654 



INDEX 



Kisch's method of diastase determina- 

 tion, 213 

 Knapp's method of sugar estimation, 



206 



Knoop's theory of catabolism of ali- 

 phatic fatty acids, 392 

 decomposition of higher 



fatty acids, 427, 464 

 fat catabolism, 433 

 Kowarski's method of uric acid esti- 

 mation, 168 

 Kriiger and Schmid's method of uric 



acid estimation, 168 

 Kumagawa-Suto's method of sugar es- 

 timation, 206 



Lab-ferment, 14, 26 



separation from propepsin, 



23 

 Lab-process, bacterial involvement in, 



30 



physiological purpose of, 30 

 ultramicroscopy of, 29 

 Laccase, 548 

 Lactacidogen, 456 

 Lactam and lactim forms of urates, 



179 



Lactase in intestine, 195 

 Lactation and lactosuria, 284 

 Lactic acid, 155, 239, 341, 452, 474 

 and autolysis, 457 

 determination, R y ft' e 1 ' s 



method, 455 



in fat formation from car- 

 bohydrate, 390 

 fat-protein combination, 

 agency in separation of, 

 371 

 fermentation by lactolase 



328 



in glucose catabolism, 345 

 fermentation, 348 

 and muscle activity, 454 

 and muscle, amount of, 454 

 and oxybutyric acid, deter- 

 mination together of, 455 

 postmortem formation of, 456 

 quantitative determination 

 by v. Fiirth and Charnass 

 method of, 452 

 quantitative determination 

 by v. Furth and Charnass 

 method of, improvements 

 in, by Embden laboratory, 

 454 

 production from glycerinal- 



dehyde of, 460 



production from sugar (race- 

 mic acid as intermediate 

 product), 462 

 and rigor mortis, 459 



Lactic acid, sources of, 456 



and sugar, interchange of, 



461 

 in synthesis of uric acid, 156 



urine, 462 

 Lactokonids, 29 

 Lactolase, 328 



Lactose, fate of parenterally intro- 

 duced, 197 

 Lactosuria, 284 



in childbed, 284 

 infants, 285 

 and lactation, 284 

 Laevulose in amniotic fluid and urine 



of calves, 283 



assimilation in diabetes of, 228 

 detection of, 281 



lycogen formation from, 228 

 eliwanoff's test for, 281 

 tolerance of, lowered in hepatic 



disease, 283 

 transformation of glucose into, 



282 



Lsevulosuria, 281 

 alimentary, 283 

 in pregnancy, 283 

 pure, 283 

 urogenous, 282 

 Langerhans, degeneration of islands 



of, in human diabetes, 263 

 islands of, function of, 249 

 Lanolin, unabsorbability in intestine 



of, 354 



Laurie acid, 426 



Law of conservation of energy influ- 

 encing study of nutrition, 2 

 constant expenditure o f 



energy, 525 

 growth, 524 

 isodynamics, 529 

 length of life, Rubner's, 525 

 peptic fermentation, 22 

 tryptic fermentation, 47 

 Lead poisoning and gout, chronic, 186 

 Lecithin as activator of steapsin, 363 



in blood in diabetes, 374 

 Lefvre and Tollens' determination of 



glycuronic acid, 325 

 Leucin, 61, 111, 467, 473 

 acetone bodies from, 438 

 benzoyl-, 111 

 catabolism of, 466 

 sugar formation from, 239 

 Leucocytes, diastase from, 216 



glycogenic content of, in diabetes, 



254 



in haemic glycolysis, 339 

 lipase from, 403 

 proteolytic ferments from, 87 

 Leucomalachite green method of de- 

 tection and estimation of peroxi- 

 dases, 541 



