There is nothing prenatural in "disease". Its phenomena or symptoms are marked by purpose, and that purpose is beneficient. Except for "disease", the patient would die. Dr. Claunch declares "disease" to be the only curative process known. The inward powers of adaptation are and always have been the chief factors in recovery from injury.

Altogether an astonishing degree of teleological (purposeful) provision is manifest in the whole functioning of the body. It does not allow any unphysiological substances to circulate in the blood without resistance: it strongly objects to anything that is not in line with its physiological processes and purposes. It either eliminates these, or, failing in this, deposits them in the lymph glands, liver, or elsewhere, where they may be deposited with the least injury to the body.

If a poison is introduced into the circulation an immediate attempt is made to neutralize it. If it is an acid, alkaline substances are developed and utilized for this purpose. Poisons from bites and stings or absorbed from suppurating regions, are held up in the lymph nodes, nodules and tonsils and destroyed. Vomiting and diarrhea are employed to reject poisons from the digestive tubes.

The liver destroys organic toxins--alcohol, nicotine, putrefactive poisons from the intestine, tea, coffee, body waste, the poisons of pepper, mustard, etc. Metalic poisons such as lead, mercury, metalic substances found in mineral waters, and others are captured by the liver and stored therein, crippling its function, but protecting the less resistant structures of the body.

The organism always improvises means of meeting any new situation. Through a correlation of the organic fluids and the nervous system each element of the body adjusts itself to the others, and the others to it. If half of the thyroid gland is removed the remaining half grows in size, generally becoming larger than is necessary. If the secretion of a gland is insufficient the other glands augment their activities to supplement its work. When there is impairment of the kidneys, arterial pressure is increased to send a larger volume of blood through the defective filter. The body seems to perceive remote as well as present needs, in fact each part seems to recognize the present and future needs of the whole and acts accordingly. It is not merely that during the entire history of foetal and embryonic existence that the various parts associate for a definite future purpose, but throughout life this same adjustment to future needs is seen.

Biogony is an automatic grouping of physiological activities in such a manner as to preserve the functional and structural integrity of the organism. It is essentially teleological. The organism is a whole; the adaptive functions extend to all organic systems. One system cannot modify its functions without occasioning correlative changes in all other systems. Thus biogony employs multiple processes to attain its end. It never localizes in one region or one organ, but mobilizes the whole organism. An additive resultant emerges out of the new concatenation of forces thus created.