SEVERAL interesting and apparently conflicting observations have accumulated about dihydroxyacetone. (I) When administered to dogs [Campbell and Soskin; Himwich, Rose and Malev, 1926] or human beings [Cathcart and Markowitz, 1927], it causes a much prompter rise in the R.Q. to unity or over than does an equivalent quantity of glucose.
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