INFLUENCE OF AGE OF PATIENT 



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when the wound was situated in certain regions practically 

 deprived of underlying conjunctive tissue: the skull, the foot, 

 etc. Therefore on the right hand side of the curve the 

 primary factors of age and area no longer intervene quantita- 

 tively. There are unknown factors, and reparation is very 



FIG. 19. INFLUENCE OF THE AGE OF THE PATIENT AND OF THE 



SIZE OF THE WOUND 



slow in all cases. On the left-hand side of the curve, on the 

 contrary, everything occurs as if these two factors were the 

 only ones that entered into play, and the considerable im- 

 portance of age can be seen, especially in the first curve (0-02). 

 But one can also observe that the influence of age decreases 



