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Excerpt from Dissertation on the Process of Nature: In the Filling Up of Cavities, Healing of Wounds, and Restoring Parts Which Have Been Destroyed in the Human Body
But though the existence of such an invisible agent was supported by the famous Van Helmont and others, it has long been rejected as a mere chimera; and indeed it is an idea more resembling the fiction of a poet, than the theory of a philosopher.
But although this personification cannot be admitted, -, yet the principle of the Vis Medicatrix Naturae is undeniable. And on no occasion are its operations observed more strikingly than in the filling up of cavities, in the formation of new skin, and in the restoration of parts which are destroyed. In these cafes the power of the Vis Medicatrix Naturae is obvious; whereas in, most others it is obscure or doubtful.
In the consideration of this subject, I mall follow exactly the order in which the questions are placed; for they are judiciously arranged, according to the natural succession of events which occur. But though there are five questions proposed, as these form three principal divisions, by uniting the four first into two I shall make only three sections of the whole.
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Excerpt from Dissertation on the Process of Nature: In the Filling Up of Cavities, Healing of Wounds, and Restoring Parts Which Have Been Destroyed in the Human Body
The intention of the inflammation feems to be, to enable the blood-veffels to form a fubftance capable of uniting the oppofite fides of the cavity, or filling it up. This fubf'tance maft be either living animal-matter, or fomething capable of becoming foz the blood-veffels, in their natural fiate, are not capable of forming the new medium, it is an office not ufually required 5 but when it becomes neceffary, inflammation takes place, and the blood-veffels fuffer a Change which empowers them to perform this new function.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.