EXTRACT LA. 



ON THE PRIMARY DIVISION OF THE PHYSICAL, OR 

 ORGANIC, ELEMENTS OF THE LIVING BODY INTO 

 PROTOPLASM, OR BIOPLASM, AND LYMPH. 



Protoplasm, or Bioplasm, Lymph, and Blood. 



PROTOPLASM, or bioplasm, is the physiological constituent 

 or element through, and by which, all vital or organic 

 material formative phenomena are effected, but the ele- 

 ments of which it is composed, although mechanically 

 mixed in even definite physiological and chemical propor- 

 tions, are incapable of producing life, hence a vital process 

 of "admixture" or "union," under materio-dynamic 

 conditions determined by pre-existent "biological pos- 

 session," is essential to their manifestation of "living" 

 phenomena, or life. 



Protoplasm thus determined, and insured by descent, 

 the exercise of its distinctive powers on properly prepared 

 raw material, can convert that material into what it requires 

 for its continued existence as a living unit or part of an 

 organised body. 



Protoplasm is the plastic or solid material out of which 

 all living organisms, vegetable and animal, are made or 

 evolved, and from which all the parts, organs, and viscera 

 are constructed. It is, therefore, a substance sharply 

 separable from the fluid or lymph, haemal and neural, as 

 well as the liquor sanguinis, and the many other more 

 local and definite fluids to be met with throughout the 

 body generally. It is the material, in fact, of which the 

 living body, as a moving independent organism, is made 



