NUCLEIN OR PURINE METABOLISM 883 



labouring class, where hard manual work is combined with a bare 

 sufficiency of food. It seems therefore that it is not so much the 

 supply of purines in the diet which must be controlled as the general 

 conditions of nutrition which determine the fermentative changes in 

 the purines, either of the food or tissues, under normal conditions of 

 metabolism. 



