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conversion of a pathological into a physiological circula- 

 tory condition, and to work out, by whatever material 

 and dynamic means can be made serviceable, the benign 

 work of the restoration of the status quo ante with 

 what definiteness and precision we can. 



Circulatory stasis, or arrest, within the area of ingestion, 

 speaking broadly, must be characterised by phenomena of 

 plasma deprivation or perversion ; circulatory stasis, or 

 arrest, within the area of egestion, must, in inverse order 

 and manner, be characterised by accumulation and reten- 

 tion of katabolic or effete matter within that area ; while 

 metabolic stasis may be defined as atomic circulatory delay, 

 or nutritive arrestment, within the area of tissue metabolic 

 change and exchange. 



These three varieties of circulatory stasis, thus, must 

 give rise to phenomena of arrestment, and forms of 

 disease, differing in intrinsic nature, but resembling each 

 other in manner of occurrence, and requiring for their 

 treatment measures based on their specific differences and 

 resemblances, and their mutual and inter-dependent rela- 

 tionships, due to juxtaposition, and continuity of circulat- 

 ing textures and circulated materials arrestment in one 

 leading to arrestment in the others, according to the 

 ordinary laws of statics and dynamics, modified by vital 

 and organic influences, the physical character of the cir- 

 culating media and the circulated materials. 



Regarding, as we do, the various circulations comprised 

 within the human body to be but parts of one great and 

 indivisible circulation, beginning with the initial act of 

 ingestion and terminating with the "thousand and one" 

 acts of egestion, it follows that circulatory difficulties and 

 derangements must be followed by local or general effects, 

 in proportion to the intensity, extent, and persistency of 

 these difficulties and derangements, and thus that all 

 disease more or less is produced by, or is associated with, 

 altered physiological circulatory phenomena. 



A great principle, therefore, is deducible from this 

 manner of viewing the initiation and progress of patho- 

 logical phenomena, inasmuch as physiological complete- 

 ness of the circulatory process is the foundation on which 

 health is laid, and without which foundation a pathological 



