344 Mary Davies Swartz, 



lulose-containing foods, such as nuts, fruits, green vegetables, peas 

 and beans, coarse bread and cereals, were carefully avoided; so that 

 the carbohydrates were limited almost entirely to bread and crackers 

 made from fine white flour, a small quantity of potato, and sugar. 

 To this diet the gelatinizing carbohydrates were added in the form of 

 blanc mange or jelly; dulse was dissolved in some beverage, and the 

 insoluble preparations boiled half an hour in a little water and eaten 

 as a vegetable, seasoned with salt, butter, and vinegar. The blanc 

 manges or jellies made from the Hawaiian seaweed preparations were 

 equally attractive in texture and flavor with those made from Irish 

 moss. 



Periods were marked, and the analyses of faeces conducted in the 

 manner already described for the experiments with dogs. 



The Digestibility of Pentosans. 



Four preparations were fed, Dulse, ' Limu Eleele,^ Limu Lipoa,^ 

 and Limu Pahapaha,' without production of unpleasant symptoms in 

 any case. The results of all trials are shown in the tables on the 

 following pages. 



1 Cf. p. 303. 



2 Cf. p. 307. 



3 Cf. p- 308. 



