EASY TO MASTER TEMPTATIONS  
Once you put this technique into operation, you will be amazed at how easy it becomes to master even the most difficult  
temptations. To repeat, all it requires is an a lert attention. If you switch your attention immediately as you recognize the enemy thoughts, you  
will always win without fail. I would have gladly given all that I had as a young lad to have learned this method. I could have avoided all those years of  
suffering and struggling with willpower and all of its attendant misery. It was a blessed day for me when my eyes were opened  
by studying the philosophical writings of Paul Brunton, wherein this profound truth of the nature of mind was revealed. May Eternal I ntelligence forever bless those great souls of all ages, who have condescended to share their best thoughts,  
experiences, and meditations with us. Let us open our hearts and minds to their wise counsel as we reach toward happiness. WITH OTHER PEOPLE  
A few  words on how to cope with temptation when you're out with friends may be helpful here. If you're out socially with people and they converse about food or indulge in eating, which includes those foods you are tryi ng to 
avoid, it is wise to stay out of the conversation and put your mind on another far -removed subject to avoid temptation. If they engage you in the conversation directly, try to introduce another subject. You may comment on how nice this suit look s - 
"where did you get it?" etc. An easy way to change a subject is to ask an opinion on a current idea or subject as a stock, a  
quotation or news article that may interest them. copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648 -1500    www.drbass.com                                               29 
 
 
If they directly confront you with the question of why you don't join them with a particular food, simply state that you're n ot 
hungry now, and try to change the subject. It can be done skillfully quite easily. The idea is to stay away f rom the undesired subject in order to avoid any emotional involvement with temptation. It may be  
advisable to avoid social gatherings for a few weeks until you get accustomed to your new routine. Then, when you socialize,  
play it safe by using the above te chniques so that they don't try to pressure you into conformity. SHORT -CIRCUIT TECHNIQUE  
There is another method which is closely allied to the one mentioned in this article which is equally worthy of serious study . This  
is a technique that has been taugh t from time immemorial by great sage -philosophers to their disciples. It is the system that  
was taught by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to their students in recent times. This method, while it is simple requires persistence  in 
practice and ultimately leads to pr ofound self -revelation about how we function on all levels. This practice may also be used to overcome any undesirable habit -response of feeling, emotion or thought. You try to develop  
the habit of watching your own feelings, emotions or thoughts. Just obs erving them short -circuits their hold on you. It makes you  
objective to them and instantly breaks any emotional attachment or identification. You will be amazed at how much you find out about yourself and your behavior response patterns. You will learn more in a few  
hours of alert watching than by reading ten books on psychology. You will become aware of facets of your behavior that you  
never dreamed existed. GREATER SELF -CONTROL AND FREEDOM  
When you watch yourself you'll find many thoughts arising that  you don't like, and will want to change. One can, however, only change those thoughts that one is aware of. In order to become aware, start by watching your own thoughts and you will automatically change your behavior. Become more conscious by watching yo ur thoughts, and you will start to improve every facet of your functioning existence. It will not make you "self -conscious" in its negative sense or neurotic, but instead will lead you to greater awareness, self -control  
and freedom from the tyranny of unde sired random thought. Dr. Stanley S. Bass  
First published in Dr. Shelton's "Hygienic Review" September 1974.  
 
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Energy - How Acquired and Lost in the Body  
 
"The more we eat, the more exhausted and sleepy we become. Any energy we experience immediately  
after eating (such as sweets) is the expenditure of energy, not its accumulation." BREATHING SUSTAINS ENERGY  
The basic force and condition behind all activities of human life is the presence of energy. Energy is required for every aspect of  
existence - every act uses energy - thinking, feeling, walking, eating, drinking, dreaming, breathing etc. We are born with a  
reserve of energy stored in all cells, which needs to be steadily replenished with breathing at all times. If breathing were to stop, death would ensue in a matter of minutes. REDUCED BREATHING  
In hibernation or coma, breathing is greatly reduced because of reduced use of energy expenditure, as compared to ordinary  
function. Suspended animation is a different type of condi tion, wherein some yogis using certain breathing techniques, are able to store  
enough oxygen in the cells to remain alive even though all bodily function has ceased, and to remain so for months at a time. INHALED AIR AND SUBTLE ENERGY PRINCIPLE  
According to the teachings of Yoga philosophy, air which is inhaled, contains a subtle energy principle called "prana", which is  
the vital principle needed to sustain life. My understanding of how this works (I'm not sure whether I have read this, or whether it came  to me as a result of intuition) is  
as follows:  
The universe is filled with energy and basically all matter is ultimately composed of energy and energy particles. Each atom  
contains a neutron, proton and electrons revolving among them. Electrons are electr ic particles, but physics has broken them  
down into even subtler electrical particles, which some call lifetrons etc. COSMIC ENERGY  
Now, energy generally is undifferentiated, nevertheless possesses inherent intelligence - that is it can be used or transfe rred 
into energy doing special work - like electricity (a form of energy) can be used to turn motors, in telephones and electronics. This cosmic and ever -present universal unspecialized energy, which permeates the universe enters into and goes through all  
life forms and matter in the universe. As this energy enters a form, say a tree for example, the tree according to its design , 
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purpose, needs and genetic structure, ab sorbs and appropriates this generalized non -specified universal energy and adapts or  
converts it to its own needs. The same applies to every material form, from rocks, plants, fish, animals to humans. INDWELLING SPIRIT  
The process of living and being aliv e in all organized vegetable and animal forms depends upon the precondition of having a  
certain basic highly organic life element - which may be called an indwelling spirit or soul - which is transmitted during the birth  
process. AMOUNT OF ENERGY AVAILABL E TO USE  
The amount of energy available to use from moment to moment depends upon the quality of the blood, lymph, nerves and  
energy pathways (called meridians). ENERGY AND BODY SUBSTANCES  
These in turn are dependant upon the presence of (a.) all necessar y substances in the body, such as minerals, trace elements,  
proteins, vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, etc. and (b.) the correct amount of these, neither excessive or deficient. ENERGY AND FREEDOM FROM TOXINS  
There need to be (c.) sufficient clearness and purity of blood and lymph circulation free from obstruction, such as metabolic  
body toxins generated from activity, and foreign unusable chemicals introduced from without - such as tobacco, pollution,  
drugs, etc. ENERGY AND SLEEP  
Finally (d.) there must b e sufficient rest and sleep, the indispensable and most important time wherein the body recharges itself  
with the eternal undifferentiated energy, as well as the energy contained in the food consumed earlier. Whatever energy is  
absorbed from food is transf erred only during the state of sleep, never directly during the act of eating. PROCESS OF EATING - ENERGY EXPENDITURE  
If energy could be absorbed directly by the process of eating, then all we would have to do whenever we are tired is to eat, and 
the more  food we eat the stronger we would become, thus making sleep unnecessary. But actually, the reverse is true. The more we eat, the more exhausted and sleepy we become. Any energy we experience immediately after eating (such as  
