INTRODUCTION 11 



" diseases of modern environment/' which are justly 

 regarded as accompaniments of over-strenuous activity, 

 and it suggests that these diseases are in many in- 

 stances the logical outcome of causes largely within 

 the control of the individual. 



Moreover, the Kinetic Theory explains why certain 

 therapeutic measures now in use for these diseases 

 are remedial and suggests certain others based upon 

 the principle of the conservation of energy through the 

 exclusion of harmful stimuli (anoci association). 



We shall offer evidence that the organs in the 

 Kinetic Chain are interdependent ; that the total 

 work output of the mechanism may be increased or 

 diminished according to the increase or diminution 

 of the functional activity of any one link in the sys- 

 tem. In this we have a fact of important therapeutic 

 significance in the treatment of diseases which result 

 from excessive kinetic activation. It was by the uti- 

 lization of this principle that we perfected the shock- 

 less operation. The principle of anoci association was 

 thus shown to be, in essence, an application of the 

 principle of the conservation of energy, which might be 

 utilized with equal efficacy in other conditions resulting 

 from the overexcitation of the Kinetic System, whether 

 by psychic, traumatic, infection, foreign protein, or 

 drug stimulation. 



We shall offer further evidence that deep opium 

 narcosis (depression of the brain link) diminishes the 

 transformation of energy and conserves the organs of 

 the Kinetic System from destructive activation by 

 traumatic injury, emotion, the injection of toxins and 

 foreign proteins. The value of opium and of its deriva- 



