The symptoms of catarrhal inflammation differ somewhat with different locations. If it is located in a narrow passage as in the bile duct, Eustachian tubes, urethra, neck of the womb, or bronchial tubes, obstruction will occur and the "symptoms of obstruction will be urgent and in keeping with the importance of the passage. Inasmuch as the bronchial tubes are necessary for the admission of air into the body, anything that interferes with their lumen causes breathing to become urgent."

It will, of course, be objected that so-called venereal diseases are exceptions; that they fall outside of the pale of the general unity of disease. This is not so, however. Venereal diseases do not differ from other diseases. Why are pain, inflammation, suppuration, discharges, etc., different in the sex organs? They are not. They are the same processes and serve the same purposes as when they occur in the tonsils or stomach. The sex organs cannot be separated from the rest of the body as independent isonomies. They are not governed by laws different from the laws governing the liver or lungs. They are integral parts of the structural and functional unit we call the body and are subject to the same governing principles as is every other part of the body. The body is not a mere machine without vital connection between all its parts. Rather, it is an organic whole every part of which is dependent upon the whole and the whole upon every part.

There is no such thing existing as a disease standing absolutely alone in pathological character. There are multitudes of forms very highly "specialized", but there is no one which either in respect to symptoms and causes or development, is wholly separate from all others. Each so-called disease is a part of a great interconnected whole. Diseases are one--forms or modes of diseases are many.

A tumor or cancer in the kidneys is the same as a tumor or cancer in the liver or womb. Atrophy and degeneration of the kidneys is the same as atrophy and degeneration of the liver or heart or brain, and is due to the same causes. An abscess in one organ is the same as an abscess in anther organ. Diseases are all of a piece.

The difference in Bright's disease and diabetes is not a difference in the tissue destruction that has occurred, but is a difference in the tissue that is destroyed. If the same destruction occurs in the brain insanity or paralysis or both may result; if in the cord, paralysis. If the causes of disease are not corrected, if they are permitted to continue, until organic change takes place, until tissue destruction occurs, the "disease" that results will depend on the organ or organs, that are the subjects of greatest change. Functional disturbances can result in organic disease only if the causes are great enough or of sufficient duration. Atrophy of an organ or parts of an organ is brought about by the same causes and is part of the same process.

It should be observed that the principle of the essential unity of disease does not involve the unity of cause of disease, although there is a broad general sense in which this latter unity is real. It matters not whether inflammation is directed to the repair of a wound, the destruction and removal of infection, as after vaccination, the removal of a sliver or gun shot from the flesh, or a parasite from the skin or liver, it is essentially the same process and serves ultimately the same end and object. Whether it is a bee sting on the eye lid, a burn on the leg, or a caustic substance in the throat that occasions the inflammation, the process is identical, differing only in degree and receiving its specific character from the tissues affected and from the degree of inflammation essential to success of the work in hand.

A patient once handed the writer a long report issued to her by the Life Extension Institute, after she had been examined by their physicians. A detailed report was made out for the patient and another was made out for her to give to her physician. On this latter report were listed twenty-three physical defects in various locations in her body ranging from diseased tonsils and a few bad teeth to worse conditions. The report then said to the physician: "Minor physical impairments are listed on the detailed report but are not considered to be at present affecting the general health."

The implications of this language clearly express the up-side down view of disease that prevails in medical circles. The twenty-three defects that were considered worthy of notice by the physician and the minor ones that were unworthy of his notice are regarded as independent affections and not as depending on the same primary or basic cause, not as merely local manifestations of a general condition. On the contrary the language implies that the local trouble affects the general health; that is, the local trouble is the primary trouble, while the impairment of the general health results from this. The language also implies that the local impairment is the thing that should receive attention, and that those that "are not considered to be at present affecting the general health," should be ignored until they have developed to sufficient magnitude that they do affect the general health. All of this confusion and uncertainty arises out of a view of life that regards the organs of the body as independent isonomies and its affections as independent entities. When the unity of the body and the unity of its affections are understood and accepted this uncertainty will pass away.

The unity of disease and the unity of cause leads inevitably to the unity of cure. This is to say, the cure of one disease is the cure of all diseases. I do not. here employ the word cure in the sense of a something that is given or done to the patient that imparts health to him or her. but rather as the natural processes and conditions that result in the spontaneous restoration of normal health.

The rule of practice that must grow out of the recognition of the unity of disease, is that all "diseases," by whatever names they are called and wherever they are located, are to be regarded and treated alike. There is not one treatment for inflammation of the knee and another for inflammation of the chest or lungs. There is not one treatment for diabetes and another for Bright's disease; not one treatment for tuberculosis and another for cancer.

To quote Moras: "I cannot too strongly impress on your mind this one foundation principle of Autology and Autopathy; namely, that the essential cause or blood and flesh condition which sickens one organ or tissue, in one person, is exactly the same as that which sickens another organ or tissue in another person. The actual or real difference is not in the ailments or sickness, but it is in the difference of the organs or tissues involved or affected and in the environment in which. you live and toil and play and think.

"When once you get this 'truth and sense' fixed in your brain, you will quit trying to treat your head or nose or stomach or bowel or liver or kidneys or fever or colds, etc., but will begin to threat the 'sound' or healthy tissues of your body in order to enable your system to throw off the 'objectionables' and to repair the 'damages'; thus re-establishing equilibrium."