One who rejects a senseless convention. Didn’t 
Christ repu diate the Jehovic cult? The average mind prefers the old interpretation of to the 
“new -fangled” definitions. Until the world agrees on one 
dictionary, one Bible, and one God, the tempest in the 
teapot of misunderstanding will continue to ebullate, 
sending the atomized fundamentalists heavenward and the 
anatomized modernists hellward. Of course, God made man. He made everything. But why 
not find out just how He made him? Surely there is as much 
“glory to God” in discovering just how He did it as i n 
accepting an infantile interpretation which up to date has 
got us nowhere. When we know how man is made, we shall 
understand the laws of his being; and it will not be 
necessary for him to die of apoplexy, stone in the gall -
bladder or kidney, hardening of  the arteries, or any other 
so-called disease caused by breaking the laws of his body 
and mind. If we do our duty to our children, shall we teach them the 
laws of their being and how to respect them, or shall we go 
on in the same old way, and, when th ey get sick from 
breaking the laws of their being and ruin their health, call a 
surgeon who will cut out God’s mistakes? Think it over; or, 
if you’re too fanatical or bigoted to think, pay a surgeon to 
cut out the effects of wrong living, and continue the cause. LET US REASON TOGETHER! Let us do a little homely reasoning. We are inclined to be 
awed by the word “infinite.” The infinite is limitless to our 
limited comprehension —it is a relative term and 
ambiguous; but, as we grow in experience, our on ce limited comprehensions take on extended dimensions. Each 
person’s infinite is personal and varies from every other 
person’s comprehension. We cannot think in terms of the 
limitless, and we should not try; for, if we know the 
analysis of an atom of salt,  we know the analysis of the 
infinite amount there is in the world. This is true of all 
elements. If we know the analysis of a pound of butter, we 
know the analysis of the infinite amount contained in the 
world. If we know all about a man, we know all abou t all 
men. If we know what finite love is, we know that infinite 
love is of the same character. We should keep our feet on the ground —stay on earth —
and be satisfied that all worlds are like our world. HOW TO MEASURE THE INFINITE   
 
   We know al l by an intensive study of a part. If we know 
all about one disease, we know all about all diseases. We shall tell the reader all about Toxemia, and then he 
should know all about all diseases; for Toxemia is the basic 
cause of all diseases. Inste ad of beginning at the top of any subject, we should begin at the bottom and work up. The usual way for our 
finite minds is to accept the infinite on faith; then to us the 
comprehensible does not agree with our preconception, our 
faith is shocked, our hous e of belief is divided against 
itself, and we fall. This is the parting of the ways; and we 
must reconcile our faith and knowledge by transferring our 
faith to the belief that the road to all knowledge is by way 
of the comprehensible. We must either do thi s or live in 
doubt concerning the knowable, and accept the unknowable 
on faith. Every truth squares itself with every other truth; every 
department of science and reason blends into a unit. The 
laws of life are those of the cosmos; the laws of the 
universe are the laws of God. The road to an understanding 
of God is from rock to man, and through man to God. Every step must be a block of truth, or God, the goal, will 
be sidestepped. Behold the head -on collision of the 
Christian world and the wholesale ma ssacre that took place 
during the World War —all due to undigested truth. The 
world is full of truth; but mental indigestion, due to wrong 
food combinations, is universal. Many think they know what I mean when I use the word 
“Toxemia,” having referred to the dictionary for its 
definition. TOXEMIA, THE BASAL CAUSE  
OF ALL SO -CALLED DISEASES   
 
Toxin Poisoning —Toxin: Any of a class of poisonous 
compounds of animal, bacterial, and vegetable origin —any 
poisonous ptomaine. (Standard Dictionary.) There a re so many ways for the blood to become 
poisoned that, unless what I mean by “Toxemia” is 
thoroughly comprehended, there must be a confused 
understanding. This explanation is made necessary because 
even professional men have said to me: “Oh, yes, I believe  
in the poisoning resulting froin retained excretions 
(constipation) and ptomaine (food) poisoning.”  
 
   As stated before, a ptomaine poisoning resulting from the 
ingestion of food that has taken on a state of putrescence, or 
a poisoning resulting from th is change taking place in food 
after it has been eaten, and which is generally called 
autotoxemia, is not an autogenerated poisoning. Both of 
these poisons are generated on the outside of the body, and 
must be absorbed before the blood can be poisoned. Foo d 
or poison in the intestines is still on the outside of the body. A suppurating wound, ulcer, or chancre is on the outside of 
the body, and if it causes septic (blood) poisoning, it will be 
because the waste -products are not allowed to drain —to escape. Th e discharge being obstructed, it becomes septic, 
and its forced absorption poisons the blood. Even vaccinia 
fails to produce septic poisoning, because its poison is 
discharged on the surface —on the outside of the body. Occasionally the waste -products are f orced to enter the 
blood because of faulty dressings; then septic poisoning, 
with death, follows. THE DEADLY GERM   
 
   It should not be forgotten that unobstructed free drainage 
from wounds, ulcers, canals, ducts, keep them aseptic (non -
poisonous). The deadly germ  on the hands, lips, drinking -
cups, hanging -straps of street cars —in fact, found 
anywhere and everywhere —is not deadly until it gets 
mixed up with man’s deadly dirty, filthy physical and 
mental habits. There are people who cannot be taught 
clean liness; they either scrub their bodies raw or neglect 
them overtime. It is an art to wear clothes and maintain a 
state of cleanliness conducive to health. Venereal and all 
skin diseases, including the eruptive fevers, are fostered by 
clothes. There is some thing more than prejudice, 
fanaticism, and partisanship in my reiterated allusions to 
the congenerie relationship of syphilis, vaccination, and 
smallpox. The kinship would have been settled long ago if vaccine and vaccinia were not commercialized. Will tho se 
with millions invested, and turning out large dividends, 
willingly be convinced that they are engaged in the 
wholesale syphilization of the people? It is not in keeping 
with our commercialized religion. The deadly germ  must be mixed with retained, pent-up 
waste -products before it becomes metamorphosed into its 
deadly toxic state. The dog or other animal licks it out of 
his wound. When the “deadly germ” is osculated into the 
mouth, and from there into the stomach, it is digested. The 
normal secretion s of the body, on the outside as well as on 
the inside of the body, are more than enough to get away 
with all the “deadly germs” allotted to each person. Normal persons are deadly to all germs and parasites 
peculiar to the human habitat. Normal p eople have no need of heaven or hell; these are 
conjurations of ignorance and filth on the search for 
artificial immunization. Truth immunizes the germ fallacy. Cures and immunization are the products of a civilization 
that does not civilize. Creedal r eligion is a cure and an 
immunization for those who would be good if evil did not 
betide them. Self -control and a knowledge of the limitations of our 
privileges bring to us the best in life; then, if we are 
contented to live one world at a time, we sh all have the best 
preparation for the tomorrows (future) as they come. If we 
live well today —live for health of mind and body today —
we need not worry about the germs that come tomorrow. Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental 
offspring of those who have preached fear of God, devil, 
hell, and heaven in the past. They do not know that the fear 
which they inculcate is more to be dreaded than the object 
of their warning. Fear does a thousand times more harm 
than any other one cause of Toxemia. Nature goes her limit in the prevention or absorption of 
any and all poisons. The indurated wall built at the base of 
ulceration is a conservative measure —it is to prevent 
absorption. In the matter of prevention, nature sometimes 
goes too far, and bui lds tumors and indurations so dense as 
to obstruct the circulation; then degeneration takes place, 
with slow absorption of the septic matter. This poisoning 
takes place very insidiously. It is called cachexia, and the 
names given to this pathology are syph ilis or cancer; or, if 
of the lungs, it is called tuberculosis. This may be thought a very great digression from the 
subject of Toxemia; but, as all pathological roads lead to 
Rome —the unity of all diseases —an apology is not 
necessary. THE MEDICAL  WORLD IS LOOKING FOR CURES   
 
   The medical world has been looking for a remedy to cure 
disease, notwithstanding the obvious fact that nature needs 
no remedy —she needs only an opportunity to exercise her 
own prerogative of self -healing. A few years a go a sick doctor offered dollars for a cure 
for cancer. If he had known the cause of disease, instead of 
being scientifically educated, he would not have died 
believing in the possibility of a cure, after nature had 
passed her eternal fiat of unfitness in his case. Cancer is the 
culmination of years of abuse of nutrition, and years of 
Toxemia from faulty elimination. Forcing the bowels to 
move is an old and conventional method of so -called 
elimination which gets rid of the accumulation in the 
bowels, causin g an extra amount of water to be thrown out 
by the kidneys and bowels; but this forcing measure adds to 
enervation by its overstimulation, and further inhibits 
elimination proper —elimination of waste -products in the blood, the source of all disease -produci ng toxins. The most 
powerful eliminant is a fast. In other words, give nature 
rest, and she needs no so -called cures. Rest means: Stay in 
bed, poise mind and body, and fast. Nature then works 
without handicaps, unless fear is created by all the old fear -
mongers, professional and lay, sending to the patient the 
warning: “It is dangerous to fast; you may never live 
through it.” These wiseacres do not know that there is a 
vast difference between fasting and starving. Here is a hint for those kill -joys who  are afraid to allow 
their patients to fast: You know, or think you do, that 
people who are forced to stay in bed from injury never do 
well, and this is especially true of old people. Why? Because they are overfed. GERMS AS A CAUSE OF DISEASE   
 
   Germs as a cause of disease is a dying fallacy. The 
bacteriological deadmarch is on, and those with their ears 
to the ground can hear it. Intuition is forcing the active 
medical minds to fortify against the coming revulsion; they 
are buckling on the armor o f endocrinology. Endocrinology, focal infection, autogenous and synthetic 
remedies, vaccine and serum immunization, are some of the high points in the science of medicine today; but there is a 
lack of fundamental unity to the system; and nature abhors 
chaos as she does a vacuum. Toxemia accepts the germ (organized ferment) as it does 
the enzyme (unorganized ferment). Both are necessary to 
health. My theories have received but little attention except from 
plagiarists. A few, a very few, physicians know what I 
stand for. Those few, however, are enthusiastic, and have 
proved to their own satisfaction that the theory has a 
universal application. Many attempt to work Toxemia 
along with some little two -by-four pet curing system —it 
means petting a little personal pride; but it will not work. Toxemia is big enough for the best in any man. What more can be asked by any doctor than a philosophy 
of cause that gives a perfect understanding of the cause of 
all so -called diseases? To know cause supplies even  the 
layman with a dependable cure and an immunization that 
immunizes rationally. Dependable knowledge is man’s 
salvation; and when it can be had with as little effort as that 
required for a thorough understanding of the Philosophy of 
Toxemia there is litt le excuse for any man, lay or 
professional, to hazard ignorance of it. Toxin —the designating poison in Toxemia —is a product 
of metabolism. It is a constant, being constantly generated; 
and when the nerve -energy is normal, it is as constantly 
eliminate d as fast as produced. The body is strong or weak, as the case may be, 
depending entirely on whether the nerve -energy is strong or 
weak. And it should be remembered that the functions of 
the body are carried on well or badly according to the 
amount of  energy generated. IMPORTANCE OF NERVE -ENERGY   
 
   Without nerve -energy the functions of the various organs 
of the body cannot be carried on. Secretions are necessary 
for preparing the building -up material to take the place of 
worn -out tissue. The w orn-out tissue must be removed —
eliminated —from the blood as fast as it is formed, or it 
accumulates, and, as it is toxic, the system will be 
poisoned. This becomes a source of enervation. Elimination of the waste -products of tissue -building is 
just as  necessary as the building -up process. As these two 
important functions depend on each other, and as both depend on the proper amount of nerve -energy to do their 
work well, it behooves all people who would enjoy life and 
health to the full to understand in  what way they may be 
frugal in using nerve -energy so that they may learn how to 
live conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the 
greatest mental and physical efficiency, and also the 
longest life. (See chapter on “Enervating Habits.”)  
 
