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ence in the loss in body weight and the probabihty of individual 

 variation in a single specimen. 



The striking similarity in the changes in organ weights pro- 

 duced in the thirst and total inanition experiments is confirmed 

 by the data from previous investigators as to the effects of total 

 and partial inanition, with or without water, in the rat and 

 other animals. It is yet uncertain whether this is because the 

 primary effect of thirst is the same as that of other forms of inan- 

 ition or whether the thirst effects are largely obscured by the 

 accompanying inanition due to inadequate food intake. 



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