1010 



GENERAL INDEX 



Metabolism, effect of weight of body 



upon, 922-925 

 effect of water on, 920, 921 

 importance of lecithins in, 



902 

 importance of phosphates 



in, 902 



in active and inactive mus- 

 cles, 591-598 



inanition condition, 897-898 

 in starvation, 892-906 

 lack of mineral substances in 



food, 899, 900 

 water in food, 898 

 maintenance value, 897-898 

 measured by gas exchange, 



927, 928 



with absence of carbohy- 

 drates in food, 903, 904 

 with absence of fats in food, 



903-904 

 with absence of proteins 



in food, 903 



with a mixed diet, 913-920 

 of fat with an exclusive 



protein diet, 907, 908 

 with foods rich in protein, 



906 T 913 

 with insufficient supply of 



chlorides, 900, 901 

 with lack of bases in foods, 



901 

 with lack of earths in food, 



901, 902 

 with lack of iron in foods, 



903 

 with lack of phosphates in 



food, 901, 902 



with various foods, 906-922 

 Metacasein, 651 

 Metalbumin, 624, 625 

 Metanitrobenzaldehyde, fate of, in the 



body, 784 

 Metaproteins, 93 

 Metazym, 319 

 Methaemoglobin of thyroid gland, 374. 



See also Blood pigments. 

 Methal, 239 

 Methose, 212 



Methylation in organism, 787 

 Methylenitan, 212 



Methylethylmaleic acid anhydride, 290 

 Methylglycocoll. See Sarcosin. 

 Methylglyoxal in relation to lactic acid 



fermentation, 584 

 Methylguanidine, 578, 698 



in urine, 758 

 Methyl guanine (7), 714 

 Methylindol, 157 See Skatol. 

 Methylindolin, 729 



Methylimidazol formation of, 201-202 

 Methyl pentoses, 199, 208 

 Methylphenylhydrazine, test for levulose, 

 218 



Methyl pyridine, behavior in animal body, 



778, 781 

 chloride in urine. 756, 



758 



Methylpyridylammonium hydroxide, 787 

 Methylthiophene, 784 

 Methyluracil, 194 

 Methyluramine, 574, 694 

 Methyl-urea, 691 



in urine, 712, 713 

 Methylxanthine, 187 

 Mett's quantitative method for pepsin, 



469 

 Micro-organisms in intestines, 511, 514, 



517, 520 



Microrespirometer, 874 

 Microtonometer, 861 

 Milk, 643-671 



albumin, quantitative determina- 

 tion of, 656 

 ash, quantitative composition of, 



666 

 casein, quantitative determination 



of, 656 

 coagulation, a two-faced process, 



650 



coagulation of, 645 

 cows, 644, 645 

 cows, quantitative composition of, 



657 



effect on putrefaction, 518 

 fat, quantitative determination of, 



657 



constituents of, 647 

 theory for origin of, 669 

 foodstuffs in, 666 

 gases of, 857 

 globules. 645-647 

 goat's, 659 

 human, 660-671 

 human, compared to cow's milk, 



660, 661, 663 

 influence of food on composition of, 



667, 668 

 mare's, 659 

 lactose quantitative determination. 



of, 657 



mineral bodies, quantitative de- 

 termination of, 656, 657, 658 

 of carnivora, 659 

 of various animals, composition of, 



660 

 passage of foreign substances into, 



670 



plasma, 647 



preparation, composition of, 659 

 proteins, quantitative determina- 

 tion of, 656 



quantitative analysis of, 656, 657 

 secretion, chemistry of, 668-671 

 solids, quantitative determination 



of, 656 



souring of, 645 

 sugar, 226. See Lactose. 



