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Liebig which, as the anti-drink "fans" claim, "has never such, at best, transiently even in the restricted sense clusion that alcohol in its value as a respiratory food, stands food par excellence. When Liebig spoke of food, that leads NEUMANN to the conclusion that, in this estimate of Liebig realized how his statement could be miscon- been refuted." the nutritive value of beer, Liebig has committed an error 45 It should be added that the fats are held to be the results of his experiments in metabolism, reached the con- nearest to the fats. He notes, however, that, seven years later, LIEBIG, as the I can remember well enough that, when I was a idea prevailing among athletes and their trainers to- day, who, in order to build up musclej insist on eating actually considered as "food," and we find a similar is what he meant. of over 8,000 per cent. strued, and hence it was omitted from later editions. It is, therefore, not Liebig' s opinion at all, or was This is all that remains of the famous quotation from boy, nitrogenous or plastic food was the only kind It is further probable from the above quotation that greatest producers of energy, standing higher than the which it properly bears. enormous proportions of meat. Nitrogenous food was

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