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Our experiments, using penicillin, settle a current controversy in favor of Dragstedt and his school, who maintain that the liver normally houses an obligatory anaerobe which proliferates and fills the liver when arterial blood is no longer offered to the organ. By means of a few doses of penicillin it is possible almost regularly to tie the artery to the liver with apparently indefinite survival of the dogs. The physiological properties of such animals will be reported in future papers.
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These experiments owe much to the critical supervision of the Head of the Department, Dr. C. H. Best.
Dr. E. A. Ryan, Dr. J. F. Murray and Dr. L, S, Davies will be glad to hear that the many hours they spent with us early in the problem at last bore fruit.
Dr. Stanley Hartroft is responsible for the post-mortem examinations, and he will report his findings later.
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Markowitz, J., Rappaport, A. & Scott, A.C. The function of the hepatic artery in the dog. A. J. D. D. 16, 344–348 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03001244
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