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health from overfeeding (though I suppose all physical sins 
must be paid for in the long run), but a growing family and 
growing debts exert on me a highly beneficial pressure. I enclose 
a list of the food I ate April-September ’03. The table was 
made primarily with a view to cost, hut weights can he deduced 
from it within probably 5 per cent, of the truth.” 
The diet here recorded is a much more normal one, and con- 
sidering the non-availability of the proteid in many vegetable 
foods, and the fact that many of the vegetables used contain a 
large proportion of non-proteid nitrogen which is here recorded as 
proteid, the food consumption is by no means above the average. 
The growing family and growing debts have certainly been bene- 
ficial so far as his diet is concerned. 
The food consumed during this second six-months period was 
of essentially the same kind as during the first period, but differed 
from the latter in quantity. He had reduced his six-monthly 
consumption of monkey nuts from 94 kilogrammes to 13T, of 
ho vis bread from 84 kilogrammes to 30; but had increased his 
supplies of other, more ordinary, breads from 10 to 65. Another 
notable change was that he had much increased his supply of 
fresh vegetables, using no less than 22 kilogrammes of carrots, 
while during the first period he only used 0*02 of that vegetable. 
Here is a list of the food used during the second period, 
expressed in kilos: — Monkey nuts, 13*10; roasted peanuts, 
0*90; apples, 9*80; oranges, 1*50; lemons, 2*00; tomatoes, 
1*40; melons, 5*00; red currants, 1*00; cucumbers, 1*50; 
stoned raisins, 1*80; hovis bread, 30*613; whole - meal 
bread, 44*73; malt bread, 16*00; white bread, 5*00; biscuits, 
4*00; bannocks, 12*00; cake, 0*30; quaker oats, 0*90; 
force, 1*80; sugar, 10*5; carrots, 22*20; onions, 3*00; 
scallions, 1*20; turnips, 8*00; green peas, 2 00 ; rhubarb, 14*00; 
radishes, 1*50; jam, 6*30; honey, 0*40; syrup, 9*00; nucoline, 
6*30 ; walnut butter, 0*40 ; peanut butter, 0*40 ; cow {sic) 
butter, 7*7; cocoa, 0*2; coffee, 0*2; chocolate, 4*0; sweets, 
0*6; eggs, 1*40; Briggs’ food, 0*40 ; orange wine ; plasmon, 0*4 ; 
Maggi’s soup powder, 0*1. 
The total food principles in these six months’ rations, as estimated 
by us, amount to: proteid, 19,054*4 grammes; fat, 18,981*9: 
