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the cells beyond, whose position in relation to immediate 

 contact with the blood is prevented by distance, and 

 therefore whose supplies have to be conveyed to them 

 vicariously thus every cell, contiguous and related, near 

 and more distant, is supported by blood plasma, making 

 its selection therefrom, and passes out of itself, or excretes, 

 into the surrounding lymph spaces what it is incapable of 

 utilising, when it becomes added to the haemal lymph, 

 and is re-gathered by the vasculature of that fluid to the 

 heart. 



In the central stage of this circulation, when the meta- 

 bolic phenomena of integration are taking place, and the 

 process of integration is ensuing within the cell and its 

 connecting processes, or filaments, the circulatory process 

 is reduced to atomic proportions throughout these tex- 

 tures, one atom following another in endless procession, 

 the period or stage thus represented constituting the inner- 

 most and final distributive arrangement of the bioplasm, 

 during which it may be said to have become, and to be 

 absolutely alive, all the preceding stages of its circulation 

 having added more and more vitality to it, while all 

 succeeding stages of its circulation are in inverse manner 

 engaged in taking vitality from it. 



In this we perceive the principle of circulation to be 

 still equally effective, and in this most cryptic central 

 region joining the circulation of the blood to the lymphatic 

 circulation and effecting the whole phenomena of nutrition, 

 metabolism, and katabolism, those processes requiring the 

 existence of histological patency and porosity, sufficiently 

 minute and effective to allow of circulation in the atom 

 as the great circulatory channels allow of circulation in 

 the mass. 



This manner of circulation, as we elsewhere contend, is 

 absolutely prohibitive of stasis, regurgitation, and sepsis, 

 and secures the existence of physiological hygiene in which 

 the condition known as health can be effectively and 

 continuously maintained devoid of auto-toxis. 



Needless to say, all this is necessarily incapable of 

 demonstration by any device yet known to research, and 

 that its acceptance requires the use of a scientific faith at 

 least as strong as was possessed by Harvey, in regard to 



