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METABOLISM IN SEVERE DIABETES. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CASE V. 



Only one experiment was made with this subject, the respiration apparatus 

 being used. The vital statistics were as follows: 



Date of birth, January 19, 1874; height, 173 cm.; body-weight, without 

 clothing, during experiments, 60 kilos. 



Respiration Experiment No. VI. 



Date, March 22, 1910. Body-weight without clothing, 60 kilos. 



The subject had inadvertently eaten some breakfast at 6 h 45 m a. m. on the 

 day of the experiment, consisting of a 2-egg omelet and a cupful of coffee. He 

 arrived at the laboratory at 8 h 40 m a. m., lay down on the couch at 8 h 45 m a. m., 

 and the experiment began at 9 h 22 m a. m., continuing for five periods, with the 

 usual intermissions. Two pneumographs were used to obtain the respiration 

 rate and the major muscular movements, and the stethoscope was employed 



Table 94. Results of respiration experiment No. VI. 



1 Subject ate a light breakfast consisting of a 2-egg omelet and a cup of coffee at 6 h 45 m a.m. 



2 Carbon dioxide eliminated per kilogram per minute, 3.42 c.c. ; oxygen absorbed per kilogram per minute, 4.72 c.c. 



for securing the pulse-rate. The mouth was covered with surgeon's plaster in 

 all the periods. Just before the close of the third period the subject almost 

 went to sleep. After the experiment he said that he found it more difficult to 

 breathe through the apparatus than into the open air. Before coming to the 

 laboratory in the morning he urinated at 6 a. m., after reaching the laboratory 

 at 8 h 45 m a. m., and again after the experiment at ll h 15 ra a. m. The records 

 of the experiment may be found in tables 94 and 95. 



Table 95. Statistics of urine Respiration experiment No. VI. 



1 Subject ate a light breakfast consisting of a 2-egg omelet and a cup of coffee at 6 h 45 m a.m. 



CASE W. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE CASE. 



Female; born June 1, 1892; single; onset of diabetes, November 1908; 

 sugar found in the urine January 1909; came under our observation April 30, 

 1910; condition November 11, 1912, comfortable. 



