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tigators allowed their patients to move about to a certain extent and did not 

 enforce rigid muscular relaxation. Table 77 gives the results for our experi- 

 ments arranged according to the body-weight of the subjects. The heat produc- 

 tion per hour per individual varies from 75.8 calories with the subject H. E. D. 

 to 112.5 calories with the subject J. 1ST. T. The average for the 55 subjects is 

 97.1 calories per hour. 



Table 77. Heat produced during leaking hours by different individuals in 



rest experiments. 



1 In computing body-surface the formula of Meeh has been used : 12.312 Vbody-weight. 



Computed on the basis of the heat production per kilogram of body-weight 

 per hour we find that the maximum heat production was 1.86 calories with the 

 subject B. N. and the minimum 1.20 calories with the subject F. G. B. The 

 average of all the subjects was 1.52 calories per kilogram of body-weight per 

 hour. Making the computations on the basis of the number of calories per 

 squars meter of body-surface per hour, we find that the minimum heat produc- 

 tion was 40.7 calories with the subject H. F. and the maximum 58.3 calories 

 with the subject J. W. H. The average of the results with 55 subjects shows 

 that per square meter of body-surface there were produced 49.2 calories per 

 hour. The variations exhibited in table 77 are no greater than one would natu- 

 rally expect to find with so large a number of subjects differing in temperament 

 and with different degrees of restlessness. Since the experiments were made at 



