SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS 



Abstracts of Communications. 



One hundred thirty-first meeting. 



College of the City of New York, April 18, 1923. 

 President Wallace in the chair. 



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Chemical changes in the blood in intestinal obstruction. 



By J. F. CONNORS, J. A. KILLIAN and H. B. EISBERG. 



[From the Surgical Service of Harlem Hospital, Departments of 

 Biochemistry, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and 

 Hospital, and of Experimental Surgery, University 

 and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.] 



For the past two years an intensive study has been made of 

 the non-protein nitrogen of the blood and some of its compo- 

 nents, in various pathological conditions. The results obtained 

 in pneumonia and the toxemias of pregnancy have been described 

 by one of us (K) 1 « 2 . This communication is an extension of 

 that study, presenting observations on similar blood changes in 

 patients with intestinal obstruction and a duplication of the find- 

 ings in experimental animals. The studies were completed in 

 1921. A number of articles have been contributed to the litera- 

 ture reporting somewhat analogous findings. In 1916 Whipple, 

 Rodenbaugh and and Gilgore 3 isolated from closed intestinal 



1 Killian, J. A., Amer. Jour. Obst. and Gyn.. 1921, ii, 6. 



2 Killian, J. A., Proc. N. Y. Path. Soc, 1922, xxii, 72. 



3 Whipple, G. H., Rodenbaugh, F. H., and Kilgore, A. R., Exper. Med., 

 1916, xxiii, 123. 



