LACTOSURIA IN NURSING WOMEN

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For many years it has been noted that in the urine of a certain number of nursing women there is a Fehling reducing substance, generally believed to be lactose. Thanks to the kindness of Drs. C. J. Miller and E. L. King, in charge of the gynecologic and obstetric wards of Charity Hospital, and of Dr. T. B. Sellers and Dr. C. D. Dawson of the Southern Baptist Hospital, I have been able recently to investigate the subject. The details of the investigation will be given in a future publication; in this paper I shall limit myself to stating briefly the results I have come to and the method I have used. LACTOSURIA Next to dextrose, lactose is the commonest sugar found in the urine. Lactose, as is well known, reduces Fehling's solution, and not infrequently lactosuria has been mistaken for true glycosuria. It is most important to distinguish between

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