1. Three experimental persons, after one day without water, drank 240 cc. fresh water and 180 cc. sodium chloride 3.5 percent solution daily for 4½ days. 2. Ten experimental persons, after one day without water, drank 540 cc. fresh water and 180 cc. sea water daily for 5 days; the following 4 days, 5 of these experimental persons drank 60 cc. fresh water daily, the following 4 days the other 5 experimental persons drank 60 cc. fresh water and 180 cc. sea water daily. 3. Eleven experimental persons, after one day without water, drank 540 cc. fresh water daily for 5 days; 6 of these experimental persons received 60 cc. water and 180 cc. sea water daily for the following 4 days. 4. Two experimental persons, after one day without water, drank 370 cc. fresh water each for 2 days, for the following 3 days daily 240 cc. fresh water each, plus 400 cc. sea water, the next 36 hours only 600 cc. sea water. All experimental persons moreover took only sea-rescue emergency rations in limited quantities, with 1 gr. sodium chloride at the most. _Experimental persons_: 17 experimental persons from a naval hospital submitted “voluntarily to the severe experimental conditions”, without physical injury. _Excerpt from Certified Report 19_ _Author_: Cameron and Karunaratne. _Quotation_: Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 42, 13 (1936). _Purpose_: Studies of the poisonous effect of carbontetrachloride on human beings (report). _Experiment_: Carbontetrachloride is administered to healthy criminals before their execution. The effect of the poison on the liver is determined by way of an autopsy. (Therapeutical normal doses 3.0 cc.: maximum dose 5.0 cc.) 2 test persons receive twice 6 cc. (Nichols and Hampton) 3 test persons receive twice 4 cc. (Docherty and Nichols) 2 test persons receive twice 5 cc.^{*} (Docherty and Burgess) 1 test person receive twice 5 and 3 cc.^{*} (Docherty and Burgess) 3 test persons receive twice 10 cc. (Leach, Haughwout and Ash) ^{*} with subsequent laxative. _Result_: In some cases changes in the liver, in others none. _Test persons_: 11 criminals sentenced to death. _Excerpt from Original 20_