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carnivora, then the blood of the former must yield, 

 as the last products of the metamorphosis, from all 

 the organs taken together, eholeic acid, uric acid, 

 and ammonia (see p. 136) ; and if we ascribe to the 

 uric acid an action similar to that of the benzoic 

 acid in lire's observation — such, namely, that the 

 further transformation, owing to the presence of 

 this acid, assumes another form, the elements of the 

 uric acid being incorporated in the final products — 

 it will appear, for example, that 2 at. of proteine, 

 with the addition of the elements of 3 at. of uric 

 acid and 2 at. of oxygen, might give rise to the pro- 

 duction of hippuric acid and urea. 



2 at. proteine, 2 (C,s'N,U,eOu) = C,, ^n^^As 



3 at. uric acid, 3 (C10N4H4 Oq ) = C30 Nj.HioOis 

 2 at. oxygen = Oo 



Thesumis = C126N24HS4O48 = 



_ [6 at. hippuric acid, 6 (CigN HsO-^ = CiosNg H48O30 

 ^ [9 at. urea 9 (C^N^H^O,) = C,8 Ni^HaeOgs 



The sum is = C126N24H84O 



4S 



50. Finally, if we bear in mind, that, in the her- 

 bivora, the non-nit rogenised constituents of their 

 food (starch, &c.) must, as we have shewn, play an 

 essential part in the formation of the bile ; that to 

 their elements must of necessity be added those of 

 a nitrogenised compound, in order to produce the 

 nitrogenised constituents of the bile, the most strik- 

 ing result of the combinations thus suggested is 

 this, that the elements of starch added to those of 



