DR.J.W.OVERPECK: I think I said in the appear that I presented last year that we should get these children early, before the miasms that are in the system ravish the system and take away the resisting power. Children seem to be more normal the first few months.
The sole conditions for the specific action of morbid and medicinal atoms are, in some instances, though not always, a certain predisposition on the part of the organism, and in all instances, the actual contact of the disturbing cause, with the tissues to be impressed.
Nor is this law confined to animal structures, but it applies to vegetable, and even inorganic substances. A vegetable substance in a state of decay, if placed in contact with other sound vegetables of its kind, which it is in contact, and in a short time the whole mass becomes involved.- E.E. MARCY, M.D., 1851.
A retarded restitution of an impetiginous eruption upon the skin does not entirely remove the disturbance which the suppression of that eruption had caused in the organism. But the mere temporary alleviation of suffering which is realized by the partial reproduction of the original cutaneous eruption, is sufficient to show the co-relation existing between the internal malady and the vicarious symptoms upon the skin.- FRANZ PUFFER, M.D., 1847.
