Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease : and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations : delivered at the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest / by Horace Dobell.

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1861
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    MODES OF FORCE. of those parts most essential to the animal’s career towards its ultimatum. 2. That the power to maintain the essential organs when formed, so long as they are required, is always forthcoming. 3. That the power to repair or reproduce parts injured or removed, is especially determined to those parts which are most essential at the time to the animal s career towards its ultimatum—those which are conditions of its existence. And we arrive at the conclusion that the force which produces, maintains, and reproduces, is one and the same. The maintenance always follows the production; the re- production follows when it is required for the security of the ultimatum. Respecting the nature of this force I shall have more to say in a future Lecture; but as we shall frequently have to speak of it throughout the course—and it would be tedious and confusing to continually call it by the different names which have been applied to it, when exercised in the several functions of formation, main- tenance, reproduction, and repair—I shall prefer adopting a mere symbol to represent it in one and all of its vitalized modes of manifestation.* I shall represent it, under these circumstances, by the letters (V.M.F.), which you will understand simply to mean the force manifested in the production, maintenance, growth, repair, and reproduction, of the animal organism. We proceed now to the consideration of the highest class of vertebrata, including the human species, the * (V.M.F.) Vitalized mode of Force. (L.M.F.) Lifeless mode of Force. “ Modes, I call such complex ideas as, however compounded, con- tain not in them the supposition, of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of substances.”— Locke, Essay on Human Understanding, book ii., chap. 12, sec. 4.