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The other notes regarding this case are not important, except 

 that the patient lost gradually in weight until the forty-eighth day 

 of the experiment, 2.7 kilograms (6 pounds) in all. He then 

 began to gain, and on the seventy-eighth day had regained 1.5 

 kilograms (3.5 pounds) . The notes from the sixty-third to the 

 sixty-eighth day show the knee jerks to have been very active. 

 They were not lost throughout the time of the experiment. On 

 the sixty-ninth day the systolic blood pressure was 98 millimeters 

 Hg. There was no important change in his condition from now 

 on. On the eighty-second day it became necessary to discontinue 

 the diet, and he was returned to the regular prison ration. At 

 this time he was in igood condition. No changes had occurred in 

 the condition of the heart, and no symptoms of beriberi had de- 

 veloped. The urine showed no albumin nor casts. Twenty- 





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