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represent the organism's best efforts to counteract 

 poison, antagonize assaults, and repair injuries. 

 We see also that constitutional disease is after all 

 a miss out of many hits, a failure among many 

 successful experiments, a tax on the priceless gift 

 of variability. So we get a glimpse of the optimism 

 of pathology. 



