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The peptone exerts, therefore, an inhibitory action only in the 

 later stages. 



Series V. The effects of acids and alkalis on autolysis. When the 

 main facts in the following series had been already discovered, a paper 

 by Hugo Wiener appeared in the Physiologlsche Centralblatt (August, 

 1905) in which he suggested that the latent period of autolysis 

 described in the first paper, was due to the fact that the tissues were 

 still alkaline, and that the autolytic enzyme did not act until the 

 tissues became acid (Cf. Hedin). 



Series V (a). 



Series V (<:). 



Effect of Na 2 CO 3 20 c.c. 

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