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. 2007 Dec 15;335(7632):1255–1259. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39391.713229.AD

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Fig 3 Child’s arm during sweat test with the macroduct system. After pilocarpine iontophoresis to stimulate sweating, the closed capillary collecting system is applied to the skin of the forearm. Sweat can be seen entering the tubing (blue); electrolyte analysis can be reliably performed on as little as 50 μl of sweat