CONTENTS 



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A HISTORY OF METABOLISM . V ^ 3 



SECTION i 



DIETARY CONSTITUENTS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES 



THE PROTEINS AND THEIR METABOLISM A. I. Ringer 81 



NUCLEIC ACIDS \Yalter Jones 135 



UROBILIN AND UROBILINOGEN Louis Bauman 1G3 



CREATIN AND CREATININ Louis Bauman 171 



NORMAL FAT METABOLISM Walter R. Bloor 183 



THE CARBOHYDRATES AND THEIR METABOLISM 



A. I. Ringer and Emil J. Bauman 213 * 



WATER AS A DIETARY CONSTITUENT ....... Philip B. Hawk 275 



THE METABOLISM OF ALCOHOL Harold L. Higgins 297 



MINERAL METABOLISM Henry A. Matiill and Helen I. Mattill 303 



THE METABOLISM OF VITAMINS Carl Voegtlin 341 



SECTION II 

 A NORMAL DIET Isidor Greenwald 359 ' 



SECTION III 

 BODY TISSUES AND FLUIDS . Victor C. Myers 423 



SECTION IV 

 EXCRETIONS Victor C. Myers 481 



SECTION V 

 NORMAL PROCESSES OF ENERGY METABOLISM . . John R. Murlin 515 * 



SECTION VI 



BACTERIAL METABOLISM, NORMAL AND ABNORMAL WITHIN THE BODY 



Arthur Isaac Kendall 663 



SECTION VII 

 ACTIONS OF DRUGS AND THERAPEUTIC MEASURES 



THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN DRUGS AND POISONS UPON THK METABOLISM 



Henry G. Barbour 747 



THE INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS FLUIDS Arlie V. Bocl; 787 



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