Dinner, 6.30 P. M.—Milk-celery soup 121 grams, lettuce sandwiches 61 grams, creamed potato 65 grams, lettuce-apple-celery salad 74 grams, coffee 70 grams, sugar 10 grams.
| Food. | Grams. | Per cent Nitrogen. | Total Nitrogen. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coffee | 100 + 70 = | 170 | × | 0.042 | = | 0.071 | gram. |
| Cream | 25 | × | 0.40 | = | 0.100 | ||
| Sugar | 9 + 9 + 10 = | 28 | × | 0.00 | = | 0.000 | |
| Halibut, etc. | 108 | × | 3.02 | = | 3.262 | ||
| Mashed potato | 89 | × | 0.26 | = | 0.231 | ||
| Biscuit | 48 | × | 1.52 | = | 0.730 | ||
| Butter | 10 | × | 0.10 | = | 0.010 | ||
| Tea | 100 | × | 0.048 | = | 0.048 | ||
| Chocolate-cream cake | 90 | × | 0.99 | = | 0.891 | ||
| Celery-milk soup | 121 | × | 0.52 | = | 0.629 | ||
| Lettuce sandwich | 61 | × | 0.98 | = | 0.598 | ||
| Lettuce-apple salad | 74 | × | 0.21 | = | 0.155 | ||
| Creamed potato | 65 | × | 0.37 | = | 0.241 | ||
| Total nitrogen in food | 6.966 | grams. | |||||
| Total nitrogen in urine | 5.390 | ||||||
| Fuel value of the food | 1285 calories. |
NITROGEN BALANCE.—Chittenden.
| Nitrogen Taken in. | Output. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen in Urine. | Weight of Fæces[33] (dry). | ||||||
| March | 20 | 6.989 | grams. | 5.91 | grams. | 3.6 | grams. |
| 21 | 6.621 | 5.52 | 0.0 | ||||
| 22 | 6.082 | 5.94 | 12.0 | ||||
| 23 | 6.793 | 5.61 | 18.5 | ||||
| 24 | 5.057 | 4.31 | 23.0 | ||||
| 25 | 6.966 | 5.39 | 16.9 | ||||
| 74.0 | grams contain 6.42% N. | ||||||
| 38.508 | 32.68 | + | 4.75 | grams nitrogen. | |||
| 38.508 | grams nitrogen. | 37.43 | grams nitrogen. | ||||
| Nitrogen balance for six days | = | +1.078 | grams. |
| Nitrogen balance per day | = | +0.179 | gram. |
Average Intake.
| Calories per day | 1613. |
| Nitrogen per day | 6.40 grams. |