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 crushes a man down, and stamps upon him for falling! As fell that man, so have thousands of the world's true heroes and geni fallen. But he and they are not blameless. His fault was neglect of his lungs and general health while recuperative energy yet remained; and then came colds, coughs, nervous debility, until at last he gave the signal of departure for the summer shores of in the sad, sad words that fell like leaden rain on the heart of her who loved him so tenderly and well.

"The candle nickers, Nellie. I — shall — sleep — well! Go to — bed — weenie. I shall awaken, darling, — I shall awaken in the" — vast eternity!

Died for want of an ordinary precaution, and because those who make disease a professional study did not, could not, comprehend his case. When, oh, when will people of brains learn to abide by Charles Reade's advice, "Genius, genius, take care of your carcass"?

This simile of a flickering candle is a true one, for the very instant you cut off the supply of carbon and oxygen, out it goes. Supply what it wants, and instantly it regains all its power and brightness. Just so it is with our bodies. When sick they do not require a heroic system of treatment, but simply a clear understanding of what elements are in excess or exhaustion, and a scientific procedure on that basis will not fail to brighten up many a human candle that otherwise would speedily go out forever, as far as this life is concerned.

Of course it is seen from this that the system I claim to have discovered, which I apply in practice, and am here trying to impart to others, aims to entirely revolutionize the medical practice of Christendom; and that it will do so is just as certain as that truth is of more vital stamina than error; and I gratefully appreciate the reception of my theory by so large a number of intelligent and prominent physicians.

That system has never yet failed in a single instance. It is, briefly, the power and art of extirpating disease from the human body by supplying that bod}- with the opposite of disease, which is life. Now, it has been demonstrated that all known diseases are the result of the excess or absence of one or more of the seven principal components of the body, — potassa, manganese, chlorine, azote, ostnozone, oxygen, and, not as chemists heretofore have