1897. Found in this book are hints and advices for the healthy and the sick on a simple and rational mode of life and a natural method of cure. Various sufferings of mind and body render the performance of man's earthly duties difficult and onerous, for a 'heavy yoke lies on Adam's children from the day they went forth from their mother's womb to the day they return to the earth, the mother of all.' Reason teaches us that it was not always so, for, by his immortal soul and his free will, man is an image of his Almighty creator. At all times there have been men who made it the object of their life to discover ways and means for the cure of diseases. Many books give us useful information about the healing properties of certain herbs and the wholesome effects of mineral substances.