SALICYLIC ACID AND SALICYLATES. 



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TABLE XXIII. Solids balances for Series VI Continued. 



[Averages are per man per day.] 

 Summary for nine men. 



SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 

 MEDICAL AND CLINICAL -DATA. 



A study of the clinical and medical history of the men under obser- 

 vation indicates that the administration of the salicylic acid at first 

 produces a stimulating effect upon the processes of solution and absorp- 

 tion of the food materials from the alimentary canal. There is a 

 smaller proportion of the food products in the feces, both in the indi- 

 vidual cases and as a whole, during the preservative period, and part of 

 the after period is subject still to the effect of the administration of the 



