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The daily quantity of all the fluids thus transuded and reabsorbed 

 will serve to indicate the activity of endosmosis and exosmosis in the 

 living body. In the following table, the quantities are all estimated, 

 from preceding data, for a man of medium size. 



TOTAL QUANTITY OF FLUIDS TRANSUDED AND REABSORBED 

 DURING TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. 



Saliva 1300 grammes. 



Gastric juice 3000 



Pancreatic juice 800 " 



Bile 1000 



Lymph 2000 



8100 



Not less than 8000 grammes therefore of the animal fluids, a quan- 

 tity equal to that of the entire blood and amounting to more than 12 

 per cent, of the weight of the whole body, transude through the internal 

 membranes and are restored to the blood by reabsorption, in the course 

 of a single day. It is by this process that the natural constitution of 

 the parts, though constantly changing, is still maintained in its normal 

 condition, through the movement of the circulating fluids and the 

 renovation of their materials. 



