424 ANIMAL BODY: 



In 100 parts of the ashes yielded by the incineration of ox- 

 flesh Enderlin found : 



Tribasic phosphate of soda (3NaO, PO 5 ) . 45-100-1 

 Chlorides of sodium and potassium . . 45*936 J 9J 

 Phosphates of lime, magnesia, and peroxide of iron . 6-840 insoluble salts 

 Loss . . 2-124 



100-000 ] 



The following analyses of the flesh of other animals have been 

 made by Schlossberger : 



Calf. 



f A ^ Swine. Roe. Pigeon. Chicken. Carp. Trout, 



1. 2. 



Water .... 797 78-2 78-3 76-9 76-0 77'3 80-1 80-5 



Muscular fibre and vessels .15-0 16-2 16-8 18-0 17-0 16-5 12-0 1M 

 Albumen and hsematoglobulin 3-2 2-6 2-4 3-3 4*5 3-0 5-2 4-4 

 Alcohol-extract with salts . 1-1 1-4 1-7 1 f 1-0 1-4 1-0 1-6 



Water-extract with salts . 1-0 1-6 0*8 J 2 ' 4 I 1-5 *l-2 17 0-2 

 Phosphate of lime with albumen 0-1 traces traces 0-4 0-6 2-2 

 The analyses of Schultz correspond in many points with 

 those of Schlossberger. In calves' flesh Schultz found a little 

 more animal fibre than Schlossberger : in the flesh of a pig four 

 weeks old Schultz found 21*1 parts of muscular fibre and 3-45 

 of albumen and hsematoglobulin ; and in the flesh of a pig two 

 years and a half old he found 20- 3 parts of the former and 4'2 

 of the latter. Schultz also found that the amount of muscular 

 fibre was less in the flesh of fishes than in that of the mam- 

 malia : thus in the flesh of cyprinus nasus, and cyprinus barbus 

 the proportions of fibre were 13*5 and 17*18 respectively. 



[We may take this opportunity of noticing an interesting 

 paper by Helmholtz, 1 on the consumption of tissue during 

 muscular action. 



Powerful muscular contractions were induced by passing an 

 electric current through the amputated leg of a frog as long as 

 convulsions continued to be manifested. The flesh of the two 

 legs was then analysed. The albumen was apparently scarcely 

 affected, the mean of 6 experiments giving 2'10g of albumen in 

 the electrized, and 2'13 in the non-electrized flesh. With 

 regard to the extractive matters it appeared that in all the ex- 

 periments, without a single exception, the water-extract in the 

 electrized flesh was diminished, while on the other hand the 

 spirit- and alcohol-extracts were increased by that process. The 

 results are expressed in the following tables. 

 1 MiUler's Archiv. 1845. 



