INDEX. 



523 



Ebstein and Griitzner on, 101 ; Sckiff's 

 'propepsin'; researches of Langley 

 and Langley and Edkins, on, 102 ; 

 Langley's directions for experiments on, 

 186 ; destruction of, 445 



Peptones, 134 ; earlier and imperfect 

 methods of preparation of the mixed 

 peptones resulting from the action of 

 pepsin and hydrochloric acid, 136 ; 

 Kiihne and Chittenden's method, 137; 

 Kiihne's improved method, 490 



Distinguishing characters of, 138 ; re- 

 agents which precipitate, 139 ; colour 

 reactions of, 139 ; cleavage-products of, 

 140 ; diffusibility of, 141, 489; chemical 

 composition of, according to earlier 

 analyses of very impure substances, 142 ; 

 analyses of Kiihne and Chittenden, 143 ; 

 relations of, to the proteids from which 

 they are derived, 144 

 (Refer also to Ampho-peptone, Anti- 

 peptone, Tryptone) 



Peptones a, /J, and 7 of Meissner, 115, 124 



' Pernicious anasmia,' increase of iron in 

 liver in, 350 



PETTENKOFER, his discovery of the reaction, 

 for the bile acids, which bears his name, 

 297 



' PETTENKOFER'S reaction,' 297 ; Drechsel's 

 modification of, 298 ; Mylius's modifica- 

 tion of, 298 ; spectrum of, 299 



PFLUGER, on the gases of the bile, 343 



Phagocytosis referred to, 471 



Phenaceturic acid, 432 



Phenol, properties and identification of, 

 434 



Phenols, products of putrefactive decom- 

 position of tyrosine, 248, 432 



Phenolphthalein, as an indicator in titra- 

 tion, 495 



Phenyl-acetic acid, 430 



Phenyl-glucosazon, 48 



Phenyl-hydrazin, 48 



Phenyl-maltosazon, 48 



Phenyl-propionic acid, 431 



' Phloroglucin and Vanillin' as reagents 

 for detecting the free HC1 of gastric 

 juice, 94, 496, 497 



Phospho-molybdic acid, as a precipitant 

 of peptones, 139 ; mode of preparation, 

 139 



Phospho-tungstic (or phospho-wolframic) 

 acid, as a precipitant of peptones, 139 ; 

 mode of preparation, 139 ; its employ- 

 ment by Drechsel, to precipitate lysine 

 and lysatinine, 255 ; employed (under 

 the name of Scheibler's reagent) as a 

 precipitant of vegetable bases, as well 

 as for precipitating kynuricacid, creatine 

 and xanthine, (footnote), 255 



Pilocarpine, action on salivary secretion, 

 16, 54 ; action on pancreatic secretion, 

 197 ; action of, on intestinal secretion, 

 410 



'Piolyn,' a name suggested for the fat- 

 splitting ferment of the pancreas 



PITCAIRN, ARCHIBALD, the speculations of, 

 68 



PITRES, CHARCOT and, on atrophy of mus- 

 cular fibres of biliary passages in old 

 age, 384 



' PLATTNER'S ' crystallised bile, 291, 295 



Psalterium, the, 478 



PODOLINSKY, action of oxygen on trypsin- 

 zymogen, 219 



POLLITZER, S., discovery that neither 

 ampho-peptones nor anti-peptones re- 

 strain the coagulation of the blood, 

 140, 162 



POPOFF, on the gases of the stomach in 

 flatulent dyspepsia, 174 



PORTER, J. A., analyses of the mineral 

 matters of faeces by, 460 



PREVOST and BINET, on elimination of 

 medicinal and poisonous agents by the 

 liver, 375 



Pro-pepsin, 102 



' Propeptone,' the term applied by Schmidt- 

 Mulheim to the albumoses, 124 



Protein ochromogen, a synonym of Tryp- 

 tophan (q. v.), 263 



Protoalbumose, 125, 126; analyses of, 127 



PROUT, Dr, discovery by, 485, 488, 489 ; of 

 hydrochloric acid in gastric juice, 91 



' Proventriculus,' 475 



Ptomaines, definition and etymology of 

 the word, 435 ; non-occurrence of, nor- 

 mally, in intestine, 435 ; occurrence of 

 in the stools in cases of Asiatic cholera 

 Bfid cystinuria, 436 



Ptyalin, or the diastatic enzyme of the 

 saliva 



' Putrescin,' or tetra-methylendiamin, 

 436 



PYE-SMITH, P. H. and T. LAUDER BRUNTON, 

 on the nerve centres which influence in- 

 testinal secretion, 411 



Pyloric glands of the stomach, 100 ; Eb- 

 stein and Griitzner on the formation of 

 pepsin in, 101 ; v. Wittich's views, 101 ; 

 conclusions to be drawn from Klemen- 

 siewicz and Heidenhain's experiments, 

 105 



Pyloric secretion (succus pyloricus), 104; 

 method of Klemensiewicz for obtaining, 

 and results on, 104; Heidenhain's re- 

 searches in, 104; conditions affecting 

 secretion of, alkalinity of, and ferments 

 contained in, 104 

 ' Pyrosis, 1 175 



QUINCKE, H., on the production of bili- 

 rubin and biliverdin in blood injected 

 subcutaneously, 349; on so-called uro- 

 bilin-jauudice, 366; on secretion of 

 intestinal juice, 409 ; on digestive pro- 

 perties of intestinal juice, 413 



