s the pelidisi.

FOOTNOTE:

[178] This material was published in the American Medical Journal,
Vol. 77, No. 20, Nov. 12, 1921, by Dr. William E. Carter, Dept.
Pediatrics, University of California Medical School, San Francisco,
Calif.

THE NUTRITIONAL INDEX--THE "PELIDISI"

Pirquet believes that the sitting height is a basis for the more
accurate estimation of the nutritional state than is the standing
height. It was demonstrated that the cube of the sitting height in
centimeters is approximately ten times the weight in grams of the
normal person. With this formula in mind, it becomes easy to compute
the nutritional state in percentages, when the sitting height and the
weight are known. The formula would read:

10 times the weight
------------------- = 100 per cent.
Sitting height^{3}

or

____________________
3 /
v 10 times the weight
----------------------- = 100 per cent.
Sitting height

ADDENDA TO INDEX

Diet, in fevers, 244
in infectious diseases, 244, 244j

Diphtheria, 244d, 244k
complications of, 244d, 244k
convalescent diet in, 244e, 244k
dietetic treatment of, 244e, 244k
gavage in, 244k
rectal feeding in, 244e, 244k

Fevers, diet in, 244

Infant feeding, in infectious diseases, 244

Infectious diseases, diet in, 244, 244j
infant feeding in, 244
restricting diet in, 244a

Measles, 244h, 244l
complications of, 244h, 244l
dietetic treatment of, 244i, 244l

Nephritis in scarlet fever, 244c, 244j

Scarlet fever, 244b, 244j
convalescent treatment in, 244d
dietetic treatment of, 244c, 244j
nephritis in, 244c, 244j

Whooping cough, 244e, 244k
after-effects of, 244f
complications of, 244f, 244k
dietetic treatment of, 244f, 244k
hygiene and sanitation in, 244g

INDEX

Absorption, 166, 176
defined, 166
in large intestine, 178
of carbohydrate, 177
of fat, 177
of mineral salts, 178
of proteins, 177
of water, 177

Acetone bodies, in diabetes, 401

Acetone in urine, test for, 333

Acid, uric, _see_ Uric acid

Acid content of stomach, determining of, 248

Acid-forming foods, 184, 454

Acidosis, 453, 454, 458
dietetic treatment in, 453, 458
fat metabolism in, 453
in diabetes mellitus, 372, 382, 401, 454
in typhoid fever, 299

Acids, amino, 19
organic, 13

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