On the Source of Muscular Power: Arguments and Conclusions Drawn from Observations Upon the Human Subject, Under Conditions of Rest and of Muscular ExerciseD. Appleton, 1878 - 103 páginas Austin Flint, Jr., the fifth in line of medical ancestry, was an eminent physiologist who made studies of nitrogen excretion and cholesterin. -- H.W. Orr. |
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... walking , a person in this condi- tion usually carries a certain weight of inert matter in the form of fat , which increases the demands upon his muscular system . By a judicious process of training , however , the fat may be reduced to ...
... walking , a person in this condi- tion usually carries a certain weight of inert matter in the form of fat , which increases the demands upon his muscular system . By a judicious process of training , however , the fat may be reduced to ...
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... walk of five consecutive days . He must have had at least forty - eight pounds of muscular tissue , and he was reduced in weight , dur- 1 SAPPEY , Traité d'anatomie , Paris , 1868 , tome ii . , p . 6 . 2 CARPENTER , Principles of Human ...
... walk of five consecutive days . He must have had at least forty - eight pounds of muscular tissue , and he was reduced in weight , dur- 1 SAPPEY , Traité d'anatomie , Paris , 1868 , tome ii . , p . 6 . 2 CARPENTER , Principles of Human ...
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... walk of two hundred and seventy - seven miles in four consecutive days , to one hundred and four- teen pounds . During this time , he probably con- sumed five pounds of muscular tissue which could not be repaired by food , or about ten ...
... walk of two hundred and seventy - seven miles in four consecutive days , to one hundred and four- teen pounds . During this time , he probably con- sumed five pounds of muscular tissue which could not be repaired by food , or about ten ...
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... walk of 23.7 miles on one day , and 32.78 miles on the day following . During these two days , upon an exclusively non - nitrogenized diet , the elimination of nitrogen was slightly increased over a period of two days of rest with a non ...
... walk of 23.7 miles on one day , and 32.78 miles on the day following . During these two days , upon an exclusively non - nitrogenized diet , the elimination of nitrogen was slightly increased over a period of two days of rest with a non ...
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... walk by Perkins , the pedestrian , of sixty- five and one - half miles in twenty - four hours . 1 The Lancet , London , February 26 , March 4 , 11 , 18 , 25 , Novem- ber 25 , December 9 , 16 , 23 , 1876 , and January 13 , 1877 . 2. A ...
... walk by Perkins , the pedestrian , of sixty- five and one - half miles in twenty - four hours . 1 The Lancet , London , February 26 , March 4 , 11 , 18 , 25 , Novem- ber 25 , December 9 , 16 , 23 , 1876 , and January 13 , 1877 . 2. A ...
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actual amount of heat amount of nitrogen assumed carbonic acid cent Cloth cular daily average Day Period prior days of rest Days of Walking deduct disassimilation elimination of nitrogen estimated excess excretion of nitrogen experiments fæces Fifth 24 Hours five days food and muscle food taken foot-pounds foot-tons force force-value of food grains of nitrogen heat-units Hours after Weston's Hours of Weston's increased Lancet loss of weight Miles walked muscular exercise muscular power muscular substance muscular system muscular tissue nitro nitrogen discharged nitrogen eliminated nitrogen excreted nitrogen of food nitrogenized food nitrogenous matter non-nitrogenized food non-nitrogenous diet nutrition nutritive action one-half miles Pavy Pavy's observations physi physiological pounds prior to Weston's produced quantity of nitrogen represented respiration Second 24 Hours source of muscular Third 24 Hours timated trogen twenty-four hours Urea and Uric Uric Acid urine Weston walked Weston's 6 Days Wislicenus
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Página 97 - ... develops the capacity for work ; but food is not directly converted into force in the living body nor is it a source of muscular power, except that it maintains the muscular system in a proper condition for work.
Página 34 - Boiled and roasted flesh is converted at once into blood ; while the uric acid and urea are derived from the metamorphosed tissues. The quantity of these products increases with the rapidity of transformation in a given time, but bears no proportion to the amount of food taken in the same period. In a starving man, who is any way compelled to undergo severe and continued exertion, more urea is secreted than in the most highly fed individual, if in a state of rest.
Página 37 - ... more measurable work than the equivalent of the amount of heat which, taken at a most absurdly high figure, could be calculated to result from the burning of the albumen.' They further go on to state that, so far from the oxidation of albuminous substances being the only source of muscular power, ' the substances by the burning of which force is generated in the muscles are not the albuminous constituents of those tissues, but non-nitrogenous substances, either fats or hydrates of carbon,' and...
Página 97 - American pedestrian, which seemed to show that, in his case at least, the excretion of nitrogen is very distinctly increased, both during and after severe muscular work. He accordingly comes to the conclusion that "the exercise of muscular power immediately involves the. destruction of a certain amount of muscular substance, of which the nitrogen excreted is a measure.
Página 7 - By AUSTIN FLINT, Jr., MD, Professor of Physiology in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, etc., etc. i vol., 8vo, 103 pp. Cloth, $1.00. " There are few questions relating to Philosophy of greater interest and importance than the one which is the subject of this essay. I have attempted to present an accurate statement of my own observations and what seem to me to be the logical conclusions to be drawn from them, as well as from experiments made by others upon the human subject under conditions...