sweets), or the lift we get fr om drinking coffee, or the expression of strong emotions - is using our energy reserves, - and is the  
expenditure of energy, not its accumulation. ENERGY IS EXPERIENCED DURING EXPENDITURE  
Energy is always felt and experienced in its expenditure. Its accum ulation is rarely felt, since this occurs during periods of rest and mostly during deep dreamless sleep, when the mind  
is inactive. www.drbass.com/feeling.html  
The Relation Between Energy And Feeling And Thought  
from "Overcoming Compulsive Habits"  
"The person who feels depressed or negative most of the time is low on the energy level scale and needs  
to omit undesirable energy -wasting practices and to increase rest and sleep." HIGH ENERGY AND JOY  
The child who has not yet poisoned his body with unnatural  food and stimulants or young undomesticated animals are  
alternately engaged in joyful play and restful sleep. Negative or depressed states are unknown. Joy, vitality, happiness and play 
mark its existence. This is equally so with healthy adolescents, young and even mature adults who are not dissipating their powers in destructive  
emotions and poison -habits. This is strikingly evident in primitive people or regions which have not yet been educated into our  
"civilized habits". LOW ENERGY AND NEGATIVITY  
On the other hand, the more that energy is lost through dissipation, stimulants, tension, emotional, physical and sexual exce ss 
and especially prolonged loss of sleep and rest, the more does negativity in feelings, emotions and thoughts set in. copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648 -1500    www.drbass.com                                               31 
 
 
The above diagram presents an approximate sketch of how our feelings fluctuate according to the amount of energy which we  
have available for use. CREATIVITY AND ENERGY  
The same applies to our mental and creative abilities. The greater the amount of energy which is available, the better we are  
able to think, reason, create and the more alert we are. Conversely, the less energ y which is available, the more deficient we  
become in all of our mental abilities. RECUPERATING ENERGY  
The person who feels depressed or negative most of the time is low on the energy level scale and needs to omit undesirable  
energy -wasting practices and to increase rest and sleep. Just as the muscles enter a state of inertia during the recharging process called sleep, so does the mind manifest a reduced  
state of activity during its resting and recharging phase. We observe this mental state as "feeling dep ressed", when we are  
awake. This merely indicates that the brain -cells are recuperating energy. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS  
The individual who is living intelligently, obeying the laws of life, eating correctly, resting and sleeping sufficiently and  avoiding  
poison -habits will manifest happy, cheerful and optimistic feelings, emotions and thought for the most part. He will fluctuate between wellbeing, happiness and great joy. When due to unusual expenditure, his energy level drops, this will manifest as quietu de, passivity and deep relaxation which is  
free from irritability, negative feelings or thoughts. www.drbass.com/disease -cure.html  
Dr. Herbert Shelton:  
HOW DISEASES ARE CURED  
 
"Contrary to popular belief, a  cold  is not something that we '  catch  ,' but i t represents a process of getting  
rid of something we have slowly accumulated." "To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient cured  
is tantamount to saying that the stone was  its own cause  ." The following article by Dr. Herbert Shelton was first printed in his HYGIENIC REVIEW. Dr. Shelton had a Texas -based fasting retreat. He collected knowledge from the old hygienic masters,  
cleared out the junk, and made it into a basic intelligence system - Natural Hygiene. He was a great  
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 "What does the average individual know about keeping well? Almost nothing. ----- The people and their doctors are all  
in the same  boat together with a blind man at the helm. They lack the chart and compass and drift aimlessly on a sea  
of ignorance and misinformation." HOW DISEASES ARE CURED  
 
It is high time the people begin to learn something about the causes of disease and of the "complications" that so frequently  
develop under regular care. Indeed, physicians and doctors of all schools should learn the causes of disease and  
"complications," - and they should all learn to realize, that to mask symptoms with their drugs and treatmen ts is to stand in their  
own light. Behold what a muss! "Scientific medicine" is capable of making a very elaborate diagnosis; but, then, does not know what is  
really wrong with the patient nor what to do for him. Don't take my word for it - consult Cabot, Mackenzie, Baldwin, and others  
who have dared slip their professional muzzles long enough to do a little effective thinking. THE MEDICAL PARADOX: IS PATHOLOGY ITS OWN CAUSE? The paradox of all medical paradoxes is that physicians recognize pathology as it s own cause. Etiology and diagnosis,  
according to the approved theories and practices of the "regulars," starts with a developed pathology. The science of diagnos is, 
as practiced today, is merely the naming and classifying of established pathologies; all p resent and future symptoms being  
recognized and treated as pathognomic, all antecedent symptoms being ignored as not having any relationship to the existing  
pathology or so -called disease. What is a system of diagnosis and treatment worth that is based on an etiology that starts with "causes" that are, in truth, but  
organized effects? For example, when a surgeon removes a fibroid tumor, or extirpates a hyperplastic gland, or tonsil, or adenoid without a  
thought, or the slightest knowledge that these enlarge ments are but organized effects - neoplasms (new tissue growths) - that 
cannot possibly come into existence without cause, which cause is not touched by the operation - and, then, pronounces his - 
patient well (cured), does he not assume that the growth is  its own cause? To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient  
cured is tantamount to saying that the stone was its own cause. To remove the thyroid gland and pronounce the patient well of  
goitre (hyperthyroidism) is to imply that the goiter caused itsel f. Is it difficult to understand that all of these procedures leave the  
cause untouched - to result in the building of more pathology? MEDICAL IGNORANCE ABOUT DISEASE  
What is disease? Regular medical men freely confess that they do not know. Did they know  its essential nature, they would  
cease their learned glibness about immunity. Theoretically, one "attack" of an infectious disease establishes immunity to fut ure 
"attacks." In practice, they seek to borrow the "acquired immunity" of an animal and transfer  it to man. Or to produce a mild and  
modified form of the disease so that immunity may be established. As I have so often pointed out, this is an effort to set aside the law of cause and effect. Only some so -called infectious diseases are supposed to confe r immunity. For example, Forel says: "One attack of gonorrhea  
in no way protects against a second infection, but rather predisposes to it, and when this disease becomes chronic  
exacerbations or relapses of the acute stage often occur without fresh infectio n." Nobody thinks that one "attack" of a cold  
renders one immune to future "attacks." It is well known that one may have pneumonia numerous times. The same is true of  
typhoid fever. The fact is that only a minority of the so -called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. Of these,  
there is not one that people have not had two or more times. For example, there are records of men and women having had  
smallpox as many as five times. ATTACK AND DEFENSE  
Opposing truths cannot exist. Our medical, li ke our social and political state, is a stupendous frenzy. The former, like the latter,  
is built out of dualism, and shredded by multiple contradictory systems. The universal belief in dualism has evolved a chaoti c 
medical state that is well named a "fool' s paradise" instead of medical science. Our very thinking on the subjects of health and  
disease is dualistic. We think of health and disease as antagonistic entities at war with each other. Disease is an "attack" from 
without. Hence, our conception of prop er treatment is to go after the attacking force with hammer and tongs, or with shot and  
shell - a practice that all too often cripples or kills the patient. MAN - WELL FITTED TO LIVE ON EARTH  
Where law and order reign, why should man be left in a more hel pless state than all life below him? To the logical mind, this is  
