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sort to illustration: Suppose one is apparently in good 
health, otherwise, but suffers from a chronic recurrent 
ulcer of the stomach. This disease characteristically 
tends to go into definite periods of aggravation and bet- 
terment. If this person met with much nervous strain, 
business reverses and the like, his uleer would become 
active, because his general resistance, his tendency to the 
natural cure of his ulcer would then be lowered, and 
he would suffer with one of his stomach attacks, due, 
he would be assured, to obvious nervous causes. If his 
troubles, business, domestic, or what not, suddenly ended, 
or if he had a refreshing vacation, his indigestion would 
cease, because he thus raised his general resistance to 
the point where his ulcer again became temporarily 
healed. He returns from his vacation having gained in 
weight and general well-being to insinuate to his medical 
advisor that his diagnosis of ulcer was incorrect, as he 
no longer finds it necessary to adhere to his diet but 
ean eat everything and all he wants of it. Christian 
Science, New Thought, or any similar means would do 
the same thing. | 
Let me attempt another illustration. A patient suf- 
fers from a bad static back, primarily the result of a 
spinal curvature. He also, let us assume, has some con- 
comitant digestive disturbance, say in reality due to an 
unsuspected gall-bladder infection. Now all digestive 
processes are entirely controlled by nerve impulses. If 
his back from any of multitudinous causes becomes tem- 
porarily worse, his ‘indigestion will be worse, because 
his nerves as the result of his backache are then in a 
highly irritable state. Now suppose he went to an osteo- 
path for treatment of his back. These people un- 
doubtedly sometimes do good in such conditions, not ac- 
cording to their silly claims of replacing vertebrae, re- 
