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is slow^ and forever there is a war in both departments between 

 science and superstition. How long, oh, how long will it last! 



We return now to the consideration of scientific medicine, 

 merely for the purpose of classifying the science, for we are in 

 quest of the evidence by which we desire to exhibit the facts 

 relating to the five properties of matter, and to show that the 

 sciences are legitimately classified by considering the leading 

 properties in a science as the characteristics of that science, and 

 then to see if such classification warrants the conclusion that 

 there are but five properties of matter, and that in every body 

 these five properties appear. 



In medicine we are attempting to sliow that the fundamental 

 property on which the science is founded is consciousness, from 

 which are derived the opinions by which physicians serve their 

 fellow men to secure their welfare. We have tried to show 

 that these opinions require a special study of the metabolism, 

 anatomy, physiology, reproduction, and nervous organization 

 of the human being. In addition to this, there is required a 

 special study of the environment of mankind — the environment 

 of air, water, rocks, plants, and animals, including human 

 beings, by which the individual is surrounded. We might 

 have resolved the immediate environment to more remote con- 

 ditions in the universe, but have contented ourselves with the 

 immediate or proximate environment rather for the purpose 

 of showing that it is not necessary to make a final resolution 

 of bodies and relations in order to discover pentalogic elements, 

 although such elements appear whether proximate or ultimate 

 conditions are viewed. 



The physician must be informed not only about the condi- 

 tions of health in these realms of environment, but also the 

 conditions of disease in the same realms, in order that he may 

 properh' advise his patient for the benefit of his sanitation, or 

 that he may prescribe those reiuedies which are best adapted 

 to allay the evil effects of his environment. For this purpose 

 he studies the etiology or cause of disease. He must first 

 study the disease itself in its symptoms, and then discover the 

 origin of the disease in unfavorable conditions. We may pass 

 over the study of symptoms, and the classification of diseases 



