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texture becomes less. Now in disease we shall find 

 that in adult tissues the bioplasm increases, and that 

 the general appearance assumed is that which em- 

 bryonic tissue presents, indeed some " inflamed " 

 textures might be mistaken for embryonic tissue. 



FROM HEALTH TO DISEASE. 



I have endeavoured to show that the only material 

 in the organisms of living beings capable of growth 

 and multiplication is that which I have recently named 

 bioplasm, hitherto known as germinal or living matter. 

 In fully formed tissues the proportion of this is very 

 small. Still, all active change which takes place in 

 the tissue depends upon this living matter, however 

 little there may be. If there be none, the tissue is as 

 incapable of undergoing active changes as if it did not 

 form a part of the body. The smallest particle of 

 bioplasm possesses active powers, and if supplied with 

 proper pabulum, soon grows. Each little bioplast 

 grows, that is, increases, by taking up material differ- 

 ing entirely from it in composition, properties, and 

 powers, and converts certain elements of this into 

 matter identical with that of which it consists. After 

 the bioplasm-particle has reached a certain size, 

 division occurs. Instead of growing larger and larger, 

 and forming a continuous mass of enormous size, as 

 some have fancifully supposed exists at the bottom 

 of the ocean, portions are from time to time detached. 



