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products as well as the results of a study of headache powders are reported. 

 Some data are given regarding lard and lard substitutes and other food and 

 drug matters. 



Notice of judgment (U. 8. Dept. Agr., 'Notice of Judgment 1455, pp. 57). — 

 This notice of judgment has to do with the alleged adulteration and misbrand- 

 ing of coca cola. Some analytical data are included. 



Food values — practical tables for use in private practice and public insti- 

 tutions, E. A. Locke {Neio York and London, 1911, pp. YII+110). — In this 

 small volume the author has briefly discussed foods and their uses and similar 

 topics and has presented a large amount of data in tabular form, including the 

 equivalents of weights and measures used in connection with foods and die- 

 tetics, the composition of prepared and cooked foods and of alcoholic beverages, 

 and the average composition of American foods in general. 



As the author states in his preface, " information has been drawn largely 

 from the numerous reports of investigations made under the direction of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture." 



The book is provided with an index. 



Directions for preparing diet for health and disease, G. Reymann (Didtet- 

 isehe Kost-Vorschriften, smn Gcbrauch in geswnden und Icranken Tagen. 

 Lauterecken, 1911, pp. J/ll). — General questions of dietetics are discussed and 

 lists are given of the foods in season during different months of the year, 

 together with a large number of recipes and a collection of menus for normal 

 diet and for diet for diabetics and those suffering from liver, kidney, and 

 nervous diseases, from gout, from obesity, and from diseases of the digestive 

 tract, the various diets being arranged in parallel columns. A large number 

 of menus for different seasons are also presented, as well as menus for special 

 occasions. 



A bibliography is given of books which the author considers useful, and a 

 list of German periodicals which deal with the preparation of food and similar 

 topics. I 



[Artificial feeding and poverty and the rate of infant mortality], M. 

 Greenwood and J. W. Brown (Jour. Eyg. [Cambridge], 12 (1912), No. 1, pp. 

 5-45). — The authors discuss particularly the effects of artificial feeding and 

 poverty upon birth-rate and infant mortality. Of special interest is the dis- 

 cussion of the handling and use of statistical data. A bibliography is included. 

 ' Concerning the influence of the extractives of meat upon the digestibility 

 of vegetable food, H. Wolff (Ztschr. Klin. Med., 14 (1912), No. 3-4, p. 303; 

 ahs, in Zentbl. Biochem. u. Biophys., 13 (1912), No. 1-2, p. 21). — From experi- 

 ments which were made with dogs the author concludes that the addition of 

 meat extract favorably influenced digestion and nitrogen metabolism. 



The increased fat excreted in the feces when meat extract was taken is 

 thought to be fat produced by the organism as a result of stimulation by meat 

 extract and not as undigested from the diet. 



The effect of a diet of polished rice on the nitrogen and phosphorus of the 

 brain, C. Funk (Jour. Physiol., 7/^ (1912), No. 1-2, pp. 50-53). — Experiments 

 were made to ascertain whether differences could be detected between the 

 contents of nitrogen and phosphorus in the brains of normal pigeons and those 

 suffering from polyneuritis, produced by a diet of polished rice. 



" The analysis of the brains shows a sensible diminution from the normal of 

 nitrogen and phosphorus content, in a proportion which suggests a breakdovni 

 of the lipoids of the brain." 



The physiological effect of benzoic acid and sodium benzoate, V. Gerlach 

 (Physiologische Wirkwngen der Benzoesdure und des benzoesauren Natron. 

 Wiesbaden^ 1909, pp. 8-\-95, pis. 10). — The results of extended experiments are 



