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Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
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inter-transmission is the cause of life, of health, and of disease;
therefore, we must first of all see that the conditions of this process
are uninterrupted.

Food, air, water, light, exercise, must be so provided that they
condition the process of nutrition and metamorphosis.

Skin, lungs, kidneys, intestines, must always be in condition to
eliminate the abnormal products of decomposition.

If then disease be a derangement of the life process, it is self-evident
that disease is not confined to one organ alone, but that the whole body
is diseased.

The body, thus, being in fact an indivisible unity, the treatment we
employ in disease must, logically, act upon it as a united whole.

The modern school of medicine in its present, bacteria ridden frame of
mind or mania, looks upon the bacillus, or microbe, as the sole cause of
disease.

The cause, however, is not the bacillus, but rather the impure blood
which prepares a fertile soil for the development of those destructive
germs.

He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene need not
fear the bacillus, for man is not born to sickness; he creates sickness
for himself by his irrational mode of living.

What does the world profit by bacteriological institutions if the people
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