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 blood and hence of tissue nourishment. When such disorder occurs, abnormal functioning of vital organs results, the blood becomes encumbered with impurities, and nature at once makes effort to restore normal balance by manifesting disease.

A review of the physiology of the passage of the blood through the body evidences that health is synonymous with perfect blood quality and circulation. What is deposited in one state is removed in another; and, given a pure blood supply properly delivered, broken-down tissue is at once eliminated and replaced. The products of converted food are furnished to the tissue by the blood, and this fluid gathers and carries away the refuse. Upon the normal performance of this process depends the maintenance of the animal body.

With these premises it should not now require an exhaustive argument to establish the fact that disease has its origin in digestion abused and impaired. The treatment herein described rests in its entirety upon the exposition of this fundamental truth, and long experience at various cases places an axiomatic value upon the statement that, whatever the symptom, the sole cause of disease is found