CHYLE AND LYMPH. 329 



HoppE-SEYLER, 1 of the chyle in a case of rupture of the thoracic duct. 

 In the latter case the fibrin had previously separated. The results are 

 in parts per 1000. 



No. 1. No. 2. 



Water 904.8 940.72 water 



Solids... ,, 95.2 59.28 solids 



Fibrin Traces 



Albumin 70.8 36 . 67 albumin 



Fat..,., 9.2 7. 23 fat 



I 2. 35 soaps 

 0.83 lecithin 

 1 . 32 cholesterin 

 3 . 63 alcohol extractives 

 . 58 water extractives 

 / 6. 80 soluble salts 

 Salts J0.35 insoluble salts 



The quantity of fat is very variable and may be considerably increased 

 by partaking of food rich in fats. I. MUNK and A. ROSENSTEIN 2 have 

 investigated the lymph or chyle obtained from a lymph fistula at the end 

 of the upper third of the leg of a girl eighteen years old and weighing 

 60 kg., and the highest quantity of fat in the chylous lymph was 47 p. m. 

 after partaking of fat. In the starvation lymph from the same patient 

 they found only 0.6-2.6 p. m. fat. The quantity of soaps was always 

 small, and on partaking of 41 grams of fat the quantity of soaps was 

 only about ^5 f the neutral fats. ScnuMM 3 found in the creamy 

 contents of a chylous cyst of the mesentery 357.8 p. m. fat and compara- 

 tively large amounts of calcium soaps. 



A great many analyses of chyle from animals have been made, and 

 they chiefly show the fact that the chyle is a liquid with a very changeable 

 composition which stands closely related to blood-plasma, but with the 

 chief difference that it contains more fat and less solids. The reader is 

 referred to special works for these analyses, as, for example, to v. GORUP- 

 BESANEZ'S " Lehrbuch der physiologischen Chemie," 4th edition. 



The composition of the lymph is also very changeable, and its specific 

 gravity shows about the same variation as the chyle. In the following 

 analyses, 1 and 2, made by GUBLER and QUEVENNE, are the results 

 obtained from lymph from the upper part of the thigh of a woman aged 

 thirty -nine ; and 3, made by v. SCHERER, is an analysis of lymph from the 

 sac-like dilated lymphatic vessels of the spermatic cord. No. 4 was made 



1 Owen-Rees, cited from Hoppe-Seyler's Physiol. Chem., 595; Hoppe-Seyler, ibid., 

 597. See also Carlier, Brit. Med. Journ., 1902, 175, and T. Sollmann, Amer. Journ. 

 of Physiol., 17. 



2 Virchow's Arch., 123. 



3 Zeitschr. f. physiol. Chem., 49. 



