CELL SCIENCE

Southland Times, Issue 23922, 14 September 1939, Page 3

CELL SCIENCE

CHEMISTRY OF LIFE INTERESTING ADDRESS BY SISTER EVANS Human chemistry and the vital influence which cell salts exercised upon the human system was discussed by Sister Lillion Evans in an interesting address given in the Y.M.C.A. Hall last evening. There was a big audience. Sister Evans explained that the subject of organic bio-chemistry was of vital importance because its principles lay at the foundation of all life, creation, growth and development. The human body being composed of two kinds of matter, organic and inorganic, neither of which could perform its functions without the other, required that they be kept in well-balanced and harmonious relation to produce the best expression of a healthy life. Oxygen, carbon, sulphur, iron, phosphorus, chlorine, flourine, silicon, magnesia, sodium, calcium and potassium, were the elements which the blood relied on principally to feed and nourish the body. When any of these were lacking, certain cells were starved and could not perform their function. Disease was the result. Supply the deficiency, said the speaker, and the cause of disease was removed. A plant would droop for the want of water or proper fertilizing material, which were constituent parts of the plant and necessary for its healthy growth. The human body, much more highly complex in its organism,, would droop if deficiencies occurred in the functional necessities.

The speaker said cell science was a science of the future which, with biochemistry, sought to restore and maintain the body in a healthy condition by supplying the necessary elements in the minute quantities, the cell salts of which the body was composed. “Health and strength can be maintained only as long as the system is properly supplied with these cell workers or' tissue builders,” continued Sister Evans. “In proper quantity and combination in the blood they are sufficient to heal all diseases which are curable at all. Nature is the healer but it must have the necessary elements with which to exercise its healing powers.”