unthinkable. It should be recognized by all that man is as well fitted to live on the earth as are the lower orders of life. His 
environment is really more friendly to him than he is to it. It is certainly more friendly to him than he is to himself. A true health  
science will teach man how to use both himself and his environment constructively - healthfully. What does the average individual know about keeping well? Almost nothing. What does the average doctor of all the schools of  
so-called healing know about keeping well? About as little as the average layman. The physician lives haphazardly and his  
patients live as near like he does as they know how, or as their means permit. The people and  their doctors are all in the same  
boat together with a blind man at the helm. They lack the chart and compass and drift aimlessly on a sea of ignorance and  
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MASKING THE SYMPTOMS  
When a man becomes ill, he calls a physician, takes the drugs the latter prescribes, and gets well or not, as the case may be , 
and neither he nor the physician knows why he did the one  or the other. Certainly the prescription of the physician has nothing  
to do with his recovery. His prescription has been aimed at masking symptoms and not at cause. He hurls his shot and shell at  
the "attacking" force with due courage and vigor and the on ly thing he destroys is the patient. CANNOT PREDICT  
The physician has no idea, previous to any one visit, how he will find his patient, and when he finds a change in symptoms, i t 
has no meaning to him. When a physician prescribes for a patient and leaves him he has no more idea than the man in the  
moon in what condition he will find his patient upon his next call. The very best of them cannot tell whether or not  
"complications" will develop in a given case. They are never certain that their patient will im prove and cannot be sure that he will  
not grow worse. When the physician finds a change of symptoms in his patient, he cannot tell whether this change is due to  
food, drugs, fear, excitement caused by visitors, improper nursing, or to something else. He is  likely to conclude that it is a  
"peculiarity of the disease" or an "unusual development." Every first -class physician knows that "modern medicine" cannot  
predict anything. Yet, if they had a true science, if they knew real causes and had a valid plan of c are, they would be able to  
predict - prognose - with something like precision, the outcome of the diseases in the patients they treat. Their very masking of  
symptoms with drugs stand in their own light and prevents them from knowing the true conditions of their patients. HOW ARE DISEASES NAMED? What is disease? We apply this term to a group of abnormal signs and symptoms. We group these symptoms into vaguely  
defined symptom complexes give the complexes names and then go after them with hammer and tongs. St ereotyped treatment  
is the rule under this way of regarding disease. Quinine for malaria anti -toxin for diphtheria, arsenic for "syphilis", digitalis for the  
heart, operation for appendicitis, morphine for cancer, the anti histamines for colds. In not one instance do we seek to find,  
understand and remove cause. MEASLES  
Let us look at measles, which is defined as a "catarrhal fever, a typical enanthom," (eruption on the mucous membranes of the  
eyes, nose, throat, occasionally bronchus and gastro -intestinal  mucous membrane). "The internal enanthema (eruption) is to be  
expected, or suspected, when the exanthema (external eruption) fails to show up. All of the symptomatology of measles, carefully compiled by the makers of medical text -books, as well as of all other so -called  
diseases, has very little meaning for the physicians of the various schools of so -called healing. What does it mean? It means  
that all of the eruptive fevers - all of the so -called diseases of the mucous membranes, those of the nose and lips, those  
involving the throat and lungs, and ending with pneumonia, and all of those that involve the outer skin - are but different forms  
of elimination of pent -up by -products of metabolism. They are processes of vicarious or compensatory excretion. ACUTE DISEASE = DAMAGE REPAIR  
Exaltation of function - rapid heart action, rapid breathing, diarrhea, increased temperature, etc., etc. - as seen in the various so - 
called acute diseases, represents efforts of the body to eliminate toxins and repair damages. In this respect, exaltation of  
function is desirable and beneficial under certain conditions. Such exalted function indicates a wrong somewhere and this  
wrong should be searched for and righted without depressing or weakening the sum of the vital energy. THE COMMON COLD  
A cold is a catarrhal disease, a "catarrhal fever," and is a process of vicarious elimination. Contrary to popular belief, a cold is  
not something that we "catch," but it represents a process of getting rid of something we have slowly accu mulated. What does  
cold weather have to do with the cause of colds? People "catch" colds as often in warm weather as in cold weather. An  
increase in temperature may precipitate a cold as often as will a decrease in temperature. They have colds as often in dry as in  
wet weather. Men have colds as often as women, although they dress heavier. Indeed, men have more catarrh than women,  
because they dress more warmly, dissipate more and eat more. TOXEMIA  
Back of every catarrh is a toxemic state. Catarrh is impos sible in the absence of toxemia. Toxemia is produced by anything and  
everything that enervates the body. Enervation inhibits (checks) excretion (elimination) permitting the accumulation of  
uneliminated waste. The accumulation of body waste - end-products o f metabolism - produces toxemia. Toxemia is the universal, basic cause of all so -called disease. Adventitious complicating causes may be super -added to  
toxemia. By checked elimination is not meant constipation, but checked excretion through all of the excr etory organs of the  
body. Toxemia is not caused by constipation and is not removed by laxatives, enemas and colonic irrigations. Nor will the use  
of kidney medicines increase elimination through the kidneys. None of the so -called blood -purifiers can be of any value in  
remedying toxemia. The ultimate cause of mankind's many so -called diseases lies in the enervating habits of mind and body practiced almost  
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IF NO ATTENTION TO CAUSE - NEW PROBLEMS  
Today, as in the past, when a man becomes ill - he takes a pill from a box, potion from a bottle, gets an injection of a  poison  
from a hypodermic syringe, or has an organ removed. No attention is given to cause. His life is not changed, his habits are n ot 
corrected, and in a short time he is sick again. Neither the physician nor the patient is able to trace a connection bet ween the  
two so -called diseases. So -called health is again restored and the incident passes from memory. Again, within a short time, another illness (which is as much of a surprise as were the prior two illnesses) develops and sti ll no 
thought is devoted t o its connection with the two preceding illnesses. So long as the real nature of disease and real source of  
cause are not understood, this will continue to be true. TOXEMIC CRISIS = STEAM SAFETY VALVE  
The medical axiom that "all diseases tend to recovery"  is much overworked, and by no school more than by the old school or  
self-styled "regulars." Why? Because the primary cause, the universal cause of disease - toxemia - is not known. The many  
diseases which the medical tongue so flippantly describes as func tional derangements that "tend to recovery," are simply crises  
in toxemic saturation. In their alleged "self -recovery" in spite of "cures", palliations, and the "chief function of the physician to  
guard against complications," there is no recovery at all. Like the escape of excess steam through the safety -valve of an engine, the steam pressure is lowered for the time being; but  
unless the cause of toxemic saturation is removed, crises will recur time after time, as the toxemia continues to in -crease, and  
the "curing" has to be done over and over again. This requires that the wisest of physicians must be constantly busying himself "guarding against complications" - complications  
that he is almost always responsible for building. CRISIS WILL FOLLOW CRISIS  
What is a self -limited disease? Disease is remedial effort. It is a process of purification and repair. When the process of  
compensatory elimination that is called disease, has reduced the toxemia to the toleration point, the symptoms subside  
