Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
The Sand Cure and How to Use Il

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Since the first publication of my re-
markable discovery that the use of clean,
round, brown, insoluble coarse sand as a
grit in connection with food is a COM
plete cure for all forms of indigestion
and constipation, 1 have been besieged
with numberless Inquiries as to the de-
tails of the theory and practice which has
carried relief to a large army of suffer-
ers. To save time and labor and to add
to the cures which, as already reported.
amount to an almost incredible number,
have concluded to devote the principal
space of this number OF the department
of vitosophy to complete exposition of
the discovery, the manner in which 1t
was made and the observations to this
date taken of the effects of its use
Those who are familiar with my pro-
fessional history and writings know that
for forty years / have been an enthusi-
astic student of nature In all OF her as
poets. For the last twenty years l have
been before the public as a lecturer upon
the topics of phrenology, health, hygiene,
sexual science and ethical culture which
has given me the widest possible range of
experience in the study of human nature
and all of its joys and sorrows, and which
has enabled me to formulate complete
and symmetrical system of philosophy, in
which all of the above named subjects
have been blended into what Is now
known as vitosophy, which signifies,
etymologically, the wisdom of life or.
in other words, the science which teaches
us the wise way of living. In many re-
spects my education and early training
fitted me for this work. I received high
school education at Madison, Wis, and
also was graduated from one of the best
business colleges of the state before
was IS years of age. / pursued an
eclectic course in the University of Wis
consin and ten days before reached my
majority 1 was graduated from the law
department of that institution. l spent
the next seven years in the active prac-
tice of law and journalism, finally taking
up the study of human nature and the
practice of phrenology as life work,
in which have spent the happiest and
best years of my existence. Gifted by
nature with a superb constitution and
fortunate in the possession of enough IN
formation and good sense to avoid the
vices, I have been blessed with large
experience of happiness and correspond
ing observation of the causes and effects
of misery / have made many discoveries
of inestimable value to myself and others,
hut In all of my experience I have never
found anything which for simplicity Of
fact, ease Of application and enormous
value of results approximates the subject
of this article.
I have mentioned the foregoing facts
concerning myself and my life work In
order that the reader, who forms my ae-
quaintance with the perusal of this ar
tIcle may be able to form conception
of the value of my Judgment. When I
meet my audiences face to face and re-
late my experiences and conclusions q
confidence is at once formed that is not
so easy to create with printed article
But 1 may appeal to the candid reader
to believe that am not the kind of man
that is likely to be carried away by
theory. however attractive. until it's value
has been proved. The whole habit of my
life has been that of observation, inves-
tigation and judicial weighing of the
evidence before forming a conclusion.
In the earliest stages of my professional
experiences 1 observed that the great ma
1ority Of men and women | met seemed
to be afflicted with weak digestive or
gans. Vitosophy reveals the sign or
strong and weak functionality OF all the
organs of the body and to verify this
conclusion 1t was only necessary to walk
down the street. Any man familiar with
the vitosophical sign of nutrition will OBJ
serve that fully rs per cent of all the men
and women he meets are afflicted with a
weakness of the function. He will also
observe that among children the proper
ton is reversed. Occasionally a child is
formed with weak digestive organs, but
the majority have healthy appetites and
a capacity for assimilation not found
among adults. This observation caused
me to believe that the wide prevalence of
indigestion and constipation results from
some acquired condition, some habit, or
the lack of it, which would account for
the enormous burden of misery which
humanity carried in the weakness of this
one function OF nutrition. For many years
l believed 1t was due to the widespread
use of tobacco; but while I still believe
that tobacco is always harmful, 1t did not
satisfactorily account for 1t, especially as
/ observed that women were quite as
frequently afflicted as men. while few of
them used tobacco.
Hundreds of philanthropists have Crap
pied with this problem and nearly all Of
them have directed their researches
toward diet. The country Is full of all
kinds of food, cranks, each one impressed
with the belief that his particular
regimen is the only natural food, In
most cases these theories have basis
of fact; some sufferer has found relief