52 Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 



6. Extremely high vascular pressure causing acute cardiac dila- 



tation resulting in pulmonary edema, produced in a mammal 

 by large doses of adrenalin. 



7. Pneumothorax. ^ Their physical signs and their effects 

 Hydro-pneumothorax. V upon blood pressure, heart action 

 Pneumo-peritoneum. J and respiration. 



8. Pneumo-peritoneum. ^ ni _ . . , . M 



__ , . ( Studied in detail, as m- 



Hydro-pentoneum. V .. L . c , T 



„ . . , t . . . , . f dicated for No. 7. 



Gastro-intestinal distension with air. j 



9. Heat, cold and hemorrhage in their relation to respiration, 



circulation and the etiology and treatment of " shock." 



10. Intracranial pressure and the results of its increase upon res- 



piration and general blood pressure. 



11. Acute bronchitis, produced by the administration of chlorine 



gas as an irritant in the inspired air. 



12. Heat, cold and counter-irritation in their relation to tempera- 



ture and circulation in the superficial and deeper portions 

 of the body. 



13. Renal secretion and general blood-pressure as affected by 



Amyl nitrite, 

 Adrenalin, 

 Heat, 

 Cold, 



Vagus stimulation. 



14. Capillary circulation as affected by pressure locally and vaso- 



constriction generally. 



15. Mitral stenosis. 



16. Secretion of bile as affected by changes in blood pressure and 



the use of cholagogues. 



37 (180) 



The influence of alcohol on the composition of urine. 



By F. C. HINKEL and WILLIAM SALANT. 



\From the Laboratory of Biological Chemistry of Columbia Univer- 

 sity , at the College of Physicians and Surge 'ons.~\ 

 About twenty years ago Schumoff and Simanowski showed 

 that oxidation in the body is markedly diminished after the 



