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names by which he means certain diseases ; 

 but these are in essence only an expression 

 of a lack of adaptation to new surround- 

 ings. So the vitamins in their deeper 

 analysis are but a part of this adaptation, 

 are but one of the strongest links between 

 our body and our old home, the original 

 surroundings in which our race was born. 

 It has been stressed repeatedly by the 

 lecturers of this conference that a cell is 



more than an agglomerate of molecules, 

 and that the body is more than the sum of 

 its cells. So the whole living Nature is 

 more than the sum of its individuals. It 

 is a huge organism, of which we are the 

 cells, strictly adapted to our environment. 

 In this adaptation vitamins are one of the 

 most important factors, so I hope that this 

 discussion was not entirely out of place at 

 a cytological conference. 



