GENERAL INDEX 



957 



Plastin, 174 



Plattner's crystallized bile, 396 



Plethora polycythaemia, 322 



Pleural fluid and its constituents, 335, 338 



Pneumonic infiltrations, solutions of, 18, 



346, 820 



Poikilocytosis, 324 

 Polarization test for sugar, 762, 767 

 Polycythcemia, 322 

 Polynucleotides, 175 

 Polypeptides. See Peptides. 

 Polypery thrin, 795 

 Polysaccharides, 193, 220, 224 

 Polyuria, 731 



Potassium salts, excretion, 434, 727, 839. 

 See also various organs 



and fluids. 



Potatoes, absorption in intestine, 511 

 Precipitation membranes, 26 



phenomenon, theories of, 46 

 Precipitins, 70, 259, 502 

 Preglobulin, 295, 302,' 303, 349 

 Prepuce of beaver, 797 

 Preputial secretion, 797 

 Pressure, osmotic. See Osmotic pressure. 

 Productive increase, 841 

 Proenzymes, 11, 60 

 Prolamins, 91 

 Proline, 80, 84, 152 



amounts in proteins, 106, 107, 



114, 124, 152 

 Propepsin, 452 

 Propeptone, 126 

 Propylalanine, 85 

 Propyl benzene, behavior in animal body, 



738 

 Propylene glycol, relation to glycogen 



formation, 372 

 Prosecretin, 439, 475 



in intestinal juice, 468 

 Prostatic concrements, 168, 580, 592 

 Prosthetic group, 171 

 Protagon, 575, 576-578 

 Protamines, 77, 90, 91, 92, 109, 111, 136, 



592 



Proteans, 92 

 Protease, 58 



Protective colloids, 37, 44, 131 

 Proteid, approximate estimation in urine, 



750 



crystalline, 93 

 detection of in urine, 744 

 quantitative determination in 



urine, 749 

 Proteids, 90, 163-173. See also various 



protein groups, 

 crystalline, 93 

 native, 95 



vegetable, table of cleavage prod- 

 ucts of, 107 

 Protein absorption, extent of, 507 



catabolism, upper and lower limits 



of, 857 

 -cystine, 146 

 destruction, 851-853 



Protein, digestion after extirpating the 



pancreas, 508 

 digestion in intestines, 491 

 fattening, 850, 851, 860, 861 

 hydrogel, 95, 96 

 hydrosols, 95, 96 

 metabolism, endo- and exogenous, 



853 

 in starvation, 837, 



838, 846 

 in various diets, 846, 



847 



in various stages, 866 

 in work and rest, 565- 



570 



premortal rise, 383 

 results following de- 

 crease of, 851 

 minimum, 859 

 molecule, 4 



of milk, calorific value of, 832 

 substances containing a carbo- 

 hydrate group, 83 

 synthesis, place of, 506 

 ^roteinchrome, 153 

 Proteins, absorption of digestion products, 



503 



action of bile on, 490 

 action of enzymes upon, 80 

 action of fat on catabolism of, 



855 



action of gastric juice on, 449 

 action of microbes on, in intes- 

 tines, 491 



action of pepsin-acid on, 448 

 action of pepsin on, 444 

 action of trj r psin on, 481 

 active, 4 

 adsorption of, 96 

 aminoacid isolated from, 8 

 a taking up of, by cells, 861 

 calorific value of, 831 

 circulating, 850 

 color reactions for, 98-101 

 combustion in the body, 829 

 different groups, properties of, 

 102 



See Chapter III, and various 

 protein substances, 

 formation of, 3 



horse-blood, table of composi- 

 tion of, 255 

 ' in brain, 574 



influence on metabolism, 833 

 in lung, 820 

 in muscles, 565 

 living and non-living, 4 

 metabolism with foods rich in, 



448 



of crystalline lens, 586, 588 

 ofdead muscle, 540 

 of kidneys, 638 

 of liver, 361, 368 

 of milk, determining, 623 

 of muscle plasma, 539, 543 



