The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, volume III, The Fibre

Diseases of The Fibres

chapter I, that all diseases in the aminal body are diseases of the fibres

370. “ There are diseases of the solid parts, there are also diseases of the fluids. Solid parts are bones, cartilages, tendons, cuticles, membranes; nay, even bloodvessels and also fibres, viewed as to their tunics. The fluid parts are humors of divers kinds, such as the gastric juices, the salivas, the pancreatic juices, biles, chyles, the lymph of the thoracic duct, milks, the genital fluids; in general the red blood with its serum, the purer blood or nervous juice, and the purest blood or first essence of the blood. But whether the part be solid or fluid or soft, it still pertains to the fibre; for there is nothing in the universal body save the simple fibre. […] From this is derived the compound, or medullary and nerve fibre; and from this the blood-vessel, which is a fibre of the first order. […] And except fibres and vessels, there is nothing substantial that enters into, raises up and determines the form itself. […] Moreover, a fibre is not called fibre, nor is it a fibre, without its fluid or blood; or the container and the content act as one cause. From these considerations it follows that diseases of the fibres in a broad sense embrace all diseases, in general and particular; that is, the pathology both of the body and of the animus. “

“ And except fibres and vessels, there is nothing substantial that enters into, raises up and determines the form itself. […] Moreover, a fibre is not called fibre, nor is it a fibre, without its fluid or blood; or the container and the content act as one cause. From these considerations it follows that diseases of the fibres in a broad sense embrace all diseases, in general and particular; that is, the pathology both of the body and of the animus. “

“ From these considerations it follows that diseases of the fibres in a broad sense embrace all diseases, in general and particular; that is, the pathology both of the body and of the animus. “

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