1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management Chapter , The other principle--the innutritive portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of.
1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Chapter , In a cow, subsisting on so innutritive a food as grass, we see that the immense quantity required necessitates an enormous digestive system; that the limbs, small in comparison with the body, are burdened by its weight; that in carrying about this heavy body and digesting this excessive quantity of food, much force is expended; and that, having but little remaining, the creature is sluggish.
