Excerpt from The Bedrock of Health, Based on the Anti-Collaemic Radical Cure of Diseases and Chronic Disorders: A New Curative System Founded on the Successful Results of Modern Scientific Research and Practical Experience, Lucidly Delineated for the Purpose of Self-Treatment Without Physic Thus Inquiry into the causation of all other diseases was initiated and stimulated. The most important outcome of the discovery of bacteric disease-origination was undoubtedly the recognition of the fact that the organism can only be disturbed in its regular functions by the introduction of foreign elements, or, in order to generalise this, by such elements which do not adapt themselves to the normal metabolic process, be they introduced into the organism from outside or generated within the organism itself. Such a theory is convincing and perspicuous. For what indeed should disturb a congenitally healthy organ in its normal function but a foreign body? The effect of this foreign body is only a secondary consideration - we need not even always know it the method of cure, however, is clearly indicated in its removal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."