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oedema, produced sympathetically, by the influence of the 

 liver on the cellular texture." 



Q. In what manner, and at what stages of their dis- 

 eases, do the heart, lungs, stomach, and liver, affect this 

 texture? 



'/?. Chronic diseases of these organs in the last stages, 

 induce debility of the cellular texture, with serous infiltra- 

 tions; this is a sympathetic result. 



Q. What inference relative to the cellular tissue is 

 drawn from the state of the skin in chronic and acute 

 diseases? 



/?. That the cellular texture may be similarly and sym- 

 pathetically affected, and be like the skin, more or less 

 dry or humid, at different periods of diseases. 



Q. What vital forces are excited in passive cellular 

 sympathies? 



<A. Organic sensibility and insensible organic contrac- 

 tility, for these predominate in this texture. Sympathetic 

 action and disease always operate on the predominant vital 

 forces of a tissue. 



Q. You have said that this texture receives sympathetic 

 impressions, under what circumstances does it radiate 

 them? 



#. When a phlegmonous inflammation excites fever, 

 gastric and hepatic irritation, you have an example of ac- 

 tive cellular sympathy. 



Q. How may this active sympathy be profitably em-- 

 ployed ? 



Jl. In the use of issues; for the cellular active sympa- 

 thy from the issue, is more powerful than those of the 

 skin from a blister. 



