DEWITT STETTEN, JR. 



and result in renal glycosuria, as is seen in Fanconi's syndrome, 

 or experimentally in phlorhizin poisoning. 



The purpose of the above discussion has been to stress that 

 the concentration of glucose or of any other constituent of the 



Intestine' 



BLOOD 

 GLU COSE 



Muscle 



Kidney 

 Fig. 1. 



blood is the resultant of numerous vectors. Disturbances of any 

 of these vectors may result in abnormalities of concentration but 

 may also cause secondary disturbances in other vectors. If 

 these secondary processes are compensatory in nature, analogous 



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