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 internal disturbance for some time previous to actual disability, for minor aches and pains have given ample warning. Mild preventive steps, taken when symptoms first appear, shut off by anticipative action later drastic measures. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The power resident in nature of contending against bodily abuse is limited only by individual characteristics, and a positive halt is not called until, through neglect, the physical machinery has been clogged with food rubbish and its products, and equilibrium has been overturned.

It is possible that at first sight the principles here set down cannot be fully apprehended, but, as important premises to the argument, they are again enumerated for reference by the student in connection with the body of the text : —

The source of all symptoms of disease is impure blood.

Impure blood is caused by impaired digestion.

Impaired digestion results from

(a) Taking into the body food wrongly selected in kind or in quantity, wrongly prepared, or wrongly masticated.