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TABLE OF FOODS WITH THEIR PERCENTAGE OF PURIX-NITROGEN AND URIC ACID PRE- 

 CURSORS FROM ESTIMATIONS BY WALKER HALL 



Fish: Cod 0.0233 



Plaice 0.0318 



Halibut 0.0408 



Salmon 0.0466 



Meats : Tripe 0.0229 



Mutton Australian 0.0386 



Veal Loin 0.0465 



Pork Loin 0.0485 



Neck 0.0227 



Ham 0.0462 



Beef Ribs 0.0455 



Sirloin 0.0522 



Steak 0.0826 



Liver 0.1101 



Thymus 0.4025 



Chicken 0.0518 



Turkey 0.0504 



Rabbit 0.0380 



Cereals: Bread White No trace 



Oatmeal 0.0212 



Rice Xo trace 



Pulses : Peameal 0.0156 



Beans (Haricot) 0.0250 



Lentils 0.0250 



(malted) 0.0150 



Roots and tubers : Potatoes 0.0008 



Onions 0.0031 



Tapioca No trace 



Green vegetables : Cabbage No trace 



Lettuce No trace 



Cauliflower No trace 



Asparagus (cooked) 0.0086 



Beers : Lager beer 0.0050 



Lager drink 0.0020 



Pale ale 0.0059 



Porter 0.0060 



Wines: Claret, Volnay, Sherry,} 



Port $ 



Tea: Ceylon 0.0164 



Indian 0.0147 



China 0.0107 



Coffee: 0.0294 



Percentage of 

 Purin-Nitrogen 



Calculated as Uric 

 Acid per 100 Grams 



0.0699 

 0.0954 

 0.1224 



0.0687 

 0.1158 

 0.1395 

 0.1458 

 0.0681 

 0.1386 



0.1566 

 0.1365 

 0.3303 

 1.2075 

 0.1554 

 0.1512 

 0.1140 



0.0636 



0.0468 

 0.0765 

 0.0750 

 0.0450 

 0.0024 

 0.0093 



0.0258 

 0.0159 



0.0177 

 0.0186 



0.0805 



0.0700 



0.025-0.046 



0.110-0.250 



Treatment at spas has been held in high favor. Benefit comes from 

 the healthful life rather than from any special property of the waters. 



The American springs best suited to gouty patients are Hot Springs, 

 Ark., Hot Springs, Va., White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Bedford, Va., 

 (Foster). "Two or three months' camping, with much rowing, sailing, 

 canoeing and fishing often proves highly beneficial' to gouty patients, pro- 

 vided that appetite is kept within control. Many a gouty individual has 

 gotten a new lease of life by spending a summer judiciously in the 

 Adirondacks or Rocky Mountains, on the coast of Maine, in the Wisconsin 

 or Michigan woods or among the 30,000 islands of the Georgian Bay" 

 (Barker(fc)). 



