Hyperglycemia

Abstract

Technological advances and automation have made rapid strides in the business of clinical pathology. Many laboratory tests are now done by ingenious machines which turn out results so fast that one needs other machines to store and retrieve the scientific riches. Experimental toxicology has created huge processing plants in which hundreds of urine, blood, and tissue samples are analyzed. Gone are the days when attractive and compassionate technicians insisted that you accompany them to the animal room to inspect an anemic rat or a jaundiced dog. Gone are the days when test animals had names and when somebody not only recorded their poor appetite and scruffy fur, but tried desperately to find the cause of the trouble. In these early days of toxicology, testing and evaluating went on simultaneously. Reports were written to provide either impassioned support or final condemnation for a test compound. Today, they are not much more than annotated computer print-outs delivered to somebody’s desk to be analyzed and evaluated.