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chronic thirst series (body loss 52 per cent), a loss of 51.5 per cent in the lungs, 

 and in a rat on total inanition (body loss 47 per cent), a loss of 52.7 per cent in 

 the lungs (Table 9). In young albino rats held at constant body weight on a 

 relatively dry diet from age of 3 weeks for various periods, Kudo ('21a) found no 

 significant change in the weight of the lungs (Table 10). 



