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TABLE 7. Metabolism of boys 9 to 14 years old (von Willebrand). 



1 In 9 cases the maximum carbon exhaled appeared in the morning hours ; in 4 cases in the 



afternoon; in 1 case in the evening. 

 3 Computed from carbon exhaled, using the factor 11/3. 



the relation for the carbon-dioxide production between these two 

 conditions to be 145 to 100. With regard to table 8, which is taken 

 directly from von Willebrand's 1 table, it should be pointed out that 



1 von Willebrand, loc. cit., p. 462. 



