Excerpt from The School Physiology Journal, Vol. 8: September, 1898
What a strange food, when its advocates admit that at a time when food is most needed to repair, waste of tissue and expenditure of energy, alcohol conspicuously fails to be a food at all; and that then moreover, experience proves it to be injurious.
This reminds us of the story of the bibulous Englishman who once asked the great chemist and physician, Sir Benjamin W. Richardson.
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English
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212
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Paperback
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January 29, 2024
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The School Physiology Journal, Vol. 8: September, 1898 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The School Physiology Journal, Vol. 8: September, 1898
What a strange food, when its advocates admit that at a time when food is most needed to repair, waste of tissue and expenditure of energy, alcohol conspicuously fails to be a food at all; and that then moreover, experience proves it to be injurious.
This reminds us of the story of the bibulous Englishman who once asked the great chemist and physician, Sir Benjamin W. Richardson.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.