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The peptone is obtained by digesting egg-albumen at the tem- 
perature of the body in artificial gastric juice made by adding the 
25 parts of grape sugar, and 4 parts of peptone), each is boiled for 
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cally, and then placed them in a digester in which they were su 
jected to ebullition under a pressure of two inches or more of 
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tion, is clearly not superior to Bastian’s. The epiaose oe ioe 
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cheese experiments. The result has been the same. In @ a 
respects I have followed the method described by him in his pape’ 
as to the absence of air, I have introduced the liquid, not por 
flasks, but into strong glass tubes closed hermetically at ea¢ Bo 
and only half filled with liquid, the remainder of the tube con 
