Food in its relations to various exigencies of the animal body / by J.B. Lawes and J.H. Gilbert.

  • John Bennet Lawes
Date:
1866
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Credit: Food in its relations to various exigencies of the animal body / by J.B. Lawes and J.H. Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOOD IN ITS RELATIONS TO VARIOUS EXIGENCIES OF THE ANIMAL BODY. r|^HE appearance in the June (Supplementary) Number of the *- Philosophical Magazine of the interesting paper by Profes- sors Fick and Wislicenus “On the Origin of Muscular Power,”and the further interest excited in the subject by Professor Frankland’s recent lecture ac the Royal Institution, seem to render it oppor- tune that the important question of the connexion between certain constituents of food and certain exigencies of the animal body should receive a little further consideration at the present time. Professor Frankland truly said that, since the appearance of Baron Liebig’s masterly and highly suggestive work s On Organic Che- mistry in its applications to Physiology and Pathology ’ in 1842, his views of the relation of the nitrogenous and the non-nitro- genous constituents of food to certain requirements of the ani- mal organism have been pretty generally adopted by text-book writers. It is also true that authorities on the subject of the chemistry of food have, even so recently as last year and this, either directly maintained or taken for granted the correctness of Baron Liebig’s views. It is, however, not the case, as was also assumed by Professor Frankland, that those views have re- mained unquestioned excepting in the one or two instances of criticism to which he referred. This question, in various aspects, has occupied a great deal of our own attention for many years past; and so long ago as 1852 we advocated substantially the views now adopted by Pro- fessors Fick, Wislicenus, and Frankland ; and we have on various occasions since that date expressed them with greater definiteness, and urged them the more emphatically, as new experimental evi- dence either of others or ourselves seemed to lend them support or confirmation. It may be well, therefore, to state very briefly
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