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1 From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Baylor University College of Medicine
Digitalis decreases the plasma volume, increases the hematocrit and increases the "extracellular fluid." The increase in "extracellular fluid" is far greater than can be accounted for by the escape of fluid from the plasma; therefore this extra water must come from cells.
Submitted on October 25, 1946