398 



INDEX. 



Mucoid, 50 

 Mulder's test, 109 

 Murexide test, 295 

 Muscle, 175 



extract, 176 

 Mutarotation, 102 

 Myosin, 176 



preparation of, 177 

 Myosinogen, 176 



Nephelometer, 385 

 Neumann's method 



for organic phosphorus, 169 

 Neutral salts, action of, 



on colloids, 13 



on heat coagulation, 43 



on ptyalin, 187 

 Neutral sulphur, 282 



estimation of, 356, 358 

 Ni col's prism, 144 

 Nitric acid, 



action on proteins, 38, 49, 55 

 Nitrogen, 



distribution of, 270 



estimation of, 321 



non-protein, in blood, 260 

 Non-protein nitrogen of blood, 



estimation of, 260 

 Normal saline, 238 

 Normal solutions, 



preparation of, 26, 380 

 Nucleases, 61 

 Nucleic acid, 60 



hydrolysis of, 65 



preparation of, 64 

 Nucleohistone, 60 

 Nucleoproteins, 60 



detection of, 364 



in bile, 269 



preparation of, 63 

 Nucleosides, 61 

 Nucleotides, 61 

 Nylander's test, 109 



Oleic acid, 154 

 Oliver's test 



for bile salts, 266 

 Optical activity, 147 

 Optically active compounds, 



resolution of, 151 

 Organic phosphorus, 



detection of, 169 

 Osazone, 



of glucose, no 



of lactose, 115 



of maltose, 115 



preparation of, no 



Osmotic pressure, 3-7 



oi colloids, 7 



of urine, 272 

 Ost's method for sugar, 



see Wood-Ost 

 Ovo-mucin, 49 

 Ovo-mucoid, 50 

 Oxalate ot 



calcium, 172, 319 



urea, 288 



Oxalate plasma, 237 

 Oxidases, 230 

 Oxy-butyric acid, 314, 348 

 Oxy-haemoglobin, 241 



crystallisation of, 242 



in urine, 305 



spectrum of, 244 



Palmer 



on acid excretion, 275 

 Palmitic acid, 154 

 Palmitin, 155 

 Pancreas, 



extract of, 88, 220 

 Parabanic acid, 292 

 Paracasein, 167 

 Paramyosinogen, 176 

 Paraxanthine, 298 

 Pavy's method for sugar, 125 

 Pentosans, 117 

 Pentoses, 101 



in urine, 312 

 Pepsin, 201 



action on protein, 53, 202 



conditions of action of, 201 



detection of, 204 



distinction from rennin, 208 



estimation of, 202 



law of action of, 202 



optimum reaction, 32, 201 



products of action, 53, 202 

 Peptide linkage, 41, 202 

 Peptones, 52, 54, 56 



detection of, 365 



formation of, 202 



reactions of, 56 



removal from fluids, 58 

 Peroxidase, 231 

 Peters, Amos, 



method for sugar, 134 

 Pettenkofer's test, 265 

 P H> 16 



P H , determination of, 30 

 Phenol, 223, 282 

 Phenol red, 22 

 Phenyl-alanine, 68 

 Phenyl-osazone, see osazone 



