Supper.—Crackers 50 grams, butter 15 grams, stewed prunes 125 grams, sponge cake 100 grams, one cup tea 350 grams.
| Food. | Grams. | Per cent Nitrogen. | Total Nitrogen. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boiled Indian-meal | 125 | × | 0.24 | = | 0.300 | grams. | |
| Milk | 125 | × | 0.50 | = | 0.625 | ||
| Sugar | 30 | × | 0.00 | = | 0.000 | ||
| Butter (breakfast) | 10 | × | 0.10 | = | 0.010 | ||
| Bread (breakfast) | 30 | × | 1.61 | = | 0.483 | ||
| Coffee (breakfast) | 350 | × | 0.087 | = | 0.304 | ||
| Bean soup | 200 | × | 0.86 | = | 1.720 | ||
| Bread (dinner) | 75 | × | 1.61 | = | 1.207 | ||
| Mashed potato | 100 | × | 0.28 | = | 0.280 | ||
| Pickles | 25 | × | 0.054 | = | 0.013 | ||
| Coffee (dinner) | 350 | × | 0.081 | = | 0.283 | ||
| Custard pie | 105 | × | 0.88 | = | 0.924 | ||
| Crackers | 50 | × | 1.61 | = | 0.805 | ||
| Butter (supper) | 15 | × | 0.10 | = | 0.015 | ||
| Stewed prunes | 125 | × | 0.17 | = | 0.212 | ||
| Sponge cake | 100 | × | 1.00 | = | 1.000 | ||
| Tea | 350 | × | 0.048 | = | 0.168 | ||
| Total nitrogen in food | 8.349 | grams. | |||||
| Total nitrogen in urine | 8.140 | ||||||
| Fuel value of the food | 2081 calories. |
NITROGEN BALANCE.—Oakman.
| Nitrogen Taken in. | Output. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen in Urine. | Weight of Fæces (dry). | ||||||
| Jan. | 12 | 7.793 | grams. | 6.00 | grams. | ||
| 13 | 9.992 | 7.33 | |||||
| 14 | 7.412 | 8.29 | 5.0 | grams. | |||
| 15 | 8.560 | 7.14 | 76.0 | ||||
| 16 | 7.282 | 8.23 | 13.5 | ||||
| 17 | 8.349 | 8.14 | 9.5 | ||||
| 104.0 | grams contain 7.39% N. | ||||||
| 49.388 | 45.13 | + | 7.685 | grams nitrogen. | |||
| 49.388 | grams nitrogen. | 52.815 | grams nitrogen. | ||||
| Nitrogen balance for six days | = | -3.427 | grams. |
| Nitrogen balance per day | = | -0.571 | gram. |
Average Intake.
| Calories per day | 2078. |
| Nitrogen per day | 8.23 grams. |