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rectal thermometer could not be used because it would not remain in place 

 while the subject was walking, so the body-temperatures were taken by means 

 of a clinical thermometer in the mouth. The buccal temperatures were as 

 follows: 2 h 05 m p.m., 97.95 F.; 4 h 05 m p.m., 98.3 F.; 6 p.m., 98.3 F. At 

 6 h 20 m p. m. the resistance thermometer was inserted in the rectum and records 

 were made as usual during the remainder of the experiment. The tempera- 

 tures for each 2 hours were, at 6 h 32 m p. m., 36.92 C. ; 7 h 15 m p. m., 36.64 C. ; 

 9 h 15 m p.m., 36.55 C; ll h 15 m p.m., 36.38 C. The results of the metab- 

 olism are given in 2-hour periods in table 44. 



METABOLISM EXPERIMENT No. 155. 



Subject, H. C. K., May 3, 1906. Age, 21 years 10 months; 

 height, 181 cm.; weight without clothing, 73.6 kilos. 



The subject, who was a student in Wesleyan University, came to the lab- 

 oratory a little before 8 a. m., entered the calorimeter chamber immediately, 

 and was weighed. He had eaten no food since the evening before, when he 

 ate a light supper consisting of 2 glasses of milk and 3 slices of bread. The 

 experiment began at 9 h 05 m a. m. and ended at 5 h 05 m p. m., the measurements 

 being made in four 2-hour periods. The subject sat quietly in the chair during 

 the whole of the time except at the beginning of each period, when he urinated. 

 The amounts of urine at 9 h 05 m a. m., ll h 05 m a. m., l h 05 m p. m., and 3 h 05 m 

 p. m. were 82 grams, 111 grams, 98 grams, and 93 grams, respectively. The 

 subject passed 96 grams of urine after the experiment ended at 5 h 05 m p. m. 

 He ate no food and drank no water during the experiment. He reported that 

 the chair he was sitting in was not very comfortable, that he read about one- 

 third of the time, and found it tiresome sitting still. He had been a subject 

 before in a 2-day s' fast. This experiment was one of a series planned for the 

 study of metabolism during the early hours of fast. It is introduced here for 

 comparison with following experiments with this subject in which he was lying 

 asleep and lying awake. 



