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trickery, he must settle for
the crime before a judge who is absolutely just! If he has this education,
which is a constitutional ingrafting from the mother's blood, fructified
by a like potential father, he will be almost immune from all diseases.
This is an education that can not be secured unless the individual has
the prenatal and environing influences to differentiate these static
attributes of his nature, and, if he has, the result will be that all these
qualities will come to him because "like attracts like." In an atmosphere
where others attract evil this individual attracts good. The same is true
on the physical plane. Those who have diseased bodies always have
disease making habits, hence they attract from a given environment all
the disease making impulses, while those of healthy bodies have health
imparting habits, and attract from the same environment the health
impulses for which they have an affinity.
The constitution, inheritance and education of all mankind will vary
from the highest to the lowest types. As we go down the scale from
those with ideal physical and mental health, we see man becoming
more and more the victim of disease.

It is no uncommon thing to find people of seeming intelligence who
appear surprised when told that they have brought upon themselves
such a vulnerable state of health from wrong eating and care of their
bodies that they are in line for appendicitis, pneumonia, typhoid fever,
bowel obstruction, or blood poisoning. In such types blood poisoning
would surely follow a complicated fracture of a bone--a fracture where
the ends of the bone cut through the flesh causing an open wound.
Pregnant women belonging to this class go into confinement with their
blood so heavily charged with the by-products of an imperfect
metabolism that they are very liable to have septicemia.
People who think they must have "three square meals a day" must have
catarrh, rheumatism, tonsilitis, quinsy, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and
all sorts of bowel trouble including appendicitis. Why! Because three
meals a day consisting of bread, potatoes, eggs, meat, fish, butter, milk,
cheese, beans, etc., overwork the metabolic function and as a
consequence organic functioning is impaired, cell proliferation falls
below the ideal, bodily resistance falls lower and lower, the intestinal
secretions lose their immunizing power more and more, until at last the
body becomes the victim of every adverse influence. At first
fermentation--indigestion--shows occasionally; the intervals between
these attacks of acid stomach, or fermentation, grow shorter and shorter
until they are of daily occurrence; accompanying this fermentation
there is gas distention of the bowels, and this inflation in time interferes
with their motility and weakens them so that sluggishness is succeeded
by obstinate constipation.
Every step of this evolution shows an increasing toxic state of the fluids
in the bowels. After constipation is established the efforts at securing
evacuations are of such a nature as to irritate the cecum. Drugs to force
movement cause painful distentions of this portion of the bowels. The
drugs stimulate peristalsis of the small intestine; each wave from the
small intestine breaks on the walls of the cecum, for the colon is loaded
with fecal accumulations so that the onrushing contents of the small
intestine can not be received by the colon; hence the force of the whole
peristaltic impact is spent on the cecum, which must endanger the

integrity of the mucosa as well as the musculature.
This point of the bowels, the cecum is more endangered from diarrhea
than any other. The toxic ptomaines are especially liable to create a
local infection if nothing more.
This state of the intestines--toxic state--is a constant menace to health;
in fact the organism is heavily taxed to maintain its defense.
The overcrowding of metabolism, as explained above, the chronic
constipation and toxic bowel secretions, I recognize as the chief
factors--the necessary and leading factors--in the building and
maintaining of that constitutional state which I am pleased to
denominate _Constitutional Catarrh. _When this state is established, it
can be said that the individual is ready to develop any phase of disease
that circumstance, accident, or caprice of fortune or environment may
offer.
The constant presence of gas in the bowels becomes more and more
menacing to the cecum as the constipation increases. The filled-up
condition of the bowels--the colon and rectum--prevents the easy
passage of gas from the bowels, hence it accumulates in the ileo-cecal
region and keeps the cecum distended.
The constant dilating of the cecum from gas accumulations and the
forced dilations from diarrheas made either from drugs or irritating
foods, must not only damage the cecum but the appendix as well; for
the appendix opens into this part of the intestine and it is reasonable to
believe that it suffers distention from gas and that toxic secretions are
driven