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culation also carries waste and poisonous matter, which 

 is emptied directly into the liver, and the whole organ 

 is poisoned. The digestion carried on by the liver is 

 interfered with. The enormous amount of other work 

 carried on by this organ is also interfered with. With 

 a loss of liver-action intestinal digestion is interfered 

 with, the digestive tract becomes more unhealthy, and 

 in return more poisons are poured into the liver. The 

 return circulation passing through the liver is dimin- 

 ished and oxydation of the blood in the lungs is cor- 

 respondingly lessened. The enlarged liver, with its 

 growing abscess, crowds upon the lungs and lessens the 

 power of respiration; nutrition is lessened and the 

 whole body suffers. These are conditions with which 

 germs have nothing to do, absolutely nothing. 



Abscess of the brain, although rare, is also second- 

 ary. First there is a diseased heart or diseased arteries 

 from some cause. Both are of slow growth. (Abscess 

 of the brain may result from accident.) In any case, 

 the circulation becomes clogged, nutrition is shut off 

 and some of the brain tissue dies; first one cell and 

 then another; inflammation surrounds the dead area 

 and prevents its spread nature's method of localizing 

 disease. Germs have had nothing to do with bringing 

 about the long train of conditions that led up to the 

 abscess. Thousands, of times before germs may have 

 circulated through this same brain, but now they lodge 

 in the dead and dying tissue and reduce it to liquid 

 form, according to a natural law. 



Ulcer of the stomach is secondary, and is caused by 

 a blood-clot or the obliteration of an artery, when the 



