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Paper, 'Experiments on the nutritive value of wheat meal' by A [Alexander] Wynter Blyth

Reference number: PP/13/35

Date: 1889

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Blyth writes: 'A physician, who may be designated as A, undertook to live for twenty-eight days on distilled water and whole meal. Each day a certain quantity of the meal was ground by himself, weighed, and made either into cakes or porridge by means of distilled water. The excreta was forwarded to me for analysis.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Biology / Nutrition

Received 30 March 1889. Read 11 April 1889. Communicated by Thomas Lauder Brunton

A version of this paper was published in volume 45 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Experiments on the nutritive value of wheat meal'.

Reference number
PP/13/35
Earliest possible date
1889
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Typescript

Creator name

Alexander Wynter Blyth

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Alexander Wynter Blyth, Paper, 'Experiments on the nutritive value of wheat meal' by A [Alexander] Wynter Blyth, 1889, PP/13/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_13_35/paper-experiments-on-the-nutritive-value-of-wheat-meal-by-a-alexander-wynter-blyth, accessed on 08 September 2024

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