can go on and descend and ascend the evolutions of nature defined by the different orders and species of vegetable and animal ife until we arrive at man, and we will everywhere find this universal principle present.

We will now at last consider how the organs of respiration in man by the principle of friction transform energy into the state of human life. In the act of inspiration man inspires the air of the atmosphere through the respiratory passages into the lungs producing friction between the air and the tissues of the respiratory organs. By the act of expiration he simply throws off the air which has been used, making ready for a fresh supply to continue the act of friction. This friction changes the chemical constituents of the air that is thrown off and transforms energy into the state of life which is taken up by the residual air of the lungs. The residual air first becomes energized. The energy is then taken up from the residual air by induction through the air cells by the iron of the red blood corpuscles and is then appropriated through the circulatory system to the tissues furnishing life to the organism.

Let us for a moment glance at the anatomy of the organs of respiration. First we notice the turbinated structures of the nostrils; then the large fibrous rings of the trachea, the rings becoming smaller and smaller, extending all the way down. through the bronchia and ending with the fibrous plates of the bronchioles-showing how wisely nature has designed these organs to perform the office of friction. Now let us notice the red blood globule and note the wisdom displayed by the presence of iron in its construction. Nature has chosen for these discs the only material known that will by induction attract energy and become magnetic and the only substance that will instantaneously give off its energy to less energized tissue. Anatomy states that the red blood corpuscles, in shed blood, adhere to each other in heaps like rouleaux of coin, teaching us from actual demonstration that they are magnetic. So we can readily see by the con

struction of the human organism that it is designed for the reception and the appropriation of energy.

ter.

We have learned from the nature of the blood corpuscles that energy when it enters the blood partakes of the electrical characIf energy partakes of this character the blood must circulate by means of an electrical current. We have this principle illustrated in elementary physics by iron filings being enclosed separately in paper and placed in a liquid. The poles of a battery are then applied when the iron filings will become magnetic and follow each other throughout a circuit from the positive to the negative pole.

Energy after entering the blood passes to the left side of the heart, then through the general arterial system and returns through the venous system to the lungs. This circuit of energy causes the blood to circulate and impart energy to the different tissues. The heart being a contractile organ receiving energy direct from the blood starts to vibrate and performs the office of a vibrator in the electrical circulation-thus providing the fundamental vibration of organic life.

The transformation of energy by the principle of friction is not confined solely to the vitalizing of the animal organism, but extends even to the propagation of its species. It is through the principle of friction blending the energies of the sexes that life. is reproduced. Energy in this matter enters into a new state and bears the characteristics and representations of the parents unto the offspring.

In the study of energy and its relation to matter we are confronted in all of its manifestations by the evidence of a divine hand, a Supreme power in the creation of the universe. We have now arrived at the final transition of energy by the friction of death. into the state of immortality. Energy, when existing in the mortal state, bore the image of the physical nature of ancestral man, so now in the state of immortality it bears the representation of the intellectual characteristics of the individual man him

tirement from the world. The patient enters the institution imbued with the idea of strict obedience in every particular; this does not lead to, nor is the patient encouraged to question or cavil at any or all methods. His time being entirely at the disposition of his medical supervisor, his days and nights are laid out with such a general plan of treatment as will meet every need of his case. Should medicines be prescribed, a nurse administers them, and the patient not only does not know what he is taking, but is never told; thus, physiologic drug influence is not occasioned by mental effort, nor by suggestion.

The patient is primarily instructed in the need of cheerful ideation; that bright ideas -those flowers of the mental garden-must be cultivated with due assiduity, and though pain and discomfort, restlessness and nervousness have long been far from agreeable companions, still much can be gained by personal effort.

A word here may not be amiss; that a bright, cheerful, attentive physician, kind but firm, in full knowledge of and control of the cases, can by his personality, do much to aid in the cure, for such an adviser gains the confidence of patients and influences them for their good.

Mental therapeutics is a large field, and its successful practice is based upon broad medical learning, full facilities for treatment, a kindly sympathy, and a keen knowledge of human nature; and these cases will test all his faculties to their utmost tensile strength.

I am not a medical "Nihilist," but in this affection, eleven years of active practice, with opportunities for rigid and careful observation, have led me to believe that the medicinal care of neurasthenics is the last and least important element in the management of this state. The vast majority of these cases gain nothing by travel and change of climate as a curative agent, this therapeusis reaching its maximum benefit after the cure has been effected.

The argument so often adduced, that many cases are benefited by medicines alone, does not militate against sanatoria, for here the advantages are doubly apparent, since we may use whatever medicinal treatment is desired, and, in addition, receive the improvement that arises from the changed conditions of the patient's life, supplemented by nutritional stimulation.

When this more or less active treatment has brought about the different changes resulting in renewed health and vigor, it becomes an essential necessity to preserve these cases in a state of strength and activity, and I cannot speak too highly of the value of golf as furnishing just the proper amount of exercise in the open air. A safe rule for all neurasthenics is, never to carry any work or exertion to the point of fatigue, but to be careful to fall short of so doing. I am a firm believer in advantages of cold baths in maintaining these people in health.

In the foregoing I have not undertaken to enter into the effects of the various treatments in the different schedules submitted, and in the suggestions made, as this would involve too lengthy a discussion, and far exceed the limits the editor has placed upon this article. But in conclusion I may say that their effects are all along physiologic lines, eliminating, assimilating, reconstructing, and sedating, and thus in their manifold and complex actions upon the human body, they produce the varying changes in circulation and tissue metamorphosis that eventuate in sound functions and healthy action.

MAN postpones or remembers. He does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches. that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he, too, lives with Nature in the present, above time.-Emerson.

