NUX VOMICA 



4320 



NYASSA 



Bill of Fare \o. 2 



Breakfast: 



Strawberries 1 cupful, 4 ounces, or 113 grams 



Wheat breakfast food (One 



ounce before being cooked).. % cupful, 4 ounces, or 113 grams 



Milk Mi pint, or 244 grams 



Toast 2 thick slices, 2 ounces, or 57 grams 



Butter 1 cubic inch, % ounce, or 14 grams 



Protein 

 Grams 

 1 



3 

 8 

 5 



Sugar 2 level tablespoonfuls, 1 ounce, or 28 grams. . . 



Lunch: 



Macaroni and cheese % cupful, or 4 ounces 



Bread 2 ounces, or 57 grams 



Butter 1 cubic inch, % ounce, or 14 grams. . 



Lettuce 2 ounces, or 57 grams 



Oil 1 tablespoonful, or 15 grams 



Sliced oranges MJ cupful, 3 ounces, or 35 grams 



Sugar 2 level tablespoonfuls, 1 ounce, or 28 grsuns . . . 



Plain cake 2 ounces, or 57 grams 



17 



15 

 3 



Dinner: 



Cream tomato soup % cupful, 4 ounces, or 113 grams , 



Crackers 1 ounce, or 28 grams 



Eggs or lean meat 4 ounces, or 113 grams , 



Potato 1 medium size, 4 ounces, or 113 grams , 



Bread 2 ounces, or 57 grams 



Butter iXj ounce, or 14 grams 



Cooked spinach % cupful, 4 ounces, or 113 grams 



Apple pudding % cupful, 4 ounces, or 113 grams , 



Hard sauce 2 level tablespoonfuls 



Milk % pint, or 244 grams 



23 



4 

 3 



14 

 2 

 5 



Total 



Fuel Value 

 Calories 

 44 



102 

 170 

 148 

 108 

 112 



684 



273 

 148 

 108 



11 

 135 



40 

 112 

 190 



1017 



102 

 123 

 146 



94 

 148 

 108 



63 

 183 

 142 

 157 



1266 

 2967 



Related Subjects. For much information 

 which will be interesting and helpful in connec- 

 tion with a study of nutrition, the reader is re- 

 ferred to the article FOOD, and to the topics listed 

 at the end of that article. 



NUX VOMICA, nuks vomika, the seed of a 

 tree called Strychnos nux vomica, or poison 

 nut. It is imported from the East Indies, is 

 round, flat, about an inch in diameter and cov- 

 ered with fine, silky hairs. A very powerful 

 drug, called by the same name, is made from 

 the seed, which contains two alkaloids strych- 

 nine and brucine. The drug nux vomica is 

 poisonous to animals, and also to man, in any- 

 thing but very minute quantities. In small 

 doses it is occasionally given as a stimulant 

 in stomach and nervous disorders; in large 

 quantities it causes convulsions and even death, 

 and should never be taken except on the advice 

 of a reliable physician. 



NYASSA, nyah'sah, a great fresh-water lake 

 in Southern Africa, near the eastern coast. It 

 is over 350 miles long and about forty miles 

 wide, a gigantic, slant-bottomed ditch at the 

 foot of the Livingston Mountains. The lake 

 covers an area of 14,200 square miles, greater 

 than that of Maryland and half that of New 

 Brunswick. The western side is very shallow, 



but the eastern, at the foot of the mountains, 

 is in places deeper than the Indian Ocean. 



Nyassa was first explored by Dr. Livingston 

 in 1859, though it had been known to the 



LOCATION MAP 



The small corner map shows in black area the 

 part of the African continent represented in the 

 larger map. 



Portuguese as Moravia since the seventeenth 

 century. The African Lake Company has a 

 regular steamship line crossing the lake and a 

 highway connecting it with Tanganyika. There 

 are a few native villages along the highway 

 and the lake shore, to which the people bring 

 rubber, copal gum and lichens. The Shire 

 River connects Nyassa with the Zambezi and 

 thus with the ocean, but navigation is inter- 

 rupted by Murchison Falls and rapids ; there is 

 a fall of 1,500 feet from the surface of the 

 lake to sea level. 



