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Table XIY. 
Day. 
Total 
Sulphur. 
Sulphur 
Oxidised. 
Oxidised per cent, 
of Total Sulphur. 
1 
0-89 
0-53 
66 
2 
1'17 
0*72 
61 
3 
0-56 
0-27 
49 \ 63 
4 
0-95 
0-74 
78] 63 
5 
1-05 
0-76 
72 
Chloroform. 
6 
1T3 
0-76 
67 
7 
1T9 
0*81 
68 
8 
1'15 
0-83 
72 
9 
1*03 
061 
60 
10 
0-61 
0-40 
66 
11 
1-94 
1-60 
82 ) 62 
12 
0-81 
0*34 
42 ( 62 
The results of these experiments may be considered under the following 
heads : — 
1. Amount of Water excreted. — The general result shows that chloro- 
form tends to diminish the secretion of urine on the day on which it is 
administered (see Thompson, loc. cit.). 
2. Total Nitrogen. — In these experiments the increased excretion of 
nitrogen, i.e. the increased protein katabolism, already recorded by Strass-. 
mann, Vidal, and others (loc. cit.), is shown in Experiments II., IV., and VI., 
but not in I., III., and V. (see Table I.). 
Table XY. 
Total Nitrogen. 
Before. After. 
Experiment 
I. 
Average of 
4 days, 4*24 
Average of 3 days, 4'81 
55 
II. 
55 
2 „ 4*06 
55 
„ 7-26 
55 
III. 
55 
3 „ 4*11 
55 
„ 4-11 
55 
IY. 
55 
1 „ 5-38 
55 
„ 7*60 
55 
Y. 
55 
2 „ 9*62 
55 
„ 9-60 
55 
VI. 
55 
4 „ 4-91 
55 
„ 7*77 
3. Urea Nitrogen. — Without entering upon a discussion of the question 
of how far the nitrogen determined by Bohland’s and by Morner’s and 
Sjoqvist’s methods actually represents the nitrogen elaborated into urea 
(see Jour, of Phys., xxxii., 1, 1905), these experiments show that, in the 
absence of amino acids, both give a fair approximation to the true result, 
and that both methods are of value for comparative results. 
