Excerpt from Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected With Medicine and Surgery<br><br>We shall now consider the views which have been formed on the relation of Pathogenic Microbes to the tissues of the animal body.* We must, above all, clearly understand that only a growing and multiplying organism can become dangerous to the healthy animal living tissue, and that only in the case when its assimi lative energy is more intense than that of the tissue-cells. The cocci and bacteria, after their ingress into the respective tissue fluids, must not only be able to live, to continue their existence, but they must also be stimulated by their reception to an energetic activity of growth, to vigorous reproduction. One might here already say, the products of change of matter of the animal tissue cells furnish the formative stimulus for the vegetable cells (the microbes) in a manner the reverse of what takes place in the formation of galls, of which anon.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.