   To the ig norant, thoughtless, and sensual such suggestion 
and advice will seem unnecessary, or perhaps the whims or 
preachments of a crotchety person, or the qualms of a sated 
sensualist; but it is the writer’s belief that the more sober 
and thoughtful will welcome  a knowledge that will help 
them to become masters of themselves. So far the masses 
have trusted their health and life to a profession that has 
failed to make good. I say this advisedly; for now the 
supposed masters in the profession are looking for the 
causes of disease, and it should be obvious to any thinking  
mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly no 
dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease. Fifty -eight years of independent thinking, unbiased by 
sect or creed, ha ve enabled me to discover the true cause of 
disease; and it is so simple that even a child can learn to 
protect itself against the said -to-be “diseases peculiar to 
children.”   
   “These are the times that try men’s souls.” If Tom Paine 
were here now, he w ould change the wording of that line to 
read: “These are the times that try men’s nerves.” Nerve -
energy and good money are the commodities that are spent 
very rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great 
waste of energy; and the dollar has been chas ed so much 
that it has developed wanderlust to such a degree that men 
enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate 
themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander -
habit. There are many ways to use up nerve -energy. It 
should be the ambitio n of everybody to conserve all the 
nerve -energy possible for the extraordinary amount 
required to keep the speeding -up necessary to adjust 
humanity to the automobile pace. This will come in time. Man adjusted himself to the change from the ox -cart, 
Dobbin the flea -bitten, string -halt, and blind, and the 
steamboats, on which our forebears took their honeymoon  
trips, to the “steam -cars” and high - stepping bays and 
family carriage. Many will go into the hands of the receiver before the 
nervous syst em becomes adjusted to high -power 
automobiles and flying -machines. Without nerve -energy the functions of the body cannot be 
carried on properly. The present -day strenuousness causes 
enervation, which checks elimination, and the retained 
toxins bring o n Toxemia. Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold 
and heat require the expenditure of nerve -energy to adjust 
the body to the changes. After middle life, those who would keep well and live to 
be old must have a care concerning keepi ng warm and 
avoiding chilling of the body. They must let up on table 
pleasures and practice self -restraint in all ways. Allowing 
the feet to be cold for any length of time allowing the body 
to chill when a top -coat would prevent —is using up nerve -
energy ve ry fast. Work with worry will soon end in flagging energy —
enervation. As no provision is made for the demand of an extra 
supply of energy at a given time, it is necessary, very 
necessary, to know how to conserve what we have and 
build more. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY THE GREATEST  
THERAPEUTIC MEASURE   
 
   Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the 
cause of the only disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is 
heir, it is easy to see that the so -called science of medicine, 
as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of 
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of 
curing or ameliorating man’s sufferings. Every so -called 
cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs 
used to relieve pain end in making a gr eater pain, and 
sometimes kill. The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia 
sometimes kill the patient. Removing stone from the gall -
bladder does not cure the cause, and more stones form. Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put 
nature in lin e for curing. Sleep and rest of body and mind 
are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of energy. Few 
people in active life rest enough. WHY ENERVATION IS THE CAUSE AND NOT  
THE DISEASE   
 
   Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is 
not disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue -waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged 
with toxin, and this we call Toxemia —poison in the blood. This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the 
toleration -point, a cri sis takes place; which means that the 
poison is being eliminated. This we call disease, but it is 
not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we call diseases 
are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious 
elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane. When the elimination takes place through the mucous 
membrane of the nose, it is called a cold —catarrh of the 
nose; and where these crises are repeated for years, the 
mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones 
enlarge, closing the passage, e tc. At this stage hay -fever or 
hay-asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any 
of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of 
Toxemia, we have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, 
bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. What is i n a name? All 
are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at 
the different points named, and are essentially of the same  
character and evolving from the one cause namely, 
Toxemia —crises of Toxemia. This description can be extended to every organ of the 
body; for any organ that is enervated below the average 
standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of 
crises of Toxemia. The symptoms presented differ with 
each organ affecte d; and that gives color to the belief that 
every symptom -complex is a separate and distinct disease. But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature 
(naming disease) by the Philosophy of Toxemia, every 
symptom -complex goes back to the one and only caus e of 
all so -called diseases —namely, Toxemia. The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the 
stomach) are very unlike the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh 
of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused by crises of 
Toxemia —both become the locations for the vicarious 
elimination of toxin from the blood. It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily 
illogical it is to treat catarrh of the nose as a local disease; 
or, when crises are repeated until ulceration takes place, 
and the mucou s membrane becomes so sensitive that dust 
and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes —
symptoms called hay -fever—to treat these symptoms as a 
distinct disease caused by pollen. Rest and total abstinence 
from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all enervating 
habits, will restore nerve -energy; the elimination of toxin 
through the natural channels will take place, and full health 
will return. This state will remain permanently if the erstwhile victim of hay -fever, or any other so -called 
disease, will “stay put.”  
 
   The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a 
cold. When this elimination is continuous, with 
exacerbation —toxin crises (fresh colds) —occasionally, 
ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay -fever 
develops. These are al l symptoms of toxin elimination. The 
cause is the same from the first cold to hay -fever. The 
catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims 
of fresh colds (crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named 
such in medical nomenclatures, and treated locally as 
though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the 
truth is that the victim of so -called chronic catarrh keeps his 
system enervated by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of 
all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive eating of butter and bread, 
too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all foods, excess 
of sensual pleasures, etc. ( See chapter on “Causes of 
Enervation.”)  
 
   Keeping the system enervated prevents the 
reestablishment in full of elimination through the normal 
excretory organs. The org anism, as time runs on, becomes 
more tolerant of toxin, and the “catching -cold habit” shows 
fewer (colds) crises of Toxemia. A greater number of the 
mucous membranes are requisitioned to carry out vicarious elimination. The whole organism begins to show 
deterioration. The so - called chronic diseases begin to 
manifest. In catarrh of the stomach the mucous membrane 
takes on thickening, hardening, ulceration, and cancer —all 
described in the nomenclature of medical science as so 
many distinctive diseases. But t hey are no more distinctive 
than President Washington was distinct from the boy 
George who cut down his father’s cherry tree. Cancer was 
once the symptom -complex of a so -called cold; but, 
according to the Philosophy of Toxemia, it is the end of 
many crises  of Toxemia. As the crises continued, 
symptoms changed, in accordance with the organic 
degeneration caused by the crises of Toxemia. Every so -called disease has the same inception, evolution, 
and maturity, differing only as the organic structure 
involved differs. Treating the various symptom -complexes as distinct 
entities is fully as scientific as salving the end of a dog’s 
tail for its sore ear. All diseases are the same fundamentally. The cause travels back to Toxemia, caused by enervat ion, 
which checked elimination; and enervating habits of body  and mind are the primary causes of lost resistance 
enervation. Every chronic disease starts with Toxemia and a toxemic 
crisis. The crises are repeated until organic changes take 
place. The  chain of symptoms range from cold or catarrh to 
Bright’s disease, tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, ataxia, and 
other so -called diseases; all, from beginning to end, 
symptoms of the cumulative effects of crises of Toxemia. Enervation Is General  
 
   EVERYBODY was surprised at the large percentage of 
our young manhood plucked by the medical examining 
boards during the World War. To that surprise, add the one 
which the Philosophy of Toxemia adds, and thinking 
people should he appalled. The exami ning boards passed all young men who did not 
show a developed pathology; which meant all who did not 
show some change of organ or tissue —structural change. When it is known that functional derangements precede 
structural changes by months and even yea rs, it should be 
quite obvious that there were more young men passed by 
the boards who were potentially ill or unable to carry on 
than were plucked. Time has proven this generally 
unknown fact true; for before the war was over ninety -five 
per cent of the A merican army had received hospital 
attention for sickness, other than injury, from one to five 
times. And the boys who did not get over to France died by 
the thousands from the “flu.”  
  
    What does this mean? It means that life as it is lived 
causes the  people generally to be enervated. And when 
nerve -energy drops below normal, the elimination of toxin  
—a natural product of metabolism is checked, and it is 
retained in the blood, bringing on Toxemia —the first, last, 
and only efficient  cause of all so -called diseases. It should be obvious to discerning, minds that the amount 
of toxin in the blood must vary with each individual, and 
that the degree of resistance also must vary with each 
individual. An amount would cause a toxemic crisis in one 
would ap parently have no effect on another. An enervating 
cause —the usual immunization —that would scarcely 
produce a reaction at one time in a given subject might 
send the same subject to a hospital at another time, or even 
be fatal instanter. Active anaphylaxis i s the alibi or apology 
of the pro -vaccinators; but it does not change the fact that 
vaccines are poisons, even if they are “pure,” regardless of 
the iterated and reiterated protests that they are innocent 
and harmless. The amount of harm done the army  by vaccination and 
re-vaccination will never be known. No words can describe 
the harm that immunizing with vaccines and serums has 
done and is doing, except wholesale vandalism. The average doctor cannot think, and the others do not 
dare to think exc ept conventionally out loud. I do not know 
where to place the men of the medical profession who are 
capable of thinking, but who refuse to allow reason to 
guide them in their thinking in the matter of so -called 
immunization. Can class -consciousness or clas s-bigotry 
explain? Surely knavishness is unfit. It has been said of me, 
because of my stand against the germ theory and 
vaccination, that I have “peculiar views;” by some, that I 
am “an ignoramus.” If I am, it is strange that fundamentally 
I find my though ts and beliefs running parallel with one of 
the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century — the famous 
English philosopher, Herbert Spencer. I was browsing in 
my library a few days ago, and picked up “Facts and 
Comments.” I turned to “Vaccination,” and in  it found 
more worthwhile, constructive thought, in a short essay of 
less than three pages, than can be found in all medical 
literature on the same subject. I have decided to quote the 
whole essay, and I shall be pleased if others get the mental 
kick out o f it that I have enjoyed:  
 
