eculiar pabulum which
each organ of the body demands for the development and
sustenance. The brain, for instance, selects that part which
it requires, the heart the material necessary for its growth
and preservation, and so on with the liver, the lungs, the
muscles, and the various other organs of the body. No mistake
is ever committed. The brain never takes liver nutriment, nor
the liver brain nutriment; but each selects that which it
requires. There are, however, diseased conditions of the
various organs in which this power is lost or impaired, and,
as a consequence, disturbance of function, or even death
itself, is the result."

"Now, if we can obtain the peculiar matter that an organ of
the body requires and inject it directly into the blood, we
do away with the performance of many vital processes which
are accomplished only by the expenditure of a large amount of
vital force."

"Let us suppose a person suffering from an exhausted brain,
the result of excessive brain-work. Three hearty meals are
eaten every day, but, no matter how judiciously the food may
be arranged, the condition continues. Now, if we inject into
that person's blood a concentrated extract of the brain of a
healthy animal, we supply at once the pabulum which the organ
requires. Then, if under this treatment the morbid symptoms
disappear, we are justified in concluding that we have
successfully aided Nature in doing that which, unassisted,
she could not accomplish."

"That is the system. I believe it is applicable not only to
the brain, but to all the other organs of the body."

The writer of the above is, very probably, a little over sanguine in his
opinion that the plan of treatment will prove efficacious in all organic
diseases, but certainly, from our experience, we can endorse his belief
as to its great efficacy in many forms of organic weakness, especially
those of the generative organs, nervous system, heart and some other
parts of the body. We believe that we are placing a conservative
estimate upon the remedial value of these animal juices, or extracts,
when we say that they are destined to fill an important place in the
curative resources of the specialist in chronic diseases.

Under the head of epilepsy, also in connection with our consideration of
locomotor ataxia, we shall have occasion to refer to the use of these
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