The elements of the science of nutrition / by Graham Lusk.

  • Graham Lusk
Date:
1917
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Credit: The elements of the science of nutrition / by Graham Lusk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 5.—Showing the respiration calorimeter of the Russell Sage Institute of Pathol- ogy which is affiliated with the Second (Cornell) Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital, New York City. From left to right, observer 3 is at the “absorber table;” the residual U tubes and the 10-liter meter are on top; the “absorbers” of CO2 and H20 are on the middle shelf, and the “blower” on the lower shelf. Observer 1 is at the electric control table. Observer 2 is filling the spirometer with his right hand from an oxygen cylinder he is touching with his left.