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CURES BY FASTING and that its cure lies in the application of the single method of nature, elimination. Cancer is merely a symptom of general disease, and it may be eradicated when its ravages have not involved an organ to the extent of rendering it incapable of function.

A cancer, a tumor, are evidences of nature's economy in gathering her forces of cure at a single point. Medicine seeks to "drive it in;" surgery to "cut it out;" neither succeeds in removing its cause. Even though the actual growth and its nearby ramifications are extirpated by the knife, nature is still impelled to rid the body of its circulating impurity by constructing destructive cells, and only blood purification can accomplish a cure.

The cases cited in this chapter are described with as little technical language as possible, and are submitted in order to show the variety of symptoms treated, all of which revert to the fundamental principle dwelt upon and emphasized in the text that there is but one symptom of disease, impure blood; and that it has but one cause, impaired digestion; and, further, that any and all of its medically-termed manifestations, because they are results from the same origin, will 287