Perpetual health : how to secure a new lease of life by the exercise of will power in following out the combined "Cantani-Schroth" cure ... / by P.M. Heubner and F.W. Vogt.

  • Heubner, P. M.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Perpetual health : how to secure a new lease of life by the exercise of will power in following out the combined "Cantani-Schroth" cure ... / by P.M. Heubner and F.W. Vogt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    transformation or metamorphosis. This absorption and conversion of matter, which forever goes on within us, supplies the initial impulse to all internal and external activity, including that involved in the elimination of the products of decomposition and waste. Absorption, change by chemical reaction, and elimination of waste, are thus the three principal stages of the metabolic process. The three operations must stand in a predetermined relation to each other, if the system is to be, and to continue, fit to live. Any disturbance of this relation engenders disease, irrespective of whether such disturbance affects any one organ in particular, or all or a number of organs as a whole. All maladies, in the last resort, are traceable to this relation, even those in which the system is poisoned, say, by alcohol, nicotine, the syphilitic virus, &c., or, in the case of infectious diseases, invaded by foreign living organisms, such as the many species of bacilli, generally regarded as vehicles of disease. Apart from the poisons introduced into the system from outside—direct—or the diseases brought on by infection, we may divide all internal causes of disease into two main groups. Man is under the necessity of performing a certain amount of active work, by outward exertion, in accomplishing which he uses up a corresponding amount of tissue or matter. Now if he be unable to