Few people are aware of the fact that the stomach and intestines can undergo alteration in position. Many are familiar with the fact that the kidneys may be displaced, and are then called “floating kidneys”; that the liver, pancreas, spleen, and uterus occasionally go on excursions, causing thereby considerable and numerous disturbances. And it is not at all strange that they should, since there is so much pressure from within, so much pressure downward, and so much pressure from without--all through the requirements of fashion, indulgence, and ignorance. But the stomach, upper portion of the duodenum, and small intestine, cæcum, the ascending colon, and especially the transverse colon and sigmoid flexure, are susceptible to various forms of displacement, inhibiting the ready flow or passage of food stuffs, gases, and feces from one segment of the digestive apparatus to another, until the vent is reached. Reviewing the ground already gone over, we have found that proctitis, as a rule, is the primary cause of sigmoiditis and colitis; that these combined are the cause of constipation; that this is the cause of indigestion, flatulency, and distended alimentary canal, and, as matters go from bad to worse, of permanent distentions and displacement. Is it any wonder then that there are so many that suffer from _gastro-intestinal neurasthenia_? Surely our digestive apparatus ought to have as much attention as a well-regulated house furnace. In the morning the ashes are dumped and fresh coal is put on. A similar process is gone through with at noon and night. Some may run their furnaces on two meals a day and two dumpings of the waste material. When a boy puts a penny into a slot machine he gets what he expects and is pleased. The machine has done its work in delivering the goods. Why should he give a thought where his penny lodged? In like manner man is always ready to put food stuff, and other stuff as well, into the upper slot of his machine, for he gets immediately satisfaction thereby. But he is like the boy; he doesn’t care a fig what becomes of the stuff so long as it doesn’t annoy him too much. Eventually the machine refuses to work, and seems unable to deliver the goods at the other end; something has become clogged or out of gear. Let me advise the reader at least to keep the passage clear by dumping the systemic furnace twice or thrice daily--using the enema to effect the result. CHAPTER VII. IRRIGATION OF THE ASSIMILATIVE AND ELIMINATIVE ORGANS. The habits of people in general do not seem so bad when one considers the average individual’s limitations as to knowledge and thought. The fact is that most people don’t know, don’t think, and hence don’t care. Let them read more science, think more sensibly, and act more seriously; then their habits will be more satisfactory.