nstant change of place_, an active
transmission of material to and from vital organs and parts, through the
medium of blood-vessels, as well as outside such vessels; that is,
motion of interstitial fluids.

NATURE'S MODE OF SUSTAINING HEALTH. The act of transforming latent,
non-vital force which exists pent-up in food, as heat is in coal, into
vital energy, requires the simultaneous elimination from the system of a
like amount of worn-out matter. Assimilation of nutritive materials is
impossible, unless a like amount of matter be eliminated from the
system. Muscular and nervous energy are dependent upon activities which
cause waste. Not only is this true in a general way, but it is also true
that the energy produced by the operations of the vital system has a
strict relation to the wasting products--that _full_ energy is only
attained by _perfected_ waste. Use, waste, and power, then, sustain
definite and dependent or corresponding relations, since waste is as
essential to health as is supply.

Without waste, disturbance is at once produced in the system similar to
that resulting from the introduction of foreign matter. These
disturbances constitute disease. The more obvious effects of lack of
waste and elimination are mechanical. The circulation is loaded with
effete and useless matter, the vessels being thereby weakened and
distended, and the circulation retarded. The capillaries become clogged
and vital action is diminished. Local congestions, inflammations,
effusions, morbid growths, and other pathological results follow.

Deranged or suppressed action characterizes, and, indeed, constitutes
all departures from health which we call disease. Suffering indicates
action, but action which is perverted into wrong channels, or action in
one part at the expense of motion in other parts, constituting a
disturbance in the equilibrium of forces, from which the system suffers.

VALUE OR MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS AND MANIPULATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF
CHRONIC DISEASES. To correct and restore deranged movements, thereby
producing normal, functional activity of every organ and part of the
system, must therefore be the chief object of the physician. All
remedies, of whatever school or nature, imply motion, and depend for
their efficacy upon their ability to excite motion in some one or more
elements, organs, or parts of the system.

While we do not wish to detract from the real merits of medicine as a
curative agent, yet we must a