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

Date:
1895
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    from tlie antagonistic effects of ferment and proto- plasmic actions.” Because proteolysis may be going on throughout the body in starvation it by no means follows that the liver should continue as when under the influence of food supply to be the seat of special production of glycogen. In the next paragraph Dr. Paton says : “ Dr. Pavy (p. 225) also advances the following argument. He takes the case of the rabbit, in which animal the alimentary canal is always more or less full. He says that the portal blood, always contains more sugar than the blood of the general circulation, and argues that therefore glycogen must be changed to some- thing not sugar. AYe do not accept his assertion : [Dr. Patou without the support of a single experi- ment confronts the direct aud extensive analytical evidence given at pp. 103-8 on the condition of the portal blood with the presumptuous statement ‘ we do not accept his assertion’] “but taking his own figures, what is the state of matters ? The amount of sugar in the portal blood of the rabbit in full digestion varies enormously—from l-44 to 4‘6 mille.” [Yes, it varies with the amount of carbohydrate ingested and absorbed.] “ I cannot in his book find any analysis of the sugar in the blood of the general circulation of the rabbit, but in the dog (p. 168) it varies from 0-8 to P23 per mille.” [Dr. Patou is here at the wrong part of the book. He has picked up