es, the course to be followed is clearly
self-evident and defined. It could not be other than that of regulating
each vibratory body, of soothing the electrons quickened by morbid
conditions, and accelerating those which have been depressed.

_Law of opposites._

Since treatment can effect this end in no other way than by producing
contrary conditions it is evident that a plan of opposition must be
followed. And, just as day is the opposite of night, summer of winter,
heat of cold, the positive of the negative, so, from the changes
effected by this opposition every circumstance and every manifestation
takes its rise. This is Natural Law, fixed and immutable throughout
nature and for all time. Following this law consistently, our course is
clear and simple: in cases of innutrition we seek to increase the
nutritive faculty by means of proper food; for the overworked we
prescribe rest, for those who need exercise, work; warmth for the cold
and cooling for the feverish.

_Action of Water._

For cooling we use pure water, the most common and most serviceable of
remedies. It cools, soothes and restores equilibrium because its mineral
affinities determine its vibratory action as of lower, slower grade, and
because one of its constituents is oxygen, the most negative of all
elements.

_Action of earth or mud._

Even more opposed to inflammation than water, is earth, or mud. Mud
produces a more decided cooling effect than water; necessarily so,
since its nature is more pronouncedly negative, its vibrations slower.
Antiphlogistine, clay acetate, or mud, would be of undoubted service in
accordance with the law we have been following; But the same object may
be more easily and readily attained by the use of packs.

_Vinegar packs._

In employing vinegar in this connection, it should only be used with mud
or water. Acids are decidedly negative in their electrical action, and
therefore, have a curative effect upon inflammatory diseases. The use of
vinegar in connection with clay and water in the treatment of
inflammations and fevers is a common, old-time custom; but those who do
so, ignorantly perhaps, from force of example or hear-say, unconsciously
carry out in so doing one of the plainest scientific laws. Why so? Is it
because this liquid kills bacilli or destroys morbid products? No,
because it quiets the agitated electrons and equalizes their
distribution.

The safest plan is to take two parts water and one p