DISEASES OF ADULT LIFE, 
365 
take a wineglassful three times a day. Regulate the bowels 
if you can by your diet. 
If you are costive, the bilious 
powder, dandelion or liver pills may be taken. Asa help to 
our readers to determine what is the best diet, we will give the 
following table of nutriment and food digestion which was 
compiled by Dr. Bermount as a result of his observations 
into the stomach of St. Martin, the man that had a fistulous 
opening into that organ :— 
AMOUNT OF NUTRIMENT CONTAINED IN 1,000 PaRTs.. 
Bones 
Mutton 
Chicken 
Beef 
Veal 
Pork 
Blood 
Cod-fish 
Barley 
‘Cereals 
Beans (dry) 
Rice 
Bread 
Rye 
Oats 
Almonds 
‘Tamarinds 
Plums 
Grapes 
Apricots 
Potatoes 
Rice, boiled soft 
TIME 
510 
290 
270 
260 
250 
250 
215 
210 
920 
890 
890 
880 
800 
792 
742 
650 
840 
290 
270 
260 
260 
TAKEN 
Apples, sweet and ripe 
Sago, boiled 
Sole 
Brain a 
Haddock 4 
White of Egg 
Milk ne 
Wheat ae 
Nuts 
Peas (dry) 
Cherries 
Peaches 
Gooseberries 
Apples 
Pears 
Beetroot 
Strawberries 
Carrots 
Cabbage 
Turnips 
Melons 
Cucumber 
TO DIGEST. 
210 
200 
180 
140 
72 
950 
930 
930 
250 
200 
190 
170 
160 
148 
120 
93 
13 
42 
30 
25 
