398 VITALITY AND EFFICIENCY WITH RESTRICTED DIET. 



Table 84. — Daily pulse-rate with food} — Squad A subjects in lying position. 



* Observations mkde between 9''30" and ll'^SO™ a. m. and between l''30™ and 4'>30™ p. m. just 



prior to work on the bicycle ergometer, constancy having been obtained for several counts. 

 » See table 80, p. 385. 



* Kon was on normal diet on this day, and hence this pulse-rate is not included in the average. 



theless the picture is reasonably uniform with practically all subjects, 

 showing an effect of the low diet upon the pulse-rate before work and 

 especially a pronounced increase following the resumption of full diet. 

 The high value of May on January 7 has an interest, as it will be 

 remembered that in the discussion of the early morning pulse-rates 

 in table 80 he was shown to be one of two men who, on return from 

 the Christmas vacation, had a pulse-rate lower than the last value 

 recorded in December. The post-absorptive pulse-rate of 43 in table 



