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dale and Miller, of Illinois; and to Dr. Jonathan Burrill and Dr. A. 

 W. Palmer, of St. Louis. (These are friends of our early student 

 days; and for their aid in our investigations and for samples so 

 readily submitted, as well as for advice and suggestions kindly 

 ofPered from time to time, heartiest acknowledgment is hereby 

 made.) I also desire publicly to thank Rev. P. B. Peabody, of Blue 

 Rapids, Kan., for his aid in the proofreading and the transcribing 

 of this report. This sort of aid is probably little appreciable by 

 the average nonliterary layman ; yet it is particularly acceptable to 

 us, amid the stress of the jfinishing "strain" of this race. 



An examination, as given in the tables of results attached, in 182 

 samples out of 200 intimately tested with this same cyanamide of lime, 

 shows the conversion of the tubercular lesions into easily recognized 

 alkali albuminates and easily absorbed casein, the presence of a 

 definite base having been determined in the case of each sample. 

 The series of changes thus far controlled were found to be as fol- 

 lows (empirically represented in series): 



C4H9N3O2.. Kreatin. 



C4H7N3O Kreatinin. 



C5H4N4O2 Xanthin. 



C5H10N4O Xanthokreatinin. 



C5H4N4O Hypoxanthin. 



C7H8N4O3 Carnin. 



C6H13NO2 Leucin. 



CgHuNOs Tyrosin. 



C11H4N2O Urea. 



C5H4N4O3 Uric acid. 



The eleventh type of the above series, with sulphur and phos- 

 phorus (empirically represented), gives: 



C77H120N20O26 Alkali albuminate. 



C144H240N40S2P2 Casein of milk. 



