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For the first 15 minutes the rate of fall in reducing substances in the blood expressed in per cent of fasting value is not much affected by decreasing the size of the intravenous dose of insulin below 0.1 u/kg or by increasing it in oneirophrenics, At 15 minutes the separation is statistically valid despite a bump of unknown significance on this descending limb of the curve. Therefore, it is possible, in patients suspected of oneiro-phrenia, to estimate the resistance to insulin with a statistical validity as great as can be obtained from much longer tests.
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