The author studied the glycemia, prior to food being taken, in normal subjects, in patients suffering from Oroya Fever, and in dogs infected with Bartonella canis. 1. A moderate hyperglycemia, can be proved to exist, with certain frequency, in the hematic stage of Carríon's disease. 2. These changes in the glycemia, are also present, in the experimental dog Bartonelosis, during the stage of intense anemia. 3. An occasionally severe hypoglycemia, probably causing the animals death, often accompanies the terminal stage of serious cases of dog Bartonelosis, and follows the hyperglycemia whenever these two phenomena occur in one and the same case. 4. The hyperglycemia proved to exist both in subjects suffering Irom Carrion's disease, and in dogs seized with Bartonelosis can be explained as being due to an exagerated hepatic glycogenolysis, stimulated by the infectious state and also possibl...

Some time ago, decided to study blood lipids Carrión's Disease and the dog Bartonellosis induced by the important findings of Williams and associates in the plasma and erythrocytes of patients with pernicious anemia, and the work of Wintger in dogs with liver injury by carbon tetrachloride.

Se ha demostrado que la inyección subcutánea de cocaína determina incremento transitorio de la glucemia en el perro, que se manifiesta en forma ligera con 10 mgs. por kilo de peso y alcanza un valor superior al cien por ciento de la cantidad normal, en algunos casos, con dosis de 18 miligramos. Esta hiperglucemia va seguida, la mayor parte de la veces, de una leve o moderada hipoglucemia.