ANIMAL MATTER. SKfeSfe. 



-' This faline precipitate, obtained by means of alcohol, 

 was afcertaitied to be a mixture of fulphate of lime and acid- 

 ulous t)xal3te ot' potalli. 



The mother-water, after precipitation with alcohol, gave a 

 fccond precipitate with lime-water, confifting of oxalate of 

 lime. After this double operation with alcohol and lime- 

 water, the mother-water, on being graduail)' evaporated, be- 

 came converted into the brown vifcid fyrup, of a bitter tafte, 

 like that of walnut (liells. This being mixed with a good 

 quantity of alcohol, coagulated, and threw down a plentiful 

 precipitate of white matter. This matter was very pure ma- 

 late of lime, the alcohol havhng retained tlie yellow acrid fub- 

 ilance. 



The learned authors of the njemoir, of which we have Conclufions. 

 given this detailed extrad, conclude from the faels above 

 dated, 



1. That the mufcles contain potafli, lime, and fulphuric 

 acid, or perhaps fulphur burned by nitric acid. 



'2. That a portion of the mufcular fibre, or rather the cel- 

 lular membrane with which it is enveloped, was converted by 

 the aclion of the nitric acid into oxalic acid and malic acid. 

 . The alcohol employed in the feparation of the malate of 

 lime, held* in folution, ], A fmall portion of nitrate of lime; 

 2, A very bitter red-brown matter, pofleffing the flavour of 

 walnut ihinds, of which more will befaid hereafter; 3. A fmall 

 quantity of that detonating matter already found in indigo: it 

 was in this cafe obtained by concentrating the alcoholic folu- 

 tion, and feparating it by the addition of carbonate of potafli, 

 in the form of granulated cryftals, very inflammable, and very 

 detonating. 



Sect. 5. The importance of the refults obtained from the importance of 

 foregoing analyfis will be readily underftood; particularly if the foregoing j 

 a comparifon be made of the knowledge hitherto poflefled, 

 with the extenfive notions here opened to the view, of an 

 objedl fo interefting in the confequences which may be drawn 

 from it, in the applications which may be made to the animal 

 economy, and which, as will be (hewn, leaves fcarcely any 

 thing more to be defired. 



The difengagement of azotic gas, the formation of carbonic ijifcoveries 

 acid, of fat, of oxalic acid, and of a bitter fubftancc, confti-^'^*''^'* ^° ^'^2*= 

 tate the whole that was known refpediing the treatment ofjcnown on this 



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