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LECTUKE III. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL TISSUES 77 



The higher animal tissues : muscles, nerves, vessels, blood, Muscles. Striped 

 and smooth. Atrophy of. The contractile substance and contractility in 

 general. Cutis anserina and arrectores pilorum. Vessels. Capillaries. 

 Contractile vessels. Nerves. Pathological tissues (Neoplasms), and their 

 classification. Import of vascularity. Doctrine of specific elements. 

 Physiological types (reproduction). Heterology (heterotopy, hetero- 

 chrony, heterometry), and malignity. Hypertrophy and hyperplasy. 

 Degeneration. Criteria for prognosis. Law of continuity. Histological 

 substitution and equivalents. Physiological and pathological substitution. 



LECTURE IV. NUTRITION AND ITS CHANNELS . . 101 



Action of the vessels. Relations between vessels and tissues. Liver. Brain. 

 Muscular coat of the stomach. Cartilage. Bone. Dependence of tissues 

 upon vessels. Metastases. Vascular territories [Gefassterritorien] (vas- 

 cular unities). Conveyance of nutriment in the juice-conveying canals 

 (Saftkanale) of the tissues. Bone. Teeth. Fibro-cartilage. Cornea. 

 Semilunar cartilages. 



LECTURE Y. NUTRITION, AND CONVEYANCE OF THE NU- 

 TRITIVE JUICES 119 



Tendons. Cornea. Umbilical cord. Elastic tissue. Corium. Loose con- 

 nective tissue. Tunica dartos. Importance of cells in the special dis- 

 tribution of the nutritive juices. 



LECTURE YI. NUTRITION AND CIRCULATION . . . 140 



Arteries. Capillaries. Continuity of their membrane. Its porosity. Hse- 

 morrhage by transudation (per diapedesin). Veins. Vessels during preg- 

 nancy. Properties of the walls of vessels : 1. Contractility. Rhythmical 

 movement. Active or irritative hypersemia. Ischaemia. Counter irritants. 

 2. Elasticity and its importance as regards the rapidity and uniformity 

 of the current of blood. Dilatation of the vessels. 3. Permeability. 

 Diffusion. Specific affinities. Relations between the supply of blood 

 and nutrition. Glandular secretion (liver). Specific action of the ele- 

 ments of the tissues. Dyscrasia. Its transitory character and local 

 origin. Dyscrasia of drunkards. Hsemorrhagic diathesis. Syphilis. 



LECTURE YIL THE BLOOD 166 



Fibrine. Its fibrillae. Compared with mucus, and connective tissue. Ho- 

 mogeneous condition. Red blood-corpuseles. Their nucleus and con- 

 tents. Changes of form. Blood-crystals (Hsematoidine, Hsemine, Hae- 

 matocrystalline). Colourless blood-corpuscles. Numerical proportion. 

 Structure. Compared with pus-corpuscles. Their viscosity and aggluti- 

 nation. Specific gravity. Crusta granulosa. Diagnosis between pus- 

 and colourless blood-corpuscles. 



