The biochemic system of medicine : comprising the theory, pathological action, therapeutical application, materia medica, and repertory of Schuessler's twelve tissue remedies / by George W. Carey.

  • Carey, George W. (George Washington), 1845-1924.
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1924
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    building, and both are found in the blood, namely, the organic and the inorganic constituents. Among the former are the sugar, fat and albuminous sub¬ stances of the blood, serving as the physical basis of the tissues; while the water and salts, namely, potash, lime, silica, iron, magnesium and sodium, form the inorganic substances, which are believed to determine the peculiar kind of cell to be built i up. Other salts may from time to time be found; but these, however, constitute those constantly present. Whenever, then, in the animal organism new cells are to be generated and formed, there must be present, in sufficient quantity and proper relation, both these organic and inorganic substances; by their presence in the blood, all the organs, viscera and tissues in the body are first formed, fixed and made permanent in their func¬ tions, and a disturbance here necessitates disturbed function. The cells are not fed. They feed themselves. Witness Virchows researches, Lecture 14: “The absorption of mat¬ ter into the interior of the cells is unquestionably an act of the cells themselves, for we are as yet acquainted with no method enabling us to produce this kind of proliferation in the body, by any mode of experimentation, through the medium of the agency primarily affecting either the nerves or the ves¬ sels.” Lecture 13, page 306, Virchow says—in relation to white matter of the spinal cord: “Every special function possesses its special elementary cellular organs; every mode of conduction finds paths distinctly traced out for it.” Thus we find the white fibres of the nerve or muscle act as conductors for Magnesia phos. and indicate a lack of this salt by certain signs or words. (See repertory.) Other groups of fibres are conductors of other salts. Alfred Binet, a French scientist of note, in his work, “The Psychic Life or Micro-organisms,” says; “The micro-organ¬ isms do not nourish themselves indiscriminately, nor do they feed blindly upon every substance that chances in their way. Also, when they ingest food through some point or other of their bodies, they understand perfectly how to make a choice