INDEX 



371 



Lovulose (Sec 'Fructose) 



Lipnse of gastric juice, 160 



Lithium, 35 



Liver, and hemoglobin destruction, 



39 

 Living material, characteristics of, 



18 



Lymph, 144 

 Lysine, need of, 201 



Magnesium, 38, 193 

 Malt sugar (See Maltose) 

 Maltase, in blood, 174, 175 



pancreatic, 166 

 Maltose, 48, 75 

 Manganese, 35 

 Mannose, 48, 51 

 Material bases, groups, 19 

 Meats as foodstuffs, 133 

 Mental activity and metabolism, 



218 

 Metabolism, 194-227 



general discussion, 194 



in sleep, 218 



in starvation, 220-221 



methods of study, 194 



of carbohydrates, 203-209 



of energy, 214-220 

 in disease, 219 



of fats, 211 



of inorganic materials, 213, 214 



of proteins, 195-203 

 Metaproteins, 92, 126 



in gastric digestion, 157 

 Methemoglobin, 121 

 Mett's tubes, 158 

 Milk, 120, 131 



souring of, 132 

 Milk sugar, (See Lactose) 

 Millon test, 102 

 Minimum, law of, 35 

 Molisch reaction, 58 

 Monosaccharides, 48, 67-72 

 Mouth, absorption in, 173 

 Mucic acid test, 71 

 Mucilages, 48, 77 

 Mucins, 114, 149 

 Mucoids, 114 

 Murexid test, 185 

 Muscle, composition of, 135 



contraction of, 135 



Mutarotation, 47 

 Myosin, 112 

 Myosinogen, 112 



N 



Nerve, compounds in, 138 

 Neutral sulphur in urine, 191 

 Nitrogen, 35-37 

 Nitrogen balance, 197, 198 

 Normal solutions, 25 

 Nuclease, intestinal, 169 



pancreatic, 166 

 Nucleic acid, 124 



source of, 185 



Nucleins, from nucleoproteins, 124 

 Nucleoproteins, 92, 123-125 

 Nuts, value as food, 134 



O 



Oils, 82 



Oleic acid, 81 



Oleomargarine, 87 



Optical activity, 46, 47 



Optical isomers, number possible, 



48 

 Optimum temperature for enzymes, 



60 



Osazones, 57 

 Osmosis, 22 

 Osmotic pressure, 21 

 Oxalic acid, from carbohydrates, 



52 



Oximes, 51 

 Oxygen, 36 



Oxyhemoglobin, spectrum, 120 

 crystallization of, 118 



Palmitic acid, 80 



Pancreas and sugar metabolism, 



205 



Pancreatic juice, 162, 163 

 Paracasein, produced by rennin, 



160 



Pentoses, 67 

 Pepsin, 158-160 

 Peptids, 92, 128 



behavior with enzymes, 108 



precipitation of, 109 



properties of, 108 



synthesis of, 107-109 



