The bromsulphalein test in liver dysfunctions

ABSTRACT

This report is necessarily limited, because of certain difficulties encountered during the last few years. In fact, it was only by sheer luck that we received the dye for this test just before the outbreak of the war and that we were able to save it from destruction during the warWe intend to carry on this work further, and supplement our clinical and laboratory evidences with histo-pathological examinationsHowever, from the interesting observations we have so far made, we can safely say with others who have used the test, that "it is both simple and valuable." No untoward reactions are producedWe have felt the urge to report our findings, however limited they may be, not only because of the interesting results that we obtained, but also because our experiments were the first performed in this country. We would like to offer these findings to our colleagues, in the hope that they may carry on the investigation on the subject a little further. For, as MacDonal says, "the very complexity of the livers functions makes it an organ so difficult to test normally and in disease." (Summary)