The philosophy of mineral waters : with their medicinal applications / by John Balbirnie.

  • John Balbirnie
Date:
1856
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Credit: The philosophy of mineral waters : with their medicinal applications / by John Balbirnie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    II. These reparative principles, or elements of nutrition, are composed of ORGANIC MATTER, water, and mineral or inorganic ingredients. They comprise the materials that go to form muscle, membrane, integument, ligament, nerve, brain, bone,—the constituents of sioeat, saliva, tears, mucus, bile, gastric and pancreatic juices, abdominal and renal secretions, &c. All these are drawn from the blood, as the common store- house ; and they are supplied to the blood, chiefly through the digestive organs, in the shape of alimentary substances. III. The animal economy cannot create the constituents of the blood—the raw materials of organised tissues or structure. It only allots their destination, and imparts their form—select- ing the respective elementary principles from the circulating mass, and depositing them in their proper places—fibrine and albumen for muscle and membrane, lime for bones, phos- phorus for brain, &c. IV. The organic as well as the inorganic com- ponent principles of the living fabric exist ready- formed in nature. The organic elements arc contained in vegetable and animal fibrine, albu- men, caseine, &c. The inorganic constituents in human blood arc salt, SODA, LIME, potass. MAGNESIA, SULPHUR, PHOSPHORUS, IRON.
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