140 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



whilst man lives in sound health, but as soon as 

 he changes his chemical conditions, the adaptation 

 of these micro-organisms to a different chemical 

 medium of health invests them with conditions of 

 virulence, whence many infectious diseases are 

 derived. Thus would result a complete dependence 

 between infectious and constitutional states, the 

 avoidance of the latter being the best way to 

 combat the former. 



Well now, just as the infectious agent depends 

 on the chemical change in the medium man and 

 he in turn on his social medium, it will not be 

 possible to expel infectious or constitutional ail- 

 ments until the economical regimen is changed 

 from the inverse to the reverse. 



It is sufficient to deprive the hen of heat to 

 render it susceptible to the disease. This happens 

 to man every day. A cooling in healthy individuals 

 produces no effect, because the phenomena of 

 vascularisation repair the alteration produced by 

 the cold ; but in arthritic subjects, that is to say, 

 rheumatic, gouty, diabetic, obese, neurasthenic 

 individuals whose chemical formula has lost its 

 fixity, whose cellular chemical constituents are 

 therefore less stable, a cooling will actually alter in 

 them their formula N. This alteration consists 

 in the consequent elimination by the cellular 

 chemicals of products that are not normal, or 



