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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 205

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    The Physiology Of Common Blackwood Life....

    w da ho y , dine unless late the — y at have six or been seven at — the never theatre need ht ; food or dancing again is ; until or exerting breakfast them next

    selves in Parliament ; in which cases a ligsupper requisite . " The chapter " On tlie Structure and Uses of our Blood / ' gives a

    death-blow to the numerous vendors of patent medicines for purifying * the blood : —

    of " the Many blood quacks they profess seize on to this purify notion and , and of in the sublime means ignorance by which of their the na drugs ture

    would could possibly purify readers it , at ma the ke fortunes outset , against out of this the notion credulit of y of ' purifying the public ' the . i I

    the blood or . warn ... are m It y nourished rests on a b misconception materials drawn of the from laws the of _Nutrition blood , and . b B ecause ecause , y

    that unless the gans blood point be of departure y supplied of _Nutrition , the organs was will in the decay blood , it itself has been , and supposed that the blood formed the It is not soThe aremany of them at

    leastin existence organs before . blood appears . ; and even organs afterward , s the process of blood _Isfutrition , bthe always consists not in in the the organization assimilation of of thi certain s blood materials itself . In from vain will the

    you vain from carry wi it . l y y The ou generous org carr blood ans y young ; food is always blood to a young sick to old stomach , for organs it — is — it always they cannot cannot being dig draw est renewed th their e food . youth The ; in the blood of infantand

    is great t or h g likewise ans blood is g the et o true dai f difference a ly p of older triarc disease , between h and , no different The appreciable their tissue . organs Between which difference ! That is in which can an unhealth be is found true an y of ; condition b old ut , age ,

    cannot of able those ) ; be it causes can made onl which hea y be lth b y keep rou by . ght bring up back the ing morbid to to its it a health ' action purer y , ' condition and blood ( e were se by the such not cessation obtain in the

    blood . " The chemical composition of the blood is an attempt at precise alive

    to anal the ysis difficult _highly ingenious of the attempt and suggestive andwhile . Mr presenting . Lewes is an full elaborate y

    table one " of thousand the y substances parts of which human , form blood , the / 7 immediate he is careful comp to osition impress of

    every the minds of his readersthat " our present knowledge is upon , only approximative—a rough estimate , and that off is all . _" The

    elaborate details of this table are thus happily hit : — the rushing "At great every along arteries moment in one which unint of our branch errupted lives and there throbbing branch is something like stream the , like from boug ten the h pounds s of heart a t of ree throug Blood , the h

    they to vessels the are naked becoming no more eye . , smaller and to are be and compared then smaller called in as cap siz they illaries e with subdivide ( hair hairs -like , , till than vessels they hairs are ) , are althoug invisible to be h

    compared "In this with ceaselessl cables y . -circulating ... stream forty or more different substances are hurried along : it carries gases , it carries iron salts which , it it carrie washes s metals onwards —nay , it

    be room be carries struck separated —so what from that may ; one and the be ingenious metal Prof called . extracted Berar soaps Frenchman d . used The from to the was exhibit , blood led a to lump of suggest great of it men that in ! c his oin Lest s lecture should , this can

    statement should mislead the readerI will add that the quantity of iron in perpetually the blood is being extremel renewed y small it ; affords but as , the the chemist quantity the of means blood of is large extracting , and is a

    lump of iron from it . ,

    We could multiply extract upon extract from this charming and

    Notices Of Books. 205

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 205

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/61/