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The effect of 2 injections, 1 hour apart, of 25 mg/kg thiopental was studied in rabbits on 3 diets. Animals on a diet of oats slept much longer than those fed rabbit chow or oats and alfalfa. A diet of oats rendered the urine acid while the other diets were accompanied by excretion of an alkaline urine. NaHCO3 fed orally to rabbits maintained on a diet of oats appeared to reduce the duration of hypnosis.
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