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Not only the liquid parts, but the solid parts 

 too, are made from the blood. The very 

 bones themselves, at first gelatine, are gradually 

 made into bone, by means of the blood in its 

 little vessels. First a particle of gelatine is 

 taken away, by the absorbents; then comes 

 along a particle of blood, or something that 

 the blood contains, and stops in its place, and 

 so on. 



These particles, which are thus taken out to 

 form bone in the place of gelatine, are many of 

 them lime, or phosphate of lime, or at least 

 something which makes lime, before it can be- 

 come bone. Who directs the little particles of 

 lime to the places where they are wanted ? 

 Who tells them to stop at the bones, and not 

 before? 



The power of the system to take out from 

 the blood what is wanted for its growth and 

 support, is aptly shown by Dr. Edwards. 1 * He 

 had been speaking of the wonderful distribution 



* See the Eighth Report of the American Tem- 

 perance Society, page 11. 



