overed cause for disturbance of the renal nerves by
such displacement, or some slight variation from the normal in the
articulation of the spine. If this is not worthy of your attention, your
mind is surely too crude to observe those fine beginnings that lead to
death. Your skill would be of little use in incipient cases of Bright's
disease of the kidneys. Has not your acquaintance with the human body
opened your mind's eye to observe that in the laboratory of the human
body, the most wonderful chemical results are being accomplished every
day, minute and hour of your life? Can that laboratory be running in
good order and tolerate the forming of a gall or bladder stone? Does not
the body generate acids, alkalies, substances and fluids necessary to
wash out all impurities? If you think an unerring God has made all those
necessary preparations, why not so assert, and stand upon that stone?

You cannot do otherwise, and not betray your ignorance to the thinking
world. If in the human body you can find the most wonderful chemical
laboratory mind can conceive of, why not give more of your time to that
subject, that you may obtain a better understanding of its workings?
Can you afford to treat your patients without such qualification? Is it
not ignorance of the workings of this Divine law that has given birth to
the foundationless nightmare that now prevails to such an alarming
extent all over civilization, that a deadly drug will prove its efficacy
in warding off disease in a better way than has been prescribed by the
intelligent God, who has formulated and combined life, mind and matter
in such a manner that it becomes the connecting link between a world of
mind, and that element known as matter? Can a deep philosopher do
otherwise than conclude that nature has placed in man all the qualities
for his comfort and longevity? Or will he drink that which is deadly,
and cast his vote for the crucifixion of knowledge?

CHAPTER XVI.

REASONING TESTS.

The Vermiform Appendix--Operating for Appendicitis--Expelling Power
of the Vermiform Appendix--Care Exercised in Making
Assertions--Reasoning Tests--A List of Unexplained
Diseases--Concluding Remarks.

THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.

At the present time more than at any other period since the birth of
Christ, the medical and surgical world have centralized their minds for
the purpose of relieving locally inside, below the kidney of the male or
female, excr