. Medical essays, 1842-1882. ut ? By watering them with Fowlerssolution ? By digging in calomel freely about theirroots ? Not at all; but by loosening the soil roundthem, and supplying them with the right kind of foodin fitting quantities. Now a man is not a plant, or, at least, he is a verycurious one, for he carries his soil in his stomach,which is a kind of portable flower-pot, and he growsround it, instead of out of it. He has, besides, a sin-gularly complex nutritive apparatus and a nervoussystem. But recollect the doctrine already enunciatedin the language of Virchow, that an animal, lik
. Medical essays, 1842-1882. ut ? By watering them with Fowlerssolution ? By digging in calomel freely about theirroots ? Not at all; but by loosening the soil roundthem, and supplying them with the right kind of foodin fitting quantities. Now a man is not a plant, or, at least, he is a verycurious one, for he carries his soil in his stomach,which is a kind of portable flower-pot, and he growsround it, instead of out of it. He has, besides, a sin-gularly complex nutritive apparatus and a nervoussystem. But recollect the doctrine already enunciatedin the language of Virchow, that an animal, like atree, is a sum of vital unities, of which the cell is theultimate element. Every healthy cell, whether in avegetable or an animal, necessarily performs its func-tion properly so long as it is supplied with its propermaterials and stimuli. A cell may, it is true, be con-gemtally defective, in which case disease is, so tospeak, its normal state. But if originally sound andsubsequently diseased, there has certainly been some.
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