   “When once you interfere with the order of 
nature, there is no knowing where the results will 
end,” was the remark made in my presence by a 
distinguished biologist. There immediately escaped 
from him an expression of vexation at his lack of  reticence; for he saw the various uses I might make 
of the admission. Jenner and his disciples have assumed that when 
the vaccine virus has passed through a patient’s 
system he is safe, or comparatively safe, against 
smallpox, and that  there the matter ends. I will not 
here say anything for or against this assumption. *  
 
   *Except, indeed, by quoting the statement of a well -
known man, Mr. Kegan Paul, the publisher, respecting his 
own experience. In his “Memoirs” (pp. 260 -61) he says, 
respecting his smallpox when adult: “I had had smallpox 
when a child, in spite of vaccination, and had been 
vaccinated but a short time before. I am the third of my 
own immediate family who have had smallpox twice, and 
with whom vaccination has always taken. ” 
 
   I merely propose to show that there the matter 
does not end. The interference with the order of 
nature has various sequences other than that 
counted upon. Some have been made known. A Parliamentary Return issued in 1880 (No. 392) 
shows that, com paring the quinquennial periods 
1847 -1851 and 1874 -1878, there was in the latter a 
diminution in the deaths from all causes of infants 
under one year old of 6,600 per million births per 
annum; while the mortality caused by eight specified diseases, either directly communicable or 
exacerbated by the effects of vaccination, increased 
from 20,524 to 41,353 per million births per 
annum —more than double. It is clear that far more 
were killed by these other diseases than were saved 
from smallpox. *  
 
   *This was i n the days of arm -to-arm vaccination, when 
medical men were certain that other diseases (syphilis, for 
instance) could not be communicated through the vaccine 
virus. Anyone who looks into the Transactions of the 
Epidemiological Society of some thirty years  ago will kind 
that they were suddenly convinced to the contrary by a 
dreadful case of wholesale syphilization. In these days of 
calf-lymph vaccination, such dangers are excluded; not that 
of bovine tuberculosis, however. But I name the fact as 
showing wha t amount of faith is to be placed in medical 
opinion. To the communication of diseases thus 
demonstrated must be added accompanying effects. It is held that the immunity produced by 
vaccination implies some change in the components 
of the body —a necess ary assumption. But now, if 
the substances composing the body, solid or liquid 
or both, have been so modified as to leave them no 
longer liable to smallpox, is the modification 
otherwise inoperative? Will anyone dare to say that it produces no further effe ct than that of shielding 
the patient from a particular disease? You cannot 
change the constitution in relation to one invading 
agent and leave it unchanged in regard to all other 
invading agents. What must the change be? There 
are cases of unhealthy perso ns in whom a serious 
disease, as typhoid fever, is followed by improved 
health. But these are not normal cases; if they 
were, a healthy person would become more healthy 
by having a succession of diseases. (Toxemia 
explains this phenomena. —Ed.) Hence, as a 
constitution modified by vaccination is not made 
more able to resist perturbing influences in general, 
it must be made less able. Heat and cold and wet 
and atmospheric changes tend ever to disturb the 
balance, as do also various foods, excessive 
exertion, mental strain. We have no means of 
measuring alterations in resisting power. and hence 
they commonly pass unremarked. There are, 
however, evidences of a general relative debility. Measles is a severer disease than it used to be, and 
deaths from it are very  numerous. Influenza yields 
proof. Sixty years ago, when at long intervals an 
epidemic occurred, it seized but few, w as not 
severe, and left no serious sequelae; now it is 
permanently established, affects multitudes in 
extreme forms, and often leaves dama ged 
constitutions. The disease is the same, but there is 
less ability to withstand it. There are other significant facts. It is a familiar 
biological truth that the organs of sense and the 
teeth arise out of the dermal layer of the embryo. Hence abno rmalities affect all of them; blue -eyed 
cats are deaf, and hairless dogs have imperfect 
teeth. (“Origin of Species,” Chap. 1.) The like 
holds of constitutional abnormalities caused by 
disease. Syphilis in its earlier stages is a skin 
disease. When it is in herited, the effects are 
malformation of teeth, and in later years iritis 
(inflammation of the iris.) Kindred relations hold 
with other skin diseases; instance the fact that 
scarlet fever is often accompanied by loosening of 
the teeth, and the fact that wi th measles often go 
disorders —sometimes temporary, sometimes 
permanent —of both eyes and ears. May it not be 
thus with another skin disease —that which 
vaccination gives? If so, we have an explanation of 
the frightful degeneracy of teeth among young 
people i n recent times; and we need not wonder at 
the prevalence of weak and defective eyes among 
them. Be these suggestions true or not, one thing is 
certain: The assumption that vaccination changes 
the constitution in relation to smallpox, and does 
not otherwise  change it, is sheer folly. “When once you interfere with the order of nature, there 
is no knowing where the results will end.”  
 
    Interfering with the order of nature is a vast subject —one 
without end; but nature “comes smiling through,” except 
when overwhelmed. Health —good health —is a greater 
force than bad —than every interference —and can correct 
every evil effect that is not fatal, if the influence is 
removed. Stimulants, continued over a long period, cause a gradual 
deterioration, and finall y, unless the habit is stopped, end 
fatally. Toxin is a stimulant and a natural product of 
metabolism. When the body is normal, the toxin is removed 
as fast as generated; but when any enervating habit is 
practiced beyond the power of recuperation, the toxi n 
accumulates, and Toxemia is established —which means 
that the body has lost its protecting power. Now, if vaccine 
or any infection gains entrance into the blood, “there is no 
knowing where the effects will end.”  
 
   Toxemia throws light on this perplexin g point. When an 
infection takes place in a person with normal resistance, 
creating a vaceinia —a local skin inflammation —and pus -
formation occurs, it usually ends with the healing of the 
abcess. If inoculation of smallpox virus is made in the 
Jennerian way , by inserting the virus subcutaneously —
splitting the skin and rubbing it in —violent septic infection  takes place, causing death in many cases. Laws were 
passed in England many years ago prohibiting this practice. In toxemic subjects, a local infecti on set up by the virus 
of sepsis from any source vaccination, a badly cared -for 
injury, a wound that fails to drain, an infected tooth, sinus, 
etc.—causes a septic fever of a malignant type, which is 
liable to end in death or in invalidism. A system badly 
enervated and toxemic, has little power to resist; and when 
the blood is very toxemic, it is very vulnerable to the 
influence of any infection. Where the infection is not so malignant as to overwhelm 
the system, due to the virulence of the infecting a gent, or to 
the enervation and toxemic state being so great as to have 
destroyed resistance, the patient may rally from the crisis 
and get well under the proper management. If, however, the 
management is bad, the patient may linger in a state of 
semi-invalidism for a few months or years, and finally die. Mr. Roosevelt’s illness and taking -off at least twenty -five 
years too soon was a pronounced type of such 
derangement. The great and forceful man was 
pronouncedly toxemic. He was injured, as everybody 
knows, on one of his trips into the jungles. Infection took 
place, which probably would have killed a less robust man. He returned home, and continued enervating habits, 
preventing his fine body from cleaning house. Such cases can be brought back to th e normal, but never 
under conventional treatment. When toxemic subjects are infected, the infection will 
never be eliminated entirely until enervation and Toxemia 
are overcome. Unless patients of this character are put to 
bed and fasted until eliminat ion is completed, then fed 
properly, and taught how to eat within their limitations, and 
unless they are willing to give up all enervating habits, 
there is no hope of their ever getting well. These subjects 
often develop tuberculosis, Bright’s disease, and  other 
lingering so - called diseases. Our federal hospitals are full 
of young men who will never get well; for Toxemia is 
developed faster than it is thrown ok. Scientific medicine is 
helpless. Nature’s order is interfered with by enervating habits 
until Toxemia is established; then a vaccination, or an 
infection from any source, acts sooner or later as a 
firebrand in causing the most vulnerable organ to take on 
organic change. The organ, however, has nothing to do 
with cause, and directing treatment t o the organ is 
compounding fallacy. Types of such nonsense are blood - transfusion for pernicious anemia; gland treatment for 
gland impotency; cutting out stones, ulcers, tumors, etc. There is no question but that one of the most pernicious 
practices i n vogue today is treating so -called disease with 
disease, and immunizing with the products of disease. One of the first things to do to get rid of any so -called 
disease is to get rid of Toxemia; for it is this state of the 
blood that makes disease pos sible. Infection, drug -and 
food-poisoning may kill; but if they do not, they will be 
short-lived in a subject free frown enervation and Toxemia. Conversely, the poisoning will linger in the system until 
Toxemia is overcome; then elimination will remove all  
traces of infection. Syphilitic infection in a pronouncedly toxemic subject is 
thrown into great virulency by conventional treatment. The 
infection is the least offender of the trio. Add fear and 
wrong eating, and we have a formidable symptom -
complex , justifying all that professional syphilomaniacs say 
and write about the disease. Remove Toxemia, drugging, 
fear, and vile eating, and there is little left. What there is 
can easily be thrown out by nature. WE are builders of tomorrow, and we need not pa y a 
fortune -teller—a doctor, lawyer, preacher, banker —to 
tell us what will happen to us tomorrow. “Nothing will 
happen. The inevitable will come. We shall inherit the 
fruits of today’s sowing. Poise  
 
   THE state or quality of being balanced. Figurativ ely, 
equanimity; repose. Equanimity —Evenness of mind or temper; composure; 
calmness. (Standard Dictionary.) I presume that, to be technically poised, we should be 
anatomically, physiologically, and chemically balanced; 
but, as asymmetry is the rul e, we cannot hope to be 
balanced. We can, however, strive for equanimity —
evenness of mind and temper. Contentment comes with striving, not with possession. Apparently this is not always true; for we see people very 
dissatisfied and unhappy who are bus y. Someone has said: “Blessed is the man who has found 
work.” This means that he is fully occupied and contented 
with his work, not its emoluments. No man is satisfied with 
work that has nothing in it but the dollars he gets out of it. Nothing but cre ative work satisfies the mind. What is there in it? Advancement, self -development, and 
a chance in the future to do good are about as little as will 
satisfy ambition. To make for contentment, the work must occupy and 
satisfy the mind. Idle minds  are dissatisfied minds. If asked 
what prescription I would give children to secure their 
future happiness, I would say: Teach then to love work! work! work! We have overworked the old saying: “All 
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Now it is 
reverse d to: ‘`All play and no work makes Jack a bandit. ‘  
 
   If parents cannot keep children busy, the city, county, or 
state should furnish work —not in industrial schools, but the 
work that is best suited to each child. A child must be busy. Christ got busy a t twelve years of age and earlier. We must 
be busy. As I said, contentment comes with striving, not with 
possession. This is a law of psychology as l well as of 
physics. We should be happy that we are not contented; for; 
if we were, we should not have  anything to overcome —no 
reason for striving —and, of course, fail to enjoy the work 
and labor of attaining. “Man never is, but always to be blest. (Pope. )” Because 
Pope made that statement, it should not be taken too 
seriously. I have found many peop le blest who did not 
know it. There are more blessings in disguise than are 
found in the limelight. One of the commonest blessings of 
mankind is that about ninety -nine per cent of our wants we 
never realize. If most people could cut out time as often as 
they wish, their lives would be greatly shortened: “I wish it 
were this time next year.” “I wish now were ten years from 
now; I should then be through college and established in 
business.”  
 
