METABOLISM AS AFFECTED BY GROWTH. 



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TABLE 27. Minimum heat production of boys at different ages Continued. 



1 Certainly breast-fed. Probably many others were, but we are uncertain. 



2 Lissauer surface. 



3 Previously reported by Benedict and Talbot under initials given, Am. Journ. Diseases of Chil- 



dren, 1914, 8, p. 1. Data for boys designated by initials E. F., A. S., R. E., and H. T. 

 also reported by Benedict and Talbot, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 201, 1914. 



4 Slow to walk because of weak musculature ; flesh flabby. 



6 Flesh slightly flabby; breast-fed. 

 'Above average weight. 



7 Shortly recovered from cervical adenitis. 



'Adenoids removed at 2 yrs.; backward mental development; breast-fed. 



