“No drug has as yet been proved to have any specific curative effect on influenza—­though many are useful in guiding its course and mitigating is symptoms.

“In the uncertainty of our present knowledge considerable hesitation must be felt in advising vaccine treatment as a curative measure.

“The chief dangers of influenza lie in its complications, and it is probable that much may be done to mitigate the severity of the affection and to diminish its mortality by raising the resistance of the body....”

It is not my purpose in adducing these startling facts to impugn the Allopathic system or to disparage the elder branch of the Profession of Healing.  They are simply assembled for the purpose of proving a case in favour of the newer or Hygieo-Dietetic System.

But here in consecutive order of testimony is a truly terrible denouncement—­the testimony, as it were, of two hemispheres of the terrestrial globe proclaiming the positive failure of the section of science upon which, for very existence, their inhabitants have been accustomed to rely!

Now Health and Disease are dependent upon degrees of positive and negative vibrations, as is every form of life in the great Cosmic Unity of the Universe.  Both are tones with endless modulation, but the integral fact, in either case, is one.  Disease, then, is a Unit—­a degenerate function of the blood—­and, such being the case, the failure of any curative principle or system aspiring to remedy that degenerate functioning, in any degree, is a failure of that principle or system as a whole.

The sensational admission, therefore, of the chiefs of the Profession in America and England, as herein cited, amounts in plain language to the tacit admission that drugs and serums are powerless to produce any “preventive influence” or any “curative” effect upon Influenza, (or as it rationally and logically follows, upon any other disease) although, as openly stated in this official proclamation, they may influence the “symptoms.”

But, finally—­And here is the supreme announcement, wherein at length the Truth comes out triumphant—­“The severity of the disease may be mitigated and its mortality diminished by raising the resistance of the body.”

This in one single sentence is the sum total of the teachings of the eclectic, independent and legally debarred and officially unrecognized Physiologico-Chemical, Hygieo-Dietetic School of Natural Science which I have the honor to represent.

The true teaching of Hippocrates, surnamed “The Father of Medicine”—­the ostensible leader, for all time, of the “regular school” of Medicine was comprised in one phrase:  the Vis Medicatrix Naturae—­The Healing Power of Nature.

The teaching of our New, Independent School is identically the same—­plus the physiologico-chemical discoveries of the intervening centuries.  They are plain and natural precepts, surrounded by no fearsome atmosphere of mystery.  They are to this effect: