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Perince and Scagliosi ].—A dog, deprived of water, died after 
the eleventh day, having lost 24 to 25 per cent, of his weight. 
Fowls, deprived of water, continued to eat corn up to the eighth 
or tenth day, then died. The microscopic examination showed 
an infiltration of little cells in the conjunctival tissue ; hemor¬ 
rhages m the muscles of the skeleton, of the tongue and of the 
heart, in the lungs, the kidneys, the nervous system, etc.— 
(Ibid.) 
Experiments upon the Pituitary Grand [By G. Vassale 
and E. Sacchi ].—From previous observations the authors have 
concluded that the total destruction of the hypophysis has, in 
dogs and. cats, a fatal result in less than fourteen hours with 
characteristic symptom : hypothermy. Subcutaneous injections 
of juice from the hypophysis gland raise the temperature and 
improve the general condition. The same thing occurs in 
strumiprive cachexia, in the spontaneous myxcedema or that 
of operation when one injects thyroid juice. The partial de¬ 
struction of the pituitary gland is compatible with the life of 
the animal (at least for a year). However, it produces attenuated 
s> mptoms of total destruction, anorexia, dullness, weakness of 
the hind quarters, fibrillar contractions, muscular shakings, 
thermic lowering. These phenomena diminish. It is likely 
that hypophysis, like the thyroid, secretes a special product, 
necessary to the economy.— (Ibid.) 
Influence of the Total or Partial Suppression of 
the Hepatic Function Upon Glycemia in Normal and 
Diabetic Animals [By Mr. Kaufmann~\ .—The author per¬ 
forms, in the dog, the extirpation of the stomach, the intestines, 
spleen, pancreas, and liver—that is, the digestive viscera. The 
animal may survive several hours. In a second series, he re¬ 
moves the intestines only, the liver is left ; in a third he extir¬ 
pates the stomach, spleen, and pancreas, and leaves the liver. 
He observed that, when the hepatic function is suppressed, the 
proportion of sugar diminished rapidly in the blood, whether the 
animal dies normal or diabetic. There is hypothermy. When 
the liver.is entirely cut off from the blood of the portal vein and 
still receives that of the hepatic artery, there is yet hypoglycemia 
and hypothermy, as if it has been removed. The suppression of 
only a part of the portal circulation (or intestinal or gastro- 
splenic) has no depressing effect upon the glycemia. It may 
even increase in diabetic. Then the temperature rises. Portal 
circulation is in closer proportion with the glycogenic function 
of the liver than that of the hepatic artery. The portal vein is 
