We hold to the theory that the body deposits at various places in the tissues much of the uneliminated toxins and renders them as harmless as possible. Sylvester Graham wrote: "the vital economy has some depository out of the general circulation, and at the greatest remove from the most important vital properties and functions of the system, where it disposes of those deleterious and other offensive and superabundant substances which, from any cause, it is unable wholly to eliminate from the vital domain; and this, as we have seen, is none other than the adipose tissue. And hence it is evident that when, from poisonous or unwholesome food, or from any other cause, morbid and deleterious deposits take place in the animal system, the general receptacle is that portion of the cellular tissue which contains the adipose matter; and there is the strongest reason to believe that those substances become closely associated with the fat."--Science of Human Life, p. 500. Again: "The cellular tissue, we have seen, is the lowest order of animal structure; the lowest in vital endowment and functional character; and of all the forms of this general structure, that in which adipose matter is deposited is the lowest species. In the cells of this loose tissue, which is simply employed as a kind of web to connect other and more important tissues and parts, the vital economy, therefore, may, with greatest safety, in its particular emergencies, deposit for a time whatever substances it is obliged to dispose of in the most expeditious and convenient manner, and which it is not able to eliminate from the vital domain for--in these cells, such substances are at the greatest remove from any important vital power or function that they can be within the vital domain, and hence it is that such substances are deposited here and, in some cases retained for years, are of the most deleterious character, as we shall see hereafter.--Science of Human Life.

Rausse of Germany presented a similar theory concerning drugs and he was followed a few years thereafter by Louis Kuhne who worked out an elaborate theory of toxic deposits. Rabagliati holds that the "connective tissue is the first great place or part in the body where the products of an excess of food materials, finding their way into the blood, are primarily deposited." He called the connective tissue the "great dumping ground of the blood, the place which was, so to say, chosen by the blood as the least hurtful place or site in which to lay down any excess of material which it might be carrying, and for which it has no use."

It is evident that as the accumulation and deposition of these toxins continue and, as the cells of the body grow weaker and offer increasingly less resistance to the toxins, they are deposited more or less in all the cells and tissues.

Ragnar Berg says: "The tendency to deposit noxious substances in regions of minor physiological importance is reinforced by the physiological proclivity of the connective tissue towards the storage of salts, and especially acid radicals (the non-metal and oxygen portions of an acid except hydrogen) of high molecular weight. The 'predilection' for acid radicals is so marked that when, for example, large quantities of sodium chloride are being given in the food, and the administration of this salt is temporarily suspended, the sodium ion is excreted first and the chlorine ion subsequently. The entry of the residue into the tissues is effected by osmosis from the blood. When better conditions prevail in the blood the residues are reabsorbed into that fluid, to be oxidized there as far as possible, and ultimately excreted in the urine. In certain disorders of the kidneys, the heart, or the blood vessels, there may be a direct increase of the solid constituents of the tissues, sometimes amounting to double the normal, and in the case of the skin, even to treble the normal. As a rule, however, the retention of these substances is attended by increased storage of fluid in the tissues. The deposited materials carry with them so much water (infiltration of the tissues) that the percentage content of chlorine (for instance) is perfectly normal, and thus retention does not become apparent until the contents of the tissues are reckoned in the dry state."

The absorption of these deposits by the blood, and their subsequent elimination, "when better conditions of the blood prevail," is the key to the method of ridding the body of deposited toxins--normalize the blood.