The Virginia enterprise., 1909-03-12

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1.-THE DIET CURE"
(Continued.)
You cannot go to church or the
opera, especially in the winter, when
less air and light are admitted, with
out admitting into your air passages,
enough germs of consumption or of
pneumonia or other germ disease, to
send you to the grave, if the vitality
of the blood is so low as to allow
these disease germs to multiply so far
as to develop the disease in virulent
form.
Many of us have had consumption
so far started, without knowing it,
that post-mortem examination of our
lungs would show that small colonies
of the tuberculosis germ had started
their work Of destroying the lung It's
sue but had been overcome by the
natural defensive powers of the sys-
tenn. And this applies to nearly every
other disease. How often we read of
death from the scratch of a pin or a
nail, because the blood was in bad
condition, the defenses weakened!
Il understand" says some one, "how
impure blood, due to improper eating,
may cause rheumatism, or boils, be-
cause rheumatism is supposed to lie
due to uric acid In the blood caused
by wrong eating, and boils are under
stood to be an abnormal way of elm.
mating waste matter through the skin,
but l cannot see that food has any.
thing to do with catching cold,' for
example,"
Both rheumatism and "boils" have
at last been included, by some, in the
germ diseases, but shall show that
germs are only the secondary cause of
disease, the prime cause being waste
matter in the blood, the sources of
which waste are improper fOod or too
much of the right food, and destructive
thought, (fear, worry, hate, etc.
which generates virulent poisons in
the blood as fatal as the bite of a
snake, and defective elimination
Some modern medical philosophers
hold that the vitality is in the nerves,
that, therefore, the secret of health
lies in keeping the nervous system in
order, and that, consequently, cure
depends upon toning the nervous :ys-
tenn, which they aim to do by soothing
drugs, by mental influence, by elec-
tricity, by change of scene or by rest,
or all Of these.
It is true that all the physical func-
tions are controlled by the mind, with
the nerves as conductors of sensation
carrying impressions from every part
OF the body to the spinal column and
the brain, and carrying messages from
the brain and spinal column to every
cell in the body, with the sympathetic
nerve system directly controlling the
vital processes digestion, pulsation,
etc., subject to suggestion from the
objective mind, which is constantly
going on while we are awake-every
thought, every mental picture inf1uenc-
ing the body, sometimes so powerfully,
as in fright, as to cause death; but
the nerves are as powerless to act, of
themselves, as are the wires from a
battery to produce current. They
must be charged from the dynamo, the
brain, and that requires a galvanic bat
terry, with the blood as it's liquid; and
the quality of the current must de-
pend, largely, upon the quality of the
liquid, the blood. Unless the neces-
sary elements are supplied to the
blood and the waste removed death
must, in time, ensue. Poisoned blood
will no more support life than will
worn out liquid supply life to a bat
terry.
1t is important, indeed, to treat the
nervous system, and profound knowl-
edge Of physiology and of psychology
are necessary to do this wisely, but
the material vital supply must come
from the food. Properafeeding is the
prime condition Of a sound nervous
system. Let child be ill nourished,
prenatal, or post-natal, and you
have weak, nervous child,
but feed child we'll (avoid-
Ing the almost universal error, too
much food) and it is vigorous in every
way. Even insanity and epilepsy are
h1006 6icoococ io1 ~f
Gus mal-nutrition.
"Cold" is a form of congestion, as,
indeed, every disease is, in a sense,
congestion; resulting, primarily, from
bad feeding, including defective elm
ination.
Diligent searchers after disease
germs have at length discovered g.
germ to go with pneumonia, the grip
and, as was to be expected, with each
kind of "cold," great variety. Now
germs play very important part in
the causation of disease, part as i'm
portant, at least, as the common house
fly plays in the causation of filth. 1t
is worthy of note, that the typhus
fever germ has almost disappeared,
because the degree of filth necessary
to entertain that festive bug has been
relegated to semi barbarous age.
The blood is circulated through
every tissue by the vital impulse of
the nervous system, which controls
the expansion and contraction OF the
heart and the arteries, as it controls
every other vital function. If the tenn