i BIC A.( II' AND Till, ri BINE BODIES 



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Uri< \< i i \ N and i of Blood in < > Late K 



Myers and Fine: Arch. Int. Med., 1916.) 



Lastly, regarding the influence of drugs on the blood uric acid in dis- 

 ease, it lias been found by Pine thai both atophan and salicylates cause 

 a pronounced decrease in the amount, bul thai it gradually rises to the 

 old level even while administration of the drugs is being continued. 



Important contributions to the behavior of uric acid in blood are 

 constantly appearing al present, mainly from the laboratories of Polin 

 in Boston, of S. R. Benedict, and of Myers and Fine in New York. 



