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journal, to which ho was a iTequeiit contributor. His published 

 writinos are numerous and cover a wide range of topics. Many of 

 them, notably the reports of experiments made with the respiration 

 apparatus, have long been accepted as classics. In his Handbook of 

 Physiology of General ISfetabolism and Nutrition, published in Leip- 

 sic in 1<S81, much of his earlier work is summarized and his theories 

 expounded. It would be ditHcult to overestimate the influence of this 

 volume on modern physiological thought. 



Prof. Graham Lusk, a pupil of Voit, says of him and his work: 

 " Voit was honored as among the highest in his own land, but he 

 woidd have been a great man in any country. He was one of those 

 sj)irits whose lives are the heritage of mankind. It only requires 

 knowledge of his work to realize that his fame will grow greater as 

 the years pass by." 



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