224 MAN --AN ADAPTIVE MECHANISM 



in evolution as adaptations which have arisen coinci- 

 dently with the need for such modifications. And 

 furthermore, we place them on the same plane with 

 another " conscious" but no less automatically evolved 

 adaptation by means of which the energy of the indi- 

 vidual is conserved the application of the principle 

 of anoci association in surgery. 



Whatever weakens or breaks the integration of the 

 body at the brain link, breaks the continuity of the 

 kinetic chain and diminishes the expenditure of energy, 

 and to that extent is a conserver of life. The tech- 

 nique of anoci association was the outgrowth of a study 

 of nature's methods of adaptation. It does not seem 

 too much to expect that a further study along the same 

 lines may lead to a further understanding of the rela- 

 tions of fear and faith to the laws of life, as a result of 

 which, through education and training, the principle of 

 faith may fulfill as useful a role in the clinic of life as 

 is fulfilled in the clinic of surgery by anoci association. 



