THE BLOOD CHLORIDES IN PROTEOSE INTOXICATION.

Dogs injected with proteose recovered from the intestinal contents of animals with obstruction at different levels show no significant changes in the blood chlorides even with a fatal intoxication. After the intravenous injection of lethal and sublethal doses of Witte's peptone there is little change in the chlorides. Autolyzing liver in the abdominal cavity produces no change in the blood chlorides even with a very great increase in the urea and nonprotein nitrogen. Proteose intoxication is probably not a factor in the characteristic fall in chlorides seen after intestinal and pyloric obstruction.