Chapter VI

The Laws of Cure

This brings us to the consideration of acute inflammatory and feverish diseases.  From what has been said, it follows that inflammation and fever are not primary, but secondary, manifestations of disease.  There cannot arise any form of inflammatory disease in the system unless there is present some enemy to health which Nature is endeavoring to overcome and get rid of.  On this fact in Nature is based what I claim to be the fundamental Law of Cure.

“Give me fever and I can cure every disease.”  Thus Hippocrates the Father of Medicine, expressed the fundamental Law of Cure over two thousand years ago.  I have expressed this law in the following sentence:  “Every acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of Nature.”

This law, when thoroughly understood and applied to the treatment of diseases, will in time do for medical science what the discovery of other natural laws has done for physics, astronomy, chemistry and other exact sciences.  It will transform the medical empiricism and confusion of the past and present into an exact science by demonstrating the unity of disease and treatment.

Applying the law in a general way, it means that all acute diseases, from a simple cold to measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, pneumonia, etc., represent Nature’s efforts to repair injury or to remove from the system some kind of morbid matter, virus, poison or microorganism dangerous to health and life.  In other words, acute diseases cannot develop in a perfectly normal, healthy body living under conditions favorable to human life.  The question may be asked:  “If acute diseases represent Nature’s healing efforts, why is it that people die from them?” The answer to this is:  the vitality may be too low, the injury or morbid encumbrance too great or the treatment may be inadequate or harmful, so that Nature loses the fight; still, the acute disease represents an effort of Nature to overcome the enemies to health and life and to reestablish normal, healthy conditions.

It is a curious fact that this fundamental principle of Nature Cure and Law of Nature has been acknowledged and verified by medical science.  The most advanced works on pathology admit the constructive and beneficial character of inflammation.  However, when it comes to the treatment of acute diseases, physicians seem to forget entirely this basic principle of pathology, and treat inflammation and fever as though they were, in themselves, inimical and destructive to health and life.

From this inconsistency in theory and practice arise all the errors of allopathic medical treatment.  Failure to understand this fundamental Law of Cure accounts for all the confusion on the part of the exponents of the different schools of healing sciences, and for the greater part of human suffering.