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certain from a comparison of these data with weights taken by the subject, 

 the weight of clothes being taken into consideration. The figure above was 

 therefore taken as a basis. 



Table 16. Determinations of body temperature and body-weight, with correspond- 

 ing heat corrections Metabolism experiment No. 59. 



1 The weight given for " a. m. arbitrarily assumed. 



In addition to the fluctuations in body-weight, it is necessary in order to 

 get the true heat produced, to know also the changes in body temperature. 

 These latter were taken with the electrical rectal thermometer, which has been 

 described in detail. 11 While reserving the list of thermometric observations for 



"Benedict & Snell, Archiv f. d. ges. Physiol. (1901), 88, pp. 492-500; Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 156. 



