THE PHYSIOLOGICAL IDEAL IN THE ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF INFANTS

J. Snowman
1911 The Lancet  
12 -such as the presence of creatin-which accompany this condition. For even if the causal connexion between acidosis and diabetic coma is accepted, there can be but little doubt that the acidosis as such, accompanying fever, gastro-enteritis, delayed chloroform poisoning, and cyclic vomiting, and many other: conditions, is never of symptomatic significance. In other words, the term acidintoxication, in the real sense of the word, applied to these conditions is a misnomer. The quantities of
more » ... oxybutyric acid and other acetone bodies excreted in these conditions are small-i.e., 10 to 15 grm. at the most-compared with the quantities excreted in diabetes, e.g., one of Magnus Levy's cases excreted 160 grm. per diem, and it is difficult to see how they could possibly produce symptoms. As regards the case above described, it has been seen that acidosis was merely a symptom and had nothing whatever to do with the attacks of cyclic vomiting.
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