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8. An Infection. — The invasion of the body by a living 



foreign agent which has the power of multiplication 

 and distribution within the body, and may concen- 

 trate its attack on this or that part so as to give 

 rise to a sub-disease of which the damage to that 

 part is the correlating agent. (For the purpose in 

 hand malignant disease is a foreign agent.) 



9. Organic Disease. — A disease whose correlating basis is 



believed to be material, that is to say a disorder of 

 the structure or function of some part of the material 

 body. 

 10. Functional Disease. — A disease which is believed to 

 have no correlating basis except in the imagination 

 of the patient. 



I do not examine the terms syndrome, symptom-complex, 

 and other monstrosities made in Germany, and having the 

 true German character of being made for show and not for use. 

 They are mere jargon, signifying on the part of the user a pose 

 of superiority and a striving to be up to date ; and are much 

 on a par with the exploit of the servant girl who calls a brilliant 

 flash of lightning ' chronic,' or the alienist who calls primary 

 dementia ' dementia prsecox.' 



