Nerves / by David Fraser Harris.

  • David Fraser Fraser-Harris
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[1913]
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Credit: Nerves / by David Fraser Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that phosphorus was the only thing they needed. Lecithin has much in it besides phosphorus, and all the other things are necessary. People have rushed off with the notion that they can stuff the nervous system with phosphorus, overfeed it with phosphorus, and make it exceptionally strong, just as you can overfeed a Christmas ox and make him exceptionally fat. This is a mistake—you cannot overfeed the normal nervous system with phosphorus or with any other element, just as you cannot stuff into any tissue or organ more of a given substance than it has its own chemical affinity for fixing—be it iron, lime, nitrogen, or even oxygen. If, however, the nervous system in question has been allowed to get into an underfed, poor condition, then high phosphorus (lecithin) feeding is good for it, just as, if a person is anaemic more iron than is normally present in food is good for her, or if a person is asphyxi¬ ated, pure oxygen is good for him. Unfortunately, nerve starvation is a real thing, and fraught with momentous conse¬ quences : the high feeding of the nervous system is necessary : all good food influences the nervous system beneficially: nervous tissue in particular needs food of a fatty nature,
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