184 DETAILED SYNTHESIS. 



be formed, as some think, from the decomposing active 

 tissues that were formed from albumen. 



172. %NEWY TISSUE is PRODUCED by cells extend- 

 ing into the form of threads, and attaching themselves 

 together either at their ends or side by side. 



173. BUT THE QUESTION MAY BE ASKED, What makes 



these fibres assume their appropriate positions in so many 

 different textures ? 



174. THE ANSWER is, that the influence of the tis- 

 sues upon each other causes them to assume those special 

 arrangements of form that adapt them to their purpose, 

 so that, as a minute* portion of tissue can determine the 

 compounding of elements or principles, so does a larger 

 amount of tissue or several tissues determine the ar- 

 rangement of the parts of the tissue in a texture. 



Remark. Sinewy tissue, being a dense and passive mass when in the 

 form of Ligament and tendon, and Blood-vessels not being permissible 

 in those textures, is very slow in restoration when sprained or strained. 

 Time, patience, and rest, are the chief curative means. The thousand, 

 nostrums and external applications used are useless, or worse than that. 

 If the part is too warm, cool it, if too cool, warm it, and promote circu- 

 lation by rubbing, if not painful. After a time, if the part is stiff, but 

 not painful, induce action by forcibly moving it, and gradually increase 

 the extent of motion. It must be expected that more time will be re- 

 quired to restore parts badly sprained than to unite broken bones. 



SECTION V. 



Gristly or Cartilaginous Tissue. 



175. GRISTLE OR CARTILAGE is a somewhat firm, 

 flexible, and elastic tissue, of which the frame of the 

 ear and the tip of the nose are good examples. 



1 76. CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE is DIVIDED into Carti- 

 lage and Fibro-Cartilage, or Gristle and Sinewy-Gristle. 



1 77. GRISTLE PROPER is COMPOSED of a dense gristly 

 substance called hyaline or chondrine or cartilagine, 



172. How -? 173. What - ? 174. What -? What said of sprains? 175. What 

 ? 176 Hw ? 177. How - ? 



