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internal organs, and digestion is interfered with. This 

 increases the waste and irritating substances. This 

 condition usually results from improper food, rapid 

 eating, etc., as already stated. 



Elimination relieves congestion and inflammation, 

 causes free circulation, flushes the capillaries or small 

 blood vessels, carries away waste, restores normal re- 

 sistance to external influences, and thus wards off dis- 

 ease. 



Digestion, assimilation and elimination, are the foun- 

 dation stones of life and health. 



Disease is an indication that waste and poisonous 

 matter is retained in the system and must be removed 

 before permanent improvement can be hoped for. If 

 two pounds of food are taken into the system, two 

 pounds of waste must be eliminated, or the health will 

 suffer. 



When elimination is checked, the waste blocks the 

 circulation, causing congestion, first in those organs 

 doing the most work, because they produce the most 

 waste. With poor digestion, faulty elimination, and a 

 lack of nourishment which must follow, the whole sys- 

 tem is weakened and depressed, and there may result 

 chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, consumption, rheuma- 

 tism, disease of the heart, brain and spinal cord, 

 Bright's disease, or any other ailment. Some being 

 liable to one and some to another, according to their 

 several powers of resistance. 



Dyspepsia is usually accompanied by constipation. 

 Following this comes degenerative changes in the diges- 

 tive tract and the production of poisons, some of which 



