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39. Addition to p. 340, 11 linos from bottom. On the polariscope as a means of 



determining the quantity of albumen in animal fluids .... .... 479 



40. Addition to page 349, line 21. On the form in which fibrin coagulates .... 480 



41. Addition to page 358, line 9. On the absence of fibrin in the hepatic and 



splenic veins .... .... .... .... .... .... 480 



42. Addition to page 359, line 20. On syntonin, or muscle-fibrin .... .... 480 



43. Addition to page 385, line 14 from bottom. On casein in the blood .... 482 



44. Addition to page 386, line 15. On the crystalline substance of the blood .... 485 



45. Addition to page 396, line 10 from bottom. On glutin in leucannic blood, and 



on the absence of gelatigenous tissue in the embryo .... .... 495 



46. Addition to page 398, line 2 from bottom. On chondrin .... .... 496 



47. Addition to page 453, line 7 Boussingault's method of determining the 



amount of ammonia in the urine .... .... .... .... 496 



ADDITIONS AND NOTES TO VOL. II. 



1. Addition to page 30, line 17. Colin on the secretion of saliva in the 



solidungula. The observations of Becher and Ludwig on the saliva .... 498 



2. Addition to page 31, line 11 from bottom. Bidder and Schmidt on the 



development of the starch-ferment in the saliva .... .... 499 



3. Addition to page 36, line 15. Bidder and Schmidt on the suspension of the 



action of saliva on starch in the stomach. On the principal use of saliva .... 499 



4. Addition to page 41, line 15. Schmidt on the amount of free hydrochloric 



acid in the gastric juice .... .... .... ... .... 500 



5. Addition to page 45, line 4. Schmidt on the chloride of ammonium and 



other chlorides in the gastric juice .... .... .... .... 500 



6. Addition to page 46, line 5. Schmidt on the amount and analysis of the 



ferment (pepsin) of the gastric juice, and on the influence of animal and 

 vegetable tood on that secretion .... .... .... .... 500 



7. Addition to page 53, line 15. Bidder and Schmidt on the daily quantity of 



gastric juice .... .... .... .... .... .... 501 



8. Addition to page 59, last line. Bidder and Schmidt on the effect of the 



addition of saliva and bile on the action of the gastric juice ; on the 

 quantity of albuminous substance that can be dissolved by a definite 

 quantity of gastric juice .... .... .... .... .... 501 



9. Note to bottom of page 60. The researches of Gruenewaldt and Schroeder 



on the human gastric juice .... .... .... .... 503 



10. Addition to page 68, line 7 from bottom. On the differences in the physical 



characters and in the composition of freshly -secreted bile, and of bile that 



has been retained for a long time in the gall-bladder ... ... 504 



11. Addition to page 78, line 18. On the absolute quantity of bile secreted in 



twenty-four hours ; on the effect of starvation upon the biliary secretion ; 

 on the influence of different varieties of food, of water, of carbonate of 

 soda, of alcohol, and of diseases on the quantity of bile ; on the inter- 

 mittent emptying of the gall-bladder .... .... .... 505 



12. Addition to page 105, line 14. On the co-operation of the bile in the 



digestion of the fats .... .... .... .... .... 508 



13. Addition to page 81, line 20. Molcschott on the absence of biliary con- 



stituents in the blood .... 512 



