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1 From the Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama
Briefly, the significant observations may be summarized as follows:
1. Uniformly fatal nephritis was produced in control rabbits by the injection of standardized doses of tartrate (3,4).
2. Forty-three of 59 animals receiving a fatal dose of tartrate recovered when given the concentrate by mouth.
3. Twenty-nine of the 33 control animals receiving the tartrate and no agave concentrate died.
4. With the animals receiving the concentrate, the blood chemistry showed a marked and definite improvement, as compared with the control animals, and also with the results reported by Underhill and Wakeman (3,4).
5. Microscopic examination of the kidney showed a definitely better pathological picture in animals receiving the concentrate, as compared with the controls.
Submitted on July 23, 1932