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effects. On the other hand, the natural prevention or resolution of 

 edema in any part under certain conditions might be facilitated by 

 disturbances of equilibria which would remove restraint from, or 

 which would accelerate, the hydrolytic action of effective propor- 

 tions of hydrolases. 



These views are tentative conceptions. They afford a basis for 

 the work in this field which is now in progress, in a number of the 

 relations that are suggested by the recorded data. 



