“…In every case this composite function, H,(t)+H,(t), which is determined jointly by both venous and urinary outflow of Hippuran, shows a sharp initial fall. This is assumed to represent the vascular outflow function H&) over the first minute of the test, since there is a minimum delay of at least 75 s associated with the passage of Hippuran or of PAH through tubular cell and nephron (Chinard, 1956;Wedeen, 1969;Schoutens & Raynaud, 1968). Differentiation of the complete function after inversion yields the overall spectrum of transit times h,(t) +h,(t), and an example from a study on a normal subject is shown in Fig.…”