Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-27
Self POISONING.

SELF Poisoning.
Auto-intoXication is "a word that
seems to bave been invented for the
purpose Ct avoiding the necessity of
explaining the facts. The purpose of
this article, therefore, is to tell in plain
language what auto-intoxication ip,
its causes, symptoms and results.
Auto-intoXication means self poison
ing.
elf-poisening is enc Of the most
common disorders with which people
are afflicted ard it expresses itself in
SO many Gifferent ways that, in order
10 describe thcm all without too much
trouble, il was called auto-intoxication.
Self-poisoninS is caused almost who'll
ly by wrdns eating, usually eating too
moch, but in nany cases, by eating
several things at the same meal that
are chemically inharmonious
Some of the symptoms Of self-poison-
ing are anaemic, languor, that tifed
feeling, mental dullness, headaches and
{, lacl; Of interest in things and gem
eral falling below mental and physical
par.
When we take more food into the
stomach than the body can use, Ma
lures first method to get rid of it is
to decompcse ii. This produces what IS
called superacidity or fermentation. On
account Of .he excess of acid, food is
forced from the stomach too quickly,
and usually congests and fcrCents il
the upper intestines.
This condition produces carbon-dioX-
ID carbon -mohoVid and sometimes tox-
T., e .,,t II Gtya
gestion, these poisons are absorbed into
the blood and become a source of
great deal Of trouble, but where auto
ihtoxication gets its name is further
along. after food has been digested and
taken into the circulation
IF We are blessed with good dises-
ton, ard can assimilate more food than
the body can use. the excess passes in
to the circulation, and is stored up,
either n the form of fat or it under
goes decomposition and is changed in
to alcohol and other poisons. This is
one of the plans proVident Nature
adopts to keep Us from suieiding, and
is also where the Word auto-intoxica-
ton gets its name.
The remedy for administration is a
pious water drinking, and the total eli
minaticn Of all stimulating and seda-
tive articles such as coffee, tobacco,
liquor and drugs of all kinds.
No greater mistake can be made than
to seek remedy in drugs CT take
stimulants, where one is anaemic or
run down" by this process we merely
throw an additional poison upon the
self-pois1ned body. We deceive our
selves with a stimulant but we have
not reached or dealt With The cause.
The human body is incomparably
more complex and delicate than any
machine, yet there is a widespread be-
lief that one skilled in the art Of looat-
ing disorders can, in a large percent
age Of cases, correct and cure them
by the magical effect of some drug APP
plication,
1t is not meant that all drugs are
bad. but that the theory Of correcting
q disorder without removing its cause
violate the greatest law Of physics. The
idea ot curing disease without remoV-
ing its cause is. in fact, parallel with
the ancient theory that a man of vic
ious character could be made virtu-
ous by 4 magical process. y man may
turn from vice to virtue in Il moment,
but he can become spiritually strong
only by growth, by conformity to the
moral inv. In like manner, bodily
health comes not by magic, but by
right Hying-by conformity to the laws
of health.
The human body, while the most
complicated, is the toughest piece of
mechanism known to the scientific
world 1t will adjust itself to more
unnatural things than any piece of liN-
ing matter known, and While Nature
is eXacting. she is at the same time
forgiVing, and. if given a half chance,
will keep the biped man in Il fair state
of health therefore, the more we con-
form t. natural laws the more bodily
ease we will enjoy, and the more we
violatc the natural laws the more dis
ease we will be afflicted with.
The whole question of health and dis.
ease is reducible To this Discovery OF
fhe conformity to the natural law Is
all If wisdom and the beginning of
wisdem $ faith that Natures laws are,
all sufficient. nt.''-Spokesmans Review.