28 THE HUMAN BODY. 



plasm has been dissolved away by various reagents : it con- 

 tains a considerable quantity of phosphorus. In the living 

 nucleus nuclein seems to be combined with various proteids 

 to form nudeo-albumins. 



The Fundamental Physiological Properties. All living 

 animals possess in greater or less degree the properties con- 

 sidered in this chapter; and since the science of physiology 

 is virtually concerned with considering how these properties 

 are acquired, maintained and manifested,, and for what ends 

 they are employed, we may call them the fundamental physi- 

 ological properties. 



