THE LIPID PARTITION AND THE ALBUMIN-GLOBULIN RATIO IN SYPHILIS

Abstract

These investigations are a continuation of our previous studies on the lipids in the blood in syphilis. Our former work was carried out on the whole blood of the patient, whereas in this series the analyses were made on the blood serum, and in order to obtain a more complete picture of the biochemical findings, we included the determination of the albumin-globulin ratio on each specimen. The reason for this change to the blood serum lay in our desire to study the relationship of the lipids, albumin and globulin to the Wassermann reaction, other workers on this problem having claimed that examination of the serum was more accurate than that of the whole blood. Analyses were made of the total lipids, total cholesterol, cholesterol esters, free cholesterol, percentage of free cholesterol, lecithin, albumin and globulin. The accompanying tables and charts give summaries of the data obtained in our investigations; however,