Chemical estimation of adrenaline, and the use of the ethylene diamine condensation method for the quantitative estimation of plasma concentrations of adrenaline in peripheral venous blood during insulin hypoglycaemia
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Millar, Ronald A.
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Abstract
The practice of anaesthesia, potentially a highly
scientific branch of modern medicine, affords continual
stimulation to the clinical anaesthetist interested in
applied pharmacology. It is an understatement to assert
that a close association between the pharmacologist and
the anaesthetist is desirable. The studies to be des¬
cribed in this thesis may appear to have little direct
connection with the pharmacology of anaesthetic drugs;
they were performed, however, in the course of a general
evaluation of chemical methods for the estimation of
adrenaline in blood, in an endeavour to find a suitable
technique which could be established and employed for
basic and clinical research on the mode of action of
drugs used in general anaesthesia.