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THE BASIC PHYSIOLOGIC REGULATORS 
By W. M. Lowe, M.D., Lometa, Tex. 
The physiologic functions essential to perfect 
health, are: 
(1) Normal circulation. 
(2) Normal respiration. 
(3) Normal temperature. 
(4) Normal] assimilation. 
(5) Normal sexuality. 
These essential functions are dependent upon: 
(1) Perfect action of the heart. 
(2) Perfect action of the lungs. 
(3) Perfect action of the digestive organs. 
(4) Perfect enervation. These taken together give: 
(5) Perfect sexuality. Imperfect sexuality during 
the sexual life of an individual is a strong symptom of 
abnormal health. 
It is obvious that in order to have perfect action of 
these organs they must be free of all disease per se—in 
perfect health. Also, it is evident that the actions of 
these organs are often disturbed by an acute infection 
of some other organ or portion of the body. Thus, an 
erysipelas of the hand will temporarily disarrange all 
those organs. 
But every physician of experience has found many 
people in ill health when the most painstaking exami- 
nation would fail to reveal any diseased condition of 
either the heart, the lungs, the digestive organs or the 
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