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SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF VARIOUS FLUIDS AND TISSUES. 



(Water = 1'OOO.f 



Adipose tissue . 

 Bile .... 



Blood 



" corpuscles (red) 

 Body (entire) . 

 Bone . . 1-870 

 Brain 



" grey matter 



" white 

 Cartilage . 

 Cerebro-spinal fluid . 

 Chyle. 

 Gastric juice 

 Intestinal juice . 

 Kidney 

 Liquor amnii . 



0-932 



to 



020 



055 



088 



065 



970 



036 



034 



1-040 



1-150 



1-006 



1-024 



1-0023 



1.011 



1-052 



1-008 



Liver . 



Lymph 



Lungs 



when fully distended 

 ordinary condition, post 

 mortem . 0*345 

 when deprived of air 



Muscle ... 



Milk . 



Pancreatic juice . 



Saliva . 



Serum . 



Spleen . . 



Sweat . 



Urine 



1.055 

 1-020 



, 0-126 

 to 0.746 



056 

 020 

 030 

 012 

 006 

 026 

 060 

 004 

 020 



TABLE SHOWING THE PERCENTAGE COMPOSITION OF VARIOUS 

 ARTICLES OF FOOD. (LETHEBY.) 



Bread 

 Oatmeal . 

 Indian corn meal 

 Rice 



Arrowroot 

 Potatoes . 

 Carrots . 

 Turnips . 

 Sugar 

 Treacle . 

 Milk 

 Cream 



Cheddar cheese 

 Lean beef 

 Fat beef . 

 Lean mutton . 

 Fat mutton 

 Veal 



Fat pork . 

 Poultry . 

 White fish 

 Eels 



Salmon . 

 White of egg . 

 Yelk of egg 

 Butter and Fat 

 Beer and porter 



