Volume 2

Animal chemistry with reference to the physiology and pathology of man / by J. Franz Simon ; translated and edited by George E. Day.

  • Johann Franz Simon
Date:
1845
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Credit: Animal chemistry with reference to the physiology and pathology of man / by J. Franz Simon ; translated and edited by George E. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    and ether, submitted to ultimate analysis. Independently of salts, it yielded; Carbon . 54-125- I Hydrogen 7-281 [which corresponds with the Nitrogen . 15-892 1 formula II33 N^ 0,2 Oxygen . 22-702- J Hence the scrofulous matter may be regarded as formed from protein by the removal of two atoms of carbon and oxygen, and the addition of two of hydrogen, or making the amount of carbon the same in the scrofulous mass and the protein, we have : 1 At. scrofulous matter . = Pr -j- HO -j- 2II. Carcinoma uteri and scirrhus testiculi were examined by Scherer in a similar manner. L’Heretier has made the three following proximate analyses of scirrhus: Water of breast. . 29-75 Of uterus. 21-15 of dorsal region 24-80 . Albumen . 28-10 29-85 21-70 Fibrin 18-80 15-20 27-15 Gelatin 7-60 — 8-17 Fat 2-00 — 8-05 Phosphorized fat . — 6-00 — Peroxide of iron . 1-15 1-25 traces Yellow pigment — 7-00 — Salts . 12-60 9-55 10-13 ] A fatty tumour analysed by Nees von Esenbeck^ contained 23-0 of solid fat, 12*0 of extract of flesh, ll'O of gum-like animal matter, 23'0 of albumen, 19'0 of phosphate of lime, 2 0 of car- bonate of lime, and 1‘5 of carbonate of magnesia. It is not stated whether this sohd fat contained cholesterin; in all pro- bability it did, as this fat is of frequent occui’rence in fatty tumours. In a fatty tumour examined by J. Muller there were aciculai’ crystals mixed with a gray substance which was deposited in vesicles and dissolved in lioihng water, from which it was not precipitated by acids or the ordinary metallic salts. The crystals were insoluble in acids, water, or alcohol, but dis- solved in ether; hence they probably consisted of cholesterin. ' Kastner’s Arcliiv, vol. 12, p. 4G0. II. 31