How to heal by nature's potent methods : a worthy counsellor in health, sickness, pain, and distress : a system of nature which reveals the correct laws of the moral and physical world for the pleasant perusal and profound study of everybody . t carriesmessages back and forth through all parts of the humansystem. If the smallest member of the body be in dis-tress, information is sent at once to headquarters, thebrain, an and order for relief is immediately returned. Plate II. Nervous System.—The Nerves in figure gives the nerves of the whole body, distrib-uted to every part of the
How to heal by nature's potent methods : a worthy counsellor in health, sickness, pain, and distress : a system of nature which reveals the correct laws of the moral and physical world for the pleasant perusal and profound study of everybody . t carriesmessages back and forth through all parts of the humansystem. If the smallest member of the body be in dis-tress, information is sent at once to headquarters, thebrain, an and order for relief is immediately returned. Plate II. Nervous System.—The Nerves in figure gives the nerves of the whole body, distrib-uted to every part of the system, from the crown of thehead to the sole of the foot. They are distributed intovery minute ramifications, for the purpose of givingpower of motion, and for communicating sensation,pleasurable or painful, healthful or morbid, to everyminute particle of the system. Upon these nerves, like so many telegraphic wires,sensations are transmitted from one part of the body tothe common centre in the brain, called SensoriumCommune. From this headquarters of telegraphiccommunication are sent out the decisions of the will toevery part of the system. If the nervous fluid bestopped by pressure or injury, then sensation and motive HOW TO HEAL. BY NATURES POTENT METHODS. 515 power cease until the obstruction shall be removed. Ifa limb gets into what we call sleep, it is caused by thisnervous fluid being obstructed. Plate III. The Circulating System.—No. 1. The Heart:Its Auricles and Ventricles. The Heart is herepresented detached from its location in the organ is the seat of the circulation of blood. It isby the motion of this that the blood is sent throughoutthe whole system. This consists of alternate contrac-tion and dilation, called pulsation. By these alternateactions the blood is carried to the extreme parts ofthe body by the arteries, and returned by the action of alternate contraction and dilation isprobably the result of electric attraction and repulsion
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