This  view  of  the  structural  variety  of  man's  organization
in  its  salutary  physiological  state,  acting  to  the  completion
of  one  beautiful  harmonious  whole,  leads  us  inevitably  to  re-
cognize both  the  specificity,  and  locality  of  diseases;  and
consequently  in  a  greater  or  less  degree,  to  the  philosophical
necessity  of  specifically  appropriate  medication,  for  their  eli-
mination.
Therefore,  in  all  cases,  of  all  diseases,  arising  from  all
causes, — we  are  to  have  constantly  in  view,  the  rationale  of
the  salutary  operations  of  all  the  different  structures  of  the
organization,  that  we  may  appropriately  estimate  the  patho-
logized conditions  of  such  structures  of  it,  as  have  been  in-
vaded by  the  causative  agents; — so  that  we  may  not  only  be
conducted  to  the  exhibition  and  application  of  such  specific


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remediate  means  as  may  be  most  philosophically  indicated,
by  such  knowledge  of  the  salutary  physiological  actions  of
the  parts  implicated  in  the  morbid  sensibilities  for  eifecting
their  elimination ; — but  at  the  same  time,  if  the  case  should
require  it,  to  the  use  of  such  appropriate  remedies,  as  may
act  appropriately  for  thorough  elimination,  on  the  organiza-
tion generally, — as  a  whole  system,  a  nervous  system,  with
cerebro-spinal  radicles,  originating  and  conveying  through
their  messengers  the  nerves,  all  the  respective  vital  powers,
to  all  the  respective  departments  of  the  organization — to  the
production  of  harmonious  unity  of  action.
