Excerpt from The American Practitioner, 1879: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery This is Simply a return to the teaching Of John Hunter, with all the benefits Of the knowledge which has been gained since his time. Hunter taught that fluid blood is a tissue endowed with life. Life he defined as the principle Of self preservation. What he thought in regard to the func tion Of the blood in the process Of repair, may be learned from such quotations as the following: Extravasated blood is the bond Of union. The union Of the broken parts to the intermediate extravasated blood, etc It is the blood and parts uniting which constitute union. The blood SO extravasated either forms vessels in itself, or vessels Shoot out from the original surface in contact with it. About the Publisher 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.