The Living State

From Ling's book:

``The most abundant component of all living cells is water. By bulk the next largest component is protein. By number, the next largest component is K⁺. The largest component of the external environment of most living cells is water; the next largest is Na⁺. Thus in the broad sense, cell physiology is a story of assemblies of water-protein-K⁺ in an environment of water and Na⁺.''

I can see the beginning of ``A Revolution in the Physiology of the Living Cell.''