Abstract
THIS paper presents an evaluation of the epinephrine test from the standpoint of its prognostic significance in patients being prepared for surgery, as well as a brief review of its use in the diagnosis of diseases of the pituitary-adrenal axis. In 1908 Babes and Jonescu1 observed that stress in man caused a decrease in suprarenal lipid and that multiple intravenous injections of epinephrine produced the same depletion. After Vogt's2 demonstration in 1944 that epinephrine increased the content of the cortical hormones in the plasma of the renal vein of dogs and her subsequent observations3 and those of Long and Fry . . .
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