Note 19 — Chapter IX · URIC ACID IN RELATION TO GOUT

Walker Hall states that: “Taking the total volume of blood at three and a half litres, and the volume passing through the lungs as four and a half litres per minute, and through the kidneys as one litre per minute, and the solubility of lactim-urate as 0·1 grm. per 4,000 c.c. of blood, it would seem that the average daily output of 0·5 grm. could be suspended in the quantity of blood passing through the lungs in five minutes or through the kidneys in twenty minutes normal.”