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preaching symptoms with all the strength of intelli- 

 gent manhood and note the contrast. 



"Had Blondin thought it impossible to walk a rope 

 over Niagara's abyss of waters, he could not have done 

 it; his belief gave him the victory." 



The doctor who tells the plain unvarnished truth will 

 often lose his patient, because people like to be humored 

 in their ideas of sickness. That is true, yet it is not 

 necessary to say to a man: "You have typhoid fever 

 and must lie here four weeks," or "until convales- 

 cence ;" neither is it necessary to surround yourself with 

 an air of superior(?) knowledge, by saying that this 

 disease is caused by the fundamental thesis of the 

 chemical products of dissociation which combine to 

 operate against the organic functions. This over- 

 balances the conditions of the organic membrane, in 

 proportion to the osmotic fluids of the body and disease 

 follows. If the hydrolitic effects of the inverting 

 enzyms upon the carbohydrates now in the system, 

 aid in supporting the patient until the physiological 

 relations between the two are equalized, then the intra- 

 organic oxydation of the proteids will be absorbed by 

 the semi-permeability of cell-protoplasm and recovery 

 will follow. 



The doctor is losing his usefulness when he fails to 

 fully instruct the patient or others in such language 

 as may be easily understood. 



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