AND ITS RELATION TO ANIMAL LIFE 55 



In Medical Tracts, on pages 16, 17 and 19, 

 Dr. Kirkby says " We conclude that there- 

 fore dephosphorized blood is incapable of 

 supporting the nutrition of the cerebrospinal 

 centres, and that functional disorders fre- 

 quently result." He also says : " No doubt 

 it has become deficient in the system from an 

 insufficient supply of the element in the animal 

 and vegetable substances taken as food." 



In Medical Dictionary, by Gould, the author 

 says : " Phosphorus in form of phosphoric acid, 

 combined with calcium, forms a high percent- 

 age of bone, being an essential element in bone, 

 brain, and nerve tissues." 



If there were sufficient acid in the bone to 

 make it hard, it would be likely that there would 

 be sufficient acid in the lungs to give an acid 

 reaction. Again, fatty degeneration is recog- 

 nized as due to a deficiency of oxygen. This 

 deficiency, I think I have made clear, is due to 

 a defective haemoglobin, and other degenera- 

 tions may be due to a simple or complex 

 degeneration as in the case of cancer, where I 

 am satisfied there is a deficiency of haemo- 

 globin and phosphoric acid, while insanity and 

 phthisis are deficient in the same. 