ITS TREATMENT WITHOUT DRUGS. THE theme is threadbare. This is because the condition is so common. Half the people one meets, nay, two-thirds of them, are victims. It clouds their lives, sours their dispositions, dims their mental and moral perceptions, casts a "bilious" shadow over their social and even their religious natures, poisons their secretions and renders their lives scarcely half worth living. It gives its subjects a disagreeable breath and a dirty complexion.

The train of evils following in its wake is almost endless. It is a constant menace through autoinfection and throws down the bars to every form of infection from without. It is the godfather of nearly all the chronic forms of disease, of liver and kidney failure, of diabetes and dyspepsia, of neurasthenia, nephritis and neuralgia. Headache, heart trouble and hysterics, with scores of others of the commonest and most incorrigible maladies that afflict humanity often have their origin and are always aggravated by constipation.

What are its causes?

These, too, are numberless.

Diets that are too much concentrated. Too much sugar, condiments, pastry. Too little fruit, fresh, juicy sub-acid fruit, and too few watery and succulent vegetables.

Too rapid eating, with too little mastication.

Nervous abstraction while eating.

Too much drinking at the time of eating. Too much strong coffee and tea. Sedentary occupations. Too much indoor life and too little exercise.

Want of system and regularity in the matter of evacuations.

Abuse and over-use of cathartic medicines.

Imperfect breathing habits.

The list might be almost indefinitely extended.

What are the rational means of cure? First, correct all the bad habits. Nothing can take the place of this injunction.

A concentrated diet is one that contains too little bulk and too much nutriment, or at least too much of some one or more of the proximate principles of food. It may be too much fat, too much starch, too much sugar or too much flesh. It is an unbalanced ration. Correct such a diet by eating less flesh, less rich puddings, gravies and dressings, and substituting fruits and vegetables.

Over-cooking often impairs an otherwise. good dietary. This, however, does not apply to the cooking of flesh or the baking of bread. Despite the current fallacies as to raw meats, all flesh should be well cooked but not burnt. Bread also is improved by being well baked or even twice baked, as this chemically changes much of the starch. and aids digestion.

As to the manner of eating, the “quick lunch" mania prevails.

If we had the stomachs of the carnivora -the lynx, the leopard or the lion, or the gizzards of the hen hawk, turkey buzzard or eagle, we might tear fish and flesh into strips and swallow it whole.

But we haven't.

Take time for every meal or don't eat it. No danger of starving.

Tanner fasted more than forty days, and a ten days' fast once or twice a year would be worth a small fortune to a majority of the average feeders.

Most people wash down their food with slops-tea, coffee, chocolate, milk, beer or

wine. In time the salivary glands become atrophied for want of use. Masticate every mouthful long and well, after which you can swallow it without a drink to hurry it along.

Coffee and tea are responsible for a host of ills, and of these constipation is not one of the least.

The greatest harm comes to those who are confined indoors, compelled to live in ill-ventilated rooms and deprived of all health-giving exercise.

Get out of doors.
Open up windows.

Run races and ride bicycles.

Do something to make your blood circulate and to force you to breathe. Very few people breathe efficiently. With a lung capacity of nearly a gallon most people inhale less than a quart of air at each inspiration. It is no wonder that consumption has become so common as to be called the "Great White Plague." Rather it is a wonder that more of these collapsed lungs do not forget to do their duty and go into a decline.

There are mechanical aids. These are daily massage, following the line of the colon; but it must be both vigorous must be both vigorous and persistent, not merely occasional not merely occasional and passive. When constipation has become a habit nothing short of eternal vigilance and the constant cultivation and exercise of will power will permanently overcome it. The use of the thousand and one nostrums is only palliative. They, in the end, confirm and perpetuate the evil they are aimed at.

Bending the body at the middle backward and forward, sidewise, twisting, gyrating, stooping, swinging and thrusting the arms upward, backward, forward, round and round, reaching, striking, pulling and pushing all these motions are of value. Rapid walking, horseback riding—if the horse is not too easy in his gait!-kicking, swinging the legs, squatting and rising rapidly many times repeated. Any motions. or exercises that act upon the abdominal muscles, that stimulate. the diaphragm accelerate the breathing function and favor

the peristaltic movement of the bowels will aid in banishing the demons and hobgoblins that dance and devastate in the wake of this national if not cosmopolitan malady, constipation.

FRUITARIANS AND VEGETARIANS.

THE question of what we shall eat is the paramount subject, and most interesting. study of the hour. Never before in the history of the race has it assumed such prominence or commanded so much attention as at present. To corroborate this statement it is only necessary to cite the work of the United States experiment stations, conducted under the direction of the Department of Agriculture, and the devotion of an entire volume, one of a series of eleven, now being issued by one of the oldest and most discreet of our medical publishing houses, to the subject of "Dietotherapy."

The experiment station of the University of California, conducted by Assistant Professor of Agriculture Jaffa, during 1899, 1900, and 1901, made a special investigation of the question of dietaries, restricted exclusively to (1) fruits and nuts, (2) to fruits, nuts and vegetables, (3) to fruits, grains, vegetables, and such articles of animal food as milk, eggs, etc., in all these classes the use of flesh in any form being eschewed.

The results are a little shocking to the accepted and long-established dogmas of dietists as to "balanced rations," "contained calories," and the theoretic requirements of a given individual, living under average or described conditions as to age, exercise, etc.

A study of these experiments in detail will no doubt prove a surprise to many and interesting to all students of physiology and the laws of nutrition.

A study of Fruitarian No. 328, was that of a woman of thirty-three, height 5 feet, weight 99 pounds. The period of observation extended over twenty days, her feeding habit being two meals per day. Her diet consisted of apples, apricots, bananas, grapes, olives, oranges, peaches, pears,