Class-book of physiology : for the use of schools and families : comprising the structure and functions of the organs of man, illustrated by comparative reference to those of inferior animals . v. <t Wi. OF ANIMAL BODIES. 19 CHAPTER II. STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF ANIMAL BODIES. 21. The component substances of animal bodies may bedivided into fluids and solids: 22. The fluids are found mostly in the form of chyme,chyle, lymph, and blood. About thirty pounds of fluidcan be drawn directly from a man who weighs one hun-dred and fifty pounds. By exposure to a process of evap-oration, the body
Class-book of physiology : for the use of schools and families : comprising the structure and functions of the organs of man, illustrated by comparative reference to those of inferior animals . v. <t Wi. OF ANIMAL BODIES. 19 CHAPTER II. STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF ANIMAL BODIES. 21. The component substances of animal bodies may bedivided into fluids and solids: 22. The fluids are found mostly in the form of chyme,chyle, lymph, and blood. About thirty pounds of fluidcan be drawn directly from a man who weighs one hun-dred and fifty pounds. By exposure to a process of evap-oration, the body may then be- reduced to twelve or dry mummies are sometimes found to weighonly seven or eight. Hence the fluids may be said toconstitute by far the largest proportion of the body. 23. The fluids vary exceedingly at different periods oflife. In youth, they are very abundant, making the formplump and round. In old age, they are greatly dimin-ished, leaving the form shrunken and wrinkled. 24. The fluids contain in solution the materials for theformation of the solid tissues, and are also the mediumthrough which all the waste particles are carried out ofthe system. The fluids and solid
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