That there is a very great necessity for a popularly written book on
Natural Healing-or Nature Cure, as it is called-in this disease-ridden
world of ours has been only too obvious to the writer for several years.
The present volume may be taken, therefore, as his attempt to meet this
long-felt need. For everyone who knows anything about Nature Cure, and
has realised through personal experience what its methods of treatment
can do for suffering humanity, there are tens of thousands still
completely ignorant as to its very existence in the world of healing,
and are, as a consequence, still gripped fast within the clutches of
orthodox belief and faith in the "absoluteness" and "sanctity" of
Medical Science, even though in many instances they have had ample
evidence of its inability to help them in their own particular cases. In
the course of his daily experience as a Naturopath-or practitioner of
Nature Cure-the writer is being brought continually into contact with
scores of people, drawn from every rank of society, who had previously
spent practically all their time and money going from doctor to doctor,
specialist to specialist, hospital to hospital, in the vain hope of
being cured of the diseases from which they had been suffering, only to
find these same diseases becoming worse, not better, at medical hands.
Indeed, in many instances, they had at last been given up as
"incurable," doomed to a life of chronic invalidism, because of the
inability of the men whom the nation instinctively regards as its
saviours from disease to do anything for them.
