Chlorine in Urine. 



415 



The table above shows that the chlorine elimination on the last food day is 

 invariably large and that on the first fasting day there is usually a marked 

 diminution in the amount. On the first day of the Vienna fast, however, a very 

 large quantity of chlorine, 9.029 grams, was excreted, while singularly enough, 

 with the same subject, Succi, in the Florence fast, the smallest amount observed 

 on the first day of any fast was recorded. In general, immediately after the 

 first fasting day the chlorine output reaches a low level and there is a slight 

 tendency for the amount to diminish as the fast progresses. No regularity, 

 however, is observed in any of the experiments. Especially noticeable are the 

 marked variations in the relative chlorine excretion in the three fasts of Succi. 

 The amounts in the Vienna fasts are persistently higher than those in the 

 Florence fast. Daiber* found Succi's urine almost chlorine-free on the twen- 

 tieth day of the Zurich fast. It is, furthermore, to be noted that during Succi's 

 fasts, he consumed at varying times different amounts of mineral water 

 (Eiolo) containing a considerable percentage of chlorine; thus, on the third, 

 sixth, and seventh fasting days of the Florence fast, this mineral water was 

 used. Luciani, in discussing these results, points out that after the first few 

 days of fasting, the body has lost such considerable amounts of stored sodium 

 chloride that the amounts absorbed from the mineral water are not immediately 

 excreted but retained, and subsequently eliminated. 



Table 216. Chlorine excreted in urine in metabolism experiments without food. 



Exper- 

 iment 

 num- 

 ber. 



73... 

 75... 



77... 

 79... 

 80... 

 81... 

 82... 

 83... 

 85... 

 89... 



Subject and duration of 

 experiment. 



First 

 day. 



S.A.B., 



S.A.B., 



S.A.B., 



H.E.S., 



C.R.T., 



A.H.M., 



H.C.K., 



H.R.D., 



N.M.P., 



D.W., 



Jan. 28 

 Mar. 4 

 Apr. 8 

 Oct. 13 

 Oct. 27 

 Nov. 21 

 Nov. 24 

 Dec. 5 

 Dec. 9 

 Jan. 10 



to Feb 

 to 10, 

 to 11, 

 to 14, 

 to 28, 

 to 22, 

 to 25, 

 to 6, 

 to 10, 

 to 11, 



. 1, 1905. 



1905 



1905 



1905.... 



1905 



1905 



1905 



1905 



1905 



1906 



Ave. of above experiments. 



Gms. 

 1.630 

 1.447 

 5.294 

 2.917 

 8.898 

 3.880 

 3.451 

 .517 

 2 4.582 

 5.857 



3.847 



Second 

 day. 



Third 

 day. 



Gms. 

 0.466 

 1.338 

 1.671 

 3.622 

 4.028 

 2.794 

 6.714 



.628 

 1.461 

 1.805 



Gms. 

 0.159 

 616 

 919 



2.453 iO.898 



Fourth 

 day. 



Gms. 

 0.356 

 245 

 647 



0.416 



Fifth 

 day. 



Gms. 

 0.408 



0.408 



Sixth 

 day. 



Gms 

 0.387 



Seventh 

 day. 



Gms. 

 0A20 



0.387 0.420 



1 Not determined. 



2 Does not include possible amount in urine lost. 



The data in table 215 show that the chlorine excretion during the fasting is 

 markedly different for different individuals and, indeed, during different exper- 

 iments with the same individual. The conditions which determine the varia- 

 tions in this chlorine excretion are not clear. 



The chlorine excreted in the urine was determined in many of the Middle- 

 town fasting experiments. The results are given in table 216. 



* Loc. cit. 