spontaneously an d the disease is said to be cured. But the patient is not well. He is still toxemic. The cause of the toxemia has  
not been removed. The toxemia will again rise above the toleration point and another crisis will develop. Crisis will follow crisis until orga nic change  
takes place. Gastric ulcer, diabetes, Bright's disease, heart disease, diseases of the arteries or nerves, cancer, etc., foll ow in  
the wake of recurring crises. PROGRESSIVELY MORE SERIOUS DISEASES  
Instead of seeing in these changes a progressive pathological evolution of which cancer, diabetes, disease of the heart and  
arteries etc., are but end -points - the wisdom of all the ages of medical science is expended in a herculean effort to prove that  
established pathology is its own cause. On the day that medical savants succeed in lifting themselves by their own boot -straps,  
they will also succeed in proving that pathology is its own cause. ANYTHING CAN BE A "CURE"  
Here in this land of so -called self -limited diseases is where all the curi ng methods and systems shine. Just as anything and  
everything seems to cure a cold, so anything and everything that may be used with which to treat the patient suffering with  
measles or pneumonia or gonorrhea, etc., will appear to cure. Here in the realm of "self -limited" disease the regular and the  
irregular cults, the faddists and the mountebanks, every phase of the curing system from the erudite professor to the most  
stupid lout prove the virtues of their cures. In this every -doctor's land grandma's cat aplasms cure, grand -pa's brass -ring cure for  
rheumatism cures, the rabbit -foot charm and buckeye for piles cure, penicillin cures pneumonia and anti toxin cures diphtheria,  
the punch in the back cures measles and the herb tea cures gastritis All cures are successful in this grand jamboree of "self - 
limited" crises. Christian Science and prayer are as effective as the most scientific treatment. The prayer may be, as in Afr ica, 
directed to a petrified frog - no matter, it cures. ACUTE DISEASE - TOXEMIC CRISI S 
Our toxemic crises - so-called acute diseases - keep pace with the ebb and flow of toxemia as our habits of living hold this  
down within the limits of toleration or increase it above the established limits. Toleration is a state of chronic disease, a  state, for  
example in which chronic catarrh, is continuously active throwing off toxins. Acute diseases are intermittent due to the fact  that 
toxemia is pushed above the point of established toleration only intermittently. Chronic disease means chronic provoc ation. To  
point this differently: disease begins where cause begins and persists where cause persists. "REST" IS THE SOLUTION  
Nothing so effectively hastens the elimination of toxemia and the recuperation of nerve energy as mental, physical and  
physiologi cal rest. Only through rest can the enervated body muster sufficient nerve energy with which to increase its work of  
elimination. By physiological rest is meant fasting, or abstinence from all food except water. Once fasting and rest have ena bled 
the body to eliminate its stored up toxins and recuperate its nerve energy, a physiological mode of living will enable the patient  
to grow into better and better health until full health is reached, and to maintain health thereafter. Such a program of physiological  living is not made up exclusively of a plan of eating. Proper diet is extremely important, but it  
does not constitute a complete way of life. All of man's life must be live in harmony with simple, well -defined laws of nature. Exercise, fresh air, sun -shine, sufficient rest and sleep, a wholesome sex life, a cheerful and poised mental attitude, and  
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consistent avoidance of all  devitalizing habits are of equal importance with diet. One cannot maintain health, no matter what his  
diet, if he is practicing enervating habits and denying his body the benefits of sunshine, fresh air and exercise. Coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, poisone d soft -drinks, and other poison -habits will wreck the strongest man, no matter what his  
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CHRONIC DISEASE - "OLD AGE"  
If toxemia is not eliminated, if nerve energy is not restored to normal, if the causes of enervation are not removed and  
corrected, th ere can be no genuine return to health. There can be only a recession of symptoms after these have reduced the  
accumulated toxemia to the toleration point, perhaps slightly below, and a state of comparative comfort is again established. This state represen ts a very low state of health, a state of chronic toxemic saturation. In this state, despite recurring crises,  
there is the slow, progressive development of the many and varied forms of chronic and degenerative pathologies, not the leas t 
of which is that c ondition of organismal enfeeblement, impairment and decline, which we call old age. BACTERIA AND EPIDEMICS  
What about bacteria and epidemics? First, there must be a changed condition of the body's fluids and tissues, giving rise to that 
systemic impairmen t that is designated "susceptibility" or 'lowered resistance." Once you grasp the fact that all had habits lead to toxemia, it will not be difficult for you to grasp the idea that this per version of  
the fluids and tissues must take place before it is possible for bacteria, which are nature's reducing forces, to make any further  
changes in these materials. Assuming that the scavenger work done by bacteria under these conditions actually complicates  
the disease, they cannot be the primary cause of diseas e, nor of any epidemic. Epidemics of any proportion follow in the wake of some mass prostrating influence - war, prolonged dry, hot weather; prolonged  
wet, cold weather; sudden changes of temperature, etc. - that further enervate an already a most prostrat ed and greatly  
toxemic part of the population. The sudden rise in toxemia thus occasioned necessitates the development of a crisis to throw it 
off. Mass sickness follows mass prostrating influences. MEDICAL DELUSIONS  
When crises have been repeated (and cu red) until organic changes are established, medical delusions multiply like rats in the  
corn crib - the most deluded and fatuous draw their air -line decisions, fight their therapeutic battles, and, if they belong to the  
"regular" school, promise therapeuti c perfection - if only the United States Army and Navy will beat down the cultists and  
quacks, while they demonstrate the glories and wonders of "medical science" on the dear people. WATERLOO - SYMPTOMS GET WORSE WITH TIME  
It is in this field that all of the cures and curing systems meet their Waterloo. The pathology which has been in the making since  
the development of the first of these "self -limited" crises reveals no tendency to spontaneous disappearance. Rather its  
tendency it to grow worse and more c omplicated with the passing of time. Organic change occurs in more and more tissues  
and organs and these "complications" defy the best efforts of the peddlers of cures. Cause has been present from the  
beginning (the first cold of infancy represents an established toxemia) and has never been removed. The physicians are long on diagnosis at this terminal stage of the evolving pathology. They name exactly the pathological sta tus 
quo and, although they do not hesitate to treat the patient and to accept mone y for their experiments, they freely confess that  
their treatments are ineffective. They have all been experts at curing the continuous series of recurring crises - the "self -limited"  
diseases - but they are all helpless before the end -point of the develop ment of which the first crisis was the initiation. They  
cannot cure cancer, or diabetes, or Bright's disease, or endocarditis, or arteriosclerosis. INSULIN "CURES" UNTIL DEATH OF DIABETES  
Toxemic subjects who continually poison themselves with excessive carbohydrates and thus stress the pancreas, develop  
sugar in the urine. These are cured with insulin. Indeed, insulin cures them until they die of diabetes - go out, perhaps, in either  
an insulin or a sugar coma. Insulin -cured diabetics, like pepsin -cured dyspeptics, are made to feel fine for a year or two - until the burden of cause so  
stresses other organs that they develop "complications." They are also so filled with "reflex' discomforts that they demand o ther 
forms of "relief." When this stage is reach ed the curing must become a medley of palliating measures. Surgery, drugs, in fact,  
all kinds of cures, are now resorted to in keeping with the whims of the patient and the caprices of the physician. Because t here 
