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destroy, toxins that are artificially introduced into 

 the circulation. 



Albanse * maintains that the function of the 

 suprarenal capsules is to neutralize neurine, the 

 toxic product of the disassimilation of the nervous 

 system ; this view, however, is opposed by Boinetf 

 and Langlois.J On the contrary, it has been defi- 

 nitely proven that the suprarenal glands exert a 

 specific action on the poisons of muscular origin. 

 Abelous and Langlois have in fact demon- 

 strated that the alcoholic extract of the muscle 

 of a decapsulated animal has the same properties 

 as the extract of tetanized muscle ; the decapsulated 

 animal gives ergographic tracings analogous to those 

 afforded by tetanized animals. The removal of the 

 suprarenal capsule from an animal brings results, 

 hence, analogous to those of fatigue that is to say, 

 that the toxic substances which accumulate as a 

 result of the decapsulation resemble those that 

 result from muscular exertion. The suprarenal 

 capsules exert their action furthermore on other 

 toxic products as well, as Guieysse|| has shown, 

 and particularly on the exogenous poisons. In 



* ALBANI^SE: Recherches sur les fonctions des capsules 

 surrenales. Arch. lialiennes Biol., 1892. 



t BOINET: Compt. rend. Soc. de Biol., Mch. 1896. 



| See Compt. rend, de Biol. et Arch. Physiologie, 1891-1897. 



LANGLOIS: Thse de doctorat en M6d., Paris, 1897. 



|| GUIEYSSE: Les capsules surrenales du cobaye. These, Paris, 

 1901, 



