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observed, a general tendency for water to pass from the 

 glove through the skin outward, in a direction exactly oppo- 

 site to that which occurs when the outside of the skin is 

 turned outward. This transport of water outward through 

 the skin is usually not at first evident, for the reason that the 

 glove almost invariably gains weight during the first hour 

 of its suspension in Ringer's solution. This gain in weight 



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is not due, however, to the presence of water which has 

 passed from without inward through the skin into the glove, 

 but rather to the fact that the skin itself has absorbed and 

 held water, in excess of that which is simultaneously trans- 

 ported from the glove through the skin outward. When the 

 hydration capacity of the skin has been satisfied so that water 

 is no longer absorbed by the skin itself, then the glo^e often 

 begins to lose weight, due to a passage of water from the 



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