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lifeParacelsus and Bordeu had a glimpse of this truth when they considered a life appropriate to each part vita proprid THE PROCESS OF DEATH and a collective life, the life of the whole vita communist In the same way we must distinguish the elementary death, which is the cessation of the vital phenomena in the isolated cell, from the general death, which is the disappearance of the phenomena which characterised the collectivity, the totality, the federation, the nation, the c. Mulberry UK bags ity, the whole in so far as it is a unit These comparisons enable us to understand how general life depends on the partial lives of each anatomical citizenIf all die, the nation, the federa tion, the total being clearly ceases to exist This city has an enormous population there are thirty trillion cellules in the body of man it is peopled with absolutely sedentary citizens, each of which has its fixed place, whi. Mulberry Sale uk handbags ch it never leaves, and in which it lives and diesIt must possess a system of more or less perfect arrangements to secure the material life of each inhabitant All have analogous require ments : they feed very much the same they breathe in the same way each in fact has its profession, industry, talents, and aptitudes by which it contri butes to social life, and on which, in its turn, it dependsBut the p. Mulberry cross body Handbags UK www.mulberryfashion-uk.com English Mulberry Sale ocess of alimentation is the same for allThey must have water, nitrogenous materials and analogous ternaries the same mineral substances, and the same vital gas, oxygenIt is no less necessary that the wastes and the egesta, very much alike in every respect, should be carried off and borne away in discharges arranged so as to free the whole sys. Mulberry UK shop handbags tem from the inconvenience, the unhealthi ness, and the danger of these residuesSecondary Organisation in OrgansThat is why, as we said above, the secondary organizations of the LIFE AND DEATHeconomy exist : the digestive apparatus which pre pares the food and enables it to pass into the blood, into the lymph, and finally into the liquid medium which bathes each cell and constitutes its real medium . Mulberry Sale bags the respiratory apparatus which imports the oxygen and exports the gaseous excrement, carbonic acid the heart and the circulatory system which distributes through the system the internal medium, suitably purified and recuperatedThe organization is dominated by the necessities of cellular lifeThis is the law of the city, to which Claude Bernard has given the name of the laiv of the constitution of organismsDeath by Lesion of the Major OrgansVital TripodThus we understand what life is, and at the same time what is the death of a complex living beingThe city perishes if its more or less compli cated mechanisms which look after its revictualling and its discharge are seriously affected at any point The different groups may survive for a more or less lengthy period, but progressively deprived of the means of foo