A Solemn Appeal - James White

endowment of offspring. Nerve alone gives
pleasure, but inflamed nerve gives pain, and pain
proportionate to its quantity, and the degree of
inflammation. Now, frequent action necessarily
inflames, and this both weakens these organs, and
engenders disease in them, and throughout the
system. It fills the whole being, mental and
physical, full of wild, excited, preternatural,
irregular, abnormal, painful action. And
inflammation thus caused, is harder to be reached,
and more difficult to be subdued, than disease of
any other portion of the body; because, while
inflammation of the lungs, of the heart, of the
stomach, of the bowels, muscles, head, etc., can
easily be reached through the intestinal canal, or
else by external application, diseases of these
organs, especially in women, can be reached or
cured only with great difficulty.
"We have seen that excess produces
inflammation, particularly in these organs. Now,
inflammation, in its very nature, proportionally
weakens and destroys. This law of organization is
too well known to require proof or illustration.
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