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Now Nature constructs bone, cartilage, nerve, membrane, ligament, vein, and so forth, at the first stage of the animal's genesisi.e.. alteration is the earlier of the two stages which constitute embryogeny or genesis. cf. p. 18, note 1., employing at this task a faculty which is, in general terms, generative and alterative, and, in more detail, warming, chilling, drying, or moistening; or such as spring from the blending of these, for example, the bone-producing, nerve-producing, and cartilage-producing facultiesThe terms Galen actually uses are: ostopoietic, neuropoietic, chondropoietic. (since for the sake of clearness these names must be used as well).
