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Burrows, Cook et al.1 have recently isolated p-cresol, along with certain ketones of the sterol group, from the urine of a man with a malignant tumour of the adrenal cortex. The urine (30 l.) was submitted to an initial hydrolysis by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and 0.75 gm. of p-cresol was isolated from the non-ketonic phenol fraction.
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Burrows, Cook, Roc and Warren, Biochem. J., 31, 950 (1937).
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MARSHALL, P. Para-Cresol from the Urine of Pregnant Mares. Nature 140, 362 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140362a0
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