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PLAYFAIR, LYON, On the Food of Man in relation to his useful work, Edinburgh, 1865. Proc. Roy. Inst., Apr. 28, 1865.

RANKE, Tetanus eine Physiologische Studie, Leipzig, 1865.

ODLING, op. cit.

Footnote 25:

VOIT, E., Untersuchungen über den Einfluss des Kochsalzes, des Kaffees, und der Muskelbewegungen auf den Stoffwechsel, Munich, 1860.

SMITH, E., Philosophical Transactions, 1861, 747.

FICK, A., and WISLICENUS, J., Phil. Mag., IV, xxxi, 485.

FRANKLAND, E., loc. cit.

NOYES, T. R., American Journal Medical Sciences, Oct. 1867.

PARKES, E. A., Proceedings Royal Society, xv, 339; xvi, 44.

Footnote 26:

SMITH, EDWARD, Philosophical Transactions, 1859, 709.

Footnote 27:

Authorities differ as to the amount of energy converted by the steam-engine. (See Note 16.) Compare MARSHALL, op. cit., p. 918. “Whilst, therefore, in an engine one-twentieth part only of the fuel consumed is utilized as mechanical power, one-fifth of the food absorbed by man is so appropriated.”

Footnote 28:

HEIDENHAIN, Mechanische Leistung Wärmeentwickelung und Stoffumsatz bei der Muskelthätigkeit, Breslau, 1864.

See also HAUGHTON, SAMUEL, On the Relation of Food to work, published in “Medicine in Modern Times,” London, 1869, Macmillan & Co.

Footnote 29:

HEIDENHAIN, op. cit. Also by FICK, Untersuchungen über Muskel-arbeit, Basel, 1867. Compare also “Nature,” i, 159, Dec. 9, 1869.

Footnote 30:

DU BOIS-REYMOND, EMIL, On the time required for the transmission of volition and sensation through the nerves, Proc. Roy. Inst. Also in Appendix to Bence Jones’s Croonian lectures.

Footnote 31:

MARSHALL, op. cit., p. 227.

Footnote 32:

MELLONI, Ann. Ch. Phys., xlviii, 198.

See also NOBILI, Bibl. Univ., xliv, 225, 1830; lvii, 1, 1834.

Footnote 33:

The apparatus employed is illustrated and fully described in Brown-Sequard’s Archives de Physiologie, i, 498, June, 1868. By it the 1-4000th of a degree Centigrade may be indicated.