   The disposition of most people is to seek abridgement. Nature ab hors a vacuum, and that is what abridgements are. “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” is the ideal of all. Short -cuts to success; a salesmanship that means coercing 
the vacillating —those of weak will, those who can be 
persuaded to buy prematurely, those who do not know their 
own minds; in short, inducing people to buy what they do 
not need and cannot afford is called good salesmanship. What is the matter with the people today? General 
indebtedness. The sales -people have made more than they 
know how to spend w isely on themselves —they do not 
know how to fill their vacuums. Those who have been 
persuaded to run in high when they should have stayed in low—or, what would have been better, continued to ride a 
bicycle or remained on foot —are distressed because of 
prem ature supply. Both extremes lack poise, and build 
restlessness and dissatisfaction. The automobile is a 
necessity; but it has been forced into a luxury that has far 
outrun necessity. It has built great fortunes at one end, and 
marked poverty at the other e nd, that will create a financial 
disease called panic, unless remedied soon. Panic is another 
name for a vacuum which will be filled with much 
unhappiness. A prediction of five years ago. Getting through school without filling in the time well, by 
short-cuts, ponies, and favoritism, builds vacuity. Time and 
honest labor are necessary for building character, 
education, and ability in any and all lines. In the physical as 
well as in the mental world the old Latin apothegm applies: 
Cito maturum, cito putr idum —”Soon ripe, soon rotten.” 
Athletes die early. Why? Development is forced. Excessive 
use of the muscular system forces an extra supply of blood 
to the muscles. This in turn forces an extra supply of food 
to meet the demand of waste and supply. Overstim ulation 
enervates, and the toxin fails to be carried out as rapidly as 
formed; hence Toxemia is established, which gradually 
brings on degeneration of heart and blood -vessels. “No 
chain is stronger than its weakest link.” In athletics’ the 
strongest links are in constant use for all the strength they have. The stability that youth gives tissue is rapidly ageing, 
with the result that the athlete dies of senility in youth. Fitzsimmons was called the “grand old man of the ring” at 
thirty-five. In this saying, which was meant to be a 
compliment to the king of athletes, was an expression of 
scientific knowledge beyond understanding in the sporting 
world —subconsciously building better than they knew; for 
in reality he had aged himself by stressing his body. Youth wants to move faster than good, substantial growth 
justifies. Young professional men are in hot -haste to 
succeed their predecessors, always confident that they can 
do more than fill their places. Today inexperience is hot -footing civilization to a quick 
maturity, and obviously to a premature end. Hot -haste has 
ill-prepared even those with age to be safe advisers. Knowledge not seasoned by time, experience, and poise 
never matures. Poise and equanimity have become meaningless terms in 
this age . The elements of success which make for ideal 
maturity are lacking in the welding influence of time and 
experience. The present -day mind is athletic; it is 
prematurely aged at the expense of time, which is required 
for stabilizing. Hospitals, penitentiari es, and insane asylums cannot be built fast enough to accommodate the 
prematurely senile. That is what disease is —old-age tissue 
outrunning the supply of new. Too many abridgments, from the kindergarten to the high 
school and on through college, leave  vacuums to be filled 
by the lies of civilization, and the disease and unhappiness 
that false knowledge and immature judgment bring. Personal peculiarities, affectations, and petty habits of all 
kinds are boomerangs that return to poison life’s sweet 
dreams. Nature smiles on those who are natural; but those who 
persist in grimacing, mentally or physically, she joins in a 
conspiracy to distort them at their pleasure. We can be 
happy and contented, or we can be unhappy and 
discontented. We can make our choice, and nature will do 
the rest. I just came from a drug -store into which I had stepped to 
purchase a tube of camphor ice. The druggist fumbled, and, 
being self -conscious, his self -pity made it necessary for 
him to say that he was feeling bad and had been lying down 
most of the afternoon. He accompanied his remarks with a 
sick grimace of his features and a bodily expression of weakness. He, no doubt, would have enjoyed discussing his 
discomforts with me, but I ignored the subject and passed 
out. He is cultivating a sick habit that will spoil his life and 
make of him a bore to all except those who frequent his 
shop hunting cures. “Misery loves company.” People with 
the sick habit flock together, and never appear to tire 
recounting and comparing t heir discomforts. The most 
insignificant symptoms are retained in memory for years. Self-pity causes them to exaggerate, and in time they 
believe the worst possible about themselves. Such a life is 
ruined, unless complete reformation is made. This state of  
mind brings on enervation and Toxemia. The symptoms are 
a general nervousness, indigestion, constipation, coated 
tongue, anxiety concerning cancer or some other malady 
that may prove fatal. The muscular system is more or less 
tensed. The constipation is a ccompanied by an abnormal 
contraction of the rectum. The entire body is abnormally 
tense. Such patients have difficulty in going to sleep, and 
when they are about to drop off to sleep they are awakened 
with a jerk —a violent contraction of all the muscles. These 
people are light sleepers, and complain that they do not 
sleep at all. A few complain of headache and nausea. They 
are imitators, and often develop new symptoms after 
reading about disease or listening to others relating their 
symptoms. Many of these cases of neurosis are operated upon for 
various supposed abdominal derangements. Too often 
doctors treat such people for what they say is the matter 
with them. Occasionally we find self -sacrificing, amiable 
women who are never robust, but who live an d work 
beyond their strength for others. These mothers in early life 
had ambitions for a career, and the disappointment brought 
on a profound enervation, permanently impairing nutrition; 
for the one great sorrow prevented a full return to normal. Fortunate ly, surcease was found in doing for others; and in 
time making others happy became a vicarious nepenthe so 
perfect that those whom they soothed with their sweet 
smiles and cheering words often said: “Aunt Mary, you 
must have lived a charmed life in which n o sorrow ever 
entered.” The answer would be more smiles and 
encouragement. Those who find a life of service to take the place of 
ambition’s jilts have made no mistake in the selection of 
the Great Physician; but those who seek cures outside of 
self ar e hunting cures in a Fool’s Paradise. Cures! There are no cures. The subconscious builds 
health or disease according to our order. If we send 
impulses of irritation, discontent, unhappiness,  complaining, hate, envy, selfishness, greed, lust, etc., th e 
subconscious builds us in the image of our order. If we send to the subconscious sensual impulses, our 
order is returned to us blear -eyed, with swollen features, 
headaches, bad breath, pain here, pain there, blurred 
intellect, carelessness in busine ss, of friends, and of self. We interpret our state of disease, and send for a doctor, 
who finds albumin in the urine, rheumatism in the joints, a 
leaky heart, threatened apoplexy, dropsy, et alii. We take 
his dope, his operations, his immunizations; but w e 
continue to send sensual impulses — big dinners, strong 
cigars, lascivious indulgences. The doctor does no good. Another and another is sent for. Skillful examinations are 
given. Syphilis is found. Synthetic drugs are prescribed. Other doctors examine, wh o find tuberculosis. And at last 
real skill is discovered in a physician who finds cancer. But 
all the time our orders are going to the subconscious, and 
the returns are made faithfully in the image of their maker. The truth is that we are not needing  a doctor at all. We 
need a physician who will erect a reconciliation between 
our subconscious maker and ourselves. What we need is to 
be taught self -control, poise) equanimity, repose. And when 
these impulses are sent over the sympathetic nerves to our  subconscious maker, we shall begin to receive images of a 
more man, until an approach to perfection is attained. Self -control, with an ideal of just the kind of person we 
should like to be held before the subconscious all the time, 
will be returned to us just as we order. We are made in the 
image of the ideal we hold before our maker —the 
subconscious. We must live it, however. Simply holding an 
ideal will not get us anywhere. If our ideal is for sobriety, 
getting drunk will not bring our dreams true. If  our ideal is 
for perfect health, we certainly cannot expect a sensual life 
to build it. We may have an ideal image, but if we do not live it, a 
distortion will be created. A disgruntled, complaining habit, builds that kind of an 
individual. If we refuse to live composed, poised, and relaxed, we 
become tense and build discomfort. A contracted brow 
builds headache. A tense, fixed state of the muscular 
system brings on muscle -fatigue, which may be treated as 
neuralgia, neuritis, or rheumatism. A slight injury to any 
part of the body, coddled, nursed, and kept without motion,  may start a fixation of the muscles, causing more pain from 
muscle -fatigue than from the injury. Enough neurotics have been relieved and cured of 
muscle -fatigue to put  two schools of spine manipulators in 
good standing with the people. All through the ages mountebanks, magnetic healers, and 
various cults of “laying on of hands” have worked among 
people who had time to nurse a slight injury into a very 
large fatigue  disease. Fortunes have been made out of vile -
smelling liniments because of the supposed cures made by 
rubbing the dope on sprained backs and joints. The same 
cures could have been made by simply rubbing the parts; 
but the minds that go with spineless peop le, who have time 
to wait for miraculous cures, could not be made to believe 
that a cure could be excreted without that mysterious 
healing property associated with evil -looking and vile -
smelling medicaments. A sensitive, insignificant pile tumor may s et up such a 
tense state of the entire muscular system as to render the 
subject a confirmed invalid. Such a case became a patient 
of mine a few weeks ago. On examination, I found an 
extreme contraction of the sphincter muscles. His entire 
body was tense, a nd, of course, he had muscle -fatigue, which caused him to believe that he was a very sick man. I 
had him lie down, and I taught him how to relax; then I 
introduced a finger into his rectum —very slowly, to avoid 
giving pain as much as possible. I was about thirty minutes 
bringing relaxation of the anal muscles. While 
manipulating, I was advising relaxation of his body. Before 
he left my office he declared that he felt better than he had 
for two years, notwithstanding the fact he had been in a 
hospital and ot herwise treated most of that time. I gave him 
instructions on how to poise, how to manipulate the rectum 
and anus. All his stomach troubles, and discomforts 
generally, passed away in a week. I have seen many invalids of nervous type who had been 
treated by many doctors and for many diseases. Tension of 
the entire body was one of the pronounced symptoms, and 
health could not be brought back until this habit was 
overcome. The discomforts complained of by those who have tumor 
of the womb, goiter, cys titis, stomach and bowel 
derangements, rest largely on a basis of nervous tension, 
which must be overcome before comfort and full health 
will return. Position in standing, walking, sitting, and lying down 
may be such as to cause tension. We have occu pational 
diseases and emotional diseases; and lack of poise 
complicates all of these so -called diseases and brings on 
tension. Children are prone to become nervous and excited when 
tired. When allowed to eat heartily, when excited and tired, 
they have  indigestion. Extreme cases develop convulsions. Fear and anxiety are two elements that lead on to chorea. Poise of mind and body should receive attention early as 
well as late in life. Good health late in life indicates self -control, moderation 
in all things, and equanimity —poise. Moderation does not mean the same to all people. Some 
men call three to six cigars a day moderate indulgence; 
others believe that one to six a month is temperate. Those 
who have an irritable heart and stomach are i mmoderate 
when they use tobacco at all. Fortunate is the person who knows his limitations and 
respects them. Of such a person it may be said that he is 
poised. IMMUNIZATION   
 
