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THE PROTEIN ELEMENT IN NUTRITION 



Hopkins : on the elaboration of supra- 

 renal secretion, 8 ; and Willcock, on 

 the protein of maize, 7 



Hutchison : criticism of Chittenden's 

 views, 101 ; degrees of health, 153 ; 

 on the effects of diets poor in 

 protein, 133 ; on the merits of a high 

 protein standard, 123 ; table of co- 

 efficients of absorption of food con- 

 stituents, 34 ; vegetable protein ab- 

 sorption, 42 



Ill-balanced dietaries of Bengal gaols, 

 82 



Ill-effects of low protein dietaries, 146 



Improvers, effects of, on weak wheats, 

 48 



India, dietary studies in : students and 

 servants, 76 ; professional class, 78 ; 

 all classes of Bengalis, 78 ; different 

 classes of students, 85 ; hill-tribes 

 of Bengal, 86 ; aboriginal tribes of 

 Chota Nagpur, 88 ; fighting castes, 

 Sikh, 89 ; Bengali mother's milk 

 and infant's food, 92 



Indian corn or maize as a food, 52 



Indian corn, protein absorption of, 53 



Indian dandywallahs v. Japanese jin- 

 ricksha men, 75 



Indian food-materials : absorbability 

 of, 65 ; analyses of, 32 



Indian v. Anglo-Indian students as 

 athletes, 139 



Indo-Aryan physical type, 189 ; in- 



' fluence of diet on, 205 



Influence : of certain substances (vita- 

 mines) on nutrition, 208 ; of diet on 

 physique of hill-tribes, 187 ; of high 

 protein metabolism on the fighting 

 races of India, 206 



Insufficient protein, effects of, 131 



Insurance, life, and the Bengali, 168 



Intestinal fermentation and loss of 

 potential energy, 98 



Irregularity of Chittenden's figures 

 for protein absorption, 127 



Jaffa, protein absorption of fruits, 35 

 Jagerroos, experiments with dogs, 140 

 Japan, dietary studies in, 72 

 Japanese Navy, effects of a change of 



diet, 76 



Jat Sikh, diet of, and physique of, 200 

 Jats, classes of, and diet of, 199 

 Jinricksha man, dietary study with, 74 

 Juar : chemical composition of, 55 ; 



protein absorption of, 55 



Kaufmann and Murlin, experiments 



with gelatin, 7 

 Kellogg, effects of a low protein 



dietary, 179 

 Kidney disease in Bengal, 172, 173 



j Kossel, researches on protein, 4 

 Krause and Cramer, thyroid feeding 



and creatinine excretion, 19 

 Kristeller and Levene, investigations 



on creatinine, 18 

 Kuhne, the action of trypsin, 3 



Landois, weight for height rule, 165 

 Langworthy, absorption of foods, 35 

 Leathes, explanation of acid and 



tryptic hydrolysis, 4 

 Leguminosae, foods derived from, 57 

 Leowi, feeding with products of 



tryptic digestion, 3 

 Levene and Kristeller, researches on 



creatinine, 18 

 Liebig : distinction between animals 



and plants, 2 ; view of nitrogenous 



metabolism, 15 

 Livingstone, diets of tribes of Central 



Africa, 137 

 Local Government Reports : on 



bleaching of flour, 47 ; on use of 



improvers, 48 

 Loeser : observations on Transvaal 



miners, 148 ; statement regarding 



diet of Chittenden's soldier group, 



148 



Lower limits of nitrogenous equi- 

 librium, 106 

 Lymphocytosis and a diet of raw 



meat, 134 



Macaulay, characteristics of the Ben- 

 gali, 154 



Maize : as a food, Woods on, 54 ; 

 protein content and protein ab- 

 sorption, 53 



Malnutrition of renal epithelium ac- 

 companying chronic underfeeding, 

 123 



Margin of safety (Rubner), 113 



Mellanby, researches on creatinine, 17 



Melville, Lt.-Col., R.A.M.C., on pro- 

 tein requirements, 207 



Michaud, effects of feeding dogs on 

 dog's flesh, 7 



Middle classes of Bengal, diet of, 79 



Milk, Bengali mother's : chemical 

 composition of, 92 ; quantity se- 

 creted daily, 93 

 | Minimum, physiological, of protein 



metabolism, 106 



Minimum protein diet, howobtained, 12 

 j Mixed form of dietary amongst pre- 

 cibiculturists, 88 



Mohammedans : acute infectious dis- 

 eases of, 175 ; atheroma and granu- 

 lar kidney of, 177 ; mortality rates 

 of, 167 ; renal disease of, 174 



Monamido-acids, 5 



Montesquieu, on the effeminacy of 

 " Indians," 149 



