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2. Vital Properties. 



Q. Does this texture possess much animal sensibility ? 

 #. Not in its healthy condition; but it is very evident 

 in the pain which attends phlegmon. 



Q. What proves the existence of organic sensibility? 

 t/?. The exhalation and absorption of fat, serum, and 

 other liquids are the operations of organic sensibility. 



Q. What instances show that all fluids have not the 

 same relation to the organic sensibility of this texture ? 



Ji. Some foreign fluids, as blood, milk, and lymph, do 

 not excite that property beyond the absorbing point; 

 while others, as wine, urine, &c. carry it speedily to in- 

 flammation, and convert organic to animal sensibility. 



Q. How do you prove the existence of insensible or- 

 ganic contractility in this texture? 



t#. The phenomena indicating organic sensibility, de- 

 monstrate the insensible organic contractility j these phe- 

 nomena are absorption and exhalation. 



Q. Does the cellular texture ever manifest sensible or- 

 ganic contractility? 



#. You see it in the scrotum, which contracts on the 

 application of cold. 



Q. On what do the critical deposites frequently ob- 

 served in acute diseases, depend? 



/2. On the sympathy of the cellular tissue with the 

 diseased organ. " A man in the ward St. Charles, in 

 consequence of great terror, had a sudden contraction 

 of the epigastric region; a tinge of jaundice spread over 

 his face in a few hours. In the evening he had a great 



