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From an issue of a December 1949 edition of the Hochi Shinbun.
“Complete Revision of the Tuberculosis Prevention Law for Compulsory TB Examinations
     The percentage of deaths due to tuberculosis decrease year by year, but the number of tuberculosis patients increases. Because a strong policy for dealing with tuberculosis is necessary to thoroughly eliminate tuberculosis from our nation, the Ministry of Health has decided to completely revise the Tuberculosis Prevention Law, which has not been revised since 1919, and will present a revised proposal at the next regular Diet session.
     The revised Tuberculosis Prevention Law will widen and strengthen the legal scope of the existing law, and allow the government to positively direct and assist efforts for early discovery and treatment, etc.”
     When we look at the policies of the authorities as described above, what always comes to mind is that since a somewhat long time ago declarations with the same meaning have been issued several times. What differs from the policy just introduced is the previous announcement which maintained that there were not enough beds, so the number was to be increased manyfold, but nothing is known of what happened after that announcement, and in spite of the amount of time that passes, the authorities continue to excite themselves about something, spend large amounts of money, and continue to seemingly do their best but that hardly any expected result is to be seen speaks volumes of how far off the mark are these great projects. One would think that this situation would be something which is perceived right away. From our perspective, such projects are irritating to the nth degree and cannot be countenanced.
     In all of this, the point that is in error is something we constantly warn about in every possible way. From what we can observe about the way that the authorities and specialists pay us no heed, they have probably decided that we are heretical and without any value. While we not only continue to instruct on the errors of medical science, actually every day at least tens of thousands of patients are headed toward favorable treatment, and those results, many more times better than those of medical science, are innumerable, the facts being recorded by the patients themselves with minute detail in reports that fill the pages of World Messianity’s periodicals. The Hikari newspaper continuously publishes, each edition consisting of several tens of thousands of copies, so there is no reason that these accounts do not cross the eyes of those related to the medical profession.
     If our theories were heresies not accompanied by the truth, then we should be roundly censured. That is because for medical science to be criticized by a heresy would be an unforgivable crime. But, as opposed to this, what we say is that compared to medical science, our science is superior in epoch-making terms. We firmly declare that Western medical science should be abandoned; World Messianity’s treatment, adopted; and real effort made to resolve the problem of tuberculosis. If the true purpose of medical science is to save humanity, implementing the plan outlined above would be an equitable measure, because there is no possibility for the good news of the happiness of humanity other than through this implementation. To put it simply, with our divine healing the reality of tuberculosis is clarified; cases of tuberculosis, reduced; and fear of infection, eliminated. Exterminating tuberculosis from Japan is not that difficult as the expenses involved are akin to nothing.
     I present this essay to the relevant authorities and specialists.

“Kekkaku Yobō wa Fukanō ka, Shin’igaku o Shinzeyo” was originally published on the second page of Hikari, Issue 46, January 21, 1950. Although no translations are known to exist, “Kekkaku Yobō wa Fukanō ka, Shin’igaku o Shinzeyo” was reprinted in the anthology Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū (Collected Essays on Medical Science) that did enjoy a limited circulation. Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū contains no publication data, but internal evidence suggests that its editing stopped several months preceding Meishu-sama’s Ascension. Furthermore, since the book lacks publication data, whether the volume had Meishu-sama’s imprimatur or not is unknown, so details concerning this volume are probably impossible to research.