EXPERIMENTS WITH SUBJECT STANDING. 



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During this time, however, E. D. B. showed a gain in body-weight of 

 3.2 kg. (see table 21), so that the increase in the heat-output was largely 

 due to this factor. With an average body-weight of 56.2 kg. during 

 the period from October 4 to December 22, 1915, his metabolism was 

 28.2 calories per kilogram of body-weight per 24 hours, while for the 

 period from March 1 to April 15, 1916, with an average body- weight 

 of 59.4 kg., his metabolism was 28.7 calories per kilogram of body- 

 weight per 24 hours. When the data for the eight subjects are com- 

 puted on the basis of body-weight, they show an average energy 

 requirement per minute per kilogram of body-weight of 0.0197 calorie. 

 (See table 19.) This is equivalent to 1.18 calories per kilogram per 

 hour as compared with 1.22 calories per kilogram per hour reported by 

 Benedict, Miles, Roth, and Smith 1 for a group of ten normal men in 

 standing experiments. 



TABLE 19. Average hcat-oiitput of subjects standing in the post-absorptive condition. 



GENERAL SUMMARY OF MEASUREMENTS OF METABOLISM DURING STANDING. 



In table 20 a summary is given of the extremes and average values 

 obtained in the gaseous-metabolism measurements in the standing 

 experiments with W. K. and E. D. B., with whom the larger part of the 

 data was collected. For comparison, average values and ranges are 

 given for other measurements obtained and discussed in later sections 

 of this monograph. (See p. 101.) These figures show what may be the 

 ranges and average values for the various factors for men of this age 

 when they are standing quietly in the post-absorptive condition. The 

 data for W. K. are, for the most part, for 14 days, covering a period from 

 February to June 1915, and for E. D. B. for 71 days from October 

 1915 to April 1916. 



'Benedict, Miles, Roth, and Smith, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 280, 1919, p. 528. 



