IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF ETHER AND NEMBUTAL UPON SOME OF THE BLOOD COMPONENTS IN THE CAT

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Adult male cats were anesthetized with either ether or nembutal. Blood samples were withdrawn from the ear immediately before anesthesia and the heart immediately after anesthesia. Ether produced an immediate increase in the hematocrit value, plasma protein, blood sugar, leucocytes, lymphocytes and PMN cells of the blood of cats drawn from either the heart or ear. There was no change in the relative proportion of lymphocytes and PMN cells. Nembutal produced an immediate decrease in the hematocrit value, plasma protein, leucocytes, lymphocytes and PMN cells, and a slight rise in blood sugar in the blood of cats drawn from either the ear or heart. There was no change in the relative proportion of lymphocyte and PMN cells. Heart blood and ear blood, drawn under either ether or nembutal, showed no significant difference in respect to hematocrit value, plasma protein or blood sugar nor did the proportions of lymphocytes and PMN cells differ. However, under both ether and nembutal, the absolute number of lymphocytes changed more rapidly in heart blood than in ear blood. Under nembutal alone, there is also a more rapid change in leucocytes and PMN cells in heart blood than in ear blood.

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