INDEX 



941 



Metabolism, protein, coagulation and 

 denaturalization, 100. 



continuance of, in body, irrespec- 

 tive of any ingestion of protein, 116, 

 117. 

 digestion, 101. 



absorption of products of, from 

 the gastro-intestinal canal, 103. 



schematic illustration of, in 

 the gastro-intestinal canal, 103. 



effect on, of acids and alkalies, 



739. 



of alcohol, 300, 764. 



of anesthetics, general, chloro- 

 form and ether, 760. 



of antipyretics, 769. 



of blood poisons, 744. 



of carbon monoxid, 743. 



of cyanids, 748. 



of epinephrin, 782. 

 on hot baths, 861. 



of mercury, 756. 



of opiates, 766. 



of phlorizin, 759. 

 of phosphorus, 750. 



of saline cathartics, 719. 

 of saline waters, 847. 



of starvation, 116, 117. 



of thyroid gland substances, 



783. 



of uranium, 757. 



when fasting, tables of, 116, 



117. 



fate of amino acids in body, ab- 

 sorbed in the blood, 104. 



non-nitrogenous fraction of, 



107. 



table summarizing, 115. 



in the tissues, 105. 



function of protein in diet, 121. 



higher, when carbohydrate is ab- 

 sent from diet, 118. 



incomplete, Hopkins and Will- 

 cock's experiments with, 125, 126. 



incomplete proteins, 122. 



Abderhalden's experiments 



with, 123, 124, 125. 



Osborne and Mendel's experi- 

 ments with, 127, 128, 129. 



introduction to, 81. 



Lusk's experiments with, 131. 

 minimum and optimum. See 



P.rotein Minimum and Optimum. 



nitrogen balance and body weight, 



Hopkins and Willcock's experiments 

 on, 125, 126. 



nitrogenous equilibrium and hody 

 weight, experiments on, of Abder- 

 halden, 123, 124, 125. 



Metabolism, protein, peptones in di- 

 gested protein, original views of, 

 121. 



protein factor, obtaining of, 



116. 



question of optimum versus min- 

 imum protein diet, 119. 



of recital feeding, 810. 



salt formation of proteins, 100. 

 state of negative nitrogen bal- 

 ance, 116. 



state of nitrogenous equilibrium, 



116. 



state of positive nitrogen balance, 

 116. 



synthesizing by animal body of 

 its own protein from elementary 

 amino acids, 121. 



Abderhalden's experiment, 122. 



urea formation, 105. 



of Voit, 68, 69. 



See also Proteins. 



purin, effect on, of acids and alka- 

 lies, 739. 



of alcohol, 300. 



of calcium, 732. 



of cinchophen (atophan), 772. 



of purins, 779. 



of rectal feeding, 810. 



of reproduction and growth, effect 

 on, of alcohol, 765. 



effect on, of antipyretics, 769. 



respiratory quotient of Bidder and 

 Schmidt, 63. 



salt, of rectal feeding, 812. 



source of muscle power in, 53. 



total, computation of, Bidder and 

 Schmidt, 60. 



effect on, of acids and alkalies, 

 736. 



of alcohol, 764. 



of alcohol, 299. 



of antipyretics, 767. 



of arsenic, 754. 



of carbon monoxid, 742. 



of epinephrin, 780. 



of mercury, 756. 



of narcotics, 760. 



of opiates, 765. 



of phlorizin, 760. 



of phosphorus, 748. 



of pituitary substances, 784. 



of purins, 779. 



of saline cathartics, 718. 



of sodium chlorid, 721. 



of thyroid substances, 783. 



of uranium, 758. 



"typical food minimum," of Bidder 

 and Schmidt, 63. 