   Wouldn’t it be incongruous if in the evolution of man 
such an importa nt element as autoimmunization should be 
left out. No animal has been forgotten in the great scheme 
of creation. Powers of offense and defense have been 
wisely provided, and to suppose that king of all animals —
man—should be left defenseless is most absurd. No, man is 
provided with a nervous system, at the head of which is a 
brain capable of thinking, which can come to the aid of a 
flagging nervous system and help to renew it. When the nervous system is normal —when there is full 
nerve -energy —man is norm al and immune to disease. Disease begins to manifest only when environments and 
personal habits use up energy faster than it is renewed. This 
contingency the properly educated mind begins to remedy 
at once by removing or overcoming all enervating 
influence s.  
 
    Man’s immunization to disease requires a life so well 
ordered that his nerve -energy is kept at or near normal. When nerve -energy is prodigally squandered, he is forced 
into a state of enervation; then elimination of the waste -
products is checked, leaving the waste —toxin—in the 
blood, causing Toxemia self -poisoning —the first, last and 
only true disease that man is heir to. All other poisons are 
accidental and evanescent, and without Toxemia can have 
no entree to the system. Poisons may be swallowed,  
injected or inoculated into the body and poison or even kill; 
but such an experience is not to be classed as disease, any 
more than a broken leg or a gunshot wound. Toxin is a normal, natural product of the system, always 
present. Being a constant, i t answers every requirement for 
a universal cause of all so -called diseases. All the different 
symptom -complexes, which are given special names, take 
their names frown the organs involved in the toxin crisis; 
but they are not individual —they are only sympt oms of 
vicarious elimination. For example: Tonsilitis, gastritis, 
bronchitis, pneumonia, colonitis, are each and every one 
Toxemic crises, differing only in location and symptoms. So-called diseases are just so many different locations 
where toxin is being  eliminated. All are different 
manifestations of one disease Toxemia. Toxemia is the only explanation of why so many young 
men were refused by the examining boards during the late 
war. Many were sent over to France who soon found the 
hospitals for the y were near the limit of their toxin -
resistance. The excitement used up their nerve -energy. The 
enervation was quickly followed by Toxemia. Their 
sicknesses were given names, but the truth was that they 
had Toxemia, and their diseases were crises of Toxemi a, 
which means vicarious elimination. After the numerous vaccinations to which the boys were 
subjected on entering the army, probably fear or 
apprehension was next in order of enervating influences. DIAGNOSIS A MEDICAL DELUSION   
 
   Diagnosing acco rding to modern medical science is a 
scheme of symptomatology that means nothing except a 
guide in discovering organic change —pathological change; 
and if no change or pathology is found, the case is sent 
home, with the advice to return again in a few month s; or 
perhaps it will be kept under observation for a while. Even 
cases presenting pathological changes, such as we see in 
rheumatic arthritis, I have known of being sent home for 
six months, because no point of infection could lee found. The patient would  be sent away with the statement: “After 
a thorough examination, we cannot find the cause of your 
disease. Come back in about six months, and it may be 
showing up in that time.” So much for the influence that 
focal infection has on the mind of the professi on. Suppose 
infected teeth were found. or sinus infection, what of it? What causes the teeth and sinuses to be infected? Why is 
rheumatism a symptom of infection, and the focal 
infections not a symptom of rheumatism? The truth is that rheumatism, infe cted teeth, and sinus 
infections, as well as every other pathology found in the 
body, are effects. Symptoms without lesions represent 
functional derangements which have not been repeated 
long enough or often enough to cause organic change. If, as 
diagnosis  goes, the cause is to be found in the disease, at 
what stage are we to look for it? Is it at the beginning, or in 
the fully developed organic change, or in the dead man? Mackenzie believed that it should be looked for at the very 
beginning, which meant wi th him the earliest change. He 
believed that an intensive study at this stage would discover 
cause. This was a mistaken idea of his, which is proved by 
the fact that the cause of rheumatism and cancer cannot be 
found early or late, and that those who belie ve germs cause 
disease cannot find them until pathology is found. It 
appears to me, after being in the game for over fifty years, that a plan which has received so much labor without 
reward should be abandoned. Diagnosis is so fraught with the element  of uncertainty 
that no reliance can be placed upon it. Research occupies an army of laboratory experts in 
hunting the cause of disease, and also cures. They are 
doomed to fail; for how is it possible to find cause in 
effects? The specialist is s o limited in his knowledge of the 
philosophy of health and disease that he becomes deluded 
on the subject; and this delusion often causes him to see 
meningitis, appendicitis, ovaritis —or any disease that 
happens to be the subject of his specialty —in every case 
brought to him. As a matter of fact, most attacks of disease 
of any and all kinds get well, whether treated or not, if they 
have not passed from functional to organic. This statement needs a little explanation. It is said that 
eighty per cent who  fall sick get well, or could get well 
without the aid of a doctor. All so -called attacks of disease 
of whatever kind are crises of Toxemia, which means 
vicarious elimination of Toxin that has accumulated above 
the saturation (toleration) point. These cris es may be symptoms which we call cold, “flu,” tonsilitis, gastritis, 
headache, or some other light malady. They come today 
and are gone in a few days. If treated, we say they were 
cured. If they are not treated, we say they got well without 
treatment. The truth is that the surplus toxin —the amount 
accumulated above the point which can be maintained with 
comfort —is eliminated, and comfort returns. This is not a 
cure; it is one of nature’s palliations. When the cause or 
causes of enervation are discovered and  removed, the 
nerve -energy returns to normal. Elimination removes toxin 
as fast as developed by metabolism. This is health —this is 
all there is to any cure. In a few words: Stop all enervating 
habits; stop eating; rest until nerve -energy is restored to 
normal. When this is accomplished the patient is cured. A 
short or long fast is beneficial to most sick people. Those 
who are afraid of fasting should not fast. All other so -called 
cures are a delusion, and at the most a passing palliation; 
but enough such cu res are performed daily to keep a large 
army of doctors and cultists in bread, butter, and a degree 
of respectability. The cured patients, however, glacier -like, 
move steadily down to the river Styx —thousands and 
thousands of them years before their time,  many even 
before their prime, and all maintaining a false belief 
concerning what disease is, and a more foolish notion 
concerning cures. TOXEMIA SIMPLIFIES THE  
UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASE   
 
   When a child shows symptoms of high fever, pain, and 
vomiting,  what is the disease? It may be indigestion frown 
overeating or eating improper food. It may be the beginning 
of gastritis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, infantile 
paralysis, of some other so -called disease. The treatment, 
according to the Philoso phy of Toxemia, may be positive 
and given with confidence. There need be no waiting for 
developments, no guessing, no mistakes. What is done is 
the correct treatment for any so -called disease, named or 
not named. Get rid of the exciting causes, whatever th ey 
are. Ninety -nine times out of a hundred the stomach and 
bowels are full of undigested foods. Wash out the bowels, 
and get rid of this source of infection. Then give a hot bath 
of sufficient duration to furnish complete relief from any 
pain. When discomf ort returns, give another bath. Use an 
enema every day, and twice daily if symptoms demand. So long as there is fever, rest assured that the bowels are 
not cleaned out. Provide plenty of fresh air and water, and 
keep the patient quiet. See to it that nothing but water goes 
into the stomach until the fever and discomfort are entirely 
overcome; then give very light food at first. A child that is given meat and eggs and an excess of milk 
is liable to develop putrefactive diseases. It is doubtful (and  
I believe impossible) if any child brought up on fruit, whole 
wheat and other grains, and vegetables can ever evolve  
diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, or develop septic 
fever—typhoid. The methods of the regular practice of medicine are in 
keeping with the habits of body and mind that lead to 
malignant disease, epidemics, etc. As a man thinketh, so is 
he. The regular profession believes in antitoxin, vaccine, and 
autogenous remedies; and these remedies fit the 
psychology of a mode of living  that leads to vicious types 
of disease. Most people are in sympathy with impossible cures —
cures without removing causes. All so -called cures will some day be proved a delusion. Remember that children will not be sick if they are not 
toxemic. Let  the local manifestations be what they may, the 
basic cause is always the same —Toxemia plus septic 
infection; and if this state is not added to by food, cases treated in this way will be aborted —jugulated, if you 
please. Doctors who have seen only regular practice will 
declare that the cases recovering in this manner are 
irregular and lacking in intensity. Of course, they are not 
typical; for they have not been complicated with fear and 
disease -building treatment. Doctors will say: “Suppose it is a cas e of diphtheria? Antitoxin should be used, for it is a specific.” What is 
diphtheria? A toxemic subject with gastro -intestinal catarrh 
becomes infected from decomposition of animal food eaten 
in excess of digestive powers. The symptoms are those of 
tonsili tis, showing a grayish exudite covering the tonsils or 
other parts of the throat, accompanied by a disagreeable, 
pungent, fetid breath. There is great prostration. Subjects 
developing these symptoms have been living haphazardly. Their eating has been too l argely of animal foods and 
starch —the conventional mixtures —and devoid of raw 
vegetables and fruit. The only animal food may be milk, 
and the patient a young child. There have been running 
before, for a longer or shorter term, gastric irritation, 
constipat ion, perhaps several gastric attacks —acute 
indigestion. In some cases the physical state is so vicious that a severe 
development of gastro -intestinal putrefaction may end 
fatally in from one to three days. These are the cases 
supposed to be overwhelme d by the diphtheritic toxin, 
which means an acute protein -poisoning —intestinal 
putrefaction —in a subject already greatly enervated and 
toxemic. ACUTE MALIGNANCY DEFINED   
 
