ANALYTICAL EVIDENCE. 293 



NOTE (6), p. 36. 



The prisoners in the house of arrest at Giessen receive 

 daily IJ lb. of bread (24 oz.), which contain 7i oz. of 

 carbon. They receive, besides, 1 lb. of soup daily, and 

 on each alternate day, 1 lb. of potatoes. 



1^ lb. of bread contains 7*25 oz. of carbon. 



1 lb. of soup contains 0*75 ditto 



J lb. of potatoes contains TOO ditto 



Total 9-00 ditto: 



NOTE (7), p. 43. 



COMPOSITION OF THE FIBRINE AND ALBUMEN OF 



BLOOD, a 



Albumen from Serum of Blood. Fibrine. 



Scherer.* Scherer.* Mulder. 



/ ^ ^ ,' ^ 



I. II. III. I. II. III. 



Carbon 53-850 55-461 56097 53-671 54-454 54-56 



Hydrogen 6*983 7*201 6*880 6-878 7*069 6-90 



Nitrogen 15-673 15-673 15-681 15-763 15-762 15*72 



Oxygen . , 



Sulphur |> 23-494 21*655 22-342 23-688 22-715 22-82 



Phosphorus 



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a Annalen der Chem. und Pharm., XXVIII., 74, and XL., 33, 36. 



For additional analyses of animal fibrine and albumen, 

 see Note (27), which also contains analyses of the various 

 animal tissues. 



X At page 36 the carbon contained in the daily food of these prisoners is cal- 

 culated at 8 1 oz., and the appendix in the original makes the number also 8*5, 

 apparently by an error in adding up the above numbers, which yield the sum 

 of 9 oz. Possibly there may be an error in excess in the proportion of carbon 

 calculated for the soup, which, in that case, ought to be 0-25 oz. — Editor, 



