Human Physiology. 



conditions. Vice, crime, and misery fill the world with disease 

 and death. When men are honest and wise, in the highest 

 sense of honesty and wisdom, they will be healthy and happy. 

 Be sure that righteousness, justice, equity, truth in all relations, 

 exalteth a nation, and that sin, iniquity, injustice, falsehood, is 

 a reproach and a misery to any people. 



CHAPTER III. 



DISEASE. 



What is Disease? The Mystery of Pain Theories of Pathology Classifi- 

 cation of Diseases: Zymotic, Constitutional, and Local Most Diseases 

 Preventable Efforts of Nature to Expel Matter or Remedy Disordered 

 Action Two Elements in Zymotic Diseases Cancer, Scrofula, Con- 

 sumption Brain, Digestive Organs, Kidneys Phenomena and Seat 

 of Diseased Action. 



DISEASE is want of ease, want of comfort, lack of the sensations 

 which belong to the energy of life. It may be a mere sense of 

 weakness, or a feeling of disorder, discomfort, irritation, and so 

 on to positive pain, increasing from the slightest degrees to the 

 most acute and agonising torments. The mind has its diseases 

 as well as the body, and in like degrees; and all our sentiments 

 and passions give us pleasure in their normal action, and when 

 thwarted or disordered bring us pain and misery. 



Pain of mind or body is the regulator of life the alarum of 

 nature the warning voice that tells us when we are going 

 wrong the effective punishment of wrong-doing. Pain is 

 always the sign of evil, physical or moral, in ourselves, or 

 acting upon ourselves present evil, or past, or future. Our 

 present or past misdeeds bring us the pain of disease, or the 

 remorse which follows moral wrong-doing, or both combined. 



