 
 of the composition of matter and the decomposition thereof. 
 Applied physiologically it proves the law of evolution by 
 the re-arrangement of elements which are constantly taking 
 place and it is therefore the most important of all the branches 
 taken up in the study of the causes of human ills. It does 
 not follow that the technicalities of the laboratory need 
 be carried into practice or even into the school room, be- 
 cause if that were true it would also follow that graduates 
 should carry them into the sick room, when they could 
 only take one patient at a time and would have to spend 
 as much time on each patient as was spent in learning the 
 technique. In the old days before we had textbooks re- 
 cording the experiences of others of greater or less capacity 
 and integrity doctors were turned out after two years in 
 college and they were as successful if not more so, than the 
 graduates of today. It is paradoxical that while the tele- 
 graph has succeeded the post-boy, the ocean greyhound, 
 the junk of earlier days, the palace car, the ox cart, the 
 automobile the horse and carriage, that while the cold 
 storage system affords fresh fruit and vegetables the year 
 round, all denoting progress, medicine alone of all the al- 
 leged sciences and arts is requiring more time, when of all of 
 them, if the investigations of the older generations have 
 been worth anything, the results should have been pre- 
 served in such form that the time required to master the 
 
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science should be shortened rather than lengthened. 
 Mechanics is the branch of physics which enables us to 
 take bodies formed by chemical action and utilize them 
 theoretically and practically, studying their forms and 
 sometimes changing them; observing their natural motions 
 if they have any and constructing combinations of station- 
 ary or motile utility. The subject ranges from the calcu- 
 lation of the evolutions of the planetary systems to the 
 manual treatment of mechanical derangements of human 
 physiology. In optics alone we have a branch of practice 
 which is a special profession having most remarkable 
 possibilities. 
 
 General is a word used in two ways: In the abstract 
 and in the concrete. 
 
 Special is a word which applies in some instances with 
 absolute certainty, while in others it is more or less un- 
 certain. 
 
 Normal is a word that suggests at once a comparison, 
 hence the necessity for a standard by which we may judge 
 statuses. In Neurological medicine we have a physiological 
 standard based upon our knowledge of the various funda- 
 mental subjects studied and that standard is ideal, theo- 
 retically perfect. We do not even expect to find any one 
 coming up to it, mentally or physiologically; but by having 
 such a fixed standard and means of measuring and analyz- 
 ing we find how far each patient is from that standard, and 
 are thus able to classify cases with reference to the high, 
 safety, danger and low lines of each. The actual average 
 normal condition is never up to the theoretical one. 
 
 Pathology comes from pathos, meaning pathetic or pitiful. 
 The worst form of pathology we have found is the lament- 
 able condition of the public mind. It is more attracted 
 by tango than truth; it is the greatest subject of infection 
 and the only subject of contagion. We are not pessimists, 
 because we believe in Nature and her laws, but the business 
 of a physician is to find faults and supply the means of 
 
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correcting them without prejudice. All other systems have 
 given little or no attention to mental pathology because 
 it was discovered very early that it was not diplomatic to 
 point out the mental weaknesses of patients. We found 
 that the interdependence existing between mentalities 
 and physiological conditions is such that if one is involved 
 the other is weakened. We found that mental worry from 
 real or imaginary causes not only sours the disposition 
 toward others but affects the temperament, which word 
 covers the influence of the mentality upon the physiology. 
 Any layman knows that when he is tired and hungry he is 
 mentally irritable. We have gone deeply into this matter 
 and have discovered that to be a physician is not enough. 
 We must also be metaphysicians. This requires courage 
 and that is not enough: We must be able to prove to pa- 
 tients that our analyses of their mental conditions are as 
 correct as are those of their physiological states. 
 
 Diagnosis is a conglomerate word. In ancient times 
 there was a class of people who set themselves up as author- 
 ities and described themselves as "gnostics," or men who 
 knew all things. Some time later the negative prefix "a" 
 was discovered and another class of people who were true 
 philosophers and who discovered they could not know all 
 things, called themselves "agnostics." The prefix "Di" 
 means two, therefore interpreted literally the word "diag- 
 nostic" means "two don't knows." As used in practice it 
 indicates an opinion formed by doctors after alleged ex- 
 aminations and in all the old school practices treatment 
 is based solely on this. We found that such procedure 
 could not be rational theoretically and observations among 
 physicians proved that it was a failure practically; then 
 we turned to Nature, found what was lacking and adopted 
 it as the only final means of determining what course to 
 pursue in a case. The next paragraph tells about it. 
 
 Analysis means to resolve a subject, theoretical or prac- 
 tical, or a combination of both, into its elementary parts, 
 
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that we may understand the causes which produce effects. 
 We found that in making diagnoses from appearances, 
 history, etc., that all of them were more or less deceptive 
 and such being the case, we were as liable to be deceived 
 as other doctors. Then we reverted to our physics, anatomy, 
 physiology, and we found we had means to make a number 
 of tests, dynamic and static, and by keeping statistics from 
 that time forward we would be able to not only classify 
 our cases but verify those classifications temporarily by 
 the immediate results and permanently by the final results. 
 After 26 years we are able to pronounce ours a Mature 
 System of practice. 
 
 Objective, diagnostic and analytic features are that we 
 form an opinion of the condition of a patient's circulation 
 by the general appearance; with the ophthalmoscope we 
 analyze the arterial and venous circulation and secure 
 other information quickly which old school doctors know 
 nothing of as a rule and refuse to believe when told. We 
 not only study the quality but the quantity of the blood, 
 the size and number of the vessels and sometimes discover 
 conditions in the eye indicating systemic poisoning in time 
 to arrest it, when an old school doctor would not find it out 
 until too late. 
 
 Subjectively we have a great number of tests, the results 
 of which are employed in making our analysis, and when 
 these check up and balance like a set of books we know we 
 are correct in our analysis and we can proceed with con- 
 fidence of success provided only that the patient follows 
 instructions, or we can refuse the case because the analysis 
 shows either that the case is a hopeless one, because of con- 
 ditions found, or that the patient is of such a disposition 
 that instructions will not be followed. This is why we get 
 our fees in advance. After analysis we can tell what they 
 will be. We know how much work we have to do because 
 we know the law. It works, if the patient will let it, and 
 as we can not control patients any other way we require a 
 cash bond that they do their duty. 
 
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Mental. This word is used in anatomy referring to the 
 point of the chin which is called the mental process. It 
 must have been a physiognomical genius who so named it 
 because we have found that the chin, genio, indicates in- 
 tellectual characteristics, as do the mouth, nose, eyes, etc. 
 The absence of a chin requires many good points to offset 
 the metaphysical deficiency indicated. In forming an 
 opinion in a case both diagnostically and analytically, we 
 have to bear in mind constantly not only the relation of 
 the mind to body physiology, which we classify as temper- 
 ament, but we study the disposition toward us and others 
 in settling whether we will undertake the case. If we find 
 the patient inclined rationally we can go into more details 
 and advise not only as to patient's duties but with refer- 
 ence to outside interferences by dogmatic people who want 
 to boost some other doctor, or who are naturally meddle- 
 some Matties who butt into lots of things they know noth- 
 ing about. If the patient is dogmatic himself we may be 
 able to use it t>o protect him against himself and others. 
 We are able to make almost a perfect analysis of some cases 
 by the external mental marks so that we may say the mind 
 is one mental process but the whole face and many parts 
 of the body display unmistakable mental signs. 
 
 Hygiene means health; hence anything that conduces 
 to health is hygienic. There is a legion of prattlers about 
 the "laws of health" and their prattle proves they know 
 nothing about them. They are faddists, some from credu- 
 lity, some for the easy money they can get out of it. No 
 one can begin to comprehend the laws of health who is 
 ignorant of physics, anatomy, physiology and their allied 
 branches, and the doctor who spends years studying drug 
 medicaments, bacteriology, and other medical myths of 
 the old schools, to the absolute exclusion of the simple 
 truths we have been referring to, comes out of school be- 
 fuddled, with pointed whiskers and a vacant stare which 
 they have made him believe is the picture of wisdom, is 
 
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really worse off than the layman because he is fool enough 
 to take his own dope which the majority of laymen have 
 repudiated long since. The old schools confess that their 
 knowledge is not only weak, but unsafe, because in their 
 "code of ethics" they teach that it is highly improper for a 
 physician to treat his own family and recommend reciproc- 
 ity between them in that respect. Ours is a system so 
 natural that the more interested we are in a case the more 
 we apply ourselves in emergencies, and knowing that we 
 know more about ourselves and our families than any 
 others could possibly know we treat our own dear ones and 
 do it successfully. It is a pathetic situation indeed for a 
 man to be practicing a system that he dare not employ in 
 his own family. 
 
 Procreation means literally to repeat. It is taking the 
 affirmative side of generation which, while the self-styled 
 "moral" people have constantly reiterated the injunction 
 to marry and multiply on the face of the earth, have been 
 as constantly practicing con-creation, commonly known 
 as race suicide. Neurology teaches Nature's truths about 
 procreation, how to prepare for it, how to regulate the num- 
 ber of progeny, how to render delivery painless without 
 anesthetics, how to avoid conception in a natural manner 
 without the use of criminal artificial means such as is prac- 
 ticed by drug doctors and other professional abortionists, 
 and as is taught in special classes in some of the big medical 
 schools of the country. It is a fundamental truth that a 
 child has a right to be well born and to accomplish this the 
 prospective parents must be educated. We have nothing 
 to tell our students or anybody else that we can not state 
 in any company of men, women and children. Of course 
 we have no children in our classes, but what we have to 
 say is clean. It would shock a prude who is always un- 
 clean in mind, and it shocks those whose minds are unclean 
 in the opposite direction, but happily their condition is 
 not so chronic that they can not be cured of their malady — 
 
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a prude is always a prude; atrophied in body, shriveled 
 in mind. 
 
 Inorganic is the negative of organic. There is much con- 
 fusion among students with reference to the words inor- 
 ganic, organic and organized. According to our system of 
 dualities we are compelled to eliminate the word organic, 
 and here is the reason: First, inorganic chemistry com- 
 prises the study of the laws of elements and the relations 
 to each other in the primary state, in the earth. It includes 
 water and air because the earth is composed of land and 
 water, with the surrounding atmosphere. Organized 
 chemistry is the study of the composition and proportions 
 of vegetable and animal matter. The old schools slipped 
 in the word organic chemistry specifying that it is "the 
 chemistry of the carbon compounds" and they have proved 
 by their practices that about all there is to it is the name, 
 because they have never devoted themselves to the analysis 
 of foods except to exploit their false notions about the 
 carbohydrates as producers of heat and energy. They admit 
 in their textbooks that they pay no attention to what are 
 known as the inorganic salts, which we have found to be of 
 infinite value and have adopted the chemistry of food as 
 our materia-medica. Their so-called "organic chemistry" 
 is so limited in its scope that it is of no practical value. 
 Inorganic chemistry is a purely physical proposition, has 
 absolutely nothing to do with medicine, except in the same 
 manner that the laws of optics give us the principles of 
 ophthalmology. In this sense inorganic or physical chem- 
 istry is the basis of our organized or physiological chemistry. 
 We use the physical analyses of foods as we find physio- 
 logical needs for them and by studying the properties of the 
 various foods and observing their effects on organized 
 bodies we have become able to prescribe dietaries with 
 certainty because they are natural combinations while 
 the old schools have been employing artificial combinations 
 of elements, few of which have ever been found in the body 
 
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structures, hence must be as inimical to health as wood 
 shavings ingested or wood splinters injected. The old 
 schools, after saying that "organic chemistry is primarily 
 the study of the substances which form part of the tissues 
 of plants and animals," add that "organic bodies are not 
 necessarily organized but that all organized bodies are 
 organic;" thus they limit themselves to a duality uncon- 
 sciously. The inorganic referring to the elements in their 
 primary state, the organic in their secondary state, that is 
 in plants and animals. Then they bring in the limitation 
 of organic chemistry to the carbon compounds ^nd talk 
 vaguely about "organized bodies," which they say may 
 be studied microscopically. Our proposition of an inor- 
 ganic chemistry and a physiological or organized chemistry 
 covers all theirs does and more and does it in a compre- 
 hensive and practical manner, as one illustration will suffice 
 to prove: In all of their chemical training they omit to 
 instruct students to consider the color, odor, quantity and 
 frequency of discharge of urine, but they do give some 
 simple, worthless tests and a tedious method which requires 
 facilities few doctors possess as is shown by the patronage 
 of the commercial laboratories. Therefore, in practice, 
 while their graduates are waiting 24 to 48 hours for a urinal 
 analysis, ours have changed the entire systemic condition 
 by diet and auxiliary treatments. An amusing feature in 
 this connection is the fact that among the old schools, 
 polyuria is said to be significant of kidney trouble, and they 
 having analyses made of the urine often find it normal but 
 still insisting there is something wrong with the kidneys, 
 they go ahead doping for diabetes, and we have known 
 instances where they continued the treatment for as much 
 as a year and a half without benefit, when one of our oph- 
 thalmological graduates fitted a pair of glasses and relieved 
 the trouble in two weeks. Physicians who have taken our 
 post-graduate course have cured cases of long standing in 
 short order when they learned how. A noteworthy feature 
 
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of our chemistry is that we give the essential elements, 
 iron, phosphorus, etc., in their natural combinations as 
 inorganic salts, while the other schools use artificial com- 
 binations or single elements. For example, they dare not 
 give more than 1-120 of a grain of phosphorus at a dose 
 while anyone who eats four ounces of strawberries at a 
 sitting takes nearly seven grains of phosphorous, and in 
 such natural combinations that physiological chemistry 
 utilizes the elements, an impossibility when given in the 
 artificial form. A technical point might be argued here, 
 viz: that the old school doctors sometimes prescribe 
 natural combinations, as, for instance, common salt. When 
 they do that, they are tending in the right direction, but most 
 of them would give calomel, which while in one sense a 
 natural combination, because of the physical laws, in an- 
 other it is not fit for use physiologically because one of its 
 elements, mercury, is foreign to the body composition. 
 Again they often use bicarbonate of soda for pyrosis when 
 salt would be the natural thing, because it would promote 
 normal digestion by reason of its acidifying qualities/ while 
 the sodium carbonate arrests digestion because it is en- 
 tirely alkaline and if continued repeatedly it develops a 
 caustic compound so ferocious that it attacks the lining 
 of the stomach and intestines. 
 
 Theory and Practice: This is a very common expres- 
 sion and yet few have analyzed it enough to understand 
 it. The old schools teach that a theory, particularly if it 
 is theirs, is scientific. They say that old school medicine 
 is based upon scientific principles, while other schools are 
 products of empiricism, implying haphazard experimenta- 
 tion. As a matter of fact many of us were trained pretty 
 thoroughly in their alleged theories, but when we came to 
 try them practically they did not work, hence we repudi- 
 ated them while the orthodox-part-his-hair-in-the-middle- 
 and-pointed-whiskers doctor still clings to his idol. The- 
 ories may be true or false and the only way to find out 
 
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which is to empiricise. In youth we get some preliminary 
 training which we utilize with other information gathered 
 by instruction and study to conceive systematically the 
 probabilities of new applications of law, and in some in- 
 stances we are able to know positively from what we have 
 done in one direction, what can be done in another. But 
 in most cases theories must be tested out practically before 
 we are certain. The honest theorist is always an empiricist. 
 
 We hold that no one should attempt to treat human ills 
 until he or she has been under training of a systematic 
 nature, beginning with physical laws, and has come to know 
 why those laws work and how to steer them physiologically. 
 The person who practices without a sound theory is in- 
 finitely worse than the person who has a theory which has 
 not been proved and who prefers to believe it rather than 
 test it in practice, but he is not so bad as the person who 
 has a theory which is proved false in practice yet still con- 
 tinues to practice it. We insist that the state has abso- 
 lutely no right to enact statutes giving the latter class even 
 a temporary monopoly of practice nor to restrict in any 
 manner the progress of medical study and practice any more 
 than it has to restrict the discoveries of inventors. Those 
 of us who are working in earnest need not concern ourselves 
 about competition. The more the merrier; it makes us 
 all hustle and the devil gets the incompetent. 
 
 Skeleton: Theoretically we have in a comparatively 
 few words the skeleton of a subject. The causes of human 
 ills skeletonized abstractly are "nervous shock and strain." 
 Skeletonized concretely we have "congenital, infection, 
 malnutrition, physical shock, mental shock, physiological 
 strain, mental strain, habits, occupation, atmospheric 
 influences.' ' Practically, we have the human skeleton, 
 which in the abstract comprises only the bones. But in 
 the concrete we find that the articulations of the bones 
 connect not only with the covering of them but with their 
 contents, the nervous system, lymphatic and circulatory 
 
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systems, the muscular system, the organic system and the 
 tissue structure, so that with us the word skeleton covers 
 the entire body, its functions, the influences on the functions, 
 how to distinguish bad ones from good ones and how to 
 aid Nature in maintaining the good ones in the ascendency. 
 For this reason we claim our system is as superior to the 
 old schools and their imitators as the entire body is superior 
 to the bones. 
 
 Muscle: Anatomies and most schools teach the names 
 and functions of something over 600 muscles. They go 
 into such great detail subdividing, etc., that they dispute 
 one another, but they all overlook important features, one 
 of which is the simple fact that the so-called muscular 
 system is misleading, hence their students forget that the 
 heart and some other organs are purely muscle, that the 
 arteries and veins, lymphatics, intestines, various ducts 
 and ligaments are all important muscular structures. Their 
 practice proves they do not know these things. They have 
 never been taught the plan of innervation of the body. 
 They are apprentices rather than master mechanics. It 
 is very common to meet bombastic doctors who declare 
 that the idea of eye strain causing general chemical or me- 
 chanical disorders is preposterous, yet they will assert that 
 stomach and other derangements easily affect the eyes, 
 thus doubly proving their ignorance, because we can prove 
 easily that they are wrong in both assertions. 
 
 Cerebral refers to the brain as differentiating the con- 
 tents of the cranium from the spinal column, which is simply 
 a continuance of the brain substance distributed by way 
 of a trunk line and a multitude of branches to the remotest 
 parts of the body, superficially and deep. This cerebral 
 influence depends upon two important things: first, a 
 perfectly connected and widely distributed system of 
 microscopic tubes containing myel or marrow, otherwise 
 the current could not be distributed; then there is the es- 
 sential infinite arrangement of the batteries and their 
 
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connections in the skull with that process, subconscious 
 and conscious, which we know as the mind. It is when 
 we take up the preliminary study of the nervous system 
 that we begin to awaken to an appreciation of what the 
 expression "Infinite Creator ,, means, but it does not im- 
 press us as anything like a person with capacity for joy 
 or sorrow, hilarity or wrath. All we can say is "we do not 
 know," then we go ahead and study the practical things 
 this Creator has placed within our reach. 
 
 Organon or Splanchnology covers the study of the viscera 
 or contents of the body cavities from the brain to the 
 genitals. Particular attention is paid by us to the digestive 
 apparatus because therein lies the greatest susceptibility 
 to disorders. As children are peculiarly liable to digestive 
 extremes we introduce here a comparison of their ills with 
 others and remind the students they are now studying 
 "pediatrics." Children are so constituted that they ex- 
 hibit the effects of chemical derangements more quickly 
 and recover more quickly than their elders. Part of the 
 intensity of their exhibit is mental, however, and it requires 
 great discrimination to differentiate between their safety 
 and danger lines in this respect. On general principles we 
 regard the condition as reasonably safe so long as the child 
 is fussy and conscious, but when one becomes unconscious, 
 or conscious but quiet, we know there is danger. The so- 
 called children's diseases, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, 
 mumps, etc., have never been traced to a specific source, 
 but experience has shown that when symptoms of these 
 disorders are exhibited there is always danger whether the 
 child makes a fuss or not; hence we devote ourselves to 
 teaching parents the importance of learning how to live 
 while they and their family are well. We teach them 
 dietetics in a general way together with other hygienic 
 measures so that they may prevent disorders and promote 
 the development of the children. Frank but foolish old 
 school doctors tell us bluntly that this is wrong, that the 
 
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doctors have to make a living and that if all adopted our 
 methods in this respect the grown folks would profit by it 
 too, and we would all soon be out of business. They do 
 not appear to appreciate the fact that the word "doctor" 
 means "teacher," and that when the people find their 
 doctor is really a teacher they will willingly pay him an 
 annual salary for teaching them how to remain well. There 
 is room in this country for 200,000 doctors with 500 of that 
 sort of patients each and at an average of $5.00 a year each it 
 would mean an income of $2,500 if everybody went in on 
 the deal. As there is no practical possibility of such an 
 arrangement and as the practices of the old school doctors 
 tend to increase the number of our patients, because there 
 is where all the chronics come from, we are content to con- 
 tinue risking our professional lives by teaching people how 
 to get well and how to keep well. The more intelligent 
 class is always the best paying and most appreciative and 
 it is to them we extend invitations to investigate Neurology. 
 
 It5 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 "Propaganda For Reform." 
 
 The amazing impudence of the organs of the various 
 Trusts in their pretenses of protecting the public by ex- 
 posing petty grafters and attacking legitimate things as 
 "irregular" is only equalled by the marvelous stupidity 
 of people who believe everything they read or hear through 
 such channels. 
 
 As the title of this chapter is a department heading in the 
 Journal of the American Medical Association (the Medical 
 Trust — a doctor's union) we will analyze that organ and its 
 chief actor first : 
 
 A fair sample of the conduct of both may be found in its 
 issue of August 30th, where it goes after "Lemmon's Rheu- 
 matism Cure" with a big stick. It appears the secretary 
 of a coal company in Chicago, who had what is known as 
 "rheumatism," went to a "regularly licensed" Trust doctor 
 and paid for a prescription which "eliminated" his "pain" 
 "every time it came on" for several years. Wonderful 
 "cure" by a Trust doctor, wasn't it? No "graft" about 
 that — none at all. But Mr. Lemmon, probably catching 
 on to the doctor's scheme, and the ignorance of the craft 
 generally, concluded he could pick up some good dollars 
 by selling the prescription to country doctors (the im- 
 pudence of the cuss!), so he sent out a lot of letters to them 
 stating how he had acquired the prescription, testifying 
 to its efficacy as a pain killer and offering to sell copies of 
 it for a dollar each. This brought a storm and an "expose" 
 in the "Propaganda for Reform" columns of the Journal 
 of the Trust. The editor appears to have lacked acumen 
 enough to see that he was exposing one of his own brethren 
 as practicing a fraud when he sold the prescription to Lem- 
 
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mon which merely deadens the sense of pain but does not 
 remove the causes of trouble, as was proved by its recur- 
 rence. The doctors who received the letters and sent them 
 in to the Trust Boss were highly offended at having their 
 own game tried on themselves. 
 
