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Influence of Inanition on Metabolism. 



is not marked it is obvious that by this method of apportionment there may be, 

 for example, an apparent loss of water from the absorbers, bed, bedding, and 

 miscellaneous articles during the last period of one day of an experiment and a 

 gain by the same articles in the next period, i. e., the first period of the next 

 experimental day. Until a more perfect method is devised for weighing all 

 the articles in the chamber at the end of each period, this is the only method 

 available for apportioning the 24-hour gain or loss among the different periods. 



Elimination of Carbon Dioxide and Absorption of Oxygen. 



The elimination of carbon dioxide and the absorption of oxygen were meas- 

 ured in all the experiments reported in this publication. Though the data were 

 given in detail for experiment TsTo. 59 and a separate table was devoted to each, 

 in this and subsequent experiments it will suffice to give only the amounts of 

 oxygen and carbon dioxide in the chamber at the end of each period and the 

 total amounts respired by the subject. Given these data, the proportions of 

 carbon dioxide and oxygen in the air at any given period of the day may be 

 readily computed by the method explained on page 33. The conditions affecting 

 the fluctuations in the amount of oxygen in the chamber have been discussed 



