The Detroit times., 1916-01-22
THE COLONIC
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, b. Frank Cranel

COlonlC Is person aHlcted With
bacili in the colon.
A striking phase Of modern medical
science is the amount of attention being
devoted to the colon and it's toxic con-
tents.
The present age, and the one lust
past, regarded alcoholic intoxication as
its chief crime breeder. BODY wrecker
and soul destroyer. The coming age
will address itself TO the much more
common, insidious, and deadly poison
that comes from the colon.
The esoteric believer attributes all
diseases of body and troubles of mind
to error. The scientist knows that these
little errors can be raised by the quart
in the laboratory, and can propagate
prodlgiously in the human intestine.
The colon drunkard is harder to live
with than the saccharomyces drunkard
(alcohoD.
Colonies break up happy homes as
much as do alcoholics.
The man whose excretion is imperfect
is irritable. He imagines other people
iFritate him because he cannot conceive
how he can be naturally so mean.
Misunderstanding between parent
and child, husband and wife, employer
and employed, are due to constipation
as much as to any other cause People
poisoned by colon bacilli are not their
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sible as whisky soaks II is folly to
punish them; they ought to go to doc
tor.
A great deal Of what we call Sin is
due to what the physician calls stasis--
an imperfect movement of the intesti-
nal contents. A person may have the
highest ideals. the purest aspirations,
the noblest Intentions he may be dew
otee of uplift literature, he may be in
slant in prayer and earnest Of spirit,
and yet wonder why gloom. depression
and fear constantly assail him, and he
often as not does not realize that his
trials are due TO a clogged colon and
not to any spirit Of evil.
If he would get the colon bacilli out
Of his system his terrible temptations
would disappear
If you would know why domestic fric-
ton exists. why children are bad, why
boys run away from home, why girls
seem sometimes possessed Of the evil
one. why business relations become in
tolerable, why workmen cannot get
along together, why there is dissention
in the church. why perfectly sane and
sober folks suddenly develop the most
outrageous cantankerousness, the cause
is not in original sin nor the influence
Of psychic currents; it is more likely
to be found in the vicious company OF
militant bacilli in the colon.
The colonicis is the real hunter for
trouble" He Graves trouble as drunk
ard in his cups.
THE colonic." says DR.. Morris, tries
first one way and then another to get
an irritated response to an irritating
question or assertion. He eventually
brings upon himself almost any calam-
ity that he fears, through the influence
of persistent suggestion.
The individual with his colon fun OF
bacilli is conscious of vague dlscom-
fort. and often takes to drugs, such as
alcohol, morphine. or cocaine. lie seeks
relief much as one scratches the SKIN
where it has been stung by nettles
There is a vast deal Of moral and re-
liqous work physicians might do II
they would induce people to cleanse the
colon as well as the body surface.
The first requisite to sanctity IS to
keep the bowels open.
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