 The aforesaid Boss who is now in the "Reform" business 
 was not always a "reformer/ ' as the following affidavits 
 will show. We print them to show the character of this 
 director of the American Medical Black Hand Society, of 
 Rush Medical College, which graduated him as a "regu- 
 lar" in a few days, some of his advertisers and a Newspaper 
 Trust which works hand in glove with all other big Trusts 
 and diverts attention from them by exposing "dice shooters" 
 and petty gamblers : 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 COUNTY OF COOK, 
 
 DR. MARGARET E. SIMMONS, first being duly 
 sworn, reposes and says, that she is a graduate of the 
 Women's Medical College of Chicago, 111., and that the 
 said College was taken over by the Northwestern University 
 before she graduated, and that she holds state licenses to 
 practice medicine in the States of Illinois, Nebraska and 
 Indiana. 
 
 She further deposes and says : I was born at Mt. Vernon, 
 Ohio. My parents moved to Lincoln, Neb., when I was 
 about sixteen years of age. I attended the High School 
 and State University there. * * * I became a teacher 
 and taught in the public schools in Lincoln for ten years; 
 seven before I was married and three afterward. The 
 money I earned before I was married went to help my 
 mother, except I saved enough to buy a cottage in the 
 southern part of the city. After I was married the money 
 I earned went to pay board and living expenses of myself 
 and husband, George H. Simmons. 
 
 While attending the University, I met my husband, 
 George H. Simmons, now head of The American Medical 
 
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Association and the Editor of the Journal of the American 
 Medical Association, who was then a student in the Agri- 
 cultural Department at the University of Nebraska. I 
 had been critic of the Union Literary Society at the Uni- 
 versity and after giving up College work, I still held that 
 position, and met Mr. Simmons quite often at the meetings. 
 
 Through my influence, George H. Simmons became 
 jailer under my brother-in-law, who was sheriff. He held 
 the position two years. He then spent part of a term in 
 Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago. He returned 
 to Lincoln for a short time and then went to St. Elmo, 
 Colo., to practice medicine, where he remained about a 
 year and a half. He returned to Lincoln and we were mar- 
 ried, and came directly to Chicago for six months where 
 my husband attended Hahnemann Medical College and 
 graduated the next spring. We then returned to Lincoln, 
 where he took up general practice. We bought a house 
 of Dr. Bumstead and took over his practice when he moved 
 to California. 
 
 George told me that he ran away from home in England. 
 That before he came to Lincoln he had attended college 
 at Tabor, Iowa, was registered there as a theological stu- 
 dent, because theological students were charged no fee, 
 and that the reason he registered as an agricultural student 
 at Lincoln was, that they were admitted free. A baby was 
 born to me on July 4th. Our home was a happy one for a 
 while. We lost our baby on February 22nd, at the age of 
 eight months. Before the death of our baby, he met a 
 certain woman and at once took up with and spent a great 
 deal of time with her. She had been one of my girlhood 
 friends. My husband became infatuated with her and 
 became a changed man toward me. He talked of her often 
 and was cruel to me. He had been kind to me and I had 
 tried to aid him in being successful in his work. He be- 
 came dissatisfied with everything and very discontented. 
 About three weeks after the death of our baby he said he 
 
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was going to take a trip to Europe. I tried to dissuade 
 him, but he was determined and went. He obtained an 
 extension of payments on our home and used the money 
 we had saved for his trip. He left me to look after all busi- 
 ness. I rented the house and office and went to live with 
 my mother. I was weak and very nervous. I had been 
 very healthy all my life and had not lost a day's time during 
 the seven years I had taught school in Lincoln before J was 
 married. At the time of the death of our baby I was about 
 two months pregnant, and when the doctor planned to go 
 to Europe I tried to dissuade him on account of my condi- 
 tion. He said he had planned to go and was going, and 
 that it would be necessary for me to go back to teaching and 
 insisted that I should not allow the pregnancy to continue. 
 He became very unkind and abusive and said that he did 
 not want a child as it would take up too much of my time 
 and his, and that he couldn't afford it. He was so deter- 
 mined to go and became so abusive and I was so miserable 
 that I consented to the abortion, which he himself per- 
 formed on me. He said that he could now leave and people 
 would not criticize him and that I could teach school. He 
 left me sick and weak and without ready funds. I was so 
 nervous that I could not sleep. Knowing that I must keep 
 my mind occupied, I accepted a position as teacher in the 
 public schools again. * * * I put my soul into my 
 work and hoped that my husband would return and settle 
 down. My health became better. My husband wrote me 
 several times for money, but it was impossible to send any 
 as I had to meet payments on property and felt that he 
 had taken plenty with him for reasonable expense. He 
 remained in Europe a year, then returned to Lincoln and 
 we moved into our cottage and he again took up practice. 
 I continued teaching for two more years. The doctor was 
 always discontented and all he seemed to think of was to 
 get money. My ambition was to have a home and children. 
 During the two years following his return we moved 
 
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from place to place, and he made life unhappy for me. 
 From my mother's home where we were living we moved 
 to our cottage, then to the office building on to which we 
 built another room. We rented our cottage. In a few 
 months we moved to the Institute that he opened and re- 
 mained there about a year. I still taught school and helped 
 him all I could and broke down in health. Dr. Simmons 
 advertised a great deal and published The Western Journal 
 of Health which was to advertise his Institution and prac- 
 tice. He lost a great deal of money and had to give up the 
 Institute. Later when he quit the Institute he gathered 
 up ajl the old Western Journals of Health he could find 
 and destroyed them. He issued about 2000 of these month- 
 ly and sent them to people throughout the country. 
 
 One day he told me that he would have to raise $1,200.00 
 or go to jail and that I must get it for him. I was worried 
 and got my mother to sign a note at the Capital National 
 Bank and we got the money for him. I later had' to borrow 
 the money of my uncle to pay the note and then later sold 
 the house in north Lincoln to pay my uncle. 
 
 Dr. Simmons wanted me to take a course in medicine, 
 so I came to Chicago and wrote him that should I attempt 
 to do the work required in two years, it would break me 
 down. He wrote that unless I did the work in that time, 
 I could not take it at all. I took the work and during the 
 vacation went to Lincoln to help him with his work in his 
 practice. 
 
 After his return from Europe I begged him for a home 
 and children. I became pregnant, which made him furious, 
 and he said that he did not want any children, and that 
 he could not afford them. He made life so unbearable for 
 me that I allowed him to abort me again. I did the best I 
 could to prevent conception, but owing to his brutal treat- 
 ment, I again conceived in a few months. He said that he 
 could not afford to keep me unless I worked and that I 
 
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would have to keep on teaching and that he would not 
 allow me to have a child. After several weeks of continu- 
 ous abuse I consented to him performing an abortion on 
 me, as I saw that all my pleadings did no good. 
 
 *************** 
 
 I was in miserable health and the effects of the abortions 
 were terrible. After we got into our new home, I was de- 
 termined to make one more effort to make him think of 
 his duty to me and his home. During the time that passed 
 after the death of my baby I had one continual longing for 
 a child, and I begged him to allow me to become a mother, 
 but he still objected. In spite of his objection I conceived 
 again and determined to go through with it at any cost 
 and have a baby to love. As soon as he learned the truth 
 he made life one continual hell for me and threatened to 
 sell the home. He said that he did not want a child by me. 
 This made me bitter and I concluded that it was not best 
 to bear a child that might inherit the instincts of such a 
 man, and I asked him to abort me. Twice after this I be- 
 came pregnant and he aborted me. He was brutal to me 
 in our private life, and treated me as a slave. I was too 
 proud to tell any one and bore up as best I could. 
 
 After my graduation I went to Lincoln and took up 
 practice with my husband. Later he went to Chicago to 
 attend the Rush Medical College. He remained there but 
 twelve days and returned home and told me that he had 
 arranged to take his course by having some one answer roll 
 call for him but that he would go back at the time of the 
 examinations. He went back at the time of the examina- 
 tions and returned with a Rush Medical College diploma. 
 He was gone only a few days. I lived with him about a 
 year after this. No woman ever passed through such a 
 hell as he made for me. He said that he wanted me to get 
 out of his life. Every morning he would say that he wished 
 I was dead and out of the way, so that he could marry 
 
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I was sick, weak and miserable — I went to the Advent 
 Sanitarium at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, at the request of my hus- 
 band and remained there about two months. He was 
 anxious for me to go and for me to get out of Lincoln. After 
 I got to Mt. Vernon my husband wrote for me to remain 
 six months, and also wrote Dr. Place, who was in charge 
 of the Sanitarium, to try to keep me there as long as he 
 could. Dr. Place was anxious to do this as they had but 
 few patients. 
 
 When I took up teaching while Dr. Simmons was in 
 Europe, my health improved, but after his return, and his 
 aborting me so often and my worry because of his abuse, 
 I became subject to very severe nervous headaches. He 
 gave me medicine to take for these headaches and to take 
 to prevent them when I felt them coming on. One day I 
 gave one of the powders he had given me for these head- 
 aches to a patient of Dr. Paine. The patient was in the 
 office waiting for Dr. Paine and had a severe headache. 
 It relieved the patient quickly and the patient wanted to 
 get some of the powders. Dr. Paine asked me what I had 
 given the patient. I told him I didn't know, but showed 
 him the powders. He said, "That brute is giving you 
 morphine. " 
 
 I continued teaching, and when these headaches would 
 come on I was forced to take these powders to get relief. 
 Under the direction of Dr. Simmons I became addicted 
 to the use of morphine. Dr. Simmons confessed to my 
 mother that he was to blame for my forming the habit. I 
 tried to keep from it, but in my poor health and my misery 
 from the hell my husband's acts caused, I was helpless. 
 
 When I left Lincoln and went to Mt. Vernon for treat- 
 ment, Dr. Simmons wrote me several times I should remain 
 there six months at least and that if I left I would be sorry 
 for it. He also wrote Dr. Place to keep me there several 
 times. Dr. Place tried to keep me prisoner and to even 
 prevent me writing letters, and was very gruff and unkind 
 
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to me, so I decided to leave. Dr. Hubbard, his assistant, 
 was kind to me, and George Irwin, an old friend of my 
 father's, who was president of the Sanitarium Association, 
 was good and kind to me. I was weak, sick and miserable. 
 I weighed about 90 pounds. My normal weight was about 
 130 pounds. I saw that Dr. Place was not trying to cure 
 me, but only wanted to keep me there, and I told Mr. Irwin 
 that I wanted to return home and he came and took me 
 and my trunk to the station. I came to Chicago and at 
 once wrote my husband that I was in Chicago and for him 
 to send me money so that I could return to Lincoln. I at 
 once got an answer telling me that he did not want me to 
 return but that he wanted to get a divorce. He said 
 "Don't you dare to come back here," and "Don't you dare 
 to fight the case as I don't want you and I want to get a 
 divorce." 
 
 I received a copy of the complaint by mail. It stated 
 that the reason my husband asked for a divorce was that 
 I used narcotics continuously. Attorney Stewart of Lin- 
 coln was in Chicago. * * * He said my mother had 
 asked him to act as my attorney in the divorce proceedings. 
 He said that Dr. Simmons could not get a divorce on the 
 grounds in the complaint. He advised me, however, to 
 allow him to get the divorce. I refused to do so and told 
 him that my husband had no grounds whatever on which 
 he could divorce me. Later Mr. Stewart sent me an answer 
 to the Complaint for me to sign before a Notary Public 
 which I did and sent it to him. I never got further informa- 
 tion of any kind until I was notified that my husband had 
 gotten a divorce. During all this time I was sick, weak and 
 miserable and was trying to rest up. The divorce was ob- 
 tained by fraud, as I at no time gave my consent to his ob- 
 taining the divorce and have several times since been prom- 
 ised aid to attack the same on the grounds of fraud but 
 have been deceived by attorneys and especially by Dr. 
 W. C. Abbott of the Abbott Alkaloidal Co. * * * 
 
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I have this day read the certified copies of the Court 
 records of the divorce obtained by my husband and will 
 say that I never saw nor knew the contents of the Com- 
 plaint upon which the divorce was granted, and which 
 complaint was substituted for the Complaint sent me as 
 shown by these records. The answer that I signed was 
 made in answer to the first complaint, and for which the 
 second complaint was substituted. The claim of cruelty 
 is absolutely untrue. I was all a woman should be and did 
 all kinds of work to aid my husband even to the caring for 
 the horse and taking the horse and buggy to the office for 
 him. Every one who knew us well knows the claim of 
 cruelty to be untrue. He surely would have complained 
 had I been cruel during the eleven years of our married 
 life, if true. It seems peculiar that I became miserable and 
 broken in health and he strong and healthy. He was the 
 cruel one. He told me during the last year I lived with 
 him that the only reason he ever married me was so that 
 he could get into the society which would aid him to get 
 a practice. 
 
 Before I left Lincoln for Mt. Vernon the last time, I had 
 sold our house and paid off all the debts of George H. 
 Simmons and myself, and there was the sum of Twelve 
 Hundred Dollars on deposit in the Capital National Bank 
 which belonged to me as through all our transactions the 
 deals had been made with the moneys from the sale of 
 property I had owned. I had never received any of this 
 money, but it was taken and used by my husband. We 
 had an account against which we both issued checks. The 
 only moneys I have ever received from George H. Sim- 
 mons was a paltry forty dollars per month as alimony for a 
 period of one year, which I took to keep from starving as I 
 was weak and sick. 
 
 I have seen the photographic reproductions of the ad- 
 vertisements of Dr. George H. Simmons and the Lincoln 
 Medical Institute as taken from the Lincoln papers, also 
 
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the reproductions of the originals of death certificates and 
 prescriptions by photographic copy as reproduced in the 
 VOICE of the Retail Druggists, January 1910 number, 
 as published in New York and will say that they are ab- 
 solutely true. One of these advertisements, which reads: 
 "A limited number of lady patients can be accommodated 
 at my residence," did not arouse my suspicions at first, but 
 as I became acquainted with things medical in helping my 
 husband, and one peculiar thing happened which I will 
 recite later, and I had studied medicine and graduated, I 
 know these special cases were abortions. The peculiar case 
 referred to was when, one Sunday morning, while my hus- 
 band was still in bed, I answered a knock on the door. A 
 man asked for Dr. Simmons. I told him he could not see 
 the doctor then. He handed me a package and said I 
 should tell the doctor that his wife was all right now. I 
 found a vaginal speculum and a uterine probe in the pack- 
 age. I asked my husband why he let the man have such 
 instruments; he said the man used it on his wife as she 
 didn't want any more children. Women from other towns 
 would come at long intervals for treatment. I even then 
 wondered how they could get well by one or two treatments. 
 I did not then know the nature of those cases, but as I 
 studied and recalled many of the cases I know they were 
 abortions. 
 
 I further swear that I gave Dr. W. C. Abbott, of the 
 Abbott Alkaloidal Co., of Ravenswood Station, Chicago, 
 111., all the above information and other detail 
 information in the form of an affidavit about 
 five years ago. Dr. Abbott and his representative 
 told me that Dr. Simmons had attacked their business 
 through the Journal of the American Medical Association 
 and would not take their advertisements and that Dr. 
 Simmons ought to be deposed and that they would use the 
 information I gave them to publicly show Dr. Simmons 
 in his true light. Dr. Abbott also promised that he would 
 
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personally help me to get what was right from Dr. Sim- 
 mons because of his failure to return me the twelve hundred 
 dollars of mine that he took from me in Lincoln. He also 
 promised me that he would hire a lawyer at his own ex- 
 pense to fight the fraudulent divorce and make my husband 
 give me a home. * * * He said that as Dr. Simmons 
 was trying to ruin his business if he could get his advertise- 
 ments into the American Medical Journal and get the rec- 
 ognition of the Council of Pharmacy and the American 
 Medical Association it would be worth one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars to him. A short time afterwards his advertise- 
 ment appeared in the Journal of the American Medical 
 Association. Dr. Abbott said that he had looked up all 
 the* information I had given him and found it absolutely 
 true. Dr. Abbott never lived up to his agreements in any 
 way and I have never been able to get any satisfactory 
 answer from him why he did not do so. 
 
 I am now practicing medicine at 1518 West Madison 
 Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 (Signed), MARGARET E. SIMMONS. 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS 
 
 COUNTY OF COOK. J SS * 
 
 MRS. MARION MITCHELL, wife of George Mitchell, 
 of 1527 West Madison Street, and formerly of 1518 West 
 Madison Street, Chicago, on oath deposes and says: That 
 I am well acquainted with Dr. Margaret E. Simmons and 
 have been for about five years, and that I occupied the same 
 flat with her at 1518 West Madison Street about five years 
 ago, and that Dr. Margaret E. Simmons attended my hus- 
 band who had an abscess on his leg. Dr. Margaret E. Sim- 
 mons has been our family physician from that time until 
 now. 
 
 I became acquainted with Dr. W. C. Abbott, President 
 of the Abbott Alkaloidal Company, of Ravenswood, Chi- 
 cago, when he called to see Dr. Margaret E. Simmons about 
 matters pertaining to her difficulties with her husband, 
 
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Dr. George H. Simmons. Dr. Abbott came many times to 
 see Mrs. Simmons. * * * His young lady stenographer 
 came with him at different times to our rooms at 1518 
 West Madison Street, and also came over to our flat at 
 1527 West Madison Street, to which we moved, and 
 where Dr. Margaret E. Simmons roomed with me. Dr. 
 Abbott would always pat Dr. Simmons on the shoulder 
 and was very kind to her on each of his visits and later 
 sent medicines and medicine case, and a lot of paper and 
 envelopes with her name and address printed on, he also 
 sent many magazines. 
 
 I read a number of letters from Dr. Abbott to Mrs. 
 Simmons and also her letters to him. Dr. Margaret E. 
 Simmons and I often talked of the matter. Dr. W. C. Ab- 
 bott said that it was worth a great deal to him and his 
 Company's business and that it would only be a short 
 time before Dr. Margaret E. Simmons would have plenty 
 of money and that he would look after the matter and see 
 that her husband, Dr. George H. Simmons, would do the 
 right thing by her. Dr. Abbott said that she ought to have 
 Fifty Thousand Dollars alimony. * * * Dr. Abbott 
 said that it would be an easy thing for him to get that much 
 for her — that he would hire a lawyer at his own expense 
 and attack the divorce that Dr. George H. Simmons got 
 through fraud and make Dr. George H. Simmons pay her 
 big alimony. He said that he would make George H. Sim- 
 mons pay back to Mrs. Simmons the $1,200 he took from 
 the bank at Lincoln, Nebraska, which belonged to her. 
 Dr. Abbott said that the information that Mrs. Simmons 
 had given to him would be published as his stenographer 
 had taken it down. * * * He said that there was no 
 punishment too severe for a man who had treated a woman 
 as Dr. George H. Simmons had treated his wife. He said 
 that the publishing of the information would ruin Dr. 
 George H. Simmons and would put him out of business — 
 that it was worth more than $5,000 to the Abbott Alkaloi- 
 
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dal Company to get this information, and that he would 
 see to it personally that Mrs. Simmons would get a home 
 and justice done her at his own expense. 
 
 Dr. W. C. Abbott told me that he would buy me a new 
 suit for my kindness to Mrs. Simmons and to him, but I 
 never got the suit. Dr. Abbott said that Dr. George H. 
 Simmons was trying to ruin the business of the Abbott 
 Alkaloidal Company and that he had already injured his 
 company to the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dol- 
 lars, because Dr. George H. Simmons had taken the 
 Abbott Alkaloidal Company's advertisements out of the 
 American Medical Journal — he said that it would be worth 
 at least that amount if he could force Dr. George H. Sim- 
 mons to take his advertisements again. 
 
 Dr. W. C. Abbott took a lot of Dr. Margaret E. Simmons' 
 time and his stenographer came often and took a great deal 
 of information in short hand — she would then to go Dr. 
 Abbott's office and write it on the typewriter. 
 
 Dr. Abbott came over to our new flat at 1527 West 
 Madison Street, and told Mrs. Simmons in my presence 
 that he had investigated the information that he and his 
 stenographer had taken from Mrs. Simmons, that he had 
 gone to Lincoln, Nebraska, and found that every word 
 that Mrs. Simmons had told him was true — he said that 
 Mrs. Simmons had a most remarkable memory and that 
 many people in Lincoln had repeated facts to him almost 
 word for word. He said that Mrs. Simmons certainly had 
 many friends among the best people in Lincoln, and that 
 he found her reputation in Lincoln to be above reproach, 
 but that her husband, Dr. George H. Simmons, had few, 
 if any, friends in Lincoln. Dr. Abbott told me that all the 
 statements that Mrs. Margaret E. Simmons had made 
 to him and his stenographer he had found to be absolutely 
 true while in Lincoln. Dr. Abbott said that he had placed 
 the divorce case in the hands of a lawyer at Lincoln, Ne- 
 braska, and that he (Dr. Abbott) would look after the matter 
 
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himself at his own expense. * * * I heard him prom- 
 ise Mrs. Simmons that he would aid her and protect her 
 in every way. Dr. Abbott said that Mrs. Simmons needed 
 a home where she could live in comfort and told her to 
 look one up. He always talked nice, and I thought he was 
 going to do wonderful things for Mrs. Simmons, but all of a 
 sudden Dr. Abbott stopped coming to see Mrs. Simmons 
 and never helped her after that. 
 
 When Dr. Abbott returned from Lincoln he called. I 
 heard him tell Mrs. Simmons that it was a shame that a 
 woman of so high a character and ability should be dragged 
 down and her life ruined by such a man as that scoundrel, 
 George H. Simmons. 
 
 I have known Dr. Margaret E. Simmons in her practice 
 which is mostly among poor people, and God knows she 
 is an angel to all these people — no one is too poor to get 
 her to care for them — she is honesty itself and kind to 
 everyone — I have never heard one word against her, and 
 everybody is her friend. * * * 
 
 MRS. MARION MITCHELL. 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS 
 
 COUNTY OF COOK. J SS ' 
 
 Personally appeared before me, on this 11th day of April, 
 1913, Mrs. Marion Mitchell, who is personally known to 
 me to be Mrs. Marion Mitchell, who says that she dicta- 
 ted and has read the above affidavit, and that the same 
 is true to the best of her knowledge and memory. 
 
