CHAPTER XXIX. 



MEDICINE; 



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 THK LIFK ACTION OF THB BODY, AND THE CAUSE AND CUBE OF DISEAil. 



A revolution in medicine. The cause of disease unknown. Incurable 

 diseases. Not creditable to the profession. What are our bodiei 

 composed of ? What keeps up life in us ? What is blood ? How 

 is blood formed 1 ? How is the material we eat transformed into 

 blood? What causes and keeps up the circulation of the blood? 

 What is life ? The magnetic action of the body. The function 

 of the blood. How the waste from the body is thrown off. Hot 

 water. Purging Emetics. The body compared to a fire. Indi- 

 gestion. Consumption, its cause and cure. Fevers. 



IP the atomagnetic system be true, it is destined to revolu- 

 tionize the whole practice of medicine. Any one who has "been 

 sick, must have noticed how ignorant certain doctors are as to the 

 nature of disease, and how uncertain they are about the proper 

 manner of treating it. The true cause of fevers and other 

 diseases, the circulation of the blood, etc., is misapprehended, 

 and in many cases totally unknown to them. Numerous dis- 

 eases also are deemed incurable, such as consumption, heart 

 disease, liver complaint, indigestion, and some others which 

 ought to be no more so than measles, or scarlatina. It seems 

 far from creditable to the profession that such should be the 

 case, when, as a class, they have been operating on the human 



