RATIONAL
FASTING
Regeneration Diet
And Natural Cure
For All Diseases
By A R N O L D E H R E T
Translated from the German
Synopsis of Contents:
I. The common Fundamental Cause in the Disease
II Remedies for the Removal of the Common Fundamental
Cause of Diseases and the Prevention of their
Reoccurrence.
III. The Fundamental Cause of Growing Old and Ugly, of
the Falling Out and Getting Gray of the Hair.
VI. The Death.
1. The Common Fundamental Cause in the
Nature of Diseases
All the phases of the process of development of the
medical science, including those of the earliest periods of
civilization, have in their way of understanding the causal
nature of diseases that one thing in common that the
diseases, owing to external causes, enter into the human
body and thus, by force of a necessary or at least
unavoidable law, disturb it in its existence, cause it pain
and at last destroy it. Even modern medical science, no
matter how scientifically enlightened it pretends to be, has
not quite turned away from this basic note of demoniac
interpretation. In fact, the most modern achievement,
bacteriology, rejoices over every newly discovered bacillus
as a further addition to the army of beings whose accepted
task it is to endanger the life of man.
Looking at it from a philosophical standpoint, this
interpretation differs from the mediaeval superstition and
the period of fetishism only in the supplemental name.
Formerly it was an “evil spirit,” which imagination went so
far as to believe in “satanic personages;” now this same
dangerous monster is a microscopically visible being
whose existence has been proven beyond any doubt.
The matter, it is true, has still a great drawback in the
so-called “disposition”—a fine word!—but what we really
are to understand by it, nobody has ever told us. All the
tests on animals, with their symptom-reactions, do not
prove anything sure, because these occur only by means of
injection into the blood-circulation and never by
introduction into the digestive channel through the mouth.
There is something true in the conception of “external
