Nitrogen Output.
Taken in. Nitrogen in Urine. Weight of Fæces (dry).
June 1 6.787 grams. 5.96 grams. 10 grams.
2 6.060 5.81 10
3 7.024 7.30 25
4 7.173 6.78 6
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51 grams contain 5.81 % N.
27.044 25.85 + 2.963 grams nitrogen.
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27.044 grams nitrogen. 28.813 grams nitrogen.
Nitrogen balance for four days = -1.760 grams.
Nitrogen balance per day = -0.442 grams.
Average Intake.
Calories per day 1785.
Nitrogen per day 6.73 grams.
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Dr. Arthur L. Dean, Instructor in Plant Physiology in the Sheffield
Scientific School, twenty-five years of age, and weighing 64 kilos,
likewise became a subject of study in this investigation. He is a man of
strong physique, and as an undergraduate student at Harvard University
trained for various athletic events. He began on the experiment October
13, 1903, and continued until April 3, 1904. From October 13th to October
27 he followed his usual dietary habits, simply reducing in some measure
the amount of food consumed. During this period of fifteen days, the
average excretion of nitrogen per day through the kidneys was about 12
grams. On the 28th of October he began to reduce in still greater measure
the amount of proteid food eaten, and gradually diminished the extent of
his proteid metabolism, although not to the same degree as the preceding
subjects. He had full freedom of choice in the character and quantity of
his diet, but his food was characterized by a predominance of vegetable
matter, with an almost complete exclusion of meat.
For a period of nearly six months, or more exactly, from October 28
to April 3, the average daily output of nitrogen through the kidneys
amounted to 8.99 grams, while the average daily output of uric acid was
0.386 gram. This daily excretion of 8.99 grams of nitrogen implies a
metabolism of 56.18 grams of proteid. This, to be sure, means a reduction
in proteid metabolism of about 50 per cent, as compared with the Voit and
other standards, but does not show an economy equal to that practised
by the preceding subjects. It is to be noted, however, in Dr. Dean’s
case, that the body-weight did not show at any time in the experiment a
tendency to diminish. In fact, all through the experiment his body-weight
was a little higher than at the beginning.