   Malignancy occurs in toxemic subjects who have been 
carrying continuously a sta te of gastrointestinal indigestion 
from a surfeit of food, in which animal substances, possibly 
only milk, predominated.
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        One who rejects a senseless convention. Didn’t 
Christ repu diate the Jehovic cult. The average mind prefers the old interpretation of to the 
“new -fangled” definitions. Until the world agrees on one 
dictionary, one Bible, and one God, the tempest in the 
teapot of misunderstanding will continue to ebullate, 
sending the atomized fundamentalists heavenward and the 
anatomized modernists hellward. Of course, God made man. He made everything. But why 
not find out just how He made him. Surely there is as much 
“glory to God” in discovering just how He did it as i n 
accepting an infantile interpretation which up to date has 
got us nowhere. When we know how man is made, we shall 
understand the laws of his being; and it will not be 
necessary for him to die of apoplexy, stone in the gall -
bladder or kidney, hardening of  the arteries, or any other 
so-called disease caused by breaking the laws of his body 
and mind. If we do our duty to our children, shall we teach them the 
laws of their being and how to respect them, or shall we go 
on in the same old way, and, when th ey get sick from 
breaking the laws of their being and ruin their health, call a 
surgeon who will cut out God’s mistakes. Think it over; or, 
if you’re too fanatical or bigoted to think, pay a surgeon to 
cut out the effects of wrong living, and continue the cause. LET US REASON TOGETHER. Let us do a little homely reasoning. We are inclined to be 
awed by the word “infinite. ” The infinite is limitless to our 
limited comprehension —it is a relative term and 
ambiguous; but, as we grow in experience, our on ce limited comprehensions take on extended dimensions. Each 
person’s infinite is personal and varies from every other 
person’s comprehension. We cannot think in terms of the 
limitless, and we should not try; for, if we know the 
analysis of an atom of salt,  we know the analysis of the 
infinite amount there is in the world. This is true of all 
elements. If we know the analysis of a pound of butter, we 
know the analysis of the infinite amount contained in the 
world. If we know all about a man, we know all abou t all 
men. If we know what finite love is, we know that infinite 
love is of the same character. We should keep our feet on the ground —stay on earth —
and be satisfied that all worlds are like our world. HOW TO MEASURE THE INFINITE   
 
   We know al l by an intensive study of a part. If we know 
all about one disease, we know all about all diseases. We shall tell the reader all about Toxemia, and then he 
should know all about all diseases; for Toxemia is the basic 
cause of all diseases. Inste ad of beginning at the top of any subject, we should begin at the bottom and work up. The usual way for our 
finite minds is to accept the infinite on faith; then to us the 
comprehensible does not agree with our preconception, our 
faith is shocked, our hous e of belief is divided against 
itself, and we fall. This is the parting of the ways; and we 
must reconcile our faith and knowledge by transferring our 
faith to the belief that the road to all knowledge is by way 
of the comprehensible. We must either do thi s or live in 
doubt concerning the knowable, and accept the unknowable 
on faith. Every truth squares itself with every other truth; every 
department of science and reason blends into a unit. The 
laws of life are those of the cosmos; the laws of the 
universe are the laws of God. The road to an understanding 
of God is from rock to man, and through man to God. Every step must be a block of truth, or God, the goal, will 
be sidestepped. Behold the head -on collision of the 
Christian world and the wholesale ma ssacre that took place 
during the World War —all due to undigested truth. The 
world is full of truth; but mental indigestion, due to wrong 
food combinations, is universal. Many think they know what I mean when I use the word 
“Toxemia,” having referred to the dictionary for its 
definition. TOXEMIA, THE BASAL CAUSE  
OF ALL SO -CALLED DISEASES   
 
Toxin Poisoning —Toxin: Any of a class of poisonous 
compounds of animal, bacterial, and vegetable origin —any 
poisonous ptomaine. (Standard Dictionary. ) There a re so many ways for the blood to become 
poisoned that, unless what I mean by “Toxemia” is 
thoroughly comprehended, there must be a confused 
understanding. This explanation is made necessary because 
even professional men have said to me: “Oh, yes, I believe  
in the poisoning resulting froin retained excretions 
(constipation) and ptomaine (food) poisoning. ”  
 
   As stated before, a ptomaine poisoning resulting from the 
ingestion of food that has taken on a state of putrescence, or 
a poisoning resulting from th is change taking place in food 
after it has been eaten, and which is generally called 
autotoxemia, is not an autogenerated poisoning. Both of 
these poisons are generated on the outside of the body, and 
must be absorbed before the blood can be poisoned. Foo d 
or poison in the intestines is still on the outside of the body. A suppurating wound, ulcer, or chancre is on the outside of 
the body, and if it causes septic (blood) poisoning, it will be 
because the waste -products are not allowed to drain —to escape. Th e discharge being obstructed, it becomes septic, 
and its forced absorption poisons the blood. Even vaccinia 
fails to produce septic poisoning, because its poison is 
discharged on the surface —on the outside of the body. Occasionally the waste -products are f orced to enter the 
blood because of faulty dressings; then septic poisoning, 
with death, follows. THE DEADLY GERM   
 
   It should not be forgotten that unobstructed free drainage 
from wounds, ulcers, canals, ducts, keep them aseptic (non -
poisonous). The deadly germ  on the hands, lips, drinking -
cups, hanging -straps of street cars —in fact, found 
anywhere and everywhere —is not deadly until it gets 
mixed up with man’s deadly dirty, filthy physical and 
mental habits. There are people who cannot be taught 
clean liness; they either scrub their bodies raw or neglect 
them overtime. It is an art to wear clothes and maintain a 
state of cleanliness conducive to health. Venereal and all 
skin diseases, including the eruptive fevers, are fostered by 
clothes. There is some thing more than prejudice, 
fanaticism, and partisanship in my reiterated allusions to 
the congenerie relationship of syphilis, vaccination, and 
smallpox. The kinship would have been settled long ago if vaccine and vaccinia were not commercialized. Will tho se 
with millions invested, and turning out large dividends, 
willingly be convinced that they are engaged in the 
wholesale syphilization of the people. It is not in keeping 
with our commercialized religion. The deadly germ  must be mixed with retained, pent-up 
waste -products before it becomes metamorphosed into its 
deadly toxic state. The dog or other animal licks it out of 
his wound. When the “deadly germ” is osculated into the 
mouth, and from there into the stomach, it is digested. The 
normal secretion s of the body, on the outside as well as on 
the inside of the body, are more than enough to get away 
with all the “deadly germs” allotted to each person. Normal persons are deadly to all germs and parasites 
peculiar to the human habitat. Normal p eople have no need of heaven or hell; these are 
conjurations of ignorance and filth on the search for 
artificial immunization. Truth immunizes the germ fallacy. Cures and immunization are the products of a civilization 
that does not civilize. Creedal r eligion is a cure and an 
immunization for those who would be good if evil did not 
betide them. Self -control and a knowledge of the limitations of our 
privileges bring to us the best in life; then, if we are 
contented to live one world at a time, we sh all have the best 
preparation for the tomorrows (future) as they come. If we 
live well today —live for health of mind and body today —
we need not worry about the germs that come tomorrow. Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental 
offspring of those who have preached fear of God, devil, 
hell, and heaven in the past. They do not know that the fear 
which they inculcate is more to be dreaded than the object 
of their warning. Fear does a thousand times more harm 
than any other one cause of Toxemia. Nature goes her limit in the prevention or absorption of 
any and all poisons. The indurated wall built at the base of 
ulceration is a conservative measure —it is to prevent 
absorption. In the matter of prevention, nature sometimes 
goes too far, and bui lds tumors and indurations so dense as 
to obstruct the circulation; then degeneration takes place, 
with slow absorption of the septic matter. This poisoning 
takes place very insidiously. It is called cachexia, and the 
names given to this pathology are syph ilis or cancer; or, if 
of the lungs, it is called tuberculosis. This may be thought a very great digression from the 
subject of Toxemia; but, as all pathological roads lead to 
Rome —the unity of all diseases —an apology is not 
necessary. THE MEDICAL  WORLD IS LOOKING FOR CURES   
 
   The medical world has been looking for a remedy to cure 
disease, notwithstanding the obvious fact that nature needs 
no remedy —she needs only an opportunity to exercise her 
own prerogative of self -healing. A few years a go a sick doctor offered dollars for a cure 
for cancer. If he had known the cause of disease, instead of 
being scientifically educated, he would not have died 
believing in the possibility of a cure, after nature had 
passed her eternal fiat of unfitness in his case. Cancer is the 
culmination of years of abuse of nutrition, and years of 
Toxemia from faulty elimination. Forcing the bowels to 
move is an old and conventional method of so -called 
elimination which gets rid of the accumulation in the 
bowels, causin g an extra amount of water to be thrown out 
by the kidneys and bowels; but this forcing measure adds to 
enervation by its overstimulation, and further inhibits 
elimination proper —elimination of waste -products in the blood, the source of all disease -produci ng toxins. The most 
powerful eliminant is a fast. In other words, give nature 
rest, and she needs no so -called cures. Rest means: Stay in 
bed, poise mind and body, and fast. Nature then works 
without handicaps, unless fear is created by all the old fear -
mongers, professional and lay, sending to the patient the 
warning: “It is dangerous to fast; you may never live 
through it. ” These wiseacres do not know that there is a 
vast difference between fasting and starving. Here is a hint for those kill -joys who  are afraid to allow 
their patients to fast: You know, or think you do, that 
people who are forced to stay in bed from injury never do 
well, and this is especially true of old people. Why. Because they are overfed. GERMS AS A CAUSE OF DISEASE   
 
   Germs as a cause of disease is a dying fallacy. The 
bacteriological deadmarch is on, and those with their ears 
to the ground can hear it. Intuition is forcing the active 
medical minds to fortify against the coming revulsion; they 
are buckling on the armor o f endocrinology. Endocrinology, focal infection, autogenous and synthetic 
remedies, vaccine and serum immunization, are some of the high points in the science of medicine today; but there is a 
lack of fundamental unity to the system; and nature abhors 
chaos as she does a vacuum. Toxemia accepts the germ (organized ferment) as it does 
the enzyme (unorganized ferment). Both are necessary to 
health. My theories have received but little attention except from 
plagiarists. A few, a very few, physicians know what I 
stand for. Those few, however, are enthusiastic, and have 
proved to their own satisfaction that the theory has a 
universal application. Many attempt to work Toxemia 
along with some little two -by-four pet curing system —it 
means petting a little personal pride; but it will not work. Toxemia is big enough for the best in any man. What more can be asked by any doctor than a philosophy 
of cause that gives a perfect understanding of the cause of 
all so -called diseases. To know cause supplies even  the 
layman with a dependable cure and an immunization that 
immunizes rationally. Dependable knowledge is man’s 
salvation; and when it can be had with as little effort as that 
required for a thorough understanding of the Philosophy of 
Toxemia there is litt le excuse for any man, lay or 
professional, to hazard ignorance of it. Toxin —the designating poison in Toxemia —is a product 
of metabolism. It is a constant, being constantly generated; 
and when the nerve -energy is normal, it is as constantly 
eliminate d as fast as produced. The body is strong or weak, as the case may be, 
depending entirely on whether the nerve -energy is strong or 
weak. And it should be remembered that the functions of 
the body are carried on well or badly according to the 
amount of  energy generated. IMPORTANCE OF NERVE -ENERGY   
 
