Nutrition
Sanctorius stands out as a forerunner in the early years of the seventeenth century of that statical method of physiological inquiry which during the subsequent years was destined to produce such important results.
Abstract
at different times and of his food and his excretions. He had constructed a chair suspended from a large steelyard, so that he could, using this as a balance, accurately determine his body weight at any time. He was concerned particularly with the &dquo;insensible perspiration&dquo; of the body, by which was meant the usually invisible exhalations from the body, the gases carbon dioxide and water vapor as we now know them. Sanctorius stands out as a forerunner in the early years of the seventeenth century of that statical method of physiological inquiry which during the subsequent years was destined to produce such important results.’