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Table 24. Record of pulse and respiration Metabolism experiment No. 138. 



METABOLISM EXPERIMENT No. 139. 



Subject, A. H. M., January 30, 1906. (Same subject as in 

 experiment No. 137.) 



The experiment on this day was a comparison of the metabolic activity when 

 standing in the morning with that when lying down covered with a double 

 blanket in the afternoon. At the beginning of the morning period the subject 

 went to the food aperture and placed in it the clinical thermometer, and then 

 stood still during the remainder of the 3-hour period, not leaning, and the 

 only movement he made was occasionally to change his position. He read 

 part of the time. The period after the usual time of preparation began at 

 9 h 45 m a, m. and ended at 12 h 45 m p. m. The subject said that he felt tired 

 at the end of this period and that his back ached somewhat. At 12 h 45 m p. m. 

 he went to the food aperture, sat down to take his temperature, and then 

 replaced the thermometer. At l h 02 m p. m. he ate his lunch and at l h 35 m 

 p. m. he lay down and covered himself with a blanket, and remained lying 

 quietly until the end of the experiment. The afternoon period of lying down 

 extended from 3 h 15 m p. m. to 6 h 15 m p. m. During the lying-down period 

 the subject was occasionally sleepy, although he came out of the chamber 

 feeling in excellent form. While he was lying down, the subject used the push- 

 button in order to inform the observer outside that he was awake. 



Records of pulse and respiration were obtained with the pneumograph and 

 were as shown in table 25. The body-temperatures were taken sublingualis 

 by means of a clinical thermometer and were at 9 h 45 m a. m., 98.0 F. ; 12 h 45 m 

 p. m., 97.6 F.; 3 h 15 m p. m., 97.9 F.; 6 h 15 m p.m., 98.2 F. The measure- 

 ments of the metabolism for the two 3-hour periods of standing and lying 

 awake and the intermediate period are given in table 44. 



Table 25. Record of pulse and respiration Metabolism experiment No. 139. 



