The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, Volume VII, October, 1921 - September, 1922

776 pp. Twelve issues bound in one volume. CONTENTS: Issue No. 1 - studies in the serology of syphilis; development of the chemotherapy of organic arsenicals and the related physical phenomena; ventilation, weather, and the common cold; an apparatus for the rapid determination of nitrogen in blood and urine; a modification of the kjeldahl still for distilling large quantities of water; editorials. Issue No. 2 - further observations on the pharmacology of benzyl compounds; a technic for making a biliary fistula; a technique for the establishment of a permanent pancreatic fistula with the secretion of inactive proteolytic ferment; sources of error in determining the respiratory quotient in the baby respiration apparatus; isolation of tetanus bacilli from the cerebrospinal fluid; some differences in response to atropine in white and colored races; a preliminary report on a method of determining the number of complement binding units in sera giving positive Wassermann reactions; a rapid method of preparing tissues for microscopic examination; editorials. Issue No. 3 - a note on the blood chlorides in mercuric chloride nephrosis; clinical diagnosis by the aid of viscosimetry of the blood and the serum with special reference to the viscosimeter of W.R. Hess; the treatment of acute phosphorus poisoning; the synthesis of arsphenamine and a study of some of its intermediate derivatives; a note on the estimation of blood chlorides in tungstic acid filtrates; the methyl alcohol in arsphenamine (salvarsan); blood counts with oxalated blood; an apparatus for the estimation of catalase; the estimation of inorganic phosphorus in blood plasma by the method of bell and doisy; note on the differential staining of the granules in diphtheria and other bacilli; editorials. Issue No. 4 -basal metabolism determination and its technical difficulties; the influence on spore formation of sealing bacterial cultures; some studies on the elimination of molds from butter; the synthesis of arsphenamine and a study of some of its intermediate derivatives; an experimental investigation of the pharmacologic activity of drug store samples of infusion of digitalis; chronic nephritis with an unusual degree of nitrogen retention; mercuric chloride poisoning with recovery a case report with a note on the urea-concentration test; a new microcolorimeter; some timesaving devices for handling paraffin embedded material; editorials. Issue No. 5 - the internal secretion of the pancreas; the effects of various foods, food factors and chemical agents upon the resistance of animals to acetonitrile; effect of time between obtaining a spine fluid and making a cell count on the result of the count; on the determination of small quantities of atrophine in blood serum; the phenomenon of bacteriophage; glucose tolerance test; an improved method of caging and feeding mice; editorials. Issue No. 6 - an experimental investigation of the pharmacological action of quinidine; beriberi: some facts and the possible hypothesis; the effects of thyroid, thyroxin and other iodine compounds upon the acetonitrile tests; an adaptation of the folin and hu blood sugar method applicable to small amounts of blood; a note on the sterilization of surgical instruments; a micro-modification of the method of benedict for the quantitative determination of reducing sugar in urine; editorials. Issue No. 7 - the nervous control of the pyloric sphincter; blood pressure studies in one hundred and forty cases of diabetic mellitus; the colloidal benzoin reaction of cerebrospinal fluid; the laboratory specialist as a clinical consultant; a method for producing a spinal dog; a spirometer for continuously and automatically measuring expired air and sampling for analysis; a note upon the utilization of the complement-fixation reaction in the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis; chair for performing spinal punctures; devices to eliminate certain objectionable factors in the analysis of gastric content; editorials. I