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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

30/136 page 22

$could be converted into the various cyanamides, which hydrated are transformed into the glycines: glycocine, leucine, &c. The acids when oxidised would be converted into their respective aldehydes, carbonic acid and water, ^^-{oOOH ^ = ^»-H,„_,. CHO + CO, + H,0 acid aldehyde the aldehyde being then either combined with a fresh molecule of HON to form a cyan-alcohol OH C H ,. CHO + HON = C H„ n—1 2n—l n 2n and so again take its place as a constituent of albumen, or be further oxidised into CO^ and H^O C„_,H,„_,. CHO + 03„_, = nCO, + nJip. Or the aldehyde from lactic acid may combine with the roH SO3H disengaged from the benzene nucleus forming C^H ] rOH which combining with ammonia produces C^H^ \ , and this in the laboratory may be transformed into Taurine ^^^^ The glycines or amido-acids by oxidation may be converted into the nitriles HON, CH3. CN, &c. By the oxidation of glycocine for instance, we get CI (NH, CH„ ] +0, = HCN + CO, + 2H O. (COOH Leucine gives C.H,„ ] + 0, = C,H,. CN + CO, + 2H,0. (COOH$