MYOPATHY 165 



tissue, and does not at all primarily belong, in the remotest 

 degree, to the haemal circulation or nutrition of the non- 

 sarcous or interstitial elements or the non-contractile parts ; 

 secondarily, however, follow pathological changes in these 

 latter, dependent on the progress of pathological changes 

 in the former, and as the closing phase of a long retro- 

 gressive or degenerative process, resulting in annihilation 

 more or less complete, of the involved musculature. 



