Address on the Relation of Food to Its Bearing on Medical Practice Delivered Before the British Medical Association, in the Divinity School at Oxford, on the Fifth of August, 1868 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Address on the Relation of Food to Its Bearing on Medical Practice: Delivered Before the British Medical Association, in the Divinity School at Oxford, on the Fifth of August, 1868

Man, like other animals, is born, grows, comes to maturity, reproduces his like, and dies passing in his lifetime through a cycle of changes that may be compared to a secular variation, by a metaphor borrowed from the science of Astronomy, while, in his daily life, he passes through a smaller cycle of changes that may be called periodic.

From the time of the publication of Bichat's celebrated Essay on Life. And Death, it has been admitted that man and other animals possess a double life, animal and organic, presided over respectively by two distinct, though correlated centres of nervous force; of these, one thinks, moves, and feels the other merely cooks receiving the food supplied, changing and elaborating it into elements suitable for the use of the animal life. In the lower forms of animals, the organic life becomes almost coextensive with the whole being of the creature.

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