   Without nerve -energy the functions of the various organs 
of the body cannot be carried on. Secretions are necessary 
for preparing the building -up material to take the place of 
worn -out tissue. The w orn-out tissue must be removed —
eliminated —from the blood as fast as it is formed, or it 
accumulates, and, as it is toxic, the system will be 
poisoned. This becomes a source of enervation. Elimination of the waste -products of tissue -building is 
just as  necessary as the building -up process. As these two 
important functions depend on each other, and as both depend on the proper amount of nerve -energy to do their 
work well, it behooves all people who would enjoy life and 
health to the full to understand in  what way they may be 
frugal in using nerve -energy so that they may learn how to 
live conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the 
greatest mental and physical efficiency, and also the 
longest life. (See chapter on “Enervating Habits. ”)  
 
   To the ig norant, thoughtless, and sensual such suggestion 
and advice will seem unnecessary, or perhaps the whims or 
preachments of a crotchety person, or the qualms of a sated 
sensualist; but it is the writer’s belief that the more sober 
and thoughtful will welcome  a knowledge that will help 
them to become masters of themselves. So far the masses 
have trusted their health and life to a profession that has 
failed to make good. I say this advisedly; for now the 
supposed masters in the profession are looking for the 
causes of disease, and it should be obvious to any thinking  
mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly no 
dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease. Fifty -eight years of independent thinking, unbiased by 
sect or creed, ha ve enabled me to discover the true cause of 
disease; and it is so simple that even a child can learn to 
protect itself against the said -to-be “diseases peculiar to 
children. ”   
   “These are the times that try men’s souls. ” If Tom Paine 
were here now, he w ould change the wording of that line to 
read: “These are the times that try men’s nerves. ” Nerve -
energy and good money are the commodities that are spent 
very rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great 
waste of energy; and the dollar has been chas ed so much 
that it has developed wanderlust to such a degree that men 
enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate 
themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander -
habit. There are many ways to use up nerve -energy. It 
should be the ambitio n of everybody to conserve all the 
nerve -energy possible for the extraordinary amount 
required to keep the speeding -up necessary to adjust 
humanity to the automobile pace. This will come in time. Man adjusted himself to the change from the ox -cart, 
Dobbin the flea -bitten, string -halt, and blind, and the 
steamboats, on which our forebears took their honeymoon  
trips, to the “steam -cars” and high - stepping bays and 
family carriage. Many will go into the hands of the receiver before the 
nervous syst em becomes adjusted to high -power 
automobiles and flying -machines. Without nerve -energy the functions of the body cannot be 
carried on properly. The present -day strenuousness causes 
enervation, which checks elimination, and the retained 
toxins bring o n Toxemia. Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold 
and heat require the expenditure of nerve -energy to adjust 
the body to the changes. After middle life, those who would keep well and live to 
be old must have a care concerning keepi ng warm and 
avoiding chilling of the body. They must let up on table 
pleasures and practice self -restraint in all ways. Allowing 
the feet to be cold for any length of time allowing the body 
to chill when a top -coat would prevent —is using up nerve -
energy ve ry fast. Work with worry will soon end in flagging energy —
enervation. As no provision is made for the demand of an extra 
supply of energy at a given time, it is necessary, very 
necessary, to know how to conserve what we have and 
build more. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY THE GREATEST  
THERAPEUTIC MEASURE   
 
   Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the 
cause of the only disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is 
heir, it is easy to see that the so -called science of medicine, 
as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of 
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of 
curing or ameliorating man’s sufferings. Every so -called 
cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs 
used to relieve pain end in making a gr eater pain, and 
sometimes kill. The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia 
sometimes kill the patient. Removing stone from the gall -
bladder does not cure the cause, and more stones form. Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put 
nature in lin e for curing. Sleep and rest of body and mind 
are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of energy. Few 
people in active life rest enough. WHY ENERVATION IS THE CAUSE AND NOT  
THE DISEASE   
 
   Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is 
not disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue -waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged 
with toxin, and this we call Toxemia —poison in the blood. This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the 
toleration -point, a cri sis takes place; which means that the 
poison is being eliminated. This we call disease, but it is 
not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we call diseases 
are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious 
elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane. When the elimination takes place through the mucous 
membrane of the nose, it is called a cold —catarrh of the 
nose; and where these crises are repeated for years, the 
mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones 
enlarge, closing the passage, e tc. At this stage hay -fever or 
hay-asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any 
of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of 
Toxemia, we have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, 
bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. What is i n a name. All 
are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at 
the different points named, and are essentially of the same  
character and evolving from the one cause namely, 
Toxemia —crises of Toxemia. This description can be extended to every organ of the 
body; for any organ that is enervated below the average 
standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of 
crises of Toxemia. The symptoms presented differ with 
each organ affecte d; and that gives color to the belief that 
every symptom -complex is a separate and distinct disease. But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature 
(naming disease) by the Philosophy of Toxemia, every 
symptom -complex goes back to the one and only caus e of 
all so -called diseases —namely, Toxemia. The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the 
stomach) are very unlike the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh 
of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused by crises of 
Toxemia —both become the locations for the vicarious 
elimination of toxin from the blood. It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily 
illogical it is to treat catarrh of the nose as a local disease; 
or, when crises are repeated until ulceration takes place, 
and the mucou s membrane becomes so sensitive that dust 
and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes —
symptoms called hay -fever—to treat these symptoms as a 
distinct disease caused by pollen. Rest and total abstinence 
from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all enervating 
habits, will restore nerve -energy; the elimination of toxin 
through the natural channels will take place, and full health 
will return. This state will remain permanently if the erstwhile victim of hay -fever, or any other so -called 
disease, will “stay put. ”  
 
   The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a 
cold. When this elimination is continuous, with 
exacerbation —toxin crises (fresh colds) —occasionally, 
ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay -fever 
develops. These are al l symptoms of toxin elimination. The 
cause is the same from the first cold to hay -fever. The 
catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims 
of fresh colds (crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named 
such in medical nomenclatures, and treated locally as 
though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the 
truth is that the victim of so -called chronic catarrh keeps his 
system enervated by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of 
all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive eating of butter and bread, 
too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all foods, excess 
of sensual pleasures, etc. ( See chapter on “Causes of 
Enervation. ”)  
 
   Keeping the system enervated prevents the 
reestablishment in full of elimination through the normal 
excretory organs. The org anism, as time runs on, becomes 
more tolerant of toxin, and the “catching -cold habit” shows 
fewer (colds) crises of Toxemia. A greater number of the 
mucous membranes are requisitioned to carry out vicarious elimination. The whole organism begins to show 
deterioration. The so - called chronic diseases begin to 
manifest. In catarrh of the stomach the mucous membrane 
takes on thickening, hardening, ulceration, and cancer —all 
described in the nomenclature of medical science as so 
many distinctive diseases. But t hey are no more distinctive 
than President Washington was distinct from the boy 
George who cut down his father’s cherry tree. Cancer was 
once the symptom -complex of a so -called cold; but, 
according to the Philosophy of Toxemia, it is the end of 
many crises  of Toxemia. As the crises continued, 
symptoms changed, in accordance with the organic 
degeneration caused by the crises of Toxemia. Every so -called disease has the same inception, evolution, 
and maturity, differing only as the organic structure 
involved differs. Treating the various symptom -complexes as distinct 
entities is fully as scientific as salving the end of a dog’s 
tail for its sore ear. All diseases are the same fundamentally. The cause travels back to Toxemia, caused by enervat ion, 
which checked elimination; and enervating habits of body  and mind are the primary causes of lost resistance 
enervation. Every chronic disease starts with Toxemia and a toxemic 
crisis. The crises are repeated until organic changes take 
place. The  chain of symptoms range from cold or catarrh to 
Bright’s disease, tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, ataxia, and 
other so -called diseases; all, from beginning to end, 
symptoms of the cumulative effects of crises of Toxemia. Enervation Is General  
 
   EVERYBODY was surprised at the large percentage of 
our young manhood plucked by the medical examining 
boards during the World War. To that surprise, add the one 
which the Philosophy of Toxemia adds, and thinking 
people should he appalled. The exami ning boards passed all young men who did not 
show a developed pathology; which meant all who did not 
show some change of organ or tissue —structural change. When it is known that functional derangements precede 
structural changes by months and even yea rs, it should be 
quite obvious that there were more young men passed by 
the boards who were potentially ill or unable to carry on 
than were plucked. Time has proven this generally 
unknown fact true; for before the war was over ninety -five 
per cent of the A merican army had received hospital 
attention for sickness, other than injury, from one to five 
times. And the boys who did not get over to France died by 
the thousands from the “flu. ”  
  
    What does this mean. It means that life as it is lived 
causes the  people generally to be enervated. And when 
nerve -energy drops below normal, the elimination of toxin  
—a natural product of metabolism is checked, and it is 
retained in the blood, bringing on Toxemia —the first, last, 
and only efficient  cause of all so -called diseases. It should be obvious to discerning, minds that the amount 
of toxin in the blood must vary with each individual, and 
that the degree of resistance also must vary with each 
individual. An amount would cause a toxemic crisis in one 
would ap parently have no effect on another. An enervating 
cause —the usual immunization —that would scarcely 
produce a reaction at one time in a given subject might 
send the same subject to a hospital at another time, or even 
be fatal instanter. Active anaphylaxis i s the alibi or apology 
of the pro -vaccinators; but it does not change the fact that 
vaccines are poisons, even if they are “pure,” regardless of 
the iterated and reiterated protests that they are innocent 
and harmless. The amount of harm done the army  by vaccination and 
re-vaccination will never be known. No words can describe 
the harm that immunizing with vaccines and serums has 
done and is doing, except wholesale vandalism. The average doctor cannot think, and the others do not 
dare to think exc ept conventionally out loud. I do not know 
where to place the men of the medical profession who are 
capable of thinking, but who refuse to allow reason to 
guide them in their thinking in the matter of so -called 
immunization. Can class -consciousness or clas s-bigotry 
explain. Surely knavishness is unfit. It has been said of me, 
because of my stand against the germ theory and 
vaccination, that I have “peculiar views;” by some, that I 
am “an ignoramus. ” If I am, it is strange that fundamentally 
I find my though ts and beliefs running parallel with one of 
the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century — the famous 
English philosopher, Herbert Spencer. I was browsing in 
my library a few days ago, and picked up “Facts and 
Comments. ” I turned to “Vaccination,” and in  it found 
more worthwhile, constructive thought, in a short essay of 
less than three pages, than can be found in all medical 
literature on the same subject. I have decided to quote the 
whole essay, and I shall be pleased if others get the mental 
kick out o f it that I have enjoyed:  
 
