648 



JOHN R. MTJRLIN 



TABLE 35 

 THE GASEOUS EXCHANGE OF CHILDREN* (Magnus-Levy and Falk) 



GIRLS 



* This table is reconstructed in part from a table given by Tigerstedt in NagePs 

 "Handbuch der Physiologic," 1909, I, p. 475, and in part from a table in Magnus-Levy's 

 "Physiology of Metabolism," Van Noorden's Handbuch, English ed., Vol. I, p. 268. 



decreases as age and weight increase, whether it is estimated on the 

 basis of a unit of weight or a unit of surface. Comparing the basal 

 metabolism of a boy and a girl, on the basis of the oxygen absorption, 

 with adults of middle age, and of old age having approximately the same 

 body weight the following result was obtained. 



TABLE 36 

 GASEOUS EXCHANGE AT DIFFERENT AGES (Magnus-Levy and Falk) 



