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the site of their formation plays a part in the occurrence of oedema 

 even more important than that played by starvation. 



The greatest amount of oedema was obtained with venous obstruc- 

 tion after anaemia and stimulation of the sciatic nerve. 



The author shows that stimulation of the nerve of a muscle 

 normally produces changes which lead to an absorption of water by 

 the muscle, and he concludes that the oedema which accompanies 

 passive congestion depends upon an excess of the normal process 

 whereby the nutrition of the tissues and the removal of the waste 

 products of their metabolism are carried out, the supply of lymph 

 being excessive only because the demands of the tissues are 

 excessive. 



The part played by the blood-vessels the author regards as some- 

 what uncertain. Sharing in the general starvation of the limb, their 

 function must be modified in some as yet unrecognised way ; never- 

 theless, he considers that the part played by them is subordinate to 

 the part played by the tissues outside the blood-vessels. 



Presents, January 25, 1894. 

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