In the year 1905, I wrote a number of articles for the "Reliable Poultry Journal" on the scientific feeding of chickens, and gave, amongst other tables, two food-formulas of the mineral contents of _chicken food rations_. (Both formulas were copyrighted). I gave the same gratis, for private personal use. A certain "Chicken Specialist" from the Orange River Colony, South Africa, first wrote a glowing article upon the wonderful success he had secured with my prescriptions. Not satisfied with this, however, he conceived a brilliant idea of great possibilities of future income to be derived therefrom. He left South Africa and came to America, the country of unlimited possibilities, and settled in Los Angeles, California, where he floated a company, which sells my copyrighted prescriptions for poultry feeding, to all and sundry as specifics for all possible and impossible ailments. This ambitious gentleman even went so far as to offer my labouriously earned discoveries to the United States Government.--But further comment is unnecessary! This is but one of numerous instances of the kind some of which are embodied in a little treatise I have published, free to my friends, entitled "A Message to the Thinker." Patients sometimes ask me what my methods have in common with "Schuessler's Tissue Remedies." I answer: Nothing--absolutely nothing, as the explanation will show. Schuessler's therapy claims that the minerals are needful to build up the system; but he only uses one trillionth part of a gram and _imagines_ that the remainder is to be found in the food. Now anybody with a fair understanding can easily figure that if a patient of middle age eventually loses through disease about 200 grams of lime, it is simply a farce to claim that the above dose of 1/100,000,000,000 of a gram (which is the homeopathic dose of Schuessler), will cure or replace the lime which was lost. There are other equally erroneous pretentions in Schuessler's therapy which are really too silly to go into in detail. Time and space are too valuable to squander on any such puerile hypothesis. DECH-MANNA-DIET. MENTOR TO PRESCRIPTIONS. It may be well to preface this summary of prescriptions with the following explanatory remarks; namely, (1) That while my compositions are usually taken in the form of powders, they may be taken in the form of capsules or tablets, in which case the dose given is always exact. They may also be mixed with Eubiogen or various kinds of food, except where this is strictly forbidden by the physician. Such mixtures cannot be harmful, since they consist of components from which our body-cells are constructed. They may be taken either singly, or as compounds. (2) As regards the matter of quantities:-- Whenever one-fourth teaspoonful is mentioned, the meaning is that one-fourth of a _heaping_ teaspoonful be taken.