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Q. Does Beclard suppose that the brain influences the 

 organic muscles? 



*ft. He thinks it does not ordinarily, but may contin- 

 gently. 



Q. What'distinguished French pathologist was an in- 

 stance of the controlling power of the will over one of the 

 organic muscles? 



ft. Bayle could at will suspend the action of the heart. 



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PATHOLOGY OF THE MUSCULAR TISSUE. 



Q. What are the diseases of the muscular system of 

 animal life? 



/?. Rheumatism, lassitude, atrophy, and hypertrophy. 



Q. Is inflammation frequent in the muscular tissue? 



Jl. It is not; it arises in the cellular tissue of the mus- 

 cles. 



Q. What is to be observed of the diseases of the mus- 

 cles of organic and of animal life? 



A. That those of the organic muscles are various, from 

 the variety of organs, and those of the animal muscles are 

 few, from the uniformity of the texture. 



Q. What are the diseases of the heart? 



#. Inflammation, acute and chronic; syncope; palpita- 

 tion; aneurism; rupture. 



Q. What is the pathology of syncope? 



/?. It is a loss of contractility in the heart. 



Q. What do you observe of the intermittent pulse in 

 fever and disease of the heart? 



