GOOD POOD. 
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of a few European and American women^ the whole human 
family smokes. If it be a vice^ its evils are so small and its 
fascinations so great_, that it may most certainly be prophesied 
that it will be one of the fixed habits of humanity for all time 
to come. 
Leavings then^ the last two groups of food_, let us consider 
the first two groups^ those which comprise the great bulk of 
our aliment from day to day. In order to the understanding of 
this subject^ I have drawn up a table of the daily supply and 
waste of a human body^ weighing eleven stones and measuring 
five feet eight inches in height. 
TAKEiSr IN. 
oz. 
GIVEN OUT. 
oz. GR. 
I. — Gases. 
I. — Gases. 
Oxygen 
• • • 
24 
Carbon 
11 oz. 
Oxygen 
24 
ii. — Liquids. 
• — ■ 
35 
Water : — 
In beverages 
68 oz. 
II. — Liquids. 
In solid food 
25 
Water : — 
— 
93 
By kidneys 
51 oz. 
By lungs . . . 
31 
III. — Solids. 
By skin . . . 
16 
Flesh producers : 
By alimentary 
Fibrine 
3 oz. 
canal 
5-237 
Albumen and 
103-237 
caseine 
1 
4 
III.— Solids. 
Insoluble 
• t • 
2 
Heat-givers : — 
Soluble : — 
Starch 
12 oz. 
oz. gr. 
Fat or butter 
5 
Urea 
1-200 
Sugar 
2 
Salts 
1 
— 
19 
2-200 
Indigestible : — 
1 
Gelatine . , . 
1 oz. 
Cellular 
1 
i 
— 
2 
1 
• 
Mineral matter 
... 
1 i 
1 
143 
143-000 
This analysis has been founded upon an extensive analysis 
of the dietary of soldiers^ sailors_, prisoners_, and the diet of 
the better-paid class of artisans and professional classes in 
London. 
The solid substances named in the taken in ’’ list are 
found in the common articles of diet^ in the ineaL the bread, 
the flour^ the vegetables^ the cheese_, the butter_, the sugar, 
that we take at our ordinary meals. It will be seen that the 
