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Dr. Wigglesworth's communication in Nature of July 18 raises some very interesting points regarding the physiology of animals which possess uricotelic metabolism. Evidence in favour of his suggestion that a circulation of base takes place, as well as of water, in the excretion of uric acid, can, it seems to me, be found in the facts already known about the development of the chick embryo.
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NEEDHAM, J. Excretion of Uric Acid. Nature 128, 152–153 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128152c0
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