Human physiology (Volume 2) . » Dr. Luigi Calori, in Bulletino dello Scienze Medich. di Bologna, Sett. 1836,p. 152. b Phiiosoph. Transact, for 1818 ; and Sir E. Homes Lectures on Comparative Ana-tomy, vol. iii. lect. 3, Lond. 1823. 178 NUTRITION. animal differs, as we have seen, from the vegetable, in composi-tion ; and this difference must exist not only in the whole, but inits parts; so that, even were it demonstrated, that the globules ofthe beings of the two kingdoms are alike in size, it would by nomeans follow, that they should be identical in intimate compo-sition. The discordance which
Human physiology (Volume 2) . » Dr. Luigi Calori, in Bulletino dello Scienze Medich. di Bologna, Sett. 1836,p. 152. b Phiiosoph. Transact, for 1818 ; and Sir E. Homes Lectures on Comparative Ana-tomy, vol. iii. lect. 3, Lond. 1823. 178 NUTRITION. animal differs, as we have seen, from the vegetable, in composi-tion ; and this difference must exist not only in the whole, but inits parts; so that, even were it demonstrated, that the globules ofthe beings of the two kingdoms are alike in size, it would by nomeans follow, that they should be identical in intimate compo-sition. The discordance which we have deplored, is strikingly applica-ble to the case before us. The appearance of the memoir of excited the attention of Dutrochet, and in the followingyear his Researches on the same subject were published, inwhich he asserts, that the globules, which compose the differentstructures of the invertebrated animals, are considerably largerthan those of the vertebrated ; that the former appear to consist ofcells,
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