The nutrition of man

Transcriber’s notes :
The text of this e-book has been preserved in its original form apart from correction of the typographic errors listed below. Illustrations have been repositioned adjacent to relevant tabulated data, and the List of Illustrations adjusted accordingly. On p.72 an image of the Xanthin formula incorrectly shows a double bond between a carbon and nitrogen atom – the correct formula is shown on the next page – and there is a date discrepancy on p. 248 between the text and the illustration caption (November 18/February 27). Page numbers are shown in the right margin and footnotes are located at the end. Footnotes are located at the end.
Typographic corrections: enyzmes → enzymes oxgyen → oxygen enyzme → enzyme Futher → Further mechancial → mechanical rythmical → rhythmical economcially → economically circulirinden → circulirenden SUBJECT → SUBJECTS equibrium → equilibrium availibility → availability (166) grams → (166 grams) accusstomed → accustomed Glassner → Glässner strach → starch
RUSSELL H. CHITTENDEN, Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D.
AUTHOR OF “PHYSIOLOGICAL ECONOMY IN NUTRITION,” ETC. PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY AND DIRECTOR OF THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE UNIVERSITY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Publishers
Copyright, 1907 , By Frederick A. Stokes Company All rights reserved May, 1907 FIFTH PRINTING
The present book is the outcome of a course of eight lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute of Boston in the early part of 1907.
In this presentation of the subject the attempt has been made to give a systematic account of our knowledge regarding some of the more important processes of nutrition, with special reference to the needs of the body for food. In doing this, the facts accumulated by painstaking observations and experiments during recent years in our laboratory have been incorporated with data from other sources and brought into harmony, so far as possible, with the modern trend of physiological thought.