Two-thirds of the inmates of our insane asylums and prisons might be cured if the proper treatment were applied. The young under twenty years of age yield much easier to treatment than older persons. Pseudo psychic healers or those who deny the existence of a disease do either effect a cure by faith or else they paralyze certain nerve centers and drive the disease inwards turning it into phlegma or fat, or else into more dangerous material such as cancers, insanity or heart failure. Scientific psychic healers are doing wonderful work by means of the psychometer in the diagnosis and treatment of psychic disorders. However, the cause and prevention of the disease for these unfortunate victims lies deeper. They are the product of modern and wrong methods of education, stimulated and forced by artificial feeding. They have reached that state of refinement, or culture of the flesh, and soul starvation where degeneration is at work. If the body is the strongest, the result is mental derangement. If the body is the weakest, the result is cancer and tuberculosis in its acute or chronic form, and many other bodily disorders. A healthy person (even if born with a delicate body) who has been perfectly fed on natural foods which have not been deprived of their organic salts could not possibly be affected by slight shocks of unpleasant environment to such an extent as to produce diseases either mentally or physically. Sorrow and disappointments in life are just as necessary for our development as rainy and unpleasant weather is. The weak brains and bodies of brittle bone and diseased flesh are the result of wrong feeding. Chronic food poisoning and starvation is much more detrimental to the human race than wholesome natural foods with the addition of small quantities of alcohol. The person who is boasting of health and old age in spite of small quantities of whiskey taken is generally born with no weaknesses. The effects of alcohol have probably shortened his life of eighty or one hundred years, but his mental and physical capacities have been superior to that of many intemperate drinkers as well as eaters.
CHAPTER V.
SUGGESTIVE MENUS FOR ACUTE CONVALESCENTS.
Allow the patient to return to simple solid foods gradually. If he tires easily of one thing, as much variety as possible should be introduced into the diet, but as a rule no more than three or four articles should be served at one meal.
1. Breakfast.
A cup of whey with or without lemon, or albumen water.
10 to 11 A. M.
Five to ten ounces of milk, diluted with gruel or tea.
Dinner.
Gelatine prepared from barley, or legumes and zwieback.