I have always stated and maintained that over or under functionating is disease, not that disease is the result of over or under function. There is a vast difference between these two statements. Let me repeat, over or under functionating, change of structure and position of one or more organs when present constitute a condition known as disease. Normal functionating, normal structure and normal position of organs are always present in health. When the organs of the body are in normal position, their structure normal, their functions performed in normal amount, there is health.
Life is intelligent action.
Absence of life is coexistent with the separation of intelligence and material, spirit and matter, followed by dissolution, disintegration, separation into its component parts of the material body. The intellectual portion known as spirit is eternal, always existed and always will. Material always was, its form has been subject to change, as much can be said of spirit. Exactly how these various substances act in the incitement of fever is unknown, explain that the nervous system may play an important role in these disturbances is indicated by the fact that more or less persistent elevations of temperature may follow puncture or hemorrhage in the corpus striatum or lesions of the bulb or certain other affections of the nervous system. Hemorrahge is caused by necrosis, softening of the vessel walls, the result of two much tension of the nervi vasorum.