"Combustible material" Quotes from Famous Books
... the body, essentially the liver, unable to retain sugar, as well as unable to burn up sugar for energy. The situation is comparable to a locomotive with its coal bins leaking, and the coal itself acting as if made of slate or some equally uncombustible or only partially combustible material. ... — The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.
... societies, which had their ramifications over France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the far East; and that, in fact, a monstrous insurrection was on the very point of breaking out in the furthest parts of India, which, like the cholera, would spread over Europe, and set in flame all its combustible material. ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various |