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Year-book of medicine, surgery and their allied sciences. 1862
Yearbook of medicine surgery and their allied sciences 1862 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In dogs which have been kept fasting for nine or twelve Jays considerable quantities of glycogene are still found. Quantitative valuations seem to favour the ... more »opinion that a part of the glycogene is derived from bile which has been absorbed from the intestines. The quantity of sugar in the liver diminishes considerably when no bile is allowed to pass into the intestines. If glycocoll and taurine are given to dogs the quantity of sugar in the liver ia found to increase, and by heating the parts new quantities of sugar are formed from glycogene. Sugar is also contained in the muscles after taurine has been taken. Hoppe, on the ground of some recent investigations of his, maintains against Frerichs and Neukoinm ('Year Book,' 1861, p. 86) the following propositions: 1. Biliary acids are found in the urine in cases of jaundice, and also when they have been previously injected into the blood-vessels. 2. The formation of biliary pigment occurs at such places and nnder such circumstances as forces us to exclude the notion that they are derived from the transformation of the biliary acids. 3. Biliary pigment has not yet been artificially obtained from the biliary acids. 4. It is highly probable, as Kuehne has already suggested, that cholopyrrhine is formed in the blood from the colouring matter of the latter, in all cases in which blood-corpuscles are dissolved by substances which do not destroy life in the quantity in which they are brought to act. Such a substance, for instance, as water. Jaffe dried a cicatrix from the brain which contained numerous hsema- toidine crystals. He then moistened it with absolute alcohol, and made an extract with chloroform. After the chloroform had evaporated, beautiful crystals of hsematoidine were left. These crystals were freed fro...« less