are so many who refuse to die after being cured by all known cures, it is necessary to discover new cures all the time. FATTER AND MORE DEGENERATED  
Every day we watch people getting fatter and fatter on "plenty of good nourishing food" that "keeps up their strength" until they 
die of fatty degene ration, cerebral hemorrhage (apoplexy), or paralysis. Nobody warns them of what is in store for them and  
they will not heed if they are warned. So disgracefully have we become habituated to associating health and even distinction  
with a most pampered state  of the body, that we think it most natural or normal for a fat man to maintain at the highest pitch,  
the unholy "love affairs" of his unregulated body. Unfortunately, our standards are empty of all value except for measuring  
varying degrees of ill health. Even our "normal" or "healthy" individuals, as measured by these standards, represent only a  
slightly less degree of ill health than that seen in the sick. A study made by the collaboration of forty -three American life insurance companies, using three num erically equal groups of  
people over forty -five years of age, showed the incidence of diabetes in these three groups as follows. In the group of very thin  
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people there  was one case; in the normal group there were five cases; in the fat group there were two hundred and twenty - 
seven cases. Similar figures are available for cancer and a few other so -called degenerative diseases of later life. Fat and the  
overeating that i s back of it are serious dangers at all ages of life. "STRONG" MEN ARE NOT STRONG  
Our strong men do not live any longer than the run -of-the-mill specimens of humanity. Many explanations for this have been  
devised. Actually, there is very little excuse for  these mental meanderings. Athletes and strong men are often toxemic to the  
point of collapse. They are so vulnerable from the effects of self -poisoning that all they need to bring them down with a "fatal malady" is some  
slight unusual enervating influence , or some slightly unusual amount of an accustomed influence. As unreasonable as it may  
appear, the average medical man as well as the average layman, recognizes those - who are on the verge of apoplexy, "heart  
failure," kidney disease, or other diseases r esulting from the degeneration brought on from chronic toxemia, arterial tension and  
fat pressure - as ideal types of health. They are commonly referred to as "pictures of health." In the early days of the recent war a young man was called before his  
local  board for examination. The physicians found him fit and told him to go home and await his call for induction. He dropped  
dead on the way out. IGNORANCE AND COMMERCIALISM CAUSE DEATH  
Many bankers and big business men die of operations for prostatic diseas e. These deaths are wholly unnecessary. Only the  
worst type of ignorance and commercialism causes physicians to resort to operations for prostatic enlargement and prostatic  
"infection." Cutting out prostate gland is as non -sensical as cutting out uterine fibroids and breast tumors. This senseless  
desexing and mutilating of women goes on regularly, country -wide. CANDY CAN KILL  
Chronic candy drunkenness kills many with coma brought on from acidosis; others develop rheumatism, hard arteries, organic  
heart di sease, obesity and other symptom -complexes and the urge of the candy manufacturers is for us to consume more and  
more candy. Private profits are always paramount to human welfare. Headaches are often blamed upon eye -strain, and the symptom is palliated wit h glasses. Eye -strain cause headaches! The  
animal body physiologically adjusts itself to all kinds of anatomical deformities and, when in full health, free from toxemia , 
functions smoothly in spite of such defects. In caring for "eye strain," it is signifi cant that when toxemia is removed, the  
headache ceases. Anemia is frequently blamed upon food deficiency. But it is never recognized that the deficiency is secondary to the impairme nt 
of nutrition and will end when nutrition is restored to normal. Restorat ion of normal nutrition depends upon the removal of the  
impairing causes and not upon overcrowding an already impaired nutritive system with more food or with more food of a given  
kind. When once toxemia and its parent, enervation, are recognized as the re al cause of anemia, we will direct our attention to  
the removal of these things and to the correction of their causes, and cease the present foolish effort to usurp nature's  
prerogative of a cure. Operations for appendicitis are rendered necessary by the officious gouging, boring and digging examinations made by  
physicians who have much more interest in the surgical fee than in the welfare of their patients. A surgeon who understands  
what appendicular inflammation is and then makes the regular examination,  is a criminal protected by law. Such surgeons with  
their heavy -handed examinations are responsible for most of the ruptured appendices against which they so glibly warn us. They create most of the dangers in appendicitis and produce the apparent need for operation. LIGHTEN NATURE'S BURDEN  
For those victims of their own and the physician's ignorance who have developed truly irreparable organic conditions, the fut ure 
is not as dark as it may seem, if they can be taught how to live. Nature tolerates a certain degree of irremediable pathology and  
permits us to live for an extended period - providing we lighten her burden. She cannot carry the double load of impaired  
function and bad habits. She cannot be expected to hold an impaired nervous system at par  and at the same time take care of  
three times as much food as is needed to replace the ordinary wear and tear. Efficient metabolic activity cannot be maintaine d 
when enervating habits are regularly indulged. The hopelessness of chronic sufferers is not wh olly due to the fact that  
physicians regularly commence their care of such patients at the wrong end of their diseases, but also to the fact that cause s 
are ignored and mere palliation, this of a very doubtful character, is exclusively employed. CHRONIC S UFFERERS - LIVE WITHIN LIMITATIONS  
The man with a crippled pancreas must learn to live within his limitations. The same is true of the heart cripple, the renal  
(kidney) cripple and all other types of physiological cripples. A one -legged man would not think  of trying to run, but a man  
whose heart is crippled does not hesitate to overtax it. The man with an impaired pancreas demands to be permitted to eat to  
his belly's content of carbohydrates and then be given a shot of insulin. "Science" is ever on the ale rt in its search for new crutches to be employed by the physiological cripples, who never seem to  
realize that - while the crutch may seem to give them impunity, they must pay for their bad mental and physical conduct with  
 
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increased impairment of other organs, of the whole organism in fact. Neither insulin nor penicillin will ever enable man to l ive 
imprudently with impunity. HEALTH EDUCATION  
The greatest need of this world today is health education. Knowledge of Natural Hygiene is needed by everybody. Dr. Herbert Shelton  
The universal belief in dualism has evolved a chaotic medical state that is well named a "foo l's paradise"  
instead of medical science. Our very thinking on the subjects of health and disease is dualistic. -----  
Disease is an "attack" from without. Treatment is to go after the attacking force with shot and shell - a 
practice that all too often crip ples or kills the patient. You can read the following books By Dr. Shelton at the Soil and Health Library http://soilandhealth.org - (choose Health Library/Alternative  
Medical Therapies). •   Shelton, Herbert M. The Hygienic Care of Children. 1931. Not reprinted by the American Natural Hygiene Society! Shelton at his most aggressive, a vigorous defence of innocent children. P UBLIC DOMAIN. •   Shelton, Herbert M. The Hygienic System, Vol. II, Orthotrophy. 1935. Shelton's thorough examination of eating  and foodstuffs. Includes the complete data on food combining, feeding of infant and children, the digestive  
system, etc. PUBLIC DOMAIN. •   Shelton, Herbet M. The Hygienic System, Vol. III, Fasting and Sun Bathing. 1934. In his exhaustive study of ther epeutic fasting, Shelton claimed: " In more than thirty years of conducting fasts, I have conducted over twenty -five 
