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Excerpt from Dissertation on the Process of Nature: In the Filling Up of Cavities, Healing of Wounds, and Restoring Parts Which Have Been Destroyed in the Human Body The intention of the inflammation feems to be, to enable the blood-veffels to form a fubftance capable of uniting the oppofite fides of the cavity, or filling it up. This fubf'tance maft be either living animal-matter, or fomething capable of becoming foz the blood-veffels, in their natural fiate, are not capable of forming the new medium, it is an office not ufually required 5 but when it becomes neceffary, inflammation takes place, and the blood-veffels fuffer a Change which empowers them to perform this new function. 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.