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Eliiii'ntiit'ton of wwxidized alcohol. — As has been explained on page 258 there may be a 

 considerable amount of reducing matter in the ventilating air current when alcohol does not 

 form a part of the diet. The determinations of the quantity of reducing matter in the air 

 current during these experiments were made in the manner previously described, and the 

 amounts are all reckoned as alcohol, although it is not believed that this is the case. It seems 

 probable that the increased elimination of reducing matter in the air current on the 2 days of 

 experiment No. 16 is due to the mixing of the whisky and water within the chamber by the 

 subject, as already mentioned. According to the figures in Table XXVIII the subject actually 

 metabolized 97.9 per cent of the alcohol in the diet during experiment No. 15, 96.6 per cent in 

 experiment No. 16, and 97.9 per cent in experiment No. 17. 



Table XXVIII. — Alcohol ingested and excreted — Metabolism experiments Xos. 15-17. 