 Signed and sworn to before me on the above day and 
 date. HENRY FASH, 
 
 [SEAL] Notary Public. 
 
 These affidavits were presented to members of the A. M. 
 A. at the Minneapolis meeting in June, 1913, and Simmons 
 was deposed as Secretary but elected as "Editor and 
 General Manager" by the society. Is he not a pretty 
 specimen to run a "Propaganda for Reform?" 
 
 In an effort to monopolize old-school educational facili- 
 
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ties, this Boss, through arbitrary classification of medical 
 colleges in his Journal, through the ''Association of Ameri- 
 can Medical Colleges" and through legislation in several 
 states seeks to put a lot of them out of business, by demand- 
 ing a longer term, "higher requirements" for admission, 
 etc. But funny things are happening: 
 
 While he classifies Rush and the Northwestern as the 
 only real schools in Chicago, the Chicago College of Medi- 
 cine and Surgery, affiliated with Valparaiso University, 
 ran away ahead of Rush last year, leading by 220 students, 
 and little old Bennett, of Loyola University, led the North- 
 western by 199 students. The Boss says in his Journal: 
 "An institution to be ranked as a medical college must 
 have at least six (6) professors giving their full time to 
 medical work," etc. A cheerful idiot's confession that the 
 boasted "250 professors and instructors" of Rush, et al., 
 are pure humbug. Just think of six (6) professors for 422 
 students at Rush and six (6) professors for 196 students at 
 the Northwestern, and six (6) professors for 642 students at 
 the Chicago-Valparaiso school, etc. 
 
 The Northwestern advertised recently, in the Chicago 
 Daily News, that its requirements for admission include 
 qualification in "Strong Traditions." They should have 
 added "Esop's Fables" and "Mother Goose Melodies." 
 
 It is all due to the Medical Trust tactics of persecution 
 that the iniquitous dental, osteopathic, optometry, and 
 other "laws" are on the statute books, each one of which 
 laws "licensed by exemption" such chaps as G. L. Schneider, 
 of Berkeley, California, president of the "American Associa- 
 tion of Opticians" who sent a letter recently to "all state 
 association presidents" to which he added this postscript: 
 "I am glad there are at this writing thirty states with 
 optometry laws; but still the question is asked: 'What 
 do we get out of organization?' I can hardly conceive of 
 any of our people being 'myopic' enough not to see that if 
 it were not for organized effort there would be no opto- 
 
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metry laws in the country and optometry itself would still 
 revel in the gutter.' ' 
 
 "Revel in the gutter" is rich; but the entire postscript 
 shows the spirit of monopoly, and the conduct of grafting 
 boards demonstrates the evils constantly being done the 
 public by restricting competition. 
 
 The only way to force doctors to educate themselves up 
 to date is to force them to compete with any sort of pre- 
 tender who wants to practice. If the pretender is a fraud 
 he will soon be forced to quit. If he does good the public 
 will benefit. If he does harm, the victims have recourse to 
 the courts, and, if necessary, to vigilance committees. 
 
 We have no use for "Chiropractics," for example. We 
 will not receive one in our school because we have found 
 that people who are in that work haven't mathematics 
 enough in their make-up to master our work ; but we would 
 not ask a law to assume they are criminals. If they can do 
 any good let them do it; if they do harm let their victims 
 make them pay for it. The same is true of Christian 
 Science and everything else — even including those humbugs, 
 patent and prescription medicine. 
 
 This is an age of progress. "Reformers" are anti-progress 
 every time. But natural law will prevail and it will be the 
 survival of the fittest after all. 
 
 Now a word about the Newspaper Trust. We have a 
 bad one in Chicago. The old-time axiom "molder of pub- 
 lic opinion" struck in and developed a new one; "wield- 
 er of the ax." If the Trust be not permitted to run every- 
 thing it will wade in and smash everything it can. 
 
 This year the "world's greatest newspaper" has been 
 "exposing" the National Association of Manufacturers 
 and members of Congress. It has also "exposed" a few 
 gamblers who incurred its displeasure. One of its reporters 
 went armed — contrary to law — on one of its "exposing" 
 expeditions and shot a man who objected to being photo- 
 graphed on the street. It has "exposed" some violators 
 
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of the Mann act and has, no doubt, done some good. But 
 be it known here and now, that if all sorts of proofs were 
 presented to the black-hand manager of that " world's 
 greatest newspaper" that the worst traffickers in women 
 are the big department stores, he would not print a line of 
 it, because, forsooth, the advertising of those big stores 
 withdrawn would kill his " world's greatest newspaper" 
 in sixty days. 
 
 Were it not that it would involve the names and time of 
 women who cannot afford it, pecuniarily, we would give in 
 detail the particulars of a recent occurrence at one of the 
 big stores which is an exhibit of what is going on all the 
 time, we are informed, and anyone can get the evidence 
 who . is willing to take the trouble to do so — even the 
 "world's greatest newspaper." 
 
 Briefly, a girl, working for $8 a week and paying all her 
 living expenses, was approached the first week by her 
 department manager who offered to be her "friend"; 
 she refused. Others approached her and were turned 
 down; even other women in her department importuned 
 her to be a ''good sport"; she refused and attended her 
 work so well that she was promoted, without an increase 
 of salary, however. Finally an opportunity occurred for 
 her to leave the city, which she desired very much to do 
 because she could better herself. At first those above her 
 in the department recommended her highly and even 
 offered her more wages to remain; but finally, when they 
 found she was determined to go they not only took back 
 their recommendations but informed her prospective em- 
 ployer that she was an immoral woman. One of the men 
 who thus branded her was one of the men who wanted to 
 be her "friend." He is a highly moral (!) scoundrel who 
 thus gets even with those who will not accede to his 
 wishes. Happily his story, and that of another woman 
 in the store, fell on deaf ears and the girl has a good place 
 and a good home. 
 
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Does the "reformer" Tribune dare go after the depart- 
 ment stores and other big employers of young women, 
 or will it stick to its crusade against little cigar store and 
 saloon gamblers — who do not patronize its advertising 
 columns? 
 
 The Ministers Trust praises the Tribune for its "reform' ' 
 spasms and the black-hand manager prints their stuff as 
 "news." Does any Chicago minister or set of them dare 
 expose from the pulpits the conditions in the department 
 stores? 
 
 Beware of "reformers." They are the damnedest rascals 
 of all. 
 
 SOME OF OUR GRADUATES. 
 
 Dr. G. S. Ames, DeFuniak 
 Spgs., Fla. 
 
 Dr. W. F. Aydelotte, Dixon, 
 111. 
 
 Dr. A. M. Bancroft, Salem, 
 Ore. 
 
 Dr. W. E. Bargar, Sycamore, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Dr. G. C. Bates, Alliance, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Dr. S. M. Bishop, Lockwood' 
 Mo. 
 
 Dr. G. H. Brower, 6 E. 5th 
 
 St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Buchanan, Dickson 
 Bldg., Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Dr. J. C. Buchanan, M. St. 
 N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Dr. J. J. Buswell, 1115 3rd 
 
 Dr. D. S. Binford, 1512 Ave., Salt Lake, Utah. 
 Arapahoe St., Los Angeles, Dr. C. O. Buis, McLeansboro, 
 
 Calif. 111. 
 
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Dr. W. C. Carroll, Lebanon, Dr. R. H. Haverson, 892 
 
 Ky. Broad St., Newark, N. J. 
 
 Dr. J. J. Chapman, Keokuk, Dr. F. S. Hayes, Conroy 
 
 la. Bldg., San Antonio, Tex. 
 
 Dr. C. W. Crosby, 3310 Dr - J - s - Hedges, 7404 Lex- 
 Harrison St., Kansas Citv, Mo. mgton Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Dr. D. W. Dans, Six Mile . Dr ' Carl Hoerz ' Uttle FaUs > 
 
 Run, Pa. J?" „ , . 
 
 ' Dr. A. Houtenbnnk, 651 E. 
 
 Dr. F. H. Day, Pnneville, ?th ^ ^ Boston> Mags 
 
 0re ' Dr. H. H. Hovda, Minot, 
 
 Dr. F. Donnell, 809 Sabuttns x. Dak. 
 
 St., Lewiston, Me. Dr. R. G. Hugo, 3118 E. 
 
 Dr. Anna Doavus, Union- Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich, 
 
 town, Pa. Dr. W. J. James, Excelsior 
 
 Dr. A. O. Elliott, Savanna, Spgs., Mo. 
 
 111." Dr. T. C. Jordan, SmitMeld, 
 
 Dr. Mary Fargeman, Fergus X. C. 
 
 Falls, Minn. Dr. E. L. Karnes, Carlin- 
 
 Dr. St. G. Fechtig, 37 Madi- ville, 111. 
 
 son Ave., New York City. Dr. J. G. Kenline, Ocean 
 
 Dr. E. W. Feige, Huron, Beach, Calif. 
 
 S. Dak. Dr. H. P. Kennedy, Tusca- 
 
 Dr. T. Finlinson, Box 234, loosa, Ala. 
 
 Idaho Falls, Ida. Dr. G. B. Kirkman, Kinston, 
 
 Dr. C. X. Frantz, Salem, X. C. 
 
 Ohio. Dr. F. A. Kloke, 35 Grove 
 
 Dr. W. A. Fraser, Osage, la. Ave., Elgin, 111. 
 
 Dr. A. C. Fuchs, Grand Ave., Dr. Otto Klug, Ellensburg, 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis. Wash. 
 
 Dr. T. H. Gadson, Mining Dr. R. Koerber, Ft. Wayne, 
 
 Excg. Bldg., Denver, Colo. Ind. 
 
 Dr. J. Garstick, Xiles, Ohio. Dr. E. LeClair, 605 Euclid 
 
 Dr. L. O. Ginn, Alleghany, Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Va. Dr. J. C. Lepler, Watertown, 
 
 Dr. R. Glaze, Bisbee, Ari- S. Dak. 
 
 zona. Dr. K. P. McXaughton, B. F. 
 
 Dr. C. L. Gray, Lebanon, Coulter Bldg., Los Angeles, 
 
 Tenn. Calif. 
 
 Dr. D. M. Grinnell, Xo. Dr. R. T. McXair, Emporia, 
 
 Yakima, Wash. Va. 
 
 Dr. C. W. Harper, El Campo, Dr. T. H. Miller, Fairmont, 
 
 Tex. W. Va. 
 
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Dr. J. L. Murphy, Livingston, 
 Mont. 
 
 Dr. C. H. Nerbovig, Manka- 
 to, Minn. 
 
 Dr. D. R. Paine, 718 Kansas 
 Ave., Topeka, Kans. 
 
 Dr. A. M. Peters, 17 E. Ma- 
 honing, Danville, Pa. 
 
 Dr. W. E. Petty, Mt. Peasant, 
 Term. 
 
 Dr. R. Pfister, Sheboygan, 
 Wis. 
 
 Dr. F. W. Piatt, Mansfield, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Dr. S. R. Quigley, 403 Cent. 
 Nat. Bnk., Peoria, 111. 
 
 Dr. M. O. Ranoe, 312 Medi- 
 cal Blk., Minneapolis, Minn. 
 Dr. F. B. Rebman, Stam- 
 baugh Bldg., Youngstown, Ohio. 
 Dr. J. E. Rice, Vancouver, 
 Wash., 203 U. S. N. Bk. Bldg, 
 Dr. J. H. Robinette, Conway, 
 Ark. 
 
 Dr. C. H. Rudd, Chamber 
 Conun., Richmond, Va. 
 
 Dr. E. A. Seelye, Prudden 
 Bldg., Lansing, Mich. 
 
 Dr. E. S. Sherrard, Sydney, 
 Nebr. 
 
 Dr. H. H. Speed, Rushville, 
 111. 
 
 Dr. R. Starcke, Beaver Falls, 
 Pa. 
 
 Dr. W. A. Small, 11 Devoy 
 Bldg., Ironwood, Mich. 
 
 Dr. H. M. Steetle, 710 Bel- 
 mont, Caldwell, Ida. 
 
 Dr. L. R. Stevens, Kinney 
 Bldg., Newark, N. J. 
 
 Dr. H. P. Sutton, McCook, 
 Neb. 
 
 Dr. A. H. Taylor, Goldberg, 
 Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Dr. M. M. Tinsley, Welch, 
 W. Va. 
 
 Dr. H. P. Tourner, Bloom- 
 ington, Ind. 
 
 Dr. A. E. Trask, Galesburg, 
 
 ni. 
 
 Dr. A. L. Tucker, Connells- 
 ville, Pa. 
 
 Dr. W. Van Steenbergen, 
 Sioux Center, la. 
 
 Dr. F. A. Wambold, Lancas- 
 ter, Wis. 
 
 Dr. A. M. Ward, Abilene, 
 Kan. 
 
 Dr. E. A. Weiss,832 Hamil- 
 ton St., Allentowu, Pa. 
 
 Dr. C. Whalen, 17 E. Kings 
 St., Lancaster, Pa. 
 
 Dr. C. J. White, Rolfe, la. 
 
 Dr. T. H. Wilson, Warren, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Dr. B. Wilson, Salem, W. 
 Va. 
 
 Dr. F. E. Weeks, 210 Percy 
 St., Elgin, 111. 
 
 Dr. Anna Carter, 6131 Wood- 
 lawn, Chicago, HI. 
 
 Dr. A. V. Griffith, 4317 W. 
 Mad. St., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Dr. H. B. Kidd, Williams 
 Bldg., Vancouver, B. C, Cana- 
 da. 
 
 Dr. Geo. A. Kuenzig, Girard, 
 Pa. 
 
 Dr. J. T. Jackson, Wood- 
 lawn Pa. 
 
 Dr. E. A. Burke, 619 Locust, 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Dr. C. W. Burkhart, 2700 E. 
 3rd St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
 Inspired by President Wilson's Sickness. 
 
 When President Garfield was shot by Guiteau and 
 lay for weeks at Elberon, New Jersey, the doctors in 
 charge of his case made fools of themselves and disgraced 
 their profession in their wild ambitions for advertising 
 which their code of ethics has always taught is undignified. 
 The gang have kept it up ever since and have gone so 
 far as to have a presidential physician. Dr. Wood was 
 made a General in the army, after which he abandoned 
 his profession, and accomplished more by his sanitary 
 measures in Havana, Cuba, when he put in drainage 
 and did away with the causes of yellow fever and mos- 
 quitoes, than all the health boards of North and South 
 America ever accomplished. All doctors are not damned 
 fools and General Wood has proved my point, therefore 
 I find pleasure in hoping that the Republicans will nomi- 
 nate him for President in 1920. Having unusually good 
 sense he will be able to dispense with the White House 
 physicians, the Medical Trust and take care of himself. 
 
 The present incumbent, in President Wilson's case, 
 is "Admiral" Grayson who, I understand, has never had any 
 naval training. His actions, and those of his colleagues, 
 presumably called in by him for the same old advertising 
 purposes, have demonstrated the incompetence of the 
 average Trust doctor. Of course it is only fair to concede 
 that they have had a very peculiar patient. Mr. Wilson 
 appears to be obsessed with the idea that the executive 
 has sole control over treaties and United States business 
 in general, while a very large number of citizens, who are 
 familiar with the history of the country are in a state of 
 alarm lest his acts during the past year precipitate not 
 
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only this country but others into almost insurmountable 
 difficulties. He may be aware of the possibilities to him- 
 self, but when his physicians have undertaken to dictate 
 to him and have succeeded in keeping him from work 
 they have opened the way for his opponents to circulate 
 news suggestive of insanity which I do not believe are 
 warranted by the facts for two reasons: First, Mr. Wilson 
 has belonged to the pedagogic class for many years and 
 when he turned to politics has been so successful in win- 
 ning New Jersey and the country; second, after my little 
 accident in July the Medical Trust doctors who had some- 
 thing to do with the case, told me in brutal language, 
 when I proposed to leave the damned grafting hospital 
 crowd, come home and go to work, finishing this book, 
 etc., they would send me to Kankakee or Dunning insane 
 hospital. All of this was based on my physical resistance 
 to some of their surgical methods, all of which were foolish 
 and entirely without warrant. I came home after telling 
 them that if they undertook any such crooked work I would 
 send some of them to the penitentiary, or, failing in that, 
 I would fight them to death. I began work by limiting 
 myself to what our System of Mature Medicine teaches 
 and in eight weeks I have finished the book, with this 
 little chapter, prepared copy for the next issue of Mature 
 Medicine, made up a lot of sleep I lost at the hospital, 
 nearly restored to normal the bad arm I got in my fights 
 with their bullies, and have gained thirty-six pounds; I 
 want to say right here that our school has graduates near 
 Washington who are competent to take President Wilson's 
 case, treat him respectfully and sensibly, and by our 
 Neurometric methods of measurement and analysis show 
 him exactly where he stands physically and metaphysi- 
 cally, then permit him to use his own judgment about 
 working. 
 
 The suggestion inspired by the situation has to do 
 in a general way with that branch of our Neurometric 
 
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work designated "disposition and temperament." It is 
 possible for these two characteristics to be found different 
 in some cases, but as a rule they are alike in the respect 
 that a person of good temperament is usually of good 
 disposition. The President's disposition, that is his atti- 
 tude toward others, does not impress us as being better 
 than very medium — we classify as good, fair, medium, 
 and bad. Such being the case it is very likely we would 
 find a dubious temperament, that is he would be unreason- 
 able in caring for himself; but that is no reason why we 
 should conclude he was insane. We have taken many 
 such cases and made very well and rational people out 
 of them. 
 
 The attitude of Congress toward the President is more 
 suggestive of insanity than anything he has done is. The 
 Senate should have repudiated his treaty the first day 
 after it was presented or have endorsed his acts and taken 
 the consequences. The people of this country are of 
 several classes : first, we have unscrupulous wealthy interests 
 who would establish a monarchy here that would out- 
 shine that of old Bill Hohenzollern and soon develop an 
 era such as they had in Russia when they killed Czars; 
 the next class is, the black-leg politicians who have been 
 infesting Congress and other legislative bodies for the 
 last three decades; they are known as "pork-barrelers"; 
 another class comprises the majority of labor unions and 
 the "reds" who have infected them mentally with an 
 incurable disorder that is sure to bring not only to them 
 but to the whole country a series of disasters which will 
 not abate until they are exterminated; a fourth class 
 includes all of us who, loving our fellow creatures, loving 
 health and happiness and being satisfied with the share 
 we naturally get, would not fit into any other classes — ■ 
 we are in one respect like the Chinese who have shown 
 marvelous tolerance to the abuses by other nations for 
 generations but who are now on the verge of an uprising 
 
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which, when it occurs, will teach the bull-dozers a lesson. 
 Incidentally, we are reminded daily by the news reports 
 that the war is not over and Germany has not been whipped 
 a minute. Her people and their sympathizers are as 
 treacherous as ever and as determined to yet see "der 
 Tag." While his critics are roasting Mr. Wilson I can't 
 see why they don't hit the English and French managers. 
 Were it not that I despise the old scoundrel so, I might 
 wish to see him in power about twenty-four hours, in which 
 event I would bet a good deal that he would demand the 
 Presidents of the United States and France and the King 
 of England, and he would execute them as he should have 
 been executed long ago. Those of us who have lived as 
 long as President Wilson has, or longer, and have been 
 situated to observe events and read history would be 
 very dumb indeed if we did not arrive at some of these 
 practical conclusions. As long ago as 1904 August Bebel, 
 a noted German writer, in a book entitled "Woman under 
 Socialism" proved himself a philosopher in the true sense 
 of the word, "lover of truth," and he also proved himself 
 a man of thought and action when, after frank criticisms 
 of the "wholly unnatural state of things" produced by 
 the profiteers and the heads of the government, he pre- 
 dicted thus: "If some day this tremendous apparatus is 
 set in operation — when the hostile forces of Europe will 
 take the field with twelve or fourteen million men — the 
 fact will appear that it has become uncontrollable. There 
 is no general who could command such masses; there is 
 no field vast enough to collect and set them up ; no adminis- 
 trative apparatus that could nourish them for any length 
 of time. If battles are delivered hospitals would be lack- 
 ing to shelter the wounded; the interment of the numerous 
 dead would be an impossibility." He predicted "the 
 next war is the last war," and several other events which 
 have occurred; but he predicted that "the political and 
 military state of Europe has taken a development that 
 
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cannot choose but end in a catastrophe which will drag 
 capitalistic society down to its ruin. Having reached 
 the height of its development it produces conditions that 
 end with rendering its own existence impossible; it digs 
 its own grave; it slays itself with the identical means 
 that itself, as the most revolutionary of all previous social 
 systems, has called into life . ' ' The last quotation shows 
 Bebel to have been misled by his socialistic associates. 
 It is one of their hobbies which appears "red" to me, 
 because they hope for the destruction of the profiteers 
 and militarists individually. The class to which I belong 
 takes a different view. We know that Bolshevism was 
 the natural product of Czarism, but we can't see that it 
 improves matters any. We have no use for the Wall 
 street crowd who control the American press; no sym- 
 pathy with the hay-seeds in Congress and Legislatures 
 who do the bidding of bosses; we despise the strikers in 
 mines and elsewhere as idiots who imitate the tactics of 
 Wall street but have added a thirst for blood which makes 
 them dangerous, and if the former brand of "society" is 
 annihilated its successor will be the most diabolical imi- 
 tation the world has ever seen. 
 
 In another chapter I have submitted a biographical 
 sketch with an explanation for the offense. I revert to 
 it here merely to say "I am a graduate of the case"; I 
 have had about fifty years of experience as an observer, 
 employe, employer, but I have never had the slightest 
 desire to be a leader among mankind — the reason for that 
 is I have seen the ambitious ones reach the pinnacle of 
 success and then seen them fall deep in the mud and I 
 said, "there's nothing in it." In pursuing my studies for 
 many years as a newspaper man and teacher since 1880 I 
 have found it continually impressed upon me that if I can 
 talk and write and print such things as will make people 
 think for themselves I have done all that can be required 
 of me. 
 
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CHAPTER XIV. 
 Economic Situation in America, Nineteen-nineteen. 
 
