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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Essential lessons in human physiology and hygiene for schools 
    Publication: Chicago : Werner School Book Company, [1898]
    ... contain more or less inorganic matter; hence, in- organic foods are essential to the proper nutrition and development ... classes: inorganic, organic tissue- making, or nitrogenous, and organic ... important inorganic foods are water, salt, phosphate of lime ; the tissue- ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Syllabus of lectures on physiology 
    Publication: Philadelphia : The Morris Press, 1898
    ... animal heat is in the potential energy of organic food-stuffs. This may be converted into heat directly ... 120. Fissures of brain, 130. “ “ “ development of, 182. Food, 10. “ quantity and ... 10. “ “ organic, n. “ “ inorganic, 11. Fornix, 130. Function, definition of, ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Biological forms 
    Publication: New Haven : Osborn Zoölogical Laboratory, Yale University, 1922
    ... Biological Forms. 27 PHYSIOLOGY. Nutrition. Paramecium requires complex organic food stuffs and therefore this animal exhibits a typical ... living organisms and also very small particles of organic material, which may be utilized for food, are strained out from the water and carried ...
  4. ... in the leaf for? Starch is a basic organic food substance and cannot be formed in any way ... small or large quantities in a great many foods. Like other organic nutri- ents it can be digested, and for ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A study of water in relation to health and disease 
    Publication: Sacramento : A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, 1894
    ... no special importance, they indicate a supply of organic food and, therefore, impurity of water. Then we have ...
  6. ... thus produced being a form of carbon. Complex organic * food compounds contain- ing these elements are taken into ... to life. Carbon. - An element found in all organic substances. It is present in all foods and usually found in chemical combina- tion with ...
  7. ... aerobes or anaerobes; the majority of species require organic food for their nutrition, but a few can use ... con- jecture. A common view is that the organic iron com- pounds of food enter into, and are essential for, the produc- ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Modern methods in nursing 
    Publication: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders Company, 1922
    ... animals. Since the body furnishes the right temperature, organic food, moisture, and absence of light, it forms an ... of fluids, lack of fats and oils or organic salts, excessive use of alcohol, or the use of foods that are almost entirely digested (such as milk ...
  9. ... survive scarcity 1286 OHIO RIVER POLLUTION- CONTROL of organic food, sudden changes of and low temperatures, and relatively ... of the Wabash. This allows time for the organic material to decompose to available food and for the plankton organisms to multiply. OHIO ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Elements of water bacteriology : with special reference to sanitary water analysis 
    Publication: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; London : Chapman & Hall, 1924
    ... sewage where there is a large amount of organic food material present the streptococci may kill out the ... Information Furnished by Bacteriological Examinations. The decomposition of ... slight increases in their food-supply, and thus it comes about that the ...
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