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Excerpt from La Conception M�canique de la Vie
Le travail de Lavms1er et Laplace ne marque pas seulement le d�but de la biolog1e scienti fique, il atteint j usqu'au coeur du probl�me de la vie, car - il semble bien que les oxydations jouent un r�le dans tous les ph�nom�nes vitaux chez les organismes les plus �lev�s, s'ils n'en sont pas la base m�me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.