That which has a deleterious effect on the nervous system is from without. All fevered conditions are because of diffused inflammation. The morbid process known as inflammation is the result of nerve tension. Nerve tension is because of trauma or toxine. The condition of constipation does not produce poison. . .
Poisons decrease or increase nerve action.
Evacuation and micturition remove waste material. The organic waste products, the undigested residue of the food, epithelium, intestinal mucus and other waste material are not tissue, they do not assist in forming any definite structure of the body. It is difficult for some persons to clear their mentalities of the cobwebs of superstition. In many diseases the evacuation of the bowels is not normal because of the constructive and assimilative changes known as anabolism and the retrograde and destructive processes of catabolism. There has been much determined by chiropractors, yet there remains much more to be ascertained and defined by us with clearness concerning anatomy, physiology, pathology, symptomatology, etiology and diagnosis which is not in accord with noted authors on these subjects, also, some statements made by standard authors which we as chiropractors do not agree with.