ON THE HEALING OF WOUNDS 109 



light of the preceding views, it becomes apparent that the 

 "missing link" in the process of union is the absence of 

 neuro-musculo-osseous plasma, due to the destruction of 

 the systemic nervature of the fragments involved, the 

 ossifying or earthy matter being wanting in the callus or 

 material matrix of union supplied by the unassisted 

 sympathetic nervature. 



