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dilatory stasis may thus be said under such circumstances 

 to initiate the process of the formation of new growths and 

 strange tissue formations by the suspension of the normal 

 process of physiological growth and the substitution of an 

 abnormal or pathological growth, in virtue of the retained 

 material and unexhausted formative energies being re- 

 directed along abnormal lines, and determined as to result 

 by the survival of the strongest formative energies and the 

 most abundant formative materials as factors in the morbid 

 processes set up. Tumours thus initiated and determined, 

 if detected before they become invaded by the elements of 

 malignancy, are amenable to treatment, as clinical records 

 abundantly prove ; it, therefore, behoves the science of 

 the subject to assist in every way possible rightly to direct 

 the application of the art of the subject. 



The quality of malignancy, so often acquired by such 

 pathological developments, may be said to be determined 

 and precipitated by environment and pre-disposition, and 

 may, by anticipative preparation of the threatened or 

 susceptible subject, be averted or prevented by the elimina- 

 tion of exciting causes, whether these be material or 

 dynamic, structural, bacterial, or chemical. Malignancy 

 being a quality superadded to an already pathologically 

 acquired and determined mode of growth, it follows that 

 the absolute removal of such pathological structural ele- 

 ments will prevent the occurrence of malignancy, besides 

 it will follow that thus is obtained a systemic condition 

 suitable for the maintenance of an absolutely hygienic 

 physiological regime around and in the pathological 

 area, which will ensure immunity from future malignant 

 attack and occupancy, and enable the subject to live out 

 life to its legitimate close, all other physiological require- 

 ments being present. As stasis of circulation so often 

 initiates and determines the development of pathological 

 conditions, it must follow that in all such cases the reason- 

 able and logical procedure, curative and ameliorative, to be 

 adopted must be chosen with a view to meet the clinical 

 necessities created by such causation. In short, to make 

 clear and patent the devious obstructed circulatory ways is 

 what is indicated, and how, and by what means, this end 

 is to be achieved must be determined by the character and 



