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be due to an overwhelmingly rapid production of acids, and acido- 
sis in nephritis to an inability to eliminate acids which are pro- 
duced at a moderate rate. Acidosis found in thyroid-fed rab- 
bits is probably due to an abnormal increase of acid production, 
a shortage of base-forming diet accelerating this acidosis markedly. 
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Thyroid-Fed Rabbits. 
Recently Peters and Geyelin’ reported that subcutaneous injection of 
epinephrine causes a marked decrease of alkali reserve of the blood plasma, 
in either diabetic or normal men. This change was parallel with the epi- 
_ hephrine hyperglycemia, the maximum of both being obtained within 3 
hours. They considered that at least a part of the hyperglycemia and 
glycosuria following the injection of epinephrine seems to be caused by a 
diminution of the alkalinity of the blood. 
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12 Peters, J. P., and Geyelin, H. R., J. Biol. Chem., 1917, xxxi, 471. 