 This year is the record one for all history to date, for 
 economic disturbances. First, the scandals in connection 
 with the management of the war expenses, the arbitrary 
 commandeering of the railways, telegraphs, telephones 
 and cables. Second, the "peace" wrangle, extending over 
 months. Third, the " League of Nations" farce. Fourth, 
 the profiteers, from the traitors who robbed the Government 
 on badly filled contracts at outrageous prices, to the food 
 profiteers, who destroy a large per cent of the foodstuffs 
 in order to hold up high prices for the balance. Fifth, the 
 anti-liquor fanatics, politico-moral tactics. Sixth, the 
 woman's suffrage agitation. Seventh, the I. W. W. 
 bombing outrages and other "propaganda." Eighth, the 
 attempt of organized labor to control everybody and 
 everything, work six hours daily, five days in the week 
 and draw as wages what would be double pay for ten 
 hours daily, six days in. the week. 
 
 Just think of a milk-wagon driver being paid $35 per 
 week and a commission! Think of a bum plumber getting 
 70 cents to $1.00 an hour for the same work his father was 
 glad to do for $3.00 a day! 
 
 Reference to statistical tables shows the number 
 employed in the following branches of industry: 
 
 Bakers 89,000 Carpenters .817,000 
 
 Barbers 195,000 Cooks 450,000 
 
 Blacksmiths 240,000 Compositors .127,000 
 
 Brakemen 92,000 Conductors... ..125,000 
 
 Butchers .124,000 Engineers .....187,000 
 
 Cabinent makers.... 41,000 Electricians 135,000 
 
 Candy Makers 30,000 Hostlers 63,000 
 
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Janitors 113,000 Plasterers 47.000 
 
 Launderers 111,000 Plumbers... 147,000 
 
 Machinists 487,000 Porters 84,000 
 
 Masons 170,000 Pressmen 20,000 
 
 Miners.. 965,000 Roofers..... 14,000 
 
 Molders 121,000 Sailors 46,000 
 
 Motormen 60,000 Stonecutters 35,000 
 
 Musicians 139,000 Switchmen 85,000 
 
 Painters 335,000 Teamsters 409,000 
 
 Total 6,153,000 
 
 The entire population of the United States is over 
 100,000,000. Those engaged in farming alone are 5,865,000. 
 Salesmen and women, 921,000. Teachers, 600,000. Book- 
 keepers, 486,000 — four items, aggregating, 7,692,000, none 
 of whom are habitual strikers; nearly three-fourths being 
 producers of foodstuffs; the rest consumers, who have to 
 join the other 90,000,000 population in paying the damages 
 resulting from the disorders of the anarchistic few out of 
 the total six millions of trades workers who are to be charged 
 with nearly all disturbances. 
 
 A labor union is no more un-American than any other 
 union for selfish purposes; but, unfortunately, being con- 
 ducted by shrewd, ignorant men, they not only rape the 
 public but outrage the rights of individuals to seek health 
 and happiness, without paying tribute to any save the 
 country which guarantees those rights — and doesn't make 
 good. 
 
 One of the bad features of unionism is the example they 
 set to others, merchants, for instance, who are organized 
 secretly, because of the "laws" in restraint of trade, and 
 manage to hold prices of commodities above all reasonable 
 limitations, rendering inferior service in the matter of 
 quality of goods sold. 
 
 Another is the domination of Greeks, Italians, and other 
 foreigners, in the markets of cities, large and small. Not 
 
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only in the towns, but in the gardens, they rule. California 
 is overrun with Japanese, other states by non-citizens, who 
 expect to make their fortunes here and go back to their 
 own countries, where they can imitate the millionaires of 
 this country in the practice of snobbery. 
 
 Another is the out-and-out criminal element among the 
 foreigners, which commits nine-tenths of the felonies. The 
 police records are replete with unpronounceable names 
 of "skis," "witches," "aks," etc. Many of them have the 
 right to vote, on pretense of becoming permanent citizens, 
 and the political "American" traitors use them to win 
 elections; hence, no laws restricting immigration can be 
 secured, unless the American people abandon the old parties 
 and vote solidly together. 
 
 Another is the "lodge" business. I have been a Mason 
 thirty-eight years, and know from experience and obser- 
 vation that, while they have their good features, they are 
 bad on general principles. The Catholic church fought 
 them for centuries, then organized the Knights of Columbus 
 thus repudiating its own principles. Members have had 
 no compunctions in telling me they all vote as one man, 
 on the instructions of the priests. Happily, all the other 
 secret societies are arrayed against them, and some of the 
 harm which might otherwise be inflicted is aborted; but 
 that does not save the country from possibilities. They 
 are as un-American as the labor or medical or capital unions. 
 The "oaths" administered to members are relics of barbar- 
 ism and are constantly violated in their treatment of one 
 another, as well as in their conduct toward outsiders. 
 
 Another is the untaxed church property, secured by the 
 avaricious and unscrupulous "union" principles. While 
 thus protected, they all proceed to tax members to the 
 limits of their capacities — all in the name of "God." We 
 were told by Doctor Benjamin Rush, at the time the Con- 
 stitution of the United States was adopted, that there 
 should not be tolerated any state religion or state medicine, 
 
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or we would have oligarchies. Religion was made "free," 
 and medicine was permitted to develop its monopolies; so 
 we have examples of both sides of the question, as then 
 presented. It is plain both were false premises, because 
 both have held sway at great cost to the people. The only 
 Natural method of handling them is to wipe all legislation 
 in such behalf off the statute books ; thus making the people 
 free and independent, by taking away from all the right to 
 force their dogmas on any, save by the Natural force of 
 logic, something so foreign to orthodoxy that it would mean 
 the emancipation of the entire citizenship. 
 
 The "god" business has always been a humbug. Chris- 
 tianity has been on exhibition for nearly two thousand 
 years, and the only thing it has accomplished in the way of 
 proving its theorum is the evidence that the "Christ" was 
 right when he said: "I come not to bring peace, but the 
 sword." Wars have increased in magnitude and cruelty. 
 The last one was forced on the world by a fanatic who 
 imagined "me und got" constituted a duality of invincible 
 qualifications, and that "me" was to get the proceeds — he 
 got them, because the powers of Nature worked in the 
 minds of the rest of the world to the end that over 7,000,000 
 soldiers and sailors lost their lives, at least 30,000,000 more 
 were maimed, uncounted millions of citizens starved, and 
 millions of women and girls were sacrificed on the altars of 
 Christian lust. Such is the latest record against religion. 
 
 The artificial "cure medicine" outrage has an even 
 worse record: To its machinations and experiments are 
 chargeable the great increase in "skin diseases," venereal 
 disorders, drug addicts, and the "patent" medicine mil- 
 lionaires. Let us examine that record in conservative 
 England. In 1892, Alfred Milne, M. A., London, who was 
 one of the leaders in forcing the repeal of the compulsory 
 vaccination law in that country, wrote : 
 
 "The first of our compulsory vaccination laws was 
 passed in 1853, and the years that have rolled away since 
 
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then have been years of unceasing and ever-growing protest 
 by large masses of our countrymen. In the ten years ending 
 with September, 1889, our judicial statistics record 23,572 
 prosecutions under these acts. Vast as is this total of 
 manufactured crime — crime the direct product of coercive 
 law — it is but a fraction of what it would have been had not 
 all prosecutions been abandoned in most of the centers of 
 revolt, such as Leicester, Keighley, Oldham, Halifax, 
 Gloucester, the great East-end metropolitan unions, with 
 their teeming populations, of Hackney, Shoreditch and 
 Bethnal Green, and numerous others wherein the coercive 
 policy has been abandoned, and offenders have been left at 
 peace. Yet, as fast as one city or one union has been won 
 for liberty, the opposition has sprung up in another, to go 
 the old weary rounds of prosecution, at first conducted with 
 energy and virulence against the recusants, whereby those 
 recusants fail not to become popular in the district; then 
 the toning down of the persecution before the rising wave 
 of popular indignation ; and at last the election of an anti- 
 compulsion board of guardians, and the local collapse of the 
 law. Thus, as soon as one place is free, another can always 
 be found in the throes of the struggle, and hence it is that 
 the annual return of prosecutions is so far from decreasing 
 that the year 1888 afforded a total of 2,809, the highest for 
 many years since the passing of the law. 
 
 "So great a mass of dissatisfaction with the law of the 
 land we live in would be a serious matter in any case. But 
 in this case it is made doubly grave by the character of the 
 accused. All over England — I may claim to know them as 
 no other living man does know them — and I describe them 
 without hesitation as the salt of their class. Come with me 
 into the northern Midlands, where there is to be held an 
 anti-vaccination meeting. The Midlands are keen upon 
 the question and the meeting is sure to be a good one. It is 
 a 'mushroom' township I shall take you to, a village called 
 into being by the changes that have of late years taken 
 
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place in the boot-making industry. But the little houses 
 are trimly built under the eyes of their present occupiers, 
 who have bought them through building societies, and paid 
 for them out of hard and scanty earnings by aid of a thrift 
 and energy which have known how to wrest a victory from 
 the grasp of circumstances against seemingly the most hope- 
 less odds. The meeting is to be held in a hall into which the 
 audience has a right to invite us, for they have built it them- 
 selves, and own it in one-pound shares. And when the 
 meeting is over and the vaccination acts have been duly 
 condemned in a rattling resolution, carried unanimously, 
 you shall not go without a bite of supper and a cup of ex- 
 cellent cocoa. Beer is scarce and whiskey scarcer, for they 
 are nearly all temperance men. 
 
 "And here be it noted that in all the years of its exist- 
 ence, and among the thousands of its victims, this particu- 
 lar criminal law has never caught a drunkard yet. Friendly- 
 society members, building-society purchasers and their 
 neat, trim, tidy homes, with bookcases and harmonium, 
 bear witness to their thrift; their well-shod, well-groomed, 
 well-taught children are living testimony to their love; their 
 lives without are circled with respect, and within are 
 hallowed with affection. Such a man was C. W. Nye, of 
 Chatham, who, under the law of 1867 spent nine and a half 
 months in Roohester gaol. A watchmaker, with hands 
 made delicate by his trade, was set to wheeling stones for 
 prison repairs, till, in his own words, 'the handles of every 
 barrow that I wheeled were stained with my blood. ' Such 
 another man was William Ball, of Leicester, arrested by the 
 police while his four children were kneeling with him at 
 evening prayers. No land, not even such a law-abiding 
 land as ours, can afford to secure the bodies of such men for 
 their country's gaols, and their hostility for their country's 
 law. Under no circumstances could we afford it; least of all 
 when, as I shall try to show is here the case, the wrong is 
 wrought in support of the false. 
 
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"This, then, is what I have to show — the truth of two 
 perfectly independent propositions: that vaccination is an 
 error, and that its compulsion is a wrong. Independent 
 in this sense, that whether I succeed or fail in convincing 
 my readers of the truth of the first, I have still an un- 
 impaired and equal right to be heard upon the second. Of 
 many things held excellent in themselves, civilization has 
 abandoned the legal compulsion; and the burden of proof 
 lies ever on those who deny that the respect which all 
 profess to pay to the theological conscience should be shown 
 also to the scientific conscience. For this is just the main 
 motif of our indictment of the vaccination law — that we 
 refuse to bow before the spirit of persecution when no better 
 reason is vouchsafed us than that the spirit, changing its 
 language but not its speech, has found new names for its 
 ministers, who now threaten liberty with pestilence in the 
 identical tones wherein freedom was once menaced with 
 perdition. 
 
 "I submit, then, that vaccination is an error, and in 
 support of that thesis I now endeavor to show that the 
 claims put forward on its behalf are false. To consider 
 them all is impossible; a year's entire issue of the Arena 
 (from which this article was taken) would ill suffice for such 
 a task. But some few of them I will take as examples of all 
 and will state them and meet them in such broad outline 
 as the available space will permit. 
 
 "Claim I: Protection. — If you are vaccinated, you 
 will not take smallpox at all. This was the original 
 claim. Listen to the words of Edward Jenner himself, as 
 written on page 7 of his original 'Inquiry into the Causes 
 and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae* : 
 
 " 'What renders the cowpox virus so extremely singular 
 is that the person who has been thus affected is forever after 
 secure from the infection of smallpox; neither the exposure 
 to the variolous effluvia nor the insertion of the matter 
 into the skin producing this distemper. ' 
 
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"Nor was this the mere dream of an over-sanguine and 
 enthusiastic inventor. In 1857, Mr., now Sir, John Simon, 
 for so long the high priest of the vaccine cult in England, 
 wrote, on page 14 of his 'Papers Relating to the History 
 and Practice of Vaccination/ and in 1871 repeated in the 
 appendix to the 'Report of the Select Committee on Vacci- 
 nation/ page 351, these words: 
 
 " 'On the conclusion of this artificial disorder, neither 
 renewed vaccination nor inoculation with smallpox, nor the 
 closest contact nor cohabitation with smallpox patients, 
 will cause him to betray any remnant of susceptibility to 
 the infection/ 
 
 "Moreover, our vaccine teachers have cut themselves 
 adrift from the saving grace of a judicious hedge by the 
 declaration of the Lancet, of February 2, 1888: 
 
 " 'Smallpox is a disease from which anyone may be 
 absolutely protected by vaccination and revaccination, so 
 that to have it is almost a crime/ 
 
 "There can, then, be no doubt about the manner of plea 
 by which our vaccination laws were passed and are main- 
 tained. 'Absolutely protected' — nothing could be clearer 
 than the statement unless, indeed, it be its refutation by 
 the facts. For when we come to test the extent to which 
 so uncompromising a promise has been redeemed, we are at 
 once confronted by a long and dreary history of failure. 
 The first law was passed in 1853. Since that date we have 
 had three leading epidemics of smallpox in the country. 
 The first, 1857-9, killed 14,244 of the people of England and 
 Wales; the second, 1863-5, killed 20,059; and the third, in 
 1870-2, destroyed 44,480. Between the first and second 
 epidemics the increase of the population was 7 per cent, 
 and that of the epidemic was 40.8 per cent. From the 
 second to the third the population increase was 9 per cent, 
 and the epidemic increase was 123 per cent. And when 
 smallpox again broke out in London, in 1881, coming upon 
 a city 90 per cent of whose inhabitants were at the time 
 
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officially claimed as vaccinated, it was confessed that of the 
 491 patients admitted into the Highgate Hospital, the 
 principal of i;he hospitals then receiving smallpox patients, 
 no less than 470, or 96 per cent had been vaccinated. So 
 that, comparing the proportion of vaccinated patients to 
 total patients inside the hospital with that of vaccinated 
 population to total population outside the hospital, we find 
 vaccination left six per cent to the bad. 
 
 "In the Lancet of August 27, 1881, we read of an out- 
 break of smallpox at Bromley, a suburb of London, where 
 occurred forty-three cases, all vaccinated, and three re vac- 
 cinated, of whom two died. In the appendix to the Army 
 Medical Report, for 1885, page 442, we find the detailed 
 report of surgeon I. Boulger, on fifty cases of smallpox 
 among the English troops in Cairo. Re vaccination is 
 de rigeur (not any more) in the British army, and re vacci- 
 nation is expressly admitted with respect to thirty-eight of 
 these cases, including the four fatal ones. In the Lancet for 
 February 23, 1884, we read of an outbreak of smallpox in 
 Sunderland, comprising a hundred cases, whereof ninety-six 
 were vaccinated. And in the more recent history of 
 Sheffield, the history from which, by some wonderful pro- 
 cess of self-persuasion, that vaccinationists have managed 
 to extract so much comfort, we find the broad record of 
 vaccinal failure writ in characters no less clear. 
 
 "For years and years the force of compulsory vacci- 
 nation goes no further than it actually went in Sheffield. 
 The vaccinations have been brought to within five per cent 
 of the births accountable. Nor can the quality of vaccina- 
 tion in Sheffield be impugned. It must be remembered that 
 under the vaccination act of 1867, government inspectors 
 periodically overhaul the work of public vaccinators, and 
 if satisfied of its excellence may award an extra payment, 
 over and above the regular fee already paid, to an amount 
 not exceeding one shilling per case. For the last thirteen 
 years Sheffield has never failed to earn a good round sum 
 
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of this reward for vaccinal excellence, amounting in the 
 aggregate to £2,603. And in thirteen months, ending 
 March, 1888, she obtained as the reward of her faith 6,088 
 cases of smallpox; or a case for every half-sovereign of bonus 
 and 882 over, as a kind of reduction on taking a quantity. 
 In this misguided city, revaccination reigned supreme all 
 the time of her trouble. 'Nearly every man you meet/ 
 wrote the Daily News, in its article on 'Striken Sheffield,' 
 'has his arm in a sling/ The Times wrote, on November 23, 
 1887, that revaccination had by that time become general 
 in the city. The plague ought, therefore, to have been 
 stayed. Yet the deaths, which for the months from June 
 to November, inclusive, had been 2, 3, 11, 21, 60, 75, 
 respectively, rose during the ensuing four months to 105, 
 113, 98, 101, respectively; thus affording a remarkable 
 confirmation of the opinion expressed by that eminent 
 vaccinist, Dr. Guy, in the Journal of the Statistical Society 
 for June, 1882: 'It is now admitted by all competent 
 authorities that vaccination during epidemics of smallpox 
 tends to diffuse rather than arrest the disease, and that 
 instead of being practiced at such times it should be sus- 
 pended. ' Of course, it is not my fault that this distin- 
 guished physician thus rules the whole of the medical 
 officers of the local government board out of the category 
 of 'competent authorities. ' That is only one more item 
 in the unanimity of the unanimous profession. I am more 
 concerned to compare the facts of the history of vaccination 
 with the promises and professions of its advocates, and to 
 watch whether the one will have any effect on the other. 
 
 "What has become of the first great claim on behalf of 
 vaccination? The facts have killed it, and when Sir John 
 Simon came to be cross-examined before the Royal Com- 
 mission then sitting on the question in London, its chief 
 sponsor had to bury it. Confronted with the passage from 
 the 1857 papers, which I have quoted above, and asked if 
 he still adhered to it, Sir John was compelled to reply, 'My 
 
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meaning was only as to the immediate time.' (Q. 175). 
 So that an absolute protection for all time, to say nothing 
 of eternity, is thus reduced to a convalescence-prophylaxy 
 of five minutes or less; and Claim I confesses itself a corpse, 
 at all events wherever the ignorance of the auditor does not 
 tempt it to galvanize itself into a false and fraudulent 
 assumption of its own continued existence. 
 
 "Perhaps I may be reminded that it was for re vaccina- 
 tion that the passage quoted from the Lancet claimed 
 absolute protection. But the subject of re vaccination has 
 already been alluded to in respect of the army, and to 
 this it only needs to add, in more precise terms, that the 
 ordinance for the revaccination of all recruits on joining the 
 colors was promulgated in 1859; since which time there are 
 acknowledged to have occurred in the British army 3,953 
 cases of smallpox, with 391 deaths. In the well-known case 
 of the steamship Preussen, bound for Australia at the end 
 of 1886, on board of which smallpox broke out, there 
 occurred, to say nothing of the emigrant passengers, 14 
 cases amongst the 120 hands of the crew; and of these 6 had 
 been vaccinated before going to sea, vaccinated a third 
 time with glycerine-diluted lymph on board and vaccinated 
 a fourth time at Melbourne with calf lymph there obtained. 
 In the report of the medical officer for the city and county 
 of Hereford, England, for the year 1888, it is said of a gentle- 
 man attacked with smallpox that 'he had a very sharp 
 attack, although he had been vaccinated and revaccinated 
 no less than four times, with any amount of marks there- 
 from. ' And Dr. Barry, when examined before the Royal 
 Commission, admits that a revaccinated death from small- 
 pox had already occurred in the epidemic at the time when 
 the town council had issued a notice that no revaccinated 
 case had been reported as having died (Q. 2,624). During 
 the Sheffield epidemic 48 unsuccessful and 26 successful 
 revaccinations were followed by attacks of smallpox. 
 
 "But, strong as this direct evidence is, the question of 
 
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revaceination is yet better approached indirectly. Its 
 advocates propose the universal imitation of the Prussian 
 law, enforcing revaceination at the age of twelve. But in 
 the great pandemic of 1871-2 smallpox attacked, in Berlin, 
 alone, 2,240 vaccinated children under ten years of age, and 
 of these 736 died. How could revaceination at the age of 
 twelve have saved them? And if primary vaccination will 
 not protect a child of ten years, how can a second vaccina- 
 tion at twelve years old render an adult safe for life? 
 
 "The claim of real protection is thus smashed, destroyed, 
 and pulverized by the resistless logic of facts. But here be 
 it noted, and by all concerned never forgotten, that it was 
 protection passed the law. But for the reiterated plea that 
 in vaccination was to be found real safety from a terrible 
 disease, the compulsory law would never have found its way 
 into the statute books of England. The plea may have been 
 and doubtless was, urged originally in the bona fides of 
 ignorance; but, be that as it may, it is now known on all 
 hands that so far the law was passed on false pretenses. 
 Hence, I shall submit that it is a reasonable demand that 
 the freedom which the false pretenses induced us to part 
 with should be restored to us, and that the law which was 
 passed by error should no longer be maintained by worse. 
 (Thanks to his efforts it was repealed.) For the protection 
 claim is now given up on all hands. To show this we have 
 only to turn to any authoritative statement of: 
 
 Claim II: Mitigation — Such a statement we find in 
 Dr. Husband's 'Student's Handbook of Forensic Medicine/ 
 in these words: 'The proper view to take of vaccination 
 appears to be this — that it does not prevent smallpox, but 
 modifies its virulence.' Now the first and most obvious 
 remark to make on this plea is that, if it claims to make a 
 statement of actual fact in any actual individual case, it 
 clearly claims to know the unknowable. For it must be 
 clearly understood that long enough before the birth of 
 Jenner, smallpox was of every degree of severity, the most 
 
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mild as well as the most terrible. In the year 1722, Dr. 
 Wagstaffe wrote in his 'Letter to Dr. Friend ' on the subject 
 of smallpox as he knew it at that early date : 'So true is that 
 common observation that there is one sort in which a nurse 
 cannot kill, and another which even a physician can never 
 cure.' Since, then, there was plenty of mild smallpox in the 
 days before vaccination was known, it is obviously impossi- 
 ble to say, of any individual case of post-vaccinal smallpox, 
 how badly that patient had meant to have it if he had never 
 been vaccinated. 
 
