Excerpt from The Story of the Wanderings of Atoms: Especially Those of Carbon Agriculture is very closely connected with the selection and application of those kinds Of food which certain classes of plants are able to assimi late rapidly, and to transmute into compounds which, in their turn, form the basis of foods for animals and human beings. There are departments of preventive medicine which primarily depend on the formation of mixtures of compounds wherein certain minute organisms ourish, which organisms when ...
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Excerpt from The Story of the Wanderings of Atoms: Especially Those of Carbon Agriculture is very closely connected with the selection and application of those kinds Of food which certain classes of plants are able to assimi late rapidly, and to transmute into compounds which, in their turn, form the basis of foods for animals and human beings. There are departments of preventive medicine which primarily depend on the formation of mixtures of compounds wherein certain minute organisms ourish, which organisms when injected into a human being, or an animal, cause changes such that the living being becomes immune, or partially immune, to the attacks of certain diseases. When an animal, or a plant, dies, changes in the arrangements and combinations Of the elements continue many of the com pounds that are formed are harmful to living human beings, and some of these compounds are deadly poisons. But there are minute living organisms that feed upon these harmful, or deadly compounds, and produce other colloca tions of elements which are devoid of ill effects on human beings. For instance, there are bacteria which feed on the compounds contained in sewage, destroying thereby the Obnoxious sub stances in the sewage, and producing compounds which are perfectly harmless.12 the story OF the wanderings or atoms. And finally, the chemist in his laboratory brings about rearrangements Of the elements whereof compounds formed in living organisms are composed, and thus produces a great array of new bodies, many of which find important applications in manufactures or in medicine. In this volume I shall attempt to draw the outlines of the chemical story of some of the compounds formed in living organisms, and of other compounds allied to these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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