The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . ENCEPHALIC TEMPKItAMKNT. 179 and every thouglit or emotion ilistiirl).s tlie eqiiililnijim, for itsliberation sends an equivalent of brain and blood-substance backto deconi])osition. If the highest manifestation of organic forceis Spirituality, the brightest sparkle of truth or tlie most refulgent Fig. glow of emotion, leaves an equation of disrupted elements — theashes of its mortality. Critical analysis, summoning the facul-ties of the intellect, makes fearfid raids upon the blood, plunder-ing its nour
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . ENCEPHALIC TEMPKItAMKNT. 179 and every thouglit or emotion ilistiirl).s tlie eqiiililnijim, for itsliberation sends an equivalent of brain and blood-substance backto deconi])osition. If the highest manifestation of organic forceis Spirituality, the brightest sparkle of truth or tlie most refulgent Fig. glow of emotion, leaves an equation of disrupted elements — theashes of its mortality. Critical analysis, summoning the facul-ties of the intellect, makes fearfid raids upon the blood, plunder-ing its nourisliment, expending its vital energies, and stealing itsricliest qualities to form the texture of thought. Slowly, <lay byday and hour by hour, study impoverishes it by taking its glow,appropriating its richness and leaving it pale, cold and unsteady nerves tremble with St. Vituss dance, the skin isblotche<l with scrofula, ri<k«ts distort the bones, and wan con-sumption displays a sickly whiteness, the sure foretoken of 180 COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISEE. a{)pioachiiig dissolution. Oft has paternal gratitude uttered: We thank Thee, most merciful God, for the new-born blessingswhich Thou sendest into the arms of fatlior and mother, to gla<ldennot only them, but likewase relative and friend, and to people theearth with new generations of progressive men. The fo
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