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INDEX 



Nephritis, metabolism in, comparative 

 value of uric acid, urea and creatinin 

 in blood in, 330. 



creatin, 327. 



creatinin, 326. 



during test day for renal func- 

 tion, 372. 

 -fat, 340. 



increased arterial pressure, 397. 



introduction to, 311. 



mineral, 346. 



nephritic toxicosis, 394. 



nitrogen balance, 333. 



non-protein nitrogen of blood and 

 tissues in, 319. 



protein, 314. 



protein destruction, 337. 



relation of urea to total non-pro- 

 tein nitrogen of blood, 323. 



renal function, 349. 

 -total, 312. 



urea of blood, 321. 



uremia, 382. 



mineral metabolism in, chlorids of 

 the blood, 346. 



phosphates and calcium of the 

 blood, 348. 



nephritic toxicosis accompanying, 

 see Nephritic toxicosis. 



nitrogen balance in, 333. 

 determination of, 336. 



effect of renal injury, 335. 



factors in, 333. 



fate of ingested nitrogen, 334. 



misleading, 335. 

 table, 334. 



problems of, 312. 



protein destruction in, 337. 



protein metabolism in, 314. 



utilization of proteins, 314. 



in its relation to edema, 174. 

 acute diffuse, 175. 



chronic diffuse, 176. 



chronic interstitial, 175. 



chronic parezichymatous, 176. 

 subacute, 176. 



relation of urea to total non-pro- 

 tein nitrogen of blood, 323. 



and renal function, 313, 349. 

 chlorid threshold, 363. 



coefficient of urea excretion, 357. 



concentration and dilution test, 



381. 



lactose test, 357. 



and laws of urea excretion, 360. 



phthalein test, 350. 



potassium iodid test, 357. 



Schlayer's theories of, 355. 



Nephritis, and renal function, test day 

 for, 368. 



tests for, 350. 



tests for function of the glomeruli 



and tubules, 353. 

 total metabolism in, 312. 



acidosis, 313. 



clinical application, 313. 



and dyspnea, 812. 



and edema, 312. 



high blood pressure, 313. 

 - rate of, 313. 



renal function, 313. 



urea of blood in, 321. 



uremia, 382. 



causative agents of, possible, 

 389. 



conditions of ten erroneously clas- 

 sified as, 387. 



-definition of, 382. 



as described by Cohnheim, Julius, 

 in 1882, 384. 



division of, into groups, 387. 



introduction to, 382. 



more recent aspects of, 387. 



symptom-complex dependent upon 

 renal insufficiency, 388. 



utilization of proteins in, 314. 

 Nephrolysins, as cause of nephritic 



toxicosis, 396. 

 Nervous diseases, dermatoses associated 



with, 700. 

 Nervous enteropathies, metabolism in, 



637. 

 Nervous system, effect on, of under- 



nutrition or fasting, 21. 



in obesity, 36. 



Neurin, as cause of nephritic toxicosis, 



396. 

 Neuromuscular disease, metabolism in, 



707. 

 amyotonia congenita, 730. 



glucose supply, 715. 



myasthenia gravis, 730. 



oxygen supply, 709. 



progressive muscular atrophy, 

 730. 



progressive muscular dystrophy, 



720. 

 source of energy for muscular 



contraction, 709. 

 Neuropathic edema, 158. 

 Neuroses, gastric, metabolism in, 



622. 

 New growths, as cause of diabetes in- 



sipidus, 864. 

 Nitrogen, in the blood, in pregnancy, 



851. 



