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electrolytic action in the blood, in order to render them useful in the organism. 

 When the watery elements of digestion undergo electrolytic action in the 

 blood stream the bonds of union between hydrogen and oxygen are broken; 

 this fx'ees a sufficient supply of each of these elements for all uses of the sys- 

 tem. By this method, and from this source the system is supplied with 

 needful elements. 



The two great circulations, of air and of blood, move in opposite directions, 

 rotating with as absolute a precision as the planets of the solar system. 



In an electrical sense, the capillaries of the lungs and the capillaries of the 

 systemic circulation represent a positive and negative relation toward each 

 other; yet, taking the blood as a whole, the positive and negative poles of the 

 atmospheric electro-chemic circuit are in the lungs; that is, the arterial blood, 

 which is positively charged, starts out from the lungs to perform its office to 

 the system, and represents the outgoing current of energy. Venous blood, 

 which has become negative through loss of a portion of its atmospheric 

 energy, returns to the lungs for revitalization, and represents the return cur- 

 rent of negative energy. 



Arterial blood is the distributor to the system, while venous blood is the 

 collector from the system. The latter is loaded with carbon and hydrogen — 

 positive elements which have been decomposed during their rounds of circu- 

 lation. According to electric laws, the positive elements decomposed in the 

 atmospheric circuit would naturally collect at the negative pole for excretion. 



The arteries leading from the heart are strong, cylindrical tubes, insulated 

 throughout their length for the purpose of confining the blood and its energy, 

 thus conducting the energy to its proper point of distribution, the capillaries. 

 If it were not for this insulation of the blood vessels the dia-magnetic action 

 of the blood would cause the energy to be distributed too soon. The arteries 

 rapidly diminish in size, until in the capillaries they become microscopic, and 

 loose their insulation, thus permitting free electrical exchange in the tissues. 



In the capillaries, the minuteness of the channels causes resistance to the 

 passing electro-chemic energy in the blood. This resistance produces electro- 

 chemic heat, with consequent molecular rearrangement and change of color. 

 The heat produced in this manner helps to maintain an even temperature in 

 the body. Oxygen is set free at this point to enter the lymph spaces, and 

 carbon is collected from the tissues. Here, also, the nerves terminate in 

 such a manner as to be in direct communication with the stream of life, 

 and thus become the finer conductors of vital energy to all parts of the 

 human system. 



Scudder, in "Principles of Medicine," page 47, quotes Prof. Youmans as 

 follows: "As it is now admitted that no chemical change can occur without 

 electrical excitement, and as the human body is a mass of rapidly changing 

 •chemical materials, it must be the theater of extensive electrical movements; 



