The harmful effect of meat juice, therefore, must be chiefly due to the increased bacterial growth which it causes in the alimentary tract, and the symptoms which follow are more the nature of toxemia than starvation. If patients to whom meat juice would be prescribed are instead given extract-free meat, not only is the danger of extractive poisoning avoided, and of a resulting intestinal toxemia, but the concentrated protein quickly nourishes the patient.
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