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INFLUENCE OF FOOD PRESERVATIVES ON HEALTH. 



TABLE XIX. Comparison of average daily ratios of food weight (moist and dry) to body 



weight for Series I. 



THE NUMBER OF CORPUSCLES AND THE QUANTITY OF HEMO- 

 GLOBIN IN THE BLOOD. 



The determination of the corpuscles and hemoglobin in the blood 

 was made by the methods usually employed. For determining the 

 number of corpuscles in the blood the method employed was the ordi- 

 nary one in which the Thoma-Zeiss apparatus is used. The details of 

 this method are such as are given by Cabot. a The apparatus used for 

 making the hemoglobin test in the first series was the Dare apparatus. 



Clinical Examination of the Blood, by K. C. Cabot, fourth revised edition, pp. 

 12-19. Wm. Wood & Co., New York, 1901. 



