Sugar Tolerance Tests *A Martyn Memorial Scholarship Essay.

j Cases is submitted, in each of which a glucose or Vl*lose tolerance test has been performed. The method used has been that practised by Hugh Maclean.1 ?All the patients on whom these tests have been Performed have been inor out-patients of the Bristol ?tteral Hospital. I am indebted to the physicians under 0se care they were for permission to publish these records, and to Professor Hadfield for advice and help. To obtain a graph for comparative purposes, a test a normal person (H. D. P.) was carried out. The reading of the percentage blood sugar represents a ?f a specimen of blood taken four hours and a half er breakfast. Fifty grams of glucose were then taken ^ ftiouth, and readings taken at half-hourly intervals rj^ririg the first two hours after taking the glucose. e specimens of blood were taken at times similar to ese in all the cases cited. The readings obtained were as follows: 0 093>