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F. J. EICHENLAUB, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1933;27(2):316-325.

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Barber and Oriel have called attention in three articles to their investigations on urinary proteose in dermatoses. Their article in the Lancet, written in 1930,^1b contains detailed information on the application of this work to dermatology.

In this article, the following essential information is brought out:

If the urine from cases of allergic and febrile diseases is acidified with sulphuric acid and shaken with a fifth of its volume of ether, the ethereal layer formed on standing, instead of being for the most part clear, as in normal people, becomes opaque, and has a waxy appearance. In strongly positive cases we noted that the tube could be inverted without spilling the contents.

The method of preparing the proteose is described as follows:

A twenty-four hour specimen of urine is collected from a case showing active symptoms, and put in a Winchester bottle containing a little chloroform. Approximately . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Footnotes
Read at the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Havana, Cuba, May 3, 1932

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