Health lectures for the people : delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1880-81.
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Health lectures for the people : delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1880-81. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![VrEIGHT AND CoST OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF DiET REQUIRED TO KaISE A Man (140 lbs.) to the Height of 10,000 Feet.—(Frankland.) Price per B). OlS, required. Cost. Oatmeal, s. 0 D. 93 20-5 H. 0 H Flour, 0 2f 21-0 0 Peameal, - 0 H 21-4 0 ^ Bread, 0 2 37-5 0 Potatoes, 0 1 81-1 0 H Rice, 0 4 21-5 0 Beef-fat, or Dripping, 0 10 8-9 0 Cheshire Cheese, u 10 18o 0 Cabbage, - 0 1 192-3 1 Butter, - 1 6 111 1 Oi Hard Boiled Eggs, - 0 353 1 Lump Sugar, - 0 6 24-1 1 3 Milk (per quart), 0 5 128-3 1 3^ Lean Beef, 1 0 56-5 3 6^ The smallest quantity is required for doing the -work, and at • the same time it is the cheapest in price, 2|d. per lb. We would -require 20J oz., the total cost being 3Jd. It is very closely run by ••wheat flour, which costs ^d. more, and | oz. more of it would be required. Potatoes are very low, and are expensive when you come to measure the work. 5|d. worth is needed to do the work that is done by 3^d. worth of oatmeal. The quantity of cabbage : required is absolutely ridiculous. A man, to do the work, would r require to eat about a stone of cabbage, and who is sufficient for tthat] Of course it must be understood that this table merely -gives the theoretical quantities that would produce the force. It lis obviously impossible to digest a stone of cabbage, or five pounds of potatoes in addition to subsistence diet, nor would it be Ihealthy to take large amounts of unbalanced food. Oatmeal and vwheat flour have the advantage of being nearly balanced, and •with the addition of milk, it would be possible to live on either oof them for long periods of hard work. Great political facts sometimes depend upon dietetics. I heard • a celebrated politician and chemist once state that the greatest](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21450717_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
