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TABLE 1. 

 BASAL METABOLISM IN CASES OF SECONDARY ANEMIA COLLECTED FROM THE LITERATURE 



Rearranged from Table by Meyer, A. L., and Du Bois, E. F., Arch. Int. Med., 1916, 

 xvii, 974. 



Brittingham and Drinker. Their patients with pernicious anemia showed 

 partly a normal metabolism, and in part one above and below the normal. 

 In general, they found that the most severe cases showed a metabolism 

 beyond normal limits in either direction, and that the long standing 

 chronic cases gave a diminished, while the recent and more acute cases an 

 elevated metabolism. Since two of the patients studied had elevated 

 temperatures, and two others had complications in the larger organs, it is 



TABLE 2. 

 BASAL METABOLISM IN CASES OF CHLOROSIS COLLECTED FROM THE LITERATURE 



Rearranged from Table by Meyer, A. L., and Du Bois, E. F., Arch. Int. Med., 

 1916, xvii, 974. 



