of Organic Bodies. 1 1 



only of metallic chlorides, and oF sulphate of potash, a large 

 quantity of alkaline phosphates, but no alkaline carbonate. 



Muriatic acid then dissolved a considerable quantity of 

 phosphates from the mass. 



The residual carbonaceous mass yielded an ash which also 

 consisted of phosphates. 



The following were the relative amounts of inorganic con- 

 stituents obtained in the analysis : — 



In the aqueous solution 3*090 grms. 



In the muriatic solution 1*262 



On the incineration of the carbonized mass 2*866 ... 



Hence flesh, like blood, is a meroxidic substance. The 

 latter apparently contains a comparatively larger amount of 

 teleoxidic matter than flesh. But the aqueous solution of the 

 carbonized blood contains nearly 60 per cent, of chloride of 

 sodium, whilst that of the carbonized flesh contained only very 

 small quantities of alkaline chlorides. On taking this into 

 consideration, the quantity of anoxidic matter in the blood is 

 larger than in the flesh, and that of the teleoxidic matter 

 smaller in the blood than in flesh. 



The inorganic constituents of the liquid and solid excre- 

 mentitious substances have been determined by M. Fleitmann 

 (Appendix X. and XL). 



The extraordinarily large amount of salts contained in the 

 urine is well known : they exist in it in a perfectly oxidized 

 state. On evaporating the urine and carbonizing the dry 

 residue, with exclusion of the air, water extracts almost the 

 whole of the salts. On treating the carbonized mass, after 

 exhaustion with water, with muriatic acid, a somewhat con- 

 siderable amount of phosphates is further dissolved, part of 

 which had been separated by the evaporation of the urine. 



The carbonized mass remaining after the action of water 

 and muriatic acid, yielded so small a quantity of ash on com*- 

 bustion, as to give rise to the supposition that the inorganic 

 constituents obtained in this way had also existed in an oxi- 

 dized state in the urine, and had merely escaped the action of 

 the solvents in exhausting the carbonized mass. One of the 

 principal constituents of these inorganic substances was silica, 

 which must have been separated on the evaporation of the 

 urine and heating the dry residue, and have thus become 

 insoluble in muriatic acid. The urine may therefore be con- 

 sidered as one of the perfectly teleoxidic substances. 



The quantities of the inorganic constituents obtained in 

 these operations were as follows : — 



