DIET OF CHEMICALS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 595, 20 August 1913, Page 6

DIET OF CHEMICALS.

A Gorman professor lias succeeded in keeping' a dog alive on food which ho produced aynihotically in hie laboratory. Hi l accomplished 'hip. not. by creating the actual fooda which animals normally .feed on, but by administering the chemical ronr-tituontr-of the food in simpler forma. The necosFary fat. wan administered in 'lie form of glycerine and aebaric. aejd, and the necenaary carbohydrate.- m the form of iiUgar, which can lie ayn thetically made. The production of the imiispeneibie albumen at that proved an obstacle, ar science, is far from having succeeded in making albumen synthetically. The pro/'ei---eor, however, worked on 'he basia of the known fact, that, the albumen taken :ws food if? dissolved during into its mnatituonfa. and worked up. again into all albumen. Thi?. lie reasoned, mount that if the constituent!" of albumen, which can be produced in the laboratory, were given as food they would aufhee. Kxpcriment proved the assumption to hi true. The dog flourished. From thirlie went further. Ho gave anotkmdo.g, instead of tbm food. a. mixture of acida prepared in hip laboratory, and the animal proved to be sveli nourished. In this way it proved that everything nocer;rary for the aupport of animal life can be given pynthetjc.aiiy maufacUired out of half a dozene leraents.