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

  • Frederick William Pavy
Date:
1895
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    which investigators have hitherto been looking. This system has been fully set forth in my work on the Physiology of the Carbohydrates published last year. It brings the operations of animal and vegetable life into harmouv with eacli other and reduces to the greatest simplicity the explanation of the phenomena belonging to diabetes. About the time the work to which I have just referred was issued, a paper by Dr. Noel Paton, bearing the title On Hepatic Glyco- genosis, was published in the ' Transactions of the Eoyal Society.' The view advanced in this paper stands at variance with the results of my work; and, to make way for it the course is attempted to be cleared by the foot-note on the first page running as follows :— The theory of Pavy. repeated in nearly every text-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. Whilst fully conceding to the author of the paper the right to form and express any