A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by John C. Dalton.

  • John Call Dalton
Date:
1871
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Credit: A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by John C. Dalton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CO^fTEJfTS. INTRODUCTION. PAGE Definition of Physiology—Its mode of study—Nature of Vital Phenomena— Division of the subject S'i\-4^ SECTION I. NUTEITION. CHAPTER I. PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES IN GENERAL. Definition of Proximate Principles—Mode of their extraction—Manner in which they are associated with each other—Natural variation in their relative qiiantities—Three distinct classes of proximate principles . . . 45-52 CHAPTER II. PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES OF THE FIRST CLASS. Inorganic substances—Water—Chloride of Sodium—Chloride of Potassium— Phosphate of Lime—Carbonate of Lime—Carbonate of Soda—Phosphates of Magnesia, Soda, and Potassa-^Inorganic proximate principles not altered in the body—Their discharge—Nature of their function ...» 58=62 CHAPTER III. PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES OF THE SECOND CLASS. Starch—Percentage of starch in different kinds of food—Varieties of this substance—Properties and reactions of starch—Its conversion into sugar— SuOAK—Varieties of sugar—Physical and chemical properties—Tests for sugar—Proportion in different kinds of food—Fats—Varieties—Properties and reactions of fat—Its crystallization—Proportion in different kinds of food—Its condition in the body—Internal production of fat—Origin and des- tination of proximate principles of this class ..... 68-79