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lieated surface of the lungs. Why does he do this? His weight is nearly 

 the same, bis stomach may be well supplied with food, yet something ii 

 needed to enable bim to continue his activity — it is electro-chemic energy 

 that he gains from breathing atmosphere, which creates the breath of life. 



At all times and under all conditions, there is a manifest necessity for the 

 revitalization of the blood. Every cell with its nerve connection, every 

 organ with its cylindrical, insulated tubes, indicates to the thinking mind 

 that this great work of renewal is that of an electro-chemic process. What 

 the sun is to the earth in the renewal of atmospheric life, the lungs are to 

 the blood in the renewal of its life. 



The organs that propel the blood stream never sleep. Night and day the 

 lungs, heart and nervous system labor in perfect accord to keep the vital 

 energy at a proper " potential " or standard which we know as health Even 

 in sleep this work goes on. Other organs may rest, but these maintain an 

 incessant activity. While the brain reposes the system has time to accumu- 

 late energy whose supply is continually drawn upon during activity. If 

 our rest be perfect we awaken with bouyant spirits and with nerves tingling 

 with a charge of new life; but if our sleep be broken, if we toss to and fro, 

 the energy does not accumulate and we arise exhausted; we are using our 

 forces faster than the great batteries can supply them. We can not digest 

 our food for lack of energy; we have no resistance to the opposing forces 

 about us, and are thus in a condition for the ravages of disease. 



In this age we are still taught that disease is an entity — a microbe, a 

 devil ; something that must be driven out by some powerful antiseptic, or 

 killed by poisonous serum. 



All this is contrary to nature. It can bring nothing but disappointment 

 to the physician and sorrow to the suffering millions of earth. In the name 

 of progress I must emphasize the fact that the primary cause of ail disease is 

 a lack of life, a lowering potentiality of the normal electro-chemic forces of 

 the human system. 



OLIVE-OIL IN THE TREATMENT OF HEMATOMATA. 



Dr. Camescasie (Bev. de Thet'ap.) advises the application of olive-oil in all 

 •cases of contusion and hematomata. No rubbing in is necessary — it is 

 indeed painful and therefore to be avoided — but the oil is simply sprinkled 

 on or applied on lint. If the skin is broken, a previous cleansing with 

 some antiseptic is adivisable. The mode of action of the remedy is not 

 •clear, but the rapidity and eflEectivenesH of its operation are said be re- 

 markable. A black eye thus treated disappeared so quickly and completely 

 that the victim was inclined to complain on the ground that he had no 

 Tisible injury to show to the police. — Mass. Med, Journal.. 



