DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF 

 NUTRITION AND HEREDITY 



CHAPTEE I 



THE ACTIVE FORCES OF LIVING ORGANISMS 



The invisible factor — Vortex atoms — Queries and guesses — The 

 omnipresence of matter — Matter is essential to conduction 

 — Attraction and repulsion are essential to rigidity — The 

 conducting medium in gravity — The vibration of atoms — 

 The ether permeates all matter — The reaction of atoms on 

 the ether as a possible cause of electrical potential — The 

 ether as a transmitting medium in vegetal reproduction — 

 Properties of the ether — Tension of the ether as a factor in 

 electrical conduction — Ether or light substance as the trans- 

 mitting medium of light — Vision an ether sense — The effect 

 of colours on the emotions — The two scales — The cell and the 

 nucleus — The cause of the nucleus in the blood corpuscles 

 of birds and reptiles — Nuclein, protagon and lecithin — The 

 relatively small amount of oxygen in the cerebral com- 

 pounds determines the nature of their metabolism — The 

 cerebral circulation — The effect of some drugs on oxidation 

 — Alcohol — Strychnine — Dynamic effects — Physiological 

 antagonism — Action and reaction — The apparent effect of 

 drugs on the gray matter — The nature of physiological 

 reaction — Some factors in metabolism — ^The selection of 

 materials by the tissues — The degree of oxidation going 

 on chiefly determines the nature of the compounds — The 



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