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TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 



Following the practice of other years, the Laboratory has continued 

 the translation of scientific treatises not readily accessible to the 

 research worker. The translations from the Russian made during the 

 past year are as follows: 



A. A. Sttjdenski: 



Comparison of heat-production (calculated and directly determined) of dogs in normal 

 condition, in fever, and in pregnancy. From the Laboratory of General Pathology 

 of Professor Albitsky. Dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1897, 57 pp. 



M. M. Kulagin: 



Life without oxygen. Jour. Nat. Sci. and Geog., 1906, 3, 11 pp. 



J. A. Kagan: 



Influence of fasting on the increase in body-weight upon renewed feeding with limited 

 amounts of food. Jour. Russian Med., 1885, Nos. 17, 18, and 19, 21 pp. 



PUBLICATIONS. 

 The following publications have been issued during the year : 



(1) Energy transformations during horizontal walking. Francis G. Benedict and Hans 



Murschhauser. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1, 597 (1915). 



An abbreviated presentation of the material in Publication No. 231, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington (1915). 



(2) The physiology of the new-born infant. Francis G. Benedict and Fritz B. Talbot. 



Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1, 600 (1915). 



An abbreviated presentation of the material in Publication No. 233, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington (1915). 



(3) A comparison of methods for determining the respiratory exchange of man. Thome M . 



Carpenter. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1, 602 (1915). 



An abbreviated presentation of the material in Publication No. 216, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington (1915). 



(4) Neuro-muscular effects of moderate doses of alcohol. Raymond Dodge and Francis G. 



Benedict. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1, 605 (1915). 



An abbreviated presentation of the material in Publication No. 232, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington (1915). 



(5) The pathological effects of atmospheres rich in oxygen. Howard T. Karsner. Joum. 



Exp. Med., 23, 149 (1916). 



It has been known for many years that pneumonia is produced by the 

 more or less prolonged inhalation of high partial pressures of oxygen. The 

 studies herein reported show that atmospheres containing 80 to 96 per cent 

 oxygen under normal barometric pressure produce in 24 hours, or more com- 

 monly 48 hours, congestion, edema, epithehal degeneration and desquama- 

 tion, fibrin formation, and finally, a pneumonia, probably of irritative origin 

 and to be described as a fibrinous bronchopneumonia. The important new 

 points are the time relations of these changes and definition of the type of the 

 pneumonia. Other studies have noted slight passive congestion, but it is 

 now established that this is to be accounted for in most cases by dilatation 

 of the right side or of both sides of the heart. This congestion affects all the 

 abdominal viscera and is accompanied by certain secondary changes such as 

 cloudy swelling of the parenchymatous organs and phagocytosis of erythro- 



