The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy, its nature and remedy : based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings.

  • Jennings, Isaac, active 1847-1860.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy, its nature and remedy : based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    VITAL ECONOMY, OE OEGANIC LAWS OF LIFE, Man's physical system, every department and portion of it, is constitutionally impressed and thorongMy permeated with a disposition or inclination to do its best for self-crea- tion and preservation. Each organ is a law nnto itself, has a depository of power of its own, and uses its power with divine economy for its own growth, expansion, solidification, and vigor, and for the prompt and efficient discharge of its corporate functions. The stomach has its independent head of power, its own building and recuperative machinery, and does its own work, which consists in constructing and main- taining its own fabric and the conversion of food into chyme, the first stage in the great nutritive process. In a sound state of the stomach, including the whole organ and its ap- pendages of nervous centers and their channels of communi- cation, every part of its comphcated and important work will be performed with promptitude, ease, and efficiency, if the conditions of life are complied with. An unperverted stom- ach is an intelligent organ, understands its wants and can make them known, will manifest its gratification on the recep- tion of good substantial food, and indicate its satisfaction as to quantity—asking for more when the nutrimental element is diluted, and less when it is concentrated. What is true of the stomach in its insulation, laws, and general vital char- acteristics, is true of every other organ and group of organs in the body. They all have respectively their own way of C107J