The toxins are from the absorption of the fermentation products formed
in the intestinal tract. Since those who overeat, especially on animal
products, are enervated, meaning they lack normal nerve function, all
the organs of elimination are functioning on a lower physiological level and
greater toxicity ensues. Toxins from decomposing animal foods are highly
irritating, so the body has to get rid of them quickly and must use
extraordinary means since the organs of elimination are not functioning
well. Therefore, the poisons are carried by the blood to the skin and the
body eliminates them in various forms of skin eruptions.

Smallpox is about as contagious as stumbling over a rock. Dr. Herbert M.
Shelton slept in the same bed with his brother while the latter was in the
so-called infectious stage with vesicles all over. Yet Dr. Shelton did not
develop smallpox.

Smallpox begins with the same symptoms that many acute diseases do; such
as chills, fever, backache, and vomiting. This is indicative of a common
cause and a common way to deal with the cause. The body is a magnificent
ecosystem and when it finds abnormal and extraneous substances anywhere

within its domain, it creates a higher temperature, purposely, to overcome the
foreign proteins, toxic substances, viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms.
Whatever is upsetting the ecosystem must be corrected by the organism
itself. It needs no alien "cures." The symptoms should not be "cured." To
suppress these symptoms assures that some other worse problem will
develop.

Some substances, such as an excess of protein putrefactive products, are
so toxic that it is urgent to eliminate them immediately. The papular eruption
of smallpox is purposely created and chosen as the correct channel at the
time for the elimination of these types of noxious substances. Furthermore,
the body may not have the specific enzymes to biodegrade whatever it is.

Instead of being taken care of by the liver or the kidneys the body chooses
to eject them through the skin. Vicarious eliminations such as this are
often natural emergency measures.

Smallpox begins with chills, fever, backache, headache and vomiting. A
fever of l03 to l04 degrees F is customary. The high fever increases the
healing activities of the cells, and it is a most efficient way to accomplish
the needed detoxification. This means that the toxins are now out of the
functioning cells and in the blood near the skin. The body no longer
needs to speed up cellular metabolism in order to cast out the extraneous
substances and the fever subsides. In about two days the fever, and other
symptoms subside. This is when the inflammatory rash appears. It turns
into an elevation of the skin called a papule. The blister becomes dimpled or
umbilicated. The rash and the development of the papules indicate that
the irritants or toxic substances have been removed by the hyperactive,
feverish cells and carried to the skin to be cast out.

Next the little papules become vesicles, like a blister, except that each
papule has a little dimple in it. This is the so-called stage that is
supposed to be infective or contagious, should anyone touch the person
having smallpox. After the vesicles are formed, they may become pustules
filled with white blood cells if the individual is extra toxic. The white
blood cells are there to destroy the toxins in the vesicles. But, this stage
would never be reached if cared for Hygienically. The papules dry up and
form scabs that eventually fall off. When treated improperly they will
leave a scar.

It is pertinent to recognize that when the eruption begins, the fever
subsides. The patient would normally be on the road to recovery were it
not for the medications given by the doctor. Medical treatment however,
consists in using something that kills the microbes which they assume cause the
rash, so it has to be something such as a disinfectant that destroys cell
life. This is consistent with their medical dogma. Therefore, in the past, the
profession applied gauze that had been soaked in antiseptic solutions
such as phenol (carbolic acid) or bichloride of mercury ( aka mercuric
chloride and corrosive sublimate). Both these agents, carbolic acid and mercuric
chloride are corrosive.

After applying the gauze, soaked in either carbolic acid or mercuric
chloride, to the lesions, they were covered with more gauze. Being
tightly wrapped with gauze, the exudate from the vesicle or papule was retained
in the lesion and not allowed to drain away when it ruptured. Naturally,
bacteria are going to invade this lesion to clean up the excreted
matter.

This corrosive treatment also destroyed living tissues including the
protective phagocytic white blood cells and the surrounding skin and
subcutaneous tissues. A high second fever was urgently needed to once
again begin warfare on the extraneous poisons and the invading bacteria.

Either of the two corrosive drugs used can now ooze its way into the
vital domain and impede normal function of all the cells in the body; while
completely annihilating many. Ugly black confluent pustules mar the skin.
The rash gets worse. Vesicles turn into pustules. The pustules become
swollen and more inflamed. The inflammation around them spreads and the
lesions fuse together. These pathological effects were caused by the
drugs.

It is clear that the condition worsens because of the treatment. The primary
symptoms, i.e. the fever, chills, headache, and backache were suppressed
by pharmaceuticals. The stifling of symptoms with medication prevented the
body from completing its job of cleansing, and increased the internal
toxemia. As a result, the umbilicated blisters with clear fluid in them became
pustules filled with dead and dying tissues and white blood cells. The change to
a pustule is the direct result of the damaging effects of medications whether
taken internally or applied to the skin. It is incredible that the physicians did

not recognize the lethality of their practice. But, then, they do not recognize it