The Hartford herald., 1879-07-02

before it can even pass into the second Stom- F,
ach called duodenum. This mass then comes
in contact with juices from small glands, and
then with the juices of the pancreas, also with
the bile Of the liver. With the aid of these
several and ever important properties, diges
ton continues and separation takes place.
The starch is reduced to a sweetish mass, and
the fat to a soapy emulsion, and the bile on
the entire mass preventing fermentation and
the formation of gas, also separates these sub
stances into three parts-the fatty portion,
the albuminous and sugary, and the indigesti-
BILE material. From this condition comes tine
entire making up OF the body and life.
The fluids pass into the system by way Of
ducts constituting bsnes, cartilages, ligaments,
cysts, muscles. sacs or bags, tubes, glands,
nerves, adipose or fatty matter, membranes,
etc. This is accomplished by little villous
points, which project from the mucous men,
brane, that take up the aliment to be by them
conveyed to the thoracic, ascending the spine.
1t is then emptied into the great horizontal
vein on the left side Of the neck. 1t is here
the sugary and albuminous parts are surren-
dered to the veins, to be by them carried to
the liver. The liver, kidneys, lungs and skin
are all constantly employed in taking from
and carrying off the poisonous, dead, effete
matter of the human system.
THE HEART SENDS THE BLOOD
out through the arteries into the extremities
of the system and to the surface, where the
blood vessels terminate in the smallest possi-
BILE tubes. In this circle it leaves its vitaliz-
ing influences, and returns through the veins
to the heart for redistribution. This return
ing venous blood is dark and poisonous, and
needs to be cleansed, purified and revivihed.
The liver should receive a large portion of
this ,xO,enn and fr0r Ice tel k,la u,b,,h e
natures cathartic, and an antisceptic and SOL
vent. The kidneys should separate the sur
plus water, thus preserving uniform temper
ature; also removing those poisons having
nitrogen in them. The lungs should take
from the blood carbon and impart oxygen,
through contact with the atmosphere. The
remainder of these poisons should pass off
through the pores of the skin and the natural
outlets of the body.
THE SPLEEN.
The spleen is like a sponge, and susceptible
of great expansion and contraction without
injury-is, indeed, like the air chamber of a
fire engine, which serves as a cushion for the
water to press against, accommodating itself
to the amount of pressure brought against it,
and securing a steady, unremitting flow or
stream. The blood passes through the spleen.
The heart is double acting force pump, fore
ing the blood out through the arteries into the
veins. When the blood is natural and the
mind free from exciten at, and the body
from disease, this mach..c moves smoothly
and beautifully, with regular and uniform pull
sations, and without undue pressure upon any
of the vessels or organs of circulation. But
let the mind be suddenly brought under excit-
ing or depressing influences, such as anger,
grief, Joy or fear, and how quickly the heart
responds, either by it almost ceasing to beat,
or by jumping as if it were thrown into in
creased vitality and strong, vigorous throbs,
and the blood seeming almost ready to break
through some of its restrained barriers, under
the great pressure. Right here comes the Of
fee Of the spleen. 1t expands easily, readily,
under the great pressure-like the air chamber
in the force pump-and the crisis is passed
without harm, and the heart gradually comes
back to its natural condition as the exciting
causes give way.
In fever the same result follows, the fever
being the exciting cause. When malarial, the
blood is thick with poison, and the heart finds
great difficulty in performing its work, es-
pecially in the extremities-like the engine
forcing water through a small pipe or nozzle
instead OF open hose. The small vessels are
easily clogged, and offer a resistance to the
blood circulation, and thus bring into use and
make necessary the Office of the spleen. 1t
yields and expands under this pressure, which,
being constant or SO long continued, the spleen
having no opportunity to contract at all, be.
comes cengested and loses its contracting
power; hence ague cake or enlargement oil
that organ.
Now, then, inasmuch as the stomachs are
the great reservoirs from which the entire
system is sustained, it will be readily seen, il
the gastric juice in the first stomach lacks a
sufficient quantity, then fermentation and de.
cay Of the food follow as a necessity forming
large quantities Of gas, Tactic acid and other
poisonous substances-and it must pass into
the second stomach vile, vitiated poison.
Neither juices Of the pancreas, the bile, moi
any other known property can ever restore il
to the condition nature first intended, and i,
is the vile poisons, mixed with poor fluids,
chemically changed, that begin their circuit
through the system, first attacking the liver,
then the heart, thence to the kidneys, then
the lungs, then the skin, and finally permeat
ing the entire system.
And it is in this manner you can now begin
to understand yourself, and see at a glance
why it is that your liver becomes lifeless and
torpid, and fails to secrete bile; causing pal
pitations about your heart; why the kidneys
are diseased; also the lungs; why they are
sore and irritable, and so liable to colds and
pneumonia; why your skin becomes saffron
color; why the nervous centers over your di
gestive organs are diseased and cause you
sick headaches and neuralgia; and why you
should have rheumatism, seeing, as you can,
the carbon crystallized in the blood and why
women suffer such untold misery and weak.
nesses. The linaments are relaxed the fluids
are weak and insufficient, the whole system is
let down. There is a want of vitality-a per.
feet goneness. 1t was once called laziness.
1t is now known as a dreadful and hated
disease and why should you have cold ex.
tremities, feyers, infammations and obstruc.