These are the general phenomena that cutaneous cicatrices offer in the two first periods of their formation. The internal cicatrices show nearly the same thing. Now it is easy to prove that the cellular system here performs not only an important but an exclusive part, and that all these phenomena take place in its texture or its cells. The following observations prove in a satisfactory manner the cellular nature of the granulations and the provisional pellicle that arises from them. 1st. Where the cellular system is most abundant, as in the cheeks, granulations grow most easily and wounds are soonest healed. 2d. The skin, stripped too much of the cellular texture, is not covered with ease with these productions, and adheres with difficulty to the neighbouring parts; hence the precept so strongly inculcated in surgery, of saving this texture in dissecting out tumours, in the extirpation of wens, cysts, &c. 3d. Maceration always reduces to this first base the surfaces of granulating wounds, when we expose a dead body that has one to this simple experiment. 4th. The nature of fleshy granulations is the same every where, whatever be the organ that produces them, whether a muscle, a cartilage, the skin, a bone, a ligament, &c.; only they are more or less backward, according as the life of each organ is more or less active, more or less decided, and the vital forces found there marked in a greater or less degree; thus they appear at the end of four or five days upon the skin, and it is very much longer before they are visible upon the bones; but their structure, their external appearance, their nature, are always the same; then they are only the expansion, the enlargement of an organ, that is met with in all the others; now this organ common to all, this general base of every organized part, is the cellular texture.