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Rh not annul these regulations by an opposite law, that food shall be inimical to life.

The materialists contradict their own statements. Their belief is the ancient blunder, that there can be any fraternity between pain and pleasure, good and evil, God and Satan. This belief totters to its falling before the battle-axe of Science.

A case of convulsions, produced by indigestion, came under my observation. In belief the woman had chronic liver-complaint, and was then suffering from abdominal obstruction and bilious colic. I cured her in a few minutes. One instant she said, “I must vomit, or die.” The next minute she said, “My food is all gone, and I should like something more to eat.”

Contending persistently against error and disease, you destroy them. If mortal mind can remove disease, this proves, on the homœopathic basis, that mortal mind can likewise produce it. Similia similibus curantur.

The sick argue on the side of suffering, instead of against it. They admit its reality, whereas they should repel it. They should plead in opposition to the testimony of the diseased senses, and maintain man's immortality and eternal harmony.

The refutation of the testimony of material sense is no difficult task, in view of its falsity. The refutation becomes arduous only on recount of the tenacity of belief, the force of education, and the overwhelming weight of opinions on the other side, — all teaching that the body suffers, as if matter could have sensation.

Ignorant of the fact that mental belief produces disease, and all its symptoms, the ordinary physician goes on establishing disease with his own mind. Then he