thousand fasts - likely no one else has ever equalled his experience with fasting for the purpose of healing disease. PUBLIC DOMAIN. •   Shelton, Herbert M. Natural Hygiene: Man's Pristine Way Of Life. 1968. This rather long polemic painstakingly, passionately and rather aggressively examines certain key concepts of Shelton's versi on of Natural Hygiene. There is also an excellent hi story of the development of the Hygienic movement. PUBLIC DOMAIN. Read Introduction by Herbert M. Shelton to Cornaro's Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life here. www.drbass.com/recovery -time.html  
Dr. Herbert Shelton:  
THE TIME FACTOR IN RECOVERY  
 
"If one who has a cold is treated, he gets well in two weeks, and if he is not treated, he gets well in  
fourteen days." --- "Why do we expect to get well in a hurry of a condition that requires a life -time for its  
development?" One of the most trying problems  of the Hygienist, in dealing with the sick, and this is particularly true of chronic sufferers, is the  
demand for speedy results. Everybody wants to get well in a hurry. It is not unusual for sufferers to demand recovery in a we ek 
to two weeks. Why not? H ave they not been led to believe that if there is anything wrong, the removal of an organ or part, an operation that  
requires but a few minutes to an hour or more, and a few days in the hospital, and they will he as good as new? Have they not  
been taught to be content with mere palliation of symptoms, a thing that may be achieved in many instances in a few minutes? Will not an Alka -Seltzer relieve stomach distress in a very short time; or will not an aspirin relieve a headache in a few minutes? QUICK RELI EF WORSE THAN ILLNESS  
Quick relief, even if only temporary, is what is so generally demanded. It is generally true that these means of providing th e 
speedy results produce an aftermath of troubles of their own that are often worse than the troubles they ar e given to relieve. Certainly they never, not in a single instance nor in a single trouble, remove any of the causes that are producing and  
maintaining, even intensifying the trouble. They constitute symptomatic treatment and doubtful palliation, and produce  
cumulative side -effects. WHY SUCH A HURRY? Why do we expect to get well in a hurry of a condition that requires a life -time for its development? Perhaps one is fifty years of  
age and has had a chronic disease since the age of thirty -five, the cond ition slowly becoming worse during this time, despite (or  
because of) the faithful employment of the commonly administered means of palliation. Before the disease became apparent at  
the age of thirty -five, there was a long antecedent series of developments  that led up to the disease. It is literally true that the  
disease had its initial beginnings with the first cold, colic, diarrhea or hives of infancy. WHY SUCH RESISTANCE TO NEW HABITS? This man has given the methods of cure a full fifteen years of time in which to restore health, but if he turns to Hygiene he  
wants to get well over night! Not only is he in a hurry, hut he wants to achieve his recovery with as little disturbance of h is 
 
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accustomed routine and as little change in his habits of living as possible. He may be willing to change his diet (temporaril y, of 
course), but why should he give up smoking? He may be willing to fast, at least he may he willing to mi ss a few meals, but why  
should he rest? He has no insurmountable objection to a temporary abandonment of coffee, but why should he exercise? He  
actually enjoys sunbathing, but why should he not be permitted to overeat? Certainly the man whose condition has  required a life -time for its evolution will require the employment of all of the means of  
Hygiene to reorganize and re -constitute his organism. So long as even one of the causes that have contributed to the evolution  
of his trouble is permitted to remain a part of his daily life, and this cause may be one of omission as well as one of  
commission, it will contribute to the progressive development of trouble. All causes of weakness, impurity and suffering are to 
be removed from the life of the individual, el se recovery will be retarded and full recovery prevented. If we understand the nature of the phenomena with which we are dealing - we can both understand the  
urgent need to remove the causes of the suffering of the sick man and the need for time for him to  evolve  
into a state of health. RECOVERY IS THE REVERSE OF DISEASE EVOLUTION. It is essential that we recognize the fact that recovery of health is an evolution in reverse and that it requires time to be  
completed. What we term disease is an evolution out  of wrong ways of life; recovery of health is an evolution out of correct  
ways of living. As it takes time to evolve disease, so it requires time to erase the abnormal changes that have taken place i n the 
tissues of the body and to evolve normal tissue to replace the abnormal tissue. DRINKING RECOVERY  
We can watch the evolution of pathology in the drinker, as he progresses from the so -called moderate drinker to the habitual  
and so -called excessive drinker with the progressive weakening of the functions of his body and the slow evolution of liver  
sclerosis, delirium tremens and insanity. Is it to be thought that the effects of ten to twenty years of drinking can be erased in a few days or even in a few weeks, a nd full  
health, with its integrity of structure and vigor of function, restored so quickly? If this could be done, then, certainly the evils of  
alcoholism were not as great as we are accustomed to think. The evolution of pathology out of any type of habitual or chronic poisoning, whether tobacco poisoni ng, drug poisoning, or a  
general and persistent toxic state of the body arising out of lowered functioning power (enervation) resulting from an enerva ting 
way of life, is not unlike the evolution of delirium tremens out of alcoholism. Likewise, the road ba ck, when the pathology has  
arisen from some of these other causes, is a slow and gradual one. In all pathologies, as they continue to evolve, a stage is reached sooner or later, from which there is no turning back. This  is the  
stage of irreversibility. Whe n this stage is reached there is no longer any hope of recovery of health. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "CURE" AND HEALING? The reader, versed only in the popular and classic ideas about health, disease and healing, will, perhaps, ask: what is the  
difference betwee n being cured and recovering health? A cure is the application of something exotic (a drug or a treatment)  
which, by virtue of its own power restores the sick man or woman to health. There is no such thing. Recovery is the restoration of health by means of  the operation of forces intrinsic to the organism. This is the only force known  
that is capable of restoring health. Healing is a biological process, not an art. COMMON COLD  
Let us take the common cold. It is estimated that the 190 million people in the United States have an average of four colds each  
during the year. Some of these people have fewer than four colds, some have more than four. Now, it is acknowledged that  
there is no known cure for the cold. There is no drug, no serum, no vaccine, no form of treatment that will cure a cold. People  
treat themselves with all kinds of alleged remedies, but these do not cure the cold. Almost everybody one meets has one or  
more cold cures, but none of them are genuine. Yet, it is a matter of common observation that everybody who has a cold recovers; sometimes in a very few days, in some  
instances in three to four weeks. Not so many months ago a prominent physician said that if one who has a cold is treated, he  
gets well in two weeks, and if he is not treated, he  gets well in fourteen days. The important fact about these recoveries is that  
these sufferers get well, but they are not cured for no cure is known. Recovery is said to be spontaneous. It is the result o f 
lawful and orderly processes that take place in th e body of the sick person. SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY IN ACUTE DISEASE  
Diseases that get well in this manner are said to be self -limited. This simply means that they are brought to an end in a more or  
less definite time by the organism itself and not by treatme nt. They are all spontaneous recoveries. These spontaneous  
recoveries are the things on which all the alleged cures ride to glory. It will not escape the attention of the reader that t he self - 
limited diseases are all acute; that the chronic diseases tend to run on for years and to grow progressively worse and that for  
these, there are no cures. Almost anything seems to cure the self -limited diseases, nothing seems to work when the disease is  
not self -limited. NOT SICKNESSES, BUT SICK PERSONS RECOVER  