 "If, therefore, this claim is to be supported at all, it must 
 find that support in some alleged statistical basis. And 
 that basis is alleged to be found in the comparative fatality 
 rates of the two classes, the vaccinated and the un vac- 
 cinated. As with most other matters connected with this 
 controversy, the medical accounts of the results of this 
 process vary extremely, but they all point in the same direc- 
 tion; they all exhort us to consider the terribly high death 
 rate amongst the un vaccinated. For instance, Dr. Thomp- 
 kins, of the Manchester Fever Hospital, gives a fatality 
 rate of 62 per cent as his experience of unvaccinated small- 
 pox. But to this manner of reckoning there is, fortunately, 
 a check, for there is nothing more certain than the fatality 
 rate of smallpox during the last century when all were un- 
 vaccinated; and that rate was a little over 18 per cent. In 
 fact, to raise it to this point it is necessary to include much 
 of the smallpox of the severer types of the London smallpox 
 hospital of the time, which was, of course, vastly inferior 
 to the hospitals of the present day in every sanitary respect, 
 and in which the fatality was even then exceptionally high. 
 At all events, the evidence is overwhelming that the fatality 
 of smallpox did not, as a rule, exceed in pre-vaccination 
 times this 18 per cent, and frequently fell far below this 
 figure. 
 
 "And far lower percentages than these can be found 
 recorded. Isaac Massey, writing in 1727 of his experience 
 
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with pupils of Christ's Hospital, perhaps, better known 
 abroad as the 'Blue-Coat School/ declares: 'Here, in the 
 Natural smallpox, but one in forty-nine died; and I can 
 assure the reader that upon a strict review of thirty years' 
 business and more, not one in forty of the smallpox patients 
 of the younger life died, that is, about five under eighteen.' 
 
 "Not to unduly prolong a weary list of quotations, I will 
 only add, from Q. 5359-60 of the evidence taken before the 
 Royal Commission, that the list of smallpox cases collected 
 by Jurin for the years 1724-27, with one epidemic added by 
 Dr. Scheuchzer, totals 18,229 cases, with 3,008 deaths, or 
 almost exactly 16.5 per cent. 
 
 1 'Hence this 18 per cent which eighteenth century small- 
 pox did not exceed as its general fatality rate, is of the 
 utmost importance to all who would wish to really grasp one 
 of the most striking issues of the vaccination controversy; 
 for it enables us to meet these allegations as to the high 
 fatality rate of the unvaccinated nowadays with the simple 
 process compounded of a subtraction sum and a pertinent 
 question; as thus: when a medical authority, e. g., Dr. 
 Tomkins, as quoted above, alleges 62 per cent as the unvac- 
 cinated fatality rate, we go to work like this: 
 
 "Nineteenth century unvaccinated fatality.— 62 
 
 "Eighteenth century unvaccinated fatality.... 18 
 
 "Then, please, who kills the remaining 44? 
 
 "If these figures are right, they show that nineteenth 
 century doctors are allowing sixty-two patients to die for 
 every eighteen that would have died under the care of their 
 eighteenth century predecessors. And as everyone, even 
 including the nineteenth century doctors, must see this to 
 be impossible, it only remains to inquire whence such an 
 error can originate. Its starting point does not seem far to 
 seek. It will be found in the difficulty of recognizing the 
 marks of vaccination when the patient is covered with the 
 eruption of the disease. A severe case is a confluent case, 
 
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a confluent case hides the vaccine marks, and the record 
 being kept according to the visible marks, the severe cases 
 have thus a, natural tendency to find themselves described 
 as un vaccinated cases. The exact working of this principle 
 cannot be better appreciated than from the words found on 
 page 25 of Dr. Russell's report for Glasgow, 1871-2: 'Some- 
 times persons were said to be vaccinated, but no marks 
 could be seen, very frequently because of the abundance of 
 the eruption. In some cases of those which recovered, an 
 inspection before dismissal discovered vaccine marks, some- 
 times very good.' Remarkable confirmation is here afforded 
 in a report by the medical officer of Congleton on a recent 
 (1889) outbreak of smallpox there. We are told: 'Cases of 
 confluent smallpox likely to prove fatal, in the eruptive and 
 especially in the suppurative stage, are so disfigured that a 
 mother, brought into a ward with several of them, would be 
 unable to pick out her own son from among them. This 
 being so, is it not too much to ask any intelligent being to 
 believe that reliable observations were made as to the 
 number of such comparatively minute objects as vaccina- 
 tion scars? If any medical man of position who has had 
 experience in the treatment of smallpox cases will say that 
 the inference I have drawn is not warranted, I shall most 
 gladly admit myself in the wrong, but for the present my 
 recent experience of cases not fatal warrants me in saying 
 what I have done. In two severe cases I made an attempt 
 to find vaccination scars during the eruptive stage, but 
 failed, and found, subsequently, they were well vaccinated;: 
 and in two comparatively mild cases I counted in the one 
 one scar, and in the other three, but subsequently found 
 they had respectively, four and eight/ 
 
 "Here is the matter in a nutshell. Classed as unvac- 
 cinated for want of visible marks, if they die, they swell 
 the fatality rate of the un vaccinated; but if they recover r 
 they are found to be vaccinated, and the vaccination gets 
 the credit of having saved them. So that, to this alleged 
 
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fatality amongst the unvaccinated we answer only that it 
 is not that they die because they are unvaccinated, but 
 they are classed unvaccinated because they die. And so 
 long as the overhead fatality is not materially reduced, so 
 long, that is, as the patients, taken in a lump, vaccinated 
 and unvaccinated together, fail to show a largely diminished 
 fatality, so long the alleged virtues of vaccination stand" 
 disproved, so far as mitigation goes. 
 
 "Moreover, on this question of mitigation, there remains 
 one more thing still to be said. I would avoid entering on 
 the discussion of those scientific aspects of vaccination 
 which have already been so well displayed before the 
 readers, but I cannot avoid remarking that this claim of 
 mitigation is altogether out of analogy with most of the 
 theories which profess to explain vaccination as a prophy- 
 lactic Those who attribute benefit to the vaccinated from 
 their vaccination have really had an attack of the smallpox, 
 though not the human variety of the complaint. They 
 have, it is said, the smallpox of the cow, smallpox modified 
 oy its passage through the animal economy. But to this 
 theory as applied to mitigation by vaccination, there are at 
 least two objections: First, that it is not true in fact; second, 
 that though it might do for an explanation of a vaccinated 
 immunity from attack, it is quite without precedent as an 
 explanation of mitigation. Of no other of the acute exan- 
 themata is it even plausibly contended that a former attack 
 makes the second onset of the same complaint any milder. 
 Of various diseases it does seem to be true that one attack 
 prevents another altogether; but whenever such protection 
 is overcome, and the enemy breaks through the defenses, 
 it is apt to cast off all discipline and to sack the place. There- 
 fore, for this claim of mitigation we have it that, as it is 
 without justification in the facts, so it is without precedent 
 in science. This Naturally leads us to a consideration of 
 
 Claim III: Vaccination, Previous smallpox — This 
 was the plea whereunto Jennerwas driven as failures multi- 
 
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plied. In Barron VLife of Jenner,' vol. ii, p-135, we read: 
 'Duly and efficiently performed, vaccination will protect the 
 constitution from subsequent attacks of smallpox as much 
 as that disease itself will. I never expected that it would do 
 more, and it will not, I believe, do less.' We may pass by 
 the wonderful change that had come over the spirit of 
 Jenner's dream since he wrote those sounding words about 
 the vaccinated being forever secure. Let us stick closely 
 by the facts, and these facts are, I maintain, given exactly 
 and tersely in the formula: 
 
 " 'Mitigation by vaccination = mitigation by previous 
 smallpox = 0.' 
 
 "For the second cases of smallpox are, as a rule, very 
 severe cases, with a high fatality rate. Thus Dr. Seaton,. 
 in his 'Handbook of Vaccination, ' says: 
 
 " 'Haeser states, on the authority of Regoni Stern, that 
 at Verona, in the ten years 1829-38, twenty-four cases of 
 second smallpox had been noted, eight of which were fatal; 
 and Heim reports, in the epidemics in Wurttemberg, 1831-5, 
 fifty-seven cases of recurrent smallpox, of which sixteen 
 died; and in subsequent epidemics, eighty-six cases, twelve 
 of which were fatal.' 
 
 "This gives a total of 167 cases, with 36 deaths; a mortal- 
 ity of 21.5 per cent. The most recent evidence is to the 
 same effect. The fatality of recurrent smallpox in the 
 Sheffield outbreak was 25 per cent. 
 
 "Claim IV: Decrease of Smallpox Since the Intro- 
 duction of Vaccination : — Opponents of vaccine law often 
 find themselves reproached in some such terms as the follow- 
 ing: 'The ravages of smallpox used to be much more terrible 
 than they are now. There can be no doubt that smallpox 
 has diminished since the introduction of vaccination, and 
 what more do you want?' We reply that we want a great 
 deal more. We want some little evidence of the causal 
 connection between the two; we do not want to be involved 
 in a mere post ergo propter. It is just this causal connection 
 
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which we deny, and we think we can justify our denial. We 
 ean call to witness that very Epidemiological Society which 
 was so largely instrumental in passing the first law for the 
 eompulsion of vaccination. In 1855, we find them mem- 
 orializing the president of the board of health on the seri- 
 ously large proportion of the births which still escaped 
 vaccination, and estimating that not more than from 10 to 
 15 per cent of these births are being vaccinated by private 
 practitioners in addition to the public vaccinations. Now 
 before 1840 all vaccinations were private; so that we have 
 it on the authority of the Epidemiological Society itself 
 that up to 1840 not more than 15 per cent of the births were 
 being vaccinated at all. Nevertheless, we find from the 
 1853 report of the same society that the ratio for London 
 of smallpox deaths to every thousand from all causes had 
 fallen from 108 in the decade 1750-60 to 23 in the ten years 
 ending 1840. If all of this change was effected without any 
 compulsion, and with only fifteen per cent of the births 
 vaccinated, why is any compulsion necessary? The truth 
 is that the decline of smallpox had set it before vaccination 
 was heard of, and long before it had been carried out to an 
 extent which could have had any appreciable effecton the 
 death rate. The late Dr. Farr observes in his article, 'Vital 
 Statistics/ in McCulloch's 'Statistical Account of the 
 British Empire/ 'Smallpox attained its maximum after 
 vaccination was introduced; this disease began to grow less 
 fatal before vaccination was discovered ; indicating, together 
 with the diminution in fever, the general improvement in 
 health then taking place.' Thus smallpox, during the last 
 ' few years of the last century, was trying hard to die out, 
 and the inoculators were trying no less hard to stamp it in ; 
 and vaccination got the credit of a change with which it was 
 indeed contemporary, though to that change it never was 
 contributory. 
 
 "But I may be exhorted to compare the behavior of 
 other diseases, if I would see the influence of vaccination 
 
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on this particular one. I am willing to do so to any extent, 
 on one condition, that the diseases to be compared may be 
 fairly comparable. Smallpox is one of a great group of 
 diseases, and for fair comparison we must remain within 
 the limits of that group, and make our comparisons with 
 other zymotic fevers and exanthemata. And first, broadly, 
 what of the diseases which have come and gone without any 
 vaccinal interference? Where is the Black death now? 
 Where is the plague now? The dread typhus, which, in the 
 days of the Stuarts gave such a terrible significance to the 
 phrase, 'rot in gaol/ is all but gone, though innocent of 
 vaccinal expulsion. Let well-vaccinated Sheffield declare 
 whether plague or cholera or typhus, for which we had no 
 vaccination, is more or less to be dreaded than that smallpox 
 against which we are so well protected by vaccination that 
 'to have it is almost a crime. ' And if it should be urged that 
 we ought to examine this claim with more exactness than 
 is possible to so broad an historical view as that just taken, 
 I none the less maintain that so far from the decline of 
 smallpox having been unique among diseases, such exami- 
 nation will show that it has hardly been remarkable. In 
 the before-quoted work, Dr. Farr long ago remarked : 'Fever 
 has progressively declined since 1771; fever has declined 
 in nearly the same proportion as smallpox/ And the figures 
 Dr. Farr gives us are these: 
 
 Deaths per 10,000 living. 
 1771-80 1801-10 1831-35 
 
 Fever 621 264 111 
 
 Smallpox 502 204 83 
 
 "And the same principle may be carried on to later 
 dates with no result save to strengthen it. Let us turn to 
 the fiftieth report of the English Registrar-General, and 
 take the evidence of Table 17, p. lvi, as to the comparison 
 of the quinquennium 1866-70, in which compulsion was 
 made perfect, with the last one given, viz., 1881-5. We 
 obtained this result: 
 
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Average Annual Death Rate per Million Living in 
 Two Quinquennia Compared. 
 
 1866-70 1881-5 Decrease % 
 
 Smallpox 105 78 25.5 
 
 Scarlet fever 960 434 55.0 
 
 Fever — typhus, typhoid, 
 
 ill-defined 850 272 68.0 
 
 Cholera 172 16 91.0 
 
 "The figures for cholera have been added on account of 
 its peculiarly epidemic character, though for many reasons 
 it is not strictly comparable with smallpox; but to the other 
 diseases in the table there is no such objection. The table 
 shows smallpox as having actually the smallest diminution 
 in its death rate of any of the three fever groups. Other 
 diseases are thus shown to have been better fought without 
 the aid of vaccination than smallpox has with it. But the 
 evidence does not stop here. Looking at the London returns 
 we find the Registrar-General writing in his 1880 report on 
 the decennium then ending : 'It will be found that the saving 
 of life was almost entirely due to the diminished mortality 
 from causes whose destructive activity is especially amen- 
 able to sanitary interference — namely the so-called zymotic 
 diseases. The death rate from fever fell nearly 50 per cent. 
 That of scarlatina and diphtheria fell 33 per cent. One 
 disease alone in this class showed exceptionally a rise, and 
 no inconsiderable one. This was smallpox, which, owing to 
 the two great outbreaks of 1871-2 and 1877-8, gave a death 
 rate nearly 50 per cent above the previous average.' 
 
 "So that, in this great city, the only disease against 
 which we are supposed to be guaranteed, is the only one 
 amongst the zymotic group which shows 'exceptionally a 
 rise.' The claims made on behalf of vaccination break 
 down on all sides as soon as really impartial scrutiny is 
 applied to them. On the other hand, the examples of 
 Leicester and Keighley, where vaccination has been all but 
 entirely neglected, prove beyond question that a com- 
 
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munity may be thoroughly protected against the spread of 
 smallpox by sanitary measures, even though the disease be 
 not unfrequently introduced into its limits from the well- 
 vaccinated districts round. 
 
 "It is often urged that the opposition to vaccination is a 
 sentimental opposition. But I submit that there is little 
 enough of sentiment in the dry facts and drier figures where- 
 in my argument has so far been set out. Not that I mind 
 the taunt; I have no shame of sentiment, which, after all, 
 is but the fool's name for the pursuit of righteousness; and 
 I am coming to the sentiment by and by. But so far from 
 mere sentiment being the burden of my song, I claim to be 
 the bearer in this matter of one of the sternest and the 
 hardest of Nature's man hard, stern messages. I am trying 
 to bear witness that Nature's politics know no compromise, 
 and that in matters sanitary the wages of sin is death. The 
 sentimentalists on the other side protest that this is too 
 cruel a message to deliver to the poor. But I did not make 
 the message, nor do I deliver it to the poor alone. I tell the 
 rich : 'It is not safe for you to leave Lazarus crying unheeded 
 at your gate. If you do, his sores shall plague you, his 
 disease shall smite you, his suffering shall be your anguish, 
 and by his death you shall die. It is no use to try to dodge 
 fate by forcing upon Lazarus a little more domesticated 
 dirt. It is no use to try to get to the back of the north 
 wind with a little bit of tame filth caged in a capillary tube. 
 You must go for better dwellings ; by a policy of open spaces 
 you must make passages for the winds that blow; you must 
 let in the light of heaven; you must lay the water on. And 
 then, as the sterness of the threat drives you further on the 
 road to righteousness, you may turn with growing hope 
 from threat to promise, and, being clean, may claim to live.' 
 
 "I pass to the second part of my contention, and now 
 affirm that the compulsion of vaccination is a wrong; and 
 I put my reasons for that conclusion into the comprehensive 
 statement that the justifications of it are false. As before, 
 
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but still more briefly, I proceed to state them as I find them 
 urged by compulsionists, appending a few words of reply 
 to each: 
 
 "Justification I : Unanimity of the Medical Profes- 
 sion. — The doctors, we are told, are unanimously against us, 
 and surely they ought to know, so we ought to submit our 
 judgment to theirs. I reply that the very reverse is true. 
 So far from the medical profession being unanimous on the 
 question, there could hardly be found a matter within the 
 limits of which more numerous and more fundamental 
 differences are to be found between different members of 
 the profession. I venture to affirm that no proposition 
 could be framed with respect to the theory or the practice 
 of vaccination, but its direct contradictory could be quoted 
 from pro-vaccinal medical works of equal authority. 
 
 "In answer to the question, 'How many marks should 
 be made on the child's arm?' we find among physicians of 
 unimpeachable vaccinal orthodoxy, that Drs. Drysdale 
 and Lee say, 'One;' Dr. Adam, of Liverpool, says, 'Two;' 
 Dr. Grenhalgh, of London, says, 'Three;' the local govern- 
 ment board demands four; Dr. Sand with, of Wandsworth, 
 says, 'Five;' Dr. Debenham, London, says, 'Six;' Dr. 
 Curschmann, the great German authority, says, 'Twelve, 
 six on each arm;' Dr. Bond, of Gloucester, says, 'The more 
 the better.' Thus has vaccine progressed, from the original 
 single scratch of Jenner, which any old woman could make 
 with a needle, up to an apotheosis of tattoo. 
 
 "Justification II: The Un vaccina ted Are a Public 
 Danger. — It is held that if a man lived alone, we might allow 
 him to have smallpox at his pleasure; but that as we live 
 in society, we cannot permit the unvaccinated to take a 
 disease which they may communicate to others ; and there- 
 fore we are forced to compel vaccination in self-defense. 
 To this I reply no man can give away that which he has not. 
 The unvaccinated must have smallpox before their having 
 it can be a danger to anyone else; and where are they to get 
 
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it from? The evidence is overwhelming that when smallpox 
 attacks a community it does not commence with the un vac- 
 cinated. When the great pandemic struck the town of 
 Bonn, the first un vaccinated case was number 42; at Col- 
 ogne the first un vaccinated case was 173; at Leignitz the 
 first un vaccinated case was 224; whilst, when we come 
 nearer home, at Bromley, before alluded to, every person 
 had been vaccinated. But if vaccination is to protect, how 
 can the unvaccinated be a danger to the ones protected by 
 vaccination? And if it only mitigates, the same as previous 
 smallpox, then so far as contagion is concerned, one case of 
 smallpox is like another, and the unmitigated, because 
 unvaccinated, cases are neither more nor less a public 
 danger than the vaccinally mitigated ones; this being so, 
 the public has no more concern with my choosing to take 
 my smallpox without mitigation than with my taking 
 coffee without milk. The plenitude of fear shows paucity 
 of faith; and when a man declares, as a man did a little 
 while ago in London, that he had been vaccinated five 
 times, but he wouldn't live in the same parish with an 
 unvaccinated child, he demonstrated with an eloquence I 
 cannot hope to rival that his faith in vaccination was on a 
 level with my own. Vaccination is either good or bad. Its 
 goodness removes the need, as its badness destroys the 
 right of enforcement on the unwilling. 
 
 "Justification III : It Does No Harm. — We enter here 
 upon a portion of our subject where satire dies upon the 
 saddened lip and sorrow reigns supreme. It is also the 
 portion where the batteries of modern investigation have 
 been turned with most ruinous effect upon the fortresess of 
 the old beliefs and the old assertions. As a consequence, 
 efforts have, of course, been made to show that no such 
 plea has been urged by any who have been of recognized 
 authority. But the allegation is false, and it comes too late. 
 No less a writer than Mr. Simon, in the papers from which 
 I have quoted, says, speaking of the advantages of vaccina- 
 
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tion, that 'against this vast gain there is no loss to count ;' 
 and I venture to think that no assertion ever did more to 
 rivet the bolts of our compulsory vaccination. The same 
 eminent authority quotes, without a word of disapproval, 
 numerous experiments, heartlessly and treacherously per- 
 formed, with hideous results, on the children of the helpless 
 poor, with the purpose of showing no other infection than 
 that of mild smallpox is possible in vaccination. The names 
 quoted are all those of men in the front rank of the contest, 
 including Blache, Heim, Rochot, Debar, Bousquet, Sig- 
 mund, and many others. And, coming down to more 
 modern times I find in a pamphlet, now before me, entitled 
 'Facts Concerning Vaccination, for Heads of Families, 
 Revised by the Local Government Board, and Issued with 
 Their Sanction/ the express declaration: 'The fear that a 
 foul disease may be implanted by vaccination is an unfound- 
 ed one/ Let us now turn to the facts:" .... 
 
 "Here Mr. Milner quotes at length from the Registrar- 
 Generals' records and shows that under a heading, "Cowpox 
 and Other Effects of Vaccination" are registered 418 
 •deaths. He tells of a public inquiry, in which it developed 
 that there were hundreds of deaths in which the death 
 certificates did not assign the true cause; that one medical 
 journal advised the omission of all reference to vaccination 
 in death certificates, proving that there were medical 
 rascals then as there are today. From parliamentary 
 returns No. 392, Session 2, 1880, and 372 of 1888, he gath- 
 ered statistics for a period of years under three different 
 conditions, which follow: 
 
 Average Yearly Deaths Under One Year, per Million 
 
 Births. 
 
 -2 <u 
 
 O 00 O 
 
 Voluntary vaccination, 1847-53 564 817 168 351 2,981 
 
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Obligatory vaccination, 1854-67 1,206 781 253 611 3,385 
 Enforced vaceination, 1868-86.. 1,788 785 387 1,037 4,426 
 
 Showing that four out of the five disorders show a 
 terrible increase, and all persons with common sense must 
 charge that increase to the experiment. 
 
 Quoting from other tables of the Registrar-General's 
 office, Mr. Milne shows a marked increase in infantile 
 erysipelas from 1859 to 1880, and on up to 1890. He tells 
 of Mary Clarke, who, being sure that she had lost one child 
 from vaccination, and, being summoned before the court 
 for violation of the "law," drowned herself and last child 
 rather than be tortured. 
 
