Benedict
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Francis Ganot Benedict was an outstanding American physiologist who collaborated with Atwater on fundamental works in the physiology of metabolism and energy. He developed tables for determining basal metabolism based on height, age, and gender, and created an apparatus for studying gas exchange that was widely used in clinics.
Encyclopedia article (1928–1936)
Benedict, Francis Ganot, outstanding American physiologist. Born in 1870. For a long time he was a collaborator of Atwater (see) and together with him carried out a number of fundamental works on the physiology of metabolism and energy. In collaboration with Harris, he compiled tables for determining basal metabolism based on height, age, and gender. Using an apparatus he designed for studying gas exchange, together with Cathcart he investigated the changes occurring in the organism in connection with muscular work. A simplified model of B.'s apparatus is quite widely used in clinics abroad for the rapid determination of the magnitude of metabolism in a state of rest. B. is director of the Laboratory for the Study of Nutrition (Nutrition Laboratory) in the city of Boston. Lit.: Benedict and Cathcart, Muscular work, Carnegie Institution of Washington publication, № 187, 1913; and other publications of the same institute, which includes the 'Nutrition Laboratory'.
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“Benedict.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/benedict/