[30] Martin.
[31] Composition of oatmeal:
| Nitrogenous matter | 12.6% |
| Carbohydrates, starch, etc. | 63.8% |
| Fatty matter | 5.6% |
| Mineral matter | 3.0% |
| Water | 15.0% |
| ——— | |
| Total | 100.00% |
| Letherby. | |
From Prof. Mott's Chart of the Composition, Digestibility, and Nutritive Value of Food.
[32] For a further account of micro-organisms in milk, see the chapter on [Milk].
[33] George Kennan, in his accounts of his perilous journeyings through Siberia, bears ample testimony to the comforting effects of hot tea. Often when he and his companion were chilled through, and almost dead with cold and fatigue, after many hours' travel over the frozen snows, they were revived by draughts of hot tea provided at the stations.
[34] The ash of tea contains potash, soda, magnesia, phosphoric acid, chlorin, carbonic acid, iron, silica, and traces of manganese.
| { Water | 74.00% | |
| Egg Whole | { Nitrogenous matter | 14.00% |
| { Fat | 10.50% | |
| { Inorganic matter | 1.50% | |
| Pavy. | ||
[36] Another analysis is that of Payen, the distinguished French chemist.