Infinitely more ingenuity did the great comic poet of antiquity display, when he selected the Scarabaeus; as the food which had already served the purposes of digestion with the Rider, was still capable of affording nutrition to the animal: [Greek: nun d'att'an autos kataphagoo ta sitia.

The continued congestion of the minute structure of the kidney cuts off the needed nutrition of the organ, and forms the primary step in the series of disasters.

But these stoic souls are good for nothing, that I know of, but, "Fixed, like a plant, to one peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

the laborious intellectual habits of this people, and their trying "text," are considered of no account,)cancer of the stomach,disease of the liver,dyspepsia,enfeebled nutrition, and consequent emaciation,dryness of the mouth,"the clergyman's sore-throat" and loss of voice,irritability of the nervous system,tremulousness,palpitation and paralysis,and, among the moral ills, loss of energy, idleness, drunkenness.

Nay, rather did I draw him forcibly into my own sphere of being and find nutrition in this novel element.

Just as taste and flavor influence nutrition by affecting the digestive process, so the agreeable odors about us, even those of the perfumes, play an important part in the economy of life.

We are ready to concede that excessive chewing and smoking, particularly if accompanied by large expectoration, may impair nutrition and cause emaciation: that the mass of mankind eat and digest and live, as well as use "the weed," is proof that its moderate employment is not ordinarily followed by this result.

Thus, step by step, the use of alcoholics impairs the functions of the blood corpuscles, perverts nutrition, and slowly poisons the blood.

It is this substance which is most frequently employed in the manufacture of the jellies supplied by the confectioner; but those prepared at home from calves' feet do possess some nutrition, and are the only sort that should be given to invalids.

In the same way alcohol hardens and toughens animal food in the stomach, condensing its fibers, and rendering it indigestible, thus preventing the healthful nutrition of the body.

But during illness and convalescence, when the waste is often much greater and the vital powers less active, it is of the utmost importance that the food should be of such a character as will supply the proper nutrition.

Do we not need, as well as wish for, a new?" "A man may doubtless so abuse and deprave his powers, that old healthy food ceases to be endurable, and yields to him no nutrition; of course he must perish," answered Bart.