Thus, both for itself and in its relations to the areolar spaces and to the rest of the body, its activity is functionally of service.

Then, also, the vessels, unaided by changes of posture and by motion, lose tone, and the distant local circuits, for all of these reasons, cease to receive their normal supply, so that defects of nutrition occur, and, with these, defects of temperature.
"I was struck with the extent to which these evils may go, in the case of Mrs.P., aet.

52, who was brought to me from New Jersey, having been in bed fifteen years.

I soon knew that she was free of grave disease, and had stayed in bed at first because there was some lack of power and much pain on rising, and at last because she had the firm belief that she could not walk.

After a week's massage I made her get up.