mal will discover
and consume that herb which containeth a sugar component in large amounts.
Thus the essential balance of the substances composing its body is
re-established, and the animal is rid of its disease.

This question requireth the most careful investigation. When
highly-skilled physicians shall fully examine this matter, thoroughly and
perseveringly, it will be clearly seen that the incursion of disease is
due to a disturbance in the relative amounts of the body's component
substances, and that treatment consisteth in adjusting these relative
amounts, and that this can be apprehended and made possible by means of
foods.

It is certain that in this wonderful new age the development of medical
science will lead to the doctors' healing their patients with foods. For
the sense of sight, the sense of hearing, of taste, of smell, of touch--all
these are discriminative faculties, their purpose being to separate the
beneficial from whatever causeth harm. Now, is it possible that man's
sense of smell, the sense that differentiates odours, should find some
odour repugnant, and that odour be beneficial to the human body? Absurd!
Impossible! In the same way, could the human body, through the faculty of
sight--the differentiator among things visible--benefit from gazing upon a
revolting mass of excrement? Never! Again, if the sense of taste, likewise
a faculty that selecteth and rejecteth, be offended by something, that
thing is certainly not beneficial; and if, at the outset, it may yield
some advantage, in the long run its harmfulness will be established.

And likewise, when the constitution is in a state of equilibrium, there is
no doubt that whatever is relished will be beneficial to health. Observe
how an animal will graze in a field where there are a hundred thousand
kinds of herbs and grasses, and how, with its sense of smell, it snuffeth
up the odours of the plants, and tasteth them with its sense of taste;
then it consumeth whatever herb is pleasurable to these senses, and
benefiteth therefrom. Were it not for this power of selectivity, the
animals would all be dead in a single day; for there are a great many
poisonous plants, and animals know nothing of the pharmacopoeia. And yet,
observe what a reliable set of scales they have, by means of which to
differentiate the good from the injurious. Whatever constituent of their
body hath decreased, they can rehabilitate by seeking out and consuming
some plant that h