A POPULAR FALLACY.
If two puppies be taken from the selfsame litter, and one be fed on beef tea, and the other .on the beef from-which the tea has been made, the beef tea fed pup will only survive for about two weeks, but the pup fed on the boiled-out beef will live, the chances are, to be a healthy dog. And yet popular prejudice would regard such meat as denuded of all nutriment! However, no more convincing illustration than the one we have given could be found to satisfy the lay mind that those chemists are scientifically right who insist that if beef tea is to be of any value as a life-sustainer, it must incorporate those parts of the flesh that are absolutely insoluble in water.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1900, Page 10 (Supplement)
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128A POPULAR FALLACY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1900, Page 10 (Supplement)
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