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(Basis of the swelling range.) 



TABLE III. 

 WATER CONTENT OF VARIOUS HUMAN ORGANS IN PER CENT. 1 



(After Albu-Neuberg,* Bischoff,* Halliburton,* Pfibram,*i Rumpf.*) 



1 I have omitted the figures for skin; they vary for different authors between 31.9 and 73.9, be- 

 rause some have given the water content of skin deprived of fat and others that with the fat attached. 



Since, in the dog, muscles constitute 42.82 per cent and skin 16.11 

 per cent of the total body weight, these organs under normal con- 

 ditions actually store up, respectively, 47.74 per cent and LI. 58 per 

 cent of all the water in the body. As a result of their great swelling 

 range, the two chief water excreting organs, the skin and kidneys, the 



