A Solemn Appeal - James White

possessing the virtues of either. This principle
furnishes a very excellent hint to those who would
retain or restore their beauty, to preserve or restore
this apparatus--a means of promoting beauty much
more effectual than all the padding, bustles, and
fashionable attire in the world.
It diseases the whole system
"If the diseases consequent on this
inflammation were confined to that apparatus in
which it originates it would do great damage, as
just seen, but it does incalculably more now;
because it plants disease in the very bowels of the
frame. We have also learned how perfectly
reciprocal the relation existing between this
apparatus and the heart, lungs, liver, stomach,
kidneys, secretions, excretions, and each and all the
vital organs and functions, in order thereby to
propagate them all. Hence, whatever diseases it,
thereby diseases them also. Disease in no other
organ is equally prolific of disease in all the others.
This is the physical citadel of health or of
suffering, by capturing which you take all the
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