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 ing circulation and in facilitating delivery. In correcting uterine displacement, fasting removes congestion, relaxes the parts, and manual adjustment completes the cure. Manipulation at all times is an aid to elimination, but especially is this so during the fast ; and, when a patient is weak and despondent, circulation, thus stimulated, buoys. Congested glands that so often suppurate and develop into false or true cancerous growths may, through manipulation, be caused to disappear by the increased power of absorption thus induced. This applies to all local swellings and excrescences, the operation compelling natural augmentation of blood in the parts.

Osteopathy and Chiropractics are purely mechanical accessories in the treatment of disease, and, as such, their field of practice is limited. But, in connection with the method outlined in the text, their efficiency is largely extended, and, used in conjunction, the three schools form a perfect combination for the prevention and cure of disease.

Christian Science ranges itself with the various theories of psycho-therapy that have been advanced from time to time, but its effect in the treatment of disease is of worth