Note 19 — Chapter X · REMEDIAL.
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“The fatigue which is due to dearth of albumens (proteid) in the blood is always absent so long as sufficient food is taken and digested; in the condition of dyspepsia mentioned in the previous chapter it was not digested.... If a man who has had a sufficient supply of albumens put in, and who has a good digestion, yet falls out in the early stage of a contest, long before those albumens can be exhausted, we must conclude that his fatigue is due to uric acid in the blood.” Dr. Alexander Haig.