urishment of the patient.

The hygienic-dietetic physician on the other hand, employs the utmost
care in giving to the patient everything that will help to regenerate
his blood, laying particular stress on such foods as contain the largest
proportion of the chemical elements that are missing in the affected
tissues.

No. 2. _Nutritive compositions_: The process of destruction, however,
which has to be met, in more or less advanced stages, in nearly every
case requires supply, in quantity of the pure material to compensate the
deficiency of the missing elements, beyond that which could be derived
in the ordinary way of digestion from every-day food.

To meet this difficulty, certain condensed preparations have been
devised.

These nutritive compositions contain only such chemical elements in like
chemical proportions as exist in the human body. They are of the purest
material and contain no injurious elements whatsoever, while they foster
that general regeneration of the blood which will finally bring about a
complete cure.

No. 3. _Physical treatments_: It is the object of these treatments to
assist the proper circulation of the blood; to automatically open the
pores of the skin for the external treatment of certain diseases; to
withdraw elements of disease from the body, and to introduce certain
material influences, through the pores.

Massage, gymnastics, ablutions, various kinds of baths and "packs,"
constitute the chief features of the healing methods in this department.

Following this general explanation of the system, I may now go a little
deeper into the question of the constituent elements, the tissues formed
therefrom, the degeneration of these tissues, and the species of
degeneration which constitutes the various forms of disease commonly
known to us.

After this I will give a concise and simple general idea as to how my
methods should be applied.

THE UNITY OF NATURE.

To fully understand the method of healing which I apply, it is necessary
to understand one of the great natural laws, the discovery of which by
the great chemists, Justus von Liebig and Julius Hensel, has shown us
the path along which to proceed.

This law demonstrates that, in the last analysis, _nature is a unit, a
composition of a number of elements, each one possessing distinct
qualities, the combination of which produces the various manifestations
of life_.

These are classified, for convenience, according to their main