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was transported through the skin into the glove was less in 

 the experiments than in the controls indicates that in the 

 experiments some factor must have been acting in opposition 

 to osmotic pressure by which, until an equilibrium had 

 been established, water should have 'been driven out- 

 ward through the skin from the glove. This factor, as we 

 have previously demonstrated, is the force by which water 

 is driven through the skin in a direction opposite to that of 



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osmotic pressure; and in the experiments this driving force 

 exceeds that of the driving force of osmosis. We may thus 

 account for the fact that skin gloves filled with a hypotonic 

 Ringer's solution may gain weight when placed in a hyper- 

 tonic Ringer's solution. 



Another factor which may occasionally modify the behavior 

 of skin gloves, under the conditions of the experiment above 

 mentioned, is the capacity of the skin itself to gain or to 

 lose water in conjunction with, but independently of, the 



