Analysis of One Seer of Cow’s Milk by Boussingault.

Water ....................... 12,539.520 grains
Carbon ......................  1,005.408     "
Hydrogen ......................  164.736     "
Nitrogen .......................  74.880     "
Oxygen ......................... 525.456     "
Salts ........................... 90.000     "
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14,400.000     "

Now, one seer of cow’s milk requires for combustion within the animal economy 3278.88 grains of oxygen.  The Brahmachari inhaled 2.27 grains of oxygen per minute.  This Brahmachari spent his life in the contemplation of Om, and led a life of continence.  The French adult, who is a fair specimen of well-developed sensuality, inhaled from the atmosphere 10.87 grains of oxygen every minute of his existence.

A retired, abstemious, and austere life is essentially necessary for the pronunciation of Om, which promotes the love of rigid virtue and a contempt of impermanent sensuality.  Siva says “He who is free from lust, anger, covetousness and ignorance is qualified to obtain salvation, or moksha,” or the Nirvana of the Buddhists.  The solid residue of one seer of cow’s milk is 1860.48 grains.  “In 1784 a student of physic at Edinburgh confined himself for a long space of time to a pint of milk and half a pound of white bread.”

The diet of this student contained 1487.5 grains of carbon and 80.1875 grains of nitrogen.  This food required 4,305 grains of oxygen for the complete combustion of its elements.  He inspired 2.92 grains of oxygen per minute.  In this instance the intense mental culture diminished the quantity of oxygen inspired from the atmosphere.  The early Christian hermits, with a view to extinguish carnal desire and overcome sleep, lived upon a daily allowance of 12 ounces of bread and water.  They daily consumed 4063.084 grains of oxygen.  They inhaled oxygen at the rate of 2.8215 grains per minute.

According to M. Andral, the great French physiologist, a French boy 10 years old, before the sexual appetite is developed, exhales 1852.8 grains of carbon in the twenty-four hours.  He who wishes to curb his lust should consume 1852.8 grains of carbon in his daily diet.

Now, 6,500 grains of household bread contain 1852 grains of carbon, according to Dr. Edward Smith.  This quantity of bread is equal to 14 ounces avoirdupois and 375 grains, but the early Christian hermits who lived upon 12 oz. of bread (avoirdupois) consumed daily 1496.25 grains of carbon.  This quantity of carbon was less than that which the French boy consumed daily by 356.55 grains.  The French boy consumed 1852.8 grains of carbon in his diet, but the Hindu female mendicant, who led a life of continence, consumed in her daily ration of potatoes 1587.6 grains of carbon.  Hence it is evident that the French boy consumed 265.2 grains of carbon more than what was consumed by the female Hindu Yogi.  There lived in Brindavana a Sannyasi, who died at the age of 109 years, and