and jumped and played all day like ordinary healthy children, and were said to be unusually free from colds and other complaints common to childhood.” Turning now to a larger community,--the island nation of Japan,--whose exploits in war have recently attracted the attention of the civilized world, we find a people the great majority of whom have remained untouched by the prodigality of western civilization, and whose customs and habits still bear the imprint of simplicity and frugality. After the restoration of Japan and the reorganization of the government in 1867, much attention was directed to the methods of living and to the dietary habits of the people, with the result that during the last twenty-five years there have been slowly accumulating many important data bearing on the food consumption of the people. These have recently been brought together in an interesting volume by Kintaro Oshima, and published[66] in the English language. [66] A Digest of Japanese Investigations on the Nutrition of Man. Bulletin No. 159, Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1905. +-----------------------+--------+--------------------------------+ | | |Digestible Nutrients and Energy | | | | per Man per Day. | | Subjects. | Body- +--------+-----+--------+--------+ | |weight. |Proteid.| Fat.| Carbo- | Fuel | | | | | |hydrate.| Value. | +-----------------------+--------+--------+-----+--------+--------+ | | kilos | grams |grams| grams |calories| |School business agent |57.5 | 65.3 |11.3 | 493.8 | 2467 | |Physician |.... | 61.9 | 8.0 | 468.5 | 2315 | |Merchant |47.6 | 81.5 |19.6 | 366.2 | 2082 | |Medical student |49.0 | 74.8 |11.2 | 326.9 | 1811 | |Medical student |48.5 | 64.7 | 5.1 | 469.6 | 2305 | |Military cadets |.... | 72.3 |11.7 | 618.1 | 3021 | |Prisoners without work |47.6[67]| 36.3 | 5.6 | 360.4 | 1726 | |Prisoners at light work|48.0[67]| 43.1 | 6.2 | 443.9 | 2112 | |Prisoners at hard work |.... | 56.7 | 7.5 | 610.8 | 2884 | |Physician |40.2 | 48.3 |15.5 | 438.2 | 2201 | |Hygienic assistant |40.5 | 46.5 |19.7 | 485.3 | 2430 | |Medical student |51.0 | 42.8 |14.0 | 438.2 | 2163 | |Police prisoners |.... | 42.7 | 8.7 | 387.3 | 1896 | |Army surgeon |54.0 | 79.3 |11.7 | 502.0 | 2567 | |Soldier |66.7 | 75.8 |13.5 | 563.8 | 2828 | |Soldier |61.0 | 58.8 |11.3 | 467.8 | 2330 | |Soldier |56.7 | 55.2 |10.9 | 459.6 | 2276 | +-----------------------+--------+--------+-----+--------+--------+ [67] Average weight of twenty subjects.