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Excerpt from The Laws of Nature and Man's Power to Make Them Subservient to His Wishes
How we Breathe, What we Breathe, What we Drink, What we Eat, etc. Each volume will be a short, clear, and popular description of the subject from a scientific standpoint and brought down to the present day by the application of the facts and truths revealed by science. 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.