Digestion of sugars in some diseased conditions of the body / by W.G. Aitchison Robertson.

  • Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison)
Date:
1894
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Credit: Digestion of sugars in some diseased conditions of the body / by W.G. Aitchison Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Patient felt very comfortable. (y.) Same Patient.—250 c. c. invert sugar injected. (1.) One hour later I drew off 68 c. c. turbid white fluid. Total acidity equal to 0116 per cent.; small amount of organic acid present, but chiefly inorganic; no lactic acid. Invert sugar 476 per cent. (2.) Two hours afterwards 100 c. c. of similar fluid drawn off. Total acidity equal to 0102 per cent. HCl, chiefly inorganic; no lactic acid. Invert sugar 3'7 per cent. (k.) Same Patient.—250 c. c. 20 per cent, invert sugar injected. (1.) One hour afterwards 75 c. c. of turbid fluid were drawn off. Total acidity 0109 per cent., due chiefly to inorganic acids ; no lactic acid. Invert sugar 435 per cent. (2.) Two hours after injection I drew off with difficulty 30 c. c, the stomach being almost empty. Total acidity equal to 0*07 per cent, as HCl, chiefly inorganic. Invert sugar 0'8 per cent. On neither of the two latter occasions did the patient make any complaint, but said that he had felt better during the last few days, or during the time he had been getting invert sugar. It is interesting to compare this with the statement made by him after the cane sugar injections. These results may be tabulated as follows :— Digestion of Invert Sugar in Chronic Gastric Catarrh. Series. Time during which Invert Sugar was left in Stomach. Number of Cubic Centimetres drawn off. Total acidity as HC! per cent. Presence of Inorganic Acids. Presence of Organic Acids. Invert Sugar per cent. Remarks. Horn's 2 80 120 0153 0-094 +++ +++ + + 6 26 154 |- No discomfort. 1 65 •091 +++ + 5-5 2 62 0188 +■4-+ + 2-6 ,„.{ 2 52 42 0-J22 0-113 +++ ++■4- -f + 5-5 1-2 2 68 100 0116 0-102 +++ +++ + + 476 3-7 M 2 75 30 0-109 007 +++ +++ + + 4-35 0-8 This table shows how great a reduction has taken place in the percentage of invert sugar during the second hour as contrasted with the first. If we compare this with the digestion of the same sugar in health (see Edinburgh Medical Journal for September, page 208), we are struck by the fact that in the healthy stomach there is very little invert sugar left after two