Excerpt from The Journal of Health, Vol. 3: September 14, 1831 Davy makes the proportion of gluten in wheat, to be from 19 to 24 per cent. Whilst Vauquelin and Henry, of Paris, find the flour of the Paris bakers to be to per cent. The difference, therefore, Is very great in the varieties of wheat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.