Muscular Work

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Excerpt from Muscular Work: A Metabolic Study With Special Reference to the Efficiency of the Human Body as a Machine Prior to the time of Lavoisier, the conceptions of the physical and physi ological processes as related to the chemistry of the human body were so devoid of scientific foundation that they can have now but little value except as an historic record of the trend of scientific thought at that time. With the advent of Lavoisier and his contemporaries, physiological and chemical research began to take a definite form which gradually led to the unfolding of natural laws and to the explanation of the phenomena of muscular action and of the transformations in the human body and their intimate relationships. 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.