CONTENTS xv 



SPECIAL PART 

 INTRODUCTION 



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THE CLASSIFICATION OF ALBUMINS . . 346 



CHAPTEK IX 



THE ALBUMINS PROPER . . . . . 353 



The albumins, 353: serum-albumin, 354; egg-albumin, 357; lact-albumin, 



360. 

 The globulins, 361: serum-globulin, 363; cell-globulins, 366; crystalliu, 



367 ; egg-globulin, 367 ; laot-globulin, 368 ; Paton's globulin, 368 ; 



Bence Jones' albumin, 369. 

 The albumins of seeds, 370 : edestin, 372 ; plant-caseins, phyto-vitellins, 



legumins, conglutins, 374 ; alcohol-soluble albumins of cereals, 375. 

 Fibrinogen and fibrin, 378 : fibrinogen, 378 ; fibrin, 381. 

 Muscle-albumins, 384 : paramyosinogen or myosin, 388 ; myosinogen or 



niyogen, 388 ; salts of muscle, 391 ; heart- and smooth muscle, 391; 



invertebrate and octopus muscle, 392 ; tissue myosinogens, 393 ; nucleo- 



proteids, 393. 

 Phospho-globulins or nucleo-albumins, 394 ; caseinogen of cow's milk, 397 ; 



casein, 401 ; caseinogens of other milks, 404 ; vitellin and ichthulin, 



405; cell-phospho-globulins, 406 ; phospho-globulins resembling mucin, 



407. 

 Histone, 408 : thymus-histone, 410 ; globin, 417 ; histone of red blood 



corpuscles of the goose, 418, and of the testes of fishes, etc., 418 

 Protamins, 419 : their dissociation- products, 420 ; their nitrogen -content 



and constitution, 421 ; protamins compared with other albumins, 422. 



Toxicity, 423. 



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THE PROTEIDS . . . . . . . 425 



Nucleo-proteids, 425-464. 



Nucleic acid, 425, and its dissociation products : phosphoric acid, 425 ; 

 pyrimidin - derivatives, 426 ; purin - derivatives, 428. The auto- 

 digestion of nucleo-proteids, 431-438. Other dissociation products 

 of nucleo-proteids : pentoses and Isevulinic acid, 438 ; saccharic 

 acid, 439 ; ammonia, 439. General properties of nucleic acids, 440. 

 Plasminic acid and iron, 447. 



Nucleo-proteids, general remarks, 447-454 ; physiological considerations, 

 453. 



Individual nucleo-proteids, 454 : from heads of spermatozoa, 454 ; 

 from the thymus and nucleo-histone, 455 ; parahistone, 457. 

 Thymus nucleic acid, 457. Nucleo-proteids from nucleated red blood 

 corpuscles, 458; the pancreas, 458; gastric juice, 461; thyroid, 

 461; suprarenal capsules, 462 ; liver, 462 ; muscle and other organs, 

 463 ; plants, 463. 



