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Rh interfere with general nutrition. Not only is the quantity that could be secreted by the various glands of absorption lessened, but the quality of the secretion is poor. Every part of the nourishment absorbed under such circumstances is filled with impurities and foreign matter that the natural depurating organs have difficulty in elminating, and the result is these impurities finally permeate every part of the entire body.

The presence of these impurities is manifested in various forms. Medical science has thousands of names for diseases that are nothing more than efforts on the part of the functional system to discharge superfluous and harmful impurities that have been brought into the body. Eruptions, boils and all skin diseases are the results of nothing but impurities being discharged through the skin. Rheumatism, pneumonia, fevers, headaches, neuralgia, etc., are nothing but impurities overburdening some particular part of the body, and the crying out of muscles and nerves against their existence; and in nearly every case whatever