Abstract
Yakriton, the detoxicating hormone of the liver, can save rabbits not only from subacute phosphorus poisoning but also from acute phosphorus poisoning. For the latter purpose 1/4 R. A. U. of yakriton exerts a very much better effect than other numbers of units larger or smaller, because these can make animals live only longer than controls at best. It is very peculiar that 1/2 R. A. U. exerts the best prophylactic effect in subacute phosphorus poisoning and that 1/4 R. A. U., half of 1/2 R. A. U., exerts the best effect in acute phosphorus poisoning, poisoning with twice as large an amount of phosphorus as in the case of subacute phosphorus intoxication.
Of course the prevention of acute phosphorus poisoning is more difficult than that of subacute intoxication.
