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brought from their own homes by the workers compared favorably with the 

 canteen meals. An examination of the food of women workers showed diverse 

 results, one restaurant dinner furnishing 397 and another 687 calories. The 

 fuel value of meals brought from home varied from 295 to 1,143 calories. 



The daily dietaries of munition workers were investigated at various hos- 

 tels catering to both men and women. The dietaries of three of these were 

 found deficient, but the author concludes that on the whole the hostel inmates 

 are not undernourished. He believes the immediate remedy "for a threat- 

 ened scarcity is not a reduction of food needed for the performance of work, 

 but a saving of all waste, a complete utilization of all food fit for human 

 consumption by human brings, an increase in the home production of food, 

 and thus an extension of the food supply." 



A proposed basis for a dietary for hospitals for the insane to meet war 

 conditions, H. J. Sommer and P. Saha (Hollidayshura. Pa.: Directors Blair 

 County Hosp. Insane, 1918, pp. 57). — Dietaries are given illustrating the old 

 and the new methods of issuing rations to the various types of patients and the 

 employees. War bread formulas are included. 



More recipes for fifty, F. L. Smith (Bottom WHUcomb & Barroics, 191S, pp. 

 YII+225). — The recipes included in this volume are designed, according to the 

 author, to simplify for institutions the problem of providing satisfactory meals 

 at min imum expense with less sugar, less fat. and less wheat. 



Military hospital mess management, R. G. Hoskins (Jour. Amer. Med. 

 Assoc, 72 (1919), So. 11, pp. 784-788). — The following problems of mess man- 

 agement in military hospitals are discussed: Purchasing, mess personnel, and 

 kitchen management, diet for the Individual, preparation of menus, methods of 

 serving and elimination of waste, and ward service. 



Our diet. C.. JUNOE (Vnsere Erwihriuui. Berlin: Otto Salle. 1911. 

 pp. YfII-\-9'i. figs. 25). — The author gives in a simple manner information re- 

 lating to foods anil nutrition designed to assist the German people in utilizing 

 to the best possible advantage the foods available during the war and the years 

 of scarcity which be anticipates after the war. 



The food question. V. KiknwVk (Die Ernahrunasfrafje. V i enn a : Victor 

 Pimmer, 1918, pp. t6).—A discussion of the food situation in Germany in 1918 

 and its relation to the war. 



Home and community hygiene. J. Broaohubst (Philadelphia: J. B. T.ippin- 

 cott Co.. 191*. in'- .XUI + 428, ph. !,. figs. US).— This volume contains, in addi- 

 tion to much other material relating to personal and public health, chapters 

 denlini: with food, milk, and water. 



The dynamic action of foodstuffs, C. Or-rKNHF.nfKR (Ztschr. Uvtersueh. Xahr. 

 u. Qo nu ssm tl., .?'>' [1918), Wo. S-4. pp. 60-63). — A discussion based on Rubner's 

 conception of the specific dynamic action of protein. 



Deaminization and urea formation in the animal body, W. I.offleb (Bio- 

 chew. Ztschr., 85 (1918). No. S-4, pp. 230-294, fins. 3).— The surviving livers of 

 dogs and rabbits were perfused with Ringer's solution mixed with detlbrinated 

 blood, and the urea was determined by the urease method before and after 

 perfusion. Various substances were added to the perfusion liquid, and their 

 effect upon urea formation was noted. 



It was found that there was an increase in the urea after perfusion, even 

 when no nitrogen compound had been added. The addition of ammonium salts 

 caused a considerable increase in the urea after perfusion, even when the 

 perfusion liquid was distinctly acid. Acids inhibited somewhat the formation 

 of urea. The amino groups of primary amins were converted into urea on 

 perfusion, and the deami diced residues more or less completely oxidized. No 



