Force of Nature- The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager

Author:Thomas Hager
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biographie
ISBN: 097676492X
Publisher: Monroe Press
Published: 2011-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

As I look at a living organism—at one of you or myself—I see reminders of many questions that need to be answered. . . . What is skin, fingernail? How do fingernails grow? How do I feel things—how are nerves built and how do they function? How do I see things? How can I smell things, and why does benzene have one smell and iso-octane another? Why is sugar sweet and vinegar sour? How does the hemoglobin in my blood do its job of carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues? How do the enzymes in my body break up the food that I eat, burn it to keep me warm and to permit me to do work, and build new tissues for me from the food fragments? Why do I catch cold when exposed through contact with an ailing person, get pneumonia, and then recover after treatment with a specific antiserum or a sulfa drug? How does penicillin carry out its wonderful function of fighting disease? Why am I immune to measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, small-pox, whereas some other people are not? And finally, why is it that my children, as they grow and develop, become human beings, and show characteristics similar to mine, and their mother's—how have these characteristics been transmitted to them?

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