Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-22

l do not wish to fall into the ludicrous
position of the young physician who
said, when they asked him what he was
specializing on, diseases of the alimen-
tary canal" Still in the matter of
health education there are three classi-
fications which / find useful-respira-
tion and circulation, nervous system
and spinal tract, and alimentary canal
with organs tributary. If you will
classify diseases into these groups they
will overlap and become reciprocal in
their causes and effects, but If you at
tack any given case from the most
marked and acute of these angles you
will find the shortest road to a remedy.
want to make emphatic at t.is
point one of the vital principles of
bodybuilding system as 1t applies to
the special diseases of the alimentaTy
canal, indigestion, gastritis, constira
tion, appendicitis, liver and kidney
complaints and all the multitude of ac-
companying ills. Here is secret that
once you grasp it and hold it 1t will
give you more power over disease than
an exhaustive study of materia medic a.
The alimentary canal and its aux
iliary organs will only work right when
they are set up right. They must be
hung correctly on the human frame
work. Think of the havoc that may be
traceable to a single misadjustment of
this complicated system. How long will
so simple and tough a thing as gar
den hose last II 1t Is full of kinks?
What will happen to a steam engine If
you loosen up the framework SO that
its water pipes and steam pipes and
safety valves get into a jumble? OF
course it will blow up or tear itself to
pieces.
The alimentary canal is thirty feet in
length and 1t is crowded into a spa
less than three feet long. 1t should be
suspended there delicately and perfect
ly IL it is to work at all. If you get It
into correct position it has natural
tendency to work. 1t is of no use to
run about with digestive tabules, liver
pills and laxatives trying to fix up this
part and that. 1t Is more delicate than
the works of watch. The works of a
watch must be hung right before oiling
the bearings will do any good. So with
the alimentary system, it must be set
up and adjusted before pouring in oil
will do any good. Then the oiling goes
on automatically.
Body building is not only the first
essential in treatment of these diseases;
1t is often the only essential. II you
will take up system of body building
far enough to learn how you we're put
together in the first place, how you
should be put together and how to put
yourself together, do not much care
what you eat If it is clean food, and I
do not care whether you are pitc aing
hay in the field or adding up figures in
a book. You can trust the human sys-
tenn to adjust itself to all sorts of con-
ditions If it is given a chance. 1t must
have the chance of being in working
order. We call 1t the human system,
and that Is what it must be-sy. tenn
attic. Every canal, channel and duct
must be passageway and not an OBJ
struction.
The system of body building goes
further than this, but am almost re-
luctant to go into the specializations
because it may detract from the stress
which wish to lay upon the vital in
ciple. Possibly from floating around
within the torso the stomach has be-
come soft and fiabby After you have
hung it up where it belongs 1t can be
strengthened and invigorated by the
proper kind of exercise. If your liver
remains somewhat sluggish after you
have taken off the load by hanging 1t
on the abdominal walls you can reach
it too with specific method of invig-
grafton.
I return to the Illustration of the
singer with which I started. When you
sing you assume a new poise, you bring
the entire body to it's finest point of
balance, the muscles of the chest, the
diaphram and the abdomen begin to
work, throwing the organs within into
place. lifting the weight with which
they often overcome each other, and
you get a vibration which brings the
system back into tune. If you will edu-
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