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In a general work of this character it is impossible to 

 describe in technical detail the different stages and 

 variations displayed in the healing of wounds, but the 

 principles of this important process are the same as 

 those which underlie inflammation. It certainly simpli- 

 fies our notions of morbid processes to find that the 

 phenomena known as repair of wounds, inflammation, 

 and fever, are manifestations of the same process by 

 which a child loses its milk-teeth, the tadpole its tail, or 

 the stag its antlers, rather than to look upon such con- 

 ditions as the result of some special law. 



