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APPENDIX II. 



passes into the blood that the results given in 

 these tables are realized. If, for instance, sawdust 

 or paraffin oil had been experimented upon, numbers 

 would have been obtained for these substances, the 

 one about equal to that assigned to starch, and the 

 other surpassing that of any article in the table ; 

 but these numbers would obviously have been 

 utterly fallacious, inasmuch as neither sawdust nor 

 paraffin oil is, to any appreciable extent, digested in 

 the alimentary canal. Whilst the force values 

 experimentally obtained for the different articles 

 in these tables must therefore be understood as the 

 maxima assignable to the substances to which they 

 belong, yet it must not be forgotten that a large 

 majority of these substances appear to be completely 

 digestible under normal circumstances. 



Actual Energy developed by One Gram of various Articles of 

 Food when burnt in Oxygen. 



