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point along the heavy line. But even though the feeling of 

 comfort may be the same, the effect upon health, as we have 

 already seen, is apparently not so good when the air is dry 





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as when it is moist. In similar fashion along each of the other 

 lines parallel to the comfort line the atmospheric conditions 

 are at all points equally comfortable, although the degree of 

 comfort diminishes as one recedes from the comfort line. 

 Nevertheless the effect on health varies along each line in 

 accordance with the humidity. 



The most significant fact about the experiments just 

 described is their close agreement with the statistical results 



