On the chemical circulation in the body / Henry Bence Jones.

  • Jones, Bence, 1814-1873.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the chemical circulation in the body / Henry Bence Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    circumstances upon the different substances with which they come into contact in the different textures ; either promoting the formation of new compounds, or giving rise to decompositions in the substances that are present in the tissues. And, secondly, whether the chemical force, which may have been latent for ages in the mineral and vegetable substances that can enter by our vegetable and mineral food and medicine into this larger circu- lation, may be so given out in the textures as to increase or diminish those actions of oxidation, motion, sensation, and growth, which almost, although not altogether, constitute that assemblage of correlated actions which we sum up in two words—Animal Life. [H. B. J.]