686 THE VIS MEDICATKIX NATURE, 



toms, and dies in from ten to thirty hours, or a few 

 days at most, when urea is found in the blood. 

 (Muller's Elements, p. 151.) 



What then must be the result when nearly all 

 the worn out or effete matter of the body, including 

 the poisonous drugs so often introduced into it by 

 physicians, are retained in the blood, as when the 

 excretions are arrested ? Has any thing noxious 

 been absorbed into the blood through the lungs 

 or from the stomach ? it must be carried off by 

 the emunctories before health can be restored. 

 Nor is it possible to overcome any derangement 

 of the solids, and bring the system back to its 

 healthy state, without following the indications of 

 nature by restoring the action of the emunctories, 

 and thus improving the vital properties of the 

 blood. Whenever circulation and nutrition are 

 greatly diminished in any part of the body, its 

 texture is very soon removed by the absorbents, 

 causing an ulcer or abscess, which can be restored 

 only by the formative process, or by the deposi- 

 tion of new matter termed granulations, that fill 

 up the cavity. Has a bone been broken or at- 

 tacked with necrosis? it can be united, and the 

 loss repaired, only by the nutritive process. Or 

 has the whole body been wasted by disease to a 

 mere skeleton ? it can be restored to its natural 

 and healthy condition only by the same process. 



The celebrated vis corner v atr ix naturce of Stahl, 

 Gaubins, Mead, Cnllen, and many other authors. 



