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The History of a Mouthful of Bread

by Jean Macé

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  1. 1Epigraph — Extracts From the Preface to the English Edition
  2. 2Note to the American Edition
  3. 3I — Introduction
  4. 4First Part — Man
  5. 5Letter III — The Tongue
  6. 6Letter IV — The Teeth
  7. 7Letter V — The Teeth (Continued.)
  8. 8Letter VI — The Teeth (Continued)
  9. 9Letter VII — The Throat
  10. 10Letter VIII — The Stomach
  11. 11Letter IX — The Stomach — (Continued)
  12. 12Letter X — The Intestinal Canal
  13. 13Letter XI — The Liver
  14. 14Letter XII — The Chyle
  15. 15Letter XIII — The Heart
  16. 16Letter XIV — The Arteries
  17. 17Letter XV — The Nourishment of the Organs
  18. 18Letter XVI — The Organs
  19. 19Letter XVII — Arterial and Venous Blood
  20. 20Letter XVIII — Atmospheric Pressure
  21. 21Letter XIX — The Action of the Lungs
  22. 22Letter XX — Carbon and Oxygen
  23. 23Letter XXI — Combustion
  24. 24Letter XXII — Animal Heat
  25. 25Letter XXIII — Action of the Blood Upon the Organs
  26. 26Letter XXIV — The Work Op the Organs
  27. 27Letter XXV — Carbonic Acid
  28. 28Letter XXVI — Aliments of Combustion
  29. 29Letter XXVII — Aliments of Nutrition (Continued)
  30. 30Letter XXVIII — Composition of the Blood
  31. 31Part Second — Animals
  32. 32Letter XXX — Mammalia. (Mammals.)
  33. 33Letter XXXI — Mammalia. (Mammals) — Continued
  34. 34Letter XXXII — Mammalia — Continued
  35. 35Letter XXXIII — Mammalia — Continued
  36. 36Letter XXXIV — AVES. (Birds.)
  37. 37Letter XXXV — Reptilia. (Reptiles.)
  38. 38Letter XXXVI — Pisces. (Fishes.)
  39. 39Letter XXXVII — Insecta. (Insects.)
  40. 40Letter XXXVIII — Crustacea — Mollusca. (Crustaceans and Mollusks.)
  41. 41Letter XXXIX — Vermes — Zoophyta. (Worms and Zoophytes)
  42. 42Letter XL — The Nourishment of Plants
  43. 43Postscript

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