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in the Body. Laevulosuria. Detection of Laevulose. Trans- 

 formation of Glucose into Laevulpse. True Laevulosuria. Ali- 

 mentary Laevulosuria. Lactosuria. Lactosuria of Puerperal 

 Women. Lactosuria in Infants. Alimentary Galactosuria in 

 Disturbances of Hepatic Functions. Pentosuria. X-xylose. 

 Alimentary Pentosuria. Pentosuria in Diabetes. Chronic Pen- 

 tosuria. Detection of Pentoses. Cammidge Reaction. Experi- 

 mental Glycosurias of Various Kinds. Renal Glycosurias. 

 Sugar Puncture. Toxic Glycosurias. Salt Glycosuria. Gly- 

 cosuria from Chill. 



XIII. RELATION OP GLANDS WITH INTERNAL SECRETION TO CARBOHY- 



DRATE METABOLISM. GLYCURONIC ACID 300 



Relations of the Adrenals to Carbohydrate Metabolism. Nature 

 of Adrenal Diabetes. Dependence of Adrenin Glycosuria upon 

 the Renal Function. Hypothesis of the Regulating Influence 

 of Adrenin upon Normal Carbohydrate Metabolism. Does 

 the Sugar Puncture Act through the Adrenals to Cause Glyco- 

 suria? Failure of Effect of Glycosuric Puncture After Exclusion 

 of the Adrenals. Chromium Affinity of the Adrenals. Question 

 of Increase of Adrenin after Sugar Puncture. Do the Adrenals 

 Have a Regulating Influence upon the Normal Carbohydrate 

 Metabolism? Relations of the Thyroid Gland to Carbohydrate 

 Metabolism. Removal of the Thyroid and of the Parathyroids. 

 Hyperthyroidism . Interaction of the Internal Secretory Glands . 

 Relation of Hypophysis to Carbohydrate Metabolism. Gly- 

 curonic Acid. Constitution. Conjugation Conditions. Origin 

 of Glycuronic Acid from Oxidation of Sugar. Oxaluria. Con- 

 version of Glycuronic Acid into X-xylose. Occurrence of Gly- 

 cyronic Acid in the Body. Importance of Glycuronic Acid in 

 Diagnosis of Intestinal Disturbances and Diseases of the Liver. 

 Detection and Estimation of Glycuronic Acid. 



XIV. SUGAR DESTRUCTION IN THE ECONOMY 327 



Glycolysis. Distribution of Zymases in the Vegetable Kingdom. 

 Supposed Occurrence of Zymases in Animal Tissues. Cohn- 

 heim's Pancreas-Muscle Experiments. Objections of Glaus and 

 Embden. Possible Existence of Glycolytic Tissue Ferments. 

 Experiments upon Surviving Tissues. Glycolysis in Blood. 

 Importance of Leucocytes in Blood-Glycolysis. Sugar Catabol- 

 ism from the Influence of Alkali. Importance of Catalyzers in 

 the Catalysis of Sugar. Electrolytic Cleavage of Sugar. Mech- 

 anism of Alcoholic Fermentation of Sugar. Butyric Acid Fer- 

 mentation. Citric Acid Fermentation. 



XV. DIGESTION AND RESORPTION OF FATS 350 



The Lipase of the Stomach. Problems of Fat Resorption. Fat 

 Cleavage and Solution of Cleavage Products. Fat Synthesis 

 in the Intestinal Wall. Behavior of Non-Saponifiable Emul- 

 sions. Histological Observations Bearing upon Fat Resorption. 

 Resorption of Soaps. Method of Study with Isolated Intestinal 

 Loops. Influence of Pancreatic Juice and Bile upon Fat Diges- 

 tion. Influence of Extirpation of Pancreas upon Fat Resorption. 

 Activation of Pancreatic Steapsin by Salts of the Biliary Acids. 

 Question of Complex Nature of Pancreatic Steapsin. Synthetic 

 Production of Fat by Reverse Ferment Action of Lipase. Fat 

 Cleavage in the Intestine in the Absence of Pancreatic Secretion. 

 Solvent Power of the Bile. Lipaemia. Resorption Path of the 

 Fat. Hsemoconiosis. Masking of the Fat in the Blood. Rela- 

 tion of the Masking of Fat to Fatty Degeneration. Pathologi- 

 cal Lipaemias. Lipaemia from Mobilization of Fat Deposits. 

 Diabetic Lipaemia. Lipaemia from Narcosis. Passage of the 

 Fat out of the Blood Stream. Fetal Lipa3mia. Diet Lipaemia. 

 Pavy's Theory. 



