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Excerpt from The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Science, Vol. 3: Based on Mayne's Lexicon A term used by Lobstein to denote the force exerted by the elementary tissues on the organic material or protoplasm around, by which similar tissues are caused to be built up. P., po'lar. (l. Polus, the end of an axis.) A force which is potent at each end only of the axis of a body, or of each of its constituent mole cules or atoms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.