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place in the lungs ovitside the blood stream. This energy conducted by the 

 elements of residual air, and confined by the insulation of the bronchial 

 tubes passes on to the non-insulated air-sacs and capillaries, where it enters the 

 negative venous blood. The instant this energy reaches the blood it causes 

 it to glow with a new life; its color changes by the vitalizing effect of the 

 charge, and consequent rearrangement of its molecules. 



Here is the beginning of the circulation of life. Here is the power which 

 transforms venous into arterial blood and starts it upon its mission of main- 

 taining life in the human organism. 



In applying electro-chemic principles to the human organism it becomes 

 necessary to use familiar terms cormnon to electrical nomenclature, but it must 

 be borne in mind that while the energy in the organism works upon the same 

 plan as electrical energy everywhere, yet here we have a higher order, and a 

 more complex arrangement of action. In the living organism we have some- 

 thing better than a machine, something that is self-adjusting, self-repairing, 

 growing, constantly changing condition, therefore the comparisons are neces- 

 sarily crude; nevertheless, they help us to mentally grasp certain principles 

 which will lead us to a better understanding of phenoma which has hitherto 

 baffled analysis. 



There are two great sources from which the human system gains its supply 

 of electro-chemic energy; one is from the atmosphere, the other is from the 

 reduction of food elements. One is organic, the other is largely inorganic. 

 The intermingling of energy from these two sources maintains organic life of 

 the highest order. 



It is now accepted by leading scientists that all matter is energy condensed 

 into different forms. It is my opinion that energy is a form of matter in 

 rapid vibratory motion. 



All fluids and food structures used in the economy of the human system 

 represents a certain refined, or stored energy, which under proper conditions 

 may be liberated to perform functions in higher organic life. These elements 

 have passed through many evolutionary processes of refinement. In the 

 energy which maintains human life we find the blending of forces which are 

 respectively the highest product of the organic and inorganic kingdoms of 

 Nature. 



In reference to the chemistry of the animal body, Howell's " Text Book of 

 Physiology," page 962, says: "The chlorophyll-containing leaf of the plant, 

 through the medium of the energy of the sun's rays, brings the molecules of 

 water and carbonic oxide derived from the air in such a position with regard 

 to each other that they unite to form sugar with the elimination of oxygen; 

 this process is called synthesis — the construction of a more complicated body 

 from simple ones. 



The active, or "kinetic " energy from the sun required to build up the com- 



