ON THE INGEST A AND EGESTA n 



waste, in the shape of epidermal debris, must be secured 

 by the use of appropriate means, therapeutic and mechani- 

 cal, suitable or adapted, to the requirements of each 

 particular variety and form of the large family of patho- 

 logical conditions and more or less specific affections, 

 owing their origin and persistence to arrested epidermal 

 exfoliation or cuticular shedding. 



From the point of view thus presented, we are amply 

 warranted in computing that disease, owing its origin to 

 hindered or arrested circulation of either, or both, the 

 ingesta and egesta, whether of mechanical, structural, or 

 dynamic origin, ranks first in numerical proportions in the 

 list of morbid conditions whose etiological evolution it is 

 at present possible to fathom or appreciate, consequently 

 we would assign circulatory inability or disability, from 

 mere stasis to complete arrestment of one or other of the 

 circulatory processes to be met with throughout the body 

 in texture or organ, as the principal etiological factor in 

 the production of diseased conditions, locally and gener- 

 ally, and would, in the strongest terms possible, advise 

 that the nature and sequence of the arrestment phenomena 

 in every such case should be traced back to its source, in 

 order that the treatment, directed to removal, should be 

 carried out on strictly rational principles and properly 

 indicated lines, so as to secure, if possible, the renewal of 

 free circulation, and all that depends upon it of health of 

 body and comfort of mind. Circulation in both areas 

 i.e. of ingestion and egestion, or throughout the whole 

 living organism being essential to and constituting the 

 great physical work and basis of life, is responsive to every 

 impression from within and without that organism of a 

 material character, as well as to every dynamic disturbance 

 within and without by which its highly endowed and 

 sensitive nervature can be in any way influenced ; it, 

 therefore, necessitates a continuous and uninterrupted 

 existence, if health is to be maintained in a condition even 

 approaching to perfection, and it goes without saying that 

 science and art, when called upon to treat its faulty be- 

 haviour, must endeavour to find where to begin and how 

 to continue the work of rectification. 



Should the circulatory "breakdown" be discerned 



