This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... require for the uses they serve, a great degree of elasticity, durability, and ductility. Their combustible and perishable elements are removed while they receive a great addition of the least changeable of all the productions of nature. The cartilaginous or chondrinous tissues, on the contrary, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... require for the uses they serve, a great degree of elasticity, durability, and ductility. Their combustible and perishable elements are removed while they receive a great addition of the least changeable of all the productions of nature. The cartilaginous or chondrinous tissues, on the contrary, require no ductility and tenacity, but even augmented elasticity, the heavier ingredient, nitrogen, is withdrawn, and the expansive hydrogen is maintained. These are not phantoms of the imagination. They appear to me indications of important truths, and to point in the direction of a sound philosophy _ It may, indeed, be objected that I have assumed, without proof, these successive stages in the erection of the above organised principles, and this is, without doubt, a perfectly valid objection. The explanation is theoretic. Except in the case of fibrin from albumen, I have not adduced any direct or conclusive fact on which to build these opinions. But I think I am justified in saying, that other opinions are even more destitute of support. It appears to me, that the account I have given affords a far more ready and more probable solution of the facts, both of physiology and pathology, while it is free from any striking difficulty. On this I rest it; and venture to think that future facts, as they are discovered, will tend to its confirmation. It would, however, but little affect my argument, were it proved that all these organised products were, according to the prevalent opinion, directly created from albumen. The experiments of Milne Edwards on the absorption of nitrogen have fallen into unmerited neglect. Though never disproved, they have been dropped. The disappearance in the blood of an element so little prone to unite itself to other...
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