Experimental researches on the food of animals, and the fattening of cattle : with remarks on the food of man, based upon experiments undertaken by order of the British Government / by Robert Dundas Thomson.

  • Thomson, Robert Dundas, 1810-1864.
Date:
1846
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    that each should bear a certain relation to the whole, as will be attempted to be pointed out in the subse- quent part of the work, during the discussion of the effects of the different kinds of diet employed in the extensive series of experiments to be detailed. The previous observations have shown the parallel nature of milk and blood. To make good milk, therefore, is obviously producing a similar effect to that of forming good blood, and consequently contributing to build up the body of animals in a healthy and substantial man- ner. Again, as the blood of cows is identical in com- position with that of the human species, it is obvious that the diet of the one class of animals must possess a similar composition to that of the other. It is im- portant, as a preliminary step, to consider briefly the nature of the animals upon which the experiments for determining the influence of different kinds of food as diet were made.