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toms should appear. Test the urine for glucose. Is there 

 any reduction? How do you account for this? Kill the 

 animal with codeine. 



2. If time permits carry out the following dissections. 



Fig. 181. Record showing the action of adrenaline on the rate of oxygen consump- 

 tion, uterine contractions, blood-pressure and respiration. There is a slight slowing 

 down of the rate of consumption of oxygen which is mainly concordant with the period 

 occupied by the fall in blocd-pressure after the large initial rise. (See Journal of Lab- 

 oratory and Clinical Medicine, 191t>, ii. 145.) 



Isolate both the internal and the external jugular veins 

 on each side. (See Figs. 133 and 183.) Note carefully in 

 just what portion of the neck tissues these vessels are 



