For a period of thirty years Santorio weighed himself, everything - TopicsExpress



          

For a period of thirty years Santorio weighed himself, everything he ate and drank, as well as his urine and feces. He compared the weight of what he had eaten to that of his waste products, the latter being considerably smaller because for every eight pounds of food he ate, he excreted only 3 pounds of waste. This important experiment is the origin of the significance weight measurement is crucial in medicine.[3] He produced his theory of insensible perspiration as an attempt to account for this difference. His findings had little scientific value, but he is still celebrated for his empirical methodology. The weighing chair, which he constructed and employed during this experiment, is also famous.
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