G. F. Barker—Physiological Chemistry. 381 
sp. gt. 0892); and from the liver of a fox fed for six weeks 
itis oxydized in the lungs; though he was unable to demon- 
strate experimentally any of the intermediate products of this 
with chalk, and kept at a temperature of 25° to 35° C., it ac- 
tively fermented, and yielded lactic acid, of the same kind as 
t produced from milk. 
6.) In January, 1855, Fiavrer presented a paper to the 
Acalemy+ in which he sought to prove the existence normall 
of sugar in the blood of animals fed ona mixed diet, in amount 
{qual to about one-half that found by Bernard in the liver; 
ind, since the meat on which Bernard’s animals were fed, came 
fom the herbivora the blood of which contains sugar, he argues 
that the liver is an organ designed simply for storing up the 
eee Mua a hata 
In the blood of rabbits he found 0°57, in 
an ox 0°48, and in that of man 0°58 per cent. He also 
™ € fluids upon the albuminates, called albuminose, pre- 
Yents the detection of sugar by the copper-tests. 
i February, Lonert published{ the results of some 
: Upon the detection of sugar. He was never able to detect 
"od_by the gastric juice exists in the blood in considerable 
oe and at the same time glucose in small amount, neither 
aleohoe et test boiling with potassic hydrate, polarimetry, 
- ntation, nor in a word, any other method in use, 
tn rme 
math monstrate directly the existence there of the saccharine 
~ ri 
ears 
: tC.R, xl, ae xxv, 29; Jahresb., 1854, 405, 
¢ Ib., p. 286. 