 As a result of his work and that of his colleagues, the 
 compulsory feature of the act was repealed in the 80's and 
 has never been restored. It has been attempted to restore 
 it, but the people asserted themselves and the government 
 heeded. 
 
 I have devoted space to extracts from the article in the 
 Arena in commemoration of the good work that magazine 
 did for the cause, and to show that, as usual, the United 
 States people are far behind old England in progress. If we 
 believe in liberty, let us fight for it. I shall, so long as I live, 
 whether anyone else does or not. I was one of the "scrof- 
 ula" victims of vaccination, and I never mastered the 
 situation until I discovered, about thirty years ago, the 
 fact that Nature has provided means for immunity and 
 that Her laws work even on those who have been sufferers 
 from the curse of artificial prophylaxis and therapy. 
 
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Prospectus 
 
 The following pages will serve to enlighten the 
 Public in the matter of what students are taught 
 and how we teach it, as compared with the ortho- 
 dox schools. 
 
 They will also give Prospective students the 
 particulars they need in order to prepare them- 
 selves for the work here. They should read all 
 carefully, understandng that we mean just what 
 we say, and nothing else. Let none ask us for 
 favors which require changes in our schedules or 
 which would be impossible to grant to all; for it is 
 a hard and fast rule here that we treat all as nearly 
 alike as we can. 
 
 We have condensed the work into the shortest 
 possible time of accomplishment, with hard work 
 and nothing else to occupy students attention; 
 henee none can finish quicker than the time 
 specified. Merely serving time will not be suffi- 
 cient; grades of 80 per cent, or better must be 
 made in all branches. 
 
 These are the days of autos, airplanes, telegraph, 
 etc. The old schools still adhere to the ox-cart 
 methods, which is one of the causes of their de- 
 cline. The chief cause, however, is Public Educa- 
 tion, to such an extent that said Public thinks 
 analytically more than ever, (that is the leaders do), 
 and the fallacies of Religion and Medicine no longer 
 deceive. 
 
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McCORMICK MEDICAL COLLEGE 
 
 Founded 1893. Incorporated in Illinois. Not for 
 
 Profit. 
 
 A School for the Study of Causes of Human Ills and 
 
 How to Abolish Them Without Drugs or 
 
 Operations. 
 
 A System of Mature Medicine. 
 
 The Continuous, Consecutive Teaching Methods, 
 Originated by and Employed only in this school, Save a 
 Lot of Time and Money to Students and Their Education 
 is More Thorough than is Possible in the Old Schools, no 
 matter how much time They Require. 
 
 We Accomplish More in a School Year of Nine Months 
 than the Medical Trust Schools do in Four Years, because 
 we Teach Physics, Chemical and Mechanical, at the Be- 
 ginning of Work in Each Department. Then we Combine 
 Anatomy, Physiology and All of the Allied Subjects in 
 such a manner that the Story Grows as we Tell It and the 
 Students Become Thoroughly Practical. 
 
 We Have Normal Standards in Every Subject for 
 Purposes of Intelligent Comparison and Understanding. 
 We Teach a Lot of the "Regular" Stuff to Show Why It 
 Is Wrong. Old-school Graduates Who Have Taken Our 
 Work Say It is the first place they ever saw where "Medi- 
 cine Is Practiced by Arithmetic." Ours Is Truly "A Sys- 
 tem of Mature Medicine." Analysis Supplants Diagnosis. 
 
 Our Fees, for Tuition, and in Practice, Are Higher 
 Than Those of Any Other School of Medicine; but the 
 Superiority of Our Work and of That of Our Graduates 
 Warrant Them and Make Them Cheapest in the End. 
 The Routine of Our Courses is : 
 
 First, Three Months in the Department of Ophthal- 
 
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mology, 1,000 hours of Work, which not only lays the 
 Foundation for the General Course, but Affords an Inde- 
 pendent Course, a Superior One for Limited Practice, 
 with the Degree Doctor of Ophthalmology. 
 
 Second, about the first of January any year after Finish- 
 ing the Course in Ophthalmology such Students are Elig- 
 ible to the General Course, provided they have made 
 Grades of 100 in Physics; otherwise they must enter the 
 General Course in the fall and repeat the Ophthalmological 
 Work. There is no extra charge for this — we are not mer- 
 cenary: we demand competence. This course runs from 
 January to June, inclusive, 2,000 hours, with no time for 
 play. Proper Exercise is a part of our Course, so no one 
 is overtaxed. We do not accept invalids as students. We 
 have Denominated This Our Department of Neurology 
 and Graduates receive the Degree Doctor of Neurology. 
 
 Third, Following graduation in Neurology students 
 practice Fifteen Months, after which they are eligible to 
 reenter the College any Fall and take Nine Months more 
 work, reviewing what they had before and getting the 
 necessary technical old-school work to qualify for State 
 Examining Boards. Thus they will have had Four Years 
 of the Very Best Schooling and will receive the Degree 
 Doctor of Medicine. It is expressly provided that no one 
 is eligible to this course who, we may have reason to sus- 
 pect, would practice drug medicine & he had a license to 
 do so. No one who is honest would think of such a thing 
 after taking Our Ophthalmology and Neurology. We 
 recommend this course for the Review of Our Work and 
 the Knowledge of What Others Are Doing in Detail. Our 
 graduates are then Doubly Superior to the old-school 
 doctors. 
 
 Fourth, Our Special Post-Graduate Course for Li- 
 censed Old-School Doctors gives them credit for experience 
 in practice and Four Months of Hard Work qualifies them 
 to practice "A System of Mature Medicine." Degree 
 Doctor of Neurology or Doctor of Medicine, by election. 
 
 We have No Correspondence Courses in any Depart- 
 ment. No post-graduate courses, except for Physicians. 
 Our announcements mean exactly what they say, and 
 people who write for concessions only waste their time. 
 We have reduced the work to a schedule to which both 
 
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Students and Ourselves Must Adhere Rigidly. Some who 
 have been practicing "optometry" and have regarded 
 themselves as highly competent, announcing themselves 
 as "members of the Scientific Section of the American 
 Association of Opticians," found, when they came up 
 against our work that they didn't know first principles. 
 They came proposing to take a couple of weeks to "brush 
 up." We offered them the course free if we failed to prove 
 they were in Total Ignorance of True Optics and Oph- 
 thalmology. We will supply their addresses if any doubter 
 wants to ask them. They didn't get the course free, either. 
 But they value what they received for their money. 
 
 Requirements for Admission: At Least a Good Com- 
 mon School Education; Honesty of Purpose; Willingness 
 to Work Hard; Good Character and Personality; Respect- 
 ful Conduct and Conformity to the Rules of the Institution. 
 
 Tuition Fees, Payable Strictly in Advance: 
 
 Ophthalmology, Three Months $250 
 
 Neurology, Six Months Additional 250 
 
 Final Course, Nine Months Additional after 15 months' 
 
 Practice 250 
 
 Post-Graduate Course for Licensed Physicians 250 
 
 Payments to be made in Cash, New York or Chicago 
 Drafts, Post Office or Express Money Orders, Except that 
 we will accept Liberty Bonds at Par. The banks charge 
 exchange on every other sort of money orders than those 
 enumerated. Country bankers who advise people to bring 
 personal check books to Chicago, or anywhere else are not 
 the friends of their depositors. They are greedy and want 
 to get the 10 cents charged for collecting checks on their 
 banks. A "Cashier's" check on any bank outside of Chi- 
 cago or New York is no good at either place. Insist on 
 Drafts or the Cash. Show this to your banker if nec- 
 essary and if he tries any bluff let us know and we will 
 give his bank a free "puff" in "Mature Medicine," our 
 quarterly publication, which circulates everywhere. We 
 do not lend money or cash personal checks. The Insti- 
 tution was not organized for profit, has never made any, 
 does not intend to. We work for nothing other than actual 
 expenses of living and usually pay that from our private 
 resources. We do not solicit students and only accept 
 
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those who come up to requirements. No Fakers or Slackers 
 need apply. Some call us "Cranks." We are content. 
 
 We have always contended that the quicker a student 
 can be educated, the better it is for him or her; and, by 
 our consecutive method of instruction, sticking to a single 
 subject until it is mastered, we accomplish more in any 
 given length of time than can be done in any other manner. 
 The Germans have stuck to the seven years of schooling 
 in medicine and years of training to make their soldiers. 
 Yet our American boys, with a very few months training, 
 went after the Prussians and whipped them to a "frazzle" 
 in short order. The old schools of medicine are now agi- 
 tating a plan to adopt the consecutive system. Of course 
 they do not confess they are imitating us, but they are; 
 and they will have to learn one thing before they adopt it, 
 which is that they have no teachers capable of doing the 
 work and will have to qualify them first. 
 
 Students may live at the college at reasonable rates; or 
 they may secure quarters in the neighborhood, which is 
 first-class. There are advantages in being here all the 
 time. 
 
 None need apply who expect to make their stay a 
 carousal. It means hard work and plenty of it to get 
 through; but we provide recreation so there is not a dull 
 moment during the term. 
 
 McCORMICK MEDICAL COLLEGE, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 First — Know what you want to do. 
 Second — Know why you want to do it. 
 Third — Know how to do it. 
 Fourth — Know how to prove it. 
 
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NEUROLOGY, A SYSTEM OF MATURE MEDICINE. 
 
 People who have become disgusted with orthodox 
 medicine should be more careful in accepting alleged "new" 
 systems than they were in toleration of the old. 
 
 We have been conducting McCormick Medical College 
 for over twenty-five years. We were trained in the old- 
 school methods; but we discovered something older than 
 their artificial materia-medica, and in general armamen- 
 tarium. In point of years our school is new, compared 
 with the Allopathic, Homeopathic, Eclectic and Physio- 
 Medical schools of practice; but, in principles we have 
 the oldest of all methods, because the laws we teach are all 
 as old as creation. 
 
 We have been asked, often, "What is Neurology?'' 
 We reply: It is a term employed in the orthodox schools 
 to designate the department of study of the nervous sys- 
 tem, just as myology is the department of muscles, angi- 
 ology that of the blood vessels, etc. But we use it to dif- 
 ferentiate our general methods from those of the drug 
 schools, and for the purpose of making the point that all 
 ills are really nervous ills ; that all other branches of study 
 are subordinate, and auxiliary to the nervous system. 
 
 When we think of the years of work we have put in 
 digging and of the months of hard work our students have- 
 spent in becoming proficient, we have sometimes been 
 indignant at the question, because of the supercilious 
 manner in which it has been asked. But, on reflection T 
 we relaxed with pity for the ignorance which has been 
 fostered by old-school doctors and their allies, the clergy, 
 and we respond : "Do you think a general system of med- 
 cine, such as the old-school doctors practice, could be ex- 
 plained to you in a few minutes, or even hours?" Of 
 course they reply, "No." Then we add: "Neurology 
 means the science of the nervous system, which includes 
 everything the old-schools teach and then so much more 
 
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that there is no room for comparison. It requires nine 
 months of the hardest kind of work to tell our story in a 
 continuous, consecutive, comprehensive manner, and two 
 teachers do all of the work. They put in more hours in 
 that nine months, with their classes, than the entire corps 
 of professors in any of the old-schools do. They work in 
 the class-rooms six hours daily, four days of each week, 
 and they stick to a single subject for days at a time until 
 it is mastered by the students, instead of giving smatterings 
 of half a dozen subjects each day by as many professors. 
 One hour in our school may not be worth more than one 
 in the old-schools; but at the end of the first day our stu- 
 'dents all know something for sure, while the old-school 
 victims are muddled. Hence one month in our school is 
 worth more than six months in any other medical insti- 
 tution. Ours is a modern arrangement for the saving of 
 time and money to our students, and, at the same time, 
 giving them a far better course of instruction. 
 
 Neurology is A System of Mature Medicine) A System 
 of Analysis of the Causes of Human Ills and How to Abolish 
 Them Without the Use of Drugs or Surgical Operations." 
 
 Of course there are cases in which operation is nec- 
 essary; but we insist they are comparatively rare and we 
 have proved this by taking cases who had been operated, 
 not only without benefit, but with great additions to their 
 troubles, and have, in a few months, enabled Nature to 
 regain her ascendency, restoring health and happiness 
 such as is guaranteed the right to seek by the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States to all its citizens. 
 
 For information to the interested we append a list of 
 branches of study included in our several courses, leading 
 respectively to the degrees, Doctor of Ophthalmology, 
 Doctor of Neurology and Doctor of Medicine. In another 
 place, the manner of taking the courses is given, and the 
 reader will please remember there are no deviations from 
 the plan, as other schools have practiced. We do not want 
 
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people as students who are so presuming they ask ' 'credits" 
 and other favors offered by many schools as inducements 
 to secure students. We have a mathematical system and 
 we endeavor to set a good example by practicing it rigor- 
 ously. Because we do four years' work — of the old schools 
 — in nine months, is no excuse for anyone assuming that 
 we are dishonest and do not mean what we say. We have 
 a clean record and propose to keep it that way: 
 
 Physics — this includes the laws of light, refraction, 
 reflection, absorption, and dispersion; prisms, construc- 
 tion and functions; lenses and their combinations; prescrip- 
 tions for lenses and how to transpose and analyze them; 
 mathematical drawings and calculations, illustrating vari- 
 ous applications of laws and their absoluteness. Also the 
 laws of chemistry which controls the composition and dis- 
 integration of matter, including the body and the foods 
 it subsists on. 
 
 Metaphysics — The effect of the mental states upon 
 the physiological conduct of the nervous system and its 
 auxiliaries; and the effects of physiological disorders^on 
 the mentality. There is nothing mysterious about it and 
 the futility of "absent treatments" is proved. A neu- 
 rologist must see patients and analyze their conditions. 
 Anatomy — This is practically the same as in all other 
 medical schools; but our methods of teaching it are 
 so superior to others that our graduates do not "forget" 
 when they go out into practice. They use it daily. We 
 do not do dissecting, because it is a rank humbug. We 
 forced the admission from Dr. Upham, president of the 
 state board of medical examiners, of Ohio, and a pro- 
 fessor in the medical school at Columbus, who is a gradu- 
 uate from the University of Pennsylvania, that he only 
 dissected a piece of an arm during the years he spent in 
 that institution. No medical school could furnish one 
 cadaver for each student and if they did he could not learn 
 as much from dissecting it as he can from teachers who 
 
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know their business and from reliable text books, which 
 are available. 
 
 Physiology — Our teachings refute, almost totally, the 
 old-school doctrines, and, like our anatomy, they stick, 
 because our doctors use them every day in their practices. 
 The neurologist knows what constitutes true physiology, 
 that is normal action, hence, when he meets abnormalities, 
 he recognizes them at once and knows what to do because 
 we have taught him to anticipate all sorts of possibilities 
 and be prepared for them. 
 
 Ophthalmology — This is our primary or entrance de- 
 partment. No school ever attempted what we do through 
 the eyes. This course is, in itself, a system of practice 
 which is superior to all others save our own full course. 
 We have stated elsewhere that nerve strain through the 
 eyes is the primary cause of eighty-five per cent, of all 
 human ills. Our graduates from this department, to the 
 number of over 4,000 are in practice all over the world, 
 and have done more good for the "chronics" and "incur- 
 ables" of the old-schools than all other methods ever ac- 
 complished. They have straightened cross eyes without 
 operation, thousands of times; they have done it even 
 after old-school "oculist" operations have failed. They 
 have removed the causes of female troubles which baffled 
 all the surgeons and physicians; they have abolished the 
 causes of headaches and many other symptoms, which 
 the old-schools teach are "diseases." 
 
 Myology — This refers particularly to the study of 
 muscles of which there are hundreds in the body, some 
 single and some in pairs; also the ligaments and tendons 
 associated with them. This is coupled up with osteology 
 on one side and nerves, blood vessels, etc., on the other, 
 so that the student learns the real reason for anatomical 
 study is physiology. We teach methods of manipulating 
 muscles which often makes operations not only unnecessary, 
 but ridiculous, if not actually criminal, in some instances. 
 
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Organon — We teach the structures, locations and 
 interdependence of the several organs, the nervous energy 
 required to operate each, what return is given, if any, and 
 how it is done. It is a very pretty chemical and mechan- 
 ical proposition which makes our old-school graduate 
 students open their eyes and wonder why they never 
 thought of some of the things themselves. 
 
 Circulation — Where it begins, how it acts, what causes 
 the action and where it ends. The disorders it is most 
 liable to, and how to prevent them when they exhibit 
 symptoms. It is true that all ills are nervous ones, but 
 it is equally true that the cause is often found in the blood. 
 The old-school puzzles are solved easily and thoroughly. 
 This includes the lymphatic system, the portal, pulmonary, 
 arterial and venous systems of blood circulation. 
 
 Pathology — With us this is reduced to Symptomatology, 
 -and the symptoms are tested, statically and dynamically. 
 We have no names for "diseases/ ' although we often use 
 the old-school names to make our explanations clear to 
 patients who have learned something of them from others. 
 Then we show that the so-called "diseases" which are 
 regarded by the orthodox doctors as causes of troubles, 
 are really the symptoms of disordered physiology. We show 
 how to use symptoms to find causes, but we never treat 
 a symptom, nor by one. 
 
 Classification — All cases are classified and patients 
 are given reasons for placing them, the meanings of symp- 
 toms and the necessity for obedience to Nature's demands 
 as indicated thereby. When all this is made clear none 
 but fools would neglect to follow instructions. The re- 
 sponsibilities for successes or failures rest entirely on the 
 patients, as they should. 
 
 Materia-Medica — Food chemistry, qualitative and 
 quantitative, compared with the old-school drug text- 
 books, both theoretically and practically. The principles 
 of chemistry are employed in a natural manner, and put 
 
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the artificial practices of the old-schools in the ridiculous 
 and criminal classes as we find they belong. 
 
 Bacteriology — We make it ridiculous to a very large 
 extent by submitting old-school text-books and current 
 experiments. It is a source of merriment, and a means 
 of exposing rascality of Medical Trust practices politically 
 and otherwise, particularly in the Army and Navy. 
 
 Gynecology and Obstetrics — Two different but closely 
 allied subjects, which are not taught at all properly in the 
 orthodox colleges. We go to the bottom of the subjects 
 from all sides, mental, physiological, social and otherwise. 
 
 Pediatrics— The disorders of children constitute one 
 of the greatest branches of neurological study. It couples 
 with the subjects in the paragraph preceding. 
 
 Dietetics — This is our materia-medica, which only 
 works in conjunction with our other therapeutic measures. 
 The old-schools teach that their materia-medica has 
 "curative" powers, independent of everything else. A 
 foolish proposition, on its face. Our Diet Charts are com- 
 prehensive, even to laymen. 
 
 Body Chemistry — We rate the circulatory system 
 next to the nervous, and the lymphatics as the most im- 
 portant of it. We show, in a manner simple and convinc- 
 ing, how one person will exhibit "smallpox, " another 
 "epilepsy," another "erysipelas," another "rheumatism," 
 etc., all from the same causes; also how different causes 
 may produce similar exhibits. 
 
 Food chemistry — The essential body elements are 
 supplied from the food we eat, digest and assimilate; hence 
 the composition of foods and how to combine different 
 articles to make them come within the capacity of the 
 body chemistry to appropriate is a very important matter. 
 Old schools do not teach anything about this subject and 
 never did. 
 
 Dynamic Tests — Are involuntary and voluntary ex- 
 hibits of nervous distribution, supply and demand, made 
 
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by patients under our methods, which are never attended 
 with the slightest possibility of harm to them. 
 
 Static Tests — Are made in several manners, which 
 are shown better than described. They are checks on the 
 dynamic ones. Sometimes they corroborate; at others 
 they dispute the dynamic. Then we proceed to other 
 tests to settle the question. This is how we substitute 
 Analysis for the old-school Diagnosis, which means, lit- 
 erally, two guesses; but they usually make more than that 
 number. 
 
 Physiological Nerve Strain — This is found in many 
 parts of the body, but we lay particular stress on eye 
 strain and bad eating; thus chemistry and mechanics are 
 best represented. 
 
 Mental and Physical Shocks — We classify these in the 
 order of possibilities and probabilities and provide theo- 
 retically and practically for handling them when they ex- 
 hibit. 
 
 Sex Disorders — The old-schools do not teach this 
 subject at all. They do dilate on "venereal" disorders 
 and their medication ; but the big subject, the one of great- 
 est importance to mankind, they do not touch at all. We 
 go to the bottom and all sides of it. We have found nothing 
 "obscene" in it and we teach it the same as we do anatomy 
 and physiology — indeed that is just what it is chiefly; 
 there is, however, a mental side which we include in our 
 course. 
 
 Osteology — Our methods of instruction and practice 
 of this subject are so superior to "osteopathy" that there 
 is no room for comparison. The old school never taught 
 anatomy as they should or there would have been no 
 opening for the fad "osteopathy," (sick bone). There is 
 some good in the practice of that alleged system, but it 
 has the same weakness exhibited by the old schools: It 
 is a one-idea system and its practitioners want to bulldoze 
 all other "cults." They are imitations of the Trust. 
 
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Hydrotherapy — Few people know how to utilize baths. 
 We teach how to reduce a fever in a few minutes and how 
 to keep it reduced. How to handle "pneumonia," "rheu- 
 matism," and many other acute disorders in a manner 
 which is not only safe but sure. 
 
 Massage — This goes with or independent of osteologic 
 manipulation. It fits better with hydrotherapy. For 
 patients who have creaky joints and "muscle pains" — 
 really nerve pains in muscles — the combination of bath 
 and manipulation has no equal. 
 
 Therapeutics — Summing up our agents are Mental, 
 Physical, Physiological; Chemical and Mechanical; all 
 Rational and absolutely Harmless methods, as compared 
 with the Habit-forming, Drug-debauching, Experimental, 
 Politico-Medical oligarchy represented by the Medical 
 Trust schools. 
 
 Financially — We make our students competent to 
 not only do the very best work, but to be expert case- 
 takers and get the very best fees for their services. This 
 is one of the most important features of professional prac- 
 tice. We have it reduced to tabular form, based on Na- 
 tural laws, and it works all of the time. It is a part of 
 our Neurometer, (nerve measure), copyright by us, in 
 Washington. Details are reserved for students. 
 
