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ger nails ; while they will cautiously abstain 

 from and repel that which will only make hair, 

 and let it go on to the head. And the organs 

 on the head carefully take out that which they 

 need for their support, and also that which 

 will make hair, or, in common language, cause 

 it to grow ; while they will cautiously abstain 

 from taking that which is good for nothing 

 except to make eyeballs, and let it go to the 

 eyes, and will even help it on. And the or- 

 gans about the eyes will take that, and work 

 it up into eyes, or cause them to grow. And 

 so throughout the whole." 



Every one sees that there must be a con- 

 stant waste in every part of the system. It is 

 impossible but that the friction the " wear 

 and tear " of hundreds of muscles and tendons, 

 and thousands of rapid streams should gradu- 

 ally produce an effect, let the parts be ever so 

 hard. A continual dropping will wear away a 

 rock. 



Now the blood not only carries out little 

 atoms or particles to make all parts of the 

 body grow, and to replace the atoms that are 



