Food and the principles of dietetics / by Robert Hutchison.

Date:
1906
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    Roughly speaking, it may be said to contain from 60 to 70 per cent, of building material, and a teaspoonful of it is equal in this respect to about \ ounce of lean meat. It can be easily added to fluid or semi-fluid foods, but if largely used may produce diarrhoea.1 The dose recommended is about three or four teaspoonfuls daily, and it seems to be very well absorbed.2 Like most of the preparations Ave are now considering, Somatose is rather expensive, an ounce of it costing is. 8d., and yielding for that sum only as much nutriment as J pound of beef. Milk Somatose is a similar preparation obtained from the proteids of milk. It contains 5 per cent, of tannic acid in combination. Carnrick’s Peptonoids is anoiher solid preparation containing predigested proteids. The following is Tankard’s analysis of it :3 Water Insoluble proteids Albumoses.. Peptones .. Meat bases Starch Milk-sugar Fat Ash 213 per cent. 12*22 ,, •• 3-17 o*88 .. 287 •• 23*64 •• 4852 200 ,, •• 4'57 It will be observed that the substance owes its nutritive value to carbohydrates rather than to proteids, and that the larger part of the latter is present in an insoluble form. Mosquera Beef-meal and Sanose are solid preparations belong- ing to this group which have already been described (pp. 10S and 144). The following tables contain analyses of some of the semi-solid and liquid peptone preparations : 1 See Bornstein, Berlin. Klin. Woch., No. 8, 1897. 2 For literature relating to Somatose and its uses, see Hildebrandt, Vernana. d. 12ten Cong. f. Inn. Med., p. 395. 1893; also references in Edin. Med. Journ., February 1899, and the British Physician, July 15, 1899 ; also a paper by Steven- son and Luff, Lancet, September 30, 1899. The conclusions of the two latter writers are as follows: . i. Somatose is a true meat nutrient possessing restorative and stimulating powers. ii. It is well borne by delicate patients. _ . iii. it improves digestion and causes no gastro-intestmal disturbances, iv'. It has a favourable effect on general metabolism. v. It never gives rise to the appearance of albumin, albumose, or peptone in the urine. 3 Allen, loc. cit.