Abstract
THE AUTHORS1 SHOWED THAT POTASSIUM IODIDE was completely extracted fromfinely II divided blood by 20 volumes of methanol followed by 20 volumes of acetone, but that Jl thyroglobulin was not extracted. Therefore the iodine left in the blood after this double extraction was referred to as “hormone iodine.” The senior author2 showedthat the values obtained by this method were the same as those obtained by ultrafiltration or by dialysis for 5 days. Because of the danger of leakage of an ultrafilter or dialyzer and the time consumed, these methods were discontinued. McClendon and Foster when determining ‘hormone iodine’ in 373 patients found that many had taken various iodine drugs. They advocated prolonging the methanol extraction for one hour in a shaking or rotating machine in an attempt to remove these drugs3. Evenone hour of extraction failed to remove iodide of mercury. Salter4 criticizes the methods in the literature and advocates precipitation of the thyroid iodine in the blood with acetic acid or with...
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