ii Influence of Inanition- on Metabolism. 



My thanks are especially due to Dr. A. R. Diefendorf, pathologist of the 

 Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, Middletown, Connecticut, and Prof. 

 Lafayette B. Mendel, of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. I have 

 from time to time enjoyed the valuable counsel and advice of both these gen- 

 tlemen. Dv. Diefendorf personally made a very large number of the blood 

 examinations and furnished a statement which has been embodied in this report. 

 Professor Mendel suggested the desirability of determining the creatinine in 

 the samples of urine in the fasting experiments. Some of the determinations 

 he kindly made in the New Eaven laboratory. In this work he was assisted 

 by Mr. 0. E. Closson. 



F. G. B. 



Chemical Lauoratoky, Wesleyan University, 



Middletown, Connecticut, December 21, 1906. 



