Usage examples for metabolic
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“
Yet,
when
the
time
comes
for
the
internal
secretion
of
the
thyroid
to
put
in
its
oar
in
the
metabolic
game,
its
presence
or
absence
makes
all
the
difference
in
the
world
to
the
individual.
”
– The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman, M.D.
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“
The
result
would
be
a
metabolic
explosion.
”
– Bolden's Pets by F. L. Wallace
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“
Observations
by
Wiley
in
1908
upon
so-
called "
poison
squads"
were
thought
by
him
to
indicate
that
benzoate
of
soda
administered
with
food
led
to "
a
very
serious
disturbance
of
the
metabolic
functions,
attended
with
injury
to
digestion
and
health."
”
– Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan
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“
As
the
child
grows,
its
metabolic
waste
matter
is
greatly
increased,
while
all
these
poisonous
substances
must
finally
be
eliminated
by
the
mother.
”
– The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler
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“
For
the
same
reason,
he
needed
no
chairs,
and,
since
true
sleep
was
a
form
of
metabolic
rest
he
evidently
found
unnecessary,
he
needed
no
bed.
”
– Anything You Can Do ... by Gordon Randall Garrett
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“
As
we
have
suggested,
the
disturbance
of
metabolism
due
to
the
failure
to
use
sugar
properly
in
the
system
and
to
its
consequent
elimination,
corresponds
in
some,
as
yet
not
well
understood,
way
to
the
other
metabolic
disturbance
by
which
unnecessary
fat
is
accumulated
in
the
system.
”
– Psychotherapy by James J. Walsh
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“
It
is
also
supposed
that
the
metabolic
changes
consist
of
two
phases,
the
upward,
constructive,
or
anabolic
phase,
and
the
downward,
destructive,
or
katabolic
phase.
”
– Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chunder Bose
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“
In
others
toxic
effects,
in
the
form
of
cardiac,
nervous,
muscular,
and
general
metabolic
disturbances,
predominate,
and
are
due
to
absorption
of
excessive
or
abnormal
thyreoid
secretion.
”
– Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
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“
They
have
a
very
low
metabolic
rate
and
thus
need
to
hunt
only
every
few
days.
”
– Free from School by Rahul Alvares
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“
The
older
man
was
by
far
the
better
observer,
and
I
hope
that
you
shall
not
forget
in
the
time
to
come
that
there
are
many
things
that
affect
men
and
women
besides
bacteria
and
auto-
intoxications
of
various
kinds
and
metabolic
disturbances
and
nutritional
changes.
”
– Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
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“
Now
it
is
obvious
that
in
breeding
sour
limes
and
sweet
oranges
the
cultivator
is
selecting,
and
intensifying
by
selection,
very
different
metabolic
processes
in
the
cell:
he
can
test
the
results
of
these,
and
so
the
selection
proceeds.
”
– Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
-
“
The
internal
secretions
constitute
and
determine
much
of
the
inherited
powers
of
the
individual
and
their
development
They
control
physical
and
mental
growth
and
all
the
metabolic
processes
of
fundamental
importance.
”
– The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman, M.D.
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“
The
truth
is
that
meat
or
fish
frozen
is
eaten
raw
without
any
distaste,
the
freezing
exerting
on
the
tissues
a
metabolic
change
similar
to
that
effected
by
cooking;
and
it
is
convincingly
true
that
bad
fish
is
ever
so
much
better
frozen
than
cooked.
”
– The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
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“
Low-
slung
as
he
was,
the
Nipe
needed
no
tables
for
his
work,
and
sleeping
was
a
form
of
metabolic
rest
that
he
evidently
found
unnecessary,
although
he
would
sometimes
just
remain
quiet
for
periods
of
time
ranging
from
a
few
minutes
to
a
couple
of
hours.
”
– Anything You Can Do by Gordon Randall Garrett
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“
The
literature
is
singularly
lacking
in
detailed
metabolic
analyses
of
excreta
of
animals
during
vitamine
stimulation
and
we
know
nothing
of
the
possibilities
of
overdosage,
for
in
all
the
work
done
it
has
been
generally
assumed
that
the
presence
of
an
amount
greater
than
that
necessary
to
produce
normal
growth
is
not
material.
”
– The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy
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“
It
is
apparently
effective
only
on
the
family
Gramineae,
producing
a
constitutional
metabolic
change.
”
– Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
