STATISTICS OF EXPERIMENTS. 



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Table 23. Measurements of metabolism Calorimeter experiment No. N 3. 



1 Subject ate 303 gms. of cooked oatmeal about 1 hr. 30 min. before the experiment began. 



2 Carbon dioxide eliminated per kilogram per minute, 4.47 c.c; oxygen absorbed per kilogram per minute, 5.86 c.c. 



Calorimeter Experiment No. N4. 



Date, December 3, 1910. Body-weight without clothing, 30.5 kilos. 



When the subject came to the laboratory at 7 h 02 m a. m. on the experi- 

 mental clay, aside from a small cupful of black coffee he had had no food since 

 the evening meal of the day before. After two samples of alveolar air had been 

 taken, he entered the bed calorimeter at 7 h 23 m a. m. The experiment began 

 at 8 h 08 m a. m., continued for three 45-minute periods, and ended at 10 h 23 m 

 a. m. The subject was very quiet throughout the experiment, reading most 

 of the time except near the end of each period; he did not sleep at all. After 

 the experiment was over, he urinated at 10 h 35 m a. m.; two additional samples 



Table 24. Measurement of metabolism- 



-Calorimeter experiment No. N4- 



1 Subject drank a small cup of black coffee about 1 hr. 15 mins. before the experiment began 



2 Carbon dioxide eliminated per kilogram per minute, 3.97 c.c. ; oxygen absorbed per kilogram per minute, 5.25 c.c. 



of alveolar air were also taken. The subject said that he did not feel quite so 

 tired and hungry as he had at the close of preceding experiments. On the 

 morning of December 5 his mother said that during the afternoon of the exper- 

 imental day and all the next day the subject was much brighter and better 

 than he had been for some time. He was quite lively and in good spirits, 



Table 25. Statistics of urine Calorimeter experiments Nos. N2-N4- 



Date and period. 



Dec. 1, 1910: 6 b 45 a.m. to 10 h 3S m a.m. 

 Dec. 1-2, 1910: 10 h 38 m a.m. to7 h a.m... 



Dec. 2, 1910: 7 a.m. 1 to ll h 26 m a.m 



Dec. 2-3, 1910: ll h 26 m a.m. to 7 a.m. . . 



Dec. 3, 1910: 7 a.m. 2 to 10 h 35 m a.m 



Dec. 3-4, 1910: 10 h 35 a.m. to 7 a.m. . . . 



Volume. 



c.c. 

 473 



2520 

 512 



1700 

 250 



1560 



Specific 

 gravity. 



1.019 

 1.020 

 1.022 



1.030 



Total 

 nitrogen. 



Sugar. 



gms. 

 1.26 

 4.86 



.98 

 5.09 



.95 

 4.11 



gms. 



5.7 

 64.8 

 17.9 

 40,6 



8.1 

 29.4 



1 Subject ate 300 gms. of cooked oatmeal just before coming to the laboratory at 7 h 55 m a.m. 



2 Subject drank a small cup of black coffee just before coming to the laboratory at 7 n 02 m a.m. 



