It is evident from the nature of the press notices of “The Natural Cure,” that the prefatorial request has been very generally complied with, and that not only have critics managed to obtain an understanding of the author’s position as regards the only certain means for physical improvement from low conditions, but they are disposed to sustain him in that position. Here and there one, however, as was to be expected, from ignorance of natural law, from personal preferences or notions, from faith in the old way (which has so long been on trial and so signally failed), has failed to comprehend the matter. Diving into the middle of the book, selecting some chapter or paragraph which forbids a consumptive or any frail patient, while _doing_ nothing, to eat like a woodchopper or a railroad hand, and especially warns such from eating worse kinds of food than the man of mighty strength who might, through the influence of active outdoor pursuits, get rid of considerable coffee, pie, cakes, pickles, etc., and (providing his diet included plenty of coarse food) even thrive in spite of a good deal of such material (for we know that many indoor loafers, even, are too tough to be speedily killed by such a diet)——carping critics, we mean to say, selecting some special paragraph have held the advice up as “too radical in theory.” But no person of sound mind can read this book _through_ with even a fair degree of care, and not learn that its chief aim is to teach people who are now starving, or who are at best poorly nutrified, and, next to these, the well ones who mean to keep on the safe side, the way to live in order to be well nourished and free from the pains, aches, and sicknesses which cover the land with wrecks of human beings——dying——who might better _live_ in clean, sound, and easy bodies. INDEX. Advantages of Deep Breathing, 84, 111 Albuminuria (Bright’s Disease), 116 Animal Food, Injurious Effects of, 51, 60, 61 Animal Food Unnecessary, 50, 158 Stimulating, 160 Acute Stage in the Cure of Chronic Disease, 222 Appetite, Tempting the, Mischievous, 66, 157, 262, 267 Appetite and Insanity, 141, 144 Apoplexy, 149 Air-Baths, 166, 171, 172 and Dyspepsia, 168 Apples and Summer-Complaint, 193 Bad Blood, 180 Bacillus Theory, The, of Consumption, 80 Blood, Bad, 180 Bathing, 90, 98, 166, 171, 172 Bed, A word About the, 102 Bowels, Consumption of the, 81 Forced Movement of the, Unhygienic, 110 Baths, Sun, 175 Air, 166, 171, 172 Injurious Forms of, 172 Biliousness, 152 and “Rich” Food, 153 Bright’s Disease (Albuminuria), 116 Symptoms of, 125, 127, 130 Breathing, Deep, 84, 111, 137 Careless, 137 Open-mouth, 101 Difficult, how Relieved, 101 Beef-tea Fallacy, The, 60, 61, 254 Brain, Pumping away the Effete Matters from the, 137 Bran (Wheat Hulls) Under the Microscope, 187 Brain Workers and Stimulation, 252