REVIEW Of LITKllATfUK. 1 1 



and Berjvll"' studied the influence of nuclein food on the 

 blood and metabolism and found that it increases the number of the 

 leucocytes. Briicke'' conducted experiments to show tliat the benefit 

 derived from e^ yolk was due to lecithin. Danilewsky' determined 

 that lecithin had ^reat influence on the growth of youn^ animals. 

 I'mikoH'-' at about the same time showed that rats and doves died 

 when fed on a phosphorus-free diet and also when fed on an inorganic 

 phosphorus diet pli; Ibnmin, and barely lived on a nuclein- 



phosphorus diet, but thrived when lecithin was fed. Selensky also 

 demon>! rated the valuable efl'ect> of lecithin. Seroim \\as the first 

 iject lecithin into a human subject, and the experiment uave 

 -ults. Danilewsky showed that lecithin increased the 

 number of red blood corpu- the hemoglobin: also that the 



'ite, body v ;id growth increa>ed. Moreover, the resist- 



ance of i he bod\ bCF after lecithin feeding, and the 



f body \\eijjlit duri -d. \Yildiers,' how- 



. did im: 



'.merited \\ ith LTiiinr.- and 



LCood results \\ere obtained t'.-i four and one-half months after the 

 lecithin f --ped. In the urine there uas more nitroLreu 



but le phnsphorus than in the controls. A larvvr part of the urine 

 niti' i in lecithin-fed animal> and a more com- 



plete devtniction >f the protein \\a> brouu'hl about ifi the.- 



(Jilbei- ' Claude and and othei-s 



carried OH clinical 6X] ith lecithin and found a resultant 



in appetite, number of red corpuscles, hemoblast>, and 



hemoglobin* 



(diken' made a Mudy of the lecithin content mu r animals 



born blind and helplox and of i ! that the 



yoiiULT anii' m a higher lecithin content than do mature 



animaU: that the lecithin contei: with the growth and 



of the animal, and that the --ome into the world with 



a larire relative amount "f li-cithin in their bodies. 



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JM! l-'ouniirr. ( ..nipi. n-ml BOC, l.i-.l, }'.*<)l , .>.i : [\r>. 



pCompt. n-n.I.. 1904,759:819. 



80C. biol.. 1'Hil. ; ; : 1 \7>. 

 <Compt. n-n.l.. 1!)1. 



:io<iitaiix .-ivils milir.iin-. l')i)|. \,,. 11:;. p. 1084. 

 i. Zt.-. ? 1907-8, 7 :286. 



