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TABIE XI 

 CHLOBID CONTENT OF THE PLASMA IN A CASE OF ACUTE NEPHRITIS 



* Case observed at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute. 



far the greatest proportion of the increase being due to increase in urea. 

 The chlorid content of the plasma is often increased (Table XI). 



Subacute and ( 'hronic Diffuse Nephritis. The characteristics of these 

 forms of diffuse nephritis resemble those of acute nephritis, with respect 

 to the occurrence of edema, evidence of impairment of renal excretory 

 function, and changes in the blood. 



Chronic Parenchymatous Nephritis. In this condition the evidence 

 of impairment of renal excretory function is usually relatively unim- 



