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I. THE PRESENCE OF BACTERIA IN THE BLOOD, KIDNEY AND URINE AFTER VARYING INTERVALS FOLLOWING INTRAVENOUS INJECTION

HENRY F. HELMHOLZ, M.D.; FRANCES MILLIKIN, B.A.

Am J Dis Child. 1925;29(4):497-505.

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The rôle of the kidney as an excretory organ for formed particles has been investigated by numerous observers, the experimentation of whose technic has varied greatly and whose conclusions have been diametrically opposed. In these studies, the particles more immediately concerned are bacteria coursing in the circulation.

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Up to 1896, the work on the subject seems to have been to a large extent confirmatory of the investigations of Wyssokowitsch,¹ in 1886, who concluded from his experiments that a period of time sufficient to produce lesions in the kidney always elapsed before bacteria appeared in the urine. Wyssokowitsch stated that ridding the circulation of bacteria by excretion was not a function of the kidney. In contrast to this conception is the earlier theory of Cohnheim,² that: "not only soluble, but even insoluble, elements of the blood are capable of being secreted, and may be found . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Laboratory Assistant, Section on Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, MINN.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Feb. 3, 1925.

This work was presented in abstract before the American Pediatric Society, Pittsfield, Mass., June, 1924.

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