The Content of Sugar in the Blood Under Common Laboratory Conditions (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Content of Sugar in the Blood Under Common Laboratory ConditionsLong ago Boehm and Hoffman called attention to some of the advantages of cats for laboratory work. They mentioned especially their cleanly habits, their uniform size and the fact that they had found them to be more uniformly healthy than other common animals available for estimation of the sugar of the blood. There are, however, other and perhaps more fundamental advantages. A large amount of work has been done on excised muscles - a type of experiment for which the cat seems to be particularly adapted. Notes published by Lee and by Lee and Harrold show that some of this is directly related to the use of sugar by the organism. Again, some authors, as Macleod and Pearce, have sought to avoid, by decerebration, the extended use of drugs in experiments where prolonged anesthesia is necessary. The same results may be obtained in a more physiological manner, and with less hemorrhage, by cerebral anaemia. Leonard Hill and Stewart with his co-workers have shown that the dog, because of peculiar ities of the blood - supply to the brain, is not so well adapted for this procedure as is the cat. Pike has confirmed Porter's state ments that cats are better adapted for experiments involving vaso motor responses than are dogs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.