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and nerve poison. If used in very small quantities it may 

 yield heat and energy but whatever value it might have in 

 this respect is usually quite nullified by its poisoning action. 

 For this reason it cannot be classed with fatty and carbo- 

 hydrate foods, and still less with proteid foods. The state- 

 ment sometimes made that it is "liquid bread " is absolutely 

 false and misleading. 



