Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Chapter X

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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.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION ix 3. BOOK III 221 4. INTRODUCTION 5. Chapter I 6. Chapter II 7. Chapter III 8. Chapter IV 9. Chapter V 10. Chapter VI 11. Chapter VII 12. Chapter VIII 13. Chapter IX 14. Chapter X 15. Chapter XI 16. Chapter XII 17. Chapter XIII 18. Chapter XIV 19. Chapter XV 20. Chapter XVI 21. Chapter XVII 22. Chapter I 23. Chapter II 24. Chapter III 25. Chapter IV 26. Chapter V 27. Chapter VI 28. Chapter VII 29. Chapter VIII 30. Chapter IX 31. Chapter I 32. Chapter II 33. Chapter III 34. Chapter IV 35. Chapter V 36. Chapter VI 37. Chapter VII 38. Chapter VIII 39. Chapter IX 40. Chapter X 41. Chapter XI 42. Chapter XII 43. Chapter XIII 44. Chapter XIV 45. Chapter XV 46. BOOK I 47. introduction had been given to the practical parts of our teaching. 48. Introduction, p. xxvii. 49. Introduction, p. xxix. 50. BOOK II 51. BOOK II 52. Introduction, p. xxxiv. 53. Introduction, pp. xii. and xxxi. 54. BOOK III 55. BOOK III 56. Introduction, pp. xxii.-xxiii.

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