The Monthly Genesee Farmer

Author : Daniel Lee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332933511
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Genesee Farmer, 1852, Vol. 13 written by Daniel Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Genesee Farmer, 1852, Vol. 13: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic and Rural Economy; Illustrated With Engravings of Farm Buildings, Implements, Domestic Animals, Fruits, Flowers, Shrubs, &C If a large crystal of salt or sugar be crushed into one impalpable powder, its solution in water is greatly promoted. This fact illustrates a general law, and one that prompts the grinding of much grain, the pulverization of the soil, and about half the labor of the agriculturist. NO solid food of animals can pass through the walls of the intestines into the lactcals (milk-ducts) and the blood vessels, which is not substantially dissolved in the gastric juices; nor can cultivated, or other plants, subsist on insoluble earthy atoms. Hence, all the circumstances that favor or retard the solution of bodies in tilled land, 01 living systems, have a high practical value, and a scientific claim to attention. Bodies in solution are in a very favorable condition for the play of chemical forces, whatever they may be. The chemical phenomena witnessed in the cells of plants, in the production of wood, starch, gum, sugar, Oil, albumen, casein, and gluten, appear to be governed more by physical than any known vital laws. The further the chemistry of vegetable and animal physiology is extended, the greater becomes human power over all the phenomena of life. We have long believed, and taught, the doctrine, that defective nutrition, and most diseases, from our simple liver-complaints and chills and fever, to the yellow fever, cholera, and plague, arise from the violation of laws which chemistry would yet fully elucidate and prevent. Even scrofula and consumption are now cured by phosphate of lime (bone earth) prescribed on strictly chemical principles, or pathology. The following are cases in point: In the first number of the New Orleans Monthly Medical Register, we find an article by Professor stone, on the virtues Of 'phosphate of Lime in Scrofula and other depraved states of the System, ' which is of some moment. It was suggested by an Essa in the London Lancet, on the 'physiology and pathology of the oxalate and phosphate Of lime, an their relation to the formation of cells. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.