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in color and did not have the oily feeling characteristic of iluit 

 of the phosphorus-fed rabbits. The water content of the normal 

 bones was lower than in the cases when 4 phosphorus was I'ed. This 

 wax due to the higher fat content in those cases. The remainder of 

 the figures represent the results calculated to a water-free basis, and 

 are >hown in Table VIU. 



TABI.K VIII. -' ') //"'// nnnln^'* f bodies of rabbits (water-free basis). 

 HAHIUTS FKI> ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS, N'os. 1 AND 2. 





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The normal rabbit-; -h.\\ a -lightly higher figure for total ash 

 in the bones than do the phosphoms-fed rabbit>. Several inve>ti- 

 LTat>r> have pointed out the fad that I be skeleton becomes pot.rcr 

 inhaler and richer in ;->h uith a .ire. Vit" slmwed this fact in the 

 case of dn.irs. and Brubacher'' in the < iiildren. There is a 



coii>iderabl<' variation in the ratio of the calcium to the total a>li. 

 ; in normal animals. \Vellmann that in ca866 "{'starved 



ral>bits the bones -!i-\\ a -mailer percentage of organic matter, that 

 i>. a higher ratio of ash. In the case of the normal rabbits, where 

 the hi.irheM ash is present, we expect to find the highest percentage 

 of ash constituents, and such is the case. 



Hummaiv. -k 1.1 I > hy-i..l,,.;i,- a h 'hi-inistry, rev. ed., New York, 1908. 



li..l.. 1S!M>, .'7 : :,17. 



Mm. I'hy.M.,1., 1908, Ul :508. * 

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