. A text-book of human physiology . ers appear along with general emaciation. The skinbecomes hard, rough and dry; its secretion ceases; the hairs change and fall out;the visible mucous membranes become swollen; and the voice becomes harshand monotonous. The internal organs exhibit marked pathological changes; 360 THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANS ON ONE ANOTHER the kidneys and the liver undergo fatty and colloidal degeneration, and thearterial walls a hyaline degeneration. Metabolism is abnormally low; in one of the patients investigated by J. it amounted on the average to only about 1,
. A text-book of human physiology . ers appear along with general emaciation. The skinbecomes hard, rough and dry; its secretion ceases; the hairs change and fall out;the visible mucous membranes become swollen; and the voice becomes harshand monotonous. The internal organs exhibit marked pathological changes; 360 THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANS ON ONE ANOTHER the kidneys and the liver undergo fatty and colloidal degeneration, and thearterial walls a hyaline degeneration. Metabolism is abnormally low; in one of the patients investigated by J. it amounted on the average to only about 1,200 Cal. per day—i. e., Cal. per kilogram of body weight. The appetite is poor and the utilizationof foodstufts is below the normal. On the other hand no noteworthy change isobserved in the rate of the pulse. The disturbances of the nervous and muscular systems are very the monkey the individual contractions of the muscles succeed each otherafter the usual manner of clonic convulsions; then comes a summation of con-.
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