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procuring a bottle of water. At 9 h 22 m a. m. the subject took down the table, 

 arranged the bed, lay down, and was asleep at 9 h 36 m a. m. He awoke at 

 12 h 36 m p.m. At l h 04 m p.m. he rose, urinated, and folded the bed against 

 the wall. He then went to the food aperture for his dinner, and from l h 16 m 

 p. m. to 2 p. m. he was eating, although he stopped for a few minutes at 

 l h 48 m p. m. At 2 h 18 m p. m. he lay down again, but was very restless, and 

 nausea necessitated his being taken out of the chamber. The observations 

 from 7 a. m. to 1 p. m. only are here reported. 



The pneumograph was used for recording the pulse- and respiration-rates 

 and the electrical-resistance thermometer for obtaining the rectal temperature. 

 The measurements were taken in 2-hour periods, and the records for pulse 

 and respiration are given in table 32. The records for body-temperature were 

 as follows: 7 a. m., 36.67 C. ; 9 a. m., 37.22 C; 11 a. m., 37.22 C; 1 p. m., 

 37.09 C. The factors of metabolism by 2-hour periods for the time from 

 7 a. m. until 1 p. m. are given in table 44. 



METABOLISM EXPERIMENT No. 147. 



Subject, A. L. L., February 9, 1906. Age, 24 years 9 months; 

 height, 166 cm.; weight without clothing, 67.5 kilos. 



The subject was a student in Wesleyan University and the experiment was 

 made as a part of a special study already mentioned of the metabolism during 

 the early hours of fasting. The results are presented here for comparison 

 with the results in a later experiment with the same subject in which he per- 

 formed a particular series of movements common to experiments in the 

 respiration calorimeter. 



The subject entered the respiration chamber at 7 h 30 m a. m., having eaten 

 no food since the evening before when a light supper consisting of 1^ bowlfuls 

 of bean soup was eaten. He was weighed at 7 h 53 m a. m. and the first period 

 began at 9 a. m. The experiment continued for 8 hours, measurements being 

 made in 2-hour periods. The subject remained very quiet, sitting in the 

 chair reading during the whole experiment. He did not urinate nor drink 

 water during the whole experiment. The subject had previously been in the 

 chamber a number of times. 



