DEATH.--THE RECOGNITION OF DEATH 40

CHAPTER III

THE GROWTH OF THE BODY.--GROWTH MORE RAPID IN EMBRYONIC PERIOD.--THE
COÖRDINATION AND REGULATION OF GROWTH.--TUMORS.--THE GROWTH OF TUMORS
COMPARED WITH NORMAL GROWTH.--SIZE. SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF
TUMORS.--THE GROWTH CAPACITY OF TUMORS AS SHOWN BY THE INOCULATION OF
TUMORS OF MICE.--BENIGN AND MALIGNANT TUMORS.--EFFECT OF
INHERITANCE.--ARE TUMORS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT?--THE EFFECT PRODUCED
BY A TUMOR ON THE INDIVIDUAL WHO BEARS IT.--RELATION OF TUMORS TO AGE
AND SEX.--THEORIES AS TO THE CAUSE OF TUMORS.--THE PARASITIC
THEORY.--THE TRAUMATIC THEORY.--THE EMBRYONIC THEORY.--THE IMPORTANCE OF
THE EARLY RECOGNITION AND REMOVAL OF TUMORS 62

CHAPTER IV

THE REACTIONS OF THE TISSUES OF THE BODY TO INJURIES.--INFLAMMATION.--
THE CHANGES IN THE BLOOD IN THIS.--THE LMIGRATION OF THE CORPUSCLES OF
THE BLOOD.--THE EVIDENT CHANGES IN THE INJURED PART AND THE MANNER IN
WHICH THESE ARE PRODUCED.--HEAT REDNESS SWELLING AND PAIN.--THE
PRODUCTION OF BLISTERS BY SUNBURN.--THE CHANGES IN THE CELLS OF AN
INJURED PART.--THE CELLS WHICH MIGRATE FROM THE BLOOD VESSELS ACT AS
PHAGOCYTES.--THE MACROPHAGES.--THE MICROPHAGES.--CHEMOTROPISM.--THE
HEALING OF INFLAMMATION.--THE REMOVAL OF THE CAUSE.--CELL REPAIR AND NEW
FORMATION.--NEW FORMATION OF BLOOD VESSELS.--ACUTE AND CHRONIC
INFLAMMATION.--THE APPARENTLY PURPOSEFUL CHARACTER OF THE CHANGES IN
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CHAPTER V