Report of Committee on social bettermentPresident's Homes Commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... according to Atwater , to form the material of the body and repair of its waste , and to yield heat to keep the body warm and muscular and other power for the work it has to do . The amount of energy contained in different food - stuffs ...
... according to Atwater , to form the material of the body and repair of its waste , and to yield heat to keep the body warm and muscular and other power for the work it has to do . The amount of energy contained in different food - stuffs ...
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... According to the classical experiments of Pettenkoffer and Voit , nearly forty years ago , the waste products of a healthy adult weighing 154 pounds , during 24 hours , at rest amounted to 16.8 grams of nitrogen in the urine , 275 grams ...
... According to the classical experiments of Pettenkoffer and Voit , nearly forty years ago , the waste products of a healthy adult weighing 154 pounds , during 24 hours , at rest amounted to 16.8 grams of nitrogen in the urine , 275 grams ...
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... according to their proximate composition as follows : First : Organic , nitrogenous , as proteids or albuminoids ; non - nitrog- enous — a . fats , b . carbohydrates , c . vegetable acids . Second : Inorganic - mineral salts and water ...
... according to their proximate composition as follows : First : Organic , nitrogenous , as proteids or albuminoids ; non - nitrog- enous — a . fats , b . carbohydrates , c . vegetable acids . Second : Inorganic - mineral salts and water ...
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... According to Boussingault an adult requires from 60 to 90 mgrs . of iron daily , and according to König , persons upon a mixed diet require from 12 to 20 grams of sodium chloride . In reference to accessory foods , such as spices and ...
... According to Boussingault an adult requires from 60 to 90 mgrs . of iron daily , and according to König , persons upon a mixed diet require from 12 to 20 grams of sodium chloride . In reference to accessory foods , such as spices and ...
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... According to the foregoing table , game and fowl are richest in pro- teids , salts and extractives ; veal and pork are poorest in proteids ; veal richest in gelatin ; ham and pork richest in fat ; horse and veal poorest in fat ; beef ...
... According to the foregoing table , game and fowl are richest in pro- teids , salts and extractives ; veal and pork are poorest in proteids ; veal richest in gelatin ; ham and pork richest in fat ; horse and veal poorest in fat ; beef ...
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Page 194 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 250 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 64 - You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived : future nations will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox has existed, and by you has been extirpated.
Page 124 - An ordinance to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, to declare what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health and to provide for the removal thereof...
Page 117 - His computations clearly indicate that where one death from typhoid fever has been avoided by the use of a better water, a certain number of deaths, probably two or three, from other causes have been avoided.
Page 215 - India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints...
Page 193 - It is equally derogatory to professional character for physicians to hold patents for any surgical instruments or medicines; to accept rebates on prescriptions or surgical appliances; to assist unqualified persons to evade the legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine...
Page 182 - From and after the passage of this act no pharmacist, druggist, apothecary, or other person shall refill, more than once, prescriptions containing opium or morphine or preparations of either in which the dose of opium shall exceed one-fourth grain or morphine one-twentieth grain, except with the verbal or written order of a physician.
Page 63 - In diseases like smallpox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque's Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended.
Page 253 - It shall be entitled to charge and receive upon each loan made by it without the actual delivery to it of the property pledged or mortgaged...