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the glove was suspended, water was driven tli rough the skin 

 into the glove by some force other than osmotic pressure ami 

 that the velocity of the transfer was increased by the pres- 

 ence of K in the Ringer's solution. On the other hand, after 

 the fifth hour of suspension the behavior of the glove contain- 

 ing Ringer in which K was absent (571 1) differed somewhat 

 from that of the glove containing Ringer in which K was 

 present (571J). In this instance an equilibrium had been 

 established sometime between the fifth and the twenty-second 



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hour; the weight of the glove then remained stationary for a 

 considerable time, after which, at the end of forty-eight 

 hours' suspension in the hypertonic solution, there followed 

 a slight gain in weight amounting to about 13 per cent. 



In relation to the presence and absence of K in the Ringer's 

 solution, the general behavior of the gloves in experiment .">:!:'. 

 (fig. 22) is the same as in experiment 571 (fig. 22). The fact 

 that the initial loss in weight of the glove in experiment 571 

 was greater than in experiment 533 may be explained on the 

 ground that the capacity of the skin to transfer water through 



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