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INANITION AND MALNUTRITION 



Table 13. — Losses of Organ Weights in Avian Beriberi and Simple Inanition 



Showing average percentage loss (gain in the adrenal) in organs of young adult pigeons 

 and fowls (% grown) fed on polished rice or subjected to simple inanition; calculated as per- 

 centages of weights per kilo of control birds. Sexes combined (excepting adrenals). From 

 Findlay ('21), chiefly from his Table 3 



Organs 



Pigeons (15 m., 18 f. 



Rice-fed 



Chronic 

 inanition 



Fowls (23 m., 16 f.) 



Rice-fed 



Acute 

 inanition 



Whole body 



Thymus 



Testis 



Spleen 



Ovary 



Pancreas 



Stomach 



Heart 



Liver 



Thyroid 



Kidneys 



Brain 



Pituitary (hypophysis) 



Adrenal (Suprarenal), male. . 

 Adrenal (Suprarenal), female 



29.0 

 100. o 

 82.0 

 67.0 

 67.0 



35° 

 23.0 



17.0 

 12.0 



8-5, 



3-o 



0.6 



0.0 



+ 37-0 



+86.0 



100. o 

 85.0 

 71 .0 

 69.0 



37o 

 27.0 

 19.0 

 13.0 

 10.9 

 2 .0 

 0.3 



2-5 



+18.0 



+ 54-o 



26.5 



100. o 



61 .0 



65.0 



37-o 



28.0 



19.0 



15.0 



12 .0 



8.0 



6.0 



5-o 



3-o 



+ 53-o 



+ 70.0 



3»-7 



100. o 

 60.0 

 60.0 



28.0 



20.0 



14.0 



14.0 



n .0 



7.0 



3-o 



6.0 



+ 10.0 