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If we understand that it is the sick person that recovers and not the disease, we will understand that there is a vast difference  
between treating disease (the popular delusional practice) and caring for a sick person. In the first case, the efforts are d irected  
at controlling, suppressing, palliating and destroying symptoms and local pathologies; in the second instance, t he efforts are  
directed at removing the causes that have impaired the body and at trying to supply the body with its physiological needs. Th ere 
is no effort made to cure the disease, as it is well understood that healing is a biological process and that no  man can either  
duplicate or imitate the process. There is no treatment of disease for the reason that there is no disease, per se, to treat. THE SICK ORGANISM ACTS  
Apart from the living organism, disease has no existence. Fever, inflammation, pain, discomfort, vertigo, nausea, vomiting,  
griping, purging, coughing, sneezing, etc., etc., that are considered symptoms of disease, are all actions of the sick organi sm. They are vital phenomena and do not require treatment. To suppress diarrhea is to cause the retention in the bowels of the very objectionable materials the diarrhea is designed to  
expel; to suppress a cough leaves the obstructing and irritating materials in the respiratory passages. This is not intellige nt 
treatment. TRUE RECOVERY IN TWO+ YE ARS 
If we understand the nature of the phenomena with which we are dealing and its causes and if we realize that time is required  
for the causes that are operating to impair the organism in which to evolve their effects, we can both understand the urgent  
need to remove the causes of the suffering of the sick man and the need for time for him to evolve into a state of health. The  
average chronic sufferer cannot expect to evolve into full health in less than two years and many will require more time than  
this. A few will require less time. Knowing this, we can, with patience and determination, launch ourselves into a way of life out of which good health evolves - 
and stick to it until we have achieved the desired results - and then stick to it to the end, that  we may maintain our gains. NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS NOT A MAGIC SHOW;  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS HEALING SURE, BUT SLOW;  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS NOT A MAGIC "CURE";  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS HEALING SLOW, BUT SURE;  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING HAS NO MAGIC BASIS;  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS HEALING BY HOMEOSTASIS;  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS NOT HEALING BY DRUGS;  
NATURAL HYGIENE HEALING IS HEALING DONE BY GOD. -- Victor A. Pixloy -- 
www.drbass.com/birth -defects.html  
Dr. Robert R. Gross:  
BIRTH DEFECTS CAN  BE AVOIDED! An Urgent Message to Prospective Parents  
 
Life's grisliest disasters and maladjustments take place years before conception and then following, in the  
womb " "As mother, so is the child. Most congenital deformities can be prevented, and monstrosities that  
have appalled and frightened mankind since antiquity should become avoidable." INTRODUCTION  
Hygienic doctor Robert R. Gross did have a hygienic fasting retreat (The Pauling Health Manor) in the New York area for 25  
plus years - together  with his wife, cookbook author Joy Gross. Each of us is the sum of what he was born with and everything that has happened to him up to this  
moment. He is the product of his inheritance, intra - and extra -uterine environment, cultural background, the  
personality of his parents, school and religious influences, and the customs and habits of the society in  
which he lives. Most of what has made us what we are was beyond our control. We realize this, not to weep over it, but  
also not to let it pursue us throughout our life. We cannot rewrite the past but we can modify the present. We can reshape the future by supporting the will to live in times of stress with Natural Hygiene knowledge. Thus, we may overcome the inevitable crises in life with the least da mage and with the most momentum for  
proceeding on our route in making our lives as rich and happy as they can be made. INHERITANCE OR PREVENTABLE ACCIDENTS? To a very limited extent inheritance is responsible for some deformities, susceptibilities that le ad to imperfect development, and  
abnormal functions of the body. These deviations would be due to grossly microscopic entitles called "genes," located in the  
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hereditary factor is tremendously overplayed in importance and incorrectly blamed for the tragedies encountered in births and  
infant life. Natural Hygiene has always - and within the past few years, the epidemiologist of the medical profession also - realized that  
most congenital (resulting from one's heredity) deformities are not foreordained by heredity but are preventable accidents of  
development in the womb. It is very possible to circumvent most congenital deformities by improving the preparation for  
pregnancy and by careful attention to stresses and Natural Hygiene habits during this period. START OF LIFE  
The life of an individual begin s not on the day he is born but even long before he is conceived. Life's grisliest disasters and  
maladjustments take place, as often as not, years before conception and, then following, in the womb. Here, as an embryo (the  
developmental stage until three months) and fetus (the developmental stage from three months to birth) he is subject to the  
action of the elements and malice of the mother's non -hygienic living habits. These catastrophies go unnoticed at the time; they  
may be signaled only by a rash, occ asional headache, and vomiting, irrascible temperament or nervousness. For often there isn't any sign of the tragedy until the baby is born with a single eye (cyclopia) or a dwarfed body, a cleft palate,  
unhearing ears, unseeing eyes, a blighted mind, cata racts, monstrosities, heart disease, or heart and organs being left outside  
the chest cavity, or in failure of one or both legs or arms to develop, or in erythroblastosis fetalis. Concern with congenital deformity has its roots in antiquity and the birth o f a deformed baby in ancient times evoked fear and  
awe. In savage cultures such babies were often sacrificed to the gods or thrown into a river as possessed of evil spirits. Even in  less 
crude societies the mothers were sometimes brought to trial on mystical grounds and occasionally were burned at the stake. In  
recent times the blame had been transferred mainly to the genes and family heredity in explaining the birth of freaks. Experiments on animals, and Hygienists disdain this practice, have demonst rated conclusively that crippling deformities arise  
from injuries and irritations to the embryo at certain stages of its development. An embryo that began its life with perfectl y 
normal "genes" may, by the time it is born, have only one eye or two heads or  three legs. External stresses applied to these animals included feeding deficient diets, subjection to extremes of temperature, presentat ion 
of mazes and puzzles to unnerve and perplex them, diminution of oxygen, reduction of sufficient sleep and rest and  other  
agents used to produce enervation. Effects of like disturbances and adverse influences on human pregnant women have been  
proved beyond doubt. •  •  •  •   Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine - the unholy trinity;  
•  •  •  •   white sugar and white flour pro ducts,  
•  •  •  •   canned, devitalized, demineralized and processed foods,  
•   lack of sufficient sunshine, fresh air, proper exercise; mental poise and sufficient rest  
are all devastating factors indulged in during pregnancy and cause birth mishaps of va rious kinds. •  •  •  •   Anesthesia, surgery, exposure to X -rays, vitamin pills, cortisone and hormonal intoxication  
•   and all drugs  
should be completely avoided for they are hazardous and have profound effects upon the embryo particularly in the early  
stages when the organs are in a "semi -fluid state." TIME TABLE OF DEFECTS  
The consequences that ensue from these above -named insults to the unborn baby depend upon the time they occur or on the  
time that their cumulative poisonous effects has reached bey ond the danger point of toleration. It is possible to draft a timetable or calendar, which relates deformities to the age of the embryo at the time of injury or passing  
