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" In the beginning of 1813 the message of Louis
Kuhne was again preached to the author, and this
time it was accepted, though without hope ; a copy
of Kuhne's book was purchased and gone through.
The book proved to be a revelation.
" The author (Sri K. Lakshman) thoroughly
enjoyed the reading of Kuhne's book; it shed
light on many of the dark places of medical science/
and explained why the author had failed to find
a cure so long. But the enjoyment was purely
impersonal. The reason was that in that book
there was no message of hope for the author
himself; Kuhne made it plain that when the foreign
matter was deposited chiefly on the back side—so
as to involve the nervous system and if the encum-
brance had passed on to the third stage—the stage
of emaciation—there is no hope of cure; at the
most there can be some alleviation. This was
exactly the author's (Sri K. Lakshman's) condition-
''But by this time the author had ceased to
care for life ; it was not necessary for him to hope
for cure, in order to accept the new system. It
was clear now to the author that allopathy is an evil
thing/ to be renounced, at once. Other systems
such as exercise, breathing and auto-suggestion
had been tried, and found to be useless Or imprac-
ticable ; but while life should last,, some palliative
treatment would be craved, and for this purpose.
Kuhne's diet-and-batlvsystem was the best possible.
There was the hope however that life might be
prolonged so as to enable the author to verify the
teachings of Kuhne,—so that his gospel of health
might be carried to other sufferers. So the author
took a .vow renouncing allopathy/ and resigning hie
,pase utterly to -Nature, without hope, and y<yt
fear*