Outlines of scientific anatomy : for students of biology and medicine / by Wilhelm Lubosch ; translated from the German by H.H. Woollard.

  • Wilhelm Lubosch
Date:
1928
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Credit: Outlines of scientific anatomy : for students of biology and medicine / by Wilhelm Lubosch ; translated from the German by H.H. Woollard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the connective tissue, formation has been proven through apposition of the primary particles (Schmidt). In regard to the finer form of protoplasm the following can be taken as certain. (1) Accumulation of specific molecular units. (2) Topographical division of these units. (3) Integration of the wThole in the sense that (4) new formation and growth bring out the whole structure according to their distribution. So far as we can -see, the solution of the structural laws lies along the lines of the holoplastic rather than the meroplastie conceptions. The proof of the micellae units typical for each type and the regulation of growth and subdivision will be the last and final purpose of cell investigation [para. 102]. Only then shall we be able to see in what relation these structures stand with the known cell structures (chromosomes, cell nucleus, cell body). Also then it will be possible to follow the transformation of structural forms into the formation of tissues, the fibrillae, the ground substance, etc. There wrould then be a conception of histogenesis, which as a consequence of a principle, as a deduction of form, would erect histology into a true science. Also the form of the whole [paras. 25, 90] which, as we have seen, can now be formed in intimate promorphological relation to the elements, will then be recognizable as a function of the structural formula. It will be possible to treat the forms themselves and the changes of form in a higher degree, than is now believed, from the knowledge of the fundamental formula here deduced. Perhaps it will be possible to demonstrate the individual plasma stereochemically • we could imagine it placed before us as clearly as the skeleton in a museum of the future. Then for the first time would exact morphology be possible. We would have then, so to speak, the organic in the crystal. The deepest significance of the organic reveals itself to us here for the first time. It signifies the maintainance of the structures in the fluid of the changes of form. This is doubtless the real vital fact wherein Goethe has seen the secret of all life [cf. also para. 92]. We have accustomed ourselves to see the living phenomena in the individual being in the course of its development. For us they coincide with the physiological ; the life follows death. However, as an individual being we can ascribe only to man a unique value because this unique value is his ethical nature. Beyond this, individual organisms are little or nothing; the form is everything. That which works in the maintenance of structure, brings it nearer to perfection, and thus makes possible even the loftiest actions of the greatest heroes of the human race, this too is life and the real essence of
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