Comparison of Factors of Katabolism. 



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section of this report furnish all the statistical details for such computations 

 as may be desired. 



The method of showing the relative katabolism by curves has been elaborated 



Fig. 4. 



for one typical experiment (No. 75 a seven days fast), and the results are 

 given in the two curves herewith. 



The curves are in large part self-explanatory. The uniformity between the 

 curves for water vaporized, heat production, carbon dioxide, oxygen, water of 



