112 THE BIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE. 



" The next stage of disease would be that 

 caused by drugging and other maltreatment of 

 this primary condition, which, instead of aiding 

 Nature to more quickly eradicate or eliminate 

 that ferment, which in this first condition she 

 is always labouring to do, we so encumber her 

 by our ignorant interference, that she not only 

 becomes totally unable to expel the ferment, 

 but is compelled to reabsorb it and the drugs 

 as well." . . . 



" Thus is created a chronic or permanently 

 diseased state, in which generally one or more 

 of the vital organs become implicated." 



" Nature being thus prevented from throwing 

 out the pent-up pus matter by the skin, in the 

 form of small-pox or other eruption [pustules], 

 she is compelled of necessity to segregate it in 

 colonies in various non-sensitive parts of the 

 organism in the form of glandular swellings and 

 tumours, which, in consequence of their being 

 not so fluid as the blood, lessens its (the pus 

 matters) power or self-multiplication, or she 

 may select one or other of the vital organs (and 

 she always selects the strongest) through which 

 to directly eliminate the pent-up matter." 



"In this second condition the microscope 

 reveals a change having taken place in the size 

 and behaviour of the white corpuscle. Per- 

 manently imprisoned in its abode, so to speak, 

 it necessarily becomes abnormally large and 

 bloated, or more degraded in comparison with 

 the first or acute febrile condition" (p. 147). 



