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

  • Frederick William Pavy
Date:
1895
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    suria continues on a purely proteicl [animal is the word presumably meant] diet ? According to him it may be in part due to the carbohydrates always associated with proteids, but it may also be due to the carbohydrate part of the proteicl molecule, which he has attempted to demonstrate. The existence of this carbohydrate element canuot be accepted; but supposing it does occur &c. I consider I need not waste time and space by quoting further. The remainder of the paragraph is devoted to an argument bearing on the relation in amount of sugar and urea eliminated in diabetes as hypothetical joint derivatives of the splitting up of proteicl matter. For the third time (vide pp. 21, 64) Dr. Paton founds a criticism upon an erroneous repre- sentation of the amount of cai-bohydrate stated to have been obtained by me from the splitting up of proteid by the agency of potash. It is a pure invention by Dr. Paton that when I come to apply my theory to diabetes it completely fails to explain the phenomena of many forms of the disease. I in the strongest manner dissent fi*om the statement. Why, it is through diabetes that I have been led on in the prosecution of my work, and aided in the framing of my views ! Whilst the glycogenic theory leaves everything unintelligible, the pheno- mena of diabetes stand, under the views I have pro- pounded, explicable in a most simple and clearly com- prehensible way.