   “When once you interfere with the order of 
nature, there is no knowing where the results will 
end,” was the remark made in my presence by a 
distinguished biologist. There immediately escaped 
from him an expression of vexation at his lack of  reticence; for he saw the various uses I might make 
of the admission. Jenner and his disciples have assumed that when 
the vaccine virus has passed through a patient’s 
system he is safe, or comparatively safe, against 
smallpox, and that  there the matter ends. I will not 
here say anything for or against this assumption. *  
 
   *Except, indeed, by quoting the statement of a well -
known man, Mr. Kegan Paul, the publisher, respecting his 
own experience. In his “Memoirs” (pp. 260 -61) he says, 
respecting his smallpox when adult: “I had had smallpox 
when a child, in spite of vaccination, and had been 
vaccinated but a short time before. I am the third of my 
own immediate family who have had smallpox twice, and 
with whom vaccination has always taken. ” 
 
   I merely propose to show that there the matter 
does not end. The interference with the order of 
nature has various sequences other than that 
counted upon. Some have been made known. A Parliamentary Return issued in 1880 (No. 392) 
shows that, com paring the quinquennial periods 
1847 -1851 and 1874 -1878, there was in the latter a 
diminution in the deaths from all causes of infants 
under one year old of 6,600 per million births per 
annum; while the mortality caused by eight specified diseases, either directly communicable or 
exacerbated by the effects of vaccination, increased 
from 20,524 to 41,353 per million births per 
annum —more than double. It is clear that far more 
were killed by these other diseases than were saved 
from smallpox. *  
 
   *This was i n the days of arm -to-arm vaccination, when 
medical men were certain that other diseases (syphilis, for 
instance) could not be communicated through the vaccine 
virus. Anyone who looks into the Transactions of the 
Epidemiological Society of some thirty years  ago will kind 
that they were suddenly convinced to the contrary by a 
dreadful case of wholesale syphilization. In these days of 
calf-lymph vaccination, such dangers are excluded; not that 
of bovine tuberculosis, however. But I name the fact as 
showing wha t amount of faith is to be placed in medical 
opinion. To the communication of diseases thus 
demonstrated must be added accompanying effects. It is held that the immunity produced by 
vaccination implies some change in the components 
of the body —a necess ary assumption. But now, if 
the substances composing the body, solid or liquid 
or both, have been so modified as to leave them no 
longer liable to smallpox, is the modification 
otherwise inoperative. Will anyone dare to say that it produces no further effe ct than that of shielding 
the patient from a particular disease. You cannot 
change the constitution in relation to one invading 
agent and leave it unchanged in regard to all other 
invading agents. What must the change be. There 
are cases of unhealthy perso ns in whom a serious 
disease, as typhoid fever, is followed by improved 
health. But these are not normal cases; if they 
were, a healthy person would become more healthy 
by having a succession of diseases. (Toxemia 
explains this phenomena. —Ed. ) Hence, as a 
constitution modified by vaccination is not made 
more able to resist perturbing influences in general, 
it must be made less able. Heat and cold and wet 
and atmospheric changes tend ever to disturb the 
balance, as do also various foods, excessive 
exertion, mental strain. We have no means of 
measuring alterations in resisting power. and hence 
they commonly pass unremarked. There are, 
however, evidences of a general relative debility. Measles is a severer disease than it used to be, and 
deaths from it are very  numerous. Influenza yields 
proof. Sixty years ago, when at long intervals an 
epidemic occurred, it seized but few, w as not 
severe, and left no serious sequelae; now it is 
permanently established, affects multitudes in 
extreme forms, and often leaves dama ged 
constitutions. The disease is the same, but there is 
less ability to withstand it. There are other significant facts. It is a familiar 
biological truth that the organs of sense and the 
teeth arise out of the dermal layer of the embryo. Hence abno rmalities affect all of them; blue -eyed 
cats are deaf, and hairless dogs have imperfect 
teeth. (“Origin of Species,” Chap. 1. ) The like 
holds of constitutional abnormalities caused by 
disease. Syphilis in its earlier stages is a skin 
disease. When it is in herited, the effects are 
malformation of teeth, and in later years iritis 
(inflammation of the iris. ) Kindred relations hold 
with other skin diseases; instance the fact that 
scarlet fever is often accompanied by loosening of 
the teeth, and the fact that wi th measles often go 
disorders —sometimes temporary, sometimes 
permanent —of both eyes and ears. May it not be 
thus with another skin disease —that which 
vaccination gives. If so, we have an explanation of 
the frightful degeneracy of teeth among young 
people i n recent times; and we need not wonder at 
the prevalence of weak and defective eyes among 
them. Be these suggestions true or not, one thing is 
certain: The assumption that vaccination changes 
the constitution in relation to smallpox, and does 
not otherwise  change it, is sheer folly. “When once you interfere with the order of nature, there 
is no knowing where the results will end. ”  
 
    Interfering with the order of nature is a vast subject —one 
without end; but nature “comes smiling through,” except 
when overwhelmed. Health —good health —is a greater 
force than bad —than every interference —and can correct 
every evil effect that is not fatal, if the influence is 
removed. Stimulants, continued over a long period, cause a gradual 
deterioration, and finall y, unless the habit is stopped, end 
fatally. Toxin is a stimulant and a natural product of 
metabolism. When the body is normal, the toxin is removed 
as fast as generated; but when any enervating habit is 
practiced beyond the power of recuperation, the toxi n 
accumulates, and Toxemia is established —which means 
that the body has lost its protecting power. Now, if vaccine 
or any infection gains entrance into the blood, “there is no 
knowing where the effects will end. ”  
 
   Toxemia throws light on this perplexin g point. When an 
infection takes place in a person with normal resistance, 
creating a vaceinia —a local skin inflammation —and pus -
formation occurs, it usually ends with the healing of the 
abcess. If inoculation of smallpox virus is made in the 
Jennerian way, by inserting the virus subcutaneously —
splitting the skin and rubbing it in —violent septic infection  takes place, causing death in many cases. Laws were 
passed in England many years ago prohibiting this practice. In toxemic subjects, a local infecti on set up by the virus 
of sepsis from any source vaccination, a badly cared -for 
injury, a wound that fails to drain, an infected tooth, sinus, 
etc. —causes a septic fever of a malignant type, which is 
liable to end in death or in invalidism. A system badly 
enervated and toxemic, has little power to resist; and when 
the blood is very toxemic, it is very vulnerable to the 
influence of any infection. Where the infection is not so malignant as to overwhelm 
the system, due to the virulence of the infecting a gent, or to 
the enervation and toxemic state being so great as to have 
destroyed resistance, the patient may rally from the crisis 
and get well under the proper management. If, however, the 
management is bad, the patient may linger in a state of 
semi-invalidism for a few months or years, and finally die. Mr. Roosevelt’s illness and taking -off at least twenty -five 
years too soon was a pronounced type of such 
derangement. The great and forceful man was 
pronouncedly toxemic. He was injured, as everybody 
knows, on one of his trips into the jungles. Infection took 
place, which probably would have killed a less robust man. He returned home, and continued enervating habits, 
preventing his fine body from cleaning house. Such cases can be brought back to th e normal, but never 
under conventional treatment. When toxemic subjects are infected, the infection will 
never be eliminated entirely until enervation and Toxemia 
are overcome. Unless patients of this character are put to 
bed and fasted until eliminat ion is completed, then fed 
properly, and taught how to eat within their limitations, and 
unless they are willing to give up all enervating habits, 
there is no hope of their ever getting well. These subjects 
often develop tuberculosis, Bright’s disease, and  other 
lingering so - called diseases. Our federal hospitals are full 
of young men who will never get well; for Toxemia is 
developed faster than it is thrown ok. Scientific medicine is 
helpless. Nature’s order is interfered with by enervating habits 
until Toxemia is established; then a vaccination, or an 
infection from any source, acts sooner or later as a 
firebrand in causing the most vulnerable organ to take on 
organic change. The organ, however, has nothing to do 
with cause, and directing treatment t o the organ is 
compounding fallacy. Types of such nonsense are blood - transfusion for pernicious anemia; gland treatment for 
gland impotency; cutting out stones, ulcers, tumors, etc. There is no question but that one of the most pernicious 
practices i n vogue today is treating so -called disease with 
disease, and immunizing with the products of disease. One of the first things to do to get rid of any so -called 
disease is to get rid of Toxemia; for it is this state of the 
blood that makes disease pos sible. Infection, drug -and 
food-poisoning may kill; but if they do not, they will be 
short-lived in a subject free frown enervation and Toxemia. Conversely, the poisoning will linger in the system until 
Toxemia is overcome; then elimination will remove all  
traces of infection. Syphilitic infection in a pronouncedly toxemic subject is 
thrown into great virulency by conventional treatment. The 
infection is the least offender of the trio. Add fear and 
wrong eating, and we have a formidable symptom -
complex, justifying all that professional syphilomaniacs say 
and write about the disease. Remove Toxemia, drugging, 
fear, and vile eating, and there is little left. What there is 
can easily be thrown out by nature. WE are builders of tomorrow, and we need not pa y a 
fortune -teller—a doctor, lawyer, preacher, banker —to 
tell us what will happen to us tomorrow. “Nothing will 
happen. The inevitable will come. We shall inherit the 
fruits of today’s sowing. Poise  
 
   THE state or quality of being balanced. Figurativ ely, 
equanimity; repose. Equanimity —Evenness of mind or temper; composure; 
calmness.
Toxemia, which is caused by enervation and the accumulation of toxin in the blood.
What is the main cause of all diseases, according to the author?
The author criticizes the medical profession for not understanding the true cause of disease and for using treatments that are ineffective and often harmful.
What is the author's criticism of the medical profession?
The author does not believe that germs are the cause of disease, but rather that the accumulation of toxin in the blood is the primary cause.
What is the author's view on the concept of "germs" as a cause of disease?
The author believes that there are no cures for disease, but rather that the focus should be on removing the underlying causes of enervation and Toxemia.
What is the author's perspective on the idea of "cures"?
The author advises against enervating habits, such as excessive eating, drinking, and stress, and recommends a balanced lifestyle, including a healthy diet, rest, and self-control.
What is the author's advice for achieving good health and avoiding disease?