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called sick, though it be broken to pieces ; each 

 piece remains what the whole is. But a sev- 

 ered limb is different, it lives only through 

 the entire organism, in whose process it 

 shares. It is the prerogative of the living- 

 thing to be able to get sick ; man, as the high- 

 est of life, can become sicker than any other 

 animal, and disease can hit him in more spots. 

 Still he is gifted with greater power of meet- 

 ing malady through his intelligence. In fact, 

 man has drilled a valiant army of disease- 

 fighters, verily a vast standing army with 

 many branches of service. 



Sickness, accordingly, arises when a part 

 or a member of the living organism does not 

 perform its function in the whole through 

 some collapse or injury, or when it sets up 

 its own active process against that of the 

 total body, which then suffers, becomes path- 

 ological or the subject of Pathology. This 

 we may divide into three main branches 

 which have been above indicated in general : 

 Physiopathy (affection of the Physis) ; 

 Psyeho-physiopathy (the vast but indefinite 

 middle division, which just at present is hav- 

 the chief stress) ; Psychopathy (affection of 

 the Psyche, the realm specially of mental dis- 

 order). 



But now follows the problem of overcoming 

 this sphere of separation, of negating this 



