On the Diseases of the Kidney, their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, with an Introductory Chapter on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Kidney

sid other chemists, regarding the presence of lactic acid and lactate of ammonia in the sweat. AAmmonia and its compounds occurred in such very minute quantities, (notwithstanding the assertions of pmious chemits,) that he referred the new traces w.hich occurred to the effect of decomposition. Urea was not found in normal sweat, but was present when there was great disturbance of the function of the kidneys. Schottin examined the sweat in two cases of intermittent fever during the hot stage; it contined no lactic acid, but a considerable quantity of butyrate of