Owing to the increasing part played by vested interests inmany branches of human endeavour, not least in the very lucrative providing of remedies for disease, intelli- gent members of the public are growing more and more distrustful of orthodox medical methods.Many people must have asked themselves the following questions How comes it that for over fifty years the ortho- dox cancer researchers have been occupying them- selveswith the cause and cure of malignancy, yet stillcan suggest nothing better than the knife, radium or X-rays?
How comes it thatafterletters from many doctors had appeared in theBritishMedical- Journaltestify- ing to the highly unsatisfactory results of radium treatment, it is none the less still boosted in this country and elsewhere? How comes it that when effective treatments for cancer have been discovered either by a qualified doctor or by practitioners of unorthodox schools. they have not been recognised by the Cancer Research Ring,which still asks the public to donate large sums towards the discovery of a cure?
To these questions (with which I shall deal in my Afterword)no satisfactoryanswers are forthcoming, and we are forced to the conclusion that, although there are many selfless and noble-minded doctors to be found in most countries, in modern Medicine itself many things prevail which are much to be deplored.
(1) The torture of animals for experimentation and for the preparation of sera and vaccines ;
(2) the fostering of fear in the public mind by means of advertising ;
(3) commercialism and vested interests which ought to play no part in heal- ing the sickand
(4) a narrow spirited element of trade unionism which suggests that the patients exist for the doctors instead of vice versa : all these things many doctors themselves have at one time or another commented upon and regretted in forcible terms.
And yet, as after a war, Nature or ” the Higher Powers ” seem to step in to adjust the balance of things by insuring that a greater proportion of male children should he born, so when Medicine becomes over-tinctured with material considerations do they seem to inspire some method of healing as a corrective to these tendencies, and as a help to those who are large-minded enough to take advantage of it.Such a method may be precluded by other methods which prepare the way for its acceptance ; for one must admit that naturopathy has been instrumen- tal in curing many diseases where tho orthodox system has signally failed.
Nevertheless, as we shall see anon, naturopathy as it is usually practised does not go far enough, for although it can cleanse the body of its toxins, it cannot replace wasted tissues incidental to such grievous ills as consumption or other diseases of equal gravity. This can only be accomplished by an elabora- tion of an ancient therapy, the details of which I propose to put forward in this book, and which I have practised ortmyself and some thousands of others with signal success, although many of them were said to be suffering from incurable diseases.
It is true that at one time I had resolved not to write my book until I had had the chance of curing even leprosy ; but as I am unlikely to come across a case of this dread disease unless enabled to visit those countries where it is prevalent, I have decided to give the details of my experiences to the public without further delay.My contention is-and I do not stand alone inputting it forward-that within Man himself is to be found the substance to cure his diseases, whether theybeso-calledwasting diseases or otherwise ; and 1 propose to substantiate this contention by case-sheets, on the principle that one ounce of facts is worth many pounds of theories.
If in the course of stating the facts, references to medical failures should be essential, this is unavoidable in the interests of the public and of truth itself ; and such references aremade in no spirit of hostility towards doctors. As already implied there are many unsel&h and honest physicians to whom I wish to do no injustice it is erroneous and harmful beliefs and practiceswhich Iam constrained to criticise,notpersonalities.The readers will see for themselves that such criticism cannot arise from any ulterior motives.
I have no secret remedy or patent medicine to sell. Indeed, although a layman, T_ am only following the policy required from all reputabh., members of the Medical Profession themselves, viz., t,: malrc ao secret of any discovery which may prove usefW in curing mankind : the more so as in many cases the tre:Ament can be carried out at home without any financial out`ay whatever.