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great. Had the body-temperature fallen materially the explanation 

 of the decrease in heat-production could easily be made on the basis 

 of difference in temperature potential. No such explanation is, how- 

 ever, at hand. Fully confirmatory results in experiments on a squad 

 of 12 men, maintained for a long period on a much reduced diet have 

 been briefly stated in Chapter IV, p. 103. 



TABLE 45. Heat produced by fasting subject during experiments in bed calorimeter at night. 



* Body surface for days on which photographs were obtained, i.e., April 13, 

 16, 23, 30, and May 7 and 14. Other values obtained by interpolation. 



Turning from the results of prolonged starvation experiments on 

 man to those obtained by Armsby and Fries 47 for a fattening experi- 

 ment on a steer, we note that they observed an increase of 36 per cent 



47 Armsby and Fries, Journ. Agric. Research, 1918, 11, p. 461. 





