 Foster expresses substantially the same conception in defining living substance as "not a thing or body of a particular chemical composition, but matter undergoing a series of changes." These definitions fairly represent our present knowledge of vital...  Proceedings - Page 206by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892Full view - About this book
 | 1891 - 460 pages
...transformations that characterize other living substances. Herbert Spencer defines life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations...condition of life in all tissues and elements of the body. As living matter the germ plasma must be continually undergoing metabolic changes in adjusting its... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 516 pages
...as a physiological factor of the first importance, but we are not warranted in assuming that it ls exempt from the metabolic transformations that character!...condition of life in all tissues and elements of the body. As living matter, the germ plasma must be continually undergoing metabolic changes in adjusting its... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...are not warranted in assuming that it is exempt from the metabolic transformations that characterize other living substances. Herbert Spencer defines life...condition of life in all tissues and elements of the body. As living matter, the germ plasma must be continually undergoing metabolic changes in adjusting its... | |
 | 1892 - 1158 pages
...transformations that characterize other living substances. Herbert Spencer defines life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations..."simultaneous and successive" phases of anabolic and katabolie transformations of matter and energy, is admitted to be an essential condition of life in... | |
 | 1892 - 994 pages
...of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase, " living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent in fact... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science (U.S.) - 1890 - 698 pages
...operation of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase, "living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent, in... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1889 - 528 pages
...though for convenience sake we use the phrase ' living substance,' what is really meant by the words is not a thing or body of a particular chemical composition but matter undergoing a series of changes. § 542. Since the several tissues originate through a differentiation of the simpler, primordial protoplasm,... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1891 - 1132 pages
...though for convenience sake we use the phrase " living substance," what is really meant by the words is not a thing or body of a particular chemical composition but matter undergoing a series of changvs. § 543. 8ince the several tissues originate through a differentiation of the simpler, primordial... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 516 pages
...subdivisions in genetic relations with many katabolic products, all of which are correlated, through vitaj activities, to act in harmony to serve the entity...condition of life in all tissues and elements of the body. As living matter, the germ plasma must be continually undergoing metabolic changes in adjusting its... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...are not warranted in assuming that it ls exempt from the metabolic transformations that characteri ze other living substances. Herbert Spencer defines...condition of life in all tissues and elements of the body. As living matter, the germ plasma must be continually undergoing metabolic changes in adjusting its... | |
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