British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 171844 - Medicine |
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... animal heat . More or less appears to be required by the system , not so much for the purposes of nutrition , but , according to the varying circumstances of the production of heat , in states of exertion or rest for instance ; or ...
... animal heat . More or less appears to be required by the system , not so much for the purposes of nutrition , but , according to the varying circumstances of the production of heat , in states of exertion or rest for instance ; or ...
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... animal principles than from an equal quantity of vegetable matter ; it is increased by the use of spirituous liquors , the alcohol of which contains no oxygen . 4. Nitrogen . This is also an essential constituent of every vital tissue ...
... animal principles than from an equal quantity of vegetable matter ; it is increased by the use of spirituous liquors , the alcohol of which contains no oxygen . 4. Nitrogen . This is also an essential constituent of every vital tissue ...
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... animal foods , but not by all the vegetables usually employed ; -is for the most part taken with the food as a condiment , and received into the system in the form of hydro - chlorate of soda , passing out of it again by the urine in ...
... animal foods , but not by all the vegetables usually employed ; -is for the most part taken with the food as a condiment , and received into the system in the form of hydro - chlorate of soda , passing out of it again by the urine in ...
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... animal economy . All the recent discoveries in animal chemistry tend to explain the origin ab externo , not only of the elements but even of many of the compounds detected in the animal tissues , and no new fact has been developed to ...
... animal economy . All the recent discoveries in animal chemistry tend to explain the origin ab externo , not only of the elements but even of many of the compounds detected in the animal tissues , and no new fact has been developed to ...
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... animal tissues , and of the possibility of their conversion into the nitrogenized constituents of an animal body , in the case of benzoic acid appearing as hippuric acid in the urine in animals that feed on vegetable food , Dr. Prout ...
... animal tissues , and of the possibility of their conversion into the nitrogenized constituents of an animal body , in the case of benzoic acid appearing as hippuric acid in the urine in animals that feed on vegetable food , Dr. Prout ...
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