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Metabolism of Healthy Max. 



subject. The water vaporized, carbon dioxide eliminated, oxygen absorbed, 

 and heat produced and eliminated are given in table 44 for the 2-hour periods 

 from 3 p. m., November 14, to 11 a. m., November 15. 



METABOLISM EXPERIMENT No. 146. 



Subject, D. W., January 14, 1906. Age, 22 years 2 months; 

 height, 180 cm.; weight without clothing, 75.6 kilos. 



The experiment here reported is a continuation of a 4-day experiment in 

 the respiration calorimeter in which the subject (a student) fasted 2 2 days 

 and then for the 2 succeeding days was given a light diet. The results of the 

 last 2 days will be published later. On the day from which the data here 

 reported are taken, the subject was given a heavy diet, but was unable to com- 

 plete the experiment. The subject had slept the night before in the respira- 

 tion chamber and rose at 7 a. m., at which time the measurements here 

 reported began. 



The subject passed 184 grams of urine when he rose, then dressed, and 

 suspended the weighing chair. The chair, subject, and bed-clothing were 

 afterwards weighed in succession as already described. When this operation 

 was finished and he had taken down the chair, he adjusted the bed, put up 

 the table, and then sat down until 7 h 34 m a. m., when he rose from the chair 

 and went to the food aperture to get his breakfast. At 7 h 38 m a. m. he went 

 to the food aperture again to get a knife. At 7 h 46 m a. m. and 7 h 57 m a. m. 

 he went to the food aperture for other articles. He began his breakfast at 

 7 h 44 m a. m. and finished at 8 h 04 m a. m., having eaten 195 grams of bread, 

 47 grams of butter, 844 grams of milk, and 200 grams of coffee. At 8 h 14 m 

 a. m. he removed the rectal thermometer and placed it in the food aperture, 

 and at 8 h 20 m a. m. he defecated. The amount of feces was 104 grams. He 

 again opened the food aperture at 8 h 26 m a. m. to get the rectal thermometer, 

 inserted it in the rectum, and then sat down. At 9 h 12 m a. m. he opened the 

 food aperture several times in sending urine jars out from the chamber and 



2 Benedict, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 77, 1907. 



