 Our clothing is merely an equivalent for a certain amount of food. The more warmly we are clothed, the less urgent becomes the appetite for food, because the loss of heat by cooling, and consequently the amount of heat to be supplied by the food, is diminished.  Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings - Page 971843Full view - About this book
 | Agriculture - 1846 - 618 pages
...is in fact an equivalent for food. The more warmly we are clad, the less urgent becomes our demand for food ; because, the loss of heat by cooling, and...consequently the amount of heat to be supplied by the fuel or food, is diminished Two forces exist in connection with animal life — the one, vitality,... | |
 | Medicine - 1842 - 1106 pages
...its action, while, in hot climates, the necessity of labor to provide food is far less urgent. "Our clothing is merely an equivalent for a certain amount...of heat to be supplied by the food, is diminished." According to this view of the case, the quantity of food required by the system bears an exact ratio... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - Biochemistry - 1842 - 598 pages
...its action, while, in hot climates, the necessity of labor to provide food is far less urgent. Our clothing is merely an equivalent for a certain amount...because the loss of heat by cooling, and consequently die amount of heat to be supplied by the food, is diminished. If we were to go naked, like certain... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1842 - 508 pages
...fuel according to the external temperature, i. <?., according to the supply of oxygen. Our clothing is an equivalent for a certain amount of food. The more warmly we are clothed, the less food is required, because the loss of heat hy cooling, and consequently the amount of heat to be supplied... | |
 | Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...clothing is merely equivalent for a certain amount of : tents, or in pits dug in the ground. ": "-" food. The more warmly we are clothed, the less urgent...heat to be supplied by the food, is diminished. If Miserable is the state of those travellers who are surprised hy such a wind at a distance from any... | |
 | James Wilson (M.D., of Malvern.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...its action, while, in hot climates, the necessity of labour to provide food is far less urgent. " Our clothing is merely an equivalent for a certain amount of food. The more warmly we are clad, the less urgent becomes the appetite for food, because the loss of heat by cooling, and consequently... | |
 | Abraham Courtney - Hydrotherapy - 1844 - 80 pages
...by the highest authorities, but from its consonance with experience. "Our clothing" says Liebig, " is merely an equivalent for a certain amount of food. The more warmly we are clad, the less urgent becomes the appetite for food ; because the loss of heat by cooling, and consequently... | |
 | Martyn Paine - Diseases - 1847 - 852 pages
...carefully considered, before they are admitted as appendages to the general law ; namely, 11. "Our clothing is merely an equivalent for a certain amount...of heat to be supplied by the food, is diminished" (no. 9, and 12, and § 442 a,c). Here our author predicates two important errors of the hypothesis... | |
 | Agriculture - 1847 - 820 pages
...is in fact an equivalent for food. The more Tarnily we are clad, the legs urgent becomes our demand for food ; because, the loss of heat by cooling, and...consequently the amount of heat to be supplied by the fuel or food, is diminished. Two force« exist in connection with animal life — the one, vitality,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1847 - 392 pages
...of food." In other words, if we keep ourselves comfortable and warm, we cannot eat so much, because the amount of heat to be supplied by the food is diminished. These observations are as applicable to domestic animals as to ourselves, and they teach the fanner... | |
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