P.ASIS < >F Till: AM.MAI. i:hV. 95 



apparatus tli.ui t.. th- chemical resistance of tin- dextrins to com- 

 ;oii into su^'ur. 1 Although this statement is leased 

 upon e\jHTim--i;i- in. i.l'' \\ith saliva. there is no reason to suppose 

 that tin; same will n<t hold MMM! in tin- <-a.se of tin- pan< ; 

 jui'-e l.y whose action tic arl.ohydrat. u of thr 



Ion. We shall then-fop- n..; AP-M^ j,, 



eluding that in tin- animal \ h is completely 



into -uijar pn-vious ; lion, and if this I..- thr cast- the 



i' thf ihysiolo^ist in thr primary PPM! arts of si 

 is becomes very smaK far as a study of 



icts is essential to tin- rln.-idation of thr prol.abl.- mol, 

 .d -tru -turr of thr parent-substance. 



\Vh tr.l with dilutr lioilinjF acids, the \w\ 



which 'n. nurd in rapid succession, 



liolr Iwin^ finally convrrtril into dextroae.* 



I Animal-gum < '.jH^O.o^HjO) < 



s is, accord i i iu' to I.andwrhr, a form of carliohydrat.- which 

 l.y thr proliin.jrd ai-tion MI >n]H-rhratr.l water 

 tnd mucoiis glands, and is found also in mil!, 

 urinr. It has already IM-I-II lriefly dewrihcd al.o\.- < ] 7'.' ) v. 



:ctM-istii-s havr U-en jjiven. To these- may ln-re be 

 ! that it yi.dds no colouration with iodine, is very frrl.ly 

 .ttory and appears to form a compound with < upric 

 : the latter is obtained whrn can-tic -..da and sulph. 

 copj- l.-d to its solution, and may 1..- n-,-d for the separa- 



tion of anim.tl -L'uin from urine. 8 



Qlycogen t ,H : , >.).. 



This su 'lom a pun-ly chemical point of 



ly lik-' M.ii h. lip -inularity lirim; mo>t mark, d \\li.-n the 



nlllctS of til' 



Mil fair in thr animal I..N| l.ut little 



doul.t that it may be regarded from thr ph\>i..l..-i. al side as truly 



ninial anali^'iir ..f the vegetal'' -u'-h it is fre- 



inrntly spokrn of as animal -tar. li ' It N 1 as a 



iturnt of th- liver l.y In-rnard ' and. simultaneously though 

 inde|H-ndrntly. !.\ EenMO. 1 In more r<-eiit i iiaa been 



found to 'ies in iijiiny tissues of the 



M V,,l M IH90). p. SM. 



-o W.-hl. ll'r ,1 .1. rktm. f^N.//.. Jhr k ' XXMI (I*-K)|. S 9101. 

 I.., ., IS85. S. .169. See !*> Wedeaaki. 



ytool. Chrm. H.I xn: \*3. 



MM (1W7), |. 57. Gat. 

 HtMom. 1- 



\rtk.f.palk. .Imif. M. Pkytiol. Bd. xi (l57), 8. 39. 



