18 Chittenden and Lamhert — Experhnents on TJraniuiin. 



istration of uranium contains more or less sugar; as a rule the sugar 

 does not make its appearance until after the albumin. Salkowski has 

 shown that mercury will also cause diabetes in rabbits, but it is 

 questionable whether it is as constant a symptom as in uranium pois- 

 oning. It is also stated that in phosphorus poisoning the urine some- 

 times contains sugar.* In the hypodermic injection of uranium, ex- 

 periment No. VIII, sugar appeared in the rabbit's urine within 24 

 hours. The production of glycosuria is a very characteristic symptom 

 in uranium poisoning. The urine also contains invariably a large 

 amount of crystallized calcium oxalate, which would also point to de- 

 cided malnutrition and help explain the marked emaciation so com- 

 monly seen. 



In those cases where the poisoning becomes in a measure chronic, 

 the nervous symptoms sometimes predominate, as shown in loss of 

 sight and power of coordination. 



* H. C. Wood. Therapeutics, p. 110. 



