Curiosities of animal life; with the recent discoveries of the microscope / [Anon].

  • Charles Williams
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[1848]
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Credit: Curiosities of animal life; with the recent discoveries of the microscope / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the contrary, enters largely into the composition of the albumen, or gelatine, of the soft animal. In some plants it is acknowledged that substances of an animal nature, or abounding in azote, have been detected; not, however, constituting a whole plant, but only occurring in certain situations, and always in company with other substances of a decidedly vegetable nature, or consisting entirely of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. But in the soft animals there is no extensive combination of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, into which azote does not enter. Such, then, are the elementary or ultimate principles which make up the compounds of ani¬ mal organization; these compounds being gelatine, albumen, osmazone or extractive mucus, sugar, oils, such as spermaceti, fat, and blubber, and various acids, as uric, lactic, benzoic, and many others. Of these chemical elements are constituted the solids and fluids of the animal frame. The conclusion thus gained, has not, however, satisfied that intense thirst for knowledge, to which we owe some of the most remarkable and valuable attainments of the human mind. The microscope has been plied minutely, accurately, and perse- veringly, to examine the tissues or component structures of animals and vegetables, and with some degree of success. We shall soon have evidence that the Corallines are chiefly animals ; but some of these, admitted by Cuvier into the same series, have been demonstrated, by the employment of high D
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