Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-04

oughly poisoned by the microbe theory OF
disease Before the twentieth century is
twenty years older, the microbe theory
will be the laughing stock of all intelli-
gent people. Not that germs do not exist.
Every man with a miscroscope can find
them but they do not cause disease. The
miscrobes in common with numerous
other forms of life are the scavengers of
the world, and If they come in SUFFICIENT
numbers before the filth accumulates in
great quantities they purify and remove
1t without causing any disturbance. For
this reason 1t Is well known fact that
many healthy persons harbor large
number of these germs without having
the diseases. When there is serious
lesion in the system or where filth has
been permitted to accumulate in large
quantities the microbes make so much
disturbance in removing 1t that disease,
so-called. results. Whenever man swal-
lows germicide he assassinates his bene-
factors. All that is necessary to prevent
disease is to live a clean life and con-
form to the natural functions of the hu-
man body and see that they are not
restricted. All that is necessary to heal
disease is to keep clean; learn the cur
rent of your magnetism and control it
and every form of disease will vanish.
There is just one cause of disease in the
world, and that is filth. There are only
seven kinds of diseases and all variations
arise from combinations that can be
made of these seven prime conditions.
There is not a disease known to the medi-
cal profession that is not result of
these combinations. But when 1 make
these assertions that all disease is caused
by filth some poor fellow comes crawling
forward and says: Now, look at me-;
folF hot Go t1Ir-d In mic
change my undershirt twice a week and
1 know 1 am clean, but here / am all
doubled up with the rheumatism, and 1
have had catarrh for twenty-five years.
Doesn't that disprove your theory?"
Now, my dear brother, I may be willing
to admit that you are cleaner than some
people. / know a good many people who
do not battle between the months of
November and June for fear they will
catch cold, and 1 know some others who
do not battle at all for the same reason
But keeping clean in the sense in which
we use the term in vitosophy means a
good deal more than merely taking a
bath or changing the underclothing fire.
quently. 1t means so much that shall
be obliged to devote my entire space next
week to teaching what we really mean by
keeping clean. However, in substance it
means cleaning the body internally and
externally very frequently, even con-
tinually. 1t means the right form of
diet; it means eliminating from the body
certain forms of waste that occur as
result of the healthy action of the body
itself.
Learning the current of magnetism and
controlling it is more complicated sub
ject and will also require another COM
plete article in this department The sub
stance of this, however, is that in vitoso-
ply we teach that magnetism is gene
rated by the vibration of the body, that
different organs of the body have diff
ferent vibrations, that these vibrations
can be determined, that certain organs
of the body are negative and others are
positive in their action and that when
these facts are known and intelligently
a theory of action and conduct
can be devised which will keep the life
force of the body flowing in the right
direction, and this force is great purify
ing agency, eliminating waste and restor-
ing normal conditions, and when this
force is acting in it's normal way it is i'm
possible to have a disease. No man ever
existed in healthy state whose current
of magnetism was not flowing in the