...process exactly assimilates the new materials to the old, so does it in diseased parts ; the new formed blood and tissues take the likeness of the old ones...all their peculiarities, whether normal or abnormal ; and hence the healthy state of the part to be nourished may be said to be essential to the healthy...

...process exactly assimilates the new materials to the old, so does it in diseased parts; the new formed blood and tissues take the likeness of the old ones...all their peculiarities, whether normal or abnormal; and hence the healthy state of the part to be nourished may be said to be essential to the healthy...

...Paget. 1 "The formative process exactly assimilates the new materials to the old. . . . The new formed blood and tissues take the likeness of the old ones...their peculiarities, whether normal or abnormal." Thus "after any injury or disease by which the structure of a part is impaired, we find the altered...

...while the tendency to a continuance of the disease is increased, in consequence of another well-known physiological property, viz., that in nutrition "...abnormal."* .Here, then, is the limit to the operation of vis medicatrix, as a healing agent. The " capacity of adaptation " becomes inoperative as soon as adaptation...