Strictly speaking, every poison consisting of assimilable elements may be considered as unwholesome food.
There is, of course, less prima facie objection to those agents which consist of assimilable elements, such as are found making a part of healthy tissues.
A medicine consisting of assimilable substances being then simply unwholesome food, we understand what is meant by those cumulative effects of such remedies often observed, as in the case of digitalis and strychnia.
This is a striking illustration of the difficulty which the system finds in dealing with non-assimilable elements, and justifies in some measure the vulgar prejudice against mineral poisons.
And, secondly, there has hitherto existed in the States no organization for and no tradition of what one may call non-assimilable possessions.
There was thus a great amount of easily assimilable material ready at hand for Islam.
But before Alexander was dead, and much more after he was dead and there had been time to think him over, the conception of a world law and organization was a practicable and assimilable idea for the minds of men.
The asserted efficacy of Supsalvs medication is based in part on the claim that for these suppositories an excipient was found which mixes with the cocoa butter base “to form an assimilable emulsion.
Nuts should be flaked in a nut-mill to aid digestion; cheese can also be made more easily assimilable in this way (or by cooking).
Spinach= contains a considerable quantity of iron in a readily assimilable form, and is, therefore, good for anaemic persons.
To be obtained from all starch foods, but most easily and in the best and most readily assimilable form from sweet fruits and honey.
Even to-day nearly one-half of our population is of the old blood, while many millions of the immigrant stock are sound in quality and assimilable in kind.
Anything that assimilates with one explanation, must have assimilable relations, to some degree, with all other explanations, if all explanations are somewhere continuous.
Still more easily assimilable is the peptonized milk, in which the casein is at least partially digested, and it should be employed where there is any {220} difficulty in the way of using the ordinary milks.
Although a starch, it is one of the assimilable ones alluded to, of which small quantities at least may be taken as food without appearing in the urine as sugar.
The nitrogen of the testa, or covering of the seeds, will hardly be so assimilable as that which exists in their cotyledons.
It is remarkable that the most abundant constituents of atmospheric air--oxygen and nitrogen--are not assimilable by plants, although these elements enter largely into the composition of vegetable substances.
In the healthy digestive organs a pound weight of (dry) food of inferior flavor and slow digestibility will be just as useful as the same weight of well-flavored and easily assimilable aliment, provided all other conditions be alike.
If they were an assimilable race, and in the course of a few generations were to blend their racial identity with the American blood, California would have no reason to oppose their progress in agriculture.
It contains large amounts of highly-assimilable protein due to it's high chlorophyll content, as well as a large amount of beta carotene.
It is possible to fast even a very slim a person for quite a bit longer than a month when their body is receiving easily assimilable vitamins and minerals and small amounts of sugars or other simple carbohydrates.
But brewers yeast is cooked and the proteins it contains are not nearly as assimilable as those in raw yeast.
But plants can assimilate them from the earth and organize them in such form as to make them easily assimilable by animals and man.
As natural remedies, only those may be included which stand as vital conditions in constant relation to the organism, assimilable thereby.
It is the most delicate and at the same time the most digestible and assimilable cell-food obtainable.
Hundreds of patients are today cured by my method of supplying this lacking constituent in a form assimilable to even the smallest infant.
Our foodstuffs, therefore, must contain the material in a digestible, assimilable form, thus to prevent inanition of the cells, otherwise degeneration of the cartilage tissue must follow.
This law discovered by Engelmann, requires that these cell-foods must be administered in digestible and assimilable forms so that the cells will be attracted by the chemical reaction, which may be of a positive or a negative character.
To make the whole product as digestible and assimilable as possible, I use the best material known, that is, Taka and Malt diastase.
All minerals contained therein are organized and in a perfectly digestible and assimilable form.
Organic, easily assimilable Nerve-tonic and Sedative; without the deleterious effect on the blood common to the inorganic bromides.
The store of nitrogen in the atmosphere is practically unlimited, but it is fixed and rendered assimilable only by cosmic processes of extreme slowness.
They assist in the fixation of free nitrogen, and they build up assimilable compounds.
It is not recommended as a caloric or heat producer, but as a food-tonic supplying the essential elements of tissue construction and cell-repair in easily and perfectly assimilable form.
There never was any scientific evidence to support the view that petroleum and its derivatives are assimilable by the animal organism.
It carries the hemoglobin to the blood in its most easily assimilable form and its hydrocyanic acid possesses remarkable sedative powers.
Phospho-Vanadiol, a combination of Vanadiol with an easily assimilable organic phosphorus, is an active accelerator of general nutrition with a special action on the nervous system.
For a long time cod liver oil has been recognized as an easily assimilable nutrient and reconstructive and of special value in wasting diseases.
Most pharmacologists believe that whatever virtue there is in cod-liver oil depends on its qualities as an easily assimilable fat.
It is urged in justification of the use of preparations of this class that they contain constituents not found in our ordinary foods and in a more perfectly assimilable condition.
Stated concretely, this means that the adoption of Western methods by Japan has in two generations so changed the Japanese racial characteristics as to make them readily assimilable with Europeans, so as to be easily absorbed.
But each nation, whenever non-whites appear to endanger the success of white local self-government, are able to exclude from the privilege of the franchise any non-assimilable inhabitants.
In such cases the mineral elements must be provided in the most easily assimilable form in vegetable extracts (which should be prepared fresh every day), and in the vitochemical remedies.
The nitric ferment exists in all soils and in all latitudes, and converts the ammoniacal matters carried along by the rain into nitrates of a form most assimilable by plants.
Such action and such consequent solution of the tin, and consequent admixture of a possibly assimilable compound of tin with the food, in my opinion never occurs to an extent which in relation to health has any significance whatever.
It contains its nitrogen in the most valuable and readily assimilable form--i.
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