Simplified Method of Blood-sugar Estimation

A Simplified Method for Estimation of Sugar in the Blood

(December 1927). That normal blood contains sugar has been known from the time of Claude Bernard, and since then numerous methods have been devised by workers all over the world for estimating its amount, many of these being obsolete now. Formerly, the estimation of sugar in blood used to be a tedious procedure; but nowadays it is a much more simple process. But even so, nearly all the methods ...

A Simplified Bed-Side Blood-Sugar Method

medical profession. But even so, practically all the blood-sugar methods require considerable laboratory facilities and are not suitable for application at the bed-side and in the mofussil. Since the introduction of insulin and the modern developments in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, the estimation of blood-sugar has become essential in this disease. The bloodsugar question is, thus,...

Estimation of Blood Sugar

An Evaluation of Dextrotest Method of Blood Sugar Estimation

DEXTROTEST is a simple, side room method of blood sugar estimation produced by Messrs. Ames Ltd. It is basically a convenient form of a copper reduction technique, measuring the total reducing substances in blood. It consists, in brief, in adding 1 ml. of blood to 2 ml. of water in which a tablet containing sulphosalicylic acid has been dissolved. The proteins having been precipitated, the mixt...

A Colorimetric Method for the Estimation of Sugar in Blood.