[42] As we should say, parenchyma (a term used by Erasistratus).

[43] Those were all the elemental tissues that Aristotle, for example, had recognized; other tissues (e.g. flesh or muscle) he believed to be complexes of these.

[44] Or tunics.

[45] i.e. tissues.

[46] As, for example, Aristotle had held; cf. p. 23, [note 3]. Galen added many new tissues to those described by Aristotle.

[47] Lit. synthesis.

[48] By this is meant the duodenum, considered as an outgrowth or prolongation of the stomach towards the intestines.

[49] cf. p. 19, [note 2].

[50] Lit. the auxetic or incremental faculty.

[51] i.e. to the alterative and shaping faculties (histogenetic and organogenetic).