136 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
A third ingredient which is never wanting in fresh meat is a positive 
organic base of constitution analogous to that of chinin, or perhaps 
more nearly to that of codein, which is found in opium. There are 
also in meat two nitrogenous acids ;—altogether, a variety of bodies 
existence in the living body could have been scarcely suspected. 
I have described these bodies and their chemical relations in a paper 
which is now in press, and will detail only a few results that may be 
practically applied. 
Th 
of motion, chemical action (decomposition or composition) is produ- 
ced, and I regard the latter as dependent upon an electrical stream. 
Mor 
as nother which has all the properties of an organic base, 
makes the action of medicines. appear no longer so dark and mysteri- 
ty) € most efficient of all medicines from the vegetable kingdom 
are organic bases. 
If you leach finely chopped meat with cold water, you procure a red 
fluid and a white residue. The latter is the actual muscular fibre, and 
the solution contains, beside the above named bodies, a considerable 
quantity of albumen that may be separated as coagulum by heating the 
uid to boiling, 
I have found that the residue (the muscular fibre) either for itself or 
boiled with water is tasteless, and that the water in which the fibre has 
been boiled derives no taste. The fibre, by boiling, becomes hard and 
altogether unpalatable. 
ll the ingredients having odor or taste, may of course, be abstract- 
ed with cold water. They are contained in the ffesh-fluid of slaugh- 
tered animals. 
You will not wonder, my most Respected Sir, if I now turn to re- 
ceipts for the kitchen. 
clean cloth. This broth, with the usual condiments—(broiled onions, 
vegetables, salt, etc.) added, will furnish a dish beyond the criticism of 
the most fastidious gourmand. 
4——and contains the elements of the 
Lactamide of Pelouze, a product of the action of dry ammonia gas upon lactic 
acid,—C ,H ,0,-4-N He. it contains also the aetna of Glycocoll and wood- 
‘it, as above intimated. 
C,;H,NO,=C,H,NO,+C,H,0. 
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