is therefore necessary to add the
missing elements in purer form and larger quantity. These nutritive
preparations contain only such chemical elements as exist in the human
body; they also contain them in the proper chemical proportion and are
entirely free from poisonous substances. They promote a general
regeneration of the blood that will eventually lead to a complete cure.

Physical treatment may be made to assist the proper circulation of the
blood, opening at the same time the pores of the skin for the withdrawal
from the body of disease elements and the introduction of desirable
material. Massage, gymnastics, ablutions, and various kinds of baths and
packs constitute the most of the healing measures of this description
resorted to.

This is indeed the legitimate field for Osteo-Chyropractice.

In order to understand the method of treatment which I apply, it is
necessary to understand one of the great laws of physiological
chemistry, acknowledged as such by the great masters of chemistry, such
as Liebig and Hensel.

This law demonstrates that _nature is a unit, its component parts a
given number of elements, each of which has distinct qualities, and the
combination of which produces the various manifestations of life_.

These elements are classified as combining to form minerals, plants and
animals. They are all closely interrelated. The plant draws the mineral
elements from the soil, and after certain processes of combination,
conveys them as food to the animal. The animal substances that man
consumes make up the balance of the elements that are required to build
up the human body.

It is a matter of comparatively new discovery that the minerals are just
as important a part of the human body and of its food as the other basic
chemical elements. The discovery showing of what minerals the necessary
ingredients of the different body tissues are composed and in what
combination and quantity, in order that they may become incorporated
into the organism, has made it possible to supply them to the diseased
body in the purest and most effective way through nutritive
preparations, while their existence in food also furnishes an indication
as to the regulation of diet.

I have already given, in the preceding pages, the frank expression of
favourable opinion upon this vital topic generally, as voiced with
unmistakable, conviction by no less an authority than Assistant
Surgeon-General, Dr. W.C. Rucker of the United