The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
Nerve Energy and Health
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On the other hand, person drops
dead from heart disease, or becomes
unconscious and dies from stroke
of apopleXy without ever having
had the slightest pain or distress.
Here, the defect being on the motor
nerves and not extending to the
sensor nerves. death was' the first
warning that the health, was in any
way impaired.
These cases show that if you
have any pain there is something
wrong. but they also show that
something may be wrong, and very
radically wrong. without the slight
est pain or i'll feeling to warn you
of your true condition.
Again. there is what may be
termed a PREPARATORY STAGE,
which precedes all diseases, with
out which no disease is possible and
this is always painless as it takes
place in the motor nerves. In order
to understand this more fully, let
us take a man in perfect physical
condition, and see sow the theory
can be demonstrated.
If the subject is in perfect con-
dition, a full, steady current of cleo
tricity is flowing, FROM the brain
through the nerves, and IN such vol
ume as to give every organ, gland
and part. one hundred units of cleo
tric power. SO long as he remains
in this condition he-is proof against
all diseases >not caused by specific
poisons. He may drink water con-
tanning typhoid germs or breathe
the germs of pneumonia or con-
sumption into his lungs without re-
aeitti,,o- IA ieyb oct a 10
germ proof.
Now, from a fall, lift, an awk-
ward position in sitting or standing,
from a slight jerk in car or car
riage, or any of great number of
other causes, let us suppose that the
muscles at the spinal joint through
which the nerves pass from the
brain to the intestines become ir-
ritated and contract. What would
be the result?
We have seen that there is
thick cushion, resembling soft,
porous, rubber, placed between each
two bones of the spine to hold them
apart. We have also seen that the
contract tion of the muscles which
run from one of these bones to the
other, results in pulling the bones
closer together than is normal and
squeezing or pinching the nerve
Which passes between the bones of
that joint.
The nerve being squeezed where
1t passes between these two bones
of the spine, the electric current
flowing from the brain through it
is obstructed at that point, so that
the intestines instead of receiving
their full 100 units of electric power,
now receive only 80, 80, 10 or go
units. The circulation of the blood
through them becomes disturbed.
The tearing down and building up
process is rendered imperfect and
they become generally weakened.
Our subject Is now in the PREP
ARATORY STAGE for any or all
diseases which attack the intes-
tines. II he drinks water now con-
tanning the germs Of typhoid, these
germs find the defenses of the in
testines down, and the intestinal tis-
sue weakened. The germs take pos
session, and the man comes down
with typhoid fever.
If instead of the one described.
the joint affected was one through
which the nerve passed FROM the
brain to the lungs, the result would
have been PREPARATORY
STAGE for diseases which attack
the lungs. To take the germs OF
pneumonia>or consumption into the
lungs then would set up the dis
ease, etc
:. K. DEAN. Ki-ro-prack- tor.
S08-10 Farley Building,