480 BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 



Internal, or organic hygiene, as we may call it, has been 

 to a very great extent left to nature, or the vis medicatrix 

 natur<e^ and has had little or no attention bestowed on it 

 until the failure of its health-preserving provisions have 

 allowed the intrusion of pathological factors and the 

 production of disease, when, alas ! it has been too late 

 to render effective assistance to these overpowered organic 

 health -preserving agencies and natural hygiene. We 

 would, therefore, reiterate the great necessity there is for 

 modern life to be safeguarded by the adoption of a more 

 rational means of prevention of such diseases as cancer 

 and allied affections, seeing that curative means so far 

 have not been so successful in their effects as the supreme 

 requirements of the situation necessitate and demand. 



