512 



INDEX. 



COPEMAN, S. M. and W. B. WINSTON, case 

 of biliary fistula in the human subject, 

 investigated by them, 274, 277, 288, 

 345, 346 ; growth of micro-organisms 

 in culture media containing bile, 356 

 CORDUA, H., on the production of bili- 

 rubin when blood is injected into the 

 abdominal cavity, 349 

 COBVISART, LUCIEN, the discoveries of, on 

 the proteolytic activity of the pancreatic 

 juice, 216 et seq. ; mutually destructive 

 action of trypsin and pepsin, 444 (foot- 

 note) 



COURVOISIER, Professor, reference to, 381 

 CRUVEILHIER, on gall-stones, 377, 386 

 Cystinuria, the faeces and urine in, 466 

 Cystine, occurrence and constitution of, 



465 



CZERNY and his pupils, experiments es- 

 tablishing the possible survival of dogs 

 after complete removal of the stomach, 

 163 



CZERNY and LATSCHENBERGER, on absorp- 

 tion in the large intestine, 453 



DANILEWSKI, attempt of, to separate the 

 pancreatic diastatic enzyme, 208 ; at- 

 tempt of, to separate the proteolytic 

 ferment, 218 



DEFRESNE, assertion of, that the salivary 

 diastatic-enzyme resists the action of 

 pepsin and hydrochloric acid, 157 



Dehydrocholalic acid, 305 ; its constitu- 

 tion and probable relations to cholalic 

 and bilic acids, 306 



DELEPINE, on the iron in liver in pernicious 

 anaemia, 350 



DEMANT, on human intestinal juice, 408 ; 

 digestive action of, 413 



DEMARCAY, H., researches of, on the bile 

 acids, 293 



DESCARTES, RENE, a supporter of the 

 iatro-chemical school, 66 



Deutero-albumose, 129, 485 ; separation 

 from proto- albumin, 488 



DIAKONOW, excretion of indigo-carmin by 

 the liver, 375 



Diamido-acetic acid, 230 



Diarrhoea, stools in, method of examining, 

 463 



Diastase, discovery of by Payen and 

 Persoz, 5, 36 ; comparison of, with 

 diastatic enzyme of saliva, 50, 51 



Diastase, salivary, a synonym tor 'ptyalin,' 

 18 



'Diastasimetry,' 56 



Diastatic enzymes, 9 



enzyme : 



I. Of saliva, 36 ; discovery of action 

 exerted by, 36 ; study of products of, 

 37 ; attempts to separate, 38 ; yet un- 

 known in a state of purity, 39 ; changes 

 which starch undergoes under influence 

 of, 39 ; specific rotation, reducing power 



and reaction with iodine of chief pro- 

 ducts of, on starch, 43 ; action of dilute 

 acids upon, 156; destruction of, in 

 stomach, 157 



II. Of pancreas and pancreatic juice, 

 203 ; history of the discovery of, 203 ; 

 preparation of solutions of, 204, 205 ; 

 degree of activity of extracts or solu- 

 tions from the pancreas of different 

 animals, 205 ; products of the action of, 

 205 ; temperature most favourable to 

 action of, 206 ; rapidity of action of, 

 influenced by quantity of enzyme, 206 ; 

 estimate of the activity of the pancreatic 

 diastatic enzyme, 206 ; relative diastatic 

 activity of the pancreatic tissue of the 

 ox, sheep and pig, 206 ; probable exist- 

 ence of a zymogen of, 207 ; grounds for 

 assuming the independence of, 208 ; 

 attempts to isolate, by Bouchardat and 

 Sandras, 208 ; by Danilewski, 208 ; by 

 Cohnheim, 209 ; by v. Wittich, 209 ; 

 chemical composition of, 210 



III. Of intestinal juice, 413 

 Diffusibility of albumoses and peptones, 



48i) 



Digestion, definition of the process of, 3 ; 

 process of, in the living stomach, 151 ; 

 general sketch of digestion in living 

 stomach, 152 ; duration of, 159 ; final 

 products of, which leave the stomach, 

 160 



of collagen and gelatin, 145 ; of 



chondrinogen and chondrin, 145 ; of 

 mucin, 146 ; of elastin, 146 ; of oxy- 

 haemoglobin, 147 



DISQUE, L., researches of, on hydrobili- 

 rubin referred to, 326 



DOBROSLAWIN, on diastatic action of in- 

 testinal juice, 413 



DRECHSEL, E., methods of effecting the 

 decomposition of proteids, 235 ; prepara- 

 tion of leucine, 236 ; on ornithin, 244 ; 

 history of his discovery of lysine, 254 ; 

 his employment of phospho-tungstic 

 acid to precipitate the bases resulting 

 from the decomposition of the albu- 

 minous molecule, 255 ; discovery of 

 lysatinine, 256 ; found that lysatinine 

 decomposes with the formation of urea, 

 258 ; his criticism of the statement that 

 hypoxanthine is a product of the diges- 

 tion of albuminous bodies, 262 ; his 

 modification of Pettenkofer's reaction, 

 298 



DRECHSEL, E., and TH. K. KRUGEK, on 

 lysine, 255 



DRESSLER, W., on the sulphur of the faeces, 

 458 



DUBRANFAUT, discovery of maltose, 37 



DUMAS, his analyses of the bodies obtained 

 from bile by Demarcay, 293 (see Pelouze 

 and Dumas) 



DUNCAN, JOHN, reference to the case in 



