HYGIOLOGY. 



negation of Life, whose ultimate unit, the in- 

 tegral cell, again becomes the center. If there 

 are pathogenic cells (disease-creating), so 

 there are also hygiogenic cells (health-creat- 

 ing) ; through the latter the Cellular Biocos- 

 mos in a special science (which we here call 

 Hygiology) returns out of its stage of inner 

 conflict and disease. 



III. HYGIOLOGY. 



A science of Health must be the counter- 

 part to a science of Disease, though closely 

 connected in the field of medicine. How can 

 the negative element of the living cell and 

 organism be met and mastered is the ques- 

 tion of Hygienics or Hygiology. 



This is a part of Biology as the science of 

 Life. The seat of all vitality being primar- 

 ily in the cell, this must be restored if affect- 

 ed. Hygiology (Hygienics) seek to restore 

 the cell, individual and associated, to its orig- 

 inal activity, which has been interrupted. 

 So we may deem it a return to Cytology in its 

 scientific scope and the third stage of the 

 Cellular Biocosmos. 



Here we observe again an undoing of the 

 separative principle, an attack on the cell 

 foe with release of the cell, which, however, 

 must still have the vital power to resume its 

 normal process. The cell foe may be slain 



