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Excerpt from The Principles of Medicine as Applied to Dynamical Therapeutics
It is upon these properties that the therapeutist largely relies for success in the administration of remedies for the cure of disease. If cells did not possess a selective property and remedies could not be made to in?uence special portions of the body, the scope of therapeutics would be very much narrowed. Specific Medication would hardly have been written, homeopathy would have had but a feeble following, and the medicine of the past would have made but little progress.
Physiology teaches the selective properties of certain cells in the most emphatic terms. The lacteal secretion, the saliva, the gastric juice, the pancreatic ?uid, the bile, the succus entericus - all the secretions as well as some of the excretions, are separated from the blood by the action of cells, the selective faculty of each endowing it for its special function: Going further we find that the cells of every structure possess a physiological endowment distinguishing them by peculiar selective properties. The red blood corpus cles contain the salts of potassium in excess, while the plasma in which they ?oat contains an excess of sodium. The cells of osseous tissue contain a preponderance of calcium phosphate, due largely without doubt to their capacity of imbibing the salt from the circulating med dium. In short, every tissue is distinctive on account of its selective properties, though formative force carries out processes which make the distinction more marked.
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