Effect of yeast extract on mineral starvation

The question of the importance of the mineral constituents of the poverty reap and its ash in the nutrition of the animal organism was first raised by the well-known Comission de Ia gelatine. In the reports of this Commission, we find, among other things, the assumption that the cause of death of animals, when fed with boiled meat, or washed in distilled water and squeezed out fibrin, is the low ash content of the food.