Abstract
A liver obtained, shortly after death, from the accident ward of the City Hospital was hashed, divided into convenient portions and mixed with seven volumes of 0.1 per cent, solution of potassium urate. After varying periods, the mixtures were examined for oxalic acid.
In all cases the uric acid was found to be largely destroyed. In all cases perceptible traces of oxalic acid were shown to be present, yet the amounts isolated did not seem to be appreciably greater than those occurring in control experiments.
It does not seem, therefore, that oxalic acid is a product of hepatic uricolysis in man.
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