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TREATING THE CHRONIC
Chronic disees© does r.ot develop all of
a sudden ; its devolopr.ient Ici s slov/ process/ being
the result cf years of wrong living- (Of course
1 make due cllovranoe for the fact, that if medical
.people rr.ske up f:he:.r irinds they can make you
a confirmed chronic vjiikir: a vreek by heavy
drugging.) A disease x^hloh develops slowly cannot
be eradicated in a day ; IE will take atleast a frac-
tion of the time II took to develop. It may be a
matter of a few months ; It may even be a few years.
In some cases a complete cure may be out of
Question ; vitality might have been so far lowered
that very little may be left for effecting a cure/ or
the disease might have led to some structural weak-
nesses which can only be partially made up. My
father's case was one such. He has not been
: cured completely. But almost all the time he gets
on as though the disease has been completely
.eradicated. At the age of seventy he is infinitely
more alert and active, both physically and mentally,
than he was thirty -five years ago under the benign
care of doctors and drugs. Once hi several years/
,Jie gets a relapse of his old complaints in some
jfbrzn or other/ when he fasts or takes to a very low
, diet, and the trouble subsides within a few days, or
. weeks. The fact is that his inherited and accumula-
ted load of filth is too heavy to be throw^i out in
,one effort. So Life makes a series-of such efforts,
.with a sufficient interval in-between to allow for
recuperation. Yes, he has surrendered himself,
entirely/ to Nature ; he obeys Her dictates/ and She
looks to the rest. He is not alone in this self-
surrender ; there are thousands like him all the
world over ; there are hundreds inP this country and
also abroad who have come to this way either
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