In a recent paper, S. R. Benedict? describes a calorimetric copper method for the determination of the blood sugar which is based upon the idea that his well known copper citrate reagent should prove as superior for quantitative work on blood as it has been for qualitative tests on urine. This expectation seems to have been fulfilled to a certain extent, for by a series of paralleL blood sugar ...

In a recent paper, S. R. Benedict? describes a calorimetric copper method for the determination of the blood sugar which is based upon the idea that his well known copper citrate reagent should prove as superior for quantitative work on blood as it has been for qualitative tests on urine. This expectation seems to have been fulfilled to a certain extent, for by a series of paralleL blood sugar ...

In a recent paper, S. R. Benedict? describes a calorimetric copper method for the determination of the blood sugar which is based upon the idea that his well known copper citrate reagent should prove as superior for quantitative work on blood as it has been for qualitative tests on urine. This expectation seems to have been fulfilled to a certain extent, for by a series of paralleL blood sugar ...

About a year ago the writer (1) described technique for the determination of sugar in blood which yields figures appreciably lower than those obtained by the use of the older methods. Since the publication of that paper two investigators, employing widely differing procedures, have reported results which indicate the correctness of the lower figures obtained with the new method. Harned (2), aft...

UNLABELLED The aim of the present study was the comparison of calculated and measured values of the energy expenditure of critically ill patients during the different phases of therapeutic mild hypothermia. PATIENTS AND METHODS Five patients (mean age 40.6 years, range 23 to 68 years, 2 females) suffering from severe acute cerebral injuries who underwent mild hypothermia were prospectively in...

Catholic social teaching, whether promulgated by Ambrose of Milan in the fourth century or Benedict XVI in the twenty-first, has always been contextual. The themes emphasized, although consistent in their fundamental doctrinal commitments, have shifted depending on the problems Christians faced. Papal encyclicals written after the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, moved away from an even-h...

THE methods employed by Hunter and Eagles [1925], by Benedict, Newton and Behre [1926], and by Benedict and Newton [1929] for the isolation of ergothioneine from blood are somewhat involved and expensive to apply. The authors have devised a technique (based on Hopkins's [1929] method for glutathione) which yields about 85 % of the ergothioneine present. The method involves three stages. (1) The...

BACKGROUND An understanding of energy expenditure in hospitalized patients is necessary to determine optimal energy supply. The metabolic rate can be measured or estimated by equations, but estimation is by far the most common method. AIM This study tests the degree of agreement between measured resting energy expenditure by indirect calorimetry and predicted resting energy expenditure by Har...

Paul E. Kwak, MD, MM, MSc; Joseph R. Connors, BS; Peter A. Benedict, MD; Micah Timen, MSc, CPA; Binhuan Wang, PhD; Yan Zhang, MPH; Stephanie Youlios, PA; Kimberly Sureau, NP; Michael J. Persky, Samaan Rafeq, Luis Angel, Milan Amin, MD