ON CIRCULATION AND NUTRITION 181 



In conclusion, nutrition may, strictly speaking, and in a 

 word, be described as, the central circulatory act of disposal, 

 in the cycle of circulatory acts of disposal of the elaborated 

 organic plasma, or protoplasm, in its atomic units, to suit 

 the atomic needs of the tissues, and to maintain their 

 functional powers at a normal level, while, simultaneously, 

 clearing them from the presence of their effete, and hence 

 toxic, residual materials : if therefore, nutrition be properly 

 effected, it must follow, that every other vital process must 

 be performed in accordance with the claims of physiological 

 health. 



