Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Experimental Researches Relative to the Nutritive Value and Physiological Effects of Albumen, Starch, and Gum, When Singly and Exclusively Used as Food: Being the Prize Essay of the American Medical Association for 1857
From the first moment of existence to its termination, two pro cesses are constantly progressing in the healthy organic being. The first of these, Nutrition, is that by which the several tissues of the body are primarily formed, and subsequently developed and nourished; the second, Decay, is the direct antagonist of the former, and through it, those portions of the organism which have performed the office in the economy for which they were assimi lated, are decomposed into simpler substances, and after undergo ing continued metamorphosis, are eventually excreted from the system. The continuation of these forces constitutes life, the ces sation of either of them, for even a limited period, induces death.
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