Violations of Nature’s Laws in thinking, breathing, eating, drinking, dressing, working, resting and in moral, sexual and social conduct result in the following: 

Primary and Secondary Causes of Disease

Primary Causes

Lowered vitality due to overwork, nightwork, excesses, overstimulation, poisonous drugs and ill-advised surgical operations.  Abnormal composition of blood and lymph due to the improper selection and combination of food, and especially the lack of organic mineral salts and other essential nutritional elements.  Accumulation of waste matter, morbid matter and poisons due to the first two causes, as well as to faulty diet, overeating, the use of alcoholic and narcotic stimulants, drugs [both street and prescription], vaccines, accidental poisoning and, last but not least, to the suppression of acute diseases (Nature’s cleansing and healing efforts) by poisonous drugs and surgical operations.

Secondary Causes

Hereditary and constitutional taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis; mercurianism, cinchonism, iodism and many other forms of chronic poisoning.  Fevers, inflammations, skin eruptions, chronic sinus discharges, ulcers, abscesses, germs, bacteria, parasites, etc.  Mechanical subluxations, distortions and displacements of bony structures, muscles and ligaments; weakening and loss of reason, will, and self-control resulting in negative, sensitive and subjective conditions which open the way to nervous prostration, control by other personalities (hypnotic influence, obsession, possession); the different forms of insanity, epilepsy, petit mal, etc.

Table II

THE UNITY OF DISEASE AND TREATMENT

In correspondence with the three primary causes of disease, Nature
Cure recognizes the following: 

Natural Methods of Treatment

1.  Return to Nature, or the establishment of normal habits and surroundings, which necessitates: 

Extension of consciousness by popular general and individual education.  The constant exercise of reason, will and self-control.  A return to natural habits of life in thinking, breathing, eating, dressing, working, resting and in moral, sexual and social conduct.  Correction of mechanical defects and injuries by means of massage, chiropractic or osteopathy, surgery and other mechanical methods of treatment.

2.  Economy of Vital Force, which necessitates: 

Prevention of waste of vital force by the stoppage of all leaks.  Scientific relaxation, proper rest and sleep.  Proper food selection, magnetic treatment, etc.  The right mental attitude.

3.  Elimination, which necessitates: 

Scientific selection and combination of food and drink.  Judicious fasting.  Hydrotherapy (water cure).  Light and air baths, friction.  Chiropratic or osteopathy, massage, and other manipulative treatment.  Correct breathing, curative gymnastics.  Such medicinal remedies as will build up the blood on a normal basis and supply the system with the all-important mineral salts in organic form.