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approaches true, i.e., crystalloid solutions. As Dr. Leiser tells 

 us, these emulsoids are " unbegrenzt haltbar," i.e., possess 

 unlimited durability, the artificial or suspensoid (suspension) 

 colloids being far more perishable; and they show at 

 least some osmotic pressure and extreme minuteness of 

 particles (which again differentiates them, rather in favour of 

 crystallinity, from the group of suspensoids or " lyophobe " 

 colloids). The emulsoids are more particularly the colloids 

 organised by nature; frequently, as exemplified most 

 prominently by the case of the " love-foods," specially so for 

 food purposes. Significantly the alternative name for these 

 durable and soluble (i.e., hydrophil) emulsoids is " lyophil," 

 i.e., solution-loving, which epithet by more than a mere 

 coincidence at once suggests the connection with " love-foods." 

 And thus we see again that it is precisely (symbiotic) cross- 

 feeding (by securing "love-foods") that generally and 

 generously satisfies the highest desiderata as regards the pro- 

 gressive stimulation of the senses of taste and of smell. 



No other material provides lyophil ("solution-loving") 

 emulsion colloids in such ideal reciprocity, ideal purity, 

 ideal stability, ideal composition and ideal association with 

 the crystalloid world as the seeds of plants and in general the 

 "love-store" of plants. None other but the plant provides, 

 along with the most appropriate sweet-smelling and sweet- 

 tasting substances, also those liquids (plant-acids) most 

 calculated to ensure the proper composition and equilibrium 

 of the fluids of the body on which much depends in animal 

 physiology. Acetates, tartrates and citrates, for instance, are 

 of great therapeutic use. They play a great role in combating 

 the formation of oedema, and are at all times of the utmost 

 importance as regulators of the circulation. The plant not 

 only provides "natural" foods, but also "natural" medicine. 



It now appears that the forces which contend against 

 bacterial invasions (antibodies) reside not so much in the serum 

 of the blood as in the red corpuscles themselves, and require 

 for their full development a separation and ionisation of these 



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