Just in the proportion as the stomach is disordered, will local diseases become more difficult to cure. On the contrary, indolent ulcers of several years standing have been healed in a few weeks, chiefly by improving the condition of the system generally and more particularly that of the stomach, by courses of medicine, of which the emetic constituted the most important part of the treatment, elimination of morbid matter being the first requisite in the cure of disease, irrespective of its nature or location.
Even when the seat of disease is located principally in the brain, emetics may be given with great advantage. This is because the brain is actually the station of the nervous system and whatever affects the nervous system, even in a small way, will most certainly and directly affect the brain. Lobelia has its greatest influence on tlie nervous system and consequently, its effects on the brain are just as great as on any part of the nervous system.
5O THOMSONIAN SYSTEM
The stomach possesses a very low degree of sensibility, so that its functions may be greatly depleted or disordered without the patient experiencing any symptoms of disease, except in parts remote from the stomach. One who is subject to a weakness in any part of the spine will experience an increase of the trouble when the stomach becomes more disordered than usual. In many instances disease of the spine has been eliminated by the use of pack, baths and emetics.
Eruptions of the skin, such as scald head, nettlerash and eczema, are frequently occasioned by derangement of the digestive functions and these eruptions may be effectually treated by emetics, followed by proper medication.
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