Many systems of training have been devised to aid man in bettering his physical and mental condition, but, with few exceptions, they aim at some special development and therefore lack the complete and well-balanced methods which are essential to success in prolonging life for one hundred years.

A study that is rapidly meeting with the approval of thinking people is the power of the mind and its influence upon the health and renewal of the physical body. Millions of people have improved their health through a knowledge of thought and its healing power. The influence of the mental attitude is a very import ant factor in the attainment of health and longevity, but it is only a part of this grand science of life culture. Important as it is to preserve the right mental attitude, it should not be carried to extreme and other very necessary considerations neglected. Proper attention must be given to hygiene, including exercise, diet, bathing, correct breathing and all the other factors that go to make up complete health culture. It is the allround symmetrical development of the entire being that is essential. The neglect of any one of the branches of vital development means a corresponding loss of vitality.

To live one hundred years and retain youth, health and beauty, the vitality must be guarded and preserved. One must avoid all habits which limit the normal expression of life and encourage and develop all habits that renew and strengthen. A reserve of vitality should be cultivated to meet any special need that may arise. The majority of people cultivate barely the amount of vitality needed for ordinary daily demands, and as a result, when an emergency of any kind arises, their already limited forces are so taxed and depleted that the result is sickness and often death. Too many people live every day up to the limit of their strength.

Some exhaust themselves physically and others mentally; thus, when an unusual pressure is brought to bear upon them they collapse, and the result is paralysis or the so-called "death from heart failure." This condition of affairs need not and does not exist where the person understands how and supplies to his body an equal amount of vitality to take the place of that which he has used. No one can hope to spend his vital forces indiscriminately and still have them at his command. He cannot give them away and retain them at the same time, but he can exchange them for more of the same or a better quality.

Physical culture is a valuable factor in acquiring new and increased vitality, but the student must not overlook the value of mental culture, for it is the very heart of health essentials. One might attain through physical culture a wonderful physical and muscular development that would attract the admiration of all beholders, and in that very acquirement dissipate vitality through a false mental attitude and be a comparative weakling.

Then there are advocates of the power of mind who suffer from various weaknesses and ailments because their conception and understanding of that power is so limited and narrow that they cannot see the necessity of giving rational attention to the care and development of the body. They sacrifice the body because they believe the mind or soul to be all that is worth saving. Health is such a priceless treasure and youth holds for us such grand opportunities for development that we should all enter with willingness, earnestness and enthusiasm into the complete culture which makes these conditions secure and certain.

That people may live one hundred years in youthful power, three important things must be accomplished:

1. The prevention and cure of the cause of disease.

2. The prevention and cure of premature age.

3. The avoidance of accidents.

Disease is induced through ignorant habits of living. The first essential is to prevent the cause of disease. If you want to enjoy youth and health until you pass the century mark, you must decide to obey the laws of health and thus prevent sickness.

I shall deal in this work with the effectual methods of curing and preventing the cause of disease, and if you carefully study the rules given in these lessons and put them into practice in your daily life, you can be sure of preserving youth and health. In case any weakness or disease exists at the present time, you need not despair, for you can completely recover from it.

The wholesale mortality from disease which is going on throughout our land every year is the result of incorrect modes of treatment. The average person is ignorant to a startling degree concerning the true methods of healing. It would be hard to estimate the tremendous number of people who are today dying as a result of the deadly drug treatment - or mistreatment as it might be more appropriately termed - given to cure disease. If it were not so pathetic, and such a serious matter, we might be amused at the futile attempts of those who have lost their health by wrong living, seeking to buy bottled health. Physicians of renown in all countries have said more than enough to condemn the murderous practice of medicine forever.

Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia said: "We have assisted in multiplying disease; we have done more, we have increased its fatality; we often have reason to blush at our prescriptions."

Professor Magenlie of Paris said: "I grant that people are cured, but how? Gentlemen, Nature does a great deal, and the mind does a great deal more ; doctors do very little - when they don't do harm."

Dr. Cogswell of Boston said: "The prevailing mode of medical practice is productive of vastly more evil than good, and, if it were abolished, mankind would be the gainer."

Dr. Talmage, F. R. C., said: "I fearlessly assert that in most cases our patients would be better without than with a physician."

Prof. Gregory, of the Edinburg Medical College, had the honesty to say: "Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are medical lies and medical doctrines for the most part, stark, staring nonsense."

Dr. Kimball of New Hampshire said: "Physicians have slain more than war; the public would be infinitely better without them."

George Dutton, A. B., M. D., Dean of the American Health University, said: "Drugs often kill, but seldom if ever cure."

Dr. Mason Good said: "My experience with Materia Medica has proven it the baseless fabric of a dream and its theory pernicious."

Dr. Marshall Hall, F. R. S., said: "Thousands are slaughtered annually through medical experiments in the sick room."

Sir Ashley Cooper, the famous English surgeon, said: "The science of medicine is founded on conjecture and improved by murder."

Prof. Jamison of Edinburg, Scotland, said: "Nine times out of ten our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to our patients."