The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

ions to the Philosophical Transactions, he very properly consulted that gentleman before he carried i

folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called "smoothed curves" set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissae-and things like that. You puzzle over the thing for a long time and end with the

fic reader is exhorted to stick to it for a little bit longer and everything will be as clear as daylight) Redwood began to turn out

s, sunflowers, mushrooms, bean plants, and (until his wife put a stop to it) his b

and intermissi

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t the process of growth probably demanded the presence of a considerable quantity of some necessary substance in the blood that was only formed very slowly, and that when this substance was used up by growth, it was only very slowly replaced, and that meanwhile the organism had to mark time. He compared his unknown substance to oil in machinery. A growing animal was rather like an engine, he suggested, that

e gist of it-so far as it had any gist-was that the blood of puppies and kittens and the sap of sunflowers and the juice of mushrooms in what he cal

ght probably be due to the presence of just the very substance he had recently been trying to isolate in his researches upon such alkaloids as are most stimulating to the nervous system

said Mr.

ll its diagrams in a dispersed and crumpled state, on the floor. "By Jove!" said Mr. Bensington, straining his stomach over the arm-chair with a patient disregard of the habits of this

or administering this new substance of his in food, he would do away w

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