258 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vo.. VIII. 
would not be absorbed because the fat globules are not nearly minute 
enough. Without the action of the intestine upon their artificial emulsion 
neither would the fat be absorbed for the same reason. The very fact 
that they conclude it is absorbed as soap admits of disintegration of their 
emulsion so that their experiments are altogether negative, neither sup- 
porting nor favouring the emulsion theory. 
