74 Natural Salvation. 



offspring, till finally it encysts itself and forever ceases to 

 be parturient. The present theory is that no new nuclear 

 granules are engendered in the somatic cell. Like the 

 worker-bee in the apiary, it is differentiated and special- 

 ized beyond the power to produce offspring. In like 

 manner isolated ciliates lose the power of reproduction, 

 unless opportunity is given them for conjugation with 

 other individuals. 



Brown-Sequard conceived the idea of reaching and 

 restoring the somatic cell by injecting triturations of 

 reproductive glands, as medicines; and beyond doubt 

 methods of restoration by inoculation, or vivific foods, will 

 be discovered. 



The rapidity with which the remotest tracts of cells in 

 the organism are influenced and permanently affected by 

 the introduction of minute quantities of remedial sub- 

 stances into the blood-circulatory is now well known to 

 the medical profession. Such inoculation affords more 

 direct access to the cellular seats of life than the alimen- 

 tary tract with its modifying acids. The blood is in im- 

 mediate relations and actual close contact with the cells 

 which, in all cases, must be reached before remedial effects 

 are produced. Nothing acts in the animal organism until 

 the cell is reached and its sentient economy affected. 

 Many eminent physicians are, therefore, of the opinion that 

 injection into the circulation offers the best method of 

 administering certain medicines. 



