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my first lecture, gentlemen, I laid before you the general points to be noted with regard to the nature and origin of cells and their constituents. Allow me now to preface our further considerations with a review of the animal tissues in general, and this both in their physiological and pathological relations.

The most important obstacles which, until quite recently, existed in this quarter, were by no means chiefly of a pathological nature. I am convinced that pathological conditions would have been mastered with far less difficulty if it had not, until quite lately, been utterly impossible to give a simple and comprehensive sketch of the physiological tissues. The old views,