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a short time. Again his abdomen was cut open
and this time, his gall bladder was removed; of
course just to make a trial- This second operation
made fhe patient worse still- The surgeon then
passed him on to a dentist who declared that his
teeth had decayed and they formed the septic focus
poisoning the blood. Accordingly all the teeth
were pulled out. Then followed some minor ope-
rations. When they had failed to give him any
relief, the medical men coolly told our patient that
there was nothing wrong with him really. The
trouble was all in his imagination. They explained
it off with the help of a high sounding name neuras-
thenia. He had only to think that he was well, the
doctors told him/ and all could be well. This
patient has now come to Nature-Cure, having got
fully disillusioned about doctors and drugs. It now
remains to see, with what is left of his anatomy/ how
far Nature-Cure will be able to help this wreck of
a human being. Though surgery is the only method
which has the full support of all orthodox practi-
tioners, Nature-Cure practice in the past few
decades has proved beyond question that such
troubles do not require an operation, but rather
a thorough reform of the patient's mode of life.
" With the passing of time/' Russel Sneddon writes,
" the success of the latter treatment has been tested
proved and recognised/ and to-day ulceration is
commonly regarded as a case for the dietecian and
physician and not the surgeon, and medicinal and
dietary treatment take the place of the knife/'