Show S TO LIFE important role played by so called inorganic substances that the minute traces of metallic substances found in living bodies are not accidental but essential to the performance of the functions of life Is by a french lie goos so far as to say that zoology and botany are but chapter of mineralogy so important Is the played in organic life by these so called inorganic substances lor instance all the phenomena 0 movement in an anicat are be as aerts due to oxidation As to autri alin it la impossible he saye when the food Is deprived of its mineral elements doga fed on substances from which the salt and other inor ganic matter hag been carefully removed die of starvation at the hot torn of our vital processes asserts thie writer are fermentation and exida alon or their analogues and these depend the presence of certain min eral bodies in the tissues even the role of pepsin in digestion seems to depend on the of iron in short the organic substances on which life depends are he says pre pared in inorganic workshops mineral reagents and thus a living being h practically a member of the mineral 1 success |