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dyspepsia. The remarkable success of such
a procedure should be sufficient proof of the fact
that dyspepsia is at the root of all chronic disease.
Some typical illustrative cases have been given
below, not to serve as a guide in the treatment,
but only to show that a natural cure, however
crude and defective, must suceed where the best
medical skill can do only harm in the wrong run.
The cases have been carefully chosen so as to be of
a varied nature. Some of them have already
passed into history* But the main point to be
noted is that the patients came to Nature in a des-
perate mood. In the last three cases, particularly,
allopathy had been given a full trial for several
years but the condition only worsened- Nature-
Cure and alopathy are irreconcilably hostile to each
other; hence a patient who has been heavily
'drugged allopathically is infinitely more difficult to
cure than one who has not been so treated. Inspite
of these handicaps/ Natute-Cure has remarkably
succeeded in these cases.
OBSTINATE PAIN IN THE STOMACH
In ancient Rome/ there was a famous man
named Cicero. " His nephew/ Agricola, was suffer-
ing for many yeas from an intolerable pain in the
stomach, which was due to an obstinate indigestion;
all the medicines/ which he had so far tried, had
proved useless. He at last made up his mind to end
his suffering by fasting to death. He chose this
way to death, because he thought he would thus
punish his stomach, which he believed to be the
cause of his miseries. It never occurred to him
that he was himself the offender, and that the
injured party was the stomach. This fact however/
was borne out by the result of the fast. The fast
exactly wh&t his stomach was wanting all the