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...clothes, lightens his pack with aluminum utensils and condensed food rations. Napoleon's legionnaires, weighed down by bread and flour, carried packs that weighed 58 lb. The modern U. S. foot-slogger's pack weighs 31 lb. His emergency ration consists of nucleo-casein, malted milk, egg albumen, powdered cane sugar, cocoa butter-proteins, amino-bodies, fat and carbohydrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemistry in Warfare | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Colloids are jelly-like substances, solutions of which pass through an animal membrane with difficulty, as opposed to other types of solutions known as crystalloids. Glue, gelatin, starch and albumen are typical colloids. Their importance has come to be recognized only in the last few years. Wilhelm Ostwald, the great Leipzig chemist, was a pioneer in the investigation of colloids, and many scientists are daily adding to the store of knowledge about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Colloids | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...Riddle also announced the discovery of a hitherto unknown function of the thymus, a ductless gland prominent in young children (TIME, June 25), which atrophies at adolescence. A deficiency of thymus in female pigeons prevents their providing their eggs with shells and albumen. If they are fed doses of dried thymus, the eggs become normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cincinnati Meetings | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...examination of Freshmen has now been completed for the third year. The results of this examination shows a surprising similarity each year. The same percentage of boys are found with damaged hearts, with albumen in the urine, etc., each year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PROTECTS HEALTH OF STUDENTS | 1/13/1917 | See Source »

Boylston Chemical Club. Albumen in Urine and the Importance of that Body in the Diagnosis of Disease. Professor E. E. Calder, of Brown University. Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 5/1/1894 | See Source »

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