Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1914, Vol. 23 Suppose we take a man of average weight, say 85 kilogrammes, (187 and in excellent health, and place him in a properly constructed calorimetric chamber in which he will be at liberty to stand, sit, or lie down at pleasure, and without uneasiness or restraint. -let us suppose, also, that we have an arrangement by which he can perform mechanical work for nine hours of the twenty four in which he resides in the chamber, and that the amount ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1914, Vol. 23 Suppose we take a man of average weight, say 85 kilogrammes, (187 and in excellent health, and place him in a properly constructed calorimetric chamber in which he will be at liberty to stand, sit, or lie down at pleasure, and without uneasiness or restraint. -let us suppose, also, that we have an arrangement by which he can perform mechanical work for nine hours of the twenty four in which he resides in the chamber, and that the amount of this mechanical work can be measured and registered in units of heat. Suppose, further, that he receives a diet suitable for a man doing this amount of work, and that the calories obtained by the combustion of this food have also been calculated. Finally, let us suppose that the excreta passed during the twenty-four hours are collected, and their calorimetrical value also ascertained. No doubt it would be difiicult to carry on this experiment for a period of twenty-four hours, but such experiments have been made by Him, a well-known authority on this subject, for a period of one hour in each case, and it would be a matter only involving trouble and special arrangements to maintain the conditions for twenty-four hours. We will allow the subject of experiment a diet equal to that supplied to the Royal Engineers of the British army when they are engaged in active service. This is selected as a diet suitable for a healthy man doing vigorous work for nine hours per day. The result would probably come out in the following balance sheet, in which the figures have been calculated from data given by Him in his well-known calorimetric experiments on man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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