Physiology of the carbohydrates : an epicriticism / by F. W. Pavy.

Date:
1895
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Credit: Physiology of the carbohydrates : an epicriticism / by F. W. Pavy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    write liis article has been a personal regard for me. He says: “ At the beginning of my paper on Hepatic Glyco- genesis, published last winter, before the appearance of Dr. Pavy’s work, I said ‘ That one of the great functions of the liver is to produce sugar will not, at the present time, be denied by any physiologist/ and added in a foot-note, ‘ the theory of Pavy, repeated in nearly every test-book, that the liver is ‘ a sugar destroying, and not a sugar forming organ,’ rests on so unsubstantial a basis and has been so completely refuted by the work of Seegen and other investigators that it need not be considered.’ To let these state- ments stand after the publication of Dr. Pavy’s book would be marked discourtesy, and I am glad of an opportunity of bringing forward the evidence upon which they were made.” The evidence upon which they were made. I have shown what this evidence is worth. In no single instance has anything bearing the stamp of soundness been put forward. As to the marked discourtesy, from which the article written is stated to be designed to keep Dr. Paton clear, I think it will be conceded, in view of the line of action taken, that “omission” would have stood to better purpose than “ commission.” It certainly must be regarded as an anomalous course of procedure that endeavours avowedly made to avoid the commission of an act of discourtesy should take the shape of the article I have been dealing with in the preceding pages—an article which, as