Volume 1

The physiology of common life / by George Henry Lewes.

  • Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878.
Date:
1859-1860
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Credit: The physiology of common life / by George Henry Lewes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rage of food into plastic a:u\ respiratory not acceptal)le — Lioljig's error arises from liis taking the clicniical point of view—Facts against Imn— Experiments on animals—The rice-eating Hindoos—the food in cold countries—Residts of inquiry—Inorganic food—Nutrition In i)lants and animals misunderstood—Phosphate of lime in the body; amount of water in the hody; amount of salt^Uses of salt—The law of endosinosis. 51 CHAPTER II. (Continued.) FOOD AND DBINK. SECTION n.—ALIMENTABT PKINCIPLES. Effect of different conditions in substances — Life interferes to disturb ordmai-y chemical actions—Effect of Form—Food considered chemicaUy and physiologically—Blood as a standard of food—Milk as a standai-d— Albumen—Fibriue —Casein—The protein bodies—Gluten—Gelatme, is it nutritious ?-History of the inquii-y-Fats and oOs ; their digestibility in various conditions-Starch as food-Sugar-Does sugar mjiire the teeth?—Alcohol as food—Teetotalism—Iron as food—Acids, do they Xireventscui-vy?—Does ■sTuegar keep people thin? . . . • CHAPTER II. (Continued.) FOOD AND DRINK. SECTION in.—ARTICLES OF FOOD. Moats-The flavoring substance of meat, osmfu-o;iic-Tlie flesh of young timal -The age of animals in relation to the digestibihtj of then- flesh !!EXcts of rorsthig, boamg, and baldng-German and IJe-h me«t_ Di-estibility of cUfferent meats-Sweetbread and tnpe-Horse-flesh as food experiments to establish the excellence ''^'-'^f'^-Q™ of horse-flesh consumed in v.arious comitries-The -^f/^ J^^^b- Fish • digestibility of different kinds-Nutntive quality of fij'l'-Are J ^;tS inusuaUy prolific ^-Eggs-Fastiy : is it ii;iunous?-Vcge- fS^e iveX-ianism-Tea, coffee, and the narcotics: cunous phys.o- oS iwi; of their action-The quantity of food requisite for man- Xmual varieties in the quantity need..l-E™r of VP^-g '■^^^^ nSc to vital problems-The gluttony of some ^^.r^^g, Tmate produce nordinate eating?-Thc r.ations of paupers and soldiers., m