194 THE PROCESSES OF DIGESTION AND RESORPTION. 



splitting off of CO 2 in the body without the simultaneous interven- 

 tion of oxygen and water. 



The skatosin which Baum isolated from the products of pancreatic 

 autolysis has the composition C 10 H 16 N 2 O 2 . It contains two amino 

 and two hydroxyl groups, and is probably identical with a body 

 which Langstein found among the final products of peptic digestion 

 in the case of serum-albumin. 



The occurrence of xanthin bases among the products of autolysis 

 shows that a nticlease also may have been active. 



Autolysis of lymph-glands gives rise to ammonia, leucin, tyrosin, 

 thymin, and uracil. Purin bases were here not obtained (Reh). 



That tryptophan can also be formed during the autolysis of the 

 gastric mucous membrane has been shown by Glassner ; during the 

 process both pepsin and chymosin are destroyed. 