 On the whole our system of practice is as different from 
 all others as Nature is different from Dogmatism. We 
 know what the others mean when they talk of "osteo- 
 myelitis," of "infantile paralysis," of "hook-worm," and of 
 "flu;" but we also know the utter impossibility of any two 
 cases being exactly alike, hence the fallacy of any proposi- 
 tion to treat them according to the "contraria contraris 
 curantur" or similia similibus curantur" plans. We can 
 form a general opinion of almost any case if the sufferer 
 writes us the symptomatic exhibits, but we could not, 
 hence we would not attempt to conduct a case on such 
 meagre information. Physicians often write us asking 
 
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what we would do for "arterio-sclerosis," as if they believe 
 we have some specific treatment for such conditions, which 
 will apply to all cases alike. They certainly pay us a high 
 compliment by the request; but they shame themselves 
 when they regard us as impostors because of our frank 
 replies. We have been extraordinarily successful in such 
 cases, but we handle no two alike. Nature did all of the 
 curing; we only assisted the patients in setting up condi- 
 tions which gave natural chemistry a chance. 
 
 There are so many points of difference between A 
 System of Mature Medicine and the orthodox schools, 
 and their one-idea imitators, that it would be difficult to 
 enumerate them all; but here are some of them: 
 
 1. Old schools are divided into General Practitioners, 
 Surgeons, and "fifty-seven varieties " of Specialists. The 
 first named sends a majority of his cases to the others be- 
 cause his education was so deficient he cannot handle them; 
 and the specialists do little if any better than the others 
 could if they would use common sense. Our graduates 
 know their work so well that they only need ever enlist the 
 services of a dentist or a hospital surgeon; and these only 
 because Analysis of a case shows the necessity, in order to 
 save a life, of sacrificing a part to save the rest of the body. 
 
 2. The manner of teaching in the old schools is such 
 that no one could become competent to deal with human 
 ills if ten years, instead of four or six, were spent under 
 tutelage; because: (a), what the students learn is mostly 
 false; (b), they fail to grasp what they are taught on account 
 of having to try to absorb half a dozen different subjects 
 daily; (c), the only thing they acquire fully is a lofty notion 
 of the value of a title and a corresponding idea of "irregu- 
 lars;" (d), the "code of ethics," like the dogmas of religions, 
 dwarf their natural capacities and they rely on their "licens- 
 es" to protect them from malpractice suits. Our students 
 are started on Nature's physical laws. No matter how 
 much "education" one has when he comes to us, we have 
 
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never found, in the quarter of a century we have been 
 teaching, a man or woman who was sufficiently familiar 
 with physical principles to be given "credits." Our students 
 are kept on a single subject, under one teacher, six hours 
 daily, for many consecutive days, until they comprehend 
 the importance of it; then other, allied, subjects are annexed, 
 quizzes are conducted, clinics are employed to demonstrate 
 the physiological application of physical laws. One hour in 
 our school is worth considerable more than one hour in the 
 old schools, but 100 hours in our school are worth 1,000 
 hours in the old schools, for the reason that Consecutiveness 
 and Thoroughness are the rule with us. 
 
 3. Old schools, members of the "American Association 
 of Medical Colleges" (the Trust), require Four Years of 
 High School work; Two Years of Preliminary College 
 work; three years of latin; Four Years of Medical School 
 work; a total of thirteen years to qualify for what? Answer: 
 To practice a system which statistics, prepared by the 
 Medical Trust Journal, show yields an average of $700 a 
 3^ear for each doctor. We require a Good Common School 
 Education or its equivalent gained in business; Three 
 Months of Hard Work (1,000 hours) in the study of Physical 
 Optics, Ophthalmology, Practical Mathematics and Clinical 
 Practice, which gives each student a System of Practice 
 with which he or she can do work the thirteen-year gradu- 
 ates of the old schools cannot touch, and which has yielded 
 the graduates from the Department of Ophthalmology 
 average incomes five times greater than the old-school 
 average. After completing this course, Six Months more 
 in the Department of Neurology (2,000 hours) gives them 
 a thorough, practical knowledge of A System of Mature 
 Medicine, in the practice of which the average income is 
 $10,000 a year. After practicing at least fifteen months 
 such graduates may enter any fall for the final course of 
 nine months (3,000 hours), and upon making their grades 
 as required will receive the degree M. D. The particular 
 
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value of this course is in the review of our regular work and 
 the better knowledge of its superiority over old-school 
 methods by reason of having that work explained in detail 
 and its weakness shown. 
 
 4. Old schools teach the causes of "disease" are "specific 
 bacilli." We teach and prove human ills are disorders 
 developed by non-conformity to Natural laws, that similar 
 causes may produce like or unlike effects in different people ; 
 that unlike causes may develop alike in different people; 
 that "bacilli" are products of disorders, not the causes there- 
 of, except that of course they may be distributed by culture, 
 unintentionally or deliberately — witness the horrors of 
 Vaccination. 
 
 5. Old schools (particularly the dominant, dogmatic, 
 intolerant, political one, that is being worst hurt by the 
 "cult," hence squeals the loudest and uses "jack-pot" 
 methods to secure monopolistic "laws") teach the inocula- 
 tion (grafting) of well people to prevent "disease," and 
 inoculation of the sick to "cure" them. They haven't 
 mother-wit enough to realize they discredit themselves 
 among all logical thinkers: (a), they admit it is unsafe to 
 vaccinate a person who exhibits a blood disorder already; 
 (b), they want "laws" to compel people who do not believe 
 their freak notions about the "protection" of vaccination 
 to submit to inoculation anyhow, when, if they really 
 believed their own story, they would advertise vaccination 
 for those who are fools enough to risk it and let the rest 
 risk smallpox if they prefer to, because, if they are correct 
 the vaccinated would be immune; (c), they demand pest 
 houses and isolation for "contagious diseases," when if 
 vaccination protects there is no need for them; (d), when 
 the State Boards of Minnesota and Washington, angered 
 at the public clamor against vaccination, ceased quaran- 
 tining and permitted smallpox cases to run at large, they 
 committed a crime, according to their pretended beliefs — 
 but, lo the "disease" did not spread and the people were 
 
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vindicated. The Supreme Court of Illinois has upheld our 
 contenton that "a healthy person is not a menace to 
 society," and other courts have done the same. 
 
 6. Old schools teach that swatting the mosquitoes in 
 Havana stopped the Yellow Fever. Every layman of intel- 
 ligence knows that is a bare-face lie. General Wood, as 
 commander of the Island of Cuba, put in a sewer system, 
 thus removing the cause of both Yellow-Jack and the 
 mosquito. In Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and other South Ameri- 
 can cities the same sanitary measures ended the plague. 
 
 7. Old schools teach an artificial Materia-Medica. We 
 teach a Natural one, the Chemistry of Food and of the 
 Bodies that use it. We teach a Natural Physiological 
 Chemistry, with a normal standard in each department of 
 the body, for the measurement of departures therefrom. 
 It is an infinitely greater subject than the old schools' 
 mysterious hobby and is as certain in practice as mathe- 
 matics. 
 
 8. Old schools, recognizing the weakness of the social 
 code and the opportunities afforded by the "venereal 
 diseases" developed under it, teach "remedies" which do 
 not remedy. They teach nothing of the anatomy, physio- 
 logy, pathology and metaphysics of Sex Disorders. We 
 teach our students that every organic function of the body 
 should be studied in detail, from the mentality to the sex 
 department, and this is the only school in which all of the 
 subjects are covered, together with their relations to each 
 other, showing the necessity of each to all the rest. It is all 
 wonderfully interesting and we have found nothing "ob- 
 scene" or "indecent" about any branch, save what we hear 
 from "purists" and "moralists" whose mentalities are so 
 nasty they stink. 
 
 9. Old schools teach creeds which are absurd. They 
 
 teach their students that they alone have "scientific" 
 
 systems, and they succeed in pulling enough wool over the 
 
 eyes of the majority so that they never even ask for one 
 
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physical or physiological reason for the administration of 
 drugs. They would, probably, be dismissed for insub- 
 ordination. They are taught it is "heresy" to doubt the 
 words of "savants." Indeed their "code of ethics," chapter 
 2, section 2, commands "a due respect for those seniors who, 
 by their labors, have contributed to its (medicines) advance- 
 ment." We teach that each individual is endowed with 
 brains and is in duty bound to use them; that no one has 
 any right to assume to do their thinking for them; that the 
 greater the alleged "authority" the more he needs watching; 
 that when they go out into practice they must know why 
 they do what they do or they cannot be honest or successful. 
 
 10. Old schools entail an expense of $750 for tuition, 
 with extras. They require the loss of Thirteen Years time 
 from earning capacity, with the addition of the expense of 
 living during that period. Our tuition fee for the full course 
 in Ophthalmology and Neurology is $500; the loss of time 
 is Nine Months; the expense of living is for only that period ; 
 the earning capacity is increased many times. Then we 
 have the means of securing practices for our graduates at 
 once so that they have no siege of "watchful waiting" for 
 something to turn up. 
 
 11. Old schools ridicule and abuse all other sects, first, 
 because they are so hide-bound they cannot see they are 
 exposing their ignorance of possibilities; second, because 
 they are incensed at the competition, which in this country 
 ought to be and shall be unrestricted. Our school recognizes 
 the modicum of good in all of the alleged systems of practice 
 — even "Christian Science" teaches disordered people to 
 keep their troubles to themselves. Of course we show why 
 the one-idea schools cannot be complete successes, but we 
 accord to them the right to compete with us — if they can. 
 
 12. Old schools teach that "diseases" lurk in divers 
 places and "attack" the unwary. They classify alleged 
 symptoms and name them as "diseases": "Erysipelas," 
 "Pneumonia," "Typhoid," "Tuberculosis," etc., invoking 
 
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the aid of Fear by calling the latter the "Great White 
 Plague," and by warnings to "vaccinate," "boil the water," 
 "swat the fly," and a lot of other commercialisms. We 
 teach that clean bodies and clean minds, with a reasonable 
 observance of simple, Natural laws, are all that is necessary 
 to be healthy and happy. 
 
 13. The old schools profess great requirements for 
 admission — then they accept any person who applies with 
 the tuition fees. Their notorious "credits" have made it 
 hard for people to believe we mean exactly what we say 
 about our requirements; many appear to think we must be 
 frauds because the old schools are and we frequently have 
 applications for reductions of time. We regard all such 
 propositions as proposals to be parties to frauds and we 
 turn them down cold. We have condensed the work into 
 the shortest possible time and we cannot and will not at- 
 tempt to make it shorter. It requires most faithful, diligent 
 work to absorb a good working knowledge in the courses as 
 they are scheduled. None have any time for Greek letter 
 societies or other "horse-play." 
 
 14. Old schools "code of ethics" teaches that doctors 
 "should maintain an air of peculiar reserve toward the 
 public." We teach our students they must know their pro- 
 fession so well they need employ no such means to conceal 
 ignorance; that it is their duty to teach patients how they 
 got into trouble and how to avoid it in future. 
 
 15. Old schools teach it is "ethics" for the young doctor 
 to wait for luck to bring him a practice. We teach business 
 methods, how to get a practice ; how to prove worthy of good 
 fees; how to get them and how to impress each patient that 
 responsibility for health rests largely upon him or her; that 
 Nature's laws are immutable; that there are limits to the 
 workings of laws physically; that there are limits of physical 
 and physiological endurance, mental endurance, and what 
 those limits are with reference to each case. 
 
 . 16. Old schools teach that "medicine" is a peculiar 
 
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thing, having no relation to any other thing — that a doctor 
 may isolate a "contagious" case, yet see it daily and mix 
 freely with others without danger of infection. We teach 
 that Neurology is a profession, a trade, a business, a religion; 
 that Neurologists must deal with people of all classes and 
 conditions, hence must be an all-around man or woman, 
 above all, a Nurse; but each, as a citizen, should take 
 interest in politics and affairs generally, must read history, 
 poetry, study everything that has or may have the slight- 
 est influence on the human mind or body. 
 
 The Four Grand Divisions of A System of Mature 
 Medicine are: 1. Mental Therapy. 2. Chemical Therapy. 
 3. Manual Therapy. 4. Hydro-Therapy. 
 
 Do not confuse our Mental Therapy with "Christian 
 Science," "Magnetic Healing," "Suggestion," or other 
 Buffoonery. We have a contempt for the perpetrators of 
 such fads and a wholesome pity for their victims. We do 
 not want them either as patients or as students. We prac- 
 tice mathematically, have no mysteries, no secrets, no 
 bunkoism. We appeal to the intelligence of people in 
 proportion to what they possess; we show what Nature 
 demands of them, after we have made analyses of cases, 
 and place much of the responsibility upon them. We know 
 what the laws will do if given opportunity, and they must 
 supply the opportunity, after we have done our part. The 
 obvious reason we cannot guarantee results is because we 
 are not in control of the patients as they are of themselves. 
 It would be very easy for one of them to swindle us under 
 such conditions, and when one has the impertinence to 
 demand a guarantee from us we have good reason to believe 
 he would beat us if he could. When one suspects us without 
 cause we respond for cause. There is every reason why we 
 will always do all we can for patients: We want to win all 
 the time; and we do when instructions are followed. We do 
 not take a case if we find by analysis it is hopeless. 
 
 Chemical Therapy with us comprises a working knowl- 
 
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edge of Body and Food Chemistry. This is a much more 
 complicated subject than the old-school Materia-Medica ; 
 it involves Practical Physiological Chemistry. The two 
 following illustrations will give a small idea of what we 
 have accomplished, while our Diet Chart shows a con- 
 densation of many years' work into a very small space 
 which would take a large volume to describe in detail : 
 
 It has been "discovered" recently, by Medical Trust 
 doctors, that the Sodium Salts are better than the Potas- 
 sium Salts they have been using so long. The reason they 
 made the "discovery" is that they have been depending on 
 Germany to supply their needs and the Huns couldn't 
 deliver the goods on account of the war. The "discovery" 
 is one we made long ago and have taught in our school for 
 years. We are not dependent on any foreigner or on any 
 chemist or chemical concern. The first three items follow- 
 ing show abundance of the basic elements, Potassium and 
 Magnesium, in foods; the second three items show how we 
 change the bases to Sodium and Calcium at will. From the 
 editorial in the Trust Journal we infer they do not know 
 that Potassium and Sodium are interchangeable as bases 
 and that Calcium and Magnesium are the same : Quantity, 
 one ounce of each : 
 
 K. Na Ca. Mg. 
 
 Beef.- 1.665 .146 .113 .128 Grs. 
 
 Corn 1.022 .003 .006 .532 Grs. 
 
 Wheat 567 .038 .057 .213 Grs. 
 
 Total..._ 3.254 .187 .176 .873 Grs. 
 
 Strawberry 2.963 4.002 1.994 Grs. 
 
 Egg 521 .793 .378 .039 Grs. 
 
 Fowl 734 1.119 .534 .055 Grs. 
 
 Total..._ 4.218 5.914 2.906 .094 Grs. 
 
 Another discovery we made long ago is that the "com- 
 
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bustion" of the Carbohydrates and the generation of "heat 
 and energy" therefrom is all bosh. We prove that Nervous 
 Energy is developed in an entirely different manner and 
 that the Carbonates are a four-time load on the real pro- 
 ducing apparatus. First, they require energy to digest 
 them; second, they constitute a load to carry when they are 
 assimilated and form fat; third, they return absolutely 
 nothing valuable as building material or energy; fourth, 
 they are absorbers of heat and energy. After that they are 
 trouble makers and exhibit in people as "acidity of the 
 stomach," "boils," "erysipelas," etc. 
 
 We have a lot of other information for those who want 
 to know something of Natural Physiological and Physical 
 Chemistry. We are not wedded to Theories or Idols. We 
 are in search of Truths that will bear the strictest tests in 
 practice. The old schools have always fought for the Infal- 
 libility of Drugs, the practice of which has made their 
 claims absolutely ludicrous. 
 
 Our Manual Therapy comprises Physical Culture (not of 
 the fad type), Massage, Adjustments of displaced or partly 
 displaced joints, Mechanical Work-Outs of a great variety, 
 the Fitting of Glasses to the Eyes, and other features 
 essential to normal physiology. It is a principle with us 
 that all parts of the body mechanism should work in har- 
 mony and that if one part is out of action it affects all of the 
 others; that if one part is overworked it is liable to hyper- 
 trophy and if it is not worked enough it is subject to atrophy. 
 This branch of our work is no more "osteopathy" than the 
 mental branch is like "Faith Healing." Both are equally 
 superior. 
 
 Our Hydro-Therapy is as different from the old "water 
 cures" as our Dietetics is from old-school drugs. Alone it 
 would be of little value, except for cleanliness and in cases 
 of fever; but in combination with the rest of our armamen- 
 tarium it is a most valuable factor. The old- school idea of 
 cold baths for fevers is a testimonial of the rankest ignorance 
 
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of fundamental principles. The general public and the 
 Doctors often act upon the presumption that there is noth- 
 ing to learn about such things as baths, dietetics, and many- 
 other things, of which they have heard all of their lives. 
 They do take off their hats to the mysteries of drug medicine 
 and religion, the practitioners of which do not know why 
 they believe what they think they do. 
 
 We developed the values of the active and basic elements 
 and had been teaching our students about them for many 
 years, when, a few years ago, the Journal of the American 
 Medical Association attempted to credit Professor Sherman 
 of Columbia University with what the editor termed a 
 "remarkable disco very,' ' adding that he was just on the 
 threshold of something great; but when he learned that we 
 had anticipated the Professor many years and that it was an 
 "irregular" discovery, they dropped the subject and have 
 never«mentioned it since. 
 
 Our Neurometric Method of analyzing conditions, 
 physiological and temperamental, classifying cases in 
 twelve possible groups of disorders, making automatic 
 prognoses and even fixing the proper fee to be charged for 
 services, is an astonisher to all who have been instructed 
 in its use. . 
 
 We explode the "blood-pressure" fad by showing first 
 the necessity of the pressure to sustain life; then how our 
 mode of living keeps the walls of blood vessels elastic so 
 there is no danger from the old-school fetich. 
 
 We reduce obesity without starving patients. Indeed 
 we often feed them a greater quantity than they have been 
 accustomed to. We have taken off as much as 71 pounds 
 in one month, and the patient, who was an old-school 
 physician, grew stronger daily, soon losing his fear of 
 collapse, which had impended. 
 
 We employ a diagrammatic method of dividing subjects 
 for study, so that nothing is missed for want of consecutive- 
 ness. Physiology is the reason for the existence of anatomy. 
 
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System is a product of consecutiveness. Accuracy is only 
 attained by details, and these are only absorbed by students 
 when they are presented in a manner which connects them 
 intelligently. Our diagrams present the Duality System of 
 Analysis, which we use not only theoretically but practically. 
 Thus the longer one practices the better informed he is. 
 Old-school graduates will testify that they found it neces- 
 sary to forget much of the college theory in practice and 
 learn by experience. 
 
 We teach the clinical values of the several odors of the 
 feces, the urine, the breath and the body generally. Also 
 many other practical, analytical features, which have been 
 neglected in the old schools. We have found that corns are 
 not always caused by tight shoes, but are largely due to 
 systemic conditions. That night sweats, while indicating 
 nervous weakness, do not mean "consumption. " That the 
 "hectic flush" and afternoon fevers are not nearly always 
 signs of "tuberculosis.' ' We have not found it necessary 
 to practice frightening patients nor do we permit ourselves 
 to get alarmed. A good doctor must be a good nurse; and a 
 good nurse talks little but does things tactfully, thus reas- 
 suring patients. 
 
 Our graduates are taught to treat all other practitioners 
 with just as much respect as they deserve. We often have 
 patients who, while quitting their former doctor, because 
 they were not helped by him, still have a high regard for 
 him as a man; hence, as a matter of policy as well as ethics, 
 we avoid criticism, other than to say that the doctor is 
 probably all right, but his system is faulty. It should be 
 remembered that the old-school policy of calling all others 
 "quacks" has never done them any good, but has rather 
 raised a doubt as to their own integrity. The public recalls 
 that the pickpocket always cries "stop thief" and points at 
 others to attract attention from himself. The General 
 Manager of the American Medical Association (Medical 
 Trust), and editor of the Journal, George Simmons, has 
 
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been proved to be an ex-Homeopathic, Advertising Quack 
 and Abortionist, of Lincoln, Nebraska. J. N. McCormack, 
 of Bowling Green, Ky., late Walking Delegate of the Trust, 
 was pardoned by Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, some 
 years ago for a crime against the laws of the state, before 
 he had been convicted of it. Some confession, was it not? 
 Yet both of these men are the biggest howlers about the 
 "Quacks." You will never hear of one of our graduates 
 committing the crime of abortion. It is always the "regular" 
 fellows. And the worst of it is that the alleged "laws" of 
 all states protect them to a great extent. Where one 
 abortionist is convicted a thousand remain at large. Old- 
 school persecution of others has resulted in more class- 
 legislation which protects "osteopaths," "chiropractors," 
 "optometrists," "nurses," "pharmacists/' "barbers," 
 "horse-shoers," and permits them to persecute their com- 
 petitors. We have always fought such laws on principle. 
 Some courts have stultified themselves by upholding them. 
 Others have made themselves ridiculous by the reasons 
 given for declaring them void. We insist merit should win; 
 that the people are the court of last resort; that they have 
 an inalienable right to select their own doctor as well as 
 their own religious belief. Legislators and courts have 
 catered to "Christian Science" and other cults — because 
 they are political powers. We believe in Education and 
 in Medical Freedom. It is Natural and is bound to win io 
 the long run. 
 
 There are no drug fiends among our graduates, nor 
 among their patients. 
 
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OUR COURSE IN TRUE OPHTHALMOLOGY. 
 
 Ophthalmology, as we teach it, is as different from that 
 taught in all other schools as could be imagined. If the 
 Optical Schools are such, our course is one in general 
 practice. Our graduates from this department do work no 
 oculist, optometrist, or even general medical practitioners 
 can do. It is Neurological Ophthalmology. Oculists are 
 merely physicians who have elected to practice a specialty 
 for business reasons. They had no more training than 
 others in the general course of their school; they have 
 taken some special work — often only a week or two, and 
 their "license" does the rest. They have absolutely no 
 knowledge of physical optics, which is one of the most 
 important of all branches of study. They treat as "diseas- 
 es" of the eyes what we and our graduates know are pro- 
 ducts of nerve strain through defective dioptric systems. 
 They say eyes are good if vision is normal, when, as a 
 matter of fact, thousands of very bad eyes have perfect 
 vision; indeed too good vision is a sure indication of at 
 least one unit of Hypermetropia (an under-developed eye) 
 and possibly as much as two or three units. If their patients 
 have indigestion, female troubles, eruptions on the body, 
 "rheumatism," etc., they send them to a general practi- 
 tioner. Our Ophthalmologists are qualified to remove the 
 causes of many of these Symptoms (not "diseases") and 
 their clients get well Naturally. 
 
