502 VITALITY AND EFFICIENCY WITH RESTRICTED DIET. 



tion per kilogram of body-weight was essentially the same at the 

 beginning and end of the experiment, but the tables for the other 

 subjects show that there is, with many, a distinct decrease in the heat 

 production per kilogram of body-weight. High values are occasionally 

 found, but, as will be subsequently shown, these are for the most 

 part attributable to excess eating on either the uncontrolled days or 

 during the holidays. 



Table 115 — Basal metabolism of George A. Brown — Squad A. 



Date. 



Normal. 



1917. 



Sept. 29 



Oct. 1 



3 



4 



Reduced. 



Oct. 5 



7 



8 



9 



11 



12 



13 



16 



18 



20 



22 



24 



25 



26 



27 



30 



31 



Nov. 3 



6 



7 



8 



10 



12 



13 



15 



16 



17 



19 



20 



OS 



si 



o 



215 

 208 

 220 

 205 



210 

 208 

 201 

 190 

 201 

 202 

 214 

 199 

 202 

 209 

 200 

 203 

 198 

 194 

 204 

 203 

 202 

 202 

 219 

 197 

 187 

 202 

 194 

 188 

 187 

 198 

 199 

 193 

 196 



a o 



TO 3 



a 



tf 



0.70 



0.84 



0.74 

 0.75 



0.74 



0.75 



0.77 



Heat (computed) per 

 24 hours. 



Total. 



cals. 



502 

 452 

 536 

 433 



467 

 434 

 386 

 310 

 368 

 379 

 460 

 358 

 379 

 426 

 365 

 385 

 351 

 320 

 392 

 385 

 379 

 379 

 494 

 344 

 276 

 382 

 327 

 286 

 283 

 355 

 362 

 321 

 341 





cals. 



24.3 

 23.5 

 24.9 

 23.2 



23.7 

 23.4 

 22.6 

 21.3 

 22.3 

 22.5 

 23.8 

 22.3 

 22.6 

 23.4 

 22.7 

 23.0 

 22.5 

 22.0 

 23.2 

 23.4 

 23.3 

 23.4 

 25.6 

 23.1 

 22.2 

 24.0 

 23.3 

 22.6 

 22.5 

 23.8 

 23.9 

 23.4 

 23.7 





cals. 



884 

 854 

 904 

 843 



863 

 849 

 820 

 775 

 809 

 816 

 864 

 804 

 816 

 844 

 813 

 824 

 804 

 786 

 829 

 829 

 826 

 831 

 900 

 810 

 778 

 838 

 809 

 784 

 782 

 826 

 830 

 810 

 823 



Date. 



Reduced. 



1917. 

 Nov. 21 

 23 

 24 

 26 

 28 

 3 

 4 



Dec. 



11 

 12 

 13 

 15 

 16 

 18 

 19 

 1918. 



Jan. 8 

 9 

 11 

 12 

 15 

 16 

 18 

 19 

 21 

 23 

 24 

 26 

 29 

 30 



Feb. 1 

 2 



184 

 186 

 199 

 192 

 197 

 203 

 186 

 181 

 186 

 186 

 179 

 192 

 199 

 177 

 186 

 176 

 193 



206 

 201 

 195 

 190 

 178 

 190 

 186 

 177 

 175 

 165 

 176 

 165 

 175 

 183 

 184 

 186 





0.75 



0.75 



0.77 

 0.78 



0.75 

 0.80 



0.77 

 0.76 

 0.78 



0.79 



Heat (computed) per 

 24 hours. 



Total. 



cals. 



256 

 269 

 358 

 310 

 344 

 385 

 269 

 235 

 269 

 269 

 225 

 314 

 362 

 214 

 279 

 211 

 324 



413 

 379 

 331 

 307 

 231 

 310 

 282 

 214 

 200 

 129 

 207 

 1.35 

 207 

 262 

 269 

 282 



X! 



cals. 



22.2 

 22.7 

 24.3 

 23.7 

 23.9 

 24.6 

 22.7 

 22.1 

 23.1 

 23.1 

 22.3 

 23.9 

 25.0 

 22.2 

 23.3 

 22.2 

 24.2 



24.8 

 24.2 

 23.6 

 23.3 

 22.0 

 23.6 

 23.1 

 22.0 

 21.6 

 20.4 

 21.9 

 20.6 

 22.0 

 23.0 

 23.3 

 23.3 



O OJ rt 



O) fi ;> ■ 

 fl ^ T 



cals. 



771 

 783 

 838 

 809 

 825 

 850 

 779 

 758 

 788 

 788 

 761 

 816 

 846 

 754 

 794 

 752 

 822 



862 

 841 

 817 

 802 

 755 

 809 

 791 

 749 

 741 

 697 

 750 

 705 

 750 

 784 

 788 

 796 



* The experiments reported in this table and in tables 116 to 127 were made with the portable 

 respiration apparatus and the respiratory-valve apparatus. The subject was in all cases in the 

 lying position and had been without food for at least 12 hours. Respiratory quotients were 

 obtained with the respiratory-valve apparatus and have been used in computing the heat on the 

 days when they were determined. On the remaining days (with the portable respiration appa- 

 ratus) quotients were interpolated for the heat computations. No respiratory quotient below 

 0.73 has been used in the calculations. 



