A Digest of Metabolism Experiments in Which the Balance of Income and Outgo Was Determined (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...ratio of the sulphates to nitrogen was greater, during the disease than after recovery, while on the scurvy diet the ratio of the phosphates to nitrogen increased and the increase was more marked after recovery than during the diease. EXPERIMENTS WITH SUBJECTS SUFFERING FROM DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. Iii Table 19 are included 31 tests with men and 6 with women, in which the subjects were suffering from cancer of the oesophagus, cancer of the stomach, constipation, jaundice, and cirrhosis. These experiments were made to investigate special questions, which are noted in the text accompanying the table. A number of experiments in which the subjects were suffering from cancer of other than the digestive organs are also included in this table. cr. a o s s Nos. 1955-1962, No. 1564, Table 17, and Nos. 2219-2226, Table 24, were made by Miiller at the Charite Hospital in Berlin in 1886-1888. The object was to investigate the effect of carcinoma on metabolism. The subjects of Nos. 2219-2226, Table 24, were suffering from some mental trouble, but were otherwise healthy. They received a diet containing an insufficient amount of nitrogen and the experiments were made for purposes of comparison. The subjects of Nos. 1955-1962 were suffering from carcinoma, and the subject of No. 1564, Table 17, from typhus abdominalis. The food consisted of meat, soup, eggs, etc. The feces were separated by means of charcoal. The nitrogen in the food, urine, and feces was determined, and in most cases the urea of the urine was also determined by titration (Pfliiger's method). The subject of No. 1959 died soon after the close of the experiment. With a diet containing 1 to 1.5 grams of nitrogen, this subject excreted in the urine an average of 2.9 grams of nitrogen daily duri...