26 G. F. Barker—Physiological Chemistry. 26 | 
since these vegetables contain ee from which came the 
dextrin which he found in the 
(35.) The following results of expe eriments by CozE were © 
read also at the session of Sept.7th:* (A) Under physiological — 
conditions: Ist, the kind of death affects the quantity of sugar — 
in the liver ; the slower the death, the smaller being the 
quantity ; 2d, the proportion of sugar in arterial blood is to 
that in the liver as 1:11. (B) Under pathological conditions: 
Ist, under the action of morphine hydrochlorate ; (@) the 
sugar in the liver more than doubles, rising from 0° 59 to 1: 39; 
@) the same is true of arterial blood, the amount increasin 
m 0-05 to 0°11; (c) the proportion of liver sugar to arteria 
sugar remains the sa me, 1: 12, and hence pulmonary oxyda- 
tion is not affected ; (d) "the increase of sugar under the influ- 
ence of morphine i is an argument against the employment of 
opium in treating diabetes, and explains the want of success 
met with in its use; : e) no sugar is found in the urine. 
2d, under the eas of tartar-emetic ; (a) the liver sugar re- | 
mains unaltered; (b) it is doubled in arterial blood, eee - 
0°10 instead oe ; 05 (c) the proportion between them is 1 
instead of 1:1 ; (d) the combustion of sugar in the lungs is 
hindered edt accounting for the efficacy of this substance in 
pneu —(e) no sugar appears in the urine. The action — 
of tartar tonseee upon the production and the ba as of — 
glucose is Se the pene of the action of mo .4 
( paper co cated to the eee Det. “19th-t 
Bonner Bae B that th the aie has a true glycogenic fms 
nothing analogous existing elsewhere in the animal econ 
that the posthumous formation of sugar is established, the : 
facts quoted to disprove it being inconclusive physiologically, 7 
since a liver-hash is not the normal liver; that the two sugars 
of Figuier, one in the intestinal canal, the other in the portal — 
vein, have no existence ; that even if a non-fermentable sugar 
be admitted to exist in the portal blood, the fact remains that 
i liver i in converting this into a fermentable sugar, exercises — 
true glycogenic function ; that the economy contains fatty, 
albuminoid and other matters, the eléments of which by being 
te Ld 2 
rectly into oxalic acid, without forming hoes ; that the | 
formula of ordinary starch is not that of n, anhydrous. — 
*C.B., xlv, 345. 
