Standard values in nutrition and metabolism, being the second fascicle of a handbook of biological data

LBRITTON STANDARD VALUES NUTRITION and METABOLISM W, B.SAUNDERS COMPANY-^ r fit STANDARD VALUES ifi NUTRITION and METABOLISM Being the second fascicle aof Handbook of Biological Data EDITED BY ERRETT C. ALBRITTON, A.B., M.D. Fry Professor Physiologyof The George Washington University e.rs Prepared under the Direction of the Committee on the Handbook of Biological Data AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Philadelphia and London W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANYSaunders CompanyCopyright, 1954, by W. B. copyright unioncopyright under the international No partreserved. hook is protected by copyright. ofAll rights This manner without written permission fromit may be reproduced in any any purpose the United States Government.the publisher, except for of Slates America.Made in the United of Number: 54-12407Library of Congress Catalog CardForeword Sciences-National Research CouncilFive years ago the National Academy of States Air Force, towith the Wright Air Development Center, Unitedcontracted in the variouspublication the more basic established datagather and compile for The present work, issued in August, 1954, under jointfields of biological science. asNavy, and Atomic Energy Commissionsponsorship of the Air Force, Army, 52-301, the second fascicleWright Air Development Center Technical Report is resulting from the project. Handbook ofDirection of the work was entrusted to the Committee onthe Thethe American Institute of Biological Sciences.Biological Data, an organ of Council as a unit in the Council'sInstitute is affiliated with the National Research the Committee is represent-Division of Biology and Agriculture. Membership of ative of major fields in plant and animal biology. Committeehighest degree authoritativeness for the work, theSeeking of which table is drawn can best exerciserecognized that specialists in a field from a select data for an authoritative table.the criticaljudgment necessary to evaluate and acceptable methods of meas-The specialist can best identify those data born of most reproducibilityurement and those having greatest likelihood, or actual history, of selection andin competent hands. The Committee accordingly prescribed that in nutrition,review data broadest collaboration be sought aunong investigators inof metabolism, and related fields. of more than 800 specialistsThis monograph is the product of contributions originally compiled,in these fields in this country and abroad. Its 160 tables, as By thiswere subjected to extensive review by experts in the respective subjects. procedure it has been possible to strip from the tables most of the controversial or final presentation to the user onlyquestionable or borderline material, leaving for to judge. The 223what is presently accepted as fact by those who are competent items authori-pages of tables and 16 pages of diagrams contain many thousands of of Thetative data--mostly quantitative, but with important non-numerical exceptions. task of and condensing data on hand to conform with time andculling the mass of -that much that has beensoelimispace limitations has been gigantic. It is planned Handbook of Biologicalnated will be published in subsequent fascicles or in the final Data. Acknowledgment ismade, on behalf of the Committee, to Wright Air Develop- ment Center, Office the the Army, Office of Naval Research,of Surgeon General of and Division Energy Commission, for the foresightof Biology and Medicine, Atomic this tabular mono-and scientific judgment inherent in the commission to prepare devotion of timiegraph; to the biologists of this and other countries whose generous as contributors and reviewers hasmade possible completion of thework as it stands; and to many given Committee solicited advice. Ac-others, unlisted, who have the knowledgment Handbook Staff foris also made to present and formermembers of the their loyalty and devotion to a most tedious and exacting job. The first, Others in progress"Standard Values in Blood", was published in 1952. bio-deal with the fields of growth and reproduction, animal and plant physiology, Datachemical composition, and toxicology. An abridged Handbook of Biological incontaining tabular information drawn from all areas of biological science is also preparation. HITHE COMMITTEE ON THE HANDBOOK OF BIOLOGICAL DATA Theodore C. Byerly, Chairman ERRETT C. AlbrITTON, Executive Secretary Dbtlbv Bronk*W. Charles M. Goss G. D. Meid* BugherJohn C. William W. Greuuch Orr E. Reynolds F. L. Campbell* Frank G. Hall William W. Rubey* Harold Conn W. Heim Royal Shanks J. J. Wallace O. Fbnn Paul E. Howe Oswald Tippo A. P. Gagge E. Morton Jellinek Paul A. Weiss David R. Goddard F. Knoblauch Raymund L. ZwemerJ. Milton LeeO. • ex officio e^rs EDITORIAL STAFF Errett C. Albritton, Editor William S. Spector, Assistant Editor Bernard Bridgers Sherman HallH. William O. Nbgherbon Nellie F. Brown Marian V. Ham Edgar C. Rich Norbert FellH. William C Higgins William H. Sattbrfield Rudolph GrebeM. FlorenceM Lochrie F. SobrofskiJohn