126 METABOLISM AND GROWTH FROM BIRTH TO PUBERTY. 



Intimate analysis of the other 20 charts is hardly necessary. Since, 

 however, the charts thus far analyzed show no special values in the 

 earlier months of life, at least the physiological relationships at this 

 period should be pointed out. Attention is called to the charts for 



No. 113(F.)- 



150 100 



No. 131 (F.)- 



Cals. 



per 

 kilo. 



62 1000 



59 



FIG. 18. Body-weight, pulse-rate, and basal heat production per 24 hours 



(Nos. 113, 126, 131, and 142). 



those children with whom observations were made at an early age, 

 such as Nos. 113, 115, and 119. (See figures 17, 18, and 19, 

 pages 125 to 127.) In these charts the weight-curve and total 

 calories present the usual features, namely, progressively increasing 

 weight and progressively increasing total calories. The increase in 

 the values for the calories per kilogram of body-weight and per square 



