in the consciousness; therefore it must have been an occurrence that blasted some great hope and produced a keen disappointment. And it must have been of great importance to the individual to have produced so great a pathological change. A lesser important occurrence would have produced a minor congestion or interference with the functions of this set of organs.

By patient questioning we learned that the cause of the disappointment and loss of hope was due to family trouble that had a profound effect on his mind—the father and mother had had a big quarrel which ended finally in a separation. The boy, not being very strong previous to the attack of pneumonia, could see nothing but disaster ahead, with the home broken up and he had become utterly discouraged.

We found this to be a great weight on his consciousness, and the continued head-shaking and doubtful prognostications of doctors and friends intensified his lack of faith in the future, until a condition of complete loss of all hope for recovery was established in his mind.

THE LEUCOCYTES, we have learned, multiply and accumulate in infinite numbers to meet an emergency under proper stimulus. The stimulus needed is faith, hope and an optimistic enthusiasm toward a definite goal.

In this case a vast amount of tissue was involved and a great accumulation had already occurred. Loss of hope, keen disappointment, continued fear and apprehension about the outcome of the condition becoming a mental conviction in the consciousness of the boy, caused the leucocytes similarly to give up hope; so that they ceased their operations of protecting the animal economy against disease and stopped their constant warfare against the numerous bacilli, microbes and bacteria which invade the blood stream.

In this particular case the cure consisted in discovering something dear to the heart of this boy. At his age boys are most interested in their physical bodies. They are very proud of a good one, and very ashamed of a weak one. We sensed these facts and used them as a means of getting him interested, and succeeded in convincing him that a strong and perfect body was possible of attainment. We then worked on that interest and fanned it into enthusiasm, until he became inspired with a great