An experimental inquiry into the nutrition of animal tissues / by William Marcet.

  • Marcet, W. (William), 1828-1900.
Date:
1874
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the nutrition of animal tissues / by William Marcet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    fortunately is tlie least correct—gives results which com- pare sufficiently closely with the results obtained by theory, to confirm the correctness of this theory. I shall not take into account my earliest analyses, amounting to fourteen in number, which are incomplete in several respects. Moreover the methods of analysis then adopted were not nearly so correct as those with which the subsequent inquiry was conducted. I have to report seven analyses of muscular tissue.1 For the first four the flesh was taken from the muscles of the neck of as many oxen immediately or but very few hours after slaughtering. For the last three analyses, the muscular tissue was ob- tained at the Consumption Hospital (Brompton) from human subjects after death from phthisis, before decompo- sition had set in. The composition of these last three samples (four with the additional analysis), varied but slightly from that of the other four; and the result re- specting the phosphoric acid and potash effete was pre- cisely the same. I shall at present consider only the first four analyses. 1 An eighth analysis of musclo after death from phthisis is added at p. 43.