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MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Table XL VI. — Incorm and outgo of energy — Metabolism • cperiments Nos. 18-80* 



"No. 21 included for comparison. 

 EXPERIMENTS N08. 22-24 — REST. NO. 22 WITH ALCOHOL DIET. 



Svbjeet. — E. O., who served as the subject of experiments Nos. 12, 15-17, and 18-20. described 

 above. His weight was about 72.5 kilograms (160 pounds). 



Occupation duriiKj r.rjt, rim, nf. — Reading, writing, etc., with as little mental and muscular 

 activity as possible. . 



Duration. — The preliminary period of 4 days began with breakfast, March 9, 1899, and the 

 subject entered the respiration chamber on the evening of March 12; experiment No. 22 beginning 

 at 7 o'clock on the morning of March 13 and continuing 3 days. This experiment was the first 

 of a series of three (Nos. 22-24), each continuing '?> days; the subject, therefore, remained in the 

 respiration chamber 1<» nights and 9 days, the series of experiments ending on the morning of 

 March 22. 



Diet. — One especial object of the experiments of this series was to study the relative replacing 

 power of alcohol and sugar in the diet. The latter consisted of what may be called a basal 

 ration of ordinary food to which was added a supplementary ration of either sugar or alcohol. 



