CONTENTS 



PAGK 



A HISTORY OF METABOLISM 3 



SECTION I 

 DIETARY CONSTITUENTS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES 



THE PROTEINS AND THEIR METABOLISM A. /. Ringer 81 



NUCLEIC ACIDS Walter Jones 135 



UROBILIN AND UROBILINOG&N Louis Bauman 163 



V CREATIN AND CREATiNiN Louis Bauman 171 



^NORMAL FAT METABOLISM Walter R. Bloor 183 



-THE CARBOHYDRATES AND THEIR METABOLISM 



A. I. Ringer and Emil J. Bauman 213 



WATER AS A DIETARY CONSTITUENT Philip B. Hawk 275 



THE METABOLISM OF ALCOHOL Harold L. Higgins 297 



MINERAL METABOLISM Henry A. Mattill and Helen I. Mattill 303 



THE METABOLISM OF VITAMINS Carl Voegtlin 341 



SECTION II 

 A NORMAL DIET Isidor Greenwald 359 



SECTION III 

 BODY TISSUES AND FLUIDS Victor C. Myers 423 



SECTION IV 

 EXCRETIONS Victor C. Myers 481 



SECTION V 

 NORMAL PROCESSES OF ENERGY METABOLISM .... John R. Murlin 515 



SECTION VI 



BACTERIAL METABOLISM, NORMAL AND ABNORMAL WITHIN THE BODY 



Arthur Isaac Kendall 663 



SECTION VII 

 ACTIONS OF DRUGS AND THERAPEUTIC MEASURES 



THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN DRUGS AND POISONS UPON THE METABOLISM 



Henry G. Barlour 747 



THE INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF FLUIDS . Arlie V. Bock 787 



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