INDEX 



213 



Effeminacy of " Indians," 149 



Efficiency and the amount of food 

 (Spriggs), 122 



Endogenous metabolism, Folin's views 

 on, 15 



Energy : a property of the nervous 

 system, 153 ; potential of tropical 

 dietaries, 97 



Energy requirements : Benedict and 

 Carpenter, 147 ; of Chittenden's 

 groups of subjects, 146, 148 ; of 

 Fletcher, 146 



Errors, possible, in Chittenden's obser- 

 vations, 145 



Esquimaux, 23 



Eurasian and Anglo-Indian students : 

 as athletes, 138 ; diets of, 161 ; 

 physique of, 160, 162 



European and Bengali infants con- 

 trasted, 94 



Examination, critical, of Chittenden's 

 results, 127 



Excess excretion of waste products, 

 123 



Exogenous metabolism, 15 



Experiments, Chittenden : on three 

 groups, 116; on three groups, results, 

 117 ; on six laboratory assistants, 83 



Experiments to determine the pre- 

 sence or absence of the beri-beri 

 vitamine in Bengal food-materials, 

 210 



Fsecal carbohydrates not a true 

 measure, 97 



Fsecal nitrogen : average amount of , in 

 Bengalis, 83 ; a true measure, 98 ; 

 of Chittenden's subjects, 125 ; of 

 Chittenden's assistants, 84 ; on 

 certain vegetable diets, 57 



Famine and the incidence of disease, 

 134 



Fasting, excretion of nitrogen during, 

 105 



Favourable results ascribed to low 

 protein dietary, 130 



Feeding on the cleavage products : 

 of intestinal digestion, 4 ; of acid 

 hydrolysis, 4 



Fermentation, intestinal, as a cause 

 of loss of potential energy, 97 



Fischer : researches into the compo- 

 sition of protein, 4 ; synthesis of 

 polypeptides, 6 



Fisher, Irving, on effects of diets poor 

 in protein, 138 



Flack and Hill, the nutritive value of 

 flours, 52 



Fletcher, energy requirements of, 146 



Flour : bleaching of, 47 ; false stand- 

 ard of millers, 49 ; wholemeal, 

 chemical composition of, 46 ; stand- 

 ard, 47 



Folin : deductions from urinary creati- 

 nine discussed, 103 ; significance of 

 constancy of creatinine output, 15 



Food : its functions, 23, 96 ; of Brah- 

 mins, 150 



Food-materials of India, absorption 

 of, 65 



Food requirements of different classes, 

 70 



Foods : American and European, 

 analyses of, 32 ; Indian, analyses of, 

 32 



France, prison diets of, 137 



Fuegians, diet of, 23 



Funk, isolation of beri-beri vitamine, 

 52, 209 



Gaols of Bengal : dietaries of, 81 ; 

 dietaries ill-balanced, 82 



Gaols of India, absorption of protein 

 of pulses, 62 



Gautier, Dr., on prison diets of France, 

 137 



Glycosuria in Bengalis, 172 



Goodfellow, on the nutritive value of 

 Ho vis bread, 45 



Graham flour, absorption of con- 

 stituents of, 50 



Granular kidney in different races in 

 India, 177 



Grinding-stones in India, 45 



Haecker, on feeding cows on low 



protein diets, 144 



Hagemann, experiments on dogs, 140 

 Hale, on the effects of nitrites in flour, 



48 

 Halliburton, on the effects of nitrites 



in flour, 47 

 Hamill and Schryver, observations on 



scientists, 118 

 Hansen and Henriques, experiments 



on rats, 3 

 Harcourt, absorption of protein of 



maize, 53 

 Harden, effects of bleaching on flours, 



48 

 Hill and Flack, the nutritive value of 



flours, 52 

 Hill- tribes of Bengal, characteristics 



of, 184 

 Hindus : acute infection in, 175 ; 



atheroma and granular kidney in, 



177 ; diet of, 24 ; mortality rates of, 



167 ; renal disease in, 174 

 Hoesslin, effects of underfeeding on 



the blood, 159 



Hofman, protein absorption of vege- 

 table diets, 41 

 Hogs, effects of a low protein diet on, 



143, 144 



Hoogenhuyze and Verploegh, on crea- 

 tinine excretion, 17 



