86 CHEMICAL ACTION. 



wastes away like a burning candle ; t and 

 (being reduced to air and ashes) is 

 rejected from the system as useless. 



Q, If every bone, muscle, nerve, and organ, is 

 thus consumed by combustion, why is not the BODY 

 entirely CONSUMED ? 



A. It would be so, unless the parts 

 destroyed were perpetually renewed : but 

 as a lamp will not go out, so long as it is 

 supplied with fresh oil ; neither will the 

 body be consumed, so long as it is 

 supplied with sufficient food. 



Q. When a m,an is STARVED, what parts of 

 the body go first ? 



A. First the/a, because it is the most 

 combustible; then the muscles ; last of all 

 the brain ; and then the man dies, like a 

 candle which is burnt out. 



Q. Why does WANT of sufficient NOURISHMENT 

 often produce MADNESS ? 



A. After the fat and muscles of the 

 body have been consumed by animal 

 combustion, the brain is next attacked ; 

 and (unless the patient dies) madness 

 must ensue from starvation. 



Q. Why does a man SHRINK when STARVED ? 