 Instead of 48 to 60 hours, advertised in the old-school 
 catalogues as the time devoted to Ophthalmology in their 
 Four- Years' course, we devote 1,000 hours to the work and 
 do it in Three Months. More than half of this time is 
 personal work by ourselves with the students; the balance 
 is in special work by them, laid out by us. No student has 
 anjr time for anything else but sleeping, eating and a reason- 
 able amount of exercise. Our pupils are all enthusiastic — 
 after jthey get over the first few days' work, which rather 
 
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appalls them, because it comes so fast; but when they find 
 it is all as sure as bookkeeping they love the work. 
 
 This Department is the Primary or Foundation course, 
 which all candidates must take before they are eligible 
 to the other courses. There are several advantages in this 
 to the students: First, they get a real profession in the 
 least time and at a cost far below what would be involved 
 in any other line of work. We have taken many a ten- 
 dollar-a-week person and made a fifty-to-one-hundred- 
 dollar-a-week doctor. Second, if it is intended to take 
 the full Neurological course the Ophthalmological graduate 
 can go out and earn the money to pay for the balance of 
 the work. Third, if any are found whom we do not regard 
 as having the necessary qualifications to become good 
 Neurologists we advise them to not go into that work unless 
 they expect to get information for personal benefit. We 
 hold it is worth to any person all of the time and money 
 it costs to take the full course, even if they never expect 
 to practice a minute — they learn how to get well if sick 
 and how to keep well when they are well. Fourth, in this 
 Department students get a training in Anatomy and 
 Physiology of the Nervous and Organic Systems; many 
 come with minor, chronic ills, "catarrh, " "indigestion/ ' 
 "constipation/ ' "dysmenorrhea," "amenorrhoea," "head- 
 ache," "heart disease," "hay fever," etc., and have the 
 causes removed while they take the course, without extra 
 charge, thus they get their moneys' worth and the course 
 beside. 
 
 Schedule. 
 
 1. Fundamental Physics, Chemical and Mechanical. 
 
 2. The laws of Light, Heat, Force, Attraction, Etc. 
 
 3. Refraction by all forms of Transparent Substances. 
 
 4. Prisms: Angles of Construction and Deviation, Etc. 
 
 5. Lens Construction: All forms and Their Respective 
 
 Values. 
 
 6. Optical Centers, Nodal Points, Principal Factors, Etc. 
 
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7. Technical Drawing by and Without Mathematical 
 
 Calculations. 
 
 8. Reflection from all sorts of Surfaces, particularly 
 
 Mirrors. 
 
 9. Writing, Transposing and Analyzing Prescriptions 
 
 for Lenses. 
 
 10. Physical Construction of Ideally Normal and Defec- 
 
 tive Eyes. 
 
 11. Anatomy and Physiology of the General Nervous 
 
 System. 
 
 12. Anatomy and Physiology of the Eyes and Their 
 
 Appendages. 
 
 13. Measuring Errors of Refraction in the Eyes System- 
 
 atically. 
 
 14. Measuring the Nerve Supph' of the Body Through 
 
 the Eyes. 
 
 15. Finding General Systemic Conditions by Dynamic 
 
 and Static Tests. 
 
 16. Measuring the Blood Suppty with the Ophthalmoscope. 
 
 17. Why Nerve Strain through the Eyes is the Primary 
 
 Cause of Ills. 
 
 18. Why Fitting Glasses Properly Requires Highest 
 
 Surgical Skill. 
 
 19. Why "Oculists" and "Optometrists" make so many 
 
 Failures. 
 
 20. Alleged Eye "Diseases," Their Causes and How to 
 
 Remove Them. 
 
 21. The Fallacy of "Muscle Trouble" and Use of Prisms. 
 
 22. How to Straighten Cross Eyes Without Operation or 
 
 Danger. 
 
 23. Why Eye Operations are Mostly Willful or Criminal 
 
 Malpractice. 
 
 24. Expose of Retinascopy and Other Fads, with Positive 
 
 Proofs. 
 
 25. General Disorders, Digestive and Otherwise. How to 
 
 Fix Them. 
 
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26. Elementary and Abstractive Dietetics. 
 
 27. Physiognomy, Symptomatology, Mental Influences, 
 
 Etc. 
 
 28. Objective and Subjective Procedures Demonstrated 
 
 Clinically. 
 
 29. Comparisons of Text-Book Methods with Ours, 
 
 Clinically. 
 
 30. The Neurometric Method of Analysis, Supplanting 
 
 "Diagnosis." 
 
 31. Case-Taking, Fee-Fixing, Ethics of Advertising, Busi- 
 
 ness. 
 
 32. Legal Rights and Limitations of Ophthalmologists. 
 The classes work in the school rooms six hours daily, 
 
 except Sunday, with individual tasks each evening. This is 
 necessary in order to be able to cover the course with the 
 entire class in the course of Three Months. No other school 
 gives anything like our work and any pretenses that they 
 do are false. 
 
 Students must make grades of at least 80 per cent, in 
 each subject to graduate, and to be eligible to the Neuro- 
 logical course they must have grades of 100 in Physical 
 Optics. As this is straight mathematics it can be done if 
 they work. 
 
 Requirements for Admission: White persons of Good 
 Character, at least a good Common School education, 
 Honesty of Purpose, Willingness to Work Hard, Con- 
 formity to the Rules of the Institution. 
 
 Tuition Fee: Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Payable 
 in Advance. 
 
 Degree Conferred : Doctor of Ophthalmology. 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY. 
 
 Only graduates from our Department of Ophthalmology 
 with physical grades of 100 per cent, and having shown 
 capacity for the work, are admitted. The course opens 
 early in January each year, and continues six months. 
 Dates on application. 
 
 In the old schools Neurology means a branch of the 
 work, just as Biology, Histology, etc., are branches. With 
 us the word covers everything necessary to constitute "A 
 System of Mature Medicine." We instruct our students 
 in all the branches covered by the old schools and in ad- 
 dition we have a great deal of work which is absolutely 
 unknown to them. The reason for this is that while they 
 have stuck to the orthodox creeds and "time honored" 
 errors, we have profited by their failures and have made 
 such great progress they can never hope to catch up with us. 
 
 With our Consecutive, Continuous Method of Teaching 
 we are able to cover subjects rapidly and comprehensively, 
 because they are intertwined like the story of "The House 
 that Jack Built." The old schools have about six lectures 
 a day, on as many subjects, by six different people. We 
 have six hours daily by one teacher, on one subject, four 
 days each week. The other two days are devoted to indi- 
 vidual work and instruction so that our classes are kept 
 even. 
 
 The first day we open with a preliminary statement of 
 what we expect to prove, just as good attorneys do in court. 
 Then we begin with the skeleton : its chemical composition ; 
 its development in connection with other tissues ; its forms ; 
 articulations; sources of nourishment; structure; physi- 
 ology; possible pathology. Six hours a day application not 
 only interests but instructs instead of confusing students, 
 as is the case in the old schools. Next, we add muscles and 
 tell the two stories together. Next comes the nerves and 
 nervous energy, three stories together. Then the cireula- 
 
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tion, four stories in a bunch, and so on through the entire 
 list of branches. Any layman or old-school doctor ought 
 to be able to see that we have the only system of instruction 
 and practice, because we include everything which is ration- 
 al, theoretical or practical, chemical or mechanical. We 
 do not need to explain further for students, because all who 
 enter this Department have already been through Ophthal- 
 mology with us and have a pretty good idea of what they 
 are tackling. 
 
 For the benefit of the laity and other schools of practice 
 we will say that while the so-called "regular' ' (Allopathic) 
 school holds first place in the estimate of a credulous public 
 by reason of being the oldest and closest allied with "reli- 
 gion," having been an outgrowth of that mysterious cult, 
 it is a purely one-idea system of "cure," which humbug is 
 only excelled by the "forgiveness of sins" scheme of the 
 "Christians." It believes in the efficacy of drugs. So do 
 the Homeopaths, the Eclectics, the Physio-Medicalists. 
 The "Christian" bible says: "A house divided against itself 
 shall fall." The church divided and it has been falling ever 
 since. Drug medicine is going the same route, despite the 
 most strenuous efforts of the Medical Trust and gullible 
 legislators, venal courts, etc. Look at the new "systems" 
 which have arisen from time to time and flourished to some 
 extent. They failed and will continue to fail because they 
 are all imitators of the Allopathic school, even to the use 
 of their textbooks and imitations thereof. Punching backs 
 alone is no system of practice. Baths alone may do good 
 or harm. Massage is good for some things, but it isn't a 
 system. 
 
 Neurology is different. It is "a system of mature 
 medicine." It comprises Chemistry as it is practiced by 
 Nature. It involves the study of not only Body Compo- 
 sition and Metabolism, but of the sources of Chemical Sup- 
 plies, which are to be found in foods alone in such combina- 
 tions they are assimilable. It includes Mechanics so tha^ 
 
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practitioners may know how to render aid in cases of ac- 
 cident. It is really the oldest and only S3 r stem of practice, 
 because everything taught and practiced is according to 
 Natural Laws, which are as old as Nature. We employ 
 artificial legs and other rational substitutes, whenever and 
 wherever required to assist Nature, but we never attempt 
 to supplant her in any particular. To be more specific we 
 enumerate : 
 
 1. We have ideally normal standards, anatomical and 
 physiological. 
 
 2. We have positive means of finding departures from 
 normal. 
 
 3. We have tests for determining the causes of derange- 
 ments. 
 
 4. We know these causes have different effects in 
 different people, hence there could be no rational name or 
 treatment that would fit all cases of similar symptoms. 
 
 5. We have to examine and analyze conditions in each 
 case. 
 
 6. The analysis discovers the causes and automatically 
 tells what must be done by ourselves and the patient. 
 
 7. As the possible causes are limited to Mental and 
 Physical and consist solely of nervous shock or strain, we 
 have Chemistry and Mechanics to tell us what is wrong 
 and how to act. 
 
 8. We know the laws of Sensation and Motion, Heat 
 and Cold, with their subdivisions and auxiliaries. 
 
 9. Our mental therapy is mathematical instead of 
 mysterious. We do not care a hoot whether a patient 
 believes in our system. It is merely a matter of obedience 
 to instructions, always reasonable and practicable. 
 
 10. Our Materia-Medica is the Composition of Foods 
 and their Physiological Action combined with Body Con- 
 ditions as found by Analysis and supported by experience 
 in practice with most uniform success. 
 
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11. The employment of water, internally and externally, 
 is the first auxiliary to our materia-medica. 
 
 12. The correction of eye defects is of importance 
 because the eyes are the gauges we measure the nerve and 
 blood supplies correctly with and the glasses stop an enor- 
 mous drain on the nerve supply at once. We measure it as 
 absolutely as electricity is measured by meters. 
 
 13. Our manual practice, in combination with the other 
 features, enables us to do away with surgery, except in very 
 rare instances and in cases of accident. It includes massage 
 and manipulations of various kinds, none of which can 
 possibly do harm to any patient. 
 
 14. Rest, mental and physiological,isoneoftheessentials, 
 in combination with other indicated treatment, in order to 
 remove the causes, thus permitting Nature to restore health. 
 
 15. Exercises, not only of the body as a whole, but of the 
 sevefal functions, are necessary to maintain physiological 
 equilibrium as well as mental balance. 
 
 16. Education of each patient to the responsibilities to 
 Nature of each individual in order to get well and remain 
 well. We have no secrets from our patients, no mystery in 
 our methods, but we have such a variety of combinations 
 of causes in the different cases that none should feel com- 
 petent to treat others by what they learn while we are 
 treating them, unless they have first gone into the study of 
 Causes and Effects as we have done in order to be competent 
 to treat them. 
 
 We have no use whatever for vaccination or drugs, 
 prescriptions or patent. They are the "discoveries' ' of 
 hysterics who have taught mystery so long they have come 
 to believe in it, despite the egregious and ridiculous failures 
 of it in practice, and despite the fact that they have changed 
 their creeds every decade for hundreds of years. 
 
 Tuition Fee: Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Payable 
 
 in Advance. 
 
 Degree: Doctor of Neurology. 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF REGULAR MEDICINE. 
 
 After a student has completed the courses in Ophthal- 
 mology and Neurology and has practiced at least fifteen 
 months, after graduating in Neurology, he or she is eligible 
 to re-enter the school, about the last of September of any 
 year, and add nine months' work, when, upon making 
 satisfactory grades and being otherwise worthy, the degree, 
 Doctor of Medicine, will be conferred. This is not to be 
 taken in any sense as a concession that there is any merit 
 in the degree over those of Doctor of Ophthalmology and 
 Doctor of Neurology. It is merely evidence to the public 
 that the holder has earned all the honors there are to be 
 received in preparation for practice and is therefore better 
 qualified than if he had devoted all of his time to one creed. 
 No Neurologist would ever practice Drug Medicine if he 
 had degrees from all the colleges in the world, because all 
 want success and they have the means to that end in Neur- 
 ology, "A System of Mature Medicine." Of course it is 
 worth the time and money cost to know what the others 
 are doing, but the chief value of this course is the review 
 of our own work, after having practiced during the period 
 required for admission. 
 
 No four-year or seven-year course in the old schools 
 ever equaled this. 
 
 Tuition Fee: Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars paya- 
 ble in advance. 
 
 Our plan of education is not only better in theory and 
 practice than that of the orthodox schools, but it puts a 
 profession within reach for those of limited means and 
 unlimited ambition. 
 
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POST-GRADUATE COURSE FOR PHYSICIANS. 
 
 We have always been and are today the best friends of 
 the old-school practitioners. We have always fought for 
 medical freedom for them, that they might migrate from 
 one state to another without losing their rights as prac- 
 titioners. We have always served a post-graduate course 
 for their improvement and many have availed themselves 
 of it. Almost invariably they at once abandoned old 
 methods and adopted ours because they saw better results 
 for patients and better remuneration for themselves. 
 Many of them parted with bad cases of "Asthma," Heart 
 weakness, "Rheumatism/ ' Gall-stones, Blood pressure, 
 Bladder troubles, Obesity, Indigestion, etc., while taking 
 the course. They learned how needless is death from 
 "Pneumonia.' ' They found a way to handle Inflammatory 
 Rheumatism. How to anticipate and prevent Cerebral 
 hemorrhage. How to handle "Epileptic" cases success- 
 fully. How to treat the "Grippe" so there will be no after- 
 math. They found the greatest system of Gynecological 
 practice they ever dreamed of. They learned something 
 about Appendicitis that made them laugh and made them 
 enthuse when they tackled a few cases and won. They 
 learned how to handle cases they had regarded as Incurable. 
 They learned how to Analyze instead of Diagnose cases. 
 They learned how to fit glasses and measure the nerve 
 supplies and blood quality and quantity of patients and 
 ascertain exact conditions with reference to the High, 
 Safety, Danger and Low Lines of each. At first they 
 marveled when we measured them and told them their ages ; 
 then they waded in and learned how to do such things them- 
 selves. They all are our enthusiastic friends. They all 
 say they never worked so hard in their lives; but they never 
 got so much for so little work after all. 
 
 Time Required : Four Months. 
 
 Tuition Fee : Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Payable 
 in advance. Degree : Doctor of Neurology. 
 
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SEX ILLS AND NATURAL LAWS. 
 
 McCormick Medical College is the only school in the 
 world that takes the subject of Sex Ills, Mental and Physio- 
 logical, and goes to the bottom of it. The old schools only 
 teach "Venereal Diseases" and "Gynecology," the first of 
 which remains a puzzle among them and the second is so 
 radically wrong that our Ophthalmological graduates are 
 able to do so much more for patients than the old practi- 
 tioners can that there is no room for comparisons. 
 
 We have been proving for many years that the Causes 
 of many Disorders, Mental and Physiological, of both sexes, 
 are from ignorance of matters pertaining to sexes and their 
 relations. It is an appalling truth that religious bodies, 
 while pretending "reverence for the Creator and His works" 
 give the lie to their professions by teaching that a portion 
 of His work is an unfit subject for investigation, "indecent" 
 to exhibit and "obscene" to write about. Preachers thunder 
 "morality" from their pulpits and practice "immorality" 
 in their homes under the thin disguise, marriage. Political 
 doctors, who are unable to make their livings in practice, 
 seek "laws" compelling "Medical Marriages," because 
 they hope for appointments as "inspectors." 
 
 Nature has no "morals." Her laws work for good if 
 conformed to and for harm if they are ignored, willfully or 
 ignorantly. 
 
 We teach Natural Laws as they have been revealed to 
 us by mathematical study and over a quarter of a century 
 of practice. We prove what we teach, by mathematics 
 and by the people who suffered distress and have been 
 relieved by following our instructions — and they are perma- 
 nently "cured," not by us, but by Nature. Any doctor 
 who claims to cure anything is a humbug — the greatest 
 of all "bugs." 
 
 We teach the Sex subject as we do the Brain, the Stomach 
 the Intestines, or any other part of Anatomy or Physiology. 
 There is nothing lewd or lascivious about any of them, 
 
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except as weak mentalities see them after "moral" train- 
 ing. We teach and prove that Physiological Disappoint- 
 ment in copulation is bad for both sexes, and why. We 
 teach that ignorant indulgence leads to abuses or ab- 
 stinence, that both are bad, and why. We teach and 
 prove that early experience, under rational instruction, is 
 absolutely essential to development of both minds and 
 bodies. We teach and prove that when it is neglected 
 until after maturity of other organs, say after the thirtieth 
 year, the individual is permanently defective. We teach 
 that a child has the right to be well born and we teach how 
 to accomplish that feat. We teach the humbuggery and 
 outrageousness of the doctrine that a wife is her husband's 
 property and must submit herself to his passions on demand. 
 We teach that marriage, as a "hymenial" proposition, is 
 degrading, and prove it by millions of cases of infelicity. 
 We teach truths the young should be taught in the public 
 schools; we teach those of mature years what is absolutely 
 necessary to health and happiness. We teach nothing that 
 is not clean and wholesome. What we teach on this subject 
 alone is worth all the entire course costs in time and money. 
 No other school even pretends to teach it. 
 
 We accept none but high-class stu- 
 dents. Those who are merely diploma 
 hunters can't get them here. Our 
 courses require work, work and more 
 work. It is no place for lazy people or 
 fakers. 
 
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OFFICIAL OLD-SCHOOL SCHEDULE. 
 
 Histology 90 
 
 Embryology 90' 
 
 Osteology 30 
 
 Anatomy 520 
 
 Physiology 300 
 
 Chemistry and Toxicology 300 
 
 Materia Medica 60 
 
 Pharmacology . 60 
 
 Therapeutics 90 
 
 Bacteriology 140 
 
 Pathology 240 
 
 Medical Zoology, Post Mortem and Clinical Microscopy 90 
 
 Physical Diagnosis 100 
 
 Practice of Medicine 540 
 
 Surgery 540 
 
 Obstetrics 160 
 
 Gynecology... > 160 
 
 Pediatrics 100 
 
 Eye and Ear 60 
 
 Nose and Throat 60 
 
 Mental and Nervous Disease 120 
 
 Electro-Therapeutics 60 
 
 Genito-Urinary Disease 60 
 
 Dermatology and Syphilis 50 
 
 Hygiene, Climatology and Public Health 30 
 
 Dietetics 30 
 
 Medical Jurisprudence 30 
 
 Hydrotherapy 
 
 Specific Diagnosis and Medication 
 
 Four years' total 4110 
 
 These subjects are taught in the old-schools in such a 
 manner the students hear from two to six different lectures 
 on as many subjects each day. 
 
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In McCormick Medical College one teacher works six 
 hours a day on a single subject. He gives it to students by 
 talks — we do not lecture — by drawings, by clinics and 
 dictates notes on the most important features of each sub- 
 ject. 
 
 In the old-schools where they boast a host of "profes- 
 sors" about 97 per cent, of them are doctors in practice who 
 appear once a week or once a month and few of them know 
 their subjects well enough to talk without preparation. 
 
 In McCormick Medical College our teachers all devote 
 their entire time to the school work. They know it so well 
 they are ready for business at any hour, day or night. 
 
 Old fogyism must go in medicine as well as in everything 
 else. 
 
 In McCormick Medical College, students who want not 
 only Ophthalmology and A System of Mature Medicine in 
 its entirety, but also the details of old-school work, put in a 
 minimum of 4320 hours of school work and Fifteen Months 
 in practice. The latter enables them to lighten expenses, 
 while qualifying them more completely than any other 
 school can. It is all included in four years, too. 
 
 With reference to admission to examination by state 
 boards, the courts have decided that any discrimination 
 against schools of practice is absolutely unconstitutional. 
 Any trickery by members of boards is punishable under the 
 statutes covering misconduct in office, and ranges from 
 $10,000 fine to fine and imprisonment. 
 
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We Take Patients 
 
 In connection with the college we 
 
 have facilities for a limited number 
 
 of patients. Our 
 
 SYSTEM OF MATURE 
 MEDICINE 
 
 works on cases that have been pro- 
 nounced "incurable" by old-school 
 practitioners. We make a specialty of 
 
 "CHRONIC" FEMALE DISORDERS 
 RHEUMATISM AND ECZEMA 
 EPILEPSY AND INDIGESTION 
 "HEART DISEASE" AND OBESITY 
 "PERNICIOUS" ANAEMIA 
 
 GENERAL NERVOUS DEBILITY 
 
 We take no cases without first making 
 a through personal examination and anal- 
 ysis. If we find conditions warrant the 
 assumption of success we take them. 
 Otherwise we tell the truth and pass 
 the case. All fees payable in advance. 
 
 EXAMINATION FEE $25 IN ADVANCE 
 
 Mccormick medical college 
 
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Books That Will Tell 
 
 Things You Want 
 
 to Know 
 
 r ~PHE books published by the 
 *■" McCormick Medical Col- 
 lege in years passed and to 
 come will always be found to 
 contain practical as well as theo- 
 retical information. Our works 
 are not to be found in second- 
 hand book stores, because care- 
 less and unsuccessful people 
 do not buy them. Others, who 
 do buy them, use them, and 
 being successful, have no occa- 
 sion to pawn them. 
 
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 McCormick Medical College 
 
 Chicago 
 
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