the vital toleration point of accumulated material toxins. The latter are caused by (1)  an incorrect mode of living and by (2) consumption of drugs. •   Stresses producing a one -eyed baby generally may come during the first week or two after fertilization of the egg for at this  
time the cellular parts from which the two eyes will develop are  so close together as to be virtually single. •   Next in order comes the stage at which conjoined (so -called siamese) twins may originate from an injury which prevents  
separation of the two individuals. •   In about the third week critical injury or "tole ration toxins" may result in the heart or other organs being left outside the body  
cavity, or maldevelopment of legs or arms may occur - because this is the time when the heart and viscera are still outside  
the body cavity and the limb buds are formed and starting to grow. •   Injury in the fourth week, when the windpipe is developing from the gullet, may produce the well -known defect, which leaves  
an opening between the windpipe and gullet - so-called tracheo -esophageal fistula. •   In the fifth week, when  the lenses of the eye are forming, the embryo is vulnerable to congenital cataract. •   During the seventh week it may be doomed to a cleft palate for the separated two halves of the palate normally start to  
close at this time. •   Injury or vital toxic a ccumulation in the eighth week may produce mongolism. It is at this point that the embryo begins to  
develop the base of the brain and skull, the wall of the heart, the nasal bones and the fingers - all structures that are  
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•   The inner ear undergoes rapid differentiation during the ninth week and a mishap or "toxic torrent" at this period may re sult 
in a deaf baby. This is only part of the list of defects that can be created at the respective ages of the embryo and the whole matter rests on 
quite a more or less orderly, scientific basis. These defects actually occurring during the various critical stage s of the  
development of the embryo are the scars of injury to the unborn child in the womb. Each deformity is like a "still' picture t ak en  
from a moving picture strip, representing abnormal development of the particular affected organs. MOTHER RESPONSIBL E 
The fetus during intrauterine development is dependent upon the mother for protection  
from injurious forces and for all the appropriate and adequate factors of development, maintenance and growth. Its entire  
nutritional state is predicated on that of the  mother's. As mother, so is the child. Most congenital deformities can be prevented, and monstrosities that have appalled and frightened mankind since antiquity  
should become avoidable - if humans would only realize that the health and development of the e volving fetus are based on any  
and every factor of life that affects the health of the mother, either positively or negatively. The entire health level, efficiency, happiness and success of the infant and child are dependent upon the habits of the  
prospect ive mother. It is the latter's maternal duty, moral responsibility and physical obligation to study and understand the laws  
of begetting a vigorous baby. She should realize that superstitions, ignorance, intolerance, vast misrepresentations and  
prejudices exist in the field of orthodox prenatal and pediatric care. Adherence to the rational laws of life - embodied by the practice of Natural Hygiene - will produce well nourished, well - 
developed, and vital children.
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        EASY TO MASTER TEMPTATIONS  
Once you put this technique into operation, you will be amazed at how easy it becomes to master even the most difficult  
temptations. To repeat, all it requires is an a lert attention. If you switch your attention immediately as you recognize the enemy thoughts, you  
will always win without fail. I would have gladly given all that I had as a young lad to have learned this method. I could have avoided all those years of  
suffering and struggling with willpower and all of its attendant misery. It was a blessed day for me when my eyes were opened  
by studying the philosophical writings of Paul Brunton, wherein this profound truth of the nature of mind was revealed. May Eternal I ntelligence forever bless those great souls of all ages, who have condescended to share their best thoughts,  
experiences, and meditations with us. Let us open our hearts and minds to their wise counsel as we reach toward happiness. WITH OTHER PEOPLE  
A few  words on how to cope with temptation when you're out with friends may be helpful here. If you're out socially with people and they converse about food or indulge in eating, which includes those foods you are tryi ng to 
avoid, it is wise to stay out of the conversation and put your mind on another far -removed subject to avoid temptation. If they engage you in the conversation directly, try to introduce another subject. You may comment on how nice this suit look s - 
"where did you get it. " etc. An easy way to change a subject is to ask an opinion on a current idea or subject as a stock, a  
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If they directly confront you with the question of why you don't join them with a particular food, simply state that you're n ot 
hungry now, and try to change the subject. It can be done skillfully quite easily. The idea is to stay away f rom the undesired subject in order to avoid any emotional involvement with temptation. It may be  
advisable to avoid social gatherings for a few weeks until you get accustomed to your new routine. Then, when you socialize,  
play it safe by using the above te chniques so that they don't try to pressure you into conformity. SHORT -CIRCUIT TECHNIQUE  
There is another method which is closely allied to the one mentioned in this article which is equally worthy of serious study. This  
is a technique that has been taugh t from time immemorial by great sage -philosophers to their disciples. It is the system that  
was taught by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to their students in recent times. This method, while it is simple requires persistence  in 
practice and ultimately leads to pr ofound self -revelation about how we function on all levels. This practice may also be used to overcome any undesirable habit -response of feeling, emotion or thought. You try to develop  
the habit of watching your own feelings, emotions or thoughts. Just obs erving them short -circuits their hold on you. It makes you  
objective to them and instantly breaks any emotional attachment or identification. You will be amazed at how much you find out about yourself and your behavior response patterns. You will learn more in a few  
hours of alert watching than by reading ten books on psychology. You will become aware of facets of your behavior that you  
never dreamed existed. GREATER SELF -CONTROL AND FREEDOM  
When you watch yourself you'll find many thoughts arising that  you don't like, and will want to change. One can, however, only change those thoughts that one is aware of. In order to become aware, start by watching your own thoughts and you will automatically change your behavior. Become more conscious by watching yo ur thoughts, and you will start to improve every facet of your functioning existence. It will not make you "self -conscious" in its negative sense or neurotic, but instead will lead you to greater awareness, self -control  
and freedom from the tyranny of unde sired random thought. Dr.
To switch your attention immediately as you recognize the enemy thoughts, and you will always win without fail.
What is the key to avoiding temptation?
The author believes that disease is not something that "attacks" the body, but rather it is a process of the body's natural response to the accumulation of toxins and enervation.
What is the author's perspective on the role of disease in the body?
The author argues that there is no such thing as a "cure" for chronic diseases, and that true healing is a biological process that requires time and effort.
What is the author's view on the concept of "cures"?
The author emphasizes the importance of the mother's habits and lifestyle in determining the health and development of the fetus. He stresses the need for mothers to adopt a healthy and hygienic lifestyle to ensure the well-being of their children.
What is the author's stance on the role of the mother in the development of the fetus?
The author rejects the idea that disease is an external "attack" on the body, and instead views it as a natural response to the accumulation of toxins and enervation, which can be addressed through lifestyle changes and education.
What is the author's perspective on the concept of "disease"?