Excerpt from Liebig's Complete Works on Chemistry: Comprising His Agricultural Chemistry; Or, Organic Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology; Animal Chemistry; Or, Organic Chemistry in Its Application to Physiology and Pathelogy; Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relations to Comm The first part of it will be devoted to the examination of the matters which supply the nutriment of plants, and of the changes which these matters undergo in the living organism. The chemical compounds which a ord to plants their principal constituents, viz., carbon and nitrogen, will here come under consideration, as well as the relations in which the vital functions of vegetables stand to those of the animal economy and to. Other phenomena of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.