NUTRITION LABORATORY. 



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'Or none, when the bronchi are already constricted. 

 '^This obviously does not apply to large doses of morphine. 



(17) Present-day treatment and prognosis in diabetes mellitus. Elliott P. Joslin. Am 



Journ. Med. Sci., 150, 485 (1915). 



In this paper is described the routine treatment of the diabetic patients 

 which have been studied at the Nutrition Laboratory and the New England 

 Deaconess Hospital during the year. A brief summary of the studies in 

 metabolism is also incorporated, special reference being made to the remark- 

 able increase in the respiratory quotient which was observed in those patients 

 undergoing fasting treatment according to the recent publications of Dr. F. 

 M. Allen. The improved prognosis for diabetic patients is illustrated and a 

 comparison made of the 1914-15 cases studied at the Nutrition Laboratory 

 with those of former years. 



(18) Carbohydrate utilization in diabetes based upon studies of the respiration, urine, and 



blood. EUiott P. Joslin. The Harvey Lectures deUvered under the auspices 

 of the Harvey Society of New York, 1914-15; also Arch. Internal Med., 16, 

 693 (1915). 



A critical discussion is given in this paper of the character of the evidence 

 available upon which conclusions should be based as to carbohydrate utilization 

 in diabetes. A series of experiments with a large number of cases of severe 

 diabetes is reported, which illustrates the effect of feeding various carbo- 

 hydrates — oatmeal, potatoes, levulose. In general, it was found that these 

 patients utilized only trifling amounts of carbohydrate. In connection with 

 these studies the interesting observation was made that, following fasting 

 according to the method suggested by Dr. F. M. Allen, severe cases of dia- 

 betes showed a rise in the respiratory quotient and, coincidentally with this, a 

 •decrease in the acidosis. 



(19) The physiology of the new-born infant. Character and amount of the katabohsm. 



Francis G. Benedict and Fritz B. Talbot. Publication No. 233, Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington. (In press.) 



Investigations on infants were commenced in the hope of securing informa- 

 tion with regard to normal infants prior to an extended pathological study. 

 Strictly normal infants were rarely obtained in the hospital, and it was soon 

 seen that the investigation could more profitably be confined to a study of 

 normal hospital material in the shape of new-born infants. A systematic 



