The Practitioner . Percentages. Absorption. Retention. Period I. - - - - - Period II. Period III. 92-4 per cent. 90-9 ,. M 935 .. ,. 6-84 per ,. ..9-09 .. .. (an average of 1-1418 grms. per day), showing a progressiveimprovement in the ahmentary chemistry. The averagenitrogen absorption was 93 - 5 per cent. The excretion (with i66 THE PRACTITIONER. the exception of one day) remained below the mean of Period nitrogen retention continued high, averaging 9*09 percent. The most marked effect was the establishment of thefact, indicated by the analysis of the faeces of the previousp
The Practitioner . Percentages. Absorption. Retention. Period I. - - - - - Period II. Period III. 92-4 per cent. 90-9 ,. M 935 .. ,. 6-84 per ,. ..9-09 .. .. (an average of 1-1418 grms. per day), showing a progressiveimprovement in the ahmentary chemistry. The averagenitrogen absorption was 93 - 5 per cent. The excretion (with i66 THE PRACTITIONER. the exception of one day) remained below the mean of Period nitrogen retention continued high, averaging 9*09 percent. The most marked effect was the establishment of thefact, indicated by the analysis of the faeces of the previousperiod, tliat the percentage absorption of digestible nitrogen ofhigh nutritional value is increased by the action of raw gradual diminution in the unabsorbed nitrogen is probablydue to some collagen being carried over from Period II., thenitrogen of the faeces at the end of Period III. being distinctlylower than during Period I. on a corresponding diet. K«m CMS (Ml Il?3,<5E?l?34 58l?34 56;8 9l?34 56783. Periodic counts showed :— I. An increased digestive leucoc)rtosis during the rawmeat pericd, as compared with the second cookedperiod, the leucocytosis during the first cookedperiod being unusually high. EFFECT OF RAW MEAT IN TUBERCULOSIS. 167 II. An increase in the total number of leucocytes, espe-cially lymphocytes, during the raw meat period,subsiding during the second cooked An increase in haemoglobin percentage, 84 per cent,to 87 per cent, during the cooked meat period, and87 per cent, to 115 per cent, during the raw meatperiod, falling during the second cooked meatperiod to 105 per total leucocytes during the second cooked meat periodreturned to the same level as at the start of the experiment,and the large digestive leucocytosis diminished. EXPERIMENT II. Patient aged 18. Height 5 ft. 2h in., weight 49-9 second experiment was conducted on the same lines as thefirst with the exception that the meat was reduced by 90grammes, and
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