Lunch.—Cream of celery soup 100 grams, bread 35 grams, butter 10 grams, farina croquette 88 grams, potato 150 grams, stewed prunes 176 grams.
Dinner.—Tomato soup 150 grams, Hamburg steak 77 grams, potato 150 grams, spinach 75 grams, farina croquette 107 grams, syrup 48 grams, bread 30.5 grams, butter 7.5 grams, cream pie 162 grams.
| Food. | Grams. | Per cent Nitrogen. | Total Nitrogen. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bread | 35 | × | 1.64 | = | 0.574 | grams. | |
| Butter | 10 + 7.5 = | 17.5 | × | 0.15 | = | 0.026 | |
| Farina croquette | 88 | × | 0.74 | = | 0.651 | ||
| Potato | 150 | × | 0.26 | = | 0.390 | ||
| Prunes | 176 | × | 0.17 | = | 0.299 | ||
| Cream of celery soup | 100 | × | 0.48 | = | 0.480 | ||
| Tomato soup | 150 | × | 0.19 | = | 0.285 | ||
| Hamburg steak | 77 | × | 3.96 | = | 3.049 | ||
| Potato (fried) | 150 | × | 0.46 | = | 0.690 | ||
| Spinach | 75 | × | 0.54 | = | 0.405 | ||
| Bread | 30.5 | × | 1.82 | = | 0.555 | ||
| Cream pie | 162 | × | 0.93 | = | 1.507 | ||
| Farina croquette | 107 | × | 0.76 | = | 0.813 | ||
| Syrup | 48 | × | 0.024 | = | 0.012 | ||
| Total nitrogen in food | 9.736 | grams. | |||||
| Total nitrogen in urine | 8.710 | ||||||
| Fuel value of the food | 2151 calories. |
NITROGEN BALANCE.—Schenker.
| Nitrogen Taken in. | Output. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen in Urine. | Weight of Fæces (dry). | ||||||
| May | 18 | 10.269 | grams. | 8.77 | grams. | 8.0 | grams. |
| 19 | 8.239 | 8.73 | 41.0 | ||||
| 20 | 15.545 | 12.48 | 26.5 | ||||
| 21 | 9.977 | 8.76 | 43.4 | ||||
| 22 | 10.741 | 9.98 | 29.0 | ||||
| 23 | 12.167 | 10.04 | 14.7 | ||||
| 24 | 9.736 | 8.71 | 20.5 | ||||
| 11.0 | |||||||
| 193.4 | grams contain 6.50% N. | ||||||
| 76.674 | 67.47 | + | 12.571 | grams nitrogen. | |||
| 76.674 | grams nitrogen. | 80.041 | grams nitrogen. | ||||
| Nitrogen balance for seven days | = | -3.367 | grams. |
| Nitrogen balance per day | = | -0.481 | gram. |
Average Intake.
| Calories per day | 2486. |
| Nitrogen per day | 10.95 grams. |