. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . WatentFrotein:0, ^ Carbo- Carbo- hydrates :8£.8 CALORJE5 PER POUND 1520 Fuel valueT^3^-* CALORIES PER POUND Fig. 181. The plan of eating fruit, especially in winter, is still nearer to fruit and vegetables in August is better than taking aloes inDecember, TOXINS IN FOODS 489 TOXINS IN FOODS Scientists have extracted toxins from many different plants. Fromthe castor bean, the source of castor oil, ricin, a violent irritant, has beenobtained. But for this, castor oil would be a bland food like olive oilrather than the purgat
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . WatentFrotein:0, ^ Carbo- Carbo- hydrates :8£.8 CALORJE5 PER POUND 1520 Fuel valueT^3^-* CALORIES PER POUND Fig. 181. The plan of eating fruit, especially in winter, is still nearer to fruit and vegetables in August is better than taking aloes inDecember, TOXINS IN FOODS 489 TOXINS IN FOODS Scientists have extracted toxins from many different plants. Fromthe castor bean, the source of castor oil, ricin, a violent irritant, has beenobtained. But for this, castor oil would be a bland food like olive oilrather than the purgative it is. From Croton oil, crotin is had; from mush-rooms, phallin. Furthermore, scientists, proceeding as they do in makingtetanus and diphtheria antitoxins, have made an antitoxin to cure castoroil poisoning, and another to cure mushroom poisoning. To those who decry antitoxins, saying that they are fantastic conceptionssince, as bacteria are the products of overheated imaginations, and toxinsare the imaginary products of imaginary bacteria, antitoxins are theimaginary products of the stimulation
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