18. As the natural warmth of the system is reduced, either
from a disordered stomach or from any other cause, the nervous
power which maintains an equilibrium (equilibrium alone is
health) in the circulation is enfeebled; hence in disease a loss
of the natural balance of equilibrium in the circulation of the
blood is a common occurence.
19. An undue accumulation of blood in any part of the
body is attended by a deficiency (unbalance) in other parts.
Thus in fevers there is an unnatural quantity of blood at the
surface and a corresponding lack inwardly; determinations of
blood to the head are accompanied with a loss in the lower
extremities.
20. The same means that will correct a disordered stomach
and "raise the heat" of the system to its natural standard, will
tend to restore the natural balance of the circulation of the
blood.
21. As the natural heat and nervous power are reduced,
either by a cold (congestion interfering with proper circula
tion), disordered stomach (interference with the interblending
of acids and alkalies), or by any other cause whatsoever, the
functioning of digestion, nutrition and assimilation becomes en
feebled or disordered. The same cause also deranges the secret
ing organs, as the liver and glands of the mucous membranes.
In many instances in disease, the liver (the most importani
organ in the body of man) ceases to secrete bile; and the
excessive thirst accompanying fever arises from diminished or
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suspended secretions of the glands of the mucous membrane.
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