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by a very feeble amount of vital activity. Up to 

 the present time the mode in which muscular fibre 

 is reproduced, has not been satisfactorily made 

 out* 



* Wounds of muscles never heal by means of transversely striated mus- 

 cular substance; . . . they heal simply by means of a tendinous 

 cicatrix. An instance of new formation of muscular tissue has been seen 

 by Rokitansky in a tumor of the testicle of an individual eighteen years 

 old ; and another by Virchow, in an ovarian tumor. Kolliker, op. cit. 





