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milk, butter, water and agar-agar (to prevent constipation). Meat specially 

 prepared in quantity sufficient for an entire experiment may also be utilized. 

 Ingest uniform quantities of these dietary constituents each day for a period of 

 three days. 1 Make an accurate collection of the urine passed during this interval 

 (see page 565). Separate the feces representing the three-day period (see page 

 587), and analyze foods, urine and feces. The balances ordinarily prepared are 

 those for nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and calcium. Analytical methods for the 

 determination of these elements may be found in Chapter XXVI. 



The foregoing table includes balances obtained in a metabolism test on 

 acromegaly. 2 



35. Excretion of Urinary and Fecal Chloride after a High Chloride Ingestion. 

 Combine the procedures outlined under Experiments 14 and 33, pages 576 and 



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36. A Study of the Elimination of Carbohydrate hi Urine and Feces after 

 Excessive Carbohydrate Ingestion. Combine the procedures outlined in Experi- 

 ments 5 and 32, pages 568 and 591. 



1 See note 3, p. 589. 



2 Bergeim, Stewart and Hawk: Jour. Expt., Med., 20, 218, 1914. 



