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TABLE 37. Carbon-dioxide produced at different times of day in respiration experiments; 

 subject H. L. H., in post-absorptive condition and lying on couch. (Values per minute.) 



Average age, 25 years. Average body-weight (naked), 61.4 kilograms. Height, 172 cm. 



'The experimental periods were usually 15 minutes in length and there was but one period in each half hour. 

 'The total number of periods in which the carbon-dioxide was determined in the 45 experiments was 158. 



