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and wine as "respiratory foods/' It is, therefore, evident, that to make the above statement accurately express LIEBIG'S blade is more nutritious than five (Bavarian) quarts of the from LIEBIG in an article on the Significance of Alcohol as view, it should be altered so as to read "contains more ni- trogenous nutriment than eight quarts," etc. Taken by it- best Bavarian beer. A man who should be in condition to under favorable circumstances, exactly as much nutritive *Italics are mine. "As much flour as can be held on the point of a knife- material as in a five-pound loaf of bread or in three pounds A calculation based on the combustion warmth of starch however, in writing the above paragraph, is shown by the Food in the Archiv fur Hygiene, 1899, Vol. xxxvi, pp. 2, 3, R. O. NEUMANN calls attention to the above quotation later investigations. That LIEBIG clearly had it in mind, of meat." fact that he elsewhere mentions specifically alcohol, beer, he attached the greater physiological importance, believing self, it entirely misrepresents Liebig's position* heat. This distinction cannot be maintained in the light of while the latter group served for the production of animal them to be the sole source of mechanical energy of the body, 44 drink daily five quarts of beer would thus have in a year, He gives the quotation in more detail as follows : Misrepresents Liebig's View.

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