DRAINAGE OF THE THORACIC DUCT IN EXPERIMENTAL PERITONITIS.
1. When care is taken to produce a peritonitis, which in itself is almost uniformly fatal, drainage of the thoracic duct in dogs has no favorable influence upon the course or result of the peritonitis. 2. Under the conditions of my experiments the thoracic duct did not serve in any important way as a drainage tract for bacterial contamination of the peritoneal cavity.
Steinberg
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Department of Pathology of the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University, Cleveland.