ACTION OF THE KIDNEYS. 



647 



Food only taken once in 48 hours. The food was vegeto- 

 albuminous, drink tea. Quantity double of that taken once in 

 24 hours. Time of eating, the end of the first of the 6 periods 

 of 8 hours each. Experiment lasted 16 days. 



Solid urine. 



1st period 8 hours, 

 2d do. 8 to 16 hours, 

 do. 18 to 24 do. 

 do. 24 to 32 do. 



3d 

 4th 

 5th 

 6th 



do. 32 to 40 

 do. 40 to 48 



do. 

 do. 



112-1 

 141-6 

 90-8 

 111-9 

 84-5 

 54-7 



595-6 



Two repasts a day, food vegeto-animal, the first at 9 A. M., the 

 second the most abundant at 5 P. M. Periods of 6 hours each, 

 commence with it 



Solid urine. Solid urine. 



1st period, 

 2d do. 

 3d do. 



100-5 

 110-3 

 107-1 



Three meals a day. 

 and 9 P. M. 



317-9 

 Food the same. 



1st period, 7 A. M. to 3 p. M., 

 2d do. 3 P. M. to 11 P. M., 

 3d do. 11 P. M. to 7 A. M., 



151-1 

 196-1 

 165-9 



513-1 



At 8 A. M., 1 P M., 



Solid urine. 

 142-1 grains 

 158-6 

 94-2 



394-9 



By a cold bath (8 2. 7 6), the aqueous portion of the urine is 

 sextupled, by a warm bath (99), not increased, pulse 132. In 

 the cold bath the pulse became slower, sinking at last (in two 

 houfs) to 40 in a minute, from 60. The solid part of urine is 

 also increased in the cold bath by the increase of the watery 

 portion. 



The quantity of solid urine diminishes in the evening when 

 the nervous energy is diminished, and requires to be restored by 

 sleep. 



The secretion of solid urine is a little increased by sleep, about 



