All experience and observation reveal that in "acute disease" there is accelerated circulation. The increased circulation is concomitant with and grows out of accelerated heart action and increased respiration. These accelerations are identical with the increased circulation and respiration seen in running and are designed to meet certain existing needs of the body.

All action of the circulatory system is vital or physiological action. Not a heart beat, or a pulse wave, or any other action occurs in the body except as a result of the operation of the vital powers. And though these actions differ in force and rapidity, in "fevers," from what they are in health, they are still vital acts serving vital needs.

The "wrong action" practitioners regard these circulatory modifications as evils in themselves and, accordingly, seek to subdue them. If the heart rate or pulse frequence constitutes the evil ("the disease"), then its reduction should be the great aim of all measures in treatment and its reduction should constitute "cure." But if these increased actions are always vital and assistive to or parts of the biogony, and not the pathology itself, they should not be subdued, unless it is desirable to extinguish life, and their suppression will not constitute cure. If the circulatory organs and energies are depressed or prostrated by the prescriptions of the "wrong action" practitioner, the curative purposes served by the increased circulation are interfered with and the chances of recovery are, to that extent, lessened. All experience and observation show that acute biogonies, in which heart action is very rapid and correspondingly feeble, are less likely to be successful and that the danger in these cases increases in exact ratio to the reduction of the strength of the heart. Any measures, therefore, which depress or weaken the heart, diminish vital resistive capacity and render death more likely.