WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



other, so that four frogs will grow where 

 but one frog should, while each of these 

 frogs, though perfect, yet will be only 

 one-fourth the size of the ordinary frog. 



Wholly different, however, in origin 

 from cancerous growths are some tumors 

 found in the bodies of young persons who, 

 on their account, rarely live beyond their 

 twentieth year. These tumors are called 

 embryomas and are usually large, but on 

 being examined are found to consist, as the 

 anatomist Bland Sutton,F.R.S., describes 

 them, of an utterly confused heap of 

 every tissue of the body, either general or 

 special : cartilage, bone, gland, muscle and 

 nerve cells, besides hairs and streaks of the 

 choroid membrane of the eye all mixed 

 up without a single attempt at arrange- 

 ment. The explanation is that this awful 

 thing started originally as a twin, but be- 

 coming enclosed in a bodily cavity of its 

 fellow, the unnatural physical conditions 

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