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 Relieving physical illness by voluntary withholding food is based upon the logical conclusion of the argument herein that, no matter what are the various names attached to the forms in which disease is manifested, there is but one cause for all of its outward and inward signs. The sole source of bodily ills is impure blood. The cause of impure blood is imperfect digestion.

An important distinction in conditions here needs exposition:

Organic disease, whether inherent or the result of continued functional disturbance or physical shock, is that in which one or more of the internal organs of the body is deformed, undeveloped, or otherwise disabled so as to prevent or to curtail its work, a state comparable to that of a machine with a missing cog.

Functional disease is that in which the organs themselves are in condition to do their work naturally, but have become unable to function because of poisonous congestion, the result of food taken into the body beyond the amount which the system needs for maintenance. Such surplus ferments and putrefies in the intestinal canal and elsewhere, producing toxins that are absorbed into the