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In the same strain Dr. Cate writes : " If the 

 change is no more rapid than in health, it is a phy- 

 siological, not a diseased process ; it is one of a 

 chain of interlinked and interdepending processes 

 which cannot be interfered with without upsetting 

 the beautifully contrived balance, and leading to 

 mischievous results. Every physiologist knows 

 that the use and wear exactly correspond ; that 

 you cannot diminish one without diminishing the 

 other. All narcotics diminish the energy of all the 

 functions of every organ. They lessen the vigor 

 and amount of the work done, and exactly to this 

 extent diminish the waste. Going beyond certain 

 narrow limits, the result is far worse, — they act 

 so powerfully on every organ and function that the 

 derangement amounts to disease, the power of doing 

 healthy work is lost, and not only the waste, but 

 repair is decidedly diminished. The difficulty 

 after youth is not that waste is unduly active, but 

 that repair is too little so. It follows that, instead 

 of diminishing waste by diminishing through nar- 

 cotics the energy of brain and body, and hence the 

 amount of work done, the increase of the repara- 

 tive energy is the needed power in advancing 

 years. 



"Every physiologist accepts the law that with 

 every thought, with every emotion, with every 

 throb of the heart, with every movement of a mus- 

 cle, with every step in the process of digestion, 

 there is waste of tissue in exact and inevitable 

 correlation to the amount of work done ; and this 



