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that it (or the belief in it,) causes the brain power to be applied to certain parte of organs. You must understand that your liver like every other organ of your body is built and planned to be operated by brain power; it cannot be operated by medicine, or by anything else, any more than an electric motor can be made to run by turning a steam jet against it. The electric motor is only built to be run by one kind of power; and the same is true of the liver. There is not the slightest evidence that there is any "remedy" which can "act" on the liver, or cause the liver to act; and this is true of all the viscera.
How, then, do we get effects from medicine! Let me show you. Suppose I begin to write here a detailed description of things good to eat --- fried chicken, lemon pie strawberries and cream --- yum, yum! You read a little way, and you notice an increased flow of saliva into your mouth; it "makes your mouth water." How can. the thought of strawberries and cream cause the saliva to flow! Only by causing the brain power to be turned on; nothing but brain power an cause the salivary glands to act. Tickle the inside of the mouth with s straw and the saliva will flow; why? Because the afferent nerves carry the irritation to the brain and cause the power to be turned on. The power is turned on to the whole digestive system by the thought eating.; and it is withheld by anxiety,
