profession, but also to the public. This senseless, ruthless destruction
of the tonsil is often so far reaching and enduring in its evil results
that it is becoming each day a greater menace to the public good."

Such is the wisdom of these world-wide sages,
They wildly yearn to learn its innermost
And break the organ's wondrous works with sledges--
Though music, its sweet soul, for aye is lost;
That they have reached the goal, such is their dreaming,
When tissues, nerves, and veins reveal their knife--
When in the very core their steel is gleaming--
But, one thing they forget--_and that is life_!

This matter of the functions of the tonsils is fully dealt with in my
greater work "Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy"--Chapters VII. and
VIII., in which I show on the best authority that _the tonsils have a
great mission to fulfill_--so great indeed that their treatment
according to the present methods of the medical faculty can, in my
estimation, only be stigmatized as the equivalent of a crime.

It is the conclusion arrived at scientifically by the greatest
authorities that the Tonsils secrete a very potent anti-toxic fluid
which is excreted whenever dangerous pathogenic bacilli attempt to enter
the pharynx or larynx, constituting in fact the ever watchful sentinels
of the oral and nasal portals through which an entrance into the human
organism might be surprised by its ever active surreptitious
enemies--the bacteria of infection and disease.

PRE-NATAL CARE.

It would be improper to close this section, touching child-life, without
some special reference to pre-natal care. It has been well said by
eminent authorities that a child's "_education should begin long before
its birth_." This to many may seem mysterious or even foolish, according
to their advancement on the plane of knowledge. But America has long ago
awakened to the truth of it, and pre-natal clinics have been established
on a large scale--notably in New York--for the scientific supervision
and comfort of expectant mothers who may need it. The natural right of
every child to be born in health and happiness, is at length recognized.

Human magnetism, or nerve force, is beginning to be understood and
utilized as a great vital, health-compelling, harmonizing factor of vast
significance to the future of the race.

The real and practical alliance between the physical and the
psychic--between body and mind--is better realized; as for