The Croonian lectures on some points in the pathology of rheumatism, gout and diabetes : delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, March 30, April 1, 6, 1886 / by P. W. Latham, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.
- Peter Wallwork Latham
- Date:
- 1887
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Credit: The Croonian lectures on some points in the pathology of rheumatism, gout and diabetes : delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, March 30, April 1, 6, 1886 / by P. W. Latham, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Now all these acids can be obtained from the bodies under dis- cussion, viz. the cyan-alcohols. By treating them with acids we have first of all the corresponding oxyacid formed. C H, n 2n fOH ^OH CN COOH and oxyacids of the form when oxidised are converted into C0„, the corresponding acid of the acetic series and water, (OH C H,„ ] + 0, = CO, + C _.H,„_,. COOH + H,0 (COOH roH ethidene cyan-alcohol CH3. CH | , for instance, may be con- roH verted into lactic acid CH3 . CH 1 f^r\r^xj' ^^i^h treated with chromic acid mixture is oxidised to formic and acetic acids*— ^OH CH,. CH + 0 = CH3. COOH -f- H . COOH COOH lactic acid acetic acid foi-mic acid and the formic acid may be further oxidised into carbonic acid and water. In the same way butene cyan-alcohol is converted into oxy- fOH valeric acid CoH,. CH] ^„^-,t which oxidised is ti-ansformed into ^ ^ tCOOH carbonic dioxide and butyric acidt. roH C3H^. CH i + 0^ = CO, + C3H . COOH + H,0 [COOH Oxy-iso-valeric acid iso-butyric acid * Fownes, p. 325. t Ibid. p. 330,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21445278_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
