Chapter X

Nutrition not a simple process. (1) Need of subsidiary

organs for the various stages of alteration, _e.g._, of

bread into blood, of that into bone, etc. (2) Need also

of organs for excreting the non-utilizable portions of

the food, _e.g._, much vegetable matter is superfluous.

(3) Need of organs of a third kind, for distributing the

pabulum through the body.

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