On food : its varieties, chemical composition, nutritive value, comparative digestibility, physiological functions and uses, preparation, culinary treatment, preservation, adulteration, etc. : being the substance of four Cantor lectures, delivered before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the months of January and February, 1868 / by H. Letheby.

  • Letheby, H. (Henry), 1816-1876.
Date:
1872
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Credit: On food : its varieties, chemical composition, nutritive value, comparative digestibility, physiological functions and uses, preparation, culinary treatment, preservation, adulteration, etc. : being the substance of four Cantor lectures, delivered before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the months of January and February, 1868 / by H. Letheby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    XIV. Actual Daily Work in lbs. rrised i foot higli - - - 96 XV. Weight and Cost of various articles of Diet required to Raise a Man (140 lbs.) to the Height of 10,000 feet - 98 XVI. Proportions of the several Constituents of Food, Appro- priated and Used by Different Animals - - - “99 XVII. Average Daily Diet of Farm Labourers in the United Kingdom ---------- 106 XVIII. Daily Diet according to Work Done ----- 107 XIX. —Requirements of the Body - - - - - - no XX. Amounts of Food Yielding 200 Grains of Nitrogen or 2 ‘97 ozs. of Plastic Matter, Necessary for a Man’s Daily Diet hi XXI. Weekly Dietaries of Low-fed Operatives, calculated as Adults. (Dr. E. Smith) 113, XXII. Daily Dietaries of Well-fed Operatives (Playfair) - - 115 XXIII. Dietaries to Furnish, as nearly as possible, 30,100 Grains of Carbon, and 1,400 Grains of Nitrogen per Man Weekly —Women take One-tenth less - - - - - - 117 XXIV. Maximum, Minimum, and Average Composition of Woman’s Milk compared with the Average Composition of Cow’s Milk 11S XXV. Daily Proportions of Carbon and Nitrogen required in the Food at Different Ages per Pound Weight of the Body - 120 XXVI. Relative Proportions of Food at Different Meals - - - 136 XXVII. Composition of the Extracts of Meat of Commerce - - 174 XXVIII. Composition of Various Samples of Condensed Milk - - 192 XXIX. Specific Gravity of Skimmed Milk when Diluted with Dif- ferent Proportions of Water 235.