
STUDIES OF DIETARIES. ape td Fy 
bread, etc., which might be saved, but is actually thrown 
away with the refuse. 
In the studies here described the refuse and waste were sep- 
arated as completely as practicable, and the latter collected and 
either dried and analyzed, or the nutrients calculated from the 
weights and percentage composition of the different food mate- 
rials making up the waste. 
DIETARY STUDIES OF AN INVALID. 
In the Report of the Station for 1896 a dietary study was pub- 
lished of a gentleman who was suffering from pulmonary tuber- 
culosis, and was living in the Adirondack region of New Vork, 
where persons affected by this disease resort for alleviation or 
cure. Inthe present Report three more studies of the diet of the 
same person are given. These, like the previous ones, were 
made by the young man himself, who had become much inter- 
ested in such inquiries. His education and training had been 
such as to give value to the results of his work, and the reports 
show evidence of no little painstaking in the carrying out of 
the details. The weighings of food and waste were made in 
part with ‘‘reliable steelyards’’ and in part with grocer’s 
scales. ‘The observations are of interest as an illustration of 
the dietary habits of an intelligent person affected by this dis- 
ease and acting under the advice of physicians in the hope of 
relief or cure. ‘They represent the food consumption of a man 
with light exercise and under more or less abnormal conditions. 
Conditions under which the subject lived.—The subject was 
obliged to follow certain courses of treatment and could not 
endure prolonged or severe exercise. At the time of the first 
study he had been residing in the Adirondacks for six years, 
the most of which time was spent at hotels and boarding 
houses. He had, however, become weary of hotel life and had 
rented a cottage and was boarding himself. This gave him 
abundant opportunity to carry on such investigations as those 
here reported. Influenced partly by the advice of his physicians 
and partly by a tendency said to be not uncommon with those 
affected by such disease he consumed large quantities of meat 
in proportion to vegetable foods. The results of this are 
shown in the unusually large amount of protein consumed—in 
the first studies amounting, in one case, to 200 grams per day. 

