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Excerpt from The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 4 of 8: Pediatrics; Orthopedic Surgery The Nitrogenous and Sugar Content of the Blood of the new-born. Analyses of the blood of normal new born infants, made by J. P. Sedgewick and M. R. Zieg ler,1 show that the values for creatin plus creatinin and non-protein nitrogen are high during the first few days of life corresponding with the high values for uric acid during that period. The creatinin and sugar values are essentially the same as the adult normal values, and the urea nitrogen is near the maximum normal value for adults. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.