 | Agriculture - 1845 - 1254 pages
...digestive process on the unazotised constituents of the food, and is formed in consequence of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the skin and lungs. The chief source of fat is starch and sugar ; and its composition is such, that if... | |
 | JOHN FORBES, EDITOR - 1842 - 632 pages
...evident that the formation of fat is" the result of a want of due proportion between the food swallowed and the oxygen absorbed by the lungs and skin. A pig when fed with highly azotized food increases in flesh, but when fed with potatoes it becomes fat. From these and... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - Agricultural chemistry - 1843 - 260 pages
...disappears. It is evident, therefore, that the formation of fat in the animal body is the result of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the lungs and the skin. A pig, when fed with highly nitrogenized food, becomes full of flesh ; when fed with potatoes... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1843 - 68 pages
..." It is evident, therefore, that the formation of fat in the animal body is the result of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the lungs and the skin." Thus, on tho principles of Liebig, FATNESS INDICATES A PRIOR DISTURBANCE OF THE BALANCE... | |
 | Veterinary medicine - 1845 - 492 pages
...Again, he says, " It is evident that the formation of fat in the animal body is the result of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the lungs and skin." This has led him to divide all alimentary substances into two classes, under the heads of Elements... | |
 | Collective settlements - 1845 - 352 pages
...disappears. It is evident, therefore, that the formation of fat in the animal body is the result of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the lungs and the skin. — Liebig's Animal Chemistry. CONCORDIUM REPORT. IN our last report we gave an outline of... | |
 | john murray - 1845 - 722 pages
...digestive process on the unazotised constituents of the food, and is formed in consequence of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the skin and lungs. The chief source of fat is starch and sugar, and its composition is such, that if deprived... | |
 | Agriculture - 1863 - 636 pages
...unites with the carbon contained in the food furnished to the animal, carbonic-acid is the result ; and the union is distinguished also by the production...indicate a truly healthy and vigorous state of the animal body.* What I now urge upon the notice of those raising cattle is this : bulls and heifers, when young,... | |
 | The Farmer's Magazine - 1845 - 620 pages
...digestive process on the unazotised constituents of the food, and is formed in consequence of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the skin and lungs. The chief source of fat is starch and sugar ; and its composition is such, that if... | |
 | 1844 - 772 pages
...digestive process on the unazotised constituents of the food, and is formed in consequence of a want of due proportion between the food taken into the stomach and the oxygen absorbed by the skin and lungs. The chief source of fat is starch and sugar, and its composition is such, that if deprived... | |
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... straw and turnips, is exceedingly small; indeed, the turnip does not contain any, and yet animals under such a diet will speedily fatten. The fat, then, is the product of a peculiar digestive process on the unazotised constituents of the food, and... 