Show MINERALS ESSENTIAL TO LIFE important rolo role played by so called inorganic substances I 1 that the minute traces of 0 metallic substances es found in living bodies are not no accidental but essential to the performance ancor 0 of the functions ot of life Is assorted asserted by horrors herrera a french bl ile he goes so BO far as to say that zoology and botany are but chapters of mineralogy so important ts Is the role played in organic life by these so called inorganic substances por for instance all the phenomena of movement lu in an animal are ho he asserts due to oxidation As to nutrition it Is impossible ho be says bays when the be food Is deprived ot of its mineral elements dogs fed on substances from which the salt and other inorganic matter has been carefully removed die of st starvation at the hot bot tout tom iiii ui of our vital processes asserts this iiii ui processes asserts this writer are fermentation and oxidation or their analogues analogies anal and these depend on the presence pre tence ot of certain min oral eral bodies to in the tissues even the role ol of pepsin in digestion seems to depend on the presence of 0 iron iron in in short tile the organic substances a aces ov on which me life depends aro are lie be eab prepared in inorganic workshops with mineral reagents and thus a living being la Is practically a member of 0 the mineral kingdom success |