Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-04
How to Be Healthy
Upright, 1907, by William Windsor.

Copyright, 1907, by William Windsor.
The claim that vitosophy makes that it
is unnecessary to be sick is probably re-
ceived with greater degree of incredulity
than any other of its seven great con-
tentions.
Humanity has ground so long under the
manifold ills that flesh is supposed to be
heir to that most people have come to the
conclusion that the various forms of dis
eases are incidental and necessary to
human life.
The science of vitosophy declares this
to be untrue that flesh" is really not
heir to any disease, but that all diseases
are caused by wrong habits of living ex-
cept those directly resulting from In
juries that require the attention of a
surgeon. o.
In considering the vitosophical method
of healing, it is we'll to bear in mind this
distinction, that there are certain forms
of illness that result from dislocations OF
bone and other destructive agencies. With
this class of illness vitosophy does not
attempt to deal. Such cases require the
services of a skilled surgeon, and when
the damage is repaired the disease dis
appears.
There are, however, other diseases
which are purely the result of wrong
methods of living, as nearly everybody
does live wrong. Very few people have
sufficient contact with earth and water,
or the right kind of food or companion
ship, and close confinement in Offices
shops and bedrooms deprives many more
of their proper allowance of sunshine, air
and liberty large number of diseases
result which are easily remedied when the
proper conditions are restored. If we
define the first class of cases as injuries
and the latter class as diseases, we can
clearly establish our contention that all
disease Is unnecessary.
If we go back a couple of thousand
years in the study of diseases we will
find that the medical men of that period
believed and taught that all diseases
were caused by devils, the kind of disease
varying with the kind of devil that In
habited the victim. 1t is a curious fact
that the literature on this subject gives
the impression that while man was sup.
posed to be only capable Of harboring one
kind of devil at a time a woman was
supposed to be able to accommodate
seven. AT the present time the medical
profession has not made much of an ad-
vance over the theory. They tell us, how
ever, that all persons, men and women
included, are capable of harboring mil
lions of devils, which they call microbes,
and they tell us that these devils are so
small that 25O.000 of them could dance
quadrilles on a postage stamp, yet they
are the cause of all disease and thousands
of men and women are paralyzed In
energy and Frustrated with fear because
of the presence of these horrible mon
sters within their bodies supposed to be
causing the wracks and pain which they
themselves have caused by the ignorant
accumulation of filth. The terrible mantle
of fear which has been cast over the
entire human consciousness by the ig
norance of the so-ealled scientists who
have aggregated the germ theory is re-
sponsible already for more deaths and
than all the actual diseases
could cause in centuries. If a man takes
a drink of water that has not had all
the vitality boiled or distilled out of 1t
he is supposed to be swallowing a whole
aquarium Of germs. If he takes a $40
bill in payment of an old debt he intro
duces millions of germs into his clothing.
If he kisses a pretty girl he gets his
mouth full of them. There is not any
thing in the range of human intercourse
from the currency of the country to the
kiss of affection that has not been thor