ms of disease--at first by
rote but later, are tempted to tamper empirically with its issues.

It has been said by a great scientific authority that, in order to
thoroughly comprehend and cure any form of disease it is necessary, in
the first place, to mentally map out and visualize the course of its
growth and to follow it backward, step by step, to its source before it
is possible to formulate curative treatment adapted to its cause and
phases.

To commence then at the initial stage, let us bring upon the scene one
of the greatest chemists of the age: Justus von Liebig, the discoverer
of "The Law of the Minimum," which is this: That of the sixteen known
constituents of the blood essential to the healthy growth and
maintenance of the organs and tissues of the body, the absence of any
proportional ingredient, however small, will cause degeneration in the
organism and interfere with the proper functioning of one or more of the
activities concerned.

_Upon this Law is based the attested, dominant fact that all our mental
and physical activities--powers of thinking, feeling, motion and every
action, including the reproduction of species are equally dependent upon
our blood--and our blood, in turn, depends upon proper nutrition._ The
ancient aphorism: "Man is as man eats," is therefore true in theory and
in fact.

Human diet and human life being thus closely allied, it becomes a
consideration of the first magnitude to see that all food contains in
well balanced degree a correct proportion of the sixteen essentials:
carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine,
potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, fluorine, silicon and
iodine.

Amongst the chemical salts of such scientific nutrition may, or may not,
be found the famous "Vitamines," long sought of science; but what they
certainly do supply is the electro-magnetic energy, the impulse of
growth and vital function, the secret of bactericide blood and its power
of circulation.

It is the magnetic iron in the blood which promotes nerve function in
both the brain and the intestinal tract, producing on the one hand
intellectual activity and on the other, breathing digestion and
excretion. Similar causal action in corelation to the integral elements
of food prevails throughout the organs of the body, demonstrating the
vital importance of the quality of our daily food for the renewal of
tissue and the maintenance of healthy metabolism.