The treatment of Spina Bifida by a new method / by James Morton ; with a paper on The pathology of spina bifida by John Cleland.

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1887
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    Analysis of Fluid in Sac. The composition of the fluid withdrawn from spina bifida tumours possesses some interest both to physiologists and practical surgeons, and we find several analyses of it in the report of the Committee of the London Clinical Society. These are certainly the most complete analyses that I am aware of, and have evidently been carried out with great care by Dr. W. D. Halliburton, B.Sc, Sharpey Physiological Scholar, University College, London, in the Physio- logical Laboratory of that College. Without giving the full details of the report, I take the liberty of quoting the results. In the first case, a female aged nineteen years, the specific gravity was found to be 1007, which was also assumed to be the case in the second analysis. The composition of the fluid may therefore [referring to previous details] be thus expressed in a tabular way (the numbers are parts per 1000):— Water 98975 Solid matters 10-25 Proteids (consisting almost exclusively of globulin) '842 Su^ar (approximatelj^) ..... *002 Extractives and soluble salts .... 9406 Insoluble salts . . . . • • *218 The second analysis is that of fluid from a lumbo- sacral spina bifida on a female child aged eleven days. Trommer's test showed a distinct trace of sugar present. The following is the composition of the fluid (in parts per 1000):—
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