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288 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
cases in all diseases would recover in this way than
with the ordinary methods of interference. The mor
tality of some diseases is very notably increased by
allopathic medication. The cholera is a striking ex
ample.
To understand the mode of cure adopted by nature.
and how she may be really aided in her designs by art,
we must understand something of her operations. I
have shown that there is an intelligent soul which pre
sides over the bodily organism, as a whole, and in every
minutest part. I have shown that when a bone is
broken, or an artery tied, this intelligent power goes to
work systematically to repair damages. We shall find
that it is the same in all vital processes, both in health
and disease. I trust that no person will read this part
of my work who is not prepared for it by reading all the
preceding portions.
When poison, as tobacco or opium, is taken into the
system, there is at first a violent effort to cast it out by
vomiting, accompanied with nausea, or sickness at the
stomach. This is one of the simplest instances of mor
bid action. In case of a failure to vomit, the next pro
cess in regard to these substances is sweating. In one
way or the other, or both, they are expelled, unless in
too large a dose, when they overpower nature, and cast
her out of the body. By nature here, I mean this in
telligent soul of the organism. They struggle for the
possession of the body ; and one casts the other out; or,
possibly, it is a drawn battle, and both remain. It would
be more correct to say, that nature, trying in vain to rid
the body of the matter of disease, does the next best
thing, in ridding herself of the body.