Doctors, as the self-chosen supervisors of the physical well- being of the civilized races, are woefully indifferent to this, the most important part of humanitys task. They think in terms of disease but not in those of health, in the terms of cure and not in those of prevention.
Life is a creation which has been going on for millions of years. That creation is still going on to-day in the same way as ever.
Man is essentially a creator. In disregarding this fact and being content to carry on in any way, he has cut himself off from the great “elan vital” of the whole universe and marked himself as an object ready for Natures scarp-heap.
This scrap-heap is a huge “cauldron of disease”.
It is around this cauldron that the chief interests of the doctors are centred. To keep it going at all coasts, i.e. to maintain life regardless of quality, is their motto.
This motto is one of the most Mephistophelean ever invented. For whilst posing as “maintainers of life at any cost” the doctors are at present the real slayers, at a fabulous expenditure in money and lives. In limiting their activities to treating end- results, regardless of the causes that have brought them about, they are butchering and maiming thousands by cauterizing, scraping, operating upon and cutting out organ, which, in almost every instance, might have functioned perfectly had they not been ruined by the reckless modern way of eating and drinking, shared in and authorized by the doctors themselves.
Diabetes, now increasing by leaps and bounds in all the white- bread and white-sugar consuming countries, is but one of many instances which show the way in which the doctors are playing a losing game and leading humanity along the road to destruction.
It must be obvious to any observant onlooker that the really healthy are becoming increasingly few, and those who are ailing in one way or another increasingly numerous, or, as our forefathers would have put it:.
“The Eagle of Destruction is gnawing more vigorously than ever at the root of the Tree of Life.”
Humanity is gradually rotting in spite of all that the doctors, in their own interests, say to the contrary.
As long as there is a single decayed tooth in man under fifty “all is not in the state of Denmark”. [One of the most recent endeavours of the doctors has been to show that disease is a normal state of affairs and that health never was natural- but that thanks to the doctors it will become so. It has been pointed out that even chimpanzees and orangoutangs in a wild state sometimes suffer from caries, and that certain of the giant reptiles of the past, the dinosaurs, were subject to caries, arthritis and even sarcoma.
It must be obvious to any student of biology that only mono- cellular beings, such as the amoeba, can be disease-proof and therefore immortal, and that life invited disease when it set out to build multi-cellular beings or organisms., Organization implies disorganization, integration-disintegration. Disease is disorganization and disintegration.
The marvel is that billions of individual cells, in spite of all the great difficulties in feeding them and delivering them from their waste products, are able to work so smoothly together in the great, closed-up cell community of a body that disease nevertheless is incidental and health normal. Even to a chimpanzee in the tropics food- essentials such as calcium may be lacking, and how much more so in the case of a dinosaur having to feed properly every day the cells of a huge body weighing 10 to 15 tons.
A few decades ago an ancient burial place was discovered in Cornwall, disclosing well preserved skeletons. Every skull had a perfect set of healthy teeth. Compare with these the toothless skulls with their oral cavities full of artificial teeth which would be found in modern cemetery. In the former people were buried in an age when a dentist would obviously have starved to death, and when there were -no doctors. (See Sir Arthur Keith, The Engines of the Human Body, p. 319).
