CAUSES OF DISEASE. 227 
In a general work of this character it is impossible to 
describe in technical detail the different stages and 
variations displayed in the healing of wounds, but the 
principles of this important process are the same as 
those which underlie inflammation. It certainly simpli- 
fies our notions of morbid processes to find that the 
phenomena known as repair of wounds, inflammation, 
and fever, are manifestations of the same process by 
which a child loses its milk-teeth, the tadpole its tail, or 
the stag its antlers, rather than to look upon such con- 
ditions as the result of some special law. 
