A manual of chemical physiology : including its points of contact with pathology / by J. L. W. Thudichum.

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1872
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    mineral ingredients for the carrying on of the process with the digested fat in the intestinal canal; if the phosphate be wanting in the food, the bile which always contains notable quantities, will supply it [and it is to this action of the phosphate in bile that any influence upon fatty acids which it possesses is due, the action upon neutral fats formerly ascribed to it being an erroneous conception]. The anomaly in the above- mentioned diseases is the persistence of the fatty emulsion in the arterial blood, whereby an obstruction of the circulation and consequent effusion (of blood, serum, fatty and fibrinous serum, as in apoplexy, dropsy, chylous urine, and other diseases) is produced. Fat having been frequently found in degenerating ^y*®- . i • . . . ° o generation. tissues, deposited m a visible manner, m parts where healthy structure shows no visible fat, microscopic anatomists admitted a particular fatty degeneration, in which fat in excess assumed the place of albuminous matters. The heart was supposed to be particularly subject to this disease, to which, however, all other tissues paid tribute. This doctrine, however, is at pre- sent in a very unsatisfactory state, and requires much elucidation by researches conducted upon mathematical principles. That fatty degeneration so called may be a very complicated chemical disorder, I showed many years ago by the demonstration of changes in the myochi ome of the muscles of the heart, which produced a green granular pigment.* Chyle is the fluid which the lymphatic vessels of the chyie * See ‘ Trans, of the Path. Soc.,’ Mic. Joum.,’ vol. iv, 1856, p. 111. vol. vi, 1856, p. 141, and ‘ Quart.