The elements of the science of nutrition / by Graham Lusk.

  • Lusk, Graham, 1866-1932.
Date:
1906
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    Growth, rapidity of, and longevity, relation between, 211 Guanin, 270, 271 conversion of, into uric acid, 274 metabolism of, intra-vitam, 276 Hair, nitrogen in, 21 Heat, 33, 34 animal, 31 effect of, on metabolism in fever, 258 from metabolism, comparison of, with heat actually produced, 41 loss b}' conduction and radiation, 83 distribution of, after meat inges- tion, 131 manner of, influence of temper- ature on, 89, 90 paths of, 83 vary with temperature of envi- ronment, 83 production in hen's egg, 193, 194 in resting animals, 81 puncture of corpora striata, 252 regulation, effect of clothes on, 96 requirement, minimal, 130 value of foodstuffs, 40 of feces, 36, 37, 51 of metabolism, 34 Hemoglobin in starvation, 70 increase of, at high altitude, 222 Hen's egg, heat production in, 193, 194 High altitude, effect on metabolism, 217, 218 red-blood cells, 221 increase of hemoglobin at, 222 metabolism at, 216 Hippuric acid in urine in starvation, 64 after meat ingestion, 114 Hospital dietaries, 188 Humidity and temperature, influence of, on metabolism of fat man, 94, 164 effect of, on metabolism, 88, 89 Hunger, 52. See also Starvation. specific nitrogen, 156 Hyperarterialization of blood, 30 Hyperthermia, 249 Hypoxanthin, 270, 271 effect on uric acid, 272 in muscle, 281, 282 Ichthyosis hystrix, metabolism in, 250 21 Infectious fever, 249 fevers, metabolism in, 253 toxic destruction of body proteid in, 258 Insensible perspiration, 17 in fever, 257 Kynurenic acid in urine, 117 Lactalase, 294 Lactic acid, conversion of, into dex- trose, 232 in urine after bloodletting, 214 after phosphorus-poisoning, 247 La piqure, 225, 226 Law, Flourens's, of longevity, 211 of skin area, 82, 295 Legumes in feces, 49 Leucin, conversion of, into acetone and lactic acid, 231, 232 Leucyl-glycyl-glycin, 293 Leukocythemia, metabolism in, 214 Levulose in diabetes, 243 Life, length of, in starvation, 65 influence of fat content on, 68 Magnetism, t^t, Maintenance diet, 125 Meat feces, 46, 47 influence of bread on, 47 of fat on, 47 of sugar on, 47 influence of ingesting increasing quantities of, loi proteid, amount of nitrogen in, 22 Mechanical energ\', 33 production of, by body, fats and carbohydrates as fuel for, 167 work, carbon dioxid elimination from, 170 effect of, on metabolism, 160, 161 on nitrogen metabolism, 165 on proteid metabolism, 165 energy requirements in perform- ance of same amount of, 171 Meconium, 46 Metabolism, 19 after meat ingestion, 106 variation in, 108, 109 proteid ingestion in excess, 124 influence of external tem- perature on, 129 and diabetic metabolism, compari- son of, 236 at high altitudes, 216