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 extracts, that destroy nerve transmission and occasion paralysis of function and of organ.

It is evident that the word, "science," defined as "to know," cannot be applied to medicine as a curative system for disease. No practitioner is able to foretell the effect of a drug upon successive patients. One may be stimulated, another stupefied, and these results may be reversed when conditions are changed. The physician of the future will forsake symptoms except as indications for local relief, and will devote himself to the prevention of disease, to the Science embodied in the unchanging laws of nature.

While the rest and the purification that result from a completed fast are the basis of the method of treatment, additional means that can in any way assist in attaining results are never neglected, and these material aids need not ever enter the domain of medicine. Osteopathic manipulation, intelligently applied, proves of great value at all times during the fast and thereafter. Chiropractic adjustment of spinal column brings relief and comfort. And each of these schools, with their limitations recognized, are yet to